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WILL
BRITAIN'S 120,000 POLES NOW GO HOME?
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By PETER CHAMBERS
dellealersen
shops,
import export businessta. Mr J. Pindelski, a Kensington restaurateur, said: shall not ko back. Here 1 have a business. There I have nothing-not even any family," ONE IN TEN
London Tun ILL Britain's restaurants,
120,000 Polea How go home? This is the tople that is being dis- cussed today wherever Poles meet. And the # everyone's lips in Gomulka.
4211
You
110 signibeant
become
fact
Poles-Britain's
In the Polish Club, an At out Exhibition Rout an officer biggest foreign community- on the staff of General is that only one in 10 of the
naturalised Anders-wartime leader of has
13ritish. Musi Poles over 35 the exiled Polish
have never abaciones! the hope said to me: "Gomulka ma that one day they will go home. Like all exlied minorities, become our national hero."
the Polish communlly In This despite the luct That
Britain
rent by political #imo+4
Britain E (1)
disagreement. General Anders, -Communist,
who lives withi his wife and Vladislav Gomulku, the tough HU vx-oil-worker frunt the daughter in milaurban Broudy:- London, is the Carpathians, Ja Tow the Pas bury, West
Pollth Secretary of the Pouch Com acknowledged Trades of
ex-Army munist Party.
Bre
MORE ANTI-RUSSIAN
But mile and half away
Ipahlonable mansion block General Anders staff offer off Baton Square, balding, priced: "You must understand 73-year-olt President Zaleski one thing.. We
and holds a dully Cabinet meeting of the Pulish Govern- inent in Exile" The Zalesk
1 every
Commura, yes That we are much mate anti-Itussian What a The lat Russian solder
Polund then quit patriotic Poe will rejoice."
And every Pole in a patio Pole. He loves his country with
passion
histrionde deeply felt
would
11
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England,
50-year-old
WIN U
like
e
group are Anders's raais, und They lake
much
more
ceptical view of present events
in Polan!.
Zaleski's
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
Cummings
1936.
A NOTED PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER SAYS LORD BEAVER- BROOK'S NEW BOOK WILL CHANGE MEN'S JUDGMENTS OF EVENTS AND PERSONALITIES OF RECENT HISTORY
How big
LEFT TO RIGN? - Llers Quer
OPTI Auth
Gone Law, Male. Durmen, Batverbroen
minds fight the battle
for power
THOSE who fought the First Ate me THOSE
THE WHOLE AIM
Foreign Minister, Zawisu,
Told whole aim 15
!
Alexander
bluntly:
wh
and
strengthen
on Poland
11
Gomulka's e-officer lawyer in Polind
is now a travelling salesTuan
"Bul I would Ko back
Poland at unce 17.
17
Ir what?
he could really make new start in Poland But le in Poland today is wretchedly The Poznan riots welt Poor for bread as well as freedom.
The 3773 shoulders. send my brother
English coffee. 10 thus of
is worth Warsaw What
choigh money to keep his family for a month.
+I
10
1
The theme
Great War belleved it would menis. be the last, at least in their time
Cunimunisin's gro Many survived 10 suffer under the guise
greater, a cluser, and in some "Titols
But Poland has
Rastaways worse, war. Yet they will frontier with Under Communism, it ran never ways think that the First was a more intense test of the Bri- Ush spirit. be another Yugoslavia, i never break free.
common
can
As I walked out of the Polish Club, the porter tipped his hat to the Polish ex-officer with me
sold. "Perhaps we
strull
in Poland in six months'
tut i was hot
his
121
+t
time, captain.
He grind joke.
|
Its agunes shrivelled the soul, All Its paths were uncharted
was novel at the mass scule of itsnganisation
positions
to
BY WILLIAM BARKLEY
of
Ex the book stated with epic simplicity: "The
Halg at the front, Robertson politicians gave little credit
In Whitehall and Derby at the the generals,
The generals denounced the War Office were a triumvirate bent on crippling Lloyd George's politicions.
power.
"The soldiers and sailors serving in the Forces had little confidence in either.
me clear to me.
In ordinary course by Maurice's I fallen into a place in the here- and of its human Instru- contemplates the Red Army
Russia or the Franco regime in own department the War ditary system than the absurdity futility of the political Spain or remembers Cromwell Office, The attack disintegrated, and
How could Maurice have sticture of the House of Lords at home?
mude such K blunder? Why b should he have accused
Lloyd "was, of course, happy in George of error in his figures? the honour that had been con- five terred on me, and the title gave He said not a word, but
Since then 1 years later he stated that the me real pleasure. around ngures had been hurriedly sup- have come to take a different A group of civilians Lloyd George were equally de- plied, and had been occidentally view, believing myself to have "The public had no heroes. termined that the civil power used by Lloyd George after a lacked sound judgment when "Now it has been
control my Inten should
the generals, correction had been sent to him. accepted the peerage," tion in this work to describe Lloyd George himself was Sixteen years afterwards, in
and the These disputea
per- posed precariously power, 1934, Frances Stevenson, one of sonalities involved."
supported by his own dynamic Lloyd George's secretaries, later and by his former enemies and to be his second wife, wrote in HOW CLOSE TO
opposed by his former associates. her diary, which is now part of
We now know from Hulg's Beaverbrook's A DICTATOR?
"Lloyd George memoirs
that he worked un- Archives," that she was uneasy only VOU may conclude from this ceasingly with the King to oust about an incident known
reading that Lloyd George Lloyd George.
to herself
to and
Sir J. T. Lloyd George determined military
at Davies, leading member of the to get rid of secretariat..
Chlef of im--Hair and Robertson, 130>
Imperial General Stal, one the
Derby, Scerclary of War. sup- ported them and threatened 10 resign.
be bc
You
who Men in high
to were attuned by experience
and who failed Ismaller events
to expand to the immensity of
required to the occasion iz For the me being {
menetismissed it victory was to Gomulka cafi Poland
Yugoslavia, attained can be of more help to them by
Arrondi
Lord Beaverbrook's new book thousands of Poles in Britain slaying in Britain."
will go tume and end an exile today
:0 lasted has
nearly that years.
Many Poles have done well Britain, Foley own 50,000 Louxes in London alone.
Tipy
tells
- "Men and Hutchinson, 23%,
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PAPERS IN THE FIRE
66 was in J. T. Davies' room,
"I
THE PRIVATE LIVES
THE pages of the bok sparkle
in potted bi raphy. On LORD CURZON, Leader of the House of Lords "Hla Royal Pomp"-who had a talent for being on both sides of every controverty:
Derby is quoted
writing
to
Bonar Law of Curzon's scanda- luus abuse of a Gernment car for private purpos and saying of him: "The real truth is he is
"and J. T. was sorting at one time and I have good
Beaverbrook says
one
A CLINIC TO TRAIN BETTER SINGERS
By Walter Schwarz
W
"HY aro the English such bad singers? One re- searcher has ar- rived at the conclusion that it is largely our own fault. With a little less tempora- ment and a lot more science, he maintains, our bath- rooma and our opera houses could produce almost as rich a sound as those of Italy-or Wales,
Mr Michael Horowitz, a Harley Street laryngologist who has made volce pro- duction his special study, plans to put this inspiring idea Into practice. He is or- ganising
where "voice singers can and gel on
new centre students and obtain advice
more intimate terms with their larynxes."-
Elementary.
Young singers, he urges, "should benefit from the elementary scientific facts of which they and their teachers дго
often sur prisingly ignorant." They will get this beneft free.
Most disastrous singing errors, suggests Mr Horowitz in his lectures to of avant-garde groups
ten- music teachers, is a dency to sing at the wrong pitch.
of our
We have famous baritones who really ought to have been tenora. And more than one contralto has for. tuitously ended up as mezzo-soprano,
The mistake arises from the outmoded habit of allowing our first singing teachers tajce this momentous decision unaided.
to
"A boy or girl contemplating д sinring career consulis a teacher who hps not remotest idea what a pair vocal chords looks like."
uns the indictment.
the
of
So
IL
refer
would simply check for musicianship"-then
candidate to
the
Lloyd George offered him the ambassadorship in Paris, Derby
she wrote, "a few days just what he says he is not. He suld he would accept if he had
after the statement" (by Lloyd is one of the meanest men that 1 mine Cabinet status and permission to
George on the strength of Halg's know. He was a tenant resign it ever Haig and Robert-
troops) ar gon
were dismissed. Lloyd
out red despatch boxes.... reason for knowing it."
of Curzon: teachiga were run aright the George was folled.
"Pulling out a Wer Office box. Often undecided whether lo "car and King's he found in it. Stamfordham. the
to his great Secretary, wrole Robertson
to
astonishment, a paper from the desert a sinking ship for the King's name, stay."
Director of Military Operations that might not float, he would Robertson wrote "Lloyd George containing modifications and make up his mind to sit on the hules me."
corrections of the first Agures wharf for a day." they had sent, and by some mis- chance this box had remained AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, unopened. J. T put it in the "Lord Birkenhead said of him fire, remarking. Only you and i Austen always played the game, Frances, know of the existence
and he always lost it." ** of this paper."
nנרי
RELAXATION--
A HYMN
BY February
if
✓
coma
eldar because of the King's
family doctor,
Tho
G.P.
hla
would examine chest, nock and abdomen for organic lesions, ("....how much money our impresarios would save if they took this precaution with their singers!") and purs the candidate to throat specialist,
No lack
The specialist, after scanning. nose and throat for laryngitis, would finally (all being well) co-operate with the teacher In "placing" the voice.
1918 Lloyd
"was waiting for the matter to be raised, and for the ques- ROBERTSON. "Ho dined George told the King that
tion to be asized: Why did LG. well and drank moderately.... he must resign
Robertson was retained,
not receive these supplementary When the King dined with Lor
the Derby, the Chiefs of Staff and Lloyd George never won the figures? Or did he? But
and I King's confidence. Who would questions never came resign-Halg or Lloyd George? could not voluntarily break faith others, the drink was limited to Lloyd George, relaxing that with J. T., perhaps put L. G. in pledge that had been given and who knows, have when Lloyd George at the out-
Mr Horowitz'a own advice night after seeing the Kingofix,
down the Govern
has set of the war asked for total
"placed" hundreds of after one of the most anxious brought
abstinence.
Voices. "Soptands and tenors," days he ever had-sang the ment!" Calvinistic hymn "The changes
Beaverbrook's comment is:- "Derby passed the word that
he generalises, "should have "Through the oversight of a after the King left the party small larynxes. Their whole that are sure to come I do not
secretary, Lloyd George's Gov- drinks would be served upstairs, bodies.llen their fear to see."
vocal chords Robertson was dismissed, Haig crament... was saved. The King stayed inte, General-tend to be short and wide.
Aston-
"Never again, for the duration Robertson asked Impatiently, summoned to London
Clearly, there is no lack of Lloyd George When do we got our pop?"" ishingly Haig gave his allegiance of the war, was
arid sopranos who are ' to Lloyd George: Lord Derby in danger from the assaults of
aʻor, both... enemies of the right and left, gave his resignation,
CHURCHILL (in 1917). "He : I call to mind Caruso, Toil The triumvirate was shat- The Liberal Party was
while enemies were lived well and ate everything. del Mo
Monte, Elsie Morison. destroyed, tered
John Halg
Lanigan
and deserted his friends. He left scattered far and wide.
He exaggerated his drinking Derby stranded like a whale on little matter kindleth!"
"Behold, how great a fire a habits by his own remarke in middling Richend Lewis
praise of wind and brandy, He Sylvia Fisher would appear to a sandbank.
appeared to smoke cigars inces-be Beaverbrook carried to Lloyd
"Barito mezzos and con- santly. Not at all. He smoked very little, although relighting traltos have longer, narrower a cigar frequently.
vocal chords and bodies."
The loftier Frederieke Bharp *
and Constance Shacklock come BALDWIN. "His home life to mind.
Horowitz General was happy and he had a passion Mr for Lloyd George relief was (later Lord) Trenchard, Chief of for a mechanical plano-player. ancedotes about
contended middle-class volets mixed with disappointment Air Staff, worked sedulously A
George
а
moment,
a message that Derby now did not want to resign.
Lloyd George sald he could stay provided he promised not to
THE TITLE BATTLE
resign again. a month he B TREFORE this decisive engage-
In
was ambassador in Paris on Lloyd George's terms.
occurred ment there Trenchard "akirmish."
the
at this outcome. Halg was still with Halg and others against milionaire. Up to the out-
t
-Cre of our
and
has
sad
BRri
in command of the Army. Soon the polley of the Government, break of war he showed not the tones became what he is by, the the battle for Lloyd George's to set up a separate Royal Air slightest trace of political push
Forca. In the end Trenchard re- or ambillon GARAGE Junior | master once told him to "go survival began again.
signed. But so did Rothermere, Ambition marked him
office his
THE GREAT
STORM
"
mercat accident. Some choir- changed, and stand over there, with the
There baritones."
He has stayed over there ever. since." "The poor; man should have been a tenorij. In fact, 'no great harm was dong; it would worec tho have been much other way round."
Secretary for Alr.
Bothermere resigned wi a after came a steady development letter which would have em- of rowing powers." bittored controversy.
brook drafted which
Beaver- substitute
was charged against him and Rothermere at last was w
put it all on his health I that ho starved Halg of persuaded in agree, Interrupting
...
Baron
MUCH MORE
TO COME
An equally famous mezzo- Soprano was wrongly placed catarrh at the time. Now, lice because she happened; to have
· instead of B
troops, and was thus responsible Cabinet meeting to give Lloyd WWE are promised more about for the disastrous German George this good news,
Baldwin who does not come break-through in March, His Bonverbrook urged a Viscountcy into this book except for reply was that Halg had more for Haron Rothermere. Lloyd splendid defence he made in the troops in 1978 than in 1917. George agreed, without asking House of Beaverbrock as Minis ter of Propaganda. For Beaver In May Sir Frederick Maurice the King. The King resisted, published the famous accusation. Twelve months passed before, brook says he has already that Lloyd George's figures were on Bonar Law's persuasion, the form a political history which so many English singers her Latso. tatues have King approved the Rothermere will be enfiled The Age of is a strain
Maurice,
relaxation, conadant of promotion,
"bill
*** Ho has also gathered with much Baldwin."
The gravidameri immense an
of material Robertson, bad newly left the reluctance", D
Horowitz's post of Director of Military Says Beaverbrook:
for a work on the Second World "There
Wer
*singing...tosohej Operations:
had always, been trouble over The "Squifis," that is Asquith the recommendations for
the
1. As for the present volume on "hardly expingie and by hillypartisans arraigned Frem Lorde, "My own peerage the first of these wore it wil how to look
throwe and bel Lloyd George for deceiving the provoked a tremendous storm change man's Judgments. It House, a charge which would My only regret i finst the storm will alter perspective reje
not strong enough to carry mellowing light of history's It. K
have wrecked the Cove
THE GLOBAL AIRLINE
it auslained:
celebrated
to the Lordala
mate
Beaver
fuction
of himi