You'd never guess who made Macmillan fork out £20 million
By LORD LAMBTON, M.P.
F there is any justice in life the children on Clydeside will be hanging out their stockings this year, not to Father Christmas, but to Father Bence.
Who, you may ask, is Father Deuce, and what has he donn that he should become a parabol of largesse?
Allacks in the past have been marte on Mr Marples for having grey this subsidy. He's nat to binme. Indeed there is little doubt that he dislikes the sub- sirds ne mech us everybody else, but he couldn't resist Mr Bence.
Father Bene 5. Mr Carit 14. now,
the Member for Bast Dumbartonshire, and to hit the Chide will long be in debt. The reason for this is that it is en- tirely due to him that the new
nko brez Mamed for having Queen is to be built with a 220 grunted tab Tope cum when he million Government subsidy had to make cuts elsewhere.
Lehind it.
Not to blame
is
Mr Bence has also done Party a great service for he has divided the Conservatives and caused the Government neently
iu
Trave
thre
IOTROW
Thon My Helwyn Lloyd
You may fso be sure that he dislikes this subsidy, bul be also, alas, could not resist Mr Bomers
Who then, you may ask, In this formidable character? This fall of Ministers, ibis Socialint Director of Conservative Policy?
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THE CHINA MAIL. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1961.
Before the ceiling falls in...
IN A WORLD OF
'I'M ALL RIGHT JACK' IT'S TIME
TO START CARING ABOUT
WHAT THE OTHER MAN'S DOING
ROBERT GRAVES, 66, colabrated novelist, poot, and most unaca- demic Professor (of Pootry, at Oxford), has often brought storms about his head by his
POETS
unconventional views. Ho stopped off for two days ir. London on his way from America to his home in Majorca, and talked to the Daily Expross.
are crazy, especially when they are active as poets and therefore plunged in a peculiar psychological state. So this is for myself; I am not laying down the law for anyone else.
The trouble with young people today is that emotionally and psychologically the West is due for another war, and they can't have it-it's impossible.
Yet there are no outlets but sport; these are inadequate. It is not enough to watch football; that rouses bul doesn't satisfy.
Look how the Aldermastoit Marchers and fellow-pacifists demonstrate in their militant way: even that shows a desire for action and combat.
I am certain this inability to let off steam in the reason for the spread of Juvenile delin He 15, In fuct shy, retiring quency; the deep-seated desire majoritles,
disarmingly gentle man, with ü for violence, Between] 18 and pleasant smile who is to be seen 23 healthy young men like to For this Mr Martin Redmayne, fitting like shadow along fight; it is perfectly natural.
Chief ነ::
Whip
been the corridors has
of the House of In some Soulli Sea Islands blamed, bel don't blata bim, Commons. and occasionally before the missionaries arrived pras: Mr Henre.
sinating anger without much primitive tribes uned to stage farceess on behalf of one of "s ket battles regularly, to offset constituents,
of those the tedium of untroubled para- Ioval affairs which seem todisial Ilving. As soon as there moke the Swotbah Members so was an accidental death hostili } long-winded and to happy,
lies would cease.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"But I always said one couldn't expect από Immediate results-like Mr. Krushchev dashing straight off to Balenciaga"
"Agent G06 calling! The
plans 11 He's left them on the bus !"
"Of course, you do realisa that even the bestwashed brains tend to get dirty ogain frightfully quickly?”
or mac
How is it then that Ministers trembl
und that before himn even now while he is journey ty through Africa the mention of his nune causes froAVIG Jurm in the faces of Conserva- live Malstars.
The fear
to
In order to explain this one must go back to the period be. forr the Election. The Con- pervative Manifesto was beltur prepared and i was decided That in order to discourage the fear of unemployment, mention should be made of helping the (shipping Industry, and the re- plæerment of the Queen liners.
Later in his tour of the coun- try Mr Macmillan developed this theme, and in Glasgow, waxing oratorical to his fellow- Celts, he spoke of the great ser- | vice of the Queens, and bow the hance and place of Britain on the sea must forever be upheld.
Mr Rener read these words, Brace
was movel by these words, Mr Bence was spurred io netlen by these words, and wrote 24 doubtless charming letter to the Prime Minister in which he asked him if he could take it as understood that if the | Conservative Party was re- ted power. that they would grant cld for replacement of one of the Queen.
And Mr Macmillan sat down and wrote back. "Yes," and so Mr Bence has the letter. And so the subjeel cannot be con- veniently forgotten as have so many pledges by oll Parties be- lore Elections, for what was at stake was not a mere Election pledge but the promised word of the Prime Minister, and that, putting out of mind Sir Roy Welensky, must never broken.
Let's hope
be
DOCTY
The whole al may rather strange to Conservatives,
It should not be beyond the wit of man to devise some elvi- Ised form of warfare like that in a selected battle area, be- tween armies of trained athletes representing rival nations.
Robert Gravea ..."I am not laying down the law"
by Robert Graves
"underprivileged" being denied the right to be fighters. To my mind this accounts for much of the present obsession with war books and war, flms,
A pride
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CRUESEMANN
challenging supremacy.
world our
Our losses were appal ling. Our generals, whom we never saw except at inspections spit-und-polish after a disastrous battle, were either bad or extra- Wars are horrible. Yet more vagantly bud, with the ex- than 40 years after 1914 1 glad I was in the First and
am ception of Allenby and Worst World War. And though Cavan,
I have always avoided enrolling We were never taken out of myself in any political, literary, the ne. Battle fatigue went or religious association, I still unrecognised. We lived take u perhaps perverse pride high pitch. in my regiment, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. My eldest son, who was killed in Burma, served sane battalion in the
They could fight heartily in the
last war.
without
meetunicat any devices and James Bond dirtiness, and with no
more
It sometimes strikes people as odd that the First World War produced memorable work from fatal results than writes,
especially pucts like dented skulls and broken Brooke, Owen, Blunden, bones.
Sassoon, whereas the World War did not.
"Dr Johnson has observed: "No man of honour thinks well of himself unicas he has served as a soldier," and I think that many young men obscurely feel
and
Second
I think the reason is that we were all volunteers from 1914 to 1916 and went to war from pride in our country; we were angry with the Germans for
In
in their
at a
however the last war. terrible it sometimes could be the troops believed generals; they could be with- drawn from fighting before they disgraced themselves. So far as. I know, no soldier wus chat for cowardice, as we expected to be it we legged it.
Religion
I live in Majorca for most of the year. When I visit Briipin I get a specialised view of it,
AS A FELLOW DICTATOR FALLS.
The
Dominican
dictator is assassinated
-and today two men
more than any others are waiting and
watching, President Kennedy and Fidel Castro, Here, a Left
Wing writer puts forward 2 personal view of possible
developments. . .
THE killing of General Trujillo opens up a new phase of crisis for the United States in the Caribbean.
the
away with last week's -news- paper. When I was a boy and Bleriot flew the Channel uproar was immenso...
Rebel
I
styleoni Biat the "hero"" who has made iho strongest impression
the 00 public of late is the young man of delinquent habits 10 Alan Silice's book and m "Saturday Night and Sunday
Moming. At least he did re- present some feeling against, the cold jelly of our condition. Of courre, most people to live by regulations principles that bamper expression.
have
and
free
Yet how bad that in every profession the more adventurous are apt to end up in chromium- plated mees--sometimes to the rellet, but more often 10 the Intense diappointment, of their wives.
As a poet, what i hate most La regimentation, especially In schools and in Herature.
In my day we were kept. strictly to the cinusies, and found out for ourselves about our con- to
tongorartes, and learned trust our own judgment.
This reflects in my own work.
Before sitting down to wric
I have only the vaguest sense
The British are busy levelling of how a poem will turn out: themselves in such a way that I just know it is there. And real greatness and goodness it may refer to some emotional have become as rare as dia- event 20 years ahead, bolical evil. Venial have ousted mortal sins.
offences
Squalor
Soccer
no
Last year I met America of my own nge, much better dressed and better off than myself, who makes a pro- session of lecturing about it was really horrifying
A man
mo.
In
One thing that strikes me is how many shop-people are in- creasingly Jess interested in I suppose
1 remember as a boy the vicl- serving customers, they know they can always get ous squalor even in North Wim another job. I always feel I am bledon (now part of the stock
belt). Then, Interruping their conversation brokers' with one another.
policeman would
But I am not so morose Humour is dying, for humour some streets except in armed
Yet there was humour as sound. This is simply arises from "We've never had force,
how I see things, us a poet there and passion. it so bad."
Many of the men I com- and
old grumbljog
No new stories are bubbling
venture
П
129. There are few new catch-manded later came from such soldier. And in one respect words. Swearing has declined streets and I loved them. sensationally.
I And there is a complete lack In religion. After
It seems real passion for good as well as evil has been exorcised from these new council houses in their orderly streets.
at least life In Britain has greatly improved: the standard of Soccer hag risen out of all recognition. Soccer is, with little exaggÓTA » tion, Britain's greatest gift
cause of international friendship.
the
to
of Interest 1918 there was a powerful anti- religious movement which had at least the merit of a positive reaction. Now there is only
Don't get me wrong.
I am television as the desired Other
not advrcating strength through World.
As I told some Americano iho misery, People in Britaiu are cer- olim day, one of the secret You seldom. meet anyone than in any
tainly better off and far happler reasons why, despite. their who knows
country have benevolence atid geribrbalty, their Bible visited. But they are losing they are si regarded as out- -the foundation of our thelr critical faculty from siders is that they play the civilisation. The vicar has having too many amenities of wrong kind of football, at
life handed to them on a become
When the day comes that, a sort of welfare
platter,
say, Philadelphia plays Man- officer. Salvationism is Unless the celling falls on chester United OF Moscow nlmost a dirty word, To their heads people are not Dynamos or Real discuss the Devil is con- that a mon has been shot into base.
Madrid emotionally involved. The fact America will have made home sidered bad taste.
space is news that is thrown
-London Express Service),
A CHANCE FOR CASTRO TO CASH IN
AFTER TRUJILLO
-A HOT ONE FOR KENNEDY
TO HANDLE...
In the pack. He has a robust --
Since 1957
when
he
by
by PAUL JOHNSON
This was the Arst
anyone
Dow
Yet
thla
Curious
slum-
«MIAMI
ANA
AMAICA
CARIBBEAN SEA
UNANIMOUS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
DOMINICAN
REP.:
CIUDAD TRUJILLO
PUERTO
RICO
MILES 200
It is undemocratic, the
This would not be the first panto- mine in Port-au-Prince 13 a lime, by a very long way, that major embarrassment,
the Marines have interfered in Hall's politics. But, for once, such a gesture would evoke the unanimous applause of Latin-
the It might even encourage Latin-Americans to believe in Kennedy's sincerity when_ho talks of "restoring" democracy in Havane.
APPLAUSE American opinion.
~(Loudon Kapress Serviza).
the The negroes live under ach of De Francois Duvaller, The Negro dictator and so-called knew that a presidential election fear not only of Duvalier's President of Haiti.
bad taken place. Indeed, police but of the voodoo witch- In the colourful galaxy of Duvalier sill had two-and-a- doctors who conclllute
in order that the U.S. Ambas- Latin-American strong-men, half years to run of his legal "shadow government," Duvalier stands out as the joker term of office.
No tooner had the people of religions, blended from African stor should not be obliged to
attend the Inauguration cere paganism
Christianity, and
And it would certainly make The Dominican Republic is same would say violent-sense Hall realised that they had flourish. The national sport Is monies Kennedy reculled him to
just elected a
President cock-fighting.
Washington. He should go ! ensler for him to prevent It may even be irritating to ripe for a Castro takeover bid, of humour. Conservative members of our
than they were marshalled to
further. He should order his Trujillo's pocket kingdom (tom desperate and Trujillo's frightened and
ter fake part in celebration services. nation, only 500 miles from the Marines to depose Duvalier and fliding into the hands of the grent shipping centres. They confused henchmen lack the elected for a six-month term
hold honest. elections may and if somewhat frustrating resilience of their old chief.
trucks, loaded with dazzling prosperity of Mam international supervision. Army
under extreme left. Duvalier has ruled Hat by druniten negroes from the out- is almost entirely under the pro that with the stroke of a pen Mr Macmillan will commott ur himselt
Moreover, if Castro establishes decrce varied occasionally
bock, roared into Port-au-Prince, tection
the and control of of martki Inw. on the Island of spells
On the capital, to acclaim "Father United States. Every year, the shipping polley to a Labour Hispaniola, he is within striking April 30 he decided to hold an
Duvaller."
1.6. pumps £4,500,000 into its distance of the richest prize in election for a new parliament.
economy and underwrites. Half the Caribbean Venezuela, the
its budget. world's largest exporter of oil.
U.S. Marines train its ram- ODD PLACE tangely equipped with U.S. shackle armed forces, which, are
weapons, Indeed, while Duvaller Although Duvaller has long was holding his lugubrious cele Imprisoning priests, a Thanks ship was lying in the harbour giving High Mass, accompanied with a cargo of arms. by the nolemn, singing, of the
Member.
They may even think it odd, but what I have been trying to palat out for many months la
that things are being run in rather an odd way today.
What can President Kennedy do? He cannot come to the aid
Fifty-nine candidates put up CERTAINLY AN
for fifty-eight seats, All but one were hand-picked members of Duvalier's own party and the tone outsider withdrew on the
of the truncated Trujillo režime; eve of the poll for what he
this would establish him
once
+
However, let us not lose our and for all as the patron of termed "urgent personal rea anço been excommunicated for brations, aU.S.
reaction In Latin America.
falth in human nature. Let us hope that whatever else hap- But if he rides with the
B0115."
pens the Cunard Line will not revolutionary forces in the UNANIMOUS
be ungrateful, that they will ad Dominican Republle, he may forget their debt, and that when play straight into Castro's the time comes for the launch-harity,
ing of this great ship, even If
by then Hovercraft are flying
the Atlantic and la only use is HE HAS A
that of a floating casing, that
proudly in the place of honour on the launching platform with
RE-ELECTION
merchant-
Te Deum Tautamu was held A MODICUM
in the Cathedral.
Even by Latin-American stan- dards, Halti is an odd olace. It When the voters pasembled, is by far the poorest country in
OF ORDER
Just fancy
T bride wears on her head, the Commissioners of Customs and xcise bus sunounced: From July 1 bridal headgear is a hat for fax purposes. Which means that purchase tax on li li ßvo per vep). at artificial Bowers or "similar decorative aricies desired to be worn in the hals” do not qualify as bals, Tax on them in: 25 per cent.
po remove 'posulbio misappreliension" about the trippery a
PEER, as anyone worth his pint knows, takes on a funny taste DE left in the sun. But why?
Three Japanese scientists explain it in the journal Naturb thun; "Zernethyl-2-butenyl mercapton formed by a photochemical- resolion between the dimethyl-2-butenyl group in the molecules the or humulonés or lupalones and certain sulphur-containing some
Cheers.
they were confronted with ballot the Western liemisphere. Most American experts and econo- papers containing the names of of its 3,000,000 negro inhabl- nsists awarm through THIRD CHOICE candidates, At the top of the fonts, who speak plógin French, gayernment offlers, trying to drve
forms, In amal print, was the live in mud huts and mytwist on pdio & modicum of order as the pounds present.In heer," a bottle of champagne in hla
additional name: "Dr Francofs a diet of tropical fruit and maze of corruption and choos hand, will be the, shy, tha
Fortunately,
vegetables, he as a third Duvalier, President."
(Roma Haitian chaming, the dimden,
officials Are Five days after the voting, to United Nations authorities illiterate). of Conservative Shipping choice. It is within bis power to
President Kennedy is clearly Polley, the Labour Moraes for establish a middle-of-the-road the general grionishment, the reckon their average income at
regime in the other half of government announced that $70 a year, but nobody known enlied by Duvaller's joke elbo East Dumbartonshire, Mr Bennila. Ille best plan, at Duvalier had been uniknously for sure being decorate flott Bince his mari case
-{Londen Express Herulce). thii itags would be to settle the re-elbcted president,
mitvay Háalavár been taken: * Castro's Cuba 18 that
for
Dino-
MWO-velers went to the polle recently la sheir parente" arms. a For John bali le only two years and 10 maniky gid, and his brother, Adrian, 14 months. Nottingham council offieisia" were trying is diepver how the babies nainen gaf og lika plschoral roll.
==fbenden "Expiry Korvisni.