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WHO GOES HOME? A swim pool

London.

QACK from the Long Vacation we members of Parliament have gathered at Westminster merely to dissolve ourselves. "It is like the Bawi at Brussels on the eve of Waterloo," wrote a sardonic reporter in the Gallery. The General Election is on and the power passes from us the people.

*

-LONDON · LETTER-

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

a

in the home

is the U.S. dream

Would Macmillan cancel his world tour? the wise boys salā that the question answered it- self. No. Prime Minister, not even 'an Inexperienced ono, would take wings in such sliuation at home and fly to distant scenes. But that was Un- to the most robust of men.

The newspapers carried the where they were wrong. Mac- happily Eden was anything but news next morning. Churchill millan is not only a man that. He was a sick man whose". had persuaded the Queen to courage but he also possesses a boy could no longer sustain his end for Harold Macmillan high sense of showmanship.

Sharp on schedule he soured we need cruel attacks which he and to and indignant Salisbury ro- into the skies and was off rights and wrongs of Suez. It been heard of since.

House of Lords and has never pointment of the almost un- INSIDE the house,

In a few minutes we shall hear the words that spell the dissolution. The electric bells will ring all over the Palace of Westminster to indicate that the House is up but there will be one differ ence. The stentorian-voiced policeman in the Lobby will not shout: "Who goes home?" as is the custom each night when the House rises.

case an

in

ardent spirit.

the

not linger

meet ner need we debate the

Eten

is sumclent to say that medical advisers who told him that he must choose between supreme offee and death.

came under the orders of his

But why this silence on the officer's part? So he went once more to Why this refusal to grant us police protection Buckingham Palace where only a short time before he had angry mob is waiting outside? The klased hands on the appoint- Eden answer is simple. From the moment that Parliament as Prime Minister.

had entered the twilight of the ment is dissolved we cease to be members of gods-twilight and evening stor Parliament. Instead we revert to the lowly status and, after that the dark.... of an adopted candidate and no more.

For those of us who have been

at Westminster for a long time there are ille tragedies norrows which

the Queen to relieve him from and the Premiership. There need be

of

The News

And 24 hours later the mighty signed the Leadership of the distent scenen.

of

New York,

THE American dream

THE

to

he

63

-1959 model is a family swimming pool

But before went he made the surprise ap-

Heathcoat Amory The King in dead! Kong five known

Chancellor of the Exchequer. Families can now take the King! As a dick man Eden

Macmillan was not only retired to the realm of

of an early morning dip in twilight and Salisbury was Prime Minister and Leader

Man the Tory Party-be was the the pool in January as sunk without a trace. millan went to the Palace, boss. kissed hands and came away As the months passed by Mac.

Prime Minister.

millan was so daring and so

Greatness

a

well as in June.

д

was

And they don't have to wait At last we felt that with the much the boss that he won the

until they've made their first flerce drama of muccessorship at nickname of MacWonder.

milion dollars to achieve this the end we could get down to

new drearn. A home with the bread and butter business

built-in swimming pool can be of looking after the nation's

bought for about £10,000 affairs. The only doubt in our

price which brings it within minds was whether Macmillan And then for no particular

of range

the middle-income, Parliament bracket had the qualities which supreme reason the British Once more. Her Majesty had once demands. Ho had been a became

and even weary to choose her chlot Minister of remarkably successful Minister boring assembly. Perhaps it The poat-in-the-house idea is are Inseparable no.eurpicion that her expression State, and once mere adhering of Housing but a brief and un- was because we had passed all the brain-child of Mr S. Jordan from the passing of a Partia of deep regret was a more aute, Marquis of Salisbury, the head

do protocol she summoned the impressive Foreign Secretary, leccssary legislation and that Schwinn, a New York marketing ment. This time there is the

It was not long before the 'there really was not enough consultant. matic act of courtesy. All loud-voiced good-looking police-through his Premiership Chur- of the mighty family of Cecils test came in a most dramatic work to do. Even the public

About a year Bgo he man who stands guard over our

form.

ceased to hold its

résearch figures chill had maintained close con- and Leader of the Conservative

As Prime Minister Macmillan ince cars in Palace Yard and presses tact with Her Majesty and al- Party in the House of Lords.

Ardent Canadian studying some

which revealed that Americans the bell which Informs the laxis

"I ask you to advise me on had anncunced that he was and Austration visitors in the ways consulted her in matters

were spending more than £1,000 in the swirling traffe that a

the successor to Sir Anthony about to make The senior appointments.

qur more or public gallery looked down on member of Parliament is ready affection was mutual.

cach on swimming pools which Eden," and the Queen,

less around the Commonwealth us and wondered what we were they could use only 85 days of to do a deal in the matter of

Without Dy protes at so as to make personal contact talking about-and why.

the year. mbtar transport,

the mighty hoad of

with the governments of the "If this continues," said the start Bom the Ceclis said: "I advise you

wag in the smoke room, "we'll Ma'am to bend for Mr Butler

have to take the show off." Nor need there be any doubt parture was imtrinent he was A brave

Yet this strange Parliament

To Mr Schwinn the sensible soldier in the First Wǝr, the

that Salisbury put up a strong faced with a direct challenge rose to greativess at the very thing to do was move the family clegant Ambassador of good-will case for his nominee and was by Petor Thorneycroft (the end. The debate on the report pool indoors. who journeyed to countries that confident that the writ of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) of the Nyasaland rioting had been ravaged by the Kal- Crells would prevail.

nrad the two jumtur Finance brought a tremendous two-day

Last year his organisation ser's war, brilliant Foreign

And it was just there that Ministers.

struggle in which brilliance, (called Story-Book Homes) built Secretary in the Second War the Queen decided to play more

Controversy

and eloquence lit "pilot" hom in several differ and The second ruched home tional role. Against conven- mere automatic tradi-

ent commit)es in order to test Usan &

the Chamber with a splendid glow.

the now idea.

So we come back to our The response was beginning. What name shall we whelming. Of course, the idea upon this particular of a private pool means more to fasten Parliament which has entered people than just fur and exer- upon its sunset!

cise," Mr Schwinn admitted. “It's really a status symbol."

But the cheery policeman's voice was strangely subdued, and there was no smile on his face as we wished him good-bye, He had reached the age of re- tirement and was parting with six hundred friends whom had served at all hours in matter of transport.

A Friend

he

the

Was

There was universal sorrow at the resignation of Churchill but there was an immerse wave of good feeling toward Eden, the

new Prime Minister.

ilardly bad he

Cruel

to

Commonwealth and Empire. But just as the

time of elec

Cancel?

'Pilot' homes

Over-

from the Palace and arranged to lon she sent for Sir Winston Thorneycroft had decided to move to No. 10 Downing, Sirect Churchill who no longer held make a cut in the national con- In the Members' Dining Room when he called a General Elec-

any position of authority and tribution to the Welfare State, too, there was a pretty waitress tion, and was returned triumphza who is no longer young, but her antly to power as a man who technically had no more right and according to custom he had than any other M.P. to advise revealed his plans to, the Prime humour and her personal know- had critics but no enemies.

Minister. "I cannot accept it." Her Majesty, ledge of every M.P.'s oddities

I have no imowledge what- said Macmillan or words to that I believe that for all its faults in the matter of food and

and its boredom it will be soever of what happened at effect. "The suving is not Im-

The indoor pool has its prac- drine made her our counsellor

sald. it would be portant enough to justify the imown as the Fateful Parlia and friend. If any of us

the Palace--yot

It was strong whenical advantages, too, he and discouragement ment. guess. The mighty irritation on a diot she knew exactly what

"Since 's Justiko Hving be But the malignant fates

and cory

strength was needed. It brought Churchill whogo family glory that would come out of 11." was good and what was bad for the anldnight hags of B-fortune

reside the Gulf Stream, it saves on the Whereupon comes down in a straight line

youthful conflicting world forces us. If a particular table was had wearied of Prince Charming. in high spirito che served the Eden had been Prime Minister

from the great Duke of Marl Chancellor resigned and so did cognise that nations of different heating bills," he said.

And if the air-conditioning meal ng if it were a lark. If only a little more than a

year borough had come into direct his two Treasury junior minis- polical creeds can work

live together,

system is installed under the we were subdued or noisily ar- when the Suez crisis broke upon conflict with the mighty Cecil lers. Definitely Macmillan was more or less on the spot. Here was a crisis

pool, the bost of cooling the gumentativo che treated us Bke his Government. Here was an Family "who had

down

house is lees, too. naughty schoolboys,

issue of such violence' that it governed Britain from the days which might wel bring

London Express Service).· the Government, She was a friend alike to the would have tested the stamina of of the great Elizabeth. veteran and the new boy. For- give me if confess to being genuinely touched whærs on the inst day the said good-bye, "You were never cross with me at the table," she said.

Heaven help mo-I hope it is true,

Then here is the Parliameh- tary hairdresser, in other words the barber. Time and avain he Las seen his client lenp - from the chair as the division balls ring and hurriedly wipe

the soup from his Parliamentary checks. But this man is mard than a hairdresser, Often, he has smoothed down the tem- perature when Q wufting Sociallat anxi a waiting Tory have engaged in flerce contro- very in his shop,

"The Verdict? `

But our hairyresect's time in Parliament has come to an end for ever No doubt he will-find work in some ordinary shop outside but nøver ognin will he presidio over those impromptu debates in his shop or unpack our suitcases in an adjoining room when we had to change to evening dress for some special occasion

What will be the verdict, cri this Parliament which has rata Its course? What nama will his tory give to 7 It might wall be called the Parliament of Climax and · Anti-Clingmkt. On the other hand the ultimate his- torian may decide that it was the Fateful Parliament.It might even

Parliament that changed" Ste world

It was in April 1968 thut Winbon Church) went "to

LICE DEPT

two weeks deing.

and

So let the bells ring and let us hear the sondrous shout: "Who goes home?**