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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951.
Holiday cricket
London Express Service
DON IDDON'S DIARY
7ELCOME to Anthony.
Eden, the Ameri- America applauds Mr Eden,
cana say, and some ask penetrating questions. Why does Great Britain stagger from one financia! Does crisis to another?
Britain intend to pay back to the United States the 1946 loan? If so, please explain the report that she will waive interest payments at the end of this year.
speaker for Britain, and
Morrison,
writer
Mr.
to Russia
NEW YORK, TUESDAY
and don't
to
makt me
Mr Eden, now touring the United States, could, of course, functions, opening bazaars, kiss- kg per week. 4oz. of butter.
(one meal remind his questioners that Bri- ing babies, posing for pictures, 4oz. of bacon tin has been carrying the So- accepting
greeting you), 10oz. of sugar. Ask your plaques, einlist Government on her back celebrities,
and Inscribing wife, for
several
but he would photographs.. years,
laugh." it. He is abroad, and not do
I will not 'criticise his "country's Government on foreign.. soil, however friendly.
Police upset CERTAINLY there are more important Jobs. for him to So he is stressing the sacrifices tackle.
New York's policemen at home and the long pull since threaten a strike, and no won- the war, and, because of this dig der. The pay of many patrol nity and statesmanship, personal
is men
mere 50 dollars, a charm, and brilliant record, he
Le week-about £18, This is D is winning friends and conquer sta
e starvation salary in this city ing criticism. But the questions
and mass meetings are being keep cropping up in the editorial held and police unions planned. columns of the newspapers, on radio programmes, and in the public forums.
We are called upon for an ex- planation and Mr Shinwell and his muskėt have not helped a great deal,
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If the police do walk out, I dread to think what will happen.
warn-
There is also another involved to-do about the gir-raid ings. People have tired of the sirens' blasts and walls at noon each Saturday, so now we are
'Wake up, Europe' to have the drills every other
"MERICAN business men,
Friday at 31 a.m.
O
cottage at
or two 'August.
It
A
Group Captain HUGH DUNDAS continues...- his `-` survay, How Tough Is The Task of the West?
Get these wonderful planes into the air
Wo factors could wrongly reserved for the de-
balance the frighten- ing 10-1 disparity in strength between the ground forces of East and West-power in the air, might on the sea.
fence of this country.
On top of this, the Ameri- cans have between 200 and 300 nighters this side of the Atlantic.
Now what have we got to
hit back with? I would not
estimate the front-line strength of RAF Bomber Command's Heavy "planes at much more than 100, plus a token, force
of twin-engined' Mosquitos,
In ships Britain and the US have a clear advantage, But the kind of navy Russla is building mostly submarines
Coastal Command? Probably (now Around
300) and even weaker, numerically, than destroyers (naw around 100) our bomber force. can best be tackled from ine air.
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Transport Command? I think Bgure of 200 planes might
Air power may prevent a be an optimistic exlimate. war. Air power,, if anything. That, in effect, is all the could win it for us. Let us bomber, coastal, and transport see what the West up planes Western
Europe can against.
muster.
one-
most to got dollar-epending customers to Britain and make Russia has a force of 10,000 them want to stay there? Not warplanes, and about on your life, Mr Ellis.
Afth of these are moderh jets, AL lexs!
ars showing The proportion we
DS modernised month and enterprise in chergy entertainment. Our stars are so tories swing into their stride. fatented that
Output from these plants is around 750 planes a month. Soon
will be
Broadway
Hollywood seck them out.
and
NOT NEW
No one could feel too 2013- rises every adent
that about
generai fac situation, particularly as the fighters Brillah Vampires and Meteors, or US Shooting Stars of and Thunderjets are not the newest design.
Dut there is a good side os
And 2,000 a year.
some
the Russians Mel Ferrer flies to England soon to
Sir beg and beseech
they are good planes well as a bad to this balanço Laurence Olivier to play "The
are sheet. Life bf Shakespeare," which as good as anything we
building in the West.
We in Britain, have Ferrer has just completed. Says
They have that fine inter wonderful new planes and en- TH the only Ferrer: "Oilvier
fighter ceptor
the MIG15 gines coming along. Already celor in the
capable world
now in quantity production. this summer the Vickers firm of playing Shakespeare 03
put into
pro- Shakespeare should be played." I speed, climb, and armament has flown and
It rivals anything in the West. duction the "Swift" Aghtor hope Sir Laurence will accept.
They have two newer fighter and a new four-jet bomber Rex Harrison, Robert Morley types, which we shall
Within two months I expect Loo Genn are all being wooed hear
and to about, the La.17
to hear of three more up-to- the minute fighters, and оле for plays here.
or two new Jet Age bombers, which powered by engines lead the world quality,
Yak.10.
TWIN-JET
5000
There is talk of bringing quole Mr Eills because I Waters of the Moon" and its receive 'many letters along stars Edith Evans, Sybil
They have a twin-jet toeti- these lines. I know about the Thorndike, Wendy Hiller over
cal bomber-the Tu.10-built and the sacrifice, but, here. misery
for the same role as our Can- for great goodness and Great
berra.
is ke, let
going Britain's
us stop Danny Kaye says he won't sending
such a
for two squadrons fast. catalogue of be going to England calamity all the time to
They have many squadrons the years. "If you go back toc
bom often United States.
the kick is lost, and, of piston-engined heavy
bers and a Zour-jet one on the The meat shortage and
the besides, you have to gather
material. rationing
Kaye way. in Britain
are not lot of new
plans a big American tour and the fault of the U.S.
on ambitious television show.
Mr Ellis also added: "I point this out to you as it infuriates my daily woman, and you have several working-class readers."
Straw-hat circuit
a
in size and
The US Government is In- terested in producing some of into these engines and at least one the of the planes, as well us twin-Jet Canberra,
On the Continent. partiči larly In France and Italy, plan- ning is at last giving way to production. If these countries fulfil
Those are: the ingredients good stuff from top to bottom. At the present rate of produc- tion it will not be long before planes of this calibre form the greater part of Russia's 19,000-
Not many people here have OUGLAS FAIRBANKS Wht strong air war feet,“
daily women, Mr Ellis. As for the working-class reference, I am a member of the working class myself;
Grouning and grumbling will -get-Great--Britain-nowhere,
into
trouble.
more
will be Anthony 'Eden's host during Mr Eden's Holly wood visit, intends to revive his father's best flims on both cinema and televizion screens. Fairbanks and Eden are old friends.
Many of the stars arÒ now straw-hat circuit
What Is the Western: anti- dote to this Red air might?
their programine the situation will look much brighter in two years time.
MOST IMPORTANT
I have kept the most impor tant asset-American air power I would any that the RAF —till last. The USAF, with # has between 700 and 800 jet high standard of morale and fighters, based in Britain and professional skill, is expanding on the Continent. Nearly half at sensational speed. of those are in squadrons of Look at the figures. Last the Royal Auxillary Air Force. December
It had 68 wipes per wing) France has little more than (three squadrons 200 jet fighters. Belgium, Hol- and 600,000 men. By last April
81 wings there were
and land. Denmark, and Norway 700,000 men. Soon after the turn of the year there will be perhaps 300 between them."
wings and Italy has a skeleton force of
more than 1,000,000 men, jets, but most of her fighters are platon-engined planes.
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Confused by these charades, I cxcept A back from abroad, say to me: "Why don't they wake up in plan to spend each Friday out of Change the record, my country touring the
men, and intensify the dollar and appearing in the summer
The Europe? They will all have to the Metropolls.
Bennett
girl drive-particularly to garner theatres, work a lot harder-as hard ar A generous friend has lent me the tourist trade.
Constance and Joan are proving harder than American-im-
Westhampton
a big draw. At our local theatre I did a great deal of travel- prove their salesmanship, re-
its Westhampton is Burgess gain their pride, become finan-Beach, Long Island, for a day
Last each
week Arthur during ling in North America on my Meredith. week clally independent."
little more return after doing a good deal Treacher was the lead.
So without US contribution, be numerically worse off than chicken coop
a of traveling in Bilain. Here Some say: "The unions and
FOOTNOTE (and inflation the European countries: could the East. But the proportion the Welfare State are making shack, but it is equipped with the restaurants and washrooms
aboard the trains note): The sequel to "You put up a defensive force of will be' nearer what is needed kitchen equipment and it is on are
plumbing and and toilets
You" is around 1,200 jet planes, half to ensure that a defender can Keep It of which, those In Fighter hold off attack while building Commund, arc rightly or up his own offensive.
many people bone idle they need a real dressing-down."
than
fine American
the ocean.
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Even old Tom Conually, the Westhampton is a pleasant Senator from Texas, usually a little town and apparently: reliable Truman wheel-horse, is loaded with dollars. The streets In revolt. To the deep embar are bright with gleaming con- rassment of the President and vertible cars, shiny saloons the EC.A., old Tom has bel- and pert British sports models, lowed: "The U.S. can't support All the Hamptons-West- the whole free world and re-
Southampton, hampton,
East-
immaculate. Can we say Can't Take It With the same about curs at home? "You Can't Even Are we really doing our ut While You're Here,"
True, even then the West will
Land of noise and camp fires
BAD ISCHL, Austrin.. main solvent." And many here hampton, Hampton Bays, on ITAVE you ever wonder- repeat Connally's words.
seem
Of course, everything in hup-wing landscom to have a Ha
what the world
BERNARD
pening to make people irritable, in America's Cole d'Azur und would be like if nobody ever
Dedicated to idling, drink particularly in New York.
grew up? Well, you should WICKSTEED
This is too much
swimming,
gambl
come to this green valley-
We will start our tour at the tens in Korea, I remember that marke: place, where there are one night we built little wooden shops selling goods at the cbt of the mzuntains and a great fre for date, such as fegs, knivis, end round, dalking of home, and badges, sweets without coupeos fetc, and war. and; of course, jews' harps,
Now, here I am, sing round Except that no one here is over emo he camp fire at the feet of Oriental bazaar, with its teething lot of mass of different-coloured people all talking et once in their own looguages....
Falling, fishing, with a funny name high in Visits the Boy Scouts 18 years of age, dis just like an enother mountain wkli, another
ing. surinking, ing, dancing ander-drinking.
being handed around amor, accop
to.
arout.
mouth.
Voucester ¦
But what
a difference For there Gloucesters are all Bey Scouts, without thought Jut blind the maskot is en
war enormous plie of poles, carried or fear in their minds, and they ard boving such a wonderful down from the mountain forests. dime at this world Jambore that It took the Austrians two year I doubt if they are thinking of to accumulate the pile, and there was a touch of genius behind the
home much, either, idea.
They are r
more concerned
Beasure if there is one way of at the mercat in 3raming how to cary fireweed, en, shets: heads, keeping 18,000 boys happy for Tast's the way their camp neigh week is to give them oxes and bours, the Sudantre boys, Icts of wood..
The town seems 'pro-British, the pine-covered mountains World Jamboree THE wholesale dismissals of and there are many cars bearing of Austria. Then you'd find THE
cadets at West Point (the G.B. signs whose owners American Sandhurst) for a vio Everyone, however. means wet about as British os ་ འ hol-dog Intion of their handur code by
Fifteen thousand Boy and in almost every jamberce cheating at examinations has and, Datonishingly, Mr Herbert
of the Scouts are having a jam- Morrison Manhattan.
in the hero dismayed
Now,
You can buy them for 70. cribbing at examinations does hour at the Hamptons--at least borce here. You never saw
a twang so many bare knees and the camp, and it is not seem a major erime, but at the parties I've been
twang this and a twang-twang New Yorkers are aghast. !
Morrison praised.
happy faces in your life. the all day long. They have shrugged their
And you never heard such
The parents' of 42 milions are shoulders over
Idlers think Herbert a noise, either. refrigerators, THE
gang to be pretty tired of Jews' deep-freezers, and mink coats pulled off a 'major political Bugles blow madly from dawa hirps when their boys come
coup and a major journalistic to dusk, The Scotish Scouts home from here. friends of the White House.
by going into the have brought the bagpipes. Tho have merely raised their eye- columns of Pravda.
Finnish Scouts have a brass band If you can bear the noise, would
"It is a supos éricle, beczum brows over graft and corruption Morrison,
irgely unknown just behind my tent, and they you like to take a walk round
you can carry dwice as much, among City officials. They have in the United States, is recsly started up in the morning at the camp and look at the people
wood that way ca you can by bgen monchalant about dope- Ing plaudits all round, and hall-past six.
They swarm on the timber hand," and the boy Gloucesters who will be running, the world peddling, gangster-killings, and American editors pay tribute
in 20, 30 and 40 years from now? like arts and drag sway the are determined to master it be
pales-10ft, and 20ft, long to fore cong hems, 1990 defence-profiteering, but cheat to the cub columnist
Thite are hores of white lents, their camp to buiki bridges,
over In no way Is Westhampton
orange-coloured tents, green imaginary forrerda, fences to or Southampton
One of the great problems here The Austrian boys have we tents and brown tents all with keep away fictitious lions, and is finding good turns to do every lively American. It la for the other bass band that goes into
the Bcout vilded few or Those lucky action whenever the. Finns feeling in the breezes serumerous itchy structures led day. As you know,
together string.s
do his enough to have People are ashamed.
a coltage lent tired. The Germans have brought I hope
them by u kind friend.
! 60 guitars with them, and every. Did you or the flim "Henry The Welsh boys have made and when you get 10,000 of them they will not take the matter too
theso remarks will
boy in the camp seems to have V" Well, it's just the same as kind of pit-bead winding gear, all looking for a good deed to much to heart. Better to con- I hope.
the gifted. com-
jews
that here of night, There are and the longlist boys have gone do, you have to act taking in centrate on more pressing prob- not provoke
almost the entice nearly thousand camp fires; in for skylors in a big way, each other's washing gatal k lems, such as the sad state of poser Vivian Fills to anger,
Mr. Ellis wrote me last week!
Thers are at least four wooden merkort gouden New York City.
"I have to point out that as conca from a small village car and clog, or else gaze at the skylam scattered around the the act **The ind,. pronion shown by regards there bring enough to here, so the instrument has been flames in allent thought
camp, end during a mountain come across is to say to somecha Mayor Impolitier has not been eat in England, this may apply chosen as the official symbol of The big differenon is that they
thunderstorm one day They
ut you take my photograph for me, 7'll take yours. fulalled.
to hotels and restaurants for the lamberet Tumpy's supports say with those who can afford them. There Jews harp on the have not got to go into battlo were solemnly coped off 44 sorrow, that he mayor is knock Ten pennyworth of meat; per jambored stains, on the Jamboree tomorrow. They will swap Car the 1. semprd uut was li dərs grem, é pily sima wa
arith the dew: Limmortal Claustră”, ever"" #cow: Uni ing himself out altanding: social weekenjunt wy Akt. We get one, baggt, on the Jambores dag, slumps and badges Lautend,
ing during examinations at exalted West Point, the na tion's, No. 1 military collego this is too much,
representa-
the many of Jews',) harps round which" boys eli ・ and talk -
good curn,