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life
easy RUSSIA?
by
Richard Jones
can
the Science At The
in
For years the rulers of mo- dern Russia have been trying to eliminato the distinction be-
1951 Festival
By
IAN COX
Science Director for the Festival of Britain
tween mental and manunl
to the extent that THAT science is inter- which has no speciallat train- labour, and 201
national is the general- ing., In
stratum fourth
this
+
tunate is he or she make the grade.
month--they have been fairly So long as "the masters of the successful. EMEMBER the the region of 100,000 roubles a word, the brush, the stage and
Nevertheless, these are the Dynamos--the Soviet year for roughly £10,000 per musle" sing the praises of the
people who are really the back n town annum), plus
flat and regime loud enough they wonder football team car with chauffeur.
have everything they want
bone of the social system today that visited England just These "go with the job," and except freedom of thought. they are also the nucleus of after the war? I was one his wife has no servant prob-
This particularly applies to tomorrow's society. top flight actors, authors,
of the privileged 80,000 lems.
It's tough
who saw them open the season this year.
What an eye-opener it was! Nothing else during the whole of my year's stay in Russia re vealed to me, as this event did, the enormous gulf that exists between the top and lower In this so-called workers" radise.
From gleaming, chauffeur- driven zis the last word in Soviet automobiles stepped well-groomed party bosses, big business executives, factory directors. combine presidents the now bureaucratie tsara Russia-smugly confident and sailing in their prosperity,
of
going to reach
this
of rung the ladder, but tougher still to keep a footing.
firm
THE MAN FROM
or-
1
in par
Two
to In
Three projects favoured class of all, and for- receive about the same wage ly held belief in Bri- ticular are designed, in whole
or part, for its display. who can packet-2,000 to 9,000 roubles atain. To this international of them are in London-the store of knowledge and ex- Thames Bank Exhibition, and perience, however, Britain the Exhibition of Science has contributed at least as Glasgow there will be an Ex-
South Kensington-while much as any other country; hibition of Industrial Power. it is natural, therefore, that
The Thames science will occupy a proud
Bank Exhibi- place in the Festival of Bri- employ the narrative techniqué. Lion Is the largest ·evor to They have far less to lose tain 1951.
It tells the story of two forces than the men above, everything to gain by maintaining the
the initiative of the People, structure that support them at
The opportunities for the and the resources
of their of science during next Land-acting together the
the expense of tolling display
to en- masses..
year are twofold. On the one, gender the contributions to hand, it forms an Important civilisation of which the British. By English criteria their element in a number of official are justly proud. standard of living is reasonably ly organised exhibitions which good; by comparison with living are the responsibility of the conditions of the workers whose Festival of Britain and basle wuge 13 500 roubles | Government Department It will be shown, too, that
monthly, their position is en- brought into
being specially this viable.
for the purpose.
combination is Ds potent In addition and creative to this it will be the subject and that the future of Britain as ever it was, With the help of occasional of special sessions and con- is well founded on the con- many middle class ferences arranged by learned Hinuing achievements families are able to afford institutions and socletics.
of her scientists, Industrialists, small family car, visit the thea-
nologists and designers. The ire, and hire a country dacha
story will largely bo told. for the summer.
through visual examples drown,
science and industrial
MOSCOW-Richard Jones was the editor of the Embassy magazine British Ally in Moscow
He's only got to deviate from the party "line" once and he's had it dacha, flat, car, and everything else,
Second only to the ruling lerarchy are the chiefs of the Red Army, a generle term that covers all three services.
A Red Army offleer belongs to the elite of Soviet society.
Well paid, sophisticated, par- ticularly if he has served in
In their wake trailed bevies of stylishly dressed women. Germany or Austria, he forma
at au waiforms, and thousands bet
tists, painters, musicians, sculptors, whose salaries, plus special awards, put them in the Hollywood category.
Lucky ones
bonuses,
Few privileges
Recent Advance
Q
Visual Examples
tech-
:and
Pride of place in this social Reale is occupied by members of the exclusive Academy of
It is possible already to in- from Selences, whose yearly pay
stance some examples of these, design, ranges between 200,000 and
In Edinburgh, Scotland, the Josting with them for their the cream of Moscow's cate 250,000 roubles. Cash bonuses
British Association meeting will a time) places (at 258.
The stress will be on fby were society,
make membership of this privi- goldbraided, heavily bemedalled
and om the West ho and his leged club highly desirable. From
Yet, even the white collar be specially planned to make a present,
on the applica worker, the office Red Army officers in olive green comrades have brought back the
to the Festions of its subject matter clerk and full contribution
to tunics and
In London, the Royal the improvement of the human dark blue breeches, latest ideas in feminine fashions, What more natural than that schoolteacher, and certain skill-tival. members
Society of Medicine the lead- lot of the
The Diplomatic
average so that their wives and sweet these lucky ones should mono- ed craftsmen, whose
background against Corpa in their distinctive light hearts, when they go to
scientific medical society which the industrial the polise the opportunities of self- wage is between 5,000 and 10,000 ing
British Commonwealth a social of the or the smarter
scientific dining advancement for their sons and roubles a year, are in
displays with with an international member- shown is the living, working. be class of their own. out places, contrast oddly with daughters?
ship-is arranging number world today, a particular as-...... the stay-at-homes.
It's true mony privileges don't of meetings at which men and pect of Even so, the Bolshol-Mos-
Take any Russian university,
which gives the title women who have contributed to ench cow's most exclusive theatre and count the number of wor come their way.
pavillon The Coun never witnessed a stranger sight senses of the up-and-coming in- down last March their lot is a of
kers' children admitted into the But since food prices come notably to the recent advance try," "Natural Resources, than that of
medicine in Britain will "Power and a pretty young wo-
Production," "Sc man wearing a daring crepe de telligentsia.
trifle easier, though a suit of themselves give an account of and Ships," "Homes," "Sport, clothes at 600 roubles or a wool- their work. Chine negligee a
These will take "Health" and so on. Rift from Berlin-under
They
4. the impression tween.
are few and far be- len costume at 350 is still out of place from May until the begin- Which Is that it was the latest in evening when
A feature surprising the question. And what hope ning of July.
that has already you consider that the of pair of shoes at 2207
excited attention wear!
is the great lower middle classes-the *The Soviet fixed the nominal The Institutions She was certainly much ad- fourth stratum of the new So- rate of the rouble at 11.20 to the Architects
of Naval Dome of Discovery. Whereas mired.
Marine En- the other sections in the Ex- vlet society comprise the most £. But this is an artificial | gineers
inviting -exports · hibition. will be mainly can." homogeneous collection of the equilibrium, completely unre- from all parts of the world to cerned with. echievements lot.
lated to price levels in the two a ten-day conference which visible in Britain, in the Dome countries,
uniformed denizens of this strange
city. Goggled-eyed, disillusioned if you like. I stood watching this astonishing parade for half an hour before I turned to my Russian colleague and express ed my astonishment.
'With the job'
"Those cars," I queried. His reply was simple but expressive. "Oh, they go with the job."
Quite a lot of things "go with the
Job" in the country where equality is considered a bour- geois virtue.
Most favoured
Although Stalin has roundly In it you have the lesser lights declared that the Intelligentsia of the stage and screen merg
been a ing with Stakhanovites, and of Russia have never chase place in the present Soviet and professors mingling with class, they nevertheless occupy brigade leaders, lawyers, doctors, the technical and industrial in- easily the most telligentsio.
There are at least seven steps in the social ladder which leads to the Kremlin-just supposing any ordinary Russian mother society.
enough to imagine were rash that her son might one day don,
the mantle of Russia's Dictator,
Soviet society, Stalls would have us believe, consists of only classes workers WO
peasants
and
From bitter experience count- less millions of his subjects. know differently.
of the
They see highly privileged groups enjoying lives which make a mockery of Stalin's QS- surance that they enjoy "equal rights in all spheres economic, political, social and cultural ife of the country."
They see all the old layers of society back again--the ruling
people?
men,
At the top
ness for one the great to
But neither
рака. I nor anybody
They arc
TO-MORROW:
The extraordinary story of the Soviet brides
First Briton to Fight the Japs Has A Lucky Escape
OUT
hung useless.
in
OF THE
By "ICARUS"
BLUE
International Squadron, December 14, 1937
my
It
was riddled (more
Schute.
ing afterwards counted.)
painful and it would be very
completely
Only
bruin
will
meet
and
M
successively in the scope of display will not London, Glasgow Scotland, even be limited by the bound-ilipp and Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the artes of the earth ftsdif. county of Northumberland. Civil, Mechanical Similarly, the Institutions of
The Dome and Elec-
trical Engineers are arranging While science will be lownTM a jalat conference with a wide in its particular applications: In programme that will last about other sections, It is the Dome a fortnight in the beginning of that offers it special oppor
tunities for display on its own
June.
The
subject
The conference arranged by ground.
matter another Institution the British here will range from Britis Radio Engineers extends /over discoveries in the depths of th the whole of the Festival period. oceans and the deepest andr The range of subjects for dis- ground, over the land, thre cussion is a wide one and m sphere, and away in outer
the atmosphere and the lo cludes, for example, specialist aspects of electronic itself. instrumentation and
of tele- Proper attention, too, will vision reception and transmis given to those other Bri
The latter will be the discoverers
be numerous
the
the
revealing
between
secrets of the architecture an behaviour of matter arid ult mately making possible such achievements electric powÈRE as these will television, synthetic and varied, and plastics, steam power. or the
are themselve
Q
was very still and who gets down may fight again! looked up--and froze with hor-alon.
Struggling, by some effort of rot. There was no more that subject of a summer school to дя It wero, Inwards, gradua quiet high up there in strength summoned from good- smooth round silken bulge, be held in Downing College, the cloudless sky after ness-know where I heaved up symmetrical about the circular Cambridge, class, the party aristocrats, and the 'chute cracked open. and caught the shrouds about central airvent. Nothing but a the pampered courtiers of the Swinging
⠀⠀ Three Projects eighteen inches above my head mass of ragged ribbens hanging Kremlin.
that vast Who are
Such activities I managed to do it again, and missed ane had not missed the these privileged emptiness between heart with my left hand. Miraculous together. The bullets that und
and earth, a
again. Now the white canopy great calm of the chute was no more level than six hundred boles were will be mainly of Interest to many results of nuclear flexión!” 09 came over me after the and
even. It
slipping
visitors who Was roar and rattle of the dog-swiftly sideways and I felt the
scientiais
technologista. In the Exhibition of Science,
Atop
They are, of course, essentially at South Kensington, the math fight. Spread out fifteen cold blast of the wind against of the pyrarald, 0%
bare cheek as thousand course, are Comrade Stalin and.
the concern of the learned So- emphasis will be on the spirit?" DE fcot
my goggles below whipped back. But they
cieties and Institutions, but of scientific discovery, whích 10t the 13 members of the Polit-stretched the placid Cen- were still coming. One after me. How fast must I be falling? A feeling of panic swept over
Festival Office is abie to bas, always flourished in Bri- buro. These are the omnipotent tral China countryside, like the other, Dach chattering The ground seemed to be coming co-ordinate plans to prevent, tain, and on recent advances in
out a staccato.burst of about
in the date of these unravelling the structure of r have stood on a corner of some great market-garden
up very fast indeed; I waited overlap twenty five rounds the busy Arbat Square and broken everywhere by little be
and. in explaining the one for the, bono-shattering shock activities, and will ensure, when matter. pulled up to Iet the watched militiamen at 100-yard sheets of water which lay next have a go.
that would wips me out. But plans are sufficiently advanced, mechanism of life itself, an nothing happened at ul. Gently that a comprehensive program- intervals literally sweep the around the margin of blue
This Exhibition is not being us a failing lent my feet hit's solla me is issued. There was no doubt that they earth between two small lake-
designed for men of science. thing and body on it in readi
Lake, My right arm had won. It would not be very lets. I sank with the chutte 1931, on the other hand, fly low and
In the official exhibitions in professional technologists, all
they will undoubtedly soon, I stopped thinking about compl and my strength left me will be displayed primarily to many new methods of else ever caught as much as a It did not hurt at all, but it the Japs at all. Through my
my From that large section of the public presentation to interest, hem.. solitary glimpse of the distin- had stopped working after that mind there passed pictures
clear. of stayed
cryskobanks above the guished occupant sitting in the sudden hard punch in
and rice. the
life black, high powered
at homo far away from car that shoulder as I'd closed in on the
deld ridges hends
began to pop flashed by with its escort of big
China and I saw relatives and
The green wing-bomber
› a few dozen yards awed w up t ten friends very vividly. secret police.
Then the nine
I minutes before.
country people were 1 of Nor was
the strange visitor. Minutes was travelling too fast; discreet- the three of us-Omer Poivre, more strength to drag down advanced cautiously towards my
The left hand bad RO by curtained side windows com- Johnnie Chan and myself our the
shrouds
elip and pletely hid the Kremlin passen-old Hawk III divebombere not ohute. I
long- ger, from view as he sped on his much against their sleek Nip- lost my grip the canopy would
knew that once I barrelled Mauser at the ready. way to Moscow's "no-man's- pon built Dowollines. With land, the vast wooded
billow up, and the slowed falf with one estate hand to work both throttle and would make me an easy target. yand from my, face, looked very He held the muzzle about a in which Russia's overlords have stick and guns, three tough Nip- But there their dachas, or country homes. pon naval pilots can
was just nothing. I frightened, but very determined. It
an could do about it now. I let go, I smiled at him and tried my la aptly called "no-man's-awful crowd. That land" because no member of the ten minutes later, I was floating fore the released all lines pull I
was why, and fell three feet or so be- smattering of Chinese. "Friend," public dare set foot within miles slowly down, and thanking my
out, "English frien
friend." He ed of it,
then. At Inst could relax. It la cordoned off by police, a
folk
and they came to foreign
rushing Silence! There was diplomats.
still a across the paddy. Some of them sound of engines, but their drone hurried to make a litter under was dying in the distance. No his Suddenly
orders. It
it was alright, they there came a more machine-gunning Won said. The schoolteacher had screaming roar. A dark green derfully they had left me.
Red
kit, blu flashed into my field of looked down with new hope. The
and, they On the outer belt live the vision as I dangiol Rat-tat ground was very close now. Half
maybe some lesser stars, the top ranking tat-tat...rat-tat-tat-tat-lat: 180 land, half water. For the first going to die, I thought, it would wine too! If I was party bosses, chiefs, of Govern they were not going to ledve me time I tried to estimate the not be too bad here among ment departments and factory alone after all, The Emperor speed of my descent. I had friends again. Better than being executives, men who earn in needed an offering, and a pilot never jumped before. Then blasted out of the lonely sky.
Wis
it because the car Jap ocouts had come down on rowing weaker from my wound. Hient by before a Chinese private i
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