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I was born in 1905 in Buda- pest; we lived there till 1819, when we moved to Vienna. Until the first world war we were comfortably off, a typl- 24364cal Continental middle class RIC family: my father was the Hungarian representative of some old established British and German textile manu- facturers.
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DACRE-On September 16, 1950 at Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong to Aimee (nee Young- wife of Major John BON) Dacre, Royal Artillery-A son,
THE WAR WITH CRIME
Once again the eyes of the public are turned from the conflict in Korea to our own grim little war between the Police and the armed enemics of society. The gun battle in a village in the Pingshan area of the New Territories comes quickly on the heels of the Tsunwan shooting. In between there has been a
in September 1914 this form of cxistence. like
so many others. come to an abrupt end my father He never found his feel again. crubarked on a number of ven- tures which became the more fantastic the more he lost soir- confidence in a changed. world and finally lost the remains of liis capital in the Austrian in- flation of the early twenties..
I left home at 21 and from that day became the 'only Anancial support of my parents.
At the age of nine, when our middle-class idyll collapsed, 1 had suddenly become conscious of the economic Facts of Life,
No. 1---Rapture
of a new
By Arthur Koestler
"The God That Folled" is the description by two Internationally-famed writers of their journey Into Com- muniem and their return. Mr. Richard Crossman, M.P. says that between 1017 and the Stalia-Hitler Pact of 1939, "numberless men of letters, bath in Europe and America, were attracted to CommunismTL. · They were Indeed, being people of unusual not "typical" converts, nensitivity, they made mort abnormal Communists: they had a heightened perception of the spirit of the age, and felt more acutely, than athers ita frustrations and Its hopes."
Among those whom the god Yailed was the author of the testimony that begins on this page today, Arthur Koestler. Born in Budapest in 1905, Koestler, after two years roving. In the Near East, became foreign cor- respondent. He joined the Communist Party in 1931, teaving it seven years later after his imprisonment by
Im the Franco authorities in the Spanish Civil War.
authorities prisoned by the French
In 1939, escaped to England in 1940 to join the British Army.
His works include "Darkness at Noon The Yopt and the Commissar," and his latest, "Promise and Full- ment.
the case,
he
faith
Good Morning's
Pilgrime process.
in the matchbox
The forces of Good and Evil. again. Do hope they BIW
the Fight,.
steel
UN. troops, according to one Ullsteins. And that job is an account, were tonight reported important asset for
the Party to be battling I must add that, in the mean suburbs of Soul." time, while retaining my zeleneo Job at the Voniche. I had been appointed Foreign Editor of an ether Ullstein, newspaper, BZ an Mittag; a post which carried
Watching the Socialists certain political influence and gave access to a good deal at themselves for today's big vote, In London wonder political inside information.
sick will halt the So, on N.'s_advlee, I wrote whether the direct to the Central Committee. planners' march, or if this is a
A week or so later the nnawer | tame excuse, come in the form of Д rather puzzling letter. It was typed on blank sheet of paper without
somewhat heading, and ran follows:
Dear Sir,
03
With reference to your esteem- ed of Dec. 31, we shall be glad if you will meet a representative of our firm, Herr Schneller, at the offers of the Schneidemult
Mon- paper-mili, strasse, next day at 3 pm.
Yours truly, (legible signature).
'Fish eyed'
+
observers
"Singapore men beat women.” The ends!
There is said to be a slump in moon cakes,
Is that what the stuff ie? I've often wondered.
Guests in a Pittsburgh cafe were
sald to have -caten prehistoric beans.
One man was heard to ask whether they were' vegetable or minerali.
Correspondent says he was Aurprised to find three empty his mall one day connection envelopes in
offices an inconspicuous nothing to him. conüdential In-
and
the
series of dastardly attacks on predicament on to the structure Horps and anoint themselves, bu mental rapture which only the girl at the inquiry desk gave me į
A
of myself. It dici
Tortuous
because
not, for
some years,
of n
took mawkishly sentimental attitude.
Every
with contact
people
un myself was
thar: strangled to poorer death in a peculiarly heart-
the Courts, less crime, to rob her of her discretion, of few
valuables. She leaves when the reign of the cosh three children.
began in the shocking crime Now have the gun wave that followed the ex- battle at Pingshan. This was periment in mercy. the sequel to an armed rob-
we
they.
conveyed
Hearing of the jelly-bomb
Guns before suckers.
Of course, it more tourists are to be attracted, we'll have to do be something about our growing asreputation as the Chicago of the
East.
mel situations;
*
*
"I can't understand why he's dis- "Oh, he married a smashing
blonde."
"Vanguards battling in suburba of Seoul city."
No
A doubt setting high Standard.
to
bureaucrat tried to live up Russian style, the habit gradually
*
粤
"A person talking continuously. for
500 years produces only cup enough energy to heat one
Nevertheless, even brie cup must be very refreshing,
of tea."
As an only child, I continued to be pampered by my parents; bule Learable--the boy at school who the mighty Soviet Union behind well aware of the family crisis, had no gloves and red chilblains them seemed the only force and torn by pity for my father or his fingers, the former travel- capable of resisting the onrush of who
The Schneldemuhl paper-mills was of a generous landing salesman of my father's re- the primitive horde with Its somewhat
In Germany, childlike disposition, duced to cadging occasional swastika utem. But it was not were well known I suffered a pang of gullt when meals-all of them were addfilons by
of elimine- but it had never occurred to mo ever they bought me books or to the load of guilt on my back. on that became a Communist. that they had anything to do with wys.
The analyst would have no Tired of lectrons and wave- the KP.D.
the What exactly the mechanica-1 began for the Arst This continued later on, when difficulty in showing that
this guilt-complex time to read Marx, Engels and was I do not know; the fact re-recently.
Or course every sult I bought for myself 10pts of
cut much less to send home deeper than the crisis in our Lenin in earnest. By the time I mains that their Berlin
used s Simultaneously, I developed a household budget; but he were had finished with Feuerbach and were strong dislike of the obviously to dig even deeper, preing State and Revolution, something rendezvous for
not because they could rich;
he would strike the shook me like a mental explosion. I did not understand the reason devastation, the Argylls in Koren afford to buy things (envy plays the individual Layers of had clicked in my brain which terviews
for all this conspiratorial secrecy: remark feelingly: Hope they will auch lesser purt in social cot archetypal pattern which has pro-
'The light'
but I was thrilled and excited, napalm off anything like that on flet than is generally assumed) duced millions of particular varia- but because they were able to do tions on the same theme..."Woc
When, at the appointed time, I us To say that one land seen the in without a guilty conscience.
for they chant to the sound of light is a poor description of the arrived at Schneidemul's asked for 'Herr Schneller,' * I projected a personal
are not grieved for the affliction of convert knows (regardless to
commonly called of society at nige
the people.'
what faith he has been conver- what is
'searching 'look' but might inoffensive and defenceless
Thus sensitivised by a personal ted).
described There is now an answer to more correctly residents. correspondent
It was certainly a tortuous way ronflict, I was ripe for the shock
of learning that wheat was burut, every
doubts question;
and fish-eyed stare.
Since then I have often has referred to two outrages, of acquiring a social conscience.
fruit atifelally split and pigs conflicts are a matter of the of the In the Wanchai district and But precisely in Hollywood Road Central, intimate nature of the confict, were drowned in the depression tortured past a past already that look in similar
the faith which grew out of years keep prices up and en- remote, when one had lived in whenever the desire for fraternul always buying crockery." In one of them a ten-men
of harps: while sound
Europe colourless world of those who trust and fear, people exchange gang battered a Chinese with became an equally intimate part able fat capitalists to chat to the damal ignorance in the tasteless, complicity is checked by
Klances which are neither pene- trembled under the torn boots of don't kno1o.
nor 'searching; they icon-bars and slashed him
hunger-marchers and my father
Nothing henceforth epn disturb trating
and Hoggle at each other dully, like with knives; in the other a crystalline into the term or hid his frayed cuffs under the the convert's inner peace
table.
the occasionall fish, serenity-except
'Have you a date with Ernst?" woman was severely attack-rat it
The frayed cuffs and drowned fear of losing faith again, losing a boat- ed. In the harbour
piga blended into one emotionat thereby what alene makes, life she asked.
'No-with Herr Schneller," woman was
foBlag back explosion as the fuse of the worth living, and
This stupidly seemed somehow # is now stated that the archetype was touched off. We into the outer darkness.
to convince her to my bona ûdes. Australian government intends to sang the Internationale,' but the Every page of Marx, and, even
She said Herr Ernst Schneller take no auction in the wool words might as well have been more of Engels, brought a new the older ones: "Woe to the revelation, and an intellectual hadn't arrived yet, and told me business.
I walte shepherds who feed themselves, delight which I had only experi- to sit down and welt.
first for aver half an hour. enced once before, at my but feed not their flocks".
It was my flest experience of Reversal
contact with Freud.
Today when Marxist philoso- that, unpunctuality which was de In such matters as these As long as I had been nearly'
The Russians, as semi- zantine cult and virtually every Party.
arg congenitally un- bery in another village in the we are not wholly our own starving, I had regarded myself phy has degenerated Into a By. Panier in the higher strata of the
36 masters. Even a change of as a temporarily displaced off-single tenet of the Marxist pro- orientals, same district. Within
every Party hours the police had tracked regime in London would not spring of the bourgeoisie. In 1931, gramme has become twisted into punctual; and as, consciously or
when at last I had achieved its opposite, it is dimcult to re- unconsciously, down the robbers and sur-remove the many considera-comfortable income I found that capture that mood of emotional rounded the house in which tions that influence White-it was time to join the ranks of fervour and intellectual bliss.
others filtered down from the top Com- -1 and thousands of
Intern-burqaucracy into every they were hiding. They were hall. Yet against the crime the proletarial, But the irony of called on to surrender. The by violence which is the this sequence only occurred to were ripe to be converted as
my in retrospect.
A result of personal case historics, national C.P. in Europe. 'Little late' desperadoes preferred
I was ripe to be converted as a which, though differing from case in-supreme and most persistent
personal of the Com- result of my
case to case, had a 'common deno
At last he turned up. He in- stead to shoot it out with the manifestation
Continental police, while trying to make munists' political activity in history, thousands of other mem- minator: the rapid disintegration troduced himself, their escape into the hillside. Malaya, all means of military bers of the intelligentsia und the of moral values, of the pre-1914 fashion, by barking out schnel
of life in middle classes of my generation pattern
post-war ler'; I barked "Koestler'; we shook simultaneous hands and after & are were ripe for it by virtue of Europe, and the
perfunctory One of the gang was killed, and legal suppression
the other personal ense-histories; but, lure of the new revelation, which apology for being a little late another seriously wounded, sanctioned, including
these differed had come from the East, however, much
he invited me to a cafe ncross the and third captured. A death penalty for the posses- from case to case, they had a
street. fourth member of the gang sion of arms.-To-what heights common denominator: the rapid
I applied for membership of He-was-a-thin,-bony_man_of about 35 with a pinched, taut- had been arrested earlier, must non-political crime by disintegration of moral values, of
life in the German Communist Party on skinned face and awkward One Chinese policeman was violence attain before the the pre-1914 pattern of
post-war Europe, and the simul- December 31, 1931, by means of
smile, His manner was equally killed instantly by a bullet law is similarly reinforced? taneous hure of the new revela-n letter addressed to the Cen- awkward: he seemed all the time
from the tral Committee of the Kommun 11 at mare. through the forehead. The These are not normal times, lion which had come
istische Partel Deutschlands, The lives of Divisional Superinten- nor are the surrounding con- East.
I joined the Party (which to letter contained a short curricu- dent McPherson and Sub-ditions normal. Violent crime this day has remained 'the' Party lum vitae and stated my read underling in the Party bureau- Was Ernst Inspector Hidden were saved has reached almost epidemic for all of us who once belonged ness to serve the cause in what-cracy, and learned, only later that by the bullet-proof vests they proportions, and representa- to it) in 1931, at the beginning ever capacity the party decided Schneller and that be was the
It was not usual to apply for Schneller, member of the were wearing. One of the tions for stronger action are of that short-lived period of
optimism, ef that abortive spirit membership by writing to the man Central Committee and head robbers had a Mills bomb, | justified.
ual renaissance, later known as Central, Committee: I did it, on
close of the Agitprop (Department for the advice of triends in Meanwhile, the tendency the Pink Decade. but was overpowered before he could use it.
to diminish deterrents to The cultural atmosphere was touch with the Party, The normal Agitation and Propaganda),
with Progressive procedure was to fola one of the (To be continued) The crime situation is crime must be turned in the saturated
Writers congresses, experimental party-cells, the basic direction. In one catres. alarming enough in itself. It opposite
committees for Peace the Party's organisational net could be graver still if politi- aspect of this problem, it is and against Fascism, societies for work.
of There were two types cal crime were to be added to true, Hong Kong faces dif- cultural relations with the USSR
'workshop cells'
com- (Betriebs-zellen), which ordinary robbery with vio-ficulty. The prisons are al-Russian films and avant-garde cells:
magazines. lence. That is an aspect of ready congested. The rate of The new star of Bethlehem prised the Party members of a the problem which, whether remission of sentence here had risen in the East; and for a given factory, workshop, office or
modest sum. Intourist (Soviet eny other enterprise; it be active or passive, can- is among the highest any Travel Agency) was prepared to street-cells
(Stronen-Zellen), not be overlooked in any where in the world, express allow you a short and well-organised according to residential general consideration of the ly because of this condition. focused glimpse of the Fromised blocks.
Most waga-carnera belonged possession of arms, The Co- The range of deportation
Power in print both to the workshop-cell of the 1 lohy permits freedom per-might well be, extended as
place where they were employed, I lived at that time in Berlin. and to the street-cell of their haps to a fault in the presen-partial remedy for this, and tation and discussion, especial- the heavier sentences for For the last five years, I had homes. This system was univer- Ullstein sal in all countries where the been working for the ly in the Press, of rival parties crime with violence and pos- chain of newspapers-first as a Party led legal existence.
There and policies. It sets an exam-session of arms which the foreign correspondent in Pales ple in this respect which has} Courts must be expected to tine and the Middle East, then workition so we were told, n in Paris Finally, in 1030, I Kremlin, in which members of few imitators in either of the impose. The acting Chief joined the editorial staff in the the Polibureau, sentries and
'House' 13 two principal Chinese camps. Justice has already issued a Berlin
Selence, charwomen, discussed the policy But if and when underground public warning on this score. Editor of the venerable Vosriche of the Party in fraternal demo- Zeltung, founded in the 16th cracy at the usual weekly meet- politics take the same form | There has also been a warning
ing, and where Stalin was told century. the struggle is again assuming against the evil of frivolous The firm of Plistein was not off if he forgot to pay, his mem-| in neighbouring provinces, criminal appeals, and an an- only a political power, in Ger- bership fee.
mon it was at the same time However, my friend N., who the law would have to go to nouncement has been made the embodiment of everything had played a decisivo part in my extreme measures to assert that sentences will date from progressive and cosmopolitan in conversion, strongly advised itself. And nobody but the the appeal in such cases in the Weimar Republic. The at- against joining a cell in the usual thevitable cranks would doubt stead of from the date of the mosphere in the House in the way (I call him N., for he left Kochstrasse was more that of a the Party years ago, and lives or dispute the necessity.. original trial. These
office.
buried and renounced Commu- It is hard to find any logi helpful but they don't go far istry than of an editorial now in a country where even a
I arrived in Borlin on apart from cal justification for a more enough. And,
the nist past might mean trouble for indulgent attitude toward such measures as may be pos- fateful day of September 14, 1930 a foreigner), pre
-the day of the Reichstag Elec- desperadoes who strangle sible here to reinforce deter tion in which the National Socia ... Marx.student
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N; was a former plumber's op- old women or commit simi- rents, there is another aspect list Party, in one mighty leap,
of Its prentice who, through evening larly odious crimes. It is which ought not to be over-increased
classes and dogged night-reading, true that a school of thought looked. A large proportion deputies from four to 107.
The Communists had (also had made the grade and become has developed which honest of these criminals probably registered important is the a well-known political
Ho know his Mark and Lenin ly believes that even come from the ranks of the democratie parties of the centre criminals of this sort can be many thousands, of workless were crushed. It was the be- backwards and forwards and had sinning of the end of Weimary-shit absolute, serens faith which over reformed, and that the law squatters. That problem with one-third of its wago exerts a hypnolle power should be merciful even to the in this, as in so many other carnera unemployed Germany Ether people's minds.
explained merciless,, For a time caplangics, is surely big enough lived in a state of latent selvil Don't be a fool, he tal punishment was abolished to be taken up diplomatically, war and it became imperative to to me, once you join a cell and
take sides,
JASTHAN SE becomes known, that you have in Britain after the war. It and the way cleared for large Even by a process of pure become a Party?meinders you elimination the Communiste, with! will doen you folly with the Boon had to be restored, at the scale repatriation.
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