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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1949.
70th BIRTHDAY AT THE KREMLIN
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RULER OF RUSSIA IS 70
WHAT DO WE REALLY
N
KNOW OF STALIN?
OTHING an bourgeois
114 "
70
rake and candles for the wily -old man of the Kremlin on
his birthday.
It was something more symbolic- present of one of the Tatra Mountains on the Polish border of Czecho slovakcinin token of his abiding strength.
rumoura For,
the despite which circulate outside the iron Curtain nburst Stalin's health, his subjects still think of him as the mo of steel whom age of bloody and half a century
1ho
revolt (Including years in Siberian mil mines). Intrigue, cure! world-shaking power can- not wemy,
STORIES ABOUT
FAILING POWER
HAVING reached the allotfed HA
span, it is inevitable there
will be a new deluge of stories falling Marshal's
about the
power.
We have
been told that be
has "heart trouble, and is on n "suffers strict diet"; that he
Zazzl exhaustion from nervou19 rely leaves the Kremlin"; that "his face is pack-marked, the skin yellowed, his large black bo sleep- eyes reti-ritamed
Can you beliege these stories? The ariswer, frankly, is no,
Stalin himself declares he is a President When tick Truman invlied him to Wash- beginning of the ington at the
acute crisis between East and West, he said his heart was bad Jorbade niy and the doctors
long journYS,
But two unimpeachable au- thorities who have had a chance of meeting the Russian Dictator, not once but several times dur ing the negotiations over the
report blockade, Berlin
contrary.
"A HEALTHY OLD MAN"
1
EX-U.S. Ambassador to Mod-
By
Richard
Fallure
thr Berlin blockade. which had most serious loss-of-face гериг
for the Soviets throughout the world, paril- cularly in the Far East;
cussions
The threal of an atomic War with the 1.8. and Britain;
The defection of Tilo, which wan major diplo-
A
malla triumph for the West: Signs of unrest in Poland, which led to the appoint
weeks ment a few
ago of Manhal Konstantin Rokos- sovsky as his Polish mill- tury overlordto keep the
McMillan
That perhaps la beemuse they dot kiow him. For to know hot in to fear hi
Even Heria, chief of the secret police, who is reputed to mido ilmler na a sadist, trembles when Salin calls for him,
Most
Agure mysterious Stalin's domestic circle is the frst Indy of the Soviet, Rosa Kaganovitch, his third wife.
it
dren. Those who have come in contact with him have a poor opintoa of him.
Lovely Sviecllana is reputed to be the one person who is cap- able of softening Stalin's heart. la muki he sees in ber the image of the only wornon he ever really second wife.
loved, his tragic
CHAPTER 12:
The
GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
By
K
FULTON OURSLER
THE conspirators, Annas yard, called by some the Gar-
knew den of Gethsemane. and Caiphas,
T
The
they had to hurry. Garden? Judins did not know. What were they doing in the Now that, the old leader be- It did not matter anyway, he lieved in the real danger of expostulated, again and again,
he trudged the situation, he was far as
besido them. The silver colns In kis bag more stirred than Caiphas,
Jingling noise as made a soft, although outwardly atil
he walked. And Judas sighed calm and lordly. No one heavily as he led the long and knew better than Annas mincing column of men who what the consequences would swung their hissing torches and walked Hice women, not to be to him, to his family, to stumble over the stones. his class, if Jesus prevailed. Presently Judas called softly It would mean the ultimate and lifted his hand, and they eclipse of the Temple aris- halted at a high hedge, which served as a wall that complete- tocracy. But Annas Was y enclosed the area. resolved also that the illicit
A little doorlike opening had
the hedge plan must be put through been cut in
otherwise with the utmost appearance the olive garden. Judas waved completely enclosed The heart of back the guards while he leaned of legality. Annas was elated now; even in and pected,
ni his extreme age he relished politics, intrigue,
that
secret action. Obstacles had WHERE were the eleven and always hardened the resolve W the Mostert Dimly, Judins of Annas; in the excitement began to make them it. That he forgot his weariness and vast bunk of man sprawled on felt young again. He tasted the grass, is head on a rolled- up cloak. was surely Peter, victory in advance.
snoring. The slim form Fonder i was nightfall when Annas by the pavilion platform Er for-th upon la errand. Joten, alsó Boys with torches went before Other dark and behind his litter as he was trees were carried
the through
narrow, Judns crowded streels to the castle of asleep. Antonia, where Pontius Pilate visible. stayed when in town.
was alumber. deep in smudges tinder the unrecognisable, but nil counted eleven,
Their lender was in-
Judos would
entered have then and brought the
Kuards with him, but he was slopped
familiar of a by the bound
of
Jesus his knees.
NNAS was well aware Pilate voice at prayer. He stood 113- A would certainly not be please tening, Somewhere off in the est at this late call by Annas. But desper foliage there, this errand was an urgent poll- Nazareth tical consideration, by which Judns could hear the suffering could voice: knew he old man
Justify
A French governess, Pauline Labranche, who taught Sviet-the lana French at the Kremija, re- ine! that she was quick to learn, eager for news of the utside world, and that she acored her mother.
Qive, sale! the Governess, Stalin came to the room while a lesson was on.
"What," he asked Jovially "are you still studying French? You'd do better to learn good cooking."
His daughter only laughed. Svietiana is a pianist. At one time Stalls would listen to his favourite operatic atrs played
on a planola.
Now he listens to his talented daughter.
WHO WILL SUCCEED?
Stalin
JLE
%
the intrusion and hold de's ear long enough. Ansias was in the castle of Antonin less than half an hour, but when he came out, his eyes held the gleam of a man who has won2.
"When the
of Jesus cotnes before Pilate, the Naza- Irene will die," he was thinking. "And that will be the end of it He will never be heard of again."
was th
"My Father! If it be possible, let this cup pass from me?”
But Jesus was not done with Hin praying.
"Nevertheless, not us 1 wii, but us You will.”
E silence after the prayer was touched by a low swishing sound as by a trulling garment brushing the grass. Out of the It was well after nine o'clock dark and walking by starlight Judus, the white figure of Jesus ap- dark when and quite
moving towards ready for his traitorous job, peared,
Judas could
merged through the back door- sleeping disciple.
Ilim clearly now-tail,
they had puckert up staves and
oft Standing
cudgels. them were the
with an soldiers carried lanterns his clusest co-worker for 30 club and staves.
way his successor will be Molotov.
years,
But Stalin's wishes do not ellach the decision.
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way of the house of Annas and see descended to the niley. Lotter- robed, walking barefoot across steps was the the chilly Beld. Jesus bent over ing before the
guards; the snoring man. posse of the Temple
"Peter! What Could you not though forbidden to carry arms,
watch
Inc? with from
Watch you and pray that you six Roman enter not into temptation. The officer; they spirit indeed is willing but the and torches. Bash in weak. Sleep, now, and
It is enough! take rest. Juntas turned
on hour is come! Look, the Son or taken by the South China them, stalking around a corner Man shall be betrayed into the
poisonous honda of sinners, Rise up. Let us Morning Post and Hong Kong St. Into jagged el
street. Not a go. He that will destroy Me is smelling little
except the Hound was heard, Malenkov. now in control of shuffling feet of the men,
machine, the party
slands
clark of armuur, and the lonely res does the dreaded now!
faraway dog. of some chance; Berin, who Ens faithfully-and | The course they followed was bloodly-repressed all attempts igzag, a series of short, sharp He laid a hard, damp hand on at revolt inside and outside the detours; the streets were all the wrist of the leader of the
rough and full of holes, so the band, and whispered:
"Now is the time, Let us go hnste slowly. made marchers
You will Among others Bulganin, who mare
Pale in Ure light of harvest stars in and take Him. loomed the Temple; then around know Him-He will be the one
men I will kiss?" is in charge of Soviet delence, is regarded as the most pro-alt reeking corner the men
Judas strode forward until he mising "outsider."
came to a passageway cul in
of the stood directly in front of Jesur, 30-year-old
It may well be, however, that
southeastern angle
"Hall, Ma
Master!" Vasily, and Svetlana, lively the next ruler will be an un-
wall and began the Temple dren of the second marriage. succession will not develop unill
out of the old stone steps falling sharply Stalin himself is
from the upper city to a locked Vally is a major-general
way. tra
Red Alr
gate below. the
Force, married, and has two chil-
A dark-eyed beauty, he mar- rled her when she was 19 and he was 54.
Sho lives in a Soviet "pur- dah." No visiting statesman has
ever met her.
Poles from doing a Tile and
Stalin
little real hom: hus bringing the Red Empire
He is said to detest his Wife, down in ruin.
ended
decisions rider son, Yasha, now aged 40, still under from born of his rst wife.
Talk
Stalin,
and
laken,
house outside Moscow which no Westerner has ever visited.
Inward, drives to his country Fle doles
on
party.
the
the The hour has come."
Peler scrambled to and bared his knife,
Judas walled for no
There, a rather lonely figure, 25-year-old brunetic, both chil- known, for the real struggle forzardous descent of a flight of
past in
of
Uro Un cow General Bedell Smith he looks back
company with thu ghost found him fit,.and saw no ren-
companions of the oth son why he should not continue those
Bolshevik Guard he has liqui- to rule Russla for several years.
to supreme The British emissary in the dated on his path Moscow talks, Frank Roberts. that he considered reported Stalin "n very healthy old man,
n" with no exterior signs of failing strength, although ob-
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SOLOMON
A1
They had always thought of Seminary in the hope he would take ibe Jhrone, and succeeded is, in her right hund; men fuck on the sea, the winds of
post office,
him as he looked in the familiar photograph posted
every school,
fatherly,
in
smiling, benign, democratic In his simple parly uniform of khaki trousers and grey Jacket.
TENDENCY TO
BECOME A HERMIT
AS
was
years'
Klug
Hiram (in partnership with
'the
building.
ways
ders.
14.
Jesus moved towards Judas
Then the arms of Christ and seized him by the shoul- drew Judas to Him and the dis- ciple kissed the Master on the check. At the signal, the Ro-
soldiers
forward man weapons in hand.
came
been
T this ancient portal, the Ro- man officer talked with the THE FICKLENESS
gate-keeper. On a promise of OF FATE
territted Kate- courging. the keeper agreed to keep his gate THAT was more than the pante- “LANCING down the corri-
stricken Peter could bear. open and his mouth closed. dors of tine, This remate,
the
Imperial The knife he had toyed with at That
Menawhile something about
Agure must smile which all reports agree-Stalin mystiet
soldiers, facing the wall, grum- the supper table gleuned in his hand a knife with a blade live of his rimly at the fickleness of fate
bled to one another. is showing the strain
for gutting 1sh. anti-Chris- is showing it so which made him
Why this crawling through inches long,
tho years. He
uplifted. stalwart world-revolutionary in- much that propaganelists do not tinn
sprang at the officer: of God hts
SOLOMON (meaning "Peace- silver, and the gain thereof than the dark in force to catch one This man? They had heard tales Poter issue any more photographs of ead of the man
Report there was a moment's tussle, a ful") was second son of King fine gold. mother intended him to be.
tien otruggle, and Bathsheba (whom SHIE is more precious than about their quarry. Born at Gori, in the Caucasus, David and. The last picture shocked
Nazarene possessed disorderly
He could the ironic voice of Jesus: In 1879, he went to school unil David stole from Uriah the rubles and all the things thou said the
"Puler, Peler, put up you! his people because of the
percame elder canst Web Host of clays, walks on the sea, grey hair and heavily lined
with her. of
sword!" sent him to Tiflis, Theological brother Adonijah's Intrigue to
heaven performed His bidding,
And face.
Peter's Ashing knife and once He had fed forty
fell ot his foot, become a monk.
King of Israel about 974.3.C. left hand riches and honour.
A
from the little soldier of thousand hungry people with HELL
fre ways cars" reign was almost liis 40 he After five years
entirely
peaceful, leaving him pleasantness, and all her paths one basket of loaves and fishes
and everybody had a bellyful. Temple scurried forward with a railway expelled; He became a member
free to develop his rentus for are peace.
This wonder worker and all His handful of ropes and began to the station throughout the U.S.S.R. of the Communist Party.
Rumours about his netlyl-
ON UNDERSTANDING
familiars were said to lie hidden the wrists of Jesus, That action fies
and of Tyre) the Czar's reached
GET wisdom, get understand-in secret polloc, He became
His trade in the Mediterranean, ing: forget it not, neither decline in some dark garden outside the was like a warning to all the hunted man.
This sudden invasion of men Arrested,
conjura- Siberia especially with Egypt, brought from the words of the moeity wall. What might He be other disciples, who had
Spells, Witchcraft?
Why in armour and others.mod. devil-praying? followed, from 1991 to 1904. He him lavish materials sold, Forsake her not, and a mouth doing even now in that garden? watching in started dirmay. cacaped and joined the Lonin- liver, Ivory, cedar wood-used Preserve thee: love her, and she tions,
must they be sent after such a with cudgels and stayes filed them with fright. The torches Trolsky underground.
to build the temple ("excred shall keep theo,
magician in the dark? Would burned like small new worlds ¡ON INSTRUCTION · TOT only has beaged con- No
went back to Ing maralfical" in Jeruzalem, Caught, he siderably, but he shows an Siberia to escape once more--In and a royal palace for himself. REPROVE not a scorner, lest not daylight have done as well?uming in a dark WANT
Judaa heard them talking Voices rose in brawling He married (among increasing tendency to become fact, he escaped six times int
he hate thee; rebuke a wise man many
among themselves and quietly tion Peter and all the others the hermit" of the Kremlin all.
oiberg) the King of Egypt's and he will love thee,
rebroved them.
had Jesus
were overwhelmed with fear daughter.
He asked God to give him "an he will yet be wiser: teach:
2 sorceror. The disciple ed, like wild creatures, they
wed, understanding heart, and re- vlas man, and he will increase not
reasstired them, coaxed them to stampered off into the night. colved the gift of wisdom. 1o. In learning.
tion follow
ns ho led the way One, wrapped only in a linen in said to have written the Book
him WILOSO loveth instruction
cloth was seized by a guard, of Proverbs, the Song of Songs. loveth knowledge; but he that toward the Mount of Olives.
But the soldiers continued to but he tore himself free, leaving and the apocryphal Book of hateth reproof is brutish. Wisdoni.
in the soldier's grumble-they were brave men, the garment ON PARENTS
but who would not be anxious hands; naked, he vanished ON. WISDOM H Indoth wisdom, and the
fallier, but a foolish son is n powers as those?"
hedges and running, as fast TTAPPY the mari that heaviness to his mother!
Well, Judas assured them legs would carry them, they left Päränare 1, than -power of propaganda,' whlie
TRAIN up a child in the way they need not fear Him to Jesus, the captive, alone, andro Voyen, the is, dreaded by his political man that gelteth understanding, he should go and when he is night. Jesus he reported, wis
cal nervous enemies, he is venerated by the For the merchandise: of"; it is old he will not depart from. It
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Under strong guards, behind Twenty-five years ago he studded upholstered door in his reached the first rung of the third-floor room in the Krem- ladder to total power, becoming Ila, he confers until the small secretary-general of the party. hours, biking with his three henchmen ---- Molotov,
Barle
Malenkoy each of them rival helr-apparents playing pidilfully
to mount the throne when their
master abdicates,
TO KNOW HIM.
IS
TO FEAR HIM
ODAY Stalin la depleted as the dictator nobody loves.
Stall, has band plenty to talk. That is wrong: Fox, liebe
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