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REPUBLICAN DEWEY

CAN DEWEY LOSE?

THE PEOPLE DISLIKE HIM—BUT HE WILL GET THEIR VOTES

WASHINGTON.

THE most important fact On-the-spot report from

about the American pre- the sidential election is extraordinary decline in the Humber. of people who have registered as voters. Mr Dewey will win the election in an at- indif- mosphere of frenzied ference.

VINCENT SHEEAN

its right wing, as being the legitimate heir to the immense Roosevelt coalition, which in- cluded people of all parties, classes and notions.i

It has proved, impossible to convince Mr Truman that things have changed in the past three years. What dis more, he is using the language today which proved offective almost fifty years ago, and the expression "Wall Street." as meaning everything that is evil, and tyrannical in the Eightieth Congress, with its corrupt

from capitalism, is never far from A large number of Ameri- Republican majority, cans, conceding in advance the about six in the morning until his lips. election of Mr Dewey, do not ten at night, talking from the wish to vote either for him or back platform of his special against him. He is, practically train, but he has never once ad- CINCE the whole country knows speaking, the only candidate, so mitted that the evil record of that his own Cabinet Is run by that if one does not wish to that Congress was made by a vote for or against Mr Dewey conlition of Republicans and De- one may as well stay at home. mocrats,

Many people will do so. Mr Truman has made a cam- paign which would be suited to the parochial, the municipal, or at the very largest the county seale. He has attacked

Atomic Energy

men from Wall Street this sounds hollow Indeed.

по

Mr Dewey is elther far better ad- vised or a far better able to take exceed- advice. His speeches are ingly good, and he has made mistake worth noticing unless it was his rather enigmatic reference re- cently to the possibility of turning atomle energy over to private indus- try.

Mr Dewey has taken a much higher tone throughout, be- cause he is very well advised. His campaign has been, in fact, impeccable. But the instinct of the people does not warm to him just the same. The bigger than that was enough to congeal

he talks the smaller he looks.

Two Others

KASENKINA'S THERE are two other candi- MRS OKSANA KASENKINA'S

OWN STORY

T

INSTALMENT 21

This hint-it was hardly

Beyond that, what?

того

#UCCESS

the blood of those who think about the future of the world. However, It had the merit or demerit of every- thing Mr Dewey say that is, one does not know what he means. One knows only that he means to be dates-Henry Wallace, grow- President, and that he will be Presi- ing dizzier by the day in his dent. Ile is the American effort to keep up with the story. I was hustled up the stairs, acceleration of his insignifi-

Pig In A Poke Two of the Consular females cance, and Norman Thomas, were immediately assigned to the same yesterday, today and THE cicctorate is, in fact, buying a pig in a poke, but every sign in- One of them was Petrova, tomorrow, an honourable citi dicates that this is known and dis-- the other was my former land-zen whom everybody respects counted. It has happened before. Nobody knew.anything about Hard- lady, Zoyn Porojniakova, who and few will vote for.

ing or Coolidge either. Dowey talks had her little girl Olechka with Mr Thomas is in many lights in the generalities which are called the only candidate who could "safe." The people's instinct has command universal esteem if dictated their course; they will let he should incur the

him be President, since he wishes dreadful

it so much, but if he does not mind responsibility of office; but he his p's and q's his tenure will be has no remote chance of doing short.

Something might happen to upset

me.

her.

I kept

this?" "Why did you do

they E five days and nights they could buy for me.

"Do you think that you're of my confinement to the insisting that I wanted a change asked.

I put on

a pair under arrest?" Zoyn remarked with third floor of the Soviet of quarters.

n jacket, and a sly smile. Consulate became a mounting of slacks and nightmare for me. I had no tried to relax. But I could find rest. Presumably I was free to no peace. move about. In reality I found myself under domestic deten- tion.

"Why do you keep me here? Why are you making a nervous wreck out of me?" I would keep asking either Lomakin or Che purnykh. "With all that noise outside and all those curiosity seckers, why don't you let me go to Glen Cove?"

I hoped that at the Long Island catate, which was being used as a rest home for Soviet oficials, I would find it possible to escape to freedom. But these pleas of mine fell on deaf ears.

"Skoro

poredem-we'll leaving soon," Lomakin would answer, indicating that he, too, expected to journey back to

Russia.

DEADLINE PASSES

be

"Why?" I crled, breaking into sobs. "They don't let me go oul.

I'm stifling here without air. I'm no longer my own self, and can't sit still or rest,"

To keep me entertained, the Consular women finally installed a little radio in my room. I I sat there smoking furiously. could hardly understand what "What shall I do now?" i kept say- the news broadcasts were re ing to myself. "I must do come.hing. porting about my case, but now I must do something." and then I caught my name and those of the Consuls, and realised what a sensation the affair had become.

GRILLED IRON DOOR

LEAP TO FREEDOM

PHE ittle girl began to cry too. To THE

quiet her I went across the hallway to Lomakin's alcove to get a soll drink out of the refrigerator for the child, The doar from the ASKED to be transferred alcove to Lomakin's living room was

I noticed that the ajar. downstairs. To show me that in the back was upen. there was no other room avail-

window

I

80.

21

Mr Wallace outdoes himself the apparent certainty of the result. It is difficult to imagine what, but happen. Just the in promises and accusations, wild talk and wilder gestures, from one week to the next.

'Strange Apparition

MONG the more unbalanced

AM

something might same.

Mr Dewey is on the thin edge of

times. being ridiculous at all

(In 1044 he lost millions of votes be causó Ethel Barrymore said he look- ed like "the bridegroom on: awed- ding cake," and the remark echoed young people in universities from one end of the country to the other). It is conceivable that Mr. that is, old enough to think Dewey might make a mistake. they know and not old enough to realise anything-he has u fanatical following. It is his CTREAMLINED and air-conditioned. misfortune that the franchise

as he is, this seems most unlikely. (except has not been extended to those All of our fellow-citizens

Mr Truman) think he will escort his under 18.

perfection into the White House on The Truman apparition is in the appointed day in January.

democratic neces most aspects the strangest in It will be the

sity

thereafter to accept him and the whole phantasm.

help him in every way possible for

.

Streamlined

I poured out the drink for the The President apparently the task whose weight is still un- able in the building I was taken lit le girl and took it to her, Hor thinks he can win and should known to him, and from what I hear down to the basement, which mother and Petrova were in my

and byways, the rump in the highways They were trying to soothe win. He rogards the

American people, disliking him os which Democratic party

he was used as a storeroom. After room.

they undoubtedly do, will still be this I preferred to return to the the tot with the cold beverage, third floor. I had noticed that I made a dush for Lonakin's leads, without its left wing or capable of that effort. there was n grilled iron door room, closing the door behind me. I lending from the basement climbed up to the window sill, saw the outside wall passageway into the courtyard. a wire atuched

of the house, and looked down as I "You can see that we have no shivered with a chill of terror.

leaped. ONE day Lomakin reported to space," Lomakin assured me, crossed myself, seized the wire, and "but you can come downstairs me that Countess Tolstoy had

You in an instant I was lying down in a heap. And 1 declared to the press that I had any time you want to.

was alive! I had not lost conscious- a sister in England and that my are free to go about as you the cour.yerd. in

The implication was ness. As it appeared later, I had husband had been purged. He please." feigned surprise at these facts that my stay in the Consulate burned the which I had confided to Miss was all for my protection. Tolstoy, and queried me about it On the afternoon of Thurs- in a significant tone.

day, August 12, I decided to no longer any put Lomakin's words to the doubt in my mind as to what test and make an attempt to I dressed for the fate had in store for me upon get out.

The street, put on my gloves, and my return to Russia.

Walked downstairs, A calling for help, deadline for my appearance in boldly court had passed, and those making for the front door. surrounding me now felt that I' would not be surrendered to the American authorities for ques- tioning.

There was

SURROUNDED SUDDENLY

SUDDENLY I was surrounded by a band of men. There must I began to figure out possible ways and means of escaping. I have been twenty of them and feared that among the on- they seemed to have sprung out

there from every corner. lookers in the street might be Soviet agents planted by the Consulate to see if I were communicating by signals. with confederates outside.

I virtually stopped taking food, which worried the Consul greatly. He would ask me if there were any appetising items

"Where are you going?" "You mustn't leave." "Don't you see what's going on in the street?"

"Go back to your room!" Lomakin himself appeared. "Podnimytca!-Up you go!" he snarled, repeating the order.

two fingers which gripped the wire as I slid a short It distance down before. I pulled off the building. It was a telephone wire and fell all about me.

S I

outeries

TO HOSPITAL

WDS

and .grooming

there were of alarm me. There Iron

and sounds 5П the air above were people fumbling at the door leading from the building into the courtyard. subsequently, I anly learned

Consulate

As

the

door had been locked long ago, and the Soviet oficials could not locate the key for several minul.co.

The

officers, American police having climbed over a fence separat Ing the Consulate grounds from the adjoining building, were at my side. "American hospital," I murmured

them as

Jost my wishes to

consciousness.

(Tomorrow: Mrs. Kasenkina concludes her story.)

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