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Why Kennedy

AMERICA Wants diplo- matic relations with one of the world's Icast- known countries, Outer Mongolia. Why 7 Dally Express Chief Foreign Correspondent René MacColl, who has visited the Mongolian capital,

Ulan Bator, and who, in February, forecast ruch a move, explains ...

IF Belgium was tradi

tionally the cockpit of Europe, Outer Mon- golia is the Tom Tidd- ler's ground of Asia.

That is where Soviet Russia and the bristling New China at Mao Tse-tung face and felt at one another while maintaining fixed and unconvinelné snížles uf friendship.

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1061.

WHEN IT COMES

wants a man TO

PICKING THEIR LEADERS

in Mongolia Are the unions victims

BY RENE MACCOLL

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POKEMONGOLIA

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They havu reacteri

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Break hitherto

open Mangullu's complete isolation,

and throw her open for the first time in history to Western ideas;

By the very presence of un American mission in Ulan Butor cuase Intense uneasiness In both the Russians and the Chinese.

of their own success?

on appro-

is THIS

priate time to ask: Who will be the new the trades leaders of of the proclamation of Mon-unions in years to come? golia's Independence.

Appropriate,

This week in Ulan Bator they are relebrating the anniversary

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Genial

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By Trevor Evans

THE TOP

Probably the top salary for n union chief in this country goes to the general secretary of the more National and Local Government

Association. the or ganisation which caters for wide range from filing clerks to august town clerks.

It the top men are in there But those who do model pay brackets, it is easy to un- themselves not on Tod Hill, who derstand why the pay of their is one of the last of the Qid subordinate umetals cannot be Brigade of leaders, but "qu Woodcock, regarded as an attraction today, people like George

Alan Birch, and Ros Smith, of No, I a man decides he the

Union ut Post Office Trade to be a

union Workers. These men have two teader he must have one of two distlelive charneterisites. babes for his ambillon.

wants

EFFICIENCY

in their words and actions.

com-

One trade union man moaned aders will get little more than to me recently: "We are the they earn themselves. There is, victims of our own success. We however, a wide disparity. Not only Ulun Bator (meanlung

because we have got inerenKLA for our It Is wowderful kind of The City of the Re, Knight") the Balgacions

The Poles and East Germans, heard two of the old guard, in members but not for ourselves." high platumu, 2,000,000 square but

and the Hunction last week. the remote ujitands miles

'There locked between Mangalia,

of gurians are present; and there

are many professions well have

At Rothesay, where the which

offer

Either a desire for power, or excited the borders of

greater whispers

security Siberia

that miners were in conference. Ted wadays. and intrated and occupied by the hushchev, Mao Tse-tung.

to satisfy a sense of dedication. the Great Wall of Chinu.

"blise sots"-that army of blue-

Hill was his bolsterous self and least Chou En-lui will forget, in his approval

Undoubtedly, trade

union A tundl today of 5,008,000 denim-clad Chinese labourey show up.

of us.

And The better education

They ure

well leaders aro mon of power. They

technically people. 20,000,000 head of five advisers, and

unclai strikes. "experts" which

that he was shared by mkre and.

are consulted by Governments, equipped for their jobs, and they stock arki, suddenly, a land of Peking can provide so liberally.

chairman of the T.U.C.

youngsters today opens up 4 Officers

realise acutely that trade unions many of them travel widely and first-class importance in the Furious

the and resentfuk,

And then there was Frank wider range of callings than was

their views are heard with do not exist in a vacuum but silent struggle of power puitties, Russion have been nonplussed

Haxell, the depused E.T.U. chief, possible in the old days.

respect by foreign representa munity, and have therefore to

are part of the wider For years, Mongolin

Tie up all these considerations by this particular formy of

confidently Toreensting that he

ilves. pawn between Itussia and China. coexistence."

The Mongolians, In their will get his Inb back in` 1984. with an undoubted growth In

But one thing the youngsters pay attention to publle reactions Its

signed

He gets £4,450 - st!ll ≈ long, friendly

towards But what will the ftuation apathy

trace as best "dals" the traditional robe

union treaty with her in 1924, In 1945, they can, but the

£10,000 of today are making increasingly dazzling pink, electric bitie, ] he Na in 1947 Is there Mongolians,

affairs and it is rusy to see why long way behind the

which the Ave top union leaders clear: China, agreed

The trade union leader of the trades unloas ore con- to recognise

white happily playing both ends royal murple, searing yellow, good supply of young candidates sume

They too want to share in the future, therefore, may be less Mongolia's independence, if the

high, soft coming forward for union jobs? cerned with the quality of the in America get. against the nomade middle, and their knee Mongoliant were in favour of A

Against these dizzy American blessings of a five-day week--an glamorous and provocative than offering therisolves have been hoping that from leather boots que their yog- What nee

prospects for candidates

pay puckets even the £2,680 for unthinkable luxury They were-overwhelndządy

for full-time' unlun jobs.

for inost the old timer, but he is likely hourt and take it all la with a them?

George Woodcock, the trade union leaders. Many of to be more efficient. How attractive is trade union-· Ipane sense, Ernest

Bevin Mr

TUC. General Secretary, and Ben Tillelt had an acivan-

the these leaders have not had lendership?

£2,450 for Mr Sydney Greene, free week-end, with meetings Mr Fred Hayday, one of the lage over the youngsters of of the National Union of Rail- and travelling, for decades. most respected senior leaders of Luciny. Back in the turn of the

waymen, Mr Frank Cousins's Nevertheless, there Dre Slr Thomas Williamson's there were SO century

many Abused -crying

£1,750 Blond

Hill's youngsters who have a yearning union, summed up før me and Mr Ted to by

£2,000 are modest,

to serve their fellow men in the what is likely to be the experi- corrected. The Zen of young Bevin

unions.

ence of most unions. Inspired the grateful

Some of the biggest and most response of the men

He said: "We have he sought

fair progressive to lead. Today a more frequent

union hold week- number of entrants for union reaction from the tolerably well-

end and summer schools. Many posts, but we could do with of these are crowded, and two more," would be a Even lower

the pay unions hove a waiting list for eyuical: "What's he trying to packets of Mr

The rush is not great. Pity. Bill Carron, of students,

For the keener the compati- get out of 112"

I am told, however, that the tion the better the A.E.U., who got up to £1,350 One retori might well be only

chance of most bitter "desertion after the "Certainly

rate" in excep outstanding leadas emerging. not muney." In argument, and

Frank tonally high. Barely one-tenth many craft unions the inembers Foulkes, who gets

And that is important for the similar of the students who start on a nation. are determined that their reward from the E.T.Ü.

course stick it out to the end.

Blue ants

In the past year or two the rivalry between the glant neigh bours Russia and China has become implacable. And, of late, China has seemed to be getting the better of II.

#1 powerful

night emerge.

It is evident that one of the must intelligent moves whlet

Kennedy the

Administration can makes to recognize Outer Mongolia,

new and much 1310>2<

Mengajian oat Heniaf eye.

At a stroke they will

Their eye is on the West. They Wonder if the Americans and the British are coming soon.

And they pinder, no doubt, on the alert tongol legend - that of the dragons' eggs of the Cat Desert, part of which included in their borders,

Whosoever disturbs those egg post of immense importance burning sands, will louse upon which will enable them to earth once again the obtain marvellour

dragons Intelligence which legendarity

ruted the boul the

rivalry world before man came along. ferocious between China and Russia;

-London Express Service).

thu

COMPETITION

'Time was when a youngster who showed an early interest in union affairs had tu pretty kuen

face competition to be fell the same way.

They have a head stari in the Gain a two way, Istening hidden for centuries beneath the noted because other youngsters paid workers

question of religion. The Mun- gulians are Lama Buddhists- sect which recognises the

Tibetan Lama as their leader.

I CAN'T GET

SANTA OFF

IT WAS

Antalya, Southern

Turkey. here in with the sweating afternoon

Antalya,

little port under the

sun, that I discovered the truth about Santa Claus.

MY MIND

By Peter Chambers

a hackground of gold by seme Also, he was famed as "the Byzantine artist. There they friend of sailors" and "the pro- Here, in a museum devoted were... the fragments of bone, tector of virgins" a reconcilia- mostly to Grenk statuary, 1 Then, suddenly, I realised- lion uf opposites, I should have found a Jawbone and some other was staring at the jawbone of thought. skeletal fragments... relies of Santa Claus,

St Nicholur,

MUEZZIN

The image of St Nicholas stay- ed with me over the hundreds of miles I have flown and driven in Turkey.

'The

wrong time and The -wrong place to think about Christmas but it was here, ald the cotton Belds at Tar- Evening. The sun sets behind key's sub-tropical

a fantistic backdrop. of moun- with coast, that Sahta Claus lived and died 1,000 tains across, the Bay of Antelyn. years ago.

It cools off to sudut 90 degrees.· Above the din of loudspeakers, on a nearby, minaret, the drop

I climbed out of a DC3 from Athens with a party of French travellers at this town

ing chant of the muezzin calls

a

Pusters in Istanbul urge the sombre Turks: Greel tourists smile. They bring foreign currency."

Twenty-five years from now the wonderful southern Casin Brave or Italian Riviera.

chast

of Turkey could be another

Southern Turkey, to be haltered the Turkish faithful to prayer. Living is cheap and food

delirious. Aubergines -

by the sun.

pretty

I find plenty of Turkish faith- saab vegetable at home-are as Our hotel rooms afforded no ful run ine in this cafe. They cummon 43 mashed potatoes respite from the brut. We hurl are not praying. They are in England. to get out The Turks nazed at dælsking raki, a kind of onlseed Turkey is as slumberous as a us with passive Terra ratta and throwing dter,

#lesta und the Sick Man of face

1 am so drugged with the heat. Europe"-os the country as we reeled along the main street towards the only I start ur postcard: "Dear called before the First cool place in town, the local "Muezzin." instead of "Dear. Ma

ther."

museum.

Wor

World

War-kas from his sickness,

not yet recovered

NO HELP sund what quirk of tradition we con- to St Nicholas for telp. The

In the days up to about 1930 trade union salaries kept preu with the pay a man got all his normal job.

But thines have changed.

POWER

PROSPERITY

Tea

Break

агр

Mr

1

Restrictive Practices

AS SOFT LIGHTS COME

TO SUBURBIA...

Turkey is fantastically rich in Ditch this postcard. My mo archaeological remains and the ther as it happens is not a Mos- Antalya' music. Like many fenn. She would not understand.” others Inter visited. wa "Dear Santa Claus..." You crammed with Roman tomba, are on my mind. I wunder hy It is no use the Turks looking Hittle Jugs. and the

OR those who want to bask in the soft lights Izulti-putute statues raf the verted you, the sad-eyed bishop do not believe in him anyway.

these days, the trend is out. Out of London, Greek gods,

of a Roman province, into the Notice to parents: Our French-speaking Turkish roxy-cheelted snow sledding should continue to

into the suburbs. Into Ilford, Essex, for instance, send their guide said: E1 voici, the extrovert who drops down the Christmas letters to "Santa where velvet-voiced Mr Mel Torme is appearing.

ehimney every ChristusS,

reliquary of St Nicholna.“*

1 dki not cotton on for h

second. tlockerl

St Nicholas war a real

Claus, North Pole."

Children

the night

10- The address, is wildly wrong. Mr Torme sums up the trend thigh. the son, but legend has obscured hils but we do not want to confuse where the money la." In this cabaret at The Room at the Top.

succinctly: "I am ready to go museum glass at a flat, bal history.

the postal authorities In Run- tered, wooden bux like an old- Actually, he was born the heir soaked Antalya, where they have case, the lure is a weekly paysen at the top of his furnish-. club bullt by Jack fashioned vanity ease. The box to riches, and the tradition of better

Things to do on a hot cheque of £1,200. was open lo show, on the Inside Santa Claus derives from the afternoon, like getting on with

For this, he has turned his ing store. of the Ild, the figure of St fact that he gave lots of his the.raki and the dice.

hack on the. West End's plush- Brocaded walls. Venetian Nicholas, dimly pointed against money away,

lest night spots to appear in chandellers

£ 1,000 each,

-(London Express Service).

at

NEW BABY? MISSILE PACKS A BIG PUNCH

AMERICAN scientists have begun the develop. AND ONE MAN CAN SEND IT

ment of a successor to the huge and' cumber- some intercontinental ballistic missile. It is a midget rocket small enough to be fired from a barge or ship and yet able to carry a devastating hydrogen bomb to any corner of Russia.

The project - code - named

ON AN ERRAND OF DEATH

From PETER FAIRLEY: Vandonberg Air Force Base, California

Midgetmian is shrouded 1th secrecy. But defence officiain selected in pre-sel units of the going firing texts before it is

streamlined "brain.".

tell me the final

version will be R "perfect weapon" for Britain's use.

By Jane Gaskell

a dance floor of Italian mar- ble, superb glass and china.... Nothing is too good for Ilford, even if it costs £100,000

A

at the desk or at the bench...

а

-London Express Service), .

London Express Servicé

he likes to know there is soine- Inquiries

ap

our

**Wa get a lot of

from peobla tired of whore local where he can have living inside London," said Ste a bit of a splash on the big Alan Rawson, sales manager of occasion; where he can take thờ a firm building a new estate et wife for a good night out." Dulwich, six miles from Log-

"We are getting the 'deb sel,

don's centre.

the smart young men, and show This is an estate\with a dife buxiness, of course," said Misa feresco - the 42 houses in It Una Helar, one of the organisers. cost between · '£18,000, and "Adam Faith had his 21st birth £20,000. day party here; Lesils Caron,

: Sid James, and Dick Hentley are "And," said Mr

Rawson, others who have brought parties “we Bre getting a flow of here."

Inquiries of course for other houses costing, say, £4,000 to But it la not only in enter- €0,000, from what you might

tainment

r

and eating that the call the Kensington - type of suburbs are slowly undergoing a person.” tremendous revolution. House- wives are affected most by their houses are being built at Black-

Similar luxury flats

and shopping.

heath and other suburbs by More and more alie is finding builders banking on this :- drift The West End look lingers, of all she needs in the shops in from the city. course, in the entertainment, in her own local High street as So, the trend in cauția. You the decor... and in the menu. Big Business concentrates

the suburban pocket. '

on visit not Talk of the Town or The Pigalle bist area. That means, for example, 30. Other big cilles show the KRITE |for goose - liver pate, ds. for trend. Manchester, for instance, taurant on the ninth four of

a big store in Ilford, iurtle soup with kberry, 15, Four years ago Finnigans WAS They can be stored away for a cump

You DALA -the steak, 175. Bd. a big store in the centre of the counci! smal! wxnents id

clipped for chicken a la Kiny, 7s. Gd. for city. together quickly. Condition of strawberries in liqueurs.... the fuel can be monitored con- stantly by simple instrumenta,

'Rapid testing?

enormous estates, the bomb-site playgrounds, the belching fac- tqrles.

You, watch The Suburb take

gardens.

Thon. Brian Finnigan, tho store's managing director, dos. Who are the people willing to elded, agddenly to shut

down pay Mayfair prices for a night and move out to Wilmslow, in over as the terrace-houses get Fout in Ilford? "Local people Cheshire, 18 miles away.

mostly," any the men who run The Room at the Top. it is crowded ekolt night.

DEB SET

this:

water

Bummed it up, like

You take a padded lits up And I had weer what had happened to the terrace (completsy with in all the big American cities, aviary of rare Anchus, and pude There, all the big stores began boys without shame spouting at goldish), god sag opening, up in the suburbs. -

⚫tretched

before you bandrama of „stford, Man

Bui where will; the etiolė thing and, now that the end has been at wall in motion by to that rockless Velvet Volve?,

Other well-out-of-tows_nightë are triggering - off this

DIFFERENT

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How long will it be before the frat "midget missilet je rundly for testing? Omulate here wit! And by downscaling the

be dispersed all over the

Any nothing except: "We United ICBM to a point where i is Hove it will be dune much more States on tinderground silos or fully mobile and needs only, one quickly than it usually taken to Midgelinan rockets will weigh railway firing platforme.

button pusher the US will develop a new rocket." only five to seven tons, compared

strengthen the Western deter- The racont discovery of new

"Don't forget, this is a prolly One added: "Our aim is to hist moneyed area nowadays, to 80 or 120 tons of the present solid fuels suggests it will be rent to war a hundredfold.

"I knew I was bound inter-continental missiles

get into position where we can There are a thousand factories Auch practicable to pack all the ODft The crippling cost of preparing hit back from so many quarters a 10-mile radius of hers. happen here too. Big cities are nu Allos, Titador Minutemen. Minuteman's 'pówar info a much blabórato fieing

bass will be with auch a variety of weapont Cars, textiles... you name it, getting jammed up, no one can spole They will stand only half an Inler rocket.

avoided. Weapons can be moved that it would ripple Hussin we've got it. And the men in move around, it's a headache to revelation. Is it all, a sign of man to fite it from any feld high, And they will probably This is most important Around America of any NATO economically in develop defences top positions like a local place park

Wings to comat or country lane simply by have some kind of small stubby break-through. Five men are country permanently an the against all of them, even if it where they can spend a good And the klen paid off. “Wa

Shall we live to In lorry, control finu.

needed พ. Kel 11:0 liquid proW]."

ware technically fanišbje. Once alitjornd, the rocket will As the name Impiles, Midget fuelled

evening.or have a firak-rate dubled the size of our store in Filzgerald wowing Allas off the

ground. The biggest nitrolion of "The Midgetman should really inext.

March, Me Finnigan said, :. Finebley? be able to check its position man will be a descendant of But two 7119/2 CRA dre 100 solid-fuelled rockel) is that they, rain one to the Boviets

Most important, people with Or Automatically and alter course Minuleman - America's · Arzt Minuteman ruckets

00 their can be launched within seconds fully of war."

"But not only the executives, muniey to spend are moving out Burbilen? target her beon Boild-fuelled ICBM now under«" own.

of an niert.

mind you.

The ordinary man' to Buburbla" to Mee.

From a lane

I will be possible for

pushing a button

for whatever

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