★ DON
IDDON'S DIARY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1954.
CAMPUS GOES GAY
Τ
IN MAYTIME
Princeton, Tuesday.
some of the advisers of the It B purely HE scientists Dr Albert Administration.
political."
Einstein and Dr Robert Oppenheimer live here
B
station wagon calls for him and he la driven to the Institute for Advanced Study. Einstein part of the Princeton scene.
He shuffles along the streets complains absent-mindedly, his white hair flowing, a bundle
an
And Dr George Placzek, in Princeton. Dr Oppen- Austrian phy steist DOW 1121 heimer, "the man who made American citizen,
"'1 consider bitterly:
it €x-
of books
pocketn of Jia shabby, un- sult bulging with pressed papers. Sometimes he carries a shopping bag. He is completely without artifice or pose.
the atomic bomb," is under cemely dangerous to question usually under his arm, and the suspenak by the Govpen- man's motives just because he ment as a security risk, and disagrees. It is, after all, no1 Dr Einstein is ander some only a sefentist's right to argue eritielsm for speaking at his pulut of viewi for human rights and
lignity of the individual.
the
Princeton, one of the
United States' most haud. some university towns,
duty."
Week-end gaiety
hu
le hard to realise in this lovely country town of tree- solidly behind both men. lined labes and Gothic collegts For the past ten days, like that scholarship is under
other community, Princeton has had its eyes Mr. on the telecast of the
It
every
41- fuck or that life is not serene.
1 arrived Whent a°ęrtsk -x-zyed
_the
over campus
the
bה ט
Carthy-Army henrings. crowded with pretty girls, and
with
opet sporta
from were blaring
cars. Rodles dormitory
The old scientist has been he hurt by suggestions that "get back to where he came from" in the crudest sections of the Right-Wing Press,
There is no television set at 112. Merger Street, and the pro- following fissor has not been The McCarthy-Army hearings,
itself, which
But Princeton bas
A 20,000 population and 2,000 undergraduates, is debat- the McCarthy Stevens showdown furlously.
ing
knows that McCarthy Nassan Street, which bisects the planned to investigate Op town of Princeton, was blocked penheimer before the Ar-
This is an opulent, in some ninistration acted, and the windows and there was a good ways mobbish, university Senator would be only
Dre the several of its students too deal of shoubing, laughter, and
song of rich men, corporation delighted to
with the elk of glasses. I asked my clash
host, Josrnulls who hos presidents, big business execu term near Princeton: "What fives, who might have feelings towards McCarthy, I can testify xes on
that their sons have none.
Einstein.
Dr
Oppenheimer
been seen around
Princeton
He told me that this Wo3 the be-
heurings 2:17 his weurity" house-party week-end,
began In Washington.
has nu
about The Secret
Ha uning of the merry Maytime, Usually undergraduates are pol penis The werkda
allowed motor-cars on The home, Biden Manor, a tag 19th-
ch they ridle the eentury farm-house. with his campti wife and two children. But the streets on bicycles. family don't drive into town as they used to do.
Rallying round
[OST
Mos
week-end
car rally.
But Jast motor-
14 was like
Presbyterian
THERE is a strong Presbyterion
HERK
influence al Princeton (Wee
Princeton's
TOW
Wus
Wilson most famous President) which clashes head-on with Mc-
The Yankee-Doodle taproom Curthyism. of the Nasou Tavern
was full
of singing students and the young
from
the wrek Wellesley. of Oppenheimer lives hotel in the capital. not discuss his ense,
girls
Vasser, and Smith Colleges
Industry Princeton has no except the pursuit of know- Its prestige 15 30 lenge. But
tive polling firms, high that
Dr
The Spring including the famous Dr Gallup,
have Princeton
at un strolled on the lawn outside He will the Princeton Inn. his house-parties but
associates will, and sincerely.
*
Princeton'
The brightest frolle.
Darties began last Friday and continued Sunday Herbert Mass, board chair almost non-stop until
man
night. of the Institute
Advanced Studly. says:
for "Dr
*
Oppenheimer conUnies ht a The Inatte for Advanced
We Study which of the Institute director
Dr Oppenheimer have never had any occaston lo heads hos no direct connections doubt his complete loyalty and with Princeton University, but sincerity. And the professors the University is proud to have are energetically backing Op- men such
Albert Einstein britheimer
and Oppenheimer as members of their community.
De Marsfan
Mo
It
the Institute's
sadn t cockle
MathematiON, YO
jolesar
of School
Einstein, now 75. lives in a No. 112, "I a very simple frame house, simple. Dr Oppenheimer's views in Mercer Street, Every morn-
with those of ing except
week-ends at
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Gallup's findings that American
in the tele audience interest
vised McCarthy
13 marathon not as great as thot during the Kefauver crime
bearings
do
Hot convince me.
Almost every restaurant, pri- vate home, bar or grill where I called and the television set turned on to Channel 7 and he doel on Capitol HM.
Princeton has dignity and beauty, und is rather uncom— fortable about being thrust 171 the spotlight of the Oppen- bejmier case. It expects him to be cleared.
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London Express Servios
KHRUSHCHEV MAY BE
AN
BUILDING AN
HE Soviet Government
recently made extraordinary diploma-
an
tic appointment in sending Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov, First Secretary
the
By Walter Kolarz
proceedings
#
of
purge
Com- Ukrainian new mentor. Mikhallov's
EMPIRE
as Mikhailov.
from
former boss, Khrushchev, even though they figure In the Soviet diplomatic” list.
This successful kivasion of Molotov's department by
bol
13 mere
made
the Polish leader, Bierut, to realise Rumania, Party Secretary, and Khrushchev is Polish Congress remains, of how much the Polish
munista required a
predecessor in personal gain which one Soviet It la He complained about the weak Warsaw, Popoy is also a party leader scores over another. of the Moscow Communist course, an open question.
new evidence that absorption of however, ness of the Communist Party in official. But none of these men, It is certain, Party.
as Ambassador to
countries by the satellite at the time of their diplomatie the called that
shortcom- the countryside;
for a the many
Colossus Soviet
has Warsaw.
contmuous the Polish Com ranks
of the Party appointments, had held such top- ings in
further progress. Soviet satellite adventurers from
and ranking positions in the Soviet revealed from Mikhailov went to the munist Party
relations are more and more bureaucratic elements; hierarchy as Polish capital as early
Dart of Soviet as during the Congress must spoke of the need to get rid of The importance of Mikhailov's Ceasing to be March 9, 1954, but he was have provided
Party Noreign affairs, and are therefore not accept transformation strong people who would
criticism; complained that Party chief into an ambassador does now more appropriately handled then only a member of the additional reason for send propaganda and agitation were not rest there, however. It also by the head of the Soviet Party Soviet delegation which at- ing to Poland
a powerful not sufficiently
militant; and throws new light on the activi- tended the second Congress member of the Soviet mentioned the urgent need to ties of Nikita Khrushchev, the Closed World of the Polish Communist hierarchy who could assist give proper political guldance Soviet Communist Party's First Party. Whether his diplo- the Polish Communists in to the Pollsh Communist youth Secretary. matic mission to Warsaw keeping order in their OWD had then been decided or house. whether the decision
One has only to look at the made later in the light of Congress
speech made
was
by the
CAFE SOCIETY WHIRLIGIG IN LONDON'S WEST END
IT'S EASY TO JOIN
But Gold Or Gimmicks Help
By EVE PERRICK
London.
organisation.
Two Overlords
Khrushchev
appointed Soviet am-
Runni
political
the man. He has proved himself NCULADY, for instauen wed
Secretariat.
the
A year generally
Independent of this sociologi- there exists, ut went to Warsaw cal process, with Mikhailov, officially to
problem course, Khrushchev's position. lead the Soviet delegation to the Communist Congress. But he is ago it was probably To help the Polish Communist also closely linked with other agreed among Soviet leaders not Party overcoming its short- newly
to revive the Party Secretariat comings and carrying out its bassdors in
in satellite
in Its old glory and not to make new tasks, Mikhailov is obviously Ambassador to Hunurdu, Leonid the new Secretary all-powerful.
Dut whether they his
really a first-class organiser, at first as entire
succeeded
reducing the power carecr to Secretary-General of the Young
the Secretariat "and of Its Khrushchev, Khrushchev Arst of Communist League (Komsomol) took Melnikov into the Ukrainian head in favour of so-called
for many years, Party Secretariat
"collective leadership" and then, Ana and more recently as chict of December 1940, made him his other matter. the largest single organisation successor within the Soviet Communist Party's First Secretary. Party the
Party branch. So, in future, there will be two Soviet overlords in Poland-Marshal Rokossovsky, imported as early as 1949 and Mikhailov.
which he led
Moscow
Su
the Ukrainian
No Sense
12
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no:
It has been generally notlerd abroad, and not without surprise, that Khrushchev, and Malenkov, has appeared as the chlot speaker an Soviet Russia's Being ambassadors, the Mik- mala problem -the crisis In hailovs, Melnikoys and Firyubins Agriculture and livestock breed- are, of course, from the formal ing. This may be a symbol of That a Party man instead of point of view under the orders the growing Influence and break from the deb-dances, he
How about the indies? Let us a diplomatist should have been of Molotov, chief of the Soviet prestige of the new Party HERE
out the current take the case of a woman who sent to Warsaw is not in itself Foreign are many ways began taking
Office, and stil
the Secretary, but it could also he toasts of
It has the town-the_young in Just a few years has become surprising. into cafe society. You ladies of the Dorchester Follies, one of cafe
viet due to the reluctance of the a second
in the Soviet society's acknow-practice of Stalin's successors to hierarchy after Malenkov. But other Party leaders to shoulder can pay your way in That gave him the reputation of ledged hostesses. by calling on an experienced being a gay young blade-always
apport Party
officials to am- in the present situation, when the responsibility for a gigantie Helen Parnell wife of the Pal-countries.
bassadorial poste
satellite Saviet diplomats in Eastern failure in Soviet policy. hostess to stage a
to be soon with a pretty girl. Beason
ladium's Vai, ls giving the party
Europe seem to be accredited to Which of the two alternatives for you. You can use the
For instance, Firyubin, parties rather than to States, applies it is impossible to say he came out of the I referred to at the beginning of "charity" approach if you Army (he
one in which former Third Secretary of the this formality makes sense no for the time being, WILS in the Guards) this scries--the
for the Kremlin, though his father's Danny Kaye is guest of honour, Moscow Communist City Com- longer.
thrown open are clever in picking the he took business.
It stands to reason that Mik- for balls and parties, is still a him and the guest list has skimmed mittee, was sent in January 1954 Kave right charity.
as Anibassador to Prague. The hallov and Melnikov awe secluded world in itself, much diplomatic contacty.
the cream off Debrett, de Gotha, and "Who's Who in the Theatre."new Soviet Ambassador to primary allegiance to their as it was in Stalin's time.
T
But more often than not the way to the cafe society stars is either a matter of chance encounters or step- ping off, and out, the right foot.
On
As an example of the right- step routine, there is that pro- minent and permanent Man About Town, Charles Wilson.
This is how he started.
When
over
That
So today there he is, enjoying the racial security of all sides of the cafe crowd, and getting, he says, rather tired of it all.
So affable
UTSTANDING example
the
and the Mountbattens.
Which just about rounds things off nicely,
because Mrs Parnell's catry into the full circle goes back to Mr Kaye's first sensational appearance in
London in 1948.
of
They had a mutual friend. London. Baron was invited to stay the
no
F
in
been
ממנת
A NATION UNSULLIED
that
By LES ARMOUR
כאן
In those, frenzied days meeting that led to a one could confess to not having celebrated career in the cotes? seen the wonder man perform The one between the young man especially after all the Royal from Manchester turned May- Fimily
had
been along.
O all the kingdoms on Somewhere, we knew, there people prepared to struggle with Thirty-coven year old Mr fair photographer, Baron Nahum, But how were you to get into
this united island, the enough, Lord Ogmore rose in learn and few can
nust to a flaw And, sure a language
foreigner can Wilson lives in Park Lane, works
the theatro? Cate socialites
pronounce, in the City, is invited to all the
one The only
appeals most queues.
the House of Lords to expose it, and who countenance a rallway Ivaliest partles, is a member of
It happened in Malta in 1025. can't join
scats that had not been sold directly to us is Wales.
station with a 42-syllable name? "Many people come to Eng- $15.00 all the best clubs, and one Bacon was
pigeon-hole in his desk is simply from
on his way back were those in the royal box.
To be seen in that box counted Irrationally, the Tobruk, where he had
name land," he said sadly, "but faw The food, at any rate, is 25.00 stuffed with letters of introduc- been taking pictures, and stopped mare in prestige value than any- conjures up pictures of come to Wales."
probably an Insoluble problem. 25.00 tion brought to him from people off at the British naval base where else in Britain right then. burly gents hewing conl
The trouble, it seams, is the Even Lord Ogmoro concedes 35.00 help in getting a start in Lon-
all over the world who seek his where Lord Louis was in com- The way to the box was by Mrs out of a blue green food and the bror. The food, be that it is probably no worse than
became the 10.50 don ke.
mand of the destroyer Wishart. Parnell, who soon
mosh sought-after women is mountainside against an in cause it is apt to appear to the the English kind.
tourist as uniformly bad, and 10.50
cidental chorus of "Men of
The beer matter may exhibit Harlech."
because if the tourist "happens Off to one side to get a hotel or a restaurant und principle. Lord Ognore we ace Aneurin Bevan de after the moment when they no doubt right when he sees 4.00 Ashipping merchant,
S the 20-year-old son of a. Back in London
claiming herloically on the think it is proper for them to no more reason to fear for the the Mount HE dark and lively Halen evils of vermin and the close he does not get anything morals of the guest of the guest well battens introduced Baron to the the one - time acrobatic connected, of rather more than Duke and Duchess of Kent, who dancer from Honolulu and probe brotherhood of man, while at all, however long his journey than for those of the guest 5.00 moderate means, he came to became his Arst royal sitterz
But what about the guort of ably the only acrobatic dancer the shade of Dylan Thomas may have been and however il
or hungry he may be." 1.00 town
Hertfordshire, in
the guest of the guest? Mr Nahum, a spry, 47-year-old in the world with a college addresses edes to a tankard 10.00
bachelor (a useful status in cate education brings to the job of of beer, "He entered Lloyd's, a good society), is an affable type who winning friends and influencing
practice, polish, Nothing mara the picture. It operational base, to learn about so often finds that his clients people all the 24.00
his after-offloo-hours and professionaliam she used to is not on record that anyone The beer is troublesome be- Insurance broking, and lived become
put into her dancing
over built an H-bomb in Walds, cause, 15.00 with relatives in Hyde Park companioni.
on a Sunday, a hotel In no time at all, she know and no one has ever been heard keeper may serve a drinks to his Mate. That background was He also takes pictures of nim everybody. Like most Ameri- to curse the "imperialist op guest but not to the quest of strong enough to get him on the
his guest. 18.00 dob-dance lists, altough to did stars, model girls, ballet dancers, cans, she likes giving parties pressor Walsh."
gives the kind of not know any of the doba, paintors, and philosophers--and 'And she,
ragolituses to those days So parties that everyone likes going
True, there a‹ hurgery Now all this is, 'no doubt, bad. He was good looking, a succoins you can see his position in the to.
►
On the list
5.00
5.00
1937.
from
week-end by Lady Mountbatten, Such polish
•
Surely the thing must have in limit.
Lift the limit and you will probably find the local fireman's ovan, srmed with a petition, in band and 10 supporters of Nys..
the bar.
the But it: testifies to the Indes. W We may be able to play fast
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. with the others and police cafe socialy stakes remains wall A happy coincidence of a good characterfels of being a Walth- pendence of the, Walth-some- and loose with the morals of
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A HELLIO INCO, sé an stablished So much for the merry gentle- {"eligible" (bachelor and as a XXVII.
time being had by all concerned, TOMORROW) Where maid, how').smch?
rhyme whichs - nawociates man with that of belig, a thiet, shing which one suppose mush American tourists, "but the in»: But this, murely, is a more cone be a part of the country's charm. tegrity, of Mr Bevant's supporters" venience to preserve the meter. What can one expect from a must be protected at all cost,
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