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(TA 15FAmerican Magatina by Zeven "There's just one little buttonhole left over-okay?"

C. V. R. Thompson The dole chief tries it

on his family

TEW YORK.—The most unpopular man in New

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1950.

TWO POLITICAL WRITERS (A TORY AND A SOCIALIST) REVIEW EACH OTHER'S BOOKS

The best job, poor

IR BOYD-CARPENTER'S

Malin little, book acts

out to do three things. In the first place it puts up n number of the author's pri- vate little Aunt Sallies in order that he can get some schoolboy fun out of knock- ing them down.

Secondly, it tries manfully, but not very successfully to re- concile nome of the inherent self-contradiclions of Conserva- fism. And thirdly it tries to ex- plati away the fact that a Con- servative Parly hasn't got, and can never have, a policy,

Aunt Sallies

ET'S take the Aunt Sallics L

first. One of Mr Boyd Carpenter's many fairy-tales is that the Labour Party rests on doctrines" as though "foreign

and Winstanley

Rainborough

NYork these days ta Raymond Hillard. He is Wel-and- Robert Owen weren't Bri-

fare Commissioner and is under constant attack because he recently cut by five percent the dole that is handed to those who cannot earn their own living.

tons or never existed,

In his attempts to reconcile the internal contradictions of“

To meet the criticism, Com- time it rains. Warnings have Conservative Policy, Mr Boyd- out that the crisis Is Carpenter sounds very 'uncorn-

acute every day.fortable indeed.

missioner

Hard, who earns Cote

£5,000 a year and lives in a getting more

ax-rom, three-bath

his family

for a month.

on

Ant, put relief budget

UNEMPLOYMENT has taken

sadden jump. January

He argues that Conservatives abu to benefit all sections of!

For four weeks his family of figures showed that 4,400,000 the community-but wisely for- slx lived as for as food was ure without jobs. That is the gets to mention what they did

on the £42 they highest-anumber since the war. concerned would have received cole.

do,

to

According Mrs Hilliard, "We ate as well as we usually "The main difference was that Mr Hard took randwiches to the office for lunch and they had

steaks, no

expensive cheeses, und sweets,

that

to those sections

of the com- munity who lived in the De- TAVERYTHING

makes pressed Areas. He quotes Italy example of a country. shopping tiresome has been as an removed in "the perfect store" ridden by the Black Market, which opened recently in Evan-but doesn't remind his readers slon, Illinois.

that the Italian Government is The customer who cannot run by Conservatives. fletel the department which

7 tries in the same breath to folls, shail we say, buth annis, sald, he

"we

and an condemn the nationalisation of picks up a teteplione, dib. nt

railways, and to managed to buy

her directions, coal at the operator gives

Conservative ment, flat, and poultry, We There is no more waiting for

why explain had as much fruit, vegetables, parcels to be wrapped. Chutes Government would keep them milk, and eggs as usual. And y

from counter to under publle ownership. none of us lust weight."

and kinder-

"But,"

carry

them

wrapping

room, conveyors

take the not regain his lost popularity Wrapped parcel to a supervisor by these sacrifices. That was stationed in the parking space, because he announced the re- cult at a party.

Commissioner Hillard dld #round

The party menu-two large the

dishes of tongue, publiena.. turkeys, two three different kinds of bread, wing pounds of cheese, by the gallon.

Tries to woo

TIE tries pathetically to woo Hthe rates

unions but of IBERTY versus Socialism is course doesn't quote his party's to introduce anil- ery which Re intention war

union Night-trades

legislation. Ho America's party, have adopted for condemns the pre-war neglect and Scotch this year's

countryside, general, but not of our cities and Presidential, election. The is without mentioning that it was sue, said the Republicans, is his party which were respon- HE SAVE WATER campaign "whether we shall control our sible for that neglect.

New York is flopping Government.

whether we That is because the shall delegate to it the right to badly. people turn on the taps every direct the lives of our citizens."

Tuk

OF

And he because

waxes

indignant academic

THE CONSERVATIVE CASE by Joba Boyd-Carpenter

Reviewed by

lan Mikardo

Sciati wka Mamber of Parlia

Reading for ment

our

croakers hove foreseen

ntional bank- ruptey from the Black Death to the summer

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chap Politics of the gutter

shreds and

aro

two Mr

threw the TERE Anta plecen into the faces of the Mikardos, if that is the delegates.

correct plural for a very Doyd-Carpenter singular personality.

What Mr suffers from Is that neither ho nor Mr Churchill can decide Conservativo polley and that he daro not mention, Woolton's million and the polley-forming activities of the strictly anony- mous Gentry and who subscribed to it,

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its

There is Mr Mikardo, the industrial consultant, with knowledge of and serious interest in the problema of

companies modern Industry,

But the most surprising thing about. The Conservative Case is nol lis contents, but Re length or rather its lack of length

It is almost exactly half the length that the publishers specified, and

31 pages make

eighteen-pen- 1940, but he

Door doesn't go on to say that Con- n'orth. But

that servative croakers have gone supporę

long- on crying stinking fish about the their own nation right up to the suffering au- thor who is present day.

a lawyer dis- covered there art limits to the amount am

can'

But where pour Mr. Boyd- Carpenter has the most trouble of oil is in trying to explain, in a passage of paintul rationalisa- tions why his party hasn't got and can't have, a polley.

He makes the best job he can, of The Right Road poor chap, for Britain, though at the last Conservative conference Mr Churchill tore that little book

uπ-

THE LABOUR CASE by lan, Mikardo

Reviewed by John Boyd- Carpenter

who was Centerrative Member of Parlia ment for Kingston- on-Thames

KEMPENGUPOKORÁLKODONT

penetrating analysis of ladur- trial problems committed him- celt also to the street-corner claptrap and appeals to ignorant prejudice which appear again and again in the pages before

pago 37, and again in the last eight pages,

Of the madhouse PERHAPS the worst, and most

of other or no politlent views can read with profit; in par

lcular

it ment of polley because he has seems to me, "pay-masters" who will later his comments tell him what to do. on the prob-

Ingenuous, is the allegation that a leader of the Conserva-

tive Parly cannol issue a state-

a proper level

And there is Mr Mikardo, the petulant though able politician who pursues tiringly any opportunity to besmirch the probity of his political opponents.

Both Mr Mikardos appear in this book, the politician up- lem of securing

Investment per most. of

37 From page equipment. to page 50 he If the rest of this little book too for there alone can anyone presents So were on the samo-devel it would seriously visualise Mr Churchill clalist indus- make a serious claim that the obediently awalling the orders trial pro Socialist Party were attempting of some unspecifled "paymaster" posals with to inckle the problems of our before deciding on his policy. clarity And, time. Kranted hla hypotheses,

that

LABOUR

CONSERVATIVE

you write in. defence of criminal whom

you 10 be know guilty.

This la the politics of tho industrial gulier. And of the madhouse,

of Mr

II Mr Mikardo is seriously But the other side good sense, Mikardo's split intellectual per- searching for the relationship of its paymaster, it is sonality vitiates this claim. It a party and there is dificult to believe that the might be as well if he included which people man who wrote the sensible and in his researches the relationship

There much

IN CANADA TODAY

Y

TORONTO. can buy a farm in Canada for £125. Taxes

By JAMES COOPER

are low as £4 a year.

It is estimated that Canada's

of the Labour Party and the TUC, After all, his book is.rup- posed to be about the Labour

case,

No gibes omitted

S

the north of the wheat crop will be 360 million to have seen their footprints naked women to work in the

Indians and white men claim

"sixteen Inches long and seven inches wide."

They are Fald to be enveren for the rest of this part of the book, none of the usual up to nine feet high, with..beck- ling brows and hairy bodies, street-corner gibes is omilied. the growing hiding in the unmapped inter-The appeal to envy (page B), sleighing, he says

Albertn and British the gibe at heredity (page D), season is 170 days and mean land of

the "lop-halted Idlers from the at Ascot" Enclosure Royal That is what members of the summer temperature 64 degrees. Columbia.

Committed of Conservation

(page 10), the sending of "holf Ontario's Parliament report after touring

coal mines" (page 21), the deep affection of the Colonial Em- province.

pire for the Ministry of Food's methods (page 31) (of course, written before Mr Bustamente (blew this argument up), and inevitably the insinuation that a Conservative Government would

In the Cochrane area, they told of one farm in five abandoned; 3,000 tons of hay left to rol.

bushels, on top of a carry-over of nearly 100 million.

This means that, after selling to Britala 145 million bushels

bushels under and 203 million Reason-the settlers moved the International Wheat Agree- cut wisen they found they could ment, she will still have 160 carn more in the pulp and paper million bushels surplus. - industries and mines.

In the Rainy River district, ex- provincial M. P. George Lock-

in

N expedition from hurt wants Parliament to bring University of New Mexico D. Ps. from Europe and is secking traces of early Indian near MacLeod, establish a demonstration faim civilisation

the

to show there are 750,000 acres Alberta. suitable for agriculture.

the It

settle may

con- think Canada troversy are there such people For those who has a traditional nine months as Sasquatches?

and three months'

know

bad

CANADIANS have longer and

narrower feet than English men according to 32-year-old

A. A. Fox, of the British Leather Export Coporation. Hó organised British Leather Weeks ncross Canada.

He says

create unemployment.

They are all there for people who think that sort of thing a helpful method of debating our country's affairs amid the per- plexities of 1950.

Mr

British shoemakers have changed their lasts to fit Cahadian fect, changed wallets In hla introduction, to A Canadian notes which are Herbert Morrison places it on wider than United States dollars, record that he does not neces- and made suitenses ilghtër be- sarlly agree with everything in

the book. cause Canadians fly to much.

-(London Express Service)

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