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The

United States, a country

By O. H.- BRANDON

not given to half mea-amall group of influential citi- Russian Communism sures, virtually abrogated zens.

The

its power

when it de-

State Department mobilised immediately after thought this first attack on its the war. Now it is reassert- basic policy, which is the ing its might with Its sumption that the Communist vast rearmament

worlds pro and non-Communist

re-

.

So it seems I've been a sinner

all along

by WILLIAM BARKLEY

M LIAMENT should Mother. He ought to know.

be

What

careful how was thèn in

is

London. of Parliaments, this makes Lord EMBERS OF PAR- Winterton the Father of the

breach of privilege preparation, they raise issues of Parlig- and what wee the "certain part" mentary Privilege. A lot of of the House to which he re- this alleged privilege ferred? pure medievalism.

The deed Of course,

Parliament WHAT was going on? Why, for must be protected and pre was taking a note with a view W one thing, I was going on. I served in its task of govern- to reporting, I trust accurately, ing the nation-seeing that the proceedings of the House. the nation gets meat to eat, You might think that so long for example, since Parlia- as I was accurate this would be

a defence. Not a bit of it. ment makes this a part of

An accurate report of Parliament Government's duties.

may be a libel.

The nation does not want

do not know how much more the Government or the Op would be. Because, when some- of a libel an insccurate report

position M.P.s. to be in hibited in

thing like this

question was

any way in referred to the Committee of secing that the taxpayers

Privileges last year, the

the com-

get value for money and are mittee was stumping. not rooked. And so forth. member, Lord Winterton.

talok, And so forth..

Lots and Lots

For the members of this com- rafilee had to begin their report by ating that for centuries It privilege

LOTS and lots of things ups has been a breach of

can attend to by way of duties to report Parliainent at all. to their constituents-keeping They therefore recommended world peace, giving us adequate that the House should do nothing defences, any number of things about that particular case last which are wholetime jobs, year, and I trust I am permitted

But when Socialists

are to comment that this was a very pressing CABOS against Tories it is striking that he House accepted

privilege sensible, recommendation, since

It.

It is a Tory with an aristocratic House acted by deciding to take The

Ja today old-

are

...

fat

and the obligation of American title who emphasises how much no action. foreign policy to seek peaceful of privilege

fashioned,

The place. adjustments of all issues with-

"At this

ND this very moment," sald AN what is this "certain out surrender and appease- Earl Winterton, "there A place Wiry, it is the Press mont."

preparations for a breach of Gallery, recently rebuilt privilege in progress in a certal great expense The debate about "preven-part of this House."

by the parlia tive war" has now begun in

mentary authorities and thrown The moment was 4 p.m. last open for the Arst time in history the open. The growing hard- Thursday, the place the House for foreign journalists to join ships entailed in American of

of Commons, where Earl Winter- British newspapermen in their domestic politics might add to ton, being an Irish poer, sits as nefarious practice of reporting the public impatience and la- the elected Tory M.P. for Parliament. crease pressure

a radical, Horsham.

What sinners we all are and kind of Gordian-knot solution. He has sat for Horsham ever how impenitent. Why, we even But there are no signs as yet since he first stood there in the threw a party a few months that the public is reacting year 1804.

He was then an ago in the Press Gallery, thank- thus. On the contrary, away

be-undergraduate at Oxford and, ing Mr Speaker and other lieve a implica-

a certain stoician is bo- after going

in this authorities for making our life down ginning to take hold, Given sense to Horsham, never went of crime. so much more con- effective leadership, the back to any other school.

venient. American people ore

It is the longest always willing to be led to pursue a reasonable policy.

and im- the

perialism, suggested in New York Times that such extremism and despair is noth-

shrinking om te d from the first harsh tions of world leadership."

Officials here are well aware that a policy of "preventive war" would shatter the Wes- then coalition and unloosen un- predictable forces.

gramme, its ever in- can live in peace with one creasing atomic stockpile, another, serious enough to re- its almost unlimited indus pe it instantly. trial power and technical

Dr Philip C. Jessup, the The tact that the U.S. ingenuity at a galloping Ambassador-at-Large now

Government refused to accede расе.

presenting the US. at the to Gen. MacArthur's request meeting of the deputies of the

for permission to bomb the The crucial question Foreign Ministers in Paris, de-

Mari- Chinese mainland, and "What is the United States College on February 23

clared in a speech at Union churla in particular, is also

that significant. going to do with this new power?"

is beginning to be no security without destroy- IN THE OPEN occupy men of responsibili- Ing the centre of Communism the ty as well

on based as the public is "obviously

The height of the Korean and defeatist atti- here, and it is certainly four whi

which

A crisis, Thomas K. Finletter, thinks that the Secretary for Air, told me that one which foreign states- US. and the other countries men are watching closely. of the free world have no he was vigorously opposing the strength except the abom bombing of the Chinese main-

CROSSROADS

the argument that there could

bomb.

land and Secretary of Defence Marshall is said to have told a

brawl in

the

"It assumes that we are in- vistior, that he conceives him SOONER or later the U.S. capable of determination, that self as a polleeman. Policemen,

we cannot stand a prolonged he said, don't will reach the cross- effort, that there is no strength street. roads on the path of his- or value in the basic tradition tory, when a cholce be- and principles of our democracy tween a

bearable modus and our way of life".

1

vivendi with the Soviet FOR FREEDOM

Union and what is called

It is striking how moderate and civilian-minded most mili-' tary leaders in Washington are. In some

they appear more so than the civilian.

Casca

unbroken

record of any liging M.P. If the House of Commons is the Mother

The Velvet-Collared Englishman in the Asphalt Jungle.

TERRY-THOMAS -famed among radio, TV and theatre audiences for his wide grin, his almost aggres- sively English dress and manner, ja on a visit to America, Below - his Ärat mopimpratsions of the sky. scraper city...

an

SUNDAY MORNING gave me a chance to get

impression of American radio. I have just boen-listening to a programme sponsored by a shoe firm. Surely the last thing it ought to have been

was corny,

ku

• JOSEPHINE BAKER, playing cinema-variety Broadway, is billed

I wonder "Sepia Chanteuse." what they will cook up for me. am steeling myself against like the "Limey something Laflster."

now

on

the

for

A couple of centuries ago it was claimed that a M.P.'s ser vants were not amenable to the ordinary inw,

'A A man could be sent to prison

Asking

M.P.7 pond or cutting an M. P.'s trees. These might have been crimes in any case, but if the waters or the trees belonged to an M. P. no more evidence was needed of guilt,

Young mother

fact is that Parlament, as we know it, is not an old Institution. It is a very young mother.

The Speaker of the House was not an impartial Judge but a

party official until 1841, which, if I can count, makes not seven centuries since Simon de Mont- fort but merely

score of 110, which Denis

Compton used to

Parliament proceeds and

the

de- serves well of the country by tolerantly turning a blind eye to

many of its undoubted rights. New York,

It is not going to win good

in the opinions

of the How do you do? Having

the eyes publie

Its members by

screaming got over my first glimpse of

agains: one another and de- TE

Of course, the theory of the New York skyline I felt THE FINEST show in the monstrating the degree of their will fight if necessary to "preventive

War" might

world, I have found, Isadvancement by insistence on preserve. freedom and

something was missing. It free. Broadway at night makes century-old precedent. Justice, not have developed in already but it will not make war minds of certain public face was a line of chorus girls. Blackpool illuminations Look Why no: attend to quite up-

like a couple of glow-worms to-data with low blood pressure.

--{London Express Servics)

"preventive war" will pre- He concluded that "the U.S.

sent itself. ·

the

Tho question being debated here. The maga- merely because the road to tions had it not been for the zines Time and Life recently peace is inevitably long and are years of

Soviet obstruc- AT THE CUSTOMS I stated the case agninst the hard and tiresome."

tion.

couldn't help theory that coexistence with

thinking

the present Soviet system may George F. Kennan, who PE However, DT Jessup said of Oscar Wilde, who, some be possible, and this reflected Mr Acheson's chief policy ad- that "Despite Communist pro- 50 years ago, was asked by an idea held here by many or- viser, originated the so-called vocations and domestic villica a United States Customs dinary people as well as a containment theory against tion it will remain the object official whether he had

Brains with their beauty?

From NEWELL ROGERS

anything to declare. He replied: "Only my genius.”

Travel

I wondered what he and

would have to say about the man who merely said: "Opon up, bud.”

⚫.WHEN

Was doing

ship

enbaref in Paris three by

NEW YORK Sadly, he belloves it has de- Nicool was rubbed out in a JUNNY - CALIFORNIA is clined into a ocrest to pick a gangland murder before the Sfamous for beautiful brainy college girl wit

with talent, śrial.

years ago. my brown bow- And IN ENGLAND, on his next ler caused a great stir Wome.l. And women's brains do not wholly ill bath visit, Douglas Fairbanks jun (plus laughter), but noth- beauty is big business in ing dresses.

wants to recruft. Bir Laurence California, the home of HONOURS: Colleges expect. Civier to play King Arthur and ing to the effect that my Hollywood.

to drave more honours students. Bir Rahib Richardson for Mer bambooélgarette-holder IL triale collegians pass lis in his picture "Knights of has created here. A com But are brains more im- examinations with marks of 70 the Bound Table”

Talibanks portant than beauty in beautis or better, they can now be do will play Sir Lancelot, albough|plete stranger walked up ful woment

ferred from conscription, **** his honorary K.B.E. does not to me and "Baid: "What This problem troubles two

GAMIDLING: New York is so entitle the public to call him have you got there?" In a Califoverans, ench a big bil-

Sir Douglas, news sucars in his own beauty short of money that the city.

tonė suggesting that I council voted 16 to $ for a PREDICTION: Vice Admiral might be municipal Lottery, But Stain Chanics Lockwood forecast the black mamba.

toying with a -DEAUTY PROBLEM

NO! 1: oficials, who must approve. I first, atom-powered submarine Charlos Chaplin, wants to make do not bellove themes are in three years. It will "outrun,

a star of a beautiful unknown quite right. A Benote inves outight and outmanoeuvre■ AN ENGLISH friend of in ils rex picture Moco tina digating committee is now in the most advanced scirrel mine who knows the ||1,000; girls have sent pictures to the

| him; Onice); Mory Plan 1000 have 6 Shy to inquire : lado enul: typos that Russia is building, States' well told me before

Havana Bor likely to bui

I left that the actual

ären interviewed, ora beadful

O COURTESY: Bartenders Can SHOW 'BUSINESS; Deborah spending value of the dol plio himself. have botń Chaplio“

Not one Ats Pas famous come give pointers to bank clerka on

exacting lacosents pressing the custome

for beauty adth plenty of the Dollar Baykıgı Dackagi

sradio, à Trés i search, muasi," go to HARD TIMES for big

Hollywood! AUW PROBLEM NOS1⁄2:22. Cohen oompisina be,

H-Blewart.

Ayakkerrie the Khidicat choice to

[co-star-with" Robert Ta

lar was 28. 6d. (oxchango chorus rate 7a.). I was convincod within ten minutes of my arrival.

BS

AUSTRALI

and modern things--

Like ment and money,

example?

for

(London Express Service)