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"I wonder if you would consider taking just a little pieco of advice?"
LETTER FROM PARIS.
British Visitors Are Missed
PAR
BY SAM WHITE ·
IN
A one-time rebel defies all the best known formulas... and comes out higher than ever
THE ENIGMA OF CRIPPS
TOTHING la ever so unex him the conviction that he has pected as what occurs. a great function to perform. What novelist would have And to that he dedientes him invented the plot of n Chancel- self. lor, towering in his pride of place, being struck down by one unhappy conversation?
Or who in the ups and downs of politica would have predicted the soaring rise of Cripps above his incredible indiscretions?
Make a sneering reference to Buckingham Palace!
family Tory history, Two
No. Just the reverse. I remem-
ber a most striking verification of the statement that there is a rugged quality in the man.
Dike
His Socialism was a breach of his It was the conference in Black- vlows pool which was to mean the end of are possible, onc that he was the Churchill Government.
The genuinely moved by a desire to help Socialists were in the mood of a the underdog. It is by no means a
rare quality in the landed gentry, fighting minority party-all but although it has more often taken the Cripps.." form of Tory resvolutionary than of Socialist.
Ambition
THE other is the cynical-observa- tion that he was always an
the
Tell workers in an ordnance factory that if there is a war (as indeed there is a few years astute lawyer and an Ambitious later) they should down tools politico and that he chose for
time
being at least, theyinning because it will be mere capita-
side list exploitation!
Advocate A Popular Front with Communists!
Get yourself slung out of your party!
ns
the
by: WILLIAM BARKLEY
Speakers like Ancurin Bovan- most eloquent of men-warmed "their cocliten with demagogic power. cried Destroy the Tory Party, Hevon. Leave not one Tory M.P. in Parliament.
Warning
n mood of fervour Cripps was called to speak. It was a sipat occasion, his Arst publie perform- ance since his readmission to the party which had expelled him seven years earlier. He stepped purpose- fully to the rostrum. The audience settled in their seats.
Almost as soon as he had begun he had finished. Ho spoke no more than half a dozen sentences. His message was that if they meant to win the election they must work on their programme. His warning that they had no plans then ready
administered.
was
I would think it almost Improper to menilon such a little thing if I the coldest douche I have ever heard had not once in Bristol during his election fallen in with a bright girl 7 He cousin of Cripps.
What story-teller qutside the "Arabian Nights" would lay down these as the sure and steady steps to attain orthodox domination, to be regarded the hope of the side and the oracle of righteousness?
Fronti Nulla Fides is DARIS has been experiencing The brains of the Paris fashion Cripps family motto. I sup-
"Canvassing for Sir Stafford?" record invasion from industry reason this way: If a hand- pose you might interpret that as Britain, which reached its peak ful of women who are famous for "Don't go by appearances," or just before Mr Attlee's corru- their smartness adopt the fashion, "Never believe what you see," was on the rounds doing all she gated iron curtain rattled down women everywhere will follow them; with a dismal bang.
and if poorly paid Paris offee girls or even as "Truth is stranger, could for his National Government When the shutdown came on can do it, so can women throughout than fiction.". October 1 the last of the £35-ers formed an army which jammed hotels, night clubs and restau- rants to capacity.
the war.
the world,
I
scorn
Inquired. With a wealth of and vigour she assured me that she
opponent.
Another mystery of Sir Stafford's
ndvanced amid rapturous shouts. He retired in silence. Most Socialists now see how right he was.
So this rare and unusual
Ogure gets and deserves in his later years Ho the reputation for consistency. importing less, exporting more, and says today we must have a plan of denying ourselves, leat worse befall us.
Today Sir Stafford steps right power is that he has no organised In no profession in the world is there more backbiting and jealousy to the top. His appointment body of support. than among Parisian couturiers, and as Minister of Economic Affairs
A bevy of rather ineffectual intel- ganda from the implied threat of
on the
He is succeeding in diverting the emphasis of Government propa-
with
They spilled over from the many a formerly famous couturier some weeks ago started argu- lectuals are attracted by his clarity "Work or Want" to the recognition has secretly hoped that the new ments on where he stood among and forcefulness. But they would that if we work now we may never better-known hotels to modest silhouette would flop.
the first five of the Socialist represent at a party conference only want.
one of the voting cards with pensions on the left bank, which
Now, almost without exception, hierarchy.
Iis clash of personalities miserable thousand behind it com- haven't seen a British tourist they are trying to climb
driven by Messieurs since those far-off days before bandwagon
In his own clean-cut style he pared to the marshalled millions of Dalton was that the late Chancellor was buoyant, optimistic probably over-confident. Christian Dior, Jacques Fath and settled the matter by saying, the "organised workers," club Pierre Balmain, night and
"The Chancellor (Dalion) bats proprietors, sensing a last oppor-
first." Now Dalton is out-hit- lunity, didn't even bother to dangle
wicket. And Cripps in future the catch, but drew the line up in a series of sharp, ruthless price jerka
bats first. which left the customers floundering and breathless at their feet within a
few days,
Restaurateurs
'More ships' cry
Dying is cheapest PARIS, 5 now in the grip of the meanest, cruellest, stupidest
it has suffered since! At the moment he over- food famine the liberation,
Faith
HERE, then, · ន his party
strength?
him. They shadows everyone else in the 1 The miners love
remember how the astonishing While prices rise daily milk, Government. It may be partly by successful barrister waived butter, cheese and meat have almost because he has aroused expec- tempting briefs aside and acted un- now making disappeared from the market in an tations rather than satisfied paid as their counsel in the inquiry
into the Gresford diaster. RENCH tourism is
loss in artificial shortage created by black them so far. But in him alone to offset the plans
Iwe occasionally hear the au
The religious element in substantial marketeers, British tourists by a Increase in the American trade.
The butter ration has remained thentic note of leadership which the of
unhonoured solitary
for two months and
claim to only leading party figure who men- There is tafls
Mr Attlee makes no the transatlantic bulter now sols at nearly 25s. n. 15. French ship
FRENC
ון
the
2 Socialist Party warms to the
in
ment.
run-the De Grasse-being sup- while its price outside Parls is only strike. So there you have the tions the name of Christ in Parlia
the Liberte and the about 58.
great enigma of the day le de France by next season, and
human personality. fervent hopes are expressed that the
plemented by
1k, too, has disappeared off ic Americans will make corresponding ration, and now sells at about three increases in their shipping services. tines the offcial price. Same with
But even dismining the possibility cheese. of dockside fires-to which French ship seem peculiarly llable-there is plenty in the way of political con- fusion and mounting prices to wreck these hopes.
The tegul price of meat has now been fixed at what was only a few weeks ago the black market price.
Transition THERE must be some simple explanation of this transi- tion from party bad lad and wild boy to sober leader. The Recently the official bureau of simplest I can think of is that In any case, Britain's action in
travel for statistics revealed the doleful fact Cripps has learned a lot. imposing the ban on
that it is now cheaper to do in pleasure hos, for the time being, put France than to do almost anything Continental tourism back in the pre else. For while food prices have Thomas Cook age, and the future
to some risen by 000 per cent over pre-war would seem to belong ingenious but within-the-Law Max levels, funeral charges have increased humility,
by a mere 280 per cent.
Intrator.
Hem-line, latest BEING, as it were, stationed in the
front line of the Battle of the Hem-ilne" I feel Impelled to make a brief report on the state of the battle from
side of This barricades.
Cripps will take no risk with emotions. He sees a stern task for the country If we are to be indepen- dent of American charity. He knows that it will be a hard job to pull us up by our own bootstraps. Nobody doubls that he will impose greater hardships and austerities.
These he imposes on himself. He body. It is not disciplines his merely a matter of living mostly on raw vegetables and fruits. He inds that necessary for his stomach's salte.
He does not. offend Mr Gaitskell by taking frequent hot baths. The bath he takes just once a day is cold While the Socialist Party may and reputedly taken at 7.30am. bb regarded in one way as after he has already put in several materialist it has great depth in hours of work. spiritual inspiration. It stemmed
He drives his staff hard but they out of the old Liberal non-confor-
Although like him for it. He cases off in the
profers to have mily and methodies. Cripps is C. of E. he will preach in evening and
evening engagements. Baptist pulpit.
The oracular quailty about him Inexpressive simple features,
no
away
who the followers He rallies are in search of a leader. His comes partly from his
his sharp, vigorous ut- success in this respect is a tribute to the strength of his indivi, terance. Partly, too, from the ex-
watted him -hast Perience which The vast convulsion of the duality, 11 recognises that he war taught him modesty, not been in recent years among the during the war until he returned as
false prophets promising an easy an almost legendary figure. and self-restraint. paradise once Tory domination wa The crisis of the times, gives removed.
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
theXACTLY what advice Mme. Little Bo-Pest
To me it looks like a rout of the short-skirters with the forces
et-áb-les
He was Ambassador in Moscow, and while many people discounts his personal success he returned on the clouds of glory of Russin's entry. into the war.
His mission to India failed but he BO obviously wore himself to the bone in his exertions that his re- pulation could neareely have profit- ed more if he had succeeded.
other day, ant "kicked a steward." Zaphroma has given the Dad-dy, if we need more, food. The steward probably ventured too near those hind lega. Mauled By A of Cabinet will probably not be why are shop-keo-pers let-tog veg-Singing Mouse will be the next. Understanding Marshal Christian Dior sweeping 10
Be-cause peo-ple won't pay nine- headline. victory
against
and known until the entrails of the crumbling weakly-held citadels.
ferrets killed under the last full Pence for a let-luco.
Well, why not sell Hem-lines are dropping like D tropical rain storm all over Faris, moon have been examined by a chea-per?
That would mean on-ly a-bout and
shop girls and typists are leng- Committee and reported upon. thening their exirts and tightening
000 per cent, pró-fit for the middle- resulted in their waistlines in a slightly pathetic When last week's Cabinet meet- man.
'Fifth column'
In passing
have
the let-tuce F the object of polls is to prove taught him that preconceived
IF
almost
of
THESE experiences may
the schemo that compulsory education has theories rarely fit
universal events. One sees a more pliant un- ignorance, that object has been derstanding in him as when he did not healtate just when steel nationalisation was convulsing the
out and
praise Cabinet, to come management and workers alike for enterprise industry. the achievements today of that tree
achieved,
i
But, stay! There is one question which will always be answered with as
effort to keep up with the fashion. ing was aver, Zaphroma's words. Does he grow the, stuff?
No. Go in bed boy, Popular blg stores like the Printemps now show only the longer were almost as unintelligible as u
Sho Maison Richelieu skirt in their windows.
Government pronouncement. said to the reporters, "Trifolion is THE now in the ascendant, and the five feit and linoleum are giving enthusiasm and a wealth of know
out. Hats are growing almost ledge: "Is Betty Grable still alliest ladies popular as she was a year ago?" triangles of Bophmegor will shortly invisible. Even the
hoene nebulous,
hoce, are protesting. "It was fun while Eels harnessed to 8 for the. Parisian "Emart When the grocer's cat rubs his back it, tusled," said Foulenough, as he
traction engine de rigueur, and a powerful "fth against a dish of Tourri and the prepared to close the establishment;
Woman Stops Bolting Racehorse, column" of Internationally famous sundlal darkens, It will be bigh time
(Headline.) Ha-ho to the dryads." Nothing to do with me Cry New York and London women are to
SMALL rabbit bit
"Eat "more a judge's
slowly," vouchsafed to be seen wearing the long skirts Experts think this refers to
nationalisation of quarries.
thumb at a country show the the water.
As
Athe
lu Parts,
fashion new
NANCY
is
already
The Idea 11'1
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thd
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1 recent speeches have said nothing of party. He is conceivable Ho as a Coalition Prime Minister, may give sharp
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