1959-01-31 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959.-

HAS EVERYONE

UNDERRATED

NOT SO

the

LONG AGO. Tories sa omed confident Lavourites to win the coming General Election. Now there are signs that they may have been over-confident. For a new buoyancy is apparent among

GAITSKELL?

the Sociallats. In their campaign for the forth- coming election they are counting on having 10 times ns much money as they spent at their last attempt. They are less divided with their top ranks. And the man at their dead, Hugh 'now personal Gaitskell, is emerging with

strength. How does he see his chances against Macmillan? Hag the now highly popular Gaitskell been underrated? Secking the answer, the China Mall presents an extraordinarily intimate glimpse of the Socialist leader, as seen by himself, in this Interview,...

BY ANTHONY LEJEUNE

UNTIL RECENTLY EDITOR OF TIME AND TIDE.

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ACKNOWLEDGED INDEPENDENCE,

AND FREE TO PRESENT HIS PERSONAL ASSESSMENT HERE:

AF FTER SuperMae-SuperGaitskell? Well, perhaps. There's no doubt that the coming General Election will be very much a clash between two men. The China Mail, in common with a good many other news- papers and commentators, has been apt to regard the contestants as by no means fairly matched.

Mr Macmillan has been growing in stature before our eyes; his ringeraft has been increasingly impressive. But unobtrusively Mr Gaitskell has been in training too. Behind the prim and unhappy features which the cartoonista show, behind the easy soclable personality his friends know, there is a very tough man indeed.

Il does not pay to underrate Jilm.

You have only to talk to Mr Galtskell today to realise how much more confident und Impressive he is now thon he Wan & year ago. He is the man In charge and he knows it.

The split in he Socialist Party, which was so damaglug, hpsfor the moment at Jeast -been healed.

Whathor this now unity could survive another elec- toral defeat seems doubtfuf, but during the campaign Mr Galtskell con certainly on an undivided team.

Family man

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His

All politicians have to be pre- Rented as good family men and Galtskell really is our. two daughters grew up when he was a Minister and are used to bilelty, but he worrico Lometimes because the Umelight may be a little unfair to them. His wife Dorn does more than her shore of bazanr opening but she is naturally political woman and kes It

Human

There is a very human Galt- skell; the Gaitskell who loves

The success of the drive for porty funds and the massive support of the trades unions have certainly given him new confidence.

I

"We've got a policy that, believe, is both sensible, pracli- enl, relevant and yet completely in line with our Socialist prin- ciples. The Gallup polls have been favourable to the Tories, but I don't pay 100 much at- tention to that.

Mr "A politician," says Gaitskolf, "should exagger-

a bit

or no one will listan." The charge some of supportors would

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his own gardening, renda detective

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stories and modern novels; the raly Gaitskell who wants

"West Side Story," who reckons "Five Finger Exercise" was the best play of 1958, who went on his birthday, which is also his wedding aniversary, to the The question now is-can Mr Royal Cours Theatre, that home Gaitskell project hithse highbrow Left-wing drama, dismally unamused effectively to the country? It is and sat ript à process

which comes throughout a long evening of easily. He in still too much of highbrow Left-wing comedy, the university don to enjoy personal pollules.

He prefers an nendemic argu- ment. He is not in favour of the personality cult.

11e suspects that the pro- fessionals exaggerate the im-

not Precisely because he flamboyant or hot-blooded, he does not share the worst fáulis of the House of Commons.

At the time of Sucz ho stood out

the activo

Portance of cricks and techniq leador-whether you like his "But I don't worry about much," he says.

opinions or not-of a large section of the public. As he says, it was an occasion when passion and logic.completa ly combined.

The Socialist Party hus a formidable team of television advisers Woodrow Wyatt, Christopher Mayhew, John Free- man, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. They have taught Mr Goit- skell about a few elementary calches. The truth is thịt Mr Galiskell is an unusual mixture, a don who likes dancing, parties, and meeting people.

This does not mean that he positively revelled in the clasti la the Commons. "i am not a good hater," he says. "Perhaps it's a disadvantage,”

ROUND-UP

ARMADA TREASURE SEEKERS

ACCORDING to the list of wrecks in the Admiralty archives, a number of galleons of the Spanish Armada went down off the Deyon and Cornish coasts whilst being chased by the British feet commanded by Sir Francis Drake. Some £4,000,000 of silver bullion is reported to have gone down with one of the ships. Secking the lost treasure during their curing summer holiday will be ten members of the Leicester Underwater Exploration Club. design engineer of Loughborough, who says, "It may seem a useless search but one might strike lucky." Lust year he helped to recover Phoenician ol Jars and anchors, about 2,000 years old, oft Southern Italy.

They will be equipped with a compressor and acqualung

Leader

will be Mr Cyril GasДoyne,

REFUSED

bring against him is that he doesn't exaggerate enough,

Tightrope

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It is a difleult problem. The solid Socialist vole has mained pretty stable through all the by-elections. The mar- ginal uncommitted voles Bre what counts, »

Mr Galiskell must therefore walk the narrow Ughtrope be- tween boring the floating voters and frightening them.

this is a

to "Economics," he says, "ore

Cummings

London Express Service.

He might even hope to lower

Some people have accused

to terribly Important." And, of the standard rate of income tax.

course, they are, The coming

economic issues- Inflation and unemployment--more than any other.

on him of hot delegating enough.

"It Isn't

true," he protests.. "There are certain things one has got to do onescif.""

'councils will be empowered It has been said that in pur- tako over rented property suit of this difficult aims the that old houses can be main-

election will be fought party is deliberately glossing tained in proper condition. over the more alarming features I asked Mr Gaftshell whether of Socialist policy.

piece of deliberate playing-down, and he said no, A tent case for this is the it is all a matter of liming.

of housing. He was concerned that the municipalisation The party is, in fact, committed party should not be unreason- take-over of all rent ably curtailing the freedom of controlled houses,

the local authorities; he Was But all the party's latest pro- not at all concerned about the paganda saya about this is that freedom of landlorda,

to

• BY. THE WAY.

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Expensive

The Socialist Party's adver- tied programine looks very ex- pensive. How is it to be pule for without higher taxes or

infation?

Mr Gaitskell's answer is "By increased production," He be lleves productivity can rise by an average of 3% per cent per year. ("It will a poor look- out for the West if it can't.")

But this increase is not only get to pay for these vast Gov.

ernment disbursements: it has

PHE Home Secretary's recent expense and effort required to complaint that nobody has conquer a very small space do written poetry about sewermen not leave bira with much niso to cover wage rise costs. or the removal of refuse ignores inclination to bother about gel-

This Ja the party's most Kipling's famous line; Ship 'ng to the meon. Anyhow, mor me somewheres East of sewage, people are already bored 10 sensitive spot. While admitting and Wordsworth's lines:-

that the unions have been chary of making promises about wage I met G dustman on the wold,

restraint, Mr Gaitskell believes "What have you

they will co-operate in the fight bin

against inflatiort,

death with the "space oge,"

in your I only want to help

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asked, and presently teas told, avoid having to turn

"A sock, a sardine tin.

A pair of braces badly frayed.

A boot uithout a sole,

A lump of mouldy marinatade,

Cheese-ring and a state roll, Hope be the guide of his em-

lou,

the wager of his labour, jou.

TVCTORY worker Woiter Stanford has refused an offer of £53)

for the violla he swapped for an old bicycle, because of the Inscription Inside "Stradivarius Model Fecit Ciren 1720. No nasal tiddlywinks At his modest home in Alton, Hampshire, Mr Stanton, father of

four, and his wife pored over reference books. They noted that AN Invitation

Hearse, of Aberbangner, to

a "Strod" might be worth over £2,000. But when Walter took the instrument to a violin expert in Aldershot bls dresing of sudden wealth for the Stanford family were shattered. The dealer told him the Instrument was only a copy of a Stradivarius and wopin precisely 30 shillings.

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STABLE LADS

race-

DRIGHTON, Sussex, D

course lessees. plan to at- tract better class horses by

building a £4,000 dormitory for table lads and girls, At pre-

we hla

to Drong the

nose in a liddlywinks championship has been refused.

Weigh Nasal. Peo-Pushing The Association haa pointed out that "the nose is for pushing eas, not for flicking counters into a receptacle. The preSKUTO exerted by the nostrils on a counter

would destroy that dellency of touch which Fo essential to a nasal pes-pusher." Evans himself is training at the moment for an attempt on Cwm

rent stable lada clay overnight Hafod. At his headquarters in in lodgings near the ruce-course, But the Cleric of the Course he Hold the lesses that trainéra reluctant to send good horaca to a roca meeting over- |night unless the luda In charge

Llandebwrwrst he punches a emalt silk bag with his now, and practise thrusts with alternate nostrils, using a pes. suspended from the ceiling.

Are on hand in case of an in passing

emergency. The dormitory, to accommodate 20 lads and six girls, will be built close to the tables. To help racegoers got jaway quickly; £1,800 in to ba apant on improving car parking, and new photo-finish equip ment will cost £400,

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many trains back to the starting Finer, I suggest that all trains should start backwards from the terminal point, before proceeding normally to their

destinations. In the case of breakdowns, passengers. who refuse to get out and push should be transferred to the first train that comes along backwards from either direc tion.

-(London Express Service).

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

(44.1696)

LUCUBRIOUS #cleatist wonders why there is pot moro excllement in this country about the conquest of SONGS,” advise him to spend a day Hero 18 ¿position' from watching the ordinary" cilleen's | master play: White-to-maye attempt to travel a few miles and win.

to and from his work. The i

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the

The truth to that, to the cut and thrust of personal politics, he probably prefers the work of political organisation, and the practical realisation of political ideas. That is his fo.

Tough

Ho physically tough, as any man who leads a great political parly nowadays has to be. "It's all right as long as you sleep well."

He toleraten perhaps, rather than enjoys, the excitement, "the moments of exhilaration alternating with moments of depression." He would certainly Prime Minister, like to be because he wants to put is info practice: ond he Ideas thinks he can do the job.

Will he get the chance?

It could be so. He has cer- With This help from

lainly been under-valued to the old of dale. unions and with

The contest, when certain key controls, building comes will he fought between licences, and foreign exchange well-matched antagonists,

in particular, he thinks he can hold Inflation in theek,

-London Express Strolca).

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Pago 17

The Threat Of

Antibiotics

PETER BURGOYNE'S.

News From Britain

BRITISH hospitals have

My informant wis ha Times,” whien devoted a leading

been warned that they arilele to commenting on a re-

are relying overmuch on port antibiotics like penicillin, Offeer

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the Chief Medical of the Ministry of Education who had complained

A Health Ministry re- that "obesity in children is now

recently tenuer published

port

attracting at least as much at-

under-nutrition."

charged that routine ung More plainly, too many of the of such drugs has fostered 13ttle darlings are getting fat. the development of virulent "The Times" used this ad the strains of infectious germs springboard for the Ingenious which can cause blood- theory that carly physical poisoning und pneumonia. maturity brought about by over- feeding can lead to frustration

The report pul it this way; at school discipline and in turn "Tho wide distribution of to "out of school activities which antibiotic-resistant staphylococci may land them in the juverdia has introduced a new and dis- courts." turbing element into the field of A case, it seems, of "epare

the grub and save the child,”

hospital infections."

Urging the hospitals back to

the system or preventing infec- Sheep's Clothing

tions instead of relying on be- ing able to cure them, the re- port calls for stringent cautions 10 combat the new danger.

pre- IF all that

But hot on the heels of the Hoaill Ministry's stern worn- Ing, the professional magazine

In

in respectable Britain can bo mummed up

In one symbol, then thai symbol is the bowler hat.

This

hard, hairy, cerly- brimmed headpleee, which

*Lancet"" published an article Americans insist on calling "a the unmistakable badge of masculine propriety,

derby". Is

which

obstacles exposed the hospitals faco In ecmbaling infection.

When it is worn with the "British warm", the kace- A distinguished medical man length camelhair coat formerly

reveled trade

that because ΟΙ Π

worn by Army officers, it union agreement, only stamps the wearer as a pillor skilled painters are allowed to of elvle virtue. wash paintwork in the hospitals and,

"the safely of our Imagine, then, the consterna- tion in London when the victim of a £4,000 fur thef

thief told the police that the was wearing а bowler and a British warm,

patients 1.5 being jeopardised

by this restrictive trade union polley."

Lean And Legal

I'VE

T'VE seen most things blamed for juvenile delinquency, from unhappy homes to horror films,

But recently, for the first time, I learned that food might be the cause. Not Just food an food, but too much of the stuff.

But this affectation of sheep's clothing had the opposite effect to what the wenrer doubtless expected. For the victim of the theft and later: It was an unusual dress for a burglar, It gave us more courage tõ qt- tack him because it didn't look the sort of dress a criminal type would wear."

Right, lads, back to cloth caps and mufflers

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