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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1960.
IF all the world
loves a mother, WHY are
are only
only ON nine MPs?
IF it is true that nowadays all the world loves a mother, then it is a wonder
that there are not more of them in the House of Commons. Only nine in all There are four Labour mothers and five Tories.
Hoping for a larger maternal majority is Mrs Betty Knightly, mother of four and tipped as a Bkely Tory MP before long.
teens, but problems found then nearly always go way back to the early days.
entertaining and the odd glass of wine and a few elgarettes are quite all right.
"We tell them what's going on in our own careers and we talk about things when we're dress- ing, when we're going to bed. special times for There's no talking and no time at all for television."
SCRAMBLE!
Bae story
of the ergatest
Lalle
of the War.
The RAF downs two for one-and the
ON August 15 I was having lunch with the other
pilots of 616 Squadron in the Officers' Mess at Leconfield, a few miles north of Hell.
We talked impatiently of the time when we would go south to join the battle. Nothing ever happened in our sector of Fighter Command,
Day after day we patrolled over the East Coast con- voys, occasionally intercepting a solitary hit-and-run raider.
We took our turn at night bandits approaching the coast operations, groping hopelessly south of Flamborough Head.
1 set couree and rammed the and unhappily in the dark skies for solitary German bombers throttle of R for Robert through the gate. Some of the others
me, some behind.. which we never saw.
We trained constantly, whirl were ahead Ing round the sky in make. We did not bother to wait for belleve dog-flights, practising each other or try to form og aid of into fights and sections. We our shooting with the
raced individually ACTOSS the camera guns.
coast and out to sea
About 15 rafles east of Brid- lingion I saw them, to the lett below-the front, and slightly thin, pencil shapes of German barbers, flying twin-engined
Meanwhile the squadrons down south were having all the fun and getting all the glory.
Happened Nothing Lecondeld--so pass the salt and let's have another glass of beer.
"I have never beaten my I called at Mrs Knightly's daughters but making children rather grand house in Headfort responsible to authority is some- Place where all was un early thing you can't quite say how morning buzz of secretaries, you do. I think that their respect dailies and annies. Fragrant for as stems from the fact that luncheon smells were already we like and expect them to lead wafting from the basement kit their own lives just as we do. chen.
Even the two-year-old leads her own life at nursery school with like Mrs Knightly could not her own chums.
possibly do any harm in Parita- Action at last
Mrs Knightly, 41, as tall as Dr Edith Summerskill but quite different in every other way, hos children at all ages and stages.
The youngest daughter is 22, the eldest 17-and two boys in the middle.
All ages
-There is not much she does not know about education.
After the birth of her third child she read for the bar and is now a practising barrister. She has been in politics for nine years and has cheering plans for more tax relief for married women and the entice- ment of mure married teachers Into the schools.
Mrs Knightly sees no prob- lems to running two homes (there is a farm in the New Forest), two careers, ope packaging firm director husband and four children.
Women, she thinks, are not yet acquainted with the resources of their own nature. Like all career women nowadays she is very keen on keeping her femininity.
On the up-bringing of the young. Mrs Knightly has Ideas which sound as if they work rather well.
On daughters: "I believe in taking them away from school at 16 especially if it's a boarding school.
At the top
"Continue their education abroad if possible so that they can pick up some clothes sense, money sense, travelling
Bense
and all the other things they'll never learn In ↑ protected environment.
"University is just as import-
ant for girls as boys. Even if they marry early and never take up career they will have to help their husbands in careers and know how to go about it.
their
They will have the prime responsibility for the early up- bringing of their children and this is no longer thought to be
a purely physical thing.
"Then again there will be a
"We believe in making our as interesting as home life possible so that the children feel that hohe is an amusing place to be.
"We ask them to make up the numbers for dinner when we are
I say that a sensible woman
FICTIL
ever
D:
its a loose, straggling, scattered formation toward the coast.
I switched on my reflector sight, setting the range for 250 The Tannoy broadcasting yards, turned the gun bution to position. Wheeling and came to the "Fire" MAUREEN system crackled
life. "616 Squadron scramble- left in a diving turn, I curved
all down towards the nearest bom -616 Squadron scramble
ber, judging my rate of turn and
OWEN alteratt."
This was ridiculous. The dive to bring me in astern.
-London Express Service).
BOB
GUSTAFSON
"Agnes likes to surprise me look how she made my pesän butter sandwiches today!"
:
taken
Controller must have leave of his senses. We were not even at readiness. It was most unorthodox to be ordered to scramble while having lunch at 30 minutes' notice.
A light winked from the rear- tracer gunner's position and bullels hosed lazily past. When
opened up with my eight Brownings the return fire stop- ped. The bomber. turned and lost height. First a gush of black a steady stream In smoke, then
from its engine poured back cowlings and it fell away streply towards the calm summer sea.
The disembodied voice con- tinued to repeat the order Lones of urgency and excite ment. A telephone rang and someone rushed into the dining- room shopting at us to get down to dispersal point.
We downed tools, ran from the mess and jumped into the first available bars. As we careered round the perimeter track we saw the
mechanics
Furious fighting
Turning to look for a second larget I saw. other Spitfires fas- tering on to the German planes on all sides. Beneath me a running out to the Spitfires. damaged bomber turned back Outside the dispersal hut out to sea and I decided to go in Corporal Durham, the usually and finish it off. phlegmatic little operations It was a foolish decision,
Full throttle
Baling out of our carg We sprinted to our Spilares. Cor- poral Durham's Yorkshire voice was shouting at us to take off and get instructions when we were airborne.
undamaged plane
killer-punch fails
"The hember turned sad
lost height
... a gush
of black smoke, then a steady
stream
and it fell
away towards the sea.'
by HUGH DUNDAS
D.S.O., D.F.C.
over-
for the destruction
Command,
of Fighter operational potential
gether impaired There was furious fighting Reichmarshall allowed that day. over the south coast to fall into the trap im the 11 and 10 Group areas, deception. Bumber ralds followed each other in quick succession, escort- ed by many hundreds of fighters.
was alto-
But the himself of self.
He reported to the Fuehrer airfields in that eight major southern England were out of action and that his pilots were
one
of their ownL
Believing these figures, Goer-
Nasty surprise
The principal targets were destroying four British planes coastal airfields and radar sta- for every tions. The airfield at Mansion, which was lost. near Ramsgate, was knocked out and had to be evacuated ing calculated that he had gone halfway towards annihilating except for emergency use. *
Lympne and Hawkinge, near Fighter Command. He was con Dover, were severely damaged. fident that the reserve squadrons radar stations were from 12 and 13 Groups in the clerk from a South Yorkshire made in the beat of the momen!, We did not know it at the Five village, was jumping up and for I should have looked for an time, but we had played a small damaged but only one of them North would be ordered South of by Dowding and thrown into a blow at Ventnor in the Isle down, waving his arms.
still making part in warding off
the battle. Something seemed to be hap- for the coast. By the time I which Goering had planned as Wight-was put out of action.
At the end of the day the He gave his bomber squadrons pening at Leconfield at last. had caught up with it and the killer-punch for the Royal Luftwaffe had lost 36 planes and a day off to prepare for the
knocked it down I was several Air Force. miles farther out to sea.
Three days before on August their crews. Fighter Command knock-out blow. The sky was empty and I 12, after a month of warming lost 22 planes. but some of the judged that my ammunition was up operations against Channel pilots were sale.
The claims of the German nearly exhausted.
shipping the fat and
Reichmarshall had pilots were greatly exaggerated. On August 15, he sent them Hot and elated I Bew back to confident
from Goering believed that nearly 100 out again in maximum strength his air feets the airfield. I see from my log ordered
sholoot-only-across the Channel book that I claimed one and a France and the Low Countries RAF fighters had been half bombers destroyed. Several into battle against the English down. And he thought that the but across the North Sea also. radar warning system, had been expecting to and the North-East other members of the squadron mainland.
or two
and Midland areas denuded of With characteristic German eliminated. We streaked away in two's and had scored. Only one
Accordingly he ordered a re-fighters. three's. The voice of the con- enemy planes got through to flamboyance he had named the
for August His unfortunate crews got a traller repeatedly ordered all their targel-the RAF bomber day "Adlerlag"-the day of the peat performance aircraft to fly out to sea at top base at Dralleld. Not a single Engle. He judged that four 13. Arain, fishler sirfields were nasty surprise, as the Spitfires be required chosen as principal targets, but and Hurricanes in Yorkshire, speed and intercept many Spitfire was lost.
days only would
this time further inland.
Durham and Northumberland The German crews were told rose joyfully up against them. that as the British radar was. And in the South things were no no longer working they would easier for the raiders than they reach their targets without op- had been on the preceding days. position. In fact, our controllers One thousand eight hundred had more warning than the day German aircraft flew against before.
Britain on August 15. Seventy- Many bomber formations were six of them were destroyed, for broken up on their way in and the loss of 34-British fighters. a lot of "bombs were dropped AS A KILLER-PUNCH IT Indiscriminately.
SOMETHING OF A southern coundies. Seven air FAILURE. AND THE EAGLE Belds were hit, but not one was WAS LOSING MORE put out of action.
FEATHERS THAN IT'S PRET, SATURDAY: Hitler's mistake
I'D SAY IT'S ALL OVER
BAR
Chicago.
ume when their husbands are at NOW, Vice-President Ric-
the top
their career, around
leaving home and when many
hard Nixon has been
50 to 60, when the children are nominated as the Republi- women fall down badly on life. can candidate for President
"I am all for girls leaving the after a Rockefeller rumpus nest to share flats with other that failed. girls before they get married.
Pitiful
Mr Nixon
will now charge his opponent, Senator Jack Kennedy,
with galloping Socialism. softness towards Khrushchev, absenteeism from
"It teaches them that what-the Senate, lack of administra ever happens the laundry has tive experience, and repeat the to go off, it teaches them hours "x and rig allegations of and it teaches them the price former. President Truman. of butter."
On song: "Their future career
He will have a few harsh words about Kennedy's father, is obviously going to be of the Joseph, and his supposedly highest importance, and it's up sinister influence, and scoff at to you to find out all they can and scorn the Kennedy
Clan. do. To do this you must know The real fight is on them really well and if neces- sary drag the information out of tween two extraordinary young them. Schoolboys pren't always men, both of them real cool confiding
cals or brave bulls
be-
or young lions, whichever description
No mascots
"I have po scruples at all you prefer, about guiding them along the their lines I think suited to powers. After all, you know about all the possible jobs open. to men and the capabilities re quired. They don't. They just know what they know.
"I believe, too, in lettlag boys know what goes on around the house. Both my sons (14 and 16) have special dishes which they produce with great pride
THE KNIFING...
Don Iddon's
ROCKEFELLER RIDES, BUT
THE U.S.
CAN'T WAIT
FOR
THAT KENNEDY-NIXON DUEL
Was it all-cut-and-dried for two young men, Nixon, 47, and Nizon? I believe was. Kennedy, 48, who represent the Rockefeller made a grandstand new America, the new volee, play but did not have the and the new broom in American machine, the pledged votes, politics. Although their back- or the apparatus to defeat grounds differ immensely they Richard.
are in many ways similar.
Both started in Congress on
manner which both Nixon and Kennedy possess, they lack waith. There is no flame, let alone fire, there. Neither has the easy popular appeal of Elsenbower who, everyone knows, means well in a feeble, blundering way. Kennedy ad- mis: "If Ike were running, de- spile at the mistakes he would win again."
Kennedy has been hailed by his supporters as a new Frank- lia Roosevelt. But Roosevelt was an idol, a crusader, and to some ::A saviour. Kennedy claps belly-laughs, shoulders, rarely unwinds. Nor does Nixon.
never
I believe the two cool cals are evenly matched-and they will fight like cata.
Laver he won a public speak- I promise you a bitter batile. Behind the knife play of politics ing.contest, got the nod as candidate for Congress, rose to both men are chillingly efficient. the Senate and was pushed into There will be no long golfing the Vice-Presidential spot as holidays, no passing respon- President Eisenhower's running sibilities to another Dulles or male. Although, unlike Ken Sherman Adams. nody, he has no personal for- descended
lune, the forces of big businese, and the same day 11 years ago. Both Wall Street, the giant com Chicago with his anny proud are personable, ruthless, caitu bises, and the buge trusts are azud arrogant..."Positively inting tireless. They are gifted behind him. He is the candidate and absolutely" not Interested
speakers, adroit in manoeuvre, of capital. in being Vice-Presidential can
intensely ambitious. Bath Re well-informed ол foreign
Rockefeller
I look forward to the fight didate as running mate ̈ Nixon;
The Convention, was "short No intention whatsoevar" affairs, although Nixon has the
and snappy," unlike the drawn- proposing or seconding
the
ence.
out Los Angeles carnival now Nixon nomination; not seeking age in administrative experi being called by sections of the the top job at all, but would in American Press "a travesty, line of duty be drafted (that is,
The tragedy, and obscenity."
accept the Presidential can- Americans are saying violently didacy) if the Convention de- and efficiency from time to time, what some of us said mildly. manded it and gave him the
minimum of 600 votes,
and they know how to fron their own parts and wash their socks,
there were no Anyway,
His acties failed there was performing troups of elephants "Nothing is more boring and (the elephant is the mascot and no draft in the Windy City Lend Nixon pitiful, than the bachelor who is symbol of the Republicans in for the Hock
was triumphed as laid down in umable, toj tako: mare of himself." Chicago, That plan
cancelled, and make dances, the blueprint.
On discipline: think the somersaults, mamed bands, thing parents fear most is this chanting and screaming demon-
No fortune
Both have beautiful wipes and good-looking families.
Nixon's father was o grocer, and Nixon 21.430U worked as a delivery boy and S barker and keinketer at country. fairy before going to Whit
It will be a different kind of College and Calfordie 2 DUE
great carolt sze're always bearingstrations were curtailed and, butelnone from any other election University. En till about when children reach their disciplined,
in American history. Here are in the sott sell
No mate
Nixon is making it clear 10 Chicago that he is the boss, just Los Angeles that be as Kennedy made it clear [at]
was the new leader of the Democratic clan,
the
His
As of now I favour Kennedy's chances to beat Nixon in November elections. choice of running minte the Kennedy, a product of Har- Texan Lyndon Johnson, the vard and the London School of two-fisted drinker, the majority Economies one of the heirs to leader in the Senate, the ex- "the vast whisky, real estate,hibitionist in love with his own
and merchandige fortune is initials was shrewd, It should; Liberal, = pocasionally Radical, placate, and perhaps WAS UP fout a enopromiseraði „Rove the restive South the white the deal and the derivin
South, that is, which does not lice the modioal #Rights ter unions," Negroes" policy of Kennedy- d the
Meanwhile the two' bool cats -Kennedy ang zilver nitals each aburmi,other wartly before the clew
and tangle.
around. the WAS
The score: 47 German aircraft' destroyed for the loss of only 13 Spitüres and' Hurricanes.
This in two days Goering had lost 83 aircraft. Fighter Com- mand had last only 36 and its
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