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* DON IDDON'S DIARY
THE CHINA - MAIL THURSDAY, PRIE
1954.
Baltimore Has Many British Graces
Baltimore, Tuesday: Bülilmqre, where she was built, MUST have passed and encase her in concrete as a through Baltimore lasting monument.
dozens of
times, by
Another big Baltimore
裔
I did not,
however
come
here to sample the focal sea- food or fish, to marvel at the
·mumber of amaro, policewomen, a-, or even to listen to stories, of the how the "Star-Spangled Ban
written by Francis Scott Key while the British were being repulsed by the defenders of Fort McHenry.
bitions i to permit train and car, but have salo of beer at the local ner". was
ex Stadium, never lingered before
that fans can cept for a few hours, and quench thele thirst
as they that was to catch blacked watch baseball games. Unless out Boeing Clippers to there is a court upset, the sale of beer will be permitted, and I Britain during the last
have seen exultant articles reading: "This is a brave day for the free State."
war.
Baltimore,
seventh largest city in the United
When I remarked editor that these
to a local
problems -
of beer-were
camo 'to see how this tem- perate, stable, leisurely paced city was bearing up to business decline,
the
Un-
It adys it is doing fine. employment figures, however, are up, and Baltimore was Government not pleased with announcements which one day this said
the nation's idle, were 2,300,000, and the next--so BOTTY, # alight error-they were 3,087,000..
States, with a population the transfer of the Constellation of over
million (one- and the Balc Afth of them coloured), hardly world-shaking In
ntomle age,
he replied: has been neglected by most P you had lived ini of the Press, though not Balymore
long as I by its own "Sunpapers." have you would understand People here do not refer better."
to
the Baltimore Sun There is newspapers; they just say the "Sumpapera," which is an affectionate tribute.
I
Dignified charm
D
Here they call, a recession a recession, and don't juggle with ngures. Business men tell me: "There is a recession, but the worst seems over and definitely there won't be a slump."
Sound financo
makes
lot about Balti more that appeals to a man born in Lancashire or York- white, There Bre rows and rows of tiny houses, each with Its white stone or wooden steps leading to the front door. The stépa are immaculate and It is impossible to drive through
streets without
most seeing PALTIMORE the
of housewives on their ➜ things, from umbrellas-- knees, pails ot their sidee, "Born in Baltimore, raised all and scrubbing and scouring the
over the world"-to steel rails, steps. Thought for a moment
and it is soundly financed. Once I was back in Halifax, Tod-
a centre of light industry, the morden, or Colne.
city now is heavily Indus- 20
ex-
scorts
the THINK
city has been neglected because it shuns ballyhoo Chamber of Commerce cesses, and because rather contemptuous the frenzied rush of New These sheer white steps and trialised, and in the past York, Chicago, and Los snug Angeles.
It is of
little red brick houses give મા clue to Baltimore's character. The city is respect hard-working, clean, de This city has Southern able,
and tradition, pendable, and, perhaps, a little dignity, charm, and is a bit of a snob. In the old-fashioned. past it has Inflicted some defeats upon the British, but now it has many British air and graces.
If there are any people least likely to get into a panic about Communists, then
recession or
they are the people of Balti more, who have never lost their nerve yet about anything.
like to
More people have their own houses here than in any other city of comparable size in the United States. They pay cash down on the counter for their goods and have no instalment-buying nonsense.
Trey have money in the bunk, under the bed, and in My guide, a Scotsman who savings certificates, and they has settled here, sald to me: don't squander it. I have seen "You
won't find anyone here few mink coats or flashy con- preaching
gloom vertibles here, but Baltimoreans or burbling about wholesale dislike ostentation. treason. Baltimore is as solid
doom
OF
as a rock and can't be shaken."
The big Jocal preoccupation
at the moment is a campaign-
or,
Home life first
rather, crusade to bring THEIR
Con- back the bistorie U.S.S.
on
"home
በ-
res-
stress is life," which probably
the small number stellation, the old United States counts for
What restaurants. warship, to Baltimore. The ship of
elvic and taurants there are, is in Boston, but 27
Incidental-
patriotic organisations are fight- ly, are excellent, and some, ing to have her returned to indeed, superlative.
By Appointment Wine Merchants,
to The Late
Light Dry Sherry
King George VI
Dry Amontillado Sherry
SANDEMAN
years his tripled its production.
One thing I have noticed is how much cheaper goods, rents, food,
fares, and services pre here than
New York in
Chicago.
or
had hoped
Balil- I.
to see more's most. H. L. Mencken,
famous citizen,
the Sage of Baltimore, the literary comel, but Mencken Is old and tired now, and is compelled to rest.
Mencken has almost become
mellow, though the other month he rallied to castigate General MacArthur as "a fraud now satisfactorily fading."
Mencken, who has not had kind words for many people or places, says of Baltimore: "The old town will not give you the time of your life; it is not brazen hussy among cities...pot at all. It is, if the truth must come out, a perfect lady."
Highly gifted
ACTUALLY
Baltimore is
"In the spring a young man's fancy..
London Express Service
British Honduras Probe Background
By HENRY JAMES
making the wildest promises, For, as in British Gulans, so in
the British Honduras, party whose manifesto la based on the millenium will win.
It
Tis often, the smallest general election, based on colonies that create the universal adult suffrage, will be Thousands, at illiferato held. biggest problems, Briand politically ignorant voters tish Honduras, Britain's will troon to the poll to put onepossession on the crom against one of the canți- Central American mainland, dates almost certainly the one is a case in point.
This oblong strip of territory is no bigger than Wales. Its 60,000 people Strong .Lavourite in the make up a racial hotch electoral stakes la'the People's potch. There are
sonte United Party (PUP). It is anti- anti-federation, development, Europeans and Americans, anti-immigration - anti-every- Indian, and Syrian traders, thirig, In short, that the British but full-blooded Negroes and Government puts forward. 'coloureds of mixed parent from the Empire. Linked up Wants complote breakaway age account for two-thirds with the General Workers' of the population. In the Union, dominant in the labour hinterland are some 10,000 deid, the PUP is well-organised Indians, descendants of the and energetic, and owns the
only newspaper in the colony. Mongols who migrated from Asin ncross the Behring.
AMPLE FUNDS Straits some thousands of years ago. Half of the It is amply supplied with inhabitants are townsmen, funds. But from where? This living in Belize, the capital. probe the origin of these funds. Is the crux of it all. Ris to
British Honduras, despite its, and determine what forces; aro email size and sparse numbers, bacising the party that the will, nevertheless, attract the Governor Mr P. M. Renison. attention of Parliament at West- one of the ablest of our younger minster in the next few weeks; administrators-has asked Mr attention also of the State De- Lyttelton to send out a Còm- partment in Washington; of the missioner. For the inference is Latin-American countries; and, that support, both moral and not least, of the near-Communist material, has been given to the government of next-door Guate- PUP by mischiaf-makers from mala.
over the border in Guatemala,
Guatemala claims
international interest Now
awn.
The stems from the fact that, for British Honduras as her the first time, the people of The claim is shadowy enough, British Honduras are to elect deriving from the assumption the members of their legislature. that Guatemala, on achloving On Aptil 23 - unless something Independence in 1825, inherited happens to prevent It-the first from
You Must Have Your Wits About You Today-Remember It's The
DAY OF THE YEAR
P
FOR
ROBABLY "All Fools'
HOAXES
Spain an interest in part what what
It 15
now British
about
as
Pagol as the Spanish claims
Gibraltar, to
or
an Britain's
might be to part of France be-
cause William I of England was Duke of Normandy, Time and again Britain has offered to submit the
to matter
the In- ternational Court. Guatemala, of her knowing the weakness
declines. CASC, persistently
But British Honduras is an asset to the polliiclans of Guatemala, For one thing, it serves as a lightning conductor when things go wrong at home. With the try "Belize is
the dagger pointed at our heart," Guatemalan ministers seek
seek to view the annual ceremony of divert popular feelings from Washing the White Lions on their own misdeeds.
For an- Sunday, April 1. Admitted only other, it is a good weapon In at the White Gate. It is par- Communist hands-and. Com-. ticularly requested that DO munism is strong in Guatemala.
be April Fools' by was being gratuities given to the Alone among the seventeen
or their celebrated in Endand two ce Wardens
assistants," states assembled at the Inter- turies ago. Dean Swift, writing Large mambers turned up afoot American Conference recently, In his Journal to Stella on the and in cabs searching vainly Guatemala stood out against Mr eve of April 1, s that he and for the White Gate and the Dulles anti-Communist resolu
friends, Lad Masham and mythical lions.
day has given rise By Raymond Mason
to more harmless Jokes and legpulls than any other
old-time throughout the year.
is custom amusement
sending people on foolish and fruit less errands..
It is to be found in some, more than that-It is ntsc form or other in many parts a highly gifted and industrious of the world, and it goes woman. Its Johns Hopkins back so far into the mists Hospital, medical college, and of antiquity that it is hard university are unique.
to discover its origin.
and
It is believed that it is in some way a relic of the once
ag
evening
tion.
scene of
RED PLAN ·
It is on record that a French duke, Francis of Lorraine, and
Arbuthnot, anned a
a joke America was the his wife owed their escape from
for the next
They another historic All Fools' Day Nantes to captivity at
the ranged to spread the rumour joke in 1909, when a Pittsburgh: French equivalent of the cry
that one. Noble, she had been Fool." "April
Disguised
paper came out with flaring red headlines: By stirring up national feelings the sentry at one of the gates had come to life ad had been "Japanese Strike Awful peasants, they had just passed hanged a day two before, the
Blow over British Honduras-"the lost when a woman recognised them rearrested. But by some means at America," and describing in province of Guatemala" the * Communists hope to fish in sink- and gave the
Bensational language the
of the fleet, the destrue-amcult for Britain. Their plan is *** | troubled waters and make things
tion of San Francisco, and on
to invasion by Japanese airships, rage, and support the
their campaign
for The papers of the following self-determination because this, day referred to the affair as should it succeed, would mean that the Colony would become. A year or two back a French first, a vassal state of Guatemala
point-to-point universal festivities held at But he rememba warning, or other the plan piscarried,
What about the pursult of pleasure? Well, there is the Maryland Hunt Cup, the Grand National, races. There is also a species of the beginning of spring Street, knwon as "The Block," These commenced on but it is nothing to get excited
night ilfe along East Baltimore
about,
Baltimore, prefers its historic monuments and its "points of
interest."
:
old
New Year's Day, March 25, and ended on April 1. In India, at the feast of Huli, the last day of which falls on March 31, the popular
and thought his leg was being
the
date, pulled,
so he shouted back April Fool," twitting the wo- man on the fallure of the joke. The incident came to the cars the governor, who made im- aculate inquiries, but too late to recapture the couple.
THE SCIENTIST REFUSES
TO TELL HIS SECRET
By LES ARMOUR
peace.
!
Grand Scale
T Simon tells us how, about the same time, the Elector of
in
amusing."
Cologne, who visited Parts 1711, was particularly fond of student managed very success and, finally, be incorporated in
fully to pull the legs of learned, lock, stock and barrel. officiating at all sorts of cere antiquarians. He announced in Aho
are, in short, and he Men liked
poor dupes of their Communist Teaching. St Simon's account a Paris newspaper that he had
stone neighbours. Their leaders do not runs: "On first of April, at found a weather-beaten
Communism, Indeed, on the heights of Montmartre, profess Valenciennes, he took it into his head to appent in the ci lee hem ind einn en
bearing the inscription: "Ce stithey would denounce it, since This two-thirds of the inhabitants of pulpit; and as he went notice
message baffled of his intention to everybody in
The British Honduras are members nerable, scholars, until the of the Roman Catholic Church, the town, church was
which Communism crowded. Having ascended the discoverer came to their rescue ta pulpit, ho cast his eyes round with this suggested interpreta the congregation, and suddenly tion: C'est lel le chemin des shouted out, "April fools and anes," in other words, "This his band responded with a loud the road for donkeys." flourish of trumpets and kettle
be which
tho
..
unathema.
If,' economically, British Hon- duras has been a 'Cinderella' in the past, that is not so now. Over £2,000,000 of Colonial Development and Welfare Fund during
money has been poured into it vanished."
more, per head of population, From time to time the hoaxes
than almost any other, Colony, have been on what might be
In addition, the Colonial De-
Corporation senie." A TN 1827, a circumstantial ac-velopment
have termed the "gramt
iD count of the arrival in Berlin sunk substantial sums in various America in 1835, when the Now
A Privilege
a
the naval uniform capital, was make the most of them. Henico
The scientist refuses to re- world than it has AST week, "No Place to
ever been drums, his secret, except in before. Hide" was just the title lease
clear-cut'
national CASO of a book-written a few emergency, even
But, oddly enough, no one to his gov years ago by an American ernment. And, even in' such has taken Mr Morgan to task who had, been out on some an emergency, he will turn it on the, glaring queerness in his very notable one took place by aeroplane of the Prince of projects-though most of them, Sole Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD. A-bomb tests in the Pacific, 100s only for warnover for thesis.
York Sun came out with an Wales now the Duke of unhappily hovo been He rejects and fights the article describing a marvellous Windsor-and his visit to the conceived British Honduras This week, "No Place to Ho is convinced that it is
`turn-of-tho-century notion of telescope invented by Sir John Chancellor, together with ex-hus natural resources and
Bir Hide" was a literal reality morally evil to place man in a
and and the blessings of Herschel progress
David
cellent.photographs of him in position where he won't have selence. But he accepts the Brewster, through which
in fertile soil. What It lacks is an for Britons.
walking in the active and virile population to to work for a living.......
objects could be streets of The latest American A- the theatre - but it has been longs to the same period.
The play hasn't been packing crude materialism which be minut
seen on the moon. There were given by
one of the most
ost proposals, to encourage uni- basalile rocks covered with non bomb, carefully planted on packing
us that there just
from over-populated He tells
popular of the evening papers, grants
anyone inquired at.. the Islands in the West Indier, Sheffleld, would put the columns of a lot of newspaper nick of a switch would do all rous mountains and fertile offices of the paper for further
valleys animule ilko bisons: information, whole of the British Isles
the our dirty work for 113,
PREVENTIVE STEP LOT OF CRITICISM
reply WOR We and most amazing of all, within the "danger area."
would lapse into a rare ot
3 "April Fool" To fool their curious creature christened readers. Is The story in not: so for-flabby, automatons.
the privilege of "Vespertillo homo," with
It is against this background, fetched. The Intest A-bomb,
the European newspapers on April then, that the Colonial Becretary delivered with guided misalles, MAYBE THE TIME
shape of an orang-olitang and 1, the wings of a" bat.
has sent Sir Reginald Sharp. will do most, of the things the
A little town near Belgrade Q.C. as Commisioner
to probe And nobody has questioned "burning glass could do. The
of the PUP, For stepped-up of atom remarkable view, even
April. The was better
Luxury Restaurant Service
Gaddi
Luncheon. Afternoon Tea or Dinner
in
an atmosphere of charm and
elegance.
Dancing nightly from 9 p.m. to 1
Peninsula
Britons took the nows with hardly a murmur. It didn't rate as much newspaper space or as much pub chat as the opening of the fint
racing acason or the trial of a peer on a sex charge.
Inventión..
the correspondence wouldn't be much ́ ́ left if apples;*fields, trees and tivers; if
to
enjoyed an excellent joka one the activities, take preventio Took The Bait Artown cries large step. han be forced into
fugged & be fUT
jar of ducats has been found in action later; better than waiting the foundations of the court until an election has put in the
power could provide pearls n wondeyed that it should come much. energy as the fictional tromi á playwright, po
Surely, there will be plays to Mr. Morgan is thumbing his write, music, to be composed,ANY took the ball, many of house, with three gold candle saddle a bad of men tout to But it lent a note of urgency nose
the leading newspapers fall sucks and 100 kilograms of wreck the economic development to the simmering debate over Science. He is getting a
t
too,,", there will being into the trap: One said the silver coins believed to have of the country and detach it Charles Morgan's new play: fair amount of "The Burning Glass, fol of cellets, support, and a time for disinterested search-report was not only probable been there since the Turkish de from the Emple
and plausible, but had an air cupation. The people are freed True, the PUP — U IE There are those who figure the for trut
And
of intense truth, and one a there will be maybe NEVER: FOR: PEACE STORESTUA sets, automatic · coffee per Alme to "lie." fx, the subs; štine to thority referred to the d!% of all municipal, taxes," 1. sa the .the board my would?!
MERNICKOLEDARNAL, colaters and ours, with: automatio ́ ́alt and watch the “world? gold31. terestre Cresung, & Bow era in expenditure out of its fund?SW
covery of astounding council le now able to cover all the new consuturi
powerful”? RE WAS CPU Great excitement reigned, and British Culand.
on the people-hurried to the, mare | obstruct and sabot
"The Burning Glada” 180 story about scientist, who in- gears are just not worth the Ump for pleasant, conva ation advertsally stumbles on a die priopa, world, in perii; socks and a pint of ale. covery which could wipe out les organised, to fit the duine
humán
the earth of any specine part of of mass duction, and the alisies (which? Holds that: thật | it at the Fury?" of's switch,'Ity menta could isofrenso much attribute to which they, moibirus tert for us if wa
the ̈age of tha púsl have to falt commercially useful mergy button
cheaply, that hardly anybody we And there are wolle have to work tower turist that a from long
point of view, 1918.
dras some thitis 1880-for
Da
in kat place to celebrate their good
of luck in the kana, Elkayangy (3)
that the images, made ratsen