1959-01-03 — Page 17

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

THE-Hate Hat Sims was

once

asked, "How would you have played that hand?" Ho promptly replied. "Under an assumed namo,"

South's four-heart bid might also come in the assumed name play left category but his nothing to be desired.

East won the opening ump ivad and shifted to the jack of spaces. South played the queen and West won with the acc. A spade return lust to South's tho king and he promptly led suit back.

East won and led a Fourth spade forgetting that when both sides play the same suit one is likely to be wrong.

South ruffed and ran out all his trumps but pnc. He dis- carded one club and three small and diamonds from dummy

Im- East and West coch felt

hang on 10 three pelled to

WEST

4A 4

JOZ

NORTII A732

IB

#54

A705 A812

EAST

▲ J 10935

RUSSIA

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Q1075

South

+ Q108 AKFOX

SOUTH (D)

KQ6

KQJ 10073

+42

43

Buth vulnerable

Opening lead-2

Westminster Wonders of '58

M

LLOYD

TR SELWYN

WIS easily the out- standing politician of the year for sheer durability. With hardly any visible. mes of support, his fate seemed certain 12 months jagu; one and all were agreed poller after the 1953 upris that he could not possibly survive Foreign Secre-

A

1 Communhan being sold to !|

veterinary ngeon of 55 lassted:

is only acceptable on Communist teus, although they hellove

j ceni are against it some kind of federation Will Ademuer has come sooNSF- already rejected federation

meaningless.

Port No. 1

ars

But one top ited was frank "Adetikus cannot live for ever. will One day West Germany vole a Socialist Gaverament power. And then we can start tolking." he said.

"One day the West will wake up shocked to find our industrial capacity something to with."

Warnemumle and are cases in point.

Paghts Bait

th party reorganised the secret

stucket low heavily on any

siva and rombined th

foud, lary.

with re Korais, more

Jik Jenwer prken Non-party Fast

Yet there he is, stll master

Foreign Offler,

(-AND IT'S NOT AN ALL-STAR CAST!)

By GEORGE HUTCHINSON

TWO men have dominated the political year-Mr

Both have become, a Macmillan and Mr Gaitskell. never before, the undisputed and unshakeable leaders tenant of their parties. But what of the others in politica? Germans are of the

of the glorious house that goes The China Mail Political Correspondent spotlights those Brmly convinced, the Reds pos-

voice of Britain who made the hits... and misses. sionately want to liquidate West With R, the Berlin

window of abroad. Capitulisen Curtain.

1 saw

45 16 is wa behind

the

Iron

Red Army troops, of

Maddening

which that are 400,000, only Nobody can be more astonish-

of

special recognition as the year session ane November night ended.

by the rare and cunning dodge The strangers. "spying Mr Wigg could quickly have Torics were furious. been folled by the Government hall Whips. Alas, they were asleep.

The most maddening for the once in my 500-mile toured this Mt Lloyd, He had given must enterprising, depending on

Instead, your point of view) the GEORGE WIGG.

Longgia-toeskog

battalion

Un

anselt up

for lost, nel Being range in a blinding the doghouse has become reckot

nowstura bually unconcerned grace and favour residence,

But a good many others to about the bitter cold

Parliament are also entitled to The political climate.

Rostock

MAC'S SUPER PANTO COME INTO THE NEVER-NEVER LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE

SELWYN THE SLEEPING

SUEZ BEAUTY,

DO NOT DISTURB

ог

TINKER

BELL

AMORY

RESERVES

SUEZ

Was MR

This in the Socialist MP who forced the House of Commons into private - practically secret

"Oh dear! Everything was going super till Randolph started rubbing that

confounded old lamp "and" woke up poor Selwyn . . .!''.

Landen Bepresi Beraien

To the Whips, therefore, subsidiary award for Inertia 1830.

Indiscreet

SIR DAVID ECCLES, ning true to form, Just opportunity

during the

IL

in

In the

vanishing-without-a- trace stakes, only one Minister had ever come near him-LORD SALISBURY In the previous year.

ME PAUL CHANNON, on the Tory side, had been so much more fortunate,

Adopted for Southend West, at 23, he was the luckiest of politicians. He was also the most presumptuous.

The fourth of the Guinness family to take hold O! this division, one after another, bo bad conferaed Southend West ns the pocket borough not of the year but of the century.

MK HUGH DELA"GY was the surprise packet of 1950.

His is a valce chiefly heard in the inner councils of what used to be calicd the Devonile group. Yet single-bonded in the Cammons he stops An arms shipment to Cuba. Then he ups this year. and attacks the Speaker into

ne bargain.

A rymptom of the General But Election fever, 1 duresay. breathtaking, all the same.

Ponderous

His Socialist colleague MR MITCHISON- GILBERT

the Parlia- Naomi's own-was mentary bore of the year.

Το call Mr Milchison pon- dercus is almost to flatter him. He touched nothing without dendening it. Myself, I have never encountered such heavy

run weather outside the North

no Atlantic.

This year

Was a

considerablu

to further his reputation as achievemeal, for Mr Mitchison the most indiscreet and ham- End fisted of Ministers.

ת!

at last outclassed MIR CLEMENT DAVIES, MR HENKY

and the BROOKE

MER JAMES GRIFFITHS.

himsel Surpassing very last days, he even launched into an open squabble with our allies, the French Govern- ment. Here was a flourish that ever no other Minister could rival,

By any reckoning, Eccles again toolt the cake for tactless

DQ59.

Distinguished

The MP most eligible toj promotion was MR PETER A distinguisher, RAWLINSON. speech in the Wolfenden debate added greatly to his reputation. Yet his real prospects are not should say~ĴOT

MR RICHARD CROSSMAN was the man who did most for very high, 1

reward. Roman Catholles tend to be his party with least Brilliant in debate, a chormer overlooked in Tory administra- personally, he still talled to rise tions.

In the Socialist leadership.

MR EMANUEL SHINWELL Wrestling with pensions and won again the greediest of MPs, fatting down hogeing time during Quesitons PIANONSalon, the Socialist policy, he had with a nerve that one had to become the leading exponent of admirc.

Mr Shinwell

invested the

the half pay on retirement scheme. Working away right letters PC with a new meaning: up to the autumn he had gained Prize Chatlerer. further tome 25 principal The most disappointed MP MAN- SIR BEGINALD author of MR GAITSKELL'S was

NINGHAM-BULLER. Attorney- glossy pre-election manifesto,

LORD FARKEN was

Yet when he put up for the General. Shadow Cabinet Crassman was He wanted to be Lord Chicr again robuffet Would he never Justice..

over all those dulf old preferred. trade union MP who continued - to purn him??

מטר

The most disappointing: MR ANEURIN BEVÁN. The old

The fastest disappearing act. dynamo seemed to be running was performed by MR PETER THORNEYCNOFÍ, ‹

Up to January 6, ill Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, he was

down. Mr Bevan had evidently Iost heart.

But not all politicians are in Parlement.

power in the latid Next Among those outside, the morning he had gone, with his well-known

touring act'

of

Garch

twa lieutenants, overborne by DRIBERG Jand, WYATT ́hald the Cabinet on the date of first place. civil expenditure,

Scouring the country in ils, resignation was expected; ot seats, the luckless pair-the to rock the Governmerit, Dild 17, Left and the Right of their Mr Thorneycroft has replied on party--had perhaps grown wenry the backbenchies over stice, by Christmas, But, with another weldura heard of, hardly men year, another vlalon" was open- tioned, of np importance to the ing before them. They would public or the party.

range on,

FOOTNOTE: Na women? No, not one. Even Dr Summerkil failed to qualify for anything

Wel North 49 Pass Pass

Fast

Pass

clubs.

Since

they

were lefl

with only four

cords

each,

neither had two diamonds left. South cashed dummy's

ares, ruled

Iwo

club and

his

deuer of diamonds won the last trick.

Of course, either East or West could

on to two have held diamonds and ruined South's play. It just happened that the swindle worked.

CARD Sendek

1 2

North Duuble

Q-The bidding has been West

East

Saath

14

Para

Double

Pass

Pais

7

34

Double Pats

You, South, hold: 45% 93 43 2005 49J 10 8

What do you do?

A-Pax. Your partner most have a tremendous hand with good spades and, your opportata are la trouble.

TODAY'S QUESTION West passes and it is your lead, What do you open?

Answer on Monday

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