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WESTMINSTER CHIMES
Liveliness On The Back Benches
London, November, 8th. With formal prorogation of this: session of Parliament, Government has little cause for disquiet so far as its 'general standing is concerned., Apart from the fact that it has placed over ninety new enactments on
ANDERSON On Nov. 19, 1948, By ROY CARLETON
in Dublin, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson, dearly loved husband of Veronica Anderson, of Ballyear, Water ford, and dearly loved son of Lady Anderson, of Bally david, Waterford.
McCALLUM-On
24, 1948, Munday, Nov.
Frances Cunlife McCallum, of 66, Campden Hill Court, Ken sington, wife of the late W. R. McCallum, of the Hong kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, aged 18 years.
INDIA
The grave anxiety regarding the situation in India has undergone no important modification as the result of the flying visit to Lon don of the Viceroy and four In dian leaders. Hopes of a solution depend entirely upon discovery of a formula satisfactory Moslems and Hindus, and that
the Statute Book, results of the nunicipal elections show clearly that the Labour policy 'as inter- preted by Attlee and Co. stili holds the confidence of the
majority of electorate.
į
I asked: Do the Government ae- cept the principal of the forty- hour week,
Again, Isaacs took refuge in a non-committal reply previous. ly prepared for him in antici pation of this supplementary question, "whereupon Sir lan Fraser sensing Janacs' embar- rassment challenged him on al point of order. He asked the chair: Is It in order for a Minister so far to anticipate a supplementary question as to bave it written down?"
which the House of Lords in- alated on adding last week and which then involved Government defeat in the Lords' lobbies on both occasions. Everybody knew the Government could not take this lying down and everybody now knows that the House of Lords will quietly accept the return smack in the eye which the Commona gave when it rejected both amendments.
In one case the Lords wanted doctors to be paid entirely by capitation fees, but Mr. Bevan insisted that the basic salary ¦ element must be retained, plus capitation fees though he as- sured the opposition that this was not the beginning of a full-time salaried medical vice.
CARNIVAL
Ju22
ZOPR. 1944 BY
By Dick Turner
SERVICE, INDIT, M. STO, U. 3. PIT, OFF,
"But, your honor, this nun is not a quick! He just served. in the army so long he thinks two ispirins can cure
anything?"
The Biggest Press In Any Land
MONOPOLY OF THE BOMB
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
One of the arguments used' by those who are anxious- to, hand the atom bomb over to Russia without making proper arrangements to ensure that it will not be used to make ag- gressive war, it that the few remaining secrets of its manu- facture are so trivial an to`make their retention, valueless in A very short space of time. It la therefore suggested that, N gesture of this kind would be an easy way of securing Rus sin good will
There is an obvious absurdity in this.. For why, if in fact the secret is virtually value- less, should the Russians be gratified at having it passed on to them?
It is true, of course, that in ene sense there is no longer any real secret. It has beet known in nearly every country in the world for the last 20 years that it was theoretically possible to make an atom bomb And as soon as the first one. exploded in public over-Hire- shima, every scientist in the world realized that it had be come a practical proposition. “A
But there remain extraordin ary difficoities in the way of. actually manufacturing the bcmb, and it is reliably ek timated that it would take Russia at least seven years making money but are interest from now to produce" one va ed in reaching the people. Head, her cwn. And it is further en lines in the Soviet press are rottimated that, if the secreta" bf sensational. They reveal that the American engineering new blast furnaces have been technique were to be published, started or that some ecrarade has over-fulfilled his plan in a
Whether the Speaker would As I have remarked in former have ruled against Mr. Isaacs reviews of Westminster scene or not is not clear, because the House of Commons atmos- Henry Strauss rather too hasti- phere is always defiantly un-ly pumped in another supple- predictable. The Trade debate mentary: Have not His Majes- Government any views as a case in point. Origically ty's initiated by the Liberal group whatsoever on the merits of because they wanted to know this question? which gave the i more about how far we inuubappy Mr. Isaacs opportuni- Britain are lied to America's ty to utter: I have nothing to financial tail it should have add to the answer I have al- taken place some little time ready given", and gave the back. If that had happened the Speaker the chance to call the Gavernment might have had next question quickly to save less gloomy answers to give. Mr. Isaacs from his very un- But the absence of the Liberal dignified difficulty. leader, Clement Davies, in India caused postponement.. Even Interest in National Health then he could not appear, so Service Bill chiefly concentra-
two to both Lieut. Colonel Byers Liberal ted around
amendments .P. North Dorset deputise In opening the debate moved in its turn requires a genuine engluggishly until H.A. Marquand deavour by the two major com- Labour M.P. East Cardiff munities to make possible some Secretary of Overseas Trade degree of cooperation. Of that the came in to bat. Then we got signs are not propitious, unless some rather ominous jolts for it is considered reasonable to in-what he said was, construed fer that Mr. Jinnah and Mr. Feverywhere as meaning that Nehru would not have accepted! Government's advisers antici- the invitation to London were pale the grave danger that we they wholly unprepared to dismay in the near future run
that time would be reduced from talks are only just entering the cuss compromise suggestions. The into another slump such as afflicted us and America in
seven years to about five. This cannot be dismissed ás vá round-table conference stage, and
Erudite Editorials
negligible difference, since it it is early to form conclusions. It
Once more the Government's
is clear that as long as the must be obvious however that if own lively back benchers showed
Уарега are featured by United States has a monopoly the Cabinet Mission and Mr. thely independence. They almost
lengthy erudite editorials and of the bomb the peace of the Attlee between them fail to con- cempletely seized the bowling
exhaustive articles on this or world is assured. A vince India's leaders of the neces- from the surprised hands of
that subject. At present, u
More Foolish great amount of the space is The same optimistic people sity for a measure of give-and- the opposition and Mr. Mar-
devoted to coverage. of the wire advocate the pooling of take, the whole elaborate plan of quand began to realise he was
United Nations... the Cabinet Mission will come to
The on a dangerous wicket.
all information on the subject The second issue had an in-
Editorials concern themselves als hold that the United States naught. Then, indeed, the "strug- Alarm thus engendered was so
hus engendered was annocently localised look about it nor sensational events such as with collective harvest, revit should immediately cease fui gle on a large scale" that. Pandit at a special meeting a few but under its skin was full of railroad wrecks, air crashes, lizing cooperatives, and getting 'ther, production" of the bomb. Nehru foreshadowed when re- nights later to water down the wider implications. The Bill fires and automobile accidents. out labour reserves.
and vealing that he and his colleagues effects. He then tried to assure places, maternity
child Some advertisements are pub-
This suggestion is even more To give an idea, take the foolish than the other and)- If- in the Interim Government have us, that he had not been exactly der the care of the London "A dally called "Evening Moe Investia
welfare services in London un lished though.
front page of a recent issue of adopted, would do as much if already twice threatened to re-predicting a depression but had sign, may become 'inevitable. Up¦ merely informed us that the County Council. The Lords cow devotes most of its back
An editorial two columns wide not more, to' jeopardizes tha to now, all efforts to promote a Government. WES
wanted them to remain with the page to advertisements covering upper left corner entitled "Im uneasy peace we now enjoy..! preparing
Exactly how many bombs as help wanted, prove activities" of ecopera the United States possesses is Coalition spirit among the mem- against the possibility of an-City of London and Metropolitan such subjects
their Boroughs. When bers of the Interim Government other of the world's regularly lenging, amendment was being gramme at race-tracks and cine- niversary
announcements of pro- tives." Four columns of an a jealously guarded secret, but have failed. The two sections, recurring trade
greetings depressiona.
from there is good reason to believe abroad on the anniversary. that there are now more than That, he added, did not neces- discussed by the Commons, Mr. mar. Moslem and Hindu, act as groups sarily mean that such depras. Bevari let fall a significant re-1 The biggest newspapers are: Articles on the eve of artillery a thousand in
"Pravda," organ of the cen- day, potatoes of Leningrad. America therefore has a seven- the stockpile. to thwart one another, with both sions are inevitable in the mark which indicated that al- blaming the British for the con- future.
subject tral committee of the Conimu- books for rural libraries and year, start, plus at least a sequent breakdown of administr
of the clash · was Whatever he really meant, domestic matter he was
a London nint party,
cement plants of Novoroskak... thousand bombs. con" tion. To add to the tension Pandit there can be no
"Izvestia," · Nehru, who exalted the Indian succeeded in spreading a new templating the early possibility deserters that aided the Japanese wave of depression uver the of a complete remodelling of
1929.
serious
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doubt he
though the immediate
ger.
There must be no press in the world which is so avidly read as the Soviet press. Only the lack of newsprint keeps it from being the biggest press in any land and with more news print coming all the time, it may well become the world's | factory. " largest press: în" a matter of years
no
Russian press publishers use no large advertisements. comic strips and no sports. sec. tion. It features neither sex
chat- and
the
By E. GILMORE
organ of
the
1.
In case ha
Other page one stories are international control...“... plan on works of Lenin and Stalin should be achieved, by the tinte published in the Czdek lan- Russia succeeded in predoelug gunge: call-up for factory one bomb, Amerlea would live schools and railway academies many thousands opening of the Moscow party deadly ones and, in addition, of far more school restoration of Moscow would certainly have perfected and Leningrad photography a quicker and more economical newspapers Baku petroleum trust fulfüled method of production.
schedule. by eleven months plan ahead of
Sovieta, of the Deputies, of the labourers, of the Government. local government all over the "Trud", which means labour in Burma into national heroes, public mind which other events
There also is the "Red Star" for country. threatens the punishment of the in the United States are doing.
The incident produced at the Army and the "Red Fleet" officers and men of the Army nothing to dispel.N
somewhat bitter sword cross-for the Navy." who saved the country in the
Another and even more iming engagement between Mr.
All Phases orgy of destruction that followed portant member of the Govern R. K. Law (Conservative M.P.
ment, Mr. George Isaacs, was Kensington) and Alderman Key. through subscriptions or
People receive the arrest of the Congress leaders grateful one hopes to the rules Parliamentary Secretary to the buying at kiosks throughout the
To argue, na so many do in 1942. Each party in turn de of House which rescued him Ministry of Health, who was cities. Subscribed papers
that the present policy 'glvon- mands that the Viceroy shall use from a similarly awkward pre- piloting the Bill through
are There are papers for young no guarantee of permanent his powers, to supersede the Mos dicament.
delivered to homes and offices Komsomols and papers for peace, is dishonest. There is final stages. lem League Ministry in Bengal
by postmen.
children which obviously are in no method yet devised by man Law, with an air of in- and the Congress Ministry in
There One of his own back benchers nocence that disarmed nobody,
is a nowąpaper,. of somewhat lighter ven. These that can do that. And half a Bihar, both of which have Fills Smith (Stoke) until re pointed out the curious fact course, covering all phases of are profusely illustrated. leaf is better than no bread.
Russia
has one strictly This being so, it is quite certain failed to prevent mass killings in cently Sir Stafford Cripps col- that when Mr. Key acted in life. There is the "Gazetti,"
which covers arts. There are humourist magazine, the, "Kro- that we must follow the course their provinces. Any such exer league at the Board of Trade, his other capacity, as Chair-
papers which devole columns to kodin." It comes out weekly, of action which will ensure the cise of the emergency powers that definite as to the Government's Boroughs standing Joint Com paper for Soviet sports.
tried to pin down something man of the. Metropolitan science and medicine and a contains caricatures, cartoons, longest possible time, to devise the Viceroy still retains would views on the forty-bours week mittee, he used all his
jokes and humourous comic some more permanent méthod precipitate a constitutional crisis
controversy. Mr. Isaacs pro influence and persuasion to Russia, one can
In many elties and towns of girlps.
For assuring world peace, of the gravest order and add new duced
customary slick bring fuel to the flames of communal departmental reply. which re- division of powers which the
about precisely that "Pravdas." passion. But the main endeavour vealed nothing, anyone did not Lords amendment asked for of both sections is to force the know already
and which he now, as Farlis- other out of the Government, Ellis Smith was not going mentary Secretary to the Minis leaving supreme power in its own to be put off this way and
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