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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1901,
EXPRESS
DAILY EXPRESS
Wonder Bright persade: skewers
The former editor of the Express tells his story
Price HL
HEADLINES ALL MY LIFE
THROUGH all the years I have only once seen Lord Beaverbrook beaten
by his emotions. He seemed as hard as a piece of Land's End rock. when he telephoned for news of Max, his fighter-pilot son, during the Battle of Britain.
The passing of friends and companions he has outlived must move him and leave him lonely-he wrote to me recently "There are so many friends departing that I feel like a lone tree in a clear-felled forest" yet during the wär he shrugged off his feelings with what appeared to be almost callous haste.
"What cise is ko- ing on?" he asked over and sver again when I tuld pal tilings.
The only clue to his feelings
occasions
these
wns that
he Wak not
in-
terested in the ant-
swer lu his ques- tion and I did not spark off the usual flood of dens and opinions which the smallest crumb of gossip Ly
enused.
It is one of the dangers of news paper life that men become insensitive to the polgnancy of events and Beaver-
The night Churchill
turned town-crier
brook's Burface reactions were harder and harsher even than miine.
But one day when we were sitting in the sunshine on the patio or his London penthouse
who
by ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN
Churchill's name cropped up, time it looked as though it would porrkige ladle at # New We were discussing the bad be fatal. I was to prepare the Brunswick manse. habit of snolding to excres, paper for the end straight away Beaverbrook's dislike of the
"A man
smokes too and leave
the front English aristocracy space on
and their much," said the Beaver, des page for a document which he dislike of him are well known, trays his epeity for coherent, himself would provide.
but Churchill is the exception. clear thought.”
The warmth of Beaverbrook's affection glowed vividly when Churchill was returned to power in the 1951 election.
"Oh, come, sir," I said, con- sclous of the fact that I was n 30-a-day etgarette Pra, "what about Church"
"I will surprise you so know," said the Benver "that Churchin does not smoke anything like the
31 would be in the formi
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correspondence that had passed between the two old warriors: but precisely what, I was never Beaver's to learn, because the Krief made him for unce nuble to continue.
"He won the war as Prime Minister elected by the will of Parliament," he said, "but the British people rejected him at
During the war Churchill wns an omnivorous reader of newa- papers. A motor-cycle despatch rider called at the Express oflce
every night to collect the first edition for him as soon as it
me off the presses.
item in
'
would inquire. "Be careful now. Be careful of his prepoganda!" I was deeply moved by my last meeting with Churchill at u public dinner in his honour at the Drapers Hall in the City of London. The occasion was the presentation in, December 1855
of the Williamsburg Award, the first of its kind, in recognition of Charchal's services on behalf of Anglo-American relations.
Colonial Williamsburg is the township near Washington, D.C.,
HAWKEY
Pipeline to the headlines....a telophone shrilla on the Daily Express reporters' desk and a story unfolds. In the background sub-editor wait to project it as an eye-catcher on the early morning bookstalls.
But maybe it will not displease the pour old boy looked. Bul He then transferred his lop Churchill in his lifetime it I now we were carried away by hat to his left hand, seized the quote from my letter:-
his sense of occasion, and by bell once more, and tuttered off entered the dining, pride in his sense of duty, and in the direction of the main door Winston hall after we had assembled by the impish way in which he In Throgmorton-street. looking tired and old and imp- had pledged it.
He was eased into his car. ing badly. But the power And
Ten minutes later the dinner Siting there in his top-hat and grandeur of the man were never
was over, and leading the way almost covered by a rug, he better demonstrated than in bis
with the American Ambasandor looked like a pink-faced teddy speech.
and Rockefeller Following, bear. We all started to clap yet Churchill left the dining hall gain and as the car took away
his own erler's ributing
bell the Man of the Century we with all the delight of a child could hear abuve the noise we on Christmas Day.
were making that he was 9 still ringing his beli.
What a man? Bells and bombs they all come the same to him, making His smallest action an anecdute, and his great decisions world history,
It was not what he said, bul the way that he said it. In fact to the disappointinent of some of the Americans who hud expected another Fulton Declar-
fleance.
Often Beaverbrook used to call
ation he said little of sign!- me long after midnight to say that the P.M. had been on the which
But having accepted the Town has been rebuilt and
Bell from Winthrop telephone complaining about restored to its appearance before Crier's some tiny
the carly the American Civil War: and Rockefeller, his peroralion was Immortal. Taking edition.
the award to Church was to Practically Inke the shape of a hell
his used the bell in
right hand. to sound the alert during that Churchill stammered
"I shali ring it — PAUSE In a invish brochure handed to each guest or he sat down to LONGER PAUSE-Whenever
PAUSE - 1 feel — PAUSË After the war when Churchill the traditional City turtle soup there is duty to be done."
dinner.
And, of course, Churchill sure the pull in 1945. Now he bas PROPAGANDA wall of which was explained and I can assure you I shall
number of cigars that you would Imagine. They're nearly always vived. bul. He will stick one In Kis
Lord mouth when the photographers Bre around but he won't be stantly smoking it."
"Bul am a heavy smoker," "Are you now? I didn't know that. if I had known I would not have raised the subject," he replied, for he was always set- sitive about criticising either any Journalism or #Y persund habits,
said.
the tough,
*
Beaverbrok is con- altacked for feuding against people like the Mount hattens, Nehru, the site of the Astor family which owns The
not and
few Observer.
unshakable politicians, but his affection and loyalty to men like Winston Churchill and
virtue, not smaller fry, is ke Interesting news and Koes Jargely unrecorded.
"Mix
a foul - weather
:i was
much
submitted himself to their will once more and has been elected by them as their Prime Minister. It is his proudest moment In 60 years of public ife. It is the one coveted honour that has hitherto evaded him."
RESPECT
are
was unce again in the political wilderness we sent the paper to his house in Kensington by our own despatch rlders. "Came to Ilad the dour himself, he did.
a dressing gown and a cigar on," I used to hear from our riders.
"What was your renction my speech?" he would ask. He was a powerful psychologist.
If Church had been speak The bond between the two
the House or in his At that point a note handed ta
Koes deeper thun the ing in
I in- him by a valet Look him from friend" Churchill's own fact that they are old friends constituecry at this time the palio; when
summing up of Beaverbrook, they he returned
The last surviving variably heard from him. five minutes Ester
that weather-vane of a man.
Cabinet Ministers of the 1931 hard-hitting demagogue hind Yet the two were never on the war. clearly received news that bad same ide of the fence;
they for shaken him,
It seems to me to be based on were not even born alike, When he managed to speak Churchil
English a respect for each other's abilit- was 0:1 there were tears f his eyes aristocrat with a sliver spoon in ies, and t Juve of each which he did not bother to hide. his mouth, while the only spoon other's Idiosyncrasies, weak- His old friend Churchlil hød that ever played 14 partnesses, loyalties and above all, had another stroke ondi this Beaverbrook's early life was the zest for Aving.
TRIBUTE
The occasion was so exhilarat- ing that I put my impressions in- to writing to Lord Beaverbrook, who was away in the Bahamas.
In reply Lord Beaverbrook sent this message on his Sound- to scriber: "What an admirable description of Churchill. I hope you will save it up for one day after Churchill goes to Heaven which I hope is not for many many years so that you can pay your tribute in the oltuary nolives."
Lord Beaverbrooke aensed the many occasions when Churchill Kot more space in the paper thus his speeches justilled. "Did Winston call you last night?" he
the
The audience core to him and
he benned with gratification and good humour. In fact, he was 30 delighted with the occasion that he brushed off Soames, his son-in-law, and Brendan Bracken, who hnd rushed to escort him to his car, and stayed in the ante- room for at least half-an-hour revelving a hust of people.
A little white later he deckled
to gu. He became old again, and his bad leg uld not sceni to belong to him. But he spurned
staircase on his own.
COPYRIGHT: ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN, 1961.
Tomorrow:
With that he cutised
and resumed his seat.
The cheering for this gesture 'Then when he was being on with his overcoat he went on and on. Until then. we helped
with his bell. had all been muttering how ill had to part
Rockefeller put it into a rich red leather case. But Churchill "Headlines All My Life" by Arthur scowled and sald: "Give me Christiansen. Is published by Heine- mann al 25,
my bell."
bell to utter an enormous clang, helping hands and got down the The subtle
WEATHER
MEN BOOK
business
of nobbling
-(London Express Betvice).
Well what went wrong SPACE IN U.K.2
at that brief encounter
THE
big question which remains in the wake of the Vienna confrontation between President Kennedy of the U.S. and Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian boss, is--what went wrong?
After stating firmly and
repeatedly for months that
To this, Khrushchev listened
he was not in favour of top-gravely and courteously. jevel talks, Kennedy sullen- Then Kennedy made a mis- ly changed his mind, flew to take; one from which he never Parin to see de Gaulle and recovered.
then on to Vienna --- Summit.
was
For suddenly he began talking
the about the question of getting
Li
supplies through to American,
in Vienna?
By
Rene MacColl
Here, one thought with re- British, and French troops in U.S. has repeated so often in the
West Berlin if Russia signed Heveri excilement,
past on disarmament, and on the tremendous chance for a new treaty with the East Germans.
vexed question of nuclear tests. start. A brief encounter between He talked about the difcut-
_wedeh the youthful American and the ties
might arise It the
checkpoints the
cager Russian which could get East German Government con-
alon!
A replay..
that
Russian spokesmen busted them- selves in telling the correspon- dents how pleased they were by it all, and what a pleasure it was to have got tho two sides talking again."
the
פנסים
They seek to probe secrets of upper air
AIR Ministry weather scientists have booked space in U.K. Two, Bri-
tain's second satellite, for an experiment never before tried. In America or Russin. They want to discover if there is a link between the way air moves 200 miles above us and the weather we get below.
Man knows quite a lot today about the lower parts of the atmosphere, but very little about the top.
Rockets fired vertically- have lied in some of the gaps. But they only gleun infocination about conditions directly above the fring-pad.
a
The World plin billy. But & is worse that
of Science
sky), Marten Fairley.
the
bragging about the speed of
fathers' seems to
ally when vast sums of money - are spent
this enterprise- sums that had much better be used on feeding the hungry and healing the sick.
on
"The man who has made two blades of grass grow where and with one grew before, the man who with ecstatic by his tragination and servies advance into turns one of our young delin- quents into a useful. cilizen, hos done more than- *Major
London Expresa Smulce).
To the neutrals and the The satellite, circling the globe with the cosmonauls, "uncommitteds" of the world,
several times a day at pre-set swarming into the Press centre heights, offers the weatherman hose who greet, tration he had
enthusiasm, they presented a to prove to in Viennu,
ja superb new research tool.
прасе. the angry and rather bewildered pleture of sweet reasonableness.
public that on the
With the sputnik due to American
They implied that
"To sec great nations boant- launchied top-level questions he could be Americans were prodigal
iti the tose
Ing their achievements against Gagarin," just as tough as anyone elso. who had now
istened to the for an American Scout rocket one another, like smail.. boşa voice of balance,
late next year will go But the sad thing Is
The Americans Bald "con-collection of tiny instruments to Kennedy apparently equates tacts would be maintained" map the ozone in the upper "toughness with sheer index and seemed to Intimate that atmosphere, All we got was a. perles of bility. sign
somehow, in some fashion, there that Kennedy was
echoes from the past; just a re- concerned,
was due, in might be a windfall which gives off a seaweedy smelt. It is His inflexibility pro- not about the possibility
pinying of the old and alt-100- of
overything coma part, to over-briefing. He sur would munke Russia signing a separate peace scratched long-playing records.
There was no big new sugges- rounded himself with a
They never caught up with from the sun striking the layers their leader's momentary lapse traced, rather like a marker die, of air. Its movements enn be
and mapped,
things really moving along the trolled rond to a settlement.
And what has been gained?
the roads into the city.
The Comranlats Just 10 time
For The West, nothing, in interpreting thin er a Nothing at all.
Laos? Oh, yer-Laus
duced a sort of agreement.
But we all know, don't we treaty with East Germany, but tion; no flair; no subtle turn of that Laos is not in the same simply about the
polley which might have brought
category as
ment or Beriln.
After
over Beriln.
right.
m2A9
nuclear
lesser and diyarma technical question of access
to
the Western half of Berlin.
11, are the
the Onus
he got into a melding of minds and a way conference room he was unable out of name of these interminable to depart from the prepared which lay at his problems which bedevil and de- documents press us all.
of ativisers.
And when
tho
These, urgent questions;
which must be seitled quickly.
A mistake
Jubilant
Proof
Untried
elbow. The splendidly Duccessful The thing which struck me young man who swept into very sharply when I was in
Why did Kennedy permit power in the U.S. at the end of Vienna on Sunday night was this misunderstanding to cloud This was a strange error -- last year hit Khrushchev-and that once again Russian propa is talks with Khrushchev? and one which should have been bounced right off him,
ganda had noored a grout sile- Presumably because, although And I now know that, over quickly erased. But it was allow»
cess,
he is an intelligent and vigorous Berlin, Kennedy gave Kurush- ed to stay on the record,
Khrushchev was out to be politician, he is sull' relatively chev an early advantage which And it allowed the Rumsjóna
polite and charming. He sue untried in the the Rungian lender utirally to leave Vienna Jubitont, while
hard school of ceeded b.illiantly. On the record international diplomacy. grabbed at once and used to the Americans went away feel-
ho was a concillatory and His first essy In the harsh advantage.
ing sites.
What was Kennedy about in engaging diplomatist. Never did arena in which such meit Kennedy started by telling
Quilo apart from the Detin coming over to Europe? I think he show anger or impatience. Machiavelli and Talleyrand Khrushchev that the U.S. still bob, apparently all that Ken- ho merely felt that following And when i was all over and forged their ropstationa. Isan regards the freedom of West nedy was prepared to do was to the errics of disasters which the final communique-mesgre, hech hone ton happy. Borlin as absolutely, essential. rellerite the policies which the have beset his brier admis- to be auro-was issued, the ► -London Express Beroler),
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Ozone is "raw" oxygen.
produced by · ultra-violet глуп
So its meanderings should provide an insight into the way air circulates at much heights. If there is a definite pattern, and that pattern can be linked to weather behaviour down below them →→ bingo — befter föręcists will result,
In the meantime, Man in general and the Air Muistry in particular Nah a lot to learn.
BOYS BRAGGING
quote from B. William Green, Blattop of... Minchin lázz and myselt out amputhe
Tile, L. Britain's Arst Wosther rocket, due to be test-firef from nither Wales or Scotland early next year. If 13. Behavon well, there will be weekly friska of its brothers to height of 40 miles. The Tit. din, raikalle will carry a 10 pamud payload of Instruments to mehsure temperature, YTINIATU And wind retoolly in a region of the atmosphere. KISIM known to weatherman,
kondom Repress Kiteke.