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Can De Gaulle Save France?

By Sam White

PARIS. RANCE'S future is drifting irresistibly into the hands of a man who is an enigma to all but a few of his closest associates. The enigma is General Charles de Gaulle..

If France turns to him as away out of crisis and confusion it will be a gigantle gamble

on do Gaulle's personality, capacity and ambitions.

There is no means of judging de Gaulle's move- ment apart tram de Gaulle's own personality. It is a movement virtual without a programme, In which de Gaulle enjoys absolute power.

To nervous, chain-smoking Andro Malraux, one- time Communist and now France's most gifted writer, de Gaulle is a crusader for social justice, well to the left of the British Socialist Party.

To Colonel Remy, one-time cecret service agent for de Gaulle in Occupied France, and now one of Gaulle is the man of his closest collaborators, de

of the struggle action who promises continuation begun in 1940 for the restoration of France's greatness. who To tough 36-year-old Jucques Soustelle, does the hard, day-to-day planning of de Gaulle's campaign, de Gaulle is a Liberal Democrat who wishes operation on the make a necessary surgical French Constitution which would give him powers similar to those of a United States President.

10

Mrs Oksana Kasenkina's

U

PON my arrival in Mos- Į cow I went straight! from the railway station

to the oflice of "Ohlone," the department of education for the province of Moscow, where 1 was received with open arms by the veteran educator Mik- been seeking hailov. Ile had

an experienced Instructor in natural sciences to fill a sudden vacancy. I was left to guess what had caused it, but during the great purge even a shrug of the shoulders told a familiar story.

My chief worry was how to deal with the inevitable question of my marital status. I decided to answer it with the simple statement that widlow, To my great relief I was there was no further probing by Mikhailov, who was delighted with all my diplomas and documents, ns there were not many qualified natural science teachers to be found.

we need.' "You're Just the one

he said. "We have here, in the district of Ruza, quite a school, a Intural Institution with 01 model

meteorological museum, slation for children, and a prized library of some 3,000 volumes."

history

I

a

At Tuchkova

GOT the position. The school. 50 located at Tuchkovo, soine

miles west of Moscow, occupied the former estate of Dubrovina, with mansion having gilded

mirrors, murals and fine mosaic decorations. The former owner had long since been dispossessed. Included in the

attended by

from the

400

was a two-storey brick building erected by the Zemstv

social welfare body the liberal which, under the Czar, had built network at schools up a national

and hospitals. There was a frome annex of Soviet construction used ns a dormitory.

Here, indeed, was an institution the Soviet Government could, with -pride, exhibit to distinguished foreign visitors. I was curious to

learn

the estate.

Own

Story

EDITED BY ISAAC DON LEVINE

To all three de Gaulle is a seer and a prophet; a combination of mystic and practical politielan; the greatest living Frenchman, and one of the truly great men of world history.

Immediately you leave de Gaulle's entourage, the confusion of views concerning him in bewildering. Some people who came to know him well during the war and in the post- munlais did: "Shapkami zakidayent liberation days when he was Hend --we'll snow them under with our of the State, describe his abilities Among them bats." But

people as at best mediocre. the ordinary just could not understand why there bitter personal enemies who say great Soviet power had to pick a that his outstanding characteristica fight with tiny Finland. And when are boundless personal ambition and the boys began to come back with love of power. frozen legs and arms, there were murmurings in the vilinges: "What

are we fighting for? Why must our sona perish7** ·

When

HATED AND FEARED

the director returned to the Left generally he is hated his duties, he punctuated his brag- and feared as the reincarnation ging of the victory over Finland with of all the military figures who have against the Republic this story: "We gave it to those ac-plotted cursed Finns. When the armistice throughout its turbulent history. WIKI already signed, our command decided not to cart any shells hack,

Similarly unflattering views of de

so we opened up with all the guna Gaulle are held by most of France's and let them have it"

Many Did Not Return

rich and powerful Industrialista. One of them recently summed up

the view of many of his colleagues

by privately describing de Gaulle

us

MANY of the boys did not return. as "a political cretin surrounded by He regarded de Gaulle's One of them was a favourite maniacs."

power, however, pupil of mine, Igor Gummell, a blue return eyed, slim youth, whose father, a inevitable, and spoke hopefully of "de Gaulle widowed teacher in Moscow, had the possibility of a placed him with a distant relative Government without, de Gaulle" in a village near-ouva school.. An In the view of this industrialist. ardent idealist, a prodigious reader. Igor joined the Komsomol and held the absence of Arst-class adminis

trators around de Gaulle would forth at meetings, often criticising

erician force him to rely upon the support the abuse by the new bureaucrats

of experienced conservative politi- our workers,

Communist The

cians such as M. Paul Reynaud. officials and their tons in the Komsomol did not like his zeal. Although without any

military to the trukning, he was sent off to Finnish front. I received but one leller from him, full of the horrors he experienced. Then came word

of

of his death.

One of the greatest mysterics about de Gaulle is by what means The thinks he will come to power. present French Parliament still has another two years to run, and the constitutional barriers to an earlier dissolution are immense.

My own san Oleg, who was 18, was called to register for military Meanwhile, de Gaulle, tall, aloof. service. Although he had become 57 years old, sits and waits in his chummy with Igor, I was happy five-roomed house 150 miles from that he stayed out of politics, Paris,

Mrs Kasenkina displays, a typically feminine reaction when the photographer enters her room in the Roosevelt Hospital in New York to make pictures. A touch of the hand to the hair to make sure there are no stray wisps is a womanly gesture the worldMathematics was-his-Interest, music.

over.

In today's instalment of her story, the former Soviet school teacher tells of her mission to Moscow to get a job, of the lot of the common people of Russia during the prewar years, the war with Finland, the Hitler-Stalin pact and, when the Nazis struck, of her son Oleg's call to the colours.'

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which we had to

I can still see his classical markets for these provisions, and features, his winsome smile, and re- on occasion the NKVD would raid member how popular he was with the train and confiscate the food and

father was the iris. Ets

illegal goods. One political proletarian. The boy was was lucky to escape arrest an his

to study and decided medleine. He attended the Therapy

of the Central Asiatic Bashkir tribe, pre 703. Kolya joined the "speculatur.".

Voronezh. He

married,

and 1036 was the father of a child.

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Ho works from 8 am, "unilate and art his hobbies. A handsoment night studying economics and well-built lad, Oleg was popular polities, seeing a few of his closest

their with the

sought wit

girls, and company. He would come home associates, going for long solitary with a whole bevy of them and help them with their homework.

our school Oleg graduated from our and was admitted to the University since his London days. of Moscow about the time Hiller has greyed; he has put on weight and his manner has become less launched his blitz against Russia on

on {distant.

June 22, 1941. Before the papers or the radio announced the news.

walks.

He has

с

changed considerably

His hair

we learned that we were at war DANGER OF THE LEFT who had developed it. But mother of Kolya a former pup of necessities, for

the villages and towns, when German planes flew overhead was a strange hush whenever mine, whose father was a common forage In

Kolyn was an out- Sometimes we teachers had to go in their first air raid on the capital.

Moscow to shop in the open that question was raised. I had an blacksmith.

PART from his repeated criticisms A of the Constitution, only a speech inkling when I discovered that the standingly handsome and talented to

lad,

Avalanche Of Steel

in which he pleaded for profit shar- mother of my

and lonely little old woman,

ine in industry Indientes the lines on days, in Mus- which Soon was living

views his on

social N those summer enough the mystery was cleared up

covy, the front was so remote developing. Apart from that he Anatoli by

Somewhere in faraway Poland-thettisdains to talk of humdrum prob- the

director, new

none of us dreamt of its coming tems. militant Communist Kukhmazov, A

He prefers to speak with I was encouraged to try poultry close to us. Our life had always passionate sincerity on his constant with spoke Russian with a thick Institute, graduated, and was ap- tanning, all as part of our school been harrowing and full of terror theme-the greatness of France, its who took me around the place. He

pointed to the city hospital

now simply scanned the destiny and the danger it faces from of experiments in agriculture, but soon and we

terror.

Those by discovered why accent. The subject he taught in

the predecessor #kies for one more my

the "separatists" that is, the school was the history of the

who remembered the first Ivanov had falled-in this endeavour, of us

Communists. Communist Party.

Our region was lilck with foxes, World War expected the Nazis, like

'To France's impoverished middle At the end of that year there and hawks were common. Instead the Kaiser's armies, to get stuck

Pripel Marches.

class de Goutle is a hope and a 'was an epidemle of scarlet fever of multiplying, the chickens melted in the distant

Within three months the un- symbol. experience, and diphtheria in the Voronezh re- away.

bellevabic rich

como to pass. The Several gion.

children of Com- WITH YOUR

German avalanche

In the end their faith in this ons of steel had ċan do big things you

munist officials died in the hospital. here," he

moved all the way from the banks man may prove more decisive for observed on the tour. The clinging to

and he young doctor was seized, and me all day

wag becused of having had svla:- WAS more successful with bees. of the Vistula to the heart of Russia. France's future than the wranglings late into the night. I was until

wreckers." Ho

What with the scarcity of sugar. Our school, and villages had been and intrigues in a Rump Parliament,

able-bodied men. fascinated by the specimens in the contact-with

vanished,

it became quite a fashionable feature denuded of ull

the German Invaders drew museum, by the order in the her- But did think that the hurricane of the five-year plan to cultivate As

and the Com- behind me and that nothing honey.

once overheard one high nearer and nearer and

nsk

to flea another:

authorities began munist us. So I Soviet functionary more could happen to

the of books on astronomy, Everything brought Olet from Slavyansk and "And what is your wife doing eastward, I went to Blelov, had its proper label. Kukhmazov made a now homo-in the former Tho reply was: "She's taking courtes chairman of the local Soviet, and

Her Predecessor

barium and the library, which boasted a truly valuable collection

was

Keeping Bees

felt my admiration and soon satio- quarters of my predecessor, Ivanov, in apiculture." fed my curiosity.

asked

him for facilities to evacuate I planned to build a secure future I studied the literature on dre- our valuable library and museum. He look some volumes off the for my boy. Little did I dream that keeping, and succeeded in shelves and sarcastically read to me the long vindictive arm of versos on religious themes which

con-

In a burst of temper, he flung at the structing a whole palace of a hive. me: "Don't bother me. It's up to

Moscow!" had been tucked away in certain terror which had struck down my Our honey became the talk of the husband would reach out for my countryside. I stored enough honey volumes. The author, it appeared, son. was my predecessor, Ivanov, whose and specialty was natural science meteorology. With relish, Kukhnia- zov cited this and other things as

IvanDy's of

counter- Well,

this D the

but

Kukhmazov

this

Bayad been tryside, from the fall of 1037 to that that ended my experiment

my Stirred the world deep- years, could

to

in

as, food for the bees in the winter Oleg Called Up to save them In the rigorous climate. Doep Secret

director the Communist our

TT was the middle of October, All # A regarded

mods

Marco were armed flood in evidence

URING the four years I taught at luxury for the bees. He removed cloured with an revolutionary.

Tuchkovo, in the Muscovy coun- the food, all the bees then dled, and retreat before the advancing Nazis. "enemy of

The common people, who had sup- the to keep

The summer of 1030 was upon pressed their hatred for the Com- well taken care of, he intimated. of 1941, I managed

Stalin-Hitler pact, which munist oppressors all those long had been 18. been packed pit to a Ivanov hind

A fact that my husband

not be persuaded camp to serve as a fielcoro- purged deep secret. For

boy Oleg, the change was a bless y little impression on the leave their homes and farms. Many

In the common The old mother, I ascertained ing. He found

people. To us non-Com- of them belleved the leaflets a mentor later, would go off to Moscow now teacher

pro- Russian literature, of

munists, the World War was brought using dropped from the air educator,

with the and then, trying to find out where pre-revolutionary

outbreak of claiming that the Germans who home only her son had been exiled and the stimulated hi, interest In the Russo-Finnish hostilities. The Soviet coming as liberators. Then "word

neighbouring Government's joining Hitler in the spread that the ferm of his sentence. She would classics.

received of Mozhaink w was in flames, and that come back empty-handed. My own My first task was to start a gar- parution of Poland was grlof had to be a deep secret, No den, as the food problem continuat- with apathy, by the population. the enemy was about to take it.

Moscow My Oleg arrived from this me from my ly beset

when wo went the Institution. In

It was different sign of life reached own Demyan.

region the soll is rocky, but we did to war with little Finland. Many to bld me goodbye. Ife had just

peasants* sorts

his orders to report for were called received In Moscow I ran into a woman, raiso vegetables and were especially of our from our town of Slavyansk whose muccessful with potatoes. But our to the colours. Our own director military service. tragedy brought my own home to dificulties lay in getting bread, Kukhmazov went off to the front.

the meat, sugar, kerosene and other Ho braggel, na me. Natasha Klimenko WON

so many Com (Monday: Oleg Goes To War.)

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