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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

T

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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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