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Soviet Russia's

Hoodwinked Party

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Stockholm. "Operation Blanck"

world brought matters to head.

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From RALPH HEWINS

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Blanck Bosses

Paris Newsletter

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Poet dies

-leaves a mystery

From SAM WHITE

Paris,

MAN who electrified

A France during the war

with a single poem entitled "Liberty," and later churn- ed out lugubrious verses in praise of Stalin, kas just died in Paris. He was 56: year-old Paul Eluard.

Between the wars, Eluatd was France's greatest lyric poet, In his last years, with painter Picasso

and scientist Joliot Curie, he was one of the lead-

Ing Intellectual lights of the French Communist Party.

His death was like an echo of one of his own sad pooms, Weak from tuberculosis, .he was watching the first winter snow falling outside bis suburban when he collapsed apartment and died. With that passionate pride which Franes feels for all its men of genius, no matter how wayward, this death Is mourned in newspapers which detested hila politics.

ROAD TO STALİN

Said Catholic writer Francola Maurinc: "Politics simply to not exist for me in this matter. For my generation ho was nót only a great poet, but poetry itself

But the mystery remains: Why did this passionate liber- tarian and Ingrained dividualist embrace

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which until the war, he despised?

In 1935 he wrote: "How T detest the Soviet idolatry Stalin."

of

In 1932 he began a poem with

the line: "Stalin today dissipates all our unhappiness."

entrusted with increased au- and in the end the mask was

torn completely from his face, thority.

"Since then there has been "There, naturally. Blanck not absolute silence about his 'dis-

He joined the Communist friends." to his

Seven Party in 1942 while, he was a old tricks: Ming tinguished

months have gone by als pockets. He had a shot at Blanck was charged. What is gave him a Cause but clearly since leading Resistance worker, // 11 'repairing' this hospital. With holding up the big cleansing killed him as a poet.:

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the ald of imaginary people operation in Moldavia? and false documenis, and bing hall-fellow-well-met type with local party bosses,

bookkeepers countants, cashiers, Dr Blanck collected

HE outside sometimes tires of hearing Moscow pro-

"It is rather remarkable that community there are claim that Soviet our

figures such 83. Blunck, His Russia is a land of benign existence depends

on many officials and heroic workers. Soviet people being unwilling to

"In Anachevsk he sold state It would like to hear, also, hear unpleasant things discuss- that the Soviet people are ed and not taking the trouble owned honey, pork, bread and to be a jot suspicious about the wine. But at Bratusjansk, in subject to weaknesses and people around.

Moldavia, he conducted a bank frailties.

ing business with the hospital's "Otherwise, how could a fraud money, Now, for once in a while, the like Semion Georgevich Blanck

"He did not even confine liis the equivalent of £4,000, current Issue of Crocodile, only have existed--and existed many

"Don't to a year? Blanck is a surgeon. But activities to hard cash but dealt

imagine he magazine allowed

was poke some fun at life in Stalin- he has spent his life on opera- parts of ears and motorcycles, satisfied with that.

in carpets, china and spare

Here, too, Jand, reveals that vagabonds tions of quite a different charac- exist there too. And it indicates ter. that local Communist bosses can be easily hoodwinked.

Soviet

the fuller beer

Calendar for 1952

HARCH

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for winter pleasure

ac and

This led to Somion acquiring he sold medicine and took big two cars for his own use.

money for handing out doctors' certificates,

"It all began at a hospital in Podolsk,

"His craving for more and where he embezzled food intended for the patients, more money in bigger and bigger

"When Blanck's new amounts led to his laying hands

pro- and at Anachevsk hospital,

as party ma- where medicine as well as food funds intended for repala to bationary period

the hospital. This job appealed didate expired there was im- disappeared. Besides compre to him a great deal and brought mediately hensive business activity, he

a big shot at hand his winnings in Bratusjansk to also included within his field of (the equivalent of) £5,000.

to recommend him for election operations a trade in doctorsg"

on tac spot-District Party certificates for crowds of shams "A surgeon, as is well known. Chief. Ivan Kuptsov, also the and shirkers who wanted to go is accustomed to wash his hands party secretary and chief in to the Crimea to bathe.

carefully. before an operation. But Surgeon Blanck did the opposite. He washed his hands afterwards.

HAVOC

"He was always precise, al- ways freshly shaved, elegantly dressed in the latest style, fr and exacting with underlings, polite and forthcoming with his

"He played havoc in Podolsk In 1843, when war was raging, At that time he should have been condemned by mariini law. But the Moscow District Hos superiors. As senior doctor. of pitals Commission merely re- the town he always made, a lieved him of his post. Smoothly good impression, He was the and quietly, without any kind sort of person everybody want-

ed to know.

of rumpus.

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ADMIRATION

Bratusjansk.

SMOKER VISITORS to the Paris Fello Society's show saw' a cat

Yoghi, dressed in :camel- recoloured jacket and wearing dark glasses, was led in by her Bel-

"Well, the hoads of Kalarnchak District cannot make up their minds if they were dealing with a real or a false Blanc, Mean- while, the doctor has packed and smoking. gone off in his private car with all the most vital things quired by a medical superin- tendent In Kalaruchsk.

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gian owner, M. Mullol. He ex- plained that Yoghi wore dark glasses on the advice of a Swles veturinary surgeon.

While he was introducing her, Mullet passed her a tiny "This time, though, he did not cigarette ("cat-sized," be ex- get for and, ho has been re-plained), with a red up. Yoght arrested. In hia' boggage, were held it between her teeth while found different passes, rubber | M. Mullet lit the cigarette for stamps and the official literature her. necessary for him professionally for every district in the entire Soviet Union.

"Now it is only a question of what shall be done with all the folsc

Blanck's good friends,

and "But, in the long run, swind. Any talk of watchfulness lers don't get away with it. The suspicions-guiding factors in local newspapers began to nose our country-sounds both comic into Blanck's earlier activities, and fraudulent.

M. MuDet said that Yoghi is insured with Lloyd's "because of her smoking habits."

QUOTE OF THE WEEK AUTHOR ARMAND BALA

CROU: I would never give a prize to a book that confuses verbal pornography with genuine eraticis.

GOOD LOOKS DO NOT COUNT

AMERICA COLUMN

from NEWELLEROGERS

New York. CTOR Robert Mont- gomery, who once starred in a film called "Un- finished Business," is under attack by some shareholders of Macy's, the largest de- partment store in the world. You still have the gift of the

Bab."

They have no fault io flnd

will go on bowl.

while cold winds

JUDGE Willis Ritter arrested

of

postmaster David Trevithick, Salt Lake City, Utah (pop, 182.000), and 25 of his postmen, Their lift carrying mail to sorting room creaked and crashed so loudly past the court- room that witnesses could not hear questions.

words to express their admira- Store business is bad. Last firm in Texas would pay the them after a warning that they

"In Anachevsk, he paraded o whole chestful of décorations. There was the Red Star, the Red Banner and the Military Service Medal. Where had got them? "Quite clearly, the focal Quite simply, he had stolen them authorities felt it was hard for from patients in hospital. them to take any action against "Blanck thinks the end justi- somebody like Semion Blanck, fies the means. And the end, in **Assistant Party Secretary this case, was that he would Matved Vinogradov,

with, his performances in Alms JOB OFFERS are pouring in

The postmen motto: "The Chairman gain a lot of privileges and re- Vasili

or TV. But they want him on Fresident Truman. The mall must go through") Ignored Semenov ondi District liefs.

Military ·Commander

2 Macy

House sends the same warnings from his Honour. He Feodor removed as

company White codirector.

pollte message to all: "Your kept them waiting for hours, "Of course he was often suc-

Pankoy could not find enough

Jetter has been filed." A hat lectured them, and dianissed cessful, but nevertheless he was found guilty of speculating in ton for Blancit as a doctor and year Macy's paid a dividend of President £90,000 a year to be would be arrested again at the medicine and sentenced to pri hospital chief. And he was forth. 15s, 10d. a share. This year it its vice-president.

first creak. son. He was also banned from with recommended once more as is 7s. And at the annual meet- applying for Party membership.

an applicant for Party mem-ing shareholders questioned the

PUSSIAN delegates to UNO bership.

value of an actor on the board.

TIGHTEEN frigates and 30 have then describing thele "He was also forbidden to

Landing craft are to be country's postwar recovery, Pro- practise medicine for five years.

"About his earlier, samowhatj

WHAT, asked shareholder lease-lent to Japan to train duction is up 13 times. Though he should have been in unsuccessful life, Blanck was Lewis Gilbert, does Mr Mont- a new naval arm against pos- tional Income has increased 83 gool for three years, not more naturally silent as a wall, Who than two months had passed be- would be interested in such Somery know about merchan- alble Communist aggression. The percent,

dising? The president of the ships

Since Russia in getting soʻrich, theludo some lease-lent fore Blanck, by some mysterious trifles? When people in the

board, Mr Jack L. Straus, said by America to Russin in world retorts U.S. Senator Alexander appeared

Oskol neighbourhood, aggravated by at

are in the war two,

Wiley, she should pay more to- Hospital as chief doctor and head his demands for money, began several directors

position

when wards UNO's upkeep. 03 Mr Mont- of the surgical ward.

to complain, ever more loudly Game

Trever | COMETY. Snapped Mr Gilbert: "From there he had to move satisfied,"

Yan who is never Maybe that's what's wrong."ITY the lot of the drive-in the organimation was formed the

Soviet was let off with his best friendl

theatre operator in winter, pretty fast. It was discovered

of the annual cost bo-j percent that the good Scenion had to the party chairman, public pro- Said the Bft, elegantly dress when mow sweeps his outdoor use the picado mar dont 10-

secutor and police chict-palded actor: "I've been in the

¿lnema and he has to close tion. America was soaked 25.9 child maintenance to two widely no attention to the complaints. business, and proteasjonal field, down. But the owner of a Only when the outery for 30 years Whatever my

drive-in outside Washington Senator Wiley, who will be a too treat did the talents may be, they are "In a new past in Moldavia, beenme

figuro in the... new at announces that his ushers are powerhil he re-started his old operations. Moldavian Minister for Hespl- Macy's, service,"

going to be armed with gloves, Eisenhower Congress, says the mufflers, and charged a lot and diu tals, Chomutob, have Blanck

snow plougha, legisintors are getting tired of.. nothing at all free. Even a transferred to another hospital- Sald 4 lady shareholder: Spectators can sit snugly in taxing their people for so much

at Kalerachsk, where he was "Thank you, Mr Montgomery.. their heated cars. The pictures while Russians pay so little,

means,

reparated wives.

Be

handshake, cost money.

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