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The Great Russian Dilemma

Back Europe's. Communists

30001IE11/1

Or Take Home

The Wealth?

1OR 80 days they laboured in Paris, and now at last it is all over. Never, I suppose, in this generation have we seen such a business: the commissions and the committees, the all-night sittings, the mammoth speeches and spluttering arguments, the non-stop tele. phonings around the world, the special aircraft running between London, Paris and Moscow, and this remark- able tidal wave of words in 20 different languages.

What have we got out of it?

At first sight it looks as though the mountain has produced

a mouse. Nothing is definitely decided.

Last July, in midsummer, Molotov, Bevin, Bidault Byrnes presented an agenda to the conference,

and

now,

and In autumn, the conference is sending it right back to them- sending it back virtually unaltered, still full of holes, none of the great problems really solved.

Alan Moorehead

Returns To Paris

Complete Independence

A

'Egypt

London, Oct. 25. wants sovereignty over the Sudan to fulfil her dream of making an empire from Uganda to the Mediterranean, declared Abdulla Bay the Secretary Gon- cral of the Sudanese WAMR party now in London in putting forward his party's view that the Sudan should be completely Independent.

A brigadier in the Sudanese Defence Corps during the war and a member of the Sudan Advisory Council, Bey said in an hitarview: "I can see no reason for Egypt claiming Bovereignty over

the

Sudan except for expansion and to

her ancient dream of maki fuini

con-

such an empire. This would supremacy to Egypt in the Arab. Longue and would also give Egypt Atrategic domination over Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The Arst step in such an Imperial adventure is th

the domination of the Sudan That would give Egypt, as it has given other countries and querors, soldiers' bases and supply buscs. It would immediately give Egypt room for her population to éverflow into the Sudun and Cx- ploit it economically. The present conditions of the mass of the people of Egypt is such that the Sudanese people are anxious to avoid this."

A Separate Race

The Sudanese base their claim for Independence, he said, frol on the simple inct that - they are not Egyptians but Sudanese- definitu and separate race. "There is not the slightest doubt that the overwhelming of Sudanese, wish to bo

mass

Independent ul British and Egyptians," he said. A plebiscite could prove that we of the WAME parly are prepared to accept....the verdict of a plebiscite held to-roy if necessary. No Egyption has ever suggested such a course for Sudan because the Egyptians know as

well as we do what the result would be,

"The longer the present system of condominium (joint rule) exists the more unhappy becomes the State of Sudan. We see the Egyptian

British and Sudanese influences all

It is a battling project. It has different ways in the administrat:50 |

contact not of individuals but off teams. No one man dominated at given to the Russian dealings here any time.

In Paris an international and a two-

Background men

VEN Britain in a startling way departed from tradi

of Foreign Offee officials Elen. whom few had heard before, men Hike Mr Gladwyn Jebb, who normal- ly lurked in the background, private- ly advising their Ministers, were pushed right up to the microphone.

And on the whole it must be said they handled things skilfully. They were nearly as forceful as the poli ticians and somewhat smoother and mere coherent in technique.

JEBB from the background,

sided flavour.

the or

other issues not much is to be said.

and the Sudanese are always sufferers. We are determined that

a seulement is not BOOR reached and the independence of the country established we will take the matter before the United Nations. We be- The question of

lieve the British Foreign Secretary, the free navigaMr Ernest Bevin, when he says tion of the Danube Sudan will be independent but he

is unsettled. So must realise that every day's delay

is the matter of adds to the troubles of our country." world freedom of

trade

In the fu sian-occupied

kans.

These

along with all the other

of

commissions→→ economic-

Abdulla Bey said that if the Sudan could not have independence his Bal people would be glad to have their country put under United Nations trusteeship. The Egyptians would problems, go back never dare to put their case for. sovereignty over the Sudan before to the Big Four much us they werej Su For the British Empire, the con- before. But at least they have had the United Nations because they had

no case at all really, he ended.- ference did good, The Australians, a terrific airing.

1 Reuter, Three kinds New Zealanders, South Africans and Canadians caine to Paris definitely military, political und determined to tulce a line of their have sat upon every question during |

the

past, manth or so. own on all things. This was very

Nearly everything will be left! clear in the early speeches.

hanging in the air. The Big Enur But then, as the conference went themselves will have to straighten on, the Dominion leaders found their things out, Then they will get own--policies -rumming-parallel with down to Germany. Then Japan..

British. All the Dominions wan'ed was to get themselves heard, They got themselves heard. There are no major differences with Bri-.

the

It has all been rather like a giunt echu. Whenever the Big Four

tain: came the erled "Trieste" ur "the Danube," back from the conference same words, booming louder but with not much more meaning in them.

So this is where the Big Four came in. After two a half months' labour, Byrnes, Bidault, Bevin and Molotov must return to the same problems and themselves. If possible, write the treaties-with-Finland, Italy, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria.

in the nal .sion.

J

at

More coming. Tins

IIS Paris conference broke

up an October 15. Another

conferencPA,

GOLD AND SILVER

Bombay, Oct. 24-Sliver and. Gold quo- tations to-day were:

-Rupees Annas

Silver, Ready

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London gold and silver prices were uti- changed.-Reuter.

were

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optimism; there

brimming hopes for the League of Nations, and war was unthinkable.

Something of the same procesa star's almost immediately In New went on in Britain's relations with York. Conferences stretch away SCs e United States and Western into the distance, an endless append

Europe, nolably Francë, Broadly, "At least," one the Western Powers voted together to the pence, years and years of ofcial put it. "we for a world as it stood in 1939, but

Should we worry nbout that? have proved that minus Germany and Japan.

Should we fear it? we can meet at

Broadly, the Russians voted for a

There are at least two hopeful This time, we are starting at the. close rance, shoot, world as it stands now-that is 12 points to, be falten Into accourt." bottom in a world of cynicism and. not get hurt." say, a work with the Bassions in

First, this conference is rather like On the analogy that wherever you And

the remark sole possession of all, their gains,

one of our own Parliaments at home, get a mountain you get a valley ns VISHIN-

eflective because That was the fundamental issue of There is a Government and an Op-well, we should soon be starting on SKY

that moment, the conference, that was the rock position (in this case, the Russians), the upward climb. holding

Mr Vishinsky was over which the compromises Pre Despite the Opposition, taws do get No, I cannot see war here any forth an- ·

holding forth an- breaking. It came up in every themselves passed eventually, And where. Both politics and politicians grily.

Krlly len vards speech, it was the underlying theme nway from us. of every dispute.

Second is the reflection that in Some 40 or 50 respectable-looking

1919 the world was at the peak of gentlemen, all very much alike, were | Had it not lined up the West

witting mildly rourt the conference against the East, the Anglo-Saxonstable listening to him. No one ex- against the Slave Had it not shown fotoded. They have got to know Mr the impossibility of compromise and left the hopes of peace more rugged Vishinsky, and he has got to know than before? This was what you heard as you walked around the cor- ridors of the Luxembourg.

In Parts there was, when I returned just before the end, an air of marked frustration. The pessimists (solid lad majority) shook their heads. not the conference only opened up more dimeulties?

Foes & Allies REFORTING the peace von

ference. I found, was very

ilke reporting the war. except you did not have to dress up for it and you did not have to ride around in jeeps.

.

The alarums and excursions are much the same,

them.

an argument.

that his backers know about it.

Nothing secret `

Issue No. 1 WH

WHAT was the biggest issue

work done, for the most part.

of the conference? Un-SIDE GLANCES foubledly the matter of Trieste. which was brought to a hrad In the carly hours of last Thursday morn.. ing.

#

In the technique of debale, at least. Trieste is not a complicated matter this conference reached a good under. The Russians would prefer that vital talian port in the Central standing. Nobody here, as far as 1 M could sro, started muttering about Mediterranean to be in the hands of

their politien friends, the

Yugo. war es sann as he was defeated in Slavs. The Western Powers want to make Trieste an international port Next, there is clearly a great virtuelle Danzig was and Tongier Je in having things out in the open.The Russions have indicated that

of Perhaps you do not get quick, clear they will accent the decision decisions, but at least every delegate two-thirds majority vote

Marshal Tito charpes angrily feels that he has put up a fight and

He anys hr through this dispute. will not accept the decision. But he will accept what Moscow says to him. As yet, Moscow has not boy- cotted the decision.

What really is most complicated-

is the relationship of and this conference has brought it and we all heard about it. out strongly-is led at finding his foes among his own Neither pubile nor personal animosi Moscow towards the Communist

countries. Farly In other

The "eye ties festered in secret.

for an eye and a tooth attitude to The old enemics-Finland and the

the Possibly one of the reasons why all governs rest-have simply not mattered at all we have been disappointed about wards war and peace.

They want reparations in from

full this conference is that, for the first They have been merely the battle-ume, the pubile is hearing the dis- the defeated countries and no non- fleld over which the Allies during putes which used to go on just as these past eleven weeks have strug- | violently in private, gled for position and power against

+

The real difference is that in war.

you know your enemy, while here

Mr Bevin thought Mr Molotoy was talking non-

everyone seems to be slightly appal-ense, he told him zo straight to his

allies.

at this conference.

one another..

No big hitch DEPLORABLE? Yes.

But

what is the good of going

on looking back on what we hoped would come out of this conference? Let us look instead at what has actually happened.

1

And the meeling did not generate into eliher a brawl show-down.

for a tooth"

sense about it. They will impoverish Austrin in order to re-equip the Ukraine and raise their standards of

de. home a little nearer to the standard.

of the West. or

SuBut

equally the Russlang want to support the Communist Govern-

There is another thing, which may ments they have set up in such de

or may not be ominous according to feated territories. If they persist in your politics: this has developed into the demand for reparations they will

a conference run largely not by poll-

ticians but by officials,

troy these Communist

Tirat of all, for example:

Gavern-

Can

No Lloyd George or Clemenceau they support the Communists in Italy

First, no one han walked out of the arošo. If there were great person- and at the same time take away conference. No one has really deled alities among the Big Four, they from the Italians their incans of or boycotted it except Yugo-Slavia cancelled one another out. It won a' livelliodd?

are

beginning to look very, very tired. It is a grey, tired, muddled, inconclusive peace. But it is peace.

By Galbraith"

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