THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1061.
A hard-hitting open letter to Russia's strongman...
NO THE WEST ISN'T SOFT, MR K!
Dear Mr Kruschev:
My name is of no importance to you. I am just a journalist, one of those people your pro- pugandists call “a lackey of Anglo-US imperial- ism." But I have spent 40 years observing the day-to-day life of Britain and understanding the workings of the people's minds,
Like you, I have experienced two world wars—the first as a Boy Scout hospital orderly, the second as a soldier. Over wor I have no illusions at all.
My reason for writing this let- ter can be summimed up in one [word: Berlin,
As we see it it Britain and the
| Commonwealth, you and thu East German Communist leader. Herr Burieht, ne dellrately |eresting
crisis Over this Artasided við
Western unity
We'll fight in Berlin-
"won't
Bght fur King
if you push too hard
Rach
We
We also have an unflinching
of the Individual, in all that we
Aghi and die for
It seems. however, that mean by democracy. once again your experts Twice in your Welline and have failed to understand mine, the British people have the mood of Britain.
Kone out to "Pravda says that his "un-freetem. The inen and women forgettable" visit "ns be come a factor of political of the Commonwealth marched with them, They would do the importance for Britain as a
some thing today. whole."
The truth ly thot, outside placed under...jurisdiction shall Whitehall and Fleet-street, the of race, sex, politien impact of the visit was enjoy, prstardless language of religion, the rights ll.
you almost no doubl, Herr Uibricht reminds Spanish frontier, as there are be- 1 .aw quite a lot of that horria You may wonder why we are the Dediented Party Man,
dully. The farm tween Fast and West Germany, le man before the war. I ro suspicious of your proposed saw him as a brave, friendly, faith in freedom, in the liberty en has breme chaulle, Pea Th no country the refugee remember how he seized upon a draft peace treaty for Germany. time job and made history.
chterful soul who had done a to Communist trou Spain a problem. stresistan
is real and increasing, wontrol
and is because we have memories. while h East Berlin and other We realise, too, that your idea- Country vote by students at we remember 1946, and the rities, the Toof shortage grows logical clash with the Communist Oxford University as proof that
troulies peace Britain wotdidn't light,
signed with Jeaders in Peking has become a worse each week.
Rumanio, Hungary and Bulgaria. There are growing rumblings nermaient cutsizo headache for of unrest, I don't expect them you. Naturally, with the hot
of them contained this to explate into spon revoll, but breath of Comrade Mag blowing False reflection cause they are sulkiently marked
accomplish summe quick Berlin, I must rentind you to be a very hand advertisement neck, you would like to 41f 11
speclucutar victory lù the West from the
A little later, those you guaranteeing that all persons to prove to the Couimunist world works of Turgenev, which An even worse advertisement 1 am sure, you have read: was the Boot of refugees which that your theories are correct. "If you desire to put your poured into West Berlin--men enemy in the wrong or even and women stepareil to sacrifice from the {tr! to damage his repulation, ll to escape
reglave. blame him for the very vice which you feel in your- self."
sentence
We are the West understand clearly the matty dificulties that ate pressin in on you at the Presnt time,
The Western pter! of Berlin is an enelyg of freerium al de macy in a pes of Communiam, As won minde oluar in you in the miten seul
Britain, France ael the United States, the West will not tolerate nudateral ae- Remoula angel
in Chung a In destroy hat freedom.
vest ka
for Communist rule.
Outsize headache
that country.
and
"....shall be obliged to lote all necessary
for measures
men went out to fight and die in
Ittain. The Battle of
on the Murnirisk convoys and in the
Western Desert,
auct
public
CETINES"
We know what has happened
American
reaction
The destruction of free Berthy would be just such victory. # would help
of man and the basle freedoms, 300, Con, h your row with So don't be misled by the re- Enver Hoxha in Albania, “ports
including liberly of speech, of you harve received of which has compelled you to imprches to Aldermaston, sit- e press and pukeations, the bring your submarines down demonstrations in White- freedom of religious worship. home from their bases in hall, and goings-on at Holy Loch pohtical pilews
These demonstrators - In the Soviet Union. The food
We in the West realise all this, sincere pacifists, bearded in those there clates since that fune of sympathy and friend- In Britain, there is a great production adan has not out of
for we also have aur problems bentrelke,
un trely was signed. Now we find lines for the Russian people and Erotisered geser, us
Incidentulty, here is a passing and headaches. But we realize has
in Poland,
washed girls. and. of precisely the same clause in your miration for Czechoslovakia, thought that may, intertat you, grimething ebe as well.
ol draft treaty for Germany, barl lar. Your press and
course, a strong tenven Your diulematte muys Mions of entstars have marked the 25th
Communist Party members Pomivovary 1 the
and Washington. France Paris, Lancing
are not a true mirror Tegime in Spuit with a torrent relying o far from afective
the mood ant character of abuse.
info.: may But Spantlards are not sources of
the British peopic. fering from their country at lave misinformed you about the the rate of 260,000 a year,
rral maud, tumper and dater-
You fought against Her. When spaceman Yuri Gagurin minution of the people. Misled There
came to Britain, he was given killer-dogs, you, in fact, as filler was ralsled
be a tragely if you a emendrus recep'inn by a fre It would elceive fences, or watch-towers by con Ribbentrop about the mode the same mistake as he people. We did not see him as Western powers over atmosphere of crisis, of which, with machine guns along the British.
you do the perfect example of
certain.
The notes contain no ultime, fun, but they aneion what they prople face tomine. say. I box you will note that certain pargiges in them re Identical coincide,
כיול
is
just
Becusa
Because of the tions you have levelled at the
Farm
chaos
Jn East Germany, there is an
#TO
cum-
The faith Frank Buchman forged into
R FRANK BUCHMAN,
Dealer of Moral Re-
arnuiment, began to plan many years app for the death that took him at 10.15 on the evening of August 7.
He started to train 50 men
to take over his job
with
#dtires: vast resembles, deyslup contacts. Ministers
and Heads
t
to
Prince
State in
to carry on his work mny different countries and in banks, newspapers, and fikus.
*Pe expansion of Moral Rearmanent since the war's end. and the fantastic appeal of ite Alms, particularly in Africa, he saw a signs that his pupusse had succented,
whil So no one man
move Inie the duair, occupied for mire than 30 years by Frank, as he was ruled by followers throughout the world.
a weapon
by
John Redfern
He had
forgotten the reporter's name, The Buch- manites never forget a hang a
ratu*1.
The money side of the move- ment puzzle: the outsiders. The Moral Rearmery always stay in
st-class hotels.
E
In
did.
their achleve- anets in war and ORCI. But Are you really surprised that there is no sympathy for Coun 19 we took upon it with suspicion? munists as a political creed, the of We have not forgalten what hap. British Communist Party has
pened to the Billie States,
only 28,000 members in a popula- lion of 52 million.
The Americans teel as we do. There is evidence that three- quarters of them would be pre- pared to risk war over Berlin. That means risking war over the vital principle embodied in the word "freedom.
We British are a patient, tolerant people. We have a great gift for compromise, but we have our faith, our ideology, jast DA deep- reated as that of the most dedicated Communist In the Kremlin. When put to the fest, we have not been found wanting.
Sincerely
John Baker White
Troubles WHILE SPACE AND BERLIN CAPTURE THE HEADLINES,
start TB cases smoking
KRUSCHEV SLIPS IN A FANTASTIC CHALLENGE
IN the excitement over Mr Kruschey's speech on Berlin and the Com-
mon Market, Mr Kruse
chev's new party pro- gramme-which at last sets a deadline for the introduction of "true Communism"-has pass- ed almost unnoticed
MOTIONAL upheavals caused by marriage rows or courtship troubles here.
ticence than either.
'Tis 30,000 words long, a sen But in
of verbiage and jargon, there murky waters lurks an idea whlelt may help to deter- maine the pattern of the serond half of our century-the con- |cept of conmutual affinence.
make people suffering Bus in the long run. át is from tuberculosis smoke likely to prove of greater signi- twice as many cigarettes as those on an emotional even keel, a doctor says.
a staple including Tests
psychiatric questionnaire "Isn't 2 milliunire?” was lis
wew encried out on 294 Luber- tort.
cular cases, and then compared with the findings of a similar test carried out on 152 non-
theresiar "control" cases,
Asked about extravagance,"
man would
God
A BULWARK
In 1908, when Buchinum Was Walking in the Black Forget, was thinking about the threat bi war. Suddenly, he clevirimul the answer was moral rearma- ment, The movement was ree named. After the war its pro
more paganda becane
and more concerned with
Morai patie Communism. And less and lest did. specilie Christian teaching figure in it, as the movement involved itself with the Atri- caps, the Indians, and the pede,
His "livblenants" will co- tinue the day-lo-day orgnuisa- tion of the movement. There pirs of the East.
1:4
will Le vitanges," said
--Mr Peter Howard, one- time Rugby international and Fleet-streri big-name.
3
P114 Reaonment has paid Ministry. 1ts teams and men who range about the world nearly 3,000 altogether-are paid for by donations, they say.
A is he heved that they have recrived substantial suitis from elections, Bo In the middle of mounting Germany and France, where them activities, Frunk Buchman lending statesmen see it as a loukel like well-scrubbed bulwark against Communism. A American druggist_without the new centre in Japan is being white cont. He dressed like an
for by top business mea Mr Howard sat in a bedroom American executive, His eyes, there in the luxury Waldiast Hotel at behind rimless glasses, werd Freudenstadt, Germany, with a chrewd, pad of paper on his knee.
When he returned to England luking down his chief's dying after seven years' absence, words,
reporter rail, "I want to w you the question I asked just the you were here, Where does the money come from?"
HE KNEW
Dr Buchman, who was 83, had a coronary attack early on Monday the morning of August 7. His doctor get hold of a cof- diograph. It was elear tile situation was serious. In the afternoon he had bouts of patĀ.
"But" said Mr Howard talked a lot, although he knew from noontime that he going to die.'
WAS
Büchinan, an American-born Lutheran minister, of Swiss descent, started thic First Century Chrlátlan Fellowship In the twenties,
It 1928, when some of his disciples were leaving! Oxford for South Afrien, a railway porter labelled their reserved compartment: "Oxford Group." Buchman liked the Impromptu tag, and adopted II,
bad
Perhaps it wha eholee. The public confused it with time Oxford Movement, forerunner oi the Anglo- Catholie revient in the Church of England. And Oxford graduales, led by Sir Alan Her- bert, then M.P, for the univer- sity, resented the Impliention that Bachman's followern were ameclatert with the university.
But with hin four absolutes absolute honesty, purlly, un- celfishness, #x Tove-and the exercise of "sharing" — enter- sing sin In pubile-Duchman's ways gained attention. Many people joined the group hour-parlies, and talked about their sins,
now
Dr Belmon replied: "tr Finst, the answer is the one 1 jove you seven years ago. It comes from God!”
Clie
Honours and money
It Frank Buchtone, lavishly the ordinary-hoking man who helloved he bart the answer to Communist.
He believed he had something better for mankind.
You may not agree with his Idens. But he bad strong
support.
And he did his funk well.
-London Express Servica).
EMOTIONS
-
The cumpared figures show that there is a denite relationship between the emotional state of
a tubercular ense and the amottut
RELENTLESS
In 30,000 words
of
to
jargon: an idea shake the world
By PAUL JOHNSON
national Inconic expunds, it will be distributed not in the form of higher wages but communal service-free bread, transport, housing holidays and so on.
The affluence will be there: but it will be conrusally con-
There is now, in faet, a good At long last the Soviel Indus trolled. There will be ng keep- deal of carpitis cust floating tribi workers, particularly the ing up with the Soviet Joneses. around in the higher echelons skilled tradesmen, are gelling a
in It Is.
some ways, Unable to trickle of consumer guods. They imaginative concept. But not This concrul Ils at the heart of Moscow suciuly, of Kruchev's Philosophy of the regular investment outlets are beginning to nequire pre- one to appeal to mest human Back pertyd with the itch to beluggs. In whom the instinct to
OWN.
acquire private property is as
He has graspedi thut om. it is diffling into the
of the Communist market.
life. tral tenel faith-that private
wealth is
ninoral-and pursues
it with
his relentless energy.
1 is becoming Increasingly
SPECULATORS
clear, however, that the very Fast month, two young black-
100.
The greatest enemy of So- ducply rooted as rin. elalism, an the Labour Party Indeed, brings Kruachev has discovered, is the Affluent directly in the greatest challenge Society; and this le a threat of all: can Communism-or any which is now beginning to other political system-change were sentenced 19 [f clynrettes he success of the Communista in marketeers
Joom over Kruschev's horizon, human nature?
Kruzchev believes firmly smokes, says Dr. David Kisgen, eating a huge, industrini bose drath in Moscow for supply let
ia Russia now constitutes Illegal
for: iga eviteney lo
His new programme ts n that it can. The next two of of the Southern General Hos-formidable obstacle to attaining wealthy Muscovites. They were effort to face this twin challenge, three decades should provide pital, Glasgow, who carried out this ideal.
เม #reet-corner tuuls the Within the rext 20 years, hu the answer. In my view this s the tests,
To raise output, the Moserie teals rugged into adillons of feels, the construction of the the key to the battle of "poace- Elut no such
ineransert relationship was planners have
the Touble
Soviet industrial base will be ful competition." found with the "control" cases, diferenties between the lowest- Now Is this an sakit d esse, complete, and the purely inau- The Communist block may adtls Dr Kisseri, who published past workers and the techno. A wivole elus of speculators in eind Incentives to work can be well suceced in ouirtripping the
Andings J the
Medicaleras They have also slaphed growing up in the big Soviet relaxen.
West In production. But Com- Income-tax and increased rifles, outside the framework of Hence he plans to sorrow the munista itself will erede unless fringe-bonts
the top the State coonamy.
differentiola iri the wage it can win the battle to erase THE: 15
danger structure and gradually wipe out the acquiritive nature of man. The Arst
The second is the surplus pending power of All history teaches that it will The gap between solage, từ Krnch y faces. | greater Cha In Un filled le immediate but in the end the technical elite.
States.
At the sam may prove more serious,
Press.
It would be wrong, though, to regard smoking as a enuse of Auberculosis, he says,
---(London Express Service).
managers.
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