FRATERNAL GREETING--
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1958.
KRUSHCHEV VICTIMS
OF THE
HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION
You Hungarians should manage your affairs · Russians should not be obliged to come to
your
ald
Guns-and-Gongs
DONALD -WISE, reporting
Indonesia's civil war, sends this,
despatch from CENTRAL SUMATRA
LACK-PAINTED "pirate" planes are stepping up the
to
up in the 10,000-foot mountain range ahead of us, while their strongholds of Padang and Bukit Tinggi prepare for brittle..
I am with indignesdan, Goy. ermanent froops waiting for the time to attack.
By road into the rebels' strongholdo
trucks with petrol, oil, sugar, me teat up plies-every thing tasted for a ziego,
therto ad hands have shown
□ strenuous desire to dodge combat in this wonderfully
civil war.
And the chances are that the blockaded port of Puxiang and, the rebel capild with its Talio station At Bukit Tingel will not be derately fended.
WAT
But if they fail, the against President Soekarno's Djakarta-based
will not be "over:"
Government
Cummings
go that we
KRUSHCHEY' (Tuesday)
War
^ JAKARTA
INDIAN OCZAN
They bring 75-millimetre guns, bazookat, mortari, Brens.
And
Sumatra's oilfields » D
And newly arrived ack-nek
Dr Subandrio, the Indo- guns in the rebel mountains
Minister, sald keep Soekarno's 25 Mitchell nesian Foreign
that operations do any the other day bombers too high to
rebels in Sumatra against the clumage.
had entered their final phase and would be over very soon.
Booming gongs and touting flues round" air-rald warnings,
hothers but cover.
טונג! קנן
to Lake
Meanwhile Soekarno's para- troops, In their red berets and camouflage yellow-and-green suits, re slogging westwards to try to cut the supply rend 10 Padang.
They arc emeient; well-
Their disciplined.
Russian Jeeps and trucks make them
Rebel Premier Strad's mobile and keep them well
able army chief, Colonel Sim suppiled. bolon, burrowing his men
into labyrinth of bunkers and
The curious thing about this con "gel that anyone "into" the net armed only-with-
strongpolate bull! by the war Japanese in 1945-
fistful of ruplabs, besian money,
*
the Indo-
The "pirate" BZU's side-slip monumental patience and past razer peaks by moonlight in some of the "hairiest Bying country in the world to drup arms to these men.
The planes, says the Goyem- ment, fly from air-strips in the Philippines and Formosa.
Look!
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A landmark in the history of Time measurement
PAUL BERSA BRA TANFIELD
HE artist of the year, the
THE
painter of "beautiful women, children, and angels," talked to mo the other day of his future- now that he has been hailed as a genius for the portrait of the Countess of Dalkeith,
John Ralph Merton's painting has hern called technically perfect.
It won the Royal Academy's first "A" award for 20 years-and lifted him into A predicted £10,000-a-picture class,
In the ultra-modern studio of his Queen Anne house at Enford, Wilt- shire, Mr Merton said: "I don't think it will make ol! that difference. I have more commissions than 1 can carry out
now.
"Anyway, there are few people who can afford £10,000... and many of those I may not wish to paint,
"At the moment I'm resting. I did
15 hours on the last day of my portrait
of Lady Dalkeith. To all did 1,500
hours on it. 1,400 of them
spiration and 100 inspiration."
per-
very
Merton himself presents a different portrait from the popular picture at an artist.
He is surrounded by period furnt- ture in converted farm-house stand- ing in fivo acres of beautiful grassland. je is always Immaculately dressed when he works... no artist's smock, but, at the same time, no smudges, of paint on his clothes.
"Might have to pop off to town at any time, you know," he says.
As I was preparing to leave his studio, he switched off the carpet- swerpin blower with the heating ele- ment beelde his casel the textile- industry colour-inatching lamp, and the Beethoven musle to which he works.
Then he tooit off his surgeon's prismatic spectacles and put on a neat grey Jacket over a striped shirt and striped tie.
He had finished work for the day and his chauffeur was waiting to drive
RESUJEITRIMMENTALMAKATANELABICEPEA DISTILLARIA MENJAD
BUY!
BUY! BUY!
THAT'S IKE'S MOTTO TO BEAT THE SLUMP. BUT IT ISN'T
PLEASING EVERYONE..
SAJA
SPRINGTIME at last in America
and the plan is obviously to "sules talk"-the country out of the.
a "Buy" says, the President in recession.
one-word "Buy answer on how to make the recession recede. what?" asked a reporter, and the President replies with another one word
"Anything."
cherp and Later, after being advised make something that his own Secretary of practical like the small British
cora?"
the Treasury, Clinton Ander- Nice is annoyed with Detroit. son, who was happier in This is a long way from the charge of the Navy, had just been telling people to save by investing in Gov- ernment bonds, the Presi-
dent hedged and said he had always been an advo- cate of selective buying.
Artist John Merton with his wife and daughters Clarissa, Sarah, and Micola at their Wiltshire home
him and his famliy to London in one of the two Merton cars.
17
Two of his daughters-Sarah, and Clarkısa, 15-were off to Paris for a holiday, and Sorah is staying on for
finishing school, Nicola, aged nine, ƒ me Colonel") admits all his wealth
goes to boarding school next term.
Mr Merton, who is 44, and loft the Army after the war with the rank of out-colonel ("but please DON'T call
HOW MUCH DO YOU WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH?
果
1 Do you check your watch-by-the-
radlo
(a) every day 7
(b) every week or so ?
(a) whenever you happen to
have the chance 7
2 On the whole do you consider tidiness to be
(a) overrated T
(b) a prime necessity for any efficient concern? (c) a useful babit T
3 Would you say that many people worry too much
about their health 7
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
4 If you found that you had invited 13 people to m
party. would you
(a) hurriedly invite someone else?
(b) Put samtone of ?
fel leave the number alone ?
desn't come from painting,
"Unearned income helps a lot," he grandfather, said, "From a wealthy you know."
Twenty questions to cost you-and to assess whether you worry unduly about your health. It is a quiz In which you cannot cheat, for it is not necessarlly the correctness of each reply that counts but the mental attitude your answers reveal.
If you have an appointment are you usually
(a) on time as near as you can,
make it?
(b) a few minutes early, on the
whole?
(c) possibly a few minutes early
or late either way ↑
6 Do you smoke too mueli?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
Which one of these quailites would you say was
the most important for an executive?
(a) Attention to detall?
(b) Capacity for hard work?
(c) Analytic grasp of tarts 7
(d) Understanding people ?
8 After you have left your house. whether for work or anything else. do you sometimes ok to wee whether you have int! your keys beling?
(a) You
thi No
516+40!/23/1 09686821160683FB61028881012324 2018||||||||49 Do you keep a careful note of si vous expenses ?
DON IDDON'S DIARY
position he took when Charles Income groups, and a five-year-
Government
Today we ate having some Wilson,
of head
General plus of increased was his realistic words in Washington Motors,
Secretary of spending and New York, and, more im- Defence, and Mir Wilson's
has made everyone In This "What's portant than either, in Detroit, slogan was:
Cabine!, good for the
Vice- except to be called
Richart which used
the General Motors is good for the President
Nixon, country." ursenal of democr;cy,
Mr Eisenhower, abandoning Els cosy attitude to big business men, has cutting words for the holor-car mogula.
As the late spring slags on land and the blossoms the bloom there tre signs of new heart and faith, although indus- trial production as a whole is He says: "Look here, once down 11.7 per cent from last America just buys the things it year, und steel production wants, our manufactures, will only 40 per cent of capacity. be busy making them.
What is going to happen?
Ike thinks
It is true he was, but he was out of line with the rest of the Cabinet, and the President has, been easing him from the spurt. light ever lace or at least not
creasing the candlepower.
The unemployed
themselves
skudder.
Iko has lived, and in the past are not particularly interested thrived, on the freest of free in en income-tax cul; after all enterprise, rugged individual they have no income.
noi this camouflaged Ism,"
All over the country people Socialism which. Truman sug are asking what is
going to gests.
happens to America and in America if things go on like The resulting babble of pnswers is confusing,
But my own opinion is that
Nixon fumes th
The President and his advisers 8 for Nixon, he is fuming the situation will deteriorate. I
prices Guy: "Cul people will buy and the reces galvanised by Truman, will get unemployment figure reached sion will fade away. Don't
all the credit for n tax cut 7,000,000 by the end of the year. Government "PERSONALLY this au much
when it was he, Richard the
Anyway spring, is here and people are being just a little influence," bit disenchanted by a few Items Not many people agree with Lionheart, who first suggested it all Americans hope prosperity
as part-cure for the recession. will return with it. that have been chucked down him. The labour leader, George their throats, and they are get- Ung tired of them
and the A that the Democrats, would not be surprised if the
I'm And
Meany, says: "We are in a depression right now and the Administration is doing nothing
bout 11"
And I think it, would be a very good thing when the
Certainty President Eisen- manufacturers wake up,
'bower zeems to be bumbling not going to name names,
along compared to the ener begin to give
the things we gotic Mr Truman, who scoffs: want, instead of the things they rd certainly be doing some think we want."
thing. I certainly wouldn't bo The un-named names? Just sitting around and playing General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, golf," the big three of the big car-
Later frienda:
Now
Mr Truman, putting steel in the spine of Washing- Elsenhower' · ·- fold ton, advocates a £1,800,000,000 | why don't our people tax cut for middle and low-
AND YOUR SCORE?
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KEY 1 Taxa oft ihres polika for answering ižils quis at all I Under 20-Why worry. It may not happen | Try living.. 10-60-You're with the majorly, as normal sa most of us are thess days. Ten't that edusething to relax about
Over 50 Dog worry-you don't
(a). Yes.
thi No
10 Are you worried about the 13 bansk Y
(a) Yex.
(b) No.
11 Are you insured'egulust fre
(a) Yes.
{by No.
12. Do you
agree that doctorS
should be frank with their
patients?
(A) Yes.
(b) No.
13 De you enjoy trying out strange fonda ?
(b) Na.
Yes.
14 Would you agree that most news these days was bad news? (a) Yes.
it No.
15 you
always wash
hands before eating
(a) Yes.
(b) No,
704
16 When in a crowded lift. has it ever occurred to
you there might be an accident 7
(a) Not really,
(b) Yes, sometimes.
17 Do you like your evening meal
(n) more or less the same time every day 7 (b) whenever it is most convenient T (e) alwaysɖst the same lima ↑
18 Would you say that many Employees need fairly close supervlalors at work?
(s) Yea.
(b) No
19 Do you feel you work harder
than most of your friends?
(a) Tes
(b) No.
20 Do you think that a good boss should be aware:
of all the decisions, made by those working for
(a) Yes.. (b). No
Answers at foot of page.