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THE CHINA · MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1958. -.
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(BABICE VOU}+Ej
A SOLDIER,
ON ORDERS
By
Patrick Maitland, MP.
London.
Tis easy to over-simplify events in Moscow. Indeed, some of the most reputable commentators on Russian affairs have combined to reduce each others' interpretations to nonsense, Somo baldly declare that Malenkov has inherited Stalin's position. Others any that he has not, that, Instead, his power is closely circumscribed.
They have told us that the change- over was just as Stalin intended and, again, that It reversed Stalin's own de- cisions.
Commonsense dictates that in search- ing out what has taken place, and seek- ing for a meaning, only ascertainable facts should be admitted.、
The first of these may seem obvious. But it has been widely missed. Whoever. is in charge now wishes Stalin to be remembered as a soldier.
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YOU are reading the ephaned diregtly or indirectly viewed him then and there, No which work day and night in to the China Muil and Morning matter where he la, a good re- three shifts, set the story up China Mail us you
Sub-cditors Post offers,
si porter always keeps his eyes and according to Instructions-prob cross the harbour in thousands of words a day on all ears open--for the best stories ably of single column width. a ferry after a full topics, in find the items most have a babit of cropping up in With the setting completed and day at the office, or your interesting to people in Hong- the most unlikely places. the type put on to a "galley", a this fact which, makes proof was then pulled and read South China Morning Post kong. Linotype operators type
columns and columns of words the planning of A newspaper and re-read by proof readers is propped up on the break- which, when corrected by proof such a difficult business, for uni declared to be "OK”—that fast table in front of you. readers, are set into metai
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no guarantee, until the is, correct in spelling and grom- Neither experience occa end printed for you to read. The paper is printed and ready to mar
With its appropriate headlines, FINEST ENGLISH sions you any surprise or me process has been going on be delivered, that a big story
in the Morning Post, Ltd., for will not turn up demanding the story, with others, was then fifty years a continuous race Immediate and adequate treat- against time, a race which never ment.
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MPORTANT UNSUC
OPEN AZARO
PRECISELY TIMED
This is clear from several fea-
wonderment; it is taken for
"made up" into a page and in granted. In fact, it is only
due course taken down to the on the few days of the year
Let us follow one item of news printing room ready for its lust about calling That headline when the papers do not ap- of the Cold War, for instance finish. That headline at Repulse
K on its journey from start to stage its emergence as part of
the paper. pear that you realise what the chances are that it came to Day which attracted your atten- On the modern three-unit an important part they play us from one of the world news tlon-what is behind that?, Look Cassar machine, 4,500 copies of cerned this passes by unnoticed In our daily life.
ngeneles, either by radio or one at the
story—a motorist
014, 16, 20 or 24-page China where everyone is always in a of the new tape machines. The driving towards the Repulse Bay Mall can be printed per hour, hurry to get things done with For they bring you news-lhe sume message will have been Ho news of the world, the little sent to newspapers all over the of brakes and across noise, are lifted onto the machine sillon more our Newspaper
crashing
omoo workers become so used world of Hongkong and the world and each individual news. He stopped his car just in time and
thereafter printed,
cut, to the clacking of typewriters wider world beyond.
paper will have presented it in 10.
avoldly
folded, and counted outomatie- and the ringing of telephones The main story on the front its own particular style. No two
that they hardly notice the noise. which
skidded ally. The headling
"Nothing can wait" is the motto; page informs you that Russia has will be the same. announced abandonment of the you see in your China Mail ls and turned over.
everything must be attended to + The Cold War; you note on an inside unlikely to be the one Sydney the driver, was wedged in and
only occupant of the car. SPECIALISED at once. page that the principal quest
readers sec In could not move, so our motorist their Morning at a dinner has denounced the
Kerald. eating of chip potatoes with
A large staff and raced to the hotel, where chopsticks as "impolite"; a
he called the poilce and story about an accident at
of reporters, ambulance. It Is D simple Chinese Repulse Bay catches your
and straightforward story, with a Europeon, a few quotes from the motorist eye; you discover a photo- graph of n wizened little
cupies most of himself. man who has just walked to Hongkong from India: you have your sports pages to turn to and so discover
how your favourite team
has fured; another part of
the paper keeps you up to
date on social affairs.
A RACE
TT is all there in black and white. Without lifting a finger yourself, without asking a single question. without making a telephone call, you have the very Intest news from all parts of the world.
But do you ever wonder how all that gets into the paper? Have you ever thought of the highly com- plex organisation at work gathering and printing the news for you to read at your leisure each day?
the second Noor
MARSHAL
TITO
INDON
HIGHLY ORGANISED
Ing.
C
Glass
leapt back into his own vehicle
lele
and
In another part of the Morning NOR is the production of nows Post building there is less evident stores the whole story. For stress and strain. In the book- example, the China Mail has its binding department work goes feature pages which require on quietly but systematically, specialised craftsmanship layout (c. presentation)
in with thousands of forms, letter- and heads, books, pamphlets and the use of type.
catalogues being printed No newspaper today considers bound, THE STORY- itself fully-equipped-without-a-
department tor converting THE China Mull frat heard of pictures, cartoons and drawn it when the duty reporter tele. designs into blocks which can phoned the police station in the be reproduced in the paper. The course of rouüne enquiries to block-making or ind out whether there was any Department is highly technical thing of interest to report. The and is staffed by skilled crafts police gave details, adding that men, capable of turning out a the driver of the car was an im- block within an hour if neces- portant person in Hongkong, sary.
Process
The Editor decided he
he wanted. On the ground floor of the
man who discovered it.
50 YEARS
FTER work, or for meals, or during slack periods, em- ployees frequent the Staff Club on the fifth floor of the building. Lady members form a catering
The portrait, appearing in the Moxow press on the morning after his death, shows hini In the uniform of a soldier.. He.is in military uniform again in his
Some
at is in sharp contrast with the loose-fitting workman's garb in which he was usually photo- graphed and in which in cidentally, Hatenkov appears. Probably thero was symbolism about that dress. Just as Mr Churchill's "stren suit" in a way symbolised his identity with the common run of people exposed to air attacks, Stalin's proletarian garb hnd a meaning.
But for the record, for the lost national memory of the hero, that is not how his succes- sors wish him remembered, in death he must be the soldier,
Martial Note
to
THE martial note has been
sustained in other ways. The music which Moscow Radio broadcast on the night of Stalin's death was only inter- rupted, save for news bulletins, by a radio play based on the slege of Tsaritsyn on the Volga in the Civil War of 1919.
Nothing is done without meaning; and the cholec of this play is important, For when the battle of Tauitryn was going against the
revolutionaries, Stalin was put in command. Ho saved the day by his ruthicas discipline. This the oc- caalon when Stalin first entered soldi ken. He did it as a
the
was
Then Stalin's is a soldier's funeral. Both Marshal A. M. Vassilevaky, Minister of De tence, and the Commander of the Moscow Garrison, Col-Gen. Artemeyev, are
amang the 7-man Funeral Commission.
It is 100 soon to draw con- clusions from all this But it may be sold now that tho change-over in Moscow bears all the marks of stress; and it. Includes some obvious puffs for the Army-the re-emergence of Marshal Zhukov for example,
Alternatives
committee which order provi- PLACATING the Army may
slons for meals and snacks.
or may not be the in- of the Morn- more about the incident and Morning Post building in
But even when the Club is tention of the how regime. ing Post build-called a reporter to go out to Wyndham Street classified and closed, the work of producing Indeed, it may be that Repulse Bay and interview the display advertisements are taken nowspapers gees on-not ex- the showdown between the new by assistants, and in the same cepting general holidays and Government and the Army has Ing From the hotel the reporter business department other weekends,
yet to come. But if there should accounts and neatly fled telephoned back his "copy", and workers deal with
The pearch for facts and the
be a desire to keep the army. newspapers the duty reporter in the office, gene of work done by steno task of bringing to readers the
subordinate for t
reference, 1000);
took it down in
position, that would match up shorthand, type of work shelves of transcribed it, and sent it to the craphers and accountants every ews of the day as
with the decision that Russia's possible after it has happened Little Father be remembered as Editor. Meanwhile, someone else where. photographs, a Editor. Me
been going on in the Morning Post büllding for 50 a soldier.
SOOD OB
library, and in had looked up some additional In some respects the back has evitable type- facts about the Injured man and ground work In a nowspaper
There are, of course, so many writers and telephones, charac- added them to the story before office is not dissimilar to that of years. tarise the office, as they do al- tending down to the machine- cny other office-letters must It is this historical fact which alternative possibilities with so little firm evidence, that specula- Probably, if you consider it at most any newspaper building the room to be set up in lead type. be read and answered, invita- the South China Morning Post, all, you think of making a news world over.
There, a Hnotype operator, Lions accepted or refused. But, Ltd.. Is celebrating today-itation can be endies and value- paper as a straightforward piece There is a continuous stream operating one of the 16 machines except for those directly con- Jubilee, of teamwork. But it is much of reporters and visitors going more than that, it is a remark- fa and out-reporters going out- ably highly organised industry, an astignments, reporters re- 'copy', visitors bringing Information about forth- coming events.
The Quakers timed as precisely as a military turning with
operation.
Reporters all over the world are gathering the news of the moment which is telegraphed or
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The News Editor is respons- ble for the activities of each diary reporter and he keeps a of events which reporters con- sult cach day to find out what they org to do. Their duties are many and varied, sometimes dull and sometimes interesting. Their hours vary literally with the Beason of the year, the number of cars on the road, the time a batsman takes to score
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From Donald Ludlow
DORIS Duke, writer and wine export Bob held by his estate until 1034
In the
urnate style of a
be suggested, If Stalin
But this much uguin can ls to be remembered as a military man, perhaps his successors wish to relegate to second place his role as on in- terpreter of Leninism.
That
could Buggest that Stalin's jast great onslaught against the diversionists of the extreme Left- the school of Voznessensky—is to be quietly forgotten. Evidence on that theme is forthcoming.
Speculative..
New York. Unill the sale to Miss Duke, were sold after his death, 20 twice Falcon Lair was owned by screen years ago, but Falcon Lotz was divorced' tobacco heir-
GAIN and this lustrates Balzar, who refuses to disclose when it was sold to Argentine
once more how speculative just. his century in a cricket match. €59, and one of the world's the figure pold by the heiress. millionaire Juan Romero,
has. But as the house has never been
now is any theory about Moscowy richest young women,
The actress Ann Harding was They attend courts and Coun- </l meetings, Inquests and become the new owner of sold for less than £50,000, it is the next owner but kept it only it may be that Stalls was better loved na soldier than as Lenin's exhibitions; they go to plays, Falcon Lair, the fabulous generally accepted that this was six months before selling to her. There have been successive concerts and receptions, sports hilltop mansion of the later the price.
woolthy Mrs Gerald Buys, San melai references to "panie"; the meetings and cinema shows. Rudolph Valentino where, a
Francisco socialite. Mrs Buys now rulers one
worried! gay lite but may sound like
mat So
uny Roman villa, Falcon Lair is set sold it two years ago to Balzar. about
It was during Mrs Buy's own the Czar's heirs have been upon amid magnificent gardens, with ership that the story of the their own succession. The USSR fountains and cypress STOVE, Valentino ghost arose. At a is a large country and com and is surrounded by a 10-foot geance she held in the house inmunications are lenders wall.
1940, Valentino's spirit face to Moreover, there is one point Despite its imposing size it said to have been seen pooring which the
-censored nowJE cabr. Nobody has only three bedrooms.
despatches do not Later Mrs Buys became in has yet cabled from Moscow.a taken up by an enormous recep- terested in Buddhism and in desription of Vote hall and library where stalled in Buddhist priest the popular giler. More tumaas erler Vatenitoo displayed....... bis art Venerable Lokanatha in Falcon ; may not, of course, beca parti-
and colles- Lair. He dedicated a shrine · loi cularly, edifying, characteristic, treasures, mabues ton of mediaevak” armour and Valentino commemorating the In an iron revolutionary,; "Init Jewelled swords. Those treasures actor's twenty-second" "rebirth".. Its mission is, stranEG.
It has its disadvantages when Hollywood legend says, the the clock and the paper's dead-ghost of the actor still line for receiving news demand walks. that the story be written with- out further delay,
She is the sixth owner of the It was a reporter at a cons-house, which Valeniino built on paratively unimportant dinner, a crag overlooking the steep
Most
for instance, who turned in that | Benedict Canyon in Beverly of the space in the house through a window, inte
paragraph about: the principal guest and his remark regarding Hills, No one has over kept it chopsticks Another reporter, long, but that may be more due sent to cover a football match, to its inducessibility than to any mot Mr Evans who had just midnight prowling by the shade walled from India, and inter- of the screen's greatest lover,