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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1952.-
MR. SMITH GOES TO MOSCOW-2
• JOHN SMITH, Etonian banker, is telling readers of the China Mail what he saw on a tourist visit to the Soviet Union. Today he answers the question: "What are the hopes of a Christian revival in Russia?"
I JOIN THE QUEUE
LENIN'S TOMB
AT
AROUND
THE
VIENNA,
THIRD MAN CITY
When rockets were used
By Ritchie McEwen
of medals issued furniture, Including the doors.
--by both sides during the plete sots war to blast out enemy during World War I are also wash-bowls and windows.
listed Knights Cromes, Iron Despite protests to the Russian strong-points, the officials Crosses with Oakleaves, with commander, the Red Army men who run Austria's State Swords, with Diamonds, and were allowed to carry of any Railways must have jotted just simply Iron Crosses, first thing that took their fancy. Anything of intercal' in his tako down, quite a few useful and second clas
But armbands of the Com- billet which he couldn't notes.
manders Brigade' are the top away, the Russian soldier dump-
time,
ed on the pavement in case At least that's what it 'value' at £30
'comrade' fancied R. looked like for now the
Following widespread indigna - rocket-blasting iden is being
that might work tion throughout the country, the decoration of the jazzy
Because Russia is a priestless used all over this country's AN idea
ed by the units for their new 'twenties, containing more land of broken churches at home railway system wherever elsewhere and certainly Russians blandly explained that sentries and the glass coffin. and a scourge of the Church there seems to be danger of works here in the Third Man the furniture was only borrow
abroad, she is looked upon by
Police notices remind Viennese billets and would be returned in a country'
without snow blocking the line. City has to do with burgists. Lenin lies at table height, many
misiending.
parts-especially at this kept locked from 10 p.m. to he had 'suffered a loss' and could housed in one tiny church with his feet towards the region. Nothing could be more Which it can do in these that all strect doors must be "due course". Anyone who felt
time of year-almost with a birch tree growing queue, brightly lit and clear- from its roof. But a few visible. He has a stub-
effectively as any concrete bly beard, and for impene
barrier. churches have been reopen- trability of expression only ed for worship.
the Mona Lisa can rival him.
T
QUE vast majority of churches in Moscow are ruins, stores, or tene- turned into ments. I saw 11 families
Outside they are painted and well maintained, in con- trust to the decrepitude of Moscow. Inside they are quiet, ordered and clean- which the streets are not, They are full of ikons; and priests with long hair con- duct the magnificent liturgy of the Orthodox church. To enter a church in Moscow gives one su great a feel- ing of relief
that
one
would ima- gine the Russians must be slow-
iy drawn back to it.
All the congreg - tions saw were of old women, with an occasional old man and a very ocen- sional young
woman.
(1)
prove it to ‘Russion sallsfaction' would be reimbursed.
Or so say the Russians.
*
as Ca.m. Russia, body and soul, is in the
By law, every street door gm grip of a new faith, com
must have a bell in working pirte with holy books, saints, prophets, hereties and shrines.
ot flats But the rocket is the answer. order, and all hallways and
NIFTY percent of all Viennese Ikong of Stalin and Lenin have
children born since the end. merely replaced the old lkons of Special squads-called presum- staircases in blocks
15 ably "Rocket Squads" have must be properly lit.
But the big thing the Orthodox church,
of the war slutter, LOCKING UP.
revelation has This starting The queue, still silent,
The new religion combines and been organised to ro effectively
First of all there is the street led to the institution of special the least estimable he was fuckets at any dangerous The idea mass of snow. files up & ramp, to look at magnifes
door. Most of the buildings in classes three times a week for West the being of the I features from above.
to break-up the snow high
before It Vienna are very old, and their tiny tots attending kindergarten Lenin
up in the mountaing paused, entrance. A sen- restrictive Puritanism and stum-
six inches impediment before they reach materialism of try just behind me suid, as present-day England, the hus time to turn into an ava- locks correspondingly so. Street schools in an efort to cure this
exaggerated
and lanche and block the line. Last tour, weigh anything up to half the age of five, when speech is America, the brutality
long, in year a single avalanche kled
made Faszlam-but
iron. of
fully developed. "Do not linger, comrude."
violence
Russia ane must more than 120 Austrians, knock a pound
No Viennese is satisfied with
Authorities here say the child- on. his Dat. The ren stutter as a direct result of one, lock understand recognise that this new religioned scores of trains off schedule
and blocked lines for weeks,
average number of locks on disturbed minds and family life front door is three, and chains following the war, which are always put up when the brought in its wake starvation,
Inflation....and the Russiansi
As we emerged a tle girl behind us in the queue pointed and said to her friend "Lack, a couple of lord."
ot us
does exist.
Di
In Moscow's Red Square, the crowd queues to enter Lenin's tomb.
Lenin's country house, another Once two boys of about nineteen strayed in. They point of pilgrimage, Hes a few
miles from Moscow in the direc did not take part in the tian of Warsaw. In Tsarist days service; but they did not it was used by the Governor C
em- Moscow Province. register derision or
un- barrassment-only an interested incomprehension.
I saw no signs that the Church had any influence on
who had anybody
not known it. before the Revolu- tion.
of
of
The house, of pale yellow particos, tusco, with columned has twa Zetached wings enclosing a formal garden with a terrace
sort and a view. It is the house an English nobleman the Regency would have bullt. We were asked to put carpet slippers ever our shoes. Our guide, a young Partly- At Zagorak, part of the shaven Russlan, held a black- monastery (once the second beard pointer. greatest in Russia)
קלח
has On the walls of the first room texts from Lenin and been turned back into a wee seminary for priests. But Stalin, In raised gold letters on even here little is to be seen red velvet, and a map, showing how the Americans and the
we were
of a Christian revival except British tried to strangle the a curious Victorian desire Communist revolution in 1918. for over-zealous architec- Our guide, who imew
British, explained this without tural restoration.
Tancour or embarrassment.
Farther on was a manifesto of Lenin calling for "pitiless mass text of
I do not believe there is any hope, under Stalinism, of
a Christian revival in Russia.
Chris- :f Cianity were to revive, it would once more be sup- pressed, long before it could have any influence
terror" and
a
revent
Stalin's reminding the Russians of "the enemy without."
In the hall
telephone a
TOMORROW: 'MOSCOW NIGHT LIFE
113
an
*
SELLING souvenirs of the Nazi era seems to be be- coming big business these days.
Joint investigations in Austria, Germany B Italy have I vealed that there is a highly organised trade in selling Hitler relies to overseas tourists,
average
family goes to bed.
I know of one man who has ve Yale type keys. One fits the street door the lives in a modern building), the others 'fit a row of locks on his flat door!
Bat P.S. His
was burgled ...
recently.
1
T note, Vienna is to be trang-
TO end con
a more cheerful
formed into a City of flowers this Spring, Hundreds of rose- beds have been planted in the men squares, along the broader Red Army venues and at street crossings. There is even a spectul cata- This seems to be the moral of viel hothouses of the former Im¬ ̈ ̈ logue listing all the Nazl 113- the following little story of the perial palaces are to be.bedded. signia
Golden from
Party market
Deutsch- out in the public gardens. town
the City Badges (awarded to
It is the aim of founder Wagram (population 4,000), members of the Nazi party) to
Only recently
5,000 fathers to earn for Vierma. the city armbands warn by SS formu Russian soldiers were biletted nickname of "the garden tions in the field during the war. there. When they were posted' of Europe".
It looks as though they may The catalogue doesn't stop a to another area they took with the purely party badges. Com them more than 700 pieces of succeed.
NEVER billet Nevidier if you can help us and plants from. the
of
OVET
THE VOICE
of New
Zealand
'Together we can banish the spectre of bankruptcy?
by The Rt. Hon. S. G. HOLLAND ̧·
of
ས-
or
mediate
have
Solidarity
in their
TeCCESOTY,
from
From New Zealand in 1900 we exported 140 million b. weight of wool; 50 years later our wool- exports had risen to 400 million 1b.
..
.
Prime Minister of New Zealand
In 1000 we exported 8,600 tons The Canadian Finance Minis of butter; in 1080 we exported SUPPOSE it is a fair, tags were pretty bad and that
thing to say that the remedies must be pretty tea was present at the recent more than 10 times as much.
In 1000 conference and took a prominent
we exported "about tough and so they are. many people through-
part in the discussion. It is not 5,000 tons of cheese; in 1950 wo The silver lining is to be seen out the United Kingdom
sterling problem is a a British!
In 1900 we exported about problem from widely scattered
und Commonwealth came black and gold felt a bit blue and depress in the attitude of the men who the much to say, therefore, that exported 100,000 tons of cheese.
the world and of belis, ed as they read, or listened parts of
in will be solved by the countries 00,000 tons of meat; this year we thing handles and to, the story of the Sterling their determination to tackle the of the British Commonwealth hope to export close on 400,000
only the
tons; and our production of cails.
Near it, Area financial crisis and situation-not
im acting together, but
these and other commodities, is on the wall, the steps which the Chan- determination to find a course
crisis,
! There was no disposition by increasing stondity. Lenin's (a fac cellor of the Exchequer has whereby these constantly re- anyone at the conference to run framed letter of
Soon we shall begin the simile; there announced us being Bri- curing crises can be replaced away from the problem or to
from the condition of long-range shrink
corrective largest industrial project New Zealand has known-the pro- upon the State; and the fact ara no original documents dis- tain's contribution to the by a
museums) solution of those problems. stability and confidence,
duction of newsprint, pulp, and the telephone
not cured our We
Here were men that Russia is beginning to played in Russlan
the other products from our forests, complaining of
No one gets any pleasure out
territories, South which, planted about 20 years. tolerate, Christianity At service to Moscow, and accus-
of having to do ungaletable troubles when we have taken Colonial home while persecuting it in ing the operators of sabotage."
ings, but there is a silver - the immediate measures neces- Africa, Ceylon, Canada, Pakis ago, have now reached the stage the satellitte countries
sary-measures designed to cut fan, Australia, India, Southern where they will yield a rich About the house were manying to the clouds,
down our spending, mainly by Rhodesia, Northern Ireland, and harvest. is merely evidence that paintings of Lenin with Stalin.
WHAT IS THÈS CRISIS?
reducing Imports from the rest my own New Zealand, who had
We have seen this develop come to Stalinism is more strongly but only one photograph of them
London to rally round established than ever. together. This photograph is dis- The crisis is, put simply, the the waria,
the Mother Country, o pool ment.in our own country, and played in many plates In Russia.
prospect
insolvency
our thinking and ideas to help we are going steadily on with The State religion of Stalin is anxious to stress his bankruptcy for the countries of
one another and to find a com- it. We know it can be done, Stalinlam-which fellow connection with the Master.
the Sterling Area within a few.
TEE Finance Minis.crs all, mon. solution.
Sounder Basis travellers of the West are
agreed thay there should be It took us two hours, to go months.
The prospect of bankruptcy is
on with Folsing raising deluded into thinking the round the house, although it is not a pretty one. It means that he maximum pessible expansion
a country cannot pay its way - of carning power, and we have table was same thing as Communism not large..
the productive power of.the Commonwealth we shall banish has one unique relic, Our guide apologised for the cannot buy food for its people, started an examination of the spiring: to listen to durgates By pressing on
It is that sense of comrade completely the spectro, of bank- or equipment. to trease in the production of food, Lenin's tomb of flame- sketchy nature of our tour. He raw materials for its industries, opportunities for an early in crying to help was uplitting.
since the war..... wished there was time for him machinery
ting goods in the Sterling Area, solidarity, that willingness to coloured granite in the Red to give us the doctrine which keep the country running in the raw materiais, and other esset ship, that feeling of Empire ruptcy which has haunted us share the burden that was, to Every country in the Com- Square is open to the public accompanied each exhibit, and he normal way. three times a week. I never urged us, before we left, to see HOW HAS THIS CRISIS we are to better world at me at any rate, the silver lining monwealth hus. resources await
w! tha outside a high level, we must develop that helps so much when such ing development. We must see this development -- goes Baw the queue shorter than. Lenin's cars,
We crossed the yard to the. It has arisen because the our resources and increase our gloomy matters as a financial that
crisis are being dealt with ahead. Only in this way can we 300 yards; but having the
as a whole is earnings,
01 right papers I was able, in coach house. The doors were sterling. Aren
earn enough, from the rest This means the fuller develop.
the world to raise our standards this land of privilege, to go flung open, to savent two 40 b.p. spending more than it is carn
troubles, Rolls-Royces, corroding. gently. ing. To cure bur
of living and to give the
bound straight to the front.
One has been fitted with rubber therefore, to ward off bankment of the British Common-
the strongthund wealth, or, the British Empire, THERE are vast resources in sterling caterpillar tracks in place of the Inside the tomb are two rear wheels and with bread short our spending, and increase our as many of us still like to call the British Commonwealth, stability that it used to
, for the Sterling Aven, is main in the arvelo that. It must have neat ly the British Commonwealth, resources lea our economia
docs not do to under It salvation.. We need today the estimate the gravity of the eltin Bentries whose eyes exhinine...
Ono relic of, Lenin remained
is not sort of investment; that Britain tion, but it does help if we ap- every part of every person to be seen. In the garden is a
Although Canada
proach Little
those tasks with ireo slump covered by a
E have been on the spot cleased as a member of the made oversens last century. as they enter A long passer cut down this tree, and
of a sound, Itself, were developed largely by courageous decisions will over staircase leads down into Lenin, who was both judge and a fairly clear pattern of up an interest in the achievement Canada, and the United States are within our reach,
aggrieved party, gave him only proach in such circumstances, and maintenanço the earth.
a month's imprisonment TheWe call the members of the stable sterling currency as the money and goods loaned by, come the immediate problem Another turn leads into a stump is preserved, as a manu family to the conference table. members of the Sterling Area Great Britali. Look at the res and put things permaiently on
qults of this development. Aa much sounder, basis, Game to London, realizing that themselves. tall black chamber with ment to his clumenay
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To look round the conference to me always in-
Development
The Russians, fall silent root. ein Lenin's, time a 'tres before and, havo developed Sterling Area, she has anken Now... Zealand; Australia, optimism that practical; solution
and
that