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Westminster Decorations. Exports were recently engaged in cleaning the paintings in the Royal Robing Room at Westminster Palace These historic works con- tinue a tradition in Palace decora- tion over seven centuries old

FRIDAY APRIL

"LYRICAL" MOTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

IDEALISTS USEFUL BUT

DANGEROUS

MR. MAXTON'S MIRAGE

(By A.A.B.)

The Robing Room, in fact, stands not far from the site of the famous Painted Chamber, built in the time of King Henry 11, and adorned with great paintings. Some of illustrated more happily than in its a molekill and every thistle is a these have been reconstructed by the discussion of Mr. Maxton's Socialist forest free!" A President, a motion the truth of Bagehot's say Senate, a host of clever and discon all of Prof. E. W. Tristram.

Never has the House of Commons, level plain, where every mountain is.

The ancient series included a fine ing that its true function is lyrical, tented men, without duties or representation of the coronation of not legislative in other words, that obligations, fingering their bits of Edward the Confessor, while battle the People's House is at its best, State paper and wondering whether scenes were arranged in broad not when it is making lawa, but the next dividend will be paid or bands around the maiti walls of the when it is discussing them. The whether some English de Valera making of laws indeed has long will annex them. And, above all,

In another of the Royal apart-since passed into the hands of the the soulless impersonal tyranny of ments there was a thirteenth cen Cabinet; but the House of Commons the public official, of whose manners tury painting of "Winter" which, is still the place for first-rate dis- we have already some experience?

Nothing is left, you see, of the according to a contemporary critic, cussion, where the best, things will

be said on a topic of first-rate Idealist's ideal except Democracy, was "most pitiful to behold."

interest.

and that is the greatest illusion of- The debate last week was con- them all, "a self-cancelling business, He Fed The Troops. The man who fed the British ducted with a full sense of the which, ends in bero," as Germany Army in France during the war has great moralist's dictum, "take and the United States have found died. He was Major-General Sir nothing tragically everything serl out and as England is slowly Evan Eyare, Carter, and his officialously," and it revealed incidentally beginning to find out. post was Director of Supplies to that in the 600 odd members of But why pursue a discussion the Parliament there is an unsuspected heart of which was pierced by the the British Expeditionary Force to wealth of economic knowledge and wit of Mr. Hopkinson with his re-

France.

He was in his 67th year.

common sense. So long as a private minder of Ananias and Sapphira1 members- debate can produce a As long as human nature is:what He went to France when" the series of speeches like those of it is, private profit, and not-public war broke out as A.Q.M.G. on the Messrs. T. J. O'Connor, Hopkinson, service, will be the motive of fadus- Lines of Communication, subse-acmillan, and Hammersley, we try, and, as Dr. Johnson would say, quently becoming Director of Sup may se aure that the wild dreams "there's an end on't." There will plies."

of Socialists will never translate always be exceptional individuals, Sir Evan was educated at King's themselves into practice. ・・

especially those who are fortunate School, Canterbury, and Trinity Stripped of verbiage, the ideal who regard their job as more im enough to manufacture a monopoly,

public, expenditure. The Govern-College, Oxford, afterwards pass

ment. Itself-such is his policy-ig fing through the staff college and, ista are those who see facts as the portant than its pecuniary result. denounced as brutal and sophie- delude ourselves by reconstruct- to supply the energising touch re- London School of Economics, Holish to see them; the Realists, Let us honour them, but do not let

facts as they are, declining to be been reduced to prostration bylas second lieutenant.

For his work in the war he was doped by generalisations. Looking

Danger Posts. three-years of intense deflation. Having restored, some measure of mentioned in despatches round the world of to-day, from Are the Idealists. therefore use- Mr. Roosevelt's Problems condence by the way it has met times, was awarded the C.B., and Geneva to Moscow, and from Moses. By no means; they are dan-

the banking and the Budget crisis, given promotion to Majór-general

a time when the avenging power of ger posts; but dangerous they are, especially at the present hour, when The courageous efforts: of it is now to do what individuals and He was created KC.M.G, in 1919 cow to New York, there never was President Roosevelt in meeting the private corporations have not the on his appointment as Director of facts has dealt more crushing blows the time for general discussion is past, and the world is intensely emergency problems that existed on courage or the means to do to Supplies and Transport at the War of defeat upon the Idealists.

occupied with realities. We should his introduction to office have done spend money on setting the un-Office, He remained in this pos!-

all be much duller, and have nothing - much to restore confidence among employed to work. There are to be tien until his retirement in 1921, Capital's Po the people of the United States, but loss of gifts to necessitous States recent restiveness in Congress in-for relief purposes, which will be

abolition of the Capitalist State was to talk or write about, without the an exposure of the inevitable clash musings of the Geneva Idealists. But do not let us forget that the dicates that his bold policy may charged to the ordinary Budget.

EXPLANATION.

between Idealism and Realism, and

very nearly with strenuous opposition now that But apparently there is also to be

drew us into war with Japan; and the first crisis has been passed. an extraordinary Budget account

Azoologist tells us that rhinobis speech was a statement of Pro-League of Nations When he was dealing with the bank comprising the sale to the public of ceroses have a wonderful homing fessor Laski's creed in his last book, that a false move on the part of the crisis and with the huge accumulat- some billions of dollars of bonds, Instinct. This explains why I have "Democracy in Crisis" (Allen and ed and accumulating Budget deficit of which the proceeds will be ex-never lost one. all opposition was silenced by the pended in public works, as self-s

Hong Kong, Friday, April 28, 1953. ¡quired by the country, which has was 22 when he entered the Army ticated cynics, are those who seeing society on an imaginary basis,

had

Your Daily Smile

· CONJURING NOTE,

Position.

Mr. Maxton's motion-for

the

Unwin), namely that à Capitalist Salters, the Steeds, the Bartlette, Democracy is a contradiction in the Gilbert Murrays, and the terms; that it is not a democracy, Kellogg, Pacters, might involve us in the Eastern European storm

Let us keep the League of Na

!!!

urgency of the danger, and public sustaining in character as possible. Perfectly Agreeable." opinion compelled the co-operation and 'ohll the refinancing of farm The Allotments Association urge because it contains privilege and even of the most reluctant. The mortgages. Details are not yet me to "grow my own food." OK; private proît; and that it can exist which is beating up the horizon. ship was on the rocks and all hands known of all the various schemes of 1'll start as soon as they send me only so long as it is able to pay for

itself in heavily increasing social tions in its place, and the foolish to help in getting her off. this nature which the President has their recipe for growing beer.

service and diminishing privileges, speech. may sleep in the ear. But Crew and passengers were alike in his mind.; What is known, how-

The moment that Capital ceases let us never allow it to Interfere in thankful that a captain had come on ever, is being sharply scrutinized by- board who knew how to give orders those, who believe that the great

And then there is the story of the to provide the funds necessary for Werid politics: and, above all, let us world can be maintained by and to take responsibility. Now financial and economic readjust-man who turned a horse into a field. increased unemployment benefits, not imagine that the peace of the

education, housing, pensions, in that the ship is aflost again that ments admitted to be inevitable can

short, for all those benenta to the monetary policies. Nothing but the mood is passing. The captain in only be carried through with safety That Settles It. eager to get up steam and to make by sticking to the orthodox tradi- Discussing a proposed, loan to have-nots at the expense of the re-writing of the Treaty of Ver for safer waters, but mutteringa tional methods. Supporters of the America, a financial writer says haves which we lump under the allies by Reaflets can do that now. are heard that he is using the Roosevelt, programme would hardly that the British Government is name of social service, it will be wrong fuel and that the course he deny the "radical" character of good for £20,000,000, So much for abolished as a failure, and the rule over the misfortunes of the United proposes to set is full of dangers, some of its planks. Their reply to those critics who insist that it is of the pablle functionary be adopt ought not to be, forgotten that the

ed as a substitute.

dominance of American over. Bri- This cooling of enthusiasm was the charge is that, the situation, has good for nothing

Moments of acute and universal tish policy, since the war has been bound to come

depression like the present are, of maleficent, and has been responsible course, the time for the Maxtons for some of our worst mistakes. It and the Lackis to produce their deplorable that at least one Utopias and to denounce the capits powerful organ in our Fress should alistic fallure. For failures, with still be so infatuated as to look their attendant fraude, there have across the Atlantic for the lodestar been, too many though Mr. O'Con of our destiny nor's

Booner or later. become so had that conventional

Congress could hardly be expected methods are inadequate, and have Gruelling Thought for Husbands. to enjoy the enforced abdication of indeed already proved their futility. The newest colour for frocks is Its powers in favour of the Presi- They point out that the farmers, out-meal. dent; nor could the financial world whose prosperity is the only basis

Ale and forewell:

in New York be expected to ap on which the country as a whole can The Last Drink. prove of some of the measures in prosper, are drowning in debt; that the emergency programme, however 14,000,000 other workers are unem delighted it was to be saved from ployed and the number show bankruptcy by Mr. Roosevelt's firm sign of diminishingi handling of the banking crisis. It above the

is in these two quarters that doubt railways-

and criticism are most active: There

is no reason to think that the gen eral public is less ready than it was to follow the President's @ lead, especially if the load is sufficiently bold to appeal to the popular of imagination. The future of Mr of Roosevelt's Presidency may very well depend on the degree to which be la able to rally public opinion to his support against the recalcitrant elements in Washington and New York While the sing of usiou banke, and the .. ping,

in the Budget

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retort that much of the devastating-poverty described by Mr. Maxton was to be found-in Soviet Russia and elsewhere was apt, as was his remark, that, a man in work was better off to day than he ever was before and that a man

It would be unseemly to exult

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