I
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950.
A Liberal gives this advice to the Liberals
Don't Trust
The Tories
CHARLES. WINTOUR
Moreover, even if this Polio- ment is disolved, there 13 always the possibility that an- other election might produce on
10 the Liberal
So
say
to the level of the equally close result. AM a Liberal. During reduced the election I spoke from Primrose League,
In fact, you would repeat the lenders; never forget the moral benefits and material advantages Liberal platforms and voted experience of the Simonito for the local Liberal can- Liberals. Within 10 or 20 years you could confer on the British didate. That is why I hum- you would be merged into the nation if only you adhere to the
Tory Party, so that you would splend bly venture to address some no longer be distinguishable Liberal creed,
words of advice Liberal leaders.
Everywhere it in being said that the election must come in the autumn, it not before.
principles
of
the
DAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
BARGAR MEH WORKIN
of
You were not born to power. to the from them.
Your only heritage is your be SAME AS BEFORE
Het in freedom, your unquench- AL the dissolution
in 1933 able desire for social justice, there were 30 Libera)- National
your proud thumpionship years later there the under-privileged MP's, Ten
In every were only 26, and, as a result innd, of the 1945 election, their re- presentation was cut down to le 13.
This is bad news for Libernis, They are broke. They are til illusioned, They are somewhat
be given straight fights in a certain number of condituen
cies.
CONTAMINATED
If
You
from
Do not abandon this faith of disheartened, Some of them are
allow Do noi in the latest your fathers, wondering whether they should
The summary
be contaminated not, after all, enter into some Times House of Commons guide yourselves to form of arrangement with The
In fact, enemies, tho Tories. Tories, under which they would rely refers to Conservatives by deals with your traditional
"and Bheir nasprinter."
alepart
your there are now only two National Liberal MPs left. Four "Con- rent objectives for the sake of will personal advantage, you servative and National Liberal" Mi
betray "National have done with Deven
more than Liberal and Conservative" also your party, you will have help
ed to extinguish the flame of survi survive.
commented Liberalism
the throughout National I world,
Keep faith. You may yet and your opportunity of proving the glories of Liberal virtues and rule.
Now there is only one thing to be said to the Liberal leaders in this difficult proBeament: Don't sell outl
NOTHING TO GAIN You have nothing to gain and everything to lose by making an arrangement with the Tories. At the price of your intepen dience your only gain would be to give few Liberal MPs and one of two other Liberal leaders a measure of safety in their coustituiracles,
This would not but a bargain in personalities,
It would be a tent akin to the purchase and sale of depart inental offices For there would certainly be no compromise on principles by the Tory Party. And the Tories cannot compro- mise on policy, for they cannot among themselves what their policy is.
agree
Some was has that
Liberal 1 Liberal to save his noul und Nu- tional to save his seat.
hand.
their
--(busadonE
New
Express Service)
DANGER MEN WORKING LOVERHEAD!]
Book; and p
BUY
writers are still welcome
BOOK All's forgiven-bar
the chilblains
of the MONTH
EMILY HAHN, American best- selling novelist, now married to Briton and living In Eng- land. She WRE in Hongkong when the Japan- eas attacked the Colony, and was repatriated fato 1942.
in
es
ENGLAND TO ME. By Emily Hahn.* Reviewed by-
George Malcolm Thomson
"the Major," in
Such splendid human
"
quall-
n typleat Eng- tien no, shamefully misused.
simon. Sho Such ingenuity spent in mnk- speaks of him ing the English home as hard ns AS if she had pessible to run.
So many nuedless objects to collected n par- clean - and such passion in Ateularly fine cleaning them.
male
specimen of the English curmudgeon.
Army
But it clear that the Major were is typical of nobody. How does
one classify a Regular officer who suddenly becomes
Tartu Camoens Professor of guese at King's College, don?
TT is as if the Diary of a
Provincial Lady written by an American who has married an English man and has taken over large, old-fashioned house
1
Lon-
Of the Major wo get a full-
in Dorset which the mili- length portrait, his hobbies, his tury have occupied during the war, with the usual con-
sequences.
of
Ups And Downs
Then there is the relishness of British husbands, in a land never slop working "I'm a spolled Ameri- enn woman, I Am. andi wouldn't stand for it."
where the women
Servantless
fences..I have the impression that when she wont back to tha as she calls it States, "home," with a touch of deflanen, she wit a litle worried about herself. Her vowels were silli American, but where was her heart?
A least a province of it had been lost to England, as a kind of 49th state handed over to us under Marshall Ald.
Free-spokon
Here is a book which is spirit.. ed, free-spoken, alive with per- sonality.
It puts down Emily's Exasper- ated, admiring affection for the Delish, uning to the limit and nover once abusing the right to plain speech of one who has mar- ried into the family.
England To Me is, zurely, a
But how often she wanted to notable addition to our books in behave like a British husband, Inw. "dropping into the kitchen occa- sionally In a whimsical
as
she said cuttingly to Major?
way"
the
China
THE IMAGE OF A
DRAWN SWORD By Jocelyn Brooke. The Bodley Head, 88, 6d. 183 pages.
"Give me a house in and a lot of servants and a fa- vourable exchange and I can TOCELYN BROOKE'S new no-
existence. hi evolve a pleasant
vel suffers from the serious Give me a house in New York defect that is an allegory, an at- with Willy-there housekeeper for you"
was a good tempi to make a statement about the spiritual life in terms of the But a big old-fashioned house visible world as we know it. It in servantless England! What falls therefore, into the same could a poor American girl do? class as Patrick Bair's Faster, "You can't square off and lick a Faster. house in the pants!"
/ } ESPITE the heavy rise Thomas Lipton, from Glasgowcular resemblance in tem- when self-control is needed, Is after the Boxers decided not to reader's attention and arouse his
by
in production casts, over to millionaire friend
the
now
Alce Waugh.
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were
picture of himself no a "doom- l render," his refusal to mend fuses ("women's work"} hls pregnant Brith silences. A Liberal Party which made
flashes of bad British temper. an arrangement will the Tories
The Major being rude at the That, in the fewest pos- Hunt Ball-and being provoca- would lose its soul for the rake of a seat, and the wages of that
sible words,
conveys the
lively charming when the Boxer evil bargain would be death.
true essence and atmosphere family makes A trip to the Liberals, you should not trust See their broken the Tories.
the lively narrative United States. dishonoured licir be a policy, bargain,
selected the Evening pledges--and remember.
Standard Book of the
If a novel of this kind is to Of cour***
the Tories expect
Month. It is not to say that Life with the Major or, if you
But somehow things worked fucced, it must be interesting you to capitulate. Their attitude
The village and convincing They
if Emily Halin has any parti- like, with Emily Hahn, has its themselves out.
enough in is quite understandable.
tipa and down, its moments gossip died down - especially surface aspects to command the believe that they were bein to power. They did not arrive
perament to E. M. Delafield. explosions. You will probably yieldi to democratie impulse and curiosity. And just in this re- with a silver sporn in
have the Impression that these and to Carola to the local spect The Image of a Drawn Royalty and owner of famous mouths, but the reds of office
Apart from the possession of occasional
Council school, a not cint
threat which Sword falls. were already in their fathers' new talent is still welcomed yacht Shamrock, is subject of
R scandal It tells how a bank clerk American on larger pub book hilling
independent and witty quile so violent as the author war about to cause
the villagers.
named Reynard is taken to a re- WHAT THEY MEANT
lishers. You wild inevitably become
} see 12 "Tiral" headlings-The Lipton Story, by mind; an interest in domestic paints them. Still, at times the among
refusal to becoute air with no doubt electric enough The poor Irish-fife, plus a
And after all Dornet is a very moto camp and recruited Into же They regard ministerial offer novels on Heinemann's 1950 or hoy who left school at 10 absorbed in it; a sensitiveness in Conggar. appendage of the Tory
lovely a tere
county. And very Tory a
What the mysterious army. Party. First, you Would be as their natural inheritance,
more than last and drifted from job to job in to neighbours, inusbands, gossip:
which is
comfort even is somehow
army is going to do, why it is That In the house which given a place of honour in the That is what they mean when list-five
The States, returned to Glasgow a willingness to neknowledgo
when, k
like
the Major, you are traluing so intensely, who it is counsels of the Torien. Soon you they praise 10 part which year.
Enly Hahn managed somehow weaknesses of human
philosophically
Watching
the going to fight all these ques- as anul tradition plays
British in the would be regarded
One, The Slender Thread, by a master of trading stunts. Had the
or other to run with the help Inbelled "For Lipton's nature and a delight in diz- Finally you would be way of life.
Douglas Bader, has rosy ex- pitts
of Mr and Mrs Clifton, Jan the pm of Capitalism--almost as lons remain completely without atice.
weaknesses in The Tories would treat the pectations; option on it has been Sausages driven through the covering similar
Tory as that other county where answer, his Glasgow wife the housemaid, approaching the His motto "There's no one's belf-apart Liberat Jenders like fishworns. bought by American publishers streets.
from such Nelly, and Jenny, the Chinese polling booth, asked to be direc- real the nameless sense of com- You are asked to accept na Only neknow- points of contact, the two They would ure you us bait to without reading it, and oily fun like work,"
And without fed the servants' entrance. pulsion which drives Reynard eatch the big fish in the form wood film scouts have ordered edged "woman in his life" was women are by the ocean divid secretary gici,
even a refrigerator!
little Carola became into its ranks, which drives him his mother." of votes. And they would eat photostat of the MS.
refrigerator was steadily more British, after start back to the camp after he has Not that a T. S. Eliot's verse-play, the sh only after they had
Bader, 32, has had excitingT
needed during the winter of the ing ler school career as a kind tried lo escape. removed the worm.
life: studied factory-running in The Cocktail Party, comes from
Great Freezo when the Gulf of Infant Daughter of the Dut what is it all about? You Cast
thoughts out all
of Canada: in the HAF he was shot Faber and Faber the is a direc- Text, drastically
to the American Revolution. And Elly will ask the question in Stream failed to come tor) in March. Tortes
Re-down over Belgium, sentenced to) alliance with the
its Edinburgh
rescue of the British system of herself-did she not find a little petation rather than curiosity. member always the possibility
sent death,
Instead to a revised performance, will be as telligent native. Emily Haan is
heating house
It was a sad Britishness Infiltrating her des
-(London Express Service) of the balance of power. If the prisoner of war camp for four played in America.
when
Hahrt But why the sharp-eyed, but affectionate moment
Emily Tories, after all their exertions and a half years, and wrote his the 10s. Bd. price? Any play by
Invader. Yet the final effect is learned the meaning of the word while convalescing. IG and struggler, wrest four
"chilblains." I doubt if she will even three seats from the So- now with Clarence liatry's
Emlyn Williams, Priestley or
ever quite forgive England that cialista, then
Rattigan can be bought for 6. atlantic
experience. MP might be in a position to
"Victor list-was
is another ex-Cost appareatly rises with the deeper sting.
But somehow or other, midst voto one Government out and soldier
ofcer in North Africa, Italy and br to put another Government in.
aturder
all the tribulations, the aged to sketch this gay, MI's Austria. He wrote The Golden Seeker and Warburg, Of cours tless nine
on March and set foot on there shores family life, to set it against the with Salamander (himed could not form a coalition with
will French
British is story of Trotsky's assassina-
wife after the war. Hodders are
postwar background, and to de- the Socialists because of their star Anouk) and
one lusion about liver this racy running com differences ever nationalisation, publishing his next, The Forest in written by the then Chief If she has
of Mexican Secret Police, who
on British life and particularly over iron and sted. of Eyes, this summer.
morals. But the Liberals have enough Prewar, his Polycarp's Pro- Was responsible for his safety England it is that her husband, mentary freedom of manoeuvre to exer-resa was an Evening Standard and, later, for investigating the eine reat influence on the future Book of the Month. Roverment of the country. Spectacular
Landes F2pien Zevidre
F
vd.
Deeper Sting
E. M. Delafield was the
in-
Pole
the nine Liberal Fishing firm, T, Werner temporary dramatists Cowards one of similarity, with the Trans-. Ch
gunner
career of Sir
crime.
Mexico,
wasp
possessing
the
from Emily Hahn in Mrs Boxer,
-London Express Service.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
* England to Me (387 pages) is published by Cape (10a ed.).
Un- busy
The British! A kindly Ameri- can does not know whether to laugh or cry over them.
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