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News From Britain

Unexpected Boot

▶RITAIN'S Labour Party

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has just received a awďt kick in the pants from un *unexpected direction. It came from of all quartera Labour's own -"Daily Herald,"

Labour leaders at all levels have been told bluntly by the "Herald" that they are playing Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's game for him,

At a time when-In Labour gyes, anyway-dissension rends the Torica, issue plles upon jasue, and the Government's popularity throughout the country gumades, the top men of Labour should be assisting the downward ond outward movement withs series of hearty shoves.

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Instead, walls the "Herald," the Sociallate who matter are content to sit quietly by and watch what they imagine in an inexorable process of Tory dis- Integration.

This very apathy, complains the left-wing daily, plays straight Into Premier Macmll- lan's hands. "Petrified politics" I just what Premier Macmillan wants, says the "Herald."

It is not enough Just to have the voters want the Tories out. They must actively want the Socialists in

Although superficially sound, this exhortation may not have the desired effect on Labour's they leaders. At the moment, are drawing their strength from the internal troubles of the Tories the differences which led to the resignation of the Treasury team headed by Mr Peter Thorneycroft, te po.

it sibility of backbench wath Archbishop Makarios is brought back to Cyprus for negollations. As old Parliamentary hands, know that the quickest way to seal the Tory ranks to launch a major frenin ailack. The attack in itself would weld the Tories, If the attack were repulsed, the Tories would emerge with enhanced prestige.

In

It is likely that the So- elulist leaders have noted the constituency support ex-Chan- cellor Thorneycroft won for his explanation of his resignation, and that they are prepared to let this spirl Alter through to the Tory backbenches where it will do Labour most good.

Anticipated

The only way to cure ibis Clovernment

ils of

blatant treachery to the working class wage claims in is tu prosecute

in this country then perhaps that the nol dock

and

will realise

every industry

forthwith

they

www."

doublo-cros game

The author of the foregoing

powerful

16 Mr Ted Hill general scere- tary of Britain's United Society of Boilermakers.

Mr Hill, when he made 113:1 *statement, WCS fulminating against the Chancellor of the Exchequer's refusal to issue further appeal for dividend

restraint or to the legislative action to this cod.

In fact, Mr Hill's rallying cry has been anticipated in a large way. Coal miners, railway en- gineers, London busmen, Minis- try of Health workers and many more have already slapped for wage increases, despite the Government's pleas for restraint Hore, indeed, la p.oof, it any is needed, that the Government has been so far pathetically un- successful in bringing home to the ordinary people of Britain the need to face up to the nation's economic problems.

Look Backward

The establishment this week of a

Commercial Historical Vehicle Club In Britain high- lights a peculiar fecel of con- temporary British life.

(There already exista a Veteran Car Club and a Vint- GRD Sports Car Club).

erminating

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1958.

the

Long live

Welfare State!

Cammings

reactionaris

Long live the Welfare State!

"The Leader of the Opposition, I presume!"

Before you Annigoni

take the plunge-ten vital rules

by SIR GORDON RUSSELL

DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND ONE OF DRITAIN'S TOP Furniture DESIGNERS

HOOSING furniture is largely a matter of common sense and some training of the eye. 4 Anyone can learn to do it, but naturally some people do it better than others.

The ones who do it better have thought it worth while to take trouble over a job which, because of the cost, cannot be tackled all over again in a year or so.

Good furniture, well chosen

for your own needs, will give you pleasure for years. It will not look out of date in a short time. It will Improve with nge, just as antique furniture has acquied a mellow favour,

The kind of furniture which dates is that which is screaming at you to take notice of it, or is Just picin dreary.

It is the same with a friend and good furniture should be your friend.

Several of the rules for buying furoiture might socm too obvious to repent-but although they ARE obvious many people don't take them into account.

Rosy glasses

YOUNG couples, just engaged, You

ser furniture-buying through rosy glasses.

Perhaps the girl wants some-

lustrated thing she has seen m a glossy magazine or some thing he has pleasant memories

f at home.

Perhaps both of them

are

beaten by imagining what the Jonesos will think of your home, Be thorough. Look at the back and the inside. Ir there are badly, finished

there

In a good chance that other parts are as well. The length of life of furniture depends a great deal on the joints, which you

cin'i see.

by OSBERT

LANCASTER

notable OYAL personages enjoy two

advantages over their subjects: their health

of the day and their likenesses are taken by the most popular portrait painters,

While in the former case their chances of survival are far rosier than they were in Victorian times, in the latter they are infinitely worse.

For although the standard of belong to a Lady-in-waiting. Brish painting today seems to concealed in the background: to me to be incomparably higher relieve her Royal Highness of hsh it was, an exception must the tedium of supporting these of melting be made in the sphere of par unconvincing foldh tralt palating It

taffed. not, as so is not, ferocious critics of the Concealing drapery is a per- many Royal Academy complain, that fectly legitimate pictorial device have no Goyas Gains (even cartoonists when in a wo

that hurry have been known to avail boroughs, or Tillins, but we have got no Winterhalters, themselves of it), but it must Waitses, or even Sarrenta either be interesting in itself or No one can ever expect more indicative of the form beneath, than a handful of first-rate Here it is neither. portrait painters at pay

That mu

left arm na much of

of the time (and we have, in fact, is visible, together with three), but one can reasonably right hand, would seem hope for a good, workaday have been moulded in

soma standard of honest craftsman- particularly unpleasant form of ship to be maintained. among pinatie may, perhaps, be due to

respectably second-rate, the reproduction. More's the pity as it is just. But not even

the

ono

the

to

half-tone can

to such men timt official por- excuse the drawing and placing raits are, and have been for a of the eyes. century or more, entrusted,

Her Royal Highness has the Great artists such as Mr most remarkable eyes of any Sutherland, Mr John, and Sle woman of her generation. They William Coldstream are ant to dominate the face and express be too uncompromising easily even to a greater degree than to accommodate themselves to is usual, the whole personal- such tasks.

THE STAKES

ity.

Here they are treated with just the same inhibited lack of TT is, therefore, our own fault emphasis as the folds of the dress or the knuckles on the that so slick and shallow a hand.

virtuoso ALE So it is essential for all of Įsteight-of-hand Yet it was furnished with

Why, one may ask, is Signor way Annigoni so acclaimed? The most hospitable intentions. Is it to be made honestly. Make Signor Antigoal is now there

Royal no way of combining the salesman explain any points ahead of the field in the port fault lies not with the

Who can hardly અમ these ideas of coalness, hospi- not clear to you and don't be ralt stakes. As a draughtsman Family.

ho is no better, on the whole blamed for despairing of the tallty, formality, respectability, fobbed offi friendliness, and good taste

worse, than the majority of the native talent in this fold, but

in our art schools, which all of us have at the bad

Royal Academicians,

of our minds when we furnish

house?

thinking how much a week they can afford on HL.F., as people should, but forgetting whether Of course there is! Here are they are buying suliable things. 10 vital points to remember:-

into a Or perhaps they run very high-speed salesman and buying seems the only way to

Ten points

escapet

Ask yourself first how you And older people often leave will use the room you pro buying

their existing until furniture collapses and then pose to furnish, Obvious? No -unless you are clear in your take the first thing they see.

Buying furniture, I repeat, is own mind as to what you want furniture for, how can you say ilke making friends. There are people who, on first rcquaint- what pieces you require? ance, are most exuberant

sunny or

dull?

Don't imagine it is impos- sible to combine old and new

But he has taken the trouble furniture in your room. It can be done with very happy results to study the paintings of the But it Is dimeuit to combine High Renaissance and as a re- sult La in a position to employ good and bad!

a number of long Don't

furniture on a

buy

for

and

onc

However, accustomed as one is to the hopelessly superficial quality of his approach, remains, nevertheless, stunned by the glaring inadequacy his latest work.

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ALL over the county A forgotten species of inverted snob- 8: weipt achim Lightness can be technical tricks. Thanks to these berg prevalla according

but he is able to disguise his In- which by skimping,

portrait painting regarded as bring in some way. lightness plus strength, as in adequato draughtsmanship

to grasp cap, total inability

form degrading. airplanes, is not cury or cheap, beneathi a. sticky layer of sur

Peering with Mr Bratsby into But in Casy chairs,

face charm,

the klichen sink or ruining instance, it is an immense con-

goo1 convoses --with the Tachistes, our brightest students The material in which an venlence in restranging a room.

are terrified of compromising easy chair is covered is part and Is the room light or dark, of the design of the chair, as

their

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Perhrps well es being part of the colour This adulation of physical entertaining, but the next time

you haven't got a house, so you scheme of the room as a whole,

whether # yourself links with the past has really you hear the same jokes you are

can hardly be expected

with only manifested itself since the aware of the same mannerisms,

barmonises or contrasts war. Nor is it restricted to old you feel that they are

out to answer this one.

curtains and, alsa to overwhelm with But it is important. In a dark carpet and

I should

choose light whether its pattern is suitable Gradually the fashionable woman has been edging herself You say to yourself this is fun furniture such as light or med for the shape of the chair.

that back to the clothes and man- for an evening, but fancy living ook, perhaps white painted 10 When someone tells you newest thing furniture even if I had to predecessor of with it).

over is to have a different colour paint it myself!

Buy only such pieces on all your walls and a pattern you really need. You will on the the ceiling, take a deep

You have to LIVE in then be able to afford beter breath and think it over. quality and, equally important,

Ca ocesalon a change of there will be more room for you room.

colour or pattern can be sinu-length on Ialing, but don't overdo it. between the furniture.

motor cars and grocery trucks. nome.

crime of her the twenties.

Among young men the affec lation of Edwardian clothes and hairstyles has become almost kult:

a

Furniture is just like that

do you want it as a friend or a buffoon?. You should be quite clear on this point, for you will be offered both kinds.

Furniture the most int portant: and the most expensive

room

to

the

the

of

centus by submitting of themselves to the not; unreason- able demands of a Prospective altter, le. Even had, they genlus, such FIRST, the question of scale.

CRICA Princess Margaret, of all struples would in most the beauties of the day, is the be unreasonable. If M-Suther one whoso quality most firmly land can bring himself to paint

unlikely to come resides in the scale on which it portraits, their own talents are finds, expression,

to much She possesses

harm. a delicacy

calls for ง And as nine-tenths of them. doomed, to feature walch Boucher or a Hilliard perfectly are automatically

art-teachers-pro- to preserve the ethereal nature and up ** of the total effect.

ducing morelos mainters of By painting her three-quarior kitchen sinks who will, in their overcrowded turn, Tele, etc.—they, might, one. canvas with nothing to give the would have thought Just scale except those fussy sprays' well take the minimum of of not easily 13entifiable green- troublo so to equip themselves ery, Armigon has started on as to be able to beat the dash- the wrong foot and as a tault ing Signor at, his own gamb furniture. A DO YOU WANT a room to but in a f ́me it should be the IE

the young woman in his pic- people.

background and ture looks just about as ethereal Here is a fruitful feld forive-in or to look «17) ·

Buy well-mannered rather you will be giving it to yourself. paychologists and sociologists. A All of us have been in many

for for perteration,

Do remember has a home in as a fully qualified masseuse, ---- 170m it fa a las Bomo doop houses where the centre of than startling furniture season, turning back upon its life is the kitchen. Here all is the reasons I have given fussy a place for people,

warm, cheerful,, cory,quia que veneers, gianty polish, chrofalum, Those who forget this and CECOND, the drawing, Whose the Brat-time

There is a parlour, which is plated handies are all right once there are many make ministure funds that omertag, departm sometimes cold, formal and, in a while in a pisht club, but, museums or art galleries of from the drapery in the fore have !! rather forbliding: no one dare, opt to be fresomo lo a home, their homes.

And who wants 16 Tuhan, it hard with the real of the produco, no felteht ArinTRANA put a pipe down on a table or Buy for USE rather than

for show. Don't be brow, "art gallery OEN KAROMAT | Dgure! It might just as exally and wiling to paint themeer Walk about ki his socill

In smart circles it is chic to "be able to perform the Charles

tom The musical hits of the single Items in equipping your Brace to move about in

'Lwenties are being revived. And

now the nation's junk hoops are

home."

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. home, is most important In HOW will you use the room or shop window the famlture.ft

to furnish? sell becomes the central feature,

Being combed for, of all things, Toons you proposa Victorian brass bedsteads.

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