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NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR
THESE RUSSIAN CHILDREN, BUT~
IF FATHER
IS A BIG
RED BOSS
T
THE way the men who run Russia live ex- poses the myth of a classless society in which all signs of rank and wealth were to be obliterated.
Tint is the conclusion to be drawn from a new survey
of
the latest Russian Five-Year
Plan.
world.
-THE WAY AHEAD
IS SO SMOOTH and children mingle and they themselves and occasional
res pile from the heavy chores
of
offler. Top Soviet officials have few days off, not even an e- arrod Sunday.
Pressure cf this
of
kind
16
the early
SHOULD WE FLOG OUR CRIMINALS?
T
Friday, February 18.
US is A. sodden morning with Hlate coloured skies By a fantastic coincidence the that are dropping first murderer to be tried on the following day was a wretched hypocritical tears upon my fellow who had foully killed a
In moping garden. the policeman in my own consti- centre of the terrace there fuency\while I was in America. is a wooden table flanked My constituents had such am gard for the murdered pollen by four wooden chairs, scaked by weeks of rain, but who was an exceptionally fine character, that they took up waiting for Spring if it ever o subscription of nearly £2,000
for the widow.
And then their confounded
murky, By Beverley
comes,
1
Wis
thought T
re-
was
I am writing in my library M.P. turns up from his travels Fifty thousand party boses, ponable
many high Soviet with portraits of Lloyd and helps to save the murderer Service officers, and
favoured death
even officials, make attention artists and intellectuals
though special George, Winston Churchill, from the gallows! I
of my sup- 14 given to their Disrao and Joseph Cham- Earded by many with their familles a total of
as a miserable fellow, a henith,
portlist. berlain to remind me that 200,000 Soviet aristocratz who eit
poseur, and Ministers have full time ore more class conscious thon any socialites in the Western private doctors who accompany he who sits in Parliament even a hypocrite. In fairness a them everywhere. Those just has a responsibility to his godly number credited me with
Rincerity but Many are rouble millionaires, below in the hierarchy share a ago no matter the degree of wrong. for they are allowed to keep physician among five six his significance or insigni- To complete that chapter the their wealth and also pass it on families.
At home the Soviet aristocrat ficance. And it is from the Lords reversed the decision of
surrounded by library that I look out upon the House of to be is likely furniture of a heavily carved, the lifeless vista of the hanging was duly restored-x-
ornato garden.
cept for those who had been gilded, and otherwise
heavily style. Lampa hea
reprieved during the intervent fringed,
ing period. In other words thr embroidered antimacassars dot
murderer of my policeman lives heavy, upholstered chairs.
on in prison detained "according to Her Majesty's pleasure."
to their children.
In fact money, next to fear, has become the chief incentive In Soviet life. Even Stalin's in- come tax mên handle the ellte than the West more gently handles its rick men.
So much
or
All elits homes have radios, many have small Gla, sercen Soviet TV sets as well.
Since the war the children BOSS carning 15 times as A
much as
worker pays only have had cameras, bicycles, and sometimes motor-cycles. even five percent more tux
In the British Army a briga- motor cats me of which were dier's pay is 12 times that of a picked up in Germany.
Servants in such homes are private soldier: the Red
In
300 times employees of the Government the pay of an ordinary soldier, office or factory directed by the
*** omelal,
Army a general gets
So patient
(The rouble is taken at the "Mela" rate of 15. Bd. Actually it is worth less in buying power.
The Soviet rich can invest at TN such rank-conscious society, three to five percent tax free in quite naturally, families tend to State banks, but, fearing purges associate with others of the same or sudden devaluation as in 1947, status, and zeek "good matches" 'Yew trust The banks, Instead for their children. they buy houses, furs, and other Juxury goods.
The survey goes on:- Prime symbol of status Soviet society is the dacha.
in
of
Yet it suits my mood for we are soon to debate in Parlin nient whether or пов corporal punishment shall be restored in Britain and I have decided to take part if the Speaker calls me, The Party Whips are off and the issue will be determined by every member voting according
conscience
party differences.
any
Commons and
BRUTALITY
THE odd thing is that in the Enme debate we abolished all forms of corporal punishment attacks un prison My position is complicated by except for the fact that in 1948, in a similar warders, and this was sustained In the debate on the issue of capital by the Upper House.
no back benchers and advocated the brutality, has been flogged or abolition of hanging because birched, except as stated, if he seemed wrong for the State to attacked a warder.
take human life and thus pre- vent a murderer making pesee with God,
punishment, I wound up for the years that have followed
criminal, however vlic
COINCIDENCE
And soon, also on a tree vete of the House, we are to decids whether or not corporal punish- ment shall be restored.
It is quite true that there has not been any increase in the
Baxter, MP. their control.
the mercy of influences beyond
Let us admit that heredily and environment undoubtedly play a be murderers in uniform. But pert as they to In everyone's an examination of the facts Etc. But what is this roi that proves that them is nothing lu they are under influences beyond that argument. There is not a their control? Do they raid a single case where an ex- bank when the police are look- commando has been arrested for Ing on? Do they beat up a criminal assault. Soldiers are woman if her husband and sons not brutalised by war, On the happen to be in the house? 01 contrary war wekens them of course not. They are sumelently
relf-controlled to violence.
plan their crims with cold, calculated precision. Therefore they must be regarded as men who are the masters of their fate.
These crimes are mostly com- mitted by men who never served In action, although some of them have been identified as descri ers. Therefore blame it on the war.
cannot We
Yet the community is not wholly blameless. The treat- by newspapers I must confess that in my ment of crime attitude towards both
the anderer--not hanging glamourikes
Intentionally but nevertheless and corporal punishment I was much influenced by a visit I paid youth can become
Inevitably. The weak-minded a national to the Governor of Wandsworth Prison on the eve of the hanging gure by pouring bullets into a debate.
policeman, and, better still ho can get hold of money without earning it and live the life of a flash boy in the underworld. Even if he has to hang he may have thousands
people clemouring for a reprieve as if he were a patriot.
CONTEMPT
of
chaps in Parlia- "I hope you
ment will do away with the death penalty. When we have The newspapers will answer to string up 1 fellow here. that they are not censors but although wo try to keep it publishers and that they do no Becret, the nows always gets more than present life as it is around by Jungle telegraph, The lived. That is a plausible answer whole prison becomes violent but it does not really cover tho and brutalised. And there is point, The glamourising of another aspect. In the criminal crime by awspapers and hims world the murderer is the even if it is not intended, has sin aristocrat-the fellow who killed undoubted influence on young and took the risk of hanging. If fellows who see nothing but you do away with the gallows drudgery ahead of them if they underworld as he will be regarded in the go straight.
the cowardly brute who kills with no risk to his own neck, and I believe that the criminal community would turn against him.
"But corporal punishment is
TRAITORS
NOR is the community blame- loss. Every nation in the in different thing. The criminal Western world is condronted with against who has been whipped or flogged the empiric struggle Is regarded as a wretched. Communism. Every nation is Cases of "unequal marriages"
creature. It reduces him to the faced with the necessity of in- are becoming increasingly rare.
level of a school boy who has creasing output so that the heavy And such marriages as that of
been caned. In fact he in a rost of rearmament can be borne in Stalin's son Vassily to the
figure of contempl. For some by taxation. In Korea, in Malaya or daughter
Marshal
Timo
flogging is the only and in Indo-China young soldiers a free vote we carried the member of a crimes since brutes
we did away with corporal language they understand." are giving their lives and, as Presidium and top Government Kuganovich's sister, though not day with a tiny majority, and it punishment, but on the other The philosopher, the idealist Ruport Brookte wrote, their officials maintain theirs
celebrated or even an-
may have been that my speech hand there has been deplorable and the sentimentalist will immortality. Not for them the Sercbrynany Bor (Silver Forest).
in
won over the four or five extra increase fact take on the nounced, do
the sheer brutality answer that we are no longer in happiness of home life on the 30 miles southeast of Moscow, aspect of court marringes of old.
voles necessary to win the of the crimes.
the dark ages and that civilisa- pride of parenthood. near the village of Turacovka. The children of such matches struggle in the Lobbies, although
every day
But while Almost
with tion has outlived the days when
they die in tho Here the dachi are large and may be supervised by a govern.
the abolition could not become monctonous and revolting T society took its revenge upon cruel furnished. The ess. sumptuously
They attend
lew until it specisi
the House of passed
of Eularity the newspapers publish the criminal by the mule the struge young fellows of own age are making war route out is heavily guarded, schools with
corresponds handpicked Lords which
stories of "cosh" boys who twat tion of the body. They on the community at thomo with control points it short cachers.
the Senate in other Parliaments.
will further argue that corporal brutal, savage war old woman into a pulp an
in which whose But Mr Chuter Edc, the order to steal her honey. punishment not only brutalises there is no mercy. They are not
are made clothes and Socialist Home Secretary at that Savage attacks
him
who receives but him who merely criminals. 30y that amusements are considered like-time and therefore the Minister bank messengers and drivers of
they are traltors. In other compounds, near the
by to
to endanger a man's career. responsible for the enforcement mail vans. It is difficult to ex- Serebrynany area and along the The Ideal wife of high func of the law, announced that unti plain why is should be, for
not Briton la banks of the Moskva Hiver, Lionary, from the party's view the Lords had given their ver- the average lesser members of the clite have point, is one who makes few
dict any criminals sentenced to brutal fellow. their dachi, where their wives claims on his time, or, as a death in the Interval
Apologists have argued that it Published in FORTUNE, Ameri- working wife, serves her be automatically reprieved from is an aftermath of the war In can business magazine.
huband's assistant,
which we trained commandos to the rope,
intervals. The entire area ป officially designated as a "Mor- bidden zone."
are
wives Attractive minds
GU
would
Nothing Can Stop The Emergence
Of Extremist Parties In
Berlin.
NIFTY million West SECOND OF THE SERIES, "THE Germans will go to NAZI REVIVAL", BY ANTONY TERRY the polls this year bo elect a new government.
Germany and France ratify tho Will they throw out Dr contractual agreements between Adenauer and his middle-of- the Allies and Germany - they the-road policy, which has are certain to do so now during them through the the coming months the Gar- troubled postwar years to mans will get back ali power prosperity, far beyond their wildest dreams during the starving years after Hitler's, defeat?
seen
into their own hands,
British troops wil be in Ger- try against attack Britain will many only to defend the coun-
cease to have any say in the
Or will they put power in running of the country. The the hands of the extremists
Control Commission will close Our representative will down. of the right, the men who be an ambassador as in mny look upon
democracy and other friendly country,
the vote only as a stepping-
stone to absolute power on
the Nazi model?
INFILTRATION
Emergency powers like those officials which British
At present it is anybody's under guess. But from all appearances, were able to swoop and arrost the temper of the German the Nazis
A few weeks ago people is not ready for the big will no longer apply, swing-over to extremism yet.
event Only in the
of sn It looks as if Dr Adenauer, or
or t ocar someone Uke him, will con- actual uprising
the German tinue to manage the affairs of revolution which Germany for the next four or Government looks like being five years.
unable to cope with herself can the Alles interfero once tho agreements are ratified. The Germans are saying that is why the cunning British pounced on the Nozia now, instead of walt- ing until they hatt oven more evidence,
INEVITABLE COURSE
Germany",
tho
Germany
does Herr
on
a
administers.
BARBARITY
That is an ugly truth whlof
end may startle the fastidious the sentimental, but it is 2 truth, that should be faced.
קרטר
THIS is a hard point to answer,
In War young soldier's after days yet if we look clearly upon nerve may breakt this era in which we live Wo and nights of horror and he do
come to the conclu-
reris. There is only one punisti- sion that while the
20th ment for that the firing squad. COTYJury has shown
great But in England the young advances In the social" on criminal, a doerter from selence, in science and education, duties as a citizen, beals a bank it has also proved to be one of clerk to insensibility, knowing most enel periods in all that his own body is considered history.
sacrosant by the authorities. We recall with
charge cruelty of the inquisition but at criminal is
the
horror
the
I repeat the
that
traflor on the
the
Least the Spaniards had heme front. Everyone's hand
the
1 #70
some mad idea that they were should be against him. In Future"--and his power extends expelling evil in the torture oe form him, try to make him
of prison we should try and into many walls of life. Meekly
Fmüz chairman of the Free Demo- cratic Party and Dr Adenauer's personal deputy, talk when Dr Middichauvé is around.
auto de Fe and in the Bluecher, flames. We think of the days of conscious of his duties
Bloody Many when criminals citizen, try to convince him
and were publicly beheaded
that violence does not pay be
violenco.and when executioners would deftly cause it begets
on that cut out a condemned man's heart it be has any doubts while his body still livet on for last point the proof is at hand. a few jerking seconds.
If there are those who say that barbaric согрога But were the fires of Smith-
punishment is and out-dated, feld as barbaric as the exter- them that it is for the criminal may I remind mination ovens of the Nazi con-
to say whether or not it will ba centratica compa? A least the
a victims of the 10th century had invoked, No judge will demand
It for its owri sake. been judged guilty of some crime but the victims of the Nazis hud committed no crime enve that of being born of
Not that one can assume, the men around Dr Adenauer will the Ile down calmly and see
The arrogant doctor Was Nazi wolf get ready to gobble elected as joint chairman of the the them up. But there was once party last autumn against યા
legend of a Trojan Horse moderate vole. Observers fore- which enabled a few mea to cast at the time "The Nazis are storm
a whole city, and Ger- in," Britain's action against many's Trojan House last tine them has proved how right this were the extremist right wing prophecy was, parties, the men who helped Hitler to power becausO
contracts.
Jewish parents. they
PROPAGANDA
The brutal Judge Jeffreys HERE is not enough pro- paganda against crime, yet could console his damnable con- science by the pretext that the propaganda has bocome the men he sent to the gallows had afth column
of overy cam- rebelled against the King, but
in peace what can be said for the Jap-minal woo carries a gun or war, Tho
But though the Nazis can' in they hoped for plummy jobs and big theory not be stopped except by
the Germans themselves, are not yet able to do just a The diplomatic Van Рарета, the finance-wizards like Schat they like. For Dr Adenauer has no intention of being dictated to cbt, the Industrialists like Krupp by men like Middlehauve. and Fritz "I Financed Hitler Thyssen, and the wives of the A NEW REICH
ancae in their torture and exter- should not be dramatised as a big business tycoons like Frau Bechstein
is that i and The danger
mination of their prisoners in daring bandit but es coward the lost wax? plano
of national king who helped
when a new form
Still further how
a traitor to the community. ory and can we condemn our forefathers The criminal who clubs a de with money to pay his
socialism does emerge it will be shirt
thugs
when be
barbarie was just exactly what the Germans
when we consider fenceless cashier should be de struggling to make both ends are hoping and dreaming of. Even the slaughter of the innocents picted as the
spawn of human the of his Nazi party meet
the Socialists, seven million of with which Imperialist Coen- shadowy Agures of the past them,
secretly describe them- munism has created its kingdom society. And this should be done the very mediums that (some of them are alive even selves as "national socialista”“” of slavery? Today brutality Slamouriso
crime today the today) all have their 1953 and are hoping thereby to catch does not bother to defend itself. press, the cinema and the equivalents in the Germany of some of the Nazi votes,
It makes its own laws and comics. the present.
carries out its own edicts,
tolerated Fave
crizainals Meanwhile, Germany's pros-
the perity continues to amaze
too long as an unavoidable, but CLOSE. LINKS
of the
difcuit
COM- Germans and the rest
section of the
anyone world. But don't let
German 1s think the average
Lo
Dr Adenauer's
INFLUENCES
"THEREFORE ↑ siall declare in
We
"Free Demo- grateful for US. or British help the House of Commons that co on mind and body; cer-
1
After that anything might
munity. Certainly it is our duty happen. For by that time the
One of them is aggressive in-
to create conditions of work and steady resurgence of nationalism
dustrialist Dr Middichtuve, the
leisure that are a healthy. in the German mind will have
now boss of the reached a stage where modera-
Let's got this straight —— in a tlon and democracy may no few months there will be no
cratic Party," one of those in in stabilising his country.
of the the coalition which makes up beleven woont of Communion was rould recognise the forward hurch and the commu longer be able to attract more
community to ent, stem the onset march of civilisation but not government. thon a handful of votes.
way in which Britain, Amerion. Middichtuva hales Britain- end that now we have got the blind, ourselves to the march of preach by word and example A fatalist view? Not a bit or yang else
rernist Partica doubly so since the arrest of the Germans on their feet we would brutality. The roads nun parallel the duties and privileges of just the inevitable coured in Commo. Providing the Nazis have shown up their close like to do them broke and to wach other and the pace seems li
history,
But if after all these things roughly equal... ! 64perienced any Brillah observers in Germany.
German authorities have no
a criminal strikes at society by links with his group and him starving again, seli
1 žlis alm ́is a reunited Germany
But now for a moment let us a brutal attack on
helpless Wistfully they remember the objection and whether they
and look at the arguments of those man or woman, then justion plans the Allies had for "re- do or not is not the exclusive They have not hesitated to Including the Soviet zone
ar paris of Poland. He wants who educating the Germans after concen of the German them allego openly that Britain
sincerely believe that must be armed not only with restoration of corporal sword but with a whip, until the wor, Those dusty blue selves, the Nazis or anyone realed the Nazis only to get hold Britain and US to help him get Drims for a
as 'civilisation, cars else can set up in busincas Dew Germany
on of the business correspondence it. And he will laten to anyone punishment would be a retro- such time
grade steg. Some of them say any "Wo have emerged from which would never agairs attack their own, either as an outright their firms have had with Near, who tells him he can be in
that ́erkninals who commit the jungle at last and so the birth of a new Haili. Its neighbours disappeared for political party (using some and Far Eastern countries
violence should be regarded; sa animals no more.” good into flow several yours other name) or by Infiltrating that British firms could steal
bein mentally stok, or the Dgo.
Into existing partios - na the "Today it is,too late to change recently arrested. Nazi "brain" the course of history. When-triat” was busy doing,
their contracts.
MiddlehauvO owns his own newspaper - the "Geranan
TOMORROW:
The Swastika'at Secret Meetings
tho
at
"
victims of heredity, or embittered・・(EDITOR'S NOTE: Thai biti
| by poverty. They are not maiters seeking to restore flogging use Iat their own conduct but are at rejected'by 157′ votas tà: 013