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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1968. V

A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE MONTH'S BIG WEDDING CELEBRATION

LLEWELLYN SHERMAN ADAMS

What keeps Sir Winston America's Mr Iceberg

'on the Riviera...??

MONTE CARLO.

THERE is something

THE

appropriate in the

fact that Sir Winston

Churchill celebrated the

SAM WHITE'S RIVIERA NEWSLETTER

fiftieth anniversary of that he is very fond of the return after a period of wines and you have a picture of

his marriage to Lady flavour. Churchill

the on Riviera.

He took the first op portunity after the labours This stretch of coast has of the war to revisit Monte been a part of the flavour Carlo, and his welcome in the southernly of his life, with good cigaru 1945 from and brandy, ever since his revivified residents of the youth, and Sir Winston has Hotel De Paris had all the fact qualities of f monarch's never disguised the

'Unfair to the fish say the anglers

escribing it as unsporting, a number of London anglers have joined in banging self-striking rod. It has been claimed that the rod will cumplete a catch by itself when left

unattended.

The Civil Bervice Angling Boclety, of which Bir John Forster is president, has

banned its use.

The secretary. Mr. E. R. Cooper sald, "The general purposes committee of our "Kociety" "Consters unŠ BIJ unsporting way bf catching

fish,

Accordingly. the Com- Inittee has banned its use on the society's private shertes

and in competitions promoted by the society."

Mr. Cooper added, "Mr. L. E. Bell, the inventor of the rod, has since resigned from our society."

The Thames-Conservaney havu niso drawn attention to the fact that use of such a rod is not permitted on the Thames within its Jurisdic-

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and this is how JAK sees it

BAR

The

AugLERS REST

London Kratera deprica

exile.

a rounded civilised life.

Sir Winston dines and lunches oul frequently, but his favourite restaurant remains the gilded, ornate Edwardian dining-room of tho Holet De Parks.

Since then his visits be- came more and more fre- quent and more and more prolonged, until at one time it was suggested that he

Apart from the food and wine consider he likes it because the faces of might seriously

so many walters and head retiring here.

mis- waiters are familie to him.

This was A strange reading of his charseler, for apart from Sir Winston's attach- ment to the House of Commons he is A too much of an Englishman ever to consider be coming an xpatriate. There is no danger of his settling here.

Nevertheless Sir Winston's Attachment to this coast is so marked that if warrnals pome explanation beyond the obvious ones of

ellmate and natural beauty.

There is a great deal here which I should say appeals to the ttditionalist in Sir Winston, Monte Carlo has changed tre mendously since the war, yet furduumentally it has changed very fue

Intrigued

People

Cocteau began by thanking In the immediate Churchill for "Preventing the vicinity of his comer table still war of 1010 from becoming the rise discreetly when he enters, Apocalypse which Hitler in- after a moment's hush falls over

tended." the entire dining-room.

There is nol an Engilstunan who has witnessed one of these quiet and good-mannered de- monstrators who can avoid feel. in a tingle of pride,

He then saith "Ine stooke chimney has rising from always been a sign of content- mant. The smoke which rises

LLEWELLYN

London. SHERMAN'

ADAMS sat sourly up to this week under the various titles of the White House's "Abominable No- man," America's "Mr Iceberg," and President Eisenhower's "Chief of Staff."

All of which pointed to the facts: he was unpopular with almost everyone but his chief, and he wielded tremendous power.

the Wiry, white-haired Adams was Assistant to the President, not because he calculatingly set out to win friends, like so many of his back-slapping Washington colleagues, but because he had the inborn capacity to influence people,

His method of getting to the top, and his method of staying there, has endeared him to fow.

"I Like Him !”

When the revelations of his gift. receiving (a $250 vicuna overcoat, an 1800 Oriental rug, £700 in hotel bla, among other things). from millionaire Bernard Goldine swept across the world

from your cigar has always been in June this year, the wolves rushed howl- a sign of joy."

ing to demolish what remained future.

His taste in food and wine are ŵ memorised prose poem to

He went on "You are

the every Hotel De Paris head waiter: "Sir Winston le Prince of a mysterious dynasty, envlace, oysters,

care rooted in with dilles of which FOID boiled beef, locks and cariots, demoernicy, the living and the lobster, sole, chicken, Center did. The present which brland, lamb, and he

lids observes, and

the future which fancy for sweel-breads,

judges."

"He likes vanila

ice cream).

we

und-water-ices. He loves cham--New friends

pagne. The only brandy serve him is an 1810 Špecial Reserve."

1 tried

rome

It.

Sir Winston has made two new friends on the Riviera.

The British have less money, but they still remola the Princi pality's moet desired visitors: skyscrapers have shot up, but the view in the eviming from It was the colour of stewed One is Greta Garbo, with the terrace of the Hotel De Puris prunes and it swirls around is when he is enchanted looking across at the Casino the ass like diesel oil, remains unchanged from the incredibly good. 19th century photogravures,

Almost everyone who has the The Prince still rules and slightest

connection with Sir was Wiuston

siddied with a lask of conveying gifts to him from ordinary French people.

walters are si trained In the subtle reinamen's of their tradita

which dis- The garishiess Agures so much of the coast Is пов evident to the villa i dwellers; a wide-range of friends and acquaintancos Is liberally sprinkled round the coast; there is a spicy quality arnong many of the post-war newcomers which has restored to the Rivier is

traditional refishness.

to be It is imposible not Intrigued here, and Sir Winston is intriguet, vastly intrigued, by many of his new acquaintances bert.

Add to this the splendours of French

cooking and French

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Mostly these gifts took the form of boxts of cigars, and bottles of champagne and brandy.

Some of the umotion of low

towards the French Leel

Sir Winston has been put into speech by the French poet Jean

Cocteau.

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I heard the speech and much of it is too Bowery to be rendered into our rough island tongue.

The other at the Begum Khan, when he met for the first time this week at a dinner given by the Prefect of Alpes Maritime.

The Begum told Sir Winston that she was persuaded to take painting after reading Sir Winstcure memoirs in which he referred to the pleasure he derived from this relaxation.

Sir Winson told her that he had rectived thousands DI jem amateur painterS latters all over the world on the publi cation of his memoirs tolling him that they have been persuaded

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of reading the us

- memoirs to take up painting.

ROUND-UP

SPARROW IN MINE

Even the Republican Party besitated to defend him—"It's military like watching your mother-in- late drive your new Cadillac Quer a cliff," they said.

of his

Adama Beyond Salvation,

Rarely did anyone differ, with Adams. And carer still did my- one criticine him in front of

nt-

His offices were run wit a

ellek. Unpunctuality brought a verbal lashing.

Adams let no patience with Elsenhower those he thought were woeting Onco Where is nee Amid the uproar, one voice hus time. Be oflen slammed tempted, Eisenhower rounded We alephone recelver, an the crlien in a blazing dary came to save him. Eisenhower

Congressmen dangling and wied: The trouble with himself called a press confer leaving -ence-muck-put--firmly-on récord In mid-sentence,

theo.people is that they don't Impotence, In fact, is his dily recognise integrity that I like hiny, I admire him, ing force. "Were are you?" he see It

when they I respect him, I need him."

was

courageous stafe- And an unpopular one.

It

ment

Own Making

For stern

down

а ракт away.

It Give anal decision resteth with Eisenhower, en Adem al- ways inabled it did, then he re- spected, and valued Adams'a md- vice so highly that any conclu- cunt approval, sion bearing the "O.K.—SA,” wen certhin to go

Adams Ver-

once yelled into an office tele- thane to an assistent he had told 20 seconds before to bring him from several storeys Glaoki Adams attacked his Job with a relentless drive that disciplinarian amazed (and embarrassed) his Adams, now so glaringly in the coleagues and left oven is bil- anti-graft limelight of his own terest enemies reluctan.ly making. wae being deserted

miring. faster than rats can jump off a The very nature of Adams's mont, into a family that had al- sinking ship.

America given single-minted service has des reary It had been Adams, more than trayed his, political dure. For president Anyone else, who set himself sa he can probably ecizit more He was raised by the purit determinedly on the image of enemies on his list s

most standards of rural New Hamp- Fn

corruptible Administration. Congressmen put together.

I had been he who had de. pouneed the "free-loaders" of the Truman era as "mischievous rascals trying to steal the gold

ut of Fort Knox."

Hard-eyed

through

Ed-

Llewelyn Sherman was born at East Dover,

Day offer day, he sat herd- Cyed at the telephone, anewering

It had been he who, five and a-half years ago, led Eisenhow. er's learn of Republican crusad. snoppy monosyllables, refus- Ing appointments, controlling the ers hell-bent on "cleaning, up the mess in the Government," White House'a gargantuan mec- collecting! haniam, predigestieg, Gulity or Not Guilty? Adams has admitted "impid- and pasing upwards (to Eiren

He accepted elts that howe) an abcolute minimum.

He sat in the Cabinet and was could have meant tillle lo him. More reluctantly, he admitted the principal link between the the sometimes helped the friend- Pre-ideal bad tas Mihastels-

collecting millionaire with "in- and Congrésa itselt, side" information,

ence."

History

two

shire (where his patients soon and food end were later divorced), went to work 2g log-sceler and lumberjack, and Goon be- ceme (crema of 000 tough Numberm

Tidy Sums

He was marxıger of the com- pray when he shifted to Lin- colm, in New Hampshire, and by this time investing 1ldy stims in banking and a mond

The men of New Hampshire chee him to speaks for them in In 1940

Adams had unlimited access the State Legislature to the President. He had inter- and 1942, and during the Second their rupted evening bridge, games World War he chaired

Stale committee on labour and and rounds of golf to present presided over their House of

iteprinchlatives.

la 1945, they sent him to speak 70th Congreso

not

The verdict history will re- urgent issues.

Eisenhower's critics say, in Sherman Adams fact, that Adams knows more for them in the VER two miles along the Five Quarter Seam at a colliery in curd, however, is whether or not Other he gland two miners working at the coal faced by Saboriously fhout the Presdency and its found a sparrow chirping merrily on the tubway lines in the dark. wide limits of Washington's ex- problems this does Eisenhower 1940, they chose him as Whele Governor. In 1952, Adams It flew into the lamplight and was easily caught. The miners pense-sheet or friendaltip

that he, ani pru- ilmself;

weight think it must have settled in an empty tub on the surface and been riety.

Richard Nixon, was the true placed til his polical

behind Presidendiak Candidate carried down into the pit. One of the miners put it in his pocket

Certainly no one could seem deputy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, wet op- Adams and took it out with him. At home, he bothed the coal dust from further removed than

At the height of the Affis pointed Eisenhower's "floor the sparrow's feathers and fed it before it flew off und joined from the shadow of dishonesty.

the Democrats wise manager during the New York nock at other birds.

He refused a Government car, encked: "Let's not press this campaign watt, the day after the drove instead a sporty roadsle Adams come too for, or we might election, Assistant to the Praal- he slammed down hard oa per frish up with Elsenhower

3 dent sonal expenses. rarely indulged President." in any luxury; he worked over 12 gruelling hours a day, usually

WILD GEESE

cs

reandal,

Centally,

It was a fabulous rise to tho

in the last two top. years. Fisshower has got inte Once there, Adams Lound sly the full or munuring. ORIGINALLY imported from North America as ornamental used his half-hour kehe

"Just enjoyment in his reputation ns water fowl in private parks in Britain, Canasa geese have time for a cenference.

clear it with Shorth," when con the Great Stone Free," He increased in numbers. Large Blocks are now roaming over the Flint-eyed, shred, blunt ced fronted with liksome pikblents could but would no-cheam Midlands and are regarded as wild birds. They are breeding cautious, he brought into the Ard certainlor Adems has in- He found enjoyment, too, in the freely on the River Trent gravel pools. Naturalists estimate al Administration qualilies of con- mediately taken over the country dynamic £8,035-u-your post he five of these geese eat as much gross as three sheep and in large peiontiousnes

word when the President has to occupied. For he made no secret flocks they can do much damage to corn.

economy bordering on rudeness, 11.

of tho fact that he preferred a position of influence rather than one of commaJĀ,

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and u

"READY. · STEADY

TALK?"

Lendon Angrois Houst

bit-

His aloofnew and bleak, ing humour were a byword in Washington circles.

Fiery

One might, at a tedious Wach- ington mor, the gushing lady allting zwxt to him asked him about his son, Adzans replied briefly at the way at school, was in the choly and in the thockey team.

"Bet" gushed the lady, “tell me ALL about him."

"I just have," Adam replied weldly.

Adama was a middle-of-the- nood man with no axe to grind but that of his chiet--an this brought him into tery context. with all the oflce-socioers, glad- handers en "Nobbyists" who in- Best Washington.

the

Nelauniky Whoy Boufhad frafl-looking mom who fummod hur wavelengths to the Ixo- {sident's can

if it was noù dor. Eisenhower's frust this wasistent,, Adama would have been in constant danger of being tippoc thơm office, But

the Eisenhower-Adama pelationship to the lin that Istoria fazer dhar, tho White

House.

But even that could not sova

-Simon

Kavanaugh