DON IDDON'S DIARY
New York.
WHAT with the pound sterling stripped of its
can
straitjacket, British capital financing a new 57-storey skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, and the biggest boom ever in British sales, we modestly say we have staged quite a comeback in New York and the U.S., in fact, we might say we are Anglicising the town if not the country.
Madison
Who are those bowler- hatted gents wearing nar- walk down row-trousered Huits and Avenue and cut across 57th carrying rolled umbrellas Street, both blg shopping strolling down Fifth thoroughfures. In the space Avenue? The British de- of half an hour's stroll i legation to the United Na- counted 40 shops displaying tions? Nat on your life. British goods cloth, gin, They're Amerien, advertis. Savile Row suits, raincoats, ing and public relations ex- mncintoshes, hats, shoes, ecutives.
china, silverware, woollens, tweeds, socks. The signs "Imported from Bri- said
The Best." tain. British.
.
And the tweed-suited ma- frons with the sturdy Bri- tish brogues walking Cen- tral Park? Daughters of
1 walls? into the
Routes,
the British Empire? No Austin, and Jaguar showrooms Daughters of the American all reported record sales, Revolution,
"It's
The slogan here is: smart to be British." I took
TALKING
POINTS
My final warning to you is, always pay for your drinks.
-Y. YAKIGAWA,
OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY.
OPERASIO!
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1959.
How can
you stand New York?
groans
J. B. PRIESTLEY
that
J. B. Priestley
the public deep. sleep, not a
The European trip must have take place until November 1000, and gouging refreshing
the food's not
taken tremendous toll, because that they have little time for they have now rushed to 2 sleep. And the
opposite extreme and are labet- patch on British food nowadays, the new Ike launched with such what's happening now.
like a fanfare has fallen
Vice-President Nixon is run- En
link LVITY
at.d programm←> For the Arst time in years It's no bargain lving here.”
American
We
"This missile,
WAS now ning for the Presidency like a every comercial.
saw it. Britain is selling the U.S. more
01 that
A have the old Ike the golfing, hare. Governor Nelson Rocke rehearsed before you I'm well aware. goods than we are buying from air costs 12s without tip; vacationing the who has taken feller invaded Chicago recently The participants were conched." America. It is getting so that 220 a month to garage my most of the past month off and looking for vales but saying And The lady you have just the Government in Washington ear: 1 Rt. for
insistence, Juice, complains of chronic bronchitis coyly, with asinine
zen extclling Blair's butter is Thays decided to introduera
loast and a perpetual cold which is that he wasn't really running not an actual housewife--the is ham and eggs, len and
How absurd can "Tur American
principle, 2 for a steak, and apartment almost influenza,
for President. Everyone knows an weiress," particularly in its foreign aid rents are astronomical.
he is running for President and you get? is not running New York State. One of the truly great pers The cost of living in the
which is the job to which he sonntifies of television, Edward announced! May th
was elected only a year ago. Murrow, now in England, has U.S.,
recently, reached an Treasury. all-time high last month. Prices of housing, food, medical
service clothing, and personal
Went up In September. Only transportation costs went
jar qumme.
The dollar is not willing but the pound sterling can certainly stare it in the face and perhaps outstare it.
High and mighty
down.
45
vore,
The opposition are now say fng that the now Ike was just relations hoax per- a pubile petrated upon the gullible pub- le, and it looks sndly that way today.
well-
ivmorant
comments about
the
The opposition lenders Senator publicly rebuked Frank Stanton, president of Columbia John Kennedy,
Senator Stuart. the Senntor Symington,
Hubert Broadcasting System, and, tech- On the home front the Pre- Humphrey.
Murrow's boss. Senator Lyndon nically, Ed. and maybe Adlai Stanton, in a pante, made some ident let the steel strike drift Jor and drift before taking action, Stevenson himself, the which so far has not ended the known two-time loser, are all Murrow Person to Person pro deadlock.
running, while the country it grahime and now Mr Murrow On the foreign front there not exactly going to hell in
has slapped the president down ominous hints that
not add to the galety are
he hack is racing along the high. It does might not be able to make the way to disastrous inflation in a if brand now streamlined tail- Ruseion trip after all, not the Summit meeting is delayed inned 1960 convertible. ant the spring. If Eisenhower does not go to Russia, after his public announcement that strike would retum Khrushchev's visit, inflation I believe the Soviet Union and
Two years ago saltors und
The American people are on steward Of the waterfront
Personal Inconnes where the liners dock were sell a treadmill, ing British pounds in the bars increased 2.5 p.e. last year over Don. Now the 1957, but the consumer price and grills pound brings the full $2.80 and index in the same year went up
The pound 3 pe Decasionally more.
it the British have never had is high and mighty, and SORO Wall Street people think it could it so good, the Americans have God in the lips and hearts as high as $3 it completely rarely had it so bad,
i fourt of little children.
*
Mother is the name
for
-THACKERAY.
* ★
The history of free men is never really written by chunce but by choice-their choice,
-EISENHOWER.
Last Express Service).
We can't win.
wave.
record crime bound industries and American visitors returning which no longer from Britain concede. re- caps. luctantly, that life there today
has much to recommend it over fe in the US, particularly te in New York.
J. B. Priestley groaned to me: "How do you stand
it?
with
eroeps
+
he
A fine mess
tion,
the
of the nation.
•
So
melancholy
WEEKEND Friell
ARCTORY
"And furthermore the General is of the opinion that spring will be a little late next year."
Room?
TIRE
"You may dress as you please, dear; I wouldn't stop you joining in school games because of that."
Who is owner
of this
—and
water ice?
HO owns the water and ice between the W
hundreds of islands in the Canadian Arctic? The Dominion government is now studying the question, but hopes that no official international body will be asked to give a ruling on it for at least 20 years.
Conadian
over
sult followed other countries sovereignty
asking permission to the waters would give control (by
enter) Canadian rights would THANK Knodhem for the Bri-jof valuable Ashing rights.
tish knights Sir Cedric
slowly be established. Canada's hope
Cunerta And by about 1380, Hardwicke and Sir John Gielgud there's always televi- on Broadway, with Rex Harri- It would plso help control would be able to say: "Of course but the Russian people will, with WELL.,
for this Canadien territorial seD. oplate. non people's
underwater coming up soon in The prospecting zenson, be grievously offended,
The U.S. today is in a muddle But fine mess that is In since Fighting Cock. But even the the huge all deposits known to Everyone hes acknowledged this over inflation,
melancholy be there. great Gielgud is
for 20 years now." over missiles, the big quiz scandal broke,
actors of our Charles Van Doren, the big one of the best
But the government is un-
But if the question goes to any over steel at home, and over the Surunit plans and the Russian brain, and once a national hero, or any other time says: "I don't likely to take a public position one body for a decision it may wrangle be Other WBAT is the New Eisenhower visit abroad.
political is being piloried and bay con- enjoy acting. I'd like to give it on the issue because of possibility well turn into a doing about it?
And the up." There is leaders who might be expected fessed to "cheating,”
tween international lawyers and The Idea that if Canada zemain unsolved for Is everyone here giving up? themselves
many to help take the load from the television networks
acts as If she thought the generations. President are so busily running are in such a panle about Obviously another visit
waters were Canadian and
=(London Express Seroton), efection, which doesn't charges of dishonesty, cheating, Super-Mac is called for.
No new Ike
WA
Can no new Eisenhower. He vanish- you sleep with all the noise and ed weeks ago after lasting about rush here? I can get a proper a month
in
the
from
of challenge.
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