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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1050.

The GOD that failed

Today, of course the matter is simple to explain: I could, mot face reading in black and white the factual record of action

which I insisted on regarding through a haze of dialectical zuphemiamis,

Besides, though I was convinced that young von E. was a quixotic

and myself an earnest worker for the Calise, I felt guilty to- wards the boy and frightened of the grand gesture, ending in a HK$18.00

bang in front HK$36.00

the mirror. ***{ HK$72.00

So I stuffed the letter back into his pocket and told him to hand it in with my blessing and to go to hell.

All nawe contributions to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

Advertisements and Surines communications should be act. dressed to the Company CHINA MAIL LTD.

HONG KONG S TRADE

No. 4: Inside Russia

By Arthur Koestler

禽

This is the fourth in a series of articles by two internationally- famed writers of their journey into Communism and their even- tuat return,

free

腊

never

Coup d'etat

A few weeks Inter, von Popen

printed agreement form and was sent another chequa for three or four thousand roubles, (The safary of the average wage-earner was at that time 130 roubles por Twist, pleaso. month).

I thus sold the same short

Bernard Shaw wants another

story to eight or 10 different helping of porridge at his hospital

breakfast. titerary magazines from Len- Ingrad to Tashkent, and sold the He was always a Dickens of a Russian, German, Ukrainian, man for cereals,

world

*

The gas workers' strike. In Lantion resulted in. Hyde Park with being blacked-out.

As

confirm the that www

ara

There is, however, no proof courting couples. I that

responsible for the dispute.

An effort is being made to provide accommodation far some of Shanghai's deatifutes in coffin depositarles and funeral parlours. The authorities are obviously

No, Myrtle, Waegwan never did

Georgian, and Armenian rights of my unwritten, book against ad- settlement of the remaining term¡ vanguard of the Revolution, and vance payments which amounted of my five-years' contract.j were the rearguard of the disinte- to a small fortune.

Not a word about von "E., the grating, workers' movement.

And as I did all, this official encouragement, Communist Party, or

breach of

and ether writers did the same, confidence, The Ulsteins were Do you mean that you agree- obviously anxious

wholeheartedly avold to

could

Hursta to my doing it? he

for staged his coup d'etat: one lieu- that. Soviet

ዩና።። naked.

scandal, So was the Party,

paradise and He was so surprised, and seized Edgar instructed me to accept the tenant and eight men chased the writer's upon his

chiace

Socialist government of Prussia nowhere else in the with such

settlement and leave it at that alacrity, that I thought, fur a

from office.

the creative artist better paid or mament, I was really acting like As already mentioned,

The Socialist Party

with its held in higher esteem. aw him again in my life. fool: maybe with a litle argu- 5W

Unwritten book ing ned dialectics

Having lost my job, I was at 8,000,000 followers, did nothing. I could talk

Socialist-controlled trade Inst

At that time I had not pub- | dead right. him out of his dilemma...

from all fetters of the The

unions did not even call a lished a single book; my name world. The lump sum non bourgeois But I could not face it; my self-which Ulstein's paid me I sent profest virific. Only we, the Com was completely unknown to those confidence as a Guru had gone,

to

my parents; it was enough tuj munists, who a year earfler had who pak rendy cash for a story In spite of all the chances Young von E. came back from the keep them going for two or three joined hands with the Nazis they had not read, and a book provide shelter for Red Indians.

door and shook my hand with and changes of these times, solemn sentiment. Then ne push- years, and thus free me from any against the same Prussian gov- that was not writin.

They were civil, servants, act- "Louis Johnson....left

to Pentagon today to return Hong Kong's trade figures con-ed off, locking, already less un- obligation, until after the victor- crnment and who kept repeating

tous revolution and the dawn of the Socialists were the main ing on instructions.

chemy of the working class-we try where all publications are etvillan le." tinue to gratify, astonish, and even

the New Era!' That was the end of my curce. The

It would be most interesting to of course mystify. We

with the Ullsteins and the begin-

I retained, however, 200 marks now called for an immediate gen- Sinte-owned, editors, publishers

to pay my erol strike,

and literary critics become ipso know his initial reactions to the don't know quite what to ring of seven lean years. I had (about ten pountis).

The call fell ondent cars in facto part of the civil service. world outside. tare to Soviet Russia. If and make about the air of incre-been prepared to throw up my

the whole of Germany, Our ver- They wil make or break 3 Job for the Party, but not to lose when the Party gave me per binge had lost all real meaning writer according to orders re- Went which dulity with

to very unsatisfactory many it in such an idiotic way.

mission to emigrate..

the ex-for the masses, like inflated cur- celved: the publishers, by printing party the other night, the sort businessmen themselves greet it was at the same time the end

I gave up my flat in the monthly figures. It is not my connection with the Ap-pensive district of Neu Westend, reney. And so we lost the battle vast editions of his new book or where guests get just enough to

his Apartment against Hitler before it was join- by pulping l

previous drink to make them thirsty. doubt true that trade here is parat. Having lost my usefulness and moved into. an

works; the crities, by calling [for them-İn a manner which house on Donner Platz:; it was cd.

Success After July 20, 1932, it was him a ney Tolstoy or a depraved

in running ព finding ever new channels, proved my tolal unfitness for in- mainly inhabited by penniless ar

Gr both hairdresser's was evident to all but ourselves that cosmopolitan vermin,

business, says like a flood which follows the telligence work—they dropped me tists of radical views

and

the KPD, strongest among the within an interval of few expert. is largely a matter of contours of the land, and that without ceremony.

known as the Red Block.

were Communist

parties in Europe, months.

maintaining cordial reintions with My three months there

The people whom he meets al women clients, both inside and

seem to outside the salon. onques and parties know his works by heart; δια would have to be a masochist, with

Ulsteins fred me in a manner

.

Collapse

a good deal of it is of that which may be called rather do the happlest time in my seven was a castrated giant whose bragl transit nature which yields much less in local profit than hypocrisy; it depends on the angle

During that long stifling sum-its lost virility. in statistical from which you look at it. it registers

mer of 1832 we fought our ding- volume. The true test of re- It was all so plausible that, dong battles with Nazis. Hardly

after the Initial shock

of the day passed without one or twa siliency lies not in profits, scene with von E. had

passed, 1

in Berlin. dead however, whether big or little, waited impatiently for the show The main battlefields were the

smoky diffused or concentrated, but down, braced with moral indig. Bierstuben, the

nation and conscious of the actual value

being the taverns of the working-class dis- and innocent victim of a witch-hunt. tricts. volume of goods that change If one lives in the ambiguity of a Some of these served as meeting deep-sea aquarium, it is dimeult to distinguish the bodies the shadows.. in

in

hands.

A free port enjoys an .autonomy all its

scores

own

It

lines.

than

Plebeian Fiat

In a coun-

A

+

the

DIL

It is quite permissible to groot touch of persecution them with a casual wave in the

street. mania, to assume that they have been specially briefed ocension,

for the

Delayed action packet.

and

*

*

A

the other half in time municipal employees were

Moscow, writing paid only in sterling.

•

The day after the abortive

Tourist describes how he went general strike, the Party Press affirmed that it had been a re-

The Central State Publishing to several places in Hong Kong little sounding victory: by calling for

complete the strike in the face of Socialist Trust offers him a contraet for his hoping for the thrill of a pipe of Inaction, our Party had definitely next book and an advance cover- opium, but drow

of the ing the royalties on a sale of 160,- blank. He was annoyed at being unmasked the treachery

000 coples.

drug all over the place for Social-Fascist leaders, 05

It he is very honest. the nothing. • A few months later everything from Places for the Nazis, some

meeting-places (Verkehrslokale)

4 blush that this is about 10 "The super strong man did for us. To enter the wrong pub was over. Years of conspiratorial honoured guest will mention with was to venture into the enemy training and preparations for the times the number of copies on remarkably well until the secret normal times. These are so

was Anallly emergency proved within a few whose expected sale the cash ad- of his strength No scandal abnormal that it is hard to

From time to time the Nazis hours totally useless. The giant vances of well-known European revealed.

of four was swept off his feet and collap- writers are calculated.

This of courto came as one foretell what tomorrow may However, days passed and would shoot up one

Verkehrslokale. It was done in sed like a Carnival monster.

But that, the director points outfel of a

surprise. bring forth, in a hundred and nothing happened. Then, a week

Thalmann, leader of the Party, to him with a smile, is the prac rive and the majority of his lieutentice of capitalist publishers.

"Nowadays," zays Myrtle's one different ways. And if or 10 days after the scene with the classic Chicago tradition: a

gang of

would GA men

Dats were found in their carefully Aring

In the Soviet Union all publish- | grandfather, “young people try to the world crisis deepens, local von E., I found one morning

past the tavern letter from the firm on my desk. slowly

prepared hide-outs and arresteding enterprises are owned by the be sane in a mad world. In my controls will no doubt be it stated, with extreme courtesy vanish at breakneck speed.

through

then glass panes,

within the first few days. The people, and the average Soviet day we tried to be mad in BADC Central supplemented by much more that, in view of the general re

Committee emigrated. | citizen buys 231.37 per cent more world." We had far fewer motor-cars The long night descended over books than the average Ameri- drastic and effective controls ductions of staff made inevitable!

retaliation the Nazis, and

Germany; by the economic crisis, etc.,

17 years can; at the end of the second Five: today, crisis, etc., etc., at the source. But there is a

A garbage-collector in England, out in cars later. It has not yet ended.

Year Plan this quotient will reach says an agency report, found he With Hitler in power, and outstrip 385 per cent, lot of the old spirit of com- was necessary to dispense with was mostly carried

Was $2,80 short in his 'pay bativeness and even a certain my services on the editorlat staff, either stolen or borrowed from

It was up to me whether. I

Thalmann in jall, thousands of sympathisers.

The men who did these jobs Parly membera murdered and modest glee in bucking the preferred to continue writing for

I stayed in the Soviet Union for He had apparently never heard tide and matching every new

the Ullstein papers as a free-lance were members of the RFB the tens of thousands in concentra-

of Communist

War tion camps, the Comintern at one year, half of which I spent of the dollar shortage. In my obstacle with equal ingenuity. mum, or to accept a lump sum in

with a guaranteed monthly mini League

last awoke to its responsibilities, travelling, Veterans.

The Party tribunals abroad, Kharkov Free enterprise is not mere-

My car was sometimes borrow. ed by comrades whom I had the GPU Collegia in the USSR, my book. ly free-it is also enterprise.

A German edition of it was! A cat has nine lives but a frog never seen before, and returned sat in merciless judgment on the Certainly there must be a of the figures for 1949. Im-a few hours later with no ques- enemy within the bandits and actually published in Kharkov, crooks more often.

of Fascism, who mur-under a different title. The Rus- good deal of that spirit here. ports from China are roughly tions asked and no explanations agents

mured agairat the official fine. sian, Georgian. Armenian, etc., The harbour is thick with $76 million compared with $48 offered.

according to which the Socialist editions have, as far as I know, Party of ships lying idle. million, and exports to Chinia

remained the enemy never seen the light.

My travels led ine through the No. 1 of the German working Still, more than 63,000 ships have more than doubled-s

centres along the class, and the Communist Party industrial entered the port during the from $52 million to $113

It was a tiny, red,

Volga; then' Southward through open Flat had suffered no defeat, but mere- past year, and though fewer million so far this year.

car, model 300 most unsuitable ly carried out a strategle retreat. the Ukraine and across the Trans-

caucasian but nobody

Republics Georgia, In number they aggregated a The fallacy that trade was for such purposes;

Soviet visa

Armenia_and_ Azerbaijan — to tonnage 4,300,000 tons greater less a matter of a fair ex- else in our cell had one. It was

the last relic of my bourgeois In the late summer of 1832 my Baku; across the Caspian and than the year before, to make change of goods than a means past; now it served as a vehicle Soviet visa was granted at last, through the Central Asialle Ro a total of 27,350,000 tons for of foreign exploitation had for the proletarian revolution, II obtained it on the strength of publics-Turkmenistan and Uzbe the year and to

vla Tashkent and maintain quite a vogue for many years spent half my time driving it an invitation from the Interna-kistan-down to the Afghan fron- Hong Kong's prestige as one after the fall of the Dynasty round on various errands: tran- tional Organisation of Revolu- tier; then,

pamphlets and Jeaflets, tonary Writers to tour the coun- across Kazakstan, back to Mos-

cow. of the greatest ports of the in China. Many feared that

certain Nazi cars, try and write a book about it.

What I saw and experienced world "And this at a time the new regime would turn

numbers had been noticed. This was to be called The Soviet

came, as a shock-but a shock when coastal shipping oper- its back on trade and reduce to us, and beting security Land Through Bourgeois Eyes.

delayed action effect, as it The Idea was to describo how with ates under disabilities and it to a mere taking in of its escort.

came The RFB men who

to Mr. K., a bourgeois reporter with

My Party education had equip. the car for their guerrilla strong anti-Soviet prejudices, is existent before the last war. turned out quite differently.

sometimes gradually converted by seeing the ped my mind with such elaborate the results of Socialist Reconstruction shock-absorbing buffers and elas- These ships with a little ald Mechanism has been much rather sinister types from

during the first Five, Year Plan, the defences that everything seen Berlin underworld.

and heard became automatically from the railway-brought changed, but as we see from

and ends as Comrade K missions of Sometimes, on and fetched a total trade the figures, the volume of the more harmless nature I was or before Hitler came to power y

I left for the USSR six months transformed to at the preconcely-

cd pattern. volume of well over HK$6,000 foreign trade is considerable. dered myself to act as the driver: Germany, armed with a *recom- million--an increase of 38.5 Of course, Shanghai's plight We would drive slowly past

that Αντια head of the Apit- per cent on the previous year. has to be considered. If the number of Nazi pubs to watch the mendation to Comrade Copner, at There must have been many aggregate foreign trade of all songs-on, or patrol a pub of our Prop. EKKI. (Executive Com- when one of our informers inmittee of the Communist Inter- men of vision and confidence China's ports during the the Nazi camp warned us of an national), in Moscow. in the earlier years of the Nationalist regime were impending attack.

The EKKI, in its turn, provided This latter kind of mission was me with a socalled 'strong' lutter Colony but even they could amassed alongside the total

unpleasant; we would park, with asking all Soviet authorities hardly have imagined a figure volume that passes today like this.

almost wholly through Hong headlights turned off and. chgine help me to accomplish my mis- Next to the total volume, Kong-the story would be running, in the proximity of the slon as a delegate of the Revolu-

pub; and

and at the approach of a car tionary Proletarian Writers of I would hear the click- of tho safe-Germany. the most remarkable feature very different.

A letter of this kind carries in Nevertheless, the point catch on my passengers' guns,

of is the great increase in trade

It enabled me to travel with China, in a year of un- must be underlined that with accompanied by the gentle advice Soviet-Russia the weight

to keep my chump well down. decree. exampled economic up in the facilities open to it, the But I never saw it come to actual unhampered all over the country

without a guide, to obtain.

rail- heaval and revolutionary new regime has done its ut-shooting.

way tickets without queueing, sleeping accommodation in gov ernment guest houses, and food Kereta În restaurants reserval for civil

serventa, ka

Feted

restrictions which were non-own washing. Events have rated Hos

haps, the wider distribution while at the same time wring

Own

wero

as

1

ง

:

changes. In some ways, permost to push foreign trade, The end begins of the Colony's trade ing the necks of commerce Once the RFB, men who came especially the development and Industry by severe ex to fetch the car dfsguised them – of new markets all over the actions and monopolising selves in my fat before starting world for our own products most of the trade by its own out. They

is more reassuring. It State organisations, and im- put of glasses, or moustaches

car

.....

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23

The Secretary of the Federation banquets and meetings with the

When I arrived in a provincial dark Jackets and capital, say in Tials, I went to bowler hats. I watched them the local Writers' Federation doesn't do to have all one's posing a severe selectivity on from the window driving off where I produced my Komintern eggs in a single basket. Yet the types of goods to be im four stately, bowler-hatted gents letter. this factor does not have ported. It has been stated in the ridiculous Hittle red quite the same impact upon that 80 per cent of the imports looking like a party in a funerai thereupon arranged the usual the casual observer as the into China this year consist of

processione back four hours! political, leaders and members of |

They way in which Hong Kong's goods essential for production, later, changed back to normal, the intelligentsia of the town, trade with China has stood whereas the immense variety and made off with a silent hand appointed somebody to look after up to the buffetings of im of consumer goods and shake. My instructions, in case me, and put me in touch with the

by the mense change and overcome luxuries which used to get in the number of the car was taken editor of the local literary ma police during some action gazine and the director of the State Publishing Trust-in this problems that might well are now kept out

were

'to say- that it had been have been Insuperable, 47, Even so, the recent confer stolen and that I had found it case the Trust of the Georgian

Soviet Republic.

The

editor of the magazino da- From time to time got round that the Nazis

years his dearest wish to publish going to attack our Red Block, as a story by me. I landed him they had attacked other notorious a copy of a story, published some Communiad, agglomerations before, time ago in Germany; and the Then we were alerted and sortie) asma, dayi a cheque for two (or 1/3 men turned up to mount three thousand troubles was sent

It still goes on. Imports" in Jonce in Poking on foreign gain in end street amour"clared that it had been for many

August were – nearly 288 | trado, decided that it still million, and uxports, $3483⁄41⁄4 falls short of the overall needs million. For the eight months of China's econo More,

not less, trade-is-necossR of 1930 imports were near

$2,197 million compared with therefore, and economics) $1,619 milion

amo so large D.

period of 1949,

were / $2,063

pared with $1,

We are the

policy of the new

sooner rather than lat may have a deep influ ahead ather policies as well.

were

The director as of tile, Blate night some 30to my hotel dis my tiny fat Publishing Trut maked for the ungylundepipes and privilege of publishing a @ Geor¿.

Pyurtda giata translation, of the book YOL DUKESAVINA, as (bel was going to white signed

were.

(To be continued)

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