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IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT
By ERNEST THURTLE, MP
MEMBERS were not with- ME
out serious misgiving when they left Parliament last Friday for another four weeks"
recess.
With International affairs in their present state, much could happen in
that period.
Difficulties of rearmament so soon after a devastating war stood out in the defence, discusalon.
Clearly all is not well with our fighting services. As I see it, our difficulty is that we are now asked to fight two battles of the same time the battle of economic solvency
and the battle of military security.
It is an immense task for a coun- try almost bankrupted by the last
war.
AN
★ ✩
*
foreign
Nanxlous Parliament got little
satisfaction out of the affairs debate.
The Foreign Secretary was sombre and, I thought, gave the impression of a disheartened man
Most significant part of his speech was his firm insistence that Britain would remain in Berlin.
His words could only mean that come what may the country is now committed to this policy.
THE dilemma
☆
Torn by grief over the loss of her husband, Demyan, in the Great Purge, Mrs Kasonkina carries on bravely. However, a new fear grips her heart as the Young Communists be gin the political corruption of her son, Oleg She decides to take A
bold step.
ROM, the moment my hus- band Demyan was ar rested, people began
to
Mrs Oksana Kasenkina's Own Story
crats, and getting nothing but rebuffs and sneers from the masters of the purge. And
I felt that, Demyan himself shy away from me. To be seen would have. wanted me to de- with a member of the family of vote the remainder of my life,
exposo sible. the memory
Sixth instalment, related by Mrs Kasenkina from her New York hospital bed, and edited for publication by Isaac Don Levine Moreover, upon my return munists would take him in Artemovak, where I hand. This operation Was
an "enemy of the people" and to our boy, knowing full well from that was the badge of dishonour that safety for Oleg lay in besieged the local gaol, his called pere-vospitat-to remake. conferred upon every victim of expunging as quickly as pos- last known' abode, a new kind Late that night Oleg, who had liked alcohol, WAB purge meant to
of his of terror stared me in the never the
home by aomo oneself to suspicion, surveil- "counter-revolutionary" father, face the Komsomol had during brought
reached out for Komsomols in an intoxicated lance and jeopardy. I became As teachers we knew only too my absence an untouchable to my colleagues well the utmost insuperable Oleg. The NKVD had establ- state, and I found him in a and neighbours, except to those dificulties in securing an ished A special branch stupor on our veranda.. women whose husbands or education and making a career in the Komsomol--the Young If the boy, who was only 16,
and mothers had to make
which were put in the path of Communist
in
au.
League for the sons had also been seized.
had that evening uttered sonic a lad whose father bore the political seduction or conver- After my
three weeks of mark of a citizen disloyal to the aion of the adolescent children criticism against the govern ment for what it had done to futile efforts to get to Demyan Soviet regime,
of purged parents. One pur- in the hope of saving him,
pose was to use the youngsters his innocent father, he would doomed himself. when I had become convinced. New Kind Of Terror as spics for ferreting out in- have been that he was gone for good, I
formation about how a family That happened to many lads whose tongues were loosened. faced the trying choice which
They were sent off to reforma- millions of other Russian wives MANY wives whose husbands reacted to the purging of a
was really the had been rounded up in the father or brother. The to continuo to cry for jus- purge and shipped off to dis- thorities wanted to know, "Are torics, which
criticising the Soviet first stage to a convict labour tice
the theory that tant labour camps did receive they
so-and-so's battalion, and then to a con- Demyan had not been "liquidat- cards from somewhere along Government
telling
of the home?" After all, it was the centration camp. ed," or to bury the great pain, the route
Komsomol which had within me, to keep silent about prisoners' destination. It was same
to denounce occurrence to pick trained children
parents 48 counter- the fate of my husband for a common the sake of at least saving the up such cards or letters dropp- their
ed along railway tracks from revolutionaries. future of my only son, Oleg.
My parents even roproach- prison trains, with pleas to.
My boy was not at home the cd me for not going to Moscow mail them. I never received
a message from night I returned from Arte to seek a review of the case of any kind of
confirmed movsk. I learned that he had and this Demyan. But I knew others Demyan,
the Komsomol who had done so, knocking at me in my belief that he had been lured to
club where the Young Com the doors of the new bureau- been put to death.
of Berlin has naturally caused much bear!- searching among my parliamentary colleagues with a paciöst bias.
Alternatives before us all are ugly On the one hand possible war it wo remain in the city against Russian pressure to drive us out,
On the other betrayal of liberty and democracy It we, abandon our stand.
Reluctantly the great bulk of the party has come to the conclusion that the Government policy
standing Arm is the right one, and there will be no pressure for a
peasement.
be
No doubt the position would different had Munich never happen
ed.
TOHN
*
*
JOHN MCGOVERN, sturdy and courageous M.P. for Sheltleston, probably handles Communist claims and pretensions with greater vigour than anyone else in Parliament,
on
*
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"Go slow' keeps
sting in
the Ruhr
by CHARLES WICHTON
MR: ERNEST REVIN Foreign Secretary, has assured the House of Commons that Britain not stop the dismantling of German factories." ... There is pict to defeat this plan. ...
TIGH
ESSEN.
Some may still go east of the Iron Curtain. Already the content. of Krupps' most modern plant is work. ing in Kiev, the Ukraine, and behind the Urals.
Every one of those Germans re- show.
ho gards cach turn of the spanner
Germany's holds as a setback to chances of recovery as a world Power. Every German on the job is, therefore, working as slowly as
Trained in political controversy on the Clyde, where punches are not pulled, he had been active in local he can. politics before coming to Parliament in 1930 as I.L.P. representative.
the
Application was recently made by on
unknown but suspected Krupp "stooge" concern for permis alon to sub-let a damaged workshop at Essen. In the shop is a 300-ton overhead crane sultable only for the heaviest armametit work.
The British replied that the work- shop was, available, "but the 300- ton crane will be removed." At once the Krupp "alooges" cancelled the offer to sub-lct.
Anxiety Grows
OLEG was a talented musician. I
had given him my violin, which I enjoyed playing, and the Komsomol inner set Battered him and gave him opportunities to perform in the club- house. Also, he was good at draw- Ing. He was invited to
appealed to film. posters, and this My anxiety was growing daily. We had not raised our son to be a Com- munist,
design
One day the director of his school called on me to report that. Oleg was absent that day, I went to look for the boy, and found him in the Komsomol headquarters.
"Olya, why aren't you in school?” I asked.
ment,
Pardon
be me," "they gave me an assign-
and I had to full it." I decided then and there that to save my boy I would have to leave town with him for good. His educa- tion was being neglected and per- vorted. To add salt to my wounds. Olce returned one evening all in tears. The young scoundrels had stolen the violin I had given him, and which he cherished.. And my loneliness made my heavy even heavier,
burden
The last drop in my cup was the way my mother was going to pieces over the plight of her two daughters whose husbands had been snatched The Krupp management tried to away. She had been especially at- have a large welding machine tached to my Demyanchiki She be- transferred to a department where came alcit and began to brood. Often, wounded soldiers now make toya. sitting at the window, she would They said it was necessary for toy-suddenly call out: making. The Brlilah found that this
"Look, look, here comes Derryan. machine, too, was due for dismantl-Now he's peering into the window." Ing.
A Faint Hope
IN SOVIET CAMP`
son
of
the
1
In 100 other Ruhr plants there is the same picture-reluctant German on the girders of workers, told by their trades unions
Moscow would be the most desir Hurope's biggest forging the every out the hated disinal-E greatest arseni, the German will able distret for us to settle in. I
to me possible blocking
his battle to keep Europe's DECIDED that the province of
welcome any of press, in the heart of the great ing programme agreed on by
alles. Twenty miler then had relatives in Moscow itself. outside Moscow, in a Soviet Intern-Furthermore, a faint hope stirred Krupp plant at Essen, a small Allled Control Council in Berlin.
ment camp for German VIP's, a 32-
being near' within me that group of ant-like Germans,
THE GIANT PRESS
year-old German is waiting,
capital I might somehow learn some- with arm-length spanners, aro
Youngest surviving
thing about the fate of Demynn. Four-Power Allies' Europe's greatest armaments clan. slacking off rust-encrusted nuts INDER the
But one does not move in the plan for a prosperous but peace Harald Krupp, captured on the Rus- as big as a man's head.
to one place ful post-war Germany, Ruhr steel sian front, is being groomed, accord- Soviet Union from Top section of the 15,000-ton war production has been slashed by aing to British opinion, for a special another at will. One must have a permit or an employment assignment the third. The 'British plan to finish the task. engine, towering 100 feet into
And I know Albert job in two
ever from the authorities. years. So German big If the Red Army should
transfer floom of the half-bombed,
workshop, is gradually business has thrown everything to storm through the Iron Curtain and that I could never get a all-sized
the Rhine, sabotage us, as a few examples will head west for
young from the Commissariat of Education disappearing.
Krupp, they say, would be at its of the Ukraine to that of Great bold Russia.. I resolved upon o heels.
Under There is a story about that glant
Russian supervision he stratagem. Instead of following the press in Krupps. A few weeks would take over the family fortune prescribed routing, I wrote direct to
the Moscow
the depart- "Oblono," ago, through Allied Economic head- and factories in the Ruhr.
TC-
Today there are no Krupps left in ment of education for the province quarters in Frankfort, came a quest from the principal German the four square miles of the Essen of Moscow, outlining my qualifica electrical equipment manufacturers. workshops, or in the family mansion tlons, listing my references, and stat- on the hill above the terribly batter-ing that the reason for my appli- FOR GUN TURRETS
"Save that press from repara ed city.
cation was my desire to raise my But the Krupps second eleven-boy in an atmosphere of Russian TEN years ago these same skilled tions," they pleaded. "We need it
to mako electricity shafts for rc- some of the executives and top-culture, away from the Ukraine. We Krupp tradesmen of the four- building Germany under the Mat- ranking technicians who still favour did square-mile Krupp war plant, were shall plan. It is the only press in the Krupp wor-making tradition Ukrainians, tailing with a will as this same huge Germany, which can do the job.”
still there under the supervision of press formed strips of molten steel info armoured guns turrets for The small group of British experts a handful of British engineers.
They say, "Krupps has been above Hitler's battle-cruisers Scharnhorst who are the Ruhr watchdogs looked and Gnelsennu.
around the Ruhr. Within 20 miles the law so long that they cannot Today the forging press and of Krupps they found four smaller, even yet see why they should obey," stream of molten steel have gone, but still massive, presses all able to
NOT FOR US The dark, alient hall is Olled with ou the job one of them and was scheduled to leave the Ruhr as long lines of lathes, pimps
IN these factories are huge piles and fearful-looking reparations. generators,
millions of ions in all of the mechanical monsters waiting their turn to be dismantled. Then they Sald one of the watchdogs: "I can- finest scrap. British steel foundries
are starving for it. will be crated and sent to Britain, not think of a single peacetime use
But the scmp fron is not I was worried about one thing: France, Belgium, and other coun- for that press. It might be used for
battleship, but the scheduled for reparations. trles which are entitled to German the shaft of a reparations.
Germans haven't started Bullding small quantities are going to Britain: would I got the appointment If I More than 120,000 tons of preci- battleships again--not yet, anyway. the great mass of bombed girders disclosed that my husband had been ston machinery and equipment here, it was just an attempt, and a clumsy and unused Ingots will go back to purged?.
friends in heavy the Germans, to make new peace (Tomorrow: A Journey To valued before the war at nearly one, by Krupps
a valuable war time machines to replace the wor £10,000,000, is to be distributed to industry to save
machine.",
machines now being, broken up. nationa ravaged by Hitler:
Ho has since linked up with Labour. Well informed and T cloquent, he makes forceful speeches on many subjects, but he positively
Communists lashes the
and their policies.
made a powerful speech of this Hind, which impressed me House as greatly as it enraged Mr Piratin, the Communist, and a few fellow travellers.
A passionate belief in liberty is, I believe, the key to McGovern'a bit ter contempt: for the Communista.
No Right Winger, ho has led hunger marchers, and was imprison- ed in connection with a campaign for free speech on Glasgow Green At 60 he is as ardent for freedom as ever he was.
NANCY
Pigsty-le
WISH MY PLACE WASN'T SUCH A
DUMP
I'D LIKE TO
CLASS IT UP
A BIT
DAT HELPS
A LITTLE
By Ernie Bushmiller
Only
not
45
ourselves - regard
responsive My letter struck a chord in the heart of a certain MX- hallov, whom I did not then know, who was in charge of all the pro-- vincial schools. It happened that. ho was looking for an experienced natural science instructor to all vacancy. He invite me to go Moscow for an interview, and bring all my papers and documents along.
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