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WEDNESDAY, January 27, 1037.

EXPEDIENCY NOT ENOUGH

What should govern policies pursued by Govern-

ments?

penny spent on refreshments at the vicar's garden fete.

some

They will rise with difficulty and diffidence. After they have spoken, they will find the even greater difficulty in sitting down. They will be assailed with a gnawing doubt that they omitted to make that vital point, that brilliant joke, that devas- tating alusion which they had thought out so carefully before they came.

Should they do what seems for the moment most expedient and least troublesome? Or should they follow certain definite principles through fair weather and foul? The former is the actual policy which has

They will

1.

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· CATENAN,

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There are certain speakers-

Fox banged

the table and electrified the House of Com- mone--but Fox was the greatest Parliamentary speaker in de- ́.... bate of all time. And if you bang the dinner table, you may bang a gines I have It done,

вест

and a good speech was

- ruined in

double spurt of blood and Jaughter,

Be sparing of your geatures and they will gain in effect.

No one speak-. ing knows quite what to do with his hands. Balfour clutch- ed his lapels as if. for support to the drooping. willowy figure, Birkenhead Jeaned over the table, one hand clutching a mighty cigar. Churchill emulates Bal- four. Ex-King Edward used to fiddle with 11 cigarette or his tie.

•

go back on their appalling effect of producing one

Many modern speakers of the second-or third-rank put their been pursued by Governmchts /tracks, lose the thread of their of two equally disastrous re- Humbert Wolfe, the poet, is one hands in their pocket in the hope argument, flounder, repeat them actions. Either your brain goes who rely entirely on extem of convincing their, audience since they compromised over selves. correct themselves, and dent and refuses to function or pore eloquence. Wolfe is witty that they are quite at ease. Italy's aggression in Abyssinia. finally resume, their places to the you see three points which you enough to tell a fow anecdotes This is but one degree better No-one can claim that the inter-patter of polite applause.

want to make, make the first, to warm his audience up and than letting the arms hang iner! national situation generally has

grope for the second, and forget then he is naturally cloquent at the sides, with wrists pro-

truding from the cuffs. the third: Great speakers have enough to let his own poetic improved in consequence. What

If you are speaking inform- various methods of combating fervour carry him on to a trium- ally and you are a smoker, be is-rather-illuminating-is-that-the FOR the season of public-these--dangers. Either they-phani-conclusion.-

very sure you have a lighted reasons for adopting an emas-

speaking is upon us write their speech out before-

cigar or cigarette in your hand. culated League policy have again. As the reservoir's rise. hand, committing it to memory

It will save you from thinking IF you

are asked to about your arms. If you are proved fake. For instance, it in spate with winter rains, the when they run the risk of for getting an entire section and,

speak, or if you want speaking at a dinner and toasts was suggested that unless sanc-flood of evening oratory surges relying on the prop of memory, to speak on some subject near are in order, be very sure your tions were called off, Germany in the throat. As the evenings are lost when it fails; or they your heart, be very sure before glass is not empty when you get and Italy might come together draw in, the speeches draw out read their speech--which loses you get up what you are going up to speck.

Beware of the funny story. them fifty per cent of their to say. And when first you get on a common foreign policy. As The average practised speaker · events turned out, sanctions were talks at the rate of 180 words from notes. In this case, they begin. Wait, look round the historical or classical or literary effectiveness; they speak on your feet, be in no hurry to Your audience is certain to have heard it before. Beware of the called off, but this did not pre-a minute: 10,800 words an hour. commit to memory each section room, wait again, and then allusion: your audience, is not

of their speech, and put on and the first two or three words that is a question, sheets of paper each heading To gesture or not to gesture ject on which you are jesling.

of the paragraph referring to answer is: Make gestures only that particular subject in the when you cannot help making speech,

begin.

them.

Fussy Employers

The

entirely familiar with the sub-

Say what you have to say as farcefully as possible-but do all the points you must but do not over-state your case. Make

not fall into the two traps of point-making: labouring a point already made or failing to drive home one just touched on.

vent Germany and Italy coming Gladstone, who never gabbled Then the desirability and who recognised the value together. of clearing the atmosphere so as of a pause as few orators have, to prepare the way for a new spoke in the heat of his massive Locarno was another excuse for perorations at 250 words a about the fastest abandoning principles in favour minute, of expediency. One result of speaker ever known. You or I, this disastrous policy was seen asked for the conventional "few in the changed attitude recently words," would probably speak udopted by Belgium. Belgium, at about 130 words a minute. like other small Powers, has had The rest of the time would be her faith in the collective system taken up with wondering what

THE overage intelligent adult, who, over his shoulder, adding a dab of rudely shaken. The small we were going to say, how we

Is trained for a job, is quite pulni every now and then. Powers have pinned their faith were going to say it, and a good capable of carrying out that job with Even the office boy takes a certain to the security offered them in deal of "er-ers" to cover our out supervision or help from his pride in his job-if it is his job. The as possible. Too many speakers, the Covenant of the League of

employer. Most employers, realise) employer who constantly fusses capiecially on the political plat- Nations. They have seen the For thinking while you are this-in thicory. But when it comes rund, insisting on things being done form, pound at full pitch the exactly according to his method, whole time. Your voice is an whom great Powera, on

the conscious that people are waiting to practice, how many are content to should not be surprised if his staff organ: do not play full diapason chief responsibility for the on your thoughts has the ict an employee tackle his own work) rather suikfly follow' out his instruc-from the time you stand, untill League's authority rests, run

away

nervousness.

in his own way?

Most of them never give

Meanwhile their own

over

BJURE the habit that makes nine-tenths of church oratory ineffective: letting your voice rise as if in a question when your sentence ends with a statement.

Let your voice vary as much

'you

tions and then stand like morons, the time you sit down. If you waiting to bo Instructed in the next their detall of their work. He has treated have made a point when from their obligations is a tendency amongst nations to employees a chance to prove their them like morons and is receiving his have stretched your voice, under the Covenant and there-align themselves into groups capabilities,

begin the next sentence almost or develop their just reward.

converantionally. fore the small Powers feel that reflecting certain common politi- Initiative. They stand them, No matter how modest we may ba

and correcting in other things, there is a sort of been slow to begin, be swift to And, finally, just as you have they must revise their policy in cal idents, rather than to join showing, helping. the light of this fact. It has hands on a general collective neglected, and they blame their staff, that makes each of us inwardly having made an effective point work is conceft. Inherent in human. nature end. Too many speakers, been well said that the only way security basis. At the moment, who, they declare, need constant assured that our own method is best at the end of their address, mar in which confidence can be res therefore, the outlook does not supervision.

But surely we owe it to our sub- the whole performance by re- tored is for the Great Powers seem promising for a general re- A friend of mine claims to have rdinates to control our desire treating it, recapitulating, the whole speech, or even using to reinforce the Covenant and to turn to the principles of the found the perfect secretary. Every

Quite apart from fairness to others, some such phrase as "and that give evidence of their intention League. Convenant. Before that instructions for the day, and noit la more conveulent to get into the Is the message I should like to to honour their obligations at all is possible, distrust and suspicion matter how much she has to do, habit of allowing those who serve us leave with you, ladies and gentle costa in the future. That is will need to be removed, with is always perfectly accomplished. She to do their own jobs in their

own men: the message that a trulam, and its appositeness to something far more binding in Each day's completed work is her infinite

regards secretaryship as an art way. In addition to saving an and then repeating the last sen-

amount of strain and tence of the point. the present troubled world eitun the way of collective responsi-little masterpiece. But, given an irritation, it enturca that 'balanced) tion is beyond dispute. The bitty than has hitherto been interfaring employer, she would be harmony which is the basis of co-

The finest advice over offered trouble, however, is that there davised.

to a speaker was: "Get up. Open up. Shut up. Sit down.”

morning he gives her work and

"show how it is done.” *g

like an artist struggling to paint operation. picture while the purchaser looks

*Business Man