1958-04-05 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958.

LONDON LETTER

by Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

THE

MALAISE

OF YOUTH

his imbecile hollow voice the moaning misery of his songs But could such a pleture be

“I don't think the Yanks have a patch on the Mother Country、 for

DOWNRIGHT

OVERALL

ROTTENNESS”

Mother Country

even raised it

for luctance

Ruark

an I have done today. We have In Britain a seetly, ally the filt was brilliantly on the IN-the long years that I have endeavoured to thin limbed young man named made, and the young fellow who downright, overall ruttenness of Iwia this were possible to

ray that malaise of youth paint the picture of life in the United Tommy Steele who is the Rock played the leader of the teen- behaviour."

There was a time when, hav- nothing more than an untutored

Hydrogen. Kingdom, I can hardly remember a period when n' roll Pied Piper of the teen ge gang was so convincing in

ago cult. His dismal moronic his villainy that he must be ing read such a charge, I would protest against the

which darkens there was such a confusion and bitterness as at face, his tight pipe line trousers, rated as an actor of almost, re have mado a violent protest or Bomb fatailsm

on the floor of the whole of civilisation, but that and pulsive brilliance. the present time. Even the weather has joined

the House of Commons, but fo would be a mere retreat from him a figure of made with no attempt to hide shame and bewilderment.

slay can only feel a sense of reality. Personally I believe that newspapers, Olms and TV. must in the malignant frolic. Two days ago the skies have made

It is customary to blame such share the responsibility although were azure blue. Yesterday a howling wind hystericnt adulation. In my old the identity of Liverpool

fashioned war of 1914 he would did not have a solid background things on the aftermath of war,, not

sama proporiibi, drove a torrent of rain that cut like a knife, have been put on fatigue duty of truth Let us admit that ces and it may be that there is some These youngsters are more like if he had ever sing at the ser- ports with their Bolsom and Life, unlike art, has no there was nothing sinister about geants' moss. As it is his re jetsam are different in character thing in the point of view. Other ly to be excited by the visual cords they sell by the thousands from inland cities but that is not students of human affairs blame realism of the serpen-whether

Alms in the eineina or on television set design. For example let

and he is mobbed ecstatically enough to explain the story and the plethora of gangster

his whenever he appears with

sterism of war. So far no one the limitative quality of the knock-kneed, thin limbed body, the background displayed in this that followed on the wider gang- then by the printed word 1 19

which Temurkable picture.

constitutes its seems to attribute it to televi- screen his face of misery and his moan-

I have before me a cutting slon although violence plays its danger to the susceptible ing rhythm.

from the New York Office of the

part on the T.V. screen.

developed mind. London Daily Mall. Here is an extract from 11:

Mr

wize

VILLAINY

owo this

IDIOCY

in the

371-

us take one day this week. It is the custom of Glasgow In the debating chamber University to elect annually

Agure a of the Commons there was prominent public

Factor. The choice this year a debate on the economic fell upon My Butler and in due crisis as seen with British course he went to Glasgow to

However, I find a glimmer of the

hopo in this darkling story by eyes. To a allent House one receive the honour which

"A picture of a Britain where

recalling that Jimmis O'Brien Labour MP after another undergraduates had conferred

'a mad repression flowers into We might dismiss him as un mais, but quietly diabolical

One cannot blame the news- and his gang terrorised us young- told of the laying off of upon him. Being a conscientious

in St Patrick for sters who lived and highly intelligent man

unimportant left-over example inylngs was painted today by

para for reporting, workers in this and that in- Butler had prepared dustry.

Then one night my Nor were

the speech although he knew, that of the revenge of the Black man top US. columnist Robert Ruark.example, such an idiotic prank Street in Toronto, many, many

the He tolls of:

Jimmie a horce Torics without

simlar there would be a certain amount on the White-for It is to

Afro-Saxon that we

"Teddy Boys who terrorises a collection of barefoot de- years ago. stories to tell. No longer assumed that the presence on the is a genuine childlike enthusiasm tralus, clubs, and knives, and the escalators at the London ther trouble. I hate cruelty of

of traditional "rogging." But be Thythmic imbecilities but there trains and buses with bleven butantes and their Teddy boy father gave

escorts charging up and down whipping and there was no fur- was it a debate, but rather platform of the Chanecilor of

frowsy, blossy Airport on a recent Saturday any kind but, as the old saying a series of

statements, the University (Lord Boyd-Orr) in our coloured brethren which their molis

achieved by cannot

dirty-necked young sluts.

night, while skifte groups jived had it, you sometimes have to (Sir Hector

that "I will match, London against their way through the lounges, be cruel to be kind. couched in simple language, and the Principal

The sooner we accapt Hetherington) would keep the

the world for panderers, splys, trampling furniture and smash-

of life-wielders, mugglers, rocke- ing ashtrays. Two plain clothes truth in Britain the sooner we

policemen were beaten up when shall be rid of the plague teers, and general bad hats."

the they tried to separate two vicious adolescent vanity which "Dancing exhibitions by

of the hungry egotismá in some of the warring gangs,

who crave street upper crust

In the years that I have write youngslers

in their fanciest martre,

Concludes Ruerk:. "I don't ten the London Lelier I cannot corner notoriety and, think the Yanks have a patch remember writing with such re Idiocy, think it la fame.

It way as if the calendars high inks within bounds. had been turned back thirty

yenra.

Yet auch is the Incongruity

of human affairs that at 7 o'clock

In the evening a half dozen

HOOLIGANS

1 have to report, however,

thesu moaning young Whites.

Before you condemn me as an oldister denying to youth the form of right to find its own self-expression let me state that the other day a few of us in the House of Commons were chown in colour a renmarkable flm dealing with teenage crime

In

of us, representing the three that both these high dignitaries partics, had to leave the Cham- looked anything but pleased the port of Liverpool, Incident- ber and attend one of the big when fre, extinguisher, almed private dining rooms where the nt Mr Butler, drenched the plat all conquering Surrey County form personalities without dis- Cricket Club were being given crimination. Mr John

Mack,

a dinner to celebrate the win- who holds the post of Stevenson ring of the sixth successive Lecturer in Citizenship, got hold championship last summer. of the extinguisher bat fest his

I must confess that it was a spectacles in the process. relief to get away from the

Wailing Wall and to mix wit

Not to weary you with this

healthy faced, muscular athletes story of high spirits

who know that in the realm of merely

1 shall record that Mr Butler

English sport there are no such received a direct hit from a bag spattered time things as rescasion slump. of four which

or

a

They could not have differed gown and mult, followed by

trotten tomato which gave more more from their M.P. hosts

come they had

direct from than a touch of colour to his More.

MADNESS

But less than a mile away in the Borough of Holborn a po- litical test match was being played with one man. Henry

Minister

face and gown. As a final ges- ture of delicacy Mr Butler was met op his rival with a huge sign: Welcome to Rochdale thus commemorating the sensi- tonal Tory bye-election disaster In Lancashire,

For once the Scols received a

Brooke, against an angry crowd, really bad press, and, in fair- of ness let it be put on record that

ely that it

Mr Brooke, 15

Housing, has a cherubie, reas the Lord Provost stated pub

the was obvious suring smile and possoBSCS

not be frontect brassy voice that could make students could itselt heard over a hurricane. the hall again for an installation But this occasion was proving ceremony. Whereupon the Presi- loo much for both his anile and dent of the Students Council expressed regrets and apologien.

hl stentorlen voice.

You will remember that

in

I do not think that we should

the war rents, below a certain take this Caledonian buffoonery

level, were frozen, Landlords

too seriously, or link it too close.

ly with the uproar at Mr

could not gain possession of Brooke's meeting but unhappily their own houses and they had there is an undoubted

general to-teep them in repair 11 was lack of normal restraint which basically unfair but in Wür Js not only on the battlefeld a completely out of keeping

that there ore casualties.

After the war the control of houses and rent was continued Eut at least the Conservative Government decided to bring in a Rent Act whleh decreed the that after In certain date decontrol of houses would come inla force, But coming events cost their shadow, In a bye- election of a constituency with a comfortable Tory majority the Goverment candidate was defeated. And that was before the Act had taken effect.

As an M.P. I had to deal with many cases In my Borough of Southgate but I found In that pleasant North London Buburb a genuine sense of responsibility on the part of the owners. I am not denying that there hardship easeя where

were tenanta

with the British character. And perhaps the most sinister of all

is among the "teenagers."

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There was however, moderation or even a suggestion of fair play when Mr Henry Brooke faced the angry crowd in the London Borough of. Hol- born. The microphone, .which for once he needed, was torn from its pluz and came back, a few seconds later as a flying anissily. The Union Jack, spread across the platform table, was trampled as the Tory officials fought the mob of Fascists and Communists. The table was pull- ed of the platform and demon- stratora stood on it and tried to address the audience. Chairs and bottles were used as wca- pons.

"

Even when the meeting came to disorderly end Mr Brooke was hurried to a buck room where he stayed behind locked doors for 25 minutes. Then he returned to the House of Com- with mons, a little dusted, but hi ununt perkiness:

Dut Mr Brooke was not the only Minister who had experi- enced mbb violenze... No less a Minister of State than RAB Butler, who la No. 2 in the Tory Alerarchy, was given a friendly cheer from both aldea when he took bls went on the Government Front Donch. Ho, too, bad had rough "experience - although

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