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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1954.
You might as well try
tame a cougar*
to
LORD BEAVERBROOK was 75 last week, the toes of his devoted friend-
ship with Rudyard Kipling, that rigid but pleturesque Imperialist,
who never forgave him for aup- porting the postwar agreement over Ireland-in Kipling's bitter betrayal of a ylow
gross
sacred couse,
To the staff of the Daily Express, London, of which he is the controlling shareholder, he is "The Old Man." To the world outside he is the controversial figure in public life who has devoted himself to the cause of the that Benverbrook in a "Jingo" British Empire.
In his campaigns, crusades, and contro- versies he has countless enemies and friends.
many
Those people
who Imegine
Imperialist of the old school are utterly at fault.
Hela a genuine and deter.
mined peace-monger. He hates
Fascism in alt is forns, Hc
c have no truck with
Moxley. He did not favour the France Insurrection.
In this birthday article, A. J. CUM- MINGS, the distinguished political editor dangerous
He looked upon Hitler as 4 upstart, Bul ho thought, like во many other
Chamberlain could bring of a
of the News Chronicle, discusses with the deluded wishful thinkers, that detachment of a Liberal commentator the cheap and penceful bargain. personality of Lord Beaverbrook.
by A. J. CUMMINGS
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Lord
brook's birthday
tu
Communism he delests as [I deadly evil. Yet he is consts- tently non-provocative 10 the Russians.
HIS courage
from
WISHEN
Became
England Beneven sevenueth Caneta, havlist atte a rollin
31 Resolve to play a p gomail.
a British politics, he wont
election in 1810 Just megatory
do
war come
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patriolle instincts were
Churchill chose unce aroused. well when he made him Mini- ter of Aircraft Production.
In the critical hm
journalists gathered at Savoy Hotel to honour. On that occasion. 1 well remember, he said n
by novel methods of electioneer - that startled steld Conserva- ives and taught them a thing or two.
But it was rome time before hey understood, or thought ey understood, the real nature at the potency of this ying
weeks after Dunkirk his restless energy was NANNESTIRA to One overriding He transformed scores purpose,
minds Into little
should bear in mindl
of business that every year after 70 is
dynanos. He did more, perhaps. a bonus from the Almighty,
then any other human being to enable the few." among them his 75th
his own gallant son, to win the May 25
hair's birthday.
This
Battle of Britain-by a roomiess
breadth. friends in all walks of life that Ure rejoice to know Almighty's bounty continues and that one of remarkable and fasemaling figures in the British pire la with us as vitally on the spot as ever.
rater from another world.
Penetrating Fleet Street, with in metable fatfulla, he was Anancial and by
μετα Journalistic genus (with haps a modlewin of good luck) enormously. 10 enrich himself
does not Kehen he certainly despise. Fio-
the 1110t
For Beaverbrook, besides being a long-standing per- sonal friend, is a cunning and inflexible political G ponent with whom one has crossed swords again again.
experatingla
and
-burta
42 642 kt pest vncounters.
rel make: the proper riposte
ite was B at the time with a and 2 Bevere form of asthma
Bui disconcerting eye affection, he allowed nothing to deflect ur daunt him,
Oner in his once I BUW A His original purpose, however,
some as it has over Indisputably been hospital nurse dropping
salvent into his eyes and Yas to we his growing news-
he dietated brusque paper Influence in order to pro. doctor spraying his throat while nrade the tmperial greatness of in gasps Britain, the not ignoble dream ges of this Ute.
tic
HIS fantasies
secretaries.
10 there tense
scene
It was like #
trum Hollywood, but closer to reality
Stalla trusted }:m because, Inter in the war. English tanks
I think he rather liked Stalin.
HIS friend
He is a :werhbuckler, almos; THE dream, as he dreamed it, and guns were always on time.
tous not Po true. His been fanto- He tantasies have
World
have ceonomics deuce with the dreem. The gorgeous map Empire has shrunk. His Empire We has frightened off tog many politicians in all parties.
and be doesn't bear malice, Hayed
Winer gives hum an wafer -
untuke.
Fone say at once without by beating alant the bush, that
I have always intrusely delked Tories
The
of
TE
HE is, as everybody knows, on
intimate friend of the Prim
Minister. You may have folati He tried to stampede the
though they into what he termed that dis papers,
But Bald- often bast Churchill's Gov-
el distrusind many of Beaver- Tabtis pofities, and thall con- Empire Free Trade.
at a
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This picture of Lord Beaverbrook was taken last autumn in front of the house at Maple, in the province of Ontario, Canada, where he was born.
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It is Lord Beaver-
mincemeat of the recipe! would only care to suggest that every man who deems it worth brook to the life. while to reflect on the subject has his own golden rule, com- amonly disregarded.
He recognises instantly social
he humbug when meets one; as a self-made man
he ta instinctively antipathetic
Most emphatically the time-
10 a Nuw swiftly vanishing worn Beaverbrook maxims could
British aristocracy, though freely mingles with it.
he
He believes in high wages as a principle always to be pursued
not of themselves, minus a touch
of genlus, have produced д Beaverbrooke,
Others may be able to sum
tinue on appropriate oerasombs to win was too astute for him, ar einment, never directly attack and looks with a suspicious cyk up this many-sided man more
attack them in my own "Spot
light volumn and elsewhere.
HIS million
Tale, and in our important
sense
are gapdash, irrespon-
regard them as harmful
to the mallon.
the party machine too powerful.
Churchill himselt.
What may happen
between the two men when they meet in private is their oftar. cat that Churchill can always talk him down because
Yet it was a prominent Labour member of Pardartent who said
"Beaverbrook recently to me: has done more than any man in my time to make us aware of the vast ponbilities of Empire F.M, never listens. development."
A loyal and trustext
1
adviser
at all, or nearly all, professional ably than I cen-his mercurial
economists,
HIS recipe
generocities, the puradoxical the daring of a Temperament.
Indepenrence of mind, superb that inquisitiveness of the born
"with newspaper man who, beriside preferably Just before the of dawn, transmits approach world-ranging instructions to his badgered staff with the speed i of light.
BOUT rich men he reveals an intense curiosity nad loves ta to diagnose the causes and
The voluma ot their He dotes on rich men.
Heaverbrook la
he was too of Bour Law, Is condent jest
to only human loyalties, not with that and is cynically dis- trustful of the vague imperialist V.3.Ps, are very real, very de- wealth. His relentless plan to lasulate perorations of party associates pondable, and must endearing. the trade of Eltun has coloured who hope to appease him with and bedevilled much of hla a phrase. politica It has chfeebled his
a
telephone in his hand,
HIS disputes
One might say that he pays far too respectful homage to material success. No doubt, tr you challenged him, he quote in his own favour scores MANY years ago, relating to
could
A Tory? Yes, but what an errant and unpredictable one, very considerable influence in The Empire Crusader still not to be neatly fitted into any public affairs. I see no intelli- crouches, a melancholy figure safe category. The Torles re-
But they might on sent this. chains, gible future
De imprisoned in thick blood-red Beaverbrook world.
of the Dally well try to tame a cougar. Express, nwaiting a fabulous myself, deliverance.
better and bolde democrat than many I see he has just published a people who are always spouting took, in which he repeats
As a newspaper man
I think of him first on a great newspaper personality. He has Cuminated Fleet Street for long as I can recall.
A
the
front page
I hope it is not breaking 0
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much
us confidence to say that one of the the democratic formulas,
of texts from the Old ment, which he savours ardent connoisseur,
me the story of his life (or Tosta-
as an as much of it as he thought I ought > know), he told me that he had no patience with our narrow public school cliches about strictly obeying the umpire'a decision.
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He familiar recipe for success In great sorrows of his life was is often irritably impatient, in capital letters.
PARIS NEWSLETTER BY SAM WHITE
MR COWARD
PARIS. than a chapter to the Windsors SKILLED piece of and it remains exactly as I first diplomacy has just
wrote it."
PLAYS PEACE-MAKER
The Government Invited the bare boards of the Paris opera at the auction. of its famous
then banned its stage.
salon. ballet and scheduled performances shortly alter the company's arrival.
The Russians arrived at an
been accomplished by Mr Mis Maxwell speeks of the Noel Coward. His fent; he Duchess with a Baldwin-like unfortunate moment-just after
"will only the fall of Dien Bien Phu. Un has reconciled the Duchess sententiousness.
say one thing about the Duchess, officially the Government have of Windsor
party-
I think she was wong-terribly let it be known that they feared thrower Elsa Maxwell after wrong-not to have accepted anti-Communied riots it the a year-old quarrel.
responsibility of history. performances took place.
and
Just as the origins of the quarrel remain undisclosed so are the terms of settle ment.
the
That is all I have to my."
in
Report on perfume who, to the annoyance of the
and
She was an elderly woman,
professional wine buyers, kept; putting up the price of many of She doubled their value.
the winea sold.
ACTRESS Anne Decunux, one of the stars of the Comedie- Francaise, gives me the follow
When the auction closed she report of the perfume situa- tion in Russia:
had bought £4,000 worth of "Since Stalin died everything
wine. has changed. Up to last year She approached the auctioneer, Officially tho Government's perfumes had to conform to the M. Dupre and told him: "I am Miss Maxwell's own sense of action remains an anti-Com- party line
even now you worry i have no money. Can
Stok- by still and some called history remains as acute as munist gesture provoked
you keep it for me for two Youth or Stalin's ever. At her annual Parts party Communist military help to the honovite
hours? Breath.
Within only minutes of the this year there will be 400 guests Indo-Chinese rebels.
"Now things are changing two hours to ("Just friends and ambas-
The Rusalons arrived here Alongside
Do, she was back naines Like Red
and paid in cash, sadora"). But it will not be
Who is the? M. Dupre won'i fancy dress party- "because I after the warm welcome given October, you find! Nult Blanche realise the French astion is in to the Comedie-Francalso com and Spring Idyll.
tell except to say: "She was on mourning for Dien Bien Phu." pany in Moscow. Unlike last year, the Windsors Mies Maxwell lias turt, written have been invited. her memoirs under the title, “RSVP!" | Hes, sho altered the manuscript in the light of her reconciliation with the Duchess? Miss Maxwell denies this.
All that is known is that Mr Coward was the peace maker.
Embarrassed
f
perfumes Fello
"I wouldn't be surprised if old customer of the restaurant The battle for Dien Bien Phu next year the Russians have that is why we trusted her.". was at its bitlorest when the cought up and, heve French eccepted Mocrow's invi- called Sensualite tation and lasted 'their own. d'Amour,”
When tho - Baterion, company finally departed without being
Quote
The wine buyer CADEMICIAN, Yarn,and
Gregh: It'-lant? what "thair Membarrased at the French French official saw them offWare Larue, BOST Frenchmen fool acutely allowed to perform, not one
Éhe amou Paris, rés» daizghters / krow "that" worries "closed; their mothers-H's the way they "wrionibong" "stie "," cold war on the down there war a mystery-buyer learnt it
"I have not changed a word," Government's treatment of the IL MONDOM MENU mpty way of she says. "I devote a little Jess: Himeints Bellet:
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