1957-08-31 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957.

Page 5"

News From Britain

"A striking lack of sympathy"

By LES ARMOUR

Herbert Morrison,

Monce the almost legend-

ary bero of the Labour Party, and now, certainly, the grand old ma of Socialism, has been giving his colleagues a searching Took.

He has been digesting party's manifesto

adstic

ownership and he has discover. ed, at least oner, what he calls "a striking lack of sympathy with the consumier,"

These are hard words sad he backs them by examining the party's polley on the con!

-

dustry. He concedes-as every- one dues--that the mining in- dustry had a duly to sin the "old crude ovits" Which afflicted the miners.

But he notes that constant increases in cost prices have hit the domestle Consumer bard: "Mercy to say n. such circum- stances British coal is by far the drapest In Western Europe and coal is weg with woştebul extravagance in Britain' reads rather like brutal mdifference to the consumer."

No Answer

of

Socialist theurelle inns, course, have been mulling over this problem for quite a time. . und Mr Morrison's comments are merely strong evidence that there is considerable dies th- faction in the party over the fact that no answer seems tu have been forthcoming.

The problem is that any po- litical party's policy, must. In the end, be tailored to meet the demands of popular pressure, Voters are strongly organkast into producer groups. That applies

nagement ad Jabour!

But nowhere is there-or is There likely to be any strong organisation of consumers cop- able of exeyling pahtical pres- sure Nor is it easy to convince voters that the policies they demind us producers are likely to Burt them as consumers,

In any actionalised industry.

there

are two fares to

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placated: the government, which

demands production of a curtain sort, and trade unions, who are in a position to fix wages and conditions.

uf quasi-

Governments are in

particu- ly vulnerable posit wheth trade undens take the offensive -even though the control (1 nationalised industries is form- ally in the hunde Independen

bouris. 10 they yield to the ter de unions, they may oy the consumers, but. if they do not, He resument m- dusimai strife will most cer- tainly unnoy many more voters.

It is partly for this son that Mr Gaskelf is continuing to compaign vigorously-despite considerable opposition-for his plan to abande outright nation- alisation as a future policy and substitute the purchase of stuck in private companies.

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TILES

"I don't think Lord Altrincham would go a lot on Nobby's delivery of speech about Lord Londonderry."

With apologies for using the piciorial beauty of same of the transport drivers I met in Lancashire last week.

TO UNESCO

The

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

ART Loneliest Man in

£68,000

METAL TREE

IN THE

JAPANESE GARDEN (etc.)

From SYDNEY SMITH

Paris, THOUSAND FOOT- ceramic

A SQUARE

the World

FAJOR David Simons, a There was,

Simort

chanee that develop the

MU.. Air Force doctor, Son of being unconnected

has become the first man to with his cwn body--which spend 24 hours in what is selenlists have described as a

virtually space-19 miles feeling of "otherness."

above the earth in a balloon.

At this stage he would not be far

Temporary

fror

mental

He did it partly to test breakdown and might be unaolo out equipment but mainly to estupe by parachute if any

with to discover how well his thing went wrong own brain could stand up to balloon.

mural by Picasso and a hazard which scientists are a strange and unsuspected, 10-ton marble "reclining calling "space sickness."

| H.Q.

ese gardens of the

sounds,

the

the

'A nap

the

Individually resistant to "space sickness."

the

Cosmic rays

CIENTISTS believe that

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HOW LONG CAN A MAN

GO ON HATING?

man's ability to endure by MERRICK WINN

of

fight a space will depend on

chance construction his brain, just as some pilots can standl up to the stress of DID not see the man with high-speed jēl aight White

the gun, but he was others have to be grounded for psychological

all right. lle beyond there

There, unobtrusive, in the control.

West End hotel, because he Victor everywhere

rasus

is

ኒ።15

But they will be astonished it Simo:Ls

emerges from his ad-80uS venture, which colourfully Riesel goes, called Project Man High, with And Victor Reisel, a very no severe signs of emotional brave America reporter, is now Elrain.

in Londen.

He could not see the man with Even mice and monkeys which the gun either. Ife does not see have been deprived of normal anyone. sensation for many hours have He did not see me, zeroys the But he could hear me, und sometimes and he heard me ask the ques- tion he had never ‘been asked before, even though at first he dud not seem to.

shown signs of mental disturb-table. once for days,

weelts.

figure" by Henry Moore are part of a £68,000 decoration Experiments budget for Unesco's

new ground have revealed that THE messages relayed to earth by Simons"I am feeling when the human brain is ane." "I took an hour's nap in lo the three acres of J. 2001- | isolated from all sensations the night"-show that perhaps There is also a risk that

scientists have over- £2,000,000 which normally keep it alert the

physical injury may show up Paris headquarters will stand a

estimated the dangers of the fater. changing rain barrier" to space flight in tree-sized reta] "mobile" by scene, smells, and touches the same way that they exa American abstract artist, Alex-it behaves

A 10 miles the super-spent berserk gurated sound-barrier hazard), particles balled cosmle raya

cause tissue damage when they do you go on needing revenge?" The grounded scientists strike the body An unlucky Deprived of stimulation receiving his signals reported bit on the most sensitive part

fter 20 hours Fees of the reuna could cause partial Reculumas campaignert -operating at "peak efficiency,"

ander Calder,

"I will look like a big, blnek | way. artal free growing propellers,” said on Uursen fel. "It har been east in Germany."

10 artists

Social

in a

that

the

blindness.

Of course

But Simons had some distraction because of the photo-lation graphs he had to take, the dials knows all about he had to read and his radio re messages to the ground.

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It was this;

It was an awkward question. How long do you who on hating the people

ke your sight away? How long

Stalling

is now 18 months since

for 15 years against the hood- aulums invading "American tredes fact that กร Tesearch doctor he unters, had zeld tossed into his

"space ticke

The acid that missed scorched measure of The exceptional courage he has holes in the pavement. Most of Victor displayed to become the first did not miss. Now And it may be that because man in history to spend a day Rice'a once-brown eyes flicker he has worked on the problems and night on the frontier af uselessly behind dark glasses. which of space fight for years he is space. finally resolve into full-

it relapses into day- dreaming and within a few hours these dreams become The United Nations Economic, 50 realistic that that they and Cultural Organim are confused with reality tion's built in art, designed itaclf. and selected to go with its

Spots appear before the seven-storey, Y-shaped hend- quarters, is to be carried out by eyes to be soon replaced by Ten Internationally known swirling patterns artists.

Six chosen so far are Picasso, blown hallucinations. Moure, Calder, a Spanish artist, 'dis-

Joan Miro (whose Christian The images may Hway nume is a corruption of "Juan"), and tilt in a way which

will do a 240 square ceramic mural, Japanese land brings on physical sickness.

In this way, the public should he able to enjoy some of the proceeds of successful Industry without becoming a necessarily weak party to Industrial putes.

Solution

The Archbishop of Canterbury has come up with a solution to

the problem of inflation.

is

The problem, he 2035, really a "mora?” ose and the solution la to be found "honest work, thrift, unselfish- ness, service to one another, in- stead of strife,"

The difficulty, as the political selentists and the economists point out, is that the Archbishop is both right and wrong.

Greed and gluttony, the two sins of economie man, are, course, at the bottom problem. So, Indeed, is that little mentioned deadly sin, cloth.

uf

the

But the difficulty is that the great forces which slupe mcdern

industrial society are largely impersonal, The economic system under which we live is founded upon com- petition. The trade union move- meal exists entirely to exeri in- dustrial force. The assumption that that force le need the whole reason for its exilence.

Before the Archbishop's advice could be heeded, the whole the economie organisation would have to be altered redlenlly,

And the trouble is that other economic system seems to, have come any nearer to achieving

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Heaven,

the

Kingdom

By Appointment

of

no

of

A butcher In Cowes, disturb-

ot

"By ed by the number Appointment to Her Majesty" cresta displayed by his fellow tradesmen, has put out his own sign. It roads: "Purveyor to lier Majesty's Subjects."

whe

scape artist Isanu Noguchi, and

French abstract sculptor Jean

Arp, who is plaaning & decorn-

tive panel of bronzé geometric

forme.

Strains

The other four artists, still to DURING lucid

be chosen, will decorate seventh-Hoor

and terraces,

bars,

the

moments

the person under ordeal restaurant may become irritable and depressed, periodically

B.R.M. BID FOR A SILVERSTONE TRIUMPH

'White Elephant Race Car

Should Be Winner At Last

by ROBERT GLENTON

One of the far blanking out so that he is THE B.R.M., for 10 years Mexican revolutionary group" unable to think coherently

artist Tamayn.

Seys Unesco: "We think £8,000 is a very modest item in the whole budjet. The artists are doing this work for us at rominal prices,"

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"By Jove. I'd give a lot to see young Altrincham in my shoes right now!"

at all.

the

most expensive white elephant motor racing bus ever known, is going to Cramped in a silver capsule 602-ponded the fringe of ben winner at last, space, 34-year-old David Simons has been peculiar conditions.

UTA

"We have got somewhere at inst,"

toll Mays Raymond ino. "We are

still modify ing. Behra made only slight criticisms after the Grand Prix

being

he won,

and those are altended to,"

I predlet this with certainty, subjected to these

although I knew only one man who will support me.

fu

I can kill a rumour. Alfred He Is Owen, tho rich Industrialist who Everything there silent Jean Behra, who drove the backs the B.R.M., will not be except for the occasional radio B.R.M. to its Brat. Grand Prix taking his money out of the contact with the earth. Below victory at Caen recently.

concern at the the blackness of the sky the

Unseen hands

season,

end

of

the

the team

Now he is two armed guards In New York, all day and all night; and now he has.one arm- ed guard in Europe, on this his Bret reporting assignment sincr hu was blinded.

So he considered my question. He felt around for the ashtray, onrefully.

sold: Stalling. He

quite

"I've never been asked this question before-this is the first time I have ever tried to express my inner feelings."

He said: "Look, you don't hate. Before it happened I'd have expected to go on hating for ever. But it's not like that. It's no tse,"

His struggle suid: "I don't want this to sourd corny.. My biggest been against struggle hasn't blindness. W's Inconvenient, but you learn to ignore it.

"The real struggle is against

ünd longing fur hale

ven- And geance.

I decided lute could corrode me more than any hoodlums acid; I decried the could rob me of sight but they weren't going to. take away the warmth of my life."

Then I mentioned the name of gang-

Behra, who, with Stirling hazy outlines of the earth seen Mors, les fifth among the cur

Instead, 1 lone B.R.M. Is changeless.

aces for the world champion- being sent to Monza for the Johnny Dio, New York ship, has great faith in the car. Italian Grand Prix. The main i ater accused of planning the acid Even more than its sponsors, reason lu to test 'the finess blinding. Riesel grinned health-.

Flockhart, who have been battered by Tony

ily, sepson after season of complete driver who was Injured He said: "Oh, I hate them all, "OULD Simons's brain remain failure, by Jeering

don't doubt it. But it's not a and recently. suficiently in contact with sneering.

snarling obsesston, It's a hate reality for him to carry out his

Much as they would like to that I hope will help finish them tests and take the setlon which

win at Monza, RUMOUR KILLED

the D.R.M.OIL. But nish them, not me. organisation most yearn to have That's the difference."*" Every top-line racing driver a resounding victory in front of

the aad I have spoken to

British crowds, who Doctors who had carried out who has tried it out hus do through the years have turned the ground experiments feared seribed the car na a killer. There from fanatic admirers that after a few hours of such have been utter loneliness he might be situations when men have re

awkward mockeru. hallucinated that he would fused to drive it. hear voices or feel himself touched by unseen hands.

would bring his plant plastic, balloon back to earth?

whom

many

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His hope VICTOR RIESEL, 42, has a chance of getting some right hack. He ja soon to have gruft- ing operators on his right eye (the left is hopeless).

"I never be able

to read again he said. "But I may be able to sea faces and shapes. That will be nice, I think."

I salute, a memorable man, I hope soon he will be able to see the than with the gun,

But I hope more he will not the gun,

There is only one opportunity left to do it this season. And But Itaymond Mays and

Alfred Owen and his men are Peter Berthon, the men most going to make the most of it. Men sitting in sound-proof responsible for the car, ore 10cm, wearing goggles, ear happier with it now than they

TWO AT LEAST plusts. und with cardboard have ever been. cylinders covering their hands coon showed stich

They have almost completely alarming symptoms of mental disorder solved the powerful and fost at Silverstone for the Dully need the man with that the experimenta hud to be B.R.M.'s worst mag ........ ita Express International meeting | because his haja has helped to stopped.

suspension.

on Saturday, September 14.

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