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toch. Ex Jap ROW:
But, my dear sir, YOU have only been through hell!"
THE THREE RED R's
IS for Apple. The
Cut Bat on the Mat. That's the
Goldilocka ate
Little Beur's porridge.
Remember?
the
Of course Way Stalin
you remember. And Rus- sians remember much the thing from early sume childhood.
But from his early child- hood-ah, there the Rus- sim takes a sharp left turn away from the traditional childish lore of the Western schoolchild.
When the Russian boy is nine orien he starts on the last phase of his education, digesting # diet of hatred for the capitalist system and pity for the workers who live under it, coupled with gratitude, adoration, and op timin about the way of life in the Soviet Union and the People's Democracies.
Tknow of this because ̈ ́a
· London art teacher has just brought back-from A "good will inission" to Russia-a plie of children's books which 1 have had translated,
They are well produced and Channingly illustrated,
ali
The Brundlers
London Express Service
is catching 'em young
by GEORGE SCOTT
Little Vasya... and (below the title of the magazine that features Alin,
МУРЗИЛККА
America which is most harshly and most often denigrated.
In Druzhnye Rebyula, a magazine for ploncers and schoolchildren, aged 10 to 14, published by the Central Com-
mittee of the Komsomol--the Young Communists' League-
a book review headed appears "Stories about, Africa."
What did
the American Mr Elmsley, want in faraway Africa when he arrived in the peaceful village with his platoon of soldiers? He wanted
the Butako tribe.
Who says pioneering is a young man' job?
H
row old do you have age making such a journey, now mission sites could bo
to be before adventure Too old, they said.
established up the Amazon ceases to beckon? The Nonsense, said Mr and also we wanted to map answer comes today from a Walkey. If they won't send some unsurveyed parts of modest bungalow outside me, then I'll send myself. the river." the unadventurous city of Which he proceeded to do, Their confidence Was Bath: and it is, simply-- You're never tho pld.
Consider the ease of the Rev. Oliver Walkey.
He has just returned to his bungalow after a 2,000- mile trip which took him 18 months.
He got in touch with his justified. Offers of help bo-
to eldest son, 38-year-old Sam gan
come in. An Walkey,
a surveyor in American offered them 1 Southampton. Would ho launch-If they could fit it care to join him at his own out themselves and make it expense? He would... riverworthy for the trip.
The two men booked
on Others gave paraffin and.
Where did he go? Why, Amazon they could find:
the cheapest line to the food.
Father and son fitted two far up the Amazon, where £75 a head, tourist class, bunks into the ancient boat, few Europeans have ven- and only Portuguese food overhauled the tiny five
tured.
And he came back, calm and unperturbed, just in time to celebrate his 74th birthday.
↓
Sent Himself WALKEY, white haired. white bearded, had want
g to make the trip for a long time. Before World War
served past Lisbon. Manaes, tourist They landed at
stopping-off point 1,000 miles up the Amazon, and the end of the steamer
run, with exactly
by
horsepower, engine, and set
off upstream.
JAMES
Son Sam was akipper; father Walkey was crew. And very nimble he needed to be, for the boat had no re-
£7 between them.LEASOR verse gear and the
Says Mr Walkey,
looking back now:
only way to get
going from a shore
I, and later in the twenties, "At Mannos, many thought stop was for old Mr Walkey he had voyaged many times we were mad. We hadn't to push the bout off with a to Brazil, felt there was enough money to put up in long pole and then jump still much missionary work an hotel, but some kind aboard smartly. to be done there.
man let us stay in his sum- But no missionary society mer house. would back his latest trip. "We kept faith with our They would not take respon- selves and our project. We sibility for Д man of his wanted to see whether any
Downfall of a Matinee Idol
N echo from Mayfair's
Agilded past was heard
was cited as
PARIS
NEWSLETTER
from SAM WHITES
Once their propeller hit
a submerged pile and bent the shaft. When they raced the engine the craft vibrated 80 much that the seams began to leak, and more water came inboard than they could pump out.
They had no choice-but. to beach the boat. They ran it into a bank, and some local fishermen helped them to drag it up. Then they pulled out the propeller shaft, bored two holes in two pieces of hard wood, threaded the shaft through them, and bent it straight.
.
First Step ONCE a poisonous, bird- dlot is a norinal one and he enting spider crawled over drinks both wine and brandy. Oliver Walkey's bare chest: His only concession to his doc-
tore: he rations himself to entwas luckily scooped up into la tobacco tin before it could, one cigar a day.
On the day of his birthday besting, -- wag
reading Talulah Bank- head's memoirs. At fivo teu was
Countess Mountbites: red-
The river was in full
in a dingy Paris courtroom last week. Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for a £25 fraud was a former French film star, Henri Garnt.
Garat, now broken and aged, co-respondere in 1839, when Captain A. C. Cun- ringham-Reid, former MP, was given a divorce against his the former Clarisse Ashley,
and there wero more flood, running 50 ft, above Before the war Garat wag guests unti
Sir Charles had to its normal level. The topa love to take in two cocktail of leading
forest France's
trees brushed лnd
profile still parties. That night he was a against his boyish
their hull; fish swam where bushes grew. coloured postcards, His privato at a dinner party. adorns thousands of sentiment 1 guest of the Duke of Windsor life throughout was tempestuous. His 34-year-old second wife.
They stopped at every He married and divorced three Yvonne, complains that she can settler's hut, held services not stand the pace. She now in- for Brazilians and Indians, finally married a
distributed copies of the Bible in the Portuguese language, conducted "aing-
dancers and
WOR
matinee idol
the lands, which belonged to prize suspect of the French insists on being given one day's
telligence service, Countess "holiday" a week. Mario Besotracoff, found guilty
of wartime collaboration. THE wedding of Prince de songs with an accordion.
KASANDA
MR
But
these apparently loud voice heard throughout the in his story
in classroom, he says:— harmles qualities are zeen the end to be just a part of a
"I love Stalin!* carefully calculated progression to gure Communist doctrine.
Very
good,' teacher, and halt...
LITTLE VASYA
strokes
of
the
his
Efter
THE SHARE-OUT
Beauveau Craon and Cris-
"We learned that all we
later
During the war Garts lived in FR Elmsley wanted to convert.
having been duly Now the Walkeys, father retirement on his country pro- ting Patino them into rubber plan-
perly but shortly after the liber- celebrated, al that remained and son, say: "We feel, wa tations. The author tells of the alion he was ined for being in was for Signor Patino, Bolivian have proved that if you tragic fate of the Negro tribe possession of quantities of U.S. tin
millionaire father of the have faith, anything is pos- Army petrol. 'Sccrets
bride, to make a settlement. The In 1948 he went into a clinic settlement:
18,000 Belgian Congo."
aible. dollars for
year, emerged apparently (£6,000) a month for Cristina, The hero-a
young strong cured of drug addiction and 5,000 dollars (£1,300) a month had to do was to be willing Negro by the name of Kasanda married his nurse, by whom he for the Prince
to take the first step-in. the refuses to leave his native had a son. He opened a toy says
QUOTE OF THE WEEK Varya's land. Together with
our case, to book a ticket to shop in Paris-vaming it, his greatest screen hit, "The RIGHT-WING MP Loustalau- the Amazon. One step at a
Lacou: The State, raising Road to Paradiso"--but the ven charks in a swimming pool and time is enough, but make ture failed. Since then he has feeding them caviare.
that step unfalteringly." taken various jobs ar salesman. "But, in the end, they all
When he stood in the
dock Coupled with the glorifica-
in the swamps, from
he pleaded: "I did it for my lt- tion of Stalin, with the
in- Perish
noxious exhalations. from the tie son." culcation of Jove of the Con- lethal stings of the tsetse fly, munist Fatherland, there 800s and, simply, at hunger. Only DEPARTMENT
PLEASED?
of dubious instruction in the "degrada- the toughest survive, among them Kasanda, and they go to
compliments: A French dip-
correspondent "Pug" Ismay: "He is so British that except for the missing pipe he reminds me irresistibly of Stanley Baldwin.”
~CHOOL altendance in Russia Se the delfication of Stalin is not compulsory until the begins from the first day at age of seven. The junior school school. seer begins on September 1.
And in a children's magazine call Murzika I have read-in translation a story entitled
It tells of
tion" of the West.
comrades. other Negroes, he Aghts for the land which was their fathers and their fathers' fathers' up to the last.
lomatic
On
"The First of September,"
a seven-year-old boy's first day at school, He is It comes, as an example, in work in the uranium mincs..." NATO's Secretary-General, Lord happy, excited. Like the other the Russian version of "Boys" *So the Russian child goes children, the boy, Vasya On Paper."
This is called through school, emerging-after Nezhdanov. arrives carrying "Pioneer."
The issue in front it all-as a true Soviet citizen, flowers und à big briefcase.
of me has a charming sketch able to tell Soviet white from on the front cover of a Soccer Capitalist black with the mini- At their first lesson the match where, clearly, the Hope mum of effort and the maximum children are taught what of the Side is saving the vital of Stalinist reliability.
11.
sentence is,
The children work out sen- tences. for themselves. One after
another: "I can play football,"
goal.
PIONEERS
"I went fishing," "My daddy BUT, inside, there is an article factory... But entled "Letters from Far
works nt a
Vasya can think of nothing Away Friends"
to say. The story goes on!--
"Natasha, who sits next to Vasya suddenly puts
up her hand: 'We don't want war.'
good,' БЛУБ
Very teacher.
looks
the
The foreword mys:-}
"These Jetters were sent lo us from our faraway friends- from pioneers abroad,
"They all intended to say great deal, but they had not the
do
The young Parisian, Jean, had to interrupt his letter because he was ofmald
at his little time to
"Vasya friend with respect. What
clover girl Tils
2
50
really was something. He no longer wants to be late for work.
to form a sentence about mush-
"Tho children of fighting.
rooms or strawberries. He too Vietnam had to rush to the wants to say something that's air-raid sheller. really big, really Important.
"The letters from the chill- "And Vasya drops his eyes dren in capitalist countries and and looks up again and sighs, colonies tell about the horrors There is a portrait on the of war, unemployment, and the wall. Stalin socmr to chuckle impossibility of going to school. at him, he stems to feel with
him, to help him...
"There!
"Quite different," "bright' and cheerful, sound the letters from Now that's some the young pioneers of Hungary, thing big, the most important Poland, liberated China." thing of all, Vasya's chocks are
adame, his band shoots up........ „Although... Britain comes in. Vasya stunda trip. And, in
a for her shero of abuse, it in
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
and so her two repressed and emotionally unfulfilled elder sisters forced proclinėlė Cinderella to conform to the
·behaviour' pattern of a socially 'underprivileged domestic, svorkaraštytos
SIR CHARLES'S DAY IR CHARLES MENDL, that seemingly ageless boulevar- dier, celebrated his 81st birthday. In Faris recently. There was no party to mark the occasion, and Sir Charles adhered to what be describes a "my normal scho- dule."
Here is the schedule: Sir Charles. rises at nine and celves his masseur in his nine- raomed, partly cake panelled, flat. Then over a tea-and-toget he settles himself before the telephone
to
his large mail and begin
the really serious business of the
dny-that of receiving a stream
of telephone colis.
On the morning
mong of his birth- day they included calls from the
Barocess Dewavrin, Prin
blonde
the
dress
cesa Simone Troubetzkoy, and the strikingly handsome Mme Mareet Rochas, wife ·0% designer, Hollywood calls came in from film stars Arlene Dahl, and columnist Irene Dunne
Louella Farsons.
By mid-day Sir Charles was dressed in a now quit for him by the Duke of madely Windsor's tailor. By 12.30 he was taking his first dry. Martini and receiving lunch
gucats. "small" ode Thó lunch WAS AL -only 19 guests, Bir Charles's
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