By WILLIAM J. POMEROY

One of the great contradictions
in British public life is he pride
with which even the Establish-
ment can point to the tolerance
of revolutionary political refu-
gees such as Marx, Engels and
Lenin, and the. surrility of to-
day’s intrigues nurtured against
the countries which won the
socialist freedom that these re-
volutionaries fought for.

Equally contradictory today is
Britain’s intensifying drive for
trade with the Soviet Union and
other socialist countries, and
the mounting propaganda and
actions that have made Britain
an anti-Soviet center in Europe.

-Two recent cases illustrate
the latter tendency and provide
an insight into what goes on in
Whitehall, the London thorough-
fare along which the. Foreign
Office and the Home Office are
located.

First is the case of Gerald
Brooke, a youthful lecturer in
Russian at London’s Holborn
College, who was arrested in
Moscow in May 1965 while act-
ing as a courier for an anti-
Soviet organization’ abroad.
Caught with the goods, Brooke
was convicted of smuggling
anti-Soviet materials into the
Soviet Union and distributing
them. He was given a year in
prison and four years in a labor
camp.

During the intervening four
years the British press (except,
of course, for the Morning Star)
kept up a barrage of propagan-
da about the alleged innocence
and maltreatment of Gerdld
Brooke.

Horrendous stories of brutally
forced confessions (Brooke con-
fessed his guilt in open court),
of undernourishment in harsh
prison conditions, of forced labor
while sick, of cruef guards were
the breakfast fare of British
readers. This was encouraged
by the British Government,
which was well aware of the
facts and had consular access
to Brooke in the labor camp, as
did his wife, who could send
him food parcels and other ne-
cessities.

Nazi collaborators

Brooke’s courier work was
done for the organization called
NTS (Narodno-Trudovoy Soyus,
or Popular Labor Alliance)
which was set up by White
Guardist emigres in 1930. The
NTS evades setting forth its po-
litical aims, but its sympathiz-
ers describe these as having “a
tendency towards the corporate
State idea of Mussolini” (in
other words, fascism). During
World War II it collaborated
with the Nazis and served in the
suppressive apparatus set up by
Hitler in the occupied Soviet
territories.

Since the war the NTS has
had its main base in West. Ger-
many, where it operates two
radio stations beaming propa-
ganda into socialist countries
and an anti-Communist publish-
ing house in Frankfurt (the
Possev Press). It has sought to
infiltrate its agents into the
Soviet Union.

Its 50 full-time executive staff
members indicate a costly set-
up, and according to the British
Observer, “The cost of all these
operations has prompted sugges-
tions that NTS funds come
from the American Central In-
telligence Agency.” NTS lead-
ers move freely in and out of
Britain. where they have a
branch, and it is inconceivable
that British intelligence is not
kept informed of its activities.

The return of Brooke to Lon-

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don was given headline treat-
ment by the British press and
TV, which played him up as a
persecuted victim of a police
state. This heady stuff was kept
up for only three days. Then
Brooke consented to a television
interview, and the bottom fell
out of the pretty story.
Espionage admitted

To an interviewer on the com-
mercial TV channel (not BBC)
Brooke frankly admitted he had
carried to Moscow not only anti-
Soviet literature but also secret
codes and radio signaling in-
structions that “had a much
closer connection with espion-
age than with anti-Soviet mat-
ter.”

This confession by Brooke
that he had actually been on a
spy mission came as a shock to
a British public led to believe
by its government that he had
been an innocent, idealistic tour-
ist. Said an angry editorial on
July 27 in the Sunday Times,
which had printed some of the
more imaginative Brooke prison

stories:
Public misled

“The Government’s argument
had always been that it would
be improper to release the pro-
fessional spies Mr.. and Mrs.
Kroger for Brooke because
Brooke had merely distributed
anti-Soviet pamphlets . . . Now
it looks very much as if press
and public have been misled all
along — misled by the, govern-
ment’s official spokesmen who
have encouraged a biased view
of Brooke’s innocence.

“Imagine a Russian arriving
here and contacting subversive
groups with codes for short-
wave radio reception; our auth-
orities would hardly regard that
as an innocent act, and to repre-
sent Brooke’s action as such
was, by omission at least, news
management if not deception.”

Laws observed

Brooke furthermore related
that his interrogation after ar-
rest had been polite and abso-
lutely correct, with no hint of
violence or threat, that in his
trial and entire imprisonment
the laws and regulations had
been punctilliously obseved, and
that his work in labor camp
(carving chessmen) had not been
arduous but merely boring. It
became obvious, from his ac-
count, that Soviet authorities
had really been lenient with him
in not charging him with es-
pionage, as they could have.

“Foreign Office experts”
promptly channeled a story to
the right-wing Telegraph that
they had “noticed in his man-
ner and remarks indications of
Soviet thought-injection.” If
Brooke told the truth then he
must be “brainwashed.”

The Brooke story disappeared
from the headlines.

The Kuznetsov case

Simultaneously, as if a scene-
shifter were at work, another
anti-Soviet case was hurried for-
ward to replace it. This was the
alleged defection of the Soviet
novelist Anatoli Kuznetsov, who
arrived in London on the same
plane carrying the returning
Brooke, ostensibly to write a
book on Lenin’s life as a politi-
cal refugee in England. Kuzriet-
sov disappeared, reportedly
asked to stay permanently in
Britain, and a. statement was
printed in his name renouncing
his government, the Communist
Party, Marxism-Leninism? and:
life in general under socialism,
all in hysterical language.

The problems of Kuznetsov as
a writer and of his personality
make another story on which

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light will eventually be thrown.
What was immediately plain
was the way in which he was
used by the same circles that
had built up the Brooke case.
These circles, it was evident
from the printed statement, had
been in touch with Kuznetsov
for at least a year prior to his
move, when it had been planned.
An expected guest

It was reported that Kuznet-
sov had made a beeline for the
office of the Daily Telegraph, the
rabidly anti-Communist spokes-

man for the Tory party, where
he was taken in hand by the
paper's anti-Communist “ex-
pert,” David Floyd. It was said
that he then went to the Home
Office where, on verbal request,
without even filling out an appli-
cation, he was granted perman-
ent stay by Home Secretary
James Callaghan.

The speed with which Kuznet-
sov was taken to the bosom of
the Establishment (to say noth-
ing of his readiness to snuggle
there) would not be so striking

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JACK LONDON

By ART SHIELDS

I heard many stories of Jack
London—the hero of my boy-
‘hood—in Hawaii this spring. He
first saw the islands from the
deck of a pirate sealing schoon-
er in 1893, as a lad of 17. And
he had just finished his famous
revolutionary novel, The Iron
Heel, when he arrived at Hono-
lulu in his sloop The Snark, in
1907. From then on he returned
again and again.

Jack -was enraptured with
the beauty of these sub-tropical
islands that will be a socialist
paradise in time. He climbed
their volcanic peaks. He surfed
in their long Pacific swells. He
fraternized with their hand-
some Polynesian people. And a

touching tribute was paid to.

him by a young Hawaiian uku-
lele artist when he died in 1916.

“Better than anyone, he knew
us Hawaiians,” the youth said.
This. tribute appears in the in-
troduction to Stories of Hawaii
by Jack London (Appleton Cen-
tury).

London’s love for the brown-
skinned Hawaiians was accom-
panied by anger at their oppres-
sors. He identified: the oppres-
sors as the descendants of mis-
sionaries and rum sellers, who
grabbed the people’s land. Love
and anger run through his
Hawaiian stories.

A Hawaiian rebel tells of this
robbery in the story of Koolau
the Leper. The story is based
on a man the guides still talk
about. And it is one of Jack’s
best. =

Koolau was a cowboy on a
white man’s ranch on the island
of Kauai, when the marks of
leprosy appeared. This was an
imported disease. It came with
indentured slaves the sugar
barons brought in. Its victims
were exciled for life to the
leper camp on the island of
Molokai.

But Koolau wouldn’t go. He
led other rebel lepers to'a moun-
tain gorge filled with fruit and
nutritious roots and ablaze with
gorgeous wild flowers. It was
an ‘earthly paradise.” The band
lived there for months, until
word came. that police would
attack at dawn the next day.
The moon gave light for a meet-
ing. The crippled, mutilated
men and women gathered round
their leader ‘in the perfumed
luminous night.” And Koolau
began telling a story of colo-
nialism that might be told in
many lands and climes.

Who are the white men who
rule the land, the leader began?

“They were of two kinds. The
one kind asked our permission,
Our gracious permission, to
preach to us the word of God.

The other kind asked our per-

mission . . . to trade . . . That
was the beginning.
“Today all the islands are

theirs . . . They that preached
the word of God, and they that
preached the word of Rum, have
become great chiefs. They live

like kings, in houses of many |

rooms, with multitudes of serv-
ants to care for them. They who
had nothing have everything,
and if you, or I... be hungry
they sneer and say, ‘Well, why
don’t you work? There are the
plantations.’ ”

I think Koolau’s next words
tell a story the school books
suppress.

“Brothers, is it not strange?
Ours was the land, and, behold

the land is not ours. What did
these preachers of the word of
God and the word of Rum give
us for the land? Have you re-
ceived one dollar . . . anyone
of you, for the land? Yet it is
theirs, and in return, they tell
us we can go to work on the
land, their land, and that what
we produce by our toil shall be
theirs.”

The story of the battle on the
precipices next day brings out
London’s literary skill at its
best.

A self-righteous millionaire is
the central figure in another sto-
ry—The House of Pride. He
Owns a bank, a railroad and
50,000 acres of sugar cane, pay-
ing 40 percent.

He got this wealth from his
father, Isaac Ford, an austere
New Englander, who came to
preach the word of God and
and struck it rich. His riches
came from the land and labor
of the Polynesian people, and
he considered himself ‘“God’s
steward.”

Percival Ford, the millionaire
son, is a_ selfish bigot, who
thinks he’s a man of God. He’s
very proud of his father. The
portrait of that “soldier of the

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tells how the racism
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had a little tropical bl0® vet
veins. He was one quaf
waiian.

A fourth story—Chtt
Chun—is a witty satire
racism. The story tells
son of Chun ah Chun, ‘ned
contract laborer, leam
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do not become rich és
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