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Parliament
BY ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.
CHURCHILL'S recent demand for an early
Melection, recent cut and Government lias cenied to represent the will of the people, will not stand up, as Mr Morrison hus pointed out, to the by-election test.
A series of by-election defeats suffered by the Government of the day has always been regarded as prima facie ovidence of a loss of confidence, and can with some semblance of plausibility be urged as ground for n fresh appeal to the people.
But when, as in the present case, a Govern ment has Insted for three years without losing In single seat it won at the General Election, this
argument just does not exist,
Whatever may be the value of public opinion polls, they have no constitutional validity, and they are certainly not accepted as satisfactory substitutes for elections.
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THE situation in Berlin could hardly be graver, with the Russians seeking, by every means short of actual force, to drive us and the Ameri- cans out of that city.
For us everything is at stake. If America and ourselves are to live up to our affirmations that Western Europe shall remain free we dare not give way to this Soviet coercion.
Capitulation in Berlin would mean defeat for prestige an Immense Amerleu and Britain, the loss of
Europe faith of Western
in our ability to. prelect it, and its eventual surrender to totalitarianism.
That is the measure of the menace today.
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In a briof, grey little street off London's White- hall stands the unpretentious but historic official residence of Britain's Prime Ministers-
No. 10, Downing Street
OWNING Street, London,
where stands the official of residence
Britain's
Prime Ministers, is a quiet side
BY
AUGUSTUS MUIR
street that opens upon White- tr. do most of his work in the more hall. During the daytime and exciting atmosphere of the Cabinet
hours thint main room, as did Mr Churchill evening
thoroughfare, with its dignified the war years.
array of Government buildings,
during
The Prime Minister has his home
great
well-known British author and Journalist. Born In Canada in 1892, he served in World War I with the Royal Scots and the Author King's Own Borderers.
of
"The Green Lanterns", "Scotland's Road to Romance," and other novels,
Use
it,
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arc
admirers of Mr. Bevin
ceptance of the invitation to contest East Woolwich at the General Elec- tton, that be has no intention of quitting the political battlesteld.
THE loved to learn, by his ac-
other than a convenient place for omelat conferences. Mr Gladstone is cne of the most famous of all Prime Ministers who actually lived under the roof of No. 10, and here he gave
He is fortunate in his new cou- his famous breakfasts, with cession of distinguishes visitors as stituency, which is one of the safest his guests, Sir Robert Peel, on the and beat organised Labour seats in other hand, the Minister after whom the London area.
D suc-
London policemen were given two
familiar nicknames, used the house
Even in the Labour debacle of
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as his place of work but preferred 1931, when "safe" Labour seats were all over the to live in his own home nearby, falling like ninepins is noisy with swiftly moving
among his beloved pictures. All country, East Woolwich remained
faithful to Mt. George Hicks. comfortable flat of some fourteen traffic, and its' wide pavements on the second floor. Here is a
the Prime Ministers of modern Downing have resided in times are thronged. Turn the corner rooms, with windows that look out
at the Street-
t-Campbell Bannerman and Mr. Hicks, who relires und you find yourself in a placid Into St. James's Park and the Horse
and Thus the
Asquith J. Balfour, little Guards Parade.
General Election, will be missed in the cul-de-sac, a brief grey
charming official home of the First Lord of the A
Low and dining-room and
Bonar Lloyd George,
per- the Commons, but he may Macdonald and street that one might puss with breakfast-room below are used only Treasury. Not every First Lost Wolf Baldwin,
but chanco add to the building trado It is Walpole himself but .out a second glance if one did on official occasions, and the Prime 10
Neville. not know what lay behind the Minister has his meals and spends generally regarded as Britain's first
that during the term of knowledge (and the galety), of a doorway of a certain house on his scanty leisure hours in the in- Prime Minister) continued to live in natural
it during his long, fruitful, active life; cach Prime Minister the atmosphere more solemn assembly. the right-hand side. The street timacy of the flat above. has a secluded and old-fashioned No London house has had a more and the younger Pitt, that brilliant of the house should tend to change, Prime Minister, who for many & Premler's wife has taken atmosphere: you feel that the romantic history, yet much of that youth, son of clop-clop of horses' hooves, the history remains to be revented by himself became Prime Minister at pleasure in adding a personal touch!
But there is no the age of twenty-four, occupied it to some of the official apartments. jingle of harness and the sight further research.
which for a continuous spell of seventeen
Week after week, men who guide MR. HILARY MARQUAND has upon
the affairs of the world pass through steceeded Mr. Buchanan at the of a Victorian hansom would doubt that the land
It is buill, once the property of the years.
that modest door on the north side Pensions Ministry. and
Kings anil be more appropriate to it than church. passed to the Crown
Street. Downing Downing, D the throb of a taxi-cab or the was lensed to George
princes step across the threshold,
Now 40, Marquand first came to Cardiff representing sight of a gleaming limousine.
and the humblest of folk enter with
Westminster, man who rose to distinction as a ser-
in conference. East, in 1945, when he was made to sit vant of the Government in the days
petitions or Charles He of Cromwell and
front windows, many became rich, this colleague of the HERE he entertained lavishly, with prom the
for in hours famous diarist Samuel Pepys, and his eccentric relative, the Lady Prime Ministers have looked down Secretary of Overseas Trade. ---
One-time professor at Cardiff, he contains three built a street of houses which be Hester Stanhope, as hostess; and so upon diverse scenes: houses only. The first of these, car
by his own name haudsome was the style he kept up. of national crisis, silent folk have known caune No. 10. Is an unpretentious place; "very large and well-built houses," so careless was he in money matters. waited motionless upon the pave-hos a distinguished academic record,
echoed with and industrial relations, burned in him like a the bricks of its plain frontage are as they were described at the time, although his zeal for the welfare of ments, and in times of jubilation mainly in connection with economies
and the nation
the grey walls have
But alurkened with London soot, the t for Persons of Honour deposit of many years; and Rs Quality." But No. 10 and No. 11 are flame, that he ran heavily into debt the cries of cheering crowds. moxiesty is perhaps stressed by the the only two of the old Downing and was too high-spirited to accept for long periods the little street is
these a grant from the Exchequer lo reim-
empty, and one can hear almost buildings of the Foreign Office that houses that now remala, and
burse him for what he had spent in
only the hum of traffic In White" | pearance, tower over the
opposite
his official entertainments.
hall; and in the winding passages 11 has been said the pavement. have been greatly altered.
London's Soot
DOWNING Street
that "no other
untion in the world houses its first minister in less lordly style. Ilow
Sir Robert Walpole, for years first
many
Other Occupants
of
Uulike the Minister whose place The takes, he is rather gloomy in op- and his manner, which of the old rambling house behind may belle him, appears to be lacking
frontage therein warmth: The Duke of Wellington used the the smoko-grimed minister of the Crown,
did Disraeli. both is the quiet sound of footsteps and
as the As Paymaster-General the House true are these words! A policeman
as subdued purposeful voices whose personalities are
forward, has seen little of him. Now he will stands on duty beside the door, and was the tenant of No. 10 in 1732, and house, and so below the brass lion's head on the a new chapter in the history of the men knocker are
the words, in small house was about to open, for King sharply cut as cameos and among work of the nation goes lettering, "First Lord! of the George II offered it to him as a per- the most notable in the gallery of and beside the long table in the be much more in the limelight, and and British portraits; but it is doubtful Cabinet room the Prime Minister his humanitarian qualities will be
of them used No. 10 as himself sits at his appointed tasks. tested. Treasury."
"which is an uilee held sunal gift. Walpole refused by the Prime Minister. The Keeper asked that it be established as the if either
of the Hall in blue uniform answers your summons, and two other police- Iren give you an appraising glance. On your left, a door leads through to No. 11 Downing Street, the offelni residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a long curri dar with a crimson carpet takes you Into the heart of No. 10.
Although the house la small and
·light.
BRITAIN'S CO-OPS WANT MORE
PRICE cuts recently announc-
ed by Britain's co-operative
By Gordon Schaffer
the combination.
as a state within
committee
other
in
SAY
the experience has the knowledge, and capnelly to solve."
this It is to be expected that
on the on the section gave the lead tu supporting demand will be taken up by the co-
representatives Council of Labour, the Beveridge natrow, as viewed from the street, societies, with their 10,000,000 substantial repercussions
policy-making body of the movement,
of companies were
equal more insurance
which is composed it contains a network of stairs and membership, have put their economy of Britain and would also the social Insurance proposals of operative
Anuchi for movement passages, with between thirty and movement on the map in a big lead to a demand by the co-operative' Lord
representatives of the Labour Party, important share in the determination opposition. torty rooms opening off them. In way.
Like the trade union movement, the Trades Union Congress and the
these di
dir. During the basement is the great old-
on the widest cc-operatives.
of the Co
Co- fashioned kitchen with its stone- When the Government issued its of policy in the Labour movement.
Ometally the Labour movement in the "co-op" insist of wood White Paper on prices, wages and flagged floor, its table-top
operative productive Federation will This or- elected by five inches thick, its huge chopping-profit, the Chancellor of the Ex-
doubt be brought in. elsequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, appealed Britain consists of an alliance be- degree of local autonomy. A local cussions the experience
tween the political Labour Party, co-operative soalety is governed by a opt
co-operative and on the ground floor are
combines
the participation reception room and the smaller to the employers' and trading of the trade union movement and the management
the country but up to date members, and is not answerable
management with apartments where the privato secre-ganisations throughout uples have the office. The official to help prevent increase in living; operative societies, bu tegarded in the any other authority. Almost all ganisation
of the costs.
the Co-operative Congress, which dining-room, the creation
The co-operative movement there many quarters as the Cinderella of societies are voluntary members of of the workers through their unions,
contains
delegates from the and in the view of its sponsors also
of sections
nationalised certain architect Soane, has oak famous
body,
from societies, Co-operation has often been des- Co-operative (politienl) Party, from should be taken as an example for
a state, the panelling and a coved celling so lofty upon called an emergency conference
wholesale
Industry. from Co- consisting of representatives from albed
principle that the room is actually two floors of their national executive
committees, education retail societies, from the wholesale Based on the Rochdale
iowa
a variety of
Thero. is, anoller aspect of co- socletics (which handle trade worth (Rochdale is the Lancashire
operative Guilds and. societies
operative activity which is impori- other bodies. co-operative hundreds of millions of pounds) and where the
ant The Cabinet Room
co-operative societies from a number of other subsidiary began) of returning dividends to
froin the beginning encouraged the was an on- consumers on the basis of purchase
trade unions organising the shop aa- most TAPS the
of the movement in Britain during the interesting bodies. The result
cutting the prices
cheese, last century has made consistent
sistants. And in fact the first collee- house is the o place in the
sugar, margarine,
turnover annual 1Ls
lined and jom, and an to with books, its scores of maps butter orale societica to reduce progress to tundreds of millions of Theron ore forthright way five #greements for this section of
In co-operatives. po unrolled from fish, fruit and vegetable prices below
of the population of Britain with history that it expects to share In
years of labour rationed foodstuffs. For milk the their cases, and a solitary portrait the maximum allowed by the Food pounds, and it supplies one quarter than at any time during its 70 years' workers were concluded with the
A. have found it
traders, Mr. Sgure is one-third, for bread and the determinaion of national policy.
This was expressed by
Distributiva tea-it
in one-fifth Co-operators Tallar, one of the members of the concessions from the private which
recently James the First. In this large pillared
restrictions that but for
which the and Allled Workers, resolution, whi
་་ room is the long Cabinet table,
two unions into a Based on the comparatively small bellove
he moved writing paper arranged at each place
ilch singlo Congress unanimously endorsed; organisation with a member-:
contribution whilch on ila green cover, the chairs with quantities of rationed goods received during thd after World War of these Co-operative Party executivo, when but the Union of Shop, Dist
feting on tho green leather seats that recall the by each family, the total saying to figures would have been surpassed. the consumer was not great, but the
Co-operative socielles are found Initiative had wkle
the co-operallye meements with vld green benches of the House of co-operative
economy,
hen the Commons, and the Prime Minister's political repercussions. The private in almost every town and village, could be made by the co-operative chip of 370,000, bases its strength own chair in front of the grey mar-raders organisations were angry at The two wholesale co-operative movement in the development of a very largely on its
to the nationally andy. He ably' thére: aro, occasions when
wanted co-operatives as employers.com ble mantelpiece,
what they regarded as unfair com- societies, one In Scotland and one democratically planned
the bellion, but when the cuts became in England, supply goods
pounds steriln a year to retail recognition of their movement and into conflict with the unions, but.
"We do not mean patronage, only rarely do dificulties reach
an open dispute. In fact, A door leads out to the terrace operativo a number of small shops value of hundreds of millions of declared that the and the-garden-beyond is 'clarming and multiple firms followed suit.
participation in the early stages point of and quite unpretentious," "with" "a" The co-operallyes held their annual societies A good part of the total added:
at Edinburgh, Scotland. comes from their own factories, but
war
co-operative and all the Ume There is an in the industrial field, the relation-
rango
economic aliips between the co-operative smooth green lawn and seats, and Congress a wall door that opens on the while the excitement was at a During the Home Guards Parade. The Prime height. It became evident during furniture factories turned over to enormous Minister own sitting room is small the debates that the challenge they making bombers, The movement problems from the producer to the organisations; and their employees. -5 and pleasant, but Mr Atties prefers had thrown down was likely to have has its own bank. Its insurance consumer which our movement alone are a valuable stabilising siement.
Cabinet
to
H
nouncement bread,
ready
of England in the days of King
of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor Ministry.
with
Congress
affirmed at
In-
mated
the recent
Portage the unions
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