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a thousand halls
throughout the
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They will rise with some difficulty and diffidence. After
Hongkong Telegraph. they have spoken, they will find
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937,
EXPEDIENCY NOT ENOUGH
What
the
most
Jeven greater difficulty in sitting- down. They will be assailed with a gnawing doubt that they omitted to make that vital point, that brilliant joke, that devas- tating alusion, which they had thought out so carefully before they came.
*
SHIM, BATEMAN,
IF you
to
Fox banged the-table-and- electrified the House of Com- mons-but Fox was the greatest Parliamentary speaker in de- bato' of all time. And if you bang the dinner table,
you my bang a
glass I have
seen it done,
and A good speech was ruined in A double spurt of blood and Jaughter.
Be sparing of your gestures
and they will gain in effect.
No one speak- ing knows quite
what to do with his hands. Balfour dutch- ed his lapels as if for support to the drooping. willowy figure, Birkenhead leaned over the table, one hand clutching a mighty cigar. Churchill emulates four. Ex-King Edward used to fiddle
Bal-
with o
cigarette or his tie.
case.
should govern policies pursued by Govern- They will go back on their ments? Should they do what tracks, lose the thread of their
There are certain speakers— Many modern speakers of the argument, flounder, repeat them- appalling effect of producing one
accond or third-rank put their Mema for the moment
selves, correct themselves, and of two equally disastrous re- Humbert Wolfe, the poet, is one hands in their pocket in the hope expedient and least troublesome? finally resume their places to the actions, Either your brain goes who rely entirely on extem- of convincing their audience
dead and refuses to function or pore cloquence Wolfe is witty that they are quite at Or should they follow certain patter of polite applause. definite Principles through fair
you see three points which you enough to tell a few anecdotes This is but one degree better want to make, make the first, to warm. his audience up and than letting the arms hang inert weather and foul? The former is the actual policy which his FOR the season of public. rope for the second, and forget then he is naturally eloquent at the sides, with wrists pm- the third.. Great speakers have enough to let his own poetic If you are speaking inform-
truding from the cuffs. speaking is upon us various methods of combating fervour carry him on to a trium- ally and you are a smoker, be been pursued by Governments
again. As the reservoir's.rise since they compromised...over in-spate with winter-rains, the-write their speech out before-
these dangers. Either they phant conclusion.
very sure you have a lighted cigar or cigarette in your hand. Italy's aggression in Abyssinia. flood of evening oratory surges hand, committing it to memory
It will save you from thinking As the evenings when they run the risk of for
Are asked No-one can claim that the inter-in the throat
about your arms. If you are draw in, the speeches draw out getting an entire section and,
speak, or if you want spanking at a dinner and toasta. national situation generally has improved in consequence. What
The average practised speaker relying on the prop of memory, to speak on some subject near are in order, be very sure your talks at the rate of 180 words are lost when it fails; or they your heart, be very sure before glass is not empty when you get is rather illuminating is that the
a minute: 10,800 words an hour. read their speech-which lases you get up what you are going up to speek. reasons for, ailopting an emas-
And when first you-get Beware of the funny story.... Gladstone, who never gabbled them fifty per cent. of their to say. çulated League policy have
heard it before. Beware of the and who recognised the value effectiveness; or they speak on your feet, be in no hurry to Your audience is certain to have proved false. For instance, it of a pause as few orators have, from notes. In this case, they begin. Wait, look round the historical or classical or literary was suggested that unless sanc-spoke in the heat of his massive commit to memory each section room, wait again, and then allasion: your audience is not
of their speech, and put on
begin.
entirely familiar with the sub- tions were called off, Germany perorations at 250 words a
minute, about the fastest sheets of paper cach heading To gesture or not to gesture ject on which you are jesting. Italy might come together speaker ever known. You or I, and the first two or three words that is a question. The on a common foreign policy. As asked for the conventional "few of the paragraph referring to answer is: Make gestures only forcefully as possible-but do. events turned out, sanctions were words," would probably speak that particular subject in the when you cannot help making called off, but this did not pre-at about 130 words a minute. speech.. vent Germany and Italy coming The rest of the time would be. together. Then the desirability taken up with wondering what of elcuring the atmosphere so as we were going to say, "how, we to prepare the way for a new were going to say it, and a good Locarno was another excuse for
deal of "er-ers" to cover our
nervousness. abandoning principles in favour
and
For thinking while you are
them.
Fussy Employers
Say what you have to say as
nof over-state your case.. Make all the points you must-but do not fall into the two traps of point-making: labouring a point already made or failing to drive home one just touched on.
ΑΞ
BJURE the habit that makes nirie-tenths of church oratory ineffective: lotting your voice rise as if in
of expediency. One result of this disastrous policy was seen conscious that people are waiting THE average intelligent adult, who over his shoulder, adding a dab of a question when your sentence in the changed attitude recently on your thoughts has the adopted by Belgium. Belgium,
like other small Powers, has had her faith in the collective system
trouble, however, is that there
Most of them never give
OC.
is trained for a job, Is quite Paint every now and then.
ends with a statement. capable of carrying out thot job with- Even the offles boy takes a certain Let your voice vary as much out supervision or help from his pride in his job—if it is his job. The as possible. Too many speakers, who constantly fusses especially on the political plat- costs in the future. That is employer. Most employers realise employer
this in theory. But when it comes und, insisting on things being done form, pound at full pitch the a truism, and its appositeness to to practice, how many are content to should not be surprised if his staff organi.do not play full diapason exactly according to his method, whole time. Your voice is on rudely shaken. The small the present troubled world situulet an cinployee tackle his own work rather sulkily follow out his instruc from the time you stand up till Powers have pinned their faith tion is beyond dispute. The in his own way?
tions and then stand like morons, the time you sit down. If you to the security offered them in
waiting to be instructed in the next the Covenant of the League of is a tendency amongst nations to employees a chance to prove their them like morons and is receiving hits have stretched your voice. their detall of their work, He has treated have made a point when you Nations. They have seen
the align
themselves into groups capabilities,
begin the next sentence almost develop... their just reward. great Powers, on whom the reflecting certain common politi-initiative. They, stand
conversationally. over them,
No matter how modest we may be “And, finally, just as you have chief responsibility for thecal ideals, rather than to joing, helping, and correcting in other things, there is a sort of been slow to begin, be swift to League's authority rests, run hands on
conceit inherent in human. nature end. Too many a general collective neglected, and they blame their staff, that makes cach
speakers. away from
inwardly having made an offective point their obligations security basis. At the moment, who, they declare. nced constant assured that our own method is best at the end of their address, mur under the Covenant and there therefore, the outlook does not
supervision.
But surely we owe it to Gur sub-
the whole performance by, re fore the small Powers feel that seem promising for a general re-
A friend of mine claims to have rdinates to control our desire to peating It, recapitulating the they must revise their policy in turn to the principles of the morning he gives her work and Quite apart from fairness to others, some such phrase as "and that
found the perfect secretary. Every "show how it is done.”
whole speech, or even using. the light of this fact. It has League Convenant. Before that instructions for the day, and no it is more convenient to get into the is the message I should like to been well said that the only way is possible, distrust and suspicion matter how much she has to do, it habit of allowing those who serve us leave with you, ladies and gentle- in which confidence can be res- will need to be removed, with is always perfectly accomplished. She to do their own jobs in their own men: the message the tored is for the Great Powers something far more binding in Each day's completed work is her inanite amount of strain
regards secretaryship as an art. way. In addition to saving an and then ropeating the last sen- to reinforce the Covenant and to the way of collective responsi-little masterpiece. But, given an irritation, it ensures that balanced
and tence of the point... give evidence of their intention bility than has hitherto been interfering employer, she would be harmony which is the basis of co-to a speaker was: "Get up, The finest advice ever offered to honour their obligations at all; deviand
Business Man Open up. Shut up. Sit dowi
.
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