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THE ORACLE SPEAKS:

*I SEE THE U.S.A. REFUSING TO TALK TO ANY NATION THAT DISAGREES WITH IT ON WORLD AFFAIRS. I SEE ITS PIBENDS THAT WON'T OBEY CUT OFF. I SEE A MEETING OF THE RECONSTITUTED UNITED NATION TO DISCUSS HOW TO GO IT ALONE AND WHETHER IT WOLS A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE THE GAME AWAY TO THE COMMUNISTS”

OLD LOW'S CRYSTAL BALL-

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1954.

WITH

Les Armour

THINGS TO COME

World Comright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

By Sir BEVERLEY BAXTER

The Good Companion On

Why Men Go To War

T was a beautifed carja

Subar #em

a

1

the Terrace of House oof Commons remed far more attractive Chan the Debating Chamber where we had been niggling and nagging each other over what was left of the Fin- aner Bill.

tadt diMeuli to describe peenlan Jungle nf 110 when the sun begins to Te 201 The buildings

The South Bank opposite the Ter ve a lit up as # by foot- lights, and even the nigging tugs drawing huge barges to- wards Westminster Bridge seem manned by adventurers rather Qon by ordinare Flows Inok. ang forward a pont et the pob, a talk with the missus and An in bed

I had intended to waik 2,000 parces on the Terrace and then rurn to the debate, but on a bezieh near Mr Speaker's House there was my old friend Waiter Elliot, and I call cant resist his rich Sedish uppeal. For war- Je 19 years we have sai toguther In the Commons, he represetit ta Svoltish seat and I a Lon- don Burough, and in all that Jame buve never found hire Anything but original, amusing. vastly cultured and deeply philosophical His story is u sirunge one.

he

Was

was

Spot As a young educated at Glasgow Academy Then and Glasgow University. eum that catastrophle inter- rupter of human destinies--the 1914-1918 war. Elliot man of letters, a philosopher, a buckling orator, a dreamer with af practical knowledge, a lot af but

ned in no seemed

Heredity.

environment and personality all marked him academic career spent in the clolstured tempics of knowledge. Instead he went to France as a second Heutenant

tlun

cut for

Atı

no sense

of a-

with a Highland infantry bai- talion

In fierce engagemont with the Germans he won the Mill tary Cross. He rose in rank and

won a bar to his Military Cross. When the war ended he was a Colonel, but he returned to his studios as if he had been spend- ing a rather long period study- ing history and architecture. No one could have looked less like a firo-enting solider.

desplayed

W

leer decided that need, m proverished German Ex

le pray for the god of lat war, and Pat Eve Alling cold 121 Exper America for the years that war the beervodeni na ney brađen

The

W. Pe thirty-you lið. Elliot booked.

the postwa Trag-comedy and wonded of the work had gone stud Where he waterst mach prindered the wafuation, an Austrian

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named Hitler was moohing about Vienna, painting ridiculous ple- tures, living with the tramps in dons-houses, and evening day- Kerous dretune.

By 1022 the Tory Party had enough of Lloyd George's Cosali- tion. They planned a rebellion, chose Canadian-born Bonar Law as their Woder, and drove Lloyd George and the Liberal Party into the wilderness from which they were never to return.

By that

time Walter Eliot, like young Anthony Eden, being groomed for office.

But

was

Filled

Jmany culamis $71 The When the Tik win rulest in 1945 Walter had be

2112+ exter of acteze former future Irime Ministers. He was out for good, never to - mum as a Minister to the Front Bench.

Now let us come down to to- day Waher Elliot, 66 years of age, sits on a gangway seat ng a Private Member ile could have had E knighthood, ixaroneley or a peerage

merely for the asking 13ut he has intend

Companion CH-the

of Honour-which is only given to the very few who achieve great distinction in the realm of the arts, philosophy or polities.

other

I told him that I was with the Canadians nt Seaford C'un waiting to return to France

"Ah!" at Eliot. "Then you would have heard all the ships

IN

Britain

Today

Soho

who would

H

Culture Comes To

EARING that Culture Ther.

were

hund for the task, we forced to go ourselves, and, with apologien to Stanley, append the following port:

A

F01

had come te darkest simply be ruled eat of under in the Commons may discutas nt Soho, we determined length the philosophical 計闘の to investigate.

plications of feed.ngustment to Not having the New Wolshmen

the planning Yorker's Man Stanley at principles of Etrurean drains,

ocensionally Viscount Samare! discourses upon the virtues of plankton, conel Land Qganore i rates on the beauties of Wales.

On the same evening as

as the "insolent rubbish" affair, Lord Silkin anci Lord Hore-Delisha "To Latsion Casto where debated quietly the proper rrived 1.32 p.m. lu discover meiming "PROPET" and Vis- Culture mich [11 evidence.

Stansgate demended Posters profalmig virlues of

something for leggy girls all gone Counted other, whether you could make right signs with six inches high.

re-

ALRE know

wond Culture A

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of Everest Ja Eritain. Bim (The matter was shelved, just Tai

work <T Society ter whast

The Viscount was be- Cultural Relations with the ging

speculate OB the USSR whose le needs for proces oi building phony atos above mentioneđ.

Everest.) Accuated by two gusto selling But ali Chim ANY not be au Daily Worker and thee veno a funny ne It sounds. In the Pavice leaficts. Noted x citizens hustle and bustle of the Com- purchasing Daily Worker but mons much is apt to be forget- all passing up latest atruxities of zen

Lets and political edivantge be- capitalist hyenas in favour of vaskondly turns out tor De racing pages. Price of Fence ap→ national disadvantage. parently too high for Sono a The tails, however, pass The trade In the item be nothing over

done

***Proceedai

People's Culture

Sergei o raztov

bud Mos

Puppet Tavare being offered at

5.7.31, and 15 stellings

People there

bviously determined t

The

Carophony, Opus I

1 CITROLLERS through Mayfair

the week, had they paused

that totulon litt ripe for read to Era stás de the Institute

though evalent, somewhat

bewildered by ORSTMR.

"This evidenced by Ca wild clapping and cheering with only

| smallest Japs by er dig mutare

hovers to bear duloque mid (b)

川 Contemporary Arts might

paryb vably have dashed horror- stricken for the nearest police. maar.

The alrence of police inter-

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E-t explanatuma *** alleged rence, in fact, was doubtless to the excellent sonunck- pennt of jokes being offered by due severo! workers to Wid To printing of the place.

fasade, dievnatres. general.

treing Trwaled to the sound of a million shatterist pines of glass angied with the roar of a jet

few egy and

Ines of

मै

"Puppetry excellent, uTTY

In New Haven Harbour blowint į “An UPARENT Concert"

their stas at eleven o'clock. Now tell me. Is it not true that it gave you a curious, empty feeling? It did to me too.

The unknown terror of peace con- fronted an after years of simple out-of-door life in the war.

CLOVE

A

jy

"The problem of petter how to give men the adventurs they

without There is, perhaps, 40

landing institution

them in the world 制

divorce in prison or the critical, so physic, ro quarrel- court. Women understand this stane and so fair is the British Instinctively, but try to convince House of Cominons.

A nudist themselves that it isn't true,

"Now take Scotland, where could no more hide its from his fellow nudists than Your ancestors and mine Livod. British MP can hide his reat For a great number of years the self from his fellow Members. Sents in the glens used to make Bell

They take their time in assSE- raids and cut each other up. ing each other. They allow for There were terce small battles, mistakes of temperament, they

and allow for failure, and they even xcuse bores who are sincere.

everybody was happy There were clan feuds and oll that sort of thing, and they got A greal kick out of it. Then the strong arin of authority stepped in and made it a penal offence to cut up your neigh- bour. And that

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sharp, Lighting 3 1 usual charited Greek poetry. Casno standard. Show called

This delight is called "concrete and music and it is making a first. consisting of st firwal parody on if not it lost, unpact concert performances,

Belish ear. "Involved

stuffed shirt master of

of cerenantes,

The idea seems to be simple ing soprano, gypsy singing trape wough.

Таре recordings ar without single gypsy, excellent made of u wide variety rendition of American rivoners sounds. The "composer" then by team of gents called 'Boogie, puts them together, superimposes Woogle, and Creep' and includ- une on another, und speeds up ed Occasional dig at People's or slows down the machine to Culture self,

produce sounds never before "Point of satirical parody ex- heard by Innocent, mertul mau. plained in words of one syllable

but in programme

loud out-

agreed that the bursts of cheering at odd polits end produel was "concrete" all left

Some ot them, we impression audience unsure right. w whether this real parody or real gather, concluded that its effect | People's Art. Most upsetting, was not very different from that Peop

"At performance end, puppet of being ground through a con- manipulators

salves, crete mixer. Wore

Fore grey serge Overalls to something.

were genuine workers or prove

showed

The critics

As for "music," they left the general impression that same- This body ought to find a new word. But there the matter is not likely to stud.

"But looked like people. setrned to impress sudkovice, which offered loud gasp.

"After curtain calls, self and several other capitalist hyenas

left standing looking foolish in walt for national anthem. This not forthcoming.

in France,

"concrete music" is becoming a favourite diver-

"Took self to Mayfair where son:

cup of consumed expensive the coffee by Wis

Way of shaking off People,"

Then suddenly Wir House beginning of the tragic emigra- decides what you are, and it is tion from Scotland."

when

A

of men,

wrong. This

A barge made its way slowly Churchill formed his GoveIN-

towards WestminstT Bridge. ment in 1951 and left Elliot out,

*** and

two bargees gazed at 128 the House watched him take his

Uke visitors to the Zoo. seat on the gangway among the rank and Ble of MP's, and strange silent race suddenly it realised that this these bargees, who think

seem to put Ministerial cast-off was a great and never

In the wurds,

"The to us

Beverley,

whose pressive Chamber added dignity all.

deeply Inlo

Unlordly

Francais Rackliffusion

has constructed "laboratory" for ils composition, Darius Milhaud As writing A cumposition for a

And the noise got to London of Tony through the courtesy Mayer, Culturni Attache to the

Noises festival

<VC)-

CERTAIN Noble Lord who French Embassy.

Cynics will say that this is precipitated himself into the headlines the other day by re- as good an explanation as any dear ferring to the words of another for the contemporary vagaries problem, my

Lord

Who can politics. "Insolent of French BA off Noble (Waller WAB

is doubtless hanging expect stability after un again) is how to supply the rubbish,"

ing of shattering window glass? His was a mind too vast to be element of danger to sommal his head in shame these days.

But it has

more subtle im- Everybody, who confined to any ons Ministerial life.

can The spectacle is one to make task, Here was a visionary with afford it, should ride a horse as even the most hardened Briton plications:

Alter nearly a generation of there the parallel ended. The a delightful humour, a scholar often as possible. The horse is boggle,

battered to a slowly eviously without pedantry, an historian the stupidest of all animals and that the offending poer was a

was of course, It

explained being dazzling Eden

mental pulp by "canned enter- destined for high place, whereas who refused to be submerged in certainly the most dangerous. It

tainment" mon seems to

WALTER ELLIOT

ed as if he would be a perpetual each day makes history Junior Minister.

him

He held various Ministerial posts, including Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Under-Secretary for his nativo sent to the suicide pest of Min Scotland, but ultimately he was enough sunt to

*

even

has

*

is

from Ex-

where

(quite

The thing in never stated ex- plicitly, but that is the peculiar virtue of the upper house,

have

For the first time the record-

the slogging Scottish Elliot look- the past because he realised that will shy at a shadow when any report arrival in the House turned to attack the can.

understood it idiot would know that there Lords and widely

that

he had recently come from ses down the winding stream was nothing to shy about. It of time.

a tenacious memory but 11 "another place" (lower in the ing machine is being used to

legislative order

things) arcade. Yet he had been hailed as a

Iittle very

Moreover,

for the first time Nor was his mind fixed merely learn

harsh words are not future Prime Minister. Alas! Ho

someone is trying to copture the unknown. got no further than Minister of on politics and history. He was perience,

Members a connoisseur of the arts, and i

House of fantastic array of sounds which of tho

ogo has made a to the machine Agriculture. By that time I had

Commons, in fact, manage greatly impressed by entered Parliament, and was not cannot think how often we have Elliot'a dined together in the Commons

insult

one another with alarm- part of our daily lives and to work them into harmonious performance, although I liked when the menu was Voitatre,

Ing regularity. The art of in- with sult is vere "Of course, young fellows can

considerable wholes. very inch. He was too Shaw, Shakespeare and

No doubt, the fust attempts too courteous,

logical,

value among the commoners. too Burns. To emphasise a point he play rugger, which gives them a analytical

When the Lords Spiritual and are crude. humorous, too

and

would often quote long passages chance to break their necks, and

SPHE

But who knows? always Switzerland Temporal gather, however, it is too lacking in sex-appeal, Or from Hamlet or Coriolanus in a there

The roar of the jet might yet whatever its political equivalent rich Scottish burr, which was as where you can break your legs understood that business will be

incongruous as it was fascinating, on skis. These are commend carried on with philosophical enrich as well as bedevil. might be.

able pursuits Although they detachment, and tacitly assumed cannot equal the lure of war. that the members are honourable Like all good Bcots he even-

Of course, there is flying, but

gontiemen one and all. science has made it a safety tually reached London und, hay-

occupation. However, flying ing seen the metropolis, he Go- cided, like so many good Scots,

does satisfy the human instinet Therefore we shall now re- of going from оце place to that London was good

another for him. So he went back to ler of Agriculture. I gave him turn to the Terrace. I sat down

The Tich torrent of language my congratulations at the time beide him, and in a few minutes

mere stream. As not Himself adopted as a Tory but had been more experienced we were in deep discussion as to dwindled to

I would have known that in a whether there would be another if the Debating Chamber Jad for a tough Parliamentary Scoe-

the House of Lords was, the tish sent, and entered Parliament country like England, where the war and, if so, what it would waited for this moment the

· Division Bells rang, the police #verage poer. would probably in the vein of Samuel former is always sacrificed to the be like. industrialist, the Minister a "Certainly there will be wars bellowed “DIVI-SHUN," as it reply It was a mad Parliament, with Agriculture is doomed before the "C

WAKE," sald Elliot determined to make the Thames Rogers, who, asked about his religion, replied that it was. Lloyd George dominating the starla. The wonder is that there and

senalble man." Let us do our duty," "a of every soene like a conquering Caeser, are always men ready to take, benevolently, "You must remen tremble, President Woodrow

ber, my dear fellow, that men Wilson of on the

In the Second World War delight in war. It uproots them Eliot, the ex-soldier, with the Asked what that might be, ha Amorica WEN pronching the

sensible man, keeps to gospel of semathing to be called: Eillot ceased to hold tice and from their daily tasker, it takes doable MC, the ex-Minister, the rald, Bally, that thet was "what

Joined ...whlio. the League of Nations,

the War Ofice at them to now redne and dihor ex-Rector of Aberdeen Univer- every

wly and Glasgow University, himeelt.

City of Edin- "The House of Lords, in point Congress was insisting that Bri- General in charge of a new countries, it provide certain Freeman of the

and danger instead of burgh and Companion of Benour of fact, has to real poorera tain must repay the loans fangled thing called Public ty

also exonics routine.

And whatever you may think except those of delay granted by the USA before Rolations. Quite franidy, hu

that “mafor Germany forced her into the war was not very good. In fact, he monastie tie in which women of his philosphy. I hope you the to ensure in 1917.

was tecelio, What he did not, eply a phis Win It was all to beautifully know about the weird art of warrior is on leave: Where wore serves one y morni tille The cursed at lows once beyond the

beat of political bickering. simple, Lloyd George, who had public rolations would have you on/Armletion Day in 19187"! Good Companion!

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