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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1956.

The chances are that you have never heard this man. He has made few headlines. Yet he is one of the most influential and respected men in present day Britain.

LORD CHERWELL By Les Armour

F

what

REDERICK Alexan- hours had gone into solving to write a blistering article in

der Lindemann, the deadly problem of the national newspaper about

he thought was the inefficiency Baron Cher- tall spin. Omelaidom had and the woully-hended idealism

Oxford, 12 one theory, Lindemann had of the Socialist government.

real life another. counterpart to the fictional

first well of the nearest

"Man Behind The

ment."

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But he wis never a That day. in front of the aetionary. Once he was invited Governabled experis, he wok up by a bankers' magazine jo write

airplane unl deliberately about the Welfare State, threw i ulo a spin. In those

lic When 111421 complain dava, that theunt almost certain about the mysterious with

"They" who, somehow, im- Bist deftly he pulled it

startled the banitera by announeng "If the people want services inen, 0! ears, they should have them.

TIDOS DEVI

possibly, control their Te demistrationi proveni has Thane set out what ought to destinies. They are probably pont and he went on to become be the aun of Conservatives: to Bu ector of the Physical Labin- Provine an even betier Welture

visualising a luster of men tony at Faerbenough. whose careers, superficial- ly, parallel Lord Cherwell's.

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tu provide it stuerently, and Lo provide 1147X emerged it!

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The diametrically opposite corner. of the AA ku reason, Yet they would be wrong the neid of human if they mistook him for one

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why it ought not to be clone, In the postwar Baldwan govern- He made clear Then, and on

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ment Winston Churchill became Giner ocasions, that the job of of these sinister characters Chancellor of the Exehears Juny government LA to do what out of okl-fashioned tales of and imamed Chancellor for the international intrigue.

the people want, pivided Unt

etheannly as possible.

five years from 1924 to 1920. LC is possible, agg to do it as

Churchill never pretend-

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be

an

economist, Yel

is direction of periknstromai

It is true that his family came from Alsace, that he was educated at the Univer. Mity of Berlin. and that through the most years of his country's his- fory scarcely one major de- cision was taken on which

he was not consulted.

Wax

impeccable und his budget speeches Rulian'

were

แ

To Serve.

HF has eve

1 direct the afTusss of state except shen he is fell that the publie has failed to notice an impending Rt then he has entNTALONE name out with atraying the facts. The stand vid the expert, w bolds, is to save.

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CHERWELL with wily ne

Frendonck Landemann,

In 1851 he came back into the then chong guva amenit

ngain LIS d'azzmaster-General soul gain, He as Churchill told the Comm

It is true that he remains almost unknown To the public and yet has held high offices: that he has had in physis on Extend, was his pants

Lindemann,

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calculable influence on the wine 1 Chuachall's praepel as supervisor, master." nation, and yet it is still adviser 311 the two great nehls

vi science and revea

11 was than that tre began (0)

impossible to say with any two years before Churchill go revolutieause 1..1's atomic certainty "Cherwell slid ared to toe distnay, sometimes, programme He cut through red this" or "Cherwell did that."

of pediat ant, In the la-1 lage, bok the Atomic Energy days, it 1.5 244 $1 to the frustra- Autlemnity out of the civil service Be of M

Wide Field

IT is true that his activities

have

Dren

Exchequer

I A. Butler, Who and matte it a public corporu-

Chancello

เ

f

the Bear, pun as a businys.

thepard the awe station

which 1ertain ahead of the world, and Ja stremalised the defence stile of atomic production.

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יth

In 1936,

Laumann Inki1 Professor

Expertenrenital ranged over MJ

Photoe sophy a Oxford University wide a field that few men ra gim muskis a pla pro- have been able to follow him feswondop ved phymes (Oxford is still dunia, Zimul seiences), but with any assurance,

Tane Bad Te agnin with it control of

fought with The professionai Clausricht Laboratory, evd servants and time and time

worlds printepat again he won. of the age.

He is also one centres of scentile research of the great economists. And one of The great.

Lord Cherwell is one of it brought the great afomic scientists

Even

1

the

THES

"Yes, Mr. Hogswistle. I did cuff your boy yesterday.

And if he tips me sixpence for marking his books again I shall repeat the process.”

London Express Si

THEY SAY THE FEUD NEVER

DIES on THE BIG KNIFE

A

by LEONARD MOSLEY ·

T certain times every (s London production "lifted

year poisonous scor- Plane Cilento to stardom.) pions turn

upon Al the

major Hollywood themselves in self- studios put in bids for the film revulsion

An independent com- and sting them rights.

pany, headed by Robert Aldrich, selves to death.

Aually secured it-and made sure that it reached the screen

The result is attuck Upon

such the

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way

What follows is proof with all its devastating criticism that this acute form of of Hollywood intact. self-criticism is not con- fined to Insects for it IN the account of the extra- which the film industry is run ordinary urge of " whole that most of the big executives community to torment the main turgets of the fi itself the pint of prophesiest that (a) It would dot run, and (b) people would not believe it.

He continued to live his quiet, then, however, Lande- bachelor life. Must week-ends the m was s metunts restless. Hy went back to Oxford, where he pioneers of modern aviation, while bing ut cles for national has four comfortable but plain

But he is a man of in- newspapers about the nation's

Noms in Clukt Church College, the The predicted mense

# De detener

Battle of Britam, and he dew whose brilliance is dazzling, tombs on attack

And he continued to stay ou of the public eye. The men theTHE public got to know

modesty,

a man whose personal rour- age is unsurpassed.

ile has Ver sought has bad power, and if he power it has been, largely, heenuse he was the only man who could do the job.

His education

took him and a

to Berlin and to Paris, and

A Power

suizorimates

energy

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IAA th

atomic programarne -Sir Will

Penney and Jalur Corkerfi

Ele was, for VHEN Churchull became Prime

a lune at hus, as much Muster 1940, Linderman irection of the evonny as Mr

responsably (ex: Et eme me personnt istaut

But the The Butter. the famil

public VOT knew it, Landlemaan WAIN

Ctrerwell

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Hard At Work

be became a physicist in Oxtori tiha Cheswell is one of the exciting days when Oxtoers Two lanaxi rivers) and Rutherford and Einstein

the he joined Cabinet a Paytmaster-General the on opposite sides of world and working at op posite ends of the problems Soal was the man who paid Laboratory.

stock of the vastness of the universe.

Aircraft Spin

BUT it was not as a physi-

Leg. ng ago the Paymaster –

421 al. fue government nwmneys.

IN 1953, he resigned from the

government and went back to Oxford back to the Clarendon

There

reasons.

MET

he

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desperation.

a

It has and they do.

of

In America

caller! a novel

which DEER PARK,”

For "The Big Kafe" is only deals with the puns.

pains, and hand-wringings [{ this part of a converted, but quite- campaign has been on community.

the different-from-usual, best-seller lists for eight weeks.

agalos: the complexities Hollywood which is intriguing called the American public al In America

the play "WILL SUCCESS SPOÏL ROCK moment, Different from usual? HUNTER?” which sovages the

because though this Bune community with satire is

En campaign is being waged a smash hit on Broadway.

Three Adferent levels and uses three different weapong the people who have initiated the campaign are all close-to- Hollywood types themselves,

THE TARGET

IN Americu the dini fans

IN

of

THE

Yea,

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ONE FILM STAR... This

is how they 'sell' The Big Kolfe.

These are the men and women in the life of one fim slar, played in the picture by Jack Pstance: (1) STUDIO HEAD-ile had to be respectable at any cost. (2) 15 YES-MAN-the smijer with the knife. (3) The star's FRIEND-loyal, helpful-that made it tough. {4) WIFE-8ke knew he would never be true to one Woman. (5) STARLET-a perfect pet for a Hollywood star, (6) PLAYGIRL – She lived everywhere but home. (1) COLUMNIST She picked up dirt like a vacuum cleaner. (8) AN AGENT—He'd do anything for 10 per cent.

previous play. The Seven Year Itch," was made into Alm starring Marilyn Monroe.

Anti-Hollywood Campaign No, 3 is "The Big Knife" itself.

have the same

His name is Stanley Hoff in the Alm. He is a demon king in a Sunday suit. He looks like an advertisement for an under- stunding undertaker, He distinguished grey hair and always conservatively dressed. He speaks

has

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and

The nation are tocking to see Ant Hollywood

All three Compelen

He is the head of a a picture called

BIG No. is being waged

through villain. a book KNIFE."

written

quietly Norman Hollywood film studio. In "The by Mailer. whose carlier best- Deer Park" he crushes his em- sympathetically as if his tongue And the target of them all seller, "The Naked and the ployees like flies. He tricks and were still wet from sipping the is Hollywood -- where, It Is Dead," is being made into a cheats. He has several nameless milk of human kindness.

said, the feud never dies the Big Knife.

on in His new one. "THE DEER PARK," a brutally frunk about Hollywood,

THE VILLAIN

His wife (Ido Lind is on indecisive, lip-chewrticle- tearing neurotic.

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The giri for whou are expected to fed played by Shelley s, la a starlet whose dreamles is a night out with ajand a bottle-any man any bottle.

And, since this im which Hollywood log the truth about itselt, 1|is for from triumphant

ob end.

The hero ends up body lolling in a bath, wthroat cut, The starlet en under a bus,

The villainous

Schlet

(0 masterly study Rod Steiger), who has black- to mailing one and hg murder the other, bes of unscathed in scard some-

else whose une

cho en

twist,

THE MESTE.

TS Hollywood real ruth- less, and evil a book, and play say it is?

Hollywood, in a n of self-torture, Insists It Is. The message of "TheKnife scems to bo

"FUm fans of uorld- take a close look $. We, the film people of wood,

are the characters to Up

of physics were laying hare hes long evsed to be a

were several bure a whole

world. e.ymaster-General. The Job He saw himself primarily as a new While Rutherford probed was WIN

"general Super- man of thought. He saw the

there on the servert's the the atom, Einstein took son Cherwell Was first atomic energy

kind of people worea. Once programme in

vices-and some pretty nasty- adviser on since and economics, thoroughly capable hands

und

named ones too.

He wears a hearing aid to wo

we were

cre nice, detalent- the economy He masterminded the scientifle more sure fouch of Mr Butler.

under the.

The villain in

a fatherly looked, as respectable bu and There has never been a dim

"Will Success give himself

though he doesn't really need it your neighbour. But old out side of the war effort, plomvered

ke "THE BIG KNIFE" before.

Spoll Rock Hunter?" is used as

to the power gods in our atomic energy, ploited the long

a figure of fun. More than that, perhaps, range view of the economy. He saw the time had come to turn hear of Hollywood open-and

But though all Mr Hoff, as he shows up in studios, and they'vded us It is a fim which cuts the

the other characters mock him had an unsurpassed grust of all to theoretical work. The theory lets it bleed.

into lick-spittles andre." behind his back,

this Alm looks like a church they lick his

mouse and behaves like e rat.

It is a devastatingck, ot three fields.

of nuclear physics is sul in al

NTLHOLLYWOOD Campaign boots when he points his toe at

conscience, isn't it? muddle, No one has yet solved Its characters are film people. the theatre-ana is exemplified But still he shunned the lime- the problem of turning thermo- It is a story

No. 2 is being waged through them and tells them.

But he is not the only nasty What Is Hollywooing to The so-called hero do-lash self back ecency light.

But the attack on Hollywood character. He appeared

of hard only nuclear conversion

hearts, by comedy-with-a-kidney really

Et (the power mean occasionally, and then 1 explain behind the H-bomb to produc- wickedness,

is a big star and respectability? b hope flower (Jack Palance) minds and downright punch, 'WILL SUCCESS SPOIL in "The Big Knife." The villain who gets drunk, It was one cold and lonely is clear, lucid terms that every tive use.

kills a child it doesn't go too tal, like ROCK HUNTER?" The author here is more villainous than with his car--and lets a minor the scorpion, stinit 10. day during World War One, one could understand the fucts

George Axelrod, whose the other two put together.

studio employee take the rap. death. behind principles experi advance of science and the ad mental pilot. The most ministration of government. difficult problem of aviation

After the war and Churchill's was the problem of aircraft

political defeat, he went back to At 68, he is still hard at work. spin. Many lives had been Oxford. Occasionally, again, he And the world has not yet heard lost and countless man- came out of academic seclusion the last of him.

cist that Federick Linde- mann first drew attention.

Lindemann was an

J

and

Mr

But let no one accuse public Rank of anti-Hollywood blos party has for showing it in his cinemaS, time- For it was made in Hollywood by Hollywood stars and

the

reconomies, neither

In the theory or

anything to offer except worn solutions.

just say

technicians,

"The Big Knife" started life

R$ a play by Clifford Odeta,

Pink Plymouth please

Whenever, wherever, however, you drink gin, you strike a shrewd blow for old- time standards when you call for

PLYMOUTH

GIN

Sole Agents:

CALDBECK, MA

comes to full

The Galloping Lady Loses A Crl

F in 1907 a young

woman possessed both

&

social conscience

By ANNA LANDAU

Dame Irene Ward,

and a horse, she had, two written the official history,

who has ing and cor curl over her ear" good qualifications for be the FANY, remaries

of which found its way one day that the into a patient's bowl of food coming a FANY. For in British nurses always know how and was swallowed. "Great dis that year the First Aid to be good mixers "one of the tress was caused by the nows Nursing Yeomanry

best stand-bys when lito is but greater was the Jubilation Was difficult-so it is not surprising when W. the next morning an- born, the brainchild of that they had so many "pur nounced the recovery of the

suiters." certain Captain Baker.

Particularly one girl, lost treasure.'

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the secret service ftment. The decision to recomen for underground work taken in April 1942. D Irene doubts whether the Cabinet were fully aware of their decision involved thinks that had they do they would have refused pission,

But this

was on the.. "historic disregards the tradition that womenld not be used on this wo mong the women who becitinous an secret agents wOdette Churchill, Christino (nville, and the Australian N Wake, who organised-7,000 is and pollical battles of Dr returned to Australia fight Etait, the Labour le

It had occurred to Cap-

Somewhere.... in the Servicos' ambulanca tain Baker, who had been

department there was a 'missing link' wounded in the Sudan, that

until one day "Captain Bakor hád a brainwave "there was a missing link somewhere in the Am Heasman, whose main attraction

Soon they were driving bulanca Department." The seemed to be that she always ambulance for the Army despite gap was filled-by the wore immaculate white pota, ofDelal opposition to women galloping nurses. They were They provided simpan taking part in qotive servi

Political battles to be to give aid on the battle-

fought in Britain, toes the Although the FANY motto By the field till the horse'

"Seond World War wor; to "gain" pompon for am was I Cope, they were often they were doing a variety of accident arising out ofice in bulances arrived.

stmpsphere.”

disconcerted; sometimes by phrases like "Let the Meeping jobs radio transmiilors, the Far East Insulted as suffragettes, de-monaleop":"from='a spite their patriotic uniform of doctors so very

Belgian

coding experts, secret agents was of this that the as well as conducting their own FANY though operunder

red tunic, white gloves and blue There were often minor private war with the bramhat the title of Women's report skirt, the "Monstrous Regiment disasters to enliven gosip

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