THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1954,
INSIDE RUSSIA
TODAY AMONG THE SEED CHEWERS
No Arsenal Fan Could Dream It Up!
RENE MacCOLL
has been watching Russian football in the Deep Red South
coming within something calling distance of our own.
like
Out at sea the lights were twinkling on, and here on this U great Inlanıl sea called the Cemplan a vision of the English Channel came suddenly to me, incredibly and brisk.
Baku on the Caspian. -T is still a weird and wonderful trip thla. 1 have just been to game of Soccer in a stadium that can hold 70,000 and where the score was posted up goal hy goal by a couple of smiling men.
"
Then went 10 a concert-
the Azer- plus-dance where
themselves have ballants
evening, with the hand- great clapping and the walling reeds, and the single-string the men dancers bobbing and ducking and twirling.
During the entr'arte the word leaked out the' a visiting Briton was among those present - and oh, the rushi
Tiny chops reaching upa to about my midriff came charging forward, crying: "You are from England? How
sik you get here? How long you stay? You are an artist you study the dance -No?"
Well, of course,
the answer was No, but when I said I wrote for a living they all looked gratified und murmured: "An artist of the pen."
You really should have seen these people as they strolled up and down ort a terrace over looking the Casplan during the Interval, 1 Was a rather ap pealing little concert hall, cir-
all of them full of life and vitality, but all of them so far away that they could be moon people.
As we walked the old town together my guide pointed up- wards to the charming, squat remote and distant balconies of wood and iron that everywhere project over The winding streels of the quarter. Some are completely enclosed with glass.
Now back to the football stadium. As I said, it can hold 70,000, but I estimated tonight's turn-out at no more ilan 4,000.
Baku, a sturdy team in dark blue with white rings round the cads of their shorts, were play- ing an out-of-town eleven who illdn't do too well.
Few women in this crowd. Most of the fans were chewing munflower seeds and spitting out the remains. There seemed to be nothing on sale, no ice-cream, ho hot dogs.
Tried Hard
The teams were well bulli and athletfe looking. They tried very hard and there was a light layer of perspiration on their young necks and faces. But you can't- no, you can't possibly begin to imagine what that crowd was Jike.
You Highbury fans
even
If you make the wildest ollow- ance, you don't know what it here on the looks like down
The men dge of the Casplan. and the boys with wild, Berce seeds. The Red Army faces, chewing their sunflower
dernrukari.
men programme fif-ms-they-come uniforms. The girls were all aboul 70, but that grass for the pitch specially COTTON form imported from
cutar and white and pleasantly
to རྐང༥ཀ& around here.
be
The
World Apart
In
some les dry climate far away. And tended by women who mow and wuter und roll it.
"We call them shut enclosures shut," she said, emphasising the word.
Shut enclosures? Ab. J'CS. Around here I sometimes feel rather that way myself.
BRITAIN
GERMANY
Cummings
".:. To less and less production!"
"... To more and more production!"*
Russia's International Assassins
London Express Berylco
KHOKHLOV WAS ONLY THE LATEST OF A NUMBER
T
HE story told by Cup-
By Hugo Dewar
All These
tain
Rims bud
05
The statement made by Cap- It Khokhlov, bizarre sounds, cannot be dismissed as cold war propaganda'. It accords only too well with the facts.
facts although these widely known.
tain Khokhlov, the Soviet secret agent recently surrendered
no more than a few steps when but a year later Trotsky's Bon himself to the American the parcel under
his arm ex- died in a Paris nursing home thing in common: they were all reads like authorities,
A ploded with great violence, in eircumstances never fully political enemies of the Soviet thriller filmscript. Khokhlov killing him instantly and Injur- eleared up.
regime. And here have been. the more listed only a few of came to Western Germany ing a number of passersby.
And a few months later an outstanding cast of assassination with the mission of as- The victim of this outrage other political opponent of the and mysterious disappearance.
Evhen Konovalec, Soviet regime, Rudott Klement, sassinating a leading anti- was Lt-Col Yes, worlds apart.
Communist Russian, G. S. emigre leader of the Ukrainian secretary of Trotsky's still-born
a bitter And in my hotel restaurant, Okolovich, by means of an Nationalists and
op- Fourth International,' dior doubtless from Here was a woman wearing a
the kindest of
ponent of the Soviet regime. appeared from his home. His plece of bright blue plush that motives, I was put at a table electrically operated pistol man
who gave
him the headless body was shed out of Romeone must have flung at her some way off from everyone disguised as a cigarette case death-dealing parcel, a certain
the Seine not long after, in the morning and somehow it else. Perhaps they thought the and firing silently a bullet Waluch, was never apprehended.
chapa shy Briton liked it that way. But stuck on.....Great fat with shaven heads and no ties, this little piece of isolation only containing cyanide poison.
One's first reaction is that event, on September 22, 1937, body of a man was found on the
The very recent abduction of Men in white, ann: suits, served to accentuate my basic
Chamblanders
outside road this sort of thing doesn't General Eugene Millar, Presi ... men with bell-bottomed feeling of being far away
Lausanne. He had seven bullets Dr Truchnovic is the latest of a Women cut off from these people. Moslem
happen in real life. But let dent trousers.
This
the Soviet Union,
in his body and five in his head. long series of kidnappings by Soviet agents, These have in- as though Jooking
they were
Southern Division, and £1 hus
us just recollect some of the Federation
left his office in the Rua du This was Ignace Reiss,
former volved not only such well-known wearing the ancestral tent run
agent, holder of personalities Soviet practically no relation to any things that dii.
19 Dr Linse, Coliree, Paris, in order to keep the Order of the Red Banner, economic adviser to the League up for them by flood old
thing we know of. No wwe kid- Omar....
He was In May 1938, a man carrying a secret appointment. ding ourselves about that. We
who had resigned his post in parcel left the never seen again. Like his pre- diarrust at the Moscow Trials. It is a world apart. It is a
a brown paper are not at all close together. world of its own. It is a world Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Geor- Atlantic cafe оп the Cool- decessor, General Koutlepov, I would desperately like to see guns all people of the U.S.S.R., signel, Rotterdam. He had taken who mysteriously disappeared
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Then, in September 1937, the
in January 1930, he vaniched other without trace.
NAVACHINE
Boulogne.
A few
secret
Again in February 1941, an- former Soviet Becret agent, Walter Krivitsky, was found shot dead, this time in a hotel bedroom in Washington, DC. the United States of America.
this
arc
re-
of direct wassination has not -judging from surface indien- tion at any rate-been resorted to, there is nothing inherently Improbable in Khokhlov's velations regarding his pesas- The fact that sination mission, his intended victim Ilved deep In the heart of the American zone of Western Germany, far from any seaport, would make the nethod of abduction very uncertain of success.
The Secretary of the Juridienl Section of the Secretarial of the
TALE OF THREE CITIES
By James Wickenden
N the bamboo jungle- land of the ex-head-
hunting Lushai tribos- men, tho boxy looking Karnafuli paper-mill-pride of Pakistanis rolling again, and the dust has settled on rlot-ridden Dacca.
Pakistan, which means Land of the Pure, is ostensibly at peace once muore since Governor- General Ghulam Mohammed swept one the shaky Cabinet of quavering 82-year-old Fuzlul Buq and imposed milltary rule under Defence Secretary General Mirza.
The capital elty, Karachi, known to enthustastic national- ist as the "Centre," is con- Ødent that Communist plot has been checked.
#
But since the Centro is thousand miles from distressed Bengal and equally, estranged in dmate,
race and tempera- ment, it
bave may
avolded facing deeper issues.
Pakistan is the story of thres ciles Karachi, Lahore and Dacca. They are the centres of her diverse peoples, united by Mohammedanism alone.
Karachi is a civil servant's onsis on a barran coast, and a day's dusty desert ride
from
the of
Οι
anywhere. Here, under plump dissapproving gazo Queen Victoria's statue, Paki- stan's westernised minority sit in nondescript colonial-style offices trying to steer a difficult COLEC betweent mediaeval Mohammedanism and modern democracy.
put
ON THE MAP
Already
have they Pakistan on the map by making treaties with Turkey and the U.S.A. They hope internal unity will come through a new constitution to be ready by year's end.
Behind the Centre stands the pro-government Moslem League, which seems to have run short League of Nations received a letter in March 1938 denouncing of popular appeal ence en- not the existence of a centralisedgineering Pakistan's birth. Its
Male of terrorists working on
main strength rests in the con- land- territory of several States servatism of wealthy other
No than their own. netion was taken on this letter
Leon Trotsky, { in Its author was whose subsequent matter of history.
of Free Lawyers (abducted "on July 8, 1952), but also many relatively obxure political opponents of the Soviet regime.
KIDNAPPING
the
fate
a
owners.
theore
a
But there is no lack of vigour It is grander city Karachi, with ornato minareted buildings, garden Circumstances and considera-parties, polo weeks and the brash swagger of baggy - trousered tions of expediency may have Punjabis, who were
once the restricted the operations of this backbone of the Indian Army. centralised Matla of terorists It has no time for
deep thought, since the war, but it has clearly
of confident a great deal not been disbanded. Khokhlov's
warrior laughter, testimony, sensational as it is, Red does no more than add to the already decisive weight of evidence that has accumulated proof of It's continued
activity.
THE
BARBARIC
WO examples falling in this in Two
latter category were the kid- TN January 1937, a Russian re- And six months before
and Dapping of Karl Fischer fugee Dimitri Navachine, was occurred the startlingly son-
Alfred Welland. In July 1952 0 shot and killed by an unknown eational assassination of Leon West
German Government assailant while taking his usual Trotsky. The man Stalin most
announced in the morning walk in the Bola de feared and hated was struck spokesman
Bundestag that more than 100 days before down and mortally wounded in Germans had been abducted to HE exlatence of such an or- his assassination he had publicly The man
his fortress home in Mexico, the Soviet zone since 1048.
ganisation, the use of such announced his intention of de-
barbaric methods in an attempt skull with livering a lecture exposing as a
an alpine ice-pick It is thus clear that the
to suppress, even outside the was caught literally redhanded, abduction fraud and a frame-up the forth-
of Dr Truchlovic territory of the USSR, political isolated
but ideas and activities hostile to affair coming Moscow Trial in which splashed with the blood of his
formed part of a systematic the Soviet regime, exposer more his old friend, Y. L. Pyatakov, was one of the accused.
plan of action carried out over than anything else the weakness à 'number of years, beginning of that regime.
This was Leon Trotsky's com- ment: "Dimitri Navachine knew too much about Moscow Trinle.
victim.
who smashed in his
SAFER
Bon
years по
to
Wig
no
at least as far back the Kouticpov affair in 1930. Its
ony
possible
The defection of Khokhlov-
alm has been, and remains, the and of Petrov also are striking Recently the agents of the GPU RUT the assassin, sentenced physical elimination of political individual manifestations of that wherever circum- weakness, of the Inability of the opponents, (now
organisation to MVD the
April 10, 1943 which Khokhlov belanged) have twenty
imprisonment stances render such operations regime to retain the loyalty of
practical and whenever the even Its most trusted servants. stoicn
my, archives
death in Paris. (tharg
penalty advantage to be gained is judged Today, they have killed Nava in Mexico), never disclosed
At the same time the Soviet to outweigh chine. Now 1 fear that my who pald him for
the job. disadvantage.
Government's maintenance of son.. . may be their next Today, having received the
such an organisation' makes it victim."
normal remission of sentence for Although since the war these difficult, if notərimpossible, for good conduct, he is free to leave operations have been confined other Governments to find a A wild accusation made by a gool, but it appears that he is to within, or close to, the common ground upon which to with a political axe to reluctant to do s90. He feels Soviet ZOTIES of control achieve some kind of civilised grind?
Some may think so safer where he is.
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Madrid.
B parades
ULL fights and flestas,
By JAMES MOORE WEST
but
tape and hair-splitting diplomacy are brushed aside in favour of simple mullahisn the rule of religious opinion,
The only thing the Punjabis cannot laugh off is Hindu India, Just across the border. To them
brooding India stands like threat, of greater importance than any other issue. Probably this difference between, Lahore and Karachi lay beneath the Lahore riots last year. FOREIGN LAND
The third centre of Pakistan
is reached only by an a'r journey across the Indlan Dacca's
steamy by contine
streets fill with the chatter of the cadaverous men in sheet-
dhotis.
is a reminder like that this is a foreign land in race and speech, which is learn ing to habe officials from Karnehi
and soldiers from Lahore, It is Impossible to say fairly where the rights or wrongs lle or how the bad feeling began.
But it showed clearly in recent élections when Bengal decisively threw out the pro-Centre Moslem League. Then came the riots.
on
Tho Centre blamed it "traitors" and Communist agents who, they said, had stirred hatred between refugee and Bengali workers
Passion seemed too high, for any Bangall spokesman to give ng deeper explanation. Prob- ably Tuial Huq, although dis- credited, was correct in claiming that Benign) belloved in a united Pakistan but wanted more con trol ove
over its own, affairé, Whatever the cause, it is that Communists will of the unrest, Already the emotional Com- And the Capuchin monk pro-intimist Bengali religious leader, cures bricks and cement, tiles Mulla Bhashani, la suspected of and wood. He helps to repair plotting a coup, cracked, crumbling walls, raises THE MENACE.
of feat before them a couple putting on a new tiled roof..
demned out-of-band by the kumptuously - bullt. Ministries, There are people living in the and glitter or Uny windows, often a tiny schools and, asyluma devastated hovels, he says, and what they may gladden the people, pane lot into the flimsy wall, during the disastrous civil war, need is old-not in the future,ake most but still they cannot hide
It is also building great blocks but now, the desolate poverty that
offices Sometimes not higher. than a 'of government broods over great parts of Franco's Spain.
the streets, Tame
and
tall man, the roofs are of reeds, workmen's flats, But it cannot often patched with scrape of keep pace with the demands of canvas, folt or bits of wood, Spain's ordinary people, Crooked alleys, barely yard Symoblic of it is a slum, only wide, form
To aid the needy, the Church a mile from Madrid's chrome, ished dogs and cats, chickens is collecting large sums. fronted heart.
and pigs” servonge in them, for refuze.
The
罪
perhaps
CIFTS COME IN
At present he is en route to a nocret conférence in Comumublat Berlin, but he is expected return to East Pakistars - "Kode, Titero he may,arokisi tha Moslem People's Party, largest of the group in the United Front coalition which tuned out the Moelen League
Parish priests are helping to Its namo is Las Carolinan,
build not only churches but also schools people, lacking 'better homes and technical and it fles along the high road to Andulasta. On the fat plain the alleys while their women-
recreation, squat or stand in where youths learn trades, :
He scrapes together planks of Chatile, it is muddy when folk, cook scanty, meala, within
Hundreds of priests are do- and panes of glass to keep out the the worst of the wind and rain. rains, burnt and
this. But dust- on brazlers or tiny tiled stoves, ing covered in the summer, and
most famous in Madrid is a
Anti-Communist Benga As news of his work. haa blasted by lay winds from the
bearded, sun-tanned Capuchin
slowly become Guadarrama Mountains in the
known in trade union are propsring monk, Padre Laureano de las Madrid's richer, quarters, Padre meet the menace. But th winter
Laureano has been receiving the front of the struggle is now. on the trade union level, In the And there|f hundreds of Themenfolk earn, on an Dressed In his rough Fran- gifts not only of money and
longʻrtin: Pakistori's - problem Sperlarda 3 huddle in hacks average, the equivalent of five ciscen habit, he is at Borne in clothes, medicines and books. to work out aware tha without water de miniliation; ( shillings "b" day; it gives tom /ital poorest lean-to-sutiongst the ". He has been sent enough
Downdraja ilttle beart to try to improve: Las Carolkata
Kung building material" to All a cone „Osóupted by hullám (61% four, their homes.
WAV
nitus, y of thëse novela,ngadg
LITTLE HEART,
Munecas.
in which. Karachi's i progresivo vision in grafted la the pavilon Map of Lahore and Flocke
SIS Mohammedanlamy,