Russia-
THE JUDGE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
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WHAT OF The People?
YOU READ everywhere
Yo
of the Red Army
You read everywhere
Strategy of tr
of The Kremiks. You read every- where of thie oud that pro- paganda "Ibe."...
BUT TOO RARELY HO WE READ OF THE LIFI OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES.
TOO BARELY 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 have been assembling for Rotac weekn now the latest avail- able Information on Wilit
tive years of twilight peser have meant to the people of Russia: what changes in the composition of their suclety: what rarets their stan-
dard of living have resulted from the Kremilla's vast родтание of armaments: what hopes for the future are in the bracks of those beldind the Iron Curtain,
It so happens that into the scene at this particular biomrut
comes
That 'click' in the mind at
the word 'England'
By CHARLES FOLEY
Dont you to this. It i ue en rally arreplet the Saviet
to be phree, popularly ons lesumably greater than any- accepted, for Hart Germany, Po- thing Sulm" has. Panel, and
the docile Balkan; tre only countries from which, nally, they expert
a for vigher to ee nie.
Say
you are British, wn the re i n il lively and
quite fremsily etowil round you.
A typical och tavern conver -
were rager to
unt aployment
bergay. the Communist Une will come
In New York
ΤΟ
BACK UNIFORM
for the
GAMBLING SQUAD-DID YOU KHOL
KNOW.
HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE A BET IN THIS CITY?
E
NEW YORK. when he was a lawyer de VERY
policeman on fending them, New York regular plain-clothes would not today be calling) gambling duty in New all this its "biggest sean- York's police department dal." har been sent Duck uniform.
10
The back-to-the-beat ur-
'Get
der involved 400 men, and DISTRICT
is described as the biggest shake-up in the depart ment's history.
MILES
They Steered by the Stars
To the rovers, who steered by the stars every storm cloud was a menace. just by hope and desire is at the mercy
To-day, a future steered 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. MCDONALD, い
them*
Brooklyn, contri not forget series of newspaper articles he read nearly a year ago giving defnits of New York's Bambling racket.
It follows the threat of State intervention made by Me Dadd went to Mr Thomus Dewey, the Samuel Leibovitz, Governor of New York
State, if city officials failed
New lawyer.
York's 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. formerly ! criminal
to find the men responsible The judge told him to "ga for ruulti-million-dollar after the big mye. Heach out for the men behind the Jo gambling scandal.
crook."
#
Now, to understand all
this fuss, you must under- stand also that the business
That's what McDonald did.
He
talked
of putting something on a 15 tapped booties' telephone herae in New York is a lot I wires. 11 male different from backing your rald sui fancy in Britain.
.
There is only one way for
me to make a bet rally in
found! five plain- clothes men al a bookie's hop." He seized some of the fand in them notes of what he "D books" record. and alleged were police pay-offs.
New York. I must go in per- But Mayor O'Dwyer
called!
investigation
son to the course and pay him a witch-hunter and in the jover my two dollars at the midst of
tote winlow.
There is no Tattersalls on the course.
ondered that
an Investigation be made of him. Arnald was cleared, and he kept at it.
him,
And my wife But it was no sample task. The Herd wo go on? A railway could be arrested if
polier, nerording to courtes enganere sum it up-
she made, tried вал buutk placed a bet for me, even Whatever you may say, wethe tote window,
believe that the evict Govern ment is our own Government, the Government of Rusia.
The
'icemen'
at spied on McDonald's investiga
for, and then tipped of the bookles when a raid was com
"It canys yndisputed authoUT of course there The simt estal nehtecements such as the. and unlimited trust.
bookica in New rebuilding from Jubble of "It tells its people the truth So much so, that there are Stalingrad and Voronezh. New kyscrapers, they
half dozen syndicates each point out, were going up in Morenw
doing?
210,000,000 For business a year.
'Happy'
Six
Laden was noted dren in N they talked of Britain
sud the ruft alone,
"We have ever been deriv
by a Government. this, We believe implicity every word,"
H
4
p
to
1
On
One day one of McDonald's men brought in some record. are On them.
27 a wire-upped York, conversation between Larry
minions." "Artle" and "Mike" Gruss a beoltmaker, nd his
Gros arretesi, talked. aid he handled nearly £7,000,- 100 worth of bets a year. his staff were 30 runners, and They get their business he paid diem £100 a week each Kerk off percentage
through a "runner." The
He him- for police protection. Butive pride in pealing to
self gave expansive bribes to runner may be Joe the lift- foreigner aba!
police one's country, man.
department higher-ups. or Oscar the deduct what you will for
shot His year's bribery bill he cruel hardship and
theshine boy, or Louis the bar estimated, came to £350,000. Oppression a many pints of Stalin's realm tender, or Sam in the lug-
he would nane there is still a Heat residue age shop round the corner. ""Artie" did however, of faith in Russia's greatness A tractor plant ferman toch het determination to wardi
His evidence- His job is two-fold-to public-was so sensations, that over the conversation in burst of favour.
The
Jealous invaders of take in the bets and to find Judge
dropped people out which policeman on his language to describe i "How
have been all too successfully local beat will "take" (ac- Said he rub we de cribe
Gur
"This polite graft is MTOW for the British toilers? Hem, our workers, all without
ames which tilta to high exception, are short of nothing,
heaven." neither food nor eloffing. The worst live well. For above! your average Englishman: Soon they will be lying better,
cow by a British observer, who, strikes,
wuf
a country of simas, and food short. whale writing
a letter, jotted ages. Newspapers print to down an outlur of what the other news of us, by confiat,
the was of life in Bussin pose
Rundens sid.
He omitted the British side of the argument and has not tried to reconstruct it. I A Soviet
have his tietes Authenticity is stamperf on them, as tuch by the nadvete of thought as by the insistent theme of the Soviet propaganda
achine.
ship carrying the start of the English language ma gazine tiah Ally, which
has just had to close down in Moscow. Breauso 18 crop of English people is 1110 latest to leave the Russian capital; their story is ene which should be heard. Charles Foley went to Stockholm to interview Ulie returning Journalist,
This is his second despatch.
But this clearly can only be par! of n much wisler ΑΠΟΣ See Sefton Delmer Column Four....
W
*
Our orphans
war, one of the Burstans,
ap-
a railway engineer, spoke as follows to the evident provd of his friends file-
brighter.
"I to ant know whether you
what I feel
2 capable of understanding when my that
soon I shall live silly better. It
at the wonderful. It means that I can devote all my strength and
kill to my work.
"E cintest everything that Inders,
slows down, or de-
J
who
convinced,
existence the
Bevin to meet or move.
Yes, it la mountain for Mrcept bribes).
---{London Express Service)
SEFTON DELMER Say s
prave our faith. I have known I HAVE rear with vivid per-
roml
Interest all that Tut there, you con members of our Moscow
no other. never utleistatul,"
Em-
For his boss-the "big book," or bookmaker--can- not stay in business without giving the police their "ice." That's always his biggest expense.
Dainty.
Alger
A
Leibowitz
*
pet nodo
hero...
DAY New York has a new Murphy his name and he is police commisioner. Thomas already something of a hero with the American public. He deducts it-under That's because he got a convic different heading, of course tion in the most important trial -in his income tax returns, of this generation-the trial
Washington There is
encial, fer perjury is denying nothing new that he was ever a Communist. about this. Everyone knows
The people are taking notice the it goes on. And everyone when he says that from now on bassy's editorial team have had knows there is only one way doomed. And they are ready illegal gambling in New York to stop it. Legalise to Soviet Union today.
bling. When I was in Moscow my- military A WOMAN who said she was frequently used to make
by the very roots" IL third-form teacher and
my every attempt to bring in attack on the not party member-only one patrolling the entrance to
way past the police wards such a law. And so the at- the
But that doesn't mean that asian In 35 is so privileged office of British Ally. commented:→
people
riving up thorities wink ધર્મ the rambling bookies and the corruption. Some of the bookins have left Of all the British official com-
towy: for
more healthy Moscow these men But for a district at climate "until the heat'a
DIT best opportunity for torney
Upon the advice of friends in conscience contact with at
the police force two of the few carefully selected and a judge who came to biggest munbling syndicates
hate crooks during the days have closed their doors,
at Cor-
The teacher
1.1
10
that he will "tear bribery and
self a roupk of years ago 1 Churchmen scream, down corruption among the police up
"We have not forgotten war with Germany. The cruel fight deprived millions of our people of life, left a net of orphang and cripples among us. STOCKHOLM. That is why we hate those who THAT do the Rus- preach a new war.
sians think about
"Britain, France, What is many are forming Britaio 7 the picture their masters alliance, Such an alliance call paint of her-for remember only he for an
U.S.S.R. Why? Comrade, it is 200 million people known and proved that no one These
source of In- from have had no
the people's democracy formation outside the of Rusin
thin a even
"It is evident from the way munity in about Soviet Press, radio, and agression or dreams of fomen. You British talk that you know had the
ting war with other nations. films for a generation.
nothing about us, and have no desire to learn about our spiri- least a
day-to-day What grows in the Russian "And it is clear that the first tual quastles, our 1terary und Soviet citizens. mind when they hear the aim in the new war would be political Interests and aspira. strange word "England"?
to use German sollers against ons About this, I have Interro- us while we are still healing the gated passengers, British and wounds inflicted by Hier's others, who sailed to London hordes, today in the Soviet steamer
Sestroretsk.
"You
the
Nevertheless, I am doubtful whether in a country as wide; quote your fere nowa- We know 10y are full sible to get a papers.
as the Soviet Union it is pos. of blackguardly blunders 'about from the
reliable picture t "What would be the cost of us. They pronounce Judgment or three individual foreigners,
observations of two war on top of in cynical style about bur be-
I believe that the true ple- How dare British ture of Russia and the Russian know the peoplo are not
People today must be composite. It must be put together
from
For clearly this topic of the the countless sacrifees we have loved land. a third world
on whom Stalin must depend is made already? Luckily we are newspapera and politleraus-1
attitude of the Husclin masses
attacker.
to
on two most vital significance at stock to old to blame-poke their snouts where the reports given by:— this time.
Stalin n The replica to my questions again and again.". about the Russiana' view of the outer
were Amusing.
world
sald so
they don't belong?"
Is there the no
hope for
A loud murmur of applause Britain? No kind word for our heartening, or beyond words #rected these statements.
depressing. according to low
you study them.
But they betrayed auch un- animity that of one thing there
Skyscrapers
MUCH more
people
is no doubt-Stalin has got his whole
thinking on the same lines.
Crowd gathers
that
The hundreds of thousands
of
and prisoners, German Socialist Government?
Japanese, who have recently Sald a tractor mun: "We been repatriated.
have met
have long seen through the 40- called Socialists in Britain whe The large number of Soviet once posed as our friends. time was spent
We citizens, civilian and mill- on talking about the next puppet comedy of your Gov- the West from Russia.
laugh at the parliamentary tary, who have escaped to ave-year plan, which is to pull ernment and the nationalisation immenso
Russia alongside Amerien ( campaign, and is spurious con- being happily assumed
Many able men have been America will be standing sul)
cern for the workers welfare engaged in putting together and thus put to fight all the
while it lines is own pockets.
Rich a pleture. dark
And then reactionary forces who
them not only in Europe. I is cary, especially for the
"We know there are honest have met them on my recent British, to get the Russians plot the downfall of the Com-
inunist citadel..
men 14
to the Britain, progressive trips
East-In Tokyo, talking. You
people who know and love their Hongkong, Bangkok and Delhi. tako a friend into a Moscow The atom bomb was diamiss-country, but who are fighting I have done my best to as- favern and open a conversation, ed with superficial nonchalance like
us for a shining future. semble a fair and complete Soon a neighbour will turn to "Now we have got it, too" There are the British Com picture as is possible, you and ask:
"Are you from and there was almost deliberato munists and although-or even the lands of the peoples darab. oblivion of the fact that Ameri- because your present regime (The sorìos will begin in the
can atomle plant and stockpiles condemna millions of Britons to (Telegraph on Monday)
T
cracies?”
have
only
to
Д
with a
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
4 hops that, in answerino inquiries you'r' making it quite clear that the whole Nino is entirely unofficial and directly contrary to Phe agreed-i policy of the union 7
are
But there are still plenty of runners willing to take a bet or anything from the 1.30 at Belmont to Murphy's chances November's of surviving after mayoral elections.
All that has happmed is that they have chanted their methods.
How it's done
ET'S suppose
I wanted to back a horse called Assign rent running at Belmont, Well. I go to that corner luggate shop and I tell the man behind the counter that I'm going away to a place called Belmont and I'd like an overnight bag which I think i called a "Assign- ment,"
"How much do you want to pay?" asks the astant. My reply is: "Two dollars" "Sold," says the assistant. And I'm on
It ovon adds a little spice to the bustness of losing money. Almtet like it used to be when buying a drink in a speakeasy.
C. V. R. Thompson
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