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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1952.
TO UNDERSTAND THE WEEK'S MOSCOW NEWS YOU MUST KNOW ONE STALIN FROM ANOTHER
A conference of the All-Union Bolshevik Party oponed in Mos- the cow fast wook first since 1939. The mon of the Kremlin are speechmaking. How far will they ́moan what they say?
Imagine you
are an Intelligence man
WISH you couki listen
to this recording I have just put on my radiogram. From the amplifier, without any in- troduction either vocal or musical, comes wave after. wave of cheering and clap- ping.
Someone near the micro- phone is shouting slogans. A bell rings: But the hulla- baloo goes on.
Becond
The bell rings a time, and a third. But the applause continues. A fourth ring from the bell, rather imperious and insis- tent this time. At once there is silence.
Then a voice speaks, low and husky,
""Tovarichi,” it says (Rus- sian for "Comrades"). A pause. And then the voice launches into a long, long, speech, monotonous, devoid of emotional fire, flat, and-- yes, my wife is right-bor-. ing.
It lasts over 12 sides and sounds about as fascinating as someone reading a tele- phone book out loud.
Then and now
SEFTON DELMER
played over a recording of a Stalin speech while prepar- ing this analysis. The date of the speech was March 13, 1939. Here are some extracts;-
First, we are for peace and for strengthen- ing trade relations with all lands, and we will maintain this position a long as they do nal attempt to violate the interests of our country. Secondly, we are for peaceful close neigh- bourly relations with all neighbour Powers having common frontlers with the U.8.8.8 We will maintain this position so long as these do the same and do not try to violate the Integrity and the frontlers of the Soviet Union.
Thirdly, we favour supporting peuples who are the victims of aggression and who are struggling for the Independence of their father
land. Fourthly, we are not afraid of the threats of aggressor and we are ready to render two blows for one to war instigators trying to violate the integrity of the Bordel Finlan
Nobody believes that the Munich agreement started a new era of pacification even Britain and France do not believe it, and they have The started Increasing their armaments. U.S.S.R. could not ignore such stormy events Our country developed serious work to increase the war preparedness of our Red Army and flect and decided ·in take other sirps.
WILL THIS PICTURE CHANGE ?-Last February, this is how Pravda pictured the ruling clique In the Kremlin, with Malenkos on Stalin's right, Molotov on his left, and secret police chief Berio
·half-hidden on the extreme left of this reproduction.
If things had still been in a state of fux, it is a safe bet that they would have continued to postpone holding the congress.
The last that was known that Malenkov means to reverse this and Improve food produc- about him was that he had been
tion by doing so, he will cer- Odessa. Recently, however, tainly see to it that there is a exiled to a minor command at there have been reports that bigger proportion of agricultural Berla repre-
Malenkov has restored him to workers. SL01 the bureaucrats, techni- grace as a military technlelun. It clons, administrators, and ex- Zhukov is not on the new Ha perts as against the revolu- you can take it those reports tionaries and "wild men" like
are untrue, Zhdanov.
Malonio nd
AMERICA COLUMN
froma
NEWELL ROGERS:
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY
New York. THE high cost of eating
is going lower. And
T
the paychologists are telling Americans that If they eat more and better food they may have more pleasant personalities.
Science has been exploring likes and dislikes in food. Somo results: Men get more enjoy- ment from cating than women. Food affects us mentally and
nctionally.
People finicky cut cating Lend nbcut
to be
domineering,
Jack emotional stability but show greater ability In expressing themselves, and inore. self-confidence.
}
People who cat everything are happler, better adjusted, less excitable and not so moody. SCIENTIFIC HINT to house- wives the average man gets-
up about slx mad and blows to
times a week, usually just be fore meals.
New watchdogs で being
from Mascow scat out
the loyalty supervise
of the
old watchdogs who have grown unreliable.
and
Such local powers as local committees had in running things are being reduced,
Everywhere the people party members are being in- vited 4.
denounce to superiors. New purges imminent. There may be in- teresting indications in private speeches from delegates during
the debates.
policy?
their
вест
Well,
Wo
The housewives are happy to find that steak is down from 5d. to 10d., a lb., eggs 'down 94. a dozen, lamb rib chops, 4d. o ib. Butter is also cheaper,
So father is apt to be more contented these nights when he gets home from the office especially if he can be fed quick- ly.
NEW electric gadget for A housewives has several at- tachments like a vacuum cleaner. to polish floors and furniture,
Foreign have already had Stalin's key-clean and scour pans and sharp note speech. Quite simply it is this: divide the West by en-
en knives..
couraging such phenomena as NYLON
Bevanism in Britain, Mac-
manufacturers.
aro
Ngetting worried about com-
Arthurism and McCarthyism in petition from the United States, Kashani-ism called perlon. in the Middle East.
German nylon, Perlon is being
imported at the rate of £3,000,-
900 a year at a time when mili-
Trust Malan and the Negrotary demands cause shortage of extremists between them to US-made nylon.
undermine the Western position
in Africa. Division, division everywhere. That is the
vice.
de-
The upeeches on foreign policy will necessarily take up these lines..
1.
Which tune?
THERE is one final fitbit you
night watch for.
kov is trying to win the con- Adence of the East European satellites by encouraging them in under an apparent nationalism the Soviet overlordship.
A shakes
Д
many
BATTLE of literary glants the best-seller list. Ernest Hemingway's. "The Old Man and the Sea" is up to third place after four weeks. But John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" jumped up to sixth in one week, Booksellers already have ordered 100,000 Steinbock copies. • Hemingway saics are handicapped by the story's publication in big circulation magazine, prob- Malen-ably saving thousands of people the price of the book. 1 MERICANS have so More significant still, ihe
cars that the whole country, should show how
men, women, and children, could analysis
all go for a ride at once. There Malenkov and Berla are going aficad with their policy of He is dismissing the Anna are 64,443,781 licensed drivers. Watch onit Also
the pushing the secret police, Civil Paukera and other post-war But 3,032,000 cars on the roads the Zhdanov, BUT, all the same, this re-
fanatical Marxist dascinating analysis that Service, and party officials into Communist Ministers in these are 15 years old, or older. And the the foreground everywhere. territories whose blind obedience Americans have only half the cording is exciting and and Malenkov's chief rival, died Mandas Commission
unexpectedly in 1948. After his congrem issues converrnin
to Moscow has made them use- highways needed for their drives important. For the voice is state funeral, all his friends and the composition of the delega- In the Ukrainian Party con- less as instruments of the new totaling annually 482,000 million Stalin's. He is recorded followers were removed from tions to the congress. The com- gress, which has just been held. line.
.how...
Moscow's As evidence of many of the delegates are full- over 57 percent of the dete time party workers, how many sales were either State officials
to itself desire Lo or full-time party workers.
keep itself are peasants, railwaymen, in-
and not meddle
the tellectuals, secret pollte mem-
A further 14
the satellites' percent of
business, there is no bers, and so forth.
delegates were members of the Cominform report for the new
Я congress. Secret Police Corps. Only
of this predominantly percent
country
were agricultural agricultural workers.
here as he was addressing their posts and replaced-ty-mission obligingly tells us. the 18th Communist Party Malenkov's cooler-headed, more
objective officials. congress in Moscow 13 years ago, in March 1939.
Fifty-year-old Malenkov also represents comparative youth I have this recording be- against the old brigade, epito cause I bought it, fresh mised by 62-year-old Molotov. hitherto regarded, as next in from the presses, when I importance to Stalin and Arst in arrived in Moscow for my succession. first visit the month after the congress had ended.
Today all such records of the 18th congress, whether spoken or written,
are in- valuable.
Throughout the congress you should look for evidence of how far Malenkov and his allies have things their own way.
The query
It also tells us what different Soviet nationalities are repre- sented and by how
many de legates,
This type of statistics can tell us quite a lot. At the last con- gress, for instance, only 63 of The 1,567 delegates were agricul- tural
workers, as against 230 110 industrial workers, plus railway workers.
Last
This was typical of Stalin's For as I am playing over WILL Moate speake
time he delivered the report polley of discrimination against Stalin's speech of 18 years ago a 19th party congress is on the Ave-your plan. The time the peasantry. If it la a fact —
Malenkov's technicians, and I very much doubt it - being ceremoniously opened an economist called Saburey, 18
one of
speak at all, al-
a statement
in Moscow. And with it doing that. Molotoy himself is despite all the Kremlin's not down to security precautions, despite though some still expect him
to Intervene with all the discipline and self- en foreign affairs. censorship imposed on the
WIN Mme. Zhemchutzina oh-so-carefully selected dele- ("Pearl") Molotov be allowed gates-Western observers to speak? Last time will be given one of those took part in the debate on the all-too-rare peeps Into
the Ave-year plan. But in the mean. time Malcnicov has got her re- inner recesses of Russian moved from her
jobs, first as politics,
head of the cosmetics trust and You, too, can look at the then as Minister of Fisheries,
news with the eyes of 11 Western Intelligence Of
cer.
The hints
Watch
the
she
for
"election" the central committee of the party. See whether any of the Zhdanov men, fred by Malen- kov, are allowed to bob up here ugain.
་
miles.
D
more than LJOUSEHOLDERS ̃are ̈paying
£70,000,000 year for electricity to run TV sets. LJOP GROWERS on the Pacific mad at women
Ho coast are
beer drinkers because they in-
of the BRITISH
Burion has been.
I think this may be followed sist on a lighter, milder inger. up by yet another symbol, At Brewers need fewer hops, and the last congress the Moscow the growers are left with tons Throughout the congress pro- banda on ceremonial occasions on their hands.
ACTOR Richard ceedings you should be on the played the Internationale the
given a look-out for signs of the rein international hymn forced policy of centralisation. Communist world.
ten-year
contract. Hollywood the cure with which
Will they drop the This is
He has to make only one pic- Malenkov and Beria are trying nationale this time in favour to stamp
fure a year there, and he can out the corruption, of the Soviet national anthem
continue on the Londen stage Inefficiency, and nepotism which and thus make this, & de-
Aims elsewhere. His are the inevitable result of 35 monstratively
Soviet or make purely
that next Hollywood assignment-"A my hunch years of Socialism and 35 years affair? It Is
Desert Ra"
in the story of of uninterrupted rubber-stamp, they will.
Tobruk, one-party rule.
[London Express Service)
Inter-
Sitting on the Fence
At Cold Spring. New York State, a school has been opened for 60-year-olds who want to brush up their education.
It the long-life serum reported to be keeping Stalin alive until he's 150 becomes generally avail- able, there will soon be kinder- garten schools for centenarians;
EADY?" asks the
teacher. "Good. Let's hear
R
By NANHANIEL
"What have you got
your.
GUBBINS
under Dear He Hilda so meek and
20 mild
Was never much worse than the
average child,
and laugh at their wails back was turned, And seemed to enjoy pulling
pussy cats' talis,
four Dear little Hilda
And a tummy, when pressed, that would answer "Mama".
the desk. Gubbins?" asks the teacher, While mica. sgain?"
"Yes, sir, he has, sir," says the old sneak, "and he's got a She would pinch little puppies -
He way pea-shooter, too, sir. going to shoot peas at you. sir. that. When there is multiplication table again. All Seme names? Well,
teacher. You will stay in after WE shall be given clues to Vozilchenski, Zhdanov's friend And see if we can get it "All right, Gubbins." anys the One Christmas when Benjamins |
all were so jolly Allto- W
school and write out 100 times we gave little Hilda a beautiful the personal battles for and ally, who preceded Saburov right this time.
white gether, now."
"When I stop keeping
doily, power among the top leaders, as the No. 1 economic expert,
"Twice once are two, twice mice and pea-shooters under glimpse of the way things are He has disappeared from the
iwo heading and what to expect for political scene altogether,
are four, twice three are my desk i will learn that twice With eyes that were vacant and
Uright as a stor the future, To read these clues, Then there is my old friend;
four are eight. six,
The old volees quaver on to know what to look out for, white-bearded Lozovski, whe experience of the pattern and from being Press and Propa-unul one crooks: Twice standards of the 18th and pre- ganda chief, and then head of vlous congresses
is all impor- the trade union committee, has are ten."
Who was that?" asks suddenly disappeared, Perhaps tant.
ACCORDING to a repost. 50- Silence.
year-old Hildegard Ben Now the arst thing to remem. It is because he was "too old teacher.
I don't find out in ber in watching this congress 18 a friend of Molotov, or because
"IE.
ten Jamin, or "Red Hilda," preal- that it comes at the end of what his old-fashioned. Lenin-Stalin-
offended against seconds," says the teacher. look- dent of the Soviet Zone High of Eastern Germany, is probably the first battle for 1st fervour Stalin's succession.
Malenkov's decrce: "We don't ing at his watch, "the class Court
revolutionaries who will stay behind an extra half- appears to take as much delight as Judge Jeffreys in sentencing hour." That it is being held at all is want any a sign that the victors plump, froth at the mouth,"
people to death or long termas "It was great-granfer Gub- wonder whether Marshal flabby-faced Georgi Malenkoy,
bins"
says an old sneak, aged of imprisonment.
white-haired oid mother The party secretary, and his Zhukov, Stalin's ablest general
Her central 101. friend and ally secret police will reappear In the
"Guhbina agalo," alahs the in the American sector of Ber. When pressed on the tummy
confessed she was spying; chlet Lavrent! Beria-primate committeo? He was a member that their personal ascendancy, of it before he fell into, dis teacher, "Come out in front of lin told a correspondent: "I
don't really know what's got Confessed to conspiracies wide the Jealous the class, Gubbins,"
As a child 'who was spread and far, through their chief followern favour through
of the politicians Great-granfer Gubbins, heal into her.
She was Though all that the dolly could and the policy they have been suspicions advoanting, (da)
safely that this soldier wus getting too tates as be guiltly stuffs some mock and reserved.
never really a' bad girl." big for his boor.
thing into his pocket.
enough established.
I
the
in less than a week this dolly
so fair
arms and Had lost both her most of her hair, When questioned dear Hilds was
sulky and haughty--
seemed that her dolly had been very nauglity.
At a trial in the kitchen the
dolly was lying;
say was "Mama ̧***
Next morning at dawn little
Hilda, God bless her,
Was tying her deli to a hook on
the dresser;
Her face was tolemn, her air
melancholi
For dear Title Hilda
hanging her dolly.
Stately home
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is not
Although nobody belleved him, Lord Gubbins was fond of telling visitors to his stately that Tottering Towers ont was first built in Saxon by Egghead The Raid:
times
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