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SO NOW

ITHE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1931.

Can he shake the Government to its foundations or Big Bobbity bust ? /

HE IS HISTORY

is quite possible that you were not unduly excited IT

by the nows that the Marqub of Salisbury, had resigned as Leader of the House of Lords. In fact you probably wont about your business and your pleasantries as if a lordship's resignation was just one of those things..

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On that particular morning, we ourselves were concentrating on the annual Oxford and Cambridge bout race which everyone except the Cambridge crew believed would be won by Oxford. I was at a house party on the river where we watched the progress of the race on television and then went on the lawn and cheered the crews as they went past. Our host was a former member of Parliament and most of his guests were past and present politicians,

The rice had hardly ended and we were turning to the serious business of

light refreshment when there came a news flash un the television: "Lord Salis

and

moro

powerful

and political reign of the morse haunted Elizabeth to the coming to an end. end of her days.

1

Cecila

Was it wounded vanliy? Was Now let us leap forward to it just caprico?· He had advlaod the 19th century. Robert Arthur the Queen to put Macmillan on Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, the the Tory throne and at the third Marquis of Salisbury, had adoption mooting by all the become, Prime Minister of Bri- Tory M./a and Peorg · it was lain. So powerful was he that Salisbury who made the specch ho combified the posts of Prime of congratulations and invited Minister and Foreign Secretary us to accept Macmillan as the and his beard gave him the Party Leader. appearance of infinite wisdom,

Yet it is on record that at Eton he was such a delicate buy that the bullies gave him and time, Actually the bullying

Sir Beverley Baxter M. P.

buty has resigned as earlier had declared in effect that was no

of the House of Lords in protest against the Govern- ment's proposal to release Archbishop Makarios from the Seychelles."

Salisbury had resigned! But why? Did he really feel so aggrieved that he would choose this moment to em- barrass

Minister Prime

【POCKET CARTOO& by OSDENT LANCASTER

"Break off your engage *ménet Nonsense!! If your having a title's going to embarrassthelosal Torles, Lancelor' do_far better to stand as a Socialist It"

Macmillan who had just re- turned from Bermuda and would be facing a full dress debate in the Commons on the Monday?

Macmillan of the Premiership?

was unworthy

At this point you might be asking yourselves why the rebellion of a peer, even though he was the Leader of their lordships' House, should bring about a crisis. The answer is that not only was Salisbury the leader of the peers but he has play ed the role of the backroom boy as long as I can re member.

In fact my purpose in writing this London Letter is to gossip about the Cecils (that is the family me) who have more or less ruled Great Britain from the reign of Elizabeth I to our present Elizabeth IL In fact their influence

As I told you at the begin- ning of this. London: Letter Salisbury chose the Boat Race Saturday to make his Bera)-

Losal announcement. But what was in his natuto mind? Did he believe that there would, be a crisie in the Tory Party and that Macmillan would arounço that the Archbishop would not be released? I do not bellevo that Salisbury could have been so stupid.

?

Monday

came

severe that he wa withdrawn from

At any rate Eton at the ge of Afteen, and his sub- and the House of Commons dominated the world. But re-

WIS so. crowded that many

As for the

of

NEW Zealand was nothing more

than a name on the map when the Hillary family first went there. And when Edmund was born in Auckland in 1919 it was still a

country for pioneers-still new and] bursting at the seams with untapped

sequent stay at Oxford Univer- the MP's had to stand at the wealth. ity way shortened by sickness, Bar of the House, In fact after taking his degree public galleries there was round the world to restore his he spent two years on a voyage carcely breathing space.

But health which had suffered from his Etonian incarceration,

Now

179 pause

for

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seemingly unperturbed. He gave

Mac the Knife

a full account of the Bermuda conversations and was in ex-

cellent form, IT the Cecil

was not

ap

parent to our eyes, Salisbury,

moment and ask why the Bri- ghost walked it

let ish people with their sturdy independence were content that the unclected Upper House of Parliament should exert so much power. The answer is that the British were feeling their

towards their Own

why

the mighty Sallshury, had dis- appeared into the twilight of the gods.

expression UNRUFFLED

of democracy.. They hind

Rot

Sar 39 government of the people for the people but were not ready yet to add the third axiom of "by the people."

MACMILLAN

His father, kept been, tad his parents that he was not The which isn't such a gentle cut out to be a scholar. occupation

splendours of geometry left him 1.8 it might

cold. sound. Looking after 1,600'

So he left and went to work full hives Was never simple, when they all decided to it was a good life, healthy and time for his father. In its way

swarm at once the whole open-air demanding family was thrown into sufficiency and a certain amount chaos. Even at the beat of unge, to see new sights kept of resource, But that restlong times, life with the bee nagging at him. keeping Hillarys meant plenty of hard physical work.

When he was twenty, Hillary and a friend decided to take a trip to the South Island of New Zealand and see if the Southern Alps were really as wonderful as they imagined.

Our first picture of Edmund is as a tall, gangling youth of twelve or £0. He was a good

"I looked mixer open-hearted, friendly,

at They were. likeable. But despite this, he them," said Hillary, "with a had certain independence of

growing feeling of excitement-- nature which often made him the great rock walls, the bang- ing glaciers, and the avalanche- sa wandering oft by himself. And already, he had a burning

strewn slopes. And

then desire to see the world beyond strangely stirred by it all, I felt Itemuera Road, Auckland.

restless for action.

fle set off to walk up to the owline, which was some mile up the mountain-side, and

night tired, worn, but with a sense of huge achievement,

Three

Or fur hours later It was scen evident that the Macmillan left the Chamber Marquis of Salisbury of those and joined some of up In the

true descendant of appropriate room for a cup of has days wHS &

his ancestor who hid beheaded tea. He had flown home after been 80 lasting and 80 poor. pretty little Mary, He endless hours with President,

twenty-five wLS strong that

appeinte: Secretary of Eisenhower, he had presided years ago members of the State for India but resigned over a Cabinet meeting and Forse of Commons used to seven months later after a then addressed the Commons refer to Parliament as "The violent quarrel with the two for over an hour, yet he could

Tory Leaders-Mr Disraeli in not have looked less worried ifferent, but rather through luck arrived back inte at Hotel Cecil.”

the Commong and Lord Derby he had just come back from a io the Lords,

week at the. Isle of Wight,

History Look note of the family when Elizabeth I made William Coell, of Northington- hire her principal Minister of State. The famliy

In fact, the Ceells, are shrewd At the moment. It looks as if signers. When Anthony, Eden the long, politlent reign of the done resigned as Foreign Sceretary Cecil family has come to an well out of the dissolution of out of protest against Chamber end. Britain's politicians, are a

hac

the toleries and it was not Jong before the great Queen knew that in Willkom Ceci she

it

minister who would give

lain's

appeasement visit to tulerant lot and it might be that

Muscaling in Rome in 1938 the it Macmillan made* some present Lord Salisbury who catastrophic blunder Salisbury had shrewd and yami left the Government,

was then in the Commons, also would be taken back us the mun who said "I warned you." vital leadership to those vibrant,

But my guess is that he has years when Shakespeare was the family remained unaltered. twilight and evening star and But the immense influence of entered the twilight of the gods Being in his own plays, when Lord Drake was calling the seas and Robert Cecil was

Salisbury's uncle "Lord after that the dark. mighty

The Chief Spain

beng

Leader of the League of Na- It all happened, if you can humbled by the seamen of England.

tions enthusiasts and another remember, on the day of the uncle, Lord Hugh Cecil, was Boat Race. With a nice touch one of the most brillant and of topicality one of the London influential back benchers

FOTHERINGHAY

The House of Commons.

Yet

were

Bamo

As a scholar he was indif- nearest

OCKET CARTOON

by OEDERT LANCASTER

"Cheer up, darling, in a mouth or two's time we shall, all have been made to see that the whole unfor- tunate incident was really

a blessing in disguise!"

Bless our hearts it was only u few weeks back THE GHOST OF

in Sunday newspapers wrote in its when the 111 powerful

exfiteriul column; "If one of the Salisbury had advised the

Oxford crew had disagreed with Queen to make Macmillan

the unforgiving years the tactics of yesterday's roce

tol. loking their

Both he would have had 0 perfect Prime Minister and had

Lord Hugh Ceell (who had right to air his opinions after- thrust Rab Butler into the But what was to be done

buen made a peer in his own words but, he would hardly discard. And when Mac- about Mary Queen of Scots who right and took the

of abandon the boat in the middto millan

was in prison at Fotheringhuy? Quickswood) was gathered accepted

to of the race and step into the that

As long as she was alive there the great democracy of

the water" supreme office was it, not would be the danger of France next world

tits along with this great Salisbury who fighting a war to put her on the brother Robert. Lord Salisbury but in my opinion the political It is never safe to prophczy presented Mac the Knife to English throng and the possible was alone

his glory for his

business the assembled Tory mem- rising by tit: Scots,

the Hotel Cecil is out of son and heir did not like hers of both Houses as caution, William Ceell who had became an MF. and the House she waited a long time for It

Dre House of Commons when he for ever, Mary Queen of Scots of interest

has had her revenge although shortcomings. their undoubted Leader? become Lord Burghley asked did not think much of him,

while we watch Elizabeth to sign the

the What would the Sunday warrant for the lovely foolish out trace.

death: Politically he disappeared with t

Imaginary Hotel Cecil being press have to say about it? Mary,

demolished brick by brick let I was to be a pre- How could Macmillan face caution nothing more. With In fact Salisbury

men of was like us pay tribute to the the House

in on Monday to fear her heart Elizabeth the bay on

the burning deck beds and munense ablity who carried the name of Cecil to debate the Bermuda con signed and Lord Burghley whence all but he had fled. I such heights.

promptly cut off the pretty hend may have ference

tha been

deciding when the Tory of the young Queen of Scotland, factor in ha astonishing re- The Coelis. not only made Leader of the Upper House whereupon England grew mot signation that he saw the long history. They are history.

Therefore, merely

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AGENDA:

Cubs and

Slashes

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then any

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Mount Cook

**The spark was there-it need-

•ed only one incident to landle it into fame. And that incident happened on the evening of his arrival. He was sitting in the lounge of the tourist resort when two strangers came in. He was at once impressed with the sense of the great outdoors that they conveyed a feeling of con Adence and competence.

A whisper ran through the lounge: They've Just climbed Mount Cook. Stevenson god Dick," And, in no Jime at all Hillary found himself on the fringe of an admiring group. He listened to them talking. then retired to a corner to wallow in a sense of utility at his own humdrum life,...

And so

At some time or another, most people have that feeling, but then most people do nothing about it, Edmund arched out his friend, rounded up a guide, mental and booked him to take them

up à mountain at crack of daya the next day. A few doors away from the

J. lived

H. turys

Rose,

Tha it all began. president of the New Zealand going was firm and straight- In all honesty forward, the day was fine, and Alpino Society. the toot -registered little with after several hours he found. Ednud. Neither did Mr Rose's himself looking down on a whole daughter Louise figure large in Tango of glaciers and peaks, bla scheme of things. She was Thinking back to that moment, 4 more baby at the time. So Hillary says; "It was the bap- baving established her presence; piest day of my life," we shall leave her to grow up while taking a further look at bee-keeping. He went back to From then on he was lost to Edmund,

Ruehepu

work, but his head' was in the clouds, Ha avidly read booky on mountaineering. He scrimped on all other pleasures Sava money for climbing, Apri gradually he progressed. Small In the winter of 1035 he saw peaks at first, then larger ones, his first mountain,

an extinct then parties of his own or volcano called Ruchepu. He was ganising, and finally peaks that sixtoca at the time, and he'd had never before been tackled. invested all his savings in a 'aki-

ing hallday. Extmund felt "Have you ever

honoured at being allowed to

join his schoolmates on this

i

excursion. For yours, the other One incident belongs to this. boys had been telling him glow- period that Hillary scenas quite ing stories about ski-ing on the happy to forget—the rescue, at Imountain slopes.

a girl lying injured on a moun- tain-side, The memory of it The school party's train scern to embarrass Hillary, for arrived at National Park station he never mentions, the story. ut midnight, Edmund had never If it were not for As mother's Бед snow before, not the pride we should not even have Gety of frozen strumane and that bare fact, stunted pinos that went with it.

"I fell," he said, "I was in a He teamed up with George. strange new world."

Low, a follow New Zealander with a fine record of climbing, For ben, wonderful days, the Inevitably they grew mihitious. boys skied and mowhailed on Always they were looking for the alupas of Buchopil. The tougher olinde, until in the end lower slopes, that is. Edmund New Zealand was up longer was wurned that the bigjor big enough to hold them, reaches of the mountain were

- dangerous and should be, lett It was. Lowe who inally, #tribly alone. At the time, this framed the question that, bed warning was more than, enbeigh boon forgeting in Hillary's mind for him. He hardly, our aven for row. They were walking looked at the mummiit..

together down'n street wijan Low hirnech and meld., to him:

The holiday ended, and M. “Have you ever thought, about mund, went back to school and going to the Himalizuje Ed???

"There has been a harmonious

on the common problema of defence' -Boon communiqué.

the

boss,

Zambon, Robrana: Koralon-.

• graduated to: TERREN, DAk, taro

years there convinced both, him

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