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The STORY of CRITCH, WHO DEFEATED DEATH
I
London.
FIRST heard the news
at the Japanese Em-
bassy in London where
By Beverley Baxter, MP
man
in civilian life-share- then that he and his wife ported. tien and organisation equal to a reception was being were
lawyers, plumbers. The shadows were closing in. his. given for the youthful pushers,
plano salesmen-by God you're ' Crown Prince,
soldiers now. Anyono wha Blacks, anyone who malingers, The scene was an amusing will go back to his unit with na and colourful one with flowers by request! On parade various degrees of curtseys and off paradelt makes no (or none at all) by the difference. I'll stand no slack- women and every kind of ing." bows by the men, from a horizontal obelaunce to a mere pulling in of the chin, The Japanese women in limonas looked dainty and fresh as if they had just emerged from the bath.
I observed to my wife, who was reasonably impressed, that between the tiplamats and the klmonas the whole affair should be titled "Call Me Madam Butterfly," To which I addesl that everything seemed 10
Then once more the shadows began to gather. Greyhound racing had been
no laxed by the Treasury that the profits Ind disappeared. Shares that had sold for 23 shillings were down to a couple of shillings. fortuno of Critchley's
Much
for
Critch was running short of
His greyhounds, however, were money, and it looked as if the doing well, his cament. Interers had evaporated, although ho
he had had considerable 'money. game was up. But one day he were prospering and
friend who plenty of time to give to goM, met an American
be lokl him
Unhappily about Greyhound winning many championships
went racing in the USA. Critch is
winter holiday to the from better players who lacked who
Bahamas, always
and flying believed his pugnaelty and his courage.
over that Arca ha conceived that sport is good for man and
Then came the 1030 war. He the idea of taking over The course was merciless. I beast and nations. Therefore
acquired a reconstrußed "Rum Island" In that part of think revaillo was at 0
he threw himself into this pro- had a.m..
money, built coast guard's house on the sea the Caribbean and turning.
·ject, raised some Wa were run off our feet, wo dug the first greyhound or perhaps it was 4 aim.
alde golf course at Sandwich and into a winter holiday resort for race track
American workers and their tre trenches lika madmen. wa in Manchester, and opened it to at Christmas he invited me lo
complete stay with him there. There f met families. American Industrialists saluted our seniors with such what looked like a
a handsome fellow who turned were enthusiastic and London vigour that our arms were in op.
out to be Johnny, the son by his bonkers word danger of a' sprain. As for a day's leave to London, we might as well ask for a trip to the moon.
·HIS GENIUS
WHEN
unreal that it had no relation to over
the life around us.
And just then a friend came up and said: "Have you heard the news about Critch? les desperately ill and I'm afraid he's going to lose his sight."
There are rules in drama in the theatre but none to the drama of life. It seemed nich cruelly incongruous setting
the
the
ELITI
course
SOITY
to
Against the shouts of derision he hung on, and suddenly the sport won is public. It swept formed a across England. He company known as the Grey- hound Racing Association, BC=
IN POLITICS
15
rstwie. Johnny went to school Critchley got Day Camp
(Aha.
"Holiday
Canada but was then at Cant Belie bridge. Being his father's son he interested, could not remain u student whin the bugles were sounding.
won
Johnny
had
сл
went
was
had he winced or cried aloud, With his third wife, the champion rolfer Diana Fishwick, he moved to a pleasant home near Ascot and continued his cement and air charter activities. His courage was indomitable, and ho about planning new ventures. Occ Occasionally he would telephone me and come to my house for lunch, and I admired him in the
as the sunlight.
act
|POCKET CARTOOK
by OSBERT LANCASTER
Lind
"Of course I'm against it
Just think of having to watch all one's dearest friends, advertising face cream in the middle of the
Ninth Symphony
DOWN
THEY
GO!
Homes and cars,
TV, fridges
ros. From Donald Ludlow
New York.
in America. The dollar
shadows as I had never done in PRICES are coming down is buying more. It looks as If the long, weary climb of postwar Inflation has broken at last.
and
and they raised further money in the City of London. Eventually. but too
camp Johnny Joined the RAF, but precipitately, the quired the immense stadium at was refused a pilot's licenes opened and it flopped. Ameri- the White City in London, and because his colour vision was can interests bought it for a song. was organised the racing like a Ro- faulty. Refusing to be a grounded and Critchley had lost a hundred I was ordered man pageant. The shares were altman he volunteered to serve thousand pounds. stay behind on
Critchley's put on the market-and zoomed. with the Finnish Ski Division in Staff.
He was sixty years of age, but to Critch was a rich man, and life ship was turned back just before never in his whole stormy career
life the war against Russia, but his record that I was not
for my was good. For better or
port, Finland milltary achievements that won worse, he had produced the poor reaching his reprieve. Critchley wanted
te capitulated, ted man's substitute for horse me io put on a musical show
paused long enough, how-
VAST SCHEME with the next crowd of junior
of ever. to marry an attractive officers when they arrived. I ever, did so. It was good fun and young woman. I was the best
man and am now godfather to [THEREUPON I became Critchley and
closo
six-foot their I went to the to hear about a fellow Canadian friends. Then
son Bryan. In W listed in the Scots Guards, the hours were the meantime Critch invaded
hi with whom I served in the 1914 front where
and commission killed {n the North war and who has been one of much easier, although the per- the cement world and became a was my closest friends ever since. formance
director and then vice-president was much noisler.
African compaign. I of the great British Portland to see my old friend. Critch Both Critchley and I made our
But after the careers in England
British military Cement Association,
zoon as I heard the news, and in
And now comes the hand of war, but-the Canadian bond authorities had spotted Critch
als eyes there was a hurt that was a special bond between us. ley's conlus for organisation.
would never heal. Nothing in his fate like a play of Euripides. He and he was given the rank of
life took such a toll as the death of went to the coast to play in
tournament Now I have set myself the Brigadier-General (at the
his son, who had come to him golfing
developed an irritating boil in task of setting down in print the of 26) with the task of training TIE had a house at Wimbledon. after years of separation. story of Brigadler-General Cecil RAF cadets in much the same H a house in town, a house at
But the war had to be his nose. True to form he paid Critchley-known always as as had trained Crotch who defied the Gates & Duke of York, afterwards King Sandwich, on the aca, and he fought and Critch had prepared no attention to it until it burst. a vast scheme, similar to 1910, But by that time, unknown to thousand times until they took
the personnel of him, it had poloaned the optic George VI, was on his Staff for became so fine a golfer that he
for training
It was accepted by nerve and he had a frightful
headache, whose faults of temperament
lop-ranking golfer, but he pos-
greyhound and cement were far outweighed by his
sessed a courage that simply all generosity of spirit; a difficult,
ho had donc brilliant,
Into the task as domincering figure, the problems
Then came the peace, and all would not admit defeat. If his directorships and threw himself
opponent was four up with four Into the Arst war. that peace whose philosophy
Once or of life was
Canto play, Critch believed that he in the
RRIVING home he dlog- up in a magnificent bring. Critch was, of course, a summed
centres, and it A nased at.
diffime had stood was
It DE
and oath that he invented: "Blas Regular, but he was not attract would win at the 19th, and very twice I went to stay with him
often he did. ed by the prospect of going back
treated for seemed as›
that com to peacetime soldiering.
Still impatient and unsatisfied, still since I had arrived with plaint. Too late it was His
dia- looking for worlds attitude towards this did not gb
the Canadian draft at his covered that the infection had as far as that of Disraeli shoulder Hike Atlas, ho turned school in Bexhill-on-Sea.
reached the. vein that Leeds -who said that
the eye. soldiering
his eyes towards Parliament, In
No longer was he. interested
Fustenance to
Death cncatime
and managed somehow to get was only fit for
the war, and faced him in the night, but ho in anything but Буса himself RITCHLEY was born in Cal- fool, and in wartime only at for
adopted for a
took over his
summoned his courage from the Kory In 1880, his father a barbarian--but he was deler election at the outer London when the RAF
of training he was ap- depths and defied it. Death was system of Twickenham. (Major Oswald
Critchley) mined to try his luck in Civvy
constituency
British being a rancher. There were Street. He had married Maryon. As I had also turned my eyes pointed by the Government tu defcatod, but his eyesight had losing their scarcity value.
forever. is gone
Ho mado he wanted recovery and
with a crdeal as
1980
The
their revenge. A man of a' time. Incidentally, Critchley began to win tournaments. He vision and amazing courage, armed to and was given his never had the shots of a really the RAF
the Air Ministry; he resigned
tinol”
throo
THREE SONS
ས
wings.
to
This
TOO LATE
a swift general
I drove to
the
challenged any had a young son and daughter. in familiarise myself with the above all things, and he threw country to see him, droading the
י
MAGIC SPOT
himself
into the task
a child dreads tho
sons who, with their the daughter of
great in the direction of Westminster the Chairmanship of the father, made
A up
what WIS pole Canadian, John Galt, and they I took charge of his campaign, Overseas Airways Corporation. team which
It seemed a good opportunity. Th opposition that appeared. Cecil Wos a handsome six-fopter
technique of political life.
violence that produced excel- dark. When I got there I found who worked in a bank for a
We got our man home and lent results, some blunders and Wing Commander Douglas Bader while but longed for the zest of
Critchley took his seal, but he a host of enemies. Undoubted who, with two coden legs, few the open air. So he joined the
was too impatient for the slow ly he was ruthless, but not for as fighter pile in the war and Canadian Regular Army and was
IKE many of us Critch tempo of Parliamentary life. personal gain. But he never fles and golf today like a commissioned in_the_Strathcona
took the same view as Had he been Instantaneously learned the lesson that if you youngster of twenty. Bader had Horse,
Blucher who, after Water- made a Minister and given & make enough enemies they can brought his courage to sustain loo, looked over the roof department, he would probably bring down a giant.
his friend Critch, and he ako When the 1014 war broke out, tops of London
from tops
n have made a huge success of the father and the three sons church tower and said: "What a But he had been given orders for came to the war. Just in pass- city to
London so long that he could not necom- Sick!" ing and to complete the family had been the magle
modate flumsex to the democracy spot record, the father married a where we spent our leave. Lon of Parliamentary life, where the second time after his
wilo's d
don meant theatres, pageantry, most boring merber had the same death, and twla BONS were opportunity, adventure. I join nights as the man of destiny. born. They were, of course, ed Lord Beaverbrook, while lone wolf, de- mere children in 1914 but they Critch, always
YOUNG JOHNNY served with high distinction as elded to make his own career in regulars in the 1930 war and his own way. rose to high rank
INDOMITABLE
Ban
watch
This is not reflected in the cost-of-living index-g which stands at one point higher than last year-but
a happy American housewife and her husband know from the family budget what is happening.
From a hamburger steak to houses, from cars to fridges, washing-machines, and TV sets, an avalanche of bargains is rolling out in America,
Where price controls falled to stop the dollar shrinking, pro- duction has risen and caught up with demand so that goods are
Tho
GENTLE SLIDE
Wall
„Street Journal, sober organ of big business, has been surveying Mr and Mrs America's budget, and cannot conceal its elation at the result.
This is how the prices have been
coming dowo, apparently unnoticed by the experts who fx the cost-of-living figures— brought a gold watch from and, to quicken the contrasts, I Critchley's golfing, friends, a translate dollar figures into
the time. Sterling that sounds Another man to arrive was Sir Minced hamburger steak of Jan Fraser,
a South African-cheaper cuts is now 3s. 3d. a lb., WHEN the war ended he had born MP at Westminster, who 28. cheaper than a year ago; not only surrendered his was blinded in the first war and I quality sirlot has slumped from
but was no in now head of the British 82. ed. greyhound control
alb. to 6s. 4d. Pork is the BOAC. Legion.
little dearer, due to longer head of However,
his with
amazing
seasonal slackening in slaughter, There on the sofa was my old vision,
but voal and lamb are both opportunity friend, and, I placed my hands the next
general ahead and founded the Air on his thoulders because I way
cheaper,
and so are broiler The transition from specta- WHEN
clection loomed up, Critch- Charter Company of Skyway atreld to speak. "Blast you, chickens, which at 2s. 2d. a lb. Critch, who is the herd of my cular authority to clvillan life
Jey dropped out.
of which he was He had Ltd.,
are the best buy for the family narrative, went to the front, with was not easy to achieve, Critch
the roared Critch, "why do
dinner-table. the Strathcona Horse as part of had given orders
one for so long found
game where he Chairman. When the challenge newspapers, publish such rot
Out of two the Berlin airlift came about calcket?” champion. But Of the 1st Canadian Division, was that he was apt to regard men
Critchley was ready with his
fresh fruit and vegetables only I told him he was crazy and twice wounded, won the DSO in mufti as raw cadets. No one ev as I write these words planes, not only serving Britain he said that I never knew #
two are a little dearer than a ond was appointed to the Stal will deny that he was vain, hat I must set down that in but bringing rich rewards to damned thing anyway about year ago. The rest are cheaper
the 1st and 'then the 3rd tempered and impatient. He opinion it is a thousand pics
And since peace sport. Our voices rose ih anger or have stayed the same, Canadian Divisions.
disciplined himself in war, but that the Government of the day his company. in the months that followed he did not use his organising genius of a kind was in the air, he and we damned each other to
where resumed his golf and defeated eternity. Then he was sent to England did not discipline his tempera- In Colonial territories to open a school for smartening ment. What was worse, his trouble was brewing. Few men of better players as he had always But both us knew..... and it up the newly arrived junior luck was out. Canadian officers, and complete the process of turning them from semi-civilians into real front Hne soldiers. It lieutenant that I was sent to the school at Bexhill-on-Sea and for the first Ume saw the spec tacular Commandant. Lt-Colonel Critchley,
of
was
ON PARADE
an
as
He always had vision, and at heart he was a builder. To usa the homely old phrase, he was determined to make two blades of grass grow where one grow before. But he suffered tools badly, forgetting that in Eng-
1
land a man who looks like fool is not necessarily a fool. Critch mado friends and enemies with completo pro- Allgacy.
With demoniac energy he set
AT ungodly hour about a plan to take ex-officers
Was
even
Not
#
-
of
my time had powers of improvisa- done.
was better not to say it, T
THE CHAPMAN
PINCHER COLUMN
PATIENTS ARE FROZEN
TO MAKE THEM LIVE
F
ARENCH doctors are say-
your
dozen kinda · of
MORE CARS so.
Used car prices are down by on average of 20 percent, and are likely to go lower yot as new models
run off the lines. As recently as 1940 there were only 20,000,000 private cors, on America's highways. Now there are 44,000,000,
Dealers
report 1051 models of popular family cars, such as the Chevrolet, are selling for Kttle more than £350 and hard; to shift. A year ago a comparable model would haya,, sold: quickly for £539.
1950
in cars it is the second- market which reflects the hand
Scores of old people and salt, anaesthetics, and drugs break in the price of houses-
AB
in-
survived
every morning we were from the British Army and put on parade, in com- bello them in Mexico. After panies under sergeant-majors weeks of hard and successful ing lives by molding bables who would otherwise who bellowed at us and work on engineering develop people hibernate like have been classed managed oven to make the word ments in Mexico, he was quietly dormice in winter. "Sir sound like a reproof.
officially told to drop The were not ranker oflcers
but plan.
Washington WEE officer rankers. All our glory
chamoured of the idea and had was gone and wo
known feared the let its opinion be worst.
Whitehall.
we
but
Then to wild shouta of "Shun" we sprang to attention as the Commandant arrived to Inspect us. He stepped out of hia
THE SHADOWS,
་
without index, has gone up.
houses have fallen Msing
was given to the woman.
a housing figure in the When she had become semi- Five or six-year-old wooden operable have
conscious dozens of red rubber bungalows with five rooms can They have found that a major surgery.
heart operations and other tubes connected with a refriger be had for £6,640-cheaper by
ator were wrapped round her £850. Bigger an state of hibernation, pro-
and older, belek body. She could feel no chill duced by refrigerating
sicoply The doctors claim that in as ice water began to circulate
In price. Some
for patients with ice, greatly such "bad-risk" operations through the tubes,"
£11,000 a year ago have been reduces the risk of shock this freezing treatment more When her temperature had
slashed by £1,785,! during severe operations, than halves the death rate, dropped to 00 degrees she was
Here again the reason is pro wheeled into the operating homes and apartments bullt duction For with 7,506,900 car looking immensely im- THERE was much distress in The patients atay in pressive LEX
red-tabbed the British coal mines, and hibernation for up to two
since 1948 America is on the uniform-and the effect was not Critch spent most of his re
In the green-walled Vau in precisely the same state or a log boom.
Sald De Huguenard; "She is crest of the biggest-ever bulld- lessoned by his Alsatian dog, maining money, organising ship days, when the body tem which bounded upwards as if to ments of coal abroad. But just perature may fall from its girard Hospital in Paris: I hibernating animal..
Take a look insido
home. show
his adoration of his owner. as he was, rond), lo sond his normal level of 98 degrees watched young Dr Pierre
Washing machines are down Critch inspected us, and then armade over there was Fahrenheit to 80.
Huguenard refrigerate withstand the stress of extreme
£27 from £107 a year, ngo; a were marched Into a great coal strike and his coal supplies hall where he addressed us in a wire confiscated They are then revived 65-year-old woman in the cold, she will be better able to rapid-are, vigorous style that It was about them that he and with hot baths or druge, special hibernation chamber endure the stress of a grave jolted us like an electric shock. I met again and our friendship but their body temperaturn he has designed.
"Gentlemen
علم
barked, which was to grow with, the
*you are soldiers now. Remain yours, had begun Ita stormy may not reach mormal for a ber that. I don't rare what you program. It was? Miro thous fortnight,
First an anti-shock "cock
*-* complar' mixture of
theatre.
"Just as the animal can "then
operation."1\
The woman showed no signs -shock, after the operation."
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