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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1952.
Congress Prances
EVE PERRICK
tries hard to find out what's going on at a highbrows-only junket run by Unesco
Venice. The conference or congress place in An old
·· JOURNALISTS job is taking
monastery on the tiny island of is divided in three San Giorgio, which is in a parta: get there, find lagoon opposite St. Marki out what's going on, re. Square. port back. Well, I got here to the Unesco Interna- tional Conference of Artists In Venice. But I falled on the next move.
For the life of me, I can not find out what is going
on.
I asked playwright Benn Levy, one of the British de- legates and vice-president of the committee on theatre, Mr Lovy walked me round and round the cloisters said he was not quite sure, but speaking for the drama section he thought that the main con- cern of the assembled body of Intellectuals was the guarantee of the artist's freedom,
Freedom, I took it to be trom political suppression, State interferenco, censorship, and having to subjugate artis tic Integrity to the tastas of the Cash Customers.
I
VETERAN
poet
Stephen
bo
а
· កង to #
the
A motor-boat, provided by the local officials, brings 204 assorted delegates (42 na- tionalities and Ave different branches of art) at ten-minute intervals, throughout the tay,
There is a certain tendency towards berets, sandals, cordu- rays, beards, and among the women-tringes to be observeti.
SMILE, PLEASE
EGREES of importance of D the Unesco boys and girls in the world of recognised cul- ure can best be judged by the degree of slacrity with which photographer who the little stands at the foot of the main for rushes marble staircase ward to flick his camera as the celebrities appear:
The photographs are Jar.
the
popu-
honed each day to see if they display "Delegates, storm the
can spot themselves groups. And someone is doing brisk trade in selling the ple- tures to them
ds.. at is, to according to size.
Whatever is going on is go- ing on in committees,
Offe
"WAR? WHAT WAR?"
EXERCISE AT MORECAMBE
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✩ DON IDDON'S DIARY *
Oh, What a Week in Philadelphia!
politics.
the
carly
мете
Row Over Girls For The Army
From MONICA DEHN
Tel-Aviv. TSRAEL'S devoutly re- Aligious girls have caused a government crisis in the new state. They want Promiér Ben-Gurion to withdraw his decision to amend the military service
· law.
The aim of the amend- ment is to seal up the loop- hole which permits 18- year-old girls to evade their two-year period of con- scription in the army if they can satisfy the five- man tribunal that they Are strictly observant Jews
Backing up the religious girls are the two politi- cal parties of the fanatically orthodox. These parties would like farnel to be a hundred percent clerical state. 'Their representa- tives in the coalition have resigned, taking Ben- Gurion's parliamentary
majority with them.
Orthodox Israelis object to military service for wo- men because they believe à girl's place is in the home, and that unmarried girls must never be alone with men who are not neár relatives.
In Jerusalem's orthodox quarter, Men Shearim (Hun- dred-
worried Gates), mothers.. were saying "they would rather die" than see their daughters in the
sceptical, WAS told that Phila- The past days are being des- times before, THOUGHT
shake-down, A tier of rooms off the first-
most expecting another delphia was corrupt but cribed as among
most floor corridor echoes to a host
of Philadelphia's Spender, veteran Unesco of multi-lingual voices throw-
(half a conference starter, would
contented, the sickest dramalle in the entire history Now
States. For an 3,000,000 inhabitants of the United like "resolution,"
city in the land, the English rrassing.
they have also been million are Negroes) are grate- bound to know what was going words
resolution," "counter
“agenda," ing on. He said: "Indeed I "
I did not ful for the Greater Philadelphia city suffering from an ad- rather -shunted me into a small and "visual arts" around.
hear or
Senator Nixon's Movement, which has made There is an artistle disregard vanced case of machine see collected some room, hastily
for punctuality; meetings Mue duplicated documents from
performance, but I have road great strides. It has torn down
Israel Army. dums, built schools, purged the re-read the speech. and table, Introduced
to start at 2.30 seldom begin
I was also told (though I have read the irrelevancies police, and kept the grafters at white haired, bright-eyed before three, and the particl woman with "She'll be able to pants are inclined to wander in this was hardly new) that about Nixon's father and mother, bay. tell 1101 all about 1 at any time.
Next to me on the subway, ör Another confusion about it was the birthplace of his wife, his children, his war
record, his dog. his -and rushed off.
whether the delegates are en-American Independence, the struggies, the Irish origin of his underground railway, the other young policeman titled to two or three meals cradle of the constitution, wife, his fan-mall, his part in day
with a gun on his hip and ' the Alger Hiss case. day at Government
expente
tab on his shoulder which Was
all this mawkish dema
-I said (they are being maintained at the national shrine. £3 to £4 a day hotels) caused
Phila read, "Bandit Control" Not
many of the tumed out to be a peculiarly ap- think so.
Jocularly: "Been chasing any sudden secking out
lately?" He ned: cheaper cafes by those who propriate place in which to atay The room-clerk at the Ben "Oh, they keep up fairly busy, were faced with the possibili- | during the past week of the ty they might have to buy
been staying, said to me but we have the thing under You had any trouble their own dinners.
ticians and the great flood of 11 never forget this week; il control.
since you been here?". I said from the public.
brought tears to ma eyes." Philadelphians after 80-odd I aald: "Yes, it was a great years of graft and corruption in fight it was
sad to see old their city government, would not Jersey
under." go ordinarily be expected to get too
The room clerk, a young man excited about the $18,080 that built like a football player, said: the Vice-Presidential candidate, I am
The woman who was going to tell me all broke into rapid French
ended and "Come, back ing,"
with:
tomorrow morn-
a
When I did she handed me some more papers.
I tried painter Graham Sutherland. He grinni, admit- However, that puzzle has ted that the whole scale of been sorted out and the dele- operations was rather beyond gates are sitting up and taking him, that he was
working full nourishment once more.
CULTURAL
much harder than he had thought he would have to, but ho believed that the conference could ultimately be responsible OPARE time cultural activi-
SPA for the foundation of an inter-
tics have not been over- national association devoted to looked. Each has been given a
book of tickets entitling him to free admittance to the city's mustums and art galleries and a 25 percent reduction for the theatre and opera.
the Interests—moral and fann- cial-of artists, sculptors and architects.
FIRST TIME
HORNTON WILDER.
US
Anyone wanting to sneak off the and see Errol Flynn at the dramatist, having local cinema must pay full
"FOOTNOTE,
ها
Actually,
Philadelphia
has
reat soul-baring by the poll-in Franklin Hotel, where I
JOG
One woman-like all orthodox wives she wore a wig-summed up their attitude wlien she told me: My two teenage daughters have been brought up as modest girls to wear long sleeves and thick woollen stockings, winter and summer, so no men can see their limbs. They have never been-God forbid they ever will go-to a cinema or a dance hall, They "None"
have never been in # The crime wave has subsided cafe. Their marriages will be and the corruption is crumbling, arranged through a marriage
has e
cruunding broker." Philadelphia mayor, Joseph Clark, who took
She added that she and her Austrian-born husband had re- gromene and threw out the Re-
be fused to Israeli citizens, publicans, who had been there
although this had been their since the Civil War.
life-long dream while in Europe, just so as to be able to CAUTIOUS
keep their children out of the Army and uncontaminated with modern secular habits".
Senator Richard Nixon, had to Nixon's thing about Senator office last year on a reform pro-
доп.
EXCITED
and
crowned
Tak
now
explain away, or the political There is no doubt whatsoever fund of Governor-Adlai Steven-- that Benator Nixon's tremendous tearjerker, his super-heart- strings-tugger, laid almost his entire audience in the aisles, weeping wailing. And their
NEITHER Clark nor anyone eyes are not yet dry.
IN
is making Nixon put on such a perform
else, however, BUT they did get excited, and
one week after trial by tele-, ance (next week "East Lynne") any sweeping forecast about the vision of Nixon, the city is still that he emerged a national Gala Presidential election since the throbbing. More palpitations are had and idol. It was mob law Nixon melodrama. The Phila- acquitted him, then delphia aristocrats, and most of expected over Mr Elsenhower's which book-keeping,
their carbon copies, who live on him.
the Nixon is riding so
famed Main line, enn, of Even the light mob which moved out after Rocky Marciano high that he is in a mood to tell course, be expected to vote Re-
their Jersey Joe Wal- General Elsenhower what to publican, as
grandfathers demolished cott had the balance-sheets of do and when to do it. Eben did before them. But even the the Mein line bas changed greatly Nixon
and Stevenson partly on hower h himself emerges from the
as a result of deaths, taxes,
and B. DeMille drama its mind. And even the baseball sleazy Cecil crowd which moved in when the uncertain a man who first said the New Deal. The great estates bullt on the English model are boxing enthusiasts departed has he would make the decision on
shuttered or being torn down. been talking almost as much Nixon and then AK
let the vast, about the dollars and cents of weeping television audience bring In their place are hundreds of the election campaign as about in the verdict.
neat, £15,000 houses. the Yonkers and the Brooklyn
In
the centre
of the city, Dodgers.
which has a British stomp, with ita
been elected general reporter price. to the assembly, scurried round
Outside the the various committee rooms, pink and grey stone monas
Incidentally picking up each terap of argu- tery, which ment, looking rather like being renovated by the pri Alice's White Rabbit with vate patronage of Count Cial glasses.
as a memorial to his son who. "You must not ask me, you was killed in a plane crash, know"
he said. "Unli I pre- stands an artist. sent my final report I cannot He has nothing to do with say anything at all. One thing the Unesco conference he is you must bear in mind this just a painter putting on can- is the first time in the history was the view before him of the universe that painters thousands of other artists must and sculptors and writers and have done -- without all the architects have ever got to hooha of a £60,000 seven-day gether."
shindy,
had
A YANK LOOKS AT THE NAVY
HA
New York. "ANDSOMELY, the New York Times gives full marks to the Royal Navy for being right at the top in technical progress and
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
says the US. Navy can still uen and says new aircraft are learn some tricks from Bri- on the way. tain's senior Service.
clubs in New York. Most are from the West Indies.
WONDERING
city.
DILIGENT
which
3
to
To back up their campaign to keep girls SWAY from the Boldlery, fanatics. Among already orthodox Jews have started a mid-slinging campalim against
Iarsel Anny Placards have appeared in Joru- salem accusing the Army Bu- thorities of using female scripts for bad purposes.
tho
con-
Lesflats headed "The Shame and Scandal of Israel" are being distributed by young men withi conventional Jewish side curia, who wear the long black conts Polish für: hats of the ghettoes. As they do so, they
ask pangersby: "Do you want your sister to live a life of sin?"
4
narrow streets and old, handsome shops, there is a Democrats have been
good deal of touring down too. swamped under this Niagara The Greater Philadelphia Move- Falls of sentiment, and Governor ment obviously intends to keep Stevenson is on the defensive, moving, !
"And" mothers are told, by Independence Square, wondering possibly whether an
their rabbis in the synagogues intelligent. literate, sophisticated houses Independence Hall, home on Saturdays to keep their girls Story from the Korean front; man can swim in this swirling of the Liberty Bell, naturally is more carefully under their eye, A
sacred. It is not imlike Lincoln's | "because the "Anny la kidnap- young fight-leutenant pool of tears.
What a fantastle weck. It an oasis in the clangorous paig eighteen-year-olds.” going into notion. for the first time radioed his fight. com could only happen here.
Englishmen ore welcome
But the ear:cmmpulan, is mander: "Skipper
Now, of course, everyone is they're
where the unlikely. to make: Ben-Gurion shooting at us!" Replied Colonel producing bank accounts, bonds, inspect the room Darrel Irwin: "That's all right, cheque books, postal ardore, and Declaration at Intlependence change his mind, even if be has to go to the country on the and sigried. They're allowed to,"
the old shoe-box from under the was adopted. bad.
..gullo showed me around and Bertin. He is convinced that the belleve. in CINGER Margaret Truman is I am relying on President said: "That's
Thomas mafortby of Israelis where TCE-CREAM from cow's milk stealing the
tha" equality, of-the-nexed--eveni show from Truman, who has begun his 15 Jefferson eat."
on the battlefeld, Harison Baldwin, an ex-US. is being challenged by a new President Truman on his came day tour, to bring some hard- Navy officer and the New York rival, a synthetic frozen dessert, paign toair to the small towns rock common sense into this Times military editor, rated the made from soya beans
And I am and of the Middle West. If he np-aquacade campaign. British tops, after a visit to the ground nuts. It tastes delicious, pears without her, the crowd hopeful that Philadelphia and the carrier Eagle' when exercise costs half as much, and comes, yells "Where's Margaret." Mainbrace ended.
the issues and not of towners paying homage in the favourite US, flavours Quickly she appears at his aide Best of the country will be de- MOST of the visitors are out. He writes: "black ties at vanillo,' chocolate, strawberry.
in waves of emotion, at the dinner, rum each noon, pompur Government's Economia its diplomats
la handsome, impressiva Philadelphlanhl- shrine." and tradition have not hobbled Stabilizer, Roger Putnam, and -. they can and save time. The city, despite all the terrible things' kany turning out every
"British naval aviation, long Mr Francis Cocke, head of the are not ordered to stay off shape, said about its politicians, its £1,000,000,000 worth of textiles, itaaluma, Its stool, ships, railway engines, American Bankers' Association, for two TORBODS:
some are Police force,
furries, radios, grumo- handicapped by subordination predict that good business, full physically undt to fiy: 'and the rivere and, of course, to the RAF, is making strides,
its
somes, sou electele botteries, corruption. wholesale swind- and there is a good deal the UB. employment and a high level of. US steamship Unes would raise
roller bearings, planos, cleare Navy could learn from HMS. Putam says this will last 10 industrial activity are assured,
Actually, the a bowl,
Iing that went on in the ugly pens,
pencils, Philadelphia res
resembles Eagle,"
He tells how Eagle made 25 months. Cautious banker Cocko DOLLSTER Elmo Roper - City Hall has decreased. Some
limits his forecast to knots in an Arctic gale while months.
six ports: that 23 percent of time ago a group of public hams as a city of a thousand-
and-one trades. the US.
voters are "guru" for hir Stevette spirited men formed the Greater
Philadelphia Movement, which Its carrier Midway » WEE
people are polite, softe Labour Secretary Maurice on and 27 percent for General Included Democrats, Republicans, volood, hospitable, bey resent virtually hove to. Different Tobin reports unemployment at Elsenhower. The rest-have not construction 18 the
Ladependente bankers and union the ceaseless sluss about corrup «FESJON. - an all-time low. Dois claims are made up their minds, t Engie's
steam-driven
plane down to 697,280.
After national Kurvity, the leaders and schoolteachers and tion, and point proudly to the catapults, a British invention.
New York Times says the her akm was to clean up
clergymen
reform movement. 2 should like
to calf aga are being adopted by the US, TUNE cricket season, has closed planation by Republican vice-
TUME On the other hand, Baldwin
Means In New York with 'a' vio- „presidential candidate Scurto Filadelphia, rebuild its morais
Stevenson, Nixon, rates existing British carrier tory by Manhattan “Paragona Nilson of his private | expessen und im Krafidings, aircraft below (U.S. · carrier, over the Staten
(Ai fost the soured voters, why men, gre nót Inland Club, find has helpet · Republients piarivo, X16" biamės slow, produe. There are 4,000 playtes is 17 Miseniorerer.
technical progress,
reas State Department urges
to By when
Tha
themselves are
year
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