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of the Communist language, there is one rule which causes enormous trouble to students, the rule

of the

Double Meaning. Under it the key word in every sen- tence must have a double meaning: one for the writer

is. who

of course,

another for Stalinist, and the innocent reader whom the Stalinist is trying to delude.

21

So,

He is

Yalta

were

he will wrile: By John Sherwood

anxious

interest,

$

а

come to the

This way out of the army

Pordered

From NEWELL ROGERS Now York. ▶RESIDENT Truman has his call-up director, Lewis Hershey, to arrange intelligonce testa for students about to be drafted.

If the boys. do well, they win deferment.

Here is a sample question: "Or the following Avo numbered words, which has a meaning nearest to that of the capitalised word?

"SOOTHE: 1, Subjugate; 2, Machinate; 3. Compensate: 4. Immolate; 6. Mollity."

President Truman refuses to keep a what mark will Bay student cut of uniform-per- haps 70 percent.

But at least the scheme has soothed the colleges. Glassrooms were emptying so fast that some schools face bankruptcy.

Non-collegiate youths are far from soothed. There are angry mutters of "being soft on the doubtedome:"

FOOTNOTE-The last word of the five in the question-- mollify, meaning to appease or the to soften-appears to be answer.

OPINION. Asked by a Daily News reporter: "In the event of war, which country would be America's staunchest ally?" four New Yorkers replied Bri- taln. Sample reason: "Britons

at

to the

heiress Doris

Stalinism 1105 Ho mozal MYSTERY. Suspecting standards except its own husband of paying attentions to definition is important momentary convenience. It has other women, Mrs Sydney Willoh concern with tho human shot him dead as he lay in bed mystery novel "So is to misery which it inflicts as it reading a

Young to Die." Willoh was 42.

choice." No when considering "aggression." no

there is sentence: "A spontaneous When the Moscow newspaper There is nothing wrong with' a Anyone who resists when at-are too proud to accept slavery." nothing particularly outburst of indignation by Trzvestia used that expression wor If it is waged in the facked by Stalin's armies is

broad

and democratic in 1943 it was referring to Rus- Stalinist

Two people replied Turkey: difficult about the the

an aggressor. Should a Stalinist take up arms, he conducts a "Because of the Turkish soldiers! grammar and syntax masses,"

sla's wartime allies, Britain and Stalinist fighter for peace can

showing in Korea." the United States. At that line bo relied upon to know which "war of national beration." To the average reader that Stalinists

And here we for wars he is expected to look at

TRAFFIC. Even the owner of Stalinism. New York's most valuable conjures up a clear picture of a people abroad to think that their with a blind eye, "Pacifim" is basle principle of

(valued dwelling large number of people who are kind of democracy was indis- defined in the official Soviet There must be a good word for private

dictionary of foreign words, everything.

however bad, for about £340,000, on Upper Fifth extremely angry and have said tinguishable from the genuine

1949, In published impressed and al- article.

everything the Stalinists decide Avenue) may not put a private bourgeois

movement opposing to do. There must be a bad ment in front of it. This police "No parking" sign at the pave- Laches importance to the

all wars. Mendaciously masking spontaneously-voiced feelings of When the Big Three. met ut dicmscives with the slogan of word for everything, however, ruling has been sent

which is done by other owner-tobacco the people.

the it was agreed that the pacifism

reactionaries good,

Duke, liberated Europe oppose of

national liberative, people. But to the Stalinist writer peoples

civil and other the word

"ypontaneous" means should be helped to create revolutionary, something

"'democratic just wars."

This quite dif- -|-|-|-·|·|-|-|-|-|-·|-|-·|-|-¦ in git ullons of their own and ferent

commit aggression list To “ለ

one realisert

that by this the by

broad expression the Stalinists meant masses

colonial regimes been "totalitarian bas for next Thurs- imposed by force with the help highly-specialised meanings day afternoon" And on Thurs- of the Soviet Army."

de- For a long time the Stalinists which - horrify ordinary day afternoon the "broad

mocratic masses" are prevented profited greatly by this misun- people.

from leaving the factories at derstanding. And when it be~. By using such words the the usual time and are herded came clear that they were not Stalinist can make whole into meetings at which n'trade to profit any more, they put sentences say one thing and unionist informs them that they back the adjective before demo- mean another. In fact are indimant about something cracy and called their satellite: Stalinese has a flexibility which has happened, or is al states "People's Democracies," and richness which is found leged to have happened, in

other international country which they have prob-

ably never heard of.

sponta-

out.

To the ordinary person, neous words like "democracy" and burst of in- "peace" have clear-cut and dignation pleasing meanings. But for democratic the

have arranged Stalinist they

in no language.

of the Double Meaning by

الف

÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ at the time night on the non-Stalinist side, seeks to gain its own ends.

Sitting on the Fence

By.... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

found

You.

TF the

underclothing, no longer avail- July able. About the end of there will be another Bu

THE decline in the you. Pompous prly. That's epidemic.

of morale

British

Heavy rain in August w Most people are familiar

doggies Was noted Come along, Rover. Time for ruin the harvest. Nobody will

have with the usual Stalinist terms here recently. Since then bed,

any money to spend on of abuse. A warmonger is

holidays, Hotels and bars will it has been reported that A resolution, which is drafted person who falls to advocate ap-|

be half empty owing to higher W16 an airedale Let us illustrate the rule

in advance, is adopted, saying peasement of Communist aggres-runk and smelling strongly Gubbins Survey taxation. The national revenue

so indig- sion; a hireling is a person who

wil!" drop. taking the case of the ad- that the workers are

An Government thinks it reception at Southend.

auturan Budget will be jective "spontaneous" in the ant that they have decided to is in the pay of an organisation of whisky after a wedding work twice as hard as before other than the Communist party.

can compete with Old Moore considered to increase the_fall-` The whole process, organised in Eastern Europe a saboteur, e It won't be long now before Gubbins, the world famous ing revenue by even higher down to the last comma in the reactionary, a Trotskylie, and a the rat sets in, and dogs come astrologer, fn predicting disaster income tax. This will depress resolution, is described

counter-revolutionary all mean home late with staring eyes i will have to think again,

wage earners #0 much that spontaneous outburst." "Spon the same thing-a person who and a silly smile on their faces. The Economic Survey for they might astonish employers. taneous" is, in fact, anything queries any decision by the

1051 says that "in many ways by asking for less money. Where have you been, but spontaneous.

Communist authorities. Fascist

prospects are harsh and which case the revenue wh Rover?

unpleasant." Another adjective which may and Fascist hyena have much

difficulty is the word the same meaning. "science" and its adjective

Ellas Durand, a Frenchman who set up business as an apothecary in Philadelphia in 1825, succeeded in producing a beverage which was the forerunner of the Sparkling refreshment that Watson's manufacture to-day.

For over a century, Watson's have been treading_the_road of progress in this particular .field, and can now rightfully claim to possess two of the most modem and hygienic soft-drink plants in the world one of the reasons why the name Wahon's is synonymous with refreshment at its best.

WATSON'S

Alerated

WATERS

WATSON

XP.BO

cause

"scientific." Most people have

a respect for scientific methods as the way of arriving at cer- tain kinds

venient.

BASIC RULE

We next come to the words of truth. But used in Stalinese to describe Stalinist "scientific" methods are aimed at suppressing the that terrifying place, a capitalist kind of truth which is incon- country, where everyone, from Social Democrats to orchbishops, is wearing a mask to conceal his After Stalin's victory over his ugly motives. rival Trotsky, all the official histories of the October Revolu- Life takes place amid the tion had to be rewritten ex- drifting mista cluding Trotsky's name.

The screens which fact that he had played a lead- politicians put

Pardon?

You heard the first time.

Did I?

Pull yourself together, Rover. Where have you been?

Me? Out.

I know that, Rover. But where?

our

NOW

fall even lower.

Ir

In October and November

Old Moore Gubbles, who sold much the same thing in a Now Your 'message to his readers, the weather will get colder,

says that our prospects the

cold war botter, rations will not only be harsh and un- shorter, and fuel cuts sharper. pleasant, but almost unendur- able in every possible way.

And 55 on Christmas.

to a happy

As the wind was blowing Where We Eat

from the north-east on March Where? Oo, lots and lots 21 it will remain (according to and lots of places.

of the

smoke- the corrupt- out to

hide

With whom, Rover?

Um?

ing part in the Leningrad rising the fact that they are pup- became inconvenient when

he pets

was officially denounced as the "betrayer

of the revolution paper "Betrayer

of Wall Street; news- editors are all hirelings,

so it is safer to believe nothing

the revolution" that appears in print; writers means, of course, that he quar- and artists have all given way relled with Stalin.

to emply. formallatie bourgeois despair.

SAME IDEA

or-even "expose

Almost every day, at Lake M. Maliz Success, New York, Very early after their rise to or M. Vyshinsky, Soviet power the Stalinjats discovered

Unmask somebody that the pubile Wanted de- delegates to the United Nations,

embarrassing, mocracy, the rule of the people. more Therefore, they reasoned, they ther in all their unattractive must provide it, or at least nakednem." claim to provide it. The

"proletarian demo- was introduced as

pression

cracy"

Whom did you meet?

Just a lot of dogs,

What kind of dogs?

Big dogs, Htle dogs, hairy dogs, spotted dogs. But all jolly dogs, mind you. Jolly fine. dogs.

Friends at yours?

Oo, rather. All friends. All pals. "Dear old pels, jolly old,

O.M.G's

number

observations over

a

"One question the census- has asked thousands of of years) roughly in taker

British householders js: Do that direction until June 21. you cat in the kitchen?” ”—

This

means a bitterly cold. From the news

spring and early summer with F the census-taker calls at

fruit

crops ruined by frosts, bigger bills for fuel with less money.. to pay them, and an- other, induenza epidemic.

means

a man

the

The Sea Nest, Kentish family seat of Lord and Lady Gubbins, and asks the head of the household this question his lordship, being a gentleman It also

that

the and

of honour, will Festival of Britain may open truthfully answer "Yes.". in a blizzard which will drive

He will tell the common American visitors out of the fellow that the Gubbingés pot

quicker than bolled only country

enjoy meals in cod and parsley muce, brussels, kitchen, but that Lord Gubbins usually cats his supper of bread sprouts and English coffee,

there, spearing and choose

a fork, Frozen to the marrow and pickled oniona with weakened by flu, this unhappy while Lady Gubbins takes a of beans on toast into shops for warm underclothing, the dining room and eats them reclining on the sofa, rather which will be in short supply like the aristocrats of ancient

Rome, because of rearmament, Well, I don't, Hell ( them.

Alarmed at the declining Your disreputable friends have health of the population, and

.

pale." Don't sing, Rover. The neigh- The basic rule here is to suggest that Western societybours will hear.

synonym for "dictatorship of consists of indecency hypocriti- Who cares about the neigh breed will then search the plate

the proletarint", which is Stall- cally · covered

up, but not nese for "dictatorship by a small adequately covered. The masks clothes must fall group."

and the inc

at the first twitch of M. away Malik's fingers,

Stalinists claim that this "pro- tetarian democracy" was supe- rior to the other, ordinary kind

And now for

one

or two

bours?

I do.

in which the people exercised vocabulary notes for the more not improved your manners, · the

students. "Fascist | Rover, their power by voting. Muss advanced

olini had the same ides when Gestapo terror is an expres. ho said that his version of alon used to democracy, "accentuated demo cracy," was better than the other kind,

activities

Staliniat

You insulting my friendør

the describe of the

police in

I diall say what I like about to which are trying

them. Kagrint B kate themselves espionage, rist

Ooo, no 'you' won't. body's going to innilt my friends. Shall I tell you some thing?

In early Stalinese the word sabotage. It should never of “democracy” always had an ad- course, be applied to the far jective proletarian democracy'';: MOTO ruthless activities of the "gaviat democracy," "This was Soviet palice. In their case the to manke sure that no one con~ expression

"Democratie tused: it with the other kind, vigilance, by the organs of the But then came a mort period popular security."" when the word "was used alonia; and, the "domoprio Powers

fa:

15 to become mixed in Stalinses:"

You, Rover

I don't like you,,

That'll do: Rover,

No-

- don't like you, never dit like you, never shall like

*

snooper

increasing cost of free medicine, the Government will

I then switch factorios producing

the low-born war material back to making wante to poka his scout 1031 me to all the shops on the of Lord Gubbins, he might warm underclothing, just in further into the private affairs

first day of summer,

to know that his lordship has been known to cat dah and Because of the heat, nobody chips out of newspapers, often will buy the warm undercloth has tea and toast on his desk, ing. It will be sold to the Fahimos in exchange for whale P .blubber which will bo 'cluded in the meat tation.

Summer will and in low

crumbs into

and

on-one

in occasion, in a hurry to catch a

train, breakfasted in the bath......... room off brand and butler-and; shaving. 18p.

than a week. Holvering citizens'

then, demand 5 the warm