COMMUNIST “NIGHTMARE”

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1930, Page 9

COMMUNIST “NIGHTMARE”

BRITON VISITS RUSSIANS GREAT SCARCITY OF FOOD EAGER TO LEARN ENGLISH Br Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. 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. Tiltnian through Russia.

“There are only two kinds of the people, Communists who are fanatics and all the others are apathetic and hopeless as they always -have been,” continued Mr. Tiltman. “We were greatly honoured io witness the production of the first tractor in the world s greatest factory at Sialingrad, which was erected on what was virgin country two years aw. Great Soviet aeroplanes swooped°ovcrliead, innumerable speeches were made and songs were sung, but there was nothing to cat. the crowd failed to understand when we demanded something to eat, the Communists being perfectly satisfied to see tne nac“I't was most difficult io get a square meal in Russia. Although telegrams askin- the authorities to grant ns every facility preceded us everywhere we invariably discovered there wore no lacinties to give to anybody. “The Stalingrad factory is. rmi by Americano, who are highly paid, they say Russia is a. good country it one is satisfied with one wash monthly and five meatless days weekly. . . ’’The teaching of English is Moscow s best paid profession. Young Communists are eager to learn the language so that they may go to spread the light in the outer world. We saw many classes of Communist youths learning English in order to go to Australia, Africa, America and 'England.'’