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IDDON'S DIARY ✰
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
His Garden Is
A Lady Speaks Up A Diamond Mine
For The British
New York, Tuesday. Luce publications) that he is TODAY, two weeks after "running like
again.
сапа mourn
a dry crock"
film, with Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger, is hardly a classic. It's bound to make a lot of money.
the death of Queen Mary, the tributes Why did Eisenhower endure
A. S. Frere, chairmun of still continue here. Ameri. the humiliation of his appoint-
Bohlen as Heinemann's, ment of Charles
the publishers, Queen Mary Ambassador
to Russia being sends me a book I recommend, almost as their own.
held up week after wrek, ask "American Into English" by the critics.
G. V. Carey. It will aid Anglo- American relations and in-laws too.
There have been many lines for a great lady, many eulogies of the most queenly, of Queens. I have only one criticism of the American reporta of Queen Mury's passing. For some rea- son many tributes contained re- ferences ta Uke "shrunken, poverty-stricken Empire."
Policy dictator?
MR BOHLEN has now been
Senate confirmed by 74
scars of votes to 13.. but the the fight between Senator Mc- Carthy (that man again) and Administration are visible the and painful.
Even my friend Robert Ruark wrote: "Queen Mary saw the British Empire at its peak of
McCarthy, the desperado, not magnificence, and saw it fade satisfied with being the super inlo stale, impoverished de sleuth and grand inquisitor, op
sees himself as the speration. Other writers talk-parently
dictator of American foreign cd of "the declining, harried
volicy. Commonwealth.**
McCarthy also wants to lu
I don't think Queen Mary introduce the lie-detector test for ber last days and years thought everyone he doesn't, like, which of the British Empire and Com- monwealth in such terms. There seems to be almost everybody. is no "stale. impoverished desperation" that 1 know of.
A fifth of the globe can hard-
Fortunately, President Georze Shuster, of Hunter College, has suggested stepped forward and
File V
"Just you try doing one of Comrade Malenkov with 'sufficient photographic realism" and see what you
get!!!!
By Donald McCormick
TUCKED away in the the garden of a 45-year-old financial news columns. The man who has brought
Canadian prospector. this week la the informa- prosperity, to the A areltory. Is tion that diamond exports Dr James Thorburn William- from Tanganyika totalled son, who is well on the way to becoming the world's £4,606,930 during the past richest mon. He is a geologist, year. The year before only the son of a Canadian Tumber- £88,952 worth of the pro- Jack, who worked on a hunch that there must be diamonds cious
stones were
sent in this area. abroad from the British. It cost him years of hard
work, but in
protectorate.
overnight untold lucky.
Almost prosperity Tanganyika-and
come -hos
all
Since
*་་་
1040 be struck
then he has to never looked back. Today his
has become ---the ----
because garden'
of the six miles long pipe of Mwadui diamond mine, diamonds which lles beneath
Stalin and the
marzipan
T is well known that, after the fall of Stalingrad in January 1948, the Rus-
sians endeavoured — apparently with some success-to enlist a group of cap- tured German oflicers to work for the Communist cause. But so far few reliable details of this episode have reached the West.
Now Count Heinrich von
Nazis
1
→ A BIZARRE EPISODE OF THE → WAR IS NOW MADE PUBLIC DY A MAN WHO SAW IT HAPPEN THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN MOSCOW AND HITLER'S GENERALS
ly be described as "shrunken, that McCarthy himself be in- Einsiedel, a young Luftwaffe by ROBERT BLAKE
or the booming Dominions "poverty-stricken,"
vestigated. 1 nominate Lady
Le Astor for the board of investi
gation.
I am glad Nancy Lady Astor
is here to speak up for the Bri- tish and prick the bubble
of
this rubbish. Lady Astor pro- claims that Britain has never
been greater and the Common
wealth more
She is quite unperturbed by the typhoon she has stirred up by saying: "Too bad it isn't
Easter parade
THE Spring season promises a
Tel-up in the non-stop Mc- Carthy
York City is dressed up, and so are
rampage. New the girls.
pokon," when she saw Senator Benne's are flowered, veil-
Joseph McCarthy sipping a
Washington recep drink at tion.
To the attack
PHE New York Daily News THE
told her vulgarly to "shut her trap, get home to England, and never come back."
ed, deck the
sequined, sashed. Daisies crowns; there are straws decorated with sequins and Parma vlolels shaped Into profle helmets.
The shops are full of Easter. eggs, rabbits, elves, and goblins, but something has happened to the eggs and the rabbits, The atomic age has come aven to Easter, and some stores are featuring huge cardboard eggs containing a supersonic gun and Roy Rogers's signal ziren.
space-
The circus comes to town to-
Lo
stadium
Wembley
or
pilot shot down at the end
ers,
of
ferred to a comfortable villa.
For reasons not entirely clear, Russions
the He was persuaded
Russians attached
great with surprising case to write importance to the creation a propaganda leaflet reminding some kind of "Free Geman" the Germans of Bismarck's organisation. warning agains!
war with Russia,
"Dialectical materialism
Like most pioneers - he was called a 'modman' in the early days when he was trying to locate the diamond pipe. Ills funds.ran low, he had only a tent as headquarters.
But
the determination “ho ea showed in following up, bis? hunch stood him in good sledd he storted selling his
diamonds, For the newcomer
做
the diamond market
cused, for 22 months to self Nia stones to the powerful Dlamand Corporation, which so far ha had a near monopoly in diamond sales. He disagreed with: big,“ share in the carnings..
Stockpile
A*
Instead he amassed stockpile of the stones-vajuctiv
A
hugh
ot
yika vaults. At the end of, the 1
months' period the agrees,
22
£5,000,000-in his Tangail
ment which bound him only to T
ended
rell to. the Corporation
Since then Dr Williamson
given a sharp boost to what lan
Tanganyika's principal now mineral export. How much
He ended by describing the low and still spe..
1
of 1042, gives us the first authentic account of what medals and monocles, with fur happened".
His book is costs and walking sticks, con- without a doubt one of the most his record sales are from be
trasting sharply with often incoherent and con-
the progressive ideas, in the worldtockpile, and how much, trong 3-
now sco clearly that Rockp moclated soldiers who had to today. I fused, his opinions are naive, carry
certain their Inden suitcases 10
transcendental and the current production, is any metaphysical forces have, over do
body's guess. But experts but his narrative be the their rooms.
Conveyed in luxurious sleep and over again, played a deci- reckon the future output of the Mwadul Mine should be around stamp of truth. It throws
fed on butter and caviare, sive part in determining my Hire
a year. a atrange and fascinating the generals had a high morale, and fate." He attributed this £0,000,000 a
He is В simple lifera light upon a
mysterious When one of them was sent in interesting fact to his relation- corner of war-time history, error to the Lublanka prison he chip with the philosopher, Kant, bachelor who lives in a bunga
lot of promptly went on o hunger Einsiedel is a great strike, and was speedily trans- agreements signed by the com- women write to him, pro
time
studying
Hundreds Von grandson of Bismarck. His
mittee with Stalin as "agree.
posing marriage, oven Birding ancestry at ones interested the
ments, signed with God.".
their homemade...... By now most members of the cakes and needlework. Committee had left the hell unable to restrain, their laughter,
convinced- He first
people that They returned in time for n he really had struck a vast for
he lavish banquet.
picked up The ninny
gung when Tyblo
with were loaded
farger pink diamond than had before been discovered, ever nction made him one of
und Mut such
OREOVER, they rightly saw vodka and caviare sandwiches. the "favoured" prisoners,
on organisation General Petroff, the head of the This stone, cut and polished, he worked 49 a Communist would out no fee whatever if it prisoner-of-war organisation in was sent by Dr Williamson-to- proselytiser first in prisoner of was dominated by doctrinaire Russia, attended. Seydlitz tried the Queen as a personal ved
valued DE war camps in Russia, later in German emigre Communists, to welcome him but, overcome ding gift. He the Eastern Zone of Germany like Waller Ullricht,
£16,000 but it la probably who had by drink, was unable to speak." until, disillusioned and dis lost all contact with reality and
ended in singing worth for more today. The evening gusted, he crossed to the West could only reiterate meaningless and follification. Marxist slogans.
And all this took place in a devastated by, war The captured generals would country
more reputable against a background of starving to the Free German millions.
But the
Wound up
This
in 1949.
lend "
hind the Iron Curtain one
Incompetenco corruption, barbarism, What
by
two equally odious por of Stalingrad,
Flourishing
1
a
Tanganyika has flouridud at-r all levels since the Mwaduł Mine come into existence. Haz Insisted on high standards for 5
workers. the
The African mining area has one of Africa's
Instead. Lady Astor, follow ing up her attack on McCarthy, has calmly posed
for photo graphers plunging a knife into
Butter, caviare a cake at a luncheon and say- ing for the sake of the Press: morrow, when Ringling Brothers "Let's pretend it's McCarthy."
TN any account of ovents bo- mitic and Barnum and Bailey's great- est show
earth opens at
handed some talk of legal There is
by group, Madison Square Garden. pity expects a story of fanaticism, were divided among themerals
and One
von TN May 1946 the Committee proceedings against Lady Astor, the Garden is not bigger. New
Seydlitz, who appears to have perhaps
were suddenly wound up. They but I am sure they will come to
La badly in need of
tho total been
been a complete niany, were Attorney-General nothing. The Attorney Genere spacious halls such as Olympia, arbitrarians of Stalin's oriental ready to foln, though. We had presumably served whatever most perfect villages from livin
outside has no
programme Its principal item mind,
Ho employs 0,006 tyranny. Kaoled on charges of "incite- and
of the
That purpose still remains a
twice whom he pays war in Russia was, un- was the reinstitution" The
the norins! ment to commit a felony." What comparable White City.
salute seems somewhat lacking mystery, but one thing is clear: t In the West, an like the wor
rate with house, clothes, idiocyl
the Western commentators who blankets and food thrown in. ideological struggle, a religious in revolutionary fervour,
Another group, headed by von perceived a sinister threat in
This war of extermination fought between
the senior general and this strange alliance between Says Williamson:
and best way to check and beat the generals ru- tho forma of totalitarianism,
diamond thief. 1 don't have It might therefore be ex- fused for a long while to have Moscow were unduly alarmed.
The Committee possessed no pected that the German com- anything to do with the Com-
mitter.
their and, although power, manders, guilty of almost every
atrocity, conceivable
But in August 1944 von Paulus members were treated with ex- to broadcast against traordinary liberality by the have received short shrift from agreed their equally ferocious captors Hitler. The Russfans resolved Russians, they pever appear to at to celebrate his adherence by a have been trusted. The danger summary execution or best, slow starvation in Siberia. plenary session of the National of a Russo-German alliance may He puts in twelve and OTD
But no, Von
re- Free German Committee. What be real, but if it ever comes times 14 hours a day. And ho Einsiedel, covering from a fever, was followed is reminiscent of the into existence it will not owe believes that his Africant work, astonished to gaze at the cop. Mad Hatter's Tea Party rather anything to people like you harder than most of their, kith is
and kin. Seydlitz.
"A fair deal tured generals from Stalingrad thon a tolalitarian despotism.
always bring The National Free German arriving in his camp. There they Von Beydiltz, elated by the stood, laughing loudly and presentation of an enormous, Committee was a farce through the right results," he says.
And Tanganyika is getting a gestiulating with glittering marzipan birthday cake, made a out, though doubtless a farce
speech. The Prussian aristocrat which was far from agreeable very fair deal from the man the who found riches beneath hig described hig conversion to either for the actors or
audience.
2,500 acres garden'; Communism.
McCarthy had this coming to him for a long, long time, and in any battle between the lady and the Senator the lady will win hands down.
Of course, Lady Astor is an ex- traordinarily aggressive perzon. When I talked to her the other day she started off by saying "You'll get everything all wrong -newspapers always do. Never get a thing right, you people."
Monty's banter
FIELD MARSHAL
The only play this week is Horses in Mid-stream," open- ing on Thursday with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Lili Darvas, Diana Lynn.
star objects
now
end
WENTIETH Century-Fox has
been
James rebuked by Mason,
Europe, for giving him star billing in "De- sert Rat," He wants his name on the posters in small letters. This is something new for an actor.
The "Salome" opening caused a tumuk, although the
Mont- gomury, another visitor, has also been speaking out, but only quite
the icast controversial sub-
Field-Marshal jee's. The
has j jurred and irritated the Ameri- con- can Press by his rather descending banter.
I boarded the Queen Mary to see Viscount Montgomery and Andrel Wishinsky. M- Vishinsky refused to see newspapermen and ignored written querlions.
would
• The Shadow of Stalingrad (Allan Wingate, 152.),
Prussian
poilco system. I don't need it when workers are vin
He spent £30,000
Hard work is still rifs z
Africans a hospital and a health service,
CHANCELLOR BUTLER, ARCHITECT OF RECOVERY
the only thing you can't buy in a drug store is drugs."
Budget.
over since.
дл
afraid of unpopularity 14 years
a massive contribution to the Nevertheless, he remains under calling him. Three cheerful knockabout stuff of. Mr IGHTS are burning late already
in an elegant home in in an elegant home in years after his marriage in. 1020 Lennox Boyd, or the arch Conservative victory in 1981. the strongest preauro from In
to Sydney Courtauld, heiress of finger-wagging of Mr Boyd- Whatever some back-bench dustrial, Interests. If his Budget Opponents are critics may say
of "milk-and- should disappoint them, abou the great texille empire, he Carpenter, Square. Surrounded by fin- entered Parliament for Saltron gently rebuked by Mr Butler for Butlerism," he
did more than expects a Toy directory Ficha-Marsha! Montgomery
head, Mr Butler, Hough, te not gally presided over a Press con- tiquo furniture, rare china Walden, a Tory seat, he has their errors, not denounced amid anyone else to rescue his Party en masse with. Tout cries o ference, and when he was asked and fine paintings, Mr held by comfortable majoriiles, Party catoulls dudy and from fossilisation after the re-
into the Head's study and some forceful questions on the Richard
go as Foraliga Under Sect Austen Butler,
gravely reminded of the school sounding defeat of 1945.
he was courageousty dét European and world situation he Chancellor
of the Ex- So. in the age of the Common they belong to. blithely said: "I'm here to see
New Toryiam
"appeasement." And horis wraż to the view that politics, baseball match. I want to talk chequer, is putting the Man. "Rab" Butler can cool the
His last Budget speech was a wrangles of the Commons with
the vehicle of tocikliratquments about baseball. I also want to finishing touches to his
Unlike Edwardian
that brilliant performance. dignity
Ho created the New Torylim, is astutely aware of the political see a drug store: I'm told
comes of on assured background some prewar Chancellors, he was of learning and conscientious net overword by the gravity of, at his was the brain behind the risks of a "Big Business" gat
and Industrial Charters and "Britain Strong and Sharp-tongued Mr In his setting he differs from public service. Tall, thin, palo the occasion the ancient, bit- Agricultural A reporter, replying placidly to Labour's last Chancellor. Mr and high-browed. he has the tered:morocco despatch case of Free. He encouraged his back Castle, Beyanite MP for Oleg
scronity
of the a thousand, secrete, the solema, room boys at the Conservative but Bart, has said that Mr. Elen this worn joke, said: "Field Hugh Galtskell, who was photo-intellectual
shiny top-hats, the packed, Central Osico-already·|-rising and Mr Buller aze watching each expressed Marshal, you
the graphed doing his pre-Budget university High Table,
electrically-attentive benches, significantly, to power on the other for the succession to “then same desire to see a drug store homework on a kitchen table by
Mellow Autumn /
Treasury Bonchio coin slogans Tory Leadership and that this E on your last visit here in 1949," a gas stove.
He slipped through his speech like "a prosarty-owning, demo- one of the most bitter and dad - Though not born to the purpin
Mr Huss Dalton, as Chan with dexterity bestowing cracy" while in electoral warfare mined of political condi
a Alowing summer largess here, skinning the con- the progressivasess of the 1914
"Tony" and "Babti mitali of nobility, Mr. Butler has
sumer there. The only sign of Education Act was underlined, mood of indulgent patrician air-and background celler, had
tension he showed at controver It againcant, top that alone in deprecatingly at this kids Sir His father,
ver confdance; Bir Stafford Cripps, and moments was to sizind crane the legislation of recent years. Commons feminescuidary Governor
of Butler, was once
a wintery one of austere wreall ilke on one les curling fook this Act is known at Westminster comarked that Mr Butler has the former Central Provinces of
Ine with this vain world. Mr round. His India, and "Rab" was born in Galtakell's moods reminded the finished, Conservativos cheerod,
calf, When be as the Butler Actores gained a stature and authorthy
the last 12 months Not a very improsatve per- 1902 at the height of the pea-
Commons of an,frcautious, too like schoolboys given an unex= Mr Butter, much to the Left of only to that we formance by our trading gen cock eplendours of Curzon's curly Spring.
pected holiday.
Strand Waldron Smithers, Das Stafford CHIN cral
Viceroyalty...
preached, the virtues of moderas his power. The ite At that moment Mr Butler lon and like mort preachers, he collor has staked ausis Trac achieved a triumph from which has not been paraid to his out claim for Farty leadership.ne hohen never locked back. Ho even at the hast-bench "zèbelt”
Cecil Porter has become the architect of of his own warty and the most. Britain's recovery--sifier making powerful voices in the City,
•
tho
treaung. Montgomery, newspapermen as If they were a group of school children, said he still wonted to see a deur store, as he missed one, la time.
Ar-
A gifted scholar, his seedemin The Field Marshal has rived at a time when his friend career at Marlborough and Mr Elscalower is being told by Cambridge was outstanding and some of his most ardent supcrowned by a Fellowship of the. porters (notably the Henry | @geof || 23. But, pollies were
self
But Mr Butler's are those of a kindly. autumn day allow with a paint nip in the air.
Not for him the rumbustious Churchill the retorta: of – Mr