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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952.
FRAYDA
INDIAN KOREA
TRUICE PLAN
ANGLO-U.S.
ANAGREEMENT
VISHINSKY-NO
"Phew! Narrow shave! We nearly had an outbreak of peace that time.
London Express Service
WHAT IS THE TRUTH
Lane Cranford's ABOUT
LANE. CRAWFORD
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RELATIONS & GIFT PARCELS TO FRIENDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Orders for GIFT PARCELS to be delivered in time for Christmas should be sent in immediately to
about the Guards? There is, of course,
THE
GUARDS?
have
no
AMERICA COLUMN.
from
NEWELL ROGERS
GOLDEN BRICKS SHOWER
'New York.
ACROSS the frontiers of
America have gone nearly 800 gold bricks, worth more than £3,000,000,
They are from the U.S. Gov cmtent's gold hoard burled in
£ square two-storey building
with a sleet door anê yard thick in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
From Aprit a year ago until last July-gold from all over the world kept piling up in the vault of chilled, tool-proof; steel, pin- tested by a water-filled moat, a stent fence, poison gas chambers, and an electronie alarm system.
Now it is outward bound again for three rensen 1, Increased US. military and econcenie ald overseas; 2. Increased investment and loan capital abroad; 3, Fower foreign purchases-of-Acnericam Foodi.
"To get the gold out of tho vaults three U.S. Treatury- mon used thrco separate combinations to unlock the steel door in each clher's presence.
The gold that has gehe is only la drop of what remains on tho shelves of sicel esempartments far underground. The guardians of the treasure still have moro than 1,600,000 bricks in hand.
OR five weeks Hollywood, and
the
whole South Californian court has lain under a pall of smog (combination of fog and smoke from Los Angeles chim neys), Farmers have lost, about £175,000 on their fult and vegetable crops,
HAT is the truth Yesterday, former Under-Secretary for means are no longer essential The supreme test of troops is and many Guards officers have how they conduct themselves in dofent. In the retreat to Dun- War Woodrow Wyatt, M.P., described none.
It is true that these officers kirk in 1940 and the shambles as "the last all come from public schools. of Norway
regiments many no question that the Brigade of Guards
with The British
But others, they deserve their great re- entrenched stronghold of privilege and
public schools fought well.
claim special
to memories of men casting away putation.
would prefer to We who served in the In- snobbery in the British Army." Here is a turn out good surgeons, lawyers, their arms,
or engineers. But there are two forget that period. fantry of the Line had our sober rebuttal from a fellow M.P. who professiona
for which they Through all these desperate themselves: Colonial days the own pride and loyalties. But commanded a battalion of Gordon High-
discipline and Service Guards shone like a beacon we would always have ex-
landers. pected a Guards battalion to do most things just that little bit, better than our- selves.
A
And, for an operation, we had more corfidence in Guards unit than any we did not already know.
They were dependable. knowing this as soon as the guns began to fire.
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By MARTIN LINDSAY
C.B.E., D.S.O., M.P.
of the
In formation
N Hartford, Chhnecticut, the schoolboard has voted 6-3 not to allow Paul Robeson to sing in the high school hall, The board acted not because they think he is a Red, but becmise a Left-wing group got a permit to use the hall by concealing the fact that it would have Robeson on, låg programme.
Jimmio
*ministrators officers.
Seven rear-guard actions across Both these require two Belgium and France lid not
which qualifications
these stop a Grenadier battalion from schools develop to a apecial lancong its equipment and it degree: toughness and leader is said that the one man who ship.
failed to do so was put under The boy of 13 who
is arrest at Dover! summoned before the prefects for a misdemeanour is toughen- ed all right. At an early age ho Plainly it Is nonsense to As in other sought-after regi- learns to take the hard mocks
B. times change. Guards ments, only when it comes to of life on the chin. achieve what they do with cubs choosing between two equally And when, a few years later, THE Coldstream marched Into A, Rhodd has been Invested promising cadets is preference he shares in the responsibility the Infernt of Dunkirk to with the bear claws necklace standard officers.
formation. the given to the one who had, say, of running the school he gains who knows Everyone
and deer tall headdress of Chlef Brother in the in self-confidence. So when he The defence of Arras by the of the loway Red Indiana in British Army will tell you that a father or Guards officers are good. So it regiment.
The criticism that these officer's trains to be an officer he has at Welsh Guards, after others hat Konsta. No brave with bow and is that any body of troops wel-
already learned how to broken, is a glorious story. Sharrow is Jimmie. He is d'47" comes the news that & Guards need private means is about 15 least
give an order.
Is the stand of the Irish Guards year-old half-back in his high years out of date. Guards The toughening general or staff officer has been
process is near, Narvik, commanded by the Echof football team. To hail realments used to spend ค continued through
potential Junior captain after all those the new.chiet, toner John White posted to them. For
who sentor to him had been killed. Eagle cang a song. And what expensive. which everyone knows is write so glibly about "privilege" The three Services are rightly
do you suppose he sang?. "My Wild Irish Rose." should visit the Guards Depot proud of their corps d'elites: The British public loves the at Caterham. The young Guards the Royal Navy
crack Changing of the Guard Buckingham Palace. But who,
ho, cadet, serves an infinitely more ships, the RAY of the ALLULAH BANKHEAD WAS asked to do the TV role of before the war, paused to think a
rigorous
apprenticeship than finder Force, and the Army of
Belte Davis in the film "All that the ofleers kept up those
any other.
Its Brigade of Guards.
About Eve," supposed to be a On one occasion this year splendid uniforms each out of
And no one will resent an ƒ likeness of Miss Bankkeed, And that a three of them, Including a young attack upon their officers more Now the plan is a hiva his own pocket?
shower of rain meant a earl, received ten on the back- than the fren who have them Tallulah bo herself in a stage.. -heavy
side from their squad sørgeant's selves served new scarict tunic-£40.
In those magni-show called "A Night" with Today, six Guards battalions canc.
fcent regiments-the Household Talulah." "The idea is inspired "Priyllege" tindeedl These Cavalry, the Grenadier, Cold-by "An Evening with Beatrice out of ten are on service abroad,
One of Broadway' Full dress uniform is provided young men would die of shame stream, Scots. Irish, and Welsh Lio," from a regimental pool, Private before making a complaint. Guards.
brightest new hits --
Aor the men of the R,A.S.C. be sure he knows they can great deal of time in London, moral training.
SK the Gunners and Sappers
and R.A.M:C. 'who cerved in the Guards Division in the two world wars. Which of them, after that experience, would wish to join any other?
No one would deny that the fighting qualities of the Guards are superb. But Mr Wyatt as- serts that these magnificent troops are commanded by om- cers whose efficiency is "below
job.
How do the Guards keep up the standard? More young men want to be commissioned in the Brigade than in other unity. The colonels can afford to accept only those with very good re- ports.
that of other regiments." For IT
How could this be? anyone with any experience of
The rejects
Is the Line regiments which take the Guards' rejects, not the other way round.
life knows that the standard in Cadets for regular commis any organisation is set by those
sions go through Sandhurst. The
at Its head. Good results can staff there will testify to the never be obtained without the quality of those destined for the best of leadership.
Under fire, the test is severe.
Brigade,
National Service infantry,
At times,, the difference between R.A.S.C., R.E.M.E. and sticking it and running away is narrow on a threat. Some off- cers and N.C.O.s are hit. One
Those
Nathaniel Gubbins
R.A.0.C. cadels quality at anHE noble lord who O.C.T.U.
made the ignoble re- mark: "We don't
Those from the five Foot regiments are, of course,
man loses his nerve. He cries: Guminority, Yet of the want another Nat Gubbins "This is murder. I'm getting a the out," and he can take 50 others present intake, four of the five Home Guard" must be sorry with him.
Under Omeers are Guards
now. It is confidence and pride, cadets. It is no coincidence.
He has not only stung his with discipline and training, For, on the whole, the Guards
Royal uncle into joining the that carry troops through a get the best.
Service, sticky action. Pride of regiment Yet Mr Wyatt writes: "The Naval Minewatching and confidence that they have qualifications for the Guards but has deprived the H.G. of been launched into the battle closed shop are a family asso-nation-wide publicity, with the with a high degree of profes- ciation with a Guards regimens following results,
and enough privata nieans....."
sional skill.
"Time, Gentlemen,
T
Please
By J. W. TAYLOR
99
THIS year is the 400th an- ing, or a licence. The work of niversary of the Act temperence associations and re- formers has had its effect in this
gaw
:
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-THAT HOME GUARD
ONCE AGAIN.
д
reliable
to Until the corporals took the "According
place, advancing from the report, the earth has gone of its course and we are approach- ing the sun at 1,000,000 miles a minule."
cart.
Ideal job
AR
" thought it was getting hot," I would reply, yawning. "Anybody coming out to lunch
Countryman's diary
The wintry sun touches the garbage heap of the Old Farma with a golden glory. A ́~sudden wind shakes, the naked, shiver- ing trees whose bare branches, overhanging the · Inne, *shako a deluge of rainwater down, the neck of old Mr Gargle.
}
meadow,
+
and
As suddenly, too, the quiet of WILLIAM SEED, who
the countryside is shattered "by paths so loud and violent, that It is reported that a village once edited a newspaper in
the voices of the bitis aro H.G. company has a major, a Addis Abcha, writes that, after
shocked into silence, the startled captain, an adjutant, two cor- a six months battle with the
cows stampede
the Government censor, he finally
Across porals, but no privates.
commander resigned when the authorities A Home Guard
angry mothers call their children Home, banging sard, in an interview: "We'ro decided that "we should publish -
UTUMN leaves, some golden of tic, blasphemous centenarian
their awfully keen, but we have no no news and articles, though
cottage doors la the mee advertisemento and a few pic- A brown, chaps,"
ISOTYLE bright as tures are allowed."
burnished copper, have fallen as he makes his way towards the
village "We have no chapa," the
As this is the kind of job I softly, silently in the country captain said, "no chaps to have been looking for all my lane to form a carpet as halt and shun“.
s
•
Wel
inn
"No chaps to slope and order to Emperor Haile Selassie, the sloppy as a paste of por- New saws for old
arms, no claps to hold
a grun "No chaps to fire on the range, no claps to man the .posts
the
told The captain
adjutant: "We'll play at 'let's pretend"
ads?"nger.
ridge.
by
He, I herewith offer my services Lion of Judah, who appears to be responsible for all the im across the leaden sky. In the Heavy rain clouds move slowly portant appointments in the turnip field there are pools us pla
na miniature fakes. In the big no
stand Under my editorship, the meadow, unhappy cows morning conference with the ankle deep in water... of Parliament which gave direction and in the matter of
staff would begin at midday and Tiny rivers hurry along the local justices the power to the licensing of proposed new "Except two jolly corporals end five minutes later, when we gutters, carrying with them license or olose
and one platoon of ghosts." would all go public premises, as apart from the re-
home.
swollen cigarette, ends, orange houses.
Those were early construction of old ones. Now
I would ask the pool, and here and there ag adays only in the new towns
banana skin thrown'. 4way advertising days which
a larger is there any real likelihood of
"Enough to All the paper some lucky, banana-fed child number of "ale houses" than this happening,
except for two columns six at the village school. was thought reasonable, and Time and the ravages of wur
inches deep on the front page." justices in many parts of have removed many historic Britain used the now Act British Inns, including Mr Pick- wick's George, and Vulture in to close quite a number of London's Lombard Street, al- them by refusing to grant though many curious ones still a licence.
remain. In London there is the In the Wall," which "Hole
· has an unusual hole in actually
for its ehtrance, Wall Dorset's famous inn at Gode
was originally
Twenty-five years
"trado"
had another
when there was
+
later the
shock
Ü published an
order In Council whereby Par-
Homent arranged a compulsory manstone
a
census of public houses in order blacksmith's forge and has not that they should be specially since been enlarged, so that it taxed to help repair the "de easily holds the title of Britain's cayed haven of Dover."!
smallest pub. i; The passage of time has seen
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most unusual is Increased responsibilities shoul- the Castle, for it is a panshop as dered by landlords in the proper well as an inn, This special management of their establish- licence was granted by George monia and a rising of the stun IV after the landlord had lank dard as to charpester and expo, the King money on his watch to bilities necessary to the obtainy pay a gambling debt.
"Any pictures?" I would ask the art editor.
★ ✰
"Although arly
one
weather saw, or prophecy- *Red, sky at morning, shephard's werning is acknowledged to be correct by meteorologists,, coune "try people stil) (hellëve, in the
Infallibility of them all Later to a newspaper. STUENEFORE they shall have some more, equally infl-
*Jamdary shows, cold in nose.
Ilbla:
1
February, rain; 'same again. March winds blow, how do
you dow?
If April treeze, "*"meeze, meeze, sneezo...
Frost in MAY, in bed all
flooded homes, the cow.ly
caw,
WOM
week
Jaly
"Then * will man. the waterworks and you shall
In the misty, moisture-laden be my friend
"The same old block of the air there is almost complete "One corporal shall be the Lion of Judah wearing a bowler sllenco excopt.for the small, foc, attacking us with hat and carrying an umbrolla." complaining voices of chef- blanks
"Fine". I would say. "That fnches, robins, and bodge spar- tulli fill the hole on the front rows driven from their little shall be in page "The other
reserve; the ghosts are onthon I would turn to the news caw of rooks circling
editor and say: "No newr, Z. round the tall req our fanks!"
in the hope?"
Fio of the rain, the drip, drip, drip That night the silent water
"Not much," ho would answer, and the quelch squelch, works with sharp explosions "except that Stalin has been, squelch of the onormous test of rang
shot dead".
cid Mr. Giggle as he tramps "Fancy that "I would say, through the mud, muttering From north and south the
about the Governinent. ghosts ditacked -- þang- paring my nails. "What else?" China's been minic bang, bang-bang, bang-
Well under a tidal wave. Estimated 'bang;
death roll, 400,000,000,"1199ZRA Bang-bang, the atout "Don't be tedious and trivial
defenders fired, "Take that, I would answer irritably. "Ang-
thing mora?? you foreign beast
Without warning, the rain. clouds are parted say, if giant hands had drawn aside the cur- tring in the windows of the sky,
la blesk, in
wards
August" shivers Uvers
September cough, cough
October slow, November hack hack
blow