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Retire? I have, I fear, dallied
too long
LL my short life I have had the ambition to retire And live in the foothills not too far from Monte Carlo. I don't suppose I ever shall. I am getting too old to retire.
A man should retire be- fore he is 35 if he wants to make a success of it, and I am already a little worse than that.
Every now and then I slip nway down to the South of France for a Hittle scouting around to choose my dream villa, if not to pay for 1. Recently I have been producing a play, and having rally decided that the actors get on better without me telling them how I would play their parts, it seemed a good time to make one of the trips.
This is a wonderful time of the year to visit the South o France. The weather is warto and sunny enough to lunch out
of dooms and it gets dark early co that after
tea one
In
straight to the casino.
It is, of course, silit possible
really bad meal to eat D
Auron I had France, and one of the worst lunches ever prepared. Watching the French boys and girls wolf down un- cooked multon and Logky chips, I felt a great upsurge of I kept telling national pride, myself they would never have stood for il at home.
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pure I should have left in the had ski lift. I
a habit topping abruptly, leaving one swinging on a narrow plat- Jom over a precipice so that I come down shivering and had with my tea, to have brandy and some more after dinnor.
Dinner in the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo is an elaborate It must be the last affair. restaurant In Europe in which the women all wear hats and the band plays,
Thu period 19 strictly and the Bilite Edwardian Danube is currently No. 1 on the 1 Parade,
New baby.
Of course the casino
not
quite itself at this time of year. Darryl Zamirk and the Greeks have migrated and around the tables sit the reefdents gossiping ogether and occasionally stok ing a modest Boria on the even them Most of
LIG happy chances enough to win 30s. In the course of the evening and the talk mostly of scrabule parties to come and the price of fresh vegetables and, of course, of the
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958.
Should Men of Power
have medical tests?
I ask in view of what came to light yesterday about the health of statesmen holding the biggest jobs of all
The BASINGSTOKE
EXPERIMENT
NEVER thought of Basingstoke as a birth place of high fashion. But it was.
A hundred years from now, who will even re- that the female member woollen suck hit Britain in 1957? But the male gaber- dine smock hit Basingstoke
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"ITH the medical histories of Sir Anthony Eden and President Eisenhower immediately in mind, I suggest a revolutionary 1958 resolution for all top politicians-und for the voters who elect them
No holding of Cabinet office in future without a six-monthly medical clearance by a panel of front-rank specialists.
It is surely ridiculous that when more and more firms are demanding a medi- eal check before employment in even the meanest capacity, men who may be physical wrecks can take on the running of the nation.
It can be argued, 'as it has
been in the case of President Conference in 1847. He was
that physical ill- business was so successful that Burberrys still supply atiform Eisenhower,
haz but Ge
no effect on mental at the Colomiss Conference and to Her Majesty's Forces,
a further
coronary capnelly, but there in two years he opened up pre-
is strong died of a now
thrombosis within a month of mises at 30-33, Haymarket. By have recently started the beginning of the century, mufti service for the American evidence against, this opinion.
reluctantly reuring. agencies were being started all Army in Germany. Measure-
The eleven over the country, and eventually ments are taken in the "Little was Burberry* shops in the PX Mr Burberry's gaberdine
to London, world. being sent all over the
stores, air-mailed (In 1912 they moved into their and the sult is delivered in four present shop.)
wecks.
It would seem that the saying that an extra half-inch on Cleopatra's nose might have changed the history of the world TIVERYONE who has had the is in urgent need of modernisa-.
toothache knows how pain tion.
forts judgment,
There were compensations of ew bi by on the way up on the in 1857, and men have been land who put the cloth to is that the shop moves with the prevents deliberation and dis
ourse
..the mountaine and
and the ski lift the sunshine which takes you in half an hour to the top of a mountain where nud you can watch younger better men than I break their legs and come, whizzing down down the simps strapped to toboggans with great red crosses on them. Them, too, there is the road from Monte Carlo to Auron which is a miracle of engineer- ing. hown out of the rock, and purfaced and maintained superbly.
Waved on
no
ODC
Perhaps because understands better than a French Government that ire is necessarily brief, and there's
le that can be done to pro long it, there is a refreshing absence
those of
depressing roadside warnings which in nearly every other country re- mind the motorist that he
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at best a potential suicide and At worst a determined killer.
On that mountain road we were stopped by a policeman anxious to
our papers. Having nothing with me except a British newspaper, we offered it him politely and were in- mediately waved
courteously.
sce
on Just as
I couldn't help feeling that in Britain there would have been more formality. Onco a British policeman decides on a car check he doesn't abandon it simply because the occupants
Indeed XUC foreigners.
usually becomas inore
Mous
But to get back to
Do suspi-
Monte
Carlo, wich I am not at all
first place, having got
Locks
Only once while was there did anything occur to reming me that I was not in a bridge club al Leatherhead,
That was when a pale young man appeared suddenly at my Alde, changed £500 into chips and proceeded to get rid of the lot on one turn of the wheel, whereupon he walked away apparently well satisfied.
On the last day of my visit 1 looked ni a few properties. This time even the house agent seemed to sense that I wasn't in et mest.
You wouldn't really enjoy living out here," he told me. "In the summer It's far too crowded and it the winter you'd get very bored.
This part of the world is a title island all on its own. istands are always dull."
I agreed with him, being too much of a snob to explain that I happen to be living on an island right now and the only reason I didn't change islands
that simply
I couldn't was afford to do so.
Martin
very cold and rather by ROBERT MORLEY
frightened on the
wearing them ever since.
left
For it was in 1856 that 21- year-old Thomas Burberry his draper's apprenticeship and put his savings into his
W litle
business in Basingstoke. He was a tailor with a creative talent, and acute business sense, and a burning desire to reform and Improve the clothes he cut for his clients.
Determind
times.
To apply to the atomic era it "History would should read:
coronary
arteries of certain.
been only
找
It was the sportsmen of Eng-
This is one of the many signs sternest tests. Big game hunters
So do not imagine that staked their lives on it, airborne the dignified feende in the Hay
A painful, debilitating linesa pioneers could hardly wait to market,
with its white-gloved from which a senior statesman undoubtedly be different if the down touch
before paying commissionaire End cravatted tribute to it. (1 am just back receptionist being photographed may be suffering without ad statesman had In Exigland after our recent ex- by Americans under the Rojat miting it surely has more in fraction of an inch wider" pedition by balloon from
the Coats of Arms, rests on ils post. Crystal Palace to Russia. I con- sider my gaberdine suit an ideal ballooning outfit, and shall not hesitate to recommend it to my friends.")
rotalned
Inside, the premises are dis- creelly contemporary. There is a cheerful go-ahead hosiery de- partment, a sportive basement, and tastefully decorated women's floor, which sells coun- try classic clothes in a civilised
Д
sidious effects.
Serious illness in a statesmaan who insist on
Cripps
had
Roosevelt...
consistently remaining in suffered from ill-health wet was office has always been politically made Chancellor In 1947, a dangerous. In the H-bomb age crucial time when Britain was Captain Scolt and Sir Emast
when a single 11-considered de- on the verge of baniaruptcy, His clalon can bring irreparable strongly criticised decision to Shackleton had tents and Ant-
has assumed far devalue the £ was taken after
six weeks in a Swiss clinic. arette wind clothing made of it,
disaster it greater significance. and an intrepid carly motorist atmosphere.
The case of President Elsen- There may be only two retail In these days the only method crussed Abyssinia "putting four of waterprooting textiles was to sticks in the ground, tying up stores in London and Paris, but hower, who has suffered three plaster dissolved layers of India the corner and using it as a
thrombosis, intestinal and coronary designed tweeds rubber on a fabric (a process bath, and after 12 months of the gents distribute their exclu- major episodes in three years-
sively patented by Charles Macsosh roughest wear it still
weatherproofs in every country obstruction and a slight stroke
Britan the power in the world (bar the Iron Curhas worried me for month. I used to be argued that in 30 years before). This garment its waterproof properties."
tein countries). kept in almost as much moisture
The Trench Coat
Today my doubts are forlified Government machine is as it kept out, and Burberry was determined to improve H.
Burberrys are one of the tour by the publication of a farity great for one sick man to take Before Burberrys were asked
initiative. to design the field uniform for largest exporters of men's clothing list of politicians who stuck any decisive action on his own He noticed that the local
ing to dollar-eaming comtries-to power whear they were far British Army in 1802, and they have farmers' voluminous linen
had a flourishing too ill to be capable of wielding contracted when wet, satisfied clients kept writing office in New York for B1 years, it smocks
IIQ extolling the and opened a new
office ta A virtues of gaberdine. "Major. B. Toronto last month.
wore his coat all through the Ove war, and slept in it for
es good J5 months, and it is new"
the
ta
tellers to
and once saturated, seemed keep out all further rain cotton was cheaper, he started to experiment with the help of a friendly cotton-mill owner, to see if he could proof material without using rubber.
Under one roof
"I have worn only In their inill at Farnworth, one pair of gaberdine kalcker Lancashire, the entire process of breeches since the slege of weaving, dyeing and twice After much ridleule he pro- Ladysmith, etc." wrote astound- proofing
and finishing both cotton and woollen gaberdine duced a wonderful cloth which ed officers,
he christened Gaberdine. IL
was first proofed in the yam,
closely woven, and then proofed
a second time in the plece.
Orders poured in
to
Thomas Burberry was a keen sportsman and he began design special sports clothes in this new material. Orders poured into his small shop, and he de- cided to move to London.
In 1800, one of his two sons held ttings and took orders in
a Jermyn Street hotel, but the
The tallor had a burning desire to reform men's dothos
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cloth is done under one roof. And their tweeds and gay linbugs are made up to their own design in Reading.
They showed me a garment sent by they just received; an old lady of 70 whose mother bought it for her before she went to college when she was 18. Though thin and a trifo dirty, it was still in good con- dition,
The things she has been tell- ing her friends about It all this time are much more valuable to us than having her come in for a new one every five years," their they said. And I Edw polit.
-(London Express Services,
of the
too
Sir Anthony Eden's interven tion in Suez, which entirely the Whitehall
There is no
Hopkins, whose stomach had been almost completely moved, often collapsed after meetings. "He noems to have been quite unfit to participate In discussions affecting the ilves of millions," Dr L'Etang writes
Why do these politicians go on even when it must be ob- vious to them that they are t There seem to be three TOG- Dong:-
ONE: By temperament they are reluctant to lay down the reins of power.
TWO: They are almost all
touched with enough vanlly to belleve the nation needs them in command.
THREE: They seem to more susceptible than most to the "it could not happen to me" Ulusion.
Evon doctors seem to be reluctant to accept h dia- gnosis which is later seen to be sticking out a mile when great men are concerned.
This was certainly the ense with King George VI.
His doctors seemed unable to accept the fact that he must be
For this reason I say that if suffering from lung cancer.
medical examination for Ca- binet Ministery becames routine,
it should be conducted by #
Dr Hugh L'Etang, a London circumvented medical officer, 1sts 11 recent machinery, showed this to be Men of Power who may have untrue. changed the fate of natione by
doubt that the panci of doctors with a strong critical decisions which they
U.S. President has such indivi- man, like the late Lord Horder, were medically unit to make.
dual power, And, from Dr He puts forward convincing L'Etang's evidence there is no evidence that "The Guilty Men" doubt that Presidents Woodrow of the 1930s-Ramsay Mac Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt Donald, Stanley Baldwin, and used it when they were for too Neville Chamberlain - were W to hold any kind of com- “gick men rather than sinners." mand.
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MacDonald becamo
creasingly incoherent" while. Yalta
at the head.
Dangerous?
Royal Household, Why are appointed to
Before the wartime talks at
where the
OCTORS Russions attii in uffice, Dr Ebang secured concessions disastrous reports in The Preetillose for the West, Roosevelt was so not to the Cabinet? Baldwin, who had to face the near death that o colleague increasing threats of Hitler and described him thun:- Mussolini, was in a state of per- manent fatigue.
"He had the deep grey colour Chamberlain, who succeedod Baldwin, was suffering from in- of a man who had long been curable cancer when he con- ducted the disastrous Norwegian, ill. Ite supported his head with campaign in 1940.
his hand as though # were too He died from it only eight much to hold it up.
Hi Ha months after being forced out of office.
The post-war Foreign Secre- fary. Ernest Bevin, and Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor, were both Invalids while they held office, Dr L'Etang claims,
were blue, His hands shook."
Aven
Housevelt's case is more astonishing because his agent for fet-Anding main missions, Harry Hopkins, was Bevin had angina and suffer- even ΠΟΤΕ debilitated by ed a heart attack at the Moscow
'disease.
It can be argued that this move would put too much power in the bands of a for doctors, especially when medi- cine is such a political matter,
I do not think this argument is valld. Brilsh doctors would sasuredly give their decision in the patient's medical interests and if the patient were a Man of Power the decision would be in the nation's pollical in- terests too.
Chapman Pincher
A GLIMPSE INTO OUR WONDERFUL ATOMIC FUTURE Everlasting Peace in the world is assured by devoting oil our resources to the development of greater and greater deterrents
to war.
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