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'EXCUSE ME, MISTER-LABOUR H.Q.7

POOR LITTLE

RICH LAND

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BRUSSELS.

Europe failed to recover in NLESS Western Europe time and could not buy these recovers quickly, the exports or; having already paradise that is Belgium bought them, could not pay for may soon become the paradise them. that was Belgium. Already a steadily lengthening finger of unemployment stretches across thin lushland. It points the warning that in austerity- ridden Europe & prosperous small nation finds it hard to survive.

1

Belgium was in the position of the bright girl in a class of backward children. She had to either raise the level of the rest or sink to theirs. Secing the danger, Belgium for the past year has been desperately to do the former.

She

the

Fath

Now the Belgians feel the pinch-

Instalment 17

MRS OKSANA

KASENKINA'S

OWN STORY

HAD longed for an transferred the following day to the American atmosphere screened porch which I shared with the supervisor of the establishment, when I broke away from Martha Andreyevna Knutson, an my Soviet guardians, but I experienced and admirable social was plunged into stifling worker. I was assigned to work in'

the kitchen. Russian atmosphere when I Looking back upon the events of settled down at the Reed those days, I now realise that I had form in a highly

Farm of the Tolstoy Founda- arrived at the

nervous state. · I should have

tion.

begged off from unaccustomed toil Despite the angelic character of, until I had had a rest. I knew that Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, who my not showing up at the sailing of unfortunately was nway most of the Soviet ship would lead to the time at her New York offices, widespread hunt for mc. The I found myself under susplelou drudgery in the mass production and surveillance at the Institution kitchen," whether It was peeling this time as a Soviet spy!

potatoes or shalling CLES, was ir.. ritating. I would have preferred a factory job.

It is with deep pain that I am describing this Interlude of my critical days from Saturday, July 31, to Saturday, August 7. I value blably the great humanitarian work being carried on by the Tolstoy Foundation for the relief of the helpless Russian DPs in Europe and America, and hope to be o help in this cacred cause when I

Praver

RECOVER.

to

Yot cannot hold back the truth about the conditions that drove me to write

my impulsive letter the Soviet Consul-General, which eventually led to my.seizure by him

ment in the Consulate,

Eyed Suspiciously

NE ́day Mrs Knutson even re- marked to me: "I can see you're not used to kitchen chores. Who took care of you all your life?" I replied, "and the kitchen was not one of my specialties." To myself 1 kept saying, "This is hard work, but. at lenst you're out of Soviet hands.”

The Inmates began to tye me they suspiciously. Every evening

verandah and would gather on the engage in political discussions. 1

"I've been à teacher all my life,"

and the man they and his atdos and to my Imprison did not participate in them, true to

blame is Cripps...... says Sam White

visiting Bel- British tourists from gium.

As a result of the tourist ban the holiday industry on the Belgian Channel coast has been brought to the brink of ruin.

ni the

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Miss Tolstoy's Instructions. My allence gave risc to significant glances.

At The Farm.

There were many in the 11szem-

the de farm, blage who did not speak PON my arrival

Counter Tolstoy and Vladimir mocratic language of Mark Wein- the Νουομε Russkoye Zenzinoy, who had brought me there, baum, of examined my passport and found Slove, the Russian newspaper, or of that my visa to remain in the United Zenzinov, or of Miss Tolstoy herself. States was valid for some time. Miss These people had inspired me with Tolstoy then told me that she would confidence because of their liberalism. get in touch with the proper au My dream has always been a demo- thorities to ensure my

nued, crotia Russia. I was now forced to continuod

restoration legal residence in this country. We listen mostly to talk of creases Delgium's brow. She is turn

At the same time another worry had a heart-to-heart talk and I was of the monarchy after the collapse of installed in a comfortable room for the Soviet regime, This antedilu- vian palaver grated upon me, but I Ing over most of the Marshall Aid the night.

could not answer it. Europe

was given an assumed name, un-

Then there was constant blcker- dollars to help the rest of

the form

and recover, and Europe is using them der which I was to live trying

wrangling among the not to buy or pay for Belgian goods Miss

Every- to dicistoy also cautional me noi ing but for capital Investment.

my affairs and to do as habitues of the Institution. as body

watched everybody else. little talking as possible. There

Quarrels over petly matters warning

most were close to a hundred inmates in common. Those who had tilles Belgium's signals-particularly Britain's pressing need le precisely for these the place, of both sexes and of all rank in the long ago demanded that decision to suspend the conver- capital goods which she is now in

on her potentials and stations in life. Most of they be accorded privileged treat effect lavishing

them had left Russia in the first re- ment. tibility of sterling. That compelltors.

after fugee wave

the Bolshevik Luck there was in plenty to meant that the pounds Belgium After three years of undimmed Revolution sorne

Icy Atmosphere thirty years ago, account for Belgium's quick had and was still earning were brightness the neon lights of and included members of the recovery after the war; but in no longer convertible into the prosperity are beginning to dim in nobility and the old military close. THE atmosphere around me grew more icy every day. There was Antwerp, Licke and I become an object of instant addition to luck the

eavesdropping, and finally Belgians dollara she needed to pay for Brussels,

throughout the land.

curiosity, especially when I

was cealed whispering in my path. When used hard work and wise U.S. imports.

I retired at night, and it was during Government to capitalise their good fortune and maintain it during the postwar years.

It is sad to see the first signs of economic paralysis reach this small oasia in the European waste land.

On the luck side of the ledger there were war-acquired dol- lars and a quick finish to the war in Belgium. (Some people add the uranium in the Bel-

saw

Imports Rose

STEADILY the sum of her U.S.

importa rose and the means of payment declined. While 47 percent of her imports from the United States, exports totalled

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JAMES LEASOR reporting from OXFORD

IT MAY BE RAGS AND BAGS AGAIN

were

Dr

uncon-

a cold spell, I would He on the porch chilled ta the bone and This seemed wracked by insomals. so unlike the America I had yearned to discover.

My unhappiness

Enve way to despair when I spotted one day the Soviet Consul's black limousinë not far from the farm and his fat chauffeur, Semoshko, sitting on bench some distance away. I was ridiculed for "seeing things" when taken view. The scale of only two percent.

I reported this, but I am convinced uranium exports to the U.S.A. Pleas to Washington were

to this day that I was right. From OXFORD. paper edited by undergraduates, from the Congo has been vast unavailing. Belgium laboured AN

NOTHER term has started, hopes for excitement. Remembering many remarks dropped later at the consulate, I am confirmed in the In fact, they under ly exaggerated.

Evelyn Waugh, Charles Graves, and

hac disadvantage of Every night until Decem- Beverley Nichols as ex-editors, he belief that the Soviet aleuths

ίδια amount to a fraction of the two being the least revolutionary ber, as Oxford's Great Tom bell yearns for the gay days.

detailed inside knowledge of percent of

Arthur Belgium's export country on the Continent, with tolls 101 times at 9.5 In

Germer, whose father Tolstoy Foundation farm. trado with the U.S.A.).

By Wednesday, August 4, my une barber's shop in King situation no Communist-inclined work-memory of the 101 founders of Edward

became most trying Street where bishops, Everybody was looking daggers at Christ Church, the colleges in actors, and politicians have had me, regarding mo us an Enemy Bulging Warehouse ing class to be brought off.

So Belgium then turned to spon- the university shut and lock tie off the top" In thelr young within their camp. I was made to soring schemes for European their iron-studded, oak doors, days. also laments the passing of feel that beneath my assumed name months of covery and helping to transform WITHIN Six

Belgium Marshall Aid from an

into a reality, Thus she was in the warehouse forefront of the campaign for Wes-raduates are unpacking their bags Way back about 1987 the

in the 32 colleges, Halls, and gen'I'men let loose 1,000 rate in the me into his office and began to shoul

was

2t

the

liberation bulging

inspiration

A

new generation

of

They are younger, these

under-

started

the Good Old Days.

"They had guts then," he

was lurking a Soviet agent. sold. That evening the manager of the young Institution, Moussin-Pushkin, called

Cornmarket and had 100 whippets | at me:

"Register" No one can stay here 'em. That was a night, if new- after

liko it now, overnight without registering."

The Letter

80 comers, than their predecessors of you like. Nothing

the Inst three years. Many of this though. It's all work, and term's freshmen are just up school.

of luxury goods-all bought tern Union in an endeavour to prove Societies. with the dollars and (to to Washington that Europe was

sound investment. lesser extent) sterling ..

She did more. She forfelted acquired during the

war. percent of Marshall Aid dollars and The result was that Belgians threw them back into the pool of had

inter-European payments so as to incentive for work. help her an

to help her potential customers to pay They worked like benvers

dress cat better, live better. better, and travel more com- fortably than any people Europe.

for their purchases.

:

Danger Point

from

and work.'

The Belgian currency from

Empire students, foreigners, ex being well below par as com-

Service people, and youngsters who pared with the French at the

have done their National Service. time of liberation rose steadily

In Peck and Canterbury quads, in the gardens of St John's, groups of until today it is one of the

boys atand with unlined faces and hardest currencies in Europe. Belgium had to bolster the legs growing out of their

flannel On the black market it is 12 debtor

with trousers, awkwardly trying to look times the price of the French

'URTHERMORE

the Bank

of

work,

me.

the

соп

THOUGHT that my status had FOR WORK

been settled by Miss Tolstoy, but The old guard, with their medals.

was helpless in the face of Moussin- their faded ichakl shirts, and their

FRESHMEN hesitate to give their Pushkin's stormy scene. That night Meanwhile her unemployment duffle costs, are going. Many were

feel views. They

was a complete nightmare to that their win a madhouse or was I go figures rose to 100,000; prices, too, married, with children. All werd

government grants may be cut if

"I in rose until for the first time in the hardworking,

in unacademic acti- ing mad

asking myself Was past two years they exccoded the

Colleges this term are preserving they, indulge

again and again. Did I escape from vities like statue crowning. and general level of wages

20 percent of their places for school-

Soviet surveillance to be suspected clamour for wage increases began to boys. The other 30 percent are be heard in the land.

From Sydney University and the of being a Soviet spy? University of Otago, New Zea- I dashed

off a letter to land, tall, slow-speaking Robert Soviet Consul-General which,

did not show Collins has come to Oriel. Io sottrary to reports, in his room, surrounded by half to anyone before having it mailed. probably I left the farm and walked down the unpacked suitcases. He spoke for them all when he said: road, stopping the first car going in "To us down under' Oxford is more the direction of

town. I handed than a university. It stands for the the letter and half a dollar to the English way of life."

motorist, requesting him to post it for me. The stranger was

good What the freshmen are thinking enough to give me back 47 cents in politically is less in doubt. An change. ove-of-term political census keeps When I returned to the kitchen, the Tories at the top of the poll. The after the car carrying my letter had remorse, Labour Club is second in popularity, vanished, I felt pangs of It aims increasing last term's although I did not fully realine to of 600 to 1,000. The what extent that letter would haunt Liberals arc third. Tho Com- me,. twenties, munists are a long, long way be

'hind.

European nations

ceed the danger point beyond which feel. loans. These loans began to ex-older and more assured than they

at

franc.

lay inflation.

In desperation and in growing

FOR CAIETY All this time Belgians kept bitterness Belgium began to look their

XFORD fingers tightly crossed, for a villian. She has found him in

for them is the hiatus between the dormitory and the knowing that the chief danger the man who is the very antithesis came not from their own scem- of most of the Belgian characteris- draft number. Will they carry on tics: the vegetarian, teetotaller Sirin the sober ways of the older un- ing extravagances, but from Stafford Cripps.

dergraduales, or will they return to membership

mad It was Cripps who suspended the the hilarity of the the possible failure of Europe as a whole to recover. For 80 convertibility of sterling' Cripps and 'thirties?

Sixty-year-old Nowman who has publicly criticised Belgjum percent of Belgium's export for

Yes, Oxford, like St Paul, has put alleged lack of co-operation, for 42 of his years on the printing trade went to Europa.

and anally Cripps who banned staff of The Isis, Oxford's Weekly away childish things.

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