THE CHINA MAIL,
DON IDDON'S
DIARY
DATELINE. NEW YORK AND MIAMI
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1959.
THE
BIG
PAY-OFF
I
DID not discover, that...
Britain had repaid the United States an £89,000,000 loan five years ahead of time until I got back to New York from Florida, and news is supposed to be my business.
Yet every day touring Florida bought Your local newspapers - the big Miami sheets, the little local dailies . and
evenings, and listened to the radio news- casts.
No gratitude
This must be the least
publicised pay-back in his tory, and even the compre hensive metropolitauf papers in Manhattan did not give the achievement a big play or much gratitude, Why?
1 know half al dozen editors here in New York, and they tell me: "Well,
FIDEL CASTRO
THE
BIG
WRITE-OFF
BRITAIN PAYS OFF £89,000,000 YEARS.
AHEAD OF TIME
BUT FOR CASTRO
I
TIME MAY RUN OUT TOO SOON
the British had welshed on of that hig information
Castro, obviously, is slipping, but he is a man of such vehe- mence, ouch wild ambitions and terrible fears, that he might create a blood bath before he is removed by bullets, the noose, by his own hand, or before he (EDS.
Financially Cuba is through, according to the American ban- kers who were holding à con- vention when I was in Miami, "You can't put good money in a bad man's tianda" said the pre- sident of the Consolidated Ex- change. Trust angrily,
Atrocious
I made this Florida trip and back by train because I spend much of my time in aeroplanes Miami is the headquarters of and I don't like them. The
their debt, that would be budget buying advertising the anti-Castro movement, and American railways, or railroads right on the front page."
a
Now here, surely was chance for our expensive, well-organised British In- formation Services. They cost us about - £500,000 rear and their executives live bigger and better all the time, so it is only fair to ask-even demand-re- suits. I write this reluc-
space?
ing down such a suggestion (it I cannot see Whitehall turn
was never made). We should have taken half-page or quarter- page advertisements with head Then the details. incs such as "Britain Repays,"
to
We shoukl have bought time on the radio and television drive home the facts. Because the sad truth is that almost no
has been repaid, let alone repaid long before it was due.
it's not what we call really tantly, because most of the one here knows that the loan
big, hard news.
Not for
American consumption.
anyway.
"You
know that must baci news is big news. If
people who run my frienda.
B.I.S. are
get I Look the Iddor Public
Opinion Poll wad asked
repay.
If we could not prominence for our ment in the newspapers why didn't we spend some
ABACUS MAN KEEPS UP
WITH 'BRAIN' MACHINES
Toronto.
NIMBLE-FINGERED Chinese is trying 10 A
beat the electronic age with the abacus, the finger-powered wooden adding machine which has been the mainstay of China's book-keeping for centuries.
Ive Kal-chen has already pitted himself against several modern electronic competitors und the core is about even so far,
con
The
-service IS poor, trains
local police say there are at least as they call them, are whining 15,000 Cubans, many with guns, about losing money, doing badly. planning counter-evolution, and pleading for Government strips and hundreds of privately badly. There are scores of private air- subsidies. They deserve 10 do
owned planes 213 the Miami, Fort Lauderdale,
Palm Beach don't run on time, the food is area, and all the Florida Loop- atrocious, the prices ers, the local F.D., and even and the whole system is running the United States Air Force, can down. Just like British Rall- not prevent Cuban "Nationalists" ways only worse. taking uff Bid showering Huvona or other
citics Cuban with pamphlets or worse.
the
One of the troubles, is the fanaticism and exhibitionism of the anti-Castro forces. When Castro erupted and compared one pamphlet-dropping to Pearl around the town Harbour or the sinking of questions in buses, Maine, 17 Cubans in Miami said in taxis, in vlevators, in bars, they had done the job. in restauran's. "What do you think about Britain paying buck calls himself a soldier of for
Actually, Frank Fiorini, who that loan Ave years before time?"
Results: Blank atares, bewil- derment, never heard about it, you still owe us billions, toy ain't you got a British heavy- weight? Except from two news papermen; "Yeah, quite some- thing. Maybe you should start lending us money,”
time, but who is a child of mis- fortune, is the real culprit, and
of now he is writing a series articles: "I bombed Cuba-with truth,"
There is something furatie about the situation. One of Florini's friends telephoned me: "Would the Daily Mail be In- tested
publishing in
the articles 'I flew Cubon leafle
I am willing to bet that if rald'? We will make it worth Dr Gallup took a much more your while." I rang off. get the same results. comprehensive poll he would the money but you had no prodigious. Miami is the place choice, no publicity, no credit.
Obsessed
South, T
You paid
With his
particularly Improved HE new model, which
Florida and Miami, is so work out decimal points, he beat a new
preoccupied with its own electronic design six times out affairs that it has 'neliher. space nor time for much north of the Adopting North American border. It is obsessed with the sales methods, Lee is offering problem at Fidel Castro, a free how-to-do-it correspon bearded boss of Cuba.
of seven,
dence course from Formosa to rach customer.
He brought 100
inger powered abac from Formosa with him and is trying to per- suade the hundreds of Chinese merchants in Canada and the
United States who use electric orders. computers in to save money and revert to the system of their ancestors.
their
before going home.
-(London Express Service).
RT
5
the
The betting on Castro's fate is
of the big beitor, second only to Las Vegas, but usually the bets are on horses or fighters or even electione. Today there is a lot of money being wagered on Cuba (Ironically "American business is not wagering further money and is rapidly pulling out its investments).
ON
any
are high,
H
(2) Insive Snapshot in the word
MOON - The most
8
Cummings
At last be's playing with a toy that's right for his age group.
Nobody has
had this
man's job
before...CA
CAN YOU
GUESS FROM HIS PICTURE
WHAT LINE OF BUSINESS HE'S IN?
by Anthony Lejeune
of first
doctors will come to us, par-
London Express Service.
FRDRESSOR RADZINOWICE
Radzinowicz) for the war against crime, Scotland Yard and the Home Office will co-operate in any way they can.
me,"
AN ORDER
Br Radzinowicz said: "DECURS He went to the door and The baby KAVO a quiet cader, promptly stopped crying.
-London Express ServiČAJ.
HE professor and I fessor. This is Dr Leon Radzi travelled round many crimino- THE hotels
Professor of logy departments in In the lobbies of the
Europe knelt on the floor of nowicz, the first
Criminology in the Brilleh and Amèrica and I believe the fronting the beach the odds are
book-lined study Commonwealth and only quoted daily. Gambling wadi-his
the institute at Cambridge will be cales have been formed and in pouring over
a huge world.
second in the English-speeking something unique. Cuba is a 45-minute aight one hotel there is a lottery, Thal chart. Outside lay an 11 Was Mr
and a mere ditch would amuse the Cubans,
"For instance, we shall be the Butler himself,
One small crime had been So far, he has more than 400 from Mianti
to university alarmed by the rising Ude
give
* checked.
Other darker crimes But he plans another ride from Key West, so Castro
autumnal Cambridge crime, who urged Cambridge to diploma in criminology. breathing businesses big sales campaign in the U.S.
down Florida's The odds offered
may respond less easily, but you by, the
"Our courses wiil not be
can be sure that Britain's new Chair of Criminology. that garden, disturbed only create throat and Florida feels #t is smart boys are 5 to 3
vocational. We shall not be Professor of Criminology will Mr Isunc Wolfson Ananced it producing pollceruen being suffocated.
Castro will be out within a year, by the sound of a baby's
or proba- tackle them just as calmly, just with £150,000. The other day tion officers, but senior police as crying.
firmly, and, who knows, the elaborate processes al the officers and probation officers perhaps almost as effectively. university were finally com-
and magistrates and prison The chart was simply pleted and the new professor a curriculum for the pro- began his job.
ticularly to our summer school. Why Leon Radzinowicz? Be-
"It will be a two-way tradic. fessor's pupils but it cause for about 15 years now he We shall teach and learn." was the subjects, neatly has been running a small De-
"Criminologista, can not partment of Criminal Science directly reduce crime," Блук pencilled in their in Cambridge and his researches Radzinowicz. "That is not our
into the motives of criminals business... squares, which gave me
and the effects of various "Some American crimino- a little chill of incon- methods of punishment have logists toy to predict which indi-by ex-Commando the Rev. gruity.
won him an International re- viduals are likely to become A.. .M. MacFarlan, head putation.
criminals. I do not believe you master of St Kentigen College
Hinnas nature in Auckland, New Zealand He doesn't look a bit like a do-that. Sherlock Holmes. He's a small, too complicated.
"But you con examino thick-set man with greying hair
ALL over the Empire, school- the effect of criminal laws, the LA lle wears
'masters are bedevilled by Here were no lectures on and heavy eyebrows.
tweed sulfo and mokes, effect of penal institullons, the classical poetry, no seminara on the quantum theory of cigarettes in a black holder. His effect of police powers. You can
examine what the palice accent: la still heavily, Polish.
___and mathematica. His subjects
the public think about them. His wife, Mary Ann, is the
*Separate checks, 'pinaan"
Budims
Can I keep him? I made him in science class”,
AN ACCENT
were grimmer and more daughter of an American urgent: psychopathic general who now supervises criminals, police powers of President Elsenhower's farming
It
A DRAMA
search and arrest, gangs was Rodzinowicz jun. who was thing about the 50 per cent of
operations ut Camp' David. mid juvenile delinquency.
The profondela, volce caught cons he "falked, about, "h Vocation. "What do our, young
men
Askét.
know, shout, crime?? "be
"They leave, Caibri to be law and
knowing nothing of crime, AD; || really is,'
crying in the garden,
AN AIM
QUOTE
the legend of Sir Winston Churchill's sloth, and bad.
at Harrow. His baleful eximiilo „Enpoarages" the · parents, of lay boys to hope that their.boys, without sidering themselves, patky. attain wisdom and greatneša.
"Still les càng, do any
unsolved crimes. We are not concerned with methods of. detection as soch. But our work by Mr Arthur:Pegg/ borders on them, of course, aht of the National Associat # may have an influencë.
Remand Home Super For example, the volume we and Metron, at Vie Dr Radzinowicz has been con- cerned with crime for so long, shall soon publish dat the Mare, Bomerbet that he can't even remember system of coroners". 'Inquiries how he Brat became interested may suggest some changes."** in it.
The drama lies in the experi
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