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William Hickey
A COCKNEY BOROUGH GETS ITS MACE
London. I wished it had risen to
rollicking laugh,
the the
"The frouble is,” he condit MIGHT have known Jough. To Brest, roaring to me later, "that the Japanese
become so dependent on it would happen in It would have been cockney, abacus they cannot make Bermondsey, that cock Bermondsey--the sort of spirit simplest colculations without Its noy borough, Alderman the people there showed during help. Goodwin was making a the blitz when their cofteger They need an abacus to tot grave speech in the Town and factories were bring razed up the price of a drink, packet
of cigarettes, and a box Hall. He referred to the borough's motto and said that free translation
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"Craftsmanship would be: profits the people."
to the ground,
But Bermondary at any rate matches," amilled and very grand
oficial. Berendsey-was very
There was a row of large cars culside the town hall There were robes and fur and
It was then that all the uniforma, lights in the hall went out.
It was ment.
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Chrysanthemums
of
DISCUSSED the chrysanthe mums with Mr Shinshita-- was every Japanere is an expori on and the flower which is thelr
Dotional emblem.
I am told their, temples look magnificent with these flowers sealtered round the shrines.
Pouring mo another glass of saki he explained that the three I suppose its memberя felt largo symbola that in some way Bermondsey meant pine, bamboo, and plum- on the bottle
The whole business sirance, unaccountable mo.. Engilsh
Bermondsey solid Socialist The Lord Mayor of Lon- arcalias not had a mace,
And it's clear it has worried don, Sir Noel Bowater, who the local, council, had come along for the pre-
of a mace, re Bentation mained impassive. So did the other dignitaries group- ed alongside.
But a murmur ran the hull
through
"The one hope of tyranny is that America and Britain will become estranged," says Sir BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P. But, he adds:
Mr Howard and Mr Simms
Need Have No
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London.
if
"I doubt if we have a single that Russia. perhaps in con- NE of my kindest we really could depend on junction with Germany, can take
the Reds
dulching Tel fits with an Europe when their and most loyal atomic bomb
York, fingers are ready. on New friends fs the coupled with a warning to Lon- sprightly Roy don, Paris, and others to stay Howard of New York. For cuiral — or else.
"Europe years he was the head of
and fired, the Scripps-Howard news. She will settle paper group which straddles bare illusion of a few years of
America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
peace.
in
lo sick
for even the
same
"America's first line of de- fence is no longer Europe. I Detroit,
Pittsburg, Now he has handed over Washington, New York, in the the crown to his son Jack, air over Canada and the North fine young fellow with a Pole. And Europe's first line
La in the of defence good war record, but I am
place." not deeply impressed by the abdication of newspaper proprietors. Lord Beaver- brook, for example, longer controls his news-
He announced papera.
no
Naivete
Agreement or no agreement, we would not and could not stand aside. At its lowest it would be an act of lunacy. At Its best it would be an act of cowardice and shame.
Fear
of
was left out of things because tres. They all express good it hadn't got a mare.
will
got
There
were plenty of City
I have no doubt that when other metropoliton mayors together with Bermondsey there will enjoying the Japanese good was on unspoken thought
The old British "They haven't got a maco."
tradition. Why should they want a past is a sound one.
trade must go on, whatever the mace? What psC is a mood?
Gift of a bauble
THAT strange device started
But you can't help wishing that the Japanese hod a few years back shown a litle more "pino, bamboo, and plum-ince."
Link with Gilbert
MR A. E MATTHEWS,
of a knobbly weapon used in war by the clergy because It crushed rather than opened an opponent's body. And there who will be 85 in Novem were rules against the clergy ber, la becoming a valuable link with the past. He was telling
shedding blood.
And then it developed into a me that he used to spend week- highly ornamented symbol of ends with Gilbert-the Gilbert power....a mace was cared of Gilbert and Sullivan. before kings and mayors, av we all know Cromwell put end to a Parliament by All having a similar "bauble” taken
We would be less than human it we did not from time to time
tragle policy regret the Isolationism which was main-way. lained by successive American governments when the very word had ceased to have any logical And we think that meaning. Americans sometimes forget that within an hour of the bombing of Pearl Harbour we declared war on Japan.
And
But Bermondsey, though it is controlled by forward-looking men of the Lett, wanted a bauble.
And Sir Harry Methven, a
local industrialist who has dann much good work in the borough,
has come to its aid.
•How can a journalist of Mr Simms" standing so misread the
The emergence of the USA as British nation? It is all very
He has had a beautiful gilt a world power, ready to accept well do shout "Munich," but we had not given Czechoslovakia the burden of world leadership, mare made for Bermondsey. any guarantee. It is perhaps is one of the greatest events in
Nor shall we ever And the council, headed by interesting to recall that before all history. Munich The Dominion govern- cease to pay tribulo to that the mayor, Councillor P. .
Mr Geoghegan, put ments informed Britain that they great American President. would not necessarily support Truman, for his inspired polley Britain in a. ar over the of aid to Europe and the swift, Sudetan territory of Czecho- brave answer to the challenge of slovakia. As for Washington, the Communism in Korea. silence could be fäli,
Our
then plodge
WES 17 France, and Britain keeps her plodges. How was it thai Britain gave the world a virtual hundred years of peace between Waterloo and the 1914 war. ex- cept that Britain's word was doubted neither by her enemies nor her friends.
Freedom
On a
Ano
show for the presentation. Ther were four trumpeters of the Life Guards. And bowie of gladioll in the windows.
Periclean touch
LOODWIN made a good speech after the ceremony was over,
ول
He had read my notes on the party given to mark the new reason at the Savoy.
"What
noid more," Matthews, "I used to ride in the Row with Lady Glibert."
What a
wonderful remark that was It conjured up that lelarely, graceful world before the first world war when every- drove along one who was anybody ride or the Row-during the Season only, of course.
shock the death of Gilbert was. Matthews. told mo what a
"Sir William," as he was by then, was drowned in a swim- ming-pool in 1911. Ho was trying to save a young giri from drowning.
"I fell down and cut my fore- head last Saturday," said Mat- thews. "But I got it patched up and got to the threare all right. They had' to dab, mý head 11 through the per formance.
"But 1-have never missed a performance."
Do not deny that Britain has taken many decisions which looked as if she were
He spoke of Bermondsey's The silent tuba abdicating her role as a great sense of community. And how
But it had to bo. rare It is now for a London.
world power.
ihe
It is possible that both Mr Britain could not deny to belonging have that feeling of GERARD HOFFNUNG,
artist, plays the tuba- In
Ho
hla spare time.
the
quoted Pericles, Athenian... "Let us draw strength from the busy spectacle of our great elty.
His great moment-came-lhe
it HEN he proposed that there should be a drastic reduc- very loud and clear in print. tion in U.S. foreign installations; Yet I have not heard of any a withdrawal of all bus teken of his editors telling him to forces and an end to the give *way" financial gld programnie. go to blazen.
After which he proclaims, Therefore it is a matter with the naivete of a newly of deep concern to us all sprung debutante. "I am no
that We should that Roy Howard has lost BURECsting
Howard and Mr Simms have territories and abandon our allies."
countries the faith in Great Britain.
inli
adult status for which she had Well, that's damned docent of taken too seriously the
American speeches_of He was a good friend to Mr Simms. When up read his British Socialist MP's. But trained them. We were patient
30 dispatch, It was like stern UB
in the Hitler war, but father telling his son that these two American journalists beyond belief in Persia, but
London where the orchestra In experienced enough
won the day. to patience now he sees in us a nation would be cut off with a shilling, -
the Egypt we drank the bitter waters
was playing Strauss's gymphonic know that America is the
It was all very fine-eyen it poem "Don Quixote.”, it hur a that has lost its moral fibre, but that
love the parental
was rather high-Bowri.
special passage for the tuba, ¦- its pride, Its valour and its would remain unchanged. It loological enemy of Socialism of renunciation, but it may be
and Communism,
The pros that in the process we shall re- could hardly be strange If the and
.It seemed rather distant from The conductor beckoned to judgment.
son replied in the English party of the USA in raising the gain the respect and the liking
shops selling fish and chips and But no sound emerged from the Hoffnung 'when his time came, iplom: Socks to you!"
wage rate of the workers to a of the Arab countries.
Those of us who are com-joilled pets. One might have attributed Me height beyond the dream of the
tuba. Hoffnung shook it —-—-— át left wingers is a rebuttal of the
the world scene Simms strange meanderings to Socialist faith. That is
not menfaters co
first gently, then with despera- a touch of the sun, but the only unavoidable but under
ton weather, last summer; was
standable. terrible all over Europe. There- I assume that Mir then coincidence fore, we must Simms gave
ave the matter deep
Surprising
I may have been nothing
more
came
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Impoverished
.
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Gill, is the sort of people and can command the alchemy who use those shops who have of print must maintain a deep been elected to the council. sence of responsibility. The one And they wanted a mace. hope of tyranny is that America
Well, they've got one now. I Britain will
become imped. If we remain friends hope they are happy.
Stepney will be all out for q and allies, albeit with healthy
and
other evening at a concert
Sull no sound. The orchestra without the tuba.
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As Hofnuing was putting hGOLDEN EAGLE RESTAURANT
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ho
to Europe recently to the acid test. We shall AND on the Conservative side, dppte' from time to time, then coach-and-four for its mayor cloth had dropped into the Bar-..
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In
Abacus spred
that Mr William Philip thought and found that he ! Simms, Foreign Editor of agreed with Mr Howard. the Scripps-Howard group Let us now put his arguments
the Americans should realise eventually man's Instinct for assume that Russia has atom- and sent home a long dis- bombed New York, and has
that a great power like Britain, freedom will prevail, even patch which
two world those countries, that maintain a was published simultaneously sent word to the impoverished by
The soul in their evening newspaper, British Government that we wars, must be allowed a certain virtual police state.
FTER the New
York World would not be attacked or harmed jealousy of the nation that hiss of man demands freedom, and
Dockland in tho In any way we remained superseded it in the greatest there will comp à day when he morning I had to go to tha Telegram under the hanner neutral. The British Parliament power. This is nothing more is ready to die for it.
City in the afternoon. The Eu heading: "If Reda Bomb- calls an emergency meeting, and nor less than human nature ex- Perhaps the most funda Bank of Japan was opening new ed New York Allies
Mr Eden, as Prime Minister, pressing self" in
mantal
ofices in Finsbury Circus. Wouldn't Budge."
rises to make the opening speech, normal terms,
Washington and London is that ce Mr Simms think that we dis- the Americans em to believe I must say it was pleasant to liko Americans. Quite frankly, that they can bomba country go into the bank, -76 was so In Britain, we diferent from a visit to my We like some and we disilke into freedom. others. There is nothing I bellove that a war deferred may hank.
more thion showing well become a war that does AREFULLY, laboriously, he enjoy
the not take place. Over recalls the Tong tension be American, visitors in how often editora agred tween America and Russle. The times of Parliament but at with the opinions of their fault, he explains, is on both American parents should pow I wonder why Epico proprietors. And, after all, sides, and certainly the (you could hardly run
a Russians would have to bear their young cons to wear, thiris
I do not suggest that Mr Simms
Was Influenced
directly or indirectly by Mr
Roy Howard. It is surpris
Tension
Tati knece
the most
and look newspaper or a magazine on the malor share for the
"Juvenile delinquenta: blame. But, he would go on, that potky 4ny other basis.
difference between
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We were great powls N
The whole affair was,
· tied roparticular need, yon at the momen
But BUT if it comes and the triecially that I almost asics an atomic war is so impredict every tourist is an ambassador strikes at the USA, then It was only a month before able that it is the duty of those for his native country and Howard and Mr Simms nations not directly concerned to ambasadori should always, tökk not fear, that we "holl stand apart, so to be able to
the susceptibliton asidoor,walt until the host Watants pro- dehausted
that. Roy Howard wrote ma friendly note from somewhore restore the shottered countries and
Europe regretting that he when the war comes to an end. would not be visiting London Herotation wouki presum this time. He gave as his rea- ably be something on these Unies on that he could not bring it fagoot Charge are tou, prind himself to gaze upon once to Ugy, lidhwingly any pr grout country that had sunk so low in character and purpos
"dopend for their.
rel of the instrument. PANA And as ho pulled it out he heard a woman trombonist call- ing out, "":"Has anyone sten my hand-towel?"
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