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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1954.
"YOUR. ́INNINGS, MR. HUTTON"
THE SECRET
THAT
FFICIAL Russin
floorls the
world
every day with u
newspaper
London Express Service
RUSSIA
RESISTS
By Walter Kolarz
on
con-
victs.
HERE'S A DYING RACKET
From John Monks
IN
Tangler. this international city,
and West meet, one of the world's greatest smuggling rackets la dying.
Sheda stacked to the roof with American cigar- ettes and life-saving drugs are locked up and desert- ed, and Tanglor's little fleet of smuggling ships are rusting as they lie at anchor under the bright Mediterranean sun.
Since the war, lawless adventurers of many na- tions have risked long terms of imprisonment without trial in Spanish gaola. But a British law is beating them.
MUST HAVE TICKET-
Technically, most of the emuggling ships are Bellish, and for years they have been allow- ed to keep their British regis- tration as long as there was a
British" "captain" aboard.
Now
these so-called cap- tains must have a! master'a ticket.
smuggling.
The wealthy, outwardly re- spectable kings of smugging in Tangler, however, have not yet been able to and one genuine ship's officer willing to use his discussions, but they also master's ticket for their work, Jearned to appreciate cach although a "captain" can make other's point of view. In their £100 for each four-hour trip violent opposition to the Com-Into Gibraltar, vast amount of pro-
simply
regime,
were they paganda material, This in- the free world. A journalist sumably also in the other selves
"be munist As
It sounds like easy money. united,
"masters" without cludes long
But many by training, and a mem- centres of the Soviet slave lievers" (Veruyushchie).
tickets are serving long sen- family articles, long radio lectures ber of a
that empire.
They preached a
Frau Gerland Hort of
sald that the
and Italian and an unlimited number of had passionately opposed Frau Gerland mention Christlan Communism, were two groups joined hands in a tences in Spanish
gaols. And at the moment five big strike that broke out in 800 Tuss news Items, all of German Nazism, she
ed two movements which young, enterprising, and Vorkuta last
smugglers' ships are impounded summer, affecting In various Mediterrancan which give a rosy picture of centrated not
external dominated the thinking of amazingly active through convicts working in 50 cports. "Soviet reality," and to this things, but on the really the politically minded con out the camp. They or mines of the slave labour trust, Gibraltar has been used in must be added much of the essential."
One was a Lenin- ganised religious services Verkutugol It occurred partly the past only as a screen for
as a reaction to Beria's fall and information and comment
Tangier. was the Casting her eyes back to ist, or rather a pseudo- in the barracks, which were partly as on answer to the
and Spain the that comes out of Soviet the years of camp life, she opposition to the regime, usually overcrowded, and exccution of a Ukrainian prisoner badquarters
abjective. Russia from non-Communist dismissed the conditions and the other a Christian read out Bible passages to an MVD man. The revolt of left Tangier after picking up
charged with having murdered
Every time a smuggling ship their fellow camp inmates, the Vorkuta army
army of slave American cigarettes from many of whom were in con- labourers created such a tense American
freighters, Spanish tact with Holy Writ for the situation that the Deputy Chief agents contacted the authorities
Prosecutor of the USSR had to in Spain. first time.
be sent to the trouble area. Even the execution of 120 They also distributed hand- lenders falled to stop the strike. consisted THE first
of written copies of the four young people, former gospels. These were often con- but the students of Moscow, Lenin- fiscated by the MVD,
then worked in- grad and Kiev Universities, "believers"
defatigably to produce new ones, who had absorbed some of in
fact some of them used the elements of Marxist
every tree minute for the thinking but who placed in copying of Bible passages. opposition to Stalinism what they described the "real work
(istinny
The
sources, including the
re which other people have ports of foreign correspon- described before. dents. These, as ย rule, poverty of the camp diet, describe what A shrewd the harsh climate, and French observer has called even the relationship be "L'Empire des facades," tween guards and inmates They deal with the Russia all these had little interest of governmental announce for her. What held her ments and appointments, attention was the political Party statements and
con- and spiritual life of the ferences, the Russia of pro- camps." duction statistics
and Leninist quotations.
Her Message
movement.
Young People
Decisive
stríko
!
THEIR BASE
the littla In consequence,
for Gibraltar, ships, headed
move- News of their future
reach ments did not quickly THE world has learned about Spain from the Rock. So untii THE
the strike in Vorkuta so far a few weeks ago, the smuggling only through the report of Fraudects were openly putting in Gorland. Had sho not been there and declaring their
relensed by the crinin Points Of View still have no knowledge
Russians we cigarettes cargoes in bond.
more
--religious thinking
'or even
ore.
But there is another Russia which receives little THE important message
Gibraltar gained considerable And the of this momentous event, and it trud publicity, although its exis- to the world which Frau
Lenina).
revenue from duties,
base from may well be that many similar smugglers had tence should be taken into Gerland has brought out of They had an idealised pic- THE "bellovers" were not at- occurrences have taken place in which to call to Spain later on
THE account by everybody who Vorkuta is this-that politi- ture of Lenin's life work tached to any Church but camps in other parts of the without their movements being
reported. secks to acquire a full plc- cal opposition to the Soviet and plans. They credited stood for a non-denominational Soviet Union, without any eye- They seemed to witness account of them reaching Christianity, ture of Soviet reality. This regime, which has become him with intentions
As Spanish and British fer- ritorial waters are both within be influenced by the traditions the free world. is the secret Russia of the invisible in
the
official akin to anarchosyndicalism. of that Russian Christian
each other's three-mile limit forced labour camps. These Russia, is alive in the secret than to what is com- sectarianism
has which
for But what really matters is near Gibraltar, constant fric- are a tremendous indictment Russia of the camps. It is monly understood as Lenin- centuries coloured Russian not this or that single fact, tion was of course caused by of the Soviet regime so strong that the guards ism.
as much as, but the general impression which the Spaniards stopping British- then.
boots more
official emerges from Frau Gerland's registered smuggling but they are only one aspect stand no chance of suppress- of a large problem.
ing it effectively. Political The other political trend Orthodoxy. The "bellevers" in story that thousands of people within two miles of the Rock the camp had nothing good to are living in secret Russia who That, now, is being straightened discussions on the future in the camp WRS even say about the official church of have not only retained the out In a way the camps are post-Bolshevik Russia, such more 'Interesting, for it the Moscow Patriarch, which power of independent thought,
smuggling -- kings a hope for Russia's future, as the MVD
a successfully advocated much more they described as for many of their inmates prevent in
and radical break with the off of the anti-Christ Church but who have even developed itá i naturally still trying to beat the
in their years of captivity. This British ban on bogus captains, is of decisive Importance and But right now the wild, belong to the best sons and Leningrad, now take place cial ideology. Its sup- The "true. Leninists" and the deserves to be noted by all who exotic city of Tangler bears a daughters of the country. openly in Vorkuta and pre- porters described them "believera" naturally held heated bellove that totalitarianism can thin veneer of respectability----
never vanquish They include people with
human imposed by the stricter on- mind. an unbroken spirit who
forcement of British law. have been able to cast off the fear which haunts the nominally. free Soviet citizens who populate the official Russia. They have defcated Communism in their hearts and look for- ward to the future with greater confidence than those who are now in power in the Kremlin.
Seven Years'
Мовсон
Why Is The On The
Music Hall
Skids?
By LES ARMOUR
OWN at Portsmouth. They just can't find enough downfall, partly at least, on
Dow last week a plainly talent. Instead, they will pro- the disappearance of the old
Are
duer a fast, breezy "revuo", a "chorus" songs, once the main- desperate music ba 11 package show where the in- stay of music hall manager, put a gentleman dividual performers breaking eggs at the top of ordinated to a connected theme. He recalls, almost with tears in eyes, that he was in THESE facts about the his bill.
The provincial theatres which Olivallis the London night men and women of the He was a very famous gentle-. still produce something like haunt of variety artists-not secret Russia have been manTV chef Philip Harben-muste hall, are concentrating long ago when Mary Lloyd
on sex, Sex and SEX., 4
Junior stood up and began to brought home with great and he broke his cage into
sumptuous rum omelette, the
sing. "I'm one of the Ruine that
and
No Response
clarity by one of the most same way he breaks them every "Evening Nudes," "Happy Nude Bit
Some of the current tiles: Cromwell Knocked About ́n recent arrivals from the week to the delight of millions Year"
They Never Soviet Union, Frau Brigitte of British housewives.
Clothed." Gerland. On December 28, 1953, she returned to
But the public stayed away in Nobody knows quite what has Ger- droves. One night, less than 100 happened.
The place was packed and many after spending seven turned out in a theatre built to
the whole crowd'awung into ja' - yenra in Soviet prisons and hold 1,800...
Some of the promotere blame, chorus that nearly brought the camps, including five years
American musical comedy roof down
in the ill-famed Vorkuta, prised. It was
The manager was not, suc-?/ which, in recent years, has ATA
a last-ditch taken London by stormA Once upon a time, Stan says, which is situated in the manoeuvre and, anyway, he single transplanted Broadway any theatre. Today, the Audience mữ, that would have happened in arctic circle. She was one really didn't think it would show can draw, record of the many people whom work tydsk #.
Wanted: Buyers
from E GRU
"the Soviet occupation au•
thoritien abducted Eastern Germany under one pretext or another.
The plain fact of the matter is that music hall via on la the akids. The London halls are up have met Frau Gerland on the auction blook at the mo and had conversationment; dozens more have already gone hundreds would be sold if with her which lasted for anyone could find a buyer four hours think that seats?
she has seen more than
| most other former inmates
of Soviet Jabotik camps sho
night after nights for Tears an would just sit there like bumps end; ("Oklahoma) almost demd} everywhere she bill doing chort, Stan thinks, fine on British, provincial cir-filence that hasi” changed. cuits, pisten koppar
DCC Ramey stelevision, films and/re- waggon
yoordal have got the public ac Some of them blame the lack tired, to, canned Sentertainment talekit, noting, madly that shola which thing is kastme do tale/pass=" best of, the drops faśtiov
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