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FINAL INSTALMENT
LOST ILLUSION
S
By
FREDA UTLEY
TALIN' is the Supreme I left Moscow ten days after
Father, or a kind of Arendl's arrest.
After we had crossed the' proletarian Russian
Russian frontier Into Poland, Mikado who in some the sick feeling I had had for mysterious way unites in days began to pass, My heart himself the soul of all his sang: "Jon is safe: Jon is safe." them by after him
I could people and leads
breathe again. "Looking on the three-day divine inspiration, in a spirit journey without a sleeper, took of truc democracy. In all my energy and thoughts. Jon, sacrificing both material now two years old, was excited well-being and liberty to and restless. In the first days after Arcadl's arrest he had Stalin. the people are hunted for his father all over the sacrificing to themselves, flat, in cupboards, and even since he is their god in their under the beds.
In Berlin, Jon had the frst own image.
bannan he had ever insted. We This deiftention is Stalin's arrived in London safely. own conception of himself, as he Vern, Arendi's sister, tele- testified at his sixileth birth- greplied What they were taking day:
away our flat, 'and I must re- turn at once. Leaving Jon
small nursery school in Sussex, I hurried back to Moscow.
RETURN HOME THERE began for me the sud- dest, gloomleat, most trying: and anxious period of my life. to the Day after day I went Public Prosecutor's office and stood in line.
"Your congratulations and greetings I credit to the account of the great party of the working class, which gave me birth and ruised me in its own image."
The semi-mystical,
semi- religious outpourings in the Soviet press in praise of Stalin nasign him such a universality. He is represented as the fountain of all goodness, all strength and
After Ave weeks I finally all achievements of the whole
managed to get to an Assistant: Russian people.
Stalin is the infallible," the Prosecutor, called Levine, Our "Incomparable." "our sun" and conversation was brief. German experts wanted to walt our soul." He is the Red Tsar. I wrote appeals to the Prose- until a new German Govern-
"Little Father" of his cutor, Assistant Commissar of the Commissariat of the Interior, is formed which could ment take responsibility for the law. people.
The reality of Stalin's Russin (NKVD), and finally to Stalln Others demurred that the arti
himself.
never received even an cles establishing a permanent is in fact so horrible that most
Premature people, even in this age of to neinowledgment of any of them. civil service were
ditioning to horror. refuse to because it would mean that the
bc. Meanwhile I was going to the
LETTING ENGLAND DOWN!
FRIEND of mine who runs the foreign side of one of the biggest and most important industrial con- cerns in Britain recently decided to send one of his men to the Leipzig Fair.
He hoped that this would help him to And out what the industries of Soviet- controlled Eastern Ger-
many are doing today, and
what they are likely to be
The man who wanted
to go to Leipzig meets
our Stop...Go...Stop
policy in Germany
and
present rather scratch team of I believe that such things can u NKVD twice weekly to fill in a
The truth is dismissed us officials would be irremovable atrocity atory; and so anxious form asking to be permitted to
deelded
SEFTON DELMER'S NEWSMAP
doing in the future-parti-
Not even transit Mr-Bevin taking, despite all his cularly in competition with cut off.
with *the Leipzig travellers. ourselves on the world mar- traffic is allowed. It would toughness
never do for British travel- lers to be seen breaking the blockade.
ket.
For Leipzig is in the Soviet zone of Germany, the Fair is under the auspices of
You can find muddles and Inconsisteneles Ile this Leipzig hypocrisy in our German policy at almost every point where you
The British and U.S. generals are men to believe in the exis- visit my husband. Nothing ever
the Germans were fence of the socialist heaven that came of this either.
I heard of one arrest after shilly-shallying, overruled their they accept the crudest Com
another among our friends. The objections, and put out their munist
as gospel an propaganda statute with all the arbitrari-truth. Those who have accepted scythe was sweeping higher. ness and impulsiveness Russian Communism as a re- Important people were being of a Hitler. Yet the liglous faith, and whose renson- taken. Everyone looked afraid. atro- Panle spread. It was clearly generals shillyshallying powers have become themselves.
phied, will no doubt continue to hopeless to try to get anyone to The law drafted by worship their bloody idol and to help. All were consumed by
for themselves. fear human sacrifices the Germans ordering a levy on glorify the
I decided to fly. to England' the value of capital goods and made to it.
and return after my book was property installations to match last year's currency reform and ARCADI. ARRESTED published. This time, however,
on liquid capital has its levy
N the night of Apell 10, I could not secure a return visa. now been in the hands of the
The Russians gave me an exit Arcadi awakened me, saying:
visa, but told me to get my re- Allied generals for several "We have visitora!” months. They cannot agrev saw a soldier in the hall turn visa in London because my whether Allied national and
expire uniform in our sitting room.
I left everything I possessed law or not. We and the French
The secret police, officers
behind In Moscow-books, Bay they should be exempt, warned us we must not speak
and the Americans say they should to each other, and started on a clothes, linen, furniture be treated like everyone else. methodical search of the whole Vern, telling her to continue to The money I left with
law to do anything but damage. Soon it will be too late for the fint.
pay the 200 roubles a month we allowed fo Arcadi's former wife and son.
I would agree if there like to lift off the cover and ferns should be subject to the and two secret police officers in British passport was about to
the Soviet economic authori- were really a blockade.
ties, and its exhibits may
well prove revealing.
But whom do we think
But my friend has not we are fooling? - been able to send his man to Leipzig.
"Ah, yes!" you say. "That Iron Curtain again."
While Mr Bevin and the economic experts of the Control Commission rub their hands in anticipation But you are wrong. The of the sore straits to which Iron Curtain has been pulled they are reducing the Soviet up for a few days-as far as zone, Mr Wilson and his Leipzig and the Russians experts at the Board of are concerned. Traders from Trade take quite a different all-over--the-world-are-in-line..
No, it is not the Russians, but the British Military Permit authorities of the Allied Control Commission who have foiled my friend. And not just by their slow- ness, Inefficiency, general obstructiveness. LAST year, despite the bloc
BUT WE TRADE
look..
SCEPTICAL
money.
We sat
rilent and tense. Hours passed and the starch always went on.
At eight o'clock, they told Arcadl they were taking him to be examined, but the
away
Nine years before, I had stood
Germany often seems to me like a kind of Microcosm reflec- ting in its small concentrated the confusions and con- sphere tradictions which afflet Wes- tern policy the world over, and which must confirm Stalin again
in the Red Square for the first time, my heart full of cn- and aroin in his view that these
thusiasm and faith. Now I was DOUBT whether this kind search was not yet completed, contradictions are bound to help the overthrow of the capitalist
of thing will make tho At nine o'clock they took him dying away to the West, leaving the dearest person in my life world.
that democracy way. We kissed for the last inside the prison house the is so very different from, some time. Reserved and calm to the Soviet Union had become. of the previous regimes they last, he gave me a gentle smile I never got back to Soviet have been through.
end was gone. I never saw him Russia. For two years I irled Particularly__not_ when they amalatain Promexport y pending to Radio Hamburg.
WE'RE SCARED
CUILA,
over
Germans feel
the
again and again in London to get
off.
as the leading export visa, but each time was put
NO WORD.
vited to the Fair, and no
MANY of these inconsisten begin discussing what is hap-Kalmanofsky, the
cies are avoidable. They political questions. asked. "You want a licence to spring, I believe not as Stalin All are welcome, particular import goods from the would maintain, from essential We have handed control of chairman, had continued to soll
of interest, but as this radio back to the Germans. goods abroad which should have IN August 1930 Arcadi was sen- iy if they are really rich, Soviet zone?" they say to conflicts
tenced to five years' im- often as not from a lack of Like the B.B.C., it is supposed been retained for Russlan in-
prisonment Уста dustry.
telephoned. reactionary, bourgeois capi- business men inquiring. nesse on the part of our pre- to be strictly non-partisan.
Kalmanofsky blamed the mo in London from Moscow. talists, and have plenty of "why not? If it is some sent Administration in handling
From Archangel he sent me a pounds and dollars to spend. thing in short supply which their contacts with the Ameri- Nevertheless, with the full-manager of the department In
est support and approval of question. though he had only postcard assuring me of his love Britain needs and you can
carried out. Kalmanotsky's or- and telling me to be cheerful, British authorities, Herr buy it for sterling, you shall During the war I watched Adolf Grimme, a former Soci-ders.
Early in 1037 I received a second
from certainly have a licence." with admiration how beautiful-
Ust Usyn in As finance manager, Arcadi posteard alist Minister of Education In ly British experts put
Germany, has been appointed signed all contracts, though he Siberia. In May 1937 I received with the Americans their more head of Radio Hamburg, He was in no way responsible for a third and last postcard.
goods exported. I have never had another experienced approach in poll has since eppointed a
nember the kind of tical and diplomatic affairs. of other Socialista to key From what I learned later, this word from him to this day.
was the actual reason for his Whether he was shot or died arrest.
from hardship, treatment,. Positions in the organisation.
That first morning I went to the cold, or lack of food, I shall
13 Offcially, Herr Grimme has secret police office in Petrovka, never know. It scarcely
the It wa
Wag the free day and the office possible that he still lives, resigned his position on
It dismayed friends of the managing committee
was closed. Next day I went German Social Democrat Party again, only to be told that no Soviet Union in England and the Today we seem scared of I see, however, that together Information could be given me United States to learn that the the Americanna,
with his former colleagues on yet. I went each day, and
Russian Government We prefer to
could be that committee. Grimme is due always given the same answer.
even more cruel than the Nazi appense. to prevaricate, and
a Socialist confer. rather than convince to attend suppress
I went to the Commissariat of Govemment. For the Nazis did
at
allow communication leas1 Foreign Trade: No one coulet or would help me. Others avoided between prisoners and their and Informed the when a concentration camp victim died or was shot.
and
kade,
£5 wo imported
of polach and They have done it as n million worth
They Umber from Soviet Germany. matter of policy.
This year, we are continuing to have orders to foll.
Import potash and timber. and have given a fresh order for handknitting yarn as well..
The Foreign Office hus issued 'instructions that no facilities are to be granted
And the Americans. Impetuous were wonderfully generous in their appreciation. They were quick and eager to learn and adopt.
and sometime somewhat callow.
Soviet zone, in relum, them. The
We are frightened that some- The Board of Trade is right, one may get up in Congress
of the
ence in Holland in April.
was
An appointment of this kind me. Friends were afraid to relatives,
For the Eutch, the French, the and denounce us for betraying is something which I am sure nook to me.
we would not stand for in WEEK OF ANXIETY
to British business men gets wool from us. wishing to visit the Soviet zone, no letters of credit, no currency allowance. In fact, they are to be stopped from going..
'BLOCKADE”
While
cinsm
which
Jatter
not
Danes, the Belgions, they are all the Marshall plan by "trading
Mr Bevin should be the enemy." And that Britain.
I trading with the blockaded zone. with
already had my visa to ga, to (And, Just between you and me, although the Americans them careful not to let his enthu-THEN 1 made my decision.
for his Socialist com- England and return, having ap- .have been so la Western Germany. Except selves
buying des abroad lend him into plicil for it before Arcadi's that they have to send their Thuringian patach for Japan.
sanctioning standards of pubile arrest. contraband to one of the
Germany I was In Hamburg conduct In "neutrais” first in order to have the British and American mill- would be disapproved at home, it sent from there.)
tory governors put out au THE idea behind this is
It would require a biggish ordinance defining fundamental that there is a blockade international agreement before rights and duties of the Ger-
Traffic and trade be that blockade could be made man civil service.
The German authorities had tween British, French, and effective: And it would have to U.S.-controlled Western Ger- be applied not just to Eastern been working on a draft law
Germany, but fo the whole of some of which is embodied Jn many and Russian-controlled, fron Curtain Europe tough the ordinance but had as yet not agreed on it. Many of the Eastern Germany have been decision which I don't quite seg
It took me years to become free again in mind and
spirit, Perhaps my volco has affected pubile opinión any more than those other few voices which tell the truth about Soviet All through that long week of tyranny. But I wish I had im- anxiety, I feared for our son, mediately joined the goodly He was not a British subject company which tried to save the As it is, I feel any chances because he had been born in world from the consquences of a false belief in Communism and we ever had of educating the Moscow. Germans to u mare mature I knew the secret pailee took Russian Intentions. That bellef - conception of democracy have hostages, and frightened men played a large part in bringing been lost by our display of Inio' false Confessions by about the European war, in indecision, co-threatening reprisals on their' which millions were killed and inconsistency.
I must get Jen out of mutilated. wardice, and lack of principle. children,
It is letting Britain down. the country while I could.
THE END
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