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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1954.
Self-Portrait
Of A Rebel
By Milton
Shulman
r
CONTINUATION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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D
EBRETT And The iniquity of our policy towards Times duly noted the Germany. "Most politicians are
B crooked as the birth
spire on William
Chesterfield church and noth- Douglas Home in 1912. ing like so near God," he said They could hardly have on the platform, displaying foreseen that the third son refreshing turn of phrase. of Lord Dunglass would Although he Blood ля oventually let them down.
Independent his instinctive Toryism was in constant con- with hia Over-riding Individualism - his anti- Government position
Was Bo sweeping) und so vague that it some imes brought him support from awkward quarters.
For Home,
on revealed in alet
his autobiography (Haif Term Report, Longmans, 16s.),
n penchant
had
tor doing thing, that were just not done, The fredoin he valued most was the freedom to rebel.
himself either
up
comfortable
be
A
Second Front
In England the persisten ditenter may one day find Downing S reet or Wormwood Scrubs. Home-an Old Etoninn, an Ox-
TN Glasgow he found Mr W. ford graduste, and member J. Brown spenking on his of the Travellere Club-landed behalf. "At that time It will
In the 1ess
remembered thai Lord alternative.
Beaverbrook, with that volatile enthusiasm that is apt to swing It wha a reating conscience him, like a trapeze artist, from and muridled philosophy, that one extreme to the other, was resulted in Home's being advocating the immediate open- cashiered from the Army and Ing of a Second Front," Home sentenced to 12 months' im
"In this explains.
endeavour prisonment. He refused to obey he was aided and abetted an order to take part in the W. J. Brown." attack on Le Havre.
by
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THESE CONFERENCES MAKE AN INDUSTRY
-N Britain's
London.
famed By Bernard Harris
"conference resorts"- ranging from Brighton ta Blackpool, Scar-
borough
this
to Torquay-the great
spree promises yeur to be a record-breaker more conferences, more
delegates,
more
talking.
more fun and games, more spending.
Politicians and trade ununists have long been sold on the virtues of an annual conference beside the sea.
con-
Now belief in the efficacy of
The talk and
scarcely
it kers for realed advantages
дений time by all"-is sprending fast in industry, both nationalised anti
tise.
Tree
enter-
Professional bodies, trade associations, locu! outhori- ties, and cranks and quacks of all kinds are joining the fashion- able habit of gelling together to spend anything from two to five days talking shop" -with beral intermissions for sight- entertainment, shopping seeing, expeditions, and sporting activi
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The conference trade is not rich in statistics, But a sample check shows that some resorts have booked this
year three times as many conlerences ля before the war.
Approx. number of
delegates
Conferences
milli to be
held
Blackpool
16
12,300*
Brighton
14
6,650
Buxton
13
1,400
Eastbourne
6
8,000
Harrogate
20
9,000
Hastings
6
2,800*
Margate
3
2,450
Scarborough
13
8,000
Southport Torquay
10
14
115
delegales Lo Raine
no1 yei known.
Total
• Number of
6,000 6,400*
63,000
conferetices
Look At The People
And Places Involved!
letori lu provide hard d. Ink free.
not to
The inmediate cause of his
But Homo stand was the Allied
Second Front. decision allow the Germans nudlence, indeed,
was against the
It was a puzzied that heard
evacuate French civilians from their candidate bluntly disavow- Le Havre before the assault on ing the man who had come to the port bogan. Home thought support him. this was shocking, Immoral action by countries professing Home's
to bo horrified by German methods of weging total wor.
resentment of authority was much in evidence when be was
student Oxford. Because he was dir- qualified from driving a car for 12 months for a parking offen e, he drove a horse and pharton through the city
that ne dissatisfaction could snarl up as
much of
On Churchill
UT Home's
Fur the mayor of a popular B with the war and its causes colors
resort this conference busine can be a tough job. Often be must mak up t appropriate speech of a welcome for dele- Rates of whose netivities he has little or no knowledge,
What would you ray to the of Both National Association Superintendents" Or to the European Orthodontic Society? Or to the Institute of Burial and Cremation Administration? Ог to the Chick Producers Associa tion? Or
the
Sunitary tu Inspectors Association?
'A break'
THESE are just a few of the TH
organisations which are hold- ing a conference this year and which will doubtless expect to be welcomed with some "apt remarks" from the chief citizen of the town they have decided to patronise,
Does this growing custom of getting delegates together to talk about, or listen 10, almost any subject under the sun do any good-other than to the resorts which provide facilities for the spate of talk?
Delegates give varled answers. There is proportion of firm attending the British Electrical lawn tennis, bowls, use of the bellevers: but they are probably Power Convention. And has swimming bath and deck chairs, outweighed by the delegates who As the number
there of delegates doubtless urged the organisers But
19 disagreement admit that their chief reason for attending cach conference 13 to come back again. For it whether Blackpool is in order in attending is that "It makes a larger. It is safe to assume that reckoned
electrical allowing conference delegates to break" live people will be "busy at a experts left behind in the town travel free on its buses, conference" this year for every about £35,000, one so engaged before the war.
Big business
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PHOTOGRAPHS
by
our
Staff Photographers
4th Sea Scouts Dance
Canadian National Day Casam Club Hawailan Night 4th H.K. Scout. Group's Barbecue Local Presentations Local Christenings Local Weddings
School Functions
Available at
a great many con- ferences already held,
A
be
that
the
claims to
A "break," incidentally, which Also thrown In: a mayoral in the case of conferences or- Blackpool, which
with reception,
music for ganised by local authorities is the
most popular con dancing,
cabaret show, buffet, sometimes subsidised by the ference town in Britain, will and soft drinks. But it la a ratepayer-and in some other chalk up at least 100 conferences breach of the rules for any cases by the taxpayers. this year.
**Except for the trades sample 10 inland and seaside unions," an official said, "it is towns still have 115 conferences usual for delegates to bring booked from now to the end of their wives with them-and October. They will attract often their children." 03,000 delegates, who will spend between them anything from £1,000,000 to £1,500,000,
These figures relate only to conferences booked through the
to chilms Blackpool, which
the trade difference between unionists and the newcomers in the conference craze.
local authorities. Hundreds of "Trades unions," It reports, smaller conferences, ranging up "are more conscientious. The to 120 delegates each, will be whole day is spent in discussion.” held privately in hotels.
So the conference tráde has become Big Business. In Scar- borough it is now looked up to "our staple industry." In resorts like Harrogate, Brighton,
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Free golf
ASTBOURNE cellmates that and Blackpool it has become a conference of 500 trade powerful prop to the prosperity unionista brings £5,000 into the of hotels, boarding-houses, shops, town, for cach delegate's photographers, Norisis. and expenses-pald by his branch inotor-coach firms.
"We find that Government sponsored conferences are not olarved for want of money, comments a local official,
average about £10.
Here's The Drug
To Beat
Fear
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
A DRUG which is
alco
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to combat fear is being soundly because of worry
anxiety. Air Ministry tested by doctors.
KICK-PROOF
The possibility that it could A NEW paint which sets no hard that children cannot be used as an "anti-litter" pill for pilots on combat missions is kick it off the kitchen furniture being thoroughly investigated. is being marketed in Britain. Southport, which has been
The big money comes from the
Many thousands of capsules When it in applied to concrete. totting up the Annnelal resulta of the recent Gas Sales and conferences of manufacturers containing the drug have been walking on it with hobnailed
and especially of their sales aviation Medicine, at Farn- tisis claim.
to the RAF Institute boots will not scratch it, scien- Service Conference (organised by the nationalised gas industry), representatives.
The palat is so borough, Hants, where the tests calculates that the 900 delegates
tough that. Eastbourne recalls nostalgiaro being carried out.
when cans have been coloured spent more than £15,000 in the
cally a four-day conference of In the first stages of tim trials and lettered with it they can be town.
200 salermen last year at which doctors, led by Group Captain squashed fat and reshaped...
free W. K. Stowart, are measuring the organisers provided a
saving This use is already drinks buffet operating round the "reaction times of men shipping space because millionu the clock. The hotel bill alone under the influence of the drug of brightly coloured Uns for made in It affects cannod: foods' ara topped 23,009. With spending on to discover whether this scale it is inevitable that their ability to think and act Beliain and exported for filling But for rool enthusiasm about there should be a non-stop battle quickly in an eme
abroad, Now roundi tins, colour- the gas men listen to Alderman between the seaside reorts to doctors will satisfy themselves fully lettered and complete M. D. Bali, chairman of South- port's publicity and attractions corner an ever-Larger share of that the drug do not impale except for top and bottom, can'
this easy money, i
the instinct for: self-preservation be squaslied and packed fal. commitee
before they allow it to be tod The food arms abroad reshape, "The proût made by the cor- They have agreed among operationally
them all them, and fit the tops poration on the sale of refresh theirselves that if a conference. After hospital tests, doctors and bottoms, ments" he says, "has far ex- is hold on corporation premises claimed that the drug-called The paint, which is derived cebded the expense Incurred in no charge need be made, If it methyl-pentene allays appro from patroleum, was developed In America i tried alt on a kitchen stool. The stool looks north side of the Floral Hall.”
TOP RAKELT being widely used Eastbourne has just said au Other permitted inducementa decillata to reduce finie patients up to rough treatment to my revoir to the 1,700- delegator - include free golf, putting, fears. - Hospitals are using is to two youngsters.
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The
enterlaining the conference and is held'la on hotel còrtain rooms hensfon and help" litrAA SE Ins. I will report how it stands.
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had been festering to him for During his Oxford
years.
possible. career he
was sent down twice.
But though politics and the War dominate this
auto- was Home's success-
biography, it ambition to become a
Churchill's advent to power who hla crowning despair. "I
tot riel could
myself of an aversion to Churchill as a poil telun," writes Home. "As
I knew man
him to be
ful playwright, mag- nanimous, brave
full blooded, and readier than most
and
д
to pick up his enemy, after he had knocked him down, and
hand. But I shalie his
look leave to cloub!
whether, if he opplied his private instincts to his public life, there would be any hand left for him to shake nt the conclusion of a totol war, except the hand of a dis- membered, putrefying corpse.
He achieved
his goal, aided by the veteran selor, A. E. Matthews, with bla two comedies, The Chiltern Hundreds" and "The Manor of Northstead,"
His humour
In hia dampened
PRISON Hic
humour.
לת
way DOTISQ of
he At Wormwood Scrubs received a letter from the secre- Travellers' Club lary of the
longer ล
One night he took a young A.T.S. ofeer, whom he had mel
a two-day On
cookery course, out to dinner. The sky was throbbing with planea. It informing him tha: he was no was June 6, 1044.
member and asking him to remove
some of his Bays luggage from the hail forthwith.
"Thus it happened," Home, "that I stood with Mary He patiently wro'e back that Churchill, Winston Churchill's if the secretary could snuggle youngest daughter, watching him in a file, he would the fulfilment of her father's policy--the policy of forcing unconditional surrender upon which I Gormany-the policy
Ineffective way,
in my small most heartily deplored."
bo delighted to comply with his request.
Ti would not be difficult to expose the inconsistencies and weaknesses in Home's political
Home's action at Le Havre views. could hardly have come as a
Thoy make astonishingly authorl- surprise to the Army
naive reading after what we tics. He had fought three by now have learnt about the real elections, while a serving officer, nima of Adolf Hitler. But one to establish the sincerity and Intersity of his views.
can only admire the courage and conviction with which he A world growing At Glasgow, Windsor, and held them. Chesterfield he harangued more and more orthodox and rebels like the voters on the need for war intolerant needs
lins, the incompetence of the William Douglas Homia to help coalition Government and the keep it free.
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