DON IDDON'S DIARY
A REPORT ON THE OPENING OF -THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY ·
I See A Dream Come True
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, - MAY. 7, · 1959.
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THE Cabinet Minister said to me: "How are you going to treat this THE
story? Solemnly.. 'You know history was made when the St Lawrence Seaway opened?' Or snidely 'Politicians joyride as inland ocean opens. Or emotionally... 'Centuries-old dream came true today*"
"All towards some radio We were feuning over the und led all of the d'Iberville, steam- apmentus.
Welcome aboard to the ing up the Seaway leading volte of America," said one the armada of 60-odd ships man. which trailed out of sight, amt I said: "As a matter of moun fact the correct way to re-
aith: "You have the wrong
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For this story is to include to be the Voleu of Brital"
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three angles you men-
"History 8 being made, Ful if f have grand chikiren I shall tell them 1 was among the first to sail the Seaway.
This IS a politicians jessin ritle or jubket. Look at your colleaga hanning up for the cameranten and ogling the voters on the Seaway bunk
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inteasely strullaum] experience, a great achievement of the Canndlatts. mssted by rome Americarts and ruthlandy oppated by others."
The Minister agreed
Weg ch to say a few thousand words for the radio and tele vision people and pose for a few dozen photographers,
It has been a big weekend although I or anding no pre- detion about the ultimate worth
of this £160,000,000 Seaway
which penetrates 2,343 miles into the heart of North America,
Sparkling
For even as the ships sailed th; werkend and the vast pro- Jeet was opened the
American railroads and other big financial inforests swore enmity and vyen talked of a fight to the death.
hare an idea that the rail- reads will die first.
But w the Senway volu- fionise world transport and create a new inland empire in Cunada and the United States?
No che seems quità sure on board the d'Iberville, which earries the Canadian Cabinet, 115 Members of Parliament, 23
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expected The d'Iberville is tardship. practically a luxury ship with spacious lounge, good cabins, and a very cordial captain, offlcers and crew.
Most of Montreal and the currounding villages turned out for the great event. We called through a multitude of smilin waving, applauding people Uned up on the banks or precariously perched on the locks and scuf- felding.
The Seaway, at least the part I have been travelling, Is not brautiful-nci yet. There has
been a giant gouging of earth. zing of villages, and building of locks, dams, power stations,
On the sides of the SexwNY in is narroty stretches
tri mounds of
grey diri muck Bke the pit banks 10 Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the
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When the wind blows the wrong way the nic is heavy with the grey dust. This will
e taken care of, I was told by sevin M.P.s, two Senators, one harbour master and one pubile relations official.
Otherwise 1 have no criticizmi, Maybe the Scuway should have been deeper and wider between the like, but there never were any plung to sail the Queza Mary or Queen Elizabeth up hore.
The royal yacht Deltennia will negotiate this northwest page with case. And 1 am curtals the Queen and partieu- larly Prince Philip will be cn- Besimalie
about this Cinnt Comedian-American project.
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Lauren Bacall on Safari
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Agra, India, SHOELESS, Lauren
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in Ottawa to attend a funeral
But We have
The Seaway hos made possible
chctric power dam with a capa-
and said: "Perhaps this
the building of a murive bydro-place is so beautiful be-
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even mars exubers and spark
on board in I personality than Mr Diefen- Baker Mr George He's Canada's Minister of Transport. work.
the Provider of Ontario, The power plant has been a joint
Going East with
London's most-
talked-about woman
OUT of Hollywood_three months ago the honey- blonde widow of Humphrey Bogart flew into London to make a new home....and 'a most. mentioned name about town. Her social bracket Noel Coward, Vivien Leigh, Kay Kendall. But by March end-still restless, still seeking solace if only in travel-she flew on again via India. Her declared intention; to set up home in New York.
perkneter of any place she is other people live but also to be "After all, it Was
built visiting. "I believe in walking." with them while they are doing because a man loved she says, "It's the only way you it. He is known us the m star Canadians in the armacia- politieinn and flashes his teeth i have reine aeroes fow Amert-
woman; because he wanted really see things, the only way
. "But i know that the real as expertly ng David Niven, eens have repeated what to pay tribute to her love, you are not entirely a stranger."
reason why I travel so much is He has dominated
I'm the pro-
Vemst without In material things she is on that heurd so many timea And do you know what? I ceedings and deserves 10. At before: »This Senway
was think women are worth it." uncomplicated traveller. But she security. Any woman is outside the Government's invitatlon I built to supply Canadian when
is a complex woman.
of marriage. Oh, I have financial sailed In the d'lbervic and from our Middle West to Lave- Obviously, the women
security, and with children to I'm glad I did.
glad In looks she is distinctive and bring up and educate I'm and other European ports around us thought so too. dramatic. Her hair is honey of i...but that's not what I When I first went aboard in "way ale hull to ship our Ten thousand people a week ecloured and beautiful whether really mem. When u the clearly lours waIS hon vie from Labrador to the grabbed by a couple of officials manturturing centres loland,
come to this sun-baked old it is dressed up or drawn backt has no real home she is alone. town. of Agra. They in a severe hun.
"Go In a way what I'm look come to see the tomb that Her eyes are large and green, g for when I'm travelling to it Prince Shah Jahan built
I mis It, and I don't in memory of his consort, and have a candid humour. Her home.
went my children to miss it. Mumtaz Mahal, 329 years and there is a teline grace and That is why I'm going to New "ago"""" "Am-women- visitors wit to the marements-of-1125 York-the-du-Children-
outnumber men by three to lean figure.
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As she cased her feet back Into sitng-back sandaly Lauren Barat still looked reflective,
Then she chuckled gently. " don't went any monuments but to me after I'm gone," she said. "I'll willingly setile for effection while I'm here."
Active
to star with Kenneth More and
mouth is wide and
Flippant
impulsive,
woman
need a sense of permanency in their background. They need room they can think of is their rcom, they need the nɛsurance that they will see the same
Yel, in company, these assets friends tomorrow. Well, that is are often musked by a flippant, what they will have for a while almost aggressive, manner. She in New York. scoma constantly to be demand-
"But to me a home, the kind Ing that she be noted, not
that kids need, is based on two Impulsive, intriguing woman bụt factors: a man and a woman. Take awry one, and it's not a real home any more,
as a challenging character.
"So what the hell, I don't give
a dimn," she will say.
"It's
man's world--and She Is In India professionally,
thel's the way it should stay, Yet behind the brittle, often for my vole. No woman with Herbert Lem In "North-West amusing, defence, one senses a any intelligence _ wants to do- Frontier," for the Bank Or women who is more vulnerable minste a man. Bogey made it ganisation. The picture is being in her sensitivities than most. plain who was the boar in our made in the rugged bitis around
marriage. I was glad that he
Bacall refle
JOHN
LAMBERT
BIG-NAME
HUNTING IN
INDIA
ba dark glasses, strange sights
Cash Galore-And Still It Is Not A Paradise
from ROBERT WALSH
Kuwait.
THERE was a time when the Arab roamed the desert here and thought there was nothing under the sund but more sand-and all of it perfect for a white man's grave.
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Then, in the 1930's, before the Arab's indifferent gaze, the white the pink-walled city of Jolpur. She has a big, roaring sense did." She is staying in the Rambagh of humour which stops short at
man struck oil. And now, in 1959, the Arab is beginning to strike back. Palace, the cid home of the any slight to her femininity. "I It was night now. The alr Maharajahs of Jaipur.
don't mind being one of the was balmy with the scent of the
"We and our oil belong And the 80,000 Kuwaltin tanks, the anaiding pipce; the cooling earth,
The leading But, unlike most film stars on fellows, up to a point." she says,
to Nasser," "Nationalisa have been joined by 160,000 latticed towers. this scat of location, she is not "but 1 sull like to be treated as
And, In another direction, the Inclined to sit back with
tall a woman."
corenity that makes lying in a
some of today's danians, Syrians, Tunisians, fantastic building brought about drinks and small-talk. "I just.
She has a strong and at times e Lauren Bacall.
suitcase worth while," murmur These are can't sit still and watch
Iraqle, Yemenites, Algerians, by this ceaseless, night-and-day slogans in this tiny coun- world go by," she says. "I have stormy temper. It is sparked "from" twin `roots.
try, the size of Wales, which Lebanese, British, Ameri- flow-the Government
hospitals, airport, roads, schools, to be in there loving it, or most often
But a few minutes later one sits on top of one-quarter cans, Germans, Japanese, cineras and, chove all, banks, Sighting it, but in it anyway." Being a person who is always snag of being *A travelling
So, whenever the esmeras are Intensely involved in whatever woman brought her no serenity, of the world's total of min Butch, and others who know not turning on her, she gets she is doing, sha la impotient of "Ye gods!" she cried at the sighi ply.
disinterest from others. Being of the dinner menu, an emotional women, she is wary again!" of insincerity,
"Moments like this have a tion," "Bigger profita," assorted Egyptians, Jor- pier and its waiting tankera.
Into it.
Complex
the
Why does she travel so much? Into the sweltering bämars, Slowly, in her husicy, level tone stacked bigh with swollen mango that often has a salty tang but fruit, the startling rainbows of seldom a sentimental tinge tho sic and cotton, the smell of answered: "I have always hadia humanity
compelling ouriosity shout pod- She is not a back-seat travel ple and pinces. I have always. ier. The car is parked on the wanted not only to see the way
“Buzzard
TOMORROW: Bacall and the Crystal Ball
--{London Express Service).
a good thing when they see it.
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offices,
Out at Ahmad, the oil city.
miles from Kuwalt, tho desart scene was even more extraordinarily modern, with ita conditioning and aw ken ming pools.
ppoint Swimming
In д
As recently as 1046 most people in Kuwait Town made a meagre Ilving out
I surveyed the good thing country where a barrel of water of boat building and pearl from 140 foot up on a refinery cass Its against la d. for a diving in the Parslan Gulf,ger at night, The whole barrel of oli, Kuwait has to Today there are only four cone, stretching away for miles, diat 4,000,000 millors a day of Kuwaitis still looking for across the gently undulating fresh water from the go.
dunes, was në brilliantly it as 'It weg diffbeult to believe that pearls. The rest are up to Plecadilly Circus. In one iliro- a few years ago the only thing their smiles in,oil."
tion, the grant squat abrazo above the sand was the sky,