It's good to be British
in America...
New York.
I HAVE been reporting the American scene for almost a quarter of a century and I have never known such a warm, glowing relationship between this country and Great Britain. For this we can thank Ike, Mac, the Queen herself, but chiefly Ike.
He cannot run again for the Presidency under the two-term mil rule, but if he did it would be a complete walkover, a steam- roller that would flatten who ever was unfortunate to be the Democrats standard-benzer.
Today in New York and the rest, of the country Elsenhower and the British are literally the toast of the town. I have never had so many drinks forced on me, and the bartenders in Man- hallan are insisting that the third drink for the British is on the house.
be u
It is very pleasant Briton in America these days. Everyone loves us, even the
Chicago Tribune and the York. ville Zeltung.
The appearance ut Mr Mac- millan accompanying the Presi dent on the newsreel screens la being greeted with storms of applouse In the Broadway and suburban cinemes.
The other day tens of millions of Americans saw the televised fireside chat and even the base- ball games were switched c♬ to make room for Eisenhower and Macmilion's Pumewhat folksy dialogue.
More visits.
States? She 14 old Unitod
and pained enough to enough
of herself. I know take cara
here and she wants to come would jump at the chance. The Palace advisera must realise That to prevent the Princess, who has been practically every- where else, from making a trip to Ameries only six or DOVETY hours away by Jet-they are being absurdly conservative and run the risk of giving offence to the American people,
Everyone else with the price of the ticket and the inclina- Atlantic then has maces the
ro sing. Why not the Queen's Nothing but good, can slater?
of t come out
frequent ex- change of visits.
THE
Rapturous
HE President's great personal triumph in Britain and the over-flowing hospitality of the British people make that clear. read Fuch I have rarely
frum rupturous reporting Amerlen correspondents companying the President.
the
ac-
They have rhapsodised about of the Engilsh .the beauties
countryside, the Scottish moors and spires of Oxford, the estate Chequers. They have read ot more like Press agents or agents of the British Travel Assocla- tion than reporters.
The President's tribute to the Queen was hailed here. Obvious ly we must have more visits, a For years continuous exchange, American Presidents have been
All this glowing good will, their and doing themselves
seem to be disservice by their however, does not country n
any Mr Khrushchev makines stubborn adherence
the more welcome. If anything, the against the Russian campaign lender's visit has been intensi-. Ard,
to
thai Iredition frayed United States Head of State
should stay at hotne.
That tradition is now dead,
I would not
in the slightest if
over to Engine!
me Ike drops
surprise
and particu-
lurly his beloved Scotland
another six
Mr
In
50. ur months
Macmilan
and here
Briti popular
wt.lcome
mast
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Ferocious
Cardimal Cushing of Boston, a
iv nlways powerful churchman, has join- te ed in the "Komp out Khrushchey" manner. Prime battle in a feraclous
to boycott Minister for decades except- Urging Christians
cardinal snys: ing only Sir Winston Churchill. the visit, e
"We baptised Communisin be in Washington when
our Government 167-
I will
almost certainly before Chris-
it
that after the new royal baby When we gated Khrushchev to
THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959.
MODOM MARGO
SCHOOL
OF
DANCING
"I'd like to get within catapult range of that school medical officer who says there are too many Billy Buntors those days."
London Express Service
The Chemistry of Love
TODAY a myth-exploding contribution. The myth that the French are incurable romantics. For here is a Frenchwoman (and one considered top on the subject) taking a cold and unromantic look at mating :-
You don't
fall in love
when you're
man And many Americans hope cognised it. We canonised on top
de born and suitable interval visit our shores."
the Queen will make a quick trip to the United States.
Other churchmen are joining Cardinal Cushing. The drum- The Queen has never visited are from the mass-selling Press San Francisco, one of the gets louder. The New York Dalip world's fairest cities, although News calls Mr Khrushchev "this she was only a couple of hours overfed and overbearing slob," jet lying timu away from the
incredible be- I is to me Gulden Gate when touring:
haviour. Even Mm Khrushchev, Vancouver seven weeks ago.
thai a harmless enough woman with extroardinary IL is
a keen interest in the United Princess Margaret has Dovey
kel thu Khrushchev This Slutes, bern permitted to visit
family, all
whom speak When she was in rountry.
of the world!
SIMONE 2: by de BEAUVOIR
had planned for a long time. LIGHT HEARTED BUT NOT LIGHT HEADED
You tend to fall in love In strange surroundings and, above all, in the melancholy 01 Journey's.end.
On the other hand, a mister tune which kills every hope can render love Impossible.
which
would enable Litem to inlarge or alter their world. To do this they must have, the assistance of another.
too Is their
world becomes If the Boredom, on the contrary, is much for them, love particularly suitable for love. only hope.
Love will not appear
when
a
not
But also sometimes for But always you seek pore- loved. thing different, no matter what, the disappointed pain of You look for something you do being loved, not have.
The enigma
take me
In love?
back to ouT And so Anally. question why do you fall
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Nothing can bo more com». plex.
ets: strength.
The world is rovenied in all its
Yet even the privileged ones
But whatever the values or have monolany. You
Infinite seek the sudden and marvellous
It is Irisure in which to dream
receiving the symbols may be, to hurnan of love-experience of
Perhaps it is because being will awaken my love new horizons.
everything without effort,
winter, because it is summer, overwork, unknown unless I see him basically as Perhapa TO
through explore country is hard work. But to The Other.
too If he allows him becaus you aro
through you are pleased with ilfe, nor
weakness, poses it through the love of a self to be taken over, he loses through when your life mems over. But fascinating
LA foreigner
the power to
: love will always appear to some-
where. miracle. Love is an Illuminated one who longs for a change of short cut.
Perhaps you fall in love:bo- Wfc. Because that is what you But how do you And that That 13 why Jealousy cause of longing for security are longing for.
short cut? First you must find encourages the birth of love. If or a taste for risk, because of the change to you through an- other. Behold, a new world has a sympathetic person-you must a man volds you that is often despair or a mad hope.
You find yourself pro- been given to you. This change be understood. This phrase has enough.
The different meaning
for cock jecting upon him all the quali- Individual.
tice you expect to find in you. Or because someone does
not love you....
Love
brings
may come another way,
of man ambitious mon, the
hig Bellon, the artist can alter relationship with the world. He can even aller the world self. He does this himself without
Inspire
The Other,
Also because
someone loves
But if he cludes you too con Tomorrow
sistently, you cuase lo care. And
The scefully acceptable values love miscarries. Yet you may No slogan could be less help.
-beauty, money, intelligence be fascinated by the dazzling ARE THERE are "Lovers
which this true than:
Once he is engaged, body and do not always inspire love. So image of yourself alone in the world.".
soul, in his world-changing task, what does a lover expect Crum person reflects back to you. It
which narcis ONLY 39 the love can have no dominion over his loved one? It depends on is the trap into According to Freud
his childhood, his past, his cists fall. relationship of love does him. But not everybody is in AUTHOR OF "THE BECOND not involve two individuals, a position to Impose his will on future, his work. Canace last year it would have some English, are being abused. SEX" AND WINNER OF THE it brings the whole of the world.
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PRIZE
been the simplest thing in the Surely no one Is going to FRANCE - THE PRIX world for her to have slipped throw rocks or worse at A the bord Lo spend woman and her children, I e-
some time here in New York,, not guarantee 11. And nor can
perhaps the world's must the New York police.
fabulous city.
Who is preventing Princes Margaret from
the visiting
GONCOURT.
Listen to these words, which are said by all lovers: W
THY do you fall in "You are different. You are love? Nothing is not like anyone I have met." -Don Iddon simpler. It happens be-
mean? What do they cause you are young, be- simply that the loved one cause you are ageing, be- is chosen against all others,
It in defiance of them. cause you are old. also happens because spring is dying, because autumn is soon. And be- cause you are healthy....
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The first great romance inj the West, Tristan and Isolde, is the story of a re- Perhaps it is because volt. You love in defiance of R husband wife, of someone loves
or you, because someone does not parents, of friends, Sudden- love you. There are so many ly they have no importance. answers, The adventure is You forget their existence. universal, so what is the mystery?
He believes
Everywhere at this very minute thousands of men and women are saying to each other in awed surprise: "I love you. I am in love."
They say it loudly - or
Lovers cut themselves off. But solitude is not pre- sented to them. It is reached by defiance.
Love always begins ng n revolt. It would not have its dark violence if it did not. It is a revolt against a constricting circle of which you are a member.
Love often arrives by sur- in a murmur. If they did not prise. You meet the man Bay it, It would not be love. who matches up to your ideals. Then everything They say: "I need you. I cannot live without you." seems truthful and right.
But already within Time and space become masked and concealed, is meaningless. They are faced this urge, this feeling of with the incarnation of missing something. everything that is precious
in this world.
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A short cut
you,
their choice? The lover You do not fall in love whion
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His hopes may be simple. He Masochists, and all those who PEOPLE IN may want a mother, a child, a preter obstacles, fall into an women is why
are companion, security, truth, the other trap: indifference, particularly stisceptible to love. buttressing of his conceit. His They seldom possess the means hopes may also be ambiguous,
through art or a profession indefnite, even infinite,
...and I wouldn't
take such fellows
too lightly...
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