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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947.

THE OF THE

7TELL, he's done it

W

again, sald £1. Foreign Office

cial to me after the Three- Power meeting in Paris.

"We

don't meet again till November (the date of the next Foreign Ministers' Conference),

NO

I

suppose WO can take it that wo've had the last No's of Summer.

to

He was referring, of course, Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Molotov; fifty-seven year - old Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, the statesman who has made a legend of diplomatic obstinacy, the man who makes "No No Nanette" sound like. a yes-woman.

My friend in the Foreign Office is a good-humoured fellow, He used to refer to Molotov almost affectionately as "Aun- tie." But he cut all that out a few months ago. Now there is only bitterness in his voice. And that changed attitude is true, I believe, of most of the Western democratic peoples.

We've had a bellyful of Molotov's interminable "No's.". We're fed up with the mono- tonous succession of conferences broken up by the "Hammer- man" (that's what Molotov" means). From being an object of grudging admiration and respect, the Soviet Foreign

---fear.

---

GREMLIN KREMLIN

ono," he speaks as a statesman that it has destroyed the interna Endowed with a personal con- ional prestige to painfully built up science and judgment, and the for Russia by Litvinov during the power to use them.

years leading to the war. When Molotov says "the So.. Maxim Litvinov succeeded in viet Union feels convinced that breaking down the barriers. of its policy is the correct one," he Russian Isolationism and integrating is giving us a gramophone, re- the suspect Soviet Union into an cording of inflexible, cut-and- International framework, He centred dried decisions made by the his policy on Geneva and 'trlod to Politburo, the supreme Soviet use the League of Nations as u authority. Since Stalin con- rallying centre against Fascist ag trols the Politburo, Molotov is gression, as an effective Instrument in fact, His Master's Voice.

of collective security for the demo- cratic nations,

-INFLEXIBILITY

He never really wanted to be anything else. Since 1912, when he first come under the magnetic in-

ITVINOV, with his many years of fluence of Josef Stalin, he hou

European exile and his British- devoted hims:1f utterly to the service of Russian Communism--as inter-

wile was an "internationalist"-not preted by his leader. He is involved in the world revolutionary sense of in no Kremlin cliques, avoids close 1017-23 but in the true spirit of the friendship with any of his colleagues League Covenant. His policy failed on the Politburo or Council of Minis. in its most vital object-to secure ters,

the Soviet Union against aggression the by an effective alliance with Lenin regarded him, coldly, as Western democracies-but it C "the best fille clerk in Russin." Stalin tablished the Soviet Union in the needed that kind of

He eyes of millions of people all over the world as a power for peace and created for it a moral prestige from which it has drawn ever since, and

A Political Profile By

FREDERIC MULLALY

clerk.

above all at the moment when ag- gressions actually came,

Molotov, the inland-Russian, from Kazan, who had never been abroad

POCKET CARTOON byOSBERT LANGSTER

*** Equal pay for equal work? Yest: Na?"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

Two of

*

Dan Tremendo's sparring partners sprained their fists on his belly last week. Latest measurements indicate that Trivett may have a long enough reach to by-pass the famous belly, and make contact. with ribs, jaw, nose and so on... Tremendo's tactics will probably Minister is now probably the nightgown in bed. Oh, yes- brought him into the Politburo in until 1930, had never breathed

be to stand quite still until he sees world's most disliked personal- it is said he always sleeps with 1924 where, three years later, he democratic air, had never know whether his magnificent outer bas- ity. His very name, like a gun under his pillow. But drew up the plan for the "liquida the give-and-take of International tion is suficient protection or not.

A słow Hitler's, has become the symbol that story comes from the well- tion" of the Kulaks (the small discussion, whose whole training had He is

mover, but it is of suspicion, exasperation and paid pen of a renegade Soviet farmers) and, later, directed the taught him to regard infexibility as dimeult, when he crouches down, to see what is going on behind the official.

purge of "Right-wity deviationists," the highest of virtues, reversed this Great Mound. If Trivett attempts THE MAN

Much more interesting is the hierarchy has been firmly riveted to

H's position in the complex Soviet policy-not, it must be admitted, to run round him and come in at without encouragement from the the back, he may get caught halfway study of Molotov the Communist Stalin's

with

track on the side of the bead. ever since. Stalin trusts Municheers of Britain and France.

Anyhow, it will probably be a most WELL, who is this gremlin Party member, for therein lie him as an old comrade in the Bol- He has made. himself the apostle unusual kind of fight. Yesterday

from the Kremlin? Why the answers to most of our shevik faction of the pre-revolu- of Russia's

Tremendo went sground as one rather naive young thing questions. The fact is, Molo- tionary Social Democratic Party, un- self-sunetency,

spiritual bathing, but tuga got him off. His By Insisting 0371 asked me the other day-why tov is not so much an individual

manager complains that his footwork one-time Mensheviks national sovereignty and "national would make a rhinoceros -laugh. docs "that nice Mr Stalin" put putting his personal impress on vishinsky, Malsky and Surilts. His dignity" strange platform for the up with Buch 1 disagreeable policy as an animated expression colleagues deeply respect him but seal-keepers of Communist tradi. Advertisement corner representative of Russia in of Party doctrine. world councils?

Until 1939, Molotov remained a other Foreign Minister to obstruct HOTEL MCGURGLE, “Paradise of Tourisla American spoken. power behind the scenes, relatively past-wor international co-operation. Every comfort. Carpets in all rooms. unknown to the outside world. Then, By seeking to impose a purely no-House towel on Application. Boots a few months before the outbreaks tlonal pattern of thought on the

in at isiting cleaner. of war Stalin made him his first post-war world, he has allenated order must

Hen keptly

days Telephone, In deputy in the Council of Ministers, almost as many friends as Litvinov Spoons (lent by a well-wisher) Is- As such Molotov took over control

vid in alphabetical order of Sovet foreign poley from Maxim Litvinov.. And a new phase in Rus- sian policy towards the world began,

The gravest Indictment of Molo-

ment on.

"I declare to you, comrades," he said, when he was appointed head of the Council of Minis- ters in 1930, I am going to work in the Government as a Party worker, as the agent of the Party's will." That is the essential Molotov and Bevin.

difference between

About Molotov, the man, there is nothing especially in teresting or colourful to com- Born in the old Tartar capital of Kazan of middle-class parents; real name Scriabin; educated at a second- ary school; walks with a buat- ling swagger; wears neat pince- nez and carefully-knotted ties; When Bevin declares: "I feel married, with one nineteen- convinced that my policy to-

the

reserve their love for Stalin.

year-old daughter; wears a wards so-and-so is the correct tov's foreign policy since 1939 is

DREAM DOLLARS

By HERBERT WILCOX, the British film producor and director

help of Hollywood where necessary.

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technicians,

BRITAIN is being fooled by Britain this 3000,000 sterling for barriers pulled down to secure the

figures of the supposed pro- this year. fits our films are drawing from the United States.

DC-

Suppose this is reasonably curate. To earn that sum British flims will have to gross £12,000,000 at American box-offices,

The exchange of stars should be speeded up, because that can help the box-offices In both countries.

There is no need for American stars

com-

I have just returned from ก business trip there and I have been able to discover the true situation. over to the distributors they retain Of the 25 per cent share handed

to take money out of Britain-It The present loose talk about

our their own commission, which aver-

can be arranged on a barter basis, dollar earnings is not only giving ages one-third. That would

with British and American the public a false impression, but is

leave panics cach paying their own artista £2,000,000 for the British producers. when they are away from home, so inducing complacency among our producers. Primed with reports of

Advertising and exploitation costs

that no money leaves elther coun- the success of our films in America, la absorb another 20 per cent that

at least. That would leave £1,400,- they uro tempted to rest

000 as a Imaginary laurels,

net profit on paper for Britain.

on

I believe the British film industry can eventually prosper in oversens markela--but only if it shakes off this mood of complacency. This is the American situation as I zee St. The public, as well as some of our optimistic producers, are being con- fused over net and gross cums,

•

THE British Treasury could dia THE

sipate our complacency and would benefit the film industry as a whole by publishing

And the figures have quoted WE

JE must also stop serving-up

assume that British pictures can in fact take as much as £12,000,000 in American cinemas. D no means an easy target,

very old British flims in the States lo cash in on the present publicity campaign there. It is doing Immense harm by dissipating good will that has been built up among the critics. They are now

some terrible early efforts from our studios.

APART from a few major British completely confused after seeing

productions, auch "Great Expectations" at Radio City Music Hall, and "Henry V." In specialized places such

I am anxious to help to get our 03 civic halls and products established in the Ameri-

reasonably good response to "The

ave selves into thinking that the exist-

also the complete legitimate theatres, and the can market. But the worst way to Agures. It would disclose the num- Seventh Vell," British pictures have go about it is by bamboozling our- ber of dollars we are spending on merely scratched the surface of the ing situation is satisfactory. the markeling of our productions in merely the States, and the not balance Popular American market.

The profits we may expect during which is coming back to Britain.

rend statements that our revenue the next 12 months will be infinite- from this market will be pro- simol, they can only go towards Such a statement appears in any gresive. My foar is that it will wiping off the backlog of our dollar 99. business balance-sheet. It would grow even less-until we radically expenditure. And, unless the true enable the picture-makers in our, change our production approach to financial facts are faced squarely studios as well as the taxpayer to American cinema audiences,

and we stop pouring out money on see at a glance what is happening. The subject matter of our flima productions with only a limited I have seen it stated that British should be less gloomy: We should American appeal, our over-all nct

SILY MOUSE COMPORTABLE SAT AT 2.30, 5.20. pictures in the USA. should pro- make many more pictures with the deficit in dollars will grow larger.

7.30 G.9.30

Cathay

IS THE NEW

new-found

tion-he has done more than any

made.

MOUTHPIECE

To his colleagues in the Kremlin,

Molotov need make no excuses

for his tactics abroad. He says:

"I am merely the mouthpiece, for the expression of the Soviet Union's national interests, as, interpreted by our great leader, Stalin, I have no emotions, no opinions, no Ideblogy

-of-my-own."--

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Just for a change

HAVE been entrusted with the task of writing the Life of Henry Pouch. I should be most grateful it all those who have any letters of is would send them to me. They will, of course, not be capled or re- turned: They will not even be be torn up and thrown away. read. As a matter of fact, they will

There, in a sentence, is Ernest Bevar's headache. There is the ex- planation of the “baffling obstinacy" | Mouse-ballet that mystifies the Western peoples. Until it suits Russia's narrowest We have had singing mice, and now, I see, there is a dancing national Interests to say "Yes,"mouse. Well, well, Put the little Molotov will go on saying "No."

I have a ballet, Le Sourlelcro (The Mousetrap), ali ·. ready for him. All he has to do is to dance round the cheese until his

overcomes ger

him. Then he pirouettes into the trap. Music by: Moussorgsky.

And, one day, the man who No's his way around will probably suc- weed. Stalin as leader of the Soviet Unton.

fellow into ballet.

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