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SEVEN TALKS

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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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WHAT SHE TEACHES Commencing Sunday 16th November for SEVEN SUNDAYS

Each Sunday 6.00 to 6.45. p.m.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1952.

DON IDDON'S POST-ELECTION DIARY.

Ike Isn't A Captive Of Any Man Or Group

New York. r turns out that every one I know was abso lutely convinced Dwight Eisenhower was going to win all the time and by a landslide. It appears that they have been. telling me this for months, insisting poor Adlai Steven- son hadn't a chance

and was wasting his time run- ning.

and

The curious thing is that I have no recollection of my friends telling me any- thing of the sort. I do re- member, of course, telling everyone 1 know that it was a certainty for Eisenhower and that Stevenson would get massacred, but, strange- ly, my friends don't remem- ber these confident forecasts either.

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What is obviously not realised sweep, A Jesser man than from the batilo with great the Repub- prestige. Ho fought a magni- is that Eisenhower had to unite Elsenhower, and his party, the Republicans, make dicans might have been in sack- fleent them form ranks and get behind cloth and ashes again. him to win a great victory.

I don't think we

campaign. Thero has rarely been a more literate, scholarly, eloquent man in poll-

It was Ebenhower's original ties than Adlai Stevenson. It cite will have much reason

or anyone hope to be above party, and pos- was he who was the first to pay to sibly to win nemination by the tribute to the man who rolled the complain. When I toured with acclamation of both Republicans landslide over him. Eisenhower heard him and Democrats. That hope to vanished. Eisenhower and Stevenson's career In nasional over and over again: "Isola- Gight hard for nomination, had and international polities hag tlonism Is decd. It's finished, to fight hard in the compaigning, just begun. As an enlightened It's no longer an issue. We need

Leader of the Opposition he will

BAY

the rest of the world and wo To roy that he's a captive of be an asset to competent govern- need it desperately. Without it any man or group is nonsente, ment In Washington. The DC- to have we could not survive." He said There were no deals, tricks, or mocrats are fortunate

play. lke won on his him. Eisenhower would have this in New York and he sold it double in Pittsburgh. He shouted it in own warm, glowing personality. annihilated a lesser man. As

He hit the bull's-eye when he is, he has won a mighty triumph

calls not Albany, Buffalo, Chicago,

for British Middle West, and the Far West. made Korea the major issue of which

British but the campaign-which, it was. He suspicions was greatly asalted by the gratulations. people's weariness with a, party

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May visit Europe

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which had been 220 years in Footnote: How much better office and had grown tired and to vote behind the cloth curtain possibly corrupt; he capitalised than Live behind the iron one.. on the people's resentment over high taxes, and high prices; but this was the real victory.

Big problems

cannot accept Stevenson's charge that Eisenhower trim med his views according to his stographical position. It is true he allied himself with Taft, but without Thi the Republican campaign would probably have You forgive this rather been crippled. Eisenhower in lighthearted approach to accustomed to marshalling

the irritating and outdated sorts of forces to win battles. ONCE he assumes office (after the aftermath of the Presi- this habit and his nature, interregnum of two months) he dential Election, but almost and he followed both in this faces big problems. The Senate is only Republican by a two-vate everyone here is not only campaign,

margin, so there сап be na lighthearted but lighthead-

With the victory won he will steamroller legislation. except ed,

not be sitting down with Sena- perhaps during the traditional 1or Joseph McCarthy or stroll- haneymoon, And he will be tak- ing down Michigan Boulevard ing over leadership of a nation with Colonel McCormick. which has a penetrating fear of

a recession, even a depression.

The financial writers today are saying that whoever had won

or Eisenhower Stevenson

Passion is spent

WE have been so dazed by non-stop television that we are myopic, and grope uround town blindly, are shaken

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SUBJECTS

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The New Deal and the Fair

President-elect Elsenhower and his wife pictured at 'London Airport this summer before he went home to campaign actively for the election. Ike is still wearing the uniform Allied Powers in Europe. of Supreme Commander,

MAMIE, AMERICA'S NEW FIRST LADY

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By Newell Rogers

HE greets people with an affectionate "H" and until now has said: "Just call me Mamie" this new First Lady of the land, Mamie Doud Eisenhower.

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and

She speaks rapidly, smiles She likes orange juice ready, gestures generously and eggs and bacon for breakfast, # bursts out frequently with "My sandwich or salad for lunch, Godfrey."

chicken or steak for dinner. She says that in the While She will find a use for Tru- House it will be only more of man's White House plano - ear for her own army she plays by the same, of being on officer's wife "Just 11 case of amusement only. playing the wife again, entertain-

She has no hobbles or special

talents,

Her

favourite pastime

with her

three

She has a great talent for

baby-sitting husband there than she has She likes people and parties, She since their return

from also likes quiet rather than the Grandchildren, David 4, Bar

bara Anne 3, Suson Elaine, radio and T. V. She has never France.

nine months, whose father mode a speech, does not pretend Major John Eisenhower, is in to know politics, and dislikes

Korea, . pubHeily.

She

What the British can. expect the Eisenhower Ad- ministration is the utmost operation, aid, and understand

She looks forward to the ing people and meeting people." ing. It wouldn't surprise me in would have had to grapple with We the least if Elsenhower makes a failing-off in trade, a slumplet. White House for one basic

Journey to Europe after great wind has blown. All trip to Koren. He believes in Eisenhower plans to meet this reason to see more of her friendship and warm-heartedness,

decline with passion is spent. The vast personal, on-the-spot study, In- threatened

Ho Government which will have spection, and consultation. silence, with the campaign is likely to be as much out of strong representation of business oratory over and polling re- the White House as in it during men. turns no longer screaming his term of office.

She is fair, with laugh- What is certain is that he Deal rode the wave of power ing blue eyes, and her

hostile and suspicious to business brown hair is greying, She Truman's, bridge club in the born.

She will replace, Mrs Bess Only a ferocious little Cabinet of the highest calibre, bog and 1tle.

Eisenhower is 56 today. She tries to White House with double deck band of Radicals retain There will be no "government enters the White House with

to Canasta sessions. She would ROSE AND GREEN their energy.

They stalk by crony in Washington, as business's blessing. And judging shun sweets and cakes

vate, the keep her weight at 9 st. rather play Canasta than cat. will be men such as Paut Holl- biggest in history, he has the 12lb. She is 6 ft 4 in. tali. Manhattan muttering: there sometimes has been. There by his huge popular

She made close friends

· She

married Lieutenant "Watch out for the apple man (and we have no greater, blessing of millions of union

Canasta playing Ruth Butcher, Dwight Eisenhower on July 1, sellers. Get ready for the more sincere friend than Hoff- members too, if not of the unions

HAIR IN BANG wife of Elsenhower's wartime 1916, But the man), Thomas E. Dewey, Harry themselves.

aido in Britain, and Mary soup kitchens."

Cabot Lodge, John Foster

She is thrifty with a dollar, a American sensible, sane

Allen. Dulles. Eisenhower

She has pick

It is the arrogant Labour

worn her hair in a Allen, wife of George

on army Janbit learned

pocis, bosses, the union chieftains, who bang for 30 years "because 1 (Allen, a business to called often buys clothes by mail, and Rev. Fr. A. O'llar: S.J. isn't taking these chilling and choose as be wishes,

prophecies doo seriously.

took the beating last Tuesday, have a very high forehead and rank and Ale. they cut it up." She has a "pert"

nose and short upper tip. Stevenson himself admits this.

Nov. 10, What Religion means to us Rev. Fr. T.J. Sheridan, SJ. "What', think yo of Christ?" Rev. Fr. T.F. Ryan. S.J. What is the Catholic Church? Rev. Fr. A. Birmingham, S.J. Dec. 7 Does God help you?

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Why Seven Sacramenta?

The Mass.

Catholic Life and Practice. (Marriage, Priesthood, Confession, etc.)

Rev. Fr. RW. Gallagher. 8.3. -toy. Fr. T.J. Sherlian, S..

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to Catholic Approach Modern Problems.

TPV Fr. Atansfeld, 5.7.

Answers to Questions about the Catholic Church and

its teaching will be given.

I would say that this is a well land today, happy

results satisfied with the

Aftor cach talk groups will be conducted round the of the election, looking for- Church and Vostry.

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Stop carping

THE attitude of some

of

the British, às report- ed here, nonplusses and rather hurts our friends. My next-door neighbour waved

of the copy a New York Times in front

will surround himself with

His

cou

not the union

been victory has tremendous personal triumph. If you study the results you will see that it was the General, not the party, which macie the great feated

The gifted leader of the de- Democrats emerges

White House Jeater" be

of

'was alone when her Doud Dwight Was

son first

cause he could make his old handles the family finances, triend President Truman roar She likes black; dark blue, or at jokes. Now he probably will

green dresses "because gayer colours don't do a thing for me." Eisenhower

She also loves drilly pink knitted bed-jackets.

She uses pale nail varnish and be often at the White House to

President make Uttle make-up.

roar.)

The Old Masters Were Given A Star Look

From WILLIAM HAMSHER

Luebeck. Now let Lother Malskatt, re- ONG-HAIRED art fugee from East Prussia, him

how he hoodwinked. self tell critics, bishops, archi- the art critics.

of my face this morning and police of half-a-dozen Ger Herr Malskatt lives on an said: "I don't get it -- man cities are probing what

what's wrong with them

Reems to be a long series of over there?" The New York Times headlines said: forgeries in paint:

island, a hermit among woods blong the Soviet Zone border, up by Luebeck.

"I was 23 at the time," ho declared. "It was my first big job. I found a few scratches, which thought could be faked up into the pattern of t· feather- ed turkey.

the

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"Again the critics hailed it as discovery of work five hundred years old.

"Traces of work 500 years "Even when somebody argued "Britons Nervous About!

They are being helped by old?" said Herr Malakatt to me that turkeys weren't known Eisenhower. They're Less!

after I had reached him by Europe until Columbus found Sure About Him as a Poli- an artist's confession that terrying across a marsh in his some in Amerien, they said

between "producing" leaky boat. "So they say. May these critics that Nordle

Ger- ticlan Churchill Sends in

Rembrandts and other nuc be there were a few scratches mans must have brought back Congratulations."

earlier explora- tioneers gems he restored to be scen. But what I found turkey from

was mostly blank wall. I was tions. paintings I said: "I wouldn't worry damaged

pictures. I in told to fill it with too much about that all churches by dubbing, in did." the British, with ↑ few portraits of film stars - possible exceptions, like Ike, which he then cracked and and events will prove it." chipped and discoloured till

they looked centuries old.

"But it was all my own work. So far as I am concerned, there never was any turkey' on any wall."

On another "restoration" job When he wanted a model. Herr Malskait took to pro- Malskatt took along a postcard dusing "old masters." "It all if portrait of Hansi Knoteck, the came so easy," he explained.

of Bavarian flim comedies. And

But there has been a flow of dispatches' from Britain, But now it seems as and Europe as 1 whole, the police, not the art ex- about Eisenhower's deals perts, will have the last and disappointments, und, word.

if I may make a suggestion this is a good time to stop carping and complaining. Dwight Eisenhower is still

pert, shapely "blonde Gretchen The man who is alleged to with an rppropriate hair-style, have marketed these

finds L

he painted Hans! on the wall of Two'tog trial. And dealers with customers all over Europe ema the choir.

in America are searching their slockstar Old Masters Other figures, oo, he supplied by Malakatt. Wall acratches "When I was short of saints I

Schleswig and Zue- worked from old pictures, tom beck are being examined under into it,

from books. I just painted in the microscope also, When they raided Rasputin--the mad monk of the German Czar'a court-and Genghis port, in 1942, fiery frag- Klum, the Mongol scourge br ments ignited the thirteenth God. All with haloes."

The RAF come

the same Ike, the man who led the Western World to too. victory, the great, good Luebeck, North friend, of Britain.

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1952 GILES ANNUAL

He thinks that over the years,

famous

stock will be limited. At that time the experts pro- fenth century, just brought to fession read like

century St Mary's Church. The work finished, the 700th "I just find to get all this off The heat flaked off coatings anniversary of the church was my chest to free my conscience," on the walls of the choir celebra ed with pomp and cere sald Herr Malskatt. which had accumulated mony. Chancellor Adenauer and through the centuries. And group of top. German officiis, he has produced "scores, and were there, . and everybody ad= "cores" of paintings which have

to attributed cleaning-up brought to light mired the wall paintings. They been fragments of murals. schoed the critics' judgment artista.

that was all fine work, four- The names listed in his con- a picture nounced judgment. "Five hun- perfecilon by a 1tle restoration, dealer's catalogue Renoir,

Picasso Degar, Matisse,

and dred years old, at least" they said. "Fino work."

Then Miskuté told me, the many others. story of the turkey which ho So if you have a Rembrandt So it was decided to restaro said he drew on the wall of in the house, better, tako thom.

Schleswig Cathedral,

closer look at it.

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She chooses, VOSO and" green her favourite colours for and likes to decorate

She gets along easily with rooms,

other women an art learned furniture with yellow for mun- an army posts with army wives, light. Her White House bedroom She is not, according to herself, will be mauve when she moves as good a cook as her husband, there next January, but not. for whose charcoal-broiled steaks long.

with

butter and garlic sauce are famous,

She makes an English type cigarette. She drunk old-

She will see, that there is a fashioneds (Bourbon whisky, White House kitchen nook where orange peel bitters, water and.

until her doctor asked he can make his equally famous ice),

aga vegetable soup.

her to quit a few months after he heard a heart murmur.

She will revivò Sunday night suppers in the White House an unbreakable army post

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