It is the American Vice-Presidency
for him-if Nixon wins
HENRY CABOT LODGE
HE
would have made an awkward mourner at the funeral pyre of the United Nations if ever, ironically, it had come to that. For a man whose grandfather administered the coup-de-grace to the old League of Nations, it would have been no easy role.
But elective office calls, and he has moved on and up. There is a bigger job ahead: it is the American Vice-Presidency for him if Nixon
wine.
And whenever there is eloe- tive office about. the long elegant legs of Henry Cabot Lodge Junior have to run. It has been that way for Twenty Whenever he opens his mouth he is running, whether be trollses it or nul. for Govern- ment oflee.
years,
So
And
ut 58, tout How, brusquely hundstone sul in an
ageing Gable way, the rich and handrung aristocrat from Boston
His eyes, though the rund of retoes and midnight cabs hus pouched their lids, ronoin 65 keenly blue as ever. They are sel sudare on the gilded cage in which past U.S. Vice-Presidents have it, heavy with prestige bul starved of power,
by
Simon
Kavanagh
forget
اله
isobationist whostiled the voice of the League of Nations with much lethal grace, would have admired his grandson too. They have That, at least, in
common.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1960.
And he pould have liked the way his grandson, heeded his advice that journalism, as 3 nursery slope for politics, is ut least as good as the law. For it was as a newspaperman, for ten years, that Locige junior vanthed up the smooth edges of bis plushy Middlesex School-Har- vard youth.
their York.
Covering the police beat for a
Reshaping
The Eggheads are in retreat from reason
HERE they come, the eggheaded, long-haired, Left-wing host, terrible as an army with banners, the earth thundering beneath the tramp of sandals.
Let Governments and all the forces of authority tremble. Those of us who believe in calm thinking and responsibility and the rule of law had better tremble too.
They are great signers and marchers, these Intellectuals of the Left. Protest is second no- ture to them;
Look at some of the trouble
which they are splashing
happily about today. Like children in pučāles.
octogenarian
by Anthony
Lejeune
That
enfant then his floor
The French Government has tumble, He turned the fine
Bertrand Russell, and hit back by banning the signa-
from all the anti-bomb brigade are re torles his Yankee
State-run crulting volunteers (or a civil theatres or television studios. disobedience carga.ign. They
behind
unds his Lusty Uh-year passage Į heavy pives of bugage that he as chief American delegate to Lannot shed. In the Suez Affuir the United Nations.
he became identined with the most painful
Graduating almost precocious- rocent
the Roosevelt land manager, survived differences between his country, by from Harvard, pitched
When war came, he be manager. slide. a local And her
No British or right in as Billes,
reporter. 1 French
wilt politician easily Within two years he had found came the fast senator since the strength USSR. to vote against
his ning-up with the wife and moved in on New Civil War to resign his seat for grace to routing Taft,
combat duty.
This left him close to Ike. countries,
And when, in 1952, Lodge Wikt The Senior Boston evening paper, Bod
Riven an election drubbing by a Peace brought re-election; political conventions for a big
fellow-Bostonjan, groting Jack the last and Lodge smashed When it happened, history
foreign this hopes of his grandfather's Kennedy, it
Was Ume for the revenis, U.S. Ambassador daily, Interviewing
aged isolationist retainers by Winthrop Aldrich almost turned
his assertion that the U.N. was debt to be repaid.
to It was Lodge went the last hope for his country.
And in November, 1951, he carefully the
United Nations. began shaping banks of a rivulet that was to
a torrent, sweeping When he said the best hope become him with it, to destiny.
Jay here, he believed and mesot Painstakingly, with all is it. He was content in his work,
flat, he built innate
up asiogging away night after frust national image of a lonely man rating night- On Korea, the
W1 Richard Nixon, as he has promited, change the custom of
the house by leaving the cage door open for him?
in his job in London then and diclaters for magazines, he grew Henry Cabot Lodge junior there. He had been led to hinta crust of friendly cynicism that had been at the United Nations at a different kind of vote by barely a year before he begun his country's representative.
to find compensations In The apparently futile round of late
It is not the only time Lodge
nights, rushed meals, frequent has confounded by colleagues crises and Russian ularumk.
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Suez affair
When pressnien
by taking an unexpected Has.
stands him often in good read.
In Boston says an old Hyme, "The Lowells talk is the
Cabots,
And the Cabots talk unly to
God."
Citizens
for
TOODS ACTOSS
the
Parrying
the
in Paris: General Eisenhower, Hungarian revolution, Suez, the: But it is the' regard of voting
But after two rough-and- brooding at SH.A.P.E, head- Lebanon, the Congo. Americans that he really seeks. tumble terms the Lower quarters, when all America the And, in the perspective that man- House, and the €11
in the US wanted him for President. bleary-eyed midnight brigades, Americans have liked his Senale, there were few discerni- He now to Paris to talk tke
the Security Councli burly, muscle-flexing diplomacy ble trioes left of the smooth jurto it,
It was, Harvard end-product. lamented their hopeless fate, at the United Nations.
Ile organised Lodge saw ; differently, How Indeed, the native acclaim for Instead there was an affable, Eisenhower else did you get to see your his blunt, bluft
broadsides on argumentative man who could country. picture daily on the front page the Soviet delegates throughout ride it out better at the hustings At a showy press conference, of the "New York Times" with the Eisenhower regime that than many a pompbus pulitician he kept a line open to Parts for out even running for elective thrust him to Nixon's
side us 12joleing in his kinship with the General's decision.
They laughed; but he did 15 Henry Cabot Lodge Junior Senator Henry Cabot Ledge In 1936, Lodge was the only He got the back, and in mufti begins his new race with one senior, thinl well-bred old Republican SONALDS
who He became hiy campaign
office?
race-matc..
common man.
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It some others were less happy, he could not help that,
He stood solid against the dend weight, of Soviet lavestive, He took all their slanging, and Farried with dazzling revela tons of virtuous American in- tunt. '
Now, in the Congo muddle, Lodge has signed off at U.N. by
reforging
are planning to be arrested
Thay want a minimum of 2,000 people in every demonstra- tion.
Kenneth Tynan, the critic, has been in trouble with the American authorities,
Point
:
15
The appeal of these cam- paigns is not really based on IDASO at all. That la the bypocrisy of It. Lord Bertrand Russell and Simone de Beauvole make their livings by, and are chletty known for, their intel- lectual powers. But when they And their views unaccepted; they revert to mob tactles.
Unwanted
5
ILAIRE BELLOC once wrote
two telling lines epitaph for a pacifist:- Pale Ebeneser thought it wrong
to fight
him, thought it right,
These people seem to want to hand the world over to Pales Ebenezer and Roaring Bill....
AND what's the point of these But Roaring Bill, who kliled
activillos? "We want to emphasise," said Lord Russell, "that this campaign is hot an attempt to force our opinions on those not yet persuaded." French pre-Communist
Then what is It for? Rational Simone de Bemivoir signed a manifesto supporting French people are not likely to be per soldiers who refuse to fight in suaded by watching 2,000 others Algeria.
disobey the police.
That lan't the sort of world I want to see. And I doubt if it's the sort of world they really want to see either.
-London Exprata Service),
Lord Mayor of London -the man who matches the glitter
"YEZ, Oyez, Oyez,” the Common the old, unwelcome Crier said in Guildhall,
Russlan
awainst Belgium.
By DONALD EDGAR
has four
Sucz alfiance: Joining with the "You good men of the several delegate In voting Livery of the
but I am happy to use a portion well, Bir Bernard Companies of this City, of my inheritance in the service children and in the holidays the summoned to appear
of the City of London."
Mansion House will have more here this day, for the the fact that it costs money to than has been the
He was obviously referring to young galety in iis gilded rooms for election of a fit and able be Lord Mayor. They say be- many years.
tween £10,000 and £16,000 out
He did so knowing that Suez had already cost him the popularity of one American ally after another; that was eyed suspiciously apong many friend of America abroad,
The Belgians were no incensed
I
by his new lone stand that they even threatened to quit N.AT.O
Nixon has promised running-mate an enviable new of freedom дз
kind
person to be Lord Mayor of this City for the year ensuing, draw near and give your attendance."
of your own poskes,
Huntsman
Waley-Cohen is a great stag- He has a house and
Case
His wife, Joyce, is a daughter of Lord Nathan, highly intelli- gent and very attractive.
They have been most hos- pilable in the house they built on a bombed site off St Jones's.
There are Umas when the
It is all part of a bunter, Vice- ritual,
as meaningless some land on Exmoor. He hunta whole of the City ceremoniat President, if they make it: a full and as significant as all with skill and craft, I am told.
imporlani part in affairs.
But would a go-getting, lone stand Lodge be just too much of handful? Is it a promise a President can afford to keep?
If the door of that gilded cage once slams shut, it will not much matter what view Mr Henry Cabot Lodge junior takes of anything.
A mother's
heartbeats send baby to sleep
SMALL machine which re- produces the sound of a mother's heartbeat will solhe crying babies to sloep, claims Dr Lee Salk of New York Dr Salk, brother of the
pollo vaccine discoverer, said in New York recently "My machine will make babies cry less, sleep better,
and grow up healthler and hoppler, "I Arst became aware of the importance of a mother's heurt to her baby when I watched a rhesus monkey and her new- born in New York's zoo,
'Instinctive"
rituals are.
And he has not been afraid to and tradition seems a waste of take d lead in answering the time, and money. There Are individuals and organisations times when it onshrines all the There are still the sweet that have tried to get the sport greatness of Lonton and its stout-hearted democratie back-
snelling herbs strewn in the parsed. hall, there OFA the nosegays carried by the aldermen. relics of an age when the City smelled rather high.
He has been arabitious to be ground, Lord Mayor of London. It was a great day for him.
Bometimes wonder why able, rich mea should worry about
A、 eritie :
And a wit told me at Guild- the business of becoming Lord It will be fascinating to 300 hall a few years ago that maybe Mayor, It usualy ends with a whether Sir Bernard" will be they are now necessary to keep buróneley
but the social content to awny other smells.
follow a recently value of titles decreases from rather flaccld tradition or re year to year.
New lustre
the_country.
So I asked. "Why do new one of the great officer of you accept the office? Why do
To be a great Lord Mayor of you want to be Lord Mayor?"
London it is not only a matter
But, though there, may have "I am a believer," he replied, of being able to take in large been Lord Mayora who have in the maintenance of all thode quantities of turtle soup.
not preserved the standards of things which go to make up
The City
Dick Whittington, the new Lord the traditional background of The City, more now than Mayor elected last month, Bir this country Bernard Waley-Cobes, is a man stands for all that is best in the for_many a year, needs a Hikely to give now lustre and character of the British nation mportance to an office can all be as glittering as the dealing and industry. 1 Hke to lace and silver and fur that think I shall be able to help to necessary, a critic. embellished his person,
which,
honesty, integrity, straight- spokesman
preserve those high standards."
Speeches
Sir Bernard is a young man for the position. He is 18. An ancestor of his, Sir David Salomon, was the first Jewish
One of the worst chores of a Lord Mayor of London.
Lord Mayor is making speeches, Waley-Cohen belongs to the often has to make two or Jewish aristocracy of the City. more a day. Whether by Instinct or
design 1
have suffered he has a Victorian about excruciatingly boring speeches
film.
air
Rich man
90
mang
in the Mansion House and the Ifalls of the City Companies that only a sonso of sympathy with the speaker have stopped me from damning all City
I asked Sir Bernard,
I walked down to Gulidhat! banquet speeches, with him recently and felt I was Bo accompanying v character but who has the reputation of being "I noticed that she had a
of a novel by Trollops or Dise a foron and able spenicer, what tendency to hold the babyraelf the thickset, powerful was going to be the main theme monkey to
Left alde body, the
dark, full face, the of his messages this next year. frequently with the infant's limp, the black milk bat fixed But he wouldn't be drawn. car pressed to her heart; firmly and squarely on hii large. There is a caution in him, that
of "To see whether the same thing heed the coat-tali
his explains why, I mapposa, he has applied to humans, I obedived | morning-coat Rying, the nodded added to the family's fortunes. 187 mothers 10 maternity | recognition to men in the street. All he would any was, "I hope homital,
Ak that during my year of office in I know he is s rich man. His it the speeches that come my
'I found hert 20 ber cont of
loft hinded mother, heli | tandly have had money for way I may be able to put my their babies on their left side generations and his rather made finger on some vital point and 33 per cent of right-hand-fortune out of cil wd mothers Uld the asthe,
·Bo Pro “Are you a million- Polfete ticks buttons Wira kira ko. instineiive.??...
---Ekendon Apprass Barelon),
which may havo been overlook...) ed and where a little attention may make some biterence Pr "No," he said, "I am a family So much for the office. Las inan with fathily responsibilites, for the personal · background,
and, if
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