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AN Britain take it? Can Britain make it? YES, YES, comes the answer,
clear and bold.
Hearken, now, to this tale of achievement in Britain, 1952, by firms which have not taken a scrap of Mar- shall aid.
There is the man who started 16 years ago with only £50, and set up a small workshop underneath a rail- way arch in Bow, in East
London.
He is now head of a vast, engineering workshop, sell ing £2,000,000 worth of steel scaffolding, a year to builders all over the world.
There is a firm in Man- chester making locomotives. It has £15,000,000 of orders on its books.
It is true that not one of its new engines will be seen on British railways. But go to India, go to Pakistan, go
After a generation comes a new assessment of one of the great
controversial figures of the century
661
MILNER
rE is a lost mind." This memorable and stinging description of Lord Milner was made ball a contury ago in circumstances which deserve to be rescued from oblivion.
f
Milner was at that time, High Commissioner for South Africa, and the Boer War was about to start An enlightened section of the population of Manchester decided to organise a meeting of protest against British policy in Africa. Their opponents had done their utmost to entice the youth of the city from pot-house and billiard saloon to smash the meeting.
In the result
some thousands of His enemies called him people, "in a state
of seething excite the Lost Mind. But he ment, were gather
ed in Bt James's jolted Britain out of 1
Hall. Not a syllable
Its
of the chairman's apathy towards an ideal
speech heard.
could be
The principal by ROGER FULFORD
speakers were John
after
Morley and Leonard Court- success is the friendship of young ney both wise and accom- men."
In an effort to establish good plished, but donniah, Un govemment in Africa cfter the dynamic and almost war, he brought out a group of spinsterish. Yet they talented men bli lately el Ox- belog trained quietened the meeting and ford who
under Milner, were to exercise dominated it, Courtney elip H .remarkable influence over ping in the damning phrase English life in the years after
the 1914 war. about Milner.
In 1905 Milner came back to While it would certainly
England to flad himself the tur- be grossly unjust to say get for seven, abuse, and (b find, The story of John Sum-that Milner caused the Boer that the Chinese labour which he mers is brought up to date. War, it would be true to had Introduced into the South He was the Stalybridge say that he precipitated it, African mines was the principal a less fanatical cause of the Conservative rout at the General Election at the clog-maker who bought a and that
machine Occasionally you get the nail-making
for mind might have averted end of the year. It is not surprising. I do not
.he unnaturally became think our shipping com- tycoon who has had spec- £40. This
summer his it.
somewhat soured, and his was.. In building grandsons extended
BOER WAR
the volon which startled the panies, for example, shout tacular success enough about what they up a huge business in less steel plant at Shotton, Flint THAT robust and out- Fumed if Links (and possibly spoken Liberal, Sir Wil- Bishops) by calling upon them
By Trevor Evans
have done for themselves.
done it but for
Best cure
their
ner
"Not
and
the lawn-sleeves of the
"pattern jingoes of mainstay of Lloyd George's
.....
liam Harcourt, lumped Mil- to
to reject Lloyd George's budget with the Kaiser as
"damn the consequences.” Six our
years later he became the time."
War Cabinet. In his dry way ho The Boer War, with its con- sold that "he was the
#K
only O is the story of Frank Bow-
centration camps devised by
person Gynoptic
in the Cabinet," den, who went to Hartgate to try the waters for his varicose Milner, Jost this country the res- meaning that he was the only. veins. Through the consulting-pect of the civilised world. That one who could take a compre
was a loss for which we had to hepsive distinct from a de- room windows of his doctor he
The doctor. 5 sild this... was
a heavy pries: In the saw a man pedalling a tricycle. pay-and perhaps still are pay- partmental view. the best cure for partial paraly calamitous years of the twentieth - A FAILURE? sis.
than 20 years-and it can shire, to cover 250 acres and still be done, although most employ 6,000 workers. Many of them have re- of the firms in this book are built their fleets from their building up on the initiative their grandfathers- own reserves, and, although of the cost of new ships has acknowledging that he could been mounting as spectacu- not have larly as any commodity in team work in the factory. this country, some of our mast famous lines have And suddenly you come more ships now than they across a sentence like this, which pulls you up with a had before the war.
ferk: "Since 1946 there has Most publicised of all our been an increase in the aver- postwar achievements is lage tonnage per employee of our advance in jet-propelled "81 percent, from 11 tons
not to 20 tons a year.". aircraft. But it is Britain's only achievement,
That is in the Lloyd foundry plant at Wednes- bury, Staffs, centre of the largest foundry group in the British Empire. Obvious ly, there was plenty of co- operation from the workers there.
Ahead
have BRITISH firms
broken American
to South America. There monopolies. Take, for -you-will--ace--the-newest-example, the millions now.
products from Gorton.
⚫earned from oil-drilling and refining machinery.
Yes, yes, this is Indeed That is a new industry for something to shout about. And it is not all the story.
Selected
Y boldness and buoyancy MY
are enhanced by an inspiring new book, "British Enterprise" (Lin- coins-Prager, 808.).
Britain providing jobs, directly and indirectly, for nearly a quarter of a million workers.
Since the war Britain has become the world's second largest producer of nylon yarn. All in the last seven
years..
Since the war Britain Its pattern is not simple. has not only become self- Its two authors, Mr Alexan- supporting in glass tubes der Howard and Mr Ernest for fluorescent lighting but Newman, made a list of is becoming a serious com- petitor to America in the world markets.
about 140 firms.
New
THE
So Frank Bowden bought a partnership in a firm making three bicycles a week, year his son, Sir Harold Bow den, announces. the firm has made a million
single year.
ing-a
century.
And now a generation after. The
artificiality of the passions Milner's death, Dr Vladimir aroused at the time is implied Haiperin, a distinguished French by the fact that when Botha and scholar, makes an assessment of other Bour leaders went to him in relation to the develop London a few months after ment of imperial deals in the peace was signed they were twent
twentieth century. His cycles in cheered in the streets of London, which is reinforced by a
Yot Milner was no ogre, He preface from Mr Amery, is lint- There it is mixture of was, in fact, cultured, urbane pressive. He brings out very tradition and new blood. Old and kindly.
He was a Balliol clearly that Milner, more than heritages mixed with
тап, new
nan, and he put into practice any other individual, succeeded ideas. They all add up to ont some advice given by the Master in folting the British people cut of this College the lustrious of their indifference to imperial conclusion.
Benjamin Jowett
In And it was this "One of the surest
There IS indeed
something to shout about in Britain - day.
elements
of
proactical politica he may
political have been a failure, but in the
The STEVENSON PUNCH
New York.
WHETHER he goes into the White
W
House next January or not, Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency, is sure already of his own personal corner in America's hall of fame. As the election battle moves towards its November climax, Stevenson emerges as the master of the telling phrase.
Adial the cliché-kliler
makes words do his
A verbal flying saucer whose very ep- pearance no man had foreseen and whose
can predict- course none Stevenson in speech after speech has shown himself a new phenomenon, on tho The firms were selected
political horizon. He is R because of "their outstand-
radio navigation man who commands the the ing contribution to Britain's grids are surely encircling English language in industrial and commercial the Western world from sense that he makes it do progress." The selection was Britain, on British processes his bidding. Never from his Howard's and Nowman's. and British manufacture. mouth do you hear the They wrote to the firms and And in television the leading cliche or the platitude, said: "Tell us about your producers are confident that selves, particularly what you they have nothing to fear bave done since the end of from tomorrow. the war."
They have been busy,
those chiefs of Industry. Busy on their preparations
A tribute
Here are some phrases of his that have already regis. tered in the United States:
development of Ideas he may well stand out as a great British statesman,
About the disastrous conse- quences of some of Milner's work this book and it is of course
a foreign observer niting from
circumspect. But on the credit sido Dr Halperin might "Time for a change? Change perhaps have made more of to what? Which party has an Milner's
famous
ticipated the need for a change the Evening Stanerview with
In October
and done something about it? 1910.
While
it may seem strange think of a Cabinet doesn't today to "A political party live on its laurel leaves." Minister giving an exclusive In- terview to a newspaper, Milner "What can you say for the adopted that course to plead men who proclaims himself a for generous peace terms with Germany-a policy which was patriot, and then for political wholly at variance with the reasons attacks the patriotism views of his Prime Minister of faithful public servants?"・・ Lloyd George.
The fear of ourselves is not a real fear. Fears of war,' de- pression and Communism these are real."
"The Republicans have Ways been afraid of alectionnering, says morrow," FREDERICK COOK
On Socialism and reaction: "I dislike creeping Socialiam, But I dislike just as much gel- foping reaction."
"Seldom bas there boon bold Idea for building America stronger, but Republican voices have been raised saying. You can't do that."
'SCANDALOUS'
Nor does Dr, Halperin, in ons respect, do complete Justice to the present Prime Minister. Mr. Churchill, in an outspoken al-speech in the House of Com to- mons, had charged Milner with Interpits of sacrificing the the South African natives to those, of the mine owners. The author quotes. private letter- from King Edward VII, in which he stigmatised Mr Churchill's speech simply...scandalous.
He might perhaps have, added that after an explanation from Mr Churchill, the King wrote to anner him saying His Majesty is glad Stevenson's platform manner has won the approval of the to soo that you are becoming a harshest critics, the television reliable. Minister and above-all- producers. Baya their tradeja serious politician, which can paper, Variety: The candidate's only be obtained by putting ense and pass before the lean, country before party,” and the quick and ready smile bave
-Milner himself "always con- already made him a matineg idol for the femmes: the sharp sidered that he was sacrificed to wit and running gogs have the prejudice and spleen of party about bring
mode Stevenson foom as a domen. In fact, he and his dis- discouraging finite video personality. If he cloles were so intent on their loses in November, he can got plans and schemes and visions.
that they grow indifferent to: a job any day on TV
their critics, whom they, dubbed as Inser
fgiro Taberale Or Englanders.
Tho
OπL electioneering: On corruption in govern sound of the dreless volco 19 ment: "Whose fault is it? the price we pay for the right It's the fault of you, the to hear the music of our own
for a tough time that has not come yet. They are in As for motor cars and people. Your public servants agricultural tractors, the serve you right; indeed they better shape to meet bad Board of Trade returns are often serve you better than times now than they ever even more up to date than your apathy, " and " were before.
No aid
s
that the job of modernia- ing and extending now probably harder than it ever was before, with permita
this book, which contents difference.deserve."
itself with announcing. the colonies of modern factories
which have sprouted since the end of the war.
Britain's future.
opinions."
Here are some others:
"You
in-
prosperity thrift."
can't
by
"Laws are never as effective DB. habits."
15.
Is he enjoying the campaign? 5 There is, every sign that he
or Little
Nevertheless, English blitarianis.
of the future, while paying ideals of After a busy day out West, tribula to Miner's
he
he arrived fired out one night Empire, may well be thankful for cour geous :" men, who the railway station of those
African Cheyenne, Wyoming. Excusing applied to is South himself. from yet another policy wh Mortey called "that perch, he laid, "To tell you grand potent monosyllabio
and licences and allocations in a book of this kind, ap. The boys whose elephant "The gruel-grip of Bovist the truth, I'm not mira; Win: Whang
On the party platforms: "Tho, real", question is the South is the fire hazard in "Anti-Negro discrimination in NOR must it be forgotten. It is a tribute to the men sents the clicking of a
whether a platform repre- our nation's basement."
"Corruption in public office is who have confidence in ghost's typewriter or the reason, and it's treason to the
beating of a human heart.” Democrats as well as to the Re
publicans. A Moat of them, Inevitably on the Republican Party: R and priorities.
pear to be technicians, in can't figure out whether to fol- tyranny cannot be 100ced by ther I'm running for President publ
low its trunk or its tall." (The starting a war which would of the United States, or flying LORD MILNER AND THE EM, Not one of the individual ventors, organisers,” 'and
elephant is the Republican bym lead to untold suffering for into an insane takylum--but PIRE, by Dr Vladinity Halperit
(Odhima: Prezz; - 3)/-), whichever It E, I like TE firms montions Marshall aid boardroom typos.
nocent peopiq ayur,wiera.".