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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1956.

THE VOICE OF BRITAIN AGAIN IS WHISPERING

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MR AND MRS AMERICA HAVE ONLY A VAGUE IDEA OF OUR CASE

New York, Tuesday RITAIN can thank hor

stars (and the Stars

and Stripes) that President Eisenhower and Mr Dulles have not been, and

not being, in- British fluenced by the Sociallat lenders and the British Socialist Press.

There was a dreadful day inst week when I thought.

the United States B2M going to let us, and itself, down.

DON

IDDON'S

After my trip to the South lounges

1 nude a series of calls at the

DIARY

crowded,

livened.

und corridors are Secretary. General

United Nations Benelquarters Dag Hammarskjold seeins en-

When I suggested politely to

A group of American

omelais

that the United States was act- me more like a mediator that

Our man, Sir Person Dixon,

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things to say about the while SouthernerI.

It is apparently not realised that although there is no racial regregation in publle schools in the Northern and Middie- Western States, there is drantic social segregation.

A Negro in New York has no more hope of getting a room in l-town at such hotels as tho Waldorf-Astoria, the Ambassa- the Pierre, dor, the S Regis, 10141 Savoy Plaza, the Sherry Netherlund, then an orangutan.

Negroes are barred from most mid-town restaurants and some night clubs,

17%

Pest hole

here it Kill, boxers

is saying little the never says VEN enkertaiment stars, such much and appears quietly con- an ally, and that neither the dent of the outcomes President nor the Secretary of Suce Stato hack conceded that Nations America was to some responsible for the Suez, erisus, one US, delegate handed me a mimeographed forin.

HORTIC Eartho Sugar Ray Robin- 16 171- United son and Joe Louis, and the base balt wonderman Jackie Robin. millions son, are blocked from living in extent The Dulles multi-

dollar offer buys time for the New York's white districts. United States and its friends in The Middle East, and nuty delay On it were extructs from the the crisis being brought before jerders or ediforms of the the Security Council,

Bri- Le.t-Wing Press of Great

tain and quotes from the state-

Socialist Party £10

ments of

leaders.

The American

can you expect us

Füll: to

get

Might-have-been

TOST Ainerlean Press

through ocensionally drive and Harlem must be put down Harlem to the Yankee Stadium, as one of the worst slums in the world vast and spreading pest hole.

500,000 The influx of pearly

over the pust com- Puerto Ricans

macie

Upper of Maghcap

few years $1 Manhattan into a humanity.

How MST new supports Britain, tough when your own side is The United States is not making

cigfil split right down the middle and its way towards the exit or run-

for

It As many as seven although cover,

in the Labour Party

shouting ning that Eden is a warmonger ** would he wrong to report that people share a single room

conditions. The Negro fervour thy there is any national

Rioan, behind the Government's Sucz doesn't like the Puerto

and vice-versa, and the police- policy.

men patrol the district in pairs,

Saying little

DUT the Administration, whose

chief election slogans "Every thing is booming but the gunk," lid not faller when the chips were down,

And now it has come through with the $500,000,000 offer, which is probably more money than Nasser or Egypt has ever

DUCTS.

Black and white still do not mix here, and they won't for a long time.

Americans in the streets, in the bars, in the restaurants, in their own living-rooms, are not talking a great deal about Suez.

New York is guy and gidkiy, They do not feel the United

about the States has been affronted in not thinking much

Hanner. and Suez crisis. any formidable although they don't like Nusser there is a vague American idea that he has some sort of right to the Canal.

officials

THE

Our information

in Eisenhower has acted courage-

have (i elsewhere ously and at a time when his Lontem party has just suffered a devas again failed to put the British election defeat in Maine, cate cross with any great skill ditionally rock-ribbed Repub. or clarity. If we had presented the

Naser is a tool or puppet of the Soviet we would have gone with the lot farther, foster, United States.

CALL

Baseball first

THE baseball season is near its

arid tak,

every where I

sctB hear the chatter from bar and grill radio and television

Dodgers, the Yankees,

Boston Cleveland Indians, the Red Sox, the Milwaukee Braves Duko Juckle Robinson,

Mantle, Snider, Mickey have received several letters Maglie"

These are the big names the

whlic black VETTES

some nechall, and they, not Nass90", Pence issue in the South,

barsh are on New Yorkers' Ups. the British

At the United Nations in New York they expect the Suez crisis to go before the Security Council within a month.

There are much bigger crowds ta

#t the of sightsrETA Palace

Dis week,

und

readers

aftch have

Sal

in

Steward, who's piloting us these extra live thousand miles round the Cape-Stirling Moss?"

The

of

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not like to see their names in the newspapers.

Eastbourne: the name of The Most Respectable Resort on Earth suddenly leaps before the news-eye of a holiday- making nation in a rage of rumour-mongering that reaches ask: What kind the top at Scotland Yard. And people

How do they Who lives here? of town IS Eastbourne? live?..... Page Four-pursuing the technique of close-up lived and died.

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INTRODUCTION BY

GEORGE GALE

now.

you

into its streets...

But it could be any of the streets In the plushy Meads arca nestling between the board- ing houses of the town centre And Il es and Benchy Head. in the Meada that Mrs Hullett

1 call it

Fairmeads Street: No. 1, Elderly retired couple.

The husband was in the Indiun Civil Serviço,

1 unique,

CRIME LIKE

THIS..

by JOHN GRANT

No, 3. Retired, IT s town where, despite The tidy ronds are bachelor, Oxford don No. 6. 1 all Its refinement, violent

Up for sale following death of crime is not unknown. widow of Colonial Governor.

It is ordinary enough commodious, most of the time; but not residence.

empty

A mile away, a thousand It is still ordinary enough miles away, ere the pier, and the Httle to look at. The immaculate the boat trips and

boarding houESTY, the flower beds are

undisturb terrecod

souvenir shops und Jostling

chain

Con-ider The Crumbles, Back In the 1920's this shingle- No. 7 Retired manager of covered stretch of foreshore and of department stores,

between Eastbourne

cumme Into the No. 9. Elderly retired couple. The Pevensey Bay

executive in

news as a murder spot. Vickers-Supermarine. And 30 Within four years and a few hundred yards two girls died there in brutal crimes.

on

ed. Outside the police crowels and sply photophers husband was on station there is nothing and outrageous red-and-yellow

the funny postcards. more sensational than HIS

bland offer of £75 for informa- place: il preened tion leading to the recovery itself on the demure of the mayor and mayor respectability of ess's badges of office.

Wis

wealth already earned and

in its place in bank counts.

People

ぐー

bar.

The first violem was an 18- year-old London typist, trene

Sha w*** killed

on

It is here, in this must res- pectable suburb, where people retire to rave themselves from THE names of the houses in Munro. dying, that rumour has lodged. Fairmeads Street are a little holiday in August 1920 by two

wealth and rea- young men from Eastbourne. "Where is the sceret East- symphony of

Downs Croft, Mon Their names: Alfred Field, 10, bourne killer?" jokes someone pectability:

Merlswood, Peregrin, and William Thomas Gray, 28. "They don't come to East- at the

It is Joke Abri,

Roseburn, and Ebbisham,

Both were hanged. bourne to live. They come of a kind all right.

· Second victim: Emily Kaye, to die," says the smart-

Now lip over the pages of murdered by her lover, Patrick "Why not live here?" says Alec porter.

These Mahon, in a civtage at Tho the town's official guide. You'd the Eastbourne directory.. have to be the right sor, of are the sort of tames that meet Crumbles. The date: April 1924. your eye: Sir Percy Sulitoo (rethred director of M.1.5). "Sir John

Ellernan (shipping millionairo), Brigadier W. W. Linny, O.B.E., Viscount Charle mont, Sir Henry Dalton, Mr Clarkson Rose (impresario),

"Four

wills,

who had spent their lives in saving money

'undred to spend their came here money in saving their lives, they're looking' them all up," says the woman on the This was Eastbourne.

East- prom. It was not all of bourne. But it was East-

a fool, but fools Ruinour's have babbled truly. The polley

Course.

!

E crime might have remain- ed a secret had Mahon not left his bag of the cloakroom of Waterloo railway station. In not the bag was a cook's knife and

bloodstained clothing. pretty blo comfortably oft, That's

the clue kind of people who live in Crumbies. Eastbourne,

HARMING, elegant East-

bourne, The Place To Come And Live--what can have hap- bourne as fat lizard sun- station looks quiet, but in ide pened? Your motto is Meliora Some famous, SOFTVE bathers in smoked sun- there is talk of 300 deaths. Sequimur, which incans "We famous. Most of them

widows, wealthy Strive For Better Things." are Brighton, as Deaths glasses brash Oldham girls in "Kiss widows Me Quick" hats are Black- pool.

of

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this had. All You better What

What a masty rumour, selling!

alt this horrible rituation Truth doesn't matter. publicity: what has happened, There is a truth of a kind in what has gone wrong? or the situation.... dinary Eastbournes; the

There were

other,

pler, with harassed house-

cricket at The bits on a sort of housey- Saffrons; the fings are not- houscy; the promemade, for this is cricket week; and with holidaymakers dozing under the Downs the lazy ap-

plause ripples on hired deckchairs and catch. Alongside tidy men are talking of the weather -playing bowls, talking of what?

wives fluttering threepenny THERE is

What did she say, that plump body to her grunting husband?

to an Oakman

Under the turquoise dome of the bandstand the Worcester- hire Regiment is playing tunes from "Bless the Bride."

Rumour won't let you live in peace in Eastbourne now: won't let you die in peace either

The regal, statue of the eighth Devonshire güzės of

"Four 'undred wills, Duks

they're looking them

up.....

Her again.

husband

PEOPLE LIKE THESE...

MY CHRISTOPHER HALI

PRICES

LIKE: THIS

by ANDREW HOPE

an. expensive

town.

there would cost you not less than 22,800 If you were luckly and could cost £15,000,

Quito small houses-dwo of

£3,500,

proudly, his back to the sea, at TT is a town of retired people. three bedrooms on the fringe all the grey discreet, elaborato Nearly one person in every of the town average £3,000 to

front of Grand Hotel, Within, four is over 05 - Bat the there is the Palm Court, cele- national averkgo is only 15

Venture into the toyota grunts brated beyond all others by its percent,

"class" orca of the 'Moods and Sunday evening celebrance of English musical respectability, It is a very healthy town to there you'll and new houses

live in but the proportion of selling at £0,000. Little old residential men old people, pushes its yourly It in wealthy town,, and women doze beneath huge oath rate up to 10.70 in every

Ono ha

sold pillars; rich

Put cockney families 1,000. Compare that with the Conider: with foreign mother'

recently for over £10,000, helps rational figure of 11.7.

that house on the seafront and sweep in arid out of the revoly- ing doors,

To cater for the thousands the price would have been who come here to live out their 10,000, Beyond and behind Grund lives Eastbourne has one doctor

Inexorable, she repeats: "Four 'undred wills, they're looking them all up..

FASTBOURNE is ordinary Hotel, on the banks leading to every 1,000 people.

enough, apart from ita to the Down, the rich people

live. The houses are big red Exactly what sort of people colony of life-cookers busk- brick and stucco; croam intels are they? Well, here is a ing in the south coast and cement-work, climate, sheltered from the

It on alatongent had ble winds by the cliffs of Beach own private paradise, fuls would Head

be it. Each house in desiz

;

ypical Lastbourno street list,

I do not give the real name of the street because the kind

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But the final pointer to East- bourne's wealth is its rate level.

Linked with Bournemouth, Easbourne has the lowest.rato In Britain: 12%, in the 2.......

This

took the police to The

Mahon followed Field and Gray to a Lowes trial-and the gallow at Wandsworth.

Crime of the seaside. was The Chimbles story in the

twenties.

That

And now Soatland Yard is back again in the quiet roads of Eastbourne. :

PÒCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"But, darling, l-atili don't;

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That in wealth. That is]: |-*\\to-the-first place??!!

of people who live in it would Eastbourne,