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ANNA and the KING of RUMANIA

By Gordon Sewell

TYO omnesgood between King Michael WWO women-Anna the Communist and Annie

and his throne. The first is Rumania's most powerful opponent of monarchy: the second is the girl Michael wishes to marry.

ANNA PAUKER

SHE has been Foreign Minister of Rumanin for nine weeks and ranks second only to Tito among Balkan Communists. Her creed dentes all loves and loyalties exchit to thh party. Sho: la. 55, the mother of one boy and two virla..

SHE is called "Tovarich Anny” by the Bucharest Communists, and is the daughter of a rabbi who fled to Rumania from A Polish pogrom early in the century.

SHE studied medicine, became 11 school teacher, switched to politics in 1921. Banning of the Communist Party in Rumania three years later sent Anna underground,

SHE married Communist writer Marcel Pauker while on a secret mission to Switzerland. She is a self-made widow, since she denounced her husband the Sovjet Įpolice as a Trotskyist during the

I'VE BEEN TALENT-SPOTTING!

LONDON, Dec. 30.

Tis not only the end of a year in Parliament. It is half-time.

►

than

WILLIAM BARKLEY

veteran Parliamentary reporter, blows the whistle for half-time in the House

This House of Commons has run half its course, since the election of July 1945. We can- not suffer it or enjoy it (ac- cording to which side of the fence you fall) more another two and a half years. Tory Governments always What new talent has it had their ginger groups, but it thrown up? Considering tho is regarded na treachery for a magnitude of the turn-over the Socialist to make public critic-

ism of his turn-up is disappointing.

The own side. suppose by now we can assess movement under Zillincus was - il ali.

crushed instantly when Ernest Bevin cried he was being stab- bed in the back.

So the newcomers who

have

I am cautioned, by the re- minder that Baldwin sat there obscure for seven years before being thrust into the highest ambition to make a name for them places. Maybe some other selves must have noted with a pang loading actor now lurks

un- that the best back-bench speech in known, but I cannot be asked this Parliament came from an old to prognosticate on the basis of timer. what is least likely.

Forward move

man a reputation of pedantry, how ever unjustified that may be.

war.

to

SHE spent several years with a Soviet trading mission 1 U.S.A. When smuggled Into Rurnanin โร

NIGEL BIRCH has a descriptive 1935 she was arrested for subver- name. His ripid, scornful sentences sive activities and sentenced to 'len have a painful impact. HOLLIS by years' jalt. contrast is slow and rhythmic, but his humour can

be devastating.

Bes-

SHE was exchanged for n CROSTHWAITE-EYRE has an im-sarablan patriot when the Russians Sho passive, disarming expression, but seized that country in 1940. he has great terincity; and out of became a Soviet citizen, returned enreful preparation he "car spank to Rumanin as a major in the Red lucidly on complicated issues of Army four years later. trade and finance.

SHE is grey-haired, square-jawed, She cham- ERROLL romps in like 4 jollyn mob-rousing orator. bolsterous achoolboy, benming all pions the downtrodden ("our people he is are rolling because of malnutri- over, but be not deceived:

A palatial widely Informed and most accurate. tlon"), white livlug in

1 She rides in limousine POOLE ** serious-minded har villa. worker. The law

attractive (bullet-proofed), and wears expen- <resses of drob and compelling representatives in sive inilor made

colours. MAUDE and FOSTER.

A difdent Agure who is heard with increasing respect and who has just had a success in negotiating the alternative to the advertisement tax is PITMAN,

Dolphin-like

SHE demanded "Death to Maniu" at the Peamant leader's 'trial in No- It was Maniu who cham- vember.

cause when political pionert her

prison without police kept her a trial.

SHE is the only woman who can speak to Stalin over the telephone: theauy time she wants to.

Farma

of the

I trust he will not weary of well- doing, but buoy himself up with the hope that we may some day have longer newspapers, and do what he can himself to hasten that day, when

These foll to be added to we may find room for him.

SHE says, as Foreign Minister: older

enough boys who are well That distinction I award without Now that I have come to the known. Of them I mention GURNEY "We are a free people, and we know like how to make others respect our What! Should I predict fame hesitation to 70-year-old RUYS Opposition party find with some BRAITHWAITE because I so

ric He reminds of independence," and "Rumania can- smaller num- his style. for a Scottish M.P. because he DAVIES. 20 years on M. P., who surprise that its thr of new inen has never opened his mouth, or challenged the direction of labour: bers

contain more dolphins, he comes up so clean and not afford royal weddings.”

aimlessly on the hot folter Socialist locs

ANNE, of Bourben- for some other who perhaps "All tyrants from the Pharaohs to debating talent than the

And JOHNSON-HICKS— the Czars think they know what is moss. They have more opportunity surface. has rarely opened his eyes?

Hood for

the people. Better that to be vocal, but then they improve for saying a thing that everyone HE is tall, blonde, and 24, is a

Contemplating the envy. must this Government should meet it their opportunity.

princess of one

oldest ระ dloom than that individual freedom

change which responsibility

familles in Europe and a former should perish in the British Isles." BOYD-CARPENTER is a fighting wrought in Stafford Cripps he mur- #licr к.

New York shop-girl. man, a trifle pompous and forensic. mured: "Circumstances

SHE first met Michael in London On the Government back

when they have known Mark his prominent teeth. He will C.."

attended the royal Previous Houses I benches most of the men who all had an oracle- Macaulston, a not let go

He will challenge

wedding. They are distant cousins. made early good impressions Josh Wedgwood, A shrewd, clear. authority which he considers wrong-

Both are great-great-grandchildren have already moved forward- forceful fellow without any

Great ful at any hour of the night

of King Christian IX, of Demark. for office but with a very morning.

SHE had a courtship in Switzer- CALLAGHAN, JACK JONES, desire

and lasting only a few days, cha- REES-WILLIAMS, DOUGLAS

who peroned by Michael's mother, hud nccompanied the young king JAY-all in the Government.

On December 10 Anne Jay is famous not so much

to London. left for speeches as-for-a-newspaper He wrote last spring article. that the American Loan, which is now finishing, should last us until the end of the year after next. Foreigners might think this was hardly the best qualifi- ention for his new appointment as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

How little they know us! It is the man who is right who is never forgiven in politics here. We like our idols to have feet of clay, and a bit of wood in the top storey seems to be no great disadventage either.

CROSSMAN and RAYMOND

IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEM

THOMAS C. SKEFFINGTON-LODGE (Soc. Bedford), 42, bachelored. Wesminster; formerly public relations, wartime naval officer. Christian Socialist, Fabian, Traveller."

R. THOMAS PAGET (Soc., Northampton), Eton, Cambridge: warthne

R.N.V.R., barrister.

KENNETH PICKTHORN (Tory, Cambridge University). 55, Alden- ham, Cambridge; D.Litt., historian, history lecturer at Cambridge. JOHN A. BOYD-CARPENTER (Tory. Kingston), 39, Stowe, Oxford;

cx-Scots Guards, barrister.

M. CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS (Tory. Devizes), 45, Eton, Oxford; author, publisher, former economies lecturer, U.S.A.: wartime R.A.F.

FREDERICK J. ERROLL (Tory, Altrincham), 33, Lachelor, Oundle.

Cambridge; electrical engineer, wartime Tank Division. NIGEL BIRCH (Tory Flint), 41, bachelor, Eton. retired from stock.

broking to devote whole time to politics.

strong desire to open his mind on the passing event."

He would rarely be orthodox. He would be generally concerned to get into step

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or

more.

on

So material is at hand for a fine Tory Second Eleven. They do not They work sufficiently as a team. should support one another and take a more decisive line freedom incentives and Empire..

Especially Empire, which has

for ber Copenhagen home: long been one of the distinguishin, badges of the Tory-animal, and -Michel-returned-to Bucharest, he risks losing it.

SHE speaks English and Danish, but her first language is French, Socialists--FOL-(5he reads detective novels in alt

three languages.)

Eachi of four LICK, HEWITSON. EVANS (Wed nesbury) and KINGHORN-hing Ir formed me privately in recent weeks that he is almost the only 100 per- cent Empire-conscious M. P. In Parliament.

to

ned

to the

SHE was a front-line worker for the French Red Cross until the fall of France; then she U.S.A., where her mother opened a millinery shop. Anne sold hals. I am prepared

accept and

to Danish SHE is second cousin

have print similar confidentes from the King Frederik, who will remaining 636. It surely is the sanction her marriage,

Bourbon-Parma right policy. And whence it comes makes

odds to me, be It Spanish branch Tweedledum or Tweedledee.

Bourban dynasty.

BY THE

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family of famous French

WAY by Beachcomber

YOU to find for wearing the shirt outside

the Sho held on to some of her notes 50

7.20 & 9.20 p.m. BLACKBURN are notables who the 600-odd colleagues

are at the present time mis- with himself. I see a few candidates You would not exparticle at trousers has not caught on is that long that frontle cheering probed out, firing, but they have indepen- for the post, but no one yet de-

In the running Lacking the cut of Mr Attlee's less and less material is available for and bets were made, watch in hand.

shirts, and so they are being made dence and ability to be reckoned finitely to elect.

KICHARD STOKES. SKEFFING-waistcoat or the number of shorter. Very well. Think of the The harpist's nerves broke under the with.

TON-LODGE PAGET.

buttons on the sleeve of M. effect of a half-length shirt worn strain, and she got her head stuck outside the waistcoat. It sounds in the wires. In pulling it out an I had thought this large new

To find the leader in the Oracle Ramadier's coat. Socialist Party. with its many Stokes we must

But the fuss about long atlets odd, but it is only a matter of getting oboeist overbalanced and fell into cross to the Tory

auditorium. "Art knows no ramifications into the profes- cias and light upon KENNETHI seems to have roused Cyclopean used to it, as the man said when he the

ten to stirred his

boot hin He has the sional classes, would have given PICKTHORN.

most passions- and turned all minds

dress. For here is a Russian literary (Tomorrow: With Mrs. Rickthorne frontiers," cried a saucy little thing

In the five-and-tenpennies. But, of penetrating wit in the House, but us more like them.

South Mimme-and Back.) to Mr out that pointing course; to a Government the it is not attuned to modern require review

trousers are two inches

Were they? ments. He delivers long sentences Truman's best back bencher is the one to cars that are accustomed to them shorter than the fashionable length. "Ah, Dripping, B.L.!” who keeps his lips pursed and short. He uses big, accurate words My own ideological trousers have to

"Dogicus his legs crossed save when where small and loose ones are the be seen to be believed. voting.

I see that some are prophesying Rustiguzzi sang a cycle (from the return of the Gibson Girl figure, the noise it was more like a motor- Kashmir beetles are the ones seen

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