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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1958,

ITALIA IRRIDENTA

'SHAME!' THE BRUTAL BRITISH WONT LET US START A NEW WAR"

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Oh, I Say-Here Come

The Bingo Boys Again!

LONDON.

MERICANS used to

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complain that English

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By RENE

MacCOLL

dif-

visitors became pun- continue to net the internation- American dollars-but for dits on the U.S.A. on the al enziger,

strength of a three-week stay on Long Island.

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dish

It

or

ferent reasons from those of the Senator.

and

supposedly

Paro 18

Tribute To Churchill: To His 80th Year

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By BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

ONDAY being of questions at 3 o'clock. Ton soldier, ho risked his life with mill of time, he could not have November 30 Sir minutes before. that time he complete audacity. As won his greatest ';vlatory--the

He made Winston Churchill entered the House, and received politician

victory of the stores; battle poitical an immense ovation which was enemies with utter disregard which will never be recorded will enter upon his

for the consquebocs. Nothing in military annals. Let the could have kept him alive From 1931 to 1988, when his

80th year. And let it here not confined to one side,

little later came the but the stern resolve of the explain..

be said that he is in good Speakers volco, "Question Num health as well as high ber 40 to the Prime Minister Up mil today. Yet it is said that party was in actual or viridal 20t Churchill and there was those whom the gods love die power, Churchill was not given spirits and that his mind is another thunder

Churchil

Think what that meant. or welcome

always be office. us vigorpus að ever.

this time from his supporters. liga

that such men, beloved From the age of 65 to.63 he was of the gode, die young at what golden years of harvest to. His face looked as fresh as a

thrust aside. Yet those are Pho It did not seem possible when baby's. His eyes were twinkling ever age. they die.

the Parliament broke up for the and ho socied dvd yours long summer vacation that he

would ever again be able to younger than when we had seen

him last.

What other man could rude man of talent. -How often ha must have rone home to his denly take up horse-racing at ttle age of 74 and cause such

wife and said: tako. the

There is ho double strain of

an upheaval In the tradition, place left for me in publie je," Premiership and Party Leader-

bound racing circles of Britain and how often she must have ship. The wonder was that he

condoled him with a loving had been able to endure the .

"It happened this way. Chur- optimism, strain to long.

Solemnly ho gazed at the chill's

son-in-law, Socialist who had put down the Christopher Soames, MP re- Captain For weeks on end, before he question on the Order Paper, as turned from a visit to France withdrew on deelor's orders the louse hushed to complete and told Churchill about a re from the Westminster scene, le ilence. With a smile Churchill

Yot it was almost as if the had doubted the roles of Prime hair bowed to the Socialist and markable

three-year-old colt historic dramatist had decided Minister and Foreign Secretary. then

ho had seen over there. It to keep him in the wings until solemnly uttered the raced Day after day he had met the words: "No, Elr."

extremely well, but as his hour came. When in 1940 onslaught of Question Time; day

it was put in a stable it went he became leader of the nation. There was a roar of laughter mad, after day he had presided over which

kicking everything in at war, he brought to that the Cabinet.

engulfed the

House, aight-Including is food and terrible task a mind undulled by Perhaps I should explain that drink. But on the course It ten years

of waiting, a spirit a magnanimity un-

To me, the victory

Casevered,

1

of the

secret battle is the greatest

During the Coronation he had the questions are printed on the gave no trouble at all: fulfilled as many as ten official Order Paper and are not. engagements in 24 hours, enter verbally asked. The Minister faining foreign polentates, greet- answering can answer at any ing and extending hospitality to length ho chooses. Hence the Commonwealth Ministers, keep laughter when Churchill chose to chill. He had recognised

"Buy it for me," said Chur- nehtevement in the whole story Ing in touch with the Queen and utter no more than twn words.

a of Winston Churchill. "....... kindred spirit. Colonist II duly her advisors and making public

and gave no speeches at banquets where his

trouble Looking back on those days it particular arrived

until it reached 0 absence might have been re-

ems to me now, as it seemed geeded as a discourtesy,

Г 21

stable seems

However, tils Socinilst, who is not only clever Parlamentarian but A when it went quite mad, Come to me, then, that Destiny had trouble maker of Hreat skill, was pletely puzzled the new trainer kept him in the womb of the not to be outwitted. He rore at entered it for a fairly valuable centuries until his hour arrived. once to his foot and said: "White Lace which Colonist won with He belongs in so many ways to Three years ago the Conser- wo are delighted to see the ut diculty. "There you are," the 18th century rather than to valive Party gave him a junch Prime Ministor in his place, to do la to race every day."

maid Churchill.

"All

he wants the 20th. that he at the Savoy Hotel, and he said does his answer mean

In those glittering Elizabethan The bookmakers will never times glory lit the dies; Bacon's to us: "I am not so fortunats will not make a statement?”

Colonist II. -It won knowledge crowned the frontier Ho personality,

have no in can the matter of speeches

intention of something like six races out of of men's minds; Drake and Fimultaneously edmire Britain

ace. When you making a statement at this the first reven, Unhappily the Raleigh and Frobisher harnessed. some of speak at a banquet the reporters juncture," said Churchill, "and seventh race was worth a lot of the uncharted sesa to England's pick out a phrase or two or even least of all In reply to the money, and that night at West use; captains of the army werd make the mistake of not report. honourable gentleman,”

- minister an MP asked Churchill not content with milltary glory.

split

sincerely and mean it when he

says that we pre

tilo most

cherished of the Waetern Allies, and he can also be genuinely * puzzled that we persist in mâin- tolning the ungainly, and alightly deplorable, anachroniam known as the Empire,

Since the war American

in-

Ti: prof of the pudding would be not eating It. Stand- Alkinson is appalled, Indig

at our apparent cur own feet, making nant even, Inx an

own Our Well, if

way-and seeing prosperity

well-being. whother, in another 20 years These British are well-dressed. out We can also take or EO, Ellender's predictions They have ears. And he refers fluence in all sorts of political it. For here are two recent had come true,

whether to London, u bli unkindly, as crists which have beset us has were. stil and

of "this plenty feeling

visitors to there

bombed-out ndi invariably worked to our left in these islands, city."

advantage.

I don't know anything, about The

A Budan was

prime Mr A. except that he is an example. Even so moderate and the Boston sagacious a ̃Secretary of Stato ex-commodore' of Yacht Club.

as Dean Acheson showed. im- patience over our viewpoint there.

Britain telling us just what people

somehow contriving the fairly

is wrong with us.

Bingo! And it's Senator Ellender telling us we Rre finished.

good life.

'Complaints'

Old favourite

EXCEPT

ing you at all. Unhapplly in my case they always report more or lesu in full, and I can't use the confounded thing again, For me

but had to be poets, dancers,

The Prime

what had happene

netors and painters as well.

his hand deprecatingly was

"BG-

With complete regard for the

my fault," he sald rules ho had hit this mischief fore the race had a talk with maker right in the solar plexis, the horse wo always have a

Can one doubt that Churchili's Nor was he going to be put off talk bef:re nirace-and Izold to spirit was there as well?

the him: *Colonist, this friendly tribute Socialist had paid to him. The old master was back in the ring.

performanent speech is a Brat I was in Canada during this year's rettss, and all that knew about Churchill's health by the was what I gathered from the Canadian press.

n

Day after day, month after valuable race and if you was it month, year after your, 1 sat I will retire you to a life of with him in Parliament through case, comfort and sensual satis the Hitler war. I have men him faction. Colonist at once broke

woop info a sweat and was beaten. tory, but I have never seen him at the human cost of vic- It was all my fault, weep in the hour of defeat,

I have told that

How long will he dwell amarla

us mortals befőrs the gods becomd jealous anci story not sumuhon him to Olympus?

It is true that he had made a and he was not going to let successful appearance at the anyone dictate tactics to hlin. of conference annual evaside

After Question Time he the Conservative Party, but re-

into the Members' re- parts had differed. Somo ac camo counts said that his voice was frochment room and took the vigorous but that his face look- seat which is his, not by right' ed Ured. Others declared that but by custom, and smoked a his movements were slow and big cigar while he consumed a weary as if it were a great effort very large whiskey and soda, merely as an anecdote but as None of us has the power to on his part.

Like others I had a chat with one of the keys to Churchill's declare the year or the hour, character. He has a zöst far but when he departs it will be him, and I cannot remember adventure which

dentes

they as if a mighty ella had crashed in all the 18 years I have been years. Even as the head of, a to the sea. # Member when he looked nation at war he

You heard his voice in the romined the or in a better spirit of a cavalry subaltern, dark years of the war. Ho Undoubtedly he had declared more vigorous

The bright eyes of danger havo never lost faith in you and he that there would be no election humour.. be

at all always lured him in battle and rejoiced with unashamed tours Therefore, I am not this year or next but then it is ono

In the nature for such men to certain that the 80th year of in

generous peace. His

im- when your cruel night was Now where US, interests are play Ajax and defy the lightning his amazing life will see him pulses often outweigh the ma- over.

of the years.

lay down the political crown. furity of his judgment,' but Churchill in his Both year concerned,

situation the

Who Parliament Unlike Brunhilde, Therefore when

was when the heart kreps young, it has not belong merely to us. different. It is not likely, for resumed in late October and we guarded by a sacred fire that will not always laten to cau- More than any other living per- example, that we shall be assembled df 2.30 "for" the surrounded her, Churchill-is-tion.

sonality ho bears out the words traditional hour of questions, I

made immortal by a sacred Without

unconquerable of Pericles: "The whole world noted with Interest that fire from within. He has al- spirit, without that youthful- is the sepulchre of famous

mocks Churchill was down for a series ways defled, the, Intes,

nees which

the tread- men”.

Standing at Hyde Park Cor- HO is Ellender? The future ner, the shocked ex-commodore W se to lens to The future not th

250 Rolls-Royces flash- Bingo! And it's an ex-

In one hour dat. commodore of the Boston ago in the tiny town of Monte- Ing past him

gut, Louisiana. His home State (What a way to spend one's Yacht Club tolling us that was part

wenderhat time,) ►

where

American we've got too many Rolls-

package-deal (the bargain-rate "Luisiana Purch") which My own theory is that what vital Interests are concern- Royces.

American Republic Mr A. actually saw was One ed, the sum of American advico the young struck with Napoleon in 1803. single Rolls going past him 250 and diplomatie. pressure от

of only limes-inextricably caught in Broin could *probably 15,000,000

that trame roundabout at Hyde described (£5,300,0430)

liquidate. America acquired a huge tract Park Corner! Senator Allen J. Ellender, and running from the Democratic member of the Canadian border down

to the powerful United States Ap- mouth of the Mississippi in propriation Committee, back_New_Orleans,

What a life!

For the expre

Suspicion

In

among

wort:

Is

American

in Washington from a world Porsibly it is the recollection PUT pulling aside the sniping advised to clear out of Malia, tour, announces: "Britain's of this Ane financial stroke from the Ellenders and the now that the island is to take

promipla Ellender to Atkinsong, the fact

place must be its only hope of survival is to which

even among our strategle bases. disperse her people and grumble today: "On my tour I faced that,

But that is legitimate diplo- mary. Every nation must order its policy in conformity with its own vital interests. We should be fully alive to that fact.

their skills to the Dominions. heard a lot of complaints from warmest and most level-headed

business men that Britain is American friends, you are api.

The British Empire can retaining mest of the dollars to encounter that lingering nover. come back. We should for herself."

cut off all financial aid to We can't win. For, coming in Britain immediately...."

like

some muled second chorus of the Ellender matif, is With part of what Senator Mr H.J. Atkinson. Ellender

says I heartily

"im

suspiclon and dislike of portalism" and "colonialism.""

And when an American starts talking like that, what he really What Is the means to say is: British Empire staying in' bring

In for?

Mr A. has recently been agree. I only regret that he London. He too is back in the. did not any it earlier and U.S.A. He too says we should louder and that his voice col

did not carry more weight

back in 1946, when the British loan was negotiated.

Wrong reasons

IT would have been far better

1 Brith had never accept-

ed any American dollar hand- olite--had decided to

125

it

Al the same time, we should when, Hot be too perturbed among all the pastimes of 1958 -Canasta, TV, 3-D, and the rest the old, old favourite of of Twisting ...the

Tail

When an American thinks Le getting any more Britain he is apt to develop a crops up.

Lion's

RECIPE FOR A RIOT

By

Trieste..

Kenneth Stanley

Neither gang-with a total of police riot squads because con-

cach-is TOW about 300 members

alone Anancially and done tho best she could that way, how- ever rocky the road.

Now I know how to start

omelally owned by any Trieste crate posts of each end bar all

or Italian political parly, But San Guisto winks a welcome. method was revealed to me they are the mercenaries, the But the impressión dies on toon fin a tour of the two districts local raw material-reinforced as as you open the door. Still, better late than never. which provide the disputed during the recent riols, from And if Ellender wants to cut city's hired thugs the Italy of every violent Incident Leather-jerkined toughs and

flow of dough, good leather-jerkined lads of the that flares up in Trieste. enough. He is right enough Piazza Cavana and the They wil there, but right fer entirely the

narrow-trousered boya of for

off the

wrong reasoria,

the Viale XX Settembre.

Ellender thinks,

or. says he

thinks that we are finished.

hard-faced women soon make B

do their damndest plain that your intrusion is not lire-about 2,000 dollars a day.

relished.

Three-

At the Antica Grotta Bar.

and

They are young enough to across the way-known to the The two districts differ mingle with sincere but mla Venezia Giulia police for its The Empire is all washed up, socially. But in neither is guided students, though most or night life brawle and occasional I is no use, maintains the it wise to walk around just them hardly went to school and knings-the gang louders hold

looking or talking would not dream of carrying a their planning conferences

Issue their ordem..... Senator, throwing good dollars 110W after bad. Just put up the shut English.

OVE things are a little dif- Pat the Viale XX Sol- Lembro forent, A senior Britian police

ters, he advises, and ship out

The Cavana gang are the city's

to the Dominions, for Bellain Doad End Kids. They operate Hits-had il

satchel

from, the narrow unlit alleyways They will work for anyone officer, told me: “I think -♬ JE that form the warp and woot of who pays the price. In the the more dangerous ares of the Adds he: The British dre a quarter-mile square area. They latust lethal riota their employer two. I would not walk round much too stubborn to make such are the wife brod

children was the

M.S.I.. (neo-Forcist) there alone.” than

a move unless they are forted," of Trieste's old clly and brothel party," Clamping down on the dollars | tren where Vice is cheaper.

Here the gang headquarters is is his friendly notion of forcing a bottle of swoor Itallán cognac. At the start of every indident the double-fronted, modemi Bar us for, by conunuing the The Viale gang is flashier, stone, shouted the nest slogan, fanatical M.S.I. members. And the same youile throw the Brat Prinsipe is the home of the outs: Amusical is unle "giving

Where there is no more, distinguished, riff, thrives stopped the corsend Bot (the li was the operational comminé

g in the tallart heart of Trieste, match, to the petrol-trenched post for the recent riote

STAL IN 6) Maserable defeatist

theory. But the trouble is that

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or physically to 1611 ElleaÁVE Where he gols off, while we

where the Britt Army cinema truck or filap of furniture, but in the tour of the two seems, didly out of place, and

saw ddly the GrAWN: Of

the long jacket and hand painted.

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