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SUCCESS
[ORE than 30 years ago I wrote for the London Sunday Express a series of articles which I hoped would i prove useful to young men anxious to succeed in the practical affairs of life. I hoped, too, it would help the sale of the Sunday Express. The articles were made into a book, of which 80,000 were immediately sold, and many more have been sold since.
Some reviewers thought it presumptuous that at the nge of 42 I should tender advice on success.
Well, the issue has now been decided. I am 74. I have no regret for the past and no hope for the future. There have been pitfalls, of course. Frequently I have stumbled. Henceforward I do not intend to put grave issues to the test. Younger men must carry the lance and the breast-plate.
I would like to bo of assistance to them. The main theme of my book was that there are three main qualities necessary Achieve success-Judgment,
to
BY LORD BEAVERBROOK
Thirty-two years ago Lord Beaver. brook wrote a famous book of advice to ambitious young men. He called it "Success.
The CHINA. MAIL believes that the counsel and guidance then given is
equally urgent and timely today. Tomorrow this newspaper will begin a series And first, here is a foreword by Lord Beaverbrook.
of extracts.
Heed the story of Churchill
Industry and Health. Í ment of high standing. He as his earlier promise in- hold to that view more is a most remarkable drama- dicated. strongly than ever.
A mau may havo of these attributes yo far, but unless he all three he will not go
the way:
Why did I fail? I had in- Empire free trade. By intro- made innumerable enemies, in dustry. I had houth. It must ducing his smaller scheme, und out of Parliament. And be supposed that my politlen! Baldwin defeated my larger and from a political standpoint tic critic. His contribu-
Had it belter scheme. judgment was faulty.
When I tried to everything was wrong with the As many people fail in been unerring, the Empire to renew the movement he misled Ministry of Aircraft Productions tions to the Sunday Express two
as in indus- day might have been a flourish the public by confusing the everything, except the pro- are read by millions. His judgment and
try. man's judgment ing economic unit. The Empire Issues. I blame my own poli- duction of neroplanes,
in certain might have been built up On cal judgment for the trust I had production saved the situation. has articles in Maclean's are
the most popular feature may be sound all in Canada. But still he has fields of activity but fail in Empire Free Trade. For I had placed in the man.
others.
not had full success.
A
our
That
Churchill himself, whose sup- port was absolutely necessary to my administration, has
for his
my chance. Beyond doubt had Baldwin and his party "over a barrel." But I was de feated and my movement
i:as been fortunate the cunning of ANOTHER political failure of lacked political judgment. That destroyed by
of mine was a great practical country and for the world, Lesa I Stanley Baldwin. In order to success.
When Churchill gave fortunate for his country Is the escape from have had success in many challenge in the
successful me the opportunity to form the fact that his judgment has been constituencies Ministry of Aircraft Production used in cause other than but not in w walks of life,
an accommodation in the crisis, of 1840 It was Empire Free Trade. He has politics, I consider myself with me, pretending he would necessary to throw off tho
Empire Free restraints imposed by the polite always been a world free trader to be a political failure,
system of dealing "through the Otherwise I would have
usual channels." succeeded with the Empire Free
Campaign, Had
For why? The reason_is CONSIDER the man who that, although he has judg. MY own, for instance.
gave my book its name, ment and health, he lacks He plays too "Success," but who did not industry.
much golf, and Canasta give attention to its con-
card tents. He was Mr Beverley is the name of his Baxter, at that time editor gume. of the Sunday Express.
.
Mr Baxter is enjoying n
is
And lacking industry brilliant career, but he has another term for which not had the success which fixity of purpose-Mr Bax- he might have attained. ter has not enriched him He is a Member of Parlia- self or the nation as much
Trade
he came to
carry out the Trade policy.
at heart.
a
Sir Winston has been sup-
Stanley Baldwin then went to scheuto the Ottawa in 1932 with a
I had to take short cuts. I ported in his prodigious carcer MacDonald - Baldwins Coalition Hmited to a form of reciprocal had to scatter people many of not only by judgment but by not gone back on its promises 1 Imperial Preferences. My own them important people fight health and industry. He is the
succeeded. But crusade was not for a reciprocal and left
tariff's an- lowering of
between The seroplanes were produced.. three haste Attributes of success.. would have
Empire countries, but for That was what mattered;"; But I other term for failure?
what is near-success
but
WILL AMERICA STAY IN EUROPE?
T
RENE MacCOLL lines up the forces that
will
will decide how the answer go
I
express
In
Kremlin
peace
greatest living exemplar of the
HEED the life story of Sir Winston.* It will help the young aspirant in this way! It will be seen that judgment can be improved, that industry' can be acquired and that health. con be maintained. If he really devotes himself to the cultiva tion of the
these attributes he will
not, it is true, become another Winston Churchill, but ha", con still achieve in the career of his own choosing a very great success.
My book, Success, is out of
I am, thereford, glad under American leadership. law which would curtail Eisen- frm exercisca so strong an appeal conversation of the great here print. Washington.
is to Newspaper constitutionally held for many Americans shows that. America's capital, is the that this
reprint, in a series of articles, HE-signing-of-an-he end of that war will fur- hower's
ther slow the already noticeably treaty-making powers. --
the substance "of what I-salibi- There are more Americans armistice in Korea- slowed-up arms drive.
The President's Cabinet mem- around than you might suppose
A sudden ending to Russia's I have revised passages here offensive and a sinister and there to bring them into confidently expected
Many responsible Americans, bers have pleaded with the con- who, in privato conversation,
But modifed by America's State
agreement return to the tough policy of line with modern. Idioms, with whom I have been die gressmen that adoption of such the cussing
here matters Department and
In a law would make the conduct
Herbert Hoover. These aro stimulating Western alarm, lend change the axioms I expounded
to tremendous events going on Washington, are convinced that of foreign policy much more with the ideas of ex-President Stalin's days could stil, by I have not found it necessary to
should renewed value America's 30 years ago. in Russia serve to highlight the idea of a European Army difficult, but the senators are that the United States
master post-war policy. and tho European Defence encouraged by a mass of letters withdraw to her own continent,
They have stood the test „at," the great new policy crisis
from the public, backing them the "American Gibraltar," and Community business is dead.
If, however, things continue time. rest content with the A-bomb on this important issue. for the United States, and
to get "softer in Moscow, and Of course, the Foreign Minis-
it a Big Four conference loads Then a group of enormously and her new string of air bases So for the whole of the
ters of the Big Threo who are
men have overseas.
to encouragement and deeds as Western world.
meeting in Washington must wealthy Texas oll
banded together to back Senator continue to pay helpful lip
Of course, there is a credit well as words from Russia, then This crisis was summed service to the plan, and to talk Joo McCarthy and all his works sido to the ledger of America's America must undoubtedly feet
ratidea with almost unlimited funds. up for me by one of Ameri- warmly of its future en's best-informed milltary- tion.
observers Part of this plan would be to post-war policies. Because these that it is time for a change..
to be changed, it must not bo diplomatic experts like this: tell me they think it will be "build up" McCarthy by means must now, it would seem, have a near infracle France ever of elaborate TV programmes.
tsunied that they have failed. "The whole structure of gets round to ratifying it and America's post-war plans Germany joins in. and policies is quietly dying of old age."
But realistic
ISOLATIONISM
In the Pentagon, America's military-planning headquarters,
These men are all worship By, that he meant that there is reluctant admiration
over the pers too of General MacArthur for Britain's stand all those great enterprises, European Defence Community and his militant Far East policy. They bear Eisenhower a deep beginning with the Marshall business..
grudge for having gained the Re Plan and going on through
and thus "You were the realists," one publican nomination, the North Atlantic Treaty military man said to me, "Yours the presidency, lost year. Organisation, the giving of was a tough and a far-sighted Yet another grave-develop- millions of dollars in mill- policy. You saw the problem
meeting tary aid to foreign coun- politely refused to let your of view: at a recent
clearly from the start, and you ment from Eisenhower's point tries, the European Defence selves be nagged into joining in of Right-wing Republicans Community and all the rest on An unworkable propos!--New York of it, which America has so strenuously pursued since 1947, are becoming obso lete.
tion,"
QUESTION
Thanks to America's tm- exampled ECTICrosity, mony counties, both in Europe and elsowhere,, are back firmly a their feet and better able to take care of themselves
rlly.
WEAKENING
But while they aro feeling more muscular physically, their in ideological attachment to Ameri- the decision Win ca seems to be weakening as in taken to oppose the election of Italy, where Premier de GAS- any Republican who backs peri is having his troubles, Eisenhower's foreign policy.
Their
The meeting heaped praise on So, while American policy is "that great and patriotic in the melting pot, ale need
still havo no cause for American, Senator McCarthy.
proaching herself for failure, It looks
Now the great the overriding. as if America
If the efforts to isolato and -question of today and to-
Thanks mainly, to her, die must do some hard, think morrow in this:
and then European nations have going Will America stymie Eisenhower.
tako over the Republican Party economics опсо Lagain.. ing and produce brand-new stay in Europe? Alternatively, b direct alt fall, then, ormies, while not as strong a 'policies to meet the chal. under the stress of events over-
is possible that the Fre America could have wished, lenge of these chaotically seas and pressures on President It
Eisenhower at home. (about gident's enemies may decide to have come a long way from the which changing times,
form an America · First I will tell you in ya
yours bar
back. moment), will she decide that with McCarthy as its leader treme weakness of a low the time has come for a major dedicated to polley shift: which would entail tionism.j
stime there is a grow withdrawing some or all of her America
IMPETUS
extremo | Imola-
·
ing sense of nationalism and If the President's popularity while this tends to blue The coming of an armis forces back across the Atlantic. begins to slide, in the grass thusiasm for such organisations
Here in
mote" of America (it still ro- as the European Defence Com- tice in Korea will give a faces: an increasingly
mains high) then look for, theso munity and the North Atlantic particularly sharp Impetus (which, by and large, is the same get going in comest.
passage for bis foreign
men, to• mbow their hands and Treaty Organization, #much to " the growing trend.
stronger Europe does now pro- Truman's), Formidable forces Peace there will certainly are at work against him, plothes things are not impostored to winna with the Bur divide a fairly convincing "third mean a general letdowning to scupper his plans and able. The fact that McCarthy alah and American glants. the feeling that the urgency eventually overthrow Ike him.... had ebbed from the inter lf,
*****- The Fricker: Las mis that. But for the time being. national scene,
In the Senate they vote to both Houses of Conorens must in Secretary of State John Foster alash foreign aid money by fire regulate all execillive, and Dulles must ocrinue to struggle Other Agreements, with any foreigres
mely ) (-alang 'k with to the old the outbreak of the thousands of millions of dollars, Powergorg others organisation stand ICWEB Korean war three years ago Senator John Bricker of Ohio, prepent the changing of acted policy. And looming over all which put the road into the one at the loading
Mates: domestic lawen unimas -CON- UN Isolationistaj
colouring fleverybody's
· grwas ·, specifically approves, auch, a rearizament entorts of the West," "is intwis‘Dis' introducing – a nner : change
Though talk and a dominating the
A Virginia Cotier's book, “Wiiuton. Churchill: The Erd and the Man," sa Lori Beaverbrook recommended. will present shortly his own account Churchill in a third volume of "Politicians and the War,“
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