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THE SOUL OF JAPAN
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Reports of Japanese brutality in the Shanghai area, vouched for by sane persons, it would seem, do much to destroy any
of admiration vestige respect for these soldiers whose duty has brought them to China. It must be said, not by way of excuse but simply as an accept- ed explanation of an unpleasant fact, that war, and the killing of men, brutalises human nature. Often the mildest and most pleasing disposition has been known to alter radically in battle, and there are proved instances of men of noble charac- ter who have done incredibly callous and calculatedly cruel
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WHO'S WHO ON
Labour's New Front Bench
With the election of twelve rank and file members, Labour's Front Bench in the House of Commons is now complete. Here are snapshots of them by
ERNEST E. HUNTER
LEMENT ATTLEE-The Leader. Educated at Haileybury and then at Toynbee Hall.
Has been Under-Secretary for War, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Post- master-General. Quiet, assuming, thorough, sincere, Knows his job and does it well.
un-
Arthur Greenwood. - Deputy Leader. Yorkshire and proud of it! Expert in economics. Bonnie fighter in House.
Minister of Health in second Green- Labour Government. wood streets everywhere com- memorate his achievements.
Parliamentary Executive
Herbert Morrison. London's pride and joy. Man who gets things done. Knows more about local government than all the Govern- ment Front Bench put together.
A. Y. Alexander.-Keeper of the King's Navec in second Labour Government. More than a match for Duff Cooper-the present First Lord, Fine forceful speaker.
Tom Johnston-Brilliant Jour- nalist. Watchdog on Unancial ramps
Lord and bucket-shops. Privy Bcal once, but destined for greater things if he stays M.P.
at
Hugh Dalton,--Brought up Windsor Castle. Capital levy ex-. pert. Big, booniing volco: "Uncle Arthur's " understudy At the
Bound to be in Foreign Omce. Labour's next Cabinet.
Tom Williama-Labour's “handy man." Outstanding example of Indis- Industry and application. pensable. The miner who made himself master of agriculture.
D. R. Grenfell~~" Dal" is an- other miners' member who has be- -como-an-expert. International. affairs is his. strong point. Tower of strength to the Front Bench.
Wedgwood Benn.-Famous Par- Only iamentary sharpshooter. man who ever seriously discon- certed the imperturbable "L. G." Once Secretary for India.
II. B. Lees-Smith-Liberal who
joined Labour after the Great War. One of the founders of Ruskin Cel-
이 Profcusor
Economics. lege. Authority on Parliamentary proce- dure. Has taken classes of MP.s.
F. W. Pothick-Lawrence. - Pio- neer fighter in many battles for social justice. Friend of the Buffra- gettes. Editor of the old "Echo." At the Treasury in Labour Govern- ment. At 67 can still give young nien a really hard game of tennis.
Now
Emanuel Shin well-Once Glasgow's stormy petrel. strong advocate of a fighting Front Bench policy. Defeated Ramsay MacDonald at Seaham by 20,000. Has a biting, caustic tongue which makes the enemy squirm.
Morgan Jones.-Eloquent Welsh schoolteacher. "C.O." in Orent War. Held Caerphilly since 1921 withi
Under- huge majorities, Secretary for Education in the two Labour Governments. Certain of promotion in the next.
P. J. Noci-Baker-Great Acquisi- tion since he came in after J. II, Thomas's sensational resignation.. Brilliant linguist and student of foreign affairs. Knows all there is to know about Geneva.
Additional Twelve
J. R. Clynes. - Labour's elder statesman. Loyal and trusted col- league. Able administrator. Food Controller during the war. Later, Home Secretary. Ils autoblo-. graphy just published. A story of a great life.
Jack Lawson.-The pitman with a dual personality. Great grasp of practical affairs, but poet and author as well. "A Man's Life," which he wrote, is a gem of beauti- ful and sensitive expression.
penetrating, logical, presenting his case with disarming moderation.
Rhys Davies."L, G.'a" double In appearance. Labour's expert on all matters pertaining to National Health Insurance, Walking ency- clopedia on this essential subject.
J. C. Wedgwood Last of the great Individualists. Fifth Josiah" of the Potteries, Tire- less fighter for all under-dogs in all countries. The Happy Warrior of politics,
Fred Montague. Fleet Street newsboy who became Under- Secretary for. Air. His speech on Wednesday night on Civil Aviation showed how closely ho under- stands the work
Air of the Ministry.
C. G. Ammon-Began life as a telegraphi messenger. Became an official of the Post Office Workers. Was at the Admiralty in 1920-31. As Sir Henry Cralk once said, has powers "of clear exposition; of fair.
stato- lucid, well-argued ments."
F. O. Roberts.—Ex-Minister of Pensions. Distinguished advocato of the rights of ex-Servicemen, Thousands of blind poople, old age pensioners, and nurses bless his naine.
J. Westwood, - Littlo "Jon" Westwood is the Party's great authority on everything about the Scottish Omce. His mind is so packed with facts and figures that colleagues sometimes wonder how une small hend can hold so much.
Tom Kennedy,-Labour's Chief Whip in 1020-31. One of the old Social-Democratic guard. Bl re- mains faithful to the Marxian tradition. Belloves in a National Citizen Army.
Allan Parkinson.-Was Herbert Morrison's second-in-command at the Ministry of Transport. Ex- miner who still walks with a bent pit-life. knee, reward of his Kindly, able, modest.
Whips' Department
Sir Charles Edwards-Labour's Chief Whip. Always charming and genial. Rules by persuasion and not by the lash. Once moved
resolution to limit time of speeches. Many think it is pity he was not successful.
George Wall-Was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1929-31. One of the ablest of the group of mining M.P.s which Wales sends to the
An enthu-· House of Commons. stast-for-the-development-of-oll-way from coal and tile full utlitsation of the product upon which his people depend.
Sir Stafford Cripps-His return to the Front Bench must add strength to the Opposition attack. When he intervenes in a debate it Cool. is with devastating effect.
man. What old the Throne unshaken, and it Make Your Voice Attractive
A
Wilfred Paling-Deputy Chief Whip-now rapidly making his on the Front Bench. Specialises in putting" awkward supplementary questions to Mini-
sters.
WI John-Leader of the Weish Parliamentary Group. Baptist deacon who once went to jali for twelve months as punishment for leading the Cambrian mining strike 27 years ago,
George Mathers. Was once chier clerk at Edinburgh Waverley station. Quiet, effective Scot; auc- ceeds in getting many things done without making a lot of fuss. Wullam Whiteley. - Durham miners' leader. Fine reputation on emcient administration public bodies and in his own trade
for
about National Health Insurance,
has remained there not because
is nothing RAUCOUS velee rings the death- to listen to; but there of political manoeuvres or armed strength,"
," writes F. H. Hedges, knell of charm, yet many women worse than hearing a native trying who spend pounds on beauty treat- to cover up his natural dialect by another authority on modern ment and have every detail of their assuming some other accent foreign union. Knows all there is to know Japan. "It has remained there clothes just "right," fail to recognise to his nature; yet many people con- because the people of Japan this fact. The sound of their shrill inue to do this, oblivious of the fact voices is heard during shopping ex- that any dialect is preferable to have regarded it as a heavenly-peditions in town, on the beach dur- affectation,
and Volce is an index of personality, created institution, and haveing holidays, and in theatres
cinemas at night.
and moods are reflected in its tone, The modern craze for candour is therefore the voice deserves responsible for the loud tones of the attention than it receives.
hail-fellow-well-met" woman, whose Monotonous Tones crippling handshake when she meets
or un-
held it, consciously consciously, vital to the life of the Japanese as Japanese. To destroy it would be to destroy themselves."
more
II. C. Charleton-For 18 years. drove Bootch express from Bt.. Pancras to Leeds. Defeated in 1931; went back to the engine. Came back triumphantly in 1935. Now helps to drive truant M.P.s into the Lobbica,
Tom Groves.-Originally a coach bullder. Once won the Dunmow Altch. Pockets always buiging with cases he is taking up. Recently earned Minister's praise for exposing the beating up of prisoners.
W. M. Adamson-Sita for Can- nock. Has made a special study of industrial and social legislation. One day hopes that his wife, Mrs. Jennie Adamson, will sit in the House of Commons with him.
of memory soldier cannot give instances?
Nevertheless, out of the heat of battle, and making every allowance, there is a limit to the brutality of an invading army which discipline should impose. And to those who know the Japanese people and understand the regard they have for their Emperor it would seem that just
a friend is only excelled by the Voices, nowadays, lack expression, one word from the right quarter
volume of her greeting, which can They are high pliched or deep, and there. Few people in might prevent such instances of
It must be, then, that the be heard from one end of a street to they finish
the other.
describing & scene or a happening swaggering bestiality as these word of such an Emperor is law
The Individual woman, in an effort can lend colour to their story by the latest reported from Shanghai. to all his subjects. It must be to be "different," speaks in an affect proper inflection of their voice, They supposed that the Army of ed voice with an occasional lisp, and slur their words and speak indis- "Unless the position the Em-Japan, from the highest to the every word she whispers is nimost tinctly, and the listener has, nine inaudible. Her accent is by no times out of ten, to "strain his ears" peror occupies in the life of lowest rank, is inspired by the means consistent, varies according to to catch what is being said.
Clarity is essential for an attrac Japan is understood," writes H. Throng which has led the nation her surroundings, and seems to have
to great accomplishments. But originated in widely distant parts of tive volet, and a great deal can be H. Tiltman in his Uncensored at the first sign of failing dis- the British Isles.
done to improve tone if it is exer- Far East, "it is impossible to cipline, on the part of individuals Few women speak in natural tones cised sufficiently. The ideal to aim
Well-modulated voice. One of the most beneficial voice glimpse the soul of the nation, or groups within the nation, the when meeting someone for the first at is a clear,
impression is created that that time. This trait is the result of on
inferiority complex, and the desire exercises-reading loud-has gone for their Emperor in the great strong in losing something of its person they are meeting. Unlike the many different forins of amusement, women who talk in loud tones, they but if people tried reading aloud centrifugal force which unites potency.
realise that an attractive voice is an carefully, it would improve their
an voices. the whole Japanese race in one Friends of Japan will hope, asset, but they make the misinke of
trying to alter their voices, When Deep breathing is most important family, the one force uplifting with Tiltman, that "not all the they lapse into their ordinary tones in the cultivation of a pleasing voice, activities and ambitions of the person who has been "treated" If women would take longer breaths the whole people, from richest
Japanese generals can change to the acquired accent cannot help when they are speaking, high-pitched ing questions and amendments, to poorest, which will endure the Japanese soul that soul thinking that such women are in "head" volees would gain resonance, Singing, which necessitates breath when all modern factorios, which is glimpsed whenever sincere,"
control, does, of course, benefit the speaking voice to certain extent. machinery and improvements some great catastrophe hits that Don't "Gush!"
Speaking in the open air, for which land." But unless some strong "Gushing"—a practice favoured by deep breathing is essential if the have returned to dust. The voice cries "Halt" to her troops some "bright young things," spells penker is to be heard, is also bene- place which the Emperor occu-in China the frienda of Japan insincerity, and phrases like "too, too acial
shortly will have 80.
"too, too utterly," and far wonderful,"
Few people open their mouths pies in Japanese life goes back diminished to be of no conse- even "Loo, too" alops when they are sufficie
aufficiently when speaking, and if to the very beginnings of the quence whatever, and by their tumpet for another word, do not they were to stand in front of mir- Japanese people.”
own acta Japanese troops will I tarnish that which they chorish "Throughout the centuries the most the brightness of the Imperial family has remained-on-Imperial Throns.-
The worship of and reverence old loyalty which made Japan to make a good impression upon the out of fashion with the advent of o
sound pleasing to the ear,
Frank Anderson,--Member for Whitehaven. Hos taken a leading part in the great constructivo cam- paign to bring back industrial prosperity to West Cumberland,
I. Scolt Lindmy-Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party. who ought to be on the Front Dench, For 31 years has been working behind the scenes, draft-
guiding the Party.
-To-day's Thought-
IN any list of great men, the names coma Arst, of those who serve the public,
MERRICK.
rors shaping their lips for each sound to remember that what you say con→ In way large town vorled dialects they uttered, they would" soon' get veya the Impression of what you aro.. are spoken by people who have left into the habit of shaping their mouills but how you: speak gives you away
tool their native town or country nettle properly for each sound,
there, and many dialects are a joy! Before speaking at all it is well
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