This is a sample of whalt called

Yunanish

Activities

Piccadilly Greus. (A That's the Common Man

standing fim

That's The TUC horse exercising,

Arthur Deakin-keeping, his circulation

going during the wage-freeze

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, AUĠUST 26, 1960,"

Here's our local.Communist

Party all ready with Tin

To pa the American Invasion

Hiya; Harry!

We're now at the

British Harrowcling

Corporation announcer if wis sending out wOUDISTSER about the Coverment not

spending, enough because it's

spending a much.

If you want

dit the latest

misinformation abou

#us į must refer you

To Lord Velveteen. He will

tell you how the Labour Govt was defeated by Prime Minister Churchill at last election

SIGHTSEEING FOR AN AMERICAN VISITOR

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CAN RUSSIA REALLY GO

HURCHILI..

explain.

ing why in his judg ment we still have L breathing space which "if used wisely and well miny greatly increase the deter rents against a major Com

TO WAR?

BLACK:

EL

EM

Her production is

1015 unist urgression," said:- 21,200,000

We are still under the year, a little higher shield of the atomic banh than Britain's, but formidable not much more than possessed in quantities by the United one-fifth of Ameri-

ra's.

States alone."

That is a weighty and im- portant truth we must have always in our minis in these anxious days.

Other weaknesses

It has increased considerally very

since the war and is doubtless stil panding.

Baku

"U.S.S.R.

TURKEY

/SYRIA

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IRAQ

RAN

...

Abadan

KUWAIT!

BAHREIN ISLAND

SAUDI ARABIA

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MAJOR OILHELES EMATOR REFINERIES

15)

it

Hefore

WAR

the 18,200,000 fons. After the lit

war

BUT there are other weak- ler invasion it fell to ness in the strength as low as 9,000,000

of Russia which must ways be in the calculations

al- time.

The

recovery

therefore a tremen- dous achievement.

of the men of the Kremlin the current figure is when they pitun aggression.

Wesknesses which course time will eradicate,

as it will in due course also wipe out

atomi America's

bomb predominance.

What are these weaknesses?

But even if we wild to

it the pro- duction of Czecho other slava- kia which

In the Kremlin in 1941, the Eemo-

Germany when

The vital oli-centres of the Middle East.

by

JOHN

GORDON

Certainly there production there,

Epstein, 70, wins the argument...

Britain's most controversial sculptor finds after a lifetime of dispute that people are beginning to believe him ... by MILTON SHULMAN

OR the greater part Salvador Dali is "ugly and in- of his adult life, Jacob competent." ile also feels that their success lends to encourage been the young to think that they con

Epstein has branded as a Revolutionary become great artists without the and abused as a Bohemian necessary study and training.

both

He hits back

by those to whom words are anathema. For at least 40 years Epstein has protested, more or less patiently, that he was nei- tom: et cultural

ther.

it ou o II

sympathise with there symp-

one may not

Philistinism,

For

them, forgive

carcer has been

one con

In

of

white-hot

Epstein's In the twenties and developed thirties each now carvingt mosphere

ignorance, was greeted by an outraged Intolerance. Basically a gentle

demands

prejudice,

controversy and

and retiring person, he had to by learns to hit back hard s

IL

Uni-

gasp and shrill that Christian morality protected from this haleful means of self-preservation. foreign influence, each new Is not surprising, then, that some of these aggressive reflex actions Cafe Royal appearance by should still be with him. Epstein in a brond-brimmed,

Jacol Epstein, born in 1880 black hnt, flanked by an in New York's East Side, the exotic-looking mudel de-on of Russian-Jewish lightfully named Kathleen, ants was not yet 12 before he Dolores or Belly-May, was full an irresistible urge to ex-

press himself pictorially.

While still buy, he 15- presumed to be evidence of

Cikette bacchanalian rites and un- tated a book about

children. and becamZA of the English goings-on.

evident promise of the drawings he wa

was provided with enough me to go to Paris and study 70, Epstein is resping the at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, inevitable fruits of longevi- ty and persistence. are beginning to him.

Now that he has reached

Studying the sculpture in the People Louvre he realised that this was what he wanted to do. An believe

Invitation for holiday in Loudon brought him here in 1004. He liked it and decided 16 stay on. He was naturalised in 1910.

They have found younger sculptors to shock and an noy them and, in any case, radicalism seldom sits com fortably on old age.

Epstein seems animpress ed by these developments. "Most of my critics havu died," he told me. "The rest

Recent.

le

The years have had le lest on his East Side American still speaks B! the "poipose of his wolk." He marrier in 1906 and has two children.

Uproar

have been inoculated by so PERHAPS the noisiest furore many doses of my particu

have

is increasing lar virus that they

got used to me by now."

but experts

doubt if it does more than keep pace with Russia's growing dustrial needs.

$73;151154

con

O is being taken from Ru

Rustier fast as as ake it, but the output is sill taif the prak Spure PRIY

chieved before the war.

productiust 1.5 In Hungry aba well below pre-war levels.

The facta anggest that Rus- tip would Jand a

My wife of

highly

even undertaking. Snart from the atom bombs of

be U.S.

l or its A jadus

al-

And the Kremlin must ways take takin into account.

10 Free! an Epstein work Hima, his was in 1925, when memorial to W. H. Hudson, was unveiled in Hyde Park.

Similar uninformed outbursts

Coloured shirts punctuated the unveiling of his

statues Night and Day on St James's Underground stallon,

eager

on his V.nu, his Genesis, his Adam. FOR those who insist

It was inevitable that the at- correlating coloured endant publicity would attract shirts, careless clothing and the interest of showmen delayed haircuts with Bohe- to And sensational exhibits for their fairs. His Consummatum mia or Bloomsbury, Eistem Be en still be seen in a Blacke UN will still satisfy their most pool sideshow surrounded cherished suspicions.

shrunken human heads and the émbalmed body of Siamese

dress twins. The formalities of

interested have just never

ren

there

feminine

But it there are any doubts itim. His homie, ion, How about the merits of his tone are decidedly with the unconventional un carvings, thib.res of a household in- note about his portraits,

Got only has he caught the came to the demands of exquisite frailty of sinall chil- the mysterious bourgeois respectability.

of Asiátic elegance The vicarious prestige of beatity, but he has preserved in of our time- site Mr Churchill's house in personalities Kensington has not prevent- Churchill, Nehru. Shaw, Beaver

Menuhin, brook, ed its fiende from lapsing, Villains.

and into a kind of tired stolid shabbiness,

Their objective being located directly oppo- branze sume of the most famous

JUST as

the destruction of Baku would be considered a essential first move by the Western Powers if war

came,

se Russia's first objective must be to capture our Middle East oit rourees at Abadan, Baluein, kuwait, ang Saudi Arabia. For erfil the did so she could not

meke

mic Council for Europe was ap parently triumphant and estimates at 2.610,000 tons a flussia and her Alling in the year. it still does not reach a make the difficulties. Stalin figure that can Kravest said to Lari Beaverbrook: men of the Kremlin consider

vital importance to us, the war much more than a very "The war depends on motor. The country with uncertain gamble.

the biggest output in motors will be the vietor in the

end."

So much for steel. What boet eil, without which machinery cannot move? And so it happened.

Expert opinion gives this - The motur modern war. But to ensure timate of world production dominance of the motor two for 1950:-

things are

decides

necessary

in

abundance-ated and oil. 1.8.

How do the opposing forces

stan today for these?

Huge production

BARRELS PER DAY

5,000,000

Canada

Mexico

60,000

106,000

Total for N.

America Central and South

5,226,000

1.600,000 50,000

America

Middle East-

Ku- (Abadan.

Bahrein wait, and Saudi Ara bia)

THE U.S. produces 100 mil. Western Europe.

lion tons of steel a year. Britain's production is 15,- 562,000 tons, the production of France 8,961,000 tons, and in the Empire outside Britain the output is 6,030,- Far East 000.

Of that total 1,350,000 Total world pro- It might comes from Indin.

duction outside

of Russia and

It may be argued that the be an ae estimate cannot curate one, because it is so surprisingly smal!.

But even if we put it at figure Russia double the would not seem to be com

much progress, That cinphasise, a matter of.

Alt Bluese Tources of

MHAS

to

fortably supplied for a war Fest ell for u. lie as near

the battlefield as Russia's do. of any magnitude.

It would

therefore,

There are certain indica- tions that her ail production

sein,

Middle

ut

is not so prolific as to make that we should be wiser to be the men in the Kremlin case tire wateaful of the in their minds. It is known Ear tann of the Far East

Intensely ti tus critlent that in the first quarter of

careful that our strength should this year the oil programme rot be committed to heavily to was six percent below the

the Far East that we left our estimate.

lves too weak in the much more vilat Middle East.

Workers failed

N

scnt la. Stalin by the oil workers

"Open letter"

at Baku elite in the year de- plore their failure to

rench production targets, That is sig nificant.

For that would certainly suit Russia.

war.

Be powerful

of

LL of us seck peace. All'of ALL

u wish for nothing more

an ending 1,500,000 The Baku flelds have indeed fervently thin

ther this stupid recurrent horror of 205,000 #own signs of parsing

production penk after many

as the main producing But we are discovering how centre,

what we ought to have realise count than a mine take into long ago, that the only way to is: to be powerful in Baku is very elore stop war not be wise, of course, to

to what would be the battle enough to make it a pretty bad, her satellites.. 8,581,000 te in wor.

risk for any aggressor. count on India's contribution

At the Aro move by Russin In any war against Russia,

aim to in steel and oil, plus the atom ertainty How does Russia stand in we should for Nehru may decide to bo a neutral,

comparison? U.S. oil experts destroy it as a producing tick, tomb, we have the foundations It may be desumed that the fall the power we need-if we - But even eliminating estimate that her production menns of desruction have been ik hem secure and the them to the best purpose, which Ja ready at not to make war but to give us Indin, the steel production plus the output of her East urinred and ure

the strength to make peace the of the democracies stands at orn European satellites is NO hand,

Rurala claims: that in "second MORE THAN ONE MIL-Bu bon her diarover be visest polley for Stalls. a colossal figure.

LION BARRELS A DAY, “tween the Volga, and the Umis, -(London. Captees Hervice).

What of Russia ?

i

Jew

Vaughan

Disappointment

But it only needs

with AS Epstein reminisces about conversation item to be convinced that this is career, on call sense on difference

to exterior and uneasy feeling of disappoint- Despite the fume that lerde decorating is neither nient.

ue artille of a poreur nor the has been his, no national gallery has ever attempted to organise retet:ion of an exhibitionist

If the gentle voice

a comprehensive exhibition of and mild his work-The ruler say that eyes and out of place amid the have to die irst." His relations rugged grandeur of the large, with the Royal Academy have Stie face, they are n vir- always been cool and distant. theless surar guides to the rent

He has received few commis- simply and sincere man. His sions-"The bulk of my work

cream is his art.

Epst in. For he is essentially

"I never

really

W

has been done on my own initin-

tive." He has earned a com- fortable but far from affluent, Bohemien. I was not to my income out of his sculpture-

"It's true "There are many sculptors who taste." he explained.

dress I used to

unconven make a better living than I do." tonelly and had unconventional

After all, I company, pretend to be respectable.

"Tuta Bohemian

a

don't

15 n

man

And with the swing of the artistic pendulum many of those

Quce intellectuals who

Wor-

who plays all night and sleeps shipped him have now found it day, I always had to work more fashionable to bind their knees before the abstractionist too hard to do that."

creations of Henry Moore and

Misinterpretation of his sculp- his disciples..

But if Epstein is disappointed,

has

ture has been just as persistent and clamorous as misinterpretuTM. tion of his private life. Unable to he is not embittered. lie understand the content or nigni lost neither his confidence in his Acance of his symbolie carvings, powers nor bis zeal for his work.

condemand the prewar publie

him as a revolutionary. Epgtelis latest carving, Lazarus, and by this his most recent bronzes show is genuinely puzzled

that

in 110 way age has interpretation of his work.

And his talent. diminished

almos! child-like 11- thusiaan with which he plans

A label.

'the

and contemplates each now tank

TP I must have a label, I reveals that inner drive and would say that I was a compulsion which has sustained traditiontilst," said Epstein. " him throughout his long, frulfful revere the antique. People who arid embattled life. speak un a revolutionary would through my work," he once say I

sculpture

sald. And it is through, the. revolutionary

Epstein, indeed, still carries on vocabulary of beauty and form say that

verdejta rather thin the babble of a personal artistle against the modernists, the passing words that posterity will

the sur remember him, 103 abstractivitate and realists.

Ho believes that the work of [World Copyright: Rammed-Londen.

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Express Service), Picasso,

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