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by Julge Harold Shepherd when t woman fold him at Plymouth he had asked in M. to help her:

MEMBERS of Parliament are not over powerful. They are not interests in their constituency. Au M.P.'s job is in London govern- Ing the country,

of Fameans of the people except in their own

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by Sir Ewart Smith, a deputy chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries

COME of the military gentlemen not teast behind the Iron Curtain-have shown us what automation can do lu the mont Never let us be Ratisfied dllcult and exacting circumstances, with what be have done. That is the besetting in from which British Industry, for 15 years, has not been free.

by Mr. A. Mileman, Asistent Coimplroller of the National Dein Olles, galing at Lincoln:--

WHEN you first Join the National Debt Office you go round the Ward. There are sa many noughts.

Yan start by knocking

off the noughts, do your sums, and then put the noughts back again.

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--by Lord Maveroft at the Office Appliance and Business Equip- ment Trades Aerociation:

WONDER ' tone firms order electronic equipment Jusi fo Some firms have installed it and keep up with the Joneses” then fourut it doesn't do the job much better than old Charlle on the lack of an envelope.

HARRY ODELL

PRESENTS

KAREN SUN

IN A VOCAL RECITAL

MICHAEL BODER AT THE PIANO LOKE YEW HALL

SUNDAY, 22nd FEBRUARY, AT 9 P.M.

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IN

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1959.

by

FINAL CHAPTER OF THE REPORT

SUEZ Randolph Churchill THAT STARTLED THE NATION

Even now,

I cannot withhold

a salute to Sir Anthony

common with many other people I feel compelled to revise the judgment and opinions which I held in October 1956. There are today many politicians and publicists who openly supported the Suez operation at the time, who feel very different about it today.

If we had known with what ineptitude the campaign had been planned, if we had detected the inherent fraudulence of the Anglo-French ultimatum, if we had known of the Government's miscalculations about American reactions, if we had perceived that because of these miscalculations the enterprise would have to be abandoned in 36 hours, many of those who, like me, applauded the action on the day might have adopted a very different line.

I, for one, am prepared to stand it a white sheet and ad- mit that I was wrong. And the aspessment which follows is made front a clean table from which all earlier misconceptions,

been Judgments have

and

wept.

Cheated

To this day, friend and fee alike, in all parts of the world express mystification that the British Government should not have found 1 possible to go on

just a little while longer at Suez and to ensure that we

were

of

'On December 5 Mr Antony Head, the Minister of Defence, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that it would have taken about seven This, and days" to get to Suez, not 48 hours, seems to have been the military advlee given to the Cabinet at the crucial monest This, and not knowledge of the British and French front-Bae commanders, to have determined the Beems acceptance of the Cense-fire.

fin August onwards. Through all the choppling and changing dictated by the vacillations of the allied statesmen this one factor was common nud constant in all the 17 diferent plans which were successively devised.

Failure

The failure to adapt a flexible strategy

was more the fault of Keneral than politicians.

the

EDEN....

COURAGE,

BOTH

PHYSICAL

AND MORAL,

IS SOMETHING HE NEVER LACKED AT ANY TIME

and of Sir Anthony Eden could

The cuts

often be delectră.

When Nasser Arst nationalised the Canal, Sir Anthony Eden. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, and Mr Harold Watkinson, the Minister of Transport, all made the same the plot in their broadcast to nation; the supply of all,

the of

us the economy of the whote country, was threatened if the Canal did not remain open.

And yet no attempt was made to restrict the consumption of ol and petrol until November 7, after the erase-fire, when a 10 per cent eul in oil supplies wha ordered,

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must bear the main responsl- bility for the mismanagement of British polley at this time cannut withhoki an honourable ralute to a man who, in the grip of recurrent_pain, worket hm- sak unsparingly to the verge of the grave doing his duty as ho saw it with stifless levotion.

Sir Anthony's ill-hocith must novertholoss be reckon- ed as a national, no less than a personal, tragedy and misfortune.

Sonio may doubt whether he passersed the qualities and Abre necesary for the handling of this crisis, even he had been in good health. But with there bodily Infirmities he was certainly despoble of discharg- ing the role which he had chosen to play. Ils colleagues in tha Cabinet were much more aware of how the strain was affecting him than were his colleagues in the House of Commons, and ali bear testimony that he could not have maintained the brave front he did without the passionate

ultimate emergency with ample loyalty and devotion of his wife.

stocks, with less depleted dollar reserve. And it would also, from psychological point of view, have brought home to the #L stake, and would have been a British people what was

striking

manifestation to our friends in

America of the seriousness of our situation,

Generous

No one can study the career Di Sir Anthony Eden-h careful, well-ordered rise, hin sudden, catastrophle fall-with- out sympathy and sorrow. But

the

It would be wrong to allow emotional sympathy for Game lost

spectacle of a blasted career to outweigh the incomparably greater damage done to the

Petrol rationing would have bien a card of high and per- vasive value if it played at the outset,

had been

It is ono of the cardinal indictments of the British Government that it went Rationing did not come into operatica Catil December 8. raid to bed with this card in its then only after a month's hand, and that it was only the game Unfortunately, Sir wing which gave everyuas a produced when

chance to "top up" and "tank had already been lost. Anthony Eden

misled was by Mr Antony Head into

up."

Other European countries, like

·

Sick man

The planning of the operation was as elephantine in its sente as in its speed. The staff work was a mentiment to diligence, the memorial to patient endeavou

meticulous character of the classical orror of falling Ireland and Poland, who were

of und into the hands timings, loading tables, strategie

could generals, a fate almost oppreciations

model for dreadful as being in it have served as fure operations, had hands of lawyers, almost t Switzerland had had to been for the constant political interferences from above, and

not cheated fruits of our victory, How much longer?

the Most d

military cum- manders on the spot-not only but also the Brigadier Butler two French generals, Beaufre and Massu-believed that Sucz

could have been reached and

captured in 48 hours.

the wholly erroneous premises

on which this devoted work was

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his

not directly involved in the Suez as fair, had been forced to intro- the duce rationing some time before

ban pleasure motering оп Sundays and public holidays.

os ghastly as being "under doctor's orders."

Under more resolute leader- ship rationing in Britain would have been imposed on the day that Nasser nationalised the

But the politicians must bene part of the blame since instead But there is good reason

The plan always demanded 10 of goading the generals into to believe that this was not

days of warning before the Innd swift, ruthless action, they kept the advice tendered to Sir

could be effectively impeding and rattling the Canal. operation his col- begun.

Thi This remained the firm with every artful contrivance of

Indecision. rule throughout all the planning

Here the nervous Britainh

GOLDEN GATE QUARTET Anthony Eden and

(ONE OF THE WORLD'S FINEST VOCAL GROUPS)

Icagues,

would have enabled LO have art The

No assessment of the rights and wrongs of the Suez story can even be tentatively formed without bearing in mind the fact that Sir Anthony was a sick

an throughout the crisis.

nation.

Britain's bound up Tragedy,

were

misfortunes with the personal

The British people extended to him in his misfortunes, in which largely shured, a generous and forgiving comprehension, and can console itself with the

Sir Authony's refeetion that friend Mr Macmillan was stand- ing by to take over, and that The consequenceG of The Jneptitude and maladdress of the Suez operation have not in the and costly end proved

as seemed almost disastrous inevitable on the morrow of that

-starred venture.

tho

THE END

Courage, both physical and moral, Is something which Str The Rise and Fall of Str Anthony has never lacked in Anthony Eden, by Randolph peace or war and even those Churchill, will be published who feel most strongly that he by MacGibbon and Kee, 218,

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PATRICIA LEWIS

THE SUBJECT OF THIS WEEK'S INQUIRY:

See how democratic a pay-packet can make

a peer!

"So now they send me little document at the begin ning of each Parliament which

some

stars can be tough; the wild

up

His own firm

ord

ou

Kimberley motto 16 "Frappe-fort-"ut Hard" 20 publicists generally had better take cover,

Handsome

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"But now #full-time Job and, frankly, I plunged into pletures is

I have

my own manly to work but even It I enjoy travelling all over the Kilanin et Galway and Dublin, public relations arm I feel both didn't have I'd work today world on in ocations.

happy and dedicated.

because there's no one left to do A partner with director John

"The House? No, I really nothing with any more." Ford, he's already

1 made three haven't had time to go since

It rolls and on, the list of successful stabs at the cinema started in business-and 1 used aristocratic artisans,

"The Quiet Man," he to be quite

Lord keen politician There's film producer Moon," and WARN you now.

Brabourne, 34; pleno-playing years ago." Our peers need preserving. I sign and send back asting for Rising of the

Lord Foley; Lord Viylan, of the leave of absence. Then

"Gideon's Day." I spoke with The Misread me not; I care scarce an ermine-tail

bod the Lord Chamberlain him as he liew into London

Chelsea bistro; Lord Donegall, who mints jazz records; and or someone or other writes froin Hollywood for the jokes on stilts' that made Southend and

back and says it's O.K."

of course, "Lord Rockingham.”

And all of them thinking in Wigan famous. But I am concerned deeply-

"Yes, I'm off almost immedi- doing what he By

wants

to scout out locations

these harsh days that feals are Lord with the democratic depths to which certain mem-

Marley has

collected afely

more important than seats, Spain. We have

Or is it just that the old-time bers of our class-conscious community are diving. rome colourful characters along round Munich and Vienna, then

his career the erratic and maybe

really Lig Ilusion

plcture In John

family codes of honour, pride, rational

sleeves for 1960. Parliament? Youngest of the labouring and battle have been swallowed Africa, Paris, and the Carib-

attended Iorda in 27-year-old Michael

up by the collective motto "Per bean; the lusty Robert Mitelum I'm afraid I haven't

19 May, who has gone back for a long time about

to ardua ad lolly?" proving to four U.S. sailors in a

stockbroking in the City after getting married in Jamaica, bar on Tobago that even flm years."

Clever and handsome, Lord May only just missed doing a)

television Mrs Millington on

he Buffed the £1,024 when

on "Double Your question

"Actually, I'd rather

Icisure than a gentleman of Says he "Living on capital worker," be tokt me in te is like having your teeth out nge-strewn halls of his once they're al Kone you're Kensington house. "But there's "Particularly doing Heaven Anished unless you find a sub- no alternative particularly Knows, Mrs Allson' with stitute.

when you're at the bottom of Huston. He always gots a kick out of asking for the impossible

"I tried forming in Norfolk the ladder as I am. and one night In Tobago be showed a champion large black sald: "Leigh, I want a Bailey sow, too, bnek In '87--but when bridge by the morning."

my last marriage broke up (Lord

怡 Kimberley

nt present "Yes, I do go, to the House- reparated from his third wife) I but I've never unde a sprook, promised myself a year to piny Why? Well, it's never really before starting something new," been hot enough to stand up sighed and ask them to opch Who Lord Kimberley strum of smoke and smoothed windows"

Most experienced of our blu tle (Brigade of Guards). He

titled tollera is Lord Kinross, 55. chuckled.

I author of 10 highly-praised "I played all right. But did look round while I played, travel books, And the ideas I had Blacuit- started writing in 1020 making, selling cars, running an, when I was a mib-editor on the art gallery, doing TV- even' Ginggow Herald," he informed

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There used to be a lovely, envious, sights- raising phrase to describe the silver-spoon set- "living like a lord." But with most of the newer boys labouring like lackeys on the old nine-to-six shift it's not too far-fetched to imagine the and brilliant Trevor Howard, sharing chostly tales of bat- ultimate Britain as a-literally-peerless society.

hung trees and invisible packs

Publicising Alms has proved the of wild dogs In Ceylon. How perfectly frightful! wards hot cuppas with

of lure for the Eart "I loved these West Indlau How utterly monstrous! low cap'n of the Tower Bridge tug.

The rcot-shaking!

burly.

best of all, went on Kimberley at 34 perhaps the Money" a year or so ago. erinkle-haired capers absolutely

Lord Marley,

clambered most dashing blade in Burke's. mean well, really!

who is nearing Marley what's to become of Maudie 46, has been a production ex- about the lug, Musea, to check camera angles for another day's Littlehampton's daughter?

pert on films for over 25 years.

"My first job," he recalled, shooting. humping himself the warmer into his thick tweed cont, "wan clapper-boy, floor sweeper, publicist, Ecript-writer, and cutting-room assistant at Shep- porton in 1931-all for 50 bob

week."

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Something as I said to my telt in the middle of the River Thimes recently will have

to be done..

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Big picture

There we were Lord Marley about in one and -mersing of those blimt-nosed. wide-

Lord Marley's current concerna that have much is "The Boy and the Bridge," more peasant than poet in brain-storm, of that blue-eyed them, and Lord Marley, plek- broth-of-a Kevin McClory.

ng up a well-greased length of "You are. It's much more tun "It was obviously a ridiculous cable, inquires of par, cap'n doing what you want to do," request, but they get floods in Jim Taylor-"Yours'n or hisn?" continued his lordship na Tower Tobngo during the rains and, Bridge the star of the filin incredibly, the Government had Jim-45 years on became Well, old

bought a thon Just

Bulley brige for the river naturally

Bali mrudgo

on the hall-vellel emergencies. I got it. And you "Us'na" (who wants a lord- hurlzön.

should have seen Huston's face ship lenging back on-shore "I would hate not to can my when, for once, the Imposible

was produced."

mote

"I

Writer

be

with a greaty line like a water living. When I inherited the Tall) and I tank bock relieved title they naked mo if I'd go to But Loud Marley is not an considered becoming on inspre inc between alps of Scotch, on to my bit of sacking as wo. the House and mako speeches elegant efleteney all on

Another to- about filmy... but palies are own. chugged, weather-beaten,

peer

hla tor for the Ministry of Agricul- “You know, 60 years ago it woej who ture and Fisheries.

rather ungentic-

considered

LONIZTURTNE

#1 was saying only this morning, Mrs. Ormesthwaite, that some of we haven't for- gesten what happened, she last time Lord Ranstolph fried 40 apit: the Party!!!

Londen Herrteo ÜNTÜR.