THE OHINA MAILĄ. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1961.
ONCE AGAIN A CRISIS THREATENS. ONCE AGAIN A LEAD IS NEEDED
Could Berlin be Macmillan's chance to regain prestige?
UGUST is here again. Soon we shall be off
AUGUST leide, off to the country. Englisht
people will be scattered all over Europe.
Everyone will be asking:
"Have we put all the luggage? by
Those who read the newa- papers carefully will be ask- ing something else: "Can we riak psing on bullday? Shall we be caught by a ur world war?"
That is what people worried alant before going on holiday In 1938 and 1939,
was caught
In 1939 I myself
in a chalet in Savoy, and Istid a rough journey home.
GRuin'?
A.J.P.
TAYLOR
Urt. We are being asked to re- the East German cognise Guvernment. That is all,
It is a bed Government, with It all ging to happen little app art mong the people But it over whom it rules, to judge exists and has existed for many We recognise many ใบ
poli- year,
Governments just as bad.
You'd imagine ro. from the kherches ticdane.
President Kennctly has just addressed a solemn warning to the Amerlen people.
Troops are to be called up. Military expenditure. is to be ireretsid, Shelters against atomle fall-out are to be eli tributed to American families,
Bul
The Britain Covernment have been more caulintis, they los have talked about re- have calling Reservists. They declared their readiness to stand solid by their altes.
crisia
about?
wha! 12 1
It is supposed to be abcul West Berlin, But is West Ber- Un in any danger?
DETERMINED
Lord Home, tfan: Forelin Secretary. ald recently that there were Three things wa were determined to defend in Berth-
Freedom of the West Bir- liners:
Kadar in Hungary is no better than Ulbrlebt in East Germany. There is But much democracy practised by Franco in Spain nur For by Salazar in Portugal. that matter, 1 would not was enthusiastic over the deniseralls spirit in which Air Nkrumah runs Gha
We do not recognise Covern- ments because
like them. We recognise them because they are there. And we often hope, Bielanes willi justineation, That they will he changed by their own prople.
The thne has long gene hy when any of us hoped 10 We nerate the whole world,
have enough to do, looking after,
ur own freedom.
ENSLAVED
Why. Then, the exerption for Ger- The Government ul East many?
We arc all At
Very simple, Right of the allies to be there; enslaved by Dr Adenauer, and
the age of 85, he clings to power in Bonn by telling the Germans That, thanks to his firmness, the Western Powers will enforce the reunineation of Germany on St- viet Russia.
has sakl
Unrestricted accuss. President Kennedy exactly the same. But Mr Khrushchev is not challenging ally
of these rights. On The contrary he has clearly and ex- pilcilly affirmed them.
"The
Socialist countries do not encroach upon the Weat
Berliners Tight freely In determine the social and economic order under which they want to live.
Nobody is going to create obstacles fo ACECAR to Weat Berlin."
This means, in other words, that Khrushchev is rely tu ne- cept the Western conditions. Lord Home agrees that here i
basis for settlement. He said of Khrushchev's specchi
"If he is genuine in those intentions, then we might all be able to come to an honourable and just settle- ment."
In fact, there is no crisis over West Berlin.
Dr Adennuer wants to keep the question of East Germany And to do this 1:0 "open"
question of needs to keep the West Berlin open also.
This is the real choice for the Western Powers. Not
Does it help negotiations to rattle our nuclear rockets and call up Reservists? It is more likely to make får Khrushchev obstinate. He, too, will be re- fusing to negotiate under threat of force,
DAZZLING
all partics except Dr Adenauer. We get security for West Berlin. Khrusbebey gets recognition for East Germany, Honour will be satisfied. The settlement will last for many years,
Here is a splendid opp tunity for Mr. Harold Mac- millan.
a time when he There was prided himselt on his gifts as an international negoliator.
We have nol heard much about this recently. Mr Mac- millan has been too busy lead- us irlumphantly into the we
Yel the strong words And forceful pets are not really dir- ceted against Mr Khrushchev at a cholee ali. They
designed are
io ing between war and surrender, Not dazzle ihe British and. more economic crisis Jn which a elmice between freedom and parlleularly, the American now And ourselves, Hlavery. Simply a choice he people. 118.17
chuy.
Adenauer and Khrush-
German revisioniste s
HIS CHANCE
ZERIA
"HOW DARE MR. HAMMARSKJOLD INTERFERE? THIS IS A PRIVATE QUARREL.
JEAN CAMPBELL'S
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER
London Expikes Service.
EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS ME
New York. NUMMER time is true "easy
SUM
livin'" time for England's most entertaining ex-patriate actress, 64-year-old Hermione Gingold.
HERE, SAYS OUR
MISS GINGOLD...
"Yes," she said. "But in
with its Hollywood not on Broadway." HOFFA-THE
I visited her in her mid-town penthouse apartment vast roof gardens and gaudy giddy-making views of Rocke- feller Centre and the meander- ing East River,
Slic explained that there was no point in youngsters ·coming
straight from repertory com- BIG WHEEL paules und hoping to break into Hollywood.
"Let them, make a London TIMMY HOFFA is about theatre hit Arst and then they ♥ the biggest wheel in bland a good chance,"
No air conditioning for Miss air living and cats Gingold. She believes in open- all her tor meals except
a bedded breakfest-in her yellow- canopied roof garden.
Miss Gingold was wearing pink lounging vyjamas and "No, I wish I had done it clutching, her Yorkshire terrier,
cariler in my life. Crossing the "Mr Pudding." tartly named
ocean was like a shot lu the She is justly proud of her roof urm, Suddenly I was compara- garden, for bonsts not only tively poor and had to fight for clumps of lilies,
herb my fe again." bụi garden where she picks mint,
totalitarianism, and a deep_be- Hef in hip-hip-hurraying "Hot- aism,
GETTING INTO
NEWPORT.....
the U.S. today. He is the CUR PATRICK DEANE I asked if she ever regretted president of the largest and his dark vivacious settling in this country. union in the country, the wife have stormed that he almost impregnable fortress Teamsters' Union, and has pledged himself to or- of summer American ᏴᏳ . ganise all workers in
Newport, Rhode all ciety: industries,
regardless of Island. claims by other unions.
Hoffa is a dark and sulten man of 49. He has just man- aged to up his salary to 75,000 dollers, which makes him the highest paid labour leader in the history of the world.
sage and thyme to liven plate No grandeur and palate.
Then,
the when
Western The Western Powers behure Powers finally come to nesto as though Mr Khrushchev was late, they wil be able to say: the disturbing element In the "See what fine terms we have would, not Dr Adenauer. This been able to secure." And, they
Here is his chance to regain in will misjudgment.
will produce the security for his popularity, restore his posi-
they could tion and re-establish his leader. No allowance the West Bertin which
ship. only threat to world peace have had all along. Soviet Russia is content to leave It seems a dangerous and roundabout way of doing things, If we are sincere in caring if the West are really cager to for the freedom of West Berlin, negotiate and to talk, why do then we shall have to negoljate they not get down to it?" about this with the Russians Negotiation means
things as they are.
The crisis is over East Ger sooner or later. And the sooner promise. The basis for com- promise is there, ane to satisfy
many.
A crisis of a strange the boller.
She went on to tell me that Let him step forward as con-
she had been very disappoint- cillator. Let him Open the due to the peaceful compromise turned from six frantle month all those awful 10-storey sky Miss Gingold has just reed in "the rulnation of London, which is waiting as soon as we
of film making in Hollywood cure lo accept II.
to spend some steaming months scrapers going up in Knights- Then we can all go on our
In New York City.
bridge, holidays undisturbed, not only This year but for years to come.
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From the world of the classroom now another controversial topic
CHILDREN: IT LOOKS AS
THOUGH THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE BRIGHTER THEY ARE...
year.
years
THE term "late deve at the techo para into than they were 50 or even 20 Even at the age of six and a
loper" has always sounded like a parents' excuse to me.
You know the sort of thing: "Johnnie failed his eleven plus or his Common a late Entrance
-ho's developer." Naturally. You couldn't call him just plain dim, could you?
But today, from two official
con comes cheerint source, firmation for Johnnie and bla parents that the child who miscs thu enclier Jackpots frequently, onlches up later,
Omela from the Ministry of Filucalion, a report talks of more
And because they
were A child of live now in equivi- genuine lule developers many of tent in all physical and a good these pupils who reach univer, many psychological respects to sity level in the end believe a child of mix 30 years ago, t that if they had gone to grom-
And
She is appearing each week an Jack Paar's TV Show and she tells me she is expected 10 wear a different dress at each performance, although she is given no wardrobe allowance. Miss Gingold basks in the flurry of fame this show has brought
her,
-
"At least •here the sky-
He has been accused of many
Sir Patrick is, of course, well armed for the attack. He our Ambassador to the UN and has a warm wil, But Newport is a strange place,
It is stuffy in much the same way that Jane Austen's Pump Room at Bath was stuffy. Like Bath it is a watering place, but in Newport it is the Atlur. best people, including Attor- soothes the bathers. a shadowy practice and the tle, not the Roman baths, that
Bobby Kennedy, ney-General have done their utmost to do So exclusive
him down.
He is said to have been cor- scrapers have a grandeur, they rupinathing proved. Now he London they look as if they nearly everybody against him, are 60 storeys high, but in takes up his gigantle task with have been awn off" I asked including the Kennedys, Miss Gingold if she would like Senate. other Labour unions, to marry an American-she and the US courts. has been twice divorced.
"You don't marry for nation his
the
A
The centre for the bathing is long stretch of sand with pri called Batley's Beach,
vate bathing houses and a club house. It is, I think, the most determinedly exclusive bath- But Ifetta has some assets in in beach in the world.
All the newly unbending struggle for turn of the century wanted to
rich of the
"Taxi drivers all recognise me and I love every second of ality, any more than you marry power. He is able to inspire blaze their way into Newport for religion," said she, patting the fear and love of his min society. They came with their R. In England I was looked "Mr Pudding." upon as something special in
Jons. He speaks movingly to
millions and bullt fantastic humour, which meant playing "You marry a man if he is mass audience. He never ad-
bousen. The stretch of sand to a special audience in small nice to you and he has lots of else that he is wrong.
mits 10 himself or anybody
took on the sura of Ascot's theatres, but here I am not money."
Royal Enclosure. The Americans have a rear- regarded as anything special et
Today the newly rich are all. Everybody understands me
Miss Gingold tells me that she Ing respect for what we would sometimes invited to the club and that is thrilling."
has Inverted $400 in a plot for call "getting away with blue but they are rarely allowed to her dog's grove at a place call murder" and what they term pay dues. Miss Gingold's next movie ed Eldeawee." utside New "reruits."
For this
Europeans and English we should treated with Teaton project is to play the part of a York City.
kindliness and cat in a new kind of coloured
watch the political star of Mr much consideration. But must "And they tell me, for the Hoffa during the next five years, to said that cartoon,
money there's room enough for His popularity may rise as his suspected of being adventurers we are always me alongside him," she aald, power Jecreases. He is for and or adventurerses, hot In with that wild, warm grin that away the most important la uit of a lifelong membership Londoners have long loved-in bour leader in the Western for Bolley's Bench, their "special" way.
world, with an appetite for
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half tests have shown that the I asked Miss Gingold if she bigger child does best in in-thought there was much scope teligence tests.
for young actors and actresses from England in this country.
And in a sample of children drawn from ali over Great Britain 11 was seen that the
But, adds Dr Tanner, it has also been proved that the late physical matureta catch up on mental ability when they reach adolescenes.
mar 'school In the first place The age of maturity in, girls ones that subsequently matured they would have found the pace has been getting earlier by about early gained more successes In
four months
deende per
In the 11 plus than ihe Jalo too foal to begin with.
Official from Dr J. M. Tanner, Western Europe over the period developers. consultant in Krowth and 1840 to 1900, In boys there is a development at Great Ormond much greater variation. Street who says in his book*. Education and Physical Growth,
that, according to Dr that the early physical developer Tanner is where
much of the la mentally alietid ng well,
trouble lien, for in a class of 14-year-olds there will be mome who have not yet started their adolescent spurt of growth and ottters who have practically 'completed It,
Maturity
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And here la the rub, for it prema that exely phřilent devel- secondary inodern schools after The modern child is bigger oposent
with increased ngo except birth mental ability, The bigger, in failing to win a gemmar school now at any
fact, the belter,
place in their eleven, plus,
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This is partly attributed to a rise in the world temperature,
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That, at birth, the brain is Snep, with the Ministry of bait 25 per cent of its adult weight, at six months nearly 50 per cent, at 31⁄2 years about 75 Dr Tanner produces other per cent and at 10 years 85 per
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Whereas maximum slature in 1880 was not reached unill the age of 23, nowadays boys have town to their full height by IB and girls at 10 to 17.
Children grow fantes! In height in the spring and fanlest in weight in autumn.
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My son, on the other hand (three last week, and 37 inchei); who has gained 13.5 per cent, of his adult height will inleli up
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