10
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
Guarded Sanatorium
Why Doctors Fly To Stalin He Is Perfectly Fit: They Go To Treat His
Worn-Out Officials In Paid By Gifts Of Furs And Jewels.
CONVALESCENT CAST-OFFS SOMETIMES SHOT
Vienna.
Viennese doctors, specialists in nerve strain, have for some time been flying to Moscow on a series of urgent calls. One will visit the. Kremlin next month.
Every time they fly tongues wag in rumour-ridden Russia, "Stalin is dying."
Professor. Eppinger and Professor Noorden are the two doctors who most frequently receive the summons to the. Kromlin. I was told the real reason for their visita, says a corres- pondent of the Sunday Express. This is te story:-
Stalin himself is the healthiest man in the Soviet Union. But the responsible officials around him are exhausted, sick men..
People's Commissars, members of the Polltbureau or Central Executive Committee work from sixteen to eighteen-hours a day. For them no Sunday off, no holiday.
Fallure to keep up with their work means an neclization of sabotage. That means execution.
Whenever Stalin, happy and healthy in his fine forest retreat, hears that his collaborators are up- proaching the end of their physical resources he rings up Vienna.
REST IMPOSSIBLE
The doctors arrive, They are sent to a heavily-guarded sanatorium for alck Soviet officials twenty miles from Moscow.
The doctors prescribe a rest cure. That, the harassed officials retort, is Impossible.
Then comes the most ironical aspect of the invalids' fate.
FREQUENTLY THE SUFFER- ERS ARE BROT.
Worn out in mind and body, un-
able, even after expert treatment, to renew the struggle for efficiency, they become useless clogs on the
machine. Stalin signs their death warrant
The Man Who Must Not
Move His Head
SECOND-LIEUT. R. M. Lloyd, of the 4th/8th Punjabis--the man who must not move his head-arrived at Southampton recently from Karachi.
He was wounded in the back of his head six months ago on the North-West Frontier, and the slightest head movement would be dangerous.
He now lies in the Military Hospital, Mill- bank, where an operation may be performed.
Teachers Would Ban "Story" Pictures
DICTURES which "everybody knows," like "The Boy- hood of Raleigh" and "Dante's Dream," may soon disappear from our schools.
Feeling is growing among teachers that "story" paintings Stalin's precautions to safeguard of this type are educationally out of date and artistically un-
sound.
his own health are elaborate. Como what may, he is in bed by 11 p.m.
He insists on eight hours' sleep,
Teachers from 13 counties met in London last month to his meals are light. He smokes little. discuss a scheme by which the best in painting during the takes long walks.
The doctors
well paid past 1,000 years, or the cream of the world's great galleries, can
SCCs
New
Costly presents of furs, gold, dia be brought into the classroom. monds reach them from Stalln.
the Behind
the plan is dictator never But the them. Ho sends a kindly message Society of Art Teachers, founded re- Now I becomes the doctors' turn thanking them for their services.cently by teachers at five important
This is the usual formula:---
SL. to overwork. Sometimes they spend
schools-Haileybury,
Paul's "Comrade Stalin bids you farewell. Whitgift, Charterhouse and Langford a month, working a sixteen-hour
to pull the patients fe regrete he was not able to receive Grove. Their aims are supported by day, trying round.
you. He does not want to give rea- the Courtauld Institute of Art. CAR-LOADS or SICK SOVIET 2on for any rumours which would were any LEADERS ARRIVE ALL DAY. unavoidably originate BEGINNING IN THE EARLY foreign correspondent informed about DIORNING.
the visit."
saved from corruption.
The scheme has been in experi- mental operation for two years, and has spread from five to 100 schools. It provides that ow a period of five years children will inve had before them 150 great works of art, a set of ten being changed each mid-term. A complete change in the teach- The reproductions were chosen by Ing of art is essential, it is felt. Mr. Anthony Bertram, art lecturer, the taste of boys and girls is to be'and bought chiefly abroad.
26, 1938.
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