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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1960,
Lady Diana, the Count
and the strange story of £28,000
TRUMPETS FROM THE STEEP. By Diana Cooper. "Clemmiko (Lady Churchill)
Rupert Hort-Davis. 25s.
THERE is a war on and Duff and Diano, at the end of a tiring lecture tour in the United States, resolve to see it through from a top-floor suite in the Dorchester Hotel.
Before the war is over, of wartime letters. It is allu- they have travelled widely sive and short of breath, across the world, and Lady Diann Cooper hag sus- tained her husband in many high positions.
This book is made up partly of wartime memories and more
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In its curlier pages, at least, It has a recurrent complaining note, When one is keeping stift upper lip in publie, one may be forgiven for an occa- tonal whine' in a private letler.
Decision in
was
Hitler
Italy:
right?
by CORRELLI BARNETT
COMMAND DECISIONS. Edited by Kent Greenfield.
Methuen, 42a.
MAKING decisions ist job with more
pects bilssful. She can't understand thoso who write from the United States in pity-
for un?" I quite see why they
fur veln. Why are they Orly are, comments Lady, Diana.
Virtues
The book has the virtues of its kind. It is vivid, fresh, ancedotal, with sundry close-ups of the great and near-great,
ret
by George
Malcolm Thomson
Wormwood") at dinner? Child- hood, she suggests. "It had. never falled me over the years.”
But her advisera caid: "No, no. Above. all, not that Rather ancestry. In the end they talked about childhood and ancestry,
Her son
It was not all war during these years. There was a 60
Are U.S. racketeers out to get our one-arm bandits?
G-MEN MAY HAVE UNCOVERED A CLUE
New York.
G-
-MEN, seized 420 "one-armed bandits”—the line-'em-up-and-win-a-jack
pot fruit machines at a Brooklyn dock recently. And now the question is: Was this the start of a great take-over bid by America's racketeers for Britain's gambling millions?
The machines were bound for Britain. And America's experience is that where the machines go the racketeers follow with bribery, pro tection rackets and murder.
to send to the United States and then, in a cruiser, bring home Pennsylvania, again in time for Elon, Old York.
friends took ill.
Of one she writes: "I put her in the care of Max Beaver- brook, in calamity or all guar dians the most careful and generous."
Apart from thavar, there cartatives. are few connected
the
trouble in
For two days F.B.I. Schlossberg told me, win part Much cf agents trailed the of a crackdown on an inter America is caused by the ban-
national machines from
gambling Newport,
syndicate ng of gembEng.
American, that is stopping into the British
šan or no ban, Kentucky, through the Isles in a big way, Who in like to bet, "Because it is Illegal fog-shrouded hills of leading the syndicate?
except in the wide-open Slate into New King of the one - armed of. Nevada-they must gamble bandits for yLots was the undercover, ・ ・ which" Lavolvas notorious Frank Costello, who hefty payoffs to policemen, twice escaped cosassine bullets, Who is the big noise. how? The answer is complicated by the shenanigaris at the gang benses Apalachin Convention. at which district leaders from all over America were supposed' to divide up the country.
have the to
Some machines
past already got
and through G-men London. Just how many no one here will say.
Jungle
Puzzle
This is no back-street racket. New Yorkla biggest industry is gambling with the yearly teke
into soaring
thousands of as millions.
One "name mentioned Ccatello's GUCCESSOI Carmine - Lombardozzi, who was confined
In wartime a politician's wife thinks occasionally of her hus band's career, Will Duff One day in the British Embacay the Washington Embassy? Itin Parla, Lady Diana goi a letter goes to Lord Halifax, in spite from a Geneva solicitor: she had
been left £28.000 by the Count And on January 1 they to a garage while the assembled
become legal, under boeses decided his fate, come de Luzarraga, whom she had will
seen for just three minutes in Britain's new gambling The bosses knew that Lom- her life!
laws. Only two in any one bardozzi had committed too
indiscretions In place: Only in clubs. But many America knows what they gambling Jungic. He
lake on too much.
of the trailing cloud of Munich.
When Duff's ordera from Churchill (known in three letters an "Duckling") they dis- patch him (and Lady Diana) to Singapore. War is war.
In fact, that war was avoided. Duff is ordered back from Singapore before the city's fall, For a woman, war brings its own problems. For instance, when she is the wife of o Minister of State, she has the uüneymure of seeing that the miliary have become a privi leged caste.
"After all," explodes Lady Diana firm Algicis, "why the
all should these warriors, who are supposedly fighting a war in Italy, Ill in hixurious Im- AKING decisions is agonising exough in private life munity, while we permanent
with orders money but misionaries
to no pension?), or in business (will this gadget sell or entertain and impress, are left won't it?). But in war the penalties for decfiling wrongly in nothing but sties?". are the deaths of others, the loss of a campaign, or per badly: "We have
In the end she did not eo teo IL Moorish haps even the surrender of your country.
lodge at our gates, as pretty as This is a highly important Scheherazade's old hr.me."
In
wer, too, decisions aro
not mede at leisure in the book. To read it is to learn quiet of a study. They must afresh how wars
be reached under colossal pres sure of time and responsibility,
at times of great fatigue or In
the nest of panic.
And a teneral cannot be siue that he is basing his decision
on the right fasts,
So wrong
His Intelligence staff may be wrong about the numbers and whereabouts of the enemy, about
his fighting qualities. Wrong
waand lost.
Not that entertaining was easy at the best of times. What are started, em carth should she, discuas with General de Gaulle (known as
El Boag asks:
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Twenty years before, someone who signed himself Manuel used to write her three times a day in violet ink. Ho spoke of their three children and the happy
days at Newmarket.
No past
can trail behind them.
Now the seized machines pre stored in an army base and In- vestigations are sirotching perons America.
Payoffs
tho
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A Chicago Arm, the Aço Manufacturing Company, is one of the biggest manufacturers of the bandits, i
Ace president Arthur D. Laurence "They Are set pay out 60 to 65 per vent.
Nevade
Laugh
bonata
that tho
Mr Lowrance stykk "OL course, we cannot control the percentage, after the inachines leave the factory. As a machine gets older it tends to tighten up and decrease the pay out."
So many millions of dollars are involved that the gambling kings fall out mang themselves,
And the gambling kings machines pay out, D0 per cent, branch cut into Barcotics, But ask some of the people who prestitution, and even rackets drop In their quarters, They around juke boxes.
** laugh at the iden/- The big puzzle for the probers For the machines can be fixed tried to today is how the order for the to pay, any return.
London machines was placed.
They were being shipped by the M.C.S. Export Company, of 50, East 42nd Street,
But A visit to that address no such firm. today disclosed. None of the people in the big office block had ever heard of, either the M.C.S. Export Com- pany or its president, Murray Levine.
The telephone poople had no record of a phone ever being installed.
The F.B... a usual are tightlipped. This is considered a big investigation-so impor tant that head-man J. · Edgar Hoover is in charge personally,
Are the machines themselves honest?
He could have died for these The G-men are puzzled that indiscretions, but the mobsters lenient and let him off such a huge quantity they were were was stopped worth 250,000 dollars could be with a 10,000-dollar fine just Once she
in Newport without before the police burst in and Gower-street by a little man, assembled aged about 70, whe said: "I am local police knowing about them, brok up the gathering.
She told him they
Lombardozzi got a 15-year Manuel,"
The machines were made to would he please stop writing to pieces, half-dollars, cand even pending appeal. had no children, no past and take nickels, des. 26-cent stretch but is now cut on bail
the wrong woman.
It is not thought likely that, He bowed, silver dollars. It would be apologised and said she would simple to adjust them to take under these circumstances he never hear from him again.
and half would try to spread, his wings to sixpences, shililings. crowns when they serived in Britain, The letters went on.
So the probing goes on to find London.
Assistant out just who is behind the The pollen grab, District Attorney
Morton racket,
The Geneva solicitor told Lady Diana that the Count was sane.
immense-
This la a book, ly readable alike in Its vivacity and its inconsequence. Its final pages, when Lady Diana has given up keeping old age at bay, have a poignant beauty.
Are you in favour of
A HONGKONG LOTTERY?
gucasing in this way led to the Is there a place for a 'state' lottery in Hongkong?
disaster of Arthem or ex- Ample,
Take Hitler's problem when Italy was about to surrender in
1943. Field Marshol Kesselring should be fought as far South
advloed him that the Allies
ns' possible.
Rommel, commanding Northern Italy,.
argued
NOW, before you raise your arms in horror and before you declare by
all and sundry that such a thing must never happen here, pause for just a moment and make quite certain you know exactly what you are so Summarily rejecting.
Make sure too, that your a healthy. fixed-percentage autorishing total of $(HK) 800,- grounds for rejection are balance goes to community pro- 090,000: even Russih feels the that really valid.
is
Southern Italy could not be
Tell me, if you like, all about.
tell mu 'the church' would
Permanence
Jects,
was.
Sta
bérelta of well run lottery which is now reaching, such With these points in mind gigantic proportions that in 1858 dafended; the Germans should the terrible social consequence would you, in fact could you, nearly $(HK) 600,000,000 pull back to the for North and
ότι in Frizes.
The Áght there.
never age: tell me that such disapprove of such a scheme ustzonerie total accruing to ncuring and hospitals has not However, there was no time project would be an evli
Beers disclosed Spain gives the to withdraw. The day after the thing: In fact tell me all your here?
aaazonal touch by Italian capitulation, on Septem-anti-tottery stories and with the
The three big sweepstakes run lottery ber 8. 1943, the Allies landed Irrefutable backing of achieve
each year by the Hongkong staging only one and holding it at Salerno. But by the end of ments and figures I shall, with
Jockey Club have a lot in nt Christmas. Two thirds of the September Kesselring had dis-due respoet, reply 'poppycock'
common with a lottery and the total collection is paid out f armed the Italians and stopped of course there is a place tremendous interest which they prizes yet last year the com
services received two Allied armİCA south of tor,a state lottery in our colony, generate is a clear indication of munity Naples.
their popularily. Similarly the $(HK)80,000,000: and so it goes much admired philanthropic on with Sweden, Norway a work of the Jockey Club is even Great Britain, with significant pointer to what could premium bonds, coming into the.
'n large scale reckoning. A well organised lottery could be achieved it
state lottery was promoted on things that ever happened. Is this day, a monthly basis throughout But for two months, while wonderfully rich yet strangely the year.
community. It Kessairing fought a brilliant Impoverished
There is nothing degrading funds for des- or unchristian about a lottery, Hongkong needs houses. It delaying action. Hitler dithered, could provide
if you still needs more schools and bigger Gradually he was drawn perately needed housing, schools, of this kind but, behind Kesselring's defensive hospitals and also for the less have any lingering doubts about hospital. There is a very de- social ethics fintie requleement, too, for addi On November a he essential, but highly desirable, the religious or made the decision that led to 18 facilities for sport and recrea- take a look at the following re- tional assistance to the univer jónlis heart-breaking battle tion. It could provide that oft cords established in countries ity. We tack playing helds,
that where they have been run for parks for the children, swin discussed indoor arena,
at Tsun Wan or years, .
mingpools, and many of the sports held
tittle community luxuries which Xuen Long, or that much needed
the proceeds from a lottery could provide.
Perhaps Kesselring was right after all? Admiral Doenitz sug- gested to Hiller that abandon Southern Italy would open the Balkans to an Allled invasion.
CYCLERS.
of
up the long length of Italy: he appointed Kesselring C-in-C Taly, with orders to stand and night.
Crucial choice
Hider's decision to fight for Bouthern Italy is, one of, 20 crucial choices of the last wor examined by the 16 wrllets who hava:contributed to this fascin- aling and masterly book
be one of the greatest
swimming pool in Kowloon It Other countries
could even finance our proposed oceanarkum.
The needs
Are you still an opponent of It could assist the arts towards Down under, in Australis, mích, provana, or on Th a permanent home and it could hospitals have benefited to the now a better or more equit- also give us a wide open space tune of $(HK)204,000,000 since able way of getting them? merely to let our tight packed lotteries were started: Utile I am not afraid, to say, that, as I see it, there is not only a mass of people breathe good Belguim has reaped a rich re- Ward Of (FTIC)1,082,000,000; fresh air,"
lottery in this colony. We have State lotteries have been, and Denmark, with a scheme based plied but a real need for a stata are being, run to stroke purpose on molball matches is current a great cominianity problem to in oroud, powerful deeply reyhanding over #(HK)04,000,000 solve, Airtady, much has been decisions snolude the gour countries all over the annually to cultural and rue done and the world at farge (Japanese Attack on Pearl Hors world. There, they are, soon as creational organisations: France, admires what we have achieved bour, the Harrow-versus-broad any attractive and, seceptas one of the oldest lottery count with coutage, and Koreaight front, controversy. In North-west method for the redistributing of tries he a woody draw and coupled with the enterprise and Holton Joif you look (HK)210,000,000 falliative to reap material Ziarvest TARDO IN 1944, Arnhem, the localized wealth. Kedina, to halt on the Eibe A generous petro let dives falo, the national, excheque form the wonderf
Berlin, and the loitery/itarpophalar, appens the Irish sweepwuako da, almost which Hes behind. morta of all deol strickji andje bellachiant bo por leyti, sa famous es, the country self digits of a date".
For the guard the musky, collected and the proceeds devoted to couple the
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no
There must be a lot of
Make ancient machines, about.
mistake!
The machines look hamile and can give excitement and, (infrequent) dividends to the players.
But here they mean murder, beatings, corruption, a
And don't happer in Britain.
think it couldn't
Henry Lowrie
--(London Express Servies),
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