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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRII 2, 1988.

G.B.S. Warned Them

Russia Stole A British Idea And Is Making It Work

In the field of free education, the experience notable.

of Russia

in

Last of three articles

on Russia by

"G, BERNARD SHAW

The Soviets began with co- education (boys and girls in tho anma school), with a minimum of medieval aa- discipline, on the sumption that all children born are exqually capable of being for- buy amenities that are publicly allgod by teaching into little provided in Russia "by arrange Homers Virgils, Pythagorasca, mente between the trade unions Socratenes, Christs, and finally and the Goverments. Karl Marace.

of

TODAY IN EUROPE

By

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Franco: "The value of Spanish neutrality to Britain is shown by the fact that, at one time, tho British Ambassador offered me a part of French Morocco if I promised to remain neutral to the

Churchill: "Which Anibassa- end of the war."

dor?"

THIS ARTICLE is anonymous. The author is^a university graduate, and so is her husband. She gives the

Why I Won't wan

A Large Family

that one's house should be within limita clean and tidy, and that hyplnhould bo full and well balanced-then I assert that only the really exeptional women can manage more than two children, and a húsband, and a house with out help, and that it is jelly hard work at that.

Charon

teachinandard

staff.

ono

I am one of a family of three; eleven or so they would win

W03

a membor of scholarships~to

schools for

In discussions on the falling birth-rate it is frequently lamen ed that members of the educated clases do not have large families were and aro tha English

There are three main caunes Fablans, who had never used a

why members of the educated scrap of foreign material in their

classes are unwilling to have more propaganda and their "German

Most of what Gen. Francisco than one or two, chlidren. They converts, the Revisionists.

Franco told me is, the recent talk are:

1. Housing problems are peute

Now for the other standards, Webb and myself, formerly pit- I had with him was no more than ed-by-Lenin as "good men fallon routine Fespeo propagands. Most and rents and purchase prices are Education is perhaps the shere in which pur society appears to Opr bud- 2. The cost of domestic labour bo'least democratic.

school staunchest champions of Sovieting the war, he had been genuinely among Faolans," remained the of it amounted to a plea that, dur- prohibitive? Russia, in the West. And, in spito neutral and that his neutrality has increased to almost unrecog- get won't stand up to

genera focs for long, although we are all the gurples and delusions, had aided the Allies mere than it nisable level within

now sending our daughter to a we believe that Fabian Russia will had aided the Atis. In this con- tion:

B. The position of women in nursery school where In the very worst days of the pull through yet, and that as she nection, he made one extraordin ruin wrought by Russia's plunge made all the mistakes for us wo ary statement which provoked the society is: so altered that at this 29 De a term for three hours

time, when her living conditions morning tuition-only not apnar- But it turned out that most

Communism, should take care not to make them following dialogue:

are frequently cramped and her ently an unusual charge if Children are congenitally in into catastraphic

possibilities of pmploying dames demands a certain capable of qualifying as ople and the contempt of her rulers all over again, which is the worst

the help are greatly restricted, training in the all-British, all-bourgeois Fa- peril at present threatening us. for mathematicians, bian Socialism, with Webb's In- pocta, higher

the claims on hor Interests are From the first we have always Britons are fertile enough in saints, or Hegelian philosophers.

its

children to evitability of Gradualness on

more exciting

wie wy have Intended sending our ever been.

schools, elementary

hoping that at Secondary education is thrown banner, and my own repeated original discoveries and Ideas. away on them; and attempts to warnings that a catastrophic pro- But, lastead of setting seriously

my father force it on them damages their gramme of capitalism on Monto work to exploit them, we leave

what is known as the professional their secondary classes. "Our means were modest.

Α culture brains instead of developing them. day, revolution on Tuesday, and that part of the business to Ten Incidentally it WBA found that Socialism in full awing on Wan- tone and Slavs and Latina and occur, Yankees, and just keep writing

My mother had some help in the and civilisation that end- would baya and kirls sharing the same nesday, aimply cannot

Franco: "Sir Samuel Hoare."house, though

never after my attem

my attempt to provide as an offset schools dirnet anch other when had two Russian visitors, both of books about them which nobody

daughters them

of famous reads. That way danger lies.

early childhood, a resident maid. to a primitive level of education they begin adolescing.

pioneers of revolution.

(Now Lord Templewood).

the dir and she always had to work be really counterbalance

My husband advantages which the child will yond her strength. Sasha, the adorably lovely child

a similar background, incur? And should one's children of Icter Kropotkin, most amiable

parents and five bo sacrificed to one's principles? only that his children

Should one then abandon the and far-sighted of all the world

We both went to the university standard of housing? We have betterers of his day, did not des-

We believed that we could make, pair: she told me that Russia

road Arts Degrees. and would save the soul of the world.

were married at 25 and 23 res to our childton what they might We thought that we miss in "civilisation" at their daughter was be-

pectively. would like four children.

school, by giving them a hone in wildered by the utter waste and

Despite the war and separation which there was space-adace for of the once prysperous ruin

we have so far two children- their rents as well as for them- countryside around ter old home

girl of 44 and a boy of 18 selve so that there is a room room for quiet We are now back in for noise and a in Yasnaya Polyana; for it seem- ed to her that her great father's

months.

the future of reading.

a bedroom for each two visions of a new world were turn-

London facing

but my husband says he children at least. poacc ing out as disastrously as his

doesn's think we want any more. It is essential, I think, that for eccentric attempts to qualify him-

that we

a family of four there should be self as shbeniaker, bricklayer,

Franco: "At the time, it seemed children, while I feel schoolmaster, and average pea

until his retirement at the end of last possible there would be consider might inter rise to one more, but five rooms want.

year, was the engine's driver and loveable frontier rectifications at theI don't see how we can possibly it as another man might love favourite end of the war which might quite manage a fourth. hur, Aravelled down with the boys na A passenger,

While Mr. Churchill has been away in the United States, there has been considerable jockeying for position among his Tory col- leagues: Some dispatches from London have suggested an intrigue to displace him but nothing could

The schools had to insist on ex- be further from the truth. The

frat con- Tory chieftains have at this mopocted behavior as a

this ment neither the pawer no: the in-dition of civilisation, and clination to change the leadership moant discipline. Technical train- But in the same ing to make craftsmen was india of their party.

pensable: academic doctraine to way that Mr. Ernest Bevin and make amateur philosophers was

Morrison contend less pressing Mr Herbert for the future leadership of the Labour Party against the

day

These changes are stili cited in Britain as retrograde steps. There are plenty of similarly mistaken comparisons.

Consequently in Soviet Russia now boys and girls are educated when Mr. Element Attlee fades separately when they reach 14; from the political scene, so in the and secondary education. though estill a State function, must be Conservative Party, particularly paid for by all who cannot win a the secondary schools now that they are in Oppostion, place in there is rivalry to establish claims through scholarships. to the succession. Until a few months ago, it seemed certain that. on Mr Churchill's retirement, Mr. Anthony Eden would be his sucessor. But being in the Op pasition affords entirely different political methods of gaining strength than does the holding of offier. It is a classic tradition of politics that, in the absence of the King the Crown Prince tries on the crown; but in the absence of the Tury leader, there

who were several crown princes

being grooming themselves or groomed for the role of successor,! even though no immediate succes sion was covisaged. This conten- tinn and jockeying for position would not have arisen were not for the fact that Mr, Eden, long predestined as successor, has

were

it

Pecre-

Tolstoy's

Fabianism.

1. the Irishman, see the Eng- lah not as fools, but as non-adult fathead, spoiled by too much coal conferred steam power, and now ди ago when and iron in the days when these bewildered in nothing counts but brain and atomic bombs.

power

Churchill: "Which

parts

Franco: "It was not precisely specified.” French Morocce did ho offer you?"

Churchill: "Are you going to call upon Great Britain to fulfill

Before the war, a number of the loco this promise and support a claim by you to parts of French Morocco ut the peace conference?"

Franco: "Nʊ no." Churchill: "If it was promised to you, why will you not daim it?"

mollves on Britain' Southern Railway were christened with the names of famous

named After St One wat schools, Lawrence College at the South-East coast town to Ratargate.

WAR Recently

schnal. which thin

Its front-on home six evacuated from

train And the

that rearo Ro when we broke out, returned brought the pupils back on the first day af term was drawn by the engine St. Lawrence

to Ramente.

Zfx. Tom Douglas, who

BQ

and

Can the NO

D

(1) Children's bedroom. (2) adulta bedroom, (3) nursery- I forgot how I tried to console

Less In-cumplay-room, (4) a family eat- Now for the reasons. And the chief burden of likely affect North Africa. This When we learn that trade her; probably I explained that the

was the herois war obviously is not practical to-day.come Tax: we have an income of ing room (the kitchen will do it

about £50 per year.

it is a big one), and (5) a with- unions are tolerated in Russia fields of her childhood would be conversation

Russian terord of his beloved engine

The first and largest item is drawing room where esta can only na organa of the State; and flourish again 'under

on the night of May 10/11, 1941. We shall make no claims." Anyhow, so it hap- when one of London's worn biltzew wa

1 Was

staggered by this rent. We have at present a fiat, be received and where parents can that trade union wage rates are

alia helght, "St. Lawrence" was being used to move an empty itale over a river statement of General Franco's lower than in England, we call pened.

Stalin declared for collective bridge that was particularly valuable for that; before I left, I reverted to with two rooms, a kitchen that retire in the evenings this to bo this tyranny, getting or not

a glory hole; rent £130 a are debarred except when on thele refarming and Sociaisin in a single getting trains in and out of London. As the topic and asked him whether is just a cupboard, a bathroom the room from which the children

11, E. bomb secred a direct hit on the

We

are searching despe best Inhaviour, the room where year. knowing that British trade union-

Therefore, ism, with its autocratic

card votes

otes country to begin with, and all engine, which was completely crippled: he was quite sure of his facts. inrics and monstrous

but its presence had enved the bridge. He said that he was. which would otherwise have received the immediately after leaving him, Irately for somewhere with same books and the gramophone and its more room. For this, if we ever record library can be respectably in congress, where elderly gentle once became, without knowing it.

bamb's full force. the lank looked, the sent the following telegram to find it, it seems we shall almost housed Because for us, and for men who sleep through the de- the arch-Fabian of Europe.

linpossible g Trotsky.

inevitably have to pay anything our children, these cultural ad- catastrophist world;

espine wa reballt and was back in Lord Templewood: bales cast several thousand votes

juncts must hold an important up to £200 p.a. in the divisions, is quite the least revolutionist, creator of the Red

action the BAMO PAY with characteris

"General Franco told me in con- After the rent the next im pince. Army, irresistable orator, and the British resourcetines, doing much democratic institution on earth.

items household CX- The final standard is the status (a Russia the trade union wage

most brilliant historian of the valuable war service. It was again In

the limelight in February, 1842, when versation to-night that, in 1940 worker much more revolution, vanished and perished

che Russian Traile Union delegation or 1941, you had suggested to hint portant allows the

British in spite of his great and well-wisted

33 is the minimum a week on the problem than his

Britain, for Mr. P. Terasor, that he might be given port of penses. At present prices I find of the mother. Indeed, much of Chairman of the Central Trade Union of

French Morocco if he remained which I can feed the four of us life is closely bound up with the pocket money

earned prestige.

Ruslan Railwaymen, travelled on th

neutral. I was astonished at this

for the pay parallel, who has to pay enormous

And the only groups in Earope Footpinie of the St. Lawrence when rents for leave to Eve on the

in- adequately. statement and expressed my noil of his own country, and to which could su. "We told you so," paying a visit to the town of Dover,

credulity, but he persisted in his mending of shoes, the cleaning of recent changes in the status of The modern husband does not Franco told me but would like, at the medicines, the bus fares, newa want to come back in the evening story. I propose to publish want clothes, the laundry, the milkman,

stationery. to a tired, silent wife. He expects same time, to publish any comment-papers. stamps and my hit her to be well turned out and to

Then there is band's personal expenses and the be amusing, congenial company.

produce

recently let it be known through Like Germany's Mark

his ararest friends that he is some- what wearied of party politics

and would welcome some other

me other After 1918, Hungary's

outlet for his talents. His name was actually mentioned as a pos- sible Ambassador to Washington. The job in Washington

WES

Pengoe Today Is Going

Million-Mad

BY G.E.R. GEDYE

cratic Peasant Party, The Pre- any of them spins the pengoo in sident of the new-born Hungarian ita crazy dance of death with the Republie, Boltan, Tildy; and Pre- dollar. mier Ferencz Nagy both come from the Conservative Small- Owners' Party,

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you may care to make."

Lord Templowood

and

บร

women

of modern family

replied: once weekly outing, doctor's and He expects her to do d' de-

"France's allegation is entirely dentist's bills, and clothes. Here untrue and without any founda is our budget tion at all."

I am bound to say that I prefer to belleve Lord Templewood than General Franco..

Rent (as it will be) Household expenses Husband's

.personal expenses and week- outing Fuel and lighting Doctor and dentist Clothes

£200

do more than Lidy house cent meal when he brings his rects her to friends home ho expects

well. in the conversation He

expecta

jol

her to read

the

2.00 pavor and at least some of

books which he reads, and to £ 25 talk of many of the things that £10 used to be the masculine province. 40 only. And, what is even more art, the wife wants it to be

Total £621

I assert that it is worth while

the

to homely humanising factor

however, given to Sir Archibald ("Daily Herald" Correspondent) Clark Kerr. Inevitably, the dis

Budapest, Tuesday,

I had another means of gauging closure of Mr. Eden's distaste for

Budapest to-day is a city of

the the validity of Franco's claim that night Every Thursday the hurly-burly of party politics

starving millions, but you can eat

towards Great Economic Board raises wages to his neutrality had. been inspired and his potential acceptance of a

horo botter than in any other

meet price increases,

What to do with the odd 26 You must have a family-because When, the by good wil appointment has country, victorious or vanquished,

Britain, I had a talk with Serrano non-partisan

We can you want it and like it, not be The Great March result is published in Friday's Super: For two years, from 1940 which is left over?, whetted the appetite.father Tory in Europe.

papers. prices shoot up according leaders, who nourish perfectly I saw a great political demons-

Yet the recent great politically. Thus, whon the wage carner to 1942, Suner, who is Franco's spend it either on having some cause you feel that you ought to Lex of Spain. He said to me "certainly not on both, if we are falling birth-rate. If your family legitimate ambitions to advance. tration where half a million work- march came within three days of draws his money on Saturday the brother-in-law, was Foreign Mints help in the house, or on education de your share towards raising the am a patriotic Spaniard and I to save even a small maigin for is to exhaust and frustrate you ther political fortunes His posing men and women marched to the Communist newspaper sudden increase has already been more

have some pride and, therefore, 1 holidays, emergencies, new furni Instead of fulfilling you and re- Not to sible abdication from the role of protest against "reactionary. In- ly ordering all factories and shops than discounted.

mention fluences" in the Government. The to be closed and summoning all

To enable workers to buy will not lie to you about my ture, gle.

it. it and increasing in having leadership has put two other can men were haggard, hollow-check-workers and employees to join in didates in the running. They are ed and hungry; the women sallow,] the demonstration The protest enough food to keep alive, a 80-attitude. All my symnabhice werof fact that should we decide to have Jelcing you, then there's no point

EBO at least for expenses, and

a family, that children are : was directed against the Right called "payment by calories" has with Germany and hoped always that third baby we must earmark Mr. Harold Ma-millan and Mr..shabby, shambling.

then have the additional running Oliver Stanley, Mr. Macmillan, Yet in the shops and markets Wing of the Small Owners Party, been instituted. Employers must for a German victory."

pay part fo salarios at a rate to

In the face of this candid re-expanses of a family increased to in one's life, that they teach a The "Bourgeoisie" trembled in enable the worker to buy 2,000 who comes from the famous pub there is such food as few Euro-

ite shoot as the half million calories daily. In three weeks the velation, it is a little difficult for five

Now I find that when things depth of love and responsibility that nothing else can teach and lishing family, has earned a repean capitals can display.

Workers complain that they are

running smoothly I can for this reason they are worth a throughout the war, his symaro putation of being modern-minded, unable to buy imported foods like marched, fearing hunger riots and value of one calory as fixed by Franco to persist in his story that,

manage things with the two lot of sacrifices. Unicas the housewife Immediate pathles were on the Allied side.

But children, but when they are in, or

suggest that unless, and forceful and progressive, with an sugar, tea, coffee and rice. But a Left-Wing putsch. The demon- the Economic Board trebled.

ly invests the entire calory wage

document Recently,

of the country anything upsets the smooth acute understanding of economic bowls of fresh caviare just importstration proved orderly and there]

and rente And 'Strongly worded resolutions in food its purchasing power may

Dublished at Nuremberg in which windows of delicatessen ahope.

and problems. In addition, he gained from Rumania brighten the were no Ineldents.

+ moderato prices find ed valuable experience during the I watched the marching feet of wore passed demanding the ex- halve.

Inflation was born the day after Hitler violently attacked Suner pens often enough, then I get ex-tles down,

and complained of his-hostility to tremely tired, irritable, imationt rational level, and until condl two years he spent in the Medi- the demonstrators. Their boots pulalon of some 120 reactionaries

from the Small-Landownern' the Russians captured Budapest,

To induce peasants to send Germany. In the light of Buner's and generally browned off, and tions become easier for the house- terranean as British Minister Re- were badly in need of repairs.

some food to the strickon elty, the notorious pro-German record, this

allments. sident at Allied Headquarters.

Luxury & Want

Yet when half-a-dozen leading) victora, with the concurrence outburst of Hitler's seemed dlßcult up. Deset by headaches and minor wife, yodannot expect people to.

Added to physical weariness is produce large, familias. He recently made a series of suc-

the restlessness of frustration. cessful speeches in the House of Then I walked through the members of that Party's demo- the vanquished, lifted rationing to understand. I asked Suner to cratic wing associated themselves and established a "froo" market. explain it to me and he gave me Commons which have been ad-smarter shopping centres, where with that demand, it was not good came in, but simultaneously following account which, in view At our Bresent, level the domestic

21 in no doubt slightly relating to women in Britain to know that women mired by friend and fee alike: Mr. the windows were filled with foot Right-Wingers but these demo- prices began to soar, and have con- of all the circumstances, seems responsibilities absorb 95

cent, of my energy and time, and Oliver Stanley, who is a son of Honour own dondastro to cratic protesters who found thom-inued to do so ever since.

to prewar Bond-street.

In politics, the Communist tail

sufficient to satisfy the debires fashions. Tens before they do, but the Lord Derby, has had a political After 6 pm, you will find these solves threatened with expulsion.

Is frequently able to wag at, the He was summoned to Berchtes the remaining per cent. is not overse will be wearing the new London,

entlections now being Up And Up

small land-owning dog, bocause, gaden at the time of the Battle and claims of a mind that has ponts by foreign buyers to an Indiew tom of how these, moderly eleph cloban career of singular fluctuations. samo windows empty save for

trainod to appreciate and to boen Nearly twenty years aky, when his placards which road: "It is not

worth

while to break into this

Before the war the pengoerlhtly or wrongly, the people be of Britain and, for four hours, Allow German troops to pass

certainly do not wish to have of much competition.

Probably, the secret. Hier In the iner cafeer was first being promoted shop all goods are takon mway stood at twenty dve to the live that the former has the back-Hitler tried to persuade him to need the arts and the humanities. bere was world-wide succese in the Fren

sterling. One editor: I met had ing of the occupying Power:

This belial hag enabled Com through Spain in order to assault by Paldwinf; he was spoken of is) overy.ding wizi. Í saw merch | within a few months had his munless to adture Governmental Gibraltar, Super, without any re-another child unless I'can have that London designate-hate refused to He held a succession of offices, iri ing were as shabby' is those of salary raised from two thousand to key posts out of all proportion to ferotge to Franco," refected thiol 9 puremaid; of some sort. But berpartied away by Kennyṣilons. Where none of which he won distiriction, threadbare Vienna, And every Arteon milijon pengood... Then his reputating doclined and called Vacri Utes you can 200

a likely. future Prime Minister. The

morning in a. fashionable, street

Party.

Bui ito dollar equivalent-

1

their numerical strength

Vicious Circles

credible.

But at times this yielding trend troppa. suddenly clashes witti soms dogged obstructionary move by the zo

A

Wasing of the house, which bup-until the life

At the risk of bring denounced

por

doller („whers & the snow the broad: Shogider the pheionais int flested, such in country and morph rounded fine bebe beads, aut à la Informal afternoon and more Eaton and clothing carried out with groni shill and forwunity,SUKA

Only the dressmaker Insisted 'on; smal laced corsets being worn by bes

Chipcom exunki, -Watk Quinime; doslaneringibere Saurrected for, sanded in line by. masne nt: west) padding,

of

for

pockat hipposles and amiek padre.

demand because, although he ex where is one ever going to get pacfod and desired a German vicarsemaid for lose than be tory, he did not wish to see week phis keep which means of course, rather more than $100 & German Dountry occupied by

say year added to one's family bud- he was one of those principally in some of the loveliest women of everyone in Budapest thinks only

sent?

I do mind when some wit, just before Europe clad in the world's favellest in dollars and ■ 5 sterling. is

fura and fabricature

valued at one dollar only had

Please don't mistake me the war, remarked that the trou

face of such con- fallen from to six dollars; ble with the Conservative Party trans botrona luxury violent, or when I arrived here, one new was that it contained so many "ex one might well imagine break, in pange cost 5,000 pengoes. Two actionaries, who for the Inst 25 as a "Fasols, beat think not deplore the ball up

largest prison for democrats, all the Spanias Bollticians whom the working classes very much future Prime Ministers." In the the last refuge of

work The

Hor, it.. last few weeks; however, Mr. plutocracy, such is pats, tionary fays later. It cost 10,000; a wook years made Hungary, the world's right to put on, cord that of wages, and, livine

dollar rote on the black

clash or a putseb, panies, me as the ablest and the most and should like to Stanley's ambitions have revived occupied, revolutionary and de-

Currency

more truthful. And it should be added. It all be down to a question bengoes. As the rimaathe and

plunges that though, he was dumised by of Wandards. A and he has made a seiles of extra-mocratie Hungarian Republic.

sharply than ever.

llla a series of vicious circles. Brined and is to-day in favour of If one insists that one's childs malvern al weland, amorlag ordinhally success speeches → The contrast and paradox extend igadery of a gipsy prebestre

speeds up the music

political, financial and economic restoration of the monarchy, he li ren should be cleanly, though car-wil the mistarity rules which overn girls was a "display", ale lavish : shopEROE His newly discovered vitality and to političn

Parliament constatic of 240 mem-national danes called the

But no the only person I've met in Spain tainly not smartly, drossed, that glethem to be worn, in Belming and re pasy enough to explain,

irective supervision;i veoval, a ambition are today one of the bare" of "the Conservative Email black marketeers and

ene to whom I talked could oven who had, kind, word to say about their manners bould be under which the burers, Boked on with t

ECaudillo, k principal topics et discussion at Owners Party, only 10 Com sin round faster and fast Westminster.

munisin 09 Socialista, 28 Demo-1 their partners. But faster, than, sukkost nanne way out,

of in a newly-liberated; Soviet Reties from 11,200,000 to 4,000,000 armerinary, 'eitizen fearing an Ive mat in Madrid; Buner struck the céntrary. A voted for that engths are unchanged; Jackets are money

constant

times two or three_luches lonrer or. U they are fiting and work under, A SODA. With most of the evening slothes, hot costruite sbor wwwr, most of the obviously