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"THE SINS OF
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1949.
WHAT NEXT IN STALIN'S EUROPE?
you couldn't
Sorry stay longer!
EOPLE
who lands
visit and
foreign leave them hurriedly. usually do so for one of two reasona: (a) their money has run
their out; (b) patience has done likewise.
to
by
BRUCE BLUNT
Would they take a nint of beer at the Street Head London Inn, where the two dales According hoteliers the average time meet? of an American's stay is five days. This, you will notice, avoids running intu two English Sundays.
There
was an American who said: I can take Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London. and all
in
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IN THE BALKANS, traditional trouble-spot of Europe, the Stalin-Tito quarrel reaches a crescendo of abuse and threats. PETER BURCHETT, has spent much of the past seven months there— in Belgrado, Sofia, Prague, Budapest. This is what he has to say
Even ready to sign autographs!..ONE PHOTO TELLS A LOT ABOUT THOSE RED ARMY MANOEUVRES NEAR TITO'S BORDER.
F
TOOK this pleturo you
on
My own view
Onelally he is regarded as dead. Its wife is even allow. ed to draw a widow's pension of £0 10s. a month. The Communiuta do this sort of thing to try to keep the middle-class reasonably happy.
After the land reform" he was allowed to retala 100 out of several thousand his family property. Government has just cut him back to 20 acres.
acres of but the
I spent an evening with him not so long ago in company with, a dozen counte, counterses barons. colonela, and dispos sessed landholders.
The
counts
and
coloncis groaned in sympathy with Mr Szallay and recounted similar stories of their own for an hour or two over apricot brandy. They were all agreed ns to what lind, to be done to the "bandila" in the Govern- ment
the when
Amerienn
la that this see here myself-ncar latter consideration-the "warm
Ing-off" the centre of Budapest.
to the anti-Stalin elements-s motive No 1 be- It is a newsworthy picture hind the autograph-signing because hitherto officers in Soviet troops the Red Army have shown Trials of plotters, sples,
saboteurs, imperialist little readiness to go
agents, etc., have been so frequent public parade-lot alone sign that not much attention is now armics arrived. their name in an autograph paid to them in the West. There aro thorndy and book.
Local
leadera and lens Communist
of thousands liko Mr But the Soviet
Buscians the troops who
and his however, view Szalny
Crends In have recently arrived in Hun- Moscow knows that these men vard cafes in Budapest from them very differently, because hungary. They fill the boule-
are trained revolutionaries who mid-morning til late at night. will act; not smiling
merely idealistis
They live from broadenst to day-dreamers who sigh and talk
brondienst of uno Volea and do nothing.
America. Rumours of military manoeuvres, of fleet movements, of borile incidents aro the breath of life to them.
gary are now encouraged 10 display themselves.
Smartly dressed. groups of officers have appear ed recently in Budapest at times designed to attract the maximum attention.
They have also had a maxi- mum audience. For 2,000 cicle- gates to a World Youth Festival recently ended two weeks' fea tivities in Budapest.
200 from
Imagine it
JUST imaging the situation
transferred to England. Imagine a stato of affairs where the man who until re-
All or nothing
of
The delegates from Wes- cently was Foreign Minister is
~ERTAINLY these people are tern Europe (with
put on trial accused of ploiting
the most vocal opposition America) could see more Bus- against his country.
in all of Stalin's Europe. They slans in one day in Budapest This is precisely what ts are not, however, the opposi- than I have seen altogether in happening
Hungary with tion which Slain fears more four months' residence there. the opening at the Laszio than all the middle class
pariles put together.
The yeast of Titoism has Ведий
Com- to work tu all
ม
have tronny
o Rajk riai.
in
dissident Cont-
munist parties today, and it is especially dangerous in those
Now then are, nf quite Jezitimate reant for There is wheelwright in Saviet tronos moving Into
In the Rajk "plot" it is now Truly known that high-ranking of Dorset who handles wood in the:
Hungary Russia Is
cers of the Hungarian Army, old fashion, which can never be entitled rivalled by steel-stamping and these parts to protect her lines supported by n:ass-production,
of communication sn lont as munists, were involved. Austria is an occupiest country, Rajk himself is a Communist
be re- of long standing
cup with fresh blood gade in Spain. He was Minis- ticles from one day to another,
There is a hedgehog on Bodmin | Sh
could, therefore Moor which drinks beer with its
her Austrian placing master.
tion troons with
from Russin,
Paris? Well...
But these newcomers some- how hardly look
So must you go to Paris soThey
Keep off!
HAVE found
the
who fought Bri- International
tor of the Interior, and later,
parties which have now be come Governments.
In Stalin's Europe, where Communists are in power and ideas are translated into po-
untli the ume of his arrest less than 100 percent. support
Minister of of Stalinism is heresy.
either taking a "palast"
he
par-
This is the way the reason- as if they three months ago,
Foreign Affairs. arc pushing on to Austriil.
story in ik goes: look as II
There is a 'cimilar they havo
To hold together the struc- uwhile come to stay
ture of Siaüst amone Bulgaria. soon?
Communiem, Lifelong Communist and re- the vineyards and comfleld of
Tito Traicho volutionary
must be Kostov,
unseated; Paris is no longer a continuous Hungary.
Vice-Premier ull a few months must be wiped off the board. It goes to bed
It is not a question of Skilin t wish that I could offer them whiel of gulely,
ago, groomed to succeed the In most of tis a Wensleydale cheese, but that. very early now.
Georg Dimitrov us Prime or Tite for Yugoslavia; it is a like all our other fine old English on the tables and the cloors are
enfes the chairs
Late being piled
Minister of Bulgaria, is now a question of Stalin or Tito for no one, how- gnol awailing trial, accused of the whole Communist world. cheeses, Is one of the things closing by eleven o'clock. Only a 1. ever In Budapest,
And The Russians Gay there
Is only-one-Commmulsa and Sta- which the policy at fools had few night-clubs and night-bars among Hungarians or among therefore
ever see the dawn.
foreign legation
Tito afficials, who done its best to kil
It is not Tito alone, but the lin is its living prophet; believes the Ruslans intend alsaldent Communists In gon-
says there may be only one But I know what you will say invading Yugoslavia.
its prophets eral who are the greatest dan Communism but At least there is freedom in Paris. -And samphire
are in every land-and There are no petty restrictions, Tito is facing his most dif- ger to Stalin's Europe today.
six months.
la unknown; ticularly in Yugoslavia. Their strength Food no dreary interludes where every flcult
So if Tito
had not existed except in Tito's Yugo- I would like to take them to door seems closed and the pave-short, sabotage is on the in- for,
Creasy. quick trip to Stratford-on- one of the unspoiled stretches of ments burn the feet,
Tito i caught in
an alavin, they have not declared he would have had to be in
venated and destroyed to dis- Enst-West vacuum That's three days the English coast, where few
with sup- themselves.
courage all heretics. Avon.
And In almost every French plies from the East dried up altogether.
between the tarram grass and hotels, good food; and a' good|expected for six months. "From what I've heard the sea, and where the samphire welcome. about the hotels and the meals, I think three days is about all I can take. Then I'm going over to Paris and have fun."
those places, in two days, and then, maybe, make
Where to begin?
黯
Now, if I tried to see England in three days like that I wouldn't get bored. I would go mad.
I wish I could persuade a few Americans that some of England is worth wait- ing for, but I hardly know where to begin.
I would like to show them the will-o'-the-wisp which I
A
of
Tito In only the symbol people walk the strip of cand provincial town there. are good and no relict from the West Officially dead
tendency which exists in all Communist parties, a tendency Obviously 4 display of THEY are not, of course, the which becomes more marked an en-Soviet troops
in the frontier only opposition. There is as Communism Yes. England is still
movce West would encourage the for instance Mr Beln Salloy, and East from its Soviet centre chanted land-just temporarily arens
anti-Tito elements and, THE an official purged from Go- of operations. befogged by stupid laws.
course, discourage the anti-vernment service (to whom I -¡London Express Service) Stalin elements.
have given a false name).
grows among the rocks.
I would like to give them a for of pickled comphire, but I don't suppose that many people pickle samphire any more.
Or perhaps they would like to go for a change to one of our less trumpeted counties, to Hunting- don, for instance, where the Ouse flows gently between wil- low-herb and purple loosestrife,
and the unperturbed heron gazes gravely from the bank.
What a contrast for the visitor from Oklahoma to compare his plains and prairies with the trim market gardens of Huntingdon.
To the visitor from another State they may bring thoughts of home, because where the green- stuff has lost its greenness in the drought it will inevitably
once saw on Dartmoor be- remind him of the blue grass of tween Tavistock and Ash- Kentucky.
burton, but he has probably
詛仇恩山凉大
gone by now. He vanishedt
before my eyes that night.
(in Mandarin Dialogue)
So what have we left to show them? What can we
Robin Hood
And for any American there is even the historical magnet, for was not Robin Hood the rightful offer these Americans, who Earl of Huntingdon in some of apparently lead pretty active the verslana? Nowadays, of
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and acem unable to keep never existed.
But he is much more real to me than most.
still when they are abroad? historical characters and facts.
If I offer them peace, will they take it?
Would they risk the quiet and majesty of Bishopdale as it slopes towards Wen- sleydale?
NANCY
There are other things to RT, my good American.
There is a man who makes the best baskets in England by the Alfred defied the invader, by the Isle of Atheney (whence King
way).
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