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"All right. You despair of the human race, I despair of the human vace, we ALL despair of the human race. Nou hold your tongue."

I SAW MISERY THAT BEATS EVERYTHING

to

An ugly city

solve

Chineko Com- How far are the munists under Moscow's control?

in What truth Is there

the re- parts that the Chinese Communista are-like. Yugoslavia Tito's peasant nationalists intolerant of Moscow's directives?

MRS OKSANA KASENKINA'S OWN STORY

INSTALMENT 14

AST spring, as the date of the closing of our school I was drawing near and preparations were being rande for our roturn to Soviet Russia, my distress grow from day to day.

During the two years I had spent in New York I had never been inside an American home, although I was surrounded by the friendliest and most hospliable people on earth. But I had not been permitted to develop even a single acquaintanceship with an Ameri- can neighbour,

I was like a person drowning in a sea of humanity, Yet as I wan'silently casting about for a rescuer, I BOW no one who could catch the terror in my heart and cast a line to save me.

About this time The Iron Curtain," the film based on the experiences of Igor Gouzenko, the code clerk in Ottawa whose attempt to escape with his family from the Soviet vise led to the exposure of the Canadian spy ring, was being shown at the Roxy Theatre in New York. I overheard my Communist guardians ridicul- ing the Allm in conversation, and made up my mind there and then to sea it as soon as possible.

On a rainy Sunday I slipped out of my room 11 the the Porojniakov apartment and took a taxi to theatre. I watched the picture as it in a trance, and could not leave my seat when the showing was over, I slayed on to see it through อ

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second time, When I left the theatre felt that I would have to come back to it to absorb every detail of Gouzenko's drama.. I saw it for a third time days Inter.

Passing before me on the screen was a band of ruthless Soviet agents typical of those who Bur- rounded me in New York that I shuddered with fright. They were cut of the samo NKVD cloth of which the killers of my husband.. the destroyers of my son and my The own persecutors were made. Iron curtain behind which Gouzenko worked in the Soviet Embassy while and he was plotting his herole. daring excape seemed to be pressing against me.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT

>UT even closer to my own plight was Gouzenko's desperate attempt

not

Cabled from SHANGHAI

to make his situation understood by the Canadians about him. How was munist partisans and guerilias, friend who comes to meet me at the it possible for Americans living in says, are holding the freedom to be so deaf and dumb to freedom within our airfield country only 35 miles from here, the cry for Advance parties are closer in still.hearta? That Gouzenko could

And a responsive car among the Communist Parly The Chinese

crushing. This Peking really is a capital. Its Canadian authorities was to be closely does appear to me

massive walls, towering Ark-like And when he went to the newspaper bound to the Soviet Union at pre-

could palaces moored around vast cobbled office and the editors there sent. All the higher-ups, with very

national

frantic pride not even comprehend his few exceptions, have spent long courtyards, havo

in every brick and fears, thinking that he was slightly periods in Soviet Russin, being written

ornament. If I were a Chinese I demented, I was appalled at the gulf trained and educated there.

'would fight for Peking.

separating me from the American people.

MY FACT-FIND. of pounds in British assets tions I have been trying to

hero-I see the same old black on this trip- visit MONDAY ING

China starts with market crowds milling around a wallop. Or, if you prefer it, which I have seen in Hamburg with my wallet. A few minutes and Berlin. after I land on Shanghai air- field the Chinese Customs has taken off mo every penny of foreign currency I am carrying.

SAYB "It is a new rule," khaki-uniformed Kubla Khan in faultless English.. "We are putting your money in bond. One day, before you leave the country, you will call at the Shanghai Customs House. They will return your money."

a

"If they can find it," whis- pers a cynical old "China hand" over my shoulder.

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The scîzure At 2.30, 5.00,

of my little bit of cash, I find, is all part of a big, new soak- 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. the-rich, soak - the- foreigner, smash inflation and smash the black market campaign

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Here in Shanghai it is being waged with eloquence, energy, and enthusiasm by young Chiang, Soviet-educated son of the Central Government's anti- Communist boss, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Father and son are desperately trying to prop up the Government's tot tering economy.

Father by the issue of a new currency to replace the old in- flation dollars at the rate of one new dollar for three million old

'uns.

Sup-

The son by organising young volunteers in a "Communist Bandit and Profiteer → pression Corps.".

Young Chiang's teen-age bravos are expected to set the country an example of dis cipline, and are licensed to go snooping and arresting every- one they suspect may be break- ing one of the countless rules of Socialist Chinn's cumbrous controlled economy,

But somehow, though masses, of arrests have been made, they have not succeeded in breaking the Yellow Ox Gang, as the black marketeers are called here.

up

an

I DO NOT liko TUESDAY Nanking. Although largest It is the walled city in the world, it has been wrecked so badly in 37 years of war that today it looks like

shacks and Alaskan gold rush town, with ugly,

stucco-covered thick lines of overhead cable run- ning up and across its streets.

extremely I think it would be dimcult for

Government ad- any

low.

ministration to live here any length of time and fall to become defeatist and corrupt.

And that is what, by all accounts, this miserably salaried Administra- So much so that for on here is. most Chinese, many European busi- ness men, and

some high- ranking diplomats, the cholce be- and the tween the Government Communists is a choice between the devil and the deep sca.

even

And I find there is a rapidly in-

creasing number of Chinese who

the

are

not

positively prefer to see the the

the

Chinese

military political and Instructors attend courses In Soviet Union and then come back to Manchuria, where they. In their turn, train the Communist and administration.

JS.SR

OUTER

Peking

CHINA

Nanking

USSA

MANCHURIA

Changchow

„Dachdan sa

Shanghai

army

But bloodless, bureaucratic, egal- tarian Nanking is the capital. And newa from the fronts shows a steady deterioration of the Government troops situation,

Siege prices

FRIDAY

HERE IN

When I returned to the apartment, Zoya Porojniakov asked me where I had been all afternoon. As non- chalantly as

remarked possible I that I had gone to the school to wind up an. accumulation of work on a day when I would not be in- withr terrupted. But I was oyed Peking suspicion.

The survelliance over me reached prices are already soaring in anticipa a point when Porojniakov, the Con- sneak into sulate secretary, would tion of the sloge. Official price for flour is 10 dollars a bag. On Octo- my room while I was in the bath- room to pick up any incriminating ber 4 it was 16 dollars,, today it is

paper which I might have left for 53 riellars.

moment lying around. Of course, no such papers over existed. Then one day he bluntly told me, after many vexatious pröddings on the subject:

Rice, officially 25 cents, went up to-76-cents-by-October 4, and today It is two dollars ten cents. Coal rose from 25 to 35 and 140 dollars.

"You don't ever get any mall and And everything else is rising cor- respondingly, Many shopkeepers you don't write any letters. It's are refusing to sell at all.

In old temple

SATURDAY

I

THOUGHT I

What's the matter very suspicious. with you? Why don't you write to anyone?"

BAIT WORKED

are fed up with Government inter- ference, Incompetence, and corrup- tion. These malcontents only Indifferent, like the majority, as to how badly

war against the Communists is going, but would Com- drive out win and munists present regime.

had seen about NOT to be pestered any longer and ail I could of to avert all suspicion of my de- European businessmen echo them.

All exports "It could not

of Manchurian soya refugee misery among the peasants signs, I penned a brief letter to a be They tell me

evacuated from the Communist ter- family of four, including their bean are going to the Soviet. In

Vova,

Yurik, Micha 1 children, rer areas of Greece. But here receiving return, the Chinese are worse: it might be better."

befriend- *who had The Chinese Communists.are set-

from the Russians military equip am in Peking in the 400-year-old and Vália...

I wrote in Moscow. temple of Confucius, and it beatsed my son ting about it very cleverly to con-

ment taken from the Japanese, or picosunt

500 them firm them all in their

them of my hope to Union everything. manufactured in the Soviet

them with soon, of my walks illusion Alf reports agree that the

occupied with Japanese machinery, Communist troops who

families of hard- in the fields which I expected to ⚫ Hundreds of better

small

working and also probably o

well-to-do repeat, and of my homesickness for Telnan, recently were much

ned peasants are camped in the cloisters our "beloved motherland." I added disciplined than the Government number of Soviet political troops who had defended the town

of the temple, on damp, hard stone that I would notify them of the military advisers in China helping The Communists

not loot. did

floors. They have been driven from with planning. But these are very They did not interfere with shopa few.

Government and businesses. Only

really big buildings, banks, and concerns were taken over.

Hot water

EVERY TIME |WEDNESDAY] I go to

any Chinese home or office here, as soon as we have sat down, a servant comes and puts down a cup of steaming hot water Hot water is the new austerity substitute for tea,

I feel if I go on drinking much more of it I shall want to join the British Railways as an engino when I got home..

Ja, front of me.

Thero

ts

for

on

My assessment, for what it worth, is that there is no real dan- ger of the Chinese Communists do- at ing a double-cross on Moscow

sii!! present when

fighting should power. But

they go and actually establish winning.

Chinese themselves,

then nationalism might assert itself even in the Communist Party,

This would have repercussions.

throughout not only in China but South-East Asia,'

To my mind, it is a mistaka base a policy on such hopes.

Worth a fight

THURSDAY

to

GOING TO Never mind. It is worth JR. As I drive to my hotel in the

Peking. I had no the Shanghai. Particularly the last two cups evening past

option about Пy- hot water this evening.. They have whurves and quayside sky brought me a good deal nearer and-ing. There is no railway link be- scrapers hundreds of millions Ing the answers to important ques (ween Napking and Peking. Com

NANCY Sluggo Has Met the Young Lady

HEY, SLUGGO HAVE YOU SEEN THAT WONDERFUL DOLL

THAT NANCY. GOT.

IT WALKS-- TALKS-- WINKS - SLEEPS-~ EATS AND BLOWS;

BUBBLE GUM

YEH

I SAW

IT

once

date of my arrival. their villages by Communist who The bait worked. I left the letter have divided their, land, among the unscaled in my room, as if I had have-nots and soldiers. Now they neglected to mail it in the midst of tre living on what garbage they can my preparations for our departure. scavenge,

After a while the letter, vanished. An

I began to seek feverishly ways Margaret Liu, doles out a few drops and means of escaping to freedom, of medicine from a sconty dispen- and proceeded to make purchases of sary Improvised

ancient articles which were not to be had carved tomb. But it is not enough in Moscow. This also served

American-speaking

on

an

sister,

to

to keep epidemic and death at bay, divert suspicion from me. And I did not even suspect myself that my

Room for me

YESTERDAY

colleagues. Mikhall Samarin and his wife, were, at the same planning their own escape.

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1. HAVE JUST I had come to know the Sommarins,

mo had, precoded received a whe

the note from the United States, and became attached Government Information Office: "Mr to them and their children. But we Delmer, 'your light reservation is had never dared to discuss politi- alone booked. They put off two guests to cal or social questions, lot

which make room for you to By to Shang-share such deep secrets, in hat."

our lives were at stake, as our de-, That's what comes of all that hot signs to remain in America. water!

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