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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY, 1, 1952.
GILES · INTRODUCES A PHRASE YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM HIM...
Life with the Suffering British
A
"We're sure happy to give you guys a lift to save you paying them awful fares,”
London Express Service
BUSINESS MAN GOES TO MOSCOW
I SAW NO SMART WOMEN
THE SLUMS THE CHAPEL
I SAW WERE BAD
By HARRY SCOTT STOKES
I VISITED
WAS FULL
who went to Moscow for the economic.conference which
T was
as a
lasted from April 3 lo April 10.
business had taken that drop into man first and last that account.
went to the Яeven-
economic
I
day
con-
Negotiations lasted four ference in Moscow. My days. Then we settled the brief-case was packed with deal.
offers.
And I sold the
When I was. away from Russians 50,000 woolled sheepskins nt £1 each, negotiating I wasted no
ut the enough to keep my factory time working for five weeks. The groups" where bargaining was hard, but propaganda ballyhoo
hurled about. I rubber- the price was right.
necked my way through Moscow.
THE THEATRE -angry Chinese
ONCE
losl
of
A Good Attack Of
Spring Fever
E
New York, Tuesday.
Not so long ago windscreens
VERYBODY In New of cars hero had stickers which said: "I'm proud to be Ameri- York seems to have can" and "God Bless America,"
FALF the Americans' battle;
There are a quarter of Д suggesting that you put a sticker
Iines.
spring fever just now. It would help us Day after day we bask in magnificent carly-summer Hs their vast and over- weather 75° in the shade. whelming faith in themselves. This superb spring has Half their prosperity could to brought out the crowda. put down to this supreme self- confidence. I am not, of course, million out-of-towners, on the handle-bars of your b tourists, gawkers, and cycle saying, "I'm proud to be rubber-neckers in. Manhat British" or "God Bless Britain.
If you did you would probably tan today. There are 1,200 bo hooted off the road for nowspapermen currently making a spectacle of yourseif, visiting us to celebrate but I see no harm in thinking a these bugle-blowing Newspaper Week, and there little on are seven-or is it 17?---
Too many British visitors to leading Presidential Can- New York and the United States didates in town. I don't act like mourners and pall- recall seeing, the city so bearers.
A British book has just been lively.
published here called "Rotting Along 51st Sirect and near Hill," by Wyndham Lewis. What Central Park pavement cafes are gloom! What bitterness! Spare crowded with people. The girls Americans this catalogue of are often bare- backed and bare-armed, and the. men are coatless or in ir:pical suits. Florida come to New York, and Palm Beach paradies on Riverside. Drive. The park The mark is Bblaze with bloom and the
has
DON
IDDON'S
ed with 1,200 worshippers. There was an upsurge of wel-air is like champagne. .come, and love.
The service went on for two, and a half hours. We were given a Bible printed in 1926. No Bibles had been printed since then, they sold. It was n touching gift. For Bibles cannot be bought.
DIARY
calamity and ro- cord of regrets,
Thank good- ness I've bati
some. cheerful callers this week. Into my office camo an im- pressive delega- fich the other. day. It Was headed by Lord
Malcolm Dougins - Homil-
ton and Viscountess Tarbat, and
I sound lyrical? Well, spring a Scottish colonel and a Lan-
Lord Malcolm sald: "I'm not here for charity." I said: "Good."
is here and there's a new surge cashire major brought up the of optimism and galety along the rear,
the streets. avenues and in
reluctant to Americans, never sing the praises of their own country, are hitting a very high
note.
Lord Malcolm said: "I'm here to try to revive and revitalise the Highlands. The population is getting smaller and
smaller
I went along to the 100 dollar and now is down to an average
(about £35) per person-dinner- of one person per 30 neres. We
We
i plan
Not even "the negation-of God on earth erected into
of farming and in honour of Averell Harriman, are here to halt that. system of government" — to
cattle-raising. new marketing quote Mr Gladstone--can pre- The Press seats were free, other-new methods
gone. organisations, the development vail against this spirit of re-wise I wouldn't have ligious fervour.
Speaker after speaker got up to and expansion of our industries, extol the virtues of the U.S. and far greater facilities for our
tourists."
THE PANIC —and the way-out
NHEALTHY UNHEA
}
I sald: How?" And he ro
enlisting American plled: "By
capital and business interests,
Lord Malcolm has already won the support of leading Ameri-
cens.
Senator Robert Kerr, of Okla- homa, set the pace. "We meet tonight in the most amazing city imprisonment of the most astounding country is in the world, We meat as re- of individual opinion
of the most strangling Russian politieat de-presentatives velopment.
dynamic and successful political about it. party that ever served a grateful canised?
It is people." women
BWC Others followed. people and
terrific. The country
We can do any- tremendous,
NCE on my travels I
my temper. I was taken
ballet to "Red Poppy," a China's history since 1927 and her "exploitation by the British "working and American imperialists." 80 much Then the Anale salvation
Make no mistake Chinese by the Russians! The Was
were even angrier than I was: Russia is a Police ate.
to spy-ridden. Men and "They didn't do anything save us from the Japanese who spy on their own were our real enemies. The strangers alike. thing is simply false," they
Even our interpreters work thing, we have everything. We. Lancashire folk, you know." said.
From the start I stuck to my guns and spoke straight business language. So did No smart women strolled Kaplin, head of Moscow's the boulevards. There was buying and selling organisa-, nothing chic about them, tion, And Andrianko, head whatever their standing in of the Russian trade mis- life. sion in London.
No smart dresses
hair do's. roughly made sheepskin
And I told my Russian con- ductors: "It is shamefully ingo and anti-British. I happen to be British. It is an insuit to a guest,"
ope
outstanding. Baking, colossal.”
I said: "Isn't there a danger being Ameri- of Scotland
The Scottish colonel a deep
red, and muttered: "Never-we retain our national character always.
went a
ure
record-
The Manchester
major said: 05 clannish #15
It's called
And Lady Carpat, who had ed for the intelligence service.
merely decorated the conference I know. My mall was read,
up to this point, said: "It's a I But they are in a panta,
after I sat alightly stunned by this marvellous scheme.
Charles Highland hyperbole, and thought that by the Prince reached that conclusion
Development Corporation," days of talica and vlalts.
chance I had wandered into a
So It looks as
as if the Amerlean And they have the same fear Hollywood advertising conven-
I con- dollar is now going 10 help. France had after 1918 the tion. But when I left
the, Highlands. I can Bnance They looked surprised,
from cluded that the British might fear of another attack Just there was no apology. I went Germany. A remote fear no borrow a little of this booster conts back to the magnificent hotel
fur Or
The Russians were well costs. No informed. They knew the and second-rate footwear. value of every related
article in my trade.
They
knew every producing centre in England, Europe
and America,
An-
THE FACTORY
And the houses
but
doubt.
placed at our disposal.
After that I wer
went about on How can
business man's with
spirit.
This isn't the era for under statement. I've never yet heard a Com-
my own-to performances of conscience be reconciled
and "Madam Butterfly"
"La all this? I saw that free cxan American, except Traviata." There was nothing change of trade will do more munist-tinged cynic or two, run altered In these productions, to cut out the jamming stations down his own country. You can though "Madam Butterfly" and the hidden microphones meet
SAW where some of those could lend itself to I Once Kaplin and
shoes were made. It
was prepaganda! Mos- drianko suggested prices the "Parts Commune," had dropped 25 percent cow's largest shoe factory em- since my arrival. I said ploying 7,000 workers.
HARRY SCOTT STOKES ·
Ed Mayor of Glastonbury, Somerset town with a popala- Lion of 5.000, THE is maringing director, of ́a
business with, 700 employees. (IE is. Quaker, aged 65: # former subaltern with a World War. 1. BJ,C,1,and a Workt War Il company commander in the. Duke' ̧of,' Writington's Regiment
HE one-time' Liberal, how non-pojitieni, dui a member of the local Tory club,
ife is Winchester Schnol boy
who in those happler pros berous, faxy days before: 1916 sought a classical education and an intellectual life,"
only wish the Prince Charles Highland Development Corpora- tion that name is too involved a long and successful reign..
Slogans do it ERTAINLY there's no short- of capital here. The
age
post-Easter period shows bigger
or sales than ever. Another buy--
on ing boomlet is on, and this
excellent than all the plous
resolutions
of the intellectual pacifist.
cramped,
tenements,
citizens who cold-water
who
live
111
flats or
lunch
on
I came back from Moscow tasteless food
with a full order book,
THE CHAPEL
!
--all is not lost
By British standards it was pitifully equipped. I employ 45 women to every 55 men. There the 'ratio was about 75
women to 25 men.
--
Where were tho men? In the
army, many of them - those
JUST once I was moved to a feeling that all is not last Godless society that in the Stalin has created..
We went to 1 "Baptist"
who weren't killed in the war. chapel. Every inch was pack-
Shabbily Iressed women, tattered feet bulging from. shoes, worked eight-hour shifts.
They said: "Everything here is perfect." I replied: "What about cleaning the windows and repairing the floors?"
A laugh grooted this. "But
It doesn't need an expert to
tell us that," they said.
"No, but you don't do it," I pointed out.
t
+
at drug stores, week's department store sales
Or who are jammed like herrings passed last year's. The busi-
that I am proud and pleased.in hot and dirty subway trains ness men's logan is "Get out
in or panting buses, and whose re- and sell"-not
It will keep my people
effective in, but ap-
work. It will give a poor na- flaxation is the doubtful pleasure Parent course, is, the happy
towards her
ilon something low standard of life.
home
of visiting swarming Coney Island, or
of the slick slogan. One bumper-to- driving bumper along seething highways, man, Emanuel Ress, is making a fortune out of the trick phrase. Maybe more of it will help but they all agree that they're This election campaign year is
people
д living
Apart from life in a wonderful his harvest time.
the familiar "I Like Ike" button, he is also producing such brain- children as "Back Mac-mean- ing MacArthur "I'm
"I'm Looking
kill that panic and fear which wonderful grip the Communist leaderswonderful
Country --(London Express Service)
PARIS NEWSLETTER. from SAM WHITE
The rich General
wants a new job
they
Over
Estes Kefauver"; "Let's Put Kefauver Over
"Preter Kerr, the
Kerr"-Senator
patriot earlier referred to in
are both expert bridge With Warren"-Governor players but they lead o fairly Warren; "Sland For Stassen" active social life, going
to Harold Stassen; and a lot more. theatres and concerta.
At least the fancy phrases.ep- liven the rather bitter political cilmale.
TAX MEN. AT WORK
1051:
the entertainment front On FRENCH income tax collectors receipts are down as the people have caught up with a man go to the parks, the beaches, and operates telescope for the country. Jose Ferrer, now T 64, General Alphonse helped to assure him a profes- who
the first man of the American It was hopeless to get bc-
theatre A Join will crimax sional anonymity. Educated at visitors or a lap telescope for
and the most dominant yond that Soviet stubbornness
St.Cyr, he was a classmate of Hill overlooking Paris. The man
pro- and assumption that because it time of soldiering by being General de Gaulle but the two told inspectors he could not figure on Broadway, has
ů melodrama,Tho was Russian and Stalin-inspired elevated to the rank of men
mako an estimate as he could duced. remain scquaintances only work on fine days.
Chase," by Horton Foote and It was the best.
Marshal. More than that: rather than friends.
Unabashed, the authorities starring John Hodlak. It's not If that is on example of it is said that he is in lineIn the North African, cam-
strong wrote to the meteorological office very satisfactory,
David Niven has completed a working conditions, how then for a most important, post paigns he formed a do they live?
next to that of General friendship for Field Marshal asking to be given the number
Alexander,
of days with good visibility in play called "The Rock," which
he wrote in Barbados, Eisenhower's successor in With Field Marshal Mont-
What's in a name? One building I saw was block of 100, flats. There was the Atlantic Pact structure, comery incidentally, his relations
THEY SAID IT
SIR Laurence Olivier would a store, on the ground.
At present Juin is Common are formal and elight. Juin bas
lice his film "Carrie," which see der of the Land Forces in the been in the habit of dealing
UOTES: American jockey B But I was not allowed to
Eisenhower.
Pearson: "The food in France will soon be released to be called any dwelling in occupation.
full to be giveb
A wealthy man tie: expects However,
four miles from command of his theatre's naval properties in Morocco, Juin en French lockteys do it. If I atay plays in the film, Olivier says: joys a financial independence here more then three months the "I like to have a picture called the Kremlin and 400 yards off and air forces,
Born in Algeria, where his rare among French generals,
only thing I'll be good for is after the part I play, particularly the magnificent. Gorki Street. I.
If it begins with an altch. My He lives in a single-storeyed riding a tractor."" policeman, Juin
rolee havet, saw, some slums about as father was a
[best screen mean as anything I have ever retains something of the man- flat in the fashionable Avenue
on Premier Heathclin, A French MP river-ner, and bearing of a smartly Kleberth his wife and their pinny: "The man is hopeless, He seen outside the white
14-year d. Bon, who is, gome-
and sida slums of
Gertrude Lawrence is teaching terned out gendarme," slums of Tennesses
Until recently he remained thing of a musical prodigy. His thinks just like a voter."
Visiting Italian film star an advanced course in acting ut There were little wooden lille known to the French elder son, 22 is a leutenant In
Antonella Emaldi: "Im't that Columbia University as well as houses built in the middle of general public. He has no gift Indo-China,
The Juins entertain on a small the Eiffel Tower outside my starring in The King and 1” fast century, Snow beat in or taste for flamboyancy, and a
Such energy! Lifelong distante through the ill-fitting doors.
politics scale-mostly bridge parties, for window?";
floor.
Western European theatro. Now directly with Enoch with large is killing me. I don't know how "Hurstwood," the character he
Joy:
now. Hry
been