POCKET CARTOONS
by OSBART LANCASTER
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¡DIVERSIO
4 don't know, darling.
but I imagine it's Jac Frank Sinatra paying a
stente call,"
Mr. Dulfer's right. deulite mer standard of fang's going to result in tal mmability lang before
yeur is up."
**Now tell me, seriously, just how do the Foreign Office feel about Misk Bartok going over to the Afro- Aslan bloc??"
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EUROPE
U.S.A
ORIENT
THE CHINA MAIL,· THURSDAY," NOVEMBER 13, 1958:
President Rockefeller
THAT'S HOW MILLIONS SEE IT NOW
Miami, Wednesday. MAHAMI is a perfect place
M
to cover the after- nation-wide
muth of 20
election.
Why? Benguet
more thaar: En
Tho
here, far metropolis
zuzko
of New York of the rapital, Washington, is # representative hverage cross-section Americans
who Rave the Dinerals their in- pressive sweep at. the pits and whe gol of the people Netson Rockefeller, the multi- millezetre, the Clovernor's ehair in New York State
F
hotels and
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DON IDDON reports
on
the U.S. election shock
the
headline over The big mala feature article In the Mitoni Heruid today reads: Well. de Rockefetig? that's how some see it."
Actually that's how millio
It. Bul the Presidential Is t until 1960, anel clerton two years is a long, long time. If Rockefeller ensi However, prove he has stamion, ELN well nel striking personality
charm he probably etuiearing will get the chance to sun for the White House,
exported things: "I've bech eveted to the Governorship of New York State, and I expect tu
four zelve my full
ol years Gilice.**
But they all say that, and convince atsoiutely no one
If it turns out to be a light the LWO personable lionaires-Hockefeller for the Reput{leans, and Jack Kennedy, backed by his father's militons, for the Democrats-it will be the must exclling election campaign. In a decade.
The wr Lerners outshle the
between moteis rend like
Stat Now 46 Humpdo,
Vermont,
New New Steingan,
York. Jersey, Maryland, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, แม vesi California, 1210 arch rival of the Sunshare State of Florida,
Inside track Rockefeller is the big excile. out, the new mutinee idol on the national stage. the favouette son of all the Republients end
any Democrats in well.
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It hardly emerged
fc.t
mabana curly this mo when a wait, wering thick glasses cand a thin bathing suit, bore is on
I'm a
I met an Old Guards Repubk- can for a drink during the day anwchine poiltleton, James Dewhurst from Topeka,
ile
Beer havi politicul stargle.
trust people Palito He's got something that the younre. Ike used to trave.
will "Rockefeller
nose Du! Nixut: Nixon has been a 11de 19 sliek, a 114 low inges of the profisateral, ready to turn on the tap on every
bat of a dirly aghter
A
100
If
See the installs" lung Democrat--voted 121st way Cut ail
I love my life buil Kockefeller He certainly is the Democralle candidate?" cute. Do you think he
i know my business it will be Rockefeller in '00."
"And who wil be I asked:
have
chunner
Presidency?"
1
surd he
for
wilt the
A fight
ine
have
Mr Dewhurst สป "Now than
there. it ያንኑ፡ብ the might be young Jack Kennedy, the tough he is on lush Catholic the auxf the US he never had a President. It might Calbolic
e Stu, Symington, a good maca, experienced, Laberal, got what it takes
hud INOTL being il Chance
candidate for Republican Daveydency, in fact he has In de irtick. but whe}{{ he the Democrat standard-bearer, well, that was some chlog cise again
1
All day I have been struck by the fact that the voters ᏎᏘ 2 talkth about Rockefeller's Victory far more than about the Benderats' triumph.
'Nice guy'
The Democratie expected to wash
wove was the country,
and all the pollsters have been proved right for once, so there as no surprise element to th tale the publle fancy.
Why did the Republicans take such a drubbing when the coun- try is prosperous and at peace and the American future looks
vaclilating calmness of Presl- dent Elsenhower. People still like Ike and always will ke Ike. but they think very little
President or
of him as a
lender during
of office.
his second term
He is regarded na nn nil- round nice Auy who should have got out when the going was good, and when his repula- tion and prestige were, con- siderable.
I Interpret the result also as n repudiation of much of Jolm Foster Dulles "brinkmanship." The Americans want some new, fresit faces, and are allergic to the tired, old ones.
Success
No change
The extent of the Democrats" demonstrated all over the country (except New York State). It even swept the State of Connecticut
in
a remarkable feat. The tide nows with them. By making use of their majority in boln the House and the Senate, they hold the whip hand over both national and Internationui poilcy.
However, lo [10 way wil this affect the cordial Anglo- American partnership.
During the past two yeurs, uver and over again, the De- mocals, the Opposition Party, have given Eisenhower gen- erous and often unstinted sup- port.
I feel sorry for Mr Nixon to- day, but not too sorry. Some of John Knight, editor and pub-
been dubious, tis tuctics have her of a chain of Florida
"The results and that is putting it kindly. newspapers, say:
For Ad-
ad- Rockefeller 1 have rebuke and repudiate the
It ministration,
has not ba- mirution. He has achieved a political rairacle. He routed -lanced the budget, or materially
reduceri expenditure. It has fet bis millionaire rival Averell Harriman and shaltered the wishy-washy foreign polter lap to the shores of foreign well-ulied De Saplo Tammany
Hall machine,
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Hum "It might be iuber
"And It Jus let its relatively I have not known a new face
Lul a high unemployment stand as atte
engage phrey. Don't know, personality new
and going to be a r11 r J attention
g black mark against it." this Couttry's
I would go farther than Mr next time. admiration 2 Ainly since the
Rockefeller himself. Jubilant Knight. The election late Wendell Wilkie zoomed like
results wasn't talking demonstrate that the American in sky-rocket, only to be shot over bis victory
about 1960. He was saying the pubhe is sick of the weak and down by Franklin Roosevelt,
to show He has two years himself a good Governor and then brace himself for the bl leap into the Presidentlal arena, Altogether an exciting, stirring election, with the winning.
best
mant
THE NILE
UNCOMPLETED SENTENCE
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ان بابا جده
1959
1960
At the moment when
Russia and Nasser plan a get-together the Mail's roving reporter secures an enlightening interview...
Delmer talks to Haile Selassie
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spinnt aggression as I think we have shown in the past."
I have met and
talked importance and comfort to Cairo, the Emperor says: "Let And the Emperor well aware of me assure you, we shall not let once more-after 22 years
the pressures menweing him ahyone intervene in our inter-
Wo -..with the
neighbours in Sudan nal affairs.
strong stout-hearted
and bis
he refuses to enough to defend ourselves und resolute fighter who is even though the all-important ruler of regard the threat of Nasser to Ethiopia. The leader of the Ethiopis as immediate. country which is a bulwark of the free world against a joint Cairo-Moscow offen- sive for the domination of Afrien
the and
Faxt. the
The
Emperor plunges right from the outset of our talk into the subject of the latest Soviet
Nile area- manoeuvre in the
£30,000,000 the granting of a
Krushchev to Nasser Middle loan by
with the Egyptians Haile Selassie to help
stage of the ICW
First, Emperor of the first
Aswati Dr. Ethiopia, Unconquerable Lion of Judah. King of
Pretexts
propaganda quixelically reopen is centre counter-measure
A
czar Dr Hill has deckiel, is 10
here 06
dan- to the
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anti-British and
currents flowing Western here from Moscow and Calro.
am
anti-
giad
The Emperor is splendidly And about the Nasser agents disguised
Banatellite stout the Council. "I was so to sco the British and merchants who have
Counell go from here," he says entered Somaa, on Ethiopia's courteously, "and I borders, and who oro actively it is to come back. plotting to seize
a picco Ethiopian Territory, he says: "We want to be friends with the Somatic". And he adds:
of
Courage
intention of "But Et
much more uur frontiers. We important that we should have
reat our a
school British
with British teachers and Britlah methods of teaching. I would And then he says firmly with give them the land for it. The what is a clear reference to the French hnvo an excellent Nosser Intrigues:
shall school." never allow an outside Power
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" notice," he says, that the "but I have no
talk first reports
only of changing Kings, by God Appointed. Sudan's and Uganda's interests shall give up no part of
Ignored, while realm." What a contrast between having been
little there is no reference to those The down-and-out monarch interviewed in of Ethiopia. Geneva in 1936. Here he is now facing me in his red- Labbed field-marshal's uni- form,
of the 14 rows
"A bad omission, this. For let world's most distinguished those concerned not overlook medals on his chest. Evert that Ethiopia's highlands an!
Tana are the One subject very close to the his immensely human Ethiopin's Lake
More and more, as I sit here Nile and Emperor's heart is that Britain smile, which crinkles up his source of the Blue
--for which he tells me now in my hotel, thinking over
witia conversation
tho the deepest face every
now and then, provide 00 per cent of the water
affection this Slowing through the Blue Nile. he has
from the time when he was Emperor, cannot wipe out the sense
and his of
truly his
majentic presence and authority.
The Law
For Haile Selasate-let there
to establish itself in Somalia or He adds: "If there is enough Rain a political hold over it." money after that to open
here, That is clear and unambiguous British Council
excellent, But let us have a enough for anyone,
real British school first."
I
centre
admire
"We Ethiopians too let me lving in Bath as an exile-is magnificent reallem make that clear-have our not taking a greater part in courage. plans and projects for buliding helping Ethlopin with lis de- dama and using the Nile for 'velopment programme. Irrigation and electric power.
People will be ill-advised to Education
Ignore us," says the Emperor.
be no doubt about thin-despite And it is quite clear whom he
ol! the New trappings of meant by "people." parliamentary
he democracy
In education too the E-
blo
But I must warn you against being over-optimistle about Ethiopia on this account. Emperor is 07.
Help
The
No, the Emperor is certainly peror says: The Americanл, So, what is to hoppen when has Introduced, Is Etiopía.
"Italie losing no love for Natser. (It West Germans, and French ard his one-man show enda? Who And Ethiopia
is an open secret kers that he doing vastly more than the is to take over? Will it be the Selauale. 11 power to the furthest corners of his domain has used pretext after proloxt British" to ald Ethiopin.
Notect's to avoid accepting in absolute.
In bist things and in small. invitation to him to visli Cairo, Even the gram on Addis Ababa
Ho un even refrained from encecouro cannot be eut until the Emperor has ordered it visiting the Brussels exhibition,
He presides over his personal na he would like to have done, particularly
in on because li would have involved techalen? Jaw court. He drops Echoula, aphs the children passing either through or uver schools. questionn ané rewards them Egypt.) with fruit from his garden liko Rome patriarchal squire.
Bo
angry young men whom I have met here and on my travels up The West Germans, he tells country who are complaining hi me, have granted large num a thoroughly Noenerish way that bera of scholarships enabling the old privileged ruling families Ethloplans to study in Germany of the Emperor's circle must get nt Germany's out and be replaced by the
engineering European and American-eduent which the Emperor hopea it will? do all in tur political and econo- munications now lies in East
Africa, ed generation?
Will there be a military dicta- mio power to help forestall.
For a stable and prosperous How about that Bililah school Will the rallier weak and in- torship? Will there be n conftet And that brings us to the effectual heir to the throne be from which Namer and the Ilus Ethiopla, ilke the stable and the Emperor wants Mr Mnemil Of Namer's attempts to put abject of that controvec able to start himself? Wil the slats can pront? It is a poral properbus Bulan, Is vital to the Ian, and some British engineer In policy hta decision is law, pressure un Eudopin try pro sin body, the British Coun- now Parliament provide a safely billly that no one should rule out. British Commonwealth, the nerve to help in the country's develop
who, Britain's : shadow valve for revolutionary currents
And it is one that we should centre of whose African comment? And let's forget the ballet. of the teniest peganda broadcasts from Radio ell,
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