SIGNALS TO A RUSSIAN
PEACE PARTY?
By Patrick Maitland, MP
BRITAIN
London, unlications, thrẻ deadlock con- Iss thinking inues, earnestly tibout Home
The value of insistent Russlan propaganda about a Five-Power system of guarantees or. Peace Pact and a meeting of assurances that might allay heads of government lies in the Russia's natural fears about prospect of a bargain being struck that would define spheres German militarism. So, of influence between the rival too, is the U. S. State De- power groups. partment. Mr Dulles, for
JIS
The
British had beca fighting example, hits In recent shy of any such conference or
until compact
Winsion weeks been showing more
Churchlli's
aperch of May 11. understanding of European it had been argued on the diplomacy.
diplomatic and political level required The idea of a guarantee that Russian bona fides
to be proven by evidence of system is not confined to goodwill in selling both Austria Europe. Exchanges are and Germany and Korea. That also proceeding between was an elevated manner of
that no and caying London, Washington
bargain about spheres of influence could be Ottawa about the chance of p
considered until
IL
mutual
there was i non-aggression sufficiently even betance of furce. pact in the Far East, in the That was, perhaps, the funda hope of neutralising a mental reason for insisting that German unity could only come reunited Koren.
about on the basis of free elections a basis that the Russians were not ever likely to accopt.
No guarantee system, obvious ly, could be of more thin psychological benefit. For the
guarantees exchanged would be militarily worthless without cor- responding exchanges of military
secreta.
But i all ex
their secret plans
of
Now A Change
But now a change has come. against cach potential aggressor Me Dulles recent swing to Sir
In turn, the result must be the Winston Churchill's view sug- total pooling pf all military gests that it is the H-bomb that secreta. That in turn would has caused eliminate national
sovereigntles Huvera-
and produce a world ment in fact if not in namie,
the
change.
It is, of course, significant that Prime Minister bus now con- firmed
what the Opposition gued in Parlament In July refused
and the Government then to admit that the Prime Minister's plea for a heads of guver government meeting has been vetoed by President Elsenhower.
for this belated" His motive
Not On Cards
Nothing of the kind is in the cards. For the same rensen, the idea of exchanged guaantees is in Half meaningless, short of a admission is not apparent. But world
supra-government.
the iden of
of
#1 Cystem
also
The nearest to this that the guarantees remains his, and he modern world has yet seen is is the father of it. the Soviet
That meeting domination of the
with the -Soviet European-
Communist Russians
Is Indeed urgent is emple, the British Commun- admitted. That it is desired by wealth of Nations, and the North the Russians is the official Com- Atlantie Treaty Alliance. Per munist claim. But that the idea, haps EDC will be another.
once sabotaged in the West (by Theories about interlocking Washington) treaties overlook a further point, sabotaged, perhaps, in Moscow, So long as national sovereignty is possible too: It is even likely
so also do trontiers. so long as matters.
the Berle affair These, therefore, must be de- unsettled. That might explain fined.
why the Lugano meeting of Britain has argued along the Foreign Ministers .has been line that
come to virtually rejected. peace Europe and Asia only by de-
The grees. measured
Prime Minister has been
Those stages would be emcerned, it would seem, with
treaties by
with
the need to flesh signs of hope Austria and Germany in the and welcome to those whom he West and a settlement in Korea, all believes may be working In turn, there would be a single inskie the Kremlin for a stable, government for all Germany, if not and the reignification
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of Korea. settlement
It is on the terms for such tension.
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Good Idea For
To Meet Uncle
M.P.
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Nye
Sam
Tonga rejoices as
Queen Salote Comes Home
By Bertram - Jones
Tonga. divided among her robles for
And between each villege's ifts there was dancing.
YUEEN Saloto is home distribution to the people,
gifts
wrinkled master of cremonies crouched ot the Queen's right hand and shouted
agnin-home in her winte-painted wooden palace on tropical Tongatabu-and the island night is filled
and hula dancers commands, with music. The palace wil
sung Into thoir Eymbolle lights are blazing between postures. Azesture of hand- the palms. The singing, and there was rain; proliner--- rich and melodious like a and there were fish. Each spin, Welsh chapel choir, gees on every upraising of arms, was through the hours as fresh matched to words of song. voices take up the song.
Kava Ceremony
For Queen Salote is back from across the sea after
FIRST was a saga of Queen seven months away to at. Salote's voyagings. A smiling tend a British Coronation, Tongan policeman wrote it in a and the dusky Tongans have week, and the dancers rehearsed emptied their villages to it three months to get each action come to Nukualofa,, their like sea waves. Its words were perfcel. Its melody rose and fell
capital, to welcome her. simple.
said: They
"Our Queen~~ At dawn they reae and dressed Tonga's olive leaf, her gracious themselves in their Bayest dower-is safely home from the clothes. They bound about their British Lales. For the first time waists their ceremonial covales & Tongan monarch has been to -mals woven from rip see a British monarch crowned. of finest pandarus Icaves and
peaceful into their girdies they plaited. This is good. Tonga is blossoms and palmstrand, trad and friendly. Tonga welcomes home her Queen and says thank tional symbol of respect. And as hom the Queen's
ship stemmed over you to Britain for friendship and the horizon from Fiji into Tongs, for bringing the Christian faith
to our istes." half Tongatabu's 20,000 people It took long to say all that, were walling under the water- front willows.
Personal Guard
the
road ceremony. Tongan
zan nobles sat
and Queen Salete sat in the shade of her palace back door wille Crown Prince. Tungi's small ron and daughter played with Prince Tulprichak's children New York, Tuesday. When I spoke to her the other laugh at his Press conferences that Mr Elsenhower is groom-
in the throne room at the front. NYRIL OSBORNE, Con- day about the American Medi- because the Press is rather ing Nixon for 1950 as his suc-DOWN to Nukualofa's single At last, after four hours
servative
for cal Association's criticism I annoyed at the President hold- cessor in the White House,
wharf marched a 28-piece presentations and hula dancing, said: "Do we finance trips lo ing so few conferences.
There is a bright glow Louth, came into my Britain for American Congress-
on school band and behind-bare it Was time for
the kava Broadway. President Roosevelt almost al- that the advance notices were like
It has turned out brown feet smacking the office yesterday and said: men? Is there two-way traffic?"
the boots
in a circle and of grenadiers on the grass met the
Press twice a right-Deborah Kerr is being swung ways "You know, Nye Bevan Miss Hornsby-Smith said she week and President Truman hailed as the actress of the year guard, their sloped
Queen's personal before them was carried a four- should come over here — thought not.
uteed to see the Press once
bayonets Logged wooden bowl four feet in the play of the season, "Tenaglint in the sun, weck. about everyone's talking
ncross, But
Elsenhowe
carved from a Sometimes I think our bust- often lets three or four weeks daring theme dellcately done.
a tree trunk. and Sympathy," which has a him. Perhaps he should de- "ness men prove
In the
Kava roots, first ranking more effective go by without calling in the
Salote received her Ministers
the Queen's "gifts; 'were bate with Senator Joseph diplomats than our visiting poli- newspapermen.
Deborah is the new toast of
and Listened to a five-minute *diclans. I had a talk with Bir
New York, but prefers a quiet McCarthy."
Miles Thomas, chairman of The President is hiring some meal with old friends. She and I said: "It's curious, but just B.O.A.C., the other evening. He new speech-writers. His chief her husband came to my apart- was writing has done a tremendous amount speech-writer, Emmet Ilughes, ment after last Saturday's show exactly the same thing that it's for British prestige and tells the has gone back to Time and Life and we sat up till 3 a.m. talking,
b for Bevan to make an Americans plainly he expects magazines, as he couldn't afford This Deborah's greatest
Britain to keep her Jet-plano to live on the $15,000 the Ad- success. supremacy.
ministration was paying him.
respon-
few minutes ago
time
American tdur."
During the past several days before, during, and after the. Margate Labour Party Confer- ener-Aneurin Bevan has been very much in the news here.
"Bevan pops off again," says News. the New York Datty world
"Bevan attacks U.S.," the head- lines read.
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The
Mr
Hughes was mainly United States News published a 3,000-word inter- sible for the famous "I shali view with Sir Miles recently, address of the election cam- go to Korea" speech, the key and it was a vigorous presenta- tion of British aviation and palgn, and has helped draft effective British propaganda in most of the President's major
1he best sense,
World Series
addresses since then.
Second Winston
tributo
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ship'a lounge Queen amoris, 12 it with stone,
under
Music Goes On
of welcome. Bands water was poured on top from the Tongan national coconut shell gourds.
gulls fired a royal
Then an' elder stirred it with down fluttered the royal his hands and strained it through standard with its dave of peace a fibre fabric. And when the from the ship's foremast. Then, fusion was complete the old man at she drove to the POLICO over intoned-like, a muzzin scalling the petal-strewn tarmac, Tonge's the Moslem faithful to prayer---
Ite history turned back
"the kava is in the bowl." pages From then on it was a welcome her ancestors got when tho'r ULL-PAGE
advertisements warriors paddled home their war victorious island paying
to Sir canoes from
Talda Thomas Beecham are appearing ไท
coconut shells tho the distance,
the TN hal here, calling him the Winston
cloudy drink ("it leaves you - Churchill of the musical world, casuarina trees, singing started writers is much more prevalent expressive character. We once dans hauled in their gifts the Tongans will tell you) was The practice of hiring ghost- Sir Thomas is a wonderfully a three-fold shout, a rhythmic clear in the hood and helpless chant-and swaying, stamping, in the legs if you take much," among politicians here than in crossed together in the Queen and spread them before their served. The first bowl went to Britain, and yet I don't think Mary and he received me in
a noble en the Queen's right. the standard of oratory is any white silk pyjamas, offered me
The next to
the noble on her a glass of obampogne, denounced
lett, Th
The Queen took the third. Hollywood as one of the world's
This is
Is an old Tangan custom, great menaces, and lauded
relic of the dark days when Lancashire. He le a very young
THERE were woven pandanus poisoning was not unknown.
The biggest pig was cut up ICE - PRESIDENT Richard I saw Anthony Kimmins the mats and a topa cloth 60 feet with an 18-inch bush knife and
Nixon has also departed, other day, just before he flew long and 40 feet wide, hand-appo but only for a 72-day, 30,000- back to England. His cew film, boaten by women from the bark portioned out among Tonga's hereditary leaders. Houlfanga, milo round-the-world trip for "The Captain's Paradise, won of hibiscus trees.
Tungi's mother- Prince Bul the games are taken as calls
There were 18 magnificent notices here.
countless
pigs, in-law and highest lady in the tensely
as our Test matches Governments.
Bob Hope will return next baked in banana leaves over land after the Queen, came for and no one is normal. The Mr Nixon, after the gaffes summer to the Palladium for atones heated white in a fire ward in flowing robes, and by whole city strained to catch the and low melodrama of his cam- his fourth straight year, He trench, and borne into the royal royal
authority claimed the from almost every car and shop. pig, 18 now highly regarded wan's Merle Oberon to star with presence in mats of plaited palm choicest piece of pork for Saloto and greatly publicised as the film, Jack Buchanan, and Mar- leaves slung from branches. by slopping it with her left Poople were far more con- hardest working and
There werе most garet Lockwood in "Magnificent
yams and eggs hand cerned about the World Series eficient Vice-President in United Masquerado."
and cabbages and coops of live than the big dock strike. Even States history. He is only 40,
Sadler's Wells ballet chickons. There were tomatoes
on went the singing The
On and President Elsenhower sold the looks like 'actor Fred Mac. "Sylvia" has been the highlight and turtles and bananas and and the dancing. For hour after scries blanked out other news, Murray, and throbs with of their season another breadfruits-mountains of food hour sat the Queen in the sight but this did not get much of à ambition. There
reports triumph for Ninette de Valois. to be accepted by the Queen and of her people, showing no sign
The ferocious Welshman 19 discussed currently the most British politician in the United UE past few days have not Stales and the most denounced.
been easy on the nerves be cause of something called the World Scries, I don't know why the series is tagged "World."
because actually it is merely a case of the New York Yankees playing the Brooklyn Dodgers at baseball.
"Did_my_best"
A
AT. party given the other
evening by Erle Bowater few big there were quite o American business men as well es British. Most of them wanted Ito know about Bevan.
"What's got into him; why does
he dislike America? Has he over beon here? Is he sincere or just playing to the grandstand?"
of the questions, although I have
1 día my best to answer some
met Mr Bevan only once. It was
In a Fleet Street wine-shop rame I found Bevan soft- time ago. voiced, rather halting in speech, quiet in manner, and loaded with I
BI30 didn't mind charm. He listening.
He did not say anything very comroversial that day, but made a mild comment or two and then added: "Don't print that, will you It's not newspaper stuff ony- woy."
We talked for about half an hour, and when I left I thought: "What a charmer." It is hard to reconcile the Bevan of that casual encounter with the Bevan who is being portrayed here.
To the United States Bevan is the leading anti-American in Great Britain, A
Big B
Thompson in reverse, anxious 40 punch Americans snoot."
する
the
Intest cores, and radios blared
higher.
Highly_regarded
the on
heads
of
Bre
73.
NEWELL ROGERS REPORTING AMERICA
Queen
Tapa Cloth
"ASSEMBLY LINE" DEBUTANTES
SHOCK SOCIETY DOWAGERS
in the
New York. flowers, and champagne. And, Almost no one will IS
OCIETY dowagers are worse luck, they are the only slot
and aghast,
hend one with a secret list of cligible wheels horses, waiters sigh for the good young men. olti daya. Sir and Madam,
is
0
at
leave the First speaker to get up machines and roulette their first meal was Dr Cilve of Nutrition casinos long McCay, Professor enough to have a flutter on the at Cornell University. His title: "Death Begins at Forly," His theme: "Overeating is the only form of suicide tolerated by our
present Fifth Avenue's DOROTHY LAMOUR
fighting ・namo "In Paris, assembly line" debutantes. Illinois. To advertise her up. UE LIFE of General George customs."
5. Patton is to be done on petrance in a variety show, a the screen. And imagine the fun Social-minded parents bring press agent mailed postcards to Hollywood is going to have cast NYLONS at between 1 dollar out daughters in their first year Perhaps Bevan should really of college at an average ago at every third name in the teleing an actor to play Field-
phone, directory. They make a trip here to show that 17.
read: Marshal Montgomery in this The high cost of living has Darling-don't forget our date wide-screen epic. he is not an ogre. He would forced a shift from the glittering at 8 pan. on October 28- undoubtedly be picketed
and coming-out parties of pre-war Dorothy." abused, but he is used to that.
for just one girl.
A mistake
middle of
50 cents and·' 1 dollar 05 cents are guaranteed to wear without running for one week after purchase. The guarantee will extend to 14 days if ad-
HENRY FORD, the Second has ditonal pairs are bought.
One wife, went for a divorce scored; some kind of sales On the debutanto list this year (her lawyer said he had a card scoop. He has bought the right. CAY-THAT-AGAIN - PLEASE Bre 412 girls, Between the
November and the 100), Thờ wife of a tráin driver to be the only motor-car maker note: An American com middle of January they will be flagged her husband down in the to show 1954 models on Cinema- IF Mr Bevan does decide
come, I hope he or some Bri-pented, about 100 at a time, marshalling yards to demand the scope, Hollywood's new 6-foot plaining of the Americanisation
about Dorothy. A third wide coloured screeti, four parties; -
engrily, kicked out a window in tish group finances the visit.
to
threaten SOOD
I believe it a mistake far British Father will pay between $300- her house, Husbands members of Parliament to come and $500 to have his daughter in the show promoters with law. D EDITORS of the US. "Telephones and radios in every
salts here, as the guests of the State the deb line. Department and at the expense If daughter wheedles him into
of London hotels?: Yes--Ju#t read this "beginning of a New York Times despatch about 1:
and TV in the multer, Land Canada,
148. strong, room, marted happily, to munch their threaten to disturb the peace through a marathon of that visitors have found for of the American taxpayer, un- a private, coming-out party, the The pics agent says he way less we finance similar tripe for least he can hope to spend, is uses the cards were a bit of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners yours. in London hotels," -
in Chicago. SAATA
Servions $1,500-and that for a cheap ten a mistake. Americans to
quarrel over JULE Britain.
Twenty-two food, common brainy recruits. The air Misy Patricia Hornsby-Smith, A dinner dance costs more, a. "AMBLING trouble in the and ten food associations (vied force and navy, claimtries that as a . Parliamentary Secretary, supper" dance, most. of - all-it gambling- capital of Late to bring them, exotic, and des, they have,, mtaa – gadgets should have paid' her own way lasts longer, j
Vegas, Nevada." They are cutting, licious vlands from the world operate, want the army to takon or had the British Government Usually filher har to hire down horse-racing at the local over, Then what do you think the merely brawny, "The army
organisere to handle cafèrvey, course to two days a week, some dend did to
violentlý objecia,
dance.
to
Crown
would, all end. of wishing
Already Tongans and white missionaries and school teachers femark they notice a change in her since her London visit that she is less eíbof, that she shows more of the warmth she feels towards her subjects.
They nod knowingly and de- clare: "It is Queen Elizabeth's influence." They note, too, how eagerly their Queers is discussing plans to welcome Britain's royal couple when they visit Tonga nexi December.
And in the scented darkness the singing gces on, and Queen Salate is glad to be home.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
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recovered
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