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BEVANITES DISSOLVED UNITY RESTORED

ENTER THE

ummings,

Serious Need For Fresh Thinking In

A World Divided

T

E strategists and ++uta!

the expert inter-

†††††† “peace campaign" will strive to

avert such a, danger or

preters and By Francis Watson gravate It?

political prophets

are busy everywhere in sifting the enormous quan- tity of words spoken, in Moscow at the first Com- munist Party Congress of the Soviet Union to be held since 1939. Leaving them to their calculations what is likely to happen, is it not time that ordinary people asked themselves

what it is all about?

of

州

human

It is not a more theoretical conflict of Ideas which has raised up enemies of Com- manism all over the world. It

Communist candidate this

.

what elther of them meant, Communism appears to is the threat of force from out- and do we know ourselves? answer that question from side or engineered revolution Will he be able to imagine time to time with official from within. Probably it is what it felt like to be on hints that "co-existence" is which led the Japanese in their that threat as much as anything one aide or the other, or possible, that we can all first

first postwar elections as what it felt like to try agree to differ without a.free nation to reject so decisive. staunchly to be neutral and clash. If this does not en- ly every

that was put forward, detached? Will he see it as tirely convince the reason,

It is deplorable that one more rivalry for naked it certainly appeals to the threat should also lead in some power among so many, or desires of peaceful people. times and places, to something as a deep conflict of ideas, But the idea of "co-existence" ke hysteria, in which "Com-

can only be fitted into the munism" becomes

good What will the schoolboy or merely as a painful but pattern of Marxist theory as a enough slick with which of the future make of it necessary stage in

temporary expedient. To the beat any dog that barks. evolution?

pure Communist, “Communism when he comes to the chap-

has not yet been fully attained,

·MAIN POINT tor in his history book To assume that such a even in the Soviet Union. The called "The Struggle be- student will have a choice

historical

"law" by which other TOR what is needed today tween Communism and of views, and the facts be- systems are to collapse has not

above everything else 18 out. worked itself Democracy?" Will he know fore him for making the doctrine of "co-existence", con London Express Service

A honest and sober enculation and an end to panic and confusion. choice, is of course to thus only be convenient The essential fact of Communism assume that Communism means of assisting that expected must sooner or later he looked will not inherit the earth. collopse. in preparation for the in the face,

"Inevitable" triumph of Com- Many people do assume' munla

muniam.

The essential fact, it seems this instinctively, even We may belleve that thene to me, is that Communism to- while they argue about it, dogmas of historical necessity are day is a technique of power. It wrong in theory and have al- could be argued that power,

overwhelmingly ready been proved unsound in even The freedom to argue, to netice since the death of Kart tralised power, can be used for. judge between the two en Marx. But we have to recog- good ends: but it is too late to trenched opponents, the nise

nuse that millions of people, think about it after power has freedom to condemn them organised for any action decided been surrendered out of the both, the freedom to look upon by their leaders, have hands of an electorate. hopefully for a third been given nothing else to be- force" are none of them,

UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT

THE HEIRESS

A Vanderbilt who became Duchess of Marlborough

speaks her mind about life in a Stately Home

By JOHN

THOMPSON

yet

Beve,

in fact, guaranteed by any- BARBAROUS thing, except by the

CCT-

this harem, for

is better than n system especially In the Communist

No parliamentary system is perfect, but all of them have at least the power to improve upon the present as the present has improved upon the past. In HERE were three rea- Luckily Consuelo had a sense At week-ends Blenheim was measures that we take to THE parliamentary democrat. Britain it is believed that a two

On their train transformed. There were often

the anti-Communist, or what- sons why the beauti- of comedy.

preserve them. And that afterwards ahe ap- 30 guests, which worried-the

oil lis ful Consuelo Vander- Journey

reflection is probably the ever you may call him, has his all her "first preciated

lesson in Duchess's American conselence:

own way of answering bilt married the ninth Duke class consciousness." The Duke there were

first step towards under- question about the co-existence when, as this one-party no bathrooms for of Murlborough, and she is (six years her senior) spent the them. She organised the standing, through all the of different systems. To most State, the single party is a

reading congratulatory dinners briskly: nine courses jargon of political debate, before 1999,

civilised people, in the

minority party. perfectly frank about them. time

telegrams, handing them to her usually, all disposed of in one

just what the issue is in our Fascist systems was a million- with gestures of deference er hour then on to an organ re İler fulber

But again--belter aire; her mother had irre- indifference according

own generation. to the cital in the Long Library,

ant. But because the world is Sovies, Russia has been engaged, sistible social umbitions: social status of the sender.

organised Into nation-states, and in buliding a continental empite

Industrial power, «i She thought it and the Duke needed money

Consuelo felt the strain of the regrettable

because some degree of national and creating

Absolutism of an extent. un- there was no silver platter prolonged social ritual. At the

zovereignty is thought to be known to previous dictatorship

for International 24 hours without waking,

ignore the enormities of con-

to live in the style to which when Queen Victoria's message and of one season she slept for

he was accustomed.

Was

her

was presented.

Own

TIEW

Cheese? Soap!

TWO WAYS

the Nazi and were repugn-

you

IT

for what?

In must

IF we say that that isaue essential

is a matter of conflict be peace, there was a tendency to has been the means to this end. tween two ways of looking duct of Hitler, and Mussolini so THE KNOCK at things, we must at once long as they stayed within their answer the question why own frontiers. A few others showed restive.

the world should not have ness, too. Lady de Grey eased the tension by having trays of

room for two, and infinitely china

dropped

her during more than two, political and dinners. Lady Blandford once, sociological attitudes.

Instead resorted to serving coop of cheese, and "poor Mr Hope," too polite to spit it out, was sick.

The Duke made his proposal When they arrived in London in the Gothic Room of the the Dowager Duchess, Mari- Vanderbilts' omnote Marbie borough's grandmother, seemed House in New York. The sombro as accustomed to command as atmosphere there,

Consuelo her

mother. "Your first

the reflected,

she greeted. propitious to duty," acrifice. When

brother Duchess, flourishing her ear was told, he observed, "He is trumpet, "is to have a child; your and it must be a son, because it only murrying you for money. Consuelo wept. would be. Intolerable to have that little upstart Winston 10 She was 18. The marriage, become Duke." lasted 11 years. She is now 75, contentedly remarried to Frenchman, and living in the "United States again;-and-at-last-

the has written the story of

In spite of this, Consuelo she delected signs that it would strange excursion among the found she liked her husband's not last. A guest "borrowed" English aristocracy. It has just lively cousin Winston Churchil, a shawl at the Duchess of

in America, but there was 1 een published

much that she Buccleuch's ball and did not did not like. Life in a Stately return it: "n symptom of ("The Glitter and the Gold."

Home, she found, could be a downward glide of modes and Harper. New York.)

bore.

manners."

cel

Born Dictator

by

discipline.

her

Cousin Winston

These were only token rebel-, lions. But before Consuelo turned away from this-world-

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

the

e of contemporary art

11

She dreaded dinner alone at But Consuelo did her duty by Blenheim Palace with

the Society. She bore her Duke two Duke. Often neither of them sons (one of whom is the pre- Consuelo's mother, Mrs W.K. spoke, a word. The ment was sent Duke). Then after Vanderbilt, was "a born dicta- served with full ceremony, then years of marriage "life together ter." Amid all the Vanderbilt the servants withdrew. Marl- had not brought us any closer." eulence of yachts and palatial borough pushed back his chair There was a deed of separation, homes she kept her family at and for a quarter of an hour followed (in 1920) by a divorce.

reform-school sat in meditative stience, twirl-

Unul her remarriage in 1921, ing the ring on his little Then When Consuelo misbehaved, slowly-sometimes breaking the fair and led

ho began to try Consuelo set up house in May- a life of good Mama went for her with IL

silence to complain that the works, social reform, and ser- riding-whip. During lessons food was

cold. In desperation vice

London County on the she had to wear a steel rod Consuelo took to knitting. The Council as a Progressive. She en butler read detective stories in does not record what the Duke, strapped to her back to

posture. After courage good one misdemeanour she defend the hall.

cd herself: "I thought

doing right" but Mama clari- fed the position for her at don't ask you to think: I do the thinking, you do as you are told."

once.

She irled to oppose thu arranged marringe with Marl- rough, but it was no good. Fama stormed, threatened to shool the man she wished Parry, and had a timely heart

altack.

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a High Tory, made of this.

"Penny for the guy?”

сп

we admire the establishment, of industrial colonios In the same way we in the the Soviet Arctic, we West, in the first relief of peace make up our minds about the slave labour of men and women after World War II, could deavour to shrug our shoulders under appalling conditions that nt

If new doms the barbarous apparatus of has achieved i. Sovie: State control so long as

are the hall-mark and canals Its operations- were purely of progress, we can see them domestic. Events have twice built in

in America, in India, In shown us that this attitude. Scotland or the Sudan. which

moy be unethical,

as well. to be dangerous as

'In

In mar

many

countries reform of

Is an liable

of land tenure

urgent Hitler was want to arsure problem. Can it not be solved. the world that "this is positive without starving several million. ly my fast demand." Mussolini peasants to death and deport- declared soothingly that ing whole communities mea

which the Communials "Fascism is not for export". At the Moscow Congress Malenkov admit to have been necessary"

goes on record that the in Russia because of the re- |

is rub luctance of "expart of revolution

agriculturalists: to. bish,"

become tenants of a State mado

που

CONFLICT

sures

by town workers?

It is the separate problems big as they are that have to be.

the knowledge

WHATEVER such words meant tackled with

and

Talk

then, or mean now, Commu- and energy of free men, nism is obviously better supplied of democracy can sometimes be than the defeated dictatorships Ds empty and meaningless ax tolic of the with supporters

Party Communism's

But 20 long as we free countries people." members in the of the world.

know that a knock on the door is the early morning The likelihood of war. Stalin in the

secret not the 185 recently written, is of war postman and has

the between

non-Communist police, so long do we

that there countries of the West. Are not also

la something world those countries entitled to ask worth defending in a whether the next Communist that is far short of perfection."

know

Fashion Pirates Carry Plunder In Their Heads

By SIMON GRIFFIN

London.

Now designers are resigned to The leading stores in Italy and some len of the materials that UTLASSES and flint-

the fact that no security system Spain manage to be selling new are being used by the scraps be which they might invent can Paris dresses sometimes within picks up. locks to one side, the

In London fashion houses a stop every leakage and counter, three days of the Arst showing weapons of the

the work of these felons of and this in spite of the fast that sense of duty makes the task fashion,

publication of all official photo. that much easier. "The pride of a ringing phraga modern pirate are now a

The plagiarists use a dozen graphs is embargoed for at least the house is pencil, a piece of paper and summer shows, was shop different

of which almost everyone' con- ** approaches. Most a month.

nected with the business seems a very, very long memory. ping for a hat three days midinettes are not well pold,

What

to be particularly proud." psigi else these buc before their opening.

and a few thousand francs in the right palm often unlock the ordered the wedding caneers of the boulevards "This is a Dior model," cupboard door. dress some months earlier, with have up their voluminous said the girl in one hat- mentioning it her sleeves may be revealed in shop. "I wasn't wanting daughter. Then the Duke rilsed dimculty about the

The wedding was fixed for November 5, 1895, Mrs. Vander- bilt had

cut

to

of last season's

.

core.

E

Those members of the Press and the trade who are invited to ree the models for the first time are watched with great Hardly a show goes by without No precautions" are taken, someone being ejected for Normally the only people to sca the haute couture trial one

the designs bofore they are Sometimes the moves are not making rough skeiches in

made up into clothes are the date. It would not be suitable which has opened in Paris, creations," replied the so obitous. The districts of the scorelive sort of way.

couturiers themselves; head te Place Vendome and the Avenue of alleged writer. "It isn't," said the Montaigne house scores of cafes Paris are asked to submit pho- employees..

Foreign journalists vialling ters and the cutters all fruited of an fashion thieves face the girl with a guess-what and restaurants where the sew togaphs of themselves in tip- attempt to blow up the House

judge. of Lords. November 6, however, was declared free from danger- ous associations,

for him to marry, he explained,

the anniversary

ייס

'Perfect Love'

The wedding international avent.

a lavish

18 0

group

For some years the top designers of the French capital have been worried

giggle. "It's this year's.”

lunch.

inggirls take their

The accredited Press, British Facade, working in different licate to the Chambre Byndicate, salons, exchango news in all the French equivalent of the In- and foreign, are asked to pre- innocence, paying,

little regard corporated Society of London sont their invitations at the

docs. Fashion Designers,

No artists and allowed;tp Before the war, the "fancy-

to the man at "the next table

sketch at the shows, Nows of the leading who is nearly falling off his seat price" clients by the amount of inside in- salons usually bought three or

papers are permitted to publish with Interest,

only "outline" pictures at the formation which has been fou; možels after each show, The coutualers' take all the They are then issued with a time at the actual showing.

possible. The passing Into unauthorised paying anything up to £200 for precautions

When type of passport which permits These are based on information mannequins zre being atted entry into the salons British provided at the salons,"

models they are fashion writer, Eileen Anderzon

a long step from the love were Bung," records Con-Ideas are the uranium of ing going on, and copyists pro-not allowed to move from one says: "Getting into a Paris show Pirates of Penzance to the suelo, "and, when I glanced at the salons.

ducing knilar models at a cut- race to another without being is more difficult than crowing a Pirates of Paris, but the.Diors of my husband shyly I saw. that

rate, it has desame the practice shrouded In год gigantic boundary into enemy territory." this words might "wall" quold his eyes were fixed in space." This is the sort of thing for these some women to buy dressing gown,”

Still, the odd stranger manges from the Gilbert and Sulivan An American paper reported that happens all the time, only and model from the top Wardrobes are. locked nt to break in, and if that should score:

outside windows prove impossible he can always Take any heart, take mine," (inaccurately), that her garters One of Britain's top fashion salons and to get the rest of night and gold claspa, studded

their wardrobe from under the covered wherever necessary, look around the dustbins at four to which they might add tut writers, in Paris, for the counter,

sand still thọ - sketches: get out, o'clock in the morning and get, leave my fashions, alone," diamonds.

usual hymn glorifying perfect hands. With reason: their cach

Today, with so much pirat- with the new

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