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DIARY OF A MOSCOW
What is the everyday life of the Russian-in- the-strect like?
Does he eat what we do and as much? Can ho say what he thinks? How does he amuso himself? These are some of the questions the London Nows Chronicle asked a journalist recently returned from the U.S.S.R. In this articlo he dos- cribes a typical working day in Moscow
M
TY breakfast is ham crowded and hustling as over. desperate and eggs and sour Everyone is in a
hurry. milk. You can, of
- course, get pasteurised milk delivered at the door, but I prefer it sour. And while I eat I note that my room
BY chance I get a lift from the editor, who
is getting smaller as my has just received a car for his library gets bigger. I have private use.
He has also - a growing need for that vested in a country cottage, and if he wasn't so busy, could lond extra eight square metres of a very comfortable suburban floor space that the law life. As it is, he works 12 or entitles me to as a writer. more hours a day. But he is is fine fettle just now because he passed with flying colours through all the party purges.
So I send yet another applica tion to the House Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the Building Co-operative, and write a letter
My seven-hour work day goes
to the "Pravda" denouncing the fast enough. Here the Press bureaucrats who are depriving is as routine and hectic as But since there are no
.......... |mo of vital space. At the same abroad.
ULDERUP Suddenly at the Hong- Kong Club this morning. J. P. Ulderup, age 61. Funeral will puss the Monument at 5 p.m. to-morrow (Thursday).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, December 27, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE prefix "Special to the Telegrapɔła"""
time I send a dinner invitation millionaires or aristocrats and to Ivan Ivanovitch, whose not a single Russian capitalist cousin's brother-in-law is secre- or landlord from the Baltic to tary of the Boiler Makers' Union, the Pacific there is no society who are building a new depart- news. ment house on the Poltrovka. I am not a boiler maker, but I think that there is a chance of getting a boiler maker's room.
I
There are no football pools, and murders are back-page "fill. ers." So Government interprete tions of the Party Line,"port- ruits of the leaders," production statistics, cultural notes and GO to ollice by Metro. incisive foreign news reports My own particular from Tass (State news agency)
take most of the space.
Feature display goes to the ex-
is used by the longkong Telegraph to station is in red marble from indicate news which is strelly copyright the Urals and makes one of under the provisions of the Telecommuni
Calions Ordinance, 1930. Such news at London's posh tea-houses look ploits of parachute jumpers
bears the indication “UP" is received t
the "United Press Assactatson, who TC- serve all rights and forbid republication,
arrangement,
A MOSCOW STREET "Everyone is in a desperate hurry"
war,
DAY
from the ballot) contrives to look exceedingly chle on occasion.
After Schiaparelli, the U.S.. Als sco dress designer, paid them a visit a few years ago, they built a special fashion salen with a stage for mannequin parades. At the same time the high price of good clothes is a powerful incentive to raising the productivity of labour, which is Atill relatively low. Wives egg on their shockbrigader husbande to ever
greater achievements
to earn more money to buy them more dresses,
AN
Bocialiam
ND Incidentally, con- trary to expectations, has reaffirmed the sanctity of the home and big familles. Divorces are progres- sively expensive. The first one- costs 50 roubles. The seventh is a luxury that only populan novelists can afford.
As a result Russia has a large- and visibly increasing population. As an American friend put it: "Our train compartment had one Red Army man with a beautiful shaven head (Russians no longer admire beards, they like to be clean shaven all over), one Red sailor, one engineer from Turke stan and the usual pregnant woman.".
I finally decide to spend my evening at the Park of Culture and Rest. Here, I moot a group of English tourists who are listening to an open meeting on Nazi-Soviet relations addressed by a Red sailor. There is polite laughter when a tall lady in tweeds asks whether a Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany means that Rusala is going Nazi.
distribution Hongkong on the date of publication by shabby by comparison. Opposite aviators, Polar expeditions and
free bread
Somewhere around ten-thirty me in the train sits a stout new cities founded in the desert
under some, rationing scheme I return home. The day ends ether wholly or in part without previous young woman in a hat. Next to or the taiga.
me is a collective farmer with Story of the day, however, is would have begun in a few years, with a long argument, with my his whole family obviously our cub reporter, who has inter- but I doubt if this would create housekeeper who lost her house more of a furore in in the revolution 25 years ago enjoying the thrill of under- viewed n famous American much ground travel for the first time. movie star (retired) and her Moscow than would the opening and is a staunch opponent of Party Line. to criticise the THE opening weeks of past wars Moscow trip as a prize for good "when were you born?"
that he got this baby boy husband, and asked: of a new water main in some Stalin. She has never hesitated English town,
It would be a real sensation Stalin, Housing, the quality of harvesting.
though, if the Mostorg Co. State bread or Soviet morals. operatives begen selling a line
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have buza tirnes ef immense public excitement. Mad enthusiasm has gripped people. The glories of war and conquest have been sung by ull Hatred and passion hate
nations. run flood high.
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IN public, of course, she
His son takes notes of the magnificent stations We pass through. They will make B
FFICE work finished, of good silk stockings. Recent- ly a Scottish tourist sold a pair I attend a trade report of the trip when they
of silk socks in Kiev, paid the
is more subdued than union meeting to discuss wage difference on his tourist rail return to the farm.
rates. For the evening's ticket and flew back to Moscow among her friends. She was Not so with this war, upon which Then the girl in the hat amusement I have a choice of by luxury air liner. Air fares singularly uncommunicativo we are now engaging all our forces, throws the silver-wrapping theatres, a cafe supper and are about treble the tourist fare during the Nazl-Trotskyito plota from which we will not desist until paper of her chocolate bar out dance at the Moskva, or a really for this two-day train trip.
and spy scare of 1937, when the the day when the challenge to the of the window into the tunnel. good dinner at the Astoria. A fellow tourist from- Lanca- man downstairs was arrested brotherhood of mankind is utterly There is a moment's pained
In Moscow eating is as much a shire is still trying to make up and commissars came and went. defeated.
silence. The train roars on. ritual as in Perls. In fact one his mind whether Russian air But as internal conditions have Hero is to be found neither ex- "flow uncultured !" says the of my earliest impressions of travel is ridiculously cheap or again settled down she has re- citement, nor vainglory, nor hatred. farmer in a loud voice. "Why Russians was that they are al- whether socks are miraculously sumed a spirited offensive. There is only a determination, calm are you filling our tunnel up ways ready for the next meal, expensive. and imperturbable, to stand by the with waste paper, citizen?" The and it is the prevalence of this cause which we have taken up, to girl maintains a haughty dis- trait that has probably led to
THE question in Russia going to be so tall-higher than endure everything for it, sustained dain, but in a few moments the the myth of the always "starving Truc enough, belts
is not one of "Guns the Empire State bullding--that whole compartment has joined Russians." the conversation and, since it is were tightened during the first instead of butter or schools." It the statue of Lenin on its top
but eince is "Guns instead of stockings." won't be seen for the clouds. a cold day, is soon heatedly dis- Five-Year Plan,
And having failed to convince of cussing the pros and cons of 1934 ever larger quantities of The sensible Russians and they spirit, have their foundation in a filling tube tunnels with silver borsch, schi (cabbage soup) run the country-prefer to look her that life abroad is not nearly and caviare are being consumed. plainly dressed and feel secure. so perfect as her imagination wide and perfect oppreciation of paper.
Nowadays you only queue up There is a very real demand paints it, I retire after a pro-
day
spent building what it is for which we have freely
for newspapera.
for finery though, and female table telten up arms.
It is probable that, but for the Moscow (particularly the girls socialism.
by the faith that it is worth every sacrifice.
That calmness, that clarity
but
IN PRAISE
not
to
like
OF
Her grievance tonight is that the new Palace of the Soviets lo
WINTER
The girl, of course, should have apologised. "Yes, comrade, The whole people knows that we it's my thoughtlessness," but fight to keep alive in the world those her obstinate silence evokes the
"Somej spiritual values which we call liberal final annihilating jibe: civilisation, and of which not Ger-sort of bourgeois wearing a hat!" She is obviously an anti- man, not the Germon people,
Soviet element and is probably Nazism is the sworn foc.
related to an enemy of the
COLERIDGE did
the countries where the sun shines' al- and young love in the spring The We know what we fight, and why
people.
Words most all the year round the Illetary fact is, however, that much of our we fight.
19 practically negligible. great poetry deals with the praise of But since we are all in conver-worth he complaing of the cold output
so prodigiously fecund in winter. We fight Hitlerism. We fight the sation we carry on with the mornings, and says that as he sits "Indin,
For example, here in Keals writ- limitless persecution of the Nazl
latest events on the farm and before the fire muffled in a great everything else, does not possess one
coat ho finds it impossible to single line of history. She has come ink in November system. We fight its denial of the shake our heads over the capit-produce good work.
down to our day without thinking
"Where are the songs of spring? reality worth the trouble of being
Ay, where are they? oneness of mankind, We fight alists who are starting another
Such was not the case with consigned to writing."
Think not of them, thou hast thy cruelty and its perjury and insatiable war. The company, however, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The author Another writer expresses a similar
music too." demand for the submission of all to is somewhat consoled by the of "The Scarlet Letter says that he
Egypt. "Ten concerning to the time opinion Ils authority,
thought that the most probable owed his inspiration
a single poets. when the casement rattles. In the the Egyptian to produce
The writer who has done more to That we know. And knowing, we result of war will be Soviet when the log roars on the hearth, thousand years have not sumeed to So have thought most of our great
revolutions in several European gast, and the sleety raindrops pelt writing of rent literary worth." are unshakeable.
countries.
hard against the window panes." National character is profoundly immortalise winter than any other by climate. In Iceland, expressed bla grent secret once when. The sinking of merchantmen at sea'
Square Theatre
Station, Literaturo owes much to winter. affected
all the a friend presented him with a work- where it is winter nearly summer we has developed, as it did in the last
three seasons-spring, where I get out, is in black and Had it always been Nazi war, into acts of terror. The
might never have read "Paradise year round, the people are not onlyled table-centre in drawn threadwork white marble with indirect Lost," for Milton could not compose literary-minded, but the few authors depleting Government has outraged the inter-
of outstanding merit. With all its "But where?" inquired Charles national agreement code which sought lighting from alabaster textured during the bright months of June, of that country' have produced work summer, and autumn.
bowls set 011 pedestals. A July, and August.
sunshine, Ceylon has not given us Dickens is winter? This appears to be true of other an Eastern Ibsen, nor has Javal to place some humanising restrictions Russian ballet setting.
'On being informed that winter had arent writers, who are loud in their]
gloomy destin The streets and trams are praise of November and December/ Produced a Hans Chrislim Andersenen omitted, as
would have spolled the brightness es months in which it is easy to Lotus Eaters.
of the work, the puthor of "A work. Though they wrote OF
Christmas Carol" replied. “A year thusiastically of spring, of "England;
deed."-
upon submarino warface, and by which Germany was bounci
Such an act horrifies the world.
D
Yet it does not surprise us here. We ernment to trent may differently those now that April's here" of the suminer committing logleal fallacy, but lands without winter would be gloom in-
unscrupulous, and unclear.
It may be stretching a point orf rose, they are at one in informing where winter has its innings · for know what Nazism lá, we know that who now stand across Ils path.
It is against Hitlerism we Oght
It was his love of the winter fire- many months of the year give the spired during the dismal months. world we fight just because it is ruthless, And we have no quarrel aave with us that creative work was best in-
writers its greatest
and side that made him the auther par those who would help to perpetuate
There is more than fanci- excellence of the home life of our readers. It tyranny in Europe,
Charms Of The Hearth poetry In Tennyson's "Lotus people. Without the winter could We know that Nazism offered no
trans- Because, this is the lesuc,
Eaters." In lands where it is al- Dickens have 10 excelled? Had he mercy to those free-minded Germons cends national frontiers.
Here is Sydney Smith for example. ways afternoon" there is a marked been an Indian, could he have given us that memorable pictute of David who sought to withstand the enslave- cends nationally itself. ment of their people in its terrible against Hitlerlam unites a brother "Never speak to mo about summer. lack of great poetry and prose,
Another point. English winters Copperfield at his own Breside? hood of faith, unites all who know Summer has no charms for me. I
Let another writer answer. "Axia purposes, but attacked them with that man's progress in bettering the look forward anxiously to the return have. given our poets much material
for great work. Go through the has no homet." But, then, Asia har We should be human race, in cultivation of the art of bad weather and binzing fires"
of peace, depends upon the defeat off Here is a quotation from Renan. classies. We are familiar with no winter to speak; then
“Arthur T. Rich. fools if we expected the Nazi Gov- Hitler and the system he has created. He makes the point that in great balmy breezes, nightingales, cuckoos,
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