1958-10-25 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1959.

BEGINNING TODAY'S MOST ASTONISHING SUCCESS STORY

TUBORG UNDER FOREIGN SKIES

is the same in every man's eyes....

THIS MAN MACMILLAN

Crofter's cottage

to Downing St.

• Twenty months ago Mr Harold Macmillan was an elegant stranger to the people of Britain; and despite his immense success as a Promier, he is still something of a mystory. Today the China Mail begins an inves- tigation into that mystery. The -picture which emerges is that of an astonishing man....from an astonishing family.

IT

was just after noon when the telephone rang. It was a gentle instrument with a well- modulated purr, but it shocked the silence of the eosy flat at the top of No. 11, Downing Street,

The man who had waited so long for the call took his pipe out of his mouth and with careful calm picked up the receiver,

He listened. He heard the command to wait on the Queen at Buckingham Palace at 2.30 that afternoon, and with a voice as tranquil as he could control it, he answered.

had the

ROBERT

GLENTON

There was no sigu in his face, or in his step he walked to his dresing-room that he beon honoured beyond dreams of millions of men. With elegance he dressed in the formal trappings in which a man goes to meet a monarch. When the tall coat fitted to kis liking he sought out his wife. "Please can we have lunch bt too one o'clock?" he said.

"Why?"

Ho

gave ♫ small smile. “I have to go to the Palace." That is how Lady Dorothy Macmillan first learned that Maurice Harold Macmillan was to be Prime Minister,

Outside in the bitter streets

of January the crowds had still to learn. In patient througs they buddled on the bleak con- creto descris cutside the Palace.

A cheer

There was not much specula tion. They were waiting for the new Head of their Government,

but they were quite certain who 114 would be Austen Butler!

Richard

Practically every political commentulor

had said Newspaper headlines, shouted This name.

had paced beside a tele- phone.

For him it did not ring. Instead, at lunchtime he left Downing Street, Ponderously non-committal. he paused and stared at the waiting crowds.

They looked at his earnest, honest shopkeeper

Keene

Maemlilan--the young family man.

in an event with hid had to surrender the out precedent in British history, premlership. He had sat in the Cabinet room

one has seen that

with the Lord Chancellor, Lord Even now, 20 maiths after KIlmuir, by his alde and. had wards, no polled the Cabinet for its choice desper aspect of Macmillan. of Prime Minister.

Each Minister entered

There were

excoptions. Malcolm Macmillan was one of there. He possessed the blood of the Covenanters. He was an cider of the Church. He fought the night with his Bible and hi prayera and his family, on In that time the deeds of their knees. Harold Macmillan have won him His God was real. So was the

His popularity has Dovil. approval. never been higher than it is today. But as on individual ko

still Is

cloudy and an No ar intangible fis n ghost.

blogrtpher has dlasceted him. Few legends flourish around

the

room separately, beginning with the most junior.

Salisbury asked ...of each: whom would you advise Prince. Minister?"

Kilmuir noted the answers. him.

.

GS

The poll over, Sallsbury Yet his story is n romance of

to enbin to White House. It is

And now on this day, his son Duncan had stood boldly before him and sold ho wished to marry Katherine Crawford.

Katherine's father, Willam, had gnee stood shoulder to shoulder with. Malcolm Mac-

face and sounded other Icnding Conservi- our age. Rags to riches, log millan. Stormily and together Have a cheer au he went home lives. Then he had driven to a lonely meal in his West- the Palsco and reported the all of these, minster home. They were zure result to the Queen.

he would return in triumph.

Then Sir Winston Churchill

A Glory

they had fought wilchersft up and down the island. Then Crawlord had became moru folegant, and in Macmillan's

had OVER,

weakened In his allegiance to the Kirk.

They had Across the

quarrelled, and, waters of the like two brothers, the deopness Clyde the Isle of Arran rose of their affection was now the is fairyland, fearful of dis nicastre of the hostility between covery. A blurred purple them.

The hundreds outside the had had an audience. It was Palace were the first to learn inconceivable that his advice They watched an should be ignored. So he must the truth, unstalling Harold Macmillan Jinve seen great virtues in drive in and they watched an Harold Macmillan. uusmiling now Prime Minister

But what manner of man was and drive out past the saluting

Tiritain's new leader? Tho policemen,

Britain

weat to bed In whirl that night.

What had happened?

44

blue linze, to be snatched

in

I was eight due when young country thought of his elegance, away by the first dark clouds.

Macallan spoke hla bedraggled moustache, and

1. nyfeel witla the Gaulle tv. his Tathey, All that saw him as a stranger.

fragrance of heather and gorse day he must have silently But there was no mouthed the question, phrased

་

to the Turf Club and dining on oysters, aleak and cham- pagne, they were avon bamed,

more

ond TOSCH.

ACTIN

And when they rond the sweetness in the earl of it, and rophrased It. Week after They knew timit the Queen

next morning that he had Malcohn Macmillan. 'He was a week he had put off the ordeni, so had seen her advisers. There celebrated his accession to poor man, a stern man, and now promising Kôtherine that he

was Lord Salisbury, heir to the Number Ten by wandering eft he was on angry mau.

would seal lo his father when Ceelis, the men who for hun-

he mood was gentle. It had And in all the line clubs, the dreds of years had stood at the

daylight it was a place of fear even

If Arran was a glory in the been a fine day, and warm, and curling blue incense of cigor Monarch's side, men who had

tim thin soil of ereh night when darkness came. loclud fruitful, smoke wreathed expansive poli- whispered, cautioned, ploited.

Incomprehensible had sent the dan- leians as they ultered Butler's Men who

as it may have been to the rest of Britain rose from his kaces after prayer Macmillan, stift and weary," name In etifed envy.

gerously ambitious and the

They had not seen the other where railways were being bulli thaf night. Ho

Downing irecherous to the stake and to ste of the picture. They were and machines bad taken charge, his blessing on the marriage.

Duncan asked for Street that morning. Where the rack.

not present when, 48 hours in many tiny cottages in Arran Hurold Macmillan and recident· He had had his say.

The only light in the room before, softly and sedly Harold ritual charts were that it would be indiscreet 10 Before that

hung vinit to Lite Macmillian had tried valnly to ward off the witches who were It played over the men's brown to came from the nickering fire. go 10 bits offlec, II. A. Butler had Palace he had been the leading comfort 止 weeping Anthony supposed to guther outside in faces as Dunean waited for his

through his work,. He gure in a dramate and secret Eden, who, grey with sickness, the blackness of the night.

toiled

100

in

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

--ONLY OLD

PEOPLE COVE

YOU THINK THE

THEMT

BACK OUT OF THAT] AGENCY EATS

AGENCY • NEVER

THE YOUNG LONES,

DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME YOUNG MANI

I TELL YOU THERE'S

SOMETHING

FISHY!

WE'LL

LOOK INTO IT,

MRS. TURNER.

L

| COULDN'T HELP

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

YOU VE THAT CRACK. THESE GOT A TOUGH) CRANKS GET ANG (JOBINGS'

DOWN.

WHAT'LL

YOU DO ABOUT THIS ONE T

WE FOLLOW

THRU ON ALL COMPLAINTS WASTE OF TALE

BUT WE'LL CHBOR.

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