DON IDDON'S DIARY
In the booming dominion the
fight for power is hotting up
I CAN'T GET AWAY FROM DIEFENBAKER
HE Canadian Election has begun to blaze,
THE China, the metropolis, always volatile, is pink
with emotion B courtly, patrician Prime Minister St Laurent exchanges "insulte" with the progressive Conservative leader, John Diefenbaker, who calls the 1.M. "false und frivolous" in his charges,
crop of
To add to the excitement there is the new reports that Queen Elizabeth (remember she is Queen of Canada also) will be coming here in the autumn before a visit to the United States.
Finally, Sir Anthony Eden, deeply regarded by nli Canadians, has just sailed from Montreal aboard the Empress of Britain after several days of Government House in
rest at Ottawa,
Montreal has never had so much als hands. The city travelling la so crowded that salesmen, tourists, and cven politicians are having to double up in rooming houses or stay in notels outside town.
Posters and whole page adver- turments the newspapers say: "It's time for Diefenbaker Government."
Cock-a-hoop
Out of town
THE Liberal Government is frightened. For the rat Ume in 20 years it Is St staring defeat in the face. Laurent's programme is irre- sponsible
statements and his frivolous or false or both."
It all makes for a lot of fun, but I get the strong impremlen that Montreal and Quebec Pro- vince have not too much time for Diefenbaker.
he Recently, when
visited Quebec City, there was not even a elvic ofell to meet him, and the province's powerful French-Canadian Prime Minis- ter, Duplessis, was pointedly out of town during Diefen- baker's stay. However, the Tory
* "I leader
don't whether Duplessis smiles frowns."
care
The Liberals are so confident
THE burly, handsome face of THE
of "This reformer, this inde- fatigulie worker, this incorri- gible defender of human rights, This man of dignity, courage, of French-Canadian Quebec that fairness, honour and clear they are not even bothering to sighted vision who s also amend their fences. man of breadth," has stared at Despite the hullabaloo there me from the posters ever since I are not many issues in bite on. arrived after a jolting night The cast of the late Herbert train journey from New York. Norman, the Canadian Ambas
Canadians are cock-a-hoop. I sador who jumped to his death um not surprised. When I put in Egypt after a U.S. inves. down an American dollar for a gating committee had branded; cheap fountain pen the drug him a Communist, has faded, store clerk said: "That will be one dollar and five cents in American money." The al mighty Yankee dollar has slipped well behind the Canadian green- hinek, and how the tourists from below the border hate it.
Some shopkeepers-but their numbers are dwindling-keep the customers sweet by not charging the extra five percent to AmericzOS.
In view of this surging boom I am not so sure that Canadians will agree with the Conserva- tives that it is me fur change, time for a Diefenbaker Government.
My rather ill-educated guCES is that the Liberals will wir. again bul with IN reduced majority.
Mr D. charges Inflation, lacki of true-blue Canadienism and neglect of the Maritime Pro- vinces.
Mr St I. warns that social sceurity benefits will mell like snow it the Tories get in.
So the battle goes on, very much like a British election but the lacking the elreus antics, glowning and gaudy Junucies of the American brand,
In contempt
VANADIAN
distaste of the slanging match between
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1957.
JOHN DIEFENSAKER.
On posters everywhere the handsome face of the Tory challenger.
Dominion, which-and I quote Frline Minister St Laurent-- "In rate of growth of popula tion, of productivity, of national Income, has outstripped even the U.9."
M
The
"NON VIOLENCE"
MIG-with Love from Russia
"Relax everybody! It's only for curbing reactionary elements in Kashmir-like in Hungary.”
woman
with the
Salote
touch...
RS MORA HUTTON- MILLS was trying to decide which pair of gloves she would wear to
few diplomatic party in a hours' time. The pink or the navy blue?
She had just bought them
British and U.S, journelists and in n Knightsbridge store to politicians which goes on and on go with her "kente" - a robe of many colours-
and on is deep.
At present the Liberals hold
Dispatches from American 148 sents against the Tories' 50. correspondents stationed in woven Mr St Laurent is 75 and seels Britain and British correspon-men.
sixth consecutive term for the dents who have returned home
because
by Ashanti tribes-
Mrs. Mora Hutton-Mills, wife of the
High Commissioner of Ghaus, the latest
country to achieve full independence in the Empire, is revelling in London's
social whirl.
smite
black ourselves.
BY LISA MOYNIHAN
was he made me wear Cuban heels because he thinks I'm too
Men. Hutton-Mills: "The Queco is 10-10 SWEET."'
Getting ready for
the MILLE MIGLIA
AT
T 7.22 precisely, on the morning of Sunday, May 1, 1955, Stirling Moss, accompanied by the bearded motor-racing journalist, Denis Jenkinson, who was acting
his
act out from Brescia in his navigator, Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR sports car on what many experts consider the toughest race in the world.
09
Libera! Government he has have been widely reprinted here I suggested the pink, and headed for nine years.
and the squabble and kettle her teeth finshed "Uncle Louis" will not step calling are considered chlidish. trom the plump, happy,
But I will have my town. He says: "I believe I am
All Canadians resent belag face that is proving irresistible first dinner party very soon." In good health
the considered મ
possession of in London's sedato of cial
In fact, she will cook the people of Canada are praying Brilain or a 49th State of the circles.
dinner herself. Main course? for me. I do my best, I pull U.S. and when they see their
It was run A rice and my weight.
"Omo, It is called. Tho indefatigable,
gible, clear-sighted, courageous, fair, and honourable Mr Defen- Loker says:
two
elders and seniora
acting
Both Britain and America can learn plenty from the mighty
For Mrs Hution-Mills ("I just don't know how my husband got that English-sound name") the wife of the High Commis- sioner of Ghana, the latest country to achieve full indepen- dence in the Empire.
Sho
in their Ave-roomed flat.
as a dolly help, but does all the cooking and a good bit of the washing and ironing herself,
The Problems
short."
For. 13-year-old Teddy Alex there was a pleasant surprise.
ΠΟΙ
of
the
race. He was eager to boat his Number I on Mercedes
teara, the
the
grost
the
In
Argentine driver. Juan. Manuc Fangio
the
World clrcult races it Championship was his job to keep as close at Fangio's heels as bo could with- out overtaking him: the usual task of a Number 2 driver, But race Mille Miglia la a against time, against the clock. with a clear conscience, Moss Tho could go all out to win,
German leam“ order from the boss, Neubauer, was: "Get the esr back to Bresela, It you possibly can!" That was all. It gave Moss carte-blanche to de his damnedest
****
The very nature of the Mille Miglia (the Thousand Miles) and the supreme challenge that drivers face when they compete in it-made the Italian sports car
The 1055 Mille Miglin started classic the supreme example of the risks a racing driver
at 9 pm, on the evening of has to face and overcome.
Saturday April 30 while Moss and. Jenkinson were still fast from Brescia to by a series of hand signals adeep. At one-minute intervals, back again over a fifteen in all-devised so that the smaller-capacity CBI An invitation from No, 10 to the Rome and Incorri. like fishwives they are contemp A Bunch Of Flowers meat dish. I am very good at."
tuous,
There is no room for a maid Trooping the Colour on June 13 thousand miles of the best and Jenkinson would be able to including the fantastic o roads and signal to Moss, There would Isettas left the Brescia control. --with a special request for worst of Italian
Speeda. bo
his mountain
possibility passes, at your youngest son."
There were also scores of Fiat sometimes In excess of 160 communicating to Moss through 500's,
speech. The roar of the engine "Yes, I don't know why not miles an hour.
would completely drown his arst ears in the Class for over At 6.55 am, on Sunday, the Fair.nes. Yes, especially as it
The Mille Miglia was a race voice.
two tres left saya sherry afterwards!"
the starting against the clock. The drivers intervals
and
The starting times, an Jenkinson
Moss
were ramp. Morning dress, said the invita- left at one-minute
the Though
race usual, had been allotted by tion. So Mrs Hutton-Mills will from Bresela and the one who thorough.
ballot, in the was not due to commence until I
At 0.58, Fangio And she is revelling in the
Mrs Hutton-Mills likes to do be able to go resplendent in completed the course
was the winner. April 30, they made their away; at 7.01 another of the social whirl. It dintied for her things herself.
vividly-patterned "lente" the fastest time During the two
first reconnaissance in March, Mercedes team, Kling: at 7.04 No driver had much of a dress. "I have only national on Ghana Independence Day in years her husband was Deputy
Mercedes; Jenkinson's notes were March when the sat between Commissioner for the Gold hod
"knows the course"
on a Ferrari. length Lady Mountbatten and the Coast in London she got to know twice. Once at a Czech Embassy less he
Royal Cale. Moss and Jenkinson reasoned some eighteen feet in
which American Ambassador at a celo-
was then
on precisely, Atted.
Moss at the many of the problems facing party, once at
donian Schools dinner.
The correctly that Italian drivers in
in roller,
Wheel ond
bearded bration dinner.
On the her 1,500 fellow-countrymen in
in an allay casV. 'Highland dress, the race were, in a senso, on
navigator
Jenkinson beside him, Britain (750 of them in London) dinner sold
Anal practice run, Moss and uniform. evening dress or "home ground." It was up to
Mogg's Mercedes Recelerated especially students.
"dinner dress,' So my husband Muss to learn the hazards of Jenkinson used this contraption
Jenkinson un away from the ramp. Tho car thought a silk evening dress."
the course as thoroughly as the successfully.
wound the paper
the incidentally, like all the others, from Itellans.
lower to the upper roller as the carried its starting time-723- as Ile number. The Italian BEG car sped round the course. He WBs ablo to read the notes Castelotti followed the Mercedes in sixty seconds at 7,28; tho through a perspex window. The
Thosa and Jenkinson window was Hobbles? I was not surprised
to protect the vetorun Tartum at 7.28, to learn that singing and danc-devised something that could notes against rain, a hazard two, Mos knew, would be out
mechanical which sometimes renders the to beat him. ng head the list. " sing - yes, be almost called a
only During practico even in the bath. Contralto is brain.
Mille Miglia course not
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"Lady Mountbatten sent me a beautiful bunch of flowers after- wards. Now was not that sweet of her."
The two biggest ones; finding accommodation and surviving the English winter. During the winter months she spent a lot of time visiting her "boys" in hospital, victims of the cold,
"Sweet" (pronounced SW-EEE- T)
the www
only word sbe could find to describe the [Queen whom she has now met
twice. Her expressive hands "It is a real problem," she came together as though about to said feelingly, The deputation clap,. "She la coso SWEET," that went to London Airport to Closer кате her hands and see the Duchess of Kent off wider her smile. "And
Ghana got very bad colds, Yes, śmali."
it was the native costume for this occasion. Very loyal but what is the word rush,"
bour
I Love It All
60
to
Hermann, agala in a (inally to wear European dress chance in the Mille Miglia un ar to roll of paper at 7.05 the Italian ace Maglioli
Contralto Voice
The Roll
So
Moss
rubs
was no rain in
it Your lowest lady voice, rounds the course it Is not tough but terrifying. Strangely
ธ Musical comedy I love,"
closed, during practico nus
Moss lough, thero ordinary traffic-while Dancing? I had a sudden vialon drove, Jenkinson made notes.
1055.
circuit
near
of that smile fishing, to some Otten he had to write at speeds A week before the com- Turbulent tribal rhythm. But no. approaching 180 miles an hour, mencement of the Mille Miglia, Every type of corner was Moss and Jenkinson tried out Colour bar problems are hugh
"The waltz. I like best," she maliculously logged and graded, the new Mercedes-Benz they on her let.
"I her of 8,000 aid a little reprovingly "Dur so that there was a complete were to use in the race, at the Forty-year-old Mrs Hutton- Indiadies who will take coloured ing the war we had many dances picture of slow, fast, and blind Hockenheim Millais small herself but students, but most are full up with your troops in the King corners. Other entries covered Stuttgart. With ita eight- matronly. And after a three- Things are getting better, but
engine, chat in her fourth-floor there is still a little-prejudice." Gourge V Memorial Hall in gradiente, fast or slow, surfaces cylinder fuel Injection
Acera. I think we teach them good and bad, especially those the 3-lire sports car developed drawing room above the Ghanain
likely to be slippery even when over 200 Brake Horse Power, High Commissioner's Offcos in Her own two sons come back something or two," Belgrave Square I could think of from school while we were talk-
dry: Jovel crossing, hill brows
m.p.h, at 7,500 engine revolu- no better word than "sweet" to ing Fairbanks ( I suppose dignified in Savile Row lounge udden dips in the road. Since flons per minute.
Her husband, charming and and what lay beyond them, and and was geared to reach 170 describe. HER. Lake Queen it must have been that Holly Saloto at the Coronation driving wood actor we got the name suit, looked in to remind her of wreed would, at all times be perfect a machine as
the time, yes, I must not be the key to success, Jenkinson organisation and efficiency could in an open carriage through the from nice i 117") is an late," she smiled, "And I take noted all sections of the road make it. Tula.
adult-looking 17-year-old who
your advice. The pink gloves." where the
with
Then at 7.22
tho
It' was, na.
German
STARLING MONS
the severity of the Sprin
Mercedes could profern television to homework
travel at its maximum speed of For a week before the tace, "Yes, I just love menting, and is going to become a doctor, I feel sure they will have boer 170 miles an hour, even though it was early to bed and early people," she said. "Yes, I just anyway.
noticed. M Hutton-Mille le visibility was restricted, Key to rims for Jenkinsori, and Mows, not somebody you can overlook points were identned in the Mom wanted to be fighting fil Lendén' Express 'Serulos;" notes by kilometre stones, and' He was not only engw to win
Love all those offelal functions. He bully
But wo an inviting out so much
we have no chance to entertain Mics Hution-Mills fondly,
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