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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959.

Is it SAFE to send WHY NOT A this man to Moscow?

by A. J. P. TAYLOR

The brick-dropping Sir David Eccles is off again: This time he leads our trade delegation to Russia. For Britain the opportunities at this meeting are immense. But is it Jikely that the man who loves Germany will get the best deal from the Russians?

THERE is nothing nicer in life than to be pleased with yourself. So Mr Harold Macmillan must be a lucky inan. He is not only pleased with Eimself. He is pleased with all his colleagues.

Especially he is pleased

with Sir David Eccles, Pre- aldent er the Board of Trade. Gaily and conti

the dently he lefended

right of Sir David Eccles to make indiscreet remarks at a private luncheon in Ger- miany,

Of course any individual hing the right to make frivolous remarks at lunch. particularly when the Con- timental air has gone to his hend.

Iut this was not an individual at lunch. This was the 1radent

of the Board of Tend, who ju employed by the

paye interests.

15,

British tax-

witer British

fair we

And when we have had our hugh with Mr Macmillan,

is Sir Deri must still ask: Eccles doing his job?"

The answer

Sir David Beclea, strunge as it hay is employed to pro mole British trade. He does not seem to have grasped this, fe regards as his function to pro- pete German trade. He is fr

ever telling the Germans that

he is not worried about their competition. In this happy stile at foodem from worry, he is almost alone so far as the 19 ples of this stand nie voncerned.

Geimon competition against us is formidable. And # is cerful in one held after un- uber the Germans are pushing us at of our place pt the log of the fi

It would be silly to complain of this or to wring our hindi. The

to the German

Answer

But

Cummings

~Made in

Smartyboots

In Semeny

"Guten morgen, Herr Khrushchov"

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assistance.

Invitation

Exclus

They

ROYAL TOUR

OF

RUSSIA?

It would do more than anything else

to end the cold war....and, in fact,

I forecast that Prince Philip WILL go....

DON IDDON'S

New York.

DIARY

parties, for instance, and I have resurrected from my cupboard

I HAVE had to supply in ancient

wore in Newfoundland when King George Vi und Queen izabeth held a garden-party St John's in 1030.

the Canadian au- thorities with four pass- port photographs, details of professional status and biographical innot bad for a 20-year data before I am

granted my credentials to report the royal tour of Canada.

I have also had to provide Information to the City Council of Chicago and Beirut which the Quein and Prince Philip will inft,

The coat and trousers, as good as new, merely hud to be let out

lapse,

The royal tour I should like to see, say, next year, would be

to the Soviet Union. A State visit by the Queen and Prince Philip to Moscow, Kiev, and Leningrad would do more to end the cold war and ease inter- mitional tension than anything - I can think of.

The It

The reception by the Russions would be tumultuous. Queen would be a sensation, is a plan to think about and not reject out of hand as "without wel-precedent" от "certain

This is unusual but, although protocol on this six-week royal tour will be at a minimum, security will be at a maximura at no katerrushers are crime.

hote Competition i our ple in this country so fearful of and

Str frum thing. We have to face the fact Hussia that they think no price thi

to break into wina Geitan David that the Germans enjoy rome too high if it

markets. They friendship and Geman favour. Commonwealth less fair advantages.

4-cy Want tu see Germany will ace pt. They will be- The Germans are not carrying

Europe have as "good Europeans." They

make

strong. I'm told it's going to be a dif- Germany the cost of the last war. While in to powerful in

11:00 They

shelier in her will con

And then, at a suitable moment, ferent brand of royal visit we are paying the interest cu shadow.

they will do a deal with Russia, trips down mines, a flight far

Russia offers them

Intu A

the Yukun, fornys our National Debt and, as well. paying for the American

Such an outlook has nothing when

and the suitable price. We

the supermarkets, racetracks, le du with party polities In which the Labour Government

foolish at Russians are playing a to fishly contracted, the Ger

games, and of cuttrse schools dinary sense. The policy mans have seen their country building up Gerinaty

for ñng hospitals. game when FL

we compete was Germany's friendship. A gume Russia reconstructed with Allied nuncy. barrier mainst

Germans Labour's Foreign where only the

can They Roted the conquered started by

Ernest Bevin. He win. Par better, far simpler, is countries of Europe during the Secretary,

to improve our own relations was one of the greatest mis- war. They make trivial restitu-

fortune ton, thereafter. Ever since the

this country has had with Russia. endure. And the Labour war; they have been given peace to

Is ROW busy trying

security by the protection Party

of this country and the United to escape from his legacy. States. Now they even make us

pay for the privilege of protect-

in liver.

Bi

Taxes

British

Lixes, and challenge is to produce better prices on, would look very dif. goods more citrative prices, terent if we did not have to pay

for the ! war for unbrations now

"Relax v-we want to

open an account-

Lowton Tapezzi övesice.

war

-

The Germans have been flowrd to reconstruct their heavy

industy.

Indeed, they have been helped to do it. The Krupp works are more powerful

than

they have ever been. What is

as

Sir David Eccles looks very different from Bevin. Speaks differently. Belongs to a differ- ent party. But he is a cut off the same Joint so far as Ger-

Indeed be any is concerned.

had no Roes further. Bevin

Germans. high opinion of the

He merely wanted to make use ut them as a protection against Ilussia. Sir David Eccles. thinks that the Germans are the finest people in the world,

Admiration

mure, the European Coinmou He carries this admiration 50 Market is working out in pize- far as to be enthusiastic about

Hanoverian kings. tice as a device for bringing all our

German contral.

There, for one thing, les a tremendous market for Britis goods and British equipment if we handle the chance properly. But who is going to handle the chance for us? Who is to lead our trade delegation to Russia? None other thian Sir David Eccles, enthusiast for Hanoverians.

Two roles

effend the Americans."

to

We have to live our own lives (thank you, Field Marshal Most- omery), I know from an old friend in the Palace that Prince luke Philip is very keen to

into

ball

a good, hard look at the Soviet Union. He should make such a trip, and my forecast is that ne will.

There will be some formal versions, a couple of garden

America weeps for

Arthur Godfrey

Ho

SINCE the clinton details of He played gult with Elsen-

John Foster Dulles illness were unnbunced, and the opera tion for cancer on the performer the Arthur Godfrey took place lost

week Americari contributions the fight against eoneer have trebled.

hower regularly until abruptly the President dropped him, talked of holding high polical uffler os his power swelled to

monstrous proportions.

He was on the air six or seven beurs a day and sucered at his SLOTUSGES and their products, but he sold the ruke mix and the ten and the cigareties and the dog food to the tune el tens of millions of dollars.

More money has been raised in the past month than the pre- Arthur months. what vious three This Is worse than happened before the war. Then Godfrey's operation has drama Lord Halifax went to Germany tised man's struggle against the we disease even more than the to butter up Hiler. And

former Secretary of State's rent a Foreign Onice clerk call-

edi Strong to negotiate un tragie resignation

allinnce with the Russians.

Godfrey, perhaps not well known outside Amerleu, is far This time Sir David Eccles is and away the top personality bere-the show business the

roles. ia two It to combine

performed

Lord highest paid radlo and TV star, in Germany, he will the best loved and worst hated. himself

William as he arrives In Storm centre

Continental TESLAFCES under would be interesting to know Having which of them: he admires mosi. Halifax Perhaps George I who kept his present wife in solitary confinement for Strang when

Muscow. thirty years?....

No one in this country wants to are the Germans por or suf- lering. No Ge grudges their prosperity. But why should we go out of our way to aid it Why should a British Minister regard it 15 ms duty to promote Guman trade?

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His erities said he drank too mah, had become a dictator, was uiterly ruthless and de tested from const le coust.

"Well, I guess they had to tako the ivy out of this old Frisht ruin ralled

Godfrey....".

boy friend. I want a man, not Just a male someone like Khett Butler in Gone with the Wind, but strong, gentic, sensitive, with humour. Where is her

I said I knew of no such

s:on and radio for over a decade, as great as that endered by about his tumour, "Kep your Paragon among my friends,

desks.

her

Today That was yesterday, Godfrey sits in the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and the tears flow as he talks of the leat great surge uf affection, even love, for him This red-hatred, homely man that swept America last week, Str David Ecclés Boljeves that for 55 has been the storm centre Maybe he can And some good British people do not read their of Madison Avenue and the

There has been something › in George III, whose harmw-

told Пл udience minded obstinacy

The newspapers

for spurt. nationwide networks of televi- approuching mass hysteria siner cigarettes, lest us

except

Godfrey was stricken. and the winner.

the 2.30.

A griet estimated at 20,000,000 people American colonies, ruined the

Once he became so on the death of Rudolph Valentino singers crossed.

A man can get happiness of his own children, Pertags, however, he is an ex-

Joanna will probably accept that people said he should de-

has engulfed the country. rhout with une lung. After all, the Hollywood offers and try The explcnation is simple and then drove him mad him- ception. Perhaps he reads an and frightening. There are peo- Belt. Or is it the Prince Regent, occasional newspaper, especially lete the "frey" from his nante.

He openly boasted on the alr And Godfrey himself, display- I've landed an aeroplane on one "serious" aeting. She is bored IV. the scandal if it contains his own, name, later George

with her £2,500 mink, tha he kept the glant Columbia ing a warmth and gallantry glue often enough. even of an immoral age?

In that case, here is a little Broadcasting System in business which som didn't suspect, is Then from the hosplint, grin- sports car, her flat, and her message to Sir David Eccles. ar:d scoffed that he earned saying: "Well, I guess they had ning and mugging he has issued house in Connecticut. We do not ask you to resign. fuftine for Gurman Adood weet aste 204 vento teze 2.000,Call, PINTOTE THEANG MEHR un sonich ney Can God-truth and talking about dull. I think I'll travel again.

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the company to take the ivy out of this old statements about, "his moment I find my life dull, deadly. if he "tunic that there in my que rise in say we

the Fume.

The Vice-presidents frey But, Ure Loud Lord will cald, clawords In the tropica males start to thing to be done

and. before with

Don't go to Moscow. had even Hanoverian kings except 10 Leave your beloved Germans "to

sat down at their ing, I will be back on the air," clutching fear that is gnawing look like mun

Her opinion of Suzy Parker? forget them. They were a bad their prosperly.

The Ivy referred to was a at my vitals," We are re- The boast was true. In a t cancerous lung. No iness, not The letters and telegrams The greatest. lot, even for Germans,

signed to your dropping off of "plque he red the singer sven those of Mr Eisenhower huve poured in by the tens of bricks. But people in other Julius La Ross before 7,000,000 or Mr Dulles, has been so publi. thousands.

In the spring Countries may take you serious people at the end of one of his vined.

Sam Levenson, the comedian, That would be unfortunate programmes the most pubile Before he went to hospital Gudfrey's substitute while he li for them and, still more, for us.

firing in history. Later he said, Godfrey, between playing his ill, burst into tears on the God- New York in the springtime -London Express Service), "Julius lacked humility." banjo, wisecracking and selling frey programme and called for and my friend McNeill Cooper- mass prayer, Godfrey himself Key, member of Parliament for has found humility and re- fustings, here on parliamentary Halon. Ho is overcome by the duties and business, takes

the country 13 kok sympathy.

at Manhattan showing.

three-year absence. He admits his faults, can- "The city looks bright and cedes he was arrogant, denies beautiful with the great bowls he WAB dictatorial, brushes of tulips on Fifth Avenue and nside that he drank too much- Central Park as green as Iro- "I enjoy a glass of beer or a land. I'm surprised how many dry Mortini made with vodka, New Yorkers, the men I mean, but I gave up serious drinking have become Anglicised-dark years ago."

sults, stift collars, bowler hats, He has his three homes, a rolled umbrellas, Virginia form equipped with "The women Бест light sound, and camera equip uniform or standardised. On my ment, A penthouse in Man- last visit everyone around Fifty- hutton, a string of racehorses, seventh Street in Midtown wor" a fleet of curs, and £6,000,000. exactly the some sort of

He said: "They can have mink stole. Not now. the lot. If and when I get

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notice of this kind of rubbish. They take it as what it

mply altery. take the

But they sh encouragement

"You gotta hand it to these Limoys— they ́sura 'know how to save money

London Ezylons Heritos.

after 1

less

"I find manners much better. The Americans are becoming

out of here I have other bul- neзs, God's business, to do." more mature, more understand- ing, more Dasured. The face of New York has changed drasti- cally, but it's always changing. "I hope all these massive new bulidings are financially sound. The boom is prodigious.

"Ono small criticism;

our toxicabs are two years ahead of New York's,. We can teach them something and perhaps learn a

A new namo

America's top model is no Jonger Suzy Parker, but a new name in show business, Joanna McCormack, who carns £600 a week for wearing clothes.

· Metro, is, after her and so is e ourselves, Newspapers Paramount, But Joanna, with curry for more detailed now? her £25 an hour, says: "I don't and features about England. know, I'd like to do something" than they used to...... New, Zork creative. I earn a lot of money, femains one of my very, '1 travel a lot, I haven't a real favourite cltler."-