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A MICHAEL BALCON PRODUCTION
OWN
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EE America and 'dle,”
All my life this was my Innermost dream, as it remains the devout hope of millions of my countrymen. Yet when the shattering now of the loss of my son reached me in Gorki, harvlly a month after America's entry into the war on the aide of Soviet Russia, I did not expect that at the war's and I would be headed for the United States.
STORY
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This is the ninth instalment in the personal revelations of the Soviet school teacher who, to escape being sent back to Russia, jumped from an upper floor of the USSR Consulate in New York this summer. She has already told of the terrors of the Communist re- gime, how she lost her husband' in the Great Purge, and how her only son, Oleg, met his death during World War II. Today she carries her story to the stage where she finds she has been selected. for a teaching assignment in the school for Soviet diplomats' children in the United States, and her departure from Russia.
I was scared... In the back my
mind tho thought fas "Do they know the truth? the Lublanka-NKVD prison- me!"
But I looked him straight in
and answered: "Yes,
eye
dend."
Twice more I was called to
for Committee
furth Central scrutiny by two other top officia One of these was a hard-hitten ai vicious examiner. He gave mo long lecture on how should b have in America, that I shoul study the political situation, 100 Into the causes of unemploymen and explore the diseases of capi tallum
These The great church of Slavyanak,
three the documents cover- which In the early days of Bolshevik upheaval Imd been shut ed the wideat and converted into a motion pleture range imaginable, theatre, was reopened by the Ger- and had to mans as a church. And now the Communist, authorities allowed it, to accompanied by a function as such! This was during full butobio- the war, whon Stalin was capitalising graphical sketch. I got before the world on his policy of When religious freedom. I even witnessed through filling out paporn, I at Slavyansk a conclave of priests the
for from the entire region, but whether ado, notes the church is still open for services myself of all the dates and key now I do not know.
facts, so that I to Moscow Upon my return
would not make a served for more than a year as slip at the next substitute teacher, alling in wc stage.
To bo ever an instructor was needed in botany, zoology or other branches of caught in a dis- would the natural sciences. The director of crepancy
be fatal. I wrote autobio- schools in the Tinirlazey district,
my worked, I lived and
was in Karzains, an outstanding woman gruphy: "My hus-
it would be interpreted as an ad- educator, who soon elevated me to band died in 1927,"
for alxIn answer to the question, "Why mission of my having known him. the position of supervisor
the in- do you want to go abroad?" I de- Boldly I telephoned the NKVDAY arrived. I received a call to schools. I guided there
seport to the private smaintained informed them M experienced teachers in my field of clared that having lost my husband headquarters and
and son, the
would make me that I had not been in the district knowledge.
Foreign Commissariat, forget my grief. I added that all long and had never known the man. solely for special government all- my things having been destroyed
where
I
trip
wardrobe
Further Check
sit in nearly
Then come
to the more visits Foreign Commissariat, this time to All, vut questionnaires and take pictures for a passport. And all the while one had to suppress the joy! of the hoped-for release, to watch! ono's step and eno's tongue. I kept wondering if it was all a dream, after all
The Decision
of the
The Germans carried the war even to Gorki, where a big automobile manufacturing plant is located. One night when I was teaching,, about 10 in the evening there was an air raid. Before we had time to find shelter, a bomb exploded near by and a splinter fractured my right arm. I carried it in a
One day in, the autumn of 1945
I had never believed that cast for almost a month.
Karsaving received a call to submit in the war, I would be able to Time dragged on. The winter gtals.
I got J, a teacher, would get inside one half a dozen names of highly quali acquire a
abroad. I was drawing to a close.
of these much-envied "closed" stores It was
not until the Battle ned Instructors of unquestioned social would have been equally fatal to orders to report to the forbidding maintained for the aristocracy. The of Stalingrad was over, when origin for duty abroad. It meant display any anxiety to leave the premises of the Central Committee Soviet Government is anxious to
What only persons halling the Gorman tide which had workers'
from country.
of the Communist Parly, the nerve put the best face on all of its re- or Communist families
the Soviet dictatorship presentatives abroad. centro f swept over my native Donetz would be considered. This call was
black which inspires awe
f I was fitted out with country was turned back, that on event. We know that the Soviet
Russian hearts.
sult, and although the cloth was of Government. had established special I returned to Moscow. Every schools in America, France and other FULLY a week passed before I was where I saw evidence of Ameri- countries for the children of our called
The interior of this Impressive poor quality, it was thrilling. ngain to the Foreign difce is heavily draped, and I het also acquired à blue summer school
uniform, cah lend-lease supplies, from foreign staffs. A faint hope stirred Commissariat.
a woollen dress, a leather It appeared that long
within me at the thought of America, my three questionnaires were satis a feeling shared by all those rate purse, a pair of shoes, a cost and of tanka to but I silfed It.
When all these things I was a trunk. factory, but more copies were needing there that many cars tinned ham, which became the
ed. That indicated that my applica- behind the heavy drapes
on the outskirts of Moscow, the Red Army delicacy.
Teachers tion was moving forward, but that inspected at every step here. Final were delivered to my little abode camo to view this. I reported to the Commis- ND then I got an assignment from
was to be made. at the same time a further cheer ly I was ushered into the Pin' neighbourhood was aRDE. sariat of Education Commis, A
I was given an- of Alexandrov himself, then
luxury, feeling the clothes admiring Kārsaving to take over the de- other stack of questionnaires to fit chief alde in the field of education, and strangers
school of the Peler assigned to
With the aid of the notes whose position was more powerfully and discussing their quality and the Stchukin moralised
than that of the Commissar of value. Alexelev textile mill, employing over I had made, I acquitted myself of Education himself. Alexandrov, the
As I was leaving for the station School, situated some 40 miles 1,000 workers, mostly women. the task.
of n famous Communist to take the train to the Black Sca Bouth of the capital in what Several teachers had tried to or- T
book on pedagogy, has since port where I was to board a Soviet was formerly a famous landed ganise it and falled, she told me.
Then followed weeks of inves- been removed for heresy, Ho, was vessel for the United States, atill estate. It was here that I quickly discovered why. The class-
unheated, mouldy, tigation by the NKVD. Agents came a cultured man, and in the course hardly trusting my own senses, a received word, shortly after horribly filthy. The children were to examine me and ask me ques of the interview asked me if I knew neighbour came to bid mo farewell.
Teachers English. It was clear that I was He whispered into my ear: my home city of Slavyansk truant because they were hungry, tions about my sisters,
Ho also in-
"You're going to America. Don't had been evacuated by the and were either begging for food or in the district told me that they slated for America.
trading some stolen article for bread. had been interviewed about me. quired If I was acquainted with ever come back here!” enemy, of the death of my I threw myself into the challenging would get mysterious telephone foreign schools, and then casually No one knew that this was my
My task with enthusiasm. father during the war.
Once I found a message to dropped the question as he looked decision. call the NKVD about a certain at my papers; mother had passed away I persuaded the factory authorities local teacher who had been purged carlier.
schoolrooms. Then I made a
caravans
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Factory School
rooms were
out.
we
calls.
to turn the workers' clubhouse into as a counter-revolutionary. I know "Your husband died, ch? strenuous effort to get sonte clothes that if I did not answer the call, in 1927, I see?"
the
Robbed Three Times
and footwear for the ragged and barefoot urchins, and was able to SECURED permission, with outné a few of them. And then, great difficulty, to go to when classes began to attract some Slavyansk. My father had
attendants, I argued with authorities who operated the factory owned our little home, and lunch room into feeding the young- having lost all my belongings sters. All that the children got in the first onslaught of the dally was a bowl of very thin barley war, I was anxious to take pos- soup, with one spoonful of mashed session of the house and see if potato. But the ball worked lite a I could salvage some family. price of attendance was. this belongings, especially as I had "meal." been robbed three times during 1943 alone.
churm. The children knew that the
hot
Soon, Karsavina informed me that my name had been submitted by her
lurked
Died
(Tomorrow:
The Trip
To America)
(Copyright, 1944, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited)
THE FOR
to the school division of the Ministry WHAT the
exact truth is
of Foreign Affairs for service abroad. W about the Prime Minis-
I later realised my assignment
State Of Suspense
me
to
this
one political for
1
ON
FIGHT IS ATTLEE'S JOB
POLITICAL NEWSFRONT by W. J. Brown, MP
Dr Dallon took occasion at the last Socialist Party conference to
with strengthen his position
the United Left by declaring that a Europe would be no good unless it were a Socialist Europe. This went down very well,
to
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Theft and hold-ups became routine for the residents of the factory school was a test, for ter's state of health, I do not Moscow in those days. To be that rarest of all opportunities that pretend to know. It is affirm- stripped of your coat, purse and come to a Soviet citizen-permission ed, denied, and reaffirmed that
his health is such as to make first-class brain or the Front bundles in any street of the to go abroad,
But the memory of that fatal' retirement to a less strenuous Bench." capital, except the main
sphere an early likelihood. A still more important qualifica- Indiscretion while he was Chancel- haunts him avenues in the centre, was
that he possesses much lor of the Exchequer
will constitute common. But there were many
more then a shadowy obstacle claims are very strong. cases and I witnessed some THE destruction of the centre of But without any inside in- tion is
Stavyansk, with all the local formation, it is not difficult to more moral courage than most. His like a ghost. It
Mr Herbert Morrison relies on his advance.-- believe that he is a very tired myself-of
made. it Pos- records, persons stripped Soviet
his reputation as the boss-organiser for
Devin would be conceal man.
Mr Ernest of the Socialist Party, He con- 5.15,naked in the, street by gangs able
formidable fa contender as Moscow
the from the authorities in of marauders, to whom even the fact
one political friend and quered London for Socialism, which Socialist Party as he is popular in that ту husband Every alike will heartily feat he followed up by being the the country. But on age and health underwear was marketable loot. had been purged. And
I was hoping against hope, even "great crime" of my life enabled me wish him complete and speedy re- principal architect of the sweeping grounds, plus his desire to fiplah the duty. Socialist victory in the country in job at the Foreign Office, I doubt when I visited Slavyansk, that some- to get out of Soviet Russia and come covery, and a return to full
But it must be said that Impor- 1945.
whether he would be a candidate. body there might have word of my to America.
tance attaches to the word missing son. I found my sister
the Mr Shinwell, played up to For six months prior, to my de- "speedy." Anya, whose husband had been
I was kept in a state of
miners as Fuel Minister, and purged, among the survivors of the parture,
popular with them. At the War German occupation. The centre of suspense wide I was subjected to
Interrogations. As endure, in such days as these, for
Office he has played up to the Army the town, where many battles had innumerable
ship is passing upon whom the troops rely to bring and is popular with Montgomery. was progressing from rung to rung very long. Our raged, was a heap of rubble. Every- where were signs of Nazi atrocities, on the inquisitorial ladder, I never through rough waters and the horl the rabbit out of the hat in the knew when my very life would be zon is dark with threatening storm. most difficult circumstances. He is charge a middle-of-the-road man. His main forfeited if my lie were discovered. We need a captairi in full Innocents Executed
weakness (though he shares this I made up my mind to state in all my of himself, the crew, and the ship,
with Cripps) is that he has no roots declarations that I was a widow, and that my husband had died in 1927.
While good wishes go.out to Mr in the trade union movement. who had been executed
Attlee from all quarters and al by the Invaders, Edmo be- First I received a call to report to parties, It is inevitable that specu-
about cause they had at one time the Personnel Department of the lation should be rife or another belonged to the Com- Commissariat of Education. Hero 1 possible successor if he is unable to munist Party or held positions of was interviewed at length as to my resume responsibility in the Soviet service, educational qualifications and teach- Yet we knew that there were Coming experience. I was given a paper munist cardholders and Soviet directing me to report to the Depart-
of the Com-|po| officials who hated the Soviet re- ment of Personnel
you know"
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LEARNED of many innocents
'MIDDLE MAN
The present half-vacuum cannot MORRISON is the Party's most
Parliamentary
CRIPPS LEADS
his
leader,
Now he plays up to that vague ugly sentiment which feels that facts can be disposed of if only you deny their existence loudly enough.. THE DARK HORSE
+
Mr Aneurin Bevan relles on the backing of the Left, and on his own
oratory and BUT sometimes the succession.goes: empirical genlus, his his sense of destiny. At oratorical to'n dark horse. fireworks he has no equal except If the struggle is too savere, it is Churchill, who, in this connection, possible that the succession might is not a competitor.
go to some figure less contentious Morrison catr chaff the troops than those I have discussed,
come. say that the struggle for the
obedience. figure who, though less outstanding: auccession is severe, is only to into good humour and
Thera Bevan con Inflame and intoxicate than they, might better preserve' a When I got there I found myself say that politics is politics.
united party.
gime, but kept up appearances to missariat of Foreign Affairs. earn livelihood.
蟲
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A Soviet commission of inquiry applying for pass in front of a is an old saying that there is no them. was exhuming the corpses of the peephole, one of many litle win- friendship at the top. Let us gur- Nazi victims and collecting evidence dows staring at me, before I was vey the field.. of German crimés. At the same directed time there was a hunt on for col- laborators, and suffered. I
ngain
upstairs to Comrade Innocents Andreyenko, who later camo
Sir Stafford Cripps heads the
Ilat
to
fain
of possibles.. Having qualified
He is the Pringe Rupert of the
Among such. figures my Own Piety, but, unlike his unlucky his-
maka nomince would be Mr Chuter Ede, torical predecessor, does not the mistake of dashing too far who does a solid job of work in ali now capacities, makes no enemies, com- as ahead of the infantry. Every
to mands general respect, and is an.
extremely English personality.
Well, there'they are. To parody: the old song:
knew a fine engineer our Soviet school in New York the prophet of the nation's doom if, and then he stops and shouts who had He to me that I was being save his sister. The girl had been considered for an assignment to and push up production. Sir Stafford, denounced for consorting with the Paris, asked me many questions, is now beginning to quality as one. Germans stationed in Slavyansk, and and explained that I would have of the Cheeryble. Brothers. was condemned to penal servitude in to deal with difficult children and Siberia. The brother was sharply parents.
This explains many of his op- parent Indiscretions, which are encouragemenis addressed to the of After convincing himself Already, to his party, Bir Stafford troops. He has the advantage
us relative youth as well as its con- told to keep out of the case and go that I was not afraid of the res-is the man who is pulling back to his post. Upon his arrival ponsibilities, he advised me to go through. Soon, he may be the man fidence, and has no doubt that in in Kiev, he was demoted and put to back, the following day to fill out who has pulled us through. Chur- two strides, if not in one, he work as a common labourer.
a set of three questionnaires, chill has described him as "the one reach the coveted goal.
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