THROUGH RUSSIA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 192, 4 August 1930, Page 8

THROUGH RUSSIA

.A TRAVELLER’S IMPRESSIONS. 11 AWAKENING FROM A NIGHTMARE.” [United Press Association—By Cable— Copyright.! London, Aug. 2. ‘‘Coming from Russia is like awakening from a nightmare/’ said Mr. Hessell Tiltman, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s biographer, in an interview after his return from a month’s travelling with Mrs. Tiltman through Russia. He said: “There are only two kinds of people—the Communists, who arc fanatics, and all the others, who are apathetic and hopeless, as they always have. been. Wo weic greatly honoured to witness the production of the first tractor in the world’s greatest factory at Stalingrad, which was erected on what was virgin country two years ago. Great Soviet aeroplanes swooped overhead. Innumerable speeches were made and songs were sung, but there was nothing to eat. The crowd failed to understand when we demanded something to teat. “it was most difficult to get a square meal in Russia. Although telegrams asking to grant us every facility preceded us everywhere, we invariably discovered there were no facilities to give anybody. The Stalingrad factory is run by Americans, who are highly paid. They say Russia is a good count’y if cue is satisfied with one wash a month aid five meatless days a week.

“The teaching of English is Moscow’s best paid profession. Young (tommuntats eager to learn the language go to spread light in the outer world. We saw many classes of Communist youths learning English in order to go to Australia, Africa, America and England.”