"WELL, LOOK WHO'S HERE!
LITTLE FANCYPANTS COMING
FOR A BIT OF OUR FAKE 1"
*LET'S TELL THEM TO SHUT THEIR COBS"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1953.
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"LIKE A MOB OF PEKINESE PUPPIES" says TAWNEY
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CAN RUSSIA DOMINATE
THE WORLD?
VERY
and In 1017, when Czardom Russian- excluding of course the last remnants of feudalism the usual few rebel were swept away, at least 80 percent of Russla's population minds you And in
was iterate. They could not every country-believes that read or write er think. Soylet Russia is the most Today Russia is rapidly
literate and ever coming the most dazzling paradise
educated nation on earth.. The created by man.
passion for education Is If you believe the story thing beyond description. spy widely accepted in the atmost terrifying. Western world that the But though Ume may
016
wrong,
can ever,
1
do not
be-
Kome-
1 is
JOHN GORDON says:
more
an
ben
11-
'I do not think so' women's goods, domestle equip- of course, true that a very lur
anything uniber ct people in Russla forced labour imposed ment, foodstuffs, else. Everything is a copy of have the West, und, by our standards, upon them.
When I said to a Russian that mostly a prefly tawdry copy.
I found the sight of a gang of I have seen nothing to suggest
women roadmaking under That Russia is producing any-
uncomfort- armed guard very not produced able the reply hove
was: Isn't it thing we Arst. And, more important, better that prisoners should do that we do int produce infinitely useful work than be kept con- better.
fined Lehind walls doing useless the work?" prove Now if that applies to
I confess 1 Bod It dimeult to think
ordinary things of life, does it
extra- answer that question. great mass of then are Russin, as she is shuping now, apply also to the inore
desire to seething with a
Of course, the difference 11 be really
great ordinary
and naturally secret things I could not hope to tween us is that in Russin you throw off their oppressors, nation.
can be imprisoned for holding 1 think it must. most see? 18 The Government get it out of your mind.
expressing opinions Therefore I do not believe or
Government. They don't think that way desperately anxious to make the at all.
people great. It has fired them that Russia can, or will, make. acceptable to the
Certainly not custom. And strange though it with ambition. It has implanted discoveries auch, for example, But that is a very old Russian
оп over- their as might give her two vital qualities In
novation of Communism. to you, their
minda a desire to work
whelming advantage in war.
As for education, I never view that Soviet Russia is the greatest effort, and
found a flicker of a suggestion that it is developing, or is likely to develop. original thought. *There seems to me to be so
And I report on the authority much rigid planning that there
be
of of a foreigner whose duty it is originality
to know as much as possible of do
Now greatness can be built on thought.
Many of Russia's leaders are what is happening in Russia But only a cer-
3. Commünist. by these qualities.
Never aware of that problem, and bope and who is not tain kind of greatness.
labour camps the supreme greatness that puts time and experience may bring that the torced a people in the leadership of the cure.. But they are equally today are more than half emply aware of a much more terrify compared with the comparative- mankind.
every day The quality which does that, ing possibility, which is that ly recent past, and indeed the only quality which the mind which becomes highly grow emptior.
Finally, the question that Sch can do it is original, creative educated
thoughts as touches us most closely of all: That the Russians to develop
In Hala likely to declare war well as technical ones.
That could certainly produce upon the West? I doubt it very
much. new un intriguing situation.
may
seem
ex-
Not creative
11
with this
a paradise is the right one absorbing passion for education. -from their practical perience.
To
look us it may rather ramshackle para- diso, but the Russians
not have our standards which to judge.
Achievements
11
In 35 years
more thought.
has inck. change tremendous
than swept
Russia over any other country in the work! his ever known short a space of
I have not seen a sign of one origlunk thought in the Russia. Everything is imitative West dis- of something the coverett, invented, or crented.
The new buildings are purely The achievements of the Western in layout and design.
in so
time.
And
can
never
muy
Forced labour
R$
WO
The Russian people, of course, significantly they represent Russians in that time are
have freedom the recent
rather than the do not past
But they have without parallel in history, shaping future. There are none understand it.
A0/1 freedom. In never known They are intensely proud of of the exciting experiments
the consequently have no deep and them.
They have every building that one sees in
United States.
urgent desire for it. right to be,
There is nothing original in As for the "forced labour Politically they have de- the shops, either in textiles, stories one hears so often, it le, veloped a system which, whether we agree with it or not and let me make clear I don't has
it
changed the way of life over half the world, and set the other half rocking a bit.
Economically they have created more wonders than the pyramid builders of Egypt, in far swifter time, They have transformed a backward peasant country
FUTURE FACES
an
Half empty
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CANNES SIGHS FOR FAROUK
As Sir Winston Churchill prrives on the Riviera, the holiday coast is taking stock of its loanost season and asking *where
the famous names?”
By John Clarke
CANNES, ad them; to bathe from the 13 movie stár
IN the locker behind the same plage
brought a thrill that was worth
knew It.
bar in the big hotel, putting out a little extra money three or four stubs
of for. candles lie among the odda Quite suddenly, in this small and endy (poker - ulice cafe, everyone came to life. In shakers, aspiring, addresses from the Croisette had come an exquisite young women, whose scribbled oni the backs of chic and polec, as she stood in bills) the elegant barman her smartly tailored sunsuit, in- keeps to meet his own needs sisted she was somebody and or his customers'..
The manager and his staff The candle-stubs tell a story, hurried to be of service to her, the customers unashamedly They were brought into the bar when all the lights in the hotel stared, trying to probe for the went out because of the French face that lay behind the large
wracking Bun-Klassee, strikes.
brains for names-Hildegarde They stay there beecure no Neff, Lollobrigida, Marilyn
the Shah's sister one is sure when they might ring what millionaire her escort might be, who stood out- What
also behind everyone does know is ride, hidden that the summer season here is glassés.
be needed again.
at its end-technically it finished
à fortnight ago.
And a lamentable
jas been.
you.
everyone
season it here tells
end
Interest died
theiz
sun-
In low tones the girl and the manager spoke. Then graciously thanking him, she left, and sali Rain fell in the early summer, hud enough for everyone To when the smallest cloud in hear: "Well, to to, be seeing you re- inter Me and Henry (shr
these now-Innocent skies is re-
garded as sacrilege. The strikes pointed to the man outside) are and post strikce nervousness taking the kids out now for a bit diverted a wealth of legitimately of stroll."
and to crown the misery, ex-
expect.ble money to the Italian Her voice was flat and ugly. Riviera, a few miles to the cast; belonging to some unidentinable King Farouk recently came and part of England. Her glamour stayed and went, without seemed to fall from her. Interest died in the customers' eyes. The producing any satisfactory by
fight this sad product in the way of publicity, kust candle to The barman sighed snuffed out.
wonderful
"None of the really grea! names are here." sighed the barman, and wistfully began in- toning a kind of credo from the Almanach de Gotha and a hand- book of South American militon- muvie aires, maharajahs and moguis.
The
Smiths, the Jones's,
nac Robinspos
Browns -
and Yorkshiremen Londoners, Lancastrians are the heirs to
And they have a (1)-
the great names. time, in spite of the incompati- bility between prices here and their travel-allowances. For Mrs Smith are Mrs Robinson aro here 349 well, to apply to the family spending the same strict, sensible ruies they use doing their housekeeping at home.
Along
Croisette the lovely I counted. during walk, 24 cors with foreign number-plates.
Five came from Belgium, four from Switzerland, one from New Zealand and threo from the Eleven--come Untiel States.
I believe her cronqmic diff culties
tha are such
A war would crack her in plèces. And I am sure that the men in the Kremlin know that only tod well for their peace of mind.
This is the eighth, and Anat article tù John Gordon's "Re- port on Russia," based on what he saw and heard on his recont tour.
OF
IN THE FAST JET
NEW generation
By ARTHUR BRENARD
FAME
RACE
London. Don, 6ft. lin. tall, is single, Radlett tinkers with
of claims he has no girl friends, racing ears.
motor cycling.
with a standard of life that test pilots were at the spends his spare time
kept. men on the level of
pigs in a sty into an in-controls of the fastest jets dustrial nation, which, if in the recent Farnborough not yet our equal, is moy-qir display.
that They are destined to be-
vintage
Squadron-Leader Howard Thomas Murely, DFC, AFC, But for the most part they commanding officer of the Aero- are a home-loving lo
dynamica Flight 'at Farnborough, le 29, and a veteran of Bomber Command and the Berlin airlift, ing very rapidly to stage.
He married his CO's 17-year- come the famous faces in Though there is no denying
Brian Smith, who tests the old daughter while training as the fact that tog many of the flying in the next few
Gloster Javelin, the RAF's still a test pliot in the US, and has peasants still live like pige. years.
all-weather a 13-month-old daughter, twin-jet, They will join the already fighter, met at Filton airfleld Marcia. established test flying stars Mademoiselle Mairie, who was Neville Duke, Cat's eyes" Cun- studying mathematics and an- ningham, who first few and gineering at Bristol University. They have given their country proved the Comet; BI Pegg, of They married and
the Brabazon and Britannia; two boys aged two years an air and rallway transporta burley Squadron-Leader Hazio tion system which is opening it up swiftly for development. In den, of the mighty Victor atom the large town, they have built bomber.
Opening up
ronde! and streets wiilch, in OLA
rospects, are an example lo-us
as to how to get the
shape ot
things to come.
#cerat
now have
and
Ex-Ficet Air Arm pllot Dave five months.
Morgan, aged 30, left tho Navy Brian, formerly of the RAF, tor Supanprins three years is 30, plays hockey, ned' says he bgo, and is now flying the finds gardening restful, after supersonic Swift fighter. He has
Hazel daughters,
and high-spptil flyingą
Charmin Fitght-Lleuimant: Kenneth
two
Their new buildings compare Youngest of the new gener Dalton-Gelding Brd -- "D. Then there¦¦ ¦ Is- 80-ytur-g14; In many rospects with the best tion is 22-year-old Don Kight, to the Hondlay Page star at Tight Lieutenant Stuart Blogbe, In the modern world, Andox-National Service man she idlets, Levin, airfield → yo, 15G, COM, whe new the doubt whöller, "Americans build joined Bnkler Electric three-the Victor alomskaber. Duke of Eathbigh in the prog- more quickly! Certainly we months ago as a Cobbette 1985; At the and of the twat he had de Vitsut earlier this year.
pilot. To such political and crohomic
achievements Busana have He was top in both nylog ana added adolfier" "WHICH porttaps, ground subjects during
greatest of them 7 ljetne RAJ Iriining,
gporational Nowy a Vickers
Sloane is a bachelor, and dany -88, haneyro“ pons- und prestless his layourila- hobb rin" a goraja under his dal rear cooking, at his Woytridge dat
from Britain, and of these only Ptwo were Juxury limousines. The rest were homely famly models.
Customers stared
It was on the Croiselle, as I strolled and watched the matrons under the hair-driers in the open-air beauty salons, and dodged the pretty French girls who, in crash helmets
and bikinis, raced up and down on motor-scooters, that I met a man to holiday whose part-solution Anances typified the general mood.
He came from Battersea, was in the transport business, and cnid: "I brought half-a-doz:D battles of tonle-water with me: this time. You can get them for 6d. each in the pub at home. They cost is. fd. here."
I left him chorliing over the 7. Bd. arving his prudence had effected, and wint into an inex. pensive restaurant (a pöt of tea 23., welsh rarebit 48.).
"No big names this year,” the | manager Bald sadly.
Big names nove good for business everywhere, not only in the big hotels. People liked to linger under the gay umbrellas of pavement cafes spotting cele brities and spinning romances
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