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REPORT ON THE ' V>\ RUSSIANS ?\ 'w.l u White A INSTALLMENT FOUR Russian newspapers and news reels carry only small amounts of news about the outside world, and never anything which might arouse internal discontent with the Party's rule or the Soviet Union's standard of living. Now and then, of course, there is a slight miscalculation. For instance, Soviet newsreels, which specialize in strikes or disorders in the Western countries, ran many feet showing the Detroit race riots, including a vivid closeup of a cop beating a young Negro. The effect on the Soviet audience was elec tric. Some Russians even stood up. "Look"?they cried?"at that won derful pair of shoes the Negro is wearing!" Almost never do the authorities admit any book or movie which would give a straightforward pic ture of American life and the aver age American living standard. It is true that Soviet intellectuals have read and appreciate the artistry of "The Grapes of Wrath." These curious, insubordinate mal contents would arouse little sympa Russians welcomed news of Sta lin's meeting with Roosevelt. thy in the Soviet Union, and the only possible happy ending would be to have one of the younger boys join the Komsomols out in California, loyally squeal on the whole disrup tive tribe, whereupon the NKVD would giye chase and after excit ing sequences, overtake and liqui date them at the base of the statue of Stalin. Few American films are shown to Moscow and those are picked with the greatest care. The American films best known are Chaplin's "Gold Rush" and "The Dictator," a Sonja Henie skating picture and Deanna Durbin's ? "One Hundred Men and a Girl," after the Russian subtitles were written in to bring out a heavy class-exploitation angle. When I was in Moscow, the most popular foreign pictures were "Jun gle" and "Thief of Bagdad." Both were heavily attended. With the usual Hollywood skill, the scene of one is a Hindu village and the other is medieval Bagdad, neither por trayed normal life in the Western world and so were safe. I did see, however, one excellent Russian picture, and did not needs the language to understand and ben moved by it. The story concerned* a green cadet, very much on his. good behavior, who arrives with his0 kit bag to join a veteran fighter squadron. He is at first genially hazed by the rest, gradually gets experience, shows his mettle and is slowly accepted. It depicted some highly corned-up and improbable shots of air fights, but these flights' of fancy were no more distorted than! the ones dreamed up in Hollywood swivel chairs. All nations tend to play up their" own battle exploits and to neglect their Allies, and America is, in this respect, a frequent offender.^ But certainly Red Army advances' are decently covered in stories, maps, and pictures both in Amer ican newspapers and newsreels. The Soviet Union, by contrast, al most never shows pictures of for eign battle fronts in its popular thea ters. Anglo-American landings in Nor mandy were shown to the intelli gentsia and to high Red Army of ficers, who might have a technical interest in how we handle landing operations, but they were not re leased to the general public. As a result, the average Russian firmly and logically believes that his government has until recently borne, not most of the war burden, but all of it. From time to time Stalin makes statements which are both realistic and generous to his Allies. Rather recently he predicted that Soviet soil would soon be cleared of the in vader and the armies could then proceed to follow the Fascist beast and crush him in his lair, adding that this would not be possible with out the combined efforts of all the Allies. This was, of course, printed in Pravda but the average reader, sat urated with news of the Red Army, overburdened with personal prob lems, and ignorant of the extent of the Anglo-American sea, air, and land effort, probably dismissed It as the kind of perfunctory gesture which all statesmen occasionally make. Today another thundering big din ner at Spiridonovka to which Eric, Joyce, and I are asked. This time only as humble spectators, for it is given by Molotov and the guests of honor are the British and American ambassadors to celebrate the anni versary of our aid agreement with England. Any artist could draw Molotov with a ruler?a square body on short legs, square head, jaw, nose, and eyes, and there he stands. This square face is as devoid of expres sion as an Indian chiefs. Litvinov is also present?a keen face, thinning, sandy hair?intelli gent, alert?a benign volcano. The reporters say he is the only accessi ble Kremlin resident. He will give any of the more serious one hour or so, explaining Soviet policy and problems?provided, of course, they don't bother him too often. The dinner is like Mikoyan's, even to the climatic suckling pig?or rather his cousin, similarly shaved and boiled. I am next to another Foreign Office boy (Russians appar ently keep their wives and daugh ters away from ravening capitalist wolves). They are tremendously formal people?not because they are Com munists but because they are Rus sians. When they throw an official shebang, everything must be just so, from oyster forks to medals. No wonder they were offended when Winston Churchill, visiting Moscow ?<j- * J <**-? Hit I umj, 1U1UCU up Ui Aust in's dinner in his siren suit. A czar ist grand duke might be understood, but not these earnest Socialists. As Russians they must be spectacularly lavish; as Communists they must worry about the forks. In the middle of the good will toasts, Molotov breaks a big piece of news; tells us that today they are launching an offensive to co-ordinate with our Anglo-American landing in Normandy. In the major drive which present ly followed toward Warsaw and East Prussia, no one can say they did not keep faith?scraping their man power barrel, throwing war-cripples, semi-invalids, and boys into the line. Their sacrifices from the standpoint of manpower have been ghastly Back of the front you see no young men who aren't either in uniform or limping with a wound, except the few who are in high administrative jobs. And you see absolutely no men between sixteen and forty at the factory benches. Following the Molotov dinner, we told the correspondents of the an nounced attack, since it had already been launched and, of course, they filed the story. It was then stopped in censorship. The censors pointed out it had not yet appeared in Prav da. It is a rule of Russian censor ship that nothing is officially true which has not been printed in a Rus sian paper. Pravda got around to printing the news of the offensive three days later. "Tomorrow," says Kirilov, "we go Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Whi( returned the latter part of la4 week from a visit with their sor Dr. James W. White, Mrs. Whity and young grandson, James Jr., in Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Kenneth Evans, Jr., an( children, Kendra and Kennetl III, and Mrs. J. P. Geanes hav returned from a weeks visit wit] Chief Gunner and Mrs. Osca Baaden at North Beach, Md. Mrs. Caldwell and Miss Mar White Caldwell, mother and sis' ter of the late Dr. E. N. Caldwell Uif* Vwm1 i - ??-w4.V>; * UMhwilOM. * ? It towers dramatically above the canal, which is reached by a pre posterously wide flight of steps?I would guess fifty of them?which are dominated by a titanic statue of Stalin. At the bottom is our boat, a streamlined version of a Missis sippi River steamer. To entertain us they have brought three of the plump operetta artistes. They were better by candlelight. Now we see a few double chins we had overlooked. They arrive in very formal dresses, but soon change. It's like date night at the Old Ladies' Home. Yet everybody is trying pathetically hard to show us a good time. The paddles are churning ? through the new, white silk curtains I see the bank moving so I go on deck. On one of the long padded wicker divans, Johnson is already stretched out, shirtless for a sun bath. Two sailors, under Kirilov's supervision, come trundling out a radio-phonograph trailing a cable. This is set up in the middle of the deck. "Now," says Kirilov, "we will have American music." Whereupon its loud speaker is aimed at Eric and it begins to play, "Oh, Johnnyl Oh, Johnnyl How you can love!" An excited male voice begins to sing the words breathlessly, as though he had first been chased around the block. The banks sliding by might be il lustrations of a fairy tale. There are tall birch forests and if it were night, I am sure a distant light would appear and walking toward it we would find the old witch and Hfer house of stick candy. Now and then we pass a clearing and a village of logs, with those beautifully carved doors and win dow frames characteristic of Old Russia. Occasionally naked girl swimmers duck down as we go by. This canal probably isn't quite as wide as the Panama but two of these great steamers can pass. About ev ery fifteen or twenty miles there is a loading station almost as big as the one where we came aboard? but no towns are in sight. At each station a mammoth metal statue of either Lenin or Stalin commands the canal. They hold the same poses here and throughout the Soviet Union. Stalin, in his heavy overcoat and cap, strides along, swinging his arms; Lenin always gesticulates with arms outstretched. How was the canal built, I ask. By 3,000,000 political prisoners, working with picks and shovels, and it took them only a little over two years. We float for a while through soft birch forest and sure enough, anoth er statue looms ahead. For us they disfigure the Russian landscape but I suppose we are no more annoyed than Russians would be at the bill boards which line our highways However, the artists who paint our cigarette ads are more skillful than the monumental masons who de signed these cigar-store Indians. One of the British correspondents who lives up on the fifth floor of the Metropole invites me and half a doz en other correspondents up for a party, and I take as a contribution my tioisneviK factory cake. The party starts about 10 o'clock with sandwiches and black coffee, brewed over an electric stove?and my cake. The host has persuaded the Metropole maid, an old lady of seventy named Nina, who has looked after him for several years, to serve and wash dishes afterwards in his bathroom. At about ten-thirty a couple of Russian girls arrive. One is touching thirty, with the usual sallow, pimply Moscow skin and shabby clothing. The other is about twenty-four and the prettiest Rus sian girl I have seen. But the amaz ing thing is bow in Moscow she has found enough vitamins to clear her skin. Our host calls for Nina to bring cake plates and coffee cups for the girls. Nina eyes them with intense disapproval, shoves the plates into their hands and goes out banging the door. Our host laughs. "She's adopted me. When, now and then, a Russian girl does spend the night, Nina puts the picture of my wife and kids where it's the first thing I'll see when I wake up." Now for'a note on sex in Russia. In the outside world Russians have an awe-inspiring reputation for pro miscuity. It is unfounded. It grew up in the days when the Bolshevik Party denounced fidelity as a bour geois fetish and proclaimed the new freedom in these matters, along with legalized abortion and post-card di vorce. But even in those days the reputation was unfounded, for al though divorce could be had for the asking (and some individuals got dozens), the rate for Russia as a whole was less than the American divorce rate. The average Russian seemed reasonably content with one wife. Now divorce is difficult and abor tion illegal in Russia and promiscu ity politically unfashionable. Yet life seems to go on at about the t# 1*?? HmMM/LL m _ j T-i'.uT? ??? x:tu) ~]^sx?? fl*+ ______ Roosevelt tells Stalin of Normandy invasion. same cadence that it always did. One gathers that these matters are governed by deep instinct and are little affected by the official preach ings of church or state, and that this is true not only of Russia, but for the rest of the world as well. Having said this, I must add that the Moscow foreign colony is def initely underprivileged in this field. In part this is due to matters of taste, for the legendary Russian beauty turns out to be mythical in Moscow; at least she does not exist in the absence of adequate amounts of fresh fruit and tomatoes. no n ootnonnou -*? J UJ IMPROVEDJ J" UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST. D. D. Of Ttaw Moody Bible Institute ot Chicago. Reisaaod by Wsstsrn Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 7 Loon subjects wad Scripture Inta m lected and copyrlfhtcd by Intarnatlooal Council of Religious Education: uaad by parmiaalon. FRIENDS OF JESUS LESSON TEXT?Mar* 10: 15, 14; Luka ? : 13-18; 3:1-3: 15:1. 1; John S:L la. MEMORY SELECTION ? Ya arc my trlends. If ya do arhataoavar I command you.?John 15:14. Jesui U our friend. We may be His friends. Simple words thus pre sent the most profound and satisfy ing experience of life. There is noth ing more wonderful than friendship with Jesus. - We may become the friends of Jesus and make Him our friend sim ply by putting our faith in Him as Saviour and Lord and thus doing what He commands. He said, "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you" (John 15:14). What kind of friends did Jesus choose? Did He limit His Interest to a select circle of very religious people, or to the cultured and edu cated folk of His day? It may sur prise some Christian people who have made the church a sort of ex clusive club to learn how wide were the interests and the love of the Lord whom they profess to serve. I. Children Were Welcomed (Mark 10:13, 14). Observe that the disciples had fallen Into that strange mode of thought which excluded the chil dren. They were undoubtedly well meaning in their desire to keep the Master from the intrusion (as they thought) of little ones. He was en gaged in dealing with profound spir itual matters and they felt that He should not be disturbed. Jesus was displeased. He seldom showed such feelings. Usually He bore silently with their mistakes, but this was so serious that they must be rebuked. Little children belong with Jesus. Let us not forget it, and let us not fail to make it easy and attractive for them to come to Jesus in our churches and Sunday schools. n. Witnesses Were Chosen (Luke 6:13-16). When Jesus left this world to re turn to His Father's throne, He left witnesses behind. It is significant that these men were of simple childlike spirit, un learned in the formality of their day, but with a real genius for friendship both with the Lord and with a needy world. The close fellowship of our Lord with these men was their course of training for service, and His blessed friendship was the burning fire which kept their hearts warm through the difficult years ahead. in. Women Were Helped (Luke 8: 1-3). Yes, and they became the Lord's willing helpers, just as a multitude of their sisters in the faith have been down through the ages. Women responded readily to the Lord's message of redemption and to many of them He was abla to look for loyal and sacrificial serv ice. Women were not highly thought of in His time on earth. They are little more than useful creatures in heath en lands today. Christianity set womanhood free, raised it to its glo rious place of dignity and useful ness. Every woman ought to love Jesus with deep devotion. Note that some of the wealthy women gave of their means to serve Jesus. It is one of the effective ways in which women carry oo work for the Lord today. iv. unieasta war* Kecelred (Luke 13:1, 2). Publicans and sinners?who would they be in our day? Drunkards, thieves, gamblers, prostitutes, crim inals of all kinds. A beautiful and touching word by Q. Campbell Morgan is quoted in Peloabet's Notes. Listen sinner, Jesus "receiveth unto Himself sin ners. He takes them Into His com radeship, makes familiar friends of them, takes them to His heart. That is the gospel. He is not high-seated on a throne bending down to you and offering you pardon if you will kiss His scepter. He is by you in the pew, He is close to you in your sin, and He will take you as you are with the poison and the virus within you, put His arms about you and press you into a great comrade ship." Will you let Him do It?now? V. Balers Were Converted (John 2:1, 2a). "Not many mighty, not many no ble, are called" (I Cor. 1:23), but thank God, it does not say "not any." Some there were in high places who set aside their pride, their position and all, to come hum bly to Jesus. Nicodcmus was one of these. It Is true that he came by night, but he came; and that is wonder enough for a man in his position. Read his defense of Jesus amid the scorn of his fellow Sanhedrin members (John 7:35-53). These, then, are the friends of Jesus. Do you find your place among tlem? There is room for you. He is waiting to receive you. Will yni coma to Him now? RUSSIA WAR TALK WASHINGTON. - It's no secret that there's been considerable talk among the brass hats in the Penta gon building about war with Rus sia. Some of this comes from men who honestly feel war is inevitable and favor getting it over with right now. Others chiefly favor a little war talk because of its help in pass ing military conscription. However, there can be no doubt about the views of the top military man in the war department?Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Two or three weeks ago, Eisen hower was attending a Washington dinner party when people began to talk about war with Russia. Irked by the conversation, he remarked that he was "amazed that so many people should suddenly be seriously considering the idea of war with Russia." Then the chief of staff proceeded to give a pointed lecture on the fool ishness of this war talk, which can be briefly summarized as follows: "People who want war should only think a few minutes about the sacrifice Russia has made in the past Ave years ? a loss of life and property so large we cannot conceive of It. A people who have suffered such a loss will not turn tall before any military force In the world to day. But at the same time they will not go out and look for an other war. "And neither will we. This coun try is no more anxious to go to war with Russia. Our losses are groat, and we want no more. Cer tainly the American people do not want to get involved in a war in which there can be no end but the destruction of the greater part of the world. "We have nothing to fain to atart with, and would have noth tof left when It la over." ? ? ? ANTI-HOUSING LOBBY Most powerful lobby aince the war threw itself into the battle to de feat the Wyatt housing program for veterans. Every congressman re ceived wires, phone calls, letters from builders, lumber dealers, real estate men. Many telegrams were phony, as several congressmen discov ered when they tried to answer them. Others were signed with the names of people who later assured members of congress that they had not seen or sent the wires. These tactics, of course, have been used before. The prize telegram, however, was one sent to all congressmen from the St. Paul-Minneapolis area by the Northwestern Flooring and Lumber company, of which V. H. Alberts is president. After urging that the veterans' housing program be defeated, the lumber company had the gall to add: "Please also exert your efforts to oppose a standing vote on these issues." ? ? ? NO TRUMAN ROAD Folks back in Jackson county, Mo., usually are willing to go the limit for any honor to their native son, Harry Truman. But a recent pro posal to change the name of Van Horn road, an important traffic ar tery named after .an early county pioneer, met with a storm of pro test. Some of the rural citizens balked at stealing one person's tombstone to honor another. Van Horn road was named after Col. R. T. Van Horn, who settled in the county in 1836 when Kansas City's population was about 466. He became mayor of Kansas City, was active in Missouri politics, and bought the county's first newspaper, later the Kansas City Journal, now defunct. ? ? ? WALLACE AND ICKE8 Henry Wallace and HaroM Ickea, although agreeing on basic political kiealx, have never been warm friends, For IS long years they served in the same cabinet, but part of the timeathey fought like cat and dog over who was to run the forest service and the soil conserva tion service. , Ickes' exit from the Traman cabinet has left Wallace as the last of the original Roosevelt New Dealers, and the only cabi net member with a powerful bold on independent voters. An original Republican ? as was Iebes ? Wallace is strong with the Negro voters, labor, and the independent liberals. As a result, Wallace's position in side the administration is better than ever. Truman and Bob Hannegan both are anxious to retain at least one all-out New Dealer. Wallace is their man. ? s ? SOUTHERN LABOR DRIVE One of the most important labor decisions since tbe CIO broke away from the AFT, has just been taken. Phil Murray, head of the CIO, has decided to pour one million dollars into the greatest union organizing drive the south has ever seen. In a few weeks, CIO organizers by the hundreds will begin moving into Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Ala bama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, intent on organizing all unorganized labor, both Negro and white. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS fjohe ^roch for W/other-^2)amgfiler ^4 Simple 1"JivoAome for Spring. 8882 ^ 2-10 yr?. Mother-Daughter Frock HERE is a sparkling parallel idea (or mother and daugh ter?pretty round yoked (rocks with cool cap sleeves, snugly fit ting waist and (ull cut skirt. Use a brightly striped or flowered (abric (or the lower part o( the dress and make the yoke ot a contrasting shade. Grown-up and growing up charmers. ? ? ? Pattern 8881 la tor size* 12. 14. 18. 18 and 20. Size 14, upper dress. 2J? yarda of 35 or 38-inch material: contrasting voke and aleeves, % yard; 6 yards rlc rac. Pattern No. 8882 comes In sizes 2. 4. 8. 8 and 10 years. 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