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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1940.

THE GREAT ELECTION EXPENSE PUZZLE

Will Mr. Cube prevent vic-

torious' Conservative and Liberal MPa taking their

By William Richmond

by

and his

Morning

Stuffing too richt

The present sense to now past.

It has been decided thela policeman should be able to wear a shirt for three years. On and off, I hope,

Struck out.

What the trom conductora

What with "Batavia

crowds

Tate and Lyle-must be shown to be in support of an individual.

Bloke had a duck containing Rex v. Hallwood, 1928, Jáki

Editor in Chief .......

24384 seats after the general elec-,1940, as amended by the Act of promoting the party's

down that "a person may/aup-130 gold bars in its stomach taken Reporters & General Office 32317) tion?

eause in port n particular candidate merely from him by revenus men. A thousand-odd 1940s by no means clear on the the constituency and promoting aby opposing his opponent."

This was perhaps the only duck (four lines)

puzzled prospective candid-subject.

persenal candidature, You <1)

in history with 30 tuels, Section 42 of the 1940 Aet say "Vote Tory--when the time Man and party ates would like an answer to (Section 03 in the 1949 version) comes," but not "Vote for Smith" On that score it might be sold this question.

defines the stopy a candidate and until the time comes. But the that Mr. Cube and Co. are sup- Mr. Cube, launched by Tate hin election agent may take in period differn, and juniges have porting the Tories and Liberals and Lyle to protect sugar from the promotion of a candidature, always demurred from defining

merely

opposing Socialist Is the State ownership,

aptar- No expenses shall be incurred when an election begins, holding policy. And it seems that legally hend of industry's light against by any person other then the that each case must be decided to distinction may be drawn bo- Sociallam.

candidate, his election agent, and on its merits.

tween the candidate Ever since Mr. Herbert Morri- persons authorised in writing on All too soon

party's policy. son hinted that anti-nationalisa account of:

But at such expenses must be tion campaigns might be counted (a) Holding public meetings|| In 1910 Captain Gucat, later Incurred in a definite election in lacked was punch, but the owners in election expenses, legal experts or displays (b) Issuing adver Lord Wimborne, зкая unstated a definite constituency, and no are apparently determined to see have been wrangling over the tisements, circulars, or publica- from East Dorset because it was candidate can be held to accept fare play. problem set by Mr. Morrison's tions. (c) Otherwise presenting to held that he and his friends had what he has had no opportunity veiled threats. A test case might the electors the candidate or hir said "Vote for Guest for some of refusing. be fought to decide how much views "or disparaging another

six months before the poll-and If Mr. Cube and Co. slayed on greeting birth of new nation," the Mr. Cube and Co-the other anti-candidate."

therefore their expenses dated the hoardings after Lite actual splash nows of Rita Hayworth's nationallaution campaigns -- had Election

and were matter published in from that time

over dissolution of Parliament their special delivery, and a couple of contributed to the election of Mr. newspapers or periodicals is ex- the limit

sub-editors on cants might be chargeable against christenings,

to John Smith, Conservative MP for cluded from this heading.

In 1924 Mr. Frank Gray, individual candidates.

yesterday's рорст began Liberal MP for Oxford, was un- Loamshire, in 1959.

The big query

But in that ease the boot might wonder whether there would be This brings back the age-old

later from scaled becau

because in November 1923 be on the other loot. Conserva- any come-back AU electio There has always been a limit he had sent out greetings cards to live and Liberal candidates might Midwives' Union.

рез expenses-even in his constituents after Mr. Baid- have to disown Mr. Cubo at thut Act not clear Entanawill days. The present Act win had clearly hinted in a speech time, just as Soxtailsts are at pains Jigtime in Jakarta,

To Ratin

life and Soekarno. sharply reduces the amount allow.nt Plymouth on October 28 that to disown embarrassing and un- Hartleyed. But one thing remains

with the Dutch must seem a bit Shawcross, the Attorney-General, stant, Petitions against excess ex-held that

Parliament would dissolve. It was authorised help offered by the

sending such cards Communist Party.

like a trip on n Ferris wheel. declared in Parliament that the penditure always have and always after the hint must be counted as And Mr. Cube's sponsors might Government preferred to rely on will hinge on the question: "When promoting candidature, and their themselves be table for prosecu- hosts of India, Pakistan, Cey- the existing law. Since the ques- does mis election on polition, election amount lon and other peoples of Asiaditure now incurred would have 1995, Lord Maclaren declared:

permitted tion, since such support, if un- tion of the legnilly of an expen- In the Elgin

Buthorised, becomes corrupt or who have found new free-

present anti-nationaltsa- illegal. to be considered in the light of The management and conduct tion campaign dom, and are on the march to the effect it was calculated to pro. of such an election means a de- problems, First, to

rises different | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, former

Tory Attorney-General, said: start a peti- new destinies. Secondly, it dure if and when ал election finite election within the know-on (an expensive business, In- "Consider the help which the confirms the great fact that it

ledge and contemplation of the volving £1,000 deposit in canh Labour Party is present Sir Hartley hedged, as well he parties conducting and mmaging against costs before is among the free democracies

anything is celving from other organisations. that the forces of freedom are Representation of the People Act,

might. For the existing law the it

started), an election expence in- Three million

pounds The main difference is between leurred by an outside body-c... would be required to produce the capital at work.

The transfer of authority in the new United States of In- donesia has been carried out with a dignity befitting one of the mont striking historical developments of our time. It is striking for two major rea- sons. It places seventy mil- lion people of many races and languages in line behind the

In the struggle of the past

problem: "What

expense"

15

On December 5 Sir

CCRUTA

10

election

four years armed force has London comments:

been a factor more than once.

con-

It was predominantly on the side of the Dutch. But it cost lou much and it availed nothing. The decisive factors were the determination of the Indonesian leaders to be free, the aid and sympathy they re- ceived from the free demo- cracies in that aim, and the final victory of Dutch Liberal leaders over the more servative politicians. The two circumstances mentioned Without last were decisive. them, the determination of the Nationalists on the one hand, and the superior force available to the Dutch on the other, would have created an almost unbreakable deadlock. all and finally frustration round.

con-

costa

The

excorded

the

Mr. Ernest Bevin's record

With Parliament adjourned. By "Windrush”

Mr.

There

vas

time 10

The

moreover

was

next

election,

har

Ofice."

Stalin's record

39) day. The “Economist” nays

of

over 11

"The Russia he will be leaving

re

£113,099" (as against £51,261 in 1945) "which the Labour Party received in 1948 from Affiliated trade unions.

"Do Individual trade unioniste want their money to be used for this purpose? Are these going down as election expenses Trompe

now ont

"The CWS £30,000

has just

given a Labour Party. It will not do for

to allow the contemplation of Labour Party. Is this starting the 30.000 propuganda film to the administrative burdens to impede election or promoting the election

and

пра

the

and

nad

income Political Fund In- come vt T.US, after paying off- llation fees to the Labour Party

*

•

Lat the bell ring.

tho

No more his jingling Juggernaut The Hong Kong trammle drives, And city streets seem much less

fraught

With danger to our lives.

Ud not Why, if these things

exist.

Perhaps they never would be

missed.

For nowadays the busy crowd Find with delighted smirks That once the trams aro not

aflowed,

Our traffic system worksi. And we're no longer out of

luck. "Twixt Scylla and Charybdis

stuck.

So please let progress onwardt

roll, Today chance hath revealed What

should! tomorrow's goal-

Thel: NO TRAMS!

scaled.

we

make

fate IN

No more need tourists coming

here At our outmoded transport Jeer.

Let us those blots eradicato (Though V.L's fume and funs) And, although late, get up to

date And use the nimble bus

Instead of standing, stuck in

Jams

£230,283

Upen

the

top of

strapless

trants!

£288,305

(approx.)

Amitation fees paid

ta Co-op Party

£ 16,630

£541,220

cross-peti-

I see they're still "introducing”

ar

| that Argonaut Speedbird.

Disgruntled recipients nirmall ва

that delay 18 apparently the watchword

round.

Indisputable.

His

it is on appropriate sum up the personal record of different ministers. The record slackened, his grip on policy has a constant growth: of new

His interest relaxed. Bevin. f

bo challenging conceptions that will of Socialist candidates? The Ca- Foreign

come apaamodic, hla Interven- appeal

ups contritate more than £100,-. to the undergraduate Secretary, has

antions unpredictable. More

000 a year to the Co-operative and generation." especial interest at the moment more he appears to be in the

Union, part of the National Coun- During the month there

cil of Labour." cause of the approach of the hands of his permanent officials peared the winter mumber Of Colombo conference. The whose very function is to assess Cornhill." This is probably

Economist in an article as dificulties, measure obstacles, and best quarterly now published in

Labour's income The Co-op spent £358,310 in sesses his strength and weak-counsel caution. ness.

"The conduct of policy thus England. The present issue con."education" in 1947,

much of tains a long and remarkable story which was becomes a succession of defen of the characters of Mr. Churchill to help Socialiam. A 1948 sum- The great achievement of Mr. sive acts....After a

admittedly designed promising Bevin, says the "Economist," was and worthy start Mr. Bevin has and President Roosevelt. I mary of the Labour Party Income,

set the course of the Labour shown little capacity for follow-written by Mr.

Isolati

Berlin, mostly by indirect subscriptions, Government towards co-operation ing up an original policy with its an Oxford don who was

a civil shows: with the United States right at detalled application.

Labour Party 11.Q. Whether or servant during the war, and was the start of the present Parlia ment, At that time in 1945 pad not the Labour Party wins the himself one of the most colourfur and successful personalities in new leadership 1948 14 was not nearly as ob- will be necessary at the Foreign the British Embassy in Washing- vlous to people in Great Britain The example had been set as it is now that safety demands

Mr. Berlin's article should be by Britain's remarkable policy is ra-operation.

read in its entirity if his picture It was the pattern Labour Party attracted

section of the in India.

The "Economist," in the sume of Mr. Churchill is to be seen in by the issue, sums up the record of an- the balance which President Soekarno and his Ittes af "Socialist Solidarity with other European statesman, Stalin. But some extracts may be quoted. he intended. colleagues kept ever before the great Soviet Union". Another The occasion was his 70th birth- then. The result in the end section wanted Great Britain to

"Mr. Churchill's' dominant cate- third force him. "The legacy which Stalin gery, the single, central, organi- was much the same, except het n "Socialist that partition has been avoià.iring between capitalist America will leave behind is full of the intellectual universe, is an his-1000 paid to the Co-op Union and

principle of his moral sing

Add a proportion of the £100 and Communist Russin. Ameri- most glaring contradictions which torical imagination so strong, so of the £300,000 on "education,

"Enthusiastic dancers in all ed in Indonesia by the adopean enpitalism was a bug-bear of can hardly be covered up tor:

countries seek to excel in what tion of the Federal structure. many trends, and persuaded the long. He has presided

comprehensive, as to ençase the and the total amount available) has become known as the Eng- There will be modifications Labour party to back him in con- great industrial revolution in his whole of the present and the for the fartherance of Socialism lish style," says a writer. yet both in Indonesia, where the Western bloc of the Coinmon- his people in such abject poverty, work of a rich and multi-coloured apart from the revenue of local unmentioned.

centrating on the building up of country but has kept the bulk of whole of the future in a frame becomes not far short of £750,000 own nationality is modestly left the Republicans do not alto-wealth, America, and Western as must impede the country's past,

Labour Parties. The result gether like Pederalism, and in Europe.

the further advance.

The John Wilkes case he was Value of action European Recovery Programme,

Bandits recently entered an India, where something bet-the setting up of OEEC, the Brus-

unseated three times in the 18th New York night club and robbed behind to armed with atomic "Mr. Churchill's world is bullt century-would pale beside ter than separatism and parti-seln Pact, and the Atlantic Pack energy but, metaphorically, still upon the privacy of public

the the diners of all their money.. over 1950 possibility of 600-odd MP tion must yet be found. But

The other side goes barefoot. He has carried private relationships, upon the being unscated by in these matters patience and

through a veritable cultural revo- supreme value of action, of the tions? goodwill must be the essence "Economist" then examines

lution among the peoples of the

between simple

good aud other side. "The paradox of the ed to oppress their minds by his death. Whatever you may do, be Soviet Union and has never ceas- simple evil, bolween life and of change.

Foreign Secretary's record is that spiritual despotism. He has for right cibly

declared to the having established the

demoralised general principles of polley, he munity to assimilate the indus-hour of 1840, we shall fight on for driven semi-Asimic com- French ministers in the blackest appears to have drawn none of trial and scientific techniques of ever and ever and ever, and tander the necessary conclusions..

the West and is now preaching

this sign his whole life hasi an obtuse,

own malignant contempt Us Bigg chlet need of British staleman- for the West

been lived. What has he fought ship hus been to expand and fill "He continues to of Indian warriors who fought out the general idea of Western basic ideas of freedom and So-ions too often. Mr. Churchill bas

Instil some fort Far' from 'changing his opin- for that cause enlisted the ad- co-operation by means of specific clalism into the new generation scarcely during a long and stormy miration and gratitude of the applications of policy to particus and compels it to practise the career, altered them at all It is

lar areas and problems, but when entire Commonwealth. In

opposite of those ideas. The the strength and coherence of one: endeavours to discover what tangle of contradictions cannot his central, life-long beliefs which Indonesia things were dif- the particular policies may be,

forever, or eyen for very long, has provoked greater uneasiness, ferent. Some of the Nation- the record is one of disconcerting be covered up by clever legends more distavour and suspicion, in alists, including the President obscurity."

and hypocrite purges. There is the central office of the Conser The "Economist" gives exam- too much explosive. stuff in it,vative himself, had collaborated

vehemence failure

Party then his ples of Mr. Bovin's with the Japanese during the

of the occupation. They took part operation. He has not produced alon. in the final Japanese Military Union", or even explained what this paper described the

Д clear policy

'diminishing, number of those who of Western Some weeks ago an article in genuinely bellove, in a

specifie gesture of defiance and he means by Western Union, Hedential debate.

presi-world-order: the desire to give it at tho. Oxford: sabotage, when they went to has not produced a plan to re- Union. The motion, which was life and strength Is the most Indo-China to receive from conclic a West European polley

powerful

Infuraco single carried, was that. Conservatierp with a Commonwealth policy. He is the right road for Britain." everything which he thinks Terauchi a mock indepen- has falled to respond to various

The Cambridge Union followed Imagines does and is.... American overtures for closer suit by choosing the same, thema' "Elsmarck is quoted as having joint action.

for its own presidential debate, eald that there was no such thing and the motion was again carried. as political intuition: political Among the guest speakers was genius consisted, in the ability to MP hear that distant hoofbeat of the the very young Labour Woodrow Wyatt. In the Tri-horse of History and then by bune" he writes a notable article, superhuman effort to

to leap and on the swing to the right at both catch the horseman by the Oxford and Cambridge.

tails. No man for this fateful sound more engerly than Winston Ch

Churchill, and th 1040.he made the fateful leap... "The Prime Minister was able

There were differences, too, in the immediate background. Indian Nationalists, when not openly hostile to the Allied cause, gave it little support or But the millions Austenance.

That is the credit side. The

the

,

"In the last two years, the

to

general principles of Western co- and Stalin's disappearance may or passion for power....

act as catalyst in thé explo- "Mr. Churchill is one

han

da over

upon

and

dence

This, and the subsequent

.drive "Mr Bevin's treatment of Dutch internees and war prisoners who had suffered so much from the had been lacking, war and not Japanese greatly embittered peace would still be darken- the Dutch. The British and ing the Indonesian scene to Indian troops themselves, at day. Now there is pence

Body of opinion the end of a war in which they and reconciliation: The free had made such heavy sacri- democracies of the West had

"The Labour Party should not fices, found that in Indonesia, to fight hard, and often for be blind to the fact that at both and In Indonesia alone, they their own liberties. They had the older universities there is had to make further': sacti- to be taught a sharp lesson by body of opinion on the Conserto impose his imagination and his

clicly because ke intellectual calibro than pre-war, fices,

the American Colonists before valive side that is of a higher in upon his countrymen pre- appeared to It was not a promising field they extended the principle to and that may be a potent aid to them larger and nobler than life and lifted them to an abnormal for generous stateemanship. their own kin abroad. Its ap- Among the rising Tories there are halght fa a moment of crisis. It And yet it began to work with plication to Asia has had to Among the rising Tories there are

a substantial number with the was a climate in which men do goodwill and without much wait till our own time, but willingness and capacity to think not sur

usually like nor.

ought

to delay. The mediation of Lord it has now become an article out principles and policies afresh

demands a violent Inverchapel ang. Lord Killearn of faith that no policy is either (an almost entirely new departure tonalong it t

sion which, if it lasts, destroys aid produce results, though right or practical that is based in the Conservative party) all sense of normal perspective, "It means that the Teries may "But it did turn a large num they were frustrated by the on a denial of the freedom of be within mensurable distance of

of her of Inhabitants of immense difficulties of recon- others. The contrast between formulating a real alternative Isles out of, their normal selves, to themselves ciling two stubborn and grow this policy and that of the policy Signs such as, these made them ingly hostile parties. The UN Kremlin is clear and sharp. House, Tor long the initiative or propriate to a great historic

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