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Next day Dr. Summerskill poked through Moscow's maternity hospital and the new GUM department store, which she found "absolutely terrific." At Moscow's towering new university building, Nye Bevan asked the Russian provost if Communism was a compulsory course. It was. "Suppose," persisted Nye, "that I did not want to take Communism?" The provost smiled broadly. "You would take it anyway," he said...
...sights (which included the inside of the Kremlin and the tomb of Lenin and Stalin), the touring Laborites were ready to take off for their final destination: Red China. Of Moscow's Malenkov, Clement Attlee remarked with Orwellian crypticism: "He is the most equal of the equals." Nye Bevan was warmer in praise. The Soviet Premier, he said, was "a man with a warm sense of humor...
...easy to guess what their hosts will be anxious to show them . . . Mr. Attlee. Mr. Bevan and their companions will visit "model villages" and "mutual aid" farms . . . they will relax beside peaceful lakes, and they will be shown films depicting 'the regime's progress and its peaceful intentions...
...Attlee and Mr. Bevan are not likely to get a close look at Mao's now enormous army. But they might find time to glance at the People's Daily leading article of July 24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between...
There are many other matters to which the Labour leaders might direct their curiosity. They might-if they can -seek out Kao Kang, who was the much-lauded ruler of Manchuria until this year he committed the unpardonable sin of "standing up against the party." Mr. Bevan should find this an enlightening interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question...