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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1948.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

Mark my worda, Eaphne, this Inte next year we'll be nationalised, with a Govern ment-appointed M.FI draia.

£1,000 ing

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£3,000,000 Worth. Of Talk..

By Norman Barrymaine

PARIS.

WHEN the first half of the

W General Assembly of Une ended here, it had cost us, the people, about £3,000,000.

The projected second half of the assembly opening in New York on April will add another £000.000

to the bill,

General

FOURTH INSTALMENT:

THE REAL

NY stranger entering the portal of the walled-in- Kremlin is stopped by a and asked for his

ASTALIN

credentials.

name

was

When I called on Stalin, a highly gifted young man ac companied me as my inter- preter. 'His.". Oumansky, and he later became Soviet Ambassador to Mexico, where he was killed in an' nero- plane accident.

By EMIL LUDWIG

He followed the interpreter's ad- hero worship manifest in naming

towns after Soviet

government vice, using his red penell. people on the other.

At that time he was the Chief of

Then he said he, too, wanted to, the Soviet Fress Department-an

our car Considering "Stalingrad,” this was 'nsk me n question, or rather a important post. Yet, ns.

favour. But if I didn't feel like B. rofied through the archway, an alleek on himself.

under no obligation Oumansky maid to me, "I am very Brateful to you-inn'ly I'm going to... Stalin said: meet Comrade Stalin."

So much did Stalin remain Lit visible in the first years of his die tatorship! He. never received strangers.

Our three-hour conversation con- stituled at that time the only ease in which a stranger talked to him with

(At a out any official nsalgminent. later date, George Bernard Shaw had

but he similar chance,

was greatly disturbed by the presence of a. rather stupid English Indy).

Stalin himself published a record of our conversation,

}

The first thing which attracts the stranger's attention in the yard of this girantle citudel is the Napoleonte cannons-they bear the emperor's

golden

"N" on their barreis left chlad in 1812 and later brought to

the Kremila

+

"You're mistaken. You'll find In Marx that It Is men who make his tory-but only in their reactions to existing conditions. The greatness of a man is determined by his rene 1lons to the conditions which faces Otherwise he is just a Don Quixote."

I was

Dnswer.

10

"Would you say that' minition furthers, or, that It Hinders, the de- velopment of a man's energles?"

dependa Amabilion may: -stimulate o man." But mostly. It prevents him from fuifting his destiny. 2

"Do you believe in destiny?" He let a long while pass before he replied with great Armness:

"No, I don't. It's a prejudice. It's nonsense,

MA

Again he broke out in his hollow laugh, and, then, he twice said In German:

י

"Schleksalf Schicksal"-" ("Fatel Fate!),

But ho conilnued In Russian in a tone of contempt: te

"It would be, the way the ancient Greeks had with gods and god- desses directing human life from above."!

"I suppose you're going to make. quite some money on

your inter

"But you yourself, I insisted, view. he said, "would you con who went through so many mortal.. sider giving part of it to needy Ger- - dangers do you think it'la

mere man hüdren?"

coincidence that you survived them. all, and that another man isn't sit- he..

iing in this place today?"

"No, it isn't a coincidience." Stalin'

"Certainly there were survival-material

Once during our talk he made an attempt at being social. I

had. clopped smoking-there was

1.box of cigarettes on, the table-and ho asked me did I mind his smoking. Whereupon I mentioned the myth according to which he was always smoking his pipe.

"You see," he said, "toddy I for ok to lake my pipe along."

"So you are against myth?" "I am not-if it comes from people."

the

When I asked him to Inscribe the pamphlet he had given me earlier, he asked the interpreler, "Yes, but what

shall I write?"

"Your name and that of Mr. Lude

contains The Kremlin

great number of ezarist castles and other buildings. But Stalin had his men in one of the modern government houses. There was no elevator, so we walked the two, flights,

up To have held the third Assembly at Uno's permanent head then crossed some cold antecham- wit." the interpreter repiled. quarters in New York would have bers and finally entered the medium- saved about £1,300,000, but when nized, well-lit room in which

medium-sized Mon who

worked delegates discussed the problem

welcomin argument here stepped up to us to year 30, this monetary had little effect on their Anal de.us. cision to come to. Paris. THE FRENCH PAID

a

The French Government felt the Assembly would bring some sorely needed hard currency to France. So they willingly paid £1,000,000 to convert the Paials de Chaillot-two museums and an elegant theatre in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower-w the 82 days headquarters, of Uno,

The 5,000-odd delegates, advisers, secretaries, clerks, security officers, chauffeurs and journalists brought a three months' boom for Parts hotels, restaurants and night clubs,

But the French" Trensury havo not done so well out of the deal as they hoped.

Many of the delegates and their stiffs converted their hard currency into francs on the black market.

Seemed Indifferent

the

HIS'oice was a fairly bare room. with an oblong conference table und sixteen chairs in its centre, and a desk in one of the corner

Two large oil portraits-Mix and Lentadorned the wall; un the table and 'desk were some ashtrays, some #les and a few pencils,

No emblems were on display, nor any flags, or flowers, or photos, 01 mementos of any kind.

Stalin seemed quite indifferent when we shook hands. Then te waved me and the interpreter to the conference table, and sat down op- posile us.

1

He knew that I was not a party man. He was familiar with my

critique of communism. ·

Until that day I hud-excipi for So what the black marketeers Kemal Ataturk-been able to talk in

gained the French Government lost.

native

Against Charity" NATURALLY charity?"

thought

I

always againg

But you were. He broke out in a short, hollow laugh-It was really frightening

and then said:

"I am against charity in Russia, But it still must be practised in capitalistle countries,

replied. reasons for my

Fensons as well as others which were within myself.

"Naturally some other man could be sitting in my place. Yet, I don't agree with any concept of destiny. J's an unlawful, mystical notion, and I don't believe in it.

lis

"Surely my survival had reasons, different rotors for it,

But there could have been:

too---coin- cidences."

It was evident that he took his revenge for the three hours he hid on a bourgeois. (To be on spent the safe side, laler mailed to the Kremlin a receipt attesting to my The confusion of Stalin's answer donation).

his lack of a point of view in so Towards the end of our talk Stall-Important a matter is obvious, and grew somewhat liveller. When was about to take my leave, I asked had neither a religion nor a philo- led me to the conclusion that Stalln him would he be surprised by a last saphy. question which was on my mind.

"Nothing in Bussin can possibly surprise me," he said.

TO DE CONTINUED TOMORROW

Sitting on the

Sitting

Fence

by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

19T W. Stalin is wonderful, ink you're right.

2ND

1

Then there has been the cost or language of the men. I that sycophantic Nazis used police. Your pro-Christmas, anti-

Ahout

the Assembly to Vuo. £60,000 has been spent by Uno since September 21.

heen

Uno pay the fares of up to five delegates of each of the 50 mem- her nations to an Assembly. This year the cast of travel has

£40,000.

From New York by sea and at come £320 niembers of Uno's Secretariat, 'Their return tickets and subsistence while in Parla ac- counted for another £200,000.

The cost-of-615 locally-engaged

£125,000 star added another Uno's bill.

Printing cost £75,000. Miscellaneous items, duplication, of documents, £40,000.

to

Interviewed.

*

the phrase "Heil Hitler." In Stalin's case I had to rely on my interpreter-who, to be;" sure, talked German fluently.

Moreover, Stalin illustrating his thoughts, as most people do, by restures and the ex pression of his eyes.

refrained from

He never looked at inc. and throughout our three-hour talk kept doodling with the red tip of his two- colour pencli on one sheet of paper after another.

When I asked him about Trotsky; the figures-and-lines ha-was-drawing grew to a vild, poli-mell.

He answered my questions AS methodically as a trained logiclan. including He showed a real mastery of what- had totalled over subject I brought up. I

carefully prepared my questions, but he could not have known which fields I would touch,

About 80,000,000 foolscap sheete one million a day-were duplicated for the

delegations,. usc of journalists and secretariats.

On each of the 50 nations has fallen the cost of transporting and maintaining extra delegates and staffs. It is estimated that about £1,500,000 were spent in this way

Hike The big Powers,

Britain, America and Russia, brought tu Paris staffs totalling 150 to 200.

It cost United States taxpayers £120,000,

British administrative experts

placed

Schleswig-Holstein. Your money feeds Germans in Berlin,

"Never again," was the parrot ery in 1045, but Stinkentrouser and Schmellinpantz knew better,

At any moment now Hitler moy reappear to lead the world against Bolshevism.

Paws across the sea

PEING a letter received by Lottle the Cat from Menbaitan Mouser. New York. underworld tom:-

Hiya hottie. De

CCORDING: to the state- *ment of a refugee from

the Soviet paradise, it's Santa Claus,

W. Stalin is wonderful. zealots of the. Communist party 18T W.: So it is. Stalin is wonder- begin sentences or end them fut,

SANTA CLAUS: Stalin is more. with the phrase "Stalin is

Say what's the big idea giving wonderful," in the same way wonderful-than you think. I am a

detective-sergeant of the

me all this high life stuff in your secret

mall? If you want to know about high life you can take an carful degenerate-bourgeoise from one progressive,

what gets around from the conversation has been overheard and noted down. With other mis- Bowery right up to the swell joints like Storks and Twenty Ones, where all the ritzy dolls loss down expen sive fodder while suckers pay,

You should see me in the kitchens knocking back

nooberg and chicken a la kingster 1ST WORKMAN; Stālm is wen-N 1913, when it was clear that

times do you How many more It is cold,

Germany could not win the war, have to tell me you have sat on 2ND WORKMAN: Stalin is the petivities of two Germans were Michael Wilding's kace? Ain't onco

reported here.

enough? wonderful, it is. 1ST W.: It

It 15

Christmas Eve, They were Captain-Colonel. In Stork's I have sat on Tallulair Stalin la wonderful

Acting Unpaid Lance Bankhead's knee while she fed-m General 2ND W.: In the enlightened and Corporal Von Stinkentrouser and blue fish and shad roc.

Union of the Soviet Herr Doktor Von Schmelingpantz, tickle you under the chin, and And suppose Dolores Gray dit progressive Socialist Republies, Christmas has who,

even at that time; were

It is Christmas Eve in Plonsk. gulded lovers of Christmas you will Two middle-aged workmen, tired entrain tomorrow for the salt mines. of breathing the foul air of a bed. Stalin is wonderful. sitting room shared by 20 people, are shivering in the mow.

ས

All over again

off the Just

Do you re paring the way for the purchase of Parry Jones eat a boiled sech

British and

Ile knowall,

been abolished, Stalin is wonderful organising a Sympathy for Germany suppose her momma did throw her bangles on the floor for you to play 18T W. Christmas was nothing campaign.

with? You were warned then that in but a wasteful and disgusting orgy,

I have been busted in the shoot Of self-indulgence planned for their office In the Reckenhausen-

for hooking a steak off Walter profit by the degenerate stras.",

Midden- Winchell's plate right Harder Methods

under the Bourgeoisie, Stalin is wonderful. heapenplatz, these two bullet- noses of hle bodyguard. And I have "BEING an old conspirator * 1 ask- 2ND W.: Stalin is....Are we headed what names were getting had so much crackary thrown at me

Ded him, "do you think that alone?

out lists of people who would write for licking, over other people's under your regime illegal actions are 1ST W. There is nobody else in to the British newspapers and fried chicken that I wouldn't know Impossible? Or are you afraid they the street. At this time of night periodicals, first of all plending for if it was Ginger Rogers or her aren't-and is this the reason why privileged members of the party German

rights, even today, many years after the

then demanding momma or some other dame "what are drunk, Stalin is wonderful. outbreak of the revolution, you are

them; concocting stories of postwar did it..

even pre- 2ND W. But not the secret police, German hardships and

And who cares if you have seen using terror methods?"

is wonderful. Statin

egg in Не answered:

BUCH

(mber Christmas?

American pub your front parlour? I have. "No. But when we took over, we

1ST W.: When i was a child we fications.

plenty of singers and actors and did not at Arst Interfere with free-

cat CRES fried, boiled, When you read it, if you read it people sodom of the press, and freedom of had pudding and cakes, and wine for have not worked out the cost to thought.

We released

Czarist and vodka, and sometimes pig meat, at all, you said. "Oh, there's that poached and coddled and use them.

ammunition when they want to for Is the Treasury

fool trying to be funny again. of bringing 157 generals who were our prisoners on although we were pour delegates. experts, secretaries, their word of honour, and realised

2ND W.: We had that, too, and that all he does for a living?" and be cruel to each other for a divorce. As for this Reggie Purdell, who security officers. ind drivers to only afterwards how greatly mis-sometimes goose. My father used took another stab at your dried CR can keep people laughing for a Parls.

omelette. to dress up as Santa Claus,

whole week-end without repeating gur tolerance had been.

we reverted to, stricter IT HAS FAILED...

and 18T W.: So did mine. At night - Well, my clever This is the debit side of the thire harder methods. But do you really he brought presents in n

raeil. what do you think about it all now? himself. there is a variety turn in

ぐまれ the Bronx what

keep dopes Immediately, after the war half laughing at the same gag night assume we could have remained in Presents

coloured tapes.

starved Englishwomen

had after night for half a year, which mero terror?

2ND TV.: One Christmas been bombed by Germans were in smarter than thinking up new

food

a week 171 "Our peasantry is not sa docile, landlord, who was a brute all the persuaded to give up their

gags. At 1,000. bucks to feed hungry year round, came dressed as Santa points nor Russlan workers as little intelli-

German any It's smarter. gent, "as. Europeans generally, think Claus a sled drawn by real children so that they could grow

in they are.

reindeer, with a sackful of capen up it to bamb us in our old age. I falled to solve all the world's "Only the middle class.is frightensive presente for all trumpets and Only recently, reliable reports

So lay off this society stuff 'whe major problems, such

Berlin, ed.

drums for the bous, dolls for the stated that Germons in our zone control of atomic energy, disarma-

ore much. butter fed than we are ya, unless you know some earls and "Never before us in history hus girls.

in Britain. They have more petrol dooks withiswell moalkers, and let ment, Palestine, Korea, Greece, and regime satisfied, as we do, 85 per-

1ST W. Everybody was kinder

They have already me know more aboutyourself and the disposal of the Italian Colonies. cent of the population." :

turned British officers out of a your aspirations and moral outlook But some delegates feel that the And then Stalin proceeded to talle at Christmas then. My father did for their cars.

Innot beat, my mother on Christmas building requisitioned as a military, which I hope you haven't got,

Day.

I like the pleture you sent. You club. 2ND W.: Nor did mine, 'He best For the first time there has been He talked slowly, fluently but.

"The

despairing French, who certainly have a swell chassis, have suffered so much, look help. I am staying in N'York for- a solid line-up against the faciles of tonelessly and without ever fascinat- my mother twice the next day. · Soviet Russia and her satellitening his listenera rather, liko a

18T W.; Now all days are the lessly on while wartime allies insist Christmas as we have mote: turkey For this reason these delegater" feel ||pedantic logician.^f

some. Twelve hours in the field13, upon the eventual handing over of Fere, but I will be over in the Noo that the Soviet Government, may I mentioned the discrepancy be- black bread and cabbage soup, and vital German Industries to German year, when I will give you a whirl. beastly to now feel disposed to change their tween the offelally accepted Marxian everybody

We will have a swell time, be- attitude and co-operate with other theory which regards, economie fac-| else always.

German big business men ara lleve ne honey baby, honey lamb,

dollars. inations to bring about a "permanent tors

2ND W. Hual. Is that somebony cheating us of

The honey chile. Hotelia, as the decisive element in

British ate booed in the streets tif”.

Manhattan Mouser. Peace,

history on the one hand, and the in the doorway

General Assembly.

What can be put to the side in terms of peace?

'credit power for so long a Ume through and tied apped in bright paper

This third session of the General Assembly promised to be the most

momentous in its three years life.

13

of

three months' deliberations may not about the disorders and revolts

czarist Russia. have been entirely wasted.

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