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THE

JOSTLING MATCH

By LES ARMOUR

London.

THERE is always some-

body worrying about us

Londoners.

Now Indy doctor is fretting over "the extreme- of ly dangerous practice overcrowding tube trains during the rush hours."

This has been going on for a

Jong thne (whether she knows

it or not) but she fenra that

is "getting worse and worse."

would

Her alarm, as Alice have such, "gels curioser and curioser" By the prolent Boe

1: 18 not the horri-1 411. possibility of getting knocked over and cracking one's scuff car the concrete that bother her.

She is disturbed by the "grot strain, britis phystent and passe chological" which results from "logs

{uh{ tarts, lurches. people being thrown portatrast opratinthes.""

1991 chores de know.

Not Londoners

I is true that, at Eppin!, n Eating or Murden you ran the Imp Lagilke weakling

being wept disdainfully

by the guard who is preparin,!

the tram for its return journey

But these are not Londine1

They fire the Crew - proper comers, 11 Inst and the In wildered.

The true londoner is nderp with the elbow. He kryowen just when a heel can be

most profitable toes.

(511

crunched

offending

He knows just how much pressure it takes to dislodge an ill-prepared visitor from a

sired spot near the doorway of

an approaching carriage.

A nendish turch upset hun not at all.

B

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1984.

"You and your flipping rail strike-lost me me nowspaper round-that's what you've done.”

DELIVERED

Reasons why you must have ă S.E.C Refrigerator

London Exprem Barvico

The Russians gave RENE MacCOLL a visa-and now he's in Moscow

A

CAVIAR

PICNIC

IS SOMETHING NEW

MOSCOW.

"M_beginning-but only

I

just beginning-to get

little used to

life

hero in Moscow.

A

A

[

girl in the latourist Office said to me when inquired after 21 French colleague, "Oh, he left -

morrow. He has been pre- paring for it. At just the right

moment, he will be pitched, looking helpless, into the aring of the nearest pretty girl.

Nor is the young lady there. by given a horrible psychologic- She knows that at complex.

this is the special prerogativ. of the pretty girl lo London She would not lightly trade her pince in il crowded Lender tuli for empty seat in

il country bus

.1

And there is something de- lightfully spurting about it all. The joys of a nagger scrum are pale beside the Intensity of a Tube svull},

There Are Rules

In-

Contrary to the doctor's formation, there are rules. Not written rules, of courst,

The French have signs in the Motru telling you just how to weigh the right of in expectant mother ngainst those of an invalid pen- Kloner. But the English have never liked written rules,

Those of the tube are sublic. First of all, no une must killed. Dead passengers slow down the service, Nor should anyone Le seriously injured. That would spoil the game.

Old ladies may be elbowed, but never knew. It is not fair 10 cram a civil servant's bowl. er hot down over his eyes. Young Indies must not be tripped unless you are ready to erich them,

Vanguards.

For the Russian people, life is still a matter of LIVING. So finds MacCOLL, one of the most travelled reporters This trip to Russia is one of his most in the world. exciting assignments, and he will be reporting what he sees in the inimitable MacColl manner.

and the baby Jobs

juntor

and lighthonne

a of them for nearly 2,000 miles, gazebo, with blue and white and the Kremlin is where they twisted pillars, that looked as meet. prankish angels. They keep the holy water in there.

Which about sums things of the -assembly lines in quan- if it had a desfired by was a lovely hot spring day

HOW).

which are оп nodding terms with Opels--have begun coming

(inoybe 100,000 A year tity

here in Moscow, and the Krem- lin was looking a good deal The cathedral has J had

huge prettier than a picture. I don't But green roof and Its aldes are know what sort of mental get painted in fozenges of gold and notion you have formed of 11.

chocolate, "eye foolers," as the but

the otic of French call them.

fascinating Architectural grab bags I have ever clapped eyes on.

So Moscow hasn't really tune to get traffle wise. somehow nobody seEIR to bit

ft

Js

most

It extends over a good many neres and includes churches with those large fat domes like up- Up in the high tower of an

ended Cape gooseberries, other church some syncopated museums, palaces, houses, and bell-ringing is going on. N 13

administrative offers. all done by une mon. who operates the buss bell with his must fool and cuts loose with both

up for an unusual week in which I have ONE, eaten caviar on a roadside picnic; TWO, watcheil strong men 1 e 21 strong - such

tackling Ave different in corktails simultaneously

Russions love plush and

with It has fat lazy pillars Alser Moscow's Koktel Hall marble and oli paintings.

ferns in pots and big norid painted flowers spiralling round them drinking

through

designing. I dined last night at then. straws, what's more; the Sovietsknya Hotel, Moscow's THREE, visited at Zagorsk, newest,

reserved for the and

Jike Visitors 50 miles north of Moscow, really important

Molint

the coal the most stunningly beauti. Abe ful cluster of churches and monasteries I've ever seen: The furnishings alone FOUR, knocked back a beer represent a great deal of money hands on two lesser bells, Gene

the hoof.

marbie Krupa would have been in the Kremlin. and FIVE,

pillars. Cream

stair terested. found myself tiptoeing cases, Red marble wainscotings. through the tomb of Lenin and Stalin in the company of Mr Abe Moffat, heading a delegation from the Scottish | Coal Miners' Union on its

way to Peking.

Fantasy.

traffic jama

Moscow.

are

There are

n.iners.

оп

and

Green

marble

Birds Alive

THE paintings were done so

und

in-

The place was awash with people, some of whom had come immense distances, for Zagorsk is a legendary holy spot.

The majority were peasants. the women carrying Helle bunches of willow catkins.

Faces Lit

Pink Wall

LL around it runs

a

A crencuated brick wall, which

Just been elected President foll

he was keeping things going at a commendably fast clip.

him.

Most glances are focussed not on the President of the Assembly but on the men behind There. sitting in a row, Malenkov in the middle, are the men who matter—those

With

the

whom the world calls the Men In Kremin, although, as it hap pens, they rarely work here any

more.

all.

Malenkov is in high spirits. He smiles. He cracks a joke. He beams approvingly on

ls is a

Pictura of rotund benevolence.

So far as Malenkov Is сол cerned, all is well with the world, and this new Parliament clearly looks pretty good. Molotov is sitting on Malenkov's left. It is the Molotov we all know so well. He speaks to Marshal Voroshliav altting on his own left.

On Malenkov's right gits Krushchev. and with him Malenkov conducts an animated conversation. On Krushchev's right is Kaganovich,

is

All of them wear sober lounge has gone exactly the right shade suits except Malenkov, who

with

the years. (A in what is known as "a party of pink good many years, too. The will funle”—the classic gray Russian was built in the 15th century.) tunic of the kind worn by the

party old-timers.

And Out!

NEAR

TEAR thego front-row men are such notables as Schvordi,

The

hour.

At intervals sleeple liko realistically that the dead

Lowers punctuate the wall, and birds in the still lifes locked

inside there are saffron-coloured ülive In the dining-room the

palaces in one of which thu band played loud, clear, and on

Czars used to be crowned. The main streets are hugely the beat, and there was dancing wide and kept In be

trim by a among the crowded tables,

Shrink the whole proposition. small army of women sweepers,

INSIDE the church a richly put it on the nursery floor, and Susslov, Mikhailov and Bul wearing felt spats.

Money seems plentiful.

bearded priest wearing a high the children would play with it ganine- lots of cars, nearly all of them the restaurants do a land office green hat and a gold and green for hours.

pessions Just only an Russian made, and as a result business. Young men in none- vestment Was addressing an

The agenda is adopted, suits, and who growing in too-well-stung

enger congregation of more than Three uniformed security procedural

matters are settled. don't look affluent, turn ep at a thousand, who pressed for police. immensely

toward, hanging on his every well turned out in grey with red No one

smart and it all seems most businesslike. the best hotels and proceedi

mumbles. Everyone There are characters who kok order meals for themselves and word.

shoulder taby. converged

on speaks up, their voices ratúing as though they had obligingly their girls that would make your stepped out of a Chekhov play eyes pop.

the turnstile through which against the double windows Afterwards they thronged up would paus. They saluted with brief speeches. Just three minutes ago - fur

for Communion, while a choir marked politeness, took my hots, high boots, and belted,

Ifousing is still a tough prob of black-garbed, bearded youths documents, made a swift phone We drift out of the Chamber Jong-skifted, quilted conts.

authorities lém, as the

Ikons and call to someone somewhere, and and into the diplomats' bar well. They are doing all they sang out and the

precious metals the walls waved me` on.

hung with massive oil paintings, to Eatch up, and as a result glowed and glittered in the

Haro there are beer and you are apt to see a modifled candlelight.

You know, inside the Kremlin oranges, and, unaccountably, a skyscraper, destined, when com-

Old women prostrated them is lovely. It is a sort of cross weighing machine.

between Hampton Court and A You can have vodka for break- pleted to contain workers' flats,

Up rearing

the midst of selves before crope-hung effigies 17th century. French chateau. fast, if that is your fancy, wooden chalets, all with de of the Saviour, their seamed

and corated windows

curved and time-worn faces lighting up It was very quiet in there in

the sunshine. as they did so. cornices.

That kind of thing.

But it is all a lot of fun. The doctor should try. It sometime.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

clairvoyants on

Ministry roof!!!\{}

Vodka Breakfast

and it seems to be the fancy of some. The university is in a skyscraper, and if there's any piece of equipment it lacks, I don't know what it could be.

Fountains play inside the main department stort, and there are mosales and candelabra in the tube stations (it's like having a rush hour In the National Gallery).

Unlike Britain and. Amerièn,

servants nie still plentiful in

in

khow

07

Out again into the sunshine,

sund,

But about this Zagorsk trip. I motbied out there last Sun- and an English voice saying: day. The shall is strictly a "This will make a good curatt - bb, which started old man." with the best didn't keep it up.

Turns out to be one

Short Ride

credentials were checked

intentions, but of a British party representing M four wet and I left my hat

Fat Domes

the International Union

Students'

BOTTO

in the cloakroom and then had a short lift ride. "

The bellringer is really in the

And now, here we are in the groove now, with

vorý fancy stuff. Surely that's Parliament House. It used to Russia (the majority of the THE sun shone down on the Uncle Vanya over there, coming bo the Grand Palace of the tho 1930's the women standing, in a long queve larch and birch and, spruce towards us? Him, or his twih. Czars, but in

Baterior was made-over. It is a'

to buy fruit for Barter-next woods through which we passed, Time to dive up the odd huge room with a white-painted, Sunday hero-were servants out and on the namiots where the shopping for their ristresses, I chalets stood in rows behind now and have our caviar band- concave roof. was told).

plots of dusty garden.

wiches in the fields.

The Kremlin

น

·RECEIVED an invitation 'the Kremlin'«I accepted?

The next biggest queue in the Suddenly you come over the shop was all-mate for radios, crest of a hill, kind there it is- Most of the men, in it sported a

seperate complex of 11 flat, black cape,

churches, a cathedral, and monastery, so completely beauti-

I always thought the Mexicans ful-and-izay that you feel you were the world's most audacious want to wave, orcheer, dr drivers, but compared with the somethings.

Russians there soflies.

The thing is that, in ti only the fast life that

the victory care which could be

The occasion he a moot Ing of the Supreme The rat fat domes or one are à Primili blue with golden elected only. Inst month for

four-year term.Į

Wold cross

wah them ma b Fig. it on

uilding a sort of grow betwroen mens have bee

Behind the Speaker's dais is statue of Lenín. On the vast floor are row of row of pollated wooden baka for the MP.4 who seem to be on the whole a middle-aged lot. Many a bald to pato gustent under the tights,

There was ontsprinkling of Women M.PE -Blue suits were favoured by the men. -

a

There are two, Houses of the Suprarim, Bövlety, and sons' sati first on Tuesday afterndortho

Af the Makow Regional Erbative, Council Had

in

And so downstairs, to the a ridc sentry, who is holding and fixed bayonet with one hand and manipulating the Kremlin traffic lights with the other. He turns them green-and out, we

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