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"The enemy is signalling that, someone in our outfit isn't using blanks, sir”

Who is

this

guy

from nowhere?

Washington. pulted him into this Democratic

HE remark "I some- nomination to succted Truman?

times marvel at the extraordinary docili ty with which Americans submit to speeches" is not, one might suppose, the sort of indis-

Stevenson Insisted-honestly. that he did not want the job; then when it was pressed him, he voiced his doubts fears about his own qualica- tions to cope with it.

..

A thicket of paradox

PERSONALITY

NEWS

on and

#PROFILE

RM MacCOLL

TEEN and

cretion which a presidential provided by the candidate in the United his story in the American scene. States should allow himself His very presence in the Gov- if he is to have any great crnor's mansion of Mid-Western Isolationist Illinois (the chance of success at the and

State which sprawls around polis.

Chicago) is incongruous.

with He speaks

+

an

-WELL, THE FEW WHO KNOW HIM FIND HIM

A RUTHLESS CHARMER

with an irresistible sense of would make any Bference to humour.

his political fortunes. it has not.

So Ior

London Express Service

for had the ordinary, citizens cheer-

ing at the tops of their voices.

It was that jou of being Stevenson this year he was up which of Illinois

for re-election-quite genuinely wishes to stick to.

Oh yes--perhaps the greatest Hls forebears were well-to-do

Stevenson has a passion aristocrats. Adlai travelled in rarity of all, he writes all his

own speeches.

punctuality and always carries had Europe as a boy and

An example of Stevenson's two watches to make sure excellent education, winding up

deadpan humour cultured at the famous Law School of when, back in the thirties, his Harvard young Ad!al worked on

occurred For time after leaving Governor But the Act remains that Adlai Stevenson, the 52 year old "Eastern" accent, completely Harvard University.

kome was burned down. A the Bloomington, Illinois, Pan Governor of the State of Blinols, different from those of his

Lagraph, a newspaper owned by and the Democratic Party's cholco fellow Mid-Westerners. He is

his family. urbane. to win over Dwight Eisenhower witty,

He slops no in November (who is at presen backs, kisacs no bables. getting delighted Americans to "submit" to his own speeches at the rate of two or three a day). is a hot favourite to win,

To get where he has, Steven

san has broken nearly every one

NOT 'FOLKSY'

HE sternly refuses

And it. politicions.

to--com- promise but instead goes of the hallowed rules of the after corruption and pulverises professional

fractures Is the first of these that, as far as the great mass of Americans is concerned, he is almost as unknown as he is to people over in Britain,:

Who is the guy? Where did he spring from? What magle cata-

THE

Rags to riches? Born in a log cabin? Nothing of the sort. His like bim grandfather, called Adla!, was a Vice-President of the United States under Presi- dent Grover Cleveland.

BOY

I'LL

FIND

EVERY evening the little

boy would listen en-

tranced to the stories, his.

father told him of Troy and Ancient Greece.

"But nobody knows whore Troy stood," his father would say afterwards.

then

the

爨

All in all Stevenson is a very rare man in American publle life.

Stevenson is divorced now. It happened in 1949, after 20 years of apparently happy mar-

three sons. riage and

THE NOD

not

His annual Income of $50,000 friend commiserated. (£17,857; most of it from Stevenson shrugged, picked private sources) is not at all up a smouldering fragment of

In the last war he was. 8 folksy, nor is his brooding de- woodwork and lit his cigarette special assistant to "America's Navy, And tachment and tendency to criti- with it, remarking as he did so, Secretary of the

IN response to the first tenta

tive approaches about the cise and even mock at himself. As you can sco, we are still came into contact with Pre-

using the house."

sident Roosevelt, who liked him. Democratic nomination for Uto presidency, he explained that He did a workmanlike job of he had good deal of “unfinish- Press and Public Relations in od business to attend to là dily of copital He is an honest reformer who

San Francisco, during the con- Springfield (the There ference which started up UNO, Enol and, while please Is not a "breast beater"'; an was no scandți, small publicity, and Inter worked for UNO in to think him presumptuous, he instinctive Liberal who does not and the two have remained on London's Grosvenor Squaro. felt that he ought to finish one believe in chucking money amicable terms.

job before embarking Start of his trail to an extra- ether. But America, which has never ordinary triumph in polities around (he has bought just one new suit-a flannel job-in the had divorce in the White

aroused the But evenka proved too much It came when past four years); an intellectual House, wondered whether Interest of shrewd, bution-

for him. Through the simmer -bright little Jake Arvey, chair- the pressure built up, as the De- man of the Cook County Demo- mocrats came to see more and cratic Committee and an almost more clearly that Stevenson was unstoppable force in Illinois the man who stood out head and shoulders above the ruck with politics.

the best chance, of beating the Eisenhower throat.

WHO SAID: TREASURE

By James Leasor

He hired 100 workers, gave blood and tears, the ornaments

the time

Be from scholars

But

Vasea

ruin

had

At 30 he was a millionaire. He and again a city of the living the

dug from

Grecka

on an

+

I watched Arvey and Steven- son together last July on a rear-

And 50, without lifting a Ing, crazy night in

Chicago finger to campaign, Stevenson it when the Democratic Conven was who in the end, got the nod tion had just nominated Steven- at Chicago. son for President,

and you

graver who studied archaeology should have seen the smalle on in his spare time, and got a Job Arvey's face.

as assistant in the Egyptian- Assyrian acction of the Britis Museum,

The two ends 'practically met at the nape of his neck.

HIS TRIUMPH come from cx-

open-mouthed

ard

and then

NO PROPHET

WHAT are his chances on

BECAUSE organised fabour instinctively turns towards the Democrats.

Balled for Greece to keep his Soltolans." (Gollanez & Sidgwick Rok, Bald Schliemann: "All stance started the legendyer they could, if he won Instruct, ties in the big eities, who follow.

November 47 After wint happened four yours ago I wil not prophesy, but merely roport, them shovels, and told them to of a godlike people, buried for

He was studying some tablets

Nearly everyone I talk with is dig. They dug for two years. 3,000 years until

cavators,

translate trying to Schliemann waited, enduring under the ruined walls of seven there that had

convinced that Stevenson: will fevers, labour troubles, and all vanished kingdoms."

what is now known as the

JHEN 'Arvey first suggested win. Not only because he is a Schilemaan believed this was Gilgamesh Eple. barrage of armchair

WE the treasure-trove of Priam, last

Stevenson as Governor of brilliant man, but "I don't believe that," replied

Some of the tablets were linols, the Stato's sensoried the boy. "When I'm big I'll go

BECAUSE of the abiding ap- got amazing results. king of Troy, In fact, it belong- he to Grecce and find Troy and The worlmen found weapons ed to a king 1,000 years before missing. Smith went to meet professional politicocs Arst gaped peal of the Democratic Party,

potamia, found 384 clay tablets, the King's Treasure."

end

and ornaments.. Priam,

•BECAUSE' the Negroes almost The father laughed,

Under one rat enter

Schilemann went on digging, and brought them back. In December, three, years later, Some of them gave a varia-shrugged him off as a scrificial certainly will vote Democrat. boy-- Heinrich appeared;

BECAUSE the farmers who Schliemenn laughed last. Ho

the. graves the Flood.,

Illinois recked with scandals benefited under. Roosevelt, and went to work as a cabin boy, douse was like a tremen- he told the King of Greece ho tion of the Biblical account of lamb to be led to the slaughter.

onion..... Each layer which, according to tradition,

corruption, but nobody Truman-will, too. in An office, then became seemed to have been

inhabited

thobo of Agamemnon

thought that the ''newcomer a merchant.

at a different period... Again

would do anything efféćiva Troy) and Cassandra C. W. Ceram does not ballove about it even if he pulled off taught himself halt a dozen had been raised on a city of the

of Priam)"

in "the curse of the Pharaohs," the victory. languages, travelled to Russia, dead," says C. W. Ceram in hir

The bodies were covered with Says he "If any single-circum- "Gods, to "America. And at 40 he book

Graves, and

The politicians figured that AND BECAUSE grät majcrr- it was the Budden the museums of the world taken probably boyhood promise,

and Jackson, 218.) "

together do

ho was expected to the dictates of the powerful and not have one-fifth death of Lord Carnarvon. When him how

Democratic polition1 Scholars laughed ot him.

oo much."

he 'died (in April 1928), after a behave, allowing them to get efficient They thought of Homer as only

Author Corum points out that three-weeks losing battle with their hands back on the spoils. "machines are thought koly

to stay faithful. anamme of Illum as a lost

many archaeologists were child the effects of a mosquito bite, And then, world; of the Siege of Troy as

But Stevenson! produced a Of prodikzles. Schlieman could people began to talk about

But remember, I don't pro- 'a myth.

the last day of his digging in spook six languages before he punishment viated from the staggering win-he took linole Schlieman took no notice of June 1873, Schlemann saw was in his terms: Champoilion ppirit realm on blasphemers.. by $72,000 votes, a landslide plony, them. He landed in Greece, something that dazzled him.

He, seized his wife by the 1700-1832),"- who folved the Altogether:19 "victimma""; dfed, without precedent in the history I think the wisest thing I cân hired a guide, and rode out, on

*riddin-of the hieroglyphs on tite Ceram believes their deaths of the Stato,

do at this point is to conclude a donkey to have, a look at the arm."Get the workmen out of old stones, had a hobby of poli- End nothing to do with their

then when the dazed with another wise quotation site which some legends con here," he mid urgently. "Send tes at the same age; Sir Funders investigation of the tombs of the And

professionals

began to try to from wise Adial Blavenson: nected with the plain of Troy them homie Tell them any Perie, who apens, na Ufetime, Pharaohs at all...

He reread a copy of Homer, thing, but get them away." among the Pyramide was in- Ho quotes a Getraan profesor move in Stevenson stopped them "Wo in America today cannot which to him was as accurate Schllemann had on the ferested in Egyptian excavations to Egyptology us saykig that the in their tracks, Informed them control our own fate and our of the Pharaoha" that be proposed to run things own future. They are shaped dina militery map, and from its glitter of gold, that the go of ton. (He died tenure descriptiona ho decided that the "It was the golden tresaugo years ago) gen dwat n simply did not exist: "No much his way, and proceeded to go inexorably, to events too rempta seat of ancient Troy was in n of one of the mightiest, Jungs of Thore was, also, the case of thing had over, boon uttered or after corruption with an to perceive too complex to

heidi, Limplacable efficiency which spez (understand,!" village called Hissarlik

pro-history, gathered together in George Smith, a banknote en inscribed."

on the morning