The Modesty Of G. B. Shaw
Received Eriffay» 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Feb, 4. When a member of the Soviet Politbureau (Mr, Manuilsky), speaking in the Ukrainian eommunist Party Congress, drew a harrowing picture of George Bernard Shaw living in lonely isoiation in Britain, and claimed that Sl)aw "like many of the hest people among the capitalist intelligentsia" was turning more and more towards the Soviet Union, Mr. Shaw made this rejoinder: "This tissue of mistakes shows that in Russia the politicians know even less than ours about the history of their own movement. I am not turning more to Russia. On the contrary Russia has heen turning more te the Fabian policy of whieh I was one of the founders 60 years ago. I backed Lenin long before Churchill, to his eternal credit, recognised and .proclaimed him a great statesman. "I am now trying to wake up our diplomatic duffers to the patent fact that Stalin is even a greater. He is head and shoulders above the ablest of them. As to my' "being neglected and forgotten, I am only beginning to be discovered and would be only too glad to be allowed by postmen and pressmen to die in peace. Heaven keep me more out of the headlines! ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1949, Page 5
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