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DICTATORSHIP OF THE
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Twenty Years of the Russian
Experiment in Practical Communism
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Evi-
was short of the N the other hand, no fewer WENTY YEARS and traditions which make up this year
have
now clapsed the casential English character, quantity planned, and, what than sixteen cavalry divi- "It is astonishing," said that seemed to him much moro serl- slons are maintained, and at the sinco Lenin, that
sympathetic student of English ous, there was a great falling- manoeuvres huge masses of combination of
a. affairs, with what docility off in quality.
horsemen have been thrown into a massos of Englishmen, supposed
tank-dominated areas. "In rigorous ideologist with
peace," says Captain Liddell ruthless man of action, in- to be jealous of their personal
liberty, will obey a revolutionary THE Russian is not mechanical- Hart, "It looks like a colossal. the augurated
Russian
minded; ho lacks that age circus; in war it would probably junta which taxes and commanda experiment in practical them and decrees when they long tradition which makes the
mean a huge cemetery.” most dently Communism. Has it proved shall starve and when they shall English craftsman the
the ancient Mongolian capable in the world. He does confidence in mounted forces. successful in improving the fight."
not know how to run and caro survives as an obsession. Again, lot of the Russian people?
for a complicated machine. Agri- in all the totalitarian States mass Are they better off than THERE is now in being a re- cultural machinery is misused, is cultivated without reference volt not only against tho con- and cannot be repaired when it to mobility. Thus, when Musso- they were under the Tsarist regime? A few years ago trullers of Trade Unions but also breaks down. It is very doubt lini boasts of Italy's "forest" of this against the leadership of the ful whether collectivaation has eight million bayonets, he does every Socialist
Labour Party. The danger of increased agricultural produc- not consider how much of it country would have answer this up-from-under movement tion as yet. It had not done so could be made as mobile as. the ed these questions with an can only be gauged by those in 1934, when the creation of Wood of Birnam in "Macbeth." Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. emphatic affirmative. To- who,
mako like myself,
a State farms out of 61.6 per cent. Marshal Saxe, that Eighteenth day, you get an occasional systematic study of street-polis of peasant holdings had led to Century master of warfare, said tics. (I have listened to over one fall of 9.8 per cent. in agricul- that "multitudes only serve to negative, and I was sur hundred of these street-corner tural products and a decrease in perplex and embarrass;" like prised when a Labour speeches in the London district cattle of 38.7 per cent. A new Sherman, later on, he saw that leader, asked to enlighten during the last two years. It interpretation of the old Latin mobility fixed a limit to the on me as to the economic con- was the late Richard Seddon, the epigram: latifundia perdidere cconomic size of an army. November 8th, 1937, at the dition of Russia at the Now Zealand Premier, a fellow- Italiam! A heavy penalty has Esmeralda Silva e Sam Lazaro, present moment, replied Lancastrian, and a pattern of been paid for the liquidation" of aged 31 years, dearly beloved Taken as damned." Many pressed on me the importance of thrifty, hard-working, Intelligent Russian obsession dating democratic common sense, who the Kulaks, most of whom were RELIANCE on mass is another Shanghai, Funeral will pass the of the younger Socialists "keeping one's ear to the peasants who had made a suc-, from the far past. It is snid operare shocked at the sight of ground," if one wishes to anti- cess of their small holdings. The that the Red war-chiefs could the Russian revolutions cipate pivotal changes in public Soviet Government dare not be mobilise 6,000,000 men at a fort- continuing to devour its opinion.)
The only convincing held responsible for all these night's notice, and that in a year. children, including some of reply to those who maintain the failures. Henco the continual the trained reserves would reach myth of Russian welfare is a de- selection of scapegoats as the 10,000,000. But Tukhachevski
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Monument at 3 p.m. to-day. (Shanghai and Macao please copy).
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Hongkong Telegraph the closest associates of tailed diagnosis of economic con- victims of judicial mass mur- (recently liquidated) in his 1935
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 1937.
POPPY DAY APPEAL
It is an Incredible
Lenin himself, whose por- ditions there since the failure of ders. traits are everywhere rever- the Five Years' Plan. ed as ikons.
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0
report, uttered a warning that, even in internal operations, it does not do to count on the rapid transfer of considerable masses Now that the manual worker THE Army seems to be the one fairly efficient organisation in has not the benefit of a re- Russia. New and old ideas are Trans-Siberian railway and the of troops. The doubling of the and FOR all that the street-corner
orator still holds up Russia Bulated market, prices of neces- strangely intermingled in ita accumulation of supplies on the “RICORDI” “CARL FISCHER" shameful fact that a consider as a model for imitation, affirm- sky-high by the foreign export certainly very strong in tanke pot have helped to make the
saries even for him are forced make-up and methods. It is able proportion of the English-Ing his faith in the "dictatorship policy which sells them at cur- and air-borne units. There are comparatively small Far Eastern
of the proletariat"-a resound-
much Army rent prices abroad and ignores many speaking population of
thousands of aeroplane
more efficient, the ing phrase ng gratifying to his the needs of the people at home. pilots, and more than half a mil- though by no means Delf- British Empire is actually in hearers as the "blessed word Owing to this policy, famines lion skilled parachute-jumpers. a tin-opener is as necessary to sufficient. It has been said that ignorance of the purpose of the Mesopotamin" was to the old have occurred where there has They could be used for what is its rank-and-filo as a rifle, Very Poppy Day Fund. A greater he asks for the blessing of his of Trade Unions, I find, are al- which
lady in the anecdote. Always been no crop failure. Members called the "parachute-stroke," of low mobility, as the result of proportion has only the vaguest audience on the attempt to create ways deeply interested in the during last year's manoeuvres, aged railways, the world's worst, an example was given poorly-equipped and badly man- sort of notion of the aim of the similar tyranny in Spain at frenzied efforts to increase pro- when a force of 1,200 men with and the lack of good roads, organisers. It might shock any cost in blood and treasure: duction. Especially in the great 150 machine-guns and 18 light would prevent the utiliantion in Ever since Lenin declared that Stakhonov stunt, recently aban- fleld-guns were carried 100 miles war-time of more than a small Hongkong people to know that Spain would be the next scene of doned, which was started when in aerial troopers and dropped proportion of the cannon-fodder numbera old enough to remem-a "social revolution" the Komin a miner of that name hewed out on ber the Great War, who quite tern, with the help of the Soviet 102 tons of coal in a single shift. enemy's front.
an aerodrome behind the provided by a population of over
Within Government, has been stirring The piece-work system then in- minutes of the release of the capacity would render it impossi- eight 170,000,000. And industrial in-. [well recall the terrors they up trouble there. That such troduced led to capable workers parachutes the force had assemble to bring the supply of munt-- experienced when air and sea appeals are effective, despite the being pa 1 from 5 to 40 times as bled and was ready to go into tions up to the standard required raids worried Great Britain, and contrary teaching of T.U.C. re- much as their less efficient action. Probably such a blow in in modern warfare or to make when they had to go without presentatives, justifies George brethren. Always it has proved the back would be more effective good the wastage of war-like
Santayana's doubt as to whether impossible to keep up sugar and butter and such neces- the working men of the towns planned production. They only French observers, who know lay. Russian factories could not. to the psychologically than physically. mechanisms without undue de- sities, have quite forgotten that any longer have the instincts the other day Mezhiauk, Com- what they are talking about, change at once to munition-mak- army of veterans for which the
missar for Heavy Industry, ad- speak highly of the skill and ing as ours did in the War. post-war years have been lack uneducated men, who are the iron, atcel, and sheet-iron pro- but severely criticise the tactical mitted that the quantity of cast- spirit of the Russian air forces, ing in everything which sup responsibility of the Poppy Day duced in the first five months of handling of them. posedly constitutes happiness. Fund.. It is these men on whose
THE combination of liberty and legality, which we call free- These veterans came out of behalf Earl Halg appealed for
dom, does not exist in Russia; France and Flanders, Mesopo-
the components are lacking. The an Empire's sympathetic remem- tamia and Egypt, out of African
State is ab authority of the brance.
solute, even more so than in the heat and Russian cold, from
Fascist countries, and the in- every battle front. Some of The British Legion, which
dividual has no rights whatso- them were fever-ridden, crippled, administers large sums for the PRODUCING a play can yield much porridge and on of milk, each spoon-ever. The cumbrous and ill- Instructive amusement, although ful of porridge seing dipped in the advised Soviet machine is work- doomed to a state of semi-re-establishment of War veterans the entertaining side of it is rarely milk before being eaten. invalidism for the rest of their and which does splendid year-realised until the play has been method of supping porridge is sal labour, and the amazing specta- I learned subsequently that this ed by what is practically slave
days.
round work in collecting funds satisfactorily performed and all the used in various parts of Scotland. Others were without
cle has recently been seen of If there is one thing more than an- limbs, or without the blessedness for its work, finds the number worry and anxiety is over.
other that gets on a producer's
crowds of factory workers wait- nerves 1 remember an amusing incident during rehearsals, it is the fidgeting ing and hoping in vain to be dis- of sight. Some, either from of old soldiers whose age makes
that occurred once at their lot doubly hard in the
school of those players who are not speaking missed. There is no definite ovi- wounds or poison gas,
Shakespearean production. Some or in action at the moment. This is dence, however, for believing were labour market, an increasing mischievous lads had put their heads a very dimeuit nervous habit to curb that the era of disillusionment permanently weakened so that
together, and at the conclusion of the; One famous producer found it so responsibility. Thousands of performance they called loudly for intolerable that he introduced wooden has set in. Visita of investiga- they could never hope to do the
men of this type, and their "Author! Author!" They had rec- tubs for his actors to stand in while tion to the "capitalistic coun- koned without the wily producer, rehearsing, so that they could not tries" are strictly forbidden, and dependants, have been helped who got wind of the plan. He move restlessly about,
the masses, can still be persuaded answered these humorous ealla In back to happiness and Indepen- the guise of the bard, and in a neat The funniest thing in producing a that they are better off in every That was twenty years ago.dence by means of the Poppy speech thanked them for the en-play that I ever heard was a descrip- way than the inhabitants of Many of these battered men havo Day Fund and similar contribu- his work!
thusiastle reception they had given tion from a relative in the U.S.A., of England and Franco, which are-
a performance of "Rob Roy" out overcome their allictions, have tions. It is interesting to noto. During a performance of Shakes there, given by a group of enthusias supposed to have reached the
lic amateurs.
last stage of social disintegra-. fought another sort of battle that among ex-officers alone the peace's Julius Caesar" I achieved Several real Scots the audience tion.
unexpected distinction by appearing than they experienced
be carried out help- in Legion has assisted 7,708 men as Mark Antony wearing a wrist-had almost
watch, A wrist-watch in ancient less with laughter when Helen Mac- uniform, but none the less grim. to positions in
confronted the English Great Britain Roma ticicled the audience. But gregor
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would seem that Stalin, a. T It was a life-or-death struggle since 1925, and has contributed from the moment I noticed the error soldiers with a peremptory order to
ruthless realist, is inclined to I suffered dreadful suspense until 1 "Scram!" I should like to have seen still. Ill-equipped, many
ronounce Lenin's, doctrine that. of to the education of 4,556 of their could go off the stake and remove the that show very much.
As a member of an amateur drama the World Revolution is a pri- thom have never been able to children.
offending timepleco.
tle society, one learns to work hard reinstate themselves in the social
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appearing ns Rob Roy, accidentally have seen, an old mourning cost of still hopes to
my father's turned into passage realised, and regards the Red-
n packet of a popular brand of
To describe the work of the experience was outdone by and to work cheerfully, and also dis-mary concern of Soviet Russin. scheme, though they are as fine Legion and all its departments that of a friend of mine, who when cover that everything has its use. Yet the youngest generation see this ideal citizens as their comrades who would require a volume. Suffice dropped in full view of the audience jacket for Long John Silver in "Tren Arny as an implement for that have won success. Others have it to say that thousands of ex-
sure Isinnd," "with only the artlatle addition of some gold braid here and very purpose. The former Müll. died. It is with the thousands soldiers, their widows and child charettes.
ren, benefit enormously by the Instructive things emerge during there.
tary Commander of Moscow, of old soldiers-many of them generous benevolence of the rehearsing a one-act Jacobite play bors of our company had their hair
rehearsals on many occasions. While
Then, again, when two girl mem-General Tork (executed with really old now--who remain country every year. It can be one winter, I can recollect a group of bobbed, our producer seized their dis- Tukhachevski, probably for dan-
safely said that there is no more amateur players getting a surprise carded tresses, which in due course gerous popularity), insisted that: what they were before they deserving charitable cause than when the producer pointed out in one were turned into pigtails suitable for it would be used to destroy the joined the Colours in the War that of the British Legion and of the scenes that porcidad y we plays when British turs of the old Capitalistic Governmonte. "If
calen in 1745 as it in to-day. Two days appeared. years, simple, untrained, often its annual Poppy Day.
bowls were the vogue then, one of
S, D. M.
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