THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957.
DIEFENBAKER
Canada's Next Premier
IEFENBAKER is small
Dad wiry, as fast on his fect as a bantamweight boxer.
His fron grey hair kinks tightly over a high fore- head, His eyes aro sharp and cutting, bright blue or steel grey as his mood changes,
He is anything but a High- Tory. In the hot Prairie sun he campaigns tirelessly in his shirt sleeves, inform- ully friendly, but no back- slapper, Words are preélous to him. He never wastes them, though he will give you a clear-cut rapid-fire explanation of any political problem at the drop of a hat.
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In a sense he is the typical .Canadian for more
than avuncular Louis St Laurent. Diefenbaker takes it for granted that every man of voting age is in some important sense his equal, He would never put anyone on the head.
Not Afraid
He does not condescend to the voler and he is not afraid to launch into a de- tailed discussion of the workings of national finance before an audience whose only interest seems to be in the size of the baby bonus. The fact that au- diences take it and like it and come back for more surprises some politicians. Diefenbaker's faith includes the unshakable belief that the voter who is treated adult will respond, like on like one.
History is not, obviously, on his side, But he would regard the Canadian federal
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It takes a woman to put
men right on clothes
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES sums up
the trend of male fashion
RE you a smart man-about-town or a sply?
It's a
At you a smart me about-tannar, &ith the men's shops full of new clothes, accessories, and fabrics, some very beautiful, and some repulsive,
All the more important to know your way around. To be able to recognise the fine hairline that divides the well-dressed man from the common cad.
I'm not thinkững of such obvious errors as wearing a hand-painted tie with a pattern of the Folies Bergere. It is the subtle points, like the spacing of your cont buttons, which betray you.
'I have been talking to stripes, collars cut away some of our best-dressed sharply, and not too narrow. men - eligible bachelors, Tics must be dark, with country gentlemen, guardees formal patterns only. -sorting out the true stuff of fashion from the dross. Here are the key pointers, which I promise are authen- tle.
It's Correct to' wear poplin; and narrow tics with the smallest possible knot.
It's Caddish beyond THE NEW SIL words to wear 'horizontal
stripes on shirt or
tie. Shirts in any synthetic fabric are just dowdy, ex- cept when they are semi- transparent," when they are indecent.
less de- Diefenbaker's contention has strong-and much been that
this process
Tho has fermied
British um- greatly diminished the in- migrant of today does not strike dividual's control over his gov- out into the backwards and HOUETTE is long and stim. ernment. Letters to your MP. clear himself a homestead Ho are not much good if the deed is much more likely to head for It descends from the E- is done before you've even the elties and look for a job
with a pension.
heard about it.
All this, he belleves, has been leading the country toward gentle and paternal but never- theless pernicious dictatorship.
wardian line, but discards the Teddy Boy details,
All this adds to the confusion.
It's Correct to wear nar- Diefenbaker's aim, a
more imrowish trousers, 15 in. to plicitly than explicitly, to to re- 17 in. at the hem, with build the Commonwealth in the image of the old Britain.
raised seams; slightly tie in town is cutaway jackets with I
and do
A light or bright coloured frowned
sist them.
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The major issue in foreign policy has been the simple and
He has for instance demanded fraction of padding in the on, but some men can't re- seemingly rather naive one that that Canada step in the government has been busy something about Britain's now shoulders and deeper back out to the perennial economic crisis. He splits-12 in. is the depth selling the country Americans. Tho issue, un- believes that Canada should ift for a single split, 91⁄2 in. if fortunately, hos, mushroomed a great weight off Britain's into a rather Juvelle sort of dollar problem by giving her you prefer two. "Yankee bailing" and it can, Ccoada's surplus wheat. He has that Canada could perhaps, fairly be said that no doubt
and he has not been to call attention Diefenbaker has done very little afford it
to lis dun deterred by the view that gills like that would shake the world Keroits aspects.
wheat markets to the core.
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Underlying it, however, is the traditional see-saw of emotional pulls between the country's
and British tradition
the in-
election which has made evitable cultural and economic him Prime Minister if influence of the United States. only precariously and per- haps momentarily-as proof.
Politically, Diefenbaker is a curious phenomenon, part conservative, part radical — a success in an almost solid- ly Socialist province.
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Diefenbaker, though he is of Dutch extraction, is, like his
party, an unswerving supporter of the British tradition. In part, this is the deep, emotional put of Tural Canada where men su battle daily and desperate ly with nature, To them, the British concept of the dignity and rights of man is something deeply ingrained, In contrast, American culture seems cheap, commercial, tawdry and, ulti mately, degrading.
Bulwark
It would not, for astane damage Australia's wheat market slice British bread has trudi- tionally beca made from a mix- ture of soft Australian and hard; Cinodlan grain,.
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Common- wealth
PERMISSIBLE NOVELTIES are abundant, For instance, the boating jacket (e.g., blazer). with gray flannels is excellent style. So is the smoking Buttons must be 34 in. jacket. So is the gorgeous Here, you dressing-gown. apart from centre centre.
can hardly go too far. You cán oven wear the one your wife gave you for Christ-
to
Pocket flaps are optional.
mas.
the well-dressed man.
Top
TEN POINTS TO NOTE Robin Tattersall wears (1 haly (2)
stiff white cutaway collar, (3) a narrow tie. ́(4) m ́striped poplin shirt, (5) grey suli no cuffs, medlum shoulders, nothing extreme, (6) waistcoat to match. (7) 17-inch wide trousers with raised seams, -(8) chukka boots, (9) longish hair, and (10) no gloves, Moot points are the waistcoat lapels and pocket flaps. On these, Erigland's manhood is divided. Someswararunter 1100322)|||BURDEN QUE EL 1972 TL SAVĀ -
I Hke their awealers cut straight across the reck, because most men have ugly necked.
It's Caddish to wear very tight trousers, cuffs on SHOES are exciting, and your sleeves, or a velvet the smartest shoes are quickly bring yourself up to beach clothes, collar on anything except a boots. 3oots with a tailcoat, date. covert coat.
and chukka boots with THE BIGGEST NEWS almost everything will mark U.S. But Diefenbaker has not is in waistcoats, but good- you as a man who cares, been alarmed at that idea.
It might, of course, onger the
ness, you have to be care-
IDEAS......
on clothes,
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"For London, I wear grey and black suits with white cotton shiris made in Rome,
"For country, my one ex- FROM nows to people--for fe travagance is a huge sheepskin
not so much what you wear coat, as how you wear it
Men.
“In London, I avoid the stiff City gent look by wearing bright lies in the daylime, and I never wear a hat.”
A
IDEAS......
on grooming
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On a lurger scale he believes ful. The main story is the that Canada must pitch in and new Postbox Waistcoat, Saskatchewan, the heart
pool her resources with the matching your suit, a very
QUICK round-up of the of the Great Plains, is his
Commonwealth.
A HAT is, of course, Britain i
news in grooming. waistcoat, essential, but gloves are not
"In the evening, I wear นี kome,
and
impeded by lack of wealth, long style of physically
Canada can make good the gap. single-breasted, with large worn.
Here are personal ideas from black brocade cummerbund Q: What is the new length emotionally, IIe saw it turn
three of Britain's Beat-Dressed with my dinner Jacket, as a for hair? from the lush green granary
It is a noble idea, no doubt.
pockets.
sagging evening shirt looks so Those are the rough out- But
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necessarily of the continent into a burn-
It's Correct to wear a
hideous, und any flamboyant A. Hair should be worn as cecnomically dependent on the
● THE DUKE OF BEAU- colour
would emphasise a ing, dusty, desert.
long as possible without hang- U.S. and it would take much re-brocade waistcoat with tails, lines of men's fashion to-
day.
FORT 6878: "Blue is my colour, tummy."
ing over the pars, Short hair is knows the suffering that the They look to Britain as a
a hunting yellow waistcoat
I like a blue sult in town with
out, oddities of weather combined bulwork against 11. The situa- shuffling to achieve.
in the country. Diefenbaker is starting late, at
Go through your ward a blue shirt and a stiff white JOCELYN STEVENS says:
"collar. with the vagaries of the tion is complicated because the
And a blue velvet coat " Hike Italian beach clothes 01. And he is starting with a It's Caddish to wear
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18 my. one because holidays are the one important point of grooming? inteṭrnational wheat market Britain to while they look is
minority government and the coloured waistcoat in town salvage probably more extravagance,
time when one wants to look. can bring.
shaky support of the
Junny About
alightly crazy. I like towelling than you think. money "Social Credit" Party
waistcoat Tapels,
sweater shirts in jazzy colours, whose leader, Solon Law, has opinion is divided. But I sald flatly that he will pull out think they are on the way two, two good shirts which Then get a narrow tie or
nced ironing (what is sho ● THE DUKE OF BEDFORD conservative SHIRTS AND TIES must there for?) and
a pair of says: "I am
English dresser. but I like be classic. Shirts in simple chukka boots, and you'll fallan accessories,
As a result, he believes that there are limits to the ability of men to withstand the strains of a social systern based solely upon rugged individualism.
Ile is for social security measures, for government aid over the most basic sorts of production,
Civil Rights
Hia quarrel with the Liberal-Party in Canada has been, at bottom, over just two issues, civil rights and foreign policy. And the second of these is a rela- tively new interest.
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Time and again he has ex- pressed alarm over what is called "government by Order-in-Council" a nent trick for by-passing parlia- ment. The Liberal Party over the last 20 years has greatly diminished the day. to-day powers of parliament by acting by administrative order without oven con- sulting the legislators. Of course, sooner or later, these measures must be approved by tthe House of Commons
and the Senato,
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But the government tended to put them up for ap- proval in job lots and, steam- roller them through with
not necessarily the real Brial of today. Their Britain is Britain of the men who alled forth and ball empires, the Brilain of men who had an un
faith and At questioning absolute standard of values.
and force another, election when he sees his chance.
The Britain of 1957 is much But John Diefenbaker is less sure of itself, much less determined man.
the just a big · harmless Russian Richard Dimbleby ack.
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"Certainly Ike can appear on Russlan TV|_ Long live freedom
mujority has muuta any sort of rovalt Impomihio,
"For the country, I like my oldest tweed sulle with a checit cap."
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A.: Definitely, a clean hand- kerchief,
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