1961-09-14 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961.

The Prime Minister has a host of Tory relatives- but one question arises from his summer holiday...

WHO ARE MR MACMILLAN'S

AS Mr Harold Macmillan relaxes in the Victorian-baronial grandeur of Bal moral Castle, you may wonder who are the other people whose houses he visits.

Whom does he invite down to Birch Grove? Whom does he like to relax with over dinner at Buck's Club or n late-night whisky and soda at Pratt's?

Perhaps this mont striking thing about Morailian's friends and made is that they are entirely pre- dictable. They are just the sort of intimates one would expert an Old Etonian Prime Minister

who marrhvi Into the pristo- cracy to have.

There is no one mutrageous mong then no one

sunt; me plustographer or interior de corator.

And tir Marmblun friends

There is BO as there i

are not noteriz. Muciflow set, Gafiskell set. The fact that they know Mr Mandillon

does not

no mark i Cum-

bruge.

0:100, when opening a Van

Dyck exhibillon, he

declared:

REAL FRIENDS?

by

Alan Watkins

probably no one in this room Stuarts.

do."

.R

(James V made his kmen less about art than I Regilimate son the first Earl of

Antel f House of Lords leisure, be debate on the use

"Front sonanced:

D+1: up bringing there is nothing in more qualified to talk about." 1.nnr Then there is Lord downe. Under-Secretary at the Foreign Ofee and a cousin of

Subsequently he became a Tory, and has several times been on thank short list for enfe Tory seats.

story is that he missed One being sujected for the Oxford

seat when, through an unfortu- nata lape of memory, he con- cluded his address to the Tory commillee with the cry: "Vote Liberal! Vote Liberal?"

The Prime Minister's other mires Macmillan. He is one of friends from outside his family the richest landowners in Eng- are more in the usual pattern land. When his uncle Lord Le- than is Sir Rey, Morny,)

Lord Stuari did not sparkle as confeld died in 1982, Wynt-

ile sometimes goes pheasant Secretary of State for Scotland, ham inherited estates worth shooting on the Earl of Car- But until he retired from the £2,000,000 In

cstate, Cumberland and arvon's

Highclere, Hants. with a viseuunty in Sussex.

And he is a regalar Cons

visitor uf Mr Gavin Astor in 1859, Macmillan leaned heavily

His wife was once selected by Aberdeenshire. He ste on him for udylie.

magazine 10 represent seess Lord Stuart when he can.

Britain in a "world brautics" Among non-relatives, the man

series. His seventeenth-century 11-year-old special assistant Mr John Wyndham.

mena that they see one another. Lady Dorothy Macmillas. He is Macmillan sees must oflen Is bis house, Petworth, in Sussex, has

The Prime Minister a great folly mankhil, naturafly, the people he sees all of are Macdtian relatives, who are at The same time. Tory politicians.

Disparaging

picture-collector and a bull ght enthusiast. He has heated a list of the world's ten best- dressed men.

Two months as Mr Macrall tan chose a Tory rally in the grounds of Lansdowne's house at Bowood, Wiltshire, as the locale for an important sporch. He has stayed at Lansdowne's

other house in Perthshire.

There is the Duke of Devon- shire, Under-Secretary of State And Mr. Macmillan has not for Commonwealth Reillons been the only highly placed guest. The Queen and Prince since last year.

Every

Macmilan Phillip have been there too. year Mr

sianmer Next: spends part of s

Mr Macmillan's bro holiday shouting on the duke's ther-in-law, Lord

Bluart of estate in Yorkshire (his other Findhorn, formerly Mr James estate is at Chalsworth in Der Stuart. Secretary of State for byshire).

Scotland and an ex-Chief Whip, The duke has a fondness for Lord Stuart not only married making disparpying remarks a Cavendish. He is a son of the about himself. He han sald that Earl of Muray, which

This friendship began in the war,

Wyndum was on When Macinitian's slair in North. Africu.

After the war he did a stint in Tory Central Oilce. In 1955 he became an honorary private secretary to Magnilion, who was then at the Foreign Office.

He has

Admirer

was

worked in this way as a temporary unpaid civil servant ever since - except for the tire when Macmillan Chancellor, and Wyndham was negotiating with the Treasury about death duties on his estate.

Wyndham makes

does this humble

he was not very clever at Even him a descendant of the Royal job because he genuinely ad-

As the jacaranda

blossom falls

Elisabethville.

THE prestige of the

United Nations

is

falling here in Katanga as stendily as the jaca- randa blossom falls in the late spring.

The proposed quidation of Katanga's self-styled indepen- dence lurches along in on almo- phere of bitterness, misirusi, charge, and cuntercharge

Against This backelulhy, twyn

in Katanga

By Cyril Aynsley

One is the United Nations In four hours administrator in a foreign coun- Was serious. In

the situation

six hours it

try. The other is Interior was becoming appalling. With- Maister in his own country. in 12 hours it was completely

out of hand. een emerge as hitter personal ture has brewed Munongo of United Nations could

The Irish Doctor of Litera- The curious thing is that the ien. This Brutales and

opponents. One in Trechen

Conor Praise other is Afrkan Godefrizid Munoni,

O'Brien Trinity College Dac- tor of Literature, nuthority on the poet W. B. Yeats, and 40 Telsh politician-is determined

easily

atrucitles and have prevented it. declares he is a guilty man Art

If the United Nations had the eyes of the world,

Now what are these brutalitler eat their own patrols into the lownships ond assured the and atraellies? Without doubl there has been a campaign of people by loudspeaker that they persecution in Katanga against would be protected there would

to carty through the Security the Kasai, the people from the have been no refugee problem.

Council's February

resolution twighbouring State working and

to oust Belgian soldiers wil polllieni advisers from President Thombr's

self-asserted

pendent Siste.

Indu

time

living here.

There have been orrents.- 1

have seen them myself. There

Locked

This is a pretty town.

But

Is undoubted fear, But behind the pleasant facade a between persecution and bitter struggle goes on and the

to brutally, between

And at the denigrate Kutangu's accession from the Central Congo Govern- ment recognised by UNO as the true authority.

Weapons

sion and atrocity, there wide gulis,

apprehen- churning and diplomatic Tshorn- are be, the ebullient Munonga, who the strong man of the regime, and the rest of the Government watch the United Nations plan- ning the liquidation of their in- dependence.

Challenge

Striking

at Muc-

Lord Mills was called in to help Mocmillan, then Housing Minister, to reach the target. He mucceeded. Milla's reward was a buroneley, later a peeruge, ond o Beat in the Cabinet, first us Minister of Power and then as Paymaster-General.

old Percy" from Macmillan fondly calls him expected to relife alter the au- tumn Government But there

reshuffle. is little doubt that the friendship will continue.

Favourite

Macmillan's "favourlie son" Helwyn

in the Communi ve

Lloyd. Many believe that he wants Mr Lloyd to

succeed him. Mr H. A. Butter has said: "Selwyn entons the friendship and patronage of the Prime Mitakster?

THIS TOUGH MAN

KENNEDY IS

PUTTING

INTO BERLIN...

THERE will be no mistaking President Ken- nedy's latest message about Berlin even if it is delivered with the lazy accent of the Deep South.

More than any other knan

rehabilitate a To this ho devoted a 10-hour day, telnya uf

ruined country.

For General Lucius Dubignan 11 seems that there is more

in the Chan friendship in Clay, burn potransge

Scarlett their

Cerininy Oarn Hate of Georgia, repre- relationship. Mr Lloyd who does not have sents the lough school of speel-Clay helped to a country house-is allowed by fallsis in Germany. the Prine Minister 10 usu avnable collection of paint-

Chequers,

By anaiaelng that the gen- secrelories, a cold efficiency and Wiren lngs, and is much granier than

you look

Mr Lloyd Mr Macmillon's neighbouring allan's hetimates in Parliament company

does not ne-eral will be his personat envoy a hot temper

Kennedy his chief on country to Berlin, President

In the process he sometimes Birch Grove.

there is a striking change. For weekends. And Mr Mucmillan seeks to reassure the Germans secured more pro-German than Then fhere is the thin, all the men whose houses he has never stayed at Mr Lloyd's | about American policy.

the Germans themselves, stays at are aristocrats or near- modes! Victorian house ut bronzed worldly Oxford crno-

there seems to be a natural law aristocrats. They all went to Hoyinke. mies don, Sir Roy Harrod. Mac-

does

whereby soldiers identify them- millon

not taken his Elon, apart

Sir Roy One KOUS the same sort of

elves with the regions they are economics from him-Sir Ray Harrod--and he went to West attitude towards other Ministers

culled upon to govern, favours a cusch

more expan-minster. sionist economic policy than Macmillan appears, to do--lit finds him stimulating

Harrod th ambitious twith

Once socially und politically. he startled a group of dons by announcing, in his high pitched voice: "I must just go and ring 1653 Queen Mary" which he promptly did.

Politically I started off as a Liberal-he contested Hud- dersell as a Liberal in 1945.

A

WHISPER, ill- informed but in-

the soon. For UNO sidious, goes round that meets on British cars are lagging

their

The other day I challenged the A plan which must be accom- UNO men to produce evidenen pilshed

it is against this political behind necessity that the Irish doctor competitors.

Munongo (Central Universky of physical brutality or atrocity. General Assembly of Kisantu) with the proud "But certainly," Bald Michel September 19. blood of chiefs in his veins, over Tomberlaine, Dr O'Brien's de- six feet tall, Inveterate wearer pusy. of gold-rimmed dark glasses, and hugely expressive in the charming Norwegian French tongue-is determined to the hospital here where the grip.

resist to the end,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

“My dear Maudie, as no one in their right mind could ever conceivably consider meeting Sargent's portrait of your mother, it is wholly pointlest your asking me what I would

be prepared to pay to get

Je back"

London ExTTON DEPVION.

I was taken by a tall and and the African Minister

prc

foreign

doctor to locked In An uncompromising Can It bu true that our

evidence WAS produced. It amounted tu onc man with bullet through 2 leg wound received during

a te

á

cent prison mutiny-and an- other man produced a dark fool from the white sheets and said: "It hurts."

In addition the doctor brought forward his own houseboy, wie had been abruptly arrested few days ago and had his pose broken in the process. "Is this all?" naked,

-(London Express Servico),

QUOTE

(number one exporting industry

ig slipping?

No, I say. The whisper is untrue. More, it la rubbish, and supported by no fact whatever,

Look at the record and you will agree that the British matur by Sir Robert Maclean, chiefstry, should be praised sky-

They have fought

high.

of carpet makers A. F. Stoddard, battle in a market that is more.

in his yearly holders:-

report to share competitive than any oller in The world. Aral well have they ¡done.

WE have to remember

that

"That is all, I was told. "But Wibertat as are diff carpet

And you will agree with me Wat Hila stabbing

of course if this has happened experts to Europe, thons to the when I say

to three it must have happened Commonwealth are greater still, from back-sent drivers must be

to many more," I was told,

Terrifying

and if the opening up of the stopped--now.

to be were

· Cohimoni Markel accompanied

of by a closure Commonwealth markcls the

gffect on the Brillah carpet

Certainty Dublin's O'Connell Industry would Ba markedly street on any Saturday nighi adverse- could provide more blood and bruises.

A

The latest, most curious, and-by Mr T. J. Roberts, educa- most serious aspect of the Katan- tion and training officer to the Rastery is the sudden eruption Beecham Group, at an Oxford of a massive refugee problem. conference for apprentice

A fear has spread "with the terrifying, all-consuming speed OBARS dole out praise and showed of a petrol jelly bomb among recognition as if they were The Koral living around Elm-giving away 21 moter. bethville.

Leading

car new forelan

from

with whom Macmillan is friend- Macmillan's friends la Paella- ly such as Mr Edward Heaths, nut, the working, pulliiclans, Mr. Ernest Marples, and Mr are from comparatively humble Henry Brooke, backgrountis.

His must constant

As with Macmillan's friends late-night outside the Commons, there is crony is Lord Mils, who left no special group. There is no school of 10 to become an Cabinet within à Cabinet. And engineering apprentice.

surely is better this way.

The Prime Minister's mistakes

Their intimacy is the result of Lard Woulton's hastily made-up are his own and not those of promise at the 1950 Tory Party any privileged elrele whether ¿nference to bulid 300,000 inside or outside Porilament. houses a year.

(London Express Service).

HOPE

BY GEWAYTS]

ANOTHER FAMOUS PAINTING STOLEN

Pr Dr Adenauer and his countrymen. 84-year-old General Cluy is the symbol of Western resistance to the Russians.

HEADED

Hic headed American trees in Germany during the four im- mediate post-war years when the cold war was at its hottest. During the al-Uft he talked of sending an armoured column along the autobahn to force the blockade. But President Truman stopped him.

London preze ́Bervica.

Forget the British

TRADITION

For

Certainly General Clay is in Hia the Imperial tradition. engle-ilke face and hooded eyes prompted one British official to say: "He looks like a Roman emperor-and acts ilko one."

He was the man chosen to accompany Vice President Lydon Johnson

flag on his bhowing expedition to Berlin last month.

Then General Clay decided he wanted to visit East Berlin, "They didn't wave us through, he reported afterwords, "We Just went through."

Now General Clay leaves his desk as board chairman of America's Continental Con Company to go back to the city where once he ruled as a soldier.

He goca at a time when negotiation is in the air. As a negotiator with the Russians before he was less than que- cessful.

It was his toughness that ended the Big Four meetings in Berlin in September 1948, when the first Berlin crisis was at itg height.

He refused to "go on and oh and on," He threw down his pencil on the table and stalked out to order the air-lift to be stepped up.

TOUGHNESS

Was his toughness then justi- Nerl? Certainly the air-lift coded the following year with victory for the West,

в

But I did not produce solutiun to Berlin. The crisis There is sill with us.

He was born on St. George's Day. While he stays in Berlin he must remember that it is dangerous today to shoot too utily at dragons-even if you eru see the whites of their eyes over the concrete wall.

TERENCE

LANCASTER

→{London Exprema Berulces. E

sneers

cars are

still the best

by

BASIL CARDEW

It was the Brital too whe

No equal

In the 10 years from 1961 to Jaan- frat mnda the fold fywheel 1960 Brush car manufacturers nounced that needs no greasing. transmission that inter Ted to produced 0,348,110 cara. Of But more than three years ago the Gutomatic transmission there they exported 4,127,042, Triumphs produced a car with adopted by the Americans. which means they exported 484

greasing points,

per cent of their products. But was full pruló given to Sie Leonard Lord and the Belih leadwip fo there Brilh Meftor Cortation magdfeest friverations?

genius when they Of ecurse not.

Those Whose niggardly produced flea Mini cars with' rubber bushes replacing the, prattlings always nooit to belittle Usual intricate auspension points. our achievements Cast Bushes Mal ́nded ho dervicing Nelson's eye to all that is good aboutus. Thayį noric only" -tó And it was the British, motor pinprick im on the aletlerent industry that invented dise; dotat miles to thezmÁT I. Hisiko maart for the brakes, which all Condinerital camp of Swedish UNO STOOD WAT tease the banuieturern now have to buy, export, racord of our car m- Look again with me at the They claimed they were seeking protoction.

pardhita.

from this countr).

Thousands of them in infer-

tlow And

**

unregeening panje-by etime-writer John Doland, whatever. left the comfort of their at a contorence!~ de to

homes to trok

Justry,

Can ong name any other in dustry which over, so long a period tam seht so much of its output abebad?

What were thone experts worth? Just short of £1,6 million à figure no other indus- try can equat.

Dues thly suggest that our men in the factories in the Mid- londs and Bround London need to be sharper to meet foreign competition?

There are other Indloations that the plant bosses and their 2,000,000 workers are in the forefront of car design.

And who, of all the manufac“ lurer in Europe, produces the greatest selection of models?

You can take it from me that the British offer nearly 10 timer more models than any other European country.

these

facts

In the light of could anyone seriously say the ritinh motor +mdustry 13 1gging?

There are complaints of poor finishing on Rome of our cars which the makers are constantly striving to remedy,

First-clast

Who makes the world's most chérished car the best car? Rolls-Royce. And It is all British. Who has world monopoly of the production and sales of sports But, to my knowledge, price

The British. These cars for price, tho anish. ebr:7

of British are sought and bought all øyst cars la every bit dood a the world — in 'America, in these I have driven abroški, Italy, in Germany, In France.

Who makes the fastest, and clieapest sparks cat for the

All this is just a title of what out ear industry has sollinvært. money? Why, Jaguars with it is a first-class effort the mured

by any industriei standards. their new Etypa mode),

And I wry that, on the whole, Switch down the range to the the industry has a reseónabig ithallest est, · Whố bad the

oplimfatic outlook. diebully to adapt a front-t is on mdurtry of which wheel delve car by putting the the whole country, hould be engine: In

sideways. Why, protal. Morria and Austin.

"--(Lendon Exprem Kervice), *-