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DON IDDON'S DIARY

MONTREAL

T

HE

TUESDAY

Canada is moving ever closer to Britain

Her big problem today: Is conscription needed?

that amount this year. outcry to Ottawa about putting times additional taxes on British cars. She has the drive and energy, the She has the incredibly rich seen resources,

and

Throughout Montreal in handsome stores I have British goods woollens

leather, silverware, rugs, cloth Men from home

from Huddersfield, fine tweeds

The sort of thing only a secretary could write about her boss

"I

MEANT it to be a. woman's book," said Miss Blancho Patch in her Kensington hotel bed-altting- room. She was speaking of her book, "Thirty Years with G.B.S." which has just been published.

Perhaps it is not surpris- ing that it has been left to a woman to put a little flesh and

blood into the legen-

dary old man who And for Blanche Patch once described him--

self 118 "three- the boss was Bernard Shaw

quarters ghost."

[Note that question mark (7). Although "nobody dared disturb a comma in Shaw's work," Mias Patch omits the? in cach of her three references to the book.

Of all the women Yound Bernard Show Miss Patch 1s the one to paint the most ac

For curate portrait.

she was his secretary, a shrewd, inde-

Shawa taciturnity (he would pendent person who was one of

turn on a radio programme be the few women

remain to the disliked rather than have to talk "Shaw-proof," Immune

at mealtimes) may have been old man's spell.

inherited from his mother, who From her vantage point as a when asked whether she had woman with an outsider's view any letters from her distinguish. point and an inside pitch, ed sons, replied that they had Blanche Patch tells of Shaw's always got on a postcard all early eccentricities in dress. He that they had to zay to one bnd a collection of hats rivalled Winston Churchill's, wore mittens knitted by Blanche, had all his socka "specially shaped" for each foot.

Infallible? No!

that

another.

On money

MISS

ISS PATCH turns the pages

of her 30-years diary on Shaw and notes that:-

HE looked on

money as an ONTRARY to his own belief irrelevance out of place in a He flatly Shaw was not always right, civilised community.

refused to face the fact that people," reports Ms salaries earned before the war "can have gained a re- were quite insufficient in peace.

"Few

and shoe traditional French- We particularly British. putation as a prophet on more In his own mind, Shaw priced

up

It is

BDOW

He was

came

111

Gene Tunney

went

ta

Ayot and told

him

WHAT she does need is more Canadian suspicion or hostility The Canadian Government are slender achievement.

ndards at prewar stand everything towards the British seems to willing to contribute hand-wrong about both the wars.

and he really believed that we "He assured mc have mellowed,

somely towards the alr-fare of

that the (his staff) were all on velvet. would not bomb

fter Shaw's 93rd Tempests ace brewing that any Briton wanting to emigrate Germans

ON the day after 9. will shake the Dominion.

She needs and Acrc.

wants, London, and he was equally in birthday the same

Issue-Con manpower. The jobs are walterror over the Jews in Palestine: down worn

the scription. Soon

by round of Mills' fight Govern ing. The country is high, wide Dempsey and Winston Churchili

(who was going to die

awainst Lesnevich, He was 5- St. Laurent, open, and handsome, in those of the United States would

under Mr ment, temperature

We move at a somewhat will have to make

their The

and when the party system gleaming

tonished that the old gentleman de. be. 20 Montreal is

about them as slower tempo in Canada, and we minds about the size of

knew as much the winking neon lights of Mon- back)." grees below that in like that way."

Canadian Armed Forces.

treal and a hundred other cities Shaw's industry was terrific. he did. talking

There is no doubt about the

SHAW worked in a shelter AL New York. I am

Canada number beckon. they

strides into "I have always thought," says present

men, and many maturity slower tempo, Snow covered about 62,000

and calls for young his secretary, "that he wrote too at 'the foot of the garden meteorologically.

Scotsmen, Welsh-much. He would be an uncom- He liked It because he could get Politically the tempera- Montreal; with two-thirds of its Canadians (and all Americans) Englishmen,

and Irishmen to stride monly devoted Shavian who down to his writing undisturbed ture is 50 degrees below the 1,500,000 people French, and do not think that that is enough. men,

sometimes called the Paris, of Canada, with n population with it.

today would cheerfully set out ... and his housekeeper could temperature on the New the New World, is ticking over of 14,000,000, had the propor Footnote (and Canadian re- again to read through The In- honestly inform callers

Woman's Gulde of minder to her US. neighbour); telligent

to Mr Shaw was "out." York

Washington quietly. or

The 45 Montreal night clubs Britain it would be nearly Shouting often leads to shoot-Socialism, followed by Every- ALTHOUGH he carried thermometer.

are placid. It is the American 300,000 armed men.

watch the alarm clock was set Ing.

body's Political What's Whai??

remind him when I have been in Canada only a tourists, big with dollars and Now Canada does not like to

each day to fow days, but long enough to spouting with "know-how," who lag behind Britain, but the only

to know that in crossing the bor try to galvanise the elegant city, way

get the der I have moved million

but they do not succeed. miles away from ferocious ar- gument, atom bomb apparition, and and the counsel of defeat despair..

A mass meeting was nounced the first night I was in Montreal. I said: "Is it about My Canadian foreign policy?"

about it's friend said: "No, buliding subways-underground them. The rallways you call traffic problem here is terrible."

1

The big story

an-

THERE was a big conference in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, I sald where I am staying. "Is it about rearmament?" My Canadian friend said: "No, It's about inflation-prices here are gigantic,"

tionate

Forces Armed

into men

Uniform in such numbers to THE INDOMITABLE

At the moment Canadians are Conscription, and the French-

brash

Catholic critical of their

and Canadians, although bouncing neighbours south

of

Of and bitterly anti-Communist, the border-perhaps too critical. are savagely opposed to this. Many people I have met com- plain that the United States is treating Canada as if she were a weak and poor satellite.

Loyalty to Crown

THEY

st

It is a huge problem for Mr Laurent, but if any man can solve it he will.

I have not said much about Korea in this Canadian Diary. because no one in Canada has sald much to me about it. The THEY say that Canadians are fact is that Canadians resent being pushed around in the sneering and eniping from Newfoundland and exploited in. the wilder American PrCES

They about the Canadian role there. the oilfields of Alberto. say: "The Yanks imagine that we are mere camp-followers." -

Well, it is a Canadian and I will American argument and

Ready for strain

vulnerable en the subject

keep out of it. What makes the CANADA is, however, more rejolee is the loyalty and love of taxation. *The Canadian

and Gradually I have caught on to that the Canadian has for his dollar is booming since it was

for Ing. Commonwealth

The King Is King *of Canada and don't make any four no Hoovers, Tafts,

is not

the

is al-

bis

frced

can

colossal

last September-only cents below the Ameri- dollar-and there prosperity

la

fand

REJOINS FLEET

DRITAIN'S most

six

structed

reservo

London Express Service)

that

It was time for lunch. He never took any notice of it.

•

SHAW stood guard over his works like a hen with chicks. It was because he would not

a lino have

of his precluun dialogue cut that he held out so being long against any play filmed.

More fun

The woman who has written- these memories into a book made the first note nearly 30 years ago. "And I always thten- Years ded to call it "Thirty with G.B.S.? She said.

Miss Patch lives in a.."quiet

hotel in Kensington" where they les. It is the are used. to celebrities.

him down Jurate"

na

hotel where acid-bath murderer Haigh met Mra Durand-Deacon. Bernard Shaw's secretary had observed Halgh pretty shrewdly, too: "An insignificant little fellow

bit of an exhibi- темот

for months a'd put tionist the Canadian design for living.

incipient back in near-normality. am There are

mistake about that.

By W. A. CRUMLEY Kennedys here.

Shaw's secretary, a tall spare I met a huge, handsome man Premier St. Laurent

et Canadian expenditure on Baghting ship, the

powerful will replace Vanguard as the woman with a small grey head being abused and assalled as is in a hotel, a Colonel Vickers, prices) throughout the country.

recon- flagship.

and excessively penetrating and is only around President Truman in the 13. S. who proclaimed: "I am a King's

23,000-ton aircraft Another

aircraft wide-set grey eyes, cold of her of man, Canadian to the core, but defence Government The Canadian

as British

compared come, and percent, es they

with the carder Indomitable, will rein- carrier, the 19,350-ton Warrior, job: "Of course it was interest- ways I had enlightened Liberals have

States present 10 and force the there are millons in Canada United

Home Fiest next is being ordered back to Koreaing, but in many confidence of the country.

was proposed 15 percent. Naturally, month.

with reinforcements of Navy more fun out of being a dispen- I became Shaw's There is no crisis of leader- like me." His patriotism

income tax has not

men, Royal Marines, and air-ser-before ship, no great debate, no tirade overwhelming and slightly em- Canadian

been as high as the American, barrassing.

She has bech completely ro- craft.

secretarendon Express Service) against Allies, Canada

Probably the most popular and it is only about half of atted and her flight deck long- together calm, completely col-

thened and strengthened for lected, and possibly slightly and respected man in Canada Britain's.

My own view, as an innocent new types of naval jet planes. apathetic.

That is the lasting today is the Governor-General,

is that the Return of the Indomitable is impression, but it is not the big Viscoun: Alexander. He is re- bystander,

vered, and though he is prob- Canadians will tax themselves the first stage of the rebuilding story.

whenever it is of the Flects, which, with two the ably the last of the Governors- until it hurts The big story is that

new 30,000-ton alreraft-carriers, Canadians are taking two back General from Britain, Canadians proved necessary.

average in-new heavy destroyers, and fast After all, the steps away from the United tell me sadly: "The trouble is

here per year is only anti-submoring frigates, is do- States and three strides forward how to pick one from among

Canadions. We don't want some 1,000

bring the Navy to to the United Kingdom.

dollars, compared with signed to politician or judge or ap-

America's 1,000, and the comt effective strength in two At slower tempo

of food, of rent, of clothing, of three years. transportation is just a fraction

The programme,

which in- below that of the United

cludes total reconstruction of LISTEN to Lester Pearson,

States. External

For Americans to say the Fleet aircraft-carriers Im- THIS affection for Britain Affairs-Ernest Bevin's opposite H

as they are saying, of Cuneda; placable and Victorious, is being also in

the "Are of **The

shows itself number:

closeness

they doing their share!"

rearranged so the at all times a American

goods. The relations sales of British Canadian

which se reserve of ships in 18 an impertinence

moth balls as British motor-car industry sent should not be construed

counts largely for the present can be commissioned in emer- meaning that Canada is moving 50,000 cars to Canada last year, highly critical attitude towards gency.

had a total Import value inevitably and happly into

$70,000,000, which is States. of

big I hope I have not given the First details of the 1951 pro- union with the United

hereabouts. money

It was

announced sailing of "We are quite content with staggering adhlovement, and I impression that Canada is not gramme, disclosed by the Ad-

Rootes,

to fully aware of the Communist mirally our present position of indepen- bow to Sir Willam

threat to her own and the free ships of the Home Fleet for joint dence inside our Commonwealth Lord Nuffield, to Mr Lord

is exercises with the Mediter- world's existence. Canada

Minister

That is not true.

for

-pointed-it's a big pr

Our goods wanted

of Nations. We may, of course, Austins, and to Bertle Henly.

of

come

the United States.

be wrong. But somehow or Before the last war scarcely very much aware. Her aracnala rancan Fleet. other we feel that our political any of our cars reached Canada, produced and cultural and legal institu- and even in 1949 we sent only worth

ilona

are

POP

to

10,000,000 dollars- Before the Home Fleet comes

of armament last year home in March the Indomitable, an efficient fighting ship again,

botter for us than 38,000. Just now there is a loud and will produce three to five

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