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Bishop Blunt's Blunt Words
THE CHINA MAIL,
THEY LED TO AN
D
ABDICATION
By FRANK GOLDSWORTHY
J
"My address was written six
Tumbum. It had
to do with
the
R ALFRED BLUNT, mended to God's grace, "which 75-year-old Bishop of he will so abundantly need. We weeks before I heard anything
those hope that he is aware of this of Bradford, whose ******
need. Some of us wish that he nothing whatever kpeech to a dioces coil- gave more positive signs of his them. ference in December 1936 awarences."
"I studiously took care to my At any time
public nothing with regard to nach a "sparked the explosion"
by a bishop would King's private ille Tecause that led to King Edward Comment
have been startling. But at that know nothing about It."
Whatever VIII's abdication, is to re- moment it was explosive,
of the intention tire in October.
For monthu
the effect was be- newspapers the speech, abroad-but not newspapers yond dispute, The Bishop of Ill-health has forced the in Britain had been Bradford had been thrust into a for printing stories of the King's niche in history reserved friendship with Mrs Walila the man who, In the public of tense, began the Abdication So will
Simpson (now the Duchess end a career
Windsor).
crisis, has left is mark on history.
Yet, back in 1030, the bishop himself was protesting within 24 hours of his speech that it way catly given la special significance In precipitating constitutional crisis because it was misunderstood.
decision.
Explosive
that
Conrichy the fuels On De-
1936, cember
Dr Blunt, nakiressing the elergy of his diocese, was opposing a sugges- tion that the Communion ser vlee should be taken out of Coronation the forthcoming service.
Dr Blunt End the King war the chief layman of the Church of England, and as much as any other man should be com-
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Then come the bishop's perdhi. And within 30 hours the King's clash with - the Cabinet
obscure
renson
Breakdown
on the question of It weighed heavily on him. marriage was a public issue. It may well have been the rea- In "A King's Story" the Duke son why, in September 1938, of Windsor Inter wrote: "For when about to begin a lecture some
this tour in Canada, he collapsed juclate was moved at this tense with nervous breakdown moment to express regret that which kopt him out of the pub- the King had not shown more he eye for a year. pustive evidence of his aware ny of the next for Divine guidance in his discharge of his high office.
the
Hla criticism in that charged atmosphere proved to be
thna caused spark
the ex plosion."
Big News
The speech was on n Tues- day. It was printed on Wedies chy without comment. But by *Thursday morning the con- +titutional crisis was the bly news of the day.
thrust The bishop suddenly into the foreground of a work Cama-was
A week before that happen- ed, when he landed at Quebec, he was quoted as giving a new slant to the famous speech. He writing and said that between delivering the speech he had learned that Communists were distributing
from cuttings American newspapers reporting the friendship
the King and Mrg Simpson.
between
And the bishop knew that. might give a new meaning to his already prepared remarks.
He said, according to reports from Quebec: "I took the risk because of the danger that silence was
to the Crown and the
Emp
as
Blunt by name as well already protesting that his speech was neither a nature, the Bishop of Bradford relnuks to the King nor a re has never been a bitter man.
10 tre rumours sur-
rounding him.
In an interview at the time be sold: "What I had referred to was that to all outward ap- pearances the King seemed to itve entirely indifferently to the public practice of religion...........
His rotund, jolly appearance in his was usually reflected
once words though he was
Lord to call brusque enough Vansittert an "as for linking him with an organisation from which he had resigned before.
years
Sombre Note For October Talks
sinns?
By JAMES WICKENDEN
Now is the crucial
London. that united front. lust, and offer the Geneva peace too a blank wall of refusal to Ger-
unity man
at the foreign the ministers talics? good to last, like
time champagne bubbles and the recent junketing of foreign when the foreign ministers of
oll the
the conferring countries are diplomats by the top Rus- hammering out their October linc. Behind the Kremlin's may be a strange walls there
unfamiliar to Mos- scene-one
huddle cow's recent guests--a of Russian 3endors without has been time since sure course to follow. Geneva to size up the achieve- ment, to see the cracks which could mar the shiny edifice
the good feeling, abyss to be bridged ahead. For the hard, sore question of Ger- man unity has sull to be solved before the cold war can be truly called finished.
Hote
In
the
This fear, at present as small as a cloud on the horizon, is the
sombre chancelleries of the West.
Ther
NIEW,
uniled
to foresee
of
MOSCOW TABOO'
a
For to mike decisions for close diplomatic moves in Octo- ber demands au exactness of
and captaincy
command not needed in breathing bonhomie and oozing peaceful sentiments, Russia. saya 11 does not want however sincere they may be. Gere. The West is pledged may agree or
lest 1 foins The fact is the Kremlin men broad lines of to back Adenauer's policy
peace but argue about details and West Ger- Joining East
of a plan for October, That re- without the unity many. For
clear direction they desire above all, the Ger mans may threaten the stability of Europe.
CRUCIAL TIME
quired crystal has been lacking in the Russian
scene since Stalin died.
Only a leader or a guiding spirit can infuse the Russians But a leader in Moscow is now taboo. The Kremlin has been
That is the way the problem at pains to show the world that *is seen in Whitehall and Russia obeys classical Com-
Foreign Secretary Macmillan will press strongly for German munist doctrine and is ruled by
commifice decision. unity during the foreign minis- Thero has been nothing to
ters talks
in October. He is hint that this is a false picture. sure
to be at one in this de So the Kremlin has the prob- mand with the Americans, with lem of finding leadership with- whom he conters next month.
unless But, ask observers, what will cut accepting a leader,
October? One of the top men makes an the Russians do In
individual bid for remurkable
supreme They have shown harmony
themselves power in the next six weeks. among
All of them will want to avoid such a risk. That is why a mood of peacefulness suits them, whereas the force of events and domanda for a plan in October may not.
during Geneva and after. Will
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A POINTER
So the prospect at present is of further delays in the step-by- alap removal of the ropts of the cold war. Those roots aro strongest in the German prob- lem. But there are others, such as the relations between Russla and Japan.
And here the Russians have boen delaying for weeks during
· CUFFOITE Russo-Japanese talks in London. There is still
עיד
no decision on major. Neither is there sign of any.
The 'chlat problems in. these talks are the return of thousanda Japanese war prisoners; the return of Japanese islands taken
of
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955.
LIKE IKE
LIKE
LIKE ADULLES
LIKE CHOU EN LAT
Cummings
"Things used to be so simple-words meant what they said and you could recognise a peace demonstration by its guns.”*
London Express Servicn
CRISIS IN THE HILLS
DID
HAPPEN
T
*ONLY
NLY three minutes old... but the baby's face looked as ancient as the mountains. Did this story really happen? Tomorrow the answer will be published.
had fifteen to twenty children during their careers, but many of the children and some of the mothers dlox in childbirth. There was no doctor or nurse within 300 mics,
0
WENTY-THREE But by the time I visited the years and aix mountains, things were begin- A months ago today, ning to change a
wealthy Kentuckian, who had almost to the secti
the sufferings of the minute, I was helping to mountain
had women,
Konc deliver a baby in the moun- over to London to train as
midwife and, after recruiting a tains of Kentucky.
number of English and Scot- I was just beginning in a midwives, she had return- ed with them to the mountains journalism a relief
re- to set up a chain of tiny hos- porter, unpaid, for the pilbis. My visit was to see' how Lexington Herald, and in flushed enthusiasm the which most young reporters have. I was
eager to do almost anything and go ab anywhere for solutely experiences which might provide a story.
If there was a fire, I rode to it on the fire-truck. It a mur-
was to be arrested, derer
I was there in the police van. I even played American football. So when the chance came to leave the Blue Grass and visit the mountains in the south, jumped at it,
Horseback
I
At that time, these mountains could be reached only on foot or on horseback because there were no roads; and behind their inaccessibility, the people who lived there two or three families to each valley had preserved a way of life which elsewhere had vanished ngo.
GU
long
by
J. P. W.
Mallallou,
M.P.
DELIVERING babies is not
the unal pastime of the Socialist MP for Hudders Held East-re-elected with a
4,000-odd majority. Joseph Percival William Mallaṣeu went to America from 6x- ford, where he was Prezi- dent of the Union, a Nurger Hue-and student. Je returned to London, joined A newspaper, and has been in and out of print over Kinco. His wartime adven-
the Arctic run tures 04 produced "Very Ordinary Seaman" in 1944-the year before he entered Parlia ment. Forty-soven, Maliniteu considers watching ders ald Town"
main recreations. Watches it from Hampton Court, where he lives with his wife and two children.
His
opu
Hud-
of
Ho
SHE told me briskly to light and hold the oil lamp fuat 3o. for
the
there was no -light in log cabin...
☆
St. Helers in Lancashire, and a little London girl from Wool- wich who went red when any
and one spoke to her
went scarlet when the anyone who spoke happened to be male. I ing glints from the wood are. Then she went about her busi- was awlrward about girls my- self at that time, so the London ness with little time to spare. girl and I got on like a house that is not on fire.
However the other two weru from fine. They'd been away
were home for five years and full of questions. We hardly
at the
Any number of experienced She told me, briskly, to light and hold the oil lamp just so, journalists would leap for there was no light in the chance to test this theory and log. cabin except some flicker- here was I, only a few months old in the profession, with the perfect opportunity. The hug- band was disinterested, the old lady was asleep as I thought. the children were by now cer- tainly asleep and the nurse and mother were busy. For all prac- tical purpose was alone in a Kentucky mountain cabin with a new born babe. What a story this could be!
Long ride
to It's not pleasant
Auntch; 4 young
noticed when the courier-guide and though I was went to bed with headache: journalist intent on getting all
my eyes
I began to fumble with the cloth around the baby's feet.
But then I looked at his face.
we just kept on talking about the experience I could, I need- Thin and the St. Helens Rugby ed at times to turn League team and other things away and then I could see that It had only come into the world only three three minutes before, but that thus are so attractive when you this log cabin had
dway from sides to it, that in this log face looked as old as the moun- tains on which he was born. I them. Then there was a best of cabin, with one side open to just hadn't the courage or the or no hooves on the hard ground out the wind, there were 13.people brazenness, journalist
now journalist, to affront his dignity.
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are
a long way
side, a knock on the door and living, apart from the Scots nurse
the
WORLD was away to baby that was on his way. stddle her horse and thence to I could see
# childbirth-10 miles of in dozing, after Hell-for-Certain Valley.
these newly established hospit- area als were doing.
the father-lo-be
his long ride, beside the fire, I could see pairs
lady.
1
010 IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
NO
• Put your fick in the space obere med Keep this ponet by you ́until tomorrow
was when the oniwar will be ghen with another story in this varies by ...
H. H. Davies
We were locking up for the of children's eyes, glowing In
and looking. the lamplight night, for, even in this prolife
towards the little incuriously, two births in one night
their only bed where
mother They still used tho langunge
were unlikely, when there was
was lying; and, on the floor, I of Chaucer's time-I remember
on the hard Off I went on horseback from a beat of hooves that I was halled as a "gesto"
road-head, along ground outside, a knock on the could see the face of an old, old --and some of the songs
they the nearest hummed casucily
they creek beds, across streams, up door and the St. Helens nurse
I could only think that hore
℗ Old yesterday's story--Ineldon) az á trails, scraped the barren soll with a mountain
David Howar}}*** along high was away to saddle her horse
Laval, CearaMg," by in was a timid London girl, thou-
actually happan? The answer is i ko. hoe or crouched over an illicit ridges, riding 25 or 30 miles in and thence to a childbirth
Thousand Sticks, seven miles sands of miles from home, 300 still had been popular in Eliza- the day with my courier-guide.
miles from the nearest doctor, bethan times,
until, in some sheltered spot, we
delivering her first child. Then, house would reach a wooden
quite suddenly, there was a new Inside Apart from distilling whisky, with two Scots nurses
'sound in that log cabin and records they had two main occupations. playing Harry Lauder
now life. One was feudint Two hundred to each other on the gramo- years ago, perhaps,
Perhaps there were some com- Brown phone.
plications about that birth. I As we locked the door after do not know. All I do and
know tirold London is that the father walked over "Oh dear!" to the bod and then walked
Beat of hooves
a
had shot a Smith, in reprisal a Smith had shot a Brown,
I stayed two nights and a day
had gone on until even in 1931 rounds a Smith would much for
with
the nurses. I girl was
P the Browns had felt bound in in each "hospital," going the her, the little, honour to retaliate, And so
shaking.
Q
his remember how in one log cabin she said. "I've never delivered back to the fire, that children's lamplight. and that the timid shotgun at the mere sight of a a middle-aged man told us that a baby on my own in my life! eyes ceased to glow in the Brown.
though he was compelled to I hope we don't have another London nurse, after wrapping divorce his wife because of her coll!" I warmed to her at once. something red and wrinkled in At that moment there was a cloth of sorts, was, now busy adultery, he intended to
on the hard with. the mother. For all that living with her afterwards be beat of hooves
anyone minded; I was ground outside and a knock on with a baby not three minutes cause she was handy with boe,
Trigger-happy
These trigger-happy
anta-
ол KO
the door.
Outalde another log cabin a The three of us left Redbird gonisms were never directed boy of six, thin, ragged, dirty, in single file by the trall that against strangers,
not
of
oven
the writa
old.
theory.
alone
leads along Flat Creek to Con- against the occasional sheriff but bright red, proudly show- who came looking for stills. At ed me his father, Arthur's still, fluence. There, in the moonlight. the sight of him the male in and also the long grase "where we forded the flashy, menacing. habitanta
but really innocuous stream and
It was at that moment that shambled off into Arthur hides when
to the long grans and wont
climbed through the woods to: are after him. sleep unul he left. But insido
Hazard. Then we left it to the my now-developing journalistic Instincts Tourged back. All, I During the nights I slept horses to take us the way they felt, Was
well.
had the family of the mountains well; but. I sometimer noticed mew bast towards Wendover,
and the danger of emerged you weren't considered
sounding English death bad gone. Now was the grown-
or that awocily that in the morning. ONG load shower up until a
heavy erod. She had had a cabin where a woman was in Hon of your unatomy,- (*
I had toen told thak - if you' of traditional Japanese As
night call to some mother in labour with another child, rights in eastern sena.
The second occupation of the labour miles away.
got hold of a remily- new-born riod, I noticed baby by the fost and attached So the outcome,ot the inhabitants was having children.
Aswa diernouxbod, Humro-Japanese talks may be a Any women who was still live Towards the end I came to that my London mange was all its tour to your finger 11 would userul pointer to the prospects" at the anger hitter and had a lit: Totpital? where there sourlet out her colour was dus hanggic incliyalypside down for the October foreign minise had Jenny then
come were hot two mucnet, but three to the "murtion of the ride, and like CRECERES TEAM mediatorcling okban pioca from Boodland, one from, no longer to timidity),
in the war; and the ro-granting pellets tad lodged in some pœ- other of the nurses would look : name which here meant one.10% time for new experience.
the arguments of Darwin,
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