JEAN BULL D'ANGLETERRE
EUROPEAN
NATURALIZATION
DEPARTMENT
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1954.
"IS M'SIEU SURE HE HAS NOTHING MORE TO DECLARE ?"
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World Cometicht by serangtenent with sha Manchacter Quardian
William Hickey
UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES WITH A GENIUS
London. There was a magnificent dosk which Topolski told me and come from a Duke of Portland's ibrary.
WENT to see Feliks Topolski, the artist. They told me he lived under Hungerford Bridge by the Festival Hall,
me.
The taxi-driver dlabelleved
Corotution He didn't think any
body lived tindor the arches. But-urter a cétiain amount of persuasion he toolt there.
mc
I asked him fo walt. I don't Like being abandorred under Hungerford Bridge.
I knacked et a dept. The door war embedded in windows.
Topolski opened the door. A small, dark man in what I recognised es a Polish sheepskin jacket.
I should say it was quite an Important event. For Kenneth Lavey, a young-looking man of 149 who withs the firm, föld; me There were pots There were sheets cavored will between the
of paint that his shop is "gomewhere
Charing
Cross fiets paint that hung from the ceiling, and the middle-class
shops. "The windows come from the And, looking arounds could Abbey," ADRE of the se It caters for a new class that
mid Topolki. 1 about heard him. A traits was Wer. A class of man that cos just has come into bung sinos Lie
passing overhead.
"In fact," he said, "I only got this studio underneath the
thanks to arches
Sie David Ecoles."
Another train rumbled aver- head. 1
Was
Doll Sir David Eccles storing up a reputation for him- self as Minister of Works.
We had passed into the centre of the studio.
It was then I saw a scene such
A train passed over as I had only dreamed of.
π was Q complete fantasy when i went in.
This was a studio come to ....the sort of studio one has
O but
never really
believed
I just didn't believe that artists read of at'll live under such conditions.
There was a vast space split up by partitions covered with Topziski druwinga.
BRITAIN'S TORIES
PLOT A REVOLUTION
WHY
London,
F the ghost of Karl
Marx
abroad in the seething streets of Blackpool, he probably figured he had come to the wrong political convention maybe even wound up on the wrong planet.
For nursery
the
there, among
neon rhymes in
lights, the garguantuan Victorian "pleasure palaces" and the worn red plush bars, 4,000 avowed "capitaliste" were busy plotting a revolu- tion.
And it was not a revolu. tlon aimed at grinding the workers into dust-it was a revolution avowedly aimed at making the workers rich. Some of the nice, soothing words could be written off to politles, if only because the Tories in Blackpool sensed a general election In the wind. But mostly they were talk. and they ing seriously meant what they said.
Frankly, they were
worried. They expressed disgust and revulsion at the meticulously machine-like, planned and carefully trolled society which they accuse the Socialists of try- ing to create.
con-
Threats At Bay
By Les Armour
Simple enough on paper, rough justice which will
But devilish tough in make
that
practice.
Still, they are making an attempt.
Mr Harold MacMillan got the biggest cheer the conference when
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loyal to
the
system itself?"
The answer to the first conditioned question is a "yes"-but the answer the second, as the Tories admit themselves, is a blunt
Ah "no".
An Answer
to
11 re-
There were panels....woodch panels covered with decorations of bunches of grapes.
They hid i bed....but such a bed. It was covered with d Leopard ekin.
"Trilby' touch
"Will you have a glass of sierry?" duid Topolski.
"Yes, please," I Bald, I needed it.
* colourful, easy-dling clother on
the American patterii.
Lavey is an intelligent man. He was a Keutenant-commander In the Navy during thể war,
A: I came away from the party I saw crowds of people who are Lavey's market.
They and thole girl-friends and wives were queuing up
et into the tube
tu
public.
A maka public” An educated A public of the rédib and TV.
I
You imagine‹
WENT to the Savoy 16 sct Gracin Fields having a teb party with spastic children
I have read about spastic children, i have scarcely known what that word "spasite" meant.
But at the Savoy I realised to the full what it mesnit.
Spastic children are girls and toys whole machinery has gone Wrong.
For no fault of their
failed to connect.
at
"You know," I said, "this is thele parents certain cogy have absolutely Sarah Bernhard!... with a touch of du Mouriers "Trilby" thrown in. A leopard-
couch.
it
work of controls and a host Boheme." of bureaucrats.
citi-
They protect the zen against disaster; but they leave him at the mercy of the state at times when he is probably least able to protect himself.
Special tribunals" decide who is entitled to what and why and they can often be kangaroo courts.
own.
Right Balance
was by this time wondering 1 Was é character in "L3 I was only walling for Mim to come in a suy free tiny hands were frozen.
But then another train paserd over our heads,
And
He
remembered that
far more complicated then the And the human machinery is
engine of a car.
easily damaged! And you can Far more delicate! Far more
throw
away # #faulty plece of machinery, bu thank Heaven! we don't throw away faulty picces of
of human machinery! I was probably In a stupid frame of mind
mind. A schlimental frame of mind.
But J found as I looked at those children that my
eyes were watering. 190
I disliked Church used
Topolski is a great artist. At least, I think he is a greet artist. not only has the praise of the intellectuals. Advertisers him-just as the great artists In the medieval ages.
Topolski publishes a Chronicle of drawings, that Illustrate the modem world.
series
'Broadsheet' style
myself for M 1 know that the people who help there spastle children are dry. eyed and practical,
But you know how it is.... you unagine that the child who is having difficulty lifting its cup might be your child.
"You imagine" that the child: quite talk properly who can't
In order to get more copies sold he has an idea of getting men and women, dressed in 18th might be your sister's child. century costume, to sell what
brondsheet" he calls "his
You wish the street cornera.
he was being blm
I bold
on
And
wish that such things shouldn't be. You can't
of
M✡
30,000
of he nounced that the new "own
To that, of course, the your own house plan" would at least really make It
Teries are trying to develop possible to buy a house with
an answer, too. Summing up a heated debate on the a hundred pounds down.
of the subject," Part of the scheme has been ON the Arst question, by berties
manipulating the flow Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe had in operation for months, of tourne, but there was a big of capital, by working out a tricky time holding his hun that the equivalent understand the pattern
of street corner sving in the creation that allows that such anag because after you put International trade agree-
18th century was newspaper
things should happen. down your £100 you found ments, and by directing the
gently when yourself with another £100 economy
it
stands, bootcstalls, and station 1 saw the other day the child- bookshops. And appears to be headed for
ren who were only slightly affect- in legal fees to pay.
Mr Butler the whole thing trouble,
He pulled his Polish peasant ed. The children who could re- has that put
jacket clover mund his shoulders, 2mber a Christopher Robin poem beyond the reach of thou managed to keep things on
E pledged the government to He went and pottred another better than Gracie Fields, But, sands of potential customers. the "up and up" to
HE
make the "tribunals" even-harry. He showed me an ash- there are others who are lying
There which looked like a Greek in bed.. tray But it markable degree.
spastle people. Nearly 1,000 aro will require, if not control, tutally subject to the courts - where justice is not only done,
Another train rumbled over- bam ovɑy year. then at least "guidance."
They not abnormal. They but seen to be done-and to see head. I took a last look at the
to be ashamedl As to the second, the to it that the regulations word leopard skin. I took a last look are nothing
at the shoots dpwooning from about. where they Tories are so sollaly agreed pruned to a love!
relling
It is just that something has And then
I left the studio gone wrong with the machlery. whether they like the served to ensure the citizen his
I don't are what you think not that there rights rather than to enable the underneath the arches,
state to control the citizen.
only those tens of thousands really....I was terribly moved be must
of ways
of
who people
travel over looking a thoré children..
I didn't care that it wis distributing" the wealth.
the long-term answer, Hungerford Bridge on the way the Tories avow, is to find the to Charing Cross Station realised top-powder firm that was put-
between balanco
the what was going on under- thig on the parky. Bir Winston Churchill Social services eduen- right
of the citizen and thencoth!
hon giych nearly drew another cheer when he tion, health plans, pensions, powers
powers of the state. And that I think they are passing over £2.000 for package tops coliseted National against
friends of the by triend said: "We believe that more insurance
other things, a genius.. every involves, among und
of disaster--are
Spratle Sockety. And in addition the
New-class shop more people should be kind
seeing to it that the etizen has
hps awarded the ergmisation an onough resources to stand on owners as well as earners, obvious mERNA.
extra £1,000. We welcome the in-
Eut they not only
eat crisis. creasing tendency of large
Another Cheer
NOW legal fees will be in-
cluded in the mortgage and the government has pro- mised a powerful campaign term or to make the scheme catch
on.
"re-
But
his own In time of personal
ON the other hand, they firms to introduce profit unt a large section of the And that is just what the new
expressed equal disgust sharing and co-partnership national income. They, in "capitalist revolution" has set and revulsion at the devil- schemes."
volve, as well, a wide net- out to achieve. take-the-hindmost society
envisaged by old-fashioned Mr Butler, announcing capitalism and at the ever- that annual personal savings increasing threat of a had risen from £100,000,000 Boclęty powerless in the (less than £2 a head) in hands of a handful of vast
business conerns.
And they saw that it would take a revolution to hold both threats at bay.
IT
was just as well I had kept my taxi on. With the short pgd of buses it was difficult lo get any transport in London. I went to Oxford Bfrect for the opening of a mon's shep.
The firm
A
1 know how how much good that, money will do. I only hopo that money nevar stands in the way of those children getting all the aid they need.
They Set Records For Children
·
1950 to £900,000,000 (JustTHEN Mrs Louis Matildn under £18 a head) last year and were still going up, had Jacobs, known as the a large part of the answer. grand old lady of Wan- *
By
MOLLIE S. PATTON
lilo was Mira Bornard Scheins berg, who died at 60 Having 69 children. There were four sets the of quadruplets, seven of triplets, and 10 twins, but no singles.
Yos, many are the amazing masterpieces of matriming. In
U.S.A., who at 99 presented his
dearah, Australia, died 12 years of age, had a child of two. Then there was For the first time since recently, at 98, she left before her thirteenth year Rev. James Smith, of Virginia, 170 descendants, was completed. The child, wife with a sixis child, nach the war, the average Briton nearly What they envisage, of is earning a little more than She had 14 children, all but in turn, married when quite when he was 10 his wife gave 1907 a man named Nell Paulsen, of Sweden, died at the age di course, is a very British sort he needs to consunte and is one of whom are living; young, with the result that birth to yet another.
Just before World War II 100, and left two sons, one eged than 100 grand Lady Child was a grand- of revolution and they pre- beginning to have something more
there was an even more striking nine, and, the other, 1039), words of Sir to "salt away". Given con- children, and more than 50 mother at twenty-seven! fer, in the
case in Poland. Kaspar Haycol David Eccles. (Minister of fidence in the future, he will great-grandchildren,
Women do not hold, all the wha 103 when he married and
Inside 14, years was the father ODDEST FAMILY Works), to call it the "new buy himself a share in the
Although this was quite records, however. A short time eattloment".
economy through his life
record, it still lage far ago You Mansa, the 41-year-old of three chlidren.
wife of Kwao Amanía, a Gold In 1949, too, a Manchester As for the record for the insurance, his pension plan Basically, the solution is or directly through stocks behind that of Mrs Honey Coast fanner Living at Odumans, woman gave birth to a child fodiest family," is must go to ford of Charing, England, presented him with quadruplets when she was 61, and Inside the Ipswich. During the reign of simply to make the in- and bonds.
When she died, also aged 98, A wook before, Kwas, who is last 80 years two women in Williams the Third, one couste dividual sufficiently power-
her & descendants were 16 hf-by antiher wip wao children
Bud his 10th child born to Britain aged 84 saved birth to had soven boys named Soloman, ful to hold his own against
However, the world. Roger James Matthew, Wo children; 114 grandchildren, is hale and hearts, has 11 record te élained by a Yugoslari David and Ezekiel. Several fat 228 rest grandchildren and whom and 795; of his grand woman, aged while the the cheer fell to
childrenhet odd deficis minie - great - great - gránd- hildren are living O
youngest mother was five-yed?”; old Ling Medina, "whow badly, deep, pit and maryed to den children.
Wa born in a Pera, houpital it. His with-wenzied to: pakkud
the,nöfident and faalde tre 1930
the state and against "big business?
Yes And No
BUT that phrase "given
confidence in the future”! is an important, oha, "Mend
But even this was eclipsed. by Lady Temple of
Put crudely, the idea is "every man, a capitalist.",
Let every man own his own house and a share in Bir David Eccles was not who died hi 1658, Bhi the machinery which pro Just playing with rhetoric, given birth to Lour
duces his bread and bafter. when
Encourage the trade unions, Exp ncourage themamall: rup
Peman and find some a
ehough sto
Stow
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