1961-02-25 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1961,

GANGBUSTER!

As crime tightens its grip on U.S.

big business, the other Kennedy swings into action...

WASHINGTON, Friday,

younger brother Robert, Attorney, General in the new Cabinet, is starting on his big campaign to clear the vice, the corruption, and the gangsters out of American

PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S

life.

handsomer than

"Bobby" Kennedy, perhaps even his brother, plans to mobilise overy available Federal agency from the F.B.I. to the Post Offles in an all-out drive to control the underworld.

Legitimate business, he has warned, will suffer if further the mobsters and racketeers are allowed any

• guccesses.

For years now corrupt trades unions have boen as payments for taking huge sums from businessmen side-tracking possible strikes,

And gangster chieftains, made rich by their nar cotics and vice rackets, are moving into legitimate business....and taking their methods with them.

What a contrast! the men Kennedy has picked for

London and Paris

FROM JEAN CAMPBELL

New York, Friday.

BY IAN AITKEN

MOREST KENKLOY

Income tax evasion has already been used to put men like the late Al Capone in jail. Now Post Office regulations, immigration laws, and eyen drink and sex Jaws will be thrown at them. Already the 35-year-old younger Kennedy is being compared with former New On a conservative estimate, Fedoral law enforce- York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the man who rose on his reputation as tho man who smashed Murder Incorporated:

Dowey's work as a gangbuster in New York eventual ly brought him the Republican Party nomination for the presidency against Franklin D. Roosevelt.

ment agencies believe that some £7,000 million a year

is flowing into the pockets of gang bosses.

[

Says Kennedy: "Gangsters today control steel com- panics, laundry and dry-cleaning establishments, frozen food operations, and many other kinds of businesses. Within 10 years our economy will be drastically affected unless they are stopped."

Well, he's the man to stop it.

Young Bobby's aim is to put top criminals behind bars at any cost by bringing against them any kind of charge that can be proved in a court of law.

That means that, if direct criminal charges cannot be made to stick, every conceivable aspect of a known gangster's life will be dredged and sifted in the hunt for something that will stick.

to national political stature

Now political colleagues expect that Robert Ken- nedy may be aiming at his brother's old Senate seat in Massachusetts.

But whatever the eventual target and young Bobby is ambitious enough even to have his eyes on his brother's job-it is certain that Robert Kennedy's road to the top will be strewn with the ruined carcers some of America's toughest criminals.

A PROVOCATIVE VERDICT BY MAC'S MOST SEARCHING CRITIC

of

WHO CARES ABOUT THE CREW

IF THE CAPTAIN'S ALL RIGHT?

IT

was a fashionable game before the war to pick futuro Prime Ministers. Many were mentioned.

There was the lato Speaker, Mr W. S, Morrison, but natural diff- dence made him soon retire. There was Mr Hore Belisha, but his con- duct of the War Office in 1939 put an end to the career of that would-be

LONDON and Paris will have two very different types Disraeli.

of men as their next American Ambassadors. One is rich and one is poor. One is gay and one is grim.

Wealthy, 63 year - okl į David Bruce who is going to London is blessed with laughter. He makes friends wheresoever he walks, and he has walked far and wide.

He has been a private soldier, an industrialist, a politician,

an espionage chief and husband to the richest woman in the world.

Won

An

Although

зуля Gavin orphan and had to go to work at the age of 12 be scholarship to West Point mill- he tary academy. In the war fought As a paratrooper at Nijmegen, Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge,

with He quarrelled bitterly the Eisenhower regime over their defence polley and resigned noise and fury in with much 1958.

He knows good wines, he col- has written: "t lecta paintings. He loves shoot- afford to fight ing. He wears plus-fours, and then we cannot at the right time and in the vive." right places he has been known

through. Africa, that Mr Mac- millon was worried about Mr Maglood, and that Mr Macleod hind exceeded his mandate and need not believe that he, was in dispensable.

Advance

made them hold up their hands

in amazement.

Against this tide of action it was absolutely impossible for Mr Maudling to have succeeded in lis task and so he too has gone to the shadows. "He is lazy," we are told, "and indolent anki west- ed a great opportunity."

This Is a terrific travesty of eventa, but who cares? For he has served his purpose ns on expendable neat little package that could be presented to those who were critical of our Euro- pean policy,

How long, one wonders, can this all go on? For while the discrediting of these four politicians

scem trivial as long as the sun continues to shine, yet in another sense it is not so.

There was Mr Oliver Stanley it is worth following their car

closely who, it is highly probable, would eers rather

to see if have succeeded had he not un- one can find a common cause fortunately died in the late for their decline. 1040s.

Almost exactly four years ago There were many others, Mr Duncan Bandys becamo at one time Minister of Defence. He was but all of them or other failed to live up to asked to do so because his pre- the extravagant expectailons decessor, Mr Antony Head, de- which were voiced about them. clined to retain this position and Yet none of them could blame cut our conventional forces to This was solzed upon by the anyone but themselves for have what he considered the dan- whole of Blast and Central gerously low level which Mr Africa as meaning that if Mr ing failed in the race.

Macmillan Inslated upon.

Macleod left, the advance to- wards more self-determination

We are mortgaging the poll- would not be so fast, and with- tical figures of the future, not

that giving them out doubt built up enormous pressure against the Colanial backed by loyalty, which alone Secretary, for if he had not the can give them that

which is so essential for our At first everything in the gar- total support of the Prime Minis- den was lovely. We were eater- ter he only had to disappear for leaders to have. ing into a period where the his policy to go, too.

And perhaps most dangerous of all, we are getting to a state of affairs where it does not ap- pear to matter in the least what happens to the crew, or the ship, as long as the Captain can starid triumphant, unchallenged, upon the bridge.

Today this game is being play- ed again, but this time some could of the contestants who

in normally expect to be favourable position, find instead that their hopes have been some- what frosted, and in nearly every case the fault has not been en- tirely their own.

Chances?

Thus when Mr Sandys took up his new post he had every reason to believe that he was carrying out the chosen policy

of the Prime Minister,

by.

LORD LAMBTON

He has churm, gentleness of heart and the exquisite man- ners of the true American coup-· It must be remembered that try gentlemaD. –

this tough, taut, thin-lipped hero we cannot limited wars, If four years ago the average afford to sur-Conservative Member of Parlia- ment had been asked who, after Mr Macmillan and Mr Butler, would one day reside at 10 Downing-street, he would probe world was poised between total ably have mentioned four names: war or total peace, and where Mr Duncan Sandys, Mr Jala conventional forces were not Macleod, Mr Edward Heath, Mr going to be needed. Reginald Maudling. Each of But on this was the case we them is man of considerable had, of course, to have nuclear stature, possessed of the neces- weapons and several ambitious But one thing is sure-Gavinsary qualifications,

schames had to be embarked Yet what are their chances upon. and de Gaulle like and respect

men of today? To see what has happen- each other. They are the same cannon-like calibre, ed to them in the last four years,

hand.

Bome people here suspect that to bow low and kiss a lady's President Kennedy has gent Paris in Ambagasder Gavin to order point out to the Euro- peats that they must fight their own limited wars while the Americans fight theirs.

Now 54-year-old General Janca Gavin who is going to Paris has no private fortune. He looks, as the Americans say lov- ingly, "lean and mean." He is the kind of man you would ex- pect to vault a five-barred gate rother than bother to open it.

"FIRST TO THE LEFT, SECOND TO THE RIGHT AND

CARRY ON TILL YOU GET TO GENESISTM"

EDGE OF SPACE

deartë karyment by mrangement win the agghharin Beige)

"

Arm in arm

All this was sensible, so the argument ran, and also would be'reonomic, and the Prime Min-

ister and Mr Sandyn walked out metaphorically arm in arm.

Then suddenly doubts arose Was the Blue Streak out of date? Was it possible after all that we might one dáy nted conventional arms, and, if so what about the Chief of Staff's complaint that an army of 180,000, let alone 109,000 was inadequate?

Then all at once hints were dropped, and the, talk changed

And KO today It Is Mr Macleod, also standing alone, who bears the great brunt of savage attacks, who is depicted as the destroyer, of

White lafinence and the precursor of farther Congos.

The third of our foursome, Mr Edward Heath has certainly been disappointing in the House of Commons. He seems to lack authority and a grasp of his subject, but much of the critle-

iam directed against him seems to be intensely unfair.

When he was first offered the

job of Lord Privy Seal he must ho learned that the Foreign Sec- have been delighted. But when fetary was to be in the Lords his pleasure was

quickly qualified.

Impossible

He knew himself to be in

a little. It was now not the an almost impossible position-a Prime Minister's Pollor but spokesman of the whole Foreign Duncan's, And Duncan was s Office without authority, never very obstinate man.

So when last year the Blue Streak project was abondoned, no one had a good word to say for him, as after all, had he not Initiated a, costly polley which had not been justified. And so he was swept back Into the shadows.

able for a mament to leave his brief, responsible always to the Upper House.

Almost with the eye of a pro- phet be saw all this and ex- pressed his doubts, but intonse pressures were put upon him. All he had to do was to stay there, a year or two and auto- Let us turn to Mr. Iain Mac- matically the Foreign Ofer leod. A year ago he and the would be his.

Prime Minister also saw things But now he is also in the eye to eye. Together they had shadows, and the whispered

embarked upon a great liberal policy for Africa.

cause la that he misconceived the altuation in Laos, and that That Mr Macleod was a lttle perhaps after all, ho is not a hasty, that he over-estimated man of the world." the casiness of his tremendous, Our last man is Mr Roginald task, is without doubt true. Maudling. Jovial, plaold, yet;

But when he became Colonial intensely capable. Four years Secretary ho must have con- ago he was given the task of celved that he was put there by bringing Britain Info Europe. It the Prime Minister to carry out in true he was given no cards at Ja liberal policy, and he must all, but still a good player con,Į

have thought that he would always bluft. receive every support.

But however good "the player,

The first shock was the Wind he cannot play against his own of Change speech which put all side as well, and the Prime Mr. Macleod's plans in jeopardy. Minister had several aces up his What he hnd wanted was 8, sleeve whleit were, to be "uned steady advance, not the sudden" against him. gate which was summoned up There was the glani of arms and which frightenedovery to Tunisia, which Infuriated the white man in Africa almost cut French. There was tho visit to of his sonucks and caused an Moscow, which "Infuriated tho Intense reaction against advance. Tronch and Germans. There was Then thera was, the Prinio, the willingness to compromise Minister's vinit to Bouthern, over. Berlin, which Infuriated Rhodenia, for after he left, it Europe. There were the pledges was whispered, anil. The whime, that we weld make sio mzuri- vour all whilapars so aw ann'dices to antas Eiropay which

experience

confidence

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