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SUNDAY, DEC. 26

450 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 6.15 BILLY MAYENL

and his Muale

434 ENGLISH MAGAZINE,

1.50 THE NEWS

7.10 Interlude

1733 NIGHTS AT THE OPERA

(Kramephone recorda)

-8.09 FROM THE EDITORIALS

RSS ETMA

Cliristmas Elitiner.

-0.45 LIFE IN DRITAIN

9.00 THE NEWA.

0.10 Interlude

.9.13 MELODY TIME

Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra

20.00 RADIO NEWANEEL

18.JI CONCERTO

A series of weekly programmes

Vavaldi and Bach

plarios

Concerto, in A minor for tour and strings (Vivaldi, Art, Bach and Concerto in D minor for three planos and airings (Bath), played by Kathleen Delford. Catherine Shauka, Wight Hender. son, Robert Irving, and the BBC Scottial Orchestra, conductor, Ian Warto. Pro Kramme also includes Chaconne in, o minor for Brings (Purcell, arr. Whitaker) and The Water Music Handel, KTY. Ifarty)

11,20 Interlude

13 FROM THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Message by Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mary from Children at Home to Children Overseas: Christmas Story: Uncle Binca Christmas Carols

12.00 THE NEWS,

MONDAY, DEC. 27

6.30 A Celebration by

THE KENTUCKÝ MINSTRELA

of their lundredth Performance A black-faced Minstrel now, Quest Artist: Edric Connor. The Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus conducted by Leslie Woodgaje At the organ; Charles Smart. Book written and

remembered by C. Dealer Warren, Choral arrangements, by Dorks Arnold. The show devised and produced by Harry H. Pepper

1.00 THE NEWA

7.1 Interludo

7.15 CHRISTMAR DANDETAND

1.4 JOYCE GRENFELI.

1.03 Interlude

3.14 AVONTINO RECORD

5.45 BRITISH INDUSTRY

A talk by William Holt

0.00 Interlade

9.15 SOUTH AFRICA

V. M.C.C.

THE

SECOND CRICKET TRST MATCH

A commentary by John Arlott on the

first day's play at Johannesburg

9.45 1088 PRATT

(Canadian plantst

10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.

10.15 Erle Barker in

'WATERLOGURD SPA

Christmas Edition

10.45 BUC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

11.20 x Hearted Arthur invites you ta "ARTHUR ASKEY'S CHRISTMAS SHOW

with Arthes Askey, chard Murloch. Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black

12.00 THE NEWR

TUESDAY, DEC. 28

4.00 SCIENCE REVIEW

0.35 LIGHT MUNIC

(gramophone recorda)

0.39 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK

7.00 THE NEWS

7.15 MUSIC. FROM GRAND HOTEL.

The Palm Court Orchestra Directed by

Tom Jenkina Janel Howe (mezzo-soprano)

1,45 THINK ON THESE THINGS

1.00 FILOST THE EDITORIALS

5 TO TOWN WITH TERAY Christmas edition with Ruth Dunning.

April, May, and June, other well-known personalties and Terry Thomas Inc

Varioly Orchestra Conductor: Нас

Jenking

8,45 BRITISH FARMER

Looking to 1940, by A. G, Streat

9.00 THE NEWB

9.15 BOUTI AFRICA Y. M.Č.C.

SECOND CRICKET TEST MATCH.

TUE

A commentary by John Arloth on tho

second day's play at Johannesburg

——9.4)—ANNE.SHELTON

In Introducing Anse Again,

- 30,00-RADIO-NEWSREEL-S

19.15 VARIETY BANDBOX-

11.20 Interlude

1130 NEW RECORDS

Presented by Robert Tredinnick'į. 12.00 THE NEWA

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29

6.50 REPORT FROM BRITAIN'S 6.15 HANDY MACPHERSON, AT TUE,

THEATRE ORGAN

0.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU: WORK 1.00 THE NEWB

7.15 BBC MIDLAND LIGHT · · ORCHES-

TILA

9.00 FROM THE EDITORIALS 8.12 BANDS WITIHN DANDS

"The Jack White Collegians from Jack White'a Dechestra

838 VARIETY CALLS THE TUNE

BBC Variety Oreliestra Conductor: as Jenkins with Robert Irwin

9.00 THE NEW!

THE

0.15 SOUTH AFRICA T. M.C.C.

SECOND CRICKET TEST MATCIE,

A commentary by John Arloit on the third day's play at Johannesburg

DAS JEAN MERLOW AND JANETTA

MINTAY

at two pianos

18.00 NADED NEWSREEL.

10.13 BAND PARADE

11.20 Entariade

15.30 BOOKS TO READ

11.45 THE TREATRE IN LONDON

A talk by W. Macqueen Pope 12.09 THE NEWS

THURSDAY, DEC. 30 ·

4.00 BALANCE OF EUROPE 4.15 ORCHESTRAL

TCHAIKOVSKY

(grarnophone recorda)

MUSIC

430 MUNIC WHILE YOU WORK 7.00 THE NEW

7.15 STAR VARIETY

07

with The Radio Revellers and Donald Peers. Entroduced by Derek Haker

7.30 OBC WELSH ORCHESTRA

Conductor: "Mankel Thamak

3.00 FROM THE EDITORIALS

0.13 #HIPMATES ABHORE

8.45 OBSERVATION PONT

9.00 THE NEWS

9.15 ROUTH AFRICA

M.C.C. THE

SECOND CRICKET TEST MATCH

A commentary by John Arlott on the fourth day's play at Johannesburg .5.43 ACCORDEON CLUB

Primo Scala and his Accordeon Band 10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL

10.15 RITISH CONCERT HALL Now London Orchestra conducted and presented by Alec Sherman Overture: Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck Tintagel ....Arnold Bax Symphony No. (The Italian) Mendelsson

11.20 Interlude

1130 THE RAINA TRUST

Resident Team: Callin Brooks, Kingsley Martin, and Wilson larria, Quesilon-

Master: Gilbert Harding

12.00 THE NEWI

FRIDAY, DEC. 31

0.00 SPECIAL DISPATCH

6:15 BOOKS TO READ

6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WOUR

5.00 THE NEWA

1.15 QUEEN'S BALL LIGHT ORCHES-

-TRA

Conductor: Sidney Torch

1,00 FROM THE EDITORIALI.

8.15 JAZZ CLUB

8,35 LOOKING AT BRITAIN

9.00 THE NEWS

9.35 nuc NYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor: Sir Adrian Boull Symphony No. 4....Bralıms

10,00 RADIO NEWSREKI.

10.15 LOBSTER FEVER

11.20 Interlude

11.30 SCOTTISHI MAGAZINE 12.00 THE NEWS

SATURDAY, JAN. 1

6.00 WORLD AFFAIRS

4.15 THE THEATRE IN LONDON

A talk by W. Macqueen Pope

4.15 MÚSIC WHILE YOU' WORK

7.00 THE NEWA

7.13 KATHLEEN

HENRY WILSON

at two planos

McQUITTY

AND

2.30 Km Peacock and Marjorie West- bury in 'PAUL TEMPLE AND THE CURZON CASE

A serial in eight episodes by Francis Durbridge. Episode 2: 'Welcome to Dul, | worthi Bay“

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948.

krem to remember a lot of brave talk this morning about not having a drink with the boys and coming home early to help us."

THE TELEGRAPH PRESENTS TODAY THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF A: MASTERFUL CHARACTER STUDY OF THE

THE REAL STALIN

By EMIL

One man has had the entire world in an almost constant state of jilters unparalleled since the heyday of Adolf Hitler. That man la Josef

Stalin.

Once proud nations cringe in mortal terror of his next move. Others are already so sub- servient that they virtually have lost their identiles. Sul others primarily the United Bistes-are rearming with an

the bye on unpredictable tomorrow. What maken Stalin behave the way he does? What manner of man is this who, holds within lls hands more power than Caesar. did, and whose designs alix such fear the hearts of

his fellow ment

IRST of all you must imagine a strong-looking, but rather thick-set man about whom everything seems 4.30 MUCH-BINDING-IN-THE-MANSI heavy and slow: his carriage, his gait, his gestures, and his REVIEW-speech.

8.00 FROM THE EDITORIALS 13.00 MONTMARTRE PLAYERS

9.00 THE NEWS

9.13 END OF THE YEAR

HIGHLIGHTS OF 1918

Commentator: Wynford Vaughan, Thomas

9.43 OCЛESTRAS OF THE WORLD

13: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (gramo- | cffect on his visitors. -plane récorde).

19.00_RADIO NEWBIEEL

10.15 DANCE Muste

(gramophone records)

10.30 SOUTH AFRICA v. M.C.G-THE

THIRD CRICKET TEST MATCH

A commentary by John Arloft on the first day's 'play' at Cape Town

11.00 SATURDAY SPORT including commentaries

him

seems

LUDWIG

Here is the most remarkable and penetrating study of Josef Statin ever written. Penned by the brilliant dean of modern blography, Emil Ludwig, this masterful profile of the Soviet dictator tells the inside stary of the real Stalin and why, he enjoys his role today as one of history's greatest enigmas.

Famous the world over for his biograplitcal masterpieces on Napoleon, Bismarck and others, Ludwig completed this manuscript In July of this year. It turned out to be the last published. work of the famous blographer, who dled suddenly at his home in Ascona, Switzerland, on September 17.

financlers-I would ask him what early experiences may have prompt- ed him to break away from his own class.

served as a kitchen for his wife when she came home at night from her factory, work.

There were some chickens, in the small yard, and probably a cow, The too.

Was

Only such persons could even

SOVIET DICTATOR

JOSEF STALIN—A RECENT PICTURE

--EXPELLED AT 18. I became a socialist only when others "I the discipling of the seminars

their

becomes known to the world, and, who more often than not, has to usc alloses such as "Sosso" or "Koba" Instead of "Stalin'-it is only na- tural that such a man comes to bear a grudge toward his more for tunate comrades, and gets gloomier by

with every year that goes without any change in his situa~ tion,

When, after the revolution of 1805, the various political factions como into being. Stalin was stationed chiefly for some years in the oll region of Baku. Ho was occupied with organising Russian workers through lectures and the distribu- tion of pamphlets, At the same time he wILI indoctrinating the peasants with the Marxian principle that they could 1lberate themselves only under the leadership of or- ganised labour,

SIBERIAN - EXILE (THE labour meetings, starting inte, ended always at a very late 'hour." oñe of Stalin's compan- lons of these days reminisces, and then Stalin would go to, one of the two taverns that kept open till 2 am.. He would have some fea, and rove the streets to wait for the frat regular tavern to open at 4 a.m.

There he would have come stea on a wooden again, take a nap benelitill seven, and then 'rest at the place of some comrade."

Ho had done much rending in the long nights of his Siberian exile. There is a story about Stalin reading Marx to one of his guards until the soldier fell asleep; then slipping out long enough to go fishing.

Siberian fishing and hunting have restored the shattered health of many a future Russian leader, That is true of Gorki, Trofsky, Kalinin and-later-some of the marshals. By sepding his mortal enemies, into exile, the czar sent them also to

kind of sanitariums, Stalin had already accumulated his much knowledge and gone through many experiences when he fest

of Come

Lenin' accretly

inte President

Masaryk (founder of Czechoslovakia), who In that environment, the child had been born the son of a coach- learned something about minor, man on a Hapsburg estate, told me

chores. Beasant

But the whole. about Everything stand-offish, coldly calculating, cau-

atmosphere was entirely proletaris that it was the high-handed manner T which the Bohemian aristocrata an-and that, in those days, tlous and most of it has a sombre tantamount to a life without any his great resentment,

treated his father that first aroused

parties which could send The--Impression which Joseph-

hope.

As I asked Stalin the same ques elected representatives to the various Stalin-makes on all Europeans who -FATHER--A---SERF- tion, he made a startling answer. parliaments to be accepted and meet him-including all Russlang (to whom he, racially, does not in the Province of Georgia, low he said, it was not the listened to there the life of

station of my parents which Russian socialist was still that of a lying between the Caspian Sea belong) is that of

outlandishness. and the Black Sea, only the sons of made me a socialist. I had no such criminal. Americans feel that, of course, property owners who were in a feelings when I was six or, for that He had to elude the police, again

change his name. position to pay for the schooling matter, even when I reached the and again even more strongly. talked to Stalin

for three solid of their offspring could get

domielle and the town he lived in. any age of twelve. hours, sitting opposite him, and he where in life.

There exist police photos

of read did not look at me once. He seems on Ansoelation

Stalla with full black beard, ond published writings. He was greatly to be a man without marves, or at hope, with some luck, lo gain a

with

impressed by them. clean-shaven face, any rate a man able to control his certain amount of equailty with the

more than fifteen years Stalin

GREAT MOMENT nerves to a degree altogether un- ruling class of the military-minded aroused my Indignation. That place kd that kind of life, interrupted

um and

in teemed with sples, and there was only by exile in He is taciturn canny

WHEN, 25 Georgian aristocracy patient

in Siberia.

a mon of twenty-five, Were his character

whole 03 0

turn,

subservient tho no end to deceitful tricks.

He seems

the thirty-five- served six ho Orst met While we had our morning tea, different, those characteristics could Russia

Russian Boyars (petty nobles) and have made him a statesman and Grand-Dulces.

the tutors would rummage about in different stretches in Siberia every year-old Lenin in Finland, it was a our drawers

the time managing, as incidentally did great moment in Stalin's life. and papers in popular leader of the stature of the

"Jam nothing but a disciple of dormitories. late Thomas

Lenin, and don't want to be re- G. Masaryk {founder

And quite similarly, all his comrades, to escape. peasant, let alone a-cobbler, owning they would, in their never-ending also came to know well over

anything else, he said dozen regular Russian prisons. Thus garded World War I).

he spent his youth and carly madeath. And contrary to his habit. to me many years after Lenin's before 1862, had been a 23rf. And suspicions, rummage about in our

hood-from his eighteenth to his

he even repeated these words. When that youngster once visited.

thirty-eighth year.

When I asked him whether life Tials, the nearby capital of the

There is one trait that emerged abroad did not estrange the original province, he could watch the noble-

in Stalin very early to hold its generation of revolutionary leaders men and their fur-wrapped facies

sway over him for the rest of his from their native country, he heap- ride

past him in their carriages

life, and which had no counterpart ed all his scorn upon those men. drawn by three horses abreast.

autocrats. Perhaps that trall might yand, the border, learning nothing. In the character patterns of other who used to have a good time be-

be called Astatic.

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But unlike Masaryk, Stalin is no philosopher. Stalin is a man filled to the brim with hidden passions: and therefore his life has taken a course quite different from that of the Czech statesman.

When you recall the most re- markable man you've ever met in your own life, you may find one who had both patience and. a

passionate disposition-and you will remember that the very combina tlon of those two traits was bound to put that man into conflict with

his surroundings." :

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AN ASIATIC

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which,

to

There was no such thing as

3

himself. Stalin's father, born

told his son.

He could watch the lackey sitting beside the coachman on the box in his gold-braided scarlet livery and

Fave

weapon; THE SEMINARY

That was the thing I

couldn't stand. It turned me into a rebel **When the frat illegal socialist agents come to the Caucasus, and I happened to get hold of one of their leaflets, I said to myself, I want to know the man who has written this stul."

"One of the students managed to

get a copy of Karl Marx's 'Caplial

and secretly we all rend 1”

No wonder that Stalin was ex- pelled from the seminary when he was eighteen years old.

For

to

have

Ho

LONGING FOR GLORY

But he explicity excluded Lenin,

and also proved his point: Stalin

can prove everything, even the absurd,

•

keeping his arrogant eyes on the urchins, lest they annoy the horses,

The natural dellance the adoles

THE utterances of other dictators as

Stalin always talks with much cent must have felt soon bred in

well as such democratic states- reverence about Lenin-though rent him a deop grudge against the

men as Roosevelt reveal, as one of enthusiasm is allen to his nature. Later, the whole of Soviet Russia the foremost motives of their de-. "I was greatly surprised," he told ruling class and thess sentiments was to celebrate Stalin's expulsion veloping greatness, a definite long me, "at Lenin's habit of Joining could well have turned him into un

from the seminary as a day of ing for. glory. ordinary criminal

meetings ahead of the rest of the E know from hundreds of studies

But the ardent

national rejoicing."

Nothing of this can be found to important people, and talking things wish of his mother that such reticent and slow men

has Only one

always what Stalin sald and did. A taste over with the little delegates. person who may nevertheless

turn to his life. "explode" another

denied that there was any truth in for political · Intrigue was much. "Great men usually arrive late on at any

to mament, are nowhere

A cousin as

of hers happened know the principal of a

greater in hirm than his wish to such occasions religious

the story.

to heighten the frequent as among Asiatics.

When it once was read to her mako hlatory, or even bis desire to effect of their entry. Stalin is an Asintic.

seminary in Tillis, and through that long after her boy had become the overthrow the Czar

"Leain's modesty and simple man- Imagine, then, such a buttoned- relative she beseeched the principal country's dictator, the octogenarian "That was the driving force in ners.struck me from the very be- up, lonely figure usu

usually in a grey to take on interest in her boy. She mother of Stalin violently challenged Stalin. For, unlike all other con ginning. tunte without any ribbon or medal, sucecoded.

that account. She declared that her temporary autocrats, ho did not and · never carrying

IMPRESSES LENIN son never was expelled, and that make his own revolution, but in- Imagine his low forehead, the

sho had taken him home from herited it.

dbvious wish to revinin in- Mongol cut of his grey eyes, his SURELY it was the most rewarding school only because all that studr-

Lenin, too, was near his fifiles "Honspicuous and nover, to show when he came to power, tight-lipped mouth which sometimes morning of her troubled life when ing had undermined his health.

But he his superiority was one of his greatest was allowed pipe burning about as slowly the

to cross the "He was a good boy, and surely fifteen years, and had come to know nature of the masses who assumed had lived outside of Russia for charms; it appealed to the simple as he talks, and his hollow, never- threshold. of the peminary Toud voice, and`you'll have a pretty her fourteen-year-old son, and hand they never expelled, him!"", she said.litical freedom and western cul- their political role in 'Those days.”.. CONSPIRATOR'S LIFE accurate picture of what Stalin him over to the Greek Orthodox

ture. Trotsky's

had

· experiences лас But Stolin, on his part, alsó made looks like.

priest in

FTER having left the seminary been similar. -

a great Impression on Lonin. He was born, almost seventy withharge of it, her eyes filled

A Stalin then left his parents' house gratitude and pleading.

+ Stalin looked always with envy at In an early letter to Gorki, Lonin years ago, in a wretched four-room

He started on Now, that

and the province. that seminary was

the world beyond Russia's borders. calls. Stalin an extraordinary brick house which you feel you can exactly a' monastic place offering his conspirator's life.

-

Throughout these fifteen years he Georgian.". blow down when you stand in front Idyllio pouco. Actually, students' That part of his career is more always found himself detalled to In the ensuing Soviet struggles of it. The upper parts of its walls revolts had occurred time and again sombre than anything in the early shadowy duties in Russia's Interior he never partod company with :

with

rough beards there. For about a

experiences of other contemporary by Lenin who ruled the movement him--and that is, as we know, the Coverod

a hundred years Which are just as uneven as the one a spirit of rebellion had been alive dictators.

socratly from abroad.

main reason why Stalin came1 lato. No revolutionary party existed in stone step of the entrance door. in the classes tro students came

Stalin was always condemned, as power and Trotsky met his dpath. the Russia of 1900. There only it wern, to a molo's existence, while This Ule house stands in a small from in that region.

Again we realise the invalidity of provincial town of the Caucasus

With the

the young fellow who on existed, in every stratum of society, the others went on with their des the Marxist theory according to whose name is about region,

young people morning stepped over

vented their tructive work in the light and liber- which economic conditions, and, not Ds that tongue-twisting as that of Stalin's threshold of the seminary that spirit dissatisfaction in secret discussions, ty of Paris, London, Vienna and men, make history original family

For the past thirty years we have the stature of diminutive handbills or underground New York, Practically was to atmo all Rusalan communist leaders of world-shaking movement,

meetings, and from time to time It is only natural that a man been watching with our own eyes his generation adopted aliases. (pe Whenever I met a statesman who assassinated one of the car's cabinet who has to spend his best years in history being made by men,

the routing work of a secret, or- In one of those four rooms also was a revolutionary-whether ministers. Stalin's father, a cobbler, had his it was Mussolini, the blacksmith's, Socialist parler came into being pears under a manifesto and never

While everywhere else in Europe ganisation, whose name novar ap- (TO HE CONTINUED ON

(MONDAY)": workshop, while the adjoining room son, or Roosevelt, the scion

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