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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1952.

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Coronation And The Weather

By J. W. TAYLOR

LL over London there are aigns of prepara- tion for the Coronation. One real concern of the or- ganisera concerning the out-of-doors part of it is the

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"Honest Stanley, Baldwin "-" the Premier with_ the Pipe"-"The Man whose Lips are Sealed": so popular memory recalls the man who was three times Premier. 1 But what was the real man like?

BALDWIN MASK

IN Cabinet Baldwin would ostentatiously close his eyes when foreign affairs were,under discussion, "Wake me up." he would say, "when you are finished with that." JE could never bring his mind to bear on anything that did not interest him, and foreigners made him peovish or seat him to sleep:

SOONER or later everyone who knew him came round id one word-indolence. No Prime Minister. It was said, ever spent so much time in attendance on the House of Commons. And no Prime Minister over spent so much. In neglecting the other duties of his office.

THE Treasury Bench was a sato refuge from party as well as from official duties. He would lunch at the Travelters. where no one wanted anything. Ile would retire to the

·Cabinet room and issue with an armful of private letters. proud of his afternoon's work. And the rest of the day would pass, on the Treasury Bench, a little dinner with his faithful. Davidsona in. Callers-street, a little music. and the Chamber once more.

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› WHAT can you do with a leader who sits in the smoking-

room reading the Strand Magazine?" 011 colleague asked.

T

is

by William Barkley

angry

Then he adds these remark- able words in quotation marks:

HE quotation above he should be subjected to physical the violence. Mr Young writes: "After from

the fall of France, Baldwin was biography of Stan- advised or warned not to come ley Baldwin by G. to London." M. Young. The newspapers were often accused of being unkind to Baldwin. They never passed such a harsh judgment as in these words from a friendly biographer specially chosen for the task by Baldwin himself.

some-

"He asked me, what languidly I thought, whether I would care to write his life," says Mr

Young. And languidly has Mr Young written it.

The lazy-bug which Baldwin Injected into all his colleagues seems to have" touched Mr Young too. He is known as a vigorous and stylish critic. But this book (published by Rupert Hart- King George V-June 1911-Davis at 218.) is limp and

King George VI-May 1937- Fine and overcast: cold;

Stiff winds; occasional

or torrential rala;

King Edward 1902-Bright, wärm

heavy

VII-August

(This was a postponed

date

from the original one of June 24, which was also fine);

Queen Vletorla-June 1838-- Fine weather with fow showers.

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Thus it will be seen that the British weather maintained its Ackleness. In reputation for

"They hate me so." No explan- tlon Vouched for the quotation

ITRUSE auran

Whe

She Baldwin

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marks. Are these Baldwin's own tired.

words-They hate me so? Mr Young was always a Evidently, and we are left to great admirer of Baldwin's infer that they were spoken to

his blographer at one Capacity for speaking simple sittings they had together English to simple English- Astley Hall and elsewhere, men. On this side he does

of many at

Cummings

justice-and more than-to . The same fecting made itself aent even a friend-might say was

.

Mr Young says the, contrast betiveen ardour and placidity was making itself felt..

at the height of Lord in the House too," Mr that Baldwin had confessed to Beaverbrook's Empire crusade. Young

continues.

The

gates at concealing the truth in order to Baldwin.

Astley ware of local ironwork, win an election." But one gets the impres the gift of the constituency, and sion when with warmth and were not removed in the general enthusiasm he looked beyond drive for Iron. One member ask- the mask he was struck with ed: Does not Lord Baldwin need horror to find nothing at all. them to

him from the them to protect True, he was badly let down, rage of the people?"

THE MAN who

paid no heed

by-election at which the Tory candidate had withdrawn on the ground that he could not defend Baldwin, Baldwin-lold Chamber- lain he had decided to resign from Parliament and stand as. candidate in the by-election (St. George's, Westminster), The gesture stalled the mutiny. The resignation demand was with- drawn.

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And the result? It la, the re- frain of the book: nothing hap- pened.

THE MAN whom Laski advised

POLITICAL connoisseurs will

be forever grateful to Mr Young, for the exquisite revela- tion. Whenever Baldwin was in trouble he received A letter- give you a guess, give you a hundred guesses! from the late Professor Harold Laski,

Item. When Baldwin frat be- came Prime Minister a phlio- sophic note from Laski with the odd yearn: "I wish you could have a year free for thought arid talle."A

Item. Just before Baldwin faced an awkward party, meet- ing at Caxton Hall a letter from

ask! wishing him all good wishes and assuring him he was Just the man the Socialists wanted as Tory.Leader,

Item. When Baldwin carried

"After all, Beaverbrook seem→ ed to offer them an opportunity of doing something clear, lang- a vote of confidence in his leader- ible, visible; here it seemed was ship, a letter from Lasid: We He counted on access to vast It was Lord Beaverbrook, as

ND, later, of the final years of a Cause, not only a Programme; who are academic Socialists re- the coming Coronation numbers of personal papers. But Minister of Supply, who con-

"Baldwin kepi no diary, circu- ducted this drive. He wanted A Baldwin's life: "To have and a man who knew very foice in your great victory as. #xe 2, the authorities, have for

of the пове

lated no memoranda to his those gates but he did not get staked everything on that one precisely what he was after and though it were that of a personal taken serious

was going which friend." rarely wretc a them. He got ail the railings but virtue, integrity; and to know where he opinions of Mr Buchan which colleagues,

those who political letter, still more rarely the gates were left.

A referendum that for and wide throughout. Baldwin did not. Tas not done by

At which point I, too, give it arranged the Coronation of King kept a copy of anything he did

When the question was raised his own England men and women luken' on personally would have George VI. Their date of May 12, write."

in the House it was a Tory mem- under the rain of death were given Baldwin a hundred votes up. 1937. aroused much comment,

ber, Captain Alan Graham, who cursing him as the politician who, to Beaverbrook's ten. Taken on for it fell in one of the scheduled

asked: "Is it not very necessary to gain a few months or years of polley, taken in the party, the third cold

to leave Lord Baldwin his gates office, had lied to the people and numbers would be nearer even." In order to spell, the day of the Festival of

to protect him from the left them defereeless 'St Poncms, and the second

Just indignationery as well get sacked a king

of the mob?" their enemies." of the three Ice Saints. They

(Hansard). We SABAUENZARARLONSNULADEIROGODNE were thought to be just in- The day itself viting disaster.

NOT that the book lacks in-

dates for Buchan's

was fine, but it was cold, with

cvercast skles.

June 2 next year anticipates Buchan's third cold period by seven days and avoids

THE MAN who

Baldwin never

against

Mr Young must not be dis appointed it he is secused of failing to find the secret of the On February 25, 1031, the Baldwin Sphinx. Maybe there is Tory Chicf. Agent wrote to no secret. the story right.

afterwards Nevine Chamberlain that it would Later

in the war Baldwin wanted to speak of the election be in the interests of the party

for Baldivin to resign. resumed his visits to London, of 1935. says Mr Young, and often spoke

"Baldwin read the message as For instance, we learn that in of the kindness with which It is shocking to learn now

death warrant. His rat 1923, when Baldwin stampeded Churchill received him at Down- that in the winter 1034-5 a group reaction was to consult with

of high permanent officials in

terest. Not at all.

an election on narrow ́ insular

his Protection on which the Tories Ing Street.

fourth by 27 days. Buchan's concern has been with tent peratures, cold and warmth, rather than with wet spells, and his tables indicate only two hot periods-July 12-15 August 12-15.

and

the

No doubt due consideration has also been given to the fact that, in general, June is the brightest part of the year in Britain and ordinarily drlest. It has, however, рго duced both the most persistent and heaviest rainstorms record.

were defeated, Lord Salisbury THE MAN who (the present marquis's father) and Lord Halifax (then Edward

Wood) were among the free hid the truth traders in the Government.

They met

under Salisbury. We learn nothing new from the Halifax carried their protests to WE book of the celebrated

Baldwin, Baldwin kept them in

his Government while going to events in the country on Protection.

Maybe the answer to the riddle, if there is eno, is in these odd words of the typical Englishman when› Baldwin once remarked: "There are so many strains of Welsh and Gighland tn. iny ancestry that I am almost a foreigner,"

Whitehall got together to express Mrs Baldwin as to their future. their anxiety to the Cabinet on to quit politics, sell their Lon- don house, retire to Astley. He Britain's unpreparedness............ ·

told Chamberlain."

The other enigma is, how the Later again he recovered hile Tory Party and the country came the publication of a frank detu- fighting mood. Tiger Baldwint" to tolerate year after year this ment to counter pacifism and to his wife murmured. There was a burgling, indolent leadership.

"The British public should be educated," they wrote, urging

stress the need for arms.

They prepared a forceful draft, The Cabinet watered it down a White and finally published Paper which was $0 anaemic that the omelals protested it Ignored the "wake-up!" purpose which they had intended.

the autumn of 1922 when the Coalition Government was destroyed. What the author Viscount Samuel's agreement calls LIG's "personal rule" was to disagree on this question in ended, and the Tory Party re- 1932 was anticipated by ten emerged independent. years with this difference:

Mr Young says: "It was not Samuel's conduct was operi and

alone (at public, Salisbury's and Halifax's Baldwin's resolution

the Cariton Club meeting in behaviour is news to us today, October 1922) but Baldwin act-

Then, to jump to the Abdien- ing on Bonar Law's sense downpour. In London tion, Baldwin lold the House of public duty that brought the Commons that he had never used Coalition (under Lloyd George) any influence at all save to keep to an end."

is a great exaggeration the King on his throne. But Mr Young says: "Speaking later to a' of the part Baldwin took. friend, Baldwin said: Only the influence of men like Younger, Ing

From June 13-15, 1903, a heavy Jasted

without a broak for nearly 60 hours, and even longer in some Southem Coun- ties.

worst London had its

June 16, thunderstorm rain on 1917, when 4.65 inches of water fell in two hours in some parts of the city. Yet June of 1925 was about the driest Britain had experienced for two cen- turics.

p

Periodical torrents of rain end stift winds occurred at the Coronation of King George V on June 22, 1911, the vious night being swept by a gale and berspersed with rain so heavy as to tear down bunting and topple over standards, with little improvement at the down.

This

of

The

THE MAN who

nearly quit

NE of the officials wrote per-

sonally to Baldwin profest- that this mealy-mouthed

of the document which

I was frightened. I thought he Leslie Wilson, Wickham Steed, to emendation destroyed the pur- might change his raind."

nothing of Lord Beaver pose brook and a host of important ought

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to bo downright in its

It would be nice to know the Tories, had just as much effect as expression to shaite the people friend to whom this revelation Baldwin-probably a great deal out of complacency." was made. It is a confesalon that more theme connecting the book, Baldwin drove the King from The

"I trust the Cabinet will ad-

the throne. A weakness of the however disjointedly, that dress its mind.not to gilding book is that it depends or anony Baldwin beiped

US BOLTCCs.

to unite the

mous statements, rarely giving nation and avert a class war by bf delaying tacties in face of the rise of the Socialist Party. Sir Walter Monckton was the

Mr Young Invites us to think King's man in this crisis. It will that this conscious aim of Bold- nows to him that, according win pelley explains the gaffe

to Mr Young, both "King and which destroyed Baldwin's public Prime Minister throughout placed.

Here are the fateful words

King Edward's Coronation day, August 9, 1902, weS 22 entire and well-deserved composition. second choice, lness having fidence" in him, Up to that time caused a postponement from Baldwin is generally believed not spoken at the end of 1930: "Sup the original date of June 24. to have known Monckton at an posing I had gone to the country zaid that Germany was

There was bright, worm "sun- shine on the day of the actual and, warm weather Ceremony on the June. date.

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Yet we and Monckton during gearming and we must rearm... the war meeting Baldwin at Lord I cannot think of anything that Davidson's house, so that appare would have made the loss of the

election ently between the fall of the

the pit for German consumption but to ensuring that the pill provides the effective stimule- tion so much required by our sluggish-minded people."

Baldwin paid no attention. When Emest Bovin with a struggle got the T. U. C. to A declare iri tàvour of arms in September 1935 "languor prevaried; nothing happened. The springs of action would not flow!

Coronation King and the fall of Baldwin, more point of view win should have dont.' And the

th Low

small

Mr. Young ways he has some times naked himself what Bald-

answer of this friendly blogm- Sume defenders of Baldwin pher, in aviation to September

words. Mr Young gives it up.

Queen Victoria's on June 28, 1835, was blessed. Monckton and Baldwin became make an attempt to excuse these 1035 she should have resignedl with hematitul - woother Inter, friends, spersed with showers, even “Youth Buchen's Apparently in the carlier Incomprehensible, He calls them. The book, reveals that Bald fourth cold was due to years of the war Baldwin Without going beyond the win once came.noarer to Yeifgn- start the next day,

was afraid to go to London lärt limits of fali, debate sa oppo-, ing than most people know. It

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