1959-12-30 — Page 6

Four years ago since this argued- about Foreign Secretary took over.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1959.

The day I told Lloyd he could be Premier

FOUR years ago today Mr Selwyn Lloyd became Foreign Minister.

His

initiation was hardly auspicious, for a keen-eyed photographer was able to present to the public a private note he was writing to Lady Eden.

Crities began at once to assail him. It was said that Sir Anthony had put him there, not for his talents, but for his lack of them, so that he would continue the management of foreign affairs himself.

This

criticism against Mr Lloyd has continued under Mr Mucmillan. How much truth is

That 111?

In nany ways Mr Lloyd is The most under-

Colle

(1

estimmten men in publle fe.

no exaggeration 10 y living that among the world's

statesmen he # The finest negotiator, with a knowledge of Foreign affairs transcending his international colleagues.

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Thus at the conference table, is of in negotiation, he

COUNTRY.

The

Value

reason

this

Despite this he has not been abriliantly successful ForeIRA Secretary. The reason for this ean perhaps be explained by an- of his character- uther facel

an inability to assert his per- sunality.

Is willingness to play

role under Subordinate

authority o!

Sir Anthony

the

He

Eden was understandable.

had been his Minister or Stute at the Foreixu

Omice, and

appointment

as

owed to him his subsequent premature

Foreign Secretary.

SELWYN LLOYD-his instinct has rarely been wrong.

BY LORD LAMBTON, MP

who was Parlamentary Private Secretary to Selwyn Lloyd until he resigned over the decision to withdraw from Sack

I am certain he was aware of this, yet out of loyalty to a Cabine decision he

in office.

continued

This was the decisive moment. Once it was passed Mr to himself open- so Lloyd laid

it every

Sort of critielsm desiring the best of work

Estat it is a pity that he has not been able to assert him self under Mr Macmillan, for by owes itle to him.

had hc Indeod, wished, extraordinary as may seem today, there is little doubt that he could have succeeded Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister.

His chance

Slighted

every

The

-

Mr Lloyd has elcarly warned The Cabinet

about sequences of these policies, and it is known that be was as doubtful about the ending of conscription as be was about the sending of arms to Tunisia, the stopping of sending arms to Indonesia, and Mr Macmillan's "Eurupean busting" trip to Moscow.

But in each of these instances he allowed him- overruled. His Neither was Mr Macmillan self to be

thus has hardly very grateful, for a short time instinct

Mr afterwards he referred to

ever been wrong, but the Lloyd in what must be the sad thing

Has is that ha most Alighting way

novor been prepared to Minister Prime

has referred

Foreign stand on it. to his Secretary as "that middle-class then Mr lawyer." and ever since

the grand design of foreign from home had com- themselves to uncon- affairs has been in the Prime

last

The occasion was his return United Nations in from the December 1950, after the abortive Suez debole,

Prime Minister was in The Jamaica. Mr Butler and Macmillan at

mitled ditional withdrawal. Mr Lloyd

alone

retreat.

uncommitted Was

Had he

to

than

at that time, as I urgently pointed out to him. chosen to resign rather accept the American terms. the there is le doubt that whole sympathy of the country would have been behind him. and that upon Sir Anthony's subsequent retirement he would have received the overwhelming of the Conservative support

and the Parliamentary Party

country.

Minister's hands.

thali

租

ever

Mr

Now, although at home Macmillan has had a triumphal march, things abroad are very different.

Warnings

Britain's standing In Europe bas never been so low, while our defences have been reduced

makes which to a level almost impossible for have a foreign policy.

it

us to

the Foreign Office autumn will not be permanent, for the very toughness in his enabled constitution which has

You never see a Russian

OUR Resident Reporter in the Soviet capital opens his notebook, not to write about politics -but to tell just how the people of Russia are living to- day.

throw a

snowball

Moscow.

was the most perfect Christmas weather here in Moscow-bitterly cold, but clear and bright, and the moon glittered down on the snow-hung trees round the Kremlin walls.

Out in the villages, prople driving around on the

hard-packed

snow

in their

horse-drawn rolkas, as they

dir 100 years ago.

The children ove wonderful time.

having a

The park in the middle of the block of flats where I live is two feel deep in snow now, and three-year-ali the kids, from toxidlers up to teenagers, swoop round and round the buildings on their akls.

The show has been cleared and water thrown down to freeze and make an ice-hockey rink. The tiny us are pulled round by their elder brothers on sledges.

Looking from my window it's ati rather reminiscent of that Breughel painting of the villagers disporting themselves in the snow.

And yet, with all this snow around,

to see a I have yet

or Russian throw a snowball

build a snowman,

There must be no the Soviet Union.

Kusnelauv,

in

from

CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

BY AIR MAIL)

sters enthralled by the Christ- ms marvels in Oxford Street,

Santa Claus here is called Father Frost, and, though- there is no white-bearded gentleman to take the children on his knee in the Moscow stores, the legend is kept alive with magnificently robed and bearded dummies bearing sacks of toys.

There are dolls from £5 10s. to £14 10s., paint sels at £3, a tiny piano ui £5 10., decora- tions at anything up to 29 a Lox.

for

And if you want, to buy some- ing sensible for father there are padded uvercoats at £110. If he is a sporting chap, then are special dris there cloom

holes in the frozen. Aleksander cutting

rivers and folding seats for him Deputy Minister

to sit over the hole fishing. of Culture. explaining why

There are dresses for mulber the Soviet Union will not pro-

Anne simple straightforward dresses duct "The Diary_of Frank," SAYS: "Why should at £18 to £35.

Chia play People at through knowing that there will be an unhappy ending?"

They call him Father Frost

1

The Russian, whose average wago is £75 to C85 a monti, splurge has saved up for this just like anyone at home.

*

The Moscow hotels are really frying hard to bring themselves

up to Western standarda.

af

His job? Handing out towels in the and spraying on scent washroom.

Latest Soviet drean siyin

connects

Glamorous Ruertan fim star Irina Skobtaroa.

LOOK AT THESE PICTURES..

ARE THEY

YOUR IDEA

OF LIFE

IN RUSSIA?

HE girl in the height-of-fashion

Tdreas could be walking along

London's Regent-street. The star with the sultry sophisticated look might be top-of-the-bill in a West End cabaret. Only the children's book (its title "Cat and Mouse") gives the clue that these pictures were not taken in Britain. They come from Russia and throw illuminating light on her people's lives.

up

three major pedes- and At the National Hotel the thoroughfares," other evening I Was proudly trians can now get quickly and only sufely to points which, introduced to P hure man

meant a time ago, Ofelally there is no Christ- wearing a short while Jacket short

hazardous dash to islands of here. For Russia 19 and jackboots. "This, said However, it is to be hoped s

Godless country,

safety among a torrent of cars. Man the manager, "is our

But are the Russians happy that his proposed retirement oficially

Beauty." this and Christmas Day is just an-

about this? Not on your life.

pedics- other working day.

silli

They are the worst Russians And yet the

trions in the world They take manage to have their Christmas

delight in outfacing death- fun.

all the. They transfer

dealing cars, they walk blindly across the roads, they look the Ignore the wrong way, they militiaman's shrill whistles of warning, they dash suddenly in front of trucks. and displey a supreme fatalism which often end in a nasty smear on Toad,

him to bear without flinching the most savage attacks, seems to have given nim both a new strength and authority.

If he could match these with of determination to an access

after his character he might,

a well-earned rest, return 225

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs far better qualified for his position than

any other member

of the Conservative Parly that can come to mind.

London Express Service).

galety of the Christmas season

to New Year's Day. That is a Godless day, but its celebration follows closely along the tradi- tional material side of Christ-

mos.

The stores have put up their decorations. Children press their noses against the windows of the Children's World Store to sec Puss in Bools having his shoes shone by a mechanical hedgehog just like any young-

A

Daredevils in the traffic

magnificent new Bubway has just been completed after Street Gorki under

months of hard work, It

the

But they take a kind of per→ verse pride in their freedom to get injured and killed it they so wish, and this new, safe sub-

КОТАУСИ и МАУСИ

ÂN LAMMEN ME

* 2 2 2 2

From a book of nursery rhumes,

I heard two women complain- Ing the other day as they were urged towards the subway by a millaman: **What are we.,

the tirrio

very rarely printed in way is regarded as on insult to

The only their bravery. It means loss of newspapers. face to walk in safety below one is printed, is-10 point la the ground instead of in danger political or sociological morali The latest to come to light above the ground.

Pogorelov, ja is that of Phillip Kharkov factory director, who stole

with factory materials which he built several houses them to and then rented members of his own family. He used the factory's trucks to

the shift

materials and the factory's workmen to build the houses.

Pravda printed This story. complaining that nothing had been done about Comrade Pogorelov, although his iniquity was well known,

rats, to plunge into this hole in the ground?"

One lesson I have learned in Moscow: Don't ever send a null

to the dry cleaners!

buttons, They cut of all the

And, by my every single one. count, that makes 34 buttons to can be sewn back on-, you find them,

The Communists have not managed to stamp out all the rackets here although cases are

But don't worry, once Pravda ans given the word, retribution goes a-winging. Pogorelov is for the high jump.

London Express Service.

WHEN IT'S HOT

by

Peter Woon

AVIATORS call it the

Thicket.

There's no "busting" this

one.

J

The further they go

into it the denser and

more dangerous it be-

comes.

ENOUGH

OUTSIDE

TO COOK THE

SUNDAY JOINT

MACH 3

arcialt

Culace temp

180 dog cabraEA

Thermal Thicket

stumente alleyn herty N

DESIGN BY MICHAEL RAND

of today's biz jets. Noise The British aircraft industry would be shattering, The air is at the planting, stage.

But

=fLondon Express Service).

This is the unknown re- But now the Thermal Thicket, means the heat of his outer liners would have to be kept the Thermal Thicket has yet to

below the spred of be licked, gion. where very high This is where tomorrow's super- airframe will reach 180 degrees. Bying

urstil

they reached airliners, crossing produce tempera- sonic

The in the bitter cold at 50,000 feet sound speeds

a trall couple of hours, or 350 degrees Fahrenhell 35,000ft, if they are not to leave of shattered windows tures that will literally Atlantie

hot enough to cook the Sunday cross the country through sonic melt conventional metals,

joint.

bangs. that is the mission ahead

in a

must fly.

Staggering

This is where Auty and the Stainless steel can stand it. for test pilot Godfrey Auty "Fleming Penell" will pioneer. and his slender "Flaming At 1.300 miles an hour, or twice So can the ceramics, or pottery, the speed of sound, the surface that will be used in some parts. Pencil" stainless steel re- temperature of a plime is 170 But can the pilot and to- The effect of such speed 1п search aircraft, revealed degrees Contigrade.

morrow, the passenger? Yes, if travel Lines would be sing- the other day.'

turned into a gering, Take-off from London White hot. That is the effect the alreact is

One of Auty's at 11.a.m., for instance, und of the alr blasting across the Tofrigerator.

a.m. local time the day, out-distancing the

Boiling

B30

TALKING POINTS

"It's that new woman park director."

"What birthday present? You always say

Доставлений

I shouldn't havo-so I didn't.”

sich of the aircraft. But fortun- many research taske will be to you would arrive in Los Angeles He is a fool who thinks by

ately the air at, 40,000. Is cold test out "deep-freeze" systems. before -about minus 60 degrees Conti-

And

Millions the relentless grade. So the plane la cooled drive for speed meets its down to 110 degrees. That's still second challenger. A dozen more than enough to boil years ago it was the Sound

kettle.

B

same

FUN.

force or will

To turn the current of

woman's will.

--SIR SAMUEL TUKE..

All this is certainly going to Through the bitterly cold happen, and quite soon. The outte niche will be blasted cost is fantastic. And it needs Barrier, that seeming wall And nearly enough to end the long in an airplane that is heavy Government Investment. cool and The whole business could of air that occurs at Mach safety of conventional aluminium white hot outside, One, the speed of sound, alloys. At about 150 degrees comfortable the hopes) Inside, bankrupt the times. But the

Centigrade they start loeing Denguers. believe the So quickly do we learn that their properties, gotting soft, craft at the 1970's wil By at now pilota easily fly eventually breaking up.

2,090.filles an hour. through it, with no more thana ficker of their But the "Flaming Partell" Tho we would be from one of the chlets of the Arrudot PRESIDENT DE GAULLE. speedometer beetle,

Americans are determined air- do it.

So, are, the -Rikerians.

to

A regime? It is of no im- portance. Only great men'

Bald

· Priell”

dog, is he going to have a bung over

Don't you get tired-telling,

Ingpendên- Kapradi meraten).

Tomorrow?!

miles an hour. Thất, for Auty, esch would do the work of three vegetable hau itu sumadh”