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London Still Has Its

Soapbox

Orators

By Brian A. Tobin United Press Staff Correspondent

Sixteen months of war and five months of air raids have made little apparent change in one of London's old and most popular in- stitutions: the Marble Arch rendezvous of soapbox orators and listening crowds.

There is little talk against war licard on the Corner, but government leaders and poli- cies are freely assailed. Speakers go as far as they think the crowd will let them.

At this traditional gathering place on a corner of Hyde Park, the speakers still as- cend their stepladders and support by shouts, arguments and gesti- culation their many brands of politics and religious.

Disregarding the occasional scream of the air raid sirens, the crowds still drift from group to group, heck- ling, applauding-o-r- scoffing.

Daily For Years

Some of the speakers

and many of the listeners

There are not so many Irish speakers as there used to be. Time was when half-a-dozen of them, flags waving from their platforms, would com- mand large audiences on, u Sunday afternoon, and enliven the proceedings with scathing references to each other.

The religious arguers still hold forth, badgering and heckling their listeners, and being badgered and being heckled in turn.

a buffoon capers to gain a few laughs.

As the early dark comes on, the speakers fold their step- ladders and depart. It is for- bidden to solicit funds in the Park, but some of them leave broad hints that "I shall walk away in that direction at the close of the meeting and if anyone wants to show some brotherhood...

As' the speakers leave, the crowds form discussion groups in the darkness to argue. Here and there a group starts singing popular songs.

On a recent evening a small group gathered for their re- gular singing party.

Hymn in Dark

Their leader said, "Well, this is probably the last night we'll be here. "I'm going to a war factory in the north, two of the boys are joining up and one is being evacuated from London.

A current topics speaker

"So before we close up, I'd strives to hold his listeners

like us all to sing one song in with wisecracks and grimaces;

memory of two of the fellows a slight young man with a

who used to sing with us Last moustache and an educated

week they were killed by a voice tells a

bomb.. crowd' that

Let's have 'Abide America's foreign policy de-

With Me.'" pends on a small group of overalled, straw-chewing- farmers In the Middle West who hold the political balance of power in the United States;

Standing in the dark the crowd sang. On the last note, as though timed to the second, the nightly air raid warning sounded, and the crowd drift ed slowly away,

Our Own Aggressor-in-Chief

TAME the most combative

have come here daily for Ngure in the flouse of

years. On a fine after-

there may be a noon, dozen different stands go- ing strong. The more popular speakers will have several hundred men and women grouped around them. A few will cry their message to unheeding passers-by.

For those who have a following the procedure is generally the same. They speak for as long as they can hold the attention of the audience. Then they call for "questions," and spend the rest of the time defending their cause, re- pulsing hecklers and ap- pealing for quiet.

Almost every religious de- nomination has its spokesman here; almost every political group with a panacea for the ills of the world. Some of them are consistently well at- tended.

One of the favourites is a vigorous speaker for the 'So. cinlist Party of Great Bri taln." His ladder is the high- est, his voice the loudest. His method and his message have changed little in the last year.

Commons. Who is that digni- fied institution's most pugna- cious member?

this

By common consent position of aggressor-in-chief is held by Colonel the Right Hon. J. C. Wedgwood, M.P.

Be has been at Westminster for 35 years. Throughout that period be has just gone from one conflict

to another.

No man has put more eats among

pigeons, more sand in machines, nailed more colours

Zeous

con-

to the mast, or en- gogod more stantly in that outra-.

unorthodoxy which those in com- mand describe cross- ly as "rocking the boat" or "fouling the

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fearless

Of the Foreign Office Mr Wedg- wood says: R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary, seems the only denizen of that august edifice not yet fossilised."

Mr Attice, he says, "Is too mo- dest and nervous ever to become dominating at the Box in the House of Commons. He is perhaps too much incilaed to accept the ex- planations of the Civil Service; but he is far and away the best lender the Labour Party has had or could have."

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By Maurice

Webb

and audacious in hls single-minded pursult of all hose causes he has made his own. He never kow-tows to authority, Ite Just bludgeons and harries it into nequiescence or retreat.

Now this grand old warrior for

freedom hna written a charac- teristically breczy and frank book- "Memories of a Fighting Lifo" (Hutchinson, 18s.).

It is a vivid record of gay adven- ture, full of spley revelations about. the mighty, shrewd comment on men and affairs, and some secret with a gusto history, all written which grips you.

Let me give you some snapshots from this album of memories and comments.

Churchill, when out of office, was Invited to lunch with the Cabinet

to

meet Ribbentrop. Winston's romment to Wedgwood was: "I suppose they asked me to show him that if they couldn't back themselves they kept a dog who could bark and who might bila,"

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Party

the meeting of IL.P. members In 1022 which supported Mar- Donald Instead of Clynes Jeadership, "Mac- Donald wisely refused to come to the meet- ing. Philip Snowden

did come, and his

was the one solitary volce warning us that if MacDonald led we should live to regret

"We must not annoy the Civil Service." This, he alleges, was the slogan of the first Labour Govern-- ment in 1024. The little inner Junta

of MacDonald - Thomas- Snowden," he goes on, "managed all things, while Arthur Hender- son fumed outside, the magic cir- cic."

The Labour Porty's mission, he says, "is to change afteep into men," while of the present Parliament he declares, "I like it better than any in which I have ant. I uke this time better than any in which have lived. I am never ashamed now, ellher of my party or of my- self or of my country.'

The only complaint I have to make about this grand book is the charge of 18s. for 240 pages.

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