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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1937.

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JANUARY

Edan retires to H. of Lands Bs Earl. New Premier leaves al once for Jamnica.

FEBRUARY

The and Bulge agree to make no more H-bombs than are absolutely

necessary TO

ensure peace.

MARCH

Harding shaves Makarios. Resistance in Cyprus collapses

Chiang joins Mao's UN,Sick of Nasser, decides Macmillion defends Government. China's seatal] tofill in Canal and dig Security

Council is" 73"} new one through israğı declarede · Loverloaded/

the £ again.

JULY

IRA demands Brilain Take back ireland and resume hostilities forthwith.

AUGUST

Mickoyan stops Krushchev's vodka K. flees West and applies for US citizenship

SEPTEMBER

Shareholders attend TUC to insist on 10% increase in profils to meet rising

cost of living.

OCTOBER

Min of Transport plans to restrict motoring to the rich only, car problem solved]

BANKRUPTCY COURT

NOVEMBER

West Germany assumes burden of dodging defence.

DECEMBER

Britain accepts invitation To rejoin the Commonwealth.

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SURPRISE CHOICE AS PRIME MINISTER

WHERE WILL MACMILLAN LEAD BRITAIN

AND THE EMPIRE?

London.

Na fine olien at No. 10 Downing Street, Lon- don, a man at a big mahogany desk will be eat- culating what 1967 hokis for him.

፡፡

A bushy-moustached man.

voice A man with round and full as a melon. A man with pale, elegant flutter rest- fingers which

lessly in the air like butter- flies' wings while he talks.

Picture Mr Harold Mac- millan. the new Prime Minister, as his eyes move thoughtfully from the room's beige carpet to its bright while woodwork, from the graceful Canaletto to the Reynolds portrait on pastel-pink walls.

There is no doubt where his calculation will lead him. To cheerful conclusien. Things are going his way.

a

was

JUST JOKING

THERE IS

THERE is no more talk from him now about moving off He to the House of Lords, blandly declares that all that chatter about his viscounty meant "semi-humor -

Suez ho Is trans- figured. He sees 1957 us a year in which he can gather immense

It new power and Influence. sure he has hopes that it will

by

DOUGLAS CLARK

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It

would

import Europe's standard of living Into Brilaio too.

dolints to nurse his reserves he trader! away a frst-rate Empire uisset.

one of our bingestell interests. in the New World.

Wages? Whereas the average Was

L statesmanship?

Weekly woge here slands Especially in view of what has

of around 11 159,, the average since happened over Sucz? Does

Germany is

10s, Be CO it ebeograge us to share Mr

ertain OLE: workers would Macmitian's delight in the fact wwiftly be pushed down to the mat his power and bifluance wro

German level How Increasing?

ABOUT TURN

NEXT there is a question-

mark which hangs above Mr Macmillan's head as a result of

Sur

It is so that until our troops were actually ashore at Port Sald Me Macmillan was all for the Eden policy. Ho was full of dash and daring. He bunched those geaceful fingers into ថ quiled fist and boldly banged the table.

THAT WAS FINE. THAT WAS GOOD, But it is also said that he then changed his mind, that from being the Arst of those to

Sir Anthony back

Eden ho became the first to demand an ignominious retreat.

Docs that inspire us with the slightest faith in his wisdom and foresight?

And now?

Still womo will follow in 1857,

prove the greatest me of his if Mr Macmillan's calculations

fo.

are right and his influence grows

Well, LC hip hopes are further.

realised, that will be good for

Mr Macmillan, But the thing

that matters much

mono

ا

FANTASTIC

whether it will be good for FOR he is the

Britain,

So Iel

us study

BIAN who is fathering the plan of a Euro- Mr Mac- Pean Free Market. He is the man who wants to break the special economic bands between Britain and the Empire and tie us instead, to the Continent,

millan's record as one of the Tory Government's Big Three. BAD, BAD

HA

Is it hot fantastic? The Imperial Preferences established

at Ottawa In 1932 and since scaled down --- were modest

AVE the polleles he has promoted been good for the country?

Do they encourage enough. But at least they have sas to think that, if the interests provided some shelter for the of Mr Macmillan promper in 1997 two-way trade between Britain the interests of Britai will and her Commimwealth and proaper too?

Britain does, Empire colleagues. Far from it. The influence of at least, market, 48 percent of her Mr Marmilau on Tory policy exports In the Commonwealth has been deplorable, It has whereas only 12 percent go to bren bact for Britain. Bnd for Europe. the Commonwealth. Bad for

"Mmillan polky would the Empire.

mean tho destruction of oven First, there was the sale of these fragile barricades. Trinidad Oli to the Toxos

"If that would be damaging to Company last June. Mr Mac- the Empire would be utterly millan could have stopped that diasastrous to Britain. transaction with a single fuller, For, make no error, the" fros of his elegant fingers.

markent plan would not only Instead, he let it go through, import moro European goods In return for a llitis handful of into this country,

The

The Welfare Slate. That would have to go. Foreign cut-

workless outside the Midland Labour Echanges.

Weil, that โร the plan propounded by Mr Mac- mian. So far he preaches it with caution. He trickles it out with dollente qualifications. He wraps it around with "fs"

But ho

is and "buis," collecting sup

quietly support for it CAN ANYONE THEN WHO IS NOT ENTIRELY IN- DIFFERENT TO THE TRUE INTERESTS OF BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE SIN- CERELY WISHI HIS CAREER WELL IN 19577

TO

urter competition would cronte No

suels havoc in our economy that www rould not possibly afford to anonce It.

Full employment? We have now. But in Italy the number f unemployed is over 2,000,000, "itow long would it be before our own unemployed soared up.io. and beyond that appalling Agure!

DESTRUCTION

A

le

PIN-UP BOY doubt his

proposition

Americans.

pleases the could well

bc their British

boy pin-up

of 1957 if he continues to drive forward wills it. For ever since Rousevelt,

Govern American ments have been hostile to the Sterling Area, They want to destroy it as a money unit.

But should we take American fcollage in this matter into the

lightest recount?

It Mr Macmillan wants to do 'n good job for Anglo-American TAKE the car indus Van relations he had better drop his an instance. If Mr Mocmillan free trade notion and let the gets bls way, thr

German United States understand that unhampered by heavy taxation Britain does not

10 propose 10% defence would allow herself to be tacked on to demands pour in the Volkswagens. Is Europe,

that

she is still the That what Mr Macmillan wants?

leader of an Empire and that sho Sunz and petrol rationing have does not propose to abdicate. already given our motor industry a savage jolt. A free market in this country for German car exporters would complete its of Mr Harold Macmillan. destruction and plio up the

If

Not even to please Mr Johns Foster Dulles. Not even to further the political ambitions

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By LES ARMOUR

'there was anything Vickers' boss Sir George Edwards

he got in the New Year Honours list, it was his order from Trans-Canada Airliners for £23 million worth of Vanguards.

The transaction made history in three ways.

It was the first time a British nircraft frm had received a substantial order for an airliner while it was still on the drawing boards. It will be 15 month's before the Vanguaro is ready,

And the Vanguard is one of the few aircraft in postwar Bri- tain to have been financed from start to finish as a purely private venture.

ature.

Finally, the order makes Trans-Canada Britain's biggest dollar customer since they have already ordered £80 million more of the best-selling Viscounts,

Some American aircraft manufacturers have uneered gently at Britain's airliners. They do not, as a matter of fact, fly faster or farther or look flashler than anybody else's aircraft. Insband; they have concentrated on middle-sized strcroft which are cheaper to run, carry bigger loads, con come down on shorter runways, and maka lene noise than anybody cho's pircraft,

Airlined are in the Burinces of getting people from one point to another at a profit, to themselves and at a price and, speed. which makes it worthwhile for their customers to fly.

Pashape it is more fun to ost recordia, But it isn't profitable,

How angry Churchill bas

made them!

BY JOHN REDFERN

111

IR WINSTON CHUR- situation created by the war,

ylch CHILL

in fact was started by began

Charles, He had to dent with argument by reviling

a situation which demanded Qiver Cromwell in his letatorship is only alter- second volume of history, native to àunrehy, "THE NEW WORLD".

Cromwell 22 the hero of Macaulay and Carlyle. Mie weighty Dr G. M. Trevelyan considers him a great patriot, Many sue him as the man who saved our parliamentary system. Brave Oliver, It seems, had a "smoky soul"

You should ask the Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot, P.C., who was prewar Minister of Mines and today is president of the Crom- well Association.

"I wag much ohnoyed when I

wad Sir Winston's chapters dealing with Oliver Cromwel}," Mr Font tells

It is My Foot who hopes that when the buy Duke of Cornwall succeeds to the throne he will take the style Oliver 1, style.

to keep i third Charles off the list.)

The

American Breat

W Professor

C suthority. Abbott, once quoted what Mr Gladstone had to say about Cromwell, and commented that this revealed more about Me Gladstone than about Cromwell. That is my comment on Sir Winslet's study."

THE TREATMENT

who

deals gently indeed with Charles 1, really gives Oliver Cromwell the treatment. Listen.

"By the end of 1848 all war ver.

SIR WINSTON,

Cromwell was Dictator, The struggle to bring about constitutional and limited monarchy had led only to the Autocracy of the sword."

At Drogheda, Cromwell used overwhelming strength with reless wickedness, debased the standards of human conduct, anch

"sensibly darkened the Journoy of mankind“

To all this, Mr Poot retorts: "I can only recall the words of Bright writing on John Stuart Mill, The worst of these great thinkers is that they so often have been wrong.

"Cromwell did not start the Civil War. He came into a

'IT'S FÁCT*

E himself salt that a bad Was Letter then no government. But if no was a dielator-true in a sense

"H Government

'Page is

much more missive scale-can be made against those, includ- ing Sir Winston, who agreed to dóp 'he atom bombs on Iro- shin and Nagasaki,"

Now, I have inspect the ranks of the historians and the reviewers, un the look-out for men ready to engage Sir Win ston in defence of Cromwell.

Who volunicera ormong the reviewers? Hardly a man steps forward. he was the only one who

The Scotsman is divest himsetr

but fought ย

of eritieni,

erilen beenuse Arbitrary

"Scottish history is only on the powers and put his Goverment on a representative nargin of Sir Winston's field of bapis.

vision, and his touch in it is quite imsure.**

"Ho Wis upent lover of Parliament,

The historians are brooding, and some are restive. I get the impression that these think Sir Winston has been 'rough with Oliver.

Professor Trevelyan has d'elared that he saved Parlament, It is a pure matter of fact that had it not Oliver Cromwell we been for should have had no parlamen- taty system as we have today,

"The dimeulty

Howse. is that Sir Winston Is a master of words, .but unfortunately on Cromwell he has allowed words to be his master,"

in step with Father Foot is the Other Foot Michael, former president of the Union at Oxford (where in 1842 they melted down their plate for the Royalist cause), former Socialist M.P. for Devonport,

11 had not been for Cromwell's successful defence of Parliament, probably no one would have ever heard of the grent Duke of Marlborough or of his descendant, Sir Winston." Then from Michael to Sir Winston this sharp thrust; "in 1940 Sir Whiten chose one PRINC Cromwell' — für the signal in case of invasion, knew then that Cromwell stood

for freedom.”

THE WORST...

ND Droghtxia?

is Dr Here

Alfred Leslie Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, historian,

"On Ireland, Sir Winston is an unrepentant, old - time Liberal.

That is very humane of him. But we have fo remem- ber that Drogheda was three centuries ago, and warfare has never been a pretty thing. My own view is that he is a little hard on Oliver," ho tells me.

A BIT FAR'

David Churchill NEXT Mr

A Oxon, Somervell, M. whose father, a Harrow master, Arst interested the

young Winston in English. He tells ITC that, while he thinks The New World" shows fundamental rather difficult He generosity, It

to know what "Smoky soul" means, although it is a grand phrase.

Where

A Cromwell put all in the gurrison to the sword, including every priest and frlar, says Sir Winstet!.

Well, then, is Cromwell to be made Into a monster because Sir Winston speaks and writes wonderful English?

My question is a serious one. For Miss C. V. Wedgwood, authority on Cromwell's period, who thinks Sir Winston has The worst to be said is that been extremely just, adda: "Of Cromwell placed the demands course, Churchill's view of

of military, expediency before Cromwell will be reflected in the idens of toleration he future textbooks. He is sû normally upheld so strenuously frightfully quotable."

"The

same accusation-on a

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