England Remains The Same
THE
summer Parliamentary Recess was almost upon us and the political clock was running down as if some one had forgotten to wind it up. Even those descendants of Simon Legree, known as Government Whips, seemed decent fellows under the skin. Perhaps after all it was not just natural cussedness on their part that had kept us on incessant duty at the House throughout the session.
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Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.
The "backwoods" poor, Ch ing to what is left of tholt dwindling landa and pewstige, will continue - to Inment the change, and will · only odne to Woetminster to voo the Ques open Parliament. With the creopling coinonsense which is Inevitabio -in.. the siliskru od humanity, the' active membership of the Upper Houso will chiefly As the sun was radiant and peers and peeresses of Partis- and elegant Lord Curzon who
cay rate this annual stipend is derive from men who have warm a number of us forsogk ment are "ffers," there is no had no son to carry on the title. of Drish politios kaa joined the the Debating Chamber and went inheritance of the title for the The Baroncas Ravensdale, now seda on Valhalla. He is only 57 paid to me whether I tum lip or oomed promotion or an under He by being tramplanted trom to a beautiful house in Regent's eldest son. As a Smoking Room A Fecreas of Parliament, da Vioc. years of age which is young for not,
Our host was the hand- wit said to his friends:" "Like President of the National Asso- polics but the pinnacles are
the: Commons to the Lords, Rather unfairly the peers of: Park, some Sir Ian Fraser, M.P., the the mule these new peers have clation of Girls' Clubs and net for him.
with Boothby goes Viator Parliament will be paid nothing Inevitably there will be a head of St Dunstan's organisa no pride of ancestry nor hope of Mixed Clubs, and Chairman of
Jewish Socialist niezs they clock in, a process moaning" at the bar in the thm for the blind of both wars, progeny." More than ever I the Highway Clubs of East Lon Collins who ne young subaltern from am convinced that except In don where life is hard and drab, business man of some substance which will result in their re- refreshment rooms of the Hound South Africa lost his sight on Royal Circles there will be no
who has sat in the House of Com- ceiving £3 'attendance money of Lords. Also there will be Thus by the wave of a magic mons for nine years and always trouble ahead. A peer of Par- negrot that Macmillan did not for the day. But I can see some MPig who will sincerely the Western Front in 1914. more hereditory titles created
Mr Muciallion, the talks the kind of commonsENGO e pllowed to continue Into the principal commoner of the State, which cams respect but emplles looks in on the way to his Club system completely. But English although the existing ones will wand
liament, resident in London, abolish The hereditary» titio future unless by chance the transforms these four eminent the Debating Chamber,
Just to finish with the new and is thus £3 in pocket. But romanticism, partly restrained by failure to produce an heir brings women into Peeresses of Parlla-
realism, them to an end.
ment to mingle their minds with peers and not to weary you in what aboue a Scottish Peer who Scottish
refuses theory that either those of their male colleagues and the procese 1 briefly give you the has to journey from the High- accept the to bring a varied experience of rest of the field who have made lande (admittedly, on a railway men or horses quo;born equal, o
then Andaleeping even if they begin lie on terms life and its problems to the the transition from commoners pass) and revising Chamber of the British to life peers:
accommodation in London? Not of equality that they will end Parliament.
KOEL: A kind of euekoo, a description of which may be found in Hongkong Birds by Herklots. In works on India it is written
I have known Fraser intimate coel, koli, It is the Hindi koil according to Bohran-Jobmon where it is also suggested that the Hindi form is from Sanskrity for thirty years but on this occasion he seemed pensive and rather wistful as he talked his friends in the lovely grounds of the house. Was it because 11 was his last appearance as Chairman of St Dunstan's? Nor-
mally his laughter is easy and boisterous but in his en grounds that day he was in no mad for merriment.
KOW-TOW: This word is probably no more used in Hongkong than in any other part of the world where English is spoken. It has found its way into the main stream in the same way as Junk, Kampan and colloquial phrases such a long time no see, Glies, in his Glossary says it is Mandarin K'o t'ou 'knock head' and recalls that it is sometimes spelt kotow or kotoo, Gilles states that a kow-tow for the emperor consisted of three kneelings and nine knockings. It was also necessary to kow-tow before mandarins and at certain religious ceremonies, at times of deall Inferiors were expected to kow-tow to superiors, KRAIT: Sp. Bungarus, two varieties of poisonous snakes. Se
G.A.C. Herklets "Land Snakes of longkong." The Hongkongning Bloom I joined a small Naturalist, Vol. IV, 1993. It is sometimes spelt karait or koralt In works on India and is the Hindi karat, It is desirable to rhyme It with non-Cockney mite or Cockney mate, LARN-PIDGIN: An apprentice "boy," who attaches himself to a household with a view Learning the pidgin (q.v.) required of a servant by foreign masters, receiving little or no wages for the service he is able to render. (Giles). Maker-learnic
So back we went 10 Wast- minster and in the Merabers
table of four where Sir Robert brilliant, jovial, Boothby, the romantic Falstaff of the Tory Party was holding forth in ufl dirvetlons.
Now I suggest that we take a look at the four worden and the ten men whom the Queen has delighted to honour at the Prime Minister's request. As nn nel of courtesy let us start with the women, Who are they and what have they done to justify their appolniment as the pioneer Peeresses of Parliament?
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even the frugal qualities of the straight line, Seot can turn thai into a profit.
However, the British have always been a race of experi-
has some currency with foreign housewives although the ap. will be in the newspapers in the years ago and his widow was his temperament, you miga is represented by Victor Noel- the elected Commons,
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a lower level, Then will Her
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Minister and his Cableet are the elected rulers of tive country they will bow in deep, obeisance to Her Majesty the Queen' who rules by the sheer sccident of birth.
Let us now deal with the mon whom the Prime Minister has similarly ennobled I shall not
Edward Shackleton, son of the mentalists. Indeed they have weary you with their records in
famous explorer Sir Ernest had to be so on an Island which Parliament next Autumn in the So when the Queen opens detail except in the case of Sir Shackleton; Sir Charles Geddes, supports 50 million people with Robert Boothby who, as a com- lately General Secretary of the no natural assets beyond a lordship Bob: Boothby im
House of Poors' we shall see iis, bination of Falstaff and Haralet. Union of Fost Ontee Workers dwindling charmed and affronted the House
reserve of coal and
ermine collared robe and with a of the an and part-time member. of Commons for years.
unprofitable agriculture. London Transport Executive, Therefore I have
contact upon 'his' head. Tha every con- Queen will sit upon the throne Dame Katharine Ellot is the
his fe as a boy fidence that the revised
House If you can imagine a handsome, who began
with her ocnsort in his chair at + with a rich voice messenger in the Post Office and of Lords will develop new Half way through dinner he widow of Walter Elliot who was fat romantic
a great Parliamentarian of the like an organ, and a brain that has now come to rest in the vitality and, therefore, a new Majesty suremon her faithful said: "Look here, you chops, l
Commons, He died a couple of is only matched in quality by House of Peers.
importance without in any way
Commons and ww Then the Church of Scotland challenging the
shall acc sovereignty of Harold Macmilla and Hugh prentice is usually a girle
morning so I may as well sell defeated when she ran her understand Bob Boothby, ITis
Gaitskell and tib-few of us who you now. The first list of life husband's place in the by name had only to be put up on Paton but the representation
can squeeze in looking like beg- LINGO: An obsolete synonym for Hogulst which we have.discussed
(standard Petrs has gone out to the press election. However, she was the ticker to All the House. In will now become unoffelal bo
gars at the gate in batore. It may be the creolised Portuguese ingu
and belleve it or not I am in it." created a Dame and
comparison presided his youth he was a favourite of cause the Church rules prévent
with the gorgeous birds lingua) and employed by Portuguese-speakers from the Cape
and over the National Union of Con Winston Churchill and Boothby Parlament and as a lay prea- being members of clergy from Verdo istands to Macpo. Both lingus and lingu mean tongue
Naturally
paradise in the Upper Chamber. Associations. Thus knew that some or langunge and were common names for "Interpreter' or
day farewelled him aud ordered servative
It in inevitable that as this
And
the because
Prime Hinguist. It seems not Improbable that English lingo, (General-
Then
we asked instead of this splendid woman would be knocking at the door of cher the new Baron Noel-Paton ly outlandish language, had its origin in the sub-standard champagne.
else was on the being the forgotten, widow of a Boothby who
Number 10. But alast fe could almost comes into that entegory, new era in the history of the never be dull, Worse than that
Also there is the remarkably British Parliament takes form Portuguese form.
Ukt from the House of Commons, grout politician dhe moves into
Bir John Schnation there will arise a school of LOOK-SEE: Leland found I necessary to gloss this expression as
"I'm not sure but I know that the Upper House as a "Peeress he would turn his wit against his named
Vice- opinton, principally from the of Parliament" where look, behold, appear like, see appreciate, understand.
her own parly which caused much Bach Stopford, lalely
of Scottish romanticism and realism resentment and even more dia University, and to end the list, vocate the complete abolition of Manchester Left, which will eventually ad- would no longer be necessary now even if it was in his day, Ste lun Fraser is on the lat." since to have a look-see is well known colloquial in many
will
Royal English-speaking countries. Look-zen pidgin is given by
good.
albell a bit abruptly, let us wel lites (except in the come to the Upper House Daniel Family) and a transformation Leland as ostentation, hypocrisy, tham. Look-see translates
of Lords into a Next we have the Dowager
West, who wao Labour MP of the House literally the Cantonese expression t'al-kin.
from 1815 to 1030 and Perila Senate in which, commoners Reading, whose husband LOVE-PIDGIN: Love, courtship, wooing or tenderness in Leland's So that was partly the reason Lady
words. He tells us carnestly that love-love-pidgin is sensuality for Sir Ian's wistful melancholy (Rafus Isaacs) rose to great
mentary Secretary to Herbert would alt cheek by jowl with or voluptuousvess and that It may be applied to erolles in
He has always been a reckless Morrison during the life of the the existing peers of Parliament. In Regent's Park. He was dignity and high place. She is
and Founder of gambler at cards and in human post-war Socialist Government As for the hereditary peers they books or art.
leaving St Dunstan's which had the Chairman
Brilliant, LOWDAI: Northern Pidgin, the equivalent of tal-kong, junk-cap-been his chief occupation and the Women's Voluntary Services destiny.
charming, it is not without interest that would probably be allowed
number from Defence which has unreliable and grand company... The new Lord Taylor's wife is elect a certain tain servant in the south:
preoccupation, and now he was for Civit
for tho the Governor of on its splendid work Churchill's Direction
Holloway their ranks to be members of lo leaving the House of Com- carried
young Scot who tooked like an Prison for Women, In fret the the Upper Chamber, hobs for that distant pince from from war into peace.
overweight Dorian Gray has last hanging of a woman in this whose bourne no traveller re-
A third Peeress of Parlament lasted through years despite country took place in Holloway The British have a genius for turns-in other words the House
The new is Mrs Barbara Wootton, a the fact that Prime Minister not very long ago.
bleedless revolutions, of Lords.
broadcaster and authoress of he had to dismiss Boothby as a But peers must eat and clothe lock which the Upper House now works economics and lately Minister because of his utter themselves and find o dwelling acquires marks nothing less than the British Parliament. –He has n. also hinted that the Australian Professor of Social Studies in the recklesstess at an embarrassing place just like commoner. What the death sentence to
It does not end the Government might advise. Her University of London, She has moment,
then is to be the remunerations in tradition, the revised Upper House? I must principle of heredity in Parlia- Majesty in the matter of creating also been a Governor of the
explain that a member of the ment but curbs it with the intro Life Peerages in Australia. B.B.C.
House of Commons drawe no duction of life pects appointed less than £1,750 a year which is by the Prime Minister of the day Will Canada follow suit? Like £1,250 more than in 1936 when who hlmacky must always elt as the man in the Gallup Poll I
commoner in the Lower Houso, don't know, 1 first entered Parliament. At
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LUKONG or LOKONG: Old watchman. Giles says this name was given formerly to Hongkong native constables, He also records that they were "satirically spoken of as look-ons from their absence of energy in the discharge of their dulles." JYCHEE: A well-known and loved Chinese fruit. Perhaps the frst Englishnan to describe it was Peter Mundy in his Travels which also include a sketch of a Leichera. 1le says of the lychee that is is "as big as a Wollnutt, ruddly browne and erusly, the skynne like la that of the Raspis (raspberry) or Mulberry butt hurd, which death easily and cleanly come offe, having within a cleare while (somewhalt) hard pulpy sub- alance, in tuste like to those Mucendine grapes that are in Spaine in some country houses about their courtis etts, They are not offensive to tie stomacke, although a man cat many of them, and now hard to bee gotte, the season going out. Itment. Incidentally, because the
is said they are proper only to this Kingdome of China, and to speake my owne mynde It Is the preliest and plenstunteat fruit thoit ever I tasted. There is another sort like them butt' they have another name and may be compared almost as crabbes are to gordeln apples." Neuhoff in his Dutch Em- bussy to China (1053) says that the Portuguese at Macno call- ed 1 fchla and it was presumably from them that Mundy took his form of the name. Dompler records having seen it at Tonkin in 1080,
A British Crossword Puzzle
The list duly appeared in the newspapers next morning and we had a chance to study the There Were fourteen form.
women. names, four of them Not only had Macmillan created Life Peera but he had also created four Pecresses of Paris-
combine for the nation's tress.
Now we come to that rarity, a baroness in her own right, She is the daughter of the famous
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Now he leaves
tax for the twilight of the gods or at any rate of the Lords. There is no one to replace him in the Com mons. The most brilliant failure
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Chancellor
to
In other words the British have a political genius
which their enables them to "change constitution without revolution, The more England changes the more she remains the same.
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