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RUSSIA POISED

FOR DECISION

HE elegant Golden had gathered, and as soon as Mr attend the Liberation Day However, I duly tricountered, him that one

Arrow Train anort- Gromyko had set foot upon the reception at the Polish Embassy, a Russian diplomat whom I had staff was not only teen talking is the excuse for their existence, of the Embassy attack. That is their duty, that ed its way into Vic- to be in this country and would that? Could it be when Russia bossy and efter an exchange et but worse than that they not have to try to unravel the platform he said: "I am very glad Liberation Day... when was met a year ago at the Soviet Em- to a British Conservative M. P. for unlike the politicians they do toria Station and like to see the strengthening of stabbed Poland in the back when greetings I asked him to come were arranging to meet Na- riddle of the Kremlin. The army, came to a full stop. Out of the understanding between the she was fighting desperately some day to the House of Com-turalty every good Russian is the navy and the air force must a pullman club car stepped British people..

against Hitler's Blitzkrieg? Was mons for lunch. His eyes nar- anxious to return to his beloved be ready, and must expect war, a serious looking man of Whereupon some silly young,

ft perhaps the time hear the end rowed and his voice was so fatherland but he is not so eager middle age, who was duly men in the crowd shouted of the war when the Warsaw hushed that I could hardly hear to go to the next world before. But those of us who have no

Resistance Movement greeted by two Englishmen home, Gromykol Go home!"

rose him. He looked at me. with his Ume. It was good to get away direct part in the military sphere against the Nazis and

thousands The Ambassador walted until slaughtered in their

were suspicious glinting from both his from the Embassy and to mingle yet have something to do with they were silent and then

cort while Russia at the gates, would . Yet between the glints once more with the vast sanity the political control of affairs

there was curiosity and a sug- of London's populace.

can look upon the wider teme. cluded his sentence: "......and not move a single soldier to

Or the people of the Soviet Union, help?

gestion of eagerness,

What are the deterrents to war? it was to celebrate The

visitor Was Mr especially now there are many the day when poor, unhappy Po- Andrei Gromyko, the new

important things which must be land exchanged the overlordship solved."

of the Nazis for tho gentlemen Soviet Ambassador to the

in the Kremlin? Court of St James. The Whereupon, he bowed. So did welcoming committee of the two civil servants.

home, Gromyko!" shouted the two were Mr Hohler, the ally young men. An escort of head of the Northern De- police arrived and took the Am partment of the Foreign bassador to a walling car which Office, and Mr Evelyn whisked him off to the Russian Embassy in Millionaires' Row, Shuckburgh, principal

Kensington. private secretary to Mr An- thony Eden,

FATEFUL

former

.

"Ge

A TRAP?

But if there is an element of absurdity in all this, I can assure you that the Western PowerE will be vastly relieved when the Teaves turn rod in the Autumn WAS I setting a trap for him? and the first chill harbingers of With some misgivings I went Were the dining room in the winter are on the wing. At this the celebration and found it House of Commons wired with moment Russia stands poloed be packed wi

with

mostly secret recording microphones? I fore history with a tremendous.. people, idealiste, enthusiasts, and crack- suddenly felt like an actor in a decision to take. If there is to pois of the Left. If you were super-spy film. There were peo be a third world war, if Com prepared for a struggle you could ple looking at him and he sud munion is dedicated to bringing reach the Vodka and Caviare and donly became silent.

the world down in en route there were Polish

should she strike this Autumn? bfficers in Russianized uniforms,

"When shall I come?" he sold softly.

Not even the politeness Ex- pepted from a guest could make I told him that I would let bla

as a know and that was that. With cry one. This was the En- all the fairness and reasonable- bassy of one of Russia's satellites, ness one can command we are

DETERRENTS

!

FURST, there is that dreadful __umph of the scientiae mind--the atomic bomb. Para- doxically this instrument of la- finite destruction strids as the supreme guardian of Western civilization. Its destructive, power damest threat to the very mystery

'ADVANTAGES

of

be over-estimated, but part

of it, power,

Secondly, there is the query that must face, Stalin and his be as ferocious in attack as in generáls. Will the Russian Army

And thirdly, there is

ET us examine the immense

advantages that she has defente?

the time Mr Eden no doubt felt Foreign Minister of Soviet Hus- where the writ of Kremlin pre- seeing a new race of men devo- gained during the years of the the 'dread that the Russian /

at Westminster. These foreigners North of the Border have to be watched!

.

day that one of the

at home.

Mr Eden was detained at the House of Commons and unfor- THUS begins the fateful am- mo describe the affair tunately could not go to the bassadorship

of Andrei station. As we were debating

Deputy Gromyko Scottish affairs in Parliament at

was laped under this menacing ab cold war. Without using a single soldier will be disillusioned and that his presence was essential si Ben told to to home, and more notable for those who had surdity called Communism, men soldier she has created war in contaminated by contact with

sia. He had been welcomed, he valls, and the whole affair was he had the strange experience not come than those who were who are suspicious of every by propaganda and bribery she conditions are so much higher

Korea, Malaya and Indo-China, the

the outside world where living of reading in the papers next there. Yet I found myself won- thing and anything. Perhaps we By

Poland, should be sorry and try to has set the Middle East foolish dering whether brave

ablaze.

than with intrigue and revolution. By with her long memory, hates understand them Russia even more than she hated.

her military threat to the West

There is also the important Germany. It would be hard to Mr Gromyko was due to arrive she has seen the economy of the personal element in Stalin him-

Ambassador and it capitalist nations chaines say. Perhaps the result would shortly as

to self. He has had his revolution would undoubtedly be relayed to armaments and military pre- and it was successful. He has be a draw.

parations-at-the expenge of the had his war and it was living standards of the people.. victorious. Will his place bo So much for her victories in world and the annals of his peo- greater in the history of the the field of political rcheming, ple if he reduces the world to What 18 her military strength?

However, the two civil ser- vants were not the only cluizens who turned up to meet the new Ambassador. Quite a large crowd

D

young men at the station was

fired £5 in the police court.

Not long before his arrival I received a formal invitation to

BETWEEN THE EYES-2

the URING

flights around my parish from country to coun- try, I find all too often that

I have forgotten the names

of my parishioners.

not

One name, however, from this last trip I am sure I am going to forgot is that of Ismall Bashkan.

On this somewhat disillusion- ing inspection of NATO'S new citadel in the Eastern Mediter- ranean, out of all the gallery of

A

name I

TERKKY

shall

not easily forget

countries that, before Russia

flames and so to ashes?

Read these figures carefully, These are deterrents that add even if they are not pleasant. up to a formidable total, yet re Russia has 175 Divisions on a volution is like a tiger that is war feeting. There never was more dangerous when you dis such an army or combination of armies in peace time. The cost Can Communtem hold the Rus

mount than

when you ride it. of maintaining them must be

sians in slavery for ever? Or enormous, and the standard). of wl Stalin use war to unite a living in the Soviet must reflect country that may be seething It cruelly, but what does public with discontent and disillusion opinion matter in a slave state? ment?

Russia has achieved internal

unity by the Secret Police and

the revolver in the back.

What are

are Russin's milltary re-

T

FORMIDABLE

by SEFTON DELMER

lowered the fron Curtis frond 100 scan put a further At least in America we are to import feeding stuffs from 100 divisions into the fled in Poland, Rumanio, and Hungary, thirty days. I am not giving you cleat, whether he be Stevenson or assured that the President- Yes, it is a most remarkable these figurds on more heary or Eisenhower, will not reverse the Ismail told me that he is today thing how the modernisation doduction. They are accepted by policy that has made the USA.

Ismall and the agricultural.

the new roads,

Cabinet Ministers, generals, and revolution are joint producle ut cultivating exacly 20 times the of Turkey's military resources the High Command of the West- the defender of peace' by-its-pro~~-

experts in this and that with whom I talked, he alone atanda out with a message of real hope.

area he had been cultivating

runs parallel with her economic ern Forces. iary mobility to Turkey's armed

The roads bring greater mili- four years befare,

modernisation. At the back of the archalc

The

being young peasants forces. But, in addition, they mud hut which had served his trained to drive tanks in the

new Turkish Army's aix transport costs family for generations a have reduced peasant and a Turkish ploneer. throughout the country to modern farmhouse was going oured brigades are returning He is a pioneer of the agricul- tenth of what they were four up. Isım talked with amazed from the military service to N 1930 Germany had 60 sub- tumn the facts are, formidable

For Email is a Turkish

tural revolution which, thanks to years ago. the Americans, is today sweep- ing Turkey.

If It spreads to the rest of the Middle East--and if it is in time the major battle against Stalin-and-starvation in this vitel sector will have been won,

First-class roads:

·

Tractors

in Turkish history.

new arm-

DANGER POINT

paredness instead of an inclto- ment to war by a spurious tol tionism, that was outdated by history, geography, and science. Whatever happens, this Au delight of his discovery that drive tractors on the farms.

marines and nearly brought and the picture is grim Nor fertilisers improved the yield of Down at Adana vast new alry Britain to the point of starvation shall we low peace in our time aerop--something unitnown in Gelds are being built by the side Russia has 300 super submarines even it we are spared war on the Turkey four years ago.

of factories which are to handle although they will have to grand scale. The tragic blunders Turkey's booming collen crops, disadvantage of being manned that permitted Hitler Arst to Now, not all of Ismail's neigh-

bor Russiame instead of Germans, blackmail, the free world and bours are as go-ahead as he is. But they are watching.

Her Air Force is huge and then to attacks it have left a modern but there is no reason dreadful price to pay st to believe that the machines are: But if we can hold the line, if

Busy Training”.

Hitler gamble then we shall

As I drove with Ismail to a oppressive taxailon and exploit. can advisers — a new corps of part. The ugly truth is tho face a task that isnt onCO

Exports

OODS are being carried out

to the

farms and villages which never reached there be-

All over the country there are fore. The countryside, in turn, is thousands of other peasants producing food at crops on a like snail emerging from the THE Turkish Army do busy at as good as the best American we can be pe strong, and united scale never before dreamed of steamess and passivity into full pressure training with and British types: Nevertheless that Stalin dare not take the which hundreds of years of the help of British and Ameri- force of numbers must play its MET Iamall at a village cross

NCO. to make up the de Russia is immensely drong and roads,00 miles from Ankara, neighbouring village he point- ation had plunged them.

ficiency that today constitutes ready for

formidable and inspiring-the war, ¿ He thumbed a lift in my cared out the tractors at work

The gravest weakness which is something that could in the Beldspart of a fleet of

building of a new world which Turkey's up-and-coming young

will call for qualities of lender not have happened when I was 23,000 imported under Marshall

The danger point wid bo in 24:1p army.

September

cllichthipand":"almplo when the Soviet last in Turkey four years ago. ali during the last four years,

half of them from Britain, POR the first time, they feel tary are also training the foresee huge Russian formations

In training NCOs, the mill manoeuvres take place. We chall faith much as have never before

Boon demanded of humanity. Four years ago no car could

FOR the inducement to work not men and civil servants which sweeping into Eastern Germany have got to this village: The Ismail's own farm,' when wo

If my plans do not miscurry ronds were too poor. But, since got to it, summed up the jump just to moduce coram to feed Turkey equally badly lacks in in a mock attack on point A or, shall go to Vienna nukk manth

thenipolvos ned their family but

her civilian life.

B. For an army that is mobilised and took first hand upon the then, the Americans have help from Stone to Atom Age, -4

to produce food, with which, to If the Western world's position it is only the change of a word fussions in eocupation. On my the Turks with money,

the Easter Mediterranean to alter mock warfare to really way home I shall visit that bril- engineers, mul machinery to Beatle the primeval wooden purchase luxury goods.

eins depended entirely on this how During those manoeuvres the lant American soldier General build. 7,000 miles of new strate plough and mattock which he Turkey, for the first time, gic, roads.

find been using only three years become a really big Scale Turkish spirit I would have western commanders will sleep. Orienther, who is chict of Staff ago, there stood a brand new exporter of main. In the har fewer misgivings.

with one eye open

of the Allied Forces in Europe, and pistols Turkey is Not only that. They have put Driush-made Fordson tractor, a bours-under American auspices Ala into Arst-class order another Massey-Harris combing also being enlarged to the male not forget the name of Ismail Quite rightly the military diplomat at the Foilth. Embassy

exception. That is why I shall under the pillowa

But as far a tho Ituintan 10,000 mice of previously unus Bridah made and a whole rand supplies-silas are being built, able roads among them this bit full of mechanised ploughs, Tukey, now exporta to

Lenders of the Allied Forces must party is concernod, Taljail leave They will store the grain Bashkan. drills, burzowe, szut cultivatorm.

"'assume that" Rumia intends to him to his own devices/

ad

where I found Ismail.

ndan Express`Berwipe),

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