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Brains on the

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1958.

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DEE WELLS

WE SEND A MAN TO MOSCOW — BUT SHE had taken some finding,

IS THE THE RIGHT

AFTER a decade of

ONE?

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

them visit

new

every

sphere of

foot-dragging delay the Government has at last decided to instal a scientist at the British

in. the massive Soviel West Embassy in Moscow. Pavilion at the Brussels Fair as endeavour,

I did last week-end,

The only way to get news of His main job will be to

There they will see brilliant them quickly is to have a repurt back on all the in-

{{sus in agricultural, permanent team of top tech- genious Russian ideas and electrical, and mining machinery, nicians in Russia. If a team la inventions from which They will

evidence at impossible for poilient reasons British industry could astonishing progress in tele and we must be restricted to

vision, electronics, aircraft, one scientifle attache, then benefit.

alomie posvet-in every field in say he must be a man of out- in which Britain must continue 15 standing abilly. Soviet The

Burge Beience and engineering is export or die. so tremendous that a front- rank Russian-speaking scien tist with outstanding drive and enthusiasm is needed for this post.

Yet I can reveal that the Government has decided to make it a low-level Civil Ser- vice appointment-which is not only national folly but insulting to the Russians.

'Insulting'

In turmoil

proud to show off their successes.

It is wrong to restrict this past to the Civil Service, considering the difficulty of finding a top quality man who can siso speak Rusia.

Most of these are not secret

The Government should offer malters on which the Russians have

ever clamped a security big pay for the post-at the Indeed, the Soviet expense of some of its Unesco screen.

necessary to scientists are almost childishly contributions if

attract a scientist worthy of this great chance and responsibility

One mun immediately comes Goodlet, who tu mind-Brian first thought up the Calder Hall atom power plant, who was born in Russia, speaks the language, Intellectually und technically and is now chief engineer for a

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turmott, L

us big electrical concern, in the hey-days was

But because of geographieu!, Anancial, and language barriers, precious years pass before Bri- tish Industries can normally hear about them.

Russia Briti

Let me expone the pedestrian of the industrial Revolution. do not know that he would Whitehall attitude to this

ap- The laboratories and factorien accept the job,

But it is a man

pointment while there is stul time for public opinion to change are bursting with ideas born of of his calibre who should be Russia sent to represent British science a frenzied belief that must catch up and surpass the in the Land of the Sputniks,

Officials have stipulated that the post will be open only lo Principal Scientifle Onleers,

This sounds grand, but in fact the grade of Principal Selentine Omer is only the third rung from the button in the seven- JUDK ladder of the scientific Civil Service.

It carries a salary of £20 10 £40 a week-a pllance for the type af talent the responsibili- ties of the post demand.

ROUND-UP

Thrill Killer Leopold Is Happy Now

New York.

FTER 23 years in prison Nathan Leopold, "Thrill Killer" of the A twenties who was paroled and freed last month, has found happiness and a home-though the home is more solitary, drab, and enlourless than anything he endured in gool.

but now the Baltica loomed up, on the starboard side of my taxi, in her berth at the Surrey, Docks.

She looked like any cruise ship anywhere--except for the Red Flag. the 15 ft. hammer and sickle on her funnel, and strange Russian lettering on the prow

What was I doing in Dockland at seven in the morning? It had all with a nowapaper story started about the Baltica ploneering a new tourist route between London and

With five Leningrad. classes! One-way to Lonin- grad ranging in price from 45 luxury class to £17 tourist.

I had always wanted to visit Russia. This Baltica looked like the ship for me.

I chose Second Clasa be- cause I'm no good at

lonesome luxury isolated, and thought it might net me a Russian cabin-mate, Little. as we say, did I know.

A one-way ticket coat visa To get s about £26.

become ↑ semi. I'd permanent haunt at the Russian consulate.

ARROWS

Now, at the gangplank,

a Russian officer O.K.d my hard-won blurry vian, poc- keted my passport, anci waved me aboard.

With all those classes to sort out. the corridors were alive with coloured BITOWE. First Class that way, Second, this, Third t'other. No arrows for De Luxe Or Tourist Class, Former presumably led by hand, latter to fend trouve qut puk.

my cabin door, decision is made more This monstrous by the fact that the

zeindfie attache in Washing- ton is two grades higher.

because

He lives in a single, poorly-furnished room. In a shabby hut in Castaner, Puerto Rico,

enncerts,

THAS in America, where His convict quarters were as comfortable, his food was much

irm agreements better. There was a library, games room, symphony almost everything technical is

radio and television.. handed to the British on a plate, the Government's selen- fine attache is a Deputy Chief Schnite Officer rating UD to

100 week.

In Castaner there is practically nothing. It is a remote, rain- seaked village at the end of a rough mountain road,

"But I'm free, I'm happy." says Leopold.

But in Russia, where the Each day he walks across a dusty yard to the laboratory where Last information will have to be he works at the 30-bed Church of the Brethren hospital, farted out and where there is week he received his first month's pay cheque £3 10s. the extra barrier of language, a third-rater will do.

Parole officers will visit Leopold every three months for the rest of his Be-permanent reminders of that day in 1924 when 1f anyone doubts that, we have he and his friend Richard Lae murdered 14-year-old Bobby much to learn from Russia, let] Franks for the thrill"

With MOYA REA

at the piano

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liner where the toast is presents an American's view of a Sputniks, the Soviet people, the British people, ALL the people

I grabbed Ivan and then we tangoed off to Leningrad-

nerves.

We made the precarious, high-minded Summit took sále au muon-level and dune.

Ivan's taste was a feast. The officers and sat down to open sandwiches of heaped, treah caviar, mounds of egg salad, and thin-sliced smoked salmon,

The inescapable vodka was in one glass, and several sweet Russian wines were on hand to At the rest of the platoon of glasses before each place.

They were delightful hosts. We toasted cach other, We toasted the tourist trade, peace, Spatulks, the American peopic, the Russian people, the British peuple, all people. With that knock of reat charmers, they made you certain they bad nothing. but nothing, more Urgent

40 fascinating to CUCT.

Dr

LOVELY

"Merel," I said, "pour the lovely treat."

Wo

But I started to ga co-exist not by caviar alone. There, across the, room, WIE another long, table set with liny blue and gvid coffee cups, El and enamel spooRS

and another platoon of glasses,

Down we all sat ngain, and ran through the world's popula tion once more. This time in smooth Russian brandy.

snw

The purser invited me to tour the ship next day I everything, but proved only two things. The Baltica hay un

do

not

While I was moving my looth- been badly wounded during the After dinner we mingled in a engine roon und I brush over to make room for his war, so had taken to bar-tending fairly homogeneous muss in the unterstand automatic direction

he had one-in he because It was easier on the lounge. The beaming stewardess, in in case black uniform, white apron came.

"Still cheerful and one-work, Ilked Leon. He recognised and frilly cap of purest Stately

H: Home stage-set design, opened not to say one-cabin, 1 managed Hunger. He knew Life,

another bright "Good morning. knew English

Polse

As chocolate bars do, the was not his longest Determined to be cheerful tac,

suit, Some Russian saying chocolate bar wore off. At 12.30

He I was leoning bis throat. strangled in

agalast the room'a grabbed its bag.frora_berih, dining..

glass door, coat from hook, pulled open hoping a passing waitress would the door, and was gone. All slip me a crust of black bread, half-English. He was de Lenin- theirs somewhat sparse.

None did. Russians are very eye defying

I smiled and said, "Good morn- ing. Do you speak English?'* "Da," she said proudly. Frilly cap all abob with the uncon vineing affirmative nod,

That question cleared up, we got down to sign language.

"Room-mates?" t pointed to

the three other berths.

"DA."

"Russian?"

"Da."

She showed me the bell fo ring in case I got conversational again, and went out.

A PROWL

Like cats in strange houses. I must do a prowl of new quarters and feel everything. 1 bekasi on the inch-deep red plush cur- leather covered sofa, alns, wooden lamp, water taps, water blankets, gloss, coat hangers, towels, the lot.

sec

Then did I

the coat, hanging on the door, drab and "Poor

Russian "Such

shapelers. women," clothes.

I thought.

No owner about. Shamelessly, I felt it. I smelled it. And then

I know. But, scientific always.

I looked at the shoulders. I was right, it was a man's coal. Ah, Russia.

diferent.

be

In

üe. one

movement

I SHRUGGED

I

shrugged ir

my

rule-conscious,

finders, radar, or turbo-electric There's nothing

n noildly systems any better in Russian middle-aged ship's officer can than I do fn basic English.

Third day out, every one was tell you that a young, hand-

than ever. As I'd some one can't, I singled out chummler Ivan and moved in for the been fango-fastod, I was now-as the "Amerikanski"-put through kili.

the hoops for laughter-ability at Sputnik Jokes, America's senso of humour came through O.K. but when I retaliated I found

"Amorien's the

a

по

I CHATTED We chatted away in a do-- yourself version of half-French,

hod efall and

good at No crusts given, grad

He lked to Sputniks, agreed. But Russia's University there. and I was about to find out- no quarter

no good at naming boats." given anyone who danser. Would I?

Blank looks. I laid it on the I would. And we didn't just new smoked in the dining room. fatalistic Russian way, and got A raw seagull would have plain dance, we tangoed! Ivan line.

for in instance, "This one, back to examining the cabin. pleased me, but lunch was, in was very good at ft. Miracu-

Once named it when you wasn't she

the Cat prowl over, I went top- fart, excellent. Borsch with lously good at side. Where it not only sounded sour cream, great shabs of black consider I'm not, plus a choppy Molotov?” like a parade, but was acting bread,

with North Sea, mirror-allck

Solemn nods, but no smiles. escalope of veal-

thickly populated with tried once more. like parade.

carrots (carrols are a Russian floor We were under way. Deaten- thing), smooth yellowish cheese, children never go to bed, but are named the Stalin,"

children playing games (Russian "And before that, wasn't she ing Russian marches boomed and a big red apple.

delightful), plus lasting ol from loudspeakers, Dockworkers

vodka. waved. Good-byers waved. Pus

and Russlan salfors sengers waved

MELTED

dance

Į APPEALED Still no emile. I appested. "Don't you see anything the least bit funny about that?"

"No." Next day, land ho?

.The grad

ex-Stalin, Ballica had mado Molotov Danee music stifled, the boom- boom parade score was trotted out again as we docked.

Lenin-

ex-

We made the precarious, high- back. Bonhommerle Everything nicely served by minded Summit look safe as a

sea level sand dune. Tallana, the waitress, but every-

Next morning, I found it takes reigned. Next stop Russia.

Hunger takes over the minute thing suffering from an· un- I set foot in a ship, so I quit budgeable Russlan reluctance more than one open-minded go to embrace the idea of cold the parade to forage for food, tu heat any food more then No food. No lunch till $2.30.

sliced sausage, red cavlar, and slightly. And Cream of I BANGED Bananas, I want the USSR to rice pudding for breakfast.

The caviar part is wonderful. Then I found Leon, the bar know, is not my favourite after It eats well any time. But even man.

first glimpse of Russia "Hungry," I sobbed, and

drogging in the late Leningrad banged my fists

scientist, Pavlov, didn't per- was a sign left over from war- on his shiny.

sunde Tatiana of my con- time convey days. mahogany bar.

ditioned reflex to rice pudding. Light-footed as ever, Ivan sprang up from nowhere out on

"Oa." he said

"Da, schmu. Hungry."

He shed me out p Russian

good), chocolate bar (very

lunch drink.

Back in my cabin, I unpacked, No more room-mates turned up. I had the four berths and 16 towels to myself.

Russian Always got to

The Slavle soul, however, is not so romantic as advertised.

usian cigarette (very strong), and we got to talking.

Ile had, it seemed, been tawyer in Stalingrad, but had

5

Soa air melled British tourists' silcky rescrve and prickly deck.

"Voulez vous enmo this après- non partielpailan. wome and children mit pour a taste of food and crept out from cloistered cabins drink with the ship's officers?" and people spoke to each other.

Russian

**Du."

My

GO VERY SLOW it read. After the cement-cloud effect of my joke, this seemed as good advice as any,

I went VERY SLOW down the gangplank, into Leningrad.

Ex-Petrograd. Ex-St Petersburg,

PROGRAMME,

O Tu Palermo (1 Vespri Siclitant}

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Tu Sul Labbro De Veggenil (Nabucco)

Gluseppe Verdi (1913-1981)

O Du Mein Holder Abendstern (Tonnhauser)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Now For Vengeance (Figaro)

Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791)

When A Malden Takes Your Fancy (1 Seraglio)

Wolfgang Mozart (1750-1791)

Cont Song (La Boheme)

Glucano Puccini (1868-1924) King Marke's Address, Pts. I, II, III (Tristan Und Isolde)

filchard Wagner (1813-1883) Tatest Du's Wirklich (Part I) (last thou preserved them)

Woru die Dienste Ohne Zahl (Part 1) (What hast thou noble service donu) Nun Da Durch Solchen Besitz (Part III) (Now that so gracious a gift)

— INTERVAL ----

Song of The Fles Call of The Sea Welcome Home Father O'Flynn Myself When Young Arran Homing Song Tungt

Pokarekareuna

Moussorgsky Trevor Stanford Harold Roma

Charles Villiers Stanford Liza Lehmann Harold Noble Alfred Hill Piripate

A group of West Indian Songs arranged by MAX SAUNDERS

The Lord's Prayer

Death Oh Me Lawd

The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy Mercy Pourin' Down

Murder In The Market

Ogoun Belele

Time For Man Go Homo

Papa Didn't Know.

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