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Mother's note ends colonel bogey

Boldier's mother has changed her opinion of officers after visiting her son in a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot And she has written to tell them 80,

"I can assure you that my vonoral opinion of colonels and majors has completely changed." she wrote.

"I realise now that they are kindly hunian beings like the real of us."*

She thanked the depot HERIT for the visit and said she

found her son happy and contented.

Commenting on ihr jetter, the corpa gazotle maya 1 would be interesting to hear if other depots have received similar letters.

They would show that many other mothers share such experiences after open days at camps and depots.

And this is how JAK sees it

JAK

GUARDROOM

חני לוויה.

A SOLDIER'S

BEST FRIEND

IS HIS MUM.

Attila.

R

ROUND-UP

"PICCADILLY CIRCUS"

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1958.

Doctor Zhivago

Thin Ax the book Russla thought too

meaty for consump tion al home-and banned. It is the first govel of Moscow librarian Boris Pasternak, who lived the Russian through Revaluiton. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in the story of the family mazi, seeking to survive as world shatters around him; bewildered by savage forces that threaten his life. In this extract Zhivago has escaped from the Red parti- sans to seek his wife Lara in Mospew, the nity

hlci p which has become for

memory.

THE group

BY BORIS PASTERNAK

Ruthlessness can shape a man's

world... but there are times when

even the hardest must bare his soul even

in an orgy of self-condemnation

difficult

Thon, says Pasternak, in the last paragraph of his main narrative:---

ONE

NE day Lara went out and not come back. Sho must have been arrested in the street.

This

50 often happened in those days, and she ded vanished Bomewhere, for

gotten.

An epilogue

ог

Pasternak contributes an epilogue to his hovel. Ho pictures two of Zhivago's I was to be Ho nearly starves in People shouted to him that oldest friends, five or. 10 in front of the building was joined were uncovered. by an emaciated, wild-looking man, black up charged on named "empty and dilapidated" the window was blocked, It was years after World War II,

his faintness and fighting oft with dirt, with a birch-bark satchel on a stick to guess the outcome. I wasn't Moscow recovering from nailed in position, but Yurs. on a quiet summer even

I thought there might the aftermath of the Revo seized by a sort of pante, guity.

ing in Moscow." WOS of defending myself lution. He has trouble with still trying to open the window THEY were turning the pages over his shoulder.

and clearing my good name of his heart. On the way to and again guve three sharp tugs Tet

book of Yury's some time in the future.

his new job at a hospital of the strap, when he suddenly writings, a book they had read decided to diseppent.... he catches a tram.

fell a new and mortal pain: more than once and know he understood that իր bud almost by heart. done pomtiling irreparable and that this was the end

This was Doctor Yury Zhivago. His fur must have been taken from him on the road, perhaps he had bartered it for food. His thin, tattered short-sleeved jacket was certainly result of an exchange.

be a hope

Sb I

coat

or

the

"I am so well known here, I

no luck with thought it was the last place HE had

Now tram; they'd expect to find me.

it had a defective that's finished. They've got motor tid kept getting

Into

his

trouble.

Strelnikov suddenly switched

in

D

the Whites, who Was und a Lara's husband.

to the Revolution.

"None of this can meas anything to you.

You wouldn't

Ait be ha! left ΣΠ his Strelnikov, a Red Army

was the remnant

uf general in the war against

satchel

# crust of bread which some-

101

given near the town villige piece of park fal

1x carlier, but I had tuken h

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All

floking dots, maisonettes and shops some six-storeys high the fats and maisonettes will have rivettic four heating. Every block will be served by fugit-speval 1fts. The printing school will consist of a four-storey workshop black at a 13-floor teaching block. O ter root will be an area for quilty photography. Eumater cast of the conversion is over £5,000,000,

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PECAUSE they have had difficulty in dading suitable snow słoproe Get marty, the second Tactical Air Force Ski Association is in establish its centre at Val D'sere, 0,000-ft. up in the French All Skiing pulidays at £25 a head are offered to service:ten an their families.

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for understand it. You grew up was There hud reached Yurystin THEY had been talking

hours. Apurt

differently. the quite from nervous talkativeness he shared the world of the suburbs, of the and the alums Tan hour to trudge from the outs with everyone, Strelnikov had railways, ot

Dirt, hunger, over- skirts 10

corner this

some other reason for talking tenements. Merchant Street, so great was ceaselessly. his weakness and so much had the at fw days of the journey exhausteri hien.

crowding.

on and on, deing "And there was the work of keep the mothers darlings, of smart possible to

he students and rich going

He went

the conversation

everything

merchants'

For almost half his journey on wanted to avoid being alone, sons, the world of impunity, of fort across Siberia he had fol- Whalever It WILM he was brazen, insulent vice. lowed the railway track, all of evidently keeping to himself

burdened him,

it out of action," neglected and some iniportant secret which covered with snow. Train after train, abandoned by the Whites, stood idle. Some of them served as fortresses for armed bands of rubber-but most of them were mortuaries, enass communal graves of the victims of the cold and of typhus.

In those days It was true, if ever, that "man is a wolf to Traveller turned off the man" toad at the sight of traveller stranger meeLng stranger killed for tear of belug killed.

uf There were isolated cases cannibalism. The laws of İLAL

Civilisation

suspended.

A secret

were

Dr Zhivago learns that while he has been

prisoner of the Red parti sans, his wife and family have returned from the Siberian hide-out to Moa- cow. He rejoins Lara, and the Sherwood Foresters to rally they live together in the to the defence of thric Then, hide-out until a chance of "Derby XIX." "Our moscot bas never retreated from a porade," escape is offered. Zhivago sald an offer. "In fact, the only makes Lara take it, but time he ever bolted was from insists himself on staying. a meadow to watch a parade.

He is surprised there by You can't be more eɛnscientious

another man on the run~~~~ than that."

It was the disease, the revour

of the age; 1lonury madness that in his heart everyone was utterly' different from is words and the outward appearance he assumed. No one had a clear cunscience.

★ *

The slightest pretext wut enough to launch the imagina- tion on

of self an orgy torture, People siondered and

not accused themselves, out of terror bul of their will, from a morbidly destruc- tive impulse.

only

מטל

"I'm mad. They'll arrest me, and they won't let me say word in my own defence.

at CUELLO

with They'll shouts and curses and gag zue. Don't I mow how it's done."

★ ★

mo

At long last, Yurv had a kood night's sleep. Strelnikov stayed! the night; Yury had put him in the next room.

He woke up late, with a headache from having slept to long. At first he couldn't think who or where he was.

get dressed. He must be up by

a

Moscow now appeared to them 2 tho heroine 瓜 t By un inhuman effort of the long tale

which that will. Yury pushed through the evening, book in hand, they blocked solid crowd down the gangway, were reaching the end." traffic all along the line. swaying and stumbling, provok

The wretched tram

whole

1

street with

W38

the

Although the enlightenment ing snarls, urses, and kicks. He The

other paid no attention to them, tore and liberation which had been dommed.

himself free of the crowd, expected to come after the war still others trbins, au!

kept klubing

Tas Cilmbed down into the roadway, had not come with victory, a the queue. sengers moved from the back took a step, another, a third, feli presage of freedom was in the the front of the queue, down on the cobbies, and did air throughout these post-war

years, and i not get up again. hoping to gain time, and got into the very car which was the case of all the trouble,

Yury felt sick and faint. got up and jerked the window raps up and down trying to open the window. But he could not move it

Но

A funeral

And what of Lara? She Moscow in reappeared in time for Yury's funeral.

Dynasoar

Wan their only historieni meaning.

"DOCTOR ZHIYAQO" | published by Collins and Haryll Press at 218. Translation by MAX Hayward and Manya Harari.

THE END

The Earth's

First Space Ship?

By PETER WOON

Then he remembered: "Streini-TWO HUNDRED US. scientists and engineers are working in Seattle kov's in there. It's hate. I must on the world's first piloted space craft — the Dyna-soar. It should fly within five years, and will bộthe most vital stride yet towards the moonship of tomorrow.

As a soldier of rank who had now. often presided al military courts,

have

Strelnikov must

confessons

He 11

head in a

the kitchen range,

Recently I learned some of the secrets of this project from the heard and read any number of picked up a bucket and went to condemned men. Now he was

and depositions by the well. A few yards from man behind it, a young visionary in a crewcut called Harry Goldie.

the door, Strelnikov lay across himselt seized by the

path with his pulse the

He had shot big- to unmask himself, to re- snowdrift

self. Drops of blood which had his whole life. to oppraise draw up a balance sheet, while spurted away and rolled in the like leed made beads monstrously distorting every- thing in his excitement.

rowun berries.

jumping confession.

Στοπ

confession

to

snow

His appointment is tech- nical manager of Dyna-soar the Weapons System for Boeing Airplane Company.

mest

advanced

4

And not merely QA satollito passenger, but If passible as a true fler,

The Seattle team are sure it

can be done, and the US, Air

say

At 32 he has the job of Forco and National Association Fir apoke incoherently. A panic

ensuring that the Dyna-soar, for Space and Aeronautics are

excit right behind them. They most

it has to be done. log Space-Age plan in ihe Yury Zhivago finally

Goldie, a fust provocative puts on makes his way to Moscow, into

talker, told me: The guy up outer space

#front in the Dyna-sour Is not most of the way on foot. Fussian gets there.

going to get a confortable ride.

other

"I only came to this district uftw months

after my ago,

further hide-outs

cast

"Sovon. plx, fivo, four, throd, two

L.S

American

before

man

Kicked on

"A tremendously powerful cluster of boost rockets will trick him off so fast he will scarcel be able to breathe,

"Once out in orbit he will glide round the earth 500 miles up at 18,000 miles an hour ilke a ball on the end of plece of airing.

Light and dark will be confused, and there will be no Impression of time, and 10 noles Just 4 deadly alience.

He will see things men have before, perhaps

Today they are undergoing endurance tests and high-speed fight training. Tomorrow their ves will be in Goldie's hands. The name Dyna-scar is a contraction of the dynamics" of aerodynamic flight,- and "'roaring."

Bocing, led up with a strong group of other companies, has wen a valuable first-stage cóm- tract for the project, So has another group led by the Martin and Bell aircraft firms.

Soon the US. Government will choose the final Dyna-soar consortium and prepare to pay out more than £100 million.

Alm is to learn all about manned hypersonic Night In orbit, and to explore its im mense military potential. The technique to be used la known 31.5 boost-glide. The initial impetus comes in the rat five minutes from the rockets. Then the rocket clus- Dyna-soar ter fails away and glides.

Final shape of the vehide is unresolved, but Goldie saki it would need a blunt hose and might be delta-chape

and

ara

never

Problems of materials never imagined,

methods of construction "When we call him back colossal. So is the problem of home and his vehicle hits the what to do with the plot. upper atmosphèro the whole Goldie' said: "Is he to be sko w light up round him just guinea pig sitting thero through energy radiation. The making noten und reading temperatura will reach 20,000 funny books, or will he fly the

thing?

degrees.

"He will have to skip off the atmosphere coveral times, like n rock skipping off the surften of hpond to slow down and dia

pate hent. Otherwise, he will Just turn up"

Bald Goldle, smiling thought fully: "I would say there in a good chance of the guy going |nuin,"

Signed on

Two men know this weil, emul have accepted 11. They are America'a fist #pace tries, Witam Becker and Ralph Cokeley, who have been signed on as Dyna-four pilots. Boil are in their early thirties Iminaried, with children.

Hustled on

"Unfortunately our earth satelite programme as shown he will be operating in a very untrimadly atmosphere. But wo nim

to anake sura e la at least one of the forma of con- trol in every phase of flight,"

With the Iussians bellered to be trying something nimi- Tar, Dyna-soar

being hustled through. p Also on offer from Boeing la "leyel wheel-roundh-Mara” project. It is claimed that the wheel" could bo fired off today's rockets to

gircle, the pintiet and Fond back radio alenais.