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DON IDDON'S DIARY

BOUQUETS FOR BRITAIN

T

Bioned.

HERE'S

here and anger

New York.

disappointment. The headlines read, "Nusser Moving to Take Over disillu- Gaza." The Americans rending them are

They had hoped that the Middle East crisis was over. They had been told that so many times-by, their President, who said it before the election, during the election, and after the election-and by their Secretary handle of State, who confided to his friends: "I Nasser. He will see reason.”

The State Department has blamed the British, the French, and Israelis for months for the mess In Suez. Spokesman after pokesman has sald, "The Canal would never have been closed if the British had not attacked. But now even the State De- partment has changed its tube.

Today 1114 spokesmen aro tongue-led or else they are saying: "11 La

dellente

situation, We are studying #t."

But this is only one reason wlly British presilge is going up here like a rocket.

Here is Vice-President Richard Nixon, the most powerful man in the United States after Mr Eisenhower, saying in Uganda: "I am deeply impressed. Try the way the British have trained the Africans scit-govern- meri."

ITA

A glimpse

was Mr Nixon who, when the U.S.

enst its vote con- demning the British and French Belion in Egypt, said: "This is a declaration of Independence

⚫ from colonjulism."

Bul the Vice-President Louring Africa and has caught a glimpse

1

A

can

PEEPS

DEBORAH KERA

tods making a mistake, said Olivier

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

.etont seats for The First Gentleman."

rectified and today the British are getting full credit, and even photograph of the Duchess

10 sneak managed

into

of British political has

tune, a gemus. There was few days ago, when the bemused print. Aanerican newspaper reader and radio listener thought that the U.S. had freed the Gold Coast

and made it into a new inde- pendent Ghana.

Well ahead

N top of the Ghana achieve-

meal has come the an

ON

The dispatches were all about nouncement of Britain's decision Kwame Nkrumah and Richard

to treble her nuclear power

Nixon, Americans, looking for

putting her three a mention of the Duchess of programme Kent of whom they are for years ahead of the rest of the

could hardly find one. How...

the mistake

ever

has

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The

Times New York solemnly concedes: "We shall have to take into account the the fact that it

British pro- accomplished on gramme is

is likely schedule Britain have world leadership in atomic

know-how, and power, perience."

10

CX-

And crowding the atomic an. nouncement art

of a series articles and telecasts analysing Britain today after Suez.

Do such distinguished Ameri can commentators and COTTES spondents as Edward R. Murrow and Drew Middleton say wo aro flagging, lethargic, second-rate members of Ft second-rata Power?

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1957.

BOATS

A HIRE

BOAT BUILDER DINGHYS-PRAMIS-RETIN

BOATS

"As a ship builder I'm on strike, as me own employer i ain't. Tell your captain' I'll do 'thu a refit with pleasure.”

A PRISON OF NATIONS

HOIST!

THE INSOLUBLE PROBLEM

OF

RELAXING A RULE BUILT ON BLOOD AND TERROR

RECENT events have thrown into prominence the

question of the Communist attitude to and the rights of nations.

nationalism

It has long been the Communist claim that their яystem has produced a settlement of all questions connected with nationhood satisfactory to the aspirations The leading Communist of all the peoples concerned.

the United countries have put themselves forward in Nationa and elsewhere as defenders of the rights of small nations throughout the world.

was

restored.

J

-for

J. E. M. Arden

will prevent rapid rosettlement doctrinal ones in this welcome Serov, was awarded the "Order so satisfactory, how did it come which seems to mean that restoration—particularly as two of SuvorovTM-officially reserved about that theso peoples re- the old towns of these peoples of the main nations deported are for major victories in the field jected it even to the extent of now occupioj by Russians and

not rehabilitated,

these very deportation collaborating with the Nazis, of given Russian names, will not

The original purpose of the operations,

whom they knew nothing teslored

the be

It to them, Is deportations was partly penal

excupt

hostile accounta officially announced, in fact, that and partly "strategie." Vlasov's ment is the reason why the yet this

Perhaps the strategle urgu- given them by the Soviet Press? Interests of Lho the economic

Evtikhlev and

"autonomy," which Crimean Tartara ere omitted they found so intolerable, is all Russian settlers are not to be Handbook

Administrative of

from this restoration of rights. interfered with,

Law,

that is to be restored to them, published in Moscow in Those nations had bech 1946, giver

The Crimea is not an inacces politically speaking. It is cer the pur- penallted on account of alleged poses of "resettlement" carried sible

Apart from its tinh

tainly great improvement that collaberation with the Germans, out by "the organs of State general strategic importance they are no longer to be parials, The new decree points out that security" as "State security and proved un several

warst and that they are to return to it is un-Leninist to blame entire defence of State frontiers,”

borders on open sea, south of their ancestral lands. But this which lles the nations for what can only have

State to which is not to give them even a trace the Tartars have always felt the of the independence for which strongest linguistle and natural the Aslan peoples inside and tics-Turkey.

outside the USSR equally long. Extreme

actions of some of Civilian

I

Strategist

Ares,

The Crimen is also very much

Oppressions

The last few months, how. ever, have seen the suppression

Germans The Volga of a virtually unanimous people's

and Crimean Tartars, who were rising by Soviet armed force.

not to be aro also deported, And at tho Supreme Soviet rehabilitated, and their Re- been the session in February, 1957, 1

And the them. But it cannot publics remain dend.

be pretend- further reminder

given Kaonyks, who formerly had a ed

thesc that

deportations about Soviet practices in this Republic, must

crimes now make do were

of Stalin kept matter. A decree was passed with an "Autonomous Region." sect

secret from his successors and

a personal fiet of Khrushchev's announcing that remnants of a The Karuchaj, who had an revealed to them after his death, During the Second World who transferred it from Russia number of nations deported "Autonomous Region" to them to their shocked surprise, like War, the Germans had reached, to his own stronghold of the en masse from the Caucasus in selves,

reached, the. North Ukraine in 1854. Here Leninizin are now to share sond the other matten about which or nearly Stalin's time would be allowed with the Cherkesses,

Khrushchev took the dead die Caucasian peoples. They were stems compatible with mass-de- to return home.

lator to task in his "secret only a few hundred miles from portation. speech" in February, 1956. the Turkish fromler-a position A further point presents itself. and the Buddhist Kalmyks

The facts of the deportations which might perhaps have im- These peoples lived in the re Muslim Chechens, Ingushi,

were known to the present pressed a civilian

lian strategist like motest valleys of the Northern of Caucasus completely cut Karachoi

Balkars, and habitants of part

of the

of the largest ono had

In- from any foreign influence, were enjoying, it the The probable explanation is made in the Soviet Press. And accessible, and now that Sovielised section of the Midale East. The restoration of the that in the slaughter and sux- the present head of the Security generais have such great in Soviet theory is acceptat, the

satisfying autonomous institutions (which fering they are imown to have Police Serov-actually carried fluence in the counsels of the most

these peoples them out. were carller such small pro- passed through,

Party, the strategic argument national autonomy-Indeed they tection to them) is not, Indeed, have declined so greatly in If it is only four years after would presumably carry lets had voted over 88 percent for called "a prison of nations". The

that the action weight. numbers that their populations Stalin's death

the regime in the previous USSR has painted the cells in complete.

Of the four "Autonomous Re- no longer rate the higher status, presents itself to his successors: To add to the argument the elections.

more attractive colours. But`itm as un-Leninist, wo may perhaps generals, never relished the fact If the Soviet solution of the treatment of unruly prisoner's publics" suppressed, only one. It has, in any case, been an- the Chechen-Ingush is to be nounced that shortage of houses seek other motives than purely that the present, security chief, nationality problem was really has boon more brutal.

The nations concerned are the Slaughter

"I

They say just the opposite, "Technological, commercial, and political skills are to win new eminence for her in the nuclear age. Aggressive con- fidence, based on evidence of

the This is not a solid progress. moribund society living in the afterglow of past glories. It is a society in motion.... Britain is a country that still believes in itself."

Riding high

this

Star witnessas

and Suffering leadership. The

been fact the area is print They

+

forms

of

One of the more extreme op- presions of the Bovlet Middle Best is to be partially rectified. But, as before (and do in Hun- whole gary), the peoples arez will remain subject to he absolute that of the Moscow Panty Presidian. And it will again be said to be all that they could possibly desire,

The old Tsarist Empire was

“An artist determined, as I was determined, to reach the heights, can do so only by giving his whole mind and heart to the task," Lee says. "To marry is to divide-wasn't it Caesar who said, 'Divide, and conquer"? He was talking about the enemy! Divide, and be conquered should be the warning to an artist. Singleness of purpose, singleness of heart, are essential to success.

THE

LIBERACE

by Anton burney

STORY Chopin lim,

息

.of have known many

self a writer. He has sponsored to Lee, and was instrumental in work's most beautiful

and supervised a new work on causing him to establish one of women--and they were wonten

music teaching which is ex- the great enterprises of his not of beauty only, but of rare

pected to revolutionise teaching The Liberace Foundation to talent and personality, such as

techniques in America, and be fight pollo. He and George be I engaged oh surlotte gan modestly enough with the any man might dream of sharing

History of Candelabra, which purchase and gift to the Rancho his life and hopes with. It has

will be the fullest and most au Lor

Hospital of San often been on effort to look

thoritativo ever issued on, is an instrument used, in dia

(which remember that away, and 10

subject, Lee's well-known in 1.25 such rich delight la not for me

terest in candelabra stems from gnosis of polio) which cost his first sight of the lovely about five thousand dollars. 10 rejoice on

After the toil, the eve of not yet.

the

A Song to Re- Modestly7--for five thousand. spring. The people who rest; after the conquest,

member, in which one stood ob

dollars is a small fortune. Yes, were saying that Britain was nò reward. I have had the fortune

the composer's plano, New Lee modestly: for since then Lee's longer Great Power ww

to reach the goal I set myself,

always has candelabra on his Foundation has made available sliding fast to a position of and now, perhaps soon-I shali

plano when he plays!

for the fight against polio many minor importance and negligible think of marriage. It must be

thousands more, and be and influence, are now proclaiming a marriage of true minds, as

To walk round this magni- George have dedicated the pro- for all the New World to hear Shakespeare says. She will need

ficent home is to understand ceeds of four concerts a year to that we ride high and mighty.

to give me great charity, great and great love; and

what great wealth can do to this work. In addition, Les sympathy,

frequently visits pallo hospitals I shall give her something of

for which he had waited bombing of Leipzig. The plane tired sometimes after hours of make a man's life comfortable to give concerts to the patients. that devotion I have given for

swim is a concert grand, over ten feet over thirty years to the exact ever since he learned to

It is at the age of two-when he long, in black picked out with practising that he's almost asleep But let no man enry Liberace. "A man must have no bat in ploitation, not by amassing great. Leo "but for such an evil: ing mistress, Music,

he can go to bed with his eyes profits from the sale of bread, natural that too many marry in could hardly play a note on the real goid and with powder blue before he gets to his room and He has become rich not by ex his heart for any living thing"

felt inside. Sometimes Leo will piano!

there can be neither as polio I want for both our

When Lee plays a concert he play for a small circle of in- shut because it's impossible, to not by speculating in other men's charity no mercy, This - ob- hasto.. sakes to avoid that mistake."·

this dream miss the bed! This monster is lives and souls, but by bringing: scene, horror must be staged always uses a Baldwin plano timate friends an Nearly forty thousand English made by the great American instrument, and on these co- covered by day with a white Imoceat pleasure, to the mile out from the living bodies at We are propounds would have been needed firm of instrument makers, and casions when the lights are din bedspread decorated with black lloms. No money was ever bete feeds on, and the world made of ater wit parade

to build Lee's house, if it had for this reason most of his long and there is no forty-million and gold, and is heaped with ter earned, or more justinably lean of it. For my part, Iaball never" cease, from, this work, s0 and possibly Marilyn Monroe. pleasant land. In the very spent with a Baldwin. But it's will abandon himself to the love. bedroom is decorated in of sonal comfort alone.

And I thank the thousands of pleasant and green land of the a very special one, worth about lines and, the sadness of the white, with black and gold The reason why plans to make

United States it cost a hundred £5,000, which the manufac great composers and play softly, touches, and is equipped with a When Lee's house was being people who have helped by ade Separate Tables

William ding their contributions to mine. with Sir

American thousand

heart-breaking cunning sound diffusion unit, so built, his contractor, dollars: turers bayo given to him. As softly, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh,

melodies of old Germany and that when Lee operates his bed Stelksal, was suddenly struck. Every year more and more Deborah Kerr, and Burt Løn-

The young formerly incurable people are want it back for business of the rich to circulate do not castor collapsed, was because

the world his chosen record comes into the builder was doing their money and not to hourd, hundred years.It is possible that There are concerts. Olivier wanted to make drasile

it. Many a technician and by the time they see it again, it cannot share, but I believe the room from concealed speakers in job with the Liberace house, And I pray my friend Bl

walls. Also

Low's and

of his bitterest disap- Stelioral will! noon be among changes in Terence Rattigan's artisan In San Francisco sat may be beginning to show signs refreshment

they give to the the script and in the characterisa

spirit

enriction his bedside is a very up-to-date pointment law in) temying the than. That would indeed bea

he work incomplete while he was great reward, tions. Oilvier also thought Miss down to a better Christmas of wear at the moment it's player's

dinner that year for having a getting about twenty hours hand audiences on the air when he Intercom: Kerr was making a mistake in share in this great building we every week! Of course returns to the concert platform can speak to his mother or their in hospital; The work went

Lee jokes,

gucels in other rooms. And of and was finished, but Bill Steik. Let those who envy success "I may not practise or the studio, The last thing to be projectio

course, bookcase la within al has never see it. Not yet; conildor if they would make so Duke of Windsor has done was the big swimming pool, gulla so hard when I'm Log's bedroom is dominated beach, for Les loves to read in but he will or Lee's under gracious a use of it, if it came The ordered eight seats for the open shaped like a grand piano and hundred and thirty

tha

His other plano is unique. It's by a huge bed, which someone bed sometimes the latest standing friendship has gone far their way he

than inroads of the •Escasion the raised/ top co Ing of The First Gentleman, with a key-board terrace at-

play about England's Prince shallow end. This was the last a Bluthner, valued at £50,000, once likened to a football field: populer, novel, and sometimes to conquer Rogcat, ator George IV. The Liberace algnature ci a house which was one of a pair bullt like walking in ror sleep with weighty work of musical disease in Stelksal's case, and of his views of the garden the Dulce is a descendant of the already fill of the musical by the famous German arm out getting out of bed," in Lee's theory blography: All there is hope of cure: It had a sheet of plesylars El

motif he had chosen for him some years before the war; its explanation of this over-size though he is too busy to and was this line of his telarskt specially made and detoned: famous dandy

magnificent poot! fallow was destroync : in the couch, He also says he's so much time for itt Lewin him that brought palis closely, bome MOREA TOMORROWER

THE THE results of the State in

vestigation in Hollywood into scandal magazines and the private eye business has now been passed on to the Grand Jury for action,

mised

nesses certainly Frank Sinatra | boen set in England's green and hours of practising at home are audienco crowding the air, Leo cushions of the same stylogrand spent. Nor at spent on pol and as it remains to be done."

agreeing to appear.

FOOTNOTÉ) Now the slogan

#2, Láki Lice

the

money well spont; for it is the they have specified. that Poland, especially for Mom; sido turntable, the music, from down by: polo his biggest going back fo im Morkauf, ure

system by