Logan
‹ THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1959.
Vicky
Gourlay
BERLIN, Friday
you may be surprised
to find me here, but this is hardly a crisis climate
THE picture, in my hotel bedroom is
called "Berlin 1958." It is a collection of red and heliotrope squares and dots splashed on a morbid greenish background. It is abstract art. It is like a nightmare, in Technicolor.
I look out of my te-flour hotel window at Berlin 1950. The Berlin of post-war concrete and wartime rabble. The angular, modernistic office blocket tower upwards, tributes to West German industry.
GOURLAY
That parts of the landscape at to their promisy and continue Palace: have
dattened, bombect-cat look The shell of the Kan
look forward to a Germany and Berlin, in the foreseeable
Wilhelm
upwords
Church
Jor
muck salute.
te :upport us.
"We Tenterd
Tower 11: stanite tui Ai! raisesi i fetare, perhap‹,"
Night come and the hen We joke
1hts switch on, but they stop half-way across the city where the Soviet sector begins.
The symmetrial salbetet, of the new buildings clash with The tested palline: of the Lombed. Th place Books unreal, 1984-ish, Like a lutar lameape Like an exercise in abstract art.
Split city
Bertin 1959 is the split city, The must exciting and the most depressing city in today's world. The nur simulating and the To sinister.
ww
It is an untidy aravind. that
really straightened, vt at the end of the
thanks
nuver
HANS PLEVE, publicity chief
with wito peaks English
Amerunn ent ;[1 LUODE
The side world ition: more het up about this in any Of course, you Wat Berliner. heve got to remember that we Rave been through so much.
the
1 takes a lot to upset We 412 always, like corkneys, feet adversity with a I'm afraid, though, that the jokes are getting a little bitter.
the
Otto Krest, member of West Berlin police, on, duly at the massive Brandenburg Gate which stands sentiel at the Ban-West city Lorder: "I leave
the
the worrying politician, It's a dangerous thing to do, but what else can 1 do?" What do the people of Berlo
it 1, Fritz Meler. ut th East (the pecially the now prices, fol- German People's Police
Ruan ultimatuma Voljani, on duty on the other lowing the
state: giving sh month for settle sale ef
Ar y tensely futter- The st ing towards thare-up?"
war.
the mive
Luts to them
11 take an order from anywhere and deliver any- where this June or next June. have no fear about our and political future. Cconomie To hell with politice--1 want an- other beer." He ordered an- other huge stein of beer, his eleventh.
Brigitle Surear, a well-built, preity fraulein Who helped organise The Berlin f.stival and is relations officer: Jave a proverb
annkuced takes place.'
ייל!
The decor, dress, my music Were early between-the-wars provincial. Mecca,
Even at 2 a.m. the Melodle was packed with Best Berlin workers. Mr K. would katė me to Buy th, but his Berlin Satellite citizens looked bour- grots,
Mr Dulles would probably like to hear that they looked dipressed and oppressed, taking their pleasures glumly. But i would not be true,
The most outlandish thing I Saw nt the Rom: fashion shows rently was a pair of women's sheen with brass hoops instead of herls, They were aspired, I was told, hy hula-hoops.
They looked absurd in the Via Veneto They looked even more absurd in the Kurfurstendam- the wearer walking, or wheellag, her way through the puddles of melted snow.
The most popular song in Berlin at
The moment is that ubiquitous Italian hit "Volare,"
How does it sound sung in Germany Hellish
now a public I quote from an official Berlin "We Berliners quidé boole "Berlinerliit, or which means: Berlin wir, has become a by- Witr never word for the city's dry, stimull- Ing air. Theoretically It is-sup- posed to make onz tolerant and "Pion: A rong ahead as open-hearted, creative usual for this year's ihm testival peaceful." which begins in June We mean to go on enjoying ourselves. lack around here."
I looked around the roof- garden of the new Wilton Hotel, ibe
American monument to capitalism which
clear on # night cur be
seen from the further most corner of the Suviet sector.
מימון
It was the time of the after
tea-dance.
roof The garden was packed, but very few off-season tourists were in sigiy, They were all Berliners, Solid int business men.
Pneumalle fraus don't adding to their poundage with ak any. Have you in American dozens of cream cokos. One cigaretic?"
stight, slim Japanese girl in
P9Cw!
the
questions.
with
דיי
O. W. Fischer, one of Ger- ht kimono. She looked my's leading Alm stars, why bewildered. The band was play.
Julietle Greco hip "Two different worlds,” when Alming recently £13 What else?
arten: "I think the Husslate: try matting over another of their propogada bluffs.
ebullient Wily Brandt. the young Mayor of Berlin: "r chahed ind of May is uppered to 1" the fatti ultimatum date May 23 to be exact. Why don't Ai rume back for a holiday hi June? We shall he can yingt o as before and the weather will be beautiful."
mu.
Greco
Wus
"Perhaps Miss doing the came in London when :114- allacked
Strang things are done in the name of Senate Mepaganda,”
Itr Hirect:feld, director and information chrel:
Fran's Cousas and other trade.
stalwarts
here rehily on an official tour.
An affteer at British military beadquarters asked if he could do Luything for them. Two worthy mitndry of the delega- Not exist. None of us is ut all ERICH SCHMIDT, a business tion said: "Yes, you could get
man, at the recent roistering us a pack of cards,
to play solo." the
"We are doing our work as usual No fear
and planning for the future as though the Sovæ alinatum did
concerned. We
cendent fre
that our Western alles will stick bor festival
A BRAEMAR is
111
Sporta
ite
We want
Berliners have their
That's what the book says.
☆ ☆ ☆
YE OLDE
SUMMIT
ECTION
"WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER?" SAID A WHITING TO A SNAIL. "THERE'S A PORPOISE CLOSE BEHIND US AND HE'S TREADING ON MY TAIL.”
London Erovere Service.
HONGKONG
STUDENTS INVOLVED
IN A CRAZE FOR
GAMBLING THAT BRINGS RUIN TO MANY.........
Gone To The Dogs
and MANY Hongkong parents cherish the idea of sending their children abroad for a university education.
rather
I Spectacle would
four very plump, very forget: Tufanie-looking frauleins danc- in a Hawaiian hula dance la n night club, then dining up, while six equally plump Herts frem the audience armed with fishing reds helped them to remove their grass skirts in what the Ameri
would call audience- cans participation strip-tease,
In a West Berlin night club, of course, Something the Russians would call decadent. probably agree with them.
ANOTHER
REPORT FROM COURLAY'S TOUR NEXT WEEK:::
(London Express Service),
But few parents realise that by sending their children abroad without first being sure of their maturity, self-discipline and stability, they may actually be ruining them for life.
Shock for parents
LIB
By.
Y. T. CHONG
From there they graduate accompanied when they are too to the legal gambling es- young. tablishments In Soho. One or two Chloess students have I have just returned after spending a period in London, the
actually been caught and what' 1 have to Mecen of hundreds of Hongkong students, report may well come at a shock to many parents.
exam.
While the majority of Hong for five or six years but who kong students are conscientious still have to Buss their nest and eager to be successful in their studies, there is a minority who are well on their way to becoming ne'er-do-wells,
This is because in London
Temptation
The
ralds.
police
Gambling on dog races and and horse reeds is also popular, and many Hongkong students really go to the dogs" in more than one scuse,
AL least walt £111 they anve completed their secondary
education.
who Those young are the unes most likely to be led astray.
Guardians
are
Thirdly, parents should try to Because of the bookle system appoint reliable guardians who greatest temptation is in England, students don't have can supervise and keep an eye
Fourthly, parents should ask school and college authorities to rend regular reports on their children's work and attendance,
there are the many templations bling. High-silica poker is to go to Hundon or White City.
even some Just a telephone call to a bookle on their children. In their way and these young very popular and
part in will secure them a bit. people, through lack of proper students have taken
these games. supervision, Arc being
led
The real trouble comes when There it is quite common to lose 140 or £50 in one sitting students bet more than they can
the afford to lose with bookies As a result there are quite which Is more than number of Chinese students in average Hongkongite ears in a Lendon who have been there month.
astray.
ROUND-UP
LONDONERS' LUCKY
CHARMS
SCRAP of paper bearing Dickens's signature,
SOMETHING dily Bugs, of course-and they an 18th century water pump laken from l
TO BE PROUD OF!
BRATMAR
SCOTLAND'S
FINEST
KNITWEAR
AT ALL
LEADING STORES
Solo Agents: Fielding, Drown & Finch (Far East), Ltd.
hagen word for them, Ifalbstraker.
mean, strong.
J
It is
half-
Inquired if it referred to physical or mental strength, 1 | was told-bath,
of
yard of the Marshalsea Prison, and a collection of good-luck charms used centuries ago by Londoners are among exhibits in the Cuming Museum, in Southwark, London, which has Just been reopened. The museum was blitzed In 1941. Now some of its collection has been re- stered and put hack into the original premises In Southwark Central Library. Among the collection of good-luck charms is a necklat amber and other gums which was supposed to bring good health to the wearer. There is also the remedy Londoners believed would cure It consists of two pieces of whooping cough. buttered breed and a few hairs from a child's chief Southwark's head. Mr Frank Boone, ibrarian explained: "The hairs were taken from It was like turning a corner the head of a child suffering with whooping in the 20 exly and unding cough and put between two slices of bread." "It yourself in a different city. a dug ate the bread the child would be cured." Drabber, of course, and It even felt colder.
I made brker foray into the East n sextor, Five West Berlin taxi-drivers relused to go, but the sixth risked it
BANNISTER'S FULL CIRCLE
The bookshops were well DR
stocked, but the others were
R Roger Bannister, Arst four-minute miler, la working on a report which may shed new empty compared with the light on the problema cf how much heat the Kurfurstendam, the West's human frome can stand. Dr Bannister, R.A.M.C. glittering male of propaganda officer due to complete his National Service on merchandise, which sunus up March 10, returned recently to Britain after to a comparison with the best taking part in heat exhaustion tests in Aden. shopping streets In London, Further tests will shortly be carried out at the Parls or Cven New York. Royal Army Medical College at Millbank. This time Dr Bannlater will be an observer and his Andings will be incorporated in his final report to the Army medical 'chlets. With two months to go, his Nationel Service has described a full cirdle for it was at Millbanks, London, that ho started after his call-up in March, 1957. BATTALION NEEDS OFFICERS AN Army cadet baltallen that claims it is one of the best in Beltatu is in danger of die- handing because of a shortage of officers. Re- Lirement and removal from the district hea Jeft the 4th/5th Cadet Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment with headquarters at Walton-cn- Thames, Surrey, with an urgent problem. They must ßnd dive officers and six warrant officers to
Stallnolice. with Its huge blocks of workers' lats, thrown up just after the war, was stil standing Inpressively. And it was still called Stalinallee,
But Leninallee looked neg- lected and forlorn,
In the Melodle, one of East Herlin's two night clubs, 1 paid 10% marks (about 1 Sn.) for a bottle of very ordinary hock, Rnd had to pay in West marks, which are four times the value of East marks,
nat
take over detachment duties at Cobham, Chers- Ington, Chertsey, Kingston and Hersham. Major C. Russell, officer commending says it is often that one en point to the local hattallen and say that it is one of the best in the country "Gul in our ease that the fret." He adds "Our record of shooting successes is without parallel throughout Britain and in all three Services."
NEW LOOK
THE Guardroom at St James's Palace is being given a new look. It will be a change from the "olde worlde atmosphere" of cobbles and turrets around Engine Court, to the glistening style of a 20th-century luxury block.
Th Guardroom, to old is the Palace, houses 24 men of the Queen's Guard every day. From t are dispatched the Guards for St James's, Clarence House and York House. The new Guardroom is in delicate shades of champagne and mushroom paint. The Senior N.C.0,%, room Is decked in glistening leaf green and cau de . In the dormitory where the Guardsmen relax when not en duty, a light has been fitted over every bed space.
LUCK OF EDEN HALL
THE Victoria and Albert Museum has put on
show its latest acquisition, and one of its most highly prized-The Lack of Eden Hall. The Luck la a 13th century enamelled glass, Syrian goblet which was brought back from a Crusade. I ever broke, the legend went, disaster would strike Eden Hall, the family seat of the Musgraves in Cumberland. But the legend can no longer come true, for Eden diən was pulled down In the twenties. One of the most striking pieces of glass in the world, the cash value of the "Luck" runs Into five figures.
ATHLETIC POLICEMEN
Fifthly, parents should remit No money changes hand when allowances to their children on
but cheques monthly basis the bet is placed, are sent to the winners and some parents bills are sent to those who lose. basis.
Bovities can be nasty It fosers do not pay off their debts with
in a certain time.
more
Father than
do-cn a yearly
Having M large sum money in hand is à source of templation 10 students,
Lastly, parents should write to their children often and insist children also welte
when Chinese Therefore,
bookles studenta owe money than they have, they thin their usually borrow money from home regularly.
their friends.
Then they wait for their next allowance to come to make good
the new debt.
ka
There is a tragic story of what gambling did to one student.
He already had a B.A. from he decided Lingnan U when the fake all
his money family had left him to London to study for a higher degree.
But once he got there be got bitten by the gambling bug. In two years he lost all Jus money and is at present working £3 wafter la Chinese restaurant.
A
He has already been working in the restaurant for eight years,
ho und since
till PETAN'S
in gambling, there la hardly any helthood that he will, ever amount to anything more than a waiter for the rest of his life.
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP CHINESE STUDENTS AVOID SUCH PITFALLS? Firstly, parents should cut down the amount of pocket nuney given to their children.
There are
many Hongkong students in London who receive more than £100 a month ua pocket money.
That la much more then an Englisluman with o
ONE of London's beat collections of sports
trophies face a door that is never locked, but average they are well guarded nevertheless. The col-family can earn! lection 10 cups and one shield—are displayed
ut
In a showcase in the duty officer's rovin
Fifty pounds a month is more Catford, London, police station, and are under than enough for rent, living ex- the eye of the police 24 hours a day. "The penses and pocket money for a trophies have been won at tug-of-war, water student in London. polo, derts, shooting, table tennis and many other sports by police officers at the station.
Secondly, parents should not send thote children abroad Uns
Students can do many silly things out of homesickness and of caution can help many from going astray.
boredom and an occasional word
{POCKET CARTOON:
by OSBERT LANCASTER
HAIES ACTS
"Well, all I can say is if Randolph and Quintin get themselves photographed bashing sogether, the Tories have had te."
London Express Service,