I Tip The Next Election Date
By EMANUEL SHINWELL, MP
、 SEC .some political some of his recent performances commentatern are sug- Is still collecting new ones.
Having disposed then of the first uspect of the question, namely: COULD Churchill spring. an election this year, second
gesting that because Sir Winston Churchill has to rest for a month, there is now no chance at all of an let election this year.
to the us furn aspect: DOES he want to do
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My answer to that is an un- hesitating YES. Indeed, he would be foulish from his palut
Of course, In saying that, they are only coming hito line with on opinion which hi been held for long enough me of
11- side the House of Commons. An opinion, incidentally, which has nothing at all to do with
thing to do with the almost
view if he were to wish
otherwise.
The political dice are heavily loaded in Churchill's favour
Churchill's health, but every this year. pristine fall which a majority of MPs have in u declaration made # # recent Churchill speech,
Ask any dozen‚MPa and this goes for Socialists as well as Tories about
clection this year and they will gaze at you starry-eyed and say: "im possible. Why, Churchill han satd he has no intention of gomg to the country,"
I have warned
E like Churchill, I ad-
Mire Churchill, 1 hope that his rest will restore Churchill to full physical vigour. But having said these things I must add that as a politicton I am
taking no chances on Clure
chill.
My bet is that there will be an election this year. I have Warned my agent to get the organisation ready. I have even asked him to book the principal hails for the eve of pot. If this is not the night of Wednesday, November 11, it won't be for
away.
Why do 1, unlike so many of my colleagues, doubt the worth of Churchill's declaration?
There is, for one thing, the internal dissension in my Own Party,
The electors will stand al- a political most anything from Party, even a bad pulley or no policy at all, but it does not help when prominent person- alities in a party are occasion- aily bashing each other about.
Not, of course, that there is not dissension in the 'Tory Party. There is.
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Without any doubi n bubbling up about the succes- is to succeed Churchil sion to the Tory throne, Who when he eventually
decides to PC-
tire? Is it to be. Anthony Eden, whom everybody hopes will re- turn to selive political life, or Rak Rab Butler
whose ambitions point in this direction? Or is
fi to be Harold Macmillan, the ablest politician of them al because he knows how and when to change his mind?
No harmony
the
E sure that with this situa- tinn ever present there is no real harmony aniong Torles. Even on policy there is disagreement in the Tory Party
as everyone who listens in at My answer to that is: Take Question time can hear, a closer look at the declaration
There is an Empire group, A and when you do, you find it European
group,
North comes to pieces in your hands. Atlantic
All Churchill has ever said is television group. There are all group: a sponsored not go to the
the sorts of groups and all sorts of country unless the tacties of the disagreements, but that need Opposition make it impossible not deter Churchill from seek- for him to carry through ing an election. For the Torles Government, business. But who
that he wil}
is to decide the point at which good fortune is that they do
not quarrel publicly. Opposition telies become "im- Yel what may possible? Largely it will be Churchill more Churchill himself.
Dur-
Influence than anything to have an election this This is easy
year is the fear of a trade AT any time it is easy for the recent some time in 1954. A reduction in the arms pro- Governincot to make it op gramme in Britain
and in the pear that its business is being United States, together with obstrueled. All that is needed a decline In world is for a few Tory back-benchers eht
chasing to provoke a row with their this about. Would It
aunbers opposite
on the wise
to wait unul Sorialist side. The result is a
enme and then go to recession few all-night sittings, The the country? Even a mild rise Government complain that im in the unemployment Agures portaat legislation is belu might upset the Government's bogged down. And the case for chances of victory. an efection is established.
I could not find it in myself 10 blane Churchill
adopted this course.
power, could
Into knots ?
bring
tc
tu
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1953.
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
HOME THOUGHT
There I zat, chatting friendly like to this Spanish Johnny-telling him about all I'd missed in England through coming to Spain at this time-
. by Sies
2 Test Matcher-
Wimbledon-
A Gordon's Derby-
5
And countless other wonderful things 6
"Verra interesting," he says, "If you meese so much to come to Espuņu there must be the verra especial reason. You maybe perhaps the spy, hey, Senor! Izink to
"Carabinero !!! Put la Ingles Puerco Inside for a leetle while we maker the
check-up,"
UNCLE FULTIE TOPS THE BILL AS TV BISHOP
W
first
From EVELYN IRONS
unusual
BISHOP SHEEN 7,000,000 watch
New York. Clad in the impressive vest weekly sermon on 'n radio pro- HIEN New York's ments of his office, Sheen speaks gramme known as The Catholic in a setting representing a study. Hour for twenty-three years famous Roman especially designed for him by without stirring any Catholic Bishop Broadway slage designer Jo Interest in America. For a largo Fulton J. Sheen Mictainer Jew whom Sheen part of Sheen's extraordinary began his weekly converted to Roman Cathöllelsin personal magnetism lies in his Invitation .to teach at Oxford "inspirational talks"
many years ago,
appearance, and particularly in when he was ordered to return television in February last
deep sockets under Intense black Peoria, Illinois, his eyes which seem to glow from home to work in a poor parish in year, he was assigned what
o the television trade calls an "obituary spot,"
over
Moving around at will, never sitting, and making frequent use of a blackboard on one side of the stage to illustrate his com ments, the Bishop speaks with out interruption of such matters as avarice, Communism, war and
years ago in a small flat above early to make sure of a seat,
an hour.
His show was considered
Newton Sheen's hardware store "as good as dend" because peace, the existence of God, the in El Paso. Ilinols, it run at the same time as American Constitution und two popular entertainers on whether other networks comedian tonous, Milton Berle and crooner Frank Sinatra.
or not life is mono-
"Sit St"
Landon Exprati Serem
Faith & Vision Of Len Cheshire, VC.
By J. W. Taylor
GROUP. CAPTAIN Chechire- andal
now has 32 Leonard Cheshire, VC, patients a small community of disabled people, both men and DSO, DFC, was one of the women, who live together as a most distinguished bomber family and to what they can to pilots of World War Two. help, one another and to lend a
running of He flew on a hundred mis- hand in the
Home. sions, including the famous "dam-busting" operation,
Recently, it looked as if this and was one of the two recond scheme was also doomed
tha
British observers when the when it was discovered that an underground stream was wash- atom bomb was dropped on ing away the foundations of the Nagasaki,
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house, but the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, impressed by After the war ended he bought devotion
the
and selflessness "Le Court." large country that had brought Le Court into mansion which was once The being. has undertaken to build home of a shipping magnate, a £45,000 hospital within a pear Liss, Hampshire, and hundred yards of the present- launched д scheme Jo: the Home, to be maintained and run
csettlement of ex-Service men by voluntary effort. Soon his sermons were so and women in a self-contained These strange, burning eyes popular that worshippers had to gricultural community. first saw the light of day 58 arrive at the church
This roheme, however, falles, and he After nine months he went to alone in the house, wondering was living on almost teach at Catholic University in how best to make use of it dor
The new Home has been de- Washington, A was
D. C., where he the good of humanity, when ce a guod Catholic home
signed as a model for similar where
priests
hospitals, Accommodation wiI aircraft- were frequent spent the next 24 years of his visitors, and Sheen says
life before becoming a Bishop day a former leading
called at the door. The be for 32 patients and include now in 1951. that he wanted to be a priest for
on was suffering from cancer two six-bedroom wards, a num as long as he can remember.
In addition to his roles as having only about two months to ber of three-bedroom wards, and Today, some 14 months..
bishop and television star, Sheen live and asked Cheshire to take some single rooms, Church of But though he mode the Is national director of the Society him in na he had no one to care England and Roman Catholic after the Bishop's first show
TIE
debrting team in his first yeat for the Propagation of the for himn and nowhere to go. (which was unsponsored and never uses a script, promp at St. Viator College, there was Faith, which receives a large Cheshire did. and nursed him
ter, or notes carried by
of any kind. only three There is no frantic director o sign then of the extraordinary donation from Sheen's television himself until the end. stations), Sheen has a wildly waving his hands, and no One
speaker he was later to
become, sponsor. night before he Wils to The bishop does not accept million dollar television con- prompted applause
from the debate against
the formidable any fee for his show, of more than team of Notre Dame University, tract and his programme is studio audience I may be
1,000 people, being carried over a still-
his conch fold him frankly, expanding chain of 40 or
While Sheen's viewpoints re-e
"Sheen, you're absolutely the stations
Reet the doctrine of the Roman Worst speaker I ever heard. Do the
Catholic Church, he generalises you know what's wrong with and in
a philosophical vein rather you?” than emphasising pure religious Sheen thought for a while,
then said. "I'm not natural." edits two magazines,
That lesson learned, Sheen
קן!
if he MY belief is that the Prime After all, I Minister has weighed Is not his job to
to Rive
the the prospects of both parties, Opposition unnecessarily-long that he has his
"eye on the
warning of his intention to seek October conference of the a dissolution. His Jusk is 10 Socialist Party, that he will pick the
moment which will bank on Labour leaders tying give his party the best chance themselves into knots over the of victory and there is no
new programme. And that he betler
judge of timing than will plump
for an election the Prime Minister.
carly in November. do not say this in a dis wrong in all this. I hope I am. respectful way, but really I don't want the Tories to Churchill is by far the most win the next election. I want experienced and crafty polit us to win because in the long clan of the
present century, run I belleve
that Socialist Ever Lloyd George, who knew ideals are better for the coun- the try. A delay of 18 months or two years would help the
a thing or two, is not In
same class for craftiness.
Winston knows every trick of Socialists to win. But how am I the game, and to judge by going to convince Churchill?
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As a result, today more than has made it a point to be natural 40 percent of his mail comes and sincere ever since. from members of other faiths.
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FTER he
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heard
When Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder laid the foundation stone of the new bulking recently he said: "Sometimes one hig people, with flashes of post-war Then, thinking that there cynicism and pessimism, say must be many others who needed What's the use?' and 'Is it worth similar care, he resolved that Le while?well, here is something Count should be a home for the really worth while; Many a time sick and needy and those who during the 100 sorties had no one to look after thee,
which Leonard Cheshire carried From that beginning, at a time through, the task which faced Three years ago he wrote a when the estate was heavily him must have appeared all but best seller called "Poace of mortgaged and in debt, and Impossible. And yet by courage Soul." His book followed by a there was no equipment what- and care, with devotion and gear the publication of a books
In house, the Home Lalth he won through...Here is through the vision another and different sort of Im-
by the American Rabbi, Joshua | and the faith Liebemann fact which pro- vides the bishop with one of his favourite anccdotes.
is known principally She Was SHEEN IN SOHO called "Pence of Mind" written ever in th watched by nearly seven who had converted an impres- million people each Tuesday sive cross-wetion of Who's Who night, and he receives as cluding Clare Boothe Luce, the his life he remembers with most
in America
was ordained to Catholicism-in-1010, one of the periods of many as 8,500 letters after late Grace Moore,
"Did you hear," he likes to ex-Com- warmth was the year he spent ask with a twinkle in his eye, every programme.
munists Louis Budenz and Ellza- at St. Patrick's Church in Soho. "about the nice beth Bently, Fritz Kreisler and Sheen also spent a year teaching went into a bookstore and asked Woman who Henry Ford the second,
at St. Edmunds College in Ware, for Rabbi Sheen's 'A Piece of Bishop Sheen had given and was ready to accept an My Mind?'"
After the first two months of the Bishop's pro- gramme, the popularity rating of his rival, "Uncle Miltio" Berle, dropped ten points.
ma
And after Sheen pointed out on one of his first shows that "An atheist is a with no invisible means of support," the irreverent wags
Broadway im- mediately tagged him "Uncle Fultie."
оп
"Who
Now-the-standard question asked in the New York archdio- cose every Tuesday.is: are you going to watch to night Uncle Mütio or Uncle Fuitio?"
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Patches of dye are squirted than we arg
la watched on .o. TV screen Mr William Allen, chief orchi- "The, good works entrance is. Haked with
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