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TELEGRAPH, THE HONGKONG
Twenty-One Years Ago
A TYRANNY
IN the way we rockon the life
of nations, twenty-one year tre hardly more than a moment of time. But in Soviet. Itassia
they have been years more signi- ficant than any two centuries which procoded them.
Tsarism is but a memory twenty-one year ago It was a grim reality alliance with which we reconciled as best wo could with our conscienco.
Russian Capitalism has been overthrown; twenty-one years ago there was but a handful of thinkers who dreamed that it could be destroyed in our life- time.
Twenty-one years ago, to the working masses, the symbols of Russia wore the Consock knout and the prisons of Siberia; to- day they are the hammer and sickle and the gigantic industrial achievements of Magnitogorsk.
Twenty-one years ago, the Im- perialist ambitions of Tsarist Russin werd Л mennou to the pence of the world: to-day there is no realist in forelga politics Lo whom the power of the Soviet Union has not become a symbol of peaceful purpose.
T
nu
HERE
been lus greater drama in hts- tory than the record of these years. At the dawn of the February Revolution there can have been no volee that did not welcome its coming.
A bloody tyranny had been over- thrown the world was a cleaner place for its going.. But those who made the February Revolution hind BO perception dynamic.
of its immanent
They could overturn the Tanz they did not know how to bring to the tannacs either peace or bread, crowded hour. Pale phantom of
hlatory had done with them almost before they had stopped upon its stage. Lvov, Milmkov, Kerensky. Tsereteli-they are already corpses which the historical surgeons dis- seet for their students.
Power went to the men of iron with and unquenchable purpose. - the men who knew whit the masses wanted and did not shrink In the hour of crisis, frum respond- ing to their clalnis.
There is nothing mor: unforget- table in modern annnis than the supreme insight of Lenin into the possiblities of his moment.
Let us admit that he did not
-To-day's Thought
No fear is so ruinous and un- controllable as panic fear. Por other fears are proundless. but this fear is willesa.
--SENECA.
DIED
-by-
HAROLD
LASKI
make his revolution with rose- water. In the terror and the civil war there aro blunders and crimes which cry to heaven. Yet when the last word of criticism has been made, no intelligent Socialist can deny that the Revolution repre- Honts one of the supremely benef- cent epochs of history.
It has awakened a whole people from a slumber. In education, in public health, in economic con- struction, in the degree to which it has ended the exploitation of man by man, in its reclamation of wealth from the few for the masses, in its opening-up of the potentiall- tics of production for the many. revolution has made possible in Russia a new epoch in the history of the world.
We need not deny that the price this generation has had to pay for the change has been a heavy
one.
We need not deny, elther, that. In its accomplishment, hopes have been betrayed, dreams destroyed, for which, even in twenty years. one might have sought a richer fulfilment,
There is in the new Russia for the masses what there was never for them in the old: the right to hope. That is what gives the Boylet Unlon to-day a significance for the working-class which it is funda- mental to recognise.
Compared with the Tsarist re- gime, there has been in every aspect of life immeasurable im- provement. It is not yet adequate; it is not yet so profound that there either thine or occasion for the new Russia to rest upon lts cars.
B
UT where the old Russia with faced its future dread, the new faces
its future with confidence. Where life for the peasant and the indus- trial worker in the old Russia was, as Hobbes put it, "nasty, brutish. and short," life for them in the new offers the right to a sense of mas- tery over their lives.
It is that sense which, amid all the pain and suffering, has given the citizens, above all the young, of the new Russia that new morale. that new onergy, that new deter-
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18,
Koronsky (in car) reviewing the Russian troops on the Eastern Front in 1917. "We will go forward, free sons of Russia,"
ho said.
most
mination, which even its hostile critics are compelled to recognise.
the The
is open to career
new talented; privilege. In the Russia, is a function of service. The cultural heritage of Western civi- 11sation 15, increasingly, at the ser- vice of the masses. There is an exhilaration in life, a feeling of wider vistas opened to the many. which betoken the advent of a spacious age.
It is too early yet to say that the traditions of the old world have been destroyed; it is possible to as- sert that a new and ampler tradi- tion has begun, at the foundations, to take its place.
N
EW and Immense re- serves
and of talent energy have been re- vealed whilch, in the old Russia, it was dangerous even to explore. As now wealth is discovered, it does not go to the few; it is garnered to the service of the many.
Compare the status of women in the old Russia with that of the new. Measure the significance of children in the epoch of the Tsars with that in the epoch which Lenin founded,
Bet the Red Army alongside the Realise the army of the Tsars. place of science in the Revolution with the fear it invoked in the old regime.
Quality for quality in civilisation, it is not possible to doubt that those who have made the Revolu- tion have called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.
Immense things remain to be done. The standard of living is st low compared with that of Great Britain or the United States. There is a grim disease of ortho-
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doxy which still claims too many victims.
In housing, above all, in efficient level of the workmanship, In educational technique. the new Russia has still to attain the level of the advanced European nations.
That is still only to say that in twenty years the new Russia has not outdistanced what has been achieved elsewhere in the century and a quarter since the close of the Napoleonic wars.
And there have gone from the new Russia grim shadows which bestrode ilke colossi the Russin of the Tsars.
There is no longer the haunting dread of unemployment. There is no longer the privilege of the few standing as a barrier in the way of the many's hopes. There is no need by war to conquer foreign markets. There is no colonial en- slavement. There are no dis- tressed areas to proclaim the bankruptcy of capitalist states- manship.
The note of Baylet literature is not, as under the Tsars, the note of angry pessimism. Jews are not persecuted; nationalitics are not suppressed:
When the account is cust, the makers of the new Russia need not fear the comparison with Tzardom,
It has given the world what every potentially great civilisation brings in its trala-a new Idea,
L
IKE the Renaissance, ke the French Revolu- tion. amid all its blood and tears, the Russian Revo- lution marks an immense stage in the liberation of mankind. We think differently because it oc- curred; We think more amply because it occurred.
Its purposes and its achieve- ments entitle us to hope for the future; the old Russia was a grave- yard of men's dreams. The new Russia, it may be, in like a glant awakened; it arouses fear as well as gladness.
But, almost everywhere, those in whom fear has been aroused are those who hug privileges they can- not justify before the bar of his- tory. Almost everywhere, those who would destroy the new Russia, who minimise its achievements are the men who put the rights ol property above the rights of the human spirit.
They are akin to those who could not recognise humanity upon the march even if they saw that the tents had been struck. They are the descendants of those who, as
1789, "pitied the plumage, but for- got the dying bird."
connected with trains. I had taken taking the rooms, and Indced wonder- one boy shouting. "Munmy, come. Paine said of the antagonists of
a train to Glasgow, there to get connection for the West Coast.
I men have had to pay for
Do not belittle the price
1938.
Freedom Of The Head
IN
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Just as those straw hats date h pleture as of Britain some time be- tween the beginning of the century and the Arst summer of the War, so bare heads date pluture ns of Britain of the past few years.
Perhaps, In time to come, one of the clues given by the snaps in the album to the decade of the 1930's will be the hatlessness of mun as he goes about his lawful occasions. But some of us hope that he will keep for good the freedom he has won—to do with- out П
hat.
There are men who ure not happy unless they have a hat. Others are not happy with one. They And it sorely irks the head, particularly in
summer.
For years they suffered the hat as a convention of respectability. The War made the hat or cap rather more than a convention, stressed it as a duty. The good soldier wore his cap
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as he could. He was even given a cap-comforter, n woolly thing that also served as a searf, which he could wear at night.
Tin Hat and All
I remember a gunner in our battery who wore his comforter under his tin hut. To my thinking the hero who could bear that
burden double deserved a stripe,
The War, then, confirmed the hat upon man's head. He came back to pence with the feeling that unless he wore a hat he was improperly dressed out of doors. That sulted the hum- our of some men who could not have too much of hals.
remember going in 1924 to see a contractor who did his business from an office in a villa. "Oh, keep your hat on." he said, and feel at home." That was a kindly thought, but how hot my head became in the stuff room! He didn't think of it, that I wanted to bare my brow after a long wolk.
I wore a lat then, but was already in revolt against it. So soon ps t came to open ways, to country roads or field paths, I uncovered, and carried my hat in my hand, and did I reached not put it on agairi until built-up areas.
As yet I could not bring myself to go about in town without keeping 21 Icw my hat on my head. Only men did that, and they were under suspicion of being ernste-or, worse, Rads. The world looked askance at such lawless fellows.
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It is hard to believe that only that little while back the hotless man hadd to run the gauntlet of hostile eyes. It is harder still to believe that we fell guilty of wrong-doing the day when we first gave up a hat,
To be sure, bore heads were the L'o- exception, and so conspicurus. day we of the hatless brigade are a big company. In some places during week-ends we outnumber the halted men. Even in the rity streets in workaday hours we make good showing.
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There must be thousands and thou- sunds of us. What a break with con- vention! And what a relief to heads that did not bear easily with the pressure of u brimi
We
It nmuses us, perhaps, to look back on the
carly days of our daring. When called on friends they made a search in the hall for our hat as we left. There was reproach, perinps, in their pretended disbelief that we could have come without one. It was hardly respectful or
respectable
that we had. Such things were not done in polite circles.
And when bare heads were few it seemed to be taken for granted that we belonged where we were seen. So in shops we were asked where this or that counter was, and in the corridors of buildings where we were strangers, the way to Mr. Smith's
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3 No giant but apparently beili-
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10 Foreign soldier (5).
In far-away roads it was supposed that we were only just outside our Kales, and folk were aggrieved when we could not tell them where So- and-so lived. "But you must know him," we were told. "A liftle fellow with
a grey moustache." ** So it was, not so very long uge, 12 No, the soldier employed as this Now no one remarks that a man goca in battle is no coward (0), without a hat, for he is only one of 13. "The ox knoweth his owner and many. It is lo longer thought of him the-his master's crib" (Isalah) that be necessarily inclines to the
(3).
11 A "prophetic" garment? (6).
Left and holds dangerous beliefs | 14 "Cát crled" (anag.) (8), because he braves his hair to the sun 17 An essential to human life (6). and wind and rain. His good citizen- 20 Carry into effect perhaps with |ship is not in question,
fatal result (7). Once the favourite bogey of the 22 Where at any rate one fairy blaots, who puffed out their lips In survives in Ireland (7).
THERE are few of us who have not it had been a most trying experience things adjusting itself to the new,
We moved into our lodgings, and On one occasion while on holiday sone thing to tell about our
just as we were unpacking there felt I helped the children to sail holiday experiences, even if it is only on our ears what we tools to be the yachts in a small boating pool by the the kind of lodgings we have had or sound of distant under. It came acu. I had repeatedly been warning nearer until it seemed to strike the them not to slip on the rocks and the people we met.
house with a mighty crash. Then fall into the pool, when quite sudden-
and I remember one holiday especially we suddenly realised it was the pass- ly my feet went from
can #101 because I began, continued, and end- ing of a train on the railway which finished up in the water.
wild shut my eyes and hear the c to an accompaniment of incidents ran beside our holiday house,
We had never con letred this when chricks of laughter, and especially the man fall in ed why such a delightful place should and ace the fat have been so easily got. We wonder- pool!" It would not have been so Each night we could had had my wife not accused me of When we arrived in Glasgow I got ed no longer.
never dream going to bed till the doing it on purpose "to amuse the put at the station to purchase some midnight mall had pessed with its children." fruit. Imagine my horror when I thunderous roar.
In the days when there were not
But I Sometimes we were wakened in the the restriction on motor driving nor
remember the price returned to the platform pod dle- covered that the Edinburgh portion middle of the night, only then it was the regulations which prevail now, I exacted for that revolution of had been shunted on to another train, the slow-going goods train so it did holidayed in an island in the North. three centuries which brought the
But if any of Scotland. The Inner with whom | capitalist gystem to power, And in the holiday rush nobody not sound so terrible.
that house and we lodged had been.prevailed on to Those who made the price in- seemed to know which train that bely had been
they would buy at market al cocond-hand car in been confined to bed
evitable are not the men respon-, by becoming exchange for his horse, It was duly sible for the achievement of these disgust and scorn of him, as one who 25 Chance start to many a game finished was. My family was somewhere in have
twenty years. They aro the train with my hat, cost, and all nervous wrecks. To complete the delivered to him, along wit
Kornilons and the Wrangels, the the luggage, while I was left with the circle, we had lost our luggage in the most elementary Intructions to how
Kolchaks and the Denikina and tickets and two large bags of fruit. train going home, and it did not turn to drive,
till we had been a week home. up
the forces which lay behind them.
They are the men who have put Trains are not always to blame.
Mussolini in power in Italy, Hiller in Germany, who would, if they could, impose General Franco upon Spain
The lesson of the Russian Revo- lution in the eternal lesson of the ultimate power
of the masses. Their victory may be postponed; in the end, it is a certain victory.
For only where, by the owner. ship of economic power, they have become the masters of their destiny, is the system they build one in which there is a prospect of Justice and freedom.
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the
the
must be n Communist, a vegetarian,
(a).
on intellectual, or something else that 23 Instruction to the orchestra he ought not to be, he now goes as honest in repule as any man down
the street.
making this noise before start- ing (8). No one who would rather not have
32 One's son may follow this for a hat need wear one now. And there 32 Not wide (0).
a gay time in town (3); * are thousands and thousands of men 34 A good convlet perhaps (8). who enjoy the new freedom. It does 35 Jargon from a groat (5). not call for courage to-day to go
30 Greed that is partly false (0). forth, leaving the hat at home,
37 Was without (8).
It was rather different when we, who were ploneers of the movement, did that. Really, we were almost as brave as woman when alle took to amocking and to doing other things that were shocking because they were not in the book,
I had a couple of minutes to make
We turned out to watch him on up my mind either to take the train however, for 1 remember making his first trip, and no one accepted his Invitation lo go with him. Hic which was on the eve of departure tnost uncomfortable journey in
Highlands in a very enelent bus. It for my holiday resort, and chance evidently also served as the local started off, half-circled round a field, whether the Edinburgh portion was carrier, for at one place a goat was broke through the paddock gate, al- attached to it, or wait at the station brought in and, becoming untied, most ran into a ditch, and anally the in the hope of eventually discovering threatened to butt nil the passengers car went on for which, fortunately, and secured he was able to put out at once with some potato bags by the form road. the coaches where my family were. walli the driver me
It again. I chose to travel. The Edinburgh
To his wife's remonstronco ho anid, portion was not on that train, and
Every now and then the bus would "Ach, woman, Jean (l's old horse) when I got to the destination nobody
stop. The driver would get down ran away like that the first time i
bad her oat,” and deliver a bottle of mille or a knew anything about it.
And she is not to think, in her newspaper, pass the time of day, and "Aye," retorted his wife dayly, "but
contempt for weak, slavish mun, that direum the local news. Twice he Jean didna go on Brot
we have given up hats just to be in Fortunately, it did arrive with the retraced his journey, one having for-
On the same island there was
the fashion. The man who #oca next tralo, which had latt five gotten to deliver a parcel, and the
car which did touring.
through the world barehended does for- second time to pick up a passenger small minutes later, and still more
That was an end to a hat. There are still many lunately my family had decided to he had promised to call for off the thought the driver turned corners car went on fire, which, fortunately, so because he does not like wearing
main road a farm. But we did very quickly and seldom seemed to don't work,"
until our touring.
i who are fond of hats and wear them. stay in it and hope for the best. 90 me the countryside, and get an slow up much. I wondered
I. T all was well that Cnded well, even if inkling into the old way of doing he calmly informed me, "It's a grad
"
men
E. IL. Bretherton
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fine floor perhaps (0),
2 This is mado, by cook, not
cricketer (0),
3 Rest for maintenance (8). 4 Living (3).
5 The sort of game of golf some
get abchit ten me (8).
Not much of a score for ́n ctle- ket team (6)
bit of clothing that changed for Levees (6).
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14 A sentry has to keep this (5). 15 This was the end of the Duchess in Wonderland and is men- tloned in Through the Looking Glass (5).
10 Bird
(3).
18. The girl that often starts the
meal (5).
10 County in short (5).
21 Omcial reminder to the parting
guest (0).
23 This Is mixed in 28 neross (3). 24 "Get rugs" (unaq) (7).
28 Exit (6),
27 At rest, but might make top
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