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COMMUNISTS.
MEET RUSSIANS
HERE is one thing
T
you
By
Politbureau, who then tried to convince the comrades-with conspicuous lack of success--of character of their
JULIAN SCHOPFLIN behaviour, unbecoming to Con-
Member of the Hungarian Communist Party for 20 years and Hungarian Minister to the three Scan- dinavian countries from January 1949 until his defec- tion early in 1950. From the time of the "liberation" of Hungary in 1945 to 1949 he was programme director of the Hungarian radio and held various other important posts. Mr Schopflin is a well-known author and translator of some English and French books.
munists towards their Russian "benefactors"....
Somerset Maugham
'I would not
be young again
if I could'
row does it feel to
How Somerset Maun
ham, to be feted at the. Royal Academy, broad- cast. televised and filmed, to have such a public kucсeas after ccasing to write as only Dickens had before him? He told me:
derstand that I was joking?
I was never so much reileved as
when they started to laugh.
I was glad to escape from the
of
I am deeply thankful Riviera to came to the dinner. that I am an old man to- Out there, the American tele- vision people had descended on day. I wouldn't be young me with
truckload again if I could. I don't machinery and implements. know what I'd do if I were young in 1951,
Looking at my grand- children, I wonder sometimes if they will even get the fun out of life that I have had. I wonder if it will be there for them to get. So much of gracious living has gone. suppose it had to go. I don't know.
I
What on earth would I do if I had to start all over again? I am very sorry for young writers. Shortage of paper, terrific costs of book production, have taken all their scope away.
מי
I had to welle 26 Introductions and be filmed 20 times for their "Maugham Hours." Thank Hea- ven, that will keep them going
October next year.
ON POPULARITY
Then the Alm people came, 24 of them in a bus with another trucklond. I had to do the open- in sequence of my next flim.
No, I enjoy all this, but the most exciting years of my life I were those after 1908 when hecame London's most sought- after playwright. That is won- derful, you know, when you are young and have been a nobody.
Popularity still gives me a lot of satisfaction, I was in Madrid after the last war and went along to a bookseller's to sign a Razor's few copies of "The
They can't make a living Edge" in Spanish. In the street saw a long queue that I unless they work for radio thought must be for a bull-fight,
or films or newspapers. And that way, you know, they don't get the chance to pro- duce their best work,
They come to me for ad- vice. Frankly, I don't know what to tell them. It is a With their ulter
that lack of bad thing
young psychology towards any other
writers should be so hard phan their own public, the Russians usually
supplied the pressed, a bad thing for best anti-Bolshevik propaganda everybody. themselves. The most notable Laughing-stock of Budapest was
ON PEOPLE
it wasn't.
A nine o'clock the bookseller was going to close his said he floors, But he didn't dare.
I had to go on signing for four and a half hours-2,000 coples.
all places! In Madrid of nearly broke my wrist.
ON ART
It
Now I am off to Paris and Venke. In Paris the art dealers will be waiting for me. When- ever I have any money lying idle, I buy more pictures.
cannot argue about with Western Communists: the moral grandeur of the Soviet Union. They cling to which conjures an utopia up, in their wishful minds. the mirage of 43 free. refined Soviet generous, people. This naively self- imposed belief is often bol-
In the a scriniksed dissertation stered up by some careful-
oficiul
newspaper of the Red ly selected experience: the
Army, published in Hungarian. only Russians. they see are
This astonishing essay bore the powered me at this distant rour. remnants
title: smiling, polished Embassy The Nazi terror had been reign honest Ilungarian Communists. Soldier." Praising to heaven
"The Man
Moraks of the Soviet attaches or hand-picked de- ing supreme in the town for The months-long free pillage, virtue, dimmily humanity and -legates-to-some interna- weeks past; I was a deserter from the barbarous mass rapes, the culture of the Rou warriors-
tional congress. With Et munist
Army and a proscribed Com- houses burnt down by the sheer hea nabody dared to wolle the East. You don't seem to get to couldn't really afford it. It was
liable to be shot on the negligence of Russians (Budapest when
know people so well nowadays. sunset, as every characteristic turn of mind.
arrested. I was spot if ever
old and had no water at the time), turned streets after
don't need I'm stark they feel justified in re- living ander a false name, in the exultation of freedom inte night dozons wore stripped
naked at tommy-gun_point, by garding these apparitions one hiding-place after the other, a deeply embarrassed feeling of ion soldiers." The Hungarian- born Russian Colonel, who was as the incarnation of their Thousands existed similarly in despair.
the besieged capital.
in charge of the newspaper, con- own illusions.
fessed to me shamefacedly later on that all his protests against the story to Moscow were in vain.
thra
In spite of the Russian atroci-
of-satellite--Communists-about the whole - population.
Soviet
of all idealism
Only Too Well
in
of
collective
I never could paint myself. I couldn't play, either. I had only What characters would I write my one small talent and I had about today?
to make the most of that.
the
I don't know. It's a changed and world, changing altogether 100
1 bought my first picture when
1
care....
to
How did I feel, surrounded by the full assembly of the ominent and the illustrious at the Academy dinner?
away
re-
was still quite young and
Wilson by my
great friend. Steer. Steer used to be regarded as the best painter In England when he was alive. But people soon forgot him,
་
That happened to Dickens, too, didn't R, after he had been acclaimed all over the world In
On the other hand, the opinion ties depicted by Nazi propa-
"Over and above this only to
Frankly, I was scared. They his last years? their Russian brethren has been
for the Russians; the Red
4 well known behaviour of the Red
were all rather overpowering I suppose
will happen to formed by direct and, therefore, Army
deliverance stood for radically different experiences, from war and terror,
one be- warriors, there were some even
The accumulation of mingled with their uniforms and their Somerset Maugham, too. I don't more bewidering aspects
orders. I didn't enjoy the dinner really care. Some generations In their minds there is anything loved. We Comminists were
at all.
later, they Russian cruelty and indifference, despair, deflance and disappoint-
sometimes discover but enthusiasm towards their waiting our liberators with a
They There is a
forgotten paintings in the attic, not only pillaged and raped mont produced a curious frame Com-
chatted *Winston special. feverish, joy: for to us bus destroyed too, in a childish, of mind in Hungarian brodos
of attitudes among
they
were expected to bring not
way aimless
Their
calling the days, more than 40 forgotten writers in old book. eir ofeers munists. A desirable but self- Communists of the people's only an end to our ordeals bu dispulled the assumption that the deceiving formula and do it
years ago, when we played golf cases. democracies" towards the also the message of a better, Socialist Man had been liberated better!" To these men, who had
among them: shall
together on Sundays. We chose
He came with me to the door Russians, ranging from cynical freer world.
to play together then because of his sulte, a omali-incredibly cringing to secret hatred. There
small-sun-browned man, with At dawn one day in January #rom the bondage of private.pro- cherished for decades the ballet we both played so atrociously.
the adepts of perty: is blind obedience and devotion
un astonishing resemblance to also, but can be found only 1945, when, for the first time in
But I kept thinking of the the Russians amassing huge superiority over businessmen, among the handful of Moscow my life I met Russian soldiers, economy proved to be shrewd in Communism, this feeling of
cherlsited
speech I'd written a fortnight one of the wise small men from
the East be used to write about. became their only justification black markel, proits prones on the
In ago and committed to memory. trained leaders and among the this kleoliade dream,
for remaining Communists.
Would these important and larger host of devil-may-care throughout Bitter years of under- taking their toll of the famine in
ground struggles, collapsed with Budapest, Hundreds of Russian their view, it would have been
rather awe-inspiring people un- the historical task of the more opportunists.
one mighty crack, The clean- lorries piled through the
Central European Russian shaven, smiling
trooper, certain frontiers, hauling looted developed who tore off my wrist-watch, or bartered goods from country od vessels, to give a new im- nations to pour new wine into dealt the first shattering blow
pact to Marxism gone stale in I heard the distant rumble of to my belief in Bolshevism.
Russia. Russian gurts on the souther And this was only the first border of Budapest for, the first draught of the cup of shame and
The daily ilme on one November night of humiliation,
blows to our 1044. It is difficult to convey creasing
tore to shreds concepis that strange_elation that over-
Feverish Joy
moral
the
The Girls Never Forget 1864
From R. M. MacCOLL
and tear on his nerves.
this had,
of course,
In-
Swift, Ruthless
to country.
All
themselves o devastating effect on those who Justly regarded in
Marxists, well-versed
revolu- sense of tionaries in the frue
Lenin. Instead of Marx and
This naive self-confidence did Instead freedom, there was fear, of humanity, cruelty; instead of count, however, with the real social justice, famine and black- array of forces. This "Indepen
dent wing of Hungarian Com- the Russian marketeering "comrades"
munists never even dreamt of contradicted in being deviationist; the "Mus- every instance the prophecies of covites," as the Party bosses were Every dubbed, seemed wholeheartedly their spiritual fathers., Russian was a living refutation to endorse this policy-while of ideals for which hundreds and sulted
their books to gain thousands of Communists in
But popularity and prestige. many lands had died on the
reckoning galows, in the cears of the when the Ume of secret pollee, in Nazi concentra- arrived, they were as awill and as ruthless in stamping out this "opposition" as their masters in ion camps all over Europe.
the Kremlin.
CX-
Cursed Aloud
it
NEW YORK. SERGEANT Alvin Christie, OWN South they do not of the Knoxville, Tennessee, DOWN not trame pollen, Villennessee,
The talk about any "separate the States (never call it the and asked to be demoted back 40.
Hungarian way" WD3 awept Civil War, if you know private. Asked why, he
plained that the difference in One day in February 1945, a
urway overnight Just as in other what's good for you).
pay-17 cents a day-talled to committee meeting of prop satellite states; but the after
gandiste
took place ot Com effects of the Rajk case are still When it was announced that compensate for the added wear munist Party headquarters. Those smouldering everywhere behind the 15th Army Corps was mov-
present were mostly earnest, the Iron Curtain. abulch Morward workers or ΟΙ ing into Camp Chafee; Arkansas,
THE New Jersey Bell Tele-enthusiastic young intellectuals. there came a bliter protest from
Terror and oppression cannot the local United Daughters of phone Company says that by the One of them, a sturdy foundry resolve the basic dilemma of the Confederacy,
end of the year subscribers will worker, broke in on us panting. Soviet Bumla concerning her For the 15th took part in be able to dial one another right bewildered, and cursing aloud: satellites: the difference in living Northern General Sherman's BOTOSS the 3,000 trans-con- he had just succeeded in slipping standards and culture betwem famous "March to the Sea" in tinental miles of the U.S.
from the grip of the Russians, herself and the subdued peoples. 1004.
forcibly to "Just a bunch of Yankee barn- THE "QUAKER STATE" of by the skin of his teeth. His re- Either they have
the social level of their burners," snorted the daughters. Pennsylvania runs the world's monstrances against this Russian
way of taking "prisoners" lower
the endangering largest liquor monopoly, All
Vassals, off a furious whirlwind touchod
of these economic advantages HOLLYWOODˇbig-shots, ter- drink stores are
run by the their offices, are only Bate Government. They de-One commented with bitter
of protests and table-banging more developed countries; or mortal on the golf course, So Hiberately try 30, make the mer-on being labelled a bourgeois, they have to folerate, to a limit, much so that Mrs Florence Neer, chandise look as untempting as
The they would have to tackle time who lives just across the street possible, but in aplic of this by ransacking Ruslans be, the his discrepancy, in which case from the third green of the they sold last year 213,000,000 beggarly proletarial Another and time again the problem of Hulcrest Country Club of Los dollars worth frim the State bragged, in the beat of the tur satellite independence.
mail, about ambushing and Angeles, is bringing a suit for 588 shops.
kinking senseless two drunken $4,785 damager
Cossacks. Bhe says so much "slicing".
The fighterled party omelets sourried to Ketch a member of the
rors in
And in 1950 Pennsylvanicus goes on that the hardly has a disposed of 20,000,000 gallons be window intact at the wook-ends, wines and spirits.
The example of Yugoslavis is always before the eyes of secret Communist dissenters beliind the Iron Curtain,
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