1956-12-22 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.

Dear Anthony

the are all will, at koma except that the old cow died in the explosion which broke grandpa's leg and burned the house down, but that was put out by the flood which carried away the front garden. Meantime the central heating has packed up, the second glacial period is coming and we have the brokers-men in.

Hoping this finds you as it leaves us at present

your loving playmates

SPOTLIGHT ON A

MIDDLE EAST TROUBLE-MAKER:

THE MAN WHO GRAND OPENING

MIXES LOVE

WITH HATE

By RENE MacCOLL

No.

masters, as n mark of their gave him a free operation to correct it,

The operation. by one of frightoned part of the Russla's best neuro-surgeons,

Make this fucation

angry, troubled, and often

Middle ainst did the

world we call the East, is a foppish man his mid-forties.

In qulte,

trick-but not

la casily

the most Red in the Middle

He sports a binck Inter-type East. While the noisy Left-wing Tender Colonel Abdul Hamid moustache, has the ghost of #

about in Syria nervous factul lie, and answers Sarra) struts

Khaled aruj alministers that country at the head of a miliiny junta,

10

The name 1-1 #lagdach,

lot to be a

The Be used

it is Bagdash whb la the real

Worr artel Bagcash- vain power behind hi man who loves to boast of his PUEDENKEN with women-witt acutely aware of it,

LETTER FROM HOME

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BOY SCOUTS

So when, in 1053, he spent

months In the Soviet Bugdash il is who recelvca Union being groomed for his regular couriers from

musters, who present

his

<irects Russian Morow

the unceasing stream of poison propaganda which pours out of Damarcia radio and bits fair

role.

Christian Archibald Herter: Dulles' New Assistant

THE MAN WITH THE

C

CONSTANT

HRISTIAN HERTER Jus A passion for facts.

speeches

His political

tond to astound his audiences. They

AL 20, he

graduated

with honours

Harvard, and went on to Columbia to study sound like reports prepared architecture. He was persuaded, by a competent research however, tu leave Columbia and Librarian.

take a job the American Embassy a Berlin,

(in 1917, Shortly afterwards when he was 22) he was trans- ferred to Belgium ns Acting Minister. From there, he was ant home on the eve of the US entry into the war.

If the facts won't speak for themselves, Herter prefers น remain saleira

In

of course, this passion is deceptive. The facts have to be selected before they will meak for thenuwives, and you have to have opinions select Tacts.

to

Herter appears to select his facts us the basis of a SITO!, compact group of political pre- of them is conceptions. One that government ought to be Testricted to the minimum necessary to ensure that no one has an infer mivantage OCT jenother, to create a frameworle essential community services, end to secure the pence

of

Another is that government jought never to represent way

single Interest or group of in terests within the enmunity.

He has never courted the sup port of business or of labour, and he wealt probably repudi- nie sucht sutaport

it were offered to him.

SHREWD

THESE preconceptions are fur- the tempered by a strewd Judgment of what will work and what will not,

On his return to the US. he joined the Army

ufter but. three months. the Army obligingly r turned hlin to the State Department. The State Department sol him to Switzerland to look after prisoner at wur problems,

V

By LES ARMOUR

SMILE

day. If so, there would either be tour ittle air for Europe or perhaps worsthe wrong kind of aid. “

The facts did Communists In this case, eventually speak for themselves,

he

McCarthyRes were strong 10

and Herter the State,

WIN forced to compromise. He came ut strongly against suspected who pleaded the Fifth Amendment and its neur- zset it largely thanks to ler-ly identical equivalent In the ter that US ald

programunes State Constitution, and sacked have been as

and successful

anyone in the State service who have made as few enemies. #39 took refuge in them.

AL they have.

Eme, Fame ore targcia squashed a State ot sinear campaign and insisted on

high standards of evidence.

The result was that he not entirely popular with the McCarthyltes, and he also mode powerful enemies on the other

Pre- sitie, such as fluryard's deni Nathan Pusey.

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HERTER

At the end of the war, he was still in Europe and he served on the US delegation to the peace conference, and then

went to

work for the European Recon struction Corporation.

Herbert Hoover-then Scere- they of Commerce-brought him home as a special assistant, and He stayed in Washington

1925 when he teft publie life to call a llierary weekly.

unlil

Unfortunately,

Wis

the results Herior's inetics that be himself ap- peared us a colourless character who alings! acemed to have a dis-

for kaste

political activity.

not wha

une

ol the promoters aroni

pr Eisenhower-for-

the

Wis

to rival Cairn radio.

Bagdosh it is who calls the who has even organised troops of Boy Scouts Red-dominated "youth

football chulz," not only in

Syria but in next door Lebanon,

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He his been married-to Beautiful Handbags

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Party But he rarely let his marriage Interfew. with bis amerous exploits.

For

10

years he had "underground," always on the

and

JUN

Case, Compacts, Carry-

never daring to stay alls, Scarves, Cardigans, Twin-sets, Overcoats,

titutionally Ineligible for the more than a night or so in any

one place. Presidency work n11 Buvo Fold against him.

Now he is trusted by Moscow to an astonishing extent and is omeially regarded by Soviets

their supervisory director-general, with jurisdic

over the falthful in Jonian and

likely Now he is thought a candidate to succeed John Foster Dulles

of State. its Secretary Much will depend on his success In la

jab new

Dulles asaistauit. for there are other strong candidates.

His success, too, may deter- maine his chances of succeeding

Eisenhower.

Herter, however, does not appear worried. He knew the State Department when it WAS a fraction of its present size.

tion

the Woollen and Dress

Communist Lengths, etc.

Egypt

as well os Syria and Lebanon.

PRESTIGE

He has much prestige in the

Dressing Gowns, Ties.

Kremlin becouse he was one of Hankies, Cufflink Sets,

Communismy's first "geld men"

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grasp that the right method

The men who have grown of capturing the Asian nations Dressing Sets, Wallets,

in its service nre his old friends,

H

BELIEF

E is also an adept politician. He must have been tempted by Harold Stassen's attempt to nominale him for the Vice- Presidency (though Stassen

WOS the classic popular-front approach.

At first he agreed that Com-

munists ahould rigorously

Isolate

from themselves despised Socialists moderate Left-wingers,

the and

But then came the switch- over, and by 1953 Bagdash whe

In the Comuninform "WC Arabs have but and that is a broad, front which

must

Journal:

une path.

seems to have forgotten that national

To muke frk

Irlends OF his nemies, he raised the standards until of the State's

social Services 1032, when he was und launched л campaign to original bring Industry in the State? The campaign which has solved at least part of the State's chronic President, boom that he begun unemployment problem.

buttling with a will. political

In 1954, he was re-elected by chief assistant) but he realised unite the workers, peasants, and After Eisenhower's nomination, an overwhelming majority. he was persuaded to run hopeless tak, State Governor a seemingly since Massachu- setts had not had a Republican Governor since 1924.

He did get elected--but by small majority and after a long. A uphlil

fight.

married to

CHANCES

THINO erin, however, did not appe-3 to him. He has politics

Arst had his fill of Stale polities and too much for he has been angling for 11

of Federal job.

Almost

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In 1915, he

had Caroline Prutt, heiress to a nim. He ran into a wave large slier of the Standard Oil inbour trouble, and invoked A fortunes, thereby making doubly State law allowing the State to Had Eisenhower steppexi sure that he need no1 fear take over strike-bound public down, he might have been 14 financial difficulties.

services, and to break

a gas strong candidate for the Presi Journalism, however erudite, strike, en electricity strike and dential nomination-though his For instance, when he became

not sulisfy him for long. a milk strike,

chronic arthritis, Governor of Massachusetts four le had had a taste of govern-

his religion Fle ano ran into heavy (he is a Roman Catholic), and Years ago nice discrimination, ment, and he come from New weather over McCarthyism. his birthplace (he may be con- particularly In hotela and England's plutocracy, a group: restaurants. wus rife. It was accustomed to govern.

of

estimated that 35 percent hotels and

resoria practised

some form of discrimination.

Herter determined to clean them up.

did

After a year focturing Harvard on international

at

he contested a State eiection in 1931 and was elected герге

district.

But he realised the sentative for Buston's Back Bay legal snags in any legislation; a hotel or a restaurant can always plead that it is simply **full up.

The legislation passed not only made discrimination legn)

over a wide area ranging from

COVERNOR

employment to hotel accommo- EN YORTS Later,

he was

dation, I also set up a com elected to Congress and, by mission which was empowered 1947, had won enough national both to conduct Investigationa into allegations and to hold in acclaim to be voted one of the hearings to determine five top Congresmen by a poli

of 250 newspaper editors,

formal

the facts. Only when the com

mission had failed to stop the It was, in fact, as a Congress- offences could they be tried in man that he Arst made his name. At the end of the

In all, there have been more Second World War he was ap

could help

court.

than 1,000 Investigations. Only pointed chairman of a commit- two have reached the hearing co to find out how tho US stage and none has gone to

Europe without court,

damaging its own economy.

He led 19 Congressmen on n fact-Ording tour, in the course of which he collected millions of words of evidence from governments, opposition poli- cal partics, inbour

leaders,

Investigators report that dis- crimination is virtually extinct in the Bate. -

ELECTED

· businessmeri and foreign, econo- mists,

DOMESTIC Doilies, however, "He insisted that his commit-

nover been Herter's, too men refrain from political activity, while they were" [in

major interest,

He was born in Paris In 1895, Europe, and achieved the herpla thy, son of two professional fent of getting all-ther' fapte he, artists and the grandson of an needed without attracting, public, architect who had gone to attention or

erica In 1848 and made him- MOUNTAIN SUD

a millionairé, before he was

fear during

tho

thirty. In 1901, Christion was vesilgallon was shakthans) went home to live with his tion of aid wolfis 4

more the hood of Crumble subjeck for 2011cal University's Collars of Physiow before the publis Impa; and Surgeons; so that he the facta, anasthm

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