THE CHINA· MAIL, "THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1953.
They All Want to See Mr Vyshinsky
For the tourists he's one of the
*
The unrest among the staff, as o result of Lie's weakness and recurrent purger, has
Tho
topliners at the Peace Palace dwindled. Hammarskjold says:
"International Civil Servants should be left free from national pressures of any tort." This has annoyed several Americans.
chains here New York Daily The big popular newspaper News, the Chicago Tribune axis,
United Nations Hend. among the gaping and gawking quarter, New York, trippers and tourists having a look at the show, Impressed by Tuesday, the flowing robes, the turbans HE trippers are here in and headdresser, the jewels, the
force, both outside and sashes and sandals. inskie the peace bulld- A woman near me said to her
Mid-Westerners and companion: "Like the Aróblun States withdrawal from the Far Westerners, who had Nights, bus't it? But where's U.N., but their shouts are. 100 intended to
Ing.
"take
in" Vyshinsky?"
Everyone always nake "Where's the Empire State Building,
Vyshinsky? All the visitors the Chrysler Building, and want to have a good look at Mr sip a drink in the Rainbow Vyahinsky and then go home to Room or Starlight Roof, are Sun Diego, or Denver, and say: "Saw him in the flesh, belleve 1 now wandering about the
or not-there was Vyabinsky, U.N. as if it were cloud- sort of smiling; I could have put . cuckoo-land.
out my hand and touched him." Vyshinsky is the biggest celeb- rity, and then comes Britain's
Perhaps it is. Every time I visit the U.N. (known as the Peace Palace, the Glass House, and by other less kind names) there appears to be some sort of crisis disturbing the place.
Almost
everyone here, particularly the self-important
ininor officials
sver
and the Hearst Press-are com-
palgning actively for United
shrill and strident to get much cerlous attention.
Hostility
DON'T think I should like ta work here. There is a hostla atmosphere. outside.
A girl clerk told me she had taxi-driver a dime
given ong
DON IDDON'S
DIARY
(ten cents) over and above his
tip after he had coin plained about the cost of the U.N. Sho sald
to hlm: Clave - this. year's N. on me-thai's all it
who are hardly Sir Gladwyn Jebb, perfect for casts, ten cents per year per
erested the part, followed by the United person."
their
without dispatch-cases, seems harassed.
The delegates lounge is see ing, but not so much wit dele- gates as with hangers-on, thx tinguished and undistinguish visitors, Journalists, secretaries, clerks, translators. Nearly all have the inside track on every thing. Nothing is simple.
the U. N. Dag the new Secretary-General of Not only the U.N. itself bat
the
States Henry Cabot Lodge and
Hammarskjold the British, the Canadians,
or French, and the Indians have all (pronounced Hammershald Hanmershield, whichever you been given a whipping by the Press and the pubile before and prefer).
during this Assembly.
Personally, I think the visitors are behaving very well-much the crowd at a dim opening or
uniter than theatre
premiere. A 'gaper'
THEY tell me
"Perhaps you
not
aware
of
arc
procedure,
Yet these
a
It seems that the Allies, par- the clever, devious ticularly Uritish, are "chicken-hearted, appeasement-minded," and also "impudent and impertinent."
American tourists
It will no doubt all come out d milllons like them are pay sailsfactorily in these marble ing for 35 percent of the United halts and cushioned conference the Nations'
upkeep, which the protocol, the $46,000,000, a year,
is rooins-our Sir Gladwyn and Mr Russia is Selwyn Lloyd look particularly agenda, the subsidiary and up 33,000,000 in arrears and Nation- unperturbed but the climate. plementary motions, the sub or alist China owes $2,400,000 for
despite the air-conditioning, is super committee ruling."
one of cordial CU- American delegate, Heriry Cabot
Lodge,
handsome, R vigorous man, is more subtle
I am not and I have no desire this year.
to be. You con put me down
Printing of
Distinction
for People of Distinction
A
--
Grandeur
RIGHT
STRIKE
SO WHAT, M’SIEUL M'DAME" YOUR TRAIN WENT YEARS AGO
STOPPAGE IN FRANCE.
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.
INTO THE CAVES
OF
By IAN FLEMING
Pierre St Martin. HE Pyrenees are riddled with caves. So are all those counties of France, Correze, Vienne, Dordogne • and the rest, that lie he- tween the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Caves that.
men Caves, like those of Lascaux, that were the pri
MAN who tells me he is from than his boss, John Foster first animals lived in, then Cleveland paces down the Dulles, but he is not a very marble corridors, rubs his foot on, experienced diplomat. the thick pile carpet, and says: He yery ambitious and has "They certainly shot the wad in relished the role of telling the this place-no expense spared. Russians off and thereby build- You can say that again. Maybe ing up the Lodge. wo could have done better for half the price, if you ask me."
I believe one of the reasons why the UN. is under such fre- quent attack here by because it is so grand.
New Yorkers, sweating out the summer in their cramped apart ments, jammed into ramshackle buses
Sickened
THIS United Nations Assembly is meeting, of course, at time when America is saddened and in some cases rickened by the behaviour of her allies.
There is hardly a citizen here,
yate cathedrals or art gal leries of man 20,000 years
And other caves, like some that Norbert Casteret found, where the
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ago. In them, deep under which was first explored last exploration. One of them, is the base camp, ground by the light of bon- year and which contains Marcel Loubens, was killed heating devices and special food. fires, they painted like nothing of interest but when his harness broke ôn Down there at this moment in Picasso, and then repainted millions of gallons of water, the great vertical shaft the gloomy entrails of the and engraved in the rocks, running at a speed of a 1,000 feet deep, down which mountain are five men, includ- still through the centuries metre a second, that may he was being lowered on a covered the cave and has now.
Ing Lepineux, who first dis- like Picasso,
soon give electricity to an quarter-inch stoel
cable. been down for three days. They area of
France as big as This morning I attended a have just broken contact with Kent.
Requiem. Mass held at the the telephone and will not be
and antiquated subway from Senators to sodo-forks, who has
I am writing this at the opening of the cave on the heard again for 24 hours, during which time they may have learned the final course of the. trains, look at this militering does not feel that the United animals went to die. opening-of-this-gigantic anniversary of his death.
been it super showplace and think, "Oh. States has
down вуза
river, and, in- underground Prehistoric cemeteries for cave, 6,000 feet up among Before Loubens strikes and re- brother!"
· France, with her
cidentally, may have broken the erises: by bisons and stags and bears. the lower peaks of ne killed the team had mapped world record for the lowest The attacks on the U.N.. have current Government
with
And still other caves, in Pyreness. The shaft goes the series of caverns that descent in a her swing away from become fiercer during the past de Gasperi; and by Britain, with which today the shepherds down into the side of a mile- are illustrated here. This The record now stands at 2,000 few days.
her frequent vigorous disagree of the Pyrenees preserve wide
stony amphitheatre year most of the same team feet. They are estimated to be policy. Mr Dag
Hammarskjold is a ment with Washingtons are ex- their ment through the sum- that might
Millions of
have been is present. If there is a moment. By
particular target tor attack.
are mer. Caves used by bandita blasted by an atom bomb. leader it is Norbert The handsome Swede is a much asperated that the British South China mote Independent internation- again exasperating the Russians, and by British soldiers and It is a desolate place, grey Casteret, who, I suppose, is
predecessor, Mr As my Cleveland friend in die
main lounge here said: "Maybe airmen escaping during the and harsh, with only a few the greatest speleologist in Morning Post Trygve e.
war. Caves like the great stunted pines to give shade. the world. He was born and we could have done better for
Cave of Plerre Saint Martin At the side of the shaft there still lives about 20 miles Limited
half the price."
is the winch covered by a from here, and has spent his
sunshine, too many French tent and the telephone line whole life exploring the
Journalists are quirrelling over to men who are down there caves of the Pyrenees.
the only grisly bone of "news."- now. Two members of the
Should the body of Marcel He has discovered the Loubens be brought to the sur expedition are on watch.
oldest statuary in the world. face, as his family wish? He has been down the manhandling it up, from deepest abyss in France and depths, where it has laid quietly has also altered the map of a year, will someone else be southwest Europe by dis-
Telephone 20002
and ask for Mr. Labrum
allst than his
Towards the end of his term of office Mr Lie seemed to be ready to jump when the Ameri- cans hopped and sometimes it wasn't quite clear whether he was working for the United States or the United Nations,
Mr Hammarskjold is not like that. He has his own views on big issues and minor ones.
Here in the U.N. headquarters "Dag." as the minor officials call him, as if they were his intimate friends, is popular and respected.
By Appointment Wine Merchants,
King George VI
to "The Late
Light Dry Sherry
Dry Amontillado Shorry
THE ANT
ANT IS
NO PARAGON
By Les Armour
DON'T try to educate they have nothing else to do
your children by point- But ing to the example of the
ant.
Some children read books and yours may not stop with the man who wrote: "Go to the ant, thou slug gard. Consider her ways and be wise."
Instead they might read new book by a British entomo- logist, Derek Wrogge Morley.
GOING DEEP
!
FOR hours and even days nothing happens, and to reveals that then the winch starts Mr Morley they are nothing more than whine and more than one slave drivers.
hour Inter
a man in miner's white steel helmet is aphids which they take home as helped out of the top of the out of his slaves to be milked regularly shaft, taken and kept at work, providing the harness and stripped of his basic food supply for the colony-dripping overall..
They sally forth and capture
Nor is this all: some kinds of The people who explore ants live quite comfortably by raiding other ant hills. Their
victims, It appears, are not quite bright enough in do much about
4
it,
Caves are
a
of
100 feet above this
at the
BLACK MOUTH
MEANWHILE, above in the
killed?
.
in
LLO
Unless there is soon an “in- covering the true source of
cident" the "story" will not the River Garonne. His.
There have been worth while, wonderful book "Ten years has been nothing to wrile about Under the Earth"
was except the American apeicolo- "crowned" by the French gists who never turned up, the
mysterious theft of the Academy.
from Loubens camera brought to the surface with the rest of his belongings, and the trouble with the Spanish Government, which claims that the mouth af the cave is in Spanish territory.
1
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TWO MILES
+
Alm
A NEW
MEIN KAMPF
A
From WILLIAM. HAMSHER
Bonn,
NEW Mein Kampf has
book-
arrived, on the stalls all over West Ger-
many.
Like the earlier one from the hands of Adolf Hitler, this has been written, most st of it, in a prison cell Werl, in the British zone.
as we
Its author, Dr Werner Nua- mann, "tall, slim,' a man in his carly forties for whom nothing is too much trouble" read in the first chapter, was taken to Worl one night last Jaswary.
The British arrested him one who had endangered could endanger
occupation."
15
or
the forces of
And Naumann was described
as lender of a spy ring plo.ting
stir Germany to
back 10 Nazism.
The accusation has not been followed by Indictment. Nor will it be. And next month Dr Naimann confidently expects that he will be a membër
of
the West German Parliament.
A plotten or not, Naumann reveals himself as a young, man
Confident in supremely political future.,
ARROGANCE -
his
The British in Werl accused
him of arrogance "twenty times
a day,"
y his book tells us,
This is how he marts off:
I asked where I was being taken. When
Werl,
they I-cold that
told at least
should be in good company with
the so-called criminals,"
m3
war
Naumann makes no attempt to deny his Nazi past. With a touch of pride he tells us that in Goebbels Propaganda Minis try he **25 the youngest state Acretary in all Germany,"
And for proot, ho prints picture of himself talking with Goebbels, his boss.
Д
He writes that he was in the Berlin Chancellery bunker when Hitler died, and that 'Hitler's will name
named him as successor to
with
in-
*he inakes
kes play "British Inefficiency"the efficiency of the Secret Ser- vice, "despità its tradition of hundreds of years' experience." He claims that, through.an air shaft, he was able to listen to the interrogations of fellow "plotters."
But for all their deficiencies,
the Englishman is always polite. am certain their politeness would have lasted all the to the gallows."
Way
Naumann's politics? He lines up with the shotlows of Hitler and Goebbels in trading. against Bolshevism,.
and he makes it clear that England must line up with Naumand or pay for her folly.
AMERICA COLUMN
from NEWELL ROGERS
McCARTHY VERSUS EDITORS
New York.
THAT MAN AGAIN, Senator Joseph Me- Carthy, who sees Red spies in his sleep, is behind a row among American news- paper editors
His inquiry into the actions of one of his sternest critics, James Weschler, -editǝr of the New York Post, sel up in turn a committee of 11 editors to see whether the freedom of the Press was threatened,
Its Indi And I sit here, watching the slow most of the editors aru black mouth of the cave-and aldestepping. But a minority vaguely mistrusting it and the
report signed by four of the 11 validity of the whole enterprise shya of the McCarthy Inquiry; and the file life-line that winds We are compelled to brand that the living men will come on the winch; and one hopes "this a peril" to "freedom,"
indings, just published,
Eisenhower
enlled speleolo. THIS year the French Gov- ernment has taken a gists, but, in fact, they are hand. The French Army adventurers pure and simple. carried out a parachute drop They like going deep into last week of all the prov the earth in the same way sions for the expedition. And, should they put the at- cient Greek's advice together
that, Hillary likes climb They dropped ten tons of out safely and leave their dead THE U.S. Army is abolishing with Mr Moricy's observations,
mountain,
Thor Members of another breedi
heavy equipment against the comrade where he is and would the result would probably be
drifting
of the characteristics of Heyerdahl likes
side
the
which is based on mountain. wish to be with the epitaph of worse than anything a good 8ősé¬have all
across the Pacific on a raft. Nothing was damaged and Izaak Walton, who' wrote:
Charles Cotion, the friend of They insinuate themselves. This cave at Pierre Saint everything is working per- Mr Morley, for instance, is into ant colonies, mingle with Martin was discovered in fectly. wiso in the ways of the black the citizenry, eat the regular 1950. hy queen ant. Driven from her food and do no work, own nest at mating time, the most often heads for the nearest colony of yellow ants,
of crime comics could conjure alick confidence men.
up.
She sticks pround until she
speleologist named Lepinoux who saw, a
•
O my beloved cavesi
cafe
From dogstar's heat So far the team has penetrat- And all anxietics, my
retreatl What safety, privacy, what true Of course, there are, too, Jackdaw fly out of a jagged ed nairly two miles along the
delight warrior anla who live by de hole in the rock. He knew slowly descending tunnel 10-
words the Kakouetta - Gorge. In the artificial night clminating the hills
of their that jackdaws nest only There are about 1% miles sill Your pleamy entraila moke, fellows,
where there is a long drop to go before the hydro-electrie. Have I taken, do I take, And the cinss structure among below. Lepineux climbed engineers attached to the ex- As I camá down the has acquired the yellow ant ants is more elgid than anything down the hole and enlarged pedition learn where they call mountain aupeleologist ‘of ai odour, then aneaks in and be man has been able to devise it. He threw a stone down sink a shaft to bring the huge rival group was carried past mo heads the yellow queen and The worker ants are prevented it and could not hear the reservoir of hydro-electric on a stretcher. His skull was.
by biology from giaing above
power down into the valley with breken. I hope I shall be able Very well, you may say, but their status. Males among blasir fall.
In 1952 a team consisting Awelve hundred foot below, mo
sufficient drop behind it, to mummon more enthusiasm there are still the worker ants, orta fly oft with the elected
for this sport' ¡before", tha: 600-- queens but once their love True, and they appear to work making is over her simply by of the greatest speleologists as I welle, in a temperature of pedition clows down. body, Cafter all, being sexions, around until they do.
in Franco made the first the degrees centigrade, theru
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