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SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD !

* THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959.

CARVED FROM THE Why I want

DESIDES films and air-

Beraft, many other pro-

DESERT

ducts of the Los Angeles area are sent all over the world oil well equipment, canned foods, chemicals, re- financed power development in

Japan. frigeration machinery and

50 ot.

Yet some of the bigger industries like the oll in dustry are kept hard at work merely to satisfy the demands of the Southern Californians.

Today, their big studio lois thrown up originally in open country years ago-are in the middle of urban development and are worth huge sums, So some companies are considering entering the real estate business.

The 20th Century-Fox lot, for instance, recupies 270 acres in an

Bren

murited in the income- distribution map in gold-men- ing that the average family in come is more than 20,000 dollars

Los Angeles is second in the U.S.A. aller Detroit-in automobile nssembly. It is year. second after Akron, Ohio, in the manufacture of tyres and tubes,

So the company plans a vast But these items are modly five-hundred-million-dollar de, Just absorbed into the domestic velopment on 200 acres of their

arket.

site, to include sheps, a hotel, Even the eyes of the film apartment houses, office blocks making companies, which. are d-not least important-park concerned about the future of Ing spice for thirty thousand the cinerna, ste coming back can from the world outside to the boorning economy of Los An- Reles itself.

"Such is the trafe problem in Los Angeles today that a local ordinance requires that all new buildings bave parking facilities equivalent to half their floor space.

Men solved the problem of getling water. Cown from the gh mountains in the nori

fertile soll, and found that a coupled with almost perpetunl sunshine, made a TOWIE' paradise.

Nowadays, apart entirely from irrigation, the water epa- of Los sumption of the city Angeles amounts to about 170 relions per head per day-and the system can still cope with· out dimculty.

Having carved such a place out of the desert, it has been sug- gested, mankind grew depressed because there was one thing it couldn'i llek-death.

Evelyn Waugh, in "The Loved One," has satirised the way in which Los Angeles cemeteries went to rather excessive lengths to offer resting places to match the achievement.

Today the cemeteries are coo- centrating their appeal to poten- For one years these com-

that eustomers more on the com- getting in

mercial plane than the aesthetic. ponies have bren

Outsize pesters meet the eye volved in alt sorts of activities in order to get frozen dollars

everywhere, one of the best- proclaiming that its out of some

known of the which show their pictures. They when this humaning metropolis charges are "10.9 per cent less have built ships in Sweden and was little more than a desert. than the Los Angeles average."

It is interesting to look back countries over half a century to the time

ROUND-UP

"FACE LIFT"

ORFE Castle, which was blown up after being taken in the Civil War, and whose ghent walk. stand above the countryside of Dorset as landmark for mites around, a to be given a "face lift. Decision to repair the castle, whleh attracts tourists from all over Britain, follows a report by the Ancient Monu- ments Board, whlet said that the structural Corfe condition was giving rise to anxiety. Castro, after being the scene of fierce battles and sleges in the Civil War, was blown up by But even the order of Parliament in 1061. tremendous gunpowder charge used falled to reduce s masonry entirely.

HOTEL CHANGES HANDS DEPUTED to be the hotel with the largest

Rdrinking space. 11,500 square feet in five

bura and lounges, and the largest free house in the United Kingdom, the Broadway Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire, familiar thousands of holidaymakers, has been soki by its owner, Mrs Maude Bourne, who built it for £36,000, 22 years ago. She previously sold it in 1943 for £75,000 but bought it back in 1949 for £65,000. WIlliam Younger and Co., the Edin- burgh brewers, are now buying the hotel for a gure said to be closed on £100,000.

SEEK A "QUEEN"

THE Philatelists of Britain are seeking a

"queen" who, for the next year, can help to promote a greater interest among women At girls tu starp collecting. But she must hove brains as well as beauty, a pleasing per- conality and be keenly intereted in the sub- Ject over which she reigns. The competition, organised by the National Stamp Exhibition, was first held at the beginning of this year

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ton 1.500 applications were when more Eeived. The winner will b⋅ mated to virit simp collectors clubs and : vinties and to take part in their social activities, Prizes totalling over £300 await the winner, and include a week's trip to Acera, enpital of Ghana, where she will be the guest of the postal authorities.

SHOPMEN TO QUEEN

Tu

the

TIE names of tradesmen who serve

Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh wi121 n wide variety of commodities were listed in the offield newspaper. "The London Gazette." All Royal Warrant of there tradesmen hold

which means that they have served the Royal Household for at least three years. They In- clude suppliers of pay and coal, milliners and book- shoc-makers, soap manufacturers and collers, yaelit-builders and makers of racing colours.

VISITORS TO FRANCE

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BIG Jung in Continental holiday bookings is predicted as a result of the news that the pound will now buy more French franes as a result of the money value changes announced by General de Gaulle. The Royal Automobile Club in London say they have been receiving a steady tive to six hundred inquiries a week fram motorists wanting to take their cars to France during 1959. They are now expecting the pure to be trebled.

"BLIND SPOT” PROBE

PTICIANS have been asked to Investigate whether there is a "blind spot" in spectacle frames. The request has been made by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents after a pedestrian said he was knocked down by a motor scooter which was hidden from his sight by the outer edge of his spectacle frame near the hinge,

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KOWLOON

to tell the

truth about

Suez NOW

by

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

BRITAIN'S situation in the world today is on the decline. This process can only be arrested if we brush all false sentiment aside and try to see the harsh facts of life as they are, with no distortion of class or party.

It is with this thought constantly in mind that this poliical and strategical inquisition has been conducted. I was fortunate that during the period of the Suez crisis, and indeed in the months preceding it, I had a mobile, front-seat view of what was going on.

in the same

ok

tactical, AND strategical,

military, Was diplomatic, psychological, his

the sphere of economies.

At the end of January 1950 home to London via Cyrus, Port Faster Dulles was concerned), In I sailed

he authority Ship as Said, Rome, and Malta, seeking maintaining Sir Anthony Eden and his to discover the causes of what the United Nations, in whose Foreign Secretary, Mr Solwyn Letmed a role que miscarriage charter he genuinely believed of which

DID WITY

BRITAIN Lloyd, from Southampton to New of the British and French plan, and in the Assembly York, me WA5

Frankly, I did not find out he had, by the expenditure of FRANCE FACK UP? prezent FIL

the very much t this me or many thousands of millions of fear of Russia? Was it fear of greatest miscalculation was in throughout Washington

British public opinion? Was it Bree-day Anglo-American con- aleed for many months there- dollars, a precarious majority.

after. Everyone was so unhappy

fear of a flight from the £? ference,

Apart from

general and so buttoned up that it is

I am sure it was the last of only now, after two years, that Of course, the question to these three reasons. Exchange ot views, the mai

of urpose

the

I feel in a position to give a which everyone wants to know Of all the miscalculations that conference.

answer

Eden most of all is: Sir Anthony certainly in British eyes, was to first tentative account of this the tammer out an agreed Anglo- tragic affair. American policy for the Middle East. Bul, as I reported in the Evening Standard on February 2, 1250:-

1

The Washington conference has failed to produce any result which could not have been pro- cured through normal diplomatic channels.

This was made abundantly lain by a pompota declaration and informative cominunkques, When the statesmen and poli- leitung can't think of anything else to say they always drag Ja God. Last night's declaration

it twice over, both in preamble and in peroration.

Tui four weeks later the

cid

Until the leading figures in this tragedy have told their stories, and until all the doct- inchis which have not been burned have been published, no final verdict can be pronounced,

Collusion?

The gold

He went lo war without the chest of gold which history has taught us

is indispensable for any Government embarking on inado, perilous enterprises.

But in writing this am I being

unfair to Sir Anthony?

However, the regarches of MANY PEOPLE have suggested to me that this is an unhelpful time to write the story of Suez, and also that it is unfair to Sir Anthony Eden

two years bave uncovered and dark Carl illuminated many rometines shatly torners, and i think I have a tale to tell which, though incomplete, can without The presumption be put forward as a contcmporLry contribution history.

to

For instance, there 14 the

crisis resulting THE SUEZ STORY question which

dis- from the missal of Gen- eral Glubb

from Jordan Not revented only the bank- ruptcy

of

the Washington but also

Laiks

the utter fil-

ure of Sir An thony Eden,

by Randolph Churchill

has been much agitated as to whether there was "collusion"

the TO between Brilish und French on side and the Israelis on the other. Did Britain and Israel to

begins tomorrow

one

In the light of France encourage

it

that bankruptcy in Washington, attack Egypt so that they might to have designed and prepared have a pretext for Intervention? in advance purely British As the story, unfolds policy calculated to cope with will become painfully clear such a contingency.

that there was absoluta collusion of an early stage between France and Isracl,

The vote

I was back again In Washing- and that in a somewhat more ton in October 1956 reporting on shadowy fashion

the

cicetion.

somo Bri- and military American presidential tish political

loaders were privy to tho On October 29 came the Franco - Israeli collusion nows of the Israeli invasion sovoral weeks before a shot

of the Sinai peninsula and was fired

of the calling by the United dropped.

or a bomb Was

States of a macting of the Why did Britain and France, Security Council of tho with victory in their jaws, pack United Nations,

up? Why did Amerien, turn In once flew to New York against Britain in the hour of and was present at the debates erisity Whore fault was it?

Why when Britain and France in the Security Council, I was

arraigned before so disgusted to dud Senator were Cabot Lodge casting America's United Nations, did Canada and turn against 157 vote on the same side as the Soviet Union against America's Whose fault was that?

allies that I decided to take off at once vin London for Tel Aviv. I left New York on Saturday, Navcember 3. and arrived r London at noon on the Sunday. The

hed Royal Air Force

Australin

Concerned

the

I think I can throw a lot of

The light on

answers that himory will give to these already been bombing the questions. I shall try to give

Egyptian airfields for five days.

I was concerned to discover them, to adapt a well-known without fear, favour, or from my friends in the British phrase, w

election. Government whether Bituin really meant business this time and whether we were going to land troops and reoccupy the Canal..

Cease-fire

(One of the dimeuttles in obtaining and telling the truth bout the Suez story has been that both political parties have A mult complex about the way they behaved at the time of Sucz and a fear of how it may react upon their electoral fortunes, come the General Election.)

Fortified with robust assur- unces of Immediate action I took off at @nat, on Monday This account will show for Tel Aviv, where I arrived la

the afternoon to learn that that the blamo should ba while I had been in the air divided between Britain and British and French paratroops the United Statos,

aren.

had landed in the Port Said Britain was rightly concerned-

with maintaining her traditions! At midnight on the Tuesday position in the Middle East, an wo learned there was a cease which the bread and butter of: fre. On Wednesday morning I overy man, woman, and child motored to Jerusalem, where I in this country dependa. spent a few days, 'in de cours The American Administration Inf which I had a long talk with was concerned in winning the

the Iarnell Prime Minister, Mr presidential oloution-andh Ben-Gurion. 1 then Aow inust be admitted (to fer sa Mir

it

to subject his political conduct and carcer to close scrutiny while he is still alive.

As

force of the second objection has been greatly lessened by the knowledge that Slr Anthony himself has embarked on the writ- ing of his memoirs.

the Arst ob- jection, if the British democracy is to be denied the truth at an early stage about the mistakes which It and its leaders have per- avold petrated, how will they be able to similar mistakes in the future?

His biography

FORESTALL some obvious criticism that may arise I think it right to say at the out- ret that I agreed to embark upon a life of Str Anthony Eden Geven days before Colonel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, Sir on July 26, 1956, at a time when Anthony was Prime Minister.

were to elapse before Sir Nineteen weeks

Anthony Eden's lil-planned, ill-timed, and weeks abortive invasion of Egypt and 25 before the regrettable abandonment through

11-health of his political career. The events which supervened in the following six months added considerable interest to the story, but they Inevitably affected the way in which it must be told.

GENEVA

ROSE-BUD

An eminence

WHEN I agreed to write my book Sir Anthony was the most powerful politician in the land. After a long, laborious, and success- ful career he had risen to the eminence of power which he had long desired and for which he had long been marked. What would have been a simple success slory with question mark at the end then be- came a tragedy on an almost classical scale. The fact that Sir Anthory was gravely ill at the time of his fall. from power and that he is still far from being restored to full health and vigour naturally accentuates the sortze of delicacy with which any author would approach the task of writing about a states- man who is still alive. At the same time, the fact that his political He is ended makes him and his carcer a part of history. Now that his work is done, It is possible to take a more detached view of his character and career than would

been perhaps have possible while he was still playing the lead- Ing role in the hurly-burly of contemporary polilles,

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