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FEW weeks ago I truth dawned on me the un had to go to Ireland likely thing one was
in a great hurry for afraid of had happened. an examiners' meet. bag had not been loaded.
always
My
1 could see how it had hap-
ing. I was lucky to get a seat on an aeroplane only a pened. My late arrival at the
few hours before it was due to leave.
I drove direct to the airport, and, although I was very late
they accepted
DID
IT
HAPPEN?
?
me
*
Enger.
had
a
airport, the confusion about the telephone call. It was easy to understand, but less easy to for- give. I was furious, I stortacd and raved.
The airport official were help- ful and gympathetic. "I am The sorry, sir," they said, "but your passengers who bag seems to have been short-
come out shipped."
at this I snorted on a bus from euphemistic phrase, declared Central London that my bag had vital papers were already in needed for my meeting next day, “ the departure They telephoned, London and waiting-room after some anxious moments toll At the very me my bag had been found and nomin: when
was being put in the next fight, my bag was on the scales being
weighed, a booking clerk came to me and sold that I was want- ed on the telephone.
C
I assumed it was my wife or
an urgen my secretary with message. But when I got to
telephone kiosk the
no one seem ed to know anything about my call. I went back to the book- ing clerk, but he seemed even more upset than I was that the call could not be traced.
Priority
"
It was now 7,30 and the next arrival was not until 10.30. A cold rain lashed the windows of the airport building.
I main-
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1956.
TODAY
the
eleventh story in the series that has kept:
you guessing
time
known for a very long that there has been an organisa- tion muggling drugs and dis- monds into Ireland from Eng- Jand. But its workings in de- tail have not been clear. You were chosen as a victim
AD innocent carrier of con-
traband.
"It was quite # clever manoeuvre Your beg war short-shipped at London. When it arrived in Dublin it would contain an extremely valuable package of contraband, worth £150,000 I should say.
Act of indignation at the
Was
splendid and expected The Customs people were only
too anxious to oblige you and
* DON IDDON'S
IDDON'S DIARY *
HE'S BACK AGAIN AFTER THE NEWSPAPER STRIKE, AND IN ASSESSING THE U:S. REACTION TO IT, HE SAYS
Britain's Prestige
Has Been Soiled
B
When
earthy
New York, Tuesday.
Mr Truman says that specialises in hot and RITAIN'S newspaper the American Press has been songs. On on impulse she wrote strike has soiled shielding the Eisenhower Ad to the Professor and he asked
ministration from criticism and her over der afternoon tea British prestige in praising" and extolling the Tdeir talk was chiefly about. the United States, Government, he is demonstrating reincarnation. The actress and
he just doesn't read the the scientist talked in English through The Americans were amazed that passed your baggage
The editorial
and in wrblers
Germon Papers.
She says unexamined,
Even If they had that the tie-up had gone on and columnists here have been asked De you, it would have so long. looking at his dashboard panel been a a cursory examination. It New York editors told politicians in exposing blunders think I should give his reply. leagues ahead of the Democratic believe in you was a risk, but a reasonable risk very deserted part of the road You appeared outside the air-me: "This is not like Fleet Dalles, he knows.
"I think there is something wrong." he said.
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don, 40, ha bar
written "mary
„scripts for sound rodia, too.
tained my attitude of cross" when
and in the rear mirror, în a
he stopped the car and got out "I think there is something wrong with my rear lights," he said. "A short of some kind. Don't disturb yourself; I'll just have a quick look"
sat quietly, in the front seat of the car. The long journey,
made
the 28yout my bag, and
an
I
the
the
me tired and
I
port with your luggage unex andned and containing planted parcel inside--or parently so,”
"Apparently so?"
Street at all.”
I don't
by The Repub Heans
Ask Mr. We talked about everything big and little things, and the Pro- Mr Truman always hits hard fessor agreed with me in des the.
casroot There have not been long re- he
help
His ploring the power of draina be critics. He joked with me and apports about the strike here but daughter Margaret, whom
enough has been printed to give adores, rang him up and rebuked he couldn't have been more the strong impression that the him gently for his belligerent charming. walk-out has been a Communist speech, but Mr
Traidh just "All I did was write a letter blow at Britain's vitals.
laughed.
expressing my admiration of han course, nothing he has and he telegraphed back Come Washington is astonished that said or written compares with Sunday."
has it "Our depart-there
vigorous the famous letter he sent to the Einstein
I once had a letter from Dr or even a music critic of the Washington
myself when I asked
Suspicion
He smiled,
beer
of the car
car: I saw ir mirror whe
when it actually arrived in throw at big business and labour
and
my
contained
3
It
to
2
A Sizzler
an
He
almost
most courteous terms saying be wasn't interested in writing for newspapers.
10
e. But shaving that ment here and in England is Government action
hurry In a
I had cut not entirely stupid," said Hart-forthright statement from the Past sonse time ago when the him to write an article.
or one of his critic said that Miss Truman wrote back my lip and it hurt, I moved the nett. "We had for a long time Prime Minister driving mirror sp that I could suspected something of the Cabinet. Perhaps a "plague.on was something less than a genius indecipherable scrawl and in the look at my lip, and as I did so system used. We had our man both your houses" comment, such as a singer. I had a
a sudden view of the back waiting in London. Your bag, as Franklin Roosevelt used to
own Dublin, MacDermott closing
parcel when there was crippling
Einstein died a rebel And two of his Last-
phrases avert: bag replacing it in the identical, in appearance with deadlock, might have been effec-
"Bulle's kill men-atomic bombe hoot. He moved quickly and what had been planted in it, but tive.
How the British election was snapped the lid of the boot to, it was a worthless parcel. the loudspeakers,
The then President's letter
cities" jerked the rear mirror back was this parcel that MacDermott to be fought if the strike lasted
It is one of the great regrets threatened baffling
the critic with all 1 much longer was
Dr Jonas Salk, who developed to the position in which I had his real name doesn't matter
Here sorts of bodily violence, and the Americans.
which is routing found it.
transferred to his own bag when puzzle
language
the vaccine was. 30 sulphurous infantile paralysis, that be did election campaigns are prolong- MacDermott got back into the he stopped the car.” driver's seat and began some
"Splendid," I said, remarks about the rear light. congratulate you.”
"But
the There
Presidential election candi- be My first reaction was to say.
15
more to come,"
and they
Truman always has been "We know this dates are picked and "What the hell
waged ferociously until the be- a man for dashing off extraor- but my man MacDermott and cur
dinarily indiscreet and abusive think and to people have been watching higinning of November: Acres of letters. Once he
sent a sizzler
The
vaccine is now being dis- Krock of the New tributed around the country and But we have wanted to get at space are devoted to speeches,
pro to Arthur the principals in his organisa- exposes, charges, stunts
I cannot conceive
York Tim
sent it Times, but Krock grammes, etc.
children yourse back with the suggestion that inoculated.
being lion. That is why I asked you to let him go. He suspected an American election during a
the President cool down. newspaper strike
Salk doesn't particularly like nothing."
However, when I went to see There have been two bis Harry Trumman In Kacsas City Publicity but he has rarely ob- "Not really. He thought you newspaper strikes during my, and talked alone with him in has with him in Pittsburgh on his fected to taking Journalists r here, but neither compared were above suspicion. We in loss of momes and loss of tiny office, he was most mild tours of the schools. A friend
hostility, the while relieved that nounced the arrival of the acro-
bag had not been sent to plane containing my bag. Lagos or Karachi.
We hurried down to There was no time to waste. A drink and dinner would put Customs hall and there it was. my bag had already disappeared me in a good humour. As I was relieved and so were the I hurried through to the pas left the Customs ball a quiet, Customs and airport officials. senger waiting-room and in tess undistinguished man not in The bag had been specially con following the receptionist to the we deeply regret the in front of everyone else's luggage aeroplane.
than Ave minutes we were all uniform came up to me and said, veyed and was borne along in with my bag og you doing he went on
I
you
7 convenience
have
been and given to me with renewed caused Please dine
with expressions of regret, while you are waiting. I think you will and our restaurant is your liking.".
It was a smooth fight and fell asleep. I had been extremely busy for the last month and had slept badly during the previous week. I had pretended to my self I was not tired, but it was only a pretence,
Good humour began to How
back through me. Good food and wine are magh, salves to my wounded nerves.
A good smooth landing, and I followed the smartly dressed hostess into the Customs ball while the porters unloaded our My host told 'the he was bags and brought them in on called Sean MacDermott. He large trucks. But my bag was knew about good living and was not in any of the truckloads,
Sean MacDermott was waiting at the entrance to the airport hall. "May we drive you into Dublin?
said, and I he
gestion. My bag was put in
second was to think furiously.
A nightcap
We drove on and were soon Hotel. Teri T cutside Jury's
surprise: "You sprang
am surprised."
ed. They usually start in mid- that some words had to be "I do summer at the omvations, when deleted before the letter bd not see Dr Einstein.
Years
are
Published.
Dr Salk is turning down all
offers the
of financial reward for his work. He wants to get back to his laboratory and tackle mental illness.
are
gladly accepted his kind sug must come in with me for a
my the boot of his car and be put op, I said, and insisted trailed him to another hotel, Information to the recent British and even sention window set of mine spent a day with him
where he picked
another up
One Dollar
a gracious, amusing conversa- into Dublin is not long. Mac- and a siphon of soda water, but superiors are handling the rest the pours spread about the that the Queen of England -
The aeroplane was specially tionist.
I was still savouring Dermott seemed uneasy 25 he Rearched and then the
nwful some extremely good brandy was driving along and
He went to the when he demurred.
black-out. in his own bag, as well. I ex- clocked in at the desk and man, and have followed them
In December 1953, New York pointed out the old courthouse recently and says: "Salk is ob
viously a dedicated man," a minor plained 1 was staying at Jury's went up to my bedroom, Mac. We expect without any doubt to was barren of newspapers, and where he had started as
tabood Hotel and we drove off.
the broadcasting about his Truman
et langth ur although Dermott carrying my bag. I get at the centre of this
memorial My television companies tried to fill The road from the airport ordered half a bottle of whiskey ganisation this evening.
thrary, and expressed his pride Exp they flopped badly. Wild as we were settling down with of it.”
in the absence of his daughter Margaret me good ghost town our drinks I made an excuse to
"Business took a trier
friends.
f) The drug companies as they newspapers.
His love for beating and the entertainment
his daughter have provided the Satic vaccine amounts to worship and adora- to the National Foundation for industry was hobbled,
tion
Infantile Paralysis at "cost"
Another
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"But," I protested, "he made a poor showing at this sort of thing. Didn't he even suspect me when 7 locked the door?"
Not Healthy
As I left the bedroom i locked the door quietly and went straight down to the telephone.
It seems certain that every one
one dollar. But the price to It was as I had begun to sus
one is going to hear a good deal drug stores will be close to four pect; no one in the air terminal
more from Harry Truman during dollars and over that figure or airport had ever heard of a "My view," said Hartnett,
next few months. His when sold directly to doctors. Sean MacDermott Would smiling, "is that he met his speak to the Security Police? I ma
Some of New York newspapers roundhouse swinging speech got Private patients will have to match in one particular way."
as much publicity as the par ten dollars for inceladon. would.
He
waved his hand at the are still trying to recover from scholarly effort of Adlai Steven. Why? And Dr Salk gets
the strike. Several of them are son,
nothing. As I look back on this affair whiskey it no longer surprises me, that
bitter strike.
here
the
Stevenson
is foo
there have
Deen
some
Bob Hope is looking forward to taking off for Australia next month. He says: "I'm making good on a promise that
hat I would Hope has had a cali from Val Pamell i London
frim the Master
7/00
of
of
"After all, you know," he said, in the red and struggling to keep Sometimes I think that Mr I got through to them at once, "you dranic a great deal before, alive. During my 18 years.
suhtle, tion and that they were curiously during and after dinner. Mac-I have seen six newspapers die.
sophisticated and too epigram- other week alerted to my call and my Dermott had to keep up with Only the
the marie for the lusty brawling of
American politics. business Yes, Inspector Hart you to lend an air of truth to his Brookyln Eagle folded after a nett would be with me in a few being your host. I think he was
His opponents have pinned return" minutes. He was. I began to rather fuddled by the end of the
The number of newspapers the epithet of "egghead" on hub Oren jab be alarmed, and told hish my
throughout the United States is and story. He listened with atten- see," I said. "That is most dwindling. This is not a healthy savage smear campaigns, which
**** Britain's Arst commercial TV tion and then said:
interesting. So I get away with thing for fouralists, for the Stevenson has shrugged off. shows, and Hope, who was born "Do nothing. Go back Finish the feeling that I have muldrunk public or for the country,
shrewd comment On your drinks. Let this man my man- curious séASS of The American Fress is very Stevenson's speech was "Adlai in London is very flattered. Icave,
Stevenson has displayed the and leave the rest to virtue."
One of Britain's best pictures, US I will call on you later
courage of Dwight Eisenhower's "Court Martial," (original title tonight."
convictions."
was "Carrington V.C") has been bared here for no good reason that I
can see. The American distributors say
They failed
#
not
CX-
Oce
Love Of
Life
Aundreds of manden, OTE
pictures that went far beyond this and
The jealth of Albert Estein they got
Hewid not
surprised everyde except this a dispute without route. Tr
much in the news. That" said Hartnett, "and President Truman returns to the surely a feeling of having been
political platform and blasts a detective. You saw him re the newspapers. Truman, who placing your bag and took was close to death only a year operation. particular course of action." ago" after a serious
that was an has bounced back buoyantly. "know, but Mystified, I went back to my
He is again the fighting cock, bedroom.
It I hadn't cut myself MacDermott
was acci
the "I began.
Harry the "give-en-fiel sitting where I had left him.
Hartnett got up. "Accidents," terror from Missouri. We drank some thore whiskey,
However, when he accuses close. Friends. "are the but he would not finish the he said sententiously,
Eisenhower's Ad- thought to in poor health by Tucifer, the original Red Hot After all these years Sophie bottle. "I must go back to the things that hake continued President
ministration of "the most cynical the general public. airport and finish my report," successful crime impossible."
behaviour since the
Mejana, 4 one of the biggest. he said. We parted, and I un And with that he left me.
Harding era of the early Einstein in recght months has draw on Broadway at the Lathy dressed and went to bed but WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
ventier, he
convincing ban severely criticised for his Quarter. She has bem ora, not to sleep.
many
libera and left wing gatements batila centuryin show busines people. when
that The
blik assaults and napitxipen camer and was been no parallel to upon iccaray sims wan morey the cloak of protection thrown ing against the enerpactment Audrey Hepburn will appear. about this Administration by so on individual liberty, parti dar- opposite her husband Met much of the Press," he is damn ly ancong scholars, angered the Ferser, in the film version of ing the integrity of the country's extreme Right There have been War and Bead.”
leaving fr srce stupid fetters to him saying?"
In The Man 10 There is no such thing as a "Get back to Germany,” One-party Press in America, All Einstein was a gentleman“) of die Truman's ́· Zulminations with a
reeping Arange of Britisa cast, Jack Buchanan. were printed in the newspapers interests and a love of life. One with whom Lcrosse to England right across the country the day of the few geople to See han in in January, is back again. Ad
made reccas/months was the coldmed New Your doc television ap
singer Eartha Kitt who pearances
I been in bed
half Now YOU hare to decide: an hour it seemed longer Did Glyn Daniel make his story when Inspector Hartnett rang; Up V did it really happen to Could he come up and see me? I hit Seo tomorrow's answer. agreed, and told him to bring up Yesterday's story by Bernard another half-bottle of whiskey. Newman was FACT,
When he was settled in my arm- glass in his chair with a large hand he told me the story. "Well," he said, you were to be made a sucker, but they failed.”
"Tell me more," I said, "It is not a very complicated story," he replied. "We have
́DID IT REALLY HAPPEN Y- No. 11: Delayed in Transit
YES
NO
newspapers.
atter the ex-President
thean
Who Never
ROAD TO WESTMINSTER
THE HARD ROAD
LONG before the General whether their party is in
the
ONG before the General whether their party is in the at a rate even present-day year and certain concessions an for the task obead and to French politics has never equal- MP receives, the job of being prove that they are sound en If the winning party should led. Between October 28, 1830, a Parlamentarian is worth all party policy, and principles. May 26 is over, the 600 odd have only a bare majority to and February 19, 1835, there the trying preliminaries to being Once sejected, a prospective men and women to be sent
stalemate were five Governments. One of returned for a constituency, but candidate usually has months of repeat to Parliament by the voters, position of the last Parliament them had a life of only ave most candidates find the four using a constituency. It wave realised how long, but one then nothing mine art, of course, as for
but months and 27 days.
ney rather rough going,
hard work in the "close season" LONG WAIT::: keeping oneself favourably be- worrying and wearying is er He will be in for a hard
fore the coristituents who are unate few re-elected members since such a position of the new House who can soon Many of those hoping to win not too interested until the rear the opening "And it will soon be ap- sence in the House to meet any Minister ladder, be gaining an ing for their parties, before of the election Campaign. * 1114 parent after their first ap- snap division which could bring Under Secretary sulp. But even being peleted to have their for the candidate is one long pearance in the House of victory or defeat to their party here the future is none too rosy, narnes forwarded to headquar round of hard work, compaign Commons how fall of Such a position could lead them for a promising political career ters for addition to the list of ing at dozens of meetings
soon to having to face the could be prematurely cut short eligible candidates. This done working up to 16 hours a day." uncertainty and heart electors once again,
by a further early election, there is a wall for a long period or more for weeks on end. breaking setbacks t'hé
FIVE GOVERNMENTS
There is no telling what the until a constituency approaches All this and more has been Parliamentarian's future!
Ackle electorate might do. They them MAL
w may candidatural Parliamentary candidates. Those who are sent can be
If there is any consolation to could swing over, in a manner After going through all the be gained from such uncertain that could bring disaster such lead to a place on the short list to Westminster may have many complicated
preliminary
ex prospects it is that the new as befell the Unionista in 1906, of "possibles" and tais brings years or only a few months in pertences of an election candid House is hardly likely to be for when their lead of 134 vanished new ordeals. The short-list can the House, for such are the um Late the new MPs are faced such warettled periods as ex- and the Liberals walked in with didates have then to take their certainties of their politient with many factors that make perienced by the politiciens in a majority of 356. Pertura in addressing representa future
-J. W. Taylor their political fortunes most tie William IV's reign. Here the It might be thought by some tiven of constituencies to try and pertalu The principatong is Government of the day expired people that, for the £1,000 a convince them of their mailability
the road to Westminster. time, amand his constant get their first step up the the seat have spent years work battle begins. With
at the interview
and