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Bernard Wicksteed learns the rules of the Parliamentary pastime of Pate-spotting
PROPOSE
the past and the present Premiers, for instance.
today to of discuss baldness among members of Parliament.
There, on the
I know it sounds an ir- front bench, the
But
the system whatever employed, the watchdogs of the Press, looking down like gar- Government goyles from the gallery, know voice of Mr them all, just as they know
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reverent approach to politics, Churchill comes from beneath a that Mr Speaker's wig has
magnificent dome. tinged with watch like half a crown on top,
but as you will understand pink like St. Paul's Cathedral at and that the roof of his ornate
shortly it has an important sunset. It is what anthropo. chair is covered with line.
would call n typical
bearing on the management logists
The Press Gallery overhangs and welfare of the country. brachycephalic or broad head.
the Chamber like the dress and is therefore a legiti And opposite, the Leader of circle in a theatre, so a mem
the Opposition speaks from ber who speaks from one of mute topic for discussion.
beneath a perfect dollchocepha- the back benches is not seen He or long-headed pate like a at all by the reporters im- mediately above him. He has brown egg lying on its side.
in be Identified by sound, not sight. new Mr
You see it is largely by the tops of their heads that parlamentary reporters in the Press Gallery identify the speakers on the floor below, and if they weren't proficient in their headtop recognition there'd be abso- Jute chaos throughout the country. Nobody would
know who had said what.
21
I was struck by this as pect of public life when went Lo the gallery to have
look at the new House, and noticed that now they've changed sides, like fielders at ericket,
is entirely differ- scenery ent.
Gallery view
the
READERS of the Dally
Equally distinct is the broad, bars plain that tops the House the Crookshank; the almost Oriental minoret surmounting Mr Dalton,
der
of
One reporter was telling m
known that for years he has Commander William, the Tory member for Torquay, by his voice, but has never learned what he looks
I MARVEL AT THE VARIOUS TRICKS WITH SO FEW HAIRS
like.
Now that
Lumanungs
"But it's just a Tory foreign "But it's just a Bevin foreign "But it's just a Morrison
policy. policy....
foreign policy...."
A FIELD-MARSHAL SUMS UP
Was It Worth While
Fighting in Italy?
D
Voice
has moved to the other side
the House and of become
him up.
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two
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En
a
worth while.
By PETER LOVEGROVE
to see
that
"At
he
this
war
of
it
well-
OUBTS have been ex- careful
our crushing superiority in the air.
which we knew from our own pressed since World strength was never allowed to
above the minimum experience earlier in the Two War
ended grow
for necessary
our task,"
to be a most potent source of whether the bitter, costly continues wistfully.
one discouragement, did not
appear those to have affected the spirits of and long drawn-out twenty. time or another during
20 months no less than 21 divi- the German troops. What was fad he s
month struggle up the sions
ing even more astonishing and, if blessed if he can pick Italian peninsula was really s were removed from
command for the benefit of must be admitted, adinirable.
The other theatres.
Germans was that not even the obvious
delach- imuninence no cumparable
of the complete No notes
Field Marshal Viscount made
ments Except for
short a
collapse of the armies defend- Alexander, who was respon- peried in the Spring of
1944 ing the Fatherland had seduce: the direction of they
had always more forma- the German soldier, from his TRICTLY speaking, isible for
tions in Italy than we hed, military duty or weakened his is still forbidden to operations throughout this tions
their ad we made such good use of resolve to resist." report the speeches made period, summing up
Field period that brief exceptional
- Marshal
Alexander, *** in Parliament, you know.contribution to the general that in the summer of 1944, however, is extremely
eritical The ban on publica-
of the war, they of the German strategy-die- found themselves forced to tated from above by Hitler and the twin peaks (fore and tion, dating back to the strug Allied victory in his final the crisis
Com-report on the campaign (His divert eight divisions to
to hold on between King and
to every bit of Home Secretary £}}
AC unrepealed. The Majesty's Stationery Office, seco mons, is still
secondary theatre.
that ground occupied and withdraw David Maxwell Fyfe.
penalty is Imprisonment J38.), states that
value of our only under the very strongest any time, when the
contribution was at pressure. Apart from the The Torles
clear the Tower. have a
estimate must be expressed, strategic
divi-
and continuous casualties I made
not in terms of the ground its greatest, 55 German The first
entailed sions-25 in Italy. 19 reporters had
in the which this policy Express, the Evening majority of bald heads.
meant
that polls in от
South faces and gained for the ground was Balkans and 11 In the remember not only
a large, Standard, the Newcastle
in trained and well-equipped force At the first the Gov- tops of heads, they hed to evening.
not vital in the strict sense of France-were tied down in Journal, and the Scutsman
Mediterranean by the was engaged in a fotally irrele- ernment had 13 bald heads to mimorise the speeches as well,
to either side--but in terms the
a time when get their reports of Parlia
weren't allowed lo six for the Opposition, and at for they
sented by Dr Johnson used of its effect on the war as threat, actual or potential, pre-
every man should have been ment from men sitting
the second the gap had closed make notes.
men" to a whole.
Italy."
employed for the defence of the perched in the gallery to the
home country. for
tell him what was sald and then six
If," Speaker's left, and for
write up his reports of Parlia- years they have identified the Tories below by the Next there are the nearly or ment from that. shapes of their heads and thinly disguised the Socialists opposite by with which the reporter must keep up to date, for they are their faces.
constantly changing as members
Allied casualties were Now
new out
methods of
Dickens became in the West or the Russians in the
the East, against the heart of 312,000. The difference is the forced withdrawal would have
stood them in parliamentary reporter
Fatherland
in very good stend and more remarkable in that We in s allowed, but the German
they a manoeuvre) always the attackers.
have made an immediato One marvels at the variety of note-taking was
in the Commons he had to the nerve centres of Germany's were
national existence, Our role Four times that mest difficult
ribution to cither the West It is the Socialists they ways there are of spreading a write on his knee, and in the
an amphi ern or Eastern Front of any study with
critical duzen hairs 2
expanse Lords he had to scribble stand-was secondary and preparatory operation of war,
Nine months before the great bious landing, was carried ous thing up to 20 first-class divi- offensives with sions and still have maintained barber's-eye view, and the fatended for several thousand, ing up, hue de imagen assault in the West our inva- Three prepared offensiv Tories they look in
Army legislators favour the porters like sheep pen,
sion of Italy, at first in very the full
And without difficulty an unbroken face.
defence on the great mountain sideways spread, and others the
Press moderate strength, drew off to Group were undertaken. New politics and the
remote quarter forces nowhere in Europe did walls that guard the southern fore and afl.
are s interwoven that might have turned the soldiers face more difficult ter-
frontier of the Reich," Government Some boldly concentrate what mentary
in a single deßant know it in this country
ness knows how much care to
18 for the Tories to 13 t employ "memory
the Socialists.
that the parties try
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For reporters sitting the opposite side of the ga!- hair is left lery it is naturally
verda.
bald heads
over an
Publicity
BY
Y the time
vant contest at Dur armies in
The compaign had, from the start, been designed as a hold- ing attack on a major scale.
The Allied Armies in Italy, tive casualties tells the same penines, the Germans in Italy
On the German side he writes, "were not engaged story.
had
been allowed by the with the enemy's muin forces they amounted to 536,000-ex- Higher Command to order
were not direct- cluding those who surrendered planned withdrawal and their rattacks ed, as were those of the Allies after the capitulation while Alps (and their mastery of the
he says, "Instead of clinging desperately to their The record of the compara- last Anger-halds in the Ap-
that
as
we
would publicity-
vice- strends, and others devote good not work without
and the accurate identification
-London Express Service?
This is where the importance in parting & curl in the strands of speakers by their heads. of baldness enters into poli- that survive. tics, because bald heads make for easy recognition. No reporter ; could ever confuse the two pates
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As the cam- rain or more determined progressed,
and more paign
German troops were drawn in to oppose us." directors "The supreme Allied strategy were
ad-
Such
to the
the
the
+
to the bitter end, the Right
Like Viscount Mountbatten, Germans in Italy fought with
strongly of great skill and stubbornness and be
Supports Lana
Command always morale never flagged. When Supreme
system, General Vietinghoff took
three with authority over all Dver commend of the Army Group
oup services of all nationalities from Kesselring
the boundaries of a command. affen-
This he considers
How many 'Clutter-words'
do you use?
-aska DANIEL GEORGE
&
not is
fortnight
within
before the final Allied sive, he found, explains the one of the most noteworthy de- Field-Marshal, "an unbroken
ken velopments of the war, and in Kef the been en- Mediterrancan Theatre
it
force which had not lepem produced results as remarkable tions for some three months. રફ any. Inter-Service co-opera- His formations were generally
ally tion and comradeship were al However; moreover; in any case; under the circumstances: up to strength and well-train ways the special mark of the ed, and as fighting unit Army conduct of operations in this having regard to; as far as
Group C was undoubtedly of
theatre. concerned; of course; all higher value than any
am
other
things considered-the omission comparable body of troops still of such phrases will usually do remaining in Germany. nothing to impair clarity.
I
fre
we
Nevertheless, in any event.
the brigades, In reserve, he, had pitable. Nature, he pASED.”
over
The soldiers and air-
sailors
men of so many
nationalities
he stresses, "with a very fina
"We were, in fact, a team," IF with ears cocked and eyes peeled,
team spirit, and there Was you detect
in- an error in another
never any question of the terest of one particular service person's speech or writing, don't allow
taking a broad view, as far as
am in a yourself to feel
or nationality assuming in the glow of self-
position to judge, "He had 23 German and four minds of any of us an impor- bearing in mind the prevailing Italian divisions, plus various righteousness.
tance disproportionate to the conditions, it is as a matter of fact, minor formations, against Ordinary, spontaneous mid 'are'
an general interests of the team."" desirable, or at any rate useful, Allied force of 17 divisions and what
Of the Allied troops great- conversation, when reported want.
perhaps, in many cases, to have four Italian combat groups plus hearted struggle against a verbatim (word for word), Similarly, an author may be a stock of woolly phrases for six armoured and four infantry termined enenly and inhos is revealed as a muddle of he regularly falls into errors he occasion arise.
forgiven a slip or two. But if confusing the issue, should
this two good mobile divisions, tribute in a incomplete or interrupted will not be worth reading. But I didn't like having them which was the exact extent sentences.
Our spontaneous, everyday worked off on me.
the mobile reserves: Kesselring Impassioned public speeches, spect
speech is inevitably and
foundi on tolding the West- who fought in Italy never had written beforehand excusably-littered with super- when not
Front; his fluous words. Because we have
armoured the pleasure of a conquering and learned by heart or
strength was also approximate advance into the heart of Ger- not ashamedly read aloud, are prepared what we are going You and I may fail to agree ly the same. Above all,
many; they had none of the grammatical to say, we are thinking as inevitably full of
divisions
divisions, tlil
obvious targets before them re your point of view is different not the scratch battle errors and faults of construction. speak. Therefore we have
roups which groups
buoyed up. the spirits of Course to
to phrases like "sort of" from mine especially if you which usurped that and "what I mean to say."
name else their BEST SPEECHES
tell me that I ought to have writ-where; for example, his two
their comrades on the Western but only one more Writing, also, is cluttered up ten "different to mine.” One parachute divisions
range or river to The best speeches are those with unnecessary padding. Un- My preference is for forms of tained between fhem
in tho face of an enemy which have the ring of sincerity, necessary? Sometimes the writer language established by good men. Arms, ammunition and resistance which never seemed If you hear someone declare: thinks it necessary. He may be usage.
supplies were adequate though to
to weaken. Perhaps not Very "Freedom and liberty is. what trying to communicate a mood. Although you can quote re-fuel stocks were low, and many of them realised how we want," don't feel distressed But assuming that he has a spectable authorities for "dif- mobility was thereby reduced. vital was the part they played, and say to yourself: "Huh, he plain communication to make, ferent to," I shall hold to my "German_morale was, as al- but all could feel pride in the think freedom and he will find if he looks, that he opinion that it is customary and ways, excellent. All the efforts way in which they played it liberty are different things. And, car dispense with many clut- therefore proper nowadays to of Allled propaganda had re- and in the sense of duty well anyhow, he ought to have tering words and phrases.
mained fruitless, use "different from."
Even our performed,"
seems to
'
we
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