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THE OPEN CONSPIRACY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE CASE OF W. N. EWER, COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST

This article is a response to an account of a communist espionage circle which appeared in this journal in 2003. It argues that the original article is seriously misleading because of its apparently exclusive reliance on previously classified intelligence documents and the interpretations found within them. Combined with a failure to provide an appropriate historical context, particularly concerning the politics of the drama's central figure – the Daily Herald journalist W. N. Ewer – and a tendency to import questionable value judgements into the narrative, the original piece substitutes the secret policeman's opinions for a real history of its subject-matter.

Wilde in Omaha

Wilde in Omaha Ron Hansen (bio) Since the overseas reports of Oscar Wilde's premature death, in Paris, at age forty–six, I have experienced pangs of grief and loss, and have felt the need to memorialize our gladsome meeting eighteen years ago in a fuller way than the exigencies of news-paper journalism permitted at the time. I shall leave to posterity this record, hoping that some may consider it a fitting tribute to a man of literary genius who achieved greatness and also disgrace, but whose hours in Omaha still constitute, for many of us, a high point in our lives. Initial Impressions of the Aesthetic Poet I originally sought out the famous Mr. Wilde just after his lecture on "The English Renaissance" at the Academy of Music in Sioux City, but some of Iowa's finer sort spirited him off like a petit roi to some Lucullan feast of the night and it was left to this reporter to find him in the Hubbard House at his rising in the morn. So it was in the milky light of sunup on Tuesday, March 21st, 1882, the first day of spring, that I first met the aesthetic poet and leader of the so-called "Artistic Movement." Wilde was lolling in the gray haze of a cigarette on the hotel's patch-quilted bed, but was fully dressed in patent-leather shoes and a great, green, ankle-length coat whose collar and cuffs were trimmed with an otter fur that also formed the turban on his head. Underneath his coat was a white linen Lord Byron shirt and a sea blue scarf he'd tied at his neck like a sailor. On his right, littlest finger was a great seal ring with a cameo of a classic Athenian face. Wilde was then a soft, pleasant innocent of twenty-seven, though he only owned up to being twenty-five. I was twenty-three. I handed him my card from the Omaha Daily Herald. "Oh, I'm so glad you've come," he averred in a sigh, his timbre deep, his pacing languid. "There are a hundred things I want not [End Page 5] to say to you." Reading the card again, he said, "Robert Murphy. Are you called Bob?" "Mostly." "I shall call you Bobby. Reporters so often remind me of the Metropolitan Police." "I do hope you won't think I'm prying." "Certainly not, Bobby. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. But I don't see any chance of it just at present." Entering his quarters was a strong, young, Negro valet whose name was W. M. Traquair or Traquier. I failed to spell it out in my notes. But I recall that as he in haste filled Wilde's gripsacks and portmanteau, Wilde introduced us and speculated that the name's origin may have been in the French noun traqueur, for those who thrash out game in a hunt. Wilde shook his fist in a facsimile of irritation. "But I shall thrash him, if he's not deferential!" His valet continued his folding and cramming. Seeing my shorthand, Wilde took the opportunity to say his own name was properly Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. (At Oxford, I learned, he signed his papers "O.F.O.F.W.W.") "And here I was going to call you plain Oscar." "Don't be ridiculous. Would anyone, least of all my dear mother Speranza, christen me plain Oscar?" He tapped his shortening cigarette's ashes into a Japanese teacup. "I suppose as I continue to rise in lofty eminence I shall shed my names, just as a balloonist sheds ballast, and finally be called simply Wilde." "We're ready for the train, Mr. Simply," said Traquier. "Oh, how could I function without him?" Wilde asked this reporter. "In a free country one cannot live without a slave." Surprisingly, his valet found that amusing. But it was possibly an old joke, for they'd been journeying westward together since the Irishman's first lecture on January 9th at New York City's Chickering Hall. When Wilde got up and stabbed out his...

A Selected Bibliography of Writings by and about Bernard Shaw Concerning Love, Sex, Marriage, Women, and Related Topics

This selected bibliography attempts to gather Bernard Shaw's pronouncements on sexuality and related topics (Section A), as well as some pertinent critical commentaries, including the essays in this volume (Section B). As the keywords here are "selected" and "attempts," the editor apologizes in advance for the inevitable omissions and welcomes any additions and corrections to what must be considered merely a preliminary compilation. It is hoped that the items listed below will open new avenues of research into an important Shavian arena. References in brackets are to Dan H. Laurence's Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983), and to his Supplement (entries marked ['-S']) published in SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies20 (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000), pp. 3-128. In Section B, I have used two important sources: G. B. Shaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press), vol. 1: 1871-1930, ed. J. P. Wearing (1986); vol. 2: 1931-56, ed. Elsie B. Adams, with Donald C. Haberman (1987); and vol. 3: 1957-78, ed. Donald C. Haberman (1986) [K310-S, K311-S, K312-S]; and Lucile Kelling Henderson, "Shaw and Woman: A Bibliographical Checklist," Shaw Review 17.1 (January 1974): 60-66; reprinted (and expanded) as "A Bibliographical Checklist" in Fabian Feminist: Bernard Shaw and Woman, ed. Rodelle Weintraub (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1977), pp. 262-71 [B437]. [End Page 221] Section A: Works by Bernard Shaw "About Sex and Marriage." Ruth Adam. What Shaw Really Said. New York: Schocken Books, 1966, pp. 37-46. [K204] "As Bernard Shaw Sees Woman." New York Times, 19 June 1927, 4, 1-4, 2:1-5. [C2651; see B167] Bernard Shaw: Agitations, Letters to the Press, 1875-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1985. [A316-S; on censorship: 93-105, 252-55; morality: 153-59; obscenity: 239-41; prostitution: 25-35; sex and marriage: 89-92, 106-13, 137-38, 279-81] "Bernard Shaw on American Women." Cosmopolitan 40 (December 1905): 247-48. Reprinted in The Independent Shavian 10 (Winter 1971-72): 1-5. "Bernard Shaw Extols Divorce" (symposium). Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York) (28 March 1905): 4:2-4. [C1476] Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence. Ed. Alan Dent. London: Gollancz, 1952; New York: Knopf, 1952. [A266] Bernard Shaw: Selections of His Wit and Wisdom. Compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger. Chicago and New York: Follett, 1965. [see under Divorce, Man and Woman, Marriage, Women, and Sex] "The Bishop Would be a Nudist" (statement). Daily Mirror , 2 November 1935, 1:4, 28:2. [C3127; see "Nudism" and "Mr. G. Bernard Shaw" in this section] "Book Ban Denounced: Eminent People Defend 'Well of Loneliness'" (letter). Daily Herald , 22 November 1928, 5:4. [C2755a; drafted by Shaw; 45 signatories supporting Radclyffe Hall's 1928 Lesbian novel. See "Shaw and Wells" in this section] "Brieux: A Preface." Three Plays by Brieux. London: A. C. Fifield; New York: Brentano's, 1911, pp. 9-53. [A104] Reprinted in Bernard F. Dukore, ed., Bernard Shaw: The Drama Observed. Volume III: 1897-1911 (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1993), pp. 1188-222. [A326-S; on venereal diseases, 1216-20] "The Cleveland Street Scandals" (letter of 26 November 1889). Encounter 3 (September 1954): 20-21. [C3942; on homosexuality] "Divorce Law Reform" (letter). The Times , 14 July 1950, 7:5. [C3921] Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence. Preface by Shaw. Ed. Christopher St. John. London: Constable, 1931; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. [A205] "The Empire Promenade" (letter). Pall Mall Gazette 59, 16 October 1894, 3:2. [C1038; on prostitution] [End Page 222] "Fifth Fable." Farfetched Fables (1948). Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, vol. 7. Editorial Supervisor Dan H. Laurence. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975...

A Life on the Left: George Lansbury (1859—1940): A Case Study in Recent Labour Biography

'The most lovable figure in modern politics' was A.J.P. Taylor's verdict on the British Labour pioneer, George Lansbury. Marxist SDF organiser, rebel East End MP, suffragette ally, Christian socialist editor of the militant Daily Herald, imprisoned Labour mayor, antiimperialist, republican and pacifist-Lansbury's political trajectory was often stormy from his days as a Gladstonian Liberal Party agent to his leadership of the British Labour Party during the 1930s Depression. His career throws significant light on the myths, traditions and crises of the British Labour Party - from its origins as a parliamentary pressure group to a party of national government. However no comprehensive account of Lansbury's life appeared for 50 years after Raymond Postgate's authorised biography in 1951. This article draws on research for a new study of Lansbury-started under 'Thatcherism' and completed in the era of 'New Labour' - which attempts to evaluate his varying roles as a pioneer in the British Labour history.

When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America

In 1852 the New York Daily Herald described leaders of the woman's rights movement as hens that crow. Using speeches, pamphlets, newspaper reports, editorials, and personal papers, Sylvia Hoffert discusses how ideology, language, and strategies of early woman's rights advocates influenced a new political culture grudgingly inclusive of women. She shows the impact of philosophies of republicanism, natural rights, utilitarianism, and the Scottish Common Sense School in helping activists move beyond the limits of Republican Motherhood and the ideals of domesticity and benevolence.When Hens Crow also illustrates the work of the penny press in spreading the demands of woman's rights advocates to a wide audience, establishing the competence of women to contribute to public discourse and public life.

Interpreting Heroes, Villains, and Victims

Beginning with global market domination after World War I, American film has carried American culture to the world at large. At the same time, the press-and not only the American press-has been an accomplice in the campaign to sell Hollywood film to a world market.1 An important figure in this symbiotic relationship has been British-born Alistair Cooke. A prolific interpreter of American culture, Cooke has for more than half a century turned to film for images and metaphors to describe American life. Through his printed work and his Letter from America, the longest-running radio program in history, Cooke has given his international audience not only a inside glimpse of the motion picture industry, but also a special perspective on America. Cooke wrote his first film review for the Manchester Guardian in 1929 and became the BBC's film critic shortly thereafter. He visited America on an academic fellowship in 1932 and moved to the United States permanently five years later, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1941. He wrote for The Times of London and the Daily Herald, then shared duties with Raymond Gram Swing on a sporadic basis for a fifteen-minute radio program, American Commentary, during the war years. Cooke's solo endeavor, at first titled American Letter, subsequently Letter from America, began in 1945 with an invitation from the BBC to do thirteen segments. The series is still being broadcast, each program airing twice over the BBC in Great Britain-nn Friday evenings and repeated on Sunday morning.2 Hollywood, the movies, and especially those appearing in them have been the subject of much of Cooke's writing from the start of his journalism career. And even though Hollywood heroes and villains may have become anachronisms, outliving their usefulness or purpose, Cooke continues to use them in a variety of commentaries in which popular film is central to his message. This study examines Cooke's writing about Hollywood, focusing especially on his interpretive role and the figures that have been the subject of his Letter from America. Cooke was one of the first film critics to emerge after the ed of the silent film era, an individual who had grownup with the internationalization of the movie industry, first as an outsider from Great Britain, then as a resident and friend of Hollywood. As he subsequently became an eminent symbol of international reporting, he frequently used what he had learned about the public's interest in film as a sounding board for ideas and for providing important representative images and insights into the national character. Cooke examined specific themes in film that reflected American values including a love of fair play and the rugged individualism of the frontier, healthy political cynicism, and an aversion to informers as well as to effete snobs. As someone initially viewed as an outsider, he speaks with added objectivity and authority. Cooke was also one of the first American writers to recognize the extent of public fascination with film celebrity, and he saw how, in the absence of an American monarchy, motion picture actors receive special, quasi-regal status. Their actions are imitated and, for no reason other than the celebrity status they hold, they are sometimes listened to on important policy matters, even by the President of the United States. Acknowledging the significance of film stars as individuals, Cooke frequently focused his broadcasts on the relationship men mythical film images and the personal history of Hollywood's key movie performers.3 In order to better understand the motivations and challenges fame brings to major performers, Cooke set out to build personal relationships in Hollywood. He developed connections to the industry, and his participant-observation method, together with his longevity as a writer in both print and broadcast, has complemented his ability to examine conditions in Hollywood critically. At the same time, recognizing the international impact of Hollywood, he has explored mores, values, and behavior of film stars and their influence beyond national boundaries. …

The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives

This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during Cold War is based on documents newly released from KGB archives, their crown jewels, as KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West, called by Sunday Times the unofficial historian of secret services and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on activities of all well-known British pro-Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to famous Cambridge ring (including details of Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees). It also reveals a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named Daily Herald journalist; describes huge scale of Soviet penetration of British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951; explores a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford; and tells about key role played by Blunt in supervising post-war Soviet espionage activities in London.

Generating Socialism: Recollections of Life in the Labour Party

'This book is a must for anyone who reaaly wants to understand socialism Britain, the Labour Party, its roots, its members, its activities and its debates over the last century. It is the best introduction to what we are about that I have read' -- Tony Benn, M.P. This book conveys through the words of the activists themselves the real history of the British Labour Party, from its foundation to the present day. It is illustrated with a number of previously unpublished photographs as well as several from the archives of The Daily Herald.

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“Selling the pass”:The Daily Heraldand the 1923 docks strike

(1994). “Selling the pass”: The Daily Herald and the 1923 docks strike. Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History: Vol. 2, No. 1-2, pp. 103-117.

New York City's Penny Press and the Issue of Woman's Rights, 1848–1860

Historians have generally held that before the Civil War the popular press did little to help the woman's rights movement. But careful analysis of the New York Daily Herald, the New York Daily Tribune, and the New York Daily Times during the antebellum period indicates the movement received wide attention in New York's penny press. These papers became a conduit through which woman's rights activists communicated with the general public and helped to rescue a movement without a newspaper of its own from relative obscurity.

Religion and Non-Partisan Politics in Gold Rush San Francisco

For nearly a century, many historians of gold rush San Francisco seemed intent on standing Santayana's celebrated axiom on its head: the more they studied the past, the more they tended to repeat it. Specifically, historians who studied the great 1856 vigilance committee tended to imitate their subject and divide into two armed camps. In 1856, the pro-vigilance Chronicle thundered, This community must be purged from its dregs, the creatures, whoever they are, who have poisoned the fountains of society and made thte place as loathsome as a charnel house/'1 Most subsequent historians, led by Hubert Howe Bancroft, took to Fort Gunnybags. They argued that the pervasive presence of crime and political corruption in San Francisco left law-abiding citizens no other choice but to step outside die letter of the law to preserve its spirit. As the master put it, Attempts to purify society through the citizens' right of suffrage was applying to politics the Rosicrucian method of greasing the weapon while binding the wound/'2 Similarly, in 1856 the anti-vigilance Daily Herald had claimed, rest now beneath the shadow of a vast and ominous tyranny. We have had extended over us, in time of profound peace, an unquestioned military tyranny/'3 So a dissenting minority of historians lined up with the Law and Order party. They argued that crime in the was not nearly so bad as the vigilantes had claimed, and that those who broke the law even for allegedly noble ends set a very dangerous precedent. Thus, William Ellison said of the committee, It failed in administering justice, also, by its methods of secrecy and hate and the disregard of safeguards for the rights of individuals/'4 Historians of early San Francisco imitated their subject in another way. They generally made little attempt to relate events in the instant city to happenings in the rest of the United States. Until recently, scholars did not bring the conceptual tools

Lang Labor in South Australia

returned Lang candidates to its State Parliament during the depression. Any attempt to account for this is made no easier by the fact that the Labor Party here was bitterly anti-deflationist, expelling the Hill Labor Government because of its support for the Premiers' Plan. It also sided with Lang in his struggle with the Theodore-Bailey Federal Labor Party in New South Wales. What then was the basis for a separate Lang Party in South Australia? There were some peculiar features about the A.L.P. in Adelaide around 1929. That there was a good deal of dissatisfaction with the party leadership is not very remarkable. That the dissidents were, how ever, well organised, with a weekly newspaper as their mouthpiece, is rather more so. And that these people should have had close links with Sydney Trades Hall, regarding it, rather than the local party machine, as their political lode-star, is the unique factor in the situation. The guiding spirits in this group were two brothers, Doug and Ken Bardolph. They were born into a large Catholic family in Sydney and, spiritually at least, never left there. When the Advertiser at one time drew its skirts about itself and huffily announced that Adelaide could do without the 'politics of the push', it was referring to what it regarded as New South Wales methods injected into the local political arena by the Bardolphs. The family moved to Melbourne where, during World War I, Ken graduated as an architect and Doug, who was three years older, was, so he later claimed, active in the campaigns against con scription. The father was a building contractor and, on moving to Adelaide, he and Ken collaborated in several ventures including the construction of a grandstand at the Unley Oval. Doug launched two weekly newspaper ventures here?the Unley News which started in 1918 and lasted for five years, and then the South Australian Worker through which he could address himself to a wider audience. It replaced the defunct Daily Herald as the official organ of the A.L.P. and was also adopted by the Trades and Labor Council. Control remained, however, firmly in Bardolph hands. Through his outspoken editorials he made enemies. The paper vigorously advo cated a 'no' vote at the 1926 referendum despite the support for Bruce's proposals on the part of Labor's Federal parliamentarians. It managed to rally sufficient trade union support to alter the South Australian Labor Party's stand on the issue.1 G. E. Yates, M.H.R. for Adelaide, was particularly bitter about the awkward position in which he and others had been placed by this change of front. At the party conference in the same year he distributed a pamphlet attacking the paper and its

Racialism on the Left E.D. Morel and the “Black Horror on the Rhine”

On April 6, 1920 the French government, in reprisal for the entry of German troops into the demilitarized zone of the Ruhr, occupied Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanau, and Homburg. During the occupation French Moroccan soldiers fired on a German mob in Frankfurt and killed several. In covering the event the Daily Herald, alone among English newspapers, called special attention to the “race” of the French troops. It headlined:FRANKFURT RUNS WITH BLOODFRENCH BLACK TROOPS USEMACHINE GUNS ON CIVILIANSOn April 10, the Herald followed its accounts of events on the Rhine by a front page article by Edmund Dene Morel under banner leads:BLACK SCOURGE IN EUROPESEXUAL HORROR LET LOOSE BY FRANCE ON RHINE DISAPPEARANCE OF YOUNG GERMAN GIRLSFrance, Morel wrote, “is thrusting her black savages …into the heart of Germany.” There “primitive African barbarians”, carriers of syphilis, have become a “terror and a horror” to the Palatinate countryside. The “barely restrainable beastiality of the black troops” has led to many rapes, an especially serious problem since Africans are “the most developed sexually of any” race and “for well-known physiological reasons, the raping of a white woman by a negro is nearly always accompanied by serious injury and not infrequently has fatal results.…” Morel had reports of rapes, “some of them of an atrocious character”, and of “dead bodies of young women discovered under manure heaps and so on”. German municipalities were forced to provide bordellos and white women, and even young boys, for these over-sexed blacks. Master-minding this effort to “ruin, enslave, degrade, dismember [and] reduce to the lowest depths of despair and humiliation a whole people” was a “ruthless” and militaristic French government. Furthermore Morel warned his working class readers, “If the manhood of these races, not so advanced in the forms of civilisation as ourselves, are to be used against the Germans, why not against the workers here or elsewhere?”

A Selected Bibliography from Foreign Journals

This quarter has seen the celebration of several newspaper anniversaries. Among them are the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (175 years), El Comercio of Ecuador (50 years), the Daily Herald (25 years), and the Schweizerische Depeschen Agentur (60 years). In Germany the Neue Zeitung, published by the U. S. High Commissioner, folded on January 30. Attempts to continue publishing with German capital failed. The general conference of UNESCO, held at Montevideo, has adopted a resolution calling for plans to coordinate and stimulate the study of the science of the press.

TAXATION POLICY

The Political QuarterlyVolume 23, Issue 4 p. 332-345 TAXATION POLICY Douglas Jay M.P., Douglas Jay M.P. M.P. (Labour) since 1946. On staff of The Times, 1929–33. The Economist 1933–37. City Editor of Daily Herald, 1937–41. Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1941–43. Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade, 1943–45. Personal Assistant to Prime Minister, 1945–46. Economic Secretary to Treasury, 1947–50. Financial Secretary to Treasury, 1950–51.Search for more papers by this author Douglas Jay M.P., Douglas Jay M.P. M.P. (Labour) since 1946. On staff of The Times, 1929–33. The Economist 1933–37. City Editor of Daily Herald, 1937–41. Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1941–43. Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade, 1943–45. Personal Assistant to Prime Minister, 1945–46. Economic Secretary to Treasury, 1947–50. Financial Secretary to Treasury, 1950–51.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1952 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.1952.tb02713.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume23, Issue4October 1952Pages 332-345 RelatedInformation

New Music in London

Three new piano concertos stand at the head of this list of recent first performances. The first was Vaughan Williams's old one, re-arranged for two pianos and orchestra for the Daily Herald's St. Cecilia's Day concert at the Albert Hall, and played by Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith under Sir Adrian Boult. I am at a disadvantage in having never heard the first version, which is infrequently performed, but was constantly struck by what seemed to me a disinclination to utilize all the resources. Of concerto and living two-piano writing there was too little, of antiphony and expanded one-piano writing too much. I doubt whether the considerable beauty of the work is sufficient to ensure it a place in the concert repertory.

The Planning of World Trade

The Planning of World Trade Get access The Planning of World Trade. By G. D. H. Cole. With a Foreword by Percy Cudlipp, Editor of the Daily Herald. 1944. (London: Odhams Press. Post-War Discussion Pamphlets, No. 3. 7¼″ × 4¼″. 24 pp. 3d.) P. R. B. P. R. B. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1945, Page 270, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/21.2.270c Published: 01 April 1945

The China Year Book, 1931-32. Edited by H. G. W. Woodhead. (Shanghai: The North China Daily News and Herald, Ltd.1932. Pp. xvi, 831.)

The China Year Book, 1931-32. Edited by H. G. W. Woodhead. (Shanghai: The North China Daily News and Herald, Ltd.1932. Pp. xvi, 831.)

LONDON

<h3>Is the Cost of Radium Justified? The Secret of the Chinkolobwe Mine</h3> The<i>Daily Herald</i>, the organ of the labor party, recently sent Dr. Haden Guest, a physician and socialist member of parliament, to the Belgian Congo "to probe the secrecy and mystery that surrounded the Chinkolobwe Mine—the richest radium deposit in the world." Dr. Guest asks, "Is the fabulous price of radium, $50,000 a gram, justified? Is it the result of curtailing supplies in the face of an ever growing demand of the civilized world?" Shortly after its discovery by Madame Curie, radium could be bought for $2,500 a gram. In 1910, small quantities were obtained from ore deposits at Joachimstal in Bohemia and four years later carnotite deposits in the United States yielded radium, which was sold at $120,000 a gram. From 200 to 400 tons of rock had to be crushed to yield a single gram of