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By W. J. BROWN, Independent M. P.

THE ANGRY MEN OF WESTMINSTER

THERE are quite a number of angry people at West- minster these days.

To retreat from 18 months to one year for conscription may be neces sary. Morrison Is malleable enough La nccommodate himself to bigger changes in policy than that.

Not thus, not thus, did we singe

Organising The Back Room Boys

By

SYDNEY REDWOOD

ONE. hundred scientists, physi

cists and mathematiclans. and some five hundred oxperi- mental officers and other tech- nical staff, will carry out scien tific research in mechanical engineering on an unprecedented scale for the general benefit of·· Industry throughout Britain..

This huge organisation, which will oruble Britain to keep her. lend in industrial development, will be the twelfth set up by Mr Herbert Morrison's Department of Scientific ami Industrial. Research in the interest of the community in general. Others already functioning are engage: in research in building and road. Fconstruction, fire fighting, fuel

problems and food questions.

The wide scope of mechanical engineering influenced the Cabinet In

its decision. It covers practically every industry in the country, in- cluding agriculture; it is concerned in the design production of all on- gines and power plant for marine and alrcraft propulsion; incomotives for railways, motorcar engines and transmissions; the production of power from coal, oll and water; the machinery concerned with the manu- facture of iron and ateel; the pro- duction of chemicals, textiles, and foods; ventilating, airconditioning- and refrigerating machinery and many other matters.:

There are about 60,000 mechancial enginters engaged in 98 separate acti- The Tories as there are civil engineers and twien› are angry at the as many as there are electrical en- of the guillotine, on of great importance. In such a way as to prevent discussion on large parts of such measures.

But this does not exhaust the list vities in Britain, four times as many

the Spanlurd's board. Not thus did of the angry ones, we sweep the French from nf the are angry. They

imposition seus.

mensures

of

Mr Bevin is angry. His job is a,

Under any other Government a rollen one, anyway. The Ameri-

But to declare, by all, gods, on Minister s humiliated would, cons have the cash to help them Monday that 18 months is the irre- course, have resigned. But we are The Russians have the creed. Poor Ernest has nothing-not even the coal. And so the scriptural paalogy which haunts his mind in that of the Israelites who were compelled by to make bricks without

Pharaoh straw.

But Pharaoh's Israelites were unit ed. Devin's are not. While Ernest is doing his best at a very difficult

печь traditions. No The Labour men are angry with ever resigns-and the Tories for being angry with happens, поде can be them.

now

gineers.

a

Though there is already a very considerable amount of research in. this neid in progress now at the universlties, Government establish- ments, and in the larger firms-it is | not" |

good not co-ordinated; there is donl of overlapping; and in most

that. cases the staffs are so small they confine themselves to the most are angry, urgent and immediate problems, and loo: angry with the Tories. For the neglect the fundamental research Winnie Also

Tories, not content with absorbing which future practice very largely

dependa, for practical purposes, the Liberal

new establishment will THEN there is Winston. He

Nationals, have now, in their new only co-ordinate, these activities and the Committee of policy for the Conservative Party, fill in the gaps. Much of its work

ducible minimum, and then to an establishing nounce on Wednesday that a year Minister will do very well, thank you kindly; whatever and to do this when nothing has sacked. happened between Monday and Wed- nesday except that "the boys" have staged a revolt-this, to Herbert, is intolerable.

Be the facts what they may, face

angry about

Is

And all the Liberáis

not

task.. Orosman and Co. compel the must always be preserved. Morri- Privileges. In the past the tradition largely pinched the programme of will be well ahead of the immedia10. Government to reduce do a year the sun fecla for what has happened all has been that this Committee, which the true Liberals.

IA

the contempt that a clever police- months' period of conscription man feels for a bungling colleague which the Government had sworn who botches the job and gets rapped was the least they could do with it over the knuckles by the magistrate,

they were to discharge their foreign A Dim View

obligations at all;

So Ernest is very angry-angry NEXT, there is Mr Alexander. But with Crossman and "the boys"; today the name is not associated

with Hector angry with the Cabinet for giving with Hercules,

and way to them, and apgry with the Lysander, and such great names as

these.

down, Alexander is that nothing fate which decrees

quite down, should ever "stay put." especially when he is away.

For

It is bad enough to have to cat bumble ple; bad enough to make a meal of the words disgonged only

'Erb And Prestige yesterday. But to have to de it

THEN THEN there is Mr Morrison. We are all glad to see him back after his long illness. But he also has come back angry. His anger, how ever, differs from that of Ernest.

Ernest is concerned with polley. Our Erb is concerned with prestige, It is not only what has been done while he has been

away that troubles him. It is how it has been dent.

And without requirements of industry, so that in time firms will turn to it for in- is the highest court of the High acknowledgment, too.

formation and advice before starting Court of Parliament, should consist of 'Members of long standing and He who steals their purse, steals on new projects. And its store of experience and knowledge will be experience, steeped in knowledge of trash, but he who steals their pro-available to all firms, large or small the laws and traditions of our "hon- grumme, leaves them poor Indeed. ourable House." The Prime Minis

The truth is that both the Labour'

too busy looking after the country tu look after the Committee, and Mr Morrison is too busy looking after the machine. So neither the Prime Minister nor the Leader of the House now serves on the Commiter.

Some Hope

•

bo ad-

and

tor has usually presided. The Leader Party and the Liberal Party strongly will be. Dr. G. A. Hankins, of the Director of this ambitious project of the Opposition has sat with him. favour Tory Diehardism-in the National Physical Laboratory, one of And the remainder of the Committee Tury Party,

the most prominent "boffins" of has been composed of grave and re-

World War II. He designed the first verend seigneurs, so' to speak.

Signs of grace in that Party are supersonic wind tunnel available to not welcome to the rival parties, the

the Allies. Dr Hankins will Eut today the Prime Minister is whs favour a "closed shop" in the eminent scientists,

vised by ↑

Board consisting of technicings matter of political virtue.

industrialists, serving in their per- sonal capacity and without fee, and led by Dr HL. Gray, a Fellow of the Royal Society who was one of the War Cabinet's principal scienti short, mine seems to be the only fic advisers. The Principal of the party at Westminster which Military College of Selence, Dr C. A. So the breezy nautical roll which cedent has recently occurred. Two isn't angry. Personally, I welcome Lander, will be a member of the

new Members, who only entered the signs of grace in all parties,

Board. our AV has affected ever since he tall the Co-ops, to become rifler of House at the last election, have been

If the Tories become converts to resilia to be obtained.

It will take several years for full the King's Navee has deserted him. appointed to the Committee. This,

witt become converts liberty location of the new station has He has the uneasy feeling that what in Mr Churchill's view, is rather like quality, perhaps he has had to do is not quite in the promoting new boys to be monitors When bath seek the suffrages of the not yet been decided. Equipment, fairly large Nelson

tradition, and that Benbow, in their first term at the old school. people un એક same programme, some of which on Callingwood, Byron, Biale, and the So he signides its disapproval of all there may then bt some hope for scale, will have to be designed and Instaited. For the time being, the. rest, take, from their habitation in these irregular proceedings by an fraternity.

work will be carried out at the Na- the Shades, a dim view of the whole nouncing his resignation from the

And 1950 may set the seni on 1788. Bional Physical Laboratory and at.

the universities.

publicly, and to have the odious dish seasoned by the sauce of the Op- polition-this is too much.

transaction.

by

Moreover, a sharp break with pro-

Committee.

IN

the Labour men

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BY THE WAY Beachoomber

IT is being said, somewhat fisherman of Perugia, who, to the Question time

colony

arbitrarily, that all the sar- 17th century, discovered a

of small fish, hitherto unknown, in dines appear to have left the

a-well. waters of Southern California; whether temporarily or not is Why not be highly

for the White-paper to reveal.

Anyhow, it waa to be expected

educated?

1. "The Father was written by

with the Gulf Stream being slowly (a) Ibsen (b) Nansen (c) 'Ront.

diverted at the rate of three degrees every 80,000,000 years-according to Sardines Flaschner. Professor

with choose their spawning grounds

to them every *return care, and

Many three years in the autumn, with ringed legs, marked 1944, were .winter off Lupevelez fund this Peint. As the earth grows less moist and the rocks csalfy this tendency will increase.

DEPLYING to someone who had asked what had become of the 100,000 Lins of sock-suspenders ex- ported to Korea, somebody sald: What we have got to do is to ex tablish some sort of necessary basis

At

was inter- this point he rupted by Mrs, Wretch, who assid. If he was referring to elastie bruces, he should read the White-paper in- stead of going on like this. A Liberal Interjected: "Basis, not

That

make braces."

doesn't sense cried a back bencher. "What 3. Pagan was (a) a violinist (b) docs?" Inquired The

(Government cheers.) a statesman, (c) a horse.

The weather ahead Invented 4. Soop was

by (a) Erasmus, (8) Josish Soap, (c) Pear. 6. The Channel was first swum by (a) Holbein (b) Hogarth, (0) Max Webster,

2. Goldoni was (a) a singer (b) a Doge, (c) a clown.

The sardine does not come from

6. Pomerol is (a) a Champagne. It gets Sardinia, as many think. Its nome

Paolo Sardine, a (b) a hair-oll (c) 'a Burgundy,

from

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