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Surprising, perhaps, but Home and Lloyd are now the Strong

THE re-assembly of by LORD

Parliament after the summer recess is as em-

barrassing as all adult LAMBTON,

reunions, and Members

MP

Men

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1960.

J. W. M. THOMPSON REPORTS:

What I found so particularly welcome in it was a proper ap- preciation of the question of a meeting with Khrushchev,

new

When Mr Macmillan returned from his triumph in America he was asked at London Airport about the prospects of without the slightest · I am sure that Mr Lloyd's Summalt, and he is quoted as sympathy for each other knowledge of the strength of his having smiled and said: "Oh, to put on an air of "hail-ition angurs well for both be in London now that Sum-

the Conservative Party and our mit's there,"

For he is a if economic policy. as fellow-well-mot"

mal of absolutely first-rate they are delighted to see judgment whose allurea hive those people whom for veulled not fron his own inis

but from Recepting the last four months

pinions out of loyalty they have been studious ly avoiding.

Yot, after a week or

RU, when the effusiveness bus worn off, one is able to dis- cern what are going to be the trends of the coming Bession.

The must notable political event 10 far, and one which may have the most considerable re- percussion, is the axis which seem to have been established between Mr Selwyn Lloyd and Lord Hume, koth of whom have been widely aligranttsexi tis "Yes. Men" of the Prime Minister,

To begin with, Mr Selwyn Lloyd has suddenly discovered that his only sważ for, thy_sur- ergon r the remiership is att Mr Huffer,

bas ritised that if it is I defeat Mr Butler he nisi rhow that he is struts an

He realizes perfectly well that h will never do this If it Is centole that the #parent policy of the country is dietuted to him ar it was to his prede estor, Me Heathenat Amury.

He is therefore deter.need to take a rezolute independent line,

Unassailable

Nor enn Mr Lloyd be unaware of the great strength of his xation. With the precedent of Mr Thornycroft's resignation before him he is in an unassail- the position.

Terrifying

Page &

The golden days The Height of perfection

vanish from the

prosperous suburbs

Ilice

Coventry. Bob Winlumns, fnir-hatred, po to restaurants or do their

looking spectacled,

shopping in the city. Now they serious Welsh schoolmaster, can't afford to. It was the same walks down Standard Avenue, during strikes." passes the Standard Cinema, looks across at the Standard factory, end beads into town to

WISH I'd never seen "I

Coventry," says Vic- tor Grandon, who was earning £27 a week in

To me this seemed a terrify-the Rootes' paint shon figa on at the labour exchange, should be packed with convivial

to ing hint that we were once

Cabinet decisions, and against

his own wiser Inclinations.

We may, therefore, see a new Mr Lloyd emerging. whose stature will surprise all who do not know him,

Strengthened

At the same time his position is further strengthened by his eltre association Hent, who has proved himself to be anything but, the enlour- less noneality which he was

when he described as

Foreign Secretary.

At this hour the Lime Tree Park

Working Men's Club men drinking before the next

11 starta.

is nearly " getting £7 a week now shift for two and a half days' work," empty. Volces echo in the bly, he says. "I've one doughter at bright bar. Men alt for a long university and another at gram- time over one beer. his mar school. We're using

again going to embark upon the until a few weeks ago. barren road for an unprepared Summit like the last one, which He turns off the television, ran through the wreck of his son looks up from United Europe and came to an

algebra books, his abrupt end in Paris.

But nobody could have been smiles ruefully across

Lord hearth. reassuring than Home. He said: "Our attitude to any Summit and to Sunwaltry is much the same.

more

い

John Bell, a sandy, fresh- wife our savings, of course, and my faced buoyant Tynesider, enter- the wife has got a part-time job." lains his friends with the story

"I'm in o mess," he goes on. Chrysanthemums the Sizo of to the races with a few bob, put "Eighteen months'

All around les nent suburbia, of a man who got the sack, went ngo 1 was grapetruit bloom in little green- eight shillings on a double and

doorbells chime won £77. "We think that the Summit dogs all right in the catering houses, The with Lord

inde in Scotland, but I kept miniature carillons, china duck

"I've got five children,” says these keing could be useful, even a series of

advertisements By in formation across wall- Bell, I hend over my pay to the hedges are lovingly the missus now, all of it. I've Summits, provided ch ceded by preparation and to give offering good job here. My paper,

the Loom

wouldn't sculpted.

had no pocket money for results which are visible to the wife suid

TaM. Still I cam2.

weeks." world there cannot be soothes failure, far out of failure could conie despair and out of despair could come war."

became

Lard Home is also in a very position. For strong

he Prime Minister having fouled every tradition to appoint him could not suddenly dispense with his services.

Already the Foreign Secretary has shown himself to have mind of his own.

1

In America he Bally sold that misapprehension by the United States of our Colonial policy had damaged the cause of world pence.

At last we have

of realistic sense.

pre-

get a mortgage on this house, paid £222 down, and brought declaratione femily here.

wes gind I had done, too.

t

'Half a loaf'

John Healey, stocky, middle. aged, 10 years away from "Now I And I'm suddenly Calway Buy, is playing with his five carning unly 8 a week and tie boy Revin. He has the mortgage and rates take other children. His wages this nearly £3 of that. And we week were £6 175. Until every live every day with the threat thing began to go wrong they

were always £20..

of the sack."

During the Inst four years anyone eriticising British foreign policy has been described as having a vendetta against the Prime Minister, so let me once fo with Lord Salisbury in welcoming Lord Home's ex- position of the realities of the

The soft Scottish voler puls situation, and our return

into words what everyone fears. 11

ar think

Gimes realism. Nothing like this has been

woning. I think they've over For at last we have had axles

tou maid since the resignation of Sir Forviga Secretary laying bare many people here, I think the Anthony Edet, and curiously the ugly situation exactly as enough the only reaction to such is, without any false hopes. plain speaking was follet that As a result of this, our whole we had such a realistle Foreign policy may well now rest upon Secretary,

realities and not on wishful

This w36

Recently Lord Home further thinking, showed his intependence by The first effect of the Lloyd/ remarkable speech in the House Home axis has therefore been of Lords.

a great shugularly beneficial and nue speech by any standards, and a only hopes that it continues to singularly welcome one to hear. provide a counterweight to the For the Prime Minister can- For in it was expressed the inspired, but sometimes not receive the resignation of comprehension of all the biter realistic

of the Prime vision the two of his chosen

fucing

-(London Express Service).

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His savings

Other voices, in the accents Gl it thousand towns and villages, echo his all over Coventry.

His wife has never worked before, but now she has found a Job cleaning schools, She makes £3 a week. Her husband looks after the children.

"We may as well be cheerful," says Bell. "We're in a bad spot, but there's plenty worse off. Look at the poor devils who've been made redundant."

"Well, half a lost is better

"Like me," says a new arrival,' he mys evenly. Willkan Price, than nere,"

a dork young I walk man in a reuffter. "Just got my "We have to manage. about a lot during the day. If cards from the Standard. I went it weren't for the TV in the up for a job at the Jaguar, but. evenings we'd all be in a bad they won't look at you. Full up. way,"

Everywhere's Tull up. It's murder here now, no jobs at all."

ts

In the kitchen his wide loading a big washing machine, The house is crisp and bught. Every inch of paint seems new. The rent is £2 6s. #d, a week.

Married soon

In Timothy Grove, JoinES - Heads nod sombrely, "How Aspinall comes off a step-ladder about the HP?" asks someone. No one sees how he

Cat and looks expertly at the new "It's nearly

all paid off, thank emulsion paint the blame himself for the disaster. coat of

God." says Price, It is just something that has ceiling. "Can't do any more of happened, like a road accident. this decorating, the paint is too "Both my. brothers

expensive," he says. "And now redundant, too," he pads. I've got all the time I need to "One's getting maried

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He came here from Lan- John Bell expresses another cashire to escape from the cot- thought.

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"It's hard on the kids with

pay has melted away from Christmas coming," he says.

"

paid £00 for new bicycles for

on

more than £20 to let than

£7 a week. He has two at school.

7'1 have to flog the van," he says gloomily.

my three eldest last year, but I don't know what they'll get this year."

The atmosphere of the club is subdued The badinnge is There are still a lot of cars strained. "Full-time men buy parked outside the houses. beer for the short-time men, The hire-purchase, companies someone shouts. No one laughs are trying hard to stop food much.

of cancellations.

They will

take almost any token pay-

ment to keep a sale alive.

But even a few shillings a week is too much for many cus- tomers.

Five children

:

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the cheapest of everything," says Besido the factories, the one. "No more jolnis, jusl jong lines of unsold Cors

stewing steak.”

streich away into the dusk. "I've had to stop buying fruit In the Lime Tree Park club, altogether," says another, "I

hated giving up smoking," says the beer goes down very slowly in the glasses. For the present a third,

A suburban butcher sounds an unexpected note. "It's an ill wind," he says, with a shrug.

"This is actually good for my trade.

So many people used to

Chess News

By LEONARD BARDEN

American chess has received a A great Allip from thell student team's win of the world title in Leningrad, ahead of the Russians.

Now the US. Chess Federation has reversed its earlier decision not to compete in next month's world championship in Lelpely.

An open letter to President Eisenhower and the State Department appeals for help in the last-minule effort to raise the 6000 dollars nevesRTY LO finance the team. If you give the OK," says the letter, we

can beat the EuralaneTM

If they take part, the American team will be headed by prodigy Hobby Fischer And Include nye grandmasters,

Their chances of winning are stim, but they could well loosen Yugoslavia's grip on the position of No. 2 chese nation and taxe home the liver medals from Leipzig.

Solution No. 5934: 1 D--B8, P-R4; 2 B-Kit, or 1 P-13; 1 0-07, or 1. B-4 or 8; 2 Q-KII, or !... D else; 2 RxKP, or 1... FXP: 2 P=K3, or 1°. PaK0; 2 KL-D3, or 1 95% KIXQP: 1 P-R5, or 1 Kt elit, K-KIS.

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