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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