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10 Dwight D. Eisen- has reached hower
By EDWIN
ROTH
with
Alger
Visa to
Gorky-st.
WHICH, POLITICS ASIDE, GIVES YOU A GOOD IDEA OF HOW RUSSIANS LIVE, EAT, DRINK
By Jerome Broad
cigarettes,
FTER the analysis of them to buy some Russlan political aims, money a truck-driver stopped A I was getting out my the tactics of the Com- at the corner, jumped down. munist parties, the psycho from his truck, and came run- logy of the men in the ning to the kiosk. Kremlin, there remains one "Pour me out seven nunces,
he suld to the woman in charge. She poured into o large glass some liquid that of first took to be water. The truck- driver swallowed it at one gulp, bought an end of sausage, and then said:
question, fascinating and üniversal: What are the Russian people like at home?
A Frenchman Who got A three-month visa to visit Russia, has just attempted an answer to this question in a new book, "Visa to Moscow,"
"Another three and a half ounces, comrade!"
He drove off at high speed. He had drunic ten and a half ounces of vodka, with an alcoholic con- tent of 40 percent or more, at hall past ten in the morning,
Michel Gordey was, of course, prevented from seeing anything the Russians did not want him to see; he was. of course, prevented from taking photo-
After him other passers-by graphs; he
of vas_
course, stopped at the same kloak; and severely limited in the number during the five minutes that I and sort of peoplo ho could
spent there, the vodka flowed talk to w even though he freely.
sponks Russian fluently,
But from his trip he did pro- duce a number of unjaded im- pressions of life in Russia to day.
IN
were
EATING OUT
Russian all-norte-
THE SLUMS
Black mud, snow WHAT other aspect of Moscow
does not appear In the propaganda pictures? Says Gordey, who was Impressid by the crowded shops in Moscow's Gorky Street.
Moscow restaurant, which makes a practice of
When I began to take longer charging Average prices," Gor- walks I discovered twisting Hitle dey noticed that many tables
occupied by officers in alleys, badly paved and rather soruld. The compulsary clean- very becoming tunles of khaki liness of the centre of the elty
dark blue, their chests had
this was old disappeared; covered with decorations, thele Moscow, black boots well polished, their The sidewalks were so high 1 to jump down to reach the peg-topped, many of had their skulls close-shaven or street,
which was covered with bald...
black mud.
or
trousers
SOV-SOCCER
It's a riot.
who told me: "If I voted for my closely associated
for Hiss, and his speech was inter- vote business, I would the climax of one of
Stevenson, The Democrats have spersed with such "slips of the tongue" 19 "Alger I mean brought this country great the greatest careers
Adial." world history. The
prosperity a falte prosperity
Но further" notes: "Tha In the courts and backyards perhaps, but still prosperity. Everyone wondered whether civilians were Supreme Commander of the
of all kinds, the half-melted snow lay in There is a lot of building going President Truman's immense There were workmen Allied Forces in the Second
without huge piles, dark and dirty, Re- on throughout this country, and campaign trips throughout coats or tles, with hands fuse and old nowspapers ilttered World War, who went on to
there may be much less under America would do more good blackened by labour; and there the ground. become the Supreme Com-
the Republicans, But I've got than harm.
were intellectuals dressed like The result of the
with. mander of the world's great- Democratic administration was
middle-class Parisians, boy out in Korea, and it election shows that these trips, stiff collars, ties, est
and double- peacetime defensive deliberately stalling in Korea, n alliance, has been elected to that the United States could voled for my business, I'd be which were originally opposed) breasted sults (but. the cut of speedily win this war, and that -voting against him. Elsenhower by Stevenson, did more harm their clothes was very different the greatest office in the Eisenhower would do just that, will clear up this busingas, too. than good. It tended to identify from ours),
ORDEY went to a football free world.
There were women in long match so weak that we Stevenson with some of the cor-
at. The recent Communist offensive, If we
the Dynamo. whip the and Eisenhower's pledge that he couldn't
Norib
dresses, with lines quite unlike Stadium, between "Dynamo”— rampant under ruption
those of Paris (for here the the Secret Police team and regime. There
was elegant' gowns are shaped like "Torpedo" the team which himself would visit Korea, gain- Korcans, we'd better start run- ed him many votes.
ning now, because the Russians Truman
sacks and fall straight from the takes its name from also the sensational "revelation"
vast Mog- could get us any time. But I
by columnist Walter. Winchell shoulders) . and there were
factory, He says:— don't believe we are so weak.'
1922 Truman had be also girl students longed to the Ku Klux Klan. working women in simple cot
ton blouses and
very short skirts."
cam-
Throughout the paign, Eisenhower, an im- mensely popular figure for more than n decade, has 3. The tremendous desire for been well ahead of Adini a change any change away Stevenson,
name from the Democratie adminis to most tration.
was
whose
unknown
orc
PERSONALITY
LUSENHOWER gained count- less votes by his personality,
the of He was not only
uninterruptedly for
Americans less than 3 The Democrats had been in year ago. As the campaign power -went on, it became clear twenty
that three
main
Millions years.
cor- During the
past
three Steve
that in
This was, of course, denied by Truman.
Washington months, Edwin Roth has every place ho vislied, and campaign. of
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The Dynamo team, Inst year's champions, played quite brutally. The spectators began to yell with indignation. Theso protests reached their climax in the second half when two mem- bers of the Torpedo team had to on stretchers be carried off "Crookes "Brutes," "Assar-
Two
with
After twenty years, the De- mocrats are now out of office. world. But we have not heard the last causes Americans felt that, if the party famous General who had won the of that bright new star on the
politient Second World War, but his world's
ORDEY, on his tour of Rus sins!". firmament, would send Eisenhower into
ason. During Stevenson
dcal of crowd sense...)
the sin, noted Adial
Torpedo won the game by and ..was.__terrinc the White House:
to that of Adia vastly
Stevenson drunkenness. He records: My one goal to nothing. Near- superior
01 past three months, He attracted enor- has Stevenson.
fought the Presidential first night out in Moscow I me a man was calling out; "So mous
enthusiastic
way amazed by the number of much the worse for the Dyna- crowds in s
1956. He will
Intoxicated men who, in groups mos if they think they can get spend the next four years
everything! of two or three, were reeling away
It's ad toured the United States millions were delighted by his unofficial Leader of the Opposi Truman
about or singing in the very sport we're looking for here, and the from the Atlantic to the ebulllent personality, his cheer- tion, keeping a sharp eye
centre of the city, under the not murder! The men play in and the im the Eisenhower administration, violent public reaction Pacific. He has travelled with ful friendllness
policemen's Indifferent eyes. jerseys, not uniforms!". put into using his superb oratory and
During the next General Eisenhower, Gov- mense charm lu
two months against it.
MVD [Secret Police] humour whenever possible to
I got used to this spectacle, I officers heard these remarks im- ernor Adlai Stevenson and very wave of his hands.
say, "I told you so."
saw it not only in Moscow but perturbably.
without turning Wherever I went in the President Harry Truman, In complete contrast with
in all the cities, large and round. The United States during the and has interviewed numer- Stevenson, Eisenhower promised
Bottle for the White mall, that I was able to visit. Well, Beria's men may have taxation a popular House is over, and America past three months, I found ous Americans in all walks lower
At all the principal street kept their ears closed to the promise. He also gained votes breathes a sigh of relief. But white-hot
wooden remarks of a football fan, but against of life. In this article he in the traditionally Democratic under its political system, this anger
where one may
buy it is clear from Gordey's book this corruption, and a explains the reasons for Gen- southern states by
his in- nation will soon begin to pro mineral waters, sand- that the listening car of in- fanatical desire to
rich oll de pare for the Congressional clean eral Eisenhower's victory. sistence that the
wiches and vodka. These formera ond stool-bigeons is up the
America's election of 1954. Between now American capital.
posits lying beneath
booths, like all enterprises in like a shadow, over" anything ........................^esed tide lands should belong to the and then. President Dwight the U.S.S.R., are operated by ko friendship between a Rus- Young voters in particular
state owning the coasts. and Eisenhower will hear a lot more the 'State,
slon and a foreigner. were tremendously eager to system was to survive, a Repub- not to the whole pation.
from Governor Adlai Steven- On my first daytime walk in join Eisenhower's "Crusade lean had to be elected President
son,
the capital I stopped at one of for Clean Government."
THE MESS
this time.
The Communist danger in- side America was one of the campaign, Typical of the opinions of main issues of the
here the and millions of Americans-parti scored heavily,
Republicans They worked cularly young Americans was day and night to convince the that of a young unskilled work- American
voters that Elsen-
the
Today fact that Stevenson had acted
DWNL
HE
corners KIOSK
there
This particular fear formis its
own Iron Curtain.
ALWAYS HAD THE ANSWER
By J. W. Taylor
the
THERE was no doubt about er in a brewery in Milwaukee, hower was better qualited than the personal integrity of carning 2 dollars 10 cents an Stevenson to deal with this Stevenson, but many voters hour. Ho was stationed for danger. Among their biggest NE day during, the war the Scottish Lowlande, but he How many ̈ leiters in felt that he could not clean Austria after the war,
two
in years Germany and campaign ammunition was the young woman rang couldn't really wear tarian. Bibiy xa cly a man's headw a Bible?-Exactly 3,560,480; How up what he himself had he has a security of employ 08 Д character witness for up the Glasgow City Library cast at the news, but he brighten Average about 120,000: What described as "the mess in ment, a fine home and a good Alger Hiss, when Hiss was on about a postcard she had of when Mr Dunlop remarked religion is Anthony Eden's?- Washington." In addition, car.
trial for perjury.
received from her prisoner that the sailor's wife, however Anglican; What are the "lucky" Stevenson made the enor- "I'm for Ike," he told mc.
of-war brother in Germany. pure Red Indian-had been colours to wrap goods for China mous mistake of having as "The Democrats may be better
HISS CASE The card said that if she called Forbes, after a Scotsman and India?-Yellow for China: India; What's the chairman of his meeting in for labour. I would hate the
knew the first line of the Company, so, in a way, she could
trading with the Hudson Bay red for
"Piping Handbook""? Guide to plumbers. Boston, only nine days be- Big Boys getting their hands on
song "Brother, Can You wear the tartan. government. But I have
Once a woman rang up this "Gee, that's great," said the "Brush Museum of the North" fore election day, James never yet known a Republican October 27, a week
Spare A Dime?" she would M. Curley, a prominent. De administration. Tuke ike, and Joseph McCarthy
fere election day, Senator
sailor. "It's worth five thousand drove his know what he was doing.
- it has over 600,000 referenca dollars to me,” mocratic politician who I think we should give the Re-
to a peak with campaign
books on how to fura the The problem was nothing to
heel of the sock she was climaxed a career of graft publicans a chance to show
nation-wide broadcast the research expert John Dunlop, # cost of which 80,000 dollars who is about to retire from the When the Dynamo team from knitting. Mr Dunlop soon by being sentenced in what they can do
had been January 1946)
paid Or take the
not by the off-post of Deputy City Librarian, Moscow played Rangers, they found out for her. A tickleh
One of the job was to find a suitable story. months' imprisonment for mechanical engineer from Long cla Republican Parly, but by for in the course of his fifty toured the library.
be told at a dinner Bources."
this, year service he has had to an Party was eventually missing, to be a huge mail fraud in con- beach, California,
McCarthy claimed that Steven SN
Dunlop found him funeral undertakers, but, hu all manner of quaint and Mr nection with war contracts. "I voted Democratic in 1948, son was surrounded by a staff queries. In a trice Mr Dunlop "seeing his country as others oco managed it.
There was the contractor who But Curloy was said to but I will vote Republican this of pro-Communist sympathisers, was able to fell the woman that " from the pages of an Eng-
wanted to khow the salt con: control 100,000 votes, which time," he told me. This whole He also charged that Stevenson, her brother was "bullding me a list book on Russia.
during
Even film men have sought tent of the Red Sea for building political railroad.”
who badly
alter Mr Dunlop's advice. When the purposes; the dog lover needed by world is a military world. The
politicians know nothing. Eisen- mission in Italy in 1940, had There was the American Baller picture about Madeleine Smith asked for the engulf of an Stevenson.
hower is a military man, and he dellberately folstered Com from Oklahoma one of hundreds was being made, they wanted Aberdeen Torrior's: { tail; " will kezp us out of trouble, mumisis on the unwilling Italian of American servicemen who call to check about the background. 2. The Communist throat, These are military times, and we Goverment, and had brought) w try and find if there was any of Glasgow at that period... It driveCturer - In the - Export must know the colour need to have a military man og the Communist Party Teader "Scatch" in them the blood, not was quickly forthcoming, for Mr of
the eyes of The average President." The majority of American ES
the bottled sort. The sailor said Dunlop is President of the Old citizen in Iraq, because he was "it was mighly
that
Club Glasgow
- Bonding them glass. Cyès -- voters believed sincerely that Eisenhower was the man bost Then there was the Oklahoma The condidature of Stevenson he would find important:
Mr. Dunlop prides himself on : cach of which Me Dunlop sup- qualified to deal with Soviet City, 54-year-old German- sald McCarthy had been
Mr Dunlop'a Inquiring mind the fact that he and his staff plied the correct answerS Rurale, and to bring the war in American inventor of a stone officially endorsed by the Consoon got bure and after a lot of have never got been slumped When he retires; Mr Dunlop Party. According to troulie he was able to tell the by an inquiry. Here are speci will take up a labour of live In Korea to a successful conclusion, breaking machine, who made a munist
the Baillie's Institution Library, Most Americans felt that the fortune out of his invention and McCarthy, Stevenson had, boonsaflor that his dorboars were from mens
were
and the war in Korea.
to
18
28-year-old
In
official his
**Togliatti back from Moscou.
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