1958-03-06 — Page 4

WHILE THE PRESIDENT IS UNDER FIRE THE SPOTLIGHT FALLS ON.......

THE MAN WHO COVERS UP FOR IKE

Wike in in real trouble.

THEN Henry Luce starts criticising President Eisenhower, then

For years Mr Luce, proprietor of Time and Life magazines, has hero-worshipped Dwight Eisenhower, and the staff of his pupers, many of whom I know, have had to angle their copy to present Eisenhower in the most favourable possible light.

But now the Titan of American publishing is criticising the President's "absences" and Time men are writing on different lines.

The truth is that the President has lost almost all touch with the people. He is making mistake after mistake, alienating what following he has left. At a time when there are nearly 5,000,000 un- employed in America the President calmly uses the Presidential plane, Columbine HI., to take his wife, Mamic, to a rest farm and beauty parlour in Phoenix, Arizona. That was not good for publicity.

The cost of the trip in the Super-Constellation?

thousand dollars, £5,000,

Fourleen nearly

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And instead of preventing the

trip li 3,000-mile round favourable light James Hagerty, the President's Press secro- tary, bridles at mild question- ing and lashes out at Press.

the

arc

'Out of bounds' HE tells reporters, “You

out of bounds," when they ask routine questione, Either Hugerly is one of the worst President ever advisera any had, or he is so worried about Mr Elsenhower's failure to stick to his job in the White House that his nerves have frayed In the inevitable cover-up insk.

Hagerty has become so close to the President that when be 1 asked what Mr Eisenhower thinks about some national or International problem, the Press Secretary repiles: We think...

It is nearly always "We" and rarely "He."

At the slightest suggestion that Mr. Elsonhower is some-

I

THE CHINA MAIE, “

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1958.

HAGERTY : His arrogance bas grown

But now he is

what short of perfection the of Mr Hagerty Irish temper flares. Actually Jim rouline

the from repertor New York Timer who, having done little in Journalism, switched to become Press and publicity secretary to Governor Thomas E. Dewey in Albany, New York State.

During Elsenhower's first Campaign Dewey lent Hagerly to the General, and the ex- reporter has stayed with the President ever since, He had elected offer, no U- ministrative background, and Bittle knowledge of foreign cffairs. Yet he behaves as in

no

beginning to

lose his nerve

DON IDDON'S DIARY

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Nevertheless, when house- are wives all over America seriaping, this isn't the way to net votes for Eisenhower's party, the Republicans.

Maine Chance is fomnous as a retreat for millionaires wives.

·SANDYS' UNDERGROUND ROCKET SITES

FIRST WITH

THE 'N

"Confidontially, do you think that's a good way of proparing a Summit for disarmament talks?"

There is

states baldly no urgency in his

"Think." Mc manner, no grappling with the Reuther is thinking.

He is thinking how to get a crisle.

controlling

General share in Motors (Which makes Cadillacs, Buicks. Oldsmobiles, Pentiacs)

This is government by default. And the public, incensed with Ike's apathy, knows it,

Former President Truman, in his best "give 'em hell"

form

Is ringing the country declaring Aatly that Elsenhower is leud- ing the nation into a depression. Truman has reached new pla

London Express Service

ROUND-UP

Fords, and in Chrysler (which MOSCOW

makes Plymouths, Dodges, De Solos, and Chryslers).

Warned them

THE pecond Soviet Sputnik la gradually coming down. After 105 days it had dropped 120 miles from the maximum height of its orbit, But its silik 675 miles above the earth's surface,

nacies of popularity and power, LS year Reuther demanded less than when it was launchol

not only within his own Party, the Democrats, but with mil Ilons of plain Americans with no particular party label.

Truman today is so powerful that he will select the condidste

for the White House.

that the automobile com- panies cut their price by an average of $100 (about £35) o car. Harlow Curtice of General Motorn who is paid $750,000 0 year salary, said: "No." said: "No," and Chrysler "No"

Ford Bald:

It is now taking 97 minutes to circle the earth-six minutes

It is gaining speed at four seconds every 24 hours as it gradually spirals down.

Recently made its 1,500th circle around the earth. It had then travelled slightly further than the distance to Mars when that planet is at its closest point to the earth or the equivalent of 175 ights to the moon.

PARIS

Insteed the big three In- creased prices and today motor- car sales are the worst for five THE United States has pinpointed Russia's Sputnik launching

The recession Inevitably helps the Democrats' cause. This week the recession

years. Is beginning lo

Now Beuther says: "I warned look uncomfortably like a de- them. My plan was a prae- pression.

tical and positive proposal to

It Was the assistant President, and some- by her husband, to the beruty

In Detroit,

motor-car combat inflation,

jccled." times as an acting President. parlour at Mairie Chance Farm

capital. the city which used to

I saw Routher the other day, HIS

Arrogance has

grown is badly timed. The cost of

be called the arsenal of demo There is no grey In his hair with his power. Ie has beauty treatment, board, and

his

it you can afford, well and cracy,

one out of every eight and only a few lines around his skill with

for six the lodging there is $500 lost

But the Republicans people is out of work. There are

hard, grey-blue eyes. Ho keeps White House correspondents. days over £30 a day-though good.

the votes. My 230,000 unemployed

himself fit, does not drink or The

trip of Mrs Mamie is there as a guest of the cannot afford

forecast is they will get such a accompanied owner.

The situation is so bad that smoke. He carries himself avic- Bleking in

forthcoming the

wardly since he was badly ten Walter Reuther, the election that it will take

evange wounded by a hired goon who list of the labour movement, is tried to assassinate him. His car years for them to recover.

asking for a shorter working is bullet-proof, and there is an week or layoffs, because his men electrically wired fenco

round can get more money on relief his modest house

han on the assembly line,

suburb.

entire Elsenhower,

Mr. Toad finds a place

was one of those warm,

occasional

bluebottle blun-

ders out with crumpled wings and a frightful air of debauchery.

In the garden a blackbird was testing Its spring song and I alm

most felt like

singing myself,

except that I can't sing

in the sun.

-UP COUNTI, /: By--

THURLOW CRAIG

cold.

Facing ruin

THE Republicans face cate- THE

strophe. And everything they

in a Detroit Reuther is an angry man as the unemployment figures swell and the relief lines lengthen. He is throwing the massive weight of his union behind the Demo- cinta and talks scathingly of the part-time Presiden: Eisenhower. The debacie has begun for the Republicans, and so low is Mr that he Reuther sees his chance and Elsenhower's prestige is exploiting it calmly. At 50 will have the greatest dimeully he is the boss of the motor-car in getting Congress to pass any unlon, and, unlike many other sort of foreign aid programme, labour leaders, his hands let alone the grandiose $4,000,- 000,000 plan which he is pod- are clean.

dling in Washington. He sits in his spacious Detroit This is the winter of America's office staring at a placard which bitter discontent.

The last time I was in Detrol! was at the peak of the boom, do makes the position worse. when I went to seo Henry Ford Here is the Elder Statesman of U. Now the town is a big Jar- ⚫ depression arca, the through acons of awful heat and the party; ex-President Herbert row,

Di caution, worst-hit elly in the country, through periods of dreadful Jouver, the ezar

making the idealical speech he with all the guts and fight leak I regard the tand as more delivered in the great depres- ing out of it.

everything strange and wonderful

evenson and saying than that other strange

andbound to come all right in the wender survival from pre-long run, historie dawn, the coelacanth;

As Hoover speaks, Elsenhower but the latter sa novelty, while Mr Tond gels often kicked aside shoots quail, practises tee shots, or sits in front of the fire. because he is so commonplace.

His erstwhile contemporaries, Sometimes Eisenhower sits and Sometimes be just sits the lont prehistorie reptiles thinks. became extinct because they had This was Mr Toad, one of the such tiny brains that they could eldest changed species in the not adapt themselves to a chang

ing world. -world.

as he crawled forth For spring way in the air, creaking Indubitably a false promise, but from his long winter sleep.

it was a balmy morn as I wont Then he reached a patch of

up the orchard to cut logs from arn-warmed sand and stopped, the old walnut tree which the visibly relaxing, drinking in the Inst great storm laid low.

Unchanged

1

werm rays.

And as I got there, from I wondered at his temerity but hole between two gnarled roo's thought of the incredible powers there lumbered a beast as old as of endurance and nipptability the bills and as ugly as Satan, that kept his kind alive and You could almost hear his limbs tourishing over the millennia,

The evidence is most conclusive /

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DE RESUME A ANDET STEZIA, LOR

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Now the world changed again, for suddenly a dark cloud drifted across the face of the sun, and immediately it was bitterly cold Giving me glance of philosophical resignation, M: Tond slowly turned and crawled luck to his hole between the rools.

the next three nighis {L froze hard and he did not emerge unil the fourth day at tigh noon, when here was warm sun and a blue sky, Out he came to the sand-patch and sat there blinking in Jazy content.

D

The toad, like that other very anelent beast, die hedgehog, is one of the only three beings (the Brew is the third) which do nothing but good in a garden. Toads will be grateful if you convert some shady corner of the garden into a dark gratto, Jumble up Jew rocks or bricks and grow ferns or rock plaats in the crannies, keeping the whole thing comfortably moist, Catch your leads and release them near the grotto. never travel fer.

They'll

Comfortable

that

Being one up on this particu- lar load because I possess a radio and he doesn't, I knew another cold snap was on the way, so I picked film up and let him go in my workroom. There, по matter what the enzy weather does, he will bo com- fortable unti spring really comes.

Tals morning, as I write, ho is sliting colemnly in the very middle of the room, Now and again a woodlous fulls with a thump from the old wooden reof. Mr Toad moves towards it and out goes his sticky ton- gue and back he lumbers to the strategic centro of his opera Lons,

He is getting nicely into prae- tice and already looks much

Compiled by

STEPHEN CONSTANT

Designed by

MICHAEL RAND

NEUTRALISATION OF GERMANY

GERMANY & NATO

EAST-WEST NON- AGGRESSION PAST

REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY.

POLAND'S WESTKAH FRONTIER (ODEN- NEIBSE LİNK)

DE-NUCLEARISKO ZONE IN CENTRAL KUROPE

THE BATELLITES

COST OF BUPPORTING TROOMS IN WEST GERMANY

MODLE KART

Britain

U.S.A.

base.

It is called Kapustin Yar and it is near Sinlingrad, claims "Missiles and Rockets," the American magazine which give newa of Russian earth satellites months before they were launched.

It saye US. radar bases on Russia's southern border have picked up the missiles at height of 35 miles over Kapustin Yar while they were still rising vertically and tracked them along the entire Russian southern test range, which goes 1,800 miles over. uninhabited desert northeast of Lake Balkash,

At Samsun in Turkey the American watchers are only 700 miles from the Russian missile centre. GENEVA

↑NSEASONABLY warm weather has practically ruined Swit- rand's winter sports this year. Village strecte in the mountain resorts, usunily covered at this time of year with three Rob-aleigh runs and ice rinks are closed at many places. Even the curling pliches are sloshy runways.

Warm west winds are bringing a threat of disastrous, avalanches from the higher peaks in Eastern Switzerland,

feel of snow today fast running streams.

KATMANDU

THE Abominable Snowman mystery may soon be solved.

The chief of Nepal's north-western state of Mustang, border- ing Tibet, is reported to be in possession of a creature's skin whose colour is described as "dirty black."

Reports say the creature was killed by some other animal while trying to steal grazing yaks about four months ago.

The skin may be Brought to England.

-THIR IS SOMETHING FOR DERMANS TO DECIDE. AFTER THEY HAVE ACHIEVED

| REUNIFICATION (SKE BELOW), AT THE MOMENT THE SCHEME IS OPPOSED BECAUSE IT .18 OELIEVED RUSSIA WOULD QAIN A STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE 11 GERMANY IS NEUTRALISED, I

THE WESTERN GERMANS SHOULD BE MEMBERS OF NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ONGANISATION SINCE THEY WANT IT:

| YRA, BUT IT MUST BE PART OF A

WIDEN PRACE AOKEEMENT.

NO, IT WOULD GIVE A FALSI SINSE

OF RECURITY.

IN PAYOUR PROVIDED IT IS BABEO ON FREE ELECTIONS.

..

THIS WEMAINE

TO BE BETTLED AT AN ALL-ORRMAN PLAGE TREATY CONFERENCE.

10 THIS PROPOSAL

OPIN ORICTIONS BUT PREPARED TO EXAMINE IT.

NOT VERY MUCH IN FAVOUR OF IDEA.

RUSSIA MUST LET THESE COUNTRIKO AUN THEIR OWN SHOW AND NOT INTERVENE.

RUSSIA MUST ALLOW FREE ELECTIONE IN THEST COUNTRIES.

IF BRITAIN IS TO KEEP TROOPS 'IN WEST GERMANY, THE GERMANS MUST DE. PREPARED TO PAY—IN CASH,

SYMPATHETIC TO BRITISH DEMANDE

AT A SUMMIT MEETING WW NEUHEIT TACKLE THE ARAB-IBRAKLI PROBLEM.

Russia

KREMLIN ATTITUDS (4, UNKNOWN ON THIS POINT. HAS NEVER ACTUALLY, PROPOSED NEUTRALIKA- TION OF GERMANY.

KREKLIN WANTE W., GERMANE OUT OF NATO TO ACHIEVE THIS IT HAS PROPOSED THAT BOTH NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT (THE EASTERN NATO") MX DIGBOLVEO.

YES! BUT NOT NECESSARILY FANT OF WIDER AGREEMENT,

НАП

NOT IN PAYOUR NOW, PROPOSED GERMAN CONFEDERA. TION, HOTAINING BAST AND WESY GIRMAN GOVERNMENTS.

E IN BATELNO ALKKADY. KREKLIN MAS BUARANIKKO THE FRONTIER,

YEH FULL SUPPORT,

HOT PÅLPARED TO QUESTION.

DISQUSE THE

QUESTION DOES HOT ARISE.

AT & SUI DE DÉ L'T

-CHAN MUST! WE TACKLED.

TENTN

Alter.