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LA NEUYEVILLE (SUISSE)

''TITE CHINA "MAIL,” SATURDAY, JUNE 31, 1958,

Parliament's No Man's Land

VISITORS to the British House of Commons

often ask about the significance of a narrow pink strip of carpet in front of the first line of benches on both sides. The answer is quite simple. When the debate is in full blast.no Socialist or Tory front bencher can advance beyond that warning strip. If he did he would be immediately called to order by Mr Speaker. In fact the space between the two strips is equivalent of no man's : land.

The origin of this device is clear to all of us that the bared upon the distant past, Afinister's patience was at broak- The actual rule is that members Ing point Leaning across the of opposing parties must be at Dispatch Box and fixing his Roze east three sword-lengths apart on Hugh Gaiiskel! he said: "The during a debate, We no longer House may remember saying bring swords into the Chamber of Mr Marx Groucho, not Karl but the basic idea of keeping out who said 'Slr 1 never forget a distance from each other wisely face but I will make an excep. remains as the inexorable law. tion in your case".".

DO YOU KNOW THE

SIGNIFICANCE OF

THE NARROW STRIP

OF CARPET IN THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS?

House of Commons on lines that his time off duty with the have nothing to do with party, younger Conservative members, but purely of age. It is true that dining with them, tolldng with the Prime Minister served in them and drilling them for the, the trenchies In 1914 and we battle that may be on ua sovner sil have Churchill in our midst than they think. but so swift is the flight of years that already the M..' "who fought against Hitler are being looked on as veterana. even though they Inck, the venerable qurdy of those of us wim did our fighting against the Kaiser's Germany.

As for the unheavenly twins Gaitskell and Bevan-they are dropix courteous to each other

public and I have no reason to believe that courtesy departs In politics the British distrust when they privately discuss the youth even though Anthony Eden, state of their party. But if either captured the imagination of the of thom war rum over by an world when he entered Parlin- omnibus asuming that the strike ment as the handsome Crown was ended-the grief of the Prince of the Conservative poli Aurvivor would not drown the matter lles. Because of his re- 'of Britain's leaders in every walit teal kingdom. At the same time world in tears. fusal on Fridny to'say a single of life-the breeding of the the Tories do not overvalue the One thing. however, unites word that would uphold the Scottish hills and moors,

ripeness of the years when it them. They fear the man authority of

arbitration Macleod was studying for the comes to leadership, for they re- Macleod with his background of award, because of his michley when Hiller set the world member Baldwin, Neville Cham- porridge and the Scottish hills. our speceli over the weekend, if

berlain and Ramsay Macdonald They fear We intellectual From the the ceasure of the House be on and took up a rifle.

of events. recently when

fur long only

and had risen to the rank of established rute might well have Minister's anger showed that his Mr Galtakell tonight and from tanks he gained his commission been useful We were debating Jest was merely a prelude to

Major when he took part'in the fAT TEITH VEKİ f. COITA

D-Day landing. He was wound- the bus strike with all its actuat something and potential dangers as well as humour.

ed in 1940 but had returned to its bad feeling. The Labour

his unit. Opposition had moved a vate of censure on the Government for its fallure to deal adequately at fairly with the demands the transport workers, And House was packed.

Actually there was n moment The thrust raised a laugh but we are to vote tonight then let on fire and he dropped his books who were destroyed by the strain honesty, his sense of dedication,

A

this

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tin

say that

There

A

moment.

The

the country tomorrow."

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There was nothing starting about either his military career

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his clarity of mind and his fear- lessness of heart. They fear the relentless purpose of his spiril und the Celfie mysticism from which he draws a secret strength,

As I see the battle of the next ten years. in the British Parliament might resolve itself But would the porty and the between Iain priple accept the leadership of a I have described this scene at

into a struggle Macleod and Ancurin Bevan, man without glamour or length Nome

because In

be that Macleod has tradition? Like the man in the Macleod is one of those Torles or his eneller scholastic attain may try

whose political future is based ments at school and the Univer- dreamed of this-and even poli- Gallop Poll I don't know-but I

their would not rule it out RS entitled to entirely upon his own personality sily but they revealed two things ticians and not upon his school or his he had tenacity and he had a dreams for he spends much of posibility. social background. He had stubborn courage. neither

nor the grace

self-

Cannot conceal my

"Perhaps the House will per- mit me briefly one exception to this," he said, in reference to the Groucho Marx prenunciamento. “However careluky I frame my words about criticism which has been made neuinst me by Mr Gaitskell, I am bound to

corn and contempt for the part satisfuetion of the Elonlan or Parliament in the world he was And now In the greatest that he played in this dispute." Herrovian. His father was a

was a roar of anger Scoltish doctor who, in the gren giving a terrife punishment to from the Socialist betiches und tradition of his race, worked the Welsh spell-bindes-Ancurin an even greater shout of approval hard and spent little so that he Bevan the man with the gift of from the Tories Gaskell's could send his san to Cambridge, words and the aura of drama. face flushed with anger.

But perhaps the bravest thing he But how, in the Conservative ever did was to publish a book could sense the Speaker, lo

his gown and wig, be had undergone, leaned forward as if to intervene Party, does a man, without in- called "Bridge is on Easy Game" Jat he was perfectly fair in his bin the Minister was obviously luence nr the usual social back- Incidentally

ground rise to the position by his Bridge Editor of the Sunday analysis of the causes of the not to be slienced,

Party that Macleod holds today? Times and is one of the best! telice and in his suggestions for

Nors ikely that his climb players la Britain, bringing it to an end♣ But as

will stop at his presen! post. his sprech entered on its final

tuin Macleod is just another phase he muddenly paused and

example of a ent who saw hi pointed to Social, Lender Hugh

opportunity and was ready for Gaitskell who was sitting direct- ly opposite..

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When the Opposition leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had ended his speech he was followed by fit Machrel the Government's Minister of Labour. Mucleod hit hard and we strain tha

Trade Union Council statement clear that was issued yesterday."

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Mr

he was for time

HTC

Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

BY. THE WAY

by Beachcomber ·

said yesterday: enormous fish-like

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FANATICAL taxidermist the millions of lots of surplus The coal sold by the Cmmi, Board to monster the Central Electricity General- reen carly this morning on ing Board are to be resold to the the cast shore of Loen Ness Oil Board. The Turnip Board is either a stuffed whole or a has protested. Sald a spokesman, colossal "There are many Bourds which pteropseudonyx- on beast

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Yet the lame that centred

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1." The Soclely for the Pyper- could vation

to

of the Severn Tunnel and/or Clifton Suspension

are

"We are having this debate today," Macleod raped, “becauso Mr Galtshell, in a Parliamentary

which lived in the need the surplus coni even less It came one day in the 1851 him after his punmelling of Mozambique Sirait 3,754,000,000 than any of those three Boards, In cold, ley lanes the Minister gerne on Monday, could not con.

I do not believe Parliament when the Socialists Anturin Bevan said: "I agree with Mr Gaitskill trol himself.

Leader of any other were in power and Aneurin clouded by domestic sorrow. His years ago, and has not been seen and could make a worse use of

Sinc that the industrial situation is that the very serious indeed. I have party would have allowed this Devan had opened the debate wife was stricken with an illness

usual skill plus bis that threatened paralysis. For Asked if the creature deliberately not launched an af- particular debate to take place with his

elequence. In fact months she was an invalid, con-have recently come overland 1ack on him or on the Labour

at the present time. But if the Welsh Party, nor have I commented, as Opposition are to vote tonight Aneurin was in fine down and lined to her home, and the flash-Lach News, the taxidermist sald: Bridge denicu any knowledge of I thought at first I would, an the In the Lobby los us be quite ide great play with us on the ing eyes of Jain Macleod were "Not without being observed," the matter.

dimmed and shadowed. He had Asked if

whales many this Opposition Banches. n where censure

-been given the toughest job in stuffed nowadays, he ald: Well played, sir!

ony Conservative Government- "No. It would be a waste of Minister of Labour and he spent time. You could hardly sile his me between political tasks and being with his without protest," There is no sweeter music than stricken wife. But the gods the boying of the pack behind were kind. Mr Macleod began and Bevan, with developed sense of occasion, was plunged into the vortex or poli- at his best. As he reached his ties with renewed vigour.

ascertained yesterday peroralion and climax the

that the Nerkover house Socialists cheered themselves Few of the sons of Scotland matron who dispenses red and hoarse, but when it was seen have any inherited money and white wine in lieu of cough mix- that the next speaker was the Macleod is not an exception, ture at a reasonable price is the almost, unknown back bencher, There were no roses strewn upon aunt of a new boy whose father Iain Macleod, the allendance his path but plenty of thistles.

Macleod paused ominously. Something pretty toughi was coming and we wolted for it with mixed feelings, It was

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his heavy them above a club mantelplace A WRITER ys that most

is highly a steady recovery and Iain The epidemic at Narkover

slimmed us M.P.'s from both

sides decided that it was time

for that great English Institution

known as a cup of tea,

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Twoś

is the wine merchant supplying

the wines. There's such a dia of coughing all over the school that you can hardly hear your- self speak. To give an air of Renuineness to the rocket, the But the British Parliament It was the basto decency of his masters who call for a bottle possesses a psychle quality and character, plus his courage, that every morning wear muffÏETA the news begun to sprend that made his recent attack on Burh | ond have their temperatures chap named Macleod was Gallskell so crushing. If Macleod taken. One anxious mother 131 making a remarkable speech. had been no more than a bril-wrote to the head master com-

The

idings filtered to the Hant debater his speech. might plaining that her

son had smoking room, to the libraries have been regarded as a fine according to his letters home, and even to the Terrace. Soon Parliamentary performance and

been suffering from F sough the amply benches were parked no more, but character and

ever since the term begon, und In fact there was sincerity still rank biɛh in what that the bull for medicine acemed not sitting room for all the is sometimes called The excessively high. Dr Smart- members, and it was literally » Nation's Talking Bhop,” ense of "Standing Room Only"

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QZONE OWE U 31. HearinK UZLONNÜTAI

apparatus.

22.

drink,

as a uro.

with M.P.'s.

Albick replied:

"The

finest

and preclous little of that, Even There is a cynical saying that medicine from the vine-yards is an education the peers heard about it and the Houses of Parliament are full of France erewded the special bench in the of former, future Prime Minis- in itself. We have to klep up three gallery which is reserved for ters, and therefore, I must not this cough, stunt because members of the House of Lords, venture on a prophecy that some of the school governors

Yet Macleod had neither the day

enter Macleod will

the fratotalers." manner not the voice of u magic portals of No. 10 Downing

His Stroet as its tenant. successful career politician

Yet he has My ear to the ground voice was hard, rather metallic; the advantage of being mature and his round face and head without being a relic, for he is left no suggestion of aristocratic unly 44. lineage.

But he had the breed- ing which has produced so many of

The first world war, the war A RUMOUR is running like

1914-10, now

divides

fire through on

Oriental

the bazaar filled with stubble,

that

and

triumphs in sport, polities, business come from the

That

ability to think more quickly then, your opponent. almost word for word, was the rueful utterance of a connibal chief whoso greedlest son had been eaten by an explorer.

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

*ING. 5422)

Here is a problem by R. Col

White man (La Liberte. 1923) to play and mate in two moves

Solution No 5421; 1 R-RB chi, BxR. 20-R7 ch R-B1: 3QxBch, R. -R2; 4 Q--KL7 ch KL 82; 5 Qxi ch R-03; 4 KL 4 male

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