I Visited Moscow and Negotiated Trade Amid Stiff Soviet Realities
A businessman recalls four days of negotiations with Kaplin and Andrianko in Moscow. He observes harsh working conditions at the Paris Commune shoe factory, a lack of domestic comforts, and a block of 100 flats with restricted access to dwellings, four miles from the Kremlin. He notes Soviet stubbornness and claims a 25 percent price drop had been factored in.
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Kaplin
Moscow
Anddrianko
London
England
Europe
America
Andrianko
Mose
Paris Cormune
Stalin
Kremlin
Gorki Street
The Chapman Pincher Column on Moscow and Freedom
The writer condemns the Soviet system as a police state with widespread spying and censorship. He recalls visits in Moscow including churches, operas, and a Baptist chapel, noting fear of Germany, limited Bibles, and a quest for free trade to ease state control. He returns with an order book, hopeful for jobs and limited improvements.
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Stalin
God
Mr Gladstone
Russia
France
Germany
Moscow
London Express Service
Cheap plastic coated to look like silver in mid twentieth century Britain
London engineers Harland and Hunt perfect a spray method to coat plastic with aluminium to resemble silver or giltware, enabling cheap funeral furniture and decorative items. Undertakers place orders as cremation rises, with coatings lasting after lacquer. The Clo measures clothing warmth for defense use, suggesting NATO standardisation. A bright meteor sparked a London sighting labeled as a flying saucer.
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London
John Harland
Cyril Hunt
Enfield
Middlesex
America
Hunt and Harland
Auslo
Commonwealth
U.S
War Office
Tropics
NATO
Far East
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T. P. O'Reilly
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