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Bernard Wicksteed learns the rules of the Parliamentary pastime of Pate-spotting

PROPOSE

the past and the present Premiers, for instance.

today to of discuss baldness among members of Parliament.

There, on the

I know it sounds an ir- front bench, the

But

the system whatever employed, the watchdogs of the Press, looking down like gar- Government goyles from the gallery, know voice of Mr them all, just as they know

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reverent approach to politics, Churchill comes from beneath a that Mr Speaker's wig has

magnificent dome. tinged with watch like half a crown on top,

but as you will understand pink like St. Paul's Cathedral at and that the roof of his ornate

shortly it has an important sunset. It is what anthropo. chair is covered with line.

would call n typical

bearing on the management logists

The Press Gallery overhangs and welfare of the country. brachycephalic or broad head.

the Chamber like the dress and is therefore a legiti And opposite, the Leader of circle in a theatre, so a mem

the Opposition speaks from ber who speaks from one of mute topic for discussion.

beneath a perfect dollchocepha- the back benches is not seen He or long-headed pate like a at all by the reporters im- mediately above him. He has brown egg lying on its side.

in be Identified by sound, not sight. new Mr

You see it is largely by the tops of their heads that parlamentary reporters in the Press Gallery identify the speakers on the floor below, and if they weren't proficient in their headtop recognition there'd be abso- Jute chaos throughout the country. Nobody would

know who had said what.

21

I was struck by this as pect of public life when went Lo the gallery to have

look at the new House, and noticed that now they've changed sides, like fielders at ericket,

is entirely differ- scenery ent.

Gallery view

the

READERS of the Dally

Equally distinct is the broad, bars plain that tops the House the Crookshank; the almost Oriental minoret surmounting Mr Dalton,

der

of

One reporter was telling m

known that for years he has Commander William, the Tory member for Torquay, by his voice, but has never learned what he looks

I MARVEL AT THE VARIOUS TRICKS WITH SO FEW HAIRS

like.

Now that

Lumanungs

"But it's just a Tory foreign "But it's just a Bevin foreign "But it's just a Morrison

policy. policy....

foreign policy...."

A FIELD-MARSHAL SUMS UP

Was It Worth While

Fighting in Italy?

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Voice

has moved to the other side

the House and of become

him up.

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worth while.

By PETER LOVEGROVE

to see

that

"At

he

this

war

of

it

well-

OUBTS have been ex- careful

our crushing superiority in the air.

which we knew from our own pressed since World strength was never allowed to

above the minimum experience earlier in the Two War

ended grow

for necessary

our task,"

to be a most potent source of whether the bitter, costly continues wistfully.

one discouragement, did not

appear those to have affected the spirits of and long drawn-out twenty. time or another during

20 months no less than 21 divi- the German troops. What was fad he s

month struggle up the sions

ing even more astonishing and, if blessed if he can pick Italian peninsula was really s were removed from

command for the benefit of must be admitted, adinirable.

The other theatres.

Germans was that not even the obvious

delach- imuninence no cumparable

of the complete No notes

Field Marshal Viscount made

ments Except for

short a

collapse of the armies defend- Alexander, who was respon- peried in the Spring of

1944 ing the Fatherland had seduce: the direction of they

had always more forma- the German soldier, from his TRICTLY speaking, isible for

tions in Italy than we hed, military duty or weakened his is still forbidden to operations throughout this tions

their ad we made such good use of resolve to resist." report the speeches made period, summing up

Field period that brief exceptional

- Marshal

Alexander, *** in Parliament, you know.contribution to the general that in the summer of 1944, however, is extremely

eritical The ban on publica-

of the war, they of the German strategy-die- found themselves forced to tated from above by Hitler and the twin peaks (fore and tion, dating back to the strug Allied victory in his final the crisis

Com-report on the campaign (His divert eight divisions to

to hold on between King and

to every bit of Home Secretary £}}

AC unrepealed. The Majesty's Stationery Office, seco mons, is still

secondary theatre.

that ground occupied and withdraw David Maxwell Fyfe.

penalty is Imprisonment J38.), states that

value of our only under the very strongest any time, when the

contribution was at pressure. Apart from the The Torles

clear the Tower. have a

estimate must be expressed, strategic

divi-

and continuous casualties I made

not in terms of the ground its greatest, 55 German The first

entailed sions-25 in Italy. 19 reporters had

in the which this policy Express, the Evening majority of bald heads.

meant

that polls in от

South faces and gained for the ground was Balkans and 11 In the remember not only

a large, Standard, the Newcastle

in trained and well-equipped force At the first the Gov- tops of heads, they hed to evening.

not vital in the strict sense of France-were tied down in Journal, and the Scutsman

Mediterranean by the was engaged in a fotally irrele- ernment had 13 bald heads to mimorise the speeches as well,

to either side--but in terms the

a time when get their reports of Parlia

weren't allowed lo six for the Opposition, and at for they

sented by Dr Johnson used of its effect on the war as threat, actual or potential, pre-

every man should have been ment from men sitting

the second the gap had closed make notes.

men" to a whole.

Italy."

employed for the defence of the perched in the gallery to the

home country. for

tell him what was sald and then six

If," Speaker's left, and for

write up his reports of Parlia- years they have identified the Tories below by the Next there are the nearly or ment from that. shapes of their heads and thinly disguised the Socialists opposite by with which the reporter must keep up to date, for they are their faces.

constantly changing as members

Allied casualties were Now

new out

methods of

Dickens became in the West or the Russians in the

the East, against the heart of 312,000. The difference is the forced withdrawal would have

stood them in parliamentary reporter

Fatherland

in very good stend and more remarkable in that We in s allowed, but the German

they a manoeuvre) always the attackers.

have made an immediato One marvels at the variety of note-taking was

in the Commons he had to the nerve centres of Germany's were

national existence, Our role Four times that mest difficult

ribution to cither the West It is the Socialists they ways there are of spreading a write on his knee, and in the

an amphi ern or Eastern Front of any study with

critical duzen hairs 2

expanse Lords he had to scribble stand-was secondary and preparatory operation of war,

Nine months before the great bious landing, was carried ous thing up to 20 first-class divi- offensives with sions and still have maintained barber's-eye view, and the fatended for several thousand, ing up, hue de imagen assault in the West our inva- Three prepared offensiv Tories they look in

Army legislators favour the porters like sheep pen,

sion of Italy, at first in very the full

And without difficulty an unbroken face.

defence on the great mountain sideways spread, and others the

Press moderate strength, drew off to Group were undertaken. New politics and the

remote quarter forces nowhere in Europe did walls that guard the southern fore and afl.

are s interwoven that might have turned the soldiers face more difficult ter-

frontier of the Reich," Government Some boldly concentrate what mentary

in a single deßant know it in this country

ness knows how much care to

18 for the Tories to 13 t employ "memory

the Socialists.

that the parties try

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For reporters sitting the opposite side of the ga!- hair is left lery it is naturally

verda.

bald heads

over an

Publicity

BY

Y the time

vant contest at Dur armies in

The compaign had, from the start, been designed as a hold- ing attack on a major scale.

The Allied Armies in Italy, tive casualties tells the same penines, the Germans in Italy

On the German side he writes, "were not engaged story.

had

been allowed by the with the enemy's muin forces they amounted to 536,000-ex- Higher Command to order

were not direct- cluding those who surrendered planned withdrawal and their rattacks ed, as were those of the Allies after the capitulation while Alps (and their mastery of the

he says, "Instead of clinging desperately to their The record of the compara- last Anger-halds in the Ap-

that

as

we

would publicity-

vice- strends, and others devote good not work without

and the accurate identification

-London Express Service?

This is where the importance in parting & curl in the strands of speakers by their heads. of baldness enters into poli- that survive. tics, because bald heads make for easy recognition. No reporter ; could ever confuse the two pates

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France. in

As the cam- rain or more determined progressed,

and more paign

German troops were drawn in to oppose us." directors "The supreme Allied strategy were

ad-

Such

to the

the

the

+

to the bitter end, the Right

Like Viscount Mountbatten, Germans in Italy fought with

strongly of great skill and stubbornness and be

Supports Lana

Command always morale never flagged. When Supreme

system, General Vietinghoff took

three with authority over all Dver commend of the Army Group

oup services of all nationalities from Kesselring

the boundaries of a command. affen-

This he considers

How many 'Clutter-words'

do you use?

-aska DANIEL GEORGE

&

not is

fortnight

within

before the final Allied sive, he found, explains the one of the most noteworthy de- Field-Marshal, "an unbroken

ken velopments of the war, and in Kef the been en- Mediterrancan Theatre

it

force which had not lepem produced results as remarkable tions for some three months. રફ any. Inter-Service co-opera- His formations were generally

ally tion and comradeship were al However; moreover; in any case; under the circumstances: up to strength and well-train ways the special mark of the ed, and as fighting unit Army conduct of operations in this having regard to; as far as

Group C was undoubtedly of

theatre. concerned; of course; all higher value than any

am

other

things considered-the omission comparable body of troops still of such phrases will usually do remaining in Germany. nothing to impair clarity.

I

fre

we

Nevertheless, in any event.

the brigades, In reserve, he, had pitable. Nature, he pASED.”

over

The soldiers and air-

sailors

men of so many

nationalities

he stresses, "with a very fina

"We were, in fact, a team," IF with ears cocked and eyes peeled,

team spirit, and there Was you detect

in- an error in another

never any question of the terest of one particular service person's speech or writing, don't allow

taking a broad view, as far as

am in a yourself to feel

or nationality assuming in the glow of self-

position to judge, "He had 23 German and four minds of any of us an impor- bearing in mind the prevailing Italian divisions, plus various righteousness.

tance disproportionate to the conditions, it is as a matter of fact, minor formations, against Ordinary, spontaneous mid 'are'

an general interests of the team."" desirable, or at any rate useful, Allied force of 17 divisions and what

Of the Allied troops great- conversation, when reported want.

perhaps, in many cases, to have four Italian combat groups plus hearted struggle against a verbatim (word for word), Similarly, an author may be a stock of woolly phrases for six armoured and four infantry termined enenly and inhos is revealed as a muddle of he regularly falls into errors he occasion arise.

forgiven a slip or two. But if confusing the issue, should

this two good mobile divisions, tribute in a incomplete or interrupted will not be worth reading. But I didn't like having them which was the exact extent sentences.

Our spontaneous, everyday worked off on me.

the mobile reserves: Kesselring Impassioned public speeches, spect

speech is inevitably and

foundi on tolding the West- who fought in Italy never had written beforehand excusably-littered with super- when not

Front; his fluous words. Because we have

armoured the pleasure of a conquering and learned by heart or

strength was also approximate advance into the heart of Ger- not ashamedly read aloud, are prepared what we are going You and I may fail to agree ly the same. Above all,

many; they had none of the grammatical to say, we are thinking as inevitably full of

divisions

divisions, tlil

obvious targets before them re your point of view is different not the scratch battle errors and faults of construction. speak. Therefore we have

roups which groups

buoyed up. the spirits of Course to

to phrases like "sort of" from mine especially if you which usurped that and "what I mean to say."

name else their BEST SPEECHES

tell me that I ought to have writ-where; for example, his two

their comrades on the Western but only one more Writing, also, is cluttered up ten "different to mine.” One parachute divisions

range or river to The best speeches are those with unnecessary padding. Un- My preference is for forms of tained between fhem

in tho face of an enemy which have the ring of sincerity, necessary? Sometimes the writer language established by good men. Arms, ammunition and resistance which never seemed If you hear someone declare: thinks it necessary. He may be usage.

supplies were adequate though to

to weaken. Perhaps not Very "Freedom and liberty is. what trying to communicate a mood. Although you can quote re-fuel stocks were low, and many of them realised how we want," don't feel distressed But assuming that he has a spectable authorities for "dif- mobility was thereby reduced. vital was the part they played, and say to yourself: "Huh, he plain communication to make, ferent to," I shall hold to my "German_morale was, as al- but all could feel pride in the think freedom and he will find if he looks, that he opinion that it is customary and ways, excellent. All the efforts way in which they played it liberty are different things. And, car dispense with many clut- therefore proper nowadays to of Allled propaganda had re- and in the sense of duty well anyhow, he ought to have tering words and phrases.

mained fruitless, use "different from."

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seems to

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