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13 THE GUARDIAN Friday November 3 1972 Hell's a poppin' by James MacManus PETER JENKINS IN AMERICA The sour stink of success am mostly ohmklfien? Mr Nixon's that they should toe puedshed. His answer is to distinguish between the "work ethic" and the "welfare ethic" which is a sly way of saying that unemployed bfank people dont -want to work. He talks about "quality education as the alternative to school busing, knowing perfectly well that there can be no such thing while the races and the income groups segregate themselves residen-tially. On taxation, public expenditure, the sharing of responsibility between federsl and local government, the regulation of big business, it is the same story. The President deals in mendacious over-simplifications which encourage people to believe that the only practical politics are those based on a morbid view of human nature in which bruteness and baseness is the stuff of the new American dream.

With luck the US will survive another four years under Mr Nixon's malevolent sway and then find a President who can bring some inspiration of humanity, decency, and understanding to his difficult task. George McGovern is a ten times better man than Richard Nixon and let him be remembered when the stains of Nixon's presidency have been scrubbed out from the American heritage. fNLY a stroke of divine providence or a devilish curse upon all opinion polls now can save ttie United States and the world from four more years of President Nixon. Mr Nixon succeed by bringing out the worst In people and the margin of his re-election on Tuesday will be the measure of his success. Now that the moment of choice is so close, it is time to stop carping at the inadequacies and errors of Senator George McGovern and do him honour for his endeavour to bring a basic decency to the conduct of public affairs, to revive a withering sense of justice and compassion in a society deformed by callousness, brutality, and greed, and to gain recognition ifor the simple moral fact that killing people even when they are Asians is wrong.

But Senator McGovern has been whistling into an ill wind. Americans cam favourably compare the state of their nation now with its state in 1968. It is true that the cities are no longer in flames and the campuses in turmoil. The nightmare of Vietnam has receded. An insecure nation frightened by war and crime and violence and halucinatory abandon feels more secure under the firm, hand of a mean man.

The psychologist Erich nominations of men 'supremely unqualified. Law and order, however, does not begin in the White House which under (Mr Nixon has been associated with crooks and thugs charged with the subversion of the processes of democracy in a so-called free society The freedoms of the individual his right to dissent, his right to equal treatment under the law, his rights when accused, his freedom of speech and of press, even his primitive right to food, shelter, and care in sickness have all been narrowed under Mr Nixon's administration. The President said the other day (it is scarcely credible) let us quit treating our senior citizens in this country like welfare recipients. They have worked hard all their lives to build America and as the builders of America they have not asked for a hand out." So how should America, land of the free and land of the rich, treat its welfare recipients by the way, is totally inappropriate to the period of moral and social reconstruction which lies ahead. rhetoric has all to do with enemies and war.

He calls the police "crime he is at "wr" against drug addiction. And these are not just metaphors of determination but have to do with his crude, 9imple. and miserable belief that the only language anybody understands be it the Russians, Chinese, and the North Vietnamese, or the poor, the unemployed, and the black is a language of force and threat. He has begun to do many bad things, and if given a mandate will do still worse. He has undermined the authority of the rule of law, mistaking it for a rule of tough cops and harsh judges.

He has gone four-fifths of the way towards stacking the Supreme Court with reactionaries and if re-elected will finish the job. He has not only subverted the Supreme Court but insulted it with his ties of a modern Industrialised society. His manipulation of fear and greed, no less brilliant in execution than his diplomacy with China and Russia, has eroded basic freedoms and dignities which if not preserved the US may not for long survive in lesser corners of the world. There is something almost ominous in the fact that the ghettos are not in flames and the campuses not in turmoil. It is as if an iron hand is holding down the lid of a giant pressure cooker.

For the injustices and inequalities, the squalor, corruption, and primitive barbarisms which exist within this great rich land seem sure to convulse it again before long. It is not easy to comprehend why the American people are queueing up to reelect President Nixon. One theory I have heard put forward by former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who has a keen sense of sin is that people feel the need for a president who can without compunction shoulder the nation's burden of collective guilt The evangelicalism of George McGovern scratches tender souls too hard. A New Yorker cartoonist made the same point another way with one hard hat saying to another in a bar, Nixon's no dope. If the public really wanted moral leadership, he'd given them moral leadership." The more likely explanation is that a people nurtured to high self regard, their confidence shattered by the lack of success and bloody cost of (heir latest foreign adventure, judge Nixon solely by the fact that he broughjt the boys home from Vietnam and left the Asians to do the dying.

The after-spasms of the Vietnam war have yet to be experienced, and nobody could be less equipped than -President Nixon to nurse his country through a period in which qualities of humanity, gentleness, and understanding will be at premium. Nixon's neo-social Darwenism Ottawa, Thursday CLYDE SANGER on the man hoping to become Canada's Prime Minister The Canadian head waiter mHEY are just honkles, they're nothing to do mth us, and I wish they'd got Ioner sentences, but we will 11 luwe to be careful now." With those words "Mad 'John Cork, vice president of the London Chapter of the Hell's Angels, England, greeted the sews that three Hell's Angels bad been sentenced to a total of 15 years' imprisonment at Winchester Crown Court earlier this week. The picture of brutality and degradation that emerged from the trial which concerned the rape of a 14 year old Girl Guide has added to the concern that police all over the country feel about the activities of motor cycle gangs who gather throughout the summer at selective points for weekend "runs." It has also left Mad John and his Chapter secretary "Uncle Nick" worried men. John Cork, aged 24, is an unemployed mechanic married with four children who' lives in a pleasantly fur-'nished London council house. His Chapter of Hell's Angels, all London based, are the only ones officially affiliated to the American Brotherhood of Hell's Angels, and they claim they are the only true inheritors in this country of that violent tradition.

Mad John accepts violence as a part of his Me, just as he accepts that his two Triumph 85Jcc motor cycles, his tattoo and his original denim gear are essential to a normal existence. He has spent more than four years in gaol and approved schools for crimes of violence and thieving as well as what he calls "the odd touch of GBH (grievous bodily harm)." But group rape does not figure in his activities. It is, he says, bad publicity and anyway there are far too many willing slags (girls) going around to necessitate rape. 'Look," be said, "when we go off on a run we don't go and sit around some little cafe jumping on people. We take our girls, our dope and our booze to say a quiet place in Wales where in fact we have a (farmhouse.

We just party in private and get as raucta of the dope, the drink, and the women into our system as we can for a weekend." The official Chapter of the Hell's Angels started in England in 1969 with the return from America of Buttons who arrived with an official charter to set up Hell's Angels England and who promptly named MmeeK lis president Buttons ii now serving three yeaas and nine months on charges of violence and Mad John is trying to ran the show and not get swamped by would-be Hell's Angels in the meantime. The activities of Hell's Angels England is not however restricted to private weekend orgies. The members see themselves as life-long members of a cult and part of the behaviour demanded by tne cult is to react with violence to any slight with which they are confronted. Mad John himself has been in dozens of fights either to assert his own ascendancy as an Angel or in reaction to criticism. He explained, "When something starts you just grab what you can, a bottle, a bar or whatever, and do your best.

"Personally I just don't reckon that this present phase of gang violence on bikes is going to last It'll all be over in couple of years with the sort of sentences they're handing out now and that's when we'll move in, nice and quiet, the real Angefe all ready to pick up the pieces because that's what wo want, a single official Chapter for the whole country." Fromm observed the Germans electing Hitler and called the phenomenon the flight from freedom." I am not going so far as to compare Mr Nixon with Hitler. However, I do seriously contend that his reelection should be viewed with repugnance and deep foreboding. His record over four years ought to be sufficient warning of the evil he could accomplish in four more years. The world sees him as the man who went to Peking and Moscow, and he has dazzled the eyes of his own people with these external diversions. The rapprochement with China and the signing of an agreement to limit arms and promote trade with the Soviet Union were achievements of historic importance.

What the world does not so clearly see is what Mr Nixon is doing to the United States. At least as great as the dangers of super-Power conflict is the danger involved in Mr Nixon's callously insensitive handling of the fragili STANFIELD on the threshold described yesterday as the inflexibility of the Criminal Justice Act, 1961." Perhaps, social workers and probation officers were to point out later, she had been caught on the day the welfare officials took her three-month-old baby away. But that's still for the psychiatrists to argue. What remains certain is that she got even more enmeshed in the Act's strands and farther along the road to Mr Justice Boreham's court when she took a holiday with some friends at Southend last year. Jacqueline got drunk, got arrested, and got sent to prison Jacqueline was caught by the Criminal Justice Act.

More precisely, by Section Three of that Act, the section outlining the manner in which offenders under the age of 21 years are to be dealt with. Offenders such as Jacqueline aged under 21 years who have previously speculation outside the Cabinet room and around the framework of the election arithmetic Conservatives 109 seats, Liberals 108, New Democrats 30. Social Credit Party 15, and two Independents. It has been an exhilarating and a frustrating week for Robert Lome Stanfield, 58 years old and standing on the very threshold of power. Yet he is not an impatient man, and he has done a great deal of waiting during his political life.

When he became opposition leader at the age of 34 in 1948 in Nova Scotia, it took him eight years and three elections to win power. And it is now five years since he came to Ottawa and took over the post of Leader of the Opposition from John Diefen-baker. Everything in his record, and his family's record, suggests doggedness and perseverance His grandfather started a knitwear factory in Truro, in the pleasant farmlands of Nova Scotia. His father made Stanfield's Unshrinkable Underwear famous across the country, and ended up as the province's Lieutenant-Governor. His mother was a discreet Lady Bountiful the Depression days.

The young Bob Stanfield, the fourth child, was vaguely expected to join the family business after a good education. He was known as "the scholar," went to a private school in Ottawa, collected a gold medal as outstanding student in political science and economics at Dalhousie University, and finished up at Harvard Law School. But he soon moved away from the family firm and set up as a lawyer in Halifax. He married the granddaughter of a Prime Minister of Novia Scotia, and was soon pulling together a demoralised Conservative Party there. This week there is renewed interest in what he managed to achieve as Prime Minister from 1958 to 1067.

His supporters point to the establishment of secondary industry in Nova Scotia, which he promoted to replace old industries on the decline such as coalmining. They also remember the human, rights code he enacted to prevent anti-Black discrimination in jobs and housing a MR Long terms peter harvey aaaamm A. KSUif VIWHil I "AiT -mm TaT HUTOIW i law 1T a broad sense every opposition leader is a Prime Minister in waiting. But none of them can have been waiting more expectantly than Robert Stanfleld has been doing since October 30, when his Progressive Conservatives took the largest number of seats among the four parties contesting the Canadian general election. He flew back to Ottawa the next day from his homeland in the Atlantic provinces and called press conference to say Mr Trudeau should resign because he has lost the confidence of the people.

A victorious Conservative candidate presented him with a cardboard key inscribed 24 Sussex Drive (the Prime Minister's residence), and he happily held it out for photographers. Yet thr door was not immediately open. Pierre Trudeau went visiting the Governor-General and conducting Cabinet meetings in a buckskin jacket that made him look extraordinarily relaxed. Everyone else wove served a borstal or prison sentence can only be sent to prison for a term not less than six months, or a term of not more than 18 months. And the situation would have been little better worse, in all probability if she had had a "clean sheet" when she entered the dock at Chelmsford.

People aged under 21 years, with no previous convictions, can be sent to gaol for a term not exceeding six months or a term of not less than three years. Speaking personally, I find this whole business so puzzling," Mr Brian Rhodes, assistant general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, said yesterday. Not only the rigidity of the laws applying to people like Miss Paddon, but the fact that a girl who so obviously needs psychiatric care was instead sent into prison and for such a long time." PROMOTIONAL brush between Brioitte Bardot and Gaetan Duval, the Mauritian Foreign Minister noted for his faded film star good looks (by V. S. Naipoul in "The Overcrowded Bardot arrived in Mauritius this week as a guest of the Government as part of a programme to boost tourism on the island: but immediately proceeded to snub the Minister for Tourism (Duval again), Duval, the island's most eligible (divorced.) bachelor, teas hurt but later mollified when they met at the castle of a resident baron.

"I am goina to have dinner -with her tonight," he declared excitedly. is just the person to promote i. lie In the election campaign he made heavy use of the electoral machines and local prestige of the four Conservative Prime Ministers in Newfoundland, New Brunswick. Ontario, and Alberta. All of them, no doubt, expect him to be much more accommodating than Trudeau, the strong centralist, ever was to the demands of the provinces.

Is Stanfield interested in foreign affairs? Certainly he is interested in Europe, and the markets there for Canadian exports. He went to Peking last year, and very soon afterwards was in Washington giving a report. Relations with the Nixon Administration might be less abrasive than they have been under Trudeau. He is also thought to be progressive on issues of foreign aid in southern Africa. And this week he was still on the doorstep of power.

His RLS campaign buses, one feels, might have been emblazoned with the sentence which Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in El Dorado To travel hopefully is a (better thing than to arrive, and a true success is to labour." JSL province that has, had a sizeable black community since the eighteenth century. He has his detractors, too. They suggest he switched to federal politics just time, and left Nova Scotia with a worsening unemployment problem, and difficulties in several industries. A steel mill, an electronics firm, and a heavy water plant have all made worrisome headlines since, and his successor soon went down to defeat. Liberals claim that federal incentive grants have done more to perk up Nova Scotia than Bob Stanfield ever did.

All the same, Stanfield took 10 of the 11 seats there on October 30, and five Nova Scotians voted Tory for every three who voted Liberal. His five years in Ottawa have given some clues about how he may make out in higher office. He took over a Conservative Party badly split after the messy business of dumping Mr Diefenbaker. and he has had to face recurring discontent from his prairie colleagues. But he worked hard for conciliation, and victory has helped close that gap.

TotSntAffianoMk FO men for Europe MISCELLANY TWO years ago, Jacqueline Paddon went for a ride in a taxi. That short trip coupled with the time she got drunk while on holidays at Southend may nave all but sealed her fate when she came to trial for stealing a friend's baby for 15 minutes. At the end of the taxi journey, the meter showed a fare of 75p. Jacqueline didn't have enough money to pay the full amount A complaint was brought against her, and she was, charged with deception. Then aged 17, Jacqueline was convicted.

And that was step number one along the path that led fo Chelmsford Crown Court this week, and the 21-month prison sentence for running off for a quarter of an hour with a friend's baby. Jacqueline an unmarried mother whose own baby was taken from her and fostered out was caught by that cah ride in what two legal experts something we would know about," they emphasise carefully. All the same, they'll surely be pleased, when they do. WAVES of all-party good-will bore the Liberal Party president into the House to hear Cyril Smith's maiden speech. Trevor Jones, stuck at the St Stephen's entrance without a ticket yesterday afternoon, spotted Eric Heffer coming out of it and asked if he could help.

It was the day -MPs with surnames beginning with could sign two admission tickets to the gallery; but Heffer (who is Labour, anyway) had given his two away. Fellow Liverpudlian feeling conquered party oni-motitut he dived back into the Rouse to see what he could do. to find one ticket left in the office signed by a fellow And that was how the Liberal Party president apt to hear hi party's nets IIP, courtesy of the Prime Minister. Old Cantab exuberance WHO WAS the ''exuberant contemporary of Lord Annan's, "a member of the Cambridge rueger team" whose early excesses getting rather over-excited from an away he "broke up the tram" got him expelled from the university for a year Annan in his. Dimbleby Lecture noted' ill iEB 3 the grimmer fate of modern Cambridge students (who got sent to gaol, because they were adults) which might be justice, but he couldn't help remembering that his contemporary went on to become a professor and then a vice-chancellor.

Not to mention, perhaps, the head of a college at the same university. (Owen Chad-wick Cambridge XV versus Oxford, 1936 38), distinguished historian head of Selwyn College, shied away from a probe. "I wouldn't know what Lord Annan has said he and I read the history tripos together at Cambridge, and he sat in front of me at the final examination." On account of their surnames. End of conversation. SO WHERE, BBC-basher noted in triumph, was the ill-fated "British series, in Time-Life's list of the BBC-TV programmes in which it wot "proud to be associated with the Corpora' on a.

whole page of yesterday's jubilee Time supplement Notably absent, amid f'Dr Win! ciuUito-Hon," Henry vSil Wives, and- the First ChurchUls. Si i the eye. It too in tl uuuvn of these that utiif with "The 1'tUamt proua to the Carpi British 1 in whose making Time' a fair hand) did not. for some reason, or other" get distri- outea in me united states. oration.

And -UK Bad TWO more diplomats will be joining the Eurocommis-sioners in their Cabinets: Adrian Fortesaie and Michael Jenkins will be the private secretaries to Christopher Soaraes and George Thomson. Quite officially, the Foreign Office doeenU have anything to do with the jobs-in-the-Commiasion business: the coinmiss toners are at liberty to appoint exactly whom they like. But Brussels whispers abound of the interest the Foreign Office takes in the Cabinet appointments: a INjwntfut interest. So there were raised eyebrows at the appointment of David Haanay (FO man) as Sotmea's Chief de Cabinet: how manor more, when For-tescue joins to make an FO trio? Soames was thought to ttsye "obliged the FO by KotaUns Hanosy: For-teacue, however, is mora obviouaty bis personal choice-He has worked as Soamfts's privxta secretary in Paris for She last toot year: a post he jSSaSSt an some trepidation lojSSfcV on the TeeH of pleas aod was packed bsck to iZSmHe and Haanay are already In Bruafeb. Mswftline Mkhael Jenkins lioigan, as awong noh-FO Labour back-up.

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