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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST. 13, 1953.
THE GILES FAMILY ON HOLIDAY SAYS 'HURRAH FOR THE SUN'
·THOMAS CLAYTON CALLING FROM CAIRO
NAGUIB
THEM TO
ORDERS
FLAGS
FLY BOTH
OR years Nile steamers plying between El-Shalla!
the Egyptian flag on the bow and the British flag The steamers ply on the rail and on the stern. river route linking Cairo with Khartoum.
13149 Nagull has protested that British skipners of stramere lower the Egyptian dag immediately on leaving El- Shallal and Wadi Half landing jetties.
Say the skippers "Flying the Egyptian flag in the bow position as onlered under the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty obscures vision from the wheelhouse."
Nagull's solution: Fly both tags in the stern.
NAGUIB had one cool reception amild the tumultuous five-
day festivities to celebrate his first year of power.
It was from members of Alexandria's RAC, one of Egypt's most exclusive clubs. In Farouk's time they used y you had in be a member of the royal family or a millionaire to belong in it,
to
Ils reception was, not surprisingly, cool. In the past year he has shirt meinbers of their Pasha and Bey titles, and is now busy carving up their big feudal estates.
Members nevertheless elected Nagulb honorary prešitent. Last president-Farouk, who held many of his high-stake gambling parties at the club. Naguib does not play cards for
money.
Is it a lawsuitor isn't it?
In Cairo, Egyptian Government officials state they are of the city's most valuable planning legal action to lake 44 acres from the Aga Khan.
But an Evian, France, the Aga Khan, now faking a rest cure, says he is not bring sued by the Egyptian Government.
test rarement."
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The land." he says, "is subject to a purely normal Whoever is right, the rumpus is over skyscrapers which didn't rater ise..
The Envptian Government's legal experts claim the Aga Khan got the land dirt cheap on condition that he built skyscraper lats and villas to case Cairo's housing shortage.
None has been built--and now the Government says It ips Information that the Aga Khan is trying to sell some of the plot.
Whether Posent value of the land is about £50,000, the Apa Khan will get his money back if the land is seized. would depend on a court ruling.
WINGER Om Kalsoum, whose Arab-style renderings have made her a millionairess recently, telephoned from America to Cairo to complain that Washington has no mosque.
Now Sheik El Bakhouri, who as Minister of Works administers religious bequests left by Moslems, has promised he will try to carmark money for building a mosque there as roon as possible.
Om Kalcoum, whose records are played daily on the BBC's Arabic programme, is convalescing in America after an
geration.
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POREIGN Minister Malumud Fawal is reported to have Food to merica that Egypt is
of any Big Four meeting.
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NUMBER One complaint by Egyptian ladies of fashion is that currency restrictions limit their purchases of Paris clothes. The allowance permitted by Naguib for holidaying It is only increased on a Government bread is £100. doctor's certificate saying a patient must have medical treat- ment in a foreign country.
The Mountbatten
T
HE Battenberg family
originated a century ago-when Prince
Alexander of Hesse,
serving officer in the Rus-
of
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Mauntbatten, family by
Inheritance
the Inst
and much that is new. His other two wafted him into the world
London Express Service
THE MAN WHO SEEKS
S
INCE Churchill's bid
for
A LAST
Winston
historic top-level
PRIZE
By ALLAN
MURRAY
Government of Stanley Baldwin he was promptly appointed Chancellor
of the Exchequer,
1
its
talks to end the cold visit to his old school. At once vention of the unit in World where he remained from 1824
replied: war, his health has become he
"Jullus Ceasar, War 1, and the Idea of the float till 1929. he-was the most ing "Mulberry Harbour" which a matter of world concern, because
Here his overpowering energy Without its linchpin the magnanimous of all the con- made the Normandy landings
possible in World War II. querors."
and his innbility to fit into machinery of peace making
team foreshadowed: another fail is marking time.
Age has meltowed Winston The Army was his first love, from political grace. Churfhill; his fame is secure, but did not hold him long. Four And, while the world But neither age nor fame has active years as a evahy officer
Baldwin complained that awaits his full recovery, the blunted his zest for controversy. in India were punctuated by when Winston Churchill attend- most controversial figure in He veers between the roles of roving commissions as a news ed a Cabinet, meeting it
been statesman and politician with paper correspondent. His fluent unable to concentrate on British politica has given a new label by his sharpness that often angers his pen had already begun to make proper agenda, since It in-
Behind the Grand Old Socialist opponents. In the critics. 1951 election campaign they Man who has described himself is fortune when he had his fimt variably had to deal
ду a child of the House of painted him.
It was unsuccessful, Defeated monger. Now they hail him Commons there still lurks the
enfant terrible,
In 1899 as a Conservative can- as a peacemaker.
No man is more formidable in didate in a by-election, he turned For the Prime Minister, such debate. None has such mastery again to his pen and went to contrasts are no novelty. In his over the moods of the House. South Africa to cover the Boer long life he has been called And none has a more scrupulous War for a London newspaper. everything from
cynical regard for ils conventions. With- carcerist to the saviour of his out doubt Winston Churchill is
among the greatest parliament country.
arians England has known.
war- a
His parliamentary carcer For more than began in 18VQ. half a century It has unfolded in a dazzling mosale of specta- cular contradictions. Three times it haslain in ruins. Each time he has rebuilt it more massively
then before.
the
him 40 years Prime Minister,
Not Easily
is only
made his name as an author.
of Commons since
shot at politics,
with an
extremely clever memorandum Churchill had, submitted on the work of some department other than his own.
Successive Prime Ministers steered clear of the same dim- culty. For ten years Winston Churchill was out of office, kill He returned 殖器 a.celebrity he sprang again into the lime- after a spectacular escape from light in 1939. imprisonment by the Boers. Once again he stood for Parliament, this timo successfully. The General Election of 1000 carried him into the House of Commons as a Conservative, and his stormy political passage had begun.
ono
Loses Seat
TE
man
remained a Liberal for 20 years. Ironically enough, the now accused by the Socialists of undermining the
Prime Minister
NCE more he was inade First
of the Admiraliy
O Lord
repeat itself. The failure of
50
leader-
THAT is not the least of his personal triumphs. For as a of debate did not come easily to sides. In a dramatic gesture the Neville Chamberlain's appease young man, the cut and thrust Four years later ho changed But the personal history did not him. His themes were always rebellious backbencher, who had ment policy warmed the coun In his eventy-ninth-year, the compelling, but his delivery was become a thorn In the flesh of try to the restless genius who:
hours of practice the Conservative leaders, crossed since 1932 had been warning it Long poor. pattern nears completion. And were needed to develop
the the floor of the House to join that "Britain's hour of weakness it presents some astonishing
measured style and the flashes the Liberal Party on the Oppoвl- Is Europe's hour of danger." contrasts.
of devastating repartee for en benches, happy man. His wife died only three years after their marriage. His oratory is spell-binding, which he is famous.
The man and the hour had His only daughter, Maud, to yet he has lost moro elections
at last come together. On May But the now accomplished whom he was devoted, died in than any other politician. He
Germars 10, 1910, as
troops parliamentarian 1011 The death of King Ed-har-alled-inore Cabinet-posts facet of a many-sided per
streamed... into Holland, Klag George VI sent for Winston five the new countries of America. Ward deprived him of his social than any of his contemporaries, sonality. It Winston Churchill
him for the new Court but it took influence,
10 His had never embarked on a poll
Churchill and asked sian army, eloped with one short blographical sketches. Asia and Africa in
surveyed the favourites of
become
form a Government. late King with a frosty glance. brilliance has been a byword in tical career he would still have the Tsarina's wards, The subjects of three of these quarter of the 19th century.
By the 1880s the rigid arista In the 1814-18 war. Cassel, ke
Never had. Britain been The House Countess von Hauke, daugh- sketches-Prince Louis, his son
barriers
of Victorian Prince Louis of Battenberg, was his first speech there or a snub- His pen is as powerful as his Welfare State, was responsible solidly behind a Prime Minister. Flemish descent and Polish of Edinburgh-are well known, England were beginning to col- most unjustly accused of being nosed, red-headed youth of 28. oratory;; Into his books ho has for the introduction of old age. And never did a Prime Minister ter of a Russian general of, Earl Mountbatten, and the Duke cratic
But if he had died before the spilled a wide knowledge of pensions and other progressive rise so superbly to the of Never
a very genial person, age of 60, he would have left his history which nationality. By permission Connell does not tell us lapse. Cassel's great wealth 500n a pro-Gomm
he mastered measures sponsored by a Liberal ship of his country. of "proilles" are of persons who saclety. In 1898 he attained the he grew monose and forbidding mark dot as a statesman but not at school, where he was Government before the first war. All Winston Churchill's gifts of the Grand Duke
summit of social ambition,
His private secretary
considered a dunce, but by avid
his flair for Ideas, his sense of Hesse the offspring of their are not of Battenberg, blood at
reading when he was a young His contribution to World history. all-Sir Ernest Cassel, and his succeeded Baron Maurice de that in a period of eight years only as a brilliant rebel.
his knowledge of. morganatic marriage were all
and he only thanked her three times, Lady Mount Hirsch as private banker
Army subaltern.
War I was brief but sensational. strategy, granddaughter,
and his boundless allowed to take the nume
Their story 14 bation.
less financial adviser to the Prince
of Wales. family familiar.
His writings have brought him Appointed First Lord of the vitality-were thrown into the of Battenberg-a
Admiralty in 1911, he was one of a substantial fortune. And his extinct since the 14th cen- Sir Ernest Cassel was born in
ment who foresaw hostilities tury.
1852, the son of a small-scale
When victory came in 1945, IN fact, he has spent three talent for painting, which he the very few mon in the Govern rugzle for victory. Jewish moneylender in Cologne.
quarters of his life fighting the exercises only as a solace at with Germany. When they broke the country turned him out of
refreshment," his been de From this marriage descend. At the age of 16 he emigrated
Socialist Prince Louis of Battenberg, his in Liverpool. He died in 1921 symbolised the change that was £1% million went on trust to leaders of the very Conservative scribed by a famous artist as out in 1014, he was praised for office and installed a
having the British Ficot ready Government. Not till 1951 hig granddaughter, Edwina Party he now heads.. Twice he
extraordinary, Earl Mountbatten
leaving one
he achieve his lifelong ambition of the largest coming over society. He
for action.. overy party in turn fins
of leading his party to Cassel
power association with and Burma, and the Duke of Edin- fortunes ever to be accumulated devoted to pleasure and enjoyed Ashley, who in 1922. continued has changed his party colours,
coldier It was, however, as a burgh.
who the the company a shugle generation.
of persons
by marrying Lord deeply distrusted him. Yet when that he first hoped to make his
months later he was in a General Election. A few war came he was unanimously Ile was perhaps the greatest were rich and amusing, what- Royalty
mark. Asked
schoolboy held responsible for the fallure
In that campaign he declared: or financier of his day, the
very ever their social or racial origin. Louis Mountbatten.
The distinguished couple, chosen to lead all parties in a what profession he wanted to of the Gallipoli landings. Curtly Admittedly there is no evi- epitome of that class of inter-
enjoying in those days an in- Coalition Government.
"This is the last big prize I seek Cassel was ever whose ehor- dence that
But his to win" there he sapped from the
passionate so long MANIFEST DESTINY, by Brian national bankers
of tax, wore
have mous investments Connett (Castell 13.)
opened
up musing but he was fabulously come estimated by Mr Council
These contradictions are the nighting to be hind. When that's in'e the political shadows. Today concern with ideas may at £50.000 clear rich, and, as Mr Connell de-
many agree that if the Gallipoli put a bigger and more splendid social whirl in the 1920s.
politics."
attempt had been staged on the prize within his grasp. World. scale Winston Churchill wanted, peace is an elusive goal. But the war would have been won there has never been a
imaginative or experienced ap- in 1915,
proach to current problems Winston Churchill's hid By the end of the war he was than back in office as Minister ot to end the cold wor. was full of political frustra-
son,
of
in
Mr Connell's book illustrates
the rise of the Battenberg,
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Was
The end of the war brought
him a brief Indian summer, but te died in 1921. He left a for- tune of approximately £74 million.
Of this enormous sum, about
Chosen To Lead
of course,
adopt, he replied: "The Army, dismissed from the light
puts 16 W Frificent at the very centre of London's hallmarks of a fierce partisanship over I shall We d
"addicted to forms
usc
When
The lost tax Yet all this galety left in Lady Mountbatten's mind Connell tells us,
GO
and a mind which is fascinated- by, great issuos and broad trends,
have shot
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Winston Churchill has always Mr followed ideas rather than men, vold that And home policies have never
appealed to him as much as the HIS early background explains Munitions. But the next decade.
Born in the course of world affairs. On the this choice. challenges and opportunities of Victorian heyday of 1874, Wins- tions. At the General Election
was the son of foreign polley he has never ton Churchill
Wos at a low country hesitated to take a fasd, And Lord Randolph Churchill, whose of 1922, his popularity in the once his stand is taken, he is political brillance made him Losing his scat, he was out of closely- Chancellor of the Exchequer in Parliament for the next two never at a loss for
his early thirties, But his, too, reasoned arguments to support was a rebellous' brilliance. Be years,
it.
fore he died at 45 hơ had already thrown away all chance of further. advancement.
eyes
cbb.
Masterly
CHARACTERISTICALLY,
threw. himselt into tho
ho
of which required in a gentleman
ol
the honour
short to produce at: ability notice large sums in cash, could
to good purpose the
the advice of a financial expert of proven she seemed unable to " In judgment and integrity."
the 1930s she began to move Queen Victoria
died leftwards, and to entertain "an Cassel
became a key figure in increasing roster of Labour the new Court. King Edward, lenders and other exponents of on one occasion, asked
more advanced social philoso- Marquis de Soveral, the phles" How for her changed Portuguese ambassador, whether views influenced Lord Mount- he had ever seen The Impor- batten no one can say, but he, tance of Being Earnest. "No, too, moved in the same direc- Sir." replied the ambassador, tlon.
In Parliament this trait often "but I havo Been the Impor
What would Sir Ernest Cassel, brought the young Churchill into or for that matter Prince Louis collision with his Party leaders. tance of being Ernest Cassel."
of Battenberg, have thought, if Once as
His meteoric carcer· opened. a brash young back-
his won's to the fame that they had known that their des-bencher: he provoked an CX-
orator. But cendants were to preside over asperated Minister to remark: Window's father was his in task of writing about events
awaits the The heyday of. Camel's pro- the liquidation of the British "One might as well try
spiration, his idol was an early, ho could perity had, now arrived, Ho Empire in India?
no longer, I argue ancestor, the first Duke of Mari... bought Brook House, an in-
And what would Sir Ernest rebuke a brass band.”,
about in Parliament. The This zealous championship of aved
borough, whose military genius meho mansion in Park Lane. have thought of the action taken
World Europe from Eight hundred tons of Italian by the Socialist Government ideas accounts for many of his domination 250 years ago,
French Cult
Crisis," marble were Imported to lino 1949 when it passed an Act
In the political gray,
analysis its walls, including those of its whose principal object was to reverses,
the knight in shining armour has provisions of Soften
Fascinated by Marlborough's which six kitchens. The dining-room, break the
been unhorsed. But
exploits...the young Winston-timo described panelled in oak, could scat 100 Ernest's own will preventing bitterness, has no place in his Churchill squired knowledge brilliant autobiography, guests. The house was packed his granddaughter from anti-
temperament. Long perioda of
of of strategy, which has coloured as 's history of the with a tasteless profusion of art cipating her trust Income?
carned not have unpopularity have perplexed every phase of his prodigious Completed in 1928, treasures, Jade, porcelain, sliver. Perhaps he would
but never borno carret,
him £20,000, which he spent and Old Masters
minded. After all, the effect him. But he
buying Chartwell, his Yet behind this opulent and, was to deprive the Inland Re- his opponents a grudge.
This is shown by his authors country house in Kent. it must be admitted, nomewhat venue of some £25,000 a year,
The same absence of rancour up. vulgar facade there existed a and financiers who leave £7
his statesmanship,
Meanwhile he had returned strange emptiness. A
million are not in general wall infuses Cassel had little real pleasure disposed to the Inland Revenue."Which figure in history would Of more than 30 books ho hag tú Parliament, no longer as a usually you have liked to be other than written, 29 deal with word angeet; Liberal, but to make his peace in the treasures that his money Socialista, of course,"
In the youredl£?! he was naked on a of war: Hei: Inspirech, too, the in with the Conservatives. could buy. He was never, a take a different view.
He grew morose
10
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was "The
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.of
World..
a, statesman
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