1957-10-16 — Page 1

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON a matter of in and out

by Alexander Broad

DESPITE Callia's -

tion to the British pro- the other hand, he thinks the economy can take the Intox of posal for an Anglo-Canadian British goods without retarding free trade ares, Americans the growth of its own secondary

genuinely concerned industry, no question of U.S..

Canadian relations is likely to about its possible results.

deter film from eventual aceep- taave.

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Washington'n Brut reaction was that the plan would be fur too risky for Canada and that the hoped-for results could never justify it.

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OR ELSE

The Saudi-Arablana Have President Elsenhower the jolt Subsequent thought, however, of his politeal life and is working. In private, towari' brought home to Washington the view that the British pro mne of the interesting facts of poal was a good deal shrewdler Middle East 11e.

It looked.

The President :: wl isly alwcked that the Saudi-Arabians appeared not to le cunerned akcut events in Syria nor even to consider the

Syrion government to be, a ton of the

It was pointed out, Best off, that the plan, if it meant tariffs on American goods and none on British goods, would play into the bande of those American

reducers of raw materials who Soviets, ould like to seo silkening

new

of Americans tariffs on compel The truth is that the Saull- Ing Canaillan products. nut Arablane apparently isted ut that Amerleon rivalry between East and West1. dernds for Canadian materials as a heaven-sent opportunity are sufficiently strong to make to realise their wildest dreams.

No pressure of industries who Ty still wit want them cheaply outwelph lead-a the pressure of producer groups

Again, the CCGELMIC d vantage to Canada of cheaper British goods and the opening of the British market-if it really were

completely w opened would probably put Cannda in Its strongest position ever.

Added to this there J the politieat desirability from the Conservative point of view of strengthening ties with Britain while kusening dependence on the US. This political feeling is fett, in Washington, to be een riderable.

In fact

observers in Washington see only one thing which will almost certainly block the plna: pressure from Салаціл industles fearing ruin 1 British goods were fet in duty free.

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Many of these industries are U.S. subsidiaries a complica im in the political problem- at it is felt that their inducace is considerable.

to see--ani! united Murline bloc, able to take and learn from both East and West without having any of the hampering responsibilities of lange with either.

This is how they think It Every Ume the night work: Russians poned money into KFC Vountry, the Americans would rush in and pour mOVE money tale some other emistry, would Infuriate the This Russians Into Anding another recipient for more generosity.

the situation developing to the point where the only test either side wi demand for help and friendship take will be willingness money.

Why

What could be better?

The State Department, mean- while, has been working on the Semption that its Middle East allbes really fear the posaree of Communisin,

But the Slute Department is

gradually realising that the Kremi also belleves that it alles in the Middle East really The advance of Western imperialism.

Somehow the two sets of romatri On allies manage to remorable terms with one an- other. Though King Hussein of who muy be too young the Machiavellan

The same objection, it is felt in Washington, would nilitate

gainst a

U.S.-Canadian free trade area. Many people here believe that free trade between the US and Canada would be even more desirable than an Anglo-Canadiun tree trade area, Jurdan, but the rumbling block would to

rell

be the industries on both sides Filuation which King Saud is

of the border which would be apparently enjoying, seems still hard hit by a lowering of trade to have apprehensions about Lerriors,

Syria.)

Teap-

All this is about to lead to The Aral decision. Washington obrervers think, will depend on seme varlent of what Mr Dailes Mr Diefenbaker's astessment of has called "as agonising the Canadian. ceonomy. If he praisal”, What is feared here, the result of concludes that the plan would however, in that fores Cattade backword toward this cerebration may be nothing her old position as a producer more than a threat to the effect of primary products, dependent that good American allies had on the outside world for manu better have a proper four of

factured goods, the plan will Soviet telies-or else.

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1957.

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"O.K., let's have it again.

Watching The Wonder

World

waiting

for

the

Queen

Bar

I'm the Queen standing on Park-avenue. Mulligan comes out of 52nd-street and pokes the side of your cab. Whadya say? No you don't. You say: 'Pardon me, Mulligan,' and Mulligan says: 'Pardon ME, Butch '."

The Priory Poisoner still

eludes the

sleuths.

• •

ONCE

NCE again among the grey streets of Balham they They have called at the house which was once called The Priory- the strange house with battlements and turrets where the screams of agony were heard.

nover were numghly ait Revton

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You've got the world on a string - and the string is made of rubies!

There, up the stairs and on the creaking landing they have paced out the murder. el man's last steps.

Who was he? You will not have seen his name in the headlines. The investiga- tors do not come from Scot- land Yard. They are jour nalists, authors. They have been investigating a poison ing which took place at The Priory 81 years ago.

ROBERT

54 hours he During those remained fully conscious. He prayed aloud. Bug at no time did he either reveal or ask what bad caused his agony.

Scandal

Ite mentioned that be

PITMAN'S

book page

After 81 years,

the murder hunt is on again at the old house of mystery

coroner's them even months later,

There was Florence's past. A1 10 she had married rich,

Captain young

Alexander Ricarto. Alexander became 3 hopeless drunkard. Eight years later he was dead with delirium had tremens.

court heard about Victorian drawing rooms while

the Bravo Inquest proceeded.

Her conclusion:-Charles had been dosing Florence's sherry with tiny doses of tartar emotio to stop her drinking. Then ha swallowed a large does himselt In mistake for stomach powder. Realising he had killed himself, ha dled allent maliciously hoping that Florence would pay the penalty.

Soundest yet

And now John Williams has written SUDDENLY AT THE PRIORY (Heinemann, 23.). I is the soundest Bravo book of the lot. He decided that Florence did it-end, he pro- duces a small but stariling ehred of evidence to suggest that Alexander Ricardo may. have died of antimony too.

In this the final word?

No. But the case had something more which. has kept it alive For take just one more theory, ever since. Twenty years before all these people at The Priory The calypso theory. Why were the first Sherlock Holmes story, linked with Jamaica? Mr Cox It established the classic detec hrd been born there. Charles tion formula: a clear-cut

And, what is more, James Manby Gully was also a Jamulcan,

1st

of possible murderers, each with had been there. opportunity and motive.

Why? Why after millions have lived and died does this one death in a Victorian suburb keep its fascina rubbed his guma with laudanum tion?

But for toothache. Yet after death

before that demented found that

death Well, look at The Priory they

another Agure hac WAS IT FLORENCE? She entered Florence's life, loc.

the herselt gave evidence that her rolund but dapper figure of Dr few months with Charles had James Manby Gully-her senior been a torment of quarrels and by 37 years.

jealousy,

he

had

Ilow had the antimony got there? At the inquest in a Bulham hotel a story emerged which gripped the nation.

Note the taking stucco, swallowed some 30 grains of an- the dead shell of an oak outside, timony in a single fatal dose.. the red-brick villas beyond. Now like the scene back 81 years.

See the tronformation. The stucco glistens. The great valc spreads is boughs. The villos vaulsh, and a great estate spreads out with fantail pigeons strutting on the lawns. It is the estate of rich young Charles and Florence Bravo.

Pleasant walk

Confessions

...

WAS IT GULLY? The

had passed n bottle markced "poison" to Mrs Cox. He said it was a cure for Janialen Fever, But the bottle was never seen again.

Gully's new qures at Malvern WAS IT MRS. COX? She had made the town famous. admitied that Charles Was Firar there Leas the backs- Tennyson, Dickens, Carlyle had pressing for her dismissal for

all come

there to be wrapped the sake of economy. ground to the Brave romance,

The jurors heard how the wet sheets, plunged in fey

had

met in baths, and to gulp down the young couple Brighton on on autumn day homeopathie doses which he rejected lover admitted that he Just soven anonths before. preseribed. People of fashion were prom- enading along the front. Among them, still a bachelor, sauntered The year is 1676 The time Charles Bravo. Suddenly he recognised two WOICH In D

In their wake came Florence 4.30 p.m. on April 18.

end her sotted Alexander, Wilh

OR WAS IT ONE OF THE And at this moment

at the passing carriage.

One was Mrs Jane.Cox. n the husband the great Cully had SERVANTS? George Grifiths, local station Charles Bravo is

little woman from Jumalca no success. With the wife he a groom, had been demissed by stepping from his truln.

He is

step succeeded remarkably, When Chirica for dangerous _driving, good-looking healthy. Modish whom his own wealthy

Jamalcon father, a

too, had she become a widow Gully He had, taken 2. job Di East- side-whiskers prout from his often helped.

became her lover. He even took bourne. But he admitted that checks. He sets out along the The other was Mrs Cox's a house near her in Balham, he doped his horses with torlar country lane to his home. It is employer, the pretty

emetic which is, in young

fact, a picasant walk. It is also the

widow Fiorcnec Ricardo. When Florence had confessed ar.timony. And. he admittest last walk he will ever take.

Florence had eyes of a soft about

Gully to ter betrothed, szying in December that Charles 7.30 PM. Chartes sits down to

violet blue; she also had a pri- Charles Bravo had a confession would only live four months. dinner at The Priory. He drinks yate income of £4,000 a year, of his own. For four years ho Chartes raised his hat. They had been keeping a mistress at and her companion, Mr Cox, chatted. They met again. Be Maddenhead. He had a daughter The jury produced verdict of drink sherry..

for the month was up Charles by her too,

tourder by a person or persons

a bottle of burgundy, Florence

marry.

WHAT WAS THE TRUTHT

chronie Leaholic. pralty

▸ PM. Florence retires to her and Florence had arranged to Tolerantly, Florence and unknown. Two years later, a bedroom. Soon Churies follows,

Charles forgave each other, Then comes the crisis.

But there were problems to ·Such were the detalls whics Florence Bravo died cut off from 10. PM. Screams are heard bo

solved first. Agog the were eagerly savoured in friends and family at Southsta; trom the landing. Scurrying find Charles Bravo servants in his nightshirt, writhing and groaning. After 54 lingering hour of agony Charles Bravo dics.

Today, even after polsoners lke Seddon und Armstrong, the horror of Charles Bravo's death remains unique..

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Grant, O God, that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds”

Old Scottish Prayor." -From More Prayers and Gracez collected by Allan M. Laing

(Gollaises, -81.), The illustrations are by Mervyn Peake,

But the Inst had not been heard of her. Again and again the investgatom.have... prled at The Priory.

Yscult

Take authore Bridges. Last year ahe produced a fascinating book, How Charles Bravo Died (Hutchinson, Xi still in print).

Does the secret of the dying man's silence begin in Jamaica? Was this middle-class Victorian Tylery really a case of voodoo in Dalham?

PICTURE SPOT

SPARE A THOUGHT -for Bitta Claudia Jaxior, aged only six and so bewildered. She found a shiny plain) when cha came home from school in Cleveland, Ohio. She thought

a_toy, nimad... is “as. Mummy.The pistol went off.. and the bullet killed 32-year- old Mrs. Fuita Janier.