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Column-in-the-Wars Replies to the Critics
NEW
YORK
RISE to defend my-
self. An American
commentator
don, Paul broadcasting . to here, charges "Indicting" respondents who Britain..
Nothing
the
in Lon-
Niven,
me
millions with
U.S. cor- cover
to
DON IDDON'S DIARY
TUESDAY
bove of the sort.
advanced, and I to I said and
further into more delve
and action. been approached by the chief il catalogue of calamity is American thought
of ir-raid warden on the sixth pouring out of London about So, to Don Iddon, get out
Press of the Associated the grim conditions
check up on floor and dis- New York City, content in England. So it is rural America, and you can building.
He said: "It's got to be one everyone here who can read get the answer to a lot of ques knows that,
Lions and. problems."
(I told man's job to get the Daily Mail, Jou qur American friends Evening/News, and Sunday Die- I also said that the accuracy would soon be trying to run patch people out of this office of the American correspondents our newspapers.)
and Into the corridors away from the dying glass."
bir
in London was "unquestion- Sill, Mr Blake's advice Is able." Perhaps Mr Niven sound and I do not resent it. read the word as "questionable. The rural
America is a Really, he should read me more part of the real America.
before
rushing to
Good luck to him
the microphone.
I
am also under fire at the Dutch Trest Club, a luncheon
"THE WIND AND THE RAIN" inguished
by
MERTON HODGE
on
THURS. 8th MAR. 1951 ̄at ̄9.00-P,M.
Englishmen
is
I asked: "When do you ex- pect the flying class?" He said: "When the bombs fall."
and
air
I said: "When is thut?" he replied: "Who can tell-at's be ready here, anyway."
This
preoccupation with
terror is raics and the Red chilling. has even spread to Bright Bolshevist red fashions,
the colour of the season. Toddio Tinling, the British
ໂຕ
is
Margaret who is ahead of the
crowd. Now 27, she is being paid £1,000 for each radio programme and
each television She has signed contract and will money than
Wha S
in g
on
And Lady Jane will serve you
BY
a cup of tea-
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
Tpreparation
His other activiiles at him HERE is a flurry of
ideally to do so, for among in the
other things be la chairman of stately homes of Fullera, Ltd., the chocolate and Britain. The lords and ladies catering firm, and director of who own them see good the Dorchester Hotel. His asso
the food trade business ahead in Festival stretches over many years.
clation with
year.
Twenty years ago the prospect of trippers pouring over thele estates would not have been
welcome.
But, in 1051, "This way to the castle" is the cry, "Come on in and look around. Her grace that's her standing by the door -will sell you a guide books. The duke will show you tho pictures. Lady Jane will servo
and Lord John you tea;
will keep an eye on your car."
The Marchioness of Bath hat been working on a new book about Longleat, her beautiful Elizabethan house in Wiltshire.
She is a pioneer of house- helping to bring in the Hotends of pounds needed
each year to keep Longlent intact.
enormous
Meanwhile, 05 miles northeast of Longleat, the Duke of Mari- borough is getting Blenheim Prince ready for an Easter npening.
tween
He is lucky, for Blenheim Is on the main tourist route be- Oxford and the Cots- volds. Last year 100,000 prople paid half a crown each to go in. Here, too, the inhabitants, as well well as the historie treasures ure on view.
The duke ana duchess neip to show visitors
Sir Harry's new job makes him head of the biggest hotel bus:» ness in the world, 60 hotels plus every station buffet and rallway dining-car (except Pullman) in Britain.
Confounded
CASUAL acquaintances of Don Miguely Duke of Primo de Rivera, who in
coming to London as Spanish Ambassador, sometimes express surprise at his advancement in public Ilte.
Ha is a gay, and cheery soul, a Joker who does not always give the Impression of taking life too seriously, But in fact he Is a very capable man.
he was One day, in 1941,
by unexpectedly summoned Franco.
His friends Leasingly told him that he was in for a sticky interview. Instead, he was pleasantly surprised to be made
Agriculture. Minister of
And he turned the tables on friends mostly landed his
the grandees when, Inter In
meet went along to day, he them, for cocktails. In despairing tones he told them that all their calates were in peril.
aristocrats frightened
for clamoured
information. Eventually Don Miguel told in n voice of doom:
The
Lady them, around Rosemary sells the books, and "I have just been made Minis- (bobby-soxers, please note; tall, ter of Agriculture, fair-haired "Sonny," Maryule of £1,500 for Blandford, is sometimes there to
appearance. lend a hand. a four-year
On Whit Monday he will be make more performing in a musical ride by her father.
who the
Household Cavalry Blenheim Park.
has not
to yet promised not write to the critics. Why not sign Miss Truman
for the Palladium?
Star reports
say in New
me
DICHARD GREENE tells
Going north? Why not call a at Warwick Castle? The Earl of Warwick will be delighted to see is a real you, and his house knights-in-armour pile of towers and turrets.
•
North again? The Duke of lies York for several months doing Devonshire's Chatsworth
and television shows, on your route. Here, you may radio
see the treasures of the Caven- The break with Patricia Medina
dish family, whose art collection is costing him plenty.
Whoover sent
that appalling is one of the finest in the world. "British" Blm "No Orchids But do not expect to see much For Miss Blandish" over here? of the family. They can still It is about as British as a hot- afford to be aloof. dog
British tolevision comic Terry-Thomas is due here
the Waldorf-Astoria play at and very welcome.
Gracie Fields is selling Santa Monica home, in Call- fornia, and will live mest the time on the Isle of Capri.
her
of
There is another young duke who
home in opens his
the North-the Duke of Rutland. He
Briefing 'Boom*
THE TOP Allied Aghter- pilot of the last war, Wing-
Jamca Edgar Commander ("Johnnie") Johnson (D.S.O. and two bars, DF.C. and bar), has been in London reporting his ex- Service chlets on periences in Korea with the U.S. Air Force.
th
The day before he was due to fly back to America, where he detachment since has been on 1948, his telephone rang,
A booming voice at the other end said:
"Is that Johnson, the Johnson from Korea?"
Johnnie agreed that it was,
"Well, I want you to have lunch with me in the House of Lords tomorrow. My name ta Trenchard."
And so it was that the 78-year- founder of the owns two great houses, Haddon old father and
Royal Air Force (whose activi- Hall, which will be open, and ties in the last 12 months include Belvoir Castle, which will not. a seven-mile-high fight in the That makes three dukes a Comet, and a 600-miles-an-hour my first quick round-up, to say Hip nothing
of
their Gracen
of flip in a two-seater jet fighter) brought himself up to date on the latest aspects of air tactics.
The first time the two me ever met was a less cheerful Occasion. It was in 1942. Johnnie nghter ̈commanding “a
In the Midlands, squadron, "Eoom" Trenchard was flying North in a transport. plane,
club here which entertains dis ONE young
guests. Last week
going to try his luck there, the chairman Jose, Wavod
a anyway. He is Hugh Martin an account of Waite, and he was a major paper carrying the harsh questioning of Sir the Lancashire Fusiliers. Gladwyn Jebb reéeritty", and He came to my office yester designer, hay called on me, and She once invited me there, and Richmoud, Sutherland, Norfolk, said he didn't know who Don day
and said: "I read your
of I hope the invitation is still and Northumberland and old he expects to make a lot
hunds at the business, Iddon was, but what about the column about Dallas, Texas, a
doller's for Britain. He says open, as I expect to be in Cauri -off-the-record--rule?"-
Royalty aside, there are only -month-ago.- The day I read that the British have the-in-the-spring.
20 dukes in the British peerage. It I decided to pack up and
Merte Oberon. Mrs Bing So you see that, as a class, they am on my way creative talent, but the Ameri there; I
cupyists and Crosby, Walt Disney, Florence could not be called net in their now with
mass-producers. Tinling says Desmond, and Cecil Beaton 'are of confidence capital but a lot cans are superti
it-not me.
all Europe-bound. The latest
Footnote: the proposed in furs is skunk dyed blonde, scented Uke lantic appointment of an Ameri- can adiniral shows that Britain fair that the British lake over spring and looking like mink.
entertainment parade is suffering from yet another | It is the President's daughter shortage-leadership.
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BOOKINGS AT MOUTRIES,
AND AT THE THEATRE-30 MINUTES BEFORE PERFORMANCE.
Kowloon Residents:
PIER
each
Press still free
AM familiar with the rule
Good luck
to Major Waite. and did not break it, as I If the Americans are going to was not present at the luncheon, take over our Navy it is only am not a member of the club, and I did not quote anyone.
Finally
the in-
Texas.
to round out the bill
Here in the Metropolis the of complaints, there has been a
great debate on foreign policy series
letters of
in
seems to have petered out, from Americans, Paper
Most people this week have sisting that I cease champion- preferred to talk about
local ing Britain and refrain from matters, the big sensation be- criticising the United States.
ing bribery among basketball, Who do all these people players. A spécial FERRY WILL RUN from POLICE
Today Now An admiral? A
Yorkers arc think I am? 35 mins, before THEATRE KOWLOON, to the
Socialist politician? I advise shocked and chagrined as they -performance, returning after the show. FARE $1.00 each
our good American frienas and tread gingerly among fallen
strown ailles that they may be running doin way.
have they are gamblers
been putting everything else, but not yet running British news- the "x" on star players, and palms that should have boen papers, writing my column, or censoring my views.
ball into the catapulting the Of course,
greased with happen net have been next week. After the Royal dirty money. Navy, the British newspapers.
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Racketeer 'runs
second Cabinet'
By SYDNEY SMITH WASHINGTON.
First there is the
At-
Miami-
WITHIN the Unite
WITHIN the United Chicago axis run by the old Al
Capone syndicate. headed now Bby ex-bootleggers Tony Accordo, govern- the Fihetti Brothers, and Jake
So there are to be investiga- vast secret second What a lowly and humillating tions and probes and Inquiries, ment-"government by the Guzik. estate we have reached under just as Howard Whitman, an underworld."
the. Labour Government.
What next?
wonder the Americans
day now I expect them to
Scomand
American journalist who work-
between The other axla is Miami and New York. Here the ed in London, rocks the police So a Senate committee reports, high shots are Frank Costello department by charging that And, according to the committee, and Joe Adonis. the New York police suppress the head of It is Charles "Lucky" statistics instead of crime, Luciano, the biggest racketeer
All this is very embarrassing of them all.
of
Windsor
after
Adonis is a big-time gambler. but not so big as Costello, a dappër. Italian with a taste for extortion, chalic-stripe suits, and English cigarettes.
Nassume
that they are in for big bowler-hatted Tom
the new Police Com- The organisation has its own charge of the whole show. Any MODET.
shadow cabinet, enforces its own name the Chief Constable of
Mr Murphy is not the only laws, raises revenue, carries out our police JL, lake hand time of it. The Duke and
who has been having aits own executions.
"But" says the report, i Yard
with the
Master-man Luciano runs it there can be said to be one who the Over
Fire
(the from Stelly. For he was deported. cits as arbitrator of any disputes, Girl the Boy Scouts,
is much better
fr frpm America 1940 after it is Charles Luciano." her operation) are receiving un serving ten years of a 30-year Rover Boys, and Brownies,
do not blame them for such extraordinary Press Every
In its year of investigation the proprietary assumptions,
Senators called before them 500 We titilo-tatilor and tall-tale-teller sentence In Sing-Sing
Sicily is the laland where he witnesses, some have bean bowing and scraping has been printing wild gossip
tight-Upped broadcasting it too.
was bort Ho in married to a some questers, sonrih‘moro Run- the generous and powerful Re- It public ever since. Mr Attice both
the Duke
and Duchess so he says, is making spaghetti look office!
simple truth is that theto which he is devoted. We are so much the Junior Duchess has not been well for partner that we appear midgets
and muddled ones at that
and banging our heads to the and one been most upsetting to ballet dancer. His only business, youesque than Runyon
PASOLINES SIVY/11: the, American publishers and weeks
and, at her bus-}
1 APM, 1
I make atie requicht
When
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The American Army and Air Force did not cost half that
There were Charley "Cherry Nose" Goe, Murray the Camel, Jack "Greasy Thumb" Goolck, Frank "the
But what goes on in America? Meatball Jones, Marging, has attended
Bunctions and dinner The Senate Committee estimates Pereunder Niddy, Hymle "Load needed relaxation "conservatively that £7,142,- Mouth" Sam "Golf Bag"
Levon, editors move into Flool-street, while he has worked on Als 640,000 changes hands every Hunt-he
Hunt-ho always carried his
па golf bag please tell me in advanco: 16-memoirs
the smallThe Duke
it is over the newspapermen m
SAYS: "We American towns at lenat are happier now than
of vice, drug-poddiing, whon wo
Veintions furt married. The
gambling, violence, murder, exx tortion and the siding of two rumoura of separation and
State Governors in their election are 100 percent discord
rue and fallacious,"
campaigns, the Senatore ackf
secret government of crimesters is a serious maps.co Buch an organisation is neces which could, if not curbed, bo would like to sarily very complicates but the cone the basis of a subversiva Don Iddon. Has a standing List Civil: Defence Burlato Committes sad but the movement which could wreck King's Building (2nd Floor) 9 Connaught Rd., Hong Kong Invitation to reura to Charisa and be, would be well. De empire of the underworld gen be the foundation of this country " „Town" and to Jelerson County bezion preparations and now roughly divided into two parts ang Loydon Exprem Servion)
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Someone like Edward "Blake,† Editor of the Jeferson Republi. can, would do well He re printed any recent, Diary about
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Raid-conscious
THE Duko
last year.
The committee points out that millions have to be spent to make millions.
ways.
To run hotels SINCE Lord Inman's retire ment on January 15, the British Railways Holcis Exccu- tive has been without a chair
Now can tell you that man has been found for the job. He Io Industrialist Sir Harry Methven.
man,
Sir Harry, who has served on the Executive since 1948, has accepted the chairmanship on a temporary and part-time basis, He says, too, that he intends to run the business at a profit,
Whiteness
wns
One of Johnnie's pilots, on a practice flight in a Spitfire, wAB in a playful mood and started "buzzing" the big plane,
Diving
dangerously close ho fouled the transport's tralling rerial, and Lord Trenchard's pilot was forced to innd-an the leid from which, the offending Spare had come.
over
Johnnie (38 victories German planes) rates the sub- sequent interview as his most frightening experience in the
wor.
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