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London Express Service

A British Housewife's

Three

WAS in Russia for 21.

days, I went to Moscow intent on seeing all 1

Weeks In Moscow

by WINIFRED could during my stay

and particularly to observe Russian women, to study their clothes, the cosmetics they use, their occupations, ,and their way of life.

The women of Moscow have en carnest, purposeful air. Few

DRAYSON

The Virginia potrol pump man, the man - in- the ~ train's daughter, the mother of Betty-Lou

they all want to make that summer trip to—

THE LAND OF GENTLENESS

By

Robert Waithman

torics.

should be

Washington. bourers, and the third big group TOW that the biggest consists of clarks and secre-

American hollday crowd' in recorded There is no mystery why it time la beginning to stream America since the beginning of 10. Prosperity in up the gangways of ships World War II has raised that and into the doors of nero. proportion of the population said to be doing planes I find myself reading who can be

which the

with some nervousness the nicely-the part

statisticlone here call the Middle

accounts of what to expect Income Group-from one-sixth in Britain that have been to more than half. published in some of the Sunday paper travel supple milion now, get holidays with

ments here.

A brisit, confident article which appeared not long ago Gold:

As early as February you may be able to cat lunch at a side- walk cafe in Soho,

You may, of course: but it is not explained that you would do It only to win an enormous bet, or that the blankets, fur gloves and knitted woollen helmet you would have to wear might attract | some attention.

Another plece warmly recom- mending a trip to Britain pro- mised:

women present quite a, dashing You will get fine food and ser- appearance out of doors in their vice in Oxford, where many of Cossack-style fur hats and coats the establishments have been

catering to with matching fur collars.

critical

under graduates for 700 years.

Out of 47 million workers' in omcoa

pay.

and factories about 42

Moreover, savings and "dis posable income" of Americana have now reached a new high point,

L

The theory of nomo of the disgruntled Socinusta that capitalism in America has merely made the millionaires richer is lamentable nenschist,

, “ f

Wedding present

The

Among those from this side or the Atlantic who will be descending the gangways and the deroplane stairways in London, Southampton and Liverpool from now on the wage-corners and their families will be in an

majority, overwhelming majo

disembarking company will number among it such young men as the wistful owner Hair is usually worn long and

ol a cross-roads gasoline station severely braided. I visited a Passports galore

in Virginia Who This is the first of two articles by the wife of Mr

stood in the ha'r-dresser's, which I entered

baking sunlight, one day, wiping G. B. Drayson, Conservative M.P. for Skipton, - through the men's barber's shop, Well, yes, in a way, so long as his hands on an olly, rug, and Yorkshire. She was one of 500 delegates at the re- Some kind of machineless per- it is borne in mind that under bad: "I aim to visit some folks cent International Economic Conference in Moscow. manent waving was in progress, graduates nowadays aren't quite I know a place called High

and two women were having as critical about a side of weet Wycombe. Iilved with shawl round the ther natts manicured.

other generations have almost a year in 1944, and they been.... 想 three-quarter length

were real good to me." quilted

Little make-up is worn and kapok grey

The fortunate.truth is, how-. It will include such a couple made ever, that few of the Americans as the daughter and son-in-law There is who will be landing in Britain of a bald-headed radio parts with rubber to improve on nature.

little visible evidence of corsetry, during the next few months or maker who

rysis contentedly so will have based their holiday rattling the ice in the club car plans on the belief that they are of a train one night and saying there assured of fine food

And what d'y suppose lacy want for a wedding present? They want a trip to Europe!"

sist on food bought at the fixed woollen can be seen uul for an Idie stroll price in State-controlled food head, or indulging in the pastime of shops.

dark

"window-shopping." They work freshness or variety

I however, you. want padded coat, knee-length boots no apparent attempt s

so hard that they seem to have diet, if

of meal,

121

11.

gigantle

Cheeses or

nearly shopping

cloth-

Moscow

not

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..

a

them

In

felt your of a coarse you want fresh, not seles and uppers. little spare time.

frozen,

meat, fresh Kreen Again, the shop windows are vegetables which at this time In winter women from the

Glamour unknown hardly eye-catching. The food of the year are scarce and very outlying farms crowd Into

service in a balmy climate and shops are decked out with expensive you go to one of Moscow to help clear the snow

the ballerinas, They will not be the "rich realistic dummy roplicas of the "free" market, where in the streets. For this they APART from the wares they sell-huge joints nea halt

of prower musical who on the stage appear as Americans" docs its are paid about £12 10s. A

creatures, comedies. Ther will be a very month, which

ethereal, fairy-like they badly need

Sort of sweef cise display 1 miscellaneous, It la to these "free" markets to make ends meet during the glamour" among the women is different and (in my view) a

unknown. I got the impresion much more attractive company, - arranged selection of that collective farmers travel, hard winter period.

that any overt attempt to en-

Since January this year there will be the plump little woman. There will be--or I hope there haberdashery and drai

often hundreds of miles, to sell

Fashion as we know it in the hance one's appearance would has been a phenomenal leap in No need to try to attract their surplus produce and that

stranger never encountered frowned

merely the number of passports, issued before and never seen again, who custom when private competition which they grow on the small West does exist for the be has been replaced by

decadent, and Western"

Washington, Oficials here have accent in a restaurant and asked distribution,

They women, and intelligentsia. There

been astonished by it. In the customers inside to buy when sell

how much a man and wife and is some attempt, reither attrac pricca

The women we met and talk-first three months of this year two children aged 15 and 13. the supply of goods for sale obtainable. Through an inter- tive nor successful, to produce

ed to most wore our guides and Americans asked for and obtain would need for three weeks in rarely catches up with the preter I talked with one farmer modern versions of peasant cos-

whom the task ed 85 percent more terpreters, lo

passports England, if they were careful. This means little more who had travelled nearly 300 tumes.

more of thepherding us about tre pensed in the Orst three months worried about it, but I said to

than the State Department dis- wiles with a load of carrots, than the insertion

("My of

husband gets kind of had been entrusted We were and after calculating his

of last year. train machine-stitched embroidery in

the skirt or the addition of a told that they would in all

him, I said, 'Look, what if we do fare and the

prico he was

probability be keeping an

With this and other evidence have to scrimp and save a little charging for the carrots I con- full, kimono-type sleeve,

on us for the N.KV.D. If they before it the Government esti- thinks of what it's going to mean cluded that he would make

were, they did it very unobtru mater that 759,000 Americans to Betty-Lou and Steve. All sively; they were most kind and will be travelling abroad this those old places quite indefatigable in their year. efforts to please.

demand.

the piece of land they are permit- young girls, students, professional frivolous, or even "devlationist, by the State Department in stopped on hearing, an English to tempt ted to own privately.

Altho highest

Maids for some

~HOPPING for the Moscow

and

housewife is a evere strain

a physical ordeni. All about 200 roubles (£3) on the Russian women work, and work...___ trip.

extremely hard so

often shopping

or

are one of Mos-

TOMORROW

and

сус

Who they are But this I must say; while |

often flow cd smoothly enough--we could ex-

am

Unless wars or rumours of

All those old places. They

and not the sidewalk cafes of Soho are the glory of Britain in the eyes of Americans on holiday. When they get back home they

Cast-off clothes

How does the ABRISK trade is done at the Moscow house- seocond-hand clothing shops, has to be done by

wife do her cook where I say dark-coloured, the grandmother

ing? I was told part-worn dress, priced at 400 conversation aged

that there is no roubles (210) other

poor- а member of the Mrs Drayson deals with cooking by elec- quality second-hand, mun's suit change jokes and anecdotes of wars should frighten them away are going to complain how cold family, or, if you general

impressions of tricity, but most for 1,000 roubles (£25) that our respective children quite something like 200,000 Ameri- it was, and it is at least open to houses have gas. 1s, taking the rouble at its in- suddenly some chance remarks will be setting foot in Bri- doubt whether they are going to

tain this year. About 20,000 extol the fine food and service. cow's "privileged Moscow, including a visit visited an iron- ternal value of about 6d. The would revert the excel will be going on to other parts But all that is old and calm and classes by your

to a worker's home, monger's and saw official rate to us is 11 roubles to impenetrable mental barrier.

the small, stand- the £. maid. Yes, there

for example, that of Europe after three days: the beautiful, the inns and the tim they totally dishelloved every rest will be staying for an aver- bered cottages, the colleges and dr remists In

ard gas cookers

castles and cathedrals these are Moscow! But unless she comes that are used in the homes They The usual evening aitre for thing I told them about life in age of three weeks.

This is more Americans than what they will remember. three jets, a ball-sized women is a dress of floral pat

Britain,

Britain has ever before enter- to you dally the may have to have sleep in the same room as her oven, and no grill. The range taled poor-quality rayon, but

Here were people who all their tained in a single year. umpleyer and other members of cooking utensils seemed to be the really well-dressed woman lives had been trained to believe They keep careful records at

Department, and strictly limited. I saw only two at, say, a ballet performance at only one source of information, the Stale of the family.

metal pans on the Bolshoi Theatre will wear a different-sized

high-necked, ankle-length dress the official Rusran source, and study of them reveals that one- sale.

of dark velvet, surmounted with had never then allowed to think of the passports have been

handed out to housewives. things out for themselves, a silver fox fur.

The second largest group of I found this terrifying.

applicants for passports is made Some trust in charlots: but I (World Copuright!

up of skilled and unskilled la would rather hear this, myself,

Maxcow shops reminded me of a bargain basement at the I was of the salce. helberd

to leave

any food purchases I might wish to make until Moot of the food shops remain

until frem 9 nm. open hour, seven days a week. Sun day is the busiest shopping day of all. Alternatively, I was advised to make a headleng dash just before the Junch-time closing hour.

Just bofore midnight.

Fighting through

TOOK nelikher course, but

The women in the factorles of Moscow work an 8-hour day. six days a week. Work is same age in two shit's,

a.m.-2 p.m.; 2 p.m.-to and they fit in their household ...... dulles to these working hours. Many women saw lookel exhausted particularly when was ravelling on the Moscow underground. Samo of them were slumped in their seats, asleep,

On the other hand, they and

word shopping as I would their children enjoy the benefits of creches and kindergartens

There is plenty of beautiful fur to be seen. Some Moscow

H-BOMB

TEST

There and the gentleness they meet. They come back from Britain, often, and grope for the words to explain what they mean, "Everyone is so polite and-you know, sort of sweet, and don't know, hot in a hurry and woll, kind"

CLIMAX

OF

GRIM RACE AGAINST TIME

New York.

By RODNEY CAMPBELL NEVITABLY and signi-

ficantly it has been nick ploded the scientists will

bo

at home and returned bruised attached to their places of work,

exhausted from my *x. adition, had to fight my way and there are rest homes where named the "Hell Bomb." able to use the results as a ly into three groups.

Inevitably because "H" "pointer for future research — Political: The a quick workers can go for holidays.

to

the counter,

take

queue for

of

Cost: displayed on Juan

near future must causo an entire re-examination of the weaponsTM

"fantasy

pro-i

development Now the problems tall rough gramme from the standpoint of

moral justification. American

When President 'Truman ""do- intended elded to build the hydrogen bomb churchmen, theologians full-power world to the point where Com- and philosophers backed the step

It ack. It is as a' regrettable but inevitable

help them speed up the con- solely to strengthen the free many Significantly, be-

Army

un-

of a new test, these thinkers are bound to urge a

look at the goods and prices, ducing rayon and actuat sis for hell.

I visited a textile mill pro- stands for hydrogen and a pointer which may be able to hydrogen bomb

of the struction chict'A

desk, where I paid in foods, I could have been back cause when advance and was issued, with a in Yorkshire in one of our older

I had to fight my concerns. All the weavers were rocks to the first H-bomb in power to 2,000,000 tons of part of the same general con- safeguard." Now, with the newB tloket. Then

cept behind the SHAPE explosion this summer the high explosive.

Against this must be to the counter way back to

once waren,

world will have in its hands All in all, it comes down to

new disarma→ the crowd more through

Women at work

Commi the most deadly pushing women.

weapon the fact that the world is now the fact that the

unist ment approach to the Soviet one of the most propaganda machine will The food shops of Moscow

snatched from ever

the witnessing

orth Union. doubtedly seize ora the forth- AVEN 18-year-old boys at the

deadly races against time that

Eniwetok coming

test by step- To are very well stocked. There is school I saw were

cum up: Perhaps, the it has being power of the universe.

this over known. In

ping up ita every kind of tread on sale-

gravest doubts of the Truman Eum-warfare At one time the first hydrogen mee the top talent, labour and while, crisp,

delicious.. taught by women teachers. You

Administration on the eve of the and There

ara always plenty of see women at work everywhere, bomb explosion was expected raw materials of the 40 States propaganda campaign. Such

campaign might well alienate Eniwetok test concern, the cost. Aslan's cheeses, herpings, and all kinds They do the heaviest anual to be a full-scale affair. That of America have been utilised. cam

who never forget that Jobs alongside the men. An President Truman has now de-

history's first atomic bombe 13. (So

vity.

unusual sight to me was that of cided to give the all-clear for

were dropped on Axions. First the queues?

because women "roadmen" handling a test of a guinea-pig bomb in-

Military: The successful devie lcates

It can that the scientists have Moscow is served by compara- pneumatic de asphalt, decided that it would be done ever the war in Korea has had lopment of the hydrogen bomb that the Soviet plan is to under- tively few shops for its 7,000,- and concrete, oven a

Population; so suddenly

bo driving the steamroller,

to writ gerous 800.

any longer to telce second, place in the de- will mean a new, intensifed mine America through economie the news may

There were women working before making a test explosion. livery of some top-secret items. Production drive, with priority pressure-belleve that the H- For several months they have So has the production of the going to heavy let bombers, for bomb expenditures would go a bave gone round that some blah up. on half-completed

onging in the hydrogen bamb, unlike the long way towards doing thin; "extra" at

at the fixed price is on buildings, and women driving been pointing out that Russia atomic submaring

started Its reach

Nevertheless, there is only one atom bombs, into the tended to revolutionise shipping, new single 'baby and the housewife must the trams. They got equal pay

bomb with almost

Unti

can be carried only in hoavy air alternative to not going ahead short time ago, a very

with the bomb. be quick or it may disappear with the men for all this work. hydrogen within half a de

day of

half I could not help but wonder the same basic knowledge and in fact, America had two un craft.

Moral: The probability that This is to relax and let the an hour.)

resolved doubls. First, that the where all the men were in at the same time as America,

wii Russlang What' Ruesin did not know in H-bomb could be built at all; both Russia and America

get the bomb Fixed price? Yes a wide the Army?: range of foodstuffs is' price The working dress this was the initial stages Dr. Klaus. second, that its effect might be have in their hands the most de which as world, events hayo.

winter, remember-was Fuchs told her. When the disastrous to the basic controlled, and it is possible to In-

atruc vastating weaparis the world has taught us, Is no alternative a

known within. the very all. de ali one's shopping and ruk wually a thick beige geart or gulove-pig: bomb, has been ex- ture of the world.

of meat.

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