1954-12-24 — Page 13

William Hickey

YOU WATCH THE WORLD WAG

I

AT

SPEAKERS' CORNER

de-

London. I have the honour to submit the following account, of this week In London.

"Following Comrade X 1 went Park

HAVE always spised Speakers' Corner, In Hyde Park. I have passed it many times looked at the casual crowds, the red-faced, shouting speakers--and passed on.

to

It always seemed pháncy me. A much vauhted express ion of tree speech that, I fuck, didn't mean a thing.

The other day--I don't qulie know why- went there.

I had had lunch where th perversation had, beep Is goud

Paris or Rome.

uf

We had talked Politics-t terms personalities, y the English dobul In terms Njena. We

even questioned whether the rule of the majore ity was always right. Whether the mussen were always right, Pantomime towers

My friends dropped Hyde Park Corner.

the advice of to Hyda

Just Sunday afternpop. There is possible to garner the reai currents of public opinion

"1 heard a speaker-he woo an anarchist-bitterly attacking the British Royal Family.

'No hostility'

"He called the Queen" in not very good-looking woman." referred to Princo Philip

not very handarme either."

no

Fo

DA

"There wad

hostility shown by the audience. Only a few ErTitlow.

"I noticed that two

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police- ostenta- took

in the vicinity tiously walked past—and no notice.

"I conclude that even Knong the security forces of the Bri- tish Isles there are secret of the adherents

iti-mor-

by aretical party.

I walked up the avenue Lo

The Marble Arch.

To my left the Serpenting was at grey-bhie streak. The was setting in a cloud of flory

The

10

A

"A Communist Party speaker talked freely to a large crowd. He had a long argument with

young man in uniform. audience made no attempt side with the Servicemar. good sign hshund the bare branches of the also have the honour to

report, dear commissar, that

of the established clergyman Church was being heckled hy a man about Communist Russia. The clergytun was forced to

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and

The Edwardian towers Ferret of Knightsbridge looked a fairy

liko the scenery ut

palmer in a jantomine.

The ate war crisp and cold.

A blue mat was coming

nowed the trees

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The buildings of Park Lane of the last cen-

england.

Jury of

a

JL

talk about dialectical material- im and collective farms.

'Revolutionary'

To summarise, dear str, T subnat that wherever the Bri- a chance to speak ish have Their minds, Üvere is noticeable volutionary frame of mind wards the established order. " enclose my expense ne- onl count for the last quarter

Hanoth lo malas,

V

hmoured sir.

And, I might add, if anybody

that is indes

21 ridiculous let them read the fantasy,

Melal documents that have In published shawlog how the Italiens and the

Germans,

before

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enger

True to the American founded the temperament, New

York ligion. makes a terrific ovent of Christmas. Not

juhatajajajjudje

Christian

re

the

place in December.

Nor can we disiniss their arguments as being entirely, the, Uffspring of prejudice. It seems that the 28th of December In Judea marks the height of thje rainy, season and, therefore, the; shepherds would probably not be watching their socks in the plains.

There is the delightful bow- windowed house where Discurli Ive. ¡le was able to live ibero a long as his wife was alive. She hnd money. When she

ari, he had to move out. Now the place bouses offices, funtoay There is the Gothle

gold South uf

African Hulk nire who come back to

Charles Dickens was, of

content How was Inlu

it decided that to buy his way society with fantastic parties,

course, the great propagan with glittering shop win- Christmas should be cele yachting trips, and racehorses.

But I have no patience with dist of this delusion. As dows urging men to "give brated on the 25th day of

such Udy minds. Does the wor A changed street

n brilliant young newspaper her a fur coat" or women the 12th month of

Christ ship, of Jerus

Our There is the hotel where the British public opinion

othered their reports about

reporter, he used to take to give "him" whatever she year? The origin is almost saviour, depend on whether He in stars Eve--an the site, of

the coach on his asalgn- thinks a, man wants, lost in antiquity, but, his, was born on à Monday or a one of the old aristocratic foy the war.

They were just about as false, ments to the country and Christmas carols are sung torians say that it was in Thursday, in April or December? houses. There is another, hotel

and worthless,

alight before "Ye Old Ale from the balconies, aided the reign of Atoninus. Plus, where the business men 20

1 didn't spend much time with an hotel whose lowers logk, in

House," with its snow-laden of course by loudspeakers, in the second century, that the

hoarse-voiced Tidin the distance

representa-

roof and its roaring fire in-

festival the tive of the Salvation Army. Or Telty.

with the melancholy man with

side.

EXCITEMENT honoured. would be 11 better word-long beard and a cap who, in

a melancholy, volce, wag ex:

It

be that in Vic-

But prejudice WEB where the Sassoons, those mer- chent princes of the East, still pounding a strange view of the

toria's glorious reign there WHEN I say "Christmas ready to accept the birth- Scriptures, lived In the thirties.

more snow than carola" I mean "Holy day or the sanctity of the A pleasant walk.

Butts of the trowd was,

last win Night, Silent Night," be crucified Jesus, Christ had The sun. had goto dawn today. Actually

London the ter in

TOW is it that man with his or- HOW little ause that seems the only been put to death by Park carol the Americans, ever der of the Roman Governor has accepted Christianity? Christ.

infinite capacity for doubt lake in St James's froza over, and skaters learned. Two years ago, of Palestine, and the was not a mere, evangelist appeared from everywhere when staying with a friend Romans would not admit as though ice skating was in Connecticut, the com- the charge that they a regular winter pästíme mercial radio started crucified the Son of God: for Londoners,

every. advertiser's nouncement with that one

There is the

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house-palnes

Park Lane has changed in my Helme from the most fabion utle addrers in London-to hotch-poteh nf offices. hotels, und fluis.

behind the trees.

It was cold,

Johnelitia coqweds, that haçl come in their cars to look at But then, the leaf, brown and

the Christmas decorations In crumbling, that was being

Regent Street und chased by the wind,

was only Oxford

Street.

And

I watched them-- admiring the world as it is. Gloriously ordinary in their tastes. Their lubits and their Ives,

a few months ago greca aliva.

and

The Red listener And then I wns among the crowds 6% Spookery Corner. No large crowds. The usual Bul this nondescript crowds. tune I wanted to listen,

didn't think much of it at arst.

12:17

noticed

may

was

STUPIDITY

the third century

Hia His words, His life and

of death have stood the test recorded time, and we set first aside December 23 to do homage số Hs birun, Minh le it bò thanh day for evermore,

not

EMOTIONALISM.

urging sitters to come to the had pendent bench. He did not rely on mass emotion to over come, the doubts of the Never once^fa the chronicles of traco his mission is there any of theatrical emotionalfam.

He came to earth to establish

SCHWEPPING DAYS

TO CHRISTMAS

a way of life in which, the soul,

AgIsCaHop LASTE THE WHO

[DRINK THÈOUGH

B

But with the respon carol. After the fourteenth sibility of ink I must repetition I began to wish, Why then I began to appre-confess that I

do not re it had never been, written. HISTORY tells us that in member very many

such clate Speakers Corner.

The soap-box orator's are the

But if you want to see crowd of Christians as anowy Yuletides in Eng- butts of the crowd.

lund. It always snows in real excitement, you must sembled in the city of Nico Christmas go, into a big store in demia to do homage to the greeting cards but not very New York on the day be birthday of the Saviour, garded the

despised, the neglected. The

there were But who knows, perhaps one Chnt

in foreigners

the day a man--or a woman-will have an idea to change

Rudiences. Leather-copted us world. To form new patterns of

Timatined howuletul this Speakers Corner would be for life. To open up new horizons.

the Whoever It is will have a diplomet

from

Iron Curtai

beliid

popularity.

shc-will But he or commissar, Speakers' Corner.

I could almost compose his report Respected

What Do Y-O-U

think about as you drop off to sleep?

no

have

Seeing or hearing things is the sensation of falling, and off to sleep she repeatedly waking with A jerk, Bees bright green froge paychologists.report.

י,

the

Some

the world of

could make unison with the mind, and thus determing the conduct and the fellowship of mankind. I have always

Sermon on, the

re-

often anywhere else, un fore. Christmas. Every They gathered reverently in Mount as the greatest political "This

less you reach the top of neglectful or procrastinat a church, and knelt in document in all history, To the Yorkshire or plunge into ing husband rushes madly, homage. the, Highlands.

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SYMBOLS

YET

10-

Into the vortex Like all The Emperor Diocletian warded to the extent that we husbands, he dreads shop-

can.

I had not intended, when I

extept that we have adhered.

been to. It mankind -has

that have set it aside mankind has ping and has postponed the was keeping court at

How paid the price in Lears and darned thing as long as he time in Nicodemia.

could he meet this affront? death. How could he maintain his. VET Christmas is Christ- mas, whether it bears

Then like the Old Guard dignity and his authority began this article, to stray into the white halo of snow or at Waterlog he launched a when ordinary people knelt the realm of religious polemics, Cross of the bus it we look with clear oyes the golden radiance, of a last desperate attack, and before the Bummer sun. Holly and the shop assistants mest man, Jesus, who had defled at the world us it is today wo mistletoe and coaches and the onslaught like Welling the writ of Imperial Rome in an era of the scorched spirit. realize that we are living wayside inns....those are ton's Grenadiers. Somehow, and said that he was the. In one form of desther man is the ancient symbols that they manage to keep their Son of God? cannot be destroyed, but. heads, when all about them. they are only, symbols, is chaos.

It is, above all, a fes-

tival for children, and I can remember as if it

PREJUDICE

in

must

plitting his faith lá rocking tube and iron shard. Christmas la a. moment when we Can uiter those warning words of Kipling: "Lest we forgot".

MEANING

Neven

the dictatorial power of, the Soviet GovETI“ mont dare close the churches in Russia on Christmas Day. Nor ages with ches be can empty. In Paris, which has the been so long declared to bo The Capital of the Mind", the people will go to Christmas

WES Mass in their tens of

So Diocletian did what tyrants, have done since the beginning of time. He ordered the doors to be closed and set fire to the By CHAPMAN PINCHER.

were only a few years ago To a male shopper, price church. All who were pre- a dreadful how with my brother and means everything and sont went to JUST before, a healthy

18-year-old girl: drops only a little less common than three sisters we stole, into value, nothing. The husband death. It is the stupidity the morning room and has, decided to spend 100 and the tragedy of dictator. screamed with excitement dollars on his wife, 60 ship through the

eldest to believe that faith his as we saw the Christmas dollars on leering at her, over, the bed than they have visions.

People hear things fhore often tree bespangled and: laden daughter) 25 dollars on his be destroyed *** clothes. Another 098 see and hear nothing but feel with presents.

other daughter, 20 dollars flames. dancing akie le ton 8 they are being touched.

on his niece and 15 dollars But Christianity materialising out of the One 22-year-old man gets the

Unless all my plans on his secretary. All he and is indestructible. The darkness. A third hears, sensation that his body is swell-

Ing

balloon and is held miscarry, or, the elements wants is something any Romans found that

· Lei-ma¦ ̈repest - the the The great Trus ilko a

Cannes bo bells pealing loudly.

together with a

thin string are digobliging, I shall spend thing, as near as possible Christians feared God more explained. They can only bo These girls are perfectly) instead of benca

Christmas Eve In New, to those prices.

than the Emperor. And, fel That is the meaning" of norinal/bpettuso moet paópid det

"wondrous 4 mcenent irk queer hallucianitons of sight ankaj periences. It is zather, like scen sound when they are drow, ing Disney

for of Christmas Day in cartoon for at nothing one said. To others Nassau some 1,600 miles turkey until we nearly of temporal authority there Handel's Messiah when

Redeomar Liveth Inquiry pubilehed the hallucinations are terrifying away.

burst, when we have told can be no death of the no sings: "I know that my Prychologists, Petor

each other that the presents

Bethlehema, chlid was It may be any kind of are just what we wanted

even after Christian born and

wes) to" the","simple havo weather in New York, when wo

had tritrmphed and

melsäger of because even the elements a cuah gift to the in America, like to have the street cleane aging. It have seen such the he

wstorm, thera, that song

A few enjoy their eerie x York, and the latter partint when we have eaten when there is no fear that

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"Inouting red lips,/wild

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eye rolling, and

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