1957-12-11 — Page 4

LOSORLAY

The most

pushing

woman in London

SAID slightly more than half in jest to Madame Nicole Milinair: "You should be the next Prime. Minister of France. Your country needs a woman like you."

As though on eue, the band in the restaurant Introduced a few bars of "La Marseillaise" in its fancy orchestration of "I Love Paris."

Moda:ne Miltnatr did nut stand up. She smiled one of her Wide Bites and said-lightly less than half in jeat, I think

"Perhaps I should be. You

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1957.

She still manages to have Each week seeking

femininity. And charm. And wit. A. sharp. dant wit.

Grace.

And, of course, she is chic- "Certainly I always wear Bal-

pay me a great compliment. But main when I'm working at the

I am too busy with my own work."

The New Bosses

SHE is so busy, I gathered, that she could not even talte the few weeks off to nerve the stai term as French Prime Minister.

lms,

studies. Why not? I'm not an electrician."

She is not a beauty, faded or unfaded. But she is maturely

attractive. She looks a bit like

a subtle grey eye.

out the fresh and

offbeat personalities

wherever they are

Duris Day, with similar bionde land, and daughter Mrs Gerald hair, but minus freckles and plus Lerke, who leaps from sewage inspection to glided party- Igory. And Mrs Daugias Fair- I told Madaine Milinair

remarkable banks, who has pushed open a thought she was amalgam, a walking paradox of door in the Palace

Also Edith Summerskill, who womanhood.

I give the "In the studios

She is the executive pro ducer of a series of TV "Dick and the Duchess," now orders and I expect to be obey

ed I work hard myself and shooting in British studios.

work fast. I expect the people employ to do the same.

She should not be confused with Hannah Welustein, who is the executive producer of the Robin Hood TV series. Which

raisey

the question of why women should have emerged as executive producers of the most auccessful TV series.

Madame Milinole, I can tell you, bus nil the assets for execu- tive producership от prime ministership.

woman

3

1

"I can dictate letters to my secretary and read production schedules at the same Ume.

"But in the evening after I teave the studios I become the women. And I try to please, to please the man. I try to be sub- misalve. And sweet." not add helpless.

She did

"You must come and see me She is an obviously capable one day at the studios.”

A woman of judgment I said I was happy I was and foresight. A woman who meeting her outside the studios can handle people-and men. A in the submissive evening. woman who can probably be She apologised for the fact ruthles in business

self-sumelent restaurant where we were, of necessary. woman (if there is such a course, dining and had chosen

A the meal and wines. being). A dominant woman. practical woman (though most "I do not want to take Frenchwomen are).

male prerogative,

A

chooses to call her daughter by her maiden, not married, nome. I suggested that if they and Kot together Madame Mineir and combined forces (perish the thought) the men would have to leave town.

Her Motives

looked MADAME MILINAIR M. bit hurt and said: "But I am not really ambitious for myself?"

not #1 am

ambitious for money, (She has, however, SUC- ceeded in making enough to maintain finty in London and Paris, & chalet in Switzer-

near Parts.)

The Vital

Revolution

I say that

nowhere

has

change brought greater riches

Since then, the men and As for that unknown factor, women who live on the land love of the land, thrt, there have been able to look ahend. has always been, and hus also They have been provided with a given returns. Returns not only livelihood through guaranteed of profit. But return. In the markets and prices.

balance of our national life. In the quality of our thinking. In the quailty of our Eons and daughters,

.

They have been given facil- ten to borrow capital. They have been

provided through the Ministry of Agriculture with udvice and exhortation - many of the farmers believe with an embarrassment of advice and exhortation.

But still, it is better than reglect,

'The farmers and their mon could have accepted all this new

HE land is fair. I stood a few days ago on a hill in Somerset help cynically. They had reason

Twatching the chequered pattern of the fields, the dark ploughed

land, the rich meadows.

It was very lovely. But then, it does not matter where you go in these islands each county has its own beauty. And the picture is much the same these days.

It is a well-cared-for land.

to feel biter.

But instead they have made gigratie effort. They have carried through a renaissance of the land which con rank among

by DONALD EDGAR

The hodges are trim. The cattle are sleek. The gates are in good order. The cottages are well roofed. The farmhouses are pros. perous.

extraordinary chapters in And the people who care for history-the murder of the land took sturdy, self- agriculture. reliant, and as cheerful as you will find a people who are not famous for showing emotion.

Of course, it would be wrong to paint an idyllic picture,

There

backward are There

bad areas.

still Dro

But the land is fair, And the

"IT IS HARD TO

THE LAND WAS AN

WENYE HOW

of our

Dur Nut quite forgotten, perhaps. the great achievements our There were a few men in West- race.

minster who began to raise They have brought power to their voices. There were a few the land,

We

have the most cathusiasts in every county.

Mainly, however, the services mechanised agriculture in the of the farming community were world. unrewarded. Governments of

And yet when around 1680 the new

lands began to rend cheap food here, reither party stirred a finger to help.

to

now

It is worth stressing the great educational work that the farm- ing community have accom- plished. We were so for behind that wo were almost peasants,

There was so. little money in the land ibat the ntotuk of Deasantry was almost confirmed.

The Danes knew so much more. The Dutch knew so much more. The Germans knew moto, So did the Americans. So did the Australians, the Now Zealanders, the Canadians.

But the farming community learned from the technical Press, {'om the agricultural colleges, from the universition, from the research centres set up ofcially. And the National Farmers' Unica has done a great Job. The young farmers' cluba have also spread knowledge and chihusiorm.

Inevitably, some of the enthu siasm, and some of the

moncy has been wasted.

But, by and large, now the industry is progressing on sound Ilnes.

The horse has disappeared as

of livestock fell. import cheap food-from the an instrument of work, and has .

There is still much work to ba

when that she had chosen the French land, and a large country house patches in the best of counties, The young men left for the Argentine, from Denmark, from been replaced by horse-power, dono

can

"I only want to do things for general pleture is one of solid in terrible blight had struck rather than support our land.

the sense of achievement I get the when I do them well." But you see Her future schlevements are I am very particular about what undeckled.

You and where I eat.

"Maybe I'll make more TV make a feature decide where we have liqueurs." films. Maybe

Over brandies talked about aim. But maybe I try something some of London's prominent, else. Like politics." pushful, dominant

women. She cannot, of course, try to

Cart be Prime Minister of England. She is saved by Gallle graces. including Mrs

If she were American she would be frightening specimen, a dreadful daughter of the other revolution. But fortunately only her accent, when she speaks English, Is American.

for

Barbara

1926-1957

progress.

And that is revolutionary.

Land fell out of cultivation, The quality

city or for overseas, it was as

the land.

all complexions preferredi

Poland, even from China-

And then came the Second- the War.

The

Reborn

I doubt if these islands had It is hard to realise now how been as neglected since neglected the land was, How grent invasions. poverty- strleken the farmers

their labourers, How and ignorant they were. How hope less they were.

It will seam to historians f

the future

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Though that lovely animal has reappeared triumphantly us on instrument of grace and beauty.

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of

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self-

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NCE more 1 Government

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Landowners came trom

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and expensive to maintain. be trained in its use.

But the spirit is there., And the foundations have been läld. any

The application of power to agriculturo has

only not But, this time, the climate of increased prodtability. It has And it is doubtful if

demanded a higher type of Government will ever be stupid to change the basic opinion had changed.

labour. It has made of every though

mechanic. It har policy of supporting the agricul- The work of the new pioneers, decreased the need for the old Tural interests. the work of the enthusiasts, back-breaking hand labour. was not in vain,

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It has improved the status of increasing the farm worker in a way that that social legislation might never

realisation that a nation

Ja neglecting its land is also have done, it is as big a neglecting its Boul and its revolution ns. the end of serfdom

or villeinige.

Forgotten again future.

Not just its economie future. THE threat of starvallon caused Not just the future in time of

German U-boats danger,

future as

A

The value

be

But the land is fair.

It is now fertile, well rared for, and huı.tha respect it traditionally had and which it should never have been deprived of.

Radio and television, the cat and the bus and the telephone bave destroyed the loneliness But its by the

and the remoteness from the discussion of affairs, in the First War galvanised the spiritual entity,

is not to The

THE and

And

the yet Government into activity.

traditional farming community, so long And, to give a practical value neglected without danger. pleasures-the beauty, the peace, despised. was bribed, cajoled, to theso considerations, the Deprived, It will be sulky and the crime, the inner satisfaction, eatreated, and commanded to economists pointed out that by sour. Fructified it will make the quiet talk and the warmth

and the dissipallon of our forele teturns.

pleasure of the in produce.

exchange reserves during the And now that labour and remain. war we should have to produce capital ant skill and science It is a good life, Still hard.

have been put into the land h But now again worthwhile. has responded.

Our land is fair,

It did extraordinarily well.

But when the peace came, moit of our own food, what the land was forgotten again. Ever the cost.

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