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THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1959.
'Scared Of Russia Smear Must Be Answered!
New York.
Now here is an opportunity for the newly
reorganised British Information Services in
New York and Washington to counter the smear
campaign against Britain mounted in Geneva,
Here is a chance to justify the hard work, the considerable expenditure (more than £500,000 a year), the sheaves of releases, announcements, digests, supplements, films, forums, and the exhausting social rounds.
^ recept iscon 1 k the and softness toward the Rus- Daily Netra. America's bigan, that it is preferable to be pest poper, Kapst "Dispatches 'conformis' and wrong on con- from the Foreign Ministers" ferencu lacties that heretient meeting at Geneva berm in and right,"
s to add up thus far to this: That Brifols wants to avoid a West Berlin showdown with N. S. Khrushchev at pimust any Lost,"
This is the best in a leries of at least a dozen editorials in the past few weeks arusing Britain of apponement, dex bility amounting to fear regard- ing Russia, Munich turtles, ami peace it any prive.
The phrase "Bate the British" movement was Brst used on the front page of the New York Times not long ago in a digutch from Geneva by Brew Middle tun which said:
Our new voices in America should make
themselves heard..
bond Britain's supposed will more accurate. ingness to make a deal with the
DON IDDON
for the British officlul to use to ganized publicity and pro-
"Don'l "Ever since the delegations Middleton. A
Trust poganda (don't be afraid of the for a Moment" word) machine should get roll- began to gather here diptomats the British
would be much ing. I want to see letters in the and officials have been talking movement
newspapers, rebuttals on radio and TV, positive speeches from Soviet Unioli uver Germany The blg Americun news the platforms, a flood of nows-
agencies, and the trend Beltuin 10-
including the worthy material-on- the city increased trade words
with Associated Press, which serves desics, Bussia It The expanse of
more then 1,000 American news- dis- Western solidarity,
papers, says in a Genova watch that Britain and Ruda
have gone so far as to clude secret political and economis deal in the midst of the Berlin crisis, This was printed all
United over tho Stutes and read out on hundreds of radio and TV programmes.
Joseph Alsop's dispatch from
* "Brillsh officials are irritated, They think most of the whis pering comes
from what are
termest, unofficial spokezanen" at tached to the French and West German delegations."
The Hearst chain of news- papers and, of course, the
British
soid:
con-
Big chance
This is the new men's bright to presont the opportunity Dritish case. In Washington we have Mr Leslie Glass replacing D'Arcy Edmondson, who, after years of strenuous service, has been made consul-general in New
England.
"Britain's willingness to act Chicago Pribune have been ex Ganova, widely syndicated here. Boston for the whole of as diplomatic broker between tremsely auspoelous di East and West at the conference matives, and stich a widely read of Foreign Ministers here has columnist os Davle! Lawrence evaporated in the heat of what and hit iniluential publication une prominent Briton has terio- 17.8. News and World Report the Hate the British' move- have been asking over and over
agathe "What are the British up du?"
.
The British delegation hus cuncluded, in view of the al- A Hate the British" move- legations of British weakness ment was loo strong a phrase
SELECTION By Friell
"My dear, Anite Ekberg doesn't know a thing--this one is so jealous he won't let anyone see me in my bikini!"
WACES-BY- CHLOVE FLAN to To #Oth
BANDITS
Don't disturb
Here, in New York, our chic! man, John Peck, is being trans- ferred to Strasbourg after two years of cloquent sprochen, painstaking planning, long days and nights of worry. His placement has not arrived yet,
FC-
It was a red-letter day in Callander when a....
FIFTY-MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCE CAME OFF
A
LITTLE grey-haired, middle-aged lady picked up the telephone in her cosy home in the little town of Callander, Ontario.
Carefully she dialled the number of the local newspaper office. Seconds later she was speaking to the advertising department.
There 16 mcreasing disquiet about the British delegation's tendency to concede points to the Soviet. It is alleged that the Soviets have undertaken to order the Arab Communist information executive, Jock asked, "to make an announce-
but his successor would be wise to catch the soonest Jet. A new
Pariles not to disturb British all Duncan, comes with a big Interests in the
Middle East putation.
in return for a British under-
These
reports galvanise our people here Into action.
should
I am mado very much aware
"What would it cost," she rement that Mrs Dionne has given birth to quintuplets and all are doing well?"
of the reports that New Yorkers
Now the army must advance, have been reading and listen- but not to the cocktail party Ing to on radio and television circuit. The advances are need- The man who came to fix the ed on
With such startling naively
Modern Miracle
than 50,000,000 to one. The chances of quina being borti
at all are even more remote,
World Interest
Small wonder, then, that the
Canadian
the whole
..and world marvelled
by Graham Wilson
Great Anguish
♫
dainty Cecile tho was quiet but friendly and
bernurse, which in fact became.
:
with strong religious (dicals.
sho
Despite the variations in the quins, though, they showed an almost rupernatural kinship in many things. Within them the telepathic instinct was strongly developed.
Taking to see problems cutside We are fortunate In having the Middle East with an eye Major Bill Ormerod, F mun the world first learned the more sympathetle to the Soviets, with an enormous range of
Allogether there is far too contacts, among the people who dramatic story of the birth of
Ave little girls In the little they were spared the embarrass- prankster. The much raw material for a really mould American public opinion, the now-famous Dionne quins.
should ment of having to watch hosplial bad misunderstanding between
Not for a moment did the attract the avid Interest of the watchers. the Americans and French and And we are lucky In the obliging
neighbour of Mrs whole world.
Soon the children had become their British alles."
elegant Nigel Gaydon. We also Dionne, who made the amazing
That enormous -- and often
u National Institution, To pro- The odd girl out was Marle. have an army of other offlelais, announcement, realise the full extremely kindly interest has feet them from exploitation, the Different from the other sisters,
lecture people, film
and observant, the five little girls been the greater part of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario she was serious marvel of information advisers,
people, secretaries, clerks and typists mobilised In Rockefeller fra Dionne had brought into tragedy of the Dionne sisters.
Even today their actions make moved them from the custody
of their paren13. Centre here and in Washington. the world on May 28, 1934,
news. Never can they hope to live out of the spotlight of publicity But it has always been like that for the publicity- shy quins,
It was This month tour of the quins,
for a normal birth
It was a cruel decision which Amiette and which Mrs Elzire Dionne was caused both parents great me a cigar to celebrate the birth and the radio and TV stations. Yvonile, Cecile,
On one occasion two of the of his new baby, said: "Say, the To some extent we have our Marie celebrate their 25th birth preparing. The family prac anguish, but it was some years
girls were tested in separato, British have got me worried. selves to blame for the animo-day. The fitin, Emilie, dled titioner, Dr Alan Dafoe, had no before the government relented
unconnected LOGIT. After- Chicken-hearted and illy-llver- sily. Some very unkind words tragically of epilepsy in 1954. cuse to suspect that he would and returned the children.
warda their ed were two descriptions I
But tha! have been sold about President
any of the quitts soon be the centre of one of the
were six, By the time they
compared and tallied exactly, heard on the air recently,
Eisenhower in some Dritish should have survived even for
most spectacular medical stories
right down to the smallest few days is modern of the century.
the immense popularity of the newspapers lately. He has been a
ertor. the whole described as almost go-ga.
mirocle.
He visited the mother a few quins had led to
of the town of In 500 years up to the birth hours before her labour began, Lonomy saw President Eisenhower of the Dlonnes there were only saw that she was comfortable, Callander being rebuilt around close-up three times the other 33 acts of quin births recorded, ruled out the likelihood of com- there. Ike coked fine, was tine, and not one of the bebles had plications and left the rest and is fine. The sick-man-of-survived beyond the first week. the-West slur should
The odds against survival dropped.
have been reckoned at moto
air conditioning, after
giving
"This Macmillan, he In'l unother Chamberlain, is he? And why are you so palsy- waly with the Russians? It has me worried-und no kidding."
In view of this flood of mis- Information our highly or
day.
the newspaper offices
Big Wheel from
TT is perfectly possible that the English "musical" is a thing of the past. The tradition start- ing with Purcell and flower- ing with Handel and Gilbert and Sullivan was glorious.
Now the best music coming Irom England is symphonie,
fatink it would romoka-lampiäGon-if-you were poidevent schlem prazer goo
chéque, Herkeit. Tell your boss to make it
payable to me."
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mušie s played in "The COURTFI hall or the opera house rather than in theatres.
In America I sce other developments. In fact is in the theatre in America that the Treat awakening of musical lite
bu
Broadway
talks about
British musicals
LEONARD BERNSTEIN,
most
Important man in U.S.
THE
Doctor's Dilemma
There was strenuous oppost-
answers него
Strong Bond
the
of the work in the, copable tion to the attempt, in 1940, to
That strong bond made it- wero when they hands of two local midwives.
fake them to New York for the self felt Americans to see.
Separated for tho eighteen. first time in their lives, when If they were taken away, said Moric entered a convent, the appalled local businessmen, ties of Bitelime proved too a few months, First Yvonne Tived, tiny hotels, stores, and garages would great. Within
Many would have pining for her sisters com- fruli and weighing lean lose trade. than two pounds. Not long to close down. Serlous local un- panionship, she returned home. employment would be created, after cume the second baby he
New York scheme Tell
and
and it was now cbvious that at
least one more wus still to through.
crene.
Sturdy
died, The next year Emilio and the quins were for over parted. Marie, the most sen- olive, pined and sickened, and her health is still uncerlain,
Today, three of the four girls Annelle 19. Mra
This the midwives were not prepared to cope with. Urgently they sent for Dr Dafoe who rushed tu
Mean- the scene.
As they grew up the in- tire married, while the third child had been dividual characterisiles of the Germaine Allard: Cello la Mra quins began to develop All Philippe Langiols and Marle is For the last two-births the were slightly built, but sturdy Mrs Florian Houle,
Yvonne is unmarried, deeter was there, to supervise. and generally in good health.
_stam
* YevÙnna-and-Annosta ogé une mored the kindly," "géului""Man,"
The five Uny babes welched leaders of the sisters, making mast of the decisions and guld- jurt 10 poundi between them.
musicals. flew into London recently. MOLIATAS LAISSAIRésuic
Wheel who has given the Broadway show its biggest leap for- ward since Rodgers and Hammerstein. His "Went Bide Story"" brought in the age of the "danaical" and now he has a second West End hit with "Candide." He gave JOHN CRUESEMANN his musical philosophy; and some pungent words on the British Muzica.
is coming and from Negro But after a year I still cannot music which has crept in say what that is. through Jazz,
"Oklahoma!" and "West Side
Story"
are really taking long view, the same thing.
serious,
SERIOUS.
•
the
NO COMPOSING
terms.
From that day to this I never doubled that making music was what I had to do.
lifo
Dr Dafce was in a quandary. Ing the other three. He was s very ordinary G.P.
Emilie was the family
Only
Despite their wealth and rot of them interites-about-m
100,000 when they were 21- the girls spend little, and pre- fer a quiet life.
After 25 years of relentless
and there was nothing in the humorist, a constant and lively publielty, they deserve it. book to tell him how to tackle such a problem.
Tourist Attraction
I can only describe my as one of almost mystical good He knew the inevitable fate fortune. On my 23rd birthday of quins
there was no hope at all of
SYMPHONY
Prayers
For Plants
and confessed that|HOUSANDS of
T Nevertheless, people
throughout Craze In
The U.S.A.
begun to experiment
fight for their Ilves.
It was touch and go for awith jong time. The doctor and his helpers fought
n curious new It is known as ceaselessly, hobby.
It is a sad fact that conductors They worked hard and long. "plant-praying." Using showing pairs of potted plants
The quina would survive.
"You can
try these experi- nients yourself any me
I had planned this summer- a man I had never heard of, when we have a break-asa Arturo Rodglaskl, conductor of their survival. composing period working on the New Philharmonte, ilterally in the true tradition of his pro- the United States have an island on a Massachusetts asked me out of the blue to fession, he began the long, hord What American musicals may lake. But the State Department become his assistant. be liko in 10 years' time' is of asked the orchestra to under- the take a European and Mid-East course, hard to say, but as
tour as well as give concerts in idlom becomes more assured think the musicals will become Russia, operas. Musical growth always So there is no composing rarely get sick, but in my first and slept Hitle. siems from the light to the time for me. And I doubt season watching, wondering, and But those wearying hours of "prayer experimentation one healthy, ons retarded.
whether I can get any done learning Bruno Walter was sud- arduous for two years, which is a great denly taken ill and I had to their reward Before long the
application brought kits" supplied by the Same Conditions: Too much emphasis has been grief.
conduct. That season placed on this versatility
conduc-critical danger period was over. Religious Research When you ane -composing for did get lil....... ming. There is nothing I can your Limo 13 carved ÚA L help doing in muste:
The world, lensely expectant Foundation of Los An- want to," he says, "A number perform- musical
That year too-1043—my first Time is
a vast show of joy and relief.tical seeds in two pots them is kept just the same, ex-
of seeds. Everything minimise any one of the things like any other work.
"Fancy Free," produced by From every country people Jerome Robbins (with whom
the Beeds gro Becked in their thousands to see and pray for the healthy cept that half worked on "West Side Story"), the miracle babies ・・・
given proyer, the other half iro My luck was In.
Cifts of money and goods, growth of one.
not." musician, so it is natural for me You play a phrase of music in those early days in my offers from flm and advertising
Although cartier The Idea of proving that to do them all. It is true for over in your mind over and twenties. I was much more con- companies poured in. A trust
really works plant experiments conducted at Instance I cannot play the obon over again. A novelist, onco fident than I ал now. The fund was set up. By their fame plent-praylog or sing-but this all-roundness he has put his sentence together amazing spontaneous
war developed by Dr Franklin Duke University's famous De- rush of a large fortune soon came the Loehr, former bomber pilot partment of Parapsychology seems natural to me.
satisfactorily, can Ko on. A creation and events left no time way of the five sisters,
were declared a failure, Dr .now a. Presbyterian Rapidly they became a power and composer can spend hours over for introspection. The Ume was
Lochr is firmly convinced that But now that I have taken on a single bar,
ful tourist attraction. They find
hia own prayers constituted the the full-time conducting of the My childhood was strange. I
Dr Lochr describes a series ferce which caused some plants New York Philharmonie for
As I became older I got more to be protected from the enger
experimenta which he a did not know such a thing at a self-critical and much less public with barbed wire fences of
to bloom and others to wither. frinbrum of three year I am world of rusle existed until conident.
Their playroom, as they grew | belloves proves
the tangible. He also believes it is bqually more. hemmed in. The idea in was 10 and un qunt of mine lett -
up, was walled with tho-way results of prayer.” concentrating on, this jub was us an old plano when sbé moved
viston • glass, Vialtors could
The experiments are docu-ble to "pray against
plant. discover my focal point. away fruiti Boston.
watch the grb at play-but 'mented with photographs
(London Express Service).
ing creating, teaching. People actunt medium of creation-un- Pittsburgh, and my first ballet,
an symphony, was performed Infor weeks, heard this news with geles, they plant iden- or seeds are planted-any kind
# Sensational!
* Thrilling!
I do in favour of praising the
number...
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