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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1956.

THE "JET SET" UNDER FIRE IN RUSSIA

15.

By A STUDENT OF SOVIET AFFAIRS

moves

IN OUR

GREAT DAYS

WE KISSED

In

THE 10T

OF A

GREAT

DICTATOR

THE sons of two Soviet Western-style, clothes, frequent because of "mutual interest

ed restaurants and night-clubs, literature," Cabinet Ministers aro

golden

Obviously, the sons of Cabinet Implicated in a case in and teamed up with

youths with whom they spent Ministers must be protected for which three girls -the the week-ends in dissolute jazz, their own good from girls who daughters of high Soviet orgies. Although they had been read Western novels and could totis ot officers have been arrested wants by doting parents, they Western events. The article did

plentifully supplied in all their in this way fall to the for larceny and debauchery, systematically looted their own not say what Information the the Moscow Komsomolskaya homes and the homes of friends student stilyagi disclosed to the "agent," but it described one of Pravda reported on August to buy "forbidden delights,"

In this indictment There are them as being attracted by the case the Nietzsche's philosoph symbolist" all the elementa

and an- The report heralds the Soviet press has been making other as being a first serious

in a for the past

the past two or three year pool. the "golden youth.“

top it all, the students held campaign which for several against

Soviet papers have been com- secret discussioni meetings, and years now has been ginger- plaining for some time about the

on one occasion the subject in which these young was the Soviet munner ly

"What would the world waged by authorities uninst the people dress, and have given to look like if it were blown up." them 1he collective name This pessimism was wholly out "golden youth"-the adolen- "Stilyogi," or theme who follow of keeping with the official cent children of higher their own and highly-Individual ideolegy. officials who have been de- style of dressing. According 10 an earlier article in Komsomal- straight

skoya Pravda. POITIE puth of Com- "stilyagi" dress thus

"A rather

nice cunt fastened the by a

amrunge belt and cheap officers' daughters of practising There exists in Moscow the buckle, a purse similar to "aat week-ends, the gravity of the "jot sei"-a group of You suitcase of large proportions offence can be judged only

viating from the

and narrOW

munist virtue.

people which includes the sons

of many

Government members whose conduct has entised a great deal of worry, both to the educational authorities and tu the police, but which has res mained untouched because

high manding their parents'

This

has made it difficult for the pojice

to prosecute vigorous its campaign 13 such "selɛ"--and there are many in Moscow-and has created a social problem of vone gravity in a country where eccentricity in behaviour is viewed with the greatest suspicion.

the

hanging from kapron (nylon-type) with black heels."

the

X-RAY JAZZ

As for The licentious

Jazz orgles which the report accused Ministers' топя and the

in

the light of this quotation froin shoulder.

of Komsomol- stockings an earlier issue

skaya Pravda!

"Jazz IN the music of lunatics (which) and paralytics

North American orinated bars and dance halls under the intoxicatin of Ilquer and narettes us a collapsing and decaying capitalist world.

indecency

TIGHT DRESSES But necording to another of paper, Sovertskaya Kultura,

can be much worse than this:

"Girl stilyagl wear dresses stretched tight on their figure to

the de- point of Against other

The

It is true that since skirts are sht Their lips are anition was published In 1951 bright with stick. In summer the offeral view of Jazz has be- they are shnd

Roman' come in

e-but only a little sandals. Their hair is done in less severe, bul jazz records are the style of 'fashionable' foreign still not freely available,

Ministerial quarters they can The young men are no better, net

through perhapa be precured A thumb-pall sketch of one in friends who travel abroad on Izvestia goes thus:

official business, but less exalt-

DRUNKEN ORGIES The naming of the two ministerial sons those Kabanov, Minister

Foreign Trade, and Pelukhov, Mini- ster of Heavy Engineering--in Komsomolskaya Pravda gests that the "jet set" : at last under attack.

MUK-

film netrense 1.

In

speak Russian,

Trousers tucked into h's ed stilyngi must make do with boots, like on accordion, a sports home-mede

recordings.

These. cap pulled down over his eyes, a securding to frequent denuncia- jälse touth, bangs and a frown" tory articles in the papers, ure

A description in Sovietsknya made on used X-ray dim, Kultura odds that ties with plc- tures of half-naked women are The three girls who have been much sought after, that shoes arrested are the daughters of a

are "unfollingly narrow-footed major-general, a colonel in the and two sizes too large so that Lecurity service. und a ficutep- the toes would turn up, that ant-colonel in the air force. The the jockets are long and green, Ministers Kents, although not with patch pockets and padded charged with any crimes. are shoulders, and the trousers nar- accused of moral responsibility row. 'The hair 13 variably and of alding and abetting

in leng the ecrruption of the girls by

One group of sillyogt at Mcs cow University actually came to sticky end in the hands of the

One young man's nickname ia State security police after the "Broadway Blockhead;" another young people had been used for has changed his good Russian espionage by a “foreign ogent," name of Grisha 10 the decadent affected to whom they had felt drawn English "Harry."

with themn und par- pating in "drunken orgles." The girls, the paper com- pining, had neither spun not tolled, but rend cheap Western mystery storics,

Give

Two youths who were arrested for ercuting

disturbance £

in the Moskvu Hotel were accused of refusing to but only English or Latin,

Gorky Street in Moscow, which the stilyagi favour for a stroll of an evening, is known in their circles as "Broadway." Soviel towns. like Sverdlovak, are known to them by their pre-revolutionary Yekaterinburg.

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BUT NOW THE WEST ONLY KISSES THE TOL OF A TINY DICTATOR

THE OVAL TEST MURDER...CHAPTER THREE

THE STORY SO FAR:

ENSATION at the Oval The Australians are 04 for seven

when Lindwall is caught by Cowdrey off Laker...and umpire Charles Bowerman gives him "not out.” Bowerman has been living up to his reputation for eccentricity all day.

ito has had rown with his wife and with radio commentator Leo Maolean, and has accused his fellow umpire, Jack Petty, of taking his white coat. Now in the middle of the dispute about his decision, he staggers and falls

Private detretive Francis Quarles, at the Oval as the guest of Dr Gregory Kane, watches May, Balley and Lock carry the fallen umpire into the pavillon, Dr Kane examines Bowerman - and suspeels polsən.

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lunch."

"And the umpires have junch Yes, this is certainly going lo with the players, don't they?

T was ten-time when hour after it has been taken.

Doctor Kane re-

Bowerman collapsed just after turned

That means- from

half-post two. the hospital. During the Afternoon Quarles had watched the tense struggle on the cricket field. like

Ray Lindwall had very willingly necepted the verdict of um- pire Petty, but the last hnd Australian batsmen fought back magnificently to add 60 runs. At ten- time England had lost two wickets for 20, and if any. thing the odds seemed to have tipped slightly favour of Australia.

in

“Bowerman's decision on that catch of Colin Cowdrey's was

ridiculous," said Jim Laker,

POISON!

by JULIAN SYMONS

cause trouble. What chance has Bowerman got?"

Lock grinned. "Only that I thought he gave a couple of

decisions. Still, i could have been wrong about

During his host's absence Quarles had managed to get a seat outside the pavilion, where "It depends on the size of the Fretty bad he found he got a botter view, dose. If you're asking me for that." It would not be true to say that

a perronal opinion, I shouldn't he had forgotten aboul Gregory say he had much chance," Kane and Charles Bowerman

Then I think we should go a start of but he certainly gave a surprise, when Kane tapped him and see some of the powers that

"No He kept himself to on the shoulder, To the doctor's be here and find cut as much himself pretty much He was remark that this looked like t cs we com about Bowerman's sitting at one end of the table. nasty business, Quarles agreed, movements round about lunch- Jack Potty was next to him on Lindwall and Miller, he Bold. time. Can you introduce me in one side, nobody on the other," looked like running through the the proper places?"* English batting.

"

Administered Here

MEANT Bowerman It's

polnon, I felt pretty sure of it here, but I didn't want to be atormist.

Atropine."

"Atropine?" Quarles's lips purred in a soft whistle, "That mcana it must have been ad- ministered here, isn't that so?"

"Yes. Atropine acts in any thing from a few minutes to an

"You were bowling at Bower- man's end after lunch. Any- thing special you noticed?

"Well, there was his decision On that calch of Cowdrey's.

Colin

That was ridiculous, Then all the while after lunch he was

excited

After stumps were drawik 0,30, Quarles talked to Jack Petry. The umpire was a talli ruddy, slow-spoken man, one of those

good County

devoted to

wicket, who malum into first-class umpires. Quas gen aat with him in the umpire room. Kane had gone off ty telephone the hospital, na za

Petty told Quarles everything Charlie Bowerman had said 'anti done that day. "Marvellousy quick he is, got a fine eye. But he can be very cantankerous, Do you know, today ho accused me of having his 'coat."

"What's that?"

Potty told him about the coat incident. "They're not our coats anyway. The Surrey club provides them, but It was va funny thing to say, don't you. agree?"

Six Stones

YES. What do you keep in the coats that might have mage him think you'd borrowed his?"

Potty walked over to his coat muttering to himeelt, seemed on the wall, and took out six

and I spoke to the captain stones

packet. of about it, thought he'd had a cigarettes. "That's all I keep in

Don't drinks, to tell you

the pockets of mine. the

few

truth."

Quaries and Kane exchanged glanoes, "Muttering and excite ment-typleal symptoms," the doctor said.

know what Bowerman kept, but It can't have been anything im« portant. Smid it didn't matter the moment after,"

“Did he cany a hip flaski; Or jako pilis?"

"Not to my knowledge. How is he doctor?"

the

"Did you see him drink any- "Did he talk to anyone at thing?" Quaries asked, lunch?"

Trevor Bailey, who had been Hening, satu, "I

Doctor Kane had appeared in was sitting

handoorne opposite to him at lunch, He

dnorway. - His had a battle of beer, poured it face was paio, "He's dead. into the bar, though I don't be think we could all do with a himself. Afterwards he went Never came out of a coma, I lieve any of our chaps were in drink." there. You'll have to ask the

"Yota

*

you

didn't notice anything "Certainly I can. Come on."

queer about him before lunch? girl in the bar about that.” So it was that Quarles ond

"We're in the dark, Gregory Kane saw very litte of

Но "No queerer than usual.

kerkow" Tony Lock Bald. the rescue act put on by Peter had that computer thing--you "Happy to answer questions and

and May

Cyril Washbrook know, the little clicker-ho's during the last hour and a half one of the umpires who still use a hat, but what's this in aid

of play. They were busy talk them."

of England ing to a number players in the dressing room, and these interviews establisked some important facts.

First, Tony Lock. You were bowling at umpire Bowerman's end this morning," Quarles sald. "Did you notice anything in particular about him?"

A NATO HQ

of?"

They talked to the girl in tho bar, who said that Bowerman, had come in during the lunch interval,

He had ordered a whisky and

ginger ale and had drunk it on

his own, Did anybody talic to Quarles looked at Kane, him? The bar had been crowd- "You'll know in an hour for "ed and the girl could not be Anything Special? two, so you may as well know rure. Then the mapped her

now.': Bowerman somehow finger. "I know who be took polson, and we're trying to talking to. That sports com THE broad-shouldered Jim And out the means, and the mentator, Mr Maclean.. Scomed

Laker, who rolained a time.

If any of you care to be having a bit of an orgs- Yorkshire twang in his voice member something unusual he ment, but I don't know what after years of living in the did or said today at lunch time, about.", south.

It might be a great help,"

Left - Immediately

WHERE THE BRITISH THEY west up to the radio

HQ WHERE

REFUSE TO WEAR BADGES

By RAYMOND. ALLBRIGHT

KHÊY

haft

On the

to look for Leo Maclean but learned that be had loft immediately after inishing his broadenst, way downto the - pavilion Quarles was hailed by, nume, Ha tumed to 600, the îi cropped gray head, bulldog...... thick, neck of his old friend Inspector: Leeds.nl KAN Naples. The headquarters are staffed a pass. Every man must wear knows your job is important, *Mr Quarles, eh?". They told NACING the technicolour by about 2,300 sallors, soldiers, a plastic badge with his picture don't talk about it."Bome me you'd stolen a march on me,

airmen and civilions from six and number

on it.

A Com-ratioespre in two languages, been here na dny I suppose blue of the Bay of NATO nations, under U.S. Ad- mahder of the US. Navy, who English and American. For in- you've found out all about this, Naples, with Capri a faint mirat Robert P. Briscoe. About asked for the return of a stance: Conserve water and put your finger on the narder cloud on the horizon, are 2,000 are Americans. Britain visitor's badge I had? Just sur "Turn off that faucet.";

for me. three massive red stone has 65 officers and men, and the renckred was tersely told by a remaining 250 - places are Marine Private that I must buildings round three sides divided among Italy, France, algn the book all over again of a square. ;

FAC

Greece and Turkoy.

which I did At one time they housed There is a separate "army" of The only man who refuse to aome of the Mussolini well over 3,000 wives, children, wear, the badges are the British and odd civilian helpers, with contingent. "Can't hang those Fasciat youth,, Then came about 800 more US. Navy men things on the Queen's uniform' war refugees. Now they providing transport, com- one of them explained. are officially described as munications and weldaro. "the nerve centre and pivot grand total of more than 6,000. of SHAPE's powerful right? hand punch."

51

In other

words, the headquarters of the Southern Europe Com mand of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

They are also one of the rese sons why since its foundation

In 1950 NATO - huascort ita

A COTTY

AIR, LAND, SEA: From here, as an emergency Admiral Briscoe would control the air and land forces of Orecon. Italy and, Turkey End :

Buckinghaan Polaco ilis: an open house comparech, s

| 15-membts) nationa, a total of, žiendquarters, American

700,000,000,

Tallow; no: óde ince

COMMAND AREA,

Quartes had learned „to, mis- trust the inspector's humour. "I'm not even-com- vinced that there is a murde polyme

The Inspector affecte for once, Bavel war Do surprisni "Caught, you ha

mean to say you don't Boweringh “. had"

The command area is Italy, reece and Turkey and faces, 4,700 miles of the Iron Curtain.

Top level planning, Haison with Paris, bondquarters, admin istration, and the Astalight concession they exercise" op the wheel wear on their loft pockets the turning Ave days a week: k small enamelled insignia of the holding a guardian sword over and Turks meet is an atmosphere Command, the lion of St Mark Groups of Englishman, Cireeks i MINDINGS an open book marked Pax which slways "per

reci.", Terrorism in Cyprus, for example, is never moniioned, fa,

The communications look like the sheriff's *Western movio, surrounded by

Ingenicone today

to discioso edene heid of?”.