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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958.
IF YOU'VE EVEN FELT ASHAMED AT YOUR TERROR, READ THIS
"I WAS,"
said Stirling Mosa, "absolutely petrified." He was telling how he felt when the steering broke and his car burst over the banking in the Indianapolia-style race at Monza last month.
1 was concluding my analysis of four and the admission war a viini one. For most people be lieve that fear is foreign to the supermen who earn their living in the paths of danger,
And belleving this, they came to feel that their own fears,
whether large or small, are somehow cowardly and shame
ful.
Such people are doing them- selves an injustice. For, says the psychologlat, fene is an instinct. It is inborn. It is perfectly nn tural to feel fear. It is, in fact, protective.
"Were a child. who had never seen alger before in his fe
FEAR
By TERENCE FEELY
Cabinet bunker. He slept 1lken driver or a boxer-can produce child on the very top floor of a similar confidence within limit-
ed ftelds. the building,
"It wasn't brayado. It just to be never occurred to him afraid.".
How does such a man arise on the human scene? What contri- Intes to his enviable mentality?
SAFE
"About Si Anthony I don't know. But it is safe to say that is not that such a man is born without fear. What happens in that the man apparently with gul fear in buoyed up by a sub-
me confidence. A
And the nailons taken Is la so- cordance with one's character and the tradition of action which one's previous life has built up.
There are only four possible courses of action open," says the paychologist. You can run away. You can attack. You can stand, utterly portfysed.
Jtacif
"Or-under the influence of excess adrenalla and the safety al- curtain which the mind to "The boxer," added the psy- ways ready to lower to protect from too much páin, or chologist, "has no fear when he terror-you can faint," goes into the ring. No fear of being hurt, as you or 1 would The rot 1wo possibilities hage. He has the confidence that were classically demonstrated he can defend himself and beat by the Peggs of Wokingham, his opponent.
Mitchell, an escaped Broadmoor
"But most boxers have other fears connected with their trade. Many of them have an obsessive fear of being knocked out in the frat 30 seconds. Just as the greats of cricket fear being bowled with their first ball."
confidence This was confirmed for me by Peter Waierman, ex-British and European Wellerweight Cham- ploh: "I had no physical teas when I went into a ring. What did fear was that I would put up a poor show-box badly.
or been told about them-sud that he is invulnerable, that he denly to come face to face with can handle whatever may tum a Ugo, the instinct would im- up.
narch that mediately operate
Into this.
"One of two of the old-time child would Jeet fear. Its actlen would be protective-warning Czara in Russia came the cd at the tiger meant category," donger,"
DANGER.
NOT PAIN
They were not born without fear. But they were born with endowments supreme pliysical
"And for some reason, I used of strength and daring which, to be terribly afraid of getting a
by the absolute cut eye. Not beenuse of any dan supported
they and power
wielded against ger to my eye, though or be which nobody dared to stand cause of any pain that might be uplent them the illusion that invovled. It was a kind of un- they were inviolate, that there reasoning reaction." was nothing in the world which cold harm them.
For the sophisticate of danger, like Stirling Moss, the protective uction of fent la relined subtly harissey! as part of his mental apparatus.
"Fear," he explained "14 il valuable thing. I loot on it a
which gives a sensitive valve me warning when I have reach-
ed the limit of my ability."
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For in Moss's theory fear
unknown- born largely of the "that's why people are afraid of the night, because bumps in they hart know what is there.
"If the hazards are known and understand and one is confident | that one is equipped to surmount then fear does not arise." The Best Twinge of unxiety tells him hes eginning to outrun
his
skill and be adjusts his driving accordingly.
is
when they were attacked
lunatie.
;
WOULD YOU?
by
Mrs Pegg ran away and hid under the bed. Mr Fogg took a thick alick in his fist and attack-
Their reactions were typical. Most women would have fled. average Most men, with an supply of masculine aggressive- ness, would have attacked,
Which would you have done? Or would you have fainted?
Whatever your answer, you con tlepend on this. It is a ques- tlon which, to greater or lesser extent and in an infinite variety of circumstances, every human being has to answer in reality at some point in their lives.
Nor, in the answering, arc there any privileges of plates or rank.
Unreasoning reaction--this the key to the operation of this Theirs was a confidence which most swamping of emotions. The
For and the thought is covered the whole of life, But object of fear presents Raelf, the the possession of specialised body floods the bloodstream with consoling-in the face of Skills-like those of a racing adrenalin-io stimulate action. fear, all men stand equal,
BEAT!
San Francisco,
"If ever I thought that fear- TN a dimly lit. taler had ceased to work. i
world gir up racing."
PERCEPTIVE
IN cellar
airless white-faced, ageless man with a ragged hair-cut screams unintelli-
Thus Moss's frank and percep-gibly into a microphone. tivg malysts of his own fear-
A Restless New Word In
A Nation's Language
-From- John Monks
muchanism. It is one with which Around the walis of the the psychologist would agree. celtar, their eyes glazed and home and the haunt of America's
The man utterly without fear
is an extremely rare know of only one such inan modern limus. And that is Anthony Eden,
their
mindy seuning Beat generation and these are hypnotised by the endless the Beatniks-ur new barbarians.
drum, sit long- I beat of the Sirhaired girls wearing light block Jumpers, black skirts, and binek stockings.
"He terally does not know the meaning of physical fear. To take just une instance,
brer,
A problem
enost and
ing Golden Cate bridge, and ĺt is worrying pollee and social workers,
The Beatniks believe - in nothing. They see no hope in life and they have no time for roligion or moral values: Their
15: cry
This
planet is careering to its doom, so just leave us alone."
You see the Beetniks in the street, padding along in bare feet and wearing paint-daubed
trousers mimy
and rough woollen Jumpers. They are Young college girls and
Al he stall bar, drinking THE Bent generation is the waitresses and dopa peddlers during vinegary
wine and malty
Jisterul
serious and poets and artisis, Some of the war and at the height of the tasting
urc Negroes, soclal problem in America them work as waiters or crack blitz un London, lie never even Mexicans, and young Americans today. I has begun here in the hard shells of crabs fresh
to the wearing beards. This is the San Francisco consklored going down
the with the gleam- from
steaming pots on Fisherman's Wharf,
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Others dr no work at all but sit around in their favourite cafes or cellars cuting pastrami sandwiches and listlessly playing chess.
ONE
'Don't care'
NE of their leaders is a poet, Allen Ginsberg, whose poem "How?" reflects the hopelessness of the Bent generation.
Another leader is an author, Jack Kerouac, who sums up the creed like this; "I don't low. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference,"
Sometimes the Bealniks erupt into wild parties and leap from roofs or windows to show their contempt for life,
After one of these all-night, whisky-drinking parties a Beat- nikk poel, crab cracker, D3X0- phone player aomed Paul Swanson pitinged to fils death,
The next day his friends sald casually "He's gone, man, He's gone. He's far, far out now. He's in angel."
Now the police are moving in
GUIDE
TO THE SUMMIT
and landmarks along the route
MR. JOHN FOSTER DULLES is President of
the United States
Mr. in foreign affairs. Eisenhower respects his judgment so much in this fleid that he leaves it all to him, interfering never,
Mr Dulles is, not an evil man. He is not a seeker after war But he does not like the idea of Summit tulka He is shocked by the Rusalan acceptance of Mr. Macmillan's proposal for a meeting in New York.
He refuses to believe that anything to which the Russians agree can be good for the West.
Brought up in. the Presbyterian faith and discl- pline, he is the most distin- guished lay member of that community. He holds to the ohilosophy of Calvin and the teachings of Knox. 1
He will not willingly make peace with unrighteousness at the price of principles. 131% masters. Calvin and Knox. rejected elasticity and despised compromise.
Nonetheless, he has to give hearing to the voice of Dublic opinion in the United States and her allied nations where peace is sought and earnestly desired.
MR. KRUSHCHEV is a propagandist without any guiding principles except the benefit and advantage of Russia,
He is an imperialist and coloniser with no Inhibitions.
When he walks down the gangway at Idlewild Airport he will bring with him all the propaganda tricks that he used on his visit to Britain, and win a reluctant admiration from the American people.
He will search for peace. But most of all he will be on the look-out for cameras and reporters.
He is very much in need of a triumph to bring back
to the Russian peopic-even
a propagandu one.
MR. HAROLD
MACMILLAN
is a sincere and loyal man. with experience of wur-63 a soldier in the First War, and as a politician in the Second War.
He is also an actor suT- passing the great favourites of stage and screen.
Hts performances in the
of House Commons musterly. He has won undivided loyalty of Tory Party. On television
no there is
showman 10 touch him.
ате
the
the
By compelling Mr. Dulles to agret to Summit talks he has jerked Britain back to its rightful prominence
in world affairs. Buccess will mean his political security for many years.
MR. JOHN DIEFENBAKER, Prime Minister of
He will Canada, is a wise and cautious man, back Britain's efforts to bring a real settlement at New York.
Midget Trawler
lo raki the cellars where the OING against
the current
Beat generation likes to spend end of building large: its evenings. The drive is on trawlers- two shing concertis
catl
to close down the areas in which the Beat, generation operate, and also to prevent the philosophy of hopelessness from
spreading.
have combined to produce the first midget version brrause they believe I will do more to give the housewife fresher Ash. Just 50 tons and only 781, long Islo is lays than the Summer half the size of most trawlers, but she can catch as much, it not more, in the same time at sen. She can carry only half the UST how dangerous is the catch of her bigger sisters, but
Beat generation, with its
can make two to three trips to siny
Like Soho
1
There are many belligerent. foolish, and unpre dictable men who will also attend the talks.
They may do much to damage and possibly destroy the hope of progress in the discussions.
GENERAL DE GAULLE
is vain and pompous, muddled and obscure.
NEHRU is
awollen with triumph. hypocritical 10 11 degree, and hostile to Britain and the United States, but especially to Britain.
He talks of freedom while keeping
of the lion Kashmir. ex - Premier Sheik Mohammed Abdulla, In prison-without trini, without charge, and without the right of appen! year after year.
What, then Are the chances of success at the Summit ?
I prophesy peace.
With the warning that the objectives of our enemies are first and foremost the con- quest of Sudun, which is the key to Africa, and gives a. dominating position inver the whole continent, und next Kuwait.
Cummings
Consider what the subjugation of these two terri tortes work mean
Sudan is- friendly to Britain.
It controls the Nile, upon which the livelihood of Egypt depends.
It borders on Abyssinia. Uganda. Kenya. and Tanganyika.
It runs beside the Red Sea in the east; and in the west beside the Sabera Desert, where the French expéci to find all the all they need.
It is as large as India, and whoever controla it has An Irre.astible influence Over all Africa including the copper-.. munes of Rhodesia, one of Britain's main sources of dollar carnings.
Kuwait of course, is our chief supplier of oll and petrol. With out JL. Many of our factories would cease work. and millions of workers would be thrown on the dole. There would be no petrol for pleasure motoring, and far less than is needed for essential purposes.
The loss of Kuwait oll would be greater than any disaster, ever inflicted upon Britalo in time of war.
If either of these areas is seized the result is clear. War must surely follow, even it Britain goes into battle afone as In 1940.
Better by far to be destroyed in 'defending our own than suffer a store painful death through starvation, with traitors hands upon our throats.
ROUND-UP
Dish Commonwealth which is producing film bose cctulolsc
conted with sensitive photo- -per- graphic emulsion. It is a
leading sonal triumph for the designer and technical director, Mr Gordon Couzens. Previously Alm kose has been Imported from America, but in 1941 the warned plioto- Government
Robert Edwards
An, Jasmine tea, frozen hermit crab, The foods will be seen bei ing prepared daily at the stand of
of the People's Republie
China exhibiting at the Fair for the ileal time. Others taking part Include Australia. America, . Czechoslovakla, Denmark,
The Nether- Pakistan, Spain and
1747. The picture has remained France, Germany, Ghana, India, in the passessin of the family Indonesia. Italy, since the time of the 4th. Earl of lands, Sandwich, who was First Lord Yugoslavia.
it.was of the Admiralty when painted for him.
Trafalgar Cannon
+
Into an
Oldest Hen's Egg?
HEN'S egg maid to be 100. years old has been dug up former croft
cult, pretentious poetry, sea in the time they are out rraphle manufacturers to co- TVORKMEN converting an old on the site ¡ and its outlandish dress?
flahing Four other midgets like duce their dollar, expenditure, W fort near Milford Haven. house ut. Baialian, in Lewis one Maybe it is not as new bs the her are to be bulli by the same Mr Couzens and. his, am got Beatniks themselves like to combine For, as well as being to work and the factory they Pembrokeshire,
inable to land fish fresher be designed will turn out 20,000, think, because, after all, Paris at the end of the
cause she does so more quickly, 000 feet (5,500 miles) of film
£30,000 com- she cost only pared with £130,000 fee con
vonilonal trawlers. Her fuel
Wor
there were the same girls with unkempt hair.
In Scho clubs in London, not consumption works out at naty
long ago, the same uniform was to be seen. Add in Paris and London, ideas not so different from those of the American
£ a day as against £49 and obe has à much smaller crow.
7
Beat generation were discussed Pioneer Factory
and then forgotten as some new --craze came along,
base a year.
Victory Painting
THE trustees of the. Tate
ad of the Hebrides Isles, Scotland. mintsratton buliding for a new It was found under two feet of and stonte. An expert oll terminal have found a 10ft earth
the North of Scotland long/fron annon embedded in from
o wall. Experts believe it was College of Agriculturo is to cast about the time of the Bat- examine the egg to try to deler- He of Trafalgor. The cannon. mine its exnet age.
which fired 6 Inch
balls, is to be preserved
connon
Gallery, London, have ac- Fodds For London
Kent's Best Cadot
ELECTED from all British Rod Cross Bociety codets in Kent, Billy Douglis, 18; of
quired from Lord Hinching- brooke's collection, the painting. 71-YEAR-OLD Londoner's by Samuel Scott, of Admiral CTRANGE foods for Britain lexicy, is to travel to Chilemson, A long-standing ambition lo-. Anson's action
off Cope will be shown at the Food Western Germany, for a course
So the Bent generation in Sanvolving the spending of £2.000,- Finisterre, Britain's first naval Fair at Olympla, London, taking in Red Cross leadership at Ameri
Crow study Francisca will become, I think, 000 and Avigo Britain of victory in the war of the Aus place from August 28 to Sep can Junior Red another passkig tourist attrac Over 5,000,000 dollars a year trian succession. It was painted fember 11. They will include the centre. He belongs to the 208 tion, rating Just after the has been realsód with the to commemorate Admiral An Eastern dishes of smoked blue- Detachment, Cadet Unit 3333.
of the Golden Gate bridge and a litio completion of a factory in the son's defent
French Ash, steamed carp, 80080 or of Albany Park, Boxley, and the before Alcatraz Prison La village of Brantham, Suffolk fest under de la Jonquiere at ginal juice, braised
bamboo couro is in general leadership importance,
It is the only factory in the Cape Finisterre on May 8, shoots, torioise maat, shark's training..