THE DAZZLING
SUPERMAC
THIS LUXURIOUS CAR WITH ITS. VIVID ACCELERATION AND FLEXIBLE TOP GEAR PERFORMANCE
WILL TAKE YOU FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE RIDE!
VIDUA
Vicky is now firmly
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established as the world's MUST GO
foremost political cartoonist.
Here a politician
of the Left and one of
the Right tell why.
VICKY
London Expr
Vicky will stay!
The right:
FTER
the
American
But there is more to it than
A Civil war it is recorded this, In his way, Vicky is a
by NIGEL BIRCH, MP
cartoons of business men with Who then are his heroes? It is top hats and spals, enormous difficult to say. watch chains und even more
stomachs enormous strange and entertaining.
were
that in some places Negroes Renlus, and the drawings of emotionally stuck at the period
de
Macmillan, Khrushchey, managed to get into the Gaulle, Adenauer and so on, aeats of power.
portrayed as they are in every
costume, shope and
10 put They were scurrilously across with force and clarity the Altucked ir! the Press. Far cartoonist's point of view. from being annoyed they were delighted.
"Look," they said, "they put our names in the newspapers.
Reaction
This is a natural politician's reaction. For a politician, any advertisement is better than no advertisement and, cartoons are the best advertisement of all. No politician has arrived who is not curtooned.
Moreover, he has a genuine and often moving compassion- compassion for the old the pour, the refugees, the victims of colour prejudice and for the vielims of Communist cruelty in Hungary and Tibet. Besides, he I always topical.
But with all these gifts he and remains curtously dated old-fashioned in his views.
When I was at school I used to take in the Weekly Worker, not because my views were Left inclined, but because I found the
Vicky seems ta have got
when these Weekly Worker car- 1oors were drawn.
All his Tories and business men are depicted as morons and pinheads with both their eyes coming out of the same hole.
No time
I have often thought that this consistent under-estimation of their opponents by the Left is one of the reasons why the So- clalists are in such a mess.
"Look to your own IQ" might be a good mulle for them. Vicky is violently opposed to any effort to bring the Socialist Party up-to-date and he has no time for Mr Gaitskell.
A genius
7ICKY must go! What a
a political world it would be
if he did! For Vicky
has
now grown into the greatest cartoonist on this planet,
taking upon his diminutive
the
shoulders the mantle once power even greater than com-
worn so long, so famously poser in lyric-writers.
and so honourably
David Low.
Me
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Looking back now, it is hard to believe that David Low dif not fell Erst Lloyd George, then Baldwin and, Bnally, Hitler und Mussolini, almost singlehanded or At least he played
major part
nation's
**Let
write songs and I care not who makes its laws," said semebody other. There's a lot in fl.
Power
in shaping the whole temper of British polities in the twenties
and thirties,
Certainly not the other So- cialist lenders, nor does he idea- lise the Socialist rank and file.
Supermac
Oddly enough, apart from Mr Khrushchev, who is always dis- played in a fairly flattering light, his hero seems to be Mr Mac- millan, There are endless ear- toons of Supermäe,
Perhaps it is the passion they both share for summiteering that accounts for this.
Summiteering seems to have started early this season, so Mr Macmillan ought to be able to look forward to plenty of sup por from Vicky.
Meanwhile Vicky will stay.
Ile remains a genuine Radical.
against world
by MICHAEL FOOT
him in all directions, smiting of his the Philistines hip and thigh shame.
Exposed
One day, most of his victums will topple Supermat will stand
exposed. And if you
want to
fellow-journalists
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And then he adds to the extraordinary mixture the rarest of all-on abiding compassion, drawn from his heart and mur- tured by his love of music. iterature and beauty.
His victims might find this follow the intricate develop claim baffling but if ever they
the Labour ments in
Party dared breathe their word of dissent a host of their victims Most men who wield such from the underworld of the defeated, the persecuted, the power become corrupted. But forgotten and the mailened here is one of Vicity's secrets, could rally from the depths to He is incorruptible.
defend their champion.
More recently, Illingworth, in The song Lillbullere sang his greatest moments on Punch, watch Vicky! King James out of his kingdom played a big part in overthrow- and the Marseillaise inspired ing Anthony Eden, And now the. French Revolutionaries, Bul Vicky, like Samson wielding his cartoonists huve # political jawbone of an ass, lays about
THE LONELY HOSTESS OF INDIA
INDI
NEW DELHI. INDIA'S number one woman has stepped down porarily from the glamour world of politics. Mrs Indira Gandul, Nehru's daughter, aged 42, Is la mourning for her husband, who died recently.
our
None but political
It was a good day for Britalo foole
when Vicky came to these attempt by their flattery OF threats to engage his sympathy day after and ever since, when Ehores. It was even better, the In improving their profiles or he resolved to take us at (giving) a more elegant twist to best Jlberal word-when be The figures. This is the surest assumed that he would have the Invitation to massacre.
right and the duty to say what Vicky cannot be bought, he thought, though the heaverm tem-bow-beaten or bulldozed. He fall and however much all the stands against the world, the under-cover totalitarians and proud, unshakable anarchist, skin-deep democrata might who knows there is a force more scream. explosive than banks and who, Curiously, the little Hungarian knowing so well how power has become B screator British corrupts others, stay miracu- patriol, upholding the finest lously immune himself;
- traditions of this land, our most precious. trendures of free With this he combines ruper speech, fren: thought and the lolive droughtsmanship and an right to laugh at the might.
Inexhaustible imows uncanny,
There will be no real dikator ledge of. British politics. If he in Downing-street, King streeť wasn't genstud・ Anytow, he or Smith Square so long
buld have become one by fośćs. Vicky remains and those who fost pains, For Vicky works learn from his example, --Landon. Expereszerelés). "Fwith a diligence that pula many. ---{London. Kaprese Morales),
She is now living with monks, in search of spiritual pesco. For, unlike Nehrú, she is deeply religious,
Mra Gandhi shuns company, although she will be back at her job us India's top hosters to receive the Queen next year,
White hope of the ruling Congress Party she is an ambitious woman, and she will have a big hand in selecting Nebra's succes- sor de ruler of 400 million people,
This month she goes as India's unofficial ambassador to the Ú.8, and Bouth America..
21.
FIL
Paris Newsletter
White
Lady Jane and rich Greek: there is talk of a marriage
THE possibility of a great Anglo-Greek marriage is provoking a good to intervene on his daughter's
deal of excitement in Paris.
palace to receive General de Antoinette has been virtually
It is no secret here that I am fascinated by the great
great friendship has efforts being made by Jacques Gaulle, developed between George Soustelle to woo Washington, Livanos, the 26-year-old He leaves shortly on a visit to son of Starves Livanos, the greatest Greek shipping magnate of them all, and Lady Jane Tempest Stewart. Starvos Livanos is, of course, the father of the former Mrs Onnssis and the present Mrs Niarchos.
Lady J. is a vision of great bonuty. She has # face to launch a thousand 100,000-ton tankers.
The Livanos family anc strongly in favour of a mar rlage. Mr Livanos himself has commented with approval on the possibility.
Bi comment: "At last what looks like a good marriage the family."
Haunted
in
The Michelin family, which wame so tragically into the news recently has the distinction of being one of the few great non- Protestant financial dynastles in Catholic France.
Washington and it is clear from the statements he has already mode in Paris tluit his ijne will be to prove himself a good NATO man in exchange for Washington backing for what M. Soustelle now considers to be an anti-Cominunist crusade in Algeria.
Once upon a time M. Seustelle was so violently anti-American as to make it impossible for the American Ambassador in Paris to receive him.
Soustelle is now banking on two possibilities-a Republican Victory in the Presidential elec- tion and a further freezing in the Cold War.
It's a long view and a good gamble.
to
He may succeed in a worsen- ing international situation convince the Americans that Algeria must be held.
Incidental intelligence. Roger Vadim is making a film based on A Catholle family itself, it
some of the works of that dia- observes almost Quaker-like tinguished sadist the Marquis rules of decorum and self de Sade. Ho does not intend to effacement. Haunted by great family tragedies-11 Michelins future ex-wife in the film.
cast either his ex-wife
of his
have met violent deaths in the last 18 years—it has never been tainted with scandal.
The vast family motor and tyre fortune has been built up over the past 70 years from a small factory left to two Michelin brothers by a grand- father,
Paternalism is the keynote
of their industrial relations and entire, villages surround ing their mein Industrial plant in central. France are virtually company owned.
in
Workers not only live Michelin houses but also shop at Michelin stores a rigid code of respectability is enforced and any breach can lead to missal.
dis-
Michelin does not only inca tyres. It includes the great Citroen factories, a controlling interest in Panhard cars and the largest share of their elec- tronie industry in France.
The
Tight dan
Preoccupied
When de Gaulle visited his last remaining steadfast ally in Europe, Prince Rainier of Monuco, he found that als host too has been preoccupied with great matters of State during recent weeks,
Preoccupation number one: A certain unrest among financiers in the principality especially in Greco-Monegasque circles over the appointment of a former State Department economist as nunciat adviser to the prince.
He is 28-year-old Philip Daie, whose job It will be to attract American capital into the prin cipality. Tail and charming with a wife who its a similar des- cription, Dale, n Princeton graduate, is on a two-year leave of absence from the Stetc Department to tako От his present post.
Dale, Incidentally, speakts Chinese, He is looking for a Michelins are a tight Chinese speaker in Monaco clon. Like the Rothschilds, with whom he can practise the they have gone in for marrying language. cousins or, when that was not I am sure that Mr Onassis possible, marying into the could learn to speak Chinese in,
same influential familles, They produce enormous families of between sh and D dozen children.
EUGEN
The mayor of Dijon, M. Keir: "The wine I prefer is the one I haven't yet drunk.”
may, six weeks flat,
Prince Rainter's other prin- cipal preoccupation might be described as his own particular Algerian problem. It concerns his sister, 40-year-old Princess Antoinette,
He is devoted to her, but Antoinette will not be at the
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behalf but to no avail.
For the past 10 years
banished from the principality.
She no longer has her private nputment in the palaces This hus been transformed by. Princess Grnee into guest rooms, Why the coolness between the two princesses?
Her decline in the principality hus been steady one ever since Prince Rainier's marriage, She used to be president of the Monaco Red Cross - the top social poet, in the principality -- but Princess Grace replaced her One explanation offers itacl in the post and she became only immediately Princess Grace is vice-president. Now she is not a Catholic. Princess Antoinette's even vice-president, having re- marriage was dissolved. cently been replaced by Princess Grner's sister, Mr George CLOKAL Davis,
Novelist Jacques Provert: "I There was wouble over that work Just hard enough to pay and Prince Rainder's father. Prince Pierre de Polignat, tried
for the luxury of doing nothing."
-{London Express Bervice.)
Purification by tidal wave
By MICHAEL PARKINSON
THE place where they are awaiting the select tidal wave which will cleanse this evil old world of ours is one of those modern buildings, all windows and wafer walls, which look as if they would not withstand a short, sharp shower.
He said:
"We, are getting It is called, romantically enough, Watch Tower House, strong. We now have 30,000 and it is the headquarters active members, We are able to preach ad convert all the of the British Isles branch world over because each of our of Jehovah's Witnesses. members has a duly to try to persuade his friends and com- panions to our faith,”
Acres the way, glowering at the Watch Tower like baleful watch dogs, is a line of Army camps the Middlesex Regi- ment, the ammunition inspec- torate of Eastern Command, an Army workshop.
Intense...
He is a mail man, in a sad strit with the Intense face of an old-lime hell-fre evan- gelist.
separates
Only a thin ribbon of road the two and only a passive nature on the one hand and a stiff upper lip on the He is the head of the third other maintains
the peace it largest family of Jehovah's this quict North London suburb Witnesses *n the world of Mill H,
America has the most, with If all is quiet on the home Poland not far behind. front it certainly is not in
"We do Shuporo where 16 men in a
not belong to ang British R.A.F. camp have been pacist organisation but we do converted to this strange sect. not believe in fighting. We do
They refuse to wear uniform not believe in smoking. and suddenly say that it
"As for dancing and drink- against their principles to serve ing, well, we are, not exactly. in the Armed Forces, What is against them. Not dogmatically. the strength of this organisa. So, any way But if any of our
on which
.con "convert" at members 6,000 miles' range?
I asked Mr Pryce Hughes, He is the presiding minister of Jehovah's Witnesses in the British Isles and he lives at the Watch Tower.
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drank
or went to dances we would try to show there are better things to do,”
This, with a slight smile, He uses a curious logic to defend the pacifion of his meet. "Wo were under fire during the last war for not fighting. But people forget there were WIt- resses in Germany, refusing to fight against us."
At present, he presides over his "femily" in the Wash Tower. There are about 80 of them.
Somo
are "plomeers (full-time door-to-door religious zulesmen). БОЛС are young studenih, others are responsible for the production of the poothi two publications, Watch Tower and Awalte, They live on the premises, cushioned doop Alted enrgets, warmed with central heating.
Purifying
In this modern comfort they Awali The End, Armageddon, call it what you will.
the
Bald. Mr Hughes: "We think The End Is' nigh, When it comes we don't bellava It will destroy the world, but it will purify this evil system of ours. Only a select few will be saved. This is the message we uso lo ste tract the people to our ranks,” When The End comes Jehovah's Witnesses believe they will be in the Bfeboat, so to speak.
the meantime, those in Watch Tower House alí and watch through the windows. Today, through oʻsigh of ran, you could see the rument, totali of autumn on the land.
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It was the same view for the AD occupants of Walch Town Housy.
Even though they ord Watch- ing for The End all they can see are the changing patterius of thin reasons, which score of SEMEN | days and scorn their prophées
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