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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY

RHEE

1953.

dictator

of defiance

Seoul.

by RUSSELL SPURR

politielana, Government oMcials,, and generals.

The Cabinet ringe

thein- selves around the green balzo table-top. Ten small men in shabby ruits. They sip green tes and doodle while their teader issues his orders.

There is nothing very demo- cratie about Rhee Goveni- It bends to the will of one man. Those who oppose

ment.

сле

him are got out of the way.

mon finds rest and But in the circumstances it is very <ifficult to БЕС how Котса could have

He learned to write poetry Bise

That was in 1897, when the sons of Nippon were taking over Koren.

anything

A Good Fight,

the

FYHE old man with the #hattered fingers walks slowly through the garden. His wife watches from a balcony. And all old around, among the shrubs relaxation. and flowers, men nervously unhitch their guns. The

The Industrial north was cut off President of South Koren in a he learned to hate, while

General Palk Sun Yup, boss

from the agricultural south. taking his evening stroll. a prisoner of the Japanese. of the Rhee armies, drives up Neither could live alone; the

to the presidential palace. He two tiny Stalca wcro The guarda glance

is small and dapper in a well- natural prey of other Powers. anxiously towards the wire-

pressed summer uniform. A Communist aggression three young man with a big future topped wall. Towards bomb-

was inevitable. Ogo He was Imprisoned and he has risen to a full general caused the South Koreans to shattered Seoul, spread out tortured, his fingers were from

a Japanese majority in swear

amid

Uheir sufferings like a map below the hill. sshed in sterl clamps-he seven years. And he is still that never again would they Ride house. They do not still blows on them when ex- only 33.

allow foreign politicians keep their country apart. relax until the small, sturdy elted. figure is back indoors.

Syngman Rhee stops in his

Empty teacups study to jot notes on an okl envelope. A new idea for blocking the Korean armis-

new

tice? The theme of a fiery speech against the United Nations" "appease ment"?

Studied in U.S.

VOUNG Rhee was sentenced to

life imprisonment. He was

to

Syngman Thee leads him In- the President's war roun where they pore over the wall maps. Korean and Communist troop dispositions, supplies and equipment are discussed.

Korea's urge to continue, the

crisis for the United Nations. But

it is not Thee's idea alone. "Unification" has been a very real word to the Korean people since their liberation in 1945. on in the The Yalta

agreement They will divide Korea along the line of that is the way this strange conferences is beginning with hopes of true independence.

released after seven years. Ile fighting has created a serious became Christian, studied in the United States, and devoted the rest of his life to the cause of Korean freedom. The light go

More likely it is the first

to

line of a Chinese poem. For green-rooted house.

be on all night. A round of the 38th Parallel wrecked their

THE EVEREST HEROES ARE NOW HOME, THIS IS THE PICTURE OF THEIR LAST NIGHT IN CAMP

Moment WhenTriumph Becomes Real

snow, and the nearest rocks 80 to 40ft. down.

By Sydney Smith

yehrs

QYNGMAN Whee sits in

It

to

Bucharest Workers Are Angry

AFTER

Belgrade, July, 3. Communist Proqua

and East Berlin, Bucharest now comes into the news with reports of demonstrations by workers against food shortages and high prices in the Rumanian capital.

In one of Bucharest's biggest factories, the Grivica Roshi rail | and mojor works, several thou-, sand workers downed tools a week ago when the management told the

them their wages could not bo met Other

workers in the plant their benches and joined the demonstrators In their demand for immediate payment

Jeft

Security police, were called in, but failed to halt the strike. Then the Communist ulatu management climbed down and

paid the men

The demonstrators went back not before their other

to work, but

example had spread to

tho elty where

his factories in

chair looking out over Seoul., workers began agitating --for- Is almost dawn. The last more food, collers have

The food crisis, according t leaving Kone, littered ashtrays and empty tea cups.

these reports, is now so SERIOUS that armed guards are watching The President is 78. And he the coming harvest, standing in is tired. His face

with the fields day and night. weariness,

recent weeks bread has It has been a good fight. Heduction of an identy

been available only on the pro- card,

Angs

In

has achieved great things. Not And queues who have waited always the way historians would like it, but with the end to buy only

up to five hours have been able justifying

half the official the incans. Now, ration. perhaps, the sands are running out. There is so little time.

In many taverns in Bucharest there is no beer or wine-only.

He waits impatiently for the mineral water.- Lolidon Express morning sun.

Service.

Professor Memory Brings Back A Song Of Childhood

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

WOMAN patient under- from A

מון

widowhood," Dr Dutchess words.

THEN you're on top- The crickets were sawing He's not a fanatle about any- you're really on top, and frogs were chorusing huskily balanced. He is a perfectionist. awny at their tiny muste thing, because fanaties uro un-

such complaints 08 there's hardly room after supper when the

going

operation duodenal-uleer and heart attack. whole for two men to stand there. team, in a shadowy tight group

And his life may be lengthened asked He worked out

the brain surgeon, imply because he finds it more. the Everest It is just a rounded knob - Huni and Hillary in

011 the expedition

was paper at home why he

playing a worth while. about two feet across, all, middle-sat around and nat last year -- graphs, scales, and gramophone record in the "But if his wife nags she may

tered.

schedules. And date for date, operating theatre. He could be, "working towards carly And this is how these Everest camp, it worked out 10,000 miles tune she heard had arisen height for height, camp for not convince her, that the men really are unpretentious, away--just like that. That is Edmund Hillary's unconscious of greatness or

from her memory. version of the highest point courage, horrilled by formality,

There was another quiet man Why did she hear the the shadowy group this The surgeon, using a in the world the peak of embarrassed by acclaim.

inst night Griffkh Pugh, ekcirle needle, had touched Everest. And what do you

Olympic skier and feld certain root in the brain-and up by an think about? The view? The victory?

no,

SHERPAS

in

physiologist for the Research Council. He's a fectionist too.

Similarly,

"All visit them.

tune?

PENICILLIN PORK harmless BRITAIN'S output of pork 喆 and bacon will be stopped

extra 10,000 tons

traces of

.

Medical she inmediately heard a long year in a few weeks time when per-forgotten tune of her childhood. farmers will be allowed to feed

i 13-year-old boy pig-meal containing Well,

ND Hillary did most of the. not much. talking. He had had a letter

Siting in a grimy old pairal accing his aunt to ask her to Lord Rothschild, chief of the

brain was touched by the the drug penicillin.

"heard" his mother tele- Everything looks flat, like a from his brother saying that his grey

This pyjamas his normal phoning

estimate is made by map, and you think more small home town had debated marching kit says Pugh: about your oxygen than any- the prospect of pulling up a Everest only as a mountaineer-

allier expeditions considered Professor

Agricultural Research Council, Wilder Penfield, who thing else..

sintue or some kind of tribute ing problem and not as a human

the Canadian Iain surgeon, who trials of the drug in stock- has supervised British to him."

awarded recently Order of Merit by the "Once the human element was probe the

has been using the needle to growth of pigs and poultry so

iraln climbing was no rully conscious patients

surfaces of that they alien faster on less more,dimcult than anywhere

under

food. operation.

1 reported the bacon-boosting powers of

such drugs from America where they were being widely used by farmers nearly ttoo years ago,

problem.

You don't really feel the reaction for three or four statue," he said, "they're build solved, the

"They decided against days, it's all a bit of a dream ing a ladies rest-room instead." until you start getting the "What kind of armour ure else." first letters and telegrams. you going to wear, Sir Knight?"

snld a voice. Then It begins to hit you.

'TUCKER'S UP'

N was

JEW ZEALANDER Ed Hillary reminiscing in just the right place and time for such things dusk, under a banyan tree in the Himalayan foothills.

Beside him was pale, bearded G. Lowe, the other New Zeo- lander of the party.

to label

was

So all last year he tested and located designed clothing and oxygen "Hey, Ed, now you'll be able equipment. His advice on ปี your New Zealand month of acclimatisation it was honey: Packed by Sir Edmund which enabled Hillary to stand Hillary, untouched by human on top of Everest for 10 minutes

without an oxygen mask. hands,"

There was much talk of the Sherpas, the loyal, the gallant, tough, thieving, drunken, likuble mixture of rugged mountain

·

LEADER

tho

fooding. иест, Penicillin somehow boosts the

And he seems to have fully

*The position of

the human memory inside the brain. It seems to be housed in two thin patches of the brain sur- face just above the cars, called cautious insistence in staging So the Government's' over- the temporal lobes."

And it was when he touched British farmers to use them has Its own itials before allowing woman patient on the right cast the country, about temporal lobe that

20,000 her childhood

lons of prime pig-meat.

the

Other Events

memory

Lung,

she heard

IN YOUR DREAMS

1.

суса

THE PROSPECT

patients have "seen" in their childhoodk INSTEAD of the team, like re-enacted men who aren't afraid of Everest others, living off the country colour. In some cases repeated AN INGENIOUS

in full detail and A quarter-moon was begin- but do not like the tremendous

way of ning to silver the velvet green hidings they get froin their and stuffing themselves with rice, stimulation at

the same point

telling whether people are crests around the Everest ex- mothers and wives if they stay diet which included lb. of the same "vision"

he designed a 4,000-entorie-a-day on the brain surface produced dreaming while they are fast pedition's final camp.

away on an expedition too long. meat, lb, of bacon, ozs. of event time after time.

a bygono asleep has been discovered by

the world's leading sleep butter, loz. of chesse, and Jozs.. The inability of the brain to Professor Nathaniel Kita of milk powder.

distinguish between 3 vivid of Chiengo, And there was Hillary saying,

and

reality under He has found that the as if to prove it: "I'd like to try "ecing a ghost' may be due to eyelids during certain stages of

these conditions Buzgests that jerk rapidly under the

closed Kanchenjunga next year some mementary defect in one sleep. These movements can be prefer it to K2—it's an Ice of the temporal lobes.

detected by mountain and I'm an ice man."

placing small Professor Penfield, who is in electric loads round the eyes. Someone Someone yawned,

Londan lecturing on his dis- "Well, bays, else sald:

People awakened while their coveries, believes that the eyes were feriding always re- the fuss starts now.”

temporal lobes are also the site ported they had been dreaming. Hillary: "As long as there's of our dreams.

When beer and bananas." They

wakened during non- that on an outward trek you

SO DON'T NAG

jerking periods they could not remember any dreams. can traco Hilary by the banana skins every quarter of a mile. THE LENGTH of a And so to the sleeping bags- life depends to a

The cry "tucker's up"

black

Was

OHN Hunt is not a talkative enough to stop all talk. Cook JOHN Thondu served the team's last

man. He broods and muses. meal-enamel

He does not give many orders- mugs of soup, just asks bolled mutton,

casually for advice, beans, and potatoes.

and, remarkably enough, almost always ands it practically in Tondu

another special agreement with his own ideas— character. A rugged but digni- perhaps a slight suggestion here fled Nopalese who cooked at and there. over 21,000ft." and walked ́all

was

the way there and back wearing

made

And without anyone realising

all

say

This

Anding If confirmed, man's shatters the established belief Iarge that dreams last for only a few claims seconds however long they may

U.S.

a smart felt hat, a green shirt it, everything gots done just as

from a sleeping bag, he wants it Said one of the, and the last good-nights as a extent on his wife. Cover which "disappeared" on team: "The moment you meet team of rugged mountaineers Dr Charles Dutchess, the last Shipton reconnaissance him, you know he's Д born face the awful prospect ahead of authority on old age. • expedition, and carrying a leader, but I'm damned if I being cicon-shaven, sea-level The emotional stability of a 15 to 20 minutes before they neatly furled umbrella.

happy marriage can save a man subside.

know why."

JOHNNY HAZARD

WONDERFUL GEATY, LORD BREWIE? WE'LL GET A CLEAR BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THOSE

HIGHWIRE BOYS FROM HERE!

WE'RE JUST IN TIME, JOHNNY.....THE \\SHOW IS ABOUT TO

START/Y

heroes.

AND NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.......PRECENTING THOSE OUTSTANDING YOUNG ACROBATIC AND HIGH-WIRE ARTISTS FROM AMERICA....... FLIP AND FLOP!

By Frank Hobbins

THE CURTAIN IS UP....... THE MUSIC IS PLAYING BUT WHERE'G FLIP AND

"FLOP??

zoem to the dreamer. For the cyo-jerks usually continue for

.this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

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