Sept. 11, Shavians will certainly delight' in Mr. George Bernard Shaw's: latest roguishness: opposite) hi impishly conceives a condition in.
"Rassians must be gagged" 19 prevent them from clamouring to Totued "to the condition of perplexed island" Bay ints of this he is presuming on the fact that the island is not so perplexed a to take him literally. His picture of an efficient political machine functioning in Russia eliminate the drone and the waster is gorgeous. No one would so disparage Mr. Shaw's intellect to material for it) was" collected isgest that Russia." Non-Shavians will, no|during his beautifully and per-doubt, suitably chocked)sonally conducted tour. but, perhaps, they will ap-(could have composed such am preciate the' shrewdness _of|impertinence in Whitehall Court the thrusts which he succeeds without bothering to stroll across in getting home on the body of, to the boat-train at Victoria, Democracy. His logic errs in The truth, of course, is that pretending that the control or Mr. Shaw has grown accustomed suppression of free speech in to the role of castigating British Russia is comparable with that democracy for the good of its obtaining in capitalist country ul, He does it well and Eng-When he ventures to sugges igh literature is the richer for that a workman in England is his efforts. So he is far more mum for fear of getting the sack, anxious to maintain that favour-he is referring to a definitely ed position than to analyse too limited inhibition, closely the conditions of the that the Russian Soviet State—even if he were on his own admission, involves, permitted by his Moscow friends the shooting of opposition to do so. In "The Applecart" editors and politicians—possibly he carried this tilting to the a very desirable form of amur *|point of declaring himself a ment—is on all fours with that most thorough-going monarchist under which the English work-—a quality as little suspected in man keeps silent, is being more him as that immorality which, than usually Shavian. It also to the amused delight of G.B.S. does a grave injustice to the himself, was once discovere' by powers of those Trade Union nest critic in the author jetting Married." Now Mr. Shaw plump for oligarchs. work in encouraging, This terribly shocks democrats Yet Mr. Shaw's defence of the but, as this new oligarchist also machinery of the political system dislikes Fascism, they pluck up in Russia, as distinct from its courage and wonder. Per-actual operation deserves careful attention. It is stated in bapa be really loves them after all. that provocative manner which age seems not to dull, It ad-Busoxic plague hi broken out ministers a salutary shock to the ju northern' Shensi, star self-satisfied.
When Mr. Shaw gram reaching the Chinese press,
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