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Rene MacColl

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

American Prestige-

SAGGING!

and the Americans say so

New York.

that

THE ordinary man around the High-streets of Britain thinks

America, under the Eisenhower Administration, has recently suffered heavy blows to her prestige and that her capacity to fill the role of leader of the Free World has seriously dwindled.

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Although the Soviet Union present world problems?-Very Great? Considerable? Not Very was the principal culprit in

And the regard to the Summil collapse Much? Very Little

This is one of the Andings of

hitherto Top-secret

survey carried out in 10 foreign eoun- tries last June by the United in Paris last May, yet America States Information Agency at must also take some of the the request of the State Depart- blame. ment.

Dramatic

I

And this adverse feeling fr Britain

other and

countries about America has now become a burning issue.

in

It seems to prove in dramatic fashion just what Dennerul can- didate John Kennedy has ucen constantly repeating

his campaign speeches that Ameri- prestige throughout the has been dangerously

con world declining months.

j11 the past Tew

Blame

To this, Republican candidate Richard Nixon has been angrily retorting that the charge is ΣΠ despicable electioneering strata- that American prestige kem, under Ike has never stood higher, and that Kennedy shouki "down-grade The

close ย U.S.A."

own

But this report, obtain- ed by Eisenhower's men, and fully "leaked" now in New York and Washington, pulls the rug right out from underneath Nixon and ringingly justi- fies Kennedy.

Britons and Frenchmen tre according to the report, think that

5 Favourable opinion about Ike 213 A man and the U.S.A. as a nation has sharply declined In the wake

of the Summit debacle.

Current confidence in America's capacity 10 lead world" is the "free especially in Britain.

British answers

OS:

Very Great Considerable

prestige than any silly o report, because "I spent eight 3ears in the place where it was put to the test," (Lodge was chief U.S. delegate la UNO for the past eight years.)

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AMERICAN NEWSLETTER

THE MEN AROUND KENNEDY.

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by Jeremy Campbell

THEY COULDN'T BE MORE DIFFERENT THAN THE MEN IKE KEEPS AROUND HIM...

And he said that Kennedy is "confusing prestige with popu-

censure for cultivating the most limited circle larity," a distinctim which left

of advisers since Herbert Hoover was in office. out his audience head-scratching.

ISENHOWER has long been under scathing

worked

8 per cent.

27 per rent.

Not Very Much No Opinion Very Little

35 per cent.

14 per cent, 10 per cent.

To the question: "In the pre- Bent world situation. do you

whole think on the

Britain should side with the U.S., with Soviet Union, or' with

low-the

Few Britons really believe thint the notorious U-2 lights over the Soviet Union did lu strengthen foreign anything

military of Americn'a pinion standing compared with that of Russia.

Queries

The survey which has now been leaked was based on inter- views with 1,150 "representa- tive" Britons and 1,000 French- men and was made after the Summa collapse.

And it says: "British esicem For the US, had then fallen to its low a nel favourable index as has ever been recorded in

British barometer surveys.

But it is also noted that "by the Soviet comparison with Union, opinion in Britain con- tinues to remain predeminently. favourable to the United States and by a large margin."

neither?"

The answers were:-

With the U.S. With Russia

With Neither No Opinion

42 per cent, 2 per cent.

40 per cent. 10 per cent,

And in both Britain and Franco the survey showed that majarily believed that Russia had gone ahead of the United States in total military strength and in space exploration.

All this adds up to one of the must shattering confirmations of campaign claims ever pro- tunes.

own

And the fact that it comes, willy nilly, from Nixon's

it, as far makes Government

as he is concerned, deadly ṣm. munition for Kennedy.

'Pooh!'

Henry Cabot Lodge, Nixon's "running male" as vice-presi- dential candidate for the Re- publicans, tried in Philadelphit te pooh-pooh the survey.

A key question in the survey was "How much confidence do you have in the ability of the U.S. to provide wise feadership for the West in dealing with knew

He proclaimed that he, Lodge, American more about

. Whinnies

I was in Detroit's Coliseum listening to the wild cheering his for Jack Kennedy. To sudience he seemed to be a re- markable mixture of Savonarola, The Pied Piper, Mesmer, arici Elvis Presley.

Socially, his crities say, not read a menu written he mixes with old cronies French. and stuffed shirts and poli- tically he shows a guileless faith in the infallibility of successful businessmen.

Whatever the truth of this, a brighter, tougher, younger breed of man is now clearly moving into the Presidential orbit and nowhere Is he more in evidence than in the busy wake of John

Kennedy, the Democratic can-

Girls and women leaped about uncontrollably, and burst into high-pitched whinnies as they feasted their glittering eyes. the handsome, tousle-ganisation

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headed candidate from Boston.

The men are a triße

more restrained-but their enthusiasm too is unmistakable.

didate.

Kennedy's number one GT- man is Theodore

nustere Sorensen, an

young lawyer of 32.

A Puritan by'iristinel, a com- miited libéral almost from birth, Sorensen is nesthetically dedicated to the cause of put- ting His employer in the White House,

Inte

thut has

in

Looming large in this Intel- lectual

supermarket is John Kenneth 'Gulbraith, the world's biggest economist, six feet eight inches tall and the demon king of the Democratle brains rust.

Blg businessmen, the sort of People who go to Eisenhower's sing dinner parties, hate him. Sc do trustees,

And white Kranedy camo to liberalism, Sorensen was weaned on it, But both have been called say

Many rich Americans would and ruthless. Both bring the like to tie him up in a sack and same cerebral approach to poll: droo him into Lake Michigan.

The reason is to be found in ties, and both have the huge and stubborn drive

built his best-selling book The what is sald to be the finest Affluent Society, whore he at- political machlue in America. Licks the American ideal of high history.

production and roundly states that the, nution should instead be providing more and better pubiic services-schools, parks. hospi- tals-and giving ald developed countries.

Next to Sorensen, and enjoy ing the same rare Intimacy with the candidate, is he Democrats

manager, Jack's Campaign brother Bobby.

He's tough

manner

Sorensen's, out-

As Kennedy pounds the atr again and again with stretched finger, promises That America shall aliain greatness and prestige once again is elected, the hearers their cheers and screams his boyish head.

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POSTSCRIPT: Jest now going the rounds: Jacque

Kennedy, line

Jack's pretty

wife,

rang- up Mamie Eisenhower in the White, House and said: "It's raining awfully hard just wow-have you got all the windows safely clowed?"

London Expreme Service),

The man who is

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everywhere

'Father of the Nation' Nkrumah

WAME

From Ian Aitken

NKRUMAH

Accra.

and

It Wi # forthright honest statement, But I left Baako still undecided.

For Ghona frankly admits that "socialisation" is aim at least la relation to Ghanaian firms.

Co-operatives are being set up that will ultimately squeeze out the home-grown Ghanaian busi- ness man in retailing. import trading, and even in farming.

Those same co-operatives may also be used to force out foreign interests once their purpose has been served.

British Bi Anstrichtr

officers anxiously watch the political trend,

Meanwhile, CIRCLE, declares the flashing neon sign beside Acera's Piccadilly Circus. This thoughtful combination of plain, geographical information and bald public relations is typical of the youthful, once British, Republic of Ghana.

Items on their debit Hst Ghana's angry gland beside

to necessary for the safely of Khrushchev against UNO policy euphemism Chana."

Even the Bible's rolling newspapers Bre subject language has been put to "surveillance" -- a

work in the service of Kwaone Nkru-

President mah.

for censorship.

Outside Ghana's Parliament whe

building stands a more-than- lesize alue of the great man, "Father of the Nation," declares ita Inscription. "Seek ye ilest

Simplicity

these

for explanation Police State powers is almost childishly direct,

I received it in all Its Ailee

the political kingdom and every- In Wonderland simplicity from thing else shall be added unto the President's personal alde, you,"

Mr Kon Basko. Minister for Presidential Affairs, Nkrumah peers at his people from their coins and banknotes.

wield repressive powers claim they are necessary.

in the Congo; its enger cccept-

I pointed out that all rulers tnce of an off-the-peg airline of Russian fiyushin airplanes with Soviet air and complete ground Crewe, A burgeoning trade mission; and Basko roared with laughter Soviet

friendship and sold disarmingly

Nkrumah's growing "You have heard it before? Now with Marxist Sckou Toure, Pre- sident of the extreme Left-wing Repubile of Guinea,

you hear it again.

'Malicious'

The Russian airline-its planes and crows are expected in Aera any day has eleo annoyed

I turned the conversation to British Overseas Airways, reports that Ghana is planning For Book has Q signed Seated on an ivory-coloured to nationalise all foreign Pogiers, Brother Accra a580 sofa In his teavily guarded holding and trading interests.

agreement to operate Ghana nirways for the Ghanaian cinting his name with virtually home, he betrayed no sign of everything Chanalans do or irritation when I asked him Boako became serious. The Government, ought to do.

about the Preventive Detention reports were false and malicious, Act.

he said.

Do these developments mean Ghana's much - advertised Even Nkrumah's own'auto- biography is entitled bluntly He waved his gally coloured' Then he added: "But we are neutralien is about to trase and briefly: "Ghana."

tribal balon, flashed his dazzling socialist. We cannot any we do form itself into an out-and-out teeth and saki: "None of us not believe in nationalisation. pro-Soviet polity? The

deliberate Identification likes it, But the fact that we We do, of Ghana with its father figure have it proves we need it to

defeat the is all too literally interpreted,

enumier of our homeland, An attack on even an intention to attack him,

Nkrumah,

OF

I am convinced that is not believe tho

常熟 intention, Nkrumah **But although we faith can enable us to walk on not a man to tako vedors, even the waters, we would be foolish from Khrushchov.

J

iThe President La slready to test our faith by trying to The aim to play off one is simply interpreted 38 a popular in Ghana. Think how walk across a river when u attack on tho interosta of much more popular he would perfectly good bridge is already side against the other, waxing Ghana--punishable by "proven be if he gave up these meelni avallabio." tive detention" without trial or powers. appeal.

rich on the competition.

thay

The bly question now: Is Beaming happily at his own sigh wire artist Nkrumah really "But he has voluntarily metaphor, he went on

walking a thoitrope or simply Swarms of opposition United sacrificed extra popularity in is why we want foreign capital walking the plane? Party

adieron la have been order to keep there distasteful here' to help kid off to 302. Opposition sowałem beostase

·ware problechik,”

If he succeeds, he is a virtual certainty for the Job Sherman 10 Adams had-chief of staff the President,

Sorensen's smile is slow in coming, and many have never seen it at all. A large number of fellow-Democrtita find him graceless and cold,

One politician who suffered the sharp edge of his tongue said:

"He is one

to

un-

which he To stop inflation, calls "the implacable enemy" of adequate publle services, Gal Bobby is a doer, not an in- braith proposes the unpalatable toxation, tellectual. He is tough, wary medicine of higher and dogged. Many find his lower public consumption and a more aggressive thon slower rate of economic growth.

and the Kennedy staff at the Los Angeles Conven- | tion this summer will not easily forget the dressing-down Bobby when he found administered that some of them had been visiting Disneyland instead drumining

votes for up more Jack.

"Little Brother

phrase stuck.

of

ix watching,"

All this is poison to cormCATUR – tives, and clashes head on with the policy of the Elsenhower adininistration, which is to boost private spending.

Stevenson Galbraith helped during his two unsuccessful campaigns for the Presidency, nt that time cause the and party's Right-wing to bay with pun and resentment.

He is generally regarded as a dangerous fellow for a President to have around, But in spite of the peril of guilt by association, Kennedy has stendly cultivated Galbraith's friendship, and that of another Harvard don, Arthur Schlesinger.

Schlesinger, put less emphasis on the bread and butter Überal issuer, but his discontent with the status quo, is as shorp - he sees America drifting danger- ously into a moral and spiritual slump.

The power

ke

more

does tuke If Kennerly voters fancy these men cotílů ko the power behind his throne, unt America, perhaps Britain, 100. will notice the change.

The cory Informality Beltain

with enjoys In Its relations Elsenhower may well give place

much to something personal.

be Certainly America will

cisewhere concerning itselt

Far with Latin America, the East, the under-developed couh tries, and with its own domestic problems which Eisenhower, to

are largely day maintains Delion dreamed up by

Democrats.

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(London Exprere Service).

Ramon Novarro's urge to a monastery

THEA

muttered one of them, and the THE passionate black eyes are pale and tired-now. And The famous profile is gaunt from illness. the hair, once luxuriantly thick and wavy, is sparse and grey.

Bobby blazed into prominence

of the toughest and most ruthless people I have in a virtuoso performance on the Senate Committee investiga- ever dealt with-insulting, belittling, condescending. More ing labour rackets.

He was largely responsible for than once I've wanted to hang the most sensational exposure of up the phone on talim He

union scandals America has ever thinks the way to make people

keen.. realise his importance is to talk like Sherman Adams bo- fore he is."

Confidence

young, dim-wilted, curly- He told me "I always wanted

Novarro, Yet Ramon Novarro selects as The name-Ramon The Great Lover of siteni alms today's top screen lover

•' who who made women, swoon back Paul Newman, an actor

was weaned on The Methodi in the 1920's.

Bat at 81. Mr Novarro-in Jimmy Hole, a klaxon-voiced leader of the Teamsters Union, London for a 10-day visit to see was harassed by Bobby at these friends-is more interested in hearings, and later called him monasteries than movies, "a headed smart olce."

to bo a a priest. I felt it was my breathless Many aru

with calling. Now, perhaps, it curiosity to see what turn his time.

Mr Novarro, the slightly built Mexican who made hearts, melt by the million 35 years,ugo, never married.

Ramon

between serten jover,

love

"I am afraid of marriage,” he Sorenser is one of the very

is admitted, "Although I Camo few men who enjoy Kennedy's

close to it, twice.

"But

didn't WOTYLON complete confidence, and every

career will take, but he will say "When I leave London I go major speech and policy de- nothing of his ambitions after to visit my sister, who Is Ramon Novarro the man. They cision passes through his hands.

the Novarto today except

will that he Sometimes, when Kennedy's be

"willing to work for then, in Spain. Then I go to loved volce gives out, he climbe the Government

Italy, to a monastery

"And even as a young man, Maybe I wi CHILET that ties of Harvard and Princeton, monastery...

"But I have not yet made the are the group known as egg- heals for Kennedy-the Univer-decision."

ly

platform and makes the speech. Behind these two men and Home and Naples.

"When Jack is wounded," sald an alde, "Ted bleeds."

working mainly at the Universi-

In many ways it is a strange frlendship. Kennedy is a nil

professors and political What does Me Navarro think lionaire, a man who enjoys the pleasures of good living. Soren- theorists who are basking in the of the screen lovers of today?

"Not much. You have to be sen, born into a poor family, is new esloem the academic has frugal, a near-tectotaller and finally achieved in American proud of the fact that he can polities.

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believe in The Method,"

I was a deeply religious person. I would have married only once, Marriage is sacred to me,"

"But, unfortunately, It is not #acred to Hollywood,"

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