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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1956.
Why Is Aneurin Bevan Interesting Himself
In Colonial Affairs?
London
six months T is now
Mr since
Aneurin Bevan stepped into the shoes of Mr James Griffiths na "Colonial Secretary" fr the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet.
His change to the colonial Bell surprised Britain.
came
It
a thunderclap to
by
HAROLD
JAMES
the counsels of state, unless it was in the limelight it was un- likely to have templed him.
An examinatiora
of
fective
re-
moments, Mr Bevan would not be averse from
at- ducing the present heated
discuss- of colonial mosphere tous. For one thing, he may well be the next Socialist Secretary and at Slate for the Colonies, bis task would be caster if he on speaking terms with the Opposition. There is sign of that relationship today.
Were
no
ICELAND
has at Although his temper times got the better of him, he colonial has been studiously moderate in con- of all
the people of the colonies, tais in Parliament in recent his approach to the most for he had previously shown maths shows that
Mr Bevan tentious coloniu! issue
no interest in their affairs, has taken a hand only when the Cyprus,
has been He was certainly no colonial e
and, thus,
"fan," like Oliver Stanley, The negotiations
Creech Jones and Boyd.
10
controversiai
Over Kenya he declined public interest.
House over Miss over Cyprus; divide the
Justice In Fletcher's charges, much to the Jeff the annoyance of his extreme
to wing.
Lennox-minstration He tuul travelled Kenya, the breakdown of
Singapore tulks; the refusal
Mr Minoff-all
comparatively little, even as piteille
1
In all of
Minister and most thes bad the makings of n Ministers manage a holiday serne in Parliament. abroad al the public ex. them Mr Bevar has participated. pense. He had no knowledge
at all of Afrien.
office the
th
Not Invest.
Secretary
Cokwini
+
in the latentely ranked high Only two Chipul Secretaries
But when all has been plasm saling, it has been left to the
More Rapefiant than those raws in the wind are the pro-
"drat Heutenant." Mr Creech posals he has submitted for re-
des comment.
of dones, to make some platitudin- visIOR the constitutional mac- considering conlul hnery for offoars. They may not be ac- reptable to the Government, but they show an intention to take the matter seriously.
in the last half renty have ever found their way to No o At one time the post WAN
entradation garded as
for hard-working Party Jarles
Fo extople, after n brush
Colzal Secretary ver Malta rrently, Mr Bevan gathered up his papers and left the Chamber He was not there to wish the West Indies "good luck when the non-contentious
Caribbean of British
Federation Bill came before the House,
But there is nothing like this today. The fi of Colistral Secretary is now of the first
11 has been filled portance. the last few years by men first-rate ability Stanley, Griffiths, Lyttelton, and Lemus Boyd men with the alniity be Prane Minister of England
tredi If
A tradition Has now
The Secretary created that State for the Colonies is a man who matters, bet exclusively in colomal althies but counsels of the dunet
As such h
the
He did not even stay for the opying sprech
When British policy towards The Gold Coast was announced, shin werthed in for the Opposi- 1,000
to express congratulations? 3 Bevno but hu No, L.
Mr
All this suggests
that
Bevan took on the colonies so as to mak
the utmost Parly eated out of them.
the
Yet, doen Nye really want the pubbe polites to be the bone in w the
Does clog Ag
he approach eye So are the colonies.
solely to
party
It was all this, nes doubt thus pants?
However
attracted Mr Ter
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however much he "izeteived in thinking that,
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Alve all was his plea in a recent debute on Kenya tur bi-parties colonial policy
"It is essential that as far as the constitutionul pissible
of the development
colonies should arise from common apree- ment is this House. It would be extremely undesirable if every there was a change of government L Great Britain there was also a change in the constitution of the colonies."
N, one who has listened to the violent exchanges between Mr Bevan and the Colonial Secretary would believe that the words are his.
They are far more reminiscent of Oliver Stanley. But if they were meant and there is do
doubt Mr ;
Bevan's sincerity- there is hope that the over the present party worldre
for problems of the colonies may Te- abate.
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To dodge the heavy blows of the British tax collector, Noel Coward has packed off to live in Bermuda... but the betting is he'll soon be back-the perennial small they can't hold him down boy with the peashooter.
AN ENGLISHMAN OUT
IN THE MID-DAY SUN
By LES ARMOUR
Last night
got
carful From a rather tearjul Clergyman we knew, When he turned the sobs
on,
We replied With
*#*
labouring in an mad Englishman
the mid-day sun, for the bank- their rupt scions propping up stately homes, for the Home Guard armed with "the Vienr's stirrup pump, a pitch-fork and
There space.
would have aspa been no fun in "Don't let's be beastly" but for the fact that the natural reaction of the Briton is the rush to the aid of he's to his
the enemy
minute the down.
knobs
!**! And the same to you!
T
men
HUS,
thumbs
noses, sang three fearful juvenile delinquents
No one satirised by Coward- unless he is very dense--can keep a straight face long enough 10 feel the sting.
it isn't a mere accident that Coward's satire doesn't hurt.
in Noel Coward's "Ace of Clubs." And thus, thumb to nose, Coward has saluted
In 1924, he appeared in his the world for forty yearR.,
own play, "The Vortex." Over- Critics have upbraided night, he rocketed from relative in the him for his inability to take obscurity into fame.
mishit who who life seriously for more than played "u neurotic
took drugs, made sharp, witty one play at a time. Clergy- the That label, he com- licensees,
That, too, is perhaps part of and was desolately ducers, manufacturers, licensers,
performers, agents, the Coward rebellion. have accused him of
to him ever consultants, distributors, renters, debasing the public plains, has stuck
con- In an age proprietors morality. Politicians have since, and hardly anybody ever printers,
since has been able to see tractors, exporters, Importers, people prepared to teach other people anything ол earth, implored him to stop through it.
buyers, sellers, hirers, publish-
Coward
to do has preferred ers, exhibitors, dealers in and gentle, ers, ext he is real life playing havoc with national
than to things rather easy agents of mu relatively
of musical plays, dramas, institutions. The BBC has hard-working,
lyrics, novels, listen. of his going sort who was exceedingly concerts, songs, one even banned
musical his mother kind to
sketches, (she died scenarios, two years ago at 01), goes to compositions. motion pletures, bed regularly at eleven, gets up radio and television shows and
at 6.30, drinks little, and avoids performances, etc. most of the more obvious forms of dissolution.
songs.
But all to no avail,
MARCHES ON
una
Or so, at any rate, he stoutly maintains.
the evidence marches OWARD
is on his And perennial small boy with a side.
the He belongs, in fact, not to the peast poter ready to prick
of pom- roaring twenties which made over-inflated balloons
him famous but the Victorian era, and he has fought a one-
pority anywhere.
World War II brass hats shud-
dered and roared with laughter man war against the twentieth
strains of Colonel century.
(who "emerged
Montmorency
from his retirement for the war) and his struggle to prise a Bren gun from the War Office, ('We've got some ammunition in
a rather damp condition. Major
DISQUIETING
It did not say that he can also stand on his head. But he can. Cownrd is a one-man band in a day of symphony orchestras- and he can out-draw the sym- phony orchestra any day,
He made his name acting, Binging, and playing the plano -and writing plays.
But that is only the begin- ning,
He has a novel more than half written and he has recently proved that he can paint well
enough to sell.
overflowing with
sit and
The Lonely Woman On The Hilltop
FRAU HESS TAKES BUT
5 GUESTS
From
PETER DACRE
F
Kempten, Bavaria.
| RAU ILSE HESS, wife of Rudolf Hess, who was Hitler's Deputy Fuehrer until ho fled to Britain during the war, has opened a litle guest house in the mountains near Kemp-
ten, Bavaria.
She has a 300-year-old wooden farmhouse at the top of a sleep, at Gallen- winding cart-track
borg.
11 is called Gastho Bergherberg"Guest House on Lho Hill."
a
Here, for 4s. to 75. Od. night, guests dine by candle- light under a straw roof and sip wine served by Fruu Hess, once one of the first ladies of Germany
1 am slaying the week-end as Frau one of her five guests.
met me at the door. Hess
Her mass of fair hair was ted with
blue ribbon. She wore faded blue overall and black fat sonduis
a
B
It is very simple, but I hope you will be very confortable," she said. She led the way into pointed to the straw a hajl,
roof, and sald: "I could not afford nything else at 0110 time. But now everybody la enchanted with it,"
MEMORIES
The
of memory
Deputy Fuchrer Hess is everywhere in the house.
In my bedroom is a pleture of him with his wife and son. In the dining-room are Hess's books, some of them Inscribed
"To Relchsmarshal Hess."
In the hall is bust of a English girl bought by Hess before the war.
Ind
The gucaly use cutlery napkins with the monogram R.H.
Frau Hess does not like talk- ing about her husband-now in Spandau
criminal.
Prison ટીફ
war
"I have not spoken to him since he flew to England," sho "But we write regularly.
#usband Ls
sold.
"MY
mentally
never
or
has been.
not
is
Ho
physically.
"I want him to be released
but I have no great hope that It will be coOT When be is freed he will come here to live quietly.
"Everyone thinks we have a million in Switzerland but that
15
not true.
All we have is
in this house. That is why I
T
working to make A
home
for him as well as myself.”
Occasionally she
will
minisce about the old days.
SHE'S HAPPY
When she saw me looking at books about naval battles of the First World War she said: "That was one of my husband's hobbies, He had small models of ships and would reconstruct the battles.
"Once, long before the war, when your Prince of Wales [now the Duke of Windsor) visited us he and my husband disappeared into the cellar,
had
"When we found them they the ships and were fight- ing the Battle of Jutland. They were both getting very angry, about it," one The House on the Hill can
And he has never been pre- to sit and do any pared thing for long. Plays in which
ho
appears are regularly cut short so he can get on to the next thing. Every new medium is a new challenge.
his
The only thing he hasn't been able to do is to abandon "gracious living."
FINAL DIG
#WWENTY years ago he said he
NWEN
would rather be happy than rich. This year he apparently thought that it was worthwhile
At 56 he entered the night And H
taste for what used to be club entertainment business with taking a chance on his happiness
to preserve his riches. called "gracious living" fed a bang and earned the biggest Huss has an Arquebus
in the United him to buy and occupy a 20-room fee ever pald
To dodge the heavy blows of that was used at Waterloo.")
mansion in Kent, States (£10,000 a week). At the British tax collector he has Then the peace-makers shook rambling
on sixteenth century 57, he tackled TV. Ho was paid sold up his stately home and his with rage at "Don't Let's Be built
added to ever £178,000 for the three shows. art collection and moved to. Beastly to the Germans." "We foundations and
Bermuda and since. must be sweet and tactful
And when they've discreet.
The same passion has made suffered defeat we musn't let him believe, firmly like his them feel upset..."). The BBC Victorian predecessors that
cong, but
even
banned the
BIG HIT
Of course, he has stately home, there--with some -of-the trappings.
new
you re Don't let's be beastly" became the nastier side of life should be' TN the flest he offered himself, homes: of England he' stately kept carefully locked behind;, Mary Martin, and a backdrop member, "though rather in the a national catch phrase all the thick doors.
consisting of one sofa. They lurch, provide a lot of chances same.
Long before, the empire build- ers had felt his sting and the war, a laughed themselves silly at signifionaco
plays.
ys. Now a hero must be a fabulous fee. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen."
juvenilo and the upper classes struggling tramp or a drunk or "to prove the upper classes have
Not long age he snorted: "Since song and danced and quipped. for psychical research. There's Vorrible pall of They were an instant hit and the ghost of a crazy younger son 1108 taken over no
Cowards who murdered in thirteen fifty-
1
ono
regretted In a medium choked with
or have terrible sex costly sets, fabulous gimmicks,
still the upper hand" paused # ̈
long enough to roar at The Stately Homes of England.""
VICTORIAN
•
་
one an extremely rowdy nun.......'
Well, Coward's now, home, of and millions of pounds worth of course, has a ghost, albeit the Coward's heroes display a assorted hochah, Coward dared ghost of what is described as "n
dlet of pure Coward
lovely young French girl." present sometimes disquieting lack of to
backed by a sofa“.
It was a And,
of course, he couldn't terrible sex complications - matter which has now and then triumph of man over machine leave without a final dig at the led him to cross swords with Alled him with high glee. English. His now play, "South various kinds of moralists.
He has always had a firm be- Sea Bubble," recounts the ter- colony. And he still prefers a gent to lief that the Coward talent is a sible tale of a British
match for any
Ha took under the mid-tiny sun in which
local
Conservative and a un another level, his rebellion only two music losons and then Labe ward's pon. Except, curious, On
musical... Ho Labour parties, nurtured by the ly, the British working class, for against the twentieth century, dared to write a
Colonial Office, are engaged in a nover took any more lessons. whom he has a marked regard. cuts deeper.
But there wag curious senti ment mixed discreetly with the
NOBODY quito escaped Co
aeld,
Coward had and hos-a deep and sentimental affection for the
His two music lessons are the fearful row over the nationallen Not long ago he applied for a licence to conduct: his business only lessons he has over taken tion of publle, conveniences.
Who wants to bet that Coward In Bermuda. The official legal from anybody about anything, notice said he proposed: ""To since the day he left school for won't be, back soon-tout collec
tors or not? carry on the businesses of pro- the theatre,
1
take five quests "No more, otherwise I have to pay tax," says Frau Hers.
Her son, now 18, is at school in Berchtesgaden. Later he will tution
udy, in Munich to be a con
engineer.
Frau Hess
Joking
la laughing and with her guests
this
week-end. After a spell of poor
weather the sun
that
sun is shining and means more visitors, As she carried a pail of water from a garden trough she said: "I am happy here. I would not like to live in a town again,"
FOOTNOTE.-Hess How to
Britain on May 10, 1941, In October 1946 he was sentenced Ute imprisonment at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Ha is now 02,
POCKET CARTOON by. OSBERT LANCASTER
"Darling, do tell mamis Togliani a racing driver or that new soprano de Glyndebourne???