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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

1956.

INDIVIDUAL TRIUMPH WEEP NO BITTER

The

Man

who toppled

the Stalin statue

WHAT DANIEL DID IN BUDAPEST

AFE in London today: the man who executed the year's most shatter- ingly symbolle deed; the electri- cian whose oxyacetylene torch cut down the 26ft. statue of Josef Stalin in Budapest on the night of October 23 His name is Daniel Sego; be is 25: he erexper with his wife and seven-month-old daughter (leaving his car as a bribe to the frontier guards); and is at work again in a dockland Four nights ago he joined other members of his family who have escaped to London, and over the dinner risalto, recalled "It took me two hours to melt the bronze-six tractor with atcel hawsers couldn't do it. A crowd of 100,000 watched me. In silence. At A great shout Inst it started to fall.

factory.

arose 'Nexd Joska ha mar tgyszer meund kell. menni kell, mit makacs kodas' ('Look Joe, if you must go, you

Don't be a stubborn")," must go.

In the end, the Daniels are

stronger than the Stalins.

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TEARS

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FOR

By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

old the Prime

present

It has been a year of false hopes and fierce disil lusions, yet it has not been without significance.

London. Done will weep any bitter tears when

Minister is not the doddering

ix when a big issue year of 1956 passes down the stream of time, raised, the House can virtually

cemand his presence.

But is this system really so Certainly we in Britain will not spend money on ex- much better than the Ameri- pensive wreaths to float cant My Brst doubla came when I talked with President upon the waters

Trunati on a day in January, on the eve of his surprising but I had triumphant re-election. arranged to meet him at the House on the morning White following hie annual State of For example, there was the Union speech,

Never

have I read such that brief spell of spurious

of criticism and Florm friendliness when those abuse as appeared in many of heavenly twins from Mos- the newspapers that morning.

was likened Mr Truman cow, Messrs Bulganin and everything from a horse thief to Khruschev, invaded Britain a low-down trickster. What a with an olive branch stuck time to meet the President! in a bottle of brandy. Never

FRIENDLY in the history of diplomacy has so much brandy been drunk as by Mr Khruschev, and with so little effect.

At their reception in the gallery of the House of Lords I had a brief chat with both these gentlemen. As they spoke Russian and I spoke English, there was no disagreement; it was an entente without a blemish, If I had said "I hope you will both break your ruddy necks," they would have received it as a compliment. SIGNIFICANT

HARP to the minute

sheer

New York did not give him a dog's chance.

1956

sheer Idiocy to provoke the Germans to attack,

The year 1957 is going to be a testing year. We shall need cool judgment in our Parlia- we are going to ments unless to extol lay for shter noise,

exchange debate by argument

a

In describing that meeting, my Tairpost is not Trunan but rather to contrast his position

Л furious attack with must subject itself to disciplino Anthony Eden er it will be overcome by to- under

which the position of

trampics during the fury of the Suez talitarianisan

tree expression underfoot and affair.

dif- answers to no one but itself. Another

the British system crence from

of the members is that the President's Cabinet also do not sit in the Houses of Parliament, In short the American political structure is on a tour-lier base;

The President 1.

President In other words democracy

fundamental

2 The Administration.

The Elected Congress. The Senate,

to

#

was

ushered into his room. There sat Mr Truman at his deak, and then with a friendly smile he

ree to shake hands and drew up a chair for me.

of "Mr

After An exchange Courtesies I said to h President, as a journalist and politician. I must express some

Burprise."

"At what?" he asked. "At your desk," I answered. "I would have thought that it with news- would be covered

cuttings about Your paper State of the Union

sproch, You had a very bad picas.

With a chucide he answered

newspaper

Since the President appoints His Ministers it might be agreed that be and the Administration are a unit, except for one thing. The President, and only the President, can declare war.

POCKET ÇARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

10

And one man in his time plays many parts." Our Dear Prime Minister, for example— goes away as Lord Palmerston and comLEN back as Lord North."

!

Why Girls In

Girls In Their Twenties Trust 'Men In Their

L

Forties

By ANNE EDWARDS

OOK out, Young Men, you are going West. You are the men that the girls are leaving behind For a glance at some recent famous attach-

Yet the President is not a re- mole figure. For example, os I Press regularly in the White explained recently, he meets the House, and questions are fired ut him from all sides by the of correspondents solitica!

newspapers, I at- Americo's tended one of these conferences during the Hitler war and was much struck by the skill and them.

humour

which good

with President Roosevelt parried the skilful and troublesome ques-ments proves that the girls ttons thrown at him.

who are pretty enough to be choosey are choosing men old enough to be their

ORDEAL Hers by their firs: nomes, and

called most of the reper-fathers.

to from time to Ume he would say: that there was no reason

"I shall answer that but it is waste a lot of time on his press

In other words, -1 know what the off the record.

the information they could use ET 1956 was a significant cutings.

boys are going to year. Both autocracy and the whole lot of them," but it must not be attribued to And I was told that the he smiled. "If any of him.

always played the democracy were under fire, Then

Journalists stuck I could have the fierce them were

according the rules. culminating in

game for editorials written their

Otherwise they the them. controversies over Anglo-French intervention

His manner did not change persona non grato.

Now let us contrast this with He was calm, concise,

ordeal undergone by Sir the Anthony Eden during the Suez Not only did he have to confer endlessly with his Cabinet but he had to face the House of Commons,

in Egypt, and the savage et all. actions of the Russians in and there was a likable touch

of humour in his voice. What Hungary.

ever were his inner thoughts, he was outwardly imperturbable. CONTRAST

Nor was America spared by its basic philosophy of Isolation. Its system of government proved

weak

affair.

would be

Violent emotion is seldom

counsellor to the mind. RODU

was howled Winston Churchill

Abdication crisis down in the

make himsel until he could heard no longer, and he strode the House. Yet he should heard to the end Judgment was

CHANGING the subject, he and petulant when the Suez talked of how American law English based upon the was crisis crushed upon

jurisprudence, and his warmth tewards Great Britain wus genuine and deep. In his room out was a big globe of the world have been

n swivel, on

American conscience just at the time it was electing for Eisenhower President another period of peace and prosperity.

Because we

ic his

When he's 40 he's liable to be richer than when he's 20. When he 40 he's got a pretty smooth courting technique--he's used it so often befere.

When he's 40 he isn't tled to Q

But for there

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his mother and he can take armer line with yours. all the advantages some Bs. He is liable to collect some domestic attach- ments you can't get rid of; the house you don't like but wouldn't hear of changing.

The daily help he won't fro because she's been there for 20 The hobby you can't aged share and he won't give up.

Take a look at this st Jean-Pierre Authont, the French

in star, is H. His bride is 23. Mike Todd, at 45, is going to years. marry Elizabeth Taylor. 24. Gregory Peck, at 41, bay

Jenn aged 27. wife, Anouilh, the playwright, is 46, and his wife is 20,

THOW

Two famous married couples are the Mel Ferrera (Ho 40, She 20) and the Rubirosas (He 47,

Sho 10).

Now I think I know why the twenties have a taste for the forties, Girl have tried the arty-atty principle, the equal I-can- the paatnership basis, look-after-myself approach.

REVERSION

a man

20

the Victorian view. ND they're going right back

For if you marry years older than you are you'll get someone to look after you who is likely to know how. the

"General Eisenhower gave me wrong,

Then there was that terrible thai he said. "And I aways

moment in September 1839 when, keep before ine the part of the m dhe Saturday night, world where our trouble is com- ing from. Whereupon

in Britain invented parliamentary govern

show you." ment it is only naturut that we

the we walked to should regard our system as the best and the only proper way globe and he pointed to Korea, of maintaining government of then almost an unknown name. the people, for the people, by It was no surprise to me when of months later he the people,

a couple day in Britain was re-elected President, Ministers of State have to face could have got odds of twenty the barrage of question time to one against him in New York and the subsequent debates, if I had trusted my judgment,

Each

T

the

CALI

had failed

the

Someone to advise you whose angry Tories shouted to Socialist lender to speak for advice you'll take.

Job Someone whose

and to declare war on England because Chamberlain

character are fixed, so you don't have to put up with endlers Germany.

How could Chamberlain ex-discussioɛe about whether per-

hadn't better become plain that the French Govern-imps I

ment had informed him that they writer instead of a lawyer were moving up their troops to battle stallons and it would be

shouldn't

crhigrate Comada and try over there.

OLD FLAMES

ho

If he

I him to your tastes.

TS no good trying to convert can't dance at 40 it's no use Ir ho trying to teach him. doesn't like Proust it's no good giving it to him.

K

And it's no good trying to get to the bottom of his past. you are going to get jealous of every woman he has known in

wouldn't 40 years you

have much time for anything else.

*There JA absolutely no sald Π sweet-and-20 point,"

bride I know whose husband le 46, in my asking him every time we see a pretty woman he knows Was she a girl friend of yours?' because the answer always 'Yes."

is

Some might add that there is special dinger in having your 20-year-old girl friends around. if you marry man of 40, But no more, I'd think, than if you marry a man of 20.

4

or

Or 30.

to

Or 50.

От 00.

IN THE LEBANON-IT IS

DIRTY WORK AS USUAL

Beirut

HE Lebanese some- timea despair of their Syrian neigh bours. Often, from the here, eventa over

in mountaing

Damascus curious Alice-in- have Wonderland look. Usually, aven in their despair, the Lebanese are sympathetic and they smile tolerantly.

Today, the shrewd mer-

of chants

Beirut worried-and a little angry.

ara

McKENNA By JOHN

Last year, only 10 percent of World War to understand most the ruins of the Ottoman Er

of of it

That has Insted until now. But the army has been running what amounts to its own gov~ ernment for some time now, and the country, this week, is under martial law.

Syria's £70,000,000 worth

pire and handed to France as a imports came from the ComTM What the history of the test League of Nations mandate.

None of the coups has made and,

Each new of

docan't the 40 bloc

explain, years

difference. munist

The French had two alma- much £63,000,000 "credit" offered by economics do.

at rezine represents an algument among the Russid, only

Dersonalities £3,500,000 has Perhaps something should be they wanted military barca

first about economies, the eastern end of the Mediter- of

numbers sakd actually filtered through,

to soldiers (the army Syria is not a poor country. It ranean and they wanted Furthermore, there is little is almost entirely

The gradual Infiltration by an agricul spread "French culture", on the 23,000) and the politicians.

the Communists is easily under» aign that the Syrians are capable tural country. But its agriculture North African pattern. of operating more than a ac is prosperous enough. Syria has

The Syrians wanted neither. stood. flon of the military equipment grain in abundance, and its For 20 years the French had a The Syrians wont power.

the pouring in.

1,000,000 sheep (more than one time of it. Continuous terrorist They aco themselves

pro-

from rightful deaders of the Arab Finally, there are, at the sheep for every Syrian)

(mainly for cultural realising any of their aims, world moment, two governments in vide the backbone of a flourish activity prevented them

ing export trade.

They did establish a university reasons, which might have had eight operation.

Then there are the two

and they did spread the French some force seven or language. But in the end that, hundred years ago or even two was to do more harm than good, thousand years ago), and they are split only over the, question/ After the fall of France, the of whether their alms are best Free French, under De Gaulle, served by following Egypt or by promic Syrian independence following Iraq. In fact, they after the war, and the Syrians have love for neither: called a truce.

A Madhouse

oll

That is why, while the oficial pipelines. The revenue from-the In the last year, £20,000,000

and satellite Syrian government ordered the pipes, in fact, is about enough worth of Sovia: arms have been delivered to protection of the vital and pro- to run the government. Syria. In the past three years, Mable oil pipelines, the, un- concluded official government (the Syrian: Syrians have tho barter trodo agreements with army) blew them up.

Russia, China, East Germany,

Poland, Hungary, Rumania and this, nothing effective can

And that la why, as I write Bulgaria-ihe works.

In short, and bluntly,

the done to patch the lines up

Russians have been slowly con soldating a stranglehold on the Syrian economy.

Real Power

ba

Musical Chairs

that The situation, then, is government is not particularly Important to the bulk of the. populace, and apathy, in fact, The formal government still the biggest trouble, stands. But the army hoe taken Jordan would starve, without, over the newspapere and the

Then, in 1945, they demanded that the French get outi Tho French stalled and talked about

Power the Russians cave

a treaty. The Syrians goed, Tho give them-on paper, at costs a foreign subsidy. Saudi-Arabia French shelled Damascus,

British Intervened and brought

Tha

The Russians what trouble;

radio stations and several gove: would fade into the exted bunce--at the price of French Pulsed-up Syria, is 'a guarentee ·

ernment departments.

The twa "governments

of continuing trouble. And tho two oil pipelines are well worth sabotaging ang time,

for Aramco. But most Syrians. the Com- This explain why, although need wony little about the rage, More important,

Then the fan started. Of course, is mundet advisers who have come the government long ago put, intricacies of world politics, The French went quietly.

The Russians well woedee that The army

paper constitution, the Syrians are not likely with the arms have virtually, the army under Egyptian com- taken over the Syrian army to mand," thero, soems to be very interested. And a small hard Tho taken over be sad, of the 1te machinery by putting that come at fanatical Arab nation- crumbled: in 1910, and there become the power bed

who want to see were three military coups in Anak union: But that fact, only Damascus restored to its form that year

ensures corrânuing trouble, samy, which is the sole real command into effect,

There are, of courway, are power in the country, fer

· new interestext.

; in eachs of the two succeeding who do not care, for There is one miligating factor not, of course particularly oper glory as the seat of Arab Governments collapsed utterly

culture,

the army rent dantday. Many theso yours vand, in 1952 Among thermod The Syrians are woefully in- posed to one another on prin

also, were) French emolent, it

game of daily put in lepów As drumul of the cople. There are pro

divorced Shankil, in power as a mili- "they "suntered," accordi musical chaks who low moving vido burronucratie / Estypilots and pro-fenci

wholly

In any case, mod machine, the Longeness of gou--In both: 7451% mat

(zvane, stands "meioli; eenchent 2 control, lan and we the "sonalities!

nevitable interplay of coodieting T

for all this con- ! And the public seems w

*. He lasted for two,

then the army: turned kun, qué i vandhouse Ready

So the outl