~~THE CHINA MAIL - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, † 1957, -
THE GRAPES GO SOUR ON Mr. KNOWLES
AL
Do you have fads about as I the interne, there
certain kinds of food? as I maintained
the
"My own son won't ent eggs," Mr Knowles said pensively. "I shan't try to persuade him again."
daughter perhaps from The majority chronic catarrh and sncezing of people realise thot Gome attacks without it being accom- Most people have, though have allergies and, as a result, panied by an ordinary cold," there are some who will cat can suffer from conditions like anything. I'm in the hay fever or asthma. Benvenger class, but vast majority have a real distaste for one or more articles of food. Some just can't take coconut or liver or raisins or shellfish or well, you can add to the list yourself.
Generally a dislike of certain four is the result of faulty training in childhood, or family habit, or simply a matter of pure whim.
On the other hand, few know that an allergy to a particular food can closely mimic the ymptoms of a duodenal ulcer or an appendicitis, or gall blad- der disease or so-called colitis,
STRAWBERRY RASH
"Some people come out in a rash after eating certain foods like shellfish or strawberries,"
R
Mr Knowles agreed, "but I've never Tash Sometimes, though, the ft.
after drink- expression "One man's found ing wine. is another man's poison" is just been this literally true, For some, abdominal
strawberries and cream is equivalent to red arsenic and strychnine,
Certainly it was for Mr
Knowles, who came to me last week. At least,
strawberries
wasn't.
It's
pain."
explained
t
a
allergy, to
food does not
necessarily re-
yeal itself in
нее
it
a rash,
of
summer.
All to a doctor's day: by
CEDRIC CARNE
of
To prove that Mr Knowle really had allergy to grapes I suggested he eat a reasonable quad him. The response to
of them to see if they
an incompatible food is usually detected within a few minutes 10 two hours after eating.
the symptoms may However, develop as long as 16 hours later.
This time lag was true for Mr Knowles. As a result of the grape-eating test I had to keep hirn in bed for a couple
of
days. Unfortunately, when his
friends heard he wasn't well they all brought him bunches of gropes.
"Chocolates," he said desper- ately, "I just love chocolates."
"The
"However, Just before LAS
"Now if Private Wilson had referred to his little regulations book he would have observed there are certain itoms acquired whilst on overseas service which one is not allowed to take back to the United Kingdom."
P. M. and me
Indred, one patient mine had an apparent attack with appendicitis on three succes- him but grapes. Like sive
Saturday afternoons last A surgeon was con- others, it was probable that his refusal to cat certain ted and it was arranged for him to have his appendix re- moved. the Anal
arrangements were completed, I discovered thus he same age we hath eaten cherry tart for lunch some problems in on each of these Saturdays,
such as filling in a form from the Ministry of Pen- sions.
foods was a protective de- vice. It saved him from being ill.
"Rubbish," he said to me, "the only reason I don't ent
"You see he had n
strong grapes and ruisins
allergy to cherries, but he never simply because I don't like once had a rush," I spid. them."
he drank
even
is
different from
the Prime Minister see her birth certificate and and I are about the marriage lines, and asks for ber
must have address "f
youts,' common In Part C the form, scenting a scandal, becomes more art more suspicious. It wants to know if
SUTTE
you
Well, isn't that the strangest thing?
"This form is beginning to wonder (1) Was your wife born of a regular union? (2) Were you ever married to her at all? and (3) Are you both on the
can enclose your wife's level?" birth certificate and requires a straight answer "Yes" or "No,"
As it goes on with its bully. At No. 10 ing questions it selims to be waying "O.K..
No you can't produce her birth certificate, can't you? lines either, hey? What have you been Up to all these
wioked pair?
Or her marriage T
was while I was reading all these questions that I wondered how the Prime Minister and his wife were deal. ing with them and thought up
"Really, Harold. That's merely insolent.
"But it's all in Debrett's, darling. Shail We put down 1000?"
"You must remember, Doro- thy, that this form goes to all Some men of a certain age. might bo bachelors and there must be some who....well, we won't go
into that. So don'
The next take It personally. question. Your wife's full name, Lady Dorothy Evelyn Caven- dish. They also want to know your address if different from
mine."
"I suppose they've found out that sometimes you're in Down- ing Street or Chequers while ' in Surrey, What do they infer from that?"
"Nothing
all, Dorothy. Just a routine question, as the poilce say. What was the date of your birth?"
"Thia is really too much,
This form, presumably sent to all male citizens approaching When Mr Knowles asked me the time when they will be But I pointed out to Mr why some people suffered from enütled to a retirement pension, Knowles that
thol time allergies I told him
the asks 10 questions, most of them every
Important predisposing | rather personal and small most
factor was heredity. Approxi- which sensitive
people might amount of wine he later mately 60 percent of allergie regard as rude. Bummoned me to his hed- patients have an allergie family Part A begins by asking
"ATC of abdominal story.
married?" Having
Harold." Perhaps you can remember 10 trapped you 10 answering the date of her birth, the day, a strange and improbable scene "Yes"
(if you are) the form month, and year?
at No. 10 Downing Street. then becomes suspicious. It "No?
"But Then what were her begins to wonder your wife 15
full name at birth, her father's pension, of full hat the allergies in
really your wife and not one ຕ
her mother's full botheri name, the need be the same," 11
people like nume, many women
her mother's maiden "We should be the last 10 "For instance,
old King Saud of Arabia are surname?
shirk our duty 49 citizens, suffer muy
supposed to keep as pets,
of Dorothy We should get an ex- them, huh? Not by putting ample. Now for the first ques- your two old heads together? tion. Are we married?”
side because symptoms.
"You see the relation-
THEY CAN DIFFER
ship, don't you,
between
"No
grapes and wine?"
ed.
I ask family.
continued. father
from hay
He did of course. Yet he still fever, his son on occasione from did not believe that he was an irritable skin condition, and
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Part B wants to know your wife's name in block letters, to
T
"Can't remember
wt shan' need the
Harold,
why
WILLIAM BARKLEY says:
"Yes, and put down the day and the month. Then perhaps they can read my koroscope."
"And where were you bom, dear? Town, parish, street, or road?"
"Put
down the Mile End
"Anything else?" "Your mother's full name, dear.""
"Strangely enough her name was the Duchess of Devonshire because she was properly mir- Tied to my father the duke, and no hanky
Each panky. Road,"
night he would scrub the bar- "Don't get cross, darling. του and cach Your full name at birth and your father's name?"
The ninth Duke of Devon- shire. He had a barrow in
Petticoat Lane, and I was born
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a tenement building just round the corner."
"Do try to be serious, dear,
the also want to know They date of our marriage, the place of our marriage, including the name of the bullding."
would get up being sha
dawn 'to cook the duke's favourite break- fast of stroked haddock and poached eggs, and see him of to market. She wore a coronet while cooking the laddock. Put that down.”
“I think you are a little over-
tired, dear. Perhaps we can by agen tomorrow."
(World copyright.)
Nathaniel Gubbins
This Diary of Alanbrooke's- I prefer to concentrate on one event--for what a moment it was!
1.
Alamein
HE darkest hours of the war were the last week of October 1942: True, the dawn was at hand. But in this week nobody knew that...
Churchill has said that in general before Alamein wo had no victories and after Alamein no defeats.
We knew we were low down when that battle opened on October 23, but during the long week when the battle was un- determined we were not to know we had touched bottom.
A PICTURE Millions REMEMBEŃ—” GOING IN BEHIND THE TANKE,
A FIELD-MARSHAL GIVES HIS VERSION OF EXACTLY WHAT
ALANBROOKE
Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1941-6, "The Turn of the Tide,"
Bir by Arthur Bryant (Collins, 309.).
based out today, is Alanbrooke'n war diaries.
an
This has always seemed to me, to be the most exciting moment. in all British history. And now, in a book which opens
wide windows on the war, we are taken right into the Cabinet, right into Winston's bedroom, Minister if there was another und shown a general's view of defeat. our topmost men labouring under
events.
DEFEATS
·
HAPPENED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS AS THIS SO-DECISIVE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT
to whip up Menty. Brooke curbs who could eva win one single his impatience,
battle, etc., etc.? On October 14, Monty sends Brooke his plan of thu
Churchill is still itching to send
him.
J
'UNKNOWN'
himself
LINK
sold:
JEXT day Brooke was inspect-
or
trogeath.
for the
Test
..
"The loneliness of those tonight and I am putting every- moments of anxiety, when there thing I con into it. It wo is no one one can turn to, have to succeed it will be the end of be lived through to realise their Rommel's army." battle, to be shown to no one, SL Arthur Bryant, never intense bitterness."
ON AIR That night at 11:30 Brooke unneces his hurry-up message. To soothe obtruding him, Brooke imparts the secret, sarily into the book, has already was again sent for by Churchill.
"He was
specially nice. Refer- to be told to 10 one. Churchill built up a picture of this Brooke tells Eisenhower,
Med hot ste to have who until now was almost un- rag to Middle East he "I rubbed his iniquity into known to the ordinary man Would
which (cu this occasion) includes accepted the offer of command sion at Andover, Wanted co the him." Brooke wrote in his diary,
I made to you and be out there telephone by the War Office. "and he was very nice and me.
and meant "Rommel's situation is
des- repentant and said he would An Ulsterman, at this time now?' I said 'Yes'
perate." Brooke says he felt send for Eisenhower at once lo aged 59, of clear, decisive mind, it
"And he said 'Smuts lold me that he trod on air · staccato of speech, his tongue impress necessity for security on flickering round his lips, im- your reasons,
that you of the day. (Airbomel) thought you could serve your The following moming, back Now we come to October 23, patient of the inexpert.
He faces the Prime Minister country best by remaining with in London, he was greeted by Brooke is told that the Battle of and his Ministers. He explains me, and I am very grateful for the Prine Milster with the Alamein is engaged. He puts in the first three days of the battle. this decision.'
news that Hitler had ordered his the stresses of these immense To August Churchill, with his diary: "It may be the turn- Brooke, went to Cairo and
ing point of the war. If it falls offensive tactics the first prin-
to choose between victory Had they forgotten that in all cleaned up the Arrgy aden- I don't quite know how I shall ciple was to re-form the striking stration. Churchill offered the bear it.'
From his diary: "P.M. de- lighted...The Middle East news reserves? That was what Monly
"This forged 0170 more link has the was doing in withdrawing troops
making of the vart between him and me. He is the victory I have been praying from the line.
for TN the 10 months since his op- heartbreaking.
He said he was satisfied with most dimoult man I have over: It "Torch (the thrtist from pointment an Chief of the
He recalls today that he can the course of the battle and was served, but thank God for having Algiers) succeeds, we are begin- He Imperial General Staff, Sir Alan
confided to Smuts that, still see himself at his writing convinced that Monty was pro- given me the opportunity of ning to stop losing this
trying to serve such a mass ka a
we had Alan having learned to work with the table in his Westminster Gardens paring for his next blow, Brooke
failed again (now Viscount brooke) had seen no Allied suc- tempestuous Churchill, whom he flat making that entry and re- Smuts was there. He expressed crials such as the one this coun- should have had little else to adored, he felt he could serve maining seated, staring into entire agreement with Brooke's try is going through" (Brooke's miggest beyond my rallet by
someone with his
opinions. To Brooke the words. Diary, October 20, 1942).
fresh ideas, country better by staying at space. The Russians were driven Churchill's side.
Monty in August had promised of Smuts were oll on troubled
Who
about this. (Brooka retained his topmost was right back to Stalingrad, Our con- Alexander wha appointed. Brooke he would amaste Rommel waters.
battle? Four days had still to post throughout the war:)" voys to Murmansk were gunk. Brooke.
Mont- la, seven days. After three days recommended
But observe
erve this. Brooks did pass, Monty had written Brooke. On November & the remnants the second time we had gomery to command the Eighth ho was bogged down.. On the not know! He was guessing letter telling of his own dis of the Afriks been thrust back across Africa Army, Churchill, for strong seventh day Brooke is sanmoned. He confesses now: "I had my eppointment, and were now standing on the reasons of Eighth Army sent to Churchill and met with a. own doubts but there had to be not reach Brooke til later.
Happily this did retreat, Bryant were a full
German end eight Itailan divl border of Egypt, The Mediter ment, appointed Golt,. se storm of reproach. The diary kept entirely to myself. I tried On November 2 ho gets a slons had coused to exist, and ranoan was clored.. Malta could In 24, hours Gott was killed, reconis............
at that conference to maintain letter from Monly: "A real. General Alexander we able to not be relieved.
Monty was appointed. There is an inevitableness about its mon allowing the battle to be doing an exterior of complote: con- hard and very bloody fight has cable the Primer we able to
to peter out↑ „fidence. It had worked. Con- gone on for eight days. It has out the bell!" Twenty-five voles had been Brooket
(It was always my Monty:
been a terrifle party and a com- Brooke wrote to Monis: - "L cast against Churchill In cen-
By September we see tears he was out of favourly what idence had been restored.
I had told them what I plete slogging match...Romanel am glad that I succeeded la sure of his central direction of of frustration running down Now, Churchill stormed, thought. Monty must be doing, has had to dance entirely to my making a gunner of you" and the war one Tory, Earl Winter Churchill's face. Why does not Monty was withdrawing troops neid I knew him well, but there suna A
that you fully realize the im ton, saying that our immortal Mouly: get busy?. None of his from the line. Was this all he was just that possibility that I" "I think he is now Hips for a portance of this am Ran Churchlil should become Foreign, generals will fight. He is for intended, a half-hearted batilef was wrong, and that Monty was real hard blow which may topple : Churchill: wald: "It is the end. Bebrotáry under another Filme isending o talegreen to Alexander. Had we not got n’single general boat.
'hilm off his perch. It is going in of the beginning. My
себя.
For
command to Brooke. In his brisk, clipped style he sharply refused although to do so. 1958
DELAY
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