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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, OCTOBER

IDDON'S DIARY

Smiles

Oppenheimer

Among the Smears

BORTIO

In la

magazinca

Even the Wall Street

are Journal is in ecstasies over it.

average,

New York Tuesday, "The chairman of the board Baseball Week. Almost all the months. UST when it seemed hug

quieting nowa for papers and you, ho said. The chairman carrying articles reminding that Dr Robert Oppen-

had.

I met Sandy Wilson, Vida Oppenheimer was to con- that 25 years ngo, October 1929. Hope and the cast at the home heimer, "father of the tue as Director,

the bottom fell out of the stock atom bomb," was to be Today the scientist is back at market and Wall Street, crashed, of the British Conmil-Cherional, Francis Hundall, the other driven from public service work

laboratory in

They the mes who Now, this very month, stock night before the opening the Institute for Advanced Princeton And Study at Princeton unani- is rather arrogant manner and Exchange are on an

tried to ruin him, who hated prices on the New York Stock were all so tone it was almost embarraning. They talked about the drastic changes and I mously re-elects him Direc- threw pitch on his private life, 27 percent higher than in 1920. -

thought, "Here's the alibi bo- So the exports are asking: fore even the body is dis-

covered." commentators who boom on the stock market while been were calling Mr Anthony Eden industrial output laga?" and an appeaser and even an isola- they are answering, but not ex- tionist in the early summer are plaining too clearly, "Yes." tw hailing the British Foreign Secretary 09 An enlightened

tor.

The

"the

are In retreat--at least

tem-

porarily.

I sce that almost all the "Can thero ho a continuing

American

For months Dr Oppenheimer, a sensitive, brilliant man colleagues at Los Alamos called htm

Genius"-has sneared by several powerful publishing forces here.

American Mercury has been attacking Oppenheimer in terms which would be consider statesman, a man of audacious vision, chiefly responsible for the ed libellous In Britain.

who owns success of the Nine-Power Con- David Lawrence,

edits

Influential ference in London. and

the United States News and World Report and conducts syndicate:!

column,

labeling Oppenheimer

risk and

widely

has been

security

Most Cordial

I lunched in Wall Street. the other day and it was hard to finds, pessimist,

What a triumph-one of the greatest British hits here of all time.

on

England's Cyril Ritchard is

ing here of "Peter Pan" getting big billing for the open- October 20. Holbeing? co Britain's wonderful "The starred with Mary Martin The looks like pair were a hit in San Francisco Boy

. Friend" being a solid Broadway hit for when I was there.

--

a man of Communist MR Eden could be forgiven for THE STORY, SO - FAR

leaninga. The Hearst Press has smiling. He never once los! Resailed Oppenheimer pitilessly.

his patience or calmness when Oppenheimer stood the

the primitives, hotheads, and Asspulla well. When he Was ousted from his job as consult. even some moderates here were back- ant to the Atomic Energy Com- suggesting that he was

tracking on the United States, mission this spring he main- lained his dignity.

It was known that the Elsen- hower Administration had to move against Oppenheimer be forc Senator McCarthy could Jump the gun on the scientist,

Many mistakes

At that time the Punch car- toon showing the Foreign Scere- lary carrying a dispatch-case marked "Munich" was widely published over here, and Mr Eden's appearances on the news-

with

els, so often before greeted with applause, were met an uncomfortable silence,

Now Eden is having laurels lavished on him by the editorial writers. And the columnista

THIS week a new both "Te Hydrogen Bomb," by two employees of Time magazine. and

correspondents whew James Bhepley and Clay Blais, describing . "vast schism jun, la on the stands filled with between Britain and the United strong condemnation of

Oppen- States are today calling Anglo- heimer and others. It is so fall American relations the most

of misstatements that even some cordial and closest since the war.

the

Cup

the

was shut

polisod by the ball-players.

ENID COCKBURN en- lists the aid of George Lonning to escape from a gang of thugs” who are after an envelope she is carrying for her scientist brother, Gerald.

At her brother's flat they find a dead man, and when three men ar- rive George trops them and leaves them trussed up.

Missing Enid at their rendezvous in Richmond Park, after being chased by the polico, George succeeds in getting home.

There he finds that Enid and Gerald had been and gone, and 'in thoir, taxi was "green one of the

trousers,"

thugs, asleep-or?

LAURENCE MEYNELL, THIRD MAN IN OF FIVE BEST-SELLER_AUTHORS, HERE TAKES THE PLOT ONE STAGE FURTHER

L

And it didn't.

''

"This taxi-cab," Charlie,”, 'he asked. "Being brought up Д all good little Boy Scout and that you noticed the number of 11, didn't you?"

"Noticed the number of 17" Charlie's scorn was merited and immense. "Come off It, Mr

of the scientist's crllies are out. Lust week was National raged.

ANNING stared at blue linen suit and pleated Dr Henry Dewolf Smyth, who Newspaper Week in the United States, and I enjoyed it rather

him still goggling shirt who had trrupted with Was a senior member of

more than the giddy circus of

a bit with astonish them, just one chance; but Atomic Energy Commission,

the week

the before when

ment.

'even he with his usual says: "The book contains gross World Series" baseball games distortions

"This and many errors were held.

green- trousered optimism didn't really think In presenting a black-and-whito

These matches were between character was in the back it would come off. picture of villains and herdes, the New York Giants and the of the taxi?" ho demanded the authors have simplified com- Cleveland

Indians.

at last. plex problems to the point of It was like a four-day absurdity

Final at Wembley. Half

"Well, be reasonable, Gordon Dean, ex-chairman of

the city to 70 misstatements in the text," down,, every radio chattered a guy'nor," Charlie protested, the A.E.C. suys: "There are 80 business of

on the

game, the "where'd you expect 'im to Bear-Admiral Even

Lewis Commentary

television screen were mono- be? Sitting on top of the Strauss, present chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and

flipping cab?" a man known to be jealous of

Lanning hardly felt equal Oppenheimer's great gifts, re- vents that ho had offered to buy,

at the moment to exchang- the manuscript and lock it in a

ing raillery with Charlie, safe for 25

and disso. years,

who in any case was a Cock- clates himself and the commis- massacres the unfortunate Aloy completely from

the Indians, winning the first fourney past master at the art. authors' masallona; charges. games in a row. Each member

"And you Bay he was Oppenheimer

New of the Giants was then given a Was in York last week, and I saw him benas of $10,000 and an in- celcep?" he asked.

he left the Uptown dividual sharo in briefly as

the gate

'"I didn't actually 'ear 'im Club East 42nd Street,

on

Ho receipts. Even the losing Indian was smiling, though he showed players were given $0,000, dollars anore, Mr Lanning, but you the strain of a 3hr. 45min. apiece.

can take it from me he meeting of the

the board at Newspaper Week was hardly wasn't extra lively anyway. Institute for Advanced Study. eclebrated with the jubilance of

Looked sort of slumped down in the corner and dopey like."

Rich rewards

THE

New York

SANDEMAN

PORT and SHERRY Sole Agents

Giants

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

DINE

WINE

AT

1954

What about this eye? It looks as if it could speak volumes,

DRAWING 'BY GORDON HOGG

London Exorcs Bcrvice

aidering, things like "a beheaded 'E'd been took ill," So she said. diplomat gets into trouble about 'Drive us to Wiltshire House' a red Jewel" and keeping one she said, to the garage... Bd eye on Number Fourteen all thead to smile at that of course. time.

"I've known Charllo there for

Sammy came home before donkey's years, and I thought, long. On foot, so Lanning con- Charlle, boy, if you're getting cluded the taxi-cad lark was mixed up with this little bit finished for the day. Somehow you're getting out of your class, he knew it was Sammy although my lad'; but when we got there he had never seen him. A she had no more than a word short stumpy figure with the with Charlie and then we wore. authentic Cockney stamp about oft again,”

Question: Give Sammy time to have bla mheal and so be sure of tackling a contented man; or rirk it and go in at once?

"Where to?"

319

"Chalsen, guv'nar, 8, Farley Street. One way they've just end made it, go in at the for and work your way back.”...- Answer: Go in at once

and'

"And what happened there?" blow Sammy's stomach. He had no clear idea of what was

"Nothing happened, guvnor. happening to End Cockburn, Thero was, something on the but he felt in every bone of clock all right by that time, I him that the sooner ho found her again and got by her side to help her the better.

"Sam's in now," Mrs. Saun ders told him."Come in.

Taxi-cab drivers who by and large, see a lot of London life; and by the same token one way and another they come in for a lot of questioning. said softly after he had digested Hence they very soon got chary of any inquisitiveness; and ap- proaches to them must be dis- crect and disarming.

arc

men

Lanning disarmed his with the aid of a brand new one 'pound noto :

and his own in-

tho

chap

can tell you; but they got out. and settled up and, added ‚a) of something all right for my trouble, and the three of them went into the house, wasn't feeling too well being

hand between them... given a Looked as though 'e'd gond off to sleep,to me,”

Lanning

"Well, well," woll,”

all this information.

Plenty wrong

"Ope there's nothing wrong, ›

Imitable sharm particularly guy?" the good-hearted Sammy-

some friends of his said anxiously. heard "one of them III!

anxious".

Sequence Sinister

If I

Lanning. Why ever should 17 Lives just at the back 'ere, well was to try to notice the only a few minutes away. I've number of all the cabs I see in known Sammy for years."

"Where does 'just at the back' mean, Charlie?"

a day I'd go cuckoo,"

The chance hadn't come off.

"Yes, you probably would, Charlie" Lanning agreed or rowfully, "You quite probably would."

it was

anxious to trace

"I hope so, too," Lanning echood him. “I hope 80, 100, and he took his lonve.

It was @ vain hope and in hls' heart he know IL, G. There was plenty wrong somewhere:

wrong plenty that was

and

plenty that was dangerous and Enld Cockburn was in the thick.

it. But at least now she

Mrs Saunders who camo to the door when Lanning Churlio at the garage would wouldn't be without him at her

Although she knocked,

was be very grateful

Aldo much longer. Farley sixty and tired-looking and had

Street was not a long way off Ogure like an untidy sack of They did the trick, the charm and he was going there just potatoes, Lanning turned on all and the one pound note between fast as the Ford van would take to chaim for me. He needed form. Sammy remembered the him.

make friends with the job perfectly, well, of course ... Saunders family.

almost the last of the

'I

"14, Chapel Streat. Know it?" Dopey like? Doped, more

Lanning nodded. Chapels, it

day, Guvnor And lucky one The traffic was unkind to him probably, Lanning thought,

must be confessed, were things

And when George Edward for me, 3 ad to take an old and every light that could hold but didn't say it. Running

somewhat out of his usual ken: Lanning turned on his charm geczor up to Hill Crescent, Rich him up did so, added to which Charlie had started to 'whistle but Chapel Street he knew, rapidly in his head over is favourite tune; an unlikely

for a woman. it usually worked, mond. Well, I ask you. Rith when he got to Oakley Street what had happened in the air it seemed in some ways "Number Fourteen, guv'nor. Whatever her age or locks. It mond's a losig run out really in the missed the right, furnis

worked with Mrs Saunders. the general way of things. Still had to go round in last few hours he came to coming unmelodiously from that Sammy Saunders. As good a the not unwarrantable con- snub-nosed, gap-toothed; grimy dart thrower as we've got in She smiled back at the pleamint that was all right: Glad to get bit.

gentleman on her doorstep and the job., Cockney the 'Lien,'"

But he found it at. last; the clusion that things were handed, touse-haired

thought what a lot of unexpect "I shall have to pay a call on cd friends that funny old The only thing with these namb suddenly hit his oye just definitely getting compli- figure, Some Enchanted Evening.

He interrupted it to throw out Mr Sammy Saunders," Lanning Sammy of hers did have to be further-than-usual jobs id are as he was passing a

*announced.

you going to pick up anything "Farley Street," and he swung casually, "But of course I know

to come back with? More often the Ford into it, cutting the driver.”

"Extending the circle of your? No, Sammy wasn't in than not you don't. But this perilously across

tho bows of an acquaintances all of a sudden, not yet she was getting afternoon I was lucky. I did. oncoming taxi-cab. - The taxl- aren't you?" Charlie enquired. bit of something ready for him. This little party you're talking cub drivers, least out and tot-

though, as she expected him abou

aboutz Boon

all hours

cated.

"Well, blow me down," he said softly and almost to himself.

One chance

"You O.K, Mr. Lanning?" Charlie was watching him Charlie inquired solicitously. with some curiosity.

Burc.

• "I、And fresh friends stimula- back Picab business.

pressed doubts about the legit macy of Lanning's birth, which floated Juridly away on the Chelsea, kir

Forced halt

Lanning grinned, although

Lanning shut his eyes and counted ten. Miracles didn't, couldn't, shouldn't happen; and yet undeniably they sometimes. ting," Lanning confessed, "par- this

Not "Just as I turned into the Wa.

Ucularly the ones I have made much good for a man's stomach Petersham Roat Standing there just recently."..

really,

by tree. Three of 'ern, A "What'll you be doing? Tak- Lanning Ustened

gentleman and a lady, a bit of sympatholic- Ing the Allard from right under ally to the account of Sam's a smasher same as you described "I'm not absolutely sure," the nose of Mr. Inquisive out stomach and everitually wither; and this other cove with

holding Im "Everything seems to be Lanning

up replied softly.

drew promising to come again. them. Sort of "A there??

He Jarge and immensely desirablo

and they were Between thein. went up the street getting a bit sort of het up bird has just porched near me· "No" "On' the whole," 1. thinic walted In the Ford van where If. It pd: boen later in for you, Mr Länning," he and I seem to be on the very not, Charlie. Our inquiring he drew the previous day's evening, and a bit nearer the satisfied himself about s the said, "if you'll pardon the point of maring it. But you friend sooms so interested in Times crossword from his West End, I'd save solde was subject raised by the rate. expression."

never know.. It may yet prove the Allard I haven't the heart pocket and sat there idly con- drunk. But it wasn't that driver hat could sympathise

to take it away from his gaze. » The expression was not air." only pardonable, 'it Was It's the quality of the stuff hopelessly inadequate.

they sell to the public these days," Charlie said "And there's a gentle- cision and sympathy. "Gin isn't man outalde - watching my 'what it used to be, Mr Lanning. „Allord?” he asked.

Time you get round to seeing

n delusion and vanish into thin

I'm affald. I shall have to bor-* -********

with

row the Ford van, again." a

Grimy house

"Borrow It!" Churile exclaim

Like a blood ound; and large birds perching near you ed "Blimey guy'nor, you you're stretching it a bit is getting serious. If you ask might as well buy the dipping

when you call' 'Im a' gentlo- man.

me."

You're probably dead right there, Lanning thought there was just one possible chance, he told him of

mind for ways to keep -Ins

the (antaktie

GOLDEN EAGLE RESTAURANT secasting about in his sak

I shall call

"You say you know the driver

taxi-cab! 5 Lanning.

thing und "ave done with it.

When he got to Chapel Stropt

• Lanhings/drove some little dis... "fance past: Number Fourteen, marked, the Ford van, and caine. back on foot

MEET AUTHOR NO. 3 HERE is LAURENCE MEY NELL, who today presents the first of his two chapters in this unique, intriguing and exciting story

Having inherited the first MICHAEL USEHOLD.

mell

four and GEOF

with the men for bringing It,

hallo, Halla,

He brought the Ford to en

abrupt halt in obedience to the

upheld hard of a policeman who had just stepped off the kerb and who stood in front of him, barring

this way Shor deliberately running downloa

was nothing he could, stop

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whirl

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