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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST. 13, 1953.

THE GILES FAMILY ON HOLIDAY SAYS 'HURRAH FOR THE SUN'

·THOMAS CLAYTON CALLING FROM CAIRO

NAGUIB

THEM TO

ORDERS

FLAGS

FLY BOTH

OR years Nile steamers plying between El-Shalla!

the Egyptian flag on the bow and the British flag The steamers ply on the rail and on the stern. river route linking Cairo with Khartoum.

13149 Nagull has protested that British skipners of stramere lower the Egyptian dag immediately on leaving El- Shallal and Wadi Half landing jetties.

Say the skippers "Flying the Egyptian flag in the bow position as onlered under the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty obscures vision from the wheelhouse."

Nagull's solution: Fly both tags in the stern.

NAGUIB had one cool reception amild the tumultuous five-

day festivities to celebrate his first year of power.

It was from members of Alexandria's RAC, one of Egypt's most exclusive clubs. In Farouk's time they used y you had in be a member of the royal family or a millionaire to belong in it,

to

Ils reception was, not surprisingly, cool. In the past year he has shirt meinbers of their Pasha and Bey titles, and is now busy carving up their big feudal estates.

Members nevertheless elected Nagulb honorary prešitent. Last president-Farouk, who held many of his high-stake gambling parties at the club. Naguib does not play cards for

money.

Is it a lawsuitor isn't it?

In Cairo, Egyptian Government officials state they are of the city's most valuable planning legal action to lake 44 acres from the Aga Khan.

But an Evian, France, the Aga Khan, now faking a rest cure, says he is not bring sued by the Egyptian Government.

test rarement."

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The land." he says, "is subject to a purely normal Whoever is right, the rumpus is over skyscrapers which didn't rater ise..

The Envptian Government's legal experts claim the Aga Khan got the land dirt cheap on condition that he built skyscraper lats and villas to case Cairo's housing shortage.

None has been built--and now the Government says It ips Information that the Aga Khan is trying to sell some of the plot.

Whether Posent value of the land is about £50,000, the Apa Khan will get his money back if the land is seized. would depend on a court ruling.

WINGER Om Kalsoum, whose Arab-style renderings have made her a millionairess recently, telephoned from America to Cairo to complain that Washington has no mosque.

Now Sheik El Bakhouri, who as Minister of Works administers religious bequests left by Moslems, has promised he will try to carmark money for building a mosque there as roon as possible.

Om Kalcoum, whose records are played daily on the BBC's Arabic programme, is convalescing in America after an

geration.

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POREIGN Minister Malumud Fawal is reported to have Food to merica that Egypt is

of any Big Four meeting.

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NUMBER One complaint by Egyptian ladies of fashion is that currency restrictions limit their purchases of Paris clothes. The allowance permitted by Naguib for holidaying It is only increased on a Government bread is £100. doctor's certificate saying a patient must have medical treat- ment in a foreign country.

The Mountbatten

T

HE Battenberg family

originated a century ago-when Prince

Alexander of Hesse,

serving officer in the Rus-

of

☆

-By-Robert Blake

Mauntbatten, family by

Inheritance

the Inst

and much that is new. His other two wafted him into the world

London Express Service

THE MAN WHO SEEKS

S

INCE Churchill's bid

for

A LAST

Winston

historic top-level

PRIZE

By ALLAN

MURRAY

Government of Stanley Baldwin he was promptly appointed Chancellor

of the Exchequer,

1

its

talks to end the cold visit to his old school. At once vention of the unit in World where he remained from 1824

replied: war, his health has become he

"Jullus Ceasar, War 1, and the Idea of the float till 1929. he-was the most ing "Mulberry Harbour" which a matter of world concern, because

Here his overpowering energy Without its linchpin the magnanimous of all the con- made the Normandy landings

possible in World War II. querors."

and his innbility to fit into machinery of peace making

team foreshadowed: another fail is marking time.

Age has meltowed Winston The Army was his first love, from political grace. Churfhill; his fame is secure, but did not hold him long. Four And, while the world But neither age nor fame has active years as a evahy officer

Baldwin complained that awaits his full recovery, the blunted his zest for controversy. in India were punctuated by when Winston Churchill attend- most controversial figure in He veers between the roles of roving commissions as a news ed a Cabinet, meeting it

been statesman and politician with paper correspondent. His fluent unable to concentrate on British politica has given a new label by his sharpness that often angers his pen had already begun to make proper agenda, since It in-

Behind the Grand Old Socialist opponents. In the critics. 1951 election campaign they Man who has described himself is fortune when he had his fimt variably had to deal

ду a child of the House of painted him.

It was unsuccessful, Defeated monger. Now they hail him Commons there still lurks the

enfant terrible,

In 1899 as a Conservative can- as a peacemaker.

No man is more formidable in didate in a by-election, he turned For the Prime Minister, such debate. None has such mastery again to his pen and went to contrasts are no novelty. In his over the moods of the House. South Africa to cover the Boer long life he has been called And none has a more scrupulous War for a London newspaper. everything from

cynical regard for ils conventions. With- carcerist to the saviour of his out doubt Winston Churchill is

among the greatest parliament country.

arians England has known.

war- a

His parliamentary carcer For more than began in 18VQ. half a century It has unfolded in a dazzling mosale of specta- cular contradictions. Three times it haslain in ruins. Each time he has rebuilt it more massively

then before.

the

him 40 years Prime Minister,

Not Easily

is only

made his name as an author.

of Commons since

shot at politics,

with an

extremely clever memorandum Churchill had, submitted on the work of some department other than his own.

Successive Prime Ministers steered clear of the same dim- culty. For ten years Winston Churchill was out of office, kill He returned 殖器 a.celebrity he sprang again into the lime- after a spectacular escape from light in 1939. imprisonment by the Boers. Once again he stood for Parliament, this timo successfully. The General Election of 1000 carried him into the House of Commons as a Conservative, and his stormy political passage had begun.

ono

Loses Seat

TE

man

remained a Liberal for 20 years. Ironically enough, the now accused by the Socialists of undermining the

Prime Minister

NCE more he was inade First

of the Admiraliy

O Lord

repeat itself. The failure of

50

leader-

THAT is not the least of his personal triumphs. For as a of debate did not come easily to sides. In a dramatic gesture the Neville Chamberlain's appease young man, the cut and thrust Four years later ho changed But the personal history did not him. His themes were always rebellious backbencher, who had ment policy warmed the coun In his eventy-ninth-year, the compelling, but his delivery was become a thorn In the flesh of try to the restless genius who:

hours of practice the Conservative leaders, crossed since 1932 had been warning it Long poor. pattern nears completion. And were needed to develop

the the floor of the House to join that "Britain's hour of weakness it presents some astonishing

measured style and the flashes the Liberal Party on the Oppoвl- Is Europe's hour of danger." contrasts.

of devastating repartee for en benches, happy man. His wife died only three years after their marriage. His oratory is spell-binding, which he is famous.

The man and the hour had His only daughter, Maud, to yet he has lost moro elections

at last come together. On May But the now accomplished whom he was devoted, died in than any other politician. He

Germars 10, 1910, as

troops parliamentarian 1011 The death of King Ed-har-alled-inore Cabinet-posts facet of a many-sided per

streamed... into Holland, Klag George VI sent for Winston five the new countries of America. Ward deprived him of his social than any of his contemporaries, sonality. It Winston Churchill

him for the new Court but it took influence,

10 His had never embarked on a poll

Churchill and asked sian army, eloped with one short blographical sketches. Asia and Africa in

surveyed the favourites of

become

form a Government. late King with a frosty glance. brilliance has been a byword in tical career he would still have the Tsarina's wards, The subjects of three of these quarter of the 19th century.

By the 1880s the rigid arista In the 1814-18 war. Cassel, ke

Never had. Britain been The House Countess von Hauke, daugh- sketches-Prince Louis, his son

barriers

of Victorian Prince Louis of Battenberg, was his first speech there or a snub- His pen is as powerful as his Welfare State, was responsible solidly behind a Prime Minister. Flemish descent and Polish of Edinburgh-are well known, England were beginning to col- most unjustly accused of being nosed, red-headed youth of 28. oratory;; Into his books ho has for the introduction of old age. And never did a Prime Minister ter of a Russian general of, Earl Mountbatten, and the Duke cratic

But if he had died before the spilled a wide knowledge of pensions and other progressive rise so superbly to the of Never

a very genial person, age of 60, he would have left his history which nationality. By permission Connell does not tell us lapse. Cassel's great wealth 500n a pro-Gomm

he mastered measures sponsored by a Liberal ship of his country. of "proilles" are of persons who saclety. In 1898 he attained the he grew monose and forbidding mark dot as a statesman but not at school, where he was Government before the first war. All Winston Churchill's gifts of the Grand Duke

summit of social ambition,

His private secretary

considered a dunce, but by avid

his flair for Ideas, his sense of Hesse the offspring of their are not of Battenberg, blood at

reading when he was a young His contribution to World history. all-Sir Ernest Cassel, and his succeeded Baron Maurice de that in a period of eight years only as a brilliant rebel.

his knowledge of. morganatic marriage were all

and he only thanked her three times, Lady Mount Hirsch as private banker

Army subaltern.

War I was brief but sensational. strategy, granddaughter,

and his boundless allowed to take the nume

Their story 14 bation.

less financial adviser to the Prince

of Wales. family familiar.

His writings have brought him Appointed First Lord of the vitality-were thrown into the of Battenberg-a

Admiralty in 1911, he was one of a substantial fortune. And his extinct since the 14th cen- Sir Ernest Cassel was born in

ment who foresaw hostilities tury.

1852, the son of a small-scale

When victory came in 1945, IN fact, he has spent three talent for painting, which he the very few mon in the Govern rugzle for victory. Jewish moneylender in Cologne.

quarters of his life fighting the exercises only as a solace at with Germany. When they broke the country turned him out of

refreshment," his been de From this marriage descend. At the age of 16 he emigrated

Socialist Prince Louis of Battenberg, his in Liverpool. He died in 1921 symbolised the change that was £1% million went on trust to leaders of the very Conservative scribed by a famous artist as out in 1014, he was praised for office and installed a

having the British Ficot ready Government. Not till 1951 hig granddaughter, Edwina Party he now heads.. Twice he

extraordinary, Earl Mountbatten

leaving one

he achieve his lifelong ambition of the largest coming over society. He

for action.. overy party in turn fins

of leading his party to Cassel

power association with and Burma, and the Duke of Edin- fortunes ever to be accumulated devoted to pleasure and enjoyed Ashley, who in 1922. continued has changed his party colours,

coldier It was, however, as a burgh.

who the the company a shugle generation.

of persons

by marrying Lord deeply distrusted him. Yet when that he first hoped to make his

months later he was in a General Election. A few war came he was unanimously Ile was perhaps the greatest were rich and amusing, what- Royalty

mark. Asked

schoolboy held responsible for the fallure

In that campaign he declared: or financier of his day, the

very ever their social or racial origin. Louis Mountbatten.

The distinguished couple, chosen to lead all parties in a what profession he wanted to of the Gallipoli landings. Curtly Admittedly there is no evi- epitome of that class of inter-

enjoying in those days an in- Coalition Government.

"This is the last big prize I seek Cassel was ever whose ehor- dence that

But his to win" there he sapped from the

passionate so long MANIFEST DESTINY, by Brian national bankers

of tax, wore

have mous investments Connett (Castell 13.)

opened

up musing but he was fabulously come estimated by Mr Council

These contradictions are the nighting to be hind. When that's in'e the political shadows. Today concern with ideas may at £50.000 clear rich, and, as Mr Connell de-

many agree that if the Gallipoli put a bigger and more splendid social whirl in the 1920s.

politics."

attempt had been staged on the prize within his grasp. World. scale Winston Churchill wanted, peace is an elusive goal. But the war would have been won there has never been a

imaginative or experienced ap- in 1915,

proach to current problems Winston Churchill's hid By the end of the war he was than back in office as Minister ot to end the cold wor. was full of political frustra-

son,

of

in

Mr Connell's book illustrates

the rise of the Battenberg,

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A Court figure The future King Edward VII

Was

The end of the war brought

him a brief Indian summer, but te died in 1921. He left a for- tune of approximately £74 million.

Of this enormous sum, about

Chosen To Lead

of course,

adopt, he replied: "The Army, dismissed from the light

puts 16 W Frificent at the very centre of London's hallmarks of a fierce partisanship over I shall We d

"addicted to forms

usc

When

The lost tax Yet all this galety left in Lady Mountbatten's mind Connell tells us,

GO

and a mind which is fascinated- by, great issuos and broad trends,

have shot

+

First Love

at

Winston Churchill has always Mr followed ideas rather than men, vold that And home policies have never

appealed to him as much as the HIS early background explains Munitions. But the next decade.

Born in the course of world affairs. On the this choice. challenges and opportunities of Victorian heyday of 1874, Wins- tions. At the General Election

was the son of foreign polley he has never ton Churchill

Wos at a low country hesitated to take a fasd, And Lord Randolph Churchill, whose of 1922, his popularity in the once his stand is taken, he is political brillance made him Losing his scat, he was out of closely- Chancellor of the Exchequer in Parliament for the next two never at a loss for

his early thirties, But his, too, reasoned arguments to support was a rebellous' brilliance. Be years,

it.

fore he died at 45 hơ had already thrown away all chance of further. advancement.

eyes

cbb.

Masterly

CHARACTERISTICALLY,

threw. himselt into tho

ho

of which required in a gentleman

ol

the honour

short to produce at: ability notice large sums in cash, could

to good purpose the

the advice of a financial expert of proven she seemed unable to " In judgment and integrity."

the 1930s she began to move Queen Victoria

died leftwards, and to entertain "an Cassel

became a key figure in increasing roster of Labour the new Court. King Edward, lenders and other exponents of on one occasion, asked

more advanced social philoso- Marquis de Soveral, the phles" How for her changed Portuguese ambassador, whether views influenced Lord Mount- he had ever seen The Impor- batten no one can say, but he, tance of Being Earnest. "No, too, moved in the same direc- Sir." replied the ambassador, tlon.

In Parliament this trait often "but I havo Been the Impor

What would Sir Ernest Cassel, brought the young Churchill into or for that matter Prince Louis collision with his Party leaders. tance of being Ernest Cassel."

of Battenberg, have thought, if Once as

His meteoric carcer· opened. a brash young back-

his won's to the fame that they had known that their des-bencher: he provoked an CX-

orator. But cendants were to preside over asperated Minister to remark: Window's father was his in task of writing about events

awaits the The heyday of. Camel's pro- the liquidation of the British "One might as well try

spiration, his idol was an early, ho could perity had, now arrived, Ho Empire in India?

no longer, I argue ancestor, the first Duke of Mari... bought Brook House, an in-

And what would Sir Ernest rebuke a brass band.”,

about in Parliament. The This zealous championship of aved

borough, whose military genius meho mansion in Park Lane. have thought of the action taken

World Europe from Eight hundred tons of Italian by the Socialist Government ideas accounts for many of his domination 250 years ago,

French Cult

Crisis," marble were Imported to lino 1949 when it passed an Act

In the political gray,

analysis its walls, including those of its whose principal object was to reverses,

the knight in shining armour has provisions of Soften

Fascinated by Marlborough's which six kitchens. The dining-room, break the

been unhorsed. But

exploits...the young Winston-timo described panelled in oak, could scat 100 Ernest's own will preventing bitterness, has no place in his Churchill squired knowledge brilliant autobiography, guests. The house was packed his granddaughter from anti-

temperament. Long perioda of

of of strategy, which has coloured as 's history of the with a tasteless profusion of art cipating her trust Income?

carned not have unpopularity have perplexed every phase of his prodigious Completed in 1928, treasures, Jade, porcelain, sliver. Perhaps he would

but never borno carret,

him £20,000, which he spent and Old Masters

minded. After all, the effect him. But he

buying Chartwell, his Yet behind this opulent and, was to deprive the Inland Re- his opponents a grudge.

This is shown by his authors country house in Kent. it must be admitted, nomewhat venue of some £25,000 a year,

The same absence of rancour up. vulgar facade there existed a and financiers who leave £7

his statesmanship,

Meanwhile he had returned strange emptiness. A

million are not in general wall infuses Cassel had little real pleasure disposed to the Inland Revenue."Which figure in history would Of more than 30 books ho hag tú Parliament, no longer as a usually you have liked to be other than written, 29 deal with word angeet; Liberal, but to make his peace in the treasures that his money Socialista, of course,"

In the youredl£?! he was naked on a of war: Hei: Inspirech, too, the in with the Conservatives. could buy. He was never, a take a different view.

He grew morose

10

on

was "The

́à masterly strategic

.of

World..

a, statesman

病

Wor: I

of the Winston's

did

mono

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

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