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Harold Wilson... the Socialists' *Shadow" Chancellor of the Exchequer. •han just returned from Communist China, He had talks with

THE CHINA MAIL,

the Chinese Prime Minister and with

trade officials. Today ho writes of `the challenge and opportunity that Ching offers to British industry.

We must not snub

C

HINA is the land of con- trasts. In the centre of Peking there were don- key carts and cycle-rickshaws making way for Russian-built limousines and English cars on

a fine new modern road.

Hankow, as in Canton and Peking. I could see, from the impres- sive new Yangteo Kiang bridge, vast blocks of modern flats going

up.

And on the unmade road from

the airport I saw housing con- ditions of the most indescribable

squalor families living in one-

com shacks or in temporary dwellings bulit of matting; in Canton 00,000 people, living in floating slums, insanitary junka and sampana,

This is the old China, which Mao Tse-tung. with ruthless determination, means to sweep

away,

much

600 million

customers

-BY THE RIGHT HON;

Harold Wilson

steel and

· M.P. -

much become more vital to us if we face a world of dwindling trade in the West. But trade is al most at a standstill

heavy plant and macblurry a Britain will be producing, even on the assumption of continu- ing expansion here.

because

MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1958.

American consuls In Hongkong seeking to restrict British trade with China-these facta con- Linue 10 poison relations between China and the United Sutes.

But us Chou En-la! was at great pains to point out, they are anxious for good relations! with Britain and the Common- wealth.

Toast

of the

States

is the

Girl

Next

Door

by

Simon

TULIE

Kavanaugh

combination

la

is

Julie Andrews:

Swopt to fame on a tidal wave of acclamation.

lotted up their Agures and re- did blue eyes, unglamorous sang at the 1948 Royal

Com-

endearing. ported a total sale of over brown hair-shortened but not mand Performance at the Lon-

albums.

ANDREWS every Englishman's iden of "the girl next door. Her of the now obsolete strategic He told me frankly that he face is wholesome, with__n restrictions applied at the time had sent messages Lo tho

She of primness, touch From the train I saw agricul-

This programme dominates of the Korean War.

Governments of Singapore and tural methods which have prob- the whole of China's economic Of course it is right to con- Malaya expressing the hope doesn't drink or smoke. She ably not changed over the past fe. Imports, investment, pro- trel exports in war or in near that, despite their newly-won calle

her theatrical agent 2,000 years; on big factory duction, the standard of living war conditions: we all have independence, they would stay "Uncle Charles.” site, Innocent of excavators or all will be tailored to fit the vivid memories of the export in the British Commonwealth modern civil engineering equip plan. The production of to Japan of goods

This of military the best guarantee he knew that ment, I saw earth being wheel- luxurica of any kind-except value right up to the outbreak they would avoid falling into the almost always ed away on a small wooden- for export and food supplies of the list war. But the Korean American sphere of Influence.

"My Fair Lady" dyed since her success--and a don Palladium. wheeled barrow, or carried in beyond the minimum necessity, fighting is over, and if we do

We can no longer go on acting With Julie Andrews it is 1,000,000

willowy figure which makes her baskets suspended from a pole will be sacrificed to the needs not export to China there are as if China were ол some more than that.. slung over its carrier's of heavy industry.

others ready and willing.

distant planet, With modern

Total receipts for the show appear taller than her sit, Gin. For at 22 years of age.

Miss Andrews was born Julle Already in operation, I was jet airlines it is less than a day's

itself amount' sow were

toid, are 61 complete factories journey from Britain. Nor are the English star of the £12,300,000. Nearly one and a Wells on October 1, 1935, to with the slogan:

the 000 million Chinese a distant Broadway smash hit hair million people have paid Surrey schoolteacher Ted Wells and his wife, Barbara, She was further 33 have and remote people..

musical, "My Fair Lady" is to see it on Broadway.

barely two when her parents by the Soviet been provided

her mother and With

the

The show opens in London at parted differences the most poplar British ex- mean for Union's East European satel-

Already remarried-this between

the

time to singer especially

the end of April, port in New York. tools made in China, will soon Briton? If we stand still, it lies.

fundamental distinction be-

bookings for it extend well Into Ted Andrews." by turning out machine tools can mean the emergence of a

tween Communism and de- She has swept to stardom on next year.

The newly-weds

teamed up mocracy. bur fortunes are

a tidal wave of acclamation

But-nothing-could be further with-a-song-and-dance routine closely intertwiffed."

comparable with that

from Julie Andrews nature to which soon became popular on Britain's Gertrude Lawrence.

talk about her success or even stage and radio. admit it.. be

The factories

I

shoulders,

Yet

factory, covering plastered this. 5,000,000 square partially equipped with massive with Britain in 15 years.”

Russia, and

machine What

feet, already work for the goal of equally Russians; a

planned and equipped by the

machines from

hundreds of smaller

of up to 150 tons weight.

Another

will

con

this

the

new trade rival as dangerous a Japan-or-Germany-on-the-Soviet factory 1 visited. Union. An industrialised nation built and equipped by the of G00 million hard-working

dominate Russians, is turning out, with Chinese machinery as modern as any in markets of the world, the West, 20,000,000 radio and

Alrendy we have had to television-lubes a year; *----****

Impose quotas to restrict imports

Britain

WE

The plan

7E in Britain had 200 years in which to Industriolice: the Chinese are planning to be- come a major Industrial Power

in 15 years.

Lost autumn Mao Tse-tung announced the plan: China was to draw level with Britain by

It is a tragedy that none of these have been supplied by Britain—or America, ITS kellier good political sense nor économie wisdom to make China so dependent on the Boviet Empire.

all

Us,

As Individuals, perhaps, they are not so different after all.

an would hardly In the train from Canton to the It Hongkong border 1. was talking exaggeration to say that Julle through-in-interpreter with an Andrews established "My Fair eight-year-old boy. He told me Lady the musical-comedy Bacon-

his home. version of Shaw's "Pygmalion"

established and eggs about his school, When I asked him what he was just as the show "I going to be when he grew up. colouratura soprano Julio on the

America's for Fame of he told me: "An engine driver." world over, and it is partly our hands whether he drives an engine or a lank,

Chou En-lal made it clear to of Chinese cotton goods into me that it is useless for the West to think that the trade But if we look on China as a enibargo will strangle China's

development.

market for our goods we can economic

plan on the basis of 000 muilon may slow it down a little," he customers and on almost lint- sald, "but only very slightly." less demund for British

engineering products.

So far trade between Britain and China is little more than

a trickle; wool tops and a few

The victim

cars from Britain; liquid eggs MEANWHILE, so the Trade

A Minister told me, and pigs' bristles from China.

other

But the high-powered trade Western European nations are mission which the Chinese sent not so scrupulous. As with 1972.

to Britain reported that Britain Soviet trade, many are quietly

China wanted supplying This does nol

as had the goods mean.

equipment, strategic list. Premier Chou En-Jai explained most-stoel-making

to me, that they hope to equal heavy machine tools, electrical our standard of living in years; whatever

goods

on

glittering prak It in the same the whole

crowded entertainment pyramid. On the musical's second birth- duy this month, recard companies

ROUND-UP

The Moscow

Even while I was in Peking,

to

over

At 15, she became London's youngest-ever Principal Girl, as the Princess in the pantomime, "Aladdin". She also made her debut on radio and, before she was 18, become a 'regular und polished BBC performer.

At 17 the toured with comedian Max Wall in the variety show, "Cap and Delis'.

At 18, she joined the smash-‚' bit mutakal, "The Boy Friend sailed to New York and delight- ed critica and theatre-goers ENTS** Julie was fired with theatrical alike with her dazzling ambition. before she was old personallon of a 1925 "dapper". -enough-to-say-much-more_ihan.

three consecutive words. At then, fers than two years two, her parents report, she was later, came the biggest chanco,

of all-the offer to co-star with singing lustily. At two and a- Xcx Harrison and Stanley half, an admiring aunt plonked Holloway in what proved to be her on the stage of the local the most pelished and sophisti- village hall and commanded her cated show Broadway had seen to sing and dance.

for years.My Fair Lady."

still

When the notoriously blunt.

That act was probably her "Seven Butchers of Broadway"

It swept the 20-year-old Miss those omnipotent New York only flop. Maybe it was fright Andrews spectacularly to the

Bret-night suffers critics who can break a musical (she with a sentence-gushed exclt- tters) or loss of Interest, but top of the tree in the role of Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney edly over her "louching, beautiful she forgot the word of "Albe flower girl who is transformed and gloriously blossoming" per- Blue Gown" and her dance into a grand lady. formance, she celebrated with a routine ended abruptly and plate of bacon and eggs.

Julio

Andrews English understatement.

personlies

ignominiously.

GLIMPSE of Soviet military thinking In the nuclear missile hometown folk in staid Walton three-octave-plus) siguificantly, a Japanese trade mission signed A age is given in the current issue of the official Soviet monthly, on-Thames, In Surrey, would parents took her to

15 plant and machinery, precision they produce instruments, and,

for the nuclear an agreement providing over the International Affairs." equipment power plants, and other non- next five years for the shipment milltary atomic developments. to China of £120-million worth-Its editor-ls Mr. Ilychov, official spokesman at the Soviet girls who have "made good."

(including Foreign Offee, steel.

goods China needs our goods. We of

steals "alrategic" alloy

and.

has to be divided not among 50

lion but 600 millon

But by 1972 they are deter- mined

Robertson's

from

Greatest

voice. Her Gift since

.. Gertie

audience

laughed

At seven years of age came a Her hint of her powerful (no

a singing undoubtedly agree that she was teacher. the nicest of all the nice local

One day, when sho was twelve, British impresario VA! The Alttering-Art--night- Like most of the nicest gifs Parnell visited her father.

until they towns like Walton-on- Thames, Miss Andrews has can'

Julie was brought in, grubby cried. There were ten curtain critics ofterwards from the garden, to sing for the calls. The

acclaimed Mies Andrews Great Man.

"Britain's greatest gift to Parnoll was impressed. He American musical comedy stage arranged a small part for her In since Gertrude Lawrence." the brassy, vigorous musical,

Last year, the weekly theatri- "Starlight Roof" which opened a col newspaper, "Variety", voted few weeks later.

The most revealing is by Major-General N.A. Talinsky, whe seribed as a doctor of military science.

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Chou En-lai referred to the presence of American troops In Fermost, in support of Chlang Kai-shek. What would we think, he asked, if some foreign Power were supporting by force Di arms a minority Government in Wales or East Anglia?

Anxious

Technicnt developments in the first two world wars resulted fy the conflicts being extended outside one continent, but it was still not possible to extend them at will to any part of the world

Now a war can be started in one area and extended Immedi- picly to any part of the world within a matter of minutes,

Baille frents no longer count. The "rear” must also mashed up, accogling to General Tallusky.

Airfields and rocket bases would certakily receive some of the first retallotory missiles. But the big ones would be aimed for behind the bases, at the plants building nuclear weapons and rockets and the industries engaged in maiding electronic equipment to guide them.

Speciflently, General Talinsky states, if on attack was launched en the Soviet Union' from advanced American bases these would be taken care of by medium missiles, while the ICBM would reach into the remolcst American inland industrial centres.

"There is no case in history," he writes, "when military THE cloak-and-dogger activi" | leaders have not used the most powerful woopens available and it ties of some of the Americans is a delusion to speak of local limlied wary any longer. War in the area, the presence of 1001 today, involving a great power, becomes a world war within hours."

THE

"Just as I suspected, Fanshawe, You're cooking the books,"

London Bupren Barolos

the

her the best actress in a musical comerty.

Jullo's name did not appear on the programine. She skipped But success. has not biterod onstage, pig-talled and while the nicest of the nice English faced with fear, trembled girls. In the 'country of the through the "Mignon" polonnaise biggest, the best and the mort and had the audienco stamp- fabulous, she remains a model Ing and chouring minutes after of moderation and good inste she had bowed her way into the wings.

She has nothing to do with ho. Cozmees; she, leaves that do the Next morning,

Charles erities business manager unanimously declared "She stole Tucker, the whole show."

("Imagina scatter brained me, coping with the monoy worries of New York.")

Before Julie was 13, she bud

She lives in a modest servica sung "Mignon" 230 times at the

She also suife, cooka herself large inte London Hippodrome.

breakfasts and makes lots of made her first recording.

coffed. At 13, the girl whom experts agreed had an "adult larynx",

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Foreign Officer, officials! „sora",kpots" to prevent. Chew, legs, being pulled.

Chelsea parties mere full of protealations like 1.** NaveY "éven HEARD "of the "Cite,

Husk--arly, thai was the

·Chancellor, warpræsulon- proof and sound-proof:

Already she has found how burdensome succes can be. -

Last month, on holiday in Paris, she visited the famous Lida nightclub

the where chorus girls wear ostrich plumes and very little else.

been

But they might have swathed like Egyptian mummies when Miss Androws arrived. The band struck up' a mélody' from "My Fair Lady" and her table became the centre of aty traction.

Afterwards, she immented:" I Just want to feel normal and enjoy life",

Misa Andrews hos - masjered television, radio and, stage." But - she has tumed down or deferred- alm offers by the soone

Is it because at heart, na sha sings in "My Fair Lay

"All I want is & room soede.

where

Far away from the cold plight

With one enormous: chan Ob, wouldn't it be loveriyty