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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

1958.

FIERY PARTY REBEL

AND NOW. PRIME MINIS

SHY YOUNG BACK-BENCHER

(Continued from Pard 0)

looked at Macmillan and his

tiny band of reformers and

THE DIPLOMAT-AND ORATOR

Left: A 1943 picture. It was just after the North_African' landing, and Air Macmillan had the delicate post of British Minister in Algiers. With him Is Sir (then Mr.) Anthony Eden. Above. He wins the cheers of a packed audience at

the Albert Hall

#77 He faces the hate

saceringly called them the Y.M.C.A.

The explosion had to come.

In the Huuso they wore debating the distressed arcas. Speech Tullowed speech - com .forting. complacent speeches. There was no end to them, and from whichever side of the House they came there was no reality.

There was no reality until the languld Harold Macmillan gol to his feet.

He talked with the precision of a dentists probe and he said this...

"Mr Disraeli' unce said that he saw before him a bench of extinct volcanoes, i would no

of

grew in power and strength as members of Parliament, bank rupt of ideas and defeated by the dreadful days, flooded into the Chamber to hear the burn- ing words of a man on fire.

hungry men

wfs."

That is what Alec the engine. Ross carefully says today, for face." he is still a Socialist and he « litle adds: "He promised more than a man can promise, That is my only criticlim."

But all the private cautious The cheers grew louder..!

admiration, could save no Tory When Harol Macmillan set in 1929. There

was a hollow clown The Sochists upplausellence in the shipyards, be so rude, but there are a few disused slay heaps witlen

lls class, Soon there might well be tied up. The friends-he men of

was thunderous. But bla

would be ten

of his party, of his background thoand unemployed in this,

slit with

Chancellor of the Execut

PHONE is in his

when he

de stationary and depressing faces,

moods, has a curious habit of falling into quotations, umally portle quotations, fic used on this occasion a very unfor- funate

'Desperate

directes', he aald. *nvect desperate appliances, if this be a desperate remedy, then what is this idea of c.can:lous step? Heaven alone only knows."

The day

glowering one

grey town. Soon there would be, Iwelve thousand,

his

the.

Now he was a rebel... A Harold Macmilian lost dangerous min. But in scat by 2,389 votes. Stockton he had many allies:

LOST HIS SEAT

Even

Socialista

The

swept North of England. And Hugh Dalton tells a story.

Above the jeers and M noisy lee he bellowed Three cheers for Buldwin." He tugged the leather strap, the window slammed and the train went on,

jan

'A' PREMIER AT HOME Mr. Macmitilan and Lady Dorothy Macmillan in the grounds of their home, Birch Grove House, near Haywards Heath, Susstz,

.flowed down his cannot remember a word, but Macmillan up gentle nd He described Chamberlain's Daily Express, hnd campaigned

who still cherish the fire. urbane. He smiled at Dalton agreement at "Munich as against Sir Arthur and won.

and said: softly: "The tendency hypocrisy, and as the House of Lord Beaverbrooks", resigna.... The questions flung at Mac- 15 for people to vote Lett in days Commons cheered, the Prima lion was demanded. Hodid not - lan were charged with the of prosperity. But they always Minister he was one of the, miswer fot, as he sald, he was

of hunger bitterness

and. vote Right when depression is lonely M.P.B. who protested. not in resiming frame ot. humation.

In the air,"

1 In 1938 the sacred· "Carlton" "mind:

·Bul it was

like throwing squlbs at a tiger.

Club, home of the orthodox The Carlton Club had no Conservatives, bubbled with greater success, with "Harold Macmillan had Jost

gossip. It had a rule that no Macmillan). Thila" time, they member should oppose another contented themselves with well-

modulated disapproval.ETH

CAME TO JEER

Stockton. Is a town of cobbled streets, and they may now that that cobble A there is not

Lady Harold Macmillan and

vincer.

his

Ho was the crusader, he had the zeal, the rage, the impetuosity of his grandfather, He was his grandfather.

There were hard things in store for him.

If there was such a thing as Dorothy did not grow to low a poorest corner of Stockton at that time, it was there that he end Lady Dorothy suffered jeers and catcalls,

In the next two years,

One night in a gloomy; dog eered schoolroom Macmillan started to speak. His audiencs

They were spat at

As he walked across a road On the platforms at Darling-was packed with starving men someone threw a stone at him. who had come to jeer. They It was aimed with ́ ́ all the political

station a struggling mass had no money to drink with, viciousness of hunger. It missed opponents ton like Mr Alec Ross. Tees-side of hungry volers waited for their homes were a tragedy. The him and struck a girl, knocking oncretary of the Analgamated sight of Rummy MacDonald. Engineering Union and In their glee the smoky station cly savage entertainment was her stunned to the ground. otted uerillan's Socialist

the stamunering of the Tory mayor of the town, lcoked like Spanish desta candidate. speech, 11 Was sombre. The who

first day as Macmillan's leuden Hight outside in West fumbling

l'uyu as a poiltican From miri ter COL. blunted grey shadows.

to admire his integrity, Kelr Hardie's favourite colours. and, even more important, his

Suddenly one grimy window understanding of their troubles.

crashed down. Therg glood Harold Macmillan waving the

1!ew

Sow

train steamed In. every window waved

It was a day of gloom and throughout the country able,

"I' give him credit für good their families angry men and

Intentions und for xinerrely defeated Tory colour of red. starved,

endeavouring to do something

Tears....or it might have There

rejoleing to make the lot of the ordinary from the Socialists at his Brst worker very much better than been the effects of the heavy phrases. And then the vplees I was in the years between the rolling plumea of grune from

was

thin

But

Jidn't Macmillan hesitate that night. Ile dever *hesitated ever again In Stockton. I leaped into the bate of that meeting so, a man will leap into a cold sea.

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Harold Macallan looked coldly the mob, strođe to the girl's side, and through a

silent crowd carried her away.

In a town where 40 per cent of the men were unemployed, Harold Macmillan, the Tory, was re-elected in 1931.

And on the platform at His eyes were bright and he was brilliant. There is no report Darlington station he met Hugh of what he said, and there are Dalton again. Dalton reminded'

on Tees-sido who of his lone breve shout. many ma

The Elegant M. Lavarro

Walks Off With

PARIS.

PARIS, I regret to say,

£60,000

*** PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE

their Use

still remains a wickedly dangerous city, taken a vow not to especially for American titles until the Monarchy widows.

been restored, in France.

Take the case of Mrs Eva The mansion

Weill, of New York. Mrs Weill,

'n woman in her cafly forties,

can best be described in Groucho

Marx's famous phrase as having

"Beauty and money, charm and money, 'personality and money."

At tho last moment M. FILM NOTE: Miss Linda. Christian tolls ness, but suggested

had Lavarro was delayed by busl- that Mrs

example, has staled that it would ba mwise to proceed with the hearing in open court because the plot bad the sup- port of many important people in Algiers and Patis.

It has been postponed several

accused, a swimming named Kovacs who

Wellt should go his friends me tho will soon be a film times, the last postponement A company has being due to the fact that the. would meet her at Madrid air producer. port--and he would Jeln her the boon started in Mexico to principal following day.

produce a film which Miss Instructor

an operation for appendicitis It was too late to drop the Christian will direct and starbad been released on ball, had Speaking of losser two days before the hearing was In short, he might have been jewellery at his friend's shop on in

"I'm to be resumed. Nancy Milford hero.

the way to the airport, but he matters sho told me: would do so on his return to not, in love with anyone at known. Paris.

the moment."

"Bertie," as he was

She is a tall, strikingly hand-wanted to introduce Mrs Weill some blonde.

to his parents but unfortunate-

Warning

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There were no friends to meel Men Weill at the airport, and

ly, they were on holiday in the South of France. He did, how when s returned to Paris, Missing over, arrange for her to meet an M. Lavarro had loft his flat for aged nunt resident in a fashion an uisgown destination. On the way to Franco on ably part of Paris. board the liner United States,

A cynical detective listened to Orson Wellen gave her Bomb ite allowed her also a distant her story at police headquarters вале Advice: "My dear, Iglimpse of the ancestral man- Then, from the rogues gallery,

J

wouldn't wear all that Jewel- sion near Parls which, be ex- ng produced a photo and asked lery I were you in Paris. plained, was being rented by an her if that was the man." You might land in trouble. American general at SHAPE.

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**Shortly' offor her arrival at

befriended by a Frenchwoman,

of marriage.

When the curse finally reopen- there was an immediate sensation in court: Kovac was missing.

A letter froni him to the judge was rend in which he explained that he did not thinle-thir was a suitable time to hold such a trial, and that he was therefore "banting" himself.

The trial has come to an end in Paris of what has come to be known as the "Bazooks Affair"

This 'concerns an attempt by Kovács is now believed to be Right-wing extremists, 1 Spain. The mystery of how. January 1057, to assassinate he got away is perplexing. General Salan, the French C-in-‚”

It was known that he was the police into his Algiers headquarters being watched by from a building opposité.,

while out on bail, for apart from other reasons for watching him he was under police protection, as a likely forget for Algerian

、,"", lerroriste..

After a two-months steno, tive know

It was, but how did the detec

so quickly who to the Crillon Hotel, Mrs Weill wan Mrs Weill accepted his proposal topic for in View of the fact in Algeria, by firing a bazooka

There were de tirat Lavarro was no doubt an lighted telephone calls to his alios? Later the woman invited Mrz parents in the South of France, Well to join a dinner party and to Mrs Welli's mother in being given by some of her New York. friends. The party wan - Ine nu elogent Bai in the Avenue Foch, and among the guests

young mars who was introduced A problem

to her an M. Albert Lavarro.

They did this because theg The detective smiled and wald: considered Salah "too poft, "Because it is my name. lle has taken my name no doubt Salan was out of,ble office at tio In recognition of the fact that I time, but a major WOO

killed, artented him two years ago.",

} The case has many Interesting

defence, The

for

in disappearance has caused An uproar in Franco and 'provided the final scandal In an altogether scandalous, affair.",

hay

Soon M. Lavarro was on very At this point, M. Lavarro - INCIDENTAL INTEL features. trfondly terma with Mrs Welt gested a holiday with frienda la

LIGENCE: With the, and a gay round of fashionable Madrid. But there was the prob- advant of Gonerol de Quotes of the week:

night clubs lem of Mrs Welll's £60,000 Gaullo's fifth republic, a

'worth of jewellery,

nowspaper calling itself the fle sald there might be dim. Fourth Ropublic of The

restaurants End followed.

M. Ivarro was elegant and•

"never rectned to wear the name tultics with Uta Cunton In Pyronons has decided to play Jeweller the title to The Republic of

ruit twice," raid Mm Well. Madrid, and suggested that the safe in futuro and chango Attentive, and an outrageous Jewellery up left belatud in

Anob, he claimed aristeraite. Bafo deposit with descent and said tus family had felend of his.

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the Pyroncos.

Julietto Green: "When I contemplate marriage 1- feel like an oyster on' which some lemon juice, har been squeezed,"

A Parla comment on a newspaper column: "More dels than alive."--London Exprem Service,

atcmillan had given his But the gol, was on his dig-

Bat

missal to exile.

Four years before: in 1927, the, Sunday Express prophesied that young Macmillan would climb to the top. It had added be very that the day, would foon. In fact, it was to be a

support to an Independent Pro very long time.

Macmillah had won the affec.gressive candidate at Oxford in tion of Stockton-on-Tees. But the face of the nomination of Quinlin, Hogg (now, Lord he had lost all the love of the Hailsham) as the Conservative Conservative Party. He opposed the National Government in cholco.

On a previous occasion the almost every step of its policy. When sanctions against Italy Club had taken action. In 1921

timidly renounced, he Lord Beaverbrook had opposed Next Week: Bombs voted against the Government. Sir Arthur Grifth-Boscawen, He refused his whip.

were

own party's Conservative Minister of Agri- culture. His newspaper, the

He had consolation. The people of Stockton were behind him. And he had at last found. a leader, another lonely man who cried out in the wilderness of politics Winston Churchill.

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