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Directed by Robert Stevenson

TO-MORROW

Screenplay by Edmund H. North,

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Berlin Siege

In Finer Focus

BY SELKIRK PANTON

BERLIN, situation, What GERMAN friend today something like 'his: told me this story now

the going

rounds in

Berlin.

Peter the Great. the first

Russian Czar to "open a witt dow" 012 the West. 2018 besieging in 1700 a German fortress held by the Swedish king's forces. A river sweeping along both sides of

they say ROCA

to

We have manoeuvred ourselves- cr allowed the Russians manoeuvre us into

a position where, because of our difficultles. we have had to call on the Security Council for help. If it were military situation there would

conmander only one thing for the

to do-surrender.

be

10TH INSTALMENT:

MRS OKSANA

KASENKINA'S

OWN STORY

RELATED TO AND EDITED

BY ISSAC DON LEVINE

in America

WITHIN two weeks of my ledge to the ignorant Communist arrival in the United girl when I pointed out to her that States I found myself enclosed species of oaks and maples, whereas there are different in Russia we have but one kind of these trees. I had no trouble in identifying the various flowers and impression. shrubs, and obviously made a deep

by the iron curtain which shuts off all Soviet citizens on assign ments abroad, but which re mains invisible to the people in

whose midst they live.

I Arst saw New

This examination War clearly bureaucrats, inspired by the local York at dawn who did not altogether trust the

on June 15, 1940, from the Soviet Moscow authorities. Suppose I hat freighter Kirov, a former Liberty a "pull back home and managed to ship. Being just a plain teacher,

and not a Soviet bureaucrat, I had et for myself a junkel to America 19 50 many Communist loachers spent some seven weeks travelling did? They carned it through denun from Moscow to America, with long clation, spying, and similar services stop-overs at Black Sea ports, and

for Soviet digniterles. on board ship in Marseilles and Gibraltar.

Soviet America "The natural science teacher IR THAT I was to live in a little here," was the word that spread in Soviet Amerien grew apparent the Soviet colony as soon as I was almost at once when it came to the conducted to the diplomatic school question of how to handle one's mail on East 87th Street at Park Avenue, back homa, Of the dozen tenchers where I was quartered in pleasant in our school, some had airmailed room. Vice-Consul Sorokin assign letters to their people Hussla

United ed a teacher, Valentina Orlova, to through the

States post act as my escort. She had been in office. These innocents had dropped the United States for quite a while, their letters in an ordinary mail- and it was not long before I dis- box. We were all called together covered that she was a member of and given this brood bint: the Communist Party.

M

First Contact

"We understand that some of our lenchers nee. sending letters through the United States mall. Why not send it through the Soviet diploma-

TY Orst contact with life in America

was A visit to A delicates- tie pouch?"

We took this as an order, know- meats ing full well that our mail would

com-

the

could not write the truth about America. An enthusinatle descrip- tion would subject me to suspicion as

counter-revolutionary.

sen store. I could not believe my eyes at the sight of all the and other food products. Every be censored in the Soviet Consulate thing seemed so cheap to me, with when we turned it in, but realising no ration cards, and no queues in that failure to do so would entail the street. "What wealth!" I could severe penalty. It also meant that

help exclaiming. My The second great improvisation- not the £100,000-a-day air-lift was panion looked askance at iny un- the only possible way to avoid re-concealed exuberance.

on I won taken

a lour of trent.

parkway along the Hudson River,

Together with the censorship of and it seemed to me like a

sceno mall went a ban on subscribing to from paradise--the fabulous traffic American nowspapers. Only against the background of great New York paper, Russky Golos,

that all natural beauty. To think

printed in Russian, a pro-Soviet were In these myriads of motor cara

party line, being driven by capitalists! Could it publication following the

was recommended to us. To be that everybody in the United

seen with the other Russian daily, States was a capitalist, I mused.

the anti-Communist Novoye Russ-, koye Stovo, a democratic paper, was dangerous, and one had to buy it surreptitiously and read it secretly.

And the Russians lean back and watch. They are certain we WIT not go to war over Berlin, and they are confident that, notwithstanding anything the United Nations can do, the blockade will beat us the end.

Three courses

brence of good news from

IME is on their side, and in the People here remember that when Paris there are only three British troops entered Berlin more open to us:— than three years ago Brigadier W.

courses

ed

Next I went on a shopping trip to some of the leading department stores. The variety of goods offer- was simply breath-taking. That there was no limit to what anyone could buy and that the stock was inexhaustible, seemed incredible to accustomed to stand-

TO WITHDRAW FROM BER-one who was

OTLO

bo

Ordered To Move fell sick two weeks after orrival and ran a temperature, but

ly

the furrcas made it im R. N. Hinde, Deputy British Com LIN. This would mean loss of ing in line in Moscow, often to be kept at my duties. In the midst of

pregnable.

The Russian Czor suggested

negotiations for an honour able surrender. Talks began and went on through the and autumn, and summer always there was a hitch and delay. Then winter came The Czar suddenly broke off negotiations.

He attacked the fortress across the firm newly formed ice and took it with case.

mandant, declared publicly that 1 the Russians insisted on their mand that we should feed Western Berliners we should to get out of the city..

The first sign

de- face and the betrayal of Berliners our who have been encouraged to re- have veal their anti-Communist feelings

by our promises to remain.

toid that the article you had waiting for was all sold out. what Moscow teacher could to shop in the best department store there the Mostorg?

Wonder Of Wonders

He

been it the director appeared with an or

vacate der from the Consul that I And afford my room within 24 hours. I pro- tested that I was 1 and could not move upon such short notice. brushed my objections aside and de- It would sow suspicion in Wos-

manded that I sign the order. tern Germany and Europe that we

The following morning my things, THE wonder of wonders was are again in Munich state A

of TH

clothes and even Hand the Brst great improvisa- mocratie ETE · was right, but we gave way, mind. It would rob the latent de- five-and-ten cent store on Fifth papers, books, clo

forces In the Eastern Avenue where

Plant specimens were tossed helter- I was taken. on started. All the food for two- Etellite States of all hope of libera-Soviet citizen in her sweetest skelter into boxes, and I was taken

the dreams cannot conjure up such and Columbus Avenue, the

with my belongings to 30th Stregt thirds of the city wns brought tion by a Western victory in

profusion of everyday goods, and ment of Alexander Yakov.

apart hundreds of miles by train. lorry, East-West clash.

and barge. That was the first sign of Russian

TO THREATEN FORCE. or break the use force itself, to

This to the Berliners in the Western sectors and to the Western Allies in the city is The Russians warned.us then that not a funny story, but to the if we went ahead with our plans to set up a Western German Govern- Russinns it has an element of ment

end of four- ✪ meant the humour. To all of them it is Power government in Germany, and blockade.

the main reason for staying in Ber- an allegory.

lin was gone.

The Russian

the

A

1

this the

was astonished that the throngs IN intentions,

REMAIN

BERLIN outside did not clean out the shelves secretary of the Soviet and the TO

"ra never

forgive you in a mad rush, forcible moving," I flung at commit- and the counters chance for the Western Allies to get unable to keep our

the such as would occur Moscow were

in out gracefully came in December ments, either to ourselves or

director before leaving my quarters with the Russians such a magic store to be opened 1947, following the collapse of the Berliners,

"So this is what the United States in the school building. The

room authority. In London Four-Power Conference on whittling away our

now assigned to me was dark, fac- Germany.

such circumstances the Germans gives its people," I remarked to my

I did not even have a since it was the unwritten law radiator, so that in the winter it -retire-defeated from the field.. themselves might Anally ask us to gulde. This was heresy, especially ing a shaft.

-was-cold-and-the-door-had-to-be- arring all the Communist oficials to run down everything American. kept open to get some heat.

Forojniakov, a Moldavian Com- These Communistä stocked up with

munist from Bessarabla, hod the more American goods than the or- dirty Soviet citizens, and yet they mark of the NKVD about him, as At the moment the

Western were

did his wife Zoya. From now on the loudest in beraling Allies are taking the second road. American merchandise as compared had to watch my step, whether I At the end of telling it

went for a walk, to shop for tightened. The air-lift and the Security Coun- with Russian. squeeze Berliners and Western Allies The British and Americans started cll move

give limited breathing On a walk through Central Park, groceries, or to visit a museum or

"What

library. To be seen in conversation alike discuss this

Orlova casually asked me: coming saying, "We are

in space. going to stay winter, nlready sending its Berlin."

kind of a tree is this? And that's with a stranger might have serious perceived that I consequences. The long shadow of advance winds bitterly through

that?" I quickly

test in natural the NKVD began to block out the Berlin's ruins,

It may be enough to stop the ice forming hard enough for the Berlin fortress to be stormed. But it can was being given a

science. There were other ques- sunny promise of life in New York.

flowers. pro- not relieve a besieged city. That is tions about plants and

why the Russians. who alone can

had occasion to show off my know- (Continued Tomorrow) humour in the do that, and some story of Peter the Great and his talls.

Finally, both Mr Bevin and Mr Marshall committed their Gover- ments to that polley. It was cialmed loudly long before anybody had considered how we were going to stay if the Russians wanted us by out. Then the blackade.

This winter, they say, will decide the Berlin issue, and the allegory will be true today unless the new czar decide or is persuaded UNO-to end his slege.

No luxuries

I

(Copyright, 1948, Ning Featurae Sundi cato, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited).

C.V.R. THOMPSON RETURNS TO HIS NEW YORK BEAT

the market the

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New York, Oct. 6. ing all the hogs and cattle they "Gigantle sale. Prices slashed from in such a hurry. We aren't officially in on this Western Europe set-up NE thing is certain. The Anglo-

faster the price

yat Better give our internation- American air-lift gallant as it is,HERE is a new sign today can find to market, and the more at outrageous to unreasonable."

that America is slipping goes down.

alists, Europe-lovers, world-savers, cannot bring enough coal into Ber-

in this winter.

LL WAR TALK in America has and so on a little time to condition AL back to normal.

now died down for this year. Americans to the notion of going Meat prices have started to drop. WAR BOOKS are now coming out Says the

United States News, a into a third European war, which, ine boom of Ing in fog and snow even under war in the inflationary

in America by the score. And Washington magazine: "Tho

war on past performances, these bozos

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HEY, DON'T YOU KIDS EVER GET HUNGRY

By Ernie Bushmiller

OUR WATER PISTOLS ARE FILLED WITH

SOUP

this

British and American planes, fly- conditions, can bring in enough food last 18 months meat has been zo for the 2,300,000 Berliners in the costly that anyone having a sitak whereas the novelist after World ccsson for 1948 is part, Watch out will be able to do, but not over Western sectors, and just enough dinner has had to take out a new War I. revolted mostly against mud for the summer of 1949."

and officers, this generation of and mortgage. plants coal to keep power essential factories working at # Overnight, ts, steaks have vanish- postwar novelists seems to be con-

centrating upon officers and the girls criticism of Montgomery's ap- police all over the US. express

COMMENTING on Daily Express minimum.

ed from the shops,

od their horror

today at Today meat prices are down by they left behind them.

Bd. o But they cannot bring any coal to as much as sought two large lainb whether they are in Britain, France, C., the New

ib.

The general approach to the girls, pointment as Western Union C.-in-

York Daily News television company's announcement Berlin's homes, and Berlin, Tonight I

receiver perfected a chops nearly a week's ration

Italy, or

even the South Seas, is writes today: "Lord Beaverbrook that it had two in Britain-for 3s Ed that they are much better women says that 'an American general of which would work in any car. Said than the much-maligned American the calibre of Eisenhower should one police chief: "How is a driver

have the job.

going to watch without breaking The cold weather is already here! week's price was 42. Bd.

More cuts are promised on the

neck and other people's and the British, too, are re

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