HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-09-06, Page 3Red China Seems
Tired Of It All
What is happening to the for-
eign policy of Peking? A tired
<Imam is showing a wan and
forced smile. It appears chiefly
on the face of the foreign min-
ister, Marshal Chen. Some weeks
ago he began spreading a new
line of confidential candor and
something approaching ap-
peasement at the Geneva con-
ference on Laos, He himself ex
plained the reason for it.
China's economic strains, he
told a diplomat, are so severe
that even if China wanted to
fight a war — which he asserted
it did not — it was in no posi-
tion to do so.
Since then information has
been coming in from many &tree -
times to confirm this. The best
information available to the
United States Government from
a fresh survey of the situation
now caps the various private
sources of information. Commun.
ist China, it indicates, is in a
much worse plight, a much more
serious breakdown of its admin-
istrative and industrial as well as
its farm systems, than the out-
side world had recognized.
There is no visible rebellion,
either nt.w or in sight for tae
future, although there is specu-
lation an what might happen if
an army almost entirely of peas-
ants were to ferment, Patience
is ingrained to a pitiful degree
in China. A Washington official
is quoted by the New York
Times as saying the reaction in
China to the spreading break-
down, malnutrition, stoppages of
industry for lack of materials,
return to the country of many
who went to the city for succor,
and the like is, "apathy, dejec-
tion, demoralization, desponden-
cy, and despair."
Ill feeling toward the Soviet
Union stems in part from this
situation. At Geneva Marshall
Chen went so far as to tell a
Western diplomat privately that
Moscow had let the Commun-
ists down in their hour of need,
Supporting information from the
Communist Chinese press indi-
cates that the Russian leaders
continue to exact payments for
earlier aid to China, despite
China's desperate scramble for
foreign exchange to buy food
ttbroad, A slight easing toward
the West is understandable, ac-
cording to an editorial in the
Christian Science Monitor,
In an interview with the Swiss
radio, Marshal Chen said it was
"rather nice" of President Ken-
nedy to give assurances to Pe-
lting that he would not permit
the Chinese Nationalists to start
war in the Formosa Strait. And
back in China he said at a party
that he had assured Secretary of
State Dean Rusk that China
would not upset the agreement
to neutralize Laos.
Right now they face what
looks — for the present anyhow
— like something far more than
a series of famines: like the fail-
ure of communism as a system.
They could act in desperation
and try to distract local wrath
with foreign quarrels. But fortu-
nately they seem to realize they
could easily overstrain them-
selves by this traditional man-
euver and perhaps lose every-
thing.
Washington, for • its p a r t,
watches and is glad the Chinese
Communist leaders are too
proud, apparently, to ask for
food and other help, to bail out
their hard-pressed system, This
is a time to let the Communists
live with the flaws in their dog-
zna and hopefully to loosen its
thrall.
Communism may be going
through extremely grave re-
verses or actually failing; we
eannot say. In either case, and
for whatever reasons of dissimu-
lation, we are glad to see a smile
however rueful or transient. It
is far preferable to the madness
which could erupt from so se-
vere a national frustration.
RST TWENTY — Don Drys-
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win in Los Angeles, Calif., be -
corning "ie first 20 -game win-
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Never Life Lost
Through Neglect!
There perhaps no more
striking cerhievement in the
struggle 110 human security
than the a et that, in 122 years
of operatic:. the Cunard line
has never 'ost a single passen-
ger's life -hrough accident or
neglect. And this has been
a gainet t het stupendous and
often malevolent hazard, the
Atlantic Ocean, Warren Tute's
history of eteam navigation on
those wate:e, "Atlantic Con-
quest," is convect, balanced,' and
circmatic. Lieutenant Commard-
er Tute, R.V. (Ret.) is a sea
writer and novelist of zest and
directness (`The Cruiser," -The
Rock," "Leviethan") and a liter-
ary voyage with Tute at the
helm is efficient business.
Fortunately, he is no taciturn
tar, end he likes to talk about
other men. Thus "Atlantic Con -
queer turns out to be essenti-
ally a story of human skills and
spirit and the great ocean is
made to yield to the puny
strength of man — much o± the
time, Steam power was early re-
gerded as a foolish presumption
over sail, but wooden padcate-
wheelers slowly broke the prej-
udice. In 1811! the 300 -ton aux-
iliary steam packet Savannah
reached Liverpool from New
York in 27 days and fifteen
hours (steaming 80 hours of the
way), Her instigators have been
forgotten and she drew curiosity
but as a business venture she
was a flop; this, however, was
the first crossing of a major
ocean by a steam -engined ship.
Next, in 1838, the little Sirius
of the British an•d American line
(conceived by an American, Dr.
Junius Smith) steamed into
New York from England, a few
hours ahead of the much larger,
1,340 - ton British - owned Great
Western, designed by the "little
giant" engineer, Isambard King-
dom Brunel, who was later to
produce the fist iron steamship
driven by propeller.
In 1040 the Cunard crowd was
in action with three steamships.
This was a steaar group of men
headed by Samuel Cunard, a
solid Quaker merchant and ship-
owner from Halifax, N.S„ and
Robert Napier, t h e scrupu!'is
Scottish builder who may be a
garded as the father of Clyde-
side ship engineering. Safety
was their cry, and safety was
their reward.
The Het of great Atlantic en-
trepreneurs gags on. In 1850 Ed-
ward Knight Collins, a Cape Cod
sailing scion and pioneer of high
speed, took the mythical Blue
Riband for Atlantic speed from
BEN BELLA ARRIVES — Algerian strongman Ahmed Bert
Bella, left, partially hidden, set up political shop in Algiers.
He is shown here on arrival In Algiers.
the Cutiarder$ (cresings were
then me& in ten clays). Within
a decade, Collins had failed, due
largely to shipwreeks, in whieh
he lost his own wife, son and
daughtt-r. In 1870 Thomas Ismay,
son of a small Cumberland ship -
Wilder, challenged the Cunarcl-
ers with his White Star line,
offering more capaeity, speed,
and luxury. Ismay was a busi-
nees master with two unusual
guiding principles: (1) If you
have a good thing don't be
greedy — let others have some;
(2) don't let weak competition
fail, lest strong rivalry (eke its
place.
Warren Tute also pays vivid
attention to men who faced the
Atlantic on the deck rather than
on the balance sheets. The early
Atlantic captains, especially as
elegance and publicity became a
part of their liners, were some-
thing liko national heroes, Al
one point Tule claims that he
does not grasp the exact dis-
tinction between three captains
who were described in 1886 as
"a sailor, a social sailor, and a
calico captain," But if a "social
sailor" be taken to mean an
agreeable, talkative marine r,
and a "calico captain" a favour-
ite with the ladies, then surely
the plain term "sailor" applies
to the famous tIapt. U. H. E,
Juclkins of the Cunard line,
Once, when a woman passenger
approached him as the ship
neared Newfoundland and ask-
ed: "Oh! Captain, do tell me,
is it always as foggy and nasty
as this off the Banks?" Cap-
tain Judkins replied: "How the
devil do I know, Madam? I don't
live here."
Song Of The Rails
Being Silenced
The Penriaylvania Railroad's
scheme to take the clickety-
clack out of its trains is a devel-
opment we view with muted en-
thusiasm. Some • people just
don't know when to stop. First
they take the steam locomotives
away, and along with them, the
sky -howling whistles that be-
came the glorious hallmarks of
railroading. Now comes a con-
spiracy, of which the Pennsy is
only one of the guilty parties, to
silence the rhythm of the rails
by welding the segments to-
gether into one long smooth
snake.
The metronomic "clickety-
clack, clickety-clack, clickety-
clack" is made, as every young-
ster learns when wheels jump
from rail to rail, The "jump,"
of course, is only the distance of
one little crack where rail ends
meet, but it's enough to turn
one's thoughts to the drama of
the railroad, to remind the tra-
veler of the genius, the patience
and industry of the men who
dared to dream so long ago that
the continent could be crossed
by an iron horse.
To a few, the cliekety-clack
is a long journey's welcome ltd-
laby. To others it's a jolting
nuisance, as unwelcome as the
water cure or a non-stop alarm
clock set for split-second out-
bursts. We suppose it's to the
latter type, with ears untuned
to this kind of music, that the
railroads are bent on catering as
they substitute clickey-clackless
ribbons of steel a thousand feet
long for the individual segments.
That's progress, allegedly. A
smoother ride, to be sure; a silent
glide unsullied by either click
or clack. But unadorned, let us
not forget, by one of the great
melodies of the westward move-
ment and the industrial revolu-
tion, a melody grown rich with
age. We will miss its strains.
—New York Herald Tribune.
Old Man River —
He Zigs and Zags!
Old Man River doesn't always
keep rolling along — at least
not along the Texan boundary
with Mexico.
Rio Grande is his name, and
he likes to wander back and
forth. One year south, Another
year north. He zigs and zags
on his way to the Gulf of Mexi-
co, as if he enjoyed making mis-
chief between neighbours.
Over the years, Mexicans and
Americans have traded back
and forth some 25,000 acres of
river I a n d, for a net loss of
9,000 acres to the United States,
But El Chamizal is a piece of
mischief that goes back to be-
fore the turn Of the century and
it still has the =makers so
coGILISed that some think own-
ership will never be decided.
President Xennedy hopes it will.
When he was in Mexico :ast
June, he signed en agreemtnt
with President Lopez Me Leos to
Seek a solution which does riot
prejudice the juridical position
of either country.
El Chamizal is the size of a
small cattle ranch — 630 acres
of desert land — but it happens
to link the cities of El Frim,
Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexi-
co.
When the United Statc4 won
Texas in the war with Slexieo,
the Rio Grande became the in-
ternational bounder)' liy uai
gement. The agreementwas for -
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malized in 1852. Then the river
began ehiftine south, and after
a great flood'. in 1804 Mexicans
living just below the river found
themselves on the north bank
with the people of El Paso,
That is w'nen the arguments
began, but not until 1910 was
the dispute submitted to an m-
ternational arbitration commis-
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The rules of international law
select the owners of flood -plain
land according to how the river
made its new division. A fast di-
vision by flood or earthquake
does not change the ownership.
A slow shift of earth, from one
bank to the other, does.
The United States claimed
that El Chamizal had been ve
moved from the Mexican •ade
by erosion and deposited en the
north bank by accretion. Mexico
contended that the land was
removed by flood and hence re-
mained the soil of Mexico.
The Canadian presiding over
the arbitration commission rul-
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red from 1852 to 1864 had been
caused by gradual erosion and
that those dating from 1864 re-
sulted from sudden shifts of tne
current. With the concurrence of
the Mexican member of the
cemmission, he awarded to
Mexico two-thirds of the acre-
age or that land which lay south
of the river in 1864, writes
Marion Wilhelm in the Christian
Science Monitor.
This ruling was refused by the
United States on the grounds
that no one could say where
the river had been in the flood
year and that a division o•f the
tract was not within the man-
date of the commission,
Ever since, Mexico has refus-
ed to arbitrate any other inter-
national problem with the Unit-
ed States, and the Chamizal has
become a bitter bone of conten-
tion between the peoples of
Ciudad Juarez end El Paso.
El Paso has been growing
southward. Two city primary
schools, one high school, a pack-
ing plant, and a sewage plant
are inside the disputed tract..
With President Kennedy com-
mitted to settle t h e Chamizal
ownership once and for all — he
told a news conference in Wash-
ington he thought the United
States had been wrong to refuse
the arbitration decision — the
United States has come up with
a compromise offer to Mexico.
The pian is to rechannel the
river bed to a more northerly
route which leaves part of the
Chamizal in the city of El Paso
but gives equivalent acreage
farther downstream to Ciudad
Juarez.
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