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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1955,
Beneath The Halo Of The
Great Contemporary
H
By JAMES WICKENDEN
EROIC as Churchill year he had been captured by
Alobe of the statesmen
#till
is portrayed, how the Boers, escaped to Portu- unged support for the Walter much greater must use East Africa been in all Russians against the Bolshe
Whe major engagerien te and vists when Levy Want be the spirit behind returned to England a national wealt his deeds! The world sees hero, parts of him but can only guess, at the secret life of so great a man.
But between the wars' his The Boers described him dis- Steamy career, the production of books, and the cultivation of passionately:
cals goldfish, geese, dogs and in a happy family chickens
leadership.
We know his oratory, his teet eight inches tall, Indifferent rele Jed to one thing—was "Englishman 25, about five hats, cigars and bricklaying; build, walks with a forward his smiles, emotion and stoop, pale appearance, red- He called Munich ""'a total.. statesmanship. The rock brownish hair, small hardly and renitigated defeat...." noticeable moustache, talks He warned: "This is only the like figure and enger gesture
through his nose, and cannot first sip, the first foretaste of are accepted as permanency. prorsunce the letter 's pro- the bitter" cup which will be
perly."
proffered to us year by year." But they hide the past, and now the Old Man is re- He achieved all his alms were fullled
In a year all ale prophetics and war had ported ready to retire. We two years Out of writing and
come. As the Army evacuated are warned of it in time to lectures he made £14,500. He from Dunkirk and Britain glimpse, beneath the halo entered Farliament and became faced the most dangerous days a rebel like his father, sniping of her history, he spoke as while he is at the sum- at his own leaders and finally new have done to their people: mit.
leaving them for the Liberal Party.
mare.
-
Clear-headed
Yet he
"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo all the odious apparatus of and Nazi zule we shall not Bag or
shall
we shall
defend our island whatever the
He, too, may cast back his mind. He may recall the spacious days when war. meant horseflesh, jingling harness and a man's game T all his zestful pursuits he fall we shall go on to the end. instead of a scientific night-bsessional, single-mindedness, shall fight on the sees and the has shown the same, almost we shall fight in France, and we
is very clear-headed, oceans,
fight with After his dramatic entry in his first bout of reading, been in strength in the
He has apparently never, except growing confidence, and grow- into the world he was troublet by philosophical doubts. east may be, we shall fight on born a redhead, premature-
the beaches, we shall fight" on What is ly, in the cloakroom of amazing self-confidence? It may fight in the Belds and in the
this the secret of
the landing grounds, we shal Blenheim Palace on Saint perhaps be the secure base of streets, we shall fight in the Andrew's Day - he formed Winston Churchill's life from hills; we shall never surrender." his philosophy while a which he has operated. First, slim, adventure seeking there was a glorious family
tradition. Secondly, cavalry officer.
a peaceful home, assiduously cultivated by his wife the only woman who ever attracted him. His back- ground has been strengthened by his simple plan of attack on
In Action
H
Prolific
FTER the war he wamed A again
at Fulton of the descending. He said "Last time “Iron Curtain" which was
117HEREVER there was action life. At each stage there has I saw it all coming and cried
Winston cajoled and plead
ed his way. He was shot at in Cuba, ambushed on the North- west Frontler at India, and rode with
the
Lambous 300 at Omdurman in war's last great cavalry charge,
Between actions he lived le
his own bungalow with servants and * barber to shave him in bed. He read from Gibbon to Plato and pecdered. He re. gretted the lack of university education and vowed he would believe what he liked. He could, in fact, not escape the traditions he had inherited.
He had already written one novel and many dispatches when he decided to make money, leave the army and fellow ris faches into polities. Within a
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in his inkwell, hung his father's
Since then he has shown a picture on the wall and wrote new side to the world the the monumental life of Lord steadying hand and the careful Randolph Churchill. He joined working for stability and peace with Lloyd
and Now he is about ready to hand bounded freedom to the Transvaal and. Sir Anthony Eden, the reins of the Orange Free State, helped power, bring in Old Age Pensions, becaine First Sea Lord:
to
GEOTE
fame.
gave over to his Foreign Secretary,
Before the first war black
Europe ened
he butIt Dew. navy--oil-fired
ships, bigger. faster ships and Jellicoe in command of the Grand Fleet.
WE
AT LAST-WELL, ALMOST-
Cummings
“But best of all—nd more jokeš about "long engagements' and eternal crown princes'."
London Express Service
GERMANY'S 1914 NAVY IS STILL BEING HUNTED FOR SCRAP
G
*
By DUDLEY HAWKIN!
SCUTTLED
Nairobi: Rufiji -deltä as well as its lanted on one side and stripped ERMAN ships sunk inhabitants. Helped by they curious Africans.
The Koenigberg's big sisters, or scuttled off Tan- Allies he entered the Rufiji rabera and Feldmarschall, also ganyika's coast 40 again, disguised as an Afri-nded their service for the years ago are helping to can and aided by his old Germans. The Tabora was defend Europe against fur hunting companions, and being towed by a tug when HMS Hyacinth smashed her ther aggression but only even went on board the open on the water line with a after they have been Koenigsberg under the eyes w well-placed shells, The His foresight has only been through the blast furnace of the unsuspecting Ger- Feldmarschall was captured by matched by his industry one- and their metal used in new man sailors. For weeks he Allies and later served the
British...... and-a-half million words in his weapons.
plotted tide rise and fall and war history, with secretaries Europe's world-wide scrap calculated the cruiser's working in shifts through the Tight: the
the hunt has reached the idle armament. launching of
Movement: theblue waters around Dar-es- Then he went on board Tunga, the picturesque Etile of the Tories to their Salaam, palm-lined port the "British ship. Any Allied vessel port north of Dar-es-Salaam, first electoral victory in 21 years. Even his bricklaying and point. British Navy shelled in the showing its nose around the also had a wreck-the Prasident, chased by HMS ing have been prodigious be1914-18 war, where "old Ger- bend in the river was blasted which was
out of the water by the Chatham and scuttled by her lays a brick a minite and has man hulks monuments to Koenigsberg, but with Pretorius frightened crew in the Lindi built two large hungalows him Kaiser Wilhelm's folly are information the Navy shelled the River. After the War the selt. Fleet was steaming
being eaten away by acety. "Koenigsberg across miles of Prasident was raised and taken 1 battle stations
Winston Churchill is certainly lene torches.
swamp.
30 Capetown but on his sole
eventually order "ps war broke out.
most prolific
The episode gave Pretorius aended under wreckers' hammers speech- He the
Few World War One
job 05 permanent planned.
Generalfat Saldanha Bay. the Dardanelles maker in Britain's history-not
Dar-es-Salaam's latest wreck atack the great failure a great political theorist, but a veterans remain to see the Smits scout and the rank
removed a of man of immense breadth of last traces of their African major, and of the hesitancy
the Norwegian Slemmestad. painfulis tborn in the British side. "She caught fire after leaving vision. Above all, his sense of campaign fade aw, The Koenig 400-foot, 5000-101 a couple of explosions He
as its life's comedy as well
Another old peraisted in the production of tragedy makes him the most na- ignominious scrap.
hulk is the Dar," a witness told me "and
after "a most famous of these sea- merchantman owned by the which wrecked the fire-ighting marks is the rusted side Deusins gcuttled her with
Ost-Afrika Line: The equipment was towed on to a
reet, was in 1951... German cruiser Koenigs- black the Dar-es-Salaam has All her crew were saved, but berg, lying in the great bour. Now she lies a short di now even the Slemmestad faces Rufiji River
the tance away, at Kurasini Creef a future in a blast furnace. swampy shore.
THE
Stormy Career
because Lacce
tanks.
around
him
Already be had Lived career
to
tural of today's leaders:
His feet are on the ground
into
before contemporaries with the rest of humanity, but and hull and side of the Boating dock in an attempt to burn herself out. That
Like Stalln жете even heard he is out in front of the column
in a tempestuous age.
THIS TELESCOPE
HEARS THINGS
By Vaughan Jones
London. electric motors.
An elec
near
In September 1914 the Koenigsberg steamed fast over the horizon and, in a fierce fussilade of shots, sank HMS Pegasus Zanzibar.“
SPOTTED
off
The cruiser steamed off
BEFORE the year is end-tronic brain wit keep it and miraculously disappear
ed, the hidden depths aimed at its "target"
of the universe will be
brought a little nearer when
the world's largest radio telescope comes into action way the size of At Jodrell Bank, in Che square," shire.
ed. For
The whole structure will patrol boats sought her --- revolve on
a concrete run- and finally an armed mer-
a city chantman with a hydro
plane, cruising past the Rufiji, spotted ber up- Advantage of the radio river. But the Royal Navy Costing £500,000, it will telescope is that it can hear had a problem. None of its "see" ten times the dis- the stars through fog or big ships could enter the tance reached by the giant even dust clouds in outer delta because of their deep optical telescope at Palomar, space.
draught. in the United States.
Preliminary
Their sounds can be re- Then one morning a policeman stopped a man It will explore between corded on discs,
in a Capetown street and five hundred and a thou-
recording of whisked him to the Simons sand times the volume of their notes, which register as town naval base. He was Hay Widiapers, hisees vand space, and record radio
•sphaters, have already been Major Pretorius, the fam- waves given off by the made with smaller radio ons big game hunter who stara.
je telescopes. picking up Sited in rolling farm- ultra short waves from lands, its giant mechanism
heavens,
the
the disappeared for ten years at a time into Africa's dark-
is being rushed to comple-
At a recent Royal Society ness to shoot elephant and meeting, Professor ACB.lion, and who was then de- tion to give Britain a big Lovell, head of the Itadio jected because the Allies in lead in this branch of ag- Astronomy Centre at Jodrell Africa could not find a war
tronomic research.
The two 185 ft towers carrying the 250
wide reflecting "saucer
*Bank, played such a recording job for him
high
of gigantic clashes among the
ft, cellations counties millions-Pretorius, a small,
of miles away
took malaria-wizened man who are place 100 anillion.
220 | could speak fluently prac hispers,
tically every African lan This bowl-shaped tele- Tight, are only now reaching gunge between the Transvaal scope will be rotated by c
almost finished.
murmuring Mravelling at the
speed
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