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BE A DID IT HAPPEN?

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1955.

GOD IS LOVE

All eyes turn to the man from Mecca...

NE recent February

it was made clearer

to me than ever what odd ideas

⚫ ANOTHER tale which puts the question—is this FACTor FICTION ? All the stories in this series by famous writers COULD be true... it is for you to deolde whether they actually happened. Tomorrow the asswor will be giydz.

some people can have about the Ath. We had a lot of fun the British. I was driving singing. Yes.

sur! Ah was at through "Alabama, in the sea Afteen years and now ah'm mah luck in mah home Deep South of the USA, tryin'

state. Mah

is Morris enjoying the charm of the James, sur."

name

lazy derelict atmosphere. told him mine and we shook where the paint comes off hands.

"Hey." Morris now addressed

wheah's that coffee?"

About half an hour later they were ready to go, wearing ordi- nary suits Instead of the truck drivers' outfits In which they worked.

I noticed that Morris and the Reverend now called each other "Brother James" and "Brother Morris respectively. Foster"

Suddenly the con gregation appeared from the shadowE. They filed into the hut and Morria brought in his-

guitar from his car.

coften gin.. The Reverend

Greet by Shows!!

"every wall. windows seem a dark tubby man in the corner. drove us in his car, which was lookipster James chatted in duet and the pressure was off said I would drive on in my

crooked and the trees look

as if they trail lace from their branches.

James," said this man, going to

"Coming along, Brother

Then

WOTK

"With cream?" "With cream," I said. Morris nodded to me and moved the rear of the cafe.

At a decayed little town I decided to have a little late towards afternoon refreshment.

I holding a short whispered con-

went into à cafe and ordered versation with his assistant

a hamburger and coffee.

"Everything on?" said the thick-sel man behind the

counter. referring

10 the

possible addition of sauces.

Everything." Wheat

you from? chusetts or, somewheah?"

Mass-

1 hastily denied any connec tinn with the dam-Yankees and

that 1 was told him

British, which now and then seemed to be regarded as the lesser of two evils in the South. But this apparently wasn't the case the moment.

A fine crew

at

the way..

Strange look...

on

The coffee was brought to me, and i was again conscious of 3 behind the strange look from counter. There was silence while I me and drank. and noticed was reading that the assistant the Bible. He was one of those readers who move their lips. When this had gone on for some minutes he looked at me.

to shave as ab have

church," he

So Well.

ah'm

anm going to

announced.

It wasn't Sunday and I found this slightly curious. I asked him what going to. * little "Holiness church,” his me with

"A'm the minister. eyes narrowed. Having avoided the help out in heat, you War Between the States, I

"British?"

he

repeated,

startled, and leaned towards

wondered anxiously it I was

W

now

i:

the War of

faced with Independence. This was

stand o

That's

not a toned,"

he

right, he's

said Morris,

bright red and brand new.

at

by

Geoffrey Cotterell

Another *Lary by the immaculate author of Randle la the Springtime and Westward the Sun. Younger son of the Harley Street dental aureod Cotterell studied economies University, London served as a major to the Artillery during the war, At 35 he is a bachelor and ilves at Wanstead. His last Riary-et ike this one in the U.S.A which he knows actually not. well ald

happen. Did this one*

bare flelds, could be seen Alabama state prison.

"Ah used to tote mah daddy's dinner all aroun* this field when ah was a kid." Morris said, and the congregation

*Testify!'

AAAAAAA

how

one

Just stay

THE KREMLIN VERSUS

THE PEOPLE

By Walter Kolarz

N American journal. their children were tarred ist. Eugene Lyons, has from higher education. written a book" which effect his famous slogan qui

When Stalin anally put into draws attention to what is dation of the kulaks as a class," perhaps the most crucial a group as large as the popula

or Denmark factor in the history of the ton of Switzerland Soviet Union. This is not were stripped of their belong-

ings. The kulaks and

their the struggle for power families were packed into cattle trucks and deported to remote

afterwards,

among various Communist cliques, not the rule of the areas where forced labour was required. The campaign reach- proletariat over other ad its height in the winter of classes, not the attempt to 1929-1990, but the war against establish a Communist so- peasants who resisted collectivi ciety, but the fight for sation went on for several years dictatorship against a whole people,

writes with great sincerity and, being a passionate accusation of the Soviet regime, the book does not, of course, In the midst of the collectivi- sation campaign, at the begin- standardis conform

ning of December, 1934, Sergei historical sober. objective.

Kirov, a member of the Polit- scholarship. Nevertheless,

to the

that

od

used

Assassination

as

by a

the

Lyons Then two of the girls sang a cafe, as it was quite late, but I an animated way about chang- me for the moment. A collec- jalopy. However, we had some

of

tion next week's

was taken in Morris's hamburgers and coffee. ing the day

upturned triby. After this the "I'll certianly remember this prayer meeting.

Finally we get to the church, Reverend began his sermon. He evening when I get back to which was a wooden but with a began calmly but again brought England," I said. "By the way sawdust floor and a dozen attention to me by welcoming that afternoon you spent there does bring out with the greatest buro, Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party, and widely TOWS

truth. of seals. Light was operated my presence.

a fundamentai where did you go?

heir- Stalin's This was followed by, and around the docks?"

the Communist regarded. from a post outside. It was a

apparent, was assassinated bleak spot, surfounded by dark, strangely seemed to be connect-No, brother, praise the Lord, Party in Russia usurped power yung mar enlled Nikolayev.

some remarks Half a mile away ed with,

about

The circumstances of girl an' we went to visit of the lights of the age-old struggle of Christian of our crew knew an Eng against the will of the majority

the people and has against Moslëm.

with her.

We caught a bus an'

violence and terror to maintain murder are still obscure, but it

became

the pretext for the" we caught a train an' then she

its position ever since.

elimination of the peoples wasn't working thesh any moh.

many of Stalin's How

of Russlam

real and imagined enemies. so we strolled about an' went

would have voted in even mode-

The Kirov purge was only a is back to the ship. That place was

not rately free elections

mild introduction to the un-. While I was wondering: the shadows. I came into this from

be theoretical question; it can he gradually called Morris though, frown-

answered by the election re- bridled terror of the years 1937 Four teen-age girts, two women

impassion- ing, and then nodded, "Yes, in an lost himself

Of the 138 members and sur, that's it-Woking."

tums for with children, an old man with

the Constituents hot ed. shouting.

Rospelling

and alternate members of the Party moustaches, an elderly woman

Assembly When he sat down,

in November

Content: Committee, only a score the with rimless glasses. They filed harangue.

Morris jumped up

December, 1917. exhausted.

remained at liberty. Communists were already in the 757 members of the Central Into the hut. Morris brought in and asked for testimony. his guitar from the car.

Executive Committee, the Soviet The Reverend, recovering his

urban centres, the Bolshevik Parliament of that time, only strength,

"Oh. to pray.

Party polied only 25 percent of 200

dozen survived. One total vote.

right hundred thousand cent of the electorate voted for the Social Revolutionaries, who of the Party, or more than half stood for moderate Socialism. the total, were deprived of their and the rest of the votes were, status, which usually divided among the Mensheviks, exile, concentration camp and (Social Democrats) and other even death. The number of groups.

people without Party affiliation who suffered arrest and persecu- tion went into millions.

turn his eyes

Jet him, Mecca

A

and

A duet PANAMA

he whispered began. Morris loudly, I went on looking at the We took a road through thick The sort of church he was

service

sawdust, and finally they sang a woods, bumping now and then accompanied the girls in several

hymns-the hymn and it was over. Jazzy said. when it became a sandy track. minstrel

went off cheerfully Everyone Soul called was Ah jest Occasionally we passed a dingy hymn book

after much under- isolated hut with no windows, a Surring Special and numbers into the darkness.

Sunshine handshaking. But there was no Negro's home. The church. it included Scattering

doubt about the faint air of dis- about forly and I Don't Want to Get Ad- the turned out, was

appointment in our own party call- in a miles away. Quite soon we justed to This World.

walked as we

back to the car, of respect, from the rear of ed at Morris's home, a dusty Then there was prayer, with

"Well--did you enjoy it, man to argue with at close the

cafe.

farmhouse. Here was his wife. Morris and the Reverend each

asited laying brother?" Morris I showed interest,

the a sum agreeable girl, "How are taking an quarters.

and

line Independent

hand on my shoulder. heavy His

Sister James?" the as thick arms. Were

as minister was glad to tell me all you.

Re- which did not make for clarity. I assured him that I had,

I had, and telegraph poles. However,

himself. He said he had wrected her he about

But I heard the Reverend thanked him and the Reverend. turned abruptly and started the been five years in the army. present were their three giving thanks that this evening There was no questioning their hamburger sizzling. while he Then he had been paralysed small boys, Morris's mother and an infidel had been led into sincerity, nor that they brought brooded over my nationality, after a brain operation, but the father, grimy from the fields but their midst. and was discon-

comfort those

to

people. Low When he turned again to put. Lord gave him back movement happy, and 87-year-old grand- certed to find that most people. They might be raive, but it was the hamburger in front of me, so he had become a Holiness father, who was in bed. The had turned to look at me. impossible not to respect them. he said

quile pleasantly. "Ah preacher. He had been in eight sitting room where we gathered "Oh, may he turn his eyes "One day you'll change, you'll was in yore

pre country once. Yes. States in the past year," preach- had two double beds and some from Mecca!" the Reverend

see the light, brother," Morris ah was theah one afternoon." ing.'

exclaimed. "May he turn them, said, as we drove off. asked where the service was After some "Not a long stay." I said.

"weet milk,"

praise the Lord! May he turn "No, sur, ah didn't have

being held, and Morris. no

who which was not my dish, we them, praise the Lord! May he time to stay longer. Hit was

off was also going, at once invited went

again with "Sister testify tonight!" March 1940, an' we brought in me to go along with them. When James, at enormous speed, on a

1 was puzzled by the foton cla a load of wheat to London. Ab I accepted they

both proper road now, was the cook. We had a fine extremely pleased. It seemed to Four of them me that this was likely to be a crew, Canadians, hád guee-tars an mahn made worth-while experience.

were

chairs.

th

I nodded acceptance of this possibility. Then I said;

quite understand about

the ence to Mecca and I was deter- There was no answer, but the It was quite dark and headlights picked out miles of mined that nothing would make silence seemed to be loaded, so trees and sometimes a derelict me testify. The elderly woman I let it drop. Then Morris and who sat next to me whispered the Reverend became more eagerly. "Are you saved, talkative and cheerful. They brother?"

offered me a mottress at the

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at

I said goodbye to them, and, I had driven five miles before I

the Mosque remembered Woking that large and remark- able building one sees from the railway, 1 I understood it all.

Morris,

genius, had simply drawn a wrong conclusion from bis hurried visit. The Mosque at Woking explained the men- tion D

hurried of Mecca, the

with the Reverend, the whisper name of infidel.

I turn the car round Should and go back to explain that the British were not, as he thought, Mohammedans? On the whole it did not seem worth while.

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when, the answer will be given—with another story in this series by

ROBERT HENRIQUES

"Did yesterday's story-The Tablet in the Mulla, by Eraeit Raymondan zetually happen). The answer a HD.

Nathaniel Gubbins

bus,

most of them carried umbrellas Tally Ho

whether it was raiding or not,

to use as

shield.

At indvor meetings some of MISS, GALLUP POLL and Chinese" the younger candidates became "Mher dad Prince are after

expert at dodging or catching the missiles while the delighted audience shouted “Played, sir,” and "Ob, well caught, sir."

Older, short-righted candi- dates, unable to catch or dodge anything, often mumbled their last appeal for votes through a blanket of egg yolk and tomato juice,

Although

effective-control of the

for

larger

1938.

or so

Fifty-eight per-mbers and candidate-members

Disaster

meant

The fact that the Bolshevik regime was a minority govern- ment was fully revealed during Stalin had to rely on

So disastrous were the results the war.

the Bolsheviks that they the patriotic

feelings

of the allowed the Constituent As- Russians; he disowned the sembly to meet only for one day Bolshevik Revolution and fell after which it was forcibly dis- back on pre-1917 traditions and persed by Red Guards,

Ideologies. But even this might A peaceful demonstration of not have helped had Stalin not

students

nts received assistance from un- unarmed workers and

in Petrograd, in support of the expected quarters, namely from Constituent Assembly was at the

at the Nazis themselves. He and tacked by Bolshevik troops, who his regime were killed

about 100 of the demon- Stalingrad as is usually believe strators and Injured several but much earlier in the war, in This dashed Kiev, when the Germans hoist- hundred more. hopes for the establishment of a ed the swastika over this cradle parliamentary

in of Slav democracy

civilisation instead of..

Russla, but it was only the pre- the Ukrainian flag. Inde to the long fight between the Bolshevik Party and the peonie which has gone on since 1917,

In 1919 and 1920 a wave cd

at the Cheka

were

famous Futliov works, rißemen fred on

prisoners

Insurrection "I'm crazy about them," said

said

Opposition

Then

strikes sweet the principal in- The war also left its legacy. dustrial centres of the country. Five hundred to six hundred They were economic in form thousand former Soviet citizens S eggs are so plentiful pushed Keir Hardie under a "Not yet" said Floating Vote. but political in content. The remained in the tree world after treated them as hostilities ended. By staying how and rotten eggs

"Both the candidates believe in

Collections. During the strike abroad they manifested irrecon- Now, it seems, all that fun is peace. Who doesn't?" must be going at bar-

1ks, cilable opposition to the Soviet over like so many other delights "Who indeed?" asked Don't

thera are the gain prices, it seems a pity

the 0.000 of our robust yesterdays. Food Know. """Let's have another workers and Red Army troops

persons who lived that, up to this moment, rationing ended the egg throw drink."

quartered in the factory outside Soviet control during "Thank you," sald Floating after the crisis. post-war they have not been used as a ing lark during the

the war. They not only became form of criticism at election elections, but there is no reason Vote. "And they both believe In 1921 there was the revolt acquainted with the negative why It shouldn't be revived. in social welfare, belter hous- at Kronstadt. Fifteen thousand aspects of the Nazi regime but meetings.

Although I have co wish to ing, full employment, and being sailors, worktas and peasants in they also learned some facts There was a time, as any encourage rowdyism, particular friends with everybody. So do

about Soviet rule. uniform, rebelled against the middle-aged man will tell you jy if your candidate is a woman, L.”

Sevict

Government and de- For instance, when the Nazis when eggs, tomatoes, and I would like to remind you once "Everybody ought to be friends manded freedom of

were imugurating their OWI" oranges were hurled at can- more that eggs are, now plentiful with everybody," said Don't press and assembly, the

rule of terror they opened for didates almost as a matter of and that es tomatoes are never Know. "Ir: only natural"

tion of

and inspection Soviet

execution routine.

at their best at this time of the

"Of course it is. Friends with the

of the peasants cellars, mass graves and other In those exciting, exhilarating year you might find other uses everybody," said Floating Vote. right to

of their CAT. "monuments" of - NKVD activi- days candidates expected to be for them.

"Have another drink?"

produco The rebels were

где

in thes. These things are not essly under fire. At open-air meetings.

"With pleasure," said Don't control of Krustadt for four forgotten and one can imagine Know. "Friends

with every

which the days, atter

mave what difficult re-education prob- body. Americans, Russiaris, ment was put down by force. lems faced the Soviet authorities

Germans,

the immediate commander of the punitive In French

postwar Japanese, The

expedition was Marshal Tuk- period. "And Finds, Lapps,

and hachevsky, himself executed inj Finally, millions of Soviet citizens came into contact with " shouted Don't Know to Eskimos," said Floating Vote. 1937.

the West either as workers of as Floating Vote: "Ruz, Run.” "Don't forget the Eskimos. I'm

soldiers in the Russian occupa "Hide, hide," Floating Vote rather fond of Eskinios." called back over his shoulde, as

tion armies. They all said and heard

things which made them they scampered into the bar of Don't Know, "Good old E-

·lesa reliable from the point of The Purple Bison.

kimos."

regime, "Good old Eskimos,"

Nor was it only the Russians view of the

All the policy changes and Floating Vote.

who revolted; other nationalities personal struggles of the last Tell

you what, said Don't of the Soviet Empire also rose few years are only new symp she asked if believed in talks Knowo, "Let's have a drink against the Communist regime. toms of the base weakness of When my life partner, The at the summit.

In 1924 a full-scale political in the Soviet regime, namely, that What did she with all of them." Plucky Little Woman,

"How many

there?" surrection broke out in Georgia. the men in power feel per was a mean by that?" child,

"She wanted to know," said asked Floating Vote.

This was suppressed by the ma

manently Insecure the

Their au out of fashion, though organ Floating Vole, "If you thought "How many are there

execution of several hundred thority has no sauction in tradi- Laed hissing and booking. the that talks between heads of the said Don't Know.

people... thouted insult and the threat of

tion, no roots in convention, and Great Powers, including Russia, "Eskimos," sald Floating In the years that fallowed nothing of that legitimacy which personal violence were

the regime's offensive against susay

sustains

monarcha sidered preferable to the polite would bring about an easing of Yote.

and reasoned argu-

international tension" questions

"I didn't lens there was any

H was conducted They kno

know ments that make electioneering

international tension," said Don't wer's have a drink with Ameri

" meant," said Don't Know, permanent poller terror and by small group of internal enemies, so dull today.

sociological" methods. Know.

For given propitious, circumstances, You're

being ridiculous," cans, Russians, French, Germans, instance, the Communist Go can

«can overturn - a seemingly im- Faid Flosting

"Don't you Chinese, Japanese, and Eskimos stance,

ernment created wholo group pregnable system. This explains "Estamos first, said Floating of outcasts know as Lishenish the case of Berla and, to some La The Right in read Don't Vote wight, and Don't Knomo,

the paper 231 23

the "disfranchised ants." extent, also that of Malenkov. politics that she wanted to maim

Knots.

"I read all the sporting

Three people were persecuted Radicals with her hat-pits, and bits and the comic strips and look "Eskimos first, Jolly old Es because of ther social

origins, once told an astonished gathering

kimos."

They were farmer aristocrats, that she would calder be kicked at the pictures of film stars."

about the what

feading "Dear old Tals," said Floating

shop- priesta, keepers, officers and prosperous ronised by a guttersipe, ar- ganised hissing and boxing par- mean," said Don't Know,

never know what they "Gipe me the friendship of peasants (kulaks, a term later Malenkov's downfall does not

dear old pals" shouted Don't

to all who opposed es mean that the regime is being tes during elections out of her

"What else did the ask Know,

visation); or the children of consolidated. The new modifica

ese tion of Soviet policy under the family of four little girl you?

The baying of a bound was persons

these The childneri were paid

categories.

had no right torate proves only that, as Lyons

to Khrushchev Bulgaria protec -to shout hip, tap, Heved in private enterprise or

hooray She wanted to know if I be heard down the street,

jobs. "It's Miss Gallup Poll and

except at the sight of a twopence to hiss like serpents Government bulk buying, said her dog Prince whispered grades of manual labour, no says, the Soviet

un right o Krow."Bulc, buying of Floating Vote Rune Tu

rations, hospital care though now almost at the end Hide, hide," whispered Don't a living space under controlled of it fourth decade, still has

rents. They were not given any about it "an aura of the tenta

It is still perpetually on the defensive, promising, boast ing, explaining and, above all,

egg-throwing was going

The PLW's mother, who

was

When they had ordered drinks. Don't Know said.

"The last time the cornered me

are

by a gentleman born than pat- articles? asked Floating Vote, Vote, "Jolly old pala".

#

1.

what?"

the people assumed less drama- genuine party democra-

tic

or

businessmen,

જ

the

lowest

was mentioned or whenever his photograph appeared accola theatre screen The PLAW. says Vote, She's always arking me. This way," that, although it was bever if I've made up my mind about landlord, opening the door to mentioned, she believes ber the election and his private room just as Miss mother, would tave paid as much “And have you?" asked Don't Gallup Poll, and her enormous as a shitting it her children bad Know.

dog burst into the bar.

every time Lloyd George's name Nome,” said. Ficating. Known for muttered the social Insurance bezenty and

Defensive

Government,

Lyons threatening threatening both Publications its own, citizens and the" world.

** Our Secret / Allies the Peoples

by of Flusskay Published Limized, London, 1954.