QUOTE
Daniel Gelin; The
Actor
honeyman is over when
Cho
husband takes his wife
off a
pedestal and makes her an item
In monthly budget,
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1939.
Cummings ... INTRODUCES HIS FLOATING VOTERS
FLOATING
*
#Y word, on Monday morning
M'ke a kid at a school
treat. I rush back to the office to with eager expectation as what awatia me on my desk. The business and what thrill of it brings makes every Monday an exelling day.
-Sir Granni Cunningham, ehoren of Triplex Holdings.
*
by Mr W. Clifford, writing in The Justler of the Pence
is no
evidence
that
en, ax 2 sex, are more virtuous, more honest, us Immoral than men.
jera
1. THE TELLYFLOATER
Political broadcasts make him switch to the other channel.
it viewing is interrupted by canvasser switchre vole to can vanser's opponent.
(Slippery.)
2.-THE LIBFLOATER
unpredictable. Totally
his aim to ditch the vollsters.
(Dangerous.)
1. THE GLAMOUR- FLOATER
"Of course, 1 adore Mr. Macmillan's moustache,
but then Mr. Gaitskell has such lovely crinkly hair 1' (Touch and to.)
4. THE DON'T-CARE- FLOATER
Mind is fixed on higher. broader objectives.
(Uncatchable.)
5. THE OUT-OF-THIS- WORLD-FLOATER
6.--THE CURMUDGEON.
· FLOATER
I'll vote for the party that a ballshes say,
those blasted motor cars, accursed planes, and con- founded TV ||
(Unapproachable.)
** What's that you young man? I shall vote for Mr. Baldwin, of Course 1"
(Untenchable.)
7-THE
ABOVE - THE - STRUGGLE-FLOATER "ila, ba, hu!!! All the parties are so ridiculous shan't vote at all 1"
Loudon Express Service
CAN THE LABOUR LEADERS GET ALONG WITH THE RUSSIANS? Mr & Mrs Ever-ill'
ONE issue is dominating the opening stages of the General Election campaign: Who should be entrusted with the responsibility of represonting Britain at the Summit meeting? Both parties recognise that the handling of relations between Russia and the West is the factor which will determine the issues, of world prace over the next few years. Both Mr Macmillan and Mr Gaitskell have had meetings with Mr Nikita Khrushchev and the other Russian leaders this year. Just how these meetings went the world can only But in 1956 Mr judge from outside impressions. Gaitskell had an encounter with Me Khrushchev and the dotailed story of that meeting is known. It was after this oncounter that Mr Khrushchev observed: "If I were an Englishman I should be a Conserva- tive." Now the China Mail presents the full report of the event that became known as "That dinner" es compiled at the time of the visit to London
of Marshal Bulganin and Mr Khrushchov in 1956.
One Angry
Night... WITH
A LESSON FOR TODAY
'Behave yourself-then trouble ahead
Q
UIET flowed the Thames. The river was reflecting the lights of the Harcourt Room of the House of Commons. Inside the room the staff, under catering manager Christopher Melver, was arranging dinner tables, reacting briskly in an expectant atmosphere. It was the night of April 25, 1956.
High above, Big Ben chimed, ant, higher sin, a light showed
Was the
were
Lwo
dinner then to be Khrushchev. There that the House was in session. cancelled? Mr Morgan Philips "Courtesy guests," Earl Attiec MP were debating the Buiget
wondered. But no, the
and Mr Herbert Morrison, the voice But the interest of the House
former lenders. went on to say that they could was not focused on the debating
and not arrive until 8.40 pin. Chamber. Its mind Wits else
they would just have to leave where on the Haruurt Room.
by 10.30 pan,
There the Shadow Cabinet of the Labour Party was Julning the party's National Executive entertain Marshal Nicolai Bulganin
Mr Nikita Khrushchev to dinner.
to
TIRED
the
nec
(Marshal Bulganin was sult titular head of the Soviet became Government, but as more and more plain through out this memorable evening, Mr was already the Khrushchev real power.)
A
telephone bell rang in on The call office 400 yards away.
Phillips, was for Mr Morgan General Secretary of the
Party. Labour
TEO Foreign
Office was on the line.
The voice said that Marshal
Bulgenin and Mr
were very tired.
Khrushchev
Sixicen Russians had been invital. On the dot of 8:40 par
13 turned up at the House and were ed along the Lower Cor- ridor to the Harcourt Room.
Mr
In all, 58 people sat down at tables ranged conventionally, There was top table with three "sprigs," the company
asked Mr Malik which one was
LONDON,
THE MAN BEHIND WAS SOON TO BE IN FRONT. GUESTS OF HONOUR,
APRIL 1956:
to speak as they walked to- gether to their seats. Mr Mallk father?" Young Khrushchev re- shrugged and said it would be
plied: settled during the dinner.
"I never disagree with my father."
*So I leaned
ta across Khrushchev, The father, and
You must said:
tell me the secret of this, for my daughter never agrees with me."
It was settled in this way. Mr Gooch was more than half-way d.rough his seven-minute address of welcome when Bui- ganin leaned over leftwards be- hind the speaker to consult Khrushchev about the response. There was some bandinage between them, and Khrushchev ended by murmuring: "You do
thus forming a flat-topped let- FRIENDLY ter "M." Bulgani and Khrush- cocktails. chey had taken no They
for Leemed ready
the dinner.
the Phillips, with Foreign Office message TOP TABLE much in his mind, looked hard
Mr Khrushchev, at whose "I am a strong man" act had impressed the world's journalists. Now he looked truly tired. Ho sagged.
him Indeed, to those around Khrushchev harped on this theme throughout the early part of the meal; he was wilting under the programme, although he was enjoying his visit.
Mr Philips Introduced all the
Bulganin Socialists to
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Into the chairman's seat went MI Edwin
burly. Gooch, the
North heavy-jowled MP for
Na- Norfolk, president of the Monal Union of Agricultural Workers, and that year's chair- man of the party executive, He sat in the middle of the top table, facing the centre sprig.
On Mr Gooch's right sat Marshal Bulganin, his inter- preter, then Mr Hugh Gaitske leader of the party, Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet Ambassador, and Mr Jim Griffiths, deputy-. lender of the Labour Party. Around the corner of the top iable, on the chaleman's right,
sat Mr Bevan.
To the left of Mr Gooch sat
Bulganin heaved his shoulders in a resigned sort of way and rolled his eyes in a mock protent as if to say, "You load it all on
mr.
Those nearest the Sovlet leaders grinned sympathetically towards Bulganin, and later that the incident revealed Drain Lo them that Khrushchev was boss,
отече
"It was natural sort of remark and nobody offended."
was
narrow
But at that point the general atmosphere was one of harmony, Mr Gooch was ending politely in his sonorous, it ranged. Enet Anglican style,
The flow of good spirits
Bulganin's during creased
peech. He spoke for 11 minutes with an easy charin, His effort was plainly spontaneous. He has a sly wit
are thin, scraggy
WHAT sort of person goes to the doctor most frequently? A Welsh doctor says it is the thin, scraggy person. And that applies to
or woman.
The doctor carried out a survey of 287 patients who attend his Carmarthenshire surgery.
ac-
He classified them cording to physique. And nearly 40 per cent of them had a "fragile" look.
Other covered:
Plump,
fncts he dis-
man
The World
of Science
By Peter Fairley
of the Caspian Sea. Is trying out the idea,
soft-skinned people Tracker Tepee
are most frequently in a state of anxiety when they complain of illness,
than
Tepee is likely to become 2 much-mentioned word. Tepee I new, experimental radaryo- Capable of detecting a rocket fred 5,000 miles away.
Tough, muscular types suffer a higher proportion of injuries others but probably be.
Conventional radar Waves cause they do more strenuous travel in a straight line. Range once show is therefore limited. But Tepee work; and "fragile" far more signs of a hypo- works like radio-reflecting its chondriac
Lo approach their signals of the lunosphere above
Illness.
Sterile air
Latest aid to cutting
down
us.
When a rocket is fired, large amounts of hot exhaust gas are jonised. Tepec's radar waves are reflected back from this gas too. Could
be, when Mr Nixon
The mind jab'
those ever-increasing penicillin- claimed Iussia fired three "dud" resistant staphylococcus germs moon rockets before their BUC- In hospitals a vacuum cleaner cessful Lunik, he was told by... which blasts only sterile air Tepee? He spoke with 1 refined
from its "exhaust" ploe. Dust, delighted which neighbour said that whisky A noar
later and ALL reras, are trapped in hearers. One said. Mr Brown continuously used his
a ¿tuble-filter. "We could have hugged: him." the phrase "old man" when re- furring Khrushchev, sen. The hearer recalled that he
hoped There
Russian was a
phrase which reflected the exact shade of harmless disrespect.
When Bulganin pretended to Models for 'Met'
be overwhelmed by the ex- hausting schedule of his visit there was even more geniality in the growl of confirmation which came from Khrushchev,
immense Bulganin had social success. As the applause was dying away the unexpected the unexpected happened; which was to change the tone of the dinner and to shake the entire Labour leadership.
Yet another witness said that grinning was said Khrushchev
Yet another that Throughout. he leaned forward angrily and demanded to know what was going on.
All around the lables, as the meal proceeded-turtle soup
Cortain it is that Dr Edith and sherry, Allet of sole West-
blushed; Mr minster, roast Ayleshury duck, Summerskill with wines or vodka-there was Jack Cooper, union leader, friendly hum between British hissed a warning, "Bchave hosts and the Russian guests who were scattered in ones and yourself;" and others laugh-
ed uncertainly. twas along the sprig.
the Above
general murmuring could be hoard the odd laugh and the occasional complete
Mr Khrushchev, his interpreter, exchange. And one of these
Mr Morgan Phillips, and then exchanges was initiated by
Miss Peggy Herbison, M.P. ↑ Mr George Brown.
1 had been agreed between
Mr Phillips and Mr Malik that
there were to be only two I ASKED.........
speeches after Mr Gooch's formal welcome. Mr Gaitskell was to be the spokesman for the Labour Party.
one
mem-
He was sitting at the centre sprig-close enough to Bulganlı and Khrushchev. He La brusque man who is the It was clear in all the con- ber for Belper, in Derbyshire, vultions that followed that and was then a member of the Shadow Cabinet, He was lau the arrangement of
due to run 3 A candidate speaker each side was not against Mr Bevan for the understood by
the treasurership of the party. Socialists present.
Mr Brown was sitting near Khrushchev's 22-year-old son, Sergei, a
student university Many who were near tried to recall precisely what passed between them. There are half a dozen versions.
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According to the political cor- respondent of The Observer, Mr Phillips forgot to tell them about the arrangements for the evening.
Who was to speak for the Mr Brown himself told Itussians? It was generally Reporters: "It WAS light- thought that both would speak, hearted, I asked him: In politics Mr Phillips, knowing beller, do you disagree with your
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TOMORROW:
The balloon
goes up
Russlan
14
scientials are using model airplanes
help in weather tests,
Fre
American servicemen
ILAY
zoon be getung an extra "jab" from the doctor when they linn and up for typhoid, tetanus diphtheria inoculations.
The extra one may be UTI
The models, including gliders, "anti-brainwash" shot,
and controlled by radio
Professor William McGuire of carry instruments for recording Illinois University is trying to and develop a way of immunising humidity. They can fly for two people agains rifles ne up to 1,300 ft.
psychological
temperature,
pressure
Gliders are taken aloft by balloon or helicopter and released by radio at the height desired.
A meteorological expedition in the Kara Kum dosert, just cast
JAK BUYS A HOUSE
persuasion.
Theory is to build up resist- ance to propaganda by'n course of infections, such as ja given for dy fever.
But the substafice he is trying is still secret.
London Express Service).
"I know you'll laugh and think we're silly, but could you change it back to the bungalow design ?”
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