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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948,
"Put little oloctric lights on his Christmas tree, would he?"
The last work of the dean of modern biographers:
C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE:
32d
THE
Makes
A Fortune
NEW YORK.✨ HE, National Association of U.S. Manufac- turers has opened a campaign to show Americans that a Tory is not necessarlly-a top- hatted big business man.
Their stor exhibit is millionaire Lewis Recto, Mr Reese is being shown off on a nation-wide basis us the all-American success story. He began to am a pottery werker.
Unemployed during the great depression, he borrow ed money on his insurance to open up a pottery factory, In Selo, Ohio.
After meating his fist payroll he had 3. In the bank. But by Christmas-time he managed to send each emplovec. box of chocolates.
He and his workers' worked so well together that by Christmas 1948 he could give each of them'a banus of nearly £900,
But at Christmas, last year there was not even a box of chocolates. For a fire burned the factory downt and there was no Insurance,
Then came the part of the story that the assoclin- Lion itkes.
Not only his own pottery workers but every work- ing man in Selo came to the burned-out factory, the next morning and asked Me Reeso what they could do to rebuild it,
THE REAL STALIN
of
HE decisive factor
World War II was the attitude of Hitler's allies..
If the Japanese had not attack- ed Pearl Harbour, the United States might never have enter- ed the war.
And if Stalin had refrained from
Wha
PART FIVE
By EMIL LUDWIG
a
*
patriotism,
In our talk, he evaded any com parison; but some years later he had a movie made about Peter, in whose aguro he wanted the people to find something of his own person.
Tlove and again Stalin changed the Five-Year Plan to accommodate it to military needs.
In 1930, when
Rume
to
In
They and Mr Reese worked for two months. With the factory re- bullt, every worker worked free for one week to provide new...capital. And this Christmas their bonus was £1,000 each.
RIME! Police all over Américu report on Increase in shop- Hitting since the New Look arrived. That is because it is capier. for women to hide stolen goods in their moro ample dresses. They use what. the police call the shoplifters' shuffle. They clench the stolen item between their knees beneath a long skirt and shuffle their way out.
FASHION: An omnibus frock is
evening, cocktail
TOMĖ.... A breakfast-tray of glass which radiates enough Infra-red
warm coffee, but not enough to. damage, the bed clothes, will soon come on the market. *
Itler, surely half a communist himself, kept on railing against com- preparing for its munism, and destruction.
soon to be marketed in America. Hitler was ready It takes two minutes to convert this started between him and wear
for day, occupying Bessarabia, Hitler would being communists did not interfere brotherhood does not interfere with for his world war, a diplomatie chess frock into just the right thing to
Stalin, 50
by not have felt threatened in the east; with their remaining, or becoming, their
embarking on an expansionist Russian Stalin, with both partners trying to party, or theatre, ho would-so he said himself-have imperialist Russians.
nationalism, wanted to show to the cheat, and with everybody knowing
they did, attacked England, never have started
Ho years and already people that his own ambitions for many the Russian
war, and probably Fer
DIY under Lenin-Stalin himself was at Russin were
to none.
The
published documents would have gained victory.
""when I monta Peter the Great Washington early in 1848 prove that heat to try eggs, make toast, and- Stalin's attitude towards Germany the head of the Department of
neither of them trusted the other. between Nationalities. wavering
racial minority
According
one of thoso Belonging to sympathy and dislike,
Though I hadn't asked him about
was striving to gain
documents, Hitler declared that he It he said, as a kind of statement himself. he
equality for all non-Russian
couldn't stand the "horrible face" of during our interview: "The Rus-
Stalin's new righthand man, Molotov. slan people like the German people." minorities in Russia,
We don't know how Molotov felt about Hitler's face.
After having for ten years relied on the brilliant mind of Litvinov.
own sallid feiners and taciturnity.
columnists Joseph and Slewart Only in rending Molotov's speechies Alsop say President Truman is today' in full does one realise their full | haunted by “Stanicy Baldwin's ghost coldness and their boring effect-mowing:" He must soon decide on characteristics which also mark the all-out rearmament or, as Baldwin did, on business as usun). And of speeches of Stalin.
Baldwin's decision the `Alsops say it "brought Britain to the brink of destruction.".
And when I asked him why, he simply replied: "It's a fact."
It seems that, in the early thirties, some of Stalin's comrades thought of using that popular sentiment for concluding an alliance with the Ger-
mors.
Together with about sixteen other.
Trotsky Bolshevik leaders,
and
it
On the other hand, Stalin's passion for Russia was the infatuation of a 45 was Hitler's a Prusalon, and foreigner--just wish to become Napoleon's initial great desire to be accepted as a Frenchman.
SELF-IDOLATRY STALIN carried the self-idolatry so far as to agree-for he must have no less than six agreed-to having
statues of himself portraits
and
PORTS: An American broadcast- ting network has just bought a share in a boxing promoters' com- pany to put on regular fights for its television programmes. The same company may inter sponsor tennie,. Ice hockey, and football.
exhibited in the French pavilion at Stalin had now picked a man of his OPINION: Washington's brother
Radek were suspected of trying to humiliations which in his native which seizes almost
negotiate such a past, or at any rate Stalin could make them look like suspects.
This was his great chance, for, as it happened, those men had more or less always sided with Trotsky.
THE GREAT PURGE IN the great Moscow trial of 1937 Stalin could proffer no proofs, nor had he any witnesses. But, as a re- sult of Russian psychological re- action and his own tactics, he got all the confessions he wanted. Twelve or thirteen-top-conspirators were executed.
mans
I Stalin's case," one has to add the
province even educated, Caucasians had been exposed to at the hands of the "genuine Russians," and which he must have witnessed.
the Paris World, Exposition of 1938.
That is the kind of megalomania all powerful men after some line.
In the 1930-40 decade Stalin had to keep his eyes continuously on both for he was his great neighbours,
As socialists everywhere maintain aware of the bellicose spirit of both that their spirit of international Germany and Japan.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW
A KING WANTS TO DESIGN TANKS
had
and
And
that is much the attitude towards him at Sandroyd Prepnin "tory School, 20 miles from the ancient cathedral town of Salisbury In the south of England.
theclearly not anticipated the question ine Because they have lots of shool to
occe, or very nearly at onco, ba-
countries are strongly against'a re- turn of 'Italian rulë..
SUPPOSE you were not singers, dancers, sicrobats
the King of Iraq. What conjurors In quick succession.
And which. Alms? would you like to be24:
The boy laughed happily. "Gang
Finally the boy king shares. whole heartedly the Arab League's uspira- This was Stalin's vengeance. It also was an act of personal prudence, who rules four and a half million
The handsome 13-year-old boy ster Alms."
"Why?"
Like anybody else's son, he has tions for a bloc of 75 million people. with the suino historical hack- carly do as he is told. The Politica it was not, for two years
and way of life. in the Middle East
ground, culturo later be concluded with the Ger- people
rising bell reminds him of this at stretching from the Persian Gulf the
with sotme pact
The light of mischief danced in 7.30 every morning. He gets up at along the French Northe African planning of which he had charged The shapely young head bowed in
coast to the Atlantic." his comrades.
thought. Then the oval Arab face the eyes of Feisal II, King of traq sing turned towards me and the
and stort demonstrating He had them killed, accusing
answered: bis feet like to be a tank designer." some of the exciting fights he had. abortive revolutionary action is high
the screen; the king In treason: only success turns It Into hinted at a hard, competitive seen on
world, full of designers of all kinds, him forbade such conduct, including tank designers. But Felsa! 2011 was adamant that he wanted to design tanks-the biggest, strongest and fastest tanks that the world had vet scen.
"How big?" I asked.
them of "high treason." But every yes lit up as he large-The boy in him_wanted to jump to cause every other boy has to do the
Have
If what Stalin did do can sull under the name of justice, It was the justice of revolutionaries.
The new constitution which Stalin had voted into existence by the Soviet Congress goes way beyond the first constitution, as directed by. Lenin.
IMPERIALISM
MUT the Soviet Constitution,
dark
.:
"Anything up to 100 tons," replied the king.
Few
Banic.
"His two Arab tutors live "In Salik- bury and go to soo him almost every
And when he leaves his room, it day. has to be tidy.
By Sydney Taylor
the.
AI
and
the
King
Queen Aliya, no diffrent from any other schoolboy's mother, watches carefully over him, teaching him -how..to behave with people and how to converse. She reads his school books, hears his confidences, knows his weakmesses, misses nothing.
ton
typed
schools
of boys, in-
those from elainentary
At the age of 18, having attained
Matron," reflected We drank thick, sweet Arab "The coffeó as we sat in the drawing Feisal, is very strict." room of the Iraqi Ambassador and After an English austerity break-. As he sat beside me, he looked a
Zeid-el-Hussein in Ken- fast, the boy starts ordinary, school
T the end of a year at Sandroyd Princess Roosevelt took a great interest in that document, and even said that typical schoolboy. He wore long sington Palace Gardens, London. lessons. In addition to history, he is A (one term was missed owing to
of geography ond
drawing the skiing accident), King Feisal goes the new Russian constitution was trousers of grey tweed, with a wine-
to Bryanston School, Dorset, "Million- coloured alipover on top of a white In what is sometimes referred to, fond the best one In existence.
quite accurately, not
He studies four languages, Arabic, Britain's newest public school, where- King In fact, it compares favourably sports shirt wide open at the throat. aires" Row,"
and French. Di with the French "Rights of Man," In his regal robes he might stop n
have as neighboure Kurdish, English Queen Mother its originators having been able to traffic; but in the clothes in which I the Syrian, Nepalese, Norwegian and Mustafa Jawad teaches him Arabic cross-sectio will mix with a
and Arab literature, and says:- "He Ambassadors and the be sure, to make use of the inter-saw him, he at once dropped Into erinn
cubjects almost Rassion
of loves these of
Nizam the Insignificant place among the vening hundred and fifty years of an
aide-de-camp, Agent-General myriads of schoolboys in England. Hyderabad."
much." The King's enlightenment-
Colonel Abdul Muttalib, takes him "Millionaires
In two other favourite subjects, Arab his majority, he returns to Iraq and Now people
*know they have a-king asked him which sports he liked staying there, and at the Round History and the geography of the his uncle, the Regent, Emir Abdul For nine momentous years. Feisal best. That was casy": football Fond nearby in Kensington Gardens, Middle East.
True Arab, the young King is avid II has been King of Iraq: Ono: zalls his three model did not mention where ho
ever realizes they for facts about-Iraq, his native land, world war has been fought during While the French Revolution gave ski-ing, at which he broke his leg yachts, nobody
and the sister Arab states of Egypt, his reign. The world continues to the citizens liberty without giving during his last Christmas vacation in are watching a king at play.
you were to tell one Syria, Lebanon. Transjordan, Ye change politically and economically, Indeed, if them equality. the Russian Ro- Switzerland.
and, meanwhile, the boy who is 1hc
model yacht men, und Saudi-Arabia, grown-up volution gave them equality without He told me he had regular boxing
60 He has wonderful insight, for one called giving them freedom.
bouts, at school. Some imes he owners who take their hobby
role dreams.o towards manhood But At 2.30, 5.20,
within that decade (1030-
at his peaceful English school. King of Iraq," he would never be the part played by Iraq oil He 1940) Russin not only developed come up against bigger and stronger seriously, "That little boy. Is the so young, into the world crisis, and angle dreams day to play so high.
her na-oys and better fighters.
lieve you.
asks constantly about the fighting Much will happen in the world her communism, but also
"Do you ever, lose?" I asked.
Northwest of the Persian Gulf the In Palestine and understands why the before he returns to his triangular tionalism, and with it her Im-
"Often," he smiled, with that
the magle of Arabs will never tolerate a zeparate kingdom of desert, mountains and! perialism.
the fertile valleys, far away in the In taking back from Finland and charming candour which endears name Felsat means
monarchy, but by the Round Fond Jewish state there. He studies Poland certain territories which once him to all who meet him.
We talked of theatres. A variety in Kensington Gardens he is just problems of Libya and Tripolitania, Middle East, in the Region of the
where Iraq and the other Arab Five Seas-Reuter belonged to Czarist Russlo, Stalin and the Sovieta proved that their show is what ho likes best one buy among many.
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