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"Reckon you'd botter do somethin' about thom clothes of yours, kid."

By Peter Lovegrove

THE

Who Will Save The Liberals?

By 'CROSS-BENCHER"

TH

THE Liberals are in an unhappy state. Some

thing must be done to save them from themselves.

Most people agree they must be kept alive, but none can prevent them from spasmodle attempts at suicide.

It to

To avoid annihilation an alliance must be made. Is

be with the Tories or with the Socialista? Here comes the problem. They are

a line running from ithe Sover to the ovided across

Why? Because those Liberals

south of the line need Sociails! ald to oust the Tory: and those to the north want Tory help to defeat the Sociallat.

Chairman of the party is Mr Philip Fothergill. Ho contests West Middlesbrough, which is north.

It is said that he does not believe it would be Im-i possible to make, accommodation with the Tories.

This might be done with a pact on an agreed short-

term policy including electoral reform.

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In the south there is Mr Frank Byers, M.P. for North Dorset and Liberal Chief Whip.

He is in risic of defeat there by the Tories. Tho bazards would be diminished if he had Socialist support. Mr Byers is a fiery moderate. He would probably not object to a Socialist split.

That would result in the type of left centre party with whom Mr Byers could do a deal,

`EASY WINNER

TF It came to a tussle between Byers and Folher- gill, Fothergill would be an easy winnend For L

43-year-old cheruble-faced, ginger-moustached bachelor is probably the most popular man in the Liberal Party, And the most powerful

THE MODERN ROOKIE'S

LIFE

IS

This RE tatillon

SO

receives two

intakes a month, a proportion being men enlisted in Regular Army en- gagements, and is responsible for training some 700 men at one time.

young man entering the British Army today experiences ao me thing very different from that which awaited the recruit not so very long ago; and those who join

Other ABTU's in the District are the Colours after the end of this two Infantry training battalions year will find a

rookie's life (Light Infantry, run by the 2nd Bn. prepared for them which bears the 1st Bn. KRRC), RASC, RAMC, Somerset L.I., and Greenjacket, by no likeness at all to that which R.A. Dental Corps, the RMP and the was considered good enough for Army Catering Corps. our former "Regular_Army,”

As I watched the arrival at Alder-

All labour under certain dis- abilities at

present. One is the much-publicised problem of the low standard of maintenance in many of the barracks.

DIFFERENT!

ensure this, the Territorial

Army

will not succeed, and our conception of a National Army fails."

Parliament's decision to reduce the colour service of National Service- men from 10 to 12 months-which comes into effect at the end of the year has led to a radical reorgani training of the Army's temporary sation and speeding up of the Initial guests.

Q

His strength lies in that his popu larity extends to Scotland, where ho spent most of the war as Assistant Transport Commissioner.

Measure of his popularity was shown last week when ho topped the poll in the elections to the Scottish Liboral Party Exécutiveram + Sas- An unprecedented feat for scanch.

Fothergill gets his money from textiles. Ho. is. governing dircefor of the textile frm of Fothergill At the Labour Exchange is Military Personnel Officer who tries C. P. Fothergill and Co, Ltd., wool- (Edinburgh), Ltd., and founder of to ensure not only that cach con-len merchants, of Dewsbury, script serves according to his wishes

He neither smokes nor drinks. Tomato juice is his favourite tipple.

He likes good food, but he does not like wartime food chief Lord Woolton.

He thinks Woolton's contemptuous references to the Liberal Party have done more to prevent a Tory-Liberal understanding than any other single

or aptitude, but also according to the Politics are his only hobby-and nearest to his home town. This, to

of Territorial unit located in or the Liberal Party his only vice. HTENST ton to guarantee the possible

Icast

disloca- to his perce does his T.A.

when he

another job. he will not have to be re-trained for and also that Though this is not always feasible in the case of men from smaller towns and country dis- Previously, the youngster who was tricks, the great majority are able to called up automatically went into fit into this general pattern.

the General Service Corps and at- tended a Primary Training Centre LINK WITH FUTURE factor. for six weeks, and then spends some len weeks or more at a Corps Train- THIS link with future Territorial | CHURCHILL IDEA ing Centre for his particular arm of service is one of the great im- TN General Baillon, told me: "Army the service. Only then did he join provements of the new scheme, as it the meantime Mr Churchill accommodation, far from being bet- an active unit. Before World War should enable a man's army interests

has his own Ideas of political "The new system is working well ter, in, in fact, very often d Food II, a Regular recruit would spend to be developed into his normal life. amalgamations

worse than it was before the some aix months at the Depot before The National Serviceman

political amalgamations. and gives these lads a really good deal start in Army life. I think you will war, owing to wartime dilapidation, being posted to a valt,

spends ten to twelve weeks at his nis be struck by the kcenness and We are not yet catching up on it,

ABTU, though in some specialist energy of the recruits. To see them though we are doing our best to get.

corps it may be somewhat his first fourteen days, apart from

longer. alves one renewed faith in

with, the on

the job of painting

receiving his first introduction into Eritain of the future. There is little ourselves, Spare me however, a

Eoldiering, he is put through a series of few and far between, and the alloca

of wrong with the young men Britain today. If they are given the ton of paint, timber and glass in the

Army is far too small,”

shot station the other day of some of the 1,300 youngsters who formed part of the Army's seventh intake under the existing New Deal, Major- General J. A. Ballion, CBE, MC, the Aldershot District GOC, remarked:

right kind of leadership."

I saw the lads-detained mostly for the RAOC and the Sappers- through those first strange and awkward moments of transition from civilian to Army conditions, as well carller intakes going through various stages of their basic train-

ing.

TAKES TIME

staffs are cut manpower situation,

по

ho

The GSC and the PTC's were done away with last Spring. Under the new system, the National Service man goes straight from civil life to

now

He wants a Government of all tho talents and bars no man from the great new coalition, no matter what his party label.

all good men to come to the aid of

He feels that now is the time for

a Basic Training Unit of the arm physical to decide which particular

tests-medical, mental and their country.

in which he is going to serve,

activity of his Corps he is most Atted This both cuts down the overheads for. Volunteers for the Regular in manpower and also makes one Army now follow exactly the same less upheaval for the recruit,

procedure.

It is true that he belloves most good men are Conservatives, but ha opens the gates for those, who havaTM seen the light.

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

THI

THE General also emphasised the the present

staffing question. "Inevitably, in

to the bone and allowance is made for spares." remarked. Moreover, every.

time. They were cheerful, if a lo

new training org

organisation is set up, tremulous at the thought of what there is a break-up and re-allocation lay before them. They found the of staff. It takes me for the new

New York. IN NEW YORK anyone who gives "responsible for

T

the successful reception arrangements căicient- staff

to be sorted out, to settle down, HERE are signs that the and

two and work as a friendly. In less than

money away is fit only for the campaign of the Haganah,” team--Indeed, mony

British hours,

Government is lunatic asylum. For that is where the entire party had been of them have to be taught their work documented, medically examined,

ined, and some have to be weeded out working up to ask America for Miss Jacqueline Duchaine, a pretty, WASHINGTON'S Board of Trade

28-year-old French-Canadian,

today estimated that since tho squadded,,

kitfed, fixed up with bar altogether. The future efficiency of more. rack accommodation, and were

today. And all she did was to hand New Look arrived potticoat sales these Training ait-

Units depends on It seems that the series of crisis out £5. cotes to passers-by.

have gone up 1,000 per cent. ting down to their

Service Eetting really good team of Regular stories which appeared in the U.S. Arst midday meal. There had been

She told the police quite rational- no soldiers who will settle down to the Press were preparing the ground.ly that she had recently inherited H. On the market is a switch

HOME: bellowing or pushing around, prac- work for sme time on end."

which turns off the radio as tically no queueing, and every stage

A friend of Britain, Washington what she wanted to do with it, New Jorge sums of money and that was was conducted in such a manner as

from London columnist Stewart Alsep, reports York headline: "Who's barmy, the lifted, and turns it on again, as soon soon as the telephone receiver `is to make the youngaters feel that they-

what these were still individuals, and not mera-, ariving and shall go on striving for stories have been leading up to.

crlets girl or her captors?"

as the receiver is replaced He says the Socialists are claim-

ly cogs in a wheel.

SQUARE-BASHING

1

ourselves the highest target. We are And he concluded: "We have set

the very best. We want to cut the -second-rate right out. There is

tremendous outlet for the Regular soldier today, and rapid promotion for those who are good. We do hope that more men of the right type will come forward to help us."

this

hit America's POSTBAG: A reader writes to the

New York Post saying that Americans should elect Britain's Parliament. Reason: "Since . WD Empire, wo should have a voice a pay taxes to support the British the British Government."

OCAL NEW: In New York all flags will be flown at half-mast for a month in memory of

David Marcus, the New Yorke came supreme commo

who be der of Israel's In Birmingliom, „oded night-riders aro tivo white Girl Guiden training troop of

that even the Marshall plan INFLATION has

first and best-known give-away will not be enough,

radio programme. Once famous They must have more Marshall because it gave listeners £12 103 RDNANCE recruits wero sent to

aid, he reports, or another loon, for answering a series of easy ques- No. 1 Training Battalion (Selec-

and unless America comes through tions. tion) RAOC, where they will spend

Britain may caslly go bust,

programme is losing a fortnight, and then pass on lo onio

The Government's fundamental sterling area will go bust, and day's wages for a plumber and his the popularity now £12 10s. Is only one of two other RAOC Battalions in the re-design for Britain's postwar that there will be world political mate. It is being Aldershot District for their specialist Army, in which Regulars, National and economic chaos,

reorganised fo training. Intakes number approxi- Servicemen and Territorials will be

Rive

away something substantial On this side of the Atlantic there like a house or a flye-year job. mately 400 a fortnight.

so closely interwoven. was outlined

are reports recently by Field-Marstal Viscount already received informal inquiries ONGRESS, about to pass a Bill armed forces...

that, Washington has There are also three Sapper Montgomery, the CIGS when he ABTU's in Aldershot, and I saw said: "The bud from which every dollars for Britain, or at least the parcels sent by individual Americans terrorisin

as to the possibility getting more cutting postage rates on food Alabaina, he various intakes of No. 4 Training thing stems is the training of Regiment, which trains all Sapper National Army." He stressed par-stering area, and that the request to Britain Bad elsewhere, has who M.T. drivers up to a standard at ticularly the problem of training the has been shelved. which they can qualify for a driving Natichal Serviceman, adding that

decided to hold up the Bill. It is. N In diplomatic language ! "IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN" vehicle.

licence and maintain a service he

This Is suddenly getting pressure from.. doubted

very muel K the not an appropriate time for such food parcel firms which have mad, PROADWAY: Bing Crosby, already majority of senior Regular offers talk, with the Zionists calling for millions out understood it.

of Antericans gen- a baseball-club owner, is now Lads who had been there only a

a stop to Marshall aid for Britain erosity, and which, it is fortnight were listening to an educa-

Proposed, buying a golf course. "It is essential." he pointed out, because of her Palestine policy and shall sill pay the full

book business, AT 2.30, 5.20, tion lecture; the "one-month-olda" "that we should take great care lest with an election campaign starting. Their complaint Postal rates.: business,

were finishing their 'square-bashing we teach him too little

In ordinary language--A begging our business,"

la will ruin magazine sales are slumping were about too. and elementary

Slapsie Rosenbloom is to play in the weapon training; much during his colour service. We had from Britain at this moment

Ex-prizefighter those with six and eight weeks bo- should aim to hind them were out on the recrea rather than follow slavishly a regu

retain his interest would be bitten off,

IN ALMOST adjacent columns in London music halls next autumn.

a recept Copy tion ground training hard for regi- lar syllabus of training which

Marshall Plan Zionist Now York Post are a "boy Greta Garbo

the Bercely Hollywood 23 trying to persunde mental sports; and the 10-week often dull.

situation as summed up by the cott Britain" appeal because British making fun of her own careek..

to appear in Alm "Veterans were proudly driving

Denver Post: "Wo pledged an open officers served their lorries out of a car park-under-

"He must be returned to civil life hond, but now we have got a light and a stalement that Colonel David rye is taking the place of Scotch in with Arab armies, Anti-Britlah boycotters are claiming the watchful eye of instructors. keen on soldiering. Unless We flat."

Marcus, killed in Palestine, was New York bars.

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