LETTER TO MR. CORNELIUS VAN STOLK FROM (Sanitized)

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• Publication Date: April 7, 1960
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After the Theology 1079
Calling on Mr Kishi 1081
The Anxious Ally 1082
1083
Buying at a Discount
NOTES OF THE WEEK
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1085
France and Britain; . . . and Russia ;' . , and
Africa; Labour Party; By-Elections ; Europe ;
Italy ; Brighouse Before Philippi Central Africa ;
South Africa ; Farm Prices; Wages; -Electrical
Trades Union; South Korea; Cyprus; Caravans;
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Soviet Union,
LETTERS 1096
BOOKS
Giant of Endeavour 1097
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After the Theolotiv
r This isiwhat Mg Ch r ch is said, to warg, not, party ntlin int
te+pente, esober, well-ju ging persons to guide it, throng,. ;he c
no-meaning', between the Scylla and Chary bais of Aye and Vo."
Newman': Historyof My Religions Opinicni.i ,orn ii,39 tt.
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EITHER Mr Gaitskell's original intention to abol sh C
Labour's constitution, nor Wednesday's " comprortise "
. fetaia iyybils _e4plaining that it does not mean wh lt it s
the policy of any next Labour government by a tittle. But t le tau
comedy is bound to heighten discussion about wheth3r there will e
Labour government at all. An increasing number of 4 kperi, ,
observers, at home and even more abroad, are now inclined '3 asst i
_ _ .
t tlic +ids, aie under, British sociajiR for yuf :-rie. I; is sa,i_.:
ion Or so middle of the road vnters who decide Bri_ish elec ions i .
!$ 4, pig; that tlie party Is regarded by the j, ublic
e ,'tii,it i abour's,policies are many years out of dal ! ; th
to Lau
. '
ferocio s ;(if, riaetirnes thwarted) natfohilisers ; iba't its 1.: terria
ciotti clions are gradually making it impossible fhr its lea;,,ers
CUL ,c0klerent, policies; and (though by all experilice th s wty
unlikely) that the party may soon begin to break up i Ito Ss !
In a week when Labour leaders have admittedly shown theii
Ca actti for, political suicide in the viyidest relief?, it is wt rth c
r
cit
' Plain io'ns th-see LOw' far they bear any relation to fact
. i. _iliac tat. thrse of them almost _ gcrta.iply, exaggerate La lour's
tiwp.ypirs, ago this week when the Torrington by eiectior was _
was the Tories who were in the mire; if a gener I electi, n hak
that time a. Labour, government would have been return i witl
, tinttally o'Yei. 1 5o in tte-12foitse.' ' the 'pOlicres proffered ' ,v tht
. tostay .aze_not noticea_hly more old-fashioned or irrele\ ant thal thos,
government that would have been elected then ; the main thi-ig tha
- - IrAritemvpie is th,acithe Triej lar epown mon popula- as tl ,
neaTrom recession to Iltbotri. Again, class loyaltyo Labo it is I s
trb*th-ta diminishing asSet, bin its death from natural cause; is m
Efigering than- speedy; the residual feeling that The "1 arty
workers" means that Labour would require heavier blows to mod,
out of its position as second Party in the state than th,!. Liber is did '
and thirties. The prevalence in the public mind of th, bog
- lip- raiiSmion has been oveEestimated by both Mr Ilitsker and
rectors; ' tip Public anew long .belOre Mr. Gaielell's e lause '
i 'honestly began to explain it to them that his party are not v holes;
bun hypocrites.
:It a the Other two - disabilities of the Labour party alit a
worrying. They do hold out some threat of a pro ess of t d.f-stt ,
tti ki iaddle, the country With a long period of veak an 1 divi _
dviring_a generation of Tory rule. The first of thse dani ers
0E compromise and internally diplomatic doubletaik is be :omit- :
qat .1.41124f tiployimpt that. it may soon ,no long r proyi ie a
h le apid intelligent men can see any real hope Of v, orking ,ut rti _
ideas. Labour politics are becoming the art of impossible zerbi
,
AMERIAN SURVEY
Dead Centre on Civil Rights 1103
Spring Survey; Draw Over- 11-erlin ; No Sugar
Stick,? ; Western Approaches; Leasing for Profits ;
Caesar's In-Laws.
THE WORLD OVERSEAS
Back to the Old Green Table 1111
Labya's Oil Boom; Prophetic Warning for
Canadians; Trials of Benelux; Sarawa:k Catches
; Israel's Afro-Asian Bridge.
THE BUSINESS WORLD
d
Verdict on Money
Agenda for the Railways 1125
BUSINESS NOTES 1127
' Liners; In the Markets, The Economy ; Ford
Motor; Local Authority. Bills; Air Fares;
Aid on Paper;, Overseas Trade; Trade Asso-
ciations ; Bank Advances; Plans for Parking;
Oil Heaters ; Fuel; Bids and Deals; Bank Notes;
Gilt-edged Serial ; Atomic Energy; Polypropylene;
Insurance Funds ; Euratom, Soft Drinks, The
jasper Case,; Shorter Notes.
1123
.-COMPANY APAIRS 1163
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Money and Exchanges 168
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ai experience with la own new testament, which
he started to write as a brave and thoughtful challenge for
new world, is the present case in point.
Eleven of the twelve points that he originally submitted to
the executive on Wednesday were expres, ons of high flown
s
sentiments with which almost everybody could agree, chiefly
because most of them have no relevancs to possible state
action; nobody is going to vote against the brotherhood of
man," but no government decree is going to bring it about
either. Even the parts of these eleven pointE that do pretend to
affect future state policy would be accepted by most people,
though the advantage of writing them into a party constitution
is obscure. But the immediate attention of the country is
inevitably being concentrated on the twelfth point--on the
new testament's wording about nationalisation. As the clause
has finally been amended by the executive, Mr Gaitskell has
been constrained to say that he:
is convinced that all these social and economic objectives
can be achieved only through the extension of common owner-
ship substantial enough to give the community power over the
connnanding heights of the economy, including State-owned
industries and firms, Producer and Consumer Co-operation,
Municipal Ownership, and public participation in private con-
cerns. In recognising that both pablic and private enterprise
have a place in the economy, "Labour] believes that further
extensions of common ownership should ht decided from time
to time in the light of these objectives.. . ?
If Mr Gaitskell really believed enthusiastically that a "sub-
stantial " dose of all these dog-hiscuity dot trines was the only
way to achieve his social and econon:tic objectives, there would
he room for interesting debate with hire. But everybody
knows that he does not believe this; he believes wearily that
-proclaiming- them is the only way of -appetising his militants.
And this must raise the question of how long this intelligent
man, and the intelligent coterie around him, can hear to put
up with the intellectual indignities of their present position--
however pleased he may temporarily feel shat he achieved a
" compromise " on Wednesday.
THE second main danger before the L bour party is that
men may be increasingly driven away from it because
they feel as great a derision for its bitter battle of personalities
as they do for the vacuum in its policies. Ie a sense, of course,
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real split in the party now might be its quickest and healthiest
way back to power. If Mr Foot, Mr Mik irdo and the other
genuine fundamentalists were in fact to hive themselves off
into a separate Otganisation, they would get as tiny a vote
from the British public in election fights ag inst official Labour
candidates as Mr aliacus and his suppor ers did when they
Were hived off as independent socialist;" in 1950 But
the last few months have shown that Mi Gaitskell's senior
colleagues will not help him to draw a cleat and commonsense
line of policy that would deliberately compel a small band
fundamentalist zealots to trim themselves off unheeded in
way; instead they have nearly all been angling their
speedles (as on Wednesday they anged their votes) to attract
as much approval as possible froin the zeahts, while not mite
obliging Oaltskell himself to resign. The reason is ta
havAng been starved of
for taitie years, has ceased to
at is at all interested in putting any par
THE ECONOMIST M
policy into, effect; it has become much more like s
triedima al royal court, in which a small band of favount
rather 'arger band of potential rebels, and a clique of
anion Itiarons are largely intent upon a personal struggle ,
power, while publicly protesting that they are doing no sus
Is this struggle bound to go on, until the party has torn
itself te pieces? There is one thing that could very quickly
stop it The source of Mr GanskeIl s control over his patty
and most of its policy during the last Parliament sea-, that
he waS regarded as a prospective source of patronage ,lie was
believed to be a probable future Prime Minister, who would
one chi) have ministerial offices to hand out. The main source
of his difficulties today is that he is no longer redly regarded
an dna light, because many of his immediate lieutenants have
caught from the professional commentators the disease of
excessipessimism about their prospects. The first ba elections
of thi Parliament were taking place on Thursday, and the
results', will be known by the time this issue of The Ecmornfs
is in ritsaders' bands; as we write it is impossible to forecast
whether the divisions in the party will have much effect upon
the voting, but it is easy to guess the effect that the voting will
have ein the divisions in the party. If the tide o public
opiniot proves to have turned mysteriously back to Labour.
becautie staitfaction with the Tories has fallen off, then most
of the present factionalism and inspired anti-Gaitskelliam in
the Labour' party will magically disappear. But if the tide
of opfilion is still running the other way, if Brighouse has
gone securely Tory and if the Liberal alternative to labour
has made striking headway at West Harrow, then the process
of demoralisation in and about the Labour party is very likely
nindeed to acquire a new and dangerous momentum of
its
N?111)Y can tell what would happen then. The real trouble
ikith Labour today is not the obstinately anachronistic
prine4les of some of its minor zealots, but the spineless est pedi?
ency-the words are not harsh enough---of some of its leading
men. They have now willingly made their leader and their
party a laughing stock rather than risk losing any of their
persottel intra-party prestige or risk facing a TOMit their
annual union conferences. Of course, it is part of Labour's
credo that men can be changed. One day, any irtie
must telieve, the present Labour High Cotrunancl might
suddehly and magically become a community '* recognising
that . anarchy and the struggle for power . mutt lead to
universal destruction," determined that everybody'', " effort
skill and creative energy be contributed to the common good,
rejecting selfish, acquisitive canons," standing for a aciery
" with natural, friendly relations between the individ aids who
cornixii e it, uninhibited by . false values," resolved to
"regi all forms of collective intolerance and psi:ladles,
subm dinating all concentration of power to the terests of
the cotennunity as a whole."
These are all ideals that Mr Gaiticl14n ls origin drafi
of new constitution, s dialikte" sought to see suffused
hro
la
it'd 6 This winter's sad atory or
reform suggests that he hail better con-
on sethig them suffused through Labour's national
e room instead.
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