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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1958.
THOUGH HE DOMINATES THE SCENE AT WESTMINSTER,
TO
THE PUBLIC HE REMAINS THE UNKNOWN PRIME MINISTER
How Macmillan can win the next election
THE excellent showing of Ludovic Kennedy
THE
at
Rochdale, à triumph of personality, illustrates the support which the public gives to a popular figure. Television, instead of lessening the impact of individuals, hug done exactly the re verse and has opened up to political leaders an extra- ortlinary opportunity of presenting themselves to the nation as a whole.
PERSONALITY
The Macmilian enigma...which is he-a crofter's grandson, að Eduardian statesman or a bustnesa man 7
by LORD LAMBTON, MP
hear him publicly announcing that there ain't gonna be any war, and posing for comic pic- tures in Downing Street.
It is vital for a Prime Minister to bo of one character. Mr Baldwin could not have sudden- ly taken to cigars, or Sir Win- Churchill to pipes, ston Gladstone to, lovelocks or Dis- raeli to public preaching.
A year and a half of office remains yot before the Prime Minister, The future of the hangs in the balanco, Ho can ΠΟ longer Tory Party afford in any way to mis- represent himself, nor is there the slightest need for him to do Go. For his genuine personality
elections are not won by divergent views make it Parliamentary opinion. impossible for him to Their individual im- It is worth while trying emerge us a comprehensi- portance iH, therefore, to find out the reason for ble national figure. greater than ever, and so it this. The British public are
The confusion has arisen In worth while examining not snobbish or particular as with frankness the person to what type of man. their partly because Mr Mac- himself seems un ality of Mr Harold Mae Prime Minister should be. millan millan.
They are perfectly willing certain as to which stratum 10 accept For largely upon his pre-
of society he has most a working-class like Ramsay Mac sympathy with; and partly that of a first-class executive sentation of himself will the man
and out- future of the Tory Party Donald, a member of the from a Celtic trait in his with determination
character which makes standing ability-is best of all, in the next 18 months professional classes such us pend.
Asquith or Attlee, an adven him say what he thinks will turer of genius like Disraell, appeal to any During the last few weeks or a steady man of business whom he is talking. the ascendancy of the Prime like Baldwin or Chamber- Minister has been marked. lain.
de
His Commonwealth tour was
a triumph, his television
and radio performances
have been spectacular. And
WHAT CLASS
audience to CHOSEN
LEADER
SUMMIT
"It's an old Russian proverb, Mister President
*If the Mountain won't como to Mahomet
Loddon Express Service
The bride
the bishop
and
the country desire more AT
Now this may be explain- These are the qualities which than ed by his long business career, and may to a certain any other in their leader, and if Mr Macmillan will in future, as extent explain the extraor- he does with such success in dinarily good relations he Parliament present himself as All they desire to know has with colleagues of he actually in, rather than in a in the House of Commons is what a Prime Minister every rank. But the quality particularly suits him, there is variety of roles, noue of which no reason at all why the coun- try should not accept him as their chosen leader, a have Parliamentary....... Conservative
he twice shaped a doubting stands for. And, paradoxi- of sympathetic oratory is House into accepting his cally enough, only by unself- of doubtful advantage to a idealism with the certainty consciously belonging
to Prime Minister whose every and authority of an one class. con a politician word is reported. Epstein.
achieve that sense of the But the competence of the actual unimportance of class Prime Minister has always which is the basis of uni- been apparent at West versal appeal.
THE SURPRISE
For example, imagine the sur-
Party,"
And once he has established himself with the country there is no resim at all why he should not lead the Tory Party to another election ̈victory,
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of
minster. What is an un- At the present moment prise of those who have accept doubted fact is that, how there is considerable con- ed Mr Macmillan as being of ever much he has delight fusion in the public mind simple stock when they pick up ed the Parliamentary Con- concerning Mr Macmillan. their paper and find that he hus
been sitting over a bottle servative
has Some see him as an Edwar- port in the centre of London's Party, he never yet, for some reason dian statesman, some as an Clubland, propounding the sen or other, been able to im- efficient business man, and timents of the grand Whiggery. press himself upon the mind some as a crofter's grand- those who have come to admire Or, alternatively, the surprise of of the ordinary eclector. And son. The pity is that these the statesman in him when they
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ANTHONY HERN
T first sight the case scoma to have all the. ingredients of broad furce.
Here is wholesale a merchant; his plump bride; a párson atrik- sausage
ling attitudes and looking
the
THE BISHOP OF PRATO, PIKTRO FIORDELLI
Communist
Italian prayers of Communist Ago,
threats and Vatican warnings.
Take, first, a look at the facts.
The parallel with Prato Is not so far- fetched...a Primate who 'declares in effect: "What I say in inter- pretation of the roles of my church may run counter to the expressed legality of the age, but here I make my stand."
The Americans have never Pilgrim had to. Oght it the Fathers, taking their stem. democracy with them in their wooden boats, had already won it. I say we won this war in
over his shoulder at his Here is, ralber, o classleal screen of Italian oaths and when the Bastille fell 170 years bishop; and a small town as drama drama that lids over divided over the marriage tones for people in Britain as as the village of Clochemerle well as in Italy, for the church- a public con- goer in London or the chapel-
goer in Leeda.
It is the old, ever-new, clash But today, there is nothing of Church-versus-State that Is for laughter in the Prate story.
taking place behind the smoke-
WEB over venience,
So what? says the man
who blinded Riesel
the transferred THEY
good-looking gangster Johnny Dio from Sing-Sing to Auburn Jail.
Dio, the dapper thug be hind the acid blinding of industrial columnist Victor Riesel, was in handcuffs and leg-irons, along with 36 other convicts, as he was escorted by armed warders into a chartered bus.
RIESEL
A reporter said: "Hey, Johnny, you read the news the New York Daily Mir about Victor? He's begin- ror office, pecking out his ning to see again.".
column, which appears in Dlo, thinner since he went nearly 300 newspapers in
"So North America. to prison, sneered; what. Keep out of my hair. Don't bother me."
A glimmer
R
IESEL was not present
at the prison transfer.
He was at his type-writer in
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
ask is the names of Barbard Hutton'" havadainila;
on and he's tense, ICTVOUS, jlitery.
"I want to see minds In our unions Muscle is not enough. We want statesmen.”
The case of Victor Riesel comes into the news again at time when oorruption is being
uncovered circles.
in
much higher
Umbrage
THE sausage merchant who is theory. The line with Rome was
severed. also a grocer, 33-year-old Church was
But, in England, the conarmed as the Manro Bellandi, was baptised in
the Roman Catholic Church, State Church, os, with the 1829
the fought against the Germans in Concordat, the Church of Rome the war, spent
year in was confirmed us Buchenwald concentration camp, Church of Italy.
ibere and returned to Italy an open differences. In England, the law
and avowed Communiat,
He wooed and won, in tred!- tional small-town style, a local beauty called Loriana,
Of
COUTEC,
State
aro
of the land cannot be flouted by the Established Church (can it Ab, here is the be in Italy? nub of the roW).
But the Church of England can still, within the law, bring ecclesiastical power moral and 'to bear with all the weight of 'a'
Church By Law Established. But when it came to
The law of England says that marriage, he refused to be wed
a legally divorced person may in church. She, in the end, remaITY, The Church of Eng-
Like film, she was born into the Catholic faith. Unlike him, she was sill a Catholle.
agreed to a civil marriage,
the
land carmet flout the law: but The Church protested. Manro the Archbishop of Canterbury, took umbrage, Not only did he possessed of all the majesty of and doos no divorced person" go ahead with the register-office is high office, can A 34-year-old professor, Dr wedding he insisted on holding urge that Bernard Schwartz, has shaken their open-air wedding reception shall remarry in church. Americans by his changes of {AM! those golden Italian dishonest deals, rake-offs, and summer) on the square plain bribery against some of front of the bishop's palace.
govern the men who help to
So a Book was them
Schwartz was key man and cocked. counsel for a vestigating committee until the other day.
Congressional in-
He was compelled to resign, Great drive
He cannot see, but there is an occasional glimmer *when a bright light is shone CCHWARTZ, a magnifcent directly on his tortured eyes. lawyer with. on almost
Sin
In
publicly
So the Church that is by established can Parliament determine that the laws of Parliament are not its lawe. Tho parallel with Prato is not so far-fetched.
On the one, hand, & prélata who says: What I say in pur- suance of the doctrine of my Church cannot be slander, and
I will recognise no lay court that to determines.
On the other hand, a Primate who declares in effect. What I say in interpretation of the. rules of my Church may ruu counter to the expressed legality of the age, but here I make my So Establishment brings its
THE Bishop of Prato reacted both as a human being and as a divine.
He issued a public pronounce- funatical drive, has been probing ment condemning the marriage Riesel. victim of the Into the workings of America's wilch, though recognised by hoodlums, is striving to regain most powerful agencies...the the Italian State, was not recog his sight, and may malte another Federal Communication Com- nld by the Church. trip to see British specialists... mission, the Civil Aeronautics Indeed, he went further. He conflicts as well as ils security..
Board, and the Securities His column is as forthright Exchange Commission.
and fearless as before the blind- Ing, but there have been death threats againal him and his family, and brutal warnings of more weld throwings or worse,
Riesel is bottling corruption and crime in labour unions with his newspaper column and bofore the radio microphone and TV camKOTDO.
Hushed up
There is plenty of room for eorruption among men wielding auch power, Schwartz says that he can expose 11.)
stand
sak that the newly married To escape such, the great anti-
emerg public episcopal movements couple were vingin
Churchy Those agencles grant air-concubinage"-in other words, ed. The Presbyterian lines their routes, com-that. In the eyes of the Church, the non-Conformist Churches, Tuphold the liberty of conicleres, panics their channels, and fix they were living in sin.
They bellove that. demOOTBEF The prices of train and plane
The bridegroom accused him can live peaceably with doctrine, tickets and household gas.
of alander, An Ilallan couêt The supremely 'doctrinaire Church of Rome, found the bishop gulity-and Church, the
believes otherwise. When the fined him £23, with costs.
It is easy to dismiss the Pope' spoake ex cathedra from hullabaloo thos followed as the chale of B Peter he in He has also charged that much foreign hysteria, infalible. No man may question;
There were throats to excom- no man may doubl. there was a White House clique, municate all those who had Millions accept this faith, Ita BEFORE a radio audience of
headed by
conclusions. President Elser taken part in the legal proceed premises and · Ita several. million, Rest hower's favourite, Governor ings against the bishop.
The Milliona contest It, attacked James Hoffn, the Sherman Adams, known as the Pope, looking suddenly older little dandised head of the assistant President, which had than his 82 years, cancelled a Tear alors Union, hurd, been dispensing favour aprawling federation of port workeIS.
Ho, pica claims that the law Hoffa ant Johnny Dio were drm of Thomas E. Dewey, twice friends. Wire-tappings prove it a Presidential candidate was Hoffa had a heart attack. retained by Eastern Airlines to It was hushed up. But Reisel gat a special franchise, and that reported it,
The grant of a multi-million- fold: "Tho bravado's dollar TV channel to a Repub-mus Hoffa doesn't smoke, to lean newspaper thould be doesn't drink, but the heat le investigated.
Rone.
trona-
DON IODON'S DIARY
History
calebration at St Peters, Rome.
The Communist Party roared. defence at anyone will shout IT is unfortunate, perhaps, that the contestanta, is the latest, ing distance.
· Can all this, should all this,, conftet should be an authorija
rinn Communist, who, is; using frost unt I think it does. I think it the law for his own purposes,
an, quiboritarian" bihop,
Sea it as one more battle in who rejects it. the long war loyer who should, venner, R control, the daily life of the ? - More, -sccentric, people that Ryozagu man bro Bletë-by- the Liese bave - highlighted people elected or the Church by oasele dramas in UNIK, pricing appointed, hands
We in Britain wợn this war,
in theory, four, to hundred the boiler"
«trośng ago with the Reformation: Who: WITH WEST The Frendis spot it, in principle, : Judge, has the oven