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BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Sefton Delmer
goes to Spain
-And reports what happens when bulldozers meet mañana
bootblack gave The builders for instance, are bomer Their houses have
Th shoes flick
非
with
Tig
finish
th
torn clown to make room for the new stuff that is going up,
ter final promising
I staircases "porne day soon“ 11 his
the wing of the
new Al polishing rloth. Ministry building. In which thes
vmisarles of the Pentagon and
Spanish assistants shrewd, quizzing their lance, "Usted Americano? housed in Madrid.
Then he looked up at with
11
Bit'
(You American?") he In-
d.
I could have hugged him
like 1+ long-lost brother.
Exactly 18 years before it
No hurry..
are
DROVE put to Torrijon, one с the two American atr
They say we are Boing Te have new houses in the Interior. Stut where are they? Where are they to come from "***
A Justinable question in view of the extrane scarcity of houses in Spain.
But don't thank the people
Rela need the
jupe- hensive as they are that all this immediate future. by going to take ulneg 112 the
this same Puerta Del Sol buses which are to be usable for square of Madrid, with the emergency duties in 18 months shells of Franco's siege time Theoretiently work 15 Paplarn Harete of the US. guns falling only a couple of already busily in progress here.
Corners ALWAY from another Madrid had looked up at me
exactly the same ara asked: "Usted (You Bosnian ?")
and erones,
other
I
Navy l his feljow experts have only just sent their plans as, Certainly I could see a lot of for the base to be approved. bootblack bulldozers,
མར"གང་
contracts for the work useful-looking gom lined up. No Bitish dredgers. with
1371 toid. urte, however, was making Ute
may be given some of have pesture slightest move to use them. To
yet to be awarded So, frankly, Ruso?" my admittedly mexpert eyes it
Ï don't see
how they booked as though the 13.400ft possibly set started by March, Fontete runway. This radar
as planned. the ite Lallations, the aeriacks,
every
December 1936 foreigner in Madrid was a Rust intblacks of this Ple- tach By Creus of the Spanish capital. Today, by tha Xi412 adruples peasant reasoning. they are all Ameriennos.
Not Han1 the thousand-odd military and economic mission- aries from the US have yet hat anything bite the revolutionising In art on Madrid which the well-hidden handful of Soviet
stalt officers, secret police
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hangurs are still many, many One thing, though, has been
774914276 way.
begun. That is the widening of the great strulegic highroad But take cheer Wher They from Cadiz to Seville and up to are finished they will make the Madrid As I drove along it I new American base here it found working parties every- accommodate an establishment where hard at 1.
two or three times as large the existing one.
S
No crushers
in
Torrijon, I was told, is severnt month abeurt ar the other
base already American air
of u༥་༥སྙས
construction
perts. airmen, and politlent theoretically-at Zaragossa.
To be sure, apartment
rocketed up
have
HARD
HARD 11 11, though, in the sex- Prion I etrove over, with necks, "Waall." drawled an Ameri- shovels, and the old traditional
of the when I askeri gear
Spunish road can indulgenty about this apparent inactivity, menders. Not the stone crushers
to "I guess the boys have got and bulldozers ane expects
commisara had 18 years ago.
rents Into the stratesphere. One newly arrived
iplant friend of mine is hav- get the approach roads built to 300 an American high-speed Ing to pay £1,400 a year for a the new field first, so that they ouile modest apartment. Two can bring up the material."
years ago before the signing of
the Spanish-American аятсе
meal. It could have been had for
L400 a year.
But if we
threats
Can believe
See what I mean?
No houses
the
FEAR
of the boldest among
the Amerienn would-be
ra
the Americans
are
formera, and the gloomy fore- going to have lots of trouble bodings
No parties!
"They have bren project ordered and are on their way, 3,000,000 dollars worth." I was told in Madrid.
But I must not overdo this criticism of our hustling Allies for being
bit behind schedule. of And perhaps a bit ahead
This what's practicable.
is n they
have super-colossal task taken on here. What they are of Spanish diehard too with the local population.
trying to do is nothing less than traditionalists, really earthquak-
to convert Spain in two or three ing changes are on the way.
Mind you, that's where it is years from a delightfully 18th useful having a dletator-run century pensant State into one Police State
landlord of na your
those dreary, busting. General Franco can be trusted modern industrial machines. to stop anyone from becoming What in more, A machine obstreperous.
capable of serving as the Medi- Down at Rota, the primitive terranean theatre's No. 1 mill- THE four-hour middny break.
port tary bastion and staging-point during which the Spaniard little whitewashed fishing
opposite Cadiz, I found what In the event of Germany and retires for a long lunch, a chat are called mixed feelings about France and Turkey and and/or a siesta, is to be done Its having been chosch as the Middle East being overrun in a
hay site for the now American naval Soviet hot-war offensive.
supply port, naval air base, and What they have achieved Americano style in the office. starting-point for the 600-milo already merely in planning the all allocation of funds and con- Dinner is to be served at pipeline which is to carry
10 mo Immensely seven in the evening Instead of fuel to all the new airfields and tracts is
impressive.
And all the time at this stage
nway with in favour of sandwich and a glass of milk
at 10 and 11 p.m. as now, so bakes up and down Spain.
that an utterly un-Spanish early surt can be made the next morning, -
tho
"It le going to transform the of the planning the accent mbst town," sold the little black- realistically is on the southern Spain Interesting coated, sallow-faced secretary half
of
Midnight partion are to be cat of the Rota municipality. He evidence of Pentagon estimates
was ecstatic. "We shall become that Germany
out altogether,
I for one, however, shall not be astonished if it is the Amort
a great industrial centre."
and
Franco might be overrun at the begin~ ning of a war and this would be But down in the fishermen's the best busu loft. can go-getters who are con- cate they were less enthusiastic. U.S. Intructors are hard at families" work unining the army and nir by the "100% di 46 "No fewer than 400 *quored tomorrow" mind of the land of (the floure was confirmed to the force in the use of modern
secretary monaha Enaised of the other by the little
Tonki Tater) tariics “(20Afu anal_MAZAJ) way round.
Faro Being turned out of Małe, iza zew. Jet aireris dad, all time
THE G.1, CAUDILLO
(... This G.I.
ain't slimming)
BE MY GUEST, said DAVID LEWIN
LADY DOCKER
WHEN
"B
DOCKER DINED
WITH ARTHUR
ARTHUR HORNER
—and then came the big freeze
London.
my guest." I muld to Lady Docker. "I'd like you to
meet Arthur Horner--the Communist lender of the mineworkers. I think conversation
pretty Hvely."
Knight, who blue with a silver fox fur over urd to be a her shoulders, Vivienne Knight fashion design-
WA in a black cocktail dress. er and Journal- The two men were in sober dark Isl.
arsita.
افه کنی
your
should
be
We met cocktails and dlamer in restaurant Curzon Mayfair
Street,
Lady
"So do 1" said Lady
"When Docker, accepting,
I get going I say what I think."
"That's all right." 1 Al "Arthur Horner has the repola- tion of being able to kok after himself.
So they both came to dinner Str Bernard Docker.
thul vigorous capitalist and director of 10 companies.
came as well "La hold his wife's hand." And to hold mine I invited a bright Vivienne young film producer.
COCA COLA
by Cummings
11
other equipment which is being supplied by America to Spatu.
Yes, I have only sme real about all this. misgiving That is at the British naval. military, and air force authuri- ten in Gibraltar, who have considerable interest in what is being planned for Spain, have not been put in the picture.
Does this stem from American the anxiety not to tread on over-sensitive toes of Franco?
Are
to they doing enough exercise their own influence over this new recruit and make kim At politically into the Atlantic Club?
don't. It they these bases and railroads going to be pretty expensive.
are
LADY D
Arthur Horner Wis saying: "I don't usually come to the West End at night. In the I
don't spend much time
in the
West End at all. Today is
trem
Caviar comic served glass swan on a trolley. "Take that awful looking swâu away." said Lady Docker. The wan went.
Cuff query
Docker put different. I had a European WWE settled down to the meal. down her ary Coal and Steel Federalion meet- Lady Ducker paused for a
wartini she
Arthur
arc
when Ing. Then a club in Park Lane, mument," loolted #
"Where a look-in of a reception at the Horner and said: In- WON
Dorchester.
your cuffs?" troduced to Arthur Boruce and Munched into the attack.
"Why do you always strike- and at the wring tone-
1x
Horner ordered il AIR unet fonie und sald. "The wrong time is the right time to strike, What a bad time for you is prob- ably the best time for us.
We settled in the cet ner ht the bar. Lady Docker swirling satin in two shades of
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"I don't care for the West End, though. I'd sconer get out to my home at Kenton."
Sir Bernard Docker sat next forner, and the two men went into a business discussioti. There was talk of pounds-t by the hundred but by the
million.
High finance
TORNER said: "My union has
H
pensions funds which wo invest at a good rate of interest. Something ilke £ 1.000.000 Ú month to Invest. Some of gels a 10 percent return. Some 22 percent. Average is 5 per-
rent.
"There is 2 man in my office who writes 2 cheque for millions one minute and A cheque for la. Od. the next.”
Sir Bernard nødded in sym- pathy.
"Have you a asked.
man like that?"
"Not quite like that." said Sir Bernard. "Although our figures are pretty high too." (The capital of his master com- pany, Birmingham Small Arma
is some £20,500,000.)
Arthur Florner grinned. "Always wear my shirt sleeves rolled up," he said. "I roll thei ip in my office And they stay that way. I just can't stund anything close round my wrists."
"Just like my brother-in-law," said Lily Docker. "Ho doesn't show his cuts either."
HORNER
Arthur start- Ad to explain Vivienne Knight that he always
found
to
his shit sleoves were too long anyway, when Lady Docker mentioned the word Com- munist and flared at Alm: "I know all about you. I've checked up an. you"
She fingered the material of her gown. "It is satin and hand made and very expensive -and all for you."
Horner said: "I don't think I like you. But I get on with your husband much better. can talk with Sir Bernard. ..."
when
we
Lady Docker: "All right-- we'll make It up dance. If you can dance, that
"There's no music," I said,
Lndy Docker swung round to is." Arthur Horner again. "You're the mun I'm supposed to be dealing with," she said. "Now why are you always striking and upsetting business?"
Horner broke off his talk of high finance and Investment. "We're in business too," $ໄປ.
No words
he THE dinner table
into
talk split two groups. It
WIS
"Our business is selling Inbour. Like any other business, hardly a meeting of the minds
Lady Docker and
we want to got the best price between. for it. So we got a good price Arthur Horner. for it when other people
it most."
'I expect
LADY
DOCKER stood
need
Lalced
To me Lady Docker about television. "They want me for commercial TV," she said. "But i couldn't work on
must Sunday, I Sunday--I have such
rest OTL
a heavy
week. Answering letters and up, entertaining for my husband's tho
glaring at Horner and hold- business and talking
ng her für in her hand. "Will pisone, somebody take care of this?" she said.
on
"I don't mind publicity. be- cause it is good for business.
those other ladies on TV who
I reached for it and was fore But I don't want to be Uke stulled by a walter doing 11 four-minite-mile sprint from the other side of the room,
Lady Docker handed her fur
to the man and said to Homer:
Into the restaurant and waves
do it just for
and the fame."
Lady Docker
the money
had no words The two
for Arthur Horner.
Str Bornard
I have
"That's what I expect when I were silent, and at the other buy service."
end of the table was saying to Vivienne Knight: to people we knew. Sir Michael "You know, my dealings with Balcon and his wife ot one these labour fellows, trade union table. Sir Hartley and Lady leaders, are very amicable. I Shawcross at another.
have no trouble at all. But Wallers started serving the think Mr Horner may first. course, Melon in cham- pagne, specially prepared, White wine to drink. Lady Docker, sitting next to Arthur Horner, wanted another dry martini. It was brought.
Then I want_covlar," she soid. "I always have caviar."
come with a preconceived iden of my wife this evening, Norah is really a very gentle girl."
Miss Knight said: "Gentle, of
labour leaders. course. So are But conversation doesn't seem 10 be A very living thing between them...
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