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"THE CHESS GAME'

From "Canalite" (Milan)

STALIN TRIES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1951.

H

RUSSIA BUSTS INTO THE FESTIVAL GAME

FURRAIL · for

Soviet way of life.

the CHARLES FOLEY

reports on

Hurra for the Fes-

tival of Russia. Hurrah THE MILAN FAIR

for

the great exhibition which Stalin built and sent $3,000 miles to the great

market-place of the the Milan World

Fair.

West, a general staff-Director Serge Trade Vniakov and his wife, with

12 lending technicians.

Armed with diplomatic cards, they set up headquarters in the fashionable Ainedel Hotel, Prom the roof garden they surveyed Milan, the battleground.

I have just returned from visiting the show, and I am still fascinated by the boldness with which Russin has challenged, for the first The main body of Soviet time since the war, the factory experts piled up Abre best and finest that the suitcases in the lobby of a

Bird-category hotel, leading nations of the West can produce.

The Russian bid opened with the arrival, six weeks ago, of

THE BAG OF GOLD

LEXANDROS.

-Patriarch of Antioch,

is 83 years okk. and he looks il. But when I went to visit him

Jodloz wore crimson hair- Tibbons.

In

WOS

n

The Russian show sensation. Buyers who pressed from every country In the world quickly stamped out again because they could get no Enswer on priers or deliyertes;" such buyers were always referred to the Dirceles-and Comrade

Virhniskov never seemed to be about.

Angry Industrialisis said they could see no purpose in the dis play. But to the rest of us, the 4,000.00 sightseers, it was plan ng a wink that Stalin'vut on this. speétacular parade of wealth and industry simply to let us know what we have been missing.

Outside the Soviet paradise While the exhibits were os- there was always Director Vish- sembled, We Russians were nakov's immense Russian limou- drilled and groomed. Men were sine to draw the crowds. And given red silk armbands, the when the people turned into the

palace

they were met with o burst of Cossack singing and a glowing vision in stained glass, eight feet high, lighted from within-of Joseph Stalin.

It is part of "the Soviet undercover technique used to win friends and Influence people

quite distinct from the open strike-rousing action used in Persia during recent months

Danger in theMiddle East-2... by Sefton Delmer

in his patriarchal paince on faiths to be incompatible. the street called Straight The lure of Moscow for in Damascus I found this this kindly olti priest is not Arab theological or doctrinal. It aged, white-bearded preluate

Greek is simply-GOLD. of the Orthodox Church jauntily preparing to take a little trip to Moscow this July.

He told me: "For hun

of

years

dreds

before the Bolshevik revolution

And that although he is the See of Antioch enjoyed

bent almost double with the closest relations with arthritis.

The Church in Russia. We used to receive substantial

Moscow that if I will come warfare the Kremlin and visit him in July there waging against us in the is an excellent chance his receiving authority

start sending us an annual remittance of two thousand pounds in gold." He sigh ed wistfully. "Two thou- sand pounds in gold! It useful."

would come in so

Moscow's nobbling of patriarch, revered

the

Beyond, a 200-yard panorama of Soviet products and machines.

NO match.

WITH all this effort the result

WT bren a disappointment

for the Russians. The Moscow ganisations. Extreme nation-planners let down their Western nist movements, separatist followers-with a bang. minorities, are being fostered-- often without their being aworę British, American, and German of it themselves-with financial exper.s dismissed Russian: ald and

device technical pretensions at a glance. every other

propagando web.

is known to the experienced agents They all told me that the Soviet of Soviet Russia's clandestine precision machinery was inferior

to that made in the West.

Performancts working at the fair do not match up to ours in el'her quality or production capacity.

British

of

were

machines

of Middle East.

Their job is to create trouble to

for the Forgotten,

and disruption in this area, and atheistic whip up popular anger against moment, are the scruples of Marxism, for such "Western exploiters and

of blood-suckers" as the thousands

The exhibits gotten the

poorly and American oil companies. Anished. Greek Orthodox priests

Metal parts betrayed second - liquidated ruthlessly

grade in In the squalid refugee camps, Aluminium castings were pitted production. helf with Soviet Russia and the Bal where the million and

holes which even Arabs driven from their homes could not conceal.

paint kan satellite States in or-

in Palestine by the victorious der to "liberate" these

Israelis have found temporary Farmers said they had betler

of religious

Necchi superstition. sation called "The Displaced the

sewing machine Palestinians' Committee.

factory

hour away-they make electrically-driven models All that matters for

The police had evidence that and export them to America by present is to get an impor- tant and influential body it was Communist created and the

thousand

-found the of men looking to Soviet Communist-run. Its broadsheets Russians proudly showing Russia for help and leader- and propaganda pamphlets were machines still worked by hand

printed on a clandestine Com- or treadle. ship. Ideological alignment munist press in Beirut. will follow

natural consequence.

No, he is not a Commu- revenues from there. That head of the most impor. countries Trom the "opium" shelter, I discovered an organi- tractors at home. Workers from

nist. In fact-unlike our

all stopped in 1918.

own Dean of Canterbury---

tant Christian community

he staunchly declares the

"Now I am told by Christian and the Marxist friend the Metropolitan

my

in the Arab world, is typi-

of

cal of the brilliant political

CRIMINAL

IN

or

They called him the Master Forger. Three years after his death the dispute still goes on about van Meegeren, the man who fooled the experts.

GENIUS?

"Vermeer" called upon a lawyer whom he

as a

the

But in Its writings and speeches the committee carefully refrains from any direct pro- Soviet propaganda.

Girls from the ukra-modern Olivett typewriter plant outskle Milan giggled at Soviet models nearly 20 years out of date.

Unaware

And the bicycles! All Europe It attacks the British and is cycling mad, and here the with a bank, and IT works out beautifully.

The patriarch himself has e Americans, the Israel Gov-Russians were showing bicycles ernment, the Mackey Govern- of incredibly clumsy design, with asked to act as intermediary not been able to resist an ments of the various Arab poor quality tyres and bad finish. for its sale. He had thought invitation to sign his name States, the UN. organisations One had a brake that came down

on top of the tyre. out a careful story-of acquir-to the Communist-sponsor- and committees, and UNO

an old ed "peace" appeal. He has sell.

great his example.

TN 1937 a comparatively fake Vermeer, have it acclaiming the picture from

unknown Dutch portrait ed as an original sell it per- French family which was sell-called on his flock to follow

heirlooms with haps to the State, then confess, ing painter named Han vull destroy the cheque, and be secrecy, Meegeren sold a picture to proved master in his Own the Dutch Government for right, £68,000.

research

BILL: £58,000

Chief. theme is, that never, never must the Palestinian re- fugees think of accepting their Above all, the news of fale and settle down in a new the new ties between hoe outside Palestine." their spiritual leader and t lie

Soviet-nutitorised Russia

of

Doing well

-

For the next four years Van The picture was all his Mergeren engaged in own work, but van Muegeren for his project. He procured all THE picture was certified as

gequine by an expert and Church

has VES, in the Arab enuntries the had painted it in the style the pigments. He even went so

planners of Soviet Russia's as to grind of the great Flemish master far

to earth and at the end of 1937 sold to the brought about a pro-Rus-

that the Boymans Museum in Amster- sian stones by hand so

orientation

political warfare are doing very among dum of the seventeenth century particles

for £58,000, of which

well by this cuckoo policy of seen under

members of the van Meegeren's share Vermeer and had signed microscope would be found to

getting the nationalists to hatch was many

Greek Orthodox Arab com-. their Communist eggs. the canvas with Vermeer's be irregular in size us they £40,000.

munity particularly the name. The result was that would have been in Vermeer's

younger ones.

as

day and not all similar the crities and experts who modern mechanically ground dismissed the portrait pigments would be, painter's own work with a shrug hailed the fake Ver- meer as a masterpiece.

Van Meegeren explained his sudden

wealth by saying he had won a lottery; and later, as his wealth increased huge leupe, បទ

rezult

Soon they hope to see the next stage arrive the stage that has been reached now in Persin.

But what impressed me more than anything else about the Then the Communists will of Russian technique of political come out into the open. paint on the finished other forgeries, he claimed to warfare in the Middle East was will take

be have won the lottery a second the large number of highly nationalist upsurge.

They

over the lend

of the

placed men met who either completely unaware of it

were

The

NO peeping

WOMEN of Europe's elegant W cities

exclaimed at the wonderful Russian furs, but de- clared them botched in cut and style,

The textiles and shoes we saw would not be salable la the shabblest Western village, Radios were dialled for Russian stations only.

an

At the exit of the Russian pavilion Vishalakov placed- angel (with a red holding a golden book in which hairband)

awed visitors might write their comments.

After the opening day the pages were clipped together to that no one could flip them back to read the opinions offered.

Sald

an American trlend,

The picture would have to Cracked and hard and unaffect time. Van Mergtren forged seven

ed by the action of alcohol, as

The Nationalisis will then other "Old Masters"; they fetch paint on a 17th century canvas The critics might never have or dismissed It as Insignificant, make the same discovery which c'd

and would a Jotal of £763,000

well, be, very

van tumbled to van Mecgeren's he reason for this is that in the that poor muddled "patriot Dr "You can quote me that this is posed # question

the experts Meegeren would age his canvas forgeries had he

not sold a have not yet answered-what by baking it.

Arab countries of the Middle Moseddezh (pronounced Mozz- Mar- picture for £165,000 to

Fast, from the Lebanon to Syria, sdair)-Persia's oil-nationalis-Western Europe we could ever makes a anasterpiece in paint-

shal Gorring. After the war

Premier is making ing, the picture or the muster'a

drog Jordan, and Egypt, the ing the

discovered, Poiltburo agents are picture was

They will find signature

yet Teheran today, on u corner of itz temporary! van

Mecgeren suspicion of being a collaborator making no effort to create any they have been riding a Com- Let us not be too proud. Al Would van Meegeren's eight bought 17th century pletures with the Germans fell upon pulistings have earned three of "ne""great"value and removed van Meegerin. It was then that like a Communist mass munist horse without knowing

It, and that the horse has bolted occupied paint quarters of a million pounds if the

movement. with pumice-stone he confessed and indeed fought

with them, he had signed them with his and water,

to prove himself the master Their job own name?

for

The canvas had to be con-

In 1937, at a villa in the furger that he was,

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Bridsh Bland, mostly by B. E. A. photographs of foreign capitals, one visitor was the American | Ambassador, James Dunn.

He gazed tactfully round and, striving to conple the young man in charge," said:

"I sup- pose you people have been busy on the Festival?"

The Englishman:

It is not too late, even now, to South of France where he now He was sentenced to one INSTEAD, the Politburo is: defeat Stalin's underground in

the Middle East, HE HATED THEM yed with his second wife, he year's imprisonment, but

set 10 work

his un

take ORGANISING a closely-knit

All we died before they could

have to do is restore "Vermeer"-Christ at Emmaus him to prison.

Communist underground. Persian and Arab confidence in TT was his hatred of the art I experts and a desire to show he used himself, reficcted in " oli just before his death

This underground is restricted to our firmness and fairness. The painting took six months,

A public opinion poll taken in brainworkers.

But to do so we must alop at number of mirrors, as model;

Muscleworkers, the tradition once our present policy of yield-tival? most except for the face of Christ, showed him the second

the pro- ing to al stormtroopers of popular

"falts accomplis," to country man in the forger says a new book about For this he employed for three after the Prime Minister,

The letarian revolution, aro being unilateral repudiation of treaties Mr Dunn: "Why, the Festival

and acts people loved him for what he ignored for the moment.

of aggression-from of Britain." The young man had done to the experts.

whatever quarter they may blinked. "And what is that,

sir?" he Inquired.

--(London Express Service.)

them up, not the desire money, that started- van

Metgeren, on his career as

him.

He was the son of

schoolmaster who de-

a

days an Italian" beggar.

When the painting was com→ his son's choice of an plets van Meegeren set off for Parks where he, deposited the Не earncyl his bread and butter painting portraits, which ho detested, but no one show- ed interest in what to him was his more important and serious work.

One day in 1829, a friend who shared his views on critics, told van Meegeren of how he had fooled an eminent art expert with a "Rembrandt he had himself painted, which Expert had accepted at once as a genuine work of the

the

Master.

Van Meegeren pondered. the story for three years, In 1932 he decided tre would paint

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