New Type Of Diplomat
By Patrick Maitland, M.P.
T
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.
No flesh-and-blood man
HERE never was d fight like this be tween two English- men-not at least in the 25 years that I have been awenting at the ring- sides of the world.
scale
When Eric Boon defended his lightweight champlon. London. as gangster methods he is ship against Arthur Dana- SYMBOL of the new fully abreast.
har at Harringay Arena on A superficial impression February 28, 1939,
the diplomacy and of Great Britain's of this promising young preliminary ballyhoo reach- changed relationship with diplomat might be that he ed a
never before members of the Common is a devil-may-care kind of approached in Britain. wealth is to be found in the appointment of Mr George Middleton, lately Counsellor at the British Embassy in Teheran, to be Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi that is, for practical pur poses, deputy Ambassador to India.
person. At all events, he carries his cares lightly and possesses a quality that in respected highly
among Orientals-an appearance of calm.
himself Counsellor of the British This is the man who found
Embassy in Teheran after the Ambassador, Sir French Shepherd, had been recalled. He He was thus left in charge, and for many months there fell to him
the curious obligation of visiting Premier enigmatic and hysterical
who would
often
called. No man
And for the first time in the
country and very nearly the last half as many people again outside the hall "w" the con- test.
Nearly 14 years ago televi sion was still something of a Harding, then now manage toy:
but the stuowd John
of the National Sporting Club, which had apon- ored Danaher from the time he turned profes sional after winning tho
ABA lightweight title in 1037, had the vision
what TV was going to
Mr Middleton, who in in his early forties, is energetic and resourceful person. He joined the Perain's Foreign Office by way of the Consular Service, and was Ambassader
enough be in bed when an become. British Consul in the south without a high sense of humour east Polish city of Lwow enuld endure such a task for during the frantic days of long, least of all retain an Nazi Germany's invasion of cable temper,
Prime Minister, and be roundly Poland. The British
abused for your pains, is not in Embassy in Warsaw, like itself agreeable. those of other countries, fled with the Polish Government and eventually Rumania.
To visit
EXODUS
reached
As Charge Middleton WAN
of provocation and insult, when # was sport To assail British subjects and forcefully mistreat them, Mr Middleton's job was to hold on and keep steady.
Mr d'Affaires,
responsible for The roule from Warsaw the sale conduct of the British colony out of Persia when to Bucharest led, for most relations were severed. And people, through the Salician throughout many trying month city of Lwow, which is now inside the Soviet Union, Thus to Mr Middleton there fell an abundance of emer- gency tasks to facilitate the of important evacuation personnel, Polish as well as British. Much required to be improvised without re- ference to the rules or to precedent.
PIMPERNEL
of
He conducted the final evacua-
without incktent
from
Illustrated by ROBB ·
could take it!
SMASH HITS
—OR SO IT SEEMED
No 5
introduces Eric Boon and Danahar into the punch-a-line China Mail big fight series by PETER WILSON
And so the Marble Arch Pavillon and the nearby Monseigneur News Theatre, #s well
s The Taller Cluema Charing Cross Road, were wired for "big-screen" tele vision, and people were to pay as much as a guinea
ist a pretty considerable sum thote happy prewar days to wutch.
The youngest
klad
In
But. although
thun
Danuhar at
WELC
hmm. First a left hook put him 'down, then a right awing, then a left hook again. Each count was, for nine,
The Londoner's world mus! have been a hideous fantasy of roaring crowd, whirling canvas, flying leather which up-ended him, threatened to cave in his rlus,
scrambled his brain, and left him like a blind 131
merry-go-round.
on
Boot
But, where a flesh-and-blood man would have been led carried away by now, the in- perishable fome burning inside this cockney serapper brought him out far
fourteenth round.
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by nine. When he got up their height the ference
the with
cond all crouching, bobbing, and weav- hi han
the ing in
American style, barrel and again the Londoner
his mun in went down for nine. sought to break
In the ninth Boon so thump half with thunderous
ed und belted and shook and to the body.
dazed and Jarred
Boan propped him up on the end of his left and then Javel lenger devilled Dunahar that the chal-
had to clutch the rupes Ined a right to the point of i.. to steady himself. And then, his trembling. chin. Danobar THE rallying his rapidly diminishing went down all of a heap, but
and even then he would strength, he hit out left
not strike EVENT us right, and
dropped his colours. actually Boon on his haunches for count of two, and in the whirl- cual
THER "oddities' of the fight were that Boon and Danaher were the youngest pair ever to contest a British lille. Boon, who had won the title only two months
before, was culli a mere 19; Danahar
9 st. 9 lb. looked drawn, and as slim as a reed, he rode out the storm, leading and labbing with a straight left, not of the
onbone-slide variety but authoritative as a conductor's baton.
ed sharply and accurately
have
In the emergency issuing passports to persons who might have lost them throughout the exciting adven Crowicy for the champlonship, but the fight was one of
#
judgment; little allowance despatches are straightforward advantages. At 5 ft.
the
Is made for the trying con- ditions under which judgment Was exercised. But there were few, if any,, official complaints after- wards.
SYMBOL
har
EI
The end
OF THE
ing excitement of the moment E huuled himsel up by the nearly hit his man while he ropes, hand over hand un-SEASON
round- til he stood almost creet, but a
score read seven to
was down. Now the Danahar, trembling target, and then re- and twe to Boun.
feree Barrington Dalby exer- cised the mercy that is vested in him and called a halt to hughter and preserved bravery for another day.
In the tenth the blood was noses flowing from both their and of course from Boon's eye. Danthar was like a slim wax
himself by 11 was the end of one of the candle consuming
own endea truly great fights bf, the past the Bane of his vours, but he still managed to. decade and a half.
wrestle Вооп They fought once more after rally enough to
the war, but like so many en-f half-way through the ropes.
In the eleventh again a new-
Arst cores of
per- comer would have sworn that formance it did not compare It was Dunahar who was win with the first. Dunahar stopped I can
Boon's Boon in the fifth round with ping, for a right split
that Eric complaining bitterly a mouth.
he had been hit low.
given. tie
Unlucky
13th
l, notable
Neither man, was the fighter
had
con-
No quarter
a year older. and
FURTHERMORE, he counter- brought his charges out safely-
Yet it was Dansha who, tribute to his qualitics both us professionally speaking, was the with rights to the head and
"novice."
This was
his one of these was to only organiser and leader.
Such is the
18th
paid Aght and type of person,
he had nearly definitive bearing on the travelled mare than ultimate outcome. vetoote diplomatist, who has eight rounda
conventional "old never
The Arst round hod previously.
un- been promoted to be Deputy
Boon had had something like doubtedly gone to the challen- High Commissioner in New 75 recordes bouts and a great ger, and it set a pattern of
many more which never Delhi. The choice has fallen on
bruises ap- leather and blood and a person
of proven courage and peared in the books. He had for the succeeding six.ressions,
There was no suspleton integrity. Yet not only so. For several Umes gone len rounds
and once, when beating Dave quarter being asked or tures which have been Mr or possibly never had them Middleton's story, he has shown nearly 13.
inest St
scrupulously fair But if the experience was remember. Consul will be held, himself both a shrewd observer
with the
champion, Danshar At the end of the seventh responsible for errors of and a competent reporter. His
held mast of the important stranger coming Into the
hall · physical
would have thought that Duna- and 'sound':
he had been and, alas, short- Ing. he was some four inches
was the champion fuced the taller and his reuch at 71 by a strong, very game, but PUT a second look would have ly afterwards came the tragle ins.
Alve พอล
inches longer utterly outclassed opponent.
lold a different story, for news that Danahar then Boon's.
I hnd given every round to the
36;
Sicel-ribbed, rock-jawed tracted a serious illness. The background of the youths the challenger. and he
Boon, too, formerly the real- still champion seemed impervious to life "golden boy" of the ring, was a different as their appear scemed as strong as ever. So, all punishment, and
his former never recaptured was weakening anes and their style. Boon was of course, did Boon.
blacksmith's boy, from อ
the great weight
of his punches rapidly. Just at the end of the greatness, and finally the Bri- continent, the
the country town of Chatteris, F was useless since he could not round Boon flashed in a right, tish Boxing Board of Control refused tollcense him any "Embassy, for that is what it is, Cambridgeshire.
The
only avoid the flesh-and-bone bayo- and again the Londoner was or. to New Delhi perhaps matcher the Embasy to Washington for the one 2 Bathna-just try 10
Jonger. "green belt" Donchar knew was net 01
of Danabor's left and the canvas, the bell Interrupt-
The last I heard of him he as round succeeded round Ar- ing the count at four. its importance. For here are And
thur strolled back to his corner
was losing to fighters in Aus now It was all Boon, tralia who were not worthy to being trodden by
Classic clash
miling a little with tight lips although technically ke
fa lace his ring boots when he and with his hair parting still still behind on points, India's relations with THAT was the set-up
of theWas In his prime. unrumed.
the twelfth two more Britain were opened by a former [1] when the thick-thewed
blows which The eighth round looked like ledge-hammer
World Copyright Reserved.-London Borough Councillor blacksmith's St Pancras
boy with the being a carbon
the the Boon had learned
hard Express Service.) copy of and London
politician Mr light, wavy hair and the en preceding seven, and then after way in the smithy left Danu- Kristina Menon, Pandit gaging grin looked across the a minute o dramatic change
har fumbling on the conyos. United Nations. It accords with rather drawn Londoner. Nehru's representative at the ring at the dark, sallow, and transformed what had
been a
The unlucky thirteenth must been a nightmare runaway victory into a the daring, experimental pattern
nlp- have From the very first bell it and-tuck
After 22 Aght. of these vital new relationships
was the classic
clash
between minutes of fighting Boon final- that an altogether unorthodox the boxer, und the fighter. ly got a clean shot with choice should be made for the Danaher sprang erect like a right to Danahar's jaw. number two post in New Delhi. vivined sporting print of one of
125 effect was shattering. Mr Middleton is something of the old bare-knuckle puglists Danahar dropped us though A symbol of the new and
from whom he was descended, he had been shot and was very vigorous in British diplomacy.
Boon, accentuating the Ulf- glad to take the full count of
in the complexity of Great Britain's postwar position, the heart of an expanding Commun- wealth spilling over into Aslo and a mighly political force in that teeming
its
new
For one thing Mr Middle ton distinguished himself as a modern Searlet Pimpernel, securing the escape of some *scores of important but little-known___personalities and politics. under the very noses of Ger- man Gestapo men. And he nevor lost his head, or his heart.
His sojourn in Poland and Rumania followed by # stretch at Genoa, then Madeira and the second of two stretches in the United States, America is a coun- try, therefore, of whose streamlined business as well
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