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DOSTOEVSKY
"Go on, Fred—slip him off the load."
COMES
OUT OF DISGRACE
ECENTLY The Soviet
been
By WALTER KOLARZ
has regime paying greater atten- tion fo the Bemory and temperatively liberal days works of the great Russian Mikhailovich writer, Fedor Dostoevsky, who, with short in interruptions, has been semi-disgrace since the e tober Revolution of 1917.
tt
of February 1956. This may wedi the be the CHINI However, UHS
DON
IDDON'S
for
DIARY
travelogues which Sovi "de- legates" have written Russian newspapers and perio- dicals after their return home,
Originally hey commented Soviet authorities could have en it with a mixture of aston-
Dostoevsky much ishment, irony honoured
und dismay. cartier had they wanted to do But their attitude has changed so--for instanc*, in connection recently. Now they say that with the 50th anniversary people in the Wen do not up- the real Dostocysky his death in 1931, or more re-
preciate
of his death
Rykov's Government 19209. Ant even this complete edition of Distoevsky did not include the fourth volume h letters, although ready for print only one-volume Dostoevsky's work have been cently by marking the 70th properly and that they fail to publishcel.
of
it Wits
then, Since
of cditions
A few days after POUTIVEMOTE
[
La
not be a complete edition prganised
I will also be interesting to
Gostizalag cee whethiy reprhit The Posstisod," novel
will thes
doctor.
the
Reorientation
1951.
-
of
of
but
underalond
his true message.
M
IN AMERICA:
THLES
London Express Service
THERE'S ONLY ONE TOPIC TODAY
not seem to The hearts of two great They do
without the Press New York, Tuesday. democracies —
one a king that
royal story could not be beat ORE words are being dom, one a republic
10 millions of people all printed here about in complete accord over this the world. Princess Margaret royal story. and Group Captain Peter Townsend than are even being published in Britain, The total American word Tho attitude of two Soviet age is greater than the over British because the Ameri- char-cans have acres of newsprint, blings in
Characteristic
their
that
realise unleashing
Kai-shek, ogonising
во
Chiong reuiliation, the mussive told reappraisal, liberation, and
total over forth. Then think of the
in reversal
the
tew past months. Bluff and back-down, Several American editers and optimism and postemian, tough correspondents think that the talk and love fensts in The members of the Bri-
Palice authorities could have bewildering succession;" tish Royal Family never need handled the story of the Prin-
You will see that Mr Steven- identification in American cors and Group Captain Towns-
end with greater skill and son has not lost his print.
surer touch. I agree with them. eloquence, Отз
more prosalc level
been have
grum Scramble goes on the American
there
The
or absorp says:
special
everyone United has
Since the announcement that Pan-American Airways is buying 45 jet transporis at coal of $200,000,000
with connected
the aviation industry ¡:covery 19
Jin- demonstrated spectacular show- that he pressive
making manship. little news compared to Prin-
Margaret
the cruel
now so
la
or
The State Publishing House of Literature (Gos-
the new So seems that there are itizdal) has announced that Dostoevsky edition. the Liter other factors which make an
of ten-volume edition ary Gazette disclosed that the official reorientalion Towards Dostoevsky's works is to be Dostoevsky Museum in Mos- Dostoevsky imperative. One of In- Is the tremendous be enlarged and re- them It will cow to 1956.
broadcast published in
studenta who This museum bus terest which people of all over
Radto
about Moscow Futher
10 neglected up 1༢༥T
the world are showing in that
travels in England WBS and it will certainly not in-
It is situated in a wing great figure of Russian litura acteri COW
acteristic in this respect. They and their multipage maga- Press about the informa- a former municipal hospital ture. clude Dostoevsky's "Diary of
Of course, this interest
stated, not without some satis-zines have been carrying tion and facilities extended PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S States North
where Moscow. of a Writer," which reflects in
of long standing, 70s bren
faction,
that the work of so long as Russia
long "authoritative" articles to pursued
correspondents by the Dostoevsky was highly the true philosophical and Dostonvaky used to work as a
apon the "royal romance" for Palace authorities. policy of cultural isolation she onto
and could political views of the great
afford
the praised in England ta: Ignore
months. long articles about him Д
Thero
ad- are whole-page York Times cess feelings
New Russian.
non-Communist
is poured in the press. However,
vcrlirements: "America con- foreigners. She no longer can said the Soviet students, the The interest
"While the 'Press' weather,
inces its leadership in com- now, when wurists ví other M
English focussed their attention tion of the Americans in the authorities at Buckingham The hard-hearted profes- meretol aviation with trang- xxxuntries are coming to the
of Princess is immense. portrayal
the ol
Pon- Repúblican oceanic They Palace have plunged their sionals
jet airliners. USSR will bo The whole muen
in
numbers increasing
the inner-world of man and ulaim
her almost as their heads into
Bocing. Douglas, of Party are still exercising, pres- American, and when many of them
the sands this and thoroughly
Whitney ignored repaired and
and sure wherever they can in the Prutt powerful
aircraft their exhibits
quire how will be rearranged.
silence, refusing any +x-
com hope that the President can be establish new Jet transport These mutule
of Russian author is honoured and aspect photographs
ment, or even background persuaded to run for a second age." When, the other day, a Dostoevsky's relations, sketches regarded in the country of his poure of the Injustices of the
capitalist regime.
"Mar. guidance to the responsible term.
thinkt I. grieves me when I of places
the where
writer
giant headline read:
They have coined the heart of the Comet, when I think of hved and worked, proofs of
As Soviet propaganda cannot garet Arrives on the front elements of public opinion Soviet visitors tu Britain, eliminate Dostoevsky it distorts his novels and letters be wrole
France und other
This refers to the ed in jets. Western him. The same thing has bepage of the New York Daily British and foreign less slogan "If he can walk he the long lead we had establish- Where did we to to fumous contemporaries.
countries
usually
doctor's statement faced done before.
that the wrong? Have we thrown away During the war, News women queued to grab rumour and sensationalism can run."
able
Do we now Literary Gazette
our opportunity? with the same awkward ques- Dostoevsky, was, as it were, copies. They thought that have attended the Princess, President might be
and the man she evidently to walk a few paces.
lag behind the Americans? that the reorganisation of the tions about Dostoevsky,
allowed to return from sem-Princess Margaret had par. museum was decided on by the ticularly when talking to in-
banishment improve morale rived in New York-not in loves." Moscow Soviel Iri connection tellectuals. In fact. Dostoevsky's in the Soviet rea
His anti-London. with the 75th anniversary of popularity
West in the
has e
German statements, a very in- The death of Dostoevsky in frequently
been
In significant by-product
which
the Communists Maliked have always heartily because of is devastating con- demnation of Russian revolu-
onary exlreraisin.
In spite of all these omnisjons tru-volume the new
edition will be a new departure most welcome to all Dostoevsky admirers, both in Russia and broad. Only once in the many yours ut Soviel rule
hove Dostoevsky's works been pub- lished. This was during e
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And what a sensation that work, were dug out and given the widest publicity. And now will be when the Prince-s "Dostoevsky
denounced finally makes a visit to the who
becomes United States. exposed
the German danger" "Dostoevsky capitalism."
who
Hunger
even
Most glamorous
Co-operation
PERHAPS the Press arrange-
ments in the Palace should be overhauled and modernised. It might be an idea if the roy Press secretaries had regular
Press conferences with open questions and answers.
The slogan has angered Mrs Elsenhower and the President's family. Mrs Eisenhower has never had much time for poli- ties or politicians, and now she has even less.
Our stars shine
new
lustre to Broadway.
THE British are now adding The scramble for power, of Ann Todd fles to England soon television course, gets more intense each after a magnificent
Black week, but Mr Adiot Stevenson, performance in The the titular head of the Demo Wings" with Wendell Corey, cratic Party. at least is be Mim Todd, whom I have never having without excess,
met before, asked me over for drink, but she didn't want to talk about herself, she wanted She returns in a month's time to co-star hero with Robert Morley.
He has refused to bo
bitter
SHE is considered here to
The concealment that, has Naturally, Dostoevsky's
be the world's most gine on is mainly responsible about the defection of Governor to talk about journalism. memory has not been revived, glamorous lady.'
for the inaccuracies and dis- tortions which have appeared only, and probably not primarily. to please the Professor Max Lerner in print and on the air. foreigners. In Rusia itself
self says: "While the trappings On the Royal Tour of Cancela
there is a great, and so far un-
antished, demand for the works are royal the real theme of one of the
of the whose world
Averell Harriman.
A gentle man
reasons for the
Duka
great thinker and writer the Margaret story is the great success of the then Prin- ADLAI
cess Elizabeth and the.
of the Russian soul.
So
►
Joyce Grenfell has establish- ed herself as one of entertain-
Is
genuine
hit,
STEVENSON 19 a ment's happlest personalities. packing the Bijcia gentle man-too intelectual She 50 different search for happiness. In
of Edinburgh was the co-opera- perhaps for the mass public Theatre with a from the world of Communism. that sense it is as much an tion of Colonel Martin Char-
that likes the gestures of the Americans are proudly recall than anyone American
Ono and who, more
植B an English teris, Private Secretary to the actor, the toothpaste smile, the Ing that her mother was
of else, has looked into the depth
the Prince,
famous Langhorne and Commander backslapping extrovert. story."
Michael Parker, Secretary to
beauties of Virginia, one of the Stevenson is acidulous about original models for Charice the republication the
Reading
American the Duke.
1he Republicans. He says: "I Dana Goron's "Olbson Girl." Dostoevsky's works becomes newspapers and magazines
the No: all the royal secretaries have been appalled by one of the minor concessions the Russians must despair and advisers are as endowed Cratic swings from one
mother in the con- along treme to by which the Soviet rulers are of ever driving a real wedge with the ability to get trying to solisty the growing between the British and the court officials regard Press re- just third of the grandiloquent
with the Press. Ötten the duct of our foreign policy. . Intellectual and spiritual hunger of their subjects.
Americans.
as presentatives
intruders. foolishrices of those phrases....
of
HAPPY TIME IN SWITZERLAND
HURCH
Geneva bella pealed gally throughout Swit-
From ERNEST ASHWICK
seca the flow of the dark brown knows that he must wait to be
**
with the United States, its big- gest ellent, taking just under 50,000 gallons.
Each
year
Tied down
2
L
to
GENN and his wife, Maggie, flew in on their way Mexico and asked me over to the Plaza. Frederick Knott, who wrote "Dial M for Mur- dar," and Ivan Fexwell, eno of our best producers, were with the Genns.
Leo is toying with the idea of
play on doing another Broadway, although hō is tied commitments. over a million down with flm
zerland last week as a dark gold which represents a year's pald for work he may have gallons la marplus, and remains He probably possesses the best brown sticky fluld started hard work, a year's anxiety and done months ago. to pour from a thousand, a year of spending. presses.
unsold ns wine. It goes to speaking volce in show business. Indeed, his winter work de-, Belgium and Czechoslovakia at
Elizabeth Taylor plans to be For it is not all fun and gain, pends on the harvest. A bad overnment aubsidised prices to back on the set of "Giant" no one will call all into alcohol or make into within a few days despite her One-third of the money derived harvest and The wine harvest had from his wine is spent onsteling upon his services.
a local champagne type."
recurrent illnesses, Her doctor begun. And, dependant on the vineyards, Fertilisers, must
sayh she is now it again.. Her its quality and the quantity, be bought and wages paid to Even the focal pasto who READY FOR FEAST
husband, Michael Wilding, s work the year, rings the church bell daily at
expecting hundreds of thousands of the hands who
his 82-year-old But for today, the wine grower
father in Hollywood where ho hard-working Swiss will be around. Then there is the mall half past eleven to warn the
All are would like to spend the rest of well-off or poor for the next army of harvestors to be hired. worlcers that it is time to go forgets about these things. The
And often a few weeks before home for lunch, knows that the juice is flowing fast.
his life. twelve months.
the harvest starts, ball will tear collection plate will be full or permitted to take a glambul as ¦
-Those advertisements publi-. the vines to shreds.
empty according to the quality it flows like a hillside spring from
the mighty presses. of the wine. Expected production of wine
claing James Dean as the, "zen=; this year 1st 10,000,000 gallons. AGE-OLD CUSTOM
zation, star" are still appearing In nearby 'And all the year in the little
cauldron tasly although. the boy has boon The first verdict, based on the
mout In all theso
nearly four wirio mowing villages, marked by the tiny hams Hung In the ears for den for sugar content and the
and the local months, are bolling merrily. All They roy in Hollywood: "If (pure pressed juice) is that 1935 billside villages the Ho of the hillside church will be a good year vintage community depends entirely on cafe, the people pray for a good is ready for the feast that follows you want to live longer-live to be savoured with respect pen wine. It Flat ang taga-old season, fill of minshine.
no creditor wünsche your Henooi.
custom that This is the happy time for in his bill before the harvest. Switzerland exportal only
the The local buillders, or painter ·émhál, fraction of it
the... vine “grờWIĘ,
At
weeks.
the last drip pumped Into the in California, If you want to 1,000-gallon Vals to ferment and day alive longer --- livo in New atum into the wine which enables York."
the little communities to dive,