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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1950.
A STRANGE PHILOSOPHY
By "Windrush". Special correspondent
unable to decide ono way or all- other. Aelion would be lysed.
New analysis
para-
Klerkeguard's greatest contri- bution, perhaps, was in matcing :
Good Morning
Red Chinu
a new psychological analysis, Ic said that, if an unbiased study
is banning the was made of the human mind, export of all objects of art. the thing which would stand out Oh, well, the supply of dance most prominently was the emo- kostesses
from Shanghai Is tlon which ju German, is called already sufficient to English, "nnxiety" demand. angst. In translation of angsta stufo
meet the
During the past 10 years the most talked about writers In Europe have been the so.. called Existentialists. They may not seem very good writers to posterity; there
He devoted himself to his own time they seemed nito been other] career. have perhaps writers working at the same attacking German philosophy Kether eccentric. He mukested especially the school of legal that the universe was irrational. time whose books a 100 years and to criticising the Danish Thus it could be understood, not Editor in Chief
At the end he found in rational statement, but t Reportare & General Office 32312 hence will seem to be much church.
had exhausted all paradox He stressed the cx- (four Inse)
more valuable and interest- that he
his money. On the very day on treme importance of normal de- Subscription Rates
ing. This does not alter the} which he drew the last sum out off cislon in the life of m#B. A must would be only partly correct na af
Asked for her opinion of a fact that it is the Existential- the bank, he fell ill and died. made his character by the moral #mantha ...
of mind not of anxiety about United Nations mandate, Myrtle which he was entle ists who have made the most This timely death sated him from decisions
thing, sald pointedly that she has never uny particular numble noise in the last decade. the need of reorganising his life on, to make constantly. It a man
general atooped so low as to go out with a vague state of and working for his Helig. property understood the weighty
which, according to policinus. All news contribution to b. They express and reflect a
What is it in hla queer, con- consequences, which followed disquiet
Kiericegonrd, lies at the back of addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
great deal in the sick soul of torted, obscure writings which from his acting in one way or all our ordinary concrete expert- Jean Crawford, says a locally-
the other, he would pass through ence congeniali Advertisements and Business Europe. Anybody who wishes muke Kierkegaard so
The agonies, sald Kierkegaard, in ad.
On this concept, modern Exts- communications should be
to understand contemporary to the present generation? Grebend to the Company CHINA
Europe should therefore answer is thut he had a number making up his mind vtentialism was later to be built. of Axed beliefs which are very ple question such as whether or MAIL LTD.
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ENGAGEMENT
DICK-LEACH-The engagement is Helen between announced Barbara, only daughter of Me. Jute the D. W. Leach and Mrs. Lench of Shanghai, and 22211 son of Mr. John, only Mrs. J. Dick ol Dalrymple, Ayr, Scotland.
Existentialism has been a cult thielly in France, Germany and Italy. Though it has a few ex- ponents in England, on the whole It has not had much influence here, at least up to the present. This may prove to be a significant fact in an examination of the diferences between the British Isles and Europe at the present time.
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(To be continued)
"My most exciting assignment"--No. 11:
Dodged sentry but crashed into bull
By
printed Ilurks, "claims that tardiness in a mile is the quickest a woman's danger way to get up."
The feinale would be speechless, and more dently thinn the male.
"Cark lose their way. "Berlin, July 11.
•
"manned by eight Britist: soldiers were released by the Russians tonight.".
Somebody has certainly lost something.
Russin still insists that Anerken Eastern is dropping beetles on Europe.
As it wasn't already enough
•
be
Dentist to marry dentist. They ought to be able to pult together.
Though existentialism modern movement, It looks back 100 years for its founder and in- spirer. This was the strange
cap-1 I stood outside on the step of of a bug house. As one of the few British the North East side. The WORK TO PLAY Denish philosopher Kierkegaard
Judging by results, some local In his own life-time Kierkegaard correspondents who covered ture of Guadalajara would have the car until I was nearly frozen, cut the last important feline to guiding him slowly around the Civil War
hair-pin bends. government departments seem to The Report of the Com-had file influence, and except in Spain's cruel
the Valenclan canst for those in precipitous almost unknown. (1936-39) from beginning to semi-besieged Madrid.
Never did 1 appreciate hoy use- fe in the habit of sending wit a mittee on Recreation Facili-Denmark was
But from about 1935 he was re-
The fall of Spain's capital would ful are white stones on the edge memo at randum.
of the road. The fog Bfted and/ ties in Hong Kong is a model discovered and began to exercise end, many were the interest-
have
considerably shortened the
A columnist suggests that many of its type, on which Sir a tremendous influence an modern ing assignments.
Thrllis, and dangers were con-Mussolini was keen that his well-
war and reduced the slaughter. We finally got Into Doncharinca
about midnight.
of the people travelling about on Arthur Morse and his Com-Europe.
I sald
ndais" to my courier peace missions are too old.. Kierkegaard's personality was as stantly present as the opposlag
All the same, they are probably mittee, and Mr. Morahan-trange as his philosophy, He was forces in the great tragedy became armed troops should have a sec friend and stepped into the pitch
black night to cross the frontier. the only ones who would who obviously did a first-rate the son of a well-to-do father with ocked in desperate struggle to
I was now afraid the French able to recognise pence if they job of work as its Secretary whom he was as very bad terms, the death in an atmosphere of
sentry might hold me up, as the saw any. Because of his inherited wealth) poltifeal clmos,
The ruthlessness deserve the congratulations was able to devote himself to and ferecity we saw here was he-
barrier was down and it was past and gratitude of the comiterature and philosophy.
midnight. But as I erept neur I I was present William Stuttard could hear the Heyond description.
sentry snoring munity. In the astonishing found it impossible to decide on at battles on uli fronts, "during
He was n many air
raids,
civilians growth of the Colony over any regular carcer.
ngainst the alde of the box, hunch-back, and this both gave slaughtered, churches and con. The past 30 years, sport has a deep bitterness and at the ven
I carefully climbed under the set linza vents set taken a share equal to any nurme time drove him to concen-
I was nearly caught in an em-lor all to themselves so that any barrier and tiptoed past on the new tanks shipped to Korea have other phase of the com-trate upon the intellectual life. bush in the rountains near Guer- triumph gained would be duly crass verge outside the sentry been no Pershing use.
I was in France and en munity's activities. There He was exceedingly nerimonious nlea and slept in a hotel seized credited to the Italians. Gaudata-box.
knew Ainhou. But about 250 these guerillas sold to be was a time, before the first rous, and inch of his by Anarchists during the night. jara was decided upon at Franco's route for the nearest village 1
headquarters, Salamanca. work is spiteful attacks upon copy outstanding interviews Supported by plenty of artillery, yards after passing the sentry 1 monkeying -with Communist world war, when it was temporaries.
wrote under with Generals Franco and Moli.
communications are only trying moving tanks, etc., the had the daylights scared out of small fast rare thing to see even a hand. pseudonyms which he changed
events All these
provided alians advanced down the Sara- me. I bumped into a bull! he was Nicholas Nola
the land
to ape their debtors. of Martrid
Coming from numerous exelting
road which ful of Chinese spectators at stantly
assignments. Bene, Johannes Climacus,
Anti- But what 1 often found
more Roya any sort of game. Nor did Chaeus, and so on. The titles of exciting was to occasionally beatty
remurked to runs through Guadalajara gay-Matadors" I wondered if by
Visiting fireman shouting 400 to Mad-ny chance it was an Andalusian any senior Chinese soccer bi works are also very odd, for
was in
inrid."
fighting bull. That encounter me last night: "Far as I can see, For several days they
nothing your local team exist here. To the Chin-example. Tile Concept of Dread. Republican-ited Spain at the be" were successful, captured several with the buil in the dark was there's
Fear and Trembling, the Conclud-
ginning and later as a correspon-witaccessful, capture seve indeed my biggest scare of the merchants won't sell for money."
the Nationalist sile. This miles. Then began a torrential of the
long journey. I covered the rest dent on involved riding hundreds of miles fall of rain and slect which rather record time!
Be
Personal drama
ese people as a whole games Unscientific Postscript, Either were still anathema. One of of the great pioneer education- alists in the North, Dr. Lavington Hart, delighted to tell the story of how high Manchu officials and distin-
The great personal drama of his He was his romance with a young By all woman named Regina,
the censors both when I
were
to get over the Pyrenees-usually dampened their dashing initial 11} night-into France sa ns to ardour and also bogged some of phone exclusive stories direct to their modern equipment. London,
Reinforcements of International{ It also meant returning very Red Brigaden were rushed from
of
loudly. His rife was leaning
tions.
distance to Ainhou in
Secret call
on
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So far, I'm sorry to say, these
Friend of
•
mine
insists that
U.S. Marine units are headed for Korea.
That mears it's virtually all over, bar the shooting.
However, the
VRNERSITY
OP
GLASOON
The
Here I knew a man with a taxi who called me all kinds of names guished parents marched off dry standards be treated her quickly le Burgos and Salamin, the quiet surama front to stiffen the ground in disgust when extremely badly. Eventually she by a different, route, before the the Republican lines. The famous for knocking him up at such an
married a rival philosopher, aPress Censorship authorities could Lister (now working for
unearthly hour. Moscow). named Schlegel, and realise one had been out! What El Campesino," another Com- prospect of a big wad of francs they saw Chinese boys "run- German
seems to have been very happy, pressman can endure a prolonged munist, and other Moscow trained to take me to his art objec ning like horses and jumping to Kierkegaard's lasting chagrin. censorship all working on the
soon overruled army commanders were all use- like dogs."
Klerkegaard continued a Bule basis of afcial handout? Automa-rully employed in organising a It is not the only aspect of nian way of life to the end of his tically he must work out systems rugged resistance. Even a Gari-
round it. getting around Western forms of activity
baldi Battalion of Italian Com- It is one of these long risky munists were put into the line. about which vast changes
which have occurred in Chinese leave little or nothing to be journeys- March, 1937-
Utter collapse Re- desired. Nobody can be wholly stands out in my memory as my psychology. Until the publican Revolution the prime satisfied, of course, till the journey was from the Province of motive had been to keep the fire hazard is removed by the Guadalajara in Castile, Northward Westerner and his culture at replacement with concrete of through Navarre, over the Pyre- nees at midnight through the Dan- arm's
cor- the bamboo stands length. When
the charinen Pass and down to San
Jean de Luz. respondents like Mr. Yip hark larger grounds, back and talk about discrimiMeanwhile the older nation, they should know generation especially, whose
on
most thrilling assignment. The
Gome
Italian defeat Here in this picturesque little their history. Even if the old memories are not their pe fishing port on the French Cote the perfect Italian, Bergenzoli's was back in Burgos. I met the City Hall library had not been sonal treasures alone, will
Basque whence the notorious a private institution a gen-hall the further lease of life "Potato Jones" used to do his gun friends. eration ago, and had been open for the Cricket Ground, with running to the besieged Baseques
fabulous ot without the slightest restric-its reminders of
men thought they were among
tion to all and sundry, it is deeds at cricket, tennis, and scopo, is where I phoned strengthened mixed Spanish and border that morning to phone the
About two am. I was phoning|
to London. story
had
the Italian details retreat could not have been given by the correspondents; on the Red side filing from in- An amusing incident occurred side Madrid.
by phone and one night in the contusion of Congratuitorude that long
of Bergenzoll's battle. troops had lost contact with their journey really worthwhile.
Since the correspondents' name neighbouring units. The latter did not appear over the story and called out int the dark and clever-Red-Italian outpost of the vas vaguely datelined "On the Garibaldis merrily
Spanish frontier" that saved "me replied, "Come this way, comrades, we from possible trouble. are waiting for you!"
By lunch-time that same day I Heuring
Italian Press Attache and others of the Spanish censorship, but On March 14 the greatly none realised I had been over the adventurous my
Guadalajara reverse. It was just International Red Brigades decl- ded to atlack. On March 19 the 05 well for me! The story was the defeat and Italians broke and fled.
General Franco-gave up trying very doubtful whether many even lawn bowls. It is more
Coats, Chinese would have made use than a pleasant green spot headlong retreat of the Italians gas-masks, Helmets, capes and to encircle and capture, Madrid of it. All but a very tiny in the heart of a city of steel in what was called the "Balile of oven boots were left behind as On April 1 a new offensive was opened in the Basque country will the Guadalajara." This battle, actunt they retreated i The collapse hich led to the fall of Bilbao. minority of them were "reac- and stone. Nor tionaries" long before they be- Football Club or the Southly lasted from March 6
March
32, and was a serious re- My preoccupations during this Important battle was to get into came revolutionaries, athirst China bemoan the continued verse for the Italians.
The relative calm following the that area and then to send a full for all that could be learnt use of a ground which is no
to London, I knew from the West. And even less a shrine of memories for "Battle of the Jarama" (South report
East) of Madrid, was broken on through foreign broadcasts that now it is quite clear that the so many people, until the March 6, 1937, when about 30,000 every facility was being given purpose of any new com-time comes to move to Cause-Italians commanded by General to British and American news- munity library, as Mr. Yip way Bay. It is remarkable Bergenzoll were launched against sees it, should be to foster how such places cling to the the communications of Madrid on Chinese literature and cul- heart-strings even ture no less than Western least sentimental: how much|
of the
Journey.
after
until was complete.
literature. That is entirely they become part of the livesWeek of the
suggestions,
paper men in Madrid to visit the Gundalajara front.
We were kept away on the Nationalist side and had to de- pend on official hand-outs.
gle reports in Kiel
year" in
great
me.
on
Having managed by devious means to BCC balties without proper, but it is an idea that they have lived and the sights
official permission and to smug- can only be developed fully they have seen.
out to London, IĮ either by two separate libra- The interests of the Services
decided to chance it again. When an inside contnel at Headquarters safeguarded, ries, or by two quite separáte are
as they Kiel, Germany's
and good old Spanish friend sections of a single library, should be, and the pooling naval port on the Baltic coast, whispered to me that the Italians This is, however, a digres system put forward is one has just been celebrating its had been halted and the "Holes" sion. The point is that in of the
(Reds) were beginning to coun- many constructivel "Week of the Year."
ter-attack, this definitely decided When this "Week" was first sport as in so many other features of the report. Do-j
Dawn about held in 1882 the programme con- things, a vast transformation failed
had not broken' &lated of scores of yachting March 18, 1937, when near the has occurred in the attitude adaptations now to provide a
events-from races to trials of Cathedral of Salamanca not for of the Chinese, and with it an for the future, reveal the skill. The Kaiser came to power from General Franco's head- immense addition to the pro- same thoroughness and and the leisurely yachting crowds quarters, I stepped into a car." I blem of meeting new de- thoughtfulness which are gave way to naval and military was accompanying a friend who
carrica despatches. This was the! mands..
among the hallmarks of this parades and Fleet inspections.
For a brief period after World first lift in a link of cars which The Committee on Recrea- comprehensive document. The war 1, the yachts returned, only finally took me near the Guada- tion Facilities Irave gone with Committee's recommendations to be ousted again by the Nazis lajara Province area. great thoroughness into every have been accepted by Gov-who boosted Kiel as the naval
greater than Odyssey begins. relevant aspect of the pro-ernment with the addition port of Germany blem, amassed a great amount of certain provisos which in Portsmouth or Plymouth.
The following day the Italians Then came the RAF bombing were in full retreat! What a of detail, and sifted it with nowise weaken them, and it attacks of the last war and today story I thought for the foreign zeal, common-sense and a will be noted that Govern- in a shattered Kiel, the "Week of correspondents on the fled alde marked spirit of sympathy, ment hopes to make a start the Year" has been celebrated by to file direct from Madeld to a strange mixture of motor races, London. It was also a big story for which the younger genera with the pooling system tion ought to be duly grateful. during the coming winter, trade exhibitions, firework dis for me, But my only hope was to
plays and politicul meetings. reach Franco,somehow. Of course, proponents of the The Committee's plea, too, The yacht races were few drld| Thus began an odyssey. Stadium wont be satisfied till for the return of open spacca guests of honour included Prest-pleas, the capital of Navarre. far between and although the My Arst lift took ma lo Pam- they have it set up in concrete in congested areas will strike dent Houss, the Grand Duke of It was evening and raining in and stone, but at least the a sympathetic chord, for Mecklenburg and famous "Bea- torrents. The worst part of the potential alte has been select here we find an expression Devil" Count Felix Luckner the journey up the Pyreacan Spanish ed, and the arrangements of that spirit, at once sen-"Sea Devil" disappointed thou- frontier post of Dancharines was made in the meantime for the sible and humane, which be-sands of his admirers by arriving to come. I was riding with an other courier, who wanted to turn Altogether, "Kiel Week 1980" back, when fog descended upon maintenance and improve-longs to the best the West unromantically by train
(was not a Gerroan, naval occasion., us in the Pyrenees, ment of existing facilities has to offer...
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