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UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG
The cat that had no head for heights
USED to claim until the other day-if you want a really tough cat that you can set on a tramp when Master's out with the dogs get an ordinary tabby, tortoiseshell patchwork or marmalade cat who never knew its own father.
Whether it be a haystack
ak
an
imposible
or an alley cat, it'll be a retard, which straggles up the capable pussy able to read mostant the compass and never get angle. Ist, able to climb the Panda was sitting on a fun- highest tree in the forest warmed without getting dizzy, nble cxpress and the larches, Heking to Lake on sheep dogs and ne paw and gazing entranced over the valley at a view which put them in their place. taver fails to delight.
But Nelson changed all that.
Nelson is a patchwork lom kitten that my young gon brought home from school one day. At four months old he is a chunky little cat who spends all his time between meals in the orchard catching and eating mice.
This in
a sore point with portly old Panda, out veritier! cat, who has only one really good toolt: left and who there. fore goes mouseless except in the holidays when the boys catch and skin mice for hing serving them up neatly destru on a plate.
rock
between the
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1957..
AN AUTHORITATIVE INTERPRETER OF THE AMERICAN SCENE SENDS ONE OF THE MAJOR DESPATCHES OF HIS CAREER
The Acids are very greda and the river very full. The hillmen opposite are red and treen Ro, mixture of rusting oak, verdant conlters, and dying
bracken.
Twenty feet high on a limb of evergreen hung Nelson, by ue precarious paw out of my reach and chricking his head off Then, right side up he fell with a plop quite unhurt but mental- ly shaltered.
DISGUSTED
MY PLEA TO IKE
As a good friend I say: It is time to
T is with affee- tionate admiration for one of the finest produced by America in this century that I call-sorrowfully but
unhesitatingly- upon Dwight David Eisenhower, thirty fourth President of the United States, to resign from his high office here and now.
from RENE
MacCOLL
I regard Ike now as an old result of his new affliction, he
I like friend.
the man enor- ands dificulty in pronouncing iously and share to the full some of his words. the affection and gratitude ex- tended to him unstintingly by millions of people everywhere.
But I am
President
convlaced
that should Elsenhower
however
Smooth talk
to ""run" again for term as President,
a second
►
stand
stand down
I
The present crisis, then, is as big as it can be.
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been that of a great leader. His incapacitated Churchill back in speeches, his general attitude, 1933. Churchil, they point out, his lack of dynamiem all bo- recovered triumphantly and was
en ablo to resume" his duties trayed a man spent and feebled.
Primo Minister.
But
of the Premiership Britain, although one of the world's foremost political Posi- tions, is not today really com parable to the presidener. The presidency nowadays is in a And the man class by itself. who seeks to fill it needs also to be in a class by himself.
The problem for the US. Is being
Not the same
So that is why I hope with all my heart that realism will now win the day in Washing-
If the presidency were some this: Is this big crisis sort of sinecure holding few handled by the best men avail demands on its incumbent well ablo? The answer seems to me and good. But we all know to be plain. that it is nothing of the sort- And there is once again the that it is, on the contrary,
last of stroin and effort no longer inger in the pinces hastily contrived atmosphere of Job which exacts every
cheery optimism and the same ounce of power. In the fiercely menar-
Here in America many people ton and that Ike will place us the West old assurances that all will soon without let-up on the man ing world of 1957
be well and that Ike will be holding it.
The West has watched with, are trying to compare Ike's ill- further in his debt by, bowing Fanda shook one leg as a cat wil when disgusted and slowly
I have reported Ike for simply cannot afford to carry a
distin- back at the helm before very "passenger "
embarrassment and unhappiness ness to that which temporarily from the scene. long as good as ever he was. stropped bis claws on the
while the President has repeat- years. I have covered his guished his record. cypress. With a weary glance
Well, this just will not do. I edly golted and relaxed in the year of his second at me, and an air of utter two victorious presidential. Eisenhower, who has deserved
of say that President Elsenhower recond well of his country and detachment, he walked up the campaigns. I สมพ him o
hid Western allies so often in must make the hard, irrevocable term.
It has fell a growing senso trunk, strolled out along the
arrive in Paris early in 1951 the past, should now perform decision and make it quickly.
While must of Eisenhower
longer
in the that the man branch that had been too much
the new Nato le last and anest gesture
listen to the smooth talk or the House has lost his grip and in for Nelson, and eat down bulg- to head
over both alliance. I have been to patriotism and service.
men around him. the Sherman a world where our Communist piling "comfortably "Il continued to lick one paw scores of his Press confer
Adamses and the Jim Hagertys, enemies are constantly
must
of the on the pressure, phe in Washington.
West do and gaze, master of the stua ences
great champions of the
to match tion,
over the valley while flew to Denver from London In
has not been able naked off to the two years ago when the a tendency yet again to laugh The other day i came out of the Nekon
Surely it now emerges unmis- either his own old time form off as trivial the stroke which
the In photograph kitchen for some moral support. heart attack started the the 67-year-old President has 10 try house
from over- and I are
Ike is depicted
that Eisenhower hostile challenges sune circling buzzards when
why to give him a climbing ominous catalogue of presi- suffered. urgent yells for help sent me
dential invalidiem.
laughing heartily when, as the should never have been urged peas, rushing
Lise Toy of the lesson.
We nollend that Nelson is not elimber. buty way mire
don't climb trees,
URGENT YELLS
to
shies.
After that Ponde
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He should step down forth- with, resigning the Presidency of his own free will.
there Washington
Is
no
President Eisenhower take the lonely decision to the right thing.
takably and frighteningly for or to meet- adequately
as all to see
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Perilous
which situation The confronts us would have
now been quite bad enough two short of months ago. The events the past few weeks in which Russians Jumped ahead with the future the weapons of should make the situation now 83 perilous as it could possibly be,
now
in
We probably aland for worse potential peril even than in 1940.
Is this a time for Ike to re mala at the helm?
Is this the moment for the President to be given "soveral weeks" to enjoy yet another leisurely convalescence?
refrain
Is this the ilmo to from taxing the President--not to follow him unswervingly as has been increasingly the slogan In and about the White House of late?
Let a young man take over lho fearful burden, Let Richard Nixon, the Vice-President, able. energetic, and only 44, relleve Ike of all his responsibilities,
Even before Ike's stroko the extent to which America's de- been situation ad fensive allowed to slide had been ex- posed in all its stark impact by the Sputalks.
Ice's own reaction to the emergency has not, 1 am afraid;
Red rocket-liners
From TERENCE LANCASTER: Moscow, Tuesday
THE Russians are working on a rocket-liner which will carry passengers at between 9,000 and 10,000 miles an hour to all parts of the world.
These machines the Russians call them Roketo- plans will take off vertically but sprout wings so they can land like conventional air- craft.
This 15 revealed In Boviet Aviation, the newspaper of the Boriet Alt Porcs, which has a. diagram showing a rockel-itner tuning off from Rusia and·
unding in Bouth America
Alteruit designer' Vladimir Alexandrov Bay the rocket- uners will be shot up as high as 600 mics Iseo diagram on -right).
AIRLESS SPACE
Then the pilot will cut hu motors and the muchine will ty round in airless apuce on 13 own momentum. The problern of getting it down through the earth's atmosphere will be solved by slowly losting out large wings
These will be fully spread. when the liner about 50 or 60 miles from earth on its down- ward flight see diagram below).
The article days: "It will be Just like an eagle, which dropa with its wings" wrapped to its body and then opens them out Mat approaches earth.
CONTRAL CABIN
FIXED STABILIZERS
WINA
RETRACTED
BARITAL TAKE
EARTH
VERTICAL
IN FLIGHT
STRUTS LETRACTED
WOKE GETRACTER
TEXT-OFF
WELL EXTERSER
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