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LOST
IIAD my first intimate experience with the free medical service and hos- pitals. which foreign visitors to the Soviet Union describe in such glowing terms, during my second winter in Moscow.
I was pregnant, and foolish enough, on New Year's Eve, lo carry home 22 pounds of polatoes. The tram, as LENU). was chock full wurd I was rather badly pushed about.
ILLUSION
BY
FREDA UTLEY
heen operated upon; hence the second ordent.
Bervous
When i returned to Moscow in September 1931, after three months in England, I found my busland thin,
and worn out. Conditions for the non-Party men were such that most of his time
energy were wasted. Whatever he did to improve effetency would be done by someone else. More-
Arcadi was in constant over. danger of being arrested as the apegoat for the mistakes of his Communist Party supervisors,
I reached home exhausted, and by midnight I was . Next morning I had a miscarriage,
The doctor to whose services
Arendi finally broke tłown my
Koman- (rathe
union membership when he went ut # entitled me arrived about six derofkn to Odessa in April 1932. hours later and was obviously He came back white, miserable, not a doctor at all, but a bedrag- shaken. In the south he had #led. dirty. hugard
young seen the starving and the dead woman whom I would not have
in the streets. At each railway allowed to touch me. Her only station there had been hundreds
hundreds use to me was to sign the neces- and
starving Qfilee sary certificate for my that was ill.
By evening the pain lessened, and the real doctor said if the pain returned I must go to the nearest "abortion huuse."
kaf. I was
in
This is the seventh in- stalment of the life story of an English-woman who became an ardent Communist and went to live in Russia. Now reconverted, she sounds a convincing warning against the Red menace.
***Totin dul Kieb, Tolla dal Klei” (Auntle, give bread), will my curs as the dlways ring in national song of "Socialist Rus--
sia."
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exercises and worship the grent! Stalin. You
may even get the chance later to study to be an engineer or a pilot, or be train- ed for some other profession, if your social origins are all right" and if you have carefully con- formed throughout your school life.
If you are the son or daughter of a prominent Party member, the way will be made smooth
for you and you will enjoy the same privileges as the chlidren of the rich Τη
capital- nny ist country. You go to a select school with airy classrooms and best teachers. At home you
William Hickey
FEWER WIRES, MORE POOLS LETTERS—AND. MORE TALKING
LONDON.
For the Arst time since 1031 they are being paid a dividend.
IF YOU want to save her chamar Force 138,100
announces a profit of
£30,700
on the year's business-thanks
money for the Govern ment-don't send a wire. to "Oklahoma!"
Telegrams are the biggest money-losers in the Post IN Office.
# Bond Street window two pictures were put on For overy shilling tele- show-one of a lovely girl star- gram handed over the coun- with only a transparent wisp to ing through an open window, ter last year the G.P.O. paid keep off the winter winds; the 4d. extra, a total loss of other, a still life of the left-overs more than £2 million.
from two well-eaten place.
The girl is still for sale. The sh bor.ca went on the Arst day,
It is all part of a sudden rush by plelure-fanciers buy
xebre subjects.
But BIR FRANK NEWTON TRIBE, who for £3,500 year toles up the Past Once's an- nual accounts, doesn't seem to worry over the red ink he uses for lils telegram stylistics. He To satisfy the trend, gallerles points out that telegrams have are digging out paintings
by always been the Cluderella of two specialists in grim subjects: the G.P.O.and they just never PAUL DELVAUX and JAMES
ENSOR, both Belgians. seern to meet up with Prince Profit.
Nearest
Delvaux likes to paint such subjects os girls being embraced they came to it was by skeletons, often with n 1945, when other Government nasty little man in a bowler hat departments sent so many war leering in the background.
telegrams that the year's debit
was down to £40,000,
ndvertising bas given
What is to be done? Smart
the
are
Ensor kes skeletons, too: groups of them, in top hats, warning themselves around
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moment is a jolly little
hideously
Americans the telegram habit-- His best-selling reproduction and they use i for sending at the everything from flowers to number showing musical birthday greetings wrlikled old woman lying in warbled by the delivery boy. bed. surrounded by medicine bottles. Title: MY MOTHER wartime DEAD.
But over here the warning: "Don't send a tele- gram when a letter will do." are employed sending too few
has stuck. Too many People NEWEST
messages.
ANYWAY,
the rest of
✡1
exercise in
making your eyes do one thing, your ears another-and your brain cope with both.
Regular performer is televi→ sion chief NORMAN COLLINS. the Post Office's business is
who often inds one of his video toney-spinner. Last year, tak shows clashes with something ing off the
telegram losses, the he wants in hear on the Light profit was £10 million. Atore programme, He takes in both than half of that came from by turning down the sound on taking In other Government de his television set and keeping partments washing posting his eye on the screen while
family 1stching ration books, handling
to say Much- petrol
rationing. Anuling-in-the-Marsh ол Soliowances,
normal radio. The rest came from postage football pools and tele- phones. Fans and pools mailed 842 million letters 1948, out of a total of 7,500 mil
As in China, so in Russin you had to harden yourself to the
bi order fo sight of suffering Ilve, But at least in China the government does not hold it crime
to give air to the slare- irist In Russia the officials told
Kulaks have a room of your own lo you the starving were
counter-revolutionaries not, study in and plenty of books to be helped, although in reality st they were bewildered, ignorant, instead of trying. like children of the workers, to do your powerless wretches sacrifleed fo
and homework in a small room mmbitions the insensate
which your father and mother. fannticismn of a man and
Brothers and sisters live parly.
sleep..
+
71
Party Aristocracy IN the rest home in the Crimea,
You will sleep in a good bed, not on the noor. You eat the best food and long holidays in food the country instead of feeding
there was abundant so abundant that bread and fruit, ices and cakes were thrown away when left on the plates of the guests. This rest home belonged to the Soviets of the Crimean Republic, and were there by the grace of Ber- kinghof, whom we had known in London:
We
It was so very "upper class Communist it gave us an in- sight. Into Party aristocracy.
on black bread, enbbage soup and cucumbers, and spending the hot summer in the city.
no
Equality of opportunity in the Soviet Union is a myth. There
for are different schools
the massea and for the Communist aristocracy. There can be equality in educational opportu nily where some children are undernourished and housed little
live in comparative luxury.
were
Arms IF
Іл
big
J
you've got a girl with you and you're out to celebrate her birthday and you think it And people not only gambled might be nice for the band to play "Happy Birthday" well, more they talked more. Local sir, pick the right place before- telephone calls
up by hand. seven percent., and trunk calls
At a West End dinner-dance Are now double the prewar
spot the other day the figure.
old- fashioned request was met with: Yes, sir-but that'll be drinks all round for the band. Which would have put more than £2 on the host's bill.
And
All this business helps to give the G.P.O. assets valued today al £437,884,000.
But it won't get us more up- thore to-date telephones than scratchy instruments so many thousands
using at moment. Cost of replacing
are
the
apparently there mugs who pay up!
present equipment alone is put AH! AH!
at £500 million.
This new Soviet aristocracy and better than pigs, while others NO MATTER what
conditions want and
Next day at noon I was agony, and moved to the hospi- down strapped operating table and upon an
by a operated
"surgeon" who did not even wash her hands.
I was given no chloroform and the pain was excruciating. Then I was taken upstairs to
its hangers-on were even more -R-small-room-about-12-by-12.
wretchies emacinted women
grasping cruel and ruthless- I was feet, with five beds in it. given an ice pack,
with dying bobles at their milk- than the old Taarist aristocracy and then
less breasts, children with the which had fived in No one me. they left
came
swollen stomachs of famine all of less general near me, no one
washed IBU,
misery. begging, begging for bread, There was no nurse ar
In station walling rooms other kind. The
Arcadl, now dant of any
ના
revolte by the land seen numberless pusant the pallents begged me for
families herded together await cruelty of the Communist Party piece of
Scap I had, brought
and its perversion of the Revo- ing
transportation to concen- with me. i was the only one
whether there of the five patients who had ration camps. He saw children lution, doubter
Although soap, and none was provided by dying of starvation and typhus, was my practical alternative to
Stalle's "socialism." scarecrows of men and womeni
that the hospital.
ivas convinced
the the he pushed and kicked by
mistakes had been OGPU guards. It sickened even Kravest
doubtful how those of us who were hardened made, he was
could they
10 W ever be remedied. to the sight of suffering in the Far East,
No Attention THE following morning, after a breakfast of thin ruel, 1
in Odess:L From relatives was ordered to get up and go downstairs.protested that I was Arcadi learned of the Ukrainian bleeding and should not
famine. The picture scared him
walk.
No ano paid any attention to the aul and shattered, the Downstairs, I was again put on optimistic
view he Insisted
Most Horriblo
Be
(Copyright. To (Continued Tomorrow)
aro
Misrepresenta tion can mean different things to different people.
The Socialists have Just
the weather is like, it will be: brought out a new local news- "Oh.What a Beautiful-Morn--puper-in-West-London--called- ing" for shareholders in Lon- THE FULHAM VOICE. don's largest playhouse-the It will attack, they
"les, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
'It's Al at Lloyd's'
Is Challenged
By MONTAGUE LACEY
A1 AT LLOYD'S-the Lon- the
O.K. of their own.
say, the misrepresentations, and false claims of the Tories."
On the same pake s this "dedication
"THE VOICE prints picture of row of houses. And underneath is printed: "The sort of slum houses Labour had' to clear away in Fulhara,"
THE VOICE should spo
speak 12 little more explicitly: the pic- ture is an old one of Welford- terrace S.W.6, which far from having been cleared away" advertised as good for has recently changed
G0 years.
now WHAT
against compele
war, extended its shipping don-made
of activities under a body known guarantee every good ship-is under re as the Bureau of Shipping.
States. The
is The bureau, which ships all the cruel acts of Stalin, from the United the most horrible was the men who run Amerien's
away Britain's bidding energetically provision for the liquidation of want to chisel the table, held down by four upon preserving, but bare out
the older homeless children. In world monopoly of this famous Lloyd's, will have to
with the combine. altendants, and operated on all we had heard. It, in fact, 1935, when by decree the death phrase, and replace it with an
penalty for again.
"I had been suffering for. 48
Bodies of the starving Toy in applicable to children from the hours; the pain was agonising the streets, and pitiful wrecks age of 12, the police were given the place was filthy. When of humanity with great watery the power to rid Soviet society asked for something to wipe bilsters and boils on their feel, of the unwanted children of the
blood, the "nurse" legs, and arms, drugged them unfortunate. away the picked a dirty piece of cotton selves from place to place till off the flour and handled mc.
of
I determined to get out this terrible "hospital" before caught some awful disease. I sent a note to Arendi. At first they wouldn't allow me to go,
but after he told them 1
was worse.
work and food.
theft
was
made
the
Lloyd's are going to fight fo safeguard Al-a phrase built up so during 150 years, and now well accepted that it is used to mean absolutely safe" people who have never heard of Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
by
Lloyd's Register started in a coffee house in the City in the 18th century. A small group of shipowners Juni underwriters met and drew up a set of rules for the construction of ships. Owners who subscribe to the rules have their ships "closed" and secure advantages In- surance premiums.
returns announced:
in
t to they died in the valu quest for If your mother and father are docile, careful never to breathe
The "A" means a ship's huli In the summer we went on
word of criticism of
is strong and seaworthy, and the holiday to the Crimea, taking Kovernment, work hard, and are
"1" shows that the rigging und LOYD'S Intest shipbuilding with us my mother, who had lucky, you may get a different
xen are in equally perfect con- may sort of education. You just come from
At the England. We
*** | dillon.
beginning of 1940, ship tonnog how wonderful Com- learn lett Moscow well provided with
of
construction
Great American world food for the long journey. By Wat
munism is, how many tons
competition under Soviets can iron and steel the
Northern Ireland an English journalist, they got the end of the first day,
for the currency-earning survey Britain and much more frightened.
produce, and how mother had given i all away
work on the world's shipping exceeded by 88.644 tons the total A nice, clean young woman to the starving wretches.
terrible is the life of the work- has driven Lloyd's to Join tonnage being built by the rest
with its British rival of the world. That tourney was an ordeal Ing class in the capitalist United forces see me. She finally explained I shall never forget. It was a
American. than Stutes of
in the Corporation Register
Shipping. to me that the first "doctor" sea of misery, which the few Russia. had forgotten to write down on bits of food we
You will be had could do
laught to sing America, owing to the my case sheet that I had already nothing to assuage.
patriotic songs and do military herchant fleet it bullt
NEXT CHANGE: "NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH" doctor speaking French came to
DON'T
MISS ITI
Cathay
TO-DAY
ONLY
my
οι
vast during
The UK, was building 2,114,- 730 tons. France came second with 414,289 tons; and Amerlen third with 400,048 tons.
hands, another
is a LITTLEBUT- TERWEEK? It's the
thing which 13-year-old FAT RICHI dislikes more than anything in the world. She told WILFRED PICKLES so when his "Have a Go" show went to a Castleford secondary school.
Translated Littlebutterweek means the week when you get only 2 ozs. of butter and 4 ozs. of marge instead of 4 023. of Cách
to
THE
time
seems ripe (a) refssue CHAPLIN film "Monsieur Ver- the CHARLIE
doux"; (b) put on the now ROBERT NEWTON яlim, "Ob- session," Newton plays a Harley Street doctor who kidnaps his wife's lover, keeps him prisoner in n West End dungeon: and prepares to kill him, using a special acid "which complete- ly dissolves the body."
.4 Shows To-day at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 &,9.30 p.m. THE PICTURE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! "The STORY of SIBERIAN LAND" In Corgeous Color. * A Moscow Studio Production
• All in Mandarin Dialogue
To-morrow: Michael Redgrave * Marvyn Johns in "THE CAPTIVE HEART".
NANCY
Footnote
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