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THE CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1958.
PART TWO OF
FASCINATING - STUBY
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN BRITAIN
Wedding of the year... a gift
from the King
THIS MAN MACMILLAN
• In glittering style he married a duke's daughter; he joined a family that today has 16 representatives in the Houses of Parliament; his career seemed to be irrevocably shaped into the mould of routine and unques-
tioning service to his party and his class. But in a dingy schoolroom, in ́ ̧. the heart of a bitter, depression-hit town, the career of Harold Mac-· . millan took a startling deviation from its pre-determined course.
ORD and Lady Hillingdon, Lord and Lady Stanley, Mr and Mrs Humphrey de Trafford and the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford clubbed together and sent along a grandfather
place reserved for the wedding gift from the Speaker of the House of Commons and his wife. It was a book of Esop's Fables.
In spite of his captaincy in the Grenadier Guare, there was no doubt about it at all, said many people: young Harold Macmillan was doing very well for himself. Although he had been to Eton and Balliol, his father was a schoolmaster turned publisher, his mother the daughter of a small-town American doétor. And his grund- father had started life in a humble Scottish croft,
Now 30-year-old Harold Macmillan was to miy tra! daughter of the Bike uf
Devonshire. Yet it Was Ba Two generations before my tradesman Mnemion. dress! with self-conze"}¢11% subreti ha Nut by awe at the back of the crowd to spe
dermylas
Duke of Devonshira bolg må stalled as Chancellor og Cat bridge University
He had it all come about?
HE WAS WEARY
At the end of the war Harald A Macmillan, who had been three tunes wounded, was desperate- by wenty He bud liig hospital for nearly two years and he verhed för chuiter to Het away froni it all for a while before he entered the family publishing business.
Then the opportunity came. He was appointed A D.C. 10 the Duke of Levonshire Gunn ernor-General al Cuinda, The prospect was pleasin, but how fruitful Harold Macmillan did not kisw the day he boarded. thu ship.
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He was soon Within months of his arrival bet fell in love with lady Doroty Cavendish, daughter of his new master.
Istly Dorothy, attractiv charming, had a surprisingly great deal th comind with Macmillan's American-born mother. She had determination and a quick wIE
young Guards Captain before she foved film too. He pro-
by Robert Glenton
wested Title time +1#1 the rlinals of rngagement.
Sain every oetely euhumist ww's delirious at the fynspect of the marriage at St Margaret's, Westminster, at #15 pm on Apelf 21. 1020.
Even the King and Queen were said to be going,
Long before the hands of Fig Ben painted to nuon, traße In Westminster had crawled to an
gout hall,
From the suburbs caine the From the hospitais hotisewives. came the nurses,
So splendid was the occasion that it was a long time before anyone noticed that the King and QueenE had not arrived after all
Rumour had proved wrong. did nut break the The King kin øslablished custorni of never attending my but family weddings Imitad he hid sehr a Ulamond brooch,
The rest of the guests were sheer Debryti. Debrett decked out in ermine and osprey, silk,
and satin.
There were orange trees gema
pling.
the channel and lilles oly the
The bride did not keep the Bishop of Derby walking.
She arrived exactly on time in silver broende, Brussels Ince,
full, court train, myrtle
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orange blaskom, ali of 11 clouded by a mist of the finest Alencon NCL
The
MADE CLEAR
morning-suited bride- groom had an orchid in hip, buttonhole, pearl pin in hið tle, and a handitereniet peoping shyly from his right cìï.
THE MARRIAGE OF LADY
· DOROTHY DAVENDISH;
S A BRILLIANT GATHERING, ́ ́
The marriage took plos yesterday at 8t Margaret Westminster, of Ale. Hiroick Mang nilina, iste of the Grenadier Guarda, and AZDKO So, the bokico Mi Devinblandini Canada, and.
But it was not long before
ANXIOUS BRIBĖGRÖÖM chocks up on the bridesmaids, Left :-Record of a notable occasion.
Harold Macmillan hid not he made bis interests clear, got that taith, Sooty Stocktont Already séutely interested in was the spark that lit the fuse pollich, in started to koščen, that was to explode into a ráge trate of the pubiisline of of reformation. books of the subjébi, just as ils andfather had towards theology.
tened
And he found himself with exictly the same problem. Hr could not give absolute service towards one particular credä.
But Icw who me! Harold Macmillan on his first visi to hin new constituency heard ihe, hissing of the powder ratifi.
All they saw was a tall, slim, handsome man of 30, with dark darte moustache, and slightly 'wavy dark hair. bearing was erect but his man ner was adent
byes,
His first speeches were slow, hésitant, and his next sentence .nlways seemnes to escape hi
His voice was far too quiet to tha be heard of the back of hall.
The local Tarles Hind, to work hard to support their дечё него.
anthropology, a cockney from always known Shoreditch, was
the Gentieron in Stockton, as Coster.
At questioit timid) Jou,
But, few, in those first days, live. ever believed he would reach
NURSED HIM
With fils thevitable
Mr Macmillan recognisa His debt. From the time Coole retired-toc man
to alwage
jal pr called "My old until s death 27 years later, Harold Macinilian provided him with an atinuity,
Back in Stockton, the veförs
the chairman of the local carriation and his walking stick, regarded their new MP. a Conservativis
Associa and Bill Ellis stood shoulder, nian careless in his dress, his tion would Junip to his feet
shoulder with the young trousers biten unpressual, the Hearts time and shout candidate. They nursed him, man ito batted inner jackets
at evenlig functions. "Pll answer that one."
tuli hii, L to every
Dul in the House of Co- The time was to come when criticism they restortet "Gled Harold Macmillan. would orate
the lad' a chance. He's going ons it with very differen story, Almost 年 Mundy, Moc- bithely to Stocktort for an right to the top in time."
millan word
of sober an alr hour of a time without a 501-
His first speechos then would But there is one woman who elegance, lary note and
ornimented His answer
questions for another has little good to say about him were gracefully
even today. Sho Is a Conservo-with classical tags. forty-five minutes.
He was a bride of the back-
at first Under Machillan's hegis, a benchers
The Devonshire family hai GRIM AND ANGRY that stage. He was so nervois racial club was opened in the
a place in the that
The constituency for the Idle, penni- ilways found couldn't cat
Hauses of Parliament, Today royalty
Socialista laughed and the Con- less men of Stockton." Harold Macmillan was as shy servatives, unimpressed by his A member of the alet was there are 10, all with some finis It was as a Conservative....
of blood or marriage, not oven In polished carriages and the
sure suspected of stealing. not a completely convinced man as a schoolboy stealing lils first presence, were
There was obviously no reason dowagerly
that he was a good párty 'men.. The lady wanted straight -hacked
a prosecu- why young Harold Macmillion ...that he took his flest steps kiss from the girl next door.
He had a habit of saying at ilon, but Mäeralilan would not hauld not be â charming dhu olorears of 1920 they arrived
The Macmillan side of the in polities.
Stockton was grim and Stock the beginning must have insisted that no cetion at all be traditionat Krst,
of his early agree. More than that, he unquestioning additions to the procession.
chirch did not lack distinction He pecame the candidate for ion was coury, Poverty Was There was Queen Alexandri, either.
speeches Stockton-on-Tees.
SPINE A very real, and already there The Queen Mother in a robe ofAmong the family friends bigger slep than he mew. From were too many mich with your permissin to leke any uken.
line-I thinit to be right." H royal purple and a cloak of wore thres holders of life Order the elogarice ti Езоп und their cloth crips and thin scare words faltered, but his sincerity DUE TO THEM. Kilttering brocode. With her at Merit; Thomas Hardy, Lord Balliol and the urbanity of ed fhrants bitterly wasting their was Princess Victoria and her Marley, and Lord Btyce:
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IN PROCESSION
Nevertheless
there en masse,
was
There were four bridesmaids, all relatives of the bride, in Florentine gowns of sky-blue and silver and all carrying Hilles, There were four pages, also relatives of the bride. Led by the young Earl of Burlington, They were dressed in. Florentine fashion too, in blue and allver, with sky-blue hose.
As Grandfather Daniel veered from the Presbyterians to the Baptists and on to the Church of England, so Harold Mac-
lananxiously sought party which could have wholehearted allegiance.
the
Government Houso to the
ladies-in-walling and equetry. After he honeymoon, spent smoke-blackened desperation of days on the street corners.
who
men
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But soon tint passion, ital, and impétuósty, Dis Tegnty from his grandfather which he always struggles to resträlo, began to slow, He began to speak leily of the complacuit. Tories, of the fat men, the unimaginative men of bstance who were deaf to the to the tears and
the poverty of the
ufle
was clear: If he was elected he would take his own line even She was not Jong In the copiparty
Then came the Duke of Con- at Holton Abbey In Yorkshire, Stockton stretched a gap which of the handsome
And to them came Macmillan. If he had to disagree with his
"We might be wrong," he naught, Prince Albert, and young Mr. Macraillan, settled could be bridged only by a To their wives he was glamor party,
sald.
"ile was d down in the offfed of the family blind faith in the stress of ous. To the men tie was un-
There
were just two
weakling," things.
impressive.
undoubtedly believed in pays today. Mncilian right from the stert. Duc lmost entirely They were Bill Ellis, a.bluff, work of Joe Couse and Bill country.
shipyard red-faced
worker, Ells Harold trade unionist and Tory water; only 23, voles short of success and Joe Cooke, Tory agent, in the 1923 election.
posed, she skbabled and they
Prineers Christian. in black velvet and sables,
JUST SUPPOSING
Nurses are told:
'Smoke a pipe
Mr. Malert. Donaldson, the losters figspital speaking of lung of 8 Dertlin. said in annual fires ence in Lordun yesterday. ath and all one-f
inoke to take up
dearents director of THE
FOX
Dipe
"bi Horace Jonies the chest
•Aprciatio Thospital fic Central Middlesex okung, was among, udgien, i mr. 19omell were
Wie increase
not
an actrage of eight
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'Nábody's going to tell me cigarettes can do them more harm than that shop you hoop giving them,
Macmillan
was
Joe Cooke, 17 stone, self-taught, And the to them he won the a man who could letture ori scat in 1924.
PARADE
The fought then it with careful dispassion and then with fire,
In their turn his opponenti
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A COLUMN DE THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
MIGRATION-FIRST CILASS: ROUND, TRIP: Into New signs his autograph with a few After the main migration light York-and the arins of wait telen fremt
the Tchaikovsky
of swallows had passed over ing F.B.I. men-this week Plano Conecrid north Belgium on its way to sailed two young Comedians.
North Africa, two young birds. They had tone to Britain at THE LOSER: Sergeant John were found on the ground stownways In the Ivernia, W. Hamurotic $7,- went drink- wilted und, downcast.
served: four weeks for legal ing at his Monterey, California, entry, then decided to try their
They were put on a helicopier luck in the United Sinter
to Brussels,cleared through So James Westlake, 32, ot customs and) jept under nun- Montreal, and Leslie Walls, 30,
army base.
When the evening- was for advanced he suggested a game
drinking mate, Corporal Jams tree Brennan,
ray Inmbs In in air-conditioned of St John's, slowed away in. of "Itusalan rouette" with his room at the airport.to await the the Queen Mary, departure ofa four-engined. They were discovered passenger plané to Casablanca. dng out.
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According to the files, the "We hope they will and the DEPARTMENT OF COIN pinced a “bullet in n. revolver, swallows which few on without CIDENCE: Lightning struck pild the chamber, then labk them," zalit an dir hontent who lont tree Which erased to the turns al halding it to their head 1ooleed after this birds during blad, killing two wordmen and pulling the triger.
who wore about to chopit the flight.
down.
Imiona ich, Brennan told
BETTER LATE; Every T TEMPTATION: The a muistary inqurit time, Mt Maude Walker, of monks Icebox at the Dominican London, Wrota to, her husband Monastery in Ottawa was on
This Week, after 40 years,
Arthur Walker café.
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your-old labourer Daniel Cou- in Poland, Oregon, All.
LOW Traub rufa. Mr.Ito was sent to prisen for canvas
Products top. He Eight michths after, he wan minkes picketers banners." taught raiding 10 for the 50m- Union temer Herb Bentor lo went to Australls time,
walked up and down in Port- 1918-the year after he fatfied
Proclaimingi Maude bet he had been NEST-Edő: A Clunbedega land, hia Lahner
"Zidell Machinery and Supply, envied in World War 1 and the går, arrested for Vägtoney, hind
Company tinfole 10. union English climate was ind for his 12.000 in enit iti a cloth, Bard
workers." eliest.
round his walet,
"I won. It in a lottery," he Mid Walker, niyed behind. platura,
"We bellovod In Bur Miarkiago
YOUUS, BA-DA-DI-bum.
yous and we live always been, Colebrated plantes Vai Cilinien
In love," who lid.
Beside him trimped Law Traub with us bikhar rendika
Picket banner sido by nuña. canvas worked. until shop hate to
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