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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1957.,

RENE MacCOLL'S REPORT No. 2 ON THE DRAMATIC CONTROVERSY`WHIRLING AROUND. EISENHOWER.

WASHINGTON,

IS it fair to ask one man to tackle the presidency of the United States? As the tremendous drama of our times unfolds, more and more Americans are asking that `question.

The presidency is a staggering task of enormous complexity, unexampled responsibility, and unremitting toll.

Even if the world of 1957 was on a fairly even keel-without the cold war and the constant threat of hot war-the man in the White House would have a job of awesome proportions.

But as things ure, with the

rush of tremendous events on all sides--with militant and cunning Com. munism seeking everywher

to break through, and #

home a giant economy

or

The too

for

man

which could in a few weeks ing mountiún of paper that

montha slide from mi at least be looked at. present prosperity to "re- The pressure to always there. cession" or worse-he lives never lessening.

day and night with a load of global mischief

shoulders.

Do not

on

his

forget that Dwight D. Eisenhower is, among other thing, commander-in-chict of America's armed forces, and ultimately

responsible for the conduct of foreign affo

Do not forgot that he is the head of the Republican Party, mbrolled in a bitter and up- fill fight with the Democrais.

to

THE TEAM

to

necessary Worry,"

DOES IT STOPT

WHERE:

job big

any

ominous situation.

American economic

But Eisenhower has never found it easy to intorest himself in economics,

General Persons - greying. tactful and affabio-must play his part to the hill. Congress is notoriously touchy about preal- dential actlylites. and This Congress politically hostilo to Iko anyway.

Those are Some of the man who help to carry the loed, but when you come right down to i the responsibility for everything must ultimately be the President's.

And so Americans, girding themselves for the annual mad- ness that is Christmas, with mink toolh-brush covers at £3 D time, musical euff-links at

handle

Adams had chosen to 20, and hot-water bottles impress on the President the modelled in the form of Miss The fact is that there is now enormous importance of beating Jayne Mansfeld at 80s., ate so lurge a staff working under Russia into space there is little finding it stile difficult to Ike that even inside the White "doubt that he could have done capture the carefree Yule spirit. House nobody can really be co.

tion

pre-

or

sure any more how many of But perhaps Adams could even the most vital issues ay that "foreign affairs are no reach "the chief,”

direct concern of his and he IJOW, THEN. does Ike try to

Part of the noisy recrimina- would be right. tackle the task?

that has followed the For John Foster Dulles also Even before his heart attack

success withs their has direct access to the Prest and subsequent stomach opera- Russians"

lon. Dwight Eisenhower had satellite has arisen because the dent at will, and the President

and. blurred

admires the Secretary of State approach the presidency unwieldy

sel-up makes it. very much. very much on the lines which sidential

Impossible to pin the The king and respect are he werked out for his wartime almost

responsibility for the Americans amply retumed by Dulles. And, Shaef.

one man on any blm as fallure He gathered about

contrary to rumours, Dulles has taken not a single Important competent a staff as he could group of men. And, delegated 03 much And most Americans, among decision on foreign policy with-

the most whole out, consulting Ike. The sheer scale of everything authority us ho properly could, them even with which Eisenhower mus and emerged as the supremo hearted admirers of Ike, take contend to in itself dismaying. co-ordinator, ·

who as an admission that the "staff go on in his present post right The Government of the would ultimately

a system" has fallen down with to the end of the presidential pasq

of United States is staffed by decision

Adlal term three years hence. when

appointment the Jonkey the

Slevenson-who twice fought 2,250,000 people.

work had been clone.

Ike for the presidency on Part of the President's But is that good enough?

Democrats-as of the troubles ariges from & fallure

During Ike's Arst term as bohalt

adviser to the State

1850,

abroad,

the LAN

If Iko has his way Dulles will

TRUSTED

be-

Department,

long ago Not so

Stevenson JAMES HAGERTY, the war calling. Dulles "America's ungulded missile." Now Steven- son is asked to help guldo it.

Who are the men who diave boen trying to help Ike perform his huge task until now?

spectacled, smiling Irishman, plays a role for more. Important than his official title of Press Secretary imples.

10 malernise thic working of President, when he rode the special the job. In any ways the crest of a happy wave at home President is st geared to the and

It looked horse-and-bugy America of wonderful

Now Americans are taking a their There is a multiplicity of long, unhappy look at small chores which must still President and his performance.

And they ask:~ be done, and which tend to

ts clutter up the approach to the HOW MUCH he being for larger and more important told?

come he HOW MUCH issurs.

really know what is going on? There a great army of When you have a "part-time callers whose hands must

Subordinates be President whose shaken every day, and a grow

the

secs papers.

Too much seems to be going

strikes a on that

discordant note. And too many people are starting to wonder out loud whether the man in the White House can really cope-and if it is reasonable to expect him to be able to go it alone.

Ho is implicitly trusted by sits-in Eisenhower,

on the One who has taken much of highest policy methings, and

load is Sherman Adama,

top-secret most of the special assistant to the Presi-

Hagerty alves Ike an intensive dent: a shrewd, cold, emelent, try to protect him from unpopular man who revels in briefing before the presidential the thought of all the enemies Press conference, and does his has made in and out of best to provide him with facts Congress.

and figures to

counter likely Unkind critics contend that questions. Adams knows more about the But ever so. reporters have presidency and Its problems noted lately that Ike's "manner ihan does Ike.

at Press conferences has been lacking in authority.

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In the last year or two le has got into the habit of The two other men who play murmuring: "Just clear it with a big role in "the team" are Ike's economic Sherm," when confronted by Gabriel Hauge.

assistant, and Major-General some irksome problems,

Baison Harely does anyone dare 10 Wilton 1 persons, his differ with Adams. When this man with Congress. happens the matter goes to the President.

Even rarer is it for Ike to find against "Sherm."

Hauge, a big, beary fellow, sees the President several times a week and tries to keep him abreast of the recently rather

UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG

The Voles drop in Kummafor a meal

AFRICAN FEDERATION

Full

Chorus

OPENING

SHORTLY

AFRICAN REPRESENTATION

Roy

Wilenski

Wells Gebyright by arrangement with the Manchetter Quardia

So you want to be

a spy?

LET GRAHAM GREENE BE YOUR GUIDE...

DAY

AY after day in the Brighton hotel the two tall men kept to their room. Continually their voices could be heard, murmuring, arguing. Whenever a waiter brought drinks to the room. he saw a mass of paper through the doorway.

What was going on? I have been investigating the case of the two tall men, Here is my report.

Among the papers on the bedroom floor were sketches of secret wea- pons and reports for enemy espionage chiefs.

The younger of the two

A key oficial at the BBC.

And the elder mán? You have probably heard of him, The surmaine,

men was

Greene, Christian nume

Graham, Occupation; novelist.

́ROBERT PITMAN'S

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"Well, of course, I had

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told

In that bedroom in Brighion find out the story behind that Graham Greene and

Eventually she his remark. brother Hugh were assembling, me that a foreigner had been anthology. 1ts thore for his government in WAS lying in bed thinking how restful it was, Laid a remarkable

Ütle: "THE SPY'S BEDSIDE order to buy all the books on up with a nice mild go of flu, I had nothing to do.... oo" (Hart-Davis, 16c.). then I heard it the racket going on under the window-The book has just been publish spying in the shop.

ed. And I belleve it will be even bought Bill inside the thick stone wall.

Our neighbour's stackyards are only about 800 yards (come one of the most popular Phillips Oppenheim, The total Away; the next nearest are about half a mile distant. And books of the decade. when either of them thrashes his com we invariably get.

a few rats.

Now, although, country

ore personally elesner than their city cousins, they are no Jess obnoxious and do just as much damage.

near

35

There are nowhere niany country rats werd before myxomatosis.

19

morlar.

a

HUSTLED OFF

He had flction y E

Marta d

... akelphes of secret weapona, regije for crolandon chiefs.

order luat come to about £150. "Hold the presses!" It ended I said to the woman: 'I'hope #Love G?! they're enjoying it all in Mos- cow. But she told me it wasn't

But he was not the only Greene in the news at that time. The eldest Стеспа brother, Mr

Greena Hugh

sald: Herbert had just written a boošć "Graham sont that from China

the Russians. It was the Ger- when the book was just about claiming that he had been a pr

rais Five minutes passed. Then

in the Spanish Civil War. largo fat vole appeured,

WENT to Mr Hugh Greene'a mans.”

to go to press. While he was in took a cautious look around, and

house in North Kensington,

Peking he happened to read saw the bread. He looked, he In pyjamas on the stairs

I arkod: "Do you think that Wüs Through the spaniel's front how Wordsworth and Coleridge sniffed, he bit, and scuttled off, Graham Greene's. nephew legs I nsked; "When did the bad once been trailed by a so- was how you and Graham first

Volc as returning with Mrs

and Christopher, aged

three.

Gerinan buy the books?"

curity agent who thought they became interested in splory* there three nearly full-grown young spaniel cavorted round

were spies."

"Good grelous, no, Don't for ones.

Then Christopher was hustled "Last year. it was only a

A mo..

bed to let the grown-ups talk few weeks after the bookshop spaniel I asked: "Do you really in Spain, or

Between leks freeTA the say that. Herbert drove a lotry

about spies.

Mr Hugh

.

combed with passages nearly as most attractive members of the hook. We gut very keen on the order to help him deal with learned that even in 1891

old as the house.

redent fondly except, At night the invaders, with for the red

consideration than dormouse.

AD morc

perhaps,

squirrel and

AFTER Anishing

their

meal

very

other

1

FOND OF PUBS From her sofa Elaine Greene'

"After Herbert comes RAJ. said: "Perhaps it would bo

mond. ·Ho's 'a''' Harley Street better if British Ambassadora LAINE, Mr Hugh Greene's learned to put on their trousers Then me. It was my 47th biri- specialist, Then there's Genham. American wife, looked in. for themselves." Shumid: "I'm sorry. Hugh,

day the day tho, book was pub- Christopher says you must kiss

good-night,"

The bread, having been guar- stoals, weasels, und even foxes,

something like Papa, 3000 dis- missing their rabbit diet, turned anteed by

incident that I was reading their altention to stockyards.. appeared. Only the mother had

Greene-height about Operation Cicero, when think that spy chiefs will find. that. But I don't think he did

much the grace to eat sitting up, and

spying beyond But there are still for too many.

oft. Bin stoopos into his the British Ambassador's valet your bedside book sexful2" they from her hands.

delivering a letter or two. When they invade

sold secrets to the Germans in Turkey. chase up and down kiske the It is wrong to call a vole. a Living-room, He told me:---

"I don't so why not. Tako of the house, walls

Although mouse, yet many people do so.

the Cleero affair again. I "Herbert is a good deal older "Graham's always been fas

wouldn't have than the rest of us. Ho has a the stone from which the house I do too. With their beautiful

bullt is good, the builder tur, blast little faces, and shortcinated by spies. He was have I was amazed to read how suppose that

at all if our people smallholding in the country, he che of the German officials had happened skimped on

Con- tails, these

cleaning dinner with us when extremely croctures are to me the came out with the idea of pro- Been sent a whole collection of had bothered to read spying We don't have much to do with

have him at They would

ail? sequently the walls are honey- Ittle

ducing a kind of spy's hand- spying, literature from Berlin in literature.

the valet of a British Ambasador): I 'oaked about, the the idea over

And the valat." sone drinks,

was stealing secreta,"

Greene brothers even the next morning it stil seemed good.” some human beings, conduct the NAUGHTY BUT...... equivalent of a rodent skiffle

Mr Hugh Greene pulled aalda group and keep us ell awoke

Behind it books. Butt there WOB

to clean curtain. something they all sat up mysterious about thle ne naise, their mouths and preen their reached from floor to ceiling. Suddenly, as though cut by a whiskers until they shone.

Mr Greene sald proudly: Subsoquent investigation

I asked Mr Greene; "Have" lisfied." knife, a wistaria leat in front

showed that they were occupy-That's my espionage Ibrary,

you had

any reactions from of the window disappeared.

vanished, and ing an old sparrow's nest and We made hundreds of extracts

abroad yet?"" Another lear then, the noise, sounding like had probably been there for fact and action, Then we took

Spy-man Greerto went up- a room in Brighton and worked

stairs... was some time."

“yes. Elaine domestic argument,

Some German news- ΣΠΥ resumed. I ant up in bed and Both wood and fold vales are out our final

Graham Ikeg working in doc Graham Greene Uke papermen have already called S, I left, Mr Greene bent regarded askanca bý the

от хто не му office. Prightand"

They down

to, shako handi the springs squeaked.

Brighton.", they back

scomed rather indignant nhous Mrs Greens "said: "The Ahal Two little paws appear- foresters because ed on the all outside, and I young trees and kill them. They

We sat down,

"Oh, poople don't interrupt my reference to use Germans book has penatically been put little eratures, spaniel sat on mo

him there.. found myself looking into two are naughty

And when he's buring our books. Still, it's not together at my deiner table, no. very bright black eyes which but they have many natural

finished working there are the the first Umo I've been in It's cult to judge how good regarded me with anxiety. The enemies, and are harried con- -I asked: "Was to much trouble latest aims at Brighton and trouble with the Germans."

" It is. I acted that people. blunt and furry face whe un- stantly by foxes, wċasols, stosta,} collecting all thoam books?” . lots of goods pubs, Graham ##

might think it "LA kind of Before the war Mr Hugh private mistakable, but what on earth owls, crows, and magpies.

very fond of pube.“ I do not know why the family "Certainly, When I asked for ware a family, of volen doing in

anewspaper (***

my house?

decided to invade us, But, pybooks at one second-bents Hugh Greeno returned with corespondent in Berlin," when Mr Greene said: “Elaine's, In "The little face vanished and whatever the reason, we feel bookshop in London the woman a postcard covered with, Chin the British Government expelled the business. She's an age at me with stamps. the conversation was resumed, it would be wrong to turn them assistant stared

BOMO German: apenta ? from: 1 PREA, ANDRES London, Mem. Grond, was team. Od the doorstep" to

fasten 1 palad, “A Leroy agent)

/ explained. Mrs. Chrosta,

selection there

Mr Greene's

Him

I asked

له

Greene. ~WRE

* I took a piece of bread, opened out, so good luck to the little auspicion all over her face. the window, dropped it on, the things They'll not go hungry Then, thn mida What foreign In rahi handwriting: the moss- polled, from › Gormány alll, and stood well to one side, in the cold months 'to'comia. -government do you repetsont?''kih ša, the portoned bogan: keprisal.

"

AN AGENT