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FREDA UTLEY'S LIFE STORY.....FOURTH INSTALMENT
LOST ILLUSION
This system had the laboratory, as did the "Friends T was a year when I
of permit of the Soviet Union" abroad. realised there was social ditional advantage
Government the Soviet ting discrimination in Rus- propagandists at that time to sin. The Soviet Social Re- tell the world that Communist gister is written on the Party members never received ration cards of the favoured salaries higher than the Party
maximum of 3,000 roubles. Communist bureaucracy
economy.
1027 In
down too hard we shall
Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP
The sack comes
to Miss Strong
THE woman is an General
'Borodin (ren)
American Left-wing name Michael. Markovitch old writer named Anna Gryzenberg), the Louise Strong, and she party comrade whom Le- nin had sent to China way lives in Moscow.
back in 1922 to lead
Or, rather, she did until the Communist revolution
a little while ago, when there.
she was suddenly arrested by the M. V. D. secret
police
Borodin
secretly
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and denounced cribed his fallure in China publicly as a "notorious to Stalin, who, he said, had American spy and Fas not paid sufficient respect. cist." She was bundled to Chinese desires for in-
and had dependence, cross the frontier.
insisted on their completo
At the same time Mos- ideological and political cow's English language subservience to Moscow. newspaper, the Moscow News, of which Anna
Now after the victory of Louise Strong had been the Chinese Communists-- one of the editors since many of whose leaders are its carliest days, was old boys of the Whampon
without Academy
closed down
notice.
organised by him-Borodin is once
urging more
that tho
Now all this is not only Chinese Communists for the should be
misfortune
Jageing Anna Louise, who rein.
"
riven a free
loses a comfortable rouble income from her many But Stalin has ruled the otherwise. He has de- fion responded to the shortage of Industrial goods by working books published by less, consuming more of their Soviet Union. It is also creed that the present. (and extremely own produce, and disposing of a surprise for those of us close there We knew why
secret) control over the. was the rest to the Kulak middlemen, who know her. and what
Chinese Communist Party to support famine, in Russin,
government, used it
For this tall, bulky, shall not be relaxed. the Kulaks with its attendant local handleraft industries. But.. had led up to the liquidation of who, instead of selling it to the cruelty and dislocation of the said the right opposition, if you untidily built woman, with
the сп
Borodin has fallen into the straggling grey hair the new Russian nobility. Actually, the salaries of high country's
have
And with wor
and fanatical eyes, has deep disgrace. I learned of the exclusive Communists were ten to twenty and 1928, when i had received ar
Arst inle impression of Kuinks,
always been zealous him-in accordance with shops catering to privileged times as much as those of the my
Russin, there had al- between town and village. specialists, who Soviet non-Party
Mongolian been an economic and high Party officials which were supposed to be getting ready
Stalin had little theoretical champion of the Soviet the age-old sold foodstuffs and clothing more, and those of the skilled political crisis.
knowledge, and in any case was Union and an unquestion- tradition of the Kremlin- his intimate collaborators, were supposed unobtainable elsewhere, or workers, who
The New Economie Policy, not in the least concerned withing worshipper of Stalin.
including Anna Louise. the rightness or wrongness of a only to be purchased on the to be paid about the cama o
enter- mited free
110 wanted absolute hael brought policy.
The Soviet propagan to which "free market" nt exorbitant, the Party functionaries.
prise,
In the immediate futuro before Stalin power, and he saw his way prices.
I soon ran into the snobbish- prosperity ness of the Communist Pars stopped it, had niso almost led get it by crushing Trotsky and dists seemed to be well
from Lon to the revival of capitalism in his left opposition with the aid aware of this. Whenever China's Communists will of Bucharin and the right win. they required a Western obey the Stalin directives. Other closed distributors members. Friends
don, who had known my hus- Russia,
and then to eliminate the right reporter to see things. They will throw in the full with less attractive wares band and me. would ask me
opposition by pursuing policy without him, bu were opened later for lesser to parties
nearly two-thirds far more left than Trotsky's. their way, and reassure a weight of their organisa- lights in the social cause he was not a member of
Party. the Communist
Or, if of the grain on the market was The final result was that the suspicious bourgeois world tional resources to help the hierarchy.
went, he was being sold by a mere six per- worst features of the policles of us for instance, in Soviet Communists now fighting Invited and he
sides were adopted by occupied North Korea the French in Indo-China, made to feel a social inferior cent of the peasants, the Kuinks. both
A new "petty bourgeoisie" of Stalin as the Party Line.
their choice would as often ourselves in Malaya, and shopkeepers, restaurant opera-
not include Anna the Dutch in Java. industrialists and small fora had cropped up. The stale could no longer lay its hands on grain to export even a small quantity to pay for importation
a
Led The Parado
allowing
By 1025,
Next came the OGPU shops. for high Then. Gort A, ocials all Party men - and for
very
specially fow
IN Soviet Russla you werè de- Invoured scientists and on-
classe if you married outside gineers. Next, Gort B, for the the Communist Party. A wo of machinery. "middle class"-that is. Party man was debarred from entry of lower rank and highly to the "best society" I sha qualified non-Party specialists. were not either herself a mem-
ber of the Parly or married to own
member.
men
Jn, addition there were well-
Röl stocked shops for the Army officers. There
Urn-
more and more were in Japan, it was the wives of Soviets came
Bolsheviks who
let the to represent the interests of the also the various closed distri- the
1928, was parade In the degeneration of peasants, Stalin in butors for the factories
the Party and showed so still going with the tide.. ducing capital goods.
obviously the characteristics of the nouveau riche society then coming into being.
Social Rank
Jane
hu
Not Concerned
Trotsky's Prophecy
industrialisation, which was accomplished by the destruction
CTALIN brought about super-
measures of corn, 'wine and oil, greatest joy while waiting for ture and stagnation of industry cities to force a rise in the price
18
Louise. Now the reliable. Anna Louise is a Fasciat and a spy.
The answer.
They will endeavour to de- prive the Western world of the raw materials and other supplies.
to essential to
European recon-
the
struction and recovery which they count on getting from the East.
rancan.
yet once more revolt
Exit M. Blanc
In February 1017 Hachettes, YOUNG Frenchman is the second figure on my news restarted' after the war. as a co- a number of Paris newspapers
of the elements in the Bolshevik mystery is political and The peasants created their Parly most capable of carrying highly relevant,
economy self-subsistent
Anna Louise's boss on out such a policy; by accumula-
Was of outside the control
News Moscow the tion of capital for industrial the
They will try to spread the Soviet state. The working
the robbing
Communist world revolution all cinss in the state industries construction, by
pensants, and by the liquidation
through Burma, India, the As I had already perceived suffered, and the elected--local- the technicians and adminis--she herself has no inhibi-over the Pheifle basin and the Mediter- the
function tions about hier outsize, I re- frative personnel able to make
Industries new
member an occasion during the Middle East to efficiently.
alege of Madrid in the Spanish
it is By 1928 the truth of Trotsky's Civil War, when the two of us-
But in the long run prophecies had become to ob- am no Strachey ration myse
will justify themselves.. vlous that he and his followers had to throw ourselves for possible that the fears of Boro- had to be ciminated if he were cover into a shallow and hope din
The lessly inadequate roadside durch Stalin's rule may prove unue-
said Anna who Tabriskyn.
had
Louise ceptable to the Chinese. They ANXIOUS to secure his own not to take Stalin's place. CRADATIONS of social rank been a member of the British A
power by enlisting the sube decreasing food supplies in the "I trust," since she
port of the right wing of the towns were convincing the pro-acidly, as the machine guns may in Russia went according to Communist Party
But I am not very hopeful. letariat that Trotsky was right spattered, "that there is one against the Russians, was sixteen and secretory of Party against Trisky, he con-
return of of me sticking out." our food ration, much as in the the London University Labour
In 1925 glving ench in predicting the
The templated
workers of I was Empire the Party when
chairman, forty years' tenure of capitalism. ancient Byzantine
In officials arrived
November, Hor
land. As against of imperial
the Leningrad were behind Trotsky solaries
The Kulaks almost to a man. in Moscow was my "denationalisation" of agricul and generals were reckoned in arrival
were holding up food for the Arcadi in the autumn of 1938.
of grain. Trotsky and the left She was an old and real friend, which led the USS to becomi
ing a semi-capitalist country. Only top-flight Communists to whom I could speak freely Trotsky proposed collectivisa opposition leaders were arrested were favoured by ample sup- and in Moscow this was a blessin, not at the point of the by the OGPUS-which Stalin map's history stage this week, operative enterprise, found that
which Stalin bayonet
was controlled-and imprisoned plies of food and clothing, ing above all others.
later to enforce, but gradual exlied.. collectivisation by govern- And of credits ment grant
to those
poorer ⚫ machinery
would peasants who
volun- rapidly. JANE and I learned
tarily join a collective farm. Any deviation from the Collectivisution of agriculture. This
could, however, be ac- STALIN was able to do this be
Until a half month ago he was Five Involved expulsion and the
Year Plan In Party line
ranse bhad the wipnort of if the richer and the loss Four Years, were no longer complished only
were heavily peasants
taxed Buclarin. Tomsky, Kalinin, and the publisher of France Soir, the theory. of abstract of these precious food supplies matters
finance the collective the rest of the right wing of the hingest and most widely circu-
Party, These
had no lated evening newspaper become had It also meant the withdrawal They
painful to
star- meant privileges realities. They
Ponception of Stalin's real inten- Paris. uf many awarded in kind and not in vation for the majority,
farms and to enable the state to tons until too late. They were Now ordinarily the dismissal money-use of a motor car, the
import machinery for manufac- sincere, and none
for personal of a publisher would not make pick of housing accommoda-
history. But it does in this case. Indus- ture of farm implements, for peare anxious ilons, special hospitals, and an
forma erection of power stations and power. power exclusive medical service retrialisation
None dreamed that Stalin was For Blanc's dismissal is part of that silent counter-revolution served for the new aristocracy tion of a privileged aristocracy, for Industrialisation.
planning a civil war, for more us cut off from the masses of the
I have no idea what the out- alone.
people by the conditions of
taxation of the bloody than anything Trotsky now in progress in France,
It represents the Arst step come of Aristide Blanc's caco of its will be. But it is important to their lives as the nobles of the Kulaks would not only stunt tho had desired and to be carried out
For it will matter The closed distributors also ancient regime in France.
Influence of A new power in you and me. growth of this new capitalist in such a fashion as to destroy towards the assertion enabled
the government
and class, a terrible
but would enable the all hope of socialism in Russia.
the French newspaper world- a lot in the next few years who 'It WILE discriminate in favour of the
involving un- government to produce more
the big co-operative newspaper controls the newspapera and aristocracy with the scarcest moving reality;
lower goods. for millons, manufactured
distribution enterprise known as their policies on the other alde goods, such fruits, fresh told suffering
of the Channel. Hachettes. chocolate, whom we could not regard as prices, and break the strike of vegetables, coCOS, butler and eggs.
human guinea pigs in a social the peasants. The form popula
This device of Stalin's was designed to keep Parly men loyal to him personally,
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Hachettes offered to under- resistance newspaper during the German occupation, and, like write some of the newspapers' Anna Louise in Moscow, hos bills of exchange on condition that they were allowed to pur- just lost a job.
chase shares in the newspapers. concerned. So Hachettes gained control of France Soir.
In
At a meeting of France Soir
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