1961-08-05 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST

1961.

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THIS (IN NONE-TOO-SERIOUS POSE) IS ANGUS MCGILL; WHO BRINGS A HUMOROUS EYE TO THE AFFAIRS OF MEN

CHINESE waiters tell me that

to Chinese waiters we all look alike. The same long pallid faces, the same low cheekbones, the same inscrutable straight

eyes.

"The

Some Americans find our po- litics just as confusing. Labour Party, or, as we would say, the Socialists," says Mr Mort Sahl, "opposes the Conservative Party, or, as we should say, the Socialists. "+

Now the mistake that Mr Sahl has been making is to listen to what our politicians SAY. No Englishman in his right mind would dream of doing such it foolish

thing. Here we can della Tory from a Labour man at once. Just by look- ing.

You put a fine view of them fron the publle gallery of the Inuse of Canmons. There they all are the men who rule us and the men why seek to

rule us, rocking with

laughter at

痛 front-

bench wittlelum, bowl-

ing with. ruge backbench

Jibe,

trumpeting Hear, Hear

und Order Rad SU

Down or quietly dozing

the afternoon away.

A rum at you may think. But there can he no confusing the 'une Alde from the

other.

MAINLY

FOR

MEN

by Angus McGill

There is a gloss on a true Tary that other man may envy Lut not imitate, You can almost

In Sir ere your face Mott-Radelyffe,

DIFFERENCE

It's his fawn

pullover that

gives him away

Future Tory Prime Ministers who do not wear The Uniform wear durk, well cut suits, pensively

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waistconls, Edwardian waistcoats. of the deepest red. It can't double-breasted, lapelled waist- dways be the same tle. He must conts. Mr Richard Wood, in The have quite a stock of them. Uniform as usual, WEDIS 籍 Labour inen like red socks, watch-chain across his.

100. Here comes the newest boy In the House, Mr John Robert- Now look at the Labour son, le has only been here for benches. Look al all those town a few weeks and wears hullovers. The pullover, that looks like his new Parliamentary inost previncini of garments, is suit. Plus loyal red socks. exclusively an Opposition pro-

and fast.

Own

#

what

Your true Tory never careles newspapers or bits of paper. Ho wil sometimes carry a slim document ense which he will open to revent papers and letters neatly arranged.

HONESTY

for ever, from Westminster. So except on Bridget days-have the topper and spat.

Both Labour and Tory MPa drink beer in their constituen- eles. From pint glosses. And are mines of information about their local football teams. Pri- vately, Torles lean to whisky. Labour men to tea.

Liberals, all six of them, perty. I have even heard it Raincoats are another embl:in

dress, by and large, as well 25 whispered that pullovers will be of the Labour man. Few Torkes

the Torles. Mr Jeremy Thorpe, nationalised Next Time.

raincoat. They weat

Politicians

a dandy by of neliker side indeed, is rather bowlers, carry

and unbrellas Look, too, at all those teilna.

smoke cigars in public. They Commons standards. His suits 1 couldn't And a

single Tory hop into taxis.

smoke pipes. honasi fellows that are well-cut, his trousers

nar- with a He-pin but ол the

Outside the chamber Labour they are. There is a lot of pri- row. He usually wears a watch Labour benches they come thick men are always.carrying some- vate cigar smoking mong the chain..

i thing. They carry

though, Labour petitions, Turies,

Speech is a great divider. A order

have handful of Tories newspapers and

papers, tend to stick to cigarettes. copies of Hansard and the latest At one ilme few Labour regional speech-Sir Themes pamphlets, They also earry MP's rolled their own. They Moore is Irish, Sir William bulging briof cases and scrabble don't do it any more. 1 would Dulhe has soft Highland around in them like housewives be considered as ostentatious as accent. Mr Denys Bullard on a bus, sure she had a three-a cap and mufier. The cap and ruff East Anglian, and Mr J. R. penny bit somewhere:

muftier have passed, probably Bevins, the Postmaster General,

a distinct Liverpudlian.

CONFUSED?

Occasionally Labour MP's can confuse you a little. There is

Fred Lee, the Mr

trades on Labour's unionist, sitting front bench-and wearing The Uniform Carrying it A bespoke. Charles

rather Teries wear sulls they bought well, too. And Mr Maurice ff the peg in their constituen. Edelman is one of the best- cles. They

no1 Future dressed men in the House. Prime Ministers,

are

fow

My Uncle Peregrine says:

'Into Orbit: pretty fair'

men

Uncle Peregrine has been MY wine-bibbing

程

PATRICIANS

a

wine-tasting in the Vintners' Hall. He re- the authentically patrician voice

But most of them speak with

of the Establishment. Hear the clang of a bockhencher like Mr

listening

to almost

the entire

Iterc comes the archetype Almost 11 G them wear rebe, Mr Michael Foot. He ports. highly polished black shoes. Mr duesn't confuse you. He is the "Ten wine cups. Ten pretty girls serving, Anthony Kershaw as he rises to J. A Biggs-Davison (Tories go worst-dressed man in the flous Vastly preferred the girls. Long drinks for hot ask a question and you лге in for double-barrelted unes and doesn't care who knows t This Tory shren, and is co- they have 34 in the House to His suit is of an indeterminate summer, they said. Abuse of good wine in my Tary party. sence on the uppesite benches, Labour's three) Wears SUEDE colour and an indeterminate cut opinion. Hope Cup; sweet sickly stuff. Cresta Labour has is Establishment is bromediately noflevable. Sn is the marked difference in

Africa rebel so anything can be Suede seems to go with rebellion. not at all bad. Quite a bite to it. And Into Orbit; Frank Soskice.

Biggs-Davison, Bucde shoes. Cup; innocuous. Still must admit Hock Sparkler valces too-Anthony

Patrick Gordon Walker, Sir dress.

pretty fair."

Spattered scross the Gover))- mest benches are Tories In The Unferm. Striped trousers. Block Jacket. The Uniform is sign of the politeal conformist, the chap the Whips can depend un. No trember in The Uniform

would abstain or, horrors, vo' against his party. Or if he did une hopes he would have the decency to go home firs: and change.

shoes but he is a Suez and

expected.

an

He wears grey socks and, like

His tie is, of course, red. His Little triangles of white hand- pullover of course, fats Rerchief pop out of breast poc- He won't get into the Taller and kets wherever you look. Mr Cutler that lol. Marples shows he is with it by wearing his

handkerchief Red tier beribbon the Labour

straight across the packet thus benches. Mr Gaitske, whe has being one un an, Sir David & pink one for pink occasions, Eeeles. Sir David sticks to his has a fine scarlet one for more uld hat triangle.

rousing moments.

it.

Crosland,

But the majority speak the tongue of their home towns.

I thought Into Orbit delicious. This is how you do There is the strong Scots of

Slice a melon and soak it in a quarter bottle

of

brandy. Add three bottles of well chilled burgundy and three liqueur glasses of cointreau.

Barys Hughes, thu Irish of Hector Hughes, the Manchester qunck of Ellis Smith, the Cornish bure of Harry Hayman, the an- cestral Ccordle of William. Bly- 14, the 1ght Welsh of George

Charles Pannel).

Add ice cubes. Sugar to taste. Just before serving The Tory benches are awash Mr George Brown has never add one bottle of sparkling burgundy. It makes 36 Thumas, the splendid cockney of with waistcoats. Ordinary been seen in anything but a te glasses at 29. a glass.

So in England our political left and right are divided by gulis as subtle as the Grand L'ariyon.

How different from America. Jus; think of those Republicans and Democrats. How on earth dics kayane tell the difference between them?

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New York.

SIR HUGH and Lady

Foot are here settl- ing down in preparation for an active and ardu- ous autumn and the 16th General Assembly of the United Nations.

The Fuols, or the Feet, as they are lovingly called, have frien Edward Molyneux's New York house in Midtown, Manhalten.

It is a small house with a long garden fenced in grey. The fence is high, which is fortunate as the neighbours ore an teresting but exuberant lei.

in- '

from JEAN

Newsletter

CAMPBELL

Sir Hugh moves in

with unusual

neighbours

Busly and bristly-browed Sir

On one side live the Salvation Hugh, who has the steely Devon

Arms and on the other a stall med at the Foot family, A MAN

band of unmarried mothers, to

American term. " use the walling."

Elegance

Edward has, an always, left his lovely legacy of elegance. His decorating colours are yel low and white which makes his houses as fresh na bowifuls of bullercups and dalsion.

me that be is delighting in his new work at the Trusteeship Counell. The council is, as we all know, a body of 13 men from

13 different countries including OBSESSED

the U.S.S., India, New Zea- Land and India,

Chess

17HITTAKER

This was explained to me by truth at the source and every- several people who worked thing else la sickened with a with him on Time magazino little of that poison." during the nine years he served

as a writer and editor there.

And Hisa? He will not talk. Chambers, he insists, puzzles him. He will say no more. Chambers la sold to have been obsessed with the moral decay Hies is a lean and hungry of mankind, ls brother com- man who looks as though he mitted suicido int a gas oven, has thought too much. He is His mother slept with on axe crudite and a pleasing and ten- In the

under her pillow. Chambers der conversaționalist CHAM- felt the world was out to get English tradition. He enjoys

BERS, who inclted him and ironically, get him it listening. He wears velvet collars the greatest political trial in did not. American history amull podgy, pusty-skinned

wns I

Its size allows members to man. Last month he died, meet each other on a far more aged 60, of a heart attack futimate intellectual level than on his Maryland farm,

About the walls are Edward's in the vast, loosely knit General

own paintings-atudies uf

of komp

Charade

on his overcoats and bird- watching is his favourite out- doar sport.

Today he is very brako as, since his release, from prison in 1094, he has not been able to practise law. Instead he has taken odd jobs-working for a hair stylist, selling stationers-- | His wife, Esther, cremated his Assembly. A UN ambossacior Jamaica, the South of France who enjoys the play of character body before she announced his like in the clammy Chamhora pensation. He is acparated from There is something clown- drawing unemployment com- and the Banlieues of Paris.

against character once told me death.

charade-mlerodlm hidden In his wife and lives In the dock Sir Hugh is also a painter and that the Trusteeship Council is Chambers never-Inspired love. Hallowe'en pumpkin, vital aren. has brought

his like a cheas

He wants to he regarded as n game, while the He, was brilliant, Imaginative Government papers stuffed in Jamaican work-done during General Assembly is nothing but nad individualistic, but he had the shift of a serving lift. But serious commentator on world the years he governed Jambler Kirl's school hockey match.

Bir Hugh, during his long the people about him-nobody

one searing fault which puzzled the churade made history and affairs but instead ho han bo-

ky history documented

kuch como A kind of historical -to add to the Molyneux collec-

great English names as years of governorship, has been

Lord curiosity. People tion

prefor 10 a great polo player, and I am over knew what face he would Jewitt and Itebroern West. look at him raiber than to listen

Wear next, He was not two- Lady Foot has been lucky in happy to say he is going to keep faced, ho was 10-faced.

to him. Chambers never forgave Hig Anding a resident mald but this up his game in New York. Ilight

Nobody quite understanda kim and his last known words on which is perhaps as well. For does not surprise me. Ameri- in the street where I live, Dith "He would reach into his the subject were bitter words. Nixon, ex-Vice President, once cans. however rich they are, Street, la New York's polo cen- desk, drawer for tho morn "Bles'n defiance perpoldaten and said of Hing: If the American seem to constantly have servant tre, the D4th Street Armoury, ing face and live by that face keeps from healing a fracture in people understood troublo In

while and it is there that his saddles until night came, but we over the community as a whole for character of Algeria they Now York Britishers arriving here and set- will be shipped for the autumn know which face it would be when you accept a lie and it's would ball him in oil♬ vants at once.

and that schrat us."

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