1959-05-04 — Page 4

The

Indiscretions of Eccles

OUT of Hanover comes a loud,

emphatic thud. It is the sound of Sir David McAdam Eccles drop- ping another brick.

Now, what impelu, him to do it? Why in order to please Dr Adennuer

locs he choose to praise the Ger mans in the very terms most likely to irritate the maximum number of people in Britain?

If ever a politician has talked him- self but of the chance of becoming Prime Minister, it in Sir David. Putting this fair for making boners aside, ho has all the necessary gifts.

He is able and clever; he has a practical business background; he

And not afraid of taking decisions.

he has a serene belief in himself which no sel-back has ever dented not even his disconcerting experience after the Tories recaptured power in the 1951 General Election.

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THE CHINA MAIL. MONDAY, MAY 4, 1959.1

Have you noticed his

flair for foolish

phrases?

by Douglas

Clark

have

the well-dressed because we in a rockery, Bill

With

the struck a bad patch financially," Corunation arrangements under

Those were harassing orchid days for Sir David, as he flower blossomed. restlessly awaited the call to high Cabinet oflice. Sir Winston then Mr-Chur- chill started filing the top posta. But in Sir David's gracious Westminster home the phone bell remained silent.

his hand, Sir David turned Werks into a department shot with rich, romantic glamour.

Then It Came

Te was entertaining friends when a mail entered and announced: "Mr Churchill on the telephone.**

THEN at last it came.

An and lienee fell on the room as Sir David buried

VIT.

time his indige

At the same eretions started.

ITEM ONE. He spoke of the Queen after the Coronation as the "perfect leading lady."

lux-

Then the urleks proliferated.

ITEM TWO. In 1954 he ex- a purated every Brilish Foyer with his fameus The mean and keep keen."

ITEM FIVE. Lost December he angered the French by threatening curanic reprisala If the six Commen Market would not play ball countries with the rest of West Europe.

And rounded off that disastrous day's work in Paris by declar- lug: "We have nebleved all we Kel out to gel when we arrived here."

ITEM SIX. When big trade restrictions with Russia were ifter last summer, Sir David's Treat untimely

comment WAS: **The them Russians will 01 welcome the change. They will suy thero should not be u (banned] list

it all.

ITEM THREE. Iz 1955, after being switched to the Ministry of Eduention, he took a 1.ublic relations oficial -

"A propaganda blast will ceme back I could while it myself but that is all eye-

ld out of publle funds with him to the Tory Conference at wash."

"Eccles here, sir," he eagerly Bournemouth. told the trument.

And a cheerful voice replied: Randolph here. Were you ex- pe:ting someone else?"

Trample-trample through In 1956 he lay fallow. But in the tulips! A shuffling, 1957:-

mizerable sound. The of Sir David

ITEM FOUR. As President sound

an

of the Board of Trade on a McAdam Eccles tripping Sir David finally got a post, £5,000-plus palary, he DI course the Ministry of need that it was essential ever his boots. Works. it was like planting en

the

British public should bec

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Ole for Rosemary,

say the stockbrokers

by GEORGE WHITTING

THIS

that she was well enough up in ballet to dance Mozart's minuet; that she had achieved a depth of 40 metres as a deep-sea diver; that she drew movie posters and clay-modelled French poodles; and that she just adored fighting bulls.

DAINTY little. typist I was taking out to lunch in a City Lavern...the stockbrokers Correct. Fighting bulls. stared, the steaks sizzled, Professionally. Meet Rose- and Whiting felt young mary Hatherley, bang-on at again. All poetic-like: literature and art at school and now the "Her hair was brown, her in Sussex,

most noted novilheira in all eyea were blue,

Weighed seven-stone- Portugal. eight, stood 190-foot-two." You know about novil-

And when 1 add that her heiras, of course.

If you 34-22-34 were packaged in fight bulls up to three years a zippy blue skirt-and- old you

are a novilheira; sweater ensemble, you will older bulis are taken care understand about those of by matadors. stockbrokers.

Rosemary's English

Her name was Rosemary, father, Henry, sells ma- she was not yet 22, and chinery in Lisbon, and her would I care to caress her mother, Maria Izabel, left arm?

Her muscles

That is what I thought she said. Actually, she asked me to test her muscle and that bicep turned out

raines decorous daughter- three of them. Until three ROSEMARY HATHERLEY — "bull- years ago, the nearest any fighting is not cruel, the passion of of the Hatherleys ever got to bovine athletics was when Dad started importing bulldozers.

It overwhelms you.".

Hatherley, hitching her jeens and grabbing the nearest pink-and- yellow capote (cape) went and ad libbed with el tara.

Before you can say Jack Solo- mons, our Rosemary is fighting -a 24-year-old bull called Cigono at a very public place called Salvaterra.

Cigano, ata gentleman he' started in by bruliing Rosemary's right hip and tearing Rosemary's tight black trousers, at which theo to Portuguese in the bleachers very rightly demanded more.

By ANNE SHARPLEY Mr. K's Italian

Tailor

Upsets

Savile Row

ROME.

"I felt like a jelly, but I tried SAVILE ROW, West End, not to show it,' sold Mies that cloister of cut and Hatherley. "Once you let fear unpaid bills, where tailors dominate you, you've had it.” are bound by such laws of discretion they dare hardly speak, is trying to deal with a Sicilian bandit.

Her sword

up Anyway, they stitched

A fisherman's son with a Rosemary's trousers, and in no time at all she was back in the face like a laughing broad ring and giving Cigano the bust-bean and all the check in the ner with her capote, her red world, or rather the tallora' muletta (cloth), and her estoque

(the sword that no novelheira in world, which is not to be 11 or her right mind ever confused with our world be- allows to leave his or her right cause It's very, very differ- bond).

ent.

Angelo Litrico he's called,

Thus initiated, this pixie-like English inoppet has become the only girl in Portugal to fight bulls and he's the sauciest part of both cn foot and on home-back the Italian assault on Savile -getting bruised, having her Row supremacy. frilly white blouses smeared with bull's breath, pulling down fees ot £30 £40 plus expenses, and rating Bowers, cheques, Jewellery and fan-raves from the Portu

mary

He has cast away tailors".. honour (Savile Row chivalry division) that you don't-seek publicity or solicit business

Resemary gives herself one or oven care about mak- mere season before retiring to ing money and influencing fight bulls private and to people. "concentrate on the more serious things in life."

in

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However, it seems that little to be a sharp reminder of Rosemary, "at the care-naught the day I accepted a similar age of 18, got herself invited to "It came naturally," she told

"I was a good deal loza "Bull-fighting is not erue}," Young Angelo caused a invitation from Rocky Mar. a tenta, which is what the Por

she reminded me over her apple sensation by sending an tuguese call a bull-breeding trial, scared then than I am now." ciano, Gibraltar-plus.

So all of a sudden the lille ple-and-custard: "I a oble The guests get a banquet, and

Khrushchev, the 18-month-old bulls get grad- English misa is a sensation to sport, in which you match your

me.

overcoat to Next, my dainty English rose paused from the roast ed for their potential as matador-, such an extent that a gallant Intelligence against the brutality quickly followed by a couple Or else. Kind of vezl- bandgribeiro named Jullo Pre- of a very wild animal. The of suits, that so cut the lamb to mention that she tossers.

ccbio, and b famous matador passien of it overwhelms you," Well, somebody dared Rose- named Diamantino Vizeu, began was due back at the office or-victory ceremony. to type some bills of lading; mary to love a go, and Mles to teach her the old one-two,

Olel

-London Express Service.).

THE MAN WHO HAS LEFT HIS MARK ON 10,000,000 BRITONS

Why Dr. Salk

OUTSIDE clinic, in sur

geries, public rooms, even dance halls, thousanda of young people all over Britain are queueing for anti-polio Injections.

So

The demand has been

that Britain has had to great appeal this week for extra sup--

to bc rushed plies

from America,

Into London

tomorrow dies the man who made it all possible-Dr. Jonas Salk,

A shock

Three times before, Salk has slippod, almost unnoticed, inta Britain, This time will be different. Ten million Britons today carry his vaccine fresh in their bodies.

And from his laboratory, in Pittsburgh University, it has leaked out that he is now work ing on cancer, Dr. Sulk 1 News.

But those who expect him to come with prophocles or hope

for the futuro are in for a shock. Dr., Salk is going to say nothing about cancer. Not a word. He does not prophesy. He does not hold but hope.

Won't Talk...

By PETER FAIRLEY

'I deal only in facts. I do not usually talk about a thing until there is something to say. For me this takes a long time.'

small, shy man, looking on Friday about his vaceine, more Uke a new graduate from Salk will not suggest that four,

than a 44-year-old instead of three, "shots" college professor..

vaccine should be given to each volunlcer,

At Amsterdam, a reception committee waited with flowers. Salk hung back in the airplane. The Dutch stewardess *ald: **

I did not know do apelogire, we had a VIP aboard."

Salk said gently: "I suppose cinco there is nobody elsa left in here, it must be me."

He has never quite grown to understand the tributes a grate ful world has heaped on his shoulders. When he speaks, he is ultra-cautious.

comradeliness of Mr Khrush- chev down to size that ho

hasn't had the nerve to wear thom

Savile Row falls back genteri- ly aghast at such sartorial sum- mittin

Angelo laughs:

am A

Sicilian and Sicilians always make glits. I was going to

Russia, so I had to make a fight, didn't 19

But Savile Row was to have a great deal more trouble with that lovely old Steillon custom There was of sending a gift. that vicuna golf cout for Pre-,

when rident Eisenhower

the

Lories. In manufacture, some of the five virus had not been properly killed. Panie stopped.

Salk has a deep horror of polio. But it was this intense inner conviction that he was word vicuna mode every Repub- right that led him to test the licun Jump even if you spelt it new vaccine first on himself, backwards,

then on his attractive wife.

"How was I to know there Donna, then on his three chil-

was a big inquiry on about tho dren Peter, 14, Darrell 11, and Prealdeal's salatant Sherman Jonathan, B.

was only Io1-

"Could you inject a child with Adams receiving a vicuna coat

us a present7 I on experimental virus unless you were sure?" he asked. "lowing my custom," mays Signor

Litrico, innocently. knew I was safe, All I did The President WER Tot not know were the limits within which we could obtain the effectiveness we wanted-how much, how often

He will just produce evidence of the effect of four shots-

Dr Balk does not seek money. almost 100 per cent immunity,

or glory. What drives him on? against the present 20 per cent.

**Things bether mo inside," Tu Dr, Salk, the distinction is he sald. "I work no set pattern important.

amased, but the Americani Press was, and chuckled Angelo into hundreds of columns-worth of fame.

Angelo Litrico reports sadly that he has had only one failure, of hours. It is a question of Mr Macmillan, Ho falled to accept the fancy waistcoat that Angelo made him.

It is another lesser he has what is bothering me most at learned. In 1955, 29 Californians the time-work, family, relaxa-

The intensity varies- contracted polin after injection tion. with Salk vaccine. Panic spread but somehow you manage to do across America.

Whem all.

styles

But Angelo's latest show a revealing trend.

The 1sekels hove lengthened, "I was right in the eye of a "I don't aim to reach a peak, and they have hacking rits. The faint and tasteful hurricane," he said. "But as a because it only means you alldo | fabrics are

The cut has "I will present evidence, if scientist, I never had a moment down later. I try to keep my checked tweeds. people want it," he said, "but of doubt. I knew it was just balance. Getting near the truth, Jost its razor-blade sharpness,

and not a basic that lies beneath the

and turn-ups are now being would rather have the evidence phenomenon, speak for itself than me speak principle that was wrong answered questions of science for it. My role is simple, I am "But I knew also, that it was can game. It can be fun.

reassuring critics when it has value as far as an investigator. I obtain infor- no use my mation for others. They make unless I had the facts quickly human disease is concerned, the decisions.”

to back me up.""

then it is that much more inter-

sting."

So when he talks to the Royal The fault in the vaccine was -Society-of-100th at Harrogate Tried to the Cutter Jabora-

·I have just seen Dr Solici |-Holland: -Ho Buldou onlar in facts. I do not usually talic about a thing until there is something to say. For me, this takes a long time

"A scientist has an obligation to communicate his findings. when he has something to com- municate. Usually he is the best judge of that."

Long before April 12, 1055, when the bells and ́rirens sounded all over. New York Slate to hall the offelal succosa of Salk vaccine, Aerican ro- porters began suggesting he had beaten polio..

No limelight

Dr Salk knew he MIGHT not have done. He had to write andi appear publicly to stress that his research was not complete. For a man who hates the limo light, it took a lot of; doing. He does not intend to have to do it Sagala.

"My work on cancer is not i ready for public discussion" is ali he will say.

He knows what could happen. "Every time one of thos. "Dr Salk is working on something new storio get printed," he tella' me, "the mill, telephone calls and telegrams from all OVET tha world become fantastic."

So Dr Salk looks himself up In his laboratory, and sptaics. La none of them.

Ho. has.n.cupboard -"full of gold medala, i Aventor, hospitals are named after him. But at an airport, he slips away alone.

'We'd better

POLIO

—Londum Exprem Serulori),

• It done: nah, Sid-or they'll sneak

we're rockin'

worn.

In fact just the sort of suit that Englishmen have been wearing all along. Angolo, it seems, is just determined to win Mr. Macmilion the next election. *) -(London. Ezappan Service.}; /

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