JUST
FANCY
THAT
EXTRACT from
the pro-
gramme of a confertnes of the Medical flection of the Royal Statistical Society being höld in London: 1113 m.. Profesor
Professor G. C. Drew, Paychology, University College, Londen, on atcohol and accidents. 12.45 p.m... sherry,
of
MILK Hosting almost like
Me being put
on rule i lsrael coun in a fild to make children drink Indre "platan."
TREMEN fought a blaze the
other night in the City's Pudding Lane-where the Great Fire of London began in 1000. Nobody was hurt,
WES
TEST GERMAN poller wilt frivers present exemplary with posies of forget-me-nots in a road courtesy cainpaign which begas recently.
Two Houth Afrienus will net
out next month to drive 0,000 miles from Johannesburg City Hall to London's Trafalgar Square-In 总数 eight-lon, roller. five-mile-an-hour road Why? "No ofie," they Hay "has done it before."
-(London Express Service).
THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1959.
SHEER DOGGED COURAGE
That's The
Least You Can
Say About Him........
by
Rene MacColl
A FANTASTIC tragedy of our times, surely
unexampled in the political history of the West, came recently to its climax at the Waiter Reed hospital in Washington, where John Foster Dulles, 71-year-old American Secretary of State, resigned his office.
COM-
From the moment that the doctors having operated on Mr Dulles last February for the com- paratively unimperinat plaint of hernia, sued their amincus bulletin about a recur- cancer, it rense of abdominal was elaar One was running cat for this extraordinarily Brave end tenacious q
The recent announcement that there Was 箔 further eznete in the neck signalled the rapid spread of the disease.
Cynical
knew it. Mr world The Dulles's devoted wife and sister knew it. Dulles's firm Iriend and admirer President Elsen- hower knew it. Dulles himself knew it.
Airline
men
look back on forty years
AIRLINE flying is 40 years old this summer. It was on August 25, 1919, that the first regular London-Paris air services were started with con- verted 1914-18 war bombers.
HB
cycl pilot at
Page airfield
the
t
SVALS Colonel W. Doulas, now Lord of Kirtleside, chair.
One of the men who sat at the controls in the open Hundley cockpits of these earliest Crickleweed passenger aeroplanes still Shollo has a flying licence and, a Douglas month before the airlines' man of British European Alr- anniversary, he will be fly ways. Ing his private aeroplane in races at the national air Coventry.
Ho
סון
Wing Commander Meintosh, Bying longer though passenger aerepinnes, he gave us only a few years ago, is sull Wing Commander in the airline Robert Henry McIntosh, 01- sales year-old grandfather, one Britain's best-known illers.
business as ப
The twestleth century h:3 10 exten! blused Qur some Arns:biliiles. We have ten sp buffeted by the turbulent inares of events that we have tended, in sheer self-defence, to devel:p " protective glaze umolions,
these
cn
Pily, comparsion,
fre rather out Jashica nowadays.
of American the formulation foreign polley, and had Irned upon hin increasingly in foreign our TE, simply could not bring
Himself to go it alone."
DWC-
of
But I do not think that there can be many people-cluding Dulles's most severe critics of the past who can now remalh unwrung by the sombre drena of Washington.
You probably saw the picture of the leaving the hospital, siter he had flown up iron Gecegła to see his old ast trusted friend. Sorrow and dianay smudged the President's normally cheertul ocuntenance. His shoulders droped. His eyes
Were
I was obvious why Elsen- hower hesitated to accept the resignation of Dulles, which had on palically at his disposal ever since the Secretary of State hanself realised just how critical was his condition.
Moreover, Elsenhower shrank from dealing him the anal blow of knowing that he has been
clieved of his post,
Charmer
A
LINE STATE DEPARTMENT
WHO BUT THE PILOT CAN FLY IT?
British political cplaka-and with a god many personal pre- judices about the mun.
cut,
At the end of an during
Which Dulles with Cur questions with
cod humeur the utmost courtesy, and lucidity, I think there were none of us who did not come away profoundly im- pressed.
ot
the most hosite or irrelevant
always a considered received and measured reply,
Sane Jun was poked at him because of his incessant travels there was the purning jest in America
that
ho had "an infinite capacity
fca Taking planes,"
Traveller
I have watched Dulles magnificent scores of his formal Washing- .But
this. the point Wis
belleved little ten Press conferences; chatted Dulles
strongly in with him at diplomatic recep- the value of personal meel- tions from Paris 10 Sangs in the diplomacy of this
Dulles had
Sometimes mind, naive; eflen toe inflexible; he none the less instantly impress- ed his hearers with his Intellect.
-Holding to the philosophy of sharpened by his Calvin,
he could lawyer's training. charm and win unexpectedly.
At the end of the retend Bermuda Conference, just two years ago, Dulles sent word to the British correspondents that he would like to talk to than at an "off-the-record" meeting.
Eisenhower, who had always There was a large group of given his friend Dulles HIL us there that Sunday masing, unheard of amount of leeway in representing all shades of
Francisco.
Often mough these occasions were while Dulles was under
Serene
century.
Instead of saying at his desk In the State Department, The wanted to go see his opposite
so doing, he gained the claṣolute trust of his country's President,
He held strczy views coat Communiun, about China, about of Communist the threat
He is not the caly exaculos. man to have held such view.
And repecach him though his critics may concerning flex bility over Fuch touch-and-go crises es Quemey and Matsu, the Indo-Chinese WWW. and dealings with the Soviet Union, the fact remains that the WAT so often dreaded and heralded never broke.
Reluctant
Cummings
London Express Bervice.
Hig táning was often poor. His judgment occasionally question. tule. He could drop a brick with the best of them.
But when all is said and done, John Foster Dulles possessed, in full measure, one of the tunda- mental virtues-and the one which appeals to Englishmen.
He Is brave,
Jaunty
Remember when he art- sisted en lying off for yet another round of Entro- pean capitals Inst February although he was in intensa pain and know that, another operation leaned?
Dulles was insinctively call- And nurbers.
also the air Summit. There was a reason for journeys gave him 'raré copor- that. Ever
Homember how, on entering since President unities fer mediation- is Roesevelt came off very much spital the other day, was una said that he ructully deplored sund-best in his dealings with withered, he was naked how he the introduction of tha
replies jauntily, “I Jeto Stalin at the Yalla Conference fell, and
the feel fine" These Gre of 1945 Americans have been things which endear him, and "Because that will cut down my thinking time,"
reluctant to let Elsenhower try the things by which he will per- his luck with the beşiling.
haps be remembered above all. quick-minded Khrushchev.
For his courage.
heavy public fire for alleged "brinkmanship" and so forth, But he never oppeared to be in rattled. the slightest degree Always he
seemed to have a certainty In the righteousness of his policies.
He was a big man, chystally Es well as mentally. His cyca glinted through unfashionable He wanted more than any- sieel-rimmed spectacles, His thing else in life to be his clothes were unobtrusively good. country's Secretary of State. He Questions flung at him oven cehloved that ambition. And in
Dulles really wasp'l a diplo- mat In the old-fashioned sonst.
London Express Service.
THE FORGOTTEN VICTORS
RETURN TO SILENCE
they fought in unbelievable conditions. Where others failed, they succeeded. Now they are home, and no one seems to have noticed
Oree D
BY FRANK
from the sky for the next three months, till in the end they killed two terrorists and the rest Rave
squadron had to THE typed orders outside the C.O.'s office at
parachute into trees, growing. Merebrook Camp, Malvern, Wores, new home from a great, stinking swamp. representative with Air- of the 22nd Special Air Service, say with heavy Water and slime were chest
a conventional battalion of 800. of work, one of the Independent anti-climax: "Sentries will carry one pick handle, neck high for the smaller
one torch, one whistle."
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It seems slightly ridiculous
troops A pick handle....for the men Just home train killing Chinese Oght along a 300-mite ribbon terrorists at 15ft range in the that bordered the road and rail- Jungle war with Communism | way. But back in the vast, The West forgot but Britainprimeval jungle, the enemy was
zule. quietly won.
A torch....for the killers who No battalion of infantry could three months ago swept fanatis follow where it took days to tribesmen from Sabrina, the march a mile, and Aborigines -terrible,÷rwin-peaked mountainsidethe terrorists per dag ka
In Oman.
Someone remembered the SAS of the last war, and the Ingenuity with which they dapted themselves to desert
Broke out
A. whistle....for the deadly tarzans who parachute into treeters, prebably the toughest, and certainly the most tr orthodox. Aghting unit in the .world.
Behind the office door: Lt-CoL "Tony" Drane-Druatmond, MC and bar, veteran of Dunkirk, Italy, Arnheim, glider chum pion, professional "soldier-extra- crdinary.
Hence broke from a German prison by hiding 13 days in a cupboard in the guard room.
Then
wor.
A new SAS-lhe, 22nd, though there had been only three before
was formed.
And they set out to leain the ways of the Jungle. .the habits of their wili-o-the-wisp enemy ....how to reach out for him and kill him....how to notice and interpret the faintest track or smallest broken twig that fold how many hours or days. someone had passed by.
No contacts
He is 41 but looks a lean.
They Invented a technique for faced 6. In his skull is a plece parachuting into the green of one of his own ribs which jungle roof. Thoy devised un was used to patch a hole when apparatus - pulley gadget his head was battered in by a attached to CANVAR breeches Cypriot-Greek,
The beginning
called Bikinis—to enable them to swing from the tree tops on a 240ft. webbing rope.
And they decided that short expeditions into the bush were useless,
The soft perfumes of an Whole squadrons would have English spring drift through the to live there three months at a open window as you hear the time-squadrons of 60 men split. exotle tales of this sirenge up into troops of 15 who might young, regiment whose CO says: nioke Bo contact with one "We don't believe in marching another during the whole up and down and sloping arms.". operation.
From there small bases, patrols of four, often led only.
You note the stories. You piece together the history,
It began in Malaya nine years by a trooper, and with rationa ags. Ten thousand Communists for just three days, fanned out were sweeping from the jungle to search, *--
to attack -plantations, cut One sergeant followed a track flireāts, “ambush, - mutilate. for three days after food for his Malaya hung, between East four-man party hud, run out." and West for the second time They found four terrorists and in a decade,
killed them,
men,
On rafts
ENTWISLE
than Mulaya by day, where drinking water froze at night, und Arab snipers could fire to ki from 2,000 yards,
In the married quarters Sergt Hoger Lenet is painting the living-room Wails for the pretty girt he married 14 months ago. He got the BEM for gallantry in Malayo.
New lot'
Sergt Davidson, the man who After several operations like After which one sergeant got hlich-hiked from Oman to this it was recognised that 70 leave and hitch-hiked back to Malaya to see his wife, is help- ing her to settle in their new home, SAS men could do the work of Malaya to see his wife,
Such men ara
who
rare even The taxi-driver has heard that, And gradually this handful of among regulers in the British a "new lot" has moved into the specialists-they never number- Army.
camp, but doesn't know what SAS stands for.. cd more than 600 with their one Commonwealth squadron- Now the SAS is waiting for Threo girls in the main street
not They sought a terror gang of covered every state in Malaya. suminer exercises. A "drop" a have
4 glabep for the northern Norway, an expedition brown-skinned soldier 15 led by a top-rank Com-.. munist known is The Boby
Almost as ü sideline two to Tripolitanio, exercises in the hurries by. Killer because he had once squadrons were withdrawn from Welshmountains...and we The forgotten. victors of two united an unborn child carried the jungle where Ruling is done are ready for any other-opera-filc Lorgotten wars have
at almost arm's-length, to wipe tion such as Oman," says the "Infiltrated into this patch. by a woman terrorist he sus-
out the Sulton of Oman' CO. As you leave Mercbrook of springtline England, and no pected of disloyalty.
The Baby Killer's gang Jived enemies on bare mountain, and Camp the backing casca from uro-sems to have noticed
=(London Repesu Kervice), And so did the men opere desert where it was hotter Maldya ore si being opchea. un rafts.
"An-1 «understand.
長
BOB-A-JOB WEEK-BY JAK
the Boy Scout
tipped him.