1956-07-19 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1950,

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MRS DYLAN THOMAS

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By SYDNEY SMITH

WORLD... HARDLY!

DR

man

selousnes5

all these party they never loses his certain,

"Oho, so she's American," said looks glum, gloomy, and yellow little nub of con- Krushchev, capers by Nikita cold, clear

rolling his eyes. skinned, said: "Shut up, of being the but Well. Krushcbev

Mikoyan. I must say that even in

the only thing you mean os-Man of Russia-and 5 spite of that she looks quite a Armenians can ever do is talk." that Russia's head putting it over to his Western

nice girl-let's toast her. will be tossed out contacts.

Then and 1 heard this at two Insult? because he is a drunkard?

No one who 13 a parties and I understand It is Krushchev drinks hard. But don't let us kid ourselves that regular party-goer he can't carry it well. He can. mistakes that sort of exchange chov and Bulganin

fur either bad manners or on told the British and And what

he says in his cups insult. he means in the Kremlin.

It would be a pity if we let ourselves be lulled into such a light interpretation of the well-calculated indis- cretions of Krushchev,

I should say, toast for toast, that Nikita Krushchev is unonk The best drinkers in the world That I have ever met.

Like the rest of the Presidiurn Krushchev IS busically 24 Russian, We must not forget that the Russians are a cynical, guy people.

Let us get this straight-lhe vodica hearty consumption of and brandy are typical Russian qualities

and not just simply Communis! Party weaknesses.

I have just returned from Moscow and one thing I have noticed is this:-

However high he may get. and I have certainly seen him well flushed, verbose, and roll-

Mis give you some examples from parties altend- cxt:

Rosy flush

antbassadors about

Then, after the party_to French

Prime Minister Guy Mollel, Krushchev diverted Mollet from his waiting white- walled-tyred Zis limousine and marched him straight across the road to meot the people in the street. They were both mobbed

Even poor old Molotov, now A tired, grey-haired, ashen- faced old man, those thin tight lips sagging into a near-human

the

In Moscow going on all the time-Krush line, become merry enough one

night to start laying into repeatedly principles of censorship.

American President He called us the Press--over Voroshilov. who was not oft. at one party and sald how well

way from them: The trouble he understood and with Voroshilov is that he is problems. getting deafer and deafer and his memory is going. It is very dmcult to talk to the old man now."

the

The party to celebrate Queen's Birthday at the British Embassy.

Flushed again with some excellent French

champagne and general British hospitality, Krushchev was introduced to a party 01 the French handsome tawny-bearded naval Embassy in Moscow... Krush- attacho. This was just about chev, vedka in hand,

a rosy the Ume of the Crabb incident. flush spreading from his beam-

The

ing face, over his forehead and Krushchev turned round to along his bald, egg-shaped Bulganin, tugged the Prime head, was standing alongside o lovish buffet,

white

and goatee

Riotous evening

The party at the Embassy last year.

felt

our

He explained that once upon a time, before the revolution when he was editor of Pravda. he had "suffered" ali the same troubles of censorship.

For a week after we put that story

and over the hesitant Danish bewildered Moscow censor let

everything go,

Band K became so enthusi-

the Scandinavian

about their toasts Useless ships

Minister's said to him: "Now, there's o astic decent board---why don't you goodwill

to

of

He was chatting between get rid of that moth-eaten old states that after each one they endless toasts with American thing of yours?"

threw their glasses into the fire- Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen

Insult? No everyone roared, place. an attractive and buxom blonde It was a splendid joke. took candid camera shots of him.

party The Embassy.

at

the Italian

I can remember Krushchav telling the comunander of the Russian Navy that his "uscless warship" would never fit into of the day when in fine the picture

carry planes would big Jet

tho passengers Found

world, instead of atom bombs.

It must have cost the Danes an awful lot of money Imported cut gloss.

It was quite a riotous evening. But it ended full of goodwill

to the am- Sald Krushchev

"An Krushchev, weary of inter- bassador "Who is that?:"

girl

Trade Minister photographer," ruptions from American

Mikoyan, who, anyway, always and broken glass.

ing. Parly boss Nikita Krush- replied the ambassador.

HOW TO MAKE A PARTY MERRY

AT

THE LEAST

COST

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London

MEDICAL experi-

ment to find the cheapest drink for quantity

chart.) making party guests merry

Said Krushchev: "What are you going to do with your use- less warships

day. when that comes?" He said this in front of Western ambassadors and made the admiral feel ko Zool

a

I can remember jolly Com- rado Krushchev saying to Marshal of the Red Air Forco Zhigarlov: Marshal, your Assuming that 50 percent of atom planes are a waste of tune. the, alcohol drunk on an empty Why don't you tell

us how stomach is absorbed into the many civil passengers they 'could blood in 15 minutes, Dr Penso carry instead of bombs?" of other drinks, sec straw made a drinker obstinate, drew charts to show how huch

Champagne through a straw drink the guests should need 40 This was a pretty insulting made a girl "delighted but un- make them dizzy but delight thing to say in front of has been carried out by the MIXING drinits increases steady."

ful."

Western ambassadors and...ser- Hon. William Simón Pease, their Intoxicating

He then worked out what vice attaches to a man who had power.

A CIGARETTE-ASH Aicked

the single job of 80-year-old

and One man who had to drink gin,

"maintenance

"done" of each been given.

A tonie--"a drink should be given through preparing

long-range, A socialite..

sherry, champagne, brandy, and

air whisky Inaisted on standing on dastardly trick in the case of a the two-hour drinking session to bomb-corrying strategie

saya Dr Pease-mado koop the guests in this condi- force, Dr Pease, 6 ft. bachelor one leg. Champagne and brandy girl,"

gave another guest self-assur- man so forgetful that he locked tion brother of Lord. Warding ance that he ran off with his himself out of his flat.

In front of The guests, who were hungry

public ton, staged a scientific party best friend's girl.

on arrival, ware weighed,, so challenge, from the man who is in his London flat, where

that the quantity they had to really the master of Russia tho 14 men and three girls

azid made no apgyez, through a straw may make ing seems to reduce the risk of drink could be adjusted to their air force marshal gasped a bit. dranic equivalent amounts it more potent. Beer through a intoxication.

doctor

of alcohol in different forms.

He publishes his findings in the Journal of London's famed St. Thomas's Hospital, where ho has just qualified

His main recommendations that "all áro for, ensuring rendered benevolently loquacious but not tiresomely

ely drunk, Ternly sober

BEER is cheapest and beat. The "guinea pig" who drank beer costing Us. 1 was the only one who could be describibi as entirely capablo

Gin, at Ga. Od. por queat, proved to be the next cheapest; (For the com- of-per guess and

4 Into a gin and

DRINKING any liquor

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They were teated for their ability to stand on one leg with eyes shut, balanes a rod on the end

and of a finger, do sums look up numbers in a telephone Finally, I think you should directory.

know this if it is true that Then the drinking started. Krushchev is rarely without a Some

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Urging that more experi- |** ments of this kind should be Which is why I say ho performed, Dr Pease ends his thinks he can take 28 glasses of reports with a five-yard sum- vodka-and not be as light an "may"..-"It was quite a party,” he tooka, MN.