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It's Good News!
BRAATHEN'S
• THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
1951.
HERE LIES * MOSSADEG WHORE DID A DEAL WITH THE
DIRTY BRITISH
HERE LIES
/Dr
MOSSADEG WHO HAD NO "DEALING WITH THE BRITISH
AND GOT NOTHING OUT
STALIN GOES ON HOLIDAY
RICHARD
JONES
|
Editor of the magazine, British Ally, in Moscow: 1949-50
For at est rose mate in still
T is at least one measure the resorts and many of them do, for that matter-pot
the new Soviet Empire that for their health but for amuse- ment. To them "amusement" when dusk falls in Moscow meant.
nowadays a crimson and aran, drinking bouts and love blue neon sign over the The behaviour become Hotel Metropole
legend invites.
among the crew of the everyone in the worker man train which used to carry Bius Express, the super Pull-
paradise to "Travel by Air," them on their Jaunts. In this i. Of course, very few Rus ruspect social life on the train sians can afford to do 80. ne, should imow better than
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enjoy the luxurles of him. modern life while the going
Vladimir ...chiel,. who, says Daljin sign is just as much a trend crypically, and a chance to of the times as is the desire leave. Russia during the war,
*ffer the Kremlin .” had. of the new Soviet elite, to muled a death sentence
former
com-
*
la good and the conviction' According to Dallin, who is that the State should pro- presumably quoting Tregubov, vide them.
"over a thousand cells In
It means that thousands Russia have private railway coaches, or at least, they did probably
[London Express Service) of VIPS Party bosses, before the war."
People's Ministers (no more adds, the number bes are they called Commissara) risen to include ocre of
new
A NEWER KIND OF
'STALKING".
Ballater, Aberdeenshire.
T is the height of the season here.' There isn't a room to be had in the place.
And what makes it the height of the season in this tiny town of squat grey stone houses and a huddle of shops (most of them displaying a large gilded papier mache by appointment coat of arms, and all of them selling a variety of tartan- dressed souvenir novelties) surrounded by heathery hills, and perched on the gurgling Dee?
"The Court" is at Balmoral. : six miles away.
PRINCESS
In season Ballater offers one MARGARET'S favoured pastime to thousands of tourists who come into the
town from all over the world
(South Africans predominating in this August of 1951)-king- stalking,
HORSE HAS
A SNACK.......
With vellow 2007 $ting And if you don't spot the Princes
Margaret. hal. King, a glimpse of the Quiten or a peek at any of the three mounted on a Princesses scores equally high white
hunter In the game,
•from the Bal-
• morat stables, Sighting the Duke of Edin- pauses at a golf. burgh or Prince Charles rates courte gateway. rather lower, because they-Group Captain
With her emerge from their well-guarded Peter Townsend. retreats more often,
Deputy Matter of the King's The Sunday scramble at: Household. Crathie, when the sturdy but zmall church ότι the knoll of the latest.novels are a little opposite the main gates of Bal- moral estate almost goes down under the avalanche of would be worshippers, is the No. 1 vantage spot for the rubber- necks.
By EVE PERRICK
The dally. bag("getting worried about the leakage.
better") 1s sent down to "Please don't mention novels Buckingham Palace to be stored jun ray fletion, they suggest. in a deep freeze.
On neighbouring moore, out- sun, the earnest efforts aide the royal estates, morn at lifting the vill go on. Day shooting parties are on the There, because of the crowds take up positions on the two
after day out the tourists to 10: and the narrow road, the royal spots on the public roads where view, the pastime seems to be Taking a strictly spectators car has to go along at a mall's the off-white Balmoral Castic pice before the family and grey Birkhall House can be one of the less pleasant alight at the roped off side sec-way in the distance.
entrance.
THE WARNING
THIS YEAR, too, the game of THI
suits of luxury living.
cur.
: The far-sighted who have IT MEANS carly rising on a brought field glasses, with them cold and damp or cold and provide commentaries Uke this: windy (there are no other kinds
"There are two deckchairs on up here) morning, top of one of the turrets And MEANS miles of waliting hide and seck with royalty has just come out of the door. in the scrub,
(this at Birkhall): "Someone as the quarry is getting much I think 1 Philip. No, it's be a jolly purple colour and horder. The Inon curtain has someone in a whtie coat."
down with an
It called bracken or heather, but abrupt
usually turns out to be tho is still tough .on knees and Swedish chef brought to Scot- nylons, The Factor at Balmoral has land from Clarence House.
come click.
warned the staff: "An hour's
notice
10 myone who talks
about the.activities or plans of
any member of the Royal Family."
THE 'STAND-BY--
which may
and Combine Directors
milliary aristocracy. Tals
an extremely doubtful as-
bureaucratie tears en
have no longer, as they sir". Though many of the.
did before the war, to spend
48 hours in a train to reach joy unique privileger-including their pink and white State. home
homes cari
provided summer villas on country certainly has not that the Russian Riviera.
and servants-the roning stoc
stock la fact which revert bi Red army officers who had to
д
· Leaving their · offices al om. as many of them noc- shord two-berth sleepers on melly, do they can board an Red Arrow with my colleagues aeroplane at Moscow Airport and I would certainly confirm. and be sipping an aperitif 10 Nobody outside the Soviet hours later on their verandahs elitehas
ever
penetra
at Scochi, Suichomi, or any of the three-ringed police cordon,
the other pretty Black Sea with its dogs and elecirle resorts,
wires, which circles the fir
studded estate outside
Were Stalin and his bedes "aw
not on vacation.
Stalin and the majority of live when the Politburo, however, prefer Their private lives are a sealed the more leisurely (and safer) book, to all but a few trusted frain Journey to Socchi, cut servants. But Dallin, ex-Men- Inst) year to 87 hour heir ele give
shevik and refugee, manages to they travel south
Us a behind-the-scenes- Eantolotov's is
furnished private coaches plcture of how Russia's top
exactly like, men. Ilve.
When
Stalin's, in mahogany, with, two bedrooms and offices are.
coupled to one of the new fast Stalin's country home-its dioscl trains bars. trains of six sleeping doors are of expensive weinus
andy
dymahogany Inlaid with Sharing the Black Sea coast chony has a mere 17 rooms. with them during th
the agon week-ends with Rosa, his This is where he used to rend his.
are usually come two million wife, a sister of Kagano-
of the nation's best workers,
but though they may breathe vich, whose villa is adincent. the came air, they may about the interior decoration of The most remarkable thing
share the same beaches,
still
lers the same luxurious living the country houses standards.
of the a Boviel leaders is the utter absence of anything revolu-,. strata fionary.
Outside, Moscow,
cocial life ab
among Russia's upper cen, be gay and hectic, but Their establishments Bro there is no evidence to suggest bourgeois to the core - hot- that in the post-war years It houses, -orchida in VILLES, hos attained the scandalous chambermaids In starched heights ir did in the thirtles, of aprons, men servants In white. which David Dallin writes in gloves und white Jackets, his new book.
-warmed
plates for dinner, the "Little
leaders and their most expensive, caviare on ice, wives used thm to travel to strawberries in December; and
to help them relax from the, cares of State there are, foun- tains, artificial gardens, tennis courts and swimming pools.
* THE NEW SOVIET EMPIRE, by
Ita.
David J. Dallin. (Hollie and Carter)
Concluding 'STalin's faithfUL FLEE'
HOW 16 MEN ESCAPED
By
CAMP WAGNER. QIXTEEN mên are around
me in this little shack. formere sits on a chair One is a grey-bearded old
Sefton Delmer
He thinks it a splendid joke, men for staying out of the and so do all the others. Only collectives, was being forced to the old grey-beard remains silent deliver from his smail-holding ro and stricken with grief.:
much grain a year as a tax that He was in a
And there was not enough left for his ! him family to live on
Year in
gaol
that is his tragedy. With with his head bowed, star- were his wife and daughter. Bus
Most imeresting of all was the ing at the floor. The others at the crossing point they were young man from Budapest, who,
discovered. There was R burst of had been arrested by the Com are all youngsters. Not one ring. They became separated minists in October, 1948, of them is over 25, 20 as, in the darkness, each. irled to, "They found an autemalle rifle
make, a break for freedom. IT MEANS wearing un-
my room," he said qulle They have taken off their shirts
The old man has been hoping simply. "It was a left-over from clothes, and getting and nitractive
are landing and lying against all odds that his wife and the war. I had hidden It In the your hair-do ruined.
arcund, brown and bare but for daughter would turn up in this hope that I might use it against IT MEANS a lot of work for their
their shorts. AY after day, 100, the Scot
camo, to which all new arrivals the Communist's one day," DAY The commanding officer of the of them
land Yard detectives (one the sake of being the social
He was given Easily they talk of America, are consigned by the Austrian
given the full treatment -more than 1st Batta. Seaforth Highlanders, conspicuous in his compromiso quantity of cherry-brandy, N
over twim, and drinking
a small Australis, and the jobs they hope authorities. But five days have, at the nelo-tous Andrasy Street
-new to get. Like the old man, they
s there is no headquaters of the secret police gone by and eli who are acting as royal guard, at camouflagedark City suit
dearch's playing on his benters fat 50 a day extra to worn with a very light oatman!
'IN FACT the only glamorous have all of them, within the last sign of them.
I have.
bren arking email face, harging by the wrists, and
them their pay), and general handy-
weeks, cut their way through the men in the royal household, has ably situated
tweed cap, the whole uncomfort-
appurtenance
ge case pot 9: high, barbed wire entangled how and why they decided to get all the sta of the gold cartridge case contain wall that surrounds Hungary, and out. The answers conform to on top issued strict cedrecy, orders) to
ing little gold numbered, sticks, have escaped into the British zone thase I have had from all the men borrowed bicycle) try to stop which is used his men.
by: the guns of Austria-and freedem
*** I have dalked to in the couray of W the sightseers from getting any human male) at the start of Still, this has bardly cramped private views.
this inquiry whether they are the style of one little fellow
The guards
from Poland, Czechoslovakia, later identified as the soldier The roads are closed when
Hungary, or Rumania: who once helped stoke the ever the King driver from one
- The young men wanted to get detention, carried out at Vor Some of them came all by boller at Birkhall the house plaed to another, in his new
out either because they were themselves, like the tall 20-year soldiers caught up in a
1 am surprised they leshim on the Balmoral, estate where green Ford Zephyr, nhd a' man
012 But they military.
He had, to „did. the Edinburghs are staying), on a motor-cycle will appear
on the Scottish old youth from Budapes: who machine from which there was report once every SHOOTING but nevertheless hagure of the drop of a camtra
lever. some local importance, so
locals, is on the decline, these behind him they were due to become soldiers, menth Somehow. for the non-days.
Eve came over together in onë:”? felt that as
All
soldiers His Uno-Imow
They! He could not Prince Charles gave the wee deerstalkers,
what grouse shooters, salmon Ashers, he attendant on the train party. There were four of us were going to be made to
fight with his prison record no, Siate Princess for her birthday but climbers Ballater was coming up thought so, too. He plans to super sulted in behalf of the ecualty's enemien enterprise would take him cr
May. But waited till- "Look at the new, barracks and in a Socialist Blate,chist ls, I'm no telling yo. And I know social life restricted to two now he asked sadly, with arrived home ca leave so that he arms the Russians are pouring so he had to live on bla
also know why. Who can afford Tibor here, who is in the armis, they are building everywhere, the the bestSENSTEN DYNA why the Queen didn't go to the licensed bars and elm, and the price of first-class sleeper could come with unto party, but I'm no telling yutlance to a two-girl," "accordion
our country, the Soviet parents. Ha moitier had job"tmare: that either, sband alternate nights but its from King Croza to. Aberdeen
The strongest rumour "about drawbacks as a holiday centre Into add to the monthly The Tin cheerful men, in bed iniseldna who have taken charge one:ct, the rationalised congesti. the Queen bilayed abbence la Of course, there is always than walionattention : fast; len's work were front guarder Botcially
return a fare, of £10 28. 26 over there gf out together, They of our army." that she has a cold. The oficial stand-by topic of Interest around Ing out."
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Then, after a further interroga tion in the Maiko Srees prisen, he was sentenced to a year's
moors, according· · 'to the has a year in Communist prisons, no prospect, or release, or becauso, he was sol freak forfight when :
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