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SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) Autograph manuscript questionnaire, signed, answering questions on the Paris Conference, the Marshall Plan and the Soviets, 4 July 1947
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SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)
Autograph manuscript questionnaire annotated and signed "..."First Serial Right" exclusive to Mr F. V. Connolly/ George Bernard Shaw/ 4/7/1947...", answering six handwritten questions on the Paris Conference, the Marshall Plan, and the Soviets, his answers in red ink, commenting "...There has been no failure, only a great success for Mr Bevin, who has promptly got going full steam ahead and left Comrade Molotoff out in the cold... All this cackle about failure is only another bellyful of the east wind... Mr Marshall has not offered any plan. He has invited Europe to plan its economic future, and intimated that when a sound plan is forthcoming the U.S.A. may finance it... Russia has not refused to co-operate... But Mr Molotoff has raised difficulties about the agenda, apparently because Trotsky would have approved of it...", the last question on whether Eastern European countries are dominated against their will by the Soviets ("...Not necessarily... There is a fundamental division of opinion in the world... But neither side wants more war, nor dare they provoke it while capitalist America has the atomic bomb in its pocket..."); with a badly-typed transcription possibly by Shaw, headed by the address of F. V. Connolly, Highbury, N1., and envelope addressed to E.C. Tora Esq., postmarked October [19]58, 12 leaves written on verso only, dust-staining and marks, creased, held by old paperclip, 4to (250 x 204mm.), [n.p.], 4 July 1947
Footnotes
'ALL THIS CACKLE ABOUT FAILURE IS ONLY ANOTHER BELLYFUL OF THE EAST WIND': George Bernard Shaw on the success of the Paris Conference of 1947 and support for Ernest Bevin, America's Marshall Plan, U.S. labour legislation and the Soviets.
Shaw's answers to this questionnaire were syndicated through Reuters and published in The Palestine Post of 14 July 1947 under the headline 'There is No Marshall Plan – G.B. Shaw on Bevin' and with the introduction: 'Alone (as usual) among commentators, George Bernard Shaw sees no failure in the Paris Conference. But he does envisage the possibility of another civil war in the USA as the result of the passage of the anti-labour legislation, in his answers to this series of questions put to him by J.V. [sic] Connolly. Shaw wrote the answers himself'. The editor of this article erroneously mentions the name of J. V. Connolly, the President of the International News Service, King Features, who had died in 1945. It is known that Shaw corresponded with F. V. Conolly, an English correspondent of the American Press Association living in London, in 1919 (letter sold in these rooms, 17 December 2000, lot 265) so it is feasible that he is still writing to the same journalist (despite the difference in spelling) some thirty years later.