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No. 2: Party work

By Arthur Koestler

This is the second in a series of articles by two internationally. fumed writers of their journey into Communism and their even- tual return.

member that he mentioned that tions."

my

Korning

The name which occurred to me, after the usual blank second, was 'Ivan Steinberg' 'Ivan,' ob viously, because it sounded Rus- sing. Steinberg was the name of a friend, a psycho-analyst in Tel Heavens, my destination)

There is Been whom I hadn't

apparently Samtruth heari

in the reports that the freighter's of for several years. One

day Edgar (n political crew are worried about where guide) casually asked me they're going from here. whether I had ever been to Japan. I said no. Wouldn't I

or

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"The discovery will allow like to go to Japan? Why, yes farmer with a flock of 100 sheeps

Couldn't I liked travelling. get Ullstein's to send me as their to raise from 65 to 85 more lambs correspondent to Japan 1 Nowe per year"

Indiced a singular discovery, if had our staff there and I did not know the first thing about Japan. It achieves such plurality,

But to the Party, Edgar Bald gently, you could be more use- ful in Japan than here.'

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This rumoured peate

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"Franco is a dictator, but so is Tito, and a Communist to his boot."

And of course, Europe has had quite enough of jackboots for one generation.

Again much later, that he was also the hood of the Apparat None of the four or five Independent and parallel in- telligenge organisations, some of which were run by the German directly by the Party. OGPU.

What exactly Bchneller's 'Ap- 32812 parat did, whether, milliary In- telligence work or just harmless I do not industrial espionage, know to this day. Schneller him- self was sentenced by the Nazis country; to be admitted to the and, if that happened, people like to six years hard labour, and Soviet Union, where the Revolu- myself, in respectable positions.) dled, or was killed, in jail.

tion had already triumphed, was untalnied by suspicion, would be Of all this, of course,

I knew a rare privilege, reserved for even more valuable in the life All news contributione to, be

nothing when I mat that insigni- veterans of the movement. and-death. struggle against Fas addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

It would be equally wrong to cism and imperialistle_aggression. shabby-looking, Business Acant, rather and. Anvertisements

thin man at the shabby offices of quit my job; I could be much All this sounded quite reason-

North Korean communications should be ad

Schneidemuhis, ray first contact more useful to the Party by care able, and my initial aversion for

averture was obviously dressad to the Company 'CHINA

with the Party, Of our con-rying on with it and keeping Schneller soon changed into re-

'Could you get some other MAIL LTD.

versation in the little enfe. I re- mum about my political convic-spect for his simple and astute peper to send you out? I sold music in somebody's car.

way of arguing. We agreed to that it would be rather difficult; he was a vegetarian and lived Useful in what way 7 I asked. meet in a week's time, when he anyway, what was I supposed to there 7 Edgar and After all, I couldn't turn the B.. would introduce me to my future do when I got vegetables mainly on raw fruit: It seemed to explain

u Communist paper, thut into

or political guide.

seemed alightly pained by my bony, parched face.

change the polley of the House of

Who is that going to be?' question. Why, I was to do my Ullstein. I also remember that to

asked. 'A comrade called Edgar', Job for the paper and corn a good CHUTE on September 10, 1950,

Schneller sald I was putting aid Schneller. question whether he had read a

living. Just as ut present, and at Queen Mary Hospital, to

After saying good-bye to him, continue to pass on Information Elspeth, wite of Major certain article in a newspaper, he the question in a mechanistle

rend form: there were many ways by it suddenly occurred to me that of interest to the Cause to friends never R.T.R.-A answered that he Chute Desmond

bourgeois papers; the only paper which I could influence the polley nothing had been said about my with whom I would be put Presumably these school-less son.

Party of the paper through small fou formal admission to the Party. touch, Je read was the official

ches; for instance, by featuring The whole thing was left in the Would like to think the offspring organ, Rote Fahne.

This confirmed my opinion that more prominently the dangers to air; was I henceforth a real Com- matter over? I said thoro luxury flat-less And bank the Central Committee had sent world peace which Japanese ag-munist or not ?

was nothing for me to think over: balance-tens. I ran after Schneller and put if the Parly wanted me to go 1 petty bureauerat; the absurdity of cd (at that time Russia's main the question to him. He smiled was prepared to go at once. me some narrow-minded, sectarium ression against Chinn represent-

his awkward smile and said: 'If Edgar said he would let me propaganda-chief who only fear was a Japanese attack).

you insist, we will make you a know in a few days, and dropped reads his own paper did not dawn

Party member, but on condition the matter. He never took it up thoroughly on me until later, when I learned

We could, I wished, meet that your membership remains again and, by now of Schneller's officlal function,

once a week to discuss these mat- secret. You won't be attached to Imbued with Rorty etiquette, ters, or even better, he could de-any Parly-cell and you will be never asked him.

Incident oc- Another curlous legate somebody less busy than known in the Party under a diffe-

One eurred some time later.

fight promoter himself, who would be at my dis-rent name.

I agreed to this rather ruefully: day in the office, a Miss Meyer Solomons will clean up a tidy posal at practically any time for

for. If debarred from admission wanted to see me ; on the formsum if he brings off his intended my political guidance. I told him of my desire to Besides, through this mutual to a cell, I would not be able to which visitors had to in sho throw up my job and to work for friend, I could hand on to the enter the life, atmosphere and had scrawled as object of the three world title bouls in Britain the Party only, as a propagandist Party any political information of fraternity of the Party. "Tell me visit old friend.

sald Schneller, and I'll bring or preferably, as a tractor-driver special interest which came my what cover-name you choose,

(This was way. the period of enforced collectivi- The Party would probably be along your Party card the next sation, and the Soviet Press was forced underground quite soon, time, calling desperately for tractor- drivers),

My friend N. had already me agalust this idea, warned which he called typical petly- bourgeois romanticism, and said; that, if I talked about it to any

DEATH

SETH on September 19, 1950, Maria Del Pilar Seth, beloved wife of John Hennessey Seth and mother of Katherine and Helen, aged 50 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at today, Wednesday, p.m. September 20.

5

ENDS & MEANS Talk about the rise in Pre- sident Truman's prestige and of a drop in that of General MacArthur is not merely tactless but absurd. Socialist prejudices ought to be kept out of such things. It was President Truman who order

Romanticism

He did not ask many questions, but inquired in some detail about the exact position I held at Ulls.

teins.

in the Soviet Union.

Politguide

(To be continued)

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Men, women and memories

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children are, in the main, of parents who

the pro

"Sergeant Redmorki said, today: The British are made with the Koreans."

Well, at least the method used is the same.

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The

next year.

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Jack

This is known as the wisdom of Solomonts.

Telling, of a member expelled from her club, Myrile sald: "They illsmembered her."

*

"Malik is in bed

at the Kremlin for misjudging the turn

Without his supper?

Another ebopper "atttack" is

Many will regret that Mr. but it's a bit warmer there," he until "the sermon ended, and the of Korean developments." ed the neutralisation of Party offela), I would make a

Hector McNeil will not be said. "Yes, but what about the church broke up, and my amours.

sharks? I queried. "Oh," said ended also." Formosa, and General Mac-, fool of myself.

| But I thought him rather cyni- Arthur who carried out his cal and couldn't see what supporting Mr. Bevin at the Teddy Peel nonchalantly, "you instructions. They arc en- wrong with being a tractor-driver opening of the General As can always see them coming!"" titled to differ, as statesmen for a year or two, if that was the sembly of the United Nations and strategists will, on which most urgent need on the Front of on September 19. No one else

Socialist Reconstruction.

Schneller, of these considerations' is to

however, explained on the British side provides were priority. There

get

was in All this, though, carller building than the present, Christopher Morley, who knows and with many of the old monu

ments as

recently as only an mente and loves London

of the City finest

so me patiently that the first duty such an effective counter to American can, has it in his late hirties.

"Perfect concinnity" which was built-on the old site, reported.

Tut-i-tut-t.

book of essays, nevertheless, that

times when Mr. Churchill-a of every Communist was to work the machine-gun fire of M.there are two clubs in Lundon

for the Revolution in his own Vyshinsky's dialectics.

combination of both-differ- ed with himself! And whether one agrees or disagrees with the General's gratuitous crack

mingled in sensible propor tions in the discussions of the

is

Doubtless, Mr. NeNell feels that

he is having a harder time in Scotland, where, as Secretary of State,

coa-

By Atticus

old

the

as the

is

nol "Her nice,

by a long chalk, but the armorial bearings are brave

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she said, had consistently made trouble in the family."

That's not nice.

Local firm urges you to buy

In their new paint, the bosses in gold leaf; and am happy to be able to refute the horrid story that there is to be fluorescent its condition will be in perfect." lighting.

Does one detect a spelling error

cover-

have cost my friend a day's work

perfect concinnity in two lines.".

Concinnity ? Ah, dear reader, in reading and writing, and have you must look it up: I had to

run to a couple of columns of this paper.

Wine profit 300 from

per cent

your Stilton now. "At Christmas,

he is having dimeultien at appeasers, it wasn't the Big Three in New York. In with the chemists, not to men-

One is the Oxford first time Generals have in- South-East Asia, for instance, tion the Covenanters. He retains, that not even their own members Declined with thanks somewhere? however, his two best qualities: know apart.

A colleague recently contri- truded into

the political the overall problem is seen his admirable equanimity and bis and Cambridge, and the other the buted an article to a weekly re-

United University." Mr. Morley

view on controversial problem field. -

as, first, the building up of gift of quick repartee.

Recently I saw him

display would think differently had hin world affairs. Not long after The real source of trouble military strength to meet ag- both to great advantage. Speak- vislied either when it was taking its publication he received a let

perhaps t'ather in these recent club-clean- was to be found in the per-gression, and, second, the pro-ing as a former (and

# small ing weeks; I have never seen Boter from a naval officer, who ex- fervid talk in other quarters motion of the welfare of the future) journalist to about an

invasion of the people as an additional safe- gathering, he praised journalism many lost sheep. But he carns plained that as he had been de- which. unlike forgiveness by reminding me of taffed to give a lecture he had his sub- with this delicate club story:

chosen this problem medicine, dealt essentially mainland. The test of policy guard against the appeal of as a profession

to the Formosa

Caledonian icet: would my friend be good "Drive me the affairs of the mind. has yet to be made. The most Communism.

the following enough to answer A prominent doctor interrupted Club."

28 questions

(they) successful approach to the looked upon, and rightly, as

The taxi-man's face tell. Writion, I hasten to say, by a ed 10 sides of writing-paper) or mind." problems so often presented, both a military and a political him: We also deal with the by China in the past has been problem. The first is now

"Yes," said Mr. McNeil quter-Scotsman, James Bone, and done, return them, to be submitted as Mr. Marley observes, "with his elsewhere? The answers would the dual one of strength and being linked less to long-term ly, "you certify it." conciliation. In the previous strategic considerations than Ambiguous schoolboy crisis-in-the-relations--be-to the conclusion of hostilitiesAn agreeable vision was tween China and the West, in Korea. This in turn will jured up by the headline to an

paper's story

I am glad to say that he re- fused the invitation, sorry only during the Nationalist up-lead to political treatment evening

that he did not return the ques- heaval on the Yangtze, we which may, in its overall in- Koren: "Small G.1. Advances.”

Plucky little fellow! But it will

I sometimes thought that Bri- tions in an unstamped envelope had the powerful Shaforce fluence, vitally affect the For- be a long time, I fancy, before I in Shanghai-which never mosan solution. This is and a headline to beat the local tish Railways have been unfairly tion had to fire a shot in anger business of give and take, paper's contribution to my collec- nagged at but I begin tot wender. for the naval officer had not tion of pleasing ambiguities: Rather than scold them publicly even enclosed a stamp! But why before hearing their side of it, ore journalists, so often singled and the diplomacy of Austen and if it is reciprocated, well "Barking Schoolboy Shot."

them? We don't write to The Colonial service is losing a asked them why the cheapest out to do other people's work for Chamberlain. The two to- and good. If not, 'Formosa

In Harry Franklin, French table wines in their re- gether were triumphant. may remain much longer a good man

taken

our! fancy, saying, "I did wine-merchant tells my Either might

have falled strategic consideration than it Director of Information to the staurant cars were 10s. a bottle architect, say, whose work has

Northern Rhodesian Government, when

Watford without the other, "Teddy" otherwise would. Strategy is who is about to retire, Franklin me that the same wines, for so admire your Tudor villa on

by-pass; I am In his which he charges Os. Od., cost the Roosevelt had a famous the instrument, not the mas conceive and created

him just over 4s., and that British stranger to you, but would you broadcasting service to the

buy in much please design me a family mauso→ phrase for it, and the tradi-ter, of politics.

The most knotty problem Rhodesias, a major

Africans of Nyasaland and the Railways must tion is a sound one.

contribution greater bulk: (Many restaurai.is leum, free?" of backward also treat wine-drinkers as though Something of this balance is still that of the recognition to the education

they were opulent, imbecile, and is foreshadowed by two re- of the People's Government peoples. cent developments. One is the in Peking. It was unfortun- The most practical of vision. immoral, but I know at least and arlos, he decided at the very be- that charges 12s. for these same appointment of General Mar- ate that even before Britain ginning that the best broadcasting modest Bordeaux, and clubs do

malice service in the world was useless them for 8s.) shall as Defence Secretary, offered recognition

This was the Railways' answer: which will not only ensure was at work to circumvent it if it couldn't be heard, and his

three-year search for a firm that "Regarding the prices charged for unity of policy but also at least insofar as possibili- would make his five-pound bat-wines, these were fixed with a strengthen the hand of the ties of joint action were con- tory act is an epic not without view to fair prices being put into Secretary of State at pre-cerned. The

Now the set is operation, and having, in mind the imprisonment its comicalities. cisely the point where it has of the American Consular being produced in thousands an high overhead expenses unavoid-

educational boon to unlettered able in railway catering."

No, I'm not criticising the prose been most weakened by the staff in Mukden was an out- Africans, and a commercial bless- inroads of hostile politicians. rageous piece of sabotage and ing to the British firm that was style-merely the idea of what is mass-producing a fair profit. Three hundred per

cont?. The other is the final failure provocation. There has never persuaded into

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handlet.

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the West. the member and many been re-

of the North Koreans to at- been the slightest doubt about Still in his forties, Franklin, Pepys at church- tain their objective, and the that. And it has been fol- ought to be snapped up by the

After St. Bride's-and I fear! Allied counter-offensive which lowed up by a campaign of B.B.C., for. I am told that of the

rebullt no church is: will restore the military posi- slander and abuse only less 20,000 British schools that listen it will be many years before St

to its excellent school broadcasts, Bride's is

for tion. The twin methods of vehement and unscrupulous at least half cannot receive them closer to the hearts of London

those us are journalists, even strength and conciliation on than the Five Year "Ta Tao" properly because their sets a basis of unified policy will. Plan to which the British out-of-date, unsuitable, or badly away from Fleet Street as Gray's Inn Road, than St. Dunstan's-in- Many journalists have then, have, greater play. were subjected in China from

Sharks ignored! We know whom we have 1823 to 1928, except that the

Those hardy enthusiasts,

at memorial services, to defeat in this business: if violence and outrage to which we don't we ought to: A free so many Britons were subject fishermen, are having a in the church. So I have a pro- discouraging season off Scar fessional pride as well as a para- and independent Korea was ed were ruled out this time. borough. Why I met him again chial pleasure in noting that St provided for In the Allied But it really is time that the other day Sir Edward Peel, Dunstan's war damage has been who comes over every year from restored. The Bishop of Lon- agreements, and that remains Peking put an end to the Alexandria, told me had landed don will re-dedicate the church the only feasible policy today. street-gamin tactics of spit only one dish of: 610 pounds, on October 21, reminded. fa re-

I have been The Communists struck beting in a great and generous during his visit a disappointing cause they had quite other people's faces. If the Chinese ward for a fourney of several reading Arthur Bryant's life

thousand miles,

Pepys of the church's association ideas, and they have made in Peking are really Chinese

"Rough weather has cut down wi the country and the people first and Communists after his days sca, and bad visibill with one who, if not a journal- lat, was, at any rate, a fellow- pay a pretty penny for it. A ward; here is a point of de- has often prevented him from diarist. It was in St. Dunstan's contacting the herring fleet. 19.0 In 1067 that Pepys, "standing by lot of things will be remem-parture for the provision of Bir. Edward is in Hle 07th year,

pretty, modest maid," tried to bered after it is all over, but proof. One doesn't expect but his stamina is remarkable: the Koreans won't soon forget much from the Kremlin's One day last week he was fishing take her hand until she took

Herself. "which seeing I did for the real cause of their woes masters of vile abuse, but one north of Bearborough when a line pins from her pocket to defend

fouled the propeller of his yacht. | | when we join with them to ought to expect something in bitterly cold weather, he went bear, and

But Pepys

conflict. Makula

many centuries of civilisation yacht to cut away the obstruction determined, if not single-mladed, When I asked him about it in hie dalliance, aid he had bot- The two blomants of high and of extreme decorum ho inaldens he shughed. "I'm always for luck with another pretty. (but

to be found hind them.

having to do that in the Red Bas,...,not, perhaps, no, modest) maid policy wer

1 help repair the ravages of the botter, from a people with so overboard nnd".dived under thai her “dusign of Alad I did copy

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