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ETTING to Baku, on the Cusplan Scu, gave me my first train ride inside the Soviet Union. We took 18 hours to cover the 346 miles from Tiflis and MacColl was sorely tempted to create * minor inter- national incident by smashing the loudspeaker on the train.

was sunset in Tillis when 1

climbed aboard my "oft international conch proceeding to direct destina- tions," having pad the porter the equivalent of ten bob to carry my one valise a hundred yards.

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To my compartment, the upper being occupied by pleasarıl.

chup quiet, middle-agod

23 wwny-ruloured Jandscape, harsh and bare,

The mountains are beginning

to crowd s and to the cast

there up the fet glimpse of the whe

Comptan Sea. the colour of

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SOCIALISTS'

FIGHT TO FINISH

When we got under way 1 oil derricks, the first of bund-

•hared my buttle of Georgion reds thousands maybe -- for white wine with him arul it this is the fand of black gold, idn't Inst long because he the greatest ollfield in the

drank

USSR, and the dark sludge floats upon the surface of the tumblers Russian style ponds and pools,

knock 'em

In Baku they have so fur left

Socialist Party for the back in one. most of The ancient walled

The thing can- fown as it has survived through leadership.

--

the and

TOW it is clearly a

fight

Nto the finish in the By William Barkley

Next non- ing he reel the centuries. Once in there not go on. And in my view soberly discussed in the Shadow procated

you could well be in Bevan in being swept 10 Cabinet. hospitality, modified Kasbah anywhere indestruction by his own Be-

Islam.

Just half a mile away are the vanity. massive achievements of the

neatly arran

Ing a copy DI of

Pravda a 20

"form a

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that Wilson was dickering with iden Bevan exclaimed: "That would bo an act of be trayal to me."

When this piece of vanity war reported back Wilson took the

vacancy.

by the conslituency parties to the national executive once year in the big conference?

2

for The con-

The constituency parties only recently got voting power candidates of their own.

who trade union bosses ferred this freedom can take it away.

Some people would call that political minder. Morrison has warned them auicide.

against political

One hears nothing of a stand taken on important issues of prindple within the parila- executive before he table cloth on new Socialist Soviet Slate He has grossly over-estimated mentary

resigned. That is where he the little fold- which, as

my guide wall put his strength in the party and

pould

opinion bave moulded ing table, then producing tard- 1,

con-under-estimated the power of and wooed the personalities who

When events forec a choice, remurkable bulled eggs and bread and in- traet"--the concrete blocks of the machine which he treats

whom you soberly compare ite the pros- with Bevan against

In short-time 1 was short- diealing with

courteous Bats "for the tallers and what with contempt. To be a leader control the machine which gesture that

your followers need to have wishes to control.

pects if you keep woddod to the Bevan can only stay in the So- some idea where you are going. "Any fool can resign." That party machine, you crawl back calist Party now by ceasing to But with this one all you know

word of advice to a us an old

if home is home, even Ja where he is not going and young man who throwe up Whips' office, as John Taylor whom he refuses to accomparty. everything in a hurry. Bevan did.

no longer has the excuse of

a

was to join him, have you.

But chi that kudspeaker. Except for a few bours during the night it was on incessantly.

Yes, it's quite a contrast.

POSTSCRIPT

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Не la ΠΟΡ going with youth But the awful crime is with Gaitakell, or that he rosigns without con-

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Dark Temple

There were a couple of news- casts and somebody declaimed a My guide back in Tilia asked Morrison, patriotic poem about Stalingrad, mo if it in true that "Oxford with mos! od ⚫ potential sultation." but apart from that it was DDE studente like to dress up as A Socialiai Cabinet; he 11 πολ long surcession of this frightful

woman."

On behalf of my old going with the big trade union willing lental melodies which university stoutly denied this leaders, he is not going with the sound like an Arab having his impeachment whereupon it Americans or the French, and teeth pulled cut without the turned out that he had gained all the time he is not going with brenent of an anaesthetic while a

more than half of his own his knowledge of Ife amid the

TORROR! When you penetrate demented obuist tunes up in the dreaming spires entirely from a countrymen → the "erminous" 11 into the dark templo of what background and someone kleka i

It of performance

"Charley's half

is called in reverent whispers tambourine for loughs,

Aunt" which he witnessed some leadership.

"this great movement," there you will and one high altar and years buck.

I in dedicated to the Goddess

Around the seventh straight hour

of thia treutet the notion of a Chopin Nookurme or Twelfth Street Rng, or (best of all) silence, really begins to xrow on you. The conch swayed and creaked and jerkod, and the traim seemed to stup a re- nurkable number of times,

On either side of us were vast platos

to stretching

fur the mountains

horizons where

swam In the hot sky. The wwmen who possed

urs, with

We

their camels, their bullock carts or their mutes, were dressed in zemi-Oriental style with brightly embroidered shawis about their hends, and vivid skirts.

A

into drew further Azerbaijan (accent on the second syllable by the toy) some of, the villages I saw wore pretty dreary, just collections of mud huta with

with grass roofs, rulled roads or rough tracks.

*

In mid-morning we reached a

fair-sized junction. Girls care

plong with big brunches

of

| TASTERN

JUROPE

does not

add up

to

Spur Of Moment Consultation.

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MOSCOW

TURKEY

BAKU

PERSIA

THE MacCOLL ROUTE

The bitterest cry that ever

E does not give followership goes up from an outraged trade

chance.

TULATICES

union official throwing himsel When

he down before her is always: "We suddenly

the up in

were never consulted." Commons, runa along the Front Bench, 09 near 728 possible tramples on

bis leader's toes-that Is the out- ward bid for leadership.

It does not seem to matter so

much If you reject the advice so long as you always seek 1 in the

Prides movement.

and dignities demand a conference. Face in of more importance than But he has not done the pre- the thinking apparatus behind Hinary work.

it.

the be Bevan 'and

Bevan's vapourings give him strength among the near Com- and mles, the secret Commies the pseudo Commies of the con- stituency parties.

Herbert Morrison has been measuring his atth against theirs, particularly in London, all his political life. Morrison would sooner face the defeat of the party than see it victorious with debt to the Communists.

Suicide

this struggle 1 feresoe the possibility of Bevan becoming

a remote influence like Maxton, the darling of the mob, but holding an unofficial position from which he sardonically ob. serves the party adopting most of his Ideas, such as the dila- armament of Germany.

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Not that this la his iden all alone. I would not myself trust a German with a water-pistol.

But how do you reconcile this Bevan state with his popular election

Did he consult Harold Wilson? Wilson has taken hie Heavens! place. The gossip is that when

to brought high policies news was

The public demonstration is on the spur of the moment. It is not the fruit of serious

at divergence

VALUE OF EDEN'S WORK

AT GENEVA

radishea which were quickly THE non-stop effort of

wheels.

seem

London.

British Foreign Secre-

TALKS

By Vaughan Jones

So the Reds seek the soft spot in between. The "peace" pro- paganda and the slogans

they snapped up by the bleary-eyed

use in Indo-China are identical travellers. They were also selling large flat loaves like small cast-tary, Anthony Eden, to ob- the gap in their own defence now decided to Join with with those they have voiced in tain peace in the East may ring stemning the oulward Britain's old friend. Turkey in a places au fer apart sa Berlin, the Persian frontier, and Korea. pointiasa to some surge of miltant Communism. military pact Moslem Turicey, I nibbled a radial to try to

"In London, it is pointed out In turn, "basan allance with take my

mind off the music, Washington critics, but to

Indo-China is the weak spot. Mostem Pakistan completing that the Communists avoiding and the conductor, his gold teeth Britons it has immeasur. It is the hinge in the Fred the chain. All these free na the issues of the conference, are glistening in the sunshine, strengthened. the barricades, inevit

commise they have only likely to continue their drive duced gioues of fou from the West's case, sgainst Com able target the Reds in their go

enemy-Com- into Indo-China till the West break-through attempts.

Moscow version.

halt WAVES niam, Mo

establishes a barrier to Continued

"action" thru will fear represented by the Greece them, their plans to block tie passage lighted by the fact it is an cause the Free* World to justun «Yugoslav-Turkey pact is high- before a southwest thrust alliance between a Christian menocne Malaya, Bingapore, and monarchy, a break-away Com-

munist dictatorship and a Mo my travelling companion a solidate and advance follow-the islands to the ocult.

lem republic, united in face of picture in a British nowapaper

common threat the com

stands Red outflow

munisin in Asia.

samovar in the corridor,

Red Army men wandered about on the platform carrying The Geneva. conference tiny posies of flowers.

admittedly, has given. Indo As we get going again I how China's Beds. time to con-

I have with ins of the Fasing the fall of Dien Bien

tunis playing cricket. "Cricket, I my, loud and clear. He nodia gravely. A few minutes later Bev's me on the team and dhowe me a picture of man a speech in a Finlan mvpaper, pakin says, loud and clear. 1. nod Travely. Honours, seo avon,

and I'm glad or topicät mit "T" bestgiat, in.

Phu

But Britons support - Mr

Plugging The Gap

shown I

And-

Eden, an experiented for ads Edon's efforts hate to the Baden Mediterranean stateamah,' in his inkistaal 1518, in thode: own, interesta, i to. Though] Perda le a weak spot search, for every expediu hip plug the pred

le on watch beyond /loth, in the West" and in of procedup to save lives 27% and effects an honourable s settlement

the present Communist In the East, the guardianship

'adeldenta

Again by Britain in

1 inferiori

Drawing The Line

Concetons In Indo-China, It is expected, would only lead to

more demands – and, onslaughte

the Reds. The Geneva con- ference self has given them time to on the

edo prepare an attack of

could pave the way for the Rac conqu of the whole country. Britons would wincome: a shar

Should the cobrarence denation of Watern polier

be-Havaning it.

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