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e hasturned MosCOW Gtreane Disenchantec The Crumbling de.: February SLuas haye torn the firstna tionwide test since the'plrliamentaty con- Polytechnic, rallying point of tests thatfollowed theOctober rising the. Oclober,tising, only twelve remain in.may give some evidence'of the growing Commynist youth organization. conviction.that Gomulka is no longer Some e specific freedoms won in' October , standing' up manfully, doing his best for. "said a Warsaw office worker last week. deliveties.. nd thenumber*ofcollective in Stalin's Ime.Thenew fences," bb "the price of bread has gone up, butter served Warsaw's Swiat, "testify to the re- - has gone up, meat has gone up, everything turn of the peasants' sense of ownership." costs more. W'hat difference will these Relatlons with the Catholic Church are elections make? None." far better than in other Soviet-bloc coun- Between his own failures and the inex- tries, though the Vatican reports that orable pressures of East and West, Gomul "government interference' with religious ka still fought to preserve the appearances appointments tends to become more rig- of his, desperate middle course between orous than last year." Communism and the patriotism of his No Exhilaration. Unable to govern ef- ,: tired and impatient countrymen. fectively through the party and unwilling to govern any other way, Gomulka has RUSSIA failed to inspire the self-sacrificing energy expected jn October's exhilarated hour. In At Home with the Frazers Polish factories, absenteeism has doubled. For Soviet citizens, Mark and Natasha Productivity at Warsaw's Zeran Automo- Frazer live extremely well. Thelf hive- bile Works is down to one twenty-seventh room apartment in a new building'in the of the prevailing rate at U.S, Ford plants. ,.center of Moscow has a TV set, an up- Associgted Press To survive, most workers lave to take right piano and.a.bigblack dog named THE MACLEANS (1949) second jobs, many of them in the innu- Doll. Instead of buying the shoddy, ill. In the bottle or Moscow. Atting Russian clothes, the family im- prises that have sprung,up,. and their ports its_wardrobe from London. Mark, him. Since then, Maclean has been on the employment at these second jobs often. whose Russian is excellent,, goes regular- wagon, and both he and his wife deny any depends on how'much :they can steal Iy tohis jobas. editor rumors of separation. from their state factory toprovide raw ,monthly, Infernationat Afairs; Natasha Mark Frazer, wearing the clothes and materials for the business.. edits the translations.of Russian stories .upper-class manner of his Cambridge Because last' year's world-price move-" in the biweekly..English-language news background, goes to his office, does his ments clipped Poland's export earnings, paper,MoscowNews,Their children,Fer- work, comes home. If asked, he insists especially from coal, by a crippling $5o that he is unwavering in his support of the .Soviet system, and that he would rather. are.as fuent in Russian 'as in English. live.in Moscow than anywhere else in the This was the surface impression of the. world. It is either that or the bottle. body thinks that the $roo million extra. Frazers gathered Iast week by a visitor to they are now seeking in Washington will. their home. But Mark Frazer had another GREAT BRITAIN name, and another life. Almost seven ."The Simple Truth"" years ago, as Donald.Maclean. in charge of the American Section in the British ."Mr. Thorneycroft," gruffed the deeply his"hard-drinking, notoriously .homosexu-. lence. descended on the House of.Com- mons. From the third bench below the gangway on the government side, tradi- thorities were about to question him on tionally the place taken by a retiring spy charges. Twenty-seven months later, minister, rose the tall man whose resigna- Maclean's U.S.-born wife and three chil- tion as Chancellor of the Exchequer 2 dren left Switzerland and also'slipped be- weeks before had precipitated the debate. hind the ' Iron Curtain, joining him .at Without rhetoric, fourish or grandiose Kuibyshev, a town on the Volga where' he.... was teaching English, They found Kuiby- realities behind his refusal to increase shey dreary and provincial, and both wel- government spending this year by less comed the move to. Moscow. than i%." In doing so, he cut through Maclean.changed _his name. to..Frazer.... .years of polemics and political obfusca- probably because of his fear of the press: tions to state the wider reality of. Britain's he is reported to have broken completely new position in the world. with Guy Burgess ever since Burgess gave. "For twelve years," he said, "we have. tober to Tom Driberg. the British new's- sources could manage, and' in the process man and ex-Labor Mi.P. Both Burgess we have been gravely weakening our- selves. W'e have, in a sense. been trying to .alcohotism. Last summer, when Maclean do two things at the same time. First, we went on an extended drinking'bout that have sought to be a nuclear power,match- Erich Lessing-Magnum ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed ing missile with missile and anti-missile WLADYSLAW GOMULKA him back to health, but told friends she with anti-missile. and with large conven- In the middle of 'chaos. was fed up and was considering leaving tiona! forces in the Far East, the Middle 216 TIME,FEBRUARY 3.1958 23