1959-04-23 — Page 1

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959...

Dulles steps down but

the great argument

still remains...

GENIUS

OR

BLUNDERER?

CANCE

by DON IDDON

New York, Wednesday. ANCER has defeated John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State for more than six years, where Communism could not. Recently Mr Dulles, told by his doctors that the cancer was spreading throughout his body, took the news philosophically, even jauntily.

After informing the President that he was compelled to resign, he read the Washington Post, New York Times, and the clinical dispatches headlined "Dulles Is

Worge....

Cancer Spreads.

Dulles's Neck Is

Affected by Disease."

Washing

the

Tat afteraton, ton's evening Jumper. Writington Star, headlined Fremont Eisenhower's wore's 10, his Press conference in Augusta, Georgio, "Dulles Absolutely Inespeitated.”

18

Later Press Secretary James Hagerty asked correspondents to delete the word "absolutely" but I had already gone out over the ratio and television nel- wor; to millions of people o Fett appeared in thousands newspapers,

Mr. Dulles was ender then, knowing that death is closing

him. than President

Esenler whose eves were

SAID EISENHOWER:

THE GREATEST SECRETARY

OF STATE IN HISTORY

SAID FULBRIGHT:

I DO NOT TRUST ONE WORD HE SAYS...

moist with fears us be one is brave, gallant, tenncious, pared to retire and give up the tions and gala events that would However, Mr Dulles's -rouneisd Mr Dulles's decision to loyal! a person of formidable long struggle he has fought fllow his appointment. Step down and toid of the icfignee, vast experience, with such magnificent courage,

doctors' report.

mas.

Cheerful

and great knowledge.

to pro-

own there is no doubt he was a rock pppraisal is that the day he,, and a rallying point for the He was in Paris when the with assistance from the Pre- West. of the starting upset sident of the United States and, through." His secretary the United Nations, halted the handed him a cablegrani: Anglo-French military

ex Truman defeats Dewey,"

pedillon was the day he saved Lecretary saw Dulles's the world from war. Lips mumble as if in prayer. Then the big shoulders, braced The face became peaceful, and

When doctors first disclosed results efter a hernin operation that came cancer was present, this country and the Western world were wept by a great wave of y'n Fathy for the slek mon.

Powerful

The

Steadfast

Lucky Henry Just Watches The Big Money Grow

SOMEWHERE IN JERSEY. YOU have to look pretty hard to find this man who pulled up his roots and got away from it

all.

You drive past the flowers and the honey- mooners to the northern-most tip of the island. Then you need to have five minutes conversation with the postmistress, and another five minutes with an ancient inhabitant knocking holes in the road.

Next, you walk up the lane, pers Ebenezers farm and carry un until you come to a brand new Humber Snipe parked Gutaldo a while shuttered house of grey stone.

There you will be greeted by ten thousand nodding daffodils. and a large and friendly man in In open-necked shirt. His name is Henry Richards.

SQUIGGLES

By GEORGE WHITING

months in the Richards Family The history of the last four

chronicle proves Ellen to be beng on target about her husband.

No fool is our Henry. He's been around. He made a sub- stantial stake in the furniture business carly in life, rau a successful hotel in Killarney,

up.

Remember him? Probably rat. But four months ago practically the whole of Britain was reading about him, envying him, and calling him a lucky so and was doing very nicely, In- deed, with the Ironmongery and so on account of a series of when that treble chance came irky squiggles ho had inserted In alght litle squares of paper. It all happened one Saturday down Exeter way. There was Henry

his shirt-sleeves erliing parafin and polls ar

his iron- scrubbing brushes in

when the boy, |monger's shop,

brought in the evening paper.

Ten minutes

later, over n

He knew exactly what to do with the 900 begging letters that arrived.

Henry's

home, and

st charity begon among the first to benefit were those old folks of Exeter who suddenly found

cup of tea, Henry was telling their ironmonger paying for J.LE wife, Ellen. and his Christmas dinners.

daughter, Shirley, that they would not be needing to sell parafin, palls or anything else

for the rest of their lives. "Riches were just around the corner.

He and his pal had pulled off Littlewood's treble chance.

Their joint loot turned out to be £150,000 and it was to find cut just what an ordinary bloke 1ke Henry Richards does with that kind of money that I had trailed him across the English Channel.

Ho dumped me in a chintz- covered chair and brought forth the largest gin and tonie on the island.

"What have I done? What I doing? Nothing, Just nothing." said 49-year-old Henry with a West Country burr,

COMELY

There the interview havo ended kod not Richarda bustled in.

might Mrs

TEMPORARY

There were drinks all round, of course, and presents for relativer. Then Henry Richards 10 turned a business-like cyr the future and the first thing he noticed was that income tax a Jersey is only 4. in the .

Football pool winners

pay no tax on their prizes, but once they invest their capital on the letters mainland those OHMS store arriving, So Henry

his gavo ali furniture away "even the gas love") and set out to enjoy life anew.

The house among the daffodile was a temporary halt. Later tho Richards will move into

gabled property menter St Heller -- with eight rooms to be furnished in a styjo befitting their new owners,

Henry has paid £8,500 for it --without telling anyone he had won the pools. He reckoned he had saved at least £1,000 by keeping his mouth shut.

Sunbeam

A comely and homely body, is Ellen. Fitty and proud of it, and dressed just like the wife

The Richards's Investments Mrs Dulles displayed լու He has proved himself a tire-

Throughout. his career he has of a West Country, Ironmonger. same fortitude is her husband legs public servant, the Presi-

been utterly convinced that he Her faded blue slippers must are taken care of by Littlewoods experts. All Henry has to do is when she visited the Presiden dent's ines, powersul lieutenant,

was right. He sald; "The best have cost all of 10s. that suite in the Walter

"No diamond, no, mink?" I is collect the dividends for the way to go ahead of the past is Rend

rest of his life-and maybe buy lospital, where her husband und in private life has been a

to be planning for the future esked. perfect husband and father,

me?" she replied, a boat to replace the 24-It, cabin 'Who, be to was sitting up in n chair

....Our mission should near The evaluation of Dulles as window wearing a shabby u statesman is bound

hold the free world firmly to its "What would I do wearing that cruiser he used to have

World travel: Maybe, but not dressing-gown over la pyja veke debate. President Elsen-

Dulles said: "I should know Ho nover had any qualms principles of justice and human kind of stuff? What would all

yet. Daughter Shirley hayirig several

righta in hewer hus enlled hint

a long-ringe conflict my old friends thir.k? It is more than two years

course he took. He with Soviet at my age there

cer- about the are no

naskiuously at their Communism that "Henry has seltied nice little worked times the greatest Secretary since Mr Dulles was Erst tainties in this life,"

sold recently that in the Suez could last 50 or 100 years." sums of money on me and our ironmongery counter, has her of State in the history of the operated on, but then the

went before the

daughter, Shirley, 1 suppose we reward in a snappy with cancer

Four years later he got frem crits: "I Republic," and has added

Was considered

non- the

hands of Eisenhower the United Nations with

a heavy Dulles knew recently that he could buy what we Bike but cer, and a forthcoming trip to Ite WIS haggard and blunt emphasis, "bar none." Insignent and Mr Dulles

Was prize

he had coveted with heart to oppose our launchest could not carry on and decided what's the hurry? Besides, we emnelated. During his 43 days' "As the 'other' extreme Senator bark at his desk at the State

atles the British aud the with what must have been a should be out of our close." treatment he has dropped a Willam Fulbright, chairman of Departmen: within three weeks almost fanatical zeal.

From the moment Dulles at French. If I had died at that dreadful wrench to give up the Work? Mrs Richards spread- hurrs stone-and-a-half in weight. But the importar Schal Foreph and soon buck in the Presiden- down at the bag mahogany desk Ume I would have been glad to power which for so long was ut a pair of shapely hands and they will be parking Kim, the sutwardly he tried to be cheer. Itclatione Committee has tial plane, which during his be reized almost total power. It have my remarks to the second only and often equal to demanded to know why such famliy Alsatian-und-setting out

celled "Dulles's" policies "office took

incre than

was made quite clear to his General Assembly sia as my that of the President himself.

ebviously capable tools should for a month in Capri. The rest As the country, and the world disosier" and has sold of the 500,000 miles for conferencea

of the world can wait, be alioved to le Idle just be- Ministers epitaph." learned of Mr Dulles's formal men: "I do not trust a word all over the earth,

Meanwhile, The man who was called the

we have a little resignation millions were asking Dulles gays. There is no trulh

"In any appralen of the life world's fourth force, who defed cause of money in the bank. "What, will be history, verdict in the man."

John Foster, Dulles, the tough when anything important uruse

"Don't believe Henry when he travelling of our own to do John Foctor Dulles af mun Senelor Fulbright for any old American Eagle, is being he, Buller, would be in a plane could fall to pay tribute to the Communiets over Berlin, she's done nothing ld down to the local Why go ram- Gould fall to pay tribute to his aver Formosa, over the Middle lica. "He has always run his demanded Henry, when you car Daging **over "tho" universe, and statesmu?"

01 cise for that matter, was eulogised now as a man who to tackle the matter

extraordinary consistency and East, has laid down his burden. criti-gave everything for his country. spol.

Armness in dealing with the There is no debate about Mr not uttering such harsh

own show and he will be run- get a noble brew at 11d, a pint

Loon, mark my In Jersey? threat of Communism. Fulles's qualities as a mon. He elsms

Most men of good will will ting another His critics say that he lacked say that he tried to carry it worda. He is already getting flexibility and manoeuvre, but well.

restless. I know the signs,"

London Express Service.

ful.

05 Mr Dulles

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the Democratic Party and in the Press--and he had many....... ore allent,

Ambossadors end! that he was the boss and that

Confident

on

the

few

The Dulles of the past No Secretary of State in the weeks has been an entirely History of the United States different, more gentle man than ever exercised such total power. Dulles the supreme boss of the Under the Constitution of this State Department. country the formulation and He has been deeply moved by encouragine conduct of foreign polley are the thousands of the responsibility of the Pre- messages he has received from sident himself and

all over the country, and' many only the President.

from Great Britain

Dulles's-courage and stamina end application are legend, and his memory Is prodigious. Eisenhower, at a recent Press But Mr Elsenhower, a weak conferenco said: "Mr Dulles and alling man in his second has the most brilliant mind of term of office, and an easily per- any man I ever met" suaded delegator on foreign

My own appraisal is that affairs in his first, handed over white Dulles is a brave almost all the direction to Johr good man he will not be con- Foster Dulies.

aldered by history, as a great, or What John Foster Dulles even particularly ・ successful, wanted he got.

Secretary of State,

Philosophic

and

For more than six years Mr I remember him saying, when Dulles, who had been a brilliant ho, was asked to evaluate hix lawyer and 'had planned all his role in history: "If I'm remem adult life to be Secretary of bered I guess it will be 'chieß- State, has been almost the sole for three things: "Drink of arbiter of pouse or war for the war, agonising reappraisal, and United States....although eriti massivo retaliation, and I'd be elsm and bitter attack engulfed prepared to go to court, to de him for long periods during his fend each statement, but there's office.

no court in my calling."* All his life as a partner at the During his strenuous days` in New York firm of Sullivan and office Dallera egocentricity Cromwell was a preparation for was marked, yet it lacked dam the position "of." America's boyance and ostentation He Foreign Secretury,"

was not a showman in the con Duilles expected to be parties, vantional sense, although he after the Presidential action enjoyed publicity.

at 1948 and was so, wire that Now it munt, mention the Thomas Dewey wild win that Suez affair.. It is, my consletion he told his wife Janet to order that Mr. Dulles, hoodwinked. dresses in Paris for the recep¬" "aid let down Sir Anthony Ederi.,

mings

NO!

NEIN !!! NON!

friends in America.

Mum and Dad are in less of a Sometime this summer

At last, Mr. Krushchov, my

and I have found a proposal we agres on.

London Rozva tervita.“