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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1958.
HOW MACMILLAN MUST BE SAYING THAT TODAY
A. POLITICAL FAMILY CASEBOOK BY DOUGLAS CLARK
MR HAROLD MACMILLAN needs to be protected from his relatives. For Prime Ministers this has always been an occupational risk
Public life has not changed much since Hilaire Belloc wrote A Change in the Cabinet nearly 50 years ago.
In that novel he described
a political supper party in As Scottish St James's as
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party manager-in-chlof Mr Stuart family party. Our publicis ns strangely inert ad Lord life is a larger thing than Iailsham, running the Tory that! Of the five members machine in England and of the two front benches who were not connected by Wales, in curiously bois marriage, two were pre-
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But the relatives of Mr Macmillan who have found a resting place in the House of Commons pile a particul- Jarly heavy burden on him. And at this moment must be finding it hard to bear the lond.
he
What does he think this week of Mr James Stuart?
teroux.
But the 'embarrassing crificium which is mounting against his brother-in-law is not Mr Macmillan's only family problem.
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What is he to make this week of his son, Mr Maurice Macmillan ?
On Friday, Mr
Maurice Macmillan, who is MP for Hall- fax. goes off to Bournemouth to Mr Macmillan and Mr eit on a brain's trust platform Stuart are brothers-in-law. with Mr Nigel Nicolson. Each is married
a might be thought that, it only daughter of the ninth Duke out of considerallon for the feel. of Devonshire.
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Mr Stuart at 61 is three the younger thun Prime Minister. But he has long since passed his period of political usefulness.
It would seem that Mr Macmillan himself sub- scribes to that view since one of the very first things he did on becoming Premier 14 months ago was. to drop Mr Stuart from the post of Secretary of State for Sent land,
Whatever pain it might cause to the Cavendishes, Mr Stuart was out in 72 hours. . The incubus, however, remains. Neither Mr Mac- millan nor Scotland is yet safe from Mr Stuart.
For Mr Stuart is still chairman of the Tory
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Ings of his father, Mr Macmillan would take care not to call attention to himself in this way: since Mr Nicolson was one of his father's most bitter crities when, as a toynt member of the Just Cabinet. Mr Harold Mac- Sir 2013 was supporting Anthony Eden over Suez.
But though, as publishers, Maurice wa Nigel compete in usiness it seems that in politics they unite.
who was
For Mr Nicolson, disowned by his local party in East Bournemouth 10 months ago for his conduct in the Suez
esis, has himself declared that
the reason Mr Maurice Mac- willan is appearing on his plat- form is to demonstrate his sympathy with him,
The sympathy of most people will lie elsewhere with the Prime Minister. It is wretched lek on him; first the brother-in- law upsets the Tories in Scot- lend, and now the son hurries off to upset the Tories in Party's Scottish Organisa- Bagland. tion which-after the dis- astrous poll at Kelvingrove
needs demonstrably complete overhaul, starting differences of another political
from the top.
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But perhaps the Torics can draw
from the some comfort greater dieulties and
family the Fools.
"Save me
from
my
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nearly always be-
cause of an un-
happy home - do.
mestic cats turn wild. And Nelson the Mouser's first girl
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friend happened to UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG other's company. Indeed they
be such a one. We don't know where ho found her, but she belongs to none of 177 our neighbours and
relatives!"
Brother John Foot, 40, almost be hard to over-estimate either secured the Liberal nomination the force or the charm of his at Torrington last month. Why, personally.
Instead, wil Mr Mark Bonham Carter be carrying the party banner at the by-election?
Brother John's friends declare the ususe bluntly, At the last
moment the Torrington Liberal association took fright. Was he dependable? Suddenly they had remembered the magnetic allure of brother Michael, 44,
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I Is truc, of course. that Brother Michael has already
All the same, it is worth re- membering that his, domination over his elder brethren la by means absolute.
may have been living rough for most of her short life.
But she made it plain that she loathed and feared the human race,
A pitiful sight One night when I heard them making music up the mountain above the orchard I went along with a piece of raw liver.
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acemed to be engaged in a friendly tussle, the cat rubbing hard against Io, while the lamb was playfully butting the eat, For the first the will to live. week 3 gave her daily injections quietly but quickly wo put of sulphanilomide. This, with an out a feed of day at a plate of aimost unlimited supply of milk, cat-food, lo immediately attack- hay, and frult cake, healed her ed the hay and was soon joined let and began to Bl her out. by her new friend,
Then she started to boss us in the traditional manner of tame Now everything has to lambs.
Even Le arranged to suit her. our weclay visits to the nearest market town are governed by her feeding-lines.
We first saw the "girl friend" inte one night, A snarling, spitting little black Nelson immediately set
After the first fortnight Io shadow slinking away from to, but his little friend stood was able to buck and gambol the verandah light. Next. für off and cursed me until like any other lamb, and sho we saw her streaking up the I went away. Even then started to accompany Nelson on orchart with a pike's head she would not touch
visits to his little black queen,
Black Lady.
Afterwards, when our animals came into bed, Block Lady(18 we now call her vanished Into the night. But it was a trkamph; for the first time she had accepted our food. D
The next night, Io lured Black Lady Into the hall, ond there they had a meal together. Now, as I write, the two of them are fast asleep in To'a front of tho Four nights ago we were wooden box in
kitchen firo. Black Lady allows si us to handle her and kĩ nów, a the verandah; and
tho more astonishing
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the household. belous fact that lo and
tho four times larger than liver but left it-tainted by Even Dingle is putting up
her own-gripped firmly in hated human hands to amazed to see the three of them battle. On the H-bomb issue her teeth.
Nelson.. Michael are in total he and
Life for her was hard, disagreement.
Liberal Foot
Right-wing Socialist Foot, Left-wing Socialist Foot. It is an extra ordinary state of disarmy. Each must sigh to himself: "Save me from my relatives."
What- fu Bilaira Belloe
(London Express Service).
but as it was obvious that She might have stayed she and Nelson were fond that way-if it had not been of one another, and us the for To the Lamb. snowy winter was brutally Remember Io? She la the hard оп B small black orphan lamb I rescued during a carnivore, we made several storm.
lo then was a pitiful
pulled Brother Dingle, 52, into would have had with, unsuccessful attempts to sight. She had an ugly wound
gain her confidence. the Socialist party; and it would
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YOU CAN TELL A STAR BY THE COMPANY
HE KEEPS..
"Don't be silly! I don't need a policy. I've got this saw!"
Anthony Perkins
BROODY YOUNGSTER
RIDING £7,000,000 GAMBLE IS SHAPING
AS TOMORROW'S BIGGEST STAR . .
A
NTHONY PERKINS is a gawky,
short-sighted young man who has. never had an acting lesson in, his life.
Yet a £7,000,000 gamble to make. him a film star has paid off.
Two years ago, Perkins was the sort of restless, rootless hitch-hiker that Americans call a "hipster." Now. £3,000,000 und alx films later, he is Ipoked on an as a big star today--and Probably the biggest star of tomorrow.
At 25 he sull looks sourly on young people can identity in БИССОВ. "I used to dream of themselves. His quirky hopeful her
It has Sophia Loren, playing me as a social acquisition, not a
Arst heavily dramatic friend,'
the things that mercall success," ness is something that goin role as a sentual woman seeking he says, "the things that have sympathy from others. come to me now.
"But somehow I don't have the feeling of triumph and sati faction that I thought would came with them. I will just feel Adammed lonely."
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Achievement
"The Sea Wall”: is a specia- cular story of troubles and typhoona on the Pacific coast of
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success as hard as his long, Indo-China: It brings back
Enigma
He is a ruthless, relfless security, It has Burl Ives, tha worker, Even at the cost of belled singer, who has developed embarrassing himself. He is a Two big new firms prove that into striking dramatic selor. bad dancer. Yet he spent weeks And it has Porkins no a young practising a dance called the Perkins has reached the top
of stardom. They man fighting mazinst the break "Crawl" for "The Bea Wall." brackets show, too, how the cinema has down of his life through the Ho counters controversy about tamed 4 "hipster" Into
aff scheming of 'k woman,
his behaviour by saying: “All exciting talent,
that you hear about me la garbage..I get apoplecile with debelict. Hall, even I don't know what my real personality. lived up to their hopes 32 13, so how can anybody clas!" leping logs and ambitions will Silvana Mangano, the first of the seroon with taui acting Perkins, as a man, has', a take him: "I have got to go the Italian-style screen beauties, talent in films like "Tear Strikes thousand double about himself, on trying." he says, "because I It has Jo Van Fleet, a brilliant Out" and "The Tin Star." But But as one of his film bosses
private lifo bitter, his have a fouling that happiness is actrest, playing a
behaviour said: "We Invested all that And it has prompted one actress to call him money in this kid, and ägured zomething that only comes with possessive mother. achievement.
And being 40 Perions as a young man trying a self-made enigma." He has he'd better click or we'd all be actor: the only way. I can to build his life, against family startled Hollywood party-goers out looking for jobs, Well, he
by turning up in torn clollies as clicked."
for tyrannies. achieve anything.
That conflict in his character, Desire. Under the Elms" is and with bare feet. He refuses which -- shows in bla screen the film version of the Eugene to live in Hollywood, preferring John performances is the strongest O'Neill classle. It is a stary, of a cell-liko flat in New York, kalakal reason for his stardom. His Just and vengeance, da, small He has few friends, and op
youthhal gyniolarn; bis÷urguio American farm of the last parentig wants fewer "Mog Lambert be different, are something that century.
people," he says, "want to know wh
LEFT: Perkins' in dancing mood does the "Crawl" with Slivana Mangano in "The Sea Wall." ABOVE: Now will Sophia Loren Perkins in a conflot of wilts from "Desire. is used to Under the Elmas." Significant that Perkissa. team the big Italian stars, now enjoying a new vogue on both sides of the Atlantie in the more sultry films. The kind of star company Perkins koepu shown just how much he is in demand in the new Italian-American alliance.
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