I'll settle
for
Mendelssohn
at my wedding
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961.
As the big battalions mass against the Common Marketeers
THROUGHOUT Bri-
tain and the Com- monwealth the Common Market bandwagon is on the move.
The fly harassment, from the viewpoint of champions of the European He-tip, is that it 13 muying backwards.
And from this importan! week its precis kely to Aurielten. Still in the reverse [direction, of course.
Emotion
★TTEDDINGS are a timey July day when Mr Mac- W for tradition. It's no
good the glossy magazinos tofling us to bo off-beat bridos, beatnik brides, or СУСП latest - from Paris brides.
What has happened since that
militan. with notable emotion, rume down to the Hs of Commons to announce: "We are
Plying to fola the Six?
AL that time rentators, – their to the
clever eta-
upper air. "Why it's in
ears glue Were suy. the hug."
Phil street
First, though the Labour Op-
remains
officially fence,
the
2 time when a Klri just
to be different. | position doesn't want When she wants a simple white || Sulancerf on theas The every other bride→ | ojankon in the party has swung sad the old, famillar. garfous massively against д closer Mendelgrohn wedding mureti, association between Brittin and
Hight-wing West Europe.
An enterprising hirer-out of wedding dresses, however, thinks modern brides want modern music, and he orgínised a con- petition to find a new wedding March.
Entries came in from all over 200 of the world; more than ther
Lon!-
The organise of the
ision. I'm glad to say, also not a lot of letters caying "Hands olf Mendelson.")
The
were
of
wedding marches judged by a panel ganists, inchidan, the principal of Trinity College of Musle, the president of the London Asso- viation of Organists, and the organist of the Temple Church in London.
THREE NOTES
The prize wwarded to
of £100 has been
Dr Ernest Suttle,
and, in the onfestive Cut-
tral Holl 171 Westminster, I
The Prime Minister has last any hope of securing a formid- able petticol advantage during the negotiations--the firm blows ing of the other side la Wal- mister.
t
Even af Mr Galtkell pene onally wished to give sucli bless big lie would be hoa-strung
Hench
Healey
How soon before
Macmillan sounds
Jibut too.
without his generals
Secondly,
July The question if the Queen's status in a Federn Europe has become
serieur issete.
Division
the retreat?
were the sanguine
clinchers
which impelled him nally to Public opinion has begun to apply for entry into Europe. recognise that, with the wither- But let Mr Macmillo and
of the Crown-in-parliament's his Cabinet not Imagine that sovereignty, her prestige und they have now met the worst standing wond
certainly be of their troubles. A for rougher untermined.
Fide les attend for them. Third, The
The Commonwealth
anti-Common
Market Finance Ministers have spoken movement is only starting ont at AcTS turi ngain the gear up ranites warning In their com
Fortified by the Aceta pela- munique that ALL of them at minique. when the Camunan their conference (except Mr
wealth Parliamentary Assbela- Selwyn Lloyd) expressed “grave apprehvessirist
tion opened its conference pic! about the stentne of
Concern"
London, a quarter of the Britain's delegates have let 1 be known application to the Six.
that they wished to speak about Britain and the Six,
Te Labour
Party plug et into the Issure at its Blackpool staterener with a spate of art
Rebuke
Market
la
Arki all
resolutions
נז!
by
DOUGLAS CLARK
Finally take a look at the Six Britain will never strike a bur- themselves. 'Their Ministers
Council of gain acceptable to Paris. So, they Brussels say "let's put the whole thing
spectacle
it makes its bid to take Britain
mel in [10] September 25, to con. off— November at earliest," sudder how to handle Bri- tain's quest
What a forbidding for entry: They Sinne say: too are confused and divided for the Turs Government as
These British
They and across the Chanel and into the their Contrawealth colleagues Six.
only pretending to quarrel. They are playing hard to get. the hot
way they hope to wring all possible concessions,"
-
, the al forts!
Confused
A present the question asked by our Ministers. sti: "Can we come in?"
IS HE K's STOOGE OR A MAN OF POWER?
by ALAN WATKINS
WHEN Mr Kruschev signs his peace
WHE
treaty with East Germany, as he will surely do, one man is bound to gain in inter- national importance: Ernst Paul Walter Ulbricht, boss of East Germany, leader of the East German Communist Party.
Ulbright'
Communist fui-
Of all the chiefs of the.
antellite Soviet
States, Ulricht is perhaps the lowers procected to take over most mysterious. He has the Social Democratic Party in It would not be sur-led East Germany with a
East Berlin. Three years later, in 1940, the Russians gave him prising if, quite soon in conspicuous lack of success. complete control uf Easi the negotiations, their Yet he has stayed in power Germany. question became: "How for 16 years, longer than Bat the French take the firm
any other satellite leader. penetrating fre from all view sill that in view of her do we get out?"
pledges to the Commonwealth,
London Express Servicn.
What publie rebuke in the by the craprehensive chorus of Cabinet men sent by Mr Mac-
Nras
from Labe Frozen at maselsumner to sound backcloth
Mr Denis out specialists:
the state "I Common-mentary Poreign Affers). Mr worth feeling! | Patrick Gordon Walker Con- What a commentary on the monwealth Afairs), mel Mr reports brought back by Mr Douglas Jay (Economies).
Duncan Saulys, Mr Peter Thor- He would la marching neycroft, and Me John flare to without his big battal the Prime Minister. For these
this is merely the La new session in which the Macmillan Govermarnt-under continued pressure from every Commonwealth capital-will al- so face prodigious, and
sustained.
parts of the Cosimons.
When the boss takes a
|A
New York. NEW word-dren- ched in social signi-
listened to the piece of music ficance-appears in the tipped lo overthrow Felix
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
I can't remember any of it, except the first three nates, which went Tam 4 Tuni.
nnut eritietsing Dr Suttle, who has in!ped composed a line, way plecs of music. But it isn't modern at all-it's classical piece, just like all the wedding marches,
other It is fal, and I'm afraid it left me Aal, too,
To be fair, De Suttle says he "unly componed it for pleasure. I don't like to think of it as svelous rival to Mendelssohn: It's just a useful stemul when son iting diferent is required."
HIS CHOICE
Dr Suttle who is 40 is a digniflett-looking
with mart
hushy eyebrows,
For his own wething he chose Widor's Tecruta." frutn the Fifth Symphony the sine piece chosen by Use Duke of Kent and Katharine Worsley for their wedding in June.
Dr Suttle dkl not choose Mandelarch "because it has ruther ente associations, and is always used on stage and in
variety."
Truc. And Wagner's Bridal March tvoru Act III of "Lohengrin," the ather well- known piece of wedding muste, sers in the same way. As a schoolgirl 1 used to sing: "ilure comes the bride. all fat and wide" to Wagner's tune.
All the same. when I come down the Disle-with Iradi- Honal long white dress, tulle, hushand, Tears and all- obali da # with that lovely Mendelssohn "ira la di tiddly tmp" ringing ln my ears.
JEAN
HUTCHISON
-(London Exprèss Servic#).
high-life code of status which governs Ameri-
can business life: The Sabbatical.
It is the word for these who are "n" at the top
A usually dropped word ut the executive luncheon club... "They're given
me my sub- baticul"... likely to make the day for the nas! ambitious of the management elite.
As a word for a holiday it was introduced into American life at the turn of the century, when universities thought up the slen of a year's leave of absence for top professors.
-
year
plained-the best executive ..
..... needs 2 sabbation, Tensions unwind, auxieties evaporate.
"You relketer yourself and yutir sense of proportion. Yout
new horizons, You com back feeling 10 years younger. And management benefits from this change"
AL
COURSES
I spoke in Mr Kenneth Kuyan of the British Travel Associa Hiou's New York office: "The response has been
good." he said. "Inquiries are not only coming in from individunla bat from comparsies."
off work.
By DAVID ENGLISH
Dickson Hartwell of the American Management Associa- Hop told me: "A, dumber of very large corporations intru duced this a few years ago. It started amung seinmüße work- et sprend to top engineering excentives, And there are very strong feelingst both fur and against the sabbatical.”
But is it a good trend? Dr Myron Fisk, of General Electric,
MYST
DYNAMIC
For deendes mutely utside academie backwaters used the word.
fr answer te inquiries: the "All we ask is that the man But recently
sabbatical on a subbatial spends his time business Arms TA. sends at a have taken to giving los exeen-
package, with information about "in some surt or reading, or British tives a year's holiday in which
iavome tox. estate study, or research in a subject they can rest and
lists of cultages and quite unrelated to his work. A travel agents'
houses to les, Hets of summer lobby-horse subject if you like. vindy.
courses in British universities,
CAMPAIGN
Three weeks ago, always ready to harness A new treal, the British Travel Association launched an expensive advertis- ing campaign designed to cap- ture the wandering executive.
Company presidents are urged in an appeal printed in top magazines: "Reward your top executives with J sabbatical year in Britain-on half-pay."
The advertisement continues: "After 1 years' service, offer tup executives a year's vacation In Britain on half his salary. Suy this comes to 12,000 dollars (about £1,000). This will be
more than enough for him and is family to live in eomfort. Your will and new stimuli to recharge his batteries and renew his creative mainspring." Developing the sabbatical theme, the advertisementa ex-
Even a dog need not
SEA
be sick any more
EA sickness is (almost) a thing of the past. Even the old saying, "as sick as a dog," may
disappear because it is now claimed that modern remedies are effective with animals.
Travel Alekness as
has been the subject of oxhaus- tive texts. There are now two mah catégories of remedies, H is claimed.
Hyoscine hydrobromide is the most widely used of, the bells. denna allatot.
Fast-acting
Of the anti-hlataminen origin-
ally used for hay fever, there are
minutes and give protection for four to six hours.
Groups of soldiers as well 09 llors have helped to provide pruelicat evidletico for those Investigating Rea-sickness,
Although children as a whole are prone to travel sicknusa, bubles (up to two years old) are the best travellers of all.
Wont have been known to muter
watching sickness after tilus of skips and the sex. It was a man, however, who be
a number of effective typen. +4 Ro denporale
and full information on British schmoling, servants, and shop. ping.
Suid Koyan:
"We hope to get hundreds of top executives 1 take their rabbaticals in Europe."
"Some time ago we gave a sabbatical to a senior executive. He was under pressure and we felt we would try it. He return- ed a year later, a bigger, belter, and more dynamic person.
"I became interested in this trend, Investigated it, and decid ed to produce this advertice.
ment.
DOUBTS
Psychiatrists evaluating the nubbatical, snid Ogilvy, found that a number of top executives, In successful middle age, sud- denly began to develop doubts abanut the purpose and direction of their lives.
"If the sabbatical has worked well and successfully for dons. why not for other people?"
creative
ONE CHANGE
Some people of course are against sabbaticals. Saya Ogilvy. "Opposition comes from com- pany secretaries and treasurers. But then one can understand their point of view... no ene ever thinks of offering them more than three weeks' holi- clay."
To an accountant's mind, the value of a sabbatical is bard to analyse. How do you put down in the books the return for a year's salary with no work?
But
14
How has he managed t it just that Kruschev inds him a convenient stooge? Or hos Ulbricht inluence in the Russian Communist Party which
prevents Kruschev from getting rid of him? Or, again, is he merely a man with a supreme tulent fur getting hold of and keeping power?
STEADILY UP
Certainly Ulbricht, without
He did not have the title of Chief of State (he acquired this only in 1950) He was the general secretary of the Social- Ist Unity (Le.. Conumunist) Party. Above him were a Presi dent and a Prime Minister. But power lay. there was no doubt where real
Ulbricht enjoyed this power uninterruptedly until 1953. Then the Russians suddenly declared that his regime was too harsh, that modifications would have
to be made.
To
the East Germans I
ever eccomplishing anything seemed that Ulbricht was on his spectacular, has throughout his way out. They rebelled agalost ille contrived to move steadily up the Communist escalator.
He was born 68 years ago In Leipzig, the son of a tailer who was a strong trade unionist. For
i
to
him, But the Russian tanks scan showed that Ulbricht was si in favour at the Kremlin,
The death of his patron Stalin made no difference a time young Ulbricht was Ulbricht. He stayed faithful to cabinet-maker (he still says Moscow. When Kruschev proudly: "I am à carpenter by tacked Stalin at the 1956 Com- trade"). He was also member munisi Party Congress. Ulbricht of the
youth stepped martly into line, saying organisation.
disparagingly: "One cannot
Marxists,"
workers'
NO DRINK
πι-
But his Socialism soon turned reckon Stalin among the classic to Communiom. He became la 1920 a minor official of the new- ly formed German Communist Party. Three years later he was so well thought of in Moscow that he was sent there special training.
for
Today Ulbricht is more firmly in power than ever. He showed his contempt for the East
This was the time when German "Parliament" by not Stalin was fighting Trotsky for bathering to turn
up when it the leadership of Russia was asked to approve the deel-
backed the sion to seal one thing is Ulbricht as usual
of East Berlin, winner: Stalin. He way to re-
Hie health likely. The sabbatical wara Ulbricht by being his
la his maln limiting factor; ho has liver and executive helps you to
live patron.
gall-bladder trouble. This kind of person will often longer. If the trend
"The routine of Dving begins to pafl," he said.
England, Japan,
"Our people have gone to throw up his job. sell the house,
Switzerland. They have returned refreshed, relaxed and revitalised.“
and take off for the Caribbean gets a real, grip.
A year later there should not be
or Mexico City. they have passed through the
David Ogilvy, British-born director of one of America's top back and start again. And not advertising agencies, drew up all of them make it. Good American widows. the avertisement.
people are lost this way.
stage, and they have to come so many wealthy
HEIN TO?
-(London Express Service).
think he
arranged to be put under
at
-London Express Service).
'If we rush Britain into the Common Market we can olevate him to the House of Lords'
-ikamion Kapress Kervice),
Ilyoseine is regarded as One nuesthetic for a Chiammel cross-
few
of the fastest-neting remedies. Ing. It worked.
It can take effect in
Ulbricht was elected
After his return to Germany
■ Com- munist Deputy in the Reichstag. Even then he was extremely
conscious of his prestige.
Once he was with the then German
Communist Parly leader at a Berlin railway alow tion. The lender got into a third- class compartment. Ulbrichi re- fused to join him. He insisted OTS
But he still works 18 hours a day. He does not drink or smoke. He talks incessantly in his high- pitched voice and rarely listens to anyone at any rate inside East Germany. Like most diela- tors he is a great supporter of and attender at athletica meet- Inga.
This short, travelling in a first-class bearded product of the
cocky,
compartment, which as $ men- ber of the Reichtag It was his privilege to do free,
Lenin- Com-
munist Party bureaucracy is anid the only satellite leader who enjoys direct access to Kruschev. No one knows quita how much Influence he exerts For over the Russian leader, or quite the next 12 years Ulbricht stay- how far Ulbricht Is Kruscher's
in Russia, Hving at puppet.
When the Nazis came to power in 1033 the German Com-
collapsed. Juunist Party
ed mainly
the Hotel Lux with his Berlin
The
tupe must be
that
1
born, gizl-friend Lotto Kuba (whom he finally married in Ulbricht is not too independant. 1931: there is salck to be It will be far easier to negotiate claughler somewhere in the a reasonable settlement over bckground).
Berlin with Walter Ulbricht, servant of Kruschev, than with Walter Ulbricht, undisputed master of East Germany.
tenisa wens to Prague, t Paris, and to Spain where.to the civil war bis main occupil- Hon was to expose Trotsityites.
Ulbricht's exemies among Communists and ex-Communista nd he has may tell herri- Be toles of these jars. It will then, thay Jay, that lic eliminated his German rivals. He would send refuges Com- murusts back to Germany bogus secret missions and then quietly Inform the Gestapo.
Or alternatively he would have them eliminated by the Russian seqrot police counter- revolutionaries,
02
On May 2, 1945, Ullricht drove Inton ahatlered Berlin in a convoy of 10 large Russian cake,
From a dlogy office in a siroot unaptly named Wallstenme, he worked 18 hours à day to organize the Russian zone. ́· He was wonderfully .officiant,
CONTROL
A colleague (who has atnce. fles to the West) recalix: "Whan we got up the East-Zund's strat Ministry of Labor and fleciak Affairs Ulrichit panlgand, every departmeni bend wid bij sta/Pa somin 40 syprinimente, down t the motor-pool kora-in nhout an hour."
-(London Express Service),
POCKET CARTOON.
by QSBERT LANCASTER
"I've a drittner Impression, Sir Philip, that ‚eirathas curioua vikwatien haa urjuun in Qullary X?
London Exprdu Bervice.
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