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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- dale nabbed his 10th straight win in Los Angeles, Calif., be - corning "ie first 20 -game win- ner af N., season, 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. 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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- sion. 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- ed that the changes that occur- 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. Q. How ean I give first aid to ot torn rubber girdle? A. Buy yourself a tire -patch kit at the service station, then cement a. tire patch on the rip in your girdle, and you should be "well-contained" again! I BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE GARAGE, snaelc lair and 6 -room tutee. Rethereord garage ha Ltimbton coutitY on IlwY 21, 40 m115 from Sarnia. Ask- ing price 52700. 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