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SOVIET COLONIALISM
AT HOME
UST when the Soviet
Union la vigorously cham- 'pioning the nationalist cause In the Middle and Far East, it is renewing the offensive against nationalism in its own colonies.
While Moscow nationalism, in countries overse2),
The most outspoken attack on nationalism ainco de-Stulinisa h nt prosent tion was made at an important in meeting of the Georgian Com- Party in August. Detaile munist
non-Muslim
By Hugh Lunghi
· CHINA -MAIL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1:25,-
subordination to the "great That is why encourages Russian brother.” most
Muslim the implication of Stalin and his it sup- henchman Beria in the charges of "bourgeois nationalism" now Proses nationalism among its being levelled against the Geor own subject Muslim peoples. glans are, at the least, uncon- This is why Moscow's re- vincing. newed "anti - nationalist That many Georgions remain- ed staunch national patriots is a offensive In the USSR fact. This was in spite of Stalin, sharpest not because of him. And after Georgia. the attack on Stalin earlier this
it was year
the irrepressible Georgians who led the reaction of this meeting were kept secret party Initiated a wide-scale cul-
against Rusion Communist for nearly three weeks and re-
domination so far tural offensive against Georgian
The Georgians serm leased only recently - only in Georgie. They, show that nationalism. There were blister- ing attacks on Georgian national Russian Comununisia determined to stamp out the pics and histories that is
of Georgia's the very features slightest flicker of nationalism the
which in the which the repudiation of Stalin cultural heritage
Muslim Soviet Rpublics dod re- may have rekindled in
cently, been readunitted nailons of the Soviet empire.
Earlier
summer there
the
ماده
tha
on
Of Courde, what Moscow mainly feara about "bourgeols
wenken on "the great Russlan
were signs that MuscORW was nationalism" is that it might relaxing its ideological grip on colonies, particularly the Muslim populated co
ita
of
Cm-
to
be
playing the kind of leading role among the Soviet Republics that Poland is performing in the Soviet satellite countries. In fact
had Georgia
her This
riots καπο three
before months Poznan
Since the open riots in Georgia here have been constant reports in the Georgian press of trouble,
outbursts of the most violent
apparently Occurred in Stalin's Own birthplace-tho town of Gori.
o notion's depen." mainly at Party meetings. Some But Moscow has found that have Georgian notionalism pre- The perthumously sents an added danger,
Russian Communist leaders
are skilfully associating Georgian
Soviet Central Asia. munists Bandoled during Stalin era
W
rehabilitateti. anclem heroes began to be réplored Javour und the epis
them readmitted
literatures.
to
Hic
extolling matpenul
Clamping Down
HIS was done ni much with a
THIS
eye to Moscow's it w f
pagando offensive in the Middle East n for home muuttamapalara But there are now signs
That
Moscow in clamping down on Use colonies agaNN.
On August 21, a conference
was summoneref
KURS
local patriotlem with Stalin and the policy, attributed to him, uf suppressing the mitur nationali- iles in Georgia.
pursue EL
Added Danger
REPORT in the organ of the Georgian Communist Party
the
At the August meeting The Georgian Communists had to Zarya Vustoka, stated that there confess that Stain had made had been "backward" and "un- them
"policy
of healthy" discussions among liquidating the national cultures workers in the town's trade net- of the Abkhazian, Armenian and work. Zarya Vostoka also Ossetin peoples” of a tocked several of Gort's leading similating them forcibly into citizens. "A former lecturer at Georgia,
The meeting blamed the Teacher's Training Institute this "national exclusiveness" of was branded Д "degenerate" the Georgians on to Stalin und demagogue and "convert nation- the Berionshchina the new altst Others were even accused
atal
an the Cealal term eined in describe the Beria of "repeating unbridled Western
Asian capital of Tuskkent jo the best methods of tensifying and thereasing teaching of Runstars in the N Soviet Muslim Elequalities
Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan,
Turk -
epoch.
-
Before Poznan
bourgeois propaganda."
Such phenomem-mainly the result of de-Stalinisation-have not, of course, been confined to Georgia. But in Georgia there is Moscow
is true that Georgia under the added danger for menia, Klingizia, Kazakhstan Stalin enjoyed some small that anti-Communism, has turn- and Azerbaidjan, Full reports of privileges clemeet to the other ed into anti-Russianism.`and has this conference are yet to be ins nationalities of the Soviet en fostered the
loteni nationalist ceived, but the details so fur
pare. Yo originally was aspirations of Georgia, une strongly Stahn who led the Communists published remind
To combat this trend, Moscow of the Stalinist attempts to un- to crush every trace of Georgia's is trying to turn against all
Independence pose the Russian language and political
and Georgians the hatred felt to- culture un
non-Hussian sovereignty. Only after that had wards The
Stalin by the Soviet nationallies.
been done did Stalin bestow on colonial peoples, as well as by in the case of Georgia, where his countrymen, perhaps by way many Russians. That is one rea- the relaxation had never been of atonement for his crimes son why Moscow's renewed and.
the
is sharpest against them, the doubtful pri- nationalist offensive allowed to go as far as in Soviet colonies with Muslim po- virge of absorbing other Cau in Georgia. pulations, there has been a tr casian nations, which he trusted Turn to the rigid Stalinist sup- even less than his own Georgians, pression of focal patriotism.
But despite Stalin's "favourit Last August's plenary meeting_ism" lowards Georgia, he always
Georgian the
Communist used to insist on Georgia's tufal
of
In the Soviet Musilen Repub- lies the reimposition of Com- munist imperialism
at present has to be carried out much more unobtrușibely and gently.
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New York, Tuesday RITAIN should have
a miracle machine like
the one which has just saved the life of the British "heart- 19-month-old break baby," John Christopher Gold.
Doctors call it man's safest substitute for the heart and lungs.
nesota, for an operation.
DON
SNOOGI
DIAR:
hearts
virtue is that it con pump much blood as the beart Itself.
as nobody would advocate selling inderen! postcards just because there's a demand for them.”
Ailen Freed, who is billed as the King of Rock 'n Roli and whose following
estimated at 5,000,000 listeners a day, continues to play rock 'n rollers, but he carefully screens
air.
EVE PERRICK
CLOTHES TALK-BUT
WHAT DO THEY SAY?
667
London. HAT you wear
never
stops
talking about
You" da the
slogan on which a
new
American advertising cam- paign directed at mak- ing
more clothes-
men
conscious is based.
I's a good stunt, and one likely to be adapted
for the
over hero, just as we borrowed the Man with the Eyepatch to el shirts in the Charing Cross Road,
ties
But long, long before the copy- writers thought of it men and women of affairs have had the idea of putting their personali- over to the public by tho way they dress. Clothes talk
all right. They speak out loud and clear state their message as
and
plainly as if their wearers had comic-
strip balloons containing the text coming out of their heads.
Take those home-knitted vest- menis of Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM, for instance. They say simply, with perhaps Just the slightest hint of a sheer at the sartorially
splendid Bir Malcolm Sargent, "I'm just a musician. People have to love me for my music alone."
He's left-wing
The clothes of Mr Arthur Miller are casual to the point of
downright rudeness. The shape. leas jacket, the tleless shirt have a smug, self-satisfied air, telling
"I'm the world:
o Left-wing intellectual even if I am married to a glamorous Gim star-p
there."
dress
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ROCK 'N ROLL, the musical ecentricity which has been called here "O communicable discose," has now infected so the reconds before going on the men, favours Edwardian- many American teenagers that the police and watch societies of most
American States
The origins of this the curbing and censoring personal art form, depending how you performances and record- view it, spring from the Negro playing.
bluca,
For over a year rock 'n roll has been absorbing millions of American youths and girls.
It is super jived-up jazz and
craze or
Hardy Amics, who "dresses" the Queen sometimes, and a lot of wealthy women at Inspired (a la Cecil Beaton, not Teddy Boy) clothes for himself. Rather wistfully, they say: "Of course, I'd like to make my own suits, but at least my tailor. listens to me,"
"If you want
.a
to get ahead, There is the incessant jungle get 5 hat"-that's Mr Jack beat, the rhythmic excitement Buchanan's light-coloured triby, of the hot-gospel muse of the repeating the Millinery: Asso- ciation's tried but untriumphant Deep South.
phrase
Baby John, born with a hole
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Hospital, London, that
of Massachusetts, could be stopped, repaired, and the cavorting, crooning 21-year. Byrne,
old idol of the, teenagers.
analysing 2 récent Boston there resume their function.
uprising, says: "Tin Pan Alley More rock 'n roll records have has unleased a now monster, a on radios, fuke sort of nightmare in rhythm. been heard boxes, and gramophones during Some of our disc-fockeys have the past few months than any part emotional TNT on other form of "music."
turntables.
It has stirred controversy here,
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had heart-lung machine which performed the pumping
The miracle machine gave him the breath of life while his damaged heart was repaired. Now the
functions of the heart and the baby is recovering.
His blood-acrating function of the heart is sound.
lungs
Latest, best
Today I talked to Dr Elman, of the Mayo Clinic, which owns the machine, and of which St Mary's Hospital is a branch.
0
I asked: "Why hasn't Britain, and the rest of the world for that matter, machine so that the lives of children with damaged hearts can be saved?"
But the Mayo machine is said to be much more modern.
Stopped-heart operations hap- pen all the time in the United States and the Gold baby has ocarcely been mentioned in the American Press.
Here's haw the miracle
machine works in an operation like
the one that saved the "heartbreak baby."
up an angry
The 'King'
Francis Braceland, of Hart- ford's Institute of Living. says: "This musical disease appeals to adolescent insecurity and drives
teenagers to doing
their
won't change me.”
"I get paid for being a comic. but I'm a country squire at "The rock 'n roll record haps heart," say the tweedy, leather- give young hoodlums un excuse patched outfits of Mr Jimmy
to get together. The musle In-Edwards. flames teenagers and it Ja
Stanley Spencer, CBE., RA..
obscenely suggestive. We are the unshaved and unshorn, lets taking overy step to curb it.”
No excuses
his clothes do more than talk for him. They yell: "I'm an artist one of the old paint- stained school.”
Mr Bing Crosby almost wears his heart on his slerve. "Warren County Fish and
wearing DISC JOCKEY Freed himself Game Preservation Association"
outlandish things like zoot suits or ducktail haircuts. It is cannibalistle and tribalistic."
Tho
makes no excuse, Ho first broke into radio in 1949 as A routine announcer and later outfit, became a disc jockey,
Later.
the legend of loyalty
От embroidered
his favourite that much worn blazer which goes along with the pipe and slouch hat.
the greatest speaking-
of dialogun
The big veins at the heart are
hla doctor supports oxygen-pour tied off and their
he began playing But blood (blue)
Brgument by listing rock 'n roll obscuro
the clothes that all ment to an
Negro Tecords artificial lung for fresh oxygen.
and loudest and riots in
to Boston, where police Introduced rough frequently effect financially Venous blood from inside the have now issued orders banning out of tume, singing of vocal added à now line Jung la suctioned off and sent to teenagers from dancing in public groups with
opel beat, this week; The doctor explained the artificial limg too,
and parents, patiently to me, a layman:
roll occasional honking instrumental Rotating pumps gently mas demonstrations In Hartford groups. "There have been several sage the machine's tubes, keep. Connecticut, Atlanta, Georgia, machines developed for the ing the blood flowing, An, artery stopped heart operation. pump sends oxygenated blood This is the latest, and, we (red) back to the main artery
and on to the vital organ15. think, the best,
without the consent of their primitive. blues singers and The talk dies
"It was invented by Dr JH. Gibbon, of Philadel phin. It costs £35,000, and looks like a tank on wheels, with a maze of tubes. It is
A surgeon working in the by held and can see what he is passed heart has a relatively dry doing The
rock 'n
►
VIZHEN it comes WHE
to women'a clothes the talk dies dowİSƏ
obvious
a whisper. We are never the sex, thank goodness,
that
in San Diego, and in Chicago. The stuff caught on and the Jack Ellsworth, programme teenagers loved it. Elvis Presley, director of ore of Long Island's although a rook 'n roller, and a mink on a starlets dous loading radio
stations, says: ccasionally suggestive but not not necessarily tell that old, old "There are too many R, and R. pornographic. Many of the tale about the chorus girl --and records with suggestive lyrica. Imitators are.
the fur coat. Have you, mer kids what they want just be- riots, and it may land a lot of You can't give some of these
thought So far it is paying off-in durriers are daughter of the machine's big cause they want it After all, people in gaol.
stage?)
Stut
thero are
certain strong minded women who use their clothes to speak their minds.
I. noticed that Dr. Edth Summerskill has a new bat. It's a fat, pancake affair instead of the deep-crowned felt she usual-
Sft. by 4ft., and is electrical- PLASTIC HOUSE
ly operated.
Special team
"It does the job of keep- ing the circulatory system
the going while
heart, which is nature's pump, is being repaired.”. »
Dr Ekman told me that Mayo Clinic has two of miraclo machines,
OF THE FUTURE'
SMOOTHS OUT THE CORNERS
New York world's first plastic
house is being built in |Los Angeles, in Californin, the|to demonstrate what ita the builders believe will be the most popular house of the future. The buiding, from "One is experimental," he the outside walle toits said and the other is the one inside furnishings, is 99 wo seed for the operation on percent plastic.
Each section of the structure.
British baby. Gold. A specially trained team of eight to ten
is a U-shaped moulded unit and people, and sometimes 12, takes eight units will be connected to part in the operation, to form a four rooms each: "10tt.
aquare
"One of the ressoný" Britain | A square in the centro has not boen carrying out his unite will contain the kit type of operation is becauso, at latindy baths and
facilities: Some of the v this lime, she has not the removable
From EVELYN IRONS
A moltel
(fiéed.
showing
16th/ aquare - PROTES,"
on
But deep-crowned fells are in the modo right now. Dr Edith's pancake proclaime proudly that she's one, woman who; wouldn't be soon dead in a fashionable hata
And I'm a an Engilan Rost say the flower-stroww crinolings and bonneta of 5 hits Gerald Leggo, "I'm duchessYW the English county tailoring aNCE single-row real, pearls off the Duchess of Marlborough. Emas ( an Edwardian beauty," boom the big bai, the thick veil of Mes Everleigh Naah, woa
Some years ago, I wrote of a coral woman of title (and I'm afraid that the place I did started her on her long, notor Lous
career
in the public-prints)} I said that her clothes were not
Just a matter of more!
"They stood "right up ́ind:
Don
course, that today Lady ulded, and her thzaling dressed would
be cleaned as often a steal and, if anything, more Dwan't to know then per gibore: The inside síalis, durable,
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The materials can be improof, mark and bent to shape able to could nevarīšaka, tie
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