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23 youngsters in the seats of the mighty

by A. J. McWHINNIE

Their

17E are in an eighth-floor There are 23 of them.

Westminster boardroom, average age is 21. There are five London is at our feet. Only electricians, two Civil servants, n clerks, a shorthand typlat, two the highest rooftops are printer, five university students, lovel with our eyes.

an engineer and an engineering apprentice, a chartered accoun- Britain's potential Cabinet tant's apprentice, a mining en- Ministers of 1970 are in con- gineer, a warehouseman, a girt

ference at Transport House art teacher, and

chemist.

B

research

-altting in the very leather

Among the subjects they aro covered chairs occupied by Government leaders when Butlin's Camp, Filey, in Septem- debalinig Is their big rally at Labour's National Executive ber, a nation-wide recruitment meets.

Round the U-shaped inlaid walnut table where the La bour leaders of today make their vital decisions, the National Consultative Corn- mittee of the Labour League of Youth are conferring.

THE RUSSIAN WIFE WHO GOT AWAY

W

HAT sort of life does the

woman

me

of EIV

AND

CHILD

drive in June with specially in-- tensive efforts in the big indus- trini cities, and their application Union of Socialist Youth. for anlation to the International

They make plans for ex- ists from other lands, and discuss change vielte with young Social-

a competition for the words of a League of Youth song to be set to the tune of a rousing march✩ ing melody in time for their Fitey rally.

Where Mr Attlee, the Prime Minister, sits at National Execu Uve meetings, there today slis 17-year-old Brian Garrall, or Shotton, North Wales, the ap- prentice electriclan-pianist and. lover of classical music.

*

Chairman of the Labour Party is kindly ex-miner Jim Griffiths. Institute's Political assured the man I did; that I human #ide of the Soviet live: they existed,

Teachers; Minister of National Insurance, A. pretty young Nucleus-each student

doctors, nurses, engineers, smalt In his chair now is studious Jack. in studied with the idea of being a hierarchy: live

"The class distinctions of the officials, journalists, in turn had to get up and tell useful unit in our great country

actors, Colllas, 20-year-old Co-op. clerk.. after my graduation.

Soviet society were rigidly do- rcientists and thousands of Stalin's austere totalitarian the gathering his autobio- I don't mean in that sense. Hinented. The very top Kremlin other professions, ali of them of Bell Street, West Hartlepool

auburn-haired student of social paradise can she be suc- graphy, his social origin, said the man. Would you like rulers were called, among simple work and the pay just enough science and already on the La-

had one common lot-hard cessfully feminine in the and his latest marks in

to work for us?"

faik, the Royal Family. patchwork of squalor and dialectical materialism.

"How do you mean" I ask- The Soviet Royal Family con- for bare existence. The inter-bour Party panel of future muni- ed, stupefled. The iden struck sisted of Stalin, his close lectuals lived in communal cipal candidates.. splendour, gniety and ter-

their as being something repul- associates,

wives and rooms, rode in trams and sub- Jack is presiding over the children. No one knew any ways, had no privilege to buy other 22 Labour Youth leaders such meetings. My autobio "Keep your ears open and thing about the private lives in closed shops,"

from all parts of the country, raphy was very well known to report to us if you hear some of the Soviet Royal Family. the fellows from the Nucleus, thing unpatriotic, he said."

Their children (apparently This was the Communist He makes a good, firm chair- but time and again I had to To escape the Secret Police all of them had offspring) were world into which the German man. He steers waffling debates assignment Tanya married educated in a clused Kremlin armies brought desolution, and with the insistent words, "We

wasting time, Nick, n alm cameraman, from school. And when the time came to which they taught a spirit of are

comrades... whom she was after bearing him a daughter,

later divorced, for them to marry (children do fanaticism which is the biggest Kep to the point." He will go-

Krow quickly!) they married cause of Europe's sickness to- for.

★

ror,

the bizarre and the humdrum which the Com- munist State ordains for its subjects?

"I was the black sheco

start: 'My father was a doctor,

was invariably asked. "Who was your grandfather?

The answer seems to be yes, but only if she is wife or mistress to a favoured 1 official, soldier or artist, or if she possesses quite excep-

"My grandfather was tional vitality and charm to priest, and a very good offset unlucky relationships. too."

O

man,

"Put down "clerical origin,' the chairman of the meeting would Say to the secretary,

whose dulles were to take down autobiographies of tho students.

No Politician

SUCH an exceptional per- the Honality was Tanya Svetlova, now wife of

"*'I protest!'

.. but, though I British correspondent, Ro- protested at the first purge, at nald Matthews.

the two that followed I did not protest at all, because I knew the whole procedure by licurt. Tanya, more fortunate would be labelled 'one of the than the 15 Russian wives clergy. 'undesirable element, now forbidden by the Soviet a stranger

Ideology. Government to join their marks in dialectical materialism, They would not listen to my British husbands abroad, which were always excellent. left Russia with Matthews They would simply cross my and their baby son in 1944. name off the students' Ilst."

Her autobiography, up-to- that moment, has just been published under the title of "Russian Child and Russian Wife."

to the

Secret Police

TANYA works for Americans installing oil-cracking plant in the Caucasus, falling in love with one of them. But she is summoned to the Secret Police Headquarters:

day.

Bombing, Hunger

HUGH PILCHER introduces you to Tanya Svetlova, wife of British correspondent Ronald Matthews, who was fortunate enough to get out of Soviet Rus- sia in 1944. Her

they flow autobiography reflects an exceptional personality

But so will several others at this conference.

Constance Johnson; 19-year- old civil servant, of Walker Avenue, Kirkons, Prestwich,

Dickens.

TANYA, still in Moscow, under-

went bombing and hunger. Lancashire, pretty daughter of One day in 1912 she was called Tory father, is one. She dis- is a devotee of to the Hotel Metropole, hendt-likes dancing, quarters of the foreign news- papermen. She was appointed Jean Urquhart, 21-year-old secretary to Ronald Matthews, shorthand typist, of Westheath Eighteen months later, married, Avenue, Grangetown, Sunder-

from Moscow Baku on the way out of Rursin: also dislikes dancing.

land, is also pretty. And she She does "Suddenly

was not like the cinema much. But blocked by the border official, she is vitally interested in poli- He told me I was wanted at the lica Secret Police offlee. I was

up.'

my way

to

There a romance in the Sho is en- League of Youth.

of the Raged to the secretary Paisley League.

•

Glant of the League Is Git. bin. Ken Peay, a clerk of Glou-

Surrey, cesier-road, Kingston, He is 22. u great worker for Labour in the Southern region. He is engaged to the treasurer of his local party.

Alan

*

Woods, the 23-year-old. of New Walk,

warehouseman

Meanwhile, here is a glimpse one of the Family. never on stunned. Ronald went with me. the Crimen: of Tanya at an Intourist hotel in outsider.

"In a bright office the chef asked us to sit down, and said, "Is gloss restaurant had 11 well-trained staff of walters, Sevlet Roynt Family looked as

"All the members of the pointing at me: You cannot

proceed any further." preserved since pre-revolution if they had been chiselled by ary times, who looked after the one sculptor out of the same

"Why?, I cried. exclusive clientele--members of mould: -they were -brond-

· “Your.

passoprt is wrong, -and- the government, foreigners and short

was his laconie reply. of stature, broad and sophisticated women.

blank of face, wearing well- "Show me what is wrong in

It' "I had got so necustomed to just like the

rimmed Politburo maustaches, see everywhere, in the streets, The moustache indicated

one Stalin wore. "I can't show you anything, in trams, in shops, homes

that I have a telegram from Mos- theatres, the same drab, weary leaders,

and they belonged to the class of cow ordering me to hold. you Tanya Matthews is no

women-young and old, they all politician. Her look is free

looked alike—that I froze, in

For how long?' I gasped. from propaganda and is

amazement, looking at these ex- "The next class, directly be- "I don't know. I wait for "I was facing man with quisite

1 fascinating because of its

creatures. They were low the top class, consisted of my orders from Moscow. shoulders, stooping

t broad, shining-shining with Uieir bur- high grade executives, or the But I have a small baby!' intense personal detail. This pensant face, and small, colour- mushed hair, with the red lips elite. They were the heads of "I can't do anything for lively. brilliant woman set less eyes deeply set. He was of their fingers and toes, with industries, agriculture and pro- you. Your husband can leave out to describe her ad- sitting at a big desk on which their expensive, well-cut clothes, paganda. They enjoyed all the on this plane.'

neatly with heavy jewellery....their ivileges of the Royal Family, ventures during the 25 some

arranged. He held a pencil in well-made-up faces,

only on a smaller reale, years after 1919,

Among the five students is h's hand. Grazdanka [citizen-

Svetlova? Sit

"'Verochka, who

Humpitrey Cole, of Cambridge, down

are these It is a galloping record of please, said he, and

"Then pointed women? I whispered to Vera

touskel haired, The class come

pipe- the chair my companion]. We were hav- Pets. The Pets

in a life without silk stockings with his pencil ni

tho wide-collared cream sweater. rich with emotions opposite his desk. I felt strange. ing a walk and stopped at the

ly calm and self-possessed. I iron-barred fence of the In- them

He is the son of G. D. H. Cole, were distinguished, de ed out of the office to see our noted economist and author. (there is probably less sat down.

tourist hotel. peeping through corated and lilled. Distinguish plane take off. about clothes thun in any

the bars inside.

ed artists, ballet dancers, pain- lers, writers, composers, poets, Three

days other autobiography by a in an even, unemotional volce,

""They are the wivCT or scientists, flyers, miners (who was a knock at the door and year-old Gregor MacKenzie, of woman).

how you came in contact with daughters of the Feople's Com- stopped being miners after they an interpreter informed us that Albert Road, Langside, Glasgow, foreigners. How did it happen missars or big police chiefs, or became distinguished and got we were allowed to leave. They university graduate and one of that you worked for them and their mistresses-ballerinas and governmental jobs). women, were holding up the plane on the Labour candidates for Glas- got pald in dollars?' continued ctresses from the Moscow and weavers (who also stopped the simileld and they wanted us Bow Counci).

but

"I Protest!"

TANYA, as B student,

papers were

"Tell me,' the man continued

the voice.

was not exactly work.

..It was a pure ly technical matter.. And, nfter all, the seven dollars 1 got was not much.....

Leningrad theatres, she sald

"How do they manage to be

"They have special govern- mental shops where they everything they want."

occupied with lectures They needed some help...to fill so well dressed?, and laboratory work all day, in the charts Is three times "purged," three times reinstated:

"Once every three months there Was Л chistka a purging in the ranks of the

"Did they offer you any secret work? ho asked, but when he saw my bewildered expression

The Classes

get

were

No Alteration

of

elcester, was working on radar with the- Navy for 31⁄2 years. He is here representing the East' Midlands region.

dark

quite "RONALD refused. The audi-amaklag 20-year-old nil a remarkable class,

ence was over. We walk-

later... there

The

mining engineer is 21-

weaving after they'd distingulsh- to pack quickly.

With him is Bruce Millan, of od themselves);

"Within ten minutes every-Kinloch-street, Dundee, the same thing was packed and my son age, apprenticed to a chartered Soviet society.

"Pets were the cream of the wrapped up in a warm blanket. accountant, interested in socio- They enjoyed At the airfield my passport was 10gy, a League of Youth member life more than any other mem- handed back to me by the for only three months. He was

bers of the multi-class Socialist Secret Police chief. The chler u soldier in Italy and Austria, society, because they had some did not utter word. Not a Then there Donald Kinsey, freedom.

Ine in my passport had been

of Sch

School Cottages, North Town, changed.

Taunton, amateur boxer son of The class of Intellectuals, or "In the air I found myself, a Liberal father.

students of socially, un- they ask you to be their agent?' TM were drafter a humble mass of hard-working-praying for the first time in from them, and the thousands of TANYA in Moscow during New Soviet Intelligentsia was praying with hot, sincere words Watch these youngsters. It is desirable elements. At a

***No, No,' cried ́1, not finding attacked Russia, learning foreign, people, the backbone of the my life to Eternal God, meeting headed by a mem- words to convince the man.

In other League of Youth members, languages, teaching and 'study-' country, shabby, overworked, Whom I had been brought up that the vital energy and sparkle- ber of the politjachcika- your country? he went on. I lng voraciously, noticing the tired people. They did not not to belleve."

In electioneering will come.

NANCY.

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