1949-10-01 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER

'Father, dear, let's be honest-ler's admit that we haven't got the call of the sea in our veins.“

„einidun, Express, service

HITLER-STALIN PACT OF

1939 BECOMES CLEAR

EN years ago on August 20 we woke

.to up

hear that Ribbentrop had flown to Moscow to sign a pact with Stalin.

I can still remember the shock of that communique. Wo, and no 'right to be so surprised or dismayed-but Wo alf were. That the Kremlin, while it was atlit negotiating with our re- presentatives in Moscow, had cone behlad our backs and done a deal with the Nazis, which made war cortain, seemed com- pletely incompreliensible.

By R.H.S. CROSSMAN, M.P. appreciated the

Assistant Editor of the "New Statesman and Nation". Before the war he was leader of the Labour Group in the Oxford County Council, and a lecturer of the British Workers' Educational Association. He is author of books on political subjects. He has been Labour M. P. for Coventry Eust since 1945.

hilosophy of

permanent war. These somersaults, of

coup.

If won under house arrest when he received me, and, after a minute or two, he went to the window-and pointed to tho, Secret Police lounging by the gate.

Essential Truth

what

1949.

Dream about

an Overcoat

Rome.

FOR the first time for cen - turies a change is being made In the Pope's ward- robe.

For the Holy Year which begins on Christmas Eve, Plus XII, will inaugurate a white woollen overcoat specially de- aimed by the famous. Italjan inilor Antonio Santomauro.

The ambition of Santo- mauro's life has been to make beautiful overcoats Lov the great.

cut

Both King Victor Emmanuel III, and Humbert If, had their military and civilian overcoate

by Santomauro's scissors. When Mussolini became uniform addict, the Turin tailor gave him full satisfaction.

D

He made a set of impressive uniforms his masterpleco. be- ing a Napoleonie overcoat with Every large lapels,

Now that Italian Ministers go about again in normal sulls, Santomauro has shifted his tailoring genius to the Church.

--

WHITE CLOTH

Ife says that one night he had a strange dream. He was sitting on the top of St. Peter's Domo Ioolding Inside the Basi- lica, when he saw tho Pone walking dcross the central in a

vhits a majesilo, dazzling overcoat.

navo

Santomauro woke up, and Immediately started designing the coat as he had been it tri his drearn.

27 SILK SQUARES Each stripe is made of 27 silk squares, for which 54 different

The first time that I really Fascist. benst. That's

relevance of Communism mealis," tile to a Western democrat. was The personal story of Comrade

The coal, made of while, soft when I flew to Prague Just Majer and Comrado Nosoit

woollen cloth, goes up. straight after the Communist coup in reveals the essential truth about from the ground to the chest, February 1948. I went to see Soylci foreign policy. Just us The lapels are of a militury Mr. Majer, the Socialist Minister: Majer, after thirty years cut, the martial effect being who had restried the Communist comradeship, could overnight be toned down by a short dome-

repudiated as D. Fascist brast shaped capo. because of a change in Cem- The outside is plain, but the so a State in inside is richly decorated. Two munist fretics,

friendly relations with

einbroidered Russia parallel

stripes can suddenly be accused of reach down from the collar to aggression for the some reason, the ground. pro-

Nothing will have changed to In his eyes, "war" and "peace" paganda. are often misleadingly

justify the switch, except the tions demanding are merely two different situa- described as "changes of polley,"

tactics of the Kremlin. different strategics.

They are nothing of the kind, "CAN'T you understand ho

The lesson is clear cnough, episodes of the Catholic Church's In retrospect, especially since

Ten

sak, "The man who posted it is useloss to take anything history have been designed and Stolln Communist polley is stable and the publication in Americs of

calculated that It was in unchanging. What changes are

that policeman is Nosek, the which the Communist says, any worked by the nuns of the the secret archives of the Ger Russia's interests to precipitate the tactics of the

Communist Minister of the treaty he signs, or any cause Immaculate Conception at fvrcă, Foreign Office, the

valus, near Turin, under the super- Tussian switch

awar between Hitler and the war against the non-Communist Interior. Nocek and I worked he upholds, at its face is comprehensible enough. With strict impartiality, would exhaust them both and justifications of these

Western democracies, which world,

in the samo and the propaganda twenty years and

coal mine for Always one must look below vision of Slater Antonina Pace,

Santomauro's niece. built up a the "surface, and discover the Stalin offered first to Britain

Covering the Pope's heart, St.. trade union together. We served power political calculations and France, and then to Hitler, gave him to dictate the peace. There is no sense

in arguing together, in the Czech Army in which determine his actions.broidered in gold, while on the In addition, as the price of his whether Stalin

Peter's Keys, have been em hia terms for ab aillonco-

was really" Britain, and later both became. Those calculations

may bo Russian control of the Baltic non-belligerency, he received pro-Fascist in -1039.

right side the nuns-have put u from Germany control of the "sincerely"

or Ministers, first in the Govern- wrong,

but they are always while dove democratic Baltic States, half Poland, and 1941. He is really and sincerely. Prague. We have been comrades explain the apparent somer-coat of

Dn a blue back- after ment in London, and then in consistent, and their consistency

which is Plus XII,'s part of Rumania.

Q Communist, concerned

coat of arms. to all our lives. Then, a weak sdults had contradictions In Jualify whatever line he so

The cost of the coal, complete pursuing at the moment in non-

an order. come from Communist policy today.

about embroideries, la Moscow, and today in Nosck's they explain the Stallu-Hitler Communist cyes.

£500. eyes I am not a comrade, but n Pact of August 23, 1930,

States and of Poland, - !

Britain could not pay. the Russian price; the Gomanis could, So Ribbentrop signed the pact, the war started, and within a few weeks the parti- tion of Poland was completed; t delanco of the Russian-

years

ura

What upset, his calculations were two factors he failed to foresee-first the unexpected speed of Hitler's victory, which left Germany unexhausted and,

continued resis tance of Britain, which com- pelled the Germans to turn East their

rear before attempting Invasion across the

Polish non-aggression pact. fecondly, the

afgoed a few months before.

Futile To Argue and secur

Ither the Stalln-Hitler, pact

IT is fulito now to argue whe. Channel.

was unavoidable, or whether, it Cold Calculation

France and Britain

had stood „Tought,

Tiria a year carlier nud

Stalin would have stood by us, THE fact, that Stalin calculated wrong as he very often of secondary...Im-

The lesson of August 23, 1930, docs-15

is that Russian policy is always portance. What matters is, to determined by a calculation of appreciate that the justification Russian Interests-and

by he gives for any action bears

-nothing else. Despite all ap- no relation to his real motive.

+

permanent

tactics.

£19,000-a-head hunt to kill

-OST

M

off bandits

by RONALD BAXTER

uncomfortable the bandits safd could and most valuable never be reached by Britons in the

pearances, the Kremila is no Th

The motive is always a cold, more obsessed by Ideology Marxist calculation of power than by

respect for treaty

politica

which completely dive obligations.

"It 1. по regarda the "bourgeois squeamishness about choosing morality" on which the justifica Fascists as allles, fach an ion is based. In the 1930's, for alliance, seems expedient,

instance, Stalin was seeking to In the oyes of the Russian organise an alliance of the East Communist, all non-Com- and West against Hitler, Osten-Empire at the moment are munizia, whether they are sibly, therefore, Soviet Russia a few thousand young men. Fascists, Conservatives, Liberals become a fervid supporter of plunging through the or Socialisis, are equally beyond the League of Nations, of de-sweating jungles of Malaya. the pole, and it is a purely mocracy, and of Popular Fronts tclical question which of them, against Faselem.-

at

which

white men..

This means days and sometimes wocks of hacking through terrible country, and eyes on the

for planea that bring food, water bottles, ammunition, boots, and medicine.

· Lieut-General Sir John Harding

pulled or bullets fashback in the stens rifles..

Their orders: "Finish off the Communist guerillas who have the particular moment,

From the day Ribbentrop was plagued Malaya for 15 months,". should be treated as "herole ceted at Moscow airport, the

and democrats"

For Malaya," already the 'It means as justification changed. Now the Empire's greatest dollar-carner, hollowed out bamboo branches, Malaya about £37,000 for the cooking rice, in Yet these 3,000 are costing Fascist hyenas,"

Leage of Nations was con- We are much better equipped demned-as a capitalist organies. was scheduled at Washington, and jam tarts-in ovens made of upkeep of forces every day they ]

to earn even more. But she mud and an old biscuit in- today than we wera in 1930 to- tion; Popular Fronts became a

must have pence. understand this, but I doubt crime against the working class; whether most of us hove and Germany, D week before really learnt the lesson that denounced as

Fascist, became the Kremlin is always and overnight a "fellow-proletarian" everywhere at wor with the country, struggling urtainst * John

Imperialism. Then, non Communist world. Whether Western there is actually a war in pro- when Hitler attacked the Soviet

do gress or not makes no difference. Union in 1941, the old Stalin's philosophy

a mocratic line was restored.

C. V. R. Thompson

At £16,666 A Word

of

- NEW YORK. ngh, everything she had is very expensive in Con- value.

Said Mrs McCullough; necticut to call a mon sama pauper, but I'm all golog Communist if he protests to fight the cake.

Money for her defence

All In Licut. General Sir Harding, pint- sized, good-humoured Ci-in-C. Far East Land Forces, has act in motion the biggest operation to date against. the Reds in Mólaya,

He flow all round Malaya in an Auster, and talked with everyone, from his army com- manders, Major-General ́ John Boucher and Dermot Dunlop, to the privates in jungle green. '

Harding

curtailed:

and leaving it all to desia after roam the jungles. a ficting killer.

They are killing Britons, It means wading through Chinese, and Malays, raiding crocodile rivers and climbing rubber estates and tin mines. ravines, drenched by ram one minuto and seared by sun the

next.

the Sherlock Holmes class to pick It means detective work La up trails and piece together bits of information.

On the Trail

Before the big push began the RAF, dropped leaflets offer- ing surrender fermo to Red had not done followers who 003 actual killing. Already there aro signs that this is having an effect.

A Red camp. is found

Some have deserted with arms deserted.

How long and ammunition despite the

have they been gone? The sorgeant from Liverpool feela knowledge that indescribable

fate of those.

leave the embers from a nearby dead tortures are the stopped training courses," and fire and guesses three hours. recaptured by Communist ordered every available man Which way did they go? fanatics. into the jungle..

Someone points out trampled

Jungle weed and off goes the Malayan veterans. like the patrol, guns at ready. Seaforth and Devons, *`new-

and

Ali was Shot:

The biggest propagande success so far was the

named Wan All

she isn't. Suburban hoш80 living expenses is being raised from Scotland aid Coldstream, action in Malaya. Ono is stigating recently of a notorious

wito Mr John McCullough by subscription Trg mostly is living on charity, at the sin dollar bills,"", "phe said." moment, because she did so.

Last winter

Many men are carrying comers like the Suffolks, ̈men

weapons hitherto untried in Guarda went in with flny portable dome-thrower, another Communist Gurkhas

-phosphorbomba-barmless who had convinced superstitions British, Malay, Silc, and timed to explode in the air and villagers that he had magical

looking cardbbára” cylinder-

powers which made him in fill a wide area with flaming viinerable to bullet dancer Paul BIGGEST NEWS for millions Chincte police went la thou- Draper and harmonien plagen of Americans was that Di. sands.

In some actions more than a fragmento... Lury Adler were invited to Maggio was down with pneu battalloa of men are taking part Flame-throwers will also be When Wan All and his men pectorm in Greenwich, sedate mons. Ho in star bat for the

Here are used in a defensive role to de- ralded a settlement one night Connecticut community for New

New New York Yankees, who must at once. In others

feat ambushich win their next three only patrols,

"Home 'Guards", fired at him--- refused to baseball games to head their. ::But... all the ...

now

'and 'down went Wan "All, 7 alleging "They are longue and play in the World tough jungle warriors capable

The Government. gave £1,500 Proper and Ad- Series And Joe Will not play of running their own war far

All this effort is almed; reward to hlo illers and lind. at exterminating about 100,000 leaflets of, the dend

buy

for denied her charge and filed in those three games.

tbol suit for 225,000 each,

WowporELAWYare uncoverod

ancient Connectiout lawendb

are

from base..i

COMEDIANS are Rrushing on the air with

Jungle War

Desperate men

мень

with

Before setting to work, Sinto- mauro studied hundreds of the Pope's pictures and made a dummy on which he tried the overcoat.

FEELS THE COLD

Ho then had photographs taken and sketches made, wrote A detailed description of the overcoat and embroideries, and sent the dossier to the Pope's - private secrotury.

to

a

Pius KIL, who feels the cold very much and who will have spend 101 of time in the open air during next winter's Holy Year ceremonies, liked the idea and Invited Sintomauro to

the

Vatican for the first

Atting.

The taller had worked so

carefully-that-no-second ating! was needed.

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