Mes A. be Rowse exe remarkable ertcie Resraedins 9 Se, omura "me of "The Nineteenth: Century: direction nen the achicvemente hich Mr foreign tat hie ariiele fe of euch special intoret to Ching thet Fepreduced heron Although Afr. Rowse' ta a. Socialat: the prominence given Ait etite in "The Nineteenth Century" attaches to Hi marked tignikentce, But it is in the realm of foreign policy that the worst mistakes have been made and the greatest amount of ill-success registered. When one considers the conduct of this country towards Russia, for example—hasty, illeonsidered, blind to its own' best opportunities—it really looks as if the gentlemen. behind this Government do, not really care for trade, One would have thought that in present circumstances, with
out of work, every half-pennyworth dustry languishing and milieus of trade was precious; and yet th ford to risk an export trade of $9,000,000 'a year to Russia for the sake of recommending itself to diehard opinion. For Russia, during the past three years, has been one of the only two countries to which our exports have been increasing. They have gone up from, roughly, 25,000,000 in 1930 to +£7,009,000 in 1981, and £9,000,000 in 1982, And if it really is true,'as the whole capitalist Press. assures us, that the Five-Year Plan is breaking down, then surely now is the time to leap into Russian trade on our own terms while the Germans are engaged in suppressing the scien: tists who enabled them to fight the last war and in raising up a. Euro-can coalition against them in time for the next. In every other field of our foreign policy there has been, if not an equal disaster, a similar failure. So much so that the phrase may constantly be heard on the lips of all kinds of people: Sir John captained Surrey for many years died last August. But A.
atcliffe, J. F. 'Marsh—both eleventh' hour' choices—M. Howell, P. R. lo Couteur, J. T. Morgan have been seldom seen jin prominent mention. There remain M. R. Jardine who scored 140 in 1892 and can claim fame jas the father of D. R. Jardine besides being quite a useful lericketer for Middlesex and D. R. Wilcox who scored 157 last year land must be allowed time' for, development. P. R. lo Couteur has on record the best all-round Iperformance in the match for in 1910 when he made 160 and he took eleven Cambridge wickets for 66 runs.
About Jessop's batting in 1897 lonce more: it should be noted that that 42 was a very timely effort. It occupied less than twenty minutes in the making land included nine fours, two twos and two singles. While he Iwas in only 51 runs were scored iso he monopolised the bowling some tune. And it partial qualification of what has been said about Jessop's Varsity form with the bat it may be mentioned port im "the great hitter." that Wisden's contemporary re-
had evidently made his name and it is still up to the present-day generation to produce an equal to him. His first year at [Lords in 1896 saw some famous men on the Oxford side. C. B. Fry—who was a_ centurion jin' the 1894 match—had just gone down. But Oxford's batting order showed: P. F. Warner, G. J. Mordaunt, H K. Forster, G. 0. Smith," C. C. Pilkington, H. D. G. Leveson-Gower for the first six. They had all disappeared in the following year when Cambridge took a fierce revenge by 179 runs.
Temptation to linger on these records is great. It must be resisted, It is sufficient to approve of the manner of summer's treatment of cricket this year. /Henley has seen fine rowing with ithe river at its sunniest and it is easy to imagine the glories of Simon is the worst Foreign Secretary we have had for years!" But that pathetic figure is not responsible for the Trish imbroglio, where we have been, with the help of Mr. J, H, Thomas, most signally defeated. How many times in the course of his mishandling the situation, his blundering blunderbuss speeches, has one not sighed for Lord Irwin or Sir Hamuel Hoare?
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