COMING FROM RUSSIA IS LIKE WAKING FROM BAD DREAM

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 7

COMING FROM RUSSIA IS LIKE WAKING FROM BAD DREAM

Would Rather See Tractor Than Eat WHAT ENGLISH AUTHOR . .SAW United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 3. "Coming from Russia is like awakening from a nightmare, said Hessell Tiltman, Ramsay MacDonald’s biographer, in an interview after his itturn from a month’s travelling with Mrs Tiltman through Russia. He said: "There arc only two kinds of people'—Communists who are fanatics and all others who are apathetic and hopeless as they have always been. "We were greatly honoured to witness the production of the first tractor in the world’s greatest factory at Stalingrad, which was erected on what v.as virgin country two years ago. 1 ‘ Great Soviet aeroplanes swooped overhead, innumerable speeches were made, and songs sung, but there was nothing to eat. The crowd failed to understand when wo demanded something to eat, the Communists being perfectly satisfied to see the tractor.__ "It was most difficult to 'get a square meal in Russia. Although telegrams asking to grant us every facility preceded us everywhere we invariybly discovered there no facilities to jive to anybody.' "The Stalingrad factory is run by Americans who arc highly paid, 'ihey say Russia is a good country if you are satisfied with one wash monthly and five meatless days a week. ‘ ‘ The teaching of English is Moscow’s best-paid profession, koung Communists arc eager to learn the language so as to be able to go to spread light in the outer world. Wc saw many classes of Communist youths learning English in order to go to Australia, Africa, America and England.’’ "Red Day” A Fiasco Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PARIS, Aug. 3. "Red Day,’’ ordered by Moscow for Communist riots, was a general fiasco. The Parisian police arrested a number of Communist leaders, including the editor of Humauitc. BUDAPEST, Aug. 2. The Communist commemoration of "Red Day” passed oil quietly at Bucharest. Russian Pulp Wood Admitted to U.S.A. Received Sunday, 9 p.m. AVASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The Treasury Department has announced that due to lack of conclusive proof that it was manufactured by convict labour, it has decided to lift tho tan on Russian pulp wood. Cremating Lenin’s Body Received Sunday, 9 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 3. Experts now admit that the embalming of Lenin’s body which was supposedly to preserve it for all eternity, was now inferior in character with the result that nothing can now stay the process of dissolution which is proceeding rapidly. The remains will therefore be cremated and the ashes be kept in the Mausoleum of the Kremlin, where the display of the body in a glass coffin has done much to intensify the spread of Leninism. In a population like Russia's tho news of tho body decomposing will Lave an enormous effect upon the peasants throughout the country and may presage the end of his work.