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"What shall I give her?

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BY THE WAY, WHAT EVER BECAME OF THAT IDEA OF CHURCHILL'S ?

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

When a great man confesses: I've failed

LAST WEEK was published the third edition of a famous book. It is called "England" and was written 27 years ago by a famous man who revised it at 93. And here is a profile of that man-Dr W. R. Inge, former Dean of St Paul's.

M

EET with me a great and noble man who is not afraid to tell the truth about himself. The Gloomy Dean-remember him? That brilliant, "brooding man who was Dean of St Paul's for 23 years; the vigorous and angry Christian who now, at 93, has an iron bedstend in his study because he can no longer unfely climb the stairs to his bedroom.

I went to him to seek the answer to a question which often puzzles ordinary people. What are great men really like? Are they always us they seem-or are they like the rest of us?

know the Usually we never truth, Great men take it with them to the grave. Just a few, the truly great, have the courage to tell it before they

go.

:

by MERRICK

WINN

The rest are a pretty I have never been happy of them. about the Church of England. mixed lot,"

Perhaps it will be said of me No one could think that the Inge had that as I grew older I became a Very Rev. W. R. better Christian and a worse lived in vain. But what does Churchman,

the

_man_himself_think? "I have done my best and I tion at Cambridge, hope I haven't entirely wasted Or something else, perhaps my life. But I don't think the F.B.A., D.D. Forget that he is don't know, ike to have been," having had me in t

There are many world is a better place for one of the most Important men I thinkers of this century. And So do not envy the Dean His "The world is no better and meet the man....

It is the fame. In that at least the man probably no worse. behind the title is like the rest same as it always has been and,

no doubt, always will be.

"But

don't

me the But peace of mind-surely he

deserved This man of faith Gloomy Dean. I never des mits! have been serene, con- that. I have tried only to face

dent, secure as you and I reality, to be honest and

to be foolishly optimistic." to be? At school I was a strange Little Dean's life had at

"For 45 yems I felt a failure. Most of us would consider the

Least been

In silence

forget for a moment the Chure

"I sometimes wish I had been fame of the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, K.C.V., resident

strawberries

We lunched together at his Wallingford, Berkshire, home, Brightwell Manor, where he lives with his 17-year-old bachelor son, Crouford. Chicken,

and cream, and a glass of Burgundy the Dean enjoyed his lunch. We ate in allence, for the Dean's deafness, a lifelong affliction, is And then, In his

now acute.

aludy, cigarettes,...

He pointed to

of us.

had that?

yearn

coll

● DE. INGE sa he is today, and (below) as he was pletared 27 years ago when be was Dean

of St. Paul's,

refuse

A

A

It

AFTER TRAINING IN MOSCOW-

DISILLUSION COMES TO A GIRL RED

T

by TREVOR EVANS

HERE are McCarthys Communist women, however, and McCarthys. The they were a problem." American Senator Miss

Yet they folled to disillusion McCarthy, Our British belleves the taint of Com- Communists did that. munism in n person can When she got back to London, never be eradicated. Once a a trained agitator, sho obeyed Red always a Red.

Instructions And reported to Pollitt, Miss McCarthy Harry Now an English McCarthy recalls: "He showed me photo- comes along, and in a re- graphs of his children and gave markable_book proves you the £2 to go home to my mother, can get Communism out of With that the party washed its

hands of me.'" your system.

Margaret McCarthy was

Bigotry

a young Lancashire weaver BUT Miss McCarthy, hurt in Moscow for training as a scornful indifference of the party though she was by the Communist organiser.

bosses, remained a Communist Her job was lowly enough in until she attended a committee' the Anglo-American section of the following year in a Glasgow the Profintern (the executive alum branch of the Comintern), but

she was in the centre of the One of the local Communists machine which ordered and con- had forged a comrade's name on trolled strikes in London docles, an election nomination paper. and decided policy for Scottish The party was threatened with coal miners.

trouble.

cxemplo

She writes: "A typical She writes: "I sat in that of the work of our small Inceting, in that nithy section was that which concerned room, looking at the squalld the Scottish Minoworkers' Union, people us they disparaged and The union was at that time in abused our comrade, not in the the hands of the party. Our party's interests, but from some section controlled it,"

obscure motive of power

relish- ing the opportunity to badger and humillate, to read and vilify. "I sat among them, sensitive

Worked there

Trow true that was 20 years

Ho

ago. Equally true, though, to the atmosphere of the meet- is that all the top leaders of the ing, furtive, shifty, thick with Scots miners today are Com- moronic bigotry, and it seemed munists.

to me I could not breathe, that

In the present tense, Miss I was choked and blinded by the McCarthy writes: "There are fug of Imbecile, foul, and un- people in Moscow, not neces- necessary conspiracy, the con- sarily of British nationality, spiracy of comrade against com- whose knowledge of the British rade. Then suddenly all bo- docis industry would amoze our came cold and clear to me. THIS Ministry of Labour, the Port of was the party!" London Authority And the

T.U.C, and who possess a fund

An outcast

of Information en Communista MISS MCCARTHY coud not and Communist activities which hide her feelings,

Sho our authorities would give their spoke out. The meeting forgot cars to possess."

It's truncdiate victim and turned

Miss McCarthy... worked for on her, She knew she was two years in Moscow, where she doomed to become an outcast, an was. known to the top Reds as untouchable. Hex party life was "Clyde." Although she was in over, and she had forgotten any love, and had a deep regard for other.

from

Russia, che was glad to come She returned to her lonely home, Poverty and hunger under- room, and thought of suicide. mined her health. The practico Sho

**T She writes:

took out tho [of many party bosses surprised kuite a Hungarian comrade hid her. They divorced their elder presented me with on my birth ly wives to live with "avidly day In Moscow; it seemed ap bright young

Yasers

from the propriate to think of using it Young Communist League or in the friendly act of frocing languorous,

loneliness and hope- myself perfumed, decora tive sirens, the ex-wives and lessness," daughters of the despleed former And then there was a ham- bourgeoisie, to adorn the com- mering at her door. An old fortable days of their power and soldier had followed her from the meeting, suspecting her in- authority."

tention. He grabbed the kalfo 'A wonder'

from her, and added:"

You THESE women astonished Miss weren't on your own in that McCarthy. Sho writes: party room, and you are not on listened to "Russian women are luscious your own now.

I understood, and Eve and enticing, but hopelessly you, lacking in taste and finesse, finished with the party too." They daubed

Miss McCarthy, decided her their lips and checks brilliantly with cosme future lay with the trade unions. tics until they looked as artificial She had finished with politics, and painted as dolls,

She remained so until she joined the Socialists in 1945.

Their risk HIS is a memorable and significant book. There are countries where Its publication.

"They affected the most cling ing and sensuous' of slinky gar ments, but they wore their hair in the most outrageous alyles. On meeting, these women of the new boss class embraced

cach other effusively, gesticulating missal, where its candour would' and kissing on both checks,

"They drenched themselves

would raise a bowl for her dise

be

incriminating

For Miss McCarthy holds one

with binck cat, fecked white, stirred on the sofa. looked aloof, remote. The Dean la perfume like children. To of the key jobs in Britain, and me they were a wonder to be her employers have risked accu- glanced up.

name," he said.hold. To the most serious young sations in double-dealing in their

hatred of Reds.

"It has no

boy, and I did not get on with magnificent Intellectual success. other boys. Then later I was He has written 25 books and his And added, thoughtfully. "It is a photograph still often unhappy, lonely, and Wednesday articles in the Even-

ing Standard made him one of not vary amiable."

And he seemed to say it as most influential igures

though looking in a mirror.

"My feeling of isolation has the

on his desk. "My wife," he said. shy. There was pride in his voice still.

(she died four years ago). He always been the cause, of my between the wars, added: "I have been lonely since greatest unhappiness. she went."

So tired

"Like many people I suppose

I wanted affection to give it

and receive it. But it was not

at 45 that

until 1

I married

found th happiness.

and found

After-life

the

R

BUT, again, how does

man seo i!? "All my life I have struggled Ewas silent then. He "My wife was a woman in a to find the purpose of living.

seemed fired, with the deep thousand and meeting her was have tried

three to answer tiredness of the very old. Near the best thing that ever happened him, against the wall, was a pair to me.".

H

of shining boots; he rarely wears them now. His many books

were mostly

does not often There are

urbed;

he

His shyness

few visitors. He

www.

`• "Generation in Revolt” by Magaret McCarthy, Heinemann, 155.

She is Mrs. Margaret McKay, the chief woman officer of the T.U.C.

Nathaniel Gubbins

ADIO stations behind

Iron the

Curtain have been ordered to to me to be fundamental: the produco more cheerful pro- problem of eternity; the problem

problems which always secined

problem

gets up for breakfast at 8.30 THEN, with curious emphasis, more now and goes to bed at 10 p.m. "Marriage made me more And

amiable."

Somehow the day passes,

solve

Timmo Shenko's only nine, Up to now he's doing fine, Soon he'll be a bigger swine,

Pretty Timmo Sheako.

620

Raise a Loff

ND in Germany, of all places, A they are going to be funny) Karl von Schnitzler, chief radio commentator of the Soviet Zone In East Germany, has promised his listeners that in future they shall have fewer political broad-

and

"more, humour and

or human personality; and themes. Instead of Ils-

tening to figures of tank. જા જા "I have failed. I have solved production in Stalinogorsk none of them and I know no for hours on end, Russians are going to hear light en- 40 one ever will

tertainment, including folk "It is strange to be old," he (Crauford Inge told me that Then this fine old thunderer songs...

me. "Time goes by as in his mother, Kitty, wor told me.

to his of truths people hated

Apart from that nostalgic old a dream. There is not much for father's cract opposite. She hear sat with head bowed, and Russian folk song "There's no now and it is not was emotional and demonstra- he was silent for many moments. place ilke Omsk, there will also me to do

mirth." pleasant to be dropping one' five, he aloof, remote and & One of the greatest Christians be one, reminiscent of "Pretty I understand that a funny of modern times--and as baffled Bobby Shaftoe," called "Pretty script called "Raiso A Lo" has thing after another as the years

Timmo Shenloor inspired as you and I.. ATTI not unwilling to die, much awe in his vigorous years I have had enough of life and after all, shy, lonely, and to

self-doubting. Hla shyness ovpli I am a little tired of waiting." What are ths thoughts this

ts great Christian walts to meet his God?

go by.

victim of black depressions.)

So

the man

who

So do not picture him waiting Timmo Shenko's gone away, meet a

casts

already

Dot very fonny vas, · Now- for you I der (very · ¡fonny shoke haf: "Why do you in der desert never starve?" All right, "Why do I in der desort never starve?”

"Because of der, sausagy dot

Poddon?

I repeat. "Because of Ber saunaga dot vor'th it." But no sausage in der desort. les, und you der wring answer: hat given. You "do not in der desert starve "because of der sand wich is thero." Ha, ha, ha. Ho, ho, ho. You very clever voa. Perhaps you will notë. me de fonny shoke, ask. Mit pleasure. Ven iss

der

J

Not to laugh and not to play talk comedians will to ex- door not a door?"

of rovented his promotion in the tion of eternal life and salvá- To do a dirty trick a day,

a personal God, sorenely Do not think he has he Church. He refused a bishopric grasped

ned the

of eternal Secret What

he disliked meeting happiness. bocause

"I know as much about the

regrets can he bove, as he looks poop this is the man, remem- pfter-life as you-nothing.

And

1

back on a brillant life that has brought him renown as one of ber, who was supposed to be don't even know, there is ono

the sense in which the the greatest Churchmen of them arrogant and Intolerant of fools, in

The Dean smiled at the memory, Church teaches it.

Pretty Timmo Shenko.

Timmo is a Communist,

Shakes his grubby little fist, as us all upon his list, Pretty immo Shenko Timmo tells the Commissar, "If I could live my life again "Yes, perhaps I did seem in- "I have no vision of Heaven About his dad, about his ma, I don't think I should be tolerant of fools," he said. "But or a welcoming God. I do not When theyo, shot he laughs clergyman, I have never been i

never said

that I did not know what I shall find. I must

Pretty Timmo Shenko sure even that I did not make a count myself among them.

walt and 2002" But do not think the Dean ro-: Now the Doan seemed lost in Ten is over; Timmo scrams, PROOF!mptake in becoming Doan of

St Paul's.

Bomewhere in the Not to swot for his exams,, penis his views of the human dreams..

house a workman hammered; he He's rico, Published by Ernest Bena, "I do not love the man was ating banisters to help thee's pushing cripples under

Pretty Timmo Bbanka. race. I have loved just a fow Dean walk in sutartys,

"Hu-ha,"

trams,

been prepared. The

General Lance Corporal von Stinkentrouser and Herr

von Doktor

Schmeiling pantz who organised humour in the German shelters during the war. Goot eetning, Stinkentrouser. Goot cefning, Schmelling- pantz,

I have for you tér vory.

ke,, Stinkcentrouson

Vot

shoke.

fonny

Les - dia very fonny

ahoke, Schmellingpants?

Der very fonny shoko

All right. "Ven is der door not a door?" -

"Der door not a door las ven

it a jam jar las." Poddon?

I

repent door not a dor

"Der iss ven it a jam jar las" :

But you it fes-nojo dot der wrong answer give, "Der door not a door its whan der door ajar iss.”

Why not when it o ̈jam Jar- ins7. 1

"Vot up goca Vider rain,Because when it ajar les iti down comes?"

All right. "Votup ̈ goes ven der rdin doton' comes?” "Dor unbrella up goes Ves

-feln down coRTINE.

a very fonny shoke las, but then it a jam jar les a very fonni shoka it ias not.. Dot very fonny "vos.

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