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By MILTON SHULMAN
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DON IDDON'S DIARY British Cars Drive Into Top Gear
B
On the way to Montreal, borrow the money. That's what fence spending is slashed there
Tuesday. we are doing,"
Ir no need for panie. RITAIN'S motor mag- All week the new British "Don't sell America short,'* £ nates and their cars models have been unvelled what I'm telling my clients, and are making a tremen- in a series of private and public I think it good ntvice," dous hit here. I am heading shows,
That McCarthy; north along Route 7 to the I have attended every one of Canadian border and have the shows and I would like Keen more British seen literally hundreds of to have British cars in a four-hour journalists and officials there. driving stretch.
THERE are many people who if Sir William Rootes can sland think that President Elsen- around
for
hours selling his cars hower might so at this time a and if Mr Lyons can take or few blunt words to business We are sending our cars over ders on his own stand like one with profit to everyone, but Ike in all shapes, colours, and sizes, of his own salesmen, then the is saying Mlle.
and the Americans
are laying big
Embassy and Consular their dollars eagerly on the line "brass can show up to help The Washington Post says:
"It's high time for the positive
to get them,
motor showrooms and
out of conferences with motor-car manufacturers prac- or models. tleally every day, last week.
an important place In life, but they clutter up motor car 1
make dollars for Britain.
foriegn policy that General Before I hit the highway to
There is one feature we might Eisenhower talked about during Montreal I was in and out of omit trem oir motor-car cx- the campaign.”
in and hibitions, aná that 9 the I am afraid that Mr Elcon- our fashion parade of mannequins hover is shunning the issue of Pretty girls have McCarthykem. I am sorry to keep writing about Senator Joseph McCarthy, but it's im- Sir William Rootes, launching shows.
possible to ignore him.. Mc his latest sports model on a
While pet the
oppeared-48 men Carthy's name sea of champagne, as
shifting into top times in a recent issue of une pace. He has told me camestly; have been
for gear, our other business leaders newspaper here. substitute There is no
We and experts have been con- salesmanship and quality.
American indus- are really
our motor-car
getting somewhere, ferring with Americans are beginning to seek triallets. Individuality in ears, and the who Brilish
are the people specialise in individuality, and lots of other things too.
This
On the march
McCarthy is assuming the size and the characteristics of the late Huey Kingfish Long, who Governor of Louisiana, mellbound the mob with the alogan: "Every man a king."
McCarthy is spellbinding large of Americans," Two
to one for
"The dollars are pouring, in THERE is to be a big British numbers and the British manufacturers trades exposition (1 don't like columnists who recently dared are working as a team, although, that word) presented by the to criticire him found their mail of course, we are in ferte com- John Wanamaker New York and from readers Ave peution.
Philadelphia stores during May McCarthy, In honour of the Coronation of And when I attended a party. "Do you know Bill Lyons, Queen Elizabeth.
given by Greek shipowner George Kulukundis the other will spotlight British
guests told ime: week several Mr Imports and bring in more #McCarthy 19
very Creat to dollars. Our business men are American, a fine pairiot who.
on the march.
really stands up to the Com→ Sometimes *1
do munists." Sir William said: "A great
One man saki: "I consider friend of mine and a great com- more for Britain and show more
acumen, energy,
and Joe
McCarthy as great pellter, but we are both work- skill,
than some of our George Washington."! ing for Britain-that's the im- accesibility portant point."
boss of Jaguars?"
I said
I did not know Lyons und
was introduced him.
of
a straight 10 percent
"Give me the luxuries, und everything sold. I can dispense with the necessi- said Oscar Wilde, and os" to satisfy his plea. For the past Christie's have done thel: best two cemuries they have been a showcase of what men covet.
A history of their buyers and sellers would include such names as Dickens, Garrick, the Prince
and mel, Sheridan
сп
'Trade, not aid'
man whose cars
think they
politicians certainly than many visiting members of Parlia- ment.
A5
What utter, dismal folly. Me- Carity is for government of the Goons by the Goons Either While oll this exuberant
President Elsenbower cuts, Mc- sulgemanship bas been dis Carthy down to size soon' or pinged bry
British, the McCarthy could one day be have been rather have subdued,
4
knocking at the...White House
tumbled several points and gobbled up records all over the has been some gloom as stocks door or throstening to kick It 3,000,000,000 dollars" on paper world, said:
"Business is booming. The were wiped out. simple slogan, Trade, not old,'
It is a god commentary on has caught on, Americans spent human nature that reports and
over 12,000,000 dollars last year buying my cars, and we expect the figures to be doubled this year.
"I
to
Show business
For Sir Alec Martin is not is IR ALEC MARTIN, auctioneer at Christie's, only an auctioneer but an "You cannot see still
the Old expert.. sells Masters although nowa 40,000 pictures a year with- days people prefer them on out some knowledge brush-
ing off on to you," he said. the small side.
Sometimes a genuine The Gainsborough went for eight guineas. The master can be found under Rubens was knocked down a cont of dust and varnish.
No for 12.
seem- There was the little Dutch Regent, Reynolds, Beau BruMR LYONS, a quiet, reserved Americana In Wall Street there- ed surprised. At Christie's picture, bought for a few surprise is for the amateurs. guineas in 1820, which Sir New owners have been found for their treasures and for such his- And these were obviously Alec Martin told an aston- torical curios as Oliver Crom- professionals buying the ished South Coast man was well's baby clothes and a paintings, engravings and a Pieter de Hooch. It sold half-smoked by Edward via But the times have been hard and pretentious. drawings of the late Army for 3,400 guineas.
the grand
of peace should bring E Ane Easter weather, kept But more often the treasured Buyers now seek items that
THE apprehension
the Block rumours
attendance down at the for are suitable
more modest colonel. The paintings might
maricet. The wretched phrase cinemas and theatres. The one. be "attributed” Gains heirloom wil turn out
said Sir
peace scare" has been echoing singe opening of the weds, And Alec.
ceramics, "English your great-grandfather.
in the canyona borough or Rubens, but the only the exuberant boast of rooms and houses
of Wall Street, Horsed in Mid-Stream," with and Queen Anno low prices indicated how while Christie's may have an Georgian
am buying
and an even worse one, the Sir Cedric Hardwicke, closed a picture's pu- silver, 17th century Dutch pic-transmissons from America, and Malendov depression," has been after only four performances. little the experts and dealers opinion about
they guarantee fures, Italian primitives-but the Americans are buying
cars added to the catalogue of The horses were last at the post thought of their chances of thenticity
nothing.
everything has to be small." from me. That's trade and aid endemity.
by the critics. being genuine.
that ways, and Yet it is not likely that Sir
working both On a rostrum stands Sir Alce's judgment is often ques The moderns?
is good business." Alec Martin, the auctioneer, toned. He has been at Christie's
We are fortunate in dominating with his brisk, for 37 years, coming there as-a-Yet it is at the work of-the-
old masters that turns up most motor-car manufacturers. business-like voice the rows boy of 12,
The son of a working man he often at Christie's. To Sir Alec of middle-aged and elderly
"modern" painting is only as told that if he recent as the French impres- buyers bent over their cata went there as a lad-about-the-
and was place logues. "Lot 95. Five was conscientious he might come sionists like Renoir, Degas ond a porter. But he Monet. Such ultra-moderns as guineas offered." The bid day become
and Picasso or Braque still hang on studied typewriting
le than those of the saleroom. catalo comes down. Another paint. shorthand, haunted the galleries, the walls of their owners rathor
helped to compile the
And will Sir Alec predlet ing is propped up almost gues, acquired French, and was impatiently by the frock- encouraged by connoisseurs like which of today's artists areе coated attendants who have Sir Hugh Lane and am crities likely to fetch handsome prices In the auctions of the future? Hike Sir Claude Philips,
"No," he said. "I don't want to the last one just whisked
offend any of them." nway.
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The organ and mouthpiece of big business and the stock our market, the Well Street Journal, has to its credit, issued a protest. It says: "War itself is a terrible
Emlyn Williams will present Bleak House" here this month and also give some other charac- terisations of Charles Dickenst
Frankie Laine will appear at
Aiding these Engllahmen, and thing, but we find more terrible everyone else for that matter, yet the fact that there are men the London Palladium this auth- Is Str William Welsh, who was walking about who talk of peace mer and give his salary to the 'buy Rodin's Tato Gallery to an Air Marshal of the RAF. as if it were terrible,"
statue "The Klas" the most and is now head of the Society
expensive kiss in history, of Motor Manufacturers and Traders here.
The shareholders have dump ed stocks like confetti, although now the wise boys are buying
Olivia de Havilland is making her first trip to England to Sir William Welsh inslated on back and making a fat proft.
visit relatives. I talked to a broker. I know. Income-tax authorities plan opening the doors of cars and adjusting seats for me. He said: He said: "Some people down to plug loopholes which erblo sell the hore have the jittors, and they Hollywood stars to escape tax "How much better to goods and make the dollars than should be sparked. Even If de by sojourning in Rome.
SEFTON DELMER SIZES UP RUSSIA'S GAMBLE WITH THE DOCTORS
Why The Lid-Clamped Down For
It is not an impressive
He rose from auctioneer to day. The catalogue lists
to joint managug- Claudes, Tintorettos, Brueg rector. He is today the Hon.
Partner hels, even + Rembrandt, Secretary of the National Ant but few fetch more than 200 Collections Fund, Governor of guineas: One wonders if the National Gallery of Ireland the late colonel knew what collection. The only reinnant of a Trustee of the Wallace his highly distinguished gal- his early beginnings is a lery was really worth. dency to drop "gs" at the end
It takes a practised eye of words. to discover the bidding. A wink, a nod, a wiggle of the St. James's Place, is cluttered with interesting Christie-anLER, pencil, a shrug indicate an There is a caricature of a Red ALENKOV has taken bined to produce the
Salo in offer. Sir Alec's head moves Cross
1914 by Max
the lid off. I never the Beerbohm, A
wing of a back and forth with
by Row dreamed It would have been Landson, rhythm of a ping-pong ball.
of so soon. painting by Gainsborough the James Christie who founded 'Don't scratch'
the firm in 1760.
Hls ofce in Spencer Hours,
n
Years By Stalin-Has Come Off
IMA
the
These are
三
decision, believes that ultimately the Soviet Union Is surrounded Lenin and Stalin prophesied by hungry, Hostile capitalists the Communist world will have who wish to destroy It." The realleation that if the to secure ils triumph over the peace move in Korea is to non-Communists by arme we do not hard the vestful WE AJUST make it pipar (hat have uny effect in lulling to force. sleep the hostility of the West,
Most significant of all
No do not expect the blow two moves Inside the Soviet Union the anti-Jewish purge ordered nre
ffro this week-end is the release of by Stalin must be brought to to prestige of the secret
doctor "can- an observable stop.
police to have immediate coh spirators," cleared of charges of
sequences. The crowd servility
of
murdering. Soviet leaders, and the public proclamation that the
**confersions were” false,
be switched off.
con-
co-existence of a Soviet bloc with a capitalist Western-world as an impossiblity.
WE MUST make it clear that
operate with a peacefur Soviet weare. with Communist Tito.
police. Since then,
division Into the
Most fascinating He knows where to look,
framed letters by Loni Nelson how long to wait, what the Lady Hamilton, dated 16001.the 16 Kremlin chances are of getting any He is agitated because Christie
The conviction that Stalin's of the Soviet citizenry after 30 we are just as ready to co-
and years of oppression is more. Sometimes, not often, is planning to sell a picture the monotonous intonation her. He buys it himself. "I could
wholesale deportation extermination of Soviet great, non-Russian nationalities (who But I do believe that, what- of rising figures is stopped not bear it should be put up to
auction," he writes, "and if it And from Malenkov's point and shown. themselves un- ever his intentions may have for a confirmation of a bid had cost me 300 drops of blood of view it was the most risky liable during the war) should been in launching this internal
have given it with For he and Beria have struck or for an admonition like I would
and external pence drive, Now, what is the position a blow at the fundamental "Don't scratch your head pleasure."
Although pictures are Bir source 'of 01 Government The survivors are now to be Malenkov has started something Berla in this attack
which may well bring about secret police? Beria-wi with that catalogue, sir. Alce's special concers, he likes authority in the Soviet Union, won over to loyalty and re- fundamental Soviet changes. 1940, the head of thor? thought you were bidding." to think of himself as a general The great question is: Will they lablity with a polley of It is dangerous to go to practitioner.
be able to get that lid on again dilation in which a greater Christie's with a nervous Attording to Sir Alec, the if and when they want to? menture of self-government is
What must we do? In Important qualifications for tic.
to play its part. auctioneering are knowledge of No doubt they are confident
first place Wo miting unito 2 Malenkov's desire to
on Iconoclast Malcalcov to go "Some they wish. -muttered in a variety of lodge of the buyers,
hind' him with a show of in Stalin's world, tongues and accents-show buyers try to keep out as long
greater liberalism, and - greater
Nevertheless, I believe that- Already he has shattered the But this slap in the face, for prosperity than was enjoyed beller that the Kremlin oligarchs Berla might be a prime advocate ko explained. You have
stood united behind Stalin, that of Malenkov's paw policy,
For it was Deria, in 1930 who Morning Post, South China Ogure conducting the sale, now just when to bring them legemetary infallibility sols the Sunday Post-Haraki, and They'll never got it for 50.
Soviet machine off on a period. This is to rally supporters in the great man could never make The largest singlu
le day's sale of readjustment which, to put the first place before a challenge a mistake, that the authority of persuaded Stalin to put tan, and
to his great puREENKAN Mall Staff Photo He'll make them go to 90 at Chrisle was 2364,004 duxit conservatively, le bound to to his power from a rival leader the secret police was Free Ambulance Service for Chins
absolute ut loast. He's a devil” ing the auction of the Hokord | sabmit it to a grost strain.. and before a possible showdown unchallengeable, wild always And it was Borla who accured
at the "release Emergency Accident Cases graphors are
Lindås, mentors T dirreled to the pubite weal the Morning Post Building. Sure enough, it takes 95 Collection between the wata
with the West, * What are Malenkov's motives?
parang web publicised amnesty --- ok, mora
• Tai, Hong Kong 71111
The bigbeat price paid for s pries
NOW WE MUST help him to than 600,000 prisondra, Mostly Tel. Kowloon... 52222
guineas to buy the painting are wa280,900 doc Rougey My guous is thot a number of For Malenkoy, despite all his of a Late Player.
"Mars Davenport" Chelsie's Jontactors and motives have com- tactical "peace moves today, shatter the other fiction that members of the party',
Copies
most
the
help
anistry of "Internal,
the M.G.B (Muil State Security), ho, whi posed to be the co-ordinatin
The naides of the dealers the things being sold and know- that they can do so at any throw the party and the army bo- shattering the illusion bulit up overlord, VAR MORE SEA403
of photographs a decided respect for the as possible for fear their pre-
St. John Ambulanco taken by the South China wing-collared, almost benign, will send the price up the secret police and Stalin's under the Stalin regime, g
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