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BEGINS TODAY: FIENBURGH'S CONTROVERSIAL NOVEL
NO LOVE FOR
JOHNNIE
WILFRED FIENBURGH, the rising young Socialist MP, knew politics and politicians "from the inside." Today the China Mail begins serialising his controversial novel, No Love For Johnnie, which Fienburgh finished just. before his death in a car crash a year ago.
And
ters
Labour
Was zow In
I WISH I were a hun- three days ago the Labour Party bad won a Jandalide victory dred miles away after nine years in opposition, from this railway Government.
And Reginald carriage, thought the stevens had been to Bucking- member of Parliament, ham Palaco.
Reginald Stovens of the The speech I am going clean-pressed mind and the
suit, Was Prime closeness of damp and dismal to make is stuck in the crumpled
Minister, Reginald Stevens, people. back of my throat. who was a back-bencher In He found himself, cup of tea I am choked by the dry dust 1845, was selecting his Minis- in hand, listening to the mayor.
I am
"Mr Byrne has come. along of a thousand speeches,
... I'll ask him to say a Reginald Stevens, the bastard, way. weary of words and hand- ahnking and smiling at people had not telephoned him. Not a very few words before we pack and screwing
service to the myself up to word, not an offer, not even the up... great
Movement Postmaster-Generalship, mouth platitudes.
Then ho heard bla own There is nothing new to say.
vibrant, The whole damned business
voice, cheerful,
firm as always 15 mechanical and meaningless
He was suddenly shocked at as n formal tribal dance. I am
"We have won a great victory the grim Interally of the victory won not by the body-sick and mind-sick of the
hatred he felt for Stevens. His speeches of our leader, nor, whole bloody business.
stomach was knotted and taut, If I may say so, by the and when he glanced down he efforts of those who like myself, saw that his fists were clench- were your, candidates in the ed on his knees.
14
Hatred
nold.
I
The Mayor of Earnley was clandiing by the station barrier peering over the ticket collec- tor's shoulder, and the member
The mayor's car was running "This is the victory won by of Parliament spotted him as he
housing you who have been as Un stepped down from the train, smoothly through a
Thero were slashed daunted in the past as you, are We had που the knack of estate.
still
showing today. You have kept faith Instantaneously recognising the election posters
of the windows, with our ideals, you have given. faceless local notability sent to from some
Vote Labour," to Labour the Government "Vote Yardley,
of meet him,
our nation." they said in black print on a yellow background.
Trouble
Suddenly, his words had become emphatic, almost sincere.
That was what
words could do.
Jim
ter of State at the Foreign Omee, which had gone to Fred Larkin, down to Assistant Post master-General, given to York.
Yardley was half-way down as Under-Secretary of State for Wor.
That .was the end then. There was nothing left for him not even a job at Penalons, not even a strap-hanger's billet at the Board of Trado.
No bottom rung of the ladder when everyone had told him he was certain to find himself half-way up..
Whisky
The waitress lackadaisically held a menu before him.
"Drink, air?" she asked. He shook his head auto- matically and reached for the
Westbrook Road Congregational Sunday School, Bradley, York- shire, 33 years ago.
When Byrne had finished his upper he drained the last drops of of whisky from the bottom the glass, and decided to telo- phone Alice..
He gave the number to the hotel porter and walted.
'T'll be out'
The porter handed the re- ceiver to him.
"That Alico?" he asked. "Yes," she sold fatly,
"I'm in Doncästór," he Enid. "Missed the train,”
"Oh."
"I shall stay overnight. Be* home for lunch."
#ll be out," said Alice, "I've a mecilog of the Welfare Sub-Committee in the morning and the Women's Advisory Council in the afternoon."
"See you in the evening," ho said. Then, wanting so desper- ately a little comfort, be laughed, or he tried to laugh, but the whisky turned it into a giggle.
"I've heard nothing," he said, "not a whisper from, Downing Street. Not a word.”
from any.
There was no comfort Alice. "Dld you expect thing more from Stevens?"sho said eldly. "It's about as Right Wing a Government as he could find, abort of a coalition, You could have been leading the Left now is you hadn't lick- spittled around hoping, for a job."
Liekapiile, he thought.
Sho now talks the Pravdnjargon automatically. Be felt the whisky rising. "Not lickspittle, not lickspittle," ho giggled again, "just a Fasclet hyena." And he rang off.
He went into the bar, heal- fated, and ordered another. double Scotch.
Clearer
If he knew nothing else, he thought, he knew the Labour
Suddenly, he found that his water g. Then he paused. words had become emphatic, "I'll have a whisky," he said, quirk, Movement, in every nuance
almost sincero. That was what and felt a prickle of gult. "A and
And attitude. where the hell had it got him? "You had a nice win here, words could do. They slipped big one."
facility from the tongue "You're Johnnie Byrne," said Byrne said, bringing himself with
Never bolora In his 42 years the inayor, with a broad and back. "I sco Jack Yardley in and then, sometimes, they look pad he ordered a whisky, In convivisi/exchanges with lobby comfortably Yorkshire accent, creased his majority. Will he command,
Almost fiercely he projected correspondents he had taken a "I'm afraid there's not much of be along this afternoon?" a crowd. The rain has ruined The mayor chuckled com- the words against the rain and light ale from time to time.
placently. "Ho should have, the darkness. been," he said, "but he got a "For goodness' sakce don't
From the day he first entered phone call from Downing relax now that we have won. the House. in 1650 he had set his A victory gained is only the feet carefully away from the Byrne clucked sympathetically Street."
Byrne delt a bitterness rising beginning. It is now your took Strangers' Bar. and hunched his shoulders
to watch tts who are your In the Smoke Room he
Everything, the beer mats on against the rain which had in the back of his throat.
the bar, the glasses and bottles fallen since the trein left Don- So that was to be the pattern. Members, top harry us, pursue kept out of the double-whisky-
behind caster. Hell of a day to address Jobs for-the Yardleys, jobs for us, and ensure that we in turn ond-soda school, in part because ranged on the shelves the Earnley Labour Party and the lawyers and the university keep faith Trades Council joint annual lecturers, Whit Monday, fete and gala.
"I've brought the official car
it."
The trough!
A joke
had
After the second whisky Byrno decided not to drinit any more. He was not the least drunk. He felt fitter, and more alert than usual.
he could not afford to join, in the bar, the brooch on the bar- part because of his stern, non- mafa's bosom, all had a clearer conformist upbringing
in the definition. north of England.
"What does one do bere on
for the band-wagon jumpers who would have been docile Liberals if the Liberal
He spoke on for a little while, He had wondered, though, a wet evening?" he asked the along," said the mayor dim Party "had not died..
Jobs for tha soft com-achieved a joke at which they, why in the folklore of Parila- barmald clearly and diatlactly. dently, but with Jarking pride.
She looked at the clock and "Couldn't dare do it, but I'm promisers, for the newcomers laughed and a peroration which ment, it was damnation to take
"Might
the a beer in the Strangers' Bar, shrugged. attending in an official capacity, would be trouble-If that was
who fitted the pattern. There they clapped.
Very
nice little speech," but permissible to wallow in Grand Theatre, second house. sce. The Tories are
"Thank you so much, I will," watching me like hawks. One foot wrong the form, there was going to be sold the mayor, when the last scotch in the Smoke Room.
trouble.
bandelop was finished.
This was Doncaster, though- He alid from the bar stool and and they'll raise it in council.
They squelched through the
walked to the door. Unaccount- Byrne. reached Dancaster the Royal Hotel, Doncaster. Oh, God, thought Johnnie mud. The marquee was heavy station in time to see his Lon- He wondered what his wife, ably the bar stool toppled and Byrne. Do they never get their with the summer omell of dark, don connection steaming out. County Alderman Mrs Alice crashed behind him. knouts out
"He's 'starting of the parish pig trodden grass mixed with steam
He found a room at the Byme. JP," would think. He trough?
Here was the mayor yattering from tea-urns and the whiff of Royal Hotel and sat down to his decided he did not give a damn. heard the barmald say.
The gloom in supper with a copy of the local The first act of his publie life wet raincoats. about municipal policies, when side was as depressing as
nine, the paper.
had been when, aged rain outside. Byrne delt his "Prime Minister Appointa holding the hand of eight-year NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE will misery rising to choke him, Junior Ministers," he read, and old Alice Singleton, he had be published by Hutchinson, overwhelmed by the Josling there was the list, from Minis signed the teetotal pledge at
QUOTES
by MrPalmer, fiend matér of the Sturgess School, Derby, In his annual report:-
WE are sometimes told that
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by Mr Anthoný Rothero, Nottingham coroner, after hear ing of a "risky" operation to try to save a dying man:--
gives me great pride when I hear of hospital HIRIK undertaking operationa when the risks are so heavily agulant them. This was another of two very brava attempts to savo life.
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