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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1953.
THE LOAD CREAT CHAMBERLAIN The Marquess of Cholmondeley
NOW
D
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WHY SHOULD THIS MAN
RUN PARLIAMENT ?
HILE rummaging Bince then, 1 luye found that about the Paines in addition to the clerks, mes- sengera, Walters and others with of Westminster I whom members of Parliament found in a corner have direct dealings, the Polace one of those steel spiral"has a lito of its own of which staircases leading into the members and public know little depths.
and over which they have no control
by
J. P. W. MALLALIEU, MP
the Speaker himself
1 And, in fact, that not even conditions of service once ap..
has any pointed. real authority over the admini-
It is equally monstrous stration of Parliament buildings.
that they should have little or no say Though theoretically, while even in working arrangements tho Hauro is sitting.. he has which directly affect themselves. certain powers outside the Chamber itself, these powers do. For example, all thu leading
corres I find that
or newspapers have lobby not run during the recess I descended, half hoping
In this rabbit- meeravy, that men and women during the work-end, and even pondents in Parliament. The to and Guy Fawkes. It warren of corridors and stair- are appointed to jobs on almost while the House is biting the correspondents are barred from
enses there are residential flats, a hereditary bass; that son re powers I found the man who is in some of them occupied by house gularly succeeds
are delegated to the certain parts of the building and father; pad Serjeant-at-arms.
have access to others. Thin no charge of the House of keepers, There is a vent-free that social standing seems to be
doubt, is right. But it is wrong Commons boiler.
private enterprise cafe run by an important as profetency, This officer's authority camas that all this should be decided
.
Ho had been in charge of it for years and the holler was his life. Listening to him, you would think that the Polaco bad Leen built for that befler.
He talked of preserves, of draughts
und elinkers. But he mentioned Parliament only once and that as an incidental. "Those fellows upstairs," it appeared, at him come nice staking problems. will irregular hours.
their
Mr Groves.
not from the Speaker but from not by the men
members, still loss St in the home of dema- the Lord Great Chamberlain, by the Jobby
correspondents, that officer's authority but, when you get right down discouraged from belonging to a comes from his father, since the to it, by whichever of my Lords Carrington, Chol- trade union, and that equal pay, job of Lord Great Chamberlain Ancaster,
13 honded round on a rota mondeley happens to have coma And there are dozens of rooms is not practised, dcapito the
syatum among the Aneesters the up in the draw. and offices occupied by shadowy direct Intervention ol the Carringtons anci the Chul- perons whose functions are in- Specker, who has twice vainly mondeleys. delite, whose qualifications are, tried to ensure that a wogan obscure and whose method of reporter on the Hansard staff appointment in not clear.
should be paid the same pa her And in the Mother of Par- male colleague for Identical. Haments, in the home of due work.
Hereditary basis cracy, I d that employees are And
BURY THESE
FLYING
SAUCERS!
Monstrous
Again I would have thought that members or their герга sentulives would have had the right to deelde how the rooms in the House of Commons sec-
tion of the Palace of West-
I do not think that authority nilnster should be allocated. But over Parliament building should they do not, The allocation is be invested in one man. I' done by the Sarjeant-at-arms, object to the hereditary principle acting for one or other of these of filling jobs, whether the job remote peers.
મ that ot the Lord Great Chamberlain or of (say) an assistant storekeeper.
Well, I think it is all a bit steep and I am defchied tint In recent months the House of
I think it is monstrous that Commons, always so conscious members ut the House of of the beam in other people's Commons should have no say in cyes, as found time to inaptet the qualifications required for the mote in its own eye. I can their service in the method of hardly wall for the select com-
or in their mittee's report.
URING the past six The Astronomer Royal conducts an inquiry into their oppointment
years there have been frequent reports of
unusual objects being
the
in the sky--some in daytime, shining like silver in the sunlight, others at night, glowing brightly.
every
strange objects in the sky and concludes that it│PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
is time the question was closed for ever
The frequent reports of there
they were
The hoaxes
By
SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES, FRS
come from
Some of the riperle can br explained by searchlights play- ing on thin clouds or banics of mist. Others can be accounted
various for by
optical Dr meteorological phenomeno, such as the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere, mock cuns and haloes, mirages, reflections in mist.
Will Sir Gladwyn End The Gloomy
Embassy
saucers are therefore easily, be interpreted as due to WHEN
Era?
close
PARIS. Sir Oliver maintained Lord Norwich, contact with French Socialists, and right-wing pollilclans were VV. then Sir Duff Cooper, rarely received by him. was told that he would be
IDOL IN A HOME
Some have been described s'rengo apparitions soon gave as moving with tremendous rise to many rumours. There speed, others as practically were all sorts of suggestions to
then. account for
For some stationary.
time the reports came only from Many of the reports have the United States, then the mentioned objects of a flat disc saucers began to be zeen in
ke shape, giving the appearance Britain, In Sweden and else of a large saucer flying through where.... Perhaps the air, the description of such some new and secret hircraft
Many of these phenomena objects as "flying saucers" ap that were being tested; perhaps pletely decd world. Reports of would give rise to
rupid and appropriate.
Russian device ifttle men having
erralic they were some
inuvements of bright peared
The saucer
wns the sent over to sy out the secrets flying shape
patches of fight, which atom bomb developments nothing but humbug. most common but it has become of customary to describe
perhaps they were soinu. Un- On various ccensions I have a nying object. object or apparition seen in the known type of aircraft visiting given
it as my bellef that Flying saucers of these types
who remember. sky, which seemed to be some us from interplanetary spece. most of the reports of flying have been recorded throughout replaced as British Ambas DARISIANS
had thing out of the ordinary and
saurers can be attributed to history. There is nothing new sador to Paris, his wife the nineteen twenties for which there was no obvious
observations of meteorological in them. There we published; asked the late Mr Ernest a shock when they learned that one of their idols, Maud Loty. explanation, as a dying saucer
instance, a book Bevin the embarrassingly had gone to a charity home. In 1040, for balloons. irrespective of whether it was
One of these balloons when at entitled "Strange Signes from direct question: "Who will.... For ten yours Mme. Loty has
in saucer-shaped or not.
idca caught the THIS Last
considerable height appears ke Heaven," which were de-
lived as a recluse in a one. popular imagination. The a flat dise or saucer; it may move
scribed"
appearances that would replace Duff?"
comed flatiet in Montmartre. They DO exist time was ripe for it.
rapidly or slowly according to now be called flying saucers.
Mr Bevin replied: "I suppose But she had been 韭 brilliant The rapid developments in the velocity of the wind; the
will 'ave to be 'arvey."
musical HESE reports have become so long range rockels during the instruments attached to it will
comedy artist It was indeed Sir Ollver finir for notoriety.
hor frequent and persistent that later years of the war and since
Harvey, whore
ELS own term
She reached the peak of explain we cannot
them as have proused widespread Interest ardar reflection.
The United States Air Force
Driving from the
the possibilities of figments
observer's in
who will be re- Deauville to Paris, on end and space have recently announced offelnily T is high time that the flying Ambassador is now drawing to fome in 1925. flight.
that most of the flying saucers Buncers should be allowed Imagination.
next March. by placed
Sir stopped by a traffle policeman. Rockets have been sent to can be accounted for by these to lapso Into obscurity, as the Gladwyn Jebb.
She used an unprintable word Some of the cbjects have been
has done, tracked by radar, so that their heights of up to 250 miles. It balleons and that none is at Loch Ness monster
It was a few weeks after Sir to him. to tests of secret Let us be finished with them, Olivera carter diplomat with The incident captured reality cannot be queried. Fiving does not seem beyond the bounds tributable
of what is practicable to send weapons.
for there is nothing_mysterious the ingrained reticences. _of. a_imagination __of_France_______and_ Palatin undoubtedly exist.
a rocket to the moon. What, then, are they?
The youth
There is a talt minority of about them. of today eagerly reports that cannot be explained
All the reported apparences super civil servant-hail laken developed into a hilarious court
up his post that the Embassy COTC. devour tales about space travel in this way,
CXTM but for which are capable of a natural was convulsed by what hay The contrast between Maud-r and interplanetary wars. Reports various natural explanations can ploration. Flying saucers are ince become
03 known
"the 4ft. in. dainty and elegant- emanating from the United be found.
not secret weapons undergoing incident of the bed chamber." and her huge, heavily States referred to some of the Some
plenomcan, are real
test; they are not spying craft. It happened In 1948 when inched policeman opponent saucers having come to earth such as bright fireballs, ball from a potentially hosille power; the Queen, then Princess Eliza became a national joke. and of little men having come lightning, distant
Now the they are not space craft from a beth, was making a State visit aeroplanes,
policeman, Paris out of them, though it was sig-
vapour
aircraft, neighbouring planet.
Prince Phillip, Dagorte, enjoys a comfortable nificant that no photographs of peculins
and with his wife even bright When these facts are gener-They were both to stay at the retirement
British
En Normandy, or ally realisid
Embassy
three children interest in flying
The world's Prev was salicere will die a natural death.
on- while Mme. Loty; 60, goes to an xlous to have details of the institution. furnishings of the royal rule. Soid Mmo. Loly, An Embassy Press altacho, her downfall; “It was all due to therefore decided to visit the my love of champagne and fast
ACKEROH
CONSTANTIN
trails
from
clouds,
as
these reputed visitors from an- planets such other planet have been obtained. Jupiter.
In these matters we have 10 bc
guard against
On
hoaxes
deliberate much a to see how gullible public would swallow.
But not Venus
CAN say quite definitely and with absolute assurance that none of the Hying saucers call have come from another planet. Venus and Mars are the only two planets from might conceivably have come.
which they
Venus
No mystery
Jock Is Kenya's
Toughest Cop
to
with
suite in order to be able to care!". provide a full description.
she
with a
W3S
tho
moun
M.
explaining
50-BATH CLERKS FTER two years' labour and
are pyjamas &
many disagreements (among them: He was Interrupted in hiz
of the white necessary item task by the Ambassador who flatly accused him of "scop-collar worker's budget), a pare Bamentary committee trying to A tough character in a tough country. That's Kenya ing" and, pointing dramatical fix wage-scales for civili
told his. Im les clerks has come out with
This
man is 475840,
report.
which
reigns
A
It recommends a £0 105,
£2 105.
nour to the limit at which le
Now he's back in dock; this time with knife wounds ceases to be possible that it is doubtful whether there can be in his chest and belly, but pulling through nicoly, any animal life at all on Mars, An Arab thief handed out the punishment after Jock and there can certainly not be had chased him through the dark-shadowed labyrinth of any of the higher forms of animal life.
on MARS Mombasa's Arab quarter and cornered him. But again appears to be in its inst phase ho got his man. and to be on the verge of ex- tinction.
police dog Jock. Already he holds the Dicken Medally at the culprit, superior: mediate Sufficient is known about con- the dog's VC-and the chances are he's due for a bar. must ditions on VENUS to be able to He won his decoration two years ago when he tackled Go he did, but Bir Oliver wock wage of which say that lite of any sort on this an armed gang of African bandits. That time he was remained to Inaugurate an will be spent on food. Then, planet is
is quite out of the ques- sinshed seven times with a native sword and a vet had ambassadorial reign
elaborate precision, the tion. Mars, on the other hand, to sew him together again with 36 stitches. But he got proved as sharp a contrast to report goes on to detall, the does show some traces of a
that of his prolecessor-in clerk's needs. primitive
type of vegetation, his man and his "gong".... awarded, along with the reverse orders did the
Bemples: The ciczk will have akin to rock lichens on our biggest, juiciest bone in the Colony, at a Government of Queen Victoria and Klug 60 halks in a pubile bath a year, Earth; but the conditions are so House ceremony.
Edward VII.
buy one shaving brush every The Duff Cooper guest list nivo ivars, one tooth brush and. was exorcised, and the gay sot three funes of tooth pasto of talented writers and artists, -year,
And colourful rich Bohemians
He will have one suit of sparo
of notoristics were banished from clothes,
pair the Embassy.
trousers, three pairs of under- In their place the favoured pants, five pairs of socks and guesto-it was still the time of dix handkerchiefs.
Soclettat Government
The pyjamas question' carment French equi- gottled. A clerk is allowed one
the pair of pyjamas every London School of Economics.
30218,
THE MOON can be ruled out of consideration as it is a com-
Definitely Kenya's toughest cop, Jock is listed in police records, with a certain niceness of phrase, as "bull-valents of the faculty of terrier type”.
ho
JOHNNY HAZARD-
By Frank Robbins
One of the very
'fow watches - to
LAMORT? HE'G'DEEN HERE ALL THE TIME AND JOHNNY
POESN'T KNOW IT?
I MUST GET UPSTAIRS... WARN JOHNNY ....... BEFORE HE. GETS AWAY...!.
OH
B
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