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to have been doomed by the revela- tion that the Stabilisation Fund has

deliberately allowed the rate to fall

to a better economic level and will

re-enter the market possibly to-day.

Actually, the Chinese dollar has for some time shown a stability which In the present state of affairs is little short of astounding and in. the un- official markets in both Shanghai and Hongkong has been freely quoted at a premium over the Japanese yen.

For some months after the out-

break of war even the normal rate of 14 pence was held without great difficulty until the Japanese attempts

to force into circulation the notes of their puppet Reserve Bank in North China compelled the Chinese Govern- ment to institute some restriction on exchange. Thereafter, the market quotations for the Chinese dollar steadily slumped to just over eight- pence, but at that point the currency into has been freely convertible foreign exchange.

Exactly what is the state of the Chinese trade balance it is now almost impossible to say. Statistics for the first quarter of 1939 indicate that the adverse balance is some- where between £7,000,000 and £0,000,000, but these figures need not

be taken too seriously, for so much trade now passes through channels which scarcely fall within the pur-

elew of the statistician.

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NY day Stalin's two children can be seen rushing helter-skelter through the Kremlin gates on their way to school.

The Tartar towers look down on them, but the children do not bother to return their stare. The barbaric beauty of these old towers and all the secrets they could tell are just part of their daily background.

Svetlana, the youngest, is a pretty vivacious little girl, about ten years old, and intelligent Jabove the average. She takes her school work seriously. Be- fore the last quarterly examina- tions she was in bed with a chill. This cost her her place as head of her form. She was disgusted with her luck.

Boy Resembles His Father

--With acknowledgments to Æsop's Favier.

What Stalin's

children

taught at school

are

together on the same sum. One times a caricature is tacked on. was doing the work. The other Apparently this works wonders four were blissfully cribbing. It in maintaining order and a rea- was supposed to be bad for their sonable amount of discipline. Her brother Vassily, about character to work separately. At In 1930, 1932, and again this five years her senior, has his that time most of the schools year 1 looked over hundreds of father's great shaggy eyebrows, were one long glorious non-stop essays written by children in So far he has shown no particu-political demonstration.

schools widely scattered all over lar ability.

These days are over. The the Soviet Union.

|kens's "David Copperfield," of holidays in the country, of ad- venture stories with animals, of the tales of Jules Verne.

now

There is no summarising the endless variety of books finding their way into the school libraries. I asked some of the younger children their favourite English authors. "Dickena and Rudyard Kipling," they said.

When Russians want to start anything new they find or invent a story to illustrate the iden. Every Russian schoolchild knows by heart a legend that has been

Bol- circulated about Kirov, shevik leader of Leningrad. He was assassinated fifteen months ago. Before his death he did a great deal of work for education, so he has since been made a kind of patron saint of schoolchildren.

The story goes that when a child at school Kirov was asked

It is prophesied that when he Russian classroom is now a place. Formerly there was a deadly by his playmates to allow them leaves school he will fade into where serious individual-tuition monotony about the content to crib from him. He refused the background and do a modest is given on much the same lines matter. What you read in MOB-to do it, but instead this worthy job somewhere or other, as his as in any well run older brother now does,

British cow you re-read in Tiflis, little boy helped them to do the Much secondary school.

Kharkov, and Baku. The Five-work for themselves. Framel There are regular examinu-Year Plan, collectivisation in in large letters across Russian Nothing in all Russia can tell tions. Rewards are given for agriculture, the might of the schoolrooms is the moral of the you more about the kind of so- specially good work. Ways are Red Army, the sins of the kulaks tale: "I shall not allow you to ciety that is being built there found of making troublesome it was always the same bald copy, but I will help you." than to follow those children to children feel disgraced.

reproduction of current political events. school.

Story With

more is expected from Svetlana.

Classmates'

There is nothing in the build- ing and equipment of the school Black-List

Well-Stocked Libraries

A MoralTM

they attend to distinguish it

There is no evidence that this. A favourite device is to ask from a hundred others. It is their classmates to black-list

story is true, and no particular Now every essay begins to reason why it should be. It be- bright and airy, has up-to-date them. This usually means stick- have its own individual flavour. longs to the same species science laboratories and an ex-ing their names up on a promi- They are writing about Chekhov, "Bruce and the Spider" cellent gymnasium.

nent part of the wall. Some- Pushkin, and Tolstoy: of Dic-"George Washington never told

His Meals

In the middle of the day a hot meal is served to all the pupils. Those whose parents can afford it pay a little for this service, the poorer children receive the meal free. There is nothing unusual in that. You will find the same sort of thing in every new Soviet school.

But where this one scores is; in having as its principal one of Russia's wisest old teachers-a man more than sixty years old, but still vigorous,

The sterling resources. Stabilisation Fund have bren provided by the 1wo Chinese Government banks and two long- kong British banks, the establish. ment of the fund being made possible by the Indispensable Anancial guarantee of the British Government. To lend its credit in this way is, Indeed, the very least that the Government could do, British financial interests in China far outweigh those of any other Power,

Indeed those

other of all

He has seen and survived countries together. Though Britain's much. What he had to say trade with China is only a small

about education was so sensible proportion of the motherland's total

that I wondered how he had trade, it is by no means insignificant -the total was £10,491,000 last year fared during the earlier revolu- and £14,101,000 in 1937 before the tionary years. I ventured country was ravaged by Japan. And ask him. His oyes twinkled. In the aggregate British capital in China

certainly

£200 exceeds

and

milllors and may be £300 millions.

China, therefore, is almost a mem» ber of the sterling bloc; and any threat to the Chinese dollar from the establishment of the yuan can now have little importance. The Japan- ese can have no legitimate cause for complaint. One could wish that the opposite were true. Not merely our own interests, but common decency also demand that Britain should con- tinue to support China' against the wanton and brutal aggression of Japan. Financial ald should not be ollowed to rest until Britain has done Ithuller most to help: China "defend- `herself (and. Incidentally our own

Interests) against "the menace. Japanese domination.

of

In His Pupils' Interests

to

As a good Bolshevik, he said, he had made some show of out- wardly conforming to each pass- ing experiment in turn.

But as

a responsible educationist,ho added, he had stuck as much as he dared to the methods whith he knew to be, in the best in- terests of his pupils.

I recalled how, in 1932, I watched five small boys working

a lic."

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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Co.

|| Cepc. 1739 37 Valid Praten Ryačkain, kas,

"What with all my charity luncheons and teas, I just managed to exist through last winter."

能好

and

It serves its purpose. It underlines for the Russian child the Government's present atti- tude towards education. He must learn to do individual work, not depend on some one else do- ing it for him.

Stalin has most pronounced views on education. He is the terror of his more romantic col- leagues. He has made a cleśn aweep of all the fantastic theories that were crippling the schools a few years ago. He in- sists on matter and methods that are thoroughly practical. Ho wants the younger generation, that will enable them later in life to handle high power modern machinery with a technical effi- ciency sndly, lacking among their- elders.

Parents Are

Puzzled

→

arc

In this the children aro his. ardent supporters. They crazy about model airplanes and engines and love playing about: with chemical and electrical ap- paratus. Many of their parents look on, bewildered by the things: their children know,

Stalin has declared war on technical Inofficiency. It Is In the schoolroom that he expects Ito have his greatest victories.