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I talk to Shawcross

THE CHINA MAIL,~~THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1958.

and wonder-

S

much aware that there was a lot of social injustice."

had

of

But when, after he Laken up the law, he had turned aside from polities, his humanly emerged in a different form. He knew his young Arst wife was going to die. I belleve.that i was essentially for her that he worked so hard at his career. For all the vast amount money he wns beglonilog to make then was spent on her.

Latterly, this very simc emotional tensiivenes forced him, In a curious way, to cling to his seat in the House of Commons, He said to recently, with overt sincerity. "If it hadn't been for my con- stituents at St Helens, I would

•have done ila (left his seat) years ago. They are what I'll

IR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, who now quits politics, is one of the most fascinating human, enigmas of our times. Shawcross

miss." of his is a man who has had the most hewildering success generation, first at the Bar, then in politics.

His carcer in the first would have carried him effortlessly to become Lord Chancellor. His career in the second might well have ended him up as Prime Minister. Power, and fame, and wealth, which are what most people sweat and suffer for, even for unselfish reasons, were his.

'Madness'

has

mc

Lo

is a THIRD and BUT there

most unexpected clue Hartley Shawcross. Perhaps it

Is as significant as it is hidden.

It is a profound cynicism, Now, after discarding the first carcer a year ago, he has thrown up the second a resigns his parliamentary sout,

which he

had

the administration

never known he had,

"I think that was why I really went into polities."

Nit #n Stine And why?

Not toyant At of temper.

| süreness because he has made some gras mistake which could block his progress. He is it. He is only 50. fe has a young wife who not only does not dissuade him ever wanted to do anything from Ef:: political career, but urged him. even

Who

prusionately, not to give it up.

To replace what he has shesh, he is turning his still exceptional legal energies to his job as

Arm, Shell, adviser to on vil which carns him, for example,

just about a quarter of what he

used to eart as a lawyer.

practising

It is all tile incredible, is it not?

I shall try to make ShawcrTOSS the man, whom I know, credible to you, and then

it will be

possible to understand.

FIRST, he is a man of very

rare brillance.

devil.

It has been his

The child which was born

and of nerve, ability to express himself.

"He told me it wasn't any good me becoming a delor I

He said VIN: Bar in politics,

So I changed was much better. there and then. I don't think 1 thought twice,"

Forgotten

as a

Grateful

I have asked him what he

sees as the object of life.

He Boldthis brilliant, human, suc- cessful man, who has a lovely edored young wife and three children that he thought that at the end of it all, he would probably agree with the conclu- sion of the English doctor in the film, "The Bridge on the Jilver Kwai."

T

THE WASHINGTON FREEZE-UP THROWS A CHALLENGE TO BRITISH LEADERSHIP

Let Macmillan

take over from

Dulles

HIS must be a very pleasant moment indeed for Mr Krushchev as he surveys the interna- tional scene. Everything is going his way.

As the barrage of inter-continental missives thickens, confusion grows in the West. America la without leadership, apparently without constructive policy, and almost without hope.

Mr Dulles appears even more obstin- and ately obstructive than ever before. President Elsenhower seeing to have lost *ny grasp of the situation he ever had.

The neutrnilst and uncommitted nations At that time, I had not seen of the world, aware that a thermo-nuclear WHEN he offered his services the movie, to I asked him, war might weit destroy them too, are look-

to the Socialist Party they What

conclusion?"ing to the Great Powers for signs of sense. bis Wis

What the Russians grateful to have him But he smiled, and would say

are saying looks like sense at Brst sight: what Dulles and no more.

When I

the Armsenbower say doesn't.

fecio awalled intrigued for the No wonder, then, if Krushche

summing up on life.

more confident now than ever before. "Madness.... The words were, madness."

were so

they mede him first Attorney General, and then President of the Board of Trade.

AND 10 years later,

doctor's young Liverpool lawyer of 33, Hartley Shawcross was

siready a household name S the briliam defence counsel in the Buxton murder cost.

o the Wandsworth home of the Showercsses on a February

1002.

has as.ounded day in totenere by his rapeity to fearn and his soundness of judgment.

When he decided as a boy to become a doctor-and in par- ticular.

a surgeon-they know that the medical professhm had won a remarkable recruit,

Brilliance

PUT then the devil brilliance intervened. As a student at Bart's, he happened to be on

Geneva when 1 holiday In European Socialist Congress opened there.

"I was ulways rather interent ed in politics," he has told me. "and so I offered my services as an Interpreter, even though my French was awful.

"It was there I met Jimmy J. H. Thomas was 'Thomas." Inunediately Impressed by the tale he saw in the young min sharpness of mind, the

By 1950, this handsome, still youthful comet of a man was being backed by a strong group on the Right for leadership of the party....

ба

the

I do not know what is source of this cynicism. Perhaps

-what makes

man feel too adult

for politics?

His motive for Arst becoming THE SECOND strain in the a lawyer seemed quite forgotten. character of Hertley Shaweross can call the element of His briefs became more and you

It was that which humanity, more important, more and more lucrative. "From 1924 to the ucde him, as a 18-year-old, join the Scelalist Party. "I did it end of the war, he told me, "I wasn't interested in politles."

He looked like remaining just a lawyer all his life. But the devil brilliance intervened again war, he when, during the

Commissioner became Regional

He found for the North-West. he had a liking and a talent for

.

It was the prolonged illness and the death of his Orst wife. Bul more likely it is the result of n mind which is a little too per- ceptive, which can always see the other side of every question, and even the other side of the question of life, watch is death. A waste

Left-wing hysteria

How can the emlic be taken off his face? the Certainly not by succumbing to Left-wing hysteria which is now piling up in Britain ini way that awakes disturbing echoes of the Pence Ballot follies of the 1930's.

It does not need the usual gaggle of 5611de philosophers. Left-wing authors

and publicity-seeking parsons that any cmotional

the cause seems to rally to Albert Ha?! and the correspondence columns of The Times to tell us that H-bombs are dangerous and that peace is

good thing.

We might oven manage to grasp, with- out their panic-stricken screams, that in a wor belween Russia

and America, Britain would be somewhat awiewardly situated

It is our task to prevent that war from starting. The mere arrival of a lot of argu- mentative statesmen

summit conference will not, of itself, achieve this,

at A

Nor will a lasting settlement be reached unless each side is prepared to make genuine con-

for purely sentimental reasons," DETWEEN these three strain- he says.

ing and undeniɛbly virulent

of make-up components "Round where we lived in brilliance. humanity. and

cessions. of cynicism-Sir Hartley Shawcross Wandsworth

I saw it because my hns bullt his remarkable life. poverty. mother was on the local Board of Guardians--the precursor of Nallonel Assistance. I was very

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Together they are the explan ation of the moves and views which have left so many of his ranting Socialist pals bewildered They are the essen-

und angry.

This means that it we want the Russians to give up some- thing the West must give up Our pacifists, something too. | however, want us to make all

before concessions

the

OUT

tic clue to the new Shawcross. talks begin.

"I'm

very unpopular In the party at the moment," he says.

"You see.

I've been A cross-

bencher for some time. I can- not regard a political policy as

Foolish

BEFORE

anyone

gives

a brief, and argue only one side. B emallonal support to their

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orbit, anyway, by economic slump in the capitalist world; she will make no moral gestures except on paper.

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and our strength

consider how to use it,

SUMMIT

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FERENSORIES M.P. KENNUNGË

From Bulgarin M Letter from

Bulganin

No 1

He has shown, by his decision to allow Mr Sandys to accept an invitation to Mascow, that he is prepared to talk with the Russians..

Dangerous

MACMILLAN is in a position to exert pressure to make Mr Dulles agree to talk too. It

But to condemn the pacifists La not to support the present Intransigence of Mr Dulles. He is time to exert that pressure. has become the ice-box of the No-leadership can body politic. be expected from him.

In his inst

Press

And if and when summit talks do materialise. It could be gulde Mr Macmillan who will} these talks to at least a partial con- success.

in cries of "Ban the Bomb!" and ference, Dulles, appeared to be never happy Was

any Getting up and "Stop Nuclear Tests Now!" he refusing negotiations on Opposition.

where agreement three subject criticising the other fellow might

seemed to him Improbable, and because he's in and you are not questions-

at the same time asserting that seems to me futile waste of

Why have the Communists there was no prospect of agree- time. Especially as you know

been so active in this cam- ment on any subject of all. in your heart that you would be doing more or less the came thing if you were in his place.

"One can feel too grown up for all that."

I looked him in the eyes, which were a little puffy from long reading. "I is not because yon are tired?" I asked. Sir Hartley swore untrue.

it

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Tom Stacey

palent

Ha unilateral disarmament

This means, presumably, that had any effect at all on our Dulles has decided not to make potential enemies when we may concessions. If this is not have tried it before?

what he meant, he should stop Is there any reaso why giving Press conferences; it it is, Russia

voluntarily should

he should stop being Secretary make concessiona when her of State, objectives have been gained without them? And do not believe the foolish suggestion that Russia would be "compelled" to follow our lead in order to avoid losing moral prealige in neutral countries.

Russia confidently expects the neutral rations to be driven into

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And once It has been demon- strated that agreement can be, reached, even On J Limited sumber of minor issues, sub- greater sequent agreement on matters will be made easier.

Unless the log-jam is broken, nothing can move at all. There will be no disarmament and no release from fear.

It Dulles will not move, Mr Me Macmillan should set on own inlictive to make I start with negoliations of a limited nature.

But he cannot do this with any hope of success if tho Ruslans believe he is belog pushed from behind by frightened people.

+

fresh Every

oulburst ol British hysterica yapping by pacifists, every anti-H-bomb He is not committed to rally, makes his task harder. Dulles's dangerous dreams of

Russia's freeing

European Ratellites and confronting the Russiana head-on in the Middle East--both of them rapid routes to world war.

He can

Contempt

people IF the

want

of Britain want peace; if they want to afford to go to the starternát without exaggerated strengthen the forces of sanity. hopes of solving every problem in the world; if they

with at once, without rigid plans for Britain to become once more a

mediating force Involving great huge package deals

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they will keep their heads and glve the Prime Minister and calm support.

He From

when,

simply with can go whorn, jendership come? Mr Harold determination to push both the man. Americans and the Russians into Macmillan is the only

making limited concessions, There is no other.

1s no

They can do this, best by showing their distrust and con- There The Prime Minister's stature

reason why tempt for the tools whose untics and self-confidence have bren British Interests should suffer do nothing but make Krushchev Com- 10 this process: indeed, they more arrogant and Dulles more greatly increased by his

obstinate. could well be forwarded. monwealth tour.

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