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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1958.
Why They Want The Embassies
A
from RALPH HEWINS
Stockholm board's modol house No. It had CLUE to the real rea- let the ran through in 24 dif- ferent cases, There were 11,000 son why the British, building werkers lacking. But American and Indian Em- now, explained Bobronikov, the bassies in Moscow were re- whole administration is to be quisitioned by the Soviet centralised. Instead of the 30 existing housing committees authorities on December 29 Is given in the Government organ Izvestia.
A note to the British Ambassa- dor, Sir Alvity. Gascoigne, sald the big, ornate British Embaday, in a dominating position facing the Kremlin, was required "for reconstruction", and he was given three months to get out,
But that word "reconstruction" did not tell the full story behind The sudden Soviet move.
Moscow is in fact facing Ita worst building crisis, and the authorities are implying that foreign embassies are the culprits because they occupy good sites which could be put to better use * apartment houses.
TOUGHEST
Stalin's toughest effleléncy ex- pert, Nikita S. Krushev, is in charge of this problem involving the embassies and the, whole Moscow reconstruction pro- gramme.
He is taking time off from the 10-man Secretariat which now replaces the Politburo, and runs Russin through the new 36-man Presidium. He is also taking time off from the job of liquidat- ing collective farms and umalga- mating them into agricultural towns, a big task given him last
year.
there are to be only 25.
Clearly Moscow municipal au- thorities are being donned up. This is just opɑ example showing that little time is being warfed In doying General Secretary Madenkov's recent instructiona "to purge the party"
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT lancasteR
*For culture's sake, Lionel, don't let your principles force you into resigning from UNESCO until we're quite certain' there's going to be a Press "Commission for you to get a job on !!"
HELEN (
learns to live and play again
18, AND BLINDED IN AN ACCIDENT
"Hire,"
who
been
SUFFRAGETTE and SON
At 70 Sylvia Pankhurst speaks for the man who made headlines
M
as a baby
Y grandmother did not much care for Sylvia Pankhurst. When I reflected on all that Sylvin and Sylvia's slater Christabel and their mother, Mrs Em- meline Pankhurst, had gone through to get grandmother the vote I used to feel ashamed of her.
I thought of those hunger strikes and forcible feedings; those prisons with their skilly and their grubby blankets; the rough handling in the streets; the ridicule and the
"Ye music-hall jokes. and the fires in letter-boxes and chaining themselves to the railings of No. 10. Wick ed and unseemly!" sald my grandmother.
by LOUISE REID
in the Crimean War and that of Lloyd George the Boer War,
MISS PANKHURST AND SON A 1930 picture.
Then there is her work for Ethiopia, or, as wo used to say, Abyssinia. Sylvia journal called The New Times
والله
and Ethiopian News, }
A
I don't think the tribunal quite Eleven years after the liberam -- But all that was 40 years ago. understood. He would not have tion of Abyssinia Sylvia is still minded fighting the Nazis, but an enthusiast about the Emperor
Kenya,
Abyssinian women have left us
Sylvia Parkhurst has beca In and out of the-news ever since, he would not want to fight in Halle Sclassic. It seems That In 1026 she astonished the world
"For that matter I can't standing in the race for equall by openly having a baby, outside wedlock. She told the news- Imagine Richard killing anybody ty, "The helplessness of English papers at two-column length that anywhere. He was always a women appals me," says Sylvia. Once he was "Our married women have so woman's right to gentle little boy. It was every be an unmarried mother, Now ent a box of toy soldiers. When tow rights, and yet they do she has turned up in the news disappointed. I said,
moh saw what it was he was very nothing about it. Now, in Ethio- Shall pla if a marriage breaks up, the again, testifying before
put them away?' selentious objectors tribunal on Yes do. He never asked for
He said, wife takes half the total pro-
perty: behalf of her only son, 24-year- them again."
a cun-
old Richard Pankhurai, Ph.D.
For 23
Torquay.
said Mr Drake, TIE girl said: "Isn't "we start contai
Thabitation
sho and Richard' years In the dining room. Some people it beautiful?" and I
ave lived just up the hill be- come have literally agreed. We stood out spoon-fed at home, Here, after hind the station at Woodford side a house high above the first day or so,
solid, bour-W we forget Green, Essex, in a
detached house, Torquay; the view of Tor- to help people with their food. geols-looking
They and it quite easy to cut bay, with the sun on the water, and of wooded hills and cat their meals, if they'r
(as our waitresses tell half lost in blue haze, was, prople)
what's on the plate, and the position of the meat and Indeed, lovely.
vegetables and so on, None of us are very pretty caters, but
"Beautiful," the girl repeated. She meant the sun, the warmth In the air, not, the view; for though, with her big brown Kruschev has suddenly re-gyes, she was staring across the emerged in his often-forgotten boy, she could see nothing. She position as Communist Party was blind, Secretary of the city of Moscow. As such, he has just demanded "better discipline and planning on the housing front in the capital."
At the last City Council meet- ing, his deputy, Bubronikov, an- nounced that, since the war, the equivalent of £200,000,000 had been spent on repairing Moscow, and nearly £40,000,000 was die bursed in 1952 alone.
MISTAKES
Bobronikov promised that be- fore 1955 another 6,500 dwelling would be repaired. Then house that work tone to dale has been very bad in quality and "full of mistakes." Moreover,, only 77 percent of the Moscow building programme had been fulfilled. The Chairman of the Krasio Presma district, Sidorov, and his assistant, Kraynov, had been dismissed, he added.
In most new houses there were
no boilers.
Her name was Helen, and she was 18 years old. She lost her sight in a fairground accident. Now, at this Home of Recovery for the Newly Blinded, Helen is learning to live a near-normal
without sight.
Helen is a "total" in a smalit community of the bilnd-60 strong when I was there—where "par
"partials" can see a little, and
to "totals"" not at all. and men with sight feel rather as those do who put on white tie and talls for a funelion where others are Informally dressed – feel over- equipped.
H six weeks, and will be there, TELEN has been at the home probably, about as long again.
Her days are full. The blind are kept busy,
has
up
told
we do all right.",
Shaving, on the other hand, comes relatively easily for men,
Blind warden of the home for the Mind: Mr. Tom Drake with his wife, who has sight,
$1
Prison dress
In the kitchen
E sat facing each other on BACK in Woodford Green sho resumed her modest round, Windsor chairs across with half-day help. "When the
mahogany table
and
help's not there we all go Into
brick and double-fronted, with round faring yellow gate, hydrangeas drank coffee. A faded photo- in the front garden and a wik graph of Keir Hardie, the first the kitchen and cook something when we feel like it. But food Socialist MP, looked down derness behind.
on le not important with us,” from the chimney-piece. Son means more
Money is not very important Near it hung self-portrait of to her either. "I manage,"
she wearing prison
dress THEY have many visitors, none Sylvia
says, "Lup had two useful of them Pankhursts. Mother while serving one of her many legacles from friends who were Dame sentences as a militant suffra in the suffrage movement with Emmeline died in 1928. Christabel, unmarried, in gette around 1910.
She told America "heralding," as she her.
me about her 14- Journalism and the royalties
szif ́puts it, "he personal, viible hour working and powerful Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ." "I don't often hear from her,"
says Sylvia. "When your views are different you don't write much." Sister Adela went campaigning to Australia before the 1st World War. She married Torn Walsh, a trade union leader, and stayed there.
But a son means more than On the dam side sisters. Richard's
companionship
enough for her.
is
Seventy years old now, Sylvia DIRI has a vaguely 1910 Inok: grey hair scooped back, an an cient black corded silk coat over a drab cardigan, no nonsense, no
much as jewellery, not so ring. And of course, no make-up, Lipstick in particular she ab- hors. Not only does it spoil the
A
essent portrait et
kim pasabureji, ne won droscations 'wanting help.
me Then there
starts. from my
and
day.
books. And I made with a mixed quite a few thousand from my bag of corrCS- two American lecture tours in
pondence 1910 and 1911, Yes, I have letters from always managed." women whose
While she has been managing husbands have, and drudging and drilling, What left
them.
have
been younger women whose lovers doing? "I'm a little disappointed have abandon in what women have done with them, the vote," she says. "Women's seeking great work today is peace. And
women
amilation
or they are not doing it. They ders and justice should be out there picketing for their child- the United Nations, fighting for. ren. widows peace
w we fought for the
shape of the mouth, she asserts, barrister father told her as soon having but we were always
It also reveals the slave men- tality.
with pension vote. problems
"And the cinema, Here's work elucidate. for women. Films are deplor There are al- able. Crime is the direct result waye people of American gangster Glms. When Richard was a little boy I Not that Sylvia vor expected used to take him to the pictures
Her anything else from Life.
to come out, blondes out of the cradio. and she was
people being murdered, "And children's "Drudge and drill, drudge and
toys. I was drill. If you do not work for reading the other day about He will resist
other people you will not have some little children being sold
daggers... real.
Why don't women 3 I grow up with pinked lip before asking her
Four part- Well, why don't they? It about Ph.D. son, Richard, who destiny," she says, has been twice refused registra Ume secretaries help her with would have been no use asking
grandmother. her desilny now, and their re- my tion as conscientious objector.
"Richard is going to resist, plies are knocked off rapidly, wanted the vote anyhow."
she can get on with she announced calmdy. "His case so that
_(World Copyright Reserved—London is rather Eke that of John Bright writing books arid, articles.
Express Service.)
Conway smoked a pipe, the PASSED -me-longue-over-my-been worth the upbrise of do something about 17"
Helen is learning braille, type and writing, basketwork and simple quickly to make themselves up women and girls learn assembly jobs. She hopes ulti mately to work
without a mirror. in a factory. She is learning to play, as well Warden cigarettes; each carried as work, and since coming here a snuff-box-one is given to The city planning square-dancing.
as taken
up swimming and each blind smoker for use 65
As Impor
an ashtray, to save embarrassed as any of there, she le
groping. "mobility"—to walk without
About that other widely held groping or stumbling, to move belief, that the, blind acquire a about rooms without knocking "sixth sense," they were doubt- things over. She is shedding the ful, though they agreed that bamed helplessness of the newly blinded.
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even
blind here,
those senses already possessed, especially Lou and hearing. become more acute, The blind man's stick, for example, gives FTER her accident,
Helen him radar-like
"echoes" from was six weeks in hospital. objects like walls, and Then she returned to her Igi-
One boy, bont Kamp-posts. cester home. She was there a
country-bred, who came lorig time bufore coming to could find his way to a deck- Torquay, I asked her what she chair set in the middle of an did with herself in those deadly empty lawn, by slapping his months, "I tried
bit of house thigh and receiving such an work," she said, "I went to people's socials, but they were really for old peopic. knitted
"Bind "ocho."
*
a lot and well, I just cal PRISKLY, the. Warden showed
the me round She listened to around"
the home-car- radio endlessly. and days drag pentry, pottery, typing and ged by very slowly.
trandicraft classes were going I didn't bring on; in the gymnasium, blind my knitting here," "Wouldn't have time, for it.”
ball.
Matt as well it Holen said. men were busy with a medicine
She said goodbye and went off After work was over, Fore with
her white mick for kind might go to cinemas or theatres,
of "golo-trip"-4 walk down for the town's entertainmente
•
"Rather the last workman - here than the first Marshal in Russia."
"
She never
The Wind Of Freedom
By George Tansey
Manchester. part of England. They go to the carp, the liver paste, and
IF you want to fool gad to quarries or mines, foundries The babman in th
the village
If you ask them after you have got to know. thern, they will tell you, they are happy and the English who, employ them or collect their rents will tell you they are good workers and good tenante.
you live in a Democracy, and potteries, the women to the club has the vodíca ` bottle a land of the free, you can- silk mille..
always hardty.. They pay their rent to Leek turned into a farmi. Vegetablo The whole village has been not do better than consider a Polish village without a Rural Counellten shillings or
twelve shillings a week-just plots are everywhere, Geese name which is located on
English and ducks and hens wander as though they were the "steppes" of Stafford council house tenants. They around freely. Dogs bark and
ecamper. watch British television pro- shire, England.
On bleak moors, where storm grammes and listen to Brilish the steep hill to the post office, industry is generous with free and snow sweep unchecked; radio. They play foolball with Their that was part of her training in tickets for the blind; or a leadi there is an old, hulted camp, a local English teams..
days of the children go to school in Leek mobility.
of men from the home might grelle of the carly
war, siled with the British War and talk American slang as well Warden of these homes down to Tho
down to one of two nearby inne energetic #Ji
from man
Office's uncanny instinct for ex as English children dol and play the locals at darts, Liverpool, Tom Drake, who is On Saturdays men are given posed, isolated and uncomfort.
able sites, 41 and went blind when he was free grandstand seats for Tor-
You might say. It was no 20. He met his wife, who has quay's football matches, The
And yet, though they do all place for civilians, to live; you sight and acts as his secretary, Rotary Club provide headphones might on the train from the north to and a commentary, on the game. simple joys of family life could.
think gaiety and the those English things, they still their problems. They think the
live in Poland, fill speak winter on the Staffordshire. Torquay. He was coming to be Warden,
*
dream Pollets moors is harder than the deep: * she to join the staff.
not survive such icy sleet and Polish and still
the winter dreams,
snows and intense cold of They presently married, and a MORE than 1,000 people have howling winds in
Poland.
•The black, Blitz-falinded
young
man from passed through the Homes
But that would be because shapes of the British army huts, They worry about how long Beckenham, John Conway, who at Recovery since 1941. The
temporary homes Is now the Warden's assistant, present population la far you have never had to face a the Nissen hangars, the brick thele flimsy
world where the wind of free water lower, the tandliar Bag will last. They have electric was best mon.
cross-section of the community- Tom Drake mid: "Yes, the a barrister from Liverpool; a
pale near the gate, are all subtly light, cooking stoves and cold shock when you first know girl who worked on an assomb-
transformed by a stratre foreign running water now, but no hot homeliness.
water, no bathroom facilities. you're blind is terrible. I thought ly plant, at Dagenham, o bair
The woman
Yet they profor their bleak, all there was left in life fee me dresser from Forest Gate: 1
walking between
cardigans the towns.
community is to lodgings. In Tast
དྷྭ་
dom had ceased to blow.
ugly, creosoted
They have their worries and
Here, braving the British to keep out of people's teacher from Flest; an insurance winter with some bewilderment the hurts is dressed in English melom village and its Follets.
way, and dost my family as fitte agent from Haywards Heath; but also much content, are clothes scarf, two possible.
200 Polish families and fur bootces yet the colours Seventy homes vacated I save away my two writer whose poems grs wide-nearly fountain pens, my oveping suit, ly known, from Leeds.
about 700 Pollshmen, women she has chosen and the way she year by familles emigrating to
them mark her out Those who can contribute to my plus dours.
and children. According to the wears
Americo wore. Immediately size of the family, they have stantly. She is Katinka from flied by other Foilsh familice to half u
hut or a third of a Cracow sudden glimpse of
·Above all, they treasure the musical comedyer folk-dance ore hut.
freedom Britain gives them to festival to an English eye.. But, miraculously, this im't
stay Polleh, while Decording village pricat crosses a them "Polish camp," Just another
The
the same justice and concrete path to the confes accurity as Britor It lan't a camp at alle de
church--a English people
thereabouts one of Eastern priest, who can compare the Father Sarglowicz, the villago
tree talks about "Little Poland." It is European
"O
In
He smiled, remembering, and their keep at the hornes do so on wald: "A lot of people, when a Aiding scale, according
Conditions they are first blind, are very their
income. embarrassed and self-conscious, the same for everyone; what-
and there is They hide themselves when ever they. friends call, they
out
Malting because they feel cont
Bald John Conway, who, Relations and friends, then this spare time, is studying low: sivos upset by the affletion of "Except for roading, there is the blind one tend to be cruel really nothing a blind man can through their kindness, emphas not do Bat you have to work kising his kask of independence out a new approach for every Gxy fun and well-means molly--single setivily, big asset mall. coddling.
get nearer the truth when they masterpiece art and devotion Staffordshire winter
real Poush village an oasis packed into a Nissen, hut.
man with the Biberian winter
of Polish freedom in, the heart. The village shopkooperanata prieoner, said to me of England's freedom
old soldier of the Polish Army, "I would, rather ; be the Z025.
Its inhabitants are part
of
checks over his English rations workers in Meglarak than the
A.S.-
England, yut: are free: to be.
side by side, with his the salami, Orsh: Mineatail des Zumak