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
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CAN RUSSIA REALLY GO
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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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...
Abadan
KUWAIT!
BAHREIN ISLAND
SAUDI ARABIA
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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.
Paul Kleo and
Express Service), Picasso,
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