DON
IDDON'S DIARY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1957.
Mr Gromyko kicks
off... with tomato
juice and
vodka
CONFETTI
New York.
T'S 1,500 miles from Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock on New York's East
I liver which is the United Nations headquarters, in Little Rock the coloured are kept down d. in some instances, out. In the Big Rock many coloured gentle- men are way up and flying higher all the time.
The United Nations Twelfth Assembly opened and the men with the perfect Oxford accents but over-striped suits are ready again to donounce British "imperialism."
Archbishop Makarios is around, but not getting much attention. After the silly fuss and City officials made of this man, New York is having second thoughts.
The Archbishop and his
followers fre lobbying strenuously at United Na- tion, but they were largely overlooked.
British Information ofli- cials are greatly upset by the attacks made on their alleged failure to counter the anti-British propaganda. Same men
I
will not be as bad as last.
year during the Suez crisis, when hour after hour the men of Asia who owe Ho much to Britain lashed us with sadistic fury.
Britain has the same re- your presentatives as lust
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Mr Selwyn Lloyd, plump pigeon of a man,
but self-assured and ex. tremely able, and Sir Pier aon Dixon, the quiet, gentle- munly. popular permanent United Kingdom delegate whe while not as dazzling
predecessor
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Sir his Gladwyn Jobb, ist most effective. The
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Eisenhower to the United hanself would not come to the States delegation.
phone. However, one of his said: ungcias, Miss Sympathy, "Father will never die."
Miss Dunne has come a long way from Hollywood. I first met her shortly after. she starred with
Father Divine is married to Ronald Rose Ritchings, a white Cana-
known
Colman in Cimarron, but din girt
Divint. that ages me and nges
her.
At 53 Msg Duane is an ex- tremely beautiful woman. full of sparkle and warmth. She tucky, and is greatly upset by
comes from Lusville. Ken-
events in the South, Naturally, as a diplomat, she will not com- ment en President or Governor Faubus,
Eisenhower
what
Mother
He refuses to make a tote- ment about the racial trouble in the South, although he has crusaded for the coloured and also the standard of living of tens of thousands of Negroes,
Another name that is getting bigger every day is the young actor Hen Gazzaru, black- haired, deep-voiced boy from New York's East Side slums,
He is à sensation in The watered-down Strange Que, Alm version of the x and ntechel soaked best-seller End As A Mun, by Calder Willing-
Gazzara was good on Broad-
liam.
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GILES
"We were going to let Stirling Most have a handful for his wedding every time he came round:”
Yes, Of Course, I Laughed
At Chaplin's New Film...
BUT ISN'T THERE SOMETHING DISTURBING ABOUT HITTING A NUT WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER?·
Paris.
KING IN NEW YORK" opens with a mob hammering at palace gates, And the plow. One with a mou at tion." One of the minor nuisances of American life, it can more truthfully be said, is the Committee on Un-American Activities.
No comment
The "wickedness" of the committee and its influence on American life is the THERE ure 17,000,000 colour.
propaganda theme of Chaplin's film. And to it he brings not merely the stiletto of vil people in America, and
satire, or even the honest bludgeoning of
a disturbing good beily-laughs, but today all are watching is happening in Little Rock.
vindictiveness. Especially disturbing because Chaplin uses his own 11-year-old son as delegates' lounge.
Curiously, many of
of the big- glass enclosed and air con- gest names, like Paul Robeson, way in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the main instrument of attack. ditioned,
gigantic who has been ostracised by the teeming cocktail party, and State Department because of even the Russians, headed his alleged links with by Foreign Minister Andrei munism, and Gromyko, were tippling tomato juice laced with vodka,
most The
sought-after bla
Irene Every now delegate by fur was
The Alm Iproduced behind locked doors in England) has been shown privately In Paris.
After seeing R, I asked Chip- in: "Have you not exaggerzied the evil Influence of the Com- mittee on Un-American Activi- Me- ties-especially now that says:
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Man. When people teil kám,
and Com- they're doing it all the time, Father Divine. You are the hottest property who calls himself God, have since Marke Brando. You're said nothing.
better than the young John Gar- "Father Divine is at least 80.okt. You're the greatest thing
since Valentino," he in Heaven Philadelphia.
nad again there doing my best to be n good
actor."
now and rarely emerges from 'let's overdo it. I'm just Carthy Is dead?"
Dunne, the actress, recent. re rumours that he is dead.
1 phoned the Philadelphia ly appointed by President Heaven, bul Father Divine
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He told me: "All I can say in reply to all questions of that
by
DONALD GOMERY
.
that 1
THE new Charles Chaplin film, “A King in New York," has had its world premiere in London. It tells how an exiled king is caught up in political "intolerance" in America. It is certain to raise much
made the controversy.....Chaplin
film behind locked doors in England. But it has already been shown privately in Paris.
plans for the peaceful use of is acquitted. Just why, Chaplin alumle energy. His Prime Mini- does not bother to expirin. ster fees too, taking with him all the money,
But the boy-his film por- ente are ex-Communists. When When the king arrives he is they refuse to sive away their surrounded by reporters, Will old comrades they are clapped statement? He into gaul, The committee's mon rottles off a eulogy about liberal. get to work on the boy. "Tell us freedom-loving America, while the names and your parents "go he hops from side to side having tree.” his Aingerprints taken Immigrant,
be make
This is sourc.
the
O
Lood stuff of
The fun gets really going Well, first of all, is it a very funny him? Yes, it is the first when the king is inveleled by а prelly TV girl (Dawn half of it.
Addams) Into attending
per The klag (Chaplin) flees from dinner party given by a
sistent society hostess, mob funny the European
New York, taking with him his
nature is
make no apologies at all for the film and, of course, I fully endorse every thing I have sid in it. I make Aims to make people laugh, and I think this is very film."
Uncle Tom's Cabin lies
north of New York
New York.
You can find Uncle Tom's
Cabin today more easily north of New York than south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
ALAN BRIEN reports from America
who managed to escape from a
to
Unknown to him, hidden TV comeras are watching. The dinner is "live." When the king finds out how he has been fool ed he is furious.
But the TV programme has teen I tremendous success. Offers pour in
STUBBORN
THE king is adamant-until his hotel b come in. He is broke. So he does a whisky commercial, and splutters the whisky cut Es it tears at his throat. (The commercial s 1 iremendous success.)
At Allon, in Upper New York
The film ends with his going State, 75 workers of all ages and off to do just that to sit il cul both sexes live in a tumble- down house which looks as if It had been built of huge dirty playing cards.
So it goes on. Fun poked at American speed of e. its nalse, Its TV. No harm of afl.
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The boy refuses. He is proud, stubborn little boy.
-Refuses at first, that is. In the end he is led back into the зате гост. No pride in him now. No gush of words. He has said the few words that set his
parents free. He buries his head in ahame. And weeps.
"It is only a passing phase," says the TV giri earlier, of the All the same. I think I'l alt questioning, the Investigating. it out in Europe," says the king, In Europe. Just as Chaplin
iting it out.
if
I left the cinema, vaguely sick In mind. Not about Amerkan wlich-hunts. But about Mr Chaplin.
That last scene as the boy
breaks down... it is terribly moving. But terribly deceitful.
That scene, and the whole. propaganda theme of the film, presents a grossly distorted idea of American like. It was, after
all, a life that Chaplin himself for 40 years was able to endure pretty prosperously.
NOT FAIR
America, 5 spleen against since he left it five years him into sense fun as he scurries round with stedge- hammor to crush a nut of "persecution."
losing his case of
It has one water tap and 'two Then suddenly the whole film It is true that
outside invatories. The rent is goes sour, The "message" takes there
10s. a head. Said one apathetic over. And Chaplin the great the
saved a handful of dollars, story is told by James Bruison, Nero worker from Georgia: clown gets lost in Chaplin the among
skyscrapers
39-year-old Negro college Everything different from propagandist, armed troops do not bar If they escape before the coloured children from harvest they can be round- graduate from Augusta, Georgia, what they told us. They said school. Lynching mobs are ed up by the police as runi- migrant farm in New York State we'd have work to do. But we've The king is taken round
only worked two or three days n progressive" school and stops hardly ever seen in Central way debtors. The averago a month ago.
weck for the past three weeks. to talk to one of the boys. But
But most important of all is Park and the fiery cross of New Yorker does not know
They told us we'd live in a hotel the boy is a fonatic.
his handling of that small boy. the Klan never burns on the of these, thousand open-air
but look at it."
The king cannot get a ward Chaplin atthes the Americans top of the Empire State slums.
In as the boy screams out a for (allegedly) using a child for Building.
Berce political firade: Thore political purposes. Yet in the is no liberty in America... they can take away your pass
no liberty..
Brunson alleged that, he and 22 other field workers were held
us serts by the white farm bosses. "We were promised free trans- portation and a inimum of Seven dollars (£2, 109.) a day or pleking beans, with excellent
Listless
no
The Tobacco Road of the But every summer moro North snakes along dirt |than 30,000 migrant work lanes wideh
On Long Island 10,000 migrants port are Invisible living and working conditions, work every summer. One shack, passport," The words come ers, white and coloured, trek from the smooth, fust, four- and Sundays off," he told the which housed some 20 men and tumbling out, grotesquely, from north to work on the farms lane highways, of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
Hencoops
Press.
Alm he uses his own child for his own
attack purposes-10 America,
arraigned before the Committee it right to spit on Un-American Activities. He mouth of a chlid?
No. Mr Chaplin, this is not women, might be a pile of abon the lips of the 11-year-old.
falc.. It is easy to comment; Instead, etch man was doned scenery from a Tennessee
The king gets caught up In "I fully endorse everything I The forgotten peasants of charged 20 dollars (£7, 2s.) for Williams play. The Boor is g-
the complications and i have said in this alm. But 20th century America have the trip. He was made to walt sawed with holes. The windows
through the no votes to sell. But year three weeks before being allowed aro a tow jagged silvers of glass after year new migrants to work. He was forced to accept stuffed with rags.
food and lodgings at inflated continue to sign on in the prices on credit.
The migrants are often For three months many South, lured by the promise
illiterate, unhealthy, listless, in- live behind barbed wire, in- of fat pay and comfortable 72-hour week. The workers were do receive, Agaki and again
Pay was as little as 22 for a efficient. Many can hardly be worth the meagra money they side tar paper and card- lodgings. They travel the cheated and even beaten. Un- board hencoops for less pay long, long road north in fortunately the violence in is the northern Negro gang
lorries school canvas-topped
than a Manhattan
bosses who cheat the workers, or Arkansas, Tennessee and Ala- boy's pocket money. derelict school buses. Many bama erupted while Brunson's rather than the northern white
a batch of beef, off to
the gated.
complaints were being invosti farmers. It is the parents who While the
All eyes were turned to usually for their children to yun shines slaughterhouses in Chicago, the South,
world with them in the Belds and they are underpaid by the is watered more frequently
orchards. But now New York Govonor, farmers and overcharged and broathes sweeter air. Averell. Harrtino, has promised There are mcoy such explana by the shopkeepers. When By the time they see the the rain falls they earn ahanty city that is to be nothing and sink deep into their homo they cannot debt.
2 afford to turn back. If they leave after the
This annual scandal has onto harvest they may have sain been aired. This time the
an impartial investigation of the tions for the new slaves. But at camps in his State. But no team the tige when North is tut-tut- of lävestigators is needed to sub- ting of the South the undy eL stanikate the charge of the ploitation within a Lew hbury' Notional Association for the drive at New York makes some Advancement of Coloured People of the plous complaints look that here is “a modem slave more than hypocritieni, racket?" -
----(London Expemo Jer, Jon),
T. BAC
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