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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1956.
The chances are that you have never heard this man. He has made few headlines. Yet he is one of the most influential and respected men in present day Britain.
LORD CHERWELL By Les Armour
F
what
REDERICK Alexan- hours had gone into solving to write a blistering article in
der Lindemann, the deadly problem of the national newspaper about
he thought was the inefficiency Baron Cher- tall spin. Omelaidom had and the woully-hended idealism
Oxford, 12 one theory, Lindemann had of the Socialist government.
real life another. counterpart to the fictional
first well of the nearest
"Man Behind The
ment."
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But he wis never a That day. in front of the aetionary. Once he was invited Governabled experis, he wok up by a bankers' magazine jo write
airplane unl deliberately about the Welfare State, threw i ulo a spin. In those
lic When 111421 complain dava, that theunt almost certain about the mysterious with
"They" who, somehow, im- Bist deftly he pulled it
startled the banitera by announeng "If the people want services inen, 0! ears, they should have them.
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possibly, control their Te demistrationi proveni has Thane set out what ought to destinies. They are probably pont and he went on to become be the aun of Conservatives: to Bu ector of the Physical Labin- Provine an even betier Welture
visualising a luster of men tony at Faerbenough. whose careers, superficial- ly, parallel Lord Cherwell's.
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tu provide it stuerently, and Lo provide 1147X emerged it!
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The diametrically opposite corner. of the AA ku reason, Yet they would be wrong the neid of human if they mistook him for one
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why it ought not to be clone, In the postwar Baldwan govern- He made clear Then, and on
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ment Winston Churchill became Giner ocasions, that the job of of these sinister characters Chancellor of the Exehears Juny government LA to do what out of okl-fashioned tales of and imamed Chancellor for the international intrigue.
the people want, pivided Unt
etheannly as possible.
five years from 1924 to 1920. LC is possible, agg to do it as
Churchill never pretend-
i
be
an
economist, Yel
is direction of periknstromai
It is true that his family came from Alsace, that he was educated at the Univer. Mity of Berlin. and that through the most years of his country's his- fory scarcely one major de- cision was taken on which
he was not consulted.
Wax
impeccable und his budget speeches Rulian'
were
แ
To Serve.
HF has eve
1 direct the afTusss of state except shen he is fell that the publie has failed to notice an impending Rt then he has entNTALONE name out with atraying the facts. The stand vid the expert, w bolds, is to save.
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CHERWELL with wily ne
Frendonck Landemann,
In 1851 he came back into the then chong guva amenit
ngain LIS d'azzmaster-General soul gain, He as Churchill told the Comm
It is true that he remains almost unknown To the public and yet has held high offices: that he has had in physis on Extend, was his pants
Lindemann,
vipal dy
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calculable influence on the wine 1 Chuachall's praepel as supervisor, master." nation, and yet it is still adviser 311 the two great nehls
vi science and revea
11 was than that tre began (0)
impossible to say with any two years before Churchill go revolutieause 1..1's atomic certainty "Cherwell slid ared to toe distnay, sometimes, programme He cut through red this" or "Cherwell did that."
of pediat ant, In the la-1 lage, bok the Atomic Energy days, it 1.5 244 $1 to the frustra- Autlemnity out of the civil service Be of M
Wide Field
IT is true that his activities
have
Dren
Exchequer
I A. Butler, Who and matte it a public corporu-
Chancello
เ
f
the Bear, pun as a businys.
thepard the awe station
which 1ertain ahead of the world, and Ja stremalised the defence stile of atomic production.
JOWY
יth
In 1936,
Laumann Inki1 Professor
Expertenrenital ranged over MJ
Photoe sophy a Oxford University wide a field that few men ra gim muskis a pla pro- have been able to follow him feswondop ved phymes (Oxford is still dunia, Zimul seiences), but with any assurance,
Tane Bad Te agnin with it control of
fought with The professionai Clausricht Laboratory, evd servants and time and time
worlds printepat again he won. of the age.
He is also one centres of scentile research of the great economists. And one of The great.
Lord Cherwell is one of it brought the great afomic scientists
Even
1
the
THES
"Yes, Mr. Hogswistle. I did cuff your boy yesterday.
And if he tips me sixpence for marking his books again I shall repeat the process.”
London Express Si
THEY SAY THE FEUD NEVER
DIES on THE BIG KNIFE
A
by LEONARD MOSLEY ·
T certain times every (s London production "lifted
year poisonous scor- Plane Cilento to stardom.) pions turn
upon Al the
major Hollywood themselves in self- studios put in bids for the film revulsion
An independent com- and sting them rights.
pany, headed by Robert Aldrich, selves to death.
Aually secured it-and made sure that it reached the screen
The result is attuck Upon
such the
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What follows is proof with all its devastating criticism that this acute form of of Hollywood intact. self-criticism is not con- fined to Insects for it IN the account of the extra- which the film industry is run ordinary urge of " whole that most of the big executives community to torment the main turgets of the fi itself the pint of prophesiest that (a) It would dot run, and (b) people would not believe it.
He continued to live his quiet, then, however, Lande- bachelor life. Must week-ends the m was s metunts restless. Hy went back to Oxford, where he pioneers of modern aviation, while bing ut cles for national has four comfortable but plain
But he is a man of in- newspapers about the nation's
Noms in Clukt Church College, the The predicted mense
# De detener
Battle of Britam, and he dew whose brilliance is dazzling, tombs on attack
And he continued to stay ou of the public eye. The men theTHE public got to know
modesty,
a man whose personal rour- age is unsurpassed.
ile has Ver sought has bad power, and if he power it has been, largely, heenuse he was the only man who could do the job.
His education
took him and a
to Berlin and to Paris, and
A Power
suizorimates
energy
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atomic programarne -Sir Will
Penney and Jalur Corkerfi
Ele was, for VHEN Churchull became Prime
a lune at hus, as much Muster 1940, Linderman irection of the evonny as Mr
responsably (ex: Et eme me personnt istaut
But the The Butter. the famil
public VOT knew it, Landlemaan WAIN
Ctrerwell
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Hard At Work
be became a physicist in Oxtori tiha Cheswell is one of the exciting days when Oxtoers Two lanaxi rivers) and Rutherford and Einstein
the he joined Cabinet a Paytmaster-General the on opposite sides of world and working at op posite ends of the problems Soal was the man who paid Laboratory.
stock of the vastness of the universe.
Aircraft Spin
BUT it was not as a physi-
Leg. ng ago the Paymaster –
421 al. fue government nwmneys.
IN 1953, he resigned from the
government and went back to Oxford back to the Clarendon
There
reasons.
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he
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desperation.
a
It has and they do.
of
In America
caller! a novel
which DEER PARK,”
For "The Big Kafe" is only deals with the puns.
pains, and hand-wringings [{ this part of a converted, but quite- campaign has been on community.
the different-from-usual, best-seller lists for eight weeks.
agalos: the complexities Hollywood which is intriguing called the American public al In America
the play "WILL SUCCESS SPOÏL ROCK moment, Different from usual? HUNTER?” which sovages the
because though this Bune community with satire is
En campaign is being waged a smash hit on Broadway.
Three Adferent levels and uses three different weapong the people who have initiated the campaign are all close-to- Hollywood types themselves,
THE TARGET
IN Americu the dini fans
IN
of
THE
Yea,
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ONE FILM STAR... This
is how they 'sell' The Big Kolfe.
These are the men and women in the life of one fim slar, played in the picture by Jack Pstance: (1) STUDIO HEAD-ile had to be respectable at any cost. (2) 15 YES-MAN-the smijer with the knife. (3) The star's FRIEND-loyal, helpful-that made it tough. {4) WIFE-8ke knew he would never be true to one Woman. (5) STARLET-a perfect pet for a Hollywood star, (6) PLAYGIRL – She lived everywhere but home. (1) COLUMNIST She picked up dirt like a vacuum cleaner. (8) AN AGENT—He'd do anything for 10 per cent.
previous play. The Seven Year Itch," was made into Alm starring Marilyn Monroe.
Anti-Hollywood Campaign No, 3 is "The Big Knife" itself.
have the same
His name is Stanley Hoff in the Alm. He is a demon king in a Sunday suit. He looks like an advertisement for an under- stunding undertaker, He distinguished grey hair and always conservatively dressed. He speaks
has
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and
The nation are tocking to see Ant Hollywood
All three Compelen
He is the head of a a picture called
BIG No. is being waged
through villain. a book KNIFE."
written
quietly Norman Hollywood film studio. In "The by Mailer. whose carlier best- Deer Park" he crushes his em- sympathetically as if his tongue And the target of them all seller, "The Naked and the ployees like flies. He tricks and were still wet from sipping the is Hollywood -- where, It Is Dead," is being made into a cheats. He has several nameless milk of human kindness.
said, the feud never dies the Big Knife.
on in His new one. "THE DEER PARK," a brutally frunk about Hollywood,
THE VILLAIN
His wife (Ido Lind is on indecisive, lip-chewrticle- tearing neurotic.
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The giri for whou are expected to fed played by Shelley s, la a starlet whose dreamles is a night out with ajand a bottle-any man any bottle.
And, since this im which Hollywood log the truth about itselt, 1|is for from triumphant
ob end.
The hero ends up body lolling in a bath, wthroat cut, The starlet en under a bus,
The villainous
Schlet
(0 masterly study Rod Steiger), who has black- to mailing one and hg murder the other, bes of unscathed in scard some-
else whose une
cho en
twist,
THE MESTE.
TS Hollywood real ruth- less, and evil a book, and play say it is?
Hollywood, in a n of self-torture, Insists It Is. The message of "TheKnife scems to bo
"FUm fans of uorld- take a close look $. We, the film people of wood,
are the characters to Up
of physics were laying hare hes long evsed to be a
were several bure a whole
world. e.ymaster-General. The Job He saw himself primarily as a new While Rutherford probed was WIN
"general Super- man of thought. He saw the
there on the servert's the the atom, Einstein took son Cherwell Was first atomic energy
kind of people worea. Once programme in
vices-and some pretty nasty- adviser on since and economics, thoroughly capable hands
und
named ones too.
He wears a hearing aid to wo
we were
cre nice, detalent- the economy He masterminded the scientifle more sure fouch of Mr Butler.
under the.
The villain in
a fatherly looked, as respectable bu and There has never been a dim
"Will Success give himself
though he doesn't really need it your neighbour. But old out side of the war effort, plomvered
ke "THE BIG KNIFE" before.
Spoll Rock Hunter?" is used as
to the power gods in our atomic energy, ploited the long
a figure of fun. More than that, perhaps, range view of the economy. He saw the time had come to turn hear of Hollywood open-and
But though all Mr Hoff, as he shows up in studios, and they'vded us It is a fim which cuts the
the other characters mock him had an unsurpassed grust of all to theoretical work. The theory lets it bleed.
into lick-spittles andre." behind his back,
this Alm looks like a church they lick his
mouse and behaves like e rat.
It is a devastatingck, ot three fields.
of nuclear physics is sul in al
NTLHOLLYWOOD Campaign boots when he points his toe at
conscience, isn't it? muddle, No one has yet solved Its characters are film people. the theatre-ana is exemplified But still he shunned the lime- the problem of turning thermo- It is a story
No. 2 is being waged through them and tells them.
But he is not the only nasty What Is Hollywooing to The so-called hero do-lash self back ecency light.
But the attack on Hollywood character. He appeared
of hard only nuclear conversion
hearts, by comedy-with-a-kidney really
Et (the power mean occasionally, and then 1 explain behind the H-bomb to produc- wickedness,
is a big star and respectability? b hope flower (Jack Palance) minds and downright punch, 'WILL SUCCESS SPOIL in "The Big Knife." The villain who gets drunk, It was one cold and lonely is clear, lucid terms that every tive use.
kills a child it doesn't go too tal, like ROCK HUNTER?" The author here is more villainous than with his car--and lets a minor the scorpion, stinit 10. day during World War One, one could understand the fucts
George Axelrod, whose the other two put together.
studio employee take the rap. death. behind principles experi advance of science and the ad mental pilot. The most ministration of government. difficult problem of aviation
After the war and Churchill's was the problem of aircraft
political defeat, he went back to At 68, he is still hard at work. spin. Many lives had been Oxford. Occasionally, again, he And the world has not yet heard lost and countless man- came out of academic seclusion the last of him.
cist that Federick Linde- mann first drew attention.
Lindemann was an
J
and
Mr
But let no one accuse public Rank of anti-Hollywood blos party has for showing it in his cinemaS, time- For it was made in Hollywood by Hollywood stars and
the
reconomies, neither
In the theory or
anything to offer except worn solutions.
just say
technicians,
"The Big Knife" started life
R$ a play by Clifford Odeta,
Pink Plymouth please
Whenever, wherever, however, you drink gin, you strike a shrewd blow for old- time standards when you call for
PLYMOUTH
GIN
Sole Agents:
CALDBECK, MA
comes to full
The Galloping Lady Loses A Crl
F in 1907 a young
woman possessed both
&
social conscience
By ANNA LANDAU
Dame Irene Ward,
and a horse, she had, two written the official history,
who has ing and cor curl over her ear" good qualifications for be the FANY, remaries
of which found its way one day that the into a patient's bowl of food coming a FANY. For in British nurses always know how and was swallowed. "Great dis that year the First Aid to be good mixers "one of the tress was caused by the nows Nursing Yeomanry
best stand-bys when lito is but greater was the Jubilation Was difficult-so it is not surprising when W. the next morning an- born, the brainchild of that they had so many "pur nounced the recovery of the
suiters." certain Captain Baker.
Particularly one girl, lost treasure.'
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the secret service ftment. The decision to recomen for underground work taken in April 1942. D Irene doubts whether the Cabinet were fully aware of their decision involved thinks that had they do they would have refused pission,
But this
was on the.. "historic disregards the tradition that womenld not be used on this wo mong the women who becitinous an secret agents wOdette Churchill, Christino (nville, and the Australian N Wake, who organised-7,000 is and pollical battles of Dr returned to Australia fight Etait, the Labour le
It had occurred to Cap-
Somewhere.... in the Servicos' ambulanca tain Baker, who had been
department there was a 'missing link' wounded in the Sudan, that
until one day "Captain Bakor hád a brainwave "there was a missing link somewhere in the Am Heasman, whose main attraction
Soon they were driving bulanca Department." The seemed to be that she always ambulance for the Army despite gap was filled-by the wore immaculate white pota, ofDelal opposition to women galloping nurses. They were They provided simpan taking part in qotive servi
Political battles to be to give aid on the battle-
fought in Britain, toes the Although the FANY motto By the field till the horse'
"Seond World War wor; to "gain" pompon for am was I Cope, they were often they were doing a variety of accident arising out ofice in bulances arrived.
stmpsphere.”
disconcerted; sometimes by phrases like "Let the Meeping jobs radio transmiilors, the Far East Insulted as suffragettes, de-monaleop":"from='a spite their patriotic uniform of doctors so very
Belgian
coding experts, secret agents was of this that the as well as conducting their own FANY though operunder
red tunic, white gloves and blue There were often minor private war with the bramhat the title of Women's report skirt, the "Monstrous Regiment disasters to enliven gosip
of Women": really
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