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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1957.

Churchill takes Rufus "walks"

In

the lovely grounds

L

Chartwell,

at

DEAR CAT...

DEAR PIG...

You never heard such things about Churchill!

OVE is something Winston Churchill understands. His love and devotion to his wife were an inspiration to me...

He would sometimes tend one special flower till he thought it was perfect enough to present to her.

During my four years as his valet, I also got to know how well he loved his animals, too-

His horses, his dog, his cat, his pigs, his cows, his black swans, his fish-and ONE LITTLE BLACK GOAT.

T

Don

Iddon's Mid-Atlantic Diary

DON'T LET'S BE BEASTLY TO THE AMERICANS

ON BOARD THE QUEEN ELIZABETH.

I have HIS could be called "Argument in the Queen Elizabeth." never known politics so much discussed on an Atlantic crossing, and I have crossed more than 40 times.

Ladies who have wanted to dance or flirt, or both, have had to sit

in on discussions about Sputnik, the American rocket failure, Eisenhower, Macmillan, Nixon, and NATO.

He met that little black goat during one of his painting holi- days in Marrakesh, in Morrocco. We were picnicking in the Atlas Mountains you can call six tables of food and a few ia bottles of wine cooling the mountain stream a picnic.

MR CHURCHILL

Ing.

Mr Churchill ndored his fifa poodle Rufus most of all pels,

He could hardly bear to loave Rufus behind when he went away.

One day she decided to get rid of the wreck end buy a new car for the estate.

Whenever this happened ho would always appoint cae of the Swles malds-usually Doria, an attractive

"blonde giri-to look after kutus.

The old Austin was taken to

and

for Bold He gave her a long list of - a local garage structions about lood, exercise, about £40. etc-rather like a mother does Mra Churchill bought a new

Hillman Minx to replace it.

the The next day when

when she leaves her only child with a neighbour for a xyeti.

He nevor stopped worrying Guv'nor had fed the fish I turn- about the dog.

ed up in the new car to take him back to the house.

how

I've even known him to leave a debate at the House of Commons to tell me to phone Chartwell to find out Kufua w keeping. The only thing in which Rufus. master was disappointed his inat he would not go into

was point swimming bath.

As usual he was grumbling all the time to himself.

"That's no good," he muttered, und scraped off the oil paint again.

It was en unwritten law that no one ever looked over his

shoulder.

Ile couldn't stand it and marte no bones about his feeling

ventured If anyone too near. Suddenly, before we could do anything, a little Arab boy with a herd of black goats walked straight up to Mr Churchill.

The gouls surrounded him and the little Arab boy stood and stared at the case.

We waited for the blast. But it never came.

Instead, Mr Churchill started making & fuss of one of the little black goats.

He walked slowly back to the tables laden with food and new four- began feeding his legged friend. After that it be- a dally routine. Every earne day he would stop painting and call for his little black gunt.

He would then spend a few Which brings up another point. minutes petting and feeding the

Americans would The obliged if they could be allowed

Most of the Americans and all the British to whom I have talked say plainly: "Ike must stand down."

I have felt rather sorry for the Americans on this voyage. For one thing they are outnumbered-there are 150 British as against 70 aliens in the first class-and all the old Yankee swagger and bombast have gone. The jokes against the Americans since the damp squib at Cocoa Beach have been cruel and some are not worth printing.

and Passingers

stewards have come up 10 me and |sald; "Have you heard the one about the Spuinik? And the one about the White House

being elled the tomb of a known soldier?" I have heard and I don't want to hear again,

Mistaken

PURBER CARINE

THE MIRACLE-MEMORY MAN.

be

To accide themselves who should

be their President,

the habit of they are not in pleking British Prime Ministers.

They say

Bitle creature.

the

He played hell about it. "What's that?" he asked.

I explained that it was hi fine new car.

But his only answer WAS:

the "Well, I want

old

back."

Se wo had to buy it back from the garage,

But not for £40.

One day Mr Churchill decided to put Rufus into the water in

The price was now £80 bc- spite of his reluctance.

cause the garage owner had But he made mo se ip first already sold it for that figure to

someone else.

-just in case Rufus didn't swim!

Me Churchill's love for all his animals was so great that mor- ket day on the farm at Chart- well had to be carried out like military accret combined misalon.

11 he found out about

around for days.

any

ROPICAL 8oh fascinated Me Churchill nearly as much as his lovely Golden Örfe.

which a fascination It was stuughtering ho would mope almost proved fatal.

He kept these tiny, bright, I suppose his

darting little fish in tanke animais accounted for the rather around his study. odd nicknames

affection for

scen

Mr

He had an awful (for me!) habit of calling me back efter 1 had seen him into bed in the carly hours of the morning.

"Norman, I forgot to feed the little fish," he would say.

the Churchills used in the intimacy of their

I have oftcn home. Churchill lean across the dining table, affectionately squeeze Mrs And purr: Churchill's hand, "Dear Cat,"

He would get up, and spend She made her rether odd

half an hour feeding them. reply. "Dear Pig," sound like Then i would have to see him in affectionate, caress.

Into bed again.

THE Guvnor always called his daughter Mary, "Mary The Chimp," and he always called Sarah, "Sarah The Mute."

It was a family joke to call each other with affectionate noises which only they under- stood and recognised.

Mrs Churchill Often when arrived at Chartwell she would

I think I must have mado it clear that I did not share his love for Hittle fish at three o'clock in the morning, be- cause he decided once to fred them on his own.

As he did so he dropped the lid of one of the tanks into the water.

It mashed the underwater electric light bulb used to keep the water at the right tem- perature.

He put his hand in to get the

the that He had forgotten

LL went well until one day stand in the front hall shouting lid and screamed.

WOW!" Of course, they have

She would themi Anch driver ran into the "Wow, selves to blame for some of the herd of goats and killed one of wait for a few seconds. Then electricity was still on. derisive laughter the world is

Mr Churchill would bellow back: Indulging in.

"Wow! Wow{"

the

It was a strange custorm, but I got used to it.

Mr Churchill loved to see the TIE got a torrific shock. It

about running

rabbits

Lions is Sir Francis Evans, friend of mine for the past 20 shall be making o mistike years. Sir Fravels has just re- Wto chortle over American Ye British Ambassador to Eisenhower will go to NATO discomfiture or scoff at their in- Argentina, und before that not known as I radio this dia until Mr Churchill called: quest to gas them.

ability to leap into cuter spice, We haven't got a rocket or a satellite ourselves, have we?

Aboard this ship the 311 wisest in Anglo-American re.a-

Af OPTICUS

PROJECTOR

WIDE ANGLE LENS PERMITS

tho

HE

was lucky it was not fatal.

And from that time on I mado

about swans. them.

↓

them.

to be Mr Of course, it had

was I have been to Cocoa Beach Churchill's pet. Everyone twice, and there were too many in a Cap. We knew if we told Imponderables in such tests

the Guvnor it would ruin his announcements holiday. risk premature and build-ups. I am agains; cen-

So we decided to try to fool estate. sorship, but in this case deliver him. I went out with ong of Even when there was a danger sure to take a special interest in first and announce second.

would become the fish! detectives and roped au- that Chartwell Whether not President

over-run with the pests he re-

We servants were much more other little black goat.

Then we hid it in the rocks fused his farm manager's re- understanding about Mr Chur

chill's love of his race horses for served over a quarter of a cen- patch, but it would

He was just the same be a mis-Where is my little black goat?

we made a lot of muncy out of black and take to reduce the Presidency It's time I fed it."

his wonderful tury us Consul-General

Max Lerner Consul in New York, Boston, to what Professor

Whenever one We dragged the creature from Every year we used to lose and Los Angeles.

calls a single endurance test: He is the perfect British If Ike does go and suffers not its hiding place. It was butting few to the foxes.

But when we suggested that Ambassador: tall, suave, hand- even a cold, that does not prove and bleating all the time.

Mr Churchill was puzzled. Ho we should organise a shoot, or and en- Fame,

his physical itness to continue couldn't understand why it tried tmp foxes, he wouldn't listen. white-haired,

job of the dowed with charm. He would in the man-killing

Presidency. have made an ideal Ambassa-

The Democrata aboard Arc dor to Washington, but now has retired to the vice-chairmen-, disappointed that Adlai Steven- ship of the Northeb Ireland son is not going to Paris. Steven- Development Board, which is son has been treated stupidly attracting American firms to and in an off-hand manner. He Northern Ireland.

says his position is like that of the little girl who wrote to her uncle. "My present

Just what I wanted, but not much."

Sir Francis has been confined

with to his sitting-room broken leg, so we talked there over a whisky and sherry while

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Sir Francis and:

know

Was

Very

Stevenson also says that a NATO meeting without Elsca-

by HIS VALET

NORMAN MCGOWAN

WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS AT CHURCHILL'S ELBOW

hower will be "like a marriage to bite his hand when he wont

to food it. a little about the Americans without a bride."

He kept saying: "What's and I haven“ the slightest

wrong with IDX catch up doubt luat they will

Russians in the achievements. When

ind pass scientific

the Americans move, they move

roat?" Good trip

a good, restful Last, Looke what they did after IT has been Pearl Harbour"

voyage, extraordinarily calm I said: "I hope it won't take and mild for this time of another Pearl Harbour or worse year. There is a now commo- to get them going."

Lo

"I couldn't bear to think the

of his horses was running he always had a telephone conference with his trainer, Walter Nightingall,

The rest of the servants med to rely upon me to up them off if I heard D good thing.

One day I heard the Guva'or talking about a horse called Pall Mall. I passed the up on and we all backed it heavily. It wan at 100-9.

I told Mr Churchill about it and he laughed his head off.

"Waller Nightingall told me Pall Mall didn't stand a chance ho said, so I didn't back It,"

་ with a roar,

foxes were being hurt," he sald.

Ho used to talk with prido

about his most successful

race

But the story went that

ho

dear

I thought he might change his horse, Colonist II. tune when a heron raided his We didn't dare tell him. It fish pond and lived in style on gol one of his biggest race would have broken his heart. his Gulden Orfe-ish like big shocks over that horse.

I heard that he somehow got But that understudy goat goldish,

But no! He had the ponds the impression that Colonist II wouldn't help us in our decep- the lan.

covered with wire netting, but had been given to him as a gift It properly got my goat, in wo were not even allowed to and he went around saying: "What a kind Frenchman dore-Captala Charles Williams, ¦ fact, with lis cross behaviour drighten the heron away. Yet "I don't think so. They have who is now on the bridge of the and eventually Mr Churchill had he was crazy about his fish. He give me Colonist I

made a point of going to the feed them with maggots which were specially brought from York-,

hire.

had some nasty jolts and their world's biggest ship. He invited to stop trying to make friends. fish pondo every day to

pride is hurt, but their conn- me to drinks and told me he had dence is not deeply dented, I been 38 years with the Cunard

Company. think also that Anglo-American I think all the entertaining relations are on very happy

I

It was uncanny to watch him. He would walk to the side of the pond and shout his head off. "Yoisk, yolck," he would yell

to

Then one day he got the bill. Humour said it was for about 20,000.

I don't think he regretted paying out the money. Colonist I won about thirteen races on

the trot,

But we never told him what really happened For he couldn't bear to think of any animal being injured or killed. and warm basis. We need each which contains and staff captains

Mr Churchill liked' to win. Once, back at his lovely home alber and we know it. Sputnik and pursers and ships doctore

Not only on the horses, but in at Chartwell in Kent, he KAW Is an imposition.. will make us slick together more and chief engineers have to do

everything. He couldn't even bondage round than ever."

Every evening the parade of my dog with

bear to lose an argument. I asked him: "Do you think titles and all-aged celebrities |ita_pow,

It had caught his foot in a

Even with me—in private. President Elsenhower should and newspaper writers turns up.

The fab would rather in front

There was ona occasion when resign?”

Llonel Carine, the star purser of door, but a vet had assured ma

of him ond take tho maggots be inado co amusing mistake in The diplomat become more the North Atlantic any other no bones were broken,

be WEX Loo That was not good enough for from his hand. When he had tot publie becaus diplomatic,

rather not ocean seems to enjoy the job, Yet

his fish he would sit on the wall stubbom to admit to me that he stry, because if I express any Ho has a miracle-memory, the Guy'nor,

"What is wrong with your and say: "Noman, go and get was wrong and I was right. vlow people might think I would draws all the pretty girls and

the our

IT WAS THE NIGËT DE to his pertim, littlo dog, Norman?" he asked. be reflecting the opinion of sume, brightest minds

I explained. –

The "car" was an old battered DROPPED A CLANGER OVER of my colleagues, say Caedia and never forgets a namo. Also,

A "GONG," AS I SHALL BE **"Well, send it to ‘a dog's hos- Austin Ton. [Sir Harold Caccia, present his dry mariinia are excellant.

It's only real job was to take TELLING YOU. British Ambassador in Wash. It le happy ship. There isn't)pital for a fortnight," he wald. ington]."

a man or women to the ship's I can't bear to see it limping. Mr Churchill back to the house

after his visit to the fish pond. Other people in the ship are company who is not convinced around."

Mrs Churchill couldn't stand It cost him £10 10. for the not a reluctant to state their that it is the greatest shly ever

bullt.

fortnight.

the sight of it." - ferent

1

TOMORROW;

WHAT A CLANGERI