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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1957.
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
N this day of the Now Year It is intended to recall Home of the high spots and happiest moments enjoyed by some of the world's citizens during 1966.
of Leamington, and huried eggs models made of Foster Duller, and tomatoes at the chairman, Nasser, and fireball Wheeler, missing him by yards. Frod explained he was not satisfied with the company's report.
The other day he did exactly the same thing. using three eggs and one tomato, which he had brought in a paper bag, and missed the chairman again. His last words before he was Mung unit wore: "I'll ece you
Most easily recalled are the high spola
the enjoyed by blotto Russian Uncle Kruschev, who got plastered in Britain next year," last spring and was rude to his hosta at dinner, gol
In Japan
CCORDING ́lo report, Mr
Ishibashi, the new Prime Minister of Japan, is in the Uncle Kruschey class of elbow lifters.
He boasts that he can drink anybody under the table, which would be pretty clever in old Japanese restaurants, where
foot high, Ishibaal's high spot occurred
of Trade. After A Board Government party he became Prime Minister, presumably because everybody else was unconscious.
If Fred's example will make tables are only plastered
This a general practice, and if
when he was home in Moscow he can improve his marksman- when he was President of the
chum
and denounced his old Stalin, alid must lase go plastered again after drinking many toasts" at a Kremlin New Year party when he said, "We are all Staliniets,"
We
this wish can only hilarious old peasant a plustered 1957, hoping for more amuse- ment in a world sadly in need
of it.
Hugo Unzaga Villegas, elizeň of Bolivia touring Paris,
ship in 1957, 1 will use my in- fuence to get him into the next Honours List
In America
MONG American ciilzeng who have had their high spots In 1950 Arc Mir Foster Dulles and that elderly fireball General Wheeler, charge of salvage in the Suez Canal,
Despite his advancing years, outsmarted young
the
had his high spot of the dying Mr Dulles year when he throw a stone at Corporal Nasser OVCT Leonardo da Vinci's picture Aswin Dani, outsmarted us Mona La, hung in the Louvre. from Egypt, and has been out- As the portrait of this smug anarting un ever since. As on girl with her silly smile must international Smurt have been annoying people for has made enturies It is earkable that look like an amateur,
Alec he Smart Alec Nasser
alones have not been thrown Ag for bustling fireball
at her more often,
Wheeler, who can blame him for delaying the opening of
that at his age you make it last as long as possible,
For many years I have won- the Canal? When you get n dered what kind of a girl she was. It is easy to say she looks job liko like a cat that has just stolen the cream, but I think she may have got away with more than that.
It was only recently that the simple truth dawned on me,
Da Vinci, like most inspired artists, wanted to finish the job while in the mood. Mona Lisa had bolted her lunch and was trying to laugh oft i spasm of Indigestion,
have
Another American cltizen who had a high spot in 1958 was a Mrs Mary Smith. She told Mr Gyula Denes, a New York psychiatrist, that she hud an irresistible urge to crockery at her husband.
throw
Mr Denes, giving full value! for his fees, took infinite paina exact model made
In other words the famous to have an smile was nothing but a sup- of Mr Smith, which he put in
hiccup pressed
immortalised, his "steam room" where tensed- and the picture should
up pallents can let off steam. been called "Pardon Me."
Smith ile then gave Mrs quantities of crockery and left her alone with the model of Mr Smith. After half an hour of screaming, shouting abuse, and hurling dishes Mrs Smith felt much better and the real Mr Smith probably felt safer.
In England
HERO of mine, a Mr Fred A
Perkins, also had his fling before the old year was out,
Two years ago shareholder Perkins went 10 ♫ company
Just now I feel in a mood to meeting of Sidney Flavell, Ltd., throw crockery, I must have
It shibashi vialta Moscow in 1037 and-here comes the joke -goes on a bashi with Uncle Krushky there's going to be a year that, lot of funsky in a
o far, looks a bit umpsky,
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IKE OF ARABIA
"But, Sir, surely you bought your Empire for a few strings of beads.”
It is time we talked tough
W
London. HAT is President Eisenhower up to? Does he really think that anything he said to Congress will strengthen Anglo-American friendship?
Do the Americans realise the anger that is being caused in Britain by the news that they are moving in on the Middle
condemned Britain and France for doing?
East to do precisely what they
are
And
they aware that when the Texas oil barons act toughly and talk toughly, they are provoking in Britain n reaction of Incalculable bitter- ness?
Sir Winston said
that the
to Eisenhower
has
For a decade and more I have dedicated myself to the consoli- dation of the Anglo-American partnership. Dut Suez wrecked that grand design and, ke Humpty Dumpty, It will be hard to put together again.
TOO DEEP
THE DIFFERENCES between the United States Administra-
by
STANLEY EVANS
Mr. Evans, formerly Socialist M.P. for Wednesbury, resigned his seat over his party's attitude to Suez.
tion and the British people can not be resolved by smooth talk. Wounds inflicted by frustration but just and humiliation Bro tending when
REVEALED
of
PONEDAİRENİSTANAIS CANINIZIALNERI IN FASTENERIC) FRITTNETINE G
arms that might make a power- ful contribution to peace in the Middle East.""
MR DULLES, THOUGH NOT HELPING AVERSE, TO ISRAEL, WAS NOT PREPARED INJURE AMERICAN OIL INTERESTS.
ΤΟ
FIRST, it should make up its mind that UNO can be written right off as an instrument of impartial justice,
SECOND, Instead of hanging about hoping to be summoned to the White House, Macmillan should start asking some ques- Most emphatically of all,
This completely cynical atti- tloms, tude is better understood when he should ask Eisenhower what it is realised that the 1952 is to be the basis of a deal with American presidential election Egypt it Nasser is not to be co
cost 100 million ceded his main dollars and that the oil interests destruction
erumpaign
Israci,
The
us what the Russians did to beetle. UNO, the "hope the Hungarians in Budapest. In mankind, could think what it a more delicate manner perhaps, Iliced.
ambition, the of Because as deadly, Eisenhower refused to
contributed half that gum-all Egyptian diclator, cashing in on already to fester.
events, to the Eisenhower forces.
is everywhere meet Sir Anthony Eden he was Vital
British Interests
are telling Britain that her role is
Mr H. L. TWO YEARS later, when
Hunt, of Dallas, intensifying his anti-British and being annihilated by the al-
No more Britain, that of a aþtellte.
and Israel, one of the Texas oll millionaires, anti-Israel polley with the bless Franice and when Mr no less.
by encouraged mighty dollar,
America's is reputed to enjoy an income ing and assistance of the Krem- Minister for Casey, Australian
protect of one million dollars a week in and without lot or hindrared example, proceed to External Affairs, tells the. Friends, partners, principles their life and
death interests, and these men who are today from UNO or the United States, Melbourne Herald: "It is no what are these but words? The
this same Mr Dulles appears holding us to ransom for oil American century has its own
on Influence more
TENSION Churchill once good just papering over the
as the knight in shining armour have cracks,
ΠΟ he speaks
Dollars more philosophy.
ore its purpose of than the truth.
Having
our the custodian of international American foreign policy than religion.
split our morality,
John Foster Dulles himself,
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER recriminating about the past It was the United States not jugular vein at Suzz, Washing-
Because America sees oil for should therefore be told that in ton hurries to provide vitamin failing of the wealthy and well- Hypocrisy has often been a
pound notes as the principal the absence of a new deal we shall tablets at 4 percent. What fed, but when it comes to cloth cement of the Sterling Ares, she raise all embargoes on Anglo- could be fairer than that?
and nominate ing self-interest in garments of spends energy, dellars and dupli- Chinese trade
China for UNO. high moral rectitude the present city prising Britain out of the Communist American Administration merits Middle East.
This would test the loyalty of a Stalin
An armistice las America's cold prize.
Mr Dulles's now-found Afro- The
friends and do much to ethical values which war against the Sterling Area Asian
tension operates on a dual standard of govern United States policy would do more to impress the
In Hongkong In the Middle East are Kremlin than a dozen hydrogen
Finally, let our American In 1934, when events in
revealed in all their nakedness bomb testa or UNO resolutions, threatened U.S. by the arms-for-Israel issue," Guatemala
When the Kremin started control of the Panama Canal,
wag to avoid the need for recrimination in the future.
adopt these words for my text.
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I
the United Nations that com- pelled the Anglo-French with- drawal from Suez,
Eisenhower's new Middle East polley Bagrantly reveals that what
was wrong with, Britain, and Israel's go-it-alone France, and action was ποι the
polley but the Identity of the culprits.
He now serves notice that United States armed forces wil
do exactly the same thing if the White House thinks it necessary for the defence of American interesta.
MORE DELICATE
WHEN A partnership ceases to uphold the power and prestige of its partners, it ceases to be a partnership.
Don't let us blink' the facts. America has used Suez to do to
The
HYPOCRISY
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
values.
America's lifeline, Mr Dulles pouring guns, tanks and aircraft
Egypt, conference into
did not suTIMON
Q
Ben-Gurion, the
NOW WHAT?
The
BUT WE shan't get it, of 22 nations, urge caution or Israeli Prime Minister, asked advent of the hydrogen bomb
to ⚫ permission
30,000,000 has made a third world war in buy dollars worth of American arme, conceivable and Britain is no The State Department was both longer considered vital to the
"Not a security of the United States, shocked and horrified. but," he added, dollar's worth," said Mr Dulles, How, then, should the British
"if Britain Government react to this situa and France were to supply these lon?
refer the matter to UNO.
Guns, planes, bombs and bullets were his instruments of persuasion and a revelt which the world thought had nothing to do with the United States was squashed overnight like a
British
is a serious
London The doctor's attitude is wun- VERY time a doctor derstandable. He has nothing to
E proscribes # brand.
or
lessen
and Singapore.
friends. not be deceived by the confusion that reigns among our politicians today.
Let them know clearly that not apply to the this does
of Britain, people ordinary
during the Suez whose calm crisis demonstrated clearly that, given the right leadership, they will prove as vigorous in the de- fence of their Interests today as ever in their long history.
Health Service
dollar drain
by Chapman Pincher
Why are the U.S. firms doing ing to him. This may, well not encouraged them to do so, botter business
They are now scelng the result: out of the happen in Britain,
defeat by foreign competitors in branded drugs, which carry the
needs of¬ High-pressure methods have supplying the the biggest profits, than the British been surprisingly effective, but national health service,
the
Controls?
lose by prescribing expensive fa- drugs. Neither has the namel drug on the dividual patient, Health Service the odds are
So when the salesmen knock- that when the Government ing at the door, pays the bill for it the avalanche of adverlising through firms? |-
they are not, in my opinion, the money will go into the poc- the letter-box. exhort him to
may First, they are using sales main reason for the phenomenal U.9. drug ket of an American manu- try a new drug which
considered by many Fuccess of facturor.
cure some of the chronic sick methods who haunt his surgery it is British firms to be unethical for nylon Investigatio
medical have revealed difcuk to blame him for gly use with
pro- Tie hotan truth Is that since. WHAT can be done about it? fession.
WA Ughtening up on perfilte var the US. do have that of the £29,000,000 tax- ing It
a trial payers dole out every year
been for ahead of the British to US me to set up shop in for tho
For brand-named drugs for
example: Week-end in producing now drugs which Britain is being urged. "Con-
trols "course" with golf parties and the doctora neod. Health Service, at least half and
are being advocated to being
restrict doctors' Health, Service probably two-thirds is collected
proscriptions to drugs on which im agreed price has been reached between 4ho Clovernm
•ment and the drms," k
by US. Arms.
Interference
pomo attempt to control pre-
Much of this money leaves THE Government has made the country in dollars, the exact amount being a secret Government will not divulge.
the
all expenses paid are. organised for specialists,
Some Arms are sending out are their drug advertisements in the peribickr costs, but these
naturally, opposed by, the doctors hand-addressed
Investing
every
envelopes ALMOST
Important
that Measures to ensure as political Interference with camouflaged as personal letters drug since penicillin hos
doctors gol more 'Information right Unprecedented pickings pro
their
to treat their to make sure they are opened, been discovered in America, and
Hs, method of manufacture has from the Health Ministry about vided by nationalised medicina patients as they think best.
*: new, drugs, so that 'they cana, Ona concern is investing been patented there. have attracted nearly every blee result: a mounting bill heavily in the good will of
asses the firms''salos-talk dor US. drug-house to sot up factories or subsidiary companies for pills, potions, and poultices, future doctors. It is offering The US, big businesses fore what it is worth, are being in Britai
more typical of a population of 25 a work plus all expenses to sow how "wonder drugs would devised., drug-addicts than a nation sup medical students willing to take revolutionise medical practice.
With the family doctors in So they invested huge sums in posed to be one of the world's holiday courses.
research to discover new ones: their present angry mood such. healthiest
the stops are unlikely to be effoe- The ludents have a week's They saw and seized To make the matter wores indoctrination into the Arms opportuntiy presented by the tive in my view
firma THE
of the Health Invading THE
Arms Gre products, followed by live works nationalisation of medicine in It is up to the Service give ba doctor making a killing out of the on the road, watching a walow Britain to market the drugs to stem the US. Invasion. The virlunilya blank cheque for situation on terms which drain man dealing with the family which and proribing whatever he likes badly needed dollars from the doctors,
'Pushover"
terms
US
for his patients, And the aver Treasury. As one director. of a ¦ age family doctor,tims proved to US. 59 dema 17 pur
dh to me; In America the drum poles- be a pushover for high-pressure "Brother, we have never, kad is men are paying the docto US, mžesmanship,
for the time they take up
Tw w Household only way they will do it is by names, ruch o sureomycin, getting to work to discover the terramycin, and chloromycetin, new lifesaving drugs which tha Britishdirme, have invested doctors heet and which are now Roman Ersairesearch, partly i being supplied sky: US ent@g^«/ because crippling - taxation, hug prise,