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Boothby's

'faith' after 23

years an M.P.

by GORDON SEWELL

IT

He looks beyond the "lams" to workable synthesis between peace and power, collectivisin und In- dividualism."

His convictions? Dick Crossman's description of Eden might be applied to Boothby: "A peculiarly British type, the Idealist without conviC- tions." For Boothby hates dogma To hell with it"), shares the seeptlen!, tolerant humanism of the Just post-war Oxford generation; und

would gladly be an anarchist "if i

thought life would be livable under

conditions of anarchism.”

was Sir Basil Zaharoff who urged Robert Boothby to go into politics. "Begin on the Left." advised the aged armaments king. "and then, if necessary. move gradually over to the Right."

Young Boothby, a middle-of- free and anpiring spirit of man. the-roud Liberal, was shocked, And after 23 years in Parlin-

Out if there are no certainties, there is room for faith-faith in the

Warning

ment he remains **21 Liberal FOR Boothby the enemy

In the who happens to have joined political theorist with a text- the Conservatives," Tory book conception of man.

And he progressive often in trouble warns the Tories against the with the party Whips,

blandishments of doctrine, tells them

to make ex- pediency their watchword. imprejudiced opportunism their method.

"In his autobio- graphy, "I FIGHT TO LIVE" (Gollancz, 218.). published today. he hangs the chronicle and discussion of great events upon the thread of personal experience. At Oxford he found himself with Beverley Nichols, Lord David Cecil, Anthong. Eden, Robert Graves, and an earnest high Troy named John Strachey. His political mentors were Birkenhead, Lloyd George,

Churchill,

BOOTHBY

-23 years

Is long-term objective? No blueprint Utopia, ob- vlously, but "a property- owning democracy, found- ed on social justice

and

about

(2) H. E. Bates -model for a No. 1. author

by JOHN PUDNEY

SERVED with II. E. Bates in

the R.A.F. I have watched his spectacular recent output of fiction, most of it concerned with flying men,

Sluce the war he has wen stuðing ไป house with chandeliers. Klass paper-weights, good ple- tures and the magnificent fuchsins which he grows in a small greenhouse at the back.

Sering kim the other day in his country home near Ashford, Kent, I was struck by his tranquillity of mind, an assurance most rare in a man today.

People often ask whe- ther such successful writers are born or Just

The Purple Plain," published to- day, is the current Book Society choice. On publication in America It has already earned £37,500. Its initial printing here is 600,000 copies. I only hope that soma quick- witted British ofeint doen not take it into his head to direct Bates, who is 42 years old and extremely idle- looking, into some Essential Work. He works on a book from nine till

GND.

Inspiration

H" spends the afternoon shini or gardening (he has inherited hla grandfather's green fingers, with powerful results). Ile is even so

strict

with

days and to take Satur-i

off. This, I think, 1s where we encounter Inspiration- that old-fashioned word which the clever men

bave

been laughing away for years.

"A book, you see, begins to pursue . you,"

complains Bates, who is one of those stimulating miserables al- ways at their best when they least look like it. "t won't leave you alone; the damned thing naga you. So in the end turn to it and say: I'm going to write you."

This story about Burma pursued

DUMB-RELLS

FREGISTERED US.

PATENT OFFICE

WHY

I AM ASHAMED. OF MY FAILURE TO || HUBERT KEEP ABREAST OF) ITS MODERN SCIENCE SIMPLE TAKE THE ELECTRIC YOU LIGHT FOR EXAMPLE) JUST

I HAVENT THE PRESS LEAST IDEA OF A HOW IT WORKS!/ SWITCH

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MCKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

Bates for two years. When he was Sound Reasoning Leads

Burma during the way a pudre suggested he might like to go over

To Big Slam

from the camp and help some Christ-

The choosing hymns and

ጊ

of

ian Burmese villagers choose their By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

hymns for Easter Sunday.

MEETINGS of the National Laws Commission are always a good brief c-source of bridge hands. This com- a invely Burmese girl started this the workability of the laws of con- mittee meets once a week to discuss idea.

DATES

-30 books

Counter with

The Purple Plain" Is about Burma while

the

Wor was still on. about that Burmese whom he has called Anna.

Understanding

girl

fract

bridge and possible changes

that have been suggested. When

the

on

discussion of inves lags, someone Starts to talk about a bridge hand, up today's hand, and his theory

Lee Hazen of New York brought the bidding fa interesting. He and his partner were using an ace-show- ing response to twa-bide, ro when RATES was in Burma for North responded with two no trump. Donly three months. In all Hazen knew was that he did that short time, however, not have the ace of clubs.

much in. his Hazen now could have bid three

made. Short answer is that they he carried away so are first born: the rest is just hard eye that the very burning heat of hearts or even three diamonds. But

Wo

his

new room Bates has built for it all strikes you as you read these he said that If he bid three hearts

Early start

was

he felt that his partner's response

organic unity of the State, of private enter

wn brand of hard work is a pages. prise.

of managers, teeb tasteful and elegant as a boudoir. nicians.

When Bates, as "Flying Officer X," manual Difficult to imagine a book ilke workers in the productive "THE PURPLE PLAIN (Michel wrete "How Sleep the Brave," he

Responsibility. process."

Joseph, 10. G.) being written there forced on us the agony of men east not privilege.

in two months. in 21 armchair adrift in an R.A.F. rubber dinghy, Boothby has a hobl

of being (After writing some 30 books, Bates its "Voyage He was right right.

the has given up using a desk.)

of the Breadwinner" cast en adrift again. "Fair Stood American Loan and the "Gradgrind mercantillam" which

goes along with

the Wind for France" (500,000 copies ("What this Loan Agreement

in Fryland and the U.S.A.) told the does, an Lord Beaverbrook has 5 this the story of someone borr Beyond the '‘ïsms' forcibly pointed out, is to break for the jobs, or is it hard work? * of an air crew painfully saving

up, and prise apen

the markets It looks to the like the proper themselves from occupied France. HE always timed his travels well, of the British Empire, for the bene- balance between the two.

After its opening love story this Capri In the

Bate's grundfather twenties meant 1 of American industrialists.")

farm

new book trans fle was right about the

three Norman Douglas, D. fl. Lawrence,

Nazi labourer. His father was an exeru→

men, one badly our statesmen' were tive in a leather factory in the Midl- Moscow menace when

burned, in and Compton Mackenzie.

the Burmese in the thirties brought fantastic. still talking about, further disarma- lands. At the age of 19. Eates res wilderness. It is not by ca Blous interviews with Karl Radek on the ment, right in his determination to solved to write books.

Knock-'em and shock-em writing eve of the purge.

He made his early reputation, and that Bates urges his characters to the The list grows to seek co-operation with Russh. include Hitler, Benes,

he right when he advocates a Litvinov,

began bringing up faintly of four, Stalin.

Western Federal Union as the best by writing about the country which limit of human endurance, Rather way of averting a third world war? was in his blond. His children went he emphasises the enduring human Winston Churchill thinks so. if to the village school this two sons spirit uncl ກາ its accompanying Boothby errs here, it is in good com- are still there). He became chair- weaknesses. pary.

man of the parish council.

He did not frequent literary

For all its lavish colour and at cliques of the cities, but he was no mosphere, for all its tenderness and bid. recluse. When his reputation spread understanding. It is a terrible and to America between the wars he tragic document. went there to meet publishers and editors. He went on writing about The eritles who say "Burns England and the English villages and small provincial towns, picking out all that is finished" the small people in vivid memorable Here is an inspired story of language.

thurance, love, character.

A life of rich experience. What does Boothby (Tory. Aberdeen E. 1945, Maj.: 2372)-malte of it all?

FROM HERE AND THERE:

DIVINER AT DEVENTER

Amsterdam.After the excitement in Holland over the telepathic stunts at Sche veningden some weeks ago, the Dutch are now admiring William Iulsegge of Brussels who, with a divining rod, discovered a 2,000-lb unexplored bomb near the railway line at Deventer, in East Holland. The_bomb_full_in_1944, and THE WHALE SURFACED the technicians could not And

Dear

the

were

Cape Town. The crew of it. The whole neighbourhood Mossel Bay trawler Rochen, Ashing went in continual fear of an

Goritz river mouth, explosion, and the railway com- horrified to feel the bont's bows rise sadelendy. It was a whale surfrcing for reasons of safety, under the ship. pany,

The Hochen rochei laid a special track to avoid the but no damage was done. dangerous spot.

SPOOKS

were

Finally the management yielded Adelaide. Sun-bathers In the pressure to try out the divite startled to are a waterspout burst the Ing rod and contacted Hulsegge, calm surfice of Spencer's Gulf and who immediately indicated the spot lift a 10 fl. one-ton motor-launch where the bomb was hidden. The

The from its mourings 15 feet into the dinners became sceptical

when air and deposit it 50 feet away on nothing was found at 22 fret depth, the beach. The cabin of the latch but Hutseme urged them to go on, was smashed, but no one was aboard. saying that the bomb was lying at a maximum of 45 feet. The bomb- was inally laenter at just over 37 fet. 1 has now been rendere! harmless.

*RAFT-MEN MEET TRUMAN

Washington. —President Truman was one of the first to congratulate the live Norwegians and one Swede who last summer spent 101 days on 21. raft from

to Polynesia. Peru Valuable setentille osservations were made. Thor Heyerdahl, leader of the expedition, is starting a lecture tour In the United States. He will also prepare for publication a treatise he wrote before the war on Polynesia, the now- upplementing it with ledge gained by the recent expert- tion, the principal purpose of which to prove that Polynesia Was

wite from America antel not populated from Asia.

HUNTING SEASON Toronto.-The Arst results of the opening of the duck-shooting sel- Son in British Columbiu were ve

shot and

Mark Twain, whose real name 1. was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, hunters killed-there in frame ac Mark Lemon; one of the founders cidents, one accidentally of Punch. 2. Vikings,

Berserks onc drowned.. were warriors renowned for their fury in battle. 3. Iraq, minimum. charge 75s. 4. A. walnut; B. NANCY flbert; C, groundnut; D. almond. st Cheap musie ball, 6. The Princess, Announcing preliminary plans in a Medley, by Tennyson, 7. Multiply. the Commons, Mr Herbert Morrison, New Testament has 27 books. 8. Lord President of the Council, sald Tenth month, in the Roman calendar. two main series of statle exhibitions. Writers. 10. Sultana. would sel uji-one on the Unes of "Britain Cap Make It,” and dealing with industrial design, the second showing the part played by Britain in the development of selence industry,

In

At the same time the Arts Council would organise an Arts Festival of music, dramn, opera and ballet, with exhibitions of painting, sculpture and photography,

Town planning, architecture, books and films will also be on show.

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Solution of yesterday's puzzle. Across: 1, Melodramu; 0, Axis; 10, Onth; 11, Kotow; 13, Fern tree; 14, Fret-saw; 17, Adupt; 19, Lure; 20, Retention; 21, Retort,

Down: 1, Mako merry; 2. Ex-. officer; 3, Literal; 4, Down; 5, Rants: | 6, Ate; 7, Argentine; D, Sore; 12, New

plot; 15, Tarn; 10, Suet; 18, Omit.

AUNT FRITZ!-- I CUT MY FINGER

Gauze and Effect

GET THE ROLL

OF GAUZE AND

BANDAGE IT UP

CHESS PROBLEM

By P. J. D. GETHING Black, 5 pleccs.

White, 7 pieces. White to play and mate in tenu

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, Q-KKI, 1 K-KIS; 2,

·Q-Q3: 1... K-KI4; 2, Q- QB3,

AUNT FRITZI --- HAVE YOU GOT THE SCISSORS?!

are

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-1

"You look worried, Rupert," says Mr. Beat one morning. "What's the matter?" Rupert sighs. "I'm writing to Santa Claus to ask for my Christmas present and I don't know what I want," he says, "You mus be in a very happy state," laughs His father,

"I wish I was like that

No, I don't really mean that," says the little bear hurriedly, "I mean I don't know what I wan: most. I think I'll go for a walk and sta if I can make up my mind."

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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20. Clamo played is a sombrero I 31. Used to get her inalife to be

Antreal

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27. This is utterly Killag

CLUES DOWN

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would be four clubs in that ense lazen could have bid four diamonds of one of the three suits South had and North woukl then take a choice.

However, if North by any chance. could bid hearts or diamonds freely, and gamble for seven. That was his ren- lazen thought he had a pretty good damneri. son

Son for bidding three spades, and en-pald big dividends when his partner

responded with four hearts. know that he had five hearts, and the bid of

of seven hearts was automatic. Sonic

of those at the

Hitzen

meeting did not agree at first with Hazen's bid

of three spades, though they were inclined to do to when he ex- plained his reasoning. However, Waldemar von

Zedtwitz

pointed out that North might have had four

small

spades

and the queen of hearis or queen of diamonds. With such a

holding,

a sure small slam would be in the making, yet it might have been difficult to bid.

It is nice to pick up big cards, but na P. Il Sims once remarked, don't lot them wreck you, make them work for you. Don't start to bid a

hand blindly. Have a

sound line of reasoning such as Lee Hazen explained on this hanci

bly

Crossword

6. How to get a 40 per cent.

result (thred worday,

7. The would-be member is car- tainly frank to start with,

A. A matter of deduction, maybe.

but not subtraction.

10. No coaren play la the remedy 12. Fashionable in a foreign sort

of way (three words). 14. Multiple-headed sh

35. A mistake hero is quite in

order.

22. Plodding.students

Bad- be made to Da Con Blways 23. some suition will give you

this cast.

74. Lamb without mint sauce!

By Ernie Bushmiller

I HAD TO USE

THE WHOLE ROLL

IN th crossword the black

squares and clue numbers, as well as the words, are left for the solver to fill in. Four black squares and four clue numbers have been inserted to give you a start.

The pattern formed by the black squintes in arminetrical; the ing half of this pattern matelies the boitom half and the two sides correspond. So you can fit in 19 more black metares at once to cur respand with those given,

Since there is no No. 1. Down the second winre from the left in. Ine 2 and the three corresponding 0x28 can be died in. The down efue corresponding to No. 14 1 No. 10, therefore i ured 11 Across EUR 1n the same line and be of equal length,

No words of two letters are used except muses.

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