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What
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1954. .
What makes a traitor?
asks a man
worked
with
who once
Maclean
HAT makes a man It is asked again today in a ********
...By JAMES.
with 11 wife and most unusual novel, THE SEEM.
ING TRUTH written by
Ba
and It ex-Foreign Office man, D. J.
ot the
family, responsible job at the Hall, who was first secretary at Foreign Office, suddenly the British Embassy in Wash- abandon the lot and flee to ington during the war, a foreign Power?
The question was asked three years ngo
when this June
went with
Donald Maclean did Just that,
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THEY CALL IT BABY-SITTING
BUT I DON'T GUESS
YOU'LL BE DOING
MUCH SITTING
SEE YOU LATER?
"'-TAKE 'EM AS DIRECTED— PROBABLY WONT CURE YOU BUT AT LEAST IT'LL GIVE RYOU SOMETHING
TO DO
THE COMMON COLD AND. A DOCTOR WHO EMULATES GEORGE WASHINGTON,
"OF COURSE I
WOULDN'T PREFER A YOUNG, GLAMOROUS,
WIFE - I'M
PERFECTLY
SATISFIED
WITH YOU.
The book denis with Julian,
LEASOR
time when Maclean WES also Maclean, highly strung and nervous, is determined to use there.
hts knowledge of Britain's young, talented diplomat (de futuro diplomatic moves to hurt hor. He focls that' by this toas Donald Maclean), who mcana Britain may be turned suddenly leaves his wife and towards his way of thinking.
Did Maclean Idea in his mind?
goes to France.
have such an
"He was something of an
The problem
Like Maclean he was An
of position
trust; he know Curcis that
could hurt his idealist," Mr Hall allows country. Well, why did he go?
Mr "He went," says
1tall, "because ho was torn between three loyalties. One was to his hame, the second was a patriotic loyalty to his country, and last was a loyalty to an ideal. This was the strongest of the three, and made him leave all else."
trigued Mr Hall for long.
brook Julian and the Charles argue, Jullan rushes where they out of the hotel have met, is run over by a car, and dies.
But the problem doca not
In the centre is Dr Scholl, seen at the recent opening of his foot comfort' centre in Hongkong with Mr C. A. Grundy, in charge of the centre, and Miss F.
Abesser.
PARADE
impoverished the "locals," especially
The spirit of loyalty has in- die with him. For now Charles. FORTUNE (ä
who plays Burgess to his IN COLD miner, Alvex Nery, part way. friend's Maclean, inherits his STORAGE conflict of loyalties. Should he be loyal to his friend's memory or to the department that employs him?
He is a tall, greying man of 50: a solicitor who พร also becoming known for his books before the war.
Search
WHEN he loft the Foreign W
Office after the war he re- furned to his writing, and now ives in an old vicarage ho has renovated In Aldermoston,
Berkshire.
The problem of split loyalties, and the agonies they can bring to those associated with the sufferer is a new one," he told me over lunch there.
"It was my intention to show modern traitors as people who could be pleasant; they were not all villains as they used to be..."
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Julian disappears in June, "tho ruin-washed sky clouded" the same montia that the real-life disappearance of the 1100 diplomats waa oficially admitted.
The render cannot but won- argued der whether Maclean with Burgess as they drove to gether in their car to the coast three years ago. It is some- thing only they could tell and they preserve silence.
to Bay
What has Mr Hall about these surunge similarities to life that appear in his novel?
He smiles,
"It is odd, I agree," he says, "I must admit I had Burgess and Maclean in my subconscious mind while I worked...."
1 remembered
than
South-
of to
who found a glant Here they discuss apprecia- aquamarine more tively the drinking prowess eight years ago in
the the "expert elbow** known wilds of Brazil, le still just as account for some 80 pints in a Impoverished today-although day., Moreover, they hark back the stone has been valued at to that day in Southport in 1980 when a well-known billiards more than £1,000,000.
marker accomplished the best The
aquamarine, weighing
"swallow" of recent years. 50lb., is in a safe depoelt vault Whilst carrying on his work in a New York bank.
and 11.30 between 5.30 p.m. Legal disputes make it un-
he "downed" 126 hatt- likely that the stone will return pints and never once marked a in the near future to the remote wrong score on the board OF
stato Brazilian
of Espirito
called out an incorrect detail,
There was niso another man Santo, where Noty lives in a
with unquenchable thirst who, mining town shack.
to win Nery's troubles began shortly while attempting
the after he found the stone, He familiar Southport ave-pints- sought the aid of a friend to in-ve-minutes wager, disposed help hun hide it until it could of the first three in 40 seconds be safely registered.
and won the bet with pints to What the friend did with the spare." stone is still somewhat of mystery, but it found its way to New York.
Q
*
A New York CATCHING Dr B. Blawns, of
CUTTING in his house after syndicate reported that they THE
lunch, with sunshine on had put it up for sale. the white 10th-century pancin
only
the Zoological Survey of India. the In Brazil, Nery started court SNOWMAN and in his library, children playing action to secure rights to the Indian member of the current outside on the village green by stone. A spokesman for the British expedition to the a well that dates from Roman syndicate said that they would Himalayas to track down the Snow- daya, the idea of political in recognise only an order from fabulous "Abominable trigues and treachery and
a United States court, When news of the fictional traitors
man," reveals that the expedi- seemed absurd. That
No one can buy the aqua- tion's equipment Includes nets, night is admitted, the Foreign world has no part with this, I Office sends
marine until its ownership is
trip
running friend of Julian's, thought.
Lassoes,
rapes,
Ameri established. So it just walis in noones-and the South the vault.
can three-arm throwing sling.
The aim ls to trap the snowman, although the use of CHORTLES Recent announce steel traps (or any other trap
meni -by the IN THE
which may cause pain to the Half a milo Away, hidden'
Brewers' Society Snowman) will be avoided, unclent. peaceful LOCALS
that Britala's Dr. Blawas has also equipped among the
new research average consumption of beer himself with trees, Britain's
a great number station for fresh atomic weapons last year was 18 gallons a head of modern gadgets which may is abuliding....
has caused a few chortles
опе
also
Charles,
the at Foreign Omec, to find him.
In real life, the police of all West Europe searched for Maclean but they did not find him.
Charles is luckier; he meets his man, but cannot persuado him to return. Julian, like
(Falcon Press, 10%. Bd.).
I remem- But it has, it has. bered I was in Aldermanton. The name rang a warning bell. And then I remembered.
If The Truth Were Told
“SHE MAKES ME WALK, THE
DARN THING I'M THE
MOST
HEN-PECKED
MAN
IN TOWN!”
HAVE YOU EVER MET A
MAN WHO'D ADMIT IT ?
NEITHER HAVE WE.
COM, INI IY QINGKAL MATURN
|« CORP. IMAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
"IT LOOKS LIKE A
MILLION BUCKS BUT
ITS REALLY A LEMON/"
ON THE
AIR.
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
"IT DOESN'T MEAN A THING – ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT SYMBOLISM AND NUANCES IS A LOT O' HORSE FEATHERS
JUST TO CATCH THE SUCKERS/
SCIENTIFIC TESTS
PROVE OUR
PRODUCT NO
BETTER THAN
*** ANY OTHER /
- NO! IT ISNT MY WIFE'S/ SHE ONLY
PICKED IT OUT/
in
be needed once the Snowman is caught. If it lives in a cave, a new tpye of gas shell will be used to put the creature pain- lessly but temporarily to sleep. The Snowman, Bay's Dr Biswas, will bo caged and studied. It will not, under any circumstances, be idled.
of
MARCHED Donald Mac- WITH LORD longan,
'Highfleld, Muir ROBERTS.. of Ord, Soat- land, the oldest Seaforth High- lander in the world, is a hundred and one years old.
STH
Ho enlisted at Glasgow in 1877 in the 65th Brigado and was afterwards posted to the 78th Highlanders, taking part in Lord Roberts famous march from Kabul to Kandabar. AM Army service ended in 1889, but in the First World War he volunteered and served with the 1st Battalion of the Ben- forths. Later he was employed at a Muir of Ord distillery.
He lives with his 74-year-old wife in a two-roomed cottage, and apart from deataees enjoys comparatively good health,
PHOTOS
New Yorki WANTED Museum of Modera Art is planing a major photographic exhibition
In January next year and saks camera fans from all over the world for contributions.
**-
The subject of the exhibition will be The Family of Man," and Mr Edward Stolchen, Director of the Museum's de partment of photography, plains: "The object of the exhibition is to portray the universal elements and emotions and one-name of human beings throughout
the
world. The wahlbition
will require photo
parter of graphs made in the world of the gamut of life from birth to death with
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emphasis on the everyday lationship of man to himself, family, to the community and to the world wo ́live” in.”
Subject matter, in fact, cân, range from babios. of philo sophers, from kindergarters to college, from toys to abom bombs,
Restar
MADDENED Pierre Viens of
Nantus, France, was up is Sims because the 100 plates landing and, taking off at Geneva i air- port---just across the border
driving his customs
he wrote to warning "that has wonde barrage balloons above hig unlawthe noise abated, R
mut
PORTRAIT OF A MAN WHO HAS AS MUCH CHANCE FORİ
A PEACEFUL YEAR. AS A DUCK HAS WEARING ICE SKATES. PLA