THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1957.
The tourist road to Moscow I'VE MADE IT!
Patricia Smyllie (26)| at the wheel of her car crosses the Iron Curtain to find that..
EVERYBODY RUSHES
TO HELP ME
Brest-Litovsk,
HERE am in Russia, the first motorist from Britain to cross the frontier on a drive-to-Moscow holiday. I am being given a tremendous welcome. Everybody,, Customs officials, police, and the people here in Brest-Litovsk, are bustling around trying to do everything they can to help me. They are delighted that their first visitor from the West is a British girl.
As the bar was lifted on the Polish side of the frontier and I drove forward into Russia, an impressive Soviet police official in a very smart, spotlessly laundered cream jacket, rolled up in a coffee-coloured car with an interpreter who spoke perfect English.
I nearly jumped out of my car with delight at the sound of his voice and just yelled at him: "Are you my interpreter?" The poor chap looked embarrassed and told me no, he was only a Customs official.
They told me not to worry and everyone is being so kind that I don't think I shall They have found a com-
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to Moscow---740 miles ahead.
The Soviet frontier police officer saluted smartly, and I soon had him roaring with laughter. The Customs man got into my car and helped me to sign three forms, and stayed in the car while I drove into the town.
You come in under an impressive archway painted
in blue and gold with the message, "Peace to the World,"
painted in gold above it in Russian.
I have never had so many people looking after me all
at once. Pound notes are good things to have as you can
MEN OF MEDICINE
THE CURIOUS DILETTANTE
TITROUS oxide,
Naughing gur, provided
or would be vital to the mo- restore ole' from which oxygen
tion and respiration,
Benjamin Franklin
SING,
3.0 foduce
the
with his
PRIESTLEY Hla insatiable curiosity about the physical world helped lay the groundwork før modern chemistry.
his
from anesthesia, thus an entire
has been inillated and our debt ly new field of medical résench to Priestley is apparent.
As
น
the early nineteenth century with some of its most
A man of boundless energies, who thought nothing of a hilarious entertainment.
twenty-mile walk before break- Those who inhaled it, ac-
fast, Priestley's scientlic reputa- cording to a poster advertis. A meeting with Bee- to grow. He was offered gifts ing a public exhibition, m Freaklin encouraged and stipends, and friends con uership in the French Academy might LAUGH,
to tended to help him young Englishman
his DANCE,
relentine work Apparatus for his export of Sciences, and other honours SPEAK, OR work,
"The History of Elec- ments was made for him by from Turla to 3t Petersburg. FIGHT. Yet it scarcely tricity," but he abandoned that Josiah Wedgwood, the famed
Research carried on in labora- WAN occurred to anyone, in that study for chemistry in 1770, and pottery maker, and he Joseph Priestley
loics such as these maintained two years later marked on given overy ginse Instrument age without anesthetics, epoch in science with his paper he needed by a London
by Fazar, where opli-
Vindrit Wad that nitrous oxide might also spite of unsatisfactory
discovered, is now in the hands those who inhaled "On Different Kinds of Air" clun. Of all the offers that came, Unfortunately, Joseph Pri-
ex- Priestley preferred the aid of estley's lack of any reat back treined to approach their work of modern teadis of selentists perimen Le and
many wrong lovČIS
200 of retenter
also
150 ground in the study of chemistry with lie painlessly still on conclusions, now vistas opened lovers of liberty" His liberal left him unable to analyse T. himself deared na
Che goal that Pricatley operating table or in the with Priestley's discoveries of sympathies, which would even evaluate
object of experiments selence: "to compchienst things hydrochloric acid дая and tually bring the wrath of a mob thoroughly. But with the clues clearly, and dentist's chair, Neither did several of the oxides of nitrogen, down upon him during the that Priestley's work furnished, much knowledgz3 partible
to comprise anyone realise that the his description of what he French Revolution, were us woll Lavoisier went on to describe the smallest conipasr." Achievementa of its dis- called 'phlogisticated air (pure known as the scientif
work the true nature of combustion nitrogen), and
earned bla experiment which
him a reward
the properiles of the new covercy, Joseph Priestley, ewing the power of Plants to from the Royal Society, mem- gay prem Priestley had noted that a dew was formed When hydrogen and охуде were exploded together; but I was Cavendish who found that this dow was water. It remain ed, in fact, for an almost necl- dental observation forty years after Priclcy's death to sug- gest the true value of nitrous exido as FI ancathetic. An American dential saw a man fall and hurt its leg while under the Influence of laughing Lat apparently feeling no pain; ho Frind it on himself and had n tooth extractet painlessly, open- ing a new era of tooth-pulling."
THERE'S a sign you don't have to translate, comrade interpreter—' Unemployment Exchange'
Factor
get a lot of roubles for Es, dollars, or West German cur- rency. My letter of credit was no good, except in Moscow., Luckily I had £7 on me, which I changed for 200 roubles. THAN EVER AFTER_THE_NEWS FROM MOSCOW THE COST OF A MEAL
IT'S EISENHOWER...........AND_IT_MATTERS MORE
Washington.
The cost of a single room for one night is 13 roubles. BA
DACK in Washington
and two gallons of petrol cost one rouble.
A friendly crowd had gathered round my car and one of the soldiers started up a conversation in German asking how it worked and how many miles it did to the gallon. Unfortunately, I didn't know the answer to that question. I have been only eight hours inside Russla, but for any tourist coming my way it is well worth it. I have just had an excellent meal of steak and fruit salad which cost 14s.
after five weeks in Britain I find the whole diplomatic world is dis-
For
key
by ROSS MARK
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suffers сп
no
cussing the big question: and other minorities, Is due run again--always Has President Eisenhower's for full-scale debate in Con- crosion of power, popularity begun to fall him this wh It has been a
Republican Congressmen, in his final years in the programme,
Eisenhower 2 part of the
knowing there will be White House?
Elsenhower's critics suggest magic carpet into offre eliber that this
in the 1958 ur 1900 elections to Perhaps more than any other homework
example of
Congres, are less carer to man Eisenhower has disproved homework left
badly done or follow the Eisenhower leader-
undone, In A You can imagine the feeling here as a lone British girl dent of the United States is one
the old saying that the Prest- daily. regimen aimed at con-
ship. For instance, they seem to feel there la more political walks round the place. I don't think they are quite used man
serving a man who suffered a and the Presidency is perious
thrifu to it.
heart But they are getting ready for an onslaught of Bri-many.
attack in 1955, advantage in showing
to tax-conselous voters underwent mujor tish tourists soon.
abdominal ne Elsen surgery In 1866. and who sent money he needs for programmes. Dwight David
than
voling Brisenhower however, to 105 million Ameri- Wall Street prices toppling The foreign desk of the Daily Express tells me on the suns ani
hundreds of when a slice of blueberry ple Following bis illnessee telephone that I am more than 24 hours ahead of two millions across the Atlantic and upset his stomach.
Elsenhower has been seeing Automobile Association men from Loridon who are survey-ole
Pacific Oceans, has become the
representative
and without of
fewer the
people, ing the route I have just travelled. I'll warn the officials White House. The volee of
personal, contact the Eisenhower here to look out for them.
Eisenhower has been the voice
system of person-to-person re- lations does not work so well, i It can't be lonelier of the United States.
changed Eovn the warm Eisenhower per- Sources in the embassies of watonishingly for Elsen sonality suffers through
the some of the United States' best, hower since last January when cold electronics of television, friends tell me that over the he was inaugurated for a second week-ond diplomata were four-year term as President. weighing the "Elsenhower Then he could do no wrong. factor" as they reported to Ho had receivert a thumping to sit in the White House by their capitals on the American vote of
from the the end of his term in 1900. attitude to the rupture in people, a vote so overwhelming Soviet leadership, the intrusion that it virtually destroyed the After the years of efflor the of the Soviet naval forces in the political life of his Democrado remarkably stable Eigen- Middle East, disarmament and opponent, the articulate liberal hower Cabinet shows signs of from linole, Adlai Stevenson. potential disintegration through
But, since then, Eisenhower's sickness and resignations.
One of Eisenhower's closest In recent months he has seen adviRETE, Secretary of the
Tomorrow 'I set out for Minsk. than my 180 miles drive from Warsaw to here. only five cars the whole way.
I passed
Now I'm going to tell you all about my trip so far, from the word Co.
THE FIRST STAGE
MY Journey really bugar when I walked out of the
Russian Embassy in London's Millionaires Row" other urgent matters. with shaky knees and a visa for Moscow.
That's when I was told that I would have an inter- CONFESSION
preter at the Russian border.
THE EBB
THINGS have
confidenten
fortune seem to have obbed.
Elsenhower is now 07 and will be the, oldest mun, ever |
Secretary
standing on the stops to say goodboye, "you might be lucky
You never know," said one of the Soviet officials ONE diplomat, with a hint of little pot as well no lines any antibod hd and get a handsome interpreter,"
Sald another: "I hope you learn to change a wheel by Kremin and the effects on the own the time you got to the border.”
I hope so too.
The next 24 hours were 5 complete nightmare, Rushing backwards and forwards to various embassies to get all my papers completed, to have my hair done, some- thing a woman always does in a time of crisis.
An amusing incident was rushing in a taxi to a big London store, sending all the assistants, shop buyers, and everyone around nearly crazy with alarm as I had not got the right clothes together and had to buy quickly.
So I just pointed to various skirts and blouses and said: "I will have that and that and that and just bung them into my case, as I haven't got time to try thom on."'
her
A friend phoned up at the eleventh hour to leave a massage at the Daily Express: Tell Miss Smyllia among luggage she must have a bathplug Te is most
MONDAY: Over the border
asserttial,
SURVIVOR
家
his personal appeals for support Treasury George Humphrey,
effect handful of sand därement, and criticism, drew my atten- flung into the North Seo.
Defence Charles Willson is prob- Lion to à nowpaper whose front page blared
ably stepping out avon. the upheaval in
He has oben members of his Republican Party Join whole world with another the Democrats in a drive to article on the inakle page about sinah the fanciul the President's long week-end he has called essential for the at bis Gettysburg farm.
safety of the United States and ves
VIAT· leaves only Secretary John Foster The article described the the free world President's golfing activities and
Dulles of the "Blg Three" .ad- He has sect a pet Bill that vis left with Elenhower, would provide federal aid for And Dulles is a man who had school building go foundering in an operation for cancer of the goes for want of aid from stomach only a few months ago.
4C-
of ·
Republican, Menmue ho sig- He is 09.
gested for reform in immigra-
his ride through folde of com on the hore Sporty Miss companied
by Secret Service, mau-chauffeur Dick Flohr on second horse. Doodle-Deh-Do,
On the home front,
· Ezra Taft Derinoni, Secrotity hower shocked
- tion laws, wege
foding, com of Agriculture, and Arthur supporter last work when
of his doomed for a similar fate. Summerfield, *Postmaster- Elonhower is, of course, for General, are two other, possible confessed under questioning trom being posively unpopular resignatioria hlu Photos conference that be or completely ineffective.
But
he
not completely understand five major factors are telling This, then, is the situation certain phreann. Óf Mis Civil ftin himse Rits Bill
Zale Bil, which would Pro Matthe voting Tights-of 20,003,000. American Negrowe
murrounding Elecnhower bodiur. How, he, shapes up to it. In the Malory so that Preset few weeks le matter of cant in Jula Immt, years, of concen to every nation of the alikon-manh- Mamoligene welik tapt West.
The 20th Century has left Jess and leg room for the untrained scientist and the curious dilet Tante, But the tools provided by the work of these men are still Indispensable. The recent deve- lopment of a
completely new type of anesthetic Vindril derived from hormones and used in conjunction wiib nitrous oxide is refinement which contributes improved muscle relaxation and more nocul respiration during surgery, as
I smoother
recovery
well as
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