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WILLIAM BARKLEY NOTEBOOK
CROSSES
THE HANNEL
THE
WHAT COES on in the Parliaments of Europe? They atting now in France, for example, and in Germany, in the peaceful town of Bonn. What kingmen make up "The Chamber"? What
is the matter (and mood) of their speeches? Firsspatch below: CHAPTER ONE
Orderly uproar!
CHELLE
Was the political headline when I ar-
PARIS. "Our wage polley is based on
MOBILE reason and
Justice," he con- Linues.
"Tell that to the workers,"
gloomily, an extension of the Metro.
I beg you
rived in Paris. Mov- says the woman Communis). ing staircases, I thought
MOR
Al
pensioners, middle-classes and fixed income groups. Every type of minimum' wage and family allowance is under debate,
The de Gaullists say hard work
[CHAPTER TWO
You'd hardly see
that at Westminster!
thing you would not double line. Things Bre me columns in the newspapers about
at Westminster formal. My guide plished a pair party split,
You must never carry anything
u see here, and that of Axed Layonets aside to show
me the pretty garden belonging in your right hand
or Negro to the "Speaker's House" of M. Palais Bourbon is #klc,- haired heThe French colonial Herriot, the President.
Assembly.
er
P
neat the
National
is an hour when the streets is not disorderly. They are not cal Socialist, M. Violette, safe Bays he brings the views of or War the drums beat a quick-
Is the only cure.
Vigorous, independent Pierre has 40 deputies in Then two drummers beat a
The man thook hands with Andre warns that the jolt of They
favour all tattoo. For the aged and re-me, and then shook hands ogain morphla will cause Inflation-and
spected
figues of Herriot. is a when the automatic lift was The Chamber or National Oruption would be called beside him.
- TENTII part of this and he frowns at the de
totalitarianism as in Germany. Pone
slow march. But this day the snatched away, from him. He claps when coal Chair Gaullists
taken by Vice-President shook hands a third time witen Assembly met as my train
Valentino
(Socialist, M. Die helm, and in honour of the operated it and put me in. came in as 9.30 a.m., which minster, Yet, in an odd way, it smiled when a wise old Radily dressed
uproar and disorder at Wes:-
But
the whole Chamber Coupe) takes the tribune, his having or se been Minister
the Vice-President - cre step, and Overseas.
He recalls ithes into the Chainber os' into promises made that batlle, preceded by two men with
colonies will drawn swords. have the same rights the metropolls
different
сап
this
The
TOMOR
03
shout,
At Westminster they and, in a burst of "Hats off, strangers." Even the clapping, ends by bobbies remove their helmets, hoping that France There is not a weapon in sight.
cause to remember
· Difference · 3′′
will give her colonies BON
why they love her so much.
everlastingly,
Difference EXTRAORDINARY discovery! It hardly phys to be a French Minister,
The ordinary deputy
is £1,500 a year, the ordinary Minister £1,600 or £1,630-£3
Werk extra for responsibility. It is not enough, aven with a motor-car, a furnished. flat, and a preity garden thrown in.
Ohl Ladies and Gentlemen. the Jask horribly
are not aired to a British shouting down the Prime fo the Socialists
Minister or anyone else, Ncbody, (quite politician.
puts meaningly obstructive I found it convulsed in mints of order to the Chair.
"You think party): debate
you alone two-day
the on
In the midst of the Prime
govern. Is it not Minister's mounting French cost of just start an argument among gerat: Just a little?"
peech the deputies assi
possible you exag- living. Echelle Mobile is the themselves,
in which he takes sliding scale, the simple
The last words, "un peu." in bin in good humour to con- delicate flower of M. Communist device; up goes part, When i is all over they m the price, put up the wage. tinue, and they listen in perfeel Violette's eloquener
Everyone elso recognises silence the next outburst.
echoed like a finger- Or someone will say: "May I this as our old friend the interrupt you?" and he will say:
of government is nail flicking bone.
goes on inflationary spiral staircase. "I beg of you to do so," and off Gauilist leader, Gaston Palewal
unrewarded. Then in #
moment the eff must say the House of Com- HAND SHAKING
There is a would more likely keep poibly
The Prime Minister gets politically suspect £1,000 a year. M. Pleven, the middle-of- we go again.
cicerified the air by protestimaica or the Gold Coast deputy coming in. To show his
At last. I understand why the-way Radical Socialist
suddenly that in Washington und if our colonics shared the faith he shakes hands all along French M.Ps. are in and out of French Minister, has agreed enches as they do here, without
the Government side, although office so frequently, and why the rearm Germany by putting y sort of colour bar.
this is culy the resumpiton: ef Ministers, do not endlessly eling, French Army under an Ame
the sitting, and he has seen them on when they have been pretty can. him by climbing on
already twice this morning. clearly asked to go. What have M. Pleven denies and ded man, M. Coulant, moving staircase. Their spokes- these
they to lose If they resign?*** a Parisian Westminster. You can imagine ene saying: de Gaullists
with THE sitting is opened here by Aneurin Bevan would be seen The money? It was nothing, like this:-
vigorous gesture of his ri hand, which happens to hold
soldiers Republican shaking hands four times a day but I do miss my pretty garden." However, spectacle-case. keeps a firm grip on it.
Prime Minister, declared
that the only way to reduce
Plight
the cost of living is to in- Now the Socialista embarrass crease production..
Heavens! He has been rending Snowden and Gaits- kell, I thought.
iho
advocates It
#
The skiing
scale, my dear colleagues you do not need to They argue...
be in the same party to be an
Finally he turns Itis honourable friend here like an majestically on the de Gaul injection of morphia will never Party, although, because of THEN I heard him actual cure the sick, but in soothing the
of the Chamber, ly say: "We must de- patient and giving him hoor action
makes him bow mand sacrifices of the can prevent an attempt at accident to the Communists.
So that was the country. If the British suicide, and permit a final cure
sample if the remedies
day. Engrossed in the Socialist Ministers have the M. Pieves are certi, food and
energetic."
and alert instantly toy courage to say so to the only these perpctual debates murmur of menace beyonde British people, we must which stop him negotiating with Rhine. have the courage to say so employers and unlons on the
subject. to the French people."
"For the benefit of American millionaires," said a man Com-
munist.
many
"Make peace with Russia," shouted Mme, Galacier, one of women among the 101 Communist deputies.
"Let Russia first accept dis- armament, general, controlled, and simultaneous," said an inde- pendent Tory type.
He appeals for time and free dom, and says: "Oh! Ladies and Gentlemen. the task of govern- ment is horribly thankless and unrewarded." (Horriblement in- grate.")
Difference 2
AL
2. 42 Guards
in blue and red, with with everyone from the Junior fixed bayonets and forming a Whip to Mr Attice, or else-two
IN
I
(London Express Service.)
The last Mrs. Barrymore
goes to Wall Street
NEW YORK:
Very often the de Gaullie the
extreme right hold a te with the Communists at thefer end of the half-elrele, wa member of the independe or TN the old days in Hollywood, when she Peasant, party is sccking 1n-
was the last of the four wives of John vince he Radical Sociali
Barrie. Half of the deputies arst Barrymore; dark-haired Elaine The weary Titan. The Ramsay newspapers, chatting, or ing
ing, and half the rest are ing never dreamed of getting up before noon.
letters.
Mac.
"Pleven Pain Cher," say the Communists.
"Dear-Bread meaning, thereby
Pleven." For bis Smokers' ne Russlo proposed it,” Government has raised the price-
of bread, To keep it steady OF course, if it interestou
these
then
retorted
To have done so would have been put
down almost as an aberration.
then.
Things have changed for her since
I the man Communist.
would have needed a subsidy of "Then let her open her frou-
£68,000,000.
12 might slay here
Now, she awakes in her small flat on tiers," raid the Tory.
months. There are coinsa- Extraordinary
The subsidy does not find one tions-for example, am sup- Manhattan's fashionable East Side every how many of advocate anywhere here. nowing interruptions are French worker scorns the system British popular brand rettes
The plies in the Press Gal of morning before seven. At 8.80 smartly attentively heard to the end and of which the British Socialist at 3d, a packet cheaped an in turned out in a tailored navy blue suit
answered.
is mighty proud.
London. Meanwhile, M. Pleven, full,
and crisp white blouse, she pushes her broad shouldered, looking a
But only a fool wii buy i youthful 40 in spite of his 6 his bread artificially cheap and French cigarettes at on ird of travels downtown toher desk in Wall the sublime wisdom of getting them, since there are fecilent way into the jampacked subway and years, stands at the tribune his wine or tobacco artificially the British price, and point Street. surveying the half-circle and dear by reason of a tax to has to be borne in minn con- listening to the debate. Yet he cheapen the bread.
sidering the cost of livi or the Deputies weep at the plight of moblie epiral staircase!
is supposed to be talking.
The Frenchman does not see
DID HE, IN FACT, HEAVE A
SIGH OF DESPERATION?
Elaine Barrie is an actress no longer. Today she is the most attractive "customers' man". In one of New York's larger film! of stockbrokers.
"When I go out with
}
ELAINE BARRIE, from sidge to stocks,,
"stocks and shares. For instance: "There is no such thing 85 a
By Frederick Cook phopy stock, but it does take a
fremendous amount of know- ledge, to plek out a good one.
"War in Korea, floods 'in
a young mother to see in the other day who wanted something which would show a profit in a „few years'› ilme, so as to bay
for the education of her son." How did Elaine's career in the Miss Barrie's only link with a man market begin? Over lunch with her old life is her early-com-
She gives advice to investors. the usual chit-chat. Men always She sells. bonds and stocks on open the conversation by asking Kansas, everything has lis effect commission. She is picking up what do think of much-and- on the market, and there is the the ropes of Anance as she goes such a stock. And when I tell personal element about the job By MAURICE MANNING
and loving every minute of it.
them they look at me with a new which appeals to me, too, I had TN the first six months of prices of food and clothes and
respect." The Soviet miner & to work "Finance
has the theatre this year the Soviet household goods.
nearly eight hours toe able to beaten by mil," she tells me. "What's sigh of rellet I heaved buy a kllogramme Union sent 111 delegations
ment; the "Never have I enjoyed anything Passed exam abroad consisting of 1,288 Donetz
on my return to our plt la the British miner has twork just so much. It is a tremendous
Basin," said the Soviet over an hour people. These figures were miner.
and the French boost to one's ego. minor about two hos. He has given by M. Malik, Soviet But was the sigh really one of to work for over haan hour friend now we don't exchange a broker friend one day she picted book on her husband to Deputy Foreign Minister, in
rellef? a speech in Moscow recent ly.
a month, according to the last 6th of the time. Most of the delegations were five-year plan figures, compared from various industries; some of, with the British miner's wage of them were made up of re- *
£24 month. Those sort of The position is 1}Frame when presentatives of trade unions. figures mean nothing. It is only it comes to clothes. The Sovie
The impressions of these de- when they are translated into miner, if he wants, new pair of
terms of food and clothing and shoes, has to wo legates during their visits abroad
wod nearly 80 are of.en brondcast by Moscow goods that they begin to have hours; the Brilis miner has] Radio to try to show how much value. better off people are in the Soviet.
Ko
be able to buy a kegramme of Back at his pit in the Donetz: Basin he earns about 800 roubles has to work seven finutes, or a
potatoes; In
Brita the miner
wan's
а
fu work about 15 hours. If the Soviet piner's wife Union,
und the other day a
This Soviet miner who saw her hustand will Soviet trade unionist went to the such
new colton dress!
to: work "terrible microphone to describe what he Britain has to work for half on in Britain the mint has to work
misery". in as
42 hours to earn though monest saw when ho visited Britain two hour to earn enough money to almost exactly hit as long and months ago.
be able to buy a kilogramme of the Italian minera third as long bread; the British miner ke
Even that is ialked to has to work 10 minutes
Is hot the whole utes story for the same
Mote and more figures He said that, ns a miner him-
same amount. self, he had studied Brilish mintis of the basic foods. But by itself indeed, the ordinary Soviet In both countries bread is one thing that the Soviet miner and, could be given to show the same and the way in which British it is not enough miners lived. During visit to
to convince workman, has to work far longer
Scotland, he told s Russian anyone that the Soviet miner to earn enough money to buy the audience, he notleed, the same ose off than his opposite essential things of life than other
number in Britain or in any workman in the world. signs of terrible misery shocking deprivations" wherever Union and the Iron Curtain. So and other country outside the Sovie he went,
lo: take some more examples.
And when the Soviet miner One cool miner, who worked
who went to the microphone In Moscow 'said that he leaved underground, told him that he earned £6 a week and "readily The minimum wage for under his pit in the Donetz Basin, he sigh of relief on his return to admitted that he could not make now but most misura surely must have meant that he ground 'cookie miners in Entain 'ta' ends meet because of the high far more on an averag
horval a sigh of desperation.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
DANCING
*"That should teach them!'”
i
brought the folk around to be called The Great Lover." She Anance "more or less out of met Barrymore in 1935 when (as politeness." She learned to her?
a young girl) she had sent him a surprise that there ware women fan letter while he was in dologiall right as "customers hospital. Later, with her mother, men" and that her friend con- she went to see him, bideret she too showed a feel
When he left hospital, he was ing for 1
photographed often, with an at Forthwith, somewhat Battered, tractive girl named in the cap she sipped the fashion pages in tions as Elaine Jacobs. The same her paper, studied financial selee girl turned up later af ong his tions instead
hart company on a radio programme, "Then," she said. "I took a Usted now as Elaine Barrie, She course at the New York Institute had taken the name "because of Finance, which drains person- sounded a bit like Barrymore.". nel for member firing of the
Stock Exchange, I took a very Man's language Intensive course, which included
technical accounting about which to me
know precisely nothing.
Atew months later they
Then studied security, married Elains made a name of analyala. I passed-ihe, dxhm with her own account:in Hollywood a mark of 95 which is one of and on Broadway Now at 05, the highest on record. A pass she says 'th through with the is 28. That entitled me to be-theatre Them people live in a come
a curtower's broker east of lvory tower, utterly out Rouch with what is going on traines, pots outades, Finance is real.” When
Already Tiaine has formed T 20 pût with si moans row (I can' some si slrobgji” opinions about really talk his language 23 af
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