In the Public Eye

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 21

In the Public Eye

The image of Sir Oswald Mosley has grown greater in the public eye in re» cent weeks, not because of anything that he has said or done, but'because of,.what he. is. Sir .Oswald, .erstwhile Labour Cabinet Minister and planner of' self-sufficiency for Britain, is now ths-loader of the-British Fascists. In Some lie has taken the salute in place of Signor Mussolini. And bocouse of tho violent doings .which-have followed in the train of the Fascist rule in Germany, Sir Oswald has been feeling something of' his countrymen's displeasure. : This baronet, who married tho daughter of Lord Curzon, allied himself with the Badical Party of his native land, flung away.a Ministerial post because ho could not tolerate the inefficiency and temporising which marked tho policy of the Labour Government, and then began a path which brought him to a book on Fascism and political opinions very different from those he had been defending for years,. is now a lonely figure. He brought himself into disrepute with the Labour Government because he made a gap in its ranks. He waa feared and mistrusted by Labour's Left Wing, and viewed with misgivings by the other parties in the Houso. But he is extremely courageous—during one election he descended from the platform and entered with vim upon a fight which had started during his speech. He was once a Conservative, and left that party to join Labour; he left Labour with as little hesitation once he saw that ho did not and could not approve of the line it was following; * And in this he oddly anticipated the bulk of the Labour Party today. They, like him, repudiated their leaders, but they did it much later. ""The Soeilist Baronet," as once he was known, was not mentioned in his father's will. He once threatened to relinquish his title, was publicly snubbed by his father, but finally decided that it "was not worth tho trouble of giving up." He was born in 1896, and is the sixth baronet," the title going back to 1781. He was educated at Winchester and at the Boyal Military College, Sandhurst,-and-served in the Great War with the 3,6 th Lancers and also the Royal Flying Corps. In 1922 he entered the House of Commons as a Conservative member, and it was two years later that ho joined the Labour Party, which.he abandoned in turn in 1930]! resigning his post as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and making, a .speech which. greatly added^ to his political reputation. At thnt time he was much in the public eye, but the events of the past few years, have robbed party politics of their old vigour, and Sir. Oswald has been turning, more and more away from democratic notions and .become more concerned with the study-of : the experience of Italyi' He is now as much the enemy .of the Labour Party as he was formerly their pride. Harold Larwood. Few cricketers in the. world have had such a meteoric riscas Harold LaAvood, tho "Nottingham express," who has created a newspaper sensation during the week. ' Larwood' was unknown in English cricket before the fateful year 1925, but after that his name was on 'every tongue. He was not yet twentyone, and as a youngster he had been sent to work in the mines to work hewing coat. Cricket has always been a popular game with the Midland miners, and Larwood, born at Nuncar Gate, just outside Nottingham, was playing for the Nuncar Gate team when he was fifteen years old. From there he transferred to the Mansfield Colliery team. Ho was already sending down his deliveries fast and controlling them well. Johnny Hardstaff, a famous Nottingham . player of the. past, heard encouraging reports about young Larwood, and decided to have a look at tho boy. He . was. soon .satisfied that the, youthful bowler had excellent prospects, and invited him to practise at the Trent Bridge ground, tho homo ground of the Nottinghamshire Country Club. For a time Larwood played in the second , eleven with fair success. Suddenly lie struck top form, and took eight Lanca- ■ shire wickets cheaply. This Avon him his promotion to the first eleven. Ho made good at once. When-the Australians went to England in 1926 Nottinghamshire was convinced that Larwood was the fast bowler for which tho selectors were searching. And that year ho met the Australians for the first time. He had tho advantage of being well nursed by Arthur Carr, the captain of England, who watched that tho young bowler should not be tried too much. He began with one wicket for 29 and two for 18 when playing for tlio North of England, then took two for 99, and one for 37 in the Second Test, three for 88 when playing for Nottinghamshire, arid three for 82, and three for 34 in the ; Fifth Test. He capped this with the remarkable performanco of seven for 97 when playing for an English eleven against the Australians at Folkestone. Against tho Australians he took twenty-two wickets at the cost of 482 runs, an average of just under 22 runs. In tho last Teat lie was responsible for Australia's collapse, Woodfull being caught behind the wickets before a run had been' . scored, and McCartnoy going the same way at 31, and Andrews at 63. In addition Larwood himself caught Ponsford. In 1928 Larwood visited Australia for the first time, and his bowling at Brisbane had a lot to do with the fact that England won the First Test by 675 runs. At Sydney, in tho Second Test he caused Ponsford to leave with a broken hand, the third time that the atar batsman had failed .to stand- up to Larwood's attack. His later form Was not as good as his earlier, but .he avenged any failures when the M.CiO. visited Australia last year. ■ . '

The Marquess of Londonderry,. British Minister of Air, who has issued a memorandum containing the principal provisions of the new England-Australia I air service has held his present office since the National Government has been in power, but was First. Commissioner of Works in 1931. He was-.born just 55 years ago today, and was educated at Eton and at the Boyal Military Colloge, Sandhurst, in ■ preparation for his assumption of the long list of titles which belongs, to. his family. He is Baron Londonderry by right of creation in 1789,. and, the title of Viscount Castlereagh went to an ancestor in 1795, the Earldom of Vane following in the early years of last century. The Marquess sits in the House of Lords under creations of 1814 and 1823, and has had an active career in public life. Ho entered Parliament as a member for Maidstone in 1906, and had ten years' service in the House of Commons. During the European War he served as A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Sir W,. Pulteney, and in 1915 was second in command of the Boyal Horse Guards, being twice mentioned in dispatches. Ho is now a Major and brevet Lieu-tenant-Colonel in the reserve of that regiment. After the war he spent some time as Under-Sccretary of Air, and then, in 1921, entered the Cabinet of the new. State of Northern Ireland, and was for six years Minister of Education. Ho re-entered the British political field in 1928 when he was appointed First Commissioner of Works by Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. . After the national crisis arose he became Minister of AirLord Londonderry succeeded his father in the second year of the war, and.he married in 1899 the Hon. Edith Chaplin, who was the daughter of the first Viscount Chaplin, and who is now a Dame of tho British Empire. She has published a memoir of her father and collected other writings. There is one son and four daughters of the marriage. Mr. Hi A. Wallace. If, one were asked to name the most competent Minister of. Agriculture in the world aiid were able to do so, probably the man .chosen would be Mr. Henry A, Wallace, the new Secretary of Agriculture in President Koosevelt's Cabinet. Mr.-Wallace comes of a family which has a' nation-wide reputation in the United States, and his elevation to the Cabinet provides an instance of father and son having held tho same appointments but for opposing sides. His grandfather founded the wellknown agricultural journal, "AVallace's Farmer, "and his father became editor of the paper in 1916, and continued in the post until 1821, when he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture in the Harding Cabinet. The third Henry Wallace was born on a. farm in lowa in 1888, and is the eldest of six children. His early influences.were all fitting; the farm, an agricultural college, the editorial rooms of the paper. He knows that" great 3lice ,of America which is. usually described as "the Middle West," knows how it thinks and talks and feels, and can make himself understood to it. Since he left college he lias written many articles on many subjects, bu-t all these have shown a leaning towards agricultural research, and in later years towards agri. cultural economics. He is well known as an, expert on corn, and has written a text book which is widely used. As a boy he;sawa judge pick out ears of corn which he said would produpe large yields. Young Wallace took these ears home and planted them in rows. He found little or no relation between the actual and predicted yields. Since that early experiment he has always worked with an eye to verification by experiment, and has never had any patience for careles or faulty work. ■ Mr. Walalee is known to favour controlled inflation of the currency, tax reduction, and intcrnatnional action to restore currency. Ho' believes that England' has gained through going off the gold standard, and declared some time ago that the United States had the choice between inflation and wholesale repudiation of debts.: The Hon. E. N. Rhodes. The Canadian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Edgar Nelson Bhodcs, who announced a big conversion operation on behalf of the Canadian Treasury this week, has had a long and distinguished career in Canadian politics. He entered ;the Canadian House of Commons when he was not long past thirty years of age, and he has been there most of'the. time since. This year he completes a quarter of a century of public service, during most of which time he has held office, for he has been. Deputy Speaker and Speaker in' the Canadian Parliament, and for several years past has. enjoyed Cabinet rank. It was in 1916 that-he took his first step towards the Speakership, and a year later ho was elected by tho House to be the man who presides over its debates. The following year he was re-elected. During the early 1920's he entered politics in Nova Scotia, following upon the end of his term in the House of Commons, and in the provincial field he was highly successful, becoming Premier -and Provincial Secrotary in 1925. He was still Premier when Mr. B. B. Bennett , gained his 1930 victory, and one of the Canadian leader's first thoughts for Cabinet membership was Mr.. Bhodes. The Nova Scotia Premier thereupon resigned his post in the province to take tho Federal 'portfolio of Fisheries, an important one 'in Canada. He held this position until last year, when Mr. Bennett relinquished the office of Minister, of Finance'in order to give more time to other duties.' Mn Ehodes thereupon became Minister of Finance. 'He was born at AmherstJ Nova Scotia, in'lß77-, and graduated'from 'Amherst and Dalhousie Universities; and began the practice of law. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Acadia University, and now. holds honorary degrees which .His own .universities have bestowed upon him. His social interests are many, and he'belongs to club's in several provinces and in two countries, being equally well known in New York and in Ottawa,