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"Pare 1:

THE CHINA, MAIL," TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1956.

MPS DEMAND MORE TIME ΤΟ DISCUSS COLONIES

"M

London

ORE time for the Colonics" is the

Socialist's cry.

For the Labour Party has

Just made two demands

on

Parlin-

By Harold James

The Labour Party's

however,

bo

request

At the

themselves.

Colonial questions,

Rapid Advance

it was said, would 'be' settled beliind the scenes by a group of so-called experts within the four walls of one of the com- mittee rocas in the Houses of Parliament instead of on tho For practical purposes, then,

for further time for Questions floor of the House. The ordinary Member-and Colonial affairs the Colonial front that Colonial questions are answer-

ed orally and thus with some could be mot, though

of oll- there should be more oppor- publicity not more than

once cost of

of dislocating other depart are the responsibility

would be faced with 11 may.

a dait tunities for asking Colonial or twice in six weeks,

mental arrangements.

Academic, The other means of bringing Colonial Questions"

for accompli and told that a decl-

taken by

the questions and that

not alon had been máy Parko-

at Westminster for "back-room boys.” munt should have greater Colonial affairs before

ment is to stage a debate, which feature

much longer. When a colony control of Colonial policy. is no easy task. So tight is the

becomes these

independent Parile- legislative programme

to be responsible How much Parliamentary days that there is ille chance ment ceases Lime do the Colmics

at of the

Government allocating and so no longer has the right

probe. And

shortly, time for a general discussion of present?

the NLESS in the revision of the ond Ciol

affairs of the Gold Const

constitutional machinery for So these, ps malters.

a Supply Nigeria. Malays and Singapore, dealing with Colonial affairs the are left to

Central African Federation Labour Party's proposals way Day. Le, one of the 20 odd days the

have than West Indies something more original the Op- and those of the As to Questions, the Coloma in the year on which

may be "off the map" so far as that, they will be stillborn. The Parliament is concerned.

greater probability is that the Government itself will before long tackle the question in gn- other way-by reviewing the UNA whole relationship between the Commonwealth Relations and of Colonial Offices in the light

rapid advance to self- the government of so many colonial territories.

Colonial affaire come before Parliament

1wo

in debate. Question Time and

L

calc.

ination can chrome any sub- Office like most other depart- ... ments, hus one day a week eject they like.

which for an hour-but no more.

the Colonial Secretary can be within on matter questioned

Only

EL

the Foreign his sphere. Office has 'Questions' twire week.

All Wrong

BUT polities being politics, the Opposition, whether Tory or Labour, choose Hubjects most likely to embarress the Govern- axed by rola, If the Colonial ment. So it all is serene in the Office heads the list this week, Commonwealth the Colonies are

At Question Time the order in which departments reply

路

not likely to be picked out for then Colonial questions are discussion.

the by onawared

Minister,

Both political partics in orally. But next week Colonial

ul Britain would agree that this is questions go to the botton

a well-worn the 1kst. This means that the all wrong. It is

written be that only when riots break questions receive 11

nil does Parliament lend an to The Colonies. As Mr Bevan said recently: "If we do not hear of anything untoward happening, no one puyn any at- tention.

reply And so disappears chance of a "supplementary."

Ultra-Cautious

TT is on the

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the

Nevertheles5,

because

In view of this, is it worth while disturbing arrangements of long standing? The Govern- ment will probably say "No."

As for an extension ot Par- Hamentary control, publication of Labour's proposals is await- but they may revive a sug- gestion to which some thought To put it bluntly-in a few was given a few years ago...the years the Colonial Office, as il getting up of n Parliamentary is known today, will committee of all parties which ceased to exist. would study Colonial questions.

United Front

the face of 1 this has ON

something to commend it. The committee would be composed of Members--and peors with compared with experience of Colonial problems. a few years ago. the increase It would prepare reports which Less informed "aupplementary" n the fitne given to their could enlighten that the Member concentrates problems is remarkable, though Members und be helpful to the Minister. H might achieve u things The initial

this question

> mainly

"ull serene," fair not been

of measure

agreement Order Paper as just the hours have

30 prosent d'oeuvre; the "supplementary" Cyprus. Mau Mau and Malaya, in many things and

the the united front of public have been is the main course,

the for example,

Central opinion to the Colonies, Minister may be unbriefed and centre of disturbances.

Malta

the Gold uted unrehearsed. Here it is possible Africa,

advcented Mr Creech Jones such o committee on long agra 1942, and he is the second- in-command In the Colonial sphere in the Labour Opposition informed. weight.

today. His opinion will carry

Here

"supplementary:"

down he should the Member to give notice The question.

A story is told of cautious und

Coast

have posed unportuni

have

Ideal

Onder Fremation

OLYMPIC GAME

Persent worker-ampl

Combin

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Goodbye To All This?

"Y

FOR MR. MILLER

DOESN'T LIKE IT

ANY MORE THAN JOE DIMAGGIO...

OU keep calling this the improbable marriage," said a friend of Arthur Miller, "but really the only improbable thing about it is that they had the chance to meet and develop their

to trip him up. For this reason his department always enjous constitutional problems. discretion. If he can, he must

In addition there has been a party

general quickening of interest pinned

in the Colonies at Westminster. Tirenze

Members are better

first-hand More have

know-

the ledge. A

This "Committee of all A few

years ago Colonial

Wednesdays Talents" has had its critics, Question Time on was over in 20 minutes. Now it nevertheless. Being merely ad-

Just the full hour-a feat visory it would, say, some, de Inay which requires not only mental generate into a "talking shop.

but concentration

any exten- physical Yet if it exercised

It would derogole agility

which from the responsibility must fairly and squarely lie on

Marilyn was a child of tragedy. She was an illegiti- the Colonial Secretury.

But the

objection mate child. Her mother is in a mental home. strongest

She was came from the Labour benches shunted from foster-parent to foster-parent. She has

fought grimly for her place in the sun.

an ultra- rather stupid Under-Secrelacy whose deparl- ment begged him to parry "supplementary" by demanding He took their advice too notice. literally,

asked what his answer to the original question meant, he replied amid devisiye "I must have notice of choers, that questions."

Mr Lyttelton, as he then was, used to say that the exertion of £171 hobbing up and down for

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love.

"They are in fact very similar people." And he pro- ceeded to detail their similarities.

Miller had a happy early childhood, but he was a child of the depression and dates his development from the poverty that came with the depression. He too fought for his place.

Both are ambitious, She wants to be America's great- est actress. He wants to be America's greatest play- wright.

Concluding

The Improbable Marriage

The picture that helped break up Marilyn's marriage No. 2

By Christopher Dobson

it is rare for her to fluish a film without becoming ill.

How will they affect one another?

Already one effect of the romance

noticeable. is Marilyn is a much happier and healthier woman.

Miller has been affected already too. He has been brought out of his self- sought anonymity into the

glare of world-wide pub-

licity.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

STAGE DOOR

DIANA ∙DORS

It remains to be seen the despair, will go out of his

whether she can live up to work.

his intellectual requirements His effect on her work and he can stand the frene be far more direct.

tic fame of being married to Hollywood's symbol of sex.

DESPAIR

already

She announced her

Inten tion to be a serious actress. She has said that some day she

.. would like to appear in a Miuler

She play.

to play wonta Grushenka in "The Brothero Karamazov" and she wants to live up 10 Miller's high

ONE of the incidents that tellectual standards of acting.

in-

helped break up her

It might well be that she will marriage to DiMaggio was

crash. But even more dangerous the

Tow they had over to her career than Miller's publicity pictures of her standards is his politics. Miller the Un- hauled before standing over a grille in a was

Committee New York road with a blast American Activities

and there, he testified that ho of air sending her skirts had belonged to Communist

Both have brains. For On her walk: "I learned to around her ears. I think Front organisations. Miller that need not be walk when a baby and I Miller would agree with said. But Monroe is far haven't had a lesson since." DiMaggio on that sort of from being the dumb blonde that Hollywood tried to make her.

But above all they are alike because of their inten- sity. Miller is a painstaking craftsman.

publicity.

not

He maintained that he does regret his contact with Communism. "I had to go to hell to meet the devil. I am not ashamed of what I did."

Both are striving hard almost too hard-for hap. piness. Miller, the idealist

So, what of their careers? with his "social pinya," try-

Her effect on his work would

Miller does not cand, over- ing to put the world right; For example, her cracks

be subtle. His writing has been much whether he is liked Marilyn, with her marriages Monroe on sex: "Sex is a

fery and sometimes despairing, noi. But Marilyn must be liked. and her desperate acquisi- part of nature. I'll go along With Marilyn the inten- the writing of a man who If she is not, people will

not tion of "culture," search with nature." On men: "We sity takes a different form. if he has found that something that will mean the end of her searching for something. What pay to see her pictures, and ing for the affection which have a mutual appreciation She gives herself so com if it is Marilyn Monroe? Then career. And one sure way for her childhood denied her. of being male and female." pletely to her film roles that it might well be that the fire, an actress to get herself dia-

TWO LONELY MEN IN MOSCOW

Paris, July 2. "ACLEAN and Burgess,

Mthe two loneliest men

From SYDNEY SMITH

"If we ever found ourselves at the same function Ds Maclean and Burgess, we should walk these days more often ignored urban Moscow, with country straight`out-and the Rusiana in Moscow, are out of date, than accepted.

"dachas-wooden frame week- know this." out of fashion.

end villas in pleasant pinewood

كه

on

or

liked in America at this mo- ment is for her to have any connection with Communism- even some remoto "guilt by association” is enough.. Women's clubs 'and ex-Service organisas tions would boycott her filma, Į Studion suddenly discover they. have no parts for her,

DANGER

HE fast and biggest question THE It is not true that M and B surroundings and each has a

to ask about their 'marri- Western diplomats are always age will it last? Miles da The "co-existence and are used by the Russian Foreign car. Their scale of life is still

На friendship line from the one that towering tessellated about that of an average well-prepared for the usual rounds of determined that it will

toasts and jokes and informal broke up a marriage, that had nighteenth century skyscraper rewarded intellectual, such as a Kremlin has relegated

advisors

Western

valuable exchanges lasted nearly 10 years to marry but often People's Painter or Writer or a Donald Maclean and Guy polley and for welling diploma- top doctor or engineer in other with the Soviet rulers of the Marilyn! He loses the custody of endless rounds of Moscow, re-his children. He loses a house Burgess to the obscurity of the exchanges with the West,

who. But

comfortable and

pri ceptions. Even for the purpose that is his pride and joy. He One backrooms

Westem diplomat ignored

boys,

with this bir of both

theso, jolly and informal ex-

guarded before met them

has lost his carefully more of an embarrassment

they difference. They have no known changes, usually over a vodios anonymity. His settled way of came to Russia told me: to the Russians than any-

Or Armenian brandy or cham-ilfe has gone. "It is a pity they are NOT

perme

with Bulganin, Khrush- || 20 thing else.

using Maclean at least to advise them on their presentation of diplomatie exchanges,

'During two months in Mos- cow I have learned why B and M have become the loneliest men in the Kremlin city of five, million quite finished as pro- clous subversive prizes bo- cause of the Soviet New Look policy....

What are M and B doing

now?

friends at all.

There is a small colony of chev. Zhukov, Malenkov and Miller would not give up foreigners in Moscow which in

standing around, the these things for a passing in- cludes English and Americans, Monats are

For him, this is for regarded as fatuation. They are all "intellectuals" and vastly more important than an keeps, voluntary exiles. They include

Bome quite agreeable and Intel- outdated Maclean and a low- ligent individuals, capable of a grade renegade. "I wish they were. Then we good objective ideological argu should have a for clearer under- ment.

standing of their ideas. Maclean

The danger is Marilyn. Ilfe's development may be measured by her marriages. She outgrew the first, the "security" marriage. It is possible might also outgrow this, the culture marriage.

sho

She has come further than

was an obsolutely brilliant and invited to the weekly round of man Usually they are automatically

Amin to quote a Westem of magnificent clarity and

In Moscow: "OUT there is no trace of his work or diplomatic receptions, Kremlin diplomat. I can tell you. They are sit approach in any of the Soviet receptions, meetings with foreign own interpreters of present day

dinners, cocktail Soviet polles- and political Miller. It may be who, is going ting in a remote annexe of the communications to the West, delegations,

and the moves the Fuésian celles in five further willl and he is merely, a Foreign Office writing informe- The valis of Maclean and partien, conferences,

· but of usual special opera and ballet Wertare quite

gf, date. | |marker on her road. tive appreciations" of Western Burgess with the switch

But as it at tho Bolshoi Anything can happen here now, is now, she says: "I have never policies essays and evaluations Soviet policy, comparatively prosentations

theatre."

send in the new mood of things been so happy: In my life. "This which are rarely read, and then small as it was once, is now, theat

h very difficult to interpret it is the first time I think I have only at a low, lovel...,!

correctly, The same goes for really beer in love.

in first interest ; in = in", "being", n Maclean and Burgers

wife. /F11. Ärthtir and I have ac many things in common and congenial

1

Moscow.

If B and M have friends, If we are so

Alom scientist Bruno Pontes In addition, ther are occasion.* But the Ruminna aro

still corvo is one of the notables in ally asked, for information by wise enough not to malce this group. But never Maclean and Burgons they are never the polley bounds of the two treachery an ill-rewarded jobs main Soviet national moming To support, their continued seen anywhere or known to paperw. Pravda sund Investia appeal in the West for potential, anyone, not even the colony of they belong to any kind of andy by some intellectunk aubversives, they pay hi and B. poreles fellow travelling exlies, group, then there is no fosas of

One romson for this le given it at any level, Soviet wwwklion. But there again their well for their nominal jobe. Both

Botne: Western diplomatas foreign, in Mosco. advice is purely informative have fairly, good pats, in sube -'bý

Monroelam ! the „Thing" to 4 says is?", "Cors

-and. goud; JuNG?