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POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERT LANCASTER
Darling, he's got everything -but everything-and it's all tax-free da he's with UNO:
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.
MR GULLIBLE REPORTS PARADE
M
R K. M. PANIKKAR was Indian ambas- sador to China from 1948 to 1952. He therefore had the chance, given to few others, of observing at elose quarters both the last year of Chiang Kai-shek's rule and the first three years of Mao Tse-tung's.
Since Mr Panikkar, as all
ON A MISSIÓN
TO RED CHINA
ROBERT
who have met him can extremely rendable,
BLAKE
-ON BOOKS
and Mr of course, when they are charm, wit, and intelligence, malle life in China and of the
chief personalities of the two Socialists
testify, is a person of great Panikkar's description of diplo- opposition?
Far too many Liberaly
Nor wili hat expectation be disappointed. The book* is
*In Two Chisas, by K. M. Vanikkar (Alten und Unwin, 128. d.)
A British Crossword Puzzle
13
18
19
22
26
ACROSS
3 Coples (8).
Value highly (6).
Set tree (8).
11 Turns aside (8).
12 Lake (4).
13 Insurgent (5).
18 Appointments (8).
19 Reign (4).
4
15
Kullible as the celebrated de- legation sent to China by the British Labour Party.
Sympathy
In
and
tarily quite feasible, and that a separate state under Kuomin- tang rule might well. have been
for
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Indirect SORTERS; by
ing aching run the water that keeps him going, other competitors, all under 132
created if the Americans had ROBOTA huge letter-sort- And even then he doesn't lose Evora, Portugal, were the 34 been ready even intervention.
an electronic. He losts the water which is 1 in weight, They ate well, But in fact American opinion brain has been built by Pot stored in body tissues. (You just a few pounds less thon was divided, largely because of Omer selentists, it was lovcal- would lose yours, in the end, Joaquim, the State Dopaniment's
recented.
from the bloodstream, and you'd publication of a damaging paper
have to drink quickly or dry upon
the the corruption of
It will do the work of a large up.) And he never notices the Kuomintang and, no action was, number of human sorters, difference. taken.
How many? The Foot. Offee'. This is an
The only question now is - and men will not say. revealing hoolt, not merely for But they do, say that they do what's Unesen going to do with the light thrown on China, but not exput trouble from the the information? also for the picture given, in-trates untors. If trials with the make a report, but its experis directly and perhaps uncon-robot scrier continus to be su sclously of the outlook of the oceatul, many more will be bullt knows, only God can make
middle-class intelligentsia
for use throughout Britain. which has ropinced the Princes colla Mr Panikkar and what
Then say officials, the dis- placed workers would easily be
important
found other work.
to dispense with
eye
Unesco con
· admitted' that, so far as anyone
camel.
MISER'S After A Melbourne HOARD miser died last month police found a quar- ter ton of two shilling pleces
(approximately
£6,000) plus £507 in banknotes hidden underneath piles of rubbish in
嗨
have pinned their
a corner of his alum home. This his account of his ex- regimes
is vivid and amusing. faith to the theory that the
in spite of the fact that burglars periences
broke into the miser's hous during that He is, however, less convincing Communism of Mao Tse-tung is critical period will natural. on
four times during recent years the policy of the new Communism with a difference, People's Government. Indeed No doubt the Chinese Govern
stealing a total of £1,000. The ly arouse eager expectation at times he seems almost as ment whose victory owes itle the heaven-born service" as
HOPEFUL Young ballet miser still refused to bank his in many readers.
to Russian support will not the new ruling class in India. I
dancers ure hoard. ordera from deserves to be widely road,
BALLERINAS necessarily take
coming to At present one man has to Moscow and Mr Panikkar's e- count of the behaviour of the
read the address on the tel- Britain in increasing numbers
idea in Other Books
into from the Dominions. Oncers LIFESAVINGA new Kussian Ambassador at the time
ters before feeding them
life-saving is be- of Chiang Kai-shek's defent
Live robot. But the scientis. pboard British nors call them GADGET coming popular
It is, of cours
FILM OF MEMORY, at the Post Office Engineering the "up-early-in-the-morning on the beaches of New Zealand understond- suggests that the victory of Mao
THE was almost as much of a sur-
where life guards Rearch Stallory. Cricklewood girls." Maurice. Druon.hope
ure being able that an Indian intellectual pri
By prise (though doubtless a wel- should regard the new Chino
come one) to Russia es it was
Rupert, Hart-Davies. 10s. him too, eventually,
After learning all they can in quipped with rod and line. If with sympathy, and see in Mag to America. But this does not
6d. 171 pages.
their own countries, scores of a swimmer gets into difficulties a tough line with a lifebelt on Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. mean that Rizsla and Chinn are
For they believe it will be them have scraped together the end instead of a hook is fellow soldiers along with
Mr ikely to fall out with each
HIS is hardly a story: possible to give the robot an every penny they can earn in engt out and the exhausted Nehru, in the struggle against other.
that will any sort of job so that they can swimmer reeled in. "Western Imperialism." Bul Mr
scarcely a portrait, Call electrente Panikkar cannot yet
10 poasugo to London there are occasions when this
reveal the full diplomatic rather a walk, in distinguished read the addrenges, in spite of boolt a
improve their dancing. sympathy is carried too far history of his mission.
but he company, round a run where differences of handwriting. Humane and kindly himself, Mr docs confirm certain facts of past glory must be evoked from
That is, if the writing can be
They are
fanatical in their ONE Already having 'stood on Panikkar would not hurt a fly recent history,
which a broken pillar or two, which the
the read at all. about
determination, and long before LEG The ruin of certainly not a Chinese fly (if there has been doubt and con- gulde points out.
the rest of the passengers are In Stanziana, under troversy.
great European survive
awake they are up on deck or courtesan, mistress of emperors;
in the lounges practising ballot now an old indy with a wander- THE CAMEL'S Science and
steps and exercisng their limbs. ing mind.
the United Nations have Carmels, the little maid who STORAGE
rails There are plenty of cleans her room in a shabby teamed up to solve one of man's they can use na exercise bars. Chinese intervention in Korea Roman hotel, listens awestruck oldest puzzle - where does the American decision to cross the ilon stumbles from one year to perts used to think he kept it in the rali along the edge of the by temple visitors.
The while La Sunziana's hallucina- camel keep his water? The ex- When it has been raining hord they have been known to use 38th Parallel, and it is also another backwards through her his hump. He doesn't. The
ship's focktail bar. clear that this decision have been taken in the know life, hem one scene, one lover. ledge that it would have that to result. At all events Mr Panik lear, who had been warned by Chou En-lai himself, parsed the warning on to Mr Nehru, who tmsmitted it to the State De- pariment.
12.
14
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22 Bundles of documents (8).
24 Persuade (8).
26 Occurring yourly (8).
26 Keeps up (8).
20
121
23
K
DOWN
1 Goes ahead (5).
2 Cooker (3).
3 Ensed off (7).
4 Send uut (4).
5 Dregs (4).
Cowardly (6).
Ment pin (G).
10 Kind of cap (5),
14 Noberan (5),
J5 Diminishes (7).
10 Disturbance (8). 17 Sides
20 Stage show (6).
21 Sacred song (0),
22 Prima-donna (4).
23 Scrutinise (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-NerosN;
3 Carriere. 7 Reach,
Epirades. 10 Dinner. 13 Entered, 15 Once, 17 Created, 18 Inertin, 2n Ness, Down: 21 Spouted. 20 Eomesh; 27 Traitor, 28 Endow, 29 Paspart.
Trade, Gount, Cheer, 4 Ruse, 5 Ardent, 8 Ensued, Precis, 11 Inane, 12 Neurs, 19 Draper, 16 Oakum, 16 Certes, 18 Instep, 19 Essmy 1, 22 Dлset, 23 Tends, 24 Dhows, Stop,
a
such creatures.
rule of Mao). the enlightened Yet he can write quite casually and without comment of the mass campaign "for the liquida- tion of counter revolutionarles and reactionary elements, which "seems to have effectivá
of over a million ly disposed and a half people who were
actively elther
Kuomintang agents or suspected of sym- pathies with Chiang)."
Blinded
Mr Panikkar Is not a Com- munist or a fellow traveller. His outlook is conditioned he tells us by "the Liberal Radicalism of the Wost." But, as we imow from the writings of the Eng- lish intellectuals of the thirties, It is quite possible for humane and intelligent Radicals to be come so blinded by faith in political Utopia that they gloss over horrors which would pro- foundly shock them, in
any other context.
There are many other examples of this attitude in Mr Panikkar's book. Thus he can. tell us with masterly under- Mao "has per- statement that
Liberal haps no use for the
Riberty," creed of individual And at the end of the book he inds the disappearance of in- dividual liberty in China to be "strange thing."
What is strange about it? Have the Communists ever had the slightest regard anywhere individual liberty-except,
For
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
It
Full scale war
scems clear that the
was the direct result of
to
face
0
musi
hump is all fat. the predecessor-the man palace, the
kept her in a Venetian
who
pasha who ruined himself, the man she loved, the
she left. husband
In this ghost of a novel, this life story told by reflections in a clouded mirror, there is:
one leg for three years outside ü Jolidpur temple, a 27-year-old sadhu (holy man) plans to continue.
nine his ordeal for another years. At the end of this time ho hopes to attain union with God. If he fails, he says he will fast to death. Meanwhite he Lives on fruit and milk offered
*
No mater how rough the HUMAN Human Radar is be- Then they thought maybe he
lleved to be the ex-
of it in
the one of his extra weather they pluckily keep up RADAR kept
planation stomachsched
and ship's feats of a:veral). their practising, has
32-year-old Julian Science knocked that one for a doctors have often had to treat Coopman a milkman of Komen bruises caused when the pitch-
Mr Coopman near Antwerp. loop, too.
ing and rolling has sent them
loaded delivery can drive his sprawling.
van blindfolded. With his eyes first with sticking Saya a liner's purser:
- covered
a scart seen these girls up at the crack plaster then with black paper
and finally wrapped in a of down doing their exercises
Julian can make speeds of up to --on deck - in weather which It isn't really that the camel called for, a good pair of m
70 m.ph. on a good read-and His other animal but that he uses were the only thing which got that I can do it is quite enough," can carry more waler than, any legs. In ene ship the girls nover have an accident,
secret? "It's mine and the fact
And, the answer, disappointed- mis, seems to be that the camel keeps his water just where you keep yours all through the tissues of the body.
PATHOS: Dying is fortune I can't get over.
WIT: Indulgence in love is only a polite form of indif-
That the Chinese Government full was prepared scale war on this issue is shown by Mr Panikkar's discussion in September 1950 with the acting Chief of Staff, General Nich, ference. When Mr Panikkar pointed out of the probable consequences such a war, the general replied: "We have calculated all that. They may even drop atomic bombs on us. What then? They may kill a few million people. Without sacrifice a nation's In- dependence cannot be upheld."
Mr Panikkar
onc expresses opinion which may revive con- In America, In 1949 troversy
and certain the "China lobby" generals favoured support
Kal-shek's tottering Chiang regime in the inaccessible pro- vinces of the interlar
around Chunling.
Mr Panikkar would not have approved of such a policy, but that, it was mili- he considers
for
FOR
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121.
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the sailors up curly?"
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"I'vo
he says.
•
doctor
UNCOMFORTABLE DOM: It's a misfortune to be born with immoderate desires; less, great misfortune without which there would be no great lives,
In A stylish flight of the high
Well, the Unesco men who
Palma, romantic extravagance,
Majorca, spent a long, long time out in CHAMPION Only 5ft 4in. in CLOP CLOP A
height and REMEDY
has PRAY
A BRAVE the desert at a place called Beni EATER
prescribed u weighing 128 lb.
unique remedy to help Helen Abbes (in the Sahara) have dis- 22-year-old Joaquim Fernandez the life of a weak-hearted shee prolong HEART, by.
covered some surprising things, claims Europe's eating record factory owner. The shoemaker MacInnes, Colline.
For instance, when you get 6d. 256 pages.
hot you sweat and the process downed 41 lb of bread; 22 lb of complained that employees at a potatoes; 50 lb. of cake, 100 fish his plant were slacking on the THE story of suspense has no keeps your bloodstream at
more skilful practitioner to- istant temperature. Not so croquettes; five roast fowl; one- job and the resulting strain
camel. He just lets hia ani-a-half logs of mution; 52 was too much for his day than this Scottish lady who has taken up the robust tradi- d get hot. He doesn't sweat pints of wine; 3% pints of heart.
bottles of soda His doctor prescribed a pair tion where John Buchan drop-this blood gets up to 104 brandy; 10
clogs, Now
the of heavy Espionage and robbery degrees Fahrenheit, a tempera- water. ped it.
With him, sitting in the open workers can hear him coming are her theme; Switzerland the ture that would land you in bed,
viry sick indeed.
air outside a "haunted" mili in and when he arrives he always place.
finds them hard at work,
Proud Moments
WIN A
BUSTER COULDN'T BE L
MORE PROUD
IF HE PITCHED A
NO-HIT GAME.
DID YOU GROW THEM?
THEY LOOK PRETTY
ENOUGH TO BE
ARTÍFICIAL / “
WHEN THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
BEAUTY CONTEST
COMMITTEE
SAYS .... 'EXCUSE ME MSS, BUT" YOU'RE IT/?
WHEN THE COAT OF TAN
GETS THE ATTENTION
IT. DESERVES.
ANNUAL PICNIC
COIR, 1965 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
In
48 hours last week he
BY HARRY
WEINERT
TO GET A LARGE FISH- SPLICE TWO SMALL ONES.
WHEN YOU GO TO
A LADIES RESCUE
AND THE
WINDOW
LOSES.
weak
BRITAIN LAGS IN ROCKET
RACE
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
B
-London.
RITAIN is falling behind
in the rocket race.
More than $150 million has been spent on rocket work since the war.
Yet no guided missiles are available for the Services,
And the Supply Ministry can not provido a rocket capable of flying 120 miles high for upper- atmosphere
research without two more years of effort.
The rocket project has fallen far behind schedule because:----
1. The problems of rocket fight, especially those of guiding and-aircraft missiles, were bad ly underestimated.
The Government's original plan to centro rocket develop- ment round the Woomern ranNO In the Australian desert has failed.
Government planners
weza convinced that British rockst firms could be induced to build up the bulk of their reseprch ind production facilities Australiis,M
• Dangerous
Instead a big rocket industry involving almost every big air- craft and electronics fam arisen in Britain.
off
has
Rocker testing has been done the Welsh const Doner Aber
porth, und
50% up
a new rango is being off the Hebrides
But Woomera will still have to be used for long-range and high-altitude work which might be dangerous t; horne, image
that any of
of the cheduled to
guided
|placo 'anti-aineindi manns will: be available for two monk is det
One navel
Žinai, breki kizidine, development for ***AT not ready?