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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1955.

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FILES

"Well, I'll give you one good reason why it's not a good place-in ten minutos we're going to open those doors and tot out another thirty thousand of 'em anxious to mingle with the lostive crowd.”

DON

IDDON'S

T

DIARY

New York, Tuesday

From America To The Free World Comes The

MOST EXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS

GIFT

DIE U.S.. as usual, is sent is not luring; emudenated The Agure of $7,783,000,000 15 Cones anel hung with presents

giving

world's The most expensive Christ- few politicians. mas present. a little package American billion is a of $5,000,000,040.

The sam may be whittled

down a little by

O

but that in the President

Congress, gift that Eisenhower and his Administration want to send to the rest of the free world.

Europeans "Well, afford it." But we should get that every

Cartier.

ana batzung ganske v Keep

by very

A

and milling. unlike Earth bdlion, which is ani millum)

(The the - the

Fargely aeeunzulatest Interest pret.

1

result

At

If 41⁄4

nd priced at $190 being snap-

Best sp

Timonys,

and Gor-

il

tely loan of $7,800,000,000 to her allies was largely made Figures at no Interest at all.

dall, but are supposed to be

are not certainly not to

1st

L บ . Amerientis ar the most an Englishman. generous propte

Oke world, and they intend Lo stay that way.

However, I am sorry see that many Americans Way std babour ander the fu. sion that Britain not only laps far behind, but does unt jay her debts.

may the Americana can This is true. never for- million 14 made up of the dollars and dimes of the ordinary US. citizen.

The ey zumes froth the taxpayer and no cise.

**

thel

This week the US. eales an even busier pinmcle of prosperity, and sobe nomists are saying: "There will never be any more de- pressions never. Slight rocessions perhaps,

but adjustments. sions impossible.”

The al report has been re- England vived that says that

was the US $7.783.000,000 on Lebi from the First Word

1.

War

The chestnut

LABOST

every veste aborit

A to nag- the antique chest-

oner

Here, rutas parasdyrest. and for all are the figures, for which I 43: trebled tr Sk Derwent Hall Caine.

m. were invadid for days by people who in the Dist have only gazeti ET 1 The windows. Jewellers Silv "Couples buying nerkices, bracelets, and Pings costing over $10,000,

they wouldn't few years DRO

are

A

com-

I think it is a pity after all have even dreamt of them." the money that we have cx- pended over the years on information services and our diplomalle and consular services here that we have not been able To get a record straight

American minds.

the

Re

the latest

recovers

Cndiues have become our

monplace and the new Lincoln Continental, which is $10,000, and is America's most expensive In such demand that the Ford Company is considering Increasing production.

In

on

London Express Bervica

THE RISE OF SELWYN LLOYD

By GEOFFREY WAKEFORD

shay Bullers of the North-the The '30's formed his political This was hard-Asted ironmasters of the Industrial Revolution.

Iran made money.

in their

the

secret

Buller plan. character. But they bore no Selwyn Lloyd was a Butler men. political fruli, though DS

labours they money Hoylake councillor he secured were joined by Anthony Nutting mi de

bankers, and bankers his base. People of the Wirral and Antony Head. The produci mude artists, writers, doctors, that near-oblong promontory was Britain Strong and Free. diplomats, and politicians. That, across which the Welsh and the the general policy statement on briefly, is the Lloyd story. English shake hands-sent him which the Tories drove the Liverpool

career is Selwyn's

to Westminster in 1945 with a Socialists from power in 1951. elty. and Wirral, in Cheshire, flattering majority. The rest of Yet today all three are te- hus home county, sent him to the country was busy going cepted as Eden men. Lloyd was Parliament in 1945.

Socialist.

close to Butler in opposition, but Не was 41 and

Three careers

a back as Minister of State grew closer bencher. Today he is 51 and to Eden. Foreign Secretary. Minister of State in 1951 at the age of 47-

Is the first back-bencher promoted by Churchill. Minister of Supply of in 1954

at the age of Minister of Defence in 1955 still 50. Foreign Secre-

Then the Army. In 1930 ho

decade

50.

sweep,

Safe man

13

mce, worked under Mr Butler Anesse of giving

Tory Central he has much to learn about the

THE allusion to the eagle

based on what is known the rapid, silent Night of "Lloyd

Selwyn- the Law" in three careers.

April How near, now,

Lloyd to 10. Downing Street? Britain and the United States

that ATCH

He is a "safe" man. Safe' men casa, but have a magnificent

Two-hundred-and-flfly - dollar

The low is hig profession, tory in December 1955.

have often climbed losing it by default.

Sudeten Welsh- Mark his progress. At the age eening bags in which to carry

to power. They

They are not necessarily popular die not know how

also to boltles of liquor are

man. He will o 20 he was called to the Bar

The base present their case. So despite sale and, amazingly. are being

and practised

men. But they are usually good soar like the eagle beyond at Gray's Ian,

organisera of independent mind? Toy suits of armour $8,000,000,000 gift bought.

the on

Northern Circuit. He and the fact that the U.S. Is for boys, costing $100 each, are the peak and, coming wing- took silk at $3, and was

Is for $ in New York hushed out of cloud, aight Recorder of Wigan a year we THE base for this astonishing There is nothing particularly spending $100 for every

destiny was modest about this dapper Sude- Russia spends, and $10 for every and in stores right across the

secured in on the crag before we have

the six years

Welshman. of

His dark eye. Is country. $1 the Russians promise, it

shaken the mist frum our was a Territorial subaltern of opposition, 1945-51. They were like the eagle's, takes you in Ita the Soviets who are presently

35 ("Lloyd the Tonk"). By his years enlivened by the group of swe and then darts beyond whining the psychological war.

This was #diamond-dazzling | eyes."

of young Torles who, in the back yous-upwards. In the Commons 36th birthday after the fall

rooms ol the An old Welsh Socialist France, he was a major. Lleut-

in gracefully colonel at 38. Full colonel at 39. once spoke these words to when the Second Army

to remesh Tory policy to the under criticism. He -can be WAS me of John Selwyn Brooke formed for the Normandy

In realities of the Welfare State abrupt, even domineering, and

and the aspirations of a society he is Uked more by men Lloyd

than was promoted which had endured Lloyd who, with 51 years vasion,

two bloody by women. behind him, has become brigadier on Headquarters Staff.

wars and the rotting

But he is a personality. Upon Foreign Secretary. Ilis

Finally, politics. David Lloyd of mass unemployment. Selwyn him he carries the same stamp

of superior aloofness as across the George was still a magle name Lloyd was one of the team.

at Westminster when Lloyd was Even then he foreshadowed shown by that other Old Fette- shadow strikes jagged col leading to 10, at Magdalene, and, at 23, pres- the Joint Chiefs of Staff Com- sion, Viscount Simon, the Dowing Street.

dent of the Cambridge Union, mittee which, as Defence Mini- jurkt, and silll is shown by two The dismemberment of the ster, he baptised a few weeks others of his generation t Liberal Party, the shattering of ago, In one Finance Bill de- Fettes College now In Parlia- Lloyd George's revivalist dreams bate, which he wound up for the ment-Iain Macleod

Ian and were only a few months away Torics, he warned Sir Stafford Harvey, when Selwyn had himself HE phrase "Sudeten Welsh adopted Liberal candidate

the Torles Cripps that, while

An Impish gravity neverthe- THE

for would preserve the social ser- less saves him from a general man" Is gently meana Macclesfield. He was 25. "Lloyd vices and underpin defence, they charge of arrogance. This should R $6,000,000,000 private joke between those the Liberal."

would seek "great economies" help him with a populace which American Christmas with people Lloyds and Morgans, Owens and Ramsay MacDonald's ill-fated in public administration.

knows so little of him. laying eight percent more inoney other Cells with lap-rooth

Tiffanys Christmas.

offer Perhaps when President 500.000 diamond rings. and Eisenhower

his full

year total jewellery sales this will be almost $2,000,000,000. strength the West will do better. More and more people Bre coming to believe that Mr Eisenhower will run again, and First

the President is doing nothing alhes to change their minds.

Britain,

the Cung minor

World War, jest to Ber depres- $780,000,000 and received back

Immense wealth

BECAUSE of

mense country.

the im

the wealth of the latest tive-

Ival other $5.773.000.000

Dazzling

15 $346,000,000 The U.S. Every junalist, however, be- RIGHT across the country the fabulous Christmas shopping countries heves that the President inusi grew and grew. Up 21 per 4% percent. hold a Press conference soon, cent in Detroit from last year. received hack only Mr Elsenhower has not been Up 26 percent in Pittsburgh. 5879,000,000. While Britain re-

In San Fram- ceivert 43 percent of all the war questioned now for four months. Up 15 percent

cisco; 25 percent in Salt Lake City, and 15 percent in Mem- phis,

uns made by the US. in the First World War, she paid back 15 percent of ult the payments received by the US. from all

billion-dollar Christmas pre- her allies.

EMPIRE

King's Road. Telephone 70103.

LOUIS KENTNER

(pianist)

Tuesday Thursday, 3rd & 5th January, 1956. at 9.30 p.m.

SOME OF THE THINGS SAID ABOUT KENTNER.

Louls Kentner has been compared by our leading critics with LISZT, BUSONI and RACHMANINOFF.

Among the many pianists of international fame who frequent our concert halls, LOUIS KENTNER IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST OUTSTANDING -Bologna-Pomeriggio,

An artist of the highest rank Paris-Opera.

From Mrs. Roosevelt's Column

THE

Free spending

WERE hag never been 12 Christmas gulles like this. It a millionaire's Christmas with almost everyone spending as freely an a millionaire,

Tt is

WIR

Private joke

counties pality.

Socialist Government was on the counter than they have | stretching from the English turned at this 1929 election. ever done in history.

bordering the Prinel- Anourin Bevan went to Parlia

ment, Lloyd the Liberal did not. I have never known anything A Welsh

prince sired the He came bottom of the poll. like it, and I have never seen early Lloyds of Selwyn's ilk, There seemed no future for New York 50 dazzling and and later generations crossed the the Liberal Party. He joined

I saw in several stores on Fifth Avenue Christmas trees lavishly decorated with rhine- resplendent,

DEADLY IS

T

HE MORE tender the trap, the deadlier it la.

mountains to become the Craw the Tories.

rancours

Was

BURMA TAKES →

SECOND LOOK AT RUSSIAN AID

THE TENDER TRAP BY JAMES WICKENDEN

Astonished and delighted he

oble

band. But he is a

wonderful

By

And so she held him a wife make a fuss of him. It is bad it is into the trap again as he who was on artist's most valu- they don't,

TIKE brat Asigh confes heard will go on doing all his life.

asset-an Incorruptible,

to see through the America engineering Intoeite "He is like a baby, my hus Russian aid promises and Nu is ht the forma

werp não be ng called in). ↑ infallible, well-disposed critic.

choose Western support of Asthma Look at the story of the' giri actor. who married & top-ranking

may be Burma. "I do not

interfere with his Hollywood tough guy, already a

acting He knows more about

Russia has just offered the Heitaging, and

UNI all

Asian and The

example rumqur went) in love with 19-year-old beauty who stared advice about money, because on experts and machinery

click) he always takes my tural programme of soll Argentina, which has learns by with him,

bitter experience and the loss of this i am always right..

millions of dollars what Russian boost tice output

promisos mean..

the wealthy star, already (so the that than I do. But (whirr........] UN a large-scale agricus. Beringud. Tas band..

His wife

WAAO publicity

It is among the wives in show The best traps are al- business that

you Bnd the ways gentle, concealed, in- subtlest tender traps. They are the male, the women whose husbands are discernible to

to make love to paid though nearly every woman prettiest girls in the world. can detect a soft little whirr and click....the sound I Take, for example, the wife of have learned to recognise as a famous film director. He is an the sound of a Tender Trap cist, a genius, a man who

"We are rich people now. But followed months of nog as a consolsceur of the woman, just another girl around I have to look after him all the tiation and was tel speaks In the evening in Zurich we went to a symphony concert closing firmly on the prey. beauties with whom he works: on the set, neither at young normal to look after him

Margaret Johnston, Joan Green- es lovely as the girls he work Coming here soon is a film wood, Valerio Hobson,

ed with. with a title which sums up the

But "I made myself Indispen- | age-old feminine cunning in

sable to Kirk,” she told, me, laying a snare for a man, and sums it up in three effective words: "The Tender Trap."

. "Come

(Letters from Europe to a group of American papers) —-

where I enjoyed one of the finest planists I have ever heard.

KENTNER'S brilliant recitals. "Cheered by the audience" S. C. M. Post, 25th April, 1953.

....

KENTNER captivates. "Before almost capacity audiences this inspired virtuoso delighted, thrilled, amazed and captivated”. — H.K. Tiger Standard - 25th April, 1053.

KENTNER, the entrancer. "So thunderous was the applause at the end of his recitals that oven the tawny Mexican mold, envesdropping from the grey mural of the Empire Theatre celling, peemed to "shake” — China Mall, 27th April, 1953.

It starts carly

here, little boy, and kiss me," as she will say almost as soon

INDISPENSABLE

LOOKED

HE FALLS

Q

of

Smart as Peron was, he faljod

Russia's blog buying surplus rice

to soo through the 1958 "agrèc Tol U Nu, Burma's Buidhi, ment under which Russia, premier and fervent reformer,' undertook to provide $90,000,000

This was "I did a great deel more work THE strangest thing of all the promise of prosperity scem- of credit for Argentina to buy

about the Tender Trap, ised goldon, and he accepted with capital equipment. than I had to for Abe picture I that just when the quarry, has out consulting his cabinet. do bait for a clause. on t But the World Bank has "balanced trade" between the

fixed him a flat. I fixed him

After the performance the audience stood electrified as if.] simplest of the fraps sha will him, even on the fim etdi Lover

by magic Kung Shoung Yat Po.

(a) Thunderous applause. Justed for some time after the recital,

Wah Kiu Yat Po

Presented by HARRY ODELL and sponsored by INTERNATIONAL FILMS, LTD. Booking at MOUTRIE'S and the THEATRE. /

Placed be in your sonis by 130 Dum

"A"blueprint' · plan foresaw

And he is back where he renewód : rail systein; a dredged from padly needed. ": Coal, steel,

at his wife-the cook. I organised his parties. I grown wary, when he's wise was short and plain. And answered his fan mail.

(he'll fall for the simplest trap:ogja mission in Rangoon headed by Argentina sweated to ship her

to the subilest mare over lafd, stepped in. They already have two countries of $150,000,000, I looked at her I listened.........

Dr. Basch, working cautiously to crept into his to until all

Burn's needs and as she is old enough to form the

side of the "bargain," complet "We have been married many, then it comes thirr

ing 97 percent of the deal) by words. And up he trots, trusting many years," she was anying. click) I treat into it for good," but if she did you could hear

Sho doem't need to speak, qualifications for ald..

August last year, and Battered, not knowing that "We are very happy Rene Lasten to the views of the bar whisper "Come here, little

But Runda had sent, only one this is only the first and likes me to be stwiye, wid

quarter of the drudocoll Algerie wife of the screen'd now Great boy, and klar mu? [Bot]

all her life.

chemicals followed in And then thirr a click Never suspecting that a few alheard the familiar sound: Spa is not so pretty, so young, minutes after she has larued the "You lee, I am hi critle. I am Or do slender as the girls who,

tivations

"argentina'sya'regime': Invitation she will probably without pity I tell him when make passes at her husband, but

bitter-Lacts and charte her mind with her he is wrong, and he is furious,

she has kim tapod.)

Mersal point-there must be no Humian totted up the total loss. It was bucket.

with me

"He la so, cherming, so king, fortheir married names are, of aid or the Banke will withtraw? officially estima 201

course, Mrs. Clement, (upija; of this in nokispita ngeliet "ve the year that. Argentina, Wals Osak *ke you, little boy she

tenen « Clemenin maker 2 of that Bulganin-Khruichaveir eines but that jukagjering will way when she's nearing she does as I my, bacutae ha

1 tell him he must be kind fre

The sequat is bonis principle of World Bank 343,600,002 by Huma for fundin Years old. “Let's play, mothers I sin Tight And then last film to everybody, 16 le mot bad that i kiamat); |and fathers," DE

think it was his 1400/

"But later he thenger

started.

and

L.E. S. Rangoon, and modem rice cul- arrived

But Finach firedbamant on one