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New York, Tuesday. chromium plate and decorative VERYONE at the mo-

dazzle.

No, sir. New cars drip with ment is summing-up chromium. They blaze with the Churchill-Truman strips Di glittering metal, conferences and arriving at chromium portholes, giant all sorts of conclusions. Most bumpers, and gobs of stainless Americans think Mr Chur- steel They are fancier than, a

Juke-box. chill came out the winner, I think we might sell more but most British, judging British motor cars here if we by the reports from London, laid the chromium or thick and seem to imagine that Pre- didn't bother so much about the Americans want their sident Truman came off the engine.

cars festooned with brilliance. better.

I un rather glad to hear that Lady Docker, wife of Sir Bernard Docker, is due in New with a gold-plated York Daimler limousine. This should do the trick for us.

Campaign rages

Great goodness, it wasn't a both sparring match! I think partners benefited. You cannot gauge a meeting of this sort in tons of steel or naval commands. Mr Churchlil has garnered the intangibles friendship, trust, co-operation. But I shou

should be grateful if local editors would THE motor-car manufacturers kindly That taik about the are probably wise in get- United States as "giving" us the tir their models on display steel. I met one of the editors bere the election campaign of the Associated Press in swampe everything in claiming

He Rockefeller-plaza.

said: the public's attention "Well, 1 soe we are giving you 1,000,000 tons of steel."

A vivid pen portrait of the gracious in health has sustained, who lady and in spirit, the greatest Englishman about." of our time. By Kenneth Hare-Scott. happy. He gave

In reply he

for

tainly they will not leave their Dutch statesman.

it has made a speech, illiant and favourite Chartwell, for

the 00 been the family home in Kent urgent. for very many years)

European Unity. Amld deafening On my first visit I waited in applause he left the microphone, the drawing room, a 1oom com- resumed his seat beside his wife fortably furnished. The large who was holding the medal in and s be sofa and deep armchairs, covered its purple case,

it more closely he in shiny chintz, were well pro- examined vided with large blue cushions appeared to say to her "Was it The room was inviting, comfort (the speech) alright?" able, obviously lived in. Bowls and vases of gay flowers added thei: colour. Mis Churchill later told me that a basket of roses by the window

came

from

а

**

The campaign is already boiling. and soon it will he I said: "Not giving, my exploding and erupting. Every- friend; we are buying the stull body seems to be running- for armaments to protect our College President Harold Stas-

from selves and you

those

Ben, Governor Earl Warren, Communists you keep dithering Senator Robert Taft, Senator Estes Kefauver, Chief Justice Anyway, Mr Churchili

Vinson, and the man next door. President Truman 1s being record talk to correspondents at coy, and Governor Dewey is in the National Press Club the

the wings. other day, and he glowed and gleamed and shone with satis- faction.

I cannot tell you what he said, but, believe me, he was more eloquent than even before Congress or in Ottawa.

an off-the-

The reporters, a sceptical lot accustomed to blandishments. rocked the room with applause.

Same old story

She whispered something in He did not catch it. She his ear. whispered again. It must have been "You didn't thank them for

With a goodness newspapers the medal."

CHURCHILL'S OTHER

"GRAND

W

du

Was

count

ALLIANCE"

room!

#

the

DUT what about the £ ste Bling?

What about threatened bankruptcy? The

here are

dire and dreary talk Britain going broke.

of

full of

But the

man they are all talking about is General Elsen- Elsenhower's campalen hower. headquarters has opened in New York and there is to be a mammot's rally In Madison Square Garden on February 8.

The slowan adopted for the rally, which is to raise money for Eisenhower's campaign, is "Holler with your dollar." Very dignified, I'm sure.

But little else

about to entertaloment, the newest

switch from high politica

I have now heard this wail hit on Broadway is a frightening

this and

wwe and witnessed funeral service for 16 years.

relentless play, The

Shrike," by Joseph Kramm, José We have been going bust and Ferrer stars and he is magnifTM

broke and bankrupt all this cent "The Shrike" is terrifying.

time.

Change the record, let's have It is also terrific. another tune, my distinguished

Mr

Otherwize the season bumps

American newspaper colleagues along, and but for the Oliviers could hardly be called a in London there's life in the it

Churchill season at all. on yet. Ask when he gets back.

There is a

a certain amount of calamity howling here, too; 1952

a year of "acute pinch,' say defence offieials.

I have been looking around for this "acute pinch," and now I think I have found it. It is a little bit of metal stamped "52"

were

is to

and it is a substitute for the 1952 registration platea

licence or that go on the motor car. Instead of a new whole licence plate or a pair of them for back and front, there is this tiny tag marked "62." You screw it on to the old licence plate over the Agures "51" and you are all wet to go,

Sir Thomas Beecham has irked the White House by telling music critle Paul Hume, who criticised Margaret Truman's singing: "I want to shake your one ot you the

Watch

national heroes." out, Sir Thomas, the President Basil Rathbone, Edna Best, night write you a letter. Irene Browne are due on Broad- "Jane," S. N. Behrman'a

of

way

adaptation Maugham story.

a Somerset

Jack Dempsey will play the referee in the new Bob Hope film, Two great actors together.

INSTON Churchill strange it is that so few people lady stranger to them-who, gracious look he rose, approached

since Winston's defeat in the the microphone again, and

and sincere little has made famous know anything about the wives

1945 of our great men; some are even

election, had wished to spontaneous in our time, led to believe that they do not express her sympathy and speech followed addressed to his

friends, who through the title count fo much. In fact they admiration with regular gifts of Dutch

count They

more beautiful flowers. They had been delighted. Sitting down again he of the third volume of his do

Hand. I consider this kind turned to her with a broad grin. words can reveal; and greatly touched by than any

me at He once turned Memoirs, that historic term

1in telling you a little about Mrs thought. "The Grand Alliance."

In

Mrs Churchill another meeting, when the plat- Churchill 1 realise how inade-

this how wonder

many people quate what I am going to write greeted me. apologising for fons was too small to hold more asked pause to think of that other is bound to be, for no words can keeping me waiting (which had than the speakers, and Grand Alliance in the life give full measure to this wonde: only been a matter of moments). "Where's my wife silting?"

As a matter of fact the mornings pointed her out in the audience; and smiles of our greatest Englishman ful partnership.

I first met her in 1948 when I are her busiest times as she deals he caught her eye, which has nothing to

organising the United with most of her heavy cor- and nods were exchanged-not with the affairs of great Europe Movement of which Mr respondence before lunch: this only then but at various gages of the meeting. I felt what a nations --- the partnership Churchill was chairman and the particular morning had been no

pily it was that they could not main inspiration. Mr Bank had exception.

be sitting together. The world in Winston's own home.

Carol Reed, one of our very us the pro-

likes to see her, too!

best, is due bere soon to intro- of a reeds film premiere and I Foreignis, particularly Ameri- generously offered

Her life has not only been

1 had hardly the heart to go

duce "Outcast of the Islands, me how asked her to be Chairman of the

CHE has a personality which devoted to sustaining in health Committee. She was blends charm and vitality in organising

and spirit the greatest English-along to see the new 1852 models Let's hope Reed gets the credit, at the automobile showrooms

and not the American distri rather nervous of accepting

after receiving this, but finally butor. "I've never done anything like such degree that others instine man of our age. She has brought

up her femily of three daughters braced myself.

FOOTNOTE (and the two that before. For years we've tively become fascinated

In and a son-Diana is the wife

popular In view of the little metal mast

slogans been rather outside the social life totally at ease; she is enthusiastic

of fret about anything which interests Duncan Sandys, now Minister

tags I thought perhaps the new America): I Like Ike and Win her of London

me her, and most subjects do. She Supply; Sarah is the actress wife

would be barren of With Winston. reaction. And she invited round to their home in Hyde talks quickly, her facial expres of Anthony Beauchamp: Mary is the quick smile, and use of the wife of Christopher Soames, We Sion

to MP. for Bedford; and son and hands, giving full emphasis tu she says.

heir Randolph is journalist and politician. And now they have seven grandchildren.

cans, have often told

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Park Gate to talk it over. did and after a telephone talk with Winston, whose presence al the show was essential, (she had a little difficulty in persuading him to come), she agreed to take clothes. the chair.

Big Party

and

A friend once told me: "Mrs Churchill never wears the wrong She uses poise and elegance to great advantage. She toves

colour." How true

she Bat thought that to be as there, her white hair immacu-

War Work

7

MRS Churchill

of

has worked

Mart in welfare causes in two

OM that moment she worked Istely set, her complexion seem- FROM

ernal World Wars, her "Aid to Russia ceaselessly to ensure success, ing to glow from the

within her. She wore Fund" being a labour of which With pencil and paper we sat at youth

but

beautiful she had every right to be proud, very

a card table and planned ovellery-a diamond bracelet, a

sign each said, shc

She was made

the Y.W.C.A.

a

care

:

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

Three-flat Picasso comes back to fight

PARIS.

trouble on two CB.E,

in

the she was fronts--with

Paris

in 1940 she was

vi

Picasso

OWDS

formance in the Racine classic

vello trying to play. Hamlet,

£1200 JOB.

...

campaign. "I will

husband, whose hands were to PAINTER Pablo Picasso letter personally," (there were many hundreds of brooch, a string of pearls,

It was not difficult to imagine and them). "And we must have the tall, slender, handsome girl.

from the Midlands has just party for the principat support with large grey ayes and advanced to the highest rank in housing authorities and the A27 10s. a week lorry, driver

the same and

Order G.BE. She French Royal Academy, the joined Unesco in an important ers. We've never had a party as unusually graceful neck

not call

call herself Dame Beaux Arts.

capacity. big as that in this house, Do you shoulders who, in 1998, married does

three flats in What does he do? In his own think we shall have enough Winston Churchill at St. Mar- Clementine Churchill, preferring room? Who can we get to say a

Westminster. It was the to be simply Winston's wife-

and Clemmie to her family. She Paris, all of which the Paris words: Just All Inkwells all few words about the Movement?" wedding of the year. She was

an Hon, LL.D. of Glasgow Municipality threatens to requisi- day and every day! Inkwells And so on. She knew that it then twenty-three, the daughter 15

Hon. University,

D.C.L. of tion on the grounds that he lives galore. I don't know what they was his United Europe Move of Colonel Sir Henry Hozier, a

his house in do with all that ink in there. I Oxford, and а Freeman

the year in

of reckon they must drink it." South ment, that it mattered a lot to distinguished soldier, and grand-

her Vallauris, in the Wanstezd and Woodford.

What does he get? £1,200 a him, and her anxiety to help him daughter on her mother's side of husband's constituency. Also the France. Picasso, a millionaire overcome all her own qualms.

the 9th Earl of Airlie.. Winston, is a very active Chairman of the Communist, has come to Paris year, including allowances and

all tax freeje do we Ak The parly was too big for the although only thirty-four, wRS

to fight the issue.

REWARD FOR SERVICE house, spacious as it is, and already a Minister and Privy National Hostels Committee of

As for the Beaux Arts they stic entertained her Counciller; in Clementine, his instead

CTOR Pierre Bra£#SUIT, it was no act of politeness are worried about Picasso's pur-starring in Sartre's play guests at

a large hotel, to their bride, educated at Berkhampsted

chase near Vallauris of a seven- because disappointment, perhaps,

Girls School and the Sorbonne which prompted a Spaniard and

wife, a Frenchman, a Daneteenth century chapel which he "God and the Devil," reward- wants to see the inside in Paris, he found a wit to match everybody of the Churchill home! She was his own. LAS

& Belgian woman, all to ask threatens to convert into an ed his plumber after speedy with a free LickéŃ ne during my recent travela in anti-religious

museum. They repair job afraid thet she might not

Europe: "How le Mrs Churchill? have asked the Government to for the show When y

it read: "Four recognise

guests, Dar Some of the

Has she got over her recent classify the chapel as an his caived the bill she greeted them all as here at den

hours spent at the theatre at: friends with that charm which He will say I have spent my operation? We were so sorry to torical monument.

he?"

master plumber zules 1:200 and

hoar life padding along, behind about it. And how is

·THEY SAID IT

hunos, ·cloakroom and Pro- has won hearts everywhere;

our, Prime. She is a welcome now who everybody Winston. But

guest in many

UOTES:

General gramme-150 tronics. was. She made a shor, very Minister would be the first to countries in our own fair con-

Sir Lionel Hold on Voshin port to theatre and return, by, effective speech, and the whole admit that the journey would diment of Europe and beyond, for

not have taken them so far he loves travelling and seeing sky: "Not a good House of Com- Two-120 francs, 2015 venture was a compacte

** FASHION POLL DE The Churchills house in

reliable

they love seeing her mier M. Pleven "There are understanding, And

POLL taken among French indy, who has plenty of French policans A dress despers on Holly- This gracicts last) cul-de-sa2, was nothing to look sources relate that he is not the

to breake health and vistosar outside. The front easiest mortal of whom to have sustained from the

wood Blms has yielded hom low, who can make an omejenal und following remills: PU and int spirit the

the man whom door opena square in the pave channalances come to mind milions neclaim is naviour of stinguent on The ment, and only the patrolling wich, revoni tiek, parinership, the world's freedon, han" chrned | mystery of her · K797/ “Please dressed, Irene Dunne. Work polleemin Indianted that anyone

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but

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of course moved to No 10 City audience the Guildhall verywhere. And now, ce tarile on vich Down Street and have diver Winton was presented with cheth her develion and care are leave it at that

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