Mr Shaw Feels He is Not a Success.

Franklin Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 77, 6 July 1936, Page 8 (Supplement)

Mr Shaw Feels He is Not a Success.

NO WAR YET.

NATIONS AFRAID

George Bernard Shaw proclaimed himself the most popular man in the United States, and then declared he was not a success by his own standards (records the “Christian Science Monitor”).

“It doesn’t matter what you print,” he told San Francisco reporters. “The people love me, no matter what you say I do.”

The dramatist who will he eighty this month, appeared, in vigorous health as he left a British liner with Mrs Shaw for a sight-seeing tour to the Grand Canyon. A ..

“Like America* Why not? I’m ihe most popuiarman in America,” he said, his eyes twinkling.

Shaw believed there would be no world war immediately, even if ell countries “are arming in anticipation of it,” because the huge armaments counter-balanced and major Powers were afraid of one another. He said that disarmament conferences were “utter rubbish.”

Modern warfare was “aimed to kill off the women, with aeroplanes, bombs, poison gases, and other methods of destruction.”

“When 95 per cent of a nation's women are killed off,” he added, ‘‘that nation is dead.”

The dramatist smilingly, conceded that his solutions for the world’s troubles had not been accepted. That is why he feels that he is not a success.

“The successful man is one who* has people doing what he wants them to do,” he said. "Bat they’re always-

doing what I don’t want them to do.” ! He called San Francisco’s new Goldden Gate Bridge a “beastly object,” and made digs at American lawlessness. One reporter inquired if he would return for the exposition in 1939. “I shan’t be alive then,” Shaw replied. Then lie reconsidered, saying:— “Oh. I might come if they offer to make an exhibit of me—that is, a good offer.”