"Some people haven't enough Historical
imagination......
Father Christine 14. (Faith Branch
FELLOW TRAVELLERS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.
"Some people
have too much,
historical
Imagination
Argenty
William Hickey
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FAIRY TALES ARE THE ORIGINAL HORROR COMICS
Tin
London. "The children of today will what they want"....he peered over his spectacles
"Especially if it is banned.
a joy to be alive read in London. There is sunshine of pale gold in the morning. It is still not cold enough for an over- coat.
"When I was young....I used to read poetry and memorise i
liked to show off."
And then, to show what a good exhibitionist he has re- mines, he told quite perfectly
the story of Sacha Gultry's father, Lucien, teling his son to go across the rood and give afrane to a blind man.
The son did not raise his hat. Father Lucien
furious.
After lunch 1 walked through Green Park. The leaves have nearly all brown fallen, but are still and crisp on the ground.
The windows of the backe of the houses in "But," ad Sacha, "he is blind." "Go back and raise your hat," were thundered his father. "For all setting you know ho may be an im-
paster."
Arlington Street blood-red with the
sun.
I had just been listening to Paul Gallico talk about, ["What should our children I read ?"
Ho and Gilbert Harding hiul been invited to speak
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Lost childhood
It hasn't much to do with children's reading. But then,
there's Harding said. as
on
lot of nonsense talked
about that,
on that subject because of awhil World Copyright by arrangement with the Munchester Guantan
the horror comies contro- All these famous people talk-
Such Radio Is Dangerous, says Sefton Delmer
IS THE
WHAT IS
BBC UP TO?
SWITCHED my radio
un at 6,15 the ther morning
XO8,
my
friends, the Helmers keep country hours down on the
farm-and BIC'.
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the
They were broadcasting
The Time of Decision
all the best goods and all the
#1 programme in German best foud al the cheapest for the Soviet Zone of Ger- prices | many.
I
<w:ht Cift. Istened with admiration. pete, and horror
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sur
Adinltation because the tech- auque of this betalenst sensiti
me infinitely
more skilftal TUIT
than the rather goverBERSY
The BBC used
to a ver
to
Germany
Surprise ant
I had
harrar bocHURC 1 beta that Britain.
through the voice of the Foreign
mire - briefer BBC, was meddling In this way in Eust Gertson affuirs
they were, these BAC tite
with umustakably British DANKS but speaking what appeared to
qulle flawless German--- Frie
alling on the East Germans to demonstrate their deflance of the Communist Governunenst,
Secret agents
They
Yes, yes, yes, I know what the 1 BBC people will say
were only doing their stuff in- directly They were aut actually inciting the East Germans them- selves but rending it listeners letters received from the zone. these correspondents In which
other boyroll FACE propoker!
That PESISTANCE mcusures. Just technique. The whole thing was incitement all right,
Secret revenge
is
HJUST to give it the last dislaste
ful touch the whole projuttatus ne has an a me sphere of und-
The letter- ground conspiracy. writers were och referred to by a code number just as if they were secret agents.
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arurunzites to the secret revenge bition to the men in Bonn,
Even
Foreign Offer does nut Jok on these brom- a Butuh endorsement Cast
of Chuter br Adenauer's sworn plecie "Not to rest or recline +Util
LA reunited," German you ETSY que certain that Germans do
2
inetnoranda
versy.
Serious humorists
Gallico in a New Yorker who has settled here to write
stories for fairy adults and children. A big, strong face dominated by enormous spectacles and one of the lowest brows I have ever seen. They often go with imagination.
Callico was good.
"I think," he said, "if you eati furnish a good example 10 the children...if
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ing brilliantly or profoundly about what children shoutlet read!
All adults! All drawing on memories, mevitably mirified, of their own childhood!
T wanted to hear a child talk about what it liked reading.
But that would have been no Children are crafty. They would never tel: adults their real-thoughts.
LESE
I
Thoy just put up with adults,
Dutch in fashion
WENT to see
some Dutch models and hear all about Dulch fashion,
I know you have never heard
Statute demilitarising Federal Repubile of Germany example of good taste. .and fr ever while he was secretly give them love and understand- of Dutch fashion All you have Wash-Ing your child cunnot go wrong heard of is Dutch cheese, Dutch passing ington stressing the necessity of in its reading.
barges, Dutch schnapps. German sarmament and draw- Of courvy, he was sertour, But I was quite prepared for Ing up a plan for a new army.
Seriousness
is a blight that 15 Dulci tashion. I am just wait- killing the once strong shoots ing for
fashion a Guatemalan Yes, make no mistake about of American humour. It is a show. A Formosan fashion it. For these Germans of the disease that has struck Ameri- show. ikkressive. adventurous type cans
I'm sure
their the new alliance means a "free cans in our own time.
heard Douglas Fairbanks way. hand in the East."
talk after dinner this week. You sty, every nation has to
they
ON áre
1 It must have ambassadors and
membership
the United Nations, It's IL Intter of prestige,
For the Western allons the Atlantic Alliance
been association. defensive pirely None of us has had any ambi- Hon beyond that of keeping the Russians at bay. keeping then
m
overrunning any further encroaching countries,
any further on the free way of life.
With the inclusion of the
"It made one of the deepest have taken into Germans we
whost
impressions of any book I've Power partnership
ever read. Here In England- policy wld of neessify be ag
TN my view it is folly to insist Alice seems much nearer. Every if it is to realise Is gressive
The on reartning Germany before English
child
has a touch of openly proclaimed alms. danger is that it will encourage entering into the further talks Allee in her."
Insistence those with aggressive Ideas In proposed
by the Russians. our ranks, above all that it may well embros us in quarrels and which are no of our coups
Even Adenauer's right-hand Such seriousness! Such farnest- have fashion shows now just as man for foreign affairs has been ness! Even his jokes had so unguarded as to declare that message!
ambition In COT- Suil, to got back to children's Germany's
with her allies is to reading. junction
the whole of Europo liberate
“My first great love," Gallico sald, "was 'Alice in Wonder up to the Urala."
Ever since I havo been ime for her.
seeking
il
T
Now the risk
with such
If by any chance it is possible to come to a working agreement with them for a demilitarisation And this is mething which and permanent disarmament of mnast directly with both Western and Eastern Ger- runflicts
goodness sake let us us the leader mony for Britain's interest
mighty Commonwealth take it. spread all over the world, whose Belleve me, I hold no brief for constant preverúpation must be the Communist regime in East the preservation of world peace Germany or anywhere else. Nor and world security.
have I any objection to Radio Free Europe going in for this kind of agitation, or Itudio Free
Berlin. The one is run by
THEY were suggesting to them refugees from the Iron Curtain
uf
д
Secret notes
AM well Chancellor
aware
that they should organise a countries neized by the Com- I
that nationwide boycott of the State- munisis, the other by Germ solemnly renounced on his own Adenauer has owned shops and restaurants of Both have a perfect right 10 Soviet Gennany
speak to their fellow countrymen behalf, and on that of Germany, all attempts to use force in it the matters,
redeeming his famous pedge.
A pretty ponr request, this,
during my recent tour of the Soviet Zone, the Communist is a nost
I may say. For, as I discovered But the broadcas 1 heard
I would put no trust this
ats.ming synio renunciation even if I accepted authorities have seen to it that of the dangerous extent to which the sincerity of this man who, these State-owned shops have Britain has Already become in 1940, signed his name to
WHAT FIRES
FIRES THESE BIG, BRAVE CAMPANOLOGISTS?
NW to be made on the TEWS that an attempt
By LES ARMOUR
London. What Intrigues us js the were it supported it would proye nothing. For this is by Do motive behind this herolam.
We have always imagined bell- means the first attempt al a stout, red-faced world record, and these are re- connoisseurs of a pot gulated by the Central Council
ringers 10 bo
nouses
world ballringing record wei-brewed ale, who lend of Church Bellringers who must has doubtless set campano- of
(almost childlike) lives represent nil the best in tradi- logists aclanging with an- devoted to their muscular art,, tional bellringing. ticipation.
Their ambilons, ww naively'
All that may be safely còn- were well fulfilled with Lest the
namumed. uninformed the joyous sight of whole towns cluded is that bellringers, after should regard this as mere jerked from their slumbers by all, are ordinary mortals. frivolity, it should be the clanging of elderly church They share the inexplicable pointed out that the new bls.
drive of the men who strive assault will consist of
endlessly to drop email white 40,320 changes on "Plain What, then,
these balls in smaller black holes on Bob Major." It will take the gentlemen from their pots of ale long stretchics of fun, the men horses over and their roasts of well-turned who seek to drive ringers at John Taylor's beef and sends them off to peal man-made hurdles. ht paces bell foundry in Lough (hight and day) through 40,320 faster than horses borough 20 hours. During changes of "Plain Bob Major?" meant to go, and the men
What fires them with this sock to conquer mountain peake the performance, no re-barkflying withinuslas for un statistical place in atlases.
have no intertes beyond their freshments may be served. terrupted noise?
Officiale of the Central Council Surely, thero is no Tartistic Somehow, men mist strive of Church Bellringers-lhe ob2 gain. Perhaps these eight-ring: to do more, n'harder way, unti viously austere body which laid ing a foundry company bells longer than offer med. down the no-cating mile--will are, no jordimry belli ringgit. "And, anyway, whit the heck stand
by to me that no cheating Joylem and tigħidjoped men tidy de Plain Bob Major, you may nig (perhaps a well-concealed cheese, might even be engaged upon an it in awfully, mafrdwich or a change to "Fancy advertising munt
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were ever
who
Yet there is no evidence to chtical, but WINGU and
I wondered what these Dutch models would look like.
Models as
before
"Let us go and sce the models," said Mr Felt Borjoman, who is looking after the whole aflair.
That was rather lovely.
We knocked at a door. A girl to me it was dy if he
in
out with a worried *x- foreign came
were
But language.
tak didn't habe Alice Pression
understand what 15
was
when I was young. I just didn't Photographs were being taloon. all Temperament oozed through the It never was a children's closed door.
"You can go in if you like," WHE fold. The door WGS
about. book to
me.
"fairy
I realise it is a risk. But it horror
sald suppoж,"
Gallico, I the tales are
original comics." Which Was 19, for the British Common- qulle a profound remark. wealth and the whole Western world. a lesser risk than the
rertain disaster that will follow ignorance his bliss
German rearmament.
I had a confused pic- pened, ture of women khá clothes and flash-bulbs and make-up,
There was the scent of heavy perfume.
"Thank
you very much,"
I
said, "but I think I have seen enough for one-morning," Harding admitted his ignor- But my glimpse had taught We cannot afford to dally and
subject and then me one thing. Theeo Dutch delay. Every day of these BBC ance of the
Maria Van Amstel, broadcasts, every day of Ger-proceeded to talk very brilliantly models..
Hendriks, is a danger. Hurry, hurry, Sk to hear him talk on one of his exactly the same as all the other Magda muny's reawakening ambitions about it I think ignorance is Hendrike
Harding'a bllas I should hate Bruns, and the others....were
models I have ever seen. subjects. (London Express Service).
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