WHY BIG BUSINESS CAN'T CARRY ON. WITHOUT PEOPLE LIKE THIS...
Contact Woman!
RE
By ROGER LAWRIE
London. ECENTLY Madame Marthe Brusset, blonde, blue-eyed and 50, fought a £133,000 High Court action against a rich City of London broker,
She lost her case. But we are indebted to Madame Brussel for one of the most fascinating glimpses ever into the world of big business.
For this accomplished worsh This sort of job in very revealed that sic was worth hard work. It is necessary to CL000 a month to business plan everything to the tast de- interests in America for her
Lall. tales ns
contact women,
SURPRISED
She is surprised at the stir ker revelations have caused in Britain.
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"There are other women Amedies," she toki me, "who do the ente job and earn us much --and even more-than 1 dl.
It is a job ahsone could do. All that is necessary is to know The right people.”
Orten I worked with my chef in the kitchen."
Modume Brusset la interest-
"THE CHINA MAIL;
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1959.
The
Go-Between
NIXON CLINCHED
IT OVER THE KITCHEN SINK
by Stephen Const
RICHARD
MILHOUS NIXON,
Init. But what is more In-breezy and stylish as a snap-brim teresting is the condition of so=
hat, has pulled off the biggest coup elety which makes her neees- saty.
in his career.
For the truth is that this ex-
traordinary wenen is worth her knock of reducing business to its simple essentials the physical proximity of Two people with something of mu-
her £1,000 eonth simply fur
jual benefit to discuss,
This, really, is what business is about, Yet what has hap-
M.dane Brussel get to know the light reple in the course of the riges to rich men, pened? when she entertained the affluent and the inuenilai in her homes. in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Washington.
What exactly is this job that anyone could do?
Let Madame Brussel, smooth- ing down her black Dior dress with a hand dregated by diamond-set clony rim, explain.
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"My job was to make cats- thels," she said. "The tim was working for would pay for my house.
They would pay for the ford and the drink and the flowers, They would pay for the servand
" would heep, the bills for everything I spent
"The president or one of the ditvelers of the firm weld send for me and say '1 want Mi-and-***
BIG JUNGLE
We have hedged ourselves มวยจ with 10 Buch bureau- cracy -- yes, even private enter-
can be barroucratic prise
that the met
at the top have
become more and more remote from the basic, earthy principles of business.
The men with the real power are furever hacking their way towards each ather through jungle of usage which springs up gain before them as soon as they have cut it down.
This is not only a disease of
capitalism. Recently the Rus- meel glans were complaining that
to
Paul was off her nertied gay. From there Mudame itrus- get took over.
*g would arrange a Hitlerench-
Nussian factories had adopted the habit of putting a contact man on the payroll.
Hi: object? To by-pass the
fail or dinner party. magbe anal channels and procure by for about 50 people, with the personal negotiation the
The person
raw
the
he materials without which
factory could not maintain its
wil to meet included
*ually I would know the peu, de win were to be invited. Bu if not, 1 would nok sonic- en el to introduce ine first. "Eleve apny friends. There Is always anone with knows someone who can help."
'NOT A SPY'
71dam Brussel's implyer would meet the person he wish- ed to meet mul from there on It was up to him Madne Brinari's job was done,
" was but a spy, you know,
I did not have
know very
impeh about the business.
"I was not part of my job to a big businessmen wo con fide in me, but simply to arrange
introdutions."
Let no one think, however, that the He of Madume Brus- sel was one big social whirl. Life, for her,
reni Was earnest.
w'Bayer's a TONIC
Shapers TONK
FREE!
and
Do not think it does not hap- pen in Britain, either.
We may nuk aspire tó
the fambavance of
The MadainTES Brussels.
RUT LOOK AT THE EM- PLOYEE LIST OF MANY BIG FIRMS IN THIS COUNTRY AND YOU CAN SPOT THE CONTACT MAN,
FANCY TITLE
He may be called "investiga- or "sprelal' assignments tur
OF SOIRE other representative," fancy title of the kind dear to
British hearts,
backed by will Un
But his function handsome simply this: le get the men who wunt to do business Together with the men who have busi-
neys to do
He went to Russia with the most important mission he has ever had. He had to take a final, good, hard, long look at Khrushchev and decide whether he was the kind of man his chief, President Eisenhower, should meet.
It was Nixon's Job to put the finishing touch to many months of patient, skilful, and tricky diplomacy, Initiated by Britain and aimed at a Khrushchev-ike meeting.
"They'll eat him'
It was not easy. And before Nixon left for Russia it looked to many Americans as if he was about to enter the lions' den.
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“They'll eat him alive, grin and all," heard an undiplomatic American diplomat say.
They did not. For a very good reason: Nixon's personality.
For this main's greatest gift is his ability to size up a country, a crowd
a man with split-second intelligence. And to react accordingly.--
In Russia Nixon used this gift to the full..
The moment he landed in Moscow he knew be was in for a cool hello. When Khrushchev started baking him with his own pecullar brand of the hug-lug-hug technique, Nixon gave as good as he got. The scene: the model kitchen at the Moscow American Exhibition,
I think Mr K got a big sur- prise in that klichen. This 19 what Nixon had hoped. Like all showmen he knows the value of surprise.
That is why, instead of dismissing Khrush- chev's remarks with cold silence or by losing his temper, he argued back and even put Khrushchev off his stride.
It was the birth of "lichen diplomacy" much as it may be regretted.
It gave Nixon the chance to get to grips with Mr K.
It opened the way for their secret talks. And it made It possible for Nixon to send n realinile report on Khrushchev to Eisenhower. That report led to re recent announcement,
During this trip Nixan has pulled off one of the nearest hat-irleks n statesman can kopa for.
BY DOTTING the I's and crossing the tx of the movement started by Macmillan he brought about the Ike-Khrashchev rendezvous,
HE MANAGED to pol over the American point of view to the Russians in spite of considerable difficultles.
FINALLY, his reception by the people of Warsaw. which came as a tremendous demonstration of the popularity of the West in Poland, will make a very strong and important impression on the American electorate,
And most among the 3,000,000 American Poles.
That may help him a lot on the road to the White House, His personal summit.
(London Express Service),
LOST
Cummings
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"Ah, but if only the American people were doing this to me!"
WORLD, 1959
This hairy Woman who carries
off men
men-I've a sneaking
she
suspicion really exists
Ulan Bator.
This. the simple hua MONGOLIA is bursting with legends and stories
formula
Commerce,
it the heurt of all has been made by man's genius for complexity the hardest of all transactions to achieve.
This is the reason
for the
rontuet man and woman. The will be with us for a long time
lo come.
FOR THE SAD FACT IS THAT IN THE PRESENT
STATE OF HUMAN AFFAIRS,
WE CANNOT DO THEM,
FREE!
about the Abominable Snowman. Wherever
I went I found traces of the man monster.
One day, walking through the forest, I came upon a "yurt"-a Mongolian tent-where a plumption middle-aged Mongolian woman clothes by the river.
by
CHRISTOPHER
Into the Abominable
ho exists.
was washing Sewaan and ly convinced that
Ulan
The next day I went to visit U Buddhist temple in Bator. Most of the temples
2
were closed down after Mongo- I became a Communist State and the lamos were put
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1 said "Good morning" to her. And to my utter His wife disagreed with amazement she said in per- him. "No, he is not
English: WITHOUT fect
"Goodman, he is a bear." morning, would you like to come in for a cup of coffee?" But Rinchen was nda- work.
mant. He talked of the
Bul a few temples are still I had stumbled
the stories,
of the legends, pen, wonderfully garish build- summer home of Dr of the hunter who says Ings with tipstilted pagoda
There
in Rinchen. Mongolia's best he was
ure famag carried off by roofs, known man of letters. And the almus 40 years ago and and in the temple I visited on their saffron and orange robes what a charming mun he lived with an Abominable enormous porcelain Buddha and
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is, Bronzed and fit, he has Snowman family in their rows of praying boards where
leonine head with a mane cave. They were kind, he solves in prayer.
The Jwasants rostrate
of white hair and Mongo said, and just, and they
lian side whiskers,
An expert
__kept_the_cave...........warm and. dry by spreading kaves aceply over the floor.
says,
Rinchen says there are two kinds of Abominable Snowinan, We talked there, in the one about six feet tall and the middle of an ancient forest other smaller. Both, he on a sacred mountain, of art have long hair on their heads and literature and anclent with the rest of their bodies Mongolia.
It was then that I found he was an expert on the Abominable Snowman. "We call them 'almus' which means 'wlid man," he said.
"Do you really believe there is such a thing as the Abominable Snowman?" I naked.
"I am certain of it," he repiled, "and I am sure he la a man. A very low form of man who knows nothing of fire and can only talk in camel-like grunts."
covered, in short fun
A preference
Mongolian legend has it that the Abominable Snowwoman is fond of human man and, in fact,
prefers them to the Abominable Snowman.
A-suspicion
them-
DOBSON
London Express Service
This clique
mustn't crowd out the brains
A
By CHAPMAN PINCIIER
POWER struggle of immense significance to Britain's cconomic and military security is being waged in Whitehall.
to
vusi the scientists
the highly influential
1 is a determined attempt The "Club" has already from succeeded in getting one of their posi- members, Sir Alan Hitchman, former Permanent Secretary of The Ministry of Agriculture and Food, on to the board of the Atomie Energy Authority.
lens they have attained in the Government machine.
The men behind it are the Permanent Secretaries. The top administrative civil servants, one to each Ministry, who have the resented always deeply scientists.
Warning
Another Permanent Secretary,
Sir Roger Maldus from the Treasury, is to become chair-
man of the board.
The key post on which they are concentrating their assault
There are
signs of revolt is that of Chlef Selenlife against the scientists
at many Adviser to the Defence Minister, points of the scientific network currently held by Sir Frederick in the Civil Service built up Brundre!!, wh. reaches the since the war with such cure retiring age of 63 in November. and rewarding results.
Ingenious
This post is the No. 1 target because Sir Frederick has made such a success of it that it is now on equal level with that of a Permanent Secretary, al £140 a week,
The Permanent Secrelarles Club, as the top men are collet- tively known in Whitehail, does not like this.
So in reeking a successor for Sir Frederick is members have conceived the ingenious idea of getting somebody to do the job half-time. This would devalue the power it carries.
Two lines of arms squatted. cross-legged in a pillared rooni hung with multi-coloured rib-
The men they are banking on should be regarded as a modern Incense. bons and thick with
nation, and they Еля д rumbling They prayed
are quick to to accept it la Sir Solly Zucker- chant, beating gongs and blow-diamiss the old legends as myths mail, the 55-year-old professor thought up "to delude the of anatomy of Bhmingham, secretary of the Zoo and war- ing horns.
people,"
time Air defence scientist.
I was taken to the library to
рарет
Sir Solly has one of Britain's
ponier are found there which exist nowhere else in the world. The
I wonder. There be shown the precious books,
are maty are of Mongolin which covered in silk, pome of them parts written in gold. Each page is still unexplored. The fossilised most original minds. separate. An oblong sheet of cags of dinosaurs are found in But the half-time use of a
Gobi Desert, or wood or sometimes the
Strange brain even so espacious as his papyrus, exquisitely engraved animals, wild camels, and wild will not replace Sir Frederick's. and embossed,
"Club" hoe already notched up dangerous, victorien. I admit to a sneaking sus-Thus, the man who is to succeed piclon and a great hope that Dr the great Sir William Penney as
right and- theotomie weapons chief in Abominable Snowman and his Atomic Energy Authority is not mate do exist. After all, there a scientist but a rellring nirman must be something that Com-Air. Chief Marshal Sir Claude munist Socialist reality ennnot Pelly. explain away. Even for Com- munists there are more things in heaven and earth....
And there among the books I had my second meeting with the almus for among the pages of a 250-year-old book of Rinchen is Ko in fear natural history I found a draws of. They ing of the almui. almus by refer to him
So the telbesmen who hunt In the high mountains of being carried never mention the or her as "Uncle" name but alwaya
The lames too are certain he exists. And to are the peasants I spoke to.
It was a fascinating con- versation with an extremely But not to the Communist desperately
intelligent man who had chromelais. They are
ried out an extensive investiga- anxious thak their country
THE END -London Express Service).
the
I have no doubt that the | "Club"""" would have preferred one of their membera In this post. As a feat step they have achieved the next best thing.
The achievements in Russia, where the scientists are given a commanding role in administra- live flair, should to sumcient warning of the danger, of this reaction in Whitehall.
If Britain is to keep pace with Russia ber scientists must be given even greater powers, not exiled backs to their laboratories,
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
“Dorling, she's cut me dead ever since 1 auld I suppose (she was taking a keen In- terest in the Lords, and it turned out to be the day they ware debuting the Legitimacy Bin."
London Express Berrion