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MAN-MADE MIRACLE

‘By SAM RUSSELL

: MOSCOW
Soviet Siberia is a man-
ide Miracle where Soviet
be Plus technique, mech-
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ing ever dreamed of be-
*eople have boasted of

Making two ears of
Wheat grow where only
She grew before, But in
Iberia people are pro-
Ucing yields of one ton
Of wheat per acre and
More where _ nothing
Stew previously.
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dents at. Novosibirsk
Agricultural College
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ptimental farm which
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LONDON

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of milk per cow.
Ivan Khromov, director of
state farms in the Novosibirsk

area, explained to me Si-
beria’s basic climate problem
which has _ hitherto balked
agriculturists. It is. pretty
terrifying. |

Winter lasts here from Oc-
tober to April with tempera-
tures down to 45 and 50 de-
grees centigrade below zero,
while temperatures of minus
85 degrees have been record-
ed.

During July the average
temperature is not more than
20 degrees centigrade (about
68 degrees F.), while the total
vegetation period is only
about 145 days, and often
shorter.

Yet Siberia has the advan-
tage of sunshine reaching as
much as 2,000 hours a year,
which compares with Mos-

Chinese Communists
et industrial goals

By ALAN WINNINGTON

PEKING

t atinese Communists, gathered here for their eighth
ting 88, which opened last Saturday, have before them

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ang a Problems: How to achieve socialism in ten years;
Thi. to industrialize China in a few decades.

ty «S18 the first congress to be held since the revolu-

munist party, with 10,700,000
members.

Fraternal delegates have
come from all over the world,
including three from Canada
representing the Labor-Pro-
gressive party — Leslie Mor-
ris and A. A. MacLeod of
Toronto and Tom McEwen of
Vancouver. :

The congress will examine
the results of the first Five-
Year-Plan and suggest targets
for the second, dealing with
such controversial matters as
how fast the relative develop-
ment of the consumer goods
and heavy industries should
be. ;

This year’s successful social-
ist transformation has left a
wake of problems: of merging
and developing industry, mod-
ernizing China’s historic pro-
ducts without impairing them.

The enormous growth of the
Communist party and the
change from being 8 dispers-
ed party , during the war to
the ‘ruling party in_ peace,
makes necessary a revision of
the party’s constitution. —

Also necessary is a discus-
sion of the relations between
the Communist party and oth-
er parties, questions of party
democracy and the relations
between discipline and creat-
iveness in the Communist
party. ‘

The congress has been 1n
preparation for almost 18
months. District congresses
have been held in the prov-
inces and regions and draft
documents have been under
discussion for six months,

iberia is Soviet gr

cow’s 1,500 hours and 2,200
hours in Yalta in the sunny
south of the Soviet Union.

So the problem is how to
make the maximum use of
this sunshine advantage in Si-
beria’s short summer.

During this short period
people here have discovered
the secret of how to extract
good crops from a reluctant
and at times fiercely resistant
nature.

Rainfall is low here, too, so
special measures have to be
taken to preserve the moist-
ure in the soil, retaining the
snow as long as possible and
planting shelter belts of trees
to stop the snow from being
blown away by winter winds.

Egypt's right
to take over

Suez upheld

CAIRO

‘The Egyptian Unified Com-
munist party, still under-
ground in this country, has
called upon the “democratic
peoples of the world” for ex-
pressions of solidarity in
Egypt’s fight for the Suez
Canal and her independence.
“The opinion one may have
on the merits or the defects

‘of the Cairo government (of

President Nasser) is not the
point,” the EUCP declared.

“Whether it is a democratic
government as it pretends to
be or a despotic government
with unlimited ambitions as
is claimed by some of its
enemies, this can in no way
affect our attiude towards this
fundamental question. The na-
tionalization of the canal is
legitimate, fair, and conforms
to the interests of the Egypti-
an people.”

Cancellation by the British
and U.S.. governments of pro-
mised financial aid in build-
ing the ASwam Dam, the
statement said, was intended
“to ‘teach Egypt’ how to be-
have, to force her to stop hav-
ing an independent policy.”

This year 1,500,000 acres are
under cultivation in this re-
gion in the state farms alone,
apart from the tremendous
contribution of the collective
farms.

Nearly one million acres in
the state farms are under
grain and 1,500 combines with
nearly 8,000 tractors are help-
ing the 45,000 workers to en-
sure a minimum loss of the
bumper crop,

But not everything is de-
voted to grain, and there has
been a great increase in the
number of cattle, sheep, pigs
and poultry, together with a
wider variety of vegetables,
providing a variety of diet for
the people of Siberia never be-

anary

fore thought possible.

The collective farms are re-
sponsible for the cultivation
of the greater part of the
200,000 acres under cultivation
in this region.

About 2% million acres of
virgin land has been ploughed
and sown here the past three

years and it is planned to add
another 750,000 acres in the
next five years.

Only three years ago, said
Ivan Kislov, local director of
agriculture, the collective
farms of the region sold only
half a million tons of grain to

the state, which this year will ~

treble to over 1,700,000 tons. ’

Bulganin appeals for
disarmament talks

MOSCOW
Because disarmament talks
in the United Nations are

South Wales miners’ -x-

ecutive is asking the
South Wales group of Labor
MPs to make efforts to get a
passport for Paul Robson for
next Eisteddfod. The execu-
tive was informed by the U.S.
State Department .that Robe-
son had been refused a pass-
port because he refused to fill
in a routine passport applica-
tion. This form, in fact, ask-
ed to state whether or not he
is a Communist.

‘Where is protest of the churches

LONDON
A strong attack on collec-
tive punishment and hanging
in British colonies was made
from the pulpit of St. Paul's
Cathedral recently by Canon
L. C. Collins, the precentor.
“Today in Cyprus — yester-
day, perhaps today, in Kenya;

_tomorrow, who knows where?

<— we employ these ugly,
brutal and un-Christian meth-
ods, and the churches do not
even raise a voice of protest,”
he said.

In Cyprus it was surely

“the utter  denigration of
Christian principle to hang
these men, some of them still
but boys.- To hang them as a
deterrent (if to hang a man is
ever a deterrent) and as a
lesson to others outside Cyp-
rus that it does not pay to be
violent against British rule,
goes indirectly against the
practice demanded of us by
the gospels,

“It does seem to me that
there is a dreadful scandal;
yet, by and large; Christians
look on and either assent or

deadlocked, Premier Nicolai
Bulganin of the Soviet Union
has made a new appeal to
U.S. President Eisenhower for
direct negotiations between
the two powers on arms cuts.
His call was made in a new
letter sent to President Eisen-
hower.

Bulganin said: “We should
try to find a way out of the
deadlock and carry on disar-
mament talks, discussing con-
crete questions relating to the
reduction of arms, and in par-
ticular to the reduction of the
numerical strength of the arm-
ed forces of the great powers,
and also steps for the banning
of atomic weapons.”

Bulganin also made a new
plea for the banning of nucle-
ar weapon tests, saying:

“We consider that an agree-
ment between the powers on
the cessation of atomic and
hydrogen weapon tests would
be a first important step to-
ward the absolute ban on these
weapons of mass annihilation.”

The Soviet premier warned
against the revival of militar-
ism in West Germany which,
he said, had become especially
notable after West Germany
joined NATO.

Canon assails hangings in Cyprus, Kenya

remain silent — even those
churchmen who spoke out
against the arrest and depor-
tation of Archbishop Makarios
have remained silent in face
of this far, far greater evil.

“Tt was the same in Kenya,
Only a few voices were raised
to protest against the putting
to death of young lads there
— young lads who, we are
told by colonial administrat-
ors, are too primitive to be
entrusted with the vote — for
the crime of carrying a bullet
in their pockets.

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