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THE CHINA ~ MAIL,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, ́ ́ ́1958."

A FORMER PRIME MINISTER MAKES AN IMPORTANT DECLARATION

Guns for Bobbies? It's

CONSTABLE Raymond Henry Summers- won- dered ff his cold WAS bad cnough 10 justify hls reporting sick, de- cided it wasn't, said good- bye to the girl he was going to marry and reported for night patrol in Londen's down-at-heel Holloway dis.

trict.

PETER BURGOYNE'S.

News From Britain

He had been stabbed in the back while trying to break up

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While detectives worked with the deadly dedication they give to a rop-killer search. two rows over the death of A few hours later he lay dead

They were on the pavement outside a local Constable SummISTY, "dancing academy" where teen sparked by the cries, "Arm the

pers karn

"chn-ebu asid police," and "Ban the sale of

nick-kulves." "errep."

to

Friell

Ser Wilfred

NEDEN

Pacemaker-

"Welcome to BOAC, sir. Your first job is to allay the widespread unrest coused by the report on the causes of widespread unrest!"

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WED in LONDON!

A SINGLE ARROAD

SAMPLES

"I wonder what you are when you leare London on your so-called commercial travelling ?"

Quality

ale, port and sherry (no hard lquer), and footmen, chauf- feurs and chambermaids aro chosen to dance with members of the Family.

It's a coiler-than-usual affair with a family flavour.

Those who wanted to give I thought I'd tell you about gune to the police had hard this year's Household party, not facts to back their argument, because anything unusual bap- Within a few days, besides the goned, but boenuse of something nurder of Raymond Summers, u the Queen said. The evening sealer Lancashire police officer was at its height when she reld was shot down during the siege to Prince Philip "I think we of a house, a constable was had better leave now, so they

Aght just outside can let their hair down," killed in a London, and another policeman was attacked in a gun scuffle.

This record alone, they argued, was enough to justify their plead that the police be given a chance in defend themselves.

In these few words, I think, iles all the loneliness of royal Never for the merest eminence. traction of a second can the Queen cease to be the Queen. can bo charming. She

gay, friendly. But never, never, never can who let her hair down. Even in her own home sho must leave a

The "Ban on Knives" brigade were heavily supported by cer-

of the sections

Dational press which headlined the ense with which anyone Can buy knows that she illek-knives and daggers 1 party so that her people can let Kit They made much of their hair down. the sale of a certain "novelty"

which looks like an automatic Election Tactics

pistol but, in fact, conceals u spring-loaded blade which fleks out when the trigger is pressed.

Already Home Secretary R. A. Butler has refused to ban the sale of the flick-knite gun, but he will doubtless come under Parliamentary pressure to bun the manufacture and sale of all

dick-knives and daggers,

If he does so, it will amount For to no more than a gesture. the teen-age hoodlums have al-

discovered that П study fatively inexpensive chef's knife makes G deadly. readily concealed weapon.

re-

As for pleas to arm the police, I am certain beyond doubt a they will be turned down fat.

depraved To all but a tiny, minority, the British paticeman

BRITAIN'S

Socialists

have

for

time NOW

the Summit

NLY a few months ago there was ONL

widespread discussion on the need for what were called Summit Talks between the statesmen of the leading countries of the world.

I am sure that the demand for a Summit meeting expressed the wide- spread apprehension of ordinary people that existing tensions must lead to another world war.

Recently in the House of Commons the possibility of such a meeting seems hardly to have been mentioned. Yet the tensions are still there and, with the Berlin situation, have even increased.

What has happened?

To an onlooker it seemed that while the would-be climbers to the Summit all professed their desire to take the journey, every one in turn found he was not ready. He had not got his boots or his walking stick. Meanwhile there has been soone activity in the foothills.

Encouraging but...

ipped their hand about how they plan to fight the next general election. They have seized on current unemployment than for figures, higher now mnome years, to conjure up the bogey of the "grey 'thirties"

COME of these activiiles are encouraging when depression gripped the

notably those concerned with nuclear tests; nation and unemployment stalk-

others, like the German situation, less 60. ed the land.

But the manufacture and supply of uma- More and more weapons get their ments goes on. They Kround well, The prospect of into less and less responsible hands, and instru- Andments of mass destruction and the means of unemployment instils fear.

they can make that fear seem delivering them are perfected. real enough, the Conservative: will face a monumental task in tying

overcome It with reason

have

chosen

The Conservatives arc Con- friend for the very reason vinced of the effectiveness of that he is unarmed. He is liked

their economic policy, which and respected because he keeps

hus cushioned the peace armed only with the they belleve

Britain against the effects of force of law and the support of

worldwide dip in trade. And the public.

they are equally convinced that

will expansion renewed much to cut the unemployment figures.

No British Government will risk disrupting this happy re- lationship between the public and the police.

A bit of how hoodlum who attack the police will be dealt with came from a judge who when sentencing just such a thug, warned that they could expect no mercy.

Always A Queen

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ECENTLY, the Queen held a Household party at Buckingham Palace. The Household party is a regu lar Christmas Institution,

do

Ai the same time, they are striving hard to clear up puckets of chronic unemployment by using everything in their power to persuade industrialisty to sito any new developments in areng where unemployment, is high and by giving them financial Induco-" ment to do so.

The task before the Conserva- tives is plain. They have to make marked inroads upon un- employment before the Socialist ear campaign can take too firm a hold to be shaken off in time

for an election.

the Royal Family's gesture Canned

of thanks 10 the Palace staff, who bring along their wives, children and close A

relatives.

A dance band plays late into the night, the guests drink mild

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I am far from being foolishly optimistic as to what could come out of high-level talks. do not expect some magical transformation of the international scene, but I do, nevertheless, believe that the time is ripe and over-ripe för such a meeting.

Long-range exchanges in the form of Hum slan Notes and Press confereten statements by Mr Dulles get us nowhere.

is it not time that the leaders got together in informal talks to try to find out what is really in their minds about the future of the world? May we not be continuing to act on assumptions which are not valid today?

The fears

OR instance, most people as

rume that the Russians have a vested interest in world ten- everywhere and sion and that

in every way they diligently foment it.

It may be so, but it may not. This policy had its roots in fear. The Soviet teared an endeavour by the West to destroy Soviet Rumia.

It may be that they feel them- selves so strong today that these tears have departed.

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It is, I suppose, possible that he might take counsel with such men as Mr Adial Stevenson la- stead of relying solely on Mr Dulles.

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than either of the Continental Powers

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imaginative proposal for a re- great form of UNO on these lines.

We have lived so long in dan ger that we take a cooler view.

I recall an American asiting me why we did not get excited

Government

I do not see witty we must always wakt to agree with the United States on every point

before going to a conference.

This at once makes it a com-

Let us lead

He is in his lost term: there are two years to go before the next presidential election.

as they did. I replied that in tinuance of a line-up compat- Might he not make

my experience in the First World able to that on the plane of move and get away from the War, the front Line was often ormaments.

of his Secretary of quite calm sterilities

when Brigade had State? Might he not even think the wind up. a change of bowing ir that de-

The American

ure, and I hope always partment an advantage?

still seem

to belleve that one W will be, in close relations Emphatic

must put a sanitary cordon with the United States, but we round the Communist world. do not necessarily view every- standing armed against it.

thing from the same angle. I believe that everywhere we should seek disengagement. The greater the peaceful contact the better. I do not fear contagion because of my faith in the demo- craite way of life.

It may be that they feel that the glacis of satellite States be- WHAT of our

tween them ond the West is D longer essential.

Wreat

own

Govern- It has expressed in

It may be that they now have emphatic teams its belief in all such confidence in their un round disarmament

We are bearing an excessive

AT one time, and until fairly doubtedly remarkable technical burden of armaments in an age

achievements

that they believe recently, the most cutting thing one British housewife that Communist economic success when war has become not the could say of another was that will show the world that Com- sport of kings but the Inevitable the fed her ismily out of cans,

muntam is the only way for the destruction of civilisation. human race to travel.

Their error may be

Government ia

We have of

moved away.

The same applies in the Com- monwealth, but it does no harm to recognise differences. There is the rest of the world to con- sider outside the leading Powers. None of the various discus- Bold move

sions going on in the world at the official or even governmental THINK that it is time to make level can make real progress un- an effort to revivity the lens they are given positive United Nations Organisation. I direction from the top. They do not belleve

con become merely counters in the

that we

We face a number of difficult problems largely the overspill of But, as with hire purchase and

strategie commitments which be- Television, Ume has vested

long to an obsolete era of naval- canned foods with respectability

that the American lam such Cyprus, Malta, and So much so that last year 3,000 million canfuls of food were

rethinking Aden problems which can best Drake great progress in disarma- game.

I want a Summit conference ite policy. For instance, I found he solved in a context of world ment without the establishment consumed in Britain. And some-

of the rule of law under that in the United States there pezce.

to come to positive understand- one has made the interesting, if

59 0 growing appreciation

fat world authority which will in- ings which would have an in- completely pointless, calculation

their error in continuing their away, from the old imperialism volve a degree of yielding some vigorting effect right down the that if these cans were placed

refusing recognition which caused such suspicion of measure of the ubsolute sover- line. end to end they would circlelitude of

the minds of Americans eignty which States demand for Let the leads

get together the work a dozen times, and it to Red China,

The President now has to deal and others. It

to me themselves today. Бестя

lately It has piled

on top of one another with a Congress overwhelmingly that now is the time when Bri I should ke to ste our appeared to the world that would reach the moon. Which, Democratic. Presumably he will tain should take the initiative. Government meet Russia and Russie has taken the initiative. come to think of it, might behave to come to terms with it. We are far less subject to fear the United States with a bold, quicker, and cheaper, than fring monkeys from Cape Canaveral.

Panto

COULD find only one pukka English stylo Christmas pantomime listed In London West End entertainment golden. I deliberately exclude the Rodgers and Hammerstein pro- duction of "Cinderella" because, first rate though it be, it is not pantomime as we know it. I exclude, too, hardy annuals like "Peter Pan" and "Where the Rainbow Ends," for these are chlidren's plays, not pantomimes, No, the truly English pantomime in something al- together different. Ita formula is as unchangeable on the recipe for Christmas pudding. It has ng its theme a popular taky story or nursery rhyme. "The Babes In the Wood," "Mother Goose," "Pus-in-Boots" typical.

There must be a Principal Girl played by n soprano, a Principal Boy played by another young woman,. o Dame played by male comic, Robbers, Balls Men or other knockabout villains plored by a dual comedy tcom, o Good Fairy (another soprano) and a Demon King (bast or baritons).

It can have, as well, (in fact, It must havej "balancing acta, Jungler», conjurers

and chorus

Kirin, And all the mutala has to be currently popular songs to permit the audience to join in community singing.

The story, I grant you, is opt to get itself lost in all this. But then everybody exports Uiat, and pantomime continues t flourish. Except in London, where the argument seem to te that all thin is really too naive to metropolitan vidienees,

SELWYN

THE SUEZ MUMMY

now. Too

zans

often

Let Britain lead.

"YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, YOU CAD-PEOPLE HAD

ALMOST FORGOTTEN THAT WE'RE STILL AROUND

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