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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952.

The

next train

at Kharkov

will/won't/go/come

A comrade's' account of tho. way comrade bureaucrats can push comrade

passengers around

by RALPH HEWINS

Stockholm.

The red

Illustrated

by ARTIE

cap, proudly

B'

THE scene is Kharkov, straightening up his shoulders,

There's says: "Tomorrow, the Manchester of rain going tomorrow. Now Man you'd better hurry over to the Russia. From chester's

cinema instead. You absolutely biggest two

must see 'Girl Keeps a Dato'." stations 54 trains a day

The next passenger la not a Fleave for London. From girl who has a date, but some

Kharkov's large Central body who must leave Kharkov as possible and has Station no one

seems to as soon

come to the Central Station for know how many trains the tenth time to try to get a leave for Moscow.

ticket.

Moreover, even when it is An elderly offelal takes care plat- established that a train is, be of him, saying: "Buy a

ticket. That's not so yond all Marxist doubt, actually form

the citizen Meut. On the platform you leaving for Moscow,

Kharkov can buy warm soup, drinks, o I bound for the and a bottle of. vodka Or PLATFORM Tremely

capital is ex- you like, some warm beer-and lucky afterwards it's quite fun. You

If he is able to can wander about between the

get train.

on the lines.

Where will you stay for the How 307 It night? Ah, that's another ques- is all due to tion.

or- SORRY, NO TICKETS

YOU sometimes see a sign

You reading "Tickets avall-

"the absolutely wonderful ganisation at Kharkov Central"

The words

tho are from latest issue of a Rusalan mega- zine called Crocodile, which is the only important Soviet able" outside the booking office. publication allowed to be ironic But all the trains going in and about life in Stalinland.

out of Kharkov do, not exactly And the words about the or- run according to the timetable.

Thus the timetable says the indeed gunisation are

heavily

fast train,

Na 32, goes from ironic. For what goes on in

Kharkov to Moscow. In spite Kharkov's station is described

of the fact that this train docs in considerable. detail by the

indeed start Kharkov there

al Crocodile reporter, like this-

are seldom any tekets available LOOK, NO TRAIN for Inhabitants of Kharkov,

Should

you by chance manage to get on the train you would find at least 150 unde- cupled

THE loudspeaker announced -- to everybody's astonish- from ment-that train No. 78 Kiev was due at platform 3.

A crowd of people rushett there carrying big bouquets. But, oh dear, there was no sign of the train.

It turned out that the station. in- staff had received wroug structions.

Suddenly the loudspeaker screams at the passenger com- rades that in the waiting-room

Cummings

DIPLOMATIC WITH RELATIONS BRITAIN

“Ha! This will infuriate the British!"

London Express Service

The girl who said

'Yes' in Room 13

66 T

a

T is hard to imugine con- temporary woman who is more worthy of being written about, but less inclined for it. than

Countess the Mountbatten of Burma,"

says Dennis Holman, at the

start of his biography of stats.

her-LADY LOUIS. they

Perhaps

were booked in

hams, 258.):

advance,

the

"She is....one

not so. For inher on the dust-jacket: Belgorod irst big station most significant and in- fluential women of her age....

on tho Khur

What life on '£900 a wook has meant to Countess' Mountbatten, godchild of a King, and wife to an earl

By JAMES LEASOR

now worn Palace

.at

They Can Smoke In This School

By J. W. TAYLOR

THE

London. American co-ed school has come to Britain; a school where, if their parents allow them to smoke it is all right with the teachers, provided the smokers, are over 15 years of age and use only the special communal smoke- room provided. Smoking in any other part of the school is strictly forbidden.

It is the Middlesex Bushey Park central high school for the children of United States military

based in personnel Britain. There are 210. pupils,

of whom

boarding whose

arc

are

parents students stationed outside the London prea. There IA also дл elementary school for juntors.

The

...

school principal is M: nn American, Volney Farned. who has a staff of 28 teachers- two of them Canadian, four British and the rest American- who have 25 classrooms their disposal. Three more British teachers Kre

be engaged to teach Latin, Frencli, Spanish, and the arts, crafts and music.

and,

.to

some

There is no lack of polso or sophistication amongst the young ladies of the school, whom favour sweaters and skirts and loafers"-soft leather bobby-aocka shoes-over thele

mast of them. pesonal jewellery and lipstick. They do, however, work bard. Bourding students have to study from 7 p.m. to 0.15 p.m. at night and are not allowed out on week nights, when lights must be out at 10 o'clock.

If someone misbehaves he or to the Principal. she is taken And if it is very bad there can be a suspension from school for

week

possibly loc Boarding

students can

Ket privileges, k

like going out at

week-ends, taken away.

are

Just now the senior students

Betty

are running the school election's and 18 are chosen to "run the (Od Burma, Australia, Tahiti, and ineffable beauty, served by in which students between 17 walls The corridor while her husband sailed staff. In the novy-blue battle-

dress uniforms

school." and bear such slogans as "He won't and cheat, so vote for Pele, you And the publishers say of the seas. ("The Mountbat Buckingham think. Bu +

tens even picked the right, Clarence House."

Yet, oddly, her biographer "Get ready with Eddie." of the generation in which to live. makes no mention of the pri Two of the high school pupila

"going steady" They got the best of the vate BB she sought to intro-

duce in 1949, by which she Sullivan, 10, of Baltimore, century....").

would be able to anticipate in Maryland, whose father is

master sergeant and "Dusty!' Bowers, of Missouri, who is the. son of A leutenant-colonel. Since they started courting. Betty bus worn "Dusty's" signet ring on a silver chain round her neck, in accordance with Ameri- can co-ed school custom.

kov -

Moscow line] NO MOTO Interplanetary people get on

talks."

the train.

they can sec the new Alm. Is Kharkov station excep- "Girl Keeps a Date."

tional? Crocodile does not my Passenger comrades are then so, And it would seem that it informed that while they are is, in fact, typical.

For even Georgl

they connections

of

An elderly traveller with big, heavy suitcase comes bold- ly up to an official in a red_cap and asks how to get to Jev patorio.

|

'I've a spare

But it

closing was nearly time in the pleasure gardens of come from the trust her grand- more the West. War brought Lord father left her and get

"public Louis new tasks. Lady Louis money to finance her

for lutics. became County President London of the St. John Ambu-

Ed.W

possessed of their and en-

Looking ahead

very

Socialist Government of

visit was worth two companies not surely

of M.E.$."

Biggest job

The school day is divided into seven 50-minute perioda, be ginning at 9.30 am, and ending at 3.40 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch period,

The at noon. school year is divided into two

of 18 weeks to semesters

cách

a

BE that as it may, Edwina lance Brigade. "She Cynthia Annette Mount- what they require waiting for

leaders Malenkov.

position can go on personally conducted the new and tough General batten-christened Edwina thusiasm.

hos- THIS she withdrew when the god- Tirelessly she toured tours in the city parks or cap Secretary of the Russian Com- after. Edward VII, a hear, talks on Interplanetary munist Party, had to speak out father-acquired much of pitals in France and Burn the day introduced a Bill cover travel.

at the recent party congress

'this significance and in- and India; later went to ing ell-women-in-similar-cir- It is quite clear that

men the, about "too much inefficiency on

camps in Malaya and cumstance-but why no not the railways.

fluence from the £1,100,000 Siam. Iler cousin, Harold Cas- tion of it here? After all, it is question of tickets does

The Russian people

Jap come within the province

Is used left by her grandfather, Sir sel, who was a P.o.W. in

to her, and The

to her: "Your biographer's the passengers' culture depart to being pushed around.

Ernest Cassel, the Anan- hands, wrote.

of such import- party-dominated Soviet bureau- ment.

cracy is used to pushing people cler.

ance to his subject. It was around.

at a Claridges

Then the

future. What of Timblables, in such an aimo-

that? Mr. Holman is vague here. achievements have to be sphere, must seem like an in-party in 1921 that she met

Lieutenant

Louis trusion from another world.

"he writes pon Mountbatten.

"With each new task .Later

band's most important job; ut year,

further responsibi- Viceroy of India. He was the lilies. With every dresh problem Cowes, Mrs Cornelius Van- prime surgeon at the immense derbilt, anxious to drum up operation which cut India free her horizons are extended..."

But in which direction and to "An in- friends for a cruise in her from the British raj.

what for view Mr Holman docs erddible feat of diplomacy. yacht, said to Edwina: "Be and responsible for averting the not say, a darling and help me make bloodbath and anorchy that would certainly have followed our departure from India."

But what of the chaos that did result? Says Holman: "For a true perspective of the Par tition ricting in the Punjab, the avonta and numbers in- volved must be viewed against the background of the entire

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM – WHITE

GENERALS ARE

A HANDFUL

ONE of the unhappiest

the

six years' wartime service as But there is no resignation, in Mr Churchill's military secre- his voice as he says it. The fact tary.

is that he is preparing to take several good hard swiper in several very, distinguished direc- tions.

His face is heavily jowled, often his eyes are weary, Con sider some of his charges:

of

Lord

that

up the party. I have a spare man. I think you may have met him--Dickie Mountbat ten."

So

Borrowed fare

WITH victory came her husated.· ́

they met again and sub-continent.

"Responsible estimates tof

of a

Was

officials in Western defence he finds himself gagged .code, which by a security, Europe today is General stamps as "Cosmic Top Secret" Lord ("Pug") Ismay. The everything from the humber of

sailed away-ahd fell in

those killed) do not Western divisions to the num-

exceed reason: As Secretary-

her of typewriters at NATO love. Then the Prince of 200.000. That is one for every General of the North At- headquarters.

Wales took cousin Dickie to 2,000 of the population, and for inntic Treaty Organisation Sald Ismay recently: "I've

India as his aide on a tour. less than the death-roll

month of the Bengal Famine in he has little or no control never felt so much as if I were

borrowed dark. Never Edwina groping in

£100 1043.ays, Lady Louls over, his generals.

("Не have I been in a position of from her great-aunt In six months at NATO, more responsibility un'i 1c33

doing "incalculable work Bounds

nice

bury, young Ismay has aged more than in authority."

fostering better relations among man....You shall have the the different partics by getting money, my dear") and fol. the leaders women together in lowed him out, second clans, a friendly atmosphere....

The "most hopeful sign of the He proposed in Room 13

Mountbattens' progress" during of the old Viceregal Lodge negotiations was a photograpli (now the registrar's office an American took of her with Gandhi, walking with his hand of Delhi University), and on her shoulder as he used to they were married in 1922, leun on his grand-nieces when blographer Holman noting going to a prayer meeting.

touch, "It was a marvellous that it took four men to lift the huge wedding cake.

demonstrating in a gesture the new spirit that had entered in- Thus in the mad, gay to British-Indian relations and 'twanties the Mountbattene (the photograph) made a

fortune." "found themselves with £45,000 a year after taxa tion....It must be said for Mountbattẹn that a good AND to an age passed by and time was never allowed to to England Lady Louis still the Mountbattens returned interfere with his career in intent on helping others (visits, the Navy oven if his ambi-TV broadcasts in good tions did remain something work with old prople, and su

on). of a joke to their sophis She is back in the gracious

world-a countera

Cher ticated friends..."

to husband was made an earl` in 1047) Dinner once more is “ky

OL KASU

General Ridgway, fresh from the

splendour Vice-regul

THEY SAID IT Tokyo; Field Marshal Mout-Quotes of the Week-Minister Abelin: Flaunce, M. gomery, who is Field Marshal 'ol Montgomery; Marshal Jum, who "Taxpayers are like sheep. You is Field Marshal Montgomery can shear them every year, but you can only cut their throats with a French accent.

Between the three of them once." anything might, happen: from Novelist Colette, after a pre- tho organisation of naval view of a film based on her the edge, of fo, What a beautiful life I Russian territorial waters("I have had, and what pity I was not told about .operation did not know it, before." Mainbrace," says Immay) to the Maurice Chevalier on a per- recent Impassioned appeal by fect gentleman: "A man who is General Juin for Spanish entry polite, even when driving a cor into the European Defence Or in France." ganisation.

manoeuvres, on-

technically, Ianay ja

the

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to

boss of the generala, CTRESS Gene Tierney inter- In fact, he has complained rupted a Boor show in publicly and bitterly that the Paris night club

seizo

a generals do not inform him of photographer's camera: Reason: their plans,

the photographer snapped her

wolf wish to' raise his volge/in. Khan's shoulder.

Ritual again

But should Lort Ismay him with her head resting on Aly Lady Louis. Des persin, candlelight,, a ritial

travel

to Iraq,

now

causes

there

are

There is a two-work holiday at Christmas and

another at

Easter

week off

For sports and games, they use a neighbouring college gym naslum and playing held, where they are encouraged to learn cricket, soccer, rugby, tunnis and hockey.

All books used in the school are American. In the first year physics book there is a section oni Jets.

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