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Report From Washington By ALEXANDER BROAD

KINDLY Senate, baffled a little by President Eisen- hower's apparent inability to make up his mind about the budget, gave some thought last week to the problem of helping him out.

Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma decided, how ever, that there was no future in this proposal. "No man can help Eisenhower study the fiscal problems of this government," he said, "because one cannot do that with out brains and he does not have them."

·Priest- Of The Plague....

by KENNETH YOUNG.

Now it may be that, out in Oklahoma, "the curn is as high as an elephant's eye," but even in the corn bell there are limits, and Senator Kerr knows it, So he endeavoured to have the word "scal" inserted before "brains" in the record, explain- ing: "I do not say that the Presiden has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweep- ing accusation for some of my cherished colitaques In this body,"

The unhappy truth of the HENRY MORSE, Priest of the maller is that it does not appear that Dwight David Eisenhower Plague.

-or, for that matter, anyone Philip Catemon (Longindus,cro-was nualmed quite enough 188.).

brains to deal with some of the maddening problems which face a modern U.S. president,

HENRY MORSE WAS

it

to

and

Suffolk man, born in 1696, who became a Romun Catholic priest and later a Jesult at a time when to be either in England was risk Imprisonment death. In fact Morse was of constantly in and out prison-except when he was Douai or in abroad at Fanders-and in 1645 was a hanged at Tyburn as traitor.

A big budget

"THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1957.

"We

still

(SOMETIMES)

like Ike

tries are shaky and grafi of the border. Not that Ameri- ridden dictatorships, the fourth cans are worried. They're just is a near-dictatorship and only a little hurt.

the Afth-Pakistan-cus be considered as a "bulwork of the free world."

do not suddenly collapse

But.

A

Now they're wondering where the next blow will fall-for, having exhausted their in No doubt there are reasons frontier, Americans are hard at for making sure That South it on other peoples. Korea, Vietnam pnd FormO

survey taken laat weck it the President's estimate of shows, for instance, that U.S. 75 per cent I right, it appears investment in Australia is run- that around $700 million was ning at a neat $50 million a year appropriated to prop end thal Americans already have being

It seems hard to $100,000,000 invested them up. blame the House for thinking under." that a paltry $350 million would do.

The same President, Inelden- tally, confessed that he was a He confused about the pro- elvil rights bill visions of the

one being kicked about in the Senute.

Ad- ministration drafted it. this is a 1tle surprising.

Consilering that l

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"down

Somo of the biggest corpora- lions in The country-from General Motors to Kraft Cheese --are represented in that figure. But the spretneular development: and political danger-docs not, come from them.

By itself, $400,000,000 and an added $50,000,000 a year is not enough to stir up trouble.

But the spectacular American No OBR, however, shouta nvasion of Australian ogricut- Americans plan to to the conclusion that ture might. Tack roh, was responsible pour millions fato tropical and

The

The desert agriculture on a scale not You

confusion. Prevident was on a spot. Some even known in the U.S.

That kind of investment can- people wontiered whether he wond act upon a provision in not be overlooked. the which would allow him to stroops into the South to enfores court decisions,

Shortly thereafter, The Ad- ministration announced that 11 wouldn't, anyhow, act, on these

President Elsenhower started sul with a 72 billice dollar bud- get, for which, he implied, he was rendy to Bght to the death. Later, he said he thought Con-

be able to effect provisions, and the President, gross might some economics, Now that we hope, now understands the Congress has done just that, the bill, President has screamed the roor down.

To economise with,

These were, his words when the Howe of Representatives

In any case, having heard Afterwards, an eye-witness

from

Administration, the "His bogom was laid voted to cut in half the money Treurded.

provided under the Mutual

Senute set about repealing same open, his heart torn oLEL,

his Security Bill: The cut can be ancient legislation which would entralis burnt, and

body considered as no less than have let the President send in quartered. The quarters were threat to our nation's security the troops whether the civit ret on the city gates, the head and that of the free world."

rights bill was passed or not, on London Bridge.

his

Unfortunately, the

go to

same That should make everything!

clear to everybody.

To us the penally is barbarous, speech snid that "75 per cent the treason not obvious. Morse of Defence Support monies" had lived a good, even an h-rule-would

Ave countries; In the Senate I was regarded Vietnam, Formosa, ally good, life. He had minis Koren,

as a great compromise-though both

and Turkey and Pakistan.

what was compromised nobody physically tered

to thousands of spiritually

quite knows-and it now Ecers Now the smitten

most Americans who that the South may even let the plague victims in

mal bill go through.... London of 1630-0, and in con- have thought about the sequence had himself twice suf-ter have come to the

that,

elc whatever or bubonic. clusion fered the agonics Morally his life was spotless, and there is to be said for them, varion" of Canada has stirred up the Brst three of these cuun- n first-class political row north he had followed the maxims of his religion most faithfully.

For himself he had sought nothing, seeking only to bring the consolations of his church to those of his fellow countrymen who were of the Same per- here is the acd-but suasion, clue striving also to convert others to Roman Catholicism walch, he believed, could alone ensure the salvation of the in- dividual soud,

The Roman Way

By the beginning of the 17th

CO-

America's "Investment

SHAW'S FIRST LOVE

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London Letter

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COMMONWEALTH AT HOME

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BOUT 40 British M.P.s of all parties gave a friendly round of applause as Pandit Nehru, attended by his sister, recently cume to a committee room in the Houses of Parliament to address us. This was the man who, in-conjunction with Gandhi, challenged and broke the long rule of the British Raj. He bad served prison sentences of varying degrees. He had secu Gandhi die after repeated periods of detention. He had seen the Indian Princes deprived of their principalities and he had watched the fast Viceroy depart.

Yet in this year of grace 1957 Mr Nehru had come to the conference, in Commonwealth,

discuss with the Indon to Prime Ministers of Erilal and the self-governing Dominions the mutual problems that have ariseti. By a strange quirk. of destiny he had gone As a boy to school at Harrow, that pash alternative to Elon, and had sat in the same study rooms as the youthful Winston Churchill had

done.

By Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.

driver-and now is a man destiny.

as

Grounds was,

AF

MRS ALICE BUXTON most like destroying lightning our cars to catch his words. a war conference in London. We fact that on

arrayed in the brightness of an century most Engishanen hud her office the other day to But that was not the last Eastern sort, seeming as if she different beliels equally strongly

love word. Mrs Buxton, as she wait- wanted to give some of her own held. Not only that; in Morse's watch an

But the impression I to hered for the album to come under strength.

album of Hfetime politics was religion. To letters. written

> rising arcantile England on mother by George Bernard hammer at Sotheby's, reenil-gained was that Nehru hid nd how Show saw her mother missed the borders of fatique intricate foreign policy such as Rome sought to impose was not Shaw, sold in London for for years after.

to be tolerated since It could, £780.

and sometimes had, put her at

a disadvantage with her greatest. The love affair was ended by mercantile rival, Spain.

Moreover, *conomic

the

changes gol

Shaw

and ached the point of no return.

few months nga

ol

news-

eye. But how does he rank as a They nuct in London and speaker?

though Mr Dictenbaker rest time they It is not cry to answer that the question for the simple mason gather in Torunto I still think that artery and after dinner that Londom, ng the heart speaking rre two different things, is the natural setting.

things. With the exception of an

ot

liut whether wa TUNN in Auckland

Amusing and net unfriendly re- Toconte, Melbourne, ference to Mike Pearson the of London, the fact remains that former Serre'rry of Canadian the British Commonwealth has. External Affairs he got down to survived the translilon from Im- minces and stayed with it, perialism to Confederation and Like Pericles In Ancient Greece is Aruly based upon a philo- h called on us to rise to the seply which might be described greatness of the Commonwealth as self imposed unity conception. Ife traced its origin, the Crown as its symbol,

Many times it has seemed that he brought up to the present

with

and he looked into the future. by the process of evolution and tha Words toured from him like a the strain of world wars lorrentes if he were moved to Billsh Family of Nations would a new ecrception by being In disintegrate. The emperors and have de- Lorden. He made no attempt the kings of Europe

and small to faelle phrase nor did he leht parled one by one,

a nerve- the cardles of wit. Rather ten nations have found much. my mind. his words straining freedom or have been He never sucked into the Russian vertex. were en torrent. renched for a word. he hardly The face of Europe changes al- Lever paneed for effect, and un- most with each decade.

ke en actor was seldom seen

to think the word before spoke it

hundred years ago.

Men Of Faith

of portionate enthusiasm when the St Laurent Adminhtration went

Nevertheless the effect was down before the onslaught Cricket At Lord's

the Conservatives.

impressive and even moving.

It seems that only Great Bri- near my house there

Since then I have read in the Here way man with a concept talh understands the secret of during this period, R.G. Menzies,

one of his favourite words how to change and remain 'the the Prime Minister of Australia. British Press so many

of Dr Dieten- who was not ent per accounts

to entertain same. At this moment the Harro almost

muscled

charseter and his audience but to rouse them Guards will be riding down Con- Welensky.

To some people this beter's orign,

Chat even Marilyn to the challenge of destiny. Institution Hill just as they rede After a pleasant introduction vode wership of cricket will getivities

Monroe in her new Olivier film the larguage of horse racing his into action at Waterloo. The det by the Chairman we were add-

always remain a mystery but to

speed was a rallion from boglu- get full must over Buckinghani rersed by Mr Nehru but his Minister Menzies Lords is had to fight for space,

By a romantic colnekdence ring to end. Yet it startled and Pelice just as it was when peace voice was so weak that even la

I more sacred then marces, that small space we had to stralu

When which supplied fresh material to moved bie rudience. Here was As: met him in 1940

was declared in 1918. Big Be no mumbo jumbo worshlener will strite the hour toniglit 73 ts Prime Minister, he come to the Diefenbaker berm was the

the day of the bowing before faded gods. This Parliament adjourns even as it election the young thing called the Commonwealth did in the pluch days of Good dined together on that occasion general at the Commons and to show a Carrdian teror Jon Vickers was horn of history and the dreams Queen Victoria.

to ring the tener lead In the or men has become a dynamic proper interest I asked him

So the Prime Ministers of the of nations.

met what majority he had. "You are this Covent Garden produc- living community

on of the five-hour Berlioz Like Abraham Lincoln he smoke self-govtraing Dominions

in conference with the Prime dining with my majority,"

id I was perfectly true he Optra The Trajans". Some of of freedem ne if i were in its

The Landon grities say that in a Infarey, and indeed there is less Minister of self-governing Bri- nad a majority of one,

Iain. The surs have grown up the limelight few years Jun Vickers will be liberty in the world today than

and now sit at the directors' But inevitably

in the world "I was a child," she said. "But What Is happening To this

has been on the man from the greatest tener

it was interesting, after the board of what was once John he used to send strange, illogical thing called the Canada, Not even Sie Laurence but the new papers were mare

Bull and Company but which has Arst nights and Brush Commonwealth and

Olivier could have

new changed its name to Bri arranged concerned with the story, just dinner was over, to talk to him

Lish in Empire? A few days ago same

Commonwealth Amalga- baker and his wife (who have stens of fallgue nor any sugges-

In mated. My father helped of us Tories were formed into anything more dramatic for the discovered, or how Mr Dieten end to note that he showed no

children) had offered to adopt tion of self-dramatisation.

No one can forusce the distant committee to receive a deputa- entrance of the star on the Im-

perial stage. tion of a hundred or more re hardly one Engilshman in len Jon when he was a small boy in short Canada's Prime Minister 14

was the

a formidable figure, still young scene, yet it seems to me the presentatives of Nigeria. The thousand could have named Western Canada. Here women. like the men, were

was a politiciner ro, who is certain countries of the Commonwealth human louch. No longer

fed today by men of Leader of the Opposition

John Diefenbaker a mere Prine ebony black. But their shawls

to play an immense role in the Canada, and

strengt, men of vision and men lent radiance and vivacity to the light to Canadians, ask them to Minister-designate but a human Commonwealth drama.

The Premiers and potentates of faith.

And John Diefenbaker is not scene. Laughter comes easily to tell you who leads the Opposi- being with longings and kind-

nestes and frustrations like the have folded their teals and not them and they give a sense of tion in Australia and New

rest of us. was Zealand. unexpended vitality that quate irresistiblo. That night

The arrival of Mr Diefenbaker very silently have stolen away. the least of them. at the Lordan Air Port of good worka, were hunted

half a dozen British M.P.'s were

duly tulevised. The English press down. The ordinary Englishmen

drafted to Mr Speaker's House

of 120 innumerable profies regarded them as part spy, part

overlooking the Terrace in dine

him and finally there was the propagandist for foreign powers.

with sanne 30 Burmese politi-

10 Club Dinner at Bome of them moved in secret,

But there was this difference. Canada humour Agelu clans.

played its Night after night he escorted "She was extremely practical.

part as the after sometimes disguised, ond evaded

dianer Suez had thrown a Here glare Savoy. At the head table were Aille, mingled with by dissimilation and her to the unromantic platforms delection

Canadian podeal Lord Alexander, Earl the upon the "She had a strong tempera- speeches The knowledge of of Liverpool Street half-truths.

Station,

re- stene with the result that the The Lord Chancellor and pretty shots except ment. I don't think she regarded muffled sound of Big Ben Buch secrol men alarmed and dallying over goodbyes. and

minding us that time stons for Brilish interest in the Canadian well all the big maddened the public.

General Election. was not only Mermiliar. At the other table then going home to sit late into Shaw as a good conquest."

Mrs Buxton had not known of] no mun.

the nation wide, were

London residen: Today these are mere histori- the night writing to her.

the letters' existence. They were Such was the background as intense but

and the the Prime Ministars of the lightly or wrongly the man in Chadians while in an adjacent cal facts, and no unbiassed

the street, the men in the fee- room the wives were also com- The 20 letters in Shaw's deli- sold annoymously,

Dominions began to arrive. Here tetched-from historian pass ethical judgments upon cate handwriting, gold the other money they

cabled bid by American dealer Lendon was the huge-frained try and the man in the board bining the rels of dining, wining Sir Roy Welensky, the political roca felt that Mr St Laurent's and rating with Lady Willing- them, Philip Cheeman, however, day, cover the shy beginning of John Fleming-does not go

herd of the new

to give dem in cmphatic foran and Mrs Rhodesian Government had falled 1s himself a member of the the affair and the end, two years

Federallon. His father kept a us the mor support that one 13tefenbaker stealing the picture pub and was its own best cus expect from kingmen. Tere- unt only with her natural good lomer. With no money in his fore it was assumed that when looks but a very smart gown.

How then did the new Can- pockets Boy became a.

the Canadians went to the polls pro- fessional prize fighter and won the ruit would to some extent dlan Prime Minister stand up to one contest after another un be a vale of approval or dis the battle of beed table oratory? the inevitable happened and he epproval of Mr St Laurent's Suez First let it be admitted that he Inevitably there was is a good looking man who not' Info insensi- allitude. was hammered

but pleases bility. So he breame an engine Immerse and probably dispro- only satisfies

Practical

I remember Mrs lekels for Show 72 years ago and Buxton's mother, then Miss there was great excitement

house. The the great Alice Lockett, returned

was look after him when he under letters to

she before

LEF." way, political power in England married a doctor. was changing hands; class struc- times were fuld; a free, proud Il was Shaw's first and most nation was coming into being, romantic love. Copper-haired and any hint of foreign inter- Miss Lockett was a nurse and ference, under no matter what lived at Walthamstow, Red-

Miss Lockett later Mes gulee, was resented and rejected. haired Shaw, then little know. Sharpe-died in 1041, How That is why such men as lived at Osnaburgh Street, St. would she have felt it she had Morac, however sincere and full Pancras

known that the secrets of her romance were to be laid in the open market?

feels called upon to

The end

"I don't think she would have sald Mrs Buxton. minded,"

Society of Jesus; he sees Morse's taler. A stormy, scornful end any of the family.

career as a herole struggle for in which Shaw declared:---

the faith and his death as en- compassed by heretics.

Apart from this, however, his

book is a well-informed picture

"Beware.

When all the love

has gone out of me I am re-

of certain aspects of English life 667

in the north as well as in Lon don. The plague of 1898 comes olive

en perhaps in

other modern work; and Morse him- reli, though his "vocation to martyrilom may sicken US, cinerges as a real person.

LAMMERGEGERS

Adventure beging in Kenya

"It makes me Shudder"

says Anne Edwards

by John Pollard (Hale 16)THER everyone ought

deals mainly with reptorial bles to stop writing love

JONOW

ALS LammergegCTE,

began: "My own precious do

ing sweetheart," and went on

a

to

strange Hugo carrion-eaters lettore. Or the legal chaps my hand and rub my aches

which

ten feet should stop rending

from tip to Sup. The author, out in public.

with companions, who include a

Ikeable, tough character called Hook who keeps a crazy private

"I wish you were here to hold

ther way. You are such a comfort,

dear heart."

I'm for the second courso

zoo and catches cheetahs for myself,

If that setIns

Moral Support

I

WAS

REMEMBER

the

was

the

men. In the cases it just isn't

young and getting them-however silly true that minnkind loves a lover. Worn petitioning for divorce they may sound afterwards. Mankind laughs at lovers:— about whom all were informed

that her husband called her After all, this way you're in "My own darling Tooties," "Sunkie" but his Assistant good company. reads the barrister In court. Scoutmaster called her "Poppet."

forward lordship cans

Hin

Just imagine what

a lemon

Mrg

in astonishment. "WHAT?" he I REMEMBER the young man Bernard Shaw would have felt SAYS dryly. "He callest her sued for breach of promise who if he'd had this letter to what?" "Toolles, my lord."

Blushes

RECALL with pity (and a touch of apprehension) .. tho For the truth is that love blushes of those unlucky lovers lotters are soldom good letters whore letters have been cap- Impulsive, emotional, duahed off tured ant used in evidence. taineering, dodge rhinos

Every week yields frosti proof in the moment, and intended buffalo, and eventually not only of the foolishness of love letters, for one pair of eyes alone they abd these rare birds, but pro»Tako the

from are, very repelitious.

for cure ad egg. Lammergegers, by Swaneen

his huntkig pack, go 'mour-

and

the way, used to exist in Austria example.

report diverse court,

how much

Who hired her toes?

Who d'you s'pose?

And also her nose?

had to listen to love letters Pat Campbell read in court:~~ written three years before: "Onco nguin, darling, let me tell you

I love you, darling. All my love, darling.

Of course there are ways of saving your face. You could Or you could use the phone. take thoarivice of the Ameri-

I und Jier (nez. Ole lovelicet, doveliest, babyist,

Youe, gablest G...

Precaution

can Senator Boles Penrose, whe PROBABLY the only precau- I REMEMBER the well-to-do, said that he never wrote a lotter

Llon worth taking is the of the man who onid: well-covered business man who to a woman "that you could not novice

"Next time I write a love lotter, had to hear it explained in chill lie beer on.

"Darling, wife unod lo

I shall begin it:

and Gentle But it wouldn't be my choice, Sweetie-plo him as "Darling

I'm for welling love, lellere men of the Jury,”.

It is no wonder they sound court how his The judgo" quoted and had a reputation for baby from a letter written by a wife so silly when read again in the write. 10 stealing. 4.0.

to her husband in 1989, which grey, old voltes of the legal shadow."

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