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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956.

GLAD HAND

SOVIET SLAVE LABOUR:

THERE'S NO LET-UP FOR THE LORD MAYOR

THE MAN WHO WORKS A 14-HOUR DAY IS SO : BUSY EVEN A HAIRCUT NEEDS PRECISE PLANNING

A

By WILLIAM ROLAND

T the Mansion. House After joining the mayoral the Mansion House and has Ita I REC own prison cells, often stays to the dignifled hall entourage for 14 hours,

lunch if he has enses in tho porter admits you to a In his "den"-the cream- afternoon.) pleasant room with a cheer and-gold

what she means.

Venetian Parlour

ful fire, and shuts the front the Lord Mayor has

in

of one

the

now

It is a mixed bag. Cheques

CAKE-NIBBLING

Just mo Today was family lunch-flah, and ham, and door on the traffic. There to glance at his morning mail boiled chicken

bofore going to the Old Balley wonderful coffee, An after-lunch Is only the sound of an old to open the

as nap? Not possible, Ossions clock sedately ticking. One Chief Magistrate. might be stately homes of England. for the Dow Bells appeak-very

near his heart; a plastic paper- People are already being In his home-for-a-year weight from the mayor of Los ushered in for a Mission meel-

letter marked im dhe Lord Mayor, Alderman Angeles:

(morning coat and badge, Cuthbert Ackroyd, is in his Foreign Office: by contrast, one the "hymn sheet" says).

from a man in Brooklyn, NY, bathroom shaving and asking "Please can you find me The Lord Mayor must make a wondering whether he can a wife," a bulky missive marked speech, a drawing-room jest or There Is tea-drinking. possibly find time during Dale Carnegle Course on Public two the day to get his hair cut. Speaking (Perhaps I ought to cake-nibbling and pleasant con-

one

Norah Hackney, Miss of whose Joby 13 to

prepare the "hymn sheet" (the weekly ilst of engagements) says: arrive at 9.30 u.m. and after that life is one terrific whirl."

THE DEGRADATION

MMEDIATELY

OF AN IDEAL

By Raymond Postgate

after

the civil wars in Russia.

while Lenin was

reason

still

Revolution

A foundation member of the British Communist Party, and editor in 1922 of its official organ, Raymond Postgate loft the party in 1923 because and policy. its tactice be disapproved of

But Inhabhants

is

of the camps

to

be doubted.

4

nover

them.

[дг

ards.

open that"-but the Lord Mayor versation. didn').

QUICK-CHANCE

The guceta seem fascinated by of the two the ornate badges Shora-faithful attendants on the Lord Mayor.

The first of a series of quick The clock says ave.. Foreign changes. (Albert the foolman guests arrive. The Durgomasters says sometimes there is only of the Ruhr have an hour's four minutes.)

interview.

"Old Bailey" dress is a Queen Now it la time for the convoy. Anne period court Jacket be of three cars to dash to King decked with Juce, black trou- William Street, The Automobile sors, scarlet gown. the gold Association's new offices in the collar of S.S. (one of the oldest City must be declared open. chains in English chivalry) and Another speech (the Lord Mayor the badge, sparkling with han the trick of making cach dinmonds.

one sound like the most im- portant of the day and writes Back at the Mansion House them himself).

Albert discovers that the scarlet gow has been torn. Luckily It will not be again today.

Back at the Mansion House, used The Sheriffs' ladies are chang- ing into evening gowns in two bedrooms upstairs. Gowns vary. There is the The Lord Mayor and Lady State

black-and-gold robe Mayoress are changing, too. And (worth hundreds, Albert says), the convey starts out again for the carl-type red velvet and the Park Lane Hotel. All three

get scattered

the The formine, the scarlet, and Bnally cas

Embankment traffic but manage to arrive in line

accountancy

W

If there are to be children at

function

Lord Mayor the sometimes puts on u "higher" the occasion may

warrant.

FAMILY LUNCH

to

City

work

well. not

very humanising influence was the violet. that of the MVD department.

release from the campg. On alive and the

prisoners ате oflen sent to long hours In con- was in its nobler phase,

it seems clear that the bellevably

"forced settlements. Here the gown than full ditions so dreadful that no trade vietim

Is supposed to be free and many others were call-

would even believe and is pald wages, but he can Two hours of a meeting of ed on to admire and did into three main categories. The unionist

Siberia is Siberia, and not leave either his settlement the Corporation "inner special of that

common admire - a project called first

or his work without permission, committee." Weighty decisions which requires no no privileges would make life criminals, whi Sen-to-Volga

of these White

tire granted:and places which is very rarely

front hall the

clock In many

of the ticks inexorably on to live who tolerable to cryone but savage; nor do his conditions Canal. This was, of course, special commentary. The second smul ellie of thugs, who IN

Why bul

une

Jack of clothing and prices of food allow him to live one, valuable and es mont

are given various names,

and witched underfeeding r made the much above the convict stand- but the of

blatniye," which timable project,

just But the change is been sufferings of the prisoners existence for our admiration whose

enough Enoug prevent the "settlers" was a particular one that youched for by toe many people worse than they needed to be.

The

Since the death of Stalin. from dying like files. tor

is full information Fairly

While others lunch the with there have been reports of Im- con- atlyg It was to be dug and

experts

They аге very available on twelve of these Fathers meet. At the Court of structed by convict labour.

the knife, carry on murderous provements.

but they are settlements Aktyubinsk, Kura-Aldermen

most (one of the This labour would be gang warfare, rob and terrorise small, no doubt,

To improvements.

whol are ganda,

Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, exclusive in the world, but the

Abez, Yartsevo

Inta, Ukhla, public may go in) the business directed by the police, then all other prisoners, and

fact, they due? warders, In called

the Cheka, which work. The

are afraid of them,

It would be heartening, but Vorkuta, Elbastuz-Ugol, Yenais formal, the pomp Impressive.

them to kievo and Tomak.

the Colonel Hulme Taylor, had been effective in stamp-

The third category consists of unrealistic, to ascribe

of the Soviet ing out counter-revolution- what wo should call political the repentance

City Marshal, hus to put on a prisoners,

in the Soviet gaolers, It would be somewhat

wig ("The first time I've worn ary activity.

ono") to deputise for the Com- who is recovering This relaxation has, however, mon Cryer,

result from a foli. We, crowd into the had

unforeseen When the Soviet Communists announced their intention

en- Lord Mayor's car. to rehabilitate criminals by setting them to useful work which is among the more

dismal in a quite (the construction of the White Sea-to-Volga Canal was couraging items

"Mind the maca," says Colonel 11 rests on my the earliest and perhaps most publicised example) the story. The prisoners can talk to Hulme Taylor

COB feet. more freely. Ds fre or baseless. idea found favour in many parts of the world. At that each other

fact being made easier by Far from it: the Revolution had time, as Postgate points out, no one could foresee that the official habit of sending masses

gangs, without mo.ning. been accompanied by the most plan would "flower into one of the most enormous organi- of them in

consideration, to or frightful atrocilles

Lunch in the private dining- and fro about the Soviet Union. sides, and salions of slave labour the world has ever known", warning un both

no time massacres

to in As of organtser

Tsarist times, they room is usually substitution the

ve learned

fre Most days there to have prison

understand one relax. labour under tolerable

guests--ambassa- for

more plausible to ascribe them another, and there are the be-distinguished Union, however, are trested no conditions

narchy

by the prisoners

of what

dors, prelates, statesmen and others nowadays to resistance

ginninga better than

be bloodshed was a great advance.

might These themselves. There undoubtedly called a political opposition. overseas visitors. often Moreover, it would be good (and

worse).

An Austrian prisoner, Kari for the Chekists themselves again fall into two divisions was such resistance; three cases

who

been In change partially anyway- the

ferce half-soldiers, with who are either devoted to the Kingir and Vorkuta-or which seer. Katchen and

first genuine "politicals" are authenticated-Dzhezkazgan,

Kara- from

last was the most sensa ganda. last winter told several Communist the

audiences of a rough which had been

to

Perhaps the proposal rehabilitate criminals by setting was not useful work them to

Russians br- now as the iloved, but it would be

to diemies the com- which it Why

pliments with

revolver

Into

ས་མ་་

apd

and

ኒ፡

organisers of productive work

for the community.

who

the

herolam

French

one

Ple

cf

the

their bands always on their principles of the

to tional. Books about the Vorkuta the butts,

revolution and refused

ar strike and its crazy accept the Stalinist tyranny, he have been published. Socialists or followers of some

It had six points: 1. the of factories doctrine; other

But second,

the real

reason, I am The return

indicated.

2. The return the members of

workers' control; nationalities afraid, is, as I have which Soviet Imperialism needs really the economic one. Under of the land to the peasants; 3. In short, the pln was, in the to suppress. The most frequent the police regime, the labourers Free elections; 4. Dissolution of

Letts, died. More food, more clothes the secret police; 8. arc Intter of

tho circumstances

the day, o

slave-driving

The opening, of sensible Lithuanians, and

Chechens, Esto and less vicious Uzbeks, Tatars, Volga were called for because

Pro frontlers to the West. No one could see that it nians,

duction was so low. The Soviet It is too soon to attach much the Germans and Ukrainians. would flower into one of

But gaoler does not mind when the importance to this. most cnomous organisations of

but while he any such voice should be heard All these, with the exception prisoner is dead, slave labour the world has ever

the chornel-houses ir a known, and that the Cheka, NO of the second class, have been is slowly dying (such is the trom

would forced to work almost un- perversity of mankind) he door consciation. far from softening.

ΕΤΣ honourable

une.

Ta

become a larger and more pro- fessional corps of slave-drivers than has ever been recorded in history.

Its name

has been changed at

Icant

three times since to OCPU.. NKVD and MVD-and with each change its character has altered and become more 1103

stitutional

Now it controls mrny millions (how many,

and not known) in slave camps,

the Inbour of its convicts is an

Disarma-

that

BAHAMIAN PARADISE PLAN

tax, of the

From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

of Connecticut A New York work will be completed carly

group businessmen aro developing an- MERICAN big business- next year.

This follows the purchase for other 1,400-acre bay. They are men are gambling on a

2,600 acres at all banking on the perfect important part of the Soviet boom for the no-income- or Cay, 13 miles from climate, fishing beaches and the

Lyford economy. Without the produce

no-death-duties Nassau, by Edward Taylor, a colourful seling to bring a of these camps much

Toronto financler, And there tremendous influx of tourists, wilder and less hubitable parta Bahamian paradise.

And it looks as if their of Asiatic Russia would still be A plan is arounced for are many others Hiding in on

gamble will pay off. desplate, will

with consequent heavy the island's largest real this Bchomien boom, lose to the State.

estate venture by Lindsey American Wallace Groves is January and February there more tourists The Canal was, indeed, the

the moving heavy equipment into were 19 percent

build than in the same months lat harbinger of a "new form of Hopkins Junior and

a port, called Freeport...

your,

Holiday-makers have society". but i was not the one Carl G. Fisher Corporation. Grand Bahame Island to

more than tripled in six years: Hopkins is a director of

There was a $5,000,000 denell Coca Cola and Sperry Rand.

six years ago. Last year, there was a $0,200,000-pront.

that we imagined.

essential fact to

Thind when we assess The Fisher Company were bear in mind the news that has recently been filtering through from these crimps.

Milanowe, In

imperfect

Groves plans, shipyards and

During

en the original developers of light industries, hoping the tax Tax concessions for businesson

."

y that millionaires play relicts will dazale foreign in going to Freeport include o

vestors. and un-ground, Miami Beach..

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(The sitting Alderman in the Justice Room, which is part of)

ON TO BRIXTON

more

Then on to

Another set of distinguished Ruests,

pleasant chat. another speech to make and SEVEN to listen to.

Bridon Town Hall, whore the Lord Mayor dances with the Mayoresa makes his last speech day.

and

of the

}

A midnight cup. of tea at home with the Lady Mayoress.

And so the day ends.

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