Turkey Asks Balkan Territorial Slices as Price of War Entry
TODOROFF, KOSTA
Turkey Asks Balkan Territorial Slices as Price of War Entry Geograph ical Positon Strategic for Turkey by KOSTA TODOROFF Author of "Balkan Firebrand" •yURKEY belongs to the Balkan peninsula...
...The derision » with us...
...CLOWLY...
...It is as near and at the same time as far as the Land of Promise...
...This deals with a peasant, Peter Gorshkov...
...He is chosen by his fellow members, more or less regardless of party, as a man of sound judgment, fairness and integrity...
...He is hiding in a village and secretly gatbtrkdV forces for a Guerrilla unit...
...In this article, Vernon Bartlett Liberal MP, describes the functioning of Commons from close quartern...
...Only one mhmulataaj spared cottage remained among the rains of the Cossack settlement...
...forewarned, had escaped, and to the angry enquiries of the King the Speaker answered: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me...
...He took his haversack and left his home...
...The soldier fidgeted in confusion on the bench...
...From the moment he accepts his high office he lives a remote and lonely life, since he must avoid any contacts which could possibly suggest favoritism...
...The old building was boarded up...
...After they finished their meal, a 14-year-old boy leaped down from the luggage rack above...
...Beyond the shadow of doubt, the whole country feels highly gratified by the present great successes of the Red Army...
...The soldiers gave her food and started to ask her abpat her life under the Germans...
...But I am a very wicked man, am I not...
...Since the British government remains loyal to the Atlantic Charter, and has therefore refused to endorse such compensations, Turkey's attitude remains one of watchful waiting...
...He advised the soldier to let the boy alone because "now he is weeping because of an action that was well justified...
...After the apathy is the end...
...Two weeks later, when the soldiers were about to leave, they learned to their amazement that this woman who looked to extremely old was actually only 35...
...It is not the main characters or their heroic feat* which make these new works so valuable, but rather the tales about the ordinary man...
...Furkey's interests have a basic solidarity with the interests of the bordering Balkan countries, and the Turks would be gladly accepted in an alliance...
...A man lying engine ana-moves restlessly on the rustling hay...
...It is a blunder because what Turkey needs above all is not territory in Europe (a course which was so wisely abandoned by the late Mustapha Kemal Pasha), but guarantees of her security...
...No king since has ever entered the House of Commons, and the King's Messenger, when he comes to bring some royal message, itas the door slammed in bis face and is only admitted to'the Chamber after he has knocked three times and has received the Speaker's permission to advance up the aisle to the great table...
...The House of Commons IN s debate on the rebuilding of the bombed Parliament baildings...
...Despite his unqualified devotion to Stalin's dictatorship, the great artist and acute psychologist Alexis Tolstoy has given bold and accurate expression to the basic feeling which permeated the masses...
...akeryfn white wig, black knee breeches and long black gown held up by a train-bearer...
...Boris Lavrenev teBs of the conditions in these areas A unit ef Army en - - gluts re was given the order to-restore the teleeiase* Knee at one place in the Donete Basin...
...The rapid aging of people's faces oppresses the mind and' a grisly apathy wears one down...
...In the passagevatf)of t suburban railroad coach two old men attracted fnpteal attention...
...This realism has heretofore saved the Turkish republic from risky adventures...
...Then come the Chaptafn andthe Speaker's secretary...
...It is this reaction which Tolstoy pictures in his novel...
...Quite latently, one ef the best-known end most gifted Soviet writers...
...But there cannot be a new imperialistic policy (so wisely abandoned by \he founder of the Turkish republic, Kemal Attaturk...
...The presence of a powerful Allied army in the East, the obvious enfeeblement of Germany, and the crisis in Bulgaria caused by the death of King Boris, all add to Turkish security...
...But she plays, nevertheless, a role of the utmost importance in relation to the rest Of the Balkans, partly so because of her geographical position, partly because of her neutrality...
...First comes the Sergennt-at-Arms, generally a retired naval or army officer ef distinction, carrying the mace...
...The rest she gave to her chBdren...
...peril am entory session, one member reported that he bj»dreceived * check for $20 te cover his expenses to attend some meeting fcttd the offerer of the check had to make a 4un»Vfeanalogy...
...Dree same of freed 'I'HIS is the third time in one generation that Russia has * undergone starvation...
...Even hi thought one does not admit the possibility of her death...
...Mines which the war revealed to us in every human brm|" - Tern HoHeess *4 Alan : - „ JBsU . TTHJS has been shown very well in a shofftjBPof Tur *Slezkine, The Old Men...
...The aisle betweefi-thr (*mr» ment and the Opposition benches is supposed to a* ear enough to prevent a member from lunging at another eft* a sword...
...The principal police officer calls out: "Hats off, strangers," and a small procession passes by...
...He explained that the boy had run away from a venations...
...Efforts to the very limit of human strength most be made if the country's gaping wounds era te be healed That is why in the third year ef the terrible carnage so many persons do se mack end each sli'saSmia thinking for themselves...
...And again, just as twenty-five years ago and at all the'tuming points of Russia's history, there is one peculiar feature of the Russians that has come out with, particular vividness, viz., that the Russians like "talking straight from the heart" about the most urgent problems...
...Since the first day of the German invasion...
...Asking the old peasant to take him to his farm, he promised that he would do everything the peasant ordered...
...One guarantee would be a Balkan alliance with Turkey's participation...
...jJ'ZS¦ V Their judgments and inferences are frequently oper...
...The old peasant relented...
...Should this information, which reaches me through highly trustworthy sources, be verified, .then Turkey's conduct would constitute a great blunder...
...They are written not in the quiet atmosphere of the study but in the field, amidst biasing ruins, during casual halts on the bleak roads of war, hoc under fire...
...It has uprooted millions of persons from -their' hemes and thrown them to'the four corners of a huge country...
...About what ? That American foodstuffs for Leningrad's population have arrived at Murmansk and that all the crates "are labeled: For Leningrad Only, in reward for our perseverance...
...yet there was light in the basement where the janitor lived...
...To the visitor the procession may seem foolish or outof-date...
...No longer able to bear it, he gave the boy a slice of bread saying, "The boy has been offended without any reason...
...The reply was unfavorable...
...throughout the centuries, these elected representatives of the people have gained jp...
...Before he left them, he took a crust of frosen bread from Us pocket and gave it to the woman...
...mud, and in that way he completely ruined his arm...
...As the Speaker passes, every member of Parliament bows...
...A Profile: England's House of Commons § y Vf » WOW BART LETT Member of Parliament...
...How could you think of coming to me...
...however, tossed the bread back...
...However, Hitler would have been able to overrun the Caucasus, arid the issue of the whole, war might have been different...
...This authority is...
...he was deemed to have insulted not' only this one member, but the whole House, ¦. .ivrvt- nam's V»-t »Since the sixtenth-century," metneei av anvoHn the try been immune from arrest, and there have been cases when city officers who refused to release a member so arrested were themselves imprisoned-.-^bir does not mean that ' members can contract debts or commit other crime* without punishment, but it does mean that no action vft.y be taken against them without the" consent of tea Sneaker, the President of the Chamber...
...I refused to give you bread...
...EVERY day, before the opening of Britain's Parnaraent, a crowd gathers in' the' central' lobby' outside the Chamber of the House of Commons...
...To the visitor the mace may -seem a meanrnrfe...
...Yet the lsection of Russia's population to these victories is mere reetrained than it was at the time when the Red Army halted tke Nazi hordes at the gates of Moscow...
...From ancient churchyards our forefathers arm from their graves to hear our answer...
...The old peasant retorted, "A man cannot live without pride...
...A few years bater^ King Edward I had to agree that money should only be raised "Tjy common assent of the realm...
...Maybe he is now taking offense at himself...
...I do not give anything to beggars or to thieves...
...Only the Russian Sell Moffers INURING the twenty-five years of the revolution, the *^ people witnessed an endless series of outrageous acts committed by the Soviet regime...
...a victim of the Soviet regime," mayor...
...We are undergoing an —rrination, a great historic test...
...TURKEY muzh1 receive some of the Dodecanese Islands taken by Italy ui 1012...
...This time the soldier intervened angrily, saying to the passenger...
...All that oar forefathers and fathers had failed to think out to the end, we most finish now...
...t * '-" Only a few weeks ago, during file, lam...
...I do not undertake te explain the cause underlying this...
...This arm probably could have been saved because the bullet had struck only the bone...
...of course, seldom eatotdk since a balance must be maintained between tat mnuew of the executive, the legislature and the judkWy...
...He performed his role "defiantly ajvi boidhj* He was finally caught, by the Nasis and hanged There is a similarity between Gorshkov's mono sad ill attitude of the former headmaster at Yelna, Vaeili Vats lievich...
...THE war has been recorded in Soviet literature, and in a highly significant way...
...Exaggerated respect for tradition it often-* particularly in Britain—a brake on progress, Bot tbj traditions of the House of Commons, its archaav*sl« »¦* procedure, are almost all based on events in the **r,**T of the common people against privilege, selfishnesf sap injustice...
...One of the soldier's arms hung down lifelessly...
...and for the common profr?ther<*f...
...below it mem hen est walk about and talk, and are technically entsate tfet House...
...to question and dictated by practical policy...
...IJE way fully aware of the possibility that they would * * not trust his sincerity and might kill him...
...Very soon, the deep silence of the night was all around, and then the soldier heard weeping...
...He compared his feelings with tkose of persons st the bedside of a gravely ill, beloved mother...
...he .said...
...These men...
...And' yon cannot close your eyes...
...And when there is smoke, it is from a field kitchen which has come as far as 500 miles on groaning wheels from the Terek river...
...The old peasant tried to persuade the soldier to go with him to his kolkhos farm where the invalid could find work...
...T6d?6\ Bnssia's old and new writers owe much of their-uniPyirfc chuwn to the talkativeness of anonymous plain people...
...What shall we do with this bauble...
...VM4 Plefare* of Rettran LHe Wf V ERYDAY life and its actual worries have been depjcted much more vividly in Tatyana Ochs' short novel On the Way...
...She is dreaming...
...Churchill said that the small sire hid the usual lax attendance, while the oblong shape favored the traditional two-party 'system...
...A traveling Russian may make a casual remmrli in the apparently least appropriate place...
...During his stay in the concentration camp, be had already been tajnjkjae tag many matters...
...Half an hour later that bleak December night two old men were regaling themselves with hot coffee and "talking cordially, mindless of time and fatigue...
...been detained for ten years...
...By his side sat a soldier who had just been released from a hospital...
...This is illustrated by the best of his tales...
...ff^EMBERS of Parliament, you might constant fras all this, hsve a high opinion of themselves and 4 their duties...
...He walked quite aimlessly but his feet took hrm mechanically to the University...
...B. Polevcy's stories...
...but handsome ornament, which looks as though it were made of gold but is, in fact, made of silver...
...Even more horrible than in Leningrad, is the starvation ia the regions which the Red Army has freed from Nasi occupation...
...npwjfcr, and it is now the House of Commons thai has the jngJ* of imposing taxes and deriding how thr mnasf shsslJmn ananr Even newsnspers articles which were.considered .attack* on the dignity of parliament have brought their writers ta prison, and ss far back as 1485 it was resolved tha" tba offer of any kind of bribe to a member of Parliament—or his acceptance of one—was "a high erhne'and- misdemeanor...
...The King had committed his crowning blunder—having promised henceforward to follow the advice of Parliament, he had marched into the House with his soldiers to arrest five members who had offended him...
...It is terrifying because its tradiannnsj"*** T*" humble...
...WHO is this Speaker...
...The professor had sent his wife to the Caucasus...
...Turkey ought to help the Allies in defense of her.own independence which is threatened only by Germany's systematic plans for penetration into the Easi...
...During the long struggle between King Charles I and Parliament, the Speaker of the day made one memorable and dignified statement...
...Nevertheless, Gorshkov did not hesitate...
...In 1242 King Henry III of England opened Parliament, and his spokesmen demanded financial aid for his war with France...
...Unfortunately, I am told by my informants that the Turkish government views the answer to this problem as one depending on territorial compensation, to be received by her at .. the expense of Bulgaria...
...For the first time the people were opposing the right of .the King to levy taxes as he chose...
...during this war, ideas have heaped ap more than men could bear under normal conditions of life...
...to every Member of Parliament it is a symbol of the power of the House of Commons...
...One of them was a majestic, handsosnm'nisr with * forelock of silver-gray hair...
...When the Germans occupied Gorshkov's native village, they appointed him...
...school, had managed to sell his coat and bread ration card and was hew on hie why te another place where he would be equipped anew, ano from wiriest he •weumt-agam ran- away Owe WtaejEeamd passenger gathered up the herring's jowl that remained uneaten und some crumbs of bread on a piece of paper and gave this to the boy...
...There is no joy, no comfort in the Land of the Don which the Germans have devastated...
...So he remained in Moscow...
...The woman kept silent The soldiers took care of and fed her and she repaid by mandmg and laundering their underwear...
...Had Turkey entered the war in 1941 on our side, it would have saved, under the then prevailing relation of forces, neither Yugoslavia nor Greece, while Turkey herself would have been overrun by the Germans...
...It is at this bar that men must appear warn tag are charged with a violation of the privileges of Permment, and in the past the Speaker has sentene* nasi men fo imprisonment For the authority of tfct Hsu* * Commons extends even to the passing of legal ssntsseat when some affront to the dignity of parliament has sn» committed...
...It may be at some small deserted railroad station cloaked in the darkness of night...
...And such a remark provides not only a due to individuals, but also gives a deeper, warmer' and more comprehensive ¦ understanding of the country dfeea# de voluminous painstaking works of rueeuren...
...Into the Offensive, give a heartrending description of the life conditions in the liberated town VeMkiye Luki...
...It is not by accident that one of the Soviet L>k>n a most talented writers, Alexis Tolstoy, began his first novel, "The Tales of.Ivan Sudarey," devoted" to the war', with the following sentences: "The Russian likes to ease his mind...
...Constantine Simonov's last stories, On the goods of the War, reflect the same impressions...
...He does not take...
...he said tersely and emphatically: "There is a limit to retreat for every one as well as a time for holding his own...
...Yet, some biographical details which are reported by the way are highly interesting...
...Opportunities, once neglected, seldom recur, and today Turkey may feel quite secure...
...The old man chuckled and said...
...That is why now, whet fan trampled Russia's soil, Gorshkov who had fought arum the Soviet regime so much recognized it as "his own, at Russian, peasant regime" and made up his mit to...
...Nevertheless this wartime literature has great value...
...This has it rests, not in any slackening of patriotic fervor, but rather in a growing awareness that military victory will not bring immediate relief...
...One might have inferred from the ondipl manner .of their conversation that they worn two eelleagues closely connected by ties of long friendship...
...The conquest of Balkan territory would only renew a century-old burner and embarrassment...
...He was going to give the boy some of his bread but the old peasant intervened imperiously...
...Since thea they had lived together in the basement...
...The passengers' attention was attracted by a small, bony, old peasant in children's felt boots patched with many colored strips of leather...
...He wore new padded trousers and new felt boots but his coat was shabby and smeared...
...In the spring, they went to the professor's summer cottage in the country...
...said, "The war has turned the whole people into a huge blast-furnace...
...The boy continued to assert that he would not "run away" again...
...but nearly three hundred years later, the mace still rests on its stand on the great table in the center of the Chamber...
...In them, a leading part has been played by the Speaker, whose office has changed with the years from that of the spokesman appointed by his fellow numbers to appeal on their behalf to the King to that of defender of the rights of the House of Commons, if necessary against the King himself...
...Soup was made from sour grass and people were learning to eat clover flowers...
...It is true that "All that our forefathers and fathers had failed to think out to the end...
...Gorschkov went surreptitiously to the partisans, offering to provide them with information about the Germans...
...Vasili Vasilievkh is confident that "Russia, u itrong massive and perserving" and that she will, lasjiifnit, ordure...
...Several details of her story leave a lasting impression...
...Unfortunately, however, people had not much salt either and they used ashes instead...
...In these novels the reader faces the preserrt-day Russia of plain, courageous and grim people who are capable of withstanding the severest hardships without losing their humanity...
...Quite recently Vera Inber in hei poem The Pulkovo Meridian pictured the food situation in Leningrad in the terrible winter of 1941-1942...
...He is both the ruler and the aervant of the House...
...However, in the evening of the very first day of his appointment...
...He himself, however, refused to leave Moscow although his superiors pointed otit to him that "everybody waa leaving" and that it was impassible "to stay with tke Germans...
...during the first months of the war...
...Sometimes the artistic value of the poems, ballads, novels ord piays niny also be questioned...
...The peasant doffed his knitted neckcloth and in an angry voice told the soldier to tie it around the boy's ears and to give him bread This short novel of Tatyana Ochs and Just like many other* of this writer's works leave their imprint in the reader's mind by virtue of the fact that they nearly always are life-hike pictures without retouching...
...It is to be hoped that realism will suggest the right moment to abandon neutrality arjd to join the Allies in order to facilitate victory by opening the back door for the invasion of Germany through the Balkans...
...Then she tore some small slices from it aad gobbled them down...
...No Prime Minister may defy him...
...The headmaster as well as the author twi» that the essence of actual culture becomes evident ia ma't most primitive impulses and movements pi the first terrible months of retreat, weary and hungry people, fighting men of the army and refugees alike, gatherer streogtk from a furtive glance of sympathy, a crust.ol bread « a drink of milk shared with them by peaxanf*Voane...
...A large sled was waiting at the station, with a small girl in a heavy sheep furcoat in the driver's seat...
...who -¦sportly before the outbreak of the war had come home - from a concentration camp where accused of part.crpa-* ing in wrecking activities on a collective farm, he had...
...During the first months of the war and of the Red Army's temporary reverses, the fundamental question that alarmed the top-ranking men of the ruling group was what would be the reaction of those who had been oppressed by the regime tad who had grievances against it...
...Ivan Sudarex himself, the man who tells the novel's story, is characterised by the author rather vaguely...
...Tmtj had hp come acquainted only a short time before in the horrible days when the Germans were at the gates of Moscow...
...AS things stand today, the problem is not whether Germany will ^* attack Turkey, but whether Turkey will let the Allies go through her territory on their way to the Balkans, and whether the Turks will join them...
...Ivan had not been engaged in farming...
...At first, she smelt at ft avidly...
...The peasant gave htm a piercing glance and then said harshly...
...From such field kitchens cabbage soap was fed to homeless, starving peasants...
...In these grim days people learned the vahse of fellow men and women quickly and unmistakably...
...Wrapped in two fur coats, with felt-boots on her feet and mittens on her hands, the poetess Inber is lying on her bed and suddenly she becomes aware that she has been persistently thinking of bread, of "a little crust powdered with flour The whole room is full of it...
...old feuds would flame up again...
...They taste bitter, yet if covered with boiling water and seasoned wtth salt, they have a pretty good taste...
...But these Islands are Greek in population, r and it would be wiser for future peace and amity in the Balkans to re-unite the Islands with Greece...
...In summer life had been easier because there Whs grass then...
...And the two old men who had hardly known each other and who had had nothing in common, became friends...
...There they tilled the soil, together with other inhabitants of Moscow, and provided themselves wtth vegetables for the stern winter, to come...
...Despite the rigorous Soviet censorship, vestiges of these thoughts come into the open...
...Ivan's father had wound up his farm affairs aad gone with his family to the Far East...
...Leonid Leonov...
...Policemen keep a passage dear through the crowd...
...said the soldier aggrieved, "he is proud...
...Rylenkov, envisioning the future, said in his pnerr fib Roads of the Front, that though many of tlw«xptrieaee> of the war will fall into oblivion, "never throngkoc: eternity will the the holiness of men be forgotten...
...Apparently there were not enough coffins so that the bodies of the dead were being brought on sleds to the cemeteries...
...whose servant I am here...
...After the outbreak of the war, hr fs] that there was one eternal truth only in the world stj that was "the Russian soil...
...That's to say, at a time when he could have used the latter country as one of his oases...
...Vet, actually one of them was a professor of the Moscow Cay versity whereas the other was its janitor...
...The old peasant took a herring from his bag and gave it to the soldier...
...It marks an important boundary Abaei the bar the Chamber is in session...
...Turkey's neutrality has been a boon to the Allies...
...During the two-odd years of the war, some of them— e.g., the late Eugene Petrovy who perished at the evacuation of Sevastopol, and the popular poet Constantine Simonov—traveled the length and breadth of the/front lines as well as of the rear...
...Early the next morning, the peasant alighted at a small station, after having settled matters with the soldier...
...It is true that in such a case Germany would not have been able to embark upon the invasion of Russia on the scheduled date, June 22, 1941, but would have been compelled to postpone it for several months...
...He asked the old peasant for bread...
...Meanwhile the passengers started their supper and there was the smell of bread...
...Turkey Asks Balkan Territorial Slices as Price of War Entry Geograph ical Positon Strategic for Turkey by KOSTA TODOROFF Author of "Balkan Firebrand" •yURKEY belongs to the Balkan peninsula only through her • Turko-Europeah possessions, S*~, Eastern Thrance, the straits end Constantinople-Istanbul...
...And when you stand to your feet and dj Speaker calls your name you see not merely TMT *j colleagues, but also the ghosts of hundreds of asrirKeaf b(rs of Parliament who have helped by their wordt » establish good and honest government in the place * the tyranny that must always accompany goreraana* based upon force...
...Fortunately Hitler, in his fanatic eagerness to surpass Napoleon, set his -heart on the early date and left Turkey for dessert This was one of Hitler's major strategic blunders, the more so that for the Turkish operation he could have used the Bulgarian army—while British forces fn Egypt were still inadequate, and while Syria was still in the hands of the Vichy government...
...The liberated regions are in aa incomparably more desperate situation than the country's hinterland...
...King Charles ended on the scaffold, the result of his claim that he ruled by divine right and not by consent of the people and their parliament...
...Inside the House, near the entrance, there is a strip*' sewn across the carpet This is known as the *Vr" (*¦» is also a long brass rod which can be pulled oat wine it is required...
...He took the paper from the boy and turned to his own haversack for a crust of bread to give to the boy...
...During the war, be became one of the leaders of guerrilla units in a German occupied region...
...Sir Richard Aelaad, leader of the Commonwealth Party retorted that the stale membership ef the, House—the present Parliament was elected nine years age when Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister, on s program of earning Italian imperialism and nahoMiag the League of Nation*-^was a more potent menace to British democracy than the question of whether the building in which the snemben met, was oblong or semi-circular...
...We snaS always address the Speaker, for example, and nresr another member of the House...
...Then in a soft voice he starts to "speak eircumspectedly about his attitude toward life aad death nntil yon are lulled to sleep...
...toothless woman dwelt there...
...Churchill added that be feared a semi-circular Hoaee would impair British democracy...
...These privileges have not been won without bitter struggles...
...The other was shanveuta-oi and homely...
...Ivan Sudarev remembers his father and is very fond of him...
...From the professor's mere hints the janitor understood his feelings, and he fully shared them even though he was more optimistic...
...Just as in the revolution twentyfive years ago, the war has torn the roofs from a great many houses, has thrown Open doors and windows...
...The Common Man's Life in Russia Today— What the Soviet War Literature Reveals By VBBJk AUX AH OROYA Well-known Russian literary critic...
...Why do you give him mere leavings of food...
...Any territorial pretensions, however, would lead only to future conflicts, as a result of which Turkey migh again be partitioned...
...The boy...
...In the dim light of dawn he perceived the boy trailing close to him...
...Either Bassit *fl perish at the hands of the Germans, or the German* vg perish...
...Yet, after being wounded, he had to work hard for 6 hours to get a gun out of the...
...of their dntion)**- • represent such a diversity of views that antra of * procedure has been devised to lessen the hot anger tad friction between these views might generate...
...In helping the Allies to drive the Germans out of the Balkans, Turkey would be consolidating her own position, and would secure the straits for herself...
...to every Member of*PntlBuweitt H is** matter of pride...
...we must finish now...
...But on one subject all members of all parties sr» * agreement—that the House of Commons «»•*»* •** difficult and terrifying place in which they hsve ever sunt s speech...
...No smoke rises from the black, bare chimneys...
...A soldier of the Red Army brought into the commandant's office a woman and her twe infants who had been cowering in the basement of a deserted house...
...In the course of these two years, her own forces have increased...
...hearing sighs as if thinking of his dear mother...
...The common people, as: w-ell as the aristocracy and the clergy, were thus given a share in the government of Britain...
...Speaking of the situation on the battlefront...
...Mew Qsolifies '¦'HE Red Army's recent victories have created many a * highly optimistic mood and many do not take the trouble to ponder over the life conditions of Russia's population, Michael Sholokhov (in They Fought for the Fatherland), Constantine Simonov and many other author* have mirrored the feelings of the people...
...The train moved slowly, it stopped at every station and was repeatedly shunted to sidetracks to free the rails for the passage of military trains...
...These was some grumbling among the passengers...
...It seemed to him that one dared not think •f the occupation of Moscow even aa a possibility and that one should, therefore, definitely refuse to leave it...
...Then, too...
...Some new qualities of onr life are being melted there aad new complicated processes sea developing which can be grasped only with iliaViilJ " Tea--the people's sufferings "stir up the fsavage in the arMst'a sou: Then all that has reposed within yoe berets set Sod those worse are bet* which one earmotlsMp he* w»ts...
...Prime Minister ChurehHl asserted that it was better to quarrel at close quarters, aad advocated rebuilding the House much as it had stood before, too small to seat all the members and in its previous oblong shape...
...Soviet poets and pros*-writers have gone as war correspondents to the various battlefronts...
...Then comes the ?n...
...A former soldier of the Red Army, he is the son of a peasant who had taken offense at the Soviet government's collectivisation of the farms...
...Any member who is speaking must at once resume his seat and remain silent if the Speaker rises to his feet...
...get" his grievances and to "close" his accounts wits fc The Partisans believed in his sincerity...
...At all costs, Tsui left of speech must be maintained...
...The Turks have one great quality, i.e., their realism, the result of centuries of experience...
...The old peasant, however, again prevented the soldier from doing this...
...As mayor of t» village he was able to provide them with very valiaJt information...
...Of themselves, no...
...Sbe said that the inhabitants had seen no bread for many weeks...
...laid waste by the Luftwaffe...
...In his novel Tar Old Woman...
...At his order, the Sergeant-at-Arms (with black knee breeches, black silk stockings and a sword) must expel members whose behavior has displeased him...
...A Strange Story...
...If a man were without pride, even a iouse could overcome him...
...The shaft of the present mace is said to be over three hundred years old, and to have been part of the original mace which Cromwell ordered his soldiers to remove when he broke into Parliament in 1653...
...A very old...
...During one night raid, a bomb hit the professor's apartment...
...The whole company got into the sled...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 46
