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talk about the
REAKING the ice to open up conversa- tion is mainly 3 problem among young people.
Older folk do not mind. seeming dull-by-keeping-........ quiet, nor do they care whether they will bore other people. when they speak.
It is the young and particularly young
men
com-
who fear to appear monplace, who sit biting their Hps in desperate search after wit.
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weather?
MRS. AMBER BLANCO-WHITE
wife of the divorco commissioner tells you how to break the ice in No. 2 of a holp-tho-shy serios.
Innocent topic ort which all cadilly Circ," four or five people can comment.
people will turn in their seats "Nice day!"
wonder lo explain that it is not. DT "I rain will ever If this
stop?"
Good manners is not a brilliant remark. It is
are essential not meant to be brilliant. to really good conversation.
It is the conventional sign to There are elementary rules, zomebody else that you Dre
DON'T interrupt too often. This may not be so silly friendly and willing to talk.
If the other traveller feelt DON'T Ignore what the as it scems. Young men the same, the way is open for other person is saying because know they have their way more conversation.
of your eagerness to get some to make in a world which
thing off your own mind, has little renson as yet to value them for what they are worth.
Many of them are girl-shy, too, and handicapped by their scorn of "chatter." Nor have they learned, to make use their social assets.
of
The custom of sandwiching nt formal meals
If one attempt brings no response and you still want to talk stare out of the window for u time. Then try again perhaps with a friendly action father than words.
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social nuisance. It dispels good or another when talking feeling, breaks up groups, and ethers. rauses violent feelings.
We drop, a brick. It usually happens
because the brick- dropper has not been paying enough attention to what is go- Ing on or who is ilstening. Sometimes it happens innocent- ly, through ignorance.
When it is disguised as "just In fun" rudeness is mean.
The pretence will not wash. can't-you-lake-a-joke for the attitude is only a method of tying the victim's hands be or hind his back.
dloes
DON'T try to cap stories to change a subject abruptly when the other speaker not want to change it.
has Many compact
Without good, manners ** like been opening this you can fall in the art of dropped to make an
វា for a tongue-tied man. Many conversation by becoming
anid
something bore. women have
the themselves to posite merely because he hos has many advantages but it is helped with a suitcase, opened about subjects which do not in trial to these longue-tied young
a door, or
or offered a newspaper. There are some almost infal- lible ways of making strangers talk. One is to say something qbviously wrong for few people can resist acting you right,
the
men.
GIRLS Glad to talk
/
man op-
If at Trafalgar Square
you
TOMMIES
Some bores talk ond talk
terest their listeners,
BRICKS
How dropped
When you realise you have: dropped a brick in conversa- tion the best way out is sim- ply to ignote the blunder and carry on da smoothly as you
can
Remember that other people
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they are embarrassed, too. Apologies at the time will only the embarrassment. prolong Carry on talking. deep
COME people are so nervous and unsure of themselves that they cannot show
affection feeling, and
excopt under a cloak of rudeness and 10 turn rough behaviour.
Some bores want their friends into a pernionent ·
But that kind of rudeness la audience.
more likely to smooth itself out Some bores do not talk,, do with better acquaintance. not listen but will not po
away.
Bores are inseparable from
ON SIN
have often longed to say to one of them: "Softly does it. remark: "I suppose this is Pic- rudeness.....and rudeness is o Never mind trying to impress- just remember that young men are scarce. So nearly all girls on nearly all occasions are only too glad to talk about anything you like.....her favourite dance, the latest murder, or what she thinks the other people are talking about roundi the table. It will be all the same before you've finished the soup."
Girls have caster job.
50 much the
They need only realise that
S
of
There is just one form rudeness of which we are ali time likely to be guilty some
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A private word later, · per-
might help haps a hole. mend matters.
But some situations are be yond mending, Leave them alone.
NEXT SATURDAY How to listen to the boss
PARADE
TOO MUCH FOR THE
INCE I returned to
Newcastle from that strange world of the
a girl can seem clever with prison camp in North
out making clever remarks, A
ing.
were-
HO
By Private
GEORGE CHAMBERS -in-an-interview with Robin-Pago-
WERE CHINESE
came on the air.
This was the most important
At first the
frequent con-
fessions were greeted with roars of derisive laughter and cheering.
But the Chinese told is plainly that it had to be taken seriously, Gradually-the-method-beast
So those incredible two years
girl needs only to be sym- Korea, I have heard of re- pathetic-listen to the first few ports from certain quarters
to work. It
It maintained discip Later this card playing was Our other "brushes
with line, and remarks and she is then well that we were either treated "legalised." As I said yesterday, polilles"
the many confessions were each evening at when we first arrived at camp caught up in a flow of talk.
the we were given facilities to play 5.30 Immediately brutally, or, exactly
after dinner dropped to only an occasionat Things do not always go po
and other card when Radio Peking in English one when I left. bridge, whist when
that We opposite, smoothly, of course.
Comes. conversation must be started softened up deliberately up away from a social gather-as to turn us into Com-
Take the technique of talking munists. in the train.
I can only speak about what I It is held against us as a knew and what I saw in my two nation that most of our con-years us a prisoner. To my ex- versation begins with remarks perlences, and to our Chung about the weather.
Sung Camp, anyway, these re- More lectures. We spent them always said it was, anyway. awaited return home. wrong porls do not apply.
sleeping and dozing. The was one of the standing jokes.
Often there were. musical in- Certainly one might describe Chinese began to realise that we terludes. It was generally good The weather is by custom, our treatment as "soft" in com- were heartily sick of this boring,
music, and it was enjoyed. tradition, and common consent parison to that handed out in weary business. in this country a completely ather camps in other wars. One www.might also say that It was
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deliberate.
So we played and joked, or event of the day, for it was our went by. But the story of Chung most of us did, anyway, with only means of keeping in touch Sung still goes on.
And those
mothers, fathers, someone always ready to give the with what was going on in the wink if our Chinese Instructor world.
wives or sweethearts who have looked like appearing on the
We knew when we listened to menfolk there can be quite sure that they are keeping themselves the views that it was blased. We in top farm, ready for that long-
It
scenc.
Sudden Stop
The way of life of these Chinese Communists, their approach to matters, is something very dif- flcult for 13. to understand.
Part of their philosophy is a belief in personal criticism and Gelf-criticism.
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But it would be very wide of Whether it was this attitude--- the mark to say that the strictly or the rumour that the Americans Fair treatment by the Chinese were going to indoctrinate Com- was a cunning device, and that munist prisoners which caused
They confess openly their In administering this they were the lectures to stop suddenly, I restraining brutal trends.
don't know. But stop they did, faulls to their assembled fellow- and pull up others No. Their friendliness seemed The routine I have described soldiers, natural and genuine. They previously became the arder of about their mistakes. talked about equality and meant the day. It was one up for the Full Confession
it.
Did wo agree with their politics? We certainly didn't. If they went too far we let them know about it.
boys.
We heard nothing, or little, of
For instance, the slightest polities for several months after- wards, until the start of the suggestion that' a guard might voluntary study groups.
be exceeding his duty would These were Just like night evoke storm of protest and ac- from other guards Burning Question classes. A whole range of sub- cusations
fects was discussed. Economics, nearby he would have to go to When I arrived, for instance, politics, history, philosophy, and Away way politics was burning question so forth. Sometimes the Chinese his quarters, and not only havo with the Chinese, and they were there, sometimes they to make a full confession, but wanted us to feel the same about weren't,
I felt they rather pitied us because we didn't,
about mo
were
should have seen some of
logically why his action explain 200 men had been wrong. In our group of
We 30 attended.
amazed, but we had I preferred So, instead of the daily pro- to
my time singing or a ruder shock coming when they
insisted that we should do it. gramme I told you about yester- playing Soccer.
At first they д
said we would day, there was at that time an=" These night classes catised a other routine, assembled before I think about it.
rumpus, and I chuckle every time have to write down every week We were all
all our sins over that period. the camp commandant, who said A library was opened but It We did. he wanted to explain to us their was available only to those at-
You point of view. He would go on tending study circles. We com- the things we confessed to. The British Tommy has a good to describe the methods "in our plained bitterly. Socialist country," what they We told the Chinese: "You talk imagination.... were doing and why they were about equality. Yet here you The Chinese realised there was ore creating privileged class in a legpull going on and stopped the very camp you run.”
the weekly sin parade. This really hurt their feelings, But I will say this. The put in its place and without any more odo they system they
worked. opened a library for everyone.
The books comprised a large When we broke camp rules for selection of classics. I remember the first time we were told to particularly the
of write down our mistake. If we volumes
doing it.
Then we were each told to divide into our respective groups and talk among ourselves about any social or political problems that occurred to us..
We were told not to be afraid
to express our point of view.
We weren't. As soon as we Charles Dickens, Grimm's Fairy broke rules the second time we got back to our discussion groups Tales, Gorky's "My Childhood." had to write it down and read we got the cards out.
I read a lot.
JOHNNY HAZARD
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