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owing the Crimea conferénce;
fre can even understand the
» light of the Polish gentlemen
'o London who yearn to again
Ford it over White Russian, Uk-
Painian, Jewish and Polish
feaSants: what is a bit difficult
0 understand is this sneering
bynicism —of so-called “‘social-
sts, who see in the Teheran
Soncord and its unfolding in
Humbarton Oaks and Livadia
fothing but a new “‘imperial-
sm of power politics.” Still,
mowing: such “socialists”,
heir -deductions are not alto-
Prether unexpected. These
iyory-tower Saviours of human-
‘ty from the evils of capital-
sm are blinded by their own
Superego, and insist on quar-
elling; with the obvious iessens
E history.

HE palace of Alupka where
Prime Minister Churchill and
iis staffs resided during the
Stimea conference, was up un-
al 1939 one of the chain of
workers’ rest homes, and the

lta--Historic

Yalta, the holiday Riviera of the Crimea

main consultation, surgical and
medi¢al clinic of the Black Sea
Riviera. The grounds of the
palace are magnificent in their
beauty and quite English. The
structure itself is of Norman
Tudor design, also by an Eng-
lish architect. Its battlements
and turrets are reminiscent of
Hollyrood Castle. It was the

property of Count Voronish,
one of the old Russia’s most
aristocratic families. The

yeorthy count,
breed, despised everything Rus-
Sian . except of course the
riches he squeezed out of the
toil of his peasants in the vine-
yards and farms of the Alupka
estate. He spent most of his
time in the European centers
of idle gaiety. Prince Voro-
nish’s palace contains a superb
library of over 60,000 volumes
all bound in’ light fawn mor-
rocco leather with furnishing
to match all English and
French. His boast was that
there was not a Russian book
in his library, nor a~ Russian
servant in his palace. When

like most of his™

And Picturesque

his peasants revolted now and
again he had his gendarmes
shoot a few and apply the knout
to others as a salutery lesson

not ‘to incur the wrath of his
lordship by idleness.

Perched high upon a rock
overlooking his estate the count
had a huge eagle placed to re-
mind the peasants always of
his omnipotent watchfulness
=. symbolic indeed of a bid
of prey in human form.

-The. sreat doorway of the
Alupka Palace with its long
wide sweep of steps, guarded
by massive lions, is typically

‘English, and must have seem-

ed a “bit like home” to Prime
Minister Churchill and his
aides.

VS STALIN and his
’ staff occupied the Palace of
Mishor, remamed the “Red
Flag” sanatorium and one of
many operated by the Soviet
trade unions as summer rest
homes for workers’ vacations.
The writer, together with his

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- Composite views of the great Tudor Palace of Alupka
where Prime Minister Churchill and his staff resided during

the conference.

England.”

wife, spent a month’s vacation
in this palace in the summer of
1939 as guests of the Office
and Clerical Workers’ Union.
The palace is of Moorish de-
sign, the grounds a blaze of
Sub-tropical and oriental flora,
and in many corners and nooks,
as on the shores of the Black

Sea itself, legendary statues
and tales of a bygone age,
when the fierce Moors used to
raid the Crimea coast and steal
the Tartar women for the ha-
rems of the Sultanate.

HEY, YOU! JONES!
1 WANT TO TALK

=--AND THE NEXT TIME
(LL REALLY
\WSOCK YOU!

1S THIS WHAT
BEING A HERO

j Note the lons
Stairway leading to the main entry of the palace.
Churchill must have found Alupka like a

“couchant’ on the great
Me.

“little bit of

These three great palaces
are only a few miles apart and
all close to Yalta. Under So-
viet power they became health
resorts of the workers and pea-
sants, part museum, with the
story of their origin and their
riches in fine paintings, tapes-
tries and other valuable’ arts
well preserved and cherished
by the new Soviet owners.
These palaces became to tens
of thousand of Soviet people

homes of health and Pease
happiness.

The role they played in the
Crimea Conference, housing:
the staffs of the Allied Nations
and the “Big Three,” adds lustre
to their glory as health re-
sorts, for in the palace of Liva-
dia a world charter of health
and lasting peace between na-
tions was further perfected;
which, and in spite of the dis-
mal howls of reactijm, will
give progressive men and
women everywhere not only
the hope but. the will to “look
with confidence to the day
when all the peoples of the
world may live free lives un-
touched by tyranny and accord-
ing to their varying desires and
their own conscience.”

The ‘Crimea Charter” is a
peoples’ charter; it embodies
all the hopes and aspirations
of decent mankind . to de-
stroy the Hitlerite enemy root
and braneh . . to make sure
that such shall never rise again
to threaten the peace of the
world . to rebuild the world
in a new structure which will
“afford assurance that all th
men in all the lands may live
out their lives in freedom from
fear and want.”