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life

easy RUSSIA?

by

Richard Jones

can

the Science At The

in

For years the rulers of mo- dern Russia have been trying to eliminato the distinction be-

1951 Festival

By

IAN COX

Science Director for the Festival of Britain

tween mental and manunl

to the extent that THAT science is inter- which has no speciallat train- labour, and 201

national is the general- ing., In

stratum fourth

this

+

tunate is he or she make the grade.

month--they have been fairly So long as "the masters of the successful. EMEMBER the the region of 100,000 roubles a word, the brush, the stage and

Nevertheless, these are the Dynamos--the Soviet year for roughly £10,000 per musle" sing the praises of the

people who are really the back n town annum), plus

flat and regime loud enough they wonder football team car with chauffeur.

have everything they want

bone of the social system today that visited England just These "go with the job," and except freedom of thought. they are also the nucleus of after the war? I was one his wife has no servant prob-

This particularly applies to tomorrow's society. top flight actors, authors,

of the privileged 80,000 lems.

It's tough

who saw them open the season this year.

What an eye-opener it was! Nothing else during the whole of my year's stay in Russia re vealed to me, as this event did, the enormous gulf that exists between the top and lower In this so-called workers" radise.

From gleaming, chauffeur- driven zis the last word in Soviet automobiles stepped well-groomed party bosses, big business executives, factory directors. combine presidents the now bureaucratie tsara Russia-smugly confident and sailing in their prosperity,

of

going to reach

this

of rung the ladder, but tougher still to keep a footing.

firm

THE MAN FROM

or-

1

in par

Two

to In

Three projects favoured class of all, and for- receive about the same wage ly held belief in Bri- ticular are designed, in whole

or part, for its display. who can packet-2,000 to 9,000 roubles atain. To this international of them are in London-the store of knowledge and ex- Thames Bank Exhibition, and perience, however, Britain the Exhibition of Science has contributed at least as Glasgow there will be an Ex-

South Kensington-while much as any other country; hibition of Industrial Power. it is natural, therefore, that

The Thames science will occupy a proud

Bank Exhibi- place in the Festival of Bri- employ the narrative techniqué. Lion Is the largest ·evor to They have far less to lose tain 1951.

It tells the story of two forces than the men above, everything to gain by maintaining the

the initiative of the People, structure that support them at

The opportunities for the and the resources

of their of science during next Land-acting together the

the expense of tolling display

to en- masses..

year are twofold. On the one, gender the contributions to hand, it forms an Important civilisation of which the British. By English criteria their element in a number of official are justly proud. standard of living is reasonably ly organised exhibitions which good; by comparison with living are the responsibility of the conditions of the workers whose Festival of Britain and basle wuge 13 500 roubles | Government Department It will be shown, too, that

monthly, their position is en- brought into

being specially this viable.

for the purpose.

combination is Ds potent In addition and creative to this it will be the subject and that the future of Britain as ever it was, With the help of occasional of special sessions and con- is well founded on the con- many middle class ferences arranged by learned Hinuing achievements families are able to afford institutions and socletics.

of her scientists, Industrialists, small family car, visit the thea-

nologists and designers. The ire, and hire a country dacha

story will largely bo told. for the summer.

through visual examples drown,

science and industrial

MOSCOW-Richard Jones was the editor of the Embassy magazine British Ally in Moscow

He's only got to deviate from the party "line" once and he's had it dacha, flat, car, and everything else,

Second only to the ruling lerarchy are the chiefs of the Red Army, a generle term that covers all three services.

A Red Army offleer belongs to the elite of Soviet society.

Well paid, sophisticated, par- ticularly if he has served in

In their wake trailed bevies of stylishly dressed women. Germany or Austria, he forma

at au waiforms, and thousands bet

tists, painters, musicians, sculptors, whose salaries, plus special awards, put them in the Hollywood category.

Lucky ones

bonuses,

Few privileges

Recent Advance

Q

Visual Examples

tech-

:and

Pride of place in this social Reale is occupied by members of the exclusive Academy of

It is possible already to in- from Selences, whose yearly pay

stance some examples of these, design, ranges between 200,000 and

In Edinburgh, Scotland, the Josting with them for their the cream of Moscow's cate 250,000 roubles. Cash bonuses

British Association meeting will a time) places (at 258.

The stress will be on fby were society,

make membership of this privi- goldbraided, heavily bemedalled

and om the West ho and his leged club highly desirable. From

Yet, even the white collar be specially planned to make a present,

on the applica worker, the office Red Army officers in olive green comrades have brought back the

to the Festions of its subject matter clerk and full contribution

to tunics and

In London, the Royal the improvement of the human dark blue breeches, latest ideas in feminine fashions, What more natural than that schoolteacher, and certain skill-tival. members

Society of Medicine the lead- lot of the

The Diplomatic

average so that their wives and sweet these lucky ones should mono- ed craftsmen, whose

background against Corpa in their distinctive light hearts, when they go to

scientific medical society which the industrial the polise the opportunities of self- wage is between 5,000 and 10,000 ing

British Commonwealth a social of the or the smarter

scientific dining advancement for their sons and roubles a year, are in

displays with with an international member- shown is the living, working. be class of their own. out places, contrast oddly with daughters?

ship-is arranging number world today, a particular as-...... the stay-at-homes.

It's true mony privileges don't of meetings at which men and pect of Even so, the Bolshol-Mos-

Take any Russian university,

which gives the title women who have contributed to ench cow's most exclusive theatre and count the number of wor come their way.

pavillon The Coun never witnessed a stranger sight senses of the up-and-coming in- down last March their lot is a of

kers' children admitted into the But since food prices come notably to the recent advance try," "Natural Resources, than that of

medicine in Britain will "Power and a pretty young wo-

Production," "Sc man wearing a daring crepe de telligentsia.

trifle easier, though a suit of themselves give an account of and Ships," "Homes," "Sport, clothes at 600 roubles or a wool- their work. Chine negligee a

These will take "Health" and so on. Rift from Berlin-under

They

4. the impression tween.

are few and far be- len costume at 350 is still out of place from May until the begin- Which Is that it was the latest in evening when

A feature surprising the question. And what hope ning of July.

that has already you consider that the of pair of shoes at 2207

excited attention wear!

is the great lower middle classes-the *The Soviet fixed the nominal The Institutions She was certainly much ad- fourth stratum of the new So- rate of the rouble at 11.20 to the Architects

of Naval Dome of Discovery. Whereas mired.

Marine En- the other sections in the Ex- vlet society comprise the most £. But this is an artificial | gineers

inviting -exports · hibition. will be mainly can." homogeneous collection of the equilibrium, completely unre- from all parts of the world to cerned with. echievements lot.

lated to price levels in the two a ten-day conference which visible in Britain, in the Dome countries,

uniformed denizens of this strange

city. Goggled-eyed, disillusioned if you like. I stood watching this astonishing parade for half an hour before I turned to my Russian colleague and express ed my astonishment.

'With the job'

"Those cars," I queried. His reply was simple but expressive. "Oh, they go with the job."

Quite a lot of things "go with the

Job" in the country where equality is considered a bour- geois virtue.

Most favoured

Although Stalin has roundly In it you have the lesser lights declared that the Intelligentsia of the stage and screen merg

been a ing with Stakhanovites, and of Russia have never chase place in the present Soviet and professors mingling with class, they nevertheless occupy brigade leaders, lawyers, doctors, the technical and industrial in- easily the most telligentsio.

There are at least seven steps in the social ladder which leads to the Kremlin-just supposing any ordinary Russian mother society.

enough to imagine were rash that her son might one day don,

the mantle of Russia's Dictator,

Soviet society, Stalls would have us believe, consists of only classes workers WO

peasants

and

From bitter experience count- less millions of his subjects. know differently.

of the

They see highly privileged groups enjoying lives which make a mockery of Stalin's QS- surance that they enjoy "equal rights in all spheres economic, political, social and cultural ife of the country."

They see all the old layers of society back again--the ruling

people?

men,

At the top

ness for one the great to

But neither

рака. I nor anybody

They arc

TO-MORROW:

The extraordinary story of the Soviet brides

First Briton to Fight the Japs Has A Lucky Escape

OUT

hung useless.

in

OF THE

By "ICARUS"

BLUE

International Squadron, December 14, 1937

my

It

was riddled (more

Schute.

ing afterwards counted.)

painful and it would be very

completely

Only

bruin

will

meet

and

M

successively in the scope of display will not London, Glasgow Scotland, even be limited by the bound-ilipp and Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the artes of the earth ftsdif. county of Northumberland. Civil, Mechanical Similarly, the Institutions of

The Dome and Elec-

trical Engineers are arranging While science will be lownTM a jalat conference with a wide in its particular applications: In programme that will last about other sections, It is the Dome a fortnight in the beginning of that offers it special oppor

tunities for display on its own

June.

The

subject

The conference arranged by ground.

matter another Institution the British here will range from Britis Radio Engineers extends /over discoveries in the depths of th the whole of the Festival period. oceans and the deepest andr The range of subjects for dis- ground, over the land, thre cussion is a wide one and m sphere, and away in outer

the atmosphere and the lo cludes, for example, specialist aspects of electronic itself. instrumentation and

of tele- Proper attention, too, will vision reception and transmis given to those other Bri

The latter will be the discoverers

be numerous

the

the

revealing

between

secrets of the architecture an behaviour of matter arid ult mately making possible such achievements electric powÈRE as these will television, synthetic and varied, and plastics, steam power. or the

are themselve

Q

was very still and who gets down may fight again! looked up--and froze with hor-alon.

Struggling, by some effort of rot. There was no more that subject of a summer school to дя It wero, Inwards, gradua quiet high up there in strength summoned from good- smooth round silken bulge, be held in Downing College, the cloudless sky after ness-know where I heaved up symmetrical about the circular Cambridge, class, the party aristocrats, and the 'chute cracked open. and caught the shrouds about central airvent. Nothing but a the pampered courtiers of the Swinging

⠀⠀ Three Projects eighteen inches above my head mass of ragged ribbens hanging Kremlin.

that vast Who are

Such activities I managed to do it again, and missed ane had not missed the these privileged emptiness between heart with my left hand. Miraculous together. The bullets that und

and earth, a

again. Now the white canopy great calm of the chute was no more level than six hundred boles were will be mainly of Interest to many results of nuclear flexión!” 09 came over me after the and

even. It

slipping

visitors who Was roar and rattle of the dog-swiftly sideways and I felt the

scientiais

technologista. In the Exhibition of Science,

Atop

They are, of course, essentially at South Kensington, the math fight. Spread out fifteen cold blast of the wind against of the pyrarald, 0%

bare cheek as thousand course, are Comrade Stalin and.

the concern of the learned So- emphasis will be on the spirit?" DE fcot

my goggles below whipped back. But they

cieties and Institutions, but of scientific discovery, whích 10t the 13 members of the Polit-stretched the placid Cen- were still coming. One after me. How fast must I be falling? A feeling of panic swept over

Festival Office is abie to bas, always flourished in Bri- buro. These are the omnipotent tral China countryside, like the other, Dach chattering The ground seemed to be coming co-ordinate plans to prevent, tain, and on recent advances in

out a staccato.burst of about

in the date of these unravelling the structure of r have stood on a corner of some great market-garden

up very fast indeed; I waited overlap twenty five rounds the busy Arbat Square and broken everywhere by little be

and. in explaining the one for the, bono-shattering shock activities, and will ensure, when matter. pulled up to Iet the watched militiamen at 100-yard sheets of water which lay next have a go.

that would wips me out. But plans are sufficiently advanced, mechanism of life itself, an nothing happened at ul. Gently that a comprehensive program- intervals literally sweep the around the margin of blue

This Exhibition is not being us a failing lent my feet hit's solla me is issued. There was no doubt that they earth between two small lake-

designed for men of science. thing and body on it in readi

Lake, My right arm had won. It would not be very lets. I sank with the chutte 1931, on the other hand, fly low and

In the official exhibitions in professional technologists, all

they will undoubtedly soon, I stopped thinking about compl and my strength left me will be displayed primarily to many new methods of else ever caught as much as a It did not hurt at all, but it the Japs at all. Through my

my From that large section of the public presentation to interest, hem.. solitary glimpse of the distin- had stopped working after that mind there passed pictures

clear. of stayed

cryskobanks above the guished occupant sitting in the sudden hard punch in

and rice. the

life black, high powered

at homo far away from car that shoulder as I'd closed in on the

deld ridges hends

began to pop flashed by with its escort of big

China and I saw relatives and

The green wing-bomber

› a few dozen yards awed w up t ten friends very vividly. secret police.

Then the nine

I minutes before.

country people were 1 of Nor was

the strange visitor. Minutes was travelling too fast; discreet- the three of us-Omer Poivre, more strength to drag down advanced cautiously towards my

The left hand bad RO by curtained side windows com- Johnnie Chan and myself our the

shrouds

elip and pletely hid the Kremlin passen-old Hawk III divebombere not ohute. I

long- ger, from view as he sped on his much against their sleek Nip- lost my grip the canopy would

knew that once I barrelled Mauser at the ready. way to Moscow's "no-man's- pon built Dowollines. With land, the vast wooded

billow up, and the slowed falf with one estate hand to work both throttle and would make me an easy target. yand from my, face, looked very He held the muzzle about a in which Russia's overlords have stick and guns, three tough Nip- But there their dachas, or country homes. pon naval pilots can

was just nothing. I frightened, but very determined. It

an could do about it now. I let go, I smiled at him and tried my la aptly called "no-man's-awful crowd. That land" because no member of the ten minutes later, I was floating fore the released all lines pull I

was why, and fell three feet or so be- smattering of Chinese. "Friend," public dare set foot within miles slowly down, and thanking my

out, "English frien

friend." He ed of it,

then. At Inst could relax. It la cordoned off by police, a

folk

and they came to foreign

rushing Silence! There was diplomats.

still a across the paddy. Some of them sound of engines, but their drone hurried to make a litter under was dying in the distance. No his Suddenly

orders. It

it was alright, they there came a more machine-gunning Won said. The schoolteacher had screaming roar. A dark green derfully they had left me.

Red

kit, blu flashed into my field of looked down with new hope. The

and, they On the outer belt live the vision as I dangiol Rat-tat ground was very close now. Half

maybe some lesser stars, the top ranking tat-tat...rat-tat-tat-tat-lat: 180 land, half water. For the first going to die, I thought, it would wine too! If I was party bosses, chiefs, of Govern they were not going to ledve me time I tried to estimate the not be too bad here among ment departments and factory alone after all, The Emperor speed of my descent. I had friends again. Better than being executives, men who earn in needed an offering, and a pilot never jumped before. Then blasted out of the lonely sky.

Wis

it because the car Jap ocouts had come down on rowing weaker from my wound. Hient by before a Chinese private i

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