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T is reported that, at Natasha because Natasha loves Seacox Heath, Flim- Ivan. Iven hates, both of them, Uncle Vanya hates them all. well, Kent, country club The Village Idiot hates every of the Soviet diplomats, body, everywhere. they entertain each other
NATASHA: The mow is still at week.ends with the falllog.
balalaika and charades.
OLGA: I hate the snow. It is always falling.
Here is a charade they NATASHA: Not in the sum- might do in the manner of mer time.
the 19th century Russian OLGA: Do you want to drive dramatists.
me mad with your imbecile
NATASHA:-Yes:
CAST: Natasha and Olga remarks? (two sisters), Ivan, Uncle Vanja and a. Village Idiot,
SCENE: A Russian country house in mid-winter.
Natasha hates Olga because Olga loves Ivan, Olga hates
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RUSSIAN
By RICHARD
URING my extra- ordinary interview with Maxim Lit- vinov, he dismissed my hope that the world out- look might perhaps not be as bad as he had painted it. His views were positive and emphatic.
In
opinion, Litvinov's Stalin's death would not alter the course of Soviet policy. Nor did he serious-
REVOLT
C. HOTTELET
This is the third chapter in a series describing the as- newsman by tonishing interview given to an American
a top ranking Russian diplomat.
The diplomat was Maxim Litvinov, former Soviet
The new ΠΙΑΣ Foreign Minister,
Richard C. Ilot- telet, foreign correspondent for the Columbia Broadcast- Ing System.
The year was 1046. Llivinov, then Deputy Minister, was being shelved by Stalin. To have published the interview then would have made i Litvinov's death warrant. ---Since Moscow announced Litvinov's death last January 2, Mr and tell the Hattelet feels free to write the interview story behind It.
In 1702
ly consider the possibility hopeless punishment. that pressure inside Russia the French people could storm could change the government arsenals, grab muskets and make or its objectives by revolu- revolution. But today the people would need artillery, tanks, radio stations, printing presses -all of which are held tightly in the hands of any totalitarian state. That is why it would be terribly difficult, for instance, to dislodge....Franco."
tion.
There is perhaps no more sensitive subject in Russin than the person of Stalin. His name is seldom mentioned without an attitude that approaches owe. Put bluntly, Stalin is the closest thing to God recognised by the Soviet state.
The propaganda machine does not acknowledge that Stalin will one day die. When my conversa.
со Litvinov
that tion with hot June day in 1946 turned to the prespects after Stalin's death and the chances of I revolution began to sweat in earnest.
us.
T
He paused a bit longer than between the last two usual words, but neither his face nor his voice changed expression.
про
EXAGGERATED
no illustrate his point further
Litvinov continued:
even un
stir up resistance, or underground?
Litvinov was sceptical, but less defulte in rejecting this con-
tingency.
notion that nothing could happen
to me because I was an Ameri- can correspondent.
Next day I went around to the American Embassy und talked it the
Over
whom
(Enter Ivan.) IVAN: The snow is still fall- irig .
OLGA: How I love the snow, NATASHA: It is so beautiful. OLGA: The snow is always falibg,
IVAN: Not in the summer time.
OLGA: Oh, hom true. How simple, but how true.
NATASHA: Only the greatest minda can say wonderful things like that.
OLGA: Ívan, you should have been a writer. I always said so. NATASHA: I said it first, (Enter Uncle Vanya.) UNCLE VANYA:. The snow is still falling.
1
+
Than you hear the cowboy's shot, See a momma getting hol--
Little minds bemused.
Little girl at local school
Playing with your doll, Who's murprised if you are dumb Working out a simple zum, Wondering if your darling Mum
Is a gangster's moli? Little boy in fethor's chair With absorbing thriller, Tale of murder, cosh and dope,
Hero who eludes the rope, Perhaps it is your secret hope
That father is a killer?
Little girl and little boy,
:
It must be so confusing That parents, with a fearful look, Warn you not to be a crook; But if you meet one in a book Find it most amusing...
Boy chases girl
"Can a man be sincere who swears he has fallen in love at Orai klimpse of the and pursues me madly before he knows any- thing about me?—A giri asks" a newspaper.
WHAT a tiresome, ungrateful
girl you must be, dear. Yu- stead of wasting the time of bus editors asking them silly ques- tions, you ought to consider yourself Jucky that anybody is chasing you madly in these un- romantle days.
For where & are the men- who pursue women madly now? Where are the young Lochinvars
IVAN: The snow is always falling.
UNCLE VANYA: Not in the who would snatch a girl from her father's house in the middle summer time.
What a
ptupid res of her bridal feact to save her from marriage to 'n loggard in Uncle Vanya is love and a dastard in war?"
OLGA:
mark.
The snow
NATASHA:
tedious. with John Davies, brilliant First Secretary, with (Enter a Village Idiot.)
I had discussed a line of
VILLAGE IDIOT: questioning before
saw is still falling. Litvinov. He agreed
rood that But publication was too risky. -the
10
T
THE
OTHERS (shouting):
material was secretly rushed The snow is always falling. to Secretary of State Byrnes who “VILLAGE IDIOT – (shouting was again wrestling with Foreign back): Not in the summer time, It OLGA and NATASHA (10- Minister Molotov in Paris.
more.
had the effect Litvinov gether): I can't bear this any undoubtedly meant it to have.
UNCLE VANYA: It is intoler- able.
MYSTERY
URING the next few days I
D braced myself for the news that Litvinov had died suddenly or been killed in an accident, long enough to But he ved
his that either
had office had not been wired for scund or the dietaphone broken down.
me
་
TVAN: Let's shoot somebody, OLGA: Shoot me before 1 go
mad.
NATASHA: Me first.. IVAN: Let me do it. I hate them both:
UNCLE VANYA: No. Let me. I hate you all, Then I can shoot you, too.
VILLAGE IDIOT: Let me do
"It's possible, of course," he said. "because the oppressors are foreign, and the people conla reckon with the support of the persuade pollee. What's more, they could probably count on secret help from either side of the occupa
The mystery of why Litvinov tion.'
The Soviet Deputy Foreign had spoken out in this way to ait, I hate everybody.
with could speak Minister
complete stranger remained.
He shoots the lot.) authority for his side at least, I left his office his heavy breath- VILLAGE IDIOT: Years later I was sorry I had ing almost turned to sighs as he all dead and I am alive, not asked him about Korea,
urged me repeatedly to take his they called me an idiot. My interview with Lithia remarks
the individual I left his opinions of losted neurly an hour. office puzzled and excited.
As
private citizen, At
best I remember,
They
are Yet,
I half expected to be arrested did he asks me to keep my Age of innocence
"Even during the war, in my
of the on the street. Having the story off the record. opinion, the activitica
uncomfortable enough. The mystery was at least The august name of Stalin was various underground movements was
Writing. it
of the partially cleared up two months was out -in France and elsewhere-have Wri
The never mentioned by either of
cunsor would later.
(Copyright, 1052, by United Nor did Litvinov use the been greatly exaggerated. The question.
where the Germans have killed the broadcast and the words 'revolution' and 'Russia" in only place
Feature Syndicale, Inc.) serious secret police would have taken caused But I was were the same sentence.
Yugo care of Litvinov. the room Inconvenience was well aware that it
sound, only slavia."
H were wired for low grade moron would fail to get the point seconds.
any
in
As for myself, Hitler's Gestope I should have asked him abour had hooked me on "suspicion of in the Arst ten the partisans in Russia, but I espionage" five years before; and remember not wanting to do any, forever disabused me of the The matter of succession came prodding which might bring him, up in this way, Litvinov hud up short in this dangerous dis- described the outlook
as bad, cussion. had expressed the opinion that
Litvinov went back to public
differences between East and opinion. West seemed to have gone too
root
"I often wonder", he declared,
cause as and American
correspondents
far to be reconciled. "He had "when I read reports of British established the
bellet in Moscow's
in inevitable who say," The Russian people conflict between the Communist think so and so, what people? con and capitalist worlds. He had Whom do they see? No one.
"On the other hand," he deplored the Kremlin's "con- servatism" and its adherence to mured, by following what the the idea of security in terms of
square miles,
at.
Tomorrow: WHY LITVINOY WARNED HIS OWN COUNTRY. THE FREE WORLD AGAINST
I
Mrs John E. Hayes, President of the Parents' and Teschers' Congress in Los Angeles, sald that children; cannot learn, be- cause their minds are slided by erine, Hollywood gutter, arid moral confusion,
LITTLE children at the films, Scarcely have you left your cot How you are confused;
'SCOTCH' SIGNS COME
IN AUSTRALIA
of story
will tion
You will not find them on the stage or screen except in a costume piece, or, occasionally, In some dirty little melodrama in which romance plays no part. If you found them in real life they would probably end up in
the police court. “
*
Moreover, I think you might have given less fortunate girls some details of the chase, For Instance, is it snarling and prl- milive? Does he pounce on you in the street, grab you by the hair and drag you, howling, into the nearest milk bar? Or is it a happy-go-lucky pursuit like Harpo Marx chasing a blonde through a set in Hollywood?
All the same, you may have mistukeri his motive.
A plain girl I knew was once chased by a determined young man for weeks on end. When he called, she locked herself in her Her father slammed the room. front door in his face. If she met him in the street, she jump- ed into a taxi.
When he cornered her, at last, It turned out that she had bor- rowed his cigarette lighter ab their first meeting.
H
He only wanted it back:
-(London Express Servica)'
DOWN
whole
fencing wire and wire netting "enough to last tour
slow down food produc months, without importing
singto cigarette at Australia's Meatless and butterless days present smoking rate." Timber a whole year; of for Australians are being sug- enough for But Australia differed from Melbourne.
the sign Britain in one major respect. gested by some branches of the private house building at pre- sent construction rates, say Unlike Britain, she fed her Chambers of Commerce.
timber men, (this estimate ex-, propaganda machine puts intoY took
"SCOTCH WHISKY-
Blackest self-she had merely overspent
of all prophecies
cludes men's minds one can judge what
hospital and factory cames from An Australian building). Clothing stocks 50 any thinking is likely to arrive ALL BRANDS-1 12s. 34. her pocket money.
PER BOTTLE, AVAIL- The
Australia's economist who forecasts that by great that
the recent. textile NO DIFFERENCE
"I thought I might point out ABLE HERE" from the decline, but by no means fall, the end of next year the Com-recession and unemployment in SUGGESTED that if Moscow that popular revolution against a back of the bar of Mel- hay, a usual, a sharp back monwealth will have to import Australian-made garments will
hread unless whost production dictatorship is in-
Cround in the wool story.
be made good, could not be persuaded or determined
be deed difficult, but what about a
bourne's Royal Automobile In 1948-49 that spectacular goes up. ruling Club-and said:
(Australia's best mailed, perhaps it could
"Sorry, commodity netted Australia a out-walled. I put the question coup d'etat Inside the
for
£287 sir, but that was last cheque Litvinov in these words: elique?
million. In 1950-31 "No," Litvinoý replied, "even week." "What are the chances of
the wool cheque was and for
At the little ice cream- £630 miulca, but poning conflict between East a palace revolution one would West long enough to allow new need the support of the army
delicatessen - tobacco- this year'
wool slid estimated and younger men, who are not and the police"
under the obsolete I began to discuss Germany. mist around the corner you to
of about £300 Laboural concept of security, Litvinov declared; "Of all the
single problems in the world to to grow up and take over?"
Не He dismissed
is the greatest the question with day Germany
problem." a wave of his hand.
IL doca
What would happen there, I "What difference maka?" he asked, as though to probed.
for Heaven's sake, use your head.
10
say
What difference does it make
if the young men are educated
intensively in the procise spirit. of the old?"
& Paintin
An
million
But
crop: 220 of bushels
It is true that many Aus- wheat 1948-40: best
est trallan. A businessmen ", beltove same from Poter exports,
year, that the new import controls 131 million bushels.)
3) will mean a black market. DUFFIELD. Even
the sausage racketeering, selling of gradual. men have stepped in. ly diminishing goods under the bemoaning the fac
fact counter. Most people hope and asked for your usual three cheque
million.
that German and garlic sausagea expect packets of English cigar-
the controls will not Meanwhile, with a currency will go straight off the market. last long. ettes.
They gave you the admittedly inflated but free to But the true picture of Aus-
generally, Australian secondary Industry has taken a look reserved for black spend, Australions of all classes tralla's new austerity la
in for a gigantic it is relatively unreal, laughable now lease of life and shares market hoarders and one have ann
buying spree.
and fantastic a faint shadow
(with the notable exception of reluctant packet of 20.
Last year Australia turned in of the word as it is used and
rome British car firms) took a ON GERMANY
You went into the world's
Д trading
£84 known in Britaid: As balance of
ding Jump upwards after falling for editor of ono leading months, second largest department store million. ITVINOV
This year, on Prime finance answered readily. (which unaccountably exists in Minister Menzios's Rgures, the Australian paper put it to me This was in June 1946, when Melbourne) and asked for an
Commonwealth
It is like going from a standard heading W05 the Western military governors English lounge suit. The place for a £740 million less,
of living that is very soft to u What are the prospects for standard of living that is fairly
soft."
-
thal
tho
from
I am in the habit of tara- gathering nightly with six or seven businessmen, at one "of he did not expect any in Germany were still plugging looked like the pitch for a de-
should
Melbourne's bars in the post- the away at Four Power co-operationsperation fire sale-you had so
work leat drinit period of 6 to Australia in and other and unification
tha under Malenkovs, Berins
much competition.
6 p.m.. Most of the men are nised.Onani newly recog
Im- plight? Litvinov fanatical young fogeys take over. Potsdam agreement.
chict accountants, chief sales- mediately due to the 80 per But if word got around that had manifestly, long since kissed,
port cut by Menzies's cent. Import
Backing this view are the men, managers or directors of the r
Kremlin's polley was driving off the "agreement" reached at
And that's how It is In Government they are these: facts that up and down the im. secondary industries, ye, Russia and the world towards Potsdam.
Australia today-with obviously be
goorts Her major task will be to mense Australian coastline cheese, plastics, bisculis. "Germany will ruin, might despair Inevitable
As the most recent arrival markod "Made in Britain" increase wheat
and production-an warehouses, bondhouses
England I am regarded as not rouse: internal opposition? broken into two paris," he said
moving fast into the
of old hands
Australian vital export wharves are stacked with the
an expert on British Litvinov answered that at some drily.
Public length
Couldn't some other solution buyers or sliding softly under
task to live on' - buying Her escond
Ironi abroad, Sydney I asked, since both that same old counter. Litvinov recalled that during be found,
Mel- for our rendezvous the other have telophoned Like a child echoing the imports that she now holds in men In Germany, I had some sides professed a desire to unify
ond of that my days knowledge
pounds of its parents, Australia
bourne men in desperation: night, And not hand. of life under a Germany?
Itto. group did not come up to The
already", "Can you got us bond space bullding trade dictatorship.
Litvinov said, with matter-of-
me and ask me anxiously and for 3000 cubic feet? Otherwise kido mouth for the first time Each
foresees fact prophesy; As before he spoke
commiseratingly slowly toch Punca word-lusterly, fortable cute in hospital and we shall have to retums
how Britain our
(was), going to ride this latest breathing asthmatically.
stocks to England, "o "We; must not forget," he said, its control.MANA M
Theto TO, admission of obstacle that had,
Tegret "that the German and Italian What effort would this great the same reasons as its mother cement and timber
on the country; its oversCAS trade Farmors are saying that re- the buyers themselves, smillions, tably, been put in people did not revolt even in the power struggle have face of the most dreadful and Germans themselves? Could it balances were shot to places.strictions on Importing vital and millions of cigarettes away,
recently gone into disrepair, goods Australia has been over- opinion. I arrived promptly
A
It used the word roughly for their dependence on imported
postwar