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Concluding Cyril Ray's Uncensored Stary Of Russia
A rare appearance---Stalin accópts flowers from algico's "Young Ploneers."
STALIN THE IDOL
SAW Stalin twice, in
is
the 18 months I was in Moscow
- which about as often as the most optimistic and devoted Muscovite could hope for.
Once was on the saluting the base on Lenin's, tom In Red Square for the May Day parade; ence on the dais, with the other members of the PeRburo, during the briel
session of the Supreme Soviet.
He is trim, neat-waisted and creet, well-tailored in his mar- and shal's uniform, smaller slighter thun you expect from the photographs, and very... grey now as to hair and moustache.
But the face is strong, alert, full!
much of character-very the Georgian, compared with such pudding-faced Slavs 03 Molotov.
A couple of public appear ances a year seeing to be his average, which is curious in a country where so much public adulation is-showered national leader and l co vigorously tostered.
On
IF I WERE THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
By Christopher Hollis, M.P.
London, May 9. example that they have no APAN'S first post-war reason to fear such thingh Ambassador will arrive for the future. pleta de in Great Britain lame exilio competition is few weeks' time-with the
'apother story: The British care. all important task of im- frankly, is a contradictory one. proving Anglo-Japanese re Hall the time, we talks about lations:
Wo Bay that
the Colombo Comuni in
the answer to One must speak, frankly, the To Eat is to raise the The Ambassador's task standard of living of the Orientals, to: make capital will not be an easy one. The investments in their spuntiles, to Japanese, to put it bluntly, Industrialise them are not popular today in England. They are unpopu- lar, I think, for three main
reasons,
The other hall wo spend complaining of the Japanese It they try to expert inahufactured goods.
First, the memories of the war have not perished. This does not make BANED. The British are in general But the Japanese Ambuastedor accustomed to bury the will not do mheh good if Be hatchet with former enemies contents himself with laughing more quickly than other at the British, He must under- stard that, whatever the sensa people. I am afraid, though, or nonsense of particulce argu-
be admitted
if possible, not to have that former prisoners of mis, the British are deter- And the unemployment again. war in Japanese hands have people of Lancashire want to not brought back pleasant live. stories of their treatment.
Everybody talks about him but he is rarely will happen to the regime itself that it must
seen in Moscow except in photographs
There are statues and por. If he leaves the Kremlin at traits in every park and Mil-tr a curtained- car, with
d'assroom public place, every
pistal-packing: policemen every yards to see that no other enrs stop along the route,
Russla,
recalls, is a
crease
one
Ahen Stalin dies.
No responsible observer the Soviet scene would be rash as to hazard a guess,
.of
It may be that Molotov will succeed; Herla; Stalin's fejlow-- Georgian and keed of his secret police; or some committee com- bining those two with others je well known,
and office. Almost every other day the chief front-page feature of every Moscow paper is promise by the miners of such- nod-such a pit, the workers of Fact-and-such a factory to in- country with a long and ugly their output always record of political assassination,
All I am sure about is that addressed, in headline and which explains why mid- Stalin has determined that all opening sentence, to Comrade mannered Journal's like my he has worked for shall not be thrown away in a struggle for relf have to show their passes his vacant throne, and that he to Ave separato Ints of armed willed and
scured policemen before being admitted succession accordingly. to the Supreme Soviet, why foreign ambassadors are watch-
E alin.
Armed guard
TAVERY pubile speech contains ed, guarded, und accompanied reference, loudly cheered, everywhere (lest embarrassing
д
to the great Leader and Teacher arm befall them) by the plain- every learned body,
whether
Blind idolatry
the
.
It la true that in a battle of Secondly, Lancashire competition Japan. has the low costs of production and con fears the competition of advantage ove Lancashire of Japanese textiles.
doubtless drive Lancashire out of many foreign markets. Many of the Eastern countries of the Commonwealth wish, to buy the
-Thirdly, there is a wide- chcepce Japanese textiles, rather tah goods, they might well spread feeling that, though than the more expensive Bri
moment train the unity of the Common- Japan la at the disarmed, and though Com- wealth. munism is at the moment
The Japanese are entitled to our main danger, Japan claim, and soon will be in a nevertheless has not abap- piton to capture, à fair share -doned her ambitions of the world's markets. But dominating the Orient. they will make a great mistake If they make their claims too Further it is feared that Aggressively and if they show understand-ur, if my own if she should be in any way keep burgains on detail.
An unwillingness to strike and zierte er historieel or literary, clothes relicemen they always No Englishman can over, quite
feelings are anything to go zeknowledges Stalin as the one refer to as their little men,"
as an ally in the why ever quite stomach the blind enlisted supreme genius in its own fold and presumably is
Ilon-battle against Communism, of learning or research. School Stalin, who is something now idolatry amounting to
accorded to she would only sell her children learn, and sing,
between an Immortal and the worship that is
Lenin,
They wil make a great mils the maker of modern Father of his Country, does not fussin, and to Stalin, the leader alliance at a price. Result take because the first Japanese who now claims to be his only of the defeat of Communism intecost is not so much to get true disciple, comrade, partner might then leave us a prob- a fair share of the world's mag- and the trustee of the true lem of Japanese imperialism kets us to see that the world's in the East, just as it might markets are as luge as possible, leave us with a problem of German Imperialism in Europe.
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count and went
visual indigestion.
move freely among his people.
1
-
No guesses
Marxist-Leninist faith;
There is room for a big world expansion in the consumption
At the latest exhibition of contemporary art in Moscow ! had totted up 40 portraits and statues of Stalin-Stalin as boy, as a young man, 23 the
To support which claim his great revolutionary, as the organiser of victory, 18 the have no doubt, though, that try has been rewritten, books banned. and documentary friend of Lenin-before I lost. I
“both of textiles, and 'other' con- when Stalin dies (which is home with
sumer goods. But the condition on eventuality no Soviet eltizen evidence destroyed., will discuss. publicly or pri- So completely has the name
How far are these sus-, of that expansion is that there be a machinery for world trade. the painters and the vately), he will be embalming been expunged from the inspicions justified? And what The sterling area system is the Fut
as Lenin has been, and He, like of Russian history of sculptors must have one eye on
can a new Ambassador do only international world trading closest comrade - photographs and previous Lenin, an illuminated mummy in
with the half- Stall's defeated and murdered to allay them? About the system in the world. the other ortraits,
on their a glass casket,
past he can do little. He siccesniul
Stalin mile queues that one can see rival, that when I jolted in
And, in Londca there sal a future, for
article about my three times a week, rain, hail frivolous certainly gives, no sittings.
shuffling past under mishaps in trying to learn the can only try to live it down tradition and a know-how of His movements are never re- or mow,
to persuade his how to run such a "system as Lermontov the language of
and and try Tolstoy and Trotsky, ported in the papers, he opens the watchful eyes
fellow-countrymen to live it cannot be found in any other country. Both, the dollar systan ro bazaars, launches no ships, guardians of the tomb,
the Soviet censor solemnly cut down; he can strive to per- and the totalitarian systems are
word When he is in Moscow he is
the English by international trade aa
of
Which reminds me that
whisked through the streets question often asked
HITLER BOTH
H
Lenin,
in arms,
one out of my cable the one
Is what "kotsky."
AND BANNED
By James Leasor-
ITLER banned it in 1985. Shinwell ban ned it in 1947, during
.!
a fuel crisis.
name
11
suade
SHINWELL
IT
of
7.
still exentially national systems
secondary extra.
If the new Japanese Ambassa- dor is a wise man, he will indeed 'his'! fellow press, and cause
| countrymen-, to` press, fort a reasonable share of markets, but Many editors in the twenties he will be careful not to press sought Jobs in the theatre.
his clains in such a way as to Gyles, Itham toured threaten the stability, of tho Canada, America, and South sterling area. The result of that Africa in Shakespeare plays; would be to contract the whole Anthony Gishford (1820) is now market of the world's trade. It a director of the English Operas would be as if a man were to Groupi
and John Fernald blow up the railway lines bich his competitors used, not noticing (1927) is Peter Ustinov's pro- How dated come the ducer of "The Love of Four that he wanted to use the same
Dnes himself. of New College, whose
contributions seemi Colonels," has given a new word to our jubilee
Evelyn Waugh has an articia language.
Excoptions to the theatrical Harold Heathcote- reprinted from an Isla publish rule were ed. In 1924. In it he writes: Willams, now
Q.C.; and
Then there is the question "What we want is onothice war explorer Sir George Binney, Imperialist ambllions. We have when there is a war the who organised three Arctic ex- had enough of war, and the Am- fighting people at least have peditions and took part in two bassador will certainly have to moments of really intense of them. enjoyment and really Intense misery--both things which one wants at our ago.... . .”
Spooner's Interviewer wrote: "No one who heard him will It: The Isis, Oxford's fver forget the effecting way In which, on his last Speeen famous undergraduate week-Day, he recited the opening
persuade the Western powers of "The ly, which celebrated its dia- lines
Burial of Sir
that it is not an aggressive mill- mond jubilee with a double- John Moore:
tary Power which is arising again in the East Hela, size (80-page) issue, and a
Not a drum was heard, not a
Lional Halo: was editor, in naturally, fully entitled to insist cocktail party to past and funeral noto,
And what happens to editors
that Japan, can only renounce 1930, As his horse on the ramparts after their term of office?
and stil edited
the
Imperialist ambitions on feason- present contributors.
magazine for a further two able conditions. An Industrialized, we curried
For the most part, nothing terms after he joined the local and food-importing country a
Playhouse as an actor. ↑ Josephi very sensional many drift into Grimond (1038) la now Liberal country with a thick and grow- ing population, is entitled to say comfortable obscurity; M.P. for Orkney and Shetland that it can only eschew embitions a deep purse views they now propagate with lawyers, curates.. business men,range Lean (1032) "cons of "conquest* ££*££sallowed
and the like. A few continue" and
covered Isis when they were at
The bellefs some Idols ex-
pressed in their days of Oxford compare oddly with the
bags
Many famous literary figurns were connected with the bluc-
Oxford.
It would, tako now to buy, articles by Evelyn, vigour.
along the writing road: Lionel frels the B.B.C European ser- reasonable conditions for telling Mackenzie, Waugh, Compton
abroad under peaceful conditions. Hale, Tom Hopkinson, Charles Vices, Michael Foot, AG. Strong, Emlyn
Odd man out is Noel Lindany
In particular, Japan must be inches catilo in the Argentine Communist China. If in the for a' llving, +1:
near future, the Communist Of the postwar editors, three regime in China shoult collapse.
for instance,
Willams; by Sir Alan Herbert, now Socialist M.P. for Devon Graves, - Peter Fleming amon (1093) (who ̧ ́ ́It is said, now allowed to truda, ficely with
..
the
an
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dilys port, was not always of the than Powell, or Obbert Lancaster. Lett. His interviewer wrote: The Isis published them all He describes himself as
uncompromising Rodicat:"
H. C. Bailey, 1890's editor, are done at Oxford and also well and good. But, If, as seams Other literary
"He dislikes the jingoism figures Joined the
rival
Cherwell, which con which he stibules to the was a journalist for many years where, five are journalists, three more probable, that do not Isis, Tories De mucit as he hates the also wrote the. "Mr. Fortune" have published books, one fa a happen, then Japan is entitled to stantly lampooned
on' individual borty detective stories.
lawyer, one is in advertising, profest that it is absurd that the Among them: C. Day Lewis, attack
Rex Warner, which he believes to bo In Desmond Coke (1902) wrote one with a shoo-making firm, should be led to the regime of ** Chiang Kai-sheld. For Chlang. uden, Spender, Bus Write for herent in Socialism, but no the clasele Sandford of Merton; and one manages a theatre whether his regime is good or Why did endy Probably be never sneers at the views of his and R. Knox editor, in 1907) Is Does being an Isla editor help, nastere Chlua Sppan, Mind bad, no prospect of becoming cause. We wero not asked to, cppenzm.s."
4 young mari Ronald
to o get a job after-
nevertheless must trade, with China, Communist on otherwise, i No," says Beverley Nichols. He for in no other way can she live Arnnid Lima Lecamo a aki-er
International reputation, once asked Bernard Falk then Ronald Knox writes in the editing the Bunday Dispatch for The new Ambarradormist persuade the British people that
cdmit Rex Warner in this.
Jubiläe number. Moder
of
The Isis was the brainchild'
wards? B
club.
now better known as the RL. Reverend Monsignor Knox,
af
pald
еле Montagus Horatio Now what would Randolph
Mostyn Turtle Piggott, Born: Churchill say to that, I won April 27, 1892. Ho edited 1der.
for two years (lime now allows In 2012 andther' kävi inbited number; eThe editor's a Job, and ; listed the: Isla osie Japanese-only want to 1)lyn'.
to have two vices-ho is a malory (if I remember right) previous experience, indiki and let live and, not to oveziirow (one, term), NALEPKAN AMA Unionist Frce Trader and po was just slavery day. It live down being-président of the 1 British people will certaintyúllow
Seemingly,
'the
term. And it was
of
Bald Falk dourly: "You may the sterling Dren Thinst the
ed int The editorial chair is only
Piggott started the regular cocasional curanlist,"
the occasional sticks in my head that 1 band Union my boy but it'll take them the conditions of that fe "feature" of an Idol" in which como local personality is inter- journalism triumphed over the ed over to Arnold Lainn -- I much longer to live down being viewed Crge of the earliest Unionist Free Trading, for rather talked Arnold in those altor of the fare
days, and suppose I thought For 11 hat quite a nisuber thumbjected was the Rev. Robert Barrington Ward became
would serve him right? of us have, Wlam Spooner then a fellow editor of The Times,
residue of suspicion rematris,
quite grandcly, however and the
bandor must be content to
I work slowly and with vallencs.