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BEVANITES DISSOLVED UNITY RESTORED
ENTER THE
ummings,
Serious Need For Fresh Thinking In
A World Divided
T
E strategists and ++uta!
the expert inter-
†††††† “peace campaign" will strive to
avert such a, danger or
preters and By Francis Watson gravate It?
political prophets
are busy everywhere in sifting the enormous quan- tity of words spoken, in Moscow at the first Com- munist Party Congress of the Soviet Union to be held since 1939. Leaving them to their calculations what is likely to happen, is it not time that ordinary people asked themselves
what it is all about?
of
州
human
It is not a more theoretical conflict of Ideas which has raised up enemies of Com- manism all over the world. It
Communist candidate this
.
what elther of them meant, Communism appears to is the threat of force from out- and do we know ourselves? answer that question from side or engineered revolution Will he be able to imagine time to time with official from within. Probably it is what it felt like to be on hints that "co-existence" is which led the Japanese in their that threat as much as anything one aide or the other, or possible, that we can all first
first postwar elections as what it felt like to try agree to differ without a.free nation to reject so decisive. staunchly to be neutral and clash. If this does not en- ly every
that was put forward, detached? Will he see it as tirely convince the reason,
It is deplorable that one more rivalry for naked it certainly appeals to the threat should also lead in some power among so many, or desires of peaceful people. times and places, to something as a deep conflict of ideas, But the idea of "co-existence" ke hysteria, in which "Com-
can only be fitted into the munism" becomes
good What will the schoolboy or merely as a painful but pattern of Marxist theory as a enough slick with which of the future make of it necessary stage in
temporary expedient. To the beat any dog that barks. evolution?
pure Communist, “Communism when he comes to the chap-
has not yet been fully attained,
·MAIN POINT tor in his history book To assume that such a even in the Soviet Union. The called "The Struggle be- student will have a choice
historical
"law" by which other TOR what is needed today tween Communism and of views, and the facts be- systems are to collapse has not
above everything else 18 out. worked itself Democracy?" Will he know fore him for making the doctrine of "co-existence", con London Express Service
A honest and sober enculation and an end to panic and confusion. choice, is of course to thus only be convenient The essential fact of Communism assume that Communism means of assisting that expected must sooner or later he looked will not inherit the earth. collopse. in preparation for the in the face,
"Inevitable" triumph of Com- Many people do assume' munla
muniam.
The essential fact, it seems this instinctively, even We may belleve that thene to me, is that Communism to- while they argue about it, dogmas of historical necessity are day is a technique of power. It wrong in theory and have al- could be argued that power,
overwhelmingly ready been proved unsound in even The freedom to argue, to netice since the death of Kart tralised power, can be used for. judge between the two en Marx. But we have to recog- good ends: but it is too late to trenched opponents, the nise
nuse that millions of people, think about it after power has freedom to condemn them organised for any action decided been surrendered out of the both, the freedom to look upon by their leaders, have hands of an electorate. hopefully for a third been given nothing else to be- force" are none of them,
UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
THE HEIRESS
A Vanderbilt who became Duchess of Marlborough
speaks her mind about life in a Stately Home
By JOHN
THOMPSON
yet
Beve,
in fact, guaranteed by any- BARBAROUS thing, except by the
CCT-
this harem, for
is better than n system especially In the Communist
No parliamentary system is perfect, but all of them have at least the power to improve upon the present as the present has improved upon the past. In HERE were three rea- Luckily Consuelo had a sense At week-ends Blenheim was measures that we take to THE parliamentary democrat. Britain it is believed that a two
On their train transformed. There were often
the anti-Communist, or what- sons why the beauti- of comedy.
preserve them. And that afterwards ahe ap- 30 guests, which worried-the
oil lis ful Consuelo Vander- Journey
reflection is probably the ever you may call him, has his all her "first preciated
lesson in Duchess's American conselence:
own way of answering bilt married the ninth Duke class consciousness." The Duke there were
first step towards under- question about the co-existence when, as this one-party no bathrooms for of Murlborough, and she is (six years her senior) spent the them. She organised the standing, through all the of different systems. To most State, the single party is a
reading congratulatory dinners briskly: nine courses jargon of political debate, before 1999,
civilised people, in the
minority party. perfectly frank about them. time
telegrams, handing them to her usually, all disposed of in one
just what the issue is in our Fascist systems was a million- with gestures of deference er hour then on to an organ re İler fulber
But again--belter aire; her mother had irre- indifference according
own generation. to the cital in the Long Library,
ant. But because the world is Sovies, Russia has been engaged, sistible social umbitions: social status of the sender.
organised Into nation-states, and in buliding a continental empite
Industrial power, «i She thought it and the Duke needed money
Consuelo felt the strain of the regrettable
because some degree of national and creating
Absolutism of an extent. un- there was no silver platter prolonged social ritual. At the
zovereignty is thought to be known to previous dictatorship
for International 24 hours without waking,
ignore the enormities of con-
to live in the style to which when Queen Victoria's message and of one season she slept for
he was accustomed.
Was
her
was presented.
Own
TIEW
Cheese? Soap!
TWO WAYS
the Nazi and were repugn-
you
IT
for what?
In must
IF we say that that isaue essential
is a matter of conflict be peace, there was a tendency to has been the means to this end. tween two ways of looking duct of Hitler, and Mussolini so THE KNOCK at things, we must at once long as they stayed within their answer the question why own frontiers. A few others showed restive.
the world should not have ness, too. Lady de Grey eased the tension by having trays of
room for two, and infinitely china
dropped
her during more than two, political and dinners. Lady Blandford once, sociological attitudes.
Instead resorted to serving coop of cheese, and "poor Mr Hope," too polite to spit it out, was sick.
The Duke made his proposal When they arrived in London in the Gothic Room of the the Dowager Duchess, Mari- Vanderbilts' omnote Marbie borough's grandmother, seemed House in New York. The sombro as accustomed to command as atmosphere there,
Consuelo her
mother. "Your first
the reflected,
she greeted. propitious to duty," acrifice. When
brother Duchess, flourishing her ear was told, he observed, "He is trumpet, "is to have a child; your and it must be a son, because it only murrying you for money. Consuelo wept. would be. Intolerable to have that little upstart Winston 10 She was 18. The marriage, become Duke." lasted 11 years. She is now 75, contentedly remarried to Frenchman, and living in the "United States again;-and-at-last-
the has written the story of
In spite of this, Consuelo she delected signs that it would strange excursion among the found she liked her husband's not last. A guest "borrowed" English aristocracy. It has just lively cousin Winston Churchil, a shawl at the Duchess of
in America, but there was 1 een published
much that she Buccleuch's ball and did not did not like. Life in a Stately return it: "n symptom of ("The Glitter and the Gold."
Home, she found, could be a downward glide of modes and Harper. New York.)
bore.
manners."
cel
Born Dictator
by
discipline.
her
Cousin Winston
These were only token rebel-, lions. But before Consuelo turned away from this-world-
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
the
e of contemporary art
11
She dreaded dinner alone at But Consuelo did her duty by Blenheim Palace with
the Society. She bore her Duke two Duke. Often neither of them sons (one of whom is the pre- Consuelo's mother, Mrs W.K. spoke, a word. The ment was sent Duke). Then after Vanderbilt, was "a born dicta- served with full ceremony, then years of marriage "life together ter." Amid all the Vanderbilt the servants withdrew. Marl- had not brought us any closer." eulence of yachts and palatial borough pushed back his chair There was a deed of separation, homes she kept her family at and for a quarter of an hour followed (in 1920) by a divorce.
reform-school sat in meditative stience, twirl-
Unul her remarriage in 1921, ing the ring on his little Then When Consuelo misbehaved, slowly-sometimes breaking the fair and led
ho began to try Consuelo set up house in May- a life of good Mama went for her with IL
silence to complain that the works, social reform, and ser- riding-whip. During lessons food was
cold. In desperation vice
London County on the she had to wear a steel rod Consuelo took to knitting. The Council as a Progressive. She en butler read detective stories in does not record what the Duke, strapped to her back to
posture. After courage good one misdemeanour she defend the hall.
cd herself: "I thought
doing right" but Mama clari- fed the position for her at don't ask you to think: I do the thinking, you do as you are told."
once.
She irled to oppose thu arranged marringe with Marl- rough, but it was no good. Fama stormed, threatened to shool the man she wished Parry, and had a timely heart
altack.
10
a High Tory, made of this.
"Penny for the guy?”
сп
we admire the establishment, of industrial colonios In the same way we in the the Soviet Arctic, we West, in the first relief of peace make up our minds about the slave labour of men and women after World War II, could deavour to shrug our shoulders under appalling conditions that nt
If new doms the barbarous apparatus of has achieved i. Sovie: State control so long as
are the hall-mark and canals Its operations- were purely of progress, we can see them domestic. Events have twice built in
in America, in India, In shown us that this attitude. Scotland or the Sudan. which
moy be unethical,
as well. to be dangerous as
'In
In mar
many
countries reform of
Is an liable
of land tenure
urgent Hitler was want to arsure problem. Can it not be solved. the world that "this is positive without starving several million. ly my fast demand." Mussolini peasants to death and deport- declared soothingly that ing whole communities mea
which the Communials "Fascism is not for export". At the Moscow Congress Malenkov admit to have been necessary"
goes on record that the in Russia because of the re- |
is rub luctance of "expart of revolution
agriculturalists: to. bish,"
become tenants of a State mado
που
CONFLICT
sures
by town workers?
It is the separate problems big as they are that have to be.
the knowledge
WHATEVER such words meant tackled with
and
Talk
then, or mean now, Commu- and energy of free men, nism is obviously better supplied of democracy can sometimes be than the defeated dictatorships Ds empty and meaningless ax tolic of the with supporters
Party Communism's
But 20 long as we free countries people." members in the of the world.
know that a knock on the door is the early morning The likelihood of war. Stalin in the
secret not the 185 recently written, is of war postman and has
the between
non-Communist police, so long do we
that there countries of the West. Are not also
la something world those countries entitled to ask worth defending in a whether the next Communist that is far short of perfection."
know
Fashion Pirates Carry Plunder In Their Heads
By SIMON GRIFFIN
London.
Now designers are resigned to The leading stores in Italy and some len of the materials that UTLASSES and flint-
the fact that no security system Spain manage to be selling new are being used by the scraps be which they might invent can Paris dresses sometimes within picks up. locks to one side, the
In London fashion houses a stop every leakage and counter, three days of the Arst showing weapons of the
the work of these felons of and this in spite of the fast that sense of duty makes the task fashion,
publication of all official photo. that much easier. "The pride of a ringing phraga modern pirate are now a
The plagiarists use a dozen graphs is embargoed for at least the house is pencil, a piece of paper and summer shows, was shop different
of which almost everyone' con- ** approaches. Most a month.
nected with the business seems a very, very long memory. ping for a hat three days midinettes are not well pold,
What
to be particularly proud." psigi else these buc before their opening.
and a few thousand francs in the right palm often unlock the ordered the wedding caneers of the boulevards "This is a Dior model," cupboard door. dress some months earlier, with have up their voluminous said the girl in one hat- mentioning it her sleeves may be revealed in shop. "I wasn't wanting daughter. Then the Duke rilsed dimculty about the
The wedding was fixed for November 5, 1895, Mrs. Vander- bilt had
cut
to
of last season's
.
core.
E
Those members of the Press and the trade who are invited to ree the models for the first time are watched with great Hardly a show goes by without No precautions" are taken, someone being ejected for Normally the only people to sca the haute couture trial one
the designs bofore they are Sometimes the moves are not making rough skeiches in
made up into clothes are the date. It would not be suitable which has opened in Paris, creations," replied the so obitous. The districts of the scorelive sort of way.
couturiers themselves; head te Place Vendome and the Avenue of alleged writer. "It isn't," said the Montaigne house scores of cafes Paris are asked to submit pho- employees..
Foreign journalists vialling ters and the cutters all fruited of an fashion thieves face the girl with a guess-what and restaurants where the sew togaphs of themselves in tip- attempt to blow up the House
judge. of Lords. November 6, however, was declared free from danger- ous associations,
for him to marry, he explained,
the anniversary
ייס
'Perfect Love'
The wedding international avent.
a lavish
18 0
group
For some years the top designers of the French capital have been worried
giggle. "It's this year's.”
lunch.
inggirls take their
The accredited Press, British Facade, working in different licate to the Chambre Byndicate, salons, exchango news in all the French equivalent of the In- and foreign, are asked to pre- innocence, paying,
little regard corporated Society of London sont their invitations at the
docs. Fashion Designers,
No artists and allowed;tp Before the war, the "fancy-
to the man at "the next table
sketch at the shows, Nows of the leading who is nearly falling off his seat price" clients by the amount of inside in- salons usually bought three or
papers are permitted to publish with Interest,
only "outline" pictures at the formation which has been fou; možels after each show, The coutualers' take all the They are then issued with a time at the actual showing.
possible. The passing Into unauthorised paying anything up to £200 for precautions
When type of passport which permits These are based on information mannequins zre being atted entry into the salons British provided at the salons,"
models they are fashion writer, Eileen Anderzon
a long step from the love were Bung," records Con-Ideas are the uranium of ing going on, and copyists pro-not allowed to move from one says: "Getting into a Paris show Pirates of Penzance to the suelo, "and, when I glanced at the salons.
ducing knilar models at a cut- race to another without being is more difficult than crowing a Pirates of Paris, but the.Diors of my husband shyly I saw. that
rate, it has desame the practice shrouded In год gigantic boundary into enemy territory." this words might "wall" quold his eyes were fixed in space." This is the sort of thing for these some women to buy dressing gown,”
Still, the odd stranger manges from the Gilbert and Sulivan An American paper reported that happens all the time, only and model from the top Wardrobes are. locked nt to break in, and if that should score:
outside windows prove impossible he can always Take any heart, take mine," (inaccurately), that her garters One of Britain's top fashion salons and to get the rest of night and gold claspa, studded
their wardrobe from under the covered wherever necessary, look around the dustbins at four to which they might add tut writers, in Paris, for the counter,
sand still thọ - sketches: get out, o'clock in the morning and get, leave my fashions, alone," diamonds.
usual hymn glorifying perfect hands. With reason: their cach
Today, with so much pirat- with the new
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