THE
BOOK
PAGE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1957.
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
PAC Bismarck thought Victoria's daughter
was
THE ENGLISH EMPRESS.
Egon Саевде Conte Cassell, 426, 408 pages.
THE
vf
a spy
By Excellent pentimenta in
Corti. Engilsh princess, but thoughts
.... 100 HOURS TO SUEZ. By Robert Henriques, Collins. 18, 264
'pages.
better hidden by the wife of a Prussian prince, a future Ger- MIE Empress was Vic- man Empress, Victoria was not toria, ekiest daughter good at hiding what she felt,
Tactless, bustling. arrogant, Qugen Victoria She
Victoria plungext, Ullastully and married Frederick, eldest
unconsciously on, treading 011 of the first son
German every German Loe. When Bis- became marck established a few colonies and emperor,
in Afrien, she wrote from Pols mother of the Kaiser.
dam to her mother; "I do not the Prince wonder that our British Colonies Her father, Consort, Was disliked in are curaged by this ridiculous because he was holating of the German Bag In Britain
all sorts of places, It is too serions-minded and Gorman, She. Victoria, was detested
German
had Junkers in Germany because she feared her Englishness. She did
and everything she could to justify with the help of letters sent by he. their alarm, Her husband, heir the Quern at Windsor to
In 1944 these letters 10 the German
daughter throne, excluded from the highest dis- were in a German castle
WAA
English.
beral-minded
She resembled her mother in impulsiveness and
BEAT,
brake
With
SING
with the
ISRAEL, Is the modern nation-in-arms. The Sparta of the 1950s. No other people is capable of such swift and complete mobilisation. And no other nation will put up a better fight in a short war.
writer
How Israel
the desert
allowrice
won
war
not lose
10
for the pride with Arabs number 50 million. What More than that would be pure cooled himself by writing this surmise. But so much can be account of the fighting.
which Henriques very properly does it matter," said the King of bald with assuranca after the
He has written it by piecing glows as he records the warlike Saudi Arabia, "If we loso 10 record of the Sital campaign.
million, provided wa wipe out together verbal narratives given deeds of Israel's army. Robert Henriques, no English him by various Israeli
Israel?" com One reason uneenventional mon of Jewish faith, a distin- manders,
11- The Israeli soldiers fought as Cheaply won guished professional soldier, a dividuals of whom he provides
descriptices, The Well as they did for one over- of fre and sensitivity, plcturesque
The Arbs did prrived too late for the war be reader will be impressed by the Whelining reason: it was who or million. Israel has not been tween Israel and Egypt. He has story, after he has made all due be exterminated. Excuses can be wiped out.
put forward for the failure of the As turned out, the Sinal
# Egyptians:
The offers in Nasser's anny Gaza, held by 8,000, was taken at campaign was won very cheaply. Explanation a cost of 10 Israeli dead. of a Lieut. col. Neguib for his Heritiques's account is grob- fallure to resist concluded: ably uncritical; is inevitably "Point three my men are no co-sided in its sourceS of in- good," The men distrusted the formation. But the campaign officers. It would be hard to say it narrates in such vivid, partiaun
British
despised the men, Crossword Puzzle
which party was the more detalls is certainly one of the justifed in its feeling.
most remarkable in military So when Egyptian officers said, history. in efect: "The enemy is upcti
us feel" the men buried their ness
Henriques rays that a weak- of the present Israeli
uniforms in the sand, took off government is its contempt for their army boots and lett at a "public
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13
sharp
tret for home.
14
15
16
17
18
The
Israelis wore
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THE EMPRESS Treading on every German too.
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22.
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BACK HERE
ML
her cussions of polley. She was quisitioned by American troops. father in intellect. Not colled a spy by Bismarck, WII- anly did she read Marx's Das Kupitul but she sent an MP she knew to interview the author. The report was "No truce of favourable:
*10
the Anxious about their safely, told George VI sent over Sir Owen be Mueshead, who brought them to
England. There they remained und 1962 when, through Queen Mary's influence, they were sent buck to Germany so that Corti
ilam, her his parents, utherl Junkers party Kond
ho
Tsur: alarmed by anything you hear He is under from my father, tay mother's thumb avt she, in bitterness or savagery. ... turn, la gulded by the Queen of It will not be he who
will England. turn the world upside down," Victoria was convinced.
not
Readers of Count Corti's book will not doubt that there some truth in the charge.
WIN
The
could read them.
31
32
ACROSS
DOWŃ
1 Allain (5).
1 Send (5),
4 Fondie (6).
2 Confuse
B Fruit (0), 10 Rub
Hub out (5). 12 Reposed (0)
must put
down here (7).
in German his book is called IF Victoria's father-in-law
to over 90; if Like her mother,
she royalties of that era, interlocked had not lived
by marriages, plagued by their Victoria's husband had not died adored and ruled ber hus- own
emotional of cancer after reigning 99 days; headstrong,
the if Victoria's liberal leas tand. and quarrelled with natures, were in chains to
pravidled in the land she wedded which they embodied - her eldest son. In her case, force
Taral never adopted-everything They were Britain or Prussin would have been so different. one or Württemberg. They wore intolerably crowns that were heavy, held scepires they could hardly lift and wore orders they still have surged up, excited and 27 Homicide (6). had not won. Ministers were self-assertive, their servants,
still have William
the Curse of the House of
by Guelph,
which generation is at odds with before it, the generation had acquired an added tinc- ture of malignance.
BETTER HIDDEN
German nationalism was touchy and prone to hysteria- and Victoria was Intensely Eng- lish: "When one is obliged to Ive always elsewhere, one be comes daily and hourly alive to the immense superiority of Eng- land in a thousand things!"
shy
But would it?
Germon
nationalism
jcamned when in beer (5).
3 Action (5),
5
your
fool
17 Dispose of for money (4). 10 Charges with crime (7). 20 Reduce to ashes (7), 22 Brave man (4). would 23 Revising (7).
Bismarck would 20 Steeple (5). ruled. And Prince 30 Territory (0), would still have 31 Fears (6).
the Junkers' band- 32 Stalks (5).
But when the Minister was, Jumpol on
behind waggon.. Bismarck with, him, the ambition of a hungry nation late-arrived at the table The story of the ideas, marri- of power, then everybody know age and who ordered and who obeyed.
Corti
this vrole
frustrations of the English Empress, here unfolded
on the too narrow front of rather politics, is an unhappy one. But wooden study of the political it is not the tragedy of a great shipwreck of an English princess Might-Have-Been.
0 Dodges (6).
I Told (7).
divine
relations." His book
does something to restore the better je propaganda balance. Describing handling mechanical objects like a war, it demonstrates that h aeroplanes, trucks and machine the Middle East a new, anall, running, very tough Power has come lato
guns. Two years
Henriques recalls, co Israeli being.
passed out top at in RAF flying school, while an Egyptian possed out bottom.
An
• THE HITLER I KNEW.
impressive advantage held By Otto Dietrich, Mothuen, by Istuel was the
speed and 18s. 277 pages, After the emciency of her mobilisation. familiar hand-washing whteliy She was and happily is associates of Hitler deem a need- dangerous situaticu, She could fut preliminary to their remini- allow herself only a few days to sconces ("revelations of the
Egyptian destroy deployed against her; after that esities & the concentration she must be in positica to resist Dietrich,
camps opened my eyes," etc.) Hitler's Press chief cnslaught from other members of (1933-1943) writes about the the Arab League.
Intimate life of his coce-loved Two methods
Fuhrer.
the
army
ismael took civilicus from their And care more it becomes homes and launched them into apparent that, socially, Hiler battle in atentry brigades four was one of the great boren of
Inter. days
Sho committed history. Victims of his devuslat- reserve armoured brigades with- kig table-talk must have thought six days of mobilisation. She that the downfall of their coun- used two methods of mobilisa- try was, to some extent, offset lon-"silent" (by word of by relief from this tedious in- mouth) and radio (broadcasting colac rogue.
little here that is both code cames for each group as il There is was called up).
fresh
significent about If the driver of a requisitioned Hiller, He hated newspapera; civilken vehicle wanted to go to his favourite reading was the the war with his truck, he could Red Indiza tales of Karl May so, no matter how old he and the plays of Bernard. Shaw. was. Israel's methods of convert- His arch-enemy was Churchill,
(4).
7 Purloins (8)."
11 Outcome (0).
13 Withdrew from (7),
do
15 Uncommon (4).
16 Tanks, etc. (0).
20 Pursued (6).
21 Fur (0),
24 Fetters (5).
26 Bands (5).
28 Toar (4).
18 Spare (4).
25 Angry (5).
FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD;—Acrose: 3 Despairs, 8 Acre, 9 19 Meriting, 11 Retainer, 13 Slir, 15 Depleted, 18 Surround, Stop, 21 Conspire, 25' Restores, 26 Dene, 27 Dissents. Down: 1 Even, 6 Palr, ở Idiot, 7 Šugar, D Miles, 10 Refer, Far, 2 Fret, 12 Elect, 14 Inner, 10 Tudor, 17 Dress, 10 Shred, 20 Opals, 21 Core, 22 Noat, 29 idea, 24 Ewer.
Labor Day
and
ing a nation into an army might whose speeches he secretly well be studied by other and admired but would never discuss bigger Powers,
He disliked hunting, seriously. The result was that within a swearing he would never harm few hours, israel was trans- so beautiful an animal as the formed. A bridegroom who com- stog plaiced that mobilisation had So the empty revelations pour for the wedding was told: cn, glimpses of the profoundly bride has common mind which, fused with worry. The been called up too. The rabbi a demonic will, produced ari is a chaplain. And all the wed- immense tragedy. Dietrich's re- ding guests are with the anny.” collections (written in 1948) are Israel has a population of a those of a man who is still only million and three-quarters. The half-awakened from the spell.
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