1957-08-17 — Page 5

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

"Mr Gluck is a nice Guy"

By Alexander Broad

Wrather to food u time

JASHINGTON

of it at the expense of a Mr Max Gluck.

This Mr Gluck is the new

Ambassado

American

10

Ceylon-the Jame Mr Gluck who didn't know who the Prime Atinister of Ceylon wUS And wim suld he knew who Prime Minister of India was Lat couldn't pronounce his

name

the

Now Washington reporters ang bureaucrals are normally a

pretty restrained lot But My

Gluck, fresh from running chain of 140 druk shops and contributing $28,500 to President Eisenhower's cumpaign nuuts. was too much for them

Mr Gluck was the laugh of the nation.

S after

1: happens, ALS happen in these cases, that he Is a rather nice guy It he huge That hr is very far from Lg kh ape who has with his reading and

trouble

VILADE

Laughter

and fulminations

A

ari

He is something of AL Expert. clever bu: enay-to- get-along with businessman, and the sort of man who is hely to take his duties as ambassador very seriously. The Ceylonese Ambassador in Washington likes him and has publicly spoken up on his behalf,

What is fundamentally wrong -and seen 10 be wrong- ruu

that

Mr

bath

laughter and

Dulles fulminations

righteousness have died down be

CUMMINGS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1037.

ON

THAT DISLOYAL LORD

By Gad. Bir! Another dirty | Pneumatic drills? No, that's Tory trick to pretend they're just some old English aristo- nbtar radical than the crain turning In their

Noctalfat!

graven...

WANTED

LORD ALTRINGUM

MORSKAK

PROOF

Lord

I know I' only deb. |_ Altrincham, but nú horie-whipping ruuld hurt you as much as you're

hurting my toes.

Cummings

ULKOMAID

Lord Altrincham, Sir. your taxi waits...

Gaitskell Confesses To

The Housewives!

by TREVOR EVANS

The Tories and

Socialists-each

exactly 6 years

in office... Now

that there are plenty of skilled someone spills the beans

and learned of forengON affairs whose finess for the job far exceeds that of the Ilkable Mr Cluck.

The Ghick case has merely highligh

a situation which

has been knowu for a long ume. Mr Elsenhower's administratien la composed very largely of big businessmen and corporation lawyers,

These mon feel more comfort- Thie working with others of

kint.

nexther They their underland not care very mitch

vivil

for the Professional servant or the scholar

The advice of the men who know most are not the kind of mm this Administration 111

inctively trusts.

That is one of the roo! of the unholy meis

US

foreign pallev

Bomb drop

and fly home

You do not have to lack four

in see the mess

At a moment when a war s going on in Oman, Col. Nurser riding high on Kremlin gold, Jordan is tollering, and Israel danger of buckhug

is

الا

under economic DresEure, Mi

JUST

UST is Mr Hugh Galt-

skell

family of!

AI

was taking his

holiday (31)

1++

that time I was worlding offelat, gures for the four since Mr Churchill Itumed flee in 1951, COTA" Italy the other day, his back- pared with the four yoors

mighty before the Socjaliats room boys made a admission.

1951 Cieneral Election

Sure the war Britain has b Kix years of Socialist uh, zaud Rix years 21 Tay years exnetly

S the time ind came make

comparisoĻ the two forms of Gove: tajyetal

And

teller baz what tempatamen could you vir The net of living"

The first

lost

Explanation

the

Socials have surveyed

bewen whole pertot since the id of the war, mainly because this is the first time we have duration of tenched party in administrations.

HERE the mission Premi Transpor! House the Socials Penty hend- quarter

Cont

An the simple tact emerges that the cost of living went up more under the Socialism than under the Torier,

It is going to take a lot of explanation. explanation.

of

claim

*Inter Labour living rose by 31.8 per cent, and

But there IS an

the

Socialists

The Socialists would not he re all food prices went up by foolish enough

to make this 41.5 per cent. Under the Tories, gift to Mr Macmillan without the cost of living has gone up by 27.0 per cent, and food prices in fond care to remind him

that nuruld be foulish exploit it.

fur such an

alone by 46.3 per cent.

Thy as the first tipe,

recall, that achowledgment has rome from the Seviatect her quarters

4 1 can

Η

to the

Eisenhower chooses to make public

Announcement

effect that

for bi "doctrine”. Michele Eust has been 4 the great success,

Mr Dulles has cleverly succeeded stirring up the London disarmament conference by taking over in mid-strenin from Mr Stasser, dropping a large bomb, anti then flying home to Washington well before the Russians have caught their breath

da

To round off a good werk, the U.S. promised Gemony it would deirianded In everything Chancellor Adenauer's election

This manifesto.

in particular, no settlement of the European orms muddle unal Germany had been re-united on Adenauer's terms

monds.

That will help the Chancellor win his election, but nobody in The State Department seems to

quite whai know

bearing

talks has on the disarmamen{' Mr Dulles is en busy warming up.

}

A President

on a President

I remember that when I put been

sallur

Suedion Herbert Morrison shortly before

the

LABOUR

TORY

How living costs rosa under the two parties

the in the east af lyiNE..

uy

They

This argument may give scane "By our pality of con- Catisfaction to the theorists, trolled price, controlled profi Bulcan't see much comfort margir end subsidies, we WATE in it for the housewife She able 10 10 iF

way 171

the cost knows that

of living cushioning the effect of external keeps going up. price increases on the internal cost of living."

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Confirmation

under The

IMPORT prices

Tories have tallen by 2.7 per cent, and the increase in the

price of imported food, drink, nud lobneco has been only 8.3 So the Torles, argue of food, drink, and tobacco per cent.

the Socialists, have done a bad went up by 50 3 per cent.

-laun job to let the row of living rise So the Socialists now credit for keeping DOWN the w all.

And ho

Jatest statement Socialist from

headquarters mately confirms her opnicat suspicion that it does not after much which Government is in- The cost of living slit goes up.

FOOTNOTE: Is this out. right admission by the Bocialists the irst sign of In political pro- candour paganda?

Or did the back-room boys of the Socialist Party mol quite appreciate what

hot admission it i**

Drive a car · to

Midnight Sun

RAPE-BLUE vistas of mountain and water.... passes with the snow piled 10 ft. deep on either side of the of tiny rond....sun-baked, sandy beaches....scores picture-card islands...

Where in one country will you find all this? In Norway. I commend that country to anyone who wants an off-beat holiday, and whose idea of halklaying abroad is

sot boiled to lying by DOONE BEAL

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art galleries

J

out hihalde and spills

of series

of a clown

the

In the less expensive hotels, is possible to get double room with full pension for two 504, n day.

for

And in the mountains are the by

Turist-huts used mainly hikers and skiers but also ac- cessible, in many cases, by car: where a double room Comes down to as little as da. Úd, and a meal costs the came,

AND THE FOODT Excellent. The famous "kold table" is un-

with

Dlaner for restaurant Islands and with wines

chopped chives.

LWO

in

costs wround.

good

£4

which are very

reasonable and liqueurs.

You can eat more cheaply: It is in the heart of the fond Kway

the hors d'oeuvre or "cabaret" and small-island country—those as they are called locally, are a ile islands, meat in themselves; and in the

beautiful

you

dry under 11 beach umbrella አቲ trudging round

It has the fresh, salty quality, alsorbing culture.

the

harbourside bug-hooting

The sight Norway is not a collection of bustle of Marseilles. resorts, 11 is just one beautiful of it as you drop in over the doubtedly the star ture, country. That is its charm.

mountains to land is sufficiently its variety of shell fish, smoked

bams, and atten- **

herrings. And There are four main centres, exciting to distract the

shall not forget the milky-fresh tion

of ven the mnast Attr

sea trout, steamed in a kettle each of which can be used to i holiday starting point and base. quay.

and served un with melted They have varied claims,

It is lovely as only a elty butter For the Socialist case is that

Around Oslo, the capital, can be which growy there is excellent and extensive steep they did mighty well to control

Cosy of Uving as well

sailing in the fjords, watched over they did, while the Torles have the boats from the terrace of a quays, crowned by a great white

careleta

to let IL 16

restaurant and Yacht tiara of a bridge. girls Mr much as

has,

Club, 20 minutes drive Government's from the city. Alliee the 1955 General Election, Mr reim (1945-81) import prices Stavanger, in the south-west, bare,

has 20 miles of sandy beaches, which are quite different from cafes of Oslo and Bergen Morrison, quite understandably, generally rose by 103.8 per cent

holiday the steep, thickly wooded (and can get -in other words they more than Here there are many

open The said it could s'de-stopped.

which not possibly be so.

import price hotels doubled-and the

enter especially to soune, slightly" claustrophobic) sandwich for 38. for families with children.

Norway not a cheap coun- Trondheim in the gateway to

17. Recken to pay English a matter

The adventurous far north, and

By Boat

prices for most things, including has the best trout and salmon

transport And keep out of the Unquestionably the best way cocktail bar if you want to save Even Norwegians are dreamy- to see Norway is by car (take your money. Whisky and gin culled Inan

not eyed when they talk about it. your own or hire a self-drive both enst around 78. Bà a ginsa. A ion, she would yield who comes much more-certainly nothing | Fifty-pounders are

for £t a day, plus mileage, But the Norwegians from New Jersey and who used like the four million dollars the cooked locally and take you can have plenty of fun get. They do not make you feel a coroison, and you san hove your from B.E.A. ör S.A.S.). But friendly and anxious to please. to be known principally for his job would probably cost. nelivities int the Ikquor

Mr Conti thinks he can it home with you.

ting round by a combination sitting target for tributmg

Trout

ploitation. trade, announced that get at least nine million.

fishing is year-round, of "stownship, bus, and train he was ready to buy up the does not believe that her value salmon-fishing ends on Septem-

of ber the value

5. Either in available to any

These services are well Inter- Andrea Doria from the Italian is restricted to

the

and Many vital fisherman as in

of connected,

belry res insurance company which owns her setup metal.

30s. primarily for the benefil what remains of her.

be sold, Norway, on payment of a ports, he thinks, can

locals they slop Ever since the 30,000-ton, $40 and it may even be possible to Boence fee. mlion liner went to the bottom her cut again for passenger 13 incnths ago, laymen have servILE,

ANDREA DORIA: of millions in the country.

Lant week Armando

→

C'onli,

But

The

His plan, he hopes, will

He

go

is

F

not

Un-

flords.

run

substantial

tourist ex-

At its best

THE WEATHER?

The sun is hot in the near-perfect.

the south, but the atmosphere at the un-

has n dry, pale-blue sparkle-o expected places: little hamlets,

extra cream

midsummer

But since the weather

can turu take

B

Down-set

no more than a handful of crab combination which, I am assured red farm-houses, with a couple by the locals, reaches its peak dreamed fondly of bringing her

From Trondheim and points of fishing boats and! the fat in late August and early Sep- into action next March, after noith, you can see the up.

punirs which are the tember,

coun- winter storms. " Tricklest ordinary Midnight Sun; and main form of transport in these (in all mountainous Orthodox i!

have

tries) Gulvage men

temporarily as late as August (for It remote villages. part of the job will be lifting even said the job is Impossible. One

Irish,

raincoat and the Andrea onto the shoal.

essentially will that she 2001 reason is

Two ore carriers, joined to-

phenomenon) stil read a news- You'll go past ley little torns sweaters as well as things have to be dragged 18 mules

streams sunbathe in. and lifted onto a shoat befors gethor, and nearly filled with paper by the pink glow in which glittering in the sun.

will

Once be used.

meets to blinking with #ich post fields today's setting sun

with Glad ander morrow's dawn. have been

the hay piled up to dry WHAT I have left my favourite place ou wire fences, the Andres. the water will be

clothes-horse HOTELSY Jumped out of the ore carriers until the last:

and the whole tot should rise several feet.

Ex-President Herbert Hoover Jind Jils 83rd birthday the other day. He let it be known that book-on he's worlding on a another ex-President, Woodrow Wilion.

Hoover is B Republican, Wilson WES O Democrat; bu Hoover once worked for Wilson anak ho, believes his ex-bass, despite party, was one of the greats of the age,

"Hey Vivienne!"

They'ro going to raze Camegle Hall, the Jongtime ahrine of New York's music.

And, in its place, they plan a 44-cloroy akyscraper which will 2966 $22 million.

It will be tited in brilliant rod plastic from top to bottoon,

water

divers will be able to patch up cables her holes

The cablu nicno for such job would enst a million dollars, And, with serup selling for 640

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factory chimney.

coast.

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