1949-07-09 — Page 11

From Hero And Thero:

MUSIC HATH CHARMS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 0, 1949.

The Peasant Of Steel

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STALIN —— A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by I. arch for raw," bricks, and Deutscher. Oxford University Press. 21/- 500 utoro, the builders und the pages,

3 mbront, so that, by, assembling THIS study of Stalin is a revealing alice of contem- these, they could-start building homer Incomparably more porary history. Stalin's life can only be studied spacious and healthy than were by peeling off layer after layer of false history, the haallly abandoned 'alum myths and oficial blographies..

dwellings of the past." NEW YORK: There will be Mr Deutscher makes no no fireplaces In a new block of apology for calling his book a fats Mr Milton Erlich, n con-political blography." Io la By

tractor has begun building in a concerned with 11 poiltien1

DAVID

Now York, suburb. Me Erlich roots of the most Important TEMPLE ROBERTS thinks that the hearth, so long event of our century the associated with the sentimental domination of Russian Morxlam side of family life, la old fashion-by a Georgian peasant,

before

planning himself

Wan WIE

No economist, no theoretician, and no political leader argued in

favour at Stalin's schemes, As

Mr Deutscher emphasises, how- dver, it was only this Impossible scheme that built in ten years o ed and obsolete. "It is not even We are inclined to have years

nunla capable of withstanding useful any more." he said, "Wo

Impression

of the Soviel adopted Stalin ret.our heat from radiators or Union.

the German Invasion of 1041. We think its policy is denouncing those who suggested What perverso miracles the convectors and not from open fires. So why build a replace timeless and unchangeable. Mr mich schemes on "super-indus- peasant from Georgia per- just to give people a focal centen points that I am sure will be as

Deutscher emphasises 丘 series of trializers." to group their chairs around." So Mr Erlich will give his strange to his readers as

as they tenants a really useful and up-

are to me. Here

are a fou to-date focal centre. He calls it the "musicorner." It will consist

and

Stalin's career shows that in

formedi

STALIN The Asiatic

transfer to a socialist "half-and- inder. During the 22 months half economy" with Elbertarian of the uneasy pact the Soviet it back far behind, terribly far principles.

Union neemed to miscalculate, behind."

and again. Stalin under

By contrast, Stalin, The estimated, the strength of the Nozi attack on Poland, Ha nation over which Stalin took It involved forcible verestimated the value of ac- power, might

rightly be

fact there were two revolutions CTALIN miscalculated In 1939, Freedom of speech, freedom to debate publicly in in Russia. The first occurred in his blographer thinks, when a dramatic he decided to make a pact with of a built-in TV set, a gramothe highest governing commitico 1917 and involved phone and a radio, with built-in of the Soviet Union, continued shelves for records. And the for oven or eight years after "musicorner Is in ruch A the revolution. As late as 1924 dominant position in every a great public debate on policy sitting room that even the man was

conducted between the

The second was Stalin's re- who hates TV, gramophones and leaders, Trotsky

and Stalin, on radion will still have to sit be how the revolution should go volution. forward sido them:

the

next stage, occupation of the land by the

belt of territory on called a nation of savages. Thus Family woman

Books were published on both State and a violent programme

Trotsky's WRO called of Industrialisation-in fact, Rumania,

Lon on Foland, the

the Russian national Stalln undertook Lesson

'character October; qulle beyond the of

States and Finland. means

to drive barbarism out answered with "The Russie. October Revolution."

For two years Ilder's armed of Russia by barbar

barbarous means. power grow rapidly; in the Because of the nature of the same two years the Red Army means he employed much of the reformed itself slowly. Russia barbarizm thrown out of Russian- entered the pact with Hitler to life has crept buck into it. The bargain with him for the nation has, nevertheless,

ACCRA: A 46-year-old sider.

Akua Woman,

Adwoda, of "Th Enyinnin village, in the Presten Stalin district, has given birth to her 20th chilid. Twenty-three of her children are living.

Foolproof?

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DAB and FLOUNDER by WALTER

Western frontierin is not meant to cast any reflec-STAMP

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NOTES

CHIPPY

Handyman, says Im

Try Your Hand At This

IF you cannot find exactly the dressing-table you want,

or, if you want to freshen up an old one, hero is tho chance to use a little imagination. The old piece of furniture you see illustrated abovo was bought second-

hand for a song." With a length of2 expanding

Mr Deutscher writes: transformation of the whole of Balkana In the first months' of vanced far in most fields of It started like the Arabian Nights.

the

Deutscher writes Vint Stalin "was now completely controversy was more possessed by the idea that he NEW YORK: What is describ, than an academie dispute about could

achieve a miraculous history. ed as the perfect season ticket will be adopted by New York's "To the overwhelming majority Russia by a single tour de force. 1941 Russian Influence was com- existence." Long Inland Railroad this of the party, those who folned He seemed to live in a half-real

eal pleinly squeezed out of autumn. On it will be

the revolution, and the ita ranks after

half-dreamy world of Balkans..

Mr Deutscher cites material holder's photograph, name, ad- his verzlun of the events of 1917 statistical Agures and Indices, of

production, the whole nation dress, height, weight, and colour sounded

pensational, Industrial orders and Instruc- In this chapter on Soviet has been sent to school, "Per of hair and eyes. And he will be almost Indecent, Indiscretion. tons, a world in which no target foreign policy Mr Deutscher laps in no country have. required to wear R while Trotsky branded the two senior and no objective seemed to be leaves the impression that Stalin, young travelling clipped to his lapel triumvirs as the spokenen of beyond his

been imbued with so and the Party's the Asiatic, the man with the greas a respect and love for the Purpose-to prevent more than right

"strike grasp." wing.

contempt for Western ideas and classical one person using the ticket,

Uterature and art of (in brenkers"

even Western Com- other nations as in Russia.”

ways at fault and always

behind

Safety first

the

Lenin's words) of THE SON OF A

the revolution." #

SYDNEY: 'As precaution against subelitution and sleight. of-hand, Sydney jewellers are politely refusing to sell diamond rings while the coal strike binck- out limits them to oli lamps for shop lighting.

Leg-reading

Freedom of ex- freedom

pression,

of argument COR HE BUILT A

tinued even while Stalin was elimina-

SERF, munism, was al-

*

the

To this surprising statement

Romant, Persians, Araba, Türke, Awyrians, and the tribes of luradi Europe led Crusades to protect the |squabbled over" Palestine. Kings from

Christians and British Tommies fought and died to keep the peace.

&

cur.

tain wire, a gay fabric "akirt,"

and a fow screws it has been trans- formed into the, elegant bedroom", furnishing ple tured on the left."

You can do it in four easy singes;

FIRST

STEP';

Remove the mirror, and all unnecessary and do- carvings

corations. They are out of date anyway. Fill up nail holes and all faults in

the timber with plastic wood. Sandpaper all over, first with coarse and then with fino sand- paper.. Finish off with a spirit. dye and wax polish.

SECOND STEP: Lower the sockets on the mirror-and its supports 80 that the mirror will be held about 6 inches from the table surface,

TILIRD

curtain

Now after 2,000 years, the Children of terael have won and set up their firat: Government. To commemorate it they

STEP: Stratch have issued this stamp, showing their flag emblazoned with the length of expanding Star of David. The olive branch of peace appears to have in-wire through email eye screws, spired the borders.

side and three two In cách along the front of the dressing- table.

events as hap- NATION as they hope Mr Deutscher adds a footnote, FRANCE recently issued a 26-franc, blue and red stamp,

question left answered is whe-

pre-war

amazing un listing the

sales of the works of Byron (500,000 coples) Balzac (nearly ens (2,000,000), 2,000,000), Dickens Goethe (600,000). Heine and Shakespeare (1,000,000 each), Victor Hugo (3,000,000) and Maupassant (3,000,000).

commemorating Franco-American friendship ́ which pictures American and French flags interinced with ribbons. also a 15-frane, blue-black stamp, paying tribute to the French polar explorers. The polar stamp shows French explorers with dog sleighs blazing trails among the frozen wastelands in the polar region..

ting all his rivals. The fascina- Describing the forcible In ther Stalin freely chose his pact ting aspect of these discussions stitution of collective farms, with Hitler or whether he was WASHINGTON: The best in the Orst half dozen years of Mr Deutscher judges, "The driven to the pact by the un- way for men to judge gris, ad- the revolution is that they were whole experiment seemed to be willingness

of the Western vised Mary Dodson, dressmaker, concerned with the same prob- a piece of prodido insanity Powers to deal straightly with Is by their stockings, Wrinkled lem that faces British Socialism in which all rules of logfe and Russin between Munich and Hit.

How could

could private

X stockings mean the girl is dig- today.

were ler's attack on Poland. principles of economies

"The whole structure organized, straight seama denoto

sato entermine bo

to turned upside down. It was as

ofWITZERLAND cued a special set of four stamps with cflciency,

Russian society has undergone additional charges on June 10 to further the professional youths seamless stockings

state? if a whole nation had suddenly ngs activity within a

a change so profound and so are worn by girls who like to law could trade unions liave an abandoned

of the country. and destroyed 113

it cannot he fool men, a zigzag scam is the Independent existence and houses and huts, which, though I summing up, the biographer many-sided that

The 5 contimes plus 5, reddish violet and red, picturce a post. For these reasons a nagger and the girl untul purpose

examines the easy parallel reversed," sign of

within socialist obsolete and decaying, existed

man delivering mali; 100 plus 10, green, chamols and red, han a between Stalin and Hitler and Stalin cannot be classed with farm house of the Jura of Basle; 200 plus 10, brown, chamois and who wears misnated stockings nationalised Industries? The in reality, and moved

lock. finds it worthless The simi

Hitler. is out of step with everything Sovlet

Mr Deutscher prefers groan, shows house of the canton of. Lucerne, and the 400 plus 10, Revolution utterly

Into re stock, and burrel should be avoided at alt jeeted what is called "workers illusory buildings for which not suppressed opposition. Inrilles are numeratis. and

Both to see him beside Cromwell, dark blue. light blue and red, pictures a house of Prattigau.

The stampa alt have “L, VIU, 1940" in the left-hand corner Both sometimes beside Robespierre, cosia.

control" of Industry through more than a hint of

of scaffolding built a machine state. Good responso

union bosses had been prepared; as if that fashioned the mind of a nation,

at and other phases nominating trade

of his while "Confederatio Helvetica" frames the bottom of the motif. nation had only after

career, Napoleon, MOMBASA: Within four days as bosses of industry.

this

crazy Both insisted

* of advertising for a

It only remains to add to fall-time

on unchallenged migration set out to make the rule. bricks for the walls of its new cease.

But here the similarities these quotations that the intense ICELAND has dedicated five semi-postal stamps with the Interest of the amazing career of surcharges going to five different charities. The Red dwellings and then found that 200 applications, and more are SOVIET Russia and the Five- even the straw for the bricks

Stalin from the son of a serf to Cross, the children's hospital, the home for the aged, the "Not in a single Acid still pouring in at the rate of Year Plans for

the brillance Industry was lacking; and as I then that Hitler made the German nation Conference with Churchi and

of the Crimea tuberculosis sanitarium and the Life Saving Society wero dozens daily. The terms offered are thought of [1 wero £80 monthly and a fori- synonymous. This biography shivering,

almost the whole nation, hungry, dirty, advance beyond th wint it had Roosevelt dragged me by force honoured on the different designs. The values: 10 aura

And riddled with reached before he night's pald hollday each year. of Stalin shows that only two disease, had begun

ook power. and eagerly through a feverish In most fields ho

these plus 10, 35 plus 75, 50 plus 25, 60a plus 25 and 750 has thrown five hundred pages.

plus 25.

cecretary the Mombasa division

of the British Legion received

some

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has

"WE JUST HATE LEAVING "YOU WITH"ALL"""THOSE

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EARLY

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Put curved, packing pieces al the corners to carry the wire (seo sketch below). A small; cork grooved and glued to the leg is ideal for this purpose.

FOURTHI STEP: Mako simple skirt on curtain tape and ¦

PACKIES

TACT WILL

BACK OF KIT" GATHERED ON

*CERTAIN TAPE

gather it sufficiently to givo an attractive fulness. Insert hooks at frequent intervals and allp over the curtain wire.

That's all.

"Doing the Dishes

BY KEMP STARRETT

WHERE ARE

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"THIS ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE THE PERFECT EXCUSE...EVEN THOUGH IT'S NO SECRET" THAT PETE KAS TO CRAVE OUT OF THE HAY IN TIME TO GET THE CAME TRAIN JO TAKES.

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