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WESTMINSTER GAZ ETTE

Mr. Churchill Guilty Of A Tactical Error

Westminster. Feb. 15. The dominating tople

in Parliament this week as in the rent of Britain has been the Battle of Coul and when the House of Commons staged a full dress debate following last week's fierce anti-Government build-up there were many the ranks of the Opposition who breathed confident whis pers that ranged downwards from complete collapse of Mr. Attlee's Cabinet to at the very least the dismissal of Mr. Shin- well.

But things did not work out that way Thu great show. down in the Chamber which was going Lo expose the Labour Government to the grimmest barrage in its un- comfortable existence

11

By.J. R.

be's Key

ed anything savouring of "more Parliamentary Secretary to austerity" in the same way as come Minister of Works

during tho had they

Jecred at Mr. won first popularity

war blitz when his policy Strachey's bread rationing pro: London Reglunal Shelter Com pospla. Finally his hopes of mission resulted in the saving of thousands of lives in Popular. He has learnt lots about Housing while serving under Mr. Bevan at the Ministry of Health, and it had been is expected, he will go as far ar scraping through dated by the worst blizzard anyone could go in Iraning cut Inr fifty years which had those idiotic red tupe tangles with

of Heali and Supply and Works have brought distribution to frozen which the Ministries

strangled во many premising standstill.

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COPN. SPES BY NEX BLEVICE, ING, 7, AG REG U., 8., PAYS OFFL

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"Fifty miles an hour through town, crashing three stop-

lights-where's the vacant apartment, anyway'

'Rash Intervention

Shinwell Osborne Shock Sensing that Mr. was getting. away with it Mr.

Amazing background Churchill rather rashly

about growth of football pocie tervened in an attempt to pin came out when Mr. Osborne (Con- H.K, LABOUR

down the charge as being one servative, Leuth) raised the Issue djournment. Guvernment's 'recent perform

of lack of organised planning on a motion for the mlased

and He declared this gambling Indus- to defeat an emergency nces with the so-called Rehabilite target somehow. M.PH. on

was lured inta

describing try employed seventy-five thou tation Allowance prompt as en-

sand perfons full time afd nn- the extreme right were very

the weather conditions na being other fifty thousand part time, in- quity as to whether radical, re- disappointed and rather

Chur- the sort of emergency he had, that the G.P.O. had to deal with

Thin Vision of the local wages system clined to criticise Mr.

እየበዛ An - seven and three quarter million would not in the long run prove chill for failing to seize this in mind.

to fortunate tactical error because circulars per week from pools' maste dignified. There seems to heaven sent opportunity

bring the Government down, those who had been thirsting firms and six million letters from be little point in preserving

But though Winston can be for Mr. Shinwell's blood had clients to pools, and that the an

amount spent by Imethod of computing the appro-

Lotul when previously been accusing him of clients bitter political battier,

Heventy million ur arti

he choose's, be is also big trying to use the weather as an pounds, He suggested the Gover san, based upon a cost of living enough in mental stature to alibi. Mr. Churchill made an ef- ment could end clothes fulloning index, if at the first indication fee above mere party interests fort to recover the last ground within twelve months if a'f pou

clothing industry. The sub- that it will operate too sharply when his shrewd Insthiet tells, during his own speech when hin <mployers were diverted into the to the disadvantage of the work- him thut certain kinds of vic- sentence: "I would not put all

sequent debate was not us colur- tory hold the needs of incipient the blame on the Minister of ful as might have been expected nam, there is to be wholesale' re-

to regard this treat from

the basic principle. future.dangers. Thus the tense Fuel and Power" roused cries Everybody seems i

Blouse and packed galleries of "Why Not?" to which he re- subject dynamite. Even Mr. The actual acting of Government

zaw curious spectacle of the torted. "Well I do not hunt har Edwards (Parliamentary Sacre- fin this matter is, Probably not to

on the Government 8, russed or falling Ministers",

tary to the Ministry of Laboury It was fairly ap coat policy strangely alternate Actually the subsequent, who was put up to state the Gov

ernment & views, appeared to wal wish parem that there was real danger between hard hitting and then debate made the probability of he had not been saddled with Juf fabusur „troubles this month if unexpected soft pedalling:

nd Mr. Shinwell's fall much more tricky task. So he bezed by [the majority of them had found

remote than it was before, the mitting from personal and morst their pay envelopes slimmer. by

debate began. General opinion point of view he had a great deal $12 than they were at the end of

in

with Mr. shorn- the House was that Mr.f sympathy January. The rich strike

on the debate rather as if merely Churchill inadvertently put his but took refuge in expressing re Thursday by Government motor doing advanced outpost duty finger on the roots of the whole luciance about imposing his viowe drivers as the result of a misun- and when Mr. Wyatt, Labour crisis when he blamed Shinwell on moral issues in other perjane / Work, trolley buses, trains and nessing a thow in civilian produc

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A Londoner Looks At Life---In A Blizzard

Oh to be in Calro now the cats Stafford Cripps, Presklint of the are here! Yes, 1 mean that. I ans Board of Trade, is inclined to look writing wearing an overunat and on the bright side. "Though the gloves in an unheated mony and current weather and things must I think you'll agree that it's a be apt to, depress some of our dificult business trying to be spirits it is as well, to recall a cheerful under Rach conditions, few of the facts that should tend But I am not the only sufferer, to make us take a less frozen view The coal crisis ins but everyons of life" he told a London audi- in the county. Thousands of ene. "Apart from momentary people have been forced out of diflculties we are certainly wit

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Attlee's "Do

By JOHN SKIPTON

ly equal reduction in his cost of monu speaker at any time und having no gory scalpa: to rivat) the kind of smiles which usually at the end of last winter 'we found hantly with five pounds of big,

THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO. INC. reason for overriding the metlaxis

GENERAL AGENTS

Shinwell Takes

over

Unwer (Conservative.

broke

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less

turn them into good solid casks at aLandon auction.

curtailed tram services in doing anything at might

papers have been cut to ther derstanding of official intentious

regarded as interference with

pre-war size and the fuel short- with a challenging and the Government for garding relabilitation allow

sweet Ae is threatening the Mr. Osborne should have eating, fotball pools and even aur provided a slight, but ample request as to how Mr. Hudson telling the people sooner about the private lives of British citl-

saloons. Following illustration of labour "touchiness" would raise the cool-stocks, the fuel difficulties, and for not rens.

Ir. Hudson evaded the thrust using radio and other publicity been satisfied with leaving mattina, for and we fancy it was just as well and declined to answer.

Your Bit A You Thus to give-country some drill inters there but he insisted on offer in

in e many interruptions Did. In War" appeal the public are shown by the much better hus!- that it was deemed inespedient to Mr. Shinwell had a point acor-

what might happen if bad Mr. Edwards suddenly whilippe

more than doing their, share in nest that has been done, in ro-V put to the test the ability and d for him before he rose to weather came along before the ut a comment to the effect that saving fuel. He told the country cent months compared to a year

between production and he was surprised, that the pools willingness of the workman to re reply but nevertheless the Op. Kap

we need to have The weather, ten, has causei began to consumption Hot too wide, The were copying some of the tactics of that in order to get through the egg" Well saker Stafford. cognise that a cut of $r2 a month, position members

eventually the Stock Exchange an effective water months

that since 1943 something of a potato shortage.. hint to Mr. Osborne

borne who in stock coal stockce unil

we have had to face the winter I tried doing a little shopping for TWICE WEEKLY SCHEDULED AIR SERVICE based upon an averaged-out price sharpen knives for a quick kill. House adjourned

index,

was just and reasonable For Emmanuel is not a partien- without a division with the. Op broker, which Anally disposed of and conformed to an approximate-larly successful itound of Composition allghtly annoyed at him and, sent. members home with with smaller stocks than were my wife the other Saturday and quire. He stressed the fact that pftor, queuing for nearly two hours. mand fo to 20 home trium- which ex- often says things

over, with the Government reward jokes at the expense of one

ourselves with

than seven living. It requires no expert Trade One the weak joints in his own slightly

surprised at having of their number,

million tons in stock and we only frost-bitten potatoes. Still, they after A certain Union leader to be sent out to armour. The 'preceding few escaped unscathed and with the;

Sweet By-and-By

managed to increase this during were eatable th Hong Kong by Mr. Creech-Junes days had also been full

summer and autumn to eleven amount of pruning.. of country still bewildered

million tons, three million ton to persuade the Chinese workınan either clamorous demands for the whole thing. Mr. Attlee had

M'stplant Incident of the week

New Craze that a pay increase once gained, his resignation as a "ungler" the wisdom to take full per- has been the wriggle by Eric less than last year. The miner

are in no way to blame for the

have however it might be described, is or rife with rumours that Mr. sonal charge of the criele from Gandar

produce-T Have you any old elgarcito - hit lightly to be surrendered. Attlee had decided to throw that moment and Mr. Shinwell Calthness and Sutherland). It shortage, for they

weather alone le tosponsible What Government did of course him overboard as the only way may whistle with relief for the will be remembered when he won more goal with fewer men, The cards? This is the latest post-

his neat at the General Election.

war craze and had I kept the sets Rellway lines have been blocked, was to discover a good enough of keeping his Government bal-time being.

he pledged himself resign when

of cards I was so proud of, in my points frozen, tunnels mude im-youth 1 might have been able to Another Yell loon safely nloft.

Japan was defented. He

passable by drifts. laid down in the "hook of words"

True another yell for his the pledge and for some time re- for assessing the scale of the al-

head on a charger was specifical fused even to consider honouring HONG KONG

To everyone's astonishment, ly made later in the week in the IL Then a series of "yes he will lowance, and to announce a cut

-no he won't" decisions. H Mr. Shinwell's 'speech instead House PEDDER BUILDING of $3 instead of $14, as a reduc of being framed on the linds Cranbourne who flatly demand-ried last

of Lords by Lord

Recretary was leaving to get ma

Docember.no Dower tion likely to be more easily asof panicky defence, took on the ed the Government should re- agreed he would resign, and another week out of it we can get

rou.. similated. Since then, in

he character of offensive

move Mr. Shinwell because ho fight the conatituency. Then. sequence of the

decision to in-He refuted the charge that had entirely lost the country's was not going to stand again. crease the price of ration rice to in the nationalised

confidence, but Lord Shepherd Then there appeared to be s 4 cents, the food and fuel figures suddenly caused a crisis by meri, National agent of quarrel between the Caithness shock to the country, there is n

(Confined on Page have been revised, and the net producing figures. proving that result will be that at the end of anxiety over insulelont

Labour Party) defended · Mr.j March the workman will find duction dated back to as far Shinwell warmly and himself $6 better off in hard cash 8 1940 when the Coalition the crisis hud

shortcomings. pitmen any one man's than he was in January. All of Government put the which will gain his immediate into the fighting services as a This was alightly tempered by approval of the Cost of Living consequence of the collapse of Lord Addison who after ex- Government France. He reminded the Op.plaining why the Index System, but will not make position that the Government had hesitated about rationing it any easier to induce him to be was so alarmed in 1942 that. It earlier, admitted under lieve that the process in reverse dovised a kind of modified fuel sure that Mr. Shinwell was a shinuld be applied with equal allocation scheme and then put | Hitüle sanguine. speed and dexterity when the it back in the pigeon holo. He The news columns indicates the figures, and the rules, call for reculled the fact that last Octo progress being achieved in the ac that course. Sliding scales work bor he had solemnly warned the with delightful smoothness while Fuel Efficiency Conference that the trend is upward. The friction the Government's policy of full comes when the attempt is made employment was

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Hotel, Southampton Row, when 260 fols, including rare and mix- Ek ed sets are to be sold. The Auce tloneers are P. A. Wilde, Waster Auctions. Ltd., and a member of the firm says it is not uncommon for as much as 4100 to be offer- and Indeed Sined for un early set.

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities".

GRASP OPPORTUNITY Moore, astute cardsman of New York's Union Lengua Club, diet Some goodly proportion of exactly that. He Onessed the club tual fuel battle but in the political the unusually favorable sceres by 10, returned to his hand with o come heart. finessed the club Q, scored sense which is my only immel good players will always

their to the club A to dr:n the K. Since ate sphere of comment, Labour from pbility to grasp an oppor his last two heart tops, and led Government is riding the storm tunity granted by acts of

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ient music have been sold. Ho t

#'s responsible for "I'll Close My Eyes," and "Coming Home, 4 and is regarded in the State BE n_second Irving Berlin,

Tomorrow's Problem

I had a talk during the week - to and cheating its opponents whe opponents. They not only accept the hearts had not dilylded evenly to push them back again. That that might out-balance

rise la consumption only a week ago were certain the the direct benclis of such gifts, he had built a squeeze position by with pianist-composer Billy Red

coal complete collapse cf the whole, but proceed to magnify the value, discarding a spade on the third and his stage parter, Daruthi-1. a

Squires now they are on their way is, and always has been, the ob production despite fact that the administration, was unavoidable. of them by carving is extra divi-mond.

own three to America in the Queen Elizo vious weakness of a fluctuating miners were getting out more in the middle of all this, Norman- dends through skillful use of the He relained his wage system, and the suggestion coal than before. He charged ton went to the poll. Admittedly presents. In brief, they then Blus-nades and the diamond 8, and in bath, where they are to appear

Cate in Hollywood, of retreat from its operation when the Centrul Electricity. Board a seat recognised as a Labour cer-trate that cashing in to the maxi-the dummythe, spade A-la and in their dual act at the Morocco

the Conservatives mum, an chances offered makes the impictant heart 7 in addition aubsequently supplying could be forgiven a confident tho'r plus was recently plain with

while to the club 7. which he now laid Billy tells me he has been in By posed secins, to 115 to him with an estimate of coal anticipation of a poll that would their swn refraining from its drin. If East hail discarded the vited to write the musical score be tacit acknowledgment. (no requirements which later an reflect the electorate's presumed, inany slips keeps down the size heart 10, the would have, fe for a new Andrew sisters Alm matter how neatly phrased proved to contain serious mis-present-day disillusion about the of their minus total..

Labour Covermunent it sent to was the pretext) that Government. He frankly admitted to grow. power with such high hopes. The would give much to discovering alarm over all this and ex-actual result brought chagrin to means to reduce the scope for empiained his own hesitation about the opposition crganisers for al- successful Laboiir | barrassing", "complications: The

though the revealing the gravity of the candidate had a greatly reducci proposal to use the monthly aver situation as due to the convic poll, the official Conservative can- .7.4 32 age as a yardstick instead of two- tion that the Opposition forces didate also got one thousand few. months has certain mister merits, would certainly have representer votes than at the General BleeKWE

tion and the Independent'. ca didate made such a negative im. movements more frequent but of

forfeited smaller dimensions. The success of in accepting, realistically, that the bungle, crno teal bungin. this arrangement however must conditions hoped for when the the Labour Government is noty be psychologically dependent upon scheme svasoriginally conceived dead enough to warrant any of frequency of movement. If the fare impossible of achievement, ponse on a funeral celebration workman' can be accustomed, by and in making the necessary ad mes

New Ministers. actual experience, to the idea of a Justment. A new standard "2\df |

Speaking of possible, ministerial payslip that varies from month to basic wages, with light cost of changes reminds me of the month, he may by a sort of living allowances flexible, but changes caused by: Miss Ellen

*3 NTA Lypriotism he persuaded to aur-geared to provide touch narrower Wilkinson's death. The appoint- render gracefully to the see-saw boundaries of movement, would ment of Mr. George, Tomlinson as West made a sound enough motion. But the damage may have be more suitable to present-day wear not been too well K, but then, when he should have

her sliecetsorat, the Educailte opening lead with his diumen already done. He has been held conditions and, probably, improve received avan in Labour ranks switched to his fourth-best, spads. at $84" for long now that he the prospects of latisfactory em 7daling la that Mr. Tomlinson was be scored, his diamend. A tot can be excused a feeling of perployer-labour relationships. Some not shining success se Minister up the Q, which then won the nerable

lof the to manency about $84, which will time or other it will have to be of Werke und, that then relive men, third diamond

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