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Mr. MARTIN AND HIS HOT-WATER HERO

66D

E mortuia nil nisi bunkum.” With this quotation from Harold Laski, Mr Kingsley Martin, perhaps imprudent- ly, prefaces his biography" of that eminent figure.

This Is not to say that Mr Martin's book is all bunkum. Far from it. But it suffers from the defecta. Inherent in any book written by a close friend less than three years after his hero's death. The censers swing,

11

clout obucures our vision, we are bemused by the sweet and over-powering smell of incense, The book is not so much a biography

devotional exercise.

Ko

ย

The doctrinaires

and the subject THE author

had much in common. En- thusiastle Marxists of the mast doctrinaire kind, passionate Socialists whose advocacy fre- quently embarrassed their own the party. they represented very type of the left wing in- tellectual whose influence was so great between the wars."

cialists

not in

by Robert BLAKE

KINGSLEY MARTIN ... exercian with incense,

to

him that he could not bind the called upon to pay 4,000 guincas, Socialist Party.

Such an impertinent state- nent from someone who was not even on MP provoked an uproar. Laski was publicly al- tacked in the Conservative Freas, and privately criticised by many Socialists.

Sensitive

ASKI, like many

whose language

own costs amounted to £9,000. Too late, the Socialista passed a measure abolishing agrcial jurios, A fund had to be raised to save Laski from ruin. In fact £15,000 was raised-£2,000 more than was needed, Laski was not ruined

he left 10,000 but the episode was a bitter blow to him

With the end of the Übel case persons he faded from the public eye, ngainst

He died in 1850. Never really others is of the most violent

Lock! Important figure, nature, seems to have been scarcely merits a panegyric like highly sensitive to criticism. He this book. Perhaps the last attributed these attacks to anti- word con be left with Sir semitism, though there was no Purlek Hastings, who is reput- foundation whatever for such a

el to have observed after the brilef. Laski's own conduet, famous trial, "Alas, poor Lasid, There is wus quite enough to explain the I knew him well."

not much more to be said. resentment that he caused.

The 1045 election produced the famous Laski libel action. ostensibly against the Newark Advertiser-in. reality against the Daily Express. In a med- ing at Newark, Lacki was said to have declared that if the Socialists could not ochleve

Laski lost

case was tried more than year later-November

Czecha to surrender the their alms by content "we shall Sudetenland to Hitler weeks have 10 use violence, even if before even The Times or Mr means revolution. A number Chamberlain came round to of papers, including the Dally that Jumentable policy. Lasid

Express, gave prominence to did not share this view,

this. Laski promptly issued a Morraver these two ad- denial and several write for Neither of them was a Com-

vocates of the "people's libet. munist, but both had a strong

cauto" have had differing suc- syinpathy for the Soviet State.

when they endeavoured ceng blo- And both Laski and his

"the people" to persuade singularly grapher have been

vote for then, impervious to the intellectual

Mr Kingsley Martin has ad- revlution which since 1945 hus

and such mittedly only made British So- convinced tnost

attempt, when he stood for T that Russia is

parish coune of Lille, Easton, 1946. fact, the Utopia of the, working

Mr Kingsley Martin does not Dunmow, the Essex village in which he lives and was de class,

reveal that at an early stage feated. Laski.

perhaps wisely, the Dally Express was willing confuled his electioneering to agree, if Laski discontinued that both sičes the action, ron- verted, and ir) 1935 with should pay their own costs, and that the Express would not give the national executive of the publicity to the withdrawal. At Socialist Party.

that stage costs would not have This was to have important been heavy. Laski, however, rumour had It. The chairman confident, so consequences, ship of the

executive goes by a that he would not only win but the tune of system of rotation annually to get damages to

to agree to J:10,000, refused the next senior member, and in 1945, the critical election year. this. Lacki was the man.

Village defeat

IT should not, however, Le

thought that Laski and Kings ley Martin held entirely identicul views. There is a vein of de- New Ara the fcutit acidity

described Statesmay-once aptly as "the Billous Weekly which is nut present in Laski's por- ous, and prolix writing. Nor, tentous. apparently, dil Laski see eye lo eye with his biographer at the time of the Munich crisis. Then Mr it will be remembered, Kingsley Martin

was un nd- vocale of appeasement; indeed, the New Statesman urged the

Harald Laski, by Kingsley Martin (Gollance, zit.)

10 the runki of the

Mr D. N. Pritt was elected to

shows.

The result was disastrous, Sic Patrick Hastings, briefed for 1,000 guineas by the defence, subjected Laski to a devastating A brilliant cross-examination. The special jury (ie., a jury of persons with a modest property qualification) found against Jilm. The costs were immense.

Those of the defence totailed

Laski of which

Hlaving, as this book an abundant sense of his own importance, he was not one to efface himself in such circumn- alantees When Mr Churchill invited Mr Attice to accompany him to Potsdam before the election, Laski issued what op- peared almost as an ultimatum to the Socialist leader, warning £8,000,

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"With the condiments of the season."-Funny Christ- mag gif label on a cruet sel in a grocer's window,

T

Wag

HERE

once a funny grocer who throughout seemed

the year

A silent

man

man, who

shed a tent.

When ungry

a quiet sometimes

women brought

him back some baean that was stole,

Or made him smcil a rotita

egg.

which always made

him pale.

Was thinking up some

funny

But when they saw his little gag-upon the... Christmas cruet They stood amazed

that anych: Dear

Was

a

Volga: There will always be Jokes to give them Christ- a good reason for shooting

woman like Madame Damya. mas cheer.

Uncle Damya: I have a much I will funnier idea than that. shoot both of you, then shoot

Uncle Damya. think You

of everything. shoots them in his (Uncle Damya

puts the revolver both, and in his pocket),

Uncle Damya, as he exits: I have never laughed so much in all my life.

one so humourless do it.

could

And when they crowded

shop to buy their horrid lunch

They said "Our grocer's wast- ed here. He's good enough for Punch."

Laughter in Paradise

the

Moscow paradise, people are growing weary of political plays, Therefore, the city's writers have been or. tered to produce lighter enter- Lainment

They asked for things he IN

hadn't got, they criticised his cheese,

him and They mocked

they taunted him the inore he tried to please,

face, his sud, reproachful eyou.

As

His pickles and hiy mar-

malade, his margarine, his Russian play. ples.

century

The Treatment

"Just how does one cope with

unwanted uninvited, visitors who obviously mean to stay for the next meal?" Problem prezented by a piri to a columnist.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSNERT LANCASTER

41 Don's stand there gaping, man! Go fetch a radar)"

Shameful side

of Churchill's

holiday island

T

By BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P. ·

Montego Bay, Jamaica, sources of the great parent or- HERE is a quickening ganisation, the Reynolds Com- U.S.A., were used of the tempo here in pany of the

to garner bauxite in Jomalca, Jamaica. Although we

And perhaps it could be or swim and yacht and laze in the sun, there is the know. ranged that Mr Churchill would ledge that Winston Chur famous Mr Kaiser, who is head chill, Prime Minister of of a great Independent steel Great Britain, is among us. company in the U.S.A. Ho

mool at the same time the

also manufactures motor cars, As an artist he wit be en- Now Mr Kaiser is engaged. In tranged by the changing beauty acquiring bauxite In Jamales. of the sea with its ensalad shades of blue and green.

Yet they do not complete the pleture.

As an auther he will be sllaved by the caft voices of the coloured folk and the setloss, formless movement of the people in the street-women catgying baskets on their heeds, and men movin with that drawling legato of the Jegs as if time was made only for whites.

Trumpets, but—

Mt Churchill, in the vigour of comparative youth, would be delighted to meet that grind, in- domitable figure—the 85-year-old Let there be no mistake about Arthur Davis, head of the it. Jamaica is boning as a American Aluminium.Company, tourist resort. Americans and who is starting new projects Canadians have discovered ots with the zeal of a men of 60. He, raddon Jrauarry sumrine, and too, is reaping this bauxite har- even the Bills have learned vest in Jamaica, and thereby not that they can travel to this only enriching his company with Paradise on the fowly wings of profits but assuring this essential

and keep themselves storting alive on the same cumvenky,

strategic supply to America for peace or war.

On paper

I know the easy face-saving comment that it is better to send our bausite to Americu "than to Despite the fast that Columbus Russia or China.: Of course that found Jamaica, it to part of the is true, but it is only an evasion British Empire--if I may use that of the issue. * unfashionable designation. I do not want boiling among apologiste,

to cause any blood-

but

we do

but

The recent Commonwealth in London Was Imperial Conference cutt

with trumpets own heralded Jamaica and administer it for there was no fantare, at the the combined benefit of Britain finish. The one great iden which and the Jamaicans in contmetion emerged was

America

that

lop British

resources, and to Jamaica a land of sudden market them, thus paying dollar dividends to the American contrasts. The sun shines every dear

shareholders, day in Jamniczy, but there may come a sudden storen that whips some the ses to a frenzy and makes wealth America is offering an By her very existence and her family's the houses temble.

Lo go

Yet Mr

to the

RECORDS GIVE BACK CAUSES ALARM

From Bernard West

BELGIUM'S

Brussels,

Confedera.

tion of Political Pri souers have announced that the lives of 15,000 World War II resistance' workers are in danger.

They claim that the proposal to hand over to the German authorities ali documents re- ferring to the men and women who suffered in Nazi concen- tration camps during the wax, when the Allied High Commis- sion ends, is causing neute anxiety to their members. These documents were captured when the Nazi horror camps, Gestapo centres and police headquarters were overrun and Gearched by the Allies,

And the Beiglan Confederation tooth and 'nall Are fighting against the proposal to give them to the Germans for two reasons:

1. If these documents, alod with Nazi thoroughness, and giving detalls of the exploits and heroism of their members' 'crimes, fall into the karids of a potential enemy-German or Russian-the fate of the patriota would be seated,

2. The revival of Belgium's resistance movement" in tho event of another war would be destroyed

DETAILS GIVEN

J

Tho Confederation, have asked Belgium's Foreign Minis ter, Mr Paul Van Zeeland, fot Assurances that these documents will either bo returned to Belgium or placed under the care of a former Belgion resistance leader.

The records are now In the hands of the Allied High Com- missioners in Western Germany. Amongst them are detalls of the living and dead of the farmer horror camps at Belsen, Mulhausen, Papenburg, and Stuzhof-Natzweller.

Conducting the "give us back the records campaign for the 15,000 Belgians who

lived through the poncentration camps

30-year-old Jean

Van Peteghem and his 30-year-old secretary, Nollie Couynck. was tortured for helping the Allies Intelligence Service. She lived in horror comps from 1042 until the Liberation for helping British aviators along the escape routes,

ONE SWOOP

Ove to assurance

on our Foreign Minister to ap point Belgian supervisor whom we shall nominator.

with the iñand's elected assembly, should be encouraged to invest

in the Commonwealth and Commented Jean Van Poleg- At least that is what we do on Colonial

In tho hern from his office Territories. American paper. What we do in fact is dollers should be used to dove- Pain's D'Egmont: "Our Con= something rather different.

federation will not accept in its present form the proposal hand these documents the Germans or an THAT'S an easy one. Make some excuse

that a committee of Alled into the kitchen, tut'

Supervisors WHE protect our tri for the

We wa terests.

want them elthor it Is difficult to be funny sandwiches

a packet

right bare in this office, where in Churchil will find that there and alternative leadership They sheered at his unhappy, by order, perhaps 1 could help lunch and leave

pre- they beking, and can with a new version of the each bedroom.

other contrasts which are made British union of nations and we approaches, by man and are more menacing wider all the time. As lunch-time

in familiar type of 19th

served for use in our Britain are pushing the gates

eight-year warn each member

of the than storm at sea.

hunt for Belgians who did no family

return Liberals, Socialists, Conserva- by prearranged sigris

from concentration It is the usual country house

where the fodder is hidden. Therefore, with great respect, lives, none of us can escape camps. Or we shall prevail up- scene, but the well-known But

just point to your I urge him not to be too much the arraignment of bistory, don't characters, Olga, Volga. cus- They never knew, these

and mouth and then upstairs, be impressed by the sunny pro- In two world wars the unity Lomers, when talding him to Uncle Damya, are laughing in mo

Cause they may think you are perity of the tourist industry of the Empire saved us and of stead

crying. task,

civilisation, but after Unele Damy: What are you going to gargle your throat in here, but to consider the ominous Western That humourists aro quiet men

bathroom. the

shameful economie each of those wars we lost our who wear

mournful girl, laughing at?

Then each member of the surrender which has taken place faith in the heritage handed to Olga: We are laughing be- mask;

up- 10 this British colony over the us by our ancestors. The apliit cause we are both in love with family, in turn, will go They never thought the grocer

of abdication has been upon us, they despised

throughout you. So one of us must shoot stairs to wolf their sandwiches last five years.

eased our con- the other. Isn't that laugh while the rest engage the visi

Roughly Jamaica has a poput and we have tor in light conversation. They

lation of 1,300,000, of whom only science by condemning the few must be careful not to

come a small proportion depend on remaining Empire stalwarts as down munching in case the sus-

tourism. I am sorry to tell you tub-thumpers, flag-wavers, in- pletons of

visitor

are that there is serious unemploy perialists and cranks. aroused.

ment among the rion-tourism One o'clock, two o'clock will workers. pass. During this time tells will be served to sharpen the appetite, and the conversa tion will be mainly about food. All will discuss favourite dides. Some will go into de- tuils of cooking, while others

the year

#OBTAINABLE, EVERYWHERE.

abla?

Uncle Damya: That is a very funny situation indeed.

Volga: It is even funnier than that. We have both tried to shoot each other and missed cach other.

Uncle Damya, wiping his eyes: This is too funny for words.

Are you going to try again?

Olga: Of course, I am only will

back on me.

the

cock-

and

ཝཱ

Is that inevitable? Not it all. As one who was born in the

Where?

outer Empire and who believes Where are the new adven- passionately in the greatness of turers, the now colonisers,the men. of vision? The the Empire, I have to declare new.

thrt Jamaica is just one moro almighty dollar has replaced the chapter in the long story of fal- crusader's cross.

waiting for Volga to turn her recall, meals of the good lure to develop our Imperial re-

Volga: But it's not your turn

Volga: Oh, yes it is. Volga: No, It's'net, you lying

kiut,

with equal intensity?

Olga: Of course, That's what makes it so much funnier.

old days or a souffle or an omelette eaten in Franco.

sources.

The men

Let me give you one example. In this favoured island there are important resources of

Mr Churchill, wo, hopo that you will find time to paint a picture of the magically beauti- ful East-const, because it will be a matter of great pride to those who dwell on

on this side of the Island.

By half-past two the visitor will be half mad with hunger: by three o'clock, hysterical and babbling of Dangs In the stomach.

But when you pause for a rest, Uncle Damya: Volga, Volga, When tea-time has passed

you might let your oyes gaze far spare us this abuse. I suppose without notice, the visitor will you girls know I hate you both be forced to shout: "Don't you bauxite, which is the basic ele away to Bong Island on the west

ever eat in this place?" -

ment of Fluminium. Whether coast. Thore, on the top of a a clever little man--and This is your big

hill alte a moment. for peace or war bauxite is of

pro short of With an air of surpriso ́ you

inches who spins his web and Volga: So deliciously point will say: "Don't you know we urgent, vital importance. So let mot clever ment

us now, procialm

alm the nev

news that whistles Yankee Doodle as the have just started a.40 days' | 18 10:

three men have thrown their web grows. Uncle Damya: And you know fast? So good for the Ogure.

bato wealth and their energy

Mr Reynolds whom I have a wife to take care of?

on hope- Olga: We'll take care of her. fully for dinner (Which extreting this chemical from I mentioned a few moments go, an admirable, bold American, Valga: You mean otio of us likely) you cars start the treat the good earth of Jamaica.

Perhaps Mr Churchill will who is proud to think that the wil....

ment all over again. 7

meet Mr Reynolds, for the Prime vital resources. [of 'a' British Uncle Dampa: Só one of you But one doso is usually Is going to shoot the other, and enough, I know, because I have Minister has always enjoyed colony are going to make his the survivor. đà, going to shoot administered it.

talking to Americans. Ho might Land of Hope and did Glory my wife for no reason as ati?

home at first hand how the rte mightier jet,pita

London Express diretos)

Ho

until now "Tho documents have

at been "the property UNNRA, the International ·B-

tugeo Organisation and the

High Commissioners) |

"Even a child can see the threat to our men. If ever there. were another war, and the Germans held the records, iwa should be caught in brie swoop... And we do not - Intend to let that happen,"

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