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SONG HIT IN
TIN PAN ALLEY
By JAMES LEASOR 128
"Windaor Waltz"
OR months, the tune- · · The
smiths of Tin Pan sheet music you buy bears Alley, shirt-sleeved at the intelligence: "By Johnny their cigarette scarred Reine and Johnny May." planos, have been rewriting But there are 110 Buch old rhymes about Queens, people. and Coronations, savagely The song WORK determined to produce THE singer Johnny Johnston and a song-hit.
friend called Bunny Lowis? who
Who wrote these patriotic ditties which are being thus thrust upon our cars?
for on
written by
Now, from the miss of works for a record compnay;» mediocre numbers and the Say Jchnston, who is also a few good ones, three stand director of the company that "We cast about out as leaders in the field: publishes it: "Windsor Waltz," "In A song, but we wanted to touch idea for a Coronation Golden Coach," and "Coront- the subject obliquely. We felt tion Rag."
that anything too direct would be dead on Jups the third.
"My wife had the idea for something about Windsor, After that, it was just a matter of hammering the thing out. ht; Johnston is un pratentious zbout his art. Anon the on- wagon, he saya philora phically," "but It
EDEN OR BUTLER-WHO WILL BECOME LEADER?
A
London.
S every schoolboy is aware, Shakespeare put into the mouth of Malvolio.
significant words:
arc
those
"Some
born great, some
achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon
to
Beverley Baxter, MP
discusses the background, the achievements and the potentialities of two men-of the highest calibre in English politics
J
Hiller's that? And what was
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Waltz"
brother. It -pays, *.**.
B:"W4 ̧nid for published from а backroom at No. 6. Denmark Street, London; "In A Golden Coach is published from a backroom next door, at No 7.
The
theel music---gives- the composer as Ronald Jamieson. Actually it was written by two moni
...
he going to do about Franco Bring on a British ship? Utter. ly imperturbable, he used the Jargon of polities and kept re- pealing: My noble Friend (Halifax) has instituted
One is a well-known popular getic enquiries." "My noble emporer named Art: Noel. He Friend has sent strongly worded protest." "My noble role "Sally" for Gracio Fields. Friend
One would have
naz o is. Harry to break the thought that Butler
had no Sugarman; he spent 14 years One would have more to do with forming for- La the Merchant · Navy, still
cign polley than the clerks at Mr Speaker's table,
He was
the In every way
Minister, and, perfect Junior quite frankly, few of us thought that he would ever be more than
$
sons
a reasonably good head of a de- partment in an off year.
FILE real
WOGT3 a Navy type. bluc, rain- coat and a white silk scarf.
"His co-writer' was an Irish- man, one Mary Moliby, who alro favours masin rain coat which he sometimes [fawn). wcars at the plane.
"You can say I was written
them," Familiar and accept- senlor boys at Marlborough Hament known as the Cambridge tragedy seemed ed ય those words un- join the Army and go to Uaton. But he was still shy and last link. doubtedly are, there is no their death in the shambles unassertive--and the House of thought that the remaining son Commons is n'hothouse that has a most attractive and intelli- arbitrary division into of Flanders Fields.
little time for blushing violets. gent boy-might have kept their home intact, but it was not to categories of men who reach
After the war he went But before we procced
any be. The divorce was still a long such heights that the worlti
to Cambridge in that further with this story of two way off, but the love story had calls them great.
strange twilight period young men of poilties, we must come to an end.
three The Butlers had Any marriage is important but This is a study of two when young veterans of bring in the feminine touch.
war aged beyond a politician's marelago can as- and a daughter, and because they men, and first I want to dis- the
Yet those who knew him int-by two North London-boys," hla had
come sist a career and can break it, were no more tha children cuss Richard Austen Butler, their years
sons knew nothing t the Hitler maiely realised that he had says Mr Molloy. the 50-year-old Chancellor back the Varsity to
in the Eden married
same war except such contributions refused as a matter of conviction
How did this song come to be was elected to of the Exchequer in Chur- complete their interrupted year that he
written at all? temporary exlic, ing Luftwaffe made. Their only be
Quite obviously Butler sincerely chill's Government. It can education. The years that Parliament, In fact, he and his to their knowledge as the visit to follow Eden into what could their honeymoon father was too young to fight belleved that Chamberlain's that separated the normal under- wife spent
Mark Molloy explains; "Harry not be said of him
campaigning in the sensational in 1914, and
they were 100 and the Service election of 1923 which threw out young in 1939. In contrast, by was right.
policy of
and I were in Whitcboli ono "appease and arm" either by birth, achievement, graduates
When war came and morning at 5.30.We saw, a lot Gov- of men with" a'coach,;rehuarsing or accident he has attained ones were not~~many, but the Conservatives" and put into the mere caprice of birth. An- "Churchill took over the
a power the first Labour Govern- thony Eden was a front line in ernment after Chamberlain ro-
or some such thing. greatness because, as yet, they seemed as vast as
fantry Lieutenant when he was signed in 1840, Butler was not
་་ said, that word does not apply lifetime. The sensitive Rab ment in the history of Britain.
18. And in 1944 his eighton given, a post in the Government.
"What to him. Yet he stands poised Butler felt the divergence
The girl he married was year-old-son went to his death He returned quietly to the back number - in before the bar of history as and sought his companion- Beatrice Beckett, from the rich in battle over Burma,
benches while Eden Was
golden pointed to high place in the the politician who may be ship in books.
Cabinet, Man Britain's
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The Coronation of the Queen
THE CROWNS, STATE REGALIA AND ROYAL PROCESSION IN COLOUR
come
Destiny.
of
Of all blasphemies there
TOUSLED
Yorkshire family of bankers and newspaper proprietors. She was beautiful with Ane features, dark hair and the serene brow
FLASHBACK
0
0 Ap-
But in 1941, when the world was in flames and the vultures of a poetess. The fact that she TOW we must do a flashback were
darkening British skies, took little interest in poetry does NOW
to Westminster. Eden had Butler was made Minister of been a backbencher
Education! While the rest of us is nothing as foolish, as the NOW at the same time, oddly dot matter. They were a hand-
for three enough, at Oxford University tome and happy pair.
the war, the term "a self-made man.
years when the Foreign Secre- concentrated on the 22 -
Captain year- old
Chamberlain, whole war and nothing but the But here the parallel stories of Lary, Sir Austen Every baby is the battle. Anthony Eden, M.C., was gazing
a slight appointed him hla Parlia war, he had to wrestle with the 'ground of its ancestors. with his veteran
the two young eyes at
problem of educating the young.
men take
аз
Heredity, environment, strange crop of undergraduates divergence. Eden did not marry mentary Private Secretary-an the mature ago of unpaid appointment not carry-
TORTURE
at an early age Rab went to a public school-Mart- borough in England-the word ""public", of course, meaning privatė.
bian
who
HOTHOUSE
the
rather
TRAGEDY
important advance
certain
CURIOUS
coach there's a heart of goid, ch? An
Kerry agreed with me. Well wrote it down there
and than
the jour inside of a vigarelto
on
Miss Winifred ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈Alwell,” the West Indian chemist, who found more fame as a swing plahirt on the music balls thain; lever & she did among the test-tubes in Old Trinidad, wrote "Coronation Rag one night after the show
LILI
POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERT LANGAYPER
whose years had saved them until tradition, poverty, frustra- from battle. He, ino, telt lone 27, whereas Butler rushed into ing ministerial rank but consti- tion, education....all these ly as, with his finely tailored it at the age of 24. He had met tuting an are the raw material of clothes and the assurance of a and fallen in love with Sydney towards high ploce,
nded Courtauld at Cambridge. character. When a man can
commanded has
The ensuing period has been THE curious thing is that while in the field. he gazed
so often described that we need reputations were soaring and lig
in Glasgow. STAJ bring himself into
the troops
The Courtaulds are, of courty not go over it again. Suffice it crashing in the homerio struggle world then, and only then, upon the new crop of under-
graduates with their tousled very rich family. As plencers to say that Eden was the for national surviva), he went
So there they are three of artificial silk manufacture, éan he claim to be self- hair, their plus-fours and their their kingdom spread across the dazzling Minister of League of on with his job and did it so Coronation hits, and the people
odd sweaters.
Nations Affairs and went around Churchill
well that he was described by world and they were paid much the world as the best-loolding made.
behind them." as the
Greatest Since man is not allowed to gold in tribute,
Britain and and best-dressed
Minister of Education pedlar of had ever had.
Easy to write a "belterone, seo. the distant scene it. En
Rab
for you think? planned understandable that
foreign policy ever seen on any no OAD
victory were prophesied at the time in the
stage. It was inevitable that the future as if when there was a vacancy he allons of teachers and in-fob
He improved the con- Maybe, but don't give up your PAB Butler (the nickname would fight it.
years ahead Butler and Eden
would become Foreign. Secre-spired them with his encourage
on the off-change Less out for
is the way of people to tary
than a dozen people tip Britain comes from the initials Premiership of
of Great Britain.
ment. He brought in the Butler make a full-time living writing of his thres names) was in fact no one predicted that raise their eyebrows, when a
What about Buller? No one, Educational Act which advanced songs, and for every hit there born neither rich nor poor.
either of them would trouble young man marries the daughter
aro a dozen: duda. the historian very much, Eden of a millionaire, and to assume Including himself, shoticed what British education by a decade.
Then when the war was over Hia father, Sir Montagu was a young aristocrat with a that he has been lured to the he wore. He had a pensive, Butler, was a distinguished flair for clothes and Persian altor by the jewels In the safe rather sad, face except when to the electorate threw us out and
than the sparkle in her mailed and then it was dificult Butler was, freed of responst servant of the British Ad- poetry, and Butler was just a
nothing eyes. I would not deny that not to smile with him. He, too, bility. "Now I shall be able to ministration of India, but studious fellow with
Under read and to: 80 for long walls," much in the way of personality, heiress-hunting is a popular was given office as
me one- day. He hobby. In fact, the English Secretary of State at the India he said to
Offee. probably
because
he probably believed, like Aneurin aristocracy was largely sustained in the Edwardian era, by the knew a good deal about that vast Bevan, that the country was in. love match between
Other the sub-continent.
appoint for a long term of Socioliem. ments followed, but his first Tile Conservative Party was TIDEN was the first to enter American dollar' and the English at chance came in 1938 when smashed and demoralised, To.
great Parliament, which he did in
Anthony Eders resigned
Churchill was a as many Tories kicked, 1923. His good looks, his famliy Was
But to say that
Foreign
Secretary in protest man whose day had ended with death of Hitler and the There splendid marries a rich girl for herself is against Chamberlain's policy of the bullied, made to play cricket background and his
surrender. of Germany. and endured all the benefits war record marked him as ad- not true, Certainly the youthful appeasement. - -
mirable Parliamentary material. Richard Austen Butler, not long
was almost no party organisa- peace- tion and there was no of the monastic education vet when He made his first out of his cap and gown, had no
time policy. What was worse, in Britain. It must
We who had survived the elec have and unimpressive. Quite ob society and Ilve on a grand
torate holocaust found that he was no younger Pitt. scale. He wanted to road and HAMBERLAIN immediately most of our friends had gone cause he loved books and any serious future in him was
appointed Lord Halifax to the and a new generation had come languages, and going for Austen
With Before we leave the domesile Foreign Offe, which meant that to our benches.
Woolion, on walks by himself. It is a safe amazing insight he said: "There scene and return to the Parlia an Under-Secretary would have.. However, Lord
story, we must note to be found who would take the ex-Liberal, become Chairman SOUTH CHINA Morning post, LTD. deduction that hu. was con- 11 a future Foreign Secretary" that the Edení had wo sons. bowling in the Commons, for of of the Party and Rab Butler
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Ho was Butler,
elder bay Simon, who did course Hallfox could only speak undertook to organise
Air Force training in in the Upper Charaber The called "The Conservativo Cen- cricketers and the rugger, pale, shy and had rather an odd Canada - and won many kind choice fell on Butler After all tral Offee & Some days we would crowd.,
giggle. Yet though he had not in pub was clear-headed, unspecia- have to fight another election achieved the honour of winning d
"we must prepare even He was twelve years of
I saw Anthony a few culer and did not suffer from su blue at sports or serving in the hours after he had received the temperament or glamour.
Burma
though the ballio was for oil... his fellow MPs might have age when the 1914 war ward thnk there must have those of aɩxpan who had been so questions at him, for the grow-
nows and his eyes, wero like
Day after day we hudited broke out too young to been something in a young
but old fellow who took a Double Wirt hurt that he could shed no tears, ing crials play any part onough to feel the pride in Modern Languages, and was But instead of drawing him party discipline. What was his and tragedy of watching President of the University Par- and his wife closer together, the anaves to Mussolini's this and
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Tomorrow Mr. Havier will conclude shin study of Mr Butler and Me" Edm
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