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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952.
A War Ace
:
Will Influence
A
A Country
By John Ivey
The main declared aim of the Torch Commando is to create "a unlied South Africa"-to put an end to the differences between the the English-speaking and Atrikanns-speaking sections the population.
Johannesburg.. Ex-Servicemen, who complain HANDSOME, fair-hair- of their ungenerous treatment by! ed, flamboyant man of the Government since the war, are among the biggest categories .40 is coming to the fore as of recruits to the movement. a dominating figure in the maelstrom of South African polities," You heard a lot about him during the Battle of Britain, when he was very much front page news: Group Captain A. G. "Sailor" Malan he is the man ---- is known to most Britons as the fighter pilot who in 1939-41 brought down 32 Nazi aircraft and earned the title of the "greatest- ever fighter ace."
Today, as leader of a quasi- political organization, the Wur Veterans Torch Commando, he is potentially the most powerful ilgue in South African politics,
of
B
THOSE
MOUNTBATTEN MILLIONS
EHIND
ths Queen,
giving her the clos. How
cat support in carry- ing the burden of responsibility that now lies upon her, stands the Duke of Edinburgh. His views "Sallor" Malan strongly must influence her greatly.
Who stands most closely be. pposed to the apartheid polley of the Nationalist Covernment.hind the Duke? Naturally the In fact, the immediate purpose of Earl and Countess Mountbatten, the Torch Commando is to put his unclo and aunt. They may
the Nationalist out of power
well become the most Influential Government of Dr Malan, who is people in Britain,
a distant relative of the "Sullor,"
Real Concern
ma
It will be this man, unknown in politics a year ago; who will influence to a large extent the Nationalist Government's future racial-policy and the widening The Government's real concern split between the two major European races in the Union non-political, is supported by the is that Torch Commando, though British the
Afrikaans. "Sailor" Malan denies that his opposition-the United Party- and that it receives support from but, organisation is political, nevertheless, it was classified as a trust founded by the Wit- of of watersrand gold magnates,
and
To Earl Mountbatten the dazzling prospect that opens up
not seem strange or unex- pected. For he has been near the Threne since the day he was bom,
Extraordinary
THAT man
they were made: The amazing boy who made them
*
By JOSEPH GARRITY clothes and a violin, he landed When, 1 year -later,
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their
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When de Soveral was asked ence if he had seen the play "The Importance of being Earnest," he replied "No, but I have seen the Importance. being Ernest Cassel."
of
It was not only his Anancial wisdom that made Cassel the King's friend. The two inen had many things in common. including a remarkable physical resemblance.
They were both dominating, vibrant
personalities
shrewdness
astonishing
breadth of vision.
with and
at
The King
was godfather the baptism of Crusel'a elder
Countess
granddaughter, the Mountbatten of today, who was christened Edwina în recogni» tlon of the honour,
Sorrow
NASSEL bought Brook House,
CA
a grual mansion inork Lane.
at Liverpool at the age of 18 as daughter Maud was born, Casset on immigrant.
was a man transformed, THE Government is not alarm-
His devotion to his wife and His first job as clerk in ed by any tear that Torch Commando is a sister movement
But to the Countess the rise grain merchant's office brought baby girl released all the kind-
him 159.
ness and tenderness that had bent on inciténg the Africans and,
week. scem as out-of-this-life as
harsh in the must Indians against its members. No a fairy story come true.
Soon he moved to the London been repressed
of Jewish
financiers, world of Anance. Recently she celebrated with firm one has dared to impute such
He was a Jew, Annette and Goldsmid motives tp the affiction the birth unjustified
He had it reconstructed with 100 years Bischoffsheim
and at once Roman Catholic. organisation.
ago on March 3, 1852-of the (now defunct)
Whenever Annetle bronched 800 tons of marble and furnish- man whose genius made the began to prove that he was the subject of their religious ed with every dolight that art
Anancial wizard,
division Ernest would say, and science could provide. fairy tale possible.
With money, as with chess, he "Why worry about Heaven? Here he planned to entertain seemed to solve with ease the Isn't
this Heaven enough?" with his daughter as hostess, MOSL
complex problems, many moves ahead.
Alas, the perfect marriage But she fell ill with consump- Insted only
three years, To Alon,
168 And while father By 22 his salary was £5,000 make his wife happy in her trantically searching the world rivals
one of the
most change his religion to hers, brilliant and ambitious men in
She died with a smile on her dward Bad
Ernest wa
was one of the last the world of - International face, but the almost demented people to see King Edward Anance, as well as one of the husband could not work for lx alive. Flouting his doctors, the
people hardest and most ruthless. months.
King rose from his sick-bed and There seemed no soft spot in When he did return to his dressed specially to keep an As a boy he played chess so his life until suddenly, at 26, office he began to toll like a spol with him. A skilfully that his father offered he fell in love with Annette man possessed to build a for-
appointment hours later he was dead. If the United Party is returned him the choice of becoming a Maxwell, a sweet English girl. tune for his motherless child. In the following year Cassel's to power in the next election, a professional chess-player or a For the rat and only time in Not cinco in the next 30 years daughter "number of "Sailor" Malan's fol- banker. It took Ernest a week his life, the lone wolt entered
remorseles daughters, 11-year-old Edwina lowers will probably be occupy-to decide against chess,
into a partnership. The mar ing seals on Government benches. With little more than a bag of
was her grand- father-Sir Ernest Cassel. His was a story even more
such last munth, by a Minister of which Sir Harry Oppenheimer, | extraordinary than his grand a year. He was regarded by dying hours Ernest agreed to for a cure the great friend King
M.P
He was born at Cologne, the son of a Jewish money-lander banker, in A small way of business,
the Nationalist Government, to the policies of which the Torch multi-millionaire United Party daughter's.
is a prominent member. Commando is opposed.
The purpose of the trust, like that of the Commando, is to work fo: "racial co-operation and the maintenance of democratic Ideals."
Protest Rally
THE Minister warned civil ser- vants against joining this
| fast-growing organisation on the "grounds" thal their conditions of einployment forbade political aliniion.
Torch Commando was born in dramatic fashion last May, when "Sailor" Milan and a group of) fellow ex-Servicemen, angered by the Government's Bill which virtually deprived coloured clti- zens of the vote, staged a protest demonstration in Johannesburg.
The enthusiasm that followed
the demonstration led Malan to
hold similar gatherings through- out the Union.
Today, the Commando has
好
membership of more than 150,000,
and it expects to double this Agure this year. It should be remembered
white that the population of South Africa is only 2,500,000,
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THE FAITH HEALERS
T
Report No. 3...by HUGH CLELAND
HE two houses are completely different. One is a handsome Georgian building in the heart of medical London - Queen Anne Street, which cuts across Wimpole and Harley Streets. The other is a homely Victorian house in Bayswater.
Each is the headquarters of a spiritual heal- ing organisation, though at each the subject is studied from widely different aspects.
The trouse in Queen Anne Street (named after
Edward
Wilson, the doc.
For
.. Scott's
last expedition,
who diled
him
with
in Antare-
tien) has recent-
ly been opened
ne headquarters
旺
of the Guild of
Health.
This organisa-
Ion had its be-
Mr. Wood
has a queue
the Rev.
(now
ond
The sorrowing father gave up [ow in business on his own, his business. His Park Lane his operations were on a palace became a lonely mauso- breath-taking scale. Everything leum for
NOW
he touched turned to gold.
He was one
of the master- ten
his me
memories.
At that time, a mullionaire
times
over
and endowed builders of modern Egypt. He with all the glittering rewards nation's of which mcst men can only carried through dream, he sald sadly to a visitor:
first moulded the
finances, then the colossal Nile irrigation The things that are best worth scherne based on the Assouan having are the
things money Dam, which has been the cannot buy." keystone of Egyptian prosperity.
His Death
ald the
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confirmed us fractured by X-ray. For this he was knighted. She was anointed, and eight He reconstructed the finances days later another X-ray was of the Argentine, reorganised COME years, later, trying to taken. It showed the fracture the Swedish rullways, and pick up the threads of life had healed."
raised China's great loan after again, Cassel invited the teen- In that case, Mr Wood said, her defeat by Japan.
Edwina to act as hostess at oge the ministering healer had been At home, he amalgamated Brook House.
Jim Wilson of the Vickers-Maxim with the Barrow How proud Guild of Health. The healing Shipbuliding Works and was would have been to have seen happened two to three years sponsor of the Central London her married to Lord Louis ago, Mr Wood thought.
original "Two- Mountbatten son Railway, the He quoted another case, of a
Fenny Tube,"
prince of his own nalive land As he grew in stature as a and cousin to the King of child with a fractured base of world figure he was honoured adopted country, the skull. This
was in Kent, by nations and kings, also two years ago.
The child He continued to shower love had been ministered to by Miss and luxuries on his only child., before the wedding.
He age in. Darathy Kerin, who for mony In 1901 she married Colonel yeurs practised healing in Ealing Wilfrid Ashley, M.P. for Black- and now works at Groombridge, pool, who later became Lard most of it went in trust to Lady "Four days after the little girl Mount Temple. had been ministered to she was
of people seeking prayer
out in the fields. A Power making hay
The
Elut
of a former
h
death cheated
Cassel
died a dew months
Of the £6,000,000 he left
Mountbatten and her sister.
ginnings in Manchester 50 The clergyman I talked to in Mission has nearly 500 Inter-alone latalled more than 22 fabulous two-floor
Rev. William Wood, missioner
His palace in Park Lane went to Edwina. A great block of luxury flats now stands upon Mr Wood said. SR Ernest's philanthropy be the site of it, carrying the old
came a national wonder, His
House. Brook name
of London donations to
top medical research it Lady Mountbatten built
but does not now occupy
80-roomed mansion sat in 0,000 acres of
was a family inheritance.
and another 1,000 who keep in These benefactions opened a Broadlands, touch with it,
friendship with King Edward EVIT.
1
penthouse,
her
Cassel became one of that tent parkland at Romsey.'
her
the great
years ogo. when Dr Percy the Bayswater house was the cessors who pray for the sick 000,000. Dearmer gathered together A group of doctors and clergy to of the London Healing Mission. form
a research committee on He is an Anglican priest, who the subject of Christianky and received the call to the ministry,
When sick people or their health.
when he was 25, a friends write to the Mission for powerful group of people round be crys, The Guild bas 2,000 members, "bushman" in Australia and help through prayer their names the Prince of Wales (and later on the death in 1939 of
who was father, pray and sturdy in groups, who
"piritually at
the the end of my are distributed armong the Inter- the King) at the turn of They pay a subscription, tech- tether, cracking up.""
cessors who arc divided into
nephew and heir of Ute famous into century nically of one guinea minimum
groups of
Lord Palmerston. ten. Each group ten.
The set included such diverse
Students the elegant and some pay less and some more.
of heredity declare receives four or five new names figures as
that the Countess Mountbatten. each month: Only the Christian brillant Portuguese aristocrat, names are used and bare de- the Marquis de Soveral; Sir inherited more than riches from talls of the case are given. "At Thomas Lipton, the poor Glas her powerful grandfather. the moment,'
They see in her more than a The tribine
said Mr Wood, row boy who became a grocery
the beautiful trace of his brains, shrowd "sufferers have to queue up to millionaire; and
Mrs Georgo Keppel, so close a judgment, and bold personality. be prayed for.
"Generally,"
She is, they say, friend of the King that Queen
a chip of come to a fecking help because Alexandra led her to his death the ctd Cassel biocit,
While at a theplogical college
CANCER, TOO
I asked Mr Wood whether be
"people
It has an imposing list of in Australia, he becams inter- patrons clergy (including the ested in healing. Archbishop of Canterbury and eight diocesan bishops), well- known medical men, notable lay people.
talked
to the Warden
den of considered spiritual healing us Edward Wilson House, a young applicable to organic 14. to clergyman of the Church
getting it from bed. psychological disease He said: they are not
medical selence. Every now and who has had psychological
tion; all linesses, functional training and medical and selen (or psychological) and organic, tille experience, and who came have a spiritual background, to the Guild efter being chaplain
England, the Rev. Poul Eardley; That is an artificial distince then a doctor will get into touch Cassel was Edward's closest, passed through Hongkong last
....
hospital. "I would say cancer was a andi
in a London training tie of psychological thing with, betind
He wore the
Cross.
"NO MAGIC
Mr Eardley said: "I think we have got something that people ought to know about. But people 10. often come to us looking for magic, and we just haven't got any magic.nasa.
condition
"Even Infection from germa in for more liable if there is not spiritual health in a person."
He quoted a 13-year-old case in which it had been claimed
with us..
LOST FAITH
"She and her hus
"Of all the men, Sir Ernest NOTE: Countess Mountbatten:
friend. In fact he was nick. week on her way to Korea named "Windsor Cassel."
visit British troops there.
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"We try to protect people fayman. In his office was the it fear, resentment, some in- from publicity," he said, when od adjustable couch psy- abilty to love. The division is asked about individuals heal- chiatrists have in their rooms, old-fashioned, it can no longer ed through the Mission. He
told a large, metal-encased scientific bo hed because the medical one story, though, of a woman Instrument, ve waste-paper H baskets, typewriter, On the wall finesses have a mental condi- had cancer.
profession realises that most living in a London suburb, who over the gas-fre hung a Celtic tion, and we clergy know that band had dropped their prayer Bo many people
wanting their foibles that crowd the behind the illness is a spiritual life, they'd got into a protty money or favours — or both ➡ pages of "Bouquets for Fleet
Low state over this
Mr pestered Bernard Shaw that he Stred" Barnard Folk's “5 Hively Wood said,
had postcards printed: "Please book of reminiscences.
Show "The wife had lost faith, the do not ask Mr Bernard
Veteran cator-author- -journ
Manchester- husband had not quite lost it, for money. He has not enough alat Bomard Falk, and wrote to us."
to help the large timber
of born and now seck on a local 70, began Mr Wood, a
are in urgon his career at 5s. n short, dark, his readers who
the need of it. He cannot write round-faced man, visited
Nowadays he lives newspaper. he carmot woman. He performed for you;.
anco in retirement at Hove, collects that a 384lb.. malignant tumour laying-on of hands. "I went you. "We don't see, that a lind can had disappeared when its vic back in a fortnight," he
dining with with contemporaries.
miniatures, Jack Dempsey,
sill keeps in touch "he said.
the late Lord Northcliffs nt a woman, was "in & taken By guidance wea to got them
Falk's interest is in every- I asked where that had
Back to thelt Communion. They Carlton-gardens and apparently the general' practitioner, and Pince. "In America,” Mr. Wood did have Holy Communion and feeling, that he owed. his host thing. But as bellísía
aid "The woman is still live: I laid on hands, again. Not long ment, said. "I cannot make
some return for his entertains paperman Yen
tho working - to-
bizarre,
the now- ing, and the case was described
'Everyman's adterwards the woman rot up speech and I cannot sing. but worthy... In her. book, The house In Queen Anne Benech, by Rebocen Beard, the
the doctor's point of view,'!
ove I'll fight anyone in this room." And the point about "Bouquets "you won't provo Streek (la», designed to', be a wrher,"
zpid,
Sickert, the painter, living in for Fleet Street" is, that, besides that this woman's free of the Brighton and suddenly pockian its mass of interesting anecdotes, and for centre for research, education of medical theo I nakuid Mr Wood whether disease, unless she's free for 20 for a choice mution chop of the It contains shrewd comments on logical and science students, faith healing could be used in Voors. But at least she's alive, nurses and pacial workers, the care of broken bones, fle and the wasn't expected to be sort he loved, would arder one newspapers and the people who trám hla butcher by telegram, run, 'own, 'and 'read thans, sala Doctors and acieritists as well as said: "There is on record the
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