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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1955.

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THE AMERICA I'VE JUST LEFT

AMAZES ME

by René MacColl

worrying about all this as once houses, new bus terminals, new

they would have done.

Talk now is on the enduring topics babies, homes, and Bardening. Genial gossip about forthcoming marriages. Sport and holidays and new curs.

Everyone seems to be having good fun-und not at all in the spirit of "for tomorrow we die" either,

super-markets, great new office buildings, motels, wayside restaurants, schools, goy and bright and well designed.

There is a flood of everything! you could want--and 'an up- surge of population. to take enfe of it all.

The people I talked to casually, the average people, all echoed the new mood, the glad, Prosperity is vast and growing unharassed mood. It seemed vaster. Nobody seems to be Impossible that only a couple of left oul or 11. Eisenhower fe years ago the fashionable thing very much to the people's lik- to say was, "Well, why don't inz.

we drop a few atom bombs on the Russians and get it over with?" Nothing like that now.

By hard work, drive, and on esticity approach rather rare to a professional suldier, he has fashioned himself into น

RENE MacCOLL, swinging between the points of power, is just back in London from America; just off to Moscow. And today he tells of the sweeping change which has transformed the U.S." in the past few months. Remember his background as you read: Washington correspondent of the Daily Express 1946-8; chief American correspondent 1951-2; and a close student of American affairs since his first reporting job on a Baltimore newspaper in 1927.

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LIKE US

DEMOVE the oceant, and the average American today sounds so much in agreement with what average Briton says while discussing Interna- tional affairs in the pub that it would be hurd to tall them apart.

Almost

American power and pros- perity are a famillar story. But the miracle is within the mind. The giant has lost his jitters,

And about

quotation that HE mood of America is part of the American trans- highly effective President, (Wil

next year's from Teddy Roosevelt. formation scone he no longer he "run" again in

to the has changed com-

confined course.) His always it is election? feels that way.

But what he sala. pletely since I Was

goodwill, as well words I used. honesty and War

which World last there in

as his strength are there for all in full was this:- been waiting eagerly in hus

to see.

"Speak the wings for too many

UTI

Boftly, but carry a On all sides in the U.S.A.

WILL YOU during the past dó

see the buildings roaring big stick-AND occasions years, looked as if it would get upwards-new skyscrapers, new GO FAR!" the chance to come on stage during the battle of Dien Bien is hu.

February.

In one of the greatest transformations that even the mercurial USA has ever provided. America today calmer more moderate--and

That was in April of last year, more quietly self-confident when the French were making than I have known her at their

last, heartrending stand Egainst the Communist armies any time since the war. of Ho Chi nhánh.

Gone the Jilters which formerly hung in the rather feverish almosphere. Gone the tolk

of inevitable" war and calamity which until the other

evcey

GAMBLE

day was apt to

lace nearly DULLES thought it was worth conversation. Gone the taking the gamble of a massive talk of "recessions" and air strike from Allied olecraft

Just

which around that carriers

might depressions

have corner. Today the mood evory- bioken up the Reds sufficiently where la mild. But it is the to enable the French to hang mildness of the strong man who on.

touch and go--but was never talten.

you

Would YOU take out a girl in a hat like that?

"Date the film actress at the first night. "It embarrasses me”

Otake off that hat," said the

Pictured here is the embarrassing hat on the head of the girl who wore it- American-born actress Margo Lorenz,

It is a crimson hat with two immense waterfalls

of crimson ANNE EDWARDS opens up the Case of The Girl and The Earl and The Osprey

osprey, and it

Would

แ man

of

£

raises the ques-

P.S.: "I silil think it was a tion:

to YOU friend's longing cut much." "Good heavens, Jong,"

occasional take out a girl' in that an

dash

ho says, when he turns up at very nice hat;" mid-Mien :unabashed. "I w09 tho cockmail party, "what hava Lorenz, hat?

the problem of every you got on your head?"

mobbed when I came out there the theatre." For in, every woman woman's longing to wear

is ar

it was a very nice hat," longing to wear a hat.

photographer: Baron just ad showy ds this. per agreed haps for a perfect day at the who was with the lady at the races or a first night in a box time a very nice hat for at the theatre, or when she film star at a first night.?

Myself--I think it is just as snys, sees her daughter married.

Although in her heart of

well that men draw the line bit hearts she knows that even when they do.

hat the faço, and the figure, and the dress, and the casion, and the weathertho would Jook man in her lifo

take off aghast and say: "Do that hat. It embarrasses.me."

The

of the showy hat, and no case Girl, the Eari, and the wanting to be with her when Hat

the she does. opens up whole problem of the

"I say. man's staid prefer when she turns up at the prize- ences versus the girl giving. "that hat

mother," ho

Reluctant Champion

Mrs. Boffin' Burns 'did not

want to glide... but when

she did she broke records

M

RS ANNE BURNS is the strangest champion I have ever met. She is "boffin"-a principal scientific

a

It was has little to fear. "Speak softly, the gamble but carry a big stick"-so couri- Instead there came last sum- officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment

selled Be

famous President mer's Geneva talks. (101-8) Theodore "Teddy" Hoosevelt. And today America seems to be taking his sapient

advice.

But, despite the

rather

absent-

at Farnborough-and uneary mindedly she has set a new distance record

armistice in Indo-China and the for women gilders.

end of the Korean war, the Far

Eastern situation is still nothing Mrs Burns did not want to glide in the to get complacent about even if first place; ahe did not intend to break any ton"-meaning the Government America is no longer dedicated

Often in the past "Washing

of the U.S.A.-has appeared to the proposition that the Com-records; and when she did, she did not

out of step with public opinion. munist regime in Peking must know she had done it.

on vital questions. But today be ended.

there is striking unanimity of

I think that, sooner or opinion between Americans and their Government on the great later, the U.S.A. will agree, issues of the time,

aibelt reluctantly, to the admis- sion of Communist China to

EV

GONE!

.

She took off from Lashom Field, near Forn- borough, and landed four hours and 55 minutes later at Ternhill airfield in Shropshire-134 miles away. She did it after less than a year's ex-

MARY HEWAT

Mr. and Mrs. Burnaand "Polly," their glidor.

s A

When the other day he mada “wa frontiers"-and air frontiersing for the fumy. He is also said I didn't want to fly without asham field, or work on' gilder Koch glacior," "the" biggest glacler |

Genévá, he

humiliated.

GOOD FUN "at

South

even

if you

at

UNO. But I also think that perience, in an Olympia sail Americs will NOT agree in the plane which she and her hus

years ago, qualified as a "power" the trailer to the landing spot. foreseeable future to the surand had owned only two weeks.

plot, and works in the struc- There they dismantle the gilder render of Formosa to the Reds. Says she: "Beginner's luck."

tures department...

which has 'n wing-spread of 40ft., "like a Meccano "ict," load it on TİVERYWHERE extremism is in

is not a question of ob- It

The new champion a brown-

Now the spare time life of the the trailer and return to base. retreat, Senator Joe stimacy or prestige or emotional

Burns family is all gliding. They McCarthy, who, as recently as a attachment to Chiang Kai-shek, haired, blue-eyed 39-year-old. She is a rather silent woman,

Lalk about "thermal conditions, Risks don't

worry them. year ago, loomed as a demagogic It is simply a matter of "vital inclined to sit back with an guiding when we had some spare "wind-vectors, Pizzing air: Before they started, gliding, Mir menace of apparent importance, interest.”.

whlle affectionate smile.

her cash,"

alde when the weather is good, and Mrs Burns spent their holl- Is today the forgotten,” man, of Amerlan fools

with that'

about 100 launchings.each.59 days sit-mountaincaring-once U.S. polities,

Formosa in Red hands her own husband, Denis, does the talk-

Says Mr Burns: "I always work on the sailplane, at spent 12 hours on the Jungfrau principal scientific officer at too for that matter would be Farnborough, in the electrical one of these things (waving her the mistake of trying to intro-

their whitewashed in Switzerland trying to reach forced back thousands of miles

A Jean, arms like a propeller) on the parts

base when the temperature' was duce into the Senate o resolution towards the Pacific, coast of the engineering section,

front. I like doing aerobatics, cottage in Church Crookham, 42-year-old Elsenhower's U.S. mainland. aimed

at lying

63 degrees below freezing point. greying,

but in gliding,

the Mr - Burns,

electrical.. African. hands at "aummit parleys" in

can do them, it is just NOT expert, is working on the true-

Do they never do anything Way promptly

DONE!

ture of the machine. Mrs Burns, quiet and restful? "Wo met," recalls Mrs Burns,

Farnborough' cricket But Mr Burns persuaded hor the structures expert, is build-

"Well," says Mrs Buma, "I natch nine years ago-men that gliding required more flying says he "It makes a change. do like gardening, but as you

ing. now instrument panel.

can heo, I haven't much time for 11. And my husband keeps bees. But they seem to be dying." The average scientist · is an

to *We used "play bridge," sayE abjolute alot of honour and high integrity, prestige and to serve nolles; on

a pilot," mys But gliding is an expensive Mr Burns, "all-day sessions. such as the Secretary of Staip, the world that she is not giving her out Ibw," says her husband, apply to Anne. Of course, she as Polly

"I had the pleasure of giving Me Burns," "but that dopen pastime. Their sellplane, known But I know of one care whore, a with trailer, cost woman shot her husband over in John Foster Dulles and Admiral

· “We were married about a year had the experience of power them 2015 second-Hand (a new game of bridge-and Anne was Arthur W. Radford (formerly anything away.

fying Behind her.". chairman of the Joint Chiefs of When I was In America later

wallplane and trailer would cost getting a bit upset over some ot Staff and how "Chief

(£ 1,000), IN Launchings by winch my calling.” Naval recently a division of Marines ét of

at America's shock troops was Husband Denis started the There is nothing of the clot from the ground are Se, time,

being readied unobtrusively for family gilding last August about Ante Burne She took an arborne idupching om Justinoble homkido" any only by a resors, 10 seria: But in the streets and the much, you know - Yois get hotter, Oxford +(1) Patarted on mathew, and del more for each additional Denis is that he likes playing the

homes, the business offices and and hotler, is higher and mailes but they were los pure 1000 feet Dulles was convinced that the clubed and restaurants of hither and then the gi pressure, for me?) wet hooker bile and ugl Red regime in Peking must be America, the Americans them dabingforway Nót- mlinh tang It quanh "anit-blue, anded all adu

selves” Are=pot: nm) shing and M8hways wanteduto do solne Royal Albrary Wa

Let us get this quite straight: there have never been any war- Cabinet of mongers in the

-President Dwight Eisenhower'

nor any among als seasoned ablo chiefs of staff.

But there

were

ND far from abandoning versus women,'

A Chiang to his fate, the U.S.

*: mày be about, to send some of her own troops, to the island, mr of both to bolster Chiang's wanita

A year later

skill and "äirmanship" than "powered planes. "And the new!

record was met.

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