Russia is All Right!

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6619, 4 August 1931, Page 7

Russia is All Right!

Going to be a Roaring Success BERNARD SHAW’S FULSOME PRAISE United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, August 2. On his return from Russia, Mr Bernard Shaw declared that Russia was going to be a roaring success. Russia was putting its house in order, he said, and all other nations were playing the fool. “We had better follow her example as quickly as possible. It is all silly nonscnso about Russia being a failure. On the whole 1 should advise young men to go to Russia and settle there.” Mr. Shaw said Stalin was a man of great ability—far abler than those running capitalism. His disagreed decisively with Mr. H. CU Wells’s recently expressed view that the Five Year Plan would fail. The idea that it was going to break down now after what it had gone through was simply foolish. In all the prophesies of Russia’s failure tho wish was to father to the thought. “Russia is all right. It is we who are all wrong.” Tho Morning Post says: “Mr. Shaw makes a practice of cultivating the unexpected. He is a good crank. It would be an irreparable loss to England if he goes to live in Russia, but would it not be an unqualified gain to Stalin.”

Improved Living Conditions Received Mondav, 10.30 p.m. MOSCOW, Aug. S. A decree has been issued improving tho living conditions of engineering and technical workers who are given equality with industrial workers regarding housing, health, insurance, food rations and supply of manufactured articles, also prohibiting tho reduction of salaries when transferred to managerial or higher grade posts while the progressive income tax on salaries exceeding 500 roubles monthly is abolished and is replaced by a tax amounting to 3 i per cent, on the total cost of maintenance of the intelligenzia’s children. These are also admitted to schools similar to the workers’ offspring.