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BARKLEY has been Parliamentary reporter for CILES, well-known cartoonist, These are his "Coming of Age" reflections
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AM 21. Stand aside, ye elders. Show respect, juniors! This is not now an infant that addresses
"
It was in the autumn of 1925 that, having a few weeks' holiday, I walked into the Daily Express office and know- ing nobody asked for a fortnight's job. They said: "Be our Parliamentary Re- porter." I agreed.
"You have had a university educa- tion," said a friend. "In the Press Galléry you will now have an education I am constantly in, public affairs."
astonished at the trouble the State. takes to enlightening me.
In Dickens's day the attendants in the public gallery used to charge 2s. 6d. for admission. I cannot think why Often I would I am paid to attend. offer guineas for my seat in this school. In these 21 years seven Govern- ments have laboured to improve. my mind, the Socialist Government being · still hard at it.
By
So Heigh Ho, How They Fall The Way!
Five Premiers have tutored
sonk BARKLEY the birthday card hora reproduced.
SCENE I CHURCHILL TO LEAD
NEW CRUSADE
"Now let battle commence!"
Chamber.
WHAT has the telephone talked roughly that you can still see the W
In these years? Queer little bruises in the posts from which the Incidents. The M.P. who in ab- hinges were ripped.
The Commons left us our doors straction quietly filled and lighted is
exclamations
removed of until the German bomb pipe. The No sooner is a man sighted, horror, his abrupt exit. Queer that them along with the rest of the than he is carried past; and lo! such a thing should happen only
The most splendid moment in my another is coming and he too once in these years, such is the de-
corum of the place.
memory is of Mr Churchill, defented will be carried away-Marcus
The bull's eye retort in debate. in his hour of supreme triumph, Aurelius (altered to fit).
Wedgwood Benn, now Lord Stans making his first speech in opposition gate, achieving Immortality when last year. being taunted by Lloyd George as My shortest over
"This pocket Moses" by exclaiming:
me; of whom, in my view, the O an old judge of form point-Secretary
are
the end of It.
"At least I never worshipped the was the glory of the parliamentary
golden calf."
The great parliamentary occasion being turned superbly by one of the masters. recall the aftermath of the general strike in 1926. Winston still Churchill was bitterly denounced for his edliership of the British Gazette.
I have r zer in these years seen
He found it in him to any that it
Institution that it could strike down the most powerful if the people so chose. Ha theme was to trust the people, however much ho may have thought them mistaken.
That Churchill incident transcends
or decision. of passion or ceremony. for me all high moments of debate However important Parliament may
N the Socialist side I recall THE shortest report I ever wrote was the sentence: "The Home
also made a speech. first two, Baldwin and Mac-ing out to me a neat little figure Short as it is I have never heard Donald, took the class too long who was unknown' except that in
this weck some Quite likely Countless 1924 he had been under-secretary
his comrade, for my advantage.
Socialist
lips numbers of private members at the War Office. "There's a warm from a week-end speech on have risen to say a word in my coming man," he said. I laugh-the Sermon on the Mount, will ask
the Home Secretary if he is awareParliament so near blows as that be as a legislative body, its virtue ear and departed. How swift ed. It was Mr. Attlee.
that if newsprint was doubled the night. The Socialists snarled with is in its representative character and the generations of my
Re- anger. Winston taunted them, and its determination to maintain equali Alexander, Greenwood, Tom Daily Express Parliamentary
porter would then devote two sen- at last he warned: "If you let loose ty for all before the law. tenchers.
Williams, and Dalton are already tences to Parliament Instead of one. on us another general strike"--the
Socialists vented most menacing The groat duty In the alphabetical list of 1925 in sight. Herbert Morrison hav- only two A's remain out of 22: ing been in for a little is out Only again. Alexander. Attled and three B's out of 62. All others are dead, defeated or ennobled. In the Press Gallery we last much longer, for we never have to seek election and are raised to the peerage.
never
My longest report in one night threats in return "we," he cried, was estimated by William Hickey "will let loose on you another IT is a duty more necessary than
words. filling three British Gazette."
to be 10.000 pages of the paper.
After a moment of dumb amaze-
ever to-doy when wat and bureaucracy have made such fearful Inroads into personal dignity.
It is to Parliament in its day-to- day vigilance that the people look for their protection. If it thinks its whole business is to regiment and enact then its value will be destroy-
We shall wait six years before
How is it done? Obviously It we are bothered with Crippy, could not be written in the time.ment the crisis dissolved in laughter and four before Wales belches it is dictated on the telephone to which still rings in my car.
relays of men who take it down as or the abdication I recall that Aneurin Bevan,
fast ny 1 can speak in seven cupies when the words "irrevocable de And where is to-day's Minister on silent typewriters. Copies go cision" were uttered by the Prime
At instantly to the other printing offices Minister the Presa Gallery jumped ed. of State, Hector McNeil?
in Manchester and Glasgow,
as one man for its telephones in the But if it cherlahes the individual Woodside School, in Glasgow.
then the House of Commons I have seen the impress on
Thus Parliament ever re- These boys I dictate to are my premises outside making such a Parliament of the death, the ab-
along composing us go,
to During the memorial service
For then its mere existence will dication, the coronation of kings. creates itself in the flux of re-severest critics. Just as I am getting only that M.Ps protested indim-doing much, even when it will be I have seen the great Socialist placement and going and coming. and highly pleased with myself, one
years #go ane prevent abuses, just DS G great Each MP sees himself among will break in to say: "This sentence Queen Victoria 45 Party shot down from a batta-
More devn-reporter slammed the door at the battleship does not need to be ever- means nothing to me."
had lastingly firing off its guns in order lion to a platoon, and rise again the Immortals but only for
statingly" see what you mean, back of his sent. The Lords
50 off instantly, to be a guardian and a hope. but no one else would."
every door torn to an immense majority while moment.. the power of its opponents is humbled.
coal
The general strike, the strike, the wasting discase of un- employment, crisis in finance, abandonment of free trade,! threats of war, war itself, de-
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According To Culbertson
•
(Copyright; 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
The contract selected by North-
As I happened, five
diamonds
At 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.15 p.m. feat and triumph-such has been south in to-day's deal was not the would have been a far better con-
. "EY'VE NEVER BEEN FUNNIER!
OLIVER HARDY in TAN LAUREL
MPR RAID WARDENS
NEXT CHANGE
JAMES MASON
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ANN TODD in "THE SEVENTH VEIL"
CENTRAL
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SPORT PARADE IN MOSCOW
In Technicol
South, dealer,
North no difficulty, but in fairness
my course of lectures. Truly I
best available, but assistance from tract, and one that would have given should know too much to-day the enemy put things right, but for the balm of forgetfulness. In 1925 i was being instructed in the Conservative interest. Of the Commons members in that Cabinet only one remains in the House to-duy, Mr Churchill.
Enter Mr Eden
CAN
we spot the coming Tories in 19257 That dc- bonair youth who is parliamen- tary to an under-secretary will in time be known as Mr Anthony Eden,
That stripling just out of the diplomatic service will be Mr R,
S. Hudson. He is tipped ns future Prime Minister.
This dark, garrulous, energetic
North-South vulnerable.
NORTH 4E7 0·6-3
08742
WEST $942
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EAST
• JD 8 Q 10
• AQ68 +3962
SOUTH
A 10 AK 85
• K 10 SAQ 10 8 4
The bidding:
Wesl Routh
North Xpade
Tait
South had a difcuti hand to bid,
lad, the baby of the House, is Mr He might, of course, have "reversed" Robert Boothby. He is tipped with two hearts on the second round, showing a strong hand and inviting as a Prime Minister.
further action from North, but thero was quite a bit to be said for South's nctual jump to three no trump.
We shall have to wait four years before we see Mr W. S. Morrison, who will then be tip- ped as a Prime Minister, but he is often around the building. us the Solicitor-General's secretary. In four years a palo, scholarly youth will arrive with a sample| barrel to prove that his consti-j tuonto can make beer entirely out of British barley, That will bo Mr R A. Butler, who will be tipped as Prime Minister.
It seems we have up till now not needed many Prime Minis tors. Heigh-ho, how they fall by the way. And shall I now jump to 1946 and give you my six to follow? No. Hir. For this time I will keep out of the for- tune-telling business.
NANCY
HAW HAW~-~
DON'T
YOU
THINK FAT PEOPLE ARE FUNNY
-BRUIK DUPONT LLEIDA
it must be said that it was hard to reach. I North had persisted to four diamonds, South, with the same length in North's two sults, would have normally "preferred" the major, and four spades would have been makeable against the best defence.
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At three no trump West opened his fourth-highest heart, and East smothered dummy's Jack. Declarer won and correctly luld down the diamond king. East-not nearly so correctly-won with the ace and re- turned the heart ten. South saw that It Eust had third heart there was no menace in the suit, hence play was not needed, so he
won and led the diamond ten, overtaking with the jack to guard. against a belated hold-up play by the opposition. Now it would do East no good to refuse the trick, so De- he won and shifted to clubs. clarer put up the acç, cashed the top sades, then ran the diamonds.
that a hold-up
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Nine tricks were in
If East, appraising the distribution diamond king dummy's long suit Accurately, had refused to take the would have been killed.
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