1960-11-17 — Page 6

LAND OF

THE SHAH

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1960.

The prize in his lap

I was there with the Clan

Behind the name Kennedy... in the hours

a

that makes country rejoice...

A

PROUD father names his son: Reza, after his grandfather; Koorosh, after an ancient king. And one day, as he grows up, the young boy will learn how Koorosh (or Cyrus the Great) won a battle in 559 BC and founded the Persian Empire.

He will learn, too, how Bez, his grandfather, became Shab and founded the Pahlavi dynasty, of which he is next in line.

There are prood nunes chosen by the Shah for his long wait-

ed heir-and proudly and sym- bolically chosen,

A shadow

state. For brigandage he sub- slituted Inw and order.

Where

miy mule trucks had run over mountains and deserts, he drove rouds and railways. He banned the veil-asd looked to the West.

He mastered despair, and in twenty-five years he built a new national conscinusness.

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BY

DAVID

HANBY

The Russians, however, in what was to become a charac teristle pattern, left puppet güvernment in the frontier pro- vince of Azerbaidjan.

The Shah made his fiest mujer cecision. He ordered in the Iranian armed forces, and Communists were deposed. It was the only post war example of a successful military

of Soviet-dominated occupation territory and i established bigh regard among his people for the Shah.

of

of high drama that

occasionally touched anguish...

Massachusetts.

PRESIDENT-ELECT John Kennedy yawned and said: "I wouldn't like

to go through all that again—at least not for a while." He was stand- ing before the window of his living-room n the white-board house overlooking Nantucket Bay.

He looked ten years older than he did that night when it looked like

a landslide, an avalanche, for the 43-year-old Senator from Massachusetts.

Then he was laughing and joking, puffing occasionally at an outsize victory cigar.

Father is stolid

His wife, Jacqueline, expect- Ing a baby in the first week of next month, alternated between

And tears

a nervous giggle. Brother Bobbic, Jack's cam- paign manager and shocktroop leader,

was subdued. Only father Joe, the multi-millionelce, was stolid, saying over and over again: "It's going to come out all right"

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

The first order of business for Kennedy is to carry out in con- sultation with Eisenhower an orderly transfer of business, ti came out all right--but a· Actually, Kennedy is not

In- hair'a breadth in political augurated until January. But terms of the mass vote, The be will be hard at work pick- Kennedys, every one of them Ing his Cabinet after a couple -sisters Eunice and Pak of days rest. Bobbio told me mother Rose,

actor. "Jack only needs 40 hours to re- Poter

son-in-

charge his batteries complete- law of Joe-appeared on the

ly." edge of nervous presiration.

pot

Lawford, the

Sleep is short

Kennedy will be a bold, vigorous leader. He sees him- self as the leader of the West. the standard-bearer of the new generation, determined to cross new frontiers,

To emphasise that a new era had begun, the name of Persia was dropped, ond, the country For this is not only au affair

was re-named iran, a name from of dynasty. On the Crown an ancient and glorious past. Princ

All Reza Korosh

In 1941, his son. Mohammed Masters again in their own Fahlavi ie the hopes for

the Reza Shah Pihlari, the present house, the Iranians turned their future of modern Persia.

Shahanshah (king of kings) attention to economic and social Rezo Pallavi, the baby's succeeded.

the Shah development. From ducated in came an grandfather, began life in a He had been

unending stream of Persis which hnd for 100 years Switzerland and at the military suggestions, exhortations and fem under the joint influence college in Teheran. He had schemes for the betterment of Russia and Britain and for leamed fluent English, French, his country. hundreds of years more had

German. And he too, had

In 1950 he decreed that the been a moribund shadow of the

Western, progressive outlook.

crown lands should be divided

The tension had been terrific, emplie founded by Koorosh

their Ironically, when he succeeded, among

tenants. (State particularly for the Senator now After a forceful rise through

becane Iran was again under occupation lands are also being the army ranks Reza

divided elected the next President of estates the United States. He snatched Prime Minister-and then Shah. by allied troops. Bul, by the now and large private

of 1941, all will be bought by the govern- hour and a half's sleep, but For sagging, feudal Persin, he Tripartite Treaty

were to be withdrawn within six mont from the owners and sold when he switched on the radio was the wind of change.

to farmers on cusy lens).

Bs he awoke he found his lead swiftly shed foreign dominatiun. months of the end of the

He set

the Pahlavi up modern with Germany.

Vice President Richard. many over He began building

Foundation, B big charitable Nixon had been cut to 800,000 organisation to which he contri- votes, and his victory was silit butes generous funds for medi-

not official. col, educational And other social work.

A

He

war

Mindszenty

FOUR YEARS- AND STILL HE

REFUSES FREEDOM

Bonn,

TE reads. He meditates. by COLIN He plays, chess und

writes.

The table from

- which he eats is also the al- LAWSON

tar at which he celebrates Mass. Each day for half an hour he exercises In a court- yard guarded by two marines.

Mindszenty has already writ- ten one volume of his memoirs. He has also been working on a philosophical treatise.

He is monarch, roving ambes- sedur, commander In chler, philanthropist. His life is rull, hard working. His relaxations are equally vigorous-flying, diving polo-playing. skiing. swimming, but through the busy years has run on anxiety-the anxiety to have a son and helr,

The dangers

!

Under the constitution the Shah can nominate hly Successor. necessary. But that is an unsatisfactory procedure to be forced to adopt. When the moment came, It could lend to cival claims being advanced, Only a som would stand beyond dispute.

Although, by his leadership, the Shah hos nursed Iran into stability, the dangers are always lurking.

In 1948 a Communist gunman nearly assassinated him. Two shots pierced his cap, three wounded him slightly. In 1958 assasination ended the life of southern neighbour King Felsal of Iraq. From the north comes Russian radilo propaganda and agents. And from among

of

the

As the years passed, the ques- tion of succession became more

thiriles, But the ilme

heir

pressing. The Shab was in his had grown old enough to be

This is re for Cardinal Josef

The courtyard in which he Mindszenty routine, ordered exercises is overlooked by the aristocracy there is sometimes and unchanging us has Communist Party headquarters, criticism

his progressive been for four years, since the end secret police watch him i measures. day he slipped through the grey daily os, eyes cast to the ground. dawn of riot-torn Budapest and hands clasped behind his back. sought refuge in the American he walks 25 paces up, 25 paces Legation,

down.

At 67, he is examined regular- He is still there, a willing prisoner of the United States, ly by doctors, who any that in spite of his experiences—he was this man who is the spiritual first imprisoned by the Com- Jeeder ut Hungarian Catholics, And he is determined never to munists in 1919-his baste health

la satisfactory. leave the legation except 119 € free man able to practise his religion without interference from the Stats.

On my last trip to Budapest, I visited the legation where, on the third floor, Mindszenty has two rooms.

pre

He lives an ascetic ille but eccepts without question medical advice.

At Sunday Mars, there seldom more than 12 people pro- delivers A sent. Miniszonty

He speaks in English, mastered ho has since he became a tenant of the

a language

Americans.

Politics he avoids. He dis- courses оп theological, sub- jects, philosophies,

Analytical

His congregation urs dipto- tais, Roman Catholics from the Western einken

Thetr

- sophisticated

minds

are also at his disposal for con

otton

Resolute

A lop Commundel in Budapest has told me that Mindszenty can free man leave the legation Any day as long as he gets out of the country,

But Mindszenty is resolute in his refusal to do so. He believes that while he remains he is the allent but real hope for millions who still light a candle perlodie- ully in the Catholic churches of Hungary.

able to succeed himtow old then?

By late morning, however, it was plain he had won the nerve-rocked marathon,

have never known aa election of auch drams and suspense. Nor, except for the oldent inhabitants, has anyone elsc,

Now that Kennedy has

won. what happens next? How will it affect the people

of Britain?

Polish is British

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Kennedy is Anglicised in

ways. His manner sometimes English, his clothes are tailored in Savile-row, his restraint and polish are British. His best seller, White Eng- land Slept, convinced him that never again should a democracy be disarined and be trapped into

appeasement,

2

The ties of America's new First Family are linked to the British, particularly the wealthy und titled. But Kennedy is Liberal, a fighting Liberal.

He believes in massive Gov- ernment spending, the Welfare State and wide-scale ald abroad.

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A meeting between Macmillan and Kennedy within the next few weeks is being talked about Kennedy, passibility. although very much funlar in age, expects to be regarded as senior in the partnership be- cause of the strength and wealth of the country he will soon head. But Hutte friction la ex- pected.

Kennedy's foreign policy is Maomlar's foreign polley. Kennedy is more flexible and elastic In his attitude towards a new Summit meet- Ing with Khrushchev, towards a now' approach to Red China ihan Nixon, The keystone of his foreign polley could be said to be the closest co-opera- tidh with the British Govern- rient.

appru

I regard him as Left of Mac- millan, particularly in fiscal policies. Hero there is hension

About inflation, devalued dollar, but Kennedy says he can so expand the eco- nomy and production that the fears are groundless:

Power

great

As I watch him today in his triumph. I remember when we Kennedy is a friend of Prime first met in San Francisco at the Minister Macmillan, though not birth of the United Nations. as close as Ike. He is a relative Kennedy was a reporter then of Lady Dorothy. He regards and a fledgling. England, not Ireland, as his secund country, and his wife, Jacqueline, ex-model, ex-news-

paper photograph, lived in Eng- land for months and covered the Coronation.

Britain's film Censor warns American producers

'CUT OUT ROUGH STUFF

By ALEXANDER WALKER THE man whose biggest headache is violence in films has been telling Hollywood film chiefs of the concern it is causing in Britain. And be and they have discussed steps they can take to reduce it. This is one result of a two-week visit to the American studio made by Britain's film 'Censor, Mr John Trevelyan.

Crown Prince Reza Kooroch All has settled the question. And Judging by the wildly jubilant Speaking for the first still be shown in America, but

he have a restricted market. reception, the latest Pahlevi al-time since his return reatty commands immense popu- told me: The recaption I lar affection.

In that, he has already become got was very good. a power in the land.

(London Express Seroles);

QUOTE

by Canon Douglas' Feaver, the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce magazine...

VERY year linsel and holly IM ́ are put in the shops earlier, in a dry cospira i meko more people buy more Chigw And the Americans told me which they do not wait, to give

more people who do 1201) "We can keep the cardinal here want them Indefinitely."

But the Americane hava re-

fused, righly, to consider imicing

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One remedy Mr Travelyan will tell British producers NOT to count on is 'an early adoption "We agreed scenes of execk- by American cinemas of our sive brutality could be dealt with A, U and X certificates, without ruining tho

11 nina certain stops wire taken onrly enough.

"In future I expect to have more American scripts

sub-

"Complicated'

Fifteen years have passed and the reporter has come a long way.

Today he is the most power- ful man in the world, and he knows it.

Art? All it does is

shriek with chic!

DURING my recent

visits to the gal leries, I have been struck by a curious pheno- menon: pictures are

growing emptier

and

By DAVID CARRITT

emptier, catalogues Mathieu ties up and dispatches switches over to anthracite." thicker and thicker.

In a one-man show.

ho

them

In twenty-seven pages of un- tinted asphalt. He must buy an

before readable

Monsieur Arterial Concept - prose

The amarly-books buy to his own, if not to the reader's satisfection the Embryology of for other reasons. Apparently the la refuge of signs, the Evolution of Western First, because they can never (three dotly forgive their grandparents for pictorial content is the preface Art Since Giotto

paragraphs), the Present Situs- not buying Gangains and believe If you don't believe me, go tion, Phenomenology of the Act that if they buy "dificult" ari to the exhibitions of Lucio of Painting, the Dissolution of they will prove themselves en- Furlana at the Mcfloberis and Forms, Art and Western lightened, as well as making a 2.

Thought, and a dozen other rood investment. Tunnard Gallery in Curzon-

Second, because they want to enormous subjects.

The style is not unlike Beach- be up to date. "Have, you seen comber's,

when he de the new 80bills? My dear, scribes La Nuit de la Puerte, they are out of this world."

street and of Georges Mathieu at the New London Gallery in Bond-street.

A manifesto

when he "executed a painting 30 by 12ft. In twenty minutes on the stage of the Sarah Bern- hardt Theatre."

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Oh, tres chic

Fontana, who calls himself Specialist, exhibits 28 good-sized

Third, because whatever elsa canvases, most of them painted In spite of all this, Mathiou's it is' noi, most abstract painting in a single pastel colour, divor: paintings turn out to be

is 'immensely and Indisputably Malraux chic. sified only by one or several quisite decorallons,

clliptical cute. Well has mold of him "al last a For a society whose values

Western calligrapher," and "his

great speed are dictated by Haute Couture Its far easier to enjoy a convenes Fontana aquigates, done at on otherwise empty

than • Graham have some of the charm of Sutherland (let alone 0 De oriental calligraphics,

which croix), can be enjoyed without a know-

dge of oriental languages.

Smarty-boots

Who buys those things, axxxl

*The problem lo for more mitted to me before alming complicated than here," he told framed and well it, they tra us British producers, aiready do me..

"I may even be able to see

"For one thing anti-trust laws Prom one as exquisite trilles, copette of channing for as long imean that the owner of as a nockife can charm. rough cuts of American pic. tures before the e com cinemas and makers of films are The catalogue, however, would 'Biso advised not the same people, pa is usual havets believe that these

The chief propagandists for ploted. I have Producers on shooting scenes to

abstract art in this country are favour, our certificate system, tie profoundest significanen,

the glosy fashion Bule, for, thon which the Britain. Thus producers may Special Concepts are objects

papers, British Board of Film Conses but and that exhibitors a.ro A manifesto by the artist,

whose chit-chat about texfures against it for box 'rodaONS, 'unki sini, Camy by a leading

and colour values en be RE may not approve,

And I urged them to make

"Again, I don't believe Ameri- polemichat, relato thom, to

a Lanvin cost eavily used for this altérnativo, 'meterial: avail- enna. would: readily scoopt recent developments in physics,

and skirt as for a painting by. #ble early enough before the Federal lawdurtaking their social psychology, the conquest, why?

mostly

Fontana of Mathieu, p "Alm's Bridah pereching."

Liberty to der by firms that are of space, and architecture freed museum directors and melal . If you want to wrile'a profate British productre will ulso be howing He smiled, "In soche from the laws of gravity; by ammorty-bools, (In America the for & Bart modem painter bearing shortly troch Me ways, they are mores, militantly rendered concrete.

former are recruited from the yourself, the formula la perfect=; olyan. He will bli tham detrocratic, thms we are,

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