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DIARY OF A MOSCOW DAY

What is the everyday life of the Russian-in- the-stract like? Does he eat what we do and as much? Can he say what he thinks? How does ho amuse himself? These are some of the questions the London News Chronicle asked a journalist recently returned from the U.S.S.R. In this article he des- cribes a typical working day in Moscow TY breakfast is ham crowded and hustling na ever. 1 desperate and eggs and sour Everyone is in

hurry. milk. You can, of

M

WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING UX-Course, get pasteurised milk delivered at the door, but I prefer it sour. And while

BY chance I get a lift I eat I note that my room

from the editor, who is getting smaller as

my has just received a car for his He has also in- library gets bigger. I have private use. a growing need for that vested in a country cottage, and if he wasn't so busy, could lead extra eight square metres of # very comfortable suburban floor space that the law life. As it is, he works 12 or entitles me to as a writer. more hours a day. But he is in fine fetile just now because he passed with flying colours through all the party purges.

Sold Here HONGKONG

HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.

DEATH

So I send yet another applica- tion to the House Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the Building Co-operative, and write a letter

to

My seven-hour work day goca to the "Pravda" denouncing the fast enough. Here the Preas bureaucrats who are depriving is as routine and hectic as At the same abroad. But since there are no ******** [me of vital space,

time I send a dinner Invitation millionaires or aristocrats and Ivan Ivanovitch, whose not a single Russian capitalist ULDERUP-Suddenly at the Hong-cousin's brother-in-law is secre- or landlord from the Baltic to kong Club this morning, J. P.tary of the Boiler Makers' Union, the Paelic there is no society Ulderup, age 64. Funeral will who are building a new depart pass the Monument at 5 pin.ment house on the Pokrovka. I to-morrow (Thursday).

am not a boiler maker, but I think that there is a chance of getting a boiler maker's room.

The

Thongkong Telegraphı.

Wednesday, December 27, 1939.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE prefix "Sperial to the Telegraphy" Is used by the "Itongkong Telegraph to Indients news which le strielly copyright under the provisions of the_Telecommuni-

bears the indication "UT" is received in

I

Go to office by Metro. own particular My station is in red marble from the Urals and makes one of

news.

There are no football pools, and murders are back-page "fill-

f..

from the ballet) contrives to look exceedingly chic on occasion.

After Schiaparelli, the US. A's ace dress designer, pald them à visit few years ago, they built a special fashion salon with a stage for mannequin parades. At the same time the high price of good clothes is n powerful incentive to raising the productivity of labour, which is still relatively low. Wives CHE on their shockbrigader husbands to ever greater achievements to earn more money to buy them more dresses.

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AND incidentally, con-

trary to expectations, socialism has reaffirmed the sanctity of the home and big families. Divorces are progres- sively expensive. The first one costs 50 roubles. The seventh is a luxury that only popular novelists can afford.

As a result Russia has a large and visibly increasing population. As an American friend put it: "Our train compartment had one Red Army man with a beautiful shaven head (Russians no longer admire beards, they like to be clean shaven all over), one Red sailor, one engineer from Turke stan and the usual pregnant woman."

1

I finally decide to spend my evening at the Park of Culture ers.'

." So Government interpreta-

and Rest. Here, I meet a group tions of the Party Line, "port-

of English tourists who are raits of the leaders," production

listening to an open meeting on statistics, cultural notes and

Nazi-Soviet relations addressed incisive foreign news reports

by Red sailor. There is polite laughter when a from Tass (State news agency)

tall lady in take most of the space.

tweeda asks whether a Soviet Feature display goes to the ex-

A MOSCOW STREET Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi "Everyone is in a desperate Germany means that Russia is cations Ordinance, 1936. Buck news as London's posh tea-houses look ploits of parachute jumpers,

going Nazi. hurry" Hongkong on the date of publication by shabby by comparison. Opposite aviators, Folar expeditions and

distribution

Somewhere around ten-thirty me in the train sits a stout new cities founded in the desert

war, free bread under some rationing scheme I return home. The day ends young woman in a hat. Next to or the taiga. me is a collective farmer with

Story of the day, however, is would have begun in a few years, with a long argument with my his whole family obviously

4 furore in in the revolution 25 years ago enjoying the thrill of under our cub reporter, who has inter- but I doubt if this would create housekeeper who lost her house

viewed ી famous American much more of Over The Frontiers

ground travel for the drst time. movie star (retired) and her Moscow than would the opening and is a staunch opponent of It appears that he got this baby boy husband, and asked: of a new water main in some Stalin. She has never hesitated THE opening weeks of past wars Moscow trip as a prize for good "When were you born?"

to criticise the Party Line, English town. have bem limes of immense public harvesting.

It would be a real sensation Stalin, Housing, the quality of

excitement.. Mad enthusiasm has

though, if the Mostorg Co. State bread or Soviet morals. operatives began selling a line Kripped equle. The glories of war

of good ailk stockings. Recent-

the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and fordia republication,

arrangement,

either wholly or in part without previon

F

His son takes notes of the magnificent stations we Duss and conquest have been sunt by all through. They will make notiens. Intred and passion hate report of the trip when they

return to the farm.

run Good ligh

Not so with this war, upon which

sacrifice.

That calmness,

OFFICE work finished, ly a Scottish tourist sold a pair

trade

expensive.

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WAB

Her grievance tonight is that the new Palace of the Soviets is

Ι attend

of silk socks in Kiev, paid the IN public, of course, she union meeting to discuss wage difference on his tourist rail

is more subdued than the rates. For

evening's ticket and flew back to Moscow among her friends. She Then the girl in the hat amusement I have a choice of by luxury air liner. Air fares singularly uncommunicative _we_are_now.engaging_all_our_forces,throws--the-silver-wrapping-theatres,-a-cafe-supper-and-are about treble the tourist-fare during the Nazi-Trotskyite plots- from which we will not desist until paper of her chocolate bar out dance at the Moskva, or a really for this two-day train trip. and spy scare of 1937, when the the day when the challenge to the of the window into the tunnel. good dinner at the Astoria. A fellow tourist from Lanca- man downstairs was arrested brotherhood of mankind is utterly There is a moment's pained

In Moscow eating is as much a shire is still trying to make up and commissars came and went. defeated..

silence. The train roars on. ritual as in Paris. In fact one his mind whether Russian air But as internal conditions have Here is to be found neither ex- "How uncultured!" says the of my earliest impressions of travel is ridiculously cheap or again settled down she has re- citement, nor vainglory, por haired. farmer in a loud voice. "Why Russians was that they are al- whether socks are miraculously sumed a spirited offensive. There is only a determination, calm are you filling our tunnel up ways ready, for the next meal, and imperturbable, to stand by the with waste paper, citizen?" The and it is the prevalence of this. cause which we have taken up, to girl maintains a haughty dis- trait that has probably led to

THE question in Russia going to be so tall-higher than endure everything for it, sustained dain, but in a few moments the the myth of the always "starving True enough, belts

is not one of "Guns the Empire State building that. whole compartment has joined Russians." by the faith that it is worth every the conversation und, since it is were tightened during the first instead of butter or schools." It the statue of Lenin on its top

but since is "Guns instead of stockings. won't be seen for the clouds. a cold day, is soon heatedly dis- Five-Year Plan,

And having failed to convince that clarly of cussing the pros and cons of 1934 ever larger quantities of The sensible Russians--and they spirit, have their foundation in a filling tube tunnels with silver borsch, schi (cabbage soup) run the country-prefer to look her that life abroad is not nearly and caviare are being consumed. plainly dressed and feel secure. so perfect as her imagination wide and perfect appreciation of paper.

Nowadays you only queue up There is a very real demand paints it, I retire after a pro-

day

building The girl, of course, should for newspapers.

spent what it is for which we have freely

for finery though, and female fitable taken up arins.

have apologised. "Yes, comrade,

It is probable that, but for the Moscow (particularly the girls socialism. The whole people knows that we it's my thoughtlessness," but fight to keep alive in the world those her obstinate silence evokes the spiritual values which we call liberai final annihilating jibe: "Some" civilisation, and of which not Ger- sort of bourgeois wearing a man, not the German people, but hat!" She is obviously an anti- Soviet clement and is probably related to an enemy of the people.

COLERI But since we are all in conver- worth he complains of the cold output is We fight Hitlerism. We fight the antion we carry on with the mornings, and says that as he, sits! "India, so prodigiously fecund in winter. limitless persecution of the Nazi latest events on the farm and before Uie fire muffled in a great everything elec, does not possess one She has come rout he finds it impossible to single line of history. system. We fight its denial of the shake our heads over the capit-produce good work.

down to our day without thinking really worth the trouble of being oneness of mankind. We fight ita alists who are starting another Such WAS not case with consigned to writing." cruelty and ils perjury and insatiable war. The company, however, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The author Another writer expresses. a similar

concerning demand for the submission of all to is somewhat consoled by the of "The Scarlet Letter" says that he

Egypt. "Ten

its authority.

thought that the most probable owed his inspiration to the time opinion

to produce a single poets, That we know. And knowing, we result of war will be Soviet when "the log roars on the hearth, thousand years have not sufficed to So have thought most of our great

when the casement rattles in the the Egyptian

The writer who has done more to revolutions in several European must, and the sleety raindrops pelt writing of real literary worth," are unshakeable..

'countries.

hard against the window panes."

National character is profoundly immortalise winter than any other The sinking of merchantmen at sea

Thentre Square Station, Literature owes much to winter. affected by climate. In Iceland, expressed his great secret once when we where it is winter nearly all the a friend presented hira with a work- has developed, as it did in the last

not only ed table-centre. In drawn threadworkt might never have read "Paradise Year round, the people

three season-spring, war, into acts of terror. The Nazi where I get out, is in black and Had it always been summer

white marble with indirect Lost," for Milton could not compose

Ilterary-minded, but the few authors depleting

uational agreement code which sought bowls eet

Nazism is the sworn foc...

We know what we fight, and why we fight.

IN PRAISE OF WINTER.

not MOLERIDGE did

winter. In a letter

the

like the, countries where the sun shines al-1 and young love in the spring. The most all the year round the literary fact is, however, that much of our 10 Words-

practically negligible. great poetry deals with the, praise, of,

For example, here is Keats writ ing in November:—

"Where are the songs of spring?

Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy

music too."

Government has outraged the inter-lighting from alabaster textured during the bright months of June, of that country have produced work summer, and autumn.

of outstanding merit. With all its "But where?" inquired Charles

on pedestals. A July, and August.

sunshine, Ceylon has not given us Dickens "is winter 7" to place some humanizing restrictions | Russian ballet setting,

This appears to be true of other an Eastern Ibsen, nor has Java

On being Informed that winter had great writers, who are loud in their produced a Hans Christian Andersen. upon submarine warfare, and by

been omitted, as a gloomy design The streets and trams are praise of November and December

would have spolled the brightness as months in which it is easy to Lotus Enters

the author of "A of the work, work. Though

cn- they wrote thusinsilently of spring, of "England

which Germany was bound,

ich an act horrifies the world.

Yet it does not surprise us here. We

know what Nazlam is, we knew that

It may be stretching, a point or Christmas Carol" replied. "A year ernment to treat any differently those now that April's here" of the summer committag logical fallacy, but lands without winter would be gloom in-

deed." who now stand across its path.

It is against Hitlerism we aght, rose, they are at one in informing wo fight just because it is. ruthless, And we have no quarrel ve with us that creative work was best in whero winter has Its innings for]

those who would help to perpetuate "pired during the dismal months, its tyranny in Europe.

Because this is the issue, it tenna-Charms Of The Hearth readers. There is more than fancl- excellence of the home for tar ads national frontiers. cends

Here is Bydney Smith for example. cends rationality itself. The fight against Hitlerism unites a brother "Never speak to mo about summer. hood of faith, unites all who know Summer has no charms for me. I that man's progress in bettering the look forward anxiously to the return human race, in cultivation of the arts of bad weather and blazing fireal" of peace, depends upon the defeat or Here is a quotation from Renan Hitler and the system he has created. He makes the point that in great

unscrupulous, and unclean.

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It was his love of the winter fire- many months of the year give the world its greatest writers

and side that made him the author ful poetry in Tennyson's 'Lotus people. Without the winter could. Eaters in lands where it is al- Dickens have so excelled? Had he ways afternoon" there is a runrked been an Indian, could he have given Lis that memorable picture of David lack of great poetry and pros

Another point. English winters Copperfield at his own ficado T

Let another writer answer: “Asia have given our poets much material for great work. Go through the has no homes." But, then, Axio has classics We are families with no winter to speak of...

Arthur T, Rich balmy breezes, nightingales, cuckoos,