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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1952.

Mr Gordon, the Editor of the Sunday Express of London, shown'

on his arrival in New York.

JOHN GORDON IN AMERICA

New York. HEY tell me here that carrying I am

T

trouble around with

me. For look what

has happened: No sooner

BY AIR to a land whore the temperature just now is very high-politically as well as otherwise.

This

is CHAPTER 2 of a now kind of ADVENTURE STORY, For myself-although 1 does my aeroplano reach have avoided such an indis- New York than Sugar Ray cretion-I find the discom- Robinson loses a champion- forts of life acute, despite Iced and air- ahip fight and the tem- all. the peraturo almost touches 100 conditioned luxury that New

York offers its realdents. in the shade.

For one of the disadvan You may judge what tages of swift, modern afr such heat means when 1 travel is that you are liable record-on the authority of to be whisked from a re- frigerator to a hot avon my 42-page evening paper quicker than a United that a girl who sat down Nations politician can say on the pavement for a rest. "Boo" in Korean, raised auch blisters im-

1 loft. Lexion in a ROA.C, Offṣial America ↳ disturbed and the part mediately on

on the foveliest obviously much more eager to of Stratocruiser

summer evening of the year. In rare responsibilities her anatomy concerned as little more than an hour I was direction of the campaiza with will make sitting even on walking through a cool West Britain than ever before. the downiest of seats ex- Ireland drizzle to disiner at

Shannon. the ceedingly painful for next few days.

The Men Of Power In

MYSTERY CLUB IN MINIATURE

Nurse

Sonia's slip

is showing

by ERNEST DUDLEY

The Armchair Detective

NONIA refilled the new cala-

SON

bash pipe she was smoking. with another fistful of old rope, and puffed at it luxuriously.

#

showed them the hypodermio

"It's F vice I'd never tried before," she confided in me, her heavy eyelids lowered lan- guorously, "So I thought I She was wearing the latest must have bash at a model from the fashion shows, a gowniless evening back in cala." She tittered musical- ly at her little joke.

"Because your strange, exotic taunts Suddenly

away personality haunts me,

Low with a sigh that rattled the me," I cried. "I must windows of her sumptuous fat. more about you."

"Why do you hound me down like this?" she flung at me over her glistening while shoulder,

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Eight hours later-hours that had been spent soundly asleep between sheets in a bed far more comfortable than the bed in any train-1 awoke with cold, green icebergs in the sea below me and the forests and takes of Newfoundland ahead.

The Towers

for the

That must have its repercus- sions. both in Korea and in Europe sa well. It means that Britain's, power in world affairs

the time again.

Is

on

But much of course depends upon the election. Who counts in that befeta the candidates go to the poils?

I went to the Waldorf Towera.

Real leaders

In a few minutes was walk to seek some of the answers,

the nippy air of ing through Gonder to enjoy Оп carly morning cup of coffee, and four hours later I stepped out of the cool aeroplane at New York into air us, hot as if I had lifted the bonnet of a boiling car.

It is a fascinating experience.

HOW

My task

He represents in full the triumph of the commonplace character.

Hoover was the man who fed starving Belgium magnificently nt the end of the First World' War,

He became known as the most-.. admired figure of that time. For he was regarded as the succourci of widows and orphans.

And the, Wave

of sentiment aroused by his work lifted him to the presidency of the United

States.

He is probably a rich mah, though he has no business in terests whatever.

declared Louise recently, "and if he hadn't I believe, I would have doha it myself.” →

She Is thörried again- MacArthur was, in fact, the second of fer foler husbands-- and like a good soldier takes on the this.

the

commenta she gels

all

s these days' from people with malicious curiosity, as to what It feels like to be the ex-wife of @national hero. refude to disculsa General MacArt she said recently, "I am now intrried to a

am.

former, colonol,” in,handsame

to

I find it rather Intriguing have the destinies of the Republican Party being shaped by these two vastly different men, Hoover and MacArthur, In such a selling as the Waldorf Towers.

For

that great forty-cavòn floor building is outstanding oven in lush New York for the aliude of the Tents and the concourse. of millionaires it. gathers within its walls.

Strange H.Q.

seems unusudt an oddly Blange to find the real head- quarters of a political partyin so obvious a haven of privilege and power, a

There is not even a sign over the discreet door to tell the curiotis what goca on within. But He lives and works in sun-thinic there, ought to be, Influencing tho shiny corner sulle blek up on powerful men the 31st floor of the Waldo Elionhower? Not much I

“mind · Kor Taft against should Towars-kept cool ord 'wind- swept because of his partiality Because that is the home of far open windows, unusual in two most Interesting and im New York, His immediate circle portant characters, Herbert calls him "Chiet."

Y the Waldorf Towers?

Hoover and General Dougits MacArthur.

These two elderly men are the of the Republican And strangely diverse

Hoover at 78 is one of the most

Trow swiftly and tremendously real leaders life has been transformed Party. since that memorable day, not they are, so very long ago as time counts, when I remember Alcock saying remarkable figures in American as the first man ever able to say politics. He was President wiler il sanding on our a.de

of the great depression broke over the Atlastic... "When was the States in 1929 and for years afterwards was the figurehead of depression and the symbol of all the despair that goes with 1

in America yesterday."

Now once again he is a great. figure in American life; respect ed, admired, and more influcntiul in his party's affairs than any time, except other man at this Taft, limscif.

His build

a man slating a common- from?

Rep.

The general

SIX floors above him lives that

very different but equally powerful character MacArthur. If Hoover is no grater, Mac Arthur, at 72, is a very great me, incisive, clear, and always exciting. A strange and remark- able personality.

place, salon time we shall oratory. For as a speaker he is days of the Pacific man

а

days.

ower remains the more Elsenhower

popular of the candidates. There is a glamour about him that the colourless Taft lacks. But that does not mean that Ike will win. The machine chooses the candi date and, as in Britain, "the citizen does not always get the man

ho prefers

Eisenhower, for ali his glamour, is not a stirring com- convictions, but his speeches do palgner. He may have intensé not have the touch of the

crusader.

:

Powerful two

BUT

The Atlantic trail which Alcock

Probably the key to his His principles, may be sqund, and Brown blazed has now be

character is that he wears a wig, his honesty and sincerity beyond come as safe and almost as busy as the Brighton

and no doubt dyes the rest of all doubt or challenge, but he is his hair to match it.

proving to be far from a heart- trame lane

He is one of the most tremen- rouser. He is showing signs of rond.

"And we are only at the begin-

dous figures the American Army falling back just when he should has ning of the miracles. As I sat in

In ever produced. the be leaping ahead. the cockpit of our plane high

He shows his age.

army he has a

a tradition of above the lovely lakes and fish-

Yet it is a tradition SUCCORD. of Nova Scotia, is heavy, his movements slow. filled rivers

that might well have been What does his power derive Captain Percy, with the casual-

Certainly,

shattered, Bot

plunging him into from

in the critical: early' obscurity PARENT ness of a

he has powerful news- "Fozlish boy, Sonia smiled be shuttling across the ente speaks, when he rises at any the Philippines: Roosevelt,

Yet, lightly though he He was then In

paper backers, Sulzberger, of

controller of the great New inscrutably and patted my in-an-hour Escaping-h

draws meeting he face, leaving a sear I carry to waves should then bo

свах

York Times, is rooting for him. very pleased with So is Mrs Ogden Reld of, the though never But what of the presidential P this day. "Then I will reveal to you what happened when 1 election which

given him him, thought he was too valuable Hereld Tribund.. brought

has writing

to lose and decided to move him → For he has writion was posing as a discreetly dis here? 1 can only report that power?

whose rise to out almost

peir An eldes Interesting proof in the last hour surse,

power tracting district

today's flare-up in Britain over very dull book recently, yet sold ese the Korea bombing seems to be it

Hoover's secret la escape was possible.

Is. widely.

If Roosevelt had left him as the right marloge. Sulzberger of the importance of making. causing more exeltement and pretty much

as he well have done, for to

might

heads the Times because he the restiveness in to public popularity by a wave troops is difficult MarAthur Britain over Korea is likely to of Big Business sentiment rather would have spent

Mrs Reld because she married the rest of the bring considerable changes. than by exceptiortel qualities. the war in a Japanese concentra-

boss himself. tion camp.

But at least no one can say Roosevelt spared him that and Himself lacked benent from the that in Mrs Reid's ease the boss MacArthur's final night dash

for in shaping the from telling Corregidor, In a

marriage,

sald

she

"Calling myself Nurse · Foll- potts, and with forged referen

ces from Dr Thur Mometta, I went to nurse Sir Baker Holl, the Invalid millionaire."

London's notorious crimo queen took a deep drog at her calabash. She coughed through

cloud of black smoke-

soon vamped his

loater son Jem into helping me stent the rare Old Master (Whistler's Mother-In-Law) hanging on wall of the library, where Sir Baker sat in his wheel- chair.

the

a

"Sir B. always gave himself sleeping Injection by hypo

dermic syringe. That night I

the

substituted, in place

me

Immense.

tho ZRITIC

discussion than the election. Eisenhower's. He has been lifted take a general from his beaten married the boss's daughter, and

I think

THE LAST GIRL

TO LEAVE ALY'S

PARTY Lovely Lise stays

till the dawn

From SYDNEY SMITH

Paris.

}

And France's nest soldier and

harmless dope of bilge-waterTHE most exclusive and only mardal, Alphonse and tomato juice, a abolical most expensive party table, which

secret drug.

"It knocked the old, boy but like a clip on the jaw. Ho wouldn't come round for a cou- ple of hours,

Бей- попз.

of the Paris summer

given by Aly Khan, son, ended at 4.46

The first birds were stir- ring and the sky was Sonia went cn: "Qulekly brighter than the crystal

the slipped the Old Master to Jem, chandeliers in

res-

who was skulking in the scultaurant among the trees of lery. Oft he went to Ivor

Frame, the crooked art dealer. the Bois de Boulogne, on

I cleaned the hypodermic and the outskirts of Paris, when the cunningly put, just a spot the last two people left. et the usual injection into the syringe. Then placed it be They were Aly Khan him-

self and lovely side Sir Baker.

Bourdin, France's No. 1 cover giri.

"When the poilee arrived," Sonia continued, "I told them

how I had found my l

who must have givoň

an extra large injection,

Ex-

:

Lisa

This was the biggest party

Juln

cap

small boat accompanied by his Vola Tribune the grey was

wife and, Young, zon, Willi live always as one of the dramas of the ware

Then sacked

the- batter horse.

She is a woman who is widely admired in London as well as In New York and who enjoys thoroughly the great distinction and enormous power that she has created for herself.

There one notable news TACARTHUR gave Roosevelt paper potentato who has Moor trouble afterwards forsaken the Waldorf Towers transferred to Ike-Roy and Truman too-until he was and

boss of the dramatically sacked from Tokyo, Howard, supreme

Yet, in spite of it all, Mac Scripps-Howard chain. Arthur for D

His defection is a heavy blow lime achieved greater popularity perhaps than to Taft for Howard is not only journalist but a

was at the head of the third

had medel

The Duchess of Windsor was there in u white off-the- any general. Now the election a first rate

houlder dress,will decide finally his future and powerful politician. Across It was the measure of his political

great scarlet power.

pinned

with rubles.

One other difference between

i in

Peacock

is small peacock of a man, the

and vigous in spite

of his years, and known through-

out the world, for a curious

and

The Begum Hoover and MacArthur is worth Aga Khan was noting. Hoover has never been there, and

the in the divorce court. He is one Jewelled Maha- of those men whom it

of conceivable ever to regard as sartorial quirk-his shirts, ties ranees Baroda and likely to be there. But Mac-

in Arthur was divorced Lise Bourdin Jaipur.

from his Garis.

first wife and has married a made of the same material.

Ho is fond of Bahing. Fisher- Paris rockety women.

second time. eyed for signs of

Indeed, it was at the rather men are a race apart.

They are convinced that the mature age of 42 that romance golden philosophy of life can Σ heartl ong 'woman guest swept, the soldier off his feet only be born sitting quietly with

eagle "remance,"

married

and

stream.

handkerchiefs are always

arid Aly has yet given for his an- watched Aly Khan dancing. the pleture missing. Obviously, nuat celebration of the Grand the thieves stole it while Sir Prix race at Longchamy, just a say: "But, my dear, he dances for the first time! Baker was unconscious. I showmile away.

with every woman as though His bride of 48 was Louise rod in bond by the side of a

could Cromwell, a or them the hypodermic

There were 180 guests, and she is the only one he

a dark-eyed, wealthy possibly love how can yi plaining that was exactly how if lasted eight hours.

That certainly is how Roy beauty who had already Society found

beon it

divorced. Howard sees it, and he has been The Aga Khan, defying doc- tell?” Once mure Sonia shed a re-tor's orders in whicel-chair.

Paris 80 successful, maybe hè.is right, Well-partner Lorraine Du Getting her decree in morseful lear. "But I went and presided at a table decorated

But Eisenhower may well havo › bonnet, 23-year-old wing just after the first war ended, made

that Ally

mistake with a model in lace of Long- heiress, left

and went to on uneasy recollection that com well before

the she came home

It must be to have of those forting as again.

champ racecourse. +

stars began to pale, Singer West Point: for one

week end The Duke of Windsor, In A Dany Dauberson flew

dates,

Influential such But, of course, YOU have.

support, the straight romantic

havo already spotted Sonia's slip, Amidnight blue dinner Jacket, back to the Soulh. But 27-year-popular at the military academy. newspapers of America plance at the picture may help presided at

Handsome, much second table, de- old Lise Bourdin, who stayed

decorated, proved to be on the wrong side you spot the clue. Or turn to corated with models of Eliza till sunrise, is sill in Faris. MacArthur proposed to her that in the political fights o Rittle too

often in recent years,, Pave 10.

bethan warships..

first night. "Of course he did,' ~London Exprees Service)

JOHNNY HAZARD

BECAUSE YOU FLÁTTER. SO NICELYA KEEP THE CHANGE,

MOTHER!

MERCI BEAUCOUP

AHA-WHEN IN FRANCE," DO LIKE A FRENCHMAN! SIT DOWN WITH A DEMI- TASSE AND WATCH - THE

WORLD GO BY!Ó

By Frank Rabbing

AND GITTING AT A TABLE THERE...

JUST TEN MINUTES

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