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From the Twenties to the Thieties-Laity Diana spans a polițlear age, DONALD EDGAR charts the career of a man who wanted to be Premier

HIS is the story of a so no longer....F. S. Oliver de Gaulle very dimeult and un-

T man who wanted to says that the great statesman helpful. He talked as though he

must have a passion for power, were

Stalin and

Le Prime Minister, I don't think I have any desire combined." get within striking distance for 11," of the post-and then fall- ed,"

Se it is inevitable that there

Roosevelt

And so on into the postwar Duff Cooper now

In other words, he lacked world toughness. And to be Premier writing long reports and letters you have to be tough.

Duff Cooper's other reason for his failure bad luck.

up atmueshere · of failure about Dulf Cooper's autobiography,

Yet on the face of it his la qu'e a succes story, The surgeon's sen made good. Mar- Seon after he had been first elected to the House the post Under Secretary at the of

vecant.

to Ernest levin, who seems to have failed to reply to any of them....Bevin having a row with Molotov who "apoke regretfully of Anthony Eden."

Duff Cooper spending the night Chequers with the Attlees.... Minister.

"I found the Prime a Cabinet Foreign Offee became

He did not get .

eird the

the beautiful Lady Diana Meaners, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, Becume Minister. The friend of the great. Ambassador to France,

"Had the decision

Pone the Ending his career as Lord Nor-

other way, writes Duff Cooper wielt. Pleasant consulation prizes

still. for Duff Cooper, just nuw, to me in fact would have consolation prizes. Не had fallen the opportunity that fell

Prime to Anthony Eden,"

planned to be a Tory Minister-no less.

He had a lot in his favour. He had been to Efon, Oxford, He and served in the Guards. was handsome, elever, and a good speaker.

--

His private means were small

few

hundreds a year-but money on the

his wife came him to resign

Mage to

te from the Foreign Office staff and

start in politics. get a

At first all went well. He go into the Commons, did well as a junior, Minister, lost his seat in, but should have earned the undying gratitude of Bald- wh when in 1931 he won St George's, Westminster against an independent Tory....

His reward

"THERE was so much Tory dis- content with Baldwin that,

On the inside.

DOE

OES the failure atill hurt? There is a certain talseness about the contentment that Duff Cooper expresses,

There is an air of premature senility even about the title of the book--OLD MEN FORGET.* After all he is only 03-an age those days when a politician is offen just hearing the prize of the highest office."

But there is no doubt be enjoys his wine, his food, his travels, his books, his writing.

And he has been one of the ruling class on the inside of all the main events of his lifetime.

And then there is his wife

if the independent Tory had Diana She appears on every wen, Baldwin would have gone, other page. The lovely Diana Baldwin si reward ilm. Duff whom he won in spite of ducal Couper entered the Cabinet as disapproval War Minister. He was 45. 21 Satury was £5,000,

Chamberlain

ccame

Diana -earning money writing articles for Lord Exaverbrook. Then Premier.

Duff Cooper had never Diana the Blm star. Diana win- ning Internalanal fame in "The got on well with him. Bul Chamberlain did not sack him. Miracle." Diana the aider and abetter of his schemes. Diana his

on

in

Diana

to her-

Djuna.

Mrs Attlee; their pretty daughter, the two Bevins all in evening dress. I had at the last moment .... decided to bring mine."

It was the only night he' ever spent at Chequers. I would like to know what Duft Cooper, the inn who wanted

to be Tory Prime Minister, thought as he leoked round the official country home of the Premier, As a guest of a Socialist Prime Minister.

Sull, they were in evening dre's. That must have been quite a consolation.

62 WAYS

OF IINTERROGAT

ING PRISONERS

Ammings

"Careful, now! Glasses are more precious than prisoners."

London Express Service

New Phase In A Never-ending War:

NAVARRE SEIZES

THE INITIATIVE

SAIGON.

APALM billowed gasps of flame on green jungle beneath the

By JAMES WICKENDEN

It seems likely

H

His Task

that Vietnam veill be satisfied with similar concessions.

which The political problems threatened to break up the whining swoop of grey Then

tenuous harmony of the Frencli He gave him the Admiralty

many a risky planes from the French fleet. again in a

the commandion struck Vietminh troops spirited then Union and bring down a Frencli Then came Munich. Duft companies

deep rain-dripping selves away into the Jungle?

government in Parls have faded Cucper resigned. He went into wartime light... Dianar...

The Standing in runks on the ravine.

General

Cogny, operational In a matter of three weeks. the wilderness to join Churchill

a. poem verges of Colonial Route They killed the guards almost commander of the advance, had reni Eden. andi

But Duff Cooper book even starts with

No. 1 running south from to a man and blew up a 300- looked forward to "some

yard never get back into the green

of power. pastures

'Though sinec 26C married the Tongkin delta, high- and concrete bridge. The ruse sport" If the Communists slood!

worked, and Navarre, had and fought, He comforts him- ACES have been saved, and the limelight pours an ex- When Churchill- formed-bis-thirty-years

pointed guns recoiled, re-cut the only Communist supply self with the thought that__it Government in 1940 he gave

And four have flown away loaded and recoiled again in route round his perimeter from they do not, at least their dumps elusive, embarrassing beam on

the Duff. Cooper-almost apologetic As bright your beauty stili

northeast.

the military conduct of the war. incessant ear cracking

can be destroyed. On the other side to the south,

The assault is only half through, aily the Information Ministry.

appears

Also soothing is the successful and it will be some weeks yet The next year he was given a

warships of the French Beet As on our wedding day."

with before General conclusion of negotiations

Navarro can Advancing tanks took station in the muddy shoal the Associated States, except for assess its success failure. vague b in the Far East, based

Hon on Singapore. In '43 Eden gave

Together they knew everyone,

Vietnam, King Norodam

So for the Indications' of him the task of acting as an- and the ancedores are the best rumbled a bass accompani- waters near the island of

Here they ment to the high chatter of Samson miles off the part of Cambodia is sadafed with the bassador to the Free French in part of the book.

iransfer to him of control over Algiers. He went on to Paris, are in their bed-sitting room in machine-guns vibrating in

Their Plan all troops in his area while the It was all over, The plan had Arlington Street just after the the hands of sweating gun-

first war, entertaining

mfind." Beaverbrook and Churchill dinner. There had been a cool-

army ness between Lord Beaverbrook the black columns of an

There was said tramped on, tharp-eyed, coger, and Churchill. to have been on argument in in Navarre's frat great assault Paris when Churchill said "The against the Communist Vietminh. Press is easter squashed than squared."

falled. He was 54.

No toughness

H. DUST

TOW

reasons.

did the plan miscarry? Cooper Hives two

in 1938-before he resigned→→ he wrote in his diary-

"I have always wanted to be Prime Minister. I want to be

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After the dinner Dulf Cooper totes in his diary, "They ended perfectly good friends,"

of

striking victory have been ab- sent, and far to the north of the advancing columns looms tho counter- attack by the two divisions de- ployed there.

But at least Navarro can con- having

Under a lowering murky sky plan was to intercent French retain "operational com threat of a Vietminh

It was the most massive blow of the eight-year-old Indo-China

war.

the junks bringing cupplies La09 is established from Communist China's dumps diplomatically and juridically

on Hainan Island, further cast. Independent state, with power to gratulate himself on

By mid-October Navarre was send out her ambassadors or try seized the initiative in this cam-

ready.

The French-American agree ment. for an extra $385 million

reinforce

for the war had been signed at This offensive to the south the end of September. was as, cunningly sprung as any Nine extra French battalions in the struggle. An eye-catching were under orders to Here are both Edward VIII-display, it bids to renew faith in him from Germany, France and the Duke of Windsor and French ability to best the Corn- Korea. George VI expressing their views munists..

Ihree

provicusly

Negotiations with the the fosforn relationships

French

mn politics. Duff Cooper says Preparations began a month Associated States to settle their that Edward hoped we should

in

with the

bad

be able to come to terms with French-held triangle of rice were under way, and, finally, the the Nazis. And George sup- lands round Hanoi, when French Communist supply routes parted the Munich agreement. Union troops methodically been cut.

Luxury travel

JHEN war

W Coopers

Inalde of everything.

sought out Communist nests, Only the negotiations betray- killing 800 insurgents.

ed a suspicion of dimculty, two-pronged Nevertheless, the attack went in; one thrust along coastal road, the other

One Dawn

NCE Navarre knew his rear the

came the Duk areas were secure, he began coming in from the sea.

The object was destruction of were still on the funding the enemy's. He or the crack 320th and the 204th

dered steady air strafing of

Vietminh Divisions, centred They travel to Marrakesh in supply router, and then 40 picked around their supply dumps at "Winston's private. Yerk...It Thai and Mao tribomen of a Phatalem and Thanhoo, near

93-mile machine, parachute commando were given the coast, n

distant is a most luxurious and as soon as we went on uncompromising orders.

board the stoward offered us One dawn in the first week of threat to Hanol. champagne cocktails, which October they dropped near thic Empty Town

were not refused."

terminus of the long railway

At Marrakesh: "Clemmie Mrs running in froin Yunnan's plains DETWEEN flooded ricefields Churchill and Sarah Churchill to

mot us."

had

*

Lookay in Indo-China, the columns probed for-

China ," "Clemmio" had been hera

Iwanda over ward, climbing into the hills of the dela under giving Winston curtain lecture supplies to her Vietminh pup south

air

artillery azul prodigal of Importance

not pets. on tho

The heavy sky with de

band attacked support. Gaulle.

The smail quarrelling

"Ho grumbled at the time, re-quickly, their Agures fleeting broke into hampering rain and but she swiftly among the trees in. taut the sea rose chopptly, tossing ports Duff Cooper. thought it would bear fruit." well-trained tactics. They wore the landing craft that swept in That is the first evidence repulsed with the same skill by from the fleet to the beaches, havo seen of "Clemmie's" regular Vietminh troops, ready political influence!

Do Goulte

A week after the first bar-

the for such an eventually since rages,

leading troops

was coming to July,

to Navarre's commando raids in descended on the pillbox de lunch with Churchill. Relations between them wera ́

fences of Phu Nho Quan, Com- very dif- They attacked again the same munist regional headquarters, 43 day, and blew up several dumps, miles north of their objectives 1-Benverbrook was

That evening a communique wald round. Thanhoa. The town was ettle the mission had been success empty.. Imus have been a sticky fully completed, and, then a Only three hundred or no pitals on "The conversation clamp was put on all news, from Vietminh fasted about two hours. Winston Indo-China, anILWAY

floult, - Lerd also there.

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