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FIRE'S COSTELLO

MRS OKSANA KASENKINA'S OWN STORY

INSTALMENT 20

THERE not afternoon of Saturday.

HERE was no visible muzzle on me when I

August 7, to face a group of reporters represent- ing the New York press, yet I was gagged just as effcetively as if I had worn one.

The stage was set for a mock interview, in free Americh, on the order of the show trialn put on In stage manager Moscow during the Great Purge. The

nel and his assistant were Consul-General Lomakin Vice-Consul Chepurnykh. Serving as a backdrop for Wie net was a small contingent of pleked Consular aides lined up against the wall in the rear In my eyes their visages stamped them as being NKVD veterans.

1 was ro fagged out when they led me into the room that wos, afraid I would get dizzy and fall off me. So I asked the straight-backed chair offered to Chernykh to let me sit on sofa,

con-

That not a single representative of the press present nt the Interview spoke Russian was, I am vinced, not due to any pre-arrangement. The effect, however, was to deliver me wholly into the hands of my puppeteers. It enabled them to frame the case ac- cording to their fantastic scheme and to present the fabrication to the world and to the American Govern- ment as the truth,

William

Hickey

worse

ان

kend

The conversation with the repor ters being carried on in English, 1 barely understood that was going on, And I felt so humiliated at the role. assigned to me, that I could not look. squarely at the newspaper people.

INVENTED STORY

OMAKIN and Chepurnykh started

L. off by giving to the press tich

own agreed account of the events which had made me seek shelter at the farm of the Tolstoy Foundation. From my subsequent questionings "I've bul

profile picture "A Fallen Idol," stole the Kaye topped the lol. Of the others | by

I the American authorities, pages with news

his I pick Jack Benny.. Tony, Marlin, ascertained how bizarre their ac trouble than any

of you," front

£30,000 contract,

Betty Hutton. Bottom of the count was and how replete with broke in the, Duke. "When I

They were rendying an an- class-the opening import, Mickey downright Inventions. As an who THE chill wind of crisis was King officials

make nouncement about their own child Rooney.

instance, it might be suflelent to John Howard Davies, of was blowing up White the new stamps and coins came star,

But If Rooney had been the fourth cite the reported statement. by "Oliver Twist." His trip 10 hail and buffeting against to take

or 8th, instead of the first, Holly- | Chepurnykh that my husband was u It's my picture.

M America has been cancelled because wood-manla would have carried him scientist who had been killed in the the doors in Downing Street. tradition that each new King's of the Jewish boycott of the Dickens to success,

war. In my questionnairea and Moscow Hot puffs of political oratory face is opposite to his pre- film, so he goes into new pro-

applications led cut in

America prior to my departure for gusted out to sen from the decessor's, and my father duction this winter,

I had conslalently recorded that my

T

the

schoula

of

me answers,

the public Hall Tory

FROML Conference

at looked to the left in his coins Llandudno. Galtskell girded at

England the Fascists are trying husband had died in 1927. and stamps.

When questions were addressed to the miners. Vyshinsky evad-

Several boys have {tot letters

inc, they were interpreted for ed the question in the Palais

likes when which "But when they tried to photo- THE poison-tongue of Ben Hecht, 10 recruit little Fascists.

man who

began: "Dear afaster

by my keepers, and my de Chaillot. And back from graph me looking right I pointed British soldiers Bre

murdered, This is about politics, but

In turn, were interpreted and campaign to boycott Paris came Mr Bevin, looking out that the left was my better side. leads the

They answered that tradition Rank's films, Mr Rank gives back Then follows a round-up of the olaborated by them in a way which

situation from the Mosley view like a man with a sick headache. couldn't be upsel. I said what was

good for evil, Hundreds of his point. M who signs then is But in the London streets the the use of being King if I couldn't cinemas are showing "Kiss of Hamm, Sir

Oswald's right-hand people were in a mood to forget. took the way I wanted on my own Death," scripted by Hecht.

mall. The sun was out again for the money. We had a terrifle argument,

but I won in Afth time in a week, maybe shining brightly for the last time before the winter-and, lapping it up, everyone seemed to gain courage and optimism.

the cnn.

He added: "Not that it did much They didn't have time to good. print more than a few stamps, and the coins were never issued."

And after the *Abdication, Government simply pretended Duke had accepted tradition. VI, looks to the left.

made some of the reporters look sceptical. My own condition spoke better than anything I could say in the circumstances.

When the photographer got ready! ***

Two other Alms he authored are also going the rounds, but people who queue to see them just don't IVE soldiers in battle-dress, with to take my picture with Lomakin, the latter urged ma In Russian, know.

His name was expunged on 1 full kit, waiting 011 Charing "Smile" I was made to pose facing

1939-45 orders from London chiefs of the Cross Station, mude

old Lomakin. Instead of smiling, I had American companies.

sweats stare at them twice. Jutting to stifle a cry. Fortunately, the cach pleture shows the pressure under "We'd be fools to keep Hecht's out from under the flap of

knapsick were... two coat which I was labouring. the name J1," they say. "We're ព

hangers. On nims to make money," Let

tho

"Miracle of the Bells."

me

and

War Office comunent: "Coat han-

When the ordeal was over OF the British people and the his stamps and coins King George put the record right. The Alma gers are issued now, though these

fre "Ride the Pink Horse" and soldiers are probably amoog the the reporters rushed out, Lomakin escorted me upsinlrs to the room first to get them. It will be some

"All's well me. time

that before all

assigned to units can

ends well," he remarked with satis- supplied."

faction. "You'll stay here with us Si no batons?

until the next Soviet ship sails back home."

effect the weather has on them, Winston Churchill once wrote, "Sunshine can give them light in their blackest hour." It was the beat antidote for this period of Black Fury.

But-not-for-the CabinetAt Socialist Party headquarters

INGRID BERGMAN, the nicest

visitor we've yet hnd from Hollywood, left me a note before' flying home to say she is downcast that no "Brush"producer-asked-her- "I haven't a single aim in prospect," she says. which have been doing business alt looks ns though nobody wants selling pedigree bitches on the verge me!". of producing puppies.

}}} : {a

Morgan Phillips denies the hunt DOWN in Surrey there are kennels to make a picture here,

a successor

is on for

to Mr Attlee. But at least three members of the Cabinet are

Buyers are travellers to France who want more money when they get there. They take them over, wait for the blessed event, and then sell the lit.gr. A nice line in in- visible exports.

F

ONE

MRESORUNWE

be

And then be added: "As for Samarin he's and duraka fool.

· WOMEN WATCHERS

of Mr Bevin's staff whited A were to dog my stepe during couple of the consular women

away the time at the UNO As the next five days came round to sembly keeping tabs on the way his vialt m: and to draw out aty furthe:: chief, whose tongue gets a bit | information I might yield. From stuck over foreign words, pro-them I learned that when the nounces the names of his fellow Samarins and I had falled to come delegates.

to the pler the morning the Pobeda Mr Bevin

hus no trouble

with was to sall for Russia, the de- SØREIGN Ofice has goose pimples

bul rhyines Gromykoparture of the ship was postponed over stories told by an attache Vyshinsky,

In the expectation that we would FTER a week of beating the drum

once with rummy cove. He calls Mah- trying to make themselves look

show up. for recruits Army and Air Force back from Russia. He says for like foxes, ready

the

bigwigs were dissatisfied. Marshal of they get going the Soviets can build moud Bey Fawzt, of Egypt, simply bombs twice as fast as we Mr Fussy, Dr Hsloh Ren Wel, of

Since our luggage was on board, moment when the Transport the Air Force Tedder is believed to

China, Mr So Run We, Abdul Aziz,

Sovlet authorities at first the feel the campaign got off on House hounds come over

the can.

of Afghanistan, is naturally Mr As the wrong foot. He is angry about re-

"They don't waste time building is. And M. Byron Theodoropoulous, thought that senie traffic accident

might have delayed hill.

us. Later, ports that Army sergeants were

when a search revealed our disap- pearance, they became convinced that our defections had been part of a single plot. I was unable to "Dr persuade them that I had no fóre- plaus

atom

Back-benchers Are Juying used to elect hecklers at early meet elaborate safety appliances in their of Greece, is Just Mr Broch

atom plants. They just send their

now

odds on who will hang his ings.

workers in and tell them to get on brush on the mantelshelf of

Hecklers are as British as roast with the future worker No. 10 next spring: Herbert beef used to be. Tedder feels a having to recruit Morrison, evens, Sir Stafford few malcontents make trouble the But labour is lavish and expend Cripps, 5-4: Aneurin Bevan, Army should keep off the job of able." 6-1; Chuter Ede, 10-1, and escorting them to the street.

recent meetings, police have taken 100-1 the field. -

about that.

the

At

Old Vic production.

knowledge of the Samarins"

THERE is a character in the new Faustus." called The Deadly Sin of Sloth. The programune points out to remain in America, and that I that the girl who plays it appears had never confided my own plans "by kind permission of the J. Arthur to them.

tank Organisation." obviously.

over. The public will feel better PEST news for pro-British variety fans the business that Graclu Fields is doing at the Palladium. The warmth and emotion In the THE Duke of Windsor is in

welcome she gets from the audience the the news with a story from

has been

growing through week. South of France. At n

But is there any other British Riviera party given by the

star who could stir up similar around you?" American hostess, Elsa Max-

feelings? Bid Field and the Cruzy well, flm stars Tyrone Power,

And who else? Clark Gable, and Orson Welles. FILM people are excited about the Gang, yes.

Battle of the Brats, The Rank Now the London variety, season which of the that little is well-nigh over, were arguing which 'slile of Organisation is piqued their face looks best in profile. Bobble Henrey, star of the Korda visiting Americans did best? Danny

THE ADVENTURES OF FIDO

..

Coincidence,

kept The door to my room was open at night. In the hallway a cot was put up on which one of the ETTER from a West End girdle women clerks of the Consulate slept, keep mo company and brasslere manufacturer:Presumably to

but really to watch over me. Across charms "Mudame, may I put my

from the office which I occupied were the living quarters of. Lomakin himself, consisting of an alcové with a kitchenette and a'large' room opening on the court In the rear of the buildin

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