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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1954.

You might as well try

tame a cougar*

to

LORD BEAVERBROOK was 75 last week, the toes of his devoted friend-

ship with Rudyard Kipling, that rigid but pleturesque Imperialist,

who never forgave him for aup- porting the postwar agreement over Ireland-in Kipling's bitter betrayal of a ylow

gross

sacred couse,

To the staff of the Daily Express, London, of which he is the controlling shareholder, he is "The Old Man." To the world outside he is the controversial figure in public life who has devoted himself to the cause of the that Benverbrook in a "Jingo" British Empire.

In his campaigns, crusades, and contro- versies he has countless enemies and friends.

many

Those people

who Imegine

Imperialist of the old school are utterly at fault.

Hela a genuine and deter.

mined peace-monger. He hates

Fascism in alt is forns, Hc

c have no truck with

Moxley. He did not favour the France Insurrection.

In this birthday article, A. J. CUM- MINGS, the distinguished political editor dangerous

He looked upon Hitler as 4 upstart, Bul ho thought, like во many other

Chamberlain could bring of a

of the News Chronicle, discusses with the deluded wishful thinkers, that detachment of a Liberal commentator the cheap and penceful bargain. personality of Lord Beaverbrook.

by A. J. CUMMINGS

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Lord

brook's birthday

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Communism he delests as [I deadly evil. Yet he is consts- tently non-provocative 10 the Russians.

HIS courage

from

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Became

England Beneven sevenueth Caneta, havlist atte a rollin

31 Resolve to play a p gomail.

a British politics, he wont

election in 1810 Just megatory

do

war come

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patriolle instincts were

Churchill chose unce aroused. well when he made him Mini- ter of Aircraft Production.

In the critical hm

journalists gathered at Savoy Hotel to honour. On that occasion. 1 well remember, he said n

by novel methods of electioneer - that startled steld Conserva- ives and taught them a thing or two.

But it was rome time before hey understood, or thought ey understood, the real nature at the potency of this ying

weeks after Dunkirk his restless energy was NANNESTIRA to One overriding He transformed scores purpose,

minds Into little

should bear in mindl

of business that every year after 70 is

dynanos. He did more, perhaps. a bonus from the Almighty,

then any other human being to enable the few." among them his 75th

his own gallant son, to win the May 25

hair's birthday.

This

Battle of Britain-by a roomiess

breadth. friends in all walks of life that Ure rejoice to know Almighty's bounty continues and that one of remarkable and fasemaling figures in the British pire la with us as vitally on the spot as ever.

rater from another world.

Penetrating Fleet Street, with in metable fatfulla, he was Anancial and by

μετα Journalistic genus (with haps a modlewin of good luck) enormously. 10 enrich himself

does not Kehen he certainly despise. Fio-

the 1110t

For Beaverbrook, besides being a long-standing per- sonal friend, is a cunning and inflexible political G ponent with whom one has crossed swords again again.

experatingla

and

-burta

42 642 kt pest vncounters.

rel make: the proper riposte

ite was B at the time with a and 2 Bevere form of asthma

Bui disconcerting eye affection, he allowed nothing to deflect ur daunt him,

Oner in his once I BUW A His original purpose, however,

some as it has over Indisputably been hospital nurse dropping

salvent into his eyes and Yas to we his growing news-

he dietated brusque paper Influence in order to pro. doctor spraying his throat while nrade the tmperial greatness of in gasps Britain, the not ignoble dream ges of this Ute.

tic

HIS fantasies

secretaries.

10 there tense

scene

It was like #

trum Hollywood, but closer to reality

Stalla trusted }:m because, Inter in the war. English tanks

I think he rather liked Stalin.

HIS friend

He is a :werhbuckler, almos; THE dream, as he dreamed it, and guns were always on time.

tous not Po true. His been fanto- He tantasies have

World

have ceonomics deuce with the dreem. The gorgeous map Empire has shrunk. His Empire We has frightened off tog many politicians in all parties.

and be doesn't bear malice, Hayed

Winer gives hum an wafer -

untuke.

Fone say at once without by beating alant the bush, that

I have always intrusely delked Tories

The

of

TE

HE is, as everybody knows, on

intimate friend of the Prim

Minister. You may have folati He tried to stampede the

though they into what he termed that dis papers,

But Bald- often bast Churchill's Gov-

el distrusind many of Beaver- Tabtis pofities, and thall con- Empire Free Trade.

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the

man

It is Lord Beaver-

mincemeat of the recipe! would only care to suggest that every man who deems it worth brook to the life. while to reflect on the subject has his own golden rule, com- amonly disregarded.

He recognises instantly social

he humbug when meets one; as a self-made man

he ta instinctively antipathetic

Most emphatically the time-

10 a Nuw swiftly vanishing worn Beaverbrook maxims could

British aristocracy, though freely mingles with it.

he

He believes in high wages as a principle always to be pursued

not of themselves, minus a touch

of genlus, have produced д Beaverbrooke,

Others may be able to sum

tinue on appropriate oerasombs to win was too astute for him, ar einment, never directly attack and looks with a suspicious cyk up this many-sided man more

attack them in my own "Spot

light volumn and elsewhere.

HIS million

Tale, and in our important

sense

are gapdash, irrespon-

regard them as harmful

to the mallon.

the party machine too powerful.

Churchill himselt.

What may happen

between the two men when they meet in private is their oftar. cat that Churchill can always talk him down because

Yet it was a prominent Labour member of Pardartent who said

"Beaverbrook recently to me: has done more than any man in my time to make us aware of the vast ponbilities of Empire F.M, never listens. development."

A loyal and trustext

1

adviser

at all, or nearly all, professional ably than I cen-his mercurial

economists,

HIS recipe

generocities, the puradoxical the daring of a Temperament.

Indepenrence of mind, superb that inquisitiveness of the born

"with newspaper man who, beriside preferably Just before the of dawn, transmits approach world-ranging instructions to his badgered staff with the speed i of light.

BOUT rich men he reveals an intense curiosity nad loves ta to diagnose the causes and

The voluma ot their He dotes on rich men.

Heaverbrook la

he was too of Bour Law, Is condent jest

to only human loyalties, not with that and is cynically dis- trustful of the vague imperialist V.3.Ps, are very real, very de- wealth. His relentless plan to lasulate perorations of party associates pondable, and must endearing. the trade of Eltun has coloured who hope to appease him with and bedevilled much of hla a phrase. politica It has chfeebled his

a

telephone in his hand,

HIS disputes

One might say that he pays far too respectful homage to material success. No doubt, tr you challenged him, he quote in his own favour scores MANY years ago, relating to

could

A Tory? Yes, but what an errant and unpredictable one, very considerable influence in The Empire Crusader still not to be neatly fitted into any public affairs. I see no intelli- crouches, a melancholy figure safe category. The Torles re-

But they might on sent this. chains, gible future

De imprisoned in thick blood-red Beaverbrook world.

of the Dally well try to tame a cougar. Express, nwaiting a fabulous myself, deliverance.

better and bolde democrat than many I see he has just published a people who are always spouting took, in which he repeats

As a newspaper man

I think of him first on a great newspaper personality. He has Cuminated Fleet Street for long as I can recall.

A

the

front page

I hope it is not breaking 0

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much

us confidence to say that one of the the democratic formulas,

of texts from the Old ment, which he savours ardent connoisseur,

me the story of his life (or Tosta-

as an as much of it as he thought I ought > know), he told me that he had no patience with our narrow public school cliches about strictly obeying the umpire'a decision.

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He familiar recipe for success In great sorrows of his life was is often irritably impatient, in capital letters.

PARIS NEWSLETTER BY SAM WHITE

MR COWARD

PARIS. than a chapter to the Windsors SKILLED piece of and it remains exactly as I first diplomacy has just

wrote it."

PLAYS PEACE-MAKER

The Government Invited the bare boards of the Paris opera at the auction. of its famous

then banned its stage.

salon. ballet and scheduled performances shortly alter the company's arrival.

The Russians arrived at an

been accomplished by Mr Mis Maxwell speeks of the Noel Coward. His fent; he Duchess with a Baldwin-like unfortunate moment-just after

"will only the fall of Dien Bien Phu. Un has reconciled the Duchess sententiousness.

say one thing about the Duchess, officially the Government have of Windsor

party-

I think she was wong-terribly let it be known that they feared thrower Elsa Maxwell after wrong-not to have accepted anti-Communied riots it the a year-old quarrel.

responsibility of history. performances took place.

and

Just as the origins of the quarrel remain undisclosed so are the terms of settle ment.

the

That is all I have to my."

in

Report on perfume who, to the annoyance of the

and

She was an elderly woman,

professional wine buyers, kept; putting up the price of many of She doubled their value.

the winea sold.

ACTRESS Anne Decunux, one of the stars of the Comedie- Francaise, gives me the follow

When the auction closed she report of the perfume situa- tion in Russia:

had bought £4,000 worth of "Since Stalin died everything

wine. has changed. Up to last year She approached the auctioneer, Officially tho Government's perfumes had to conform to the M. Dupre and told him: "I am Miss Maxwell's own sense of action remains an anti-Com- party line

even now you worry i have no money. Can

Stok- by still and some called history remains as acute as munist gesture provoked

you keep it for me for two Youth or Stalin's ever. At her annual Parts party Communist military help to the honovite

hours? Breath.

Within only minutes of the this year there will be 400 guests Indo-Chinese rebels.

"Now things are changing two hours to ("Just friends and ambas-

The Rusalons arrived here Alongside

Do, she was back naines Like Red

and paid in cash, sadora"). But it will not be

Who is the? M. Dupre won'i fancy dress party- "because I after the warm welcome given October, you find! Nult Blanche realise the French astion is in to the Comedie-Francalso com and Spring Idyll.

tell except to say: "She was on mourning for Dien Bien Phu." pany in Moscow. Unlike last year, the Windsors Mies Maxwell lias turt, written have been invited. her memoirs under the title, “RSVP!" | Hes, sho altered the manuscript in the light of her reconciliation with the Duchess? Miss Maxwell denies this.

All that is known is that Mr Coward was the peace maker.

Embarrassed

f

perfumes Fello

"I wouldn't be surprised if old customer of the restaurant The battle for Dien Bien Phu next year the Russians have that is why we trusted her.". was at its bitlorest when the cought up and, heve French eccepted Mocrow's invi- called Sensualite tation and lasted 'their own. d'Amour,”

When tho - Baterion, company finally departed without being

Quote

The wine buyer CADEMICIAN, Yarn,and

Gregh: It'-lant? what "thair Membarrased at the French French official saw them offWare Larue, BOST Frenchmen fool acutely allowed to perform, not one

Éhe amou Paris, rés» daizghters / krow "that" worries "closed; their mothers-H's the way they "wrionibong" "stie "," cold war on the down there war a mystery-buyer learnt it

"I have not changed a word," Government's treatment of the IL MONDOM MENU mpty way of she says. "I devote a little Jess: Himeints Bellet:

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