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THE CHINA 1

How hard can you lean

on the

Soviet?

MOVIET economic aid can very quickly be withdrawn 25, 1957, the Yugoslav Foreign

Sfrom conftric that very Minter revealed

that fit in with Moscow's plans.

The current anti-Yugoslav

campaign by the Soviet Union by FREDERICK LEGGE

and satellite States ani the effect it has had 0:11 the

onec more

which

that these Wade agreements and credits would not be honoured for some Hime.

The anti-Yugoslav campaign has taken the form of a mass propaganda attack through ar- and ticles, commentaries #peeches in the Soviet Union and East European countries,

All of these, under the gulse credit for of ideological discussions

such as Internationel the construction in the Mon- malters

were designed 10 of aluminium Socialism, tenegro district plant with an ounusi capacity of compromise and discredit Yugo- 100,000 tons. At the same time, alavia in the eyes of Soviet and

European with It was reported that agreements Est

opinion. Tic had also been signed involving basic theme was,

Yugoslav economy <phacisco List August, Yugoslavia sign-

dominating ed an agreement under the role Just politics play In the Soviet Union and East Ger- Communist

economics,

And many jointly undertook to pro- the question inevitably arises vide a £02 million To what degree, now or in the future, can other countries rely upon Soviel promises of long term credits and economie nid unles their pofielen meet the approval of Moscow?

In Yugoslavia today there 15 A resurgence of the bitternLOSS .rund resentment against the Soviet Union which manifested Lelf during and after the pre- the two vious split betwten countries in 1948. At that time ལས་ She Soviet Government and the East European atellite States denounced a considerable num- змет of trade agreements with Yugoslavia and imposed Fari

that economic blockade on country,

on

In the words

the provision of two fertiliser of the Yugnalny Communist plants and a power station. newspaper Borba, that "prac- leally nothing in Yugoslavia was good".

was every

As long us the Soviet leaders cherished illusions that Yugo slavia would ultimately join the Soviet camp, there to reason

believe that these would be trade agreements honoured,

There was, in fact, no talk of Yugoslavia's system of Socialism being in any way a deviation from Marxlam; un the contrary it was praised and even referred to as "ignificant",

But the moment it

became evident that Yugoslavia Intend- ed, to keep out of the Soviet cainp and remain independent,

It did not matter to the So-! vict leaders that the fertiliser were vital plents in porucular to the Yugoslav economy and the development of Yugoslav agriculture. The building of nitrogen fertiliser factory alone would have raised the present output len

thanes and would have directly aided Yugoslavia's balance of payments position by reducing imports of artificial fertilisers,

What did matter to the Soviet Union was that Yugoslavia Was not pursuing the policies

thal

Subsequently, and by degrees, n political rapprochement was effected which eventually pro- vided a basis, in 1956, for n new there was u complete reversal would have atted in with Mos- series of trade agreements. of Soviet polley, and on February cow's expansionist plans.

ALL MOD.

CON.

A blown up plan for living.

THIS is a nation on the move, physically, intellectually, Teconomically. It shows up in little ways. In in-

flatable rubler houses for instance.

They are not

a joke. The

U.S. Rubber

Co.,, which is

building them,

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Alexander Broad.

is anything but a joke.

knows it's business.

a

It.

The housts can, if you wish, come with everything. For less than $2,000 you can have one as big as

conventional house with costing $25,000-equipped o the push button devices hourshold devices household science can muster.

But price point,

The point is that you can let the air out in a moment and move on anywhere. The house

will go into the luggage space of an average-sized car.

You night expret, I suppose, that you would have to sacrilee for this privilege. zemething

But that would be to undeyrate American determination.

The house 18 perfectly weatherproof, puncture-proof,

is not fully the and fireproot,

some eyes, it is even beautiful.

designed

The

yean

Frank Lloyd Wright. s. how-

ever you look at his creations, one of the great architects of

the time.

The one thing about the American house that has really bothered Mr Wright for a long time is that it has never quife been in tune with the American character.

been, on the whole, Axed point in a

It has Immovable, a fluid society. Of course, could be bunk.

all this theorising

But Mr Wright is not too worried. He knows the army will be only too glad to have come portable houses....

The taste for personallides 18 Quid as anything else in this

It is warm and snug and, to country.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Man with

with a plan

WRIGHT was still a young man, just 35, still regarded with more suspicion than

admiration, when he received a polite message from Tokyo:

It came from a firm which wanted to build a hotel, a palatial hotel which would

be méxcelled in all the world. But they wanted to build it on a heap of mud în un area subject to devastating earthquakes.

The hole! must, furthermore. Profile:

inspire the utmost confidence i

anong Westerners who not only

d'strusted Japanese hotels in Architect with a design for living. He seat a day Keneral but were apt to be dead scared of earthquakes,

Wright was overjoyed. The commission suited him perfectly, What, he sald, could be better

....when cities will be parks where skyscrapers reach to the sunshine above the clouds, or on clear days look down on hills, streams, woods, and lakos ....when most mon live in the country, almost soff supporting, on mechanised ostator - in hourds so adapt- abla, a man might not recognise his own house which ho for an

carthquake-proof hotel He pro then a heap of mud?

loft in the morning, when he comes home to sleep at night. eeeded to, evolve, a plan. for a At 87 Frank Lloyd Wright is a loading architect of the steel frame with notches on 20th century—but his heart is set on the 21st. which would rest-just rest great slabs of concrete “likke_a ten tray on a walter's fingers","

The critics were sceptical. The Building would not withstand high wind, they said, let alone an earthquake,

Others suggested that It would never stand up in the first place.

That was in 1014.,

In 1923, Tokyo was struck by one of the most devastating earthquak

in human history, Wright's Imperial Hotel stood almost alone in a sea of debris.

It did not suffer so much as a crack..

to

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Chapter 8

Count

Basie

WELD G Wain

Twiddling Thumbs

IN

that

1938-42, when

many called the finest of the swing banda, Jimmy Lucent- ford, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway and Benny Carter were at the

Basic tainly,

had many admirers then. But their admiration was diluted by an excess of other wealth.

-by Les Armour peak of their careers. Cor-

have failed

an capture the they were on easel and to arrange popular imagination, failed to makes it possible

against an Infinito open pictures explore the possibilities to them, and failed 10 adapt variety of backgrounds.

Then, in 1952, the small group was disbanded, and the Count Lhotselves to the times,

His rambling "open plan"

Jazz Was pounced. Big bend houses are designed to allow acidom. heard. Stori Kenton, a maximum amount of adapta- Ellington and Woody Hermai tion to the varying needs and were around; but there was. tastes of the inhabitants. Such plenty of room for a rocking big a house can change its whole

bandi Stifled by the war.:years, character almost from hour to big hand Jazz had not yet re- hoir.

turned k force.

men

He would ke to see bulld up and live in open spaces. Modern clics, he thinks, 'should bo mainly parks in which could be set massive skyscrapers,

"

Basic formed a new orchestra, and carnedd new-found recogn

He is currently working on A new housing project will plans for a mile-high skyscraper utillo inflatable rubber houses, tion. The new band had a com-

in Chicago which could accom- which cost a fraction of the moduta

be 130,000 people, ba a normal. price, can

dis plotely new line-up, save for Basie's inseparable friend, tiny square f ground. The mantled at will, and allow Freddie Green. The material The incident established budding is an exaggication of complete rearrangements of Wright as one of the great ar- his long touted plans un interior walls on a moment's used by the band chitects of all time..

It also serves as a reminder that, altisough Wright is known To the world primarily rs the creator of bizarre shapes and weird juxtapositions of 'spice and materials he is, at bottom, a superb engineer,

work as

cxaggeration designed to full notles a specifie need. But it indicates the principle.

The Exodus

was again predomkiently blues-based. - ”! ; At first glance, you might think Count was twiddling 1. #t Comés aff, however, history will sureis remember his thumbs when he plays. Tho

style of strik Iamous delicate him best for

mile-high his "Illinois" building tended to ing the single note, or the sim- ple clusters notes in the right house the ecntralised administra-

tion of the State of Illinois, Cook xd, and the suggestion of the striding left hand figures prob- Of course, only the hardened County, and the City of Chicago.ably stem from the late "Fats" city dwcker-the man who long- It was in engineering that he

I will be built on a tripod Waller, and possibly from other ed to live near the Bright

planists' who were to be heard graduated from the University lights and to immerse himself principle to that prosedintely of Wisconsin before he went to

eido

Immediately playing round Kansas City in the Count's early days. two sides. stabilise the other at kind of high grade in the life of the big town any

would welcome this sort of

His is on absurdly simple apprentice to a firm of ar+

Yet an inimitable.one. Gotemo, But Wright, belleve? The building will taper to a chitects. And it is eklil as an that there are far more people point, borne upward by Its inile-style.

long shafts gold-coloured I's secret is the Count's. He in big cities than there need metal.

relies on surprise, and the sug- gestion of what you expect to Filly-six He will be driven hear but naver do. He would like to see a mass by atom power and there will Not generally recognised, per- exodus to the countryside. In be parking space for 15,000 cars haps, but still true, is that Basic his country developments, every and landing house is planned with an aero hellcopters.

engineer that has made it possible for him to build the strange array of structures by which he is known-and which has prevented him from coming a terrible cropper.

At 07, he is still as much the centre of controversy as he was when he designed the Im perial Hotel, By now, one would have expected the erf.... ties to have become chaty, Yet they persist--and thrives on them.

Kentucky Colonel

He

bc.

י,

of

decks for 100 Is ut his flawless best when

punching Away with both hands behind a soloist or the full sound rampages of his orchestra,

of ground and communities aro- grouped Bround a.limited Meanwhile, amount of small scale Industry, through the world, sneering at Now that Bebop has crystal» ·

what he regards us its mess endised, it becomes plain that the

of

The Future

Those who live in these com- ita rubble. munities could, with modern

Michelangelo, he says is "the sciumtilc knowledge, be almost self-sufficient on their acres in men who hurled the Pontheon case of economic adversity, The on top of the Parthenon." decentralisation

industry would facilitato a decentralisa- -tion of ownership and this, in lum, would mean greater He looks Like a Kentucky economic security. Colonel with flowing white hair, usually topped by an ancient broodbrimmed hat, and a gnarled but kindly face which protrudes from on old-fashioned high collar and a siringy tie.

He still delights in assailing his fellow architects with ro" marks like the one with which

Д

The Empire Slate Building is unethical monstrosity; Wright does not, however, "

rob ta believe in Utopia or in imposing robber going tall to pimaing by force.

neighbours."

Count has laid down a prominent part of the fourxlation of moder Jazz

Long ago his band hammered home the fact that clipping after- heals, the leaden section work such as was associated with the Jelly Roll Morton band, needed to be awept right out of jazz.

Since the new band was furm- ed, a host of new records have boen issued by Vanguard, Key- note, Victor, Columbia and other labels., Maily of them are Baslo revivified. Sometimes, members of the original band were on the recording sessions.

But more often the musicians 10 were young men from For the moment he is build-modern jazz school."

•One effect of this is

And the U.N. Building Dow Ho belleves, rather, that a

the human talism in which ownership presents "Fascism,

wale autho evenly distributed spirit emtained web.nort 'would take the ability to plan rily."

gut of the hands of a few men

ha silenced the applause of motivated by greed and put into

..

that

distinguished gathering of the the hands of many whose main ing an opera house in Bagulat modem jazz, warmed by the profession: "Gentlemen, you interest lies in living. & com- wailing perhaps while some Bun of Basic, has taken on a are withering on the vine."

Ho really does believe that his colleagues are mostly dead from the necit up. He belleves that they are the viclima et rother

and

manner.

of

fortable and civilised existence, finds the 200 million to build

Architectual taste would the Illinois Building which will warmer, looser, less pompous

be five times the height of the Onco

the Count's then have a chance to grow.

Empire Stato Building

massago that it MUST swing, This, however, is only part nearly 15 timer the bought of was rouching out hard and true

St Paul's.

to the hearts of young musicians Ban the benefactors of his programme.

all over the world who were from the Lodustrial revolution.

The foundation of hist A curious performance, per- letting technique blind them to Instead of proditing by the

architectural freedom made possible by new

campaigns is his haps, for the son of a Baptist the most important quality architecture must minister and the grandson of a Welsh hatter, But then be

In the following four years, : cams from Wisconsinthe state long road tours, recording and wealth they have allowed them- His art gallery designed for which gave us Milwaukce beer, radio dates end, concerta baran selves to be hemmed in by in- the Chuggenheim Foundation in progresivo education and the to build a fresh reputation for dustrial slums, choked by Now York, for instance, is @late Senator Joseph McCarthy, the band. To many, Basie was a now nema. Musclens came traffic jams, and the slaves of vast cylinder alightly tipped to

It could be it gives us loo and wet; but always there, was men with money and no taste. one side.

1 a.now look at the future

an improvement. The design enables pictures to design' for Uring, 25, slosigu» to lean against the walle as though live for.

building materials, Improved belief that

the bo geared to its function communications, and eponnous increase in personal

And Wright bolloves that this

la yery largely becsude architects

The comeback place.

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