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The Man AN INTERRUPTION Who Took
Me To Dinner
IN MOSCOW
• fi was reported that one of the six British girla now back from modelling in Moscow "had dales with a charming young Russiau." *Ten 130 all about 16," asked
reportor. And th, là all about 14 ...
By ANN SOUTH
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INNER on the Muscow River, dancing under the Moscow sky, and the company of young Russians that
the
evening I shall remember more than any other from my three weeks in Moscow.
Georgi, one Russia's young authors, invited me for that unforgettable date in the Russian capital. It was my first unchaperoned, unsupervised meeting young Russian people.
with
Wa mot at a party. We were introduced-and I found Georgi spoke fluent English.
We got on well, the 34-yr-old Hussinn and So he suggested anther meeting-so he wild introduce the girl friend of whom he wis eo proud.
He brought her along to my hotel a few days later, and pre- sented her: "Svetuna, my girl, the loveliest girl in the Soviet Union."
And when he took me out ko dinmer it was this burning pride that make Lie
BB evering. enthusiasm for showing The best, is
exuberatico for the everyday things in his life, his eagerness to please-und his un- bounding energy, which sizzied in every muscle of his nesthetle Lace..
Georgi had ordered the meal at Moscow's exclusive-Indeed glamorous-open-air restaurant on the riverside, the Volga. He producext euch dish with
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flourish
his hansel sparkle in his eye master showing his stay turn.
a
like a ring-
There was borsch with cream, sturgcon iri onion SALONS, Russian Jukes stuffed with meat, creamy gatruus--washed down with vodka and slivovitz
He watched me closely inated each dish.
FIN
Imnurately
he asked: "Do you like I assured him yes, wonderful "Are you sure?” he persisted Yes, really, I told him And t elation was something akin triumph.
When the meat
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over, WEES although I could hardly
nove
Georgi insisted on whisking me
pom-
SYDNEY
SMITH : : : JUST BACK
FROM RUSSIA : : :
THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1958.
by GILES
When friends meet
THE THOR] IDRAMA
GROUP TOLSTOY *WAR AND
DEBATING GROUP
TOWN!
SUBJECT TONIGHT
Should we abolish HANGING
"My Grandma says hang everybody"
-AND RENE
MACCOLL ::: JUST BACK
FROM CHINA : : :
We believe
that
AGREE ON A STARTLING POLITICAL PREDICTION
one
day
China's power could drive
the U.S. and Russia together
PROLOGUE U
By Donald Gomery
this
the
Na soundproof room
two Ten thet week to discuss post-Poznan pattern of
workt power:
Rene Murtoll and Sydney Smith, two of the work's inost travelled foreign cor- respondents.
MacColl is just back from
a tour of Red China, Smith
MacColl. And I think that Sydney Smith agreed broad. ly when MacColl said:-
"I think that if we can
The country
immens
drive. discipline. The furce. country is desperately anxious to learn, to forge ahead.
China is under the direvelion of
stagger along through the clever and competent mæ next 20 years without a consider that China is the country
third world war, at the end of the march.
of that 20 years China will be approaching a thousand million population, and there
is a very good chance that
Future
HOW
QUESTION TWOS
I
War now, or for many years to come, would defeat her plans for the more subile but equally dangerous political and economic penetration of the non-socialist world.
QUESTION FOUR
the United States und SUPPOSING China were Russia aghast nt Spectre of this great coun- try-will be thrust into one another's arms.
WELL, what do you think will be the effect of the growing importance of Asla on Russia's European Western and the to develop as fast as that, satellites what would be the sort of Europe? thing which might "throw ● a spanner in the works" as regards world peace?
Then, with Russia and the United States on one side, and
umassive
balance of
i just back from Russia. China on the other, we will
Both MacColl and Smith achieve know both countries well. power which may give the world
three peace for hundreds of years."
MacColl
has
been
MacCOLL: The Immediate, short-term possiblity which has been simmering through the past few years-is war with the
Formosa U.S.A.-ver
But Chou En-lai has recently stressed markedly conclitatory line on Fornasa.
the
MacCOLL: Even Russian satellites remain faith- fully in the Russian orbil- something which stems ques- umable just now-there can be no doubt what they will be pro- foundly and increasingly affected by the
the advance of China. In
Pukkig, from
I saw a stream of "delegations" Ure "Popiar Peoples Democracies" of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, East Germany, and so on. Some of these groups ware on business, others were sightseers; but alí or for some other reason, Cht were "belog given the works."
Beck may Indonesia, and Burma.
through key
• SMITH Moscow not groups of European nationals, in leaving
the
Chinese Oт Knyone an all-out, systematic way. argue
cisc in any doubt that the SMITH: I found in Moscow double-neutralism of Nehru 15 that theory seriously when
that the massive and undiusS Chinn is
regarded far behind
the Communist Chinese delegations coming in ky America and Russia Party Central Commilice as
In
from China are in no way given powerful counterbalance to ex- technical things?
any importance priority over pansive political ambitions by the European satellite delega
tions. The satellites are still top
times to postwar Russia; On this astounding prediction twice to China. Smith was questioned both MacColl und in China in 1949 when the Smith closely. They said:- Communists took over.
1 was the third man in
off to dance. Dunce! It was that room. I had a tape more like a march of the gladia-recorder to take down every
the hearty tors. With
band word they said. pomming of the all-male and the energetic stomping of Goorg! I felt like n wet rag when it was over.
Wa
But I was happy and elated-- the enthustorm of Georgi infectious.
And I was really sorry when the party
broke up at 1a.m.
And in the wealth of dis- cussion that took place be tween MacColl and
Smith
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QUESTIONCONER
HOW CAN
80
you
More dangerous is the possi- bility that, driven by un enor mous increase in her population'
to
оссиру
India,
Elm,bout infu-
China is encing
•
is
EL
to the
If China were to try to tako with the Kremlias because they over india through Stam and are Russia's front lino Burma...for that is the way West. It would come... It would be the end of the Peking-Moscow since.
● MacCOLL: I put this forward Peking.
a serious possibility as ST result of what I saw in China.
Whatever one may think about We drove back through the in that soundproof room, wide. now diserted, streets of one observation a challeng. Communian, there is no doubt
that China undergone + transformation- And that was the last 1.owing theory-sank deep into my mind
my mind.
It was made by and that others are coming.
Moscow to my hotel.
of Georgi.
hos
It would be the beginning of an open ideological war between the Soviets and China for all Asia.
QUESTION THREE
QUESTION FIVE
HOW LONG do you think it will take for China to reach the point where America and Russia will agree to bury the hatchet and team up together to BUT DO YOU think that offset the strength of the any immediate assault on new Oriental colossus? the peace is likely?
MacCOLL: Although China
• MacCOLL: No. I shall go is just starting on her great new fout on a limb and say that I palh to strength and a position
consider,
Es the
result of my as a world Power, I personally recent visit to China, that the consider that she can
achlove Communist Government of Mao really startling advances in the Teo-bung is honestly anxious for next two decades. pease in the next 20 yours,
China has a colobaal teak aboad
of her-internally. She is simul- taneously tacitling a whole lino
Mẹo le a master of mass psychology His hard-working poopla, 600 million strong, urė responding with a will.
of problems any one of which SMITH: Because it can come
wooda nil her Bitontion and in 20 years, I saw Russia wasting ounce of effort from her no tiny already in opening the
economic bo toolt
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tional sense of nationalism, add
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of property that
hat goce with
vis series of development and
construction plans, and add
above all with America. That why the Kremila's daily
In "poncatul co-existi
Oth
satellite, and .
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in Moscow that the Kremlins i economie
domition and an look
hopefully towards appreciation of her own untapped American friendsalgon Д KOMOLITOÓR, · and it & jis, ensy to goûntertialance to the awakening understand why Buskla dose nos fortes in Arle, ¿wend war.
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