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THEY CALL MAN

HIM

WITH TWO GLASS EYES?

THE

There are

hundreds on his staff who would not recognise

him. Not that Haley minds

the lack of recognition: tonthes parade and fuss.

world.

POLITICAL NEWSFRONT

Mr. Phillips

scents a bad risk

by W. J. BROWN, MP

Westminster ∙now. there are problems ́enough to corrugate the brows and sober the spirits. of Government supporters. The export trades are run- ning into sharp difficulties. Orders for British ship- building have taken a deep dive. There are the Argen-. tines: and the Irish and though nobody quite knows- what the Russians aro up to most of us feel that it will turn out to be something un- pleasant..

MORGAN PHILLIPS.........

LOJAN

House that the nation.ilsallon of Insurance was at contem- But most politicians con con- pirted. So the agents are not

with front political problems

reassured. comparative calm, if they feel

But if there are 60,000 agents,

are come reasonably sure that they will there

millions 'af of survive the personal crisis polley holders. Mr Morrison the next clection. Assurance has tried to reassure them, too.

notably

tho

this

matter has

for

the

aiminished among the Socinliste will that their policies be even more secure. than in the light of the local election now, since they will be guaran results. Dark looks are being toed by the State and supported

credit of whole cast in the direction of Trans- by the

Mr at port House, and

Mor- State, gan Phillips, the party. secretary Now, as things are, each inw.*; gan

He, poor fellow, having made sured person has a contract himself verbally drunk, before prescribing what he should pay,

on the prospects of and except

the profit election, ho

victory, and dizzy with the ele

element in with-profit policies manipulation of statistics during exactly what benents he is to Haley's leap into broadcasting it-("When is a rural area not get. The terms cannot be alter was as sudden and surprising a rural area?")-is now suffer- ed, save with the consent of as lo rise in the newspaper ing the pangs of the morning both parties. If the company

afler.

a faults, the insured person can Nor, when he recovers, will have the law on li Early in the war he made he be much happier. For the Would the policy-holder be broadcast on the importance of

General Election must cuno better off under nationalisation? objective reporting and truth in within a year, and Mr Phillips Well Governments Tu-Wa. His voice, like his man must be afraid

that then his notoriously bad at keeping their a But he had no eve for, a TUST now the BBC is acquaintance with radio as

completo the promises. outstanding. busy on its homework. letrarhist. Then he read Sir golf ball he had an eve for his matter way use but his colleagues will

ruin of his electioneering ro- The cold ginre could Philip Gibba's "Street of Ad- sta Staff are working up venture" and decided that terrify luniors and make his reports for the Government journalism was the carcer for equa's feel uncomfortable. committee set up "to inquire him. into the constitution and

straight to control" of broadcasting. Times and asked for a job.

Busiest man of all sits in his They gave him one, taking two r'ass eyes." office on the third floor of copy over the telephone Broadcasting House from 9am. their Brussels ofce.

BY ERIC BENNETT

to 7 most days of the week.

He went

The

ni

Years later, when he reached the BBC, a famous playwright remarked of Haley, "He is the only man I have aver met with'

A high BBC official heard it, putation. nd asked: "Can this chap write?" Haler tells the story against himself.

are the

Thus, lo, make us more will ing to pay high taxes for the

"The

Sir Hartley Shawcross started war the Government gave us it, with his proclamation: "We post-war credits, which it under.

masters now!" That took to repay after the war.

It is true that

Govern sharply limited the possibility ment did not specify which of avading responsibility if any-

war. But most of us assumed SOON HE

thing went wrong.

It wa that war. But at the WAS CHIEF

Present rate of progress it will The tinker's cuss Those oracue eyes are not

take about 35 years to complete 'onlicely a sign of ruthlesmest

His work

a director

repayment. ព from stomach

Mr Shinwell 'continued tho Some of the copy he look Taley suffers

impressed Brendan

Now, I

I do not suggest doesn moment, that a Government was from a local correspondent, trouble he has lost more than Reuters

in the past ten Bracken. Arthur Mann, former process by announcing that he Miss Edith Gibbons. Today she stone

Tere-and semetimes his eyes of the Yorkshire Post and did not care a tinker's cuss for would default on policies as it but the organised, has deferred on promises. But n BBC governor, also

knew anybody ls Lady Haley.

are clouded with pain.

Incy's capability. In 1043 he workers. Thin, in one compre suppose that the finances of was appointed "Editor-in-Chiefensive sweep, disposed of 12 nationalised Insurance scheme.

difficulties. From Brussels, he showered

of the BBC under Director- of the 20 million wage-earnera get into

in Britain, and the whole of the newspaper articles on Enclich

Government could". General Robert Foot,

What the editors. At last the Manchester.

midde-classes. Mr Bevan do then-what they have in Evening News "nocepted one.

In less then nine months Foot classified those who differed fact done, on occasion, with un- He is the bogs: Sir William, The editor sent for him, offered·

him as "lower than ver- employment and health in- Haley, Director-General' of the him a job as junior reporter.

He would pass his staff in the went out and Haley complete or meet them in the the boss..

min"--which is the sort of un-surance schemes.. isto alter BBC, whose power over .his

kind remark which is temem the contributions and benets, 11,000-odd employees is

1. without recognition.

The Can he was too preoccupied to be no nonsense. Haley, gotten.

BBC found that there bered when kind deeds are for- not only for now entrants lute.

the rcheme, but for..

those to notice them.

He is a grey man. Grey suited, paie faced, with fleeks of grey in his bushy head of hair. He has blank, cold eyes, deli- catɔands with a soft grasp, and a swift brain with a hard Grasp of essentials.

BALANCES

HIS BUDGET

Eight years abso-

Jater he was managing editor and a director of the company.

The last time there was an in- -quiry --- Into the BBC, Lord Reith, who was the BBC at, that committed time, bulldozed the

And he wrote. His w#-} book artic'e under the name of Joseph Sell was brilliant.

A GAME OF TABLE TENNIS

by the force of his personality.

In those days The played Haley has not got that kind

His relaxation is he his games, of personality, He will do

games and office was to go to the with bulldozing

facta figures. His diamond-hard mind room and take on all comers will present a good case for his at table tennis. Corporation.

. Haley keeps broadcasting on an even keel. He balances'. his budget.

Never, under his leadership,

board of management,

to

One day he walked in and found ony the office boy in the

room.

T

"Would you like to give meja amo?" asked Haley.

"Yes, sir."

"Never mind the 'dir here," sald Haley bonevolently.

They played.

shortly:

..

SHOOK HANDS, TURNED AWAY.

Hi syness often onnears to he rudeness. At one party held at Brandarting House hundreds of eclebrillen came specially to the meet him. He extended srift band aid, "How do you

17 and turned away,

After three-quarters of hour. he had vanished.

an

became

Have orders and was astonished argued when his subordinates

He repeated the shout them. orders and they were obeyed.

CHESS, IN PLAY A-N-D--W-O-R-K-

Haley's favourite game chess. He treats his. staff chessmen.

",*

to

And now, here is the Socialist niready insured. Private.com- to panies, cannot do that Par- Executivo proposing Party

And there include, in

could. the next elcellon Hament programme, the nationalisation would be no appeal to the law. of insurance.

For what Parliament deciden is of the Law.

Mr. Phillips think's first the Insurance agents. There are 80,000 of them. Between them, they go Into a high pro- 1 portion of the homes of Britain...

They are not only insurance agents. They are the guides, philosophers and friends For him the corporation is all millions of poor folk on all sof.

ng Just talk. One journalism it was the paper that of matters, especially in He has no sma'l

meaning of Important American after, an

MAN WITHOUT SMALL TALK

that matters,

mattered.

In

tion talked of his great So he has no regard for the admiration for the British feelings of those who work for lewhlis Haley just stared him. He promotes slowly, after After the American had finished periods probation, sacks his monologue. he suid:

"Wel, I suppose I had better

£0"

Haley spoke at last. He said "Yes."

But if his visitors have

swiftly.

WHEN HE COES ON HOLIDAY

of

He suffers

Again, in the case of with profit policies, the profit benefit which the Insured person gets depends on what proffs the in- immediately raises the point surance company makes. This that the insurance companies. are a vast investing agency. If they Invest well, the policy. the classic cases for holder benefits. If body, he nationalisation as applied to In- suffers.. aurance, stresses the saving:

tho

nt forms,

Worked off'

ex

as

ban

that could be made II. Invend Under nationalisation, the of half a dozen different agents Slate would take the place of T will the accountants have

foifferent. companies calling the companies as the investinga When he is not working he isech at a few houses in a street, agency. Would it invent spend long weeks trying to find an odd £1,250,000 which some

at his home. a Inege house at

nationalised agent covered, well, helter, or worse? Hampton near the Thames, the lot.

An Independent MP like me. one had not signed for-which.

which every morning a BBC car

is by definition not dogmatic.... happened once, many years ago.

In spite of

So I do not pronounce on this... Haley's skill the office boy gave business proposition Haley wild is sent to bring him to the

but I think it plain that the Sir Willem is a dictator. He him a sound beating. Putting tak, clearly and decisively. And onlce, runs the corporation with a down his racket Haley sald with his own circle of friends, mostly newspaper, mea and acquaintances, ho Minnklo..

On occasions he can be blunt. One man, after a sharp Intor-

He does not cmoke. He will bitterly: him, sald view with "He has no scruples, ne pre- take a drink, but he has been Gencer no mantiers. Yet that seen at parties toying with the same Sir William Holoy held his same drink for the whole even audience spellbound when he ing tectured at Bristol University When he goes on holiday he

burles himself in some middle einss resort like Folkestone goes incommunicado tu a De- vonshire village.

"Lucky" Haley, they used to "Ah, well, you can get here can call him, but it is more than every lunch time. I can only fuck that has brought him at play about once a week.” the age of 47 to his, £7,500 14 400 year.

than

Ho could make more that in journalism,.^-which "che forsook for broadcasting, but Haley prefers power to money.

HE ASKED FOR A JOB.

DOES NOT - LIKE BEING BEATEN

Italey, the MAR who, bas, last year. swept all before him in his career, does not like being

'beaten.

He used toʻplay “i gólt 'ocen- slonally, of moderate standard.j

PASS

WOULD UNRECOGNISED

thing

He has a slight provincial Once he played an executive of It is a curious

AIR-4UNITYHIONI = accent, acquired from years of the newspaper and lost by

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residence in Manchester, but ha> small margin.

"was born a Jerseyman.

no

This howover would make Government's investment policy many agents redundant. Mr could not be wholly divorced.

iis political and, coclai.. Herbert Morrison and his col- frem League Mr James Grinths, have polley. sought to roʻssure, the agents on It might well be led to Invest this point. Surn'us agente: they in nationalised industries which r ave wou'd not be dismissed., needed capital, Those industries- They would be worked off so might indeed make profits. But to sneak, by not replacing man our experience of the retiring at the end of their,mationalised industries so

far, working life.

and the growing syndicalism to But,

as we have reason to which I drew attention recently, know, one Parliament cannot do not give any assurance Find its successor. Mr Morrl that they will. If that happens, son himself fold us so, when the profits element in hundreds this Parliament, contrary to the of thousands of policies would decision of an carlier one, suffer badly,

tellshed university represent?- So Mr. Morricon's, assuraneoc') tion, Indeed, sometimes

He tries to relax completely but if wet weather. keeps him that in, he listens to the radio.

Then streams of notes; welt- en in, his large, hold hand, trickle Into the

BBC.

London Expraks Service)

Haley's lack of presence and negative personality give people the impression that he is a short

average height.

He served at sea in the 1914- He was bad-tempered all the man, although he is well abova 16. war, where - he made way home.

the that the credit of the Slate:1 Government nopear unable to would be behind the polleles bad themselves for more than will alarm as much as it willeet &

chort space of time. For it is renszurojn

(Continued on Fare: 5)

on y a few weeks ago that the Primo Minister was tolling the

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