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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956.
GLAD HAND
SOVIET SLAVE LABOUR:
THERE'S NO LET-UP FOR THE LORD MAYOR
THE MAN WHO WORKS A 14-HOUR DAY IS SO : BUSY EVEN A HAIRCUT NEEDS PRECISE PLANNING
A
By WILLIAM ROLAND
T the Mansion. House After joining the mayoral the Mansion House and has Ita I REC own prison cells, often stays to the dignifled hall entourage for 14 hours,
lunch if he has enses in tho porter admits you to a In his "den"-the cream- afternoon.) pleasant room with a cheer and-gold
what she means.
Venetian Parlour
ful fire, and shuts the front the Lord Mayor has
in
of one
the
now
It is a mixed bag. Cheques
CAKE-NIBBLING
Just mo Today was family lunch-flah, and ham, and door on the traffic. There to glance at his morning mail boiled chicken
bofore going to the Old Balley wonderful coffee, An after-lunch Is only the sound of an old to open the
as nap? Not possible, Ossions clock sedately ticking. One Chief Magistrate. might be stately homes of England. for the Dow Bells appeak-very
near his heart; a plastic paper- People are already being In his home-for-a-year weight from the mayor of Los ushered in for a Mission meel-
letter marked im dhe Lord Mayor, Alderman Angeles:
(morning coat and badge, Cuthbert Ackroyd, is in his Foreign Office: by contrast, one the "hymn sheet" says).
from a man in Brooklyn, NY, bathroom shaving and asking "Please can you find me The Lord Mayor must make a wondering whether he can a wife," a bulky missive marked speech, a drawing-room jest or There Is tea-drinking. possibly find time during Dale Carnegle Course on Public two the day to get his hair cut. Speaking (Perhaps I ought to cake-nibbling and pleasant con-
one
Norah Hackney, Miss of whose Joby 13 to
prepare the "hymn sheet" (the weekly ilst of engagements) says: arrive at 9.30 u.m. and after that life is one terrific whirl."
THE DEGRADATION
MMEDIATELY
OF AN IDEAL
By Raymond Postgate
after
the civil wars in Russia.
while Lenin was
reason
still
Revolution
A foundation member of the British Communist Party, and editor in 1922 of its official organ, Raymond Postgate loft the party in 1923 because and policy. its tactice be disapproved of
But Inhabhants
is
of the camps
to
be doubted.
4
nover
them.
[дг
ards.
open that"-but the Lord Mayor versation. didn').
QUICK-CHANCE
The guceta seem fascinated by of the two the ornate badges Shora-faithful attendants on the Lord Mayor.
The first of a series of quick The clock says ave.. Foreign changes. (Albert the foolman guests arrive. The Durgomasters says sometimes there is only of the Ruhr have an hour's four minutes.)
interview.
"Old Bailey" dress is a Queen Now it la time for the convoy. Anne period court Jacket be of three cars to dash to King decked with Juce, black trou- William Street, The Automobile sors, scarlet gown. the gold Association's new offices in the collar of S.S. (one of the oldest City must be declared open. chains in English chivalry) and Another speech (the Lord Mayor the badge, sparkling with han the trick of making cach dinmonds.
one sound like the most im- portant of the day and writes Back at the Mansion House them himself).
Albert discovers that the scarlet gow has been torn. Luckily It will not be again today.
Back at the Mansion House, used The Sheriffs' ladies are chang- ing into evening gowns in two bedrooms upstairs. Gowns vary. There is the The Lord Mayor and Lady State
black-and-gold robe Mayoress are changing, too. And (worth hundreds, Albert says), the convey starts out again for the carl-type red velvet and the Park Lane Hotel. All three
get scattered
the The formine, the scarlet, and Bnally cas
Embankment traffic but manage to arrive in line
accountancy
W
If there are to be children at
function
Lord Mayor the sometimes puts on u "higher" the occasion may
warrant.
FAMILY LUNCH
to
City
work
well. not
very humanising influence was the violet. that of the MVD department.
release from the campg. On alive and the
prisoners ате oflen sent to long hours In con- was in its nobler phase,
it seems clear that the bellevably
"forced settlements. Here the gown than full ditions so dreadful that no trade vietim
Is supposed to be free and many others were call-
would even believe and is pald wages, but he can Two hours of a meeting of ed on to admire and did into three main categories. The unionist
Siberia is Siberia, and not leave either his settlement the Corporation "inner special of that
common admire - a project called first
or his work without permission, committee." Weighty decisions which requires no no privileges would make life criminals, whi Sen-to-Volga
of these White
tire granted:and places which is very rarely
front hall the
clock In many
of the ticks inexorably on to live who tolerable to cryone but savage; nor do his conditions Canal. This was, of course, special commentary. The second smul ellie of thugs, who IN
Why bul
une
Jack of clothing and prices of food allow him to live one, valuable and es mont
are given various names,
and witched underfeeding r made the much above the convict stand- but the of
blatniye," which timable project,
just But the change is been sufferings of the prisoners existence for our admiration whose
enough Enoug prevent the "settlers" was a particular one that youched for by toe many people worse than they needed to be.
The
Since the death of Stalin. from dying like files. tor
is full information Fairly
While others lunch the with there have been reports of Im- con- atlyg It was to be dug and
experts
They аге very available on twelve of these Fathers meet. At the Court of structed by convict labour.
the knife, carry on murderous provements.
but they are settlements Aktyubinsk, Kura-Aldermen
most (one of the This labour would be gang warfare, rob and terrorise small, no doubt,
To improvements.
whol are ganda,
Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, exclusive in the world, but the
Abez, Yartsevo
Inta, Ukhla, public may go in) the business directed by the police, then all other prisoners, and
fact, they due? warders, In called
the Cheka, which work. The
are afraid of them,
It would be heartening, but Vorkuta, Elbastuz-Ugol, Yenais formal, the pomp Impressive.
them to kievo and Tomak.
the Colonel Hulme Taylor, had been effective in stamp-
The third category consists of unrealistic, to ascribe
of the Soviet ing out counter-revolution- what wo should call political the repentance
City Marshal, hus to put on a prisoners,
in the Soviet gaolers, It would be somewhat
wig ("The first time I've worn ary activity.
ono") to deputise for the Com- who is recovering This relaxation has, however, mon Cryer,
result from a foli. We, crowd into the had
unforeseen When the Soviet Communists announced their intention
en- Lord Mayor's car. to rehabilitate criminals by setting them to useful work which is among the more
dismal in a quite (the construction of the White Sea-to-Volga Canal was couraging items
"Mind the maca," says Colonel 11 rests on my the earliest and perhaps most publicised example) the story. The prisoners can talk to Hulme Taylor
COB feet. more freely. Ds fre or baseless. idea found favour in many parts of the world. At that each other
fact being made easier by Far from it: the Revolution had time, as Postgate points out, no one could foresee that the official habit of sending masses
gangs, without mo.ning. been accompanied by the most plan would "flower into one of the most enormous organi- of them in
consideration, to or frightful atrocilles
Lunch in the private dining- and fro about the Soviet Union. sides, and salions of slave labour the world has ever known", warning un both
no time massacres
to in As of organtser
Tsarist times, they room is usually substitution the
ve learned
fre Most days there to have prison
understand one relax. labour under tolerable
guests--ambassa- for
more plausible to ascribe them another, and there are the be-distinguished Union, however, are trested no conditions
narchy
by the prisoners
of what
dors, prelates, statesmen and others nowadays to resistance
ginninga better than
be bloodshed was a great advance.
might These themselves. There undoubtedly called a political opposition. overseas visitors. often Moreover, it would be good (and
worse).
An Austrian prisoner, Kari for the Chekists themselves again fall into two divisions was such resistance; three cases
who
been In change partially anyway- the
ferce half-soldiers, with who are either devoted to the Kingir and Vorkuta-or which seer. Katchen and
first genuine "politicals" are authenticated-Dzhezkazgan,
Kara- from
last was the most sensa ganda. last winter told several Communist the
audiences of a rough which had been
to
Perhaps the proposal rehabilitate criminals by setting was not useful work them to
Russians br- now as the iloved, but it would be
to diemies the com- which it Why
pliments with
revolver
Into
ས་མ་་
apd
and
ኒ፡
organisers of productive work
for the community.
who
the
herolam
French
one
Ple
cf
the
their bands always on their principles of the
to tional. Books about the Vorkuta the butts,
revolution and refused
ar strike and its crazy accept the Stalinist tyranny, he have been published. Socialists or followers of some
It had six points: 1. the of factories doctrine; other
But second,
the real
reason, I am The return
indicated.
2. The return the members of
workers' control; nationalities afraid, is, as I have which Soviet Imperialism needs really the economic one. Under of the land to the peasants; 3. In short, the pln was, in the to suppress. The most frequent the police regime, the labourers Free elections; 4. Dissolution of
Letts, died. More food, more clothes the secret police; 8. arc Intter of
tho circumstances
the day, o
slave-driving
The opening, of sensible Lithuanians, and
Chechens, Esto and less vicious Uzbeks, Tatars, Volga were called for because
Pro frontlers to the West. No one could see that it nians,
duction was so low. The Soviet It is too soon to attach much the Germans and Ukrainians. would flower into one of
But gaoler does not mind when the importance to this. most cnomous organisations of
but while he any such voice should be heard All these, with the exception prisoner is dead, slave labour the world has ever
the chornel-houses ir a known, and that the Cheka, NO of the second class, have been is slowly dying (such is the trom
would forced to work almost un- perversity of mankind) he door consciation. far from softening.
ΕΤΣ honourable
une.
Ta
become a larger and more pro- fessional corps of slave-drivers than has ever been recorded in history.
Its name
has been changed at
Icant
three times since to OCPU.. NKVD and MVD-and with each change its character has altered and become more 1103
stitutional
Now it controls mrny millions (how many,
and not known) in slave camps,
the Inbour of its convicts is an
Disarma-
that
BAHAMIAN PARADISE PLAN
tax, of the
From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
of Connecticut A New York work will be completed carly
group businessmen aro developing an- MERICAN big business- next year.
This follows the purchase for other 1,400-acre bay. They are men are gambling on a
2,600 acres at all banking on the perfect important part of the Soviet boom for the no-income- or Cay, 13 miles from climate, fishing beaches and the
Lyford economy. Without the produce
no-death-duties Nassau, by Edward Taylor, a colourful seling to bring a of these camps much
Toronto financler, And there tremendous influx of tourists, wilder and less hubitable parta Bahamian paradise.
And it looks as if their of Asiatic Russia would still be A plan is arounced for are many others Hiding in on
gamble will pay off. desplate, will
with consequent heavy the island's largest real this Bchomien boom, lose to the State.
estate venture by Lindsey American Wallace Groves is January and February there more tourists The Canal was, indeed, the
the moving heavy equipment into were 19 percent
build than in the same months lat harbinger of a "new form of Hopkins Junior and
a port, called Freeport...
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that we imagined.
essential fact to
Thind when we assess The Fisher Company were bear in mind the news that has recently been filtering through from these crimps.
Milanowe, In
imperfect
Groves plans, shipyards and
During
en the original developers of light industries, hoping the tax Tax concessions for businesson
."
y that millionaires play relicts will dazale foreign in going to Freeport include o
vestors. and un-ground, Miami Beach..
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more
Then on to
Another set of distinguished Ruests,
pleasant chat. another speech to make and SEVEN to listen to.
Bridon Town Hall, whore the Lord Mayor dances with the Mayoresa makes his last speech day.
and
of the
}
A midnight cup. of tea at home with the Lady Mayoress.
And so the day ends.
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