TEN MINUTES WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS
EVERY HOUSEWIFE AT HEART.......
CRI
By SALLY VINCENT
RISP, disarming, positive, Mrs Clare Brown Williams is the embodiment of the Organisa- tion Woman, all I could have expected of the world's most potent feminist-with a feather, curling like a whispered query from the back of her hat,
She spoke with the direct nuiority of someone who, at 52, Jas become the assistant clair-
"Women have î single- man of the U.S. Hembican Mindeduers, Dan emotional National Committee, and with allegiance to The work They Mr Kennedy excluding women i undertake. which nothing can from high pizees in his Demo- shake, Once they get started, erolle tiovernment. one of the there's no stopping them. most powerful female pollicians in the Western world.
It was not until she disap- peurod into the silver touring coach trip for American matrans that I realised I had cinimed only 10 minutes of her whistle-stun vist to Landon,
Which is, I suppose, a tribute to her power as an organiser,
She presse imme dlately as the maly really female
suminist bave
mel. ever excluding, of course, the frills of Lady Lewisham.
Mrs Clare Brown Williams is a pearly beautiful woman trans- lated to the Idiom of The American matron.
She is tall, slender, elegantly dressed in my blue with gusts of white silk shirt made quietly opulent with a small mink stole and gold fob watch.
She is delightful to look at and a thoughtful example of the woman in her country who, she claims, can be "wonderfully feminine and bold powerful Jabs,**.
Her quotes
down
With sincere earnestness the gave my her quotes.
I believe with all my heart." she said, accomplish
wonet
CAN
(17)
and
"Sell woman a cause she will work her heart out."
That the work of women can also have far reaching resuits is a source of continuous delight to Mrs Brown Williams. She acca In It the beginning of the salva- Uon of the politicn! West.
"Your country and mina," she
told me. must use the streng of uur wonten We simply can't afford to waste human beings by cutting women off from the life
of the community.
"We mustn't waste the enor- gles of women by giving them nothing more demanding to think about tann the state of
the ple in the cooker.
"A woman who begins to take part In elvic activities discovers that she can achieve what she needs and deserves --
ratification In
larger dosos
than she can ever get making cookies and sweeping doors."
Excitement
She hastened to explain that she herself made cookies by the batch and swept floors "we are u servantless nation"-and that in themselves these are noble enough tasks.
W
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1961.
OD
Cummings
BERLIN
THE NEUTRAL POWERS
"And if, gentlemen, our little experiment blows you and us to smithereens--you'll be reassured to know that it's the fault of that other professor over there!"
[\/HOEVER_they are, have been dynamiting
the saboteurs who
the water pipes supply- ing the British bases in Cyprus have been per- forming
# small but signal service.
realis-
They have presented tically and free of charge.one of those demonstrations with which the British Army loves to In simple truths Into militery. skulls.
In this cake they have shown. DL least. Just how vulnerable such bases are
handful of determined men.
Purpose?
to
AI the
they have most strengthened the voices which are asking whether there is any purpose a national bases over- sons when there are no national interests they can defend.
"But the work of wife is too solitary, and women
house-
ure gregariova creatures
who crave the excitement of dis- covery and accomplishment. everything they "The women of Americs are want, once they begrtne
coming to polies and Beding vinced it is important and they themselves naturais for the Britain 230 longer has any start to organise.
106. Right This," she said, is their absorbing
are significant national Interests in they themselves in the The Eastern Mediterranean which power. They are belter at managerial posts for campaigus, are not covered by NATO protection. And the Kuwalt operation showed the folly of
organising than
men are they have minds, for detail.
dad
110w
No one does them betier.
(London Express Service).
JOHN MOYNIHAN'S
RIVIERA NEWSLETTER
Monte Carlo.
THIS has
been
an
amazing season for
the Cote D'Azur, especially for
Carlo.
and
Monte
Ever since that famous Red Cross bull which Princess Grace regards 119 her pet posression and the anti-climactic and solemn retreat of some of her pet friends who call them- selves, or did, the Clan, the lowering of the sun and the Alling up
of cocktall glasses has provoked a stream of lurid gossip,
The Clan is looked on here as something of a damp squib. The yacht Hiniesta which was to take this garrulous gather- ing on on
Not often that
saboteurs do
a
do us
good turn...
BUT HERE'S ONE LESSON BRITAIN WILL HAVE TO LEARN
trying to guard the Persian Gulf with troops in Cyprus on the fur side of forbidden Arab alr space.
important of the six major bases But Cyprus is now the least
on which Briush global strategy depends. The others are cast of Suez and only one Aden - seems to enjoy a security
measure of although Arab nationalism could make it un- tenable within a decade.
What of the others? In Kenya, African politicions
As the Clan retreats
the gossip starts.
in Rome, and now Monte Carlo, vast coaches snift
and snort he told me.
the afternoon
"But you know
was irate when I spoke to her. down the narrow streets while how it is would be a terri-
"I'll fix her ticket," she said, beehives of tourists are shep- bly expensive business." "She came to my party the herded open-mouthed into the other night. That was fine. But solemnity of now she's giving a party to gaming rooms. night and I haven't been ask- ed."
remained
Soraya meanwhile parily aloof from the situation. She continues to go to partles and is liable to pop up at a extensive cruise workmen's cafe with rich along the coast now tugs alm- men's prices to top of the h lessly at its moorings off Eden at Monaco. Rock.
The fact that Fronk Sinatra
is supposed to have had mysterious
a
YUW with Peter
Lawford ated fuel to the walking lips in the foyer of the Hotel de Paris inz
Carlo.
Monte
Fresh faces
back in its Hollywood burrow
FRENZIED
Most of them do not gamble, but stop those who want 10
SENSIBLE
from getting near the tables. Y VVES CORBASSIERE,
shist
Away
Frustrated officials
the French painter. is themselves in offices, rofusing doing the sensible thing in to see anyone while the or this part of the world by chestra on the terrace of the living Cafe de Paris Addles
in Σ lighthouse trying to calm everyone down. keeper's cottage at the;
atmosphere Prince farthest point of the Eden Rainier must consider that Rock. Monte Carlo is just too small for its task.
In thi
He paints in a Napoleonic bastions are enough to keep the fortress a mile away so the two
DRINCE RAINIER and
I agreed with publisher Geo, Princesa
Weldenfeld when he said: "I Grace have would far rather be on' a holt. tourists out. stayed away from the g08- day in Berlin." aip, the frenzied gambling
of some internally greedy DOMINATING
At any rate the Clon is safely American woman and the and nobody renily minds if they noise and clatter of the
ure fresh faces, fresh intrare bouch of their tiny king-Two friends of Sir Win-
intrigues dom.
and fresh situations to dabble
Corbasslere, who is preparing for an exhibition in London in the autumn in renowned for his;
energy and was one of the per-
Bonalities, with Juliette Greco, who made St Germain des Pres
un Paris into an Existentialist
ston Churchill due to centre,
"It is how a stupid place," In while pulling at that irritat- But they were seen recently stay this week at the Hotel he says. "I have moved to on- ing dinmond ear-ring or deas. In the comparatively quiet ac- de Paris in Monte Carlo, other part of Paris." troying a potato crop.
cupation of opening 11 swim- very much dominate the When I wont to rea him ho For instance, Princess Soraya ming pool. presents herself to the Monte
principality at the moment. Suver smile to visit Juan Lea Invited me with a Long John But Carlo
doubtless the Prince clique as fle simple. must contemplate some of the
Mr Onassis, of course, is a Pins in his rubber motor din- relicent girl who fito through problems that his icingdom tm- aming torch in the Casino and shy, which la moored off the the foyer of the Hotel de Paris poses.
later at the Muona night-club rocks by the lighthouse. carrying a basket, опе hand For instance a sudden de- until daylight at last pushes clasped Armly on her hotel key cision to make the road out- him to bad. and nose pointed towards the aido the sporting club safety of the first floor.
But Soraya has a weakness for parties and, unfortunately, seems to have offended at least one person who has acted on her host.
dual
Sometimes Morla
Callas
the other night in a traffic jam Casine and heads turn like tank way resulted without warning strolls along beside him in the
far worse than anything Pic- turrets. cadilly has ever soen.
A mistral was blowing full tll at the time and a particu- Jarly heavy wave gent me
time and grabbed at a tumbling into the water.
When I came up for the third- piece Sir Winston will also prob- into the bent.
of rock he helped me back When I asked a Monte Carlo ably 300 Mr Emery Rdoves, cab driver to take me to Nice who owns the publishing rights all supposed to
"I thought the Brilla fro For Sorbyn gavo a party he almost cried on my shoulder. to his books outside recently and failed to ask that
be sailors," he Beliala and "Get me out of here," handsome American
be and the U.8. model, satd.
When we at Int Mc Jackie Rogers.
reached Ruoves walks about in Juan Lea Pina in the dinghy The real problem of Monte foming beown slacks find al after a voyage na bumpy as Chrlo le space.
ways seem to be on the move, the Big Dipper, we both agenod
would like to arrange an that any ducking and the voy stan'a war memoirs in Europe," illustrated version of Sir Win age lind Hardly boen necessary.
---(Londyn #areas Kervice),
Miss Hogers, who altaren s apariment with our own delect- able export. Minn Caroline Punsunby, Lord Sysonby's slater,
the
Fista as white a mountain slopes are creeping into only space available, the sky;
once there is Australia, while
London Express Bervice.
MILES
1000
It is certainly island in the Indian Ocean
of such island with a fuel dump
are already demanding the labour shortage, closing of the British sabotage, the base will be so secure, is too far away from has convinced many that a chain strategic base at
with its domestic Hikely scenes of action. Kahawa preoccupied and, with Independence, troubles that it wil become will be able to enforce this. strategically Impotent.
The vast expenditure it re- Instantly a presents becomes dend lose.
In Mainyn the new base at Malacca is being rapidly built up although the Malayan Govern- ment hus announced that it will not permit British troops based there to be used against other Aslan countries.
Massive
Ruthless
of
runways, each
and repair shops, is essential to the flexi- bility of both long-range trans- poris and the V-bombers. Thus the idea of a web
The Army, too, would wel- military power, flexible and come such freedom frem politi- at the War Office visualise Army has grown up. It would be based upon ships
families living and islands while the troops
in Australla and the ruthless stripping away operational areas for short tours. are town to of inessentials.
Much of the original thinking strategic bases could be reduced
of duty while the present*** which has gone into this con- to strategic outposts.
Two assets strong, radiating from Australia call, beret garriren towns. Some
Thus the minds of the defence planners are forced to turn to two assets which we have long enjoyed and long ignored. One Is the British Empire. The other is the sea. In Singapore the massive base Much used to be talked about installations are dependent upon. "Imperial Defence und "Sea The labour and wood will of a Power." In war. the English- Chinese population with stren speaking Dominions have con- for loyalties to Communist tributed more than their share, China than to the British Com- In war, British command of the monwealth.
sens hus twice prevented defeat, Hongkong nobody And now, once again, these twin dares to suggest that the strengths are ready to be ex-
ploited,
For some years there have been stuff officera at the Ministry of Defence and in the Service Depart- ments who have urged the baning of British Common- wealth strategy on two centres: the United King- dom and Australla.
In
British force there would enjoy more than a momen- on For
tary Influence East conflict.
Bases are, of course, essential to milliary operations. And each major base must have its sen- port and irports, ita stares, and stockpiles, its industry and s labour force.
cept strings from an Intelligent phibious Warfare Headquarters little organisation called Am-
in Whitehall.
They have done much to break down the fixed base fetish. They
Dry voice
The principal apposition
to
dey
have shown that the equivalent the new strategy 1 the of the present Kenya Burrison Voice of the Treasury adding up eculd be based on a naval task the hundreds of millions ol lorce of two commando-eneriers, punis poured and pouring into une sirerati carrier and a the great camps and castles of support ship without political Singapore, Malacca, fongkong, repercussions and with world- Aden, Kahawa and Cyprus.. wide mobility.
serve
And there are the Feteign Office and the Colonial Offer claiming that these · basen, begot "stability."
They have shown that It would be better to store the tanks of the Strategic Re-
So it seems Jikely that the in air-conditioned final decision to abandon the ships than in the corroding doomed fortresses will be made. dust of the isolated tank not by the British Governstent parks at Alleni.
but by Asian and African They have shown that with a politicians who will make the It's gurtison, its strategic
Britain has, of course, always secure, well-equipped base to decision in their own good time. reserve and its base troops must been the centre but Australia rely on, such amphibious forces have married Quarters and has been strangely ignored. can be maintained at sea or in barracks. Its headquarters must Suggestions that Darwin and distant anchorages cations systems, have office blocks and communi- Perth might replace Singapore months.
and Malacen and that Commda- Support for this primarliy But above all the base must wealth unity and ecenery naval plan comes from the RAF. have the support of the civilian would thereby benent have often The success of the strategic population. Once there is been met with the rebuff that air base at Gantry coral
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