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THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1960.
BRITAIN AND THE BOMB THE PRIVATE TORMENT
-CAN WE DELIVER IT?
London.
REALLY
BY PAUL JOHNSON
to possess the power to deliver pleted, around 1982, it cannot Russia eripping blow should guarantee more than a
Britain.
four-
four
MR PETER SELLERS is in a commanding position, altting pretty with everything coming his way.
Put his name of a contract and bankers part to under- write the film. Pụt his name on the posters arid watch the ,queties form.
Consider tbla work, for example.. Two of Me Sellers's
DOES the British deterrent work?. And, if so, eubt the bomb-londa curried by Bean Rocents Mr. Wale we pay Biretch Sexe shout-
how long will it go on working? I ask these questions after a careful reading of the Hansard report of the recent Defence debate.
stated that our 200 aircraft have a formid- klaxon
minutes Was "enough for able destructive power. But to deliver them they have first to Bomber Coinmand 1o get into survive or escape-the impact the air." It is impossible to ac- cept this statement as it stands. of a Boviet rocket strike, and run the secondly they must gauntlet of a 500-mile belt of air Mr defences before reaching their
forgel arena.
Mr
The bitter personal row by Mr George Brown and
hu Golisice!). Evidently they had which broke out
received the same briefing from Command Bomber Watkinson.
Labour Party caught the head lines. That far more significant was the fact that only ane Tory backbencher gave unqualled support to the Government's present policies.
echoing Most of the rest, widespread anxiety 'vulside Par- Hamant, votred their fears that the British deterrent is growing
expensive and Increasingly Increasingly vulnerable.
Whal
The facts! Mr Watkinson rates intly that tr present force of V-hunters can wreak what he called "massive" devitation in Russin, and that do this they would conditur tes Jor the next five years. By that time, he hoped, wo would have declifen an, and built, a replace ment.
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This view was endorsed, behalf of the official Opposition,
Beware
DN
by
We should have learned now to beware of such optimis tic forecasts by Service-proud brasshats.
Before 1914, Admiral Beatty's battlecruisers were regarded as awar-winning weapon. Three
them blew up at Jutland. The Admiralty beasted for the years that HMS Hood was inst powerful warship in the world. It was sunk by a single salvo from the Bismarck.
Post-war gures have shown that Bomber Command's esti- mates of its impact on the Nazl
On the first post, it is pinin that Bomber Command is waking some rosy assumptions. Europe can give us little or no Existing radar stations in West warning of appronching missiles, red 400 miles away in East
travelling Germany and
nt
300 miles a minute. It is not even sure whether they would be picked up at all out "conven- tluna!" radar sercens.
Destroyed
therefore,
A things stand, our entire hamber force could be destroyed on the ground by a surprise missile attack.
Nor will the projected Alaska- Greenlund Fylingdales system exaggerated.
For all these reasons, its claim help us much. Even when com-
War
economy
were
wildly
Love and Lucy
New York. WHAT THE THE multi-million-
dollar TV empire CAMERAS
founded on love-love of
Lucy-will not founder NEVER even though it is now
disclosed that the love TOLD.
was phoney, switched on
Minimum
Alr maintains ↓ normal
Even the US. Strategle Command which much higher state of readiness regards 15 minutes as the minimum. Moreover, Bomb-
maintain a full state of alert ex- er Command cannot afford
to
cept for short periods of maxi-
muun tension.
But supposing we can get an adequate number of aircraft
into the air, what are their chances of arriving on target? Flying al around 800 m.pát.. they must expect to meet Soviet
gliters capable of over this speed, and equipped
The U.S. al- haming rockets. ready has 1,400 m.p.h. bomb- er, in service, and even this is regarded as vulnerable.
"Two-Way are ing in London. Capacity crowds, In America his alm The Mouse That Roared" has soared Into the Top Ten at box offices and can be spoken of 'in' the same monty-making breath aB
giant ko "Ben-Hur."
Big seller
And his long-playing record "Songs for Swingin' Sellers" is the third most successful L.P.. in the country and required conversation at many West End dinner topics.
was
What does all thin do to a man who five years ago Little beller known than a volco In the Goon Show? Who, any- way, is Peter Sellers, aged 33; profession, actor?
OF PETER SELLERS
.... THE EVER-CHANGING FACE OF MEYER BELLENO,
WHO AM I?
by
DAVID LEWIN
preparing to act a scene in his this new house, in the country how flm "Never Let Go," in so whatever happens I've always
got that.
"I've
I asked him and he said: " which he plays a perfectly twice
with don't know. I'm worried and straight port as a villain.
His voice became a
Invested sharp
money rcinx
100 I'm nervous and I can't and I haven't been away for n
rasp, almost Liverpool in tone, But two bad films and then 't
this quite de- have just two years left on top. well, I could always holiday for about two years and as he described
break with even if I did it wouldn't de berate
" Comte Then
earn a ving, but not such a nothing funny much good because the worry no. There is factor would still be with me. about John Meadows, the good one.
"I know this, though,
COT Just second-hand
dealer he is me, by myself, I don't mean 4
seling. thing to anyone anywhere, I have to put on, a special volce and use it like a shield so that personality, a character, can grow behind it.
Moreover. we know danger- ously little about Soviet ground- We do to-air rocket defences. know that last month the U.S. -which a two
behind years Russia in motors and guidance systems-tested its first anti- nissile rockels. We must assume that the Russians are at least as far advanced. Within the next two years, it seems likely that Russia will have a rocket defence system designed to com bat missiles approaching at 30 times the speed of our ageing bumbers.
Hence, it is anyone's gueas Desi was content to leave the
how many of these bombers comedy to Lucy, but she is also would get through. And once the
businesswise. certainty of massive potato
retaliation Together they made a total of disappears, the deterrent auto- 180 "Lucy" shows and 12 one-matically ceases to be effective.
last of spectaculars. The
Just weeks ago for showing on April 1.
Lucy once remarked: "My hair used to be red. Now it's red-guid lovely deseripilon because they are the two colours I'm crazy about. 1 love red and 1 love....what am I saying?"
11
hour
smart
by Desi Arnaz only By HENRY LOWRIE the spectaculars was completed
when the TV cameras started whirring.
When the last shot of the day was completed, loveable Lucy - flame-haired Lucille Bail went her way, and loving Dost went
his.
Now their real-life marringe is ending as all their friends knew
it would.
action.
Charms
Desi will continue as president of their joint company Desilu und manage the studio.
Their last spectacular is a
comedy tuturious
with Lucy zanier than ever, romping in a "I hope to do several spee- clown's costume, chauffeur's cap,
and and a moustache. faculors for die company
muke a movie before going to
But it was a tragedy while New York in the button for a being shot. Onlookers and ac- Broadway show,"
tors wept. Lucy broke down time Though Lucy, complains of and again playing opposite her
Future?
✡
Characters
"It has been like that for long ilme now. I play character ports in pictures .. but who am I underneath?
"I even asked my mother who I am, I seem to have been A pretty average ordinary spri of boy as I was growing up. Then I started doing volees on radio and everything happened after that,"
"When I tackle a new part I x the voice Brst and then de volop the character after that. With Guinness and Olivier It Is the other way round. They work out the cliaracter first and then ax the voice.
"I travelled a lot In the RAF places, In the war. I've seen so I don't need to go now. In this new house In the country I can be on my own and no one turns to store in the village when I walk along.
"I've got a swimming ̈DOD! there, so after this film I think Just sit beside 11 and busy
my myself with
cameras. Photography is my hobby."
Will Sellers stay In his cat bird seat? Or is he ready for a fall?
. New line
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During some of his recent "If things go well plan my work I have been well this side belleve career, you seethe next step of enchantment, but I
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is to golfoot in the inter- there is Buch a longing national market. To become an comedy in this country that he international actor, And later, can stay aloft for a long time I want to direct. I think I could yet. do it now... but I really need
more
"But like Guinness I don't them. really know who I am under-
experience before other
neath. I asked him once and There is a cool calculation
B
But in the international field netors would let me direct he will have to develop
romantic strain to achieve his next ambition. For so far, Lite most other comedy actors, it has not been possible to cu-star blm with a really Important woman. And although it will probably "And when I let my wife see a add to his worries should rough cut she says. She is a good eritle. Sellers plus Sex would
and listen to what ponder that. A new equation equal She thought I was just average Sure Sueters, in 'I'm All Right, Jack,'"
-(London Express Service).
he doesn't know either. It is about everything Peter Sellers different for the personally attempts. He relles en intuition actors like Cary Grant. Their lo guide him in selecting parta personallies are theirs and they stay."
I asked him then: "What is worries you?” And he clicked a gold covering over a front tooth and said
"Success worries me. And staying maintaining I
So kind
The real Sellers voice is un- exceptional, & little flat maybe. He said: "I can't even tell stories today. In parlez I'm nervous with people and unless I've rehearsed scruething to say "Everything is going so well I'm a bad companion and at the moment. Offers all the awkward and shy.
time. The critics are kind. But I "At one time I used to know know this: if I had two bad lots of anecdotes to tell, but I flmis in a row everything could seem to have forgotten them change rd be back to playing all. Maybe it is because my supporting parta. And less
stunderd of Uving. I've so many other things to think about now that I don't "I'm not nii' that worried hold on to them."
about money. I have no tax We were chatting in his problems. I have a full set-up dressing-room while he was to take care of that.' I own
Desi's gambling habits, it was husband who was also directa Polaris misalle and the Skybolt memory is falling or becausʊ money," I couldn't malhiala this
Desi who was the empire buil- der. He was the brains behind
Genuine
In
So much for the present; Even on what of the future? Mr. Watkinson's comfortable as- sumptions, the V-bombera must be replaced by about 1885. But replaced by what?
It is plain from his words the offer week that the Blue Streak missile is now a dead duck. There remains the underwater
missile, launched from aircraft 1,000 miles from target.
But, so far, Britain is not even planning to build the nuclear submarinos launch the Polaris. The new estimates are barron of any such project.
Dream
to
It Is
On his 43rd birthday recently, the team which, in 1957, paid Co-star Edle Adams, lovely while he was celebrating at £2,000,000 for the RKO studio singer arid dancer, said: "It was Palm Springs, Desi learned that lot, Inter closed
£4,000,000 a tragically sad experience. A the divorce papers had been deal with Westinghouse Electric the very last shot every time fed. He will not contest Lucy's Corporation for a series of one they wanted to Bim, Lucy would hour shows, and last year sold break down and cry. Everything For a long time Desi has not the re-run rights of "I Love was sad because we all felt it really loved lacy-he preferred Lucy" to the Columbia Brond was their last show together. the excitement of the gambling casting Systein,
Nobody could stand and watch tables to the charms of his wife. Desilu owns 35 sound studios, it,
They really broke ap more More than any other Alm con- "Ernie (her husband, the cigar than a year, api, and nithmuth pang over had, Desilu produced smoking, heavily moustached most of the time he was sup- more than 20 per cent of the junny man Ernie Kovacs) and I As for the Skybolt, posed 10 be living in Weir filmed TV shows seen in Amerien were both in tears. It was ad- merely a blue-print-a dream of palatial £84,000 ramĺzling two- today.
ditionally sad because they were the future. Five years may seem storey house in Beverly Hills he Desi and Lucy each owns 25 the first genuine TV team and a long time: but let us remem" was really living apart in a 19te per cent of the Desilu stock. It here we were seeing the end of|ber Thai HMS Tiger-the', 50- place at the back.
is estimated that the total pro- il, Desi stood by helplessly with called "modern" cruiser which But the love which produced perty value of the company is the rest of us. There was joined the Fleet last year-took America's fummiest and most £7,000,000.
nothing he could do,"
20 years to build. popular TV series, the lave
In the classic Hollywood pat-
It is my guess-and here I which was pretended, made
tern, the divorce is a friendly know that many MPs of alt them the country's biggest TV Under the Anancial setilement oftair it would cost too much parties have reached the same Lycoons.
the property, according to a for it to be otherwise.
conclusion-that the Covern- They are said to have a net Hollywood source, will be split worth of between £3,500,00 and down the middle. Neither comes Desiree, nine, and Desi, seven going ahead with the deterrent
£4,000,000. Because they are so cut on top, as it is really u 50 will be shared like the money. face. rich a horde of lawyers has been 50 split.
They will stay with Lucy, but Indeed, It cannot do working since las: February to So the marriage, which began Desi is free any time to step in without an increase in the De- find a solution to their financial in 1010 when they were just a and see them. "We both love | fence budget which would make problems.
couple of small-timers, is on the them very much," Was one this year's extra 2116 million Only now has everything been rocks but noi The business statement they agreed on.
scem paltry. agreed on. Lucy sald today that partnership.
London Express Service).
Hilarious
THE NEW ELITE:
WH
PART FOUR
WHATEVER else the marriage of Princess Margaret and Tony Armstrong-Jones may be -socially it is a triumph for the decorative arts. The young men of talent practising the near-arts of photography, interior decoration, journalism, The two children Lucyment has no serious intention of stage and dress design...
London Express Service).
AS I WAS SAYING THE OTHER DAY
Londen Zäzcela Berejne
Their houses are often a shrewdly judged mix- ture of abstract art on the walls, Victorian (brightly recovered) sofas and chairs, a Georgian plece or two. One heirloom if possible. Servants? Usually a young nannie.
The right combination
They rido on scooters or have small forgign, cars. And generally thây spend their money on holidays, food, | paintings, NOT on 'large houses, big cars, servants or
gadgets,
The New Elite have their arbiters and interpreters. One of them is Mark Boxer, who, true to New Elite's rapidly forming rules, is an Art Director.
Which means,”
In case you "bre
for
#
moment
confused by old-
dr meanings of the title, a pian who select 'ori mrringes hoto graphy for
los magazine; lên hóa các The Queen magualne. He is, besides, the right cam- bination of looks light" - bertod nas, laleht (he doon cartoona
fur Punch and
write for the
by ANNE SHARPLEY
Just Fancy That! *****
mon Joined in the 8.15 race, at Walthamstow Greyhound gladlum the other night. They jumped on to the track-öné after the otherJust before the six dogs reached the finishing line, The race, was declared vold.
MIDDLE-Aged Mrs Margaret Hoyle, her hair dyed vivid emerald
green, canned a sensation at a Blackpool hairdressing fair. Sald Mrs Hoyle (in reallly a brunette); "As a hairdresser myself I think it's up to us to show the publie the way things will go In- the future. I only needs courage."
THE MAN FROM WORLD'S END
Thore
is, too, his Salavation Army visits as" And
word
foreignora, ac eleganco. "He always," said he deplores the new
"Yestaurant" over what myas treases, models- a friend, "woars a" slightly until recently an cel and ple whatever they brightor, bigger chock than shop at the end of his street." liked, and this one would dare oneself, or
has been their a rather moromarvellously Friendly sirength." ...* matching.tlo. But on him it
CT,
Berer is the looks right."
He is a friend of Tony. Anm- son of an Army. For a year he worked on a strong-Jones not simply becauma colonel who is textile magazine, then became he is a contemporary-but be- now a car deal Mon's Fashion Editor on on- causo, theirs are complementary, gifts. They worked. together on He went to other. Berkhamsted, It was then he discovered the Armstrong-Jones's recent book public school blossoming influential world of on London, And his magazine which has ace "urt Inyout' on magazinen, Hu (ook a great deal of Armstrong”, quired a literary is still so excited when he gets Jones's work. flavour from layout" iden that he is liable Lee alar pupils, to spread the whole of illa cur- Graham Greene, tent choice of photographie on tghting on the next thing" the way that' vogues Claude Cock the carpet of the Bavoy, where which is burn and Poter he is having a business lunch, get started he and Armstrong-
·· Quenneli,
and start worke
Jones wern both thinking about He la brooding, patronislag dlm-making.
And by that simultaneous
enerp Intellectual wookliow) and He was at King's College, is connected how by marriage Cambridge, which offered more anti impossible, according to his Well, wollt Armstrong-Jones to live artstocracy. His wife, Microry encouragement in the colleagues, when he is working. Lady Arabella, is the daughter form of occasional funches with of the into For of Moray.
one of a dons? E.' M, 'Forsler.
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become t Governor-General, When bola not he la gay. tall, New Zealand perhaps?), or unconcerned and friendly.
Ia home formerly housed wilt he continue on
part of
The strength and degree of acceptance of the Now Eilts in the next few yeats will probably,
---(London Expresa Hervice).
"The English aristocracy,” (ho And as Editor of Granta he four working-class families in Delisin's Now Elite? anys’"hus Tilwayn regenerated
that rapidly regenerating part ilacif by marrying whatever it was rusticated for publishing a
of Fulham known as World's hoods "at" "the"
poom. He wAR EL time money, blasphemous broadly of talent. They have givola mocle || "funeral" " by ***I like the way the children decide...
Tawe, undergraduatén:
See pity the mists and the