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Pago 6

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1981.

AS WEDGWOOD BENN · WAITS ΤΟ

GET BACK IN THE COMMONS.

IS IT HAILSHAM WHO REALLY SCARES THE TOP TORIES?

WHENEVER ⚫ subject is fanned into deep and heated controversy by the intensity of public Interest--when, in fact, it is dynamite and the fuse is burning the China Mail has dn export to proba it, dissect it, and come up with the "inside" appraisal. Take the cosć

Wedgwood Bonn.......

by

Douglas Clark

JE shall not pass!"

"HE

of

the Prime Minister used to find Hallsjum too talltative,

But pre-war Cabinets of which Sir Winston Churchill was member suffered under the same dazzling handloap.

It is whether the Tory Party can afford to do without there much longer.

Drifting

him

HONGKONG

MOVIELAND

BY DAVID LAN

SINGING OR ACTING

CARRIE IS

A SUCCESS

THEY call lovely Carrie Koo-mei the "Little Lark" because of her small

stature and sweet voice.

singer.

Standing only five feet one inch, she is a movie star as well as a

And of all the stars in Hong-

Another possibility: Halisham's

Abroad over Cuba, East-kong she is said to have the

Martyrs" producext by the regular Wednesday staff meet-

West relations, the Com- most knowledge of music, Shein Hun Motion Picture. Co.. Ings at Tory Central Ofee →→

tended by

Markel, the Oliver Poole (his mon

Congo hus been studying

It for more under the late Me S.K. Chang than 10 years, No. 2). Edward Heath (then Britain's policy is shrouded in

'Then after Ave Alms with Chief

As far Whip), Charles Hill vagueness.

as her singing career i She

the company, she was signed la drifling.

gacs, she has arrived — she's (Chancellor of the Duchy), and apparently rudderless. At home,mado more than a hundred re-

up by the Ling Kwong Film Ronald Simms (Chief Tory

Co. Public Relations Adviser)

During two years in Thailand, played an Immense part

she made five more plotures, shaping

1959 Election

and emerged as a top star in "The Land of Sunshine,"

victory.

the

dissatisfied Government back-cords, Her In benchers mount a whole series

of revolts.

the

Why so? What accounts for the stub party unity, the Prime Minister bornness of Ministers?

They must know by now that public opinlun overwhelmingly favours changing the law to enable peers to sit in the Com- mons if they so wish,

They know too that with Government steuni behind t this single reform could be put on the Statute Book in weeks,

Curious

So why the insistence on đù- lay? On the surface it is a rare and curious wonder that

Commons, the other could barge hla way forcefully back as well.

I do not say this in neces

the sarily the true cause for Government's baЛing tacties.

certainty the But

personal relations between Hallsham and other Tory leaders are absorb ingly interesting.

Triumph

1057

And the mounting anxiety of voters has been reflected sagging Tory local and by-election gures.

Fame

took singing

her 15 Taiwan, where she

an 105 Instant success.

Liking the folk music of the And perhaps, for the sake of

Allshun, the tallest mountain on the island, Carrie sang it in

Mandarin. And felt that no subordinate Minister

**The Alishan should be allowed to accumulate

Girl" became the theme of a Of course, there are these who film bearing the same title. loo much personal prestige. arque that these represent Finally, however, Macmillan's merely a temporary set-back. coolness Lowards Hallsham

these merry optimists, remains A subtle psychological then, not realise that Labour is problem. Much easier to under- ol last coming to its senses on stand is the attitude of other defence? Tory leaders in the Common6.

If Mr Gaitskell swings his Just look at them. There party behind him again on this they are, a round half-dozen issue at the next Labour con- with claims to succeed Mar- ference, the Tories will have millan By party leader. 3 lest their political ace in the whole cluster of pretenders, all justling for the throne.

Do

hole.

They will be on the high road to defest in the next General Election.

such a situation, if ever.

And here, grotesquely ham- mystery. No

In stands strung by his coronet, analysis of odd political behaviour

Hailsham. Fifty-three years old they will need reat punch and ure husy

and at the peak of his intellec energy and are on their Front diggity for the hidden reason.

tual powers. His public Bench in the Commons. Some- And some of them think they

megelism Eroved. His Tery one to ring the bell, the able.

polities rected In a coherent. have found it-in brilliantly attractive. roly-poly

deeply cherished philosophy.

Consider first the attitude of Mr Macmillan himself. Halisham he appointed man as the choirman of the Turles el moment when the party was in a desperate electoral plight. Two years later they achieved figure of Lord Hailshamn, Lord the most astonishing General President of the Counelt and Election triumph of the century. And What happened 20 Hailsham?

Minister for Selence,

They are askinst:......

Could it be Halisham, rather than Benn, whom the Gavern- ment is seeking to suppress?

Is he the barrel of dynamite on whom the Tory hierarchy is deliberately sitting?

For, of course, what is good for Benn is good for Hailsham 100,

If the law is changed to

The true story goes that on past-election morning members of his stat crowded into him room at Tory headquarters to congratulate him.

They found Hailsham in tears. Hu told them simply: "I've been sacked,"

What can explain it? permit the one to re-enter the sald ud at Cabinet meetings

It

Is

hope for is the Lord Chancellor- In the Lords the best he can

ship But back in the Com- mons? Why, within a year he could be overhauling them alt for supreme office,

So what compulsive reason do they have for hurrying his return?

The pressing question, how- ever, is not whether his fellow- Miniksturs can afford to ease Hailsham's

back to the House of Commons,

Doth

Vigour

I never thought I would write what I am about 15 write. never dreamed such a turnabout was possible,

T

But what the Taries are now going to need is an infusion of fresh, vigorous blood from the Lards to refresh thek tired okt men in the Commons.

And the man who can supply it is Lord Halisham.

-London Express Service).

I launched her into fame and helped establish her as a screen star.

she

That was in 1954. Since then

starred in has

"The

Influence

After seven years as a flm actress, Carrie has won credit for 15 pielures-In Cantonese, Mandarin and Siamest.

family, and ono of ber brothers has become an ar-

Cantonese ranger of music.

орега

In

is

CARRIE KOO-MEI

On the perspective sterCO-

her twenties. Carrie still single, and is a fan of Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte. Phonic system, the sound

emit from various points Mild, affable and typically Oriental by nature, Carrie was stage born in Seochow where, tradi- tion has it, girls are always than anywhere more feminine else in China.

M'S

will

日

MISS Miranda Chung IVA ching, “The Little Wild Kitton", broke the records. of the Mandarin film circle when the modo personal appearances at

every show on both sides of the harbour run of her pic-

CIHAW & Sans have obtain- the distribution ed rights of "Ben Hur" in during the

She te quite a linguist and Hongkong for their theatres ture, "The Story of Ho Yuct- speaks

Siamese, English and the Hoover and Galá. the Mandarin, Shanghai Cantonese dialects,

and

On

alias "Legend of a May 23, Mr Seymour Ming Priestess". Carrie's own love of muslo Mayer, Vice President of Afetro- Since May 17, the costume International film about a Ming cult of fre- has influenced the rest of her Goldwyn-Mayer

Inc., signed the contract in worshippers and is legendary

Mr Hongkong with

Bundle priestoes Ho Yuct-yee, has of Shaw & proved a big box-office attrac-

tion.

Julio Yoh-fang in a scene from 'The Girl With The Golden Arm."

Shaw,

Eons.

President

Screening of the technicolour Miranda is leaving for Täl extravaganza will start on June wan in mid-June to necompany the lm there. After that the According to Mr K. Y. Pan, Southeast Aslu,

picture will go to other parts of

Manager of MGM,

Hongkong,

the actual, running time of the m will be four hours and 47 minutes..

The содязь. brought

LTONGKONG will ..have

that has been world-wide publicity

to Hongkong carries

Ave sound tracks-four magne- through the distribution of

tic-stereophonic antl

perspective-stereophonic.

опе a paster showing the Kow-

loon Star Ferry concourso Reinstallation took place at and the movie star Julio the Hoover. Previously, the Ych-fung..

system had been removed duo Copies of the poster, repro-

to lack of use.

The Gula is equipped for the duced from a photograph taken

by famed Japanese Phota rempcplive - stereophonic sys-pher, Mr Shoji Otake will.be,

{cm.

carried by PAA.

On the magnetic-stereophonic Julie, star of "The Girl with system, sounds will come Into the Golden Arm" is thrilled to The auditorium from all direc to think that her picture will be tions including the back of the seen in every major city at the hall.

worl:l.

Britain gives secret charts to Russians

Bid to avoid cable damage

HARTS showing the position of secret sub- marine cables between Britain and America are to be issued to fishing trawlers -- including Russian - by a six-nation organisation called the Cable Damage Committee.

Until now Britain has al- waya insisted on absolute

But Cable and Wireless said: "I don't secrecy about the precise spokesman

has been any

there

ON

THE MOVE

THE MILITANT

+

MIDDLE CLASS

SUE

routine are, dexing their muscles,

and

by MICHAEL PARKINSON

botn uncomplaining. It is time' now for us to stand up and start yelling our heads off."

So he joined the National Union of Bank Duployees.

It was a remarkable thing for a man like James King to do, All his life he had held tie traditionel middle class suspi- clan of trade unionism. It was

Warming

things up for bank

raiders

DANK raiders may in

Buture and themselves

a bit beneath him, a bit "Red." squirted with dyc, shocked

There are many, more like

him. Membership of the white by electricity, attacked by collar unions has shown a fan- trained dogs, or helpless in tastic increase in the past tawa cloud of tear gas.

All over the country, in that UBURBIA, 6.25 pm faceless suburbla which the mid- check and she says:

He perks his wife on the ke Sim set. Marvellous years. There are now more than These are among protectivo.

"You're from the front

nothing 1,150,000 white coilar workers measures suggested to banking The trains chase de classes have made their own, early, darling" and he replies, behind."

in 35 unions affiliated to the chiefs by the 54,000-strong Na- each other's tails into the sober suited mén steeped in without looking at his watchi

T.U.C.

tional Union of Bank Employees. "Yes, about three minutes?”

After 31 years in banking he Every year, the membership Union leaders are worried by

He might reach of these unions station. The passengers, feeling the power of organised

corns £80S. That's the sort of man he fs.

increasea by signs that bank bandlia aro £1,000 before he retires; that is about 10 per cent, against the getting bolder and they are not Precise, careful. But a nice

the top limit. And he is too four per cent travel, pour out from the

man.

satisfied with of the manual old to workers' unions.

the attitude of the banc directors Politically he is a Tory. Not old for promotion, too

who, they compartments.

change his job.

The fastest growing is the say, show no sense of urgency. It came home to him about National and Local Government

The union was snubbed in

position of the cables-be-think

more trouble from Russian crumpled by rush-hour ualoniam for the first time.

cause communications with America would be hamper ed if they were cut in time of war.

The change in policy is be- cause of the groot damage being done to cobles by trawlers,

trawlers than from those of any other country."

Boats trawling at depths of 3,000ft occasionally drag cables to the surface in their nets, and hack through the cable to free

fishermen have been known to

thele fishing gear.

Writen Mr Arthur Harris, of

In 1858 telegraph companies: Cable and Wireless and chair in six countries-US.A., Britain, man of the Cable Damage Com- aly, Germany, France, and mittee, in his firm's magazine: Denmark-formed the Cable "Hundreds of thousands of Damage Committee and pounds are spent onnually on pared the charts. repairs to cables which have

peen broken or damaged.

No differenco

pre-

"They, then

Says Me Hurrin: hod to persuade the variosts authorities in a dozen different countries that it was, in interest of all concerned to lasue

the

Typical

a rabid one. A middle of the ronder. Believes in some form

of corporal punishment, but in the time the new neighbours Officery Association now an attempt to join a speciki not sure about hanging. Ho hates drunkenness, loudineuths, noisy parties,

and

Bank clerks, office wor- It doesn't matter which one kers, "something in the you pick as the crowds pour out City," alike as soldiers in of the trains.

cheeky and their uniform of sober suit, Take that one there. The man children. He likes bome, warm

A with the briefcase and the dark firesides, bowler, rolled umbrella.

old slippers, grey auft. A medium-sized man, tidiness in everything. new revolutionary army

trim moustache, neat of oppenr. He is Mr Middle-Class. the militant middle class.

ance, imdent of manner. The belongs to that group of people

nice Their revolution has had name is Jaimes King. Age 47. A with

Imanners, nice chlidren, and no money. small beginnings. Revolu

His reasons for his discontent tions do.

are the common ones.

Power

clerk in a London bank.

He doesn't say much as be walks home,

He has trod this path from the alation every working day for 15 ушага.

He says ruefully: "Had it been

Discontented

moved in

tein's seventh largest union. I subcommittee set up by the Since 1940 Its membership has London Clearing Banks to deal He explained it shyly, not increased by more than 60 per with securlly measures.

**Ho

cent.

wanting to be snobbish.

"They are nice people. But

It pays its general cocrotary the husband is a semi-skilled Mr Walter He bullding worker, about 12 years £4,450 a year.

Charles Anderson, younger than me.

He is the highest pala union has a wife and two leader in the country; corns children, just like me. But his inpro than Mr Frank Cousins wife docan't have to work, and and Mr William Carron put to-- they have a car and a fridge gether; more

than Georg and a television met.

Woodcock, the general sceretary "And

every year they go of the T.U.C. (22,000). abroad for a holiday."

archetype of the men isading the ralliant middle ciam, is a univerally man, silm, dark, quietly efficient

Anderson,

MANY IDEAS

given them a

But its general pecretary, Mr James Hornby, has had separátą talks with most of the majo banks auf hos detailed plan.

It includes the introduction clue-cameras to Identity bandits: crush helmets and truncheons, with tear-gas ejec

ore, for cash-carrying A- A few bank managers and grass I walked on and not con→ Me la fed up" with working It took the commitee two yours in Derby. A handful of clerical would be 9ft deep." these charts to the fishermen, bank clerks struck for alx weeks crpte by new

lligently for Ittle

xers; and a total ban on parit- my footprints long and

ing outside banks, except for. to renel this goal."

reward, He is Ured of pover workers at the A.A. struck... Home In an undiriinguished red of his wife having to work having had a proper holiday;

He believes fervently that bullion vans. He doesn't begrudge them unions should not have politieni Dye-squirts would be operat÷" Commented Cable and Wire-few teachers in Dulwich struck semi-detached. It could do with to make ends meet; tired of these things....But I see no milations Mr Harris claims that most less: "We had to choose between

jod by counter wwitches, Aid for a day.

a lick of palat.

But the front juneho vouchers, old clothes, reason why I should be proh-

arrangemanla at the damage occurs in Euro- giving people information which

And up to now the vast differ-other "defence" But more teachers' sirikon are garden 10 trimmed Al

bited from coming nough to ence between the manual and the for counter men, would be high

•pean couxtal waters or in the would enable them to cut our planned. Among civil servants, manicured. You notice, and ho

non-manual give my family these things. North-West Atlantie

unions has been grilles with bullet-proof glass off the cables or going along under the bank employees, local govern- 14 pleased and saya: “T garden

Ho la fed up with keeping up "I know why 1 haveti't, whether the atziko wespón | muzerns and a network of alarm Newfyandland coast, where present hazardous system."

ment officers, ary gumbilag of every Sunday. 1 10kg things to

sppearances "with nothing” in People Uke 'me have been for- abould be used,

lights all over the banks. Russian trawlers natı regularly.

be neat"

the bank, (kia says: “ity. Bãe in gotten simply because we have

Jaridan Expejos serpics).

"We hope that by istul these cheis trawler skippers will avoid them when fishing."

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