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STILL LIFE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1958.
World Coperight by nerungement with the Manchester Guardian,
THE PEERS SENTENCE
meets again, ROBERT was among the most brilliant of
the younger Torles in the House
ture of anomalous BLAKE examines the case of the men of Commons. vivals we still find whose careers have been wrecked because
of the utmost Insigni-
among our British institu- they belong to tions: the College of Heralds, the Privy Council, and-strangest of all-that most ancient and anomalous body which meets today— the House of Lords.
the House of Lords.
"and Aleance."
Curzon had long been aware of the peril that his inheritance constituted for his career.
When
The peers are usually re-
he became Viceroy of garded and in some ways India and was silil only the heir correctly us
to a peerage he caused a sen- the bene.
salian by taking on Irish peeruge ficiaries of privilege. But in dignity which is now no one important and often longer created, 'and which does forgotten aspect they are not debar its owner from silling the victims of anomaly.
In the House of Commons-
Lord Salisbury, the The way was barred
of Lords,
Whon leader of the House takes his seat, he might well, if he is an ambitious man, reflect with a certain melancholy upon his own position.
ARLIER still Curzon in 1895 strongly supported the action
like Mr L. S. Amery, 'whose ser- vices in the Upper House might be valuable cannot go there without jeopardising the political careers of their heirs.
Mr Julian Amery, MP, would, for example, receive a severe blow if his father were to accept
#peerage.
Injustice
PINIONS may well differ as
to whether.
but for their peorages, Lord Salisbury, Lord Hailsham or Lord Halifax would ever have become Prime Minis- ters. and, it
whether they would have been
good
ones. But opinions cannot differ on the them the injustice of denying chance, nor the waste of talent which may be involved.
30,
Worse still promising' poli-. House of Lords reform' Is ticians may have their careers notoriously a prickly topic.
But eut short by the accident of would be quite
possible to heredity.
pass a short Act doing two things giving hereditary peers the right to
renounce their
Even the death of some remote relative might result in their peerages, and making it possible enforced elevation to the House to create lite peerages which do of Lords.
not descend to the next genera- tion.
One of the most promising
of Lord Selborne who, despite having succeeded to an caridem, careers to be wrecked is that tried to retain his seat in the Lower House.
For whatever he may do, how ever eminent his public services, he, like all his colleagues in the Upper House, can never hope to reach what is after all the His efforts were in vain: it supreme and legitimate goal of was deckled that an English
be Prime Minister of England.
#political career: he can never berage was by law and custom an insuperable barrier to mern- bership of the House of Com- could mons, and that no one
however
March of democracy renounce his peerage
H
**** anxious he might be to do so,
Curzon, too, had in due course
ȚALF A CENTURY age a peer to move to the Upper House on
Prime Minister was a his father's death.
perfectly normal phenomenon.
There has been one uther
For 14 out of the 16 years from recent case where a peerage has
was in the Upper House.
Premiership.
There would be no difficulty of Lord Hailsham. who as Mr in doing this. It should be done Quintin Hogg, MP, for Oxford,
now.
The Day
Day A Judge Fell Dead
By DONALD LUDLOW
TN front of the judge Twelve disciples followed him.
to New
✡ York. One, stout atóod George Baker, a 1880 to 1902, the Prime Minister perhaps barred the way to the Negro from the banks of the sister Penny's fried chicken was Nogress, was a wonderful cook. Savannah. The judge order- the first cornerstone of his For 10 of those 14 years Lord When Neville Chamberlained him to gaol for a year. kingdoin. Salisbury's grandfather, the retired in 1940 he sent for Lord Four days later the judge third Marquess, was not only Halifax and Mr Churchill.
Prime Minister but Foreign
Secretary, too. Bul the march
dropped dead.
-
of democracy, reflected in succes. No one can escape became a legend. Negroes all housing 90 followers. How? Ah,
sive acts reducing the powers of ...............................................................
the Upper House, has made it in
practice, though not in theory,
To attract followers he began serving free banquels. By 1028 And suddenly George Baker he was feeding, clothing, and
over America thought that the he ran an employment agency; judge's death was a revelation he found them jobs.
George Baker's divinity. EADERS of Churchill's
In Harlem he opened. "heaven" Before he stood in front of after "heaven."
of
impossible for a Prime Minister R memoirs will recall the long Judge Smith, on that day in 1932,
to sit in the Lords today.
The poer-Prime Minister is as extinct as the "plerodactyl, the dinosaur.
alience which ensued when Chamberlain asked the two men
Gconge Baker was already known to a few disciples as
It was in the black depths of
ar which of them ho should recom- Father Divine.
mond to the King as his succes-
that a
a following of whites.
was tired, hungry, workless, and
sick.
for. It was eventually broken Today he is "God" to at least depression. Nearly all Harlem Tho
Last peer
who had a by Lord Halifax who declared half a million Negroes. He has serious chance of challenging that he did not think this unwritten law was, appro- Prime Minister could govern A white woman, Sara Harris, priately, something of a pre- effectively from the House of has written his life, and thou- historic
Americans will be survival himself--the Lords.
sands more Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.
reading his fantastic story.
There may, however, have Haughty, magniloquent, and boon other good reasons for: ramole, Curzon was an eighteenth Lord Halifax declining office at century aristocrat living on into this juncture. the Century of the Common Man,
Wos
The legal position beyond dispute.
is now
Soon he was feeding 3,000 of charge, housing daily free hundreds of "angels" In com- fortable beds In clean, cony barracks "heavens."
The man who was born in a He ran groceries, barbers'
cleaning shops. rico-plantation shanty about 1880 shops,
Hin now says he was "combusted one huckstor lorries went
around Signs day in 1900 on the corner of Harlem.
on them said: Seventh Avenue and.
Father, clams Street in Harlem,"
134th Place, Father, frei
Nevertheless, hils pubile curcor
oyalets. was so distinguished-he
No oneTM Who succeeds to a} By 1012 he was a free lance vegetables." Foreign Secretary and had been British peerage enn escape his hot gospeler. His message was Tony blu holdings are valued Viceroy of India!hat his claim fale. He must henceforth play to successful among hysterical ΠΕ 6,000,000 dollars (£2,142,267), to succeed Bonar Law as Print out his role in politics upon the Negro
women in Valdosta, He leads one of the largest
was arrested systems Minister in May 1923 seemed dusty, sedule and willt stage Georgia, that he
of co-operatives In overwhelming.
that is the mador Hoize of for tiisturbing the peace. He re- America. Capital to buy and Lords. And in the circumstances fused to give any name but God, run Divino enterprises is put But his peerage proved a fatal of today this means that he can The warrant rend: "John Doc, up by angels" including a fow bar. To his bitter grief he was never bo, Prime Minliter..
allos God."
white millionaires. They do not ppasod over in favour of Bald-
Valdosta suspended his gaol expect profit or laterest. They. Such a state of affairs in canlonde provided holott Invest for the glory of the man Fed Curzon with some justice, "gloubly sunjust, Melon statemenan i Goangla,.
they call God..
win.
A man of ao experience,"
·
NOW THEY SAY
IT IN PARIS
NO KISSING
By SYDNEY SMITH
PARIS: Paix-la
Francois Loussouarn,
PRINTED propaganda on expert in everything from
snow-white
and the
#peritifs 10 Love on the Cupid on the Boulevards, Boulevards has broken out Even
Francols, Whole -in Paris of all places, and silvery hair, exquisite manners,
Jacket, right in the famous century- pld Cafe de la Paix, on the way he carries a tray all pro claim him survivor of a more corner of the Place de gracious age, has had to hand l'Opera.
out some of the little Cupid- The managements deplores killing cords. the tendency
"Ali, monsieur," he gedures hugging and kissing and wants with a trace of despair, "what make it known that the would you? It is not only the terraces, the restaurant, and money that has changed since.
for an the bar are no places for such I took 75 centimes
aperitif that now The Cafe de goinga-cn.
costo
10
towards
public
Folke Piccadilly Circus, franes. No customs and people and the Long Bar at Shep have changed even more.
hoard's In Cairo, Is said to
at some time or
Ten- certainly. Even
"Gallantry?-aloud.
But
have been the rendezvous for dresse?-but Just about everyone in- the oßection?--maiz taujours. How
an- graceful and nice to see.
hugging and kissing like Alm stars that is not pretty," The fashion.
world other.
Now the staff has been cquipped with a prettily print-
ed and oh so delicately word-
ed ittle note to be handed to TOUR to five thousand drinks, from coffee to champagne loo-amorou cilents. A Low
served every twenty-four Kisses and a white-jacketed are walter with utmost charm and He has had plenty of time to
Sours
terrace. on Francols's discretion and a gracious bow note the changing fashion of hands the loving couple a note Le Flirt. And he tells it in a on a salver. And this is how it reads:-
"DEAR
sot
worthy language CUSTOMERS, Do diplomat he is. be annoyed if we call to your attention
Who flirts most?:
of the
"Well,
admit the
that It is monsieur, I must customary in publle to show French are the most open turks of esteem in a discreet their little gallantries. manner. THE MENT."
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French Film Group in Hongkong Made Headline News
under the shadow of the green- ting very much stronger. The have 17 different domed Opera House-43
Among the French Film Group who arrived hero years Amerleans a waiter At the Cafe de
to attend the French Film Festival" were Mr. H. la technique.
"Les Angloist: Abwhat Deutschmeister, The French Film Magnate, Mr. M. Andre restraint!" Arcat
""As always it is what Cayette, the French Film Director and Mr. M. Henr! we call les petits amoureux Durand, Vice-President of the French Film Association. the young ones. But of course They promptly patronized Tailor Cheung and ordered there is no age for love. It is
POCKET CARTOON
1 by OSBERT LANCASTER
及
"You must remember, darling, that selence is always advancing “why, a hundred years from now I expect people will be getting. through Piccadilly circui just as easily as they get through the sound-barrier today!"
also the gentlemen and indeed several suits for themselves and all expressed their the ladice of a certain age- satisfaction with the service rendered.
and uncertain age too-who
indulge in open and not very
restrained tenderness,"
The time?: "Strangely enough,
monsieur, it is not the evening.. k
seems that the most popular hour today is in the afternoon. A very discroot umo of the day, monsieur, don't you Bnd?" Reaction to the card?:
་
little surprise, a little embar- rassed, but they usually laugh and just hold hands iristead."
B
The regulars
UT Francois, emphasises that his most loving customers
have sull today
never ceived and peyer will receive use of his cards.
how
"He is 75. She is 72, of
perhaps, burst
Suy&
of his
Froffcols with b
own gallantry, They "maybe site is only 70.
dine here regularly. He always Mr. H. Deutschmeister (second from left) pictured above
arrives first, prepares the with flowers. He caresses her, kisses her hands throughout dinner, and pours out her wine himself like a lover. And indeed he
-And-Frane he is his wife."
that never
sighs--"Voita monsieur, the true gallantry offends and chaims the world. No. monsteur, my cards are not for such lover."
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