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DECEMBER 1952 THE OPPOSITION OFFICE-WATI EMERGENCY POWERS CINTAM ERECTION
"Mr. Churchill is right! It's high time Mr. Attlee had a General Election ..
London Express Service-
A CORPS OF CITIZEN
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SOLDIERS
By Peter Lovegrove
It became like all other Armed
TO Festival tour of the During the 19th century this Wha gradually treasures of the City private army of London would be transformed and merged into complete which did not in- the national force, and by 1980 clude one of its most tradi- Forces of the Crown subject 10 tion-steeped institutions -Parliament. It served overseas the Honourable Artillery for the first time in the Boer Company, that famous War when it suppiled a Field corps of citizen soldiers, the Battery, a mounted infantry and oldest regiment in England an infantry contingent. and the only connecting link In World Var One, two between the present-day batteries of
Horse Artillery
British Army and the City tought in Egypt and Palestine, levies of mediaeval days. there was a siege battery'at And the public are being Ypres, and two Infantry balta- made welcome at their an- lions distinguished themselves Western Front and in cient. headquarters, Arm- on the oury House, in Finsbury Italy. every Tuesday afternoon.
The Company, which finds
First Ashore
i
Beverley Baxter
To lie abed and
wonder about the world outside
D
London.
ISRAELI, the Sealy- 'ham, put the Iden in 'my head.
The wrather is unbearably hot, and, with the wisdom of the animal, he has evidently decided to sleep the hours away.
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"How will it go?" sald Creevy, The Duke was silent for moment, and then, pointed to, a British private soldier of a line regiment on the strest.
"It depends on that article," anid Wellington,
HOWEVER, even that does not and Wellington's views.
No more chasing the birds, no As every schoolboy knows, he racing down the lawn to back mutiered, "Night or Bluchert" as defiance the neighbour's
at
watched the changing fortunes from: the safe height of the of the battle.
wall, no cursing of motor- garden
cat he
cars from the front balcony.
To sleep, perchanes to dream but, anyway, to sleep. That is his intention.
A TWIST OR TWO OF CONSCIENCE.
CONSCIENCE to poor thing
If it cannot be made to serve our whims, and it only needed a twisting or two in order to con- vlace myself that I am suffering from on Incipient altuck of summer fu
Naturally the French had their own version.
Victor Hugo, in "Les Miser- ables," explains the defeat at Waterloo by the simple slatemini that destiny had fired of Napoleon, which does not rule out the Old Etonians who, may have been chosen as the instru- ment of destiny.
You will agree, however,
that the issue is not as clear
as it has stemed in the past, expreially as no one seems to. know when or where the duke uttered the famous words.
But how is one to be cerizin?
WAS it perhaps the salmon from the right before, which, NOISES IN A .......... you will remember, was Mr HOUSE BY DAY Winkle's excuse when returning from the revels to Dingley Dell? Or was it Tracy Tupman? I do not care.
Having decided to spend the day in bed, I am not going down stairs to the library to check a quotation.
NOW, WHO WAS JT SAID THIS?
NOW to read the newspapers with that delightful.sense of
WHAT strange noises there are in a house during the day,
In the next room there. Is a vacuum cleaner at work sounding like a glant Stratocruiser revving up for an Atlantic flight.
The good woman at its handle could not hear 4 fire engine. much less the front door bell. She is in a world of her own cut off from human society..
beleg in no hurry. Lari us leave THE RING ONE the murders, disasters, foods, CANNOT STOP divorces, and burglaries and turn
to the paragraphisis."
AND what about this informal' centraption the telephona? There are two of them by my bedside.
and sbmb friends among Old bring about! Etonians, including John Strachey
Low
It seems that no one knows when, where, cr if the great Duke of Wellington said that Waterino was won on the playing fields of How Ironic a thing that man Eton
should invent a device which There is even the suggestion of permits cranks to break through a monetary reward for anyone all the protections of normal who can produce the necessary social intercourse and take pre- cedence over conversations which data; HAVE many acquaintances have caused much trouble to Members of the Honourable Artillery Company training on the New Arilllery Ground in front of the dignifled ́early 18th Century `Armoury House' headquarters of the Company.
And how
•people there are bad Hugh Dalton, and would be who can ring off when they have. Visitors can also
the And in the nearby Sutting the last to deny the gallant role said all that they had de say. Court Room, where would-be Room". where beer is still that the school has played in SO we curse the Imperious, members'
face the Court of served in pewter lankards, they but there is evidence that the how ridiculous it is when it sits succeeding and successful wars, interrupting telephone; but Assistants, very much as it has find a painting of the H.A.C.'s Iron Duke was anything but mute and mum and does not ring always been with the traditional "only child". It depicts the certain on this oft-quoted point. at all. President's Seat, quill pens on first muster, of the Honourable
The sullen ebony contraption is the long tables, a copy of the and Ancient Company, of Massa IT DEPENDS ON
neither decorailve nor useful, its members City banks, N the last war, its 11 R.H.A. original Charter, old Colours, chusetts which was formed in THAT ARTICLE
and I's silence gives one a sense insurance offices and the I
many and prints and paintings and at Knightsbridge was
other
of being mishald and forgotten. 1837 by a member who emigrated records of the distant
FOR example, in the memoles Stock Exchange and is now Alomein and its runs were ine' past, including a unique pair of to Boston.. This American unit
Here, in bed today I could talle. of that unctuous politician until dusk and the bell does not the part of
Territorial first ashore in Selly; 12 R. Erenadier caps of the carly 18th is still in existence, and gere-journalist Creevy there is a ring, not even a
was in North Africa and Italy, century, made of leather and monial visits are exchanged description by the diarist of
a wrong number. Army, was granted its and 13 R.H.A. was in Normandy. charter by Henry VIII in The infantry battalion became crimson velvet and beautifully across the Atlantic from time to driving through Brussels with the HE KNEW THAT
time.
Duke Just before the battle.
WE WOULD WIN 1537-over a hundred years an OCTU at Bulford and most before the formation of the members were commissioned in
other regiments. Regular Army - but it is
Today its Artillery is com generally accepted-that--it- came into existence much posed of a regiment of R.HA equipped with self-propelled earlier than that, when cer- guns from which it provides tain merchants banded men and 25-pounders for Royal' Salutes from the Tower, П themselves together to pro- H.A.A. regt, and a radur locat- tect their goods from the ing battalion, There is also n gangs of robbers who then battalion of Infantry. infested the City.
It has the traditional right to provide the guard of honour to Royalty and the heads of foreign ptates within the City boundaries and takes a prominent place in
those
and who have been
embroidered,
RED GENERAL PENG
by Dr. Victor. PURCELL
Lecturer in Far Eastern History,
Combridge University.
COWHERD who turned soldier of fortune finds tho, oyes of the world on him today.
Civil War THE term "artillery" ori- Cily pageantry It is a club as
ginally applied to "wea well as a military unit,
members
At 50, stout and close-cropped, pons of volley" such as cross on active service for notes General Feng Teh-husl looks bows and muskets and it than ave years can Join Its
not until 1781 that Veterans Company, which has back on a career that has taken
and given pike some of its members began displays in the uniforms of the the command
musket drill him from his father's farm to of the "Chinesn to train as gunners.
Civil War period at the Royal People's Volunteers." Tournament since the war.
was
Long History
He is a native of Hunan, cradle of many of the toughest revolutionaries, and he has Mao and long Tse-tung himself for a fellow TS great traditions
history come very much alive provincial. In the dignified, early 18th cen-
ed In 1935 during the Long March when the Red ́army had to exist mainly on grass, is not lutown to me).:
Pent Teh-hual early became disillusioned with the Kuornin- tang, but his admission to the Communist Party does not date until March 1028. Thereafter he took part in practically every engagement, in which the Com- munist armles
were involved
HOWEVER, the post has 2. arrived, and here is, a sur- prising letter from Germany.
The writer was Press attache at the German Embassy - in London under Ribbentrop, and on the day that Hitler marched into Prague I phoned him, sug- gesting lunch.
His reply was a bark to the effect that ho WEB already engaged.
"That is not true," I said. "No one else would be seen lunching with you today, 80 come to the Carlton Club An nex." Which he did.
HE was an American-born German,
strikingly good of the Nazis. looking and with no great love
"This means war," he said at
the Pingchlang rig Korgan ised by himself), the ten days occupation of Changsha lunch.
1930, the battle covering
the.
In Go..
Who will win?" I asked. March" to Shemsi The British will win," he said the Communist without a moment's pause. We defeat at Touryl. When after shall be defeated by your pro the incident at the Marco Polo paganda." I explained to him Bridge the candlet with Japan
that we had no propaganda, not became an open one and the even a Ministry of Information, Communist WEAKNESS FOR MELONS
-armies -allowed
" but he brushed that aside with themselves to be renamed the tang-Chiang Kai-shek' re Eighth Route Army of four Every Brusher is a propa..
a Nazi gesture of impatience, divisions in the united national gandist," he said, "You will go front, Peng became second in abroad for a holiday this year. but you ate British, so what will Communist Generalissimo,
·:
Members of the Company, who were elected by a Court of Assistants and elected their own officers, strengthened the trained bonds in different parts of tury Armoury Hause. In the en- The son of a prosperous Elme. „ the kingdom at the time of trance trall are the coats of farmer, he quarrelled with his In his youth Peng was dapper, command to Chu Teh, the the Spanish Armada and arms of the Cupins-General father's second wife. Branded and personable, though aire had charge of men "in the since William III (usually the
reigning life-size,
Sovereign). On the as "unal" (in those days the unmistakably a peasant with
greatest, of Chinese erimas), ha a great camp at Tilbury"; stairway are
figures.
plain face and swarthy an and
musketeer in had to leave home and fend for features. His expression, stolid they fought mainly on Par-- a plke-man
in repose, became animated: and Hament's aide in the Civil the armour and accoutrements himself,
of the
17th century. In the finc
attractive when he got warmed War; and during the Gor oak-panelled lounge which used don Riots of 1781 they kill to be known as the "Great Room THE RICH UNCLE up on a subject: he felt deeply ed 458 people when they Room), hang ancient banners, Above Stairs" (now the Long
UL
He worked first as a cowherd
you do!"- Wherever ten, 20, 30 people will listen you will put Britain's case. No one will tell- you to do it, no dne will thanks you for doing it.
HIS FAITH Peng Teh-hual and Chu Teh became fast friends from the
· “All Britishers are the same, And when the war comes the Peng is completely. "sold" on enough about.
moment of their first meeting.
whole world will believe that the Communist programme sa God is on your side and the
one solution for China's Devil is an ours." Ting Ling, the Communist the fired on a mob in Broad portraits and arms of differept and then as a coalminer. Tiring
"New Woman" and the most"
and faselw Street. As the armed body periods.
famous woman novelist of
HE tells me in his letter that of this drudgery he appealed to Modern China, said: "There is self as Chu Toh is unamotional he is
in expressing him-
working on his of the extremely powerful
An annual ball has been held a rieb uncle for help. This was something about Peng Teh-bual and reserved.
memoim, which he proposes to and wealthy City, the Com- here since 1771, when it was forthcoming, for the uncle had a which is disturbing to females Ever since the hard days in They should be good if he
call "The Weeping Diplomat!! pany enjoyed, considerable tald: down that "no 'Lady bhall
admitted Ingan Undress pretty daughter to many off
it she was affected Peng has pinned", his will ten the truth and not mere.
he cou
:
HIGHLAND to support by make so a personal apologia..
time became of great, ira, book containing the names of betrothed. But compilaity in ung even more so the firtation of the Pastible an
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SCOTCH WHISKY
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portance politically.
Overseas
members from 1811 to 1883. Its "Robin Hood" exploit involving came to nothing In any case windows
MAGrund, so quiet and
busy
** REVERIE-NOW,DGE
siders ows look down on the huge the footing of a sice store by Peng already had a wife. He fountain of military strength, AND THEN SLEEP
a strong political conscience In the heart of the hungry villagers, forced him married in 1920 a young middle and
Diardell, has opened one, eye with a distahl once again to take the road.chool graduate (the pretty among the soldiers who, once
cousin being long since dead) they know tohy they fought, and is barking lazily ire case would, he said, be invincible. the bag is onslito wall z ZA TN the 17th and early 18th cen St. Paul's
At sixteen he was a soldier of... Recent p
KARMA SALATnphs give no tomahid appointment to funnying undistinguished music. plopsant orchestra on the B.B.C. soldier, courtier, and statesman parades, it was from there that
turies, every teadlog: sale ha scone of many, histodità Lurting, ongaged (either in ban- hint of this romantić, phases of,
ditry or suppressing banditry, Peng' life. He is shown with command Korea Chu Toh which is just to my mood.. of the day was either a member amandi modo his momous arent (By this time the Manchu Jutting and obstinate under and he were the two military Here on my bedside table are HowTo The or a guest? at one of their
nounced, wearing rumpled the Secret fat/ the Follicuro of England of Elizabeth! ** and many social functions. Charles in filled balloon in 1784 dynasty, had censed to be and women you very pro members of the Big Five of Bacon's essays,
and cricket has been played on China was broken up fata traku, tunsas, the Rad
freshly arrived New 11, Prince Rupert, John Churts turt since 12852-Fifioen years menti under rival, que fords, þe chill before he became Duke of prior to the earliest records or pandilliphints. He became a Mariborough Jaume If the Lie Hambledon, Club Thote la
umshdesin the forens Duke of Monmouth General Coven à record of a sund-dyed platoon Moncic and Bamuel Pepys all In 1749 Between two teams or belonged-to-the-H2
His chief weakness in mid AUT
for metons of wùkhi hè DOSÍ«.
Bacon will alway