1948-09-15 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1948.

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66 HOME AND BEAUTY ”

MORNING SHOW LEE THEATRE

AT THE

-"Happy days are here again!”

'Culture City' Is Warmed Up

By Eve Perrick

EDINBURGH, Aug. 27.

UST before three o'clock today Edinburgh's Lord Provost Androw Murray, followed by 13 more lord provosts and lord mayors-slow-walking in colour- ful procession up the High-street from the City Chambers to St. Giles Cathedral-ushered in the city's second festival of musle and drama.

Crowds of citizens and visitors lined the street in appreciation of the brave show of purple scarlet, allver,

show and gold,

But the brown bowler hat belonging to the man» who more than most was responsible for getting the elty through the dress rehearsal stage to "ourtain up" was for the first time for weeks hanging on the back of the kitchen door of a suburban fat.

Clerk-of-the-works-cum-foreman-in-chief

60-year-

old PETER GOODALL, his job finished, passed the torch to the Italian opera singers,

Edinburgh, a city consclously cultural and con- "celtedly civic, is warmed up about it all.

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Last year the citizens in the main took little notice of the excitement. This year they know that the festival resulted in nearly half a million pounds' worth of trade, and the merchants have guaranteed £20,000 towards this year's defelt (if any). So much tartan is on display amid the horde-spun and hand-knit almosphere of the shops that the visitor is in danger of seeing choquos before his eyes.

RUSSIA: Her strength and stresses

death.

HREE hours after I had finished this article came the news of Zhdanov's

For many weeks now I have

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at work on the Kremlin's pre- sent policy.

Does the impact of this news affect the general picture I had formed? Very little, if at all.

Stalin may have been in- fluenced by United States Am- bassador Bedell Smith and the picture he has conjured up of the mighty forces which Zhdanov's policy has been assembling against Russian.

That is conceivable.

It is equally. conceivable that Zhdanov's setback at the hands of Titoa sethack which has humiliated Stalin himself-has alarmed the Marshal.

Zhdanov's policy of sanctions against recalcitrant Yugoslavia and the resultant alanging match has dono incalculable harm to interna- tional Communism. Not only has it dangerously lowered Soviet prestige in the Balkans but it has embarrass- ed Communist followers every

where,

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A warning?

IMITROV, who is reported to have been visiting his old friend Stalin, may have warned him of the dangers of a Balkan flare-up.

So there War every reason for Zhdanov to be in disgrace and dis- favour, in which case certainly Zhdanov's sudden death has come with miraculous convenience.

of

His disappearance may lead to compromise with Tito-though Mos- cow's eulogistic description Zhdanov hardly looks like a politi cal disclaimer.

also lead to a temporary It may Jull in tha

the attack on the West-just- long enough to appease the anger apprehension of the Americans

gramme now in hand.

Before now

HAS THE SOVIET UNION "continuity of foreign policy" in the way Britain țis credited with having? Yes and more so—is SEFTON DELMER'S verdict

final instalment of in the third and

his estimate of the forces at work in Stalin's' Russin.

that "a period of temporary cohabi- tation with capitalism" is necessary. to There is no common enemy unite East and West as in 1933 and 1943.

Only if he is made to feel that the West can and will hit back and

To help out an inelastic hotel situation, 4,000 homes have taken In people for the success of the festival at 12s. Od a night.

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Not that everything has gone off so smoothly. From his office every day the LORD PROVOST has been having words with the civil aviation authority to get an extra plane service from London (because of the recent foods train@jare still an hour inte).

There was lille time to change Some of the literature, so non-starter ORBON WELLES is mentioned B the actor-producer of an "Othello" performance which has since been cancelled.

The festival indux has.. made ROBERT THOMSON a bury man. hurt will Stalin resume his temHe runs the Scots Ancestry Research porary cohabitation" policy.

Zhdanov's Death Won't Alter Stalin's

Main Plan

The new thing about the Kremlin conquerors is that they are waging. an economic war. They are using only to protect military weapons their economic and political opera- tions.

Hitler and his predecessors de- pended on military weapons for their victory, and regarded economic warfare as merely subsidiary.

The advantage this economic war- fare gives the flussians is that they can wage it without having to fight. armed Provided that their own forces are sufficiently strong to dis- suade any outraged victim from taking the offensive physically and going to war against them and that they most certainly are at present- on for decades it they can carry necessary, until their objective is realised.

The

on AS

blockade

IS HE APPLAUDING.

HIMSELF?*

as

QERLIN` is a case in point. They and portpone the armaments pro- B have us blockaded there. We blockade by But Stalin's overall policy, ot can only break the which Zhdanov's offensive was a malding a deal in which the good by functional part, will not be affected cards are all on their side, or or changed.

using force and risking war. For that is too deeply rooted in

There is no need for the Russians

A SMALL THING--but I think They have only to

the the religion of Marxist-Leninism,. to use force.

significant in, symbolising carry

are doing, which is the gulding, light of all his

they

difference between Her and actions.

depriving the pro-Western city coun-

Stalin. When the crowds cheer- cil of their

executive authority,

ed Hitler he raised his arm and mobilising the Communist crowds

homage for

accepted their demonstrations and riots, and waiting for the November fegs to tribute to himself. When I saw the Stalin being cheered at cut down the air, lift,

Bolshot Theatre he joined in the cheers, clapped his hands, and applanded with the was as though he was saying: "Fine, let us cheer. For this applause, comrades, is not for me. It's for the movement." And A movement, madam, is more dangerous than a man. It Is Hable to last much longer....

has had periods of ap- Sasement before.

But they have given way to the grent war he has sworn to wage until the objective has been attain ed, which he stated when ordering a previous period of appeasement in 1025the overthrow of the bour- geoisle throughout the world."

They know that the tonnage of material needed by Berlin must get bigger and bigger the longer the blockade goes on and the more dif- ficult air supply becomes. Sooner or later they reckon the Westerners will have nothing to offer Berliners who obey them.

As Marxista the Soviet leaders And what they are doing in Berlin accept the dogma that capitalism they are doing in all the countries must inevitably collapse. As where they have chosen to fight the Leninists and Stalinista they regard West.

the Kremlin

Zhdanov's orders

the

Under It as their duty to hasten this col- lapse with all means at their dis- Cominform had carried the politico- posal, secure the inheritance of the economic was into the colonial ter- caplialist world for Communim, ritories and thereby bring it under the rule In Burma, Malaya, Slam, Indo- of the Kremlin and the servants of nesla, East Africa, West Africa, Morocco, and Algerin Communist It is an objective whitch cloaks, agents are work. They are от under a convenient rationalisation ganising strikes, riots, and guerilla of ideology, the same Did ambitions war with the object (1) of disrup! of personal power which have ing supplies of raw materials to the inspired all would-be conquerors of West, (2) of preparing the stage for the world from Genghis Khan to the Communist revolution in those

countries.

Hitler.

NANCY

crowd. It

"

One thing I feel reasonably certain he will not attempt-the preventive

wor.

the

Society. To his office up two flights of stone steps in North St. David- street come every day the Mae-

Maryland, DONALDS from CAMPBELLS from Chicago, and the STUARTS from all over the world in search of Celtic roots and

claim to clan and tartan.

There are many, I know, who be- love that Stalin, faced with growing Western power and fearing a show-a down, will prefer to fight now when relative tactical strength is in his favour.

I

do not believe this, because Stalla is a master of political retreat and evasive appeasement.

Until Zhdanov's death there was nu suspicion of retreat-and I would not regard it necessarily as a sign of retreat if Stolln now agrees to staff talks on Berlin and a Foreign Minis- ter conference on Germany whole.

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For Stalin belleves more than ever in the five contradictions he laid down as the basle assumptions of December, Soviet foreign policy 1025-contradictions which it was Russin's job to exploit for the sake of the world revolution.

He

believes

THESE are in Stalin's words—

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Provided with both they go round the corner to sco MR HINLOCH ANDERSON. Who makes the King's kilts. To cope with the rush he has increased his kilt-making staff from two, to ten, and women for the Arst time are helping to stitch the sacred garments,

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Two mapshots-

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LADY BALCON, wife of Sir Michael, here to launch the Film Society section of the event on her Arst visit to Scotland, got sixpence too much in her change when she went to

embroidery (3- bco tho hibition.

EILEEN HENLIE, climbing down 400 feet from Arthur's Seat; a rocky mount high above the city, in her - nyloned feet after she had obliging- ly climbed up there in high-boplod court shoes for a publicity picture.

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"But" of course--there are many citizens of the city who are only dimly aware of it all. In the rain THE COMMISSIONAIRE outside CONTRADICTIONS between

my hotel apologised for not being the proletariat and bourgeolae able to get a taxi yesterday. "Ot

of the capitalist world, where the course the festival," I said. "In- deteriorating

conditions of

the

workers strengthen the revolution deed, no-there's a football match ary movement.

between

CONTRADICTIONS imperialist States and colonial countries, where Industrial expan- sion is loading to the growth of a proletariat, and where an intelligent- ala and a national revolutionary movement are developing.

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between the victor and the vanquished ufter the (first) world war. This referred to the Versalles Treaty. Communist agitation, however, is still following the same in. Ger- many's Western zone today.

CONTRADICTIONS

between

CONTRADICTIONS the U.S.A. and Britain over im- pertal markets, between Britain, and France over hegemony in Europe.

CONTRADICTIONS

between

the Soviet Union as leader of the disantisfied States and of discon- tented proletarians the world over on the one side and the capitalist

in America.

the world, headed by Britain and

The West can do little about it. The Brigade of Guards and Falestine polico can kill bandile

temporary stop can Malaya, and a

I doubt it. he put torlots on the Gold Coast. But this will not stop the economie and political war.

cow.

сод

Can the present-day world have convinced him that these tradictions no longer exist?

Therefore my hunch is a con-

That can only be stopped in Mos- And it will not be stop- ped unless Stalin can be convinced, as he was in 1925, that this time is tinuance of the cold war-without not ripa for world revolution, and shooting.

on!" he answered.

SITTING ON. THE FENCE

In order to maintain the continuity of Sefton Delmer's series of articles on Russia, Nathaniel Gubbins' "Sit- ting On The Fence," which normally appears on this pogo on Wednesdays, is being held over till tomorrow,

"My. It'a daric— could you direct me to the one and nines?

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