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THE CHINA. MAIL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER B, 1980.

US

'Gee, Elmer, one of those Loch monsters our guide says he knows all about.

London Express Serako.

Presenting the next American President:

KENNEDY-now we'll

NEW YORK,

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

is the first President of the United States to be born in the 20th century and the youngest man ever to be elected to what. Thomas Jeffer- son called the splendid misery of the most powerful office in the free world..

He came to this campaign totally without myth and aura. He did not carry the glamour of Roosevelt or wear the mantle of Eisenhower.

junior

He was simply the senator from Massachusetts with vuliig record tha nobody wald en sensational. He lacks warin eloqPENED the silver tongue of Adlał Stevenson.

He nukes no attempt to catori.

rufort his audience,

He tells them that if they da

not care about America's future

see changes in

foreign policy

by Jeremy Campbell

then they damn well ought to starm blowing over by Novern in Washington

care.

"I don't know how Am- bassador Kennedy

children," someone

ruised his safri

ber.

Fur it was here that Kennedy "B proved that bis quick, capacious

I suspect he raised them to mind was not dependent on

lift a banner, meross the button speisch writers,

+31

which was written:

who in hell are yun?"

Frenzy

*And

In the just golden days of his campaign watched him speak

York, and at the sound of his

It was here he showed that if he makes mistakes in office at feast they are likely to be his www naistakes.

Benhower Bked to delegate authority, committres

spawner

to be his wn master

hard tineaufortable sentenees a White Homeo.

hower's reign.

Kisen-

during

From this sprang the shelved responsibility of the U-2 incident and the casual leakage of policy statements which should have been a matter for negulation be-

ween the Western powers,

Strong man

Will they be sorry to see, a and titiplied around him, strong man in the White House? it bons, been nt street Corners around Now Kently quite clearly intends For eight years

in the considered dangerous to have -brains in the White House. Sunn they will be around again, and very few of the new men will casily succumb to sentimentality as far as Britain is concerned.

Colonialism is something like

kind of epidemie frenzy seemed

to seize crowds.

In u magic way he can rub

Iwo dry facts together, and start

a fire.

*Du

You remember,"

"that

Force needed

rightly so." he said. "but we a dirty word to Kennedy. After

We prize individualism, and

said need Adlai Stevenson

America, La classical times when Cicero had Presidency.”

nished speaking, the people said: How well he spoke

és

Jorce cohesive That force is

the

Suez he said: "Since 1945 we have been tremendously ham- and France, who wish

move fast to take over disarmament effort, and will probably bring Communist China into the nuclear test ban negotiations.

FROM THE COMPLICATIONS OF A LEGAL DISPUTE COMES ONE VITAL QUESTION

Are our public men too squeamish?

ONC

NCE upon time, it seems long ago, a British Government sent an army on what is now politely called "the Suez adventure" Some people · thought it was a fine revival of British greatness. Others, that it was a wicked act of imperialist aggression.

That is neither here nor there. The adventure in any case wasn't much of a success. Randolph Churchill thought that this was the fault of Sir Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, and said so. in print.

Mr Nabarro, who is an M.P. called Mr Churchill a "eoward," Mr Churchill said Mr Nabarto for sinnder. Не won

2nd! 201 damages £1,500. A month later Nabarro repeated his charge in a thinly- veiled reference In the

ease.

mons.

1s <!

by

A.J.P. Taylor

notices? We shall have no plain Com-

publle speaking on affairs, and not much plain thinking, if we havo to bc looking over aur shonkers at the law of all the time

bel and slander. If a man goes into public life, he should expect to have hard- things said about him. And le should not mind.

know In: one It is well must never- criticise court VOC- diets in any way, or sugges; that air system of la has any possible fault.

Affair

sechis

But the whole very odd to me. Those in volved in it have shown iittte sense of proportion, and have 1. curious idea of what is involved in public life.

Not sacred

How could it possibly accur to anyone that Government was "cowardly Surely this is the Arst and most important jab et any writer on polilles.

not

Our Government. 15 sacred. That happens only in Communist countries or they tell me. Far from being helpless and unable to answer have back. leading Ministers

far too many ways of doing so in my opinion.

Thiey can say the most out- rageous things about their critics in the House of Com-

has mans, And the critic

If a man writes about politics. the or about anything else, in newspapers,

he should expect

from abuse, especially

these who cannot answer his argu-

ments.

1133

It always cheers nie up when people are offensive about articles. I know I've made my only "Fellow-enveller" ense. means I've the sense to rerag- rise that we have to live in the same world as the Russians. "Anti-German" only means that in memory goes back to the crimes committed in the Jast

Wot.

flarsh words

I don't even worry when wisu people say that anyone holds such idiotic views as I do on, say, the Germans, or the hydrogen bomb, must be a bad teacher of history. Those who university world They can use broadensting count in the

are not likely to take notice of such judgments.

по redress-not even the right to reply.

their and television to state case. And again the critic has Hitle change.

1. know. I was first banned from talking on the B.B.C. by Labour Govern- order of the ment (some in called Morri-

then sun),

later banned by order of a Conservative Govern- into ment.

And al because I said what was true of most Govern- ments: that they were not much good.

He will funnel money the emerging nations who are now being ardently seduced by the Communists. He has been warned from Washington that new Berlin crisis is likely to blow up this winter, or early next spring, and he intends to! nake it clear to Khrushchev that America would fight rather than surrender the city.

The world of politics and iterature was a healthier, more effective place when men could

be

I'll sue you,

if you say my hair is Thinning

It is intolerable

to criticise my

relatives

FANAT MOPTY

CRITICS

WILL BE PROSECUTED.

"NOTICE

It is an offence to Jay I've ever bera wrong

Vaylinflattering Caricatures

will be confiscated

The Ri Hon. Politician

Cummings

London Express Service

a man goes into public life he should expect

more outspoken. Distal hard things to be said”.

Was

to Queen Victoria and Prince of Wales

said of Gladstone that be " rhetorician inebriated with

the went in. So how do the others the exuberance of his own ver-

as "a widow manage? bosity."

Brst Sir Robert Walpole, our Gladstone did not take a libel and her unemployed aon."

More radical journals used Prime Minister, tumed himself action to prove his sobriety. He slammed back,

to call her "Empress Brown." from a modest country gentle- Disraeli, too, had some rough from the quite unfounded story man into a great magnate, with

O'Connell +nid of

greatest art-collection at that she had secretly married the passages. him: "I varily believe that he is John Brown, her gillie.

the day, by putting his hand In What harm did such things the ti use descended from the Impenitent

thief upon the cross."

have

The one thing Ministers can- not do is to silence the Press completely. Here a 1tle crack

To or loophole exists. these cracks is not cowardly. It

That would have caused up do the monarchy? None at all. of courage.

Not sure takes a good dea!

al roar nowadays. In general coward" is one

would Disraeli the few epithels which I should dromatic

marched Into the law courte, I suppose there ought to be a Kennedy's

Proot apply tu Mr Randolph

to protect public gramme is not as radial as the Churchill. If

complete with his genealogy law of libel apply dared to

back to Heaven knows when, men from imputailons against Right-wing! Voices hoarsely pay (which I don't).

Anancial their

honesty O'Connell would tave had to "Socialism" would 'shouting

Day 28,000. OF even been private morale. Even then, make it out to be

imprisoned for criminal libel.

am not sure. There is usually would have And everyone

no smoke without fire, been the worse for .

As an historica, I would say Politicians did not only say that, nine times out of ten, the savage things about each other. accusations of financial crooked-

made even ness

against certain They said savage things

politicians had a foundation in about the Royal Family.

Honest politicians leave Bagehot, editor of that staid fact.

they referred politles poorer than when Economist, paper the

In fact, it is no more leftist han Macmillan's. But be forelan affairs I believe fundamental hanges are afoot and the next four years could be among the most exciting that America has ever seen.

-(London Express Sérulce),

IS

Nubarro. Sa much for Mr

more But I can't feel much sympathy with Mr Churchill, it who no doubt does not need now that he has got his £1,500. Why make all this fuss beenuse someone calls you coward at a political meeting?

Who cares what Mr Nabarro says on this or AILY other subject? Who even

TURKEY HIDING A

prred by diplomatic ties with FOR weeks anxious in-

Kennedy claims that Eisen- Britali

but when Demosthenes had lower failed, to give America finished speaking the people the

and that the reason for that

leadership it needed

delnite for

10 preserve their colonial ties.

"We have taken fallure was his luck of appetite the first time since the war,”

stand against colonialism The rout of his sorcery cannot for pulitles.

said: 'Let us march"?"

Jie

merely glandular, or TP- Nobody could reuse John F. Itglous. The most optimistic Kennedy of locking a taste fur reason i can give is that he re- The mechanics of polltient ad- presents a spirit of renewal and vancement. He is a cool, skilful renaissance In American lite, manipuintor of these people whi

a vision af new departures,

Foreign aid

He believes in helping Europe Uut he shares with Stevenson are likely to do him the most to help itself. He would, for Rood. But even in the thick of example, ask Britain to pay & Inrge share of the cust of main- it be scuritămly detached.

Earlier this year rebel-Demi- totning American military - crats called him a chromium- stallations.

The storm

telligence officers of NATO's Sixth U.S. Fleet

in the Mediterranean

plated politician. a hollow man in these day's a segment of group of younger officors on the

any deep feelings opinion in the United Sintes of what Harry Truman said They saw In his past a pattern believes that Britain has lost military committee who were, in

of the

NEW

conflict inside the Turkish Junta

eclipse.

D

lecturers

NASSER?

to

nothing Union.

against the

or

I

When writers hinted at this

in their play, Walpole set up of the theatre, tie censorship which still exists. Yet the writers spoke the truth.

of

Gladstone said that he had known ten Prime Ministers, whom four were adulterers.

At least two of these Prime Ministers denied the charge at eae time or another h the witness-box, and were believed by a British jury,

"No one believes them now. (As a guessing-game,, Welling- on, Palmersion, and Melbourne the Prime three of were Ministers whom Gladstone had In mind. Who was the fourth? Gladstone himself? Or Canning and Queen Caroline?)

Only way

of

10

In short, the only way protecting your character is have a good one. Then you do Soviet not need to appeal to the courts. M.P's might bear that in mind when they set up a cry about: "privilege." No one criticises them unless they themselves have provided some sort of excuse. }

That also was Kemal's policy: he had Communists hanged on the day on which he signed his trenty of friendship with the

Guizzol

·

They are making an uproar Just now at the suggestion that tour to going on a sponsored

all some foreign-country' with

influence expenses paid may

courne it their judgment, of does not in the slightest, M.P,s are superhuman.

My advice

I know from experience that

and at the US. air base when it became known that the By at Izmir in Turkey have was almost identical with that

preceded Noguib's JON KIMCHE been trying their hand which had at political star-gazing. The opponents of Gure), the

then, but

thase in the know For by the end of August they group of radical younger officers

1hu mystery opposition

But at the week-and, decided to had become convinced that the about whom people spoke but increasingly referred to him as Hussians..

go one step further Gurbet. now military regime in Turkey, few could Identity with any

avolding Nerulo's fate, le over which the trusted General precision, were-like Nassor in

the Junita, arrested There was no doubt about his dissolved Gurael presided, was not all that 1954-opposed to any surrender it seemed to be.

of power to any political party. Influence. He had been behind Turkes and 13 of his supporters There was, they reported, a

the sudden dismissal of over on the Junta, and then reformed No doubt

hundred

and professors

the committee without the 14. Io appears to have something who lacks

from the university, He has by this measure prob their estimation, the real power

He was behind the mounting ably averted an immediate coup was the strength of successful of retreat before pressure. They much of her value to America: behind the scenes. But who At the end of August came the rumbling against the inactivity against him-by Turkes and hin

friends, record in that her strategic positions in

For the dime being presidente--the ability to make described his voting people do what they do not want the Senate as reflection of his the Middle East Ant elsewhere they were, and precisely what Arst seriotis crisis. und Gunsel of the Curset group,

then showed that he did not

Gursel has the support of the Turku, Cypriot Turk, to do, and like it.

deep desire some day to become have all but vanished; and that they wanted was none tau clear.

principal army commanders. intend to follow in Neguib's fatal United her unclear strength is no longer "I desperately," he would say the President

to be emerged as the spokesman of He wanted footsteps. The conflict worth taking seriously.

a the radical younger officers --- thart again and again, I desperately Slates.

something more They pointed at his policy of want to see the United States

popular, pipe-smoking father- and not yet es their leader. move forward." Of course, his discreet silence on McCarthy, Its attitude to Europe is that

Only one foot stood out like gure.

When he does, there is le prestige was enormously helped the most unworthy part of his Britain should first strengthen

At a meeting of the Junts at doubt that he will declero him- If the regime talls to achieve her ties with the Continent and a worrying; sore thunb. thero

the by his performances on tele-, whole career,

of revising which only five of the.37 men, self

helr to goming soon . SÕIG vision.

find a new role for hergolf in was much talk Tested in the crucible of a

were. present, partner-Turkey's association with NATO bers white-hol

Curro Kemalism and that is whet economic front then it will bo Campaign Kennedy the Anglo-American

snd the United States, This was a revolution in USA seems

The announced 10 major changes in the Wastorn governments are only a matter of me before have proved them ship. tu

Í NATO COípand WILE politics where it is a golden rule wrong. The party hierarchy

under the government, and one purely worried about. For alreeds the the authoritarians will, try again to Germany, But I don't kid myself that two or three weeks evidence that standably concerned,. I see 110

administrative awlich.

bron word" h

about that and possibly succeed. thal #11

viten

him estobilshed political have

urged

The situation was increasingly The major changes Agure

Aero Kemallem mashs being on good Once again Turkey is begin- of good living at someone else's should

is moderate Ignore

on dan Kennedy shares these views, but hle views

a shift of focus is compared with that which pre- unimportani, bai the administra - terms with the Wos--but also bing to look like the sick man" expense han no effect, at all.. opponent.

Herotis Isaura such as equat certainty Roosevelt would sometimes rights for

reded the Neguib-Nasser condiot live rearrangement was out an identically, good terms with of the Western Alliance unler Unlike M.Ps, I am human.

I once look, advice & trein | a Negroes. Kennedy beginning.

/ Russla

to be much (1964) · «lanīžesnį.

the officer prove go through an entire campaign has stubbornly

refused to

Mocmillan will no longer be in Egypt In the spring

Church, Turkey's This affected the removali of. Gongra the comply.

more energetic and much more very eminent lawyer. He said Without once mentioning

the spokesman for the West, Premier, was cast for the role, Colonel Alparslan Turicos from What this means to Turkey's successful than their civilian to me "Never go to court." of the

It would be “a good · thing: 11: Republicans

be sure name

You can

that not for from next January thero tcmince.

KEMAL

first this advice were taken by ml) ATATURK. will be enchanted to will be a new, clipped, Harvard of Naguib; but who was to carry the Prime Minister's office where NATO obligation is worrying the predecessors. uveryone

by had noted ea dáviser und one NATO leaders, Turkce has so Nixon's top Advisera now see him running the salon, but accent at the bargaining table. Naser's mandle?

President of the Republie af public men; journalists as well. Phoenifiontico "ot: the of the most indsential men or far only denounced. Communinn belleve that he should have re-, America's allica trave bad", their:

Turkey (1993-38).”

as politicians, tenen pena bellaver, pórallei between Caro and the regime. Not much had been. (rather ff the sano" way fused to face Kennedy

-{Londen Express Karvins), ⠀ back in July and bank on the creasing fragmentation of power in the armed parley. He will Anicara increased sill farther, said about Tunices publicly salli Nasser does), but he has said.

right nerves rubbed. saw. by the the. Kounady in a firm

目

Not over

on SUCCOR

-London Express Service),

If I go on Invitation

fron Curtain. country

back with my vlewa

country a bit softer.

to

Some

I

comb

of that

Of course, I wouldn't go un-

less I was prepared to be soften- ed up in the Brat place..

That

Is why I don't recept invitations