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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 29,, 1952,

NORTHCLIFFE:

THE SECRETS OF CABINET MAKERS AND CABINET BREAKERS.

A VERDICT on the VITAL YEARS

ONE AIM, one ambition obsessed him—to smash Lloyd George. He failed. But Lloyd George fell...

He used a spy system so that he would know at all times what his sleffs were thinking.

And with. Scotsmen and

end tele- baronets, splos

Norshellife prospered.

T 3.50 p.m. on June 20, 1922, the doctors cut off the last of the four bedside phones which kept the sick and demented Lord North- cliffe in touch with the out- afde world-and the outside world in fear of him,

fcrrels,

At the peak

THE Daily Mail,

which he

had founded in 1800, was- hanks to his genius-stiil frat

No longer could the chief proprietor of The Times bark orders and instructions, in its field. In six years he had transformed The Times-which at

1008-from praise and abuse

A he bought in harassed and bewildered struggling, impoverished news. staff, No more need poll. paper into a flourishing success..

There then was Northcliffe In ticians tremble at the ring 1014. At the peak of his career. Acknow- journalistic ing of a bell.

In his own But if his voice was silenced ledged triumphant Northcliffe's spirit was not.

specialized fold.

could any man What more When the doctors

gave him

There was one more morphia he treated the drug want?

there Later that same day with the

thing that Northcliffe Political wanted.

to Northcliffe a was delivered power. The power to

A statuetta parcel containing direct and dominate.

and earlier which, in their wanted Northcliffe

glyon in be in on every friendlier days, he had thing. He conceived to-Churchill....

his duty to it to be

win the

Attached to it was this note:---

✪ With his famous editor (left), Wlokham Stood, Northcliffe meste the camera in Washington for one of the rare photographs he permitted. office, Northcliffe said chaffingly: attack robbed it of that signl- as "I suppose you have come after Acance, I still regarded it Ll. G's job.”

the gift of a courteous gentle man, I can do so no longer.

Yours very faithfully, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL."

G5

same dis

had dain

he

ha1 inen who irtuted tried to curb or quell his fire. Ten grains of the drug had no effect at all. Twenty octed grains

by

JOHN

JUNOR

Yet there was no rect vinom

Nothelff's ofiarde Churchill,---

to

Bitterly Narthcliffe (criticised the Prime Minister's conduct of the war. Viciously and eloquent- ly the Prime, Minlater.savaged Northcliffe in the Commons,

Peace cding to Britain in 1018. Not to Northcliffe and Lloyd George.

Smashed

ONE alm, cnc ambition, ob-

ressed the proprietor of The Time until he died. To 'crush: the "Ingrate" of a Welshman

In that aim Northcliffe nover succeeded. Yet Lloyd George was indeed smashed,

He was sent into the political wilderness on the very 'day that The Times got a new chief proprietar. And the men who cant him to the wilderness wero Bonay Law and Beaverbrook. Ironically they were:men who had no personal grievance against Lloyd George at all.

What does this picture of Firó and friction flared be- Northcliffe add up to? Was he tween Northcliffe and Lloyd a megalomaniac who wanted to George almost as soon as Lloyd become a dictator?

In the cold print of words it George became Prime Minister.

NO. And, intleed, it may seem

malives For it room became obvicus may be so. Yet his

while Lloyd George was were ollen warm and good-he to serve his prepared to listen to Northcliffe sought rincerely

was country and his fellow mon, power be when seeking no longer ready to listen who power was his

that

His failing

political

They

The disappointment and die HERE was nothing wrong, llusionment of Northcliffe must either, with the

Relations policies he propoundeti. have been intense. between the two men deterlo. were radical and often popular, EO iated with the passing of the Why thon did he fail months and of the years; North- utterly when the springboard to Indeed, there

was only

one cliffe wanted a Cabinet job an power was hia?

He failed because he had no politician whom he felt worthy Lord President of the Counell. be do 90, he "DEAR NORTHCLIFFE,

not And that Lloyd George would or political, sense, He, under- You will understand why I of a real hatred.

slood newspapers, He did not understand British politi cians.

a

tonic!

help Britain

to life war,

un:it

even he could eling no mora,

How could

Desperately he clung

The uneven struggle ended on argued to himself, if he were August 14, 1922. The tempest not consulted on every aspect send you back this statuctie, I politician was the man whoin could not have him which had swept through of policy? How could Britain accepted it as a token of friend- once he had so assiduously and Fleet Street and Parliament for survive if there were Prime hip, and even when much un- enthusiastically

20 years was stilled more.

Now there is a rustle among the dead leaves of the pist. A rustle caused by the publication of a boolt called "THE HISTORY OF THE TIMES,”----------

and

Supported

to fair and. 1-informed public David Lloyd George.

unctas-

foolish enough for ever- Ministers

ignore his advice?

Relentlessly ingly he bombarded the Asquith Administration columns of The Times. Cabinet appointment-of-which- Northcliffe did not approve came in for scathing, thunder- ing condemnation,

(In two volumes, 258. each.)

Personalities

IN its putes

in the Every

Is it any wonder that at this other times. the fierce and time, sa at all

Icared or hated politicians vigorous Northcliffe Ilves Northcliffe? Is it any wonder and breathes again, And with that they deared, 100, the power him there come sharply and which was vested in him? vividly into focus the personali-

Churchill suggested · In 1916 dominated British

that

The Times should be com-

ties.

who

mandeered and turned into an official British Gazelle.

politics in the first quarter of this century.

Great men now dead. Young

The suggestion was rejected. men now great. Men like Lloyd The bombardment continued. George, Asquith,

Bonar Law, But so, 100, continued the bad well, Curzon Carson, Birkenhead, feeling between Church and

are

Beaverbrook, Churchill. These the owner of The Times. whose the meteors manoeuvrings illumine the pages of this book.

There are dwarfs, too, in its pages. Fetty Httic men like the

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who, edited The Times badly until Northcliffe sucked him. And who edited it again, equally badly, when Northcliffe was

dead

But over pygmies and giants alike it is Northcliffe who towers.

was Northcliffe's blue-eyed darling. He was the man who should replace Asquith He was the man who had the right ideas on how to win the war-und on how to listen to Northcliffe.

And Church!!!? cliffe's eyes he In journalism he was supreme second-rate First and superb. He gathered 'Admiralty Scotsmen, baronets, and sples pummelled in The Times. around him to work on his nowspapers.

He liked Scotsmen because he capacity to rouse Churchill viewed them as hungry men resentment.

who would,

In North- was only a Lord of the 10 be Someone 10

the book relates an incident:

consequence, In

On June

shows Northcliffe's

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7, 1016, Northcliffe LTD..more meckly do his bidding. He was visiting Lloyd George when employed barontis because it Churchill coked in, To Chur-

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Northcliffe wanted to be con sulied on Government changes, Lloyd Gerge would not agree.

KENT'S LITTLE KREMLIN

Embassy men take off their shirts

was owned by Banker Lord Gaschen, but in 1948 he sold it for around £30,000 to the So- viet Union and now lives in a cottage in the grounds.

During the winter Kent's Kremlin" has stood

It has "L{itle

to start the spring cleaning

Flimwell, Kent. tidier this week. Estraggling. wilder, just had a five-hour blitz by ness of the gardenis at members of the Soviet Ent- Sencox Heath, Flim- bassy armed with pitch birch switches, Kent, looks a little forks,

spades and gar- dening forks.

Soviet territory mansion stands in 80 acres,

Black patches on the lawns mark the places where they left bonfires burn- ing, sticks and stones are piled up on the pathways. Seacox Heath

the Soviet "datcha"

visit from an official of the, empty with only an occasional Soviet Embassy or the Trade delegation to make sure it was

last week sulll there. But party of about 30 officials from the Embassy with their wives and children descended from start getting the London to

for the place ready occupation.

summer

And British politeians, pre- ferred not to understand" him.

Into the "ttle Kremlin" walks 'a Russian girl in a torton skirt with

bar mother.

Im-

They arrived by motorcouch and in motorcars, bringing their own food and gardening plements.

a country house mo

I

One man admitted they were Alexei Krasov, second not much good at gardening.

• Mr secretary of the Embassy, took asked one who looked, hot and

round the garden. But tired whether he would like to which Embassy his conversation was political pint of English bean, He smiled,

bowed politely, and said:

Russians send their

wives and families

sum-

rather than horticultural.

I mentioned Russian Easter, "Thenk during the hot

"We do not keep Easter," he drink, plenty." mer months. It is said. "Our celebrations are in

the only place now May and Novem

to which they are ber Easter? We

allowed to travel werk and he from London with- turned to scowl

Work,

by

VIVIEN

rum

a

we have our own

Uies of They brought supplies.

whisky and claret and gin— but no.vodka,

While the men worked in, the garden of the

out notification. Aercely on the BATCHELOR

Originally the 30- labouring - roomed mansion taches and scc-EDENKARNASKOLESARANT

The 30-roomed standing in 80 retaries, as stripped to the waist unloaded tins

acrés of

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S IS A REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT

TT is Mr Churchill who is the real revolutionary leader in British politics.

By Christopher Hollis M.P.

and

Women

aparty cardboard ground or clad in singlets, they swept boxes from the coach and got

and hoed.

busy In the kitchen. They pre- Then he added: "But in our pared the Russian's favourite country you can be any religion food-rich heavy soup, and you like," •

plenty of macaroni,

to

21

TC3-

The transport was parked in the courtyard outside the great front door. Mr Krasov allowed himself a touch of sarcasm.

once

There was no after-lunch glęšta in the sun. Promptly at tea time they donded themselves and their gear into the couch and the cars, and drove away back to

on

One

Garde

"Count, the limousines," he London, Under Mr. Attlee's system the

sald. "According to you people

have left few traces of Ministers

were so overworked

we always ride round in limou- the

er aristocratie occupant that there was no opportunity

sincs,"

in the house. The walls of the coherent planning. The Party. They have never for wedded to constitu- tive man less

us Sir Stafford

Apart from the cream motor- bailroc pre still secupled, by Traditionally, the leader tional precedent and party in their lives been elected to Government,

office. Nor do they now Cripps confessed, was driven coach there were three Morris spears and shield, and in

cars, two Buicks and two passage leading to the of the largest party in the allegiance than Mr Attleo and any

of the head any of the traditional de- "from expedient to expedient."

prints of early Victorian members House of Commons is called, other Prime Ministers

partments of state. They have But under Mr Churchill's system Vauxhalls

of the British ruling clasios hang Mr Nicholas Mukeev

took me

the wall alongside a row of upon by the Sovereign to past.

In forming his Government," been given newly created post- the House of Commons is large-

stultiaed, compelled to into the house. The

:e buckets and are extingulah- form a Government, which'

Mr Churchill, followed as boldly lions of a general overlordship ly

sumptuously.

ball- furnished of a number direct its criticiims against over the Ministers

ers. They occasionally have Are he creates from amongst revolutionary pattern.

departments in the nominal Minister, who every- room, drawing-room and dining- drill. Of his leading Ministers, only of the Members of Parliament of

one knows is not really

room have a baro, strictly-for- lawn has been glyen over Lord Woolton is in charge ponsible for the polley which heure-and-no-comfort-air.

to the children and here thera his own party. And, in re-two-Mr Butler, the Chancellor House of Commons,

Upstairs, piles of mattresses cent times, by far the of the Exchequer, and Mr Eden, of Food and Agriculture, Lord has to defend. The ardikest of the the Foreign Secretary are Leathers of all the Transport policy, meanwhile,, remains In-

are stacked against the windows are swings and a sand pit, greater number of the party politicians of the tradi-, services, Lord Alexander, the fecessible.

families Few of them spoke English, ready for when the of Defence, Ministers and Under-Secre- tional type.

general Minister

take up residence for the sum but all gave us a cheerful Good morning," and sold excute" taries have been Members

over all the Service depart-

mer. The seds are mostly plain when they went off into a Rus- meats, and Lord Cherwell over.

iron. The Russians do not be of the House of Commons.

all scientiac research,.

The Russians bring, most, of Ono result is inevitably to lieve in pampering themselves,, sian conversation,

The women wore gay summe too, who have served for House of Commons, two of the Cey are members of the

Mr render a reative House of Com- along with the creators of mons more restive sill. Another frocks, brightly coloured for their their own food with them, bu some years, on the back most important- Mr Lyttelton, Churchill,

the One small girl was clad in a obtain their ordinary meat and benches of the House, who, the Secretary for the. Colonies, policy. The nominal Ministers result is that there is a dangerous excursion to their country home, when they are in residence they

groceries from Hawkhurst. and

Sir Walter Monckton, the who have to answer for the lack of contact between have earned from expert Minister of Labour are not men policy in the House of Com- Government on the one hand and tartan kill,

little better than public opinion and the

prees or ence a right to promotion to who have served the customary mons the Front Bench.

They have been Members,

or

Of other Ministers in the

and,

are back Under-Secretaries. apprenticeship on the bench. They were brought into Parliament from other walks

of life outside politics and put

the

whether the recent Increase in London, transport charges, the banishment: of

1

A fow Ministers and Under- straight into the Government. The new system has the ed- Seretse Khams, or the textile

always been Secretaries have

most im- vantage that the creators of crisis-burat upon a public which Of the rest, the

Lord Salle- Members of the House of Lords, portant Ministers

policy are freed from depart. had not been prepared for them. Cont

mental worries and from the Ministers, when challenged in but these Lords have been tra- bury, Lord Leathers,

Commons the House, of Commons, hardly ditionally men who have given Alexander, Lord Cherwell, Lord strain of House of

has the dis- know the reason for those their lives to politics. They Woolton, and until recently Lord bickering. It either ant in the House of Com Imay are Members of the advantage that the men who policies themselves

make the mans, before they became peers, House of Lords.

for it.

o anal for many years took an ac tive part in the parts on ne Of these, Lord Salisbury, the men who answer are not tho There is general agreement

leader of the House of Lords, of the House of Lords. The has in accordance with tradi- verdlet, but it is safe to say clie, responible for recent Con- Government was in fact form tion given his life to polillas, that the pressure of business in servative, defeats in the County. ed or professional politicians,frat in the Commons and then the modern state has created a Council elections. And that this although times of war Pro In the Lords. But the rest have most real problem, but that is a defeat which will have to be no political career behind them, neither Mr Attlee nor Mr remedied before Mr Churchill's vided exceptions.

long-standing pubile Churchill has yet found the constitutional experiment can be. However, Mr Churchill, nor any

'caŕzled throuɛda to suoCHEZ,, though a Conservative, is a corection with the Conservi solution for 11.

• It is too early yet for a

that it was faulty public relations which were, more than anything

the

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