1961-11-02 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1961.

TO THE POINT

BY JAK

THE LONELY IKE CALLS

A CABINET MEETING

from HELEN MASON 4.

EVERY morning at six o'clock an active man--- recently was his 71st birthday --wakes up on a farm in Gettysburg. He has enough

energy to run the United States.

But, for the

first time in 20 years, Dwight David Eisenhower has only his own life to min.

A 44-year-old man has taken vort his job of managing

Nu 2 attem

capable 71421 smoothly uncrate his 190-acre form. The has nothing more vrgent be whare all than his personal mall.

Indizement is the most dUT- elt trek sve taken on by the Carl Pendent of America. And Bu is trying he be with it by pretending that it doesn't exist,

Insenting an fver he was with wordt erses 16 kenya bir dan dooping, he gets up at his usual hor and ents a bearly beakfast Then he drives to his effer, where he answers 2,300 tetters a week and keeps busy

staff of six.

The

Old friends

graced to weighing anvilations Summit confer- enres is one besieged by society wanting him to sprak

at meeting other wistfully, he still whites Ni national lenders Bike Mr Stormillan and Neri- dent de Gaulle, but now he white as sn friend

the

Mr Macmil many political leaders, who have visited Eisenhower in his retire- ment When they arrive he ladly takes time off to take them in a motormed golf cart un guided war of his farm. A model of this form son The desk m the White House ever since he and Mame decided le: 1952 to settle there. The real Thing is ahnasi equally remode as he leaves The practical handling of 11 to his mateser and staff.

may

al

He has a herd of 30 Aberdeen Angus eattle - five of which

be exhibited shows-seven horses and twu The horses are for his grandchildren. the himself no longer riden,

foals.

On Isunny days, when there Ore no visitors to distract him, Bosvels the that of the golf course, And four afternoons cut of five the temptation wins. But, Just as he can no longer issu Instantly obeyed commands that will bring helicopters, plunes, and private cars to his disposal, he can no longer summon golf partners when he feels like it.

During; office ike had a list of Jisiant

comunions win dropped everything to fetch their clubs when i felt like a

At the end game,

his term

of office he wrote to the wives of the Fath apologising for demands his golfing fod made w their husbands and thanking them fie by veicietate- ing. These same men night well be equally been to partner him now, but Gettysburg is rather more difficult to reach at n mement's notice

is favourite paler these days in his 13-year-old grandson David, but David has a will as stron as Ike's, and it he has planned a game of baseball or tourds he says so quite Grmly.

A rather lonely Bgure, with

na one now to eriticise his fline spent on the course, the farmer President frequently golfs alone.

Boredom

Willam Howard Tal, another of the few men turned loose after steering the United States, sald sadly that an ex-President locomotive was like

a giant pulling a toy wagon. anding out what he meant.

To close friends he and Mamic have confided that they are

bered

Ike is

. Influential contacts are

sold to be seeking a role for him that would throw him back into partisan politics.

The man whose address #sted In Who's Who as 1600, Pennsylvania-avenue, coulti not even drive a car or dial a telephone when he left the White House for the last time. Ile has had plenty of space in his schedule to learn both skills,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANÇASTER

"Make mine a 'mexaton"

London Express Cervico.

It is frustrating for him to depens en news bulleting and newspapers for his knowledge of current affairs, and, 11- though the job has gone, the

case of responsibility remains like the pain in an amputated

limo.

Unable to dismiss the anxieties of State affairs, he calls the experts whose advice and help was unre vital and demande opinions on world moves. With them he discusses all angles t each world political event, and when they solemnly reach decision ke hangs 1p and remembers that he is retired.

One of these men sul ayın- pathetically: "It is like a con- ston! game of poker played for match-stick staker"

"

A few months ago Ike culled Fin assembly of his formeer Cabinet,

uld I began as un buys' reuelon with railing re- miniscences-and ended as Cabinet meeting with Ike par- ing up and down asking comments from euch man Bath their Government hel never been usted

for

as

His struck nt Nixon's defent is equalled by his irritation at the Kennedy regime. On June 2. ex-President Eisenhowe muda flery speech condemn - log the new Government's domestic policies. But stronger is his loyalty-Ike never com- meats on foreign policies In enge he damages prestige abroad.

Clase contacts of the former President say he saw Nixon's defral as a national rejection 444 s political ¡dels. But Eisenhower is still much in demand politically.

AS

MARK MY WORDS. FIRST NEEDLES, THEN IT WILL BE BEADS. CHEAP MIRRORS,

TOBACCO. THEN THEY'LL BE LANDING TO COLONISE US."

Bonn.

S the intricate coali-'

tion conversations between the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party moved to a close, a new element enters West German politics.

The surprising exetomation ringing through the curridors of the Federal Bundeshaus (Parlia- ment) and echoed at busy poli

When a man

-look for the

woman

Ike - A man without a job.

tical cocktail parties all over and decisions is Frau Margot Bunn is: Cherchez la femme! Mende, the Free Democratie one invitation-lo a stag party, Dr Adenauer whose party leader's blonde, hefty but most and it was not a succe5S,

emerged from the election as attractive wife, and tnother of People found it difficuli to the strongest but without its his two children, chat to such a famous guest, previous overall majority is "What's the latest news Stripped of his power. Elsen-clearly not influenced by any from Margot?" is the

10

an

down directorships said to be His support of a candidate Worth £30,000 year.

a Vater very much

This he can weil afford do fncially, Ice, who enlcher and Governor Rockefel- ter of New York recently spent nouneed in 1948 that he was His pre- time success- broke, is a rich man. a great deal of fully persuading him 10 FORE sidential penston is £4,928 a or pictures with his choice of year. And his first book, man in the approaching New "Crusade Europe," netted York mayoral election.

around 170,000 after taxes.

This money was in trust un touched by Eisenhower during his reign in the White House and his brokers cautiously ad- mit It has been considerably enhanced by careful invest ments.

Formality

Equally anxious to cash in on bis career are directors of big vanessa, bit The Telfes lo lend his name to commer-

hower still has to battle with the womun. formality of fame, Tomen who worked beside him during his presidency, le has begged "Call me Ike," but they can't do it.

Dominating

tion.

ques-

On the answer, according to

London Express Service,

gets

behind him

on

That's what they're doing in Bonn

By Willi Frischauer

vid.

""

serious political observers in it's time to get up, and get on Adenauer because he was too. Bonn, the_composition of the with your career!" next West German government

These political Inbetweens Bul if you believe the West may well turn.

Erich Mende, 44, vigorous, helped Mende's Free Democrats German gossips — and news It was her encouragement, it highly decorated wor #me to ʼn total of BG sents in the new papers his prospective coalition is sold, which helped him to Welirmaent major forged ahead. House.

His evenings are spent quietly it home with his wife, reading historical novels and westerns, and sometimes ambling over to watch Mamic's favourite tele- partner Dr Erich Mende, leader climb the stormy paths to the He based his election campaign Over and over Erich Mende vision show.

of the Free Democrats is rather leadership of his party in re- on a shrewd estimate of popular insisted that he would not serve

cord tline. susceptible to t Time is an Impossible occu-

There is a story feeling in West Germany that under Adenauer, rejecting even He has made few social appation for a man who has spent

The woman erediled with a according to which Frau Margot there were many voters who a compromise solution by saying: pearances since he retired, In his life borrowing it.

dominating influchte on Dr. roused her husband each morn- would not pick Willy Brandt "We are not inclined to agree Mende's life, ambitions, polities ing with these words: "Erich, because he was a socialist or Dr

tu a temporary Adenauer gov- ernment." A day later he once more made his position clear. "Coalition.

yes, but not with Adenauer as Chancellor.

ciat concerns. He has turned Gettysburg he has accepted only

(London Express Service).

LOGAN GOURLAY

Dateline: Monte Carlo

TALKING TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ALL-ROUND ARTISTS OF THE AGE

World-weary Cocteau buys

rose-coloured

telescope from Chinatown

one side of the fireplace a mural of a broadshouldered man сп ON

closing a bookcase in his flank. On the other side a mural of a woman. pregnant with books. On the mantelpiece a large plate with three ceramic eyes and two mouths.

I was in the villa not far from Monte Carlo decorated and occu- pied for part of the year by Jean Cocteau, distinguished Frenchman of most of the arts.

He sold in a vulce that kept

"It's too easy to be mixed up In the dirty world of politics without trying.

He followed this up by em- phasising that his party would rigree to any Christian

Demeerntle Chancellor — ex- cept Adenauer.

But no sooner had Dr Adge naver deckled to call Mende's bluft — rather than bow to the diklat of the comparative nuw- comer to West German politics the Chancellor Initiated fnetical talks with the hated Soelolists— when the Bonn grapevine began to buzz with the highly-import- aut information that, come what may. Margot was "determined to see her husband in the Cabinct."

"Always people are trying to That this was not idle specula- drag me and my frierid Picassoon emerged at a meeting of in. Fidel Castro Issued the Christian Democratle parila-

d

statement that there are only mentary party when one of Dr five or six Frenchmen worth Adenauer's party colleagues, anything all. He mentioned Kerr J. P. Josten, exclaimed bow, me and my friends. So every-"It is high time to talk seriously with Frau Mendie!" (Applause nue thinks we are pro-Castru, Or we are Communists, But we, and roars of laughter.j "Picasso is always saying to pro nothing, except artists, wedding in Westminster Abbey me. It is a long time that I am but only with the man of her young. He is 80 now and he take a slee this way or that way "It is terrible. I am afraid to

is not long before her wedding. He made an elaborate She tells me she is rebellious. pretending to doff one. Sull she

her will do what mother wishes. She will have a

choice,

Flowers

She changed

grows younger. Every day ho works and often into the night because I might fall into the pit

Indeed, Dr Mende was soon Now I am making a book win of politics."

seen to weaken vlaibly in his him I write the words and he He disappeared and come opposition to Dr Adenauer. Frau illustrates.

Marget was reported to: have changed her daily early morning exlariations to her husband,

"It's time to get up and give in Erich!" she wAN quoted na saying.

back with a brightly coloured "Her mother smiles with in-

* have another boole coming cylinder like a thick telescope. dulgence. She is charming, your out, I write it when I am i

“Th!s 18 my new toy. It's Queen Mother. She is like recently. One day, poult, like marvellous, Formidable, It is! flowers."

that, I lose my blood, What

called the Peledoxope. It comes you call hemorrhage, yes?

from Chinatown, New York. "For two months lie on my "It brings new shaper and back, but I write with the paper ectuurs to everything. Look. above me. I write everything Look." Just as it comes into my head.

Ells, two, or thrée, ormu dea- cribed an are in the ale enclosing an Imaginary bouquet.

I call it my requiem.

It is about everything but

"Afterwards there is trouble and Cocteau. "The French newspapers think the Princess is spending the day at pry house In the country outside Paris, not about polttles, I hate They will not believe she is not politics. there and they put words into "France is slek. All the world my mouth, They make me say

in print that the Queen Mother is silly and the Princess in naughty girl. Vlelous Hes.

a

and

an artist

Angles

Promptly Dr Mende said in public: "The Free Democratic parly may have to examine the possibility

Adenauer

to agree to Dr serving for a trob-

aition period.”

IL

would all bo highly amusing If it did not throw an uminous light, on West German politics. Mende's party includes Through it the bougainvilla the mast heterogeneous elementa with the azure who pull their leader in opposite wis a directions-no wonder his pull-

is sick. The politicians aro sick,

"More and more bombs. All on the terraen they want is bark, bang. Every Mediterranean beyond thing precious blows up. All the maze of everchanging patterns tick ore & confusing mixture of world disappears,

anel shades,

Cocteau, himself pro-Western, nationalist-German

and neutralist ideas. "I cannot help by taking us was multiplied to a contipede. Queen politics. An

While there is no saying what I must "I'm sending one," he said,egreed politics will emerge from whhdraw and speak in my own General dr Gaulle and the current voice out of my own loneliness Kruschev and your Macmillan, tween Dr

consultations be Adenauer and Dr to the other people

are Then they can see new andes Meikle, and which, Mirdistry, it ready to listen.

on the beautiful world they any, Mende himself will occupy might destroy.

Under Dr Adenauer, Chancellor "I don't want to be killed by many doubts that the phase prostem, no une in West Ģer- the politicians. Life is long in which lan come to be known as la a days but start in time, n'ost-co "Chancellor Democracy" ban

warm and caressing and at other she is asked to interpret, but sho times sharp and critical, "try says it is not necessary,

So fast it gives the impression that like some of the figures in to talk in English, but I do not know much, but it is good exer- "Sho is right. We understand a drawings he has three hands

"Later they print a correction

the fortunately else for me,

cach other perfectly, Chaplin and several arms. and me. He talks or we com- But as a young man, Custeau Mother and the Princess under "HOWEVET. J veople Bre ympathetique, language is not municate all day and all night, must have looked like a Gallic stand.

they do, We use our bands, our arme, version of that energotle plato- "It is to show important. The meaning 1

our feet, our eyes, our hearts, graplier who has become Eart think, that they invited me to clear.

tho wedding. The only French

It it a RECA! "Once I am naline across the Everything. It is perfect, n'est-ce of Snowdon.

pas?" China Sen in a liner. A knock

Pouring a small whisky, he man Invited. comes to my door. It is Charlie emphatic movement of his black Chaplins when I

Underlining the polt with an said: "It Is like with the honour. For that I wear the

nicet your top hat moccasined foot he leaped up. Princear Margaret and from the adÍA, "

mother. He has a short, fatless frame.

"The

are so sympathetique His grey holy is brushed that language is not necemary Straight upward to heaven. It although they speak very good "I have another Engilah hat, haldes a face that is narrow, French,

The fat one they give nie when sun-tanned, faunlike.

"Iain invited to a dinner at they make me Doctor of Litera At 72 his movements urn still the Ambassadora in Paris, "The turn at Oxford University about ballelic, gatzeful, fart.

Pylinders wants to meet me, it fve yata ngo,”-

Chaplini.

Hearts

I

"He apraks no French apeake no English at all.

"Prutetta Ġockiard is with him then, She sprake French and

ber

Youth

who

Politics

"Your John Osborne

jcome to an end.

good playwright, I am told. But pan7" he should not weste his Ume

Holding his Peledoscope in hist The absolute rule of Pr writing lettera about polltes to hands he waved goodbye, Ho Adenauer cannot be continued the papers,

"Ife is still a boy. It is not looked for a moment like a white he and his party depend the function of the artist. If puzzled and aged child Peter on a coalition partner who has lost at A stormy peace (tie right -- and the power 14, tu has anything to say, he should conference.

demend consultativi. way it in hin pluga.

London Express Service).

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