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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1955.
THE H-BOMB ARGUMENT
BOTH (together)" ISN'T IT TIME YOU WERE GIVING UP?”
ANOTHER CO-EXISTENCE PROBLEM
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URGENT PROBLEMS FOR EDEN
The British People
In An Angry Mood
A
London.
General By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
FTER any
Election the House of Commons takes
on a subtle alters tion. New boys are spread around the benches, puzzleti but proud and just a little frightened.
The old boys, like old lags, know everything and everybody. They do not have to be told the rules or look apprehensively at the Whips, No wonder the young M.P. turning up for the first time feels that he has gone back to school.
But this Parliament has seen some dramatic changes, Sir Winston Churchill
fessional wit but he has a real pense of fun,
Inevitably he has come under criticism for appointing to his Ministry so many ald Etonfans. of his Actually, the majority where, as small boys, they had
THE NEW YOUNG ARE OLDER THAN YOU THINK
They exhibit a regard for convention and formality which is apt to make old things around 30 disgracefully juvenile
By Amanda Marshall
THE young are always a Think of Anna Massey, who popular target. The came out recently with a big parly ja Highgate and also
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manners of the young, happens to be a profesional As Long As They're Happy
11
working their clothes, their attitude actress
hard every towards work, leisure, en- night a ponystalls and urchin in her first West End play. tertainment, religion, cuts, pirate pants and black politics, and Mr Johnny Ray, turtle-necked sweaters that
the are constantly under fire. young borrowed from the Boule-
THREE Juvenile delinquency is vard St-Germain seen to me to phrase that strikes terror a return of hats and soft, longer be wall on their way out. I sen
into middle-aged hearts. hair-styles, high heels and good The young are selfish, fr- grooming. A flat rejection of responsible, given to harmful starkness, wildness and rebol- licusness, in favour of ladylike, excesses and mad ob- demure elegance and conformity. sessions. They don't vote at Gentle voice
| elections. They don't get
enough sleep, eat enough Who, after all, are the now sonsible food, they drive public heroines, on what the young might be supposed to cars too fast, and wear frilly model themselves? Grace Kelly, potticoats at Wimbledon, the girl with the easy, natural The horrors.
blond bob,
light
make-up For some time now I've sus- Hent
gentle voice, undramatic pected a flaw in this argument. beauty restrained.
the lady" of the The late-teens and early twen- clothes; ties 1 know don't seem tainted screen...Deborah with the faintest
depravity. Itather they exhibit a regard for convention
and least
gentlect of DAVE .Virginia McKenna, quality is as candid, clean and formality, even and unsultry as Sussex spring
Tutin,
a genuine stern English puritan-
U
ism-the girls especially which morning...Dorothy is not to make old things around sensible little thing who really thirty feel disgracefully juvenile rank-and-pink-champagne
be made interested in the stor and light-minded.
Old-fashioned this
Ministers went to Eton College Victorian Krone by our
attributes that seem so
so dated to serious ge Prairie oysters and green The young do their best 10 hunger-nails went out years ago understand their elders, still with Sally Bowles, These days babbling about the emancipation it is a glass of milk before bed of women and the rights
carly men, and
rehearsal next But it is old-fashioned stuff. norning They have advanced into a strict Mrs Gerald Legge, a doter-
to correct society of their own,
mined and organised girl, is Impulsively crossing the floor Nor is this confined only to of the House he took Churchill's politicians who retire,
as anything Editors
with more ncorned
local government, brains trusts and arm and conducted him to the of newspapers
who are put fable,
hard for the cleanliness of public crockery They work Then
le out to grass may isten to the clerk at the
to than with those flowery hats abr stood back so that Churchill music should take procedence.
of the nearby rushing to wear morning coat and silkhighly competitive entrance
They wears to plense overcrowded S
others river, but what they long for toppers.
It
but I take may not be true,
Lake part-time cheer broke is the roar of the presses.
work during their
And nothing will shake A spontaneous
that when one of vacations. Occasionally a young Jonathan Miller,
Cambridge's from all sides. A great gentle- They always looked forward am told
woman is rusticated for the last truly original and divinely loony to man had paid graceful tribute to
years when they would Eden's friends called his atten the
tion to this plurality he replied:
week of term (last month it was comic now briefly appearing nt Sarah Rothschild), but it don't care where they went
Is the great statesman.
Scala, from pursuing his tivate a garden, to travel and chool providing they are the always for something compara- medical studies in the teeth of came the query: "Why didn't to have time for friendship. Eden do it? Why was it left to But they find that the art of men I want. Do you think I lively mild, such as attending a London's theatrical impresarios London dance without iutor's and their choque-books. Or Churchill's opponent to make leisure requires Gr appren should leave out a good man
permission-never for making persunde him away from ascetic the gesture?"
bootleg gin in the junior com- soft-drinks-only and the habit of toting enormous 'medical text. books with him on lunch-dnicy.
At once, in undertones, there
still there but he is no long- Bench er the emperor. Instead he Premier. sits by the steps of the throne watching the former
Crown Prince
who has
the first must be
on
the
con-
be able to read books, to cul-
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But
of envy,
the
means.
to
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Nevertheless, he would be simple, Mr Speaker is master of
wise
to consider some degree of the House nad he had issued
The industrialist
has w who
reconstruction of his Govern-
More formal is instruction for all to hear.
crented and ruled a kingdom ment before the long summer shall take the Ministerial
And the culprit always seems
What, after all, could be more that the punishment Front Bench firat," he had said. of this becomes the slave recess. He should include some to agree
that he has of
formal was richly merited, and vows to uniform and the oflcer-in-mufti
than the Teddy Boy tough provincial Tory And from the Ministerial Front of the very thing
brought into being. To him M.P.'s who
first-hand ex- have
work much harder next term. freedom bas little but chains.
look of the affairs. of Industrind perience
The New
young at two Young-especially Yet so splendid a mind and There is a big place in public
the girls-consider it altogether different social levels? so brave a heart has Winston life for the Etonians and the more chic and sensible not in Carol Wolveridge, the terrifying I can't walt to hear that Miss Churchill that he will surely Harrovians, but they should be
drink or smoke. They Icave
lot of Tho Bad Seed, is altting Eden find a growing compensation in mixed with men who went to Eden is number one.
madcap parents downstairs to
Bench and on a magistrates' the leisure that taken his place.
the head of the Government,
is now come State schools and, made their evenings of Scrabble or dancing Serenity is the very way without favour or private to the radiogram, while they writing a handbook on how to Yet the very first day of Eden is the leader of the Con- to him.
servative Party. Why should he parent of self-expression
retire upstairs to have seriousing up parents is her spare this Parliament presented a break with tradition or
there is no one
toneliness when
conversations or read for the time away from the theatre. dilemma and an incident, fuse precedent with sentiment? writer sits down to summon which will be long remem- Te Attlee's gesture won our the alchemy of words.
Take this season's debutantes, what of Churchill's Great Britain
is in a tran- Maybe they do take off their bered. We had assembled hearts.
The had hoped that successor? What about Eden? sition period.
defeated shoes, burst balloons, play with for the purpose of taking Many of us
giving up the Already in his brief experi- nations of the last war have yo-yos, tip champagne over bal- he must emerged as Industrial the Oath, for all alike must would accept a le ence of Premiership
com-conies, even dance the Charle- petitors again. have looked back nostalgically do that before they can peerage. He could have had
West Germany ston. Thank goodness they can years when be had 19 working with immense still be so silly and
so frivolous. speak, vote or draw pay. dukedom, which would nltingly to the
worso to deal with energy, Japan is demanding her For the other side of the The process is quite be the last dukedom ever to be nothing
19 picture is a return to strict simple. At the table which conferred except on a member than foreign affairs. In fact as place in the sun, America
Harold reaching a remarkable unity of formality. the practised of the Royal Family. That has he seen his successor,
prac curtsy, set off от bis employers and workers. divides the Government and already been decided upon, but Macmillan,
the presence of the chaperone, Front Benches the exception could have been travels he must have a twing" where has been an endless series escorts home.
But here in these islands the approved list of suitable Opposition
And the play that stands a clerk, As each made for him.
Hardly had Sir Anthony of strikes so many, in fact, currently
seems most popular M.P. reaches the table the We hoped that he would be-
taken suprame ofce when dock that it is hard to keep track with them, The Reluctant come the Duke of London, that
One does not shed Debutanto, takes as its theme clerk gives him the Oath to the Queen would bestow the strikes broke out and the mall of them.
fremcn tears when the first-class pas- engineers and then the M.P. title on him
the fundamental serious good read and
at Tower Hill, why
followed suit. Parliament that he would coine to embled and every eye
had sengers on the Queen Mary are sense of the young as opposed walks to Mr Speaker in his and
was given sandwiches and tes into the duplicifles and frivolous chair, shakes hands and Parliament in barge to take ass
ber, on the new Premier. One might stead of a luxury dinner when idiocios of their elders, exits, or, if he likes, goes his sent in the Upper Chamber, even say that the eyes of the they board her at Southamp
Ho would have brought new
world back to his place.
life and new importance to the world were on Eden.
What an opening for a new Perhaps the stewards have # Think of the deep seriousness Just before this process Uppor House. In fact he could
Hour by hour the ence, but by going ashore in of Dr Roger Bannister. A into the Senate regime, began on opening day, Mr have reformed
was in touch protest they prevent And how Primo Minister
the dedicated young man of iron Speaker announced that he that it ought to be.
have crowded into with Sir Walter Monckton, the Cunard Company delivering self-discipline, a scientifle run- we would would first take the the Lords when
it was known Minister of Labour. There was not only the passengers but the
ner, A Judicious planner of his & growing demand for strong freight to America.
career, Ministerial Front Bench and that he was speaking,
and someone As for the dockers we never then the Opposition Front
who has decided views on the Instead, after his resignation action by the Government. The
the know where Prime Minister, ho
mood grow ugler with
they will striko duties and responsibilities of his Bench.
next.
coneration. nounced that he would contest passing of the days. Thus the first M.P. to his act at the election. While
The community beat the rail- way strike by god humour and rise was Prime Minister Sir Edon was scoring heavily
television Anthony Eden.
and drawing blg But Eden never lost his head, ingenuity, but what is the re
Buth to the rallway workers? crowds on his nation-wide tour, nor did he play to the gallery. Churchill maroly addreased two Again and again in his land The people found that railways, mootings in his surburban con- years at the Foreign Office he expecially in a small country, stituency
had displayed the same strength are not as important as There sat Churchill just
Abdication and resignation and the same padlence, Cer- thought, below the gangway that bring problems of their own tainly to could have ordered separates
the the Government The king who cries "I cannot out the troops to replace
and he was Front Bench and that of bear the weight of my crown" striking dockers,
Will Eden grapple with this must wander the earth like an urged by hothead to do it. problem? Will he have tho the private members. Ono actor who once played Henry IV
Instead, he called on
the breadth of vision to bring Bri-. by one he saw the Ministers and has had no engagement community to do everything Kati into line with the who had served under him since..
strain possible to ose
of lightened moihods of the USA? the railway strike ani, Da He has the taking the Oath, signing on
but has alway
the community ro- he the imagination
If he is wise he will bring The Prime Minister who has dod Once more the British
with their good humour Rab Butler more Into DOODLE Sic Transit Gloria. Chur- endured the stress and strain and good sense; praved une picture. As the controller of the chill would have to walt that the very stress and stain
of office finds, on redignation, boutale
nation's finances Butler is a You Edon was me overlooks cool, uw the new Govenmont unoxciting realist But until Mr Speaker called for
Word the stimulus and the in- ing his Parliamentary duties, comehow the occupants of the par- toxionnt of his whole life, anewered querlons in the must find aqmo SVALY to convince ticular bench on which he Whore on le longed for House, he spoke for half
Labour that every strike epite, now he wonders was sitting,
hour on the strike without ever directed against the community he met the no matter hose justified or un- At last the Ministers had everything is so quiet
**You, but surely. Churchiļi
report Furbined ik concluded their task, and different. He has another book on the mod situation, and The Brits p people are in an Mr Speaker nodded to the t. There are spistare into the Smoke Room which is a Government this cannot to welts and how indeed startede every found time to wander
mood, and BYEN BO YOU Opposition.Shadow Cabinet paint for is he now regulat the equivalons of the offers sufford to let matters dift. We Whereupon came an emo- hung in the Royal Academy? All- messend you will" conside that have great confidence in the ional incident caused, by chin lan kena, but his means w M.PX are at onceer corps, palagingslivet, but I wishy that Olem Attlee, who must be must long for the one of the least, emotional world events, the chu
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