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The Popular Comet

W WITH almost a million miles

to their crediton te Trans- Atlantic run the D.0.A.C.. Comet 4's had an average of 80 Ler cent their seats occupied. his is regarded as a high figure The particularly for winter. Comets are to be fitted with Deera/Declra navigation aids, which castire accurate Aylag! both for direction and height, oking for fund economy, and afety. The position of the air- aft continuously traced by pen on a Inoving chart, D.O.AC. Comets start lying to Tokyo in April, Hongkong in May, Singapore in August, and to Sydney and Johannesburg later in the year.

Stamps Galore

FAH M. WOOLLARD, of Herne

M

Bay, Kent, has to many stems they have to be stored trunks, lea chists, hundreds of boxes and dozens of albums. Now he has realised, the disi- of keeping such a vas: culty colletion and has begun to

THE CHINA-MAIL,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1959.

MAILMAN WITH THE MOSCOW MAN REPORTS AMERICAN REACTION TO A FANTASTIC TOUR

The strangest

11/13

journey I've

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New York, Wednesday.

I

HAVE now seen Mr Mikoyari in action in Manhattan, the Mid-West, the Far-West. have seen him with millionaires in Cleveland, with industrialists led by Henry Ford II in Detroit, with politicians in Chicago (after his outstanding hit with the Press in the Chicago nightclub), and with the top brass of the film world in Hollywood. Other items are early armoil I have seen him, in San own colleagues in Russia, derd rovers carried Baths and rare military post-Francisco, in danger of his and alive, but few Americans marks from various parts of the life from the mob at the agree with me.

cialise in covers and letters rom carly days. Sume of the Winston Churchill, General de Gaulle and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

older,coveTO are from famous

Sir m, such as

worki

on

Fleet For Sale

A

planter

FLEET of seven ships have been put up for sale by ung of the aulest companivă operating along the South-East

airport, and watched him

being given standing ova- stranger journey. It has all hetn tions by the leading citi zens of every city he visited.

has

The whole busy. contra- const-Samuel West 12d., ofdictory trip, Mikoyan tells Lonton. Four of the ships are me, has been "one of the laid up at Brightlingsea, Essex, must exciting weeks of A Tarce are still in service! Ther

range from 165 to 250 quite exciting life," Deven

tons. Since the last century the ompany's ship; huve been familiar sights in the Thames and the small purts of Ken!,

For Essex and East Anglla years they carried coal to Rye, it surrounding district, unch from the Humber. One of the seven ships, the Olive May, was once famous because she had a woman matt-believed to be the only one afoat in the British Merchant Service.

Tilbury Monster

Qualifications

Recently he was looking a little tired in New York, but still battling gamely to win more friends, garner more propaganda and bring the United States closer to the U.S.S.R. and to the U.S.S.R.'s point of view. And again he seemed to be succeeding.

have tiever reported

done with such cleverness under a guise of casualness. When the Cleveland millionaire Cyrus Enton saw Mikoyan in Moscow a few months ago he boomed: "Well, come out and see me Cleveland. I'll show you a time. Come and take # lelt at Arrerien he my guest....and I won't lake no for an answer."

f

When a Henry Ford executive visited Mikoyan in Moscow he sald: "You should come out to Detroit, the arsenal of demo- cracy they call it. I am sure Mr Ford would be delighted to be your hest,

Trapped

When Adial Stevensta, twice the Dunssalle Party standard bearer in Presidential elections, saw Krushchev and Mikoyan in the Kremlin he turned and sald to Mikoyan: "Why not come to Chicazo: You'd like it."

TOTALJERETTUNO

by DON IDDON

your recent

invitation I would Tk to accept your kind offer. I plan to spend my holiday this year in America.“

space.

The other fellow picked up the blu.

He has mesmerised his hosts and occasionally made monkeys cut of them. Sometimes they have bera hon-handed and Gauche and naive with him, have been cutclassed by his mind and manner.

Why, for instance, did Fords arrange to have. Mikoyan tour the dreary, old Dearborn plant instead of the spanking new dactory?

Why didn't Ford, us an ordinary gesture of courtesy, greet the man first?

Has America been wen over? You can certainly expert more and more trade between

the United States and Russia and credit, Joans, and probably

nbilous financial deals. You can expect more contacts be- and tween the United States Russia of every kind.

Agreement

A Krushchev visit here becomes

The millionaires, the indus- triuists, the politician Steven- bon gulped, but Mikeyan had then neatly trapped. This tone mere likely, and if pressure does he was to be the guest.

come a Krushchev-Eisenhower conference or series of confer- ences is inevitable. From these The White House and State

it is logical do expeel some sort Department were caught mop er solution to the Bern

crisis ping, if not unconscious, and to be worked out and some sort

after

a series

of

unfortunate

of

weapons.

remarks about unvited guests of agrement regarding nuclear end embarrassing visits, inally caught ca to the potential

Well if that is not a success the visit the power and in- I don't now what is. The fluence of the man with the reports Mikeyan has sent back to result that Mikeyan confers Krushchev probably differ dras

and with President Eleenhower on leally from the sweetnes Saturday, Yet it is caly ten days light he has spilled cut here. ago that Dulles was saying: " Ho has probably made some hope to see Mr Mikoyan, but I ramping ccmments Un the

nalvete of his hosts,

parlicu- am very busy."

karly the professors 1

Call- And when Eric Johnston, the I leave never known o

man tornia,

and written scine film ezar, sow Mikoyan in Mos- une ether people's possessions so waspish words about the taste-

cwt cow he said: "Hollywood can't much to his

advantage less American Press and wait to see you. Come out and Mikoyan has used all the vast tasteless American food.

media of newspapers, moga- I'll be glad to be your hest."

zines, television and radio But if he has reported stations, newsreels and straight Krushchev: "Mission films to put Mikoyan and Mos- fully completed." then he has cow over. He got the time and reported accurately.

NEW landmark is taking

I rate the Mikoyan visit ara shape on the dockside ky-

Success for the 11 is a grent persemal lite at Tilbury, Essex. 200-ft. tul crane, the biggest man and a considerable national dlockside crane in the Port of success fer the Soviet Union. London. The travelling weight | There are some quallications. of the crane, which runs along The le

Armenian with the 125-ft. of track by the side of

sharp mind, the glib tongue, the quick mile, overdid the public relations in Jollywood when he I doubt whether any of these embraced end kissed the men expected the pos'men to comedian Jerry Lewis, who was deliver the letter, "Regarding swishing his hips in the famillar and music-hall night-club

the dry dock, is about 500 tons, It runs on eight bogles with 32 wheels. The crane, which has a radius of 147-ft. with a lift of 25 tons, will span the whole width of the dry dock. It has been designed to handle the heavy anti-rolt stabilisers now Btted to many of the P & O and Orient passenger liners. which undergo their repairs and overhauls at Tilbury.

Evil Spirits

routine.

Mikoyan did not overdo it 35 far is Hollywood, a lond of extravagances and extesses, was concerned. But the resi of the country, already bewild- ered by the constant change of pace of the Russian leccity, orchard of the Butchera said: "What sort of a strange

Inn, nt Cerhampton, Somerset, one night recently to fellow is this?"

CUSTOMERS Bred guns in the

Arms

frighten away evil spirits and ensure there is a good crop of ipples It was part of the old wassalling ceremony. The But- chers Arms is one of the few places where "singing to the kept up. Apple trees is cill

Stern mood

He has done much to be. wilder them. One day he has who has

After the villagers had fired been the charm boy

their guns they placed pieces of had the millionaires in his toast in the trees for the robles.hand, the Press on the defen- | 'This, it is said, encourages the sive and the Red-lovers in his! good spirits, Toasts were drunk pocket.

round the trees and traditional

wassalling songa

were

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Then the villagers returned to the inn for more drinking and West Country songs,

The next he has been the storn lecturer rebuking is hosts. I personally think he overdid 19 In denouncing his

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"Laddie you should have seen ME in my London season."

The Man Who Won't Lie Down

THEY

By WILLIAM BARKLEY

HEY wrote Winnic off. Round the political circles, up and around the well informed quarters, they said that when he asked his con- stituents to meet him it was to announce his retirement from the House of Commons.

Wrong! This incalculablu

creature

some

then.

put only wanted to fighing spirit Into

His home is the House

and

has been these 50 years, allow- Ing for enforced absence between 1922 and 1924.

HIR happlest description of of himself "I am the servant the House,"

It conveyed a pleasing air of modesty when he dominated Parliment as no man ever did before him.

HIS STORY

What no mant He discuss- ed the House of Commons in a speech at the Press Gallery dinner in the early 'thirties.

Hia

thai the theme

WAL Importance of the Commons in the eyes of the public had been enhanced by the Decidentally Impact of one bestriding figure Gladstone, who died just two

years before Churchill was first clected.

ARTIE.

"Can you direct me to the ncarcat polling station, officer ?"

Treasury.

London Express Service,

Churchill with his delicious sp finished als sentence:-

Then we will let loose

om you cnother British Gazette." Never was anger so quickly punctured by a jest.

I ena seo Socialists standing, their mouths agape, silent, and suddenly collapsing in their

sents with laughter,

how

HIS BOW

the needs reminding

of

pro-

he made us rcady to fight on the beaches and clalmed our finest hour. Of

course, afterwards he fought, the Socialists for six years.

a memorable meeting with him in 1946 I asked him why he spent so much time quarrel« ling with Herbert Morrison

the about

business for next

"But I like 1," he exploded. He

week.

has

been regular in He had appointed

every day

and. himself Editor of the Govern- attendance,, Almost ment's, news sheet, the British he sits there for an hour Gazette, during tho general returns to vote in divisions.

Teen to hd goes he turns, strike of 1926, Little did we then listening

the hand on the post which marks Later he had to defend time the think that in our

the Bar,

the the limit of cost. Commons would once again be

Chamber. He faced a seething, roaring raised to a new pinnacle of fame

For perhaps a full minute he And he stirred

· Ho

by the lone figure whose career Opposition. socmed ended and whom we them up and stoked their fury Eazea at the fond scene of his thought we were honouring as all the more with his taunis. It vast glory and misfortune,

It is as if he were taking his came to the climax when in the last look at it each time. But our quest that night.

the most inenacing tones I well remember when

ho not yell

bowa to the Chair. new Tory House met in 1924 it thundered at them, "if you let

on up another general Attendants spring open the was not Baldwin or MacDonald loose

doora ng the massive figure old strike>> or Lloyd George that the

He paused. You would have passes out under the arch that hands wore excited about when

facing the beres his name, But not for the I joined them In the Press thought to was Gallery.

Trench revolutionary mob.

fast time! Chancellor. Many Socialists were on their feet hurling insulta at him. The wildest disorder seemed possible.

Winston

But the best that I saw him do had little to do with the

Ho means to be back,

He fights on..

-Landon Express Service).