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HE'S NO PALMERSTON, BUT

HE'S THE RIGHT MAN FOR HIS JOB TODAY

ROM Palmerston

Curzon. British Foreign Secretarios were masters of the

world. They did not always

wel their they

WHY. spoke,

Trembled,

But, when the world

From MacDonald to Eden, Britain's Woreign Secretaries struggled to bald onto some of the okl power.

By LES ARMOUR

But there his political career The Conser- emtest until 1930 vatives of Wirral-the no man's

between land perisia

the out of the Mersey and the mouth

Dee,

between of the Liverpool and Wales adopted human their prospective gandt- But wur date for Parliament. eume and there was no election in 1939.

༥༥"ཏཱ ཝཱ*

In the election of 1945 Con-

going out by the store

Selwyn Lloyd came in--with

1,21 overwheining majority. The Socibilst whirl- wind seemed to have roured over Wirral without so much us Fuffing a Tory hair.

cbaner Conservatives

came

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On

John Selwyn Bronke

quickly. Lloyd has no illusions. Had

The

decided, disastrous defeat, I been living in the days

Lloyd joined the army-as a That

should They

fight the Palmerston h.. would

private. He was commissione) Socialists,

much never have been Foreign most immediately, and itve principle as on practice. Secretary. Nor would he wears inter he was a brigadier.

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As a subaltern he was known appointed if

“Lloyd the Tank," a descrip- anyone had cherished any

Kort which «pplied more to AN drums of restoring furmer

physique tha MERSIVE, Square glory.

have

to tus mallitary activities.

Staft Officer

He is not am to lend the world and he does not pretend to be. He is not a and propounder of imaginative Ideas. He is a THE

bold

Ministers of Stale 10 the Foreign Office are employee,

the nation's re- principally, as

Na A.

preseitatives in the United Selwyn Llody sal hrough two sessions of the

N. General Assembly

UN

were

do the RULES PROVIDE

FOR A CASE LIKE THIS?

Eisenhower's Health Sets A Problem?

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By DONALD LUDLOW

Washington The question is: Iko feel matter how it line now but five more year

is a long time to look ahead.... President Eisenhower What happens if he dots have foels himself to be for another heart attack, or some a second term in the White serious filness, or Coss of House, his health will not powers?

President's death.

Nixon,

Even Vice-President

ambitious young shrewd and politician that he is, was pushed into the background by tho little grey-hatred Adams.

So now politicians are asking: Will Ike want Adams and Nixon

only be a ninjor issue of The Constitution provides for again? the coming political cam. the succession. In the event of paign but is almost certain the to lead to a vital change in with....

nothing

the Constitution.

now

and

denly

fails to praise

Ike never But satisfactorily Nixon. He calls him the "most able Vice-President this country has ever had."

But

-The President's right to delegate powers to indivichals who may be beyond Congress despite questioning;

work,

2. Who decides what to do if the President is unable to carry

For weeks particularly under the spur of the doctor's report which gave ke

A "fit for duty" certificate with the blunt- on. ness of an army medical board-an argument bax breon raging at the highest political levels.

Be quickly divined thai there inen to whom he One was must pay attention India's volcanie Krishna Menon, together, The other was America's even musta,

volatile Henry Cabot negotiations. He is TROIT Log.

trust whether they

Where

to arrange compro- conduct delicate

Mr SELWYN LLOYD

to

other men

Britain's

A

Inun

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India, Lloyd perceived, held trust his government or not, the balance in Asia.

n's curren; role India went the nationalists of world affairs is just to moderate Asta

were almost bound, toi American polcly and hold the follow

And, on the fate of Asie, must depend The cess or fallure of the

Su

West

in a cold war which had already They adopted the ideal of the led to a stalemate in Europe. Welfare State and promised to run it more efficiently

They

abandoned the old doctrine so il faissez fate.

Sword That they could run # 10

society without the operative bunkaueratie interference which had

come with Soelullsın. They did not need a reinent- nation Edmund Burke; they

negotiator and an organiser. army goot perceived that needed a team of efficient non-

And he is a

ane.

very

His Ancestry

H'S

he was a burn staff ofteer. officient He was attachest to the Second Montgomery sputted

Army.

sel bin. spectacular.

his risc

wag

WOS

He had the quaillies the job demandsk, He could spot the tlaws in any plan. He knew ancestors *4) be exactly what information

needed

In order to plan for traced back to a Welsh

He could prince. But all that has been every eventuality. forgotten. His immediate keep track of the activities of

doing thousand men who hundred jobs and know, every nongent, who was doing what wad

why,

a

descent is from men moved from Wales into the counties with the Border Industrial Revolution. They He took part in the planning thrived on iron and steel of the Norinandy invasion and of the subsequent campaign. machines. Their

and

The

doctrinaire administrators, Party's lenders had their eye un Selwyn Lloyd.

He did not immediately react. Instead. In 1948, he became Wigun-a Judicial Recorder of post of immense importance in the little Luncashire Industrial town which has always been a national music hall joke, but a post of monumental unlz- portance in the affairs of the nation.

Asian Crises

MERICA, on the other hand, A held the whip hond in the world. The best that Britein could possibly do พ.ค to moderate American policy

Somehow, Lloyd managed to win the confidence of both Menon and Lodge, More than that, he managed to bring them together in key Asian crises, The two detested one another. But both trusted Lloyd.

The arrangement was tenuous. But it was one that historians will have to take note of.

rest of the free world together

malce

Britain cannot policy but she

can civilise it. And that is Selwyn Lloyd's job,

Nelther Palinerston Curzon would have approved. Selwyn Lloyd now lives in the traditional Cariton Terrace residence of Foreign Secretaries. But he lives quietly.

H

Maybe Right

once

Nixon is not popular, his energy and hard

The public still remembers the 1952 rumpus over his ex-

pense fund. He took his case

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occasion,

ABSTRUSE POINTS things up but it was an unhappy

in-

Much of the wrangling. Much

volving as it does the most abstruse points of Constitutional law, is way above the heart of the man-in-the-street,

But that is not to say he is not conscious of the existence of the problem--but he has 1 in personality.

As my taxi-driver said as we drove down to the White House:-

"I guess I'll vote for him, But if he gets siek again, who will run the show? Maybe my vote will really be a vote for Nixon,

some other Vice- President and I wouldn't care for that, though I'm a good | Repbulicán,"

that 16

Again. 100, there croggy, tight-lipped

Sherman Adams, assistant

little man

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the President, who from the moment tke was struck down in Denver has wielded immense powers behind the scenes,

Nobody har ver questioned the good faith and character of Governor of the tough, 55-year-old fonner New Hampshire,

But Congress resents him, and merely because of his -abrasive tongue.

WATCHDOG

DEASON: he is an appointee RE

is accountable to no and one save the President himself. Ike, like any good general,

has always had a tough "No"-man at his side, At Supreme Head- quarters during the war it was General Walter Bedell Smith.

NO HELP

\WIGHT D. EISENHOWER

DW

is keenly aware that his political opponent will now hammer away on the theme:

"Do we want a slekt man in the White House?"

He would like the Constitu- tion changed to remove edinė burdens from t shoulders. Throughout the long days of his decision ha has wished that there were some authority to which ho could turn for guidance or support.

But not even Congress could help him, Only he could de- termine his answer.

The Founding Fathers, when they wrote the Constitution, Q:CTYL

to have

forgotten that Presidents fl 1, lke other men.

They never

decided: WHO shall say whether a Fresident is unable to dischargo the powers and duties of his office?

become WHEN does the office vacant?

the TO WHAT does Vice-President

succeed the President is disabled, removed, or has died-to the powers and duties of the office or to the office itself?

when is

The Constitution merely says that the Vice-President shäll carry on "until the disability be removed or a new President is eleted," but it does not say whether this shall be the next presidential election or

special election to LESS.

יי

be called by Con-.

SO FRANK:

Tumulty who

America.

riled

AL NATO it was General Al Gruenther, Now Adams. and his wife (whom he

Nobody minded when the married when he was 47, President was in full command; she 23) and their daughter livet his work could be lightened

POLITICIANS have not tot» much

115 any other self.

gotten Harry Truman's by a good respecting upper middle-class the better.

watchdog so much

Jump to power on the death of British family,

Franklin Roosevelt. Nor have They cut no But at Denver. Congress they

forgotten dashing figures in the

that when 60cinl

began to get the impression President Wilson was stricken scent. They throw no grand with a good deal of justification with

glitterlug

with paralysis in 1910), It', was partics and few that watchdog Adams was

Mrs Wilson and his secretary of any ollier kind.

bossing the whole house as well Joe His wife

his as his own kennel. was secretory, and she still conducts From there Lloyd moved to

With Press Secretary James his private affairs with the same Hagerly. Adams

Ike is being tank about his set up what the Defence Ministry. He had

kind of efficiency that he brings amounted

health-frank to "government by must make more solish Repub~;

to a point the two jobs to to--and orders, ap-

to public affairs.

stuff ofleers" acceptable parently, to do them quickly.

The picture may not be enough for an emergency of a

lean leaders wince. One was to reorganise the De inspiring. fence Ministry into an efficient,, Churchill and Edin were right, period.

may be that week or so but not for a long win hurt him when the cam- But it

But nobody really believes unified whole, capable of

And

It was three months paign gets into full swing. running the three Services as a Selwyn Lloyd may very well "AB" Butler persuaded him,

be the kind of man the world before Ike got back into even

In fact it will probably make nonetheless,

devote

America alke Ike even more, exigencies of atomic war.

a full task load, was to familiarise growing Conservative Research The second Department, the Party's private problems of defence and their himself, thoroughly, with the brains trust. Lloyd became top Party expert in Anonce. bearing on foreign policy.

He was already tipped as the promoted him to coming Foreign Secretary. Ho Harold Macmillan was a stop- The Party's Front Bench, was the first Tory back-bencher gap.

Brains Trust

"RAB

He was tireless. He was never

nothing was ever unusuoj.

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unjt

his

prosperity was prosaic. But fustered. He behaved as though some of his time to the rapidly the capable of gearing for needs for Its safety and security, { easy harness, let alone assumed

they were efficient.

became

Selwyn was born 51 years ago in Rodney Street, Liver- pool. His father was a doctor. He went to Magdalen College, Cambridge, and President of the Cambridge Union From there he went to Gray's Inn to study inw,

In

the

1030 he was admitted to Bar, He chose to shun London and practised in Liver- pool.

He could go three days with out sleep and still maintain mind us clear and as active ny i had been ou the first day.

AL the end of the war he went back to his law practice, He had almost forgotten that the electors of Wirral were still walling for him, When they reminded him, he almost back

ed out. The family was well established there, and there was no doubt from the first of his Success..

The year before he had con- tested an election-as a Liberal, The Lloyds and the Lloyd Georges hod dlways been friends, and Liberalism was in his blood. It was in that election that Nye Bevan dist went to Parliament, Lloyd came bottom of the

Two years later, with the country sinking dally deeper into the depression, he had second thoughts about his politics. The Liberal party opposed tariffs. Selwyn Lloyd could not see how the country could survive without tariffs.

Became A Tory

Churchill

to win promotion in the post- From the outside, It is perhaps war Opposition.

When, in 1951, the Conserva- tiven squeezed back into power

still hard to see why He is

foreign languages.

not a great thinker. He speaks no

His

it was assumed that Churchill knowledge of foreign affairs is would send him to the Treasury, no better than that of thousands

of men in the street,

Politics по longer seemed Churchill surprised everyone by very tractive. But rey making him Minister of State insisted.

to the Foreign Office,

There is only one

answer.

He has ability to bring men

CREATIVE ARTISTS IN A

T

WORLD OF FRAGRANCE

By E. GALLAHER

THE

Polak and Schwarz chemical and then discovered that he had a very special

perfumes. factory at Zaandam in Holland has an gift "nose" for working on

Now. Joop Karreman can distinguishi and unusual name--but the chances are that remember more than thousand different scents. you have used its products.

He is also in a position to claim that his cigarette smoking; and he smokes up

Impaired by sense of smell has never been

to 20 cigarettes a day,

For the Polak and Schwarx factory has one of Europe's biggest Inborntories for, the produt- tion of perfumes.

I

In speaking of his work, he explains that it And a large proportion of its output 16. ja, all' done "by studying different scents and I quit and joined the Conwell is one use a the preparation of soaps as building (0.00 off finrodents of perfum

as scent.

porvative Party. It was as

alttiple and prosle as that. To A colleague of mine 'who recently mado

What are the 'baali

him, it was a matter of connon ACSLBC.

It cannot be sold that the Conservative Party went into Surprising ds it may seem, alt the work is wild ceslocira over their new done by MEN at these men approach the job recruit. In fact, the Purty does on hand in the spirit of the creative artist, rather 'net appear to have taken múch

than in the role of a pure chemist.ne netien Lloyd became a local Typical of them is 20-year-old Joep Karre councillor in a Láirdzpool suburb. “ mán, who was trained as an analytical chemist

Many of them tòinė trum apparently unlikely tour of the Netherlands watched some the firm's sources such as civet calą, nusideer and beavert chemists at work in preparing and blending. And even concentrated oils of roses can give off perfumes ready for export.

a most unpleasant smell nur they have been diluted and skilfully blended,

The only section of the factory where womTINI are employed in the packing department. Thera ffley have one of the, most vital jobs, for tiny bottle of export perfume may be worth About £100.

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