by THOMAS.
WISEMAN
T
HE tall man in the
drain - pipe trousers with the haggard face and the glass of whisky clutched in his hand-as if he were a schoolboy having his first licit drink-Ayats, ALA I had suspected. Mr Graham Greene.
I had not been absolutely
arrived sure when he Best
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at the cocktail party; he i not easy to recognise br cause he rarely submits being photographed and he the 1001- does not huve
WIN
THE CHINA - MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1956.
GRAHAM GREENE TRIES HIS
HAND AT SHAW
WHAT HAVE THEY GOT IN COMMON?
A HATRED OF THE TAX MAN
was much more
Ukobie thin
the hau.
been able to make money wav Somarmot Maugham because never sold much in the days of low taxation. Now that I am selling, everything I make goes in tax."
It occurred to me that Greene, the non-conformist Catholic.
in their relation with the Inland Revenue Department,
I suppose I had expected bim have found the penthouse sulle medintely identifying air of at the Dorchester in a depross- to alk as he writes, bitterly. and Show, the unfrocked atheist,
gruxt
repair, cerisively, spitting out words us had at least one thing in com- state uf a celebrated author. He did gly
for his reason they were contaminated. Tomon in addition to a veneration not seem to know anybody Perhaps it was
tart he let 121 at ease
my surprise, he was charming. for St. Joun-delusions of pover- the party woul
shy and a rifle awkward: hve ty and a sense of paranoia Though i have never had any wandering about muking an elaborate pretener a one great Sking for what Mr Greene any character in his books,
Famintis authors who write in does in such circumstutus has to say in his books. I have
been chanted by
tind
person sometimes tend to retain their W way he says ...of
some omniscience outside the privi- of the printed leged turratery page, and though they may be delightful to read, are insuffer- able when you have to talk to them.
studying
L
through the windows and examining The interior decor.
Knowing how grea, affection
to for peeling wallpapes usel penchan on the printed page
*
for buxumalong steazier askabladarent. Wardour Street, et le mus
always
However, knowing
fant
VPLY
the the
he
that sympathetically Towards Journalists Cunderstandably, perhaps, since He had been our tamself) i felt besalart about being my com- any on him. But it seemed that he would welcome likely Tarling somebody. even Talist, and so I went over to
ntroduced myself.
!!!
2
But there was nothing pont- ful OP dogmatic about Mr Greene he was completely lack
of those twiti vices success-gliness and smooth-
13
Hess.
الي
The screen play
He had been persuaded come 10 the party by Out Preminger for whom be was writing the screenplay of Shaw's "St. Joun."
"It is one of the few Shane plays that like," said Greene, "I'm sympathy with what he
"I shan't change any of his icles 1 don't like his other plays very much, except Heart- break House." I've never been through Man and able to get
writing far
Superman 'Candida?" That's a bore, isn't it?".
"I
you like time I asked.
"It's a livelihood." he said. "But aren't your books that?" "No." he said, "I don't make much out ef the books. Now sell quite well, but until 1941 1 couldn't count on selling than 5,000 copies of euch book, You know what 'Brighton Rock
out? sold when it first Eight thousand coples, I haven't
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But Greene always has his dim rights to full back on,
No bitterness
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Unlike Shaw he is not fussy about what happens to his books when they become films, he though from time to time does make an effort-usually o of his futile one-to get one stories on to the screen intact.
Practically every book he has ever written has been filmed: The Man Within," "This Gun for Hire," "Confidential Agent," "The Heart of the Matter," "The Power and the Olory." "The End of the Affair," "Brighton Rock." "The Fallen Idol,” are some of them,
"The only one I really liked," sald Greene without any bitter-
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THE MASTER PLAN FOR SINKIANG
S
ix
INKIANG
destined for dramatic develop- ment. It ia to
become a new source of oil,
a great new industrial base,
far from
mense.
the
are
Third Article in the Series
By Russell Spurr
for the
Cool is zeted new industries, already mined nete Urumchi, but big new fields are claimed in Kuljar and Hami Iron is found near both Urumchi and
and Kuljar.
foundrica planned under the Second and
Five Year Plans.
The the desert of Basin Drilling
Karamal field.
Third
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Folk
the
has
Tao,
Production Up
SINKI
The keystone of Chinese offers are being made of em- a food and cotton producer policy in Sinkiang is a new ployment in new industries
state farms. minorities. and threat of deal
Jungall H-bombs and the U.S. They were oppressed dancing and music of the started at the Seventh Fleet. It is to ab- enough by Chinese rulers in minority tribes has become Now new deposits are reported
from neighbouring Mad sorb some of East China's the past. The depredations a cultural "must" through which in the local dialect means "Why," I asked him, "is
China. Dance teams "Ol Mountain." surplus population and pro- of the last warlord finally out that your stories are invariably
them into revolt. have been sent abroad. ruined when
vide a vital communications forced they are simed:
when the link with the Soviet Union. Even
People's after all you are an extremely
Big plans are prepared for fimic writer'?"
The problems
Army im- Liberation
arrived
Sinklare. The Chinese do not
hindered pro- peacefully in 1949, there want them
by The former
INKIANG contributed only 4.8 The percent to the national pro- vince comprises one sixth was grave tension between Jealousies and disorders,
rate of Chinese Immigration is duction before the civil war of China, 471
the minorities area large the
comparatively low. Not This was mosiity agricultural. as Western Europe. Yet its Chinese.
of a million have yet Industry has since Increased by is
from the overcrowded arrived
ded 13
and percent,
production population
cast.
But the tide will mount multiplied 36-fold. Agricultural 4,080,000. There are
once the railway arrives. So production has gone up by two main roads and
too will racial tensions, unless a percent. This is due, the A sizable towns.
Introduc say, to the TODAY the Chairman of the right measures are taken in authorities
yes and im- capped mountain
tion of co-op methods the Regional Committee
proved farming Reparates the two great and boss of Sinkiang is Sai- Everything must await the Cultivation is mainly in the deserts that cover a third fuddin, a fabled figure of the alway Then, in the Second south, along the foothills of the
everything Karakorums, of the country.
anti-Chinese revolt. His will be transformed The roll- spasmodic farming along ther labour is scarce, education governing Committee con-
"Oh," sald Greene, "It's probably that when people read my stories they think they would make good films. and then when they come to do them they realise they won't, and so
they are obliged to change
this
an
thought them." extremely generous attitude for an author to take, and not really fair to himself,
The censor
"There is also the question of "most of censorship, tre sald, my stories wouldn't get by the censor in their original form.
The Fallen Idol' was a good Aim, I thought. But, of course, differenti
it was a completely story from "The Basement Room,'
on which it
It was bared.
In the filin you couldn't have an innocent man being hanged. Bul the change in this caso was made with my full approval.
UL
mere
only three
snow-
range
Skilled
and
Fabled Figure
time
Five
Year Plan
But
Vonomic patches
poor
there
is
only passed poor, and social problems tains only eight Chinese. Why is sull for off; track-laying side of the central Then Shan
Yumes, the
its waters soak It has another
bar range, before
The into the deserta. nway complicated by the prepon- The other 33 are members Kansa oilfield,
before ay 900 kilometres to
un- derance of non-Chinese in- of the minorities. Of the reaching
generally work The first Urumchi,
of land and habitants.
make
Use of it. Their implements are primitive, their methods ignorant, and their incans
the irst Labo Inadequate to
irrigation schemas. Most of them have now joined со-орстани
atives, toans,
"If anyone is to blame, IT'S SIN
Minorities
NINKIANG was declared
autonomous ቦክ
October in
me, The Quiet American' is go- ing to be done by Joseph L. gion Mankiewicz--I don't know how Some they do that. don't suppos
were they can Alm it the way it is They'll probably make written. It so that
# the It looks as American was being bamboozled all the time by the Communiets or something.
ment.
six Vice-Chairmen, two are trains are not expected in the Uighor, two Chinese, one capital unill curly 1958. Kazakh and one Tartar.
Theirs is the delicate task
of protecting and placating re the minorities, while 1955.
more
High Costs
economical means
TRACESSATY
where
selected
re: MANY ambitious plans must farming populating their homeland stay till then-en paper. The government of its counties with Chinese immigrants.
most urgently needed equipment seeds and improved implements put under the
has been brought in diamantied offer better earnings.
The rest must await Even the nomatts have fait direct rule of the so-called
Every effort
of Marxism, About of the impact is being by truck.
of them live in the 000,000 minorities. Everywhere else made to assure the minori- transport.
various foothills, herding their minorities
given a ties of a were
special position. Sinkiang Is already staring shoop
and cattle on high The stendy greater share of the govern- They are being recruited with anticipation.
of the single track, partures in the summer, retir- in winter to shelterod These people are for the bureaucracy, where progress
snelding out into the border ing
valleys. More than 100 со mostly of Turkish stock, none were before. Schools deserts, is more discussed than mainly,
them for communal Uighor peasants and colleges that once re any industrial norm or national operatives have been formed who have settled on
Their produc the ceived only an elite few and basketball score. The big stato among
cannot reach "Oh. I don't know," sníd land. The rest are nomad a majority of Chinese, now food tone optimum tivity is already said to be in- Greene, "somo of those bombs horsemen with romantic boast a large proportion of Just now, it is too expensive creased by 68 percent.
thought that the tribal names.
minority students. Enticing to ship it by good from the cast. A fertiliser factory must also be Americans were
were behind that."
carried by rail. So must the new textile mili to be creetel
An American who had joined the conversation began to argue with him, eaying that he had really been rather unfair 40 America in this booic
that went off in Victram, it was
generally
"11"
He gave a slow, ely smile: very dangerous writing a book in the first person. Every- body thinks I am Fowler-well, share some of his views about the Americans. But I'm not as bitter about them as he 19. didn't have my girl stolen by an
This
American terment has,
I thinks. wider significance: Greene him- is not as bitter self, it seems, about anything as his characters. Or perhaps he works off all his accumulated bitterness
in his
writing and has ittle left over for casual conversation.
The New Ku Klux Klan'
Takes Its Masks
THE
By Evelyn Irons
Off
one
stock breeding.
Big Task
in the middle of developing BUT the big task is beating farmlands, a couple of steel virgin soil. It is being left to foundries and the main equip the now state farms. It is dif ment
ficult to see how any other the latest ollfields. for Tho
It
In
Unbroken
cost of living is still dorm of farming could facklo painfully high. It cannot be without vast investment, brought down until the railway Chino, investment is the runs in cheap consumer goods, quisite of the state, Shipments now grind all the soil abounds, but much is of 1,000 kilometres, from Lanchow poor quality. Considerable is noeded to make it Costa Irrigation Ingroad-battered trucks,
blason... Something approach- New York, fruit and drinks, and organised and breakages are high,
ing millary organisation la THE Ku Klux Klan is now games for the youngsters,
needed to overcome the many & Southern law trying to assume
enforcement
difficulties: Indeed - it Ẩm Raw Materials that the "now"!
demobilised troops who have homely air of respectability agencies four
pioneered for the past six years. 'More, difficult'
in its attempt to make a Kian may prove more danger-
Development so for la" im=" which railway will besoch out to ous then the old "Do you find writing gets more muccessful comeback in the was crushed four years ago,
south Sinklang before it pressivo. Cotton and wheat someone wanted, to American Deep South. aimeult?"
ewinga north.
coated from Ind to connect with have been know, or is your head full of At a recent gathering in in the movement in Florida, will curs better
But J. E. Fraser, key leader the Soviet rali M25 aistribution expansion is deterred unty A That where once nothing gaw, But plots and ideas,”
More difficult,"
Macon, Georgin, women and mys: "We don't advocate any of fruit and farm produce, arrival of the railway and the "Definitely
children attended a meeting violence and any, member ask which is plentiful enough in the Second Five Year Plan. Farm
south, but source and deer in hands will then be increased to Urunchi, The thriving empet
acres,, twtootho nearly 7,000,000 Klan's leader in of the secret brotherhood ing for it will be expelled." for the first time.
apon. Elton I, dwards,
Khangar will present Youngsters hardly able that the, now Kiante in more readily export its
MORY / Zound
Education is expected to to talks were dressed in the non-profit-making,
benevolent. Torillon which often laukum
Mi anticipate the creation --őt: robes, and pointed fraternal order which does not short supply so far from the modernised, industri white
need to hide behind magics, manufacturing centres will be a medical college is already" hats of the Klan, as they "we are not negret terror
cheaply training dia aral
Offers
boingg coological survey la
training to Pekin spicolellat Sinklangs, wealth, university will
persetesting, next year, to be hupp
the mori by 14 'colleg Their re- portant will
T
sald,
should that be?" "Getting old," he said wryly, "I'm over 60, you know."
1 said: "For an author, that's practically adolescence. Shery was almost 70 whom he wrote St. Joan."
Gruvda gave a little chuckie:
mom
he loolood bushful. ""1 don't watched, ita traditional oreanimation," be saki, "we yodly and mos
think," he said, "that Shaw Ived quite as bectically as I do" And as someone dragged him off to be photographed with Ollo Freminger, he throw out a plen that I bolt came from the heart "Could I have another whisky,
cross-burning ceremony, don't hate anybody!!
In another brouk with cus-
tabulating But it is known that there Small parties are to a members were une are many secret Klan cells in the deserts,"" often masked, and the atmosphera, high places including the dimette COOXCLLDEN was more like that of a church great trade unions and police party slowing plonia Klanemen gooked food saw keeping a careful watch on over-opt
vie, gave out from their sodvillar
certain collegato train “that young," "cadena
for!