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COMMUNISTS.

MEET RUSSIANS

HERE is one thing

T

you

By

Politbureau, who then tried to convince the comrades-with conspicuous lack of success--of character of their

JULIAN SCHOPFLIN behaviour, unbecoming to Con-

Member of the Hungarian Communist Party for 20 years and Hungarian Minister to the three Scan- dinavian countries from January 1949 until his defec- tion early in 1950. From the time of the "liberation" of Hungary in 1945 to 1949 he was programme director of the Hungarian radio and held various other important posts. Mr Schopflin is a well-known author and translator of some English and French books.

munists towards their Russian "benefactors"....

Somerset Maugham

'I would not

be young again

if I could'

row does it feel to

How Somerset Maun

ham, to be feted at the. Royal Academy, broad- cast. televised and filmed, to have such a public kucсeas after ccasing to write as only Dickens had before him? He told me:

derstand that I was joking?

I was never so much reileved as

when they started to laugh.

I was glad to escape from the

of

I am deeply thankful Riviera to came to the dinner. that I am an old man to- Out there, the American tele- vision people had descended on day. I wouldn't be young me with

truckload again if I could. I don't machinery and implements. know what I'd do if I were young in 1951,

Looking at my grand- children, I wonder sometimes if they will even get the fun out of life that I have had. I wonder if it will be there for them to get. So much of gracious living has gone. suppose it had to go. I don't know.

I

What on earth would I do if I had to start all over again? I am very sorry for young writers. Shortage of paper, terrific costs of book production, have taken all their scope away.

מי

I had to welle 26 Introductions and be filmed 20 times for their "Maugham Hours." Thank Hea- ven, that will keep them going

October next year.

ON POPULARITY

Then the Alm people came, 24 of them in a bus with another trucklond. I had to do the open- in sequence of my next flim.

No, I enjoy all this, but the most exciting years of my life I were those after 1908 when hecame London's most sought- after playwright. That is won- derful, you know, when you are young and have been a nobody.

Popularity still gives me a lot of satisfaction, I was in Madrid after the last war and went along to a bookseller's to sign a Razor's few copies of "The

They can't make a living Edge" in Spanish. In the street saw a long queue that I unless they work for radio thought must be for a bull-fight,

or films or newspapers. And that way, you know, they don't get the chance to pro- duce their best work,

They come to me for ad- vice. Frankly, I don't know what to tell them. It is a With their ulter

that lack of bad thing

young psychology towards any other

writers should be so hard phan their own public, the Russians usually

supplied the pressed, a bad thing for best anti-Bolshevik propaganda everybody. themselves. The most notable Laughing-stock of Budapest was

ON PEOPLE

it wasn't.

A nine o'clock the bookseller was going to close his said he floors, But he didn't dare.

I had to go on signing for four and a half hours-2,000 coples.

all places! In Madrid of nearly broke my wrist.

ON ART

It

Now I am off to Paris and Venke. In Paris the art dealers will be waiting for me. When- ever I have any money lying idle, I buy more pictures.

cannot argue about with Western Communists: the moral grandeur of the Soviet Union. They cling to which conjures an utopia up, in their wishful minds. the mirage of 43 free. refined Soviet generous, people. This naively self- imposed belief is often bol-

In the a scriniksed dissertation stered up by some careful-

oficiul

newspaper of the Red ly selected experience: the

Army, published in Hungarian. only Russians. they see are

This astonishing essay bore the powered me at this distant rour. remnants

title: smiling, polished Embassy The Nazi terror had been reign honest Ilungarian Communists. Soldier." Praising to heaven

"The Man

Moraks of the Soviet attaches or hand-picked de- ing supreme in the town for The months-long free pillage, virtue, dimmily humanity and -legates-to-some interna- weeks past; I was a deserter from the barbarous mass rapes, the culture of the Rou warriors-

tional congress. With Et munist

Army and a proscribed Com- houses burnt down by the sheer hea nabody dared to wolle the East. You don't seem to get to couldn't really afford it. It was

liable to be shot on the negligence of Russians (Budapest when

know people so well nowadays. sunset, as every characteristic turn of mind.

arrested. I was spot if ever

old and had no water at the time), turned streets after

don't need I'm stark they feel justified in re- living ander a false name, in the exultation of freedom inte night dozons wore stripped

naked at tommy-gun_point, by garding these apparitions one hiding-place after the other, a deeply embarrassed feeling of ion soldiers." The Hungarian- born Russian Colonel, who was as the incarnation of their Thousands existed similarly in despair.

the besieged capital.

in charge of the newspaper, con- own illusions.

fessed to me shamefacedly later on that all his protests against the story to Moscow were in vain.

thra

In spite of the Russian atroci-

of-satellite--Communists-about the whole - population.

Soviet

of all idealism

Only Too Well

in

of

collective

I never could paint myself. I couldn't play, either. I had only What characters would I write my one small talent and I had about today?

to make the most of that.

the

I don't know. It's a changed and world, changing altogether 100

1 bought my first picture when

1

care....

to

How did I feel, surrounded by the full assembly of the ominent and the illustrious at the Academy dinner?

away

re-

was still quite young and

Wilson by my

great friend. Steer. Steer used to be regarded as the best painter In England when he was alive. But people soon forgot him,

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That happened to Dickens, too, didn't R, after he had been acclaimed all over the world In

On the other hand, the opinion ties depicted by Nazi propa-

"Over and above this only to

Frankly, I was scared. They his last years? their Russian brethren has been

for the Russians; the Red

4 well known behaviour of the Red

were all rather overpowering I suppose

will happen to formed by direct and, therefore, Army

deliverance stood for radically different experiences, from war and terror,

one be- warriors, there were some even

The accumulation of mingled with their uniforms and their Somerset Maugham, too. I don't more bewidering aspects

orders. I didn't enjoy the dinner really care. Some generations In their minds there is anything loved. We Comminists were

at all.

later, they Russian cruelty and indifference, despair, deflance and disappoint-

sometimes discover but enthusiasm towards their waiting our liberators with a

They There is a

forgotten paintings in the attic, not only pillaged and raped mont produced a curious frame Com-

chatted *Winston special. feverish, joy: for to us bus destroyed too, in a childish, of mind in Hungarian brodos

of attitudes among

they

were expected to bring not

way aimless

Their

calling the days, more than 40 forgotten writers in old book. eir ofeers munists. A desirable but self- Communists of the people's only an end to our ordeals bu dispulled the assumption that the deceiving formula and do it

years ago, when we played golf cases. democracies" towards the also the message of a better, Socialist Man had been liberated better!" To these men, who had

among them: shall

together on Sundays. We chose

He came with me to the door Russians, ranging from cynical freer world.

to play together then because of his sulte, a omali-incredibly cringing to secret hatred. There

small-sun-browned man, with At dawn one day in January #rom the bondage of private.pro- cherished for decades the ballet we both played so atrociously.

the adepts of perty: is blind obedience and devotion

un astonishing resemblance to also, but can be found only 1945, when, for the first time in

But I kept thinking of the the Russians amassing huge superiority over businessmen, among the handful of Moscow my life I met Russian soldiers, economy proved to be shrewd in Communism, this feeling of

cherlsited

speech I'd written a fortnight one of the wise small men from

the East be used to write about. became their only justification black markel, proits prones on the

In ago and committed to memory. trained leaders and among the this kleoliade dream,

for remaining Communists.

Would these important and larger host of devil-may-care throughout Bitter years of under- taking their toll of the famine in

ground struggles, collapsed with Budapest, Hundreds of Russian their view, it would have been

rather awe-inspiring people un- the historical task of the more opportunists.

one mighty crack, The clean- lorries piled through the

Central European Russian shaven, smiling

trooper, certain frontiers, hauling looted developed who tore off my wrist-watch, or bartered goods from country od vessels, to give a new im- nations to pour new wine into dealt the first shattering blow

pact to Marxism gone stale in I heard the distant rumble of to my belief in Bolshevism.

Russia. Russian gurts on the souther And this was only the first border of Budapest for, the first draught of the cup of shame and

The daily ilme on one November night of humiliation,

blows to our 1044. It is difficult to convey creasing

tore to shreds concepis that strange_elation that over-

Feverish Joy

moral

the

The Girls Never Forget 1864

From R. M. MacCOLL

and tear on his nerves.

this had,

of course,

In-

Swift, Ruthless

to country.

All

themselves o devastating effect on those who Justly regarded in

Marxists, well-versed

revolu- sense of tionaries in the frue

Lenin. Instead of Marx and

This naive self-confidence did Instead freedom, there was fear, of humanity, cruelty; instead of count, however, with the real social justice, famine and black- array of forces. This "Indepen

dent wing of Hungarian Com- the Russian marketeering "comrades"

munists never even dreamt of contradicted in being deviationist; the "Mus- every instance the prophecies of covites," as the Party bosses were Every dubbed, seemed wholeheartedly their spiritual fathers., Russian was a living refutation to endorse this policy-while of ideals for which hundreds and sulted

their books to gain thousands of Communists in

But popularity and prestige. many lands had died on the

reckoning galows, in the cears of the when the Ume of secret pollee, in Nazi concentra- arrived, they were as awill and as ruthless in stamping out this "opposition" as their masters in ion camps all over Europe.

the Kremlin.

CX-

Cursed Aloud

it

NEW YORK. SERGEANT Alvin Christie, OWN South they do not of the Knoxville, Tennessee, DOWN not trame pollen, Villennessee,

The talk about any "separate the States (never call it the and asked to be demoted back 40.

Hungarian way" WD3 awept Civil War, if you know private. Asked why, he

plained that the difference in One day in February 1945, a

urway overnight Just as in other what's good for you).

pay-17 cents a day-talled to committee meeting of prop satellite states; but the after

gandiste

took place ot Com effects of the Rajk case are still When it was announced that compensate for the added wear munist Party headquarters. Those smouldering everywhere behind the 15th Army Corps was mov-

present were mostly earnest, the Iron Curtain. abulch Morward workers or ΟΙ ing into Camp Chafee; Arkansas,

THE New Jersey Bell Tele-enthusiastic young intellectuals. there came a bliter protest from

Terror and oppression cannot the local United Daughters of phone Company says that by the One of them, a sturdy foundry resolve the basic dilemma of the Confederacy,

end of the year subscribers will worker, broke in on us panting. Soviet Bumla concerning her For the 15th took part in be able to dial one another right bewildered, and cursing aloud: satellites: the difference in living Northern General Sherman's BOTOSS the 3,000 trans-con- he had just succeeded in slipping standards and culture betwem famous "March to the Sea" in tinental miles of the U.S.

from the grip of the Russians, herself and the subdued peoples. 1004.

forcibly to "Just a bunch of Yankee barn- THE "QUAKER STATE" of by the skin of his teeth. His re- Either they have

the social level of their burners," snorted the daughters. Pennsylvania runs the world's monstrances against this Russian

way of taking "prisoners" lower

the endangering largest liquor monopoly, All

Vassals, off a furious whirlwind touchod

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The they would have to tackle time who lives just across the street possible, but in aplic of this by ransacking Ruslans be, the his discrepancy, in which case from the third green of the they sold last year 213,000,000 beggarly proletarial Another and time again the problem of Hulcrest Country Club of Los dollars worth frim the State bragged, in the beat of the tur satellite independence.

mail, about ambushing and Angeles, is bringing a suit for 588 shops.

kinking senseless two drunken $4,785 damager

Cossacks. Bhe says so much "slicing".

The fighterled party omelets sourried to Ketch a member of the

rors in

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