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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940,
WESTMINSTER TO-DAY IN EUROPE
"By JUNIUS (By Air Mail)
By
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
"Almost every day' readers so'nd us their verses. Some are But In view of the passable: most (alas!) are bad.- great interest in the making of vera hero, is an arti- clo by a well-known pool. Ho is John Pudney.
Now, You Poets!
Do not ask me to define poetry. men and women in the Air Forces. I am not a critic and I am not single poems and whole" volumes up-rhyming Group good at definitions. I think I can roached only be honest and say that I often Cantains and sonneteerlig ocks--- recognise Poetry when I see it and nearly all of it bad.
Now it gave all these ardent that I usually recognise verse when it is not poetry but a well-souls great satisfaction to write intentioned outburst, let us pay, tiriy stuff, which-critica, public-and an amiable frolla in rhyme, a ges posterity, would ahun if it were jure of deilance, or an honest printed. Yet aach of them, in try- Ing to have printed, desired to plece self-expression,
Why, then when so much vorso make is written by so many, it publle within your own circle?
The writing of verse is an ad-
of
Stripped of its legal verbiage Some $36,400, men are at work in Next week some of the same kinde talk, which Inated early an hour creature to whom convention · im-} factory vorne."
on
the building industry, and 23,000 Germalprisoners of war have been clearing sites.
Such are the bare facts about housing. Clearly there is a long Nay to £0. The Government claims to have done well in the time it has had. The Opposition that it promised more. says Meanwhile, building goes on.
The Government's afm may beyir to get the whole of the prepara- tions made for big building drive to begin in the spring. So the necessary lows have been passed to enable local authorities to get on quickly; sites have been cleared; and the effort has been Enve materials for hous made to waiting for supplies.
treatment announced a fortnight | me ready so that there will be no as they should, and we are whether or
Imeasures
The
If it was "great" stuff, that fa-
During the war, in collaboration with Henry Treece I made a collec tion of poetry written by people in the Air Forces.
We stated that we might con- and the publishers sider a further volume: and for months, wo were inundated with material from
The Snags About The Export Drive
tenth-rate verse which reaches
Bay
Like the barber, most verse- writers are personally niodest. Yet they do not hesitate to try for publication in national papers. The Daily Mirror receives a batch every day. A London publisher
all the manuscripts ho over re tells me that forty per cent. of ceives is verae, none of it worth making into a book for national distribution.
Do not suppose that we should desnio this poetical activity. Wo should indeed be proud that in our time the noble art of making verses, good, bad or indiferent, is commonly practised by many of our countrymen.
of
all the arts the English aro most articulate in poetry.
The founders of this heritago effete moon-gapers; Tarely. were they wore men of the world, men of their time.
* Madrid.-General' Franco has not the slightest intention of London, M.P. There will be a few more Housing progress figures have sents in the new Houge than there resigning his Joh and permit But the arting the recatablishment of the noy been published by Mr. Ancu were in the old one.
"Looks like a poct!" the barber rin Bevan, Minister of Health, gunient was that if the new Cham monarchy. He made this aburi There is reckoned to be a need of ber were to be big enough to seat dantly plain to me when he re-sald, Indignantly chopping away
ceived me at Pardo Palace, ten at my back hair. at losst 1,250,000 houses both to six or seven hundred M.P
"I am," I said, "n poot of sorts," replace war damage and to clear would lose to intimacy and the miles outside of Madrid.
It was the first time I'd seen There was silence following this up-slums, and to give.cach family (nellity for close debate, what it
him sinco nine Yours ago at dreadful admission. Then the a separate dwelling. Since the gained in comfort. first steps
were taken about a And so the new building will Salamanca, daring the Spanish barber showed that resolution A The on the old foundations and Civil War. Ilo deesn't seem to which has brought him through year ago and nothing like really concerted drive was pas- the walls will be built out only have aged, in the interval.
He two wars, and anid: "I suppose I'm old and looks to take this here stuff of all the sible until after VJ-Day-116,229 enough to make room for an extra
rehoused in row of seats. Five years were is only 52 years families have been
same?
The effusions of the pootical make it public. "Yos," I said, “even poets allowed for the re-building. It fit, vigorous and self-confident. England, Wales and Scotland.
As I expected, Franco claim- usually have that off."
barber do not surprise me: for I There are 10,220 new houses, may now take less than that.
and 47,- During this week the chiar deed that he was monarchist but And there you might think this believe that men and women of many professions, permanent of memor. Ten- bate will be on economic policy that it would be mistake, both embarrassing scene ended for it is all ages, In 398 are under
a Victorianiam many people have from every environment, are try- ders have been approved for and manpower. It brings in the in the interests of Spain and 60,147 for building for local au- question of the speed of demo- the monarchy, to hasten the reg-inherited that a poet is a woebe- ing to write poetry to-day and are mirable attainment, such as is. phie, languid, romantic indeed succeeding in writing satis dancing of singing: but why should during our gone, thorities, and 28,711 licences have billsation and the passage of men toration, Twice
the devotee of verse persist in to private builders. and women into felvian industry. been issued
to whom?
wishing for a national public? Satisfactory indifferent, morala and cer-
Why the proclamation published
of arguments that will be heard and a half, I asked hini when henly long hair.
will be thought the restoration might Saturday in connection with the
in this work's debate, de come in Bix months, one year, fidentially into my ear and instead order with experience, frenzy, newspapers and publishore? Why But the barber breathed con- sion of the right word in the right, but tenth rate com of entisfactory brought into a nowerful
It not cultivate that admirable talent campaign against venereal disease
five years, or twenty years. He of advising me of the absolute technique, awareness, then
tho debate on defence polley.
Back before the means that, at last, some attempt
war the
the Govorn-skillfully
nequaintances, avaded giving any necessity of a shampoo he whis would be satisfactory not only to of our fore-fathers and
pered: "I do a bit of poetry my those who read it now but also to stuff aloud, to
friends, and oven to strangers in is to be made to get at the cost
ment of the day used to produce answer.
If it is, like the barber's, pub circles, club, circles, and of the evil. The provisions are
every year, a White Paper on De- The second time I put the sulf."
Policy. Tha
began limited in their scope, and to that
fenco
when question, I added, "Who will be wonder if there ever was, a rearmament began against the the next King of Spain-Don time when so much bad poetry good honest han-handed verse wherever there is an audience at...
was written by so many well making, then I submit its main hand? extent must be Jimited in their
German threat, and before many
Intentioned people?
antiafaction is for the writer. effect, but any advance is a dis-
people had oven realised it. Dur Juan, his son, or his grandson?"
The barber's stuff, which I oven- tinct gain, and as such is to be
ing the war defence policy was The Generalissime atili refused welcomed.. If the terms of the
a top-lotel secret, at any rate into be drawn cut and answered tually had to see, was admirable if the kind of detail that could be to the effect that it was quite rather, ambitious in its unoriginal Proclamation represent no more
Impossible to set any date, how-intention to liken the world to a put into White Papers. than a compromise between those
Now the series is being revived. ever vague, for the restoration. babble, time to a stroam, and his
Aral Thi
"document looks only
One of the arguments which girl friend to Venus. Though it who would advocate a full mea-
rhymed, and in parts even scanned, Sure, of control of prostitution
shearl as far as the end of this Franco used with me against an year. It says that the Govern- immediate restoration was that it did not add up to poetry. of voluntary and the system
ment intends that, if things go as it still was impossible to judge not there was a the bust- of ago, the step is in the right direc
Also there has been a big drive able to wind up some tion and presumably more drastic to get war damage repairs out of nesses on which our Forces are majority in Spain in favour of will be taken in the the way. Out of the 435,400. men being used, there will be 1,100,000 the monarchy. Only the day be event that it is fed to be in- in the housing labour force, 197, men and women in the Forces. fore I saw him, his Government war damage There were 6.100,000 at the time had arrested 25 yang royalists 100 fave been on sufficiently productive of the de-
number of our greatest effort. And bo who had been distributing. pro- repairs to houses.
600,000
In
movin Madrid essential there will diminish in the early hind the 1,100,000 will be sired
paganda results. The thing is that compulsary treat part of the year, and the men will making munitions.
On higher defonce policy, there theatres. I asked him how the ment of known carriers can now be able to be moved to building
are to be some now decisions. The will of the public could be n8- certained while ne maintained n Assistant new houses. he ordered by the
а пот out of Government will ask fer When more men come
back to Britain with Director of Hygiene, with heavy the Forces the hope is that there law to settle a new organisation severe press censorship and im came back from Iceland about Chelst
The new process beprisoned those seeking to per-mas. I came -penalties for failure to attend for will be plenty of work.ready for
and correspundenra' were bulging, with a different re- treatment when ordered. It needs, them in this most urgent job of gan when the Prime Minister be-suade their fellow countrymen enthusiasm, for my hands, pockets mind
of Defence, of the need for
for British is tame also Minister And the reckoning building.
ho nier, Pat, healthy orders however, to be emphasised that success in the campaign depends a big way in April. Officials say firm boundaries between the three evaded, saying the 26 young woods.
Iceland is nu to country: lttle to the Services were reduced.
·
royalists would be kept in pri- upon the victims of the infected. that men newly returned
Paper
patit Inson only a few days. When I touched by war, on the whole pro-British, No obligation is placed upon a bullding industry from the For- patient to inforin against the per-
the impulse of war
laughed and said, "Of course depart the rigid boundaries of son from whom the patient sus
were modified not, then quickly moved on to pects that the disease was con-
of of the progress of re-hous in the interests centralised another topic.
Next. I asked why he had ke jumping into the nearest river. It 19, in this
creeping, sleepy alck a personal issue, although it is keenly watched and that what he arguments-old, that
in housing dogs
is the first big test
Supreme sentative, Intante Don Alfonso, sort of malalar, a war-about one which, in the majority of of his success,
General Staff for the three Ser
in confinement for the last ten new, la drilling through British Industry, cases, should not excrvise the con-
The next thing from the same vices to be revived. Anyway, the months on his estate at San- and I now look on sil slogans affreting science for very long. The authori Ministry, is the National Health Government's policy is to study montin Southern Spain. Don the yelopment of "Expert" with highly
improvements suggested by Service. Mr. Ravan has been tell the
Air Force, placed ties se endeavouring, for thing the doctors, hospital authori. the exertionce of the last six Alfonso, who, was a general in sake of the community at large ties and all the rest-telling them, years and to come and tell Parlia- the Spanish
his resignation to tackle a public menace of the not arguing what he proposes to men what it proposes.
Meanwhile, it is being pressed to hands ten months ago after gravest kind, and it is the duty put into his Bill designed to give of any individual who has been, everyone in the land a full medl- decide some immedinte questions publicly announcing his inten- cal and health service. Many ru- on a lower level, but more directly tion of supporting the return of
This I doubted, privately, and called Fulver, Franco justified, to
They say, among other things: shall we say, unlucky, to play amours have been going around, interesting citizens and soldiers. Don Juan.
on the Board of Trade Export Liceming Department. I discovered that under an "The attention of our client, Mrs. part in the protection of other mostly suggesting the comprehen- What is to be the term of service me the detention of Don Al-
Order issued by the Government lastDulele. Bilbound, has been drawn people. In this connection, it is sive nature of what Mr Boras of new entrants, and so of those fonse on the grounds that, as
to a statement in your column news already being taken in? And serving soldier, he had no right supplies (for export).
Falleging that she is hoarding to be hoped that the restraining may be planning. Official
March.
be given towards the end of what is the policy over conscripto take part in politics. When I e Information whatever beyond and
I wrote and told the firm this, remark-lantern-metal, and advising the clause in the Proclamation, which
tlon? On both there are stronx laughingly suggested that pèr- recommendation that. I keep in touch and
ing it wa strange that they did not Sheet and Strip Metal Usera rightly creates an offence of Since this Parliament first met. feelings and lively arguments,
hapa Don Alfonso was only fol-
know about it. In reply they merely Technical Association to apply to reckless allegations, will not give twenty-seven new laws have been
lowing a bad example eet by Twenty-four are still be-
her for consignments of that all these Orileza. The pro- made.
We here enough to rise to super-caution,
article. We have been advised by viston of information is to be re-fore Parliament. And there are American, and tussian attacks Franco himself, the Generalis nothing beyond the fast that they could remarked: "Oh! we can't keep track of
our client to demand an un- more to come. Chief of those on Spain." Several times. Isimo replied a trifle pompously not get raw materials, fe could affer
future. He could do as
Here Touee that the buyer has to
qualified apology, as the statement still
are the to be dealt with garded as a statutory duty, for the purposes of the law against Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill, pointed out to him that, what that he had entered politics only no prospects for
I suggested that per-they might make. or would make. Be tell the maker how to do his business is without foundation, and bas caused our client considerable In- defamation. The absence of the which ja now being worked on in ever might be the attitude of at the request of other people, not give me the faintest Indication what.
do it or not. (I got the barrels.).
convenience.' American Governments and haps Don Alfonso was similarly could merely any; "Call in about six has to discover, in fact, whether be cars
months. Article prohibiting the giving of detail in committes, the National Moscow, the French, British and When
Insurance aiso in committee peoples had nothing but friend-distinterenteil, ho-again quickly
Meantime, the bors 1 Iceland a false information would place a and
waliing and waiting and waitlis I very de- bat they will not walt much longer. dangerous and most unpleasant Trade Unions Bill, which is being ship for Spain and the Spanish changed the subject.
During our talk, weapon in the hands of the mali dealt with by the whole House in people that their hostility was
directed exclusively against his Anitely sustained the impression
Order is Lost cious. It is not, however, intend committee.
that Bill was being dealt regime. I must regretfully, re- that Franco either was very ill- ed to create an atmosphere of with last Tuesday night, a Mom cord that this seemed to make informed on European politics caution where disease has beeuber got into difficulties over rais-no impression on him at all and or else he deliberately was clos- contracted in the circumstances ing a point of Order during that he was still os convinced Ting 'his"eyes to facts-which-ha British engineering firm, to equip a new
division. For reasons which were As long as probably invulnerable when it was as ever that life Jnterests and considered unwelcome. He kept machinery and contpment. I have no of the Spanish people talking about French, British financial Intervals in this whatever, but formation is given in the bona first catablished, the custom, in those
(Gontinued on Preceeding Col.) | mished (m) to fide belief that it is accurate, if deed the Standing Order, is that were indissolubly linked. the victim has reasonable cause to a Member must keep his sent and believe that the contact is identi- put his hat
at the top.
that the building season begins in Then during the war the old gime. This question too
The
By James Whittaker
Lo seg operation, and (b) that British equipment was used, hospital In
The engineera informed the hospital authorities that the equipment would b delivered in three months-this was last Becember.
ces are setting new standards and on terms when it says asked if they would be tried, he with good credits in this country, and)
improving the offleleney of the in- that distry very notably.
tracted. For him or for her, the! Figures are to come out overy mental authority
old
*
"FAT as I could see and bellovERIES
months after To-day, less than two my return, I am sick at heart, and feel
genuine liking for British goods,
giving of such information raises ing. Mr. Bevan knows that he is control." We may expect the been keeping Don Juan's repree on the face of it, that the queer
mast, common.
the Trude Disputes Bod
on when rassing
fiable, there can be no fear of pot of Order during a division. Very low MP3 wear hats in
legal repercussions. The primary the House nowallays have seen aim and object of the Proclama only one in recent months. And ipp is to enable the authorities to this M.P. did not have his hat
putting him. He tried compel disensed prostitutes to sub.
swith
Inst
Jaundred eye and an unbelieving mind, alber the I
not believe that managers or the workers are about ex-
I had an urgent cable the other day frum the hospital saking me to invest gate, an they had heard nothing further from the litlah Grto, ginestigated,
I was then told that the equipment could not be supplied in less than 12 months, And, na It is a dead certainty that that hospital cannot stand idle for the next year this order, others," will over the res, and not to British manufacturers,
Buyer Knew
.
Rhyme, then and be merry with of poetry they the great language have embellished and bequeathed you and try it on the dog, try it on the family, try it on the local paper for your own satisfaction and pleasure,
BY THE WAY.
By Beachcomber
I have received a nasty letter from Mrs. Bilbound's solicitors, Messre. Chacking, Fulver, Ful- ver, Fulver, Fulver. Glapton, Now let us come to barrel: I needed Smeddle. Fulver, Greazle, Butte, Bitts. Batts, Bulver, lot for an urgent Job, connected Botts,
Fulver, Mckeoch, Gooch, Up- with",foodstuffs.\
quite
A wrole in Franco's port trade,. I feel both are to blame,
Save Your
After the 1914-18 war many
額
domobilised men annk their
a
Let me give you concrete examples,
Told To Wait
I called personally on a paint-making firm to Inquire about the psability of I came away with
call in" about 'six months. Plea note; alx months.
could tell m The port manager
As an act of charity I asked a certain
-Koapital-with-vertala-most-
essential
Bod this badly needed
Gratuity
Yuper over tristead, but gratuities and savings in such (By Tony Waley, Lieutenant) going quickly. mit themselves for treatment, and the Chair apparently did not think ventures as poultry farms. Now
away.
to three British firms: this church. de Lawnmower, Fulver, was about Christmas, "Two have not yet
replied. The third did reply, but told- meitwas imponible export.
September necessary.
по
Export Hcenco พ.
Know Nothing
In Iceland Il can be devilishly cold, and the balanders are as fond of creature "comforts as the rest of us. ---- Boo what you can do about electrio fires, they had said to me, aino électria -water heaters and electric cookers; in fact, any thing ploe and modern and la, the sise trical ino.
Rackstraw, Huish, Nid-
Yough, Clithersole,
Fulver, Fulver, Fulver and
My, Reply
Dear Sirs,There are surely enough of you in the firm to octypy yourselves with more im- portant mattore than lantern petal. Rather than apologise will take the case into court, and then who will look foolish, ch sire? And how did Niddecombe And what is get a partnership?
One long-established firm, in the shape of its export manager, told age with foreible aesture and violent language (us in that tin box in Greazio's room, ch? Well? Do you want to go fortunately unrepeatable) that perhaps be could let me have some things in about on with It? three to six monthe, "You'd better malf it aix," he added, and there was a wild
I asked him for catalogues, He gr
print them," he said.
Iraived 'ray eyebrows, Te winced at
written aborsi che minaser of cheat-all?
in. Passing
It has at last dawned on some much outlay it is much harder light is his eys. work and more difficult to get. If we could get paper we couldn't body that if we are to attract tourista from abroad, wo must treat them to adults, and not ay we ourselves are accustomed. Another thing to be on the
can make," is eald slowly, speaking a to be treated. They must be it places upon those who resort to that enough, and did not take his there is a very definite trend
Another gave difficulty in look out for are the bogus Staff my stupidity. "We don't know what we
not And them with unfortunate results the point of Order. Then a Member towards the hotel trade, and a
when they feel inclined. Blankety-blankets when other abople want them to. onus of providing a means of une distance away saw his difl-good many people have found to the shortage of accoinmodation, Agencies who will offer employ under a great burden, "We don't know allowed the trivilege of drinking
cuity, and, being young and
I perfectly natural to be make repairs or start a cater the last war there are plenty of "we don't know a curbing the evil. Here, it is lient, threw him a hat. It para- their coat that this busincas too and the need for permits to ment with investment. As after whit the prices will be," he passed,
4 p.m. And what is thirsty at true, a serious weakness of the chuted high over the benches, and is fraught with danger,
A man who wishes to entering establishment. If a man is."sharks" around, who are will thing," he ended,
Sad Last Note
going to be done about it? It is suggested that eaters in restaur- Proclamation makes itself ap made a neat landing not too far
the hotel trade should reaitre refused a pormit to draw food ing and eager to filch the Ser
The buidlera in Icoland are sa busy se ants may be allowed to drink with parent. While a contact found his business of hats-is one of the difficulties he will inevitably to start a caturing establish- viceman's gratuity, and this las to be suffering from V. D. is re- the instances where custom had come up agains: in the first ment (and he must prove that a method which has been put
to make inquiries abouth So the tourist who prefers an lan, quired to attend for treatment, hardened into a rule. The force chaotic years of peace. To such an establishment is nead into practies with success Inbeek and some of them ppproached me their meals for an extra half hour.
he was before, there is nothing in the Proclams of tradition is very strong at start a hotel or public house and ed before the Food Office will many different cast Amfi and sked me
Westminator and continuos
Need I rep, what I karo alewady- Bat Why have any closing hours tion to prevent a prostitute from even though the great majority keep it going takes a great deal give him an allocation) he will is asked to hand over bilkratity nailide locks, hinam, door handle, and is pot hungry, is just where continuing to practice. her proof MPs are now men, unvorsod of capitalit. cannot be done have to face the trials of the to a hotel, perhaps title Isle of door ditunare
Strabismus Expedition fession during the period of her in the traditions. But there is properly with less than $2,000 rationing system with all Ita Man or acmo remote place, in
bohind most of them.and this capital is all too cast-attendant hard work. Suitable return. for which he will re-eng-established Arms wei aidost is tears treatment and before she has been hands have giyen lec-ly lost if its owner has not the | building are very few nowadays, celvo a job and a abare In the | bạcaufa be, dould tell me vasotty, nothing
And
and it must be remembered that business. He signs the papers, about supplies, prices, when they mightThe
Latest mosnko: Not calling At Riven Aclearance certificate.
Bananes (read Bahamas) or Guba, To keep or manage a hotel a in the case of a hotel the peal pays over his gratuity (or in manufacture, when they might suport, Surely, it needs no argument that the new men on the whys right sort of experience,
Approaching seas is done. And of course the man should be thoroughly con- tion of the building is of great yestment and, when he goes to All he could say was that they had one
some of us think. That foolish sallor, lis in irons or steering the officials are permanent and koop Versant with every side of the importance. To equip hotel look for his place of employ- now for axport, and wol scough for the averyone on the right lines.
The hotel trade has room for 1- here asked for carpete, (one Arm 17 Work has just begun on the business. Hothould be able with linen, cutlery, kitchen- ment he finds it does not exist. how trade, and it. I came back in three Jamaicao. foundations for the now House of to demonstrate to every amwaro, and furniture le pileo a Commons, to replace the Chamber.ployee from the scullery mald difficult and xpensive process, men who are willing to pass know cat fake about 2180,000 worth in wrong way or many hours. burned and bombed out in 1941. to the receptionist how their job and although, the hotel trade is through the drudgery and learn the corping year), for baking paper for Calcutta, March 20,
again tradition rules hard should be done. At the present booming at the moment this the job inside out, and in these issuextins paper and lordialias ¡com - atsel, for light iron; roda, foc; "window" One person was killed and 00 The House of Commons dociled time the start dimculties which will not go op for ever To put circumstances at can be a lucra-bounds.sfer reckery, for light struckers! wem taken to hospital and 140 that it would have no truck with face the small hotel keeper are your capital into a hotel is not tive and entertaining business. glass, for electrical equiphtht (other than Dobar were injured according to notions of malice a bigger Cham- almost insuperabis, and wages a safe investment unless you There is not. However, Basy that named partler); for: zopet rabie,
money to ba mada in it, and any war. Unes besaian bers, di the latest casualty lists in slashes ber It wanted on a fibers are very high with no guarantee. have expertenen in Caloutta between the Congres posible to the old one, but with that the employee will not walk The small boarding house is man who has an idea of this one last and notes by British Inform Party and Communist supporters some of the more obvious de In-to-day election of four men advantage removed. It was not out at a moment's notice if he another idea which has occured sort would be wolf advibod te ante were almost all of them, obvious
although this does not needs, so can get before he sets about it, I. bors to the provincial assembly, counted compelling disadvantage considers he has a grievance or to many, returning soldiers, but take the most expert advice he depleted, sad, deprewed, and tired of
that, there were not sents for all could do bolter elsewhere, Reuter
this should not be openly counter anced.
·CALCUTTA RIOTS
FORSON.
alid wherefores, and how the buni-
*
monthe
Tail-Plece
Those agile and ruthless 'minda, in Britain as elsewhere, who are dictionary of democracy to ensure prepared to exhaust the whole that government of the people, by one police, for the politicians, shalt not perish from the earth.
Robert Spealt.)
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