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THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25,

Is Eisenhower a falle idol?

LIKE the Russian satel

lites scudding through outer space two question marks loom large 'America.

over

How stands the U.S. in

its greatest hour of trial

since Pearl Harbour?

How stunds President Elson-

hower in his greatest

personal

fest nince he was first dushed Inte

the White House on

wave of

popular acclaim five years pigot

The questions are us clear as a The answers to

glant neon sigu,

them are as dificult to define as a

ghost on a fongy night.

But certain things can be d tected through the murk of con- fusion. Americans $110 still stunned by Russia's satellite Buccess. They were Just recover- ing from Sputnik Number One when the Russinna launched Number Two just to show that

it was no fluke the first thise.

Still divided

AMERICA

IS WORRIED-

THE nation's morale took BUT HIS

THE

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dive into a deep freeze. One mun alone could melt the fear- President Eisenhower, Eagerly the first of his promised speeches wns awaited.

Cicurly the Russian satelles have given Eisenhower jolt.

The questions still unanswered

FINEST HOUR

COULD STILL LIE AHEAD

the rocket race.

I understand

BIC: is it a big enough foll? And is Ike, as, a part-time Presi- dent, capable of doing the job? merely underline this. Political America's laggardly showing in speeches

Only a year after his second ly he has been failing fast for One crisis after Jandslide election he's popu- some months. Jarily is undoubtedly at another-the budget, the Middle Little Rock-have all-time low,

Cast, and tarnished his reputation.

THE HOT BEGAN IN WASHINGTON AND IT HAS SPREAD STEADILY TO A THOUSAND MAIN STREETS. THE CRITICS DECLARE THE COUNTRY 13 DRIFT- ING LEADERLESS.

Failing fast

THIS week

cratic

sweeping Demo- election victories

-by Peter

Dacre

But it would be a mistake to ce Eisenhower as a fallen idol. True he has been beavily as- sulled.

But the majority of Amerkens still think Ike is the best man for the job. Even the disillusioned are largely loth to blame hira personally for

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They believe that Ike was not given the true plcture by his aldes. They feel that no general, even their beloved Ike, ean wage a battle successfully it his In- telligence is all awry.

Repeatedly I have been "Walt un Ike gets mad. he'll show 'cm."

CAN

1957.

CHARLES LAUGHTON the man who brought Reading Aloud back late

favour

tells how it all started with his

I'M JUST A FAKE

(but don't let that put you off)-

I STARTED thinking about reading aloud about the age of 12. I had a little book, one of Hans Andersen's fairy stories, The Nightingale, which was beautifully illustrated and the story was like music.

I still have the book, and I often read aloud from it in public.

The next définite thing I can Second World War, out in remember about reading, aloud Hollywood, I found that the

is that there was production wounded soldiers were stuck In of Pickwick Papers, called My in the evenings in the hospitals Pickwick,

nt the Haymarket and 1 storted to read aloud to Theatro somewhere abdul 1928, them, and we kept on having and the Christmas scene at to take a bigger room because Dingley Dell seemed to be no many of them wanted to awkward on the stage,

I went back home to Elsa I went back to the book and and said: "I think people like 1 ᎦᎸᎳ that Dickens's word being read aloud to."

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rattled along and bowled along and jigged and danced laughed, I thought that it would oll have been much better with one single voice, and I dreamed of making that happen. It hoo happened, and that is one of the pieces I often read aloud public too.

For many years

in

rome.

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The movie contract, she said,

to was taking up only a sixth of I used corner my Rickless friend and my capnelty and I was really a kit them down and read to them. man out of work. Of course, I

He is loved by millions as Laughton the actor, Now his readings of anything from the Gettysburg Address to comic verse are attracting vast audiences both in Britain and in America.

#learned the hard way ...

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Wrong? No

That means that you mig shy of showing to other people what you Accrolly

when like, and

that feeling Commas up hold on to the prænge and read thri very thing, because, in my experi ence, that very thing is the thing you will be most successful with,

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Keep A Pencil

WHEN you are reading good

books for the Beat always have a penell around fod mark the penges which strike you; that' to say, it the books are your own.

At the time

under and contract to a big movie studio

and was getting a very large wood the soldiers would, at first, salary, but Elsa had told me I mitale my accent, but I gradus was grouchy and

a nuisance pily got them, back to speaking I have a habit of always hav- around the house because I had in their native accents because a pencil around and, not enough work to do to occupy mostly, I think, that is how we afraid, I have marked other

all speak best. any man.

people's books and have not been popular.

all I have been Of course, saying here appilos only to reading aloud in private-It does I was not very good at it at first stumped about and hated ther THERE is pulling wrong. in not apply to reading aloud in -nobody can be any good at for a couple of days and then my view in hearing Jullus public, which is a different

at realised that, as always, she was Cacsar doing anything worth doing

read with a Yorkshire thing. me right and was thankful all over accent in Yorkshire. first-and when they naw

About that I am a terrible fake, I am coming with a book they used again that I was married to her.

afraid, I hardly So I started to read aloud If you are able to communi- rezd to Ond that their aunt was

cil at all. professionally and it has been cate fo anyone. you aro and that they had to go.

When you are facing a large quite a success.

reading to, you will be doing. audience you need the use of Just how do you teach your I think, better by Shakespeare your Kyes as one of your elf to read aloud? All I can do than by imitating the accent of weapons to hold its attention, so Is to hand on to you how I some current popular stor. used to teach those soldiers in hospital; to teach them to read fairy stories to thele children and love stories and poems to their sweethearts and wives,

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Then I got better and they asked me by themselves to read aloud to them; and during the

of

Just Attempts

eyes.

I always learn the plecon ind Anyhow, the fellows I taught net reading. Thus I only appear to read by teaching them to to be looking at the book whea take pleasure in the writer, but, I do not need the use of my above all, in themselves, keep on writing me still and telling One day, I think li`wag?...la me what they have been reading Louisiana omewhere, I found to their families.

myself. reading a book upside down and, not only that, it was the wrong book, There I stood, and suddenly I burst ont laughed, and could not go on reading.

You cannot learn to read loud by hust rending by your

he had two compared with the growth

for his our prepared

population, scandalously national television appearance- starved,”

Waller the other a Columnist

Winchell, one a cosy chat,

he whose common touch occasion- vigorous warning. Finally

the

in two merged

the ally leads him to spark off a put most truism,

pithily: it nation-wide urldress-the

"Russian scientists are concen. THEY would bring the record- ere.. You have to shut yourself important sprech he has made

trafing on more powerful satelings that they had labor- up in the bathroom or go for laughing, and I laughed and for months.

are lously made of their attempts to walk and alt on a rock and To some this is a significant iites. Too many of ours

I used to tell make a noise, Indication of his confidence. To bury bettering cigarette filters." read aloud,, and

them to throw the recordings If you want to read to chil- told: others i Just another sign of

... don't ... DON'T away because reading aloud was dren don't Then the weakness that has permeat-

Just a matter of trying to com- ever try to read to ed his policies for so long.

municate something that you people's children. I was in

house once, I think i the State of Ohio, and I was All that you had to do was to

asked by the head of the houso- hold, to read to his children for

What of the speech? Dig down PER to the ordinary American and

Simple fact

AWARE you will find that it was HULCESSHE conviction behind this is loved to someone you loved,

one supporter:

bim.

other Don't, Unless.

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was in

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EISENHOWER IS

what had happened, and they HAD to toll the audience SONALLY WELL

that Amerlen has the brains OF THE DECLINE IN HIS ful. He gave the aution its first and the technical know-now and a plece that you secretly

laughed a lot more, so I did STATUS. BUT HE THINKS authoritative summing-up_ of beat Russin. But the country to

not continue with that

piece THAT HE

STILL America's military might. What not using its full power. What liked very much and had rend

over and over yourself, grob As he was my, host I had no

because it was quits hard" not RALLY THE NATION, ONLY he said was new and reassuring is worse, it is not geared to get someone that you are fond of alternative. He explained to to laugh and they kept on ILL-HEALTH WILL FORCE to millions.

ing full power.

lock them in a room, and read the children how

I tried much they starting to laugh, HIM FROM

WHITE THE

another would learn from the and to Summed up

ploce, and we eventually HOUSE

The simple fact is that despite to them. "This is Ike of the crusade in its fear of the Sputniks America If they love you thes w mark carefully what I did, and quietened down and got on with Europe again."

still wants to beat the Russians

you they hated me from the begin the evening. without losing a single chip off stand for your being bad,

I have nothing more to say, its tautastically high standard will be at first. But gradually ning

you will find that with practice When I had Anished one except to remind you not to try of living.

Americuse your votes and your spirit will little girl told me very firmly to read aloud unless you want as well as to do it very much. And do not But far-sighted

be discouraged because you are CERTAINLY the speech care declare that the nations do what you tell them to do that I did not read

and that is all there is to techni- her mother did, fully bolstered the picture realise that to beat Russia it

One more hint: you will un- not good at it at first. Read to of a commander-in-chief taking may be necessary to raise taxes

doubledly find yourself saying somione you are fond of, dan charge of the battle and mak- still higher rather Uian lower

to yourself "I love this passage, cause only they will start for ing the necessary dispositions to

but he, she, or they will never pour first failures, meet the enemy threats,

understand it."

GOOD LUCK.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

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Il is a picture that America in its present mood wants accept.

BUT TO OTHER AMERI- WAS CANS IKE'S SPEECH

A CANDLE INSTEAD OF A ILOW-TORCIL THEY FEEL THAT THE NATION NEEDS A CITURCILILLIAN VERSION

them.

It must realise that it is not only lagging behind Russia in missiles but also in the produc- tion of celentists and technicians money and that means more for education,

The reason

have

COMMENTS Lippmann: "Sure- OF BLOOD, SWEAT, AND ly the reason that the Soulat TEARS. THEY DECLARE Union is ahead of us in missiles THAT THE COUNTRY AND is first that her efforts THE SITUATION DEMAND been concentrated while, ours SOME GRANDILOQUENT have been dispersed, and second GESTURE THAT WOULD that the Soviet Union has

not FUT THE SPUTNIKS IN only put defence but science and THEIR PLACE AND THE public education above a high PEOPLE AT THEIR EASE. standard of living and private

consumption."

These critics argue that America has much to boast about in the world of rocketry. The country is not as far behind Kursio as the specticular suc- cess, of the satellites would in- dicate.

What more

FUT ANOTHER WAY IT MEANS SIMPLY

THIS: AMERICANS MUST DE A PREPARED TO FORGO NEW CAN IN THE GARAGE AND EVERY TWO YEARS AN ARRAY OF LABOUR- IN THE SAVING DEVICES KITCHEN,

These things are

sympto

HEY proclaim that Eisen-

hower should have unveiled matie of the American way of some of these achievements. In- life. The nation has had it so stead he announced nothing that good for

had not previously appeared in naturally print. Even the fact that belt. America has solved the prob-

so long that it is

loth to tighten its

the only way

But there are many thought- today tem of getting a rocket back to ful people in America earth from outer space was no who see this as news to Americans who read of beating Russia in the cold

war that stretches ahead. their papers closely.

This, then Is the position to- day. What more can Ike do?

Who more should he do?

Time has come

Cearly he must first convince CERTAINLY America today the nation that he is attacking

needs a peacelime version

The problem resolutely and of the Dunkirk spirit. By 'cold- lucidly. But there are some war standarde Sputniks in the Americans who are convinced sky above America could prove that something considerably as big a threat as the Heinkels more far-reaching is needed. over Kent in 1940.

a Can This is nothing less than

Elsenhower do for revolution in the American way America what Churchill did for of thinking and the American Britain? way of life.

Lippmann declares that El- senhower's success depends The much respected writer whether he will take his stand Walter Lippmann has put it this firmly on the principle that the WAY: "Our people, have been time has come to tell the people, led to belleve in the enormous as they have not been told for fallacy that the highest, purpose many long years, that they must of the American social order is put the public need ahead to multiply, the enformant of their private pront and their consumer goods. As a result our private comfort.

On

of

public initutions, particularly RISENHOWER CAN DO those having to do with schąca- THIS. IT WILL INDEED tion and research, have béen, SE HIS FINEST HOUR.

que.

Please do not be afraid of being heard in the accent of the place you come from. In Holly

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