BRITISH ILLUSIONS ABOUT AMERICANSA
AMERICAN PHANTASMS
ABOUT THE BRITISH
THIS TABLE'S TAKEN, I SEE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.
PARTING THE VEIL
T
OVER
HE retreal from the
Red River delta was
probably planned in
mid-May after Chief
INDO-CHINA
By James Wickenden
M now the time k eltaw of Siam,
wahl Geneva is ov
policy
Laos and Cambodia,
of Staff General Ely ænding near when Britain's "wait These are envisaged us buffer
To other high oftheers flew Indo-China to reorganise the French
Dien afler
Bien Phu's defeat.
At that time France was asking America what aid the could expect if Hanoi American was threatened. policy was to send no forens without ev-operation from Britain.
Britain
appears to have made it clear that she re- garded Indo-China as a war where losses should be cul,
will have to be brought up wi date. A new policy statement may be made in the next few weeks which will loy
more
emphasis On #lefence against d ComanarisT tham on making terme with it.
DG-
Pas pay bbls still hoped that they can be "neutralised;"" that is, kept free of Conunun- is guerillas in exeliange for Western
that assurances bases will be set up there,
is over these buffer states that agreement between Britain und Amerien
is still to be reached, for the USA is already with
Beblod British policy is Heved to be the idea of a "no pass" line un #e Tenth pus Parallel. Bereas the stake-like committed Kru Isthmus between Slam and dollars.
Malaya.
Narrow Front
the troops brought in front Ass than ifty mites wire, isolated posts and a treaty of partition made.
This implied an evacua- tion of the Red River delta and all points north of Cochin-China, leaving three quarters of Vietnam to the Communists. Thus the French would cease to de- fend territory and begin to defend themselves.
Military Needs
BUT it
the French had begun to withdraw inst month it would have in- creased the confidence of Communist General Vo
Nguyen Glap, commanding
Vietminh. the
It would have weakened French bar- gaining power at the mill-
talka tary partition going on in Indo-China.
needs
now
to akt Slam
She also may still have ideas of making bastions out of La and Cambodin.
alliapers
which
weaken
WITH_
Les Armour
IN
Britain Today
The Great Piano Marathon
A
London.
with
The traditional paylor MANCHESTER s too-bright 12. its lanned housewife has just its deep blue sea is a pleasant girls compling on the sand and set up a new world diverslun, record for non-stop
plano playing.
Лын!, who knows? Sonwday we might find the sun and the
Fittingly, perhaps, she is girls and the sea. recovering in hospital.
At any rate, the record now stands at 184 hours.
Trousers in Peril
WHAT
WH with H-bombs and
guided misiles, i serni at the British male is paying Insufficient attention to the perts losing his
Indeed. it te is to believe the report of the National Association of Brace. Suspenter Manufacturers, British
Perhaps the matter ought to be left there. But one is tempted to ask why anyone elementary should want to sit down al trousers. a piano at 9 o'clock on bright Monday morning and keep thrashing the dashed thing unital 11
JI.IT. the following Saturday,
One answer, to doubl, is that 20,000 people paid admission to get a look at the marathon.
Yet that can only put the question back singe Why are 20,000 people prepared to pay to see someone beating piano non-stop?
#1
No doubt the lady. Mrs Marie Ashton, is competent pianist, BUR I wasn't ort thal wan at stake.
One does not unagine her after the tenth or twentieth hour-freiting unduly over the oid malfed chord or twe
men are foolhardy.
Helt und
becoming downright
The Astatu disturbed by the "hold" which "deeply
self-supporting trotzers soen lu be gaining over the community.
The hold is at unce too strong and not strong enough.
It seems strong enough to Jeopardise Like 3 million-i- year braces business.
Bul ul. in the Association's view, strong enough to ensure the safety of the nation's trousers.
A spokesman wonders gloomily what will happen "when the elastic
goes and a citizen is left with neither braces or buttons." The only answer can be thuit One can only hope tha the there is something in human citizen concerned
will not be
the nature which impels us to knock caught wearing flowered under-
The more improb- pants.
simple power bles Ameren.
Britain arul France.
The USA hus become attach- ee to the ANZUS powers, She has started to ald Stam and Pakistan
with
off records.
the greater
able the feal es the #1 Anyhow. the Association is pointless.
#} - Lounching four-pronged attack traction
through 100,000 lealicts dis-
The
tributed to men's wear shops,
leallet Arst Why
urges the else Britain has n
go off elantunut potential trouser buy to insist vague but im-
Mint Everest or runting the that with the portant conneelion
his tallor adds the mite in less than foim minuter Colombo powers--which them-
buttons for necessary
braces: (Mr
Bamister Eloger bloc. selves constitute A new
et pointing out. without undue Britain has also opened rela-honestly plead the interests
of subtlely. that inaces are not sckowe, but die
ing much use to a man who has no China, Another
cheering millions are not likely very in bultons. change on the way is develop-terested
I then deals with that aspect the the ment of political consciousTLESS
contral problem: the in Malaya-the strategic fort..
desirability of the suspender as Yot we are selective about the ress standing behind the South-
a means of preserving dignity, thing east Asian front-fine.
Devotees of brneva are also Climb Mount Everest and you asked, politely, to buy a new universally - acclaimed pair occasionally - Jest dead cert for a knight- supply disappear. Run the
Show Policy
Bul major policy in these disputed regions depends on
LL,hese developments, good AL what the French will do. A in themselves ar, pereating- ly tangling up the simple "Tron politics" we have Curtain known.
bloc and
the moment it seems that al- though they intend to give up
most of Vietnam Bière is no in- tention of complete evacuation.
This point the slumas Is
where a narrow from could be bullt to hit unlimited attack. South of the Tenth Prendiel Is open country suitable for Reinforcements ure being Western-style armoured war. organised, Including naval on seas eusily bomber crews and a complete division, presumably to stiffen the new defensive strategy.
the milltary But although
made clear, situation is being the political atmosphero is be coming ever more complicated. Since the end of the war there 173 grown
notworkt of abandonment "understandings" or semi-
The flanks rust dominated by sen power
This clearly definable frontier is unique 1 Asta, and militar- 1 value is unquestionable, compared to the vast and dis lant fronts in the misty jungle crags of Indo-China,
But this final Hne does not mean wholesale
In the past a Western faced a Communist bloc dealt with it through mechan- sms like NATO in Europe and UNO in Korea.
thing)
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T
hero a
173
hood.
mille in less than four minutes an! you get
મૈં chance to advertise American elgarettes on televisim.
But play the piano non-stop
they
The
Finally, the Association sug- gests that it is not only un-
self
- supporting
trouser.
for 184 hours and people, though British but also unhealthy to be
have forkod out their Pinched about the waist by shillings and sixpences willing (Whether the belt section of the ly enough, shake their heads sadly.
Association is In accord with Who is to say
this that it takes but the rival parties, driven to- view may well be doubted, less training and skill to keep a plano running for 134 hours thun landing one another admirable
gether
by necessity, seem to be to run a mile in three minutes and fifty-eight seconds?
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Still the success of the crusade SOUTH CHI
doubtful. Today's
The hope may be that after these new "understandings" are fitted together ira new
No doubt climbing Everest re- agreements, the world will be quires
and safer. At least their existence
kind of man, happily working out his playering and a lagle behind endurance. the emphasiseą
sleeves and In short the struggle self-supporting Eden's apparently slow
trousers, is not policy
But
summer
towards a lasting settlement / valved in Apaping the music likely to respond.
Asia.
THE MAN WHO PRETENDED
TO BE MONTY
48
Janevr
dier, I slowly walked along the veterans and ranks of these then went over to the crow of the aircraft. I was now about to speak my first lines, and I offered a sliont
prayer that
they would be absolutely con- vincing.
дго
running Lor six days must be more intense while it lasts.
If pounding the plano for 134 hours is silly....
Well? What about knocking an innocent white ball around a course in 70 strokes?
Come to Foulsea!
SYDNEY Butterworth modestly describes himself As "tho whitest
man in the publicity business."
From the secure moral posi- tion he gains thereby, he is lambasting his colleagues who
Britain's publicise
seaside
In particular
for
(though he is chief
publicity man Brighton)
he takes issue with the current methods of measur- 1ing sunshine. The sunshine in-
he
points out, are or promptly Quke aften - England -tho wretched
**'How
Sice,' you, asked. 'Do you think we shall have a good trip?' 'I think so, sir, he replied, standing stiffy to attention."
at @ a.m.
being
By WALTER SCHWARZ ECEPTION is one of the from colonels and brigadiers, D
principles of war. It is fascinating. But it would the Trojan have been more acceptable is older than
When, on the eve if he had been more modest clear that It is
the Horse. ΠΟΝ
put of D Day, M.1.6 disguised a in his 'claims. decided to French have military needs before hopes of Pay Corps lieutenant immediate penca,
Doubtless, Lleutenant James General Montgomery and
nothing of the overall make sent him to Gibraltar and picture at the time of his ex- These military
entirely now Algiers to throw the Ger- ploit. But 10 years later, he necessary strategy. The polley of settingman intelligence off the should not have tried to mis-
lead his readers. outposts
could up alt-supplied
Normandy scent, it was have read in Volume V of Dien Bien Phu has been aban-
to fight only a small part of the de- Churchill's memoirs, published The intention
Scene 2 was at Gibraltar sir- doned.
in 1952. "Our to keep large areas during the caption programme.
major decep- Beld. "The doors slid open and
Mr Butterworth The feels that visitors couldn't care rains has also been dropped.
The lieutenant, Mr M. E. tion plan was to pretend we I stood on the top step.
about sunshine Bridgeheads along
were coming across the Straits senior officer of the top brass less the coast Clifton James, has written of Dover."
before Galuted. Including Haiphong, will prob-
In the dead ailence 1 breakfast and he thinks they in and before the book just out, which go, too,
gave the Monty salute, walked shouldn't be lured to resorts by rains and in September it Is he repeatedly implies that As a personal war anecdole, briskly down the gangway and I figured referring to weather they likely that the French will be his
James's atory is unsur- over to the ranks of the high- will never see. impersonation
saved Mr concentrated in a small broa
passed, it began with a phone ups." in south round Saigon
Indo-thousands of lives.
call from Colonel David Niven,
saction, inviting James for a
China.
liko
"The thought came
He
to of the Army Kinematograph
He does not mention the
been
'Splendid'
Then Jamos drove to Govern-
to
His
sun
5 at 6 am, only
by breakfast $irec
colleagues are unimpressed, But Mr Butterworth little knowing what be docs-pays he Will
peraist in his
2 119 caropalani, Bu Lot
49 dream a little. Suppoep hanesty became the rule in resort advertising.
Blogans like: "Come to slushy Healthful moisture Fouls!
In effect, most of Vietnam is me that if I played my part screen test James is an actor going over to the Rods despite successfully, thousands of in civilian life, and his like- ment Houpe. conferences, threats, promises these doomed men (the D ness Monty had
"I got out of the car and of ald and Locarno proposals. Day force) would be saved," featured in a nawpaper article. saluted. The doors of the build-
he writes.
ing stood opan, and in front of them I saw a tall, Cloak And Dagger
all the year around! Plenty of Imposing Realistic
figure, General Sir Ralph East-
indoor sport!" would live ur ta the standard. But would even the Governor of fleets of dummy ships in The startled lieutenant found Wood
Mr Butterworth write them? a smile he held out) WHILE this is dramatic and the Cinque Ports, the simu- held in the cloak and Tak-Guita
startling news it is in fact lated troop concentrations ger world of M.18. First he was
disguised as a sergeant in the his hand. Hullo, Monty, its
And what it the code spreada only the parting of the vell of and a score of other ingen intelligence Corps, attached to good to see you again. How to the seaside landlady? unreality which for so long has
Will the
Vall ous devices which persuaded Monists I so that he could you Busty?! I replied,
us frankly: hung over Indo-China.
shaking his the Generella The French, famed for their Hitler that the Invaders study
INE VOZ AL ***": "You're look "Delightful Cockroach Lodge mannerisma
oni
a common shot from the sea. realism,
being were heading for Calais.
"Sir Ralph opened the door cold water day and night, Boggy realistic.
Jerpos mado his debut as the and we went in. He looked rood lu This French policy is in go-
Fear Of Brass Geral at Northolt, before his down the corridor, then left food granted as co
Come and got (latit to, Cibenjiar. "My path the door carefully, in dead fat with unply cord with the views of British strategists. The need for this Mr Jampę's story of how we bounding like a piston, and silence, he took off his hau In polest of fact, we do not withdrawal was seen some tline an unassuming subaltern. I that should be unable then get down as his desk.
tout of the cap 200 10 my comporn he sat there, and Rapect to be invtled to "LOWS your, khict in the, Lidol. Dolar in ngo, and it show why Eden has tried to achieve peace in with a deep-rooted fear of thronen with..
with a
just stared në me
to MY bracing Walmouth can
you be James fellst a mille agreed
slowly closind so thoroughly, over his face, Jamping up, ka Nowy be a matter of fact, dp
aro
at
Indo-China which military fects which mow of Indo-Chin toe Communit
Edon's
with Chin
attod
ཀ
"this high-ranking offlegrs had to are that becomg the most famous will have genera of the day and Th sooper colve obsequious. salutes
Monty's "Double)" ; Rides
and warmly the hand,
young
His response, threatened with the potential loss of his tro LLPET 5,
is apt to be a simple: "So?"
is
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