NEWS FROM BRITAIN
NHE
nowest thing in Anourin
TBritain
Revan. That is to say, the new Aneurin Bevan. Bevan
the statesman.
Phoenix-like, this
paragon
emerged from the pres of the old, firm-eating Beván at the Socialists' party conference Brighten
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Veteran Bevanites, the left- wing ginger-group of the Labour Party, gasped an they heard the macalro reject the proposal that Britain should. if need be unilaterally, refuse la test, manufacture or use nuclear wea pn.
Far it has long been Bevanite gospel that this danger-charged Lesture would be justified as a moral exumple to the 751 of the world.
Delegates,
crammed ho
30-
Jocul ice-rink, heard Buvon, it the toughest speech of his stormy carcer, hurt aside the argumenta of those who wanted an conditional ban on suclear wea- rons as "an emotional spasm."
What is more, he got away with. But only after trade unlon strong man Franit Cousins threw his mighty Transport and General Workers black vole Lehind Bevan... at what cost In terms of erstwhile Bevanite disciples has no! yet been measured.
Now the tvally thing is not so much what Nye did, but why Nye did it,
The answer lay in his argu- meat to the delegates that of the "Enn it at all cost" result:3.on yent through they world "send" fae British Forcim Somelary-- whoever he was--naked into the conference chamber.
Patently Nye had few doubts eboul "whoever he was goingg to be." In short, A. Bevan.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBEN 1937.
The Challenge
HOW CAN WE BE
TIRED WHEN EVERY
GENERATION CAN
START
AFRESH?
TT is not in due nature to think in terms of mir We have not greatness. consciously Bs a people striven for greatness,
But in doing - what wunted with our lives
have achieved greatness.
**
W
we
It is a fact of history that we
it people of destiny. When this century dawind we wherited a great estate,
We have had to spend 11. Not on wasteful extravagance Not on foolish scheines,
But to defend ourselves from the rule of evil men.
And in defending
ourselves prat e those peoples who had nat The solution to defend themselves,
This is highly significant. For Nye Bevan, for all his apprent emotionalism, a canny sou! with a superb sense of peliteul timing. To have gambled as he did on the ability of his per
onality to make The Labourites accept his somersault means ¦ CO in 1945, fired and spent with
that he must be completely con- vinced of Socialist election victory and that he will got the job of Foreign Secretary,
Just how intich he risked must be frightening for him in retro-
For if the speci
party had
voted against him ture can be little doubt that he would have bern finished,
But then, Nye Bevan La spelt-binder from way back.
The Outsider
4
If the British were allowed to choose an
I see in Britain
Today
by DONALD EDGAR
to better than those produced by
anyone else..
We have been the fest marner; the atom to our ugen,
Promcilian sk that wil
it
tank with the great anonymous inventions of the wheel and the taming of the horse.
Our turbo-jels.....the Viscounts anti
1: Bilemmas....prothy whine atron, the sition. Firat in The Neki nd unsurpassed.
Our jet, the Comet, took the air. will follow. If there But 1 crushed.
others
the Jalf....it was being too adventurous
WE
Was foult
ก
Vie have asked for no favours, The envious world, half-wanting in declare our decline, has given us no favour.
We have accomplished all this by our own viforis.
Failures
course there have been dit-
fcullies. Of course, there Have been delaya in delivery dates. Of course there have heen complaints or quality,
take note of all these fadts....perhaps too much,
Wr Records
JE hold the air speed record. Campbell as flushed neross
Triumphs the waters faster than any other
da struggle, but rightly proud with victory, we had to turn in the lasiness of cutning Our Învinta
I'
In 12 year we have earned so many fitumphs that history may say these yesha guaranteed the
Brit glory of our second covery.
NEVER has e ingenuity, the kill, the determination of our ence been so apparent
Ot bericulture is the most highly mechanired in the world, Our vich are the envy of ether lands.
Our culte ar bought by the wold to restock the infering nerdy
For It is not in our nature to think in terms of our greatness. So conschtas are we of the highest standards. So conscious are we of the heritage we received, that perhaps we exag- gerate to ourselves our day-to- day troubles.
There is a strike....we worry tale is .... We fret.... We
moments We say, in
D
Our chips are at the best in frustration, that this is the end and that things cannot continue
the world.
Hes Patr
syn-
like this.
In fact our industrial relations are quite reinarkably good.
In
industries.. ricetroaless, plastics, and
rtie
Sul "rant. we have pushed for word as fast nt, f In NEVER has our sense of civit not faster than, any other responsibility ben 30 tested country.
Our taxes have been immense
Exports
But they have been pud eleventh eunmand-
And yet, at the same time, wh
$1. invested have created
pattern Empire and the Common-
ment it would mest likely beve "Thou shalt not be cruci animals."
to
The people who enuld make eups of tea for German pilots shot down during bombing raids reach for their eplihet, if they hear of someone being cruel to an animal.
"Horsewhipping." goes The popular reaction. 3: Ian cond for them."
Yet last week in the corre- sprudener columns of the very British London Tiaw appeare that Braton animal-forlag
a letter unging
should get their
emotionalism jau proper
spective,
ניירן
1
(You really have to Nee ja Britain 10 i parecile The Anorrwity of thi, auggestion).
Whi had inspired the water was a court case winch a rez spectabile, retired Lusiest mun had been sentenert in six weeks! London imprisonment by a magistrate for stamping samt
The letter writer con- puppy. pared this sentence with The four weeks pered on a danger ous driver who had injured wonian pushing a pertimbulator, The British were apparently unimpressed by the argument, And later in the week a popular London daily devoted it: Trond page to the photograph of e young man who had been haut- ed to court for being cruel to two cats. And the treadline was "Picture of a Fiend."
Heather On Fire
A
A
The lesst popular elsa Scotland are the Macmillans. In Glasgow, * crowd several thousands elivered apeaker who roared wrathfully: - it was lett to me i know what I'd do with the Mae- millans."
What had brought this fine old Scots fumily into public scorn win Glasgow at any rate---was the gokigs-on of the Right Honourable Harold of the ilk
Harold As Prime Minister,
wes being held responsible for the decision to amalganate the Highland Light Infantry with the Royal Scots. Fusilier
the
Now, it is perfectly in order for the English to have ther traditional county regiments amalgamated, evča for Guards to lose a couple of Battalions in the interesta of economy
But and efficiency. amalgamate the LI...
regiment Why, the
is the epitome of Glaswegian spirit. tough, brash, cocky, unconquer- able. (During the First World War some of its more extrovert members were said to favour the razor rather than the bayonet for in-fighting).
So the drums, rutled a "hun- dred pipers skirled the regi- mental march, and twenty thousand furious Claswegiana stormed through the elty to a rally. the general purport which ceemed to be that
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Harold Macmilion over decides to return to his ancestral home he had botter, grow a heard and
call himselt Meydougal.
by PETER BURGOYNE
WE
of life which he cluaired work and lemate, a rising standard of wed living, more education, and a
Jov Ce
healin 1:21 in the of it, erander of the world.
131 Life
But our greatest achievement
w have exported. 1938 we exported £470 million.
It is no1 In our nature a 1045 it was C450 million. Is think in tetras of our great in 1656 it was £3,318 million. And even allowing for the fall BUSS,
in the purchasing power of the £, that is a fantastic rurLOSK. We rjalised that the invest scents of this past had gone.
But now and again, it is good to look back and consider what
have done Aug 14 tim
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that present achivements with our peas to the intare
our own quiet, sensible way we have come a long way Sure
the times when long- drawn-out Mrikes and Inck-out: were allowed to dislocate the life of the notion for months,
Both sides of industry know
A
A population of 53,000,000, working population of 24,000,000.
And
-
the British not emigrated?
We are more than an island, Tryddin We are more than a race. are an idea.
beyana mr population
Commonwealth We exaggerate our troubles. tions that we have fathered Wo minimise nur success,
Canada, Australia, New Zea- When there is emigration... and South Africa is still with especially the post-Suez emigra us though recalcitrant and lion....we talk of a lack of proud of her Boer blood she is faith in the future....we talk pursuing her own path.
Beyond of the loss of the youth,
our populations are from since when have the countries se pencuc Andi vet
barbarism
Tyranny Pakkinn,
Ceylon, the We What Indies, the Afrigin Empire from Rhodesin and Tanganyika So to Chana and Nigeria. So vigorous is cur stock.
Their leaders boundless is its enterprise and
and through That in those leaders their peoples biti sense of adventure,
very generation there are those their institutions... are 1- who go abroad to found new bued with our traditions,
experience. And have acquired nations or strengthen others.
our landkurds.
And since
of reaction when they nequire their freedom those leaders tum IT is always in our favour, gahed us. It is in the long For every woman or man run only the same psychology who goes to settle abroad that makes every son in his spreads our way of life.
adolescence furn against his that We realise apart from earning a livelihood father. A few years makes alt
the difference, fue reasons there are other
From all those Canter's living reasons such 21
as well as draw strength... beriy, justice, and the complex give it. of ideas we rationalise As fair play... we know that in send- ness..
We may not, talk of our great- but there is
ExamplesAit, even if in the flush
ing our sons LTIC daughters Briton bam whn
brund we are adding to
aur
realise that he reasons for existence. Wo aro
greatness. broadening our destiny.
There is so much nonsence talked about old nations.
We
not a cloes not
A part of
to
is
And there is no reason believe that our present genera-
As members of humanity we tion is betraying the trust.
are all of the same age.
We are all contemporary. Every generation starts nfresh,
to in in spite of the high word: Some have a great past poken at
times....that aspire them. Others have nothing reasonable arrangement of wages
or little..、
to look back and conditions will be reached, on.
The British youth are lucky,
When
Look at our nation,
It works. It is neithg. 1ts: standards of living... housing, are much food and clothes...
before higher than they wer the war. It is a highly educated people. But, above all, it is a zestlessly creative nation,
Arguments The past is so splendid that it eidem painters... they are
can act only as a spur.
Our great artists of today are
the designers of television sete, machines, moter-enis, washing
Victories tankers
T is stupid to remark 100
much the high words. W
And are a high-meltjed race,
The Sheratons and Chippen- HEY talk of mur smallness dates are
industrial today when we argum........sve sergue,
There are signs of vigor. As if that was in any way designers.
relevant to a people whe, when And it is they who ure The Sn we have gone out into the Not of dueny world and let them our goods
population of craftsmen of the prevent ag anything goes wrong they had because we A perfre 6,000,000, defeated the Armadu But since we must rely on. in a Betely ecompetitive Market.
want of Philip II of Spain, who held have we been able to tionists....because Why
U of Europe as his fef sell our ears mir engines.... everything to en nowothly.
They talk of our smallness. cloths. cour
enemies we grow annoyed,
As it that had anything to do really temarkable thing
have gone with a people who in 1940 stood it for ut, price is how few things
alone against the might of the goods have been wrong.
greatest milllary Pawer of the world.
it of
We have done match And when we have liked
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takar
the
berth the substr
hau been the Such and eatet nyhet
re ter Dees or plish great ventures in too
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Because
for price, ou
The Foreign
Secretary Designate
COLIN
"UGH! BEVANITES!!"
T
Wo
Cummings
Ban the
H Bomb!
Mrs
TRIBUNE
Castle
More
Socialism!
Jan
Mikardo
They talk of our smallness. In the framewort of the size and population of the United States and Soviet Busria.
Forgetting that number: have
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quality and Inventiveness, RRGICAL probiere must alwaye The education
especially velnical education."
Opportunities
IT is a challenge thus as a nation to invest heavily pessible in cur youth.
And is a challenge to every industry to help every young
never meant a thing in the his- and woman to realize their
ability to the full. tory of the human race. That
With much done and
Bismarck was never so wrong! much to do
as when he said that God was the future.
Britain faces)
on the side of the big battalions; It is an exciting age in which
For the story of humanity is to be alive.
the story of the character of individuals.
And as a ther
though the world may not. ke to admit
it we produce individuunis of great worth more frequently than any other vice.
The opportunities opened up
by the new science reas boundless as those that exelted
mankind, at the time of the
Renaissance,
We have only to be ourselves, Although it In pot in our to have high courage and great ture to think in terms of our ambitions. to take the pealtion greatness.
In the warlil that is our birth- Fight that of trader.
Not that we are so small.
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