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"Hallo-this is the secretury, of the Anti-Blood Sports Society speaking."

William Hickey

HIS THEME: MANNERS BY ORDER

OR the world's re- gular headline hog- gers it has been a of comparatively period quiet business.

havo 1 common theme: Good Manners,

For how to do you nɛsess the 'verdict in LIANA KREMEZI'S breach of promise netian? As damages against the man for breaking a young girl's heart? More ilkely a £10,500 lesson in

Good Manners, '

What shocked the British people about this case was not RO much that a Greek girl had lost an English husband, · It Here in London at any was the rudeness that went with rate their place on the lips losing him.

| hr. the people has been When LIEUT,-COMMANDER largely occupied by a girl RIDGEWAY omilled to tell Miss from Greece, two energetic Kremezl that everything Wan

men in young

Hammer over he committed

misda.

smith, and a hitherto fairly meanour the English do not readily forgive. He was plainly obscure member of the and simply rude. Foreign Office by the name

of MARCUS CHEKE. And

"You can beal your wife, you all these people's affairs bucket shop," stild leury James,

can go bankrupt, you can run

FREDA UTLEY'S STORY OF HER LIFE.....SECOND INSTALMENT

TRAVELLED to Mos-

Maisky

most

Cow with Ivan and J. W. Brown, secretary of the militant trade union in England, the Clerical Ass0- cintion, made up of office workers in Government ser- Coun- vice. Maisky, then sellor of the Soviet Em- bassy, later became Ambas- sador to England.

I was

over

LOST

ILLUSION

"and the Egilsh will still liko you. But to bring the wrath of the popuinee on your head- be impolite."

Mr EMANUEL SHINWELL found that out when he said the middle class didn't matter unker's cusa. I was not mero- ly a silly remark-but

a rudo

House

true, but not in chains nor: herded in concentration) camps. They were able to one. escape abroad with case if they were so minded.

Today, in Stalin's Russia, of this kind, please: it is losing such humane and civilised treatment of political op-

Out from Transport went a message from MORGAN PHILLIPS: "No more rudeness

un votes."

ponents is unheard of, MAYBE you have seen

Eventually, I got a ship to me result in the Hammersmith

Both candil- dates delivered their share of aharp langunge in a more than.

enthusiasm and prepared to thought of giving up my obtained his passport to go tell the world of the won- work in England to go with to Japan for the Commis- Shanghal and delivered my by-election tussle. ders of the Russian socialist him to Berlin, where he was sariat of Foreign Trade. We documents.

I joined the stationed for the next nine left early in October, with · For a couple of weeks I usually verbose election. But. fatherland.

signs of coming hardships lived a triple life in Shang- oh, how poiltz And good Communist Party, and ad- dressed meetings all over England.

where he had once lived.

months.

or

AN

were to cach

this.

that delicately polite ornament of the Foreign Office. Mr Marcus. Cheke who

himself should. also try to find timo оле of

Visitors to the Soviet Union in those days were

already visible in Moscow. rure. Only invited dete

In February 1928, I was

hai. I spent part of my humoured they the Com- gates from trade unions and

campaigning as

For weeks 1 spent more time as academic investiga-other personally!

A has found B a decent fel- Labour parties got the

B discovers A to be "a · Arcadi Berdichevsky, who munist Party's candidate in and more time chasing after tor of the cotton industry,

guest of low." travel

Peasants other hours as to chance

in the London County Council food

supplies.

oll well-meaning chap"and husband became my

imperialists" at done without any little guide. Russia. There was no In-

1928, was n Russian Jew, elections, and was speaking were refusing to sell their "British

dinner parties, books sent out from the head tourist, organised later as a

who had studied at Zurich to indoor meetings or at produce in return for money luxurious

going to office on the model of the one propaganda and money-

University and emigrated street corners every after which could not buy them dancing

Mean- the

yet other discovered in Washington to bo other theatres; and clothing and

antong making service to bring to the

clrculating

Britain's United States in noon and evening.

they hours in the secret meeting

junior alplomats. visitors to Russia.

1914. In 1920 he had quit while, I was earning a good manufactured 'goods

required. Russia was on the places of the Comintern's surrounded by a good job in New York to living.

energelle social his- kindness, hospitality and work for the Soviet Govern-

My fellowship ended in eve of the Calvary of forced agents,

collectivisation.

Japan, however, gave me lorian might very profitably gool fellowship. The ment in London. He had June 1928; Arcadi was in

my first experience of a (profitably if he succeeds)

try Secret Papers market place of Moscow and been a member of the Bund, Russia but expecting to be

police state. The shadow to secure more details of

extraordinary document from other towns were filled with the Jewish Social Democra- sent to Japan, so I joined vegetables, dairy produce. tie party in Russian Polund, him in Moscow. Japan was WE started from Moscow of the tyranny under which the one country I particular- to Siberia in a compart- the Japanese lived kept my milk and other foods. New apartment houses and office

He was a sincere Socialist ly wished to visit, since my ment for two. The Russian revolutionary fervour alive.

research work at the Lon- railways do not separate Surrounded as we were bythese days to sit for Mr buildings were being built.

and believed as I did that a don School of Economics men and women in sleeping poverty and oppression, I had a deep conviction that it was There was no lining up new and better world was had concerned Eastern com- cars.

wrong to be living comfortably foods being created in Russia. for bread and other

petition with the

and enjoying the greatest happi- Madame Anikeeva, state and at the

shire cotton industry,

life can give-life with Off To Moscow operative shops, and

This time no smiling de of the Soviet Trade Repre someone I loved more and more

sentative in Japan, on the dearly as the days passed. could buy delicious pastries

RCADI had

been asked legation met me at the sume train, objected to for only five kopeks.

station, and no to join the Party, but Moscow

sharing her compartment Return To As-early-ns-1924--the-felt that as he had played luxurious quarters at the with a strange man. We

TT--may-have-been-love....of reluctantly agreed to let

Or power, or the desire to make "Scissors Crisis" (the dis- no part in the Revolution, New Moscow Hotel awaited

Arcadi took me to the ho could not join now that me.

Anikeeva share the humbler my mark in the world, which proportion between

tiny room, with a single compartment with me while impelled me to leave Arcadi and price of manufactured goods. the fighting was over.

Com- bed, a chest of drawers and Arcadi removed himself to return to work in the and agricultural produce)

mmunist Party in England. We Arcadi had a wife and a two straight chairs. the Pullman. had split the Central Com-

son in New York. did not even have a table, young

Also, it mзy have been the milice of the Bolsheviks He hud

love for married the and I used to cook and fron My greatest problem was feeling that Arcadl's into left and right fac daughter of

And before Mr Cheke's book a well-to-do and write on the window to hide from Anikeeva the me was founded upon his con Jewish family of Russian sill.

fact that the Comintern in ception of me as a revolutionary came out? Did he put up his. an intellectual, an independent hand and say, "Please, may I. Moscow had entrusted me woman, not a mere wife. extraction. They had be-

leave the room?"

tions.

and

CO-

one

AR

Lanca-

at

wife

OSBERT LANCASTER.

Can it be that these diplomats”- manners are really so bad that they now have to be, told how to behave at an embassy party?:

Doesn't the callowest Think

England Secretary know that he should

were

"confact his hostess at least. once during an evening party?""

does he have to

be

told,...in a foreign house the host will not offer his guests. the opportunity to retire. He should simply stroll through the drawing room, ask a servant to. show him the cloakroom."

There on the wall someono· had chalked up "Richard Norton Although Arcadl know he is a would be terribly lonely, he en- couraged me to go back to Eng- There standing in front of it land, for he believed the duty was the man in question, a man of the Communist was to known in the film industry os sacrifice personal happiness to one of the most persistent fighters for better British plc- political work.

lures.

Joined The Party come estranged when he Comintern Congress with secret papers to take

Today 1 regret nothing more

having AND what precisely would not WITH Bucharin, Tomsky gave up an income of $600

convincing story to explain in my life than the others on the a month in the United ARCADI'S salary was 800 to China, and to invent a

roubles a month. We just why I was going to leave savoured my happiness tre have been the Foreign Office

full and lived out the brief right, Stalin had overcome States to work at Arcos for

managed to live. Cigarettes the train Chita, in period Arcadi and I might have Emily Post department's answer to a case which not so long ago Trotsky and was Hoon 10 $150.

were our greatest extra- Siberia, to travel later to had together before we

a British film exile him and the left

By the time I knew him, vagance and difficulty. At China alone, Instead

of engulfed in a hell of disillusion-cropped up in

suffering in Soviet studio? opposition. Once rid of the

to Japan.

I ment and Russia. Trotskyists. Stalin, in 1929, Arcadi's monthly anlary had the end of the month I used directly

heen increased to $500. But to cart bottles out to sell, managed it somehow. wiped out the right of his wife, Anna Abramovna, or rake through our pockets position and embarked upon had neither understanding for forgotten kopeks, to

A Triple Life meal. an ultra-left policy of forced collectivisation and intensive nor sympathy for his politi- raise the price of

LL I remember of Chita cal views.

We were very happy.

is the intense cold, and industrialisation.

I attended the sixth Con-

the memorials of the Decem- The USSR became

brists, the 150 exiled revolu listened 10 country of starved peasants we loved each other after gress of the Comintern as a

What did he do? Did he fol- and undernourished only a few meetings, but his translator,

Anna Bucharin from the visitors' tionaries of 1825 who had

low the example of Alexander

of Cruden's: workers, cowed and whip separation from

In Concordance of the Bible, who ped by fierce punishments Abramovnn was a long and gallery, and saw Michael dreamed of liberty, equality our small Russian colour of em

tation and the Embassy They Borodin, back from China, and fraternity under the ployees at the Trade Represen- Cruden, author business.

Iron Tear, Nicholas I.

used to walk for UJ

miles cach to toil endlessly for a state were divorced when I finally already disgraced but still a

USSR. day around London with what to expect in the which could not provide went to Moscow.

romantic figure. I thrilled Only later was it to be Tokyo should have taught

mild But we ascribed these jealousies damp cloth in his hand spong- them even with enough to

at the sight of Comintern borne in on me how

had been the tyranny of the in the Russian colony to the ing from the walls the slogans. September 1927, Ar- delegates from every corner

John of "Intellectuals."

believed of his political enemy, cnt.

ensured a cleaner atmosphere.

a

that Arcadi and I knew

painful

The intrigues, the calumnics, and the factional struggles in

In

cadi was suddenly told by of the globe, assembled in Tsars compared to that

revolu thot in Russia the proletarians Wilkes?" Stalin. All thone

We

(Copyright. To Bo Continued Tomorrow)

I saw the USSR during the British Home Office that the socialist capital.

tionaries whose lives were the prosperity between 1024 he must leave England at

At last, after the OGPU spared and were allowed to and 1928.

In September 1927 II was very much in love, had fully satisfied itself live in Siberia with their returned to England full of but I never for a moment concerning my husband, he familles were in exile, it is

once.

NANCY

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For from. Instead, picked up a piece of chalk, crossed out "Richard Norton, and wrote. "Lord Grantley the title ho inherited in -1043.

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