1955-08-06 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1955,

Rene MacColl, touring Russia, brings

CRIME and PUNISHMENT UP TO DATE

D

Moscow, behaviour, and be gels three OES it ever occur to years. you to wonder about in the crime inside the Soviet

Union?

In Turkmenia it is six years corrective labour camp for ellizen Davetlov, a bicycle

thief. He stode 16 bikes in cre

week and "most cleverly con- cealed his thefts by the adept anner in which he dismantled

the machines.”

This vast Communist State, which until the other dny turned only a blank face to the outer world, must often have seemed to you to

But one of the victims recog- nised a specially decorated and manage its affairs with 80 strictly a paternalistic handle, and that was that, that perhaps crime itself And so we come to murder, might have been abolished.

I td four cases in a brict period but bear in mind the

Russian population (200 mälier),

No. 2 was the murder of a in Pelodvorets, young woman near Landngrad. Sho was doct to death in a park by two 23- year-old youths.

No. 3 was a multiple murderer down in Georgia who was found guilty of having killed at least six people in five months.

No. 4 was in Azerbaijan, where the accused Mosikyan was found guilty of murdering two people in the Sukhumi elty park of culture and rest.

IN

THEIR LAST

But no-nothing of the kind. Human nature is the)

TN Russia the death penalty Ono WBS a man who, inter-is inflleted by shooting. sume on both sides of the estingly enough in view cit And in Russia the first that Rusla's insisteren that there is anyone hears of the trial or no unemployment in this count try, was said "never to work mywhare,”

now-melting Iron Curtain.

Teddy Boys, black marketeers, illegal speculates, even mue- derers-ility are ali of thein to be found here,

Let's glatter through some rezent iues of the Russian Press, provincial 09 well as Moscow's own papers,

HIS CORNER

W distant Kirgizkhan? Why,

THAT'S going on down in

roguish follow noita Poluz, manager of state carpet ware- Jasuse No. 3 (carpels being jud the thing in Kirgizkhan) was caught trying to sell a Jow th the side and given the sick.

But, with her wife, he then went into the carpet trade

his own, Scco he was hend of

a flourishing "corner" in car- pets' he was doing big bus!-

ness.

lie wo hauled before the People's Court c charges of speculation, and given five years with confiscation of all his pre- perty.

Incidentally, when Russian papers report such matters they do not say that a mar is sent to gaol but they put it mure delicately as being "deprived of his liberty."

Same sort of thing, I regret to say, is going on in Alma Ata, the charming capital or Kazak- near the Chinese border,

shan, n

which I visited last year,

This time Pelsieda (Victory) motor-cars which bear a vague resemblance to

to Standard Van-

guards were involved.

The

enterprising

Comrade

Blokhin and his wife were sell- ing the Pobida at 8,000 roubles

at current

ex-

(about £730 change rates) above the official! price tag.

Curiosity was aroused when the Blokhins proudly told their Zriends that they had just

112,000

roubles (call it bought

£10,000) worth of State bonds. Blokhay got eight years and confiscation of all his property, and on top of gaol, he will be disenfranchised for another three years. Mrs Blokhin got ycard.

DOWN

HIS CUT

five

OWN in Tais, capital of sunny Georgia, citizen Mik-· hailey is 'deprived of his liberly"

for three long years, which seems

a fairly stiff sentence, for over- charging a woman customer of

execution is after it has taken place. So all the news items deal- ing with these murders ended He was surprised while rifling with the curt Phrase: The a shop by 1 secretary of the citizen cozvetined was sentericed First Moscow Printing Works to the highest form of punish- Canmumist Party Bureau and ment-death by shooling. The slashed him to death with a scnience kas been carried razer blade,

Philosopher,

political

analyst, social critic

and, more recently, short,

story writer, Bertrand Russell-the third Earl Russell-has been a world figure through three genera- tions. Now, at 83, he has turned his atton- tion, and brought the full weight of his world prostige to bear on the problem of world peace. His recent petition against nuclear war- fare-signed by most of the great names in scionce proves, least, that ho command support, headlines,

and the imagination of around the world, Hera is his

story.

Y

ot

can

mon

cut."

NEW JUNNING CHART

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AT 83 HE FINDS

upon him at a rate.

A NEW JOB

duces few of those.

and fined

be relaxed, he says one should

SOLUTION

bewildering be the kind of facts science capable of relaxing" he says; His recent

the appeal to recognises--and religion pro- Relaxation 15 D state of scientists of the, world lo sign childhood. One should strive to a declaration pointing out the warfare re-acquire it."

nuclear He is indifferent to both,

dangers of In World War One, he became Russell's father, Viscount an insistent pacifist.

He was tionary.

Russell and the Oxford Dic- brought back a dazzling galaxy however, don't mean of signatures nearly unequalled Amberley, the shy radical deprived of his Fellowship at the same thing by "rolux." To in the history of petitions. leader, who was lumpooned 1910

Trinity College. Cambridge. in £100 for and nicknamed "Vice Count" "making statements likely to be absorbed in the moment. Amberley for saying that prejudice recruiting and disci- Most adults are always think the medical profession ought pline in His Majesty's Forces." ing of the moments to come." to "consider" birth control, A year or so later, he spent At 30, he said he was going on Anthony Eden and received a

Russoll is absorbed, anyway.

He appealed personally to Sir died when Bertrand was six months in prison for "having writing because "writing is my reply in which, two.

in a printed publication made job." But he has since found promised to do his utmost. certain statements likely to pre- himself

kind of job Later, Russell and the relations

scientists In his will, he decreed Judice His Majesty's

with plan to meet organising world peace. with the United States o! that Bertrand should be America."

politicians from throughout the What he had said,

10 He abandoned his pacifism in free world

discuss the educated by two agnostics, in The Tribune. was: "The World War Two because he was problem. one of them the nineteenth American garrison which will convinced that Hitler was

be century's best-known philo- sopher, John Stuart Mill.

ACID PEN

Russell's grandfather, Lord John Russell, was out raged and appealed in the courts. The Victorian courts held that John Stuart Mill (now regarded as the acme of respectability) was no fit person to bring up the child.

France, whether England

or

a new

greater evil than war.

Now he is

Sir Anthony

occupying

and

In the end, he says, there is not they

only one solution: world govern- prove efficient against the Ger-

convinced that ment. He is not likely to live mans, will no doubt be capable world war must mean the to see it. But he shows no of intimidating strikers, an oc- annihilation of the human race. cupation to which the American- army is accustomed at home."

After the war- cooler and his attention to social problems, perhaps calmer man--he turned campaigned

Д Socialist, attacked

marriage and and founded an divorce laws, experimental school..

the

*

HONOURS

At the same time, he went on So Bertrand got "à good working at his philosophy and Christin upbringing." If his mathematical logic, both of which were Instrumental, in nothing else, it provided switching British philosophy him with plenty of targets from the traditional paths of OU could almost fill a for his acid pen.

small library with

incomprehensible) combination the books he has But there was more in of an analysis of science and an

John's written, You could Lord

home than investigation of language and

logic,

the shop which he managed just paper a castle with the Christianity. There was about 1 mere than the proper printed praise which has library through. which price pair of overalls..

rice for a pairs that it cot been lavished on him-or Bertrand could read his way only wives who are led astray with the printed insults at will--a library probably by their husbands in criminal directed at him.

more dangerous than two matters, for

John Stuart Mills.

hera ¿s

Verd

-Evdokimova, chitɗ nalesWOJNAAL Bertrand Arthur William

at

the Universal Stores at Russell is one of that tiny In any case, by the time Scrmov, who, over a period of

trice 66,000 handful of men whose name he got to Cambridge, Rus months, cleared a roubles (£5,000) by privately almost everyone, every sell was ready to start a re- eciling articles from the store, where, recognises instantly. volution.

She got 10

yes, and the

from

directors of the stores got a Yet he can never remem- Cambridge provided start ticking off

theber to act like one of them. plenty of opportunity. People's Court for their negl-

Cambridge was full of ence in not spotting earlier on You can telephone him any

what was afoot.

philosophers.

speculation to a stern (and often

In 1991, he inherited tri h-his brother the Earldom awarded to his Prime Minister grandfather. He wasn't impressed. He still algns his letters plain "Bertrand Russell" and winces slightly st "Earl Russell."

brought him

Age has mellowed him and honours the Order of Merit, Britain's highest honour for services rendered: the BBC's first Reith Lecture- the Nobel Prize for Lilera-

ahip and an honorary member-

ship in the Atheneum Club.

But the old neid stl flows from the pen on occasion. In

all me mercilessly.

time, any day, at his home great philosophers and men his "History of Western Philo Here come the Teddy Boys, in Richmond, just up-river who were to become great sophy." he dalled the greats of only here in Russia they call from London, and you will them-- following the English word hooligans, The Russians always find him ready to pronounce it gooligans as they talk and a little surprised cannot manage our H wumi. that you should be seeking

THEIR NICHT

"

THESE throo

THE

re-

gooligan's quented the back alleys of Petrozavodsk. They were ext- stantly losing their jobs through inck of discipline and bad be

haviour.

One night the three, Vadim, Borks, Anatali, drove into the hostel of a medical school, insulted the manager, brote all the windows, and finished by

• stabbing one of the students, Vadim got eight years corrective labour camp and the other two five years!

his opinion.

LISTENS

FIRST LOVE

of Kant, he remarked: "Philosophers before Kant had a tremendous advantage over philosophers after Kant in that McTaggart (whom the crities they didn't have to spend years once called the greatest philo- studying Kant." And of Hegel sopher since Spinoza) was there he cracked: "It Hegel is right, with all his boundless energy all that I can conclude is that Moore, God must be slowly learning and burning idealism. Whatever it is, he will the man who was shortly to re- the philosophy of Hegel" the offer it humbly, instantly, volutionise

philosophical temporary of Russell's.

To reporters, he never says, concepts of ethics, was a con- "Don't quote me on

that,' oven, "What do you want it for?"

SECRET

Whitehead, the greatest mathematician of the bgo, had And he goes on writing books already begun the work Russell at a phenomenal rate. Between

his 70th and his 10th birthdays He is never too busy to

Russell's first love "was` fio, wrote 13 books; since then listen-nover too convinced mathematics; his second, science. He has published two collections zie used both to slash through of short stories (fiction is a new to change his mind.

was to help him Anish.

He has changed his mind the maze of traditional philoso- venture). Here in Moscow there is more so many times that profes- must start with the facts, stick not long ago (he is now 83),"

phy to insist that philosophers "When I grow old," the mid,

inlo Store No. 51

finish with think I shall join the Monacan skirts of the capital.

worried something veritable in the or army. I would like an say

chinary way.

gooliganism. A strunk lurches

en the out-lonal philosophers have lost to the facts, and

He isn't He uns track.

His views erupted most start-

foul language and, in the cinside about it. Intelligent men, traditions of drunion, affera to ho reminds, are expected to singly in etherTredidmat He insists that he is perfectly Hght anyone in the place. The

go on learning.

codes, he insisted, must be tested happy and that be wouldn't Nor does he care that the against mana cepabliki rewrite many of his books even

flier trons of the cash-desk goes

'ho had the change.” offer bla 'nrrest the world which once heaped dodros here and now;? Coratuet

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