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O

OF PARLIAMENT

Nevery day that Par- lament is in session,

-

By

Frank Watkins.

which

were later Prino Minister announced the discovered in 49 small quatio declaration of war.

The volumes-Bol much for six

pressman, Hansard or uther, has 10 years' Parliament,

perform Members speeches an amount

WEA

speed shorthand writers who The Complement

business it is to take down virtually every word ultered. They work in ten-minute turns, and then go off to dictate the

whole of their "take" to one of "n"group-of-high-speed-typists-

TEMPORARY House was bullt in that year; and, for the Arst time in history, a separate gallery was provided for the reporter. The House of Lords had taken the step three years The newspaper, men, on the previously. And three

yeurs other hand, are out not for earlier sult the Press had begun verbatim reports of speeches, to be recogniset! for what it but for the highlights, the news was the handmaid of carlia

it.

1

Some

or

are many

power. The great orator, Sherl- dan, in 1010, was moved

Temark: "Give them" (1.c. his opponent) "o corrupt House of Lords, giva them a venal House of Coin- ⚫ mona;

let me but have unfettered Press, and I wil defy them to 'eneroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties at England."

anid,

a

him.

Significance

ить

a few minutes before the Speaker takes the chair, many doors open in the long corridor of the House of Commons which Cavendish, runs above the Chamber level, and there emergo

Or take another kind of case, ¡several score of men, chat-

ting in accents which be- Right up to the early 1910

FIL trimming which would best illustrated by a remark of the reporter.

surprise most

The the Inte Lord Lyttelton in 1871. people. long to the four corners of century,

obliged to take

his change in ference between a speech as "We are absolutely at the mercy the United Kingdom. These the crowd of spectators. Often is delivered and as it appears of these excellent and formidable are the men who toll the he had to struggle to get in. He in print must be seen to be personages, the reporters"

was unwanted, suspect. But a believed. Most daily story of Parlament.

MPS freely make

to complain would change war at hand. It was acknowledge their debt to the take matters very much worse. They do not all do the same wrought in a dramatic fashion reporter.

fell speakers are I will you

two bett kind of work or sit in the same by nothing less, in fact, thn 1 much more Meuli to

he went on. "Mr row of seats. The Bausard men, secidental destruction by ure, an others; some of them pour dur

rep during the short time he was for instance (who occupy two in 1834, of the old House of out words at 220

in Parliament, Incessantly mero abused the reporters of not scats immediately above Mr Commons.

words a minute.

fully Chair)

For all the changes that tended by not reporting him at Speaker's

reporting

They

years DARK, there things in Britain's Parliament all. The late Lord Monteagle that do not change.

the re- The re- once said something of Lots him

porters did not like. They sent porter in the House

formal warning that looks оп for instance, ceremonies which nie much the unless he publicly apologised, me today as they were lie should not be reported. He did han not apologise, and he was not hundreds of years ago, When

Bu reported for two years." the Royal Assent to a signified, it is conveyed In an old Norman French phrase: "Le Roy le veull"~"The King whits

The scene

in the Commons ONE day, not so far distant, the Press Gallery will once more Chamber, too, does not change have a wing of its own, as it much with the years. Outward did up to the night of May 10, things, to be sure,

reflect the 1011, when Hitler's bombs put passage of time. For

instance, end to the amenities it had only one Member slicks to the custom of wearing a top-hat in World War 11, when there was enjoyed for generations, During and about the Chamber: at least a possibility that Parlin- Members no longer crack nuts ment would move temporarily and eat oranges there; classical to the English In 1840 came another phase,

Midlands, the have all

but cflcial evacuation arrangements for the Parliamentary reports qulations side gallery, sit some of the were protected from that disappeared from speeches.

included members of the Press, the Privilege

and sketch writers and the lobby year by

Gallery of the

i many' Great Power correspondents, The Inbby House--though unother 17 years

treasures as precious souventrs correspondent's job is not the were 10 elapse

the tickets and labels issued to before the writing of

of speed shorthand; most

Treasury began to subsidiar ND the pressman, if he be him then. of his day is

the-Jobbics,

them. spent in

In 1871 Disrael hum- longs to one of the agencies, As long as there is a Parba- the dining rooms and the bars, self was alluding

knows that his "copy" will be ment in Britain, the men sitting to a newE+

the Gallery over Mr Interviewing Members of

"the classical appearing in newspapers on the in paper as being

un Speaker's Chair will be there liament, keeping his finger on authority for reports of Parlia ther side of the world in the pulse of politics. He

hour or two, and not be merely to tramunit is the mentary proceedings."

everywhere confidant of statesmen,

ond

is way, by hand, to Ficet eloquence, the wisecracks, the often guide and friend the

leisurely retorts and Interjections, the The final phase began in 1880, Street for the back-bencher. He dines with when the firm of Hantaro, dissemination of a generation or pronouncements

and the argu- are so full or the famous, he has the ear of which had becti duing the 30 ago. Ministers; he is the channel De- Parliamentary reports, vecane

Parliamentary significance for million withm tween Parliament and his editor. a public company. In 1891 A new contract was signed be- the Controller of the Hon. Yes, but it is all strangely teen 1950

and Reuters modern in comparison with the Telegram

Stationery Office

Company for the life of Parliament.

future publication of the De-

From 1805 bates.

to 1900 the London Times aft supplied the reports, until at long last the

State resumed responsibility.

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stories, the speeches of local ment and Mileed its very com- interest, the human touch, Then plement. there is the agency man, whose business also it is to calcet particular U-bits of moment to his firm's clients, and more the rest. All these men sit in the front row of the Press Gallery.

In The Lobbies BEHIND them, and in a small

10

A very elaborate organisa-

For the best part of 600 years Parliament would have nothing to do with the reporter. In the time of King Charles J, the 17th century, there was one Rushworth, Assistant Clerk or

wie House of Commons, who went on taking notes of the

In 1828 Lord Macaulay had written: "The gallery in which the reporters sit hus become a

the Realin fourth estate of

The title stuck, and the Press is known as the "Fourth Estate" of this day.

15

Quite Distinct

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n! Ave

But some of the members tive with accommodation at A

Chancy Affair

was still a ful

chancy

If bitenes at report

of advantage that debates have been ever since. As far as I can iscover, the Hansard man sot the Press Gallery with the In

this the journalist up to

the Lords'

ing the proceedings of Pariin- meut, when in the 18th century the famous Dr Samuel Johnson This was not the first time came on the reenc

There was

was the Lords had shown more

on

In fuct, the pressman wields

mare

all

ments which

man

the

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WHAT STALIN'S

WORDS MEAN

Na rovolution 'man, his thought and his institu

be.

in

be-in

An

I use

BY CE.M. JOAD

power

London Express Service

Language, as the Russians use it, has been in the news. Stalin recently attacked professors who taught that language changed with the. social structure....and at UNO-Sir Gladwyn Jebb re- ferred to the "upside-down language" of Soviet propa- ganda. Here is an inter- of familiar

your

own Hansard staff, with a entered forcibly and demanded separate Editor and Assistant. of Mr Speaker Lenthal that he It is

distinct quite

from the should reveal the whereabouts Commons team.

tions go into the melting In JUUD the

whatever it Taiy "rebels"

In Soviet Russia "Die rule opretation who ban

and are made House of Lords, more progres. | pot

over Cress?"--or incurred his royal displeasure, sive than the Commons, agreed a new particularly

the people" means government Russian phrases. They had, by then, escaped.) to provide Hansard's representa- Russia. Pollties, economics, on what you mean by Social- clique responsible

"That depends," I would say, of the people by a self-appointed to nobocty holding themselves and u l planning or love or but objected to the note-taking, and small table immediately behind ethics, law, the ownership an

cun ofice until such. and progress." For words

time as some your mind. lo write Rushworth was, so to speak, the Clerks, on the floor of the of land, even music

things 10 different House.

or body of persons has thoughts and to listen to and it is from this position philosophy, even truth and

different forced "underground."

freely quired suficient Ley in different icople

to read the

poken and reported justice, all are transformed, different countries and cultures, elect them by violence, against watten thoughts of others; still

That Is as it should

is On this, Humpty-Dumply

the office- less does it mean freedom fro which contingency Russin-for it is goud Marxism, the classical authority. "When holders have divised the instru- arbitrary arrest and security

The Dasis of society."

against indefinite Imprisonment he antiounces in intent of the secret police au an word," Stalin has just written, "s the Afice Through the Looking Glass, effective safeguard.

without trial. *conomic system at a given it means just what I choose it

'The expression "People's "Liberty" means quite simply" stage of its development.

10 mean neither more

nor Democracles," be the way, auds the condition of the people.. lus," "The question is," said nothing to the concept of demo. whatever, it may

be 10 * "Upon this is raised a super-

Alley, "whether you

CTUCY. you can ingke

Since "Democracy,"

"Peuple's Democracy." of political, legal, words progressive spirit than the structure

relicious, artistic and philus Words mean so many duterent already means the rule of the

things. The

question "people" î "People's Dene What is truth? philea views of suciety, win things. which had a wide circulation. Heporters' Gallery in the Lords political,

"which cracy con ather says Humpty-Dumpty,

"the mean legal The publishers engaged Dr since 1231, some years before Institutions

is to be Master-that is all." people's rule of the people," corresponding 10 Johnson to write Parliamentary the Commons provided one, it

Or Humpty Dumpty is right and

take "progress" and If the economic these views.

"Truth" is equaled with the that the Lords system

siner Stalin is Master in Russin, "progressive." reports for It

was in 1000

the Broadly changes, then 11

opinion of the Communist Party Editor and an

while the sounds are the sounds words are used to denote any and, by derivation, of every superstructure, changes." Assistant Editor whose job it

of the Czar, the sense is the action or thought or policy "loyal" person living in nothing

One than more

Holes was to engage a reporting staff,

thing, and one thing sense of Stalin.

which accords with the Infereste "People's Demcerney," supplied by persons employed in. 1917 it become

is immune-language.

of Soviet Russia.

Line" means possible, as only,

Let me explain. There are

quite simply that to attend in boll Houses Gf with the Commons, to produce The good old Russian language,

what the State does is right. Parliament.

words which, through The

explain, is some the daily reports of debates in Stalin goes

have ac-

Great credit is claimed for the classes read these Parliamentary time to be delivered to Members sacrosanct even after a revole centuries of usage,

because democracies tlon.

creted a sort of deposit or

people's reports with inmense interesi. of the House by first post next

of their addiction to

to and con- So *kilful

the famous morning.

A really true, then, that reputable meaning.

More precisely, Inside Russia slant "campaigns for

for peace." the doctor in putting

What Stalin and the Coin- words into

winlever furthers should be explained, the mouths of

done is to exploit they mean speakers that

no moris <veryboily believed the

Czar is good this reputation in their own in the Interests and strengthens that "peace"

the rule of the Communist than a condition in which no- enough for the Comrades? No, terests and ports to be literal accounts.

for their own pur Party: outside Russia, what- body pursues dggressive It isn't, for while the words pokes,

combining thus

myer tends to fement the revolus or acquires has been sublly changed.

A publication at that time called the Gentleman's

Magazine. Cominons, for there has been a

Joturson's material was Pinted on

educatio

Thirty years later there began Parliament which actually 10- ceived the unoment title of the "Unreported Parliament," met

In May 1768

108 and dissolved in June 1774.

kome reason or other, the stand- liig order for the exclusion of

ຕ

on lo

Communists

have Teft

Place Of Dramawords alone; that what was good rudes have

for the

Min

ན

only

"Reaction"

the

a

Jus-

howeve

policies

remain the same. their sense smooth appearance of verbal tiou of to "dispossessed with which to Implement them

Sense

counts

these

to

E pressman in his cyrie rees

armamente more of the debates than

the MPS. sums of

The

virtue with the solid satisfac-01

masses" under the leadership except.Soviet Russia, while the tons of factual vice. veteran in the Gallery today can

of the Communist Party. “Re- correlative term "warmonger" 1 tell you of 100 treat moments

Take for example democracy, nationary" meas the opposite means everybody who shows of drama. WOR In this place

The word "democracy" ingang of

thines

disposition counter tuch For will recall the day la August

by derivation "the rule of the "Truktor" Ricors 1014 when Sir Edward Grey, in

anybody policies, Now in there matters is the people," which we do our beat not attached to the interests of "A nation of warmongers" tevel and sombre tones, made

kenge that counts. Look uiter to ensure by a system under the Communist Party. "Counter is simply my nation other than speech which meant wor strangers was strictly catorcade with Germany. He will recall, Lounds will look atter then people elect whom they wish

the Berse, in fact, and the which The majority

the "People's of the revolutionary" means roughly one of

Den.0- and as a result, its proceglinga

the

saine. "Fascist" • and cancies" which arms itself, the IDU, have remained

almost practically

represent them and send them "hyena"

are nanes for any Thus by demonstrating his blank in Britain's history.

heartbreaking days of the brics People used to make fun of to Parliament to Five effect to body that the Communist Party consummate "mastery of words' relen of Edward VII. And no me because I kept saying "It their wishes, knowing that they happens at any given moment Stalin shows conclusively now

#1 will be able to call them to dislike.

unnecessary 11.16 to tamper Or account for their stewardılm "Liberly" means, not, as with with the time-honoured Russion.

every Ave years,

us, the ability freely to speak lëngunge.

emotional,

selves!

The only records handed will recall that first Sunday depends what you mean." down to posterity were come`morning of September 1939. Socialism Л good thinst.

token by Sir Henry when in a picked House, the planning, or love or pro

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