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1954
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HE SHOULDERS A
T
KEY
London.
HE wide, oak desk Boant of in the Trade building
PROBLEM
By Les Armour
seems to dwarf him. now historic stand with serious into with he talks softly, he goes out leg wounds.
ment. of his way to avoid pub- licity....
Yet he is the man on whose shoulders Britain bas dumped the problem of her survival...He is Minis- ter of State for Overseas Trade, Derick Ileathcout- Amory.
But look again. As he rises to take your hand, you see wide, square shoulders. Behind the horn-rimmed glasses grey eyes with a perpetual twinkle have scrutinised you minutely.
The voice there's still a rumble of Devon there carries an unmediate. friendliness. It hesitates not reaching for the word which will have a telling effect, but for the phrase to put you at ease,
You suspect that this man can be-and perhaps is-a power, and you wonder if there is some magic there, too.
He fought the 1945 general election on crutches and won a resounding victory while his fellow Tories were disappearing under the Socialist landslide.
His stay at Oxford ran coun- ter to convention, too. He began by studying science, followed i assiduously for two years, then switched suddenly history degree.
to take 2
The
Ask him about it and he simply laughs and says: stinks were too much for me. I preferred the easy chair, any how.
That switch was symptomatic of the roving, inquiring turn of mind which has characterised him ever since.
Telling Years
HE telling years, though, were those between the wars the years when, after taking an accounting course, he went back to Devon to take part in the active management of the 140- year-old family business.
Politically those were "years
ars in the wildernças.'
his
The official blographies do not help. They tell you that Derick Heathcoat-Amory is 54, that he west to Eton, then to Oxford, and that he managed his father's until textile business in Tiverton the war, when meer. In July ed the chances of his party ever
joined he
A convinced Liberal, he realis- Army as a 1945 he became MP for Tiverton, assuming office were slim. But was a dutiful Tory backbencher,
he felt the gap between tha and emerged suddenly in 1951
two major parties was too wide as Minister of Pensions. There, to be healthy. he served witliout
notice public until the Ministry ceased to bo to and he was transferred to the Board of Trade, the hottest spot,
perhaps, in the British Gover-
ment.
War Record
A LADY FRETS OVER THE GIs
Ο
and gets an answer from
RENE MacCOLLa progra
London. our boys are
Just now the fat in crack ling furiously in the fire again.
clated over
NCE again THAT there," she writes indignantly.
TOPIC is up for dissAnother cause for inter- cussion on both sides changed snarling Is the alleged of the Atlantic. Yes, our old "gouging" of American airmen friend Anglo-American Rela-' on Briush house rentals. I tions.
have po personal" (proof, that the 1/2 out 1 aan prepared to believe that it has happened, human nature being what it is. I am also prepared to believe In the U.S. our Washing too ready
that sometimes young G1s are to flash their wada ton ambassador, tall and of greenbacks around, and "put saturnine Sir Roger Makins, on the dog" about their wealth.. hastens to assure Americans Human nature again but not that although it is "fashion- especially American, any more ablo" to say that. A-A-R have monopoly.
than rent gouging. Is a British
never been worse, he knows that, "as between Govern- ments, this is not true."
Explosive
Hope he's right. I wouldn't These young Americans aro know. But whatever the top- not living among us by choice, level boys think about things, They are here because they- what really matters is how were ordered to come. They we are jogging along to have got to make the best of
it, gether as between peoples.
Where, as peoples, we are although heightened by the fact The problems, they present, in day-to-day contact-in the that they are in a country not give-and-take between the their own, and have got more 56,000 young American air- money than
men, Bre
1.3 those men stationed among us and roughly the the British who live near
raised by any peacetime garri- son anywhere. their bases.
same
I still think that when you How goes that large ex- stop to consider all the ex- periment in peacetime liv- plosive possibilities that were ing? The other day the lying around as a consequence London correspondent of an and men from small American
of planking down 65,000«youths":
American magazine which towns near some of our big has a monthly circulation of cities or in the depths of
,our ran so smoothly, indeed, that 118,000,000, wrote an import countryside, it is a nearbitracle worked out made the head-ant article for his magazine. that things have lines. Newspaper files on Derick It consisted of a report on a well as they have done. Heathcoat-Amory. a result, the G.I.a in Britain, and to make a strange confession. I.
At this point I have quetuity « was A aerious and fair- went to supper the other night
almost never
are almost bare.
American
a pyramid on a parallel
But MP's on both sides of the minded assessment of what with a charming orgen leation of manage-
House acquired a deep respect was good and bad about the officer who is stationed, with Now workers are consulted at for the quiet Minister.
Com-
situation.
his wife, in London.
It was just after every stage (though the actual plaints from their constituents
a light- management is kept separate) were dealt with quickly, and
hearted plece of mine had ap→ and every workman is kept almost always to everybody's
peared in which I kidded an American senator and the ex- posted on developments through- satisfaction. Unfailingly pension
of commodore
the out the plant.
applicants got the benent of the
Boston The plan has pald rich doubt-a humane touch too rare
Yacht Club for having "sound- dividends.
in the world of red tape,
ed off
about Britain with Individual output is among
advice which I thought mis- the highest in England. There
Thus equipped with a rich
placed,
As soon has never been a strike or even background of formal education room people turn their backs.
as I sat down with bint of one. And labour tempered in the heat of practical turnover is negligible.
activity; he was an
Came As Shock
Some of his findings come as a shock to me. Но wrote: "When a GJ. [in Britain] enters a nillway station waiting
When they do talk with him my American friends 1 TWIS obvious they do it patronisingly." American"
groundly“ accused of being""anti»'
the Government
because of the
In the thirties, and again after choice when
But the correspondent also articlo. And it was said' only the last war, Derick Heathroat- determined to put a man of Amory spread this home-proved
Ministerial rank in charge of described an incident at a half-jokingly. doctrine
public meeting where "a G.I. Industrial.
standing in the crowd
was
actively through the overseas trade.
Co-partnership
Heathcoat-Amory
A party in the centre-If only make possible, middle-of- the-road ideas-was essential.
Those were years that Derick Heathcoat-practical alternative chairman,
devoted to Association
forging
of which
Can Listen
HE new job, certainly, is one TH
which will require ingenuity and a willingness to experiment ideas-Heathcoat- with
new
Amory's outstanding charac- teristics,
To it, too, he will be able to bring his ability to get along with people and to bring to gether diverse points of view. He has none of the American back-slapping go-getter about him, but, he bo wfint is for more important-the ability to listen, to case the strain in tense situations, and to put across his point of view: without seeming to obtrude,
taunted by a Communist Very Sensitive. speaker. An Englishman walked up and punched the orator on the nose, explaining I knew you wanted to but couldn't. So strictures about themselves; but
I did it for you.'”
The Americans
sensitive pretty
Bre still to any
that is partly because it is only
recently that they set up in
Power.
He justly stresses Jump In friendly following quick GI. help after
train smash the Harrow
sentiment
the big business
16 2
great
world
ond
Anyway,
York
the East Coast floods.
I am off to New
and Washington again to
Love a look at matters over
But now see what happens. thore. And of three things I Into the office of the Daily feel quite, quile mure:-
THAT the Statue of Liberty Express comes a letter from a lady in Lexington, Kentucky. will
till be standing when I arrive;
is
She has read the magazino THAT on the same day in article. But, apparently, instead different New York papers I of assimilating it as a balanced shall read headlines announcing: whole she seizes on a single "Expert Sees Recession in '54" paragraph in which the writer and "Boom, to
to Continue .
listed In addition," he brings an
some very unfriendly Prediction"; and intimate
all-important epithets which have allegedly
THAT when I re
return to theso *knowledge
dollar been applied to American air- ahores some people, somewhere, of tough markets. A branch of his men by angry, villagers at one will still be worrying them he is family went to the United States time or another. I don't think selves sick about AFA-R.
in 1790 and established a
between the extremes of private In the same perlod he parallel textile business.
and state dominatlen.
developed
his Interest in
To him, politica and business agriculture and,
always been inst
inseparable. The family business provided grounding in local „UT such a skeleton ilfe story him with the backbone of als Dleaves a distorted impression,
It
grew up in the where dlands,
ere his ancestors Take that war record for in- stance.
As a staff officer and a were in the forefront of the Lieutenant-Colonel (over 40) he industrial revolution in textiles,
More than might easily have found himselt
□ century ago the a soft spot far removed from the family factory was destroyed, in heat of battle.
rlots by In fact, he the Luddite
workers Insisted on being trained as a who, bitterly resisted mechanisa- paratrooper.
tion
In 10-14, he dropped on Arshem, and emerged from the
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Though there is op formal as Mayor of connection, the two firms have received a thorough kept regular contact ever government, aluce, and Cat, new Minister was
careful mado After a visit to
Canada in American productivity and sules the late 1920's, he founded
Farmers techniques. Devon's first Young
He has made seven trips to
In the Canada
thirties the Movement-the idea came from
Canada family
tr owned 250 acres group in western and guided it to its present
Alberta, Because
yielded flourishing state.
nothing they gave it to the tax He turned to the Tory Party collector in lieu of payment. just before the war "when it "Now," says the Minister, "I'm became clear that the Tories afraid to look at the map. has developed a left wing and. Maybe it has oil wells. the Socialists a right wing so that there was no longer any
Liberal, THE Government paid compen real need to be a
sation, but the directors de At the war's end,
a combina cided to move south into peace. tion of conviction and circun- ful Devon-and: tüke nucleus stance forced him on to the of faithful workers with them. hustings."
Profit-sharing
Binco then the business has The member for Tiverton was existed in comparative isolation retiring. The prospective
Will Study
N the course of the visit he covered Canada from coast to coast. "I always come back with my enthusiasm renewed. Somehow, Canada has retained
In the midst of a still pre- candidate was Derick's cousin the plonsering spirit despite all dominantly ogricultural
and its workers-most
acca, but he was killed in the closing often stages of the war. generation «^after, geperation of :: the same family-have come to Identify themselves. with the. business.
More than 60 yenta tentative
EL
prost-sharing plan.
was worked out.
By 1928, when. Derick came
back from Oxford, the scheme
the refinements of contemporary living" he myn, a pr
HIS
favourile spot in Canada
is Vancouver. One of the most
beautiful cities in the world, surely. 1, head there like a calded ent whenever I of local get a chanco."
Ran Smoothly
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Conservatives including some Hẹ hạng, of his own ✨
Hanatudied Canadian Industrial development
was woll developed. He set him to stands thoroughly and he doesn't re-
about expanding He and In the House spöka gard.lt: tes a threat to Britain's brother put aside's fifth of the regularly but quietly?»unually, exports, But he is convinced comparty shares astrust offering Information on that British products will have fund for
The pront business. F agriculture · and his tor
new and more needs
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