Russia-
THE JUDGE
NEKRU
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
کے کونے کے بعد اگر محمد
JAN
"What the United Nations do next will be
watched by the Easter peoples and in The long run will decide The future of Western influence in Asia
LOW'S PACIFIC SPY
World Copyright. Ps arrangement with Darts Herald
WHAT OF The People?
YOU READ everywhere
Y
of the Red Army
You read everywhere
of the Strategy of C Kremlin. You read every- where of this and that pro- paganda "Jine."...
BUT TOO KARELY DO WE BEAD OF THE LIFE OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES.
TOO RARELY IS AN EFFORT MADE TO RE- LATE THE LIFE OF THE ORDINARY SOVIET CITI- ZENS TO THE REGIME THAT RULES THEM,
For this reason we lave been assembling for some werks now the latest avail- able Information on what five years of twilight peace lave meant to the people ni Rusia: what changes in the composition of their society: what effects on their stan dard of living have resulted from the Kremlin's visi programme of armamets: what hopes for the fut T are in the hearts
of the p behind the Iron Curtain,
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- הת!
so happens that into The serne at this particular komeni contes
Sovjet ship carrying the staff of the English language gazine British Ally, has just had to close down In Moscow. Because this group of English people is The latest to leave the
which
Russian capital, their story 1 one which should br heard. Charles Foley went to Blockholmn the returning Tila is his second despatch.
That 'click' in the mind at
the word 'England'
By CHARLES FOLEY
1on13
It is are generally
unemployment
and beggary. the Communist time will come FOOD."
Need we go ou? A railway engineer sums it up-
In New York
BACK TO UNIFORM
for the
GAMBLING SQUAD-DD
-DID YOU KNOW
HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE A BET IN THIS CITY?
NEW YORK. when he was a lawyer 'de- VERY policeman on fending them, New York regular pinin-clothes would het today be calling gambling duty in New all this its "biggest #CAN- York's police department dal" hus been sent back uniform.
to
The back-to-the-beat or- der involved 400 men, and
They Steered by the Stars
To the rovers, who steered by the stars every storm cloud was a menace. To-day, a future steered just by hope and desire is at the mercy of the unexpected.
To give you known points on which to chart a course, nothing can take the place of Life Insurance. It sweeps uncertainties from your path leaves you free to concentrate on work or leisure with a tranquil ATTORNEY mind. MILES MCDONALD, of
Get
ISTRICT
them'
n
is described as the biggest Brooklyn, could not forget shake-up in the depart series of newspaper articles he ment's history,
read nearly a year ago giving details of New York's
ambling mcket.
It follows the threat of State intervention made by Mr Thomas Dewey, the Governor of New York State, if city officials fulled to find the men responsible multi-million-dollar gambling scandal.
for
Now, to understand all this fuss, you must under- stand also that the business of putting something on a horse in New York is a lot different from backing your Fancy in Britain.
Melonuld went tu
Samuel, Leibowitz, New York's lawyer.
best
To own Life Insurance is to know that you will not leave your dependents, lacking needed money. It can be arranged to give them an income received with clockwork" regularity for as much and for as Judge long as you plan.
great
formerly criminal
The judge' told him to "g) after the big guys. Reach out for the men behind the little υποιούς.
That's what McDonald did.
HE
He talked
E tapped bookles' telephone He made 0
wires
rald and found five plain-
-
clothes VICT al શ bookle's "hop." He seized some of the There is only one way for found in them notes of what he "bist book," " recorte fund ne to make a bet legally in alleged were police pay-offs. New York, I must go in per-
But Mayor O'Dwyer called! son to the course and pay him witch-hunter and in thei over my two dollars at the midst of his investigation tote window.
There is no Tattersalla on the course. And my wife police. arrested if she made,
could be
ondered that an investigation be made of him, McDonald was cleared, and he kept at it. But it was no simple task. The according to charges tried 10 baulic
him, placed a bet for me, even at spied on McDonald's Investiga. "Whatever you may say,
we the tote window.
tors, and then believe that the Soviet Govers-
tipped off the
the Government of Russia.
bookies when a raid was com- to be met is accepted
our own: Government,
yes to this. the Soviet phrase, popularly measurably greater than any- eevepted, for East Germany, Po- thing Stalin has. Jand, ami The locile Balkans; The Russians the only countries from which, extol achievements such as the were caper to normally, they expect
a for rebuildingt rom rubble Pigner to come.
Stalingrad and Voronezii,
skyscrapers, they you are British, send nut, were going up in Moscow, there 1 50011
lively atl
Sity
quite friendly crowd round you.
new
'Happy'
of
"I cujo
The icemen'
ANK.
One day one of McDonald's men brought in some records, bookies in New York, conversation between
larry "It tells its people the truthSo much so, that there are minions.
Grum, a bookmaker, half a dozen syndicates nach
rty and unlimited trust.
undisputed autho-BUT of course there are On them was a wire-tapped
Six and the truth alone.
point
cd
Els
and his "Artie" and "Mike," Gros, arrested. talked. He "We have never been decey-doing up to £10,000,000 said he handled nearly £7
by our Government, For business a year.
000 worth of bela a year.
£7,000,- this, we believe Implicity
Ол his staff were 30 runners, and every word."
They get their business he paid them £100 a week each through a percentage
"runner." The for police protection. He him- cow by a British observer, who, strikes,
was of
a country of native pride
self in speaking to D runner may be Joe the lift. lt Have expensive bribes to while writing
lums, and food short. foreigner about
police one's country, mas, a letter, jotted ages.
or Oscar the shoe
department higher-ups. Newspapers print little deduct
year's bribery bl down an outline
what you will for of what the other news of us; by
shine boy, or Louis the bar estimated, came to £350,000.
A typical such invern conver- THEN they talked of Britain gation was noted down in Mos- W
Jussians said.
notes. Authenticity is stamped on them, an unch by the naivete of thought as by the Insistent theme of the Soviet propaganda machine.
Knockoff a
Zar
Contrast, cruet hardship. hnel oppression the way of life in Rusia glows in many parts of Stalin's real tender, or Sam in the lug-
brighter.
But he would
names.
"Artic" did however,
Leibowitz
ho
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He omilled the British side of
there is stiff a meat residugage shop round the corner. of faith the argument and has not tried
A
in Runnin's greatnes tractor-plan! foreman took and her determination to want;
If evidenceot yet mado His job is two-fold-to public-was no sensationel that to reconstruct it. I
over have his burst of fervour.
the conversation in
the Jealous invaders of take in the bots and to find Judge whose existence the
peopl
dropped out which policeman on his judicial language to describe it. have been "How can we describe
all too successfully Here, our workers, all without Bevin to meet or move.
our convinced,
local beat will "take" sorrow
for the British toilers?
(ac Said he
"This police graft is Yes, it is a mountain for Air cept bribes).
a mers which stinks to exception, are short of nothing,
high heaven."- neither food nor clothing.
For his boss-the "big book," or bookmaker--can- worst tive well Far above your average Englishman. Soon they will be living betler,
not stay in business without giving the police their "ice." That's always his biggest expense.
Our orphans
OF to interview
Journalists.
But this clearly --- cau only br Furt of a much welder story Sce Sefton Delmer--Column Four
F war, me of the Russians, arallway engineer, spoke
as follows, to the evident *proval of his friends table-
D-
The
" du not know whether you e capable of understanding what I feci when I say that soon I shal live still better. It
at the is wonderful. I means that I can devate all my strength and
thn
s to my work,
"We have not forgotten war with Germany. The cruel fight deprived millions of our binders,
༄'ཏྠཱ detes! everything
that
slows down, or de- left a hout of proves our faith. I have known no other, But there, you can never understand,"
The teacher-
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-London Express Service)
SEFTON DELMER says
A hero... TODAY New York has a new Murphy is his name and he is police commissioner. Thomas already something a исто with the American public.
of
He deducts it-under That's because he got a convic different heading, of course fion in the most important trial -in his income tax returns. Alger
of this generation-the trial of
111 a
Washington There is
offint, for perjury in denying nothing new per-about this. Everyone knows
that he was ever a Communist.
The
people are taking notice And everyone when he says that from now on bussy's editorial team have had knows there is only one way socied. And they are ready illegal gambling in New York to say about conditions in the to stop it. Legalise gam to believe him when he pledges Soviet Union today.
HAVE read with vivid Sortal interest all that members of our Moscow
the it goes on. Em-
the
bling.
#
is
people of life, orphans nod cripples among us. STOCKHOLM. That why we hate Jose who HAT do the Rus- preach a new war.
sians think about
"Drital, France, Britain? What is many are forming
and Ger.
When I was in Moscow my-
that he will "tear bribery and a military
WOMAN who cald she was
self D couple of years ago the picture their
Churchmen scream masters alliance. Such an alliance can
down corruption among the police up. third-form teacher
frequently used to make paint of her-for remember only be for an
by the very rooin" attack on the not a party member-only one patrolling the entrance, to
my every attempt to bring in und
way post the police guards such a law. And so the au- the
But that doesn't U.S.S.R. Why? Comrade,
mean that these 200 million people known and proved that no one commented:—
it is Russian in 35 is so privileged oflice of British Ally.
people are giving thorities
up have had no source of in- from the people's
wink ut the cambling. democracy
bookies and the corruption. formation
Some of the bookles have left outaide the of Russia even thinks about "It is evident from the way munity in
Of all the British official cum
town fur
more healthy Soviet Press, radio, and ggression or dreams of fomen. you British take that you know
Moscow these men But for
elimate "until the heat's ting war with other nations. films for a generation.
had the nothing about us, and have no day-to-day
a district ut- best opportunity for torney desire to learn about our spiri- least a few carefully
Upon the advice with a contact
of friends in with
conscience the police force What growS in the Russian "And it is clear that the first tual qualities, our literary
selected and a judge who came to biggest
two of the mind when they hear the alm in the new
and Soviet citizens.
Eximbling syndicates war would be political interests and aspira-
hate crooks during the days have closed their doors. strange word "England"?
to use German soldiers against tions. About this, I
Interro- nvo
us while we are still healing the
But there are still plenty of gated passengers, British and wounds infleted
runners willing to take a bet by Hitler's -others, who sailed to London hordes.
on any thing from the 1.30 at today in the Soviet steamer
Belmont to Murphy's Sestrorelak
"You
at
Nevertheless, I am doubtful whether in quote your free new as the Soviet
a country as wide papers. We know they are full rible to get a
Union it is pos- of blackguardly blunders about from the
reliable picture "What would be the cost of . They pronounce judgment or three individual foreignera,
observations of wo For clearly this tople of the third world
on top of in cynfent style about our Be- attitude of the Russian masses the countless sacrifice we have loved land. on whom Stalin must depend is male nirendy? Luckily we are newspapers of the most vital signifience ut strong enough to drive off any know
this time.
attacker. Stalin
war
The replies to my questions again and again.” about the Russians' view of the
hns
I belleve that the true pic- How dare British ture of Russia and the Russian
politierans-1 and
people today must be composite.) to it must
be put together
the people are not
said so blame-poke their snouts where the reports given by-
they don't belong?"
A loud murmur of applause
outer world wero Amusing greeted these statements. heartening, or beyond words depressing. according to how you study them.
people
Crowd gathers
Skyscrapers
that
from
The hundreds of thousands of prisoners, German and Japanese, who bave recently "We been repatriated.
ritain?
Is there then no hope for No kind word for our Socialist Government?
Said
a tractor have long seen through the so- called Socialists in Britain whe
at
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POCKET CARTOON. by OSBERT LANCASTER
ALTRIMON Roya
PIX
to
But they betrayed such un- animity that of one thing there
The large number of Soviet is no doubt-Stalin has got on talking
MUCH more time was spent once posed an our friends. We citizens, civilian and mill-
laugh about the next Immense
tha his whole
parliamentary tary, who have escaped ave-year plan, which is to pull ernment and the nationalisation thinking on the came lines,
puppet comedy of your Gov- the West from Russla, Russin alongsido America Cit being happily assumed
campaign, and its spurious con- Many obla men have been America will be standing still) while it Unes its own pockets.
cem for the workers welfare engaged on putting together and thus put to fight all the
such a picture. I have met. is easy, especially for the dark reactionary
And then: forces who
them not only in Europe. "We British, to get the Russians plot the downfall of the Co-
know there are honest have not them on my recenti munist clladci. only to m havo talking. You
to the Britain, progressive trips
East-in Tokyo, people who know and love their. Hongkong, Bangkok and Delhi take a friend
a Moscow The atom bomb was dismiss country, but tavern and open a conversation, ed with superficial nonchalance like
who are: ighting I have done my best to as Soon a neighbour will turn to "Now, we have got it, too," There
and thero was almost deliberate munits and although-or" even you and nak: “Are you
oblivion of the fact that Ameri- because your present regime. (The series will begin in the can, atomic plant and stockpilos condemos millions of Britons to Telegraph on Monday),
IT
into
from
the lands of the peoples demo
cracies?"
in men
ut for a shining future, semble na fair and completo a
Brith Cam- picture as is possible.. pare the
hope that in answering inquiries you're making" it quite clear that the phola "Ihing is entirely unosomal and directis contrary to line derant,
chances
of surviving after November's mayor:] elections.
All that has happened is that they have changed their methods.
How it's done
LET'S
suppose I wanted to back a horse called Assign- ment running at Belmont. Well, I go to that corner luggage shop and I tell the man behind the counter that I'm going away to a place called Belmont and ra ilke an overnight bag which I think is called
an "Assign-
ment."
"How much do you want to pay?" asks the assistant. My reply is: "Two dollar" "Sold," say's the assistant.
And I'm on
It oven adds a little opice to the business of losing, money. Almost like it used to be wher buying a drink in a spankesay
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