1956-05-16 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956.

Nathaniel Gubbins

Any mother would

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I said I had no idea.

as

a little "Or course, she lost her last

Margo chance when she slapped

cab on the Saturday the grand- kiddie was born. Or was it a Sunday?"

"Of course I have FTER reading that overtired,

English weather was have recognised the symptons granddaughter nos, much the same hun. early in the tour and had the was married in 1948. Or was it widower across the 'chops in a

uncles tucked up in bed at 0 dreds of years ago us it is o'clock every night with a hot now, hore is ye olde Natt drink.

My life pariner, the Plucky

"No," said the Man, "I'm a | I pleaded ignorance. Gabbynes writing of ye okle

Little Woman, a mother herscki, Englyshe springe and sum-ays if she had been in charge of liar. It was 1950 because that

"No," said the Man.

"I'm a the uncles instead of the Foreign was the year the wife dropped

It was on the Monday Office things would have been lettle and scalded her foot. llar.

And that's a funny thing about because I remembered the old different.

A wonderful house- rhyme, 'Monday's child is fair the wife.

to of face,' and you couldn't have keeper but when it comes handling things a proper butter seen anything much fairer than

the grand-kiddie, When she was. Angers.

only an hour old her hair was an gold as gold and her eyes as blue as blue."

mer.

Stowly cometh Englishe

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and April,

In merrte May ye anowe; Round and round ye frozen

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lovers,

Comely youth and mald Lani je uuminer birds

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1947

A-Mini-00.

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Good-bye, sweethearts

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was a Rusunte told me that his countrymen are like perded eildren, happy and susting win they get their own way and close und grumpy When they don't

So it must be thus

engaging quality that timed the funny. into erosgate); laughing uncles uncles, thumping tables with fat fisis and refusing to shake latuds with Mr George Brown because he asked differat question!

If this 1ch before the vid

programvar might arranged

We all kW

become dameuit

bera

realised a less rigo POLEN have been

She says, ts rich food is not good for little tums, she would have given them good, plain meals with nothing to eat after six but a biscuit and milk.

They would have been taken to the zoo instead of that nasty place at Horwell ånd talked to Children of their own age in- stead of nasty politicians,

Then, after lunch, an hour's ond play with plenty of toys games followed by a tes pardy with jellier and chocky mange if they had been good and enten their rice puddings.

A bedtime the P.L.W. would have read aloud to them from books like "Winnie the When We Were Seven" aftel "The Three Bears," but when I asked her if she would have fussed the uncles Kood- she aid: "Only if it would improve Anglo-Russian relations."

How's that, Grumps?

CRUMPY Linde

Krischev

A sold be found it casier to get on with The Conservative Party than with the Socialists.

1 he bat met the Conserva- Live Party 100 years 0 he would have found it even easier, Like the Congmunists, they also despised the working classes,

Man in a pub

The

and 4ƉETWEEN me and you

past." truke

sold the Mun in a pub, " had a feeling I'd meet you again semne day. Ant here we are just like old I expect you remember Jones my daughter, Murge!"

Cat

I said: "Is that the one who

cah ngga?"

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"N," said the Man, "it's my other daughter. Vi, who can't who can't eggs and Marge

fish One spoonful of egg with rolling about Vi knaves in her remach and one Imouthful or Ashi und Marge

and

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The fellers were was younger round her like been round honey pot. But she always kept them at arm's length, be cate with Vi it was so far and no farther.

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I said: "You couldn't

have much bluer than anything blue."

"And clover?" said the Man, "Between me and you and the gate post the grand-kiddie's going be a genius. Already sire knows more then her teacher. And can you guess what she said to me when she WES six months old?”

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"Goo, go, goo?" I suggested, "No," said

the Man da, da. Or was it goo,' goo, Roo when she was six months ondi du, de, da when she was seven months?

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"The attraction about this outfit

Bevan shook

is that even if it doesn't soak up the tide, you've got a pair of water wings".

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shook his

his finger at Krushchev

Edith Summerskill shouted 'Sit down'

And how did Bevan answer

YOU are about to read the first detailed report of all the crackling jibes, quips and superheated exchanges during

THAT DINNER

where Bulganin and Krushchev met the Socialists: the dinner which touched off a world-wide political explosion. The Blow- by-Blow Report yesterday set the lense and touchy scene in the Harcourt Room of the House of Commons. NOW the speeches

begin: Krushchev rises in an already rumbling atmosphere.

RUSHCHEV, without Mr Brown, according to risen. Krushchvy had no inten-

nole in front of Jacobson, shouted again: "God tion of going home.

on declaiming. him, opened up with forgive you,"

He wen!

៦. homily on the But the political correspondent One passage in Krushchev's massive strength of Soviet of the Observer says that what speech พอง typicni

his of He explained industry and went on to his Mr Brown shouted was "God general tone.

was devoling so peculiar brand of plain talk. forgive him!" meaning Stalin why Russla

and not Krushchev.

much of her major effort to heavy engineering.

He had apparently been churning over his resent- ment at what he believed

to

be Britain's view of Russia's achievements and trustworthiness.

He may have been smarting Brown's crack: et Mr George "What is it like to be the Big Boss?"

There was, anyway, a babble of shouting and Krushchev said to Brown: "You are too young, What were you doing in 19397" Brown retorted: "I was fighting the war when your people were making a pact with Hitler."

Krushchev now warmed, up-43 if he had suddenly become con vinced that all his hosts were Chamberlainites way back to Munich.

"I

WARMER AND

WARMER

KNOW," he salt blunty, "that you have better houses and villages and towns in Britain than не possess. 1 know there are some people in the West who would like us to

He perplexed his hearers by

And then he went on to imply do the same as you in that

direction. them on the recent that because of Western policies lecturing history of Russia. He was Russia might well think of "They would Uke us to be bitterly critical of the Cham- forming on alliance with Ger- berlain Government and charged many on the Stalin-Hitler lines. that Britain's aim had been to turn Germany against Russla.

It quickly became clear in the sentence-by-sentence translation that the man who led the on- slaught on Stalin less than two months ago was now vigorously defending and Justifying Stalin's pact with Hitler,

That did it.

* REPEAT

THAT!"

EORGE BROWN, M.P.,

the

nil. try

THINKING

ALOUD

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like the little birds eaught in

the nets who have their heads chopped off one by one," And Krushchev made a chopping gesture with his hand.

•DON'T TAKE

OFFENCE!

back?

Cummings

"DON'T BULLY-YOU CAN'T BULLY ME!"

Mr Gaitskell tolled

Dr Edith Summerskill shrilled to Mr Bevan: "Sit down." Mr Bevan turned to her: "There you go again, Edith, flinching in the face of the enemy."

He outshouted Krushchov. who had stood up, but at last And the incident sál down.

Bevan saying Anished with quietly: "You have your Inter- must allow us pretation-you

ours."

Mr George

Brown and Mr

Alfred Robens joined. in

the appeal for the prisoners: Krushchev several times jumped lo his feet and shouted: "Niet, net, niet-No, no, no,"

of "Be

Amid all the shouts quiet" and answering shouts of "Nonsense, why should we bo quiet?" Mr Edwin Gooch said not a word. The chairman of the occasion appeared to bo overawed. And by now there was no retreat, anyway, from a night of calamity.

IT

FAREWELLS

SHORT

was 10 minutes to midnight when the men at the top table pushed back their chairs,

Farewells were as distinctive for their brevity as for their absence of cordiality. The handshakes were perfunctory...

rose. He ex- the Soviet Union; that it was no the advantages of business of Russia's what hap candour. Ho commented on pened in other countries; that

But on the way out Mr. Krushchev's points and em- any suggestion of Jewish suffer-

Krushchev went through tho phasised particularly the im- Ing was stuff' and 'nonsense.

which Britain and

automaile process of autograph- How dare anyone imply that ing seven menus, portance her allies placed on controls in

there was tyranny in Russia? any system of disarmament,

All the people were behind the

Then he referred to the cases of Social Democrats who had been imprisoned in Soviet Russia and in her satellite States,

but

As ho cavalcade with its motor-cycle escorts swept Government... He was angeler through the gates of Palace

than ever..

A LIET? NOT

FOR MEY

Yard, an uproar started back in

on the Harcourt Room

the treatment of the Men Who Came to Dinner."

Truc, Mr Gaitskell and Mr Alfred Robens, potential Foreign Secretary,

been had to Russia, EN-questions From Mr informally invited

Bevin. From Me Sune And there had been one wan Watson, the Durham miners' smile in the later stages of the leader, who is chairman of the "dizaster, party's internatiânal

mub- committee,

of names.

of

Both Mr Bayan and Mr It was not good enough a joke Watson Irritated. Mr to save the night. The inquest, Krushchev. They want reverberating across the world, sed to know who Krush- was yet to coma

chov

He said that was one issue This, felt the Socialist leaders, which the party felt it had to He insisted it would be raise was harsh talk to them who treacherous their

to

Social TT seems that this was more had helped to build the Welfare

Democratic colleagues in other on implication. perhaps State in Britain,

countries to allow this occasion than wrongly construed,

Krushchey Was direct threat; but so it was critical of Western ideas on dis-

also highly to pass without mentioning the

matter, generally understood.

armament control. He scorned.. He sold in a concillatorý tone That was the deepest shock of; control. By this time the heck that he hoped the Russian

Krushohey, with 'a few' drops A voice shouted: "Don't ling had become a barrage.

visitors would not take offence

of brandy left in his glass, said: Mr. Watson had in his pocket Before I drink the remains to bully

Comrade US,

Krushchev got warmer and at his mentioning the matter,

Tho

head Krushchev."

brandy...." Social a list of about 120 names of the the imprisoned warmer and finished flushed and

were

and Social men

Democrats

ord waiter who.

round to him Mr Bevan, at this stage non- excited. He sat down at 11.13. Democrats

women' comrades of British believed to be behind bars in with a bottle, but Krushchev $18.00 ur called out: May God for chalantly leaning far back in having spoke for 59 minutes Socialists.

Iron Curtain countries,

said: "No, no, I meant the re- 18.00 Hive you." This is according to his chair, mid: "That's a: and delayed his departure by

Krushchev refused mains of the brandy - in my. Jacobson, 15.00 Sydney

Political dangerous line of argument," 48 minutes.

point blank to have any glass, not the remains of the Editer of the 'Sunday Pletorial, loud enough for it to be over-

thing to do with any list brandy in the room," 25.00 who says that Mr Brown was heard.

8.50 berating Krushchev for

Hitler-Stalin poet.

Mr Bevan made many such remarks. He and some friends Не 35.00

saya that Krushchev argued later that he was not stopped in a tense silence and hocking. He was merely think DULCANIN, throughout the 7.50 challenged Mr Brown to repeat ing aloud, as he has been commotion, had sat quiet 7.50 his remark, adding: "Don't be known to do many a time when and, apparently shrinking in his

· + sitting on the platform at a chair. Those who could teur Socialist Party conference, their eyes and thoughts away from Krushchev ta glance at

"MAY GOD FORGIVE YOU!"

fluence with autoliito One version says that even Bulganin saw him sinking lower

countries to release these when Mr Bevan was saying and lower, his chin on his Ho sakd they did not expect prisoners? "That's right" for "This ta

Mr Bevan tow Hot Important, Krushchev would chest, and his eyes darting un- an answer at once but hoped

the idea Krushehráv easily across the faces of his that Marshal Bulgarin and Mr that

had not stil put down his bead and hoste-but never once looking Krushchev would

11:50 their charge.

properly understood the towards Krushchov.

influence in this matter on the Bevan stood up quietly to clarify* By now the interruptions were

Communist Parties of satellite the point, but playing little part-Krushchev Mr Gaitskell had toyed ner Stales.

would not listen to hicho just {"was convinced he, was eating, vously with, his tip,... He was

with enemies. He needed no reporting his own speech, which Mr Gaitskell put in a word was not taking ubat treatment.

of. front further stimulis for tits unger had now to be different from for the Jewish minority in He was standing in

his chair, a few yards from had barely sipped" Ho

his the appropriate gesture he had Russia,

Krushichay on the opposite side wine. His total consumption- prepared in reply to Bulganin's

«Krushchev... Hardly, walled of the table. • He pushed hir that, nicht,

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HE SHRANK BACK

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about) to : Látkymi lángr Kin

wwho i gotta home?” the tradi- might now be to time for qui dional ignist that the Holes had Loum at all.

regarded 08 "Enemies of the State." How could they be de-. fined? What was to stop

Russo usingtits jn..

Krushchov

TOMORROW

After the uproar comes the inquest

greatest..

THIS REPORT is the, result of co-operation. be«^ tween three of the world's' (newspaperment: TREVOR EVANS, Induta. 'trial O'orrespondenti DEREK MARKS, Politiet and Diplomailla. Cerrors pondent; WILLIAM BANKA LEX, parlamentary er

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