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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday August 2, 1963 Chiang s eldest son As ruler would he Settle with peking Ninette Jucker s letter from Rome the Milliard of or. Mastrella by Stanley Karnow Taipei Formosa special owns though he seems in remarkably Good health de spite a recent abdominal opera Tion Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek is approaching 76. Thus the flow of discussion Here about Formosa s future inevitably provokes the question who will follow the Man who has led the chinese nationalists for More than a Genera Tion constitutionally Generalissimo Chiang s heir is vice presi Dent Chen Cheng a former Gen eral whose association with his Leader dates Back to the Early 1920s. But two factors May arise to usurp or weaken or. Chen s chances of succession. He is 12 years younger than the Generalissimo but he is a chronically sick Man who May not outlive his Boss. And if he does he May find his future Powers contested by the Generalissimo s elder son Gen eral Chiang Ching Kuo 54, whose strength lies in his control of this Island s Security forces. Lack stature neither vice president Chen nor Ching Kuo has the stature to evoke the respect bestowed upon the old Generalissimo. In Many ways they complement each other with or. Chen lean ing towards civilian Rule and Ching Kuo More concerned with the military. Yet it is no secret that they Are serious rivals. Each has been striving to win the loyalty of army command ers and politicians within the Kuomintang Formosa s ruling party. Each is inclined to approach problems differently sometimes contradict Rily. Chen is said to favor flexibility and a certain degree of economic liberalism. He was instrumental in promoting the land Reform program that has greatly improved Formosa s agricultural production. He also used his influence in the Pas Sage of investment Laws More attractive to foreign business Chen Chect economic Liberal Chiang ch1nc-Kuo How much a red Mitchell Copp eyes examined glasses Harold m. Black optometrist phone we 2-5108 open Dally 9 . To . Ching Kuo is considered More authoritarian in approach. Formosa scarcely resembles a totalitarian Monolith in the efficiency of its secret it. Is far from a democratic state. Ching Kuo s undercover Security agents play a significant role in enforcing autocracy and Ching Kuo himself has been called the most feared Man on the contrast comparing the rivals some observers have labelled or. Chen the because of his inclination to accept the counsel of . Economic advis ers and Ching Kuo the rus because of his Back ground. The son of Generalissimo Chiang s first wife a simple country girl ironically named Mao whom the Generalissimo divorced was caught up in political agitation by the time he was yes. In those the was supported by Russia and in 1925 Generalis Simo Chiang sent his son to Moscow to study where he stayed for 12 years. Many changes occurred Dur ing those years both in China and to Ching Kuo. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang ousted the communists from his move ment Ching Tuo staved on in Russia. According to a new Parks a total of five in for kids Parks for grown . It s located in the heart of the Beautiful Park Crescent Rome special owns a Italy s roaring 60s Are turning up a bumper crop of scandals. The latest celebrity is Cesare Mastrella a customs offi Cial of Terni who embezzled a Milliard one thousand Mil lion lire about and dazzled his townsmen by his plunge into the world of fashion and the Dolce Vita. In modern Italy the word Miliard has a hypnotic Al most soothing sound. There is More respect than irony in the nickname of or. Milliard which stuck to or. Mastrella even after his he has been sentenced to years a very severe in Italy where the Law s de lays Are infuriating but Justice is usually Clement. Except for an unfortunate incident 20 years Iago when he borrowed to help a Friend in trouble Mastrella s record blameless. He was considered a Model official. His Zeal intelligence and tact were held up As an example to his juniors. He confessed started in 1959, marked the be ginning of the italian Boom. If i had been Able to get away with a Milliard he magistrate it is not because x am a Genius. Any one in my position could have done tie nobody questioned a Mere customs official keeping a wife and a mistress in jaguars and luxury. But out of Pride the offi Cial erred. He confessed from the reports of the trial italians Are discovering that he was right. In fact the Only really astonishing thing in the Story is that Mastrella himself confessed when his superiors asked him politely and quite unsuspecting by what had happened to some 42 million lire which were missing from their accounts. Forty two Mil lion lire said Mastrella have taken a True it was True. Between Jan uary 1959 and november. 1962 he had paid lire into the Central customs office out of receipts for Over one Mil Liard lire from the steel works synthetic Fibre factory and other industries in Terni where he was sole agent supervisor and collector during those four years 23 inspectors had sent from Rome to supervise the books. Each time someone advised Mastrella of the Date and time of their arrival and he met them at the station. On each occasion a special note of commendation was entered against his name in the personnel files at the customs. Office. Yet no one could say that Mastrella was concealing his wealth. A luxurious Villa in Terni a Flat in Rome a Fleet of jaguars arid Maserati were there for All to. See. He claimed to have won the Money on football pools. His wife and mistress of whom stood trial with him were each endowed with a Chain of smart boutiques and Beauty Parlours in Rome and the pro Vinces. When the prosecution asked for a sentence of 10 years on Anna Maria Toma Selli Mastrella s mistress she burst into tears. What have i done i Don t drink j or smoke. I have no vices except a weakness for her defence claimed that she was a scatterbrain a silly 1 Little thing unable two and two together even when they added up to millions of Ike. Mastrella s wife is less ingenuous. She evidently knew where the Money was coming from and i was going. For every Mink went to Anna Maria there was a better one for tie Signora. After All the family is sacred in Italy and Mastrella abide by his code. Paid debts by his own reckoning he is an honest Man. On the eve of his arrest he paid All his Pri vate debts. In the course of the trial he divulged no names. At Terni his popularity is unimpaired. He has robbed no one but the state. Mastrella is clearly a paranoiac whose desire to be popu Lar made him throw Money about giving generously to friends and townsmen and local charities. His system rested on a deep understand ing of the psychological environment in which it was to work. Mastrella knew that the chief interest of the steel works was to be on Good terms with the customs authorities so As not to be bothered with too Many questions about raw materials imported temporarily. These pay no duty on the Assumption that they will be in the form of finished goods. The importer leaves a Deposit with the customs which is refunded. The company s interest is to have As much raw material As possible classed As temporary. V divided control Mattrella also knew that the customs office in Rome had no desire to make trouble for an important National Industry. Administrative responsibility is so divided in Italy and there1 Are so Many controls that no one really feels accountable for anything. There is always someone higher up to make the final Deci Sion or at least to approve what has been done. Against this background the which consisted simply of a double Register one for the steel company and another for the customs office worked admirably and might have continued even after the discovery that 42 million lire were missing. Nobody really wanted a scandal. It was Mas Trella s paranoia that gave him away. He wanted the world to know How Clever he had been. No one believes that he will stay in prison for the full 20 years. The two women have been Given Short sentences. Only about half the stolen Money has turned up and people Are wondering if the Wastrel Las intend Tor enjoy the rest when he has been released copyright 1963 observer foreign news service i 5 3 2 tunes of Liberty another Escua Ive Robinson Community York times dispatch of that period Ching Kuo wrote an open letter denouncing his father As a counter revolutionary and at a later moment after his father married the present Madame Chiang a . Magazine printed a letter purportedly written by Ching Kuo to pravda. In it Ching Kuo accused his father of beating his Mother and grandmother called him the enemy of the whole Cinese there fore the implacable enemy of his and proclaimed him self a whole hearted communist who walks ahead on the wide Road of chinese revolt denies it Ching Kuo now denies that he Ever did anything so a filial As to attack his father and claims that his alleged denunciations of the Generalissimo were soviet forgeries. In his own account of his life in rus Sia he says he worked on a collective farm and spent 12 months in a siberian Gold mine before being released and sent to a metallurgical factory in the ural mountains. There he married a woman Engineer named Fanina. His russian wife and half russian children some of them educated in the United states now live with Ching Kuo in Taipei. Released from Russia in 1937, Ching Kuo returned to China where his father had him Tut ored for several years to make him chinese again. After the War the Generalissimo used his russian speaking son for private negotiations with Stalin and soviet marshal Malinov sky. Ching Kuo has always been shocked by social injustice and corruption. He has been Given credit for trying to eradicate chaotic Black Market ering in Shanghai during the skyrocket ing inflation of 1948. Many gangsters and influential businessmen were executed during this period and if Many real culprits escaped it was because they were protected by More important political Powers than Ching Kuo. Red methods a common criticism of him is that he uses communist me a thous in Liis professed crusade against communism. He Heads a patterned along communist lines Anil he controls a net work of secret police Security agents Aad it is believed that he com Niland the loyalty of the army chief of staff general eng me Ghchi who was once his. Subordinate. He also counts on of his half brother general f Chiang Wei Kuo who once in the German Ari Triy and now controls much of the armoured Force on for Mosa. I suggestions Are frequently made i hat Ching Kuo is capable of mailing a Deal with the Chi Nese communists at some future Date. He acknowledges that a has received letters from peking but claims that he his rejected several offers to collaborate with the communists. Observers note How Ever that he is never singled out Tor attack in the communist press. As constitutional ruler of Formosa at some Vico president Chen Cheng would have a difficult time circumventing Ching Kuo s Power. He might also have an equally difficult time trying to co exist with the Man who May not be Content to be known As number 2.f copyright 1963 observer foreign news service rate strife Sparks Folk songs Egginton new York special owns a new Folk song movement is sweeping the United states. Its music is made up of remembered tunes gathered from chapels in the Bible Belt of the deep South from Planta Tion choruses of the slave Days and from the militant period of american Trade Union campaigns. The words however Are modern and Are Sung daily by negroes at sit in demonstrations on marches picket lines and in jails. As the passive resistance Campaign has spread the songs have become so Well known to Whites negroes that gramophone records of Are now being issued music printed and have been gathered into the repertoires of some of am Erica s leading Folk singers. Four of these artists have recently arranged for Publica Tion the theme song _ of the Freedom movement an Adap tation of an old Baptist hymn we shall overcome. Today there is not an american negro can fail to be stirred by its deep swelling strains. It could Well become another Battle hymn of the Republic or John Brown s publisher Howard Richmond predicts quiet courage the song was resurrected by negro worker s on picket lines in Charleston South Carolina seven ago. The words were adapted to the and since then have been added to and changed again. The main verse now goes we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome some Day. 0, deep in my heart i do believe we shall overcome some Day. Leaders of the civil rights demonstrations say that this like All the Freedom move ment songs achieves the aim of arousing emotion Militancy a quiet courage and a feeling of identification with the cause. The Rev Wyatt tee Walker a negro Leader from Atlanta Georgia who has been jailed Many times for his part in civil rights demonstrations re marked one cannot describe the vitality and emotion that this hymn we shall overcome evokes across the Southland. I have heard it in great mass meetings with a thousand voices singing As one. I be heard half a dozen sing it softly behind the bars of Hinds county prison in. Mississippi. I be heard old women sing it on their work in Georgia. I be Beard students singing it As they were being dragged away to jail it generates Power that in from this sprang another song to the same tune designed for sit in demonstrations we shall not be moved. This also has Many verses another of which begins we will fill up the jails one of the favourites has been adapted from the negro Spiri. Tual let my people go. The words Are now completely changed one verse referring to an incident at Anniston Ala Bama on first Freedom when i. Crowd of unruly Whites set fire to a bus Fulla of negro and White Demontra causing several serious injuries. It runs through Alabama we did ride let my people go the buses burned while we were inside let my people go. Go Down Freedom. Way Down in Alabama ten old Patterson to let my people go. Patterson is the name the governor of Alabama. Another verse about Mississippi expresses similar sentiments towards that state s governor Ross Barnett. In few cases Are the authors of the songs known. The words have usually been made up on the Spur of the moment during a March or demonstration and because they Are highly repetitive they have been quickly picked up by the masses. Two of America s leading Folk singers Pete see Ger and Theo Bikel have Sung Many of the Freedom songs at concerts attended by White segregationists in the deep South. Strangely enough the audiences were not annoyed. The music was new to them and they thought it pleasantly entertaining. Copyright w63 observer service does the West coast fascinate you there Are still vacancies in one and two room Day ungraded schools on Beautiful Vancouver Island. West coast area j Day school Kyu Quot b primary teacher Aho Siht Alert Bay area a one room school Smith Inlet b two room school Kingcome c one room school at Village and now Vancou ver Island. Isolation Bonus Modem furnished teach rages at Low rentals and transportation allowances Are provided in Remote areas. Recently the salary scale has been revised. A Good pension and . Plan Are in effect. Reply by wire collect giving qualifications experience religious Faith name of last superintendent to John c. 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