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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1959.
The secrets of the Kremlin revealed at last
From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
Moscow.
SAT the other day on the throne of the last of
the Czars who was murdered with all his family.. 41 years ago in a cellar in the Siberian town now known as Sverdlovak. I found the throne in a corridor beneath the Kremlin palace. It is a bit battered now; the golden crown at the top of the back-rest is askew, but the old magnificence still shows.
Soviet officials took me to see it on a four of the Kremlin during which the Russians opened up some of their secreta.
which have rarely They showed treasures and bulldings ben Fren by anyone outside the Communist hierarchy.
I saw the oldest part of the Kremlin-which is also the part of Moscow. I saw Peter the Great's nursery, Lenin's
old ititeben.
The Kremila is wonderful enough from the outside with then painting on the golden tomes of Its churches.
But inside the variety and scope of the bulidings and their tory-often blood-ranked-is magnificently impressive.
All the buildings are interconnected by i maze of stair- ways, passages and cellars. One can imagine all kinds of dark and dirty, deeds being performed there in the old days.
St Georgo
I started! In the vast, white 51 George's Hall which is it by
a row of klars chandeliefs each weighing nearly a ton and a hall This was where the Czar Order of St George used to And there is a base-relief of our own familiar St George
nuri. slaying the dregen.
Now it is used for offeln Kremlin receptions,
Fem there we moved through a small room Into the Hall of the Supreme Soviet. This always reminds me of a great white We hyan chapel.
But as my guide. General Videyin, commander of the Kreslin, said: "I is not bit enough and we are always in trouble with ur fire brigade for putting chairs in the aisles in order to Kab1 3060 people.
"So we have began building a hall which will bouse 6,000--- with out any objections from the fire brigade."
whole
Just outside this congress building is a grand drawing- room called the Chevalier Gaurd Room, from which a coinulex of lovely rooms tun,
There is the old throne room of the empresses, with malachite pillars, roaring gilt doors and a floor Inlaid with different coloured weds.
Along another corridor, down a staircase, and there was the fit of the churches. They are all more like small private chupets with one room-its walls covered in frescoes-separated from the altar by an icon-covered sereen.
Oldest of the churches is that of St Lazarus, built in the 15th century and "lost" for 500 years,
It is a stark little white roNTI, with niches cut in the wall. All I has its resecen have gone,
grandeur. home of ila former but this is the oldest building In Moscow.
No claimant: Dobson on the imperial throno
often
for very long, the building will be itted with U wine cinema screen and used as a theatre for ms and ballet and drama.
Just nagine Alm shows in the House of Commons.
Over a quadrangle, past the Church of the Archangels where Ivan the Terrible and his two an are burled, and into the working side of the Kremlin where the Russian leaders have their offices a section closed to tourists.
MA
A well-meant
letter to
mark the birthday
birthday
of the Giles family's favourite aunt
dear auntie Vera,
ANY happy returns of the day. Just in case the heat and the news about the coming General Election havo. made you feel a bit poorly on your birthday I send you à few cheerful little pieces from Chapman Pincher's, article about the latest moon bombs to keep you happy.
there
He says the new Russian rocket has proved that one bomber can DOW CRITY G0 megatons of explosive, which is equal to the amount of high explosive which could be packed in a goods train stretching halfway round the world. This will make you very happy as you say trains always give you a headache.
And as you always say the noise of planes gives you a headache as well, you will be glad to hear that Mr Pincher Eays that one tiny Aghter under the control of one little pilot can deliver more explosive than all Grandina Second World War. the bombers of all sides dropped in the says if that's the case why the hot place do we have to have half the U.S.
the anti-missile day with lots and lota Air Force Buzzing round our that work on house all the week, including misstle is proving so slow and aspirins.
unpromising that
is Sundays?
Western is chance that the only
weapon system which could be available to counter missiles be- fore 1970 will be scrapped,
The Brilsh Government views of defence 50 the prospect
oll that London and bleakly olher big centres of population to have virtually been declares Open Ciller in the event of air attack. NO EFFORT WILL BE
ΤΟ MADE
DEFEND THEM
Mr Pincher says that it officially estimated that If Communist buses were heavily bombed and the wind happened to be blowing from the East, up to 80 per cent of Britain could be dangerously contaminated by fall-out, but don't worry too much about that as the wind might be blowing the other way That day.
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that And as you also pay and lin bats wearing
gas musks in air-raid shelters used to give you a headache as weil --don't worry about that either. Happy little old Pincher says
So you don't have to bother about wearing tin. hals and gas mask". Well I must clove noN wishing you a very jolly bir.h-
Yours truly,
STYLES junior.
F.S.:
Grandma has
of
written
all the newspapers asking what's happened to JAYNO Mansfeld's baby as she hasn't arena ploture of him for at least two days.
ha
P.P.8.: Mr Giles has had a 10% of Ielters asking him why mado a mistake and gave the man in a recent
cartoon two left feet., Ike says he don't know..
-(London Express Services.
PRIVATE LINE by Chapman Pincher
without
NO ATOM
development.
They have been left SHIP UNTIL
wa.is ore covered com- pletely with golden murals, Only recently it was discovered that under several Jayers of pakit
Here, on the top floor of there are the original frescoes.
custard-yellow building Lenin Work has started on stripping had his office and his living ane pome superb paintings are quarters. coming to light,
ns they were on the day he died,
There are his old-fashioned
telephones curlicue strange little symbolic statue of an ape studying the skull of a
--London Exprest Servion).
In contrast - along & palated stairease with carved stume
Outside the window bulldozers, emblem of the stairs and The
on the grabs and cranes are clattering double-headed engle wall, there is the Carinas around the foundations of the Golden Hall, the 16th-century new Congress Hall.
chamber where the Czarhus Gene.al Videyin said that as held curt,
the Supreme Soviet does not sit
RED PIE IN
man.
and
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IN THE SKY
1965
London.
BRITAIN'S first atom-
further acquired" it on a trip to Britain off the event or yet another Ing scientists at a private meet-
20 years ago,
of metal left in
a
rocket
The weapons are so easy to produce that any nation with a
modest pharmaceutical industry. could make them. They could be delivered by simple rockets fred from small ships or offs. shore airplanes.
lot of
expensive teathing trouble ing in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
The feathers would be heavily Vurlants on these designs are
. She
put the
spoon in her for which the taxpayer would
contaminated with germs chosen now being considered by Har-
Inadvertently
virulence against after pay.
for their well scientists, and experiments handbag
I am happy to reveal that either man or his crops. Nolst must be completed before any buying a cup of tea through the decision can be made. The carriage window at Carlisle, but
it has
been on her conscience the Atomic Energy Author- lessly scattered from a Galbraith men do not want to
ity chiefs were unwilling to ning a mile up, the feathers would float down and dis- be saddled
with responsibility ever since.
seminate the contagion more So for a HK$100,000,000 mistake.
when Mrs Swan visited accept this easy way out.
efciently and easily than any again last month she
After tracing the cause other means yet devised. They consider they are being Britain
The peo with ]
to a stray of the occident unfairly criticised for the delay, returned but after the enthusiasm of only note of apology. Ave months ago the position The British Railways chiefs, picco driven merchant looks deeply disappointing. touched, decided to present to heat exchanger, they do
The only recompense is that Mrs Swan a set of silver tea- cided to turn the heat on to ship will not be in the the Germpus and Japs, who are spoons. Efforts to contact her the firm they considered water before 1965 at the also anxious to cash in on atom in her tour of Britain failed responsible for it.
An out-of-court settle- earliest, and after top- propulsion, seem to be delayed So the speens go to her home
In San Francisco.
PRIVATE LINE, which ment giving full satisfaction level inquiries I put 1966
specialises in news of high to the atom chiefs-and to SHALL now break my and bearfily, shorter working London paper have as a likelier date for its BRITISH
significance, makes no apology the taxpayer-has now been • NOTHING, should be more vow about making no wel, no plt cheurs and
for presenting this story. When rumbled about the paper's launching.
made.
secret than "Top Secret," but rackings elsewhere, 2 per cent
organization as a nationalised election forecasts: The hectant loans, restoration
at policy of featuring the car-
Whitehallese that design- The 18 experts of the
huge and US impersonal 03 Communists
tion is now well down the list, will not
militant win the
houring subsidy, a higher loans of Vicky, a
committee
British Hallways can make such Admiralty's
A friend who has just been the General Election.
left-winger fekcul-teaving age,
(who also ap-
a human gesture I rate it on
velled for access to the State's Dispiriting though Oils may
Communists pears in the China Mail, led by Mr Thomas Gal-
event of the highest significance., As I said, the
most sensitive information has cleared braith have decided that
been officially graded for *Cosmia
Secret," Top But when Election day was no worthwhile national
told that I um announced the trickle of pre-prestige will be gained
to deliver nothing more lacerat when a really secret document An old L.M.S. teaspoon worth atom station last year doing ing than a load of chicken is circulate, the security chiefs pregraganda, by launching a nuclear- HK30.60 has been returned to
of damage, feathers has been rated de- take the extreme precaution of vulgar, vindictive and mislead-powered ship in a hurry to time was how one irate reader because the Americans How's this for a Christmas FROM time
wages, pensions renders of a right-wing, descriood a Vicky caricon.
and Russians have done
over
be to the comrades it gives will not win the General Elec- see right). thear en ga
their option. And just so well-for the ponents in the production of as Communists. election manifesto, For when you know darn well that you will not be held to
Your
promises, well, the sky's the
Jinut.
list: Higher
Left, Right
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fests grew to something like a flood. "Socialist
A
The other week the news- paper used
front-geit. column lo answer the question "Why does....a newspaper of the Right pustilista Vicky, a car toonist of the Let"
The ship will cost at least HK$160,000,000 and the Treasury is in no mood to finance a "showboat," as they call the U.S. nuclear merchantman Savannah.
Further, In view of the oll glut, shipowners have told the committee, they are not much
It was a three-part answer. First, the quality of his work. The paper quoted the verdict published in America's influen- ilo! "Newsweek" that Vicky interested in any atomic vessel the best cartoonist in Europe without quick prospects of its today.
being cheaper
than existing ships.
Second, because Vicky stirs up both Socialists and Tories, Injects Kreiter passion into
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The Galbraith experts are bogged down because they con- sider that none of the six political debate, performs dealgns put in by British Brma valuable service to British de- mocracy by attacking apathy.
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Third, because Vicky had right to be hard:"The work of a delinguished cartoonist should not be WFFressed any more than the speech of a dis- Hinguished. polliclan should be coniscred..
Then the paper wound-up, its explanation with "full coni- will fidence that its readers uphold is judgment and Eup- port this demonstration of tree speech in netion."
for the first atom-driven tanker anywhere near being economic or likely to become 50
TALKING
POINTS
"For better or worse,
In meek contritlen, Vicky there is a logic in the de turned in a cartoon deplet volopment of institutions ing himself uncharacterisilesly
stronger than the Inlen-
apruce in City vultington of those who shape pleting a portrait of Socialist lendor Hugh Galtskell as a them.". Gestapo thugalghed it “VIC- TORY."
-PETER
BURGOYNE
-R. W. SOUTHERN,
*.*
Some people
con, stay longer in an hour than others in a week.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
by the some uncertainties,
RAILWAYS
AND THE
TEASPOON WHEN one of the turbines
blow up at the Calder Hot!
DEADLY FEATHERS
Without a non-feather-bomb club, Labour's non-nuclear club seems rather futile,
in
A rocket warhead designed Nevertheless
British Railways by Mrs Geor- HK$4,800,000 gina Swan, an American who most people just shrygged vastatingly dangerous by lead stomping nothing on it at all.
VICKM
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
Doucod awkward—he wants us all to come out of the conference chamber naked !”
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Landan Ceprasa Kirstes.
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