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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957.

WITH ONLY THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE BIG VISIT...

Who's busy writing what the Queen will say?

FOR MY MONEY. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE FOR THE JOB.......

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NANCY

DAPHNE

MARGARET

MITFORD

DU MAWISER

LANE

Now

is the time that the wider popularity than his Now find plans for the Deal Queen's visit to the United

The challenging

that Al Due

wurti:ne

by TOM POCOCK

These are Licut,-Colonel Sir Michael Adrane, Licut-Colonel Martin Charteris, and Major Edward Ford.

All three are Old Elonlans, had good war records, and Major Ford was on Oxford scholar and, as he ists among his qualification, a tutor 10 -ex-King Farouk, of Egypt.

Hack

PROM time to time others are called in to help. Perhaps the most notable of these is a 01-

year-old journalist

Dermot Morrah.

called

Must

the young Queen's Bitches bo

men? written by Even by brave, crudite, scholarly ment

Why can they not be written by women?

In all seriousnes I put for ward the suggestion that some of the best British woinch writers be given, as an anony-

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but significant honour

the task of assisting with the writing of the Queen's spreches, Names come instantly to mind

The Countess of Huntingdon, Lady Browning,

Mrs and Peter Rodd for example. They are better known as For 2 quarter of a century Margaret Lanc, Daphne du Mr Morral has been writing Maurier, and Nancy Mitford. splendidly sonorous The Times, and is an authority prose for

buth

All of thern are writers with schse of history and sa heraldry.

inbred knowledge of manners, Thus he achieved a remark protocol, and diplomacy. able scoop by covering the both as a newspaper

Coronation ceremony reportr Arundel Herald

speeches of winston Churchill, grim and States are being made. If po did more for Brilaln's

be cause there are changes to

propaganda. made, this is the time.

Even Vice-President Nix Queen's The Queen, representing her has been able to dispose of an

a few Empire, wll have, for

barrassing situation with days, an important opportunity tearful, but sincere, confession of projecting the ideals of the British Empire to the American V people. It ly a task stic 15

well qualine supremely undertale.

to

Her

During these days personal meeting with President

be less im Fisenhower may portant than her impnet, through Television and rudfo, upon the American people.

Her and our greatest indutage will be felt more in what she says than what the does.

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Emotion

what the Queen says in D public is as is known- usually written for her by other hands. Thus the success of the Queen's visit will rest not only upon her.

The Americans are a warme hearted and emotional people, There is nothing that altracts their admiration more than the eampie, spontaneous, onecte Epeech.

'Ghosts"

MERICANS love the human touch just as they dislike the platitudious and the pompous. The British Monarch is not expected se write her or his- speeches. Most of the Queen' specches are written by a smil Bridely- group of men, either aged or elderly.

Theirs were the speeches that were a strongly criticised by Lord Altrincham. He was not as he will stress, criticising the Queen's voler. which, In fact, he admires for its purity.

and bs

Sincerity

who

THEN there is Dorothy Sayers,

write 221

about religion with sincerity and understanding.

Both Veronen Wedgwood and Ceell Woodham-Smith uro women who can write with wit und knowledge.

Extraordinary.

He is also Crawfe's keenest the production of rival in chatty literature

about the Royal Family.

Herald Extra- But Arundel

some time, ordinary has, for

From the heights of Dome also been Ghost-Writer Extra-

He has written some Edith ordinary.

Sitwell

Rost und most important royal Macanday down of the

through the spetches and announcements. universilles end Fleet Street Air Morrah's rolling sentences itself there are women capable ring grandly through the columns of such service and, I believe, of The Times but from the worthy of this honour. mouth of a young and altrnelive woman they are apt to sound a little Incongruous.

Dignity

HERE are times, I am sure, when a royal speech needs u serious, scholarly, even severu and haughty, touch. Royal dignity must never be lost,

Never should the Queen be asked to become another Lady Burnet.

But perhaps, it would be best of nt f during the America

-Almora could be Unies when nobody spoke into the microphone but Pie Queen herself,

A carefully prepared spetch niny be necessary for addresses to the United Nations l New York or. the Pilgrims or the English-Speaking Union,

But he maintained that not even the most experienced of actresses would put warmth and Lumanity into some of the stiff stilted sentences the Queen wes sometimes entled upon to read.

The Queen's speeches can be the products of several pews. Such "ghost writing"-as But, during the Queen's visit unprompted speaking by the

But to speak to the brave, genercus heart of America, two minutes" spontaneous,

it is known in Ficet Sirect to the Unlied States, a new Queen will be worth of the

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THERE'S NO NEED TO BE SUNK IN GLOOM AFTER

THE BANK RATE SHOCK

WHAT exactly thing at the minds of many thousands of people.

WHAT exactly does the economie future, hoki for Britain? That is the question

It could hardly be otherwise..

.

For there is scarcely a section of the community which has not already taken

a hard knock. Or is not about to take one.

THINK of the small investors -perhaps a widow with her £2,000 savings inverted 0 British Government securiiles. Now he sees something like value at £200 clipped off the her investment.

THINK of the house buyers -the family man who is buying a home through a building society and is already living up to the limit of his income, Soon he will have to pinch and scrapo to meet пр Increase in his mortgage payments.

THINK of the folk who plan to buy cookers OF vacuum cleaners or motor-cars on hire. purchase. They, too, will have. bigger bills to meet.

THINK of the business man who wants money to extend his workshop or factory. Now the chances aro his bank will turn him away, even if he could afford the luxury of paying per cent for a loan.

THINK of the man wlio worries whether his job will inst now that a "go-slow" has been ordered in housing and other building programmes.

Every year

TT is not to be wondered at if

and these people

many others feel a little bleakly about

may Jook the outlook. They back at the years since the war and recall that there has hardly been a year without a crisis or a threat of one,

Will your

money ever be

secure?

In the skill and Ingenuity of her workpeople Britain has an asset unexcelled by any other country.

Why, then, has this present erials come upon us?

The first reason is not bankers and currency specula- fors have been taking money Some may bring back to mind away from London to lodge it Sir Stafford Cripps's statement in Germany. about Britain tattering from crizia to crisis, moving from one

marks They believe German expedient to another." And are better to hold than pound themselves sterling. Not merely because

they

ask may

Erhard's THICK HAR

And if you think I'm going To put on high heels To please you, you're mistaken.

CURRENCY BLUES

whether there is ever going to be an end to it,

I can picture the father of the family carving the joint to- day and brooding over what he belloves to be his wife's spoken questions:---

The Corghi e straigutavad ketuk Dia de ancharter Muar dhe

of Germany's phenomenal trade recovery but because Germany

believes 108% in free enterprise,

Money will always scek. out those centres where there is the greatest freedom.

le

the

BERNARD HARRIS

So there is no reason what- over io fear that the U.S. is about to drag.us into trouble.

But, of course, there is no joy in being so dependent on what happens across the Atlantic.

Everybody would be happier and our whole future would be 'moro 'assured if we could in- Bulate ourselves against trade ups-and-downs in the US.

Can it be done? Is there n way out of this dependence? Can we make our economic de- fences. Impregnable? Can we avoid these recurrent crisis threats?

at

No doubt at all,

The way Էր indicated the pleturesque resort in Canada's Laurentian Mountains. Its name? Mont Tremblant.

Starting point

TITHERTO this small place--- Heb miles to the north-west

of Montreal-has been remark- uble only as a fine centre for ski-ing enfluralasts,

BUT DOWN

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GO

COULD HISTORY AS THE SPOT WHERE BRITAIN LAID NEW AND FIRMER FOUNDATIONS FOR PROS- PERITY.

For 11s there that the Empire. Fluance Ministers, fresh from the World Bank' meetings - In

come Washington, are Rathered to- gether with Mr John Diefen- baker, Canatia's new Prim? his pinns Minister, to discuts for increased Empire trade.

sure they will soon running back to London.

Just watch that barometer of pound. It has already Be sure mover up freeilonally.

will move up further the absolute firmness of our resolve not to devalue becomes more widely understood.

Boom ending?

SECOND

reason why the

A pono has come under at-

Mr Diefenbaker had hardly taken up office before he sug- Rested that 15% of Canada's U.S. should imports from the be bought instead from Britain. If that were donc, Britain's exports to Canada would be substantially more than doubled. The appalling thing is that showing tack Is

the belief that the only now are we American boom is running out signs of action. If, years ago, we had had the vision and the of steam

drive and the energy to milza has the magnificent opportunities offered in the Dominion- wo should not now be in the mess Simply this. We depend on in which we find ourselves. our Trade with America to earn For look at the ground we dollars to buy the food and the have lost. 10 the Americanis. goods which cannot be bought Last year they sold to Cántőh with sterling,

goods worth 297 per head

But what, you may ask, that got to do with us?

tump there would In- evitably mean a slump in Bri- taln.

of

the Canadian population, against

£00 in 1955,

And how much did we sell? A meagre £11 per head, com-

So if it were trl.c that pared-with 20 in 1955. America is now poised on the

edge of a slump, then there would be real and genuine cause for alarm.

Shame!

sharne Certainly they

But is there going to be a THOSE figures should slump in the US. The chances us all. arc remate. For the are should shame Mr Thorneycroft, David Eccles, and Mr ibing the Americans are deler Sir mired never to face again is Maudling who make up large-scale unemployment.

10am at Mont Tremblant,

our

Certainly in the last month or IF THESE MEN CAN

two American business has been slowing down. Industrial output Is below the end-1050 level The steelworks and car plants are operating at well below capacity, Sales of household goods hava taken a tumble. Fewer houser are being built.

CLEAR THEIR HEADS, OF EUROPEAN FREE TRADE MOONSHINE AND DE IN-

INSTEAD SPIRED

WITH THE EMPIRE VISION DRI- TAIN CAN BE IMMEASUR- ABLY STRENGTHENED. We can, close the dollar· gap for good and all. We can set aside all fears af the pound plunging Into second de- valuation. We can rid ourselves Bom it has been deliberately crisis after crisis.

UT this is a contrived reces of this recurrent nightmare of

A Plan

engineered to check the in- flatlon which la hitting the U.S. just as it is hitting us.

How has it been done? By

the Government trimming its defence spending. By nuking

тоге that

money borrow.

expensive to

1

The seeds

Failing to understand. our politics, the speculators see the Can there ever be a secure results of Gloucester and other future in Britain? Can I be. by elections and conclude aure there will always be a this country is going Socialist.

So fears of anti-capitalist Job for my husband?

And for my boys, then they leave gislation are causing them school? Can there be hope scuttle away with their money. off the brakes the recession will that money

But if there is n Tory revival, end

businca will keep ita

By next year -as there will be if the Tory will almost certainly be moving value from year to year?

the will ond the resolution are there, Mont Tremblant could mark a turning-point. in Government's the fortunes of us all. to money managers decide to tuke In that tiny Canadian recort there could be 'sown the seeds

I can understand the feelings of those who worry. But I am. not among them.

Weak? No

THINK the worst possible service anyone could do at this moment is to overestimate the seriousness of the crisis or to underestimate Britain's capa- city for recovery.

Let us look at things with a proper sense of proportion.

This crisis has not come upon us because Britain is weak or prostrate.

We are not heading for ha- tional bankruptcy.. We are not threatened with a return of tho dole queues of the early 1990's. : WE ARE NOT PLUNGING INTO DEKT. WE ARE PAY- ING OUR WAY IN THE WORLD. IN MANY DIREC- TIONS WE ARE DOING MAGNIFICENTLY-IN

IN AIR ATOMIC POWER, CRAFT. IN THE "SIXP. .YARDS.

A fine buoyant" spicit, runa through the car factories, The brawny, then in the size) works are sitting up new output records." Even the miners are digging more coel than fast year,

When the

programme succeeds--you can up again.

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