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A prophet goes home-and talks the threat more terrifying
than atom war"
af
LDOUS HUXLEY, nove-
list, mystic, poet, philo sopher, apostle of non- violence, iconoclast and some would say-saint, curled his
“I need light'.',
15th Instalment:
MRS OKSANA
KASENKINA'S
OWN STORY
With time running out, as the dày set for her return to - Russia neared, Mrs Kasenkina made frantic but fatilo attempts to find someone to whom she could turn for help. The shadow of the NKVD was upon her, and her fears provented her from establishing contacts.
that I loved no one in
boat was due to sail within
WAS frantically looking for advice, telling him a friendly soul who would America, that I had help me remain in America, Russia to go back to, and that my as the month of July was pass- maitor of days. My host WIT ing. Every day brought me he.My fright did not touch him obviously astonished and unrespon- nearer to the dreaded anting and it was evident that he did not date of the Pobeda, the Soviet cor
distress. - Shaken comprehend my vessel which was to take a whole and crushed, I stalked out of his party of us back to our dark place. life: But I did not know where to turn for my salvation.
By this time nearly all the money which I had saved during my two
A couple of days after the years of teaching in America had incident with the stranger who and other articles to take with me boen converted by mo into clothes had commented on our Russian to Russia. It
It was dangerous to diction, I returned to the spot possess dollars in the Soviet Union on Riverside Drive where it oc from abroad could always be ex- and also useless, whereas goods The man was sitting changed for food. In the course of
curred.
on the same bench. He naked my shopping tour, I lost $70 me if I was not the woman he cash, but that worried me little. had heard talk Russian with a I was anxious to pile up in my room enough goods to convince the friend an evening or two carlier. Porojnlakovs and the other Soviet When I replied in the affirma- hounds that I was getting ready to tive, he told me that he had sail for home. come to America from the Ukraine during the first world
war.
Farewell Orgy
THE Soviet Conmilite field a fare- well party for the departing colleagues, the
My heart leaped. Here, I thought, was someone who spoke Kroup, my language and who might Samarins, were hot present. This understand mo. But I had to astonished me I felt that ; un- be very careful, as I knew that wittingly, the Samarins had sounded. the NKVD vigilance had been absence. It was to be a gay even- an alarm by their demonstrative increased of late. To test him, ing, but my mood
was one
of
The basic problem in world affairs paganda. Beyond that it could do te suid was to deflect attentions from nothing. It gave an awful im the wholly insoluble problem power to the wholly soluble one of
of pression of senselessness.”
Our talk then turned to the failure I led the conversation to such bitterness. I recall a conversation world resources in relation to of our industrial society to pro subjects as Russia's part in the carried on by a few of the women population. It was "ymptomatic" vide man with interesting work, to
on the cold war. Usually Lobstaln-. war. As a protection, in the ing from any political discussion, I with no authority, very, little
make them happy and contented in- no publicity, while the United No increase of psychomatic diseases such to be a secret Soviet agent, I observation. tons in Paris was discussing "who as ulcers, arthritis and neuroses. grab what? with no possibility of shall bully whom and whe shall coming to a solution,"
6 feet 5 inches into a chair of that the FAO was in oney, and dividuals, Huxley referred to the event that this man turned out chimed in this time with some
tubular steel and blinked grate fully at the sun. "It's a great comfort," he said, "to have the light coming in through the window." He explained that he had spent the last 11 years in California-partly so that he could be near the woman who
1
But if Huxley's sight is weak, his mind has lost none of the strength and daring with which he, startled and shocked the world during the inter-war-de- cades,
fizelf
+
WAR
The clash is coming
L
in one job must be a "major torfighters.
To go through life without interest sang the praises of our herole ture," he said. "It's a marvel that people don't go a good deal more dotty than they are."
I maked Huxley, whether the solu
to
Seemed Sympathetic
no.
"And what do you 'know about the cold war?" one of the NKVD wives asked contemptuously.
"And why shouldn't · 17 · For two years I have endured a cold war at your hands."
The atmosphere became repulsive
Kolng
me
મ
to my
saved him from blindness and "ASSES of power" wald Huxley, ton might be found in more efficient THE stranger seemed sym-
methods of production leading striking are fist heavily shorter hours and fricreased leisure pathetic enough when we to me. There was drinking and partly because "I need light."
against the other, are coming into for the working people. "The ranged over many subjects, but singing. All the signs, polated to
problem is to know what the working I was torn between an urge to slipped out,
in orry. I had A bita and His right eya is almost collision."
Because we do not know how to people are to do with their leisure," opaque, like a window with
solve this problem of power, we be replied. "You cannot ask them tell all and the fear that I might favourite haunt in Central Park." blind of film pulled over it. have to have, fatihs, and because we to look at talevision, listen to the land in a trap. When he in- His other eye is still very weak. have faiths, we have wars."
redlo or go to the movies all the vited me to join him for a cold My American 'acquaintance was It is as painful to watch him Huxley view, are both idolatries, constructive than that."
Nationalism and Communism, in time. They need something modrink at, a soda fountain, I im- there, and greeted me. Onco more writo-so intense is the effort. He defines tut word as meaning
pulsively replied: "No
he repeated the Injunction about involved as it is to see a cripple "the worship of a limited object as Agam Huxley complained that the They are watching me."
Russia being "no good" and that I had over been
should stay in America. I could perform some physical feat. if it was the highest final end in basic questions
asked. What is man, iko? What is
The stranger laughingly reminded
hot converse with him freely, and give him, me that I was in America,
when he Judged by what people do, and not good for him? Do we
cscorted
short dis- and what they say, Nationalism and what fits in with his nature? Is man asked me up to his Uttle
tance on the way home, I asked abart- communism were the most formid- made for the Sabbath, or the Sab-
ment near by for
him: "who are you?” He gave me drink of water. A able Idolatries in the world today, bath made for man? "Industry and I felt that the ice could not be the name of "Leo Costello, which
broken that evening. "For every one man who will die politics proceed on the assumption
and decided I jotted down on the cover of a for God, 1,000 will die for Nationalism...
that man is made for the Sabbath.” and perhaps 300 for Communism."
to leave. He invited me to come packet of matches. back for a Russian In an oblique reference to na-
I never saw this man. nor Dr Yot, he said, in the problem of tonalisation, Huxley said that once days later, and put his name on Kolansky soll erosion we. had a subject
again. Finding myself on vested interests were built up, they card. It WAS D: Alexander Impaled upon the Zoms of a life- which everyone was agreed in ad- were difficult to move. Merely to Kolansky. vance. The solution was known. tako over an industry was to replace It was largely a technical matter, one
I could not make vested interest by another.
up my mind always with me that I might fall and on technical matters the Powern There is nothing radically different what to do. During, the preceding into the wrong hands. found it comparatively
I would go out in about it. The same people are doing weeks, when "gree.
the evening for a breath of air. the same jobs."
I would sometimes sit on a bench at 89th Street and Central Park. Among the habitual strollers in the neighbourhood was a man in his late forties who, after observing me on several occasions, spoke to Samarins. It was accompanied by
FOOD
'Only a 50-50 chance'
cazy to
MYSELF
br
a few meal
AS we sat in his bedroom at Claridges he drew a chal-
The Post Office was an exampla lenging picture of a world of successful technical co-operation. stumbling to disaster because its Even during the war letters from leaders have never asked the one corner of the world to another I don't know enough'
were delivered in an extraordinary fundamental question: What way. does man need?" "The picture
"We don't kill one another about himself Huxley sald Hitle. He had been working on an his- is terrifying," he said in his the Post. Omod. Instead of con- torical novel in Italy because he was stantly squabbling over the problem Interested In the problem of the precise voice. But he is terri- of power, we should ask: 'What in historical novel "The problem
"I know you're Russian. seen you here often." fled less of atomic and bacterio- historic practice are we not prepared that the people are quite different, logical warfare than of the ero to kill one another about? From and yet exnetly the same."
With difficulty I explained to him 00-uperating OC such subjects
wis R But he had stopped working on it. in broken English that I
the man who once
packed the Russin
me once;
and-death dilemma, the fear was
Time Running Out
T the Porojalakov apartment the following day a reinark was dropped to me casually
about the
Hved a searching look. They I've number of blocks further up West Side of Manhattan.
*
the
sion and wastage of the soil. better international relations might "I found I didn't know enogh,' said teacher and was due to return to to sail on Saturday, the 31st, I
mutually be developed,
2000.
Although
Several times, in the closing days of July, before the Pobeda was duo
ho had observed the Soviet Consul's car in
the move-
I was suspicious. Our out marketing. I was sure that exchanges were brief. During our they were checking on ments of the Samarins. second encounter, he said to me:
"Rusalno good. Don't go back. Everything O.K. here."
The world is melting away like a lump of sugar in a cup of "How on earth to start it, I don'! Encyclopaedia Britannica in a special every carmark of being a native the neighbourhood while I was
know" n confessed. Half-seriously coffee," he said, and quoted Sir bo suggested that people in high case before setting out on a world American, John Boyd Orr's farewell address political positions got Loo much to trip. I don't know whether I shall to the Food and Agricultural eat. He called the diplomaile ban over know mough."
Now he was adapting an old short Organisation: There is only a quets thrown by the Allied Powers 50-50 chance of getting over the politicians on a diet of 1200 calories He didn't know whether the com- the war fantastic." "Put the story for a Hollywood film company. food problem."
a. day for six months," cald Huxley, pany would film it the movies "and then they might see the world's are in a catastrophic state." problems in a better perspective."
Huxley reeled off figures to show the extent of the food problem. Already 60 to 70 percent of the world's population ent extremely badly, Two and a half acres needed to provide an adequate diet
for each individual.
ବ
WORK
Clinging To A Straw
Then one day I was startled out of my wits when I ran straight into Consul-General Yakov Lomnkin stepping out of a cigar store,
"Yakov Mikhailovich, what are As I left he reminded me that he hind once been a journalist himself.
was clinging even to this straw you doing here?" (Ho used to write dramatic when the evening of Dr Kojalsky's "I like your strect," he answered! y Neurotics multiply criticisms) His problem had always dinner arrived. After all, I pured, curtly and made off.
been, its said, to ind enough material
I men- he had emigrated from Russia and LONG the present lines he saw no to all the required space.
had brought over a sister, as he to remain in America, I would have By the end of the contury the solution, The many shrewd diplo- tioned that the newsprint shortage world will have 3,000 million in matie observers to whom he had had put a different complexion on hod informed me, from the Soviet to act resolutely and quickly.
must have known of hablients, but there are only 4,000 been introduced in Paris by his my job. "Yes" he said. "I suppose Union He million acres of cultivable land even brother Jallan, the Director-General everything you write must be so the life there. I decided to confide
As and that is dwindling fast, of Unesco, were "all equally gloomy," compressed that it's like a sonnet my plight to him.
I entered D4 The population went "whizzing up," The United Nations was simply an really." So here it is....
Kojansky's apartment, I burst out and nothing was done to preserve instrument through which the Great
CHARLES WINTOUR with my story. I asked for his the soll
now
Powers could put forth their pro».
NANCY
A Turn for the Better
soon
Dr
(Tomorrow: Mis Kasenkina Time was running out. XI.I' was
resolves to act)
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