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WENTY YEARS and traditions which make up this year was short of

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now elapsed the essential English character. quantity planned, on the ON the other hand, no fever than sixteen cavalry divi- "It is astonishing," said that seemed to him much more seri- sions are maintained, and at the since Lenin, that

sympathetic. student of English ous, there was a great falling manoeuvres huge masses of rare combination of a affairs. "with what docility off in quality.

horsemen have been thrown into rigorous ideologist with a masses of Englishmen, supposed

tank-dominated areas. "In ruthless man of action, in- to be jealous of their personal

peace," says Captain' Liddell augurated the Russian liberty, will obey a revolutionary THE Russian is not mechanical Hart, "it looks like a colossal junta which taxes and commanda minded; he lacks that age circus; in war It would probably experiment in practical them

and decrees when they long tradition which makes the mean a huge cemetery." Evi Communism. Has it proved shall starve and when they shall English craftsman the most dently the ancient Mongolian successful in improving the fight."

capable in the world. He does confidence in mounted forces not know how to run and care survives as an obsession. Again, lot of the Russian people?

for a complicated machine. Agri- in all the totalitarian States mass Are they better off than THERE is now in being a re- cultural machinery is misused, is cultivated without reference they were under the Tsarist

volt not only against the con- and cannot be repaired when it to mobility. Thus, when Musso- regime? A few years ago trollers of Trade Unions but also breaks down. It is very doubt lini boasts of Italy's "forest" of of the ful whether collectivisation has eight million bayonets, he does every Socialist in this against the leadership

Labour Party. The danger of increased agricultural produc- not consider how much of it country would have answer this up-from-under movement tion as yet. It had not done so could be made as mobile as the ed these questions with an can only be gauged by those in 1934, when the creation of Wood of Birnam in "Macbeth." Stubbs Rd. emphatic affirmative. To- who, like myself, make a State farms out of 61.5 per cent. Marshal Saxo, that Eighteenth day, you get an occasional systematle study of street-poll- of peasant holdings had led to Century master of warfare, said was sur- tics. (I have listened to over one fall of 9.8 per cent. in agricul- that "multitudes only serve to negative, and I

hundred of these street-corner tural products and a decrease in perplex and embarrass;" like prised when 2

speeches in the London district cattle of 38.7. per cent. A new Sherman, later on, he saw that leader, asked to enlighten during the last two years. It interpretation of the old Latin mobility fixed a limit to the on me as to the economic con- was the late Richard Seddon, the epigram: latifundia perdidere economic size of an army.. thedition of Russia at the New Zealand Premier, a fellow- Italiam! A heavy penalty has Esteralda Silva e Sam Lazaro, present moment, replied Lancastrian, and a pattern of been paid for the liquidation" of

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of scapegoats as the 10,000,000. But Tukhachevski

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1937.

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wife of Mr. B. Sam Lazaro of Taken as damned." Mane democratic common sense, who the Kulaks, most of whom were PELIANCE on mass is another Shanghai. Funeral will pass the of the younger Socialists "keeping

pressed on me the importance of thrifty, hard-working, intelligent

Russian obsession dating. ear to the peasants who had made a suc- from the far past. It is said are shocked at the sight of ground," if one wishes to anti- cess of their small holdings. The that the Red war-chiefs would the Russian revolutions cipate pivotal changes in public Soviet Government dare not be mobilise 6,000,000 men at a fort- continuing to devour its opinion.) The only convincing held responsible for all these night's notice, and that in a year children, including some of reply to those who maintain the failures.

Hence the continual the trained reserves would reach

Lenin himself, whose por- ditions there since the failure of ders.

mass mur- (recently liquidated) in his 1935 traits are everywhere rever the Five Years' Plan.

report, uttered a warning that, even in internal operations, it ed as ikons.

THE Army seems to be the one does not do to count on the rapid POPPY DAY APPEAL

Now that the manual worker

has not the benefit of a re- Russia. New and old ideas are Trans-Siberian railway and the fairly efficient organisation in of troops. The doubling of the transfer of considerable masses. It is an incredible and FOR all that the street-corner “RICORDI” “CARL FISCHER" shameful fact that a consider as a model for initation, afsaries even for him are forced make-up and methods.

orator still holds up Russia gulated market, prices of neces- strangely intermingled in its accumulation of supplies on the able proportion of the English-ing his faith in the "dictatorship sky-high by the foreign export certainly very strong in tanks spot have helped to make the of the proletariat" resound- policy which sells them at cur- and air-borne units. There are comparatively small Far Eastern speaking population of the ing phrase as gratifying to his the needs of the people at home. pilots, and more than half a mil- sufficient. It has been said that

rent prices abroad and ignores many thousands of acroplane though by no

Army much more efficient, British Empire is actually in hearers as the "blessed word Owing to this policy, famines lion skilled parachute-jumpers. a tin-opener is as necessary to means self- ignorance of the purpose of the Mesopotamia" was to the old have occurred where there has They could be used for what is its rank-and-file as a rifle. Very Poppy Day Fund. A greater he asks for the blessing of his of Trade Unions, I find, are al- which

lady in the anecdote. Always been no crop failure. Members called the "parachute-stroke," of low mobility, as the result of proportion has only the vaguest audience on the attempt to create ways deeply interested in the during last year's manoeuvres, aged railways, the world's worst,

an example was sort of notion of the aim of the a similar tyranny in Spain at frenzied efforts to increase pro- when a force of 1,200 men with and the lack of good roads, given poorly-equipped and badly man- organisers. It might shock any cost in blood and treasure. duction. Especially in the great 160 machine-guns and 18 light would prevent the utilisation in Hongkong people to know that Spain would be the next scene of doned, which was started when in aerial troopers and dropped proportion of the cannon-fodder Ever since Lenin declared that Stakhonov stunt, retently aban- field-guns were carried 100 miles war-time of more than a small numbers old enough to remem-a "social revolution" the Komin a miner of that name hewed out on an ber the Great War, who quite tern, with the help of the Soviet 102 tons of coal in a single shift. enemy's front. Within eight 170,000,000. And industrial in- aerodrome behind the provided by a population of over well recall the terrors they up trouble there. That such troduced led to capable workers parachutes the force had assem- ble to bring the supply of muni- Government, has been stirring The piece-work system then in- minutes of the release of the capacity would render it impossi experienced when air and sea appeals are effective, despite the being paid from 6 to 40 times as bled and was ready to go into tions up to the standard required raids worried Great Britain, and contrary teaching of T.U.C. re- much when they had to go without presentatives, justifies George brethren, Always it has proved the back would be more effective good the wastage of war-like their less efficient action. Probably such a blow in in modern warfare or to make. Santayana's doubt as to whether impossible to keep up sugar and butter and such neces- the working men of the towns planned production. They only French observers, who know lay. Russian factorice could not. to the psychologically than physically, mechanisms, without undue de- sities, have quite forgotten that any longer have the instincts the other day Mezhlauk, Com- what they are talking about, change at once to munition-mak army of veterans for which the

missar for Heavy Industry, ad- speak highly of the skill and ing as ours did in the War. post-war years have been tack-uneducated men, who are the iron, steel, and sheet-iron pro- but severely criticise the tactical mitted that the quantity of cast- spirit of the Russian air forces, ing in everything which sup responsibility of the Poppy Day duced in the first five months of handling of them. posedly constitutes happiness. Fund. It is these men on whose These veterans came out of behalf Earl Haig appealed for France and Flanders, Mesopo-an Empire's sympathetic remem- tamia and Egypt, out of African

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THE combination of liberty and legality, which we call free- dom, does not exist in Russia; the components are lacking. The authority of the State is ab- solute, even more so than in the Fascist countries, and the in-. dividual has no rights whatso-

every battle front. Some of The British Legion, which them were fever-ridden, crippled, administers large sums for the PRODUCING a play can yield much porridge and one of milk, cuch spoon- ever. The cambrous and ill- doomed to a state of semi-re-establishment of War veterans instructive amusement, although ful of porridge being dipped in the advised Soviet machine is work-. the entertaining side of it is rarely invalidism for the rest of their and which does splendid year-realised until the play has been method of supping porridge is still labour, and the amazing specta I learned subsequently that this ed by what is practically slave days. Others were without

round work in collecting funds satisfactorily performed and all. the used in various parts of Scotland.

cle has recently been seen of limbs, or without the blessedness for its work, finds the number worry and anxiety is over.

If there is one thing more than an- crowds of factory workers wait- other that gets on a producer's nerves! of sight. Some, either from of old soldiers whose age makes I remember an amusing incident during rehearsals, it is the fidgeting ing and hoping in vain to be dis-

their lot doubly hard in the Shakespearean

that occurrsi onec int п wounds or poison gas,

school of those players who are not speaking missed. There is no definite evi- production. Some or in action at the moment. This is dence, however, for believing: permanently weakened so that

labour market; increasing mischievous lads had put their heads a very difficult nervous habit to curb. that the era of disillusionment |together, and at the conclusion of the One famous producer found it so they could never hope to do the

responsibility. Thousands of performance they called loudly for Intolerable that he introduced wooden has set in. Visits of investiga-

"Author! Author!" They had work the world expects of a man men of this type, and

their

rec- tubs for his actors to stand in while tion to the "capitalistic coun- koned without the wily producer, rehearsing, so that they could not tries" are strictly forbidden, and who seeks to earn a living.

depondants, have been helped who got wind of the plan. He move restlessly about. back to happiness and indepen- the guise of the bard, and in a neat

answered

these humorous calls in

the masses can still be persunded That was twenty years ago. dence by means of the Poppy speech thanked

The funniest thing in producing a that they are better off in every them for the en-play that I ever heard was a descripe way than the inhabitants of Many of these battered men have Day Fund and similar contributi reception they had given than from a relative in the USA, of England and France, which are overcome their afflictions, have tions.. It is interesting to nole

a performance of "Rob Roy" out During a performance of Shakes there, iven by a group of enthusins-supposed to have reached the. fought another sort of battle that among ex-officers alone the peare's "Julius Caesar" I achievede amateurs,

last stage of social disintegra- Several ren! Scots in the audience tion. than they experienced

unexpected distinction by appearing in Legion. has assisted 7,708 menos Mark Antony wearing wrist had almost to be carried out help- ilckled the audience. But gregor confronted the English

world

uniform, but none the less grim. to positions in Great Britain Rome

watch. A wrist-watch in unclentless with laughter when Helen Mac-

el

It was a life-or-death struggle since 1925, and has contributed from the moment I noticed the error soldiers with a peremptory order to would seem that Stalin, a still. Ill-equipped, many

ruthless realist, is inclined to I mustered dreadful suspense until I "Scrom" 1 should like to have seen of to the education of 4,556 of their could go off the stake and remove the that show very much.

renounce Lenin's doctrino that them have never been able to

As a member of an amateur drama the World Revolution is a pri- offending timepiece, children. reinstate themselves in the social

the society, one learns to work hard, and to work cheerfully, and also dis-ary concern of Soviet Russia. scheme, though they are as fine Legion and all its departments that of a friend of mine, why have seen an old mourning cost of still hopes to

To describe the work of the This experience was outdone by

cover that everything hos Its use, I Yet the youngest generation citizens as their comrades who would require a volume.

appearing as Rob Ray, accidentally

see this ideal Suffice dropped in full view of the audience Rcket for Long John Silver realised, and regards the Red

my father's turned into a passage have won succcaş, Others have it to say that thousands of ex-a packet of a popular brand of

aure. Island," with only the artistle Army as an implement for that died. It is with the thousands soldiers, their widows and child-cigarettes,

Budllion of some gold braid here and very purpose. The former Mil- ren, benefit enormously by the

things emerge Instructive

during there. of old soldiers-many of them generous benevolence

rehearsals on many occasions. While

tary Commander of Moscow, of thehearsal

Then, again, when two giri mem- really old now-who remain country every year. It can be one winter, I can recollect a group of bobbed, our producer seized their dia-Tuklachovski, probably for dan- rehearsing a one-act Jacobite play bers of our company had their hair General Tork (executed with what they were before they safely said that there is no more amateur players getting o surprise carted tresses, which In due course gerous popularity), insisted that. joined the Colours in the War that of the British Legion and of the scenes thunt verridge was not plays when British tars of the old Capitalistic Governments. "If deserving charitable cause than when the producer pointed out in one were turned into pigtails suitable for it would be used to destroy the. 'years, simple, untrained, often its annual Poppy Day.

enten in 1745 as it is to-day. Two days appeared. bowin were the vogue then, one of

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