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PROTEST FROM AN INDEPENDENT M.P.
-by- W.J. BROWN
Independent Member for Rugby
was
personal merit, than iri a geogra- course, test my own independence thical constituency with its elce be impaired. torate of 80,000 or so,
And now in the name of a concep- If the candidate had done any tion of democracy, us statle as it is worth-white work in the world, that sterile, the university seals are to fact would be known to his fellows; go. In this head-counting
one
One way
to catch a spiv
By NEWELL ROGERS
TAROM
NEW YORK.
A report by Colonel Collingwood, Britain's police may develop. new tactics against spiva raid- ing poultry roosta.
Collingwood was flying in a hover- plane as British observer with U.S. Colonel Robert Wienicke. They watched food being dropped to para- troppers blvouocked in the snow drifis of upper New York State.
The bundles fell wide and land- ed in a meadow near village. Men pounced on them and drag- Red them Into ears and farm- houses.
Wienteke swooped low and shout- ed, "Put those back."
Motoriste, dragging bundles to- wards their cars, dropped them. But chra already Alled made off. Wienlcke flew after them and look their mumbers.
Then he flew back and buzzed over the farms. The farmers poppad out and dingged the bundles Into the meadow again.
Tonight observer Collingwood enn report to London that the U.S. Army recaptured all the food.
AS AN
mystery
ACTOR in drama broadenst from Aillance (Ohio) sald, "Gentlemen, extinguish would be killed, at least left open the candles," the town blacked out The possibility, however slight, that from a power failure.
he might survive.
But my university colleagues are PLUTONIA. a haw atom city of to be given no chance of doing
20,003 people, is rising around battle. They are to be murdered by the Atomic Energy Commission's the palace guard,
plutonium works nt Hanford, Labour will lose a number of safe Oregon. From the other atom city seats in London under the Report of of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, go 110 the Bendary Commission.
vanloads of material to enlarge the works. The Government has decid- compensate for this by destroying ed that its atomic weapons test on the university seats, helt by non-Eniwetok. Pacifle isle, will be an ex- Labour members.
clusive party-no foreign observers, So
It seems
the word
no reporters. spoke in jest some years oro inay soon come true. I may be the lust
that
It will
But
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that it was once an assembly of free
written by Ben Hecht and men. So long as I survive, freedom
Jom Charles Lederer front Gogol's cen- shall have a strong-Indeed, I may tury-old The Inspector General," say, a stout--defender in me. more and more I feel like the singer AN OPIUM DEN, I 1 be an in Tem
Moore's "Oft in the Silly | A American's home, is still Night." "When I remember all
The friends au ink'd together
I've seen around me fall
his castle Inviolable, except by search warrant. So says the Supreme Court in freeing a woman centenced as the result of a warrantless police raid on her, fat.
and they, being educated persons. Bon of democracy it is not "one independent in Parliament to testify "Happy Times." In colour, is be would be less liable to the notion not "mathematically fair" that these --possible only to palitien adoles seats should survive; and we no cents and the Ignorant-that any longer have that respect for learning our iconoclastic fore- party possesses a monopoly of which even FEW years ago I said in virtue of wisdom.
benes still retained. Day by day we Parliament that the seat Through this tiny avenue there become more logical-and more lost.
have entered Parliament a number whereon I not
the
of distinguished men, many of them David & Uriah's Wife Just refuge
nf freedom in
as Independents. The names of Sir England. That
happy Alan Herbert, Was
Sir Arthur
Like David of old, who coveted Salter. Wilson Harris, Mr Kenneth the wife of Uriah the little, the rhetoric then. Soon it looks like Mr being fact. Only the Indepen. Lindsay, and others spring to the Government covets this handful of seats, or at least wishes to dray mind.
and especially to dent is free; and before king, I fear, I may be the only one wisdom and knowledge which would
They have contributed a fund of them to others,
Independents. left-in Parliament.
But they are less generous than not otherwise have been available to the House. may my that even the wirked Davki, For David, myself was not ashamed to ne who sent Uriah into the forefront knowledge thern distantly, of at the battle in the hope that he
ז
m sure that the men who, a hundred years ago, clamoured for adult suTrage had no idea that that demand for politicnt freedom might tut in pulitical tyranny, But so it
is.
With the enormous modern eler- tarafts if is impossible for a can- didate to run an effective campaign except with the aid of a big political nurhine. If he is to have any hope of success, the candidate (unless the circumstances or the man are very extentioni) must have the support' of one er other of the parties.
The Price
For this support the party exacts. it:
when The candidate. prier. elected, must pre-in support of the
End
Elker leaves in wintry weather
I feel like one Who treads alone
Some
banquet hall déserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead.
And all but he departed." fut let tyrants quake! and Cambridge may fail. remains.
of a hereditary House of Lords
two
Oxford Rugby
broken down and the present B been rejected, as it well might have been, one of the first results would have been to strengthen enormous ly the axis of that more extreme element in the Socialist-ranks which favours single-Chamber government.
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
Y
happy chance
the
Buttened its
way to the office of C. Suct, Esq. the man whose grasp of inessentials has made him re- wherever bureaucracy vered reigns.
In his friendly way. Suet opened the interview with the three Persians
party, its prostratime and its lenders. Lords sioutly defrated its own expression of the general willingness is reactions to this Bill. But if it they had been sent for to give Suel
Mumbers on both sides of the House know that their party has the power.
by withdrawing is support at the next election. to bring their Partia mentary careers to att prunt end.
of this is to make The effect Parliament, like so many pubs, a lied house.
the
determines
fain lack of reality in the pro- ceedings.
to
a
success
flance.
even
Minority view
n last
H
of
by the MARQUIS OF READING
It must be recognised that so for by saying how much he would like FOR
days early The second event I regard as or
the country has been very tepid in to visit Persin. Kazhulah, thinking February the House of infinitely greater moment. It is the
had been refused
at second some information about their country, fare, as reflected in the new in all quarters of the House to pra- reading, the
have and to facilitate his journey, mercury would ceed at very long last to a con-
in the heat
once began to describe the beauties Parliament Bill, but it must be fence as to its future composition. jumped overnight
of Filthistan, and of their own town, which would at once have been admitted that there was a cer- Hitherto, a najor obstact has generated:
the capital of that province, Thurrall bad. "Pray call to see my aged Ashura. "And my salt mother." always been the reluctance of the the Confervative peers to consider abandonment of the hereditary prin-
three aunts," said Rizamughan, "And adderl joueui," bring us back For, while vigorously conflicting ciple. Nor is this truth affected by the opinions were being, expressed on
They They have now dednilels
It may be that a few peers would Kazbulah. "Happy journey!" they and
preferred have
a breakdown of cried in chorus as they prepared to eircumstance that, in varying rle- the floor of the House, everyone publicly given up that position.
which would have leave the room. Frees, parties will sometimes allow knew that the familiar political The reinoval of this barrier has negotiations their members to shake a loose leg pastime of "exploring every avenue" now, for the first time, opened the enabled them to make a gesture
gesture!-ot de- Dr. Shy and Mrs. Tintack on things that
In don't matter.
Tens! way at was in full swing behind the scenes
preliminary probably these days, a party member is much with the object of arriving at a surch for common ground, though
Bowzenglass Professor whether ultimate
No doubt gestures can sometimes FOR more a delegate of his party than a
will be generally acceptable agreement,
be magnificent, but I can see no
Logle af Nuneaton University. representative of his constituency. So the upshot of giving every man
That accord was happily reached. achieved eat at this stage only be
huped rather than prophesied magnificence in a gesture which Dr. Timothy Shy is evidently what vote is broadly that no man has
consists of making the "V" sign with Hegel called geborenheit-conscious, A bad measure.
one hand and cutting one's throat He seems to think that by dismuzzing a vole at all.
Indefensible
with the other. The
Mrs. Gowie In a few obscene words When the terms of the Bill were
been used However admirably the House ut
to have reported Thirty years ago Britain won a The party whips Impose first outlined in October last. I was policy. that policy on the narly,
war "to make the world safe for Leibeitz and by Mrs. Tintack, he is The party
in
her daughter, recent And among those who took in the House Lords may have done its laborious impose it Parliament. ort
democracy," since when democracy condemning the view that it was in itself a band unrewarded work
valuable may has,
matter of fact the Parliament impcses it on the coun-
years, and however
become Paliner. As the cir-
almost everywhere, measure, made worse by
contribution to the have been its try,
cumstances in which it was brought efficiency
phrase used by Leibnitz is evidently ine Increasingly unsafe.
bowdlerized version in the parliamentary
taken from a
edition Mr. Wibley Mallords 1905 of the Suffelganger von Donaues- Very recently it won a second war with no sery dissimilar ains, only eingen. As for Mrs. Tinlack, she was thrown out of a Liberal Summer to see the Insidious spread of a grim School Tea-Dance for calling a pro- travesty of democracy, lacking every
minent Liberal a bottle-nosed cock- element of normal democratic life.
по
roach. All this is very far from the But if in the home of parlamen-philosophical
which movement of lary institutions, we can still come Airs. Palmer is the fugle-woman, together across the deep political desures that divide us, and by the How true! traditional methods of discussion and concession achieve a fundamen AN article about unconventional be- of the tal change in the Constitution itself, haviour reminded me
matter in is surely no other example could more Russian who put the
powerfully and permanently rather large nutshell. He said, "I I therefore, most warmly wel- strengthen and inspire those whose men could turn their nostrils inside come the agreement to set up even faith is still firmly pledged to de-out as camels do, the unconventional a preparatory conference, for I am mocracy over all this torn, and tur- would to it; the conventional would
not." convinced that, had the negotiations bulent world.
party caucus
University Seats
Our only freedom is the chance, every five years or so, to turn one party-out and put the other in.
However, met of the six hundred
of
forward, and worst of all by the machine, the basic fact remains that Democratic change
arguments by which it was supa Second Chamber founded upon the ported.
hereditary principle is indefensible as an instrument nineralle government.
I do not recant that view in any
and forty seats in the House, there way, but two events since seem in have remained in these demperatie me to transform the whole position. daya tiny handful of seats which might be won without a big cam- paign, and therefore without the uld
of a party: the handful of university seats.
"
Increasing the time
of modern
be
the
dc-
I belleve profoundly that, at though the elected flouse of Coin- mona must always
pre dominant partner, a Second Cham The Best of these Is the rea- ber of some kind is an absolutely
accep- essential part of the Constitution... sonable possibility of the
But it must be a Secourt Cham ber that is not open to every attack merely beenuse its membership hereditary.
The electors for these seats were tance jy the Government of an the graduates of the university amendment which would have the
in and effect of quite substantially concerned, few in number.. scattered over the country, to be reasing the period of time allowed canvassed only by post.
to the Lords by the Bill in its pre- sent form for deliberation on any to be elected with less regard to measure submitted to them by the party aliation,
more to Commons,
In such seats man might hope
and
NANCY As a Duet, They're a Riot
By Ernie Bushmiller
by
4.
Mrs.
u
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