Pago B.T
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, ↑ 1959.
WHO IS MAC'S
SUCCESSOR?
ONCE
NCE a year it is the habit of the Conservative members of Parliament to give a complimentary luncheon at the Savoy Hotel to their leader, For some reason the Tory peers are not included in the goodly company but the MP's are there in force,
There is only one speech at the function and that is by the Party leader. And since the Tories happen to be in power just now the Party leader is also the Prime Minister. Yet it seemed to many of us that Macmillan, despite his vaulting spirit, is feeling the strain..
Today
the aeroplane hus
added immensely in the task of London Letter:
in Bri-
tain. Gone are the days when a
Prime Minister from West-
minster enjoyed the respite By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER MP
an ocean voyage en route
to
discuss Imperial affairs with the Prime Minister of the Common- wealth or world problems with the President of
the
United Amory who holds the post
of beaver and is tireless in
his
States. There is no time today Chancellor of the Exchequer, encouragement Conservative
cuts
to the younger for the mind or the body to He came to high office carly in members of the acclimatise itself to the chatige Macmillan's administration when Party not only in the Commona of the hour.
Chancellor Peler Thorneyeroll but in the constituencies. resigned beenuse Macmillon Yet once again the feminine Therefore it is fairly certain would not agres to his proposed frelor intervenes. Unhappily his that Jarold lacrallian, us he
In the Welfare State. wife became ill some time aga prepares for the coming general Thomeycroft was foolish but and has had to be content with election, divides his thoughts brave and, being fairly young, an invalid's chair. bellove that etween the approaching cam he may find his reward in the she is making a good but slow
gn and his ultimate retire future--but it will be a distant recovery and may indeed
ultimately
full I do not mean by those
restored to words to suggest that he anti- future.
health, but could a woman who cipates defeat at ific polls. In
was ill for years take on the fact n Tory victory is as cer-
dutics of
hostess at No. 10 tain as any pre-election
Downing Street? If good will phecy can be.
could cure her--and it can cer- tainty help the whole country would rejoice.
Micht,
the
of thu
11200
Bachelor
bo
"Matilda! I am not interested in whether you prefer the one you have designed yourself to the regulation uniform-go and change at once.
Ever wonder how those exquisito ivory chess pieces are made?
Elizabeth Fox Reporter
investigates mand finds the answer .
Skill, patience
NOW, if you have a particular desire to keep up chess
Then what about Thomey croft's cuccessor Heathcoat Such is the lure of public life Amory? Everyone likes a cul- that there will be no trouble in tured, homely fellow of good finding members
Con middle class family who dearly Therefore let us consider what servative Party ready and eager loves a cup of tea which he him- to take up
burden at self brews in hin fint. Well, would happen if (a) The Torles supreme office.
(b) The Tories lose. In But on whom what's wrong with that? Noth win will the mantle fall when Mac- Ing, except that he is a bachelor, the case of a Tory victory Mac- milion eventually 'retires?
Thus, so far, we have in the millan would almost certainly It may seem a stronge divers contenders for the Leadership carry on the burden of supreme slon from my thesis but I a Stakes one widower (Butler) once for two or three years and convinced that the appointment and two bachelors (Ted He then make way for his successor of Macmillan's successor to the
and Derick Heathcoat Amory), in the Party. If the Tories are leadership of the Conservative in nil three cases there would defeated Macmillan would pro Party will Le determined either or no husless at No. 10 if any and retire as per custom to the ably resign the Party Leadership by the woman in the case or of them attained the Party the lack of a woman in the ease. Leadership and the Premiership. Upper House, where he would Admittedly this needs elucidation But should such considerations take a well deserved Earldom. and, therefore, let us now take
make any difference? Logically
Who then would succeed him An established Ivory factory a look at the available talent for they should not, but undoubted- as Leuder of the Tory Party in on the Island have recently the succession to Macmillan and
The Commons and in the coun-opened a branch hu Kowloon and appraise the feminine lector.
ernment
The
ly they do.
with the Jones's over the matter of game of I've got just the thing for you. A chess set to end all chess sets, with an enormous hoard and chess men about six inches high, all you have to do is buy it, build a special table for it and a room to put it in and there you are.
Well, what about Duncan try? The brilliant bachelor this is where you'll and your At the moment the favourite Sandys who married Sir Winston Chiet Whip. Edward Heath? "Chess set for millionaires," In the succession stakes is
The ruthless Duncan Sandys Mr Wong put it. Right Honourable Edward Rie- Churchill's daughter and is to-
Mr. Wong runs the business hand George Heath, Chief Gov- day, as Minister of Defence, the who is separated from his wife?
Service Heathcont Amory brewing his side of this combined showroom Whip. and Oxford Overlord of the three
Minister for the Navy, the
and had many own tea and bolling the eggs and workshop graduate, Master Gunner within Army and the Air Force? San- for his breakfast? Or will it be fascinating things to tell me out the Tower of London, and
dys is efficient, tileriy ruthless Iain Macleod with his tireless the subject of Ivory and the Privy Councillor. Now mynd he is n handsume fellow energy, his falth and his robust carving of it. ecem odd that Ted Heath
me courage? being touted as the Tory Party's It has always astonished inan of destiny because a Chief how I beat him for the Parlia
mentary Borough of Wood Green Whip never makes a speech
is
1
the Chamber. But there is answer for that. As an under- graduate Heat was President of the Oxford Union which nearly always a Jurontee future greatness in political life.
Omission
18
of
its
The Claims
when he local Conservative As-
choosing W36
But wall a moment. Why clationi
considered the candidate for the 1933 election. have we not Quite probably it was because, claims
working of the hard at that time, I had a wife (whose Selwyn Lloyd who, as Foreign proclaim) Secretary, dies thousands and qualities I shall not and he was unmarried.
thousands of miles to try to bring peace and sanity to a disordered world? Alas! He and
his wife are separated, and it is sad to see him hurrying home to his flat for a few minutes to see his little daughter, docs
Then what is to prevent Dun can Sandys being touted as candidate for No. 10 Downing Street? The answer, cruel as it that there are may seem is domestle difficulties. But that matter? What hos marringe to do with the problems of de-
But he has one drawbiek, and it is serious. He is a bachelor Admittedly he could remedy this he is a pleasant omission for and attractive fellow when he is not herding his Tory pack into fence in a mad atomle world? I cannot give the answer to the
the Division Lobby, but if
be
You might well ask what politician's private lie has
A
to
the
do with the conduct of
The answer is nation's affairs.
Crown
insists upon remaining a bache- question but can only pose it. that a Minister of the
lor he may have to pay the price of relibacy.
At this point you might well nak what has happened to the chances of Rab Butler who is House now the Leader of the
cannot draw a curtain between the people accept Sandys as a
his private and his public life. Minister of Defence but do not yet undoubtedly the strain and want a Prime Minister separated the long hours of Parliamentary from his wife.
responsibility rob marriage
of At this juncture you might much of Its base comradeship.
Sir Not every woman has the as well as boing Home Secretary, well point out that when
of Dioracli's wife, Eden resigned Anthony Eden
Foreign sensibility Wa8 When Anthony
as Prime Minister the successor Secretary ho divorced his wife when driving to Westminster in
to Sub for desertion. down ship narrowed
All of us who their carriage preparatory to an Butler and Harold Macmillan. were Eden's friends knew how important speech by Dizzy, her The Marquis of Salisbury. as hard he tried to keep his marri- Onger was caught in the corri
because uge door, and made no the Tory Leader in the House age intact, especially
round
蒜
Mre
question!
of Lords, advised the Queen to one of their two sons was shot lest she should break the con- appoint Butler to the Premier- down and killed in aerial com- centrution of her husband. What bat. But it was not to be, would you, the women readers, ship.
But old man Churchill plump- Happily, however, Eden married do in such a sliuation? As
the Slr Macmillon, and
Winston Churchill's niece lover of peace and concord. I ed for Queen accepted his advice, Mere- and all was well until Suez and herewith declare that you would
him have behaved exactly as ly as an aside let me remind his failing health forced
Dismelt did. you that Salisbury, belonging to resign.
So
Onul to the Who are the men most likely to the Cecil family which has virtually culed England from to supply the successor to Harold When the time comes who will the time of the great Elizabeth. Macralian when he decides to succeed Macmillan in the Tory the widowed was so angry that he resigned lay down the double load of hierarchy? Not and has hardly been heard of Premiership and Party Leader- Butler, not the lonely Duncan
the Sandys, not ship?
unmarried since.
of the Exchequer, So once more we see the Perhaps some of the readers Chancellor
the will recall a fairly recent on- not the wifeless Foreign Secre- power of the female in affairs of men. It was the Queen don Leller in which I discussed tary.
and the qualities and the poilical In my opinion the finger of who appointed Macmillan
Jain the possibilities of
Macleod fate points to lain Macleod. If by her decision she ended
Scottish Prime Cecil regime forever, und prob- whose administration as Minister I am right a
Labour, and formidable Minister will be followed ably the deciding factor was that of Hab Buller was a widower and speeches in the Commons have another Scottish Prime Minister therefore, had no consort to brought him great influence in providing the Tories win the of Mary circles. He has a first election. And after Mrs Mac. sharo the responsiblities
No.:10 Downing Street.
consider
by
Now let
of
flrat rate brain, he is a
rate leod's long illness there will be the administrator,
he and
has joy and tears and dedication in He works like a their modest home. Derick Heathcoat integrity.
chances
of
be exact, where apparently the elephante have a habit Mokup for 200 vedra or so, which is a very long time to wait before collecting the tusics on their demise, without bumping them all off beforehand.
Larckily the clophant had thought of this and arhanged to shed his tusks every 40 or 50 It all begin thousands of years the enabling man to enough miles away in East Africa, in obtain the Ivory In the Belglan Congo to senreity to make it beterosting.
PA MOK-LAN—the fought.
Gmmüas
door! If only there were some discrept buskes
Young Start
But back to this part of the world. When the tusks eventual- ly arrive in the workshop, they are sorted, welghal, clasified as to quality and then chopped up into sullable alzer.
The tips which are solid,
used for
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Serve
and tusks
With ample tools they carea intricate designs.
to
making figurines and anything? substantial and the hollow ends are used for small objects and on to follow in his footstepn chuffed about winning the war Tho mich I watched who have articles such aø brucelits.
He know that he'd lose his head and everything, that he forgave all been carving now for ten tart The ivory carvers
the it he refused and he reckoned eyezyona all round and ever
vory years, use
simple and and rge at 15
hos been prilive tools, saws and chisela an op he'd lose it anyway it he did, since Fo Mok Lan
arc prenticeship of five years before so Ritogether he was in a bit of considered gulto a cat.
an extraordinary ancient When they can cúm anything and even a fix.
buy arquobus type of drill. If you would like then they are only at the begin-
her. this particular sisine, two article has been carved it ning of their knowledge. There
which ́about 18′′ high and looks exactly like a piece of is much to learn of this skilled
300 years old, will cost you wood and it m then polished art and often a man who carves
$1,800.
with a type of tear to give it that animals, which is a specialised
about lovely shine that one associates subject; may carve arimais and
"It's with ivory. nothing but, pll his life.
All the buffaloes and buddhas, the sherman and boats are traditional designs' with often an interesting story behind them.
One auch figure is that of Fa Mok Lan änd PN tell you her story.
In one of the ancient Chinesa
However, up jumped enter- prising daughter and jaid, “Dad--Fil do it!” Alice was at it again. She had a short course in armed warfare from the general and then, dressed
up w
'battle.
There is no set order carving a figure like this.
By Elizabeth Fox
Deep Colour
2
**** An attracliva picco s
flower bast, rather lilco a house- boat, with little windows that opened showing iges Inside altting, drinking and playing
man, went off to do all in the head," cald Mr Wong, games, Perhaps the most stric
"They make a keserst outline to Ing was the Dragon boat with all
SOFT.
him
and commanded him to fight for ids country gains a neighbouring state.
the whole family discovered would have been for the high jump.
very
This mada' the general sad because he felt that he was But she fought bravely and much too old and he had no won the war, which made the
DOTERICAL
I
should
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dynzelies lived a general with It was a dangerous thing to get the proportlans and then the little men in it with two in an enterprising daughter but no have done because there was a furcy on as they feel, usually the middle banging away on Now our day the Banperor declaration in the land about no kuving the hat until the end the drum and a rival copeparta summoned the old man before lady soldiers and if she had been
The most difficult thing to aft banging on a hand drum to
one of the intricate keep time carve in
for the Ivory spheres containing about Very disconcerting 24 morp insideo, all heqyilfully' imagina, carved with "delicato tracary The older the ivory, patterns.
deeper the colour and the more They all ewizzle round cre valuable it is. Ono real ye olde E Emperor happy as sandboy inside the other and how on sew, absolutely yellow with age, although he sull thought it was earth they make them must re, was a parving of Confucius Master Fa. He set for him/her main a mystery still, because Mr made out of a whole tusk and for a spot of congratulation and Wong just wasn't going to leaning gently to one side. 250 during the ensuinar interview divulge anything other than the yours old, it was a mere bagatelo everything was disclosed and the fact that they take one man going for $2,299 and would do working pll day long, two nicely for that spare yard or so aecnot was out.
pri your mantelpiece.
But the Emperor was still so months to make.
THE COMICAL
T
London
TT is not often that an pe
attempted bank rohi bery ends in smiles. But London was laughing the other day at the case of
"The Comical Gunman.”
By Peter Burgoyne
phd
GUNMAN
disappeared
This particular robber, ac- cording to the account. of Camden Top's (North Lon- counter, doa) | Midland Bank castor, through the door."", wore a green-handkerchief on "Very mintcarlish," remarked his face, and carpiod a brown in bank customer who had Dapor parcel.
watched it all from safe He died into the bank, corner. whipped the paper away and
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entrance fee-The-fee-for-wonion is still five shillingsto 'courage them to take up "na-
turism,"
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pointed its contolls—a sawn-oir The Coast-A Myth stay-at-home.
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