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Does the Communist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
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ed to leave the Soviet Union.
His books, Bet with details of prison life and slave labour, are valuable documents. He pees Stalin not only as a re- Botionary who has betrayed the revolution but also ns
the able in English, but published e a letter to Kirov and sent creator of a neo-imperialisin in France during the last year. to Leningrad to teach history based on Soviet and Asiatic The titles indicate the nature to the workers in the Commu- nationalism and on hatred, of of the contents: "In the Land These questions are not easy
of the Disconcerting Lie" and nint university, He was given the West.
He divides the Soviet Union The Soviet Govern deletion" by Anton Ciliga, treme what he colls
Land of Exile and In- excellent Uving quarters and
to
sharply contrasted one of classes a
small and highly ment has never been eager to a Lost My Falth in Moscow the "privileged 10,000."
its paradise to foreign by Enrique Castro Delgado, and
privileged bureaucracy and the eyes. I spends lorge sums of "Life and Death In the USSR"
prevent nows from
suffering, underpaid and over- worked masses who hate the by Valentin Gonzalez, better
regime. money to the outside world reaching is
The formidable pro- own people, and inside Russia nown as "Et Carpesino," the
of Bramure
Industrialisation [eneral of the
which the Soviet Government se freedom of movement is Spanish civil war.. severdy restricted both for the
has carried out is foreigner and for the ordinary
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Was
As a professional historian he was shocked by the constant falsification of history by the regime. New editions of books were frequent und ench con tradicted
the preceding
one and nationalist in desialist
were
The
the
Let us take first the account plant names were exping people-the workers and of Anton Ciliga, who was in e; new interpretations Though numerous books have the Soviet Union from 1820 to given to events, and not infre-
"kokhozniki" are noglected.
He has no faith in the re- the Soviet 1035. His first book. "The Land
the historians quently
them- placement Union, they suffer from two de- of the Disconcerting Lie,"
of the presom regime selves disappeared together with Those written by Rus- published in France In 1938, their own histories.
by a doveanment of generals The leach- or of
To the any group more sians come under the category was confiscated by the Germans ing s'aff swallowed the Right than Stalin. It is from of special plending and, whe- in 1940, and reprinted in 1950. consciously: in Ciliga's
the
asses that he awaits the ther they are for or against His second volume on hia the students assimilated them mal overthrow though he does
fects.
les
opinion
Six Months
the regime, are rightly regarded Siberian experiences was pub- unconsciously, as sumpcet. Foreign
lished in 1950. commenta- tors and they Include brilliant intellectuals like Bertrand Rus- sell and Andre Gide-are at a disadvantage in that their visits to the Soviet Union have been has been curtalled. Few, if any, have seen
the working of the regime from the inside.
short and their range of Vision
to the Soviel
he
Leading Part
the
WALTZING MATILDA HAS
A LONDON DATE
Rosetta sails the world in 45 ft. boat
From FRANK' OWEN
BUENOS AIRES. was cuucated in Scotland, of the River Plate a 46- TN muddy, leafy creek
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
Berlin, and Paris, and Join- ed the Consular Service at the age of 24. He has very considerable knowledge, based on personal 'acquain-- tance, with many of the leading Agures in the USSR and Eastern Europe. He has find wide Journalistle ex- perience. During the Second World War he was Director General
of the British Political Warfare Executive, He has
written
several books, among them "Guns er Butter?" and "Comes the Reckoning." Bir Robert is now in his early sixties.
NRIQUE Castro Delgado is
the
foot
Australian cutter, Waltzing Matilda, salled by three young men and a girl, made ready to put to sea on the second lap of a voynge round the world.
blue..
The first stage ended safely á fortnight ago when the Waltz- ing Matilda dipped her flag to The Argentine capital and rolled up the River Plate after a five- month trip across the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn.
We sail now for Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Bermuda before the gales not expect it in the near future, with any democratic decency break," sald the skipper, Roy He remains very much to the hundreds of thousands of Rus- Davenport,
tall, tough, A Croat born in Istria, be
Loft and has a warm affection sians would have come over to eyed ex-RAF war pliot, as the Joined the Croat
Communist
for the Russian people.
their side.
cutter lay hauled up for a ref. It is also his belief that the Party in 1918, and by 1925 was
Then we head for New York,, main
for reason
the anti-and after that for Bonnie Scot- member of its Politburo. Ex- A lecturer Ciliga lasted jus! pelled from
over six months. Then he ho Yugoslavia, went
Western
propaganda of had the usual foreknowledge
the land and Merrie England." to Moscow in 1920 and was at of what to expect. His friends
Soviet Union today is Stalin's
"Don't forget thout France." a destre to extirpat from once admitted
said dark-eyed, dark-haired (it Communist Party.
Spaniard who joined the minds of the Russian people all is a cute crew-cut) Rosetta Jean, began to avoid him and Disillusion- men! began early. He had to found a man posted before his Spanish Communist Party in
bouse. at once arrested give up his passport
In May 1930, he was 1925, when he was 18. A mem- Soviet Union and given to the his young wife, in bell-bottom
Union during the war pants. He also found that even to
and brought before ber of the central committee, by the British and the Ameri-
ALL IN RAF ask for an explanation was to the Ogpu, after being denounced he played a leading part in the ears.
a Trotskyist by a rival Spanish civil war and, after label homself a "bourgeois" and
During the years of his 'im Yugoslav. a "deviationist."
France's victory, was welcomed prisonment "El Campeaino in Moscow where he became net, and was befriended by, Inzancemated first in Lenin- Very soon one of his Soviet
where his Communist felends gave him rad
of the Spanish representa- many political prisoners, and he companions tives in the Comintem. His estimates the number of slave discontented the advice that most
workers, foreign were
book, "I Lost My Faith in labourers at 25 million.
Hum- Soviet sailors, Communists of the anti- Moscow," is of speelal value for self a peasant, he gives a de- and Communists Union Bod so hard to follow: Stalin faction, black market te "Keep your mouth shut.
its pleture of the Soviet Union vastating picture of life on a Re- operators and priests, he
was
war and its graphic kolkhoz, nor does he spare the later sentenced
10 three years during the
description of the Comintern. Verkany
privileged bureaucracy. In the Comintern he worked His verdict can be given in Uralsk. When pired, he applied for penis and Manulisky, Here, 1940. of its misfortune, the people stun lo return to Yugoslavia,
foreign know that Stalin, the successor assombled the to this category there are Nevertheless, he made some and was given a further period Communists Thorez and Marty, of now four books, not yet avail- progress and 1920 was hand- of two years' exile in Siberia. Pieck and Ulbricht, Gottwald, polency which, by its internal Lenin, ropresents a great Kuusinon, the Finn, Diaz, the vlees, by the
irlm craft. corruption and general secretary of the Spanish slackness of the ruling caste, Communist Party and Dolores may easily become a great Im- Ibarruri.
And they wait in
Most Valuable
HERE remains another source of information, and it is the most valuablet the testimony of foreign Communists who were received
with high honour in Moscow, worked for the Go- vernment or in the Comintern, spent many years in the Soviet Union, suffered imprisonmert
in the
one
The other two of the crew, "the boys," skipper Hoy calls hem, are his younger brother Keith and Donald Brown.
All three served in the RAF,
since
the war Roy and Don have flown in civil airlines.
was.a
35.a hostess Mrs Davenport
in Qantas Airways, flying weekly
Keill has been en the London-Sydney. route.
for deviation, and were finally member that here you are less imprison is sentence ex- under the tutelage of Dimitrov his own words: "In the midst Australia and Britain, and he is
expelled from the country Or esenped with the help of friendly Russians.
than nothing until you become member of the central com- mittee."
PERSONALITY
CHAPMAN PINCHER makes REPORT No. 2
personality..
Medical
It matters a lot whether you're tall and thin or short and fat ·
HE
build of
your body its propor- than
Are you one of these two main types or mixture?
ASTHENIC
(Small, OR tall, slender}
tions rather
its overall size-is
a pointer to your
P
1. Long head, narrow inwa
H
2. Long bands and feet.
Y
3. Muscles stringy.
4. Loose jointed.
C
tests involving hundreds of men and women have revealed that differences in build are only, the outward signs of more rilical internal differences, usually reflected in temperament and habil.
Doctors now claim that most people can be classed in three body build categories - the Athletic, Asthenic, and Pyknic"
groups.
The chart lists the main du- ferences between these groups In physique, personality, health, und habits. (The Athletic features are not listed because they tend to be midway between the two vastly more populous extremes.)
All the moderately tioned
propor-
well-
people with
muscles and fairly
limbs form the Athletic
group. The lean folk with smallsh, stringy musales are the Asthenics, The Pyknics stocky and sturdy.
5. Digestive system
stomach sausage-shaped,,
short,
K
. Small heart and lungs. Rapid blood circulation. Low blood pressure.
E
Y
7. Men have deep voices.
P
E
RSONAL1wer for Je
are
T
Y
On record.... CASE records show that slim
people tend to be self- conscious, reserved, hard- working, and persistent. They take life and their jobs seriously, Stocky types usually like to take life easy, enjoy parties, are more open-hearted and open- handed.
The scientists who listed these features do NOT claim that they
eli
HEALTH
Lapply to every person of/L- slender or sturdy build.
We
can all think of sume exceptions.
But the medical evidence of
an hereditary tie-up between body-build and personality is
It seems that the
8. Shy.sensitive, quiet, self- conscious, suspicious. ∙taking life seriously.
9. Conscientious, slow
Recurate workers.
19. Uver · ambitious bat underestimate their own
cblevementa,
11. Dogma alc. sometimes
fanaticat.
12. Even-humoured—usually
on the pessi mlatie vida
13. Tight-listed.
14. Specially susceptible to lung troubles, flut, fevers. and digestive troubles,
15. Specially subject to the
mental disorder called schizophrenia impist. mind). Prove to insomnia,
PYKNIC
(Round-bodied, stocky)
1. Round head, broad face
_square...Jawa...short-neck....
2. flands broad, with short
dilek tingers, small feet
3. Muscles large and couESE, 4. Joints have small range of
movements.
5. Digestive system
Stomach oval,
long.
6. Big heart and lungs. Slow circulation, High blood preasure.
7. Men bave tenar voices.
Sociable, talkative, credu Jolla, sympathelle, confid
ing, easy-going, humorousı enjoying life.
9. Impulalve.' quick bat in
accurate. Careless and accident-prone.
10. Lack, ambition and per
sistence. Dverestimate their achievement
II Tolerant,
12. Moody, alternating be
tween elation and depres sion.
13. Generous. ·
14. Specially susceptible to
heart troubles, stroken diabetes. Kali bladder complaints and gout.
tu Liar
19. Specially subject
mental disorders of "manio-depressive". LyD"
remainan--id-Barely——rem s·3·m ——-al-
14 Uften
married 17. Often teetotal.
F.
18, Soccerd best in "one-
1.3.2 E
Jobs.
•indlspectablents which make extent by the same glands, Thus
muin
with stability. Per energy, are always on the go.
married.
17. Often heavy drinkers 18. Succeed in jobs where getting ол well with people is emenfiul.
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were
Ther
were of little arcount and vied with one an
other in avalding any commil-
meni until Mamulisky had given Three Witnesses
the Sovie: Nine. The Comintern,
in fact, was only a section of
the Soviet Commissariat for HERE, then are three witnesses Foreign Affairs,
whose evidence, given
a reporter in
keeping a Mvely log of his present assignment.
Waltzing Matilda is a strong, She was bullt stensibly for
ocean racing, "but I always
had that old schoolboy dream that I would sail and see the world in her," said skipper Roy.
between Sydney and Tasmania.
le raced her for two years
Then the adventurers set forth
see the world.
to,
It was October 29 when they left Sydney for Auckland, New Zealand. It took them 17 days, and they spent a month or more
'44 DAYS
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To Castro Delgado disillusion in great detall, amounts to this: ment came ag quickly as to there is widespread discontent Ciliga. Soon after his arrival in the Soviet Union; the opposi his rooms were searched, and tion unthy be powerless at there. quarrels between the Spanish present, but it is luge and Communists were
Stalin is acutely conscious of its unceasing. Above
all,
found Tound no existence.
Then they headed for the socialism, no liberty. and na
no Sceptics may doubt the South Pacifle, and for 44 days democracy, but nly a dictator- evidence of men who have suf- they never saw another sail, ship "under which millions of fered as these three witnesses hardly a bird, and only a whole men were the slaves of a case." have. The Toader must judge in all that vast rolling waste of One fact obsessed his mind: "The for himself. But where the ex-seas USSR was an immense concen- perience covers so long a period They made their landfall on tration camp with tramways and and the conclusions are so simi- the rocky coast of Chile at Guifo on untierground_ railway."!
lar-the-testimony-cannot-be de Penas. wholly disregarded and, still Then they sailed south towards which has always sacrificed persuaded ther to seek the truth for expediency.
One Conclusion less, rebutted by a propaganda Cape Horn, but heavy storms
HE became miserable. He had seen with his own eyes the Soviet paradise and its working class and had come to one con clusion: "If the conditions of life and work
were transplan ted to other countries, there would be profound and terrible social convulsions." He also re- veals that, though Stalin official ly announced the dissolution of the Cominter, it continued to work with little or no change.
He was not alone in his dis- Hlusionment. In March 1942. Diaz, the
general secretary of the Spanish Communist Party, was found dead. below the window of
his apartment in Tiniz.
Unable to conceal his disgust, Castro Delgado was expelled from the Comintern. He saw the end of the war in Moscow and watched with suprise old and young giving thanks, not to Stalin, but to God. Then, thanks partly
to
the only Dimitrov, Stay Commumist of whom he has a good word to say, he was allowed to leave the country.
General Valentin. Gonzalez's "Life and Death in the USSR
vivid personal
narrative. Arriving in the Soviet Union as a hero, "El Campesino" entered the Fruntze Military Academy, and witnessed the panic when approach-
the Nazi armies were
ing Moscow-in-Catober 1041 Courageous and outspoken, He
soon foll out with the Soviet
The
article are:-
books referred to in
Au Pays
Librairie Bon.
du Monsonge A. Ciliga
Siberle: Torre de l'Exil Industrialination, por A Paris, Librairie Plon.
route to the South Atlantic by way of the Magellan Straits,
"It was dirty enough in there." this sald Don Brown. "We would
irt anchor nightfall, and all would Decon- be peaceful and calm. Then Paris. suddeny the winds they call "williwaws rose like a squall and et de blew at 50 miles an hour down' Cluga;
those
funnel- like Steep channels."
Jai Perdu la Foi a Mascou, per Etique Castro Delgado: Paris Gallimard.
The adventurers plan to sali up London River in September, La Vie et in Mort en U.S.S.R., par I hope we get the flags out. General
Campesino"; Librairie Plon,
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up personality
Links between body-build and somehow people with over-active thyrold organie slakness are more direct, linked thed with the Inherited factors glands
are thin because they Because slim people havai much determine physique. Slim folk_tend-to-be-strongly-same reason they
hurn up fat so quickly. For the shorter digestive epstems than charged
have much stocky folle they, do not digest sistence, and
food so well. So they are more Stocky An individual may, therefore, prone to digestive ailments, seem to be more strongly have an Asthenie arged with
body-build and and Spontaneity
Stocky people, on the other notices, Sredient personality simply because ho digestive systems ticually
ambitious ---- tho
hand, with highly emetent Campesino's" experiences Second Class by: which ninkes them cheerful. has inherited
cat are unique and his conclu-TAIPINGCHANGTE”. Gver-active are sound belentine thyroid gland...
more than they need. So they along Jack nothing in vigour. He reasons why, there should, bo
get, fat, ・ develop "hardened" believes that the regimo is not close connections
The opposing mental outlooks arteries, giving high between of the two extreme types em pressure
blood-only hated but is fully consciotas physical and temperamental to be due to inherited differences
of its own vulnerability: To Icalures.
in brain structure. There is inherit the features of per- the increasing severity of
I must stress again that we this consciousticas to attributes for further particulars, consult Both body-build and tempera- overwhelming evidence ment, are controlled to a great hereditary tie-up between stocky which can be moulded
of tonality, only
mearures taken tendencies DA
Pato mappress even the vestiges of Uberty bulld FROM the Greek woorde ambones,
and moodiness, Pyknic rout extant by environment, granted during the war. He is meaning weak, and pykace, meaning Wes are prone to alternating
confident that had › the in- compact.
periods of elation and depression,
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