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THE CHINA. MAIE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER
1957:
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR
MAKES...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COLD SHOULDER AND THE WARMEST EMBRACE
XXWHEN Mr
New York.
Macmillan
W arrived here on
day he gut the warmest embrace and the sincerest handshake of his life.
And though the bands were playing the National Anthem, the American tune should have been "Oh How I need you."
What a big change in a little year.
Just 12 months ngo out friends here, headed by Prest- tent Eisenhower and Mr Dulles. were giving us the frozen stars. the harsh rebuice, and a deluge of doubletalk.
During Suez, and afterwards, the handclasp across the sea was disengaged, Anglo-Amer!- can relations nase dived into angry wrangle and name-call- ing. and the Grand Alliance was spilt wide open.
More solid
THE Bermuda Conference In THE
1be spring was an attempt to remedy the illness pinguing the English-speaking nations, but there was more window- dressing
than solid Achieve-
inen!.
Today they
know it...
They can't
do
without
I am sure that Mr Eisen-
For the Bral time in a long
hower And the Queen never tirne I find them bitterly self- discussed the missile,
I am not 10 sure that Mr Elsenhower and Prince Phillp didn't.
p
critical and admitting openly that they have taken a licking from the Russians,
It has been a bad year for American prestige in the world.
I belleve that the
Queen's visit has helped to restore America's flagging spirits.
In fact the Royal Tour has done everyone here so much good we think there ought to be more of them.
How about Princess Margaret? She has trekked around most of the globe...why not this con-
tinent?
Who is against the visit? Who has blocked 117
Britain
LODGE
But, anyway, it is plain that Mr Eisenhower's
emergence from his lang slumber look place during the Queen's visit, days, During the past few demonstrated by the warmth of Today, in the wake of the their welcome, the Americans Queen's visit, we have Mr have recognised the British Dulles saying: "We must live Crown as a solid bulwark in
closer Alliance between shifting, dangerous, world.. Amerien und Britain if we are to cope successfully with the continuity to hang on to.
Here is something symbolising new problem of the future."
And we have Mr Eisenhower he wants warmer. saying that deeper, closer les with Brioin, Finally, we have even Mr
and my friends in the royal Mitchell, who is manfully trying Henry Cubot Lodge, thich ND so we have the editor of party say that she will be com- to All the place of the late American delegate to the United the New York Times, prob- Ing. Well, the sooner the Charlie Campbell; and the cla- Nations, who joined Russia in ably the world's most influential belter. condemning British and French newspaper and certainly the We are fortunate In Wash action in Suez, nying: "Anglo- most comprehensive, writing; ington in our Ambassador, Sir American friendship 13 the "This
2 time to stand Harold Cacela, the best we have cornerstone of Western policy." together.
had for a long time. You will pardon a few people if they are going around saying "I told you so,
Closing ranks
the
We draw closer to mother country in our hour of need just as she draws closer to us.
Mr Krushchev can be thanked to some extent for driving the Something new has happened British and Americans into to America and Amerleans, each other's arms again.
His threats on
this boasts about
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Turkey and
the satellite,
Quote
My friend John O'Donnell, of the "Now York Dally
Hows," antf
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British in print
but a warm-heart-
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ed companion in
actuality,
WRB
most gloomy.
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"There could be
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a deadly historical
parallel between
·
the Queen's vict and the visit of her father and mother thras months before the start of World War 11.
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"Lata hope
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this visit has a
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happler sequel."
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The missile?
Princess Margaret wants to visit America, and Canada, too.
We also have excellent men in D'Arcy Edmondson, Director. General of Information Ser vices; Major Bill Ormerod, who knows as many American big names for Elsa Maxwell; Frusk
A quiet funeral
They told him ao....
bluntly-officials are still on the defchaive,
Even now, when Britain has No many cards in her bend, when' American short-sighted- ness regarding the Middle East has been exposed, many of our spokesmen arc saying: "We must handle the Americans carefully. We must play it gently."
We should play it boldly and aggressively.
I see no harm in 2 1110 gentle ribbing of our American chunna about the collapse of their Middle Eastern policy, n reminder
of what they were saying a year ago and a re- minder that if there had been free and full pooling of scienti fe date there would be a quent and distingushed John British and American spanick Peck, head of British Informa chreling in space, not ano atamp- tion Services in New Yorked-Made-in-the-U:S:S:R
Let's be firm
FEEL, however, that our Em- bassy, information, and pro- paganda-let's use the word
As an observer of the Ameri- . can scene for more than 20
years, it is just possible my advies is worth considering.
that
Dear Mr Moemilan and Dent Mr Selwyn Lloyd, speak up for Britain this time
ON THE WATERFRONT
ALBERT Anastasia, master hoodlum, was buried in New York on Monday, a victim of the type of gangland murder which became big trademark.
It was a quiet funeral, by gangland standards. Following almost private services in a family-size funeral chapel, the bullet-riddled body of the former "Lord high executioner of Murder, Inc., was interred in a non- sectarian cometery in a modest US$900 steelcasket.
Anastasia was now a big man
A grend jury which review in the rackets. He was highly ed the case in 1845 opined that regarded by the top mobsters O'Dwyer had enough evidence Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, AT to convict Anastasia without Capone, Lucky Luciano, the Reles, but the lawyer inaln- Moretti Brothers. In his climb tained that his
"perfect CASE" he had become a pler super went out the windows with "Kid keeping close labs on the dock dictment, intendent, a strategic job in Twist and never asked an in-
rackets. He wrested control of six local unions of the Inter-
In 1042 Anasteln found 1 national Longshoremen's Asco perfect refuge from the annoy- clation:
ing police. He enlisted in the With the end of Frollon Army, Army authorities, learn- of ing his identity, notified New 1933, the top leaders
Thre plush Hollywood-like that a gun was often the final production usually associated word in "Persuasion." with a gangland functal was He also learned that witnesses missing the blocks-long lines are needed to convict a killer. in of shiny block limousines, the Where there were witnesses, they gangcom decided that Inter-moh York Pellee, Back come the endless truck-loads of wreathes showed remarkable tendency friction that usually ended in starting reply that New York cach costing thousands of dol- to disappear before they could bloodshed should be abolished. had no interest in one of its lars, the warms of under- be used to bring the "American-
The best way to do this, they top hoodlumns. world "Pals" dressed in US$300 ised" Albert Anastasia to justice, thought, was to form a syndicate
climbed
murder raissed in 1922.
come a
PARD
and
Anastasia trained with an in- fantry division, but was trans- ferred before the unit WOS He work- shipped off to war. ed os instructor to train troope to work as longshoremen be- fore he obtained an honourable because of his age, 42.
Anastasia was quick to take advantage of a war-born Jaw giving servicemen preferential treatment in becoming Amer!- can citizens, Later attempt to vold the naturalisation on
It was revealed later that suits and US$50 silk shirts com- The closest Anastasta came to
James and apportion "Territories" O'Dwyer's chilet clerk, ing to shed tears (some of sor- paying the penalty for n killing
Anastasia lifted from sili elfcking around the world, row, come of relief) ever the was in 1921, when he was sent among their members, They Moran, had ordered a "Wanted" Aleg and destroyed. have made American blood run mortal remains of a men who to New York's Sing Sing Prison realised that all elements would cord on
not always abide by decision of police chill,
their for electrocution following con- to the top of
syndicate's board of Moran is presently serving a George the Overnight the American Ad-profession, leaving the bodies viction of murdering
his Turrell, a longshoreman, There directors, and for this reason prison sentence on an extortion ministration has realised that of at least 83 victims in
were stays of execution obtained the organisation would need charge. not only can it not go it alone, wake.
by his lawyers and finally a Its enforcement arm. but i can't go or get anywhere
Anastasia
the was Anastasia's family apparently reversal of the court sentence on without Britain as a partner.
to seek a religious a technicality.
selected to head this strongarm The terrible-tempered ex-i planned
A new trial was ordered, but squad, with Abe
(Kid Twist) President Harry Truman is funeral, although he was raised
Roman Catholic faith never held. Four key witnesses Reles as his top lieutenant. crupting in Kansas City: "In the
From 1934 until 1940, when intend to raise hell with people and has a brother, Rev, Sal- for the prosecution convenient-
Anastasio, who labourg ly vanished white Anastasia Reles was arrested and turned discharge as sergeant in 1944- We've aimost lost every friendvatore
and devoutly as was in the death house. The infermer in an effort to win we had because we had to have modestly
Indictment wOE dis lighter sentence, police credited an agonising Teappraisal. parish priest.
Anastasia's squad of "perau "We've got the
Three months later Anastasia ders" with 63 killings, of which ngony all
Albert Anastasia, cut down right, but we haven't got the
was arrested on charges of kill Reles sald Anastasia personally by paid killers at the age of 53 reappraisal."
lis despite
Carmello often-expressed ing
Ferraro. The ordered 32, including those of vow "I'll die in bed," was born charge was dismissed.
two longshoremon who died Umberto Anastasio in Tropea, In 1923 he was arrested on a trying to lead rank-and-lo grounds that Anastasia had a fishing village in the province felonious assault charge. Again ravolta. against rocketeers
concealed a criminal record in Belatedly Mr Elsenhower has of Calabria, South Italy. He a dismissal for the usual rea- dock unions, Anastasia's klu- realised that he needs the help
of a struggling sons, lack of witnesses,
had won the making citizenship application was the kon
for-phy gummen who tolled But month later
camo to naught, of. British
scientists if the railroad worker,
label of "Murder, Inc.," couldn't shake
AB Anastasia was reportedly proud donned the cloak of à respect- # citizen, Anastasia Americans are ever to catch up grimly to feed his family of 12 charge that he
off-carrying a loaded gun, with the Russians in the race children.
He was not only sentenced to of his title of "Lord high exceu
able businessman, He became for supremacy in inter-conti-
tioner." Umberto and three of his
two years in the penitentiary
partner in a Pennsylvania dress nentol baillatle missiles,
Authorities believed that at mahufacturing company and Belatedly he realises that it elght brothers went to sea in but served the term.
There were more arresta, but last, they had a "perfect case"
Acquired a handsome US$75,000 was a major blunder to bar their carly teens. He brawled
of the no more convictions, growing against Anastasia.
Spanish-style home' in Fort ... Britain from access to Ameri- his way through some
"He was entrusted with all Les, New Jersey, overlooking can scientiae accomplishments world's toughest ports before out of Anastasia's business of
the murders. official murders, upper Manhaltan from acros in the field of nuclear weapons, Jumping chip at the age of 16 murder.
of the underworld commiited the Hudson River. In New York in 1017 to carvo men-made
The record reads like this:
in Brooklyn," zald William Arrested in 1028 on a charge
But pollca naid he was stil hydrogen-headed ocean-span a niche for himself in crime.
then prosecuting steeped in the rackets--the fatally shooting Carmine O'Dwyer, ning rocket.
He took a job on the Brooklyn of
but soon found that Cenlicemen, discharged three attorney in Brooklyn, "No mob waterfront, trucking, gumbing, Hb must have forgotten that Docks,
murder was committed in narcolies...the works. Ho it was the British who invented wrestling cargo was beneath his days later.
Arrested in 1932 on a charge Brooklyn without Anastasia's continued to live as a criminal radar and made a major con- talents.
Barzano pomisloo and appROVAL.”
^, big shot -- frægumating. the The racket lords of the water- of murdering John tribution to the development of
front, always on the lookout with an ice plek, discharged fatal. In November, 1941, Reles and Uving behind saved-foot But he was never brought to plusbiler, resorts, the race, tracks, the atomic bomb.
Queen's visit, in which for a ruthless "Enforcer," wars two days later. her role was Slateswoman as making place to grab the easy Arrested the same day on plunged eight floors to his death fence topped by barbed wire A with two ferca ́Dobaripan well as Queen, has set the per-money they saw in the piling charge with consorting with from a hotel room despite Prohibition, Umberto known criminals. fect stage for the Macmillani- with
Discharged police guard posted outside his Pinchers guarding the seven-
door.
nere estate against intrudira. Elpenhower falles.
Anasisalo, already known as a two weeks later. the Although
nalursi is tough. brawler, was a
Arrested in 1933 on a charge abava and beyond
of homicide. Acquitted by a
· politica, | cholce. her achievements here compare "He Americanised his name to jury.
and launched Arrested
1030 with those of Edward VII, in Albert-Anastasia fucbloning the entente cordiale | a career, sa". a "Terrades for vagrancy charge. Discharged
mobsters. He learned warly the following day.
Tho
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with France.
moons,
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by John McNutt