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THE CHINA, MAIL, V SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1940,
Mr. K winds up his capers 27fathoms
1 fear he may have pulled something off
New York.
AFTER three of the most fantastic weeks in all diplomatic history, we are all left looking at one another in slightly dazed fashion here in New York and murmuring. "What's the score?"
The three main questions that everyone strives to answer are-
1. What were Khrushchev's main inelives in arranging this UNO'etrous and in acting with such fleres belligerence as its ringmaster?-
And his personal onslaught on Hammarskjold, his menacing and insulting remarks about the Secretary-General, were singu
arly 11-timed because Ham- marskjold enjoys great suppoft among the neutrals who shud- hedered again as it dawried on them that what Khrushchev, was really up to was an attempt to bring down the United Nations itself:-
2. Have his weird tactics boen weil or ill-advised?
3. What success has achieved?
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Now, how did Khrushchev make out in the rest of his three weeks' campaigning↑
His deinand for the end ai Colonialism and his violent de- nunciations of colour prejudice have struck a loudly-twanging chord among these African and Asian delegates.
BY RENE MACCOMBRE
Russias, grinning, swort-talking, the matter-the recent decision bear hugging, play acting, to show 'Russian concentration posture-striking, for
the camp shots and the- like from
Radio Free Europe, instead of "commercials," while » Khrush chev' was actually being inter- viewed on TV la, widely, col- demised as slipid and nèrdlessly provocative.
flattered blacks and browns to see, and hear--and talk about when they go home.
Gaucherie
It is with regret that one must report that the Khrush- chev caper has been conalder. ably helped on its way by more of the ineptitude and" gauchorie which, alas, nowadays seems constantly to bedtevil. United 'States diplomacy and tactics..
In
Many voloes__are_raised criticism of Eisenhower for not to befriend the deing more
neutral leaders,
Everywhere I go hear people talking of it as belig "Just like the U-2 business will wo never learn?""
More propaganda
Horse
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What of the future? The outlook for the cold war indi- catca that the propaganda strusde will continue at full time blast-but that, for the being 'we' es'n'
dire expect no new crisis, provided that Khrushchev remains satisfied that he will get his new Sum- mit next spring after the
provocations" tu send the Harold Macmillan remains next American President, and
convinced that another Summit proposala see his disarmament
We now have two alternatives in the spring would be valuable. canvassed at a special Session
confronting us Dll. EITHER And since, if Khrushchev has of the UNO General Assembly. now
Khrushchev seeks only to soften demonstrated that he and he And provided also, as he is us .up, erode our position alone holds in his hands all of understood to have stressed to through bigger and better pro- Russia's polley-making powers, Macmillan daring one-of-thele paganda and threats.
"who"is"to"may"that" "Macmillon is iwo private talics together, that 08 he genuinely wants to wrong? serious. "new negotiate, Which is 117
(London Express Service).
balloon up the
Whoever it was who thought of arranging for Khrushchev to attend this UNO session--whc- ther It was the Russian leader himself some unsung back- room' genlus of psychological wartore achieved master- stroke.
Clearly, at a time when new nations
making their appearances. in droves, notion of thus solzing and then the holding the centre of world's stage in a manner which had never been dreamed of be fore was marvellously good.
Those weeks rave Khrushchev one of history's moet' zlaring of spotlights.
The neutrals
Having thus brcaught off a and great propaganda triumph, threegh. It having foreea near- ly every world leader to follow him to New York, Khrushchev's main succeeding aims were:-
(a). To woo and win the neutrals, so suddenly enlarged in number:
on
(b) To put across his concept of dealing with 'dis- armamera;
(0) If possible to destroy the UNO Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold following the Congo atiend recast
UNO Itself in a Moscow mould.
Then-tactics.
By general consent, Khrush
Some of these experienced drugreeable episodes in hotels and restaurants 'while in New York.
And Khrushchey has not beer letting it be known coy in
Awarming among the newly black and brown delegates that he is all for expanding the Security Council 10 include more Africans and Asians, and for tr.rsmuting the neutralı into B formal "bloe" which would be the equal of the Com- munists and the West.
Flattered; neutrals will think over such or and carefully delightful suggestions.
In the short Khrushchev has laken hard blows in New York.
then SIDE
But if the Russian in conteni to be patient he may well garner some insolous dividendy in the long run.
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Even it Hammamkjold suc- coods for the momerit weathering the relentless attack which will no doubt be main- tained on him by the Com- munists, his term of office ends in 1903 in any case (although he could be re-elected).
"And Khrushchev muse
can with Intense satisfaction on the deep impact which he has made
Africa.
What a whopping great order His Ots of desk-pounding in book he may soon be able to fili
chev has pulled many a boner in the now countries of Asia and
under this head who he was here.
And many of the neutrais did not try to conceal their anger at the role played by the U.S.A. in helping to defeat the neutral resolution "calling for another Ike-Khrushchev meeting (by contrist, the Russians simply abstained from the vote, and so angered no one). And—althougha this Washington
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On this big night
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SEE HOW LONDON LEAPS AHEAD OF THE REST.
S the 1960-61 season opens in the dealers' gallerics and the salesrooms, interest focuses once again on dealings in the London art market. And this for three main reasons.
First, because the purchase of works of art is now a fashionable pursuit and supposedly cul- tural and social worth.
Some of these people have a fair of their own, but speaking generally they follow tips and advice handed out. to them by milerior decorators, accountants, hts editons of glossy fashion maga“
Secondly because this pair-
profits. And the clever picker He's met all their leaders, he has many fields to choose really got in among them.from-will find that,
space of a year or two, Tirelessly he has paddled from
possessions have increased cocktail party to lunch gther- ing from reception to center value at a rate unknown
the Stock Exchange. ence table.
in the
the UNO General Assembly, his for Bussis from the Uppercut now yields vast, invisible
mannerly interruptions while Volta, Benegal, and Togo, Britain's Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was addressing the Assembly, even his now-famous shiristeeved balcony Press con- ferences were all received with marked distoate by the very neutr: whỏm Khrushchev Bought to attract:
There he has been, the great- Khrushchev, boss of all the
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By Douglas Cooper
'.at. 49, a ranowned art historian, critic,- and collector, lives in an elaborate chateau in the South of France where he keeps a superb collection of Picossos, Broques and Legars. It is due to his scholarship, and energy that London has seen some of the most important exhibitions of the works of modern artists.
In zines, art dealers or by some Sotheby's during the past three authoritarian moum dolor years
who sces a chance of Billig a gap on his, walls.
And thirdly, it is now Lon- don's sainroons which estab- lish current art-market prices throughout the western world.
Competition
No love
They attract to. themselves the biggest-end most varled- stock-their annual turnover
is well over £6,000,000.
When sterling became con- vertible and, the Government ifted the wartime restrictions
No longer do they respect tho on the import of works of art, the partners of this firm set out personal link between the dea
er and his client but are-them- to exploit the new situation. Personal taste' or the qua-
direct constantly in Their greatest asset was their selves lity of the work of art self low rate of commission.
touch with most private, buy- playa tle part in determining
ors. Thus they tend to cut the purchases of these gambler- *Eneland the surilancer across the denters' business of investors. With a very few ex- takes 19 per cent or less from buying as well as of selling.
deriors captions they are not really the seller and the purchaser bas Yet the
canmot đo collectors, they do not have nothing to pay above his bid, without them, for today they knowledge or an eye, they do Eui in European countries and themselves can only afford not even love or try to under- Ameries the auctioneer's, o0821- carry a relatively small stock of stand works of art.. They sim- mission is liable to be 15
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fine quality works, while the ply accumulate them as they cent or more,
present while state and
boom auction-room night require a circus or per- municipal taxes payable by the provides them with a convent forming pots, And they are purchaser may
amount to 20 ent
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"dude" 2" or adding to the menagerie.
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Virtually no porlod or type of work of art, is as it were, "mdiscovered" at this moment, art in every field the competi- tion between (buyers is keen.
Gainsborough, Constable, de la Tour, Claudic, Guido Reni, Rembru, all fetch enormous prices. But so do Assyrian ro- Fors, 18th century French furni ture, and Greek or Negro Beulpture. Sales of these are, For these people it is enough
lesa however,
sensationally, to know what la decreed; by: a publicised than those of 19th few arbiters to be "the right and 20th century art (the latest thing to buy this year." Smart But Sotheby's had another absentee ollents, They also de- fashion), but then they tend to names, best periods, moet gambit. With psychological pend on prices obtained by attract more serious buyers who coveted subjects or interesting insight, they turned an auction: Sotheby' for revaluing, and are less concerned with show future great ones" therefore are sale, usually, a drab and dusty roclassifying their stook až rogu-
considerations which replace affair, Into a smart event, into the intervals. those of quality, condition, im- an after dinner evening dress The phenomenon of today la portance or even outhenbeity, ceston. When, on October 15, And from Sotheby's' they tova
masterpiece the "big money" field of 19th Nobody looks, nobody knows, 1958, seven
by learned the modern techniques and 20th century, art,
and trance is an asset.
Crane, Manel, Renoir
and of art promotion. They compete They buy a fake as easily as Van Gogh, from a famous col with the established names by Here the enthusiastic 3md- an original, do not attempt to lection In New York, came creating a succession of new tour, even the serious collector distingudaha sketch, a failure under the hammer, they were ones for the most put insigni- or the museum with a fixed or a trivial sawl from a neredly competed for by # fcunt artist whom they boost budget, stand le chance. They great work-provided it bears group of millionaires, and for a while by all the means have dropped out of the the right signature and date brought within half an
to modern pubišelly market, following the stagger- and slow works of the finest the record breaking sum ing rise in prices resulting from quality. to go for relatively £781,000, reckless spending by the new ittle money if they do not rich--the tax-dodgers, the into any
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Smeal wonder, therefore, that towners all over the world have How has London amerted its been hopefully showering their leadership in the International treasures on Botheby's, who, it market? The answer is bound must be eald, have hitherto con up with the meteorty rise of tinuod obtaining prices, which
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Thus, Matisse drawings, are ohle, whereas Matisse bronzes, nocne of the finest sculpture of our century," are not,
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