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"THE","CHINA - MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957.

DON IDDON'S

Ike says:

"I'd like

to resign"

New York.

MY 3,500-mile journey to San Francisco and back, via the rocket base in Florida, Chicago, and Hollywood, has taught me one thing.

If President Eisenhower ran for election Senator John today he would be defeated. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, Governor Robert Meyner, of New Jersey, or even the two-time loser Adlai Stevenson could beat him.

The President's stature as a political leader and as a general has shrunk alarmingly. And the first of his crisis speeches an science and security has not impressed the country as his advisers had hoped.

to a fireside The American public looked forward chat on the Roosevelt model. They expected a call to action similar to the famous "The only thing we have to fear is fear Itself," with which Roosevelt rallied the people in the depths of the Depression,

So for It has not come, but the President plans it least five more speeches during the next few weeks from the sections of the country which I have vit ed during the past fort- night.

1

The first thing 1 saw when 1 got back to New York WILS whole-page advertisement in the New York Thues and New York Herald Tribune entitled "An open letter to Prezident Elsen- hower."

It said: "You need not be a sclenlist to understand Sputnik, Mr President, but you must be n lender.'

DIARY

ADAMS A

· POWERPOL AND VERY UPERT.

VON BRAUN . › ‹ FRANK AND VENT AHORY.

They don't even call him Ike now

Braun that America will take well over five years to catch up with Russla in earth satellitea has shocked the country.

It came just after the Presl- dent's speech in which he said

at while all was not exactly well with the American rocket House programme, Ulngs were going Wilson,

head nicely.

I have seen von Braun, who

AND THAT, IN THIS LAND, BITTER CRISIS MEANS. A

President

Eisenhower Poor and members of his Cabinet, in- cluding John Foster Dulles, who surely will not last much langer, criticisms, are targets for the aome of them venomous.

MAUDLING

From Satellite To Comet

W

art of passing his knowledge on to the inexpert.

Ho, was no fery, orator, but ha .spoke

with fluency and a

mastery of his subject. Blouch- ing like a friendly bear, with his hands stuck, In the ido pockets of his coat-an, attitudo he has never abandoned he would

conversationally

lalk

London. THEN, in 1945, the Conservative Government was "'out on its car," Mr Churchill found himself without the group of personal counsellors on whose advice he generally without a note, as if chatting to his audiences by the had depended so much in the war years. There was no niende. one now to brief him and his colleagues on the front On top of all this, he had a

A Opposition bench

personality with on the day-to-day business of dikable

sense. of Euhou sometimes on Parliament; no one to suggest a theme for the platform the cynical alde. He medo na speeches; no one to produce hard facts, the ammunition bones about enjoying good of argument. There was no one, in short, to take the living, and while he could con place of the Civil Service or the personal staff of No. 10 contrato Brecely on a problem, Downing Street.

It was Mr R. A. Buller who was to create and fashion a new organisation-known 03 the Conservative Paritamentary

| Secretariat-to function as

Cly Service in minintare to the 'Shadow Cabinet", WEB divided into branches--each under an adviser-dealing with economica, home and forelga affairs, and the Commonwealth.

carcer

Its head was a former private accretary of Mr (now Sir Anthony) Eden when he WRE Foreign Secretary-Mr Henry Hopkinson, who toranck # promising

the Diplomalle Service to enter the more chancy one of politics, But the chance went out of it when Mr Hopkinson was elected M, P. for Taunton in 1950 and, within a year, became a Minister of State and, Inter, received a peerage.

by

ho liked relaxation. One con

Harold James

of interest. For, with the end of the war Mr Churchil: became ebrorbed in the problem of Russia and the first rumblings of the cold wor.

Imagine his school reports any- Ing. "Maudling has plenty of talent- he troubles to use it." It goes wkhout paying that Malling was Q strong candidate for a safe scut in Parliament and at the 1930- election he captured Barnet He was then 39. with a majority of over 10,000,

the

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back-

With Mr Eden 11 wes different. He had had no training in economics, took no interest in them and, in fact, did not understand the subjoet,

So, much of Maudling's work in the backTODTIS appeared in the front bench speeches of the

from the Conservative Leader and hip benches Was not long in coming. In 1952, he becamo deputy. Indeed, Oliver Stanley was once heard to remark that Parliamentary Secretary Anthony Eden owed much in

Civil Aviation. A year later, his education to Elon and. Mr Butler, then

Chancellor at Maudling!

Exchequer, brought his Maudling was brought constant touch, of course, with Economic Secretary.

into protege into the Treasury as In 1955, two of his colleagues in the Maudling rose to be a - full- Cabinet Secretariat Iain Macleod, the edged Minister or Supply. In To this nursery of

en the Welfare State' this year's ministerial shuffle he Ministers caine

Reginald expert Mr Maudling at the end of 1945. It who was to enter Parliament in was given responsibility for fuel 1950 and to shoot like satellite and power and nuclear energy Into ministerial rank in record in the House of Commons. Now Enoch Powell, the the Prime Minister has put him time, and

ex-professor in charge of negotiations on the of Greek, who is now Financial Free Trade Area in Europe.. Secretary to the Treasury but was then the Party's adviser on local government.

was not his fiat excursion into the political field. He was one

He was

coldly intellectual

trlo-the most

back

This will be his most formid- able. task to date one in which the Intercate of British industrý and agriculture, are vitally con- cerned but, more than that,

which

the Common one in wealth is deeply involved..

Ho

never travelled had

recently, but

extensively until

of the many ambitious young men to jump straight out of uniform into the hurly-burly of the General Election of 1945.

But, unlike some of his con- willing temporaries who were

political to accommodate their thinking to the political party

IL which offered them Bent, Mr

was thin Maudilng never wavered in his brilliant of Mr. Buller's

an wom boys-who laid the founda- convictions. compromising Tory all through. tions of Conservative policy in

he has now had the chance' of the post-war years. He was lucky enough to get

seeing parts of the Common- selected for one of the new From 1945 unit the election wealth for himselt. -And it in

Ja of the constituencies

London of 1950, Maudling remained with fair to say that he fully The father-image

would the Parly omni- suburbia. Normally, it

Secretariat. smiling, kindly, almost

The appreciates some of the prob WAR A preparation for los which scient man in the White House have been "money for jam"; but period

In 1945 averything went

"During it he a closer tie-up between Britain has vanished.

sour bigger things. for the Tories. The biggest gained

knowledge of and Europe. certainties becamo losers,

Parliamentary procedure and Above all, he is a realist. And Thus it was that

"Reggie" was in daily contact with almost he knows that any Conservativa could not

put MP.. every Conservativo Member. He Government which Maudling the after his name and, like many was well read in the economie Commonwealth

the day. and agriculture would be “down and other demobbed servicemen, he problems of was soon looking for a job, possessed and practised-thọ out" for the next generation.

Instead, Americans see a very fallible man caught in a great dilemma.

The open letter was inserted by Wayne Parrish, president and publisher of American Aviation Publications, and Erik Bergaust,

influenced President rarily hear people referring to editor of Missiles and Rockets

the President as Ike any more. Magazine of World 1stronautics,

The President often sayaA:

It is Elsenhower this and fn a sweeping indletment of

"Clear it vills Sherman."

The I-Luce President Eisenhower and the

The result has been that Elsenhower that. missile

one and Ike cry has gone, perhaps for programme the letter said:

"The prize, of course, la developed the V-2 rocket which Adams, elected by

British cities, at bombarded world leadership. The obvious

People are now recalling that political stage are using the lug in satellite and missile de- work at Cape Canaveral, Cocoa purely a personal appointee of good,

the President never wanted to crisis to velopment could be fatal."

for a second term, and Administration. that he warned the public, in view of his heart attack, that he would have to curtail activi- iles.

IN

Shocked

my journey across the country and back I heard many people say what this open letter, which millions have real, slated so bluntly.

Beach, in Florida.

the President, exercises more power than anyone in Washing He is the leading America ton, with the exception of the missile man, but he has been President himself, Vice-Presl denied adequate funds and real dent Nixon, and John Foster

by Washington. Dulles. co-operation He is an angry man today.

His frankness has disturbed the White House inner circle, of which Sherman Adams is the most influential,

Doubt

run

Now It is openly concoded S stories of the President's that the President has been a A dependence on Adams seep pari-line Fresident since he "Wate

known in out over the land, American was stricken in Denver, England, is an ex-Governor ef doubts about his ability to lead Criticlsms, New Hampshire. He influences the country through this time the President as Harry Hopkins at danger and tensionTLS havo

Roosevelt, though grown." A statement by the German- influenced born scientist Dr Wernher von not, as wisely, and as Colonel

America is in crisis. Demnul by S.nulos and Congressmen Adams, for a thorough investigation of the entire rocket and missile programme are rising.

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ARE YOU LAST IN AT THE OFFICE?

TR WALLER found it hard to get up in the morning.

Ho

MR found

to get up in the

Dream

He had exceptional qualifica- DEPRESENTATIVE Donald tons. He had taken a first in

"Greats" at Magnuson, of the State of called to the bar. fo Joined up Washington, has gone before on the outbreak of war, but television cameras to say: "The indifferent eyesight stood in the scheduled launching next March way of active acrvice. Maudling of the first American cart went to the Air Ministry and jibes, in satellite based ότι

Is

Hittle spent most of his services carcer and Britain

Europe about moro than a prayer and there as private secretary to the America's reverses have em- dream and appears doomed to Minister, Lord Sinclair. It was biltered Americans.

failure."

an invaluable experienco. There have been long dis-

got to know the high-ranking There is a report from a most

that heoffeers about British and Mr Magnuson sald

and, the Services reliable source that the Presl patches

more important, the post-war dent, under the awful pressure European reaction, and reports had made a personal investiga- of the present crisis, said at a of anti-American jokes, part- tion of the satellite and rocket-world, the top civil servants and "I'd cularly one about a new drink launching programme and had the workings of the ministerial recent Cabinet moeling:

called a Sputalk Cocictall made found it in serious trouble, with Uke to resign."

chance in a hundred of

With these assets he had not to wait long. He was invited of one part vodka and threa one

to iolin the Conservative parts sour grapes.

In fact sleep requirements in economic affairs. In this vary so much that there are no Secretarint where he specialised

briefed the Eard and fast rules. Some capacity Conservative leaders on a sub-people need nine hours, others

in ject

which they were only five. If you have to de- body the rest it needs,

an alarm clock the only the brain, but the heart weakest. With Mr Churchill-pend on

and every other organ as well, himself an

Hls Cabinet members dis missed the remark as the out burst of a man under excep- tional strain.

success. The Americans point out, with

He said that it was apparently justification: "We might not have fired an Atlas or launched just a bubble blowing up in the

Ince of the American people. but neither. an earth satellite,

Statements such as this have have the British nor anyone else in Europe,"

jarred and irritated the people, already

about worried

the In their distress and near-

the curious feature of the travail

recession and Americans are looklag business

drastle drops in Wall Street. American scene now is that you, for whipping boys,

But it is indicative of how harried and won the President is.

Onc

machine.

past seven he listened to the alarm clock chirping, only to discover his swear word vocabulary “wasn't. large enough.

"And they say men neel But people CAN have too Icsa sleep than women," ho much sleep. There is no doubt complained, "six for a minn, that those, say, used to eight seven for a woman, and eight hours per night feel dopoy if for a fool."

occasionally they sleep longer. "What a pity man has to sleep at all," "reared Mr Waker. "It scans such a waste of time." I replied that sleep gives the

ex-Chance Uort chances are that your body ro- was not lack of ability but lack quires more sleep.

Night work

Not

Nor is beauty sleep milanámed. During sleep the glands in the drop layers of the skin work at a different rate, Tho skin needs

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to recuperate, So consequentiv a.good complexion shows the right number of hours are spent aricep

"You know" Mr Waller 'said. thoughtfully, "I wonder if I feel TEKNİ

the morning because my wife doesn't put the flowers out of the room?”

In hospitals, nurses imme útately swoop like antirépila vultures on the flowers and take them out of the wardr' It is fell that at night the plants use up too much oxygen in the "uur, Hut, this worry about flowers is unnecessary. Flowers hardly affect tho carbon dlokide oxygen content of the abno« sphere.

"Now that I know that," Mr Waller anid, "lomorrow! ''ll probably, jump out of bed ka a kangaroo,

But it is best to get out of bed slowly. Sleep - rojaxos `the muscles and allows the hourt and blood vesenia to work at a much slower rate than during waking_time," Jumping out of. bod as if there's a fire gives the heart a shock.^/

For the same reason the Azorst time of the day to indulge in physical forks de firat thing in the morning. **The muscher should have time to become

toned up.

"Better to open the window and breathe in deeply several times," I suzgested, 'k that's the best way to startội, the brain wayns decoltrating, to be fresh for work,

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HAY

BORD", will. think there somsiking wrong, and unadh dhe