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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1952.

JOHN GORDON

OFF TO AMERICA

I have a ringside

seat at the fight that change the

REVEL in the joy of battle. There is no exhilaration in life like it.

And when the battle is a fierce, bitter, personal struggle between dynamic. men, with control of the most powerful nation on earth as the prize, and the future of my own country Inevitably affected by the awing of it, I leap to a ring- side seat with avidity.

Such is the battle now developing to choose the next President of the United States.

So I shall be humming my way soon through the skies above the Atlantic to plunge into the U.S. Pre- sidential election fray.

That journey itself has a high degree of drama in it for me. flown the For I have never Atlantic before.

I am assured that I shall not fly wriggling uncomfortably on a seat, but tucked up Juxuriously in bed, sleeping more soundly than on the night train to Edinburgh.

That is the measure of how much man has changed his world in half a century.

Ham, vodka

WHAT shall I find in the United States to make my. Journey worth while?

No doubt about that.

Plenty.

H

may

CHAPTER ONE OF A

World POLITICAL ADVENTURE STORY

savage...

call Murderers Row in The picture of a shrewd,, courageous,

John Gordon, Editor of the Sunday The convention, at Chiengo Tombs Prison, with every pair most skilful politician, and a will be therefore a personal

'Express (London) battle between of eyes watching him fascinated, man of Inflexible rectitude.

America's two many vital things one wants to We in Britain understand that Someone should write his

Hot and know. So much Yet there is something else greatest generals: blography before the memories about him that fascinates me.

about which in the U.S. a different view one seeks better understanding, than ours may be taken on that fade, He deserves to be a legend.

The odd, maybe ́· significant, Elsenhower is being blamed, Korea for instance. How long

There may delicate subject.. parallel between what is happen- 15

and sound reason be see, for not taking Berlin is that war to go on?..

well.

good ow. What for the his struggle with before ing now in

the Russians. That makes the ending of it so di Elsenhower for the nomination mistake, say those who raise the cult? Is America as cager as to grasp it. And what I learn I and what happened exactly 40 issue, is responsible for all the we are for an armistice? Or years ago when his father, then power of Stalin' today and for the policy of striking harder and shall pass on to you,

CASTLENOSSE — 9 α V buoyant, unique.... And

what a companion /

the rotiring President, fought Theodore Roosevelt for the saME Republican nomination,

It was 1912. I had just come to London raw to journalism. But I can remember, the fover of exdtement over that election.

Taft sought a second term as. President, Four years earlier Roosevelt, then President, had declined to seek re-election, and successfully supported Taft as his successor.

But now Roosevelt thought not progressive enough.

Hot wars, colu wars, pressions, and prosperities have come in their cycle since then, Taft and Lord Castlerosse himself has And In a phrase that became been gathered to his Killarney famous "threw his hat into the

ring" against him. ancestors.

So I go prepared not only for a New World in a much wider sense than the words used, to mean, but for a new and very different people.

Who will become President? I must be honest and confess that I have neither prejudices not favourites.

Savage fight

"rolroaded":

the cold war.

Eisenhower retorts that the "political basses", were respon

JOHN WINANT, United States Ambassador to Britain in 1966.

sible. They ordered the army to stop 200 miles west of Berlin.

But Butcher, his intimate and at times indiscreet blographer, is For in his diary on April 18, 1945, being quoted against Eisenhower.

Is

wider, even if it involves all China, likely to be the polley of America's next President?

That is a matter which touches us in Britain very deeply. For somewhere among our 1,000 men In Korean and Chinese prison camps are 500 gallant Glouces- ters, including herole Colonel "Fred" Carnic,. D.5,0.

Do you still remember: how one day just a little more than a year ago an avalanche, of Chinese, estimated at about 70,000 strong, hurled themselves Upon our, men on the Imjin River front, leaping straight into our guns like pheasants driven to the butta?

Do you remember' how 622 Gloucesters held up the heaviest torrent of them?

And

At any rate I intend to try.

of America, about the problems shall pass on, too, the views of Europe and the part the Americans expect both our nations to play in solving them. Not only the views of the politicians who shape the

GOUSEY--of Russia-mat com- on the line-fring

́snission.

course of the nation but the PEN, savage war broke out between the two men. They

views of the poople who must how after three days entry 'the' burden. gloves.

Taft,

without food, or water, their For sometimes, as we know in fought without

ammunition exhausted, the our country, the views of the secured control of the machine Butcher wrote:--- as his son has done. With the "Ike went to Downing Street survivors stood stiffly to atten- polittefans do not always parallel

the machine he to see Churchill. The Prime tion umid their Of the two Republican can- power of

dead and the views of the people. Republican Minister wants didates

the feld I know

him to In the

take wounded, as the Chinese, look Does America propose to keep personally only Elsenhower. convention (in the popular phrase. Berkin, but the sees no military their surrondor at a spot that her military strength In saw him come to Britain an of 1912) as his son is now being sense in it. He thinks it more was then seven

of "steamrollering" it, important that we clear our Chinese territory? unknown man, modest, quiet, friendly, and with litle about in the phrase of 1952.

flanke....get north to Lubeck, him

suggest that destiny

He beat Roosevelt for the would soon wrap the mantle of nomination-as his son this time greatness round him:

may beat Eisenhower.

to

At many historic moments in the war I heard him speak his thoughts on life and men with a sincerlly and a deep humanity that warmed my heart to him.

''Hat in ring'

.

accused

But Roosevelt was a man to whom defeat was never toler able.

He formed a party of his own, He called it the Bull Moose Party and with it he fought the election.

milles deep in Europe for ever at its present high peak, or will a change of bring a change of

south to the so-called Redoubt.", Gallant men

That would seem to pin the blame if there is blame-on

Came, who

".

Docs she expect... sorely.. burdened Britain to carry an

could have self inextricably to Europe? To

Eisenhower. But it is untrue. 10 you remember how Colonel even greater load? To tie her. escaped with the Ave officers and set her frontier in Germany, for

can give Eisenhower a clean blil

of health on that count.

Three decided

55 other ranks who did, looked ever?

ot his wounded men and said: "You get going. I'll stay with them, and the sergeant major will stay with me"s

www

the answers

does the think of growing feeling in

-altr

I have not been there since the Christmas of 1927, when the gay, buoyant, unique Lord

I WILL tell you how it came

TWHAT Casticrosse was my companion. PUT I must admit that to me

about. The decision was not I want most ardently to see W the And what a companion! The he never seemed more than a

He was defeated, but he polled made by Elsenhower but. by a all those great and gallant men. Britain that with the end only man

ever saw cat whole

the Occupation ham at one sitting, loosening the general who could only be ex- that rett million more votes body of which you may never home again as quickly as we can r

who was also de- have heard called the European get them. Taft, pected. to bumble through a

Army should come home? And

ant Major That the defence of our own land way for it with three large, red-

the split in the Advisory Commission.

Regimental Sergeant till that historic day in. fented speech, peppered vodkas, washing it 1945 when receiving the Freedom party hurled the Republicans out That body was set up to Edward Hobbs back' among those should be our first consideration down with an imperial pint of of London at the Guildhall ha of office, although Roosevelt and consider how the Allles should who wait for him at Colchester, rather than the defence of champagne

with electrified us with one of the Taft polled between them a

Colonel Carne rejoined with Continental lands none too eager topping off the lot with half most stimulating and moving million and a quarter more votes Occupation when the war came the brave wife at Gloucester, or able to defend themselves?

war who said so proudly when she orations ever delivered within

How to an end. I will give you the heard toy makes a few words rising determination to use the does she look now upon news of her husband's the British Empire's steadily glory:

Lay.That's what trading

resources of its own men like. like it too,"

great territories, to raise the We gave him the freedom of strength of the pound to a height Gloucester a little later... I want shad would make the dollar to give him the freedom of life. problem of infinitely less concern

I want to find out in America to

bottle of rare brandy.

a

I can see him now striding in and out of the old Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York wrapped in a mink-lined, sable- collared coat that made him look like an emperor.

And I can see him also walk- ing down that line of cells they

those walls that have echoed oratory for so many generations,

That day, I

think, put the golden stamp of true greatness upon him.

As for his rival Taft, I have never seen him. But all I' have read about him gives me o

Soon Everything In America May Stop For Tea

transatlantic Coffer

MRS. KIPLING :

"Carrie, Carrie 1"

husband shouted.

names of

its three members, They were Mr John Winant, 50 c then U.S. Ambassador in Lan- don, who was chairman. Feodor Gousey, then Soviet Ambassador here, and Sir William Strang of our Fureign Office.

"

ham

#t

a long

to us

These are problems upon

They met at Lancaster House, across The Mall from Bucking- Palace. Their first meeting was in February 1944 and their Koreans and Chinese: prefer the fuence.

easy life of our prison camps to Therefore last in July the samo ured the the grimmer life they knew at answers. her

It was they who line on which the armies should home?

anguish in prison camps inter which the coming election must

I can, why such men must minably just because some North have the most tremendous in-

Berlin,

your!

tex-

than those which put their stand. It was they who gave Democratic opponent, Woodrow Wilson, Into the White Hause.

It was during that election that Roosevelt was shot by a maniac in Milwaukee.

its surrounding riton

and all Eastern Germany to the Russiaris, for reserving only footholds Britain and America in the city of Berlin, to facilitate the peace negotiations.

TH

France won

Taikoo

icing makes the cake

then

Kipling, who adored men of By OLIVER ASHLEY

action, was one of his great admirers. I remember a close TWO strange facts about upsetting TWO

friend of Kipling's telling me the Maxim Robinson interests.

A spokesman. at Burtonwood how he received the dramatic

THE commission laid its pro- fight must interest even Baso, near Warrington, told me: news,

Kipling read it in a newspaper, posals before the Yalta con- those who do not study box- "Coffee la the main drink, bd bounded out of his chair in ference and they were ing.

leed tea, served with sugar and intense exaltement and shouted accepted. lemon,

is on the rucnu quite The first is that under con- often when the weather is right Carrie, Teddy Roosevelt will be urged Eisenhower to march his to his American wife, "Corrie, It is true that Churchill Inter -ditions of tropical heat a white

107 it. man beat a, coloured man.

"Tea can be served in the President-if he ives." The second is perhaps English way in the camp, where come President.

He lived but he did not be. It would have made no difference reason for the result or 80 we have civilian workers. at any cate, thio English DE the Chinese may like to think. Jocy Maxim not only drunk ica during training, but even dranks flasks at it during the progress of the fight

the

You could bet a dollar - it

. you` had one *** that it wasn't

leed tea, in the uzuni American

"We're developing a taste for your sort of tea through meot- ing English people in cafes and In their own homes,"

The rift grows

Now this

victorious army into Berlin, But

if he had done so. None at all: He would have had to get out again. For it would not have for Britain and been possible America to remain in Berlin deny the terms," nettled and earlier with Russia

in year as sensational 1912 the Re

publican Party is again split by The only variation made in

If the tea habit docy capture feuds so bitter, so intense, so the original agreement was that America, one result is mure. It personal, that it, may break in France, which had not been style, but luke warm, sugary will set America's industrial pieces once more taking from given an occupation sphere their biggest whichovor candidate is chosen vigorously insisted upon ano, and

(I nearly wrote sugar-cay)' stuff ' emelency expennturyL

'Ruch as we swig.

headache of the

England's

all chance, of

Mood, mind

HATEVER is said now on

e of winning the final got it. decide whether tea drinking in

after "President offices, factories and on works

the cleverest politician This is the biggest news in sites helps production or into of them all, will prove ta be the the battle to convert Americe feres with it. They only know wisest prophet. He has said that into a nation of tea drinkers they can stop the practice. it doesn't matter, which candidato that faruo will not affect since an astuta, pubilcity agent.

Boon, the English- will be the

for he Britain. But undoubtedly-many Republicani chase, persuaded Hollywood to change able to show America

issues will be raised in the what will surely be beaten. the socoen uitio of

of the rift Two Loa 'really bught to taste like.)

The signs

grow election that must have an im÷ Nonetto" into "Te For

The ration • up.

dally,

mense influence upon us. It should finally

to prove

ounce a week, on July 13 and

-angrily Indeed, probably never before Americans what they have boon tea may come of the rallots of a whispering campaign smear has the selection of a President missing over since the Boston altogether in early' November. Ing himself and his wife,

of the United States"meant só Too Party.

When that happens tou

has brought General much to a foreign country na Many

smrvicemen, wecks! American

wiil be organised MacArthur into the centro of the selection how to ba made over in England now at the throughout the country to the picture in powerful opposition will mean Britain, an air bases, are learning the value mind the English that "one for to Effenhower, knowing that bo That is why: 17 go with of tea tho practical .... way and the poʻy is stili best way of tween the two generals there is eagerness to study the mood and are forming, hablis which mea produčing, good tea,

‚sin' iroplacable feud..

suind ́of America. There, KÍÐ BO

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