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THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1961.

BUT HIS SOUL GOES MARCHING ON

Cumminga

London Express Service.

CASTRO VOWS REVOLT

And a Mail _map_analyses

the

crisis

From GEOFFREY THURSBY

New York, Monday.

Cuba's bearded dictator Fidel Castro, shouting and waving his arms, vowed yesterday to spread revolution through- out Latin America,

He put it this way: "We will

tell the United Nations that if

America believes

has the

counter-

revolution in Cuba, then we have

right to promote

a right to spur revolution

all

over Latin America."

Castro made his promise

to

thousands OX cheering Cuban workers.

President Kennedy's policy on Cuba was no better that

Elsenhower's, he said.

Cuba planned to help Henrique Galvao, the Portugume piralo who Beized the liner Sanla Maria, to start a revolt in An-

gels, the Portuguese colony in West Africa.

The story is told in the Cuban Government magazine Bohemia, published in Havana.

It rays that อ Cuban Army offer, Major Eloy Gutierrez, was detailed to take a party ntorrd the Santa Maria in join The pirates.

A revolt in Angola was to have been the signal for uprig ings in Spain against Franco's Government,

The Cuban plan fell through -because Major Gutierrez did not do his job. Instend he fled to America.

—(London Express Service),

UNITED ST

Atlantic Ocean

Cape Canaveral

Pacific

Ocean

Gulf of

Havana

Mexico

BRITISH @HONDURAS

CUBA

1 BAHAMAS

Guantanamo

MAITI

JAMAICA,

Panama Canal gateway to Pacific.

1 Areas of unrest

in the Caribbean

2 (United States) bases →→→→→

3 British West Indies --- and other possessions

4 U.S. Navy guards

against any possible

Cuban invasion of Caribbean countries

S. DOMINICO

33

PUERTO AICO/

ibbean Sea

LEEWARD ISLANDS

WINDWARD ISLANDS

TRINIDAD

GUATEMALA

SALVADOR

DURAS

ARAGUA.

RICA

-PANAMA --

This is the pattern of troublo atratching across the Caribbean.

JOHN FXDLE

WHAT SORT OF BUDGET

US week the calm, cool, rather stolid Mr Selwyn Lloyd will be busy on the frame-

Tork of his first Budget,

What sort of a Budget is it likely to be?

Will Selwyn Lloyd achieve the triumph which eluded his master. Mr Mac-

millan, when he presented his first Budget five years ago?

Tux cuts, Tax reform. Those were the glorious opportunities which Mr Mac- millan let slip in 1956,

Now they present themselves again. Will they be seized this time?

Will Mr Selwyn Lloyd send a

wave of enthusiasm through the

nation as President Kennedy

two

FOR BRITAIN?

EZUELA

Map by John Bodlo

The racial strife threat in Malaya

by Gordon Hung-

PART I

RACIAL strife is a deadlier threat to the orderly progress of both Singapore and Malaya than Communist subversion.

Red subversion can be fought by vigilance, awareness and most important of all improving the living standards of the people. A man with a full stomach is less likely to back any revolutionary movement than a hungry man.

But communalism is something that is in- herent in Malaya with its multi-racial society. It cannot be wiped out overnight, nor in a month, a year or years.

It lies below the surface and. inst people don't know It la there until it erupts to the sur- face at the places.

Now under the present Conall- most unoxpected tution two-thirds of the places in the whole aivil services ore to be filed by Malayn while the re- There is no short-term way of mainder of the places go to effectively crushing communal

sentiments--the fertile breeding Malayans of Chinese, Indian and ground of race riots among the other raclul origins.

people. All that can be done is The Malayan police force la for the authorities to move predominately Malay as in the against any action that may even well-trained Malay regiment.

faintly arouse the Ire of any one

racial segment of the community. So Malayn to all intents and The present trouble in the purposes today is ruled by the Conga is an much communa! as Mainys politically while the Chi- political, wallo India, which nese and British dominate the has now been independent for commercial fold. over a decade, still has ita com- munal troubles.

This has spread. disatisfaction

For any new state. the fist in both communities-the Malays steps lo making a nation is to because the Chinese control the instil loyalty among her people; economy of the country to a large to have a common language; and extent; and the Chinese because to have a common culture. they fear the Malays will shut

For Singapore and Malaya, na- them out of having. any say In tion-building is extremely dial- running the country altogether cult as the population of both and thus have no way of protect- 1 territories

multi-racial, ing their interests. multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious.

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ARC

Lingua francu

Government action on an Issue --although considered essential to the peaceful progress of the country towards a unified nation might be considered by one segment of the population as an atiompt to quash the culture of that particular segment.

At the moment the Malays have a slight advantage over the Chinese on the electoral roll. Only two million are eligible to vote in a population of 6.4 million at present but the franchise is be- ing extended through the work- ing of the 1997 Constitution to more, and more Malayans of Chi- neso and Indian racial descent.

Desperadoes

be certain and not arbitrary. The form of payment, the man-

Although Malay is now the

This means that, given, a con- ner of payment, the quantity to national language of the Federa- tinuance of full parliamentary be paid ought alt to be clear tian, the implementation of mak- democracy, the Malays face the and plain to the contributor anding it the lingua franca of the probability that in about Ove every other person,"

country and all schools has been years their politieni predomin "Clear and plain"? We have taken in very slow stages partly ance will be ended by the all- Low reached such a complicated because the langunge was never vent, into parliament of Malayan system that eight pages of weed as a means of teaching ex- Chinese and Indiana fuli explanatory notes, running to cept in village schools

during strength. about 12,500 words, are sent out the colonial days, and also be

ת!

with Income tax forms. And I cause of the vehement protests One Instance of where racial doubt whether one taxpayer in of certain sectors of Chinese Jealousies nearly resulted in n thousand would fully under- | educationists who consider it serious racial disturbances was in stand these notes, oven If ha Just one more step towards the Singapore recently.

made the effort to read them,

tax ought The

to be cer- tain." How many taxpayers are satisfied they know the basis They believe that in his first They do not expect anything

on which their inx in calculated: Are they sure they are getting Las done across the Atlantic fort at Budget-making Mr more exciting than one or

of all the rellets and allowances to with his economic message to Selwyn Lloyd will play safe minor tax adjustments and just advance any failure to continue and surtax lopped £1,134

which they are entitled? Or are Compress will be put a smile or, at least, what he thinks is a few trivial changes in the tex the process next April.

And at Arsi glance, of course, Today, if he has pushed his they, as many thousands must uf happiness on the face of safe.

Tories' Two Auctors, they add, are the far-from-flamboyant

i come up to the £4,000-a-year be, paying too much because it achievement brery taxpayer in the country?

the tax bill comes to is too wearisome and frustrating man, they say, will be content weighing heavily with him: pretty impressive-the standard level,

that he has £62 to argue? Sadly I report that those close

rate of income, tax down from £1,186--50 10 the Chancellor are not in which will have nothing much 1 Soaring Government expen-

diture makes It unlikely 95, fl. to 7s. d., big increases more to And although his tip- clined towards optimism.

This

with

λ

"standstill" Budget

in it for anyone.

Just arrived-

1960

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in reliefs and allowances, age ing standards have not risrn. that in the coming year there

An although it is said that will be a sufficient surplus to exemption from

miiflons have been freed from Jualify tax cuts;

income tax at all, But the achievement looks a paying any Massive claims for higher good deal less impressive when there are in fact 19,000,000 in- tax payers today, com→ It more wages in Industry are on you examine

closely, come their way. Until these have Especially when you allow for red with 10,000,000 in 1951.

In the face of evidence like of it would be the fact that if needs roughly this cannot been disposed

the Chancellor and buy what make substantiat £1 lodoy to unwise

his colleagues understand bought in 1951. changes in the tax structure,

The Tories' claims to have cased Are these arguments for a go-

the tax burden so substantially slow policy in April sound? 1

ring alle hollow? am sure they are not.

Rather than be guided by the Agures in the national ledger the Chancellor should look at what is happening in Britain today.

A warning?

by

Bernard

Harris

It looks splendid,

154.

of.

Indeed, the whole thing has become so tremendously com- plicated that the Board Inland Revenur itself is now publishing a pamphlet which gives 03 hints on how to save tox.

Bul

we:

Few of them concern the or. that dinary wage or salary earner who comes under PAYE. it shows what a situation have reached when the creators themselves have draw attention to the conces sions which are avaliable.

Chinese

The FAP Government smashed a plat by a "handful of despera. does" called themselves the Re- volutionary Islamlo Army of Singapore by arresting 16 Malays who had; been going around to

eventual crushing culture in Malaya altogether.

Corlain sectors of the Chinese population in Malaya and Singa- pore have often been accused of Chauvinism and the feelings be tween them and the Malays has Malay always given rise to uncasiness In responsible circles.

Many Malays in Singaporo consider, the istand as their na- tive land and regard the Chi- nese, Indians and other races on the island as outsiders. Similarly in Malaya,

settlements spreading vicious and dangerous rumouts of racial disturbances.

nese.

January 6 was the kick-off-day for the "holy war" to redress the "wrong" that the plotters alleged the PAP Government had dono in neglecting the interests of the Malays and favouring the Chi-

The Malau population of

· Minority group. Singapore was whipped up. to a keen sense of excitement by the rumoura spread by the rouD But in Singapore the Malays which alleged that a Malay hait are at a numerical disadvantage been murdered in the predomin as they comprise only 13 per antly Chinese Worker's Brigade, cent of the 1.6 million population, Meanwhile, the Government

They are, however, the largest which had got wind of the plot, minority racial group on the Is- rent out Malay political and re- tax land, Although the present muligious leaders to the Malay set-

10 rucial socialist PAP Government tlements to counter The fact is that brenuse of the

the danger has appointed a Malay as head- eus rumours. rise in living costs the cuis in

of-state and gives free aduention taxation have brought, no reni relief to millions of people,

An army of people--lawyers, up the university level for Malay students and other privileges to They have left our middle- ccountants, tax consultant

are needed to keep the present the economic educational back- classe the most heavily op- system working. Tax reform ward Malays, certain sectors of them from an this group consider themsolves

Сг

poses.

Fino words

A speech at Glasgow

Mr

the

population.

In the dark

The non-Molay population of

pressed of all, And until these people can spend more of their would release Mr Gaitskell's Budget of 1951 own money in the way they hormous amount of unnecessary being exploited by the prede- Singapore was kept in the dark their talents minantly Chinese population of about what was happening as the OR months there has been no

of the Government felt that an an- choose to spend It Britain's work, and make

available for more useful pur-Singapore-72 per cent

nouncement might havo, elarmed increase in Industrial pro- resulted in a £700-a-year mor- economy will not be as vigorous, duction, although a great deal ried man with two children pay- xo-ahead. dynamic as It

On the other hand in Malaya, the non-Malay public.

Any small, Incident might have the Malays bave a slight numer- of new

machinery in £57 In tax. Now he pays might be. plant and

So pay without any hosila-

leal advantage over the Chinese, panicked the people into a racial has been installed. In important only £4 15s. 3d. section of Industry--no!ably in

Malays comprise of 40 per cent clash. But i tion or reservation at all that household goods-im-

of the 0.4 million population cars wal

The Revolutionary. Army oven that man of 1051 has merele Mr Selwyn Lloyd must av Selwyn Lloyd sald

absolute priority to reduction

while 38 per cent of the total had jungle green uniforms with succeeded in keeping up with both in income tax and surtax

are Chinese.

shoulder badges bearing a white the rise la priets hla income

In April,

The head-of-state, the King or crescent and star. Their four now will need to be around

Paramount Ruler, is a Malay dogs had Arable inscriptions. £930.

sultan, the national language is While the group was spreading, Malay, the official religion is the rumour of an impending ra- Jalam and of the 20 ministers in cial

clash they were selling the Government, four are of "chorm shirts" to the Malay po Chinese race, two Indian and the pulation for protection, rest are Maluya.

But for the crushing of the And by a strange coincidence, plot, "January 0 might have

menso quantities of plant are ide and thousands of men are either out of a job altogether or on short time.

It is

these considerations,

rather than the mere balance of Income and expenditure, which should dictate taxation policy.

Evidenco

ho has done just

n

Hille

Did nothing

Government nuust Join with

employers and trades union in a combined operation "to rouse the peuple, stir them up, got them to break out of habits of and of processES practices that are old-fashioned,

Fine words..

Yow what about tax reform?" thought, No

Five years ago, as a result

slon and official commlitera £1,000 year Mr Macmillan had more scivice

They call for the encourago-1 better than that and got ble of the work of royal commis- restrictive, defeatist."

ment and stimulus which cuts can give.

10K

Income up to

But the Chancellor himself

e neemi almust-to-be warning against expecting anything like this.

And what better contribution

he will pay niore, 10x than he at his elbow on how to simplify could the Chancellor make to the majority of the senior hesta turned out to bo-a, dayi of terror did in 1851-£81, against £47. the tax system than any Chan- this

Take two more examples, The £1,000-a-year man of 1951 now. needs a minimum af

of departments in the civil ser- and mourning," the Government "atir-them-up” process vies uru Malaya. Formerly under sold.

cellor before him.

then to abandon the "restriccolonial rule, the senior honds of This example just shows how i But he did nothing about it five, defeat type of Budget departments were British but un- far a band of fanatics can whip The Boil of reform is wide to which we have been treated der Malayanisation their pori- up the sentiments of certain £2,000 your If his living open to Mr Belwyn Lloyd. Will for for too many years?

tions have been almost all taken segments of the population in He sayo that since the Tories standards are merely to lo he do some real pioneering

If he himself worn to shed over by Malaya who werq tho present day. Malaga. came to power just over nine maintained. But if he gets such work in 117 Will he try, for

habita of only race allowed in the adminis years ago the amount raised in a salary increase PAYE will hit example, to make income tax "old-hioned

the trailve service undor colonial' taxation in Bellein has been a him procisely as heavily suit conform with that sound prin- thought he could rouse

of Britain

no rule. Chirese, Indians and other progressively declining propor did in 1931, with a thx liability cipio laid down by Adam Smith people tion of the national income, Hẹ for the very of £357,

has roured races woro allowed. to join the nearly two, ocnturies ago?

other Chancellor

professional.ranches of it wer puts forward this argument And the man with 123,000 The. (Witteli enols. Indivi- then aines the war.

vico only. "defensivaly, no if to: Jusilty in, a year? In 1951 income tax dual is bound to pay ought to

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