1961-01-18 — Page 6

The

Most

Superior

Person

by Leonard

Mosley

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1961.

Bonar Law finds

continuing

the story

of Lord

Curzon's

life...

FOR all the loyal support he had publicly ex- pressed towards the new Prime Minister, it cannot be said that Curzon, in his heart, admired Bonar Law.

From his point of view he was, in any case, only an interim premier keeping the seat warm until the rightful occupant, himself, was called in to occupy it.

In his letters to Bonar Even Law, his at Btude was inclined to be that of a touchy schoolmaster

entirely to anot

trustworthy headmaster.

He wrote to him from the Lauame Conference:

been Bghting here "have

The magnitude and & battle difully of which you hardly realise at hune, I um more then grateful for the free hand you have given me.

"But I have samoilmes fell a little hurt that from

to

start

finish. I cannot reco}) A word of encouragement of my labours. while I

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tinually being told to beware of silizations of which I am just as conscious as anyone at home and am perhaps able 10 sppraise accurately."

more

It may well be that the innate contempt which Curzon fell for Jilm communicated itsell 10 Bonn Law, even though he could not guess what Curzon was say. ing about him privately in his letters to Grace.

She had written to him: "Poor Bonar Law looks as if he has not shaved for days. He looks more like a Labour MP than a

Tory one....Sir Georte (Youn-

Eve) told me the whole truth, That if Bonar's benith gave out you would be the only pussille Prime Minister"

a way of escape

•

AND

THE

CONSPIRATORS

MOVE IN

I do not think he will ever be a great, though he may be ciutious and popular.

Prime Minister."

These were private remarks of Curzon to his wife, But Bonar Law can surely not have been

ignorant of what was going c in his Foreign Secretary's mind. Curzon came back to England

from Lausanne in February, and resolved at once to plunge into

domestic polities. The talk in the politicul world was all about Bonar Law's illness.

Determined

more.

Curzon made his plans, aware that his moment was approach-

He could not believe that there were any rivals who could best him this time.

To which Curzon replied: " ern well believe that he (Bonur ger

w) could be quite dangerous If left alone."

Just before the abortive Con-

the ference of

Allied Prine Ministers began in Paris at the

DI

In fact, Bonor Law, determined in any case to retire in the tufumit. had made approach to Austen Chamberlain.

beginning

1923, January. lenar Law summoned inl Foreign Secretary to Paris, Curzon went with great reluc

tance.

He had travelled for 10 hours a day-train beeDUSE my health is such that I dare not travel by night," and he arrived iritable, suspicious and unwell,

He was anxious to heal the Irench in the Tory Party and being Chumberlain and Birken- head back into the fold. sent Beaverbrook to Chamber

in with the offer of Lord Privy Seal in the Goverriment-and the premiership when he stepped own, Chamberlain, stilį smart- ing over the rupture, refused.

"I went to the Crillon, where, in Lloyd George's old familiar roons (Curzon wrote) 1 stayed talking to bim until 1.30 when funch supervened, and I did not get nway until 3.30... I found Bonur in a great panie.. 1 on.

much wns really very

"I asked him what about stuggered at his flabbiness Austen (Chamberlain) getting and lack of grip. but I back." she wrote. "He nearly endeavoured to give him Jumped out of his skin, and sald some spirit and courage

Austen would never get into this

But Curzon did not know this. Grace wrote to him of another ronversation she had had with

Sir George Younger, chairman of the Conservative Party organisa-

le sald Curzon Government, must get known in the country."

That he determined to do. This time he was resolved that no one should cheat him of the rightful reward for his life of service.

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He was 64 and aware now that time was growing short for him.

and iniu talo his letters, demeanour, erept an attitude of alternating urgency

and optimism

defcalism, bubbling and black despair.

The time for a declatan was drawing close. During the Easter had recess, Bonar Law's health

aot improved as well as he had hoped. He knew only too well that when he handed back his office to the King, he would be asked, as was customary of retiring Premier, to advise on his successor. But who, who, who?

a

Curzon, though confident that he would be the one to replace him, was suddenly panicked by rumours that Stanley Baldwin, Leader in the House of Com- mons, was in the running.

'Is it true?'

We at once resolved lo sroteli them and on April 22, 1923, sont a letter, marked "Private and Counidential to Bonor Law. It

said:

"My dear Bonar, I have been asked three times within the last three weeks whether it is true that you are abou. -to resign and reremmend that Baldwin be appointed in your place,

"I have replied that there la not the smallest foundation for this conard. and I need vlew hardly add that in my your retirement would be

3

national calamity which should not be permitted 10 Occur."

He went on:

"I have never thought to . push myself and my claims, and have done what work was allotted to me, and I am your senior colleague. I have been Leader of the House of Lords for over six years, I am the sole member of the Cabinet who has served continually since 1915.

health

should make it impos- sible to continue."

Curzon was not deceived by its non-committal tone.

wrolo caution in replying," he

doubt. later, only made me whether I should receive support from Alm."

any

N.K.

want How

£206-7

Bonar Law uld not

his shoes. Curzon to li could he get out of the respon sibility of nominating him?

It wer Beaverbrook who pro- vided him with the escape ratle he was acking. He had been 10 Paris. where

A

"have a certain record summoned rick

certain reputation. Bonar Law had been examined Lord) (later having lted high offices of by Sir Thomas

sad verdict State for over thirty years. I fiorder and think 1 assisted materially to reached though it was not con- He had form your adralnistration." voyed to the patient. And bere he reached the point cancer, and the end was not far of his letter:

away.

" then a successor to vou were at any time a matter for consideration-and I devnutiv hope it never will be-I could not surrender such claims as I may have, cr consent to serve under any of my present colleagues,

"As to this I am outte elear I am well aware that

He relaxes

Beaverbrook, who

hod

hitherto exhorted him to remain in calice, now urged him to re- sign and rest,

Bonar Lawa about nominating his

While in Paris, Beaverbrook the bad a

conversation with Lard appointment of the Head of Crewe, the British Ambassador,

mentioned the and Government rests with Clown, and

a dilemma depends on number of factors whleh have sucecaso", 1 be rousidered in continua - Ten.

Non-committal

own

Crewe replied that it was not necessary for the Prime Mhis- ter to give the King any advice, unless he wished to do so, and cited the precedent of his father-in-law, Lord Rosebery.

Itastery had been chosen to "I also recollect that ar

Queen succeed Gladstone by House of member of the

Victoria even though Gladstone, when the news it neked would have chosen Lords. But

bern talking paper have

:omeone else, for ever a elverfally

year Beaverbrook sped away to his possibilities of atcul

friend and told him he need not for Derby or Lirkenhead

worry any more. It was τα Prime Minister, 1 decline

nccessary for him to nominato it is admit that

impossible

his successor. for a peer ever again to ptc-

Bonar Law, convinced that British adminis- Carzon, by his seniority side over a

and tration."

prestige would get the office anyway, relaxed. At least he would not have to go down in hittery as the man who had chosen him,

The

lic ended: "Please do not un- derstand me to make any sug- gestien or to prefer my request. The situation, I hope, will never arise."

Benar Law replied to this letter: "Your rumour is with- out foundation. I have not been for a month or up to the mark

six weeks, but 1 have no inten-

tion of resigning unless my

not

At which point the conspira- tors enter.

SATURDAY

The big mistake

-{London Express Service.)

Rihaut

.SAFE.

"Have you a three-pin plug by any change? "

NO TEARS WHEN JANINA The unending war

IT

starts with a girl walking slowly, sightlessly into a room.

A room strange to her which

she cannot see but can only sense with a quaint,

rabbit twitching of the nose.

You can see the panir of the unknown appear gradually in her ! face, her huncht flutter n if the were chasing thistledown.

wildly She runs

resear! strange, room, and chairs ga fz- Ing and Inbles overturn and 14 three adults sitting there watch- Ing and nut bolltering to help her, just smile and say well done.

Crash

And suddenly the little girl with the peekaboo knees and the

flying pony tall enches Inad-

int remember that if you were rally blind and deaf and frantic with fear and rage you wouldn't *ry out fi pain. Children ikke that don't feel pain."

है

FALLS...

THE only spy I have ever met who looked like a spy was not a

By Michael Parkinson success in his profession.

At present she is bring expert- municative

Hink between

the

by led by Miss Shields from the deaf-blind and the normal world.

noday, brightly coloured work of a ormal little girl into สน eternal muflect black-out o

The Bttle giri, Janina Fay, who

"What did I say?" she asks. 1 12 years old, perfectly normal

And Janina ereaves her fore- tead, puzzled, und awers: wally, and who lives in Shep- the deaf-blind,

"Cake." It was, in fact. "cat" herd's Bush, sinfled shyly at her and said she would try to re-

Joan Shields is Britain's lead- but Joan Shields was pleased. member but it hurt Just the ing teacher of the dent-blind.

A our bangs and Janina Her reul jab is to teach 14 instinctively turns towards

Joar: Shields corrects her: "You But she wouldn't hear it, would you? You might stuse it, but you You might feel the draught; wouldn't hear It."

same.

A play

deaf and blind children at a school in Shropshire, has agreed to work with the actors to make the play more authentic.

Realities

He was a handsome young Egyptian with a Nasser moustache and shifty eyes and he ar- rived in London as an assistant publicity man-

Nobody a spy

fears more than another spy

ager for an internation- working undetected by Els operation and spends an annual

enemies in Central Europe. al finance firm.

Janina Fay will fall over many long over a call stool. She more chairs and back her shins tumbles, arms Bailing across the many more times before *Ti Bour, and cries; "Ouch, that Miracle Worker,"

She teaches Janina Fay and a new ploy, huri"

Anna Massey (who plays Aon opens In London next month.

Sullivan). And one of the adults, & stocky She plays the deaf and blind

The girl grins and then re- woman in tweeds and water American girl, Helen Keller, She grabs hold of Janina's left hearses a scene where she meets

"My deftly flicks bacts who is called Joan Shields, whose darkt und silent world was handt and

her Ann Sullivan for the first time. the She extends pleks her up and says; "That penetrated by n young teacher, Bingers across R. This is

her hands and companion was lovely, my deur. But you Ann Sullivan,

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Jonn Shields ADYS!

"Good,

Food. But a little too swift, per- haps. You must really feel that

There was also the Russian chauffeur who turned out to be eavesdropping on British naval naval officer charged with officers visiting Leningrad.

The men and

women

who KDying

2,000

million dollars

bas श only some

Bussian agents aro currently trying to recruit selence students, who may one day occupy key positions in defence research.

How much can an amaicur spy cam? The Polish spy. Marian Knezmarek pak one informant £10, a later £20, And then bought him a bicycle. The informant turned out to be a counter-spy,

for

On

Payment for information is marely in mye lump sums „be-· cause intelligence officers foar a man who tums traitor money might become, a double-agent for more money.

A few years ago un Amori- ut varicly

can intelligence extency in the of them Mediterranean and another In Germany found that it was supporting a number of phoney

explonage.

Britain

under the blanket-title of Mill agencies tary Intelligence in which the

famous M1 is the Counter- espionage wing.

Informers

who had Invented their reports as deftly as Our The three Services, the Mow in Havana. Foreign Omec, and, of course,

But the most dangerous spy the Police, all run interlocking of all is the man whose am-

nelther "secret services" and

When mot him in a rather was slightly perturbed to be raffish night-club in Soho, he recognised by my companion a recently retired Army officer who remembered him hanging have been convicted of about British bases in the Sulz for Commnalat governments in Conal Zone in the guise of a Britain and America have all freekince journalist.

appeared insignificant.

Dr dear fellow," said my

Klaus Furlis,

the most the number of agents involved ployers have allowed to "ilo with perfectly devastatingly successful of the nor the annual budget has

atomic weapon sples, with his ver, or will ever, be revealed. ten years. He nocters to be pasty face, cutaway chin and

aloycl and patriotie citizen round spectacles, seemed al-

Every nation uses its, em- ond his record is spotless. He most a cartoonist's joke of a basales for Intelligence work rises in his profession and then, selentist. Dr Alan Nunn May and action is only taken against one day, "he receives a message who has

alvo completed

from Moscow, or London, or them when they "go too far." prison sentence for thre

Washington, and ho is acti- veted.

+

BELIEVED IT

hig

DUTER

vanishing schoolmasters'

He then proceeded to invent offence, would have been in-

to distinguishable you could recognise that same and

cxpound a preposterous face if

any you ever touched it story about an impending crisis point in bgain."

in the Middle East, Our common room. Egyptian friend suggested a

She explains too how a deaf- blind person would get to know

A room.

"When you search new room, Janiha, don't be afraid to

REWARD?

follow,"

perhaps for ten or

These spies are the most dicult to defeet berutise the Another form of semi-official reason for their betrayal will drink at a quiet corner table at who died in the electric chair and alterat.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, 'spying is carried out by ships often go back to youth or which ho asked a series of

childhood serious questions to which he seemed tike any other plump, manned by, naval crews watch turn trailor by blackmail, and Russian deep-rew Lrawlers Sometimes they are forced to oily answers.

Jonly, middio-chus Jewish

at Sing Shot for espionage,

do it on your knees. I once had He left apparently in the br- couple in New York,

a little boy at my school who lef that ho know that date on explored the whole playground which we would break out in shuffling around on his bottom." the Middle East,

several

INTERLOCKED

between

roɑkot mages and zaval trials recurity authorities bedeve, that zod trace undersea cables off regret homosekuata are particu- the coasts of Western Europe larly prone to this, and America. Soviet airliners

·and

have photographed alrields and But each and very spy has Sples aro rocket bates in Britain. Russian eme alding dread. When the rehearsal ended Months later, in Cyprus, I

submarines and aircraft have caught by spies. The spy can In this secret, non-stop WAZ

sure that the Joan Shields prepared to leave asked on Intelligence officer wich is even were blood shadowed Western naval forces, never be qulle the make-believe of the theatre anything unusual hat happened lessly.

just as wo have shadowed man who buys his information alles there theirs. for the realities of the child on that date. Just one thing, are as many grades of apyka

is not a 'counter-spy And that ren she teaches in Shropshire. he said. On that day, as for there are ranks and tradus in

man may not be cure imat tha "You know," she said, "pea had been an astonishing amount

But the most dangerous and Information has not been plants. preceding days, there the Army.

revealing form of capionage ed by yet mother interested ple often ask me about the

Each fargo lion has attis desp. On, the surface there party. compensations of my job and of activity by Egyptions air and they expect me to say that I and patrols on the large variety of interlocking Intelli- are freedance spies who may

be double-agenta

Spiez do not truss caeli other; All up when a child learns how frontier.

Henco Eysteins. The United wit Stated as nína ngonfics of often we to o sudden and because they now that their to communicate or something

raost deadly lehot only Now, the successful spy does which the best known, Mr violent tha Hko that.

in the international espionato My not look the part. · ·I knew an Allan Dulles's. Cettii. Intelli-

Deeper, are the minor, officials centres like Gonova Berlin, greatest joy to which a child can secret deent who was gence Agency, accounts for only in Goverment offices or, per Stockholm, Istanbul, Beirut and Who is deat and blind and

and a one tighth of the total Intelli- dumb, and who has been unable uraian who was a travel vence budget which has been, in the aviation of arms Bangkok, but in the supportd to see or hear an example of agent,

estimated at anything between industry or the shipyards who curity of their owls homes Those who end offices are men of theIT naughtiness, suddenly does, na-

There was a Greek photo a year.

£30 million and £860 anion information.

have been caught in this coun- own-bratu. turally and spontaneolisly, "some?

try have hundiy turned traitor thing naughty. It is then Erdbice in Cyprus, a YugoslaY

Taa joka ubaki batieven, thás for pathelle rewards on have that my faith in original sin is born in Triesto and a cable

[ofted · Celerk of undecided Kumia" has sorpcizing, like played at Spying 10. MARS STRATA reaturmed."

London Expsalu zörülée). | nationally who, I hoop, is still. 269,000 spite of wh/grades"in (tə duli ana unnabestial dressy

"But they are wrong.

a fanious musician

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