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ST. GEORGE WINSTON :"THE TROUBLE ABOUT THESE MODERN
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on the
Sitting
Fence..
CCORDING to reports leaking through cracks
in
the iron
curtain
ever
concealing the Russian paradise from unhappy wretches like us, medal- mania holds the Soviets in a tighter grip than it held Germany when massed millions of gloomy perverts were ruled by lunatics like Reichmarshal Goering, who (sc it Was said) wore medal ribbons on his night- shirt.
For instance, there is a new aristnerney.. which Includes Honourable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, who wears the
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NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"You know him then?" "Yes, I know him." "Oh, how I wish I were washerwoman instead of despicable novelist."
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"One day I will teach you how to be a washerwoman if you will trach me to write novels. Wouldn't that be wonderful?”
"Wouldn't it?"
Order of Lenin and the Medal Paws across the sea
for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriatle War on described as the uniform.
what 14 miner's dress
DEING a letter from Mau- Dhattan Mouser, New York underworld tom and American friend in the playeat, lo a United States.
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It is also reported that on the collective farms it is quite འ
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experience to meet 21 Znatnaya Deyarka, or a Dislin- guished Cow.Milking Woman to you.
"Oh. Natasha, what a pretty medal you are wearing. Is it for bravery?"
"Yes. It is for bravery at the wash tub. I am Distinguished Washerwoman Number One of all the washerwomen of Stalino- gorsk."
"How proud you must be, Now you are among Natasha. the honoured eltizens, you must very interesting meet seme people."
"Yes. It is a great privilege to be among those honoured by our most holy Stalin. Yester- day. I met the most distinguish- ed dustman in all Russia. The day before, I met Moscow's Most Intellectual Milkman, who can recite Karl Mare backwards."
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"How wonderful, Natasha What splendid new life opening for you, thanks to the wisdom and benevolence of our great Father Stalin."
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A MAN ABOUT
THE HOUSE
Starring:
Margarot JOHNSTON
"It L Indeed wonderful. Sometimes I think that to be on
Laundress in the Land is too good for a silly little thing like
me,"
Hiya Bud,
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So here I am, in London City. with Lottie, my honey cat. And, believe me, Bud, she is a honey all right.
Take a peek at them green eyes like headlamps, that little brown p-lted nose, that white
chest and paws, that fluffy tall. and those million-dollar inbby and white legs. And, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, what a chassis.
Like most English dolls, she is not too ritzy and smari, but is quiet, and is inclined to talk too much about her folks us it she wanted me to know she care was respectable. As if I if she is respectable.
She says to me that her boss is a noospaper columnist and to curl up with expects me awe and admiration.
are
says the mice have got out of band while I have been away, So 1 catch him a coupla mice while he is breaking an egg in a pan and he is so pleased at this quick, sure-fire performance that he cracks another egg and chicken makes
two-egg omelette for me and Lotlie, my honey eat.
Little sunshine in Au-past,
Desperate shepherds quench
their thust.
In September 100 much rain,
All the shepherds go insane.
A hot October always sees
Shepherds hanging from the
trees.
If November has no jops,
Maddened shepherds kick
their dogs.
In
WATH
December willows
weep, Blast the something something
sheep,
Party conversation
NINTH INSTALMENT
LOST ILLUSION
M
By
FREDA UTLEY
old house.
ARRIAGE and divorce Our dat wan on a top floor
added to prior to the tighten- Above us was a great loft with Jately ing laws in 1936 en- beams which barely kept out tailed merely a visit to Zaks the rain and show." In that for registration, or, in the freezing cold loft at night, there would bo dozens of starving case of murrlages, It was peasants or beggars...mostly enough to register with the children. These wretched Hitle House Committee of the walls came daily to plead. for apartments as husband and crusts.
Shivering with cold, they wife jointly occupying a
held out "old tin caus' for hot room or flat. This constitut- water. If one gave a piece of ed a common law marriage, sugar to these pour children an
and by it the wife secured ecstatic the same rights
amite would their
Pala
break
facks.
Periodically the police would
ns if the over marriage had been re- hound
gistered at the Znks,
*them out of their wretched shelter into the street. Arcadi and I were thus mar- Äfter a few days there would be ried in common law,We never others,
registered at the Zaks because HUMAN WRECKS
I had wished to retain my Bri-
tish passport to travel abroad freely: Russian
citizens had
NE afternoon in
November
1033. I saw police driving great difficulty in obtaining wrecks of humanity down visas. Later it became a que More and more people
into the cellar of our building.
tion of its value in permitting
wero
mo to escape from the Soviet brought in as evening fell
The Union.
police
were rounding up Until 1935 divorce In Russin all the beggars and the homeless required only a statement at in the city prior to the Novem→ Zaks by either husband or wife ber Revolution celebrations. The must not so the that the marringe was annulled. foreigners
starving, homeless hordes, so harder to obtain a they were Today it is divorce without the mutual con-
fee outside Moscow. sent of the oth
the other, and the fee
Late in
for a divorco has been made al-
nil mil to be dumped
the evening trucks beggars wero them-some Dick. others Jame. Many wero
ones
If the
the
most prohibitive for the mass arrived, and the of the population. Only the rich pushed into can afford several divorces.
Most of the domestic relations children. They were taken 40 or 50 miles outside Moscow and cases before
courts arise or the
caused by dumped on the road to die, like from the difficulties
abandoned
лицеяния Even the housing problem.
dog so cats. when both husband and wife stronger
managed to it is almost struggle back to Moscow, wish to separate,
lo do so celebrations would be over by Impossible for them
And now the
the time they got there. because neither can
I shivered with icy forebod- quarters.
ing, and although 1 knew that WOMEN'S LIFE
escape from the Soviet Union THE abolition of legal abor- was Impossible, I still went on tions since 1935 has, of deluding myself that some day, Russian somehow, Arcadi and I might course, inade fe for women very much harder and escape
from
the horrors of Stalin's housing shortage. "My husband says he's pay Intensifed the
ing so much income tax The upper classes, as elsewhere, In those first years in Moscow, While we are enting this
that he must have at pynst six are affected little by the change. I had believed that one day we melette, I am introduced to a
major operations, all his teeth They can
buy
contraceptives, should all
all get out into the free have a la-di-da stuffed shirt called Sir out, a set of dentures, and a wig or
high they
enough
ngain. world bum-cat before he can get a quarter of "cultural level" to ovold cx- were inextricably caught in the fuf-fulf an English
couch web. I Soviet of the old
myself could school, who thinks his money's worth on health in-cessive childbearing.
But the women of the work- escape, but since Arcadi could work is for the lower classes, surance."
ink
class and the peasants now not it was fulle to long for and spends his life
"Margaret's father thinks elther have, to resort secretly the free world Wo
had both the mice run by.
there should be a whisky clause
or once lived in and foolishly left- unqualified abortionists pact which maintain families of ive, slx, . Illusions and false political Like all bums, he doesn'l like, in the Atlantic to miss a free dinner, and tries makes Scotch available only to
seven or more children in one belle's had originally brought 15 together. Disillusionment, room. to horn in on our omelette. I member countries,"
For five months Arcadi and I troubic, and hardship, the need give him the old left-right-left
and bath- cach US had of the other. and a nip in the kidneys which
shared our kitchen
with Arcadi's divorced and an attraction which the knocks him cold.
wife and child. and with years had welded into a oneness three who of body and spirit, had firmly of
watching
Tonight we are invited to party on the swellest tiles London.
"You don't get any extra eggs
till the grocer's family can't eat
any more."
a
打工
"I suppose
After that we shall be alone,
honey
the me, my
Cai, and
moon.
M. M.
Pastorale
are
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some
sas
to
room
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concern
ta
Javatory,
Russia.
us.
Now I knew we
and between the skilled workers
Earlier the
now we find that another family hload sports are not confined to occupled the third room in the united
"Arcadl" would again and again one class only we shall have to Ant.
"My mest lasting memories of tell me to save myself, to leave
the him and go life put up with them."
Mescow in
back to England. "It's very clever of Cripps to three years Arcadi and I spent But he knew I never would. I on Ordinks. would have given up almost put the higher civil servants into in our two rooms
They He'll take near the Moscow River.
anything in the world, except a higher tax group.
home together Arcadi, to get out of Russia. all their money back, and get were our first them to.
for we did not BETTER AND WORSE work harder for and our Inst, nothing."
our secure
long-promised nat IN
before the last years of my life in trnul three months
Moscow, condillons were both "OJ course, it can't be true Arcadi's arrest. in April 1938.
Badly built, with doors and days when I first lived the life better and worst than in the CHEPHERDS," writes a chap what the psychiatrists say that "Searning a crust in a maga- there's
obscure sexual windows of unseasoned wood
af a Russian.
But there was All
not shut pro- these which would devoted agricultural. motive in hunting. zine
perly, un
and thinly an ever increasing differentia- more tempern healthy people, I mean...."
unpapered matters, "are
tion in the walls,
the living standards be- than prima
these two tween the rulers and the ruled, whitewashed donnas. mental
"Who wus it said that a
rooms were home. 'Red sky at night, shepherd's de-
By American or English light is literally true. While they psychiatrist has the same dirty
wenther, key to open all doors?"
standards, we lived in a squalld and the unskilled. delight in seasonable
There was less actual starva- they
depressed deeply
atenement house. But by Soviet "Margaret's father
tion, but the standards we were
privileged were when it is unsensonable."
whisky clause in the Atlantie Russian
Communist now more privileged, and clase When I tell her that practi-
distinctions more openly dis- We had the luxury Which means that English pact may be lough, but when the housed
aristocrats. cally half the population of the
100spaper shepherds, have a pretty tough safety of the world is at stake aristo
of gas for cooking instead of a played.
masses were not you can't put your punches." United States
smelly oil stove. And we had a columnists, and that in Holly- time.
with
aware of the great gulf high as 75 per-
"I don't see how the Govern bathroom
between them and their rulers. wood It is as cent, the other 25 percent being
ment con expect middle-class which we shared with only one
Luxury had not been openly
but alm stars who read about them-
displayed. support next time unless income other family.
hidden
and celves in the columns, she folds
tax is reduced. It's like asking BUG-CATCHING
unnvowed. Now it was obvious up on this line of conversation.
a man lo vole for his
WITH the Barskis in the t, we to the test intelligere Were execution." Wet and warm in JannerT}},
room of our apartment, we the fruits of their labour were Then she shoots another line about her swell connections and Shepherds are not very merry.
"My husband says some taxa- even managed to clear the fat not for the working class, and the big shots she's met in the If February's dry and snappy. tion in the higher income groups of the bugs which haunt most probably never would
My son was born on March theatrical world and wants to
All the shepherds feel un is only a drop in the Inland Re-apartment houses in Moscow.
could not avoid occasional- 10, 1934, and I We
began the know if I am interested
He says it's more happy.
venue ocean.
of bringing home bugs on our happiest perled ly
my life in mousie and culture and all that
spite than sound finance."
clothing after standing in the Moscow. With my son's birth kinda dope.
life, to be street cara. I protected I crowded
ted I began to accept "You can't legislate against people who like to see animals my baby by standing the legs, more restful and more calm.
in Un carn Alled I could even forget politics illed by hounds. It just means of his cot
with water.
for d
long perloda and become that they haven't grown up."
I considered myself an ex- absorbed in Jon's' needs and his They bite development "You might just as well try to pert bug-catcher.
"Birth Jon's
and tepistate against tile boys who you at night in bed, and the
was a long an
30, and art of catching them consists in painful business. I was
the light and he switching or
weighed nine pounds. I pull the wings off files.".
"The only way to slop it is by turning down the bed-clothes spent two nights and ù day in a murderous taxation.
You then ward with nine other women They're all In DI
second. stopping people writing books catch the bug in the act of re- who screamed most of the time. tbut
way. So why not blood treating at top speed into the had to bring my boy up on sports?"
darkness under the mattress. n book and with my mother'
Ideas about At first we had a gas, water help, for Russian "Margaret's father Bays one
Unfortunately, one babies were almost mediaeval. little hint in the Atlantic pact. heater.
month before my 'No signature, no Scatel,' would morning a
blew up. A (Copyright To Be Concluded ine half the world up against son was born, it'
Tomorrow) shower of bricits fell around me. the vodica group."
can stop us we
In
pre
If March should come in like a
lamb.
Hear the shepherds roaring
"Damb."
I say "Listen, honey. I am a good-time est with an eye for a swell chassis and nose for n good dinner. Right now we Swing April without 'showers
Dang the sheep and dang the "You are too modest, Natasha, will have a good dinner, and
flowers. Are you not a Distinguished nuts to culture." Washerwoman? One day you So I take her along to a ritzy may be the First Laundress Joint I know, and before the Shepherds do not shout hooray,
At snow and sleet and froste coming doorman
in Mau. yourself. Who Is this down the street? A floid- streaking along the pile. carpet,
through the lounge, where ex- Shepherds have been known to marshal7
"No. He is Honourable, millionaires are glooming
Into Distinguished Bollermaker Fira! on pink gins, and down Class with Oak Leaves and the kitchens, where the chef mentioned seven timer in the recognises 'me from wartime
despatches. days. factory manager's
Honourable The chef is very pleased to.
see me and tickles my cars and
moniing,
Good
Boiler-maker."
Felix AYLMER
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