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CYLE 48
LONDON. the Qulenell faintly is of little
Mrs use to surgeons, because years Quinuell, of Sinodun ay not be removed until
hours after death, Ronil. Didcot, hus been blind. She is also stono dent.
Unless the cornes-the trans- parent portion of the front of the eye covering, the eyeball.... in rennved within two hours et druth it begins to cloud.
fr
Now, at the age of 60, by one
opera of the cerneal grafing tions for which the Queen Vic-
France hus passed a law to toria Hospital at East Grinstead.
the pre come this dimeulty, and renowned, bresine
Minister of has . Crookshank, sight of one of her
Is Health, has stated that he considering proposals to amend British low..
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been restored.
eyes
at
THE MIRACLE ❝IVE held a family reunion to celebrate the miracle," said her husband to me, "and the reunion our three children, Lilian, aged 42, Frederick, 40, and "Albert, 35, decided as a mark of gratitude to sign docu- ments bequeathing their eyes to the hospital on death.
owit their
have
"I would most gladly given my own
eyes ng
well, but the surgeon told me that They were not suitable. So, in
lead. I am devoting myself 10 the campaign to enrol other eye-donors.
Mrs Quinnell's deafness made the operation difficulties facing the eye surgeon unusual,
The Queen Victoria Hospital, Jo mora of Thess Wh
perallons than any ether hos
a Britain, has a wailing it of more than 200, all wait- is for corneas to become avail- able.
WE'LL MOST
REGRET
BY 1960
T
common
official
The Biggest Blunder
By SEFTON DELMER
and
Everywhere the cause of Com- THE biggest and fluence the statements of a areas." If it does ao "
like Dean, we shall intensify the con--mumiam outside the Soviet Union.
munism has flourished. For Com gravest of all our high
flict and alienate the and it satellites has espoused postwar blunders is Acheson,
peoples of these countries the cause of nationalism that we have never
He, after all, is the head
from our side."
made it its own, matched the common front
In India, British withdrawal of the U.S. State Depart-
followed by murderous in Europe with à
Interests are best anarchy in which Hindus and front in the East or North ment, a man of considerable "OUR LONG-TERM was
courage and Integrity and
Moslems allempted to extermi- Africa.
planner-in-chief served if peoples' aspira nate each other. American
for
representative. In China the treaty rights of of Western defence policy tiona
the British were abolished. against Stalin.
The anti-British Chiang Kai- shek tools over. The Americans themselves were appalled at the Orgy of corrupt maladministra- tion which followed,
We have not even c'aborated a common plan. Instead, there is a alarming conflict.
most
Four months ago I sent a despatch from warning But, under present restric-Tunis. It told of the acti tons, the Supply of liable vities In Amerien of one ones is Himited and irregular, Habib Bourguiba.
town's Recently, a crowded meeting held at East Grinstead and addressed by Mr B. W. Rycroft, the eye surgeon,
the Sir Archibald Mcdoe, plastic surgeon, decided to start movement in the town stimulate and organise the be queathing of the
eyes after death.
corneay
remove
and
to
of
it 13 the
Her husband, who had mas- It was explained that tered the deaf and dumb sign not necessary to language in order to converse whole of the eye, but merely covering, and that. with her, conveyed to her the the front surgeon's instructions by signals its removal does not cause any
with disfigurement. harid tapped
her On his fingers.
He remained at the hospital for six weeks to do this. 1
MOST SUCCESSFUL
MR
RS Quinnell's advanced age also presented difficulties. But a week after the operation the surgeon was able to ther that it was the most suc-
tell
ccssful-coreal grafting opera-.
in he had ever done.
It restored good sight to her left eye. The other eye is be yond treatment.
Mrs
Back home, smiled at me over her
and responsible government are fulfilled in a peaceful Here are ✡
few, quotes and ordinary fashion." from a recent public de- claration by Acheson:--
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expressed
Stalin's balm
.
As that regime disintegrated, China fell under the rule of the only Power determined to rule triumph for firmly
The Communists took over and of Bourguiba. And what embarked on a campaign of ex-
✡
"THE FERMENT at Egypt and work in Tunisia is nothing less than WHAT the contagious ideas This boss of the Tunisian liberty, justice and indepen- balm for Stalin as a politi- pansion into the rest of South-
in the cal prophet.
cast Asia. nationalists was stumping dence
They attack- American re- from coast to coast with French and
For Stalin has laid it od in Kores. denouncing volutions just a century and
down as axiomatie that the Suddenly speeches
a half back." America's ally France as
Western capitalist world is Americans
them "alaver and oppressor."
"THE WEST must not so divided
against itself found
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selves burdened allow itself to become that it is bound to dis- with the same
collapse ro identified with the obstacles Integrate and to change in the face of the especially if given a oncoming and irrepressibly shove by the Soviet Union, dynamic forces in these
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I confess, however, that I did not at the time antici pate that the Bourguiba campaign would have been sufficiently strong
Salesmen
to
in
Still Needed
Dollars
To Get The
New York, Tuesday.
Quinnoll
busy
F Britain is engaged
"1
knitting needles and sald: had to put these aside 20 years ago. Now I can see from my the and window the birds flowers in our garden, "Best of all, I can
see
The
dear face of my husband who has been so patient, so good to me through all these years of darkness.
many
" can also see that people I had pictured as ugly are not, so ugly after all, and that others are uglier than I thought,
~SHOCK' FOR HER MRS Quinnell, since
in a dollar drive here
it.
I haven't seen There is perhaps B
dollar lethargic
"crawl" meandering along; but that won't reap the American currency.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
the
goodponsibili
shouldered by
But that a man of such standing can make a state-
the British, the Dutch, and the French.
In Burma, too,
HARIN BOURGUIBA
Trouble-edizer
ment so muddled and so we got out. damaging to the interests what happened? Anarchy took of America's allies, and over. Even today only a third therefore to America her of the country owes allegiance self is a product of this to the Rangoon Government.
Much the same happened in blundering conflict between Indonesia after the Dutch were the American attitude to made to leave by the United nationalist movements and Nations Commission.
our own...
If this conflict is allowed
and there never were so many to continue it will Americans."
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Applause
weaken the Western side BUT the really odd thing is forty-four that Stalin will be in a D that with all their prejudice
A hundred and pounds of meat a year your position to accomplish his against colonialism and imperi- own weight in meat, ch? How do you like that?
Perhaps Mr Churchill should' have said: "I have not come for gold, but for meat.”
plans without a war.
L
Truth wanted
this G
ap.
allsm the Americans have. plauded and supported the only postwar case of imperialist con quest outside. China and Soviet Russla
They have overlooked entkely the ruthlessness with which You must not imagine that
TREAT as the damage is 1,000,000 Palestine Arabs were everything: Is perfect in
New When the pound sterling was
paradise.
already it is still not driven from their homes. mest-choked
Now I believe that the Zionista years ago
non- shrinkable, for York is particularly plagued at too late for the Dutch, the ars achieving remarkable things devalued over two
were stirrings and signs washed,
the moment, and I don't mean
French and ourselves to in Israel-comparable to those. there
wwere four dollars."
The post of life. British goods
merely by strikes. advertised in full-page spreads
make a concerted effort in achieved by the French In "Floe I have murmured
service is breaking down. New York, in the newspapers,
Zionist with my goods and silverware"
Inferior to Britain's home the truth to her Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,. leather
friends when they claim they and G.P.O. fewer deliveries, American allies, San Francisco stores had and I have been told: "Yeah, & vactly
are bringing civilisation has and
our fine price--too expensive." en-"Buy Brilish" weeks and
fewer collections, and sold swiftly across the At this point there is nothing slow-but now it is having
progress to an area which badly She goods
needs So did the French "Scotch whisky," By but
difficulty in functioning at all. said: "And didn't the price e-shop counters.
where one partner insists on and the Dutch all over the globe. kets give me a shock!"
That first fine rapture did not which we certainly can and do it often takes three or four days that no real alliance is possible in North Africa and the Briush As the law slands in Britain
gets only about five of New York State to be de-liquidating the interests of the other, wenkening him in mich a today bequest of their eyes by last. The Impetus went out of sell, but the sad thing is that for a letter posted
the campaign. Today I see Britain
shillings on each battle and a livered at the other end.
way that he is unable to do his BOAC advertising regularly, bottle of Scotch here costs £2
The unfortunate postmen are share in opposing the common
and overladen, cverworked, 10s. and up.
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they just
after the Post after the war makes it abun-
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No all-out effort
ם
THERE is no all-out inspired
to
effort by
Eritish business
garner the dollars. Whose.
fault Is It? The Board of Trade
or British business men?
to
The service has always been America. We must bring and Morocco,22
trade, said to be one of our big-side the office
small-
at one end
our
It must be pointed out to them
enemy.
it.
This is the mission of colon!- alism. If the American public approve and support it in Israel they must support it in Tunisia, ** Yes, I think there is a mast persuasive case to be put to the Americans.
Finally, there is the tourist dump my letters in bundles out- The record of the arab years
It must be put to them st gest dollar-corners. Sir Alexan- Office requested that such con- dantly clear that appeasement ente. By 1960 I want to be able
of the Ambitious nationalist der Maxwell, it could be a lot cession be made in writing.
I wrote: "Gentlemen,This bigger.
an postwar blunders politicos, far from pacifying Asia to look back on this gravest of letter will serve as permission and creating stability and place which was put right in 1953, to the letter-carriers to place in fact created chaos;. war and our morning mail outside
the anarchy. cffice when they doors of our
The wrong type.
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E keep sending productivity are locked. It is understood, of
W teams over here. Have we course, that the mallman will the mail tied in neat market and its parcels as has been done in the
Are we really past." trying to give the American
We cannot blame the Ameri- ever sent a group to study the leave can customer. He a ready, American
on
tain?
Dark Streets
-(London Express Service)
£12 Students
Students Have
In Mayfair
Egypt
By ROBERT KINGSLEY
enger, and willing to buy if the special needs? goods are priced right, the tourist what he wants in Bri- quality high, and delivery schedule.
And if and when we do send THEN there is a considerable to-do about street lighting. Often the goods fre 1101 priced right, the quality is not over our dollar-secking repre New York is of en considered be sentatives, send the right types. high, and the delivery is behind No stuffed skirts, no forced ne- city of blazing light, and the Broadway sector is an Inflamed cents, no condescending coves carbuncle, but the side-streets
by the Egyptian 1 have a dreadful feeling whose sales talks start off; "The
trouble with you Americans is and up-town and down-town TN BRITAIN today there ed
Aare between 700 and Government belong; $1 that We are earning fewer
" and end: "Really, dollars in the United States by central heating is impossible fleld.
800 Egyptian students. subscription is deducted the sales of our products than here no restraint, no culture.”
They
are ss dark that mo- They study subjects rang- from their "salary. In before devaluation.
That is not the way to sell, torists have been ordered to ing from animal genetics the restaurant they can
drive with their headlights
schedule,
the
are darker than darkest Shef-
All I can get from British or didn't anyone tell some of turned on, not just the side-
officials here is mumbo-jumbo, our commercial travellers? not hard facts, but I do know
lights,
(at Edinburgh Univeralty) ent Egyptian type food, tá naval architecture cooked by a Greek, 'served (Glasgow) and insecticides by a Cypriot waitress. that the delivery of some Bri- All sorts of theories are held
The entertainment world was
"Do not talle, politics,”
Hosam flah goods to American here regarding Britain's econo Indignant that Britain's Graham (Imperial College, London).
Eldin' Bey had asked; me, and customers has Ingged no tar mic troubles, but the one that Greene should have been denied
They are among the added "All the students will behind promises that many appeals to me most is De Frank
a visa to come to the United States.
This isn't-security-it's wealthiest students, Those talk polities to you." And Eb orders have been cancelled and Kingdon'a placed elsewhere.
Dr Kingdon, just back from inner insecurity. Americans can sponsored by the Egyptian many of them did.conernes go to Britain without any visa Government, which spends I undertook not to roport Britain, is a writer and s I am provoked to put this broadcaster and he says a way whatsoever. Some partnership upward, of £1,000,000 a political remarks but the trend spur into British business by must be found to get meat to Deanna Durbin, the Cana- year on educating students I can repert. It was: "[{"I American reaction to Mr Butler's the British. "Ment may not dian-born girl whose parents in Britain, receive £12 n were in Egypt, and offered the new austerity programme. The seem a timely issue in this day come from Blackpool, will tryin Americans say to me: "Why of big headaches, yet if the
got to offert
זי
its: enthusiasm and value ne an ally would jump overnight,".
chance to come to London now,
-
over and above their tuļ. don't your people go out and United States and the Dominions confeback in "The Vagabond week for living expenses I would refuse,
Hay life been maro difficultar tion fees. sel Where are the travelling could work. out some plan for King' with Mario Lanza.
for Egyptian students since salcamen? What have you getting more meat to England, Pen before stage.
Middle: In London their head trouble started in the
East? A mature « min - named FYMLYN WILLIAMS is adding
quarters, when they are Abdul Hamid Amin. a BSc of I have mumbled "Motor-cars" " A
for the British, now **More, ment
Lustre to British
doing and the Americans have suid;
work
at: "Right, Wonderful cars, beauti says the doctor, and I think he prestige on Broadway with his not working, le the Royal Found University, Cairo,
College, Londo fully finished, but no self has diagnosed the patient cor- Charles Dickens readings. He Egyptian Club, in Cheater
Mayfair thought not. He lives with a changing
gours on the stock rectly. Surely there is some to Bays: "Charles Dickens always field Gardens,
wanted to be a great actor. The same handsome build- company director's family; Ingia models, no electrically operated spare frem hero.
want to be the same, but if I
Egyptian Acton and has encountered, no had to choose between acting ing houses the and writing I'd choose to Education Bureau, directed hostility there or elsewhere.
by Dr A. Hosam Eldin on the other hand, Ahmadi SEE an announcement en- write."
utled "Quicker Way to Warner Brothers want Vivien Boy, a friendly moustached Haiba, who is doing positi I have muttered "Woollen Bring Home The Bacon," by the Leigh for another film, but kiss man, who has been in Bri- Fraduate work in chemiste, at the Americans General Mills Arm here, which Leigh and Sie Laurence are tain for 15 years the School of Pharmacy de- have said: "Lovely. stuff, says: "You may cut your own missing London, UKION but 20 dollars (about £9) Weight in meal in the next 12 quan
canvas top on the convertibles.
no push-button windows, not onosight, room, and not enough chromium trim,"
stools" and
ia
J.
Choice
is
meat
I talked to students --
Celired: "I would not only think
twice about coming to Eng
1 land if I was starting all over:
too much for the softest months. The average American, FOOTNOTE: Britain's best woolen sweater when you can enjoying higher lying standards, way of garnering the abllars in the restaurant of the club again now? I would thinks
to which all those sponsor: three, imas " buy a nylon sweater, weally new, puts away.. 144lb. 8. Your delivering the goods,