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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952.
The
next train
at Kharkov
will/won't/go/come
A comrade's' account of tho. way comrade bureaucrats can push comrade
passengers around
by RALPH HEWINS
Stockholm.
The red
Illustrated
by ARTIE
cap, proudly
B'
THE scene is Kharkov, straightening up his shoulders,
There's says: "Tomorrow, the Manchester of rain going tomorrow. Now Man you'd better hurry over to the Russia. From chester's
cinema instead. You absolutely biggest two
must see 'Girl Keeps a Dato'." stations 54 trains a day
The next passenger la not a Fleave for London. From girl who has a date, but some
Kharkov's large Central body who must leave Kharkov as possible and has Station no one
seems to as soon
come to the Central Station for know how many trains the tenth time to try to get a leave for Moscow.
ticket.
Moreover, even when it is An elderly offelal takes care plat- established that a train is, be of him, saying: "Buy a
ticket. That's not so yond all Marxist doubt, actually form
the citizen Meut. On the platform you leaving for Moscow,
Kharkov can buy warm soup, drinks, o I bound for the and a bottle of. vodka Or PLATFORM Tremely
capital is ex- you like, some warm beer-and lucky afterwards it's quite fun. You
If he is able to can wander about between the
get train.
on the lines.
Where will you stay for the How 307 It night? Ah, that's another ques- is all due to tion.
or- SORRY, NO TICKETS
YOU sometimes see a sign
You reading "Tickets avall-
"the absolutely wonderful ganisation at Kharkov Central"
The words
tho are from latest issue of a Rusalan mega- zine called Crocodile, which is the only important Soviet able" outside the booking office. publication allowed to be ironic But all the trains going in and about life in Stalinland.
out of Kharkov do, not exactly And the words about the or- run according to the timetable.
Thus the timetable says the indeed gunisation are
heavily
fast train,
Na 32, goes from ironic. For what goes on in
Kharkov to Moscow. In spite Kharkov's station is described
of the fact that this train docs in considerable. detail by the
indeed start Kharkov there
al Crocodile reporter, like this-
are seldom any tekets available LOOK, NO TRAIN for Inhabitants of Kharkov,
Should
you by chance manage to get on the train you would find at least 150 unde- cupled
THE loudspeaker announced -- to everybody's astonish- from ment-that train No. 78 Kiev was due at platform 3.
A crowd of people rushett there carrying big bouquets. But, oh dear, there was no sign of the train.
It turned out that the station. in- staff had received wroug structions.
Suddenly the loudspeaker screams at the passenger com- rades that in the waiting-room
Cummings
DIPLOMATIC WITH RELATIONS BRITAIN
“Ha! This will infuriate the British!"
London Express Service
The girl who said
'Yes' in Room 13
66 T
a
T is hard to imugine con- temporary woman who is more worthy of being written about, but less inclined for it. than
Countess the Mountbatten of Burma,"
says Dennis Holman, at the
start of his biography of stats.
her-LADY LOUIS. they
Perhaps
were booked in
hams, 258.):
advance,
the
"She is....one
not so. For inher on the dust-jacket: Belgorod irst big station most significant and in- fluential women of her age....
on tho Khur
What life on '£900 a wook has meant to Countess' Mountbatten, godchild of a King, and wife to an earl
By JAMES LEASOR
now worn Palace
.at
They Can Smoke In This School
By J. W. TAYLOR
THE
London. American co-ed school has come to Britain; a school where, if their parents allow them to smoke it is all right with the teachers, provided the smokers, are over 15 years of age and use only the special communal smoke- room provided. Smoking in any other part of the school is strictly forbidden.
It is the Middlesex Bushey Park central high school for the children of United States military
based in personnel Britain. There are 210. pupils,
of whom
boarding whose
arc
are
parents students stationed outside the London prea. There IA also дл elementary school for juntors.
The
...
school principal is M: nn American, Volney Farned. who has a staff of 28 teachers- two of them Canadian, four British and the rest American- who have 25 classrooms their disposal. Three more British teachers Kre
be engaged to teach Latin, Frencli, Spanish, and the arts, crafts and music.
and,
.to
some
There is no lack of polso or sophistication amongst the young ladies of the school, whom favour sweaters and skirts and loafers"-soft leather bobby-aocka shoes-over thele
mast of them. pesonal jewellery and lipstick. They do, however, work bard. Bourding students have to study from 7 p.m. to 0.15 p.m. at night and are not allowed out on week nights, when lights must be out at 10 o'clock.
If someone misbehaves he or to the Principal. she is taken And if it is very bad there can be a suspension from school for
week
possibly loc Boarding
students can
Ket privileges, k
like going out at
week-ends, taken away.
are
Just now the senior students
Betty
are running the school election's and 18 are chosen to "run the (Od Burma, Australia, Tahiti, and ineffable beauty, served by in which students between 17 walls The corridor while her husband sailed staff. In the novy-blue battle-
dress uniforms
school." and bear such slogans as "He won't and cheat, so vote for Pele, you And the publishers say of the seas. ("The Mountbat Buckingham think. Bu +
tens even picked the right, Clarence House."
Yet, oddly, her biographer "Get ready with Eddie." of the generation in which to live. makes no mention of the pri Two of the high school pupila
"going steady" They got the best of the vate BB she sought to intro-
duce in 1949, by which she Sullivan, 10, of Baltimore, century....").
would be able to anticipate in Maryland, whose father is
master sergeant and "Dusty!' Bowers, of Missouri, who is the. son of A leutenant-colonel. Since they started courting. Betty bus worn "Dusty's" signet ring on a silver chain round her neck, in accordance with Ameri- can co-ed school custom.
kov -
Moscow line] NO MOTO Interplanetary people get on
talks."
the train.
they can sec the new Alm. Is Kharkov station excep- "Girl Keeps a Date."
tional? Crocodile does not my Passenger comrades are then so, And it would seem that it informed that while they are is, in fact, typical.
For even Georgl
they connections
of
An elderly traveller with big, heavy suitcase comes bold- ly up to an official in a red_cap and asks how to get to Jev patorio.
|
'I've a spare
But it
closing was nearly time in the pleasure gardens of come from the trust her grand- more the West. War brought Lord father left her and get
"public Louis new tasks. Lady Louis money to finance her
for lutics. became County President London of the St. John Ambu-
Ed.W
possessed of their and en-
Looking ahead
very
Socialist Government of
visit was worth two companies not surely
of M.E.$."
Biggest job
The school day is divided into seven 50-minute perioda, be ginning at 9.30 am, and ending at 3.40 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch period,
The at noon. school year is divided into two
of 18 weeks to semesters
cách
a
BE that as it may, Edwina lance Brigade. "She Cynthia Annette Mount- what they require waiting for
leaders Malenkov.
position can go on personally conducted the new and tough General batten-christened Edwina thusiasm.
hos- THIS she withdrew when the god- Tirelessly she toured tours in the city parks or cap Secretary of the Russian Com- after. Edward VII, a hear, talks on Interplanetary munist Party, had to speak out father-acquired much of pitals in France and Burn the day introduced a Bill cover travel.
at the recent party congress
'this significance and in- and India; later went to ing ell-women-in-similar-cir- It is quite clear that
men the, about "too much inefficiency on
camps in Malaya and cumstance-but why no not the railways.
fluence from the £1,100,000 Siam. Iler cousin, Harold Cas- tion of it here? After all, it is question of tickets does
The Russian people
Jap come within the province
Is used left by her grandfather, Sir sel, who was a P.o.W. in
to her, and The
to her: "Your biographer's the passengers' culture depart to being pushed around.
Ernest Cassel, the Anan- hands, wrote.
of such import- party-dominated Soviet bureau- ment.
cracy is used to pushing people cler.
ance to his subject. It was around.
at a Claridges
Then the
future. What of Timblables, in such an aimo-
that? Mr. Holman is vague here. achievements have to be sphere, must seem like an in-party in 1921 that she met
Lieutenant
Louis trusion from another world.
"he writes pon Mountbatten.
"With each new task .Later
band's most important job; ut year,
further responsibi- Viceroy of India. He was the lilies. With every dresh problem Cowes, Mrs Cornelius Van- prime surgeon at the immense derbilt, anxious to drum up operation which cut India free her horizons are extended..."
But in which direction and to "An in- friends for a cruise in her from the British raj.
what for view Mr Holman docs erddible feat of diplomacy. yacht, said to Edwina: "Be and responsible for averting the not say, a darling and help me make bloodbath and anorchy that would certainly have followed our departure from India."
But what of the chaos that did result? Says Holman: "For a true perspective of the Par tition ricting in the Punjab, the avonta and numbers in- volved must be viewed against the background of the entire
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM – WHITE
GENERALS ARE
A HANDFUL
ONE of the unhappiest
the
six years' wartime service as But there is no resignation, in Mr Churchill's military secre- his voice as he says it. The fact tary.
is that he is preparing to take several good hard swiper in several very, distinguished direc- tions.
His face is heavily jowled, often his eyes are weary, Con sider some of his charges:
of
Lord
that
up the party. I have a spare man. I think you may have met him--Dickie Mountbat ten."
So
Borrowed fare
WITH victory came her husated.· ́
they met again and sub-continent.
"Responsible estimates tof
of a
Was
officials in Western defence he finds himself gagged .code, which by a security, Europe today is General stamps as "Cosmic Top Secret" Lord ("Pug") Ismay. The everything from the humber of
sailed away-ahd fell in
those killed) do not Western divisions to the num-
exceed reason: As Secretary-
her of typewriters at NATO love. Then the Prince of 200.000. That is one for every General of the North At- headquarters.
Wales took cousin Dickie to 2,000 of the population, and for inntic Treaty Organisation Sald Ismay recently: "I've
India as his aide on a tour. less than the death-roll
month of the Bengal Famine in he has little or no control never felt so much as if I were
borrowed dark. Never Edwina groping in
£100 1043.ays, Lady Louls over, his generals.
("Не have I been in a position of from her great-aunt In six months at NATO, more responsibility un'i 1c33
doing "incalculable work Bounds
nice
bury, young Ismay has aged more than in authority."
fostering better relations among man....You shall have the the different partics by getting money, my dear") and fol. the leaders women together in lowed him out, second clans, a friendly atmosphere....
The "most hopeful sign of the He proposed in Room 13
Mountbattens' progress" during of the old Viceregal Lodge negotiations was a photograpli (now the registrar's office an American took of her with Gandhi, walking with his hand of Delhi University), and on her shoulder as he used to they were married in 1922, leun on his grand-nieces when blographer Holman noting going to a prayer meeting.
touch, "It was a marvellous that it took four men to lift the huge wedding cake.
demonstrating in a gesture the new spirit that had entered in- Thus in the mad, gay to British-Indian relations and 'twanties the Mountbattene (the photograph) made a
fortune." "found themselves with £45,000 a year after taxa tion....It must be said for Mountbattẹn that a good AND to an age passed by and time was never allowed to to England Lady Louis still the Mountbattens returned interfere with his career in intent on helping others (visits, the Navy oven if his ambi-TV broadcasts in good tions did remain something work with old prople, and su
on). of a joke to their sophis She is back in the gracious
world-a countera
Cher ticated friends..."
to husband was made an earl` in 1047) Dinner once more is “ky
OL KASU
General Ridgway, fresh from the
splendour Vice-regul
THEY SAID IT Tokyo; Field Marshal Mout-Quotes of the Week-Minister Abelin: Flaunce, M. gomery, who is Field Marshal 'ol Montgomery; Marshal Jum, who "Taxpayers are like sheep. You is Field Marshal Montgomery can shear them every year, but you can only cut their throats with a French accent.
Between the three of them once." anything might, happen: from Novelist Colette, after a pre- tho organisation of naval view of a film based on her the edge, of fo, What a beautiful life I Russian territorial waters("I have had, and what pity I was not told about .operation did not know it, before." Mainbrace," says Immay) to the Maurice Chevalier on a per- recent Impassioned appeal by fect gentleman: "A man who is General Juin for Spanish entry polite, even when driving a cor into the European Defence Or in France." ganisation.
manoeuvres, on-
technically, Ianay ja
the
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boss of the generala, CTRESS Gene Tierney inter- In fact, he has complained rupted a Boor show in publicly and bitterly that the Paris night club
seizo
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the photographer snapped her
wolf wish to' raise his volge/in. Khan's shoulder.
Ritual again
But should Lort Ismay him with her head resting on Aly Lady Louis. Des persin, candlelight,, a ritial
travel
to Iraq,
now
causes
there
are
There is a two-work holiday at Christmas and
another at
Easter
week off
For sports and games, they use a neighbouring college gym naslum and playing held, where they are encouraged to learn cricket, soccer, rugby, tunnis and hockey.
All books used in the school are American. In the first year physics book there is a section oni Jets.
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