THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.
Dear Anthony
the are all will, at koma except that the old cow died in the explosion which broke grandpa's leg and burned the house down, but that was put out by the flood which carried away the front garden. Meantime the central heating has packed up, the second glacial period is coming and we have the brokers-men in.
Hoping this finds you as it leaves us at present
your loving playmates
SPOTLIGHT ON A
MIDDLE EAST TROUBLE-MAKER:
THE MAN WHO GRAND OPENING
MIXES LOVE
WITH HATE
By RENE MacCOLL
No.
masters, as n mark of their gave him a free operation to correct it,
The operation. by one of frightoned part of the Russla's best neuro-surgeons,
Make this fucation
angry, troubled, and often
Middle ainst did the
world we call the East, is a foppish man his mid-forties.
In qulte,
trick-but not
la casily
the most Red in the Middle
He sports a binck Inter-type East. While the noisy Left-wing Tender Colonel Abdul Hamid moustache, has the ghost of #
about in Syria nervous factul lie, and answers Sarra) struts
Khaled aruj alministers that country at the head of a miliiny junta,
10
The name 1-1 #lagdach,
lot to be a
The Be used
it is Bagdash whb la the real
Worr artel Bagcash- vain power behind hi man who loves to boast of his PUEDENKEN with women-witt acutely aware of it,
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BOY SCOUTS
So when, in 1053, he spent
months In the Soviet Bugdash il is who recelvca Union being groomed for his regular couriers from
musters, who present
his
<irects Russian Morow
the unceasing stream of poison propaganda which pours out of Damarcia radio and bits fair
role.
Christian Archibald Herter: Dulles' New Assistant
THE MAN WITH THE
C
CONSTANT
HRISTIAN HERTER Jus A passion for facts.
speeches
His political
tond to astound his audiences. They
AL 20, he
graduated
with honours
Harvard, and went on to Columbia to study sound like reports prepared architecture. He was persuaded, by a competent research however, tu leave Columbia and Librarian.
take a job the American Embassy a Berlin,
(in 1917, Shortly afterwards when he was 22) he was trans- ferred to Belgium ns Acting Minister. From there, he was ant home on the eve of the US entry into the war.
If the facts won't speak for themselves, Herter prefers น remain saleira
In
of course, this passion is deceptive. The facts have to be selected before they will meak for thenuwives, and you have to have opinions select Tacts.
to
Herter appears to select his facts us the basis of a SITO!, compact group of political pre- of them is conceptions. One that government ought to be Testricted to the minimum necessary to ensure that no one has an infer mivantage OCT jenother, to create a frameworle essential community services, end to secure the pence
of
Another is that government jought never to represent way
single Interest or group of in terests within the enmunity.
He has never courted the sup port of business or of labour, and he wealt probably repudi- nie sucht sutaport
it were offered to him.
SHREWD
THESE preconceptions are fur- the tempered by a strewd Judgment of what will work and what will not,
On his return to the US. he joined the Army
ufter but. three months. the Army obligingly r turned hlin to the State Department. The State Department sol him to Switzerland to look after prisoner at wur problems,
V
By LES ARMOUR
SMILE
day. If so, there would either be tour ittle air for Europe or perhaps worsthe wrong kind of aid. “
The facts did Communists In this case, eventually speak for themselves,
he
McCarthyRes were strong 10
and Herter the State,
WIN forced to compromise. He came ut strongly against suspected who pleaded the Fifth Amendment and its neur- zset it largely thanks to ler-ly identical equivalent In the ter that US ald
programunes State Constitution, and sacked have been as
and successful
anyone in the State service who have made as few enemies. #39 took refuge in them.
AL they have.
Eme, Fame ore targcia squashed a State ot sinear campaign and insisted on
high standards of evidence.
The result was that he not entirely popular with the McCarthyltes, and he also mode powerful enemies on the other
Pre- sitie, such as fluryard's deni Nathan Pusey.
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HERTER
At the end of the war, he was still in Europe and he served on the US delegation to the peace conference, and then
went to
work for the European Recon struction Corporation.
Herbert Hoover-then Scere- they of Commerce-brought him home as a special assistant, and He stayed in Washington
1925 when he teft publie life to call a llierary weekly.
unlil
Unfortunately,
Wis
the results Herior's inetics that be himself ap- peared us a colourless character who alings! acemed to have a dis-
for kaste
political activity.
not wha
une
ol the promoters aroni
pr Eisenhower-for-
the
Wis
to rival Cairn radio.
Bagdosh it is who calls the who has even organised troops of Boy Scouts Red-dominated "youth
football chulz," not only in
Syria but in next door Lebanon,
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He his been married-to Beautiful Handbags
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Party But he rarely let his marriage Interfew. with bis amerous exploits.
For
10
years he had "underground," always on the
and
JUN
Case, Compacts, Carry-
never daring to stay alls, Scarves, Cardigans, Twin-sets, Overcoats,
titutionally Ineligible for the more than a night or so in any
one place. Presidency work n11 Buvo Fold against him.
Now he is trusted by Moscow to an astonishing extent and is omeially regarded by Soviets
their supervisory director-general, with jurisdic
over the falthful in Jonian and
likely Now he is thought a candidate to succeed John Foster Dulles
of State. its Secretary Much will depend on his success In la
jab new
Dulles asaistauit. for there are other strong candidates.
His success, too, may deter- maine his chances of succeeding
Eisenhower.
Herter, however, does not appear worried. He knew the State Department when it WAS a fraction of its present size.
tion
the Woollen and Dress
Communist Lengths, etc.
Egypt
as well os Syria and Lebanon.
PRESTIGE
He has much prestige in the
Dressing Gowns, Ties.
Kremlin becouse he was one of Hankies, Cufflink Sets,
Communismy's first "geld men"
10
grasp that the right method
The men who have grown of capturing the Asian nations Dressing Sets, Wallets,
in its service nre his old friends,
H
BELIEF
E is also an adept politician. He must have been tempted by Harold Stassen's attempt to nominale him for the Vice- Presidency (though Stassen
WOS the classic popular-front approach.
At first he agreed that Com-
munists ahould rigorously
Isolate
from themselves despised Socialists moderate Left-wingers,
the and
But then came the switch- over, and by 1953 Bagdash whe
In the Comuninform "WC Arabs have but and that is a broad, front which
must
Journal:
une path.
seems to have forgotten that national
To muke frk
Irlends OF his nemies, he raised the standards until of the State's
social Services 1032, when he was und launched л campaign to original bring Industry in the State? The campaign which has solved at least part of the State's chronic President, boom that he begun unemployment problem.
buttling with a will. political
In 1954, he was re-elected by chief assistant) but he realised unite the workers, peasants, and After Eisenhower's nomination, an overwhelming majority. he was persuaded to run hopeless tak, State Governor a seemingly since Massachu- setts had not had a Republican Governor since 1924.
He did get elected--but by small majority and after a long. A uphlil
fight.
married to
CHANCES
THINO erin, however, did not appe-3 to him. He has politics
Arst had his fill of Stale polities and too much for he has been angling for 11
of Federal job.
Almost
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In 1915, he
had Caroline Prutt, heiress to a nim. He ran into a wave large slier of the Standard Oil inbour trouble, and invoked A fortunes, thereby making doubly State law allowing the State to Had Eisenhower steppexi sure that he need no1 fear take over strike-bound public down, he might have been 14 financial difficulties.
services, and to break
a gas strong candidate for the Presi Journalism, however erudite, strike, en electricity strike and dential nomination-though his For instance, when he became
not sulisfy him for long. a milk strike,
chronic arthritis, Governor of Massachusetts four le had had a taste of govern-
his religion Fle ano ran into heavy (he is a Roman Catholic), and Years ago nice discrimination, ment, and he come from New weather over McCarthyism. his birthplace (he may be con- particularly In hotela and England's plutocracy, a group: restaurants. wus rife. It was accustomed to govern.
of
estimated that 35 percent hotels and
resoria practised
some form of discrimination.
Herter determined to clean them up.
did
After a year focturing Harvard on international
at
he contested a State eiection in 1931 and was elected герге
district.
But he realised the sentative for Buston's Back Bay legal snags in any legislation; a hotel or a restaurant can always plead that it is simply **full up.
The legislation passed not only made discrimination legn)
over a wide area ranging from
COVERNOR
employment to hotel accommo- EN YORTS Later,
he was
dation, I also set up a com elected to Congress and, by mission which was empowered 1947, had won enough national both to conduct Investigationa into allegations and to hold in acclaim to be voted one of the hearings to determine five top Congresmen by a poli
of 250 newspaper editors,
formal
the facts. Only when the com
mission had failed to stop the It was, in fact, as a Congress- offences could they be tried in man that he Arst made his name. At the end of the
In all, there have been more Second World War he was ap
could help
court.
than 1,000 Investigations. Only pointed chairman of a commit- two have reached the hearing co to find out how tho US stage and none has gone to
Europe without court,
damaging its own economy.
He led 19 Congressmen on n fact-Ording tour, in the course of which he collected millions of words of evidence from governments, opposition poli- cal partics, inbour
leaders,
Investigators report that dis- crimination is virtually extinct in the Bate. -
ELECTED
· businessmeri and foreign, econo- mists,
DOMESTIC Doilies, however, "He insisted that his commit-
nover been Herter's, too men refrain from political activity, while they were" [in
major interest,
He was born in Paris In 1895, Europe, and achieved the herpla thy, son of two professional fent of getting all-ther' fapte he, artists and the grandson of an needed without attracting, public, architect who had gone to attention or
erica In 1848 and made him- MOUNTAIN SUD
a millionairé, before he was
fear during
tho
thirty. In 1901, Christion was vesilgallon was shakthans) went home to live with his tion of aid wolfis 4
more the hood of Crumble subjeck for 2011cal University's Collars of Physiow before the publis Impa; and Surgeons; so that he the facta, anasthm
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By 1954 the on-the-run days
And he does want to get of Bogdash were so für behind things doric. He firmly Be lieves that the US has a chance
that he was elected to the Syrian Portiainent and quickly
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