THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.
THE WHOLE
SUDDENLY, EISENHOWER'S · ILLNESS CHANGES POLITICAL OUTLOOK OF THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE WORLD
The Political Power Of A Heartbeat
T
HE heart
By RENE MacCOLL
attack forget that the guy will
suffered by President only
be one heart-beat
Dwight Eisenhower away from the presidency." utterly transforms
the United States political
Beene,
Until
looked
Today that phrase as- sumes a now (and sadden- ing) force. But the Nixon
last Saturday it of 1952 has changed out of
virtual certainty ali knowledge,
that the President would be persuaded by the spokesmen
run
for
Nixon at that time was
of the Republican Party to widely looked upon as mere- the ly an ambitious and irrespon- again presidency in next year's sible young fellow with elections.
P
would And if he had, he --all American political ex-
£1
pretty wife. The Left de- denounced tested him and him a "witch-hunter," because it was he who, as
IN
perta were agreed have a member of the House Un- won in a walk.
Now all is changed. Noboty would dream of urging a man of 64, with a tremendously arduous life behind him, and who NOW suffers heart attack, to tackle the rigours of the election campaign and four more years in "the World's No. 1 job."
American Activities Com- mittee in 1948, persisted in "keeping after" Alger Hiss when his fellow committee- men were ready to drop the
matter
and finally got
the State Department's equivalent of Burgess and ese start to make threaten- Maclean sent to gaol.
ing noises again."
ly removed
from the
the little man white in office, from Missouri called Harry Truman, who happened to be Vice-Predelent
had and whe nothing much to commend him save unlimited courage, waded in and took over, learned the horrifyingly difcuit Job-and did it, by and large, very well Indeed.
the
mar-in-the-street,
.
to
Bod
Harriman is coming along as u candidate at breakneck speed. He 100 is a patrician. He has a great personal fortune.
"F
expected
B
Only 18 inches tail, Jeffery Hudson began his career in pie, braved piracy," prison, slavery and battle
and killed a man în a duel. One of the world's strangest stories.
THE QUEEN'S DWARF
By C. D. T. Baker-Carr.
The
It was shortly after Jeffery was back In England with a and takin to Barbary, where had entered the service of the commission in the Royalist army he was sold as a slavo. Buckinghams that King Charles and a knighthood in his pocket. price was more than usun) — and his Queen came to dine. It was as Captain et Horse Sir miniature slaves were a novelty. Henrietta Maria was so taken Jeffery Hudson that he rode inte But his now master treated hin by his antica on the table top, battle Newbury alongside just as harshly as if he had been his good manners and
a fully grown. His Prince Rupert, mounted on obvious entertainment value all-size charger Historian
ED
ta Morin set up a miniature find their favourite dwarf had Court of her own and once more grown to a good Bft, Sin. to pocket-sized knight was A centre of attraction.
But fame had gone to his ead. He became arrogant and bellicose; so much so that on one occasion he was madu fight a battle with a larkey- cock. Thus two struiters were
to
After the Restoration of the Monarchy Sir Jeffery lived in quiet retirement in his nativo
pension provided for him by old friends.
But the quiet of country..lifo palled as he thought of his hoy- He set out day at the Court.
tune there. In 1879 owing to his adherence to the Roman Catholic faith he was accused of being involved in the Popish Plots. He was imprisoned in the Gate-house at Westminster but subsequently released,
According to Bir Jeffery, his says of his prowcas in that she offered to give him a Fuller home in the Royal palace. The battle, that he was "though a miseries in captivity produced a Duchess, always with an eyɑ on dwarf, no dastard."
very strange effect. He began to for her favour
grow, not just the odd inch, but OUR AND on further
When the Queen fed to Pen- soveral. In fact ho more than husband, gladly modo a present TWENTY black-
of Jeffery to the Queen,
dennis Castle in June, 1044, en doubled his height. Finally he the English By birds baked in a
In the Queen's service he was her way to Paris and exte, Sir was ransomed
and
when
he pie....
Wasn't the delight of the fashionable Jeffery was part of her retinue, Government
arrived in England his Royal at Court, 3'zar by year to set zdles that a dainty dish
Back in her homeland, Hen- patrons were disappointed to growing more mature, but with- George bofore a King?"
out adding to much as an inch And which Democrat would Villiers, Duke of Bucking- to his height. Nixon-assuming he is picked ham, certainly knew his nur- by the
Republicans-hove bent? Almost certainly one of ery rhymes. But then a two men: Adal Stevenam, of Court favourite in the days Illinois;
In lists of the Royal House- Averell Harriman, of Charles I was ON
hold Joffery Hudson was always Governor of New York State.
to be fairly knowledgeable.
shown as senior to the Court Demezent Stevenson was the
When the King and the Jester, a man with the unlikely candidate in 1952. Heim Queen, Henrietta Maria, apme of Archibald Armstrong, mensely ablo, cultured,
Court. Sir Jeffery won. were passing through Rut who was allowed an incredible matched, to the delight of the county of Rutland, existing on a sophisticated--loo much su for
HILA who land where Buckingham had amount of licence in his jokes.
bombastic Indeed, such was his position
personality- vaguely resents the fact that be an estate at Burleigh-on- at Court that the King sent out of all proportion to his size on a delicate -ded him to challenge a mom- seems high-hat.
France the-Hill it was only natural him
mission--to collect a midwife for ber of the Queen's household to that they should attend dinner given by him and his the Queen's forthcoming confine duel. Mr Crofts had insulted for London to seek another for-
his short stay ment. During
By him. Duchess in their honour. there Jeffery
was in great de- mand in French Royal circles and was given innumerable pre- sents worth in all some £2,500. On the return journey the little little man had in fact two large
At dawn the next day the two midwife and the
met armed with Mr
In June of the following year At the end of the men! a charges the
pistola. The little records show that he received Dianstor overtook them.
knight was mounted on a hors £60, and £20 in 1081, from the very large, but still dainty queen's French dancing master choice of dish was placed before the Flemish privateer
to make the whole affair slightly secret service fund of King is suddenly thrown wide Bul almost from the mo
of their Vessel--a relatively un- King. With a flourish
more equal-sided. The signa Charles II. His former glories open-with the odds, if any ment that he was nominated to the Supreme Court and
armed merchantman-and cap- was given and Mr Cmfls was the had departed--no more did a his silver dagger, Bucking- trod THE NAME
cargo and ship, thing, on
pas-irst
to press his
trigger. A Mytens or a Van Dyck include The vice-presidency has since issued a cate-
IS
ham cut the pie-crust to seper 'AVE' For it was an open
stream of water narrowly missed him in their Royal portraits; no man gorical statement that he is
reveal not 24 rather Hudson, his charges and his Sir Jeffery the commoner longer was he the after-dinner, that the Republicans were Nixon beenme a new
suber iti manner, ex- out of politics for good.
blackbirds but presents were taken to Dunkirk thought the duel so funny he was table top show at Court. bedraggled in a panic of pessimism the
And somebody had the in-
a foot and set free, but the pirates kept using the Stuart equivalent of a My own hunch is that
one small boy only him. dubbing
their foot. Undaunted, the moment there was any hint tremely hard-working, con-
This water pistol.
Ho died in obscurity in 1882. spiration He has gained
modern tail the and-a-half
im- and
pocket-sized dwarf joined the angered Sir Jeffery. He aimed. At 03 he had lived longer than that Ike could not after all scientious.
dressed. He army of the Prince of Orange. pulled the trigger. The pistol his very unmilltary successor on be deflected from his dream the real affection of Eisen- Nixon, the reformed charac. during the campaign for
an almost ter, will get the nod at the New York governorship, "Hot maculately
stage, "General" famous {a play
Tom During the siege of Breda in was real. Crofts fell dead as he the bowed to the Royal party his be bower himself
Republican Convention
in Ave"
"Honest Abe" Lincoln). The
became known
** laughed.
Thumb, who reached the age of paternal regur.
San Francisco.
"Strenuous
51 but remained. nickname caught on overnight before giving them a well-
Jeffery for his
a permanent Henrietta Maria only just man 25 inches tall. of rehearsed cabaret in minia- and has done hin plenty
and valour in the field. energy the His popularity with
good.
knight from ture.
He soon found two new cham- ngid to save her
Today the curlour can see Sir public stands
pions in the Earls of Warwick 'prison, and he had to leave the Jeffery's clothes his "WC haven't got any. American
firmly
more a Once and is
sea briodered waistcoat, his breeches and Northampton, bath volun- country. one else but Ike who could high today
teers in the Dutch service.
his journey was not all plain sail- and
stoclding-in the pull it off." they would rooted.
Five years later, at the out- ing. This time he was captured Ashmolean Museum,
pimtes
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break of the Civil War, Hudson by a band of Turkish now it will be a case of hard necessity and some-
will have to one else found.
So next year's campaign
the
Democrats.
farmstead
secret for
near
-retirement to guiting Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
THE FATEFUL
PHRASE
THE FIRM ROOTS
There are others.
and political
But by dint of hard work and tireless application Harriman is So long as he stayed in getting to be a fairly convinc
ing back-slapper politics, the floridly hand- qulpater. He seems to possess Home Governor Earl Warren that last ounce of driving am- of California had a respect bition which Stevenson perhaps able chance.
But he went lacks.
THE CASE OF TRUMAN
of
on
But Ict net preoccupation
The midget boy was born in allow with the political scene
of the capital town mis Oakham, us to ose sight of the
England's smallest It seems clear that, un- fotune that has now fallen on Rutland,
a the man, who deserves, and county, in 1819. His parents were less. Eisenhower makes will always deserve, the proof normal stature, his father a A year or so ago Senator remarkable recovery from round gratitude of all in the well-built and tubby butcher and
His mother
large, raw-boned be Knowami, of California, his much regretted attack, free world.
farmer's daughter." would have
in been
the Nixon will now be asked to
Let us echo the sympathetic running. Sometimes known "carry the ball" for the words cabled to Denver by the as the "Senator for For- President in all sorts of Queen when she heard of Eisen- mosa," becauso of his in-
ways between now and the hower's illness. tense interest in Fur East- end of the presidentia! "Who During the last ern matters and his fana- Lurm.
for elections, back in
partisanship 1952, tical
Kai-shek, Know- when discussions were
go Chiang ing on us to who should be land's stock has slumped to Ike'a "running mate" day because of the (ie., candidate for the vice- in the cold presidency). I often heard shifting of the the phrase, when the name tional spotlight away
house at Burleigh-on-the-Hill
01
his
At the age of nine little Jeffery Huron--some records spell his name "Geoffrey" was taken by his mother to the big And let us remember the part to be presented to the Duchess he played in two tremendous
Buckingham. She was victorles-rst against aggres-
Though services at once. Thus he will be very much in sien in the hot war of 1939-45, delighted with him and engaged and then against an even more unty 18 inches tall he was, the publle eye and will have a
according to Fuller, a contem- great chance of impressing the sinister form at aggression thaw
the years just passed.
There are millions today out-porary writer, perfectly formed gide the United States who will and proportioned. join fervently with the Ameri- The Duke of Buckingham had from Moreover, America has seen cane themselves in wishing of the then Senator Richard Formosa and its problems. not long ago that even
when "loo" many, many happy years known of Jeffery's existence for her mone, down on that Pennsyl-some me, since butcher Hudson was in change of the Duke's Nixon came up as a possibí- But he could easily make a one of the greatest of all
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bulls, which he kept for baiting. lity
"Hmm but don't come-back if the Red Chin- Presidents--Franklin D. Roose- vania farm of his.
velt-was tragically and abrupt-
on
and able personality new war and the the nation at just the right
interna- moment.
FOREVER RITA
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A PUBLIC PET
M
ISS RITA HAY-
WORTH, reportedly NOW WHY SHOULD off to parley with
Husband No. 8 in Paris, HER NAME STICK
once again demonstrates her
ruthless flair for backing WHEN SO MANY
into the limelight.
This time she
screens
herself behind spectacular dark glasses, a new hairdo and the
qucer, unlikely pseudonym of Mrs Phils bury. But the reporters pursuing her are not fooled. They never are.
Most durable
FADE?
most of
the
nowadays idolatry showered on her
comes from women fans. Her pin-up days are long past. It is the avid, insatiable in- terest, of her own sex that keeps the flash-bulbs.
The second clue to the im- portance of being Rita Hay- What is it that makes worth can be found in the full, Miss Hayworth eternally gorgeous, tally of the Hayworth newsworthy?
I.usbanda.
It has nothing to do with Just look at the list again! oll her acting, of course. Be- tycoon Edward Judson;
Now nudging 40, Miss friends."
Private ideal
Orson
in
The 1-2-3-4 of the Hayworth husbands: Ed- ward Jadson. Ornon Welles, Aly Khan, and Dick Haymes.
veils with her lit- tle finger ercoked
though
shc
were alpping tea in the suburbs.
And they have the road what Aga Khan once of her, **I know of no one
oro quiet and
moro
ladylike."
Theough all the complexities
of
Poor Mias Hayworth. cause she seldom acts. She Welles; Aly Khan; Dick Haymes. Forever disguised, forever has not appeared in a new rumbled. It is not sur picture since 1953.
Whenever sho prising.
It could hardly be the WHAT Is the secret romantic
the most tangled travels. incognito, her pro-
daydream of the ordinary"
layo fe of our gress is as noisy as the Ride sparkle of her personality womun? Is it to marry a strong, either, The nearest Miss tight-lipped man of affairs? Or
But here is something else to fine, Miss Hayworth som of the Valkyries.
how preserves Hayworth
unshakably has ever ap un intellectual genius? Or a set the seal on her popularity.
for her fans the air of A nice, Or perhaps proached to wit has been to fabulous, Oriental?
Rebuko has thundered on Miss respectable girl, Perhaps it Hayworth from all directions, illusory. But it takes the edge say: "We are just good a famous crooner?
Somewhere in that, glamor. Even from Dr Donald Soper, off envy, It is reassuring. It is list you may be sure Hat relentless critic of other profoundly heart-warming. Hayworth can claim to Nor is it simply her marous
That lles her private, wildly unattain people's fallings who once used For who knows? That fantastic the Hayworth story nu ́án anvil riso from ́alum-giri to princess, be one of the most durable ringe to Aly Khan.
to hammer the barnyard morals those Jacques Fath gowns, the public pets of our time. Her heady business needs to be
chinchilla. fur, the name has acquired for seen in proper perspective, COLLECTED THE LOT
HAYWORTH HAS that prevall in highly publicised £10,000.
and overpaid circles."
thumping cash bonuses Wolling romance that once millions an extraordinary The
marriage, Wealth, brains, international
Miss Hayworth's millions of in after each broken magic. Sho has only to dye rocked the world is now as
the perpetual glamour of the Yet Misa cafe society, popular sheet music women fans know better. The headlines are they
unat her hair strawberry blond dead as mutton. for Husband No. 1, red for Hayworth still steadily at he has married all of them have watched her décorous per- tainable after an7
She formance as Badio Thompson She hils run the gamut..
the prostitute of the South Bea Husbande No. 2 and No. 8, tracts the big print.
has collared every elamorous They have observed the statge type in the male gallery, black as she now speeds WHY? A
line of her shimmy in "Affair away from Husband No. 4 Well, the first thing, to
Can you wonder if she in Trinidad? They have! BOGL to collect tall headlines; reallee about her is that fascinates the rest of her sex? herbas Salome peeling off the
able ideal.
MISS
1
What has happened to one nice, respectable girl might just conceivably happen to others.
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