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WHICH BEVAN IS AT LARGE?
Is it THE DREAMER?
"THIS ISLAND 18
almost made of coal and surrounded by fish, Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and flah in Great Britain at the Bame time."
-Blackpool, May 24, 1945,
"NO AMOUNT of cajolory can eradi- cato from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. they are lower than vermin."
Manchester, July 4, 1948.
• "THINGS_ARE_not all right. There is no Immaculate conception of Bocialism."
-Party Conference, 1950.
.......or THE WRECKER?
IT DEPENDS A BIT ON WHO SHARES HIS PERCH
by WILLIAM BARKLEY
a small matter of a tribute to his will-power and TELL, now, which is the war over
Very Hkoly he ambition. it? Which of the thought that war could not be
compensation.
three Bevans are won without him in power. we going to see? Very ikely he thinks Until we see how Bevan con- Socialist Party will be crushed
and his ideas ruined ducts himself as a private in power now. M.P. for the first time in over five years it must be a question mark.
Alternative
a bawling out in the privacy of party councils.
On present showing Bevan will get a great deal of noisy voriferous support in the parlia- mentary party and in the can- stituency highbrow and in tellectual circles. But all that docs not add up to five per- cent of the votes.
or THE BRAGGART?
bird on a very
Don't shudder. That is qulle parliamentary language.
"I CON FIDENTLY expect that before the next election every family in Great Britain will have a separate house."
-London, May 8, 1946.
"WHEN THE next election occurs there will be no housing problem in Great Britain for the British-working class,"
-Durham, July 20, 1946.
"HAD THIS beri a military operation we could have introduced discipline and shot a few builders.
Cin
re
-London, Nov. 20, 1948. trail. Any parliamentary porter could provide u good
or two reason
why .every Minister in the last five years for breach of should resign
disappointed ex- promise pectation,
But except for Dalton, soon was brought back, has gone while health remained.
от
The word
who none
Among the pigeons BUT
Words have power. After
If it became a case of Bevan versus the machine he would And this is where Bevan may And that his dreams do not walk soon be little more than a fine,
singing Welsh the to 10 Downing Street. For un-
DUT Bevan really began to doubtedly nineteen-twentieths of small perch. he is not the Socialist Party regard So possibly a third choice fils go the day in the Budget
when. Morrison as having incontestable the present circumstances, which debate
Osbert Peake claims to follow Attlee if the Is that Bevan is a braggart — a described him as a pouter pigeon Prime Minister's health does not damned young fool.
well and truly disinflated by recover and if he finds his post-
Gaitskell. tion intolerable now that he has Certainly when
he was
lost his former leaning post, the last out of office he 'seemed
lote Ernest Bevin.
But on this choice of views we more interested in wrecking
shall soon see the beginning of tuetles than in anything you
power among the the light for -constructive, ed by could call
fitter, including That was in the war and Socialist Party of the taint which Morrison, who have so rapidly
Gaitske Budget be succeeded to
the aging and you may say he was then in makes a
ailing. hailed as Tory plan, Opposition.
in- The other younger me! must say the Tories would not get my vote for 9s. 6d. income clude Gattskell, Wilson, Strauss, Shinwell. tax in the £, but if the Socialist Gordon-Walker and extremists expected a vindictive Their alignments are going to malicious, and partisan Budget be affected
by a resignation from Gaitskell they are certainly which leaves nothing disappointed.
But he was in opposition as much to his own leaders Rs to Winston Churchill, for they were combined.
Yet Bevan the Wrecker took the most extreme
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That brings us to another party ever the same again. choice - Bevan the Dreamer.
Does Bevan think he is taking
destroy the Churchill Ad. the best course to put him into ministration and put the his find power drive?
le now has liberly of action. I does not follow that the great war-winner out of
dreamer after power will turn to office.
wrecking
Bawling out
- By Mr Shinwell CHINWELL has rapidly taken up his position. He was Bevon before the re. ogainst
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At least, Mr Churchill was. all, Parliament is all words and have called a damned old fool in the those Peake words must House of Commons, and although left Bovan as speechless as the the perpetrator
once Spaniard who is said to have nobody seemed apologised
to been sllent upon another peak think the language
odd, in Darien,
was its application although fantastic.
Overplayed-
And caught out OSSIBLY Bevan overplayed his hand and was caught in a dilemma that he could not es- cape.
In that case he is gone when he did not want to go.
And it may be his action will bring down on him a depth of bitterness which he has so far never experienced in himself but has only dispensed to others.
For his going will cause tur- moll in his party. It will start. new hatreds and new vendettas. He was warned that if he He should never have or- went out now and weakened rogated to himself the position or split the party with an elec of super-Chancellor, telling tion in the ong he would be Gaitskell what to leave out of denounced by the stalwarts as his Budget, unless he had his another Ramsay MacDonold or ready the moment, another Snowden or Jim resignation
and Thomas.
All of martyrdom out of t
rejected. It may vole and even speak according to my private In- Of course It must have been Socialist variants from the back benches in a way formalion, previously given him a struggle. He has blozed Iscariot in polities. which will not.disturb the Front, but always in the high hope that- the back-benchers will in their entirely regard him as the one orthodox alternative leader.
Building Materials. Bulldors' Hardware, 'Russian wanted" He may make a temporary signation, was known. He read his ideas were disowned
lecture in loyalty having,
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But fortune turned
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was at the depths of mistor Machinery, Pharmaceuticals. Aromatic
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Mill Bevan and 25 others, Tories and Supplies. Auto
Socialists, voted against Chur- Accessorios. Motor
ch's direction of the war. Cycles. Industrial and Fine Chemicals.
wins
debate after dibute and Wings and Spirits: Provisions. Surgical loses battle after battle.
Bevan sald then, Churchin
The
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is beginning to say that
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A MAN IN
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ANBURIN BEVAN once confided
to the tiouse of Commons - WHER 1 was quite a young
boy my father took me down the street and showed me one or two partly and complaceat looking renifo men standing at the shop doors, and painting to one he said: "Very Important man, That's Councilior Juck son. It's very important man in this town."
I said: "What's the council ↑ " "Oh, that's the place that governs the affairs of this town," said my father, Very Important plice indeed, and they are powerful men.” When I got older I wald to my- sell: The place to get to in the counett, "That's where the power is."
So I worked very hard and, fu association lih my fellows, when I was about 20 years of ere I got on to the council. I discovered when I got there that the power had been there, but it had just gone. So-4-made some inquiries, being an earnest student of social affairs, and I learned that the power had allyped down to the county council.
So worked hard again and I got there and it had gone from there, too, Then I found out that it had come op here. So I followed it, and sure enough I found that it had been here, but I just saw ita coat falls round the corner.
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Why Niggle At The Princess?
The fit ones... In fight for power like TIMES change so very quickly
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and men decay. It is only a war and a war like a debate.
He had the idea of appointing couple of years since I wrote: a Russian general to command that the Socialist leaders were the British, since they alone were aging and ailing. And now three victorious. He was not to know of them-Attee, Cripps, Hall- that fortune was just turning and are on their backs in bed and
campaign one is in his
grave. that the Churchill
10 went from victory victory I was wrong then in thinking So that Herbert Morrison was thereafter.
Then he threatened to call out seriously that he might not be His recovery is the South Wales miners during restored to us.
Police raid homes
of policemen
From NEWELL ROGERS
By JOHN GORDON
What nonsense!
Some of the squawkers croake that she should not have gone away and left her children...
Do they really believe that the
on horseback who believe that nobody born in a better bed than they were born in has any right to a bed at all today.
But that is not yet the view of
London, Apr. 22. waited with them just as eagerly Princess is a bad mother? For most people, And I don't think THEN Princess Eliza- for his return.
beth
home comes wouldn't it be a nice gesture to stop the nasty, niggling, ill-natured cri- ticism to which she is being subjected?
Wouldn't it be rather bet- ter to give the girl a chance -to-taste a little happiness?
It is difficult for a Princess to pluck the same happiness out of life as the ordinary run of us, but she has just
What's wrong with that?
Is a man to be torn from the work he loves and condemned to become a Court ornament just because he has married Princess?
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Is a Princess to be robbed of
that is what they imply. And the it ever will be. allegation is outrageous.
Not so long ago the poison droppers were whispering that the Princess was spending 100 much money on her house.
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HSE are democratic days. But democracy doesn't mean that a Princess should be denied the happiness that every young
Why shouldn't she have a wife ardently and rightly seeks, a splendid shame? Do we want the or be regarded as neglecting her she doesn't spend most of world to come and visit our job future Queen in a pre-fab? That her days summing and sower- would be a fine advertisement poking. for Britain, wouldn't it?
Stamp on the mud-singers We all know-oven Cabinet and give her a chance to live a the joy of seeing her husband Ministers have proclaimed it free, wholesome, happy ikfa happy, and sharing his happiness that there are many beggars now which is the right of every other woman?
passionately
NEW YORK and it has a great sentimental
feel like crying." THE police are raiding the value,
The Princess is THE
a sweet girl .homes of New York GENEROUS acknowledgment
in love with her husband. We should rejoice that for the duration of your trip, by land, sea policemen, confiscating TV by the New York Times in as much right to it as we
she married for love, a joy For air, at low cost
sets and the expensive Per- message from Cardiff: "Britain's have..
rearmament drive is beginning i sian lamb and silver fox fur to show results." Correspondent
Being the heir to the denied to most Princessen in the past, and we should help and coats of many of the ofli- Benjamin Welles had just be Throne isn't an easy or a encourage her to keep that love
seeing 20-pounders being pro- cers' wives.
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We may be sure that despite all the criticisms she will go out to her husband again and again, whenever she wishes to do so. And so she should.
HITLER'S £1,400,000 yacht Grille (German for caprice) is going to aid the rearmament effort.
She has been sold for £35,700, and will be a grand jury investigating 1946, when the Admiralty sold officer goes to duty in Malta
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Philip is a true sailor, happiest Some high-ranking officers skipper, Captain H. E, Byng.
in oltips and at sea. There is no with him. Yet because the doubt that he ands Court life a "have submitted-questionnaries
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And the jury is inspecting fur coats and TV sets to deter mine how truthfully the police answered their quiz.
It
may
and.
Mona Martin, and her mother criticised and off
Mrs
finds
herself would. It is better for him, and in the long run better for us as censured by
well, that the fresh air should
the Florida, firing range. those who in similar circum- blow around him as long as 400 stances would never ques. possible. Martin's house
is
some did, in fo from, the launching plat-ition their own right to do
Let's be fair to her!
is believed the Inquiry
Now the army got the same thing. show that
court order allowing them to accept large bribes from buy the house for £2,320 and dact,
underworld to remove the two women. Mrs gamblers chiefs.
The grand jury has power to Martin says they will have to order arrests and commit for carry her away.
In Malta she tried to lead the trial.
'CRIMINALS 'are. human, too, ordinary life of a sailor's wife District Attorney Irving as nearly as she could. She ADVERTISEMENTS in busce Saypol. To prove it, ho tells the moved about the little island at Memphis, Tennessee, tiare case of a bank: cashier who blotters coaked in perfume at stuffed £68,000 worth of bank with her husband, enjoying his. tached to attract "women's at- notes in a bag, and hurried companionship, as other wives tention Bome women are so away. Then he put the bag onko to do. attracted that they tear than a penny scale, it weighed 168-
off for use as sachets.
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· EX-ACTRESS Hope Hampton BHOPKEEPER Irving Klaw criticised for that? shed, not, a tea when £119,000 sells · 3,000,000*/ pictures of of gems and cash were stolin Hollywood stars a year and de from her Park Avenue fist a barométer of star popularity, But when police::Brought back Greatest all-time popularity nie assicurotistry any other overalls; that she ought to devote her little cream-coloured safe, Vivien Lelah after Gone With emptysta tumblers Imocked: The Wind (1,200 photos, in off, who said: "I had it 18 years wock),
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