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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1952.
PART
TWO OF CYRIL RAY'S UNCENSORED STORY
Soviet Union Is A Tangle Of Paradoxes
W
HEN I left Moscow there was mimosa the on sale in streets of the still snow-bound city-flown up from the sunny Black Sea coast. What could be more enterprising. luxury-loving?
or
What isn'i FO
well-known ===] I could not visit any Institu- spring flowers from the latitude
to that of because it is so nonsensical to ten or talk to any official with- of Constantinople Clasgow hasn't yet got around. Western eyes-is that the censor- out the permission of the Press doesn't Concern itself Department of the Ministry of to having petrol-stations on a ship
simply with considerations of Foreign Affairs, main trunk roads.
national security, as
as our own Lorries doing the long haul wartime censorship did: it cuts from Kiev to Moscow, carrying out anything, however meticu- food for the capital and raw lously accurate and even if it is quotation from the materials for its great factories, & direct more
have to waste
of their Soviet Press, that could even carrying capacity on their own remotely be construed as a re- Acction on the Russian people petrol.
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And yet the train by which I reached Leningrad Way home, the Red Arrow, crack sleeping-car flyer of the Soviet Union, takes more than 400- non-stop 12 hours for the mile journey and provides no food for its passengers-not even
"Continental" cur In the
In which foreign ambassadors and important Soviet oftetals travel.
A tangle
WHAT could be more ineff- W
clent, or more austere?
The Soviet Union is a tangle of such paradoxes.
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And it is only the other day or the Soviet way of life. that a bright Soviet citizen pul I have had cut out from my up the brilliant new idea that sturles from
Moscow
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No answer
NOT
TOT only WOR
never forthcoming: were never answered.
permission
letters
Letters never are it an official
the fact cannot escape geknowledging a the lorries might go back loaded that there is no man of the letter, er granting a request, he
railway with goods from Moscow to underground
system: will telephone."Never put it in Kiev, Instead of sending them that you aren't allowed to use writing" is one of the great hack empty-with a new lot of
Press bureaucratie watchwords. But if opera glasses 'in the loaded lorries being sent off the gallery of the hall of the
that YOU try to telephone HIM, he next day.
Supreme Soviet; and policeman noved us on when is always out. This is the country that makes
visi! the best jet fighter in the world we pienicked by the side of the
011 the road
to way and what is probably the best Tchaikovsky's old home. tunk in the world-and which manded my W.C. cistern preity well every week for a year with: a piece of string and a rusty nail,
Held back
Whatever one's prejudices AND,f course, such trifles as phout the Soviet regime and the the average scheduled speed
of the Red Arrow. Russian people, for or against, there are incontrovertible facts
Any issue on which the regime to be found in Moscow to prove hasn't made up its mind is tabu. them to the hilt.
Children are the same the world over and this picture shows a little girl selecting balloons and Moscow. from street trader in rubber balls
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Out of 24 formal requests to visit such harmlessly Interesting places as a kindergarten, a
There are no street-plans of collective farm, and the ballet The police on the rond were school at the famous Bolshoi wamed to expect me and they Morcow, any more than there of the underground from post to post is a map
railway system, or a telephono Theatre, I was granted one (by telephoned
to see that I kept moving.
directory-the Soviet Union is to allow. I failed to paɛs a police- tco security-minded telephone) a
post within
appropriate such dangerous Kremlin Museum,
Why? Don't ask me, ask the time, then a policeman would be printed,
and to come to look for me
Sa my taxl-driver drove on, move me on as I discovered and I realised, as his tail-light
wasn't. a picule disappeared, that this
Politburo.
IT WAS very
visit. to the
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1
the
documents to
Tehulkoy_lost_in_n_strange city.
rarely that An American colleague of
was followed in the streets when I tried to eat -And if you try to have no pre- mine hos beeti trying for judices at all, all-you can do is four years to get a story of Moscow, and then only when lunch one summer's afternoon the right street and that I was
I happened to be in the com-that I was visiting to point with one hand to the ta
his paper 01 MIG Bghter and with the other
any of diplomats. to the rusty nail and ask your readers to draw their own con- clusions.
What is important, though, is this that this is the first time for 18 months that I've been able to tell you about the snäli-
like progress of the Red Arrow. or the long-drawn out sage of my cistern.
Censorship
the
interosting and quite innocuous controversy that has been goleg
I was free to go in and.oul on all that time in the Moscow
to visit any papers about the respective ad- of my hotel, and vanlakes of co-education and theatre, cinema, shop or res- the separate education of boys laurant without interference of and girls.
any kind,
sky's old home.
Incompetence
Poor simple soul that. I wng In those days, I asked a police- man and the policeman's answer was to hold out his hand. and say, "Dokumenti,"
And
ONE of the Infulating this bring my dekamen were duly
that of Foreign Affairs.
formal But I had to make
writing if I infuriating things was application in wanted to travel more than 25 it took a fortnight or co to get miles or so frum-Moscow, sur- your documents
my passport and your return to Moscow,
for resident's permit
AND the six storics he wrote about the wonderful colled ton of Picassos that is closed to the-Russian public because Picasso, though อ peace parisan, isn't to be admired or rendering copied by Soviet puluters foreign those six stories are still in the endorsement. censor's drawer.
VERYBODY knows that the
Soviet Union
There is obstructs the entry of Western journalists (it took four years for me to get a visa) and laposes the most rigid censorship on what they write when they got there.
another scrt of censorship, too, besides the cut- ting or holding of Press cables the censorship that lies in not letting journalists see or inquire for themselves.
If I was visiting some near- by place to which I was allowed to travel by roud then I had to give the number of my car, and the time and date on which I proposed to travel,
Double-chin slimming
Hints from an enthusiastic
man 15223912975 ERANERAALULULUSATO JELŠUM
enthusiasm
-whose
sometimes leads him astray
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HAUSER
are
back aller
For they had to be surrender. ed and endorsed all over again when you got back. And yet you had to be able to produce, those same documents time on demand,
at any
Kept four hours
promptly E policeman whistled up a comrade, and was escorted to the nearest police station and for some police-officers and plain clothes four hours they sent for senior. interrogators,
But it never occurred to them. I'm afraid I can't sensation to send for one who spoke, allse my Moscow arrestit English or French, though I had was more funny than frighten been able to explain that I was ing, and it wasted the time, of English and could speak French;: allowed to use the at least half a dozen Russians 1 was not
telephone - which would have to that of only one Englishman. not only saved my And it was an object-lesson theirs, ca Russian-speaking
bloodthirsty
time
but
not in
Sovlet friend would have cleared up tyranny but in age-old Russian the trouble in ave minutes; and incompetence.
I was on my way to a party The middle aged man or woman who has plenty of money at an American colleague's fat to spend on food, and who lives and had been dropped by my in a country where rich food is taxt not only in the wrong plentiful, is in a desperate situs- street but in the wrong part of tion. Every
they day
the city. tempted to eat more than is good for them, and every day they succumb.
Mr Hauser sels to work by telling them that the smaller
it was a couple of hours before they would telephone the num- ber I gave them-of a Russlan friend.
It was another hour or so, before they rang up my hotel, from the as I'd been asking Brst, and they began to get a glimmering of a notion that 1, was what I claimed to be This though I knew the ad-
and properlyi dress parrot-fashion and also newly-arrived had it written out in Russian authenticated foreigner whose characters. But how could the dokumenti
official
(More Tomorrow). Bun
THE world cannot yet do of both plants and animals. But their waist-line the longer their taxi-driver be expected to know hands.
yet do if it was all as any as Mr HuBut
preachers.. The
makes it out to be, disease could them with health-giving foods old-style be almost entirely banished by and vitamins which have plenty evangelists no longer draw diet and doctors would be in of bulk, but little fat and starch.
in the bankruptcy great crowds, at any rate in clover, or
court. Britnin,
but there are It simply is not true that "any
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many to take their place. person alive, provided his bone But he spoils things for some Mr Gayelord Hauser is one of structure is normal, can have a readers by insisting that you- them. He preaches diet, and he trim, vital body if he is willing hourt, black
also
ha
moloases,
and
aventa-
Wore
Super-colossal Bath For Helen Of Troy
or
has an enormous following, to work for it." The most probrewers yeast should be teken particularly in the United States.
will dietary struggle longed
at every. opportunity to All up In his book "Diet Does It,"
never put right the crippled at
body
As
a preventa- (Faber, 15.), he hammers away by nervous and other diseases, inpty corners.
From NEWELL ROGERS tive for pyorrhoes he recom- In All the
the time at his main thesis:
other matters
Mr
ong ether things, a "What you eat determines your Hauser's enthusiasm leads him mends, among
New York, beautiful girl health
im- quart of yoghourt daily; some
girla and well-being." He stray. For inslunce,
much prefer to have throws In some plies that diabetes has micreased worchoen, though it is only fair ECIL B. de Mille, who bathtubs. generously
Sald de Mille: "I have dieeted excellent recipes on nearly every because the milling of grains has to add that Mir Hauser's teaching
made a fortune out of bathtu scenes which were other
removed vitamin B from our puge.
has apparently caught on, for a The theory that eating makes diet. There is no evidence for bottle of yoghurt seems, to be a screening beautiful girls in influential in changing Washing you healthy la an attractive one. this.
popular lunch nowadays for bathtubs, has told the tax habits in all civilized countries. It should appeal particularly to
students and business girls. collectors that they are no
Not just a wisecrack.ather, the Russians, who do their best to discount the influence of
Again, he writes that "tuber- Every housewife can learn longer going to make a for- The plumbers any his luxious
baths made a tile bathroom heredity in shaping the growth culosis has long been known to something of value from Mr tune out of him...
musl in an American home be the result of malnutrition." Hauser's practical tips about how
He has dissolved Cecil B. even during the Depressione Tuberculosis,
every well to prepare health-giving meals-
famous scene In Cleopatra informed person should know, is the use of iodine salt is an de Mille Productions. It is built his largest tubs for the caused by infection with a germ, example but not every house his personal corporation. Wherever the camera furned, the tubercle bacillus. If it only wife will be able to obey all his Members of his family were. Egyptian bathing beaulles klimp- infected malnourished people Instructions.
the directors. Its chief as- ed in and out of the Nile. our sanatoria would be nearly
Not only are
·STRICT-TABOO of crowded to
many of the set was his contract to make empty instead
foods he recommends either very pictures for Paramount. capacity..
He tackled Bible stories when There is one other point on expensive or unobtainable In view, the which
would Britain, but, in his doctors
The 71-year-old movie pro religion was a strict Hollywood most quarrel with Mr Hauser. He housewife must become kind ducer sald: "Corporate income taboo. If you are old enough, talks about the vitamins that of laboratory technician when taxes, excers prailt taxes, fran you remember "The Ten Com- change
grey hair back to its she-is in the kitchen, which, of chise taxes and other taxes didn't mandments," It act box-offico. normal colour. In medical course, must be equipped with leave enough capital to accom- records in the twenties.
He followed this with The practice the results obtained such items of culinary machinery plish what the company was King of Kingsstill being with these vitamins have been us refrigerators, electric mixers, organised, for
But
de Mille quitting shown in churches. More recently most disappointing, and grey slicers, shredders, and fulco ex-
his modernised Hollywood? Not at all. How there has been haired readers of Diet Does It tractors.
could he? Isn't he the man who "Sign of the Cross" and "Sumsons started the place back in 1913 and Delilah." because it rained too much in Flagstaff, Arizona?
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Mr Hauser is at his best when
But Mr Hauser addressing those members.of his
would shrug audience for whom he can do away such objections as these, most-the middle-aged man who and in a way he would be quite cats too much and the woman right. For if we want to live of around 50 who is beginning longer and healthier lives wo to get seriously worried about shall have to pay more attention
appearance-the woman, as to what we cat. Mr Huuser writes, "who has had
her
To him the secret of n.suseeds—. ful Alm was so simple.. "Lov boy sheets girl. Confilct: hero
·BARN FOR STUDIO
versus villain. Everything else is just trimmings." He stopped at Flagstaff, at the Finished with Hollywood? Sald time just a cow pasture, rentes de Mille: "I've no intention of half a barn for a studio, and divorcing myself frem a business made The Squaw Man for to which I've allotted so years of my life." (He practically founded $15,245.tres inter, he has ane movie industry in 1012 with variety pgent,
a long and candid look at herself Mr. Hauser, addressing the Today 60 pictures later, in the mirror and seen that she housewife, writes: "The health just made The Greatest Show Jess L. Lasky a
a bit too heavy, her double of your family is in direct pro- on Earth" for $4,000,000. In and Samuel Goldwyn, glove chin an ugly actuality."
portion to the soundness of your between his plotures have grossed salesman). This "shadow of the forties" cooking methods. This is quite nearly $600,000,000 more than What next, then young man hangs darker over Hollywood' consistent with the school of any thres other directors com- Helen of Troy, that's what's than anywhere else, and some of medical thought which holds bined. He developed more stars next. And Hollywood is betting Mr Hauser's most successful that a good cookery book does than any other producer, he that in de Mille's super-colorant campaigns have been among the as much for the public health His trade is making rupe Alm stars,
as a textbook of medicine, colossals. His trade-maric
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