RUSSIA TO-DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 6

RUSSIA TO-DAY

BY A -IRTISH WRITER. United Pj’dsg Association— Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, August 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 1 : • “There are only two kinds of people—Communists, who are fanatics; -all others, tfho are apathetic aigT hdpeless, as they always have, been.! were greatly honpuiVi ; ed to witijps-j? the production of the first itractefiUn fthe world’s .greatest: • factory at' ; ; £italnigrad, which was erected on jwMt was virgin country bears | j Great Soviet acro'lplancs sw(ir>|lecl.i overhead ; ifhitjfiViejiable' ; c sgeeqhe.s Aigrbchiade; and songs were ,song;; butjfhei-e was nothing:.to.&ab! ijThe (crowd faillcl to understand when :Ws. demandeclifsomething to, . eat-,-- the •'Cdmmunisfs- being perfectly satisfied to see the tractor. It was most difficult to get a square - meal in Russia. Although' telegrams asking them to grant us' every facility preceded us' everywhere, we invariably discovered that there were no facilities to give anybody. The Stalingrad factory v is run by Americans who arc highly paid. They say that Russia is a good country, .if. you are satisfied with one wash monthly, and five mealless days weekly. The teaching of English is Moscow’s best paid profession. Young Communists are eager to learn the English language so as to .go to spread the light in;-the outer- world. We 'classes of ■ Communist youths learning English'hisoVdcr to go to Australia, Abide, f I America and England J’ ;, ,