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LOW

WRITES HIS STORY

By TREVOR EVANS

HEN David Low, ever Low was about to pre-

to Low had come

London

the

great

car. serve a legend of good nature. from Australia in 1919, and a Mr Jimmy Thomas wha do few years later his sister, who toonist, tella his lighted to justify Low's de kept house for him, married. life story he records the scription of him as "The Rt. So Low was lonely. political history of Britain for the last 37 years.

Hon.

Mr Dress Suit," And Asquith consulted him as tho greatest propagandist in Britain, For Low became an im- There was barely a figure of portant part of it. Many note, either in politics or liern- of his

private tims"

distinguished "vic- ture, outside modelled themselves circle.

Low's

on his caricaturo of them. Yet the most fascinating for factor in all Low's full life has

been the unexpected.

Sir Austen Chamberlain, example, came 10 wear bis monocle permanently, thanks to Low, though he confessed that he found it uncomfortable and could not read when he wore it.

William

Joynson-Hicks (Jix) came wear the out rageous collars portrayed in the Low cartoons.

Mr Lloyd George beamed and laughed and was playful when

DESERT ISLAND

Ward Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Quantian

*Low's Autoblography." Joseph, 30N, ort,

Michael

The Wind From Siberia

Blows Cold In

Tito's City Of Unease

B

is ELGRADE

shabby, incomplete, inconclusive sort of town, like its Com- munism. IL is full of empty plots, neither

parks, sites nor children snowball

other between trees.

bomb

where

the

-GEORGE GALE-

investigator of affairs behind the Iron Curtain flies to Yugoslavia to assess the effect of the groat Hungarian tragedy on Tito's Communists.

·BELGRADE-

ench black joined by "a Russian diplo- mat." It makes no differ.

ence.

neon

At night there are signs, bright, inviting. But

the

So

Yugcolavia

two

INSTITUTION

Ho records: "I sent a cable- gram to Madeleine Kenning of Auckland, New Zealand, saying address and one word in reply. Will you marry me?", prepaying

"In due course tho answer came, 'Yes, and in four months she arrived. We were married without fuss.

"My wife and I knew very little about one another, the duration of our acquaintance until she stepped off the ship of Southampton having been only three days, during a flying visít I had made from Australia to Zenland three years Who would ever have forecast New that the boy who left school at before."

Zen- 11 in Christchurch, New land, would today be able, in the closing pages of this absorb- ing autobiography, to quote foreign

describing newspaper him as "a British institution like the Nelson Column or Guy Fawkes"?

DEMANDS

...

And who would have expected a Left-wing cartoonist to and his most affectionately remem bered colleague in Lord Beaverbrook?

Time and again Low comes back to his association with Lord Beaverbrook and the Evening Standard. Low left The

Star In 1920 to get moro

space for his cartoons,

re-

He got more money too. Twice as much. But be mado so many demands on his rights that Lord Beaverbrook burst out, "Dammit, Low. Do you want to exit the paper too?"

Low And for 23 years mained on the Standard, 23 years of happiness and achieve- ment, where he exercised his freedom so much that Lord Beaverbrook WOS frequently nsked

to explain why he gave Low so much rope.

And now, Low records with gratitude: "Beaverbrook did not always laugh in the right place ot my cartoons, and some galled him.

"But in the 23 years of my association with his newspapers

can

recall only one cartoon being loft unprinted because of

disagreement over its politient

knows things. It knows that only the power of its own Communit Party holds it together and that "Sooner or later the content spirited effort about the Party is necessary if the men in power are to stay in Russian empire will which

end, for Hungary has Minister, in what he held to be

power.

the situation in Greece in 1945,

was

the blocked at request of Churchill, the Primo

workers of Hungary do not want shattered the myth,' the interests of

moerney,"

is Gale's verdict.

And it knows also that the

But Hungary went

further, Communism. Hungary would have left

The lenders of Communist Communist world entirely. wanted free elections. This was parties have doubtless known too much for Russia, Communism such things always. had to be saved.

They have known that their power rests not on the consent THEY LIVE of their people but on the con-

strength the IN FEAR

"We must be careful," from Tasя. the shops by day are dull, says the man of photographs and lengths tion." their windows full of ranks "This is a police provoca- It was to of cloth.

Nightclubs and secret The head waiter, with his police; hatred of England, fortune in his gold teeth, hatred of Russia. warns you that the liftman no-man's-land; or and the porters are Govern- house. ment spies.

It was too much for Yugo

So Russin installed Kador to save Communism; and Tito supported Kadar.

Tito wanted Hungary

to

spiratorial

Party.

of

But party lenders need party Titoist But Russia knew quite hacks. It is the hacks the rank This is well that Hungary could not and filers who have believed in halfway have Titoist Independence, that Communism, who have thought

then

it good, who have believed in it would independently

have throw Communism out of the Russia who now

their myth.

Russin had to crush Hungary. THE NAGGING

window. It is where American In the bar an ancient re- business men and Russian frigerator clatters, making soldiers eat in the same ice cubes for Americans. restaurant.. Good-time girls sit in bars doing crosswords and pick- ing their teeth, waiting for stray men of business from the West.

The police tolerate them in exchange for informa- tion.

lonely Yugoslavia is country, knowing what it dislikes better than what it ilkes.

An Englishman sits one of Belgrade's amateur

nightclubs drinking coffee.

ish

CAREFUL, SAYS THE RUSSIAN

in

THE GREAT DILEMMA.

at

Now Yugoslavia must decide: Does he want a free Hungary or D Communist Hungary? Docs she want Communism the Stalinist price and peace at the price of appeasing Russia?

I spoke to a political com

He said: "The Communist

this

mentator here. holds

Party

DOUBTS

lost

Over all the country, over all the East, men live in doubt and indecision.

The men in power live in fear; for Hungary has shown them that force can be beat ca when the myth is dead. Who rules in Moscow? No one knows. What rules in Moscow? No one knows.

Stalim may live again yeh all fear.

Western de

'DISASTER'

Low sacked himself from the Evening Standard in 1949. He wrote his farewell to Lord Beaverbrook in Jamaica, and in dated "Black Friday," reply, dat

Beaverbrook

concluded: "Your decision la a disaster. It is unnecessary and ill-advisable, That's what I think of it. Don't forget your old friend."

his Lord

Obviously Low hasn't.

He

went to the Dally Herald, but got little fun there and stayed only a short time.

When he drew his T.U.C.. horse

famous

The myth is dead. But the

for the Herald, masquerade is not yet over

Low adds, " dispute arose as I do not know when it 10 whether I Was deriding will end, for I do not know draught horse, or the T.U.C. The Russians have few of how brave men will be; or for So we parted." them to work with in Hun- how long they will submit to They have Kadar, repression and the lack of law. gary. half a dozen lackey pollt! But without the myth clans, and perhaps hun- masquerado must end. dred or two Hungarians who have sold themselves.

That is all.

enough.

the

So easy, after reading this with absorbing book, to agree him that his has been a happy Hfe.. But it has been thorough. He records: "Malding a car toon occupied usually about spent in three full days, two labour and one in removing the

of labour." But appearance

And that is the secret of the

I do not know when it will

know

It is not end, for I do not

how

It is where you can talk a little about free things; but write not a country together. Otherwise it

brave men will be; or for how word.

would split into pieces.

And just as Yugoslavia long they will submit to repres- Yugoslavia is a man "IT we have free elections knows that she cannot hold sion and the lack of law. married to Communism there would not be parties like the country together without without the myth the masquer Master. but conducting a biga- you know them, but parties on monolithic party, and ade must end

Lincs a Serbian agents or liftmen, she knows mous affair with the ferritorial West.

It has spruced Party, a Slovene Party, a Bos- also that Russia cannot maintain

nian Party, and so on.

her empire either without such itself up, like the

things. "Tito and the Communist tooth-picking good-time

our country Party united girls, with Yankee dollars: standing up to Husin. It

。

Yugoslavia

act

her

will shabby part a while longer yet, for she may be. Toist abroad but ia Stalinist at home-oxcept, for her Yankee by

Sooner or later, in one manner of course,

and good-time girls or another this empire will end dollars and it kids itself that it had political freedom the coun- for Hungary has shattered the picking their teeth. knows freedom.

.try would fall apart."

myth.

It is here, in a way more HE KNEW IT than in Hungary or Po- land or Russia itself, that WAS BAD

A couple of secret the huge dilemma of Com- police come up to him munism is most clearly and say: "English swine, seen. Get out of Suez, get out of Yugoslavin;'

Tito broods today with

They threaten him, his advisers over polley, knock his glasses off. past and present. They will not let him leave.

Wa

Yugoslavia now knows Russia cannot allow each matel-

that

lite to choose its own way to Communism, for some of them This is probably true, may not choose Communiam at Yugoslavia is held together all. by the monolithle Commu- nist Party.

ut am a Spyface.

So Belgrado tonight is a city sald of uncaso. The police havo the men still member of the Central Com- their ears open;

Anony- mitice of the Kugrelav Com- talk, in privato rooms, munist Party. "I used to be mously, of freedom; And openly an ordinary working man, they talk of Russit, poor and ignorant. I joined the Party... I ́fought in the revolution.

"Now I am a big shot. Siberia. out have a nice house and a car, and peasants Ho of the Cominform fold, he my children are being well gutters.

educaled. I cannot give those. I got away with it."

The wheel has ' almost In 1948 come full circle. Then the man from Tite challenged Stalin and, Tasa, the Russian News Agency,

comes although he was cast down the stairs.

joins the Englishman.

way? Which way?' wind blows cold from

Which

The

Straws dropped from curts drift in the

Horses collapse is the streets. will work Jos over so glad to see a He preached that each put it is wrong. It is all The peasants not wood Russian in my life, say country was entitled to wrong. I see that.

themselves. VS PANTA the Englishman.

tako its own road to Come D

He is one of the good: ""Com- The mudents The man from Tase thinks muniem.

munists who knows deep down their bellies

economy the Englishman is jok Stalin died. Krushchev that Communiem i bad, ing when he tells the story tried to kill Stalinism. Pongalan

another Edwi

and then the thugs come

back, raising their flats. Stalinists foll. Tito was

wland rose, Hungary rose, Xugoslavl Com

The waiter tells them that welcomed back, with open war

#Englishman has buen arms,

with a Premfor Who seen tho, wirils Tits tha prows doubla:

about

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