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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1953.

by

John

Marke

Mr KORONIN FIGHTS MALENKOV from No. 61

T

HE message in the leaflet bogan:

"Dear Reader.

You 700 may become a sponsor of the heroic RRF (Russlan Revolutionary Forces) boys, who are leading a deadly struggle against the Red monster of the Kremlin inside and outside the Communist hell..."

Who could guess the surprising things that go on in the quiet side-roads of London? Here in Hampstead, a rubber-stamp revolu

tionary is waging a pamphlet war with Russia.

The message ended: "N.B. You can send from your country cash or cheque in REGISTERED LETTERS ONLY to the following address....."; and in the space left blank below, was

state of collapse: a couple of ermine, then became grave, rubber-stamped the name of teamed coals-of-arms propped urgent, as he spoke of the ARF. George Koronin, whose own up on n cupboard; a heap of description of himself is much-used a perambulator: "political head" of the Re-a czy in a enge.

"Sit down, my dear sir," he volutionary Forces.

wald, and when I had done so, bean: You ner facing a show down with the Communists, you know, and you're meing it soon, und yet...

His address, provided by the rubber-stamp is one, to judge from what he says, that causes a good dred of uneasines Moscow.

ilc

"And

puse he continued. "It 11. is No. fl, in a sleepy Hamp is true to say that the Bolshevik regime has absolutely no sup- stead road,'

tall, Sport whose

Russie. in

In o war, terraced house are nowadays perhaps there would be one or mostly Bats. It i political headquarters of the RRF; the two million Russians who would

'shout it out-what's that? Revolutionaries' No. 10.

lecture tour, who

know it all

off by heart and has a train to catch.

After schooling, he worked for a firm of painters and decoraters "I have been a workman, a housepainter like' Hiller") and lator had his own interior decorating business.

Five years ago he decided the RRF demanded all his time but being is political head is not a lucrative job, he said.

I should business man, were a have much more money. shouldn't have furniture liko of faith in the this"-he slapped the sides of Restoration West among non- Communist his armchair, which bent before Russians, and the undermining the blows. "And I shouldn of the Communist regime there, wear dirty old clothes like this. are the organisation's functions. He had

crumpled frey with agents (the farmels, a navy-blue jacket. They work hole ARF boys") on both sides

Not even 6d. of the Iron Curtain, employing the weapons of psychological warfare,

on

O supplement the Inadequate

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PPC

One of the scarlet-printed pamphlets produced by the Russian Revolutionary Forces. They are slipped into goods consigned for the Sovict.

DRUNK SHOW RUND OVER TEN YEARS

By Ronald Garth-Davis

or

E a derelict photo amid the flounces and lace was TAKE

graphie studio, dust off the yellowed script of a play an old play straight out of first produced by showman F.T.

Barnum, The Drunkard" the attic, sign up a few "The Fallen Sayed.".. noody actors anxious for a Grannie read it" and "* roared month's work, lay in a with laughter. Gelt read it and doubled up. Vowing to produce copious supply of root beer, he took seven years to raiso

and the angwer is the

the money. Yot today "The £1,000,000.

Drunkard" has broken uli world 1920 a young records for the longest run over Way back in

known. producer named Galt Bell was

A

Quit converted co old photo slaying with his grandmother in studio In Hollywood Into Berkeley, California, when the neteshaft theatre and produced old lady asked him to bring the play in 1931. Comes 1053 and down a trunk stored in the attle à has achieved over 7,000 per- and promised to show him some dormones. old-fashioned costumes. Hidden This is three ilmes longer Than the London run of "Chu Chin Chow" or double the Broadway of the tordid "Tobacco Roc Comptred 'with it. 2,000-pe-farmericE SCOLAI

Blood, Sand And Bunk

BU Russian wife goes out to teach

By MILTON SHULMAN

103rd

such

ni "Wean's Eye View" is stils an iritant

In nineteen years over 2,500,- 000 people have seen the show and padd a cold £1,000,000 to the box office, Prewar colors left the cast, fought, in France and returned to their old parts

the when Twenty marriages have talçon -- place between cast and house staff, and the show has reared a healthy crop of itants. One of the first, now a 18-year-old boy,

war. - was

also the home of Mr Koronin, mere one or two percent of the as a dragon clutching a hand Koronin said, "but RRF funds tend that bullfighting is he seems almost oblivious deep in the neck of the bull, He will coçi have a parti

his wife, his three children and population,

his mother-in-law, floor flat.

122

two kinds of struw-at prople hand held up, point-duty fashion, There is no regular

A ground-

Mr Koronin opened this door tn ni and showed the into untidy ram, whene a large furnishings included a sofa in a

Printing

of

Distinction

for

People of

Distinction

By South China Morning Post Limited

Telephone 20002

and ask for

Mr. Labrum

Stock is zero

THEN peppering his copid-fire Russia.

talk plentifully with short, unprintable colloquialisms,

་་

he laborator" are

Money is short

10

more than cost

the

In other ways, Koronia seemed think the West dirplayed a curmudgeonly nilitude towards

RRF.

-

10

On A Dare

Bullfighting

seems,

seldom

crowd

came in

The Secret

over.

To provides, hla He handed me a clip of this

from ›ULLFIGHTERS should fighter

Brooklyn how to hold the sword the bull There were paper ammunition.

rushed past him and the sword write never

books. (Hutchinson, 168.). scarlet-printed pamphlets, their the language.

was swept out of his hand. A man in my position ought They have neither the ima

Although a professional message in Russian accompany- ing line drawings of the Soviet to have two or three secretaries, gination nor sense to pre- matador of the first, rank, To his surprise he found The ass clutch labelled RRF, of the RRE as a

are largely n matter of luck.

Rource of anything more than a good of the fact that his ability was shouldered by the tanks, bayonets,

income. If we were to be given way to make a living.

to kill bulls is considered who credited him with an ex- like me, the emigres, and at the against Soviet

aircraft,

n subsidy, now.... Christian West,"

be a serious pert kill.” He silently contemplated that Leaflets like this, so Karonin

This, of course, embar. by some to

Boris Ko:off has seen the Spanish con- remote happy prospect. Into calms, are steppeal

show forty 1mer, Billy Burke, rassingly lets down that contribution

His greatest success "It's hard going."

shit. he signments of goods destined for

of non-Spanish dis- culture. of millions

Sevilla just after he had made Edward Arnold and Ireno Dunno of cult and. "Thousands

are dozen-visi habituor. Charlie Tros-curtain countries

dollars are spent on defence, yei ciples largely composed His approach to his work

up his mind to flee from the Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Dicke humdrum. Letters addressed "Dear Col woe, the only effective weapon, of undergraduates, impres is depressingly

ring in the middle of a fight, Powell and Ginger Rogers are all Introduced into don't get 6d. And it's not assionable females

and So

regulars. so many many bulls,

is beer, Maybe the secret The bull was too tough and he How much did I wrote off the Christian West in the pet of Soviet officials to though we need much. This writers of travel books - pesetas.

old ho revived the is ute as a

and produce needn't clutchable straw incriminate them

discovered in get in Sevilla? I will get. was inexperienced. Fortunately When single army who have

melodrama, Gall Bell decided to maintenance of a Buently outlining his

an algosphere of suspicion, view that

And," he said, italicis bullfighting not a sport but double in Madrid.

the bull decided to co-operate pad out the evening with old- Irelan

America 201 "And there are these...." said division

and Franklin's name was made. time muste hall atmosphere. throughly allenated non-Com- Koratin, passing me a bundle of Ing the words by his tor Th an art form.

Free beer and ham sandwiches innocent looking nunist Russians suce Yalta.

Iron-curtain Bolsheviks knote what we could

It may

have alt begun Inside

crowds, do-they were conspirators once,

aro included in the price "NON."

newspaper, he spid we, the country

sixty their admission. voice

Altogether, which moti-Russian messages here in London."

Ernest Heming- emigres, have to explain awa

tons of sandwiches have been with Mr

of The stock of the were samped in purple script, blunders.

way, who likes to brandish Wed stands at Jess than zero and more leaflets pasted.

he describes his decision the game the hair on his chest as if FOR example, this is how opinions on the finer shades

unt!! they have read munched and 4,000,000 bottles

cer consumed.

In addition, of beer und we do."

it were a banner of intellec-

to make bullfighting a the critics the next day.

thousands of candlelit birthday tual progress,

cakes have been awarded to career: "The thought struck

Every matador is expected, people celebrating birthdays or me that if all I had to do

wedding anniversaries. to keep was to take an occasional therefore,

waltresses and At first, the stagehands gave the musichall beating... and be paid happily on his side by generous

turns. Sinco then every star handsomely for it while I contributions.

visitor in Hollywood and famous was enjoying myself-well,

has obliged, from Lily Pons to what was I waiting for?"

Mae West. In the world's most town, The octor-populated Perhaps it is because he

in the "thirties Drunkard" can boast the world's tences like: "It is impos- is an American or perhaps TN Madrid

Franklin paid three first-rate greatest starring cast. Yet fqw. of the authentic cast of the play sible to believe the emo- because his only reading con.

of the Saturday critics £50 for each of his have gone into movies and none tional and spiritual in- sista

that Pont,

Mr appearances, eight second-rate have found subsequent fame. tensity, and

pure, classic Evening that can

be pro- Franklin conveys the im- crities £25 each, and four

A Lecture. beauty duced by a man, an animal, pression that he is much five other journalists

about mensurate and a piece of scarlet serge more

After 10 years, the play draped over a stick.”

crooked promoters and his photographs of him standing in fees than about such phrases some silly position with a bull. staged seriously, and every temp- tation to gaz is resisted. One as "the moment of truth."

Lecture an This was part of his legit!-parom aùways stood u He first ventured into the mate expenses out of fees which Aut Two for deliver

as high as the perils of streng drink. After ring with a bull on a dare. sometimes

being escorted out even times, he complained he did not know- He was trying to prove to £1,500 a fight.

how the plot tuma out. some Mexican friends that In the Bullfighter

When "Americans had the guts to Brooklyn be bullfighters."

Koronin is a pale, sightly bukit mats, "rul yet 50," white- haired, with a white moustache of millary cul.

He was born in St Petes sigutag (Laningrud), son of an officer in the Russian navy guards, a kind of sea-going Household Brigade drawn from the crews of the hoperial yachts and their escoll

businessman in London.

DESIDES what Mr Koronin described as "our clock ant dagger boys," the RRF has re- presentatives in places as diverse

and Abyssinia

Australia, s Malaya, Iraq and the U.S.A,

It is their task to warn the

it, to udvocate the RRF as "the

vessels. its tather is

is still alive.

He world of Red dangers besetting

ploys no

nu pari in RRF activities.

B

"Don't think," he said, "that warly possible weapon," and to

want to raise funds. we emigre Russians

return to the status quo of 1917 though you people here have

that,

Hidden leaflets

This last is not easy.

"We're all cash or cheques, hampered for lack of money." Mr Koronin said.

"11 would help a great deal if; we could use the diplomatie bag, for instance," he said "or have of four cloak and the help dagger boys to check people. But no."

Few experts

"I'm

TJE mode a despairing gesture, HE made a despa

to the grim picture of the world situation as it looked to the RRF-Britain and America bungling., blundering, floundering; the Asian countries go: the wrong ideas even about many people read the pamphlets all plums ripe for Russian pick- and carelessly skip the lust, Important line about sending in "and what is Europe but a

lot of little Luxemburgs?

"Very few people are experts on Russia," he declared. not boasting, but

all this, know For security reasons, he would

I say you are facing showdown.

i will **/HITE Russians were not all not commit himself to defining I don't say it come lo-

people of title, you know, the number of people "we ull,"

But within the next my deur sir. And if you did have added up to, beyond saying "it rear, the next two years, the

title, it didn't brit, nu ang is less than 10,000."

next fortnight, who knows? The thing except a loud name. We

In mather, Koronin, who Bolsheviks won't wait till you didn't have a House of Lorris.

went to a London public school orc

will march, ready. They And people like Lenin and I won't my which one, I do and it won't be very nice for

easily people be too Molotov weren't really of the hot want to

like you and me, who in London." Upon

morrow.

proletarist. They were the sort pinpointed"), is brisk, almost live this note, he showed me

who'd have 15-pip coronets and be in Burke and Debrett in this country."

He thought

the chuckied at

Molotov of

droll

in

COLGATE

DENTAL CREAM STOPS BAD BREATH AND TOOTH DECAY BEST!

COLGATE

DENTAL CREAM

INSTANTLY STOPS

BAD BREATH IN 7

OUT OF 10 CASES

THAT ORIGINATE

IN THE MOUTH.

Yes, the best way is the Colgate Way! In fact, the Colgate Way of

brushing teeth sight after eating stopped more decay for more people than ever reported in dentifrice history! To help stop

feverish.

His book, Death in the Afternoon, set out to con- vert a Spanish barbarism into an international my atigue.

This Koran of the bull-

is pitted with fight

Autobiography

sen-

concerned

the critics

Proud Of Ite

sum

rose

or

a com- not to take

from

stil

during

the hero spurns the

the eudenso

THE only writing that can compare with it for

Mr Franklin has sheer audacity is the exalt

a Test-match

not deliberately set out to de-villain's brid, the cheers freen creek the ceiling. ed prose of

bunk bullfighting.

In actual fast, It has been re- commentator describing an

plastered three times. Conticuca With only the elementary

On the contrary, he is bellishments have made the Knowledge of a few passes He says of himself: "I have out from No. 61 into the sleeps English victory.

therm eno of the mort Juxurious I half sense of proportion, a sense of street, whers, by now,

burning artistic with a cape, he faced his tremely proud of his calling.

in America,

"It to see the barricades

But the fasts in his story in- humour, and I am not unintelli- expected

Saya puzzled Galt Bell: gent.

going up. But there were only fervour is hardly, however, first, bull, which promptly

piece together,

Im good drama. It has to

There He speaks English and German old ladles exercising their dogs, the literary note sustained tossed him 15ft. in the air. advertently

picture of FTReping Lommer teptionality funny dnes. and overhead CAL fluently and when taking of

aircraft

by Mr Sidney Franklin in

He picked himself up, and clallem and dubious valoura merk of diet, I don't Russian affairs, does so as a thrumming in from the cast. I

autobiography Bull while he

was belog

hardly more attractive than the know why The Drunfued' goes man might at the end of a long glanced up. It was one of ours. his

scrdid aspects of professional on and on." Perhaps it could only wrestling.

happeri in Hollywood!

Such

shown

THE MILD MAN OF BORNEO -he's dreaming of a Garden of Eden

end the insane,

F you want to be well informed on world affairs you ences for the slek, the blind,

ought to know something about the Mild Man of Borneo and his dream of a tropical Welfare State. The Mild Man of Borneo is a charming little 5ft. fellow in spectacles called Sir Omar All Saifuddin (it rhymes with puddin'), and he is the 28th sultan of the British-protected, miniature State of Brunel,

His whole kingdom is hardly any larger than Norfolk, and the entire population of 50,000 would only half fill the Wembley Stadium; but, owing to some geological happening millions of years ago, it has recently become fabulously rich.

Brunei has struck o. It has struck so

much that doesn't

know what ta wli all the money is gating in rents, royalties, and taxes from the cil men.

fr the choney were evenly die- tributed among the inhabitants would work nut at nearly £3

by

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

Nowell Rogers' America Column

SUCKERS' DAY OUT WEST

New York. TN the hot dusty town of Wetumki, Oklahoma, where men wear cowboy hats, they plan to put up a statue of a swindler.

LA

aweetly in his Hollywood homo vs a bodyguard fired six shots at a prowler trying to pry the hubcaps off Wayne's car. Scores Six misses,

Although the sultan is entitled to several wives, he has in fac: three They have only che. The principal method of

around barefoot, trentport at the moment is by young children, who usually run river in a caroe, but the sultan's

On slate occasions the sultan five-year plan includes ronds for buses to run on, travelling dis is carried in a litter that takes pensaries, automatic telephones, 22 men to lift, and he wears silk garments something like and a network of airhelds.

Education 'will be free for all, pyjamas.

MAN walked into 89-year- and every child attending

He is 37, and succeeded his

old Horry Weiner's wine State school will be given a daily brother three years ago. There free meal (rice, dried fish, and

Ho fleeced the townspeople was a dispute about it because

store in Los Angeles, and pull- two.veg.).

some people wanted a girl of 10 out of hundreds of dollars.

The ewindler, ruddy-fated Fed out a gun. Harry fainted.. on the throne.

When he revived, the bandit Bam Morrison, raised money to

to town, then told him to open the till. Harry When he came to London last bring a circus

The disgusted year he did not stay at one of vanished. There was no elreus, fainted again..

the bandit gave up, took two the big hotels in the West End. Instead of getting mad WHA WHAT Bert of a man is this He lived in a suburban hotel. 2,025 Wetumkrans had a brain- bottles of whisky, and walked

sultan with such unoriental And instead of travelling in a

They decided to laugh out, ideas? Well, you could have litter, he went by bus. A con- at themselves and put on an

The Sultan

.

wave,

situation is to share this surplus seen him, without realising it, ductor corrected him once for annual Suckers' Day. between the Inhabitants( £240 In the Coronation procession, amoiding downstairs.

bend) and then give everyone. He was in the next carriage but £3 a week for nothing and sco

a week for every mark we what happens! cd child. And in Borneo. £3 a

bad breath and tooth decay at the same

time use Colgate regularly.wede is wealth.

The Malayan Petroleum Com- doesn't think much of that idea.

COLGATE

RIBBON DENTAL CREAM

tuse.

But the Mild Man of Borneo

turn

one from the Queen of Tongo; but he had his hood up, so you may have missed him.

' ',

The Houses

At homo he lives quito

A town is built on stilts over modestly in a so-called paince A on top of a hill above the town the water. The system is con-

GREAT deal of Brunel

Nor does the British Resident, pany, which is part of the She Mr J. C. H. Barcroft, who Group, pays the pocket Sate

27,000,000 a year, advises the sultan on money of Brunei. I went to a banquet venient for drainage, but you more than

matters. They may: Why not which is about 07 percent of Its

Brunel into a Welfare, there last year in honour of the get crocodiles under, the floor

boards, Contino ravento and ning mer

as much as its national expcoli. Eden in the Far East in which

Stater A sort of Garden of Duchess of Kent,

All the walters were Boy Nine thousand people, which everyone will live happily over Scouts, and as there wasn't a in about a fifth of the population after?

banqueting hall to hold the 200 of the country, live like this, NO. OTHER TOOTHPASTE OF ANY KIND

So they have got out a flvo-, guesta we ate bolled buffalo and and the Welfare State plans to WHATSOEVER OFFERS SUCH CONCLUSIVE PROOF! So the money to just piling up, we plan that is going to cost curled goat in the garden. rehouse them on land, and

of £11,000,000 and includes pers There were a 151 of dogs. There is a

It will take the town more surplus millions already. Some of the alens for everyone over 00, pen running about under the tables, hygienio-but a lot less picture- brighter boys of Brunel suggest alone for widows and fatherless and glant moths the size of bats sque, R

---{Laadon Express Nervion)" that the way to deal with the children, anti pensions or allow- › new overbord, "

The Surplus

Musical

sudios- TIREE Hollywood The Indians put on feathers have offered author James and beaded costumes and

do Michener the 150,000 " dollars dances. There is a barbeque. (£53,570), he asks for the Alm Business men have floats in rights of his junpublishel hovel Japanese | Ro- parade to honour the kind of "Sayonaras swindle they fell for.

mance."

of Merchant Argie Taylor has Madame Bultory theme, a paper elephant on his lorry He wrote the story on which because he bought two tons of

that money thaking hay for the circus elephants.

"South Paclic

is based. There are

contests, concerts, and a square dance.

TWELVE cows bring ted; with Now Wetumka is famous all. 1 Menadione, & viismin sub- over the Mid-West. The town, stance costing a penny, a month. has made more out of Buckers, give milk that says sweet four Day than swindler Bam" got. Umes longer. Menadione" "ap- from them four years ago.

parently klis off the bacteria that sours milik COWBOY actor John Wayne, Two chemists' reported, the

who

the Americain never finches under discovery to in the films, slept on Chemical Society

gunfire