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The first of an authoritative series of artlofom on iife 'in. Russia by the Editor of the official. Embassy magazine British Ally, who has just rotürned from Moscow after the Bussians put hi's magazine out of business
How to be IRVE AD
ONE UPUT
THE MAN FROM on your friends
MOSCOW
Secret police shadow that
never left him
by RICHARD JONES
H
It
E
wore a short-peaked black
cap, a long black overcoat, black shoes and blue
woollen muffler.
was the blue muffler that im- pinged itself on my memory. There
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of the shadow that broods over all Russia, haunting the lives not only of Russians themselves but of foreigners as well.
My family and I had just moved into our new home in Moscow. It was in a modern block of flats sprouting out of the slumland of Taganka, east of Kremlin.
:
NOW FACE TO FACE
WE were taking the children for
the
#
our
walk along the riverside on first Saturday afternoon in the capital when the man in the blue muffler first crossed our path.
At first we did not pay much attention to him. But when we swung round gaily together we came face to face with him again.
to Klin to
• We went Tchaikovsky's birthplace selected a quiet spot by road-side to have a picnic.
We grass when
RICHARD JONES.
a little group of (young
Commu-
camera and flim, and all sorts of complications would have CT sued,
HILE wars. cold or otherwise, occupy the headlines, we must not allow our attention to be wholly diverted from the war of nerves we are all of us engaged in with our friends,
It is a great importance in the social relationship to be One Up whenever possible, "to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly": and all acrious social combatants owe a debt of gratitude to Mr Stephen Potter, who has now extended, his re- searches from the psychology of game (the Art of Winning Games Without Actually, Cheating) to, cover the no less tricky field of contemporary life.
His now work, which in feel- Instead of completing the or-ling lies somewhere between n ganised tour we made our way games instruction book, a New quickly back to the car.
The guards had expected 13
Thought pamphlet and a first-
aid manual provides the reader
by MARGARET LANE
to follow the customary visitors with reliable gambits for mos- routino and when they dis-tering any given situation. It covered that we had deviated contains not only valuable hints pursuing your good-natured en- from the recognised path came on deflating the confidence of quiries as though it were ex- a word others but also techniques for tremely difficult, if not impos- racing after us. Not
countering deflation, culting the sible, to obtain any of them. was said the whole time.
ground from under the other Disillusioned anci
little man's feet and puncturing the shocked, we settled ourselves in expert. our car and told the driver to get us back to Moscow quickly as he could.
д
DS
The shadows dropped the lady, but not us. Nor did they let us out of their sight.
ON OUR TAIL
HALF-
OUT OF DEPTH?
you feel out of your depth
In musical conversations?
Does religious talk make you uneasy?..
Excellent effect was ob tained some ime ago by a gentleman at a party who asked Dorothy Sayers three times
what her name was, then shook his head and sald sympathe- tically, "Never heard of it."
Similar ploys can be tried
success with
on almost any celebrity, if you have the nerve.
Do all your friends seem to The finest example I ever heard know moro about everything was at my own table, when a
[ALF-WAY we had a punc- than you do?
ture. Our pursuers shot
In all these familiar situn- past us, laughing at our plight.tions, and In many more, S. That must be the end of them, Potter is your man. we thought.
1
But they were waiting in a side turning for us to reappear,
There was visit
and Komsomoly the mists) being photographed out- and thereafter they kept close tail until we were side Tolstoy's house when we ly en our arrived. This I thought would one hundred yards from home. make an interesting picture.
Nevertheless we were
the had barely, sat on
three up popped Red Army men, armed to the teeth. The N.C.O. gave us the Russian equivalent of "get go- being and make it fast."
"I've seen that man fore- somewhere," remarked my wife. Then, glancing a forced labour camy. back, she exclaimed: "Good
We had halted by the side of
These camps are situated on
gracious! He's following every road out of Moscow.
ua."
There it the usual barbed I looked, and sure enough wire compound, and an elevated he was about 20 yards behind sentry box in which alte a Red
with man
his
sub- Army machine gun trained on the site.
La. He followed us all the way back home.
Such was our first introdue- είσαι το the "shadow" that the Russian secret police puts on Soviet to the special visitors Union.
For a whole month we were under constant surveillance.
the
FOR 300 MİLES
camp
offers
He is particularly strong o
ripostes, conversational
gambita several silencing opponents.
of
and for
charming American turned in the middle of dinner to Bertrand Russell (to whom she had, up to this point presented only a shoulder) and sald encourag- ingly, "You've got an amusing foce: what do you do?"
Not having been trained in
the
Most useful of these, perhaps, Potter's counter play, Russell
rooked, and A process was visibly "languaging up," by which the adept is able to American remained in a state to get confuse, frritate and depress by of unchallenged, One Uptess for the laugh on them one day later, the
foreign words, the rest of the evening. fictitious or otherwise, either Yaroslavl is a picturesque old singly or in groups.” town on the Volga, more noted
This technique, however, has for its dreamy churches and the disadvantage of requiring a monasteries than its new indus-littic knowledge, and beginners HAVING gratefully studied -trial enterprises, though the had better stick to O.K.-words,
"Management (absolutely esUCU-
I asked the young woman in charge if she had any objection to my taking a photograph.
"Cortainly not," she replied.
NO, NO, NO
swered...
he an-
I was about to press the trigger when a hand fell on my
the militia shoulder. It was
I
Russians think otherwise.
the
a
PHONE RULES
Potter's rules for Telephone which are almost as effective.
flal in Important Person Play). O.K.-words (e.g, mystique, I looked in vain for
a section make doubly certain то
They always suspect
catalyst) of Spectacle Handling Potter's went up to the militiaman foreign visitor to be more in-classique, diathesis,
this Indispensable "because no one quite under- piece of business would be ins standing by and asked him if he terested in the latter; and take can be used with good results ruling on minded. "Not at all,"
restrict stands what they mean, albelt valuable to all committeemen such special steps to your movements in the town.these words have been in use and public speakers,
for sumelently long time, at
I have seen entire committees We decided to have a row on any rate by Highbrowmen, say the Volga. The at the ten years, for your audience to brought to heel by O. Sitwell's boathouse hired us a dinghy have seen them once or twice masterly use of Spectacle Play.
about O. Slowell, of course, uses
small
and. particularly
caso and soon we were pulling away and already felt uneasy as cheerfully as the numerous them."
double-hinged frames, which enormously multiply the variety Russians on the water.
of operations which can be performed while spalding. It is a branch of chairmanship re- quiring further study.
man.
"It is not necessary," he re- a particularly big THERE is
you mean on the Tula road marked. "What do which leads to Yasnaya Polyana, 'not necessary"?" I queried. "A second ago you said it was all where Tolstoy used to live.
right." When I left home in
Maybe that is why the secret morning the little man would police followed me for 500 miles bo thero to see me of. After I one Sunday when I went to pay had gone he would walk over homage to the greatest of Rus- to the wall telephone to re- clan writers.. port.
guard
As Yasamya Polyana is outside When I arrived at the office the limit I had first to notify another
would notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs police headquarters of my are of my intention to visit it. rival, So it went on every time I moved.
אן
NOTED IT
Next I had to specify the means of transport, the route, the date of departure and re- turn and the names of those going with me.
He nodded his head in the direction of two men standing little distance away. There was no need for further explanation. My shadows had caught up with me.
MY 'CRIME*
THE little group of Komsomols
THE looked more disconcerted
that I, and I sill wonder how
By
мой
man
Suddenly a man came ning along the bank calling us to come in. We pretended not
to hear.
CLOSED UP.
alongside.
PUNCTURES
AM perhaps surprised (and Mr Potter would fully ap- prove of my surprise since it follows a recommended garnkalt for critics, namely Friendly At- tack) I am surprised, I repeat, to find no mention in
this
other
minutes later the man wise comprehensive manual of
cime in at once."
about all
the
GOLFERS, TOO
musle situation;
general
guests,
OTTER'S book is valuable I because he a minute A who had hired us the bout the social techniques for und server and a sound psychologist. could be seen pulling furiously furing
Selt Esteem of (See his practical
sp of the towards us, and panting, came Authors authors, for instance, aim in music Is to make other
Minor
bas shrewd advice for "The station is closed for the can be paralysed instantaneous people feel outside it.")
ly by the kindly question, "Do their group leader explained, it day" he explained. "You must you still keep up your writing? actors, dons, week-end
If they are rather too eminent party-goers (Life and Soulman- Leaving the fiat, our Govern- away.
can be ship) and, of course, golfers. the evening when we went ment hired car was first follow-
those for this gambit, much
With the guide to behaviour "But what a plain clothes to the theatre, the blue ed by a tle black Flat com policewoman had joined the other people on the river?" We done with a hearty and straight the attentivereador muffler would appear again. taining three of the secret
two men. Everywhere we went asked. "They've got to come in, forward "I'm afraid I've never able to dominate his one co
read any of your books," and From the Russian chauffeur who police."
cle, and become a hated success they followed. I had a camera, too," he said. drove us he would ascertain cur
After we had passed the 30 and
in any society. e crime for a that is destination.
miles limit the black car turned foreigner in the Soviet Union. off and a more powerful vehicle
Through lovely woods we was brought into service. This wended our way to Tolstoy's followed us until we reached
But wo declined his offer, not grave. I
certainly was our destination.
prepared for the sight that preferring instead to stand by and enjoy the force remon- greeted me there.
strances being made by the rest of the boating enthusiasts.
it we gave the driver a dif- ferent order once inside the car, it was his job to notify the police of our change of plan. You could not get away from it.
At the entrance to Tolstoy's Then after a month the man home a uniformed policeman in the muffler vanished-or so inquired from where
we had we thought. At least he didn't come. He obviously had been make himself so obvious.
It wasn't exactly a happy in- troduction to a country in which we had planned to spend the next three years. Nevertheless it showed us the shape of things to come.
informed beforehand.
OUR PICNIC
Standing easy, with arms, be- backs, wero two hind their militia - women in dark blue skirts, white tunics, blue berets, and a revolver holster at their Aides.
We rowed back, the boathouse manager gerously offering us our money back.
"The river is calm, the wea- tho ther is good, why close station so suddenly?" asked one disgruntled Russian.
man did not
learns
As we edged up to the grave "It's an order," replied, the so the three "shadows" edged manager. The
the order. Ope DEFORE making our tour of closer until one man was a yard query ВЕЛ
Tolstoy's extate we decided from my left elbow, a second not to, in Russia, It was, in fact, the Russian to plenic on a grabsy patch hear man a yard from my right, and their female companion stood way of serving notice on us not by
right in front of me on the other to go poking and probing into
side of the grave, Russian people's lives.
Again we had barely sat down before a nondescript character Twelve reads fan out of Mos-approached our chauffeur, led cow but woe to any foreigner him a little distance away and who attempts to travel on them kept him talking. beyond 30 miles.
+
DEVIATING.
not
I called the chauffeur back IN such circumstances even a Deviate from the main road and, asked him what the trouble
resolute foreigner does and you will find yourself look was. He shrugged his choul dare to lift his camera. ing down
"Nichevo" (It'я a tommy gun with dora, muttered. two naked bayonets at your nothing) and went back to our "It would most certainly have
uninvited caller.
been an excuso back.
confiscate
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