1960-09-30 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1960.

THIS WAS THE INVISIBLE VICTORY

Leopoldville.

A RARE dish of Rus-

sian clumsiness, American gamesmanship and the magic of Africa, baked for three months in the oven of Congo politics, has been served

A

reports, DONALD SEAMAN

REVELATION OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE

up to the outside world How America

this week in the shape

of a shattering Soviet out-smarted, diplomatic defeat.

There are no two ways

about

here

it: the Russians have been out-

out-generalled

smarted, humiliated, and and

completely out-generalled.

Just which of the three

main ingredients In

should

the dish

credit get the biggest

is hard to say,

V

humiliated

Russia's Congo

Dimilovich take-over bid

The Russians under Ambos- sador Yakovlev

Michel

were

unbelievably

rash and heavy-handed,

Opposites

Men do strange things, seem- ingly without rhyme or reason. under the influence of this magic that reaches down to the very roots of Atrien,

Even so, Ambassador Clare Timberlake, thu quiet American, aunistakabl the wears

alg af man who feels i0f, tall. Timberlake and Yakovley, the heavy-weights of the diplomatic ring here,

WIT!! apposites-3 almost sold enemies in every

way.

said to be the apple of Krush chev's eye, not only did every thing wrong; he did it so badly.

Smiles

Ho started well enough with a front impression on the man in the street. He waved, He beamed.

He was their brother, To the Congolese this smiling. rey-halevd, podgy Russing look

He made each of his 'Ilyushin gift planes Trojan horse with Its "double crew"-crammed pas- technicians and Bettger let of doctora.

to

اللطاحون

of

But try, what a worker! What a hustler! This is the man who called in the UNO airlift — the American airlift working under UNO's colours.

History will probably record that was the night the West saved the day in the Congo,

Know-how

great success in the diplomatic world of today, where it a straight fight between West and East,

CLARE TIMBERLAKE' HE HAS THE AIR OF PRILING

10FT, TALA.

INTEL BALES {[UNFAIR]

By Friell

"Dommit, he's pinched our off rafineries, our tobacco factories and our banks and now he complains we're

robbing him!"

the

drinka pinta milka

ineuns the all-powerful figure he would seem following his high- treatment of the handed itussions and Czechs.

So far Timberlake's influence to persuade Kosa- has failed

nomineo vubu's

for Prime Minister, Joseph 1leo, to move into the official prime ministerial residence and behave in manner his office demands.

Even so, it is hard to blame Tor the fallure to Timberlake

ensolidate weekend diplo malie vietory over the Russians. The Congolese serm Incapable of producing a

of lapt- It is said that the Congolese, Ing decision and all Timber- who were ignorant of procedure, lake can do is keen trying, sought American

But, few diplomats have been guidance before they knew how to go called upon to face a situation about the physical throwing out like this,

constant

He knows Mobutu and there is contact not neces- sarily at the top-between both eamps.

mon

Whether or not he will prove One night he called Washing- good But even the Congolese began

retend of Britain re to wonder when the doctors" on from his embassy here- mains to be won. He is known who dew up country carried Timberlake. the now boy---and to be immensely pro-German.

Instead microphones

10 the said: "You've got get an His last piát was Bonn and

airlift started. more normal stethoscopes.

You've got to men who know him say 11 has United get the United Nations in. Or left its mark. There is also Alone

among the Nations aid teams here they the Russians will take over." talk nothing more yet-of a refused to show passports, That message

was relayed "holding company composed of refused

fall

line from Dillon, Foreign Secretary Americans, Into

Germans, and with the newly independent Herter's No. 2 in Washington British (in that order, I fear

operating the vast interests of Congolese: brazenly and offen- direct to Ike. sively

the Union Miniere, they demonstrated that they were here to take over,

For all of which I blame the Teddy bear. Few people gave Timberlake much chance al first. He was virtually unknown, lighting strictly

the whole time against a Russlan diplomat

At the height of the troubles who was personally chosen by Khrushchev to oust in Leopoldville,

were being beaten, raped, and robbed, this tough gookle from

Haw much Infuence he Jackson, Michigan-be is 53 and wields over the Congolese aut father of five children-moved sile the Mebutu camp als day and night in the remains to be seen. Lumumba around

seit 100 Dcr cent with

to guide him. He is an em- the is still very American promise

to keep the kicking.

much, alive and bassador for the first time.

three mantha Russians from hotting up the

His diplomatic triumph over Yakovlev's scalp dangling from cold war in the Congo,

the Russians You will travel

his diplomatic belt; that alone is many miles reckoned very much as a polnis and find few men single-

2 tremendous achlavemant, victory rather than a knock-out He is the typical all- minded,

until the Lumumba question in diplomat: shirt. Americun

settled once and for all. sleeved, easy to call on, no

Mobutu—the ex-reporter and stuffiness or formality.

military from the There is no doubt whatever graduate in my mind

school at Luluabourg-is by nu that he will be a

the West from Middle Africa.

A worker

Timberlake has little per- A smallish man, shy Sonality. and dimcult to get to know at rst, the worries of office stamp ed on his lined, grey-moustach~

ed for all the world like a bed face. Teddy Bear.

But he committed himself so heavily to Lumumba

He too is a professional diplo. mat, But it took him 30 years He was that he become ambassador. had no room En which to "made up" here in the Congo manoeuvre

Lumumba three weeks before indepen-

dence.

when

Yakovlev, big, amiable, ex perienced; Yakerley, the up and-coming Russian diplomat, toppled from power..

when whites

of the Russians.

A scalp

thick of it. He identified him- doesn't like him und Lumumba Timberlake is no precedent

50

must

atill he

ho

He has made amends for the American flasco of the U-2 fight and has given us all breathing space in the Congo.

No wonder he fools 10ft, tall.

-(Londen Express Service).

Communists ‘invade' Wallflower

easy-going Mexico

BORDER MAKES IT SO EASY

New York.

Princesses

day

DANCE STUDIO

"Miss Penberthy, the words are cha cha cha, not

moo meo moo!"

Man's trip

to Pluto forecast

ON the eve of Man's first venture into true outer space, a Yugoslav professor of medicine boldly asserts that humans will be able to travel to the farthest limits of the Universe-if they freeze themselves first. The man who makes this forecast today is 50-year-old Dr Jevto Radulovic, of Zemun

University. Behind the bitter Baudouin blow... THE Republic of Mexico has become the unwitting hub of all Communist espionage against the United States' great missile and atomic bases just the lesson before it is too late? activities in the Western hemisphere, with particular emphasis on can the European monarchies learn

across the border. Mexico's position as a neighbour sharing a 2,000-mile, relatively unpatrolled border makes it an almost ideal base for Commun. ist operations.

Also aiding the Russians in the development of their

across the Rio

ground And the gaudy Mexican bur-

"where the Nike- der town of Juarez, which is just Zeus is being tested.

Grande River Other "targets" include young spy network is the fact from El Paso, Texas, has been men from the U.S. Army's that Mexico tends to have described as "a nest of V-girl atomie and rocket arullery centre at Fort Bliss outside of Яn easy-going, hands-off Red sples."

El Paso, und servicemen from policy towards -the uc-

the Texas air force base where the "elvillan" and military U-2

tivities

of foreign

em.

'Targets'

:

by Kitty Dixon

IT will be a sorry day for Europe's bevy of Wallflower Princesses, when Baudouin, the last of the bachelor monarchs, marries his Dona Fabiola.

bassles within its borders. RUN-OF-THE-MI L L plicts have been trained for the ing. a king in Europe's princess-dominated royal marriage market.

tourists, gaping at the past al years.

The New York Daily Mirror, hundreds of garish, bars and the Photographs of these pilota

He bases it on experkneals he hus carried out on freezing rats.

The technique is called deep hypothermie. Doctors are using It more and more frequently fo extend the time avaliable for operations on the heart.

Deep freezing can slow the heart and nerve system and re- duce the body'e need f oxygen.

Professor Radulovic-and he is not alone in this has also found that it gives protection against lethal doses of radia -

tion.

He belleves It offers ren!

man, in

The World of Science

by Petexis Fairley

to warm

hape for man to travel thou be put into a state of lethargy For his marriage means the collapse of their last hopes of catch-

seads of millions of miles to where all functions are belted. planets such as Neptune or Professor Radulovic describes Pluto Journeys which (Buspect there is not one Continental princess whose family has not, at

xem his results as encouraging." impossible today because a But one big problem remains which has been investigating sex-for-sale displays, don't and their aircraft are believed

some time, hopefully linked her name with that of Baudouin).

normal

conditions, to be overcome how the Red operations, quotes a realise that a surprisingly large to have been in the hands at

Since the break-up Princess or any member of her family would die of old age before he #creature or human back to "lending European spy chief” as number of

Baudouin is lost- the scles

And now aren't the Russians almost from the lost to a young women

invitation to Prin- close accepted

after long they Sibylla has kept sich a saying: "Mexico today is pro- what they seem, but paid Com beginning. This meant that the had not even considered a rival. watch over Margaretha and her the

Margaret's wedding, could get there, much less re re automatically

periods? bably the biggest spy centre in munist agents." It is reported plots could be immediately

three pretty sisters that there is although there is little doubt turn.

That is what the of "Tourists the world. The Internal security

the glare from Fur are not their tar spotted by Soviet agents at any

speculation in Sweden whether that many an envious Continen- system વ procllenly non- get. They concentrate thel point on the globe-giving the

any of the princesses will ever tal princess has since tactfully publicity focused on the "big and his team are working

the in They couldn't catch talents to catch soldiers

to her militant | guns" and Russians a very educated guess

pointed out

space race, now, ady in a sugar bowl, even if young scientists and techalclans at U.S. plans,

mother that Margaret's mar- Radulovic has been quietly they tried."

from White Sands

proving -¡London Express Service),

riage hos further endeared her freezing dozens of ruts. to the British pubile.

uxistent.

Vilke

"WELL, IKE, NI ALWAYS SAW THE SUMMIT AS A

SERIES OF PEAKS

Few of them

few

are

marry.

Queens.

There

There art hopelessly princes left for the royal

whom spinsters, most of beautiful, intelligent, charming.

For the rather scarce sons of

aro two European

whose European monarchies are per- princesses

desperate mitted to marry as they choose search for suitable husbands is --and most of them have chosen intensifled by the fact that they commoners, deliberately ignor will eventually become queens Ing the persistence of match- in their own right... Mar

Alas, grethe of Denmark and Beatrix making, royal mamas. there are only three crown of Koiland. princes left-w

CROWN PRINCE CONSTAN- TINE of Greece, aged 20, whose name is often linked with that of some predatory princess, but who has so for managed to

escape.

CROWN PRINCE CARL GUSTAV

For there is nothing European royally secks more than popu- larity with the people.

Yet, in vain. Each Walliower Princess is all required to sit and dream that some day her prince wiú come.

But till he?

Sadly, for the princesses, I

-(London Exprem fervice).

And it is possible that they too will never leave the rallying ranks of royal spinsters, which think not. include Astrid of Norway Maria Gabrielle of Italy Irene of Holland.. .Janbelle of France.

There are about 15 marriage-

princesser.

of Sweden, only 14,. able European

and not yet eligible,

Is

there not a Margaret among them with the courage to break CROWN PRINCE HARALD with tradition and marry tho

of Norway, aged 23, who, it is Tony of her cholce?

said, will wod Princess Sophic

of Greece. triumph, perhaps, Surely, it is better for a prin- for Sophie-but her marriage cess to marry an intelligent would not make a noticeable commoner sho can love-than

sap in the numbers of yet un- married princesses, which in- clude her own sister, Princess Irene.

Unfair?

It seems unfair that the un- fortunate princesses have not

to be forced into a union with an insignificant, loft-over prince, simply because royal blood trickles through his veins.

Once the marriage barrier was broken, a European pela-

professor

оп

Sleeping trees

Amarico scientists aro

Cooled to 15 degrees centi- I putting TREES to sloop,

grade,

10 their hearts kezt times more slowly than usual. The method. In this case 19 He made several "die" for not deep-freezing, but a chemis periods of a few minutes-then cal called MH 30. Developed back to normal by the U.S. Rubber Company,

wormed them

it is being used to regulate the ile.

One test, in which the rat's growth of citrus trees which are heart wik alternately frozer Threatened cach year in some and waimed for 30 days, has

areas by frosts. led him to the conclusion that

By putting the trees into Hving creatures can be har state of "temporary dormancy." lessly frozen Into riecy for the Arm says, they can years on end,

stard lower temperatures. Man, he says, can, probably

a

-with-

London Express Service).

The awakening of

Robert

Paris.

the disillusion of Robert Kinda, Leo- poldville laundryman who became a Congo diplomat,

ces and her commoner husband THIS is the story of would presumably face Lower Princess Mar problems than Karet and Mr Armstrong-Jones. For in countries where royal been granted the romantle free princesses dra

encouraged to work in welfare elinles and The Continental monarchies nursing homes, surely there long proud of their democra- would be little opposition to husbands following the with their their sterras careers of their choice,

dom of their brothers.

tic

relationships

people become

Rutocracies

when it comes to

martying off their eligible prin-

cesses.

on

A European princess may ride

public transport—but she

Endearing

Kinda, aged 35, dignilled fu a black sult and gleaming white shirt, told it to me with tears in his eyes.

The offer

He had recently down to Paris

from the United Nations New York, atid was waiting sadly for the next plane back to Leopoldville.

Perhaps, when Tony Arm- must, nôt marry beneath Ber strong-Jones's -- future has been station.

sorted out, anch he has talerzy Zala

· The Swedish people were de- place in K career that allover lighted when their lovely. Přin« him full expression of his cess · Margarethus tell, in love, arilalle "bility, the monarchies with Roglih commoner Bobin of Europe will fador, a secondl Douglas-itome, But the romance look s£5 Britain's, royal "love was fornahed by Marginila's, matola" NA strong-willed 'Cartónus" ;anotlar, They are certainly not looking Fritoets Bikyr24a,

'How==not one kurojmin petONA

"I had a nice little Isuridey

Bisikese iy Leopakiville befon the trouble cafe," har selduch

Kinda

had a good customer named Kanza and I used to wash his shirts for him,

"One day a few weeks back te came into my shop and sald: Kinda, how would you like to become a pollician?"

"Mr Larumba had told ma black men were all in chains out there.

"Then I was walking In the corridora of UNO and met some boys from Leopoldvills, und they asked me what I

was doing there.

the

presenting

Congo they. cheered and toki me Lumum- ba had been kicked.. out.

en Me Kanza explained he "When I told them I was re- was going to represent the Congo

UNO for Mr Lumumba. He wanted me to become his bodyguard and assistant politician,

"I accepted and bought this good black suit and left Leopoldville for the first time,

□ prod man.

The question

"I didn't believe them, but then I read the news for mykelf in the newspapers.

"I told Mr Kanza, I could not work for him any more under these conditions. "No one has laughed at me before. The New York police were sympathetic and forced Mr Kanza to pay my fare bačic Home, with 100 dollars to buy "But all I saw in New York

sweets and cigarettes,bek lies and humiliation, I *- "But I am saving it up to buy thousands of black men walked back my laundry, business

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