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we would get a good look at ancient
C airo, w hich none o f us had ever
seen.
The next m o rn in g E ric . Joyce and
I continue o u r trip , and th a t a fte r
noon at Teheran we see our firs t
Russians. T h e ir planes w ith the big
red stars on the field as we circ le ,
and as we get out o f our plane, the
Russian Am bassador to Ira n and a
h a lf dozen o f his sta ff are there
to welcome Johnston.
They are
ve ry solemn und do not sm ile as
they shake hands.
These solem n Russian d ip lo m a ts
are a ll in th e ir th irtie s o r e a rly fo r
ties. and they w ear curious, badly
cut Soviet su its—som ber In hue and
o f shoddy m a te ria ls. You could take
an A m e rica n m a il-o rd e r suit, b oil
it, press it lig h tly and get the
same effect.
Next m o rn in g A ve re ll H a rrim a n ,
A m e rica n Am bassador to the Soviet
Union, who has Just a rriv e d in Te
heran, is ta kin g us to Moscow in
the o ffic ia l am bassadorial L ib e ra
tor.
Most fa scin a tin g o f a ll Is a fa ct
which I knew but not u n til now could
1 believe: that in Russia there are
few connected puved highw ays. I
see wagon tra ils fro m the villa g e s
' out to the fields, and som etim es
fa in t ones fro m tow n to tow n, but
not one s trip o f clean, flo w in g con
crete o r black-top.
Also I'm try in g , through th is p le x i
glass window, to see the so cia list
re vo lu tio n as i t has affected the v il
lages. but I ca n 't. F o r a ll th is m ig h t
have been here in the m id d le ages.
I f new thatched-roof huts have been
b u ilt since c z a rist days, fro m 3,000
feet I c a n 't te ll them fro m the an
cient ones. L o oking down on every
villa g e , the biggest b u ild in g is s till
the w hite church, b u ilt in cza rist
days. In tw e n ty-five ye a rs the So
viets have constructed nothing h a lf
as big, although here and there is
w hat m ig h t be a school o r an ad
m in is tra tiv e h a ll.
The co-pilot comes back to say
we w ill swing low over S ta lin g rad .
D ivin g , we fo llo w the bends o f the
c ity its e lf as it follow s the r iv e r —
o r ra th e r, as once did the c ity . F o r
S ta lin g rad is gone, and there re
m a in only roofless w a lls lik e the
snags o f decayed m olars s ta rin g up
at us. F a cto rie s, w ith tw iste d m a
ch in e ry ru s tin g under the tangle of
ro o f g ird e rs.
F in a lly , ju s t out of Moscow, we
see an e le c tric pow er lin e running
fro m horizon to horizon. I t is the
firs t th in g I have seen in the past
hour th a t I am sure was b u ilt since
1917. B u t soon we see the firs t h a rd
surfaced
road, and th a t black
smudge on the horizon is Moscow
its e lf. Then its ra ilw a y ya rd s and
the smoke fro m its factories. T ie rs
of w o rke rs’ ap a rtm e n ts surround
each fa cto ry and are in tu rn su r
rounded by a cra zy q u ilt o f potato
patches. A spacious outdoor thea
te r is on the riv e r banks. The roofs
o f the big b u ild in g s are m o ttle d w ith
brow n and green cam ouflage paint
As we le t o u r wheels down and
begin to feel fo r the ru n w a y, I see,
rushing past, g re a t rows o f A m e ri
ca n -b u ilt C47s stacked on the field
in o rd e rly row s w ith the big sta r of
the Red A ir F orce painted on each.
A considerable crow d is w a itin g
a t the a ird ro m e .
F irs t, the w el
com ing c o m m itte e ; a row o f solemn
Slavs in the same boiled m a il-o rd e r
suits we saw a t Teheran. B u t the
m in u te E ric Johnston emerges, a
b a tte ry o f lenses—m ovie cam eras
and Soviet copies of Leicas and
I lh< New Deal o ffic ia l recognition.
He had even sat down across a con
The Soviet vice - consul
spoke ference table fro m John L. Lewis.
creaky, schoolbook E nglish. He was
He has a theory, th a t before you
an agreeable young m an. helping me denounce an opponent, you should
All out m y visa app lica tio n . H is o f firs t go over w ith h im the points on
fice was pleasant and a iry , but I w hich you agree; you w ill both be
was uneasy. M aybe because the o f surprised, Johnston points out, at
fice o f the consul, upstairs, had dou how ninny o f these there are and
ble doors The kind when you open often the fight can be fa ir ly com
one door, you are le ft sta rin g at prom ised.
s till another closed door, about six
In som ewhat this fra m e of m ind
he was approaching the Soviet
U nion; I wanted to go there fo r the
ve ry obvious reason that Russia is
c le u rly the biggest and most u n pre
d ictable fa c to r w ith w hich A m e r
ica m ust deal in the next few dec
ades.
A week a fte r m y im p u lsive le t
te r 1 m et E ric Johnston across his
desk in W ashington
E ric Johnston
is handsome. At forty-seven he has
a ll o f his w hite even teeth, a ll of
his w avy brow n h a ir, and a clear,
ruddy skin, and blue eyes. He has
a longish, sensitive face and a H o l
lywood profile.
Together, these
m ake h im unusually and conspicu
ously handsome.
He m ig h t have
made a successful ca re e r
an ac
tor. were it not fo r his b ra in , which,
considered as an organ, is uncom
m only good. I t s ta rts w ith a phe
nomenal m em ory. He never forgets
anything he thinks he w ill ever
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need. He is h e a lth ily c o m p e titive ;
inches in fro n t o f y o u r nose. I f the he wants som ething like alm ost an y
knob of the firs t door is on yo u r th in g you have, o r i f possible, one
rig h t, the knob o f the second is on I ju s t a little better. But he takes
the le ft. So no one could possibly disappointm ents well. When I firs t
listen through both keyholes at once. m et h im he was being mentioned
I was uneasy because I had been fo r the presidency; he had a sm all
w ith the F innish a rm y in the w in
te r w a r of 1939-1940, w hich was bad
news in connection w ith a Soviet
visa. O f course, they knew I had
been in F in la n d , but I wanted them
to know I knew they knew it.
The consul was an urbane, stocky
little dip lo m a t.
I t soon became
c le a r th a t he was on a fishing tr ip
Relieve? pain and soreness
fo r in fo rm a tio n . There is nothing
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avowed business o f a ll diplom ats,
sim ple Piles, have found prom pt
relief w ith PAZO o in tm e n t. H ere’s
in clu d in g o u r own. to re p o rt to th e ir
why: First. PAZO o in tm e n t soothes
home governm ents on the state of
inflam ed areas— relieves pain and
Itc h in g . Second, P.AZO o in tm en t
the nation to w hich they are ac
lubricates hardened, dried parts—
credited.
helps prevent cracking and sore
ness T h ird . PAZO o in tm e n t tends
T here was no need to w ith h o ld
to reduce swelling and check m inor
a n yth in g fro m th is consul, as his
bleeding F o urth , i t ’s easy to use.
PA ZO o in tm e n t's p e rfo ra te d P ile
questions did not concern m ilita r y
P ipe m akes a p p lic a tio n sim p le,
m a tte rs but w ere a ll in the sphere
th o ro u g h Y ou r d o cto r can te ll
you about PAZO o in tm e n t.
o f politics.
S U F F O S IT O R IIS T O O I
Just before I le ft the consul
Some persons, and m any doctors,
sw itched the conversation fro m pol
prefer to use suppositories, so PAZO
comes in handy suppositories also.
itic s to lite ra tu re . I wished to go to
T h e same soothing relief that
the Soviet U nion as assistant to M r.
P.AZO always gives.
E ric Johnston, but I was also con
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nected w ith the R eader's Digest?
Yes. I said, I was one of its editors.
bowed m y s e lf out the w hisper-
p roof double doors and back to
where M r. V a v ilo v was w a itin g w ith
the questionnaire. I t began w ith a
large blank space fo r a b rie f auto
C O L D P R E P A R A T IO N S b iography, in to w hich I inserted the
fa c t th a t I had been w ith the F in n
LIQUID, TABLETS. 5ALVE, NOSE DROPS ish a rm y in 1939, a fa c t th a t M r.
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V a vilo v, reading at m y shoulder.
seemed again not to notice.
I t continued w ith o ther questions,
obviously designed fo r W hite Rus
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sians, about p o litic a l a ffilia tio n s . I
showed some d ism a y a t a ll this, and
M r. V a vilo v, s m ilin g re a ssu rin g ly,
said there was no nee0, in m y
case, fo r detailed answers.
But at the end was a m ost curious
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question:
I had h a s tily w ritte n
Y ou g irls a n d w o m e n w h o s u ffe r so
“ no” in its blank, but then I hesi
fr o m s im p le a n e m ia t h a t y o u ’re p a le ,
w e a k , " d ra g g e d o u t ” — th ia m a y be d u e
tated. Had I, they wanted to know,
to la c k o f b lo o d -ir o n S o t r y L y d ia E
ever been associated w ith the
P ln k h a m ’s T A B L E T S — o n e o f th e best
arm ed forces o f any governm ent in
h o m e ways to b u ild u p red blood to
g e t m o re s t r e n g t h — In s u c h cases. P in k -
opposition to the Soviet Union? I
h a m 's T a b le ts a re o n e o f th e g re a te s t
explained—this tim e c le a rly —th a t in
b lo o d -ir o n to n ic s y ou c an b u y '
1939 I had been associated as a re
p o rte r w ith the a rm ie s o f the F in n
WNU— 13
02— 46 ish R epublic d u rin g its e a rlie r w a r
w ith Russia. So perhaps m y an
sw er should be yes?
S m ilin g b ro a d ly now, M r. V a vilo v
shook his head.
“ The pro p e r answ er there, M r.
H e lp T h e m Cleanse th e Blood
White, as you have a lre a d y w ritte n ,
o f H a r m fu l Body W aste
is ‘no.’ Because in F in la n d in 1939,
Your kidney« are constantly filtering
we understand th a t y o u r opposition
waste matter from the blood stream. But
to the Soviet U nion was p u re ly v e rb
kidneys sometime« lag in their work— do
not act as Nature intended— fail to re
a l.”
move impurities th at, if retained, may
M y visa came a week later.
poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
A ll this had come about as the
Symptom« may be nagging backache,
result o f an im p u ls iv e le tte r I had
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
w ritte n a few weeks before. Read
under the eyes—a feeling of nervoue
ing th a t Joseph S talin had issued a
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
special in v ita tio n to v is it Russia to
order are sometimes burning, scanty of
E ric Johnston, president o f the
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
U nited States C ham ber o f C om
treatm ent is wiser than neglect. Use
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a nd b e tte r wa ys o f li ving, and
as i t creates new w e a lth i t con
trib u te s to th e p ro s p e rity o f
e veryone touched b y th e flo w o f m oney
w h ich is set up. I n this w a y , don’t vou
te e, a d vertising is a social force w h ich is
w o rk in g in the in tere s t o f e v e ry one o f us
e v e ry d a y o f the y ea r, bringing us new
w e a lth to use an d e njo y.
E ric Johnston was to me a com
plete stranger, except th a t I had
read a good deal of w hat he had
w ritte n and liked m ost o f it v e ry
m uch. He “ believed in ” this coun
tr y ; he had been an eloquent voice
I preaching o p tim ism and courage fo r
the postw ar period; saying c le a rly
¡th a t never again m ust we allow
1 A m e rica n business and in d u s try to
| stagnate in to a depression, but m ust
continue to produce fo r peacetim e
needs and lu xu rie s at alm ost w a r
tim e v e lo c ity : there would be free
m arkets fo r e ve ry th in g if there were
free jobs fo r a ll, and vice versa.
He had opened his ca re e r as pres
ident of the N a tio n al C ham ber by
ca llin g at the W hite House—a prece
dent-breaking step, as A m e rica n
business had not h ith e rto accorded
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E ric Johnston
but definite chance. He watched it
c a re fu lly , never overestim ated o r
underestim ated his boom. When it
fa lte re d , he pronounced it dead and
in s ta n tly fo rg o t it.
I was pleased when he told me
that, because he wanted to feel free
to w rite and say w hat he thought
on our re tu rn , he was in sistin g to
the Russians that we pay our ex
penses w h e re ve r possible. He was
ta k in g along money fo r th a t p u r
pose, and suggested th a t I do lik e
wise.
The o ther m em ber o f o u r p a rty
was Joyce O’ H ara, Johnston’ s regu
la r assistant in the C ham ber of
Com m erce. He is a blue-eyed Ir is h
m an of fifty w ith re g u la r features
w hich, anyw here outside the radius
o f Johnston’s dazzling profile, would
be considered uncom m only hand
some. N ot too m any years ago he
exchanged a successful newspaper
jo b fo r a ca re e r in the public re la
tions d ivisio n of the C ham ber of
Com m erce in Washington.
Joyce and 1 were throw n together
constantly fro m the beginning of
the trip . The protocol of our e n tire
voyage was that if* the hotel or
guesthouse boasted an Im p e ria l
B rid a l Suite com plete w ith s ittin g
room , sitz bath, and breakfast nook,
it w ould always be assigned to
Johnston in s o lita ry grandeur, in his
ca p a city as P resident of the C ham
ber of Com m erce, w hile Joyce and
1 would share tw in beds in the sec
ond-best room . F o r a few days we
watched each other shave and lis
tened to each o ther snore w ith con
siderable reserve and some suspi
cion.
Slow ly and a fte r days of appraisal
we got down to a solid basis of
frie n d ly jib e s at each o ther's weak
spots, and he gave as good as he
got. We ended up w a rm friends.
We departed from Washington
and o u r plane stopped fo r a meal
in the Azores where we were m et
by staff officers of the A m erican
base and picked up sketchy in fo r
m a tio n
about these
Portuguese
islands.
Johnston fe ll v ic tim to an in fe ct
ed sinus a t Casablanca. We waited
in considerable lu x u ry in a spacious
v illa , once the p roperty of Jean
Maas who fo rm e rly owned a strin g
o f c o lla b o ra tio n ist newspapers.
The A llie d com m and were using
i t as an o v e rn ig h t hotel fo r high
officers and distinguished guests, as
we seem to be classified.
A t C a iro an A m e rica n nose and
th ro a t m an peered in to Johnston's
ear and in s ta n tly forbade us to fly
o ver the 16,000 foot pass between
Ira n and the Soviet Union, w hich
m eant a few days' delay., A nyw ay
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This over, we s m ilin g ly shake hands
w ith the u n sm ilin g Russians and
w o rk our way through to the A m e r
ican reporters.
P ra c tic a lly a ll of
M oscow's tin y foreign newspaper
colony Is there. They te ll us the
Russians have given us an unusual
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Donald N e lso n 's."
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" I am K irilo v , in charge of protocol
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