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PROGRAMME FOR 8th JULY
Trio in D-Minor Op. 49
Ave Maria..
Rondo in C Major
Mendelssohn Schubert-Wilhelnig
Mozart
111 Serenade
The Lover and the Nightingale Waltz in E Minor...
Plano-Richard Tetley-Kardos
IV Greensleaves
Serenade
Violin and Piano Soloist Nathalia Boshko
Strauss-Glescking ... Gamados Chopin
Arr. Vaughan-Williams
Delius
Arr. William Alwyn
Tchaikovsky
Irish Folk Tune
Cello & Piano Sploist-Elizabeth Hayden
Trio in A Minor Op. 50
PROGRAMME FOR 9th JULY
Schubert
1
Trio in B Flat Op. 99
Kol Nidrel
Cello and Piano
Soloist-Elizabeth Hayden
Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1
THE CHINA MAIL: TUESDAY, JULY
1952.
... Max Bruch
Chopin
Feux d'artifice
Debussy
Two Preludes
Cershwin
Plano-Richard Tetley-Kardos
!
IV Romanze Andalusa
Nana
de Falla
La jota
de Falla
"Take it easy, Major, we've got them interested in the game-that's the thing."
Violin and Piano Soloist-Nathalie. Boshko
London Exbress Service
V
Trio in 'C Major Op. 87
Sarasate
Brahms
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WHO WILL BE AMERICA'S FIRST LADY!
T
By Frederick Cook
New York. There is, for instance, motfidelý O all Americans she is Martha Tatt, a woman of fang
"The
First Lady and universally loved in her home
town, hot end spotty Cincinnat Her official standing Ohio. is nil. But the President's Mes Taft has been her hus♣ Aupport zolace and wife takes precedence over throughout his adult life. Bu all other women in all the has taken a part in his. things American, and, is rough-and-tumble campaigning always, a person of conse 18 months, ego she suffered a against General Eisenhower, for
quence...
band's
stroke and for a while lay near
It she is a great person in her death,
"Now, with the aid of (own right, like Eleanor Roosevelt,
she may rival her husband in the steel braces on her legs, she is public esteem and get her share able to walk again-slowly. But of the brickbats that go his way, she can do no travelling and has If she is the retiring, homo- Agured in none of hen husband's loving type, like Bess Truman,
meetings.. her Influence still strong.
Brown-eyed, gentle, attractive
Any way to look at her, the in a motherly way, Morthe Taft First Lady is arst in importance, was the most envied girl of her Who will she be, by the time time when she first met Bob Toft.
January 'como naxt
In those days, he was a sort of around?
American Prince of Wales, the She could be any one of half d
dozen
women some world- gallant college-boy son of the famous; some nearing fame's resident, living in the surs, of
White Houre publielty. pinnacle, like red-haired Nancy
Martha's father was Solicitor- Katauver with the twinkling ey General, Every newspaper in
ahid the long pendant car-rings
Or the could be someone almost Americs reported the develop- unknown outside her family ment of the romance.
circle.
WHY I DESERTED
from the RED ARMY
AM repeatedly asked
two questions. Why did
I
desert from the
Soviet Army? What is
life like in the Soviet Union for the ordinary worker?
By Nikolai Ivanovich Shutov
enough to cat. The State stores, however, were often empty. Nor could we afford to buy on the black market. A 2-1b loaf cost 30 roubles-about £2 15s. 06.
roubles A month,
•
On the farm
CHE 18 59
SHE
COW. 'And
hor
pungent wit and penetrating political commentary are famous
at Cincinnati and on the national
stage in Washington,
Like her husband, she has never dodged a fight.
She
f living now on the
Tafts: 60-acre farm high up on Hill overlooking the
Indian
or
Marriecinnati
38 years. and the mother of four sons, Martha Taft odmils only, one dispute with her husband-about, bulbs. "Te likes them in row," she
big, with red hair; that English-lid, "And I like clumps. We mon were all thin and tall; tha; have clamps."
If her husband goes to tho. Japanese had large, protruding
while
1
3.
Leeth in addition to their slant White House there will be eyes; that a capitalist was always changes in the gardens as well very corpulent and smoked -a as in the Cabinet, The Tru- big cigar; and that a poor man mans bulbs are in rows.
On the other side of the was someone more poorly dressed The answer to the first called the "hunger years-1934,
political fence everybody in Storier told by the home than mysch
America knows Nancy Kelauver question can be given in a 1995 and 1930 there were not
coming soldiers varied.
How- To continue my story. For
by now. But who Commander Platoon
knows, Mrs fow words. I was disillu- even enough potatoes. The
ever, they all stressed one im-
Ernest Ives? my patched clothing we wore was
of the was very pleased that we spent sioned about life in
pression-the honesty
But Mr
of Ives is the only sister people in the countries they had our spare time studying.
Governor homeland under the Com- our only possession.
When I was eight years old
visited in Eastern Europe. We one day, noticing our enthusiasm, 82-year-old Illinois
he asked what we were
Adlai Stevenson. If the Demo- learn munist system.
As an apprentice 1 was paid used to think they exaggerated ing. When we told him he was cratle choice should foll on him I went to school. Out of school
helped my grand. 175
und rather doubted their word. Soon after Turrived in Eastern mother or played with the other assistant engine attendants re- Now I know they spoke the truth. Very displeased and promptly ang mang confidence that an Germany I decided to have a children in the street.
ceived 300 roubles a month and I remember one soldier telling literature. We pointed out that would win
instructed
to study Communist Party profess he If it does-mudden look inside the house of a form-
the Germans, attacked fully-qualified engine attendant
us how, when in Czechoslovakia in Army orders no mention was When
fame
come to Mrs Ives.. Wil hand near
I was in 1941 my father was my billet.
was paid 400 roubles a month.
he got very drunk one night and made of the subjects which we For Governor Stevenson curious because I came from
The Government recognised we fell asleep in somebody's called up for service in the Red
garden. pessant family and worked on
I joined my mother in couldn't live on such small wages When he awoke in the morning political Army.
should study in our spare time. divorced, and if he were elected farm before being conscripted Cherrul. By then I was 13 and
so we were issued with a
duties of First Lady would education, we said, "wat small
fall on his Bister Into the Army,
had passed through four classes,
amount of grain or flour. At the he was puzzled to find himself So, one evening, I knocked on My schooldays were over.
elevator they gave us our mid- lying partly undressed on a sofa in any case, studied during duty | Mrs Ives is'd triendly, brown
In the house. His first thought of the farm-hand's went to
day meal-buck-wheat groats or was for his wallet containing house, After I had explained
pea soup or vegetable soup. It money and a bit of gold which ported our attitude to the Head- Afties now living the quiet life why I was calling, the German collective farm, looking after a
our to keep us he had looted. But his worries quarters of
Regiment. of a tebates farmer's wife, in team of horses.
North Carolina. Shortly afterwards
Her husband we were and examined on our is a retired civil servant,
the door
To
even
work at the local
I took me over the house. tried his bed. It had a feather- bed on top of a spring mattress. 10 me,
Russian, this farm- hand's dwelling might have been the house of a a "capitalist."
Each day I was up at dawn. 1. realise
having, seen now, a
On the way to the feids with the. Western horses I stopped at the house for Ilving conditions in countries, that this reaction may breakfast-bread and lea made
But be difficult to understand.
of shredded dried carrots. When where
I tell you something of my life you will have a
better ap- preciation of why so many Soviet soldiers who have had, contact with other countries are dis-
contented.
I went into the Soviet Army in 1949. I am now 23; when I escaped I was a sergeant.
Mine has been an average life
of life that the vast the sort majority are compelled to live in Communist Russia, and, what is even more important, with little hope of betterment.
my
:
meal
We
there was no bread we had potatoes.
with the so-called tea. Before
going off to the fields I would pocket a plece of brend Dr a few boiled potatoes, which I ate
my mid-day worked in the fields until dusk. After feeding and watering my horses I would go home for sup- per-again bread and usually cabbage soup.
Our only recreation in the even- Inga
was to meet in the village street and talk or sing songs, sometimes till dawn.
After a year on the farm, I felt I wanted to learn a trade so I went back to Yanaul and be- came an apprentice fitter in a tradesmen's collective. But soon
was the minimum
alive.
I
8 hours.
The Commander must have re-
were soon over. The wallet was led a Stalin's biography.
I remember that once, when safe in his tunic pocket, special precautions had been money and gold untouched. taken to prevent workers stealing the grain at the elevator, half-a-
ton of fresh peas vanished.
Sargeant N. 1. Shutor left his unit in a Red Army Rifle Regiment stationed in Eastern Germany in November, 1951, ·
He is by no means the only Russian soldier who. has made tho torrible decision to quit his own country and pooplo for
avor.
The story recorded horo is in his own words as he told it when hó found sanctuary in the British Zone in Germany.
Enten
the
ved
•
la
woman in the middle
We were told that our knowledge Accepted factor
VENSON would be the first dverent Président.
he
weg
of political affairs was inadequate and we were advised to form a study circle to improve it. So we
studying stopped
geography and As a young fox-hunting everybody
Chicago socialite, happy. It's not that we were married in 1920 to attractive by the large number of signposts forülidden to study geography Ellen Borden, heiress to a milic
saw on the roads.
I because even the few maps we and, cheese fortune. They have the authorities had proved to us that the so-
When I went to Eastern Germany I was greatly impressed
which I wondered how
onc.
up
WHB
these countries-
21, Borden,
at la Band John'
prep school
(both at
The
ended
21. after
of
her
Friends of Mra said she disapproved. husband entering politics.
Mr. Stevenson herself says: "I don't see why there should be
any feeling against a divorced man in. the White House. Divorce is a socially In American accepted factor
ihla
that the
were able to repince so quickly called encirclement" 10 any which might have been Soylet Union was a myth, Al 16, still in stolen. There was one post at
are very much marriage crossroads near my billet. I cut smaller than the USSR. and, sume little notches in it so that therefore, not in the least likely I could identify it. Every time to attack us, I passed I had a
I had a look. It was always there the samo signpost. was astonished. In Russia you ses few signposts and where I Lived. I cannot recall ever seeing
soldiers are life. signposts bad been put Many Russian the peasants would have stolen beginning to see through the
Agreeing, Soviet Government's propaganda. them for firewood.
But what
gt surprised me most in Here is a typical example. House atmosphere might not be Germany was the high standard During
political lecture the beat for their three sons, she of the houses, not only those of instructor stated that before the said: "I don't agree with the. who have apparently I was born at Kambarka on afterwards I was directed to Everybody was searched but no the rich but those of the workers. Soviet Army occupied Germany many
is the main issu the 31st December, 1928. Most of work at the railway station, peas were found. The explana also. That was why I decided to the schools were only for the
concluded
husband's lack of have a
former childhood, however,
Inside the house of children of "capitalists."" I on? The workers had
look Was helping to repair wagons, grandmother in didn't like the work much and them,
the tarma-hand.
"We have changed all that, enthusiasm for the numiration. spent with my
It is the good houses, the high said the instructor. Now you most of the time anyway.
The boys 'would Yanoul which means "new left without permission.
be with me Grain sacks, villagoa small market town
For B a while I stayed at home stolen.
too, wire for quality clothing and the good can see hundreds „of workers' They
When Mrs Stevenson was la
A.S.S.R.. on the doing add fobs for neighbours In making clothes. Bashkir
which everybody in the children entering" and leaving Sacks from West seems railway halfway between Kazan the spring I applied for work in America were considered a great making Soviet soldiers dissatis- schools."
to enjoy that is these Iarge
and
granted beautiful
deerde, custody of the children was divided equally and Sverdlovsk.
the grain elevator but they re-
by their parents. The boys live. Yanaul
like most amall fused to give me a job as I was prize: You see, they were of fled with life in the homeland.
have learned that building was shown
It happened that the date of with their mother. towns in Russia. There a
on some (World Copyright Reserved-London a main without documents to show why better quality than some cotton Further, we suwn
textiles made in the Soviet what our newspapers and radio schools, making street, which, not unsurprisingly. I had been released
it clear that Express Services). my Union. called Lenfa Street. The new previous employment. All I had
are saying every day about other these schools had existed long countries aro ties. part of the town has been built was my birth certificate, stamped.
What we before the arrival Discipline at work in the don't like today, after seeing the Russians. rather haphazardly, the two and on the back to show that I had elevator was very strict. I once real freedom of people In
the three-storey buildings looking joined the tradesmen's collective. lost a quarter of my pay for six West, is that our Government rather out of place alongside the
months for leaving work a few won't let us think for ourselves: little wooden dwelling houses
minutes early. Another time, and dugouts.
when I overslept, I deliberately This story will explain our feel- my father
ings, to Eventually, however, I was burned my left hand so as helped by a neighbour who was obtain a doctor's sick leave in charge of a grain store. He certificate. gave me work for a fortnight and then Issued
with employment certificate.
ia ·
When I was five, went to work in the Urala. It weu was then that I was left in the care of my grandmother.
We lived in one room of a two- room bungalow,' And that was
me
from
the home of six people, a living this I secured a job as an
.on-nunt, and two cousins
there with my grandmother,
This room was only 10 feo
nly 10 feet long
were used
*
of the
!!
remarking, that
One soldier pointed this out perhaps it was not so bad in
the officer, to Germany before the war because thee schools could obviously accommodate a great number of capitalista children
sa that there must have been quite a large In January, 1949, I was called:
We were encouraged in the mimber of capitalists, an up for service in the Soviet Army to form self-study groups.
Somo of the soldiers
who WINK-
Ma Army, After only two' months' i
and a few other. sergeants heard this joke may have missed training I was sent to East Ger- decided to study geography. This the point but all were delighted all that someone had made a fool of probably because
of travel. We tho
·instructor. * MON political On another occasion a political and their peoplo, omcer said that when Com
apprentice at the grain elas, manya,
I was considered by my friends
I
Was
a bench off which we had our employment in the grain elevatori Ruusia. And there is rising dis-i other * / “nam to
I
Tear.
about
It was then that I began to be Russians and 9 feet wide. For furniture to be very lucky to get this job. there was only one bed, a table, Everybody in Yanaul regarded more discontented with life in though it food and
and three wooden stools. At as good, not because the wages content among young boys and You see, all fussians ifke to muniam finally established what people of other heaven will be on earth as the mealtimes the children sat on the were
rics look
Like In the Army people will not need to work and bed, where at night my aunt and man could but because a clover girls in my homeland.
always tako home as I have told you, there is uncle alept.
My cousins and - I Tittle
little.
opportunity for recreation an N. C... reading a newspaper machines will produce everything
His men
Invariably asked to coures this was against the in the evenings in towns like to his slept on the door. • My grand-
pressing a button. to by the people of the country
remarked ong mother's bed was a maitress on rules and we were often searched Yanaul. So the young people
remember
ut in the centime top of a largo atove.
by the guards on leaving our just stand about In the streets!
press a button and get
Everybody laughed, the-joker had seen, intoller what a Greek looked like. Wo was reprimanded and the lecture to most of my fellow-citizens, alt
"therò, had been na Auxtury packed anecerally, it was imposible countries. They excited our spent more than an hour making went on as if there
Interruption-RENEWA But they biso wild gucasca In those days, in Vanaul, to live on one's wages. Food was imagination.
And in caused us to
Whiin at home I had always Are you surprised, that start › grumbling our sole rationed, it la true. potatoes were almost
thought that all Germans were decided, to escapez food. And during what wo thoury, one should have had about conditions in Russika
A
AȚI
bed whit work. And we often, got caught, ad kossip. After the
war, de neither he- for us· kome elgaretTORA:
the feather-bed- in. the German
reading something:
Now you can understand why But this did not stop the pilfer mobilized soldiers were the centro about farm-hani's house was to the, da katere in fact, was almost' what they is told stories of anyone else in the section know..., na
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By OSBERT LANCASTER
“Willy tayi and what's mbre fu's "Cariniri wa mita never consulted about the shooting of Syngman Rhee-- If we had, baan; they,
·wouldn't have missed.",
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