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It has been the student population that provided much of the initiative for anti- Communist demonstrations in Eastern Europe. In the free world many Com- munist professors and students have found their political links too heavy to bear and have left the Party.

"INTELLIGENTSIA” OPEN THEIR EYES TO COMMUNISM

T

By Julius Gould

HESE aro desperate days for student Com- munism, for through out the free world links be tween students and Com- munism have been smashed.

free world. Horrined by the violation of Budapest, students took practical steps to aid the refugees and led engry demon- strations, Thero was an out- burst of feeling unknown since 1945.

has

been

com- the impact upon munist students. They have been spurred into open revolt. For them too Hungary has been a Freedom in clearly catalyst, contagious, and many an uneasy conscience has been exposed.

What does this mean and But the novel feature has how has it come about?

Communist Party The

at always sought out converts colleges And universities, Nominally

the Party of the alm "working class", Its real has been

from revolution above, regardless of what the workers really want and even in the absence of u genuine working class.

from

by

and

By winning support students

it aimed at penetrating the "Intelligentsia" sand. slow steps, controlling it.

Young people were drawn in by slogans of idealism comradeship. They became car- riers of the Party line, Whether they joined the Party or wire just "sympathizers"

All inatter. could

spread

the Party's lles,

build mood

realism,

the

Up a

of den

echo

mood of

Of course i

Moscow.

it.

did not

In Britain the Oxford Com- munist Club has dissolved. In come universities a few Com- munist teachers have at Last found their Party links 100 heavy to bear. They

have therefore left the fold.

Con-

London students, in defiance of the rules of "democratie cen- trolism", have publicly demned their leaders for con- doning Soviet action in Hun- For". Their

qurpried at cow's 19. naive, their eyes are wide open.

Britain's Communist Party is in a sorry plight.

Hara

a professor of the London School of Economica discursos their position.

MUS- conduct perhaps,

but

Many studenis

say

too have done the sensible thing

they they joined the Party have left the Party and dis

disrupted did not all stay in ita

Others they

working.

they will stay in- Many drifted out through that boredom or when they left for side and by "discussion*

this influence their adult life. Yet despite

leaders und wastage, a hard core of trained Party militants moved on into the professions, ready to what the Party required.

do

The Party bosses often show- ed a cool contempt for these "intellectual" comrades.

"Here", they reckoned, "come intellectuals panting to more

their intellects, betray people to peddle our barefaced lies, more fodder for the Party machine....

And Lhis con- tempt was often enough fully

By

more

carned.

acceptingt Communism, students and intellectuals wili- ingly destroyed their birthrights ard the heritage of free inquiry, in free countries this RF- render was

voluntary

undertaken for a

sons, not all of theatery

vile.

their policies. This would be a Communist gooch idea if the

Parties were, in fact, democra- tic bodies.

As matters stand, only the most hardened people will now stay faithful to the Party. Dis- cussion is not likely to soften

their hearts;

At the top, the Party bosses are not cuslly moved by student pleas. But their following is falling away; their power is not what it was

Betrayal

The wrath of Communist studenta bas overspilled Into the factories and has aven and

found un echo among of rea-

Com- No mimist journalists. one in London or Paris was But

the Party elite still

the intellectual ever forced to join the Party, despises Yet students voluntarily tools har Invested so much lessons in

nonsense, and emotional enpitul that he voluntarily served the cause of clings pathetically to Stalin and Khrushchev.

Marxist

Sombre Irony

Thore was n sombre irony in this. For behind the iron cur tain things were very different. Pressed by Communist State

universities

the

Bastern Europe were

who mental

the Be nachlue,

Students who stay inside the Parly,

are afraid who

to cut louse, will be guilty of a new und terrible betrayal,

They will betray the dead of Dudapest not Icost those students who fought for liberty,

lives so of who gave their

that forelbly athers might think, study and

LINDA CHRISTIAN

THE CHINA - MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY

1957.

enclaved. Professors were dia- work in peace and freedom. A marucis for her excort

missed, students were dragoan-

ed into State youth organisa-

lions, entire subjects of study

were

suppressed,

Yet despite all this coercion

the students refused to submit

to their fate.

An the facade or Communist power has cracked in Eastern Europe, it has been the student population that has

mony of the leaders and

of the initiative. This is a re- markable testimony to the human spirit. Neither lies not terror nor Russlan tanks could suppress this genuine dash for treedom:

In the Polish ferment, in the battle for liberty in Budapest, students played "a leading role. Elsewhere,

In Czechoslovakia and ia Easter Germany students have shown their in- dependence and have pressed many demands upon the puppet regimes.

Neither the Party nor their hack professors have been able to quench their zest for truth. Everywhere the demanda have been the same less

Marxism, more time for genuine study and play, and more freedom in the political field,

“I believe you deliberately ran out of petrol so you could sail it home,”

A

Me, And

I

HAVE

The tourist trade turned lonely water into million dollar waves. It could hap- pen in Hongkong. Josephine Rosenberg describes the picture in the Bahamas

The Holiday Islands

W

Nassau.

HEN the winter season ends in

Nassau in April it is estimated that 75,000 people will have visited-the Bahama's since December,

Canadians and Americans form the most part. Many have been coming to this British holiday colony for years in pre- ference to the crowded Florida resorts. The fishing is good, the climate equablo, and, the islands possess a relaxed and tranquil charm, quite unknown to the mainland,

The Millionaires

Linda

St. Mortiz. old Winston Spencer Churchill

Techni-grandson of you-know-who, colour bruise all over

a

my left shoulder and

"Ho'll make his best time

I ache like mad. And yet," said Schlesinger, "Last night I had 14 kilos in weight the man directly responsible added to his sledge. I thought is multi-millionaire John it was mine.”

Schlesinger.

He didn't hit me, I hasten to add. But he did the next best thing: he sent me down the Cresta Run-the lethal channel of ice that snakes down the mountainside here for three-quarters of a mile.

Schlesinger-34-year-old boss of a £50,000,000 commercial kingdom in South Africa was the first person mat when i arrived in St Moritz.

I knew he was a millionaire because he was wearing an American jet pliot's helmet with the tall from a Davy Crockett hat clipped to tho

He got on to his own sledge, grinned, and then was away racing down the ley Incline,

Suddenly-WHOOSH. At the second corner he took the air at 60 miles an hour.

"Schlesinger's OVCT," sald Fairchilds MacCarthy, secretary of the Cresta. He looked at me; I looked at him,

"I've just remembered," I

said.

"Linda Christian expects me for lunch."

"That name rings a peal of bells," I said.

"It should," said Linda. "He was the one who gave me £50,000 worth of Jowellery and then couldn't pay for it,"

Constant companion of Linda since she arrived has been the handsome Marquis Alfonso de Portago,

Sald Linda: "He also went down the Cresta with two

"g. But he broke his, and since then he and Schlesinger have been rivals. Last time they were here they had a soda-siphon fight wrecked hotel

They

the

paid

and Down the Cresta Run

with RODERICK MANN for it, of course, for they are

Then I was off, belling down both very rich. Indeed, every- the ley Incline-30, оде stoying at this furnace they call St Moritz is

money miles an hour,

very rich.

40, 50

Two vicious curves, then a straight, down which I only go faster.

But so many more people want to go to the Bahamos that investors, naturally enough, can- not resist the,, temptation of developing the lalands.

Three years ago there were three principal hotels in Now Providence. Today there aro five and construction;

sixth . is ́ uneler

No road

Lindsey Hopidns, a Coca-Cola king from Georgia, has spent nearly £1,000,000 on the Coral Harbour Club.

Mr Hopkins selected a remote part of Now Providence for his project.

The club

miles is about 18 south of the city of Nassau. There was no road to the site. So one had to be built. The beach WES

fair; that 1 only required improvement by the constructors.

And a fine new harbour for yachts has been built near the club,

Mr E. P. Taylor, of Toronto, has purchased a large acreage west end of Now Providence.

отп

the

Here he plans to build a yacht haven, hotel, shopping centre and a golf course,

£30,000 house

Mrs Reginald Winn, a could

niece For instance-Texas million-

of Lady Astor, has purchased "In Dallas,

Melrose, a house in the centre alre Al Cassidy. son, we're all rich,"

"Dig your rakes in," they'd | of. Nassau. It is said she paid he told mc. "We celebrate three holi- Bald. "That way you control £80,000 for the property. days the Battle of Constant companion Sam

Rumour has it that Lady "Astor Alamo, your speed." Houston's birthday, act

will join her in residence, For them in. Nothing It was she who accompanied, Mrs I dug January 20."

happened. I just went faster Winn when she inspected the towards the Anal curve,

houso

N

the way down to the hotel looked in at Dr Paul Gut's accident clinic. back.

It was Around his shoulders was a easily located by the crutches

Basuto

blanket-black dragone stacked outside,

Såld the good doctor English:-

on a blue background.

Took the air

THE next morning we went

up to the Cresta together, "Nothing to it," said Johnny,

"I skl all the

"And what is January 207" "Why, son-that's the day the new Cadillacs come out."

Cassidy and Schlesinger were in bad both on hand next day to see me attempt the Cresta,

time-but I

do not do the Cresta. Oh, no,”

Ho

opened a drawer for my

inspection.

It was full of assorted bones.

Faster, faster

"These are but some of the SAID Fairchilds_MacCarthy!--

"Errol Flynn did it last year,

0.9 We watched other riders injuries that can befail you," shooting wildly down the Bald the doctor gally. *"There mountainside. "I went down are warse ones-like having and he's got no stamina ai all. last year with two eggs in my your face torn away on the ice. If he can do it, so can you." pocket and didn't break either Why. I remember........"

Jose

"Right," I said. "Produce the Forget about the eggs," 1 I walked on to the Palace armour." said,

They all rushed to help me, "Do they many Hotel to join Linda.

curse them. Crash helmet.... tourists this way?"

"Strange you should have knee pads....clbow guards, "No," said Schlesinger, "The spent the morning with Johnny steel gloves....boots with fron death rate is surprisingly low. Schlesinger," she said, " met rakes-all were produced And they have wonderful him yesterday for the first time. plastic surgeons here...."

He told me he was arrested in John Schlesinger gave me last A small, pudgy fellow took America in mistake for Bob words of advice, "Don't do off in a shower of ice: 18-year- Schlesinger."

what I did: do what I said.”

in

record time.

Pity the poor American husband

MRS. CARMEL SNOW

A well-paid piper...

HE SHOULD BÈ PROTECTED BY LAW FROM THE RUTHLESS DICTATORSHIP OF GRACIOUS LIVING,

lipstick. It is fingernails

of putty when nature's break.

Monograms on notepaper and shirts are gracious; 80

by C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS

"I'm terribly nervous about speaking, and I have two sessions with 2,400 women in the Trade at. cach-honestly, can't squeeze arother woman in.

The open-handed, brash, contradictory, mocking and wi- you noisy, go-getting American affected. is dining by candlelight; with his wine (European from cut

Her flat contradicts every- glass, never Californian out contempt for us slow-moving thing her magazine preaches. It stuffed-shirts will soon have la opulently, garishly Edwardian;

good-natured

"I'm only boasting of course If they don't plready know

IN THE FASHION

at

of a tumbler), green plants to be protected by law (like black carpet, magenta uphol what I have to tell them, they all over the house; compli the golden cagle in Britain) try, loose-covers cated canapes at cocktail XCEPT when the parties; summers in Europe Queen is graciously. (Continent slightly more pleased to reply to a gracious than UK). Loyal Address, the word gracious has a decidedly THE RIGHT PLAYS satiric flavour in English,

It is having the right Hermione Baddeley, books and magazines on In sparking off the revolt in hall; Budapest, The students of perhaps, in too-tight skirt view; seeing the right plays

Deportations

in bookies' oughtn't to be in Fashion chintzes, dozene of framed all. ... from extinction.

photographs, on the wall a bright little Duty and two How to live graciously is sombre Rouaults. laid down authoritatively and without fear of con- broker husband, G. Palen Snow, for goodness sake. Wear what

Here she lives with a stock-

"Fashion? Take it or leave it tradiction by two formidable ("He's a alt even a bit older suits you... of course most ladles who preside over two than I am.")

women look best when they'en glossy magazines.

They have

three daaghters dressed in the fashion. and three grandchildren. They wield such economic

"Let me give you a tip. It Hungary won a unique place in and too-high heels playing and films (and making the power that great corpora magazine once and has never young, don't wear your hair in "My husband looked at the you're beautiful and no longer the story of freedom.

Where they have led, others the Duchess.

right remarks about them tions consult their opinion, touched it again with a 44 Colt, the way you did when you will follow.

But to the prosperous afterwards). It is Matisse and study their idiosyncra- It would never occur to us to were young Nothing look American middle-class wife prints, Picasso, engravings ales.

The lesson has not been lost In Easter Europe-least of all

gime,

· Ro

It smacks of the music-

by the

Gracious Living is the some and Van Gogh reproduc- The younger of the two le In the deportations from

thing more the material life tions. It is speaking per- called Miss Jessica Daves. She bloodstained Budapest

Joined her Baper as a writer 23 hundreds of young men and has to offer (to the Joneses, fect French. women. On this point Moscow as well as to herself) besides From Atlantic to Pacific, year ago. She has been editor socms adamant it youth can- two tellles. In the Living millions of decent American in-chief for the last six, not be conditioned, and corrupt Area and two cars in the Car men are being spiritually HAN

# must be destroyed. This Port, Khrustichov's "now, Berope

He i is a

Gracious Living is a taste, The Gestapo or The senior' dictator, Mr disciple both of Stalin and of Altier, acquined cap to put over NKVD of this dictatorship Carmel, Snow, 23 years an Fortunately there events have your curlers in case the coal is of course these poor in a bony way. She is witty, editor," in fall, thin, handsome artrache, horos. throughout the man calls. It is all-night fellows' wives,

vàge, rambling, irrelevant, sense

for

emasculated by this ruthless TALL AND THIN dictatorship of quiet good

talk about it.. Ho's interested in me. I'm glad to say, not the magazine.

ellier."!!

...

American

There magazines and the life We have

they advocale are by no moansS a louse : In the universally admired, country-Long Island--and two wonderful, malds we've had for humorists such: “as Mary Mc- Lever ¦ Vey humband adores Carthy have satiripod them, "his gardien, 'Li I kept him in New

lampooned them, denounced York on weekends he'd divorce them have used every weapon. parody to invective agalant

Mi

me.

"When I come back from the Paris collection have wo beat Mrs Grow fiona now? I never as a way; well-paid pipers who cal having spring or atriuma esilee, Daves continue serenely on their

lecture to the Teshion Group, their own fused,

year.

last But I made it intact, I want Development of the Out you to know, I actually walked Lalands is going on at a rapid away from the finish. And my pace. Investors from England, time

was 58 seconds for the Canada and the United States run. Which is only four seconds are buying beach and Island behind young Churchill. And, dammit, he's practising on the Cresta he was 11.

property at record high prices. been Some bulld luxury fishing camps since}

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Remembering what hap pened to the Mona Lisa, I'd watch that enigmatic. amile it were you, darling?").

and guest houses; tourist accom- modation has always been in demand in

Out falands. Other build private homes. Bahamian real estate is

investment for Britons.

me no death duties in the Colony. On that account prices are far in excesa_ot.normal land : values.

Norman's Cay, 50 miles from Nassau, 01⁄2 miles long and not as wide, with a good harbour and five miles of beach is being offered for sale at £60,000,

No water

The danger in Nassau is shortage of water. The Govern ment tries to regulate the con- sumption to some extent by charging higher rates for the more water used..

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are other problema too, The public survices have not been able to keep up with the

zapid growth of the Bahamas. Power is sometimes short during tho

height of the tourist season), Telephones are not available for newly built homes. But per- haps a small measure of primi adds to the islands

tive

charm.

H

these undertakings fall to

ans or Americans. Britain

has

had the opportunity to go into the sterling area over the years, But British enterprise has done nothing in the Bahamas except open a branch of Barclays Bank there.

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