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SPACE SUIT

MOON MEN WELCOME MAN

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DEC.

S 1958 sildes in here

is a question for all who are fascinated by the curious and incalculable world of books: Who enters the year as Britain's most influential author?

Inevitably my answer must be: Sir Arthur Bryant. What a year 1957 has been for him. At the very beginning he caught up in the most remark- able event in the whate history

of British publishing.

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That event took place in the great ballroom of the Dorches- ter hotel in Parkdane. In the front scats the ambassadors listened. Near them the facts of generals and admirals tilted dutifully upwards. Behind, row on row, 1,000 civilians sat hushed and awed.

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Why? Who were they all

Well. Ustening to?

look at that crouching, gesturing figure on the platform. Look at that broad stretch of bald domed head, at the spectacles im- pressively snapped and flourish- ed as the lecture proceeds.

This was no mere amateur at the business of marshalling a Bir audience. It

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Arthur Bryant himself.

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scene at the

Such was the Dorchester when Impresario Bryant, Launching his book The Turn of the Tide, presented Viscount Alanbrooke 03 his leading man,

So

com-

Flattering

Str Arthur Bryant (left) presenten Viscount Alanbrooke as his leading man when he launched his book. The Turn of the Tide. He now achieves Jame 05 the author of the history that never was....

but hard

on

BOOKS

by ROBERT PITMAN

the taxpayers

Bitterly Bryant attacked the He spoke of the truth Europe. They Included Socialists people in Britain who objected the faith, the selfloos humility and Liberals. Above all they

to Hitler and Mussolini, In an which is Stenley Baldwin,"

article, published in book form

In 1937, he wrote:-

Included Winston Churchill.

An odd coincidence, im't it,

Yel, of course, there were that should be Sir Arthur people who did not share Bryant who should win such

"In their 'insensato hatred of Bryant's views. There were attention by beginning the Germany and Italy and of all people who opposed Baldwin Alanbrooke v,

who have any truck with these and wanted to oppose filler in troversy in 19577 countries, these new wyr-

manzers are like the old Bour-

bons; they forget nothing and

they learn, nothing.”

Games

Irr 4036, when the British athletes at

the Berlin marched past Hiller without giving the Nazi salute, Bryant chronicler of British glory,

wrote:-

"I cannot

why 500 should not have gone a

they lo

out of their way 1, make this friendly gesture to their hosts ...."

popular

the when

CDF- Press with

is Low in the toonista ouch Evening. Standard--poked biller Looking back, Sir Arthur fun at Nazi pageantry, Bryant wrote:---

half the But, above all,

"I repeatedly suggested that cannot explain his status today. summary of the past

words from Sir And, able to devote For let this he faced: Bryant Is century, 2,000 mittee's report tells the as an historian

now more than an historian, On Aciliur appeared as a matter of British tonishing story of Sir Arthur the whole of his professional Bryant and the history

be great issues he has become the course. that time to the task should never was,

appointed in my place, it was chosen Laureate of the Estab- the Admiralty's very flattering Ushment. When the views of wish that the book should be the Best People are given to the written by me in spile of the public, it is Bryant who does

the giving. difficulties involved."

And now, na Bryant's biggest year draws to an end, another publication has put him in the Look briefly at that story. public gaze once more.

In 1946 the Admiralty com- Je not quite title $

Str Arthur the missioned dramatic na The Turs of

a popular history of Tide. To be exact, it is the Eighth Report from the Select Committee

Estimater Session 1956-7, War Historics.

ал

to write the war

at sea. Sir Arthur was given a

research staff which worked

"The

foreign polley Baldwin's Britain was

doplored their

bad manners. He pointed out that Britons had

of their solemn moments too.

the

Wrote Bryant of Hitler's Ger- When Sir Arthur edited the foreign policy of the ostrich many: "It is scarcely to be wone

bil of Alanbrooke diaries, with

with the Government's heud dered at that her people

Very flattering. Sir Arthur's

home. For point strikes

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course the atory of this literary their criticism of Churchill, he only a little less in the sand proud and solemn at the thought is centred sot match to a controversy than that of the Opposition and of her resurrection, and that they under his guidance near White groundnuts, scheme

shocked and distressed country. The result was that regard the humble corporal end

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Yet its bleak official pages have hall. In all six people joined on the extraordinary status of which

that staff. Yot, in 1053, when Sir Arthur. Sooner than get any · millions. Yot Sir Arthur was while the totalitarian Powers of tourepainter who has achieved a fascination all their own,

the project was abandoned, other man, the Lords of the not blamed. A lesser man might Germany, Russia, Italy and this miracle with feelings that They tell us how at a time

prepared to have been accused of venting Jepan were stridently marching amount

to adoration,... Their when war books have been not a syllable td been printed. Admiralty were

the The total cost of the unwritten, hand out £30,000 at the risk of some deep-telt resentment to world dominion, the British proper pride in their reformed spinning a fortune for

against war-loader Churchill. Empire remained griped round nationhood is not a

At subject publishers the Government's history: £30,000, out of which getting nothing at all,

Why? What explaine the But not Sir Arthur.

the parish pump, watching for humour.". own war books, the official war Sir Arthur contented himself

AMO In out-of-pocket Bryant prestige? histories, have failen into the with

For Arthur Bryant is the cricket, football, and tennis..... Thus Bryant waggot a pale Inarket with a sories of expenses.

Among the history experta public relations : man far Andellente

What tbuds. (The total

is It

Well it that makes Bryant le chiefly, known as the Britain's martial heroes.

may be sald-what finger at the popular Press for volumes pub- this lose on tho, Sh

episode so astonishing man who did Justice to tho

is wrong with that criticism? crilleling Hitler in 1936 and sortes of splendid popular

1937, whe

when the concentration lished to date: £28,000, quite It is not because any blame patchy, woman-loving ghost stories (sample: The Age of Just one thing. This work I apart from the 2000,000 spent on attaches to Sir Arthur himself, of Shmuel Pepys Until the lerance 1814-22 ropublihed have been examining what the cans were wan

But what was his attitude salarios for the historians and As he has pointed out in a letter 1030's the ordinary reader ro by Penguin next month) he has man who wrote those accusing researchers alnico. 1931 alone.) to the Press:——

garded Pepys maroly as tho

his head stuck in the sandr soventeenth-century diarist with cooked up the ronat boot of Old words was doing himself at the to Baldwin, the man

England until It'sizzles. "Amin time,

Of this portly ozicion Arthur the over-year itch.

and again he has praised the

startling, Bryant wrote; VI. saw him stand at Arthur Bryant punched home men who made Britain strong- While the totalitarian Powers in the gallery at Chequers with the truth. He showed, in three or bemoaned the periods when were wiridently marching tiles Cromwell's death mask ky his splendid books, that Ferra was Britain was fabby and weak, virtually the founder of the

torian Bryant was stridently hands, and gazing at those two modern Royal Navy. Yet the

Thus, in 1000, when a heavy denouncing anyone who wanted faces I could not say which was, service Bryant did for. Pepys Sunday newspaper 'wanted to stop thorn

The Navy spent £30,000,

its book is unfinished

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