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THE CHINA_MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1957.

SHOULD THE QUEEN

GO TO AMERICA?

folly Americans achieved?

Lo

We might forgive them if they had made a beiter job of it themselves. But look at the situation today.

is believed that arrangements are now well under have grasped the fact that this the transfer of power

to visit the United States next would imply have resulted in

piece of irresponsibl way for the Queen autumn.

presenting Hongkong to 1210 At first sight this may appear to be good news. Communists, and that It would Being themselves extremely proud of her Majesty, the British make them a little more chury like to feel that their affection for her is shared by others of similar interference in the When we read about the enthusiastic welcome she will receive future.

trom Press

and public, will

bo casy to feel that a great blow has been struck in the cause of Anglo-American friendship. This, needless

Lo Ray, will be the object of the exercise.

Frankly, I find the whole iden profoundly distasteful,

tion

will

Ket

Wo know what sort of recep-

Queen the (If you are in any doubt, just Imagine a visit to London by

Princess Grace of Monaco and multiply that by 10.7

do?

But what good will it Visits by Hender of States are a normal part

of the diplomalic game, but visits by Britis

Sovereigns are rare enough

to

be of real importance. They are

normally reservert for the

friendly of our allies.

:

OUR ALLY

THE question

14

most

I say: Instead, let Eisenhower

come HERE

Not

bit of it,

1

over

Look at their attitude Cyprus. Can anyone doubt that American pressure at Bermuda was responsible for the lument- able British weakening which has resulted in the release of Archbishop Makarios? Lord Salisbury, who is no novice at international politics, has shown by resigning that he sees the impleations of this only too clearly.

thu

AUTH

of

g by Y

ANGUS MAUDE

Tory M.P. for Ealing South

Look, too, at the determina. tion of the Americans to

cet

the

Is Israel moro occure? Is peuce assured in the Middie East? Is the Canal under in- Is Nasser ternational_control? any less of a menace than was?

A BETRAYAL

bo

Do not think the British will called, in anything but diploma- easily forgive what would be

DIANA BARRYMORE, THE GIRL WHO GAILY THREW AWAY HER WORLD, TELLS HER OWN STORY

THIS IS THE FACE OF A WOMAN

WHO CRIED

WITH SHAME

New York.

THEY used to call the Barrymores "The Royal

T Family of Broadway." But John is dead, long

before his time, a man ruined by alcohol; Lionel is dead, after years of crippling arthritis; Ethel is old and tired; and Diana Barrymore (36) is battling for

tle language, a monstrous be-survival after years of travail.

trayal of trust and friendship.

Certainly it will take a lot more than the Bermudia comTM munique, and the offer of a few gulded missiles whose warheads be trusted to we are put to look after ourselves, to make me

but fect anything

profound suspiciori

the American Government's devotion to Bri- lain's Interests,

We cannot yet assess the

re

would scarcely be going too far to say that the atitude of the Stute Department—and especlai- us out of our Surz base in 1957 sulis of Bermuda, for we do not

whether ly ut its Middle Eastern section We all know what followed America ought to be con- has for many years been one from that. sidered an a friendly State of unremitting höaulty towards дот.

British interests abroad

in

Put bluntly like that,

question that A

or

}

it

NOWLE

people will lind rather shooking. But isn't it better to face it frankly? It is, after all, momeihing that a great many of us have been asking ourselves for some time.

Of course the United States is our ally. Britain has an essen- tial role to play In American world strategy, which is aimed solely at opposing and contain- ing Russian Communism.

The Americans are extremely anything, from generous with financial uld to millest misslies, that

Britain 10 will enable matain that role. But this is no thun enlightened welt-

more

interest.

Look

HOSTILITY

is where Britain's own in- terests Bre concerned that

to

1

seem know the frets. But is doce not w me to have arrested our deplorable drift towards the status of an American satellite. THE DANGERS

Slace then we have seen the Perhaps the American people shocking spectacle of our Ameri- do not share this view, but they can allt ganging up in the do not seem able to aller it. United Nations with the Con What Mr Dulles says still goes, munist bloc เก the Aftom

The

British Empire has Asiansmiti fact, with all the IT is useless for our leaders to always been anathema to the totalitarian countries of the go on repeating the old rulers of America, and every world-to prevent us from de- phrases about the vital need to diminution of it has been greet- fending our vital interests In rebuild the Atlantic alliance. ed with glad cries and fulsome the Middle East, congratulations to the "libera-

peopics.

ted"

The amount of ignorant prejudico against British "Colonialism”

almost

unbellevable.

WE

a little thin. Indeed, it tho

GANGING UP

Americans

would

LAST DROP

WE have had to watch Eisen- hower and Dulles squez- ing the last drop of meniliation from bur defeat, deliberately

the advertising to

world the destruction of our power, to the

of a accompaniment

How of high-ninded

homilles moral nauseating even nore those of Mr Nehru.

And all for what?

We know the alliance ta essential

We are not such fools as to want to cast it off. But for God's sake let us face the dangers Involved 'in it, and not pretend that the

United States is is it for. our health.

The Americans are

il

Kreat

Diana tells her own tragic story und the tragedy of her father in a book more harrowing than Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow,

It 19 significant that Gerold Frank, America's most sue- cessful Press writer, collaborated with Diana on

book her Too Much, Teo Soon,

by DON IDDON

as he collaborated with Ms Roth on her best-seller,

The Roth

Roth story was

the tale of an alcuholle. So is the Diana Barrymore story. But it is also infinitely more.

11 is a grim

and brutal autobiographical story of a human being who had everything-a great name, money, famous friends, talent, and beauty-throwing them all sly thevery in a super-market, and the recklessly and slipping down to the depths of a suicide attempt, petty

Inevitable consumptions of sleeping drugs,

odmission (and the Today Dian Barrymore, by her own photographs tell the tale), is bloated with her past dissipations, and looks more like a woman of 50 than one of 31.

Behind her arc three marriages-first to the English actor Bramwell Fletcher, then to tennis professional John Howard, and thirdly to Robert Wilcox, who died of a heart attack two years ago. Back on the Front Pages

ITER book has put Miss Barrymore back on the front pages, where

H for the past few years she has been news only through her

In

by governeSSES and door men. This is one of the major reasons for my drinking and escapades with men.

and

night, Diana before the

that

fost weck and

tout for youru

The New

Wehrmacht

Bonn.

Today she says: "I haven'tHE new German military machine went into top

THE gear last week. It was new blood that gave it

impetus.

Sixty-eight naval lieutenants, who have finished training, lined up to receive their commissions from Defence Minister Strauss.

Involvement in drunken brawls, disorderly conduct arresta

Her second marriage was brief New York, Louisville, Holly-

her third wood, and other cities, her but turbulent,

was cluttered and later coʻl- suicide attempt, her divorces, demned by excessive drinking E now know thin Roosevelt

and her compulsive drinking. which drove Dlima to nursing but the happy iden during the

Sadly, she said today: "None homes and twice to becoming a war of getting us to give Hong-

of us in the family really knew in- and wonderful people, und

member of Alcoholics Anony- kong to China, as a gesture of

than dividually they are for the most the others very well, I didn't mis encouragement to Chiang Kai-

It write the book as a vindication, part extremely pro-British. shek; ne apparently odlieved

is therefore quite

who knows my unnecessary but anybody that the Colony was the per-

Granted to send a royal ambasadress to early life can see what made had a drink for the past four sonal property of King George that we were weak and in- make them

me behave so stupidly Inter. months ever since I've boen more so. VI, who could give it away Us competent in the Suez adven- What is really nooded is a 14My father

going to my psychiatrist.". was almost the fancy, took him.

lure, und that we are now genuine American gesture that complete stranger. I was brought American friendship' begging You might have thought that powerless to influence events in would make the British people up

But in the last pages, of her now the Middle East, what good has less anti-American.

book she writes: "I'd ually reached a conclusion about my- HIS CASTLE

self and alcohol, I would novir

drinking He Also guve "I dictated most of the book be able to give up

I faced that fact, ensign certificates into a recording machine, and completely.

55 cadete, THAT being so, how

about when we

played some parts but I told myself that I would Eisenhower coming to back I burst into tears, I felt so never again live as drunkenly Some of them are

as I had done in the past."

of former Britain intsead? After all ho has ashamed."

officers. None had a castle of his own to come and

If only Diana had felt a little

first Luftwalle lieutenants stay in, and the excuse that

Mias Barrymore, who earned wartime experience. ashamed perhaps sho

The ceremony was held in the received their commisalons. All there are constitutional

$250,000 diff more

would have omitted passage third as much

in Hollywood, and big assembly hall of the marine of them started from scratch, culties in the way is not a very which smear the reputations of

again on the school at Flensburg, on the Not one flew for the Fuehrer. difficult one to deal

other people, describe how her stage, was down to nickels and Danish border. He would be sure of a wei-

dimes a couple of years ago. come. It might even be arranged and reveal

Aunt Ethel got drink at dinnes, for him to talk to a represents-

her father so far tive selection of ordinary Bri- gone that when the bar of his fish men and women who would yacht was locked up he got give him, with their customary drunk on kerosene, polite understatement, a plece

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of their minds,

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Brutal

Wouldn't that be better than Great Proble,"

IANA was the child of John,

A royal visit to the States?

to

Bons

From

WILLIAM HAMSHER

Talking

the

with

.....

point on This was founded in 1910 as Luftwaffe's first day at Fassberg However, the book has been part of the Kaiser's preparations was the RAF's farewell- sold to Warner Brothers for for World War 1. And one giant placard on a lorry.. $150,000, so Diana, the girl who of the first

cadets

to be the words, "All the "best-and there WES

Karl aufwiederschen" (which is Ger- me man for "I'll see you again.") Docaliz, who lived to become muda

the Arst Hitler's · Grand'1

In the Rhineland, Admirat. ́ ́ fu

conscript since the

was given so many chatices, has registered been given another one,

She plans to visit London to play in Mouth Rouge in the charge of the U-boat war-and and autumn and she raight try who finished his career in For The ancient Romans used to Michael Strange, an egocentric Hollywood again.

burg as the Fuehrer's successor icad the rulers ol subject and spectacular poetess, play-

in defeat.'". nations in triumph through wright, and actress, their streets. But do we really want so public a demonstration domineering, selfish and ex-

The mother is portrayed as a day is less flippant and reckless, of our incorporation into the tremely vain woman, American Empire?

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Really, Jeremy "darling,

I do think you might haere warned me that you'd bean: posted to G.HQ., Natal!”

Diana

detailed stories of her father's

The Diana Barrymore of to-

Suicidal

German

defeat of Hitler's Wehrmacht

thought he was the victim of an April Fool's Joke 'when he re- to barracks for his year Standing by tho

Defence military training. Minister during the ceremony The guard at the gate_spoke was the school's Deputy Com to him in French. The French mander, Lt-Commender

Otto tricolour

flew on the square. Schuhart, whose U-boat sank There was

the British carrier Courageous, sight.

Nearby at Cuxhaven, on the

not a German

in

defends the brutal frankness of the book, including 0

her suicide attempt she writes: "I counted the pills drinking and lovo-making (bo nine make 27, I put then, blue Zenker formally

arata carefully. Eighteen and

Elbe estuary, Captain Adolf This happened at Koblenz, made passes at her tecpage jackets and yellow jackets med big job as commander

look

farrison one French LVCT his mumber

of the town when the Western Allies together....

took in occupation. It of were sub-area

where. the ready for place at a garrison.

French, giving up some of the bost barrack space anywhere in

oellor Adenauer's new

school friend according to

Diana, and even ordered, her to

summoet a call-girl for him),

Gorman North Sea "What to wash them down Nato-and passed

"I did feel squeamish about with? Well, why not? A double service two German writing it,' but I think every. shot of Four Ros 1.... I swal- i sweeper flotillas which are now Germany for recrufts for Chai>-

the pilla nd washed added to the Nato (and the thing I have said made him lowed

German) naval strength, more human after all....When them down with walky,

I knew him I was a young mob, "Damn, I thought, I won't be I did not understand people. able to read my obltuary. Who Diana was brought up among will be at my funeral, I wonder. celebrities -- Carrile Chapin, You can bet I won't have one Greta Garbo,Michael Arlen, like Daddy, Clark Gable won't Tyrone Power. Elsa Maxwell, be there, or Louis B. Mayer, or

Zanuck, Talluish Bankhead, Hubert Mil- Darryl ler-a long parade of glittering Hitchcock." names at her mother's bouise, Alas! the

Alfred

Honourable

army,

hnd not' 'yet.

yet completed their de-

··parture.--

The first arrival, came before the special trains which brought

'U' Boats the bulk of recruits. At the end

of his first day, he told me, he All-Fools Day man still had an

when

a colonel-a' real colonci-asked

him i

if bly stool

Captain Zenker in tho who told the first German naval volunteers that the

fought suleido

attempt

06

The book is soaked with failed. She wisecracked drinking. Diana royals that the the read the papers: "I certainly #foat' actrede Laurette Taylor can't complain of my billing, fought a lonely battle rainst com I? Page One," alcohot off stage,

The book ends on a hole of hope, with a

pledge to the drama critic Mr Brooks Atkin-

⠀⠀ Alcoholic CHE reveals how she herself Wook novo and more to the bottle, particularly in Holly

wood.

old nnvyrobe splendid "affair ·

honourably" under Doenitz and Racer and that the with two keys, mirror on the judgement * of

to-ralle, Nuremberg side of the door, two against these two admirals was built-in cash box with

extra justined but was "only the lock, and · "kitchen" compart

of the confusion of the ment for food--was big enough

to hold all his belongings, Zenker

survived the on that she will make good: parliamentary row his comments, the 10,000 who reported with Next day, this conscript and

caused and is now the first Ger-' him start lining up for their kit man to have Nalo naval Including the new commarid...

#democratie jackboots with At Fossberg—it was an RAF their rubber soles for silent air: baso until this week the approach..

"I repeat my vow, and mean it. I promise, you'll see. You will indel, Mr Alkinson. Per Bramwell Fletcher was 100 haps I've begun to find my gently and tentlemanly, for her, way.”

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SO-WE WERE YES TIME

2500) MACHINES WERE OUTLAWETABES

·PRANKT

AINE

THAVE OUND OLD

CLEVER

MADAM, ANY CHILD CAN BUILDA TIME MACHINE. AS SIMPLE AS BUILDING BLOCKS! YOU DON'T" ERSHAVELTD BRAG

Yes,

BIR.

THE BOY HAS

CAUSED US

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

5-5-SPANKED?! --NO CHILD HAS TROUBLE. HE A BEEN SPANKED

IN OUR FAMILY FOR TWO CENTURIES

PIZZY

ME TOO. I WANT TO LEARN MORE OF THEIR TIME CHINES. WE'VE GOT 10:GET: BACK TO OURY- OWN CENTURY--

There's More than Magic in

CADBURY'S

It is Perfection