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ZILLIACUS IS NOT BRITAIN By

Ernest Thurtle,

during his visit to Britain, was an associate of crypto Com- muntats or fellow travellers. it is not without interest that Mr

Mr

Now Mr Zilliacus, who Is Labour ALP. for Gateshead, is regarded by many as the uncrowned king of the INNER parliamentary cryptos.

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THE LAUGH IS ON US

Moscow, Apr. 30.

3 this really how they see. us? I suppose I have ask- ed that question at least four or five times a day since I first arrived in Moscow. And now that I am leaving I am still asking it.

I asked it again the other night at the theatre. In fact, I asked one of Mr Bevin's young men, and he did not know the answer either.

The piece we were seeing

was a musical called "The Eleven Unknown," which is all about the visit of Mos- cow's Dynamo football team to Britain last year. It re- cords their victory over the arrogant footballists of de- generate capitalist Britain.

:

SEFTON DELMER WRITES:

RUSSIA SMILES AT THIS

BURLESQUE OF BRITAIN

AND THINKS IT IS TRUE

He says, with the cynical frank- Ress of a capitalist: "My heart Is where my money is."

very heavily against the Soviet The Polish Englishman bels team. To make sure of winning, he first buys the great Stanley for the British club which is op posing the Dynamos Stanley holds out for £8,000. No appeals to patriotism move him. Ite compromises for £7,500.

proletarian Virtue

Did they accept what they

siw

here as a picture of life in Britain?

I am inclined to think that most of them did. Nonsense, you say, No

ns a picture of anything. one would accept a musical comedy

Maybe, But the picture we were given here on the Moscow stage its in perfectly with what is reported

to the public in news and articles and lectures about Britain.

MDIX.

date.

MARXIAN

and by that I do not just ment

with a

fusing to deNazify and demilitarizo Germany in the hops of using a new Nazi Germany against Soviet Russia. They have established Fascism: in Greece, they are supporting. Fascism in Turkey.

But there is a hope. A real Left- wing movement in coming up more and more strongly in Britain, with ned leaders an Zilliacus, such enlightened Mack and Crossman. They have the mors of the people behind them.

They will

overthrow the reaction-

nry City magantes, assert Britain's Independence of the United States platocracy, and cause her to join up with the enlightened Soviet demo- cracy, as Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Yugo-Slavia havé already done, AT SCHOOL THAT is the picture the intelligent

newspaper render

of Kela Britain. It is also the picture drilled into the children at school. I found schoolgirls of 15 and 10 learning off by heart their history and current

affairs lesson so that they can pass

the test in political orthodoxy--tho Marxist-Leninist philosophy they coll it. Without this knowledge' no anc enn get a diploma or a degree in the Soviet Union.

"Truman," I heard one little girl

the picture of Britsin that he is

It is a great hit, this piece, Then the Pole tries to make BRITAIN as seen from Moscow, and it is being played all two of the Russian team drunk ny balcony on the tenth floor of the recite, is a friend of Fascists and over the Soviet Union. I by offering them what is called Moskva Hotel, is the Britain des- the tool of reactionaries."

have no cause to wonder whether from is an atomic cocktail. They refuse cribed by Charles Dickens and Karl M.P.|saw a few scenes

dash of Priestley the ordinary Russian really believes when I went to the theatre to drink. He tries to bribe them. thrown in to bring it right up to IN view of Mr Churchill's comin Stalingrad, and I deter-

They turn him down.

given. He has centuries of credulity It is hauntingly like the Britain behind him. It is traditional for him ment that Mr Henry Wallace. mined then that I had to see

CONTRASTS

described by, the late Dr Joseph to nccept what he is taught. Goebbels in his attacks on pluto-

But what about the teachers? Tho they In the Kremlin? Do the whole.

So it goes on until, at inst, modest, democracy. The workers live in men

triumphs stums, they are exploited by rich, putting it over to the masses because this distorted view? Are they over capitalistic trickery and fouls unscrupulous capitalists-City mag they believe it to be true, or ho

abawny L

Rates they are called. The City the Sovit team captain is

the cause they belleve it to be good for bis damaged leg handaged nales live in luxury while having his during the mate

them? workers starve.

My hunch, based on such experi- The Socialist Government, despite After the match there is n May- fair

the reception for

Russian. Its parade of Socialism is really in encens I have been able to gather during these weeks of conference The Brush are in dress suits, the the pocket of the City mugnatus. It reporting and travel, is that the truth

dinner jackets. Re-

is allowing the City magnates,

les in n combination of the two. Russians in out how the victory was achieved. the entire burden of the porter Olivia Mitchcock tries to find Novoye Vremja told us, to

DIPLOMACY Each member of the cam modestly reconstruction of Britain's economy on to the shoulders of the working repudiates any individual distinction,

KAEW of the Soviet leaders ever go FEW the egoistle and class." to

abroad, they depend upon their benetful Stanley Macploot.

Under the influence of the City diplomatic service for their Finally Olivia gels her story, mognates, the Socialist Government from abroad. And that service, de- - lesson for the capitalistic British has allowed the British Fascists (to spite its Inclusion of some very

more) brilliant men, is sult the Russians, it turns out, won by quote Novoye Vremja pnce team plus. Soviet

collectivism to re-establish themselves and de- primitive institution. British velop their activities, thereby Ignorance e triumplied over reactionary Individuallam.

menncing the Soviet Union and wire to please the high-ups by con- The audience loved it. Two Red international peace." Army officers sitting to the righs of It was the City magnates who Suviet diplomats and other observers me were in almost perpetual ecstasy deliberately delayed" the Second abroad to send home reports backing over the absurdities the haughty Front during the war in the hope up the high-up suspicions and pet British.

that Russia would bleed to death. political theories. When the London football crowd- The Soviet victory over Hitler, saya is true

a great drive

disappointment to

them.

diplomatic service, Young men are It is they who are making the being trolned specially as diplomats,

Most of his time at Westminster is taken up in damnning the foreign policy of Mr Bevin.

What spécially interested Wallace reported as speaking at me was the picture it gives through Copenhagen with Könni of Britain seen Zillincus,

Soviet eyes.

The second act opens with the Dynamos staying at a most luxurious roadhouse somewhere in Southern England. It has a cocktail bar in the garden, and He has, Indeed, described this a red-haired barmaid who chases sage policy, which is that of the one of the Russians because she Government he was elected to sup-thinks he is a marriagoable mil- por as "Winston and water.

That may be how the electors of lionaire. There is also a penny- Gateshead feel about the Govern-in-the-slot gambling machine in- ment's foreign policy (though to which one silly Briton after doubt it very much), but it is cer-

another sticks money and loses tainly not how the great majority

it, of the British people regard it.

Odil things happen, but it would be a pity if Henry Wallace returned the under to his native America quant impression that the voice of Zillaeus is the voice of Britain,

GUESS WHO

prominent guest at

contrast

and women in Ascot frocks-sat in

A

shift

postwar

news

A Bomewhat

combined with the de-

firming their theories-will lend

is

Mthe roadhouse is a dandified momiperb collection of men, in Novoye Vremin of these people, was being made to Imprese thur ve t VIR BEVIN returns from Moscow British football star, one Stanley their grandstands gaping flabber- present Government refuse reparo- I hope that they are being trained In

Macploot (can you guess who Stanley Macploot is supposed to of the whole audience was so infee their friends in the Control Com more than a Moscow musical comedy be? I can). Stanley is very,lous that I was a delighted as they, mission in the British Zone-are re- depends on them. very patronising to the Soviet footballers.

withmat honour. He has battled for seven weeks and yet achieved prac- tically nothing. Why?

The facts must answer. Thes seem to make it plain that this con- terence failed because of the tactics of Russia.

Olivia Hitchcock, a London Yet now perhaps as a smoke- girl reporter, says to Stanley: screen to hide the facts-the Rus-"What is the difference between sluns are vigorously attacking our you and the London evening

Foreign Secretary.

Very significant is a cable from the Faily Herald's special corres- pondent agreeing with an Ameri- can comment that the Russian pro- pagandists are "gunning for Erle Devin."

They are, in fact, blaming him

for the wasted seven weeks,

newspapers?”

Answer wittily supplied by "The London Olivia herself: evening newspapers only lie in the evening. You, Stanley, lic all the time."

The owner of the roadhouse is This. of course, is a grotesque travesty of the truth, as all who à diminutive Pole who has be-

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trayed his country to the British,

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

IF the Thames had frozen hard tax payments. The money got by Incugh, lum now able to re- this means would of

would

veal, a reconstituted egg have been roasted whole just above Tower Bridge.

A new philosophy.

QTUDENTS of the best contein-

STU

porary thought must have been glad to hear that there was a new philosophy in the field, even more emphillous than Existentialism. exponents "Do not express or repre- sent anything. They create the thing In its unique presence."

paint

For

ing, they frame bits of paper covered with gibberish. They are also com- plling a dictionary, "with all the de initions in gibberish.' I wonder will they have the nerve to imitate Jas ehingal Vad, who expressed poetry by arranging muddy pieces of biot. Ling-paper

on inverted buckets.

There could hardly be a more unique presence.

Income tax to be taxed?

out

be devoted to

per buying

nt houseowners

1939 rates, corps paying the new

of Food Ministry agents provocateurs, sub- xidising Government questionnaires, nationalising fish, and buying more electric mattresses from Sweden.

Changing them round

gang are One baving a high old time. morning Nelson looked very unfamil

Later "it or in Trafalgar Square. was discovered that a figure from the James's Park Underground St Station had been put up on his column. Nelson was standing on the back of one of Landseer's lions, An- other of the lions was sitting on King Charles's horse in Whitchall.

THE statue-shifting

In passing

READ that the thing called Unesco is to "examine the dark areas where selence has not penetrated." Good luck to them in their search for

E Government is said to be. benighted peoples upon whom bombs 1 examining a scheme to tax taxu- have not got been dropped. The tion. Everybody would be taxed, on aborigines of Austraila, who have a graduated sente, on the amount paid muddied along without even nomig in taxation for a given year. You rockets, are. I believe.

among the 'would be assessed on your income' first to be favoured.”

NANCY Quite a Tale

I WONDER HOW NANCY will

LIKE MY NEW DOG

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IS A LITTLE TOO LONG

ERNIE

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