The Russian correspondent of the Morning Post says that the
run of Mr. Bernard Shaw's play St. Joan has suddenly been ended at the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow by order of the Soviet. This action is evidently a retort to Mr. Shaw's recent contemptuous criticism of the Bolshevists. He was asked by the lzvestia to comment on the present state of Russia, and he did so to some purpose. Unfortunately the lzvestia published very little of his contribution, but most of it was made available by newspapers here. Mr. Shaw wrote of the " kine- matographic schoolboy nonsense of M. Zinovieff " and informed, or we ought to say wanted to inform, his Russian readers that "modern Socialism has left Karl Marx as far behind as modern science has Moses." He unkindly, though quite truly, pointed out to the Soviet leaders that if they did not cut themselves off from the Third International they would become "the main bulwark of Capitalist Imperialism." The result of all this is that the Russian public is deprived of the liberal education of seeing St. Joan. So that it is perhaps fair to say that things in Russia are worse than ever.
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