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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.

Those political weeklies-how on earth do they keep going ?

F. WILLIAMS

ORWARD

KEM-

Michael Foot is the man

they fear at Westminster

ENEATH the

papers and piles of pul

chritude that have pride of

place on the news-standa

lurk an astonishing variety

by Robert J. Edwards

of weekly political reviews. keep the country solvent can at No other country has so leart claim that it practises whit

nyut even France. It prenches,

They are a strictly British

phenomenon,

In the opinion of their readers, they testify

to

Superbverage

Statesman

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ESS prosp rinas, but buoyant, New nevertheless, Th Britain's political maturity.

Nation, the A more likely explanation Is that tycoons and the magodne no fashionable Social- ist scan to be without 1 large

more than 70,000 at d tm is explained by its superb coverage of books and the arts, as well as by its appeal to the public school Ar university

Treasury deserve # large sale share of the credit.

Surprising sale

Bovan's

opinion,

Mr valuable colleague,

are nuure moderate than in the dichard days of Collin Brooks Mr Scott has a fair matched by no other review editor for dis covertog nad uias (such are the rewards elsewhere) losing, new nost jet in Journalism. He is the

Carroll Levis of Fleet Street.

It was Tribune's power in the Socialist Party Mr YC!!!

Now

Another vigorous young editor

the that prevented is

Spectator's Mr tan

Bevan's

I have that wrong. two Gilmour expulsion

Mr Bevan The Spectator is Mr Glimour's agn

the Bis career was spurred on by is generally recognised as most formidable figure on the hals good fortune

having the te bar enough

buy Tmajority of Spectator shares,

Socialist

none

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Bench,

Front And his and

policies have beet: largely adopted at least for the Ume being.

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YOUNG man spun a coin on Hendon airfield 43 years ago. Ho called out "heads." And heads it wns. Today he is Sir Roy Dobson, one of Britain's star aero- plane builders and in- dustrialists.

He is the man behind the £30 million deal by which control of the Algoma Steel Corporation of Canada is changing hands In one of the biggest operations of recent years,

LINK WITH RAF

In the war he built for the RAF Its famous Loncaster bombers In the peace he has created in Canada à 100 million dellar engineering network on a 1800 dollar loan put up by a friend

SIR ROY DOBSON

The man behind the £30 million deal by which con- trol of the Algoma Steel Corporation of Canada changing hands is 9tr Roy Dobson. Here he tells how he reached the top.

By Alexander Thomson

"A two-engined bomber wo at 66 Sle Itay hus were bulliling was not a. Fucees, developed in full MecLane Tue We decided that if it were Art of Success, 1 have been redesigned to take four of the asking him about it. In quiet voice, silli dusted with the tones of his motivo Man- chester, he gave his three rules:

You musi know yout

job.

You

make up your mind about what you want to do, and then have unswerving faith in what you are doing.

You must never be the pho to De worn down when you meet opposition. Always let that be the other follow.

Algoma

Sir Roy 15 head of the A. V. Roe Canada enterprise which is

the book putting through

not Steel deal.

He is

also one of the directors of the Hawker Siddeley which controls Mr aircraft group

Mr Gilmour has engaged Mr Guy

write Burgess to reviews Though he expected to deliver the scripts

A la persun frequent contributor 13 Randolph Churchill,

Intrusion

Crossmei

151

manu-

mare

A.

V. Roc,

top

How does he manage to do so much? Puffing at a cigne Str

explained; Roy

" like work, but there is no -point in getting intense about it, cay to yourself I am the only one who can do that job' you will soon be dead,

"I spend my time making sure that hera are doing what i want them to."

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system which ikows mater evrtala ven- companies Millons to contribute sume of

Laft their

prodlis 1 loss-making

best tribute to Tribune firms, a su verhare the amount *1 Statesman's delier neirs

brett paid by Mr of tax they would ofherwise pay, are is arid polütent dirges and Bevan's

ader Mr present is perhajes a mainstay of some leading untiles, and fetiera the Hugh Gaitskell He and his of the weekl Another prep kngth of murder reports. Ample trivids have taken over Forward must be subsidies from rich men compensation

in a recent Issue Mr Churchill from CUCH

after the vole of the Clydeside in the form of gifts.

at the heavy awards Without

quain lonely warts personal sebet Shetalist MPs, as

a rival reJA EL Á such bearerner, a

made number of adverbrements

In Bgainst newspapers colint. comu paper, reviews would, according to my petitions of a

recent libel actions He advise strictly Lo

he ind been calculations, seureely survive the

Cortajona, portu variety, and They bu so through a con- anyone who fell

Intrusion night.

highbrow - Bavoured

gossip troll.

hereetly libelled following Vanapatay

telephone Cooke into private life tu columa by the paper's brillian

As a young man Rey Dobse: trafted Mr Gult him at his home in Suffolk,

mechanical sund wich Heeled

engineer, Kingsley Martia

So, happily.

Mr Aneurin Cohen managing

Bevan, Mr Dobson

become a very good kuti-million Rehard

and Mr engineer. Steam engines wero The wil sale of the seven

Phillips paper's Alliance Building Socity, and Morgan

have since his line. leading political weekites →the

But he liked to try everything politics Mr

Put writs for libel in relation John Damond, a former Economist New

States, influence commensurate with its Tribune shareholder and to another article in the same once. And that was how he camo Spectator

Tine and careulation Tribune, Tide, Truth, and Forward...is

only weekly managing director of Capital Issue of the paper. So far as i to spin a coin at Hendon in early review whose punches

ure and Provincial New Theatres know, they did not telephone 1914, surprising, taking into account powerfully felt at Westminster, Lid. the influence they are supposed and which is rend with

He had gone there with friends to have a flight, Demand was fear and trembling, Is Tribune, Forward must be costing some-

greater than supply, They had whore Bevanite gospet is argued one dearly.

to settle who went It has none of the Tume and Tide (editor

to toss up el

Dobson won--and every week with the subtlety of incongruous capitalist advertise managing director Lady Rhond- | up. « charging chinoceros,

ients wisely inserted from time du) is now the only orthodox thrilled. to time in Tribune to influence voice of extreme Toryism among Socialist polley mak-rs ured the weckles. Mr W. J. Brown nutionalisers, Its most striking wriles regularly. The paper, hus Socialist rank anal te through-

characteristic 15 prominent been charged with having never of its viitor. Me looked forward since the days out the country Is Brains photograph Trusts were the only successful

Fruncis Williams, which appears of the suffragettes. week'z in what I assume to be political meeting during The

of apathy

that is yourle role of lighting a long period

looking out of a preceded the Suez intervention pipe while When Mr Gaitskell had a television screen. week in a new typographical audience of ten one chilly night garb. Despite its radicul, often Tribune Brains Trust near-by Left-wing views, it is the en- had 400. lightened big business man's

to have,

Only

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the Arst three publish their figures, but my guess that the combined total is no more than 250,000. Deducting the newsagents share leaves less than 30,000 weekly revenue froma sales to be shared among the Deven. It is money you're after, für better to invest in UR Espresso bar.

One paper in the group with Be money worries at alt is the Economist, witch appeared last

The

some

Tribune is by far the most widely circulated weekly among

The active members

Valuable

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The

Forward was taken over to defeat Παλ the Tories but Tribune, whose power has been referred to privately Mr Gaitskell in tones of awe,

It is therefore a schismatic

sheet tending to develop and exacer- Tribune bate internal party quarrels,

Heavy burdens

East Bergholt before seeing their Jawyers,

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Too risky?

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FIRST CHALLENGE

So thrilled that he wna soon working for the airplane firm of A. V, Roe, in Manchester.

Sir Roy it a second cigar. We moved on to his second rule for success.

The first challenge to Dobson's faith in airplanes came in the

the 1918

years that followed

peace,

EVEN Punch, closer to being weekly political review than ever before, is attacking He was then mummaging the institutions it formerly regarded A. V. Roe business here. A new na sacred. Not even the clergy boss came in and wou led to turn are now safe from its barbs.

the whole lot over to making car bodies.

- paper m business subjects, 11 also read by people who advise big business men, people who Would like to be big business

On major issues, men, and people who are as nearly always represents the picious of big business men, and opinions of its co-founder and want to keep an eye on thein,

ex-editor Aneurin Bevan, whose Every year the Economist wife is a director, Michael Fool, swells its income by selling what editor and controlling share- must be the most expensive desk holder, has been associated with 17R RONALD STAPLES is the views in his own paper. dlary in Britain. No doubt many the paper from the beginning. rolling shareholder of Truth. He NA printer, publisher and con- readers recoup the cost of this except for a period when he was or someone else Investment ότι their expense at the Evening Standard-of shouldering heavy burdens, accounts

which he was editor, though cer. The paper

that constantly tuinly not controlling the policy The Government how to of the paper. He is, in my

telle

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

"ONE OF OUR TIME REC WENT INTO THE NIPPLE, --THERE WAS A PLAGU

"HE RETURNED FROM THE PAST-

ICK WITH THE PLAGUE. HED

TEN WHAT NESS WAS--*

Its editor, Mr Malcolm Mug- Dobson said he bould produce geridge, also writes in the New them better and cheaper than Statesman, where his most Left- anyone. But he insisted on wing contributions appear, Pos-building airplanes too, sibly he feels it would be too "I was threatened with the Kreat a risk to publish such aack," Sir Roy recalls. "But I would not budge. And eventually the boss gave way." The changes in Punch are re- We switched to his third nected in Its circulation. The rule for success never be the average weekly sales were down one to give way when you feel | by nearly 6,000 from July to you are right. Under its present editor, Mr December last year compared Sir Roy recounted one par- George Scott, Truth's opinions, with the similar period in 1955, Į Ucular story from the last war;

must

also be

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

"THE SICKNESS SPREM

PLANET HAD BEEN

DEST TED

THE

"THE WHOLE PLANET WAS ALMOST WIDED

latest Rolls-Royce engines it could be transformed into a fine airplane.

"Bul materials were seuree, and engines even settrcer. We had to beg, borrow and nearly stem to get what we wanted to prove our point,"

The result was Britain's war- wlming Lancaster,

After the war he became con- vinced that there were big opportunities In Canaria

STARTED ON LOAN

But dollars were even shorter Then than they are now. Itur once it seemed as if Dobson would have to be the olle lo give way,

He burrowed 1,070 dollars from Canadian friend and formed a company in Canada,

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From the Canadian Gover- ment he then bought a wartime airplane fuctory от "never- never" terms.

Half the profils were to bo used to pay off the debt, A Canadian bank lent working capital to be repaid from the

other half.

in the 10 years since, the build-up has been immense.

With assets

of 100 million Voe Canada is A.

Britain's biggest amont oversen; investments.

After the Algoma Steel deni

dollars Bow

it will be bigger still.

In full measure has Sir Roy Dobson demonstrated his Art of Success, And if fee words he sume it up: 91 Bike work,

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