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What makes

Sammy

A

run

..‘SAM' BEING the family pet name for Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as leader of the Socialist Party.

Gaitskell's rivals-Morrison and Bevan- are already widely known, widely written about. But Gaitskell's swift strides to success are inadequately chronicled.

Not until 10 years ago was he even an M.P. And yet in that brief time he finds himself the likely tenant of No. 10—if the Socialists ever get back to power.

We should all know more about this man and what makes him run.

by GEORGE GALE

LONG the back row of the stilted, posed family portrait stand a dozen turbanned domestica, a pony, and a donkey. The cook holds a saucepan in his hand. Three people are sitting in the front row.

On the right is a slender man, getting on for 40, with a face in which lie sternness and duty. He leans forward, fingering a dog's ear. In the centre is a woman with a softer face, a dog on her lap, Another at her feet. And on the left, in the arms of a primly pursing nanny, is a chiki.

• The key was

The portrait was taken in 1906. It is a portrait of the British raj, and of the family of a civil servant who administered part of Burma.

is Hugh to mo us the boy The infant's name

who Todd Naylor Gaitskell. known going to win the junior ateeple- to his family us Sam. He was a chase." He didn't. Jay remem-

bers little else about him pretty baby.

school. There are few anecdotes, He must have been a nice boy.

"never really had a home " His father died in Burmo when Hugh was 12. His mother eventually remarried.

ut

a slightly

He beenme a prefect, Cross- man, head of the school.

At school there was little talk

politics, although

He remembers his father as a

to his Gaitskell was consistent in this. steen man whose legacy

was a sense of duly. He attacked Mussolini in children He remembers his mother with school debate. He began lave. "Yes, she is sull alive. She branch of the League of is 78," tre suys with normal Nations Union. pride.

A BOWLER

TE grew

HE

boarder

He failed to win a scholar- ship to New College. He wanted to follow his brother there.

spivvish degree at Oxford

"My housemaster sold to me is with that he thought they should She replied:

all

оп

MAN

of the MOMENT

A TWO-PART PROFILE

Cummings

whisky, Dalton said I could go as his 'personal assistant,'

"Early in the morning 1 got up and went from the basement in the Ministry and wrote note to Dalton, setting out my

Vancouver, where

BANKS GET

HELD UP REGULARLY

By Jack Brooks

WH

Vancouver.

THEN bank teller Mrs Barbara Wood caught her usual bus to work at the Dunsmuir and Gran- ville branch of the Imperial Bank of Canada in "Van- couver BC, it looked like being just another working day. Two hours later, how- ever, sho was calling & risky bluff ori a bank robber who had tried to hold up her bank.

Don't think from this that Mrs Wood was unlucky, for the odda are only 10 to one against any particular one of Vancouver's held up during

125 banks being dog days of the

the 230-odd

year.

For Mrs Wood the odila had murely run out.

Vancouver today is as imper vious to bank hold-ups as the Midle Wost of America was in the heyday of the late and un- lamented Dillinger, Baby-Faco Nelson and Co.

SAME METHOD Thirteen times so far this year thugs have walked into bank buildings threatening "Pay up or elec...., " and 13 times walked out again the richer for the threat.

אָג

The robbery method is usual-

the samic.

They walked to a teller's show the teller a note

reading:

"Give me the

money or I'll shoot to dll," grab every dollar in sight and walk out--fast.

Within seconds the alarm bells are ringing in every polico

car,

conditions: 1. The UNRRA Job allpaper office and radio

remained

for open

three months. 2. I was to go as per- sonal Assistant. 3. No more Late nights with Dalton. He accepted my conditions."

Gaitskell smiles faintly now, remembering this.

hud

nud

a

thrombosis.

of

A SEAT

Minutes later police

and reporters are at the now- closed doors of the bank and the hunt is on.

become so regular --

monotonous

This has

that it is almost

So much so that bank staffs

DANGEROUS MEN ́

Finally, the reaction of the underworld is to ust maska, work

faster, steni faster got- cars--and keep your mouth shut. And so the hold- ups continue.

Dway

50 came the end of the war, can answer the usual questions the General Election of 1948, from police and press without

questions

asked. Remain athe

being He had ambition within too,

clearly, and another choice knew But Gaskell

to senior civil servant; return to Everybody Just takes it in yet it did not point clearly to- now his second ambition: already wards politics.

academic life-or He wished to succeed.

to remain

fight Leeds their stride. The was

South for the Socialista, Ho The police resation, MICED- do something creative, he told constant and demanding.

slight attack

to of white, is his mother. The ambition to In 1837, too, he married

appoint special think it

was cars and crews armed with sub- change people

things, woman who has shared his am with the pressure of tear," and which is a politician's ambition, bitions and,

say those

he machine guns to go on touring who

bombe duty. may have rooted then.

know her well, reinforced them, says of what? "Oh. He took a job as a lecturer Yet his crinkly hair,

boy's and 'things."

Dalton called In Horder, who for the Workers' Education mouth, weak chin did not sug- Association ΤΟ

a relative he gest success any more than his sald he would stand. wrote: "Henceforth my future career so far. (He still travels

classes. the working

unrecognised, doubtless to his " do not

He remained onc know regret.)

several clever young economists for the fringe of influence.

'AITSKELL stood and won the from the shore be no

power,

Or sent with a majority of The war

brought him

ncar 10,000. He could have become at of power. The war once Secretary for Overseas gave him authority. The war Trade, under Cripps. The doctors

The responsibility.

sald "No." HE was a good teacher.

his ambition. who went

up taught economies to Not- war disciplined

"But I wouldn't have gone administer, him to Oxford tingham miners. He got on well taught

into the Commons to remain a the restraints without that scholarship-was with the girls at the local taught him, too.

back-bencher; I wanted a job, very much a boy. Winchester palais. He took

and placed upon power by the prae- I wanted to do things." had confined him.

Within six months he became "Oxford was a sudden libera- mancipated himself from land- ticable, the discreet, the politie.

The academician became civil Parliamentary Secretary to the Gaitskell once bumped into tion." He could now talk with

servant; the civil servant stirred M road was opening up. It is of Fuel and Power. the father of one of the boys al

about politics. people

"We He came to London 4.9 a restlessly into the politician. "Не school.

wus a strange didn't talk of God in Oxford." Lecturer in economics al

Color I looked broad straight. It led to power But his brother told him the University College. His friend- old man. I don't suppose he was

Evan Durbin, tho

authority 10 limelight, really so old. He asked me what Union was a waste of time: he ship with I was going to do. I said I was never spoke there,

most powerful in his life, now

Success. going on to Winchester.

completed itself.

Durbin

In Englund, [ have given me a scholarship. what England is coming to."

the Dragon My history papers were

al six. right. I didn't do well DE prep school in Oxford

knowledge. 'Never Holidays in Norfolk, in flats in general

mind, London, in Oxford,

aald my

housemaster, You'll be Prime Minister one

Al school J. P. W. Mailalieu day."

Socialist MP.), beat The boy (now

in a speech competition. Hun

trom Winchester John Betjeman, the poet, Kays he saw Galtskell, aged 12, wear- ing

bawier in South Kensington.

"He said to me: I hope you realise how lucky you are. Not one boy in 10,000 has the chance

of an education like that,'

"1 remember the incident

A BICYCLE

indies

A FLAT

ค

fat,

the shore

him He gave

to

A CHOICE

<

The man who, as boy

and

So far this year 25 men have taken part in the 13 hold-ups, Ten of thers are stim tree with an estimated £10,000 in loot. The rest are doing an average of 14 years behind bars In terms ranging from four years to life and an occasional lasta or two.

In all, £30,000 Was stolen from banks in armed hold-ups this year. Most of the hold-up men are armed and dangerous. There was the one who grab- bystander outside the bank and held her to

as hostage while he ran to his A steel-nerved policeman and car.

shot him in the head, the bullet whistling

Inch Du

past the

bed a young gist

and

09

was another

LAITSKELL became quite im young man, had never done young Socialist economist. Gaitskell portant; to that extent also a much as he was expected to do, took to the political platform success. But another ambition- now began doing more than he on Durbin's behall 1029 for the limelight formed itself was expected to do.

still, in every detall. It happen. No

JOR was he politically active, Until Durbin was drowned, in and found itself unsatisfied.

ed on the Banbury road."

merely conscious. He loved 1947 (when he was a junior

Dalton's He became Hugh His loving mother and stern dancing. He shared the rooms, Minister), the two were to be father did not influence the boy: but not the excesses, of Frank bracketed together, and usually private secretary at the Ministry

of Economic Warfare, “At that time I loved most my Pakenham, who, dressed as Durbin carne first. "Evan says brother. I wanted to do every clergyman, led a procession of Geitskell, "was better

half years.

and

thing he did. He was six years cycles down the High and got thad 1. I had more anisert stayed with him for two and a

older than me. I followed him himself arrested. step by step up

the

school. played golf.

I won not

When he was around hoppy. When he was was miserable."

A PREFECT

union

Gaitskell

In 1031 Gaitskel was nomi- anted for Chatham. "This was

decision

**

In 1942 he was offered promotion to a job planning reconstruction after the war in But in 1926, by Instinct, when the only time I have. <ver

UNRRA the wits

and spirits of most questioned the practicability of what was to become undergraduates were occupied in democratie

-the United Nations Rollef " Socialism. He and Rehabilitation Administra the great lark of helping to break the General Strike, Gait- spoke on the same platformation. It was a job at twice the Communists, but his local party skell borrowed a car, got a decided against such activities. In a release from the wear and pay, more congenial, and offer- card, and brought the and he accepted

the

tear of constant contact strikers' newspaper from London painlessly.

Dr Dalton. get a scholarship to Oxford.

though

He went to Vienna for a year, He worked hard too, and 18.00 had hoped to. For a year he sat

got First beside Richard CrossmTLDJI (the Eld

Our and helped shuttle refugees in the new

then returned to fight and loso 15.00 ex-Bevanito. apologist, how slightly spivvish hybrid

Chatham in the 1935 election. Politics, and 25.00 Gallskell's welcomed ally), "He Philosophy,

was much cloverer, than I was. Economice. But it was only an He was always trotting out averago First, Lelin verses."

did

$18.00 HWinchester,

ho

with

He went down to his mother's cottage to write his resignation.,

"The telephone rang, Dalton. to see me urgently. 1

"I was bitterly disappointed."Wished

saw him in London. He told me

In that unhappy year politics he was going to the Board of He now had to make his first did, not seem to lead to success Trade, and wanted me to go Douglas Jay (who has been a important decision unaided by for Gaitskell.

Nor did his with him. 1. told him I wES Socialist Minister, and is now his brother's example. He did academic life. "I am not * about to resign.

# principal altar-boy to not want to join the Civil scholar. I am too impatient, I. 7.50 Galtakell) says: "Gaitskell of Service. The indiscipline of a think I was a good teacher.

school was always pointed out don's life attracted him.

But I did no research.”

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