1 i] ; id Ff ncaa TET TU SE TT Te Ee A Oe SE A dP nD AY a Sd SD SS 0 a G0 dd SOVIET UNION SUC MCCS CT ESM LONDON Bere Bnitish scientists and an economist reported enthusiastically to a crowded press conference here on their three-week goodwill mission to the Soviet Union. The four were Dr. Horace Joules, medical director of Central Middlesex hospital; Dr. I. C. Gilliland, medical registrar of the Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London; Dr. S. M. Manton, a zoo- logist at King’s College, Univer- sity of London; and Christopher Freeman, lecturer in economics at Glasgow university. Dr. Manton, who told reporters she belonged to no political party, was asked what had been her main impression of the Soviet Union. “Most outstanding,’ she said, “was the tremendous wel- come, the spontaneous friendship we received everywhere, not only from people in responsible posts, but from housewives, scientists, teachers, and the ordinary people, And secondly, I would say the in- tense desire for peace that was expressed by everyone we met.” Dr. Joules said he was convinc- ed by the amount of long-range construction he saw that the Rus- sians -were planning ‘for peace. He cited the new Moscow univer- sity, which cost over $300 million to build. “If they expect it may get blown up next year, I do not ‘understand why they should build that amazing university,” he said. He, too, was impressed by the extreme friendliness of everybody the 19-member delegation had met in their 7,000 miles of travel to Moscow, Stalingrad and Tash- kent. “We were spontaneously welcomed everywhere,” he said, “not just a welcome that was ‘laid on’ but whenever we turned @ corner and people realized who we were.” Joules gaid he and Gilliland every morning would stroll about absolutely unaccompanied. The only time they were stopped was when they put their heads through a window of a police van in which a drunk was seated. “They are very kind to drunken people,” Joules said. “They look after them, give them treatment’ if they need it and send them home the next morning.” He said all the members of the delegation had spoken—with un- censored scripts — on Moscow ee)! HOUSE EBERLE RTEeE! Radio, for which they were paid trade union rates. “Our press conferences were reported with- out a word out of place, nor was any wrong emphasis put,’ he said. “They were reported with a truthfulness ... which made me envy the people of the Soviet Union.” Many of the reporters’ questions dealt with health and scientific matters. “I have never seen so many doctors,” Joules said. “In fact, it seemed to us that the doc- tors were waiting for the patients rather than patients waiting for doctors and they have as many nurses and aides as they need.” Gilliland said great stress is placed on preventative medicine. Tens of millions of x-rays are taken each year, he said, and miners are x-rayed each month. Joules, who is a chest specialist, said American and British finds that heavy smokers seem to be more prone to cancer of the lung had received wide publicity in the Soviet 'Union, particularly in the schools.- As a result,/he said, consumption of tobacco had fal- len 10 percent in a year, Dr. Manton described a visit she made to the Tashkent Zoolog- ical research station where 70 fulltime research workers were employed. “Their plan of work,” she said, “is not one-sided, they study pure and applied zoology. All the delegates commented on the excellent care children re- ceive. Hardly any children were to be seen in the cities, they said, most of them being at camp for the summer. Freeman, who visited the So- viet Union in 1938, said he was most impressed by the rise in liv- ing standards as compared with the pre-war period. He added his conviction that an increase in Anglo-Soviet trade would benefit both countries, | UU MO tnt ny Ter nT nT TY TT TTY GT TT TT PEOPLE'S CHINA. dete MCU EMT Ue Le RU Ree iT LONDON gNce their return to Britain, the 11 members of the British people’s delegation who travelled in China in May and June: have been active in telling their experiences and impressions, states a report from London. Their first brief report on their visit has been published in pamphlet form by the Britian-China Friend- ship Association. The report, en- titled Eleven Visit China, de- scribes what they did in China, the kind of people they met, how people live, how people’s democ- racy works, and so on. Here are some of the things they say: Though we knew that there | had been a people’s revolution in China we expected to find things still pretty grim. We didn’t, People were smiling and well fed. They had adequate clothes to wear. Everywhere we saw dancing and heard singing. We heard choirs and soloists that were ona par with the best in Britain; we saw new buildings going up—workers’ hospitals and sanatoria, clubs and schools that filled us with envy; we travelled on trains equal to our own in comfort and running to time. China still has less industry than Britain ... yet no one should exaggerate even China’s indus- Dyson Carter, internationally known Canadian writer and a scientist in his own right, recently visited the Soviet Union and_ the account of what he and his wife, Charlotte, saw there is told in their book, We Saw Socialism. Here Carter, head of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society, is pictured being shown through a Soviet research laboratory. trial backwardness. The product of the textile mills we visited in Shanghai and Tien- tsin was, said our textile delegate (Harold Dickinson, secretary of the Burnley Weavers’ Associa- tion) “As good as Lancashire and better than the usual run of stuff we turn out nowadays.” We saw China-produced lathés and boring machines; a trolley bus made, with the exception of part of the back axle, entirely in China; a new factory opening For long years, under the emperors and Chiang Kai- fnew flood and famine and the disease that came in. their Today, People’s China has ended the threat of fam'ne, floods, and a bold beginning has been made in safe guar up a new line in the textile in- _dustry which had been entirely built since liberation, and in which Chinese technicians and scientists had settled many pro- duction problems enabling the factory to produce without any foreign imports of special oils and chemicals. Shanghai buses now run on a China-made and designed anthra- cite burner, which is efficient and which has defeated the at- tempts of the Americans to bring have taken their future into their own hands. . PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 14, 1951 — “under the Japanese and shek’s corrupt Kuomintang, the Chines¢ wake claiming the lives of untoli is river control schemes provide securtlY # {om ding national health. P Some impressions of the growing socialist world transport to a stand ting of former imports 9% In the mining area, the Kae" f jon Pe mintang average proces in head of all workers e™MP ane gr the pits below and ao nanshith three quarters of a ton, an already above one-ton which is not far from average. 0 The Chinese people are ek longer backward. Having e they off their semi-colonial ee ¥ are advancing very rapidly every way. die The delegation reports © with cussions its members had the minister of trade. prepared a number of re which he answered “fully 7. carefully”, showing that pods wanted to import British & both machinery and. ¢? goods. 2 } “He imentioned mach electrical equipment, ¢Bé ships, vehicles, woolen gos cotton piece goods spec their report states. neuen: “At the same time, may ‘ands China had much to exPOT duce as land reform increased PY ve a manshift the pritis? nsume tools joa): and more to export, food grains, oil seed, tun& eggs, minerals. ted “But he stressed that rit was no longer dependent 0? “a6 ish trade as formerly- now trading in a big wre the Soviet Union, Czechosl0 Poland and the Ge export cratic Republic. 7m ing her foodstuffs and fied 10° ials to them, and they W thet P ° duéing machinery and to bet things for her according specifications. to vf “Thus it was quite oe de that while China wanted %° | op- with Britain, and. while oUF on” omies ‘were to a large-exte? equa! plementary and trade om pods basis could benefit us very eat China could get along 4 pout ily and also industrialize trade with Britain ents “We don’t need armam i 6 Concluded on next par peo é millio® The Chinese pe pao ; ‘