THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1953.
DON IDDON'S DIARY MEN OF DESTINY: TWO
BOSTON IS NOT
SO
SUBDUED
Boston, Tuesday. Fit is possible for 'diplomut" to exert in fluence and spread good- will from a sick bed, Me Eden has done it. The Foreign Secretary haa received several hundred letters and messages wish- ing him a quick and complete recovery, and most of them have come from strangers. Despite the revere operation and painful aftermath, Mr Eden few visitors. The has seen 2 Cinvernor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston, and various local leaders and friends
lled on him.
To them all Mr Eden
215 expressed
linve
It struck me, but no one else, D# odd that the Protestant Lutherans should be meeting in th. fervently Irish Catholle clly, but there have been no clashes.
wag
disappointed, however, to hear the young Lutherans applaud one of their speaker,. Mr Herbert Philbrick, formier F.B.J.
counter-spy. When 15 said: "Anti-McCarthyism has become a racket by calling McCarthy the worst names, people who are against him are sure to make newspaper head. Ines. Most of the anti- McCarthy charges are false."
However, I don't think he in-
young Lutherns fluenved the 100 much.
At the moment, here the big news is
Is the cleaning up after a tondo which ravagedi the Worcester area nearby. Boston- four are amoyed that President Eisenhower has granted a mere 4 $500.000 for relief and rehabili
tation.
gratitude and appreciation. In fact, Mr Eden says: "It's been a heart-warm ing experience," which is
way of de- navel and gallant serbing a strious illness,
To their delight MAYOR
JAYOR HYNES, who visited
by Mr Eden: "My wife has fallen in love with Boston."
The two Massachusetts Sena- tors, Leverett Saltonstall and
after the President and demont John F. Kennedy, are going ing $25,000,000 for relief.
Young Mr Kennedy (he is the son of Jue Kennedy, one-time American Ambassador to tho
This hus delighted the mayor o
yor
and all Bostonians.
fire popular
Court of St. James's) is very Mir Exen now looks in excel- poz
He is good- lent condition and is in good looking, energetic, makes a good spirits, though the death of Dr administrator,
and was New
Lahey, who supervised his England's most eligible bachelor
There
grieved him.
Island,
the
is every evidence that the operation has been a corn- plete success, and after a period of convalescence Newport, Rhode
Foreign Secretary will be fully restored to health
Bostonians would like him to back again when he come t
when he could enjoy their town. It is one of the most enchanting in the
United
ited States, Beston has distinction, grave,
is
until Jacqueline Bouvier, who
is a rare combination of heiress and newspaper photographer, came along.
Will go far
pH couple entertained the THE
Press at the Kennedy family home at Hyannis over the weak- end and announced they would be married in September,
Father Kennedy, about $20,000,000, also, but kept in the back-
end elegance.. The stamp of ground.
who was
103 there
the British is still on A, al- Young Kennely will probably though it was here that the go farther in polities. He has all American Revolution was born the necessary equipment,
and the tea was dumped fn a bly campaign fund. Boston Harbour.
plus
Boston, of course, is still in although the uca need of reform,
I expected a more Tubulue: nced
However,
and possibly stully utmosphere. days when its mayors were in
visit my
has hap- and of gol seem long ago.
and out of pened to coincide with the ut during my visit here Dennis youth conference of the Au Delaney, United States Internal gustana Luther League, and Revenue Collector at-Boston, apparently all 5,000 of the has pleaded guilty to accepting Luther youths and girls are
bribes and evading personal staying at the Sheraton Plaza
income taxes, Hole, where I am established.
I see also that there have Carefree youth been scandals in The Boston No one, however, THE boys and girls are dressed Pist Office.
Threo cornered
hats, is blue jeans and shortcomings. and they
wear
mostly straw, fancy shirts, badges and carry posters and nuise-makers, They
seem
Log
excited
BRITONS
THREE OF 'EM! CAD, SIR.
NOW WE SHALL SEE SOME REAL CRICKET
NOPE OF THEIR SIDE
AT THE
Want Cepenakt de ariatzement with the Manchester Guardian
TOP
By ALLAN MURRAY
R.A. Butler: From Back Room to Leadership
altice.
From then on he built it up with skill and care.
His big moment came with, the overwhelming Tory defeat of 1945.
Set the People Free" Was Mr Churchill's election cry. It was a slogan that, but for Mr. Butler's back-room work, must have set the Parly in confusion, For cautious politicians on all sides knew that the lifting of controls could not yet be a step on the road to recovery.
Bent on fashioning Wolfara State, the Socialists regarded controls as
HURCHILLIAN genin- band succeed in noilties, and had lity is not a charac- the money and influence to help him. teristic of Mr. R. A.
Three years after his marriage, Butler, who has assumed "Rab" Butler entored Parliament the Prime Minister's mantle as member for Saffron Waldon, กล chairman at Cabinet the constituency near his Essex meetings and the Governome which he has held ever ment's main spokesman in
There was nothing spectacular The the House of Commons. about his political debut.
There is nothing puckish House of Commons was bored by about the tall, pale, 50-year- the dry intellectualism of his old Chancellor of the Ex- early speeches on agriculture. chequer. And in all his 24 Held His Own
Not till 1832 did his ad ministrative aptitude win general respect. As Under-Secretary in armoury.
the India Office, he helped to But he has other characteristics draft and pass into law the “Industrial which make cholec as leader in the absence, BB1. In the process he skilfully however prolonged, of both Sir held his own against front-bench Sir Winston and the Deputy critics on both sides, including Premier, Mr Eden.
Mr Churchill.
an
MP the years sparkling phrase has never been a sharp weapon in his
the
of
the
instrument their polley. Mr Butler sot out to wrest the initiative from them in the realm of political ideas.
In pamphlets ranging from the to "Britain he shaped the successful election campaign of 1951-n programme which pro
Welford mised to protect the State while giving the country the incentives it needed.
him an obvious short-lived Government of India Strong and cr
This man, sald his friends, is going
to end up as Viceroy,
closed that path, And, Events
the
in
became 1938.
doom.
Powerful Claim
It is thanks to Mr Butler that.
have passed this test sp
Mr Butler has a long record of administrative and commitice- in two And reem brilliance. purposefal Budgets he has shown when Lord Halifax
Propounded by Mr Butler from Secretary not only the courage of his ideas Foreign
social reform, but that he 36-year-old Mr Butler was ap- the Conservative Research De- knows how to make them work. pointed to answer for the Foreign partment, the campaign's slogans
such as "humanising
not might have Office in the Commons. These qualities
industry" and Here he stayed till Mr Eden nationalising buen suspected from the buck- ground of this diffident, donnish returned with Churchill "property owning democracy" In these bad still to emerge into hard man with n dry wil, a wintry Coalition in 1941, smile, and a burning belief in the fateful years between Munich Government policy. cficacy of progressive Toryism and the full fury of war, "Rab" with But it would have been difficult Butler's association
have might for his early friends to divine "appeasement"
When he came to the Treasury, that they would carry him to the spalled his political politieni heights, he has reached. Instead, he was regarded as many of his political associates
than a nothing more
a loyal in- doubted, not whether he could Wider Ambitions strument of the Chamberlain stem the Socialists' drain, on the when he nation's resources, but whether govern
without abandon- Born in India in 1902, Richard moved to the Ministry of Educa- he could do so with Austen Butler
to give Mr Eden a clean ing the Tories' promise to protect son of tion was the a provincial Governor under the broom in Foreign Affairs, a new.
his In his two Budgets he has former Viceroyally. His father and significant chapter in
qualms left this post to become Master career had begun. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Education in wartime was a strenghthened his own hand. As And at 23 the son, too, became parliamentary backwater, But Chancellor of the Exchequer ho Cambridge Don after a gifted in the Education Act of 1944 has acquired an authority com- cholastic carcer at the always known as the Butler Act parable only to that wielded by
the future Chancellor of the Sonths of Britain's austerity,
Stafford
In the bleak Cripps a televised hearing of McCarthy's University.
foundation depths But he had wider ambitions. Exchequer laid the thut committee, admitted
on the Standing
crown "pt carller sympathy with
quickened by his stone of Conservatiye postwar were They
Britain's highroad to prosperity, Sydney policy, ・ 'Courtauld, un hetress of the His Munich days were "forgot the man who now speaks for his powerful She ten, and he was hailed as the Party has staked out Courtauld texile empire.
now Toryism, claim to its leadership. was dotermined to see her hus- ploncer of the
THE BOOKS ARE
FOR
HEN Senator Joroph McCarthy
BURNING
an
Com-
of Wisconsin seit RENE MacCOLL munism had been reflected in marriage in 1028 to his two travelling checker-
about these uppers, Messrs Cohn and Schine, around American official libraries and in-
offices formation
Overseas
In fact, Boston has less crime |
than most large American ellies. to Its 150,000 people (2,500,000 in
be perpetually drinking from the Greater Boston area) will soft drink bottles and raising a tell you that the Boston police rumps in the hotel lounges and force is one of the best in the corddors.
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last spring he was not, it now turns out, kidding.
New
finds that books millions have read
arc
being banned or burned in U.S. libraries
cd or "stored in A safe Staggering choices ior place
Cham pending further banning are Whittaker instructions."
So seriously doos the State Department of Mr John Foster Dulles take Senator McCarthy's sugges- tions that a stream of con- fidential directives-at least six on this one subject went out to US posta abroad between February 19 and June 21-has flowed out from Washington.
Whittaker Chambers is
"WIL-
and
his writings.
the
the
al
Tom Paine's is A name to conjure with in America-
Englishman 18th century who champloiled the cause
American Revolutionaries against George III and wrote two famous works, The Rights of Man" (1701) and "The Age
on" (1704). But of Reason"
it book about him, "Citizen Tom Paine," *y
s written by the wrong man
Keeps mum
B
Government. And
the
Welfare State. stilled their
Lord Salisbury-Tradition and Temperament
service
Ministers who cannot-speak in respect of both sides. the Commons.
A Tribute
and
of Lords into the man for the Conservative Op- Y a twist of circum- the House For it is announced in
position. the highest offices of State. stance, full
respon-
There his scrupulous mastery York that already
For one thing, robust health sibility for the has never been his lot. For of broad -issues-which has several hundred books by t
reputa- least 40 authors have been been forbidden. Possibly the in this instance Howard Fast, Foreign Office now rests on another, Parliament grudges the elven him a foreign
weightles! responsibilities to tion for toughness-earned the withdrawn from the sheen-fact-that-its-foreword was whose name also appears on a scion of England's most
With the Tory, victory of of American Government written by none other than the State Department's special famous political family.
Jist of 10-out it goes in Athens,
his But in secondary roles, and 1051 he took
Inevitable His ancestor, Lord Burgh- libraries all over the world. Mr John Foster Dulles him- Fast's "Selected Works of Toley, was chief adviser to the in both Houses, Lord Salisbury place as' Lentier of the House And the books have either self could have something Paine" goes out in Cairo,
first Queen Elizabeth. In an has conspicuously proved that of Lords, a post his father had been burned to ashes, pulp to do with that.)
unbroken line the family's his talents are of no secondary filed before him.
order.
that occasion another tradition of State
Like Mr Eden, four years his Conservative peer, Lord Braba junior, he is a product of Eton zon, raid of him "I cannot be Lers's best seller
has continued ever since.
Heve this remarkable man has ness," and 1 work by
Το his famous grand- und Christ Church, Oxford
an enemy anywhere In the Washington colleague of mine, LTHOUGH a good deal of in-
world. Yet he Joins In the Bert Andrews, Pulitzer Prize-
formation has "leaked" from father, thrice Prime Minis- the under Victoria, winning correspondent for the U.S. diplomatic posts through- ter
knockabout of party strife, giv- better than ho. Salisbury After eight years in the City ing probably ultra-conservative
York out the world about this ex-present Lord New
gather he turned to polities and en- Rets, and seeming to Herald Tribune.
the would doubtless seem 11 traordinary book-burning, London Embassy remains cloak-
1929 as Member for South Dor- 50," ined in secrecy. Best efforts or dangerous Radical. To his red the House of Commons in nothing but affection in one The tribute underlines Lord deed an admitted former Com- American reporters have falled contemporaries in changed set. He had not yet inherited Sullsbury's personality. His munist. But he recanted
internationally there.
to unearth what has happened times he is the soundest of the family title..
His bent for foreign affairs apeeches are warmed by Innate became an
Tories.
found an known figure as the man who
anxious outlet In modesty and brightened by helped to expose Alger
But Sir Winston's choice of 1935, when he became Under- flickering wit. His conversation HIBS The head of the US. Informa Acting Foreign Secretary, Is Secretary to Mr Eden. In
often punctuated by ¤ ̧high- and who more than anyone else tion Library in Grosvenor
based on
niore much His book Square,
than 1938 he resigned with his chief infectious laugh. John Nolan, keeps
Chin- Heredity either tradition or party loyal- In protest against the "Witness," which analyses in mum. Says he: "State Depart-
berlain "appeasement" polley. the greatest detall the whale ment directives are classified"
And like his chief, he return. In his family is ans history of als association with (e. secret)..
et with the wartime Coalition honourable tradition, Hisa carned him hundreds of thousands of dollars in Ameri-
though Conservative peeress. once re- led, by Mr Churchill, not to the Foreign ca. And he became a darling
membered when she quipped: Robert Ceell, 6th Marquis of
When the war
Vis "How wonderful to be a Cecil of the anti-Communist fac
Salisbury, is a man of inflex- count Cranborne,
as he
was and know that everything you THE works burned or
ible principles. He never com- banned? They make a
then. had
acquitted himselt Uld was right!" promises them for the sake of ably as Postmaster-General, bewildering list. Dashiell Nevertheless, "Witness"
tactical advantage. And in his Secretary of State for Domi- True Keynote Hammett, detective story now disappeared from
It is a strange slate of affalms, grasp of foreign affairs his only nion Affairs (later for the Amerien, with her proud tradi-equal is Mr Eden, whose place. Colonies when writer, has vanished from brery in Buenos Aires.
155 But Lord Salisbury's
views lions of absolute liberty and he fills, the shelves of American
was divided), and Lord Privy pre the fruit of his own mature keynote of his personality is hir swerving regard for principle. That explains os much Ds his tastes and ability, his Intimate friendship with Mr Eden.
Wouldn't say
•sent him to gzel.
tion.
bas
tho
libraries all over the place. The joke book
In Buenos Aires his "El Halcon Maltes" ("The
Maltese Falcon") has been FORMER American Ambassa- -withdraw-And-in-far-off dor to the USSR Joseph Moscow" Karachi "The Thin Man" Davies's "Mission to
(Hollywood enthusiastically himself is no longer avail- made a film of it) suffered, the able to Indian connoisseurs same fate. So did Liilian Hour."
of Nick Charles.
How come?
1 Red? Not
Hellman's "Children's
This was a smash hit on Bread-
way before the war. It was a Was Nick study of a venomous small giri
However, it is known that books have been removed and "stored in
a safe place" while Washington makes up its mind what to do about them.
Inflexible
the
Ministry
fierce insistence On The In- These qualities of integrity Seal dividual's freedom of choice, and
an alert understanding Succeeding to the peerage in emerging in this unwonted role have never carried the spare, 1947, he took his seat in the of suppresso",
brisk, 50-year-old Leader of Lords as a trenchant spokes
A
URANIUM MILLIONAIRE
New York.
LOT of the ore enter- ing the new uranium.
sp but who, however horrid she was smelter .of the Atomic
Hammett refused to tell in many ways, seemed blame→
McCarthy's Senate Com- less politically.
Energy Commission is go- ing to come from Charlie mittee if he is now or ever But the Hellman trouble, so Steen's Ma Vida (My Life) Was 1 Communist.
far as McCarthy is · CONCETTI-
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS:
is
doubtless
A
ballasts
his temperament...old
Statecraft
and
as
knowledge. The true un-
In persona mest
share many
In
politick they bave always work- od in harmony. And on inter- national questions their unter- Welfare standing is very close.
gone that grit and enterprise won't pay off in the Ago?
10
of the
This offers a significant cluo to Lord Salisbury's hundling of Hollywood's slar system foreign affairs during Mr 'Eden's breaking up? ·
convalescence. That is one meaning attached
And he may have weighty Twentieth Century Fox's 1ssues to handle.
tem- Ila appointments:
But while it lasts his claim rights. Down at 200ft. is release of its biggest money-
Botty Grable.
porary. She ed, is the same us Hammett's mine."""
maker, And Clarence
Charlie, a 33-year-old almost broke. Disgusted and despair earned millions for herself and functions and powers are those
head Streit's Only the other day in Washing-
her 13 years of of the titular Foreign Omee. famous book "Union Now," ton McCarthy said that anybody bald Texas geologist, la aling, Charlie idly picked up her studio
who invokes his rights under most a walking skeleton-ho is some samples brought up by making musicals.
As a delegate to the pro that which urged
drill. the the American Constitution to Dat. 31b. and 5ft 11in.
Now Hollywood is practising posed Three-Power talks he North Atlantic democracies refuse to tell a Congress com- Charlie struck out into the And these samples made
such austerity that it can no would therefore have the full a longer afford $5,000 a week responsibility Red 107,000-square-mile Utah Desert Geiger counter Jump like
of D Cabinet should merge in a great mittes whether he is a
with 1,700 dollars, a wife, and frightened jack rabbit. He had contracts.
to tho federal union, has been "obylously is a Communist."
the children, to and uranium. struck
richesl uranium whipped off the shelves of And they have even done All the big mining companies field outside the Belgian Congo. CHOCK brought on
The Acting Foreign Minister at least
American away with an Anthology of Ignored
worth- Bis desert as
is one of the three dimensional Today Charlie
film, is no makeshift. By heredity select group of U.S. uranium The Mazo"-killed-Albort and temperament, he is well library. (A few years later American Humour in one Latin less.
Borry... Were the. Two years ago Charlie was millionaires.
sald His family no Orsini, aged 25,
the equipped not only to avoid ony Mr Strelt edited a second' American
longer lives in a shack.
coronor at Philadelphia, hiatus in established polley, book, elaborating this thesis. Jokes red instead of blue? No. 300 dollars in debt. Y
It was the editor who failed to Desperately he hired a power
Does anyone sill want to Pennsylvania. He collapsed in but also to speak for his coun The second book has not please Edwin Seaver, who, at drill for 40 percent of his argue that, the last frontier is the cinema,
try with authority.
ono
four
0
by
ព
Minister answerable
Government,