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THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1957.
ROAD TO MOSCOW
I'm dancing
at midnight in MINSK
Patricia Smyllie
AM having a marvel-
I lous time in Minsk.
We are dancing in the streets to bande which suddenly spring up at odd
corners,
We are dancing to the tune of "Blue Moon," my Intourist guide and myself, and 6,000 Russians who are celebrating n festival of youth.
On one olde of the main square here an
enormous salue of Stalin which seeing to laugh at the gay crowds dancing below,
Lights on A building say in Russian: "Peace to the World." A searchlight is playing on barrage balloon with flags flying beneath 11.
In my hotel-the best in Minsk-it is very guy. The ball- room is crowded and they have been danelng to the tune
Autumn Leaves
arrived Et
after
11 um
the
as
driving 232
of
hotel The
miles
border at Brest-
Lllovsk on my way to Moscow the first car tourist in RVESİB.
My bedroom is luxurious. Next door there is a& shower with hot and cold water,
,1 Ital a meal which pald for by the tourist agency back home We all meals on this trip.
And now it is midnight and we are dancing.
I must teli you about Valentine, the official interprefer
In whese care was placed for
10 Minsk. lie. the journey one of the kindest
men.
and most
The
who
like a
"Haven't you had enough boating for one wook?"
Snob works beaver
By LES ARMOUR
"ASSEY is lean and ascetic looking, a little sad-freed houghtful of mermelat guide MASSY is len
the Russians Insist must travel with every foreign tourist motoring in the Soviet Union.
Befer I left Brest-Litovsk
Valentine, who is young with fair hair and thick glasses, took me round lo a #arage to have the car checked over.
It proved to be hilariously funny. A couple of hundred of the 400 mechanics who work there ran up and crowded round the cor.
Ovre a Coudspeaker came Strauss waltzes, While the car was being washed, everyone seemed su eurloos 10 see the works that I opened up the bonnet to let them have a look
As i was a tourist on my way to Moscow I was not allowed to pay for all that was done.
He does not look like a tractor king and, indeed, it
Is absolutely certain that that description would revolt him. Once, long ago, somebody made the mistake of call- ing him "Charlie". The look he got made the poor man turn and flee.
Massey feels So strongly
10
scholarly interests and time induire his interest in art.
Massey does not ruffle easily. To be ruffled is to admit
-that
you are not perfectly civilised
and
Massey prides himselt on being a civilised man.
He has even found time, In
the bustle of his life, to write sona quite tolerable one-act plays which have been
per-
Toronto.
about the point that he does not Residence at the university's formed and appreciated — in list Charles among his names in Victoria College. Who's Who, Vincent, he be- with leves, is more consistent his dignity.
There are no reliable ante dotes about the man. He would not care to figure in one,
And yet this man is not the stuffed-shirt be sometimes seems to try to make himself out to be.
Like it or not, he is a Iractor king. And he did very well in the tractor business
over
on
He would have been happy to
There are those who believe slay an academic, but fainly that he and his brother Ray- pressure brought him back to mond, the actor, should have business. Business Kild not
been cast. jn one another's roles.
stimulate him even though he obviously stimulated it, and he itched to get out,
a Don
Raymond Le affable, easy- per- going, approachable, the Vincent fect diplomat.
does not find meeting people cusy when he and he does not And it easy to His chance came
to people who do not was appointed Minister without talk
his share
scholarly back Portfolio in the uneasy govern- shar ment of 1925. He contested a ground. seat at Durham West, but failed in an election which was some
thing of a Liberal rout.
On the other hand,
CHARLES VINCENT MASSEY
He
A
and the universities and he has always lurks the possibility that had enormous influence in thego a Governor-General may one matters on provincial and local day be called upon to act. That We do for extra polite
governments as well as upon day may not be far off. ress,"
suld the head of the
Not long after he look
on the the national government.
So long as any one party in garage, a tall, thick-set, typical the family Arm (now Massey-
Most of his predecessors in the House of Commcns has public platform he is the pay office have been content to be majority and so long as that the Russian gure.
Harris-Ferguson), When the time came to start Mackenzie King, then Prime
ject actor. He can hold
Agureheads. Massey has worked. party can get its way with the you Minister of Canada decided to Valentine sak: escort
As a result, he turned diplo audience spellbound.
Again, he has worked hard in Senate, no
the problem for I offered him the drop the protective tariff
Raymond, most mat and after the election of cut, ludy,"
probably,
Xist stal beside me.
The next year, he was appoint would have been a highly suc- the name of what is called Governor-General arises He gratefully agricultural machinery.
belleves function is merely to give the develop Other tractor makers moaned ed to the post which, in those eessful politician. Vincent never "Canadianism". accepted and he seemed terribly
Royal Assent to bills as they His one taste of the that Canada must interested in how my car raa. Lovely songs by well known vocalista
to him-unless, and walled and issue public days of the reorganisation of the has been.
service, was rough and
of the distinctive culture of its own, are presented tumble Valentine turned out to be a
that Canadian foreign statements to the effect
of course, one should one day Champagne Court, Kimberley Rd., Kowloon Copp. Hotel Miramar)
most amusing character, Hthe agricultural machinery bus- quaintly styled "His Majesty's laetings in 1925 was enough that the imported cultures
Europe nie inadequate to meet appear so flagrantly evil that with ners 1old me he was married
in Canada was through. Canadian Minister to Washing for him.
the needs of a country whose his conscience would not allow Canadians respect hin, even one child, "I is cheaper to have Massey merely sent the Prime ton" but carried with it, in ali
he rald. Minister a children in Russin.'"
telegram of con-
admire him. But it is unlikely citizens come from 70 different him to be a party to it.
backgrounds and if you don't have any you pay gratulation-and went on to ex-basador.
Ile lasted four years until that he could get himself elected national pand his business inside and
one of Canada's rare Tory nov-dog-catcher anywhere outside which spreads itacit herons
district He was a bit dubious about joutside Canada until now
university crnments swept into office. my driving at first, but he soon dominates the trade around the
Back home, he became Prest- seared world got used to seeing
dent of the Liberal Party and devoted the years of opposition to party organisation.
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animals and children dashing
out of the road when they saw my car approaching.
1 saw only one potrol filling- station.
3 Jobs
all of them
but
name, the rank of
am-
When the Tories were swept
tho
Toronto.
of
П
of
continent.
=
This line has been popular even though neither Massey nor
Work
He is too aloof and too much
Wise
But what if no party has a
anyone else has ever been able majority and if the politicians lo suggest what characteristics cannot agree among themselves
Canadian ought to have, about who should govern?
Then it Is the established function
a of
Canadian His belief in free trade is so
out in 1935, Mackenzle King sent suspected of intellectual and Canada, in truth, is many coun- A crowd of people inbred that it never occurred to
Prince Edward Island has far Governor-General to bring the follow that any of these charges
and 10 together gathered every time we stopped him that the end of protection him to London as High Commis-cial snobbery. It does not tries and one in rame only,
with British politicians Jess in common sloner. at the roadside,
might bring disaster.
could be subefantlated, but it is Columbia than British Columbia negotiate unili someone is able
fell in There he stayed until the end widely
Canada thab They looked ! me rilling He has had at least three
with the neighbouring to govern. would have of the ivar, amassing honorary Massey
Uke nothing has
Now, ns Canada there as large as Bfe, and it was careers at
salle dan.. degrees, Anding time to be a ixelier
American state of Washington. than to estabilch
British amusaig to see their eyes pop been successful.
Columbians, even gerously close to constitutional that situation 19 He graduated first from the Trustee of the National Gallery hereditary aristocracy. cut
their hends with of
Toronto and then and a Trusice of the Tate, astonishment when they saw University
How comes it, then, that his among themselves, have te endlock,
the minds of girl in the driving seat.
from Oxford. Armed with his dabbling quietly in the phile- term as Governor-General has enough in common. The brash, uppermost I drive to two degrees, he went, back to rophy of history and improving been twice extended and that pushing American types of Van Canadians who think.
Massey can be trusted to be On the monow
be there is a widespread feeling couver would not want to Smolensk,
whether with Toronto as a Lecturer in Modern his expertise in Eighteenth Cen-
that he will be very difficult to "integrated" with the Anglophiles both discreet and wise. The Valentine or another interpreter, History and became Dean of lury English furniture.
rumbustious politician is replace?
of Victoria, and neither would most 1 don't know.
Partly. the respect. in which care to develop a "common cul- apt to think twice after a he is held is the product of the ture with the cowinen of the searching look from Massey.
And Canadians He Cariboo. hard works he has put in.
respect him has stumped the country tire But Massey continues to hope, enough to back him if the need lessly in the cause of the arts And, in the background, there should ever arise.
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HILDBED fever, a form carrying the talection on thele
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