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Not too simple

By Robert Black

Workers Press no. 335, 23 December 1970 · scan page 4

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The play's often amusing sometimes farcical situations and dialogue reflect this, but do not cut across the essential seriousness of the theme. boy a further beating-up.

And Crampton's warning is followed immediately by the BBC's radio divine service for schools, all sweetness and Good form for all DO know when to call a Duke 'Your Grace'? Are you quite sure how to address the Queen when you meet?

If you write a letter to an MP with a degree, which do you put first ?

If you haven't got the correct ideal Christmas present for you.

Published by Kelly's Directories at 55s, its 366 pages are packed with information indisSo the news - suppressed by most papers, including the Morning Star'-that the Gdansk shipyard workers sang "The Internationale' when they marched into the city, upset 'Simple' particularly badly.

Terrifying

"That they could find no better song to express their wish for freedom is both ironical and pathetic, writes "Simple'. pensable to every Workers Press reader.

Just think: next time you have an Archbishop, a Viscountess and a couple of Field-Marshals round to tea, you could look up the only proper order of precedence.

I mean, you'd feel such a fool if you got it wrong, wouldn't you? The right way Then, do you know the right ray to apply for a voucher to he Royal Enclosure at Ascot ?

•'The Internationale" is the hymn of that poltical doctrine, itself perversely, inhuman, whose further perversion in E Europe has for 25 years held down the Polish nation by military force and fraud.' What terrifies capitalist politicians today is precisely that the working class is moving forward to its emancipation, breaking from bureaucracy, and condomtuouere dejecting the treethem Simple' and his masters. Wellino wonder you The book also gives the correct pronunciation for names like Colquhoun and Wynford. Did you know that, while Abergavenny is a Welsh town, the peer of that name must be pronounced 'Aber-genny'?

And what about the McGillycuddy of the Reeks? (You may recall the name as being associated with a right-wing political group some years ago.) He (or is it she or it?) must be pronounced 'Mac-li-cuddy.

The book undoubtedly fills a long-felt want. In his introduction, Sir lain Moncreifle says people are always addressing him improperly. (Pronounce it 'Muncreef, pleasé.)

The book is written by Mr Patrick Montague-Smith (pronounced "Smith'), editor of 'Debrett's Peerage' (pronounced "Yeukh !').

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