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THE CHINA MAIL;;-:SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1960.

SAM WHITE'S Brussels Newsletter

The wedding guest

Brussels.

Belgium wants

most of all...

THE important ques- tion posed by the forthcoming marriage of King Baudouin-it will be in the second week of November-Is

whether not

General will go (he Franco

land, cannot allend a won't)

whether wedding. but Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip wili.

Nobody here disguises the fact that if they don't Anglo-Belgian relations, which are already in for severa buffeting owing to events in the Congo. will be come somewhat bleak,

even

It is not a question of finding

substitute, suitable though he or she may be a member of the Royal Family.

For the Belgians it has to be the Queen and if not her then it might just as well be the vioo consul in Ostend.

At the British Embassy in Brussels the Queen's attendance at the wedding is viewed as "extremely unlikely." Techni- cally this is because the Queen. as head of the Church of Eng-

brather,

"

A Russian-born friend of I am tok that "the con- mine lost all trace of his sister metence of the Belgion, Socialist i. Rusala, who disappeared into Party" would not-shave per- a prizon comp.

mitted a delay in granting in- dopendence.

I never expected the existence of a Belgian Bolellist conscience, but I'm happy that it is sleeping ensfly through the massacre.

Elisabeth heard of this enso recently and Immediately applied all her colossal energies to rescuing the woman.

She worked on the Boviet Embassy in Brussels and the A major constitutional anci Belgian Embassy in Moscow and loyal crisis very nearly, supar- reinforced the offorts with vened on the Congo eriala. direct appeals to Khrushchev, The king latened to foolish Thanks to hur efforts the advice, to get rid of the present woman has been freed and Eyrkens Government and form. Allowed to settle with her istend a National Government brother in Brussels.

Greed

led by much older statesman as the Right Wing Catholle van Zeeland and the Socialist and persent Secretary-General of of Baudouin's

rumoured As fo Fabiota's Catholle the wedding -

NATO Paul Henri Spank.

The Interesting thing is that Prince Albert. as royal descent there is no fouu-

Probably no civilised govern» · year, and the Belglane would dation for it. Her late father meut in modern times has been Spaak was prepared to go along be greatly stirred if amend was a 'count only for the last 25 guilty of a more shameful act with the scheme and to resign were made by the queen years of his life and this was

than the Belgian Government's his NATO post.

Krant

folied Papal title,

im The scheme was abrupt decision la attending this one.

to Ife acquired his other Ulle of mediate Independence the Eyskens's refusal to resign and

ugo Congo,

his blunt challenge to the king

The same objection, of course, cannot apply to her nitending the civil ceremony which pre-

one. No codes the religious cold it apply to attending the reception

after the

wedding.

Intriguing

That is precisely what the queen did in the case of a re- cent Catholic marriage la Lon- don that ol the. Queen Mother's great-niece, Suzanne Wills.

Mist

There are other intriguing questions posed by the wedding. For example, why should the Palace be so coy on the subject of where Baudouin and Fabinin

Arst met?

I do not want to Join the Current guessing game on the subject, but I have excellent reasons for believing that they Arst met in Lausanne, where they, were introduced to each other by the 73-year-old Queen Enn of Spain. ruling closer Royal

It should be remembered that Baudouin is not only a but n much menarch family relative of the Family than Miss Wills.

Cess The fact is that no member Royal Family attended of the

SHOULD

A FIRM

DICTATE YOUR

LIFE?

by Kitty Dixon

by

marquis only five years kis Every report they received to dismiss him. At this point witen Franco authorised adoption of this title which had from their men on the spot told the conspirators took fright. been extinct for nearly a cene them that bloody chaos would which was last held intervene if independence were tury and by his great grandmother's granted before at least 1904, yet family.

Shameful

QUOTE

they went ahead and scuttled

Why? The answer, I'm afraid, lans shameful as the deed.

Congo The truth is that the

Publisher Rono Julliord: Easily the most interesting was acquired in greed and

"There is no better posture person in this heavily provincial abandoned through greed.

Is the capital

Imunodiately

Belgiums for Important business_nego- and flatulent

a hangover. Queen Mother, Queen Elisabeth, realised that for the tronation tiations than

This 84-year-old woman with period until independence could You can then impress your

the

Their further meetings look her spirited Left-wing views be safely granted they would be place chiefly in Luxembourg, and her profound musical pouring more money into the rivals by saying No to overy- where Baudouin's sister, Prin scholarship has just performed Congo than they would be got thing as the easiest way out Josephine Charlotte of an act of really quite magnif- ting out of it their minds were until you feel better."

setiled on abandon,

Landon Express Service). Luxembourg, acted as chaperon cent humanity.

Why Herbert Morrison

By FRANK

OWEN

W

never

became

Prime Minister

WITH a little better luck, Herbert Morrison might well have ended up Prime Minister of Britain. (Or, as he infers himself with a little more trickery on his part-and perhaps a little less treachery on the part of some of his colleagues.)

master were the reason why they got on so well together, He has fair appraisals for Lord

Lord Halifax Woolton Anthony Eden.

A tribute

and

For on at least two occasions, Herbert Morrison just missed tak- ing over the leadership of the Labour Party.

Beaver- Then there is Lord

"The He is critical of most of his brook The first was in November, Bevan agreed to stand down.

Beaver"), who 1935, after George Lansbury 1 Galtakell would do so, leaving, contemporaries in politics and was "an extraordinary Minister had retired.

Morrison un unopposed election, rearly all his colleagues. Besides in every benso of the word."

refused. The Altleë twho Caltskell

after the front- Three names were submitted But

Ramsay MacDonald's He pays "the Beaver" tribute to the Parliamentary Party ballot result, bitterly surprising, stage

Party for "outstanding contribution to meeting. Clement Attice, Arthur to Morrison, pave Gaitskell 167, Letrayal of the Labour Greenwood and Herbert Morri- votes, Bevan 70 and himself a provided a new kind of "cader- victory in the Battle of Britain." But Morrison tella His son. In the voting Attlee got 58, mere 40. At once, he dropped ship from the rear"), there are

extraordinary stories of Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes, own

materials and It had been agreed that the Did Attico deliberately defer J. H. Thomas. Hugh Dalton competition for

between Beaverbrook's Morrison 44 and Greenwood 33. the Deputy-Leadership.

written pungent tools

Sir Stafford Ministry of Aircraft Production candidate with the lowest vote his own departure (he was five (who has should drop out and a second years older than Morricon) until: memoirs)..

It was too late for him to sue-; Cripps, Ernest Bevin, "Mannie" and his own Ministry of Supply. ceed? Yes! says Morrison, he Shimwell, Arthur Greenwood, One of these concerns machine

"Nya" Bevan and so on. did!

THERE used to be room at the top for a man with a college degree and an authoritative charm. Then it became necessary for a potential top-level executive to acquire a socially present-ballot be taken. able wife.

But now big business is reaching so far into a man's private life that it is demanding that he be civic-minded too.

"If you want to be

a junior executive, be

7

Joiner," is the ad-

vice the bright young- men hear from the

the voice in éxecutive suite,

Ish

Join every club, church committee, and welfare organization you can. It's good for business."

Like most trends, this one in the middle-sized city, where began in the United States. Now the public-spirited chairman of it is infiltrating Britain's more the focal council becomes some cautious business circles.

thing of a public figure.

Bitter

Contrasts

No, Morrison's friendliest

tools which were brought off by ship from France just before the And now Morrison has no

1940 capitulation. Morrison says cordial feeling for the man who

that he sent the Earl of Suffolk Afmont

to collect them, and that he did all Greenwood's sup- had been his comrade since they switched to Attles. porters

so. But when he landed them In were Mayers of Hackney and

in England Lord Beaverbrook dicates that this had boon pro pb," as his pals from

Indeed, "Old Herbie' or

West-

grab them for him arranged.

minster to the East End called other side of the fence,

Howover, the agent held on to cheery, unlike the

Thero is Winston Churchill them for Morrison. The second occasion came 20 him,

The story Altice's friendly, bustling character so and his selentine adviser. Pro is quite untrue, for the gear in years Later, ofter

retirement

Decem- well-known and well-regarded fessor Lindemann (who was an question was, in fast, put aboard in

bachelor. vegetarian, the ship in France by ber 1965, when Aneurin Bevan, in the House of Commons and ascetic: Hugh Gaitskeli

and Herbert in the London County Council, teetotaller and non-smoker"), emissary of the Ministry of Air-

suggests that these craft Production. Morrison (he.

Deputy which he has served with such Morrison was

! violent contrasts with his Leador) were nominated.

London Srpress Service).”“

hie autobiography Morrison in. Stepney together, 40 years us feelings are to people on the had an agent waiting there to

own

is

devotion' over the years.

FERRY

BROOKLYN 2015 ST

the

When I spoke to Williain B. In Britain, it exists not Ep Murphy, 53-year-old chief much in London as in the cities executive of America's Camp of the north, where most large bell Soup Company about it, he 'industrial concerns have their obligingly listed his own "out- factories and headquarters. alde" activities, which include

Likewise, in America you find running a Presbyterian Church Fund Drive and heading the It not in New York but in

West campaign to raise money for industrial centres of the Radio Free Europe.

"Taking part in community affairs la accepted good business practice in the States," he said. "It's good publie relations for the company

1-broadening for the man

an interest in a Bellvilles.

man's

and Mid-West,

Chemicals

:

A spokesman for one of and it's Britain's largest business con- cerns, I.C.I., told me: "Many of

"A company like mine tokces our directors play important extra parts in their local affairs in areas where our factories are "I report to my board of located. directors about mine. They ap- prove them, and

encourage

me to do as much community work as possible.

We try to encourage it." (And indeed, they do. I.C.I. allows civic-minded employees time off during the working day to attend committee meetings.) Factories

"Taking an interest in elvic "Althoug's they'd soon have affairs is something we owe to something to say if I took on any community which flourishes around one of our factories," he too much."

pold.

Added Mr Murphy, with a A noble reason for a practice generous smile: " contribute 10 per cent of my income to which undoubtedly benefits the

community.

charity." (Mr Murphy earns

more than £80,000 a year.)

what is called "human relations"

for

Erle Moorman, adviser in

the British Institute of

Silence

Yet one British Rotary Club

Management, tells mo that this was actually embarrassed by an business man's concern for his address on this subject given by humon community's welfare is catching Mr Moonman, the

relations advisor, on quickly in Britain,

"It's a matter of degree, of "The members were extreme- odure," he said, "In America, a ly elvie-minded business men," Arm's board of directors will lie said. "But they didn't want often alt to decide which of to talk about the benefis of their members will sit on which their community work.

"Thero was

an awkward elvio commitless,...

"In Britain' It is usually lett, allence when I finished talking." to the man himself to decidea this, I wonder, an In- which organisations to join diention of some subtle, “But 1. is made quite clear dividing line between the to him that his firm Wishes him

- to take part in as many outside Jenefit to the community and the benefit to the sotivities as possible.”

This is phenomenon of business man himself?

Tischendon Zeprise forefor}"

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