THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER · 28, 1959.
THIS is the third article in the China Mail inquiry into the future of the Labour Party after its crushing ploctoral defeat.
Today the inquiry turns to a now town which Labour expected to win. They lost because many of the prosperous workers voted Tory.
It is these people the Socialists will have to win if they are to regain power-and those people the Tories will have to hold if they are to keep it.
Why one man keeps an eye
on
MR
the Liberals
FR DOUGLAS ROYCE and I found ourselves sheltering from the rain under one of the multi-coloured shopping arcades of Basildon New Town.
The dry Essex fields were gratefully drinking and Mr Royce was wearing an unaccustomed oilskin coat. But, oddly enough, we did not talk about the weather. Like everybody else we were still talking about the General Election.
"If you want to know," sak! Mr Royce, "1 voted True Bhe."
What was porteularly inter- esting about this remik wat of the That Mr Rupee was 031 29.221 zeus of the Billericay aliva
to vote for 2 Try candalate and onl m to Westminster with an Increas majority of 4822.
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The reasons This hard provided not only the result but bad fast election pointed the way to the right
in this word in.
ccause division hos been built Lon- zital1_
satellite town ot Hasildon, already with a popula- Tann of 24.900, nearly all of them Telurging to the "working class." Among the citizens of Basil- don, Douglas Royce is typical in thy he is young (36), married and how Two children aged 1 al 39. He is not typical in that deme to Baldon before the new town bean and sunk his
war gratuity and his wife's (they
TALKING
POINTS
by TOM POCOCK
a
had both been in the Army) in a men's hairdressing shop.
But s baber he would know better than anybody the reason for Basildon's swing the right.
to
"A lot of blakes went over from Labour to the Conserva- tives." sald Royce, "Just like L
xditi.
I vord Labour in 1945. remembered what life had been like for the parents under the Tories before the war, and I thought it was the time to give What Lalu a chance to show they could do. Well, I'm sorry to say I was "very disappointed in thim."
Inefficient
DOUGLAS ROYCE: Labour government disappointed him.
amount of hire-purchase did not Worty him.
"We think wa will be able to pay it off. Now, look, for town liko people in a now
Basildon it's a good thing, There's a factory up the road making furniture and it's being bought at the shops in We're centro. the giving ourselves work."
town
More work
town
he nipped all over the show, wanted to see what was really going not just what people wanted him to see."
Want help
to asume
Dut it would be a grave mis- that Douglas take Royce and the other new Tories have any starry-eyed view of the future.
On election night there. was among them none of the smug satisfaction seen in the Savoy They have their own worries still
with them and they are looking to the Tories for help. It was a domestic clection but it was not n luxuries election.
worries ace Douglas RoYTE'S typical of these now concerning new Tories of modest means and calif modest-ambition.
"After the war," he said, "I sunk everything I'd got into the barber's shop.
I worked hard
industrial Any uny recession In trade would be felt instantly-and large numbers of people work in the big new Ford, Marconi, Carreras and built up a good number of and Ilford facturies-bul the regular customers I did well feeling in Basildon was that and
I hoped one day I could we are moving away from all afford to buy a small house and
a shop." There was no getting away But for five years now the new from the fact that there had town with its glittering shops has for been more work and better- been growing up around the row paid work under the Tories and, of little Victorian houses where as Mr Royce said. "you and I the barber's shop stands, and Trains and anybody else is going to these have been scheduled for
more work for the firm that pays us unspecified "redevelopment,"
What in the Socialists' pro- gramme hod
he particularly disliked"
"This nationalisation busi- ness for a start," he replied. "*1 did not efficiency.
make
"Look at the trains. I've been on 10 years or
after the war have been than ever they were in the war. A little bit of competition would
that."
slower best."
sou put an end to that. Then we began to get a bit of that Big Brother stuff.
Would this prosperity inst?
"I believe the cost of living
is going up again,” said Douglas
Royce. "But I also think it
"I know things have been Socialists," Relling better all over the work! And
to
The future
Already a row of houses next
any
ers to destroy all their years of effort and private enterprise?
new
These, let it be remembered, AT the worries of the Tories. And it is these new Torics and not the Conserva- tive Associations or the Primrose Lengur-that have saved Mr Macmillan from the wilderness.
to
Compared with the great ebb and flow of money on the Stock these affairs are Exchange
new microscopie. But the Tories such problems loom vast- ly, So it would also be worth remembering Mr Royce's last words to me as he returned his little shop where a couple of and a row of Inciory hands schoolboys were waiting to have their hair cut.
to
He said: "Before I decide what, I'm going to vote in 1984 I'm going to see what the Conserva-
for lives are going to do
US people with limited means. But I wouldn't be surprised if in the General Election after that, 10
years from now, the Conservu tives don't get pushed out by the Liberals."
-{London Express Service).
New
Image
Jay
for the Party -by Douglas
PROFILE OF TODAY'S
LABOURS
·PARTY.
NATIONALIS
RFARE
Cummings
"...and this vulgar, working-class name! Let's call ourselves Conservatives' and then we can't fall!"
London Express Service.
NO. 1 NAME IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE SEVEN VEILS
OF KASSEM...
EVEN veils
of
by PAUL JOHNSON
would go up quicker under the to the shop have been emptied
and Mr Royce is seeing his old i what of the Tory regular customers disappear, le but I think in this country leaders? Had Mr Macmillan and the tradesmen nearby have!
overwhelming worry" they've got better quicker under made any significant impression an
than than they during his
me more Conservatives
visit Mra Hilary Halpin, the
Basildon frightens -rom
Germans 1 ever mend this 1. C. C. would have under Labour. Now shortly before polling day? chalman former
of is: will they be able to afford General Karim Kassem, mystery clothe so far in, as you might "There is a better sort chlidren's committee, speaking we're
acader in the Tories They have the rents of the shops in the new about remand homes at a con- say, that there's no call for
be bad
able to the austere and (for an change. It would
better brains than the Socialists town? Will they be ference ! Swanwick Derby-
change the Government now." have. You can see it in the way compete with the rich tradesmen Arab) taciturn soldier Sure:--
Mr Royce had seen the new they deal with Rursia and in moving in? To deprive a girl of her boy
friends, her earning ability town grow out of the fields and matters of finance.
Or will rising rents and the who runs revolutionary 1-Is he a Communist?
a time many well-informed third strongest force in Iraq ent of living combine "Now I would say it would be rising cost pretty clothes is not the families move down from and her
He had seen the very difficult Lo
Mr with the loss of their estrihed Iraq. Let's strip them Arabs thought so. fool about resent-} London. zond- brings
refrigerators and the television Macmillan. When he came here businesses and regular custom-off in turn. meni.
sets and the washing machines go into the bright little houses.
*
*
to
-from an editorial in The Can-He had seen the children going
magazine of King's to spacious, light, airy schools. tarian, School, Canterbury:-
He had seen cars filling the comen when garages, often. like the other
I
ever the day
the old school tie is worn as expensive luxurles, being bought
an emblem of social status and by hire-purchase, but
then
oflen
not as an emblem of gratitude, making a little money for their Indeed the public schools owners by running friends to may well cease to exisi.
and from
the
station.
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housewives their "daily drudge" the easiest way? Ger- man doctors are now using a scientific instru- ment to find out — a photo - electric pulse counter fixed at the back of the housewife's neck.
It records her pulse rate да she performs different jobs the home.
in
The harder the insk the more her pulse rate goes up.
Best method
First, the woman is asked to use her normal cleaning methods. Then she is tested while using o variety of labour-saving de-
Vices
By multiplying pulse rate by time taken, the doctors can tell her which is the best method or the best device for her." So far, tests have been confined to floor cleaning.
a pointer to your polish
The World
of Science By Peter Fairley
diagnosos a patient's trouble. The doctor feeds in symptoms, up to 304 different ones.
Hey presto-the name of iness shows up Un seconds later.
athletes seated at the consoles of computers, pushing buttons while Tabals do the racing.
* Tracking a cure
Dr Aaron Benedich, of the Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, Mys: "Al-
For a confict? The Nasserites are the
Nasser it is quite possible that
mount 3 In leads to
further He has at least two Com- internal coup (the men whe munists on his personal staff. tried to kill Kassem were al- Communist officials, appointed most certainly Nasserites), by Kasem, hold the key places four Ministries. Colonel
But a war is out of the ques- Mahdawi, who presides over tion-for both sides know that the sadistic and riotous traves only the Israells would beneilt ties of justice la the Revolu- from it. tionary Tribunal, is also a Com- munist,
decline fidence future.
of international con-
economic Iraq's
-wi Kassem nationalise Com- the Iraq Petroleum pany? No or, at any rate, not yet. There is too much oli in the world today.
ROYALTIES
If the Iraqis seized the ccm* would not be able pany, they
as the oll-and they know it. For the moment, they are more anxious to increase increase duction, and so
4-Is Kassem likely
Kassem point-
to do a royallies, deal with Russla? Not on 1
They have persuaded
pro-
thelr
IPC
But in July, blank refused to admit Com- political level. His regime risk munists to his cabinet, or to ed disaster earlier this year to embark on a development execute a list of people the when, because of his close links programine which should double
West Russia, the
was production by the mid-1960s. It has Party wanted out of the way, with
aside and then, when the money prepared to stand
bren Invested and provided 0 allow Nasser to destroy him. that the International oil market holds Arm-that the danger of will become Kassem is unlikely to make nationalisation powerful force in the country, this mistake again. Since May acute. after the Army,
not Verdict. Kassum is Commmist, but he has allowed them to become the second most
-
he has turned on his own Com-
vive?
Kassem the Iraqi munist supporters, cut down the Is Kassem likely to sur- Politically, bls post- equivalent of Nasser? No. umber of Soviet missions in
Iraq. and started to repair tion is precarious, for he must Kassem has no territorial ambi- his political bridges with Bri- do a balancing act between the ilons (though he would like
tain (a team of Iraqi Ministers Nasserites and the Communists. slee of Kuwait's oll revenues).
are over here at the moment). He does not want to unite all for the Arabs in one super-state.
though our work in chemical He believes that, because of treatment of cancer has not yet Iraq's oil and potential ogricul- led to a definite
cure in the turul resources, the country will human, the work has led to eventustly support a population
bsstume
chemical agents which do, મા for larger than Egypt's and will the effect, cure cancer in the animal.utomatically
**There is little the
doubt, at leadership of the Arab states,
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least in our minds, that we the right track, that arc on
are
across coming busic principles involved in the chemical treatment of cancer,"
If too few symptoms are given, the screen flashes a list of alter native diagnoses and tells the
Some findings already?-A doctor to get more facts from his squeezo-sponge gains Hitle over patent, the old-fashioned duster.
be
Time, energy
Much Lime and energy
can Robot racers
ved in mopping, waxing
For their torch races,
or polishing by using modern Ancient Greeks are thought to gadgets or machines. Parquet have carried bundles of resinous toors can be cleaned in a wood, it by flint and tinder. third Jess time If scaled with Latest American idea for
leguer.
Olymple Games torch is
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the
REFORMER
Kassem differs from Naseer
has
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GUN FIGHTS
His only disinterested political support comes from the Nation- al Democrats, a group of intel- lectuals with little popular fol- Jowing.
Further, his economic rela- The basis of his power is the tions with Russia have turned army, and even here, despite ruthless purges, the sour. Deliveries have been slow, several
The the quality of the goods supplled Nasserites, remain strong poor. And
has Braded mob, which pity a Russia been pressing for payment re-king-eraking role in Iraq, is not with Kassem--despite repily cently.
fantastic propaganda expenditure Soviet technicians, have got by his government.
The fact is, Iraq is still only at the beginning of a period of thu equivalent turmor!--the
struggle do decade of political
revolution broke out
11
In
In another important respect; he badly with the Iraqis there have been several nasty in- is a genuine reformer, Nasser's
cidents including gunfights. so-called land reform
scratched the scarcely
Surfaces Kassem likely to Watch progress on Project caf Egyptian poverty; he has 5 business with 1257 He would which convulsed France after Echo. For it is an example of never dared to attack the how spaco science can be afpertied middle-clam which sup- British firms, which
certainly like to. But the big the the value to everybody.
until re- 1789. poris him The lden is to bounce, signals.
cently had a virtual monopoly of
We do not yet know whether off a satellite "post-wffice fired Kassem, in just over a year, rug's
development work, are pulling out. They find Kassem will turn out to be a or # RobespierrD-OF into an orbit which, makes it has already destroyed the old pow an travel at exactly Earth's speed feudal landowning class of Iraq, almost impossible to work in Danton
presentatinosphere. of even a Bonaparte. Tho doctors
so that it is always in the same which formed the basis of Nuri- the dro Binding. On the last lap of the spot.
polloc atate control and es-Baid's regime. too that the sclentide approach relay
pleton and they fear abrupt On balance, however, radio-sotive
Scientists to housework leads to better (seven pelicis of Caesium 137 signals will return to Earth, free
bellove!
Kasem'a principal economic cancellations of contracts, it seems only too prob. tempered wives. They are muro
encased in brass) is placed in from interference ce fading, gly- odvisen -- several tolerant to husbands who forget the torch. This will trigger
off ing
London is still frog's banker, able that he will be to wipe their, shu,
clear-as-p-bell reception are pupils of the late Harold senaliive electronic equipment anywhere in the world.
Laski-are the Iraqi equivalent but this will decline in - swept away long before *
to convert radioactive impulses
Latest report: The.Amerl of the Mikardo wing of British portance as Trng runs down t
reserves, Kassem has already Iraq attains stability, into electrical impulses, which 'enus have half-built the first test Socialisan,
slashed the percentage of the and national maturity. will in turn light the flame."
transmisting station. The snježlije Makes one wonder if, woon F due to be fred next year."
and Naseer oil revenues devoted to develop-
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