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December 27, 1939.

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What is the everyday life of the Russian-in- the-street like? Does he cat what we do and as much? Can he say what hò thinks? How does he 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 ho des- cribes a typical working day in Moscow FY breakfast is ham crowded and hustling as

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is getting smaller as my has just received a car for his library gets bigger. I have private

He has also in-

a growing need for that rested in a country cottage, and if he wasn't so busy, could lead extra eight square metres of

comfortabic suburban a very floor space that the law life. As it is, he works 12 of entitles me to as a writer. more hours a day. But he is in fine fettle just now because he passed with flying colours

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So I send yet another applica tion to the House Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the Building through all the party purges. Co-operative, and write a letler My seven-hour work day goes to the "Pravda" denouncing the fast enough. Here the Press. bureaucrats who are depriving is as routine and hectic ...........me of vital space. At the same abroad. But since there are no time I send a dinner invitation millionaires or aristocrats and to Ivan Ivanovitch, whose not a single Russian capitalist cousin's brother-in-law is secre- or landlord from the Baltic to tary of the Boiler Makers' Union, the Pacific there is no society who are building a new depart news. ment house on the Pokrovka. I am not a boiler maker, but I think that there is a chance of getting a boiler maker's room.

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THE prefix "Speclat la. the Telegraph" I went by the langkong Telegraph" 16 indleate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunt- cations Ordinater, 1936. Such news as hears the iridicaßen “UP” is received lu Bongkong on the date, of publication by the United Park Associations, who res serve all rights and forbid republication,

Arrangement,

There are no football pools, and murders are back-page "fil- ers." So Government interpreta. tions of the Party Line,“port- raits of the leaders," production statistics, cultural notes and GO to office by Metro, incisive foreign news reports particular from Tass (State news agency) My own

take most of the space.

either wholly or lit part without previous station is in red marble from

war,

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

After Schiaparelli, the U.S. A's ace dress designer, paid them a visit a 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 a powerful incentive to raising the productivity of labour, which is still relatively low. Wives egg on their shockbrigader husbands greater achievements to earn more money to buy them more dresses.

to

ever

AN

ND incidentally. con-

the

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

I finally decide to spend my evening at the Park of Culture and Rest. Here, I meet a group of English tourists who are listening to an open meeting on Nazi-Soviet relations addressed by a Red sailor. There is polite, tall lady in. laughter when a tweeds asks whether a Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany means that Russia is going Nazi.

A MOSCOW STREET Feature display goes to the ex- the Urals and makes one of

of parachute jumpers, "Everyone is in a desperate London's posh tea-houses look ploits

hurry" Over The Frontiers

shabby by comparison. Opposite aviators, Polar expeditions and

distribution free bread

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

under some rationing scheme I return home. The day ends THE opening week of just was young woman in a hat. Next to or the taiga.

Story of the day, however, is would have begun in a few years, with a long argument with my have been times of immense public me is a collective farmer with

his whole family obviously our cub reporter, who has inter- but I doubt if this would create housekeeper who lost her house + furore in in the revolution 25 years ago excitement. Mar enthusiasm bas enjoying the thrill of under vir wed famous American much more of stripped 1. cople. The glories of werground travel for the first time, movie star (retired) and her Moscow than would the opening and is a staunch opponent of to criticise the Party Line, and canned bare been sug by It appears that he got this baby boy husband, and asked of a new water main in some Stalin. She has never hesitated

Hatred and pandon luce Mosgow trip as a prize for good "When were you born?"

harvesting.

PASK

notena run for high.

Not so with this war, upon which) His son takes notes of the we are now engaging all our forces. magnificent stations from which we will not desist until through. They will make a the day when the challenge to the report of the trip when they brotherhood of munkind in utterly return to the farma.

· defented:~

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English town.

It would be a real sensation Stalin, Housing, the quality of though, the Mostorg Co. State bread or Soviet morals. operatives began selling a line

of good slik stockings. Recent-

OFFICE work finished, ly a Scottish tourist sold a pair

attend a trude

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

expensive,

IN public, of course, sho

is more subdued than

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

rates. For the evening's ticket and flew back to Moscow among her friends. She WHS ~Then---the-girl-in-the-hat amuserment-I-have-a choice of by luxury air-liner-Air-fares-singularly uncommunicative- Here is to be found neither ex- throws the silver wrapping theatres, a cafe supper and are about treble the tourist fare during the Nazi-Trotskyite plots citement, nor vainglory, nor hatred. 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 A fellow tourist from Lanca man downstairs was arrested There is only a determination, calm of the window into the tunnel, good dinner at the Astoria.

in Moscow eating is as much a shire is still trying to make up and commissars came and went. and imperturbabic, to stand by the There is a moment's pained

silence. The train roars on. ritual as in Paris. In fact one his mind whether Russian sir But as internal conditions have cause which we have taken up, to

carlied impressions of travel is ridiculously cheap or again settled down she has re- "How uncultured!" says the of my endure everything for it, sustained by the faith that it is worth every farmer in a loud voice. "Why Russians was that they are al- whether socks are miraculously sumed a spirited offensive.

are you filling our tunnel up ways ready for the next meal, sacrifice.

with waste paper, citizen?" The and it is the prevalence of this That calmness, that clarity of

girl maintains a haughty dis- trait that has probably led to

THE question in Russia going to be so tall-higher than spirit. have their foundation in adain, 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 wide and perfect appreciation of whole compartment has joined Russians.“ what it is for which we have fredy the conversation and, since it is were tightened during the first instead of butter or schoola." It the statue of Lenin on its top

Plan, but since is "Guns instead of stockings." won't be seen for the clouds. a cold day, is soon heatedly dis- Five-Year The whole people knows that we cussing the pros and cons of 1934 ever larger quantities of The sensibic Russians and they And having failed to convince borsch. schi (cabbage soup) run the country-prefer to look her that life abroad is not nearly fight to keep alive in the world those filling tube tunnels with silver and caviare are being consumed. plainly dressed and feel secure. so perfect as her imagination Nowadays you only queue up There Is a very real demand paints it, I retire after a pro- spiritual values which we call liberal paper.

day spent building for finery though, and female fitable The girl, of course, should for newspapers, civilisation, and of which not Ger- man, not the German people, but have apologised. "Yes, comrade,

It is probable that, but for the Moscow (particularly the girls socialism. it's my thoughtlessness," but We know what we fight, and why her obstinate silence evokes the final annihilating jibe: "Some sort of bourgeois wearing a We fight Hitlerism. We fight the hat!" She is obviously an anti- limitless persecution of the Nazi Soviet element and is probably system. We fight its denial of the related to an

We fight its people. oneness of mankind.

taken up arms.

Nazism is the sworn foc.

we fight,

enemy of the

IN PRAISE OF WINTER

COLERIDGE did

not

like the, countries where the sun shines al- und young love in the spring. The Words- most all the year round the literary fact is, however, that much of our to winter. In a letter

he complains

negligible. great poetry deals with the praise of cold output the

practically of

"India, so prodigiously fecund in winter.

ls

cruelty and its perfury and insatiable But since we are all in conver-worth demand for the submission of all to sution We carry on with the mornings, and says that as he sits

the fire muftled in a great everything else, does not posses-One For example, here is Keats wril-

She has come ing in November:- down to our day without thinking! reality worth the trouble of being;

its authority.

That we know. And knowing, we shake our heads over the capit-produce good work.

are unshakeable.

.

latest events on the farm and before

cont he Buds it impossible to single line of history.

alists who are starting another Such was not the case with consigned to writing."

war.

Flad

author

"Where are the songs of spring?

Ay, where are they? Think no of them, thou hast thy

music too."

The company, however, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The

Another writer expresses a similar) The sinking of merchantmen at sea

concerning Egypt. "Ten to the time; opinion has developed, as it did in the last is somewhat consoled by the of "The Scarlet Letter" says that he

his inspiration war, into sets of terror. The Nazi thought that the most probable wed

result of war will be Soviet when the log rears on the hearth, thousand years have not sufficed to So have thought most of our great

to produce a single pocts. when the casement ruttles in the the Egyptian

The writer who has done more to Government hus outraged fife inter-revolutions in several European gust, and the sleety raindrops peit writing of real literary worth." national "agreement code which sought countries.

hard against the window panes." National character is profoundly immortalise winter than any other climate. In Iceland, expressed his great secret ance when to place some humanising restrictions Theatre Square

Literature owes much to winter. affected by Station,

It always been summer we where it is winter nearly all the a friend presented him with a work-

three

seasons--spring. upon submarine warfare, and by where I get out, is in black and

"Paradise Year round, the people are not only ed table centre in drawn threadwork might never have read which Germany was bound,

white marble with indirect Lost," for Milton could not compose iterary-minded, but the few authors depleting Such an act horrifies the world. lighting from alabaster textured during the bright months of June, of that country have produced work summer, and autumn.

"But where?" inquired Churles of outslanding merit. With all its Yet it does not surprise us here. We bowls set on pedestals. A July, and August,

sunshine, Ceylon has not given us Dickens "is winter?' This appears to be true of olier an Eastern Ibsen, nor hos Java On being informed that winter had know what Nazlem is, we know that Russian ballet setting.

great writers, who are loud in their produced a Hans Christian Andersen, been omitted, as a gloomy design wo Bght just because it is ruthless, The streets and trams are praise of November and December

as months in which it is easy to Lotus Eaters unscrupulous, and unclean.

work. Though they wrote спо thusiastically of spring, of "England

We know that Nazism atered no

Its

would have spoiled the brightness of the work, the author of "A Christmas Carol" replied. "A year

ני

It may be stretching a point or

deed." mercy to those free-minded German those who would help to perpetuate now that April's here" of the summer committing logical fallacy, but lands without winter would be gloom in-

rose, they are at one in informing where winter has its innings for who sought to withstand the enslave- its tyranny in Europe.

many months of the year give the It was his love of the winter fire- Because this is the issue, it trans- us that creative work was best in-

spired during the dismal months. ment of their people to its terrible

and side that made him the author par writers world

greatest It trans- purposes, but attacked them with cends national frontiers.

The fight Charms Of The Hearth readers. There is more than fancl- excellence of the home life of our ful poetry in Tennyron's "Lotus people. Without the winter could ferocious cruelty. We should be cends nationally itself.

Entera" in lands where it la nl- Dickens have so excelled? Had he tools if we expected the Nazi Goy-ngainst Hitlerlam unites a brother-

Here is Sydney Smith for example, ways afternoon" there is a marked been an Indian, could he have given us that memorable picture of David ernment to treat any differently those hood of faith, unites all who know "Never speak to me about summer, lack of great poetry and prose.

that man's progress in bettering the Summer has no charms for me. 1

Another point. Engilah winter Copperfield at his own fireside?

Let another writer answer, "Asin who now stand across its path,

look forward anxiously to the return have given our poets much material

aro familiar with no winter to speak of.. And we have no quarrel save with of peace, depends upon the defeat of Here is a quotation from Renan. cinasics. Wo

Hitler and the system he has created. He makes the point that in great balmy breezes, nightingales, cuckoos,

It is against Hitlerism we 8ght. I human race, in cultivation of the art of bact weather and blazing fire!" for real work. Go through tho has no homes. But, then, Asia has,

Arthur T. Rich