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By DAVID DIVINE

"Paper" Chase Fugitive?

M

London. The British Foreign Office Arthur Henderson's in shurtenext

life. It killed Ernest Bevin. ven broke down Mr Eden.

R Selwyn Lloyd

Britain's Foreign Secretary, but what has Mr Selwyn Lloyd been up to?

Careering round 11 coul- tries, two oceans and one in- land sea.

Was he Arcing from the British Foreign Office?

highly costs

1 is the head of a skilled department that

£20,000,000 ♫ yeur, #thu responsible indirectly for

pending of mather 000.

1s

the £20,000 -

}} employs 8.318 skilled people (in 1914 were only 350).

highly there

Isn't there

iL 711011 amon! them who can tell him what is going ?

He

the bees is Aavlattssaklars #brond

Of 60 (there

used to be only 11 Doesn't he Imst then eller"

He willed many of them from the Middle East to Lonton for a conference on January 7.

Every representative left I past in the disiger area- for all The Middle East today k 1 diger re-so that Mr Lloyd of lis could have the bene

Judgment and his experience.

Clue To Muddle

P

PIERRE POUJADE IS FOLLOWING IN

HITLER'S FOOTSTEPS

IERRE POUJADE is really three meu. There is the plat- form Poujade; big, square-jawed, smooth-11 man who cun play audience the way Albert Schweitzer plays on a pipe If you sit arch organ. watch an audience of aus- picious. frugal French tradesmen abandon their normal scepticism in a wave of emotion you can see the

Adolf Hitler ghost of embodied.

There is the shopkeeper Ponjade: slow talking, polite, deadly earnest, bit- ter. If you stand with him

re-

By Les Armour

bed

The

curious thing about the

movement, of course, is that it

Is hard to decide whether it is essentially good or evil.

Most reasonable men

century

that

would the movement

Relion

nation already quaking under learned that the tax inspectors probably agree the impact of a dozen political were planning to visit 30 shops twentieth and sucial threats.

In the town. Their owners told towards mass production, mais him their trouble-If they had thinking, and mass

la in

pay up, they would cer- badly in need of a check. Ол tainly go bankrupt

the

other hand, a fight to pre- serve a situation in which it in Poujade had an idea. One possible to have one shop for years ago in the department of shopkeeper was helpless against every 12 lahabitants is clearly Lot, deep in the declining south the tax men.

It i

tbot probably fashions obscure the facts.

Pierre Poujade was born 36

Thirty might not a night for the ridleúlous.

of France. His father was In be, When the tax men arrived impoverished builder and Pierce they found all the stops barred

was his seventh child.

and shattered. They shrugged and went away.

All Emotion

the

At 13 he left rchool. A1 first he was a printer's spprentice,

they Next time they came

[EITHER Poujade nor anyone then, in rapid succession, errand found! every shop In town else can suggest what sort of boy. farm worker, anch 1 closet The army might have society would make such

obcurer working on the roads. been able batter its way in; situation tolerable. His only the lax collectors were helpless, political suggestion his beca And the lax collectors could that the National Assembly hardly call in the armiy.

should be withdrawn and the Estates General recalled.

in a circle of small shop Not Much Hope keepers, discussing their problems, wondering when the tax officers will arrive to cluse their shutters an sell up their shops; won- dering, secretly, where their children will flad tomorrow's dinner, you can under stand Poujade's success.

Third Man

ND there is Poujade the man: the in- scantily educated,

TA

strument of a force inuch bigg

My Lloyd would do well to Fember this. is own fate may be tied up with that of his country.

Many peopley Foreign Office men have urged that the Foreign old- Offer over staffed, fashioned-should be stream-

lined.

than

રી little be

himself, wildered, perhaps, even a litle feightened.

sol The third Poujade does

But emerge. including often

you cati and then encounter him now theinselvea,

and more frequently day by day. When he asked what he will do now, what his policies really are, what his final goal is, you re-

Pounde had won victory. It took the government two The Estates General happens years to charge han formally to be a body which used 10 with Incitement to civil dis sit before the French Revolution obediency. The charge was laid to advise the King. It WDR Just October. It has still to be composed of representatives hearth.

from the Various struta ond sections of society. But there In the lutervening two years, is no King to choose it nowo-

the ench

ŋHE rapit succession of his T

more to the Joby to find! instability of the area thon Lo the instability of Poujade. The population of Lot has declined In- by 50 percent in 50 years.

non-existent. dustry is almost Where it does exist it is falling. Poulade hud become a here to days.

bare every

In shopkeeper

EL

The peasants eke out living on on average of between country. 40 and 50 acres of not very fertile land.

In Lot no one has much hope, is and any parsing demagogue sure of a following it be will

Open Rebellion

only list the local fears and sing THERE them loudly, Such a demagogue wen Jacques Dorist, the Fascist leuder of prewar France, and Paujade joined his youth move. ment.

ol

of CX-

on some

King

i used to list the things segment wanted and the decided who was to get what. But, uguin, there is no King.

And

Poujade has never said replace the King. of course, it be Pierre

who is to Unless, Poujade,

the

is nothing mysterious about his sucress. He and his

Meanwhile, he and his move followers are twentieth century Luddlies. They are in open re- ment live on emotion. And bellion against a social situation emotion breeds violence. There which has made it impractical was Poujadist violence ut tho for the small trudesman and elections--meetings broken up. His membership did not Just artis

10 compete against speakers mobbed, here ank But he heard about and larger organisations.

there a nose bloodied. long accepted the "plot" theory

In France these Luddites are

The violence was not serious, history: the glib trick

evil

not at any time a joke. Very but it was an indicator. plaining every M Loyd should short-circuit can see him waver as he

mysterious scapegoat-the Jews, nearly half the adult population

into the "self-employed" What will happen when the fulls the Vatican, the Reds, the labyrinth through which thepeats the inevitable evasions.

in most Western Poujudists discover that they paper torrent pours today, and

It is possible that the second Bureaucracy. It is unlikely that category.

countries the proportion is very are unlikely, in the end, to get And a menne of getting the

Poujade and the third Poujade Poulade, in his youth, ever saw

dietator- much smaller. Only one Britors their way-that only that ho-and guidance

a real live Jew. They are rure the

will everqually combine to calm

20, for instance, is self- ship can make the shopa pay or Government--needs, In plain

resiore craftsmanship in the the first. But it is also possible in that part of France. Yet he in and simple longinge.

that the success of the

never Arat hos

forgotten Doriol's employed.

face of competition from masa were at Mr Lloyd should stay at hotne Poujne will mean the death of theory that the Jews

Poujade v. the Bureaucracy production and not even

they back of tho

all his troubles, unli he has put his own offled the other two.

oil was therefore a caso of interest, can make the world drink achloves in order. When he

the Because he did not encounter Six months ago it that there may be no necessity fashion to dismiss Poujade with Jews, the theory somehow be in one way or another, to every the wine France can produce?

Frenchman. The more often 10 15 easy the gume plausible. 2 for him to go abroad.

a small laugh. Now it is

Poujade and his the worst of men you

supporters And there may be less muddle fashion to regard

with believe hlm

defled the laxmen, the more huve never seen. in a In Britain's foreign policy.

new menace

popular they became, Big cer porations and chain stores are War came, and Poulade

WILL their efficient

enough to pay for a time de U joyed himself

taxes, Small

with their frustration and shopkeepers and young man loosely attached to

Every Doriot's organisation In the artisans are not.

time bear real violence? Will the Pou- "unoccupied France of Marshal Poujade and his mob invaded a Jadists finally draw up a full- Then the Germans took government auction and bought state which will enforce their Reale plan for o totalitarian Petain.

T

DR

ID they succeed in pulling

horror

Whs

U.S. JITTERS OVER

MARINES' MOVE

Marine march

BY Alexander Broad

are

more

This unwillingness is Washington

For the HE United States lous than it looks.

implication is that Israel cannot on the take it upon herself to conduct again this her own defence. She must rely Mr Lyd in the picture?" time in the Mediterranean on Britain, France and the U.S. 3.5. In the long run that might mean And the Sixth Fleet that Nasser would not be opposed area. pleture Well, perhaps change.

two is on the move-putrolling by Israeli soldiers with Mr Lloyd, months Inter, was out In the Israeli and Arab shores. can guns, but by United States Middle East with them.

Marines with Americani guns.

Hence the jitters among the polliclons,

thu

And with Colonel Nasser-on

And in Ankura-the

Makarios

Cyprus.

was

And in Jerusalem or sume-

Here in Washington the politicians are brewildered. Their

en-

over and he changed his mind quickly.

Hard Work

ITE fed to North Afrlen and then to England, where he became a sergeant in the RAF.

At the end of the war, ho returned to France and becarao

salesman, By dint

hard work he Phenomena! managed to scrape together stationer's shop in St Cere, enough money to buy 'a small

St Cere also lay in France's depressed area. When he bought

ono

Perilous

WI their bitterness grow

back a seized shop for pennies, there was an audible

sigh of demands? relief from Lille to Nice,

If they do, will their sup

19 that there And, strangely.

move- porters realise the ment began to spread even be nothing to be gained in roplac- yond the

and Ing one sort of compulsion with shopkeepers artisans. It struck a sympathetic another, one set of rules for the mass mind with another set of chord among people sickened rules for the mass mind?

like, by the machinations of business, the state control

big

Com-

There are no answers.

of the Socialists and the Lotal- itarlan ideology of the

There is, perhaps, one very munists. It exploited every slim chance of a solution to the extreme emotion from anti- problem. The situation Poujade Communism to anti-Semitism. wants, after all, is the sort of

A Surprise

medieval

which prevalled In Europe, It is even possible that some people would.

And

Feudalium de-

a renewed sirable, and possible that some his shop the town already had POUJADE has had invitations one could devise a way to bring

to visit Canada, Britain and it about. the United States. A Poujadist party contested tho recent The danger Is that the half elections In Greece,

way house 10 Feudalism is the France Is not the only coun- Corporate State of Mussolini- try with Luddites.

and Just behind that is the And, in France, the Poujadist Nazi State of Adolf Hitler. success at the polls came as

shop for every 12 in- habitants.

Furthermore, he had married while he who in North Africa and he had, by then, four small children, Life was not easy.

1

the day that Glubb Pasha was first reaction was that it was re- fied from Ainman.

Assuring to have a battalion or

And there is more anxioly

the cay Marines in the place where the over

Cyprus question. were coming from, Americans would like to support "fred" from headlines

And comforting to have the Britain in Cyprus. After all,

Britain Sixth Fleet in a place where

is concerned with the might do a little toward remind- maintenance of NATO's But he had no political surprise only to the professional It Poujadism grows, Europe

defence line. ambitions until one day he politicians.

will face a perilous experiment. Mediterranean Furthermore. Americans Furt some sense in 'protecting rights of the Turkish minority in Cyprus against the threat of the Then they began to get the Greek majority. Jitters. They remembered that nobody had any authority to use FU.S. forces to keep the peace.

where near it on the day thating potential belligerents that, the American Ambassador for better or worse, "Pax Ameri-

10 cana" is not a brand of tooth offered hly sympathies

aposte. Greece. He even lost by short head in the race to get to London before Malenkov.

Did he really need to go. was he only a fugitive from the paper chase?

muddbo.

CANNOT ACT

the

On the other hand no one, from John Foster Dulles down- wards, is entirely happy about the deportation of Archbishop Makarios. Religion is. a hot tople Mark this paper chinse," It

To be sure, there is a doci in Internal American polities, may be the clue to the whole ment, filed away somewhere, and and Amercians in the atreet dated May 25, 1950, in which find it hard to separate Makarios "Рарет" alone, communica- the United States,

along with the archbishop om Makarios Wom They cafil it-telegrams Britain and France, promised the agitator. (£195,000), telephones (£211,-

and awore to keep the peaco 000), carriage .unt postage along Israel's frontiers and, to (£200,000) thessengers and take action against anyone who couriers (£289,200) and various broke it. other Dcdments coming to

total of £1,231,000-costs exact by two and a half. times the sun that the entire British Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service cost in 1914.

Streamlining

THEIR HOPES

Americans would have been happier if Makarios had been The only trouble is that no charged with some offence, con- one has asked Congress for per- victed under some comprehensi- mission to act on it. And the bly law, and punished necording- Administration is also sworn not ly.

to get into any wars without Sonding him into exle with- asking Congress drst,

out n bearing-though it is por- Fur hormore,, the Administra- fectly proper under the Emer- tion is not quite sure which side geney Regulations--has played the hands of the people ORD Vansittart told me the is on-if it is on any side in into

rall against the other day that he estimated the dispute. The President's ad- who still love to

"colonial opproksor." As It is, it that "paper work had increased virs know who tends to look as though a difpuit by anything up to twenty times comes from. They alsó know

that the United States cantiot, leador has been expert Ulously since he entered the service,

on moral grounds, stand by and removed from the scene without How much accumulated while see Israel wiped out either bold too much consideration for tha Mr Selwyn Lloyd was away?.

In 1030 there was a total of a battle, of slowly in a war finer points of pubile morality.

of attrition.

thera la trouble-real 21,000 telegrams and a quarter

trouble-in Cyprus, it is difficult of

million lettors Land - But, though everyone knows to see where the United States despatches, Now there's a that Commundet, gunshave, can stand. The State Depart». million and a quarter pounds theoretically, weighted the ment, devoutly hopes that, the worth: How much of that doon balance in favour of Egypt, no situation, will take esre of itzelt the British Foreign Bedrotary one 'is' as'yet propared to kupwop at least that Britain will

Iply weapons to Israel;

manage to "softis “It,

EMMWOOD.

GUNS

THREE NOT SO WISE MEN OF THE EAST