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COULD
THE
TORIES
WIN A NEW ELECTION?
THE General Election of 1960 was fought and won largely on issues which less than a year later have been obscured or forgotten in the larger movement of world events.
That must be the conclu- sion which any reader, what- ever his party alillations, must reach after examining the fascinating, and detail- ed survey of the contest given in "The British Gen- eral Election of 1950;" by H. G. Nicholna, University Lecthret in Politics at Ox- ford.
Wa
The Socialist Party, which
by Charles WINTOUR
Nicholas is highly sceptical of this charge, plumping for the view that Liberal intervention drow votes from both sides fairly equally over the country as a whole.
This fascinating study illu- minates many other aspects of
the last election and British on the defensive electioneering in general. There the importance throughout, omitted all men. Is for Instance tion of defence from its of Dr Charles Hill's broadcast
heard by 42 percent manifesto and put the theme pop
of the adult a bigger audience Minister any Socialist achieved with the single excep- tion of Mr Attlee. But will he ever be able to repeat his triumph?
of "full employment" first population,
than in all its propaganda, both -broadcast, written and 'spoken.
In areas which had experi- And Mr Nicholas's dispas- enced heavy unemployment slonate examination of the Press before the wars this was success contains much of interest ful in braking the swing to the though he, thinks it played a Right. But, as Mr Nicholen rather secondary role in this points out, "as an appeal to the campaign. He appears to believe past it necessarily lost in effec- that "someone had very effec tiveness with every year
tively lald an ox upon Lord went by,"
Beaverbrook's tongue." If such an operation is possible, which I beg leave to doubt, there was certainly no helfer lying on his lordship's pen.
Old Battles
that
TUIE Tories, with the supreme
exception
of Mr Churchill. Attlee's Handicap
were equally heavily engaged in fighting past battles,
They devoted the most- strenuous efforts to showing that Marshall Ald, had masked un- employment and to refuting Socialist
charges about condi-
tions between the wars,
It was not until February 15
12 days after the dissolution of
the poll, that
THE statistical appendix by
THE
Mr David Buller shows how, following redistribution, the uxistence of numerous impreg nubly safe. Social's seats pro- duces ព marked blas to the Right.
If the party votes had been equal at 45.2 percent then the
Parliament and only a week Torles would have won 35 more before
Mr seats than the Socialists. Churchill spoke, st Edinburgh fnct "Labour is likely to con-
In
about the possibility of "another tinue to enter political contests talk with Soviet Russla upon the highest level."
Mr Bevin at once dismissed this as a "stupt proposal." But it was taken up, notably by the Beaverbrook Press, and remained ..almost the sola effort by a lead
ing member of any
party to relate the election to the world
crisis.
with 12 handicap of ball-a- million votes for some time to come."
Mr Butler also prints a rough diagram showing the broad re- Iationship between seats and votes. By applying the latest Gallup poll figures to this chart, It appears that the Tories' would win at least 420 seats if an elec-
held now. were
The would win 100 OF Socialists
A fewer, giving the Torles majority of more than 230 seats,
tion
In fact Mr Morrison has overy reason, from a party viewpoint to deny the election as long as
How for Mr Churchill's state meat influenced the voters the other it will __one__way or
never be possible to analyse with any precision. From the polls of public opinion quoted by Mr Nicholas, it would seem how ever, that there was remark possible. ably little movercent of opinion during the last fortnight of the campaign. If anything, the Tories started the campaign with a slight lead but the Socialists gradually improved their posi- tion until they established a winning margin.
Perhaps the party bosses were right: reallera does not pay off In votes.
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The explanation for the -Torica Aying, start iny in the
Immense
their superiority of electoral machine in the 'country.
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By Arthur Cook
Bergen-op-Zoom (Holland). TN Dutch the word is behekst," in English "bewitched." Either way, the planners of Bergen-op-Zoom are making a fool of 18-year-old Maria Bertha Hertogh.
The child, who was brought
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back from a Moslem busband in Malaya nine weeks ago to be "an ordinary Dutch girl," atill reigns over this town of 30,000 people.
Her father and mother are doing their best to fit her in with their six other children. But outside the tiny house in Emma Square she is the talking-point around which everything re- volves,
old is she?" Told she was 12, Maria sniffed: "Her figure. It is too short, too fat”
The next day she caused a new stir. The others were used to her gold watch and gold bracelet. Their eyes opened
wide at the sight; of two huge, earrings and a large, green stone
brooch:
NOT A WORD
The children chattered, Theo -Sister Edward told them to be
quiet, To Maria not a word.
A plain-clothes policeman sits at the back of the class. He cycles to end from the school with Maria.
Every time she leaves, the other children crowd round to her Maria would become part of gape at her bicycle and the Dutch scene much, more latest in clothes and startling quickly and cally than she is hair-bows.
Maria doing if her parents could exer-
loves it. She holds her cise full control over her.
head
high, a faint, sophisticated.
face. The
And the committee formed to smile on her organise her homecoming, how- sisters beam their pleasure, ever, is still the power to which They find only one fault they bend though it was dis in her. True, she attends Sun- banded weeks ago.
day Mans with her family, but at prayers school she folds her arms, and at religious les-
At the Roman Catholle school the attends, Maria is the pet of the sisters.
Success
the doodles,
planners have tried to the She is the envy of the 350 force
from conversion other children--for the new Moslem to Roman Catholic, expensive dress she appears in Thoir methods nie meeting little every other day, her new sports bicycle, which has no match for nilles, the jewellery she wears in cines, her furilned
bootees, At the same time the others are jealous of her for the shown her, the lack of when she chooses to or does what she pleases when the rest of the class is regimented into a par- ticular lesson or gume.
be
Mr and Mrs Hertogh intended that Maria should have a private tutor for alx months,
NOT ENOUGH
I asked Police.... Commissaire- Van 't Hof why 16 of the town's 42 policemen are permanently on guard inside and outside the Hertogh home (there have been no days off for them alhco Maria's return),
Έσ "said: "Anything could happen from Moslem influences, The guard will be kept on till March, at least,"
NOT A THING. Lawyer Jan Bervoets, self- styled head of the homecoming- committee, told me: "Mr Hertogh can do nothing without
But the planners decreed, “Put her to school at once and be permission-I know what is immediately it was found her
"Nothing about Maria may alandard of education, was that appear in the Britiel Press. The of a girl of eight and she nooded only journalists I have allowed individual attention.
to see her are from a Dutch
In mathematics Sister, Edward Catholle paper. Go home to
gives Maria separate lessons. England
For language and she learns."
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"But that's not all," one Dutch slowly-the girl is one of said: The commitee is fine
of MGM the equatorial plains of cash in on success. And there's the representatives DY the time of the election the East Africa will soon be as Mines is a winner.
the class. But when she is asked Mr Hertogh does on he pleases no doubt that King Solomon's told me, There's not the to stand to repeat h sentence But when I called at Adrian slightest reason why we can from the binckboard she scowls Hertogh's home the telephoned Tories could boast of 42B fully qualified agents in charge familiar to cinema-goers as "A couple of years ago the make. Westerns out there.
at the sister, scowls at her Mr Houtman: "Miny. I talk to of constituencies in England and the neon-chequered skyline rage Was for psychological lot of the country looks like classmates, and reads aloud un- an English journals?" And
of Manhattan, If Kenya's Alms. Now it's all wide open Red Gulch Canyon or the Bar interestedly,
whatever he was told the man, At first she would take no who current film boom continues. spaces stuff, with plenty of Q Six ranch. Then a few miles
no who had wished to be friendly These agents were paid bo-
and waving palme away we have scenes that could interest in a gymnasium class, "And It's likely to do so. For animals tween £500 and
2000 a year, Hollywood is Africa-conscious,
Natives in war paint Instead it into any South Sex Island. She stood aside from the other refused information. and could look forward to pro- pressive prometten in the highly and Kenya has leapt to star of Bowery hoodlums, lions - A few miles in the other direc girls and the sister said nothing for March 25 when Marin ir dile
stead of Broadway "wolves”
film the One day last week she joined dom. In Hollywood there f organised Woollon machine.
The stars like East Africa. Yorkshire moors: Kenya has but for only a few miniftime to see the British Consulta that V vogue for Kenya, Britain's That is important.
to stay in Holland or setLIÉTA Stewart got everything and then some girl was standing in front day, she can decide for herself The Socialsts, on the other youngest colony, where
the big mora.”
of the class, Maria nudged 11- Malaya, your-old Janneke Bogers: “How
(London Expread Serolothes. hand, could only muster 270 full-weather keeps to the calendar. Granger, bitten with time agents the eve of the Extris, if not tep-a-penny, are fame shooting bug, has al-t
been back. Cary Grant The rush is on „poll is England, Wales and Scotten for a pound,, and there is ready
land as well. Their agents were everything from coral beaches is taking a holiday soon. Tony
Bartley Deborah Kerr's hus "And extrast. The other day lower paid and had less attracto ley mountains, thick jungle band is planning to take a-Ivatoodi: outalde" a' trungalow" in
to windswept moorland. ..tive prospecta
Two feature Alms were shot alm unit out, to Kenya to make Nairobi and watched a muling
flms dor television.
crowd of natives begging för Unquestionably this big lead in Kenya during the past year
Producers, particularly the work at two shillings a day...). Bolomon's organisation ---"King -
Mines," in professional helped the Tories gain votes. But which has already scored a American ones, like Kenya, best Africans are (born natural cause they can use up some actors. They enter - into the Nicholas
gives cautionary great success on both sides of of their company's blooked spirit of the thing from the reminder that the machines can the Atlantic.. and "Tarzan'a
word "go," and do not ““ get -not dragoon the voters to the Peril," the Best Tarzon fim sterling crédits, te
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must be admitted, present In Birmingham, where," the Vulture#7232y,"22/1) now being " --Camerame
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deport -out of 10.
Liverpool, where, they had only one professional agent, thef secured Ava soals out of nine.
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