THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 18, † 1957. ".
Roll up and step along please.
AT THE DUKE'S
THE thunderstorms of the past day or so have cleared on. It is interrupted by a A lively little bay has wielded
The then in the wooth from frighton to Boyner. But disastrous-sounding crash. the Sussex holiday trade has, of course, carried on-and- a teling blow with a plastic toy nowhere so notably as in Arundel, where the castle is windmill at a bronze statuctio of Queen Victoria, Her crown open from Monday to Friday.
In the car park outside are more than a dozen motor conchies
at 2s a time and a long line of cars (41 18.). rain dripping depressingly on to the roots,
The cccupante atara glumly of the casUe Gut at the walls
an estimated which draws 100,000 visitors a year and which of the this summer, because Private Bill promoted by its occupant the Duke of Norfolk, has became the most talked-of stately home in the land. Tho controversial clause in the Di- in prosorve Arundel in perpetulty home for the Earl Marshala England has just been dropped.
ES
:
of
A pause in the shower caures a dash from the ear park and
the remarkable spectacle
of
cohorts of holidaymakers rush- ing the Duke's battlements lice an uprising of vilcins in plastic maca,
Cut-rates
They queue to pay 21-cut- rates compared with most state- ly homes. At the admission hul large man is brightly booming: "Guide book 16. Get your guide book here." He also offers t assortment of castle postcards for 6d. and for 5s, a device 10 views of through which Arundel can be reen in 3-D.
No 3-D enthusiast comes for ward, but which the rain fulls more heavily there is a aqueleby rush rose the grass to the Duke's little tea and Jep-crcom stall.
れ
Arundel Cortia.
All may not be what it seem
by
JOHN WATERMAN
This all may not be what it seems. But that does not deter the cerchords of visitors, The main thing is that Arundel looks Ye Oldeste of Ye Olde.
In wonder
Corsequently at Arundel, as at any sletely home with for older masonry, there is a great deal of
forelock-touching cakes mental
es sighisvers ille reurd, and signs of remarkable wonder at an array of the most miscellaneous cb-
from the head of jees. Brahmin bull, Inscribed "Arundel Park 1015," to a sedan chair in en advanced slage of senility,
Here a dozen people huddle together chewing sticky and looking like Highland cattle ruminating is the rain. "I'll ring the Duke for a car," Eays man solemnly, between mouth- Juls.
never
one
But rain
detcrs the English in their grim and Inde- fatigable quest for holiday enter- ininment. Scores of people plod, run, puff up the hill towards the caslle.
remains unshaken, but the pen is brought clattering she used down in its showerse.
"How about reducing my chargos as I've got a threà quinoa rise in the House of Lords? Certainly not,'
Canada Gets Edgy
VERY scat in
the
E Viscount is taken. The
stewardess, not as pert or polished as the lighly American brand, walks down the aisle and says to
DON IDDON'S DIARY
The came boy asks later: "What does he do?" in front of richly the of a portrait bewhiskered 16th Duke of Nor folk. "You'll learn when you grow up." says his mother with rather unnecessary mystery. The 15th Duke, the present Duke'n each passenger: "Is this States is trying to dominate to watch out or they will become father.
the rebuilder Wis
of your
Arundel.
He was a Sheffield industrial Lord Mayor of that magnate, city, and founder of its univer- Ilis intimate connection sity.
frst trip in a Canada.
It has Rolls- Viscount? Royce engines and is turbo-propeller aeroplane."
En Route from Ottawa to New York
Just before I boarded the plane I was handed a tear sheet from a forthcoming issue of Fortune magazine, which would be en sale the following week. Fortune, a Henry Luce publica fica, is the top business magazine of the United States ud is directed to the executive with
tenants of their own country.
✡
vete culcykig one Toronto Investment analyst said, to bave a neighbour that wants every
how lucky thing and tells you
have him os are to you partner," "
ΑΝ
Loyalty
ND other important publica-
tà
At Canada will join the-ster- other highly ling bloc or any exclusive trading organisation.
Canada
elcee is mere
Diekabaker Triton tider than under St, Laurent, but Canadians naturally and rightly put Canada first,
REPORT FROM WASHINGTON
But Who
Will Guard
The Guard?
The population of the Do-
old-fashioned two-fisted minion is now 16,000,000, com- JAMES WECHSLER, the editor of the "New York paned with 150,000,000 Ameri- cans below the border,
The colossus of the US. over- Poat," called this "The Age whelms Canada and frightens of Suspicion." But even he some Canadians. Like Australia. must have been surprised Canada murt populate or perish, when he got around to the
Canada 'can take millions
Two years ago, when I flow in lary range of anything betons, including the Neto more, feed them, clothe them small type in the report of un Viscount from New York to tween $20,000 and $100,000 or- York Times, are worried about and make them prosperous the Committee Bit up to
I complament Trans Canada with Shemeld is commemorated Airlines on their scuse of publi- In many places at Arundel, butity. cowhere more strikingly than in where
there is a the library
and litle
the crew Toronto, small silver spade wheelbarrow, delicately carved craft failed inlaid and encrusted with sliver that, this was a new, advanced XVI- These mark the occasion of His
unique in its held,
Lu the Barona' Hall the awe is almost tangible. Whistles and a background murmur of "I say, just look here," accompanies cach sight of heavy
а
of the air- put over the fact more a year.
A florid man, with cyes staring century furniture, the pleasant Grace "eulting the first sod of type of plane, British made pad spent months in Crosda travel. "Canada, expected like chapel hat-pegs, pants at Jast with a push-chale full of but not remarcable portzalis, the Sheffield District Railway, children over the drawbridge the two gigantic fireplaces like November 20, 1898.
and under the portcullis. He pauses and looks eagerly round At the profusion of battlements, it turrets and arrow sills s expecting to hear a tucket sound and see at least a joust or two,
The telly
blast-furnaces in stone, and the 1011, thickners of well narrow- ing to crrow-slits-glazed with leaded light.
For charity
Open market
Then suddenly his eyes seem ranges lovingly over the acreage the Duke again in the lovee dress | British goods is not merely ive relationa problem. Besides tra-
look into the question of American Cradlan relations, they work hard,.
bo headlines reading Some of my mail has been "national accurity"
Who would have thought that A team of Fortune, writers with
to be cooler forwarded to me and I must
If I offended British the committed composed of u
by ling from coast to coast, inter- towards U.S. under new chief."
forecasting lot of eminent and on the whole susceptibilities
men-could We must not automatically apologise viewing hundreds of people la
to expect Canada embrace that American headlines during pretty reasonable
have suspected the people who the big cities, Montreal, Quebec, Britain because of the estuage the royal visit would read: work for federal judges? Toronto, Vancouver. Winnipeg.
The committee, at excruciating towns, Medicine ment with the United States, "Liz beams as Phil winks," and the little
typical letter from K. G. H. tongth, goes into the wonderful URING the past two years Hat, Sherbrooke, Sudbury, Pen- The policy in Canada is loyally
not docility to Britain.
Walker, says:
always opportunities for subvandon en- British Viscounts have be- brooke, Three filvers.
There are two big issues thought that you were an intel-joyed by judges clerks. came the most famous com- The tear sheet is headed
These bright young men and but since reading The last
of US. looming up between Britain and ligent man, TOOM contains enmmercial aircraft the New "Creado's resentment
the rubbish you have written sober old men often write the In the Duke's dining-room.
exhibition of ceremonial robes World.
is growing. Domination by U.S. Canada: one of several private rooms
for
Irritant."
1. Immigration. Canada netds about there being a Liz and decisions which Federal Judges cven Supreme Court We can rejoice in this British firms a prime and manilcs, admission Od. the 10
our Royal and It sold: opened intermittently
"A growing 'ak-
a steady Bow of immigrants to Philp' attitude to in
have changed my Justices hand down as their public, the man with protruding charity. Here are the Duke and triumph.
Coneda has sustain her national expanalon. Family of Norfolk in wax, I got the streng Impression in Americanism'
Our Queen is a conse. own. They also prepare bricis eyes appears. His medieval vision Duchess
einthed in Coronation robte, aleo Canada thal the market for posed the Vulted States with a
and she would like a largo pro- mind. and for gigzatle is apparently restored. His gaze
urgent public portion to be of British stock. crified person et spart and ter the judges, unearth
Many Canadians feel that above us all, and che, should ccdents and prepare, from the acknowledged sources, precis of green carpet and tall, gothic of the Earl Marshal of England. such expensive and
productions as the Viscount, but ditional, polities) and emotional Britain has become uneasy over remain that way." "I'll bet," he says,
of the windows.
Canadian the outflow of "Wonderful, wonderful," says for a whole range of products issues much
some of her bes:
The committee points out that, The other letters were ex-legal opinion on disputed issues, come historic ¿con "they've got this has
cunning and now dis- tremely cordial, and my thanks given enormous toward the U.S. a man going down the stairs from cars to chocolate bars it is resentment
the
1wo
bus uces
ill-will, exit, past
and young brams and is
the clerks entred co
to their writers. towards
supreme scenes."
wide open.
couraging emigration.
This is the last Diary for could easily make a first class stuffed golden eagles and past The Canadians want to buy economic relationships.
2. Trade. The new Canada a fine collection of the swords, British.
have not "The fact that Americans con-
the beach in
One would think, however, pikes and suits of armour that awfully red of buying Ameri- trol a huge share of Cenedlatt wants greatly increasta trade several weeks as I plan to loaf muck-up of judicial processes.
outside
that the odds against thẫm must been the spring with Britain and within the in a cottage on rza year after until they have lusity has
But so for countless editorials Commonwealth. But there is Westhampton, Long Island,
be pretty stupendous the battlements
a point board never seen used in anger.
founit themselves at
See you sometime in August, a remote possibility
little does the committee trust where they feel that the Ualled and speeches warning Canadians not even
its fellow countrymen that it -(London Express Servicej.
now proposes that the clerks should be subjected to loyalty, investigations.
about to leave their sockets,
"Cer," he says. the telly." The top of a turret brates with a TV fast. The man's children, who have been crying, sizat gurgling hopefully. but his own view of mediaeval Arundel
severely
thalten.
been
balle-
'Our George'
Van Dyck.' never-
of
The procession continues down curridor full of portraits Yet the Duke's 20th-century the Duke's ancestors. "Evelyn. TV acrini is only incongruous in look here-it's a sppearance. Arundel, in fact, is "A Van Dyck, well I really the most notable castle of doesn't it look like our George?" the 20th century. Its ments, turrets and arrow slite- most of the fabric, except the at Arundel, du Queen Victoria keep, Inner gateway and 13th- did-in a part of the castle now century
Barbican towers--date restored. Her bed is on view back no further than the period with relies of her visit in 1846, 1890-1903, when the castle was Some aurreptitious testling
1846 standards of comfort goes rebuilt.
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touches), as to build sky-scraping towers. (One religious eccentrie devolod his life to building a Lower
which was supposed to
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It does not seem to have o5- curred to the committee or lo any but a few of the newspapers which have been arguing the point that, unler vmcbody fruste somebody, government on ory level must willmotely be- coma imposible.
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POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERT LANCASTER
Sometimes, of course, foilles
A philosopher I know hus. ROBABLY
were merely cloaks or excuses other some remote lordly manor, but
for something else, as we have
Indood suggested that the whole country, with the ex- nt Gillingham, Kent, and now surrounded by houses and sub-
acen in the case of Medenham thing is going to become mighty ception of modern urban streets.
Abbey. So it was in the case of | dimeuit. For somebody must reach Heaven). Later Treshim embarkod on a
Dr. William Price, the Charlist, vratigate the loyalty of the America, can boast such a
Jezreel's Templo as planned more ambitious folly worked
There was
that odd Duke of who practised Druidie rites people who investigate loyalty. fuscinating array as Britain
whoce underground dressed, so it was suid, na And somebody slao has to in posscases of sham castles, by its founder, a hot-gospeller around the figure 5 in the shape
called James Jersham Jezreel, of a cruciform, but this was Portland fairy grottoes, labyrinths, was breath-taking. Measuring never finished. His is only one follies which at one time ran to white tunic, scarlet waistcoat vesugate the first investigator
of innumerable in- a suite of libraries, glass houses, and green trousers and wearing and so on lo infinity, Alas, tho
a fox's columns, artificial over 100 feet wide, and 100 feet example
eidin on his head and number of Americans is finito... towers,
dividual experiments wherein chambers, and a vast ballroom, shoulders he built a sham
·By Alexander 'Broad prise three chcular galleries what may have begun as a folly
The castle át Glyntaff (incidentally brick-and-mortar jokes.
built around a huge rotating obviously took complate posses. part of it under a lake.
on land that wasn't his) mainly Bion of its creaton's interest. corridors linking these were preacher's platform. Jezreel be-
connected by small railway because he regarded it as the Although moat were loved himself to be God's last
as leader of the Some three centuries later, track along which food was ancient burial place of the
Druids (for indeed the emissary, and
and wished to practise created majority approached works New and Later House of temel around 1960, a financier who brought. The Duke must have his rics there.
be believed that it was his mis- ultimately crashed, Whitaker had a good deal of fun out of his of art) in the eighteenth son to gather together 144,000 Wright Sequired a large house hobby, for he had also a refle Then, from a still more practi- and nineteenth centuries, a descendrate of the 12 tribes of and estate in Surrey, Witley long tunnel partly under a lake, cal angle, there was Lauttrell's Court: His Caney took a down through which he could drive in Tower at Eagleburst, Hampshire have fernel who would live forever. surprising number
word tung a spiral of concrete a closed carriage to Worksop bullt almost opposite Cowes survived.
The purpose of the Tomple with an Inner laing of glas, Stations there to be put straight on the isle of Wight and pro-
a circular was to provide to assembly place pinking down into
served to this day. The existenze
tho beach, They
plus of a path were, in general, the for this colossal gathering, and room, with a second room below on to the train for London. whims of rich men, bored with
the rotating platform, so it was that behind this a long chamTM
Sir Francis Dashwood's taste several, venient cellars, en- life. Aristocrats like tho Duko
sold, would accommodate ber whose fourth wall opened
in talking every into a tunnel leading to a dis- follies was nicely balanced courages bellet in the popular of Norfolk, Lord Bathhurst, the
preachers
between underground and over legend that while people gazed Earl of Lacoln, or Sir Francis language at once! Fantastic as tant lake..
head. At Modenham Abbey noor et the folly above, from below a Dashwood and members of his
the idea was, the organisara-wero
Henley, he and his fellow mem- highly lucrative smuggling busal- famous Hell-Fire Club these in deadly earnest, and even after
bors of the Hell-Fire Club bad siess was carried on. were the men who took up the Jezreel's death the building wont
the former Abbey converted into rather strange hobby, often vying on, the main temple, shops,
a seal den of iniquity, with with one another to behlove the schools and cater werd tulit, Water lay in the foot of the series of huxuriously appointed rod altogether £90,000 was tumel, and from here, Wright eetly for the "friars" (1.0. Hilco Lod spent before money ran out and used to row a boat out into the raken of the day,
Bu follies do not often descend GROTTO he seat disintegrated.
lake, in the middle of which Sandwich, Wilices, Baron Mel Rushton Triangular Lodge was stood a second building made of
debauches wero held.
They are more often placer of the "weird and wonderful", Incredible sums of money were another, monument to recent glass to a strange design, from combe Wollelt). Here immens into the sphere of worlds
Sir Thomas Treshorn of which a walic could be taken
It was quite common for mos entirely without rhyme or couBOA sometimes involved. The Earl city. of Lincoln's grotte at Callands, Rushton in Northamptonstire under the water, watching the Surrey, built over a period of was a leading Roman Catholie ah, through a gines for vin bitten by these strange arohitoliko Ralph Allen when paallo ten years in the middla ot: the of the late sixteenth carry other tunnel back to the tural ambitions to rival each that sharply outlines the horizon other in the height of the tower above the city of Bath.*Or pet- which they built, Typioal of hope there was a robson to eighteenth century, cost well and he developed an almost 200 over £40,000. A 70-foot tower Obsessive interest- in the neuro
allt byr Las first Viscount Hall-3. This roached its Chandon Jolly creator's Ideas were de these towers, in the whiskailty shock, to samme, to Hiven. Toe fax at Recton, Susecx, ran into in the creation, of a stone build-, likely to run underground as of its conception, was Parroll's day, it seems, we not other, ing with three equal, rides buch elsewhere. It was just as bizarre Folly at Bogbaston, Warwick- more horrific forms of folies; su Aver figures GD WEIL..
three yerda loog. Along the top by mohlavament, in tunnel, outshire a seven-floured tower that intood it' is a quist, pleasure . But perhaps the most costly, of the walls were three the so- sirmatoves and, neveme and built by John Perrott in his old by corees to reviest, the padder, As well be fantastio of those by-theen triangles. There, ware sucre chansers (often fined age solely that he could son him more light-hearted
and thousanda wife's travo, in,m obisphyned 'ten : droamed up by our ancestora... und bulk, parwimiválky to bret. buildings, was the "Bababoyant ! three doder with three windows with Jewele
shette: and... / other' milom ustsky." wwwod Thinpia, vitnated mot in' ohi osch side. The Windows' of
fantasy.
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