1954-05-06 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954.

THE DRAB LADY OF RUSSIA IS GOING

LE

A LITTLE GAYER

By Anne Fairey

who has just returned from Moscow

mausoleum.

plastle handbag will cost about £14. Leather accessories are rarely seen.

to the £ sterling- ET'S go shopping, shall to see the Terrible Twins lying roubles

we, in Moncow. Off. In the macabre red glow of the women's shoes, cut on ugly lasts, cost LB or £9. Thinking in then, to the great sloping Everyone To buying or, at terms of the 1-to-the-£ rato street named After the least, searching for something accorded to busines men, a peasant writer, Maxim to buy. It is hard to imagine spring sale at one Gorki. It is here that the constant

vi London's great West End biggest of the State-owned

ves, but

that is as good a More, shops are found. Names are description as any of the free- кора. replaced by utilitarian num- for-all scene in Moscow

Standing aside politely to give bers, though some of the in-

the benefit of the doubt to the teriors are far from utility.

person leaving the shop you

All these

things are well within the range of the Sovlet purac. The men and women here have shed the timeless, colourless garments for clothes which at least are worth look-

Men's

h

Your guide will proudly intend to enter may amuse you ing costs are very well cut

take you into the cavernous for hours, but it won't get you The form is to lower the food stores with their laden in.

de- hend, square the shoulders, and counters and their fish partments where you take charge through.

There is little noise in the your choice from the large shops or, for that matter, in tanks of swimming Ash, to any of the places the special diet shops where public gothier.

where the

a doctor sits to give free Well Supplied

advice, and to the depart- ment stores which sell from school everything

books to clothing.

Coming from the West, you wit and nuthung worth buyin but one of the many varieties of evare, cheap-smelling per- fume in beities Shaped like the Kremlin Lowers worden bizes and carvings in traditional peasant style,

t

DEPORTS

SO

eagerly cir

Keulated by the Soviets of plenty are true enough, [11 spite of the crowds shoppers, supplies never seen to give out. Food counters are well stocked, and only occasion- ally some particular cominodily ta off the market.

Fruit pad freeh vegetables are uncertain during the winter

months Shoddy Goods

from good cloth, with collars of beaver or astrakhan, though their suits look as if they would bless any man who opened a cleaning and pressing shop.

A

The fashionable woman wears a Atter coat of green or dark- red cloth and eight out of ten wear #liver sox collars, now the lust

word in Soviet fashion. few wear coats of beaver and embryo lamb

and poorly cut minks

far ery from the Russian minks revered at home but seldom seen in the streets here.

Women's hats are more prae- Lical than anything else and tend to lower upward Jika Moscow's sprouting skyscrapers. The popular colours are dark rods, blues, and greens, the

are and trimmings Asparagus

clumsy and urtichokes are not even in the designs reflect nothing of Paris. Soviet

vocabulary, bui the Unless you are too obviously will be shocked at the simple good things of life English, and therefore given a wide berth and privileged treat- carpeless flours of even the bound.

The

ordinary working men ment, you will find the people biggest stores, the muddled and

you neet in buses, shops, and insteins window d

and women in Russia seem to displays, and the shoddiness of have plenty of money and to be theatres friendly and ready to

talk. the goods themselves. Although constantly searching for some- Gorki Street is the street of thing to spend it on. streets in Russia, the pleasure it

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Counter

Now,

after

many years, gives to the eye and the tempta- vertainly for the first time since

KV

No Competition

tum to the pocket are abstit as the war, shoes, materials, Jats, RIDING in a taxi here will

great as those of a progressive handbags, and village High Street at home.

Nu matter what the time of and cul day, people surge in

decorative ching

abound in the shops; but they UPO ORPOŽYSIVO.

theatre ticket queues, in queues of

the

THE PERFECT PAIR

want to make can be written in

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A pair of Russian special agents shadowing security officers, shadowing special escorts, shadowing M.V.D. men, shadowing secret police, shadowing a Russian diplomat in a Western country,

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NOW IT'S THE CASE OF

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that

FRIGHTENED LADIES

Tension spreads

This is exaggerating matters occasional broak and snatches Many awnings have been slightly, but it is a bad business of sleep, until he lands. and the tension is spreading.

and

de- chrated with

French the tricolour. Shop windows дге It is a killing pace, but when bright with the red, white, and Author Bernard de Voto, on I saw the Secretary the other blue of France, and French

"Certainly day I

food astute man, writes:

thought he looked Atter goods, French wines the Americans are more fright than a year ago, when many

ore on sale all over town. ened today than they have ever people were abusing him B.S น been before."

This festival of France in New I expect the fear blunderer. Today Dulles's pre- York ls the work of various to diminish when this extra- tige he:t ordinary inquiry, to which

devoting Now York Times 45,000 words a day, is completed.

1.9

Round he goes

the

some

one

is

Bocletics. Is there

New York, Tuesday, letters, Stevens and his assistant, ERHAPS it is because Struve Hensel, have been given armed guards because of the I spent part of the threats. Senator McCarthy now paat week in Canada, is rarely without his gun. where there is little tension,

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feel many cost you about as much as Americans seem to be very on edge. Wives of

high. There it would in London, but there is much

Bystem. no tipping

Mundt The odd officials connected with the LAS

AST week Senator

criticism of the confusion French American

What are we doing? surrounding called on McCarthy about mid-

towards At the subsidised rate avail- driver may try the dodge of

policy Army

versus McCarthy but

President Elsen any festival of Britain in New Indo-China of every shop in counter queues, able to the personnel of some saying he has no chake us televised

night, when he saw the lights in showdown are McCarthy's

Vice- York? None that I know of Embassies 40 on the whole, the tal-men are foreign

hower says house burning.

thing, nerve-racking Mund: rang the bell, After a

President Nixon says another, among the most honest people having

It is a good time for customers in Europe. Any complaint you time.

pause McCarthy opened the door

Secretary of Defence Wilson to buy because prices are com- himself with a drawn gun in his

third, and Dulles a fourth--but ing down.

DERS most Americans hand. McCarthy has bought a Mrs Mary Mundt, wife of

Dulles Aerce Dobermann Pinscher

It record-breaking confidence. Scnator Karl Mundt, chairman further protection. ten or morning coffee, Instead, of the inquiry, revealed that the

serves it. you break your shopping, trip | telephone in her apartment rang to buy a glass of Soviet chain-

30 times between 1 and 2 am pagne over the counter in mosi

the other night. of the big stores, or you can buy pure grape and tomato juices of stands in tube stations, museums, kerbside kiosks.

Since there is no competitive trode

and

all shops, street booths and taxis are State- owned there are no advertising posters. Hoarding space 0C- cupied instead by posters of

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There are no little enfes for

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the

and the background legend "For Peace and Friend- ship." Others show Madonna and Child--with good Sovlet

features-deinunding "Peace in the World,"

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It was midnight when one stood up..

"It is agreed then," he said, "we start to mobilise Russians, wherever they are, into an anti- Communist movement."

NTS Russian So was born abbrevalon for National Labour

Movement.

Bwill be. It could drag on for words any triterpon the de

no one knows when that

weeks with MoCarthy's evasive action and delaying tactics.

Americans only hops that

apartments on the Cabinet Ministers are not going was away, and each time Mrs

year

to be compelled to turn up pt Various SOS signals are being Mundt lifted the receiver there husbands earn, Often they are this Hippodrome every day. put out. If no one can come was no reply at the other end, alone till late at night because only heavy breathing.

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many

Entertainment ja ma

It is the wives who are suffer

I got back to New York to THE Broadway season is now ing most. Very

omctats' low

find the city struggling more winding up. Only 53 pro- Her husband wives can afford servants. They their top denerals and loading then ever to make ends meet.

live in little

ductions, eight of them musicala, modest $12,500

have been staged, the figure for years.

Mrs Mundt has also received

threatening letters. So have other Senators' wives, In- cluding Mrs Styles Bridges und Mrs Joseph McCarthy.

their

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The film makers seren

worst

moro

prosperous than the theatre men. American film companies earned $78,000,000 from the European market during 1953, Yet British dum companies earned

only. $4,400,000 from pictures shown In the United States.

brand-now revenue There has even been talk on up with the McCarthy side of calling idea the city may be compelled the Secretary of State, John to legalise fotteries and permit The women are undergoing Foster Dulles. But Mr Dulles off-the-course betting. an ordeal. Ruth Montgomery, has other, more important things a close friend of many of them, to do. says: "Fear is so thick and marid

Did you ever know of such that it can be tasted and smelled

stamina and energy as dis- --ominously once upon

Dulles? the Iron played by only Secretary of the Army springtime

Curtain countries did Robert Slevens and his

more gambling and are decp in silver draw and his "Captain's Para- draw their shades in terror and travelled 104,000 miles family have been the target for tremble for the safety of

their then four times round the world. dollers and "greenbacks," but dise" one is expected to bring

Churchmen He is forever in seroplanes or most of the

find in $1,000,000. Guinness is good siristor telephone colle and wives and children."

getting in and out of them. Jot'eries, Bingo, and horse for us.

ITS LEADERS

in

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Touch of Paris

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and

Our "Genevievo" is a success.

emcinia took office 15 months ago he has Thrive on legalised Alec Guinness is a tremendous

RISK DEATH DAILY

going.

backing distasteful,

Not

Producer Richard Aldrich tells me he has firdshed his book

He is 08 years old, no chlid- ren, and not particularly robust,

that New York this "Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs though the inles by exercise resplendent springtime looks Aldrich." He has already sold" (what more exercise could a in any way broke, The buses the serial rights. Gertrude man need?) and by attention to and subway trains are rather would be proud.

Idile.

diet to keep physically fit. It is shabby, and the overworked Imposaïble for Mr Dulles to be Sanitation Department often Hollywood wanty Richard

leaves a litter of dustbins and Burton for "Marco_ Polo* and atheshs around the side strréis; has dispatched delegates to Ho has the gift of being but you don't notice these eye. London. But, Burton is reluctant.

ส surroundings. sores in the showplaces such oblivious to Onco he is in his plane it be as Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller

He starts Centre. office. dictating

going through

ones comen

@y

The Life of Barnard Bartsch, who is 83, is to be‘flmed. Mr. Baruch will be Sir Winston It memoranda as soon as he takes At the moment there is a Churchill's guest in England in

continues, with

an touch of Faris about New York. late May.

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IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

By LES ARMOUR

By COLIN LAWSON BERLIN. that one day they will return 10 imprint. The printing and paper were inferior, but the messages Na Belgrade cafe ter- it as free men. Á million in the

United States,

in were the same as the 100,000 race on a cool sum- mer's evening in 1980 France, 10,000 in Britain-the smuggled into East Germany.

scattered

NTS will not say how groups,

over the Russians met and world, subscribe what they can happened. But it is known there off, and

afford to keep

work- the movement are active sympathisers

Soviet ing ir NTS Inside Hiller banned it in Germany Russia. because it would not co-operste Ono instance. Two years ago with Nazl tactics against Pravda announced the orrest Bolshevism.

of four American aptes. In fect the four were Russians, working for NTS. News of Hundreds of thousands of their arrest was passed on by a

Pask Russions, drafted into slava labour Compa

by the Nazis fifth who had escaped.

West Berlin

have police It has jumped into the news chose to remain in the West proof of six known attempts to because one member was to be rather than go back to a Rod didnap or kill NTS men since assassinated by Russian secret regime they hated as much as 1951. Two stateless, Russian-

And an-

Nazi Germany. They too joined born men and four East Ger- police in Frankfurt,

NTS. member was recently

mang are in prison for these other

The first postwar headquare attempts. kidnapped in West Berlin.

'TORRIED about your the curve of the rise in tobacco taken into account all the prob→→ W

Mable factors. persons NTS claims three million ters was in a displaced

health? Maybe you consumption." In 1947 b $15.00

Thon a faint smilá crept over.

The doctors at Scarborough members in the free world and camp near Kassel

to Frankfurt,

from

NTS which the Communists should change your politics.

his face and No maked: “Would (among them compleTMTMTM of" 25.00 millions of anonymous

At least, that could be it be mopportuno to point out ones moved

where is controlled its world are now striving to stamp out, 25.00 In Soviet Russia."

297John organisation. It

Ais Gordon ) and Paris,

London, destroying Communism:

say, quitting smoking. cancer follows closely the in- Michigan's "De H. F. Vaughan, Now York, Los "1. A gradual evolution with-

We relay this information creased consumption

as well as a glittering array of Ottawa, Montreal, in the movement towards some

considerable glee- garine during "the" past fifty British talent) are worried, for Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne form of democracy. That will

years and also, that a similar instance, by the lack of emphsale. and Rome.

take centuries.

straight from the Royal curve in shown in the rise in on psychological factors, NTS has declaroď its objects. 112, A world war against the Sanitary Institute conference: membership of one of our; two quite openly. They are to over: Soviet, with all the horrors of at Scarborough.

{great political parties?”

MAJOR KILLERS without emphasis, throw the Quietly,

Soviet Government A and H bombs. Unthinkable.

Well, there you have it. - Wa "'S. Revolution Russian-born Viktor Saltzburg,' and build a new democratic re-

from within. The medicos have been having 5.00

But now stateless, told me: Wo public.

The cheapest, most effective a great time there, kicking some know which party, too.

Most of them are cond 5.00

in NTS whether in Brisbane or Mobile radio stations drive and quickest,”

gaping holes in the reasoning of we're not telling, 1.00 Berlin, Montreal

The point Is that you can of course, with "public healLIS, or Munich, up and down the German-

before he was kidnapped Just before

the sourpuss statisticians.

eben- and they are beginning to réalise De Hugh Prul, Smethwick's provo almost anything under the shadow of Czech border beaming out calle De Truschnovitch asked me: live

that they have spent so many violent death. It has taken a to rogist Communism. Pro- why do you think the Russian Medical Fealth Onfoer, had a go paring curves, by

the boys who have been brutal kidnapping and

an paganda sheets are smuggled are going to so much trouble

Once upon time, the great years fretting over mic elgarettes may American10zielan and that major killary like 24.00 assocgination attempt to focus Into Red Arory barracks in to liquidate ust

Because they telling us that

ulescu - have been" almost philosopher Morphets, and CALL SARTANYEN world. opinion, on the only East Germany, Famphlata ars know already that we have got land us in an early strave with 15.00

serious anti-Communist move released by balloon,

to take a fiendish delight in con to be a hold even though it is only lung cancer. ment? formed and led by carried into Iron

founding the figure jugglers, by a Yet many of them Curtain finger and too hold-inside

proving that there was a strong' result" 18.00 Russimiæ,"s"

the Soviet Union. All of us

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Germans released risk death kidnapped Dr Trachnovitch.

birthrate of elephantin. Indi 5. from labour camps in Siberia Wedding The story of NTB the rught even more staffing sucos

-in-Newfoundland, and the number of Baxter (ahop sucosed in

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