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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
THE BRITISH BRIDES IN
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MOSCOW
USSIA'S crack express, the Red Arrow, leaves Moscow for the 500-mile journey to Leningrad- at ten minutes to midnight.
Normally, the platform is deserted, but twice'
a month a merry crowd gathers outside the last coach
of all to wish homeward-bound members of our Embassy
in Moscow a happy journey and a safe voyage.
There is much hand-shaking, vigorous back- slapping, and above all hearty singing, and the Lenin-
grad Flier invariably pulls out to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne."
But while the diplomats and their staff knww that their Journey home is only postponed until their tour of duty expires, a gallant little band of tear- stained women walk away from the station wondering if their turn will aver come to set call for England.
They are the Soviet brides of Englishmen from whom most of them have been parted for near- ly five years.
There are, not many of them left now. Some have been per Bunded to divorce their hus- bands, others have just mys. teriously disappeared.
But the four who are left in Moscow still believe that the day will come when they will be reunited.
Two and sometimes three guards are permanently on duty outside its iron gates.
As soon as one of the brides leaves the premises in company
kino. Nadia Dolton
A
Living in a perpetual agony of fear, never knowing the mornent when the dreaded secret police will pounce upon them, these with a member of the embassy- women have an amazing falth they seldom venture out alone with which goes ап Intense
one of the guards quickly walks moral stamino,
over, telephones the police, and the girl and her companion are IN THE EMBASSY shadowed until they return.
They ask for only one thing in life-an exit visa from Russia with a ticket for London.
Mrs. Hall
One of thef
prize poses- sions,
and
which they in-
deed regard as
their
mascot,
jet black Siberian cat, one of whose off-spring was
my daughter's chief pet..
Strange things happen to Soviet citi-
zens even Britain,
In
"Why, it's those same dear little Guy Fawkes boys singing carols already."
London Express Service
Picasso-Painter and
Wealthy Communist
ONE
(By A Special Correspondent)
PARIS, Nov. 11. But when the New York
a
In his twenties Picasso was.
share a
NE of France's wenl- Museum of Modern Art bought poor and even had to
thiest Communists soft. x 7ft Cubist painting, bed. He used to write poetry on
iew Paris cafe terrace tables. showed his passport at the The Three Musicians,
the trustees paid This incident took place barely British Customs
at Dover months ago,
£60,000 for it-a record for a a month ago.
on his way to the World
modern painting. Peace Congress in Sheffield. His papers, issued in
His most constant companion now is his second wife, a beauti→ ful, dark, 28-year-old French Pencil sketches the size of a artist who retains her maiden of Francoise Gillet, foolstay sheet of paper by the master are selling in Paris name galleries for 2500 and £1,000 daughter of chemical products
ensh.
maker.
Small drawing-room paint- She has borne him two children—a four-year-old son, Claude, and f ten-month-old girl, Paloma. Paloma is the Spanish for dove.
Alexel Alexander-that's what we'll call him--was a Ukrainian, brought to Britain as a P. o. W. He liked it so much that when France, gave his name as came for him to be Pablo Picasso, and his pro- You need nerves of steel to the time
repatriated he said he would pre- fession as artist. stand up to a life like that.
fer to stay. I have seen the girls in tears He got a job at a brickworks
His birth certificate, Ings by Picasso are selling for only once: that was the day at Bitchley. One day Alexel I talked to them almost every when one of their number failed had toothache, and went to Lon-issued in Malaga, Spain, £2,000 to £8,000 and more. day, shared their hopes and dis- to report for duty. They came don te
dental specialist, where see n
be was born 69 appointments; but their faith
to my room, baffled and puzzled The specialist promised to have rears ago, gives him seven never flagged even when the as to the meaning of it all and the aching tooth out in an hour other Christian names after secret police intensified their tearfully wondering whose turn or two. efforts to break down their in- it would be next.
Pablo, including Nepomu- domitable will-power.
During the waiting period cono and Cristiniano. Alexei thought he would visit Not only are all their move- Women members of the on- the Soviet Embassy to see how ments restricted, their most in- bassy help to brighten the girls' things were going back home. Just before he left France for Sheffield, Picasso sat
nocent conver- sations
police,
to
passed
The by RICHARD JONES
who was Editor of the Embassy. magazine British Ally in Moscow
they are also banned from employ- ment by any Soviet agency.
Work, however, has been found for them by the British Embassy; thus only are they able to live. Three of them, Mrs Rosa Hen- derson, Mrs Ira Ricketts, and Mrs Nodiu Bolton, are employ- ed, in the Press department of the embassy. Mrs Hall in the embassy itself.
All four speak English fluent- ly, cagerly read English news
fashion papers, and scan the magazines, Mrs Ricketts is an expert shorthand-typist-transla- tor, Mrs Balton is a clerk, and Mrs Hall and Mrs Henderson operate the telephone switch- boards of the embassy and Press department.
PRISONERS
Two of them, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Bolton, sill share, their parents' home. Mid Henderson and Mrs. Ricketts occupy rooms in the basement of the "Comin tern" as the British Press de- pattinent in Kalinin Street, is Imown familiarly to all Musco- vitos, especially taxi drivera,
A big, rambling budkling, it wan originally built by a rich Leningrad stigar merchant for his favourite ballering.
existence by taking them about with them to the cinema, theatre, and occasional cocktail parties.
They
are also welcomed at embassy functions when they are cordially greeted by the Bri- tish Ambassador and Lady Kelly,
QRcials
assured
him they
Draws tourists
In Birmingham five years ago a reproduction of one of his Was shown upside paintings down 10 an audience and nobody knew,
At 60. Picasso says: "Claude and Paloma are my nicest works." Most of his recent paintings have been tender, ro-
twp. mantle portraits of his children.
What does Picasso do with his
were going on fine. Construc-down in his Paris Left Three years ago Picasso de- tion was going on everywhere; Bank apartment and check-
elded to stop palating and try money? His efficient Spanish. they needed men like Alexel. ed his 1950 income-tax re his richly original hand at mak male secretary invests much of As Alexei admitted after-turns, compiled by his high- ing ceramic pottery. He moyed it for its young wife and
into a luxury villa at Vallauris children. wards, they sold him the idea, ly paid male secretary. besides which he had a nostalgia
on the Riviera: for his native heath. So when officials told him that there was boat going to Russia he accept
ed a free passage.
NEVER
AGAIN
His 12 pet white mice.
A potter's turner earns los scattered round the floor than 25 a week at Vallauris, and seven pet birds cooed and turns out 40 to 60, pots in the ceiling rafters of his day. drawing-room as he look-
ed at the tax figures.
'Destruction"
During the Spanish war be. gave huge sums to the Repub- lican army to buy planes. He is one of the largest contributors to the French Communist Party.
He is said to have investmente on both sides of the Iron Cur- Pots designed by newcome tain. In the past two years he' Picasso are selling in Vallourts has visited' Prague and Warsaw. for £00 each. By the Soviet authorities, of,
He did not return to the When he had finished
did these girls
Even Picasso-designed pasters course,
are still dentist; he
not return to totting up his returns, ha advertising the current Vai- regarded as Soviet citizens al- Bletchley; in fact, he never left knew he was one of the lauris pottery exhibition, signed though the decree forbidding the Soviet Embassy until it was richest men in France.
by-the master, are solling at the marriage of Russians to time to leave for the boat.
ten guineas each. foreigners did not become law until after they had wedded their
But-Vallauris, shopkeepers are British husbands.
not sorry Picasso becaine a potter for ho and his work Pointedly reminded that in
During the whole of tho His output has been so enor- bring 100,000 tourists to the little Soviet eyes they were still Soviet journey to Stockholm his conver-mous
that it is classided by village yearly. citizens, though in actual fact sation was full of regrets that he periods. deprived of the privileges of
J
It was not until the boat was heading down the Thames that
Alexel began to have misgivings.
citizenship, they were recently had allowed himself to be "per- "persuaded" to sign the Com- Sunded."
munist inspired Peace Manifesto, i Finally, he told the captain that he was getting off at Stock: To have refused would have halm But Alexel was so well meant a further tightening of the guarded that he was not allowed net around them, and possible even to step ashore, refusal of registration without which they would be unable to work even for foreignera.“
THE MAIL
The highlight of their liver,
In periods
Some of these periods are Blue, Harlequin, Rose, Cubism. Negro, Realist, Abstract, Moro
Planes, Pointillism. chrome, Neo-Impressionism, Classicism. Heroicism, Rectilinear Forms, Still Life, Surrealiam, Sculphire, Fantasies moulded from wire, He had still one chance, and betin, or pressed paper, Bullfights, decided that when the boat and the Spanish War Guernica roached Helsinki, last port of period. call before Leningrad; he would 'slip over the side, and sock
sanctuary in the British Lega-elt are unbounded. He has even
tion.
His ways of expressing kim-. designed patterns for linoleum and carpets, and painted plc-
theen slays is the twice-weekly but none of the passengers turos with car lacquer. arrival of the mail from England, ever saw Alexel again.
have watched some of them (World Copyright Reserved-London open their letters with trembling Express Service). fingers, seen them read theliantları latters, twice and three times over, and then sigh.
Fantastically designed, with a spacious ballroom and conserva- Cory. It was at one time ons of
It was heartbreaking at times, the slow antes DE MOSLUN, 20- but it was not long before they day two of the, Soviet bridles.pro resumed their customary cheer. virtually prisonora within it ful selves. Nobody must se
them downheartid.. narrow confines.
POP
TOMORROW: Corruption in the Soviet regime
A part of his income he wil pay as subscription to the Comi mmunist Party..
'£1,000 sketches
For the Sheffield 'conference, Pienso Hasdesigned this ·pub- Leity poster showing a dove' of prace In flight. Ho has made no charge for this.
Slow car to China
I
He once said cryptically: "Be. fore me, painting. was the sim of additions, my painting is the sum of destruction."
-(London Exjnùss Service)
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