Saturday, FEBRUARY 24, 1940.
Written by a Men who Stalin's Cell-mate in 21 Russian Prison.
JOSEPH DJOUHASHVILY, ́ulins Stalin, was known to me under the nick- name of KOBA.
Ever since he was a young lad of | seventeen, Koba lived an underground life and often used to compare himself with the hunted wolf.
was
Charged with being a "professional revolu- tionary," he was arrested for the first time in 1902, and after having been in prison for a year he was deported to Siberia at the end of 1903. After only four weeks of exile, he made a daring eseupo.
· Between 1904 and 1913 he was imprisoned five
times and matte five desperate escapes.
I lived with him for many prolonged perinds
and under conditions which
onabled me to understand the
extraordinary personality
the man.
of
It wit only lad when, in
1908, I
acd
brrested Was
confined 111
In Baku Dallow the
prison where I remained three-and- a-half years before being deported to Narym,
The political prisoners were kept separate from the criminals and had formed a community with well-de- fined rules and regulations.
One day, at dawn, a man, who
most of us had never seen before, came into the big room where the Bolsheviks inet.
When I asked our chief who the Intruder was, he whispered to me: "It is Koba. Don't be too severe where he is cerned."
חמיו
Only a few days passed before reputation for Koba hnd mude a
THEY
FLOGGED
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fellow- thai 1." when some escape, of a prisoner was to be effeeled and par- thealterly if it concerned one for- tenced to death.
I shall never forget the Easter of himself among all the prisoners, 1009 when Koba nearly lost his life His appearance was also unique. Ils to save a fellow-prisoner. A theft bitte tunic, without buttons or belt, of some importance had been com- and his manlo for constantly read- ing some book or other, at once dis- mitted within the prison, undoubt tinguished him
other edly by one of the burglars whom
Kaba knew well. prisoners.
frein the
Tail, broad and sinewy, he moved slowly, like a beast of prey. Is face was thin and pock-marked he rarely opened his sinull widely.
and
eyer
He seldom spoke, so that many be Heved him to be an eccentric and uninteresting fellow. But very soon we discovered that this estimate was utterly wrong.
As the prison authorities fell sure that Koba knew who the culprit was they interrogated him. When he refused to answer, the prison com- mandant decided to make him run the gauntlet of the whole Saliansky regiment.
As soon as the commund was given the coldiers began to flog Koba, and In order to prolong the torture they hit his arms and shoulders, rather than the head.
TROM the very first appearante
Few were those who survived this of Koba In our prison we were
by puzzled
Some attitude which punishment,
before dying differed from that of every other went mad. political prisoner.
an
Koba, however, had made up his While the fatter never mixed with mind to survive. In order to do that a booit which the "criminala," Koba immediately he took with him
While he walked along made o point of becoming intimate he read with the worst murderers, burglars, slowly between the soldiers___wjus forgers and swindlers.
were flogging him.
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One day Stalin may share the fate of most diclators, no matter to what epoch in history they belong. He may be killed in some counter- revolution or assassinated,
Eut nobody will bend him, nobody will force him to resign, to change his opinion or his policy. He is like a statue hewn out of the granite rock of his native Caucasus,
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HIS war has already given demonstrations When reproached he said he liked With the blood streamint from his of the three types of people who did things, adding that buck, stumbling rather than walk-bombing which the 1939 in politics such people were most in, he was reading aloud and useful. It is the only means of centrating on the bonk rather thon pilot has un his sleeve. These diagrams show:-
success," he concluded.
on his pain.
Very soon, however, we discovered He walked to the end of the fatal that Koba hud also other reasons corridor and fainted only when the
touch with the last soldier had struck him. for keeping in
criminal section. It became known that amongst them he had found several old acquaintances with whom he had been associated in big enter- prises.
The story was told how one day Koba was informed that the finan- elai resources of the commitice were in such a bad way that its activity was greatly handicapped.
"Don't woITY
about that.” Koba had immediately repiled. "I'll find money by to-morrow."
A few hours Inter his gang attacked a van of the Stale Bank and get away with 501,000, roubles.
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UNNING was another of his characteristics, and I remember one, Instance which illustrates this very well.
It was the first monster demon- stration against the Government in which all the hidden revolutionary forces took part.
When the demonstrators were called by the committee for the pur- pose of being instructed in the part they had to piny, they asked Lenin whether they were to demonstrate with or without rifles. Lenin turned to Stalin and asked him to reply,
I looked at Stalin. His eyes half closed, with wrinkled brow and a great smile on his lips, he replied:
was typical of Koba that his I wing pita palcularly
Salute
IN the main street of
a little French town not far from the West- ern Front an R.A.F. car
to
The neighbours, brought to the scene by the noise, have plenty to say:
"Ah bien! What's the milk- woman going to, say when she comes back?"
"Where is the milkwoman?".
-'. She comes
day and pulls tho cart herself....
"She's at No. 8, M. Metayer's, skidded on the greasy delivering his milk. surface and upset a here from the next village, every little hand-cart laden is her living. What'll happen
to her now? She'll want five hun with milk.
dred francs from you- at the very least."
The crash was violent enough to smash the flimsy shaft. Milk flows from an upturned can and spreads over the roadway.
Greatly discomfited, the of fcor driving the car pulls up and gota out. But his com-
panions are less sorious:
"Rotten landing Bllll!
Which brought much joy to the hearts of the car's passengers.
Five hundred tranes! Come on, and Dill, pay up! Tout de suite the tooter the sweeter!"
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Drift and wind makiò accu- rate aim difficult. Planes in V-formation follow their leader, dropping bombs in hope of a hit.
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IF there are any gaps in your education, here's a good way of filling them up. Become a Dragomaniac, for Dragomania maketh full, a ready and an exact man. It also maketh for good fun.
The scoring method is simple. After reading cach ques- tion you pick your answer. If it's the correct one, tako two points. An average score is 25, good 85, excellent 44. More is
Impossible. An unalterable rule is DON'T PEEK.
Bames
1---Hero are the atu and new huusehold names almost. They
of several countries and were:- towns, They're a bit mixed. Tair them correctly, the old wih the
new:-
Chriatlanta; St. Petersburg; Persia; Mesopotamia; Reval; Oslo; Iran; Tallinn; Irak; Len- ingrad.
2.The Bosphorus, or, if you like, Basparus, connects the
Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara; Sea of Marmora with the Aepcan; Aegean with the Mediterranean; Mediterrancan with the Caspian; Casplas with the Black Sea.
I
3.Sa Murgatroyd: "I fear must, deal firmly with my daughter Mignonette. Her impudleily annoy me." Murgatroyd was referring to Mignoncite's;—
Recklessness; insolence; dis- honesty laziness; Immodesty; #lightiness; untruthfulness. 4.Famous last words. Willam Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of England and great orator, on his deathbed sald
**
"It is a far, far better thing that do than I have ever yet done": "England, have my
"O Death, bones"
where chy sting?"; "I think I could rat one of Dellamy'a pork ples"; "I didn't know it teas londed."" 3.The Keeper of the 24 Golden Umbrellas is the title borne by:-
The Aga Khan; Neville Cham- berlain; the Emperor of Japan; Dalai the King of Siam; the Lama, G.-The youngest man ever to be Prime Minister of Australla was
Andrew Fisher; 5. M. Bruce: R. G, Menzies: J. C. Watson; J. A. Lyons,
7--There 14 only оле Com
of House munist member of the
seems to Commans and the war have elbowed him into the back ground, le 1;~~
Harry Polit; Arthur Green- wood; Archibald Sinclair; J. B. S. Haldane; Willie Gallacher; J. 5. Maxton; Stafford Cripps. 8.-Moody and Sankey hid agite a spot in the sun in their day
2. DIVE
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BOMBING,-The
An
Davis Cup American pair the English opening pair in the 1006 Tesis; a famous vaudeville teams; 19th century evangelists and revivalists.
9. The Ku Klux Klán Isn't what It was, but I believe It's still get- ne around. The head man of the K.K.K. is called thic:→→
Great White Father: Lord High Klansman; King Kleople; Pillowcase Fuelirer. 10-cro aro
fow famous people and things. They ually run in double harges. Al you have to do is pair them off:-
a
Ulysses; Bardsley; Bristol: Pyramus; Penelope; David: Beaufort; Saul; Collins; This bc.
11-Noel Coward-you've heard of him, surely-vrites plays and things, and is frightfully clever.
is real name is:-
Cyril MacNeill; Noel Rey- naud; John Craven; Simon De vallant; Noct Coward; Johmi Coward
12-Tony Galento is not sa, good Joe Louls, but he's not so badi They call him Two-Tun Tony be- cause:-
Of his weight; tooks ke that; he drinks that much beer in a session; being
carter, he once delivered two tons of Ice and then won his fight.
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13-The British Navy, in spile of a recent loss, still has a few air- craft-carriers on the job, more than any other Power, in fack. Two of Widich these are alreraft-carriers.
two?:-
Adventure; Dauntless; Furi- Qua: Ark Royal; Vindictive; London, 14-I don't expect you to be a German scholar, but if you rcad 17 you sbould that Schreckligkeit
your newspapers You'l means
know
Living room; Hightning war; Nazi world domination; fright- fulness.
16. Now that the shooting ses
son is well under way, let me warn you. Don't shoot at fermagant. It might get you Into trouble with the police, because termagants:-
Are closely protected by the game laws; are inedible lizards; are scolding women; are ex- tremely vicious seabirda.
16. Here's ด very easy one. Taro is:
A tropical plant; a South American lasso; a cord game; a wild horse of Asia; a hunting call.
17.And this one is even easier. Copal
pal is:-
A submarine growth; "a min- εται
substance used, for making explosives; the edible seeds of an East Indian tree; a resin from which varnish is made.
18 The cellophane In which your packet of cigarettes was wrap-
know, front:......
Asbestos; wood pulp; fine duat; fibrea of a South American plant.
sand; coal
method used - in-the-Forth--ped is made, it might interest you to Bridge attack. The plane pulls out of a full-speed dive about 700 yards above the target, releasing a bomb just before it does so,
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Brave
By ANDRE MAUROIS
(the famous French nove list with the B.E.F.)`
"It was B, madame," the air- men chorused. "It was Bl
10-Fletd rank Et the Army entitles holder to, among other things, the present arms instead of the salute. Lowest field rank is held by. at
Captain;
Heutenant-colonel; major; brigadier; colonel; major- general.
20-A company of Infantry is commanded by a
Company sergeant major; leutenant; captain: second-
leutenant.
21.
1.-Next tins you quarrel withi
your wite, seize her by the throat, wrench her wedding ring from her finger and dissolve it in acid. That'll teach her! But make sure the dissolving acid is:-
Sulphuric acid; hydrocyanic acid; acetic acid; malte geld; a mixture of nitric and hydro- chloric acids.
22 John Barleycorn, in litera- ture, in the personification of:--
The
farmer; malt English liquor; the old Squires French brandy; the huntin', shootin', fishin' man.
Answers on Page 8.
Woman
"Wait," she said, "There is that Joiner... Laplume, surely
you know him."
"No," suld the milkivomna.
"Of course 'you do. The one with the red hair, who married the chair-maker.
"Ah!" said the milkwoman, "that's not Lapluie: It's Laprune you.
mean.
and he's going to make if alright." AND then began a long and im-
Bill, in his own French, explain ed that he was more than sorry, that he was willing to pay the cost of the repairs, the broken bottles and the spilled milk the milk- woman shook her head,
The money," she said, "8 110-
T this juncture the milkwoman thing. But who is there to mend
arrived. An old woman. sho my eart?" was, in apron and bodice, her hair"Well," said Bill, "surely there while, her face thin and weary, are carpenters in this village," The sight of the milk lying in the roadway struck right to her heart.
"Heaven!" she cried
milk!"
"my
"No, my good inonsieur: all the wheelwrighis mobilised."
Junva
been
passioned dialogue between the two women on the subject of Lap- runc, his ancestry, his politient opinions, his calling, while the air- men, still waiting, shouted:
"Pay up, Bill. Tout de suite! Let's get started."
Timidly Bill interrupted the saga of the Laprune family,
if you'll tell me how "Madame, much, I will pay tout de suffe." "And how can I tell my, good monsieur? What with the milk, the cart, the bottles and all, it goes pretty nigh a hundred and fifty francs.
th
The neighbour nudged her.
"You're not asking enough, Madame Letrane: you'll be out of pocket."
But Bill, relieved at such modera. tlon, took from his wallet the two notes:
"You're sure, it's enough)" be Bald.
"AM"
said the milkwoman, "If you knew how much I feel for you, mes pauvres
enfants.
.. How It hurts me to make you spend all this money. She spoke in the tone of a grand- mother that has grandsons at the Front, and her "If you knew how much I feel for you, mes pauvres enfants came patently from her henri.
In any case, it was true that she had asked the least possible of them, and, frugal Frenchwoman that sho was, regretted the unnecessary ex- penso as much for them as for her- self.
Bill and his friends sonsed the inflexion of her voice and under- stood it with me, and before they got back into the car, saluted the milkwoman respectfully.
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