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THE SHADOW OF

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Afternoon ins Moncom well stocked with perfume, artificial principles. you can see the mow falling on the flowers banjos, gramophone records, professed in stately yellow Kremlin buildings and and children's toys, but you find you been twisted clinging to the oriental cathedral dames "can't buy shoes or woollen stockings, with which until they shine like huge pearls, or material with which to make a dress. production. Suddenly the aky grows black with One day I found a queue line twisting more importa carrion crows. They sweep, over

of ribbon had suddenly appear power of the

Kremlin and then drop down on the supply the shop, and discovered that a tion than ad

By

roof ledges as though their spirit has ed. p. anddenly died. They seem symbolic of But the shortage of fabrics can best the great purge that has swept over be illustrated by a story told to me Russia and left its shadow on every by two British seamen in Odessa, Their section of her life.

pockets were bulging with, roubles, and.. Soviet Russin in 1939 is a hermeti- they explained that in the first hour. cally sealed laboratory. Suspicion of after they stepped ashore Russians foreigners has led this vast country approached them and offered to buy the into a state of isolation that had scarce- clothes they stood up in. ly seemed possible in a world so close an old overcoat and two ties for 600 They sold ly knit together by transport and roubles. The paradox of Moscow with fore, has been wireless.

its magnificent underground subway to-day It is li

.

in the "

org

The large Russian customs station and its empty shoe shops, its movie publicity at the Polish border blazed with lights, houses and overcrowded flats, its and was crowded with border guards dern jazz and ita queue lines, caused

mo- Stalin regime and uniformed officials; but the only one Frenchman to lift his hands and

AMEN people entering the country

These saleam besides exclaim, Mais, c'est une facade.

Government,‚: myself were two diplomatic, couriers

COMMUNIST PARTYS and an English business man.

from each acc When I The struggle still taking left, going into Rumania, I crossed the the Soviet Union is the same struggle come, "from ea place in each according frontier in solitary state. Tourist which the country began in 1928 when ty, to each acco traffic is almost non-existent. Nine the first Five-Year Plan was

that t

an- means

ty per cent of the foreign con- nounced; it is the struggle to indus- workers and pe sulates have been closed, and of the trialize a vast, backward, agricultural salaries, but large number of foreign engineers in country with a mixture of dozens of average worker the country several years ago, few re- nationalities and a largely primitive 240 roubles a m main-mostly Americans,

people. This withdrawal from contact with Since

is sometimes a those days, however, the The purchasing the rest of the world is B direct re governing system has undergone a roughly estimat sult of the purge. As many of the drastic change. In 1928, with private roubles a month Russians who have been liquidated" enterprise abolished, the Communist a week. during the past few years were ac Party was the ruling power in the The majority country. Since then the process of sants live on bi industrialization has forced it to a low and fixed abandon certain of

its fundamental and porridge,

cused of relations with capitalist Powers, no Soviet subject is now will ing to run the risk of being seen in foreign company. The foreign colony in Moser lives as -- though it were stranded on a desert island. No Rus- sians may enter an Embassy without special permission from the police, and even with this permission they are loth to do so as at some later date the visit may be recalled as evidence against them.

THE G.P.U.

Every foreign Ambassador is trailed day and night by a police car. Indeed the G.P.U. agents are so vigilant that. they even follow their charges when they are ski-ing, or on picnic outings in the country. When I went to Leningrad with two American friends. a police car spent the week-end trail- ing us to museums, and in Kiev the agents actually followed us through the catacombs of the ancient monastery. Some foreigners, indeed, are so used to this constant supervision that they treat the G.P.U. agents us servants, asking them to put their coats in the cloak-room at the theatre, pull their cars out of ditches and keep them sup- plied with matches.

But in spite of the fact that it is impossible to have free contact with Russiana, Moscow explains its story, The city offers a curious paradox.that is symbolic of the whole country. When you enter Moscow you are im- pressed by the tall modern buildings, the new bridges, the broad avenues, the stream of traffic. Then you begin to study the people in the streets. Most. of them are of the peasant class; women with shawls tied around their heads and strong red hands; men with fur caps pulled over their ears and broad unshaven faces. You walk down a courtyard into a Soviet apartment house and find the hall swarming with humanity, sometimes eight or ten péo- ple sleeping in a room. Then you be gin to notice the queues; long lines of people patiently waiting outside dingy shops for milk, for meat, for vege- tables, for manufactured goods,

CONTRASTS:

The main store, glittering with lights and swarming with human be ings, seems only to heighten the con- trast. You push way past counters

MAMA MISSES

PAPA BECAUSE

HER AIM BAD

IS

THE ROAD BACK,-A ̈ charming picture taken of Inishmann, one of three Aran Islands, made fame ty's films. Here are islanders and children returning with food supplies and mails after meeting the littl Angus which calls on the islanders once a week from miles away.

THAT

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