REWI ALLEY'S TRAVELS
JOURNEY TO OUTER MONGOLIA-A DIARY WITH POEMS, by Rewi Alley; preface by H. Winston Rhodes; the Caxton Press. ‘THis little book is the diary of Rewi Alley’s visit to the celebrations in honour of the 35th anniversary of the Republic of Outer Mongolia, where, as "persona grata" and indeed important person in the Communist world, he was treated with lavish hospitality. Mongolia is described as a pastoral country (continued on next page)
with an area nearly seven times that of New Zealand, a continental climate, about 15 million sheep of the local breed, great herds of cattle and horses, and considerable potential for arable farming. Alley thoroughly enjoyed travelling in such country, talking with the People at work, admiring the moder buildings in old cities, wondering at the indigenous culture, contrasting the conditions he saw with those "before the liberation." One can enjoy the record while blink'»= at such occasional illjudged phrases as "millions of tons of bombs" dropped by Australian planes in Malaya. Of the capital city of Ulan Bator he writes: "A tar-sealed road from airport on to a brand-new city beside a winding stream; lines of white buildings stretching out to what once they called ‘the holy town of Urga,’ now proud of the. name, Ulan Bator, ‘Red Hero.’" I should perhaps mention that this quotation, split up, of course, into short linesten of them, is from one of the "poems." There are about 30 beautifully repro-
duced photographs.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 12
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247REWI ALLEY'S TRAVELS New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 12
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