/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1957.
"The man without a voice"
I
by Frederick Ellis
SPEAK for the people in Britain whose only sin is to earn more than £30 ø week. And do not
He earns upwards from get me wrong. I am £1,500 a year, £30 a Ho sends his kids not knocking at the private school--and praya fellows who earn nightly that they will win a much less.
State scholarship at the 11-plus.
;
But they have no trade that nobody cares a hoot for week. union bo take care of them, them. They are expendable,
a no trade union to see that
to
They have spokesmen-- And will struggle to givi powerful spokesmen' — in Whitehall and in the union them a better education if And struggle meeting places who speak they fail. up for them. But the 30. still more to give them a-week-plus man
university education. stands with only a muted voice- his own.
His son may win a State scholarship worth £280 a I mean the little chap year-but because he earns who has a slightly better 30 week the grant is whittled down to about £60 car than you Can ufford.
He pays the rest- The chap who leaves his a year.
and in his taxes home at 9 .m.
pays for with the
busman's son
the to go to well-known white collar and
same school-FREE.
brief cuse. Stre we all Anigger at him.
He lives in his own house struggling to pay off the building society mortgage that keeps on going up.
He keeps his garden mat because he likes it, not be cause it is laid down in the council lease.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
said all along that Abdul was mad to take Fatima with him on chat mission to the U.S.!"
Over £2000
hu carns over £2,000 a year-that is worth, tak- ing the Government's own
£630 figures,
at pre-war surtax, prices he pays established when £2,000 bought £2,000 worth of goods back in the twenties.
their wage packet keeps in step with the mounting cost of living.
Whittled
HIE Industrial worker has THE
a trade union out there battling for him, as in the shipyards at this very mo ment. But the professional man has no such cushion, bave been His standards slowly whittled down since the end of the war.
The middlo classes are
But let the politicians read the writing on the walls the middio classes have had enough.
"Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen" boa run out on the men of Whitehall. The middle classes' clarion now is "It mat- ters not who borses Whitehall, they will kick us to death."
There lies the Bcods of anarchy-tor a 90-seat majorily in the House of Commons de-- pends on how the middle classes vote. Or how they withhold
their vote.
Next Week
I fed up. Fed up with petrol TS say after three recent by-lections. And next week rationing. Fed up with the middle classes of Newenstle paying high taxes and get upon Tyne und Ling little or nothing back Kent, will speak, in return.
Fed up with working
hours of overtime to be re- garded as outcasts .... be- cause they strive to muin- tain standards that should be the target of all.
And they are Bred of getting the same disdain from Govern ments, whatver the party
colour: Socialist Goviments who regarded them
as “seum";
apparently, regards CA Tory Government which
It's tough going to earn 12,000 a year, even now. In fact there are only 281,575 hitting such a pay packet, expendable. compared with 15,860,000 The middle below £2,000-a-year tux. realise
payers.
It is from class familles
the middle- that comu
the brains the brains of industry, the
brains
Wiem as
classes ut last that they ilve in 11 vacuum of politicians who do not give a huot for them,
Turning
of DUT eveti The Worin will Government in fact the tum. And by Jingo this people who really make the worm is turning fast, wheels go round.
Take the Wednesbury elec- tion. The Tory poll fell 7,000,
AL Leamington tho Tory
They are the people who make sure that the metal stronghold vote slumped 11,300
is there for the man at tho bench to work with. And they are the people who sell the finished goods when the man at the bench has made them.
BOAC
and
safe vent became # precarious one,
The summe duy Bristol Weat showed live perccht swing to Socialism because 8,000-odd Tories stopped at home.
Sure the middle classes are Tevolt they now know
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY BY CUMMINGS
LIS
"All nations are equat, but
Some are more equal than othert”
Hurrah! The learned Judge has noticed prisoner No. 41
Cummings
ISRAEL
MEN and POWER
BY LORD BEAVERBROOK
FOR Chapter Two of this series of extracts from Lord Beaverbrook's famous book. "Men and Power 1917-1918," the attention turns to a man of measureless influence on all our lives--WINSTON CHURCHILL, Today you read how, in the years of crisis. temperaments and events combined to provide Churchill with the chance that shot him forward.
How Churchill was schooled in the strategy and politics which later thrust him to the top
SKETCHED BY THE AUTHOR-1
The following note an the Churchill person- ality la taken from one of the brief but vivid biographies prefacing Men and Power 1917-1918" (Hutchin- sona, 258).
MLP. for Dundee and 43 years of age in 1917, Winston Churchill was married, with three young children, and Hving at 41, Cromwell-road, S.W. He had been educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. By 1917 he had won for himself a con- siderable reputation as a writer. IIL blography of Lord Randolph Churchill masterpiece. was acclaimed Although he had begun to paint, he had not yet received recognition as an artist.
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He was in this year of decision the most astonishing and the most remarkable of all the Ministers. His conversation was pleasing, his companionship was exciting. He had no rancour and few hatreds, ffe was in every sense professional politician, having trained himself for his vocation. Impetuous in action, he was determined when resisting opposition. He sang the popular music- hall melodies in n raucous voice, and without any Instinct for tune. Ils bridge, which he played occasionally, was exceedingly careless, and his card sense almost non-existent.
He lived well, and ate everything. He exaggerated his drinking habits by his own remarks in praise of wine and brandy. He appeared to smoke cigars incessantly. Not at all. He smoked very little, although relighting a cigar frequently. His use of matches out- stripped his consumption of cigars.
พล
Cor
1917 -
1918
administration, knew, at once
with perilous force Prime Minister.
OVET
the
Lloyd George's throne Lotter- ed. But it did not fall,
In this atmosphere, Churchill returned to the Administration. that the crisis could not be far. He was to prove a powerful off. He had no doubt the reinforcement, but it was many urgent need for action, and little
doubt what form that action Years before the ill-feeling and
the recriminations died 'away. should take. Churchill could not be left out of the Govern ment, He must be fenced in.
the Churchill, rejoicing in opportunity to serve the nation What could not be squashed in an important office directly must be squared and what could bearing upon the war, had no about the feelings not be squared must be squashed, illusion
stirred up by his appointment. Faced with the danger of He looked round at his new parliamentary
with defeat Lloyd Conservative colleagues George displayed his ussal an understanding and humorous Intrepid coolness. Indeed, his eye, As the Prime Minister set courage whe always more of off for France a few days after the moral than of the physical the appointment, the new Minis order,
ter made an amusing appeal to him.
Rising to Churchlil's challenge,
he delivered a speech which "Don't get torpedoed," he c- commanded the attention and joined him, "for, it i am left respect of the House, «
alone your colleagues will eat :
After the debate, Lloyd George me." mot Churchill behind the But he knew that he had Speaker's Chair. What happened reason to be grateful to Lloyd then is recorded by Churchill.
George.
Vitality
"In his satisfaction at the course the debate had taken," he writes "(the Prime Minister) assured me of his deter. mination to have
me at his
HAVE a picture of Churchill side. From that day, although
my mind in the year holding no office, I became to a large extent his colleague. He his room at the War Omee, 1919 striding up and down in repeatedly discussed with every aspect of the war and
tingling with vitality, Bold and
many of his secret hopes and imaginative in the sweep of his
fears,"
My task
conceptions, prolific of THOW. ideas, like a machine-gun of bullets and expelling his notions
onument in UT
manner.
Fertile, resourceful, courageous, he was always tolerant, though in this
age occasionally wanting in prudence,
NO Lloyd George began to
and to prepare the ground for
The political front was ot the return of this contentious course in confusion. These were figure to Whitehall.
days of braken lights of political Elis fear of Churchill impelled taita. Was he nearer to Asquith's him onwards, but his concern brand of Liberalism or did he for the consequences of Con- freely accept Lloyd George, and Dervative antipathy paraly ed-the Coalition? Was he a liberal
his final action.
It was on July 17 in the after-
or a Tory?
He did not know himself,
noon that I was summoned to No. 10 Downing Street. As Surely he had a foot in both walked through" Whitehall my camps. Not intentionally, but
none
of optimism unfalling measure INSTON
the less, what he did Lloyd CHURCH- feared that all might be lost if tactics,
George
he had prompted me to believe that abroad picased the Tories and ILL was the most his services were denied to his frightened. Very soon
I would bo offered at inst a infuriated the Radicals, ⠀ When country.
suil more cogent reason miserable mum in
alarm.
place in the Government dealing he spoke at home, he was cheer- Britain when 1917 ushered
with war issues. My confidence ed by Radicals, and how be One day, he passed a message was strengthened by the valled annoyed the Tories! to Bonar Law as they sat sunshine and the warmth, with It was not inconvenient to be together at a meeting of War Cabinet. It read
His gifts
this
mood, Churchill became an outspoken critic
seldom
My Dear Bonar,
in a position, which ...permitted
the dry, exhilarating air.
him tô step off with either tool,
When I was shown into the
Master
D.L.G.
clear.
༄
pected him to speak.
of middle
in the fourth year of battle. A great and critical war was unfolding its drama, yet he was playing no part in guiding the struggle he who foll himself, of the Government. He was who know himself
I think you ought to know Cabinet room, Lloyd Georgo to be constantly formulating criticism that Asquith told Winston that, was denial and talkative. But equipped by instinct and train against the offensives in France. if he came in, he would put him he did not say the words I ex- ing for a directing role in war. Even in the House of Commons In the Admiralty,
Quitting Asquith's Govern- he attacked the Government for mont
TE talked brilliantly and with after Gallipoli, he had their conduct in war. Strangely
H The implication was
He reminded me that I had 1 all the -- andou gone to command
bo a battalion enough,
voted in France,
perhaps in one division out of Churchill would be tempted to for long urged bim to bring age. Some persons said he talked join the Asquith Alliance. Up Churchill into the Administra- too much. He never surrounded three -- and never against the to this point his relations with tion. Very well, the time was himself with those who were Government.
Asquith had been no more than at hand. What, he asked, would only good listeners, His conver He sat on the Opposition friendly, neither strained nor Bonar Law say when tie Con- sation was best when he spoke Front Bench
his old Intimate. He had been a power servative back-benchers howled with a trusted companion, man of extra- Ministerial
ful independent Hordon, extrae Minis colleagues
critic
of the in angry unison?, Churchill Government, In future,
Although he had not attained debating strength, of originality and his neighbours there was a might be a captain in the The question could not confi- to his great prestige, hò, was apt and resourcefulness. At
answered. hostile forces. The danger was dently be
Lloyd even then to hold sway in a height of Д
major war he was They saw him as a useful but possibility of Churchill joining newspapers
grave indeed. At any risk, the George would announce to the large gathering, acting, all the out of employment,
the changeo in time. He was a fine actor.' And incalculable ally. They were the Asquith-Brass Hat Allance Government bringing into the occasionally he indulged in Yet the greater part of his aware that he was seeking office must be shattered. carcen had been occupied with tandem,
Lloyd George. In the problems of a military kind. He meantime his brilliant gifts of had made a thorough study of aratory were RD ever-present
Wasted
TIERE WAS a
with
Yot between
the failure of sympathy.
about
ON
Danger
the
of Munitions the mimicry of the speech of certain Ministry much-praised and greatly abused of his colleagues. Member for Dundee (WinstonHe drew from its well of ex- Churchill),
perience. He differed front many
communication
the arts of war; ho had pub menace to the Administration, Ushed no fewer than ave books And now that the old dividing on military subjects; ho had lines of party loyalties had
It would be my toxic to go at of his political contemporarios served actively In
ind once to Bonar Lavž, and tell him, who had stock of stories fro Malaland, melted in the confusion cathed May 10, 1917,
Secret Session, the Sudan, South Africa and in by the Lloyd George Coalition, opened
Churchill of this exciting news, A strange quently repented. He was always the trenches in France. And he Churchill, could sway, the House Opposition. He reviewed the Leader of the House of Com- Here I leave him, All the debate for the method indeed of informing the truthful. He could keep a storet, had held command al the of Commons. and win it over military position in Franco
but Admiralty at the outbreak of with his eloquenco.
ib was a line "of Europe and spoke with intensa
years of the First War may ba the prezent disastor. Ho rightly lloyd George's position while conviction dret a policy that George adopted in difficult con strategy and in poilies equipping which Lloyd regarded as a schooling in felt that he had special talents the war continued to go badly would ad the Fronch to offer in the crisis of world was therefore. Immensely British High Commands to drag time
and ditions, and not for the first Winston Spencer / Churchlie au procarious.
oach other into
the Master Mind of the work fron): Ingbond he was extruded from
band A great speech by Churchill, a the centre of action by men of cunning move by the generals, spooch: of considerable power Churchil
disastrous adventuros. It was
announcement of air was as yet far, far distant,
appointment **ad fessor ability and initiative, and a direct thriet by the Asquith and Authority, and Chick Minister of Masisions, together his owledge and his Inventive roupeach of these or all resumed his seat amid the with other changes in the Ad- noss, of mind--all were wasted together might to corrtyr Ust: day enthusiastic mechairm
of the It was a time of grievous against the Government rentHour ministrid fom, wall publiked frustration for Churchill Be Boeing the whole pleture with ur Lord Cisoryn, confronted with : 150 Phone be July, 18, zlatá dood, there were days whan he the eye of a master of politicsă a Pasiiamant critical of his At this, the tempart brokR
war.
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