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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1955.

* DON IDDON'S DIARY ⭑ THE PINNACLES OF DIPLOMACY

Rollicking Ike Hints

At Running

P

ance.

Again

of the

The Rocky Marciane-Archie New York, Tuesday. The incredible thing is thut

the heavy- RESIDENT Eisen- Dwight Eisenhower 1sday has Moore" fight for

almes no opponents and only on weight championship hower is preparing for my Senator Joseph Mc world should be a humdinger. the Geneva conference Carthy. The President has I saw Moore easily flatten Bobo with almost electric exuber- pruethally get the solid backing Olsen but I am sorry the During his few days of Congress for what he does or coloured Cinderella man is so

egocentric, in New England -after the fails to do in Geneva,

McCarthy made his ene big strenuous flight to San Gil to humper and hobble e Francisco and back within President by trying to challenge 48 hours he was actually Eisenhower's conduct of rollicking, and rollicking is policy. He falled miser

ably. "Even Servita William Know

the word.

U.S

He joked and eased and land would not join in the critic

fun of his Cabinet. He fem of Eisenhower, and Me- made. hinted that he was going to run Carthy and his old friend Sena- Presidency. He tor Kart Mundt have parted 4goin for the deflated the hopes of his party, cempany.

then indated

the Republicans,

them again.

golf he has

dici not

for

.

The first thing he asked for after he had knocked out Olsen. was a comb, He had hennard ecal his greying temples.

his hair before the fight to con

Jack Dempsey

THE other day for no good reason

Cockell.

he insulted Don He said: "Fighting Olsen, the A year ago the junior Senator middle-weight champion. I drew from Wisconsin Wis 3: the more money than Marciuno did He played the best games of pinnacle of his fame and power, with his ten-cent English chal- ever done, and he Today Joseph M.Curthy sa lenger Don Cockell and I ussure get before leaving very small-time Senator who everyone that I will show Rocky

Press more light than Cockell." Washington to "write-little rarely" rates public and

His attention.

I dropped in at Jack Demp- of appreciation to

Perhaps the fall of McCarthy sey's restaurant on "Broadway hosts.

hal

of the reasons for the the President

never is one

day and the old other The

has just celo. looked happier. His proudesta President's exuberant spirits.

Compared with Elenhower's champion, who new prsession, after the dream

brated his 60th birthday, says Mpion home in

Gettysburg the spontaneous smiles, Mr

Marciano-Moore light appeared rather that the small twin-engined plane which toy's have

will be a terrine bout, While he now uses to hop between the forced.

he attracted a

Dempsey added to my tarrow: lot of fascinated attention here White House and his farm in

happen to think Moore Pennsylvania.

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He uses the big four-engined Presidential plane, the Colum- bing II, only for long-distance journeys,

Air travel

1he

and in San Francisco" and still would have taken Cockell in wears the tropping of Foreign Minister of a

Stalin, CDC or two rounds." his power has obviously

dwindled.

He tries to speak with the old ruthless authority,one minute, wearing the forced grin and the ENERAL Eisenhower is the ten-gallon cowboy hat the next. U only President of the United

He has pretended that States to use a plane with great change in Russia has nol finity than four engines while taken place, but has convinced in offee, Even Magic, who used no one, 10 dislike and fear flying, har become air-minded.

The President's hectic ovalen in New Hampshire-1 remember covering the first vital primary there which ret the Eisenhower ball rolling the years mazes the cxpe: believe that Mr Eisenhower will run again,

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High Road

"Have to get "nearer, boy," I whispered.

There was rough

THEN LOW

his binoculars beyond them down to the Admiralip tampedo testing range *" the Gareloch,

Some people arc saying colishly: Puerto Ricans should

ANY motorists wholars was escapism the easy way. never. have been allowed to come here

have driven round Glasgow and the city streets in the rst place.

the bonnie, bonnie were only 40 odd miles away.

The deer was "directly down- They should stay in their own

banks of Loch On the day in question in the wind. but more than 400 yards country; we don't want them." The Puerto Ricons, as United

and Lomond will remember the late thirties I was more ener- away. A nice academic exercise

Relic than usual. Maybe it was in stalking. States citizens, can arrive or

Rex, our spaniel, snuffling at my Leave here at will without visas cottage. (unlike British correspondents). Along that winding road hand every time I tumbled below country in between, but Rex Four hundred thousand have from Balloch towards the the canvas for the handy quart showed the way, flattened to the descended on Upper Manhattan, north, with the sudden bottle of beer. Perhaps the ground one moment with his passing gamekeeper with his ears streamlined to his body. near Hackm, and the West Side turns, with sheer sweeping talk about his glimpse of a bounding from the scant cover Not all the tech-age gangs are rock faces on one side and Royal in the glea directly above of reeds to bracken, the next. Puerto Rican. There are Italiana slender line of white the cottage stir- mobs Polish groups, Negro railings marking the deep red

activity. fangs, and quite a few include drop into the dark waters American hoodlums, They all of the loch, it is. perched

naros above one of the worst in the rack bo- are lumped under the

during the past few years.

native American and Irish-

juvenile delinquents.

The chief inspector of

police

corners.

the

Stephen department,

called Firken The spot is Kennedy, says: There will be Tall and when my family came into possession it was Druri- nicknamed promptly

c-holds-barred crackdown.”

J. Edgar Hoover, the head. G. man, says: "This is the season mond's Folly by our friends. of the year when a tidal wave

American Shelving beach

of violence must be expected to break

upor the reene,"

our

upu

I left the ride

cause we had a family rule about

summer shooting, took the but

and, binoculars

cf course, Rex, who led the way, bourding through the bracken.

42

by JOHN DRUMMOND

As a wor-time novel officer, Scottish-born John D. Drum- mond escorted ocean comroya and Wrote Through Hall and High Water. Today, as a Fleet Street journalist, he livan with his wife and four small sons le Hamp stead Garden Suburb, where he 31 just completing a thriller Counter- concerned aspionage.

with

r

Drawing by SHOWELL

of

and face down. Then I saw his "before, which I binoculars

and beyond them"

strongly suspect- down to the Admiralty torpedo ed be had testing range in the Gareloch..

worried out of

my, The Navy was then several one years away, but I became inter snares, but he ested, too, in the erratic move sat up growling. ments of the underwater object. „ which

was behaving in the depths like a swollen-headed ice

off to his friends skater showing

at the local rink. Figures of eight, circles, leaps and plunges,

the

a

split second before the heavy

knocking on the

side door.

From the banks of Loch Lomond comes a tale to set you guessing. Did this story razily bappen? The riddle is yours to solve. Tomorrow the antwer will be published.

I clipped his dangling leash

Strict stience was the order on lock-up at

had been dream-Only from the hill-top could the to the leg of the old-fashioned the way to the ing that year. about the hat-trick. Something We were just priding ourselves performance have been witnessed stove. Then I opened the door Helensburgh, but we had heard a metallile barrel enough. The foreigner had been and found

gelignite it the I have never done or am never on our approach when the stag des Many burns pour their shoved almost inte my ribs. caught,

into peat-brown waters

Fortunately it was just the poacher's pockets of his genuine spout of a tea kettle. Behind it. Scots tweed sports jacket, in the stranger of the afternoon front of the safe at the torpedo

testing range office. from the hill top.

in

A stag. a up-ended himself to

his feet, Garaloch. between thumped once with his forelegs,

This teen-age crime is New

The skidding, the furious brak- York Cuy's biggest problem, But I must report a tremendousing and gear-changing of inno- likely to do now. drive for reform, The Federal cent passing strangers kept cur salmon and a grouse

and was off like a whirlwind. "Remote control," I said aloud, Government has offered to turn visitors awake during the sum- dawn and dusk.

the early I was working my way up a *Blast! I was positive, we-Rex Koked up, baffled. The man over Ellis Island to the city's mer holidays until

Then the peering head- gulis. 1 knew, with the dog had not startled him, but it was jumped up, startled.

"Good

Our Divisional Officer, "It is very wet. My fire will be said. afternoon," alcoholics and drug addicts so hours.

always, to walk windows obediently at heel, when I saw a relief. as

not light. I saw your smoke, former destroyer man, swore us that they can be treated there, Lights through

the gamekeeper's stag. He was vertically again. And he was That was all. He smiled; tried The amazing organisation slackened off,

lying in the protection of seme no Royal Six points on one to pat the dog which moved out Please could I have some boiling to secrecy and security on the

this?"

way back to base. I hear his Alcoholics Anonymous, which

Yet the view over the steep overhanging outcrop, in the sun, antler and five on the other for of his way, and then he marched water

telling remark now. has done more than anyone or shelving beach, across the loch but protected from the force of my money, We strolled across off whistling.

Every damp day from April to anything to help the drunkard, to Ben Legend, to my mind is the wind. He was wary yet to his rook, then I took a line Four hours later I saw him

September We expected this "You open your mouths and has held its 20th anniversary

antlers upwind to find what had caused again. 1

kind of request. Sometimes the thousands of your mates may in St Louis. Fifteen thousand one of the finest in the world. unsuspicious,

with the the sudden. Right,

house just before the main set trippers from Glasgow and else. swallow a fatal amount of salt delegates from 50 countries. To lie in a deck-chair in the sun merged and blended

in for the sight. Rex was fed, where, when they saw a smile, sea water." on the patch of rough Lawn and tracery of shrub and small trees attended the anniversary.

watch the deer foraging on the growing above him. Hard to At first I thought the man was on the cooked half of the rabbit hopefully talked about opposite slopes through binocu- count.

deep. He sprawled full length he had brought in the day sheriage of tea in their proffer- stranger Was ed pots. The content with hot water. He went his way.

but his

had

the reached

Let the Future Scholar The Unhappy Heiress Stays At Home

have a Start Now!

Learning.

Read

from

Book 1

Lea

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

HONG LONG & KOWLOON

THAT

Paris.

so unhappy heiress, Barbara Hutton, is be- coming, a confirmed recluse. It is now two months, since she came to Paris and during that time she has not once left her hotel suite overlooking the Place Ven- dome.

PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM SAM WHITE

the

the

Espionage?

Weeks later I was in London, One early morning six years in a certain dive bar not a later I passed the cottage in a million miles from Scotland blacked-out » bus. Ordinary Yard. I was "wetting my Sub- Seaman Drummond was return Lieutenant's ring, recently won ing from week-end leave in at HMS King Alfred, - Glasgow

In walked a. Special Branch

to the Combined Operations camp near Inverary.

After a year with the French air force during the war he entered

At Anseher a shipmate nudged officer, a fellow Sect, with a the Resistance Movernent and became Resistance Chief for me awake. "There's the Jaunty, reporter I had known for many

He France.

is a man with the village copper. Some years, The latter was bemoan- ing his frustrating assignment

Eastern

of

in camera..

One of them they caught in your neck of the woods, Jock, get his lot today, 'But no details."

Our Divisional Officer had

The Special Branch man travelled with us. The Master-at- Arms whipped big of a salute looked wisely into his pint mug

when I asked: "Where?"

remendous energy, who starts thing's up.” work at 7.a.m. and insists that (The Jaunty was the Master. covering the current session of the Old Bailey. So many his staff should be on duty an at-Arms, a nome derived, some Occasionally she sees her resistance leader. comes from a

a corruption of the espionage cases were being held Taler: hour

He Alsatian

is a close con said, from Jewish husband, Prince, distinguished previous

dant General de Gaulle and word gendarme.) Trabetzky, whose name she family but is himself a Roman

it will be interesting to see how still bears, Lance, her 19-year- Catholle convert.

strongly im- Fixed bayonets old son from her marriage with He made his mark after the he adapts his

perialistic views to the red Count Reventlow is ot 3 war as Governor, ligh Commis Government policy of seeking a Her Paris hairdresser has university in California. Her last simmer and anally Ambassador to

with Moroccan reconciliation ex-husband.

Dominican the Szar. waited for a call, but in Rabirosa, to whom

nationalists, she was

There he lived in vice-regal vain; friends have given up marched for only eight weeks, splendour in a medieval castle His first task, however will be and passed over a slip of paper: He did not answer instead sending her invitations--she is disa in Paris. Him she never overlooking Saarbrucken and tend the bloodshed. And in Then we heard the familiar ignores all their messages; 2009.

set out deliberately and success the process escape assassination words "Hey, you and you he began to whistle a tune have

fully been instructions

to overawe. the wholly

y himself, at the hands of either We found rifles in our henis softly. The words begin: By German Saarlanders. issued to the hotel staff to

French or Moroccan terrorists. and then. gaiters, belts, and you bonae banks, and by you. Though he speaks German

bayonets,

"Down chin-straps, bonnie braes. deny that Miss Hutton is

fluently, he refused to speak the staying in the hotel.

On belts and galters. You're my WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED guard! TRANCE is despatching her language in the Sear.

toughest administrator to negotiations with Saar politicians

Guarding what? We were mi One of her few close friends, Morocca where. nationalist were conducted in French and

Mitford: plert long in doubt, The Divisional DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? former tennis champion Baron terrorism, and French counter- his official speeches von Cramm, came to Paris in an terrorism are rapidly producing in

in French,

es were mads NOVELIST Nancy

Barze

arge The marriage customs of Officer snapped out a corunand effort to rally her. He stayed altuation

bordering on civil alterations in his official resi- the British petrage have lately and we axed bayonets. The

YES

NO 15 days, but in the end admitted

to make it even more become very lax. One peer in village policeman led the way to it was in the days eight has dirested himself of his the beer cellar of the hotel, the

wife," and its former occipant a

are rather more duchesses windows. There was

fullure.

CIVIL WAR?

The new Governor-General, of

then

...

All Eis QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Miss Hutton's condition is who 'replaces a somewhat bellid milionaire German industrialist, there 2oreigners, notice that only room with iron-barred. Put your mek 19,the snack miora 'uml;

servants than dukes in London 10wy. whisper was led out

worrying her English secretary diplomat, s. 61-year-old Colonel A score of livered companion, Miss Latimer, and Gilbert Grandval, man of imparted from France were today. the hotel management. She tempestuous action who belles employed, and a splendid military melancholla. The greater part lackadaisical dandified air, the day.

nome keep thisŋpend by you matii lamarrond convention, then after all. De chwilk

southerature le Sita berius-kyld and

scents to be suffering from acute his character by a doceptively, guard was on duty, evéry hour of Playwright Jean Cockéer; pe ecrons to the utility wZIL

course. I believe in luck, How of her time is spent writing Grandval, the name he look Before the war he was otherwise to explain the success sentimental poetry.

d during the war when he was a manager of a chemical factory of some people you detet?

from, the base.

It was the stranger I had seen twice that carefree day six years before, Of that I am cert:

Valentine Dyall

Did the previous study in the series.

Petarda: Falkvistually happen

Death in the Lween Murton, by