By "Soy"
Shanghai, Aug. 21.
Whereas in Shanghai the English and Russian colonies have no con-Selously created cultural and social ties, it has already been remarked in this column that in London—and all over England—the movement for clover understanding of Russia is Very much in the vogue. In Shanghat where so miny Russians and Englishmen have {ot more than 20 years lived side by side, their rel Yons are 1 Yo accidental buslfess and social connections and acquaintance, It is especially regret table that friendship between English and. Russian youth Is not actively nurtured if one discounts the fact that they study together in schools and have common recreation in the Foreign Y.M.C.A. This, however, seems hardly enough. ' In effect, these two colonies are living quite separate lives.
'There are, for instance, vastly more ties, among' adults as well as youth, Between the Russian and French colonies. This can perhaps be ex~ plained by the fact that the local French colony has always had men of highly developed cosmopolitanism and wide breadth of view on world culture, who have given the Russian colony" its due and have sought friendship and relationship with its members, Much work in. this cone ection has been and is being done the Alliance Francaise and by French interest in Russian schools, Russian churches and particularly to Russian art, Among the leaders of the French' colony' there are men who have learnt the Russian lan age almost to perfection since the years when Russians poured into Shanghai, Several well-known, French personalities are so popular in the Russian colony that in conversation with them and among themselves Russians call them in the Russian manner, For instance when Russians' speak of Carl Carloviteh, everyone knows that the allusion is to M. Charles Grosbois, who has done so much for Russian youth and for Russian culture—music, the theatre, ete-—who has fully mastered the Russian language and always sp it with his Russian friends, Friendship in England th England ftseit it is interesting to note the promising start of something the lack of which in Shanghai has been touched upon above, This is the coming together of the Russian Orthodox student world and English students of the Anglican faith. Begun in 1928 by means of gatherings, in the subsequent eleven years much has been accomplished. Phese meetings have given birth to the Fellowship of St. Albanius and St, Sergius, Today this organization isan imposing one, doing a great amount of work and having a periodic own. It enables Russian and women to spend time ind, learn the English language, see a new life, and to widen their horizons In the May issue of the magazin "Theology" one can read an enthus. iastio account of such a trip. In the summer of 1938 an Anglo-Russian camp was formed in the South of France, proving so popular that a Digger' one was fovganized this summer. The chief aims of this camp are to create stronger spiritual ties between English and Russian youth. Classes, attended by both nationalities, deal with Russian and English culture, and the campers are taken on excursions all over France. Those who have attended these camps have ceased to regard each other as foreigners. It would seem to be very fortunate it something along the same lines were organized in Shanghai.
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