THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1969.
INTELLIGENCE
Germany
steps up Singapore
drive
sales
Singapore.
REPORT
BUSTLING West German business men, pushing behind the slogan, "Buy German for superior quality," are rapidly widening the economic beach- head they have established in Singapore.
Herr
Why America
hide
doesn't
her rocket
bases..
From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON:
Tran
riding
Frontiersma through the West took overfort from the log forts
dolling the new land.
He knew they were there to
Jalan protevi
must Indian
eremies,
his
deally Rudolf
zaid "For example," smiling
tribe Tull,
No
13*245! the Ixiang #le Foerster, secretary at the Foerster, we have advised all
the our industrial machinery anti- but
American modern German
here, Embassy
West The Linrough inclurers to make their products motoring thick thumbed through a
to speelBeatlesi or Singapore can we the new-myle forts stuck of statisties and told buyers, That is one reason why rocket b-being built
against This year our trade cui geds are so popular. here will reach the highest level since the wain
me:
་་
Onslaught
Their to
Frly and yeast – koži. Foerster bus good reason smile. In the first seven months of this year Geiman trade with Singapore was more than £14.- 800,000-meteorie 184 eeal over the same perlod last year.
The Cheeni onslaught insen
Has
"A Qe moment plans Are afoot to set up an £80,000,000 steel mill in Singapore.
"We are studying the sten- fit closely, and are confident that we can supply Singapore's needs at prices much cheaper than our rivals."
By which, of course, meant the British.
Promise
protect Russians.
hian
Trade boom
Washington.
upright at their ganties, have already been installed,
Work is going on at the Titan bases, where the missiles will be housed in massive ronerete stles sunk into the ground.
Ironic twist
Next will be the Minuteman quadrons-anne stuk In silos, others mounted on trains and
ou the move la burges
the time.
the
Two hundred and forly Tillion dollars (£85,734,400) Is about to be spent on building 150 sile Launching pads for Minuteman rockets clustered in Just as the old wooden forls the country around Malmstrom Mettatia. Indians of the Air Force Waled the retribution that would desevnd They will be controlled by 15 071 them If they attackou remote control posts, settlers or wagon trains, so the
base in
When the order to prepare
he rockel sites tell the Russians for Bring is given from one of America these posts, huge concrete and
how
hatches
k in the
countrysid will open, calcula-
我是 any allacc
will be answered.
The rockets
have brought Hans
trucke
and prosperity in their
wake.
directed at traditionally Iterr Foerster Jaused 300 British spireres uf economic spoke to an aide who was busy activity: medicinal produck biganising eines for Sinemore rockets have good chemicals, fertisers, iro and students awarded. scholarships "na
and
steel products, power genera- selenline apparatus, Bars, motor vehicles.
und
Wilges
red into
the brains.
ALEXANDER THOMSON
Businessmen
Scientists find
in politics-pig breeding
here's one against it
BACK on the City "roundabout," I met Mr John
for automation there
to
L. Snyder Jr. recently. He is president of equipment - "big opportunities U.S. Industries Inc., a sort of American Thomasi machine-tools and glant presses Tilling.
fe making car bodies,
As a springboard for ts pr. duels in Europe USI bought the Burtonwood Engineering Co., of Laugashire, a year ago, discuss
He wanted to talk politics from mototeor enrburcitus to "I'm a Kennedy man.'
, television sets, I wanted to business prospects.
So we mixed the two together In my hour-long "rocktail" !
what used to be the Woolworth treadquarters 131 New Bund- street.
Those new maids-of-uil-work are called Transferobots," Suid Snyder: "They are not just an idea. They are a fact. We are to start delivering them early next year."
On
Ho explained "Our object Although now an industriakat has been in design a entaingue of electronic equipment himself, Snyder is voting Demes plece
easy to price and crat in the presidential election low in "because we have had a
busi.. operate,
៤. This
of the ways Incen man's mininistration for
in which ww are moving too long."
auto Tapkelly Into industrial mation. I believe it will be the largest side of our business in two years' time,
As a young man John Snyder studied at the London School after graduating nf Economics,
A fact'
He declared: "This is not good. Businessmen make lousy politicians. It is hard for them to forget soir interest.
He exprets the American rression to be "very abarp" by the middle of 1961, with perhaps another 3.000,500 10 4,000,000 unemployed. Chicago-bom John Sayder is
a craggy 51-year-old with intee
The bly enthusiasms, winkle
In s business man's be eye Just now is for what calls "mechundeal hairs."
These are electronic machines designed by the US! grową; for taking component parts off pro- duetièrs lines and assembling them automatically.
for
They can be used, he claims, putting together anything
at New York University.
Wide range
He joined Kuhn Loeb & Co. Wall Street investment the bankers, and from there moved on 12 years ago to become head of U.S. Industries Inc.
The USI concern was formerly the Pressed Steel Car. Co.
hard times when demand for freight cars dropped.
Snyder was put in to rebuild forward- the company along looking lines and has been con centrating on that ever since.
Now the group's Industrial range from oll field activities
But for John Snyder, the going has not been easy, The
la 1958 revesalon America brought hard knocks.
No payment
secret
RESEARCH break- through that could greatly speed the improve- ment of pigs throughout Britain has just been revealed.
The Hampshire Cattle Breed- Ing Centre at Lyndhurst claims to have solved the problem of artifelal insemination of pigs on which world scientists have been working for 25 years.
Attempts have been made in countries, particularly many Russia and Japan, 16 Introduce artificial insemination for pigs. But the number of liters pro- dused his been disappointingly smail.
The Government-sponsored
£7,000 n
The dividend on USI's Com-Pig Industry Development Au- mon shares had to be cut from 10 cents to 15 cents. Last year it was dropped altogether,
It will affect us very Snyder told me hope-
tharity is spending J'enr subsidising research seven breeding centres.
at
How abou the presen Mr Donald Madden, 39-year- recession? "This time, I don't old veterinary officer at the Landhurst centre, said that his think
station had achieved 89 per much," fully.
recent in- cent fertility with "Our sales for 1060 should be
seminations. This is very tila to 100 below the rate for natural up from 85 million
next service. million dollars. I reckon
we have hit on year they will be between 125
"We think million and 1-30 million dollars,"
the seerel people have been On Wall Street, USI common seeking for years," he said. "It Thares have tumbled from 13 dollars to around eight dollars.
So I asked John Snyder about dividend chances. For a com- Pany president, he was reisingly candid.
"We shall not pay anything
said. this year," he
Every dollar we earn will go back Into the business. But we hope to resume payments at the end of 1981."
sur-
All of which suggests that, as a speculation, USI shares could be rewarding.
is on But the ncvent word "speculation."
London Expren Service.)
that
Is
the simplesi thing, but it bould be of tremendous value to the pig industry,
the
"It can rentis accelerate the best of finding breeding animals.
PROCESS
your it might be pes- sible to breed more than 10,000 Piglets from a single bour."
The fertilly rate at the seven F.I.D.A.-backed stations ranged between 20 per cent and 40 per cent when the subsidy, scheme started nearly two years ago,
Several have reported a sub- stantial improvement this year.
London Express Service).
Moments of retrospection
by SHEILA CRAIG
-forma
will উ Mimteinaa's electronic The missies will then be ready Technicians who ruan the to be fried from their almust
to Invulnerable shelters.
Jonically this complex of they med fot, clothes, and entertainments, autemi is nbt for from the the in German Universities.
Big Horn, where librarks and Little sehool
Sioux.massnered Custer and hir Then he turned to me and Theatres,
a. battle which the said:
Locat townspeople, far from men in "The promise of the. 'sixties is breath-taking for being frightened of the rockets Indiafis won jocally, but which have achieved Germans in
this part of the are
in many cases trying the brought such retribution cover 66WHY don't you say that she's married to a vietny their biggest
world. We must, measure up to authorities to set up more bases, on them Cut they were never British makes. The Volkswagen
Alina squadrons, nekets an effective fighting totes again. our responsibilities." The small Car 15 sweeping!
bookings for
It is in the motor trade that
Le Gemans
market,
and
over
Mercedes luxury-models-are-20. heavy that agents are refusing
to take any miser.
To what does
Germany
owc
this phenomenal success?
Precision
Herr Fuelster
:pread
bis
hands and said: "Not surpris
ail. Must Asian prefer
German perlu ta
bresure
their superior quality.
KARIBA
DAM IS PAYING
is now producing electricity at almost half the cost estimated
OFF
Kariba was officially
opened
by the Queen Mother Isst May.
By PHILIP DITTON
news from Kariba, one by the planners four years ago. Now survey work has been put
of the biggest Empire pro- . of jectx
since
War. The the £74,000,000
electric hydra scheme there la paying off al
conil-
That 15 why we are tent Germany is going to play
a big part in the rapid indus trialbution of Singapore,"
German salesmen and agents set about their business
here and preet- sto. All of then keep in close
with thoroughness
touch with the consulate.
British best
LJONGKONG AL
josi Wic decided luve
Uut the British know best shoul
Bghflag Communism
East Asia.
in South-
They are sending to Malaya hand picked Americans now stalloned
the Red-ridden lands of Laos, Cambodia, and South Vleluiam.
In Malaya the Americans will study the tactics and strategy with which Britain's brilliant General Gerald Templer De- feated Chin Peng and his once 10.000-strong band of munkat terrorists.
High regard
The first
Com-
kis Major.
man General A. R. Fitch. U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff (Intelli- Ectice),
has General Fitch "Commublet subversion in
wald: till
a serious problem in South-East Asla, and Malays in the only country to have luckled it suc cessfully.
"I have talked to army officers of many Asian countries And they all have such High regard for British-traised officers in the Malayan Army that 1 have come along 'to see things for myself."
ready.
Easy now
jerk?" the man in the polka dot dressing gown asked me. "Because," interrupted June, "I'm not. You're just a crazy man."
June once Lady Inverclyde, now Mrs Ed- ward Hillman jun. and I were having a drink together in her suite at a London hotel," Mr Hill- man was sitting with us while he waited for a sleeping pill to take effect so he could have an afternoon nap.
J
has 3
woman
famous in
the twenties
he is a multi-millionaire doesn't prevent him from going into a drugstore and sitting up at the counter and having a ham-
would have than be secu
**Inverclyde -starved rather
In addition
"You don't look 58, for God's to his silk in hand for the 246,000,000 dressing gown with the big sake!" he said. He was speak: burger and malted milk. worth of further development. white dots Mr Hillman was ing to his wife.
He was right. June started in 1966, half of It will noticeable for the iron grey
of his hair, the brownness of pretty, smooth face still, and her legs are as slim as they were his sunburned calves, the when she was London's favourite flatness of his wide, bare dancer in the thirties. feet, and the gruffness of his
voice.
And when construction work is
bo financed from revenue. Sir Duncan wald: "We ex- Duncan Sir
Anderson, 69- pected to be operating at a loss *This will make it relatively year-old chief of the Federal for the first two years. But in easy to borrow the remainder of we have the money," Bir Duncan fore- Power Board of Rhodesia and the first aix months
casty. Nyasaland, tells me that Kariba made a surplus of £360,000.**
“AH, LA GLOIRE-FRANCE HAS HER OWN, HER VERY OWN BOMB
She and her multi-millionaire American husband are in Eng 1nd to launch June's book of memoirs.
Her memoirs
"Naturally I was attracted to the idea of marrying a peer," she told me. "Any child who has ever read fairy tales is bound to dream about marrying a prince and owning a cosile and living in it happly ever after."
June's baby blue eyes stared absently at a vast bouquet of red carnations on the table beside her.
"But it turned out that In- verclyde had a great inferiority complex. He hated the fact that he couldn't
noble truce
three ancestry back more than generations. He WAS always tremendously impressed with lukes and fourteenth-century barons.
"I think I must have been tx sensc of inferiority that inade him no jealous of me. He
wanted it to be absolutely clear that he was lord of the castle, and that the lady of the castle- was subservient to him."
drinking an ice cream seda ot the counter.
"And, in a material way, just compare them. If there's a rise in the stock market, Eddie can't wait to go out and buy me n present or redecorate my bed- room. But there never was any spontaneity in Inverclyde,
"Americans may enjoy their money rather flamboyantly, but at least they enjoy it,"
"What do you think of your wife's book?" I asked him.
June answered for him. "He keeps saying to me; 'Mummie, you'll have to read your book to
"All right!" she continued, now addressing her husband: "Pl chain you to that chair with a Scotch and soda, and 1 will read it!"
So tiring
"Do you get tired," I asked June, "of people assuming that
book
been must have YOUT ghost-writion?"
"I certainly do," said June. "I wrote my book entirely by myself."
The only ghost," boomed the voice from the polka-dot drem- Ing gown, was me."
"And I've never heard foul words used by stage people. It is the upper classes and the lower classes who use coarse language.".
Comparison
She switched to a comparison of the British and Americans.
"I think Americans are much
There more strailiaced.
them. busle puritan stroak in And It shows particularly in this generation of teenagers. It seems as if they're In revolt against their parents' generation - which was loose, which necked and drank too much.
"American girls today all took like boys. Short hair. Pale lip- stick Bermuda shorts. Flat heels. And then they wonder why boys aren't on the make for them:
"I've given lectures to them, "What's the idea? 1 ask. How can you expect a boy to want to kiss you if you look like him?"
You "Why do
suppose," 1 asked, "that to many of your · fans here are teenagers who weren't even born when you were on the London stage?!"
"I'm not sure," spid June. "Unless it's nouintela for some- known thing they've never themselves. Fifty per cent of my fan malls from teenagers who say: How wonderful to have lived in those times. And they are correct. The frivolity of the 'thirtion was wonderful.**
"I think that one reason girls. today wear auch eccentric and mad and exciting make-up is to compensate for the relative dulness of the period."
June waved a slender hand with varnished red ntuis in an "Well, I admit you were a "Step down, spook sometimes,” said Jana. imperious way, Uttle girl You are no longer the "The only time I could wrlie was
Lar,
sko, mindekod Lord In- after midnight, because Tunell verclyde,
then we would have guests, or "Eddie is the reversal. He Eddle would be popping in and sleeping pill has worked. I hope has always been thrilled by my out, saying: 'Munmic, don't you will excuse nis." success. He completely lacks you want something to eat?" pomposity,"
" whet
"Uḥahhhhhhhhh. wounded like a deep and terrible groan was, in tact, Mr Hillman ayawning.
"If you want to know, the God's truth," he said, "this is
a pretty good sleeping pill.”
June sipped her' widsky and she looked thoughtful. Then went on
"People assume that if you can't write a word are a dancer or an actrem you
He turned his large bare toes "They also assume that stage. inward and settled down again poople are 100so morally, to await further progress of the frhey're not, you know. they
have to work too hard. It i oddle is urself-conscious women who dela't work who Istaver continued, “The fans that have time for Intanotility, kan
"I think," Bald a thickened
thin voler, "that
zoddamned
And the polks dot dressing gown, with Mr Hillman in It, departed from the room..
Soon afterwards I too depart- ed. I left June preparing for an avalanche of visitors.
"I am deeply moved," she said, "by the evidence that so many people remember me 29 years after I left the London Hinge. Until now. I had no iden that 1 as a person had baptifree the imagination of a nouNĚTE MĚ
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