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THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, MARCH
pipsqueak
THE giant pear tree in my garden is like a
skeleton with a dozen wrinkled arms. A solitary sparrow twitters to itself and then flies away into the overhanging mist. The people on the street walk quickly with their coat collars turned up to protect them from the wind which slaps at their faces like a wet rag.
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London Letter
What have the morning newspapers to tell || by SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
us? Here are some actual quotes from the news- paper which lies on my writing desk:
"Liverpool alr pollution from the foge was ten times the normal amount and could be fatal to chest sufferers,” Medical Officer of Health. "We have had so many re-
porta of minor road cräzises that we have stopped count- ing them."
- Automobile
tion oficial
Associa
"The blizzards whicis swept across South-Wert England and South Wales
turned beauty
Arctic into spose wastes,"
Royal Automobile Club.
"Villapers at Braemore. Caithness, who have been isolated for 13 days by snow drifts in places 15 to 20 feet high, cheered yesterday as three men broke through the final barrier bringing urgent-
ky necura juustuga. of the men said: 'Conditions toare atrocious and we had to struggle our way up to our. waists in drifts so that our heads touched the telegraph wirer.'"
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I am aware that this may Feem a mere nothing but the British are as unprepared for a snowy winter as they are for a drought in summer.
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However my giving you this weather report is not to chill you to the bone, nor even to invite your sym- pally but merely to explain how the weather affects the British people.
It is both a psychological and physiological fact that as from last month the patience of the Brilish is exhausted. Anything may happen and usually i docs.
Therefore we were not sur prised when Lord Altrincham, known affectionately as "T:0 Pipsqueak Feer" erupted again. You may or you may not re- member that he and the youth-. ful Lord Londonderry once took it upon themselves to critielse the Quoca
On
occasion
that Londonderry's grandmother gave her grandson "wot for not art and he has never been heard of since, but nothing can suppress Lord Altrincham Headlines at tract him like a purplo sin,
zeal Lord Altrincham wrote that it he were the Archbishop he would arrange for misfit par Bong to be norc casily removable, for the Church Assembly to be more represen tative of ordinary church-goers and that Anglicanism should become more like a form of Gandhi-style Christianity.
"The present stato of the Church of England," he wrote; "is surely rather laughable, I rebiuta the authoritarian claims of the paper, and its clergy get very hot under their dog collars if the Pope propounds LOMO now and highly indigestible dorms."
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Then with a final fling: "Mest English persons are much hap- pier talking about a Test Match thun about the Resurrection," After which our lordly pierrot prances off the stage with coquettish glance at the gallery. Accepting, p few claps ng an cutore he prances again on the atage and in a few short well chosen words declares that he would like to see marriages bo- tween the Royal Family pecple of different race or even colour.
and
Hardly hud Lord Altrincham Anished his pas coul when the noble Earl Atllee, Knight of the Garter, Privy Councillor, holder of the Order of Merit, and former Prime Minister, took it upon himself to bite the hand that fed him--and not only to bite but to chew R.
Filling his fountain pen with Invisible weld he proceeded to attack British politicians in cral, and not merely on party Lines. The medium he chose was the periodical "POLITICAL QUARTERLY but quite right by the newspapers Hited it and Have world-wide circulation to The diatribe.
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personal ambition. There are went with McDonald to proffer M.P.'s he says who take up their retirement resignations to politics quite frankly to further the King. Baldwin came back private enterprises in which with an carldom, Rammy Mac- they are concerned. There are Donald came back with nothing, others who are there to serve which was fils own decision. Big Business in which they are directly, concerned.
With a final swipe Lord Attlee declares that there are cut-and- out carcerists who have no but to creep and climb into the settled convictions on anything told. He should have adder that in the House of Lords you can have the glory without even bothering about the Fold
I have always liked Clem Attlee and felt that his critles underestimated him but I can- not understand the bitterness with which he has turned on the British Parliamentary system which made him Prime Minister ond ultimately 11 coroneted peer. Nor did his favours end there. Using the prestige of his political background he has
On bis return from the Palaco I asked MacDonald why he had not accepted an earldom. MacDonald was a vain mam many ways but there was com- pleta simplicity and sincerity in his reply to my question. "Áfter all these years,” the said, "with the fisher folk of Lossiemouth calling me Jaimie, do you think I'm going to have them touch- ing their capa and calling me 'milord'?"
Clem Attleo would no doubt his own case ha say that in ecospted an caridom on retire-
that is the ment, because
hopour bestowed traditional)
NEVER GO TO WAR! Signed A Hitler N.Chamber -tain
1938
Cummings
INON -AGGRESSION PACT"
Signed:
J.Stalin.
JA-Hitler
1939
Pard
"When they start talking about non-aggression pacte, Comrade journalist, I got a horrid sinking feeling..."
London Express Service.
£1,000 HOLIDAY IS OFFERED FOR
now become a newspaper com- upon a retiring Prime THOUSANDS of public and private libraries in
mentator
who is pald a very high fee for his contributions.
But let us look with ricar appraising eyes at the charger thade. against Parliament and its elected members: Take first the accusation that many M.P.4 are committed to aup port the cause of industries or business in which they have a direct financial interest.
Actually there is a Parliament- ary ruling on that very point. Providing na M.P. declares to private interest the House his
should a Socialist and why admilt a lower status than a Conservativo7-
Britain, Canada and the U.S.A. have been asked to look for Bermuda's missing 344-year-old Royal Charter. The finder, and a companion of
FINDER OF
Dut just a minute. In occept his or her choice, will be given a holiday worth LOST CHARTER
tng on caridom our eno tline Labour Prime Minister brought no less than Ave into being courtesy titles in addition to his
Mrs Attlee became own.
their son counless,
became Viscount Prestwood, and their three married daughters became Lady Gertle-Lady Mary-and Lady Helen-or whatever the first names and married names happen to do.
But it Beri Attlee choosed to denounce
Again I offer no criticism be- cause a man who has served as Prime Minister, is entitled to in the matter under debate ho the highest honours which the
bestow, is not only welcomed for his Monarch can
members of the Parliament in close knowledge of the subject but often given priority in the debate. If the subject under general as careerists and title discussion involves a clash be- chasers he must admit that he almost everything tween, let us say, the Trade took away Unions and the Employers, Mr but the kitchen stove when he Speaker will deliberately call went to the Palaco o protter M.P.'s from both sides of the his resignation to the Sovereign.
an intimate House who have knowledge and even connection with the dispute. Let me re- peat that these M.P. nuot declare their interest before they begin their speech.
Only a short time ago he opened Warming to his task, yet interest. In the same way any moral coward.
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The little coroneted Left Wing
These them are the chargus bantam declares in the article
which Earl Attice hus som ft that M.P.'s ore puffed up with self-importance, that
There was just such a clash to make in print rather than on put
the House of Lords private Interests first, and that when the Socialists were in the door
and Lord we
the where such a reply would have debated Are tile seekers. Then, power
the steel been made as occurred to the rather oddly, he admits that the nationalisation of majority of us are imbued with industry. or course those peers, who were present. the incentive of service-soma M.P.'s who were steel directors Attlee is not n physical wholly so and that a number not only put their arguments coward his service at Galiloli. of us are pure gold.
before the House but automati- cally disclosed their privata proves that and he is not a But what can fire on the Archbishop of anxious to maintain an air of Sociallet M.P. who had worked wo say to a man who never at Canterbury, as the head of the fairness, the notes Earl proceeds In a steel plant would be given tacked the House of Commons as an institution when he was Anglican Church, using a Bir- to explain that men are drawn priority in the debate over a mingham
one of its members, and never newspaper his to public life for motives that Socialist M.P. from, say, East made a speech in, the House of medium. Full of reforming are not wholly detached from London.
Lords urging that it should be changed into a Senate which would admit into its member- ship both peers and commoners.”“ The only explanation seems The duty of Parliament is to
to be the weather (which is govern the country and to ensurb legislation that will benefit the simply vile) plus the strange: nation generally if there are then dertig England and tho
Engilah custom which maku M.F's who deliberately put English as though they were re- their personal interests before that of the nation there is al- ferring to some other country Henco ways his focal party association And some other race. which can demand an explana- Lord Altrincham, the Pipsquar tion and, if necessary, with Peer, and now the noble Earl Aules who travelled from draw its support,,
Wimbledon to Gallipoli, to Lime- house, to the Commons, to the Downing Street and to
Peers and now
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Now let us deal with the other charges made by the noble Earl, He says that there are House, of men in Parliament who are pronounces the last thrilling. carcerists. In the Bamo of pregnant line of the drama; "It Belsabub what does that meant is not what it seems."
I never bad any doubt that Harold Macmillan Was am- blious. Nor did Winiston Churchill or Lloyd George lack that same quality. May. the gods forgive me, but I suspect nearly all M.P's of beinir muilty of the same charge,
In a mon with legal brain a careerist because he embraces the law as a profession? · Is a designer of aircraft engines a carcerist, because he brings Special training to his it? Was Shakespearo a carcerist bo- cause he gave enchantinetto words?
Does a man enter Parliament
at Westrainster, because!' ' ** 225 dreams of being rewarded with a tillo? It might be said than Attlee took up politica beeNTINO ILÍ wis the only way he would! ever acquire a title, but at) would be a monstrous... Ha Was n-carcerist In the best senso of the word and ho go90 10 Eupreme offico,
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As I said befor the English, and I mean the English love to decry the country that they love, especially when there is st. zam,enet wind which lin, today is colder than charity.
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- twice and wiped the royal perspiration repeatedly
· from a face which is Prub- ...ably the largret uncivilised apoi In England,Downlan
Oliver Wandle Holmes.
When two Englishmen moot, the first talk is of
the weather.
Samuel Johnson.
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be fools
Cermida Ambusritor,
nearly £1,000 on the island.
of
In Bermuda
a special charter and these are being Sir Bayard Dill, chairman sary celebrations this year office has been set up to deal followed up,"
..said Sir. the Bermuda Trade did we discover that it had
with the search. Head of Bayard. ! Development Board, who is disappeared.",
it is Mr Lawrence Gurrin, The most promising that visiting London, said:
the colonial archivist. we have just received is that the charter may have been included in the Philip manuscripts, a collection of an eccentric, which was auctioned off in lots in Car-
"I do not want you to Special search office He is sending out letters think we
are a careless
and radio and Press appeals people to have lost what Bermuda Is Britain's to the three countries for should be one of our most oldest self-governing colony, help.. treasured possessions.
The missing charter was "Our Government officials granted by James Irin 1615 thought it was safely lodged and served as the busts of in London and only when the island's present consti- we asked for it to be loaned tution. Two later coples to us for our 850th anniver- are kept on the island.
A story of unmatched
accuracy- backed
by official figures!
tury."
Promising report diff at the turn of the cen "We have had a number
N.B. to the winner: Tho of letters, back with the first class return air fare to ideas and suggestions as to Bermuda is £279 158. What has happened to the (London Express Service).
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