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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1951.
The BLUNDERERS
Who was to blame for defeat-Hitler or his generals?
RESTIGE
E have had the despatches, the official documents and the memoirs of World War II. Now begins the melting-down process and the shaping of the ingots of history.
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by MILTON SHULMAN
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Mr Hinsley's brak, however,
m.re importar in What
rt further eviden:
is
at
touch more was needed to sub- staulate the view tha: neither Hitler nor his military advisers were any more gifted than those who fought and defeated them.
The
mosi dangerous myths likely to survive the last war are that itler was a ni
slabbed tary genius who was Get in the back by his generals, and many's downfail that the generals were military
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of the value of 11-hat of he had been stronk
invade Engianti en ugh 1 1940, if he had been less con teanphras of the Mediterranea: there Hitler might have done never says liter Mr Hingley
le might have won the war.
Mr Hushy has buen relying chey in Germ. naval docu- there are bus bas aurai The care ed equally attributing the failure to a weak ar
unle Geos
free
aeroplanes
in
J. BOTH night have won them the Bat- de of Britain ad the necess San controls for invasion
Just a few more para 1940
enable have mught Tmntists Them to capture Malta and furn trade at the Mediterranean.
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The table of the velbility Staff German General and Not only is it sure pruned in a Fourth Reich, is even tractive enough bitis of to the mike flyweod tms. people prefo to believe Rimmel was a great strategist instead of accepting the evidence But he was tot
profit-
Most
that
YET the farts convincingly des- tray both myths Germany's early
SUCESSOS were achieved in face
of the most de- termined repas,tion on the part of German generals and ad- m rads.
MR. DEEDS GOES TO WASHINGTON
FIRMNESS
IN EGYPT
1B00K
STATESMANSHIP AT U.N.
JOKE
Reporting America
By R. M. MacColl
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The
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While the Army went buying millions of pounds
there were other millions pounds of the stuff on ffer ut a much lower price
Now, a year later. nobody,
Senators, has Pything about it except "write some polite letters And, agd the aroused law-makers,
reports are
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OUTLINE FOR BRITAIN
IRVING
-the MAN behind the MAKE-UP
Today his grand- son explodes the myths about the actor who mode fortunes, died penniless and left crowds weeping in the
streets
by
irving in The Bulls
Beverley Baxter, MP
AURENCE IRVING'S ject to the vagaries of time
massive biography and laste. of his grandfather. Sir Henry Irving, as
¿
Gerale Es gard ovaa Czecho- priced at 50s, which is Shk... the y
tot of money for a bunk. It probested Over Poland. They
ubjec ed
is as long as three novels Norway they moaren about | which is a lot of words- France Yet filler, with only am bus 88 illustrations afucion and Aled unprepared - ness to aid him, proved the entertain the eye wong and himself pigal
were
1941
time
passionato Irving was not a man, preferring in fact the cool glades of companionship with In his own way +1 love he was undoubtedly with Ellen Terry and suggested marriage to her, but although she was always marrying some- one or another she did not nåd Irving to the list.
THE MAN WHO WAS
More than anyone else Shawlder women. was determined that the Irving Legend would not go unchal
From the moment that lenged. the freshman bansferred from musical to dramatic criticism he set about Irving with wit and venom, and did it so successfully trave come to To save time and to bor. believe that Irving was nothing thom the greatest ham row the legal procedure of actor of his time. pompous, smug, Alice in Wonderland 1 pro without conscience, and selfishly
in
that
ninst of us
DRUNK
a harsh in
TN his long
The tenure at Lyceum us actor-manager, producer and financier, he was On a merciless disciplinarian. one occasion an actor came on spoiled drunk and hopelessly the scene.
cast
After that his advis.rs The bosterian is bound to have allicule with Hitler. The
mire stooger unable to protec arts gay seem to add up, but him from his rashest and mo- they ever quite do. The student stupid derisions. They had ste to give the verdict playing the ogre to Ellen Terry
and
the as the damsel in distress. then call conec: 'rading on logic will find hu get and with that, their first
Irving had served evidence. This is the best hine constantly being baked power.
Rubs trop.
apprenticeship curly
for pertory ly, what can only be calle
biography I have read
Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Hinsley selon couid, with a saraghi thee, teh
years. The author makes
As John
he Henry Brodribb
frving stopped the play and Matracka that the Fuehrer was use the word
before
was the descendant of long apologised to the audience, and This Baier could imaat about the greatest expert on midday Irving live and die
Jine of sturdy. unimaginative then made the inebriate play Dur eyes.
West his has my avoided was n two questions ad the present
Country farmers who the scene all over. Next day bents and then attack lussa, aki suggest that the Japanese
Irving summoned Mr were of the carth, earthy
the whole By war of 15 might find Hitler's advler help-
some miracle
and lashed them with his His mother He would talk of
ful to plang their atta,kon
Laurence Irving has given mind and body
the tongue. "You were disloyal to years' auration and at us if he
the end an few Singapore
us a life that rings with was deeply religious, and 10
end of her life predicted that your profession." he said. "in He could understand
would not telling me that this fellow anaths
HITLER S sher. truth. Never once does he ber
Yel un- the moet bekery Antra neu-
was drunk. By your misplaced sighted planning intrude his own prejudices come to a bad end tral and vit urge Japan to enter
for the projecte. upon the controversies that doubledly his force of character kindness you not only He could speak of the
gered the success of the the
Egled into
Гагарин
But nvasion of Eng- involved the most
you ruined his career. red le starve
he was relent- submission and yet not plan Fr
his stub-figures of that time includ
Ings yet patient. No one in the the C-ben a needed fo
determina- ing critics, Tellow actors.
attackpoliticians and 1 Russia, his under-estimation of Royal Family.
and hs strength. rational American
and ability to realise the signal-
ul
Mechterranean Care Cance
job
decisions
lact 1511" ";
un-
even
the
unfortunate
came from her
Sun
THEY JEERED AND
HOOTED
In rehearsal allowed to
to speak a
endan-
play
was
word. He
would take an hour to achieve
IN those days audiences did what he wanted
not leave
even in a
the verdicts to minor situation As for money, An actor. unlike a writer the critics. Young Brudribb he had the attitude of the true
painter,
can! leave was jeerad al, booted, applaud- artist. Money was something to no enduring evidence of his ed and forgotten. But he never be spent in production, not in became erobittered 다만 dis he hoarded. He made fortunes gifts. When he has spoken
and died penniless, which was couraged
what he intended.
HUS
defy
amaly s
the
of
are Tarely
ful lawyer's tuve revealed him far the in-
amateur competent breed Mr Harsley
doubtedly was. presents for each his prepositions is seldom me then plausible.
guments
01
he
convincing.
the
At his clay feet must be placed his last word upon
U13- He knew that he was for blane the
Gerstage it is doubly true that majo
The rest of the
gainly in his movements and many's defeat.
the rest is silence. At best that his voice was sometimes between blame can be shared
he becomes a legend, sub- muffled, and he realised his generals and his adunnuts.
Beting wes out of the most
WE SWEETEN THE PLUMS
D
in a gentlemanly way.
From FRANK
打
MacGARRY
✡
*
more show.
that
that
HIS TEARS WERE
REAL
skilled of professions. Without
hout IT
TT must be remembered that
influence and without help he he was the link between
heer nade his way through such dis-
melodrama and have Shaw-Ibsen challenge couragements
infatuation.
of
to
CA-
0
the
normal
of
the the
asked
carried
as would broken the spirit of anyone play of ideas. Above all he re- without tremendous force of garded himself as Shakespeare's character.
chamberlain. He played Ham- PARIS. Mr W. G Hayler, and after come and ask for books
let. Shylock, Othello.
Henry v dozen counsellors and then they ask 'Do we al-
Itis marriage was unhappy and even took on Romeo when OWN the street in the him come a
Davy, and attaches,
military, low the French to have them,
without perhaps being unfor- he was in his forties. One night fabulously Juxurious
air, civil air, and scientide, all too? It gets tiresome explain-tunate. No doubt the innate he
he played lago, and when Ellen of the rosting approximately £4,000 a Ing that we are here to serve respectability mansions twin
Florence Terry,
Desdemona, as the French" British Embassy over
20 head.
O'Callaghan appealed him him what she could do to win This staff has grown so much Also on the list for allowance
ber back the love of her lord, she officials, twice the pre-war
since the war that the Embassy increases are the BBC's staff of nd he found pleasure in
But after marriage did it so beautifully, that real strength, are confidently has purchased for £300,000 the six in the Avenue Hoche, who she resented his mode of life, tears poured down his face
have J floor to increase in mansion next door.
themselves for Irving loved to stay up late waiting for an
Then with the improvisation above a private cinema seating after the play and enjoy good of a great actor he pretended their cost of living
100 which is financed by the company, good wine and allowances, for which they
British Foreign Office so
that they were mock tears and have been long agitating ing rises are about 300
Waiting, too, for cost-of-liv- Parisians can have a free film pecially good cigars. Like Mr made fun of them. The critics
smoke Churchill, he could
heiled it as geniua. cigar at seven o'clock in servants of the British Govern-
Crowned with success he The British Railways staff of ment who live in Paris and
morning
America and 40 (also twice are who
pre-war The only thing they
help to boost British
The struggle of the
before him and like મને Paris strength even though only half
he took Ja not certain about is just Government spending in
trouper as many Frenchmen are going woman and the artist husband a good
as well. Back in Lon- Canada how much the increase is yearly to about £1,000,000
the caves, and to England than did before the ts as old as Waiting across the way from
don he the rise.
he had become so powerful parted two eventually these going to be, but they hope the Embassy, is the British war) also get
that the Prince Their chief, Mr it will be somewhere near Marshall aid plan delegation to
Clement without a divorce although two a gure
Wales
frequently stood in the 20 percent rise in the Parks, and it, too, has a fully Durrant, who has been 45 years sons had been born.
wings to enjoy a a performance, in railway service, said: "We
FIRST NIGHT BOX and Gladstone, when Chancel French cost-of-living index. fledged ambassador of top rank,
lor of the Exchequer, actually the was one of the crowd on staff of about 40 includes three though we
FOR WIFE
Etage and Ministers and four counsellora. many people, that we pre
spotted by the Was were before the 'busy as we The increases will to the 36 staff of the Britich
war. It is difficult to get hotel WHEN sucersy began to come audience which was not what accommodation for the French own Council, who have their
Irving, always desiring re- Cladstone intended.
He died as he would
have spectability, agreed to live at mansion hidden modestly be in England.
home again. But One
collapsing on the stage night, wished hind the shopping facade of their present the Champs-Elysers, and they,"
after a successful premiere at and living only a few hours. With
Abbey "Nothing will persuade them the Lyceum, he gave a party He was buried in the allowancca, which even the too, have taken another house that the food there is good, and for his friends and was flam- and his nobes were laid at the Foreign Office men admit in the Avenue de Chanaleilles I am going to ask the railways boyantly, exhibitionist despite fect of his beloved Shakespeare
across the river.
to realore the pre-wor cheap the warning
glances of his and at the side of his fellow are generous, the average It is one of the architectural ticket facilities which the com- wife.
vagabond David Garrick. Great cost of an employee at the showpieces of Parts, and to it
crowds lined the streets embassy to the British tax- they are moving their 30,000- Cave to the French
It was c Driving home in a brougham wept unashamed. "Most, of the French who go book library.
are youngsters and they Boat four in the morning she said the burial of Nelson. payer is £1,000 a year.
Sir
Henry With this book little farther
thail
Newhaven, he find made a fool of himself. and all the Yagish want to
to do 1s Without a word of protest ho Irving emerges from the mists. who polish up their Unlike the Americans, £250,000,
merely stopped the driver and No, doubt a film of his life will quarterly chargo for with top-ranking Ambassador make a
Mr Durrant could not break got out, never to retum to her. now be made, and certainly it people using
their down his figures to show how But he always sent her B Sir Oliver Harvey pulling in French
box offers ample
be made m nearly £20,000.
For Kowloon Fire Victims The increases will make the Sir Edwin Hall Patch, and his get so much work to do, eve
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library, the British one is free many Frenchmen went to Bri- for his first nights and she al- But the Alm show, for ono. He lives in the Embassy, which to Its 2,000 registered cus- taits In Festival Year, but the wayn hoped that he would have England, and with an actor Travel and Tourist a failure, Ilis friends said he capable of portraying the pom- Mr Librarian Robert Milner likes Offer in the Place Vendoine never acted his best when she posity that was often only
the change from the busier said that In Festival Year was present but in the mome pose, and the relentless reallum Sir Oliver comes Champs-Elysees. He said: "It 87,000 went to Britain, whereas of respectablilty be wanted her with which Irving fooded his £10,000 a year Plenipotentiary is- annoying. Brkish people 700,000 Britons Blooded Parla. to be there in full view. generation in romantlelem.
ho is currently sharing, and his tomers,
Rolls-Royces, Waltha Anthony Eden.
two
After
of dried eggs
Say the
at
onc
price,
of
done
Remember those
EGGS No
ustrabemical
2:
pounds of dried
l weblen
some
3,000
loaded
wagons).
Now the
Agricultural
years
goous
De
partment has handed over the
to
cave trent 20,000 dollars year-
"with only" ly.
cold water) "Another Government depart- and men, whose onten.ions operations are so top secret that ji must remain, so far as the
is Public
Just concerned, nother Ocvernment depart Cient"
HARVEY MELRER, ged 18, was wan.ed for a mail robbey at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. But he figured, when he picked Miami ધ the lephone เก Brach,
call his Florida, ravents in Fort Devens, Mus- sachusetts, that he was far from
10
10
trouble. Wrong. Boston authe- cities, tipped that the call was
rushed Dne being me, their awn
to Miami police
Beach
hod
Harvey before Long caught up on all the news from home there were men in blue the knocking on the door ut booth
swer
cater-
INCENTIVES to tree
£18- prize? Pittsburgh has the
atid There the Joges Laughlin Steel Corporation all- nounced that it nas received approval from Washington fur allow a new plan which will workers to boost their earnings by as much as 35 percent.
24
Whut boils down to is that workers ore encouraged to use Thus, their machines all-out.
a man has an hourly rate of $2 and uses his machine at only 74 percent of full capacity he But will receive just his $2. if he uses it to full capacity, n Happy blessings ls $2.70. got from the unichs on all this,
tou
BABIES can be big busi- After a New York ness, too. grand jury investigation, pine doctors, prople, including four have been indicted on charges of making half a million dot- Jars in the past four years by selling babies on a black mar-
ket
Several
hundred children: were involved, and the going price ranged from £450 le as much as £1,400 an infant.
AMERICANS are eating less butter and sweet potatoes. Andi the Burcau of Agricultural that the Economics forecasts trend will continue downwards next year.
But up will go the consump- tion of poultry, beef, milk, Ice- cream, and fruit juice.
TO the ordinary man and his wife, the most important statistic in the world is the cost of living Index. And a committee of M.P.s down in Washington heartily concurs, It calls it "the most important single statistic issued
it by the Government because affects the pay more
men and often than any <tatistic."
envelopes of women. more other single
** Cat no comrade Farouk