THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1954. '
Cummings
EVEN "VINEGAR JOE"
HAD
W
∙AR, to the brisk,
young
endel, spelt glory and adventure.
TO
LIKE
By Vaughan Jones
Indeed, no other First Sen
War,
to his father, the First Sea Lord, brought chagrin and disappointment, It was the Kaiser's war of
Fix And anti-
1914 1918.
statesmanship
Lord Louis, uncle of the Lord has comblued wider Duke of Edinburgh, is a He has experience of seamanship man of power.
wealth, brains, drive and and slatesrunnship.
has good looks. He in a brilliant. German feeling ran so high been criticised by many organiser, ruthlessly effi- that it came to break over But all hour bis compell- cient, demands competence the First Sea Lord. He ing courage S skill at and unquestioning allegiance
from his subordinates. was Prince Louin of Batten- sen. berg, German by origin but Now the dushing. sle- bonair figure, the wartime a devoted British citizen,
Proud of his adopted Supreme Commander in country. the Prince had Southeast Asia, returns lo entered the British Navy, the Admiralty which he His career was brilliant and quilted Jews an three he had helped to prepare the years ago to command the Grand Fleet for the coming Fleet in the Mediterranean. conflict. A favourite of Winston Churchill's. his position seemed secure.
But then came the LITA predictable, the smear cam- paign which spread to th ranks of Parliament. Prince Louis resigned, lonely and embittered.
DASHING
HIM
Mountbatten's critics asserted. that he had been reckless, that lives would have been spared it ho had hastened slowly. have been greater disaster Others think that there might
he had delayed.
worries
Sir
these
spark-
of
So
over his luxuriously- furnished, gadget-filled Mayfair penthouse during his gay Lon- den society life between
BP two wars,
the
Again, his critics state that birth and wealth have smoothed hi path. Of course helped although his ancestry smashed his father's career.
His wife, Lady Edwina, talented, beautiful ond ling, Inherited a fortune In Action he is an inspiration banker
nearly £1,500,000 from
her grandfather, German- to his mon. The existence
of born fear he recognises but, he des Mountbatten was spared money
Ernest Casse). clares, fear disappeurs when dunger is met full face.
Socially, he is gay and, un- like a number of other British milltary chiefs, a lover of bright porties, ^ leader of London society, he moves easily through the capital's cosmopolitan life.
Born with a background of I tradition, he nevertheless outs it when he desires. Politics He follows the appeal to him.
of all parties, to inrevase the weight aceites
tbolis of Brit dm's prestige in that night and 34. At heart he is probably Socolat, allhough lus strategic 4241. Another
friends in Jurke Die rich and great British fighting man tiled. Indeed, under the Attlee was already there art the government, he was even tipped time Field Marshal Lord as the next Socialist Defence Montgomery. Ruta sailor was needed, or, a Service
INVALUABLE
LARLY in 1952 it was vital
MAR
Minister
Publicly, he states that has duty is to serve his country. In
CRITICISED
21
THE young cadet from that chief who could asanciale doing so, he happily meets any
with the admiral of aen of any rodbin, regardles Time pledged himselt ily
Tarth r Fleet, of
background, powerful US to become First Sen Lond the
familiar terms that have some- one day, and bring honour And this was Montbatten.
Ulies shocked the diebards {qu5ཟླ and glory to his family's His career over these new homeland.
years has been inspisefaen- Admiral
Lurd
But it has been invalu Lamis tar Mountbatten of Burma has able in strengthening the fulfilled his pledge.
West's Mediterranean bus- At fifty-four years of age, fons against the threat of бука Ieromes the third Communiam. But who youngest man to reach this high office in half a century. Mountbatten!
is
The
Dy Appointment Wine Merchants
to The Late
ever
E makes friends easily with Hilt
characters and
During kes the in at in them. the carly days of the Burma Campiga
"Vnagar J commander 'Ç real Sutwell,
the American and Chinese tx> there, said
him of
"That's what
makes him so dangerous. Even i ke hima"
He has been vriticised bitterly for erepting officer vinder Labor Government
11
as India's Preside
over
last Viceroy-Ju the issolution of an Empire
for Way criteised, "nising" with Indians atid ex- preting that his oficials and their wives should do the same un terms of equality,
feel
King George VI
Be
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To make his Indian
at home, The
guests
liria tu rx lt
I adopted India's bobit of
of sitting on the ground. And
Be gave the customary indian greeting-a
alight bow, with the hands held front, palm to palm. To the old-timers 13 India, this behaviour
and
OUTSTANDING
was on his own
merita, standing naval officer, a signals though, that he became an out-
expert who went on to sponsor idens which helped the success- ful invasion of Hitler's Europe. It was on his own merits, tou that he was appointed Com- mander-in-Chief in Southeast Ast
ufterwards Asin, and
India's
at Viceroy.
His success as a naval officer,
he readily Laserts, did not come eastly--which perhaps ac County for his Intolerance of incompetenco in
vibers. Batt
wanted to bo sailer, and a gun one, he says. And the only way that he could keep pacz with his more brilhant fellow efficers wob To werk that Hrtle bit harder.
With a mechanelal turn of
ia
mind, he absorbed himself study. In 1925 he passed out ärst In his course at the Royal Naval School. Four years later he was back, as Scutor Wireless of Instructor. He became, pne the youngest Captains ม the Service, His birth and wealth had nothing to do with that.
Gumes he trented in the Aune serious way. He studied them. trained
and persevered. forced himself to be better than the next man. He says: "Svino people can to things without efforts and get them right, but I cannot."
1
IT
CHALLENGE
was is very belief in the need to effort, this know- Jedge that nothing Cume easily to him, that made him strive su hurd from the beginning. Then me day, many years later, he could tell the Allied leaders in World War II: "All things are
possSupremno"
As
I'
"Only been Viceroy of India and First Sea Lord! Why, he's 54 and still to get up so
British Railways Chief, Prime Minister, und Director-Gemerul of Television,"
London Express Service
This Way To Happiness
T was Vivien Leigh who
of Southeast
gave ॥ piece of ad- Asia was sonictimes termed
vice to Jean Simmons "glamour boy." But this wo which the girl from Golders mainly because he liked his Green
never forgot, Ceylon headquarters to be splek
was un- thinkable. Yet it was such trails winch
ilker made him respected by India's leaders,
Jean His expuelty for doing the un-
and span and efficient, and he Simmons, 28 at the time, expected was highlighted when
point in asking his had spent two miserable he directed the partition of Stoff to suffer Indta, carried out in 145 days, suke of hardship.
fer hardship for the years in Californian History will decide whether he was right to Bet with such speed.
Certainly, he was able to convince India's millions that his affection for them was very real. But the establishment of the two new Dominions was ne- companied by bloodshed and ruit, hunger and pestilence (77
gigantle scale.
***
ΠΟ
At 54
Mouniballen
Still is
com-
fort biting her finger-nails young. His new peacelline task fretting about her career. matches in scope sume of the She spelled it. ih capitals.
spectacular services wis required 140 perform in
more
war.
he
has
Forgetting much that he learnt of avul tactics and strategy, he must now model Britain's Navy to meet the new challenge of the atomic age.
A LINK WITH THE ROMANS
By John Exeter
LONDONERS.
A
Then Vivien Leigh, woman who has long ex- perienced the fury of fame, said to her: "It is nice to be a wonderful actress, but do not let it get in the way
How lucky I've bream?
than any director I have worked for,"
Bays Jimmy about Jean: "The way this girl of mine can dy things in front of the camera without effort is incredible. For me tu got the same result would take hours of working away at It. She is a real ncta ess,”
On Saturday Stewart Granger Alles in London to start work with his wife on a new film,
GOLDEN HERRING HARVEST
By J. W. Taylor
WITH less than a month
WIT
of the eight weeks” Reason gone, most of the 168 driftera of the Scottish herring fleet operating from the great East Anglian port of Yarmouth, have, barring future accidents, already covered all expenses for the senson in one of the richest harvesta of the
sen for years.
summer
now
The Indian bring experienced In Britain
has been one main reason for their great haula of the allver herring, the ke of which are also
from reported
the neigh- bouring port of Lowestoft,
which has a smaller feet of a hundred drifters. Forgotten for the present are the lean post- war years in the joy of recalling calches worth
£1,000
anything
up to
per drifter, made in one particular early week JA nd there is an air of fishing, and thrilling
anticipation amongst theso Scottish Ashermen this month's herring awaited.
moon is They are hoping to beat the October moon record, but this depends on the primá fneter the weather.
Just One Week
In this
was at
one glorious carly week's shing when the herring its zenith tho Yarmouth fleet In Ave dahing days-six for the English crews who trawl
On Sundays, too- made
carly scason catch of 47,752 cruna, This re- presented
record
total of £140,774-
a gross average for the week of between £900 and £1,000 per drifter. It also boosted the total gross value of the season's landings for the port so far to £170,038 three times higher than at the same time last year --and averaged out at just over £1,000 per
The
averdrifter.
week's
haul for the Lowestoft dritters showed
even bigger average considering their smaller fect. Their haul was 28,276 craus worth £87,- 381 or £873 per drifter, bring- ing the port's overall total since the season started to £144,291, or an average of £1,442 per
The bulk of bolh fleats drifter. hauls went for curing, mostly to help full the big Russion con- tracts.
the
In the last three weeks' con- tinuous fishing only once have
Beets been
caught by the weather with the nets down, Forecasts had been for fair winds around the famous Smith Knoli fishing grounds, but a sudden gale plined them down and many nets at ED each weru Jost,
"Deadlock." They will live in a Carefree Air
DAVID LEWIN
So ends the story of a star as
of a satisfactory home life. told to him by
It is not worth that....
Jean
Sing mon
Such advice can easily sail house feeling sorty for her- clean over a young girl's self. What did Granger do? house,“
it, Says
head. The fact is that Jean Simmons remembered and decided to net it.
Jean Simmons:
not an hotel, because "Jimmy can't stand hotels."
on "Well, he could have patted So this weck Jean Simmons,
me on the shoulder and said, in between film taste and ward- robo fittings, is house hunting. "There, there.' That would "You see," she says, London. elaborately painted devices that
"I have been ghastly. Instead, No one should say: "Isn't It "Whlie Hart,"
came home queueing ruce the
the suddenly
at he wasn't gentle. He would a pity about our Jean? Being "Red Lion," the "King's Head" night and instead of worry 'kick' me and say, 'Don't be
misorable in for hours to glimpse and countless other British inns ing about
Hollywood and the
having to stay there." ruins of
some fiddling silly.' IL Roman today. temple, prove that it is not
littlo detail of the day's
Nonsense. only the archaeologists who are fascinated by a new link with Roman Britain.
Other Things
mon
uns
This lush harvest of the sen has brought in its wake a con- fident enrefrco air to the 2,000- Girong Scottish community who service the ßshing feet in many land at ways on
Yarmouth alone, such as cleaning and gut- the fish and making and repairing gear. Shops, pubs, hotels and places of entertain. ment are all reaping a rich beneft, and the cheery hard- working faher lassies are per-
ihan
Some top usual. her girls are carning up to crows of three nimble-fingered £12 each per week cleaning the millions of herring as they are unloaded by the score of crans. Each day, during this Indian the Yarmouth and
kier
Stoff wharfs are alive with the warm, broad Scots accents She stayed because of the crews of the drifters,
What More?
Another link with ancient Rome les in our laws. For work that went wrong, I "It was the best tonic I she wanted to sig. Now she which are packed tightly aldo though the English legal system said instead, 'After all, it's could have had-but
says: "How lucky I have been, by-side for as far as the eye can was mainly our own develop-only a film. Why should it younger
The good things are coming in see, a scene reminiscent of any ment, in some directions Roman upset me this much?'
might not the future, but there have been port in its heyday. This is an it should be, for law-the basis of Church law-
have understood. There many happy times in the And down Champions' Rew many of the family trap had a considerable influence.
were other things I got used past, too. And if you concen- the name for West Road, Peter
residents to up pings of our everyday life Reco
Records of countless
trate on those you can cope with head-the law cases
to. A younger girl half ex- all the irritating little nags. That figures that relate to the herring are derived from Roman give uso fascinating picture of that took place in ancient Rome
pects her husband will come is really what I have learned Ashing championship For - in origins. And it is from ex- Roman
.homo every life, which must have
that street live four of Britain's night and in the past four years." "There cavations that these origins been
are other things murmur, 'How closely reproduced in besides a film just being you are, or 'Darling, I love
threo beautiful
most successful shermen, can sometimes be proved.
Britain 1,000 years ago.
of whom are neighbours. Some years ago, when the
with your husband, for in- you so much. Jimmy ex- town of Pompeii (buried in an We learn of ponal taxes im-stance. I want to be plained he wasn't likely to eruption of Vesuvius in AD 70) posed on all bachelors, and of good actress, but not to say anything like that, and She continues staying in Holly- was being excavated, workers restrictions placed upon minors.
wood with her husband because,
At No: 24 lives Skipper didn't mean he loved me any pose. The pay is good, the auna Prunier Trophy open to He won tho p the less.
is warm, the home is comfort- of those days, put up to mark through the window of a bar- When she said that I knew
able. What more
drifiers Briftsh could n places of refreshment. One of ber's shop, striking the barber's that Jean Simmons had
Anglian Hap part in, the "That is the way it is, and we of 20 demand from life? them, showing two slaves carry arm and causing him to cut a really grown up. There are understand each other the better piness?
season She worked for that herring
20 At No. ing a
wine jar, recalls the slave whom he Was familiar sign of "The Two Was this gamo the ancestor of have not found that balance
shaving stars older than she who H."
100-and found it. Later, when resides Skipper, William Buchon,
last they have a family, the Grangers Boothby Cup, the North Eat's
year's winner of Browers,"
will return to England.
Very Fickle
found a number of designs in In one case we are told that the exclusion of everything I shouldn't worry becauso I at the moment, it sults her pur Gorge Forman, alone and terra cotta. These, it game was taking place in the eist.
In believed, were the inn signs street when a ball was sent
our own cricket?
One of our greatest legacies of life. from Imperial Rome is
Dur
greatest
On Its Head
all
takinuz
top fishing award. No. 28 houser When I last saw Jean. Sim- Skipper Tom Buchan, brother But whether or not this was roads. Several were Info out But there was another
mons, before she went to America of William, He Is the present the purpose of those signs, it by the legionaries.. The Romans factor, too. As so often, it
0: Boothby Cup. was certainly Roman custom were
That sort of relationship stands to marry Granger, she said to holder of the road builders WAS
Near mic "He took me out of tho
by Is Skipper Puter for every wine sellor to adver- knowing that their trade and
Stewart (Jimmy) the traditional Hollywood story manada citas kito, the cham-Forman, George's brother, pez lise hits wares by displaying on commerce and their civilisation Granger who said the right on its had No wonder the pagna class,"
sent. (boldor of the Prunier evergreen bush symbol of were dependent upon swift thing at the right moment. Grangers became among the most
Trophy Bacchus, god of wine. This and reliable transport.
misunderstaci
Over lunch is wook 1 saked As theso, men poce the decka custom was apparently Jutro-
couple in the The Romans even knew of
When you have a wife place Hero was a man who like to drink, Wine, I think," with one eye on the freshening
Jon Simmons what she would of their duced into Britain during the petroleum,
rospective drifiors Roman
But they prockiced much younger than you are, spokes his mind (sometimes in shay occupation, for from it only in minute quantities,
muid. (T) started with wind very carly times our innkeepers and valued it for such purpose it is often casier to know clegant phrases) and a girl lemonade, moved to champore, November day follows the és esch¡ calm, ⠀⠀ - warm were compelled to display ans lighting the lamps of tha how to cope: with her was gaining woman's rad row and now I prefer a October ones, each wonder with sign.
maturity. Vostal Virgins who sorved in moods.
good wine, dry and mature. Not their crews how much ›› longer. nità elementary form, this their temples, dr, as'n' curo fps so two yeara in Hollye atand lach other professionally, during, in dha, spalmesMURT OF
will, it last? All they can do consisted of a polo set up in certain allments.
They even began to under champagne, front of the house; if wine was dreamed that it would one day wood until her picture parts the meally would like born WR can Machen Simmons theses the
hope, for off tha They nover
wfiero Bywydaug? shout gimmy? the change in theistri who was gathordettivo, alvary harvi
the herring drifters bush was attached drive great flogis of motor to the end of the pole. From transport. Along the very route became better, lean to co Prat He low how
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