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EXHIBITION
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ' MAY 1959,
THEY'D LOVE
P
TO SAY GOODBYE
to the Probing Professor
*
By CHAPMAN pincher
ROFESSOR LORD Ic has never been an MP.
CHERWELL,
only time ho tried to the The
enter polities by the front door Cabinet Minister who as Professor Fredericks Linde- serves Sir Winston Chur- mann he atood for a. univer- chill as chief adviser on all sity seat in 1030-ho caine out
things scientific, has been bottom of the poll..
given a new nickname.
He has a habit of producing
Bad friends
a pocket slide-rule nt Cabinet ORD CHERWELL knows ho meetings to work out the Prime L not popular in Whitehall Minister's statistical problems but it worries him so lile that on the spot.
his latest move looks like bring-
So redior elvil servants are ing him about 11,000 more und calling him "The Prime Minis friends. ter's Aukler." The
They are the lentils, tech- double meaning is fully appreciated nicians, and administrative staff both by the civil servants end of the Government's £120 Lord Cherwell.
million atom project,
the
Civil Service and plunged into a more businesslike world where a boss can still use the sanction of the sack.
In his 18 months In the Due entirely to the professor's oddly named office of persistent agitation they Dre Paymaster-General the 16- about to be Eastched out of the year-ck, and-faced professor comfortable security from Oxford has become the most-feared man in Whitehall.
A ruthless cutter of red tape, he has shown himself to be the enemy of everything that time- After eight years of unremil- serving civil servants cherish. ting effort, he has finally gol scorns "the .official the Cabinet to agree that atom channels" and spurn "the ofl- development would go ahead clal view." In his unassailable much fuster f were taken position as Sir Winston's war out of Civil Service control and tried confidant he can cut handed
un Atomic across menths of plodding work Development Corporation by Ministerial committees in a on business lines. few minutes of shrewd Bru- ment.
A
No, no, no
S atum overlord he ha; severely pruned the powers of General Sir Fredericle Mar- gan, who is now Controller of Atomic Energy in name only.
Lord Cherwell is a critical of the way the elvil servants
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DRAMA ON THE CORONATION ROUTE
THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY on Coronation Day will be along a route steeped in drama. Every one of the streets and avenues where the crowds will congregata has its story in history of battle and romance, of
EXPOACHE
REDENT ET.
PICABILY
hoax and high treason. In this new China.-Mail a cartoon series MAROC picks out the highlights. First, an incident that happened almost at the start of the Coronation route-Carlton House Terrace in The Mati,
PHOOK LINE AND
SINKER THE STORY OF
FROM THE MALL BY THE DUKE OF YORK'S
STEPS - MOVE BACK IN HISTORY TO JUNE 17, 1812. CARLTON HOUSE RESIDENCE OF THE PRINCE REQINT, THE SCENE JETOY. THE GREAT. HDÄXER · THEODORE HOPKI
PRESSED IN A GRAND UNIFORM OF SCARLET HOOK DELIVERS IN FERÍNY
Tun
THE PSEUDO INVITATION").
The rewards for success WHI be greater-one main purpose of the corporation is to attract bolter men by offering bigger salaries than are possible Civil Service Reales-but most of the diom workers prefer, their present security.
Quietly
will head
011
corpora-
Revulsion to publicity is the only feature he seems to shore
Oxford river
HOOK [MITATINO THE HANDWRITING, MAKES AN EXACT FACSIMILE OF AN INVITATION FROM THES CHAMBERLAIN FOR A GREAT”. FUNCTION AT CARLTON HOUSE DIVEN BY THE PRINCE
TRIUMPHIT
COATES SETS OUT! BORROWED SPLENDOUR. WAY TO THE PUNCTION.
HE IS WATCHED UNSEEN ON HIS
COATES MAKES A SWAG ENTRANCE. PRZ HIS INVITATION TO THE PRINCES SECRETARY. WHER UPON SYS
M
THE INVITATION COMMANDS. THE PRESENCE OF SIGNOR
ROMED COATES, ACTINGANT THAT TIME WITH MORE ASSURANCE THAN ARTISTRY IN SHAKESPEARE AT THEUT 37 — HAYMARKET THEATRE,
DISCOVERED
SUMMARILY COATES SHOWN OUT. HE WATCHE HOME IN RAS, AND HUMILIATION.
THE PRINCE REGENT ON HEARING OF THE, HOAX (EXPRESSES HIS REGRET THAT THE TRICK
A GENUINE SHOULD HAYS. DEEN DETECTED AND SENDS COATES AN APOLOGY AND
London E1 Service
INVITATI ÖN,
و با ان
DR MCKIE'S CHORUS
HE Great Choir of 400 voices who will sing for the Queen at her Coronation have a Apear-
from which he took his baronia. hend: the 30 men and 12 name he prefers to move quie.ly boy singers of Westminster
At ha offices in 11 Downing | Abbey. Street he has the services of
urst the interferes at all levels. Wtion? Be sure that prin This brings him into continual not be Lord Cherwell. That posi conflict with Supply Minister would bring him too much into Duncan Sendys, who has 10 public notice. answer for atomic energy
The overlord Parliament while stis securely the Upper with civil servants. Like the
When Mr Sandys proposed to smooth-flowing release harmless detalls of the Monte Bello explosion Lord Cherwell vetoed the decision. When Staff chicts agreed
That the purpose of the secret alon Aldermasion, Berk station at shire, could
be revealed sately Lord Cherwell overruled them,
What some civil
rervants term his interference at the Defence Ministry and
the Treasury is resented even more strongly by them.
Senior, civil servants, who are
not used to this type of treal- ment, are now openly complain- ing that Lord Cherwell has too much power.
two information officers but Imagine you are part of iseurs information.
On the the spearhead. The Socialist Government was morning of The Day you constantly and rightly criticised take milk for early” brenic- for apending more than 100 fast, that being the pre- million on atom work without scribed drink for Corona- rendering account to the public. Yet on Lord Cherwell's orders tion
whether choristers, the Supply Ministry has been young or old. Experts any even Ughter-lipped.
that tea and coffee are
Lord Cherwell even withholds
his age from "Who's Who." well off his father,
Though from Alsace, left him a fortune
he is teetotel, a non-smoker,
400 singers are getting ready for the Coronation, but only 20 are women -because church music
is
a MAN'S business"
by FRANCIS MARTIN
Irritant when your nerves down to the cloisters at nine "their knees.
If anything goes
are taut and likely to re- o'clock and line up with fan wrong thay pounce and put it main so for hours on end. fare trumpeters and singers right before you can say Georgy
You get to the Abbey at from the Chapel Royal. eight o'clock and go up into
Generul paid out public money on vegetarian, and lives simply in the choir vestry, where 3 h and putting on
ORIGINALLY the Paymaster. orders from the Treasury. It is note sohlch appointment Sinecure enabler Lord Cherwell to sit in the Cabinet,
OF THE
HUNGARIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
to MAY 25th 1953
APRIL 24th
LING NAN CULTURAL PARK
CANTON
bachelor chambers.
He stays
A
WAVE of relief through offices each time the
rumour
Frederick Handol."
didn't
M103
ch
The grand total of 400 com- prises 202 men, 178 -boys-20 women, the latter in a soup of 36 solo singers from Canada, Australia. New Zealand and South Africa who are being nominated by the-high com- missioners for those countries. Why not more women? Because tradition lays it down that church. music is not really, women's” business.
S
Men and boys from outside include parties or complete choirs from: the four Chapels Royal and St. George's, Wind- Bor; seven colleges, including Elon, which are royal tions;
representatives of parish church
Inside, and
but-
side London; 81 eminent, Bellisi
solo singers (all men who perience; and singers from the have had church choir leading cathedral choirs of Eng- Jand Scotland,
Woles. Protestant Ireland."
Professionals
"They rebuilt the organ for At 9.30, folding their hands the 1037 Coronation,
solemn firewatched during the war, they head the Regalla
faces, they?" asks a choirboy, Proces
"Yes. and put on your surplice slon into the church, singing
But here's an inter- and scarlet cassock. You Litany responses as they go. esting thing. When they rebuilt
This done, they take surges have rehearsed the Corona-
dral choir (18 men tafid $10 their the organ they left in 122 old ONCE again St. Paul's Cather places on the steeply pitched Whitehall's ill-lit tion pieces, all 18 of them, tribunes specially bullt over the wooden pipes cach dated 1094. boys) will attend in strengthi Those piper were there when They have been trained for the choir Stalls Dermal
for the Henry Purcell Himself played occasion by the goes round that Lord Cherwell so sedulously that you could
St. Paul's is returning to his academic (and probably do) sing them Great Choir, each man and boy the organ."
organist, Dr John Dykes Bower, hoping (in some cases against in your sleep. No need for the odds) that he is going to
who, with Dr William Harts. Henry Purcell, whose portrait organist of St. George will Hopes are now running high further practice. All you have an unblocked view of the in full-bottomed wig listens at- aid Dr McKie as a subconductor that he will leave in August, do is clear your throat, crowning ceremony.
tentively to what goes on in transmitting McKie's bed!!! but they have little foundation. smoke a cigarette perhaps,
the 13th-century choir-practice he stands on top of the choir room, is always referred to in screen, to outlying, sections, of the Abbey preelnels as Purcell the Great Choir. awaiting the summons Himself or The Incomparable
The talk shop. Six of them were at the 1937 Coronation and
work at Oxford.
The civil servants will almost
the
They Talk Shop
certainly have to put up with and throw darts at a pock-
negravating activities of marked board which has We cloisters the choirmen. Pureel, Abbey organist from
The Prime Minister's Aider"
hung on the vestry wall
aisen moit men singers of the 1679 to 195, he played at two Abbey, like these of fit. Paul's, as long as Sir Winston remains since 1939. in power.
The Abbey choir's special reminisce accordingly. In those Coronations and wylo music are professionals, They suppl
cently job as spearhead is to go days," says Alexander Hender for at least one. There are ment their Abbey stipend re audacious people who say his £325 a year for attendance at Increased by £5000 to music is every bit as good us
ten or eleven services awock) Benjamin Britten's.
by teaching and outside singing engagements,
---(London Express Service)
THE ROAD TO SODOM
town
from Jordan, less than three
through to Sodom from the Oasis where
the
Evn, bass, "I was in St Paul's
We all came over, ah to
do our bit." The con- Restion there was at the finish! We were imprisoned in Abbey till 3.30. Some of us had sandwich packs in cur earsock pockets. Good thing, too,"
Another theme is technical hitches. Somebody BOYS---
A Bachelor
For Coronallon duly Kaji the trimly tailored shoulders (the DURCELL'S mantle is now on receive an expenses allowance word "fer" is carenmy of Dr. William McKie, born in avoided) of two guineas eleti, Melbourne nearly 60 years ago, This is not net gain however, bachelor ("I have been so
memort
But durus son"
whole ot
VODOM—the
God Premier Ben-Gurion ofcially destroyed for its wicketiners opened the road recently. As is back on the map again. Dynamiting through volcanic alert against a sudden attack ⚫he spoke, soldiers were on the
I never had time to marcha ommal year the Athey choirmen pick up an extra 90 mountains pitted with dcep
Wouldn't like to have the who was made in Abbey organist guineas or so for singltig 20 moon-surface craters, Israe
organ
in 1941 while an RAF Bight weddings, funerals, on my mind today. engineers have cut a 70-mile road miles away across calt basins Tricky thing an organ. Especial- lleutenant, and took up his services and other
her speclectical Lot's wife became ly an electric organ Spock of oppointment after the war. of Seven Wells, where Abraham petrified into a pillar.
you've dust on a contact and walesed his sheep the biblical,
As Director of Music for the the Abbey is barred to the Or a note may stick low burtling town of Beersheba, Heavy trucks will new roll up and go on sounding indefinitely Coronation Service, a duty that public and out of rouline, Asc
To reach the site at Sodom, the new road, loaded with like a factory siren."
carries no fee ("it's the honour. The choirmen thus sacrifice aff which lies 1,800 feet below sea sought-after potash from the
that counts"), McKlo has enroll- special 'fées," and to that extent level at the lowest point on the limitless resources of the Dead "That" replies a knowing ed 358 supplementary singers, are 28 guineas out of pockef carth's surface, tools, two years Sea. A target has been set at voice, "is taken care of. At this who will pour into the Abbey Butatif upper lips erestin of gruelling work in satanic 180,000 tons yearly. Biggest moment three mechanics rra on June 2 from all parts of rule. As Purcell Himself would expected to be sitting at different points inside Britain and many parts of the have rald, It is, the honour, that
the organ cate with tool kits on Empire,
hept. The cost-more than three customer is million dollars.
Britain.
had it.
counts.
JOHNNY HAZARD
PINNED AGAINST THE WALL BY JOHNNY'S SHIELD, SAXON GRABE : A BATTLE AXE...
By Frank Robbins
A SAVAGE CHOP WITH THE AXE STAGGERS JOHNNY BACKC Ž. (
AND NOW SAXON LEAPS IN FOR THE, KILL/
situation
Comst &
Miguel