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TRAVEL MORE FREELY IN RUSSIA
By VINCENT BUIST
Foreigners including Western journalists
Moscow, Aug. 2.
can travol more freely and mix with Russians more easily_this_summer than at any time since the early days of the Soviot re- volution.
They can take a jel aircraft; to remote Siberian tov s aud thare a four-bed dormitory with three Russians in an hotel. Or they can travel by long-distance train, sharing sleeping berths with three Russians--all without any attempt by the authorities
I remember with affection the B5-year-old Russian engineer, travelling south with acute plans for u 110 bridge a steel was overjoyed to centre, who
told meet an Englishmap. Ite me that he had studled English, and German at fils French
to isolate them from their fellow schoul in St Petersburg, before travellers, or to maintain an - the revolution
biti 24-hour Watch conveerj.grad.
them,
On their home ground, Rus- lans prove to be one of the
and most garrulous
unsell- the world. conscious races
made Lenia-
In two years' lime, he said, he would be going on "pensio" that, retiring on a Slate pen- sion. He then hoped to do two
which work
had
On a long journey, their prior-things
ties for killing time seem to be prevented him from doing ever
I. Talking:
•
2. Drinking:
• 3. Singing:
*
4. Sleeping, and
5. Playing cards.
Politics do not come into it at
They
scarcely seem interested in 'that as a topic.
all.
to
Easy
Titia makes it
Since his Polersburg days. These
SORCERY
GRIPS NATIVES
By PETER SMARK
weird
Port Moresby, Aug. 2.
and to learn English really Sorcery were
writing. well, and to take up
of ideas for He had plenty stories Furthermore, he was the age of 65, to determined,
to school so that he go back could read new English books.
Then there was Marluss, 2 relatively very definable type of Russian
of woman something
reasonably Informal communication with ploneer,
easy to establish
direct and
a
well
customs retain a grip. on many native minds in Papua, New Guinea, in spite of civilising influences spread by Christian missions and the Aus- tralian administration of the territory.
Strongest Among
the lesn the civilised of
Territory's 1,800,000 native people, are the (sor- traditions of "puri-puri" I asked her if Komsomolk cery) and ancient tribal customs wus a nice town to live in. 1 which still tug at the thin veil "It is very nice-it has a lot of of civilisation of even the mere
she replied very advanced natives. dustry," earnestly,
educated, and very much
a variety of Russians durlig | patriot. She had travelled all a long train trip and get to the 8,000 miles from Kimso- know something about them.nisk-bu-Amur and
It has not always been easy
this do
especially
for Permanent foreign residents in Moscow who, in the main, are diplomats and journalists.
If the recent relaxation signi- a new polley fies the beginning towards foreigners ving In the Soviet Union, this will prove to be another revolutionary change in a country which, under the influence of Mr electrifying Nikita Khrushchev, is alrendy a little dizzy with change.
The new case of travel in the Soviet Union does not, however, apply to service attaches work- ing in Western embassica In Muscow. They are regarded as licensed spies and necordingly watched everywhere they go. All do this. Some governments diplomats in Moscow are equally well watched.
in
Some of the new freedom for journalisis probably originates in the tourist traffic which, three years, has grown from trickle to a flood.
Little English
|
was going routh for a spell in a Bona
orium.
Then she said: "I suppose if look you eight days to come to Moscow by train?"
Challenge
The anclent rites and customs of ethnic and of the hundreds linguistle groups in the Territory range from ritus! murder to methods of agriculture.
Swoop Down
In the rugged,
She accepted the challengo inunediatelyajthough It was not meant as out. "Yes I did. Hut by
upper our jet aircraft it i letą than a day, you know,” she said very primly.
Russian travellers Uke glossy Western magazines, 1 carried an illustrated French magazine with me and never managed to naish reading it because everyone who came along sat down and said: "Let me see. please,"
cars.
remolo,
reaches of the Purari area of Papua recently, for example, a band of cannibal
hülmen swooped down on a village, and killed and ale the native village constable.
According to Naive Affairs Offers, they were Inspired by tribal tradition rather than cannibal bust...
In their tribe, a woman had
man of
They spent most of the time gazing at illustrations of refridled, and the period of mourning and for her could be ended only by gerators, bottles, clothes
her relatives killing a another. tribe. It is almost impossible this
in sleepers, it becomes ob- summer to ko lo airports al
These natives came from one Moscow, Klev. Lengrad orvlous from the large number of
arcas darns In Russian men's socks of the few
not yet Tbilisi without
that the Soviet nylon industry under
direet administration has not yet gone far enough.control. But even among natives Russian wonen obviously still long influenced by administra- have to spend one night a week on officers, puri-puri and tribal doing the darning for the family.customs still have great influence, But there are inrge quantities of according to a senior officer of
encountering an American mairon will er businessman husband trying hard to figure out" take-off time of the
which aircraft on they are booked.
Aut
101 Wonen
all in Port Moresby.
In general, the complaint is laylon stockings, blouses and the Native Affairs Department not that they are over-motherrd underwear for
that half the ume they shops. cannot And people who know a Hitle English to help them on their way.
It tourists can swarm all over citles in the Europeanlsed part of the Soviet Union, then It prob- ably seems less vital to stud guard over a Western permis- sion and the appropriate stamp in his residence "pussport."
Not 50 many years ago Western Journalists were spoken of here in the same breath as "ecanumic" ot "political CS- plenage.*
But this
I have travelled to Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkov without causing officlul concern, All I needed was the stamp of these four towns, In my Soviet residence permit
In the dining car, ne one: came along to warn Russians way from my table. At rail- way stallons, I queued for taxis and jostled for porters with the Russian passengers and no one Intervened.
summer
---No Rooson.
If ometni Russiany now reason that they have nothing
to lose and possibly something to gain
In trubis, as everywhere elso in Russia nowadays, the ordinary people are learning to complain freely and loudly about things they do not like.
Russlan
dining cars, for instance, who- ever breaks a glass by accident has to pay for it on the spot. When this happened, in my ear, there were loud protests that the railways should pay for break- ages themselves.
Sooty Overalls
Veneer
"One canal speed muoli time in this territory without realising hatv thin
The veneer of civilisation on the seemingly sophisticated na- tive," he said, adding that the oven many natives in main towns of the Territory polinna Lelleve that certain enable them to put up boller performances ta sport for example,
While puri-puri In this from Once, a workman In sooty is more or less harmless, there overalls entered the dining are cases in which it has much car and there was an outery more tragle results. There was, from a young wife who said: for example, the case of a very native teacher who advanced **There
taw against people with dirty was sent by the Education De- clothes eating in the dintarpartment to a village far from
his home arcu. car," Actually, the guards
should be
There, he married
a native an the train mte in the same car with the travelling pubile: | girl. About six months later, he wrote to Port Moresby say. During the day, many men ining that he was too ill to work. long distance trains dón bright The man, brought back to coloured - pyjamas. Everyone. Port Moresby Immediately, told superiors that his wife's leaps out on to the stallon plat- his form at halls. At most stallons, father had put puri-puri on him halts that for 15 or 20 minutes because he was opposed to his by permiling -long enough for passengers daughter marrying a man from degree of "fraternisation" to buy eggs, berries and tried a strange area. with foreigners living here. chicken from peasan's who come Info the station from {seir privato they are certainly right, conversation, the average Ras.plots to sell to people passing alan fotoedlatoly proves his through on the trains, The pea- even have special immensely human qualities-sant women especially if talk contres on stalls on some platforms from everyone. everything, and which they run a private food shuna any mention of conflict sales. between East and West.
business-China
Special
Haggard
The teacher looked· haggard and 112, though doctors could
flod nolltag wrong, wiih him. But he was, certain that ho ww going to do-and-he did. A post mortem gxamination revealed no Macau,
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ABOVE: Stone (14), the British girl who has been invit-
ed to study with the Bolshoi
Ballet School.. Picture shows Ann holding a photograph of idolized Bolshai doncors Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhanow. -Express Photo.
LEFT: Robert
Sir Armi-
after
tage, Governor of Nyasaland, leaving the Colonial Office, talks with Mr Lennox Boyd about the "massacre plot" to kill Europcons. Express Photo,
LEFT:
a
Puffing. on cigar which could only bo described as Chur- chillton, Sir Winston Churchill pauses on the steps of his Hyde Park Gato. homo “with "Lady Churchill before setting out on a trip to Nico- Reuterphoto.
BELOW: The royal world premiera of "The Boy and the Bridgo," much- heralded now film by producer-director Kovin McClory, mode à' big night in the Lon- don cinema world. But in spite of the glamour, the presence of Princess Margarot, the fact that a copy of the film had been flown to the Queen in Canada and the freshness and, chorm of child actor. Jan Maclaina, newcomer and, virtually solo star of the film, critical racoption was lukewarm. They liked lan, thought the film on the whole "not bad”—but Netio better. Picture shows: An overcomo lan bows to Princess Margaret,-Express Photo.
ABOVE, A Bwiór engluest Gas just come up with a low step on the road to automated ahopac thế: ZíraĎok, A big advanos on Fosteret voiding machines the Zirobst, can handio a theoretically unlimited range of -articles, will ampi coins of any denomination and add them together, then sorvo any, selvoiton at its "avode in and giva chango.. Flo- fure, showzi - A proteijpe Zirabat (the inventor's name la Zindel), bolag","demasmicafod ́in Beritzerland. The demozutentor · Es dialling tho"goods- be wishes to buy, which are listed and priest in the tabe at the right,i-Kareena Khota,
From the Files
25
years
AGO
THE Rev. Dr E. L. Allen,
THE
minister in charge of the Union Church, Kowloon, told his congregation that he WDS resigning.
the ministry.
"My experience in several felda has taught me to think of the professiorial ministry as + hindrance rather than a help,
both for the passivity which it Induces and the constant over- cmphasis on finance which it. brings with it."
From the SCM Pont'a 25 Years Ago column: "Kowloon is amiting over a notice that has recently been painted on the door of a little brick hut situated at the junction of 'Kimberley Road and Austin
Avenue.
LEFT: Thame aido
tho in ha'at wavƏ and two mem- bers of the cast London's newly-built (by public
sub- scription) Mer- moid Theatre
ot
relax, before tho evening par formonco
with a friendly dual an the
"For a long time the hut was a mystery, but now it has been made known that i containe apparatus for the ertinguishing of fire.
"In the event of an out- break in the neighbourhood, however, the people of that quarter would probably smile in another way than they are doing at the present, for across the door of the struc fure
is painted the legend that the key may be obtained at Taimekaisut Police Station, more than a mila away.........
TWENTY years after tho
TWENT
declaration of war in 1914 which sounded the death-knell of nearly nine million men, Europe is arm« ed to the teeth and con- tinues to arm. Twenty
years after the beginning of the worst butchery known to man, the world is still vainly looking for security against aggression.
abas-
Many nations have doned their faith in peace parts
and and security arrangements are feverishly bullding arma- ments.
The next war is at hand. These are the mournful con- clusions with which, the world observes this week's anniver- ABTies,
His Excellency the Gou- armor, Sir Willians Peel, kan intimated his intention of at- united church tending the Bervice in connection with the Morrison Centenary obser- vances which is being held at the Volunteer Headquarters parade ground next Sunday.
*
Adams
will carry a romantic THE President
theatre's roof. voyager when she sails for the Far East, says a San Francisco report.
The Mermaid
in the City of London's only theatre, is al most the bпo- creation man
of actor Ber- nard Miles The Timos photo.
Miss Mignon Elaine Webb, the daughter of the late Mr Herbert Webb, one time editor of the China, Press, is salling by the President'Adams for Shang- hal, where she will marry Mir William Mackay Cande, of Gende Price and Co. Miso Webb and Mr Ganda were childhood -
sweethearts.
This Funny World
bollier
"No, nol. Norbert). That's for the binds!"