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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.

PERSONAL - LOW ARRIVED AT WESTMINSTER YESTERDAY, BACK FROM HUNTING TIGERS IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. INTERVIEWED, HE SAID THAT LOOKING Z AT THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN HIS ABSENCE E FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO REALISE HE WAS NOT STILL THERE,

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WELL. WHAT D'YOU KNOW!

One Man Wrote Over

M

6,500

Hymns

Christian

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Mr Baring- a well-known clergy-

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OST of us know the But both mon were busy Kipling wrote two well-known names of the young evangelists. Dwight Moody was hymns.... end

the Billy Graham of 1037. A Gould,

produced the siirring Please addres communica- eroon their way to fame most of his life in preaching to "Daward Christian Soldiers."

tions:-Secretary, Hongkong and fortune on gramophone young men, When he was 30,

Society for the Protection records. We may also know he met Ira Sankey, the well-to- BEST LOVED who

some of their do son of a banker. Sankey, an wrote

But

the best-loved of all worker, carnest songs. But how many of good ginger and musician, hymn-writers was Henry Francis us could name half a dozen teamed up with Moody, and the Lyte, an English minister who His loveliest writers of famous hymns? two men prenched and sang all died in 1847.

Amerlen, England and hymn, "Abide With Me", The Wesley brothers, John Australia, building up their written on the night ho preach- and Charles, bold the record for fumbus hymn book as they went ed his last sermon in Brixham,

wrole dr John |hyrnn-wriling,

Devon translated quite a number, but along.

Lyle was a dying man at the was more of a preacher.

gifted time. After preaching, he took couldn't match the amazing linguists of all time, Sir John a stroll by the harbour, then re- record of his brother, who left Bowring was also a hymn- turned to his study and sat more than 6,500 writer. He could speak 100 down to work on his famous

languages and read twice as hymn.

to posterity hymna

OVET

He One

of

the mout

Millions of people have sung many. So he translated Into He wrote the words the bymn Let Us With English all the foreign songs music in less than an hour.

篩

Gindsome Mind, Praise the and poems he could find.

Lord, For He Is Kind" without

giving a thought as to who was the writer. They would be sur- prised to know that it was the Milton, when he was only 15. "RESTED" 36 YEARS

One

of the most prolific British writers Was Dr

Aneurin Bevan is a man born out of time. His fire, his eloquence, his work of the famous poet, John crusading would have earned him hundred years ago. Today they bring him only headlines of the 'what will he be

a place in the history books

up to next' sort. Yet he is among the best known of Britain's politicians, Watts, who composed more than

THE FIERY

REBEL OF

THE SOCIALIST PARTY

A

NEURIN BEVAN is the man who re-

members

pandy.

Tony-

Tonypandy is the atrocity

that never happened.

it.

By LES ARMOUR

fight, but not

^ surprising number of spoiling for a That is a cruel way of Green's pupils were to be found knowing how to go about it. summing him up. But Ja successive goverruments thore- there is, nonetheless, a cer- after-and the roots of the Wel- tain justification for

fare State had been planted and were thriving long before Nye British politica have been Bevan first saw the inside of a studded for 20 years with coal mine. men and women who "re membered Tonypandy" in the literal sense.

the

The curious thing is that it is doubtful whether or not Nye Bevan ever heard of T.H. Green, He has always seemed to be Tonypandy is the little lieve that Karl Marx, softened Welsh town

Keir Hardy, tumed to which Sir by

tables single-handed. Winston Churchill, in his Home Secretary, days as

He has always seen-ond still was reported to have sent sece-British political life as a

struggle to the death to troops

quell

angry

reelting opposing classes miners. It has been con- another's extermination. clusively proved that he did

between

one

no

Two years at the

Central London Labour College righted that. One thing he had learned wus that the nervous stammer, which had seemed such a tre- mendous handicap, was really o blessing in disguise. In the heat And of debate 11 disappeared,

Was born Bevan's THYW famous fighting approach,

He let no chance

pass of allowing the Welsh coal valleys to hear his new-found fery With a people ever fluency. ready to give eloquence a hear- ing for its own sake, he began to malce his mark,

But at that time the first

to

Ir 1920 he moved

West- minster as Member of Parlin- ment for Ebbw Vale. He still is.

What marked him

out straight away was the fact that

unlike so many other Members.

he carried his platform Arc- eating into the council chamber. Finesse was not his forte. His uncompromising bluntness, which did his reputation much good with the local con- stuency groups, did not help his popularity in the House.

When Labour's top men were O wartime called in to form coalition with Winston Church

til's Tories, Bevan was no government post.

given

RESPONSIBILITY

At a time when the nation was united as never before be- hind Churchill, Beyan did not hesitate to roar at Churchill (CTDIS the House when he thought the occasion demanded.

for

S

300 hymns. When he was 38, Dr Watts was taken ill, and went his for û rest to the home of friend, Sir Thomas Abney. His "rest" lasted 30 years, so he had ample opportunity to pursue his good work.

Another minister with a gift beautiful hymna writing waw John Mason Neale, a very men with such extreme poor views that he was deprived of his pulpit by his bishop.

Nothing all

to be appears known about the life of John Ellen on, who was responsible for about 50 hymns which are still sung today, but almost too about that is known much strange son of a Dublin clergy- man, Nahum Tate.

DRUNKARD POET

Atthough he was a drunkard, Tate became Poet Laureate of England, and was the author of "While hymn, the immortal

Watched Their Shepherds Flocks By Night."

- written Worgens fàve also famous hymus. There Is

and Green Hill Far Away" "Once In Royal David's City

Cecil are the

work of Mrs Frances Alexander, wife of former Archbishop of Armagh. She died in 1805.

in

Charlotte Elliott rose to fame

the

18th century as a wriver of camle verse. Then she be- came

ill and. on recovering, writing gave all her talent to beautiful hymns.

un

atrocily took place. But it is pla that he wa not Belds. Bevan could not get him- his own. He was given the baby and devoted her whole

And he

But the most hard-working of ail the women hyma-writers When he described Britain's shadows of the great depression When the Socialists came to

Jane Crosby, was Frances not do it that, in fact, no Tories as "lower than vermin," were falling Across the coal- power in 1945, Bevan came into

American, who lost her sight as

hundreds of self hired by any of the mine- Ministry

life to making others good and of Health. owners.

She wrote Over 3,000 shattered his crities who had happy.

of which appear anyone given and

accused him of being a wind- hymns, many

Moody and seeing bag who would collapse

the famous when in things in confronted with a real job of Sankey hymn-book. terms of black work.

there

arc

still politicians thinking of the who "remember Tony- pandy."

OBSESSED

'Nye' Bevan remembers Tonypandy in the meta- phorical sense.

He, too, is obsessed by an atrocity that didn't take place--though his is a much

bigger atrocity.

His whole political thinking

is based on three premises;

1. That there existed in Bri

tain a class of men who

de-

liberately ground another class of men into a state of degrad-

ing poverty.

2. That this class of men still

cxisis and will, it not kept

in

its place by forec, arise and re-

peat the process and.

3. That almost anything preferable to this catastrophe.

ds

No one needs to be convinced of the appalling misery created by the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution The question is whether or not it was an atrocily In the strict Bense of the word; whether, in inet, any group of men, de- liberately and without science, set out to create misery.

con-

the

Aimminge

The answer. of course, 15 "No." The Industrial Revolution thousands of voters who did not

was hardly under way before the English middle classCA, con- Belonce Bielcken, oct out to check its worst effects.

STRUGGLE

They were slow by com- parison with the headlong rush created by the Impersonal ap- potibes of their own machines. But the fact of the matter that it was not Karl Marx who exporod, the evils of the revolu- tion, and it was not Karl Marx who produced the antidote,

seo eye to eye with him: nor for that matter, of their chosen representatives at Westminster.

The Tories, who were lower than vermin in Nye's estima- tion, were his own stereotyped from bloated capitalists, fresh grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt,

They were the "THEY" who is had plotted against him to keep him out of a job in the mines in his youth.

10

Ta

and white,

He rammi through the that looked National Health Acts with evangelical vigour and demon-

Rice

D

con-

BEST REMEMBERED

spiracy tu strated that ho was a brillant |Sa

Sankey are probably the best-

keep him administrator.

The names of Moody and

remembered of all hymn-writers; yet most of the hymns in their works of other are the

from spread-

But responsibility did nothing book Ing Labour's

He writers. gospel at lie to mellow his philosophy. pithead and still saw Britain as a political the coalface. battleground од which the Heroic Working Class-never But the adequately defined - wrestled miners want- with the capitalist dragon. ed him. And

they saw to it

His colleagues in the govern- that they got ment, on the other hand, SIW him: the the British state as a complex, Aim by expedient or delicately balanced machine; electing him something which had to be their

handled with inesse and check-

skill weigh man, and, if need be, compromise.

These conflicting views traditional

sulted in ominous strainings at privilege

the seams of the Labour Party.

a

which the managem

ent

could not dis SHOWDOWN

putevill

лcar

The showdown eamo toon martyrdom after Bovan, in a Cabinet re adding to his shuffle, quit the Health Ministry reputa- and took over the Ministry of tion with the minem,

next step

Labour and National Service.

Someone dared to tamper with he his beloved Health Service. It

decided was

to make tiny charges for prescriptions.

Bevan erupted. He resigned. Since then he has fought trict Cour.cil- cold war with the Labour

election to

Tredegar

Urban DIN-

was logical.

Π

leaders. There have been flare-

For the first time he was face ups. He has been cautioned by

He moved rapidly headling class with which marked the start of doud with Britain's Press.

to face with his opponents across them. He has been expelled toble. It did nothing to change from the Parliamentary, Labour his notions of them.

Party and taken back again.

into

Galtskoll the Colleague Hugh

tho an incident beat him to

draw in his the fight for the Parliamentary Party leadership when Clement Attico resigned. And fellow He charged the influential Welshman, Western Mail with bribing uni Jim Griffiths, won the struggle gentle, loqunelous, employed men to attack the miners'

the for the deputy leadership. and had cause, paper banned from

the local Trodegar public Übtery.

Since then be has been

But Bevan will not-canhot......... stop fighting. It will be a fight to the death. 1

On

That incident in this early sinnging terms with the British And it is likely to be a one- years had. patently much to do ›Press. But that battle is a long sided fight, For the traditional

A shy and retiring Oxford with shaping his, politioni at range ono. Newspapermen, have enemy he hates died, batóra tho don called Thomas Hill Green den, H father, o whoop found that they are wasting twentieth century began, and was hard at work in 1870 on « DremMOT, hod born torced by their time if they try to inter- kis Party leaders have learned book called "Principles of poverty to work in the coal view hin. Reporters who have to nod, malo and shrug: Eisuke Politicat Obligation,” which was andher, Nys, at 13, followed him gone to the length of putting shouidem and ugore his

until nystagama-s miner's tie their questions in writing have elekt esse affecting nerves and eyes-, had their letters ignored.

In a way, it in all rather forced him after seven years to But all the time his stock was sad, kva give up. This set him hitter and going up with the miners, Ana

to lay down, the concept of duty and reponsibility which led to the middle clam revolution, and timbered in the Welfare State,

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