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The man who says 'Ike says

THE CHINA MAIL; THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1957.

James Hagerty is Eisenhower's spokesman. Or is he? They say that Hagerty brought down McCarthy......is now working on Nasser. That, though he is not even a Senafor, he is more powerful than a Cabinet Minister.

T

HE power and influence of James Hagerty, whose official title is White House Press Secretary, grows and grows and grows. This was proved during the Macmillan-Eisenhower meeting in Bermuda and is being demonstrated again in the pleasant afterglow of the Anglo- American conference.

Jim Hagerty is more now than a Cabinet Minister, although he holds no Cabinet rank. He used to be called the volce of the President, but now has emerged as the voice for the President.

To great extent he ran the ranking officers and officials show in Bermuda, even telling the country. British correspondents what they could du red what they couldn't do. Hagerty was boas ou the British Islersdi.

And to me extent he runs the show in Washingtons.

stant

He's the close friend and con- President companion of Elsenhower, who leans heavily on his advice,

Recently Eisenhower

invited

to attend meetings of thu him National Security Council, a top of the highest- planning group

Wherever

you'ro golag.......

EUROPE

In

Hagerty declined and said: "Il might affect my relations with the Press."

the

Actually as his power grows

with Hagerty's relations Press become somewhat strained White House correspondents have occasionally been bamboozled by Hagerty, who has slipped visitors uut of side exils so that they could avoid the Press.

Wondering

THIS sort of thing is not liked

here.

And the public is about the beginning to wonder power of the Press Secretary and asking "Who is this man Hagerty? What authority has be

carly 40's and was assigned to Albany, the State capital, where Thomas Dewey met him.

Lured him

ARLIER he

had been

Intelligence Report

The Big New Defence Deal

THE NAVY

CUT!

CUT! AND STILL MORE

T

HE NAVY is to be run down to the lowest possible limit consis- tent with its regeneration as an atom-age weapon in five years' time.

It will be ruthlessly re-

Emessenger boy. But news-duced to virtually three task

Hagerty became Dewey's accta-rockets for tary, and

of within a matter

targets. months had humanised him and sold him to the public and the

Sefton Delmer

REDUCTIONS

HONGKONG

CODED radio signals which will determine Britain's future influence as a Atlantic from Bermuda to military Power flashed across the the Defence Ministry behind Whitehall. They were the details behind the agreements signed. by President Eisenhower and Mr Harold Macmillan details for which the Defence Minister, Mr Duncan Sandys, has been waiting to complete his twice-delayed White Paper on defence.

This White Paper is an historic document which will affect every tax-paying family and have enormous repercussions on industry and manpower. The decision behind it, which will not all be baldly revealed when it is presented to Parliament are founded on three overriding and

revolutionary principles:-

BRITAIN'S main defence shield against global war will be the deterrent effect of a stockpile of H-bombs and rocket warheads with the means of delivering them. Enough of these weapons will be deployed to ensure devastating retaliation no matter how sudden or sustained an attack might be launched by an enemy.

bombers.

·CONTAN WRITERS STEPHRI

CRY-

THE

GARRISON

organisation is to be cut to the

barest, minimum.

Strategic reserves, Including

food, are to be run down on further,

Leases on storage, dem

stores are to be allowed to lapse. There is to be no money for sheltera,

pota for respiration and other

THE SHUT DOWN

THERE are to be big man- power cuts at many Royal Ordnance factorici, especially those making explosives, sm- munition, and tanke.

Some will be closed down and sold. Woolwich Arsenal is to br further reduced.

There will be no big orders for new tanks, Field guns will be replaced by rockets Alted with zlomic warheads which are already in production and are not subject to the new Bermuda restrictions.

THE H-BOMB”

COSTLY research to develop new manned combat planes is to be aban- British-designed guided 2 doned. Instead, the money will be spent on paper work lured him and his forces centred round exist-

missiles to replace fighters, and US long-range rockets to replace father had down a distinguished ing aircraft carriers to keep political reporter on the New the sea lanes open and serve

over the next three years and the York Times,

CONSCRIPTION is to be abolish ed as floating bases for launch- ing atomic attack,

Forces are to be streamlined so that they can be manned by highly-paid the with Dewey's relations

Regulars. Press were in an appalling state These ships will be equipped anti-aircraft and anti-

The foreseeable effects of the thinking behind these decisions on the and scarcely any newspaperman with liked the Governor.

submarine guided missiles, and

long-tange form and functions of the defence departments are as follows:- with eventually

TF the Christmas Island H- bombarding lond

bob terta pro successful!

of H- missiles of this type round the forces stationed in Britain may groups Instead of the division. le deterrent bases and towns. Later import some of their Nike rockets There will be big reductions in immediate stockpiling

equipment, bombs for the R.A.F. will begin An atomic submarine

it is hoped to replace them with to guard their own bases The lorries and by

U.S. Government is trying to nooded to maintain long supply by the Atomic Energy Author schoduled to be launched

against

Manufacture of tactical ity. missiles effective this When

Nato knes now considered obsolete, com- his 1900.

und the Induce Baltain

atom bombs and atomic war- countries to take over surplus

hoada for Army missiles is to be He did such a brilliant job pleted trials the Navy will be coming rockets.

2.3 regenerated

Nicos for training. that it was natural that Dewey gradually

THE ARMY fores

stepped up to match the great- atom-powered should offer to lend him

ly increased output of atomic to mainly

distam

explosive expected from Calder and Dwight Eisenhower when the capable of operating

Hill and other atomic power decided 10 run for waters withoirt refuelling general

independent of the Suez Canal. OVER TO

stations. President.

More dockyards Hogerty has been with Elsen-based departments hower ever since, and the relu- closed or cut, licnship gels closer and closer. Jim has become Ike's man.

newspapers.

The messenger boy turned re-

to moke the most important porter turned Press Secretary pronouncements ca world offairs? has come a long, long way, Where does he come from?” I told that it was Hagerty who These are interesting questions was President Eisenhower's chief

and the British must be asking adviser

them

Hagerly

Irish-American

with

wish a croggy

USA

face,

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STYLED

FOR 'PUSH

Carthy, which BUTTON' WAR

resulted in Mc-

Carthy's down- fall.

Some

the shrewdest

in U.S. history, and in the same skilled way in which he led McCarthy to self-destruc-

tion.

No

TO now fighters will be built after the English Electric P.1, which may be put into brains here be limited production to provide a lieve that

100 front-line force of about Eisenhower 18

planes. handling the dictator Nasser The P.1. and the Gloster Javelin, which is now in service, will be fitted with a de Havil- Jand guided missile scheduled to be in production this year,

No new blg bombers will be after the Victors and

of than 170 more

Mocly bombers to be made, Plane for a hove bcen supersonic bomber abandoned because it could not be ready before 1985. By then, under the Bermuda agreement, the Government expeels to be supplied with the US. weapon Thor, a

a 1.500-mile-range bom- barding rocket.

For days during Ike's recovery from his heart attack in Denver

A visiting Englishman who has Hagerty was the only man with made a lifelong study of Ameri-bullt access to the President, and was can polities but prefers to re- Vulcans already in production. practically acting President of

main United States during this

fold me: Not the

anonymous

these for crisis.

howling "Everyone Was Eisenhower to 'get McCarthy' Perhaps this taste at power and prestige has influenced his rod get him quickly at the time later actions.

of the sensational McCarthy hearings and the Senator's

The job pays him 20,500 a attacks upon the United States yeur, but when he finally gives Army.

up the position he will be able to commend £40,000 a year on

the boards of a score of big com-

panies, en Steve Early, President Roosevelt's Press Secretary did.

Same tactics

Hagerty earns his 26,500 and "THE President refused to go down in the gutter with more. He's always available to that guy, and by adrolt accredited correspondents, day

manoeuvring and restraint allow and night.

ed McCarthy enough rope to tie the Senator into knots and final ly force him to commit what amounts to political suicide.

The rise of Hagerty has been

PAN AMERICAN rapid, He was a reporter a the

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from

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"It is very probable that the President is adopting the same tactics with Nasser."

recon- naissance-bomber to operate below 8,000rt., where guided missiles are inefftetive, may be developed.

in

A hodge-hopping

To encourage recruitment the R.A.F., the White Paper will stress the importance of manned planes in the immediate future. Then it will point out that the R.A.F. will operate the ground- launched sck-ack missiles which will

go into production early next year.

By 1961 Britain should be deploying highly effective

Fame creates legends,

and the stories told about

THE ATOMIC ROCKETS

in-

CUT of 42,000 will be made this year with far bigger cuts in the next two years in- valving an increasing mumber of exemptions to the call-up.

No US. anti-aircraft missiles are being sought though the US.

Friell

In action from Germany

undisclosed

sizc

back

withdrawals

alk three units

to be are

other

CIVIL DEFENCE

brought from Malaya, DOWN

There will be reductions in the garrison at Hongkong and the military base in Libya is to be run down.

AND DOWN

By further pay rists and increased pressure from IT GOES....

employment the defence chiots

expect to get a Regular Army of up to 175,000, compared with be 373,000 now. Service may made more attractive by putting out some of the menial duties to civilian contractors,

The streamlined Army will be organised. round small brigade

EISENHOWER DOCTRINE

Because of rising prices the total immediate defence savings compared with last year are unlikely to be more than about £50,000,000,

The taxpayer will not feel GOVERNMENT bid. to the full benefit of the new abolish Civil Defence has decisions until 1958, when boen narrowly averted by op-

to £300 position from Mr R. A. Butler, savings of up. the Home Secretary. Instead, the million a year are expected.

ANGLO -U.S.

DISPUTE

SETTLED

'We didn't get all we asked for from the bosses—but we got something !'

selling instruments as they can

fast as

Condon" Empresa' Bervice »

What, then, is the find m he began piano shows on T.V. renaissance in the States and calls. "And believe it or not, we

Wo réctive from the piano manufacturers of I hope I can do something to used to sing on the way. It was pression. America report that they are sell planes in England, Germany, something, if not much, and any Liberace, this man in the gold- France....even if I don't get a how better than tears." Better faced suit, the ruffled silk shirt, This make them. "This Periny out of it! The more music than tears....and years after the shining · salin pumpal, the Everyone knows there is a

sent to the Milwaukee man with the smoothed there is in the world, the less Lee Liberace are innumerable; commercial side to television, but doesn't mean America is rearing misery!"

Municipal Treasurer a cheque tapering, ring-declcedong few realise that Liberace has

for a hundred and thirty dollars, the wide smile, the frank, eyes you'll notice, 2 alien made music one of the great a nation of Lee's," Lee explains, selling forces of our time. "which may perhaps be a bless- Remember, there speaks a man as a voluntary repayment of the (eyes,

ing... but it does mean, not using words without under-rellet the family had enjoyed in strangely sad, sometimes stranger Ono of his carly sponsors was that more and more people standing them. He has codured those

used his are turning to music for pleasure misory, and ho knows

some of them are also true. It is perfectly true that one day a man forced his way into Lee's room simply (ho said) to have a good look fat him. "Why?" asked Lee,

not

disconcerted. at all “Because our front room has been repapered

for you," the man said, "and pretty lights put in, and my wife has suddenly got in the habit of bathing .... all because of you!”

"I'm glad," Lee said, "Lots of people have very dull front rooms!"

It is also true that an admirer wrote to say that an Lee obvious- ly loved music, she was sending him the six finest records 'ever made. Ted Tooked forward eagerly to the arrival of the

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LIBERACE

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music

STORY

In the

hard Lenes. Many men ly passionate; never statle, never would have been ashamed in without a depth, of expression their years of prosperity to re- that springs from much ex- call the days of poverty. But perience of eilles and men and

Leo is not antemned; he is only women) ashamed that in a world

First

plenty there should be people to formpry and

public

whorn public charity is the only never forgeta nor fries to forget. rellet, Ho hates that, and he has "I'm no Apostle,**:-*: done his part to make others hate play musie for money. All right It too.

is that a misdemeanour?;'>But; ] His

very first "charity par- try to give money's worth and formance" was for an audience bit over. Even that I do for my of one-but it was a full-scale. own sake, because I want to, so concert. He had heard of a girl I take no special credit. But who loved his music, but loy al- say this: if all the world work

in an iron-" edf alittleg harder for love, We most watching his TEV... pro- not be in the mess we are co lung, gramme through 2. tiny mirror Next, he is a public benefactor reflecting a TV. set behind her. I say after knowing Solone, day to: plucky, stricken, man and loving hi

him for thirty Mary Kitzmiller, there came a yours. Such a living drooms. A plano. was by his very existence. digmike brought into her room, and, then, the world. He never did a mean

In care Liberace.

thing, ever. „He Has gives thicky Stories such as this one can be years to an art, he loves, dad multipllod, but they are never that art, in return has atvan him

man

parcel and the treat, la store. He services to urge people to save, nd,recreation. And I'll tell you helps to conquer it. so bad opened the parcel with great In three months alt thousand this rather than listen to Chopin "twenties" things got delight and put the first record new accounts were opened by (although that's one of the rare that the Liberace foily might told by the writers who say, and through him many, millices on without even looking at the viewers whom Lee's music had delights of the world) I'd have starved but for the mund- Liberace is a clows, a charlatan, of others, a constant happineY, label. His own voice and music persuaded." This is a single play him. The looker-on (or the cipel poor relief in Milwaukee a musical fraud, a poseur. Nur and an unfailing refreshment:250 Blooded from the speaker...and example chosen from many latener-In) may see most of the and ist mirely le to come very I think, are there many cases of the other five were also record shows that advertising has found game, but he doesn't get so low, Murid helped then. "George pollo patients being any the ings of his own. Very flatier a new high-priest. Another much of the fun. I count it, and I used to go to the Relet better for the visit of music ing, but a clear case of "coals to interesting sidelight on Lee's real triumph to have bom partly Blator to collect the family a critle bringing into the sick

ete immense kifluence is this since Instrumental in musical dole of soup sad bread, he re-room his healing vitriol; pu

The End