1959-12-11 — Page 6

FOCUS ON AN EXTRAORDINARY REVOLUTIONARY

Delgado-can Britain ignore this friend?

As a rule, professional

revolutionaries do

not boast about their in- tentions. They save the speechmaking until they are safely in power.

In this respect, at least, General Humberto Delgado,

BY PAUL JOHNSON

Salazar regime, Until recently this was an uphill tank-parti- cularly in Britain.

Thanks to skilful

lender of the Portuguese Promzazi. Dr

Overonas

Salazar had Opposition, is unique. He always been regarded here

a benevolen autocrat, hence

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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1959.

been faced with an armed res volt, Britain would have inter- vened to protect him. Now this has disappeared; the nature of his regine a too widely known here.

Moreover, MPs in all

three

rears out his resolve to Portugal's unopposed admission parties are beginning to reeng- hurt Dr Salazar, the to NATO, Portuguese dictator.

has

from

oc Forgotten

the position he cupied for 30 years.

It was conveniently forgolten 14Soon We shull be in that Salazar's National Union inodelled on Mus- power," he trumpets. Ile Party was slaps his thighs, rubs his lil's Fascists. That the Portu-

quese secret pollen-nown

Was an»

hands gleefully, cracks the PIDE-WITE trained by jokes and points with Naz SS offices, That, on the pride to the rosette in his day Hitler's death buttonhole. "The Portu-eed, Salazar ordered all the Kuese Military Cross. First in Portug to be lowered Class," he explains.

Uphill task

Indeed, Delgado is no ordinary revolutionary. Is crisp milf- tary manners,

at half-mast,

But not by General Delgado. Stoutly pro-British, it was he who in the teeth of Salazar's opposillon-arranged for Britain

to use the Portuguese Azores as parade-ground a base, thus saying the lives of merchant voice and high colouring betray thousands of British

seamen and RAF pilots. the professional brass-hat.

As one of Portugal'; mor brilliant me force etamander

was for many years Soluzary The NATO ax presentative on

Last year he returned to the attack. He resigned his position s Director of Civil Aviation and food openly an opposition the Portuguese Studding Group in Wadding candidate m

Pedal Elections.

tom.

On most poitieng matters, his Not so lucky

views would be classifed here

as decided Right-wing. He is a Roman Cathole who has never read Mark,

Although the elections were for instance, ringed-Salazar, refused to publish any voting birth that percentage of the votes Salazar announced that no more elections would be held.

Now he is touring: Europe to rolls-Drigado got such a whip up support against

The

NEWS IN THE AIR

A Canadian

challenge

over airliner

A

Bristol

ile also began rounding

up

his politen opponents, whom he dispatched to concentration Portugal. in southern camp

Angola and Timor.

To avoal Test, Delgado took Fanctuary in the Brazilian Em- bassy, and thus made his escape to Rio de Janeiro. Most of his soenales were les lucky,

have a list of over 100 who are na ju gool. Many of them have been fortured.

Can Salazar survive? He h

Britain, CANADIAN. BUILT Werfuj support in

the notably in the Foreign Office, which has be at paing to General distaste at voice its

development of

Britannia airliner,

just finished, may be a Delgado's arrival in Londen,

serious competitor to *

similar aircraft being built Real chance

in Britain. The Canadian

acroplane is the Canadair

A great deal of British capital

CL44. Canadair is a sub-is invested in Portugal, not only

sidiary of a big U.S. air-

craft concern.

First CL to be compicted No. 1 of a fleet of 12 for the Royal Canadian

the the

in the wine industry but in, for instance, Liban public trans- port, which runs some of alert tand, 1 must add, cheapest) trams in the world.

Air Forev

In Portugal Itself, have been hold is undoubtedly ordered by two U.S. air cargo | Creeping inflation is

ang his once overwhelming prestige among the professional Middle Class,

Thus

operators.

of others

Mostly the airplane is built to It looks just Britanna design.

like the British aeroplane, ex- ect that it is 12ft. longer and has more powerful engines four Rolls-Royce Tynes,

Transport and cargo

Catholic

Salazar's

slip.pl. under-

Church, his

The unce-Relive ally, is now neutral it not nextile. Indeed. earlier this year Salazar found himself obliged to remove the Blahóp of Oporto, whose outspoken attacks on

were

the regime

Now being, built by Short gaining wide publicly. The

Brothers in Belfast Is the Britannic, * more advanced design transport and cargo air- plane, but which has been partly

the *developed from Britannia In the building, of which Shorts played a big part The Britannic also has four Tyne engines. It is being developed fr RAF Transport Command and will not be in service for another few years.

*

army is disaffected.

that in General Delgado have afran friend" of

they Britain,

Unul 1945, Salazar's desk WAS adorned with 11 signed This photograph of Musolini. his since been replaced by * photograph of the QueenÍ,

I can safely predict that, when and It Delgado replaces the K will bo sering dictator. one Hem

its place.

CONTAINS

#༡༠ the Wonder Find

JAK AT THE LAUNDERETTE

KEEP IT CLEAN

CIRLS

RULES

MO BOATING

NO BATHING NO BETTING NO COOKING

NO DRINKING NO SWEARING NO DISHES NO SHAMPOS

FRED SCOM

which will remain in

"THERE YOU ARE, DORIS, SOME BLOKES ARE STILL WEARING 'EM !"

London Express Service.

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Patricia Lewis

Things My Mother Never Taught Me

Until this year, there was real chance that, if Salazar had!

1

Toots Shor-"I don't call myself no rest-aur-a-teur"

EXIT HORROR-

AN AUTHOR TONES DOWN THE FAIRY TALES

Now York.

Britain's independent opera-THE dreadful giant in Jack and the tors welcome the Government's

Beanstalk no longer cries "I smell

ness.

"

HOW TO HANDLE THE HARD-DRINKING

KIND OF MAN

It was TASTED autumn in New York for the first time a year ago.

wild! It was wonderful! And I came to frequent a certain pub on 51st Street that seemed the favourite place to meet the more amusing people in town.

Toots Shor's is, temporarily, a legend. It closed its doors, after 20 jam-packed years, this summer when its beloved proprietor sold out for $1,500,000 to a Mr Zeckendorff, who wishes to build a $16,000,000 hotel on the site.

Until Toots Shor's the Second opens up around the corner some time next year, New York is

full of lost souls looking for a friendly place to drink.

And, funnily enough, Mr Shor is one of them.

After a brief bar-crawl on the Continent he manoeuvred his 17-stone into London last week,

blonde wife

accompanied by his traglic named "Husky" (presumably because her hus- band gives her about 150lb.)..

MEN HE CALLS 'FRIEND'

RUNYON

DI MAGGIO

HOPE

And, because this is a man he'd have worked harder and but guys don't like to go to 1 who knows more about life as even the the dough if I needed dolls place."

it is lived and the people who make it rich than most others. I sought him out.

That's life

I found

the rumbustious Mr Shor, not unnaturally, in Siegi's bar.

"Hell," be roared,

it that bad.")...song writer I conceded Jimmy Van Heusen;

Mr Shor

an

and that's that. Friends, y'sec? And the people who made my place...the sports-writers, the columnists, the Kuys liko DiMaggio and Joe Loula and Sinatra.

.they came there beenuse it was a place they'd know their friends would be.

"So many people don't do anything about friends amtli a guy dies and then they go to The wake, Why not have a drink with 'em while they're livin'? Mei I'm strictly booze man. And I never forget where I came from.'

#

Mr Shor's method of handling men seemed fairly obvious camaraderie bullt up on mutual drinking, cussing. and betting but how. wondered, does a woman cope with this type of hard-living man?

Funster

My earthy felend settled his bulk back in the chair as his face creased up with pleasant memories.

"Well," he said, shaking his head as if the thoughts were so nany raindrops to be dispersed. "No guy's been around dolls more than me. And from what I've

can seen, the doll that handle a men needs to be a real hitch!

"I bin out with dolls who've taken me to some joint that I

thought was my idea only to

wolter there and they'd fixed it together all the time. See what I mean?"

"He's

a excellent point and asked him find they're stuck on some s.o.b. Hope: to expand. good drinking mon.").

Your Lordship' ("He calls mo and I call him Crumb,"... Jackie Gleason: ("I sent him a postcard of the House of Com- here- mons written Spoke standing ovation,' Fun eh?").

the

is bar

dark-

Big time

Mr Stor's valce got rumblier, the tables got emplier," and the

"Well, the main thing for a staff looked increasingly anxious, person is never to forget where 11 was time to leave.

"Say, I've had fun," caid they

came from," rumbled

Toots, rising to his feet like a Arriving at Simpsons in the Tools. "I left Philly. (Phila- "This is Strand-where

volcano fresh out of the Pacific. delphia) in 1929 and I left broke out lookin' for fun all the my first time in Europe and all regular and the beet is rare and in cisgust. So I went 10

time saloons Mir

now. In my own joint I've done is exchange

Sher gazed at the ...but it feels good-the booze wood paneling, the booths and New York and got me a job in people came to see me never

a speakeasy- was a tough kid

hod went out and we is the game. Guess I'm happy huge roasts wheeled. on

and they used me as a bouncer. You know, a good saloon-keeper anywhere glong as there's a trolleys.

Then I was at the Cotton Club

swingin' party every good bar.

up in Harlem-I recall that Lena has a "Y'know

Horne was in the choruð, ... the only thing I

And if he's on holiday, he Boy! What a line-upt" don't like over here are these

doesn't do go badly during the enloon-keepers who put on a

either. Even if it is a busman's holiday!

myself no

Oh, I say

silver

and call themselves "Ay say," he quipped to the "Jelly good fun, not now in use, the children would twirl black the

(Mr rest-our-a-teurs."

Shor head waiter.

d'you say? Bung ho, their finger, or give other signs of restless-minced a few steps to punchate what

the word.) "Yeeze! I've had and all that jazz!"

For "Some of the youngsters were quite four Presidents in my loon plans to improve the arrange the blood of on Englishman" in a new

I don't call ments for leensing operators

sensitive to the horror in many of the old and edition of the classic fairy

rest-aur-a-teur," sugar-cooted and air services

tales."

I Nevertheless, The British Independent Air tales which has just been published hero

When the children failed to grasp the roors: "Feo-tie-fo-tum, Transport Association, repre¦ Instead, he now

meaning of on old folk-saying like "Necessity is the mother of invention, Mrs McGovern used instead: "It is best to preparo ahoad,”

senting

the major free enter- who is here, who has come?" prise

airlines,

The idea is to protect children from Duncan Saridye,

dovouring of Little Minister of Aviation, that it has horrors such as the

told Mr the now

been pressing for some Ume for Red Riding Hood's grandmother by the an improvement in the control Big Bad Wolf. of companies wishing to operate commercial air services.

"It is, in our view, much too

Called The Treasure Book of Fairy Tales, the now publication is the brain-

easy to enter this deld of trans- child of Manhattan author and mother,

port," they said. Now President Ann McGovern,

of BIATA is Captain C. J.

Stevens, chief of BKS

Air

Mrs McGovern says, that when she has whose air flect entertained friends of her son, Potar, nino, includes some of BEA's former #| noted that when I read the old fairy

Transport,

Elizabethan airlinezw,

-{London Express Service).

tales, and came sto long wards or words

She said: "The children understood that. It held their attention, and they liked it."

night..."

I dragged Toots back to the day. subject."

*

fun,

MARLON BRANDO is always La controversial character, than when

a but never more

to he made a film called "The Wild ran Bamon One" which

was banned in

"Through the years I mode a lotta felends and that's the a moment it was touch secret of life, friends-one was and go whether we'd be thrown a guy called Mark Hellinger,

Introduced me oul, but my friend relieved the writer. He

by distributing Billy Lahir, who suggested situation His whole currency with Texan largesse Rubyon's hang-out, The Taventi Britain, except for that tough,

I took over

called and ran the. place able-to-take-li district lunch to Mr Shor.

amusement around the room,

1 in 1935 I bought it.. with Cambridge. ut the idea. frame shook with

Mr the same guys in there all the I saw "The Wild. One" at a For a non-eating man

club cinema the other night. It "Food." he announced be- Shor seemed strangely at home time." tween guffaws,

"Is the most

had its moments but generally c. with inoked trout, oysters, beef,

But if you live like Tools Shor was repetitive and sometimes, unessential thing in my

two cheeses, a large dry, martini, roast beef so I'll go along with But none of these goodies dis- you go down. In 1939 he lost was on the screen positively But I've been told to try your and a couple of carafer of wine, you find that as you come up so particularly when Mr Brando you long as there's a regular tracted him trom the saloon- The Tavern in a gambling debt. yawn-making. There was less "I was broke again, but same violence, sadism, and sex than keeper's time-honoured act of slimbed into We

how with the help of friends I in a Sunday afternoon TV serial. conversation. ("Gotta year chauffeur-driven limousine ("I

I loft the cinema more con- trip for the recovered and a year later. I dialogue on this believe in travellin" luxe,") and boys when I get back.")

opened Tools Shop's...that was fused than ever about where 20 years ago,

the conscience of consorship talked of mutual friends,

what I meen masculine-type

about begins and when, let's hope, it .."This is a ("He's my kid calls sibatra: me 'Blub.")...Ruark: ("When place," he observed. "You know friends? A cop can stop my for ends.

-(London Express, Barvice), I sold up he wrote a piece sayin' dolls like to go to a man's place speedin'...we have a word...

The author has kept much of the (bar." suspense and excitement in the tale of "not enough to Hansel and Gretel, but give children nightmares."

And, of course, Grandma is not eaten in Little Red Riding Hood,

London Expresę Service).

vast.

of