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WHAT IS an

AIRMAN?

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COMVUUUK

WHAT 18 AN AIRMAN.

W.J.S.

AN AIRMAN 18 AN EARTHY, BUT MYSTERIOUS CREATURE. THERE ARE TYPES OF EVERY NATION.

THEY ARE A ALITY WITH NO TWO EXACTLY ALIKE, FOUND CHIEFLY IN NAAFI'S, ON TOP OF AND INSIDE AERO. PLANES, IN GUARDROOMS, IN CINEMAS, ON SPORTS FIELDS, OUT OF BOUNDS AND ON THEIR BEDS,

AIRMEN

ARE

OF

COLOURS: MANY

WHITE-ON ARRIVAL FROM U.K. AT OTHER TIMES, VARYING DEGREES OF DROWN, PINK, RED, BLUE WITH COLD, AND SOMETIMES GREEN WITH ENVY WHEN THEIR FRIENDS GAIN EARLIER PROMOTION.

AN AIRMAN CAN SOUND AS WISE AS SOLOMON, DIM AD A LAMP. RICH AS ROCKERFELLER, OR AS POOR AS A CHURCH MOUSE,

HE LIKES CIGARETTED, BEER, GIRLB IN GENERAL, DORIS DAY, MARILYN CARDS, PAY PARADES, PIN-UPS,

/ [THE CHINA ́MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957.

MEN and

and POWER

BY LORD BEAVERBROOK

1917-

1918

Could the shriek of a parrot bring down the

THIS is the final extract

the climax and the opilogue - from Lord Beaverbook's book, "Men and Power 1917- 1918." This is the story of how a Prime Ministor "who had risen

hero who had known the triumph

of a day like this

to such heights that only his contemporarios can understand the pre-eminence he enjoyed " came swiftly to disaster. ...

HE war was over. Lloyd George was now

MONROE, NAAFI BREAKS, YMCA BUPPER, INDULGENCE the most powerful man

PASSES, GANGSTER BOOKS, FOOTBALL. TESTMATCHES, LETTERS FROM HOME, AND STAND-DOWNS.

once

took control.

medals, and of the Prime Minister were quite informal.

"We understand that the King has also approved the special award of the three war medals to Mr Asquith,"

BILL

in politics nothing is He really dominated the permanent, and often what French Prime Minister Clemen- seems to be made of marble and bronze turns out, after a little, to be composed of inth and plaster. So was it with the re- putation of Lloyd George.

ceau

of

He had immense au- thority with President Wilson.

He was giving the law to Eurypo axing

the boundaries, all the nations.

giving out HE DOESN'T CARE MUCH

encouragement to FOR WRITING LETTERS,

some coun- CEREMONIAL OR COLOUR HOISTING PARADES, CLASSICAL

tries and severely reprimanding MUBIC, GUARDS, R.A.F. POLICEMEN, JANKERB, INSPEC TIONS, BULL, VOUCHERS AND STANDING IN QUEUES.

NO ONE 16 80 LATE TO RIBE OR 80 EARLY TO BED AND NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT POLITICS AND FOOTBALL STATION STAND- OR LESS ABOUT PROMULGATIONS ON ING ORDERS.

WITH AN ACE IN HIG THE AIRMAN 18 CONFIDENT HAND,

IMPATIENT IN MEAL QUEUES, AUTHORITY WITH A PROP ON HIS ARM, D1BMAYED WITH AN ARRIVAL CHIT AND JOYFUL WHEN IT IS TURNED OVER AND BECOMES A CLEARANCE CHIT.

HIS POCKET HOLDS A BATTERED PACKET OF WILLB.

ANA UNANSWERED SEVERAL BALL, FORM

CRICKET 1280, LETTERS, A DELAPHATED COMB, TWO EMPTY POP GREEN DAKELITE TOKENS, KNIFE, FORK AND BOTTLES, OR SPOON, A PIECE OF PAPER AUTHORIBING AN EARLY OR LATE MEAL, AND A COPY OF THE LATEST HANK JANSON. AT YOU CAN GET HIM OUT TO THE GUARDROOM 06.45 HOURS, BUT YOU CAN'T MOVE HIM FROM THE NAAFI AT 22.00 HOURG ON PAY NIGHT. HIS ONE AMBITION IS TO BECOME A CIVILIAN,

BUT MIDWAY THROUGH THE MORNING, WHEN WORK IS GETTING MONOTONOUS, THE HEAT UNBEARABLE, AND ONE 18 DOWN IN THE DUMPS, ONE CAN FORGIVE HIM

DRINKING, TEA BEING FOR

A

SEEKING, LEAVE SKIVING BLOKE IN DIRTY OVERALLS, KD, OR BLUE UNIFORMB. IT'S THE TIME HE BURSTS INTO YOUR OFFICE, OR WORKSHOP SHOUTING HIS TWO MAGIC WORDS:—

"NAAFI'S UP."

in Europe. His fame would endure for ever. was admired and He praised in all countries. His prestige in the United Stoles waA so high that men said he would be elected as their President If he could run for offer there. He had

beaten his German enemies in the war. He had scattered and destroyed hin British enemies at the polls in Election the course of a General which disclosed an overwhelm- ing popular Judgment in his favour

arry political Hardly opponent escaped. They had fallen like autumn leaves,

It is not now possible to realise the immense position of thik this man Lloyd George

He had risen to

such

heights that only

his contemporaries can understand the pre-eminence he enjoyed. Winston Churchill, whose tame has enthared, never reached such a position And the electors in 1945 showed it clearly.

CONTROL

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He was the arbiter of

Europe.

Bonar Law the Conservative leader] said of him: "He can be

likes." And Bonar Law's judg ment was Armly and rightly- based on the facts of the situz- tion.

Prime Minister for life if he

By the end of the first year of peace, the prestige and au thority of His Majesty's Minister had softened.

were signs and portents

Chief There

It is hard to explain to a new generation the full measure of dislike, distrist, even loathing. with which the public came to regard his Government. It is easy, on

the

the

Churchill, Secretary of State

Prime Minister should be awarded the Distinguished Ser- vice Orber. The recommenda→ tion was rejected. Churchill was never easily put off. In October he wrote to the King that the Army Council wished Lloyd George to have the war medals.

for War, recommended that the "nimosity,

MEDALS

HE Palace resisted.

King The

thought AMERICA

T

| Premier

be

on the

some

to

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dow equals. He was gay baridi generous in sharing

flon. He did not monopolies the company with monologues,

was baither egotistical nor valdi, Save only of some physical characteristice - his big hendi, long hair, and small feet.

Bway to detect and explain individual actions, failures, and auocomoed, his motives high and Sow the

coution of

the men with his our to the ground, the quality of physical weakestes, fained to stark moral courage, the cool cynicism of the man of affairs, the magic of the prator, the glowing range of

What was the secret spring of oharacter from which all these qualities flowed?

was at the seemed to welcome the oppor- tunity of ruling his Government Cames, and ruling it alone. He would

That

Wits An <event great show that his

power was

January 1022. Lloyd George supreme and his will absolute.

I was wrong.

was, of course, Primo Minister. He was contemplating a Gene- Correspondence in the Lloyd al Election. And he might have

that the George Bea shows Prime Minister

been persuaded to go to the

kingdom of romance. recognised the country on an Empire Commer- dimculties confronting him.

clal Union platform

I

other

hand, to quote a letter from Lord Stam- [the King's Private chfordlam

shares of the On the sunny causes which, enumerate

Secretary written to the Prime Mediterranean he held ocuri. insufficien

as they may now

Minister on March 19, 1921.

Several Cablayer Ministers were appear, brought about the extra-

My dear Prime Minister. in attendance, Churchill among turn from public favour Here are

The following are extracts them. Of course I was present. from a letter Just received I always managed to be present from the King at Knowsley when Empire was at issue.

coto after in reply to what i wrote

a cage. parrot in seeing you yesterday morning English parnot, A parrot en "I am sorry the Prime Minister dowed with a gift of prophecy. is low on account of B.L..'s realgnation: but he must not

despondent as I firmly be lleve he is now more neces-

some of them:

Lloyd George's serics ΟΙ foreign

conferences which produced nothing and ended in

tulity and ridicule.

His hostility to France and his preoccupation with Cer-

many.

3

The failure of his German policy, which finally result- ed in driving Germany into the arms of Russia.

footing

unill 1010) should The grave risk he ran when

4.

ho threatened war in the Near East. At that time war was sure to Involve other na- tions and Ukely to end up in another European conflict.

as Lloyd George.

He objected that it would be difficult to give the modals to Lloyd George and Ignore the other Ministers. Nor, it appeared.

was he entirely persuaded that the inspiration had come from the Army Council. But he was awkwardly placed, for it was probable that Lloyd George had already been toki

And, in fact, Churchill wrote again On December 7, 1919. acknowledging that. Lloyd George had been consulted and had expressed ·great pleasure, "I would rather have saying: them then an earidom." Оп Jamiary 8, 1926, the newspapers arounced-

At 10, Downing Street, Last

Winston night, Mr

Churchill nt time member of the Army Council waited upon the Prime Minister to present him with the special award of, the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal, approv ed by the King,

0

The proceedings, which were private, lasted only mtoutes. The speeches of Mr Churchill, who presented the

*After many years the warldom came to both in tima, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 and Bart Lloyd Gemale là 1929, BECO ĐỘI. tions for honours flow from the Primo Ministers. Baldwin waa responsible for recommending the Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Winston Churchill put forward the name of Hoyd George. But some Priv Simisters are not backward in re- commending themselves. Almost avory Prime Minister from Asquith to Eden has been honoured with one or other

only order, exK PŘIJE Chamberlain and Bonar Law. Law disapproved of the system.

SCANDALS

minister

To

be

sary to this country than he

CVET

was & that the vast ma-

was a

LAUGHTER

So

An

HOULD Lloyd George, the Prine Miniser, call for an General Election? would he

jority of the people are be immediato

I was talking to And on what issue hind him

M.Ps hero today & seek the support of the public? 2 Labour they were loud in singing the

Laming Worthington P.M.'s praises & both sald he is the strong

me we have Evans, the Secretary for War, spoko brillantly in favour of had since

air cloction.

He had a splendid

Sir

Celtic imagination

so profound 23 to pass here and there into the far country of idealism, the

But even

30, the question mamer of neverberates, what man was this wizard of Wales, as he was dubbed by some of his colleagues; "the Goat" by others!

DIRE NEED

W

'HAT chread of com sistency bound those dull OF glistening heads together? What was the secret spring of character from which all these diverse qualities flowed!

Perhaps we are too sear the masterpiece to Se the real worth of the picture. We can say, however, that in the day of our dire nood when the blast of the terrible one was against the wall, a strange figure sprung into the arena to do battle. It seemed that he was cat breastplate set in a vesture of

clad in it was

a Jowelled

Yours very truly,

voice, STAMFORDHAM, Now, this better is the first the vecasion on record when King shows sympathetic consi- deration for his Prime Minister, Lloyd George.

SHADOWS

A moment when Lloyd

LL this just at the moment when Lloyd

LL the while unem ployment was wide- smead through the lanch. Agriculture declined,

Certain personal factors play- ed their part. Scandal after scandal

broke out over the collection of a Lloyd George party fund. The Prime

his agreed to sell the Daily Telegraph for £00,- was showing signs of change 000. When the

took and decay and the shadows were public offence over this transaction, gathering over the Prime Minis

ter himself. Lloyd George was compelled to declare that proceeds of the book would go to war charities.

But the immediate cause of his fall may have been his arrogance coupled with tho decline of the trust and con- idence which he had inspired during the war.

STRESSES

W

in

and

·HEN, 1921, the partnership between Lloyd George Bonar Law came to an end, after, many straina nnd stresses, the Prime Minister wis dealt a mortal blow.

Lloyd George always enviod azid proprietors newspaper sincerely tried to keep on good terms with them. After I retir ed trom his Government my social relations with him elther pleasant Dr My political position might be described as much the same as We entrance to a well-known club which gives rise to the

"The In and Out Club."

In abeyance.

HOPES

W

2

before

him.

ing everything When he concluded his argu- rags and tatters. It faltered in ment, a hush fell on the com- dis walk, and yet leaped with a of the wonderful swiftness. The sword pany. The opponents

silenced election were

Then looked as fragile as a rapter suddenly, from that cage, the and yet smote with the impact shrick of the English-spealding of a battle-axe. As it was held so was the hope of parrot cried: "You bloody fool. on high,

Britain And when the swords- You bloody fool"

man stumbled, anxiety filled the Evana's argument was lost in

breasts of the multitude. laughter. The parrot had decid- the issue. There was election

edi

DO

Churchill gave me a Hit back to my hotel 10 miles away. As night we drove through the what do you think we talked

about? The parrot,

SUPREME

A

CABINET Qf strong been men had,

fiverted for the time

by the sheer gravity of the

The parrot had stood in the diluation from the bigger way of Empire polley. The issue the issue. defeat or

an end to the victory. It was, at parrot had put

of an election. The that foyd prospect

Spenetrated parrot hot put an end to Lloyd the gloom of doubt, and inded- George) Within a year he was sien. It was in the holar of driven from office, never to peril that no reded to com-

power again,

our

em defcat

template any plan for retreat. at the General He would tank only of counter- Election of 1922 was humiliat attacks. It was then his leader ing to him, and devastating to ship showed laclf supreme, his

courage undiminished. his followers.

CHAMPION

What now

E had several die putes, but always I

assessments will Lloyd George, on the retire-

was called back to mcnt of Bonar Law, appeared collaboration, when Lloyd

tomorrow bring forth, and what HAT manner of a to me to be relieved. I was un-

would George

discuss with

judgment will posterity, accord man was this mighty der the Impression that he was me the

to David Lloyd George, born in of prospects

champion in the

a cottage, brought up in a shoe- weary of hearing that Bonar. General Election on the Empire critical period of British bla- maker's shop, alrayed from the Law kept him stmight

He fegue, Nothing ever came of tory? How did I measure him Acids of Linnystumdwy to that

these discussions, but each time in tho. last two

yours of the now street so many desire to my hopes were again aroused.

Great War?

tread, yet

desserva to so few The last occasion on which I As a witty and genial com- enter, the path that leads to No. had formed great expectation pandon the Prime Minister had 101

♬ in fact, 10 years passrā kofore he Feturned to the book. Its earnings did not go to charity.

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