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THE CHINA MAIL,” THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1956.
IN STALINSTADT THERE ARE NO STRIKES
Not With Tommy-guns Guarding The Factory Doors
By JACK JONES, MP
The 62-year-old ex-steal smeltor who is now Socialist MP for Rotherham, He was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, 1947-50.
Stalinstadt in absolutely now, 10m. And to earn 10s. a man in lo work two less than three years ago there Stalinstadt has was a virgin forest on the banks hours.
HA... just returned from one of the must astonishing places in Europe Stalinstadt, East hundreds Germany.
there
upon
800
The
of the Oder. Now there **** In my own steel constituency
hundredes
a skilled of of Rotherham many bautifully teigned falk, it worker can earn enough in an hospital with
two all hour to buy
packets of It is a new steel town,
equipped with radio and tele- cigarettes, with 20,000 people. In two phone, clintes, research depart-
technical equipment of To give ! will
mente anul years' time
operating theatres this plant is amazing.
miles And Stalinstadt known
with the latest 00,000.
equipment some Idea, there are 28 14) selebre, industrial of conveyor belting feeding the will then have become one
cafes, or, ILS
blast-furnaces which are Term we
them. Kreat of the greatest steel canteens, serving wholesome turning out a very high tonnage
Every of quality aron. in the food in extremely pleasant con-
foot of producing centres
onveyor synchronised world- powerful com. dillons, with a 12-piece orches this
system Is controlled by a youth tra playing high-class musle petitor with our 0311- You cannot buy Stall of 20 in a control room, the like dustry, a fresh menace to stadil a box of matches, a bust of which I have seen nowhere
beket, .or a cabbage which is not elev in the world. the British export drive.
ulude State-produced. Nut one solitary
Automation..... shop of conefen of mny sort is All erry run under private ownership.
of the T
average g of
Automation is not on its way
Germany. I h in Fostern werkere is the remarkably low
A one Gemut actually arrived. Htis! the
We have not wryly diserved
workers of Britain, particularly tarted bathbog (meteries yet in the steel industry, must face
What has become of the very these Jarts
Vitaj raw 1:0 50-60 Many have evidently lead of ore comes a from
Bulgin, Rusali, China, North Korea and
Armed guards stand
the huge works
more of them sle dominy-guTIN,
There
***
Their Jes is to trp an V 11 the pollen ant d'hir prisoners one of 26 employed at the plant
Prisoners
Fourteen thouse! peuple work there
prisoners?
]}sw
04
Marmonta
17
The
East
of Gomany itself, with coke and
kl.
ない *****
(VPB
are
been allowed
FOT Western Germany
urse, they are less useful
to
over
148
Wages are
low hy British
exquivalent
I do not know the proportion, the Communists but in one department alone )
counted nearly 40
been
Convictest
Not all have standards For though
political are earning the
(f
are ordinary criminals,
a tremendous Tron Polarch
evonomics
い
quantities
Eastern
many GeoVY
are, in my optolon, being insolubily integrated with
or
offences against the State Some 10 to 112 a week, which may the Communist countries of Ute
for the sound line, ther tapiny by El East German Governed per much less than we can get for fers ta mul then
Clunt serbaneken
cigarettes
This in itself must be a endents faelor to be reckon- The To useful the same amount! work rather than let them sit
For example, a parket of 4 es with when talk.ng t
costs teilleation of Germany. kite in guois
Oolwantly, things appear, in & material wase, not too bad
to many Religion, contrary statements, is still practised, init 71 rvation led me to con- clude that only the older people are going to church.
EAST GERMANY,
BERLIN
STALINSTADT
years
The town that is not yet on the map LARS than three ace Malinstadt - siill not on the world's maps--wan virgin forest, Today it contalus 20,000 workers. In two years it will have 00,000 and by then
will be one of the greatest steel centres of the world,
Political indoctrination of the children is intensive.
In hekk The
are Krren Gerin ny. WELL roses abound in every bederrow. But inside the what is going on munds and hearts of the East Germans can only be revealed when they are free to express their convictions at the ballot box in an honest election.
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What! His Centenary Already?
STILL TOO EARLY
TO JUDGE SHAW
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By MILTON SHULMAN
some
the
two
Д
**Want scents almost super. close! to this mountain craftsman whose pinys are
are bore" reply Huous to be commemo- of contradictions and energy already so dated they
These are the young rating the centenary of to get him into any reason almost quaint,
queueing up contemporary for
another the birth of a man who able focus. has been dead less than six The fresh letters and the opinions and you can take despairing dose of years. We have hardly had fresh facts that these books your pick.
"Waiting for To a generation moaning Goedel. time to forget the obituaries. contain may provide
charming titbits By living until he was 94- Bernard Shaw hus. even from the grave, succeeded in
olive- ridiculing another qulous and outdated conven- tion. His shades should be heaving with glee at the heaps of adulation and de-
precation that will be chuck
to collec- about its lack of oppor- "Huls Clos" Look
tors of Shaviana; they give tunity to rebel and coddling or
Back in
Anger."
re-
Nor has Shaw's eur-
us no convincing arguments itself in the death-wish aura as to what posterity is like- of existentialism and ly to think of him.
signation, Shaw's goading Shaw
almost an is the greatest optimism is
play affront. "Never stagnate,” English speaking wright, next to Shakespeare, he shouts. "Life is a con- helped by
rent reputa- tion been
and a philosophical genius stant becoming: all stages his ordent well-wishes
Shaw is lead to the beginning of prematurely set ed on his memory over the of the front rank.
IL frivolous, irresponsible others." next few weeks.
Centenaries made sense when three score years and
THUOM
who adventurous? Not Congreve,
Wilde, raise Sheridan,
Galsworthy, O'Casey, O'Neill or
to out £250,000 for a memorial fund Pinero, and found that the public would Williams.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
ten was a respectable span and Festament in the presence of us who in his
of Ufe. It provided
魏
generation of reflection and to intervene be-
discovery
fore new judgments were passed on a man's reputa- tion.
But two new books published exactly 100 years after he was born --- "Bernard Shaw," by St John Ervine (Constable 50s), and "Jesting Apostle," by Stephen Wintein (Ilutchinson, 218.)-reveal only
that We fre too
cot and in the presence of each other all bring proment huunto subscribed our names as witnesses ·
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22 Compton Avenue, Luton, Back Hans 0 ven
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INTO THE BLACK NOON
By LES ARMOUR
Gf Berard Show
Shaw's signatura and those of his wifneters.
contribute no more than £407, There la, too, the dramatic They miscalculated the resent critic who fought and won the ment the British public felt at war to bring ideas to the English. the thought of a man leaving a stage. And the ferocious, merci. fortune to h crank scheme for less wit who layed actor pro- reforming the alphabet. Had he ducers and audience alike if they left it to
to sailors or stray cats, did not conform with his concept They
would have for of talent and behaviour in a probably wy
dramat given him. But the English temple of the Language! The man's barkyl
when jovery possible
DS
+
"But
Nor have well-meaning efforts, excuse is made for the people to revive some of Shaw a least-
he could write, who coughed," Important plays done him much "it remains a matter for regret
to. good. Trying convince any that the attendants did not re- one of Shaw's
A move them to Piccadilly, and dramatist with
Alens of treat their aliment there
by Misaillance" The Millionairess" gently passing a warm, steam- and "The Apple Cart is like try-roller over their chests,"
establish Shakespeare's.
As an iconoclast he not only putulan with two Gentlemen smashed
but deafened of Verona" or "Sheridan's with
Edwardian and Victorian ears
exultant noise of hi Is something him looked like something ends and only the black of "Pizarro."
demolitions. As a catalyst no set about the out of a space comic. A space remains.
His attacks
with the audacity as musiness society Armenting and bubbling guided missile-a tiny speck camera attached to Thor's
perverac The use of a ramjet also tells
*nots of his ideas. hurtling along at
nose gave you the impres- L
Another obstaclo blocking was intellectual havoc
and, with pace that its sound is left sion of literally sitting on its own tale. It is the first such Inissite ordered by Britain. And fur behind it. At such a the missile as it reached up it means that the ramjet is new rubbish-heep of nonsense he the world is still ruefully appre
Shaw's claim to greatness is. what zest ho managed 1987 And pace, even. that the eye through and beyond the developed to the point whore wrote to infuriate provoke, hensive about the dividends.
THERE
sinister
could never follow it,
such
sky.
}
with
ま
Admirable
It can take over from the much stimulate and explode his com- more cosily rocket. It is the femporaries, out of their self- It is intended to bring At first, the clear blue of
elmplest of all engines and complacency. death more swiftly and, in the sky and sight of the works by spraying iquid fuel
His adulation of Mussolini In his comprehensivo bio- conjunction with the hydra- earth dropping away like into air incredibly compressed and Stalin, his specious attacles gen bomb, to spread it more some great stone dropped by by the movement of the missile on vivisection and vaccination, raphy, St. John Ervine has widely than any machine the gods gave the film Atself. The fuel and the air then his pica for the extermination of made an admirable effort at
kind of funfair atmosphere. produce an expanding gas which misfits over invented by man.
Then the sky grew dark; drives the missile forward again. anally only the round ball
It is a weapon against which, up to now,' no fence has been evolved.
de
of the sun and the orange
flash of the ramjet glared out of the black.
Far more than any other
1
0
Are mental copers his balancing the pros and cons of Show's volatile and. tireless disciples will find dimculty in explaining. They
the personality. exuberant egotism of a man who Having been a close personal prefers a noisy outrageousness friend, he now argues with, him on paper much as he must have to an ignorant silenco.
done when he was alive this "One One other fact has been re- "I shoot into the air more and re
reads 'with DITZEment lensed. The missiles travel so more extravagantly without any astounding passage," "bunta, out pase premeditation whatever," he Ervine about something Shaw Flow high does Thor go? dar that many of them weapon, it leaves, man at And how far? No one will beyond the scope of the instru- wrote in 1934, revealing that he, has written about Russian com
have to be exploded in mid-air seriously. the mercy of his machines, say. But the makers av ments on the testing range and jat-lését, did troi inks himself too misare, "Could", G.B.8; have
It files well above the to keep from coming down in But in spite of the bumptious the text by oix enemy At the same time, there heights" normally reached the wrong places.
ness, the irrespensibilly, the was something immensely by aircraft--and the dark Perhaps, however, Thor will spinsterish idiosyncrasies, there violent
wrote Shaw's political and philosophi fascinating about the film of sky tells its own tale.. even havahis.peaceful, user, is stiil the Shaw who the latest missile shown this...
Letters packed into Thor, week by the makers and the The sky appears blue instance, and blasted off from "Man and Superman" and "St., Crom, summing th
from the earth only because London could be delivered in Joan; and what other English ballove that G.B.B. will out, out Government.
dust particles refract the New York in two hours if speaking playwright except, ilks a brief candies Somewhere, The missile, appropriate sun's rays. They thin out somebody could find a way of Shakespearo can boast of four in the corridons of time, his lame
day will will busy brinkly slowing Thor i down at the right plays nearly an exciting,
rovocative, as moviesgadostendity; ly, is called Thor and the as you go up; finally the sky place.
-for
written it or was it slipped into
his forestal,
But
"Candida," '"Heartbreak Houe cal viewe
ometimes.
with
prevent him