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MOSCOW.

HE other night, while President Truman was addressing Congress and the Moscow conference was bickering over undemobilised German service personnel in the British zone and undestroyed German warships in Russia, I played truant and went to the 'opera.

They were doing "Ivan Sussanin," a patriotic piece bg-l Russian 19th century composer Glinka.

In six acts lasting four and a half hours, wicked re- actionary Polish nobles first capture Moscow and dance brilliant ballet in the Kremlin. They are utterly destroyed i thanks to a God-fearing old peasant, played by Stalin's

favourite singer. Mikhailov, who was an orthodox priest be- fore the Revolution caused him to give up litany for opera.

My neighbours in the 30 rouble. (279. Od.) stall seemed simple.

when, sedate folk, purileularly

Sm between each act, they formed up in pairs and solemnly paraded round the foyer one behintl the ather.

the

In

'I'm convinced

Russia does not contemplate

war with Britain or America'

and is convinced the Americans

CÍM:33:22TICALE A POSLAJURIT JUNKERSINART Z CHOSENIORIZZATENTIRANES (UNISIE BITI INTAKENED META But their sedatenes vanished

Ittl Last act. The Poles are

memory of the 1945 triumph captive from the Kremlin, and in a the terrible years which had gone anal

great patriotic crescendo-nt before which London audiences would Riggle as too hummy and old- fashioned the Czar himself rides triumphaul on to the stage o white charger while bells toll.

Actors mul audience became tense with genuine emotion. For a mo- ment the audience caught its breath. Then savage, ecstatic applause broke from all

over the east gold and crimson tiered thentre, Tears rolled from the eyes of the plump officer beside me. AL that moment stald audience enuid have been made to charge bayanels in the delirium of their national pride.

New Moscow

THERE were many members of

Mr Bevin's

ax convinced that the Soviet ducs not contemplate an armed conflict with the United States or with out- neipes.

Here, In Hussia as elsewhere they are straining every nerve to curry out a full-sente réconstruction pró- Kramme, from wat production to pence production, TV thu! the Russians may get the goorls of which they have beef starved both during the war and the cariler years la which the Soviet Union prepared for

·war,

What is a phirt, mumm;

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

DEEP-THROATED rour

A from 10,000,000 throats

In The Soviet zone of Germany they have been removing rails, greetel converting double-gauge lines to single gajice and taking the ruils to Russia to lay them there. That is an action unlikely to be taken by

mink-clad,

smiling Topsy Turvey, as she advanced towards the huge rocket, its nozzle pointing skywards.

spectator.

a Power contemplating the possibili "Ow pathetically small she looks ty of war or attack by Hs neigh-beside it," vouchsafed a

And she looked-still smaller when bours.

De Strabismus (Whom God Pre- Here In Moscow herald of serve) of Utrecht, handed her an peace walks into my room every enormous bouquet, which blotted hav norning. This angel is tail, stender. out from the sight of the white-aproned, white-capped Katja crowds. A second bouquet,

are Nikolajevna, who brings me my ed by Mimale Slopcomer,

expects

tip. She

wants

plotting an attack on Soviet Russki, breakfast. And here is the point happily, seemed to embarrass.

She believes this because of what Ratja she rend over

and heard before the roubles. Truman speech. She is doubly cun-* vinced of it now.

But the German Invaders whom they had triumphed are rare- ly Just Germans to the Russians. They are Fascists. And it is within the power of the propagandist to find Fascists anywhere,

strecke

Clear picture

of

the

stem of the

names

star, who got caught in the fragrant mass, and emerged with her hat over mouthful of greenery. And that is a good sign, because

one ear, and Laughing offietals disentangled her. in 1930, when Russia was arming and the Doctor led her towards the Katja would not have wanted rocket, and handed her the cham- roubles. An occasional bar

and pagne bottle, attached by a broad chocolate, a box of matches And it needs no political telepathy

OME experts here belleve that cigarelles or a reel of cotton would reen ribbon to the

Truman's speech to perceive where, after Truman's

and policy have been considered handsome and waiting projectile. fre

Topsy Turvey acceptable. Congress speech, the Russians

the rocket the Soviet looking for a new Fascist aggressor. white shocking the Russian public

When Ana Ivanova, a Soviet doe- and tending to confian

To-day Kataja; like everyone else, tor's widow who acts as my guide propagandist picture of America- watts money. For whereas in 1939 TRABISMUS, stop-watch in hand. and interpreter, was crossing one of will, in fact, help to stabilise peace, the shelves of the great department stood beside her. Almost loving- the Moscow ocean-wide refugeless They believe it will help

Soviet stores were empty, to-day they are by ate held the boltle, as a tense with

suddenly polley-makers to get a clear picture crammed with an impressive variety bush fell on the countryside. Then, Ine, sle sighed: "If only alf

this

of American determination, to pre- of good things, clothes, cloth, shoest an almost imperceptible sign from trouble

saucepan, radios. we could have vent what the Americans call total beds, would couse and

Primus turian imperialism. peace and understanding at last."

stoves, almost anything you require, the Doctor, the colourful sweet- They

claim the absence of ro-

heart of two continents bent her. When we had safely survived the action by Molotov in the conference

and all of it, very expensive.

head, took careful alm, and swung ruthless charge of the lorries

as a kind of initial confirmatiori of There is so much coming on the the bottle vivaciously on its way. it

little real effect on Soviet polley. I believe it may have comparatively set of Co-operative stores in Mos- Cabinet Minister on the chin.

vow to stimulate "healthy competi- | How!," but

of horror went up from the

the gallant Soviet policy is, in the long run, tion" with the State stores. based on two fundamentals.

for ONE: The fear of attack by

And though a vast proportion of and cried, "That's the first time capitalist Powers.

these goods comes from Germany 20 years I've had a bottle thrown TWO: Determination to speed and the satellite States of Industrial at me by an actress." Under cover opplause, the the collapse of the capitalist system. Eastern Europe, a fair assortment is of the laughter and which they regard as inevitable, and coming also from Soviet factories.

Docler returned the bottle to Topsy All of which, I think you

time a broad space Will Turvey. This time

and with unerring society in its place.

From what I have seen and the Soviet does not expect either to im the

dirty heard in the few days I have been attack or be attacked.

home the luxury missile. A trickle of tinned apricot juice appear- here, and from what I hove scen

ed on the stern. "Ai naime thecu rawcut utenupysh," shouted Topsy.

and

A

Moscow expedi- reached the other side of the road. this view. But I am not so sure. market that they have opened a new went o at a tangent, and cought a ttonary corps of the performance. Li the British wint peace and do not know what impression

nll

I told her that mercantile notions

need peace as a basis for their trade this made on them. But for me and prosperity. That war means like everything else I um seeing in poverty and ruin for them. this post-victory new Moscow, this

"Yes," said Ana Ivanova sweetly, profoundly sincere, almost religious response of the audience to a some "the British want

peace. But do what crude appeat was fascinating.

the Americans?" Here was a deep reservoir of

jumping up, seized the police

human trust and sacriflelal devation suade her that the Americans were the establishment of a Communist agree, adds up to one conclusion-wns left clear, darling crashed

for the Soviet leaders, to draw on, emotional capital not possessed by any other Government in the world to-day.

What made those Kremlin belis ring so loud in the hearts of this Moscow audience was, of course, the

I used all my eloquence to per-

as vitally interested, in peace as we were, and for the same reasons.

But I could

not see that. I had succeeded, Ana Ivanova likes the American visitors she meets, a- mires the practical and decorative way American women dress, but she

THE SPEECH THAT EARNED

'MONTY' A SLAP FROM PARLIAMENT

THE

of Soviet policy during my vlaits to the Iron Curtain States andi

This is why

the Soviet zone of Germany. I THEN why all the propaganda, you The crowd went thud with delight.

BRITAIN NEEDS

Leadership Team work: Hard work

THE troubles we have been through in the lust two

months have hit industry a shat- tering blow. How are we going to get straight?

As a soldier, when faced with a difficult problem, it has always been. my custom to try to simplify that

problem.

by

FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY

Now take team work. During the late war we won through to victory by team work; it is vital that we This I do by stripping it of all the should de so again to-day. I has non-essential detall, the "muckage" probably never been nere vitnt in that always surrounds every prob the whole history of our country that lem, and exposing the fundamental we should all pull together as a casentials on which the solution to leam against the enemy. the problem must depend.

then build the solution on those fundamentals.

The 'muckave'

It

It has been said recently by some writers that, if anything, I tend to over-simplify many problems. seems to me that this "bad habit" Infinitely preferable to the opposite course.

Let us glance at our present_proo- lem and strip E of all "muckage": in my simple way.

on

answer dep, FADERSHIP

.

Surely the

THE NEED TO PULL TO- GETHER AS A TEAM.

HARD WORK

How can you define leadership?

I would define it as

"the will to dominate, together with the character that inspires confl- dence."

Our enemy

What is the enemy? The enemy is shortage of manpower, coal and

dollars.

At this moment the enemy has the Initative and we are complying. He is forcing us to dance to his tune.

We shall never win a battle' in this way; the order must be reversed; we must dominate the enemy.

Every man in this country wants security; no one will deny that, But what is the. good of individual security in the face of national in- security?

It is no good.

It seems to me that the problem of Individual security is closely linked to the need for the highest degree of individual productivity.

That brings me to my third port -hard work.

It is vital to-day that we should It is no use our just saying that have leaders at all levels in every every man must get down to work walk of life who are able to du- and that we want a greater mun- minate the events that surround us, year productivity. All this is very and who will never let those events irde.

get the better of user of the nation, But I suggest that something more A leader who cannot do this, but is needed; and that the question of who lets "events" dominate him, Is greater productivity is wrapped up useless. The goąd leader will first in the following fundamentals:— study the probijem and will, ther (a) We must all, every man, be grapple with it..

prepared to do a full day's work and

:

NANCY Spare That Tree!

HAHHAT

—ERNIC

to work hard during our hours of work..

We

em-

(b) The incentive-to-do --full and hard day's work must exist.

(e) There must be collaboration on all sides, employers and ployees, to remove any restrictive practices which at present hinder production and full outderstand, and

output. must (d)

all

I would call the subscribe to, what "dignity of labour." We must sink any false ideus we may have on this subject, take our coats off, and get down to ft.

will know far more about things than I do. My business is defeating in battle the human enemies of our country: our present enemies are of a somewhat different type; but they must be dominated and defeated none the less.

12 You wi

A full day

What is the simple answer to the problem? Surely is this a full day's work, a proper return for a full day's work, no restrictions on

a proper pride in production, and working.

I we could ensure this answer, We would defeat our enemies, we would quickly recover the lost ground, and We would go Flight ahend.

The result would be national security, and the natural result of this would be prosperity and indi- vidual security for all.

NOTE: -This survey is an extract from a speech delivered by Field- Marshal Lord Montgobery at the 95th Anniversary Festival Dil- ner of the London Association of Engineers, in the

House of Com- mons a few days later, he was dritt- cised for making a speech with poli- tical implications while holding the office of Chlef of the Imperial General Stoff.

rightly ask. Mind you, I have More fun only been here a week now, and IBANWHILE, lest anybody should may want to modify my answer | MI" imagine that dear old Strabis-

Inter.

mus is exceptionally crazy, a story comes from America of a rocket which will travel for ever, without power, round and round,the earth." That seems to be about the most a toy selence has invented for my day. want now is ajet-propelled sub-

harmless

see two main reasons. ONE: Soviet leaders want to keep Ana Ivanova and everyone else on their toes and keep them up to a proper pitch of fervour so that should there be a show-down in the distant future they will be imbued with Marxist contempt and hate for

marine which will dash about on bourgeois capitalist society and the bed of the ocean, without tur- holy ardour to defend a wronged pedoes.

Russia.

is,

TWO: Because the Soviet Union

waging War.

at this moment,

All that we really

against bourgeols capitalist States of paganda campaign and party by al which -this-propaganda forms an renuine apprehension that the U.S. essential part.

and Britain seek to organise Ger- many as a barrier against the Com- munization of Europe.

can

That war is no war of arms, but a war of nerves. Its object is to hasten the ultimate collapse of the

I'resident Truman's declaration capitalist system by wearing it

wn with a series of crises-crises and the policy it represents down of social unrest, strikes and labour do little to modify the Soviet prac

tice of using nerve war and civil confilets, crises of civil war, as in

war as instruments of foreign policy. Greece.

crises, creating And I am even inclined to think economic of

future, preventing that, instead of stabilising the situa- insecurity long-term planning and investmont. thereby causing unemployment and further Inbour trouble.

Molotov's accusations against the I hope that when it comes to im- British

and American zope ad-plementation of the policy it will be ministrations for laxity in applying severely purged of its present ele- de-Nuzilication and demilitarisation ment of showmanship and biceps- and general encouragement of "anti- slapping. Quiet firmness will be: democratic elements" are prompted more elective. One white charger partly by the needs of the pro- and tolling bells are ample.

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