JACOBY
on BRIDGE
THE-Hate Hat Sims was
once
asked, "How would you have played that hand?" Ho promptly replied. "Under an assumed namo,"
South's four-heart bid might also come in the assumed name play left category but his nothing to be desired.
East won the opening ump ivad and shifted to the jack of spaces. South played the queen and West won with the acc. A spade return lust to South's tho king and he promptly led suit back.
East won and led a Fourth spade forgetting that when both sides play the same suit one is likely to be wrong.
South ruffed and ran out all his trumps but pnc. He dis- carded one club and three small and diamonds from dummy
Im- East and West coch felt
hang on 10 three pelled to
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EAST
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Opening lead-2
Westminster Wonders of '58
M
LLOYD
TR SELWYN
WIS easily the out- standing politician of the year for sheer durability. With hardly any visible. mes of support, his fate seemed certain 12 months jagu; one and all were agreed poller after the 1953 upris that he could not possibly survive Foreign Secre-
A
1 Communhan being sold to !|
veterinary ngeon of 55 lassted:
is only acceptable on Communist teus, although they hellove
j ceni are against it some kind of federation Will Ademuer has come sooNSF- already rejected federation
meaningless.
Port No. 1
ars
But one top ited was frank "Adetikus cannot live for ever. will One day West Germany vole a Socialist Gaverament power. And then we can start tolking." he said.
"One day the West will wake up shocked to find our industrial capacity something to with."
Warnemumle and are cases in point.
Paghts Bait
th party reorganised the secret
stucket low heavily on any
siva and rombined th
foud, lary.
with re Korais, more
Jik Jenwer prken Non-party Fast
Yet there he is, stll master
Foreign Offler,
(-AND IT'S NOT AN ALL-STAR CAST!)
By GEORGE HUTCHINSON
TWO men have dominated the political year-Mr
Both have become, a Macmillan and Mr Gaitskell. never before, the undisputed and unshakeable leaders tenant of their parties. But what of the others in politica? Germans are of the
of the glorious house that goes The China Mail Political Correspondent spotlights those Brmly convinced, the Reds pos-
voice of Britain who made the hits... and misses. sionately want to liquidate West With R, the Berlin
window of abroad. Capitulisen Curtain.
1 saw
45 16 is wa behind
the
Iron
Red Army troops, of
Maddening
which that are 400,000, only Nobody can be more astonish-
of
special recognition as the year session ane November night ended.
by the rare and cunning dodge The strangers. "spying Mr Wigg could quickly have Torics were furious. been folled by the Government hall Whips. Alas, they were asleep.
The most maddening for the once in my 500-mile toured this Mt Lloyd, He had given must enterprising, depending on
Instead, your point of view) the GEORGE WIGG.
Longgia-toeskog
battalion
Un
anselt up
for lost, nel Being range in a blinding the doghouse has become reckot
nowstura bually unconcerned grace and favour residence,
But a good many others to about the bitter cold
Parliament are also entitled to The political climate.
Rostock
MAC'S SUPER PANTO COME INTO THE NEVER-NEVER LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE
SELWYN THE SLEEPING
SUEZ BEAUTY,
DO NOT DISTURB
ог
TINKER
BELL
AMORY
RESERVES
SUEZ
Was MR
This in the Socialist MP who forced the House of Commons into private - practically secret
"Oh dear! Everything was going super till Randolph started rubbing that
confounded old lamp "and" woke up poor Selwyn . . .!''.
Landen Bepresi Beraien
To the Whips, therefore, subsidiary award for Inertia 1830.
Indiscreet
SIR DAVID ECCLES, ning true to form, Just opportunity
during the
IL
in
In the
vanishing-without-a- trace stakes, only one Minister had ever come near him-LORD SALISBURY In the previous year.
ME PAUL CHANNON, on the Tory side, had been so much more fortunate,
Adopted for Southend West, at 23, he was the luckiest of politicians. He was also the most presumptuous.
The fourth of the Guinness family to take hold O! this division, one after another, bo bad conferaed Southend West ns the pocket borough not of the year but of the century.
MK HUGH DELA"GY was the surprise packet of 1950.
His is a valce chiefly heard in the inner councils of what used to be calicd the Devonile group. Yet single-bonded in the Cammons he stops An arms shipment to Cuba. Then he ups this year. and attacks the Speaker into
ne bargain.
A rymptom of the General But Election fever, 1 duresay. breathtaking, all the same.
Ponderous
His Socialist colleague MR MITCHISON- GILBERT
the Parlia- Naomi's own-was mentary bore of the year.
Το call Mr Milchison pon- dercus is almost to flatter him. He touched nothing without dendening it. Myself, I have never encountered such heavy
run weather outside the North
no Atlantic.
This year
Was a
considerablu
to further his reputation as achievemeal, for Mr Mitchison the most indiscreet and ham- End fisted of Ministers.
ת!
at last outclassed MIR CLEMENT DAVIES, MR HENKY
and the BROOKE
MER JAMES GRIFFITHS.
himsel Surpassing very last days, he even launched into an open squabble with our allies, the French Govern- ment. Here was a flourish that ever no other Minister could rival,
By any reckoning, Eccles again toolt the cake for tactless
DQ59.
Distinguished
The MP most eligible toj promotion was MR PETER A distinguisher, RAWLINSON. speech in the Wolfenden debate added greatly to his reputation. Yet his real prospects are not should say~ĴOT
MR RICHARD CROSSMAN was the man who did most for very high, 1
reward. Roman Catholles tend to be his party with least Brilliant in debate, a chormer overlooked in Tory administra- personally, he still talled to rise tions.
In the Socialist leadership.
MR EMANUEL SHINWELL Wrestling with pensions and won again the greediest of MPs, fatting down hogeing time during Quesitons PIANONSalon, the Socialist policy, he had with a nerve that one had to become the leading exponent of admirc.
Mr Shinwell
invested the
the half pay on retirement scheme. Working away right letters PC with a new meaning: up to the autumn he had gained Prize Chatlerer. further tome 25 principal The most disappointed MP MAN- SIR BEGINALD author of MR GAITSKELL'S was
NINGHAM-BULLER. Attorney- glossy pre-election manifesto,
LORD FARKEN was
Yet when he put up for the General. Shadow Cabinet Crassman was He wanted to be Lord Chicr again robuffet Would he never Justice..
over all those dulf old preferred. trade union MP who continued - to purn him??
מטר
The most disappointing: MR ANEURIN BEVÁN. The old
The fastest disappearing act. dynamo seemed to be running was performed by MR PETER THORNEYCNOFÍ, ‹
Up to January 6, ill Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, he was
down. Mr Bevan had evidently Iost heart.
But not all politicians are in Parlement.
power in the latid Next Among those outside, the morning he had gone, with his well-known
touring act'
of
Garch
twa lieutenants, overborne by DRIBERG Jand, WYATT ́hald the Cabinet on the date of first place. civil expenditure,
Scouring the country in ils, resignation was expected; ot seats, the luckless pair-the to rock the Governmerit, Dild 17, Left and the Right of their Mr Thorneycroft has replied on party--had perhaps grown wenry the backbenchies over stice, by Christmas, But, with another weldura heard of, hardly men year, another vlalon" was open- tioned, of np importance to the ing before them. They would public or the party.
range on,
FOOTNOTE: Na women? No, not one. Even Dr Summerkil failed to qualify for anything
Wel North 49 Pass Pass
Fast
Pass
clubs.
Since
they
were lefl
with only four
cords
each,
neither had two diamonds left. South cashed dummy's
ares, ruled
Iwo
club and
his
deuer of diamonds won the last trick.
Of course, either East or West could
on to two have held diamonds and ruined South's play. It just happened that the swindle worked.
CARD Sendek
1 2
North Duuble
Q-The bidding has been West
East
Saath
14
Para
Double
Pass
Pais
7
34
Double Pats
You, South, hold: 45% 93 43 2005 49J 10 8
What do you do?
A-Pax. Your partner most have a tremendous hand with good spades and, your opportata are la trouble.
TODAY'S QUESTION West passes and it is your lead, What do you open?
Answer on Monday
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