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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13,

The Russians Create A New Aristocracy

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FEE-PAYING BOARDING SCHOOLS—

IF YOU KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE

By HUGH SETON WATSON

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

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But how was Randolph, the hero of our story, furing all this time? He went to Chicago Tow the Presidential candidato elec. tions and wrato: some excellent stuff. With the glory of his ILEN Napoleon Minister people would say res. Therefore those of us who discovered gelite, but one dos namo he attracted much atten

tion and hospitality in Amorico, realised that he that Max wanted a lift in known him through the not appear overnight from now and there is no reason to sup Ind lost

terbattlent years were delighted where and calmly, take his place pose that he did not behave liko the the peerage, which, e when the Beaver Look him on the as an unrestricted polical water little Lord Fauntleroy, Battle of Water cording to the gossips, had standard. As a politicnt writer on London's foremost evening In the portrait I have painted loo he said to one of his been refused by Churchill, Randolph can hold his own with newspaper.

you may think that I have put generals: "I have only one Nothing could be more any of his contemporaries, and

ahoot remote

in able to draw upon the in- Mr Strong revealed his hand too many warts, but that in At the same time this move regret. I forgot to smail, in

neither my desire nor intention. N the opinion of or- managers,

from the truth. valuable experience gained by in the very first article. In his The blunt truth is that; Ra thodox Marxista, xovernment departments, indus- cannot be looked upon as the Fouche." Thus did the Em- Winston would have given being his father's non.

opinion Bir Anthony Eden was & dolph Churchill bears a great uy and agriculture. About establishment of full equality of

for peror express his innermost him anything, including the

man of destiny whose unrivalled economic power de- 3,000 000 were perfons belong oppertunity in preparation

Yet the rise of Eden to the knowledge of foreign affairs name which none of us worde The low standard of feelings towards that sinis silver spoons. careers.

seo lowered by faults" of termines political ing to what would be called in

Premiership presented p-in would make him not only the to doublect personal class the West "the free professions, living among the poorer ce ter figure who set a pattern

temperament, A

problem to peace-maker' but

pace power.

ruling

The fact is that the wuys our stout hero. The new Prime "the ments of the Soviet population

America Brud Great There is a a place for maker. ir Imperial Rus in

Tran that all members for all time as a Minister must therefore consist of r

0 closer has the courage to defy the archi still dictates intelligentsin-teachers, those

wage of Police and became the of the Beaver are stranger Minister, had married Randolph's Britain would be drawn who hold economic teet, doctors and others.

of the family become

a mald cousin, We were aware that Edan together by the

under ds. Nor is the role of politi- most hated and feared man than the

ways of earners as soon as possible.

cal rebel a dishonourable one. Elsenhower But between power, or of their nominees.

with a

vas not on the list of Randolph's standing While the was man.

but la industrialised countries

woulti favourites, The problem of access to the in France,

our and Eden, Let us rejoice that But when criticism descende to Daily Express, Sunday buccaneer feel some hesitancy in at such a dificult period in the and recells upon the marksman, the vulgar abuse it misses the fargot with a system of private

kind of education which quali -

No one could be less like Express and Evening attacking his cousin by mar- world's history we were able to enterprise--say the Com-

fes youths for Inter responsible

than Randolph Standard 'blared encourage. ringo?

produce a leader who was liked may be tnt in Randolph's munsts it is the capitalista

posts in management and gov- Fouche ernment administration still re- Churchill, only son of Sir ment to the new Prime

neid respected by the whole Judgment Eden is a weakling that Let it be known

whose Premiership, will provo Ran- world, who rule, sharing power in

Winston, but I can well Minister, there camo the dolph put such thoughts out of

disastrous. But when criticism varying degrees with the

Competition for places in gond

that Mr our minds at once. Hardly half Again and again et West- becomes wholly destructive and large landowners whenever

schools most highly qualified to imagine that as Sir Anthony announcement

into the best Eden looka get their pupils

upon the Randolph Churchill would he sled down to his task than minster I was asked about the without sensibility it strikes not the latter are a considerable with

universities will be as acute as turbulent political scene to write on politics once

opened Are the new identity of Richard Strong, but merely at the man but at the force.

occupant of Downing Street, and like the man in the Gallup Poll exalted position that he holds. over, and parents whose financia}

in the Evening he how never stopped. status, geographical location and day he mutters to himself: week "connections" with powerful "I have only one règrel. ¦ Standard and that he would persons are greatest will do best falled to destroy Randolph," express his own opinions for their children,

even though they were con That much pressures are exert-

ITA All this is a prelude to a trary to those held by the to by occasional frank portrait which 1 pro- Express Group. ed is attested

in the Soviet press complaints that parents have even resorted pose to put before you in to bribery of school officials on this issue. It is the portrait behalf of their children.

of a

45 years old, man, In this respect, perhaps the

who accumulates enemies as most interesting of the recent decisions on education mnounced a mixer accumulates gold. 12 the Congress by Kruschey is the government's intention to build a mmber of so-called "boarding schools" of lop-level standard.

of

references

At the end of World War II,

member Politourenu

Nikolai Voznesensky announced that the

intelli "tolling numbers

esta" had been 11,300,000 in

More recent 1030. have been to

16,000,000 which dependents would mean ut least 30,000,000,

Not

membora oll

of the But when a proletarian

intelligcotsia" enjoy revolution expropriates wealth or privileges. capitalists and landowners,

S. teachers in villages or clerical em- economic power belongs to small towns and

can player, in many enterprises are the people, and there

certainly less well paid than the no longer be a ruling class. most skilled factory worker. In the Soviet Union there are only two classes, which Aru not antagonistic but fraternal-the workers and the peasants,

immense

Even so, while-collar

work cons to hea a strange attrac on for Soviet young people, an shown by frequen in the urts deploring the ex-

complaints

cess.ve number of effee workers in Soviet cities and urging youth от the that the factory benchi

tractor.

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of the highest differentials in the world.

to

1979

BEAVERBROOK

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SURPRISE

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1 could only

the immortal tuousnes

answer: "Don't

of

SIMILARITY

to

PREJUDICE

not

have writte

no

know."

Yet, es Mr Strong went ap- 1 would

from strength propriately thony is a weakling, a wobbler, familiar phrases. Lord Beaver- were

Randolph's eyes Sir An- strength, my car, began to detect tin this if Randolph Churchill

อ normal

pollician dilettante and

Journalist bungler. brook has always liked the or

in indulging England had fallen low indeed pungent comh

short vagaries of temperament. But The wise ones winked Since when it could find по better words. Not for him the volup- a man cannot shake of his when did newspaper barons give successor

and cadenes of the dutica to his family-and more, writers who

were Winston than this taltored poct. He says what he has to especially when he bears the antagoniatic to the established dummy from the Foreign Office. say with no obscurandan or name of one who is immortalised policy of their newspapers? Four

irritating asides. Everything is while still on earth.

There or five articles perhaps just res

is the "Sir Anthony

strong forthright and crystal cloar.

foreseeable window-dressing, trut not h man who will lead us to proe-

poklical future for Ralph, But they weekly column,

did perity," shouted the Express

which is a good thing for Bri- Group, "Put your trust in Sir

tain, but es brilliant journalist To understand the sig- not know Lord Beavebrook,

Anthony." No wonder Fleet

To do Mr Strong credit,

his and as an informed cornmenta- nificance of Randolph Which brings me to the hero Street gasped.

style was not completely of the for on current events he Ilandolph narrative. Churchill at this moment it

the public mind and Frederick Exward Spencer

Then came the next surprise. Beaverbrook school. There were influence necessary to recall that

Churchill. The vital statistics With a fare of trumpets the moments when it slid into the add knowledge to the multitude, Nor would I deny him the Standard comment, the staunchest newspaper of this formidable gure are that Evening

bore announced tortuousness

similarly to a recent right to criticise the Primo champion of Sir Anthony he has been married twice, that that another political commentum of Aneurin Bovan's leg. Minister without mercy pro- Eden today is

he sat in Parliament as a Tory for had been engaged by them, onl no less A

The Viding that such crittelemis the born of judgment and conviction person than Baron Beaver from 1940 to 1945 and did gai- a writer who would have com- wing weekly, Tribune,

lant war Service with tho pleto freedom of expression just cititor had resigned from

and not from prejudice, Loni Tribune and had disappeared Yugoslay patriots after

Churchill. Trib Ger- the mme as Randolph our into space. Could he be the Beaverbrook is right to give him many had overrun their country. The now star was DO

Richard Strong, mysterious person than Richard Strong.

Twist Randolph DEFEATED

Strougl It is true that there that name as a disguise?

ment by accident on a dark But that does not quite Ox-

Fortunately I cannot tell you, right, As for Mr Strong, may are some 15,000,000 people Ev-

that he Essential statistics ing in Greater London and that although you will agroo

from

certain amount of un- there,

of our Elite Schools

remarkable

such

good

brook.

It

thus.

marked

which

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a

can

But who or what was Richard 25suming that he had, adopted well and trust that we shall not

appropriately

2. (COPYRIGHT); /

So much for doctrine. In

true practice, It is there are no large private

In contrast, the higher levels landown ra and no private of the oiling intelligentia”

пте the Soviet Indeed

The privileged.

ITYURT capitalists in Union. It is equally true darling prizes go to the decura

tive aristocracy of court puctu that

political

In and ballerinas and after then, power is concentrated in the factory managers high Krushchev stated that the new the hands of

small officials #

in ministrica. senior institutions were to be modelled number of Communist officers of the armed forces, and after

pre-revolutionary heads of party or trade union aristocratic schools as those for Party chiefs, and that 巍

breachro.

the cadet the corps of pages, larger but still smuli

The salaries of the upper "in- corse and the institutes for the of the Soviet belligentsle,'

compared daughters of the gentry. minority

was not ever Situated in pleasant localities, population enjoys material worker and peasan! wages, show

Income the schools are to have "spacious During Eden's regime at and cultural privileges e

the Foreign Office he way! dormitories, classrooms. which raise them far above

riddled with grapeshot by hous; the dining rooms," With greater wealth, the up- well-appointed the mаssен.

per stratum can oblain private the

available" "best

teachers, the Canadian press mag- As a Tory ho was defeated in in such a multitude there must the element of coincidence is strength to strength. dwelling houses and other pro- and ample provision for extra- At The Top perty, which now can be passed, curricular activities. Admission nate. But when Eden be- the 1945 election, which swept be

tidal wave and left only a few A new social stratum has to children as inheritance, in fees will be charged, but partial came Prime Minister our the Socialists into power like a addtion to materiad privileges or complete scholarships will be Canadian compatriot sw of us marooned on the Opponi- formed at the top of Soviet the upper stratuan enjoys great granted to those poorer chlichen | the fight and was converted on Benches,

which social prestige, bestowed in

Admitted. society, access to

like Saul of Tursus. The

the schools The purpose of from below is still possible many forms of recognition such

and decora- according to Krushchev, as ties of rank

is the of rearing not

an aristocratic Far Better caste but of the "buliders of a new society, persons of great heart and high ideas, who are selflessly serving the people."

If, nevertheless, these schools become elite institutions whose graduates acquire a preferential status--ps socms to be intended the wealth and influence of high Soviet officials serking to enrcl their children are likely to be decisive, and the number of poorer children who enter them will be smell.

but in becoming more Hora, difficult. This stratum has striking similarities to the bourgeoisie of nineteenth

can best

Another advantage enjoyed century Europe, and indeed by the intelligentsia has been

be described by the opportunity

to give their the name "state bour- children a far better education

Bran

available tizat

the geoisie."

children ef workers and peÜ - sents.

not feel a ruling class, but it is the sedu gros from which the ruling personnel are recruited, and it exercises social presures which are felt within the higher ranks of the ruling Communist Party,

in an attempt to reconelle fact and theory, Joseph Stalin introduced a modification of the by ad- Marxist class doctrine mitting that there was in the Soviet Union a "stratum" (not

distinct "class B"class

from workers and peasants, which he called toiling intelligentaia." In 1937, according to the offelal report on the Third Five Year Plan, the "tolling intelli- gentsia"

consisted of 9,600,000 persons gainfully employed.

The subject deserves pause in

ol

affecting decisions view education announced at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

IVCA

Plan announced

Indeed, it is not unreasonable to suppose that these fer-basis schools are derigned in part to

It was not the int time that had drunk the bitter But let there be no mis. Randolph

waters of defeat. He was beaten The great in 1935 in Liverpool, and beaten take about it. Max has many faults but later in 1926 in a Scottish byo- sycophancy is not one of election. But that in no dist them. His sudden enthu- grace. His father suffered many defents at the polls in his tem- for Eden siasm

pestuous career. genuine.

INEVITABLE

was

fuct re Yet the undeniable mains that Randolph was never again adopted as a candidate, not even when his father led the Finally, his name was removed from the list of available candi- cates at the Conservative Ced-

Tories back to power in 1951,

He does not seek honours, After his stupendous ser- vices to the State as Minister of Aircraft Pro- duction in the Hitler war he tral Office.

took It

In brief, the Congreso direct

the Sixth Five Year

Eut how did Randolph accept the present upper could have had a step-up that from this compensate autumn fees for the top three intelligentsia-that is, to pre in the peerage by merely this blow to his ambitions? He classes of secondary school and serve relatively exclusive upper-whistling for it, but when Coriolanus who, when he

Like

the Emperor universities would be abolished, tunities for the education of and

In the face of other men had given their banished from Rome, declared that by 1960 universal their chikiren secondary education would be keenor competition in other lives he refused to accept "Rome banishes me? I banish achieved "basically" citles schools,

Rome. Thus did Randolph put! any reward.

Parliament in its place. to Adding this development

It was Inevitable that and "rural localities."

The abolition of fees will un- the other privileges which the

doubt But let there be no doubtedly mean that the children upper Intelligentsia enjoys, it when the Express News-

an excellent of high officials wil now

the elitist ten-paper Group became the about it-ho 19 counter keener competition

writer on polities. He has style, peeking entry to middle schools will be as strong if not strong open and belligerent cham forcefulness and courage. And Of these, 1,751,000 were and universities.

er in the 1960's as in the 1950s, pion of Eden as Prime heaven knows he has combatlye-

the

that en- appears

in doncica of the Soviet regime

EVE PERRICK tells:

HOW TO DODGE YOUR

DRINK AT A PARTY

vy plant hanging halfway

up

Model-girl Marla Scareña -- She says: "I drink only what But Rumia in 1931 was a most

of

the wall. The problem surpris she is the Italian beauty with my stomach tells me to, and austere place, No wild drunken ingly remains. There are a lot the sun-ripened look a not what anybody elso tries to parties or anything like that at

vineyard grape--has an effective talk me into."

Bernard Shaw, my opening sponer. She announces Mostly, it seems, her stomach

women who don't drink for not much) who often

find

good-time-being-had-by-pl

vice!

T takes our Bessie, the themselves at parties where that she doesn't drink, doesn't tells her to drink the waters busband and myself were most

bold and brave Brad- comehow linked up by the host's adore oysters, somehow making ve quarts a day

amoke, then whispers, "But I from Malvern Spa, Sho drinks Impressed with the Cromwellian atmosphere. And they must dock, to say "Niets to mind with a generous issue of that seem a mitch more worldly, Miss Crawford has made her have found us very cheap to you" when pressed to take booze.

preference for nature's wins, entertain." So bow does a smart girl side- a drink by a succession of

well known, which saves her Woll, this, you have th Deb-of-the-Year-Before-Inst, from minn of that tiresome a veritable Brains Trust from lavish hosts on her recent step the issue? ****

annollier-little-drink-won't-do- Bente B. to Lady As on how to trip to Russia. Back home, Lady Barnett the new pro- Frances Sweeney, rather

femlocal eliquetta export, is a joys being regarded as the Deb

dodo" that drink," flushed with success but "parker. S

dire you-any-harm rouline with the Difference-the She, foxing nothing more, she admits: tedious to keep

ference being that she has "It was difficult, but I beat drinks, takes them puts them drunk pure tomato juice through dom somewhere, and promptly two crowded, bolsterods reasons, Remi" M

forgels where. She advises that And Sabining of the robust, Now this question of how to this method is only workable at dairymaid chieme states firmly refuse the drink you don't want large gatherings.

is so old social problemas old?

as the story of the man with

intentions plying the

Innocent young ⠀⠀ mülden

VEThere lover an old

Koond when out of the

with.

kinkilatra, which in the old

Colways conveniently placed?

on refusing

Lody Astor's views about the 2- hér, mother tola ter, to be sure domor

even better

to stick to milk, When I tell are

people that," says the ex-Miss Sykos, they look as if they

king to drop de

I use my own methods, My- acid. Sadly Ibay, "Yes, "I'd lose another, -- but I daren't. He. member my by grandfather (This really impres en though my

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