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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952.
YES, BEVANISM' WILL WINZ-Z-Z Test
BUT NYE WON'T---
TREVOR EVANS
comments on the political crisis in Britain.
NEURIN REVAN'S greatest asset is also his greatest handicap. His brilliance. No political party really likes brilliance --it is too unusual a talent. And no group is
more sus picious of the unusual than the trades unions.
Therefore, when you start to analyse why the trades unions generally are "anti- Bevan," you can start from there. He's too smart by half,
Restless mind
M
But remember this. Six years of Socialism and all its plans nave left 80 percent of Britain's industry, under Capitalism. The trades unions are part of this Capitalet sy stru
They
have struggled to gain recognition as one of the three pillars of the domain-the other two being Government and the organised employers. Now the campaigning days of their
wants youth. There's no thanks for such importuning.
Bevan war them to go back to
But Bevan enn retort with considerable justification to the T.U.C. leaders, "You may talk like
that. but what about your rank and die? They are for me. Look at your local branches and lodges if you don't believe me."
This statement has much E suffers from the inevitable truth- as far as the poli-
of
conscious sections of restless tiently corollary quick-moving, Imaginative mind, the trades unions are concerned. He is always telling you. Never But, what do they amount tu? asking. The idea of Nye Bevan Ten percent would be entering into consultations is generous estimate, spread over almost laughable,
HE
2
Consultation means you are Interested in what the other fellow has to say, and it he says
It convincingly you are prepared
to be converted,
It is yours since Bevan pui
all unions.
W
1
"Aha! but-
WHAT about the other 90 per- cent, who still think wages
that interpretation to it. lle on next pay day more important may be polite enough to listen than a these wrangles at the to what the others have to say tup?
"Ahu," the trade union
witt a knowing be, mark you, though busses repis
nod, www know what our this is not always certain-but
one thing is certain. He knows members want. better than any
what he is going to say.
He knew before the meeting started. If there's going to be any conversion, he is the cou- verter, not the converted,
own
in
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R. M. MacCOLL paints the background to his datelino: KEY WEST
LANKED by two alert
I
debs
For Noisy Sleepers
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
NIX
ST
woman
men and a sleeping in a darkened laboratory have proved that snoring is useful.
After night-long watches on the sleeping seven, doc- tors have discovered that snoring helps to refresh the. blood if its oxygen content falls too low during sleep.
Their report; ju's t published, also claims that a' anore nets us, an alarm signal.
If the oxygen level gets dangerously low the sleeper wakens himself with an ex- tra loud anore.
Dr John Lovett Doust and Dr Robert Schneider took turns in watching the sleepers at the Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5.
Each "guinea-pig siecpu:" had an electric gadget fixed to one ear. This automatically recorded the amount of oxygen in the blood 'coursing through the cur's fine blood vessels.
that The doctors discovered we sleep in seven phoses, Dur- ing the first four phases the oxygen content of the bloodl
be- gradually falls and sleep comes progressively deeper,
*
Between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., when there may be only about 87 percent of the normal amount of oxygen in the blood, life is at its lowest ebb. The doctors report in the that British Medical Journal the blood then gets progres- sively richer in oxygen, so that when we wake we have be- tween $2
02 and 08 percent of Its normal
quantity.
"If you are wakened prema-
turely the oxygen will not have reached its proper- inve
strength. That is why You may feel drowsy and irritable for some hours. It is the un-
A
It is a great comfort to them
only Uncle Sam pays his putting precocious' their resistance to this im- ly athletic Secret Ser- own three minutes from their places. pulsive, energetic, rabble-rousing
vice men, Key West's Duval Street, which is a was last hero In Novem- rator from the West.
llow is it all
visitor cross between Hollywood's ber 1048, when Truman came to end? 1 most famous going
for a victory relaxation after There is one thing the unions
am preparing mysel for a
President Truman — swung Sunset Strip, Broadway, his spectacular triumph in the pride
themselves
Maybe 03.
ending. surprise
cannot off early in the morning for and Las Vegus. they are too proud of it. They believe there
will be D show-
before- his customary think they know their
would down, It
be too business. So when someone else comes along and tells them their disastrous for both the Attlee breakfast walk. He wore a
and the Bevan wings. So there sweater business, they don't like it.
When Sir Willon Lawther, the miners' leader, days the intellectuals, he has in mind the mental image of an ex-miner before him-Aneurin Bevan, who ceased being a miner nearly
30 years ago.
Resistance
JOW, if Sir William feels that way, how much more bitter
No
his usual
of
last Presidential election. I can
changes. see tremendous
new Key West provides some whole
aren great
of
"motels, the most audacious houses, streamlined and
drive-in hamburger stands, and strip-tease acts to be scen two vast, new, luxury hotels in the United States today have gone up. The President's 11 so- acts of a
type which
must be a compromise and jaunty smile. can go only one way. Towards "Bevanism."
A hard Budget and the bitter-journs in this sub-tropical would automatically call for ness and frustration will increase. island, which is the the Black Maria in most Bevan, the persistent siren, will
all the Lime, *If
life will improve
converts all
So let us accep
will Arthur Deakin feel when ri, I admit, is a big assump
polley of the
Bevan tells him about transport, tion, fut for the sake of argu- er Linccin Evans when Bevan
ment. Jet us go the tells him about steel.
distunce.
As
along
the
to-
be there, whispering, whispering southernmost spot in the other American cities.
WELL, I'd better go are credited with USA, you, cut arms,
now and see what and the blondes He will win having helped Key West, by
publicising it, to double the brunettes prance back and news of the President is
́day. He's doing some mighty the success of
ita present forth to the moaning music important thinking right now. "Bevanism" to the point where population to
in the past five of jazz bands, shedding about his future, and ne's busy working on a big speech he parts of it become the ometal 122,000.
garments quicker than has to make soon at a tradi- Socialist Party. years.
tired tree does its leaves in tional politicat frolic, At 6.30, with the fledgling November, the
massed.
When he's san pushing immense grey matelots greet them with he's swimming, and when he's
not doing shadows past the languid much whistling, inter- not swimming he's wearing palm trees, und
of those the spersed with Texan yippees, ame pleasant, West, Indian-style the houses standing for
a profession which most part quietly shutter- across ed, Key West was in one of must be one of the more
moments its rare
of unusual ones. serenity.
whole
Humility? No!
Devan, of course, may retort that he talks only when he is Invited; that he tops the invita- tion list to national star speakers from all parts of the country. WOULD that bring Aneurin
Y Bevan True, they all love listening to
himself any nearer him. But there is a mighty the leadership of the party? Not difference between hearing and necessarily. Be prepared rather accepting.
for a veering towards Bevanism
If it were possible to take a without the corresponding straight vote at a full meeting of elevation of the prophet himself. the T.U.C.'s General Council Those qualities which make
I do not know if anyone
Incidentally, I cume
of 33 members cne morning on him unacceptable to the powerful has told Mr Truman what
raight issue of "Bevan. For trade union chiefs How are the place is like at other THE bartender or Against," the result would be likely to be emphasised
д
when hours of the twenty-four-
of
my
that
oh so loud which sports blouses
oflen cause raised eyebrows.
Security here is ironclad, At a cocktail party in a big hotel (over a mile from Truman's
House") "Winter White
the other night there was a Secret Servica man mingling quietly with the newsmen,
. with
I know
because
S.S.
men
have loyal memories and this
shop came up to me and sald: "Last time
you, you
I saw hotel told me his wife
20 against, Five for, and Two success comes to Bevan,
but its down-town section is makes the costumes for the abstaining.
For humility in triumph is
Bryan's by all odds one of the stripteuses. "You can get a And hence it seems to me not one of Ancurin
restless strip costume for as little diffult to justify this Idea many qualities. And its belated jazziest and most "Bevan is Bound to Win." cultivation would increase the spots in North America. as 35 bucks," he vouchsafed,
Is he personally unpopular? suspicions of him among the men Certainly not. There are few for whoin he has shown a Warmer
contempt - or more stimulating carefree
Britain's companions.
important trade union leaders.
MIG IS NOT SUCH
A BOGEY PLANE'
By Group Capt. HUCH DUNDAS
+
It is a sort of postscript to hugely bustling Miami, an hour's plane ride away.
"or as much as a hundred. Dep.nds on the sequins mainly.
ก
BUT Key West was an all- missus ever handled
which
"The chief point about strip costura is that it has to come off easily-no fumbling.
"The most elaborate job my
way Costume
half woman's evening dress and half a man's tuxedo jab, The some girl word both halves and danced around with her.
but-forgotten elty not
so long ago, back in 1933.
Eighty-five percont of its
Wis
USSIA'S MG15 jet In other respects the then 12,000 population were seli, seal artistle like." Righters were cautiously superiority of the Sabre is more on public charity, and the
marked. Its
who
range 18 far #realer than that of the MIG, municipal
services were
3
I hate to shatter on ilusion
It
in
debunked by a man
you have any left, but has shot down five of them It lins been able to fly out to totally broken down, so that the majority of the people one
meets in Key West, as -Major James Jabara, of the Yalu River, 250 miles from, garbage piled the pave- Miami, are just about the most
Korea base, and pin back the ments and atreets to such unglamorous crew you Russian planes over their own
an extent that cars could possibly imagine. rirfields.
not pass.
the. U.S.A.F..
could
60's
Major Jabara spent several
Nine out of ten Florida months over Korea studying the
The MIG is short-range Just three minutes' walk and 70's, and there is a con-
tourists aro up in their bogey plone at close quarters
Öghter designed for an Inter- from the cockpit of his F.80 ceptor role. And its killing from the centre of town alderable flavour of wheelchair
power has proved ineffective, brings you to the great around. Despite heavy armament-one naval base, with its top-
Sabre,
In London the other day, be- 37mm, and two 23mm, cannon- fare setting out on a lecture tour the Russian planes have con- secret sonar station. of Briilch air boses, he said that sistently missed opportunities of the Sabre "han it all over the destroying their opponents. MIG" below 38,000 feet. Above that the MIG is better.
The Bun helmeted
marines at the gato give a feverish writing of DRINCIPAL occupation seems Major Jabara believes that you and your special pass á the explanation is two-fold- -This view will be of interest inferior aunsights and poor very careful scrutiny in
to the R.A.F., which is to be equipped with a number of Sabres as atopgaps while own now fighters are produced.
pilots.
deed..
wish you were hero" post- cards to the folks back home.
Ah, woll, mustn't complain. онк Sabres carry radar-controlled Twenty years ago a lleu- The temperature goca one bet- ter than the tourists and stays being gunsights which make it almost tonant and 17 naval ratings in the 80's, the skies are blue, Impossible for a well-trained constituted the entire baño. the trade winds playfully pilot to miss when he gets on
down palms, and The superiority of the Sabre, an enemy's tall und in rango,, Today there are more than rule the
at the water-front the gigan- 10,000 men there. said, the major, is marginal, but
squat Le policans
On the comprehensive. Flat-out speeds And an advanced version of
sca, disdainfully of the two planes are strictly the Sabre is coming along. It Well, you can imagine sapphire-blue comparable, but the Sabres can is still on the secret list, and what the impact is like of ing gulls with all the
snubbing the fussing, scream- Dona out-lum and out-dive their will be known as the F100 10,000 lusty tars, paid as derous dignity of dowagers opponcity.
Sabra.
were standing on the railway pintform in Des Moines, Iowa, watching the President's train pull out." And that way in 48.
of
expectedly early riser who is most likely to be accused "getting out of the wrong side of the bed."..
Doctors also carried out a
scientific snoop on people en- joying an after-lunch pap. oxygen They found that the content of the blood falls low during a doze as it does during deep sleep.
This explains why you may feel dreadful after a nap in an armchair,
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