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OMEONE gave me a gramophone for Christmas. It is beautiful, but as a gramophone it is already just a piece of period furniture. For the truth is that in America any gramophone you buy today is as likely as not to be obsolete tomorrow. What the scientists call electronics and what the average American calls gimmicks (a word for any thing tricky that is not quite understood) have moved too fast for the gramophone as we knew ft.

Today it is caught up in a revolution which, by coincidence, is all over revolutions per minute. The music still goes round and round-although even that may not last much longer-but

at different speeds now.

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NEED WE BLOW STALIN A RASPBERRY?

by JOHN GORDON

seems to me that we are not being very clever in our dealings with Stalin.

Yet millions of lives, perhaps even the survival of the civilised world, hang on the hair thread of whether we and Stalin can find some way to rub along to gether.

It's un nwesome isn't it?

And we do not make agreemont

any easier by tripping over cach other's feet in Berlin every day of overy week.

It is a pity we ever put ourselves in that position, and we must accept the consequences.

Nevertheless.

these consequences

need not inevitably be war.

HIS WORDS

There are indications that we may thought; bo opening a new chapter. Stalin. in n news interview, declares that he would like, a mutual non-aggres-

Now, WC all

agree that slon agreement with the US, that he is willing to consider a deal Stalin is a tough old ogre to which would end the dangerous deal with. But we must also alivation in Berlin, and that he admit that sonte And us and man to talk things over,

would like to moet President the Americans pretty tough dealers as well.

That's a gesture. It is at least a move which suggests a desire for pence rather than a determination in. force war.

It may be true, as some say, that you cannot always accept It is ture that long experience has Russia's word as her honest taught us to be a little wary of gestures from Stalin, but we must bond. But do not let us forget remember that he and his cohorts that we have some motes in are equally suspicious of gestures

our own eye.

OUR ACES

we may make,

But what reply do we make? We send him at

a raspberry. We do not trouble even to say "Explain yourself a lttle There is, for instance, the Tell us what you have in mind."

little matter of Poland. We

more,

We give him instead as rude and went to war rightly, if perhaps public a rebuff as any head of a

a little foolishly, pledged to State has had for many a year. restore the freedom of Poland.

He is told that President Truman will see him any time he cares to travel to Washington.

Before the war had ended

When Stalin replies that he is an we-and America-according old man, which is true, and an all-

to

the Polish version, Holding mon, which is probably true, a choice of Poland to Stalin over the heads and suggests Instead

places that could be reached more of the Poles because it suited easily by him, the abrupt retort is— our purpose.

Washington or nothing.

TEST IT

The consequences of that deal have been very tragic for

Now, I think that attitude many, many Poles, although absurd. unnecessary, and highly

to

miliona of

is

human

its only inconvenience to us, so perilous far, has been that it has robbed lives.

One day, unless we wish to sce us of a place to which we could

this planet of ours go up in the send the engaging Mr Stanley. flames of the most terrifying con-

flagration man has ever llt, we must Between us, we and America build a bridge between Russia and probably hold the ace cards of the Western world. war at the moment. But time doesn't stand still. We may not hold these aces long.

the

stand muking faces and rude noises

It is the height of folly merely to

THAT BRIDGE

arc

at each other across the chasm.

However much "we maz" doubt Stalin's good faith, would it not be But LP. pald off. In just There are a dozen different wire

We have two alternatives wise at least to put it to the test? B recorders, buy must have, three three months Columbia sold

but they all use the facing us. We either accept Why not accept his approach, with different gramophones, or million and a half attachments. same principle-recording sound on the theory that a mighty clash all the caution necessary, and try tool-kit as extensive as a plum-

Quietly, Columbia set their a spool of magnetised steel wire or in which Britain would be in to see whether we can at least lay the first plank of the bridge that engineers to work producing a tape not quite as big as a bath bun. volved is inevitable between the must be built if peace and security single-tune microgroove record.

That means that more than an U.S. and Russia-who, with the are ever to return to earth. bour's music can be played without fall of China, looks like con- The idea Was ingenious.

of Interruption-millions of times over trolling 50 percent LP. (which stands for long Given a large enough selection, with no noticeable loss of quality.

population of the world. playing) started the revolution, the public would buy nothing

recorders are present, wire

Or we try to reach a working Columbia, one of the big two but Columbia records to avoid

used mostly companies in America, sneaked the nuisance of changing the being

for "sound agreement on some basis that it out in time for the Christmas gadget.

diaries" of children, for recording permits a measure of enduring broadcasts, and for making amateur amity. trade in a bid for supremacy in So out came the advertise- talkles. an industry which sells 325 ments the other day for L.P. million records, or platters ns Junior — a 7in. unbreakable America calls them, every year. -microgroove record which would. play as much as the conven- L.P. arrived with its own new tional 12in. record and cost 3s. technical namo-microgroove, instead of the usual 3s. 9d. There are 300, instead of just a

Engineers employed by Columbia's hundred, grooves for every inch strongest rival, the Radlo Corpore of recording surface. The re- tion of Amerien, had also been at And, just 24 hours after L.P. cord goes round at half-speed~~~ Junior came out, ulong

came 33-1-3 times per minute, instead "Victorgroove." of the normal 78.

work.

FOR UNITY

The two prime opponents Russia and the United States. We play, a lesser part because, in Industrial produc- population and tion, our strength is for below theirs. But our lesser part could become the greater part if we could get between these potential belligerents and begin to build that bridge.

Is that course beyond us? I think the first alternative is to Our foreign policy has not bech' heinous, so horrible," so stark mad: conspicuously successful--since-the- that if our half of the human race, war. It has not sustained the high accept it then we deserve destruc- repute that Britain had in the eyes one company is walling only tion. I cannot conceive that the or- of most nations when the war ended. But is recorders chief drawback--the difeully of finding whatever part of a spool the owner wants to play before marketing the first gramophone in which the music does not even go round and round.

and America are as insane as that. the power of the Empire in world

affairs. We are thus left with the alterna- All that could be thrown into the

past, burled, tive of trying slowly but honestly ilmbo of the to establish a basis of agreement. mercifully forgotten if we standing Now, we all agree that striving midway between Stalin, and Tru- to reach a basis of werking unly man, could bring them together and with the 13 supreme rulers of Russia keep them together until a measure is just about as difficult as teaching of agreement was reached about the London Bridge to turn round at sun- present and the future.

But let me emphasise that by agreement I do not mean appease- ment. If Stalin merely wants us: to throw him a juicy bone or two, we can assure him with all blunt- ness that the Munich days are over.

American's gramophone revolu-

Like almost tion,

most revolutions, has set. produced chaos. Paul Punor, who usually sells more records than any- one else in New York, put it this way: "These new gimmicks have loused up the whole picture, bul

"Victorigroove," which is to be This, with the smaller made only in the small, single-tune

and size, is unbreakable grooves, gives a record which everlasting. will play 45 minutes

of con- tinuous music. A whole sym- phony or concerto plays without any stops and flops of record changing,

needs a it, too, QUT ke L.P A complete opera is

ម special attachment, which delivered on four 12-in records. nothing like the one used for L. For Victorgroove, goes round at 15 revolution to the minute.

THE COST-24s. for a 12-in. classical record, 14s. for a 10-in. record with six to eight jazz tunes on it.

Bu

good."

The

What he meant was this. public are befuddled. The 12 million people who own beautiful pieces of period furniture like mine are going to stay entisfied with them unl Columbia's Mr Edward someone brings out a model which blames R.C.A's Mr will play every known kind of Wallenstem Frank Folsom for starting a trade record again. war which will help no one and hurt all of them.

Now

And those 12 million people, like

Mr. Folsom answered, in effect, me, are going to stay satisfied with "Nonsense!" But a neutral in the their present library of records until light tells me the industry is expec- they know that they are not wasting

their money buying up

museumn ting to kee the two giants knock

pieces.

nearly 1,000,000

Which

Is why BUT there was a snag. LP, cach other's brains out.

could be played

on conven- While they are busy doing Just, gramophones are gathering dust tional gramophones only if a that, su another revolution may in American shops right now.

For there is a new Which is why in almost every special attachment Was used, break out.

in competitor

tight--the wire American home today you hear And the special attachment cost recorder. Steel with a memory, as a rather hoarse Bing Crosby singing £7 10s.

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What is making our diplomatic gentlemen so unhappy over Stalin's gesture? Apparently fact that his way of approach was unorthodox. He did not send it through the usual' channels nicely set out in a letter beginning "Honoured Sirs" and end- Ing "Your obedient servant."

Is unorthodoxy a cardinal sin so. helnous that it can never be coun- tenanced?

Truman will not go to Warsaw.. Stalin will not go to Washington.

Can't we Intervene and offer a location which both could

agree upon without loss of dignity. Isn't it worth trying?

not

Surely dignity and orthodoxy are-

of more

than peace?

vital importance-

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