THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961.
Kruschev's gamble!
AT LEAST HE'S PREPARED
TO GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF A SECRET VOTE
by Stephen Harper
Moscow.
DARK-HAIRED, Natasha Ivanova, typist in a Soviet Government office, trim enough in her smart suit, nylons, and high heels to pass inster among the well-groomed window-shoppers of Bond-street, W. But she looked completely incongruous with a shovel in her gloved hands working on the new Leningradskaya highway of Moscow's international airport.
There she was with other; unsuitably clar young stamp My Kruebee's mammoth people of a volunteer group, B-year progmeme to create a well in among the bullizers, Commalat topta within the bietime of the present, generá- tip-up lorries, and ad-
tion soiled roadmen.
While
I watched she only toyed with the shovel and Hughes about it
all with a swating buy in a smari white
Tune.
Both were Just going through The mutions of a social duty.
All over MoreUW *SECT ordinary work is one-seven
is
35
Anong
Diem
space man ternum Titov, elected delegate of the Red Air Force, the honorary member for the CosIBOR
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freun
Thore is no criticism, tio oppoeltion at the Congress only suggestions for Improvement of the Kruschey plan. Aut 31 is
frat the Congress Lo meel In the completely de-Stalinised Com- munist freedom-that is genuke freedom from police terror, feur of the middle-of-the-night knock on the door, exile, torture, execution.
11 Is the Arst Busin, that, theoretically at
-
Cers #ro factory work
Dua Catstene from the Steppes, herds- men bom Uzbekustań
bighdam wurkers from the Volga, timber workers from Siberia, fisher- users from the Soviet Far East
tours, six day it week-endered skull-caps.
population is out in volarafeer you making gardien ERITES for tidying us after the steam-
ollers and lorries of the regular road gangs have moveri on from a new underpuss of cur park
Moscow has been getting ready play hout This week t travellers from every comer of the Communist empire.
to
Workmen have been hard at it day and night to complete new glass and concrete "Festival fall inside the pinks and prin
coloured Kremlin walls for the most important Com munist meeting yet.
UTOPIA
whose inangs are closer to San Francisco that to Moscow.
.
NO DISSENT
Is rubber-stamp 100 Klib phrase for this historic 22
the all-Soviet Congress of Communist Party Hardly, for not a "Nier" is heard. Instead of
Congress
any rate, can suck the boss himself. That If, perhaps, the most significant thing of all.
A new rule lays down the principle of systematic renewal bodies and continuity of leader- of the composition of party
It is intended as a safe- ship. Atard okuinst the cult ot personalities, the dangers of new Stalin dictatorship.
NO FEAR
ed to take.
10001
sickur. Often he and his fel-
low Georgien, Becrel Poller
chief Berla, murmured together
their own tongue at Pre- ounced to the non-Georgian majority what the decision was.
skilum meetings, then zki-
The 17th Congress in 1934 viectel 130 members to The Presidium. Stalin urdered the arrest and execution ul 98 of them. And 1,108 of the 1,064 delegates were arrested.
Sparemaa Titoy and his fel
fear f in delegates have no anything like that.
It's enough to make Hain's ghost mumble
raten.
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LI.S. 'PUBLIC OPINIÓN
his
But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!"*
Nice chaps
THE
New York. THE other week a few of us were having farewell drink with Sir Harold Coccia, who has just
a
Kruschee is taking a risk that ended O five-year debate there are terimations Stalin could ever have afford-stint as British Am- and prolonged acclminations, The delegates represent
Under the new rule he needs bassador in Washing- only members of THE Party-one 75 per cent vote by secret for every 2,000 members. That
ballot to keep him in power ton. As the Lines as many dele- instead of the normal miniinum
aly. the last time. But i 50 per cem.
#f
About 4,500 members of the still ingas that only 9,000,000 This in itself signifies the Soylet's Big Parliament,” of the Soviet Union's 220 mil incredible world-apart differ- which lasts
abenil 10 days bon people will have had a ence between the Russtu ཐཱ॰༥ ༣༠1 four years or 30, say, their election, Party Stalin and Russin today. gathered for the opening on membership is Tuesday. They will rubber- honour here.
Athens.
hard-won
Stalin rarely called
Con- press and snubbed the Pre-
THE summer palace Lord Lambton
of the Shah lies
under the mountains
about 10 miles from talks with the
Teheran.
It is set
among flowers and
trees of great beauty man who
but it is a very diffi- cult place to get into.
My car was slopped at the gate, my credentials checked and re-checked and then 1 Jul to walk up drive past many strolling guards who carried machine-guns with a pur- poseful air. At the door I got a salate which would not have been unworthy of the troops of Tamerlane.
If ever such precautions were justified thesis are.
Indeed, I would feel happier if they were even more rigorous, for of all the men in the world. The Shah's Bfe is probably the
most valuable to the West.
TARGET
After a stay
in Persie I
certain that there is no alter- native to him which could pre- vent the country from going Commwist.
Adjacent as
Is to Reissin
and with att unguardalie fron- ter 2,000 miles long, it has long been a target for Soviet propa- poirdle, and sunity Hood judges held that Kruschev bas far
gave
away £47m.
What
does
THE
West
want?
THE SHAH GIVES UP HIS £47m.
To help his country
serious faults. But the real ques- tion is: Could any other une do better? From no Pursino rifle whom I put this question did I revive a satisfactory answer. For ulthough Persia has re old civilisation. It is a civiliso Tom of the baiividual, There is po community sense at all.
I
the
M
BERLIN BRINK
And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array.
London djam Servic#,
lot, but
man
in
hope our new America is up to his job
By RENE MacCOLL
Xow, t have personally Togetherness is all very well known, studled, and reported but it can be overdone. I am every British Ambassador to by no means alone in holding the United States since the the opinion that is modern stuffed-shirt Lindsay cf ur-
times far and nway our two Halifax, war doys - Lothian,
best operators at the embassy The 55-year-old Curela verchapel, Franks, Mukins, on the Potomac were Lothlun, has returned to London, Caecia. And I say that the who died tragically in office at there to assume
which face:: the key challenge
1840, and his Immediate in Washington, 43-
successor, the late post of Permanent Under- new man
year-old David Ormsby-Gore. Lord Halifax. Secretary at the Foreign is tremendous. Oflice.
Withered
L'
1
Smash hit
Lothlon was down to earth, had the "common touch" to per- fectlon, got on as famously with the man in his club bar as with his fellow inmates on Embassy Row.
And in the stormy fitnes to wards the end of the Palestine rupation when Britala Was under great American pressure -with even President Harry Truman, because of the huo American Jewish vute, having to criticise Britain publicly- inverchapel's enduct of our case was generally considered inept and ineffective.
Harold Cacela tad on un- fortunate knack of being absent from Washington when bik things were breaking.
Convinced
Caccia always seemed to be amiable but ineffective.
Sir Oliver Franks was always convinced that Britan's hurried Eust-war retreat from glory would nut ultimately affect our position in the world.
We have all recently seen how the neutral and unaligned nailons estimate the respective worth of naked power and "moral" force. Never in my own estimation,
British have
influence und trestige in the U.S.A. been lower than they stand today.
And there is a crying need for some Agure of electric per- unailty, of dynamism, in our embassy here as the Arst step in their restoration.
Luck
Well, anyway. Onnsby-Gore has got a huge job ahead of hin and I wish him luck,
They really cannot afford to
I hope that, for his £7,000 Hu on doing this. The stakes Ye#, I know nil about
sotary and £32,200-a-year much bruited
allowance, he works hard, are too high. They have an ally Ormsby-Gore's
personal friendship with Prest-
Reta oul and about, gels here and they must support dent Kennedy, That may be a
Thus, when the Four-Power himself known to the American him. 1 is one of those occnsions useful detall, but I say is Halifax, who was regarded ambassadorial group was meet public at largo.
fur, far, far from being enough.
ing in Washington this summer when Uncle Somy's ostrich
with sturpicion before
And above all, that he he
bu- For let
to work out the West's plans to cones known to his friend Pre- report quite arrived me Idealistn
here au a "man nl must give way
to bluntly that the prostige and lunch," was a smash hit.
the impending Berlin sident Kennedy and other realism or pay the price by esteem of the British Ambas-
crisis, Caccia was 3,000 lles members of the When, while America was sil
American sadership in Washington has, neutral, some women from the fog a business men's meeting and uncompromising
away,
in California, address Administration as a constant and losing Persia.
lunatic fringe tung erts at him then enjoying a few days camp- British interests.
-
I put this point to the Shah. He leaned over the table
words me and sald;
17.
But our men in Washington to spare? Back You see what the West has to decide in that cannot be absolved of all blame. it wrents.
meer
since the war. shrunk and dwindled and withered.
Partly it is the
& tour of the Middle Ing. fault of during Whitehall, which insisted on West, Halifax murmured og he treating its
A bit of shell, Washington brushed away ambassadors as messenger boys. "Aren't they lucky to have the England they're rationed, you know."
The wisecrack lif: the head- lines from coast to coast-and Halifax was taken to Americans' hearts. But the kie Lord Inver-
Charming
All our post-war ambassadors in Washington have been nice chaps in every sense. Engaging, pleasant, and charming. Franks- man
Inverchapel was dryly witty.
for whom have great adrairation was
was
chapel, who had done well fr Moscow during the war, a changed man when he cante to Washington.
Far away
Does it want here a grow- ing nation of 20 million people to whom it is closely allied, u natim increasing in population and economie To insist, therefore, upon the strength, or dues it wunt imposition of democracy in nation that has gone over to Persia is to invite precisely the the Communists who will in___beguising conversationalist, Hc becutze increasingly
existed steadily push them out of Corruption 215 before the coup W'elats in the Middle East? Pakistan and the Sudan. And Communism is bound to follow corruption.
Ruine
When one considers that the Shah is the last hope against this there seems no alternative to giving him every possible ald in attempting to solve the vast problems of a country emerging from feudalism and a thousand years of inertia.
And what problems they are, ranging from the social to the present economic crisis and whether or not to have a Parlia- ment. They are enough to daunt any
I but he appears
unlausted.
Without doubt his personal slature has greatly increased in the last four years and, despite conalderoble
greater Interest in it than in ASKS THE SHAH rumours, he has
Berlin.
Certainly if it were 10 From LORD LAMBTON, MP
Communist It would be by far Russia's greatest gain and would probably spell the end of any Independence in the Middle East.
CRITICS
It is undeniable though that
Yes, because I give the coun- try the government which at tha time is best suited to it.
And do you Uink that you well be able to maintain your position here when there's such a division between the rich and the poor?
popularly in the country which is handing over to the State a has recently been Ingressed by
large private fund.
THE ARMY
his
But the real basis of strength is in the loyalty of the Army and as long as this con- tinues, his position la relatively strong. It will need to be: thờ fuluro buldu little but stress
Perhaps you
do not under the Shak hos 1 critics and stand that the chief opposition amang Cheerl an intellectual here comics to me from the rich and strab: for him. minority in Teheran who believe and tirat 1 am thought by the
For Pernia is a political battle Communists
be shutid change his method of to do ugainst their interests. Ifeld between the ruling mind that "this" would suit 4 from the people that I get my and the Free World.
the country and, incidentally, support.
their own interests.
With this in mind I asked tilm
the following question:
Do you beliers int you can
ALTERNATIVE?
As this is the CARO and a there is no allornative to the Shut I should have thought that American ineral support would have been natinted. Alas, it
Now there is a great deal of not. For whatever their officikl
maintain Your rule in this truth In this,
policy in many of them privately country whose independence is Of course, hils Government in deplore the lack of American guaranteed by the democracies? not perfect. Of course, it has idealism in the governmert.
That is the question.
Making was
would
exponent of
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THE AGE OF
TALKING SPUTNIKS
Washington.
Cacela is a man of easy address and State Department oftetals
good mixer, lettante, and fellow envoys THREE hours sleep per night. Letters to Aus But was there enough Iron in complained that he
tralia in four minutes. Business travel cut the mixture? Enough toughness Interrupt serious conversations to one tenth. Everyone in the world speaking when the chips repeatedly came to deliver disquisitions on such the same language,
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down?
subjects as butterflies.
*Wali, if it's all eight with the Qouncil of Indústrial Design
London Express fareler,
Three hundred distinguished scientists tacitly approved those
last week predictions from British physicist and author Arthur C. Clarke, who · "In- vented" communications satel lies, 10 years ago.
The "alking sputniks" whleh are to start orbiting next year, he sald, could revolutionise society within a lifetime, They were one of the most powerful weapons in history for good or
evil.
Mr Clarko 1014 the Inter- national Astronauticat Federa- tion Congress here. that there are 6,000 languages spoken to- day or which Mandarin WEA musi widely used with Eng- lish seconzt.
"[ think communications satellites will give a tongue which alt men can understand," be sald.
LESS TRAVEL
He said, "Unless some syn- thelle langage is invented, the practical choice appears to bo between Mandarin, English or Iussion." Clarke added that better communications would eliminate most of the need for business men to travel and would have tremendous political. and cultural impact on back ward peoples.
They would have tew wreat effect on time as the automo- bile had on distance. People would grow no ward to contact- ing others around the world that time differences would become Intolerable "unlors we change the pattern of our lives,
Clarke was given an ovalion as he ended, "What we are Butkiing now ja a nervous sys- tem for anankind which will lize the whole human race for better or worse in unity which no earlier ago could have imagined."
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