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THE
BRAINS -OP THE ¦ ¦ SOCIALIST PARTY-UBRING SOCIALISM UP TO DATE WITH A NEW WARCRY
ALL POWER
POWER TO
TO THE PROFESSORS
by Robert BLAKE
HE intellectuals of the ap to be the practice of the not been. Communist indoctrin-
Socialist Party have party tomorrow.
atell before they gained power, What, then Is the messand of But this is not true of the Tudch produced a manifesto, the New Fallanst
Patty in Persia, or Vietminh in With a slightly hesitant. It must adimittat
ber
that Indo-China, or of the Chinese blessing from Mr Attlee and the answer in by no means Communists.
contribution from Mr fent at debut the hoary
clear. The authors Strachey, New Fabiah lacies
are excel-
expect that burtender will Lorjous Communist parties will
Essaya may be rdgarded as of Socigled, antique shibboldtha ecessarily mean that the viewi
orthodoxy.
faith.
a semi-official attempt to they are not so good when quarrel with Stalin is an act of restato the objectives of intelligible alternative There run Mao Tse-tung will imitate it comes to propounding an It may be true that in the long Socialism.
Tite and revolt against the
le much that is obscure and “self-contradictory in their re- Kremlin.
commendations.
occur,
But, as the late Lord
As sich it deserves atten tion from renders of, all parties.
The most interesting essay is Keynes observed, in the long run we are all dead, and there is not For, despite the interstand the first by Me R. H. the smallest evidence at present oble dislike felt by most Crossman. It contains an ad- that any such development will Socialists for their own intelli- mirable exposure of the dangers geńisia, the theories of the implicit in the policies, of time
The most interesting of the intellectuals today are all too Into Government, the threat of essays on home affairs is by Mr Amanagerial sucioty"-le C. A. R. Crosland, MP. He is *NEW FABIAN ESSAYS, edred society in which economie and largely concerned in pointing out by It.it.S. Crossman, MP, with a political power is concentrated now wrong Karl Marx has been preface by Mr Attlee (Turnettle in the hands of an omnipotent in his predictions about the Press,S.).
bureaucracy acting ostensibly future course of capitalism.
THE CASE BOOK OF DR
FIRTH
THE
THE MYSTERY OF
SAWN-OFF SHOT GUN
HEN an eighteen-
year old
W
Wrex-
ham youth toiled away with a hack- saw cutting off the end of his sporting gun barrel he little thought that he was providing the evidence which would prove him a murderer.
·
to
By KEN COMPSTON
Markings on shot from a sporting gun had produced little evidence in murder casas until Detactive-Inspector A. L. Allen, one of Dr Firth's senior assistants, was called in to help in investigations at Wroxham, Wales.
In the case of young John Rusdoll, Inspector Allen proved beyond all doubt that markings on lead shot found in the victim's body could only have been caused through boing fired through a sawn-off shot- gun found in the accused man's possession.
John Lionel Raymond Rusdell, to give him his full name, had long liked to be régarded among his friends as something of ́á "tough egg. Unknown him his strangè form of mather-in-law and brother-in- As he fired the fatal shot, the vanity had spread beyond law. And March had been a uppermost pellets in the case the small circle of youths busy time for them in the fields. had been cut by the sharp pro- the barrel. with whom he spent his There had been sects to sow and truding edges of
Sure as he was of the facts, that time in the old market round to 111.
was not sumelent. To prove to town.
the satisfaction of a British
Inspector Allen had more X- periments to make.
That sawn shot-gun made crímo history. It was ¿the first time in Britain that a ballistics export had boon able to give such conclusivo evidenco with lead --shot.'
This is the third article of the series.
Even detectives in Den- bighshire, Wales, had heard reports of the somewhat strange activities of the youth who occasionally took little trips into the country side on his low-powered
Occasionally, as he worked in
on behalf of the peopic, Since so many Socialists still Jn reality exploiting and see everything with Marxist tyrannising over them in Its blinkers this is a useful task. It own interest
is of lers value to non-Socialists
This, of course,
is what happened in the Soviet Union und Mir Crossmari rightly repudiates the Idea that Russia
# any
sch.c -Siate."
☛ "workers'
Mr Crossman id
excellent, too, on the nature of Com- munism
in Asia and Africa, He points out that its reat impetus does
C. A. R. CHOJLAND
blinkers.
who ace no parti
cudar reason any way why that por- tentous old pro- phet be right. phet should invari
at Crosland
comes to the cors. clusion and in this! he is followed by most of the other writers-that a new form
Society of
neither
nor
capitalist Socialist has
now been establish-t ed in England.
It
appreciated more than anyone not come from the that six or seven shots, maybe economic demand of the masses is characterised by full employ- ment, extensive social services, more, would have to be fired for more food or tractors.
and a partial transfer of econo If proceeds rather from before he could get markings
mic power from property ownets identical with those the murder-small tabellectual "elite," er had fired..
middle-class group of. minor to managers and executives. civil servants and university But to the New Fabians this in What Mr Crosland It was his lucky day. The professions demanding political not enough. very first shot enabled him to power for themselves to the calla "Statism" must be replaced submit to Mr Justice Jones, at exclusion both of the masses, by Socialism with greater equal- Ruthin Assizes in May, photo-end of the old rulinif class ity, a drastic capital levy, heavier and more national- duties, proved beyond whether, the latter consists of death graphs that doubt that only that gun could white administrators or native deation.
does not seem at first eight a have fired the pellets found in dynastiest Mrs Scott's body.
It is most important to recog- programme well calculated to win
votes. countries lso, that "In these By then, Inspector Allen had the basis of Communism is na gone further. The gun itacionalist and political; not way of such manufacture, that it the Marxisto maintain, turely could not possibly have gone off economic. accidentally. To prove that, he But Mr Crossman's deductions pointed to the automatic safety from this analysis are less con catch and added his own reports vincing, of the manner in which he had Ho seems to favour à fotat dropped and tested the sun at
elites, Preston.
Rusdell pleaded his innocence throughout the trial, blamed a friend for the crime, but, before
surrentier to these intellectuat To parody a famous Soviet slogan - All Power To The Professors The
however surely this
兵 perilous solution.
for the Socialists. By 1850 they And here lies a real dilemma had passed most of their original programme into law.
The danger for them now is that they may like the Liberals. after,
1914 bé destroyed by their own' success, unless they can pe fresh programme and
reforms,
New Fablan Essays remains, despite some penetrating andly- sis, a sorry commentary upon the of the Socialist Party.
the fields more than two hundred court that this was the weapon, being sentenced to death, made to to a New Fabián, itelligentsia
yards from his farm neighbour Mr Scott might have heard the
nuffled report of a sporting gun being fired.
an amazing outburst in a spell- bound court, that four years be- fore he had murdered another Reaching for one of the Welsh woman. The police re- unspent cartridges, the gun jected this claim. under his arm, Inspector Allen slipped into the ballistics room by the Home Secretary, in the basement of the lab.
Mr Crossman, with ' Socialists, bellaves that
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It contains no answer só-and many indeed scarcely discusses the British policy of surrender in balance of payments, the danger the real problema of our đáy, the India
alone, saved the Indian of inflation, the question Even If he hath, why should it
becoming rearmament. Irom arouse his attention? After an there were rabbits galore in the
dts ideas contain little beyond Stalinlet.
Even if this is true, it does not a reiterated and somewhat vin- district and men willi guns. Yet,
It was the first time marks on follow that a similar polley In dictive plen for equality. he was attracted by the shot he A few minutes later typists shot-gim pellets had been teed China, Indo-China, and Persia If the brains of the Socialist heard and by the distinctive and chemists working on the in a British court of justice to would have a similar result. Party can do no better than this Then on March the 2nd of noise of E motor-cycle being ground floor heard beneath them prove the guilt of a man charged
After all, the middle class clites it is high time that the parly files last year Mra Dilys Myfanwy ridden away.
report of a shot. with murder,
la countries like India er Indone- its petition Scutt, a good-looking 30-year- more unusual in a lonely district Into a case packed with cotton
sin were Westernised, and had, bankruptcy. old brunette, Was found such as Marchwell, with its few wool went 12 pellets. murdered 蟲 few miles from scattered houses and Isolated Wrexham. The only clue to the farms, crime was a report that shortly
mator-cycle.
That was much the mumed
When he found his wife, she
after a two-stroke motor-cycle was lying face-down just inside had been heard in the district. the kitchen doorway, a frightful
The thoughts of one of the wound in her back.
C.I.D. officers wandered to the
youth in Wrexhain, and, as TEN PELLETS
colleagues phoned for Dr. Firth,
he aroused young Rusdell from
his sleep.
It was not easy for. Detective Inspector A. L. Allen, Dr Firth's ballistics expert, to find his way
In the back of his sports car as
he drove back to Preston that night, Inspector Allen
had,
to the lonely Cockbank small- among other things, a sawn-off holding where Mrs Scott lay dead shot-gun, ten pellets recovered from a gunshot wound in the from Mrs Scott's body, several back.
TINY MARK
Unpacking the wadding to re- · cover the shots, Inspector Allen
Next Saturday: ' The Knife's Edge Theory
U.S.A. SWEPT BY SPACE CRAZE
By Rodney Campbell
New York,
HE U.N. Security Coun-
cartridges found at Ausdell'. TH cil was called into
home and on empty cartridge case,
emergency midnight Aes sion after an interplanetary
A quick ginice at the pellets bomb blew up an Asian
On hand was un
ultimatum:
ht Wrexham had shown Mr village. Thought he had been called In Alien that they were peculiar, many times to establish whether but much more detalled ride or revolver bullets had been examination in the inboratory from a space platform the dele- fired from a certain weapon, In Impressed him that they were gates could dimly see. "Earth" spector Allon pondered frequent-
must give in," the writing read.. ly on that 50-odd mile drive
"or face, total destruction." It. from Preston, England, to Wales Here was a normal 12-bore was signed by a mysterious whether 'ordinary shot from a cartridge case that any farmer Doclor Rad, 12-bore sporting gun would tell might use for rabbit shooting, him anything.
He never doubted
definitely rusual.
the
The Space Cadets are on TV Video and his Spade Rangers (n сусту week. So is Captain: variant of the good old Texas Hangers theme). On radio, It Is Space Patrol..
Top scientists 1lko Will Ley and Wernher von Braun, who Invented the V-Z, are usually available at a high fee to adviso the strip artists and TV pro- ducers.
type of wound would establish case only 12 of these would fit. Nationalist or Communist) névor get
was
could
like that at
Smail wonder young America
Well behind. TV as usual, Hollywood is also making space but the lead pellets were so large The Belgion delegate warried pictures. One of America's Brat
Interplanetary, heroes, I that instead of the 200 or 300 against appeasement, and that the one might expect to get in the Chinese (who could have been amazed to bee, was Britain's
Michael Rennie, who seconded the motion. So vow Deam in England. ing to fight to the last, Earth voted to call in Chris Welkin, is going space-crazy (I beg your pardon, Брасс-пер). Mother and father have to keep up, too, FO they
know what
thelf are talking about. children Millions of American teen-
I was out for cocktails with a agers were left waiting to find large family when a little
the distance from which the fatal shot was fired, into Mrs Scott's back as she turned in the door way of her home.
Mrs Scott:
"It's the Arst time I've ever seen such big shot as this," he told a colleague.
Planeteer.
Jn cutting off the burret pledged itself to Huckle, ne hot waK HE I
But when, at Wrexham polido daretut oquiry disclosed that station, he was shown a sdwn- they were of special type, perhaps off shot-gun, Inspector Allen's used for duck shooting, but no expert eye suddenly spotted a longer easily available. tiny mark that might enable him to prove that from the gun had Even more strange than the out how Chris would destroy the creatura popped out from behind
before been fired the shot which killed Pellels themselves were the platform
Doctor Rad an armchair. He was dressed In markings on several of those fired more ñfam bomba on Lon- shining silver plattic helmet, and recovered from the body. They don, New York and Paris, So pressurised space sult, and he It was a slender chance, even appeared to have been cut off were their parents.
pointed a black, pistol-like con- for the experts at the forensle smoothly on one sidė....If a Por Chris Welkin in, one of traption at me. It was a dis- laboratory, but when he saw ten, flash Inspéctor Alleh realised half-a-dozen space, comic strips integrator, terror of the universe. "You don't move he Jeered, an pelleta recovered from the body that the slender clue he had that have become must read- he no longer doubled that the seen on the gun at Wrexham had init In the American home Brodovisai
the thing buzzed strangely, "I've gwi and the shot would provide become an established fact.
Others are Spher Caint, in
at fearnod vital evidence, against young
which a dedicater band
A difermare un his wrjali soni Husdell, now charged with Rusdell had created on the aution of the
Give Mr Campbell a double- murder.
Alllaner Forst, Horple he said, "and under side of the upper part of the Flash Cordons Who bring him back to lite Med Scott ord er fund the bartet auvernl tiny spéciallads in interplanetary w double mizand in no time dopentfed for their velthood on maths, as any - phimties; might romances with the most was stpoler an extremely dry
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