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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1953.
Putting à money-man on the NEWSMAP
I get little change out of
ES, I am home again from Germany: home to my Suffolk farm; home to reflect on my meet- ing with a man of whom you have heard a lot in the past-and of whom you may well hear quite a bit in the future.
I called on him before catching my week-end plane home from Dusseldorf.
When I had last seen him
a wizard
by SEFTON DELMER
LIVEFRIGEESZTESSOFIJN?
as
Germany proposes to finance interests of the world economy 政 whole in the hope that this will indirectly benefit ourselves."
these schemes. How she thinks to give £100 mililon credit to Egypt for the dom (or and out kide backing for such a credii), when Egypt has-
Masterly.
SCHACHT
Important information
London.
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A GIANT OF POLITICS, BUT OUR STRANGEST PRIME MINISTER
THE GREAT ECCENTRIC
to 1
R
"I never heard a word from
Sir Ivanc.
"But Mossadeg's
By Robert Blake
OBERT CECIL, third graphers. This is partly
offer still Marquess of Salisbury, because for many years his- stands. In my last letter from dominated British politics torians awaited the com him, only eight weeks ago, he in the last two decades of pletion of the great blo medo this quile plain."
out bis the nineteenth century. He graphy by his daughter, Dr. Schacht
Prime Minister for Lady Gwendolen Cecil. Un- than anyone else happily she died in 1945 before she had finished, and
threw
arms in a gesture of despair was
and puzzlement. And he asked longer two questions,
"Why
me, Herr Delmer?
What have
do the British distrust since the accession of Queen
Victoria.
Yet he has received little attention from the blo-
the British got against me?”.
-(London Expreta Service)*
who all control Clock in, clock out-a comedy
Dr Schacht generously let me Indonesia, It is a very skilful except cotton, which is foll- piece of work, full of sly digs he was sitting in the dock 1 NOTHING to pay with have a copy of this report on at the Nuremberg war ing-in value all the time; at the former Dutch masters of crimes trial accused-along
not the country A REGIME on which with Goering, Ribbentrop, Z
the most optimistic much of its trade, coupled with even
plugs cubtle. indirect Keitel, and the rest of con- banker would care to count for German methods, German tech-
of security,
busluess spiring with Hitler to set the maintenance fire to the world.
law, and order over a period of
little change I gol Schacht.
Now I found him surrounded by secretaries and assistants in the prosperous-looking office he occupies as chairman and founder of. Dusseldorf's newest banking venture!......
HJALMAR SCHACHT & CO.
The man
German
years.
Oh, no, no
clans and German
men.
from
TURST, he denied that he has
for
He even puts in a boost for the anti-trade union laws of his old boss. Altier.
What however,
intrigued me most, In my talk with Dr Schacht was an offer by him to put his services at the dis- posal of the Anglo-Iranian Oll Gov- the Company and the British negotiations now going on in erninent,
for "Let me go to Teherana Government "That's Cairo:
"You know you, and I guarantee to get the he said. stuff,'
dispute satisfactorily settled in no time at all." how badly I stand with the whole present Goverment."
nything 10 do with
was Dr Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht, former president of the
Then he fulminated against Reichsbank, former Finance Minister of Hitler's Government, the German Federal Parliament for having agreed to £300 ex-critic and opponent in Hitler's last years,
million of reparations to Israel. prisoner of the Gestapo, and--so Els friends insist-ex- (very ex-) Nazi.
Hitler
cx-
+
• The glint
put on weight, Herr Delmer, since I saw endearing as ever. But Schachi himself seemed to me to have changed very tile,
W
...
·
by
of factory life.
Nathaniel Gubbins
her four brilliant volumes only go down to 1892, leav- ing a serious gap for the last 11 years of Salisbury's life.
ono
Captain A. D. Kennedy's scholarly, competent, readable and necurate
volume blography cannot, of course, fil this gap. No one can do this, until the Salisbury papers have been sorted and catalogued-a task now in progresi,
Captain Kennedy has, indeed, had access to the Foreign Officó archives for the period, but even these are by no means complete, owing to Salisbury's peculiar hobit pr conducting foreign policy from Hatfield largely in
the
post of
Prime
HEN it
How do you know he wears private letters written to ambas- was, an-
corsets?
sadors in his own hand. Never- nounced that the
He stumbled at a crossing-theless, Captain Kennedy's book T.U.C. had advised tifting the old elbow again ▼ is a most useful interim life and the Chancellor of the Ex- suppose and grabbed him an excellent introduction to one chequer to increase income round the waist. Solid whale of the strangest characters ever
to hold bone, old man. tax many people like my
to Still, ho's going look Minister.
At self wondered what will
smart at Easter.
that prices Schacht told me that when happen if and when this he was in Teheran recently he brilliant, body of men con- jacket and flannels must have
him a packet, put forward a proposal to end trol the country and every- the dispute which Persia's Dr body's income is reduced man, Mossadeg accepted.
• Truce
4
ATISFACTORILY? Dr
"Height of stupidity to start all that reparations business over again. Can't possibly pay anything like that. Well, we shall see where it lands us."
think £100 But he did not million of credit by any means It amounts to a kind of three Impossible to Germany, "When year truce, during which the of! you have goods and services to would flow again, money would
and the offer, you don't need money came to Persia
give the goods and pany, You
and the ground (says credits.
Dr Schacht) would be prepared services as credit."
How are the men who produce for a final settlement under The high stiff collar had the goods and services to live calmer conditions. given
way to an upstanding in the meantime? His answer: sort of sofi collar. But, "We Germans must draw in our twinkling as brightly. as ever belts
to make these schemes
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"I felt I could not quite trust Schacht. For I inve often seen how his free lit up when he NOT very convincing, I fear, succceded
in swindling some when I pressed him further, body out
that по of a hundred-mark he said: "I admit note
orthodox banker would approve Schacht still has the con- the ideas I have for solving this tempt for logical consistency
problem. But I am not an which enabled him to declare orthodox banker. Never was. that Germany was incapable of couldn't have got rid of Ger- paying reparations and then
marks many's 6,000,000 unemployed it
1 had been. for Hitler's urmament pro-
"What exactly my idea is, is I went to see Schacht because a secret. If I told you, someore I had been told that he and his might step in and copy it, and bank are the hub of Germany's mess up the whole scheme," ambitious. schemes for the What Schacht did reveal to long-term economic and political mo 35100
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Germany's new WOD Schachtlan technique for get- ting orders from the suspicious Governments of the Arab Statos and the ex-colonies of Ger- many's ex-enemies,
"It is no use turning up with books. elements in
order this catalogues and
The thing to do is to visit a scheme-which has German
and report to its Government backing are the country construction of a £100 million Government quite objectively on the best and super barrage on the Nile
unselfishly Just
developing for
that above the British-built Assouan moans Dam, as well as other contracts country's economy."
he added: "The great. Then £6,000,000 one jusi like the
make it clear thing obtained by a German firm for
is to to them that We want to a development project in Iraq.
standarda of wanted
their from raise hear Hitler's "nancial wizard" how production and of living in the
10
coin-
10-
Sald Dr Schacht: "The ment I got back from Persia I went with this proposal
Commissioner the then British in Hamburg..
to
"I asked for an interview with Sir Ivone
Kirkpatrick, British High Commissioner, BO that he could pass this very
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Well, Mr. President, I've said all along that sooner or later we were going to have to face up to the whole question of 3D.”
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I was thinking particularly of In entertainment world, which nobody would bother to write books plays, act, com- pose music, sing, or paint pic tures if there was no hope at ell of earning more than a road- sweeper.
pro
Cost
a the shop.
tweed
For Salisbury was a great Of the peg at a sale, old character," an eccentric in the Saw him coming out of best sense of that word: What other Prime Minister has been . Well, you do surprise me.
so absent-minded that he failed one of his oldest What's that striped ho to recognise
tlo
cabinet colleagues
at la. dinner Old school? wcars?
Don't be funny, old man.party; and shook hands with his own son at a reception under the with an accent like that?
Well, perhaps it's regimental Didn't he fight in the Kaiser's
wor?
"Fight in the Kaiser's war, old man? He couldn't fight
pussy.
impression that he was greeting an unfamiliar guest?
And has thero ever been a Prime Minister so addicted to "gadgets" of every kind? His early experiments with elec tricity and telephony are alone St. enough to cheer one up in this drab age of competent mediocrity.
like
Perhaps it's club tie Junior Cariton, or Royal George's, or something
Something like that is good. all man?
that.
Did
Then the solution of the prob. lem hit me with the force of a sledge hammer wielded by a member of the T.U.C. when he was working instead of talking. Do you know what club it in,
All the artists, writers and
I'm asking you, old man, entertainers will take to road-
Balham Cycling Club, old awroping because it will be more profitable, with less man, norvous strain, and all the en- tertainment will be provided by talented ex-bollermakers, plum- bers and bricklayers of the T.U.C.
After all, they have advised
know
little
about.
Why
Never, old man? Fact, old man,
Flying Visit
the Government on matters they IN the excitement of Tito's visit, 'the arrival of Tibbe, shouldn't they try their hands the Balkan cat, paying a brief at things they know nothing visit to Lottic, the Devil Cat, about, such as painting pictures, went almost unnoticed, writing
music, even novels, plays-7
A
must
Like
the
same
wag of
Nevertheless, secrecy was maintained. No Clock in, Clock Cut,
body
was told where Tibbo seven-act comedy of factory life, was staying, though, judging lasting eight hours, by Joe by the noise at night, hundreds Sprockett, of the T.U.C, re-
have guessed it
in the garden ceived an enthusiastle welcome somewhere i Last night from members of the the Sta Sprockett family, tho only
Tito, Tibbo travelled people in the audience still fast wherever he went, so an awake at the final curtain.
accurate description, of him i not available.
of him But brief glimpses flashing across the tiles and over the garden wall at high speed revealed him to be dark and handsome, and his wild Balkan love songs will never be
clocker-in to
who those forgotten by suffered five sleepless nights.
An official lunch, organised in the kitchen, turned out to be a fiasco. Lotto was waiting to receive him, but Tibbo streaked
Guests at Hatfield never could have found life dull, now dining under glaring and vibrating are lamps, now plunged into dark- ness Illuminated only by a dull summoned to red glow, now extinguish
a fire which had broken out in the roof of the gallery, by palling it with cushions. Then there was the telephone. Visitors were alter- nately enraged at tripplag over bare wires laid along Hatfield's endless corridors, and astonished at the sound of the Prime Minister's volce réciting
with varying infection: "Hey diddle Addie diddle, the cat and the the cow-jumped over the moon, In order to test the acoustics of this then primitive instrument.
But Lord Salisbury was, course,
much more than English Eccentric. He consummate politician and great statesman.
pf
an
When he succeeded Disraeli as leader of the Conservative Party, his position was by no means secure. But he outmanoeuvred his rivals, including Lord Ran dolph Churchill, the most: dan- gerous and brilliant of them all.
Ho tamed Joseph Chamber- lalo. Hp ermifiged · for the succession to pass peaceably and smoothly to his own nephew, Arthur Balfour.
"Sprockett's son, who played the part of the foreman of the love 1920's in
the with glamorous canteen manageress looked more than life-like in his bowler hat und celluloid collar.
"The author's vivacious wife, and mother of seven children, played the part of the vampish a Tor, as the witty ant
author remarked at a
matched a leg of rabbit, afterwards, to a T.U.C.
streaked out into the Although some of us found he
When Salisbury resigned Ân, difficulty in following the plot garden, where he was viciously (why did Sprockett's daughter attacked by hungry cata ring 1902 he was master of his own party, and for more than, sevin have to sing Because in the the route to the dustbin.
It is fortunate that Tibbo years his party had been master middle of Act 5, for but will return home before Man
of the country. During the New York. They havo decided it is the you look exactly like Harry and although the dialogue,
streater part of his met aghattan Mouser arrives for the Truman."
as dough and smooth running
Prime Minister he also held the Otherwise Coronation.
ho MERICAN TV stations surest way to get the Alms on
Foreign Office an experiment glue, was marred by propaganda U.S.
Coronation
to travel ever the Broadway ENJOYING
Ramsay want to hire one or two
to 20 would speeches lasting up night.
escape the jealous only once imitated, by One jet could leave London bright lights again are jet planes from the RAF to
these minutes, the performers man- faster to
aged to get through a trying rage of Lottie's tough American MacDonald in 1924. Britain's
pow
and prestige has never fly Coronation films across about 2 p.m. (9 am, in New French sailors
York evening with
stood so high York) and touch down at Now allowed ashore in New
help of sweetheart,
or since the Atlantic on June 2.
York in mid-afternoon. This indignantly to answer recently because they
it did when Salisbury refused prompters yelling lines from the personal would give the TV men time
his dominant Yet, despite to develop the film and rush it questions from immigration in-
position in British politico;” his spectors. on to, dinner-hour screens,
opinions were curiously out of The second jet would como com- in poon after, with the
sympathy with those current in his day. plete alm..
Tho
last quarter of the nine- teenth century was an age not bellef in progress, democracy, and imperialism. Sallsbury was
orkuthose. what
A
SALESMEN
真真真
screens оп
who were
not
The inspectors have whittled down the questions from 34 to four. They now cover - only
wings."
the
Cafe Society
CORRESPONDENT
have
Lottie Hits Out SKED to comment on the statement in the House of
Communist Party membership. A complained in a newspaper mans that the
has Commons by Mr David Gam-
THE
1150
is
creep vant, was convicted in 1949 of only his balr'o not grey, in their employment,
Gubitchov. 147
official food
UP THE LADDER to fourth disease, and criminal records. that retired men not only do allowance for Post Office cats place among motor-car makers
JUSTICE DEPARTthe shopping for their wives has not been raised for several Rues Henry 3. Kalser. He has MENT is to ask Congress for Unf fil the cafes afterwards years, despite the cost of living, bought the Willys-Overland Company for more than the right to tap telephones in fer their elevenses, and possly Lottie, the Devil Cat said:
Uke toomen. the
another example Just 222.000.000. He will continue espionage cases and
What's that, old man?
of the callous and unimaginative to make its cars and his own, evidence in trials.
Judith Copton, a civil BOT I said I don't believe he's attitude of Government depart-
ments towards civil servants BRITISHI aviation is ing up on its American rivais silpping Government secrets to for a bigger share of the rich Russia's Valentin Coronation trable over the But a court held the conviction Don't make me laugh, old
this to be invalid - because North Atlantic. Starting
tho { man..... Don't you know dye month, US. airlines will run evidence was obtained by wire when you see it?, 24 fights weekly to London. tapping. A
Are you telling me he dyes B.O.A.C. 19.
his hair? SLIM SILHOUETTE,' will be Some places still have seats
Have a look at the parting, unbooked for May, but to inte- the aim of the American male od mall. Besides, on a hot coiners who want to fly over for 1059, forecasts the.. Now
day,
the due runa into his sys Bull, if he's over 60 he keeps his Oguro, pretty well,
Figure my foot, old man. Well he doesn't look lice un couple of pear drops of
at Coronation time the airlines York Timed In a 72-page report like mascara N zay: "You have to bring your on men's wear." own wings,"
Ho will wear a single-breast- old suit with all htly padded HARRY TRUMAN, looking shoulders,” a longer coat,
His-trousers for a friend's house in San narrower lapels: Francisco, knocked at the will bo tapered, with fewer wrong door, and wastell by pleats M
the householder: "Bay, I hope HA will have narrower
We don't happen
your feelings won't be hurt, but bring and tapered crowns, na corecta, old man.
never en
with perialist. He spoke wished to go everywhere and take everything
Bull less was he a He saw no reason to suppose that the masses would use their "As for Mr Gammans's re-
power any more justly than any mark that allowances vary
other class to which exclusiva: power, had been entrusted.”) The according to the efficiency of the the cala concerned, how would time would soon come when members of the Government the rich will pay all the laxen like to be fed according to their and the poor will munke, all, the
SOTO
them lawa," efficiency?
Moreover, Uke many intellec would starve to death."
When asked what she thought tual Conservatives Balisbury was hóf the member who misowed something of a.. pomimist
him what was remarkable about during the debate she said:........
MPS have an
"schon of, but the fact that, it existed at humour, though I daresay the milyon superadling, tüne
senalbla minow was, the most thing said in Parliament for a weur long time of
"It is my place that clvfilantiiki/. was not Its Dafenta
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