Mid Week Selection by Friell
"Get out of it! We don't want any unofficial aid in Man's Conquest of Outer Space."
"Dad, Lord Hailsham said it's all right to learn about lito from TV with your dod beside you to talk to, dad! DAD!"
When Elvis comes marching home...
New York.
When a famous infantryman comes marching home next spring, he will be given one of the most flamboyant receptions ever accorded an American citizen.
scheduled Kims The soldier is ruck roll several other
his for Presley. And Idol Eivis
immediate production "05
Elvis fans you as
is in civvies mlitions of teen-age
Lise throughout
are again." country
a wet- prepared to give him
A ked
CCNL worthy of a conquering 12 the Welcome Home"
hero.
about his reactions
plans being prepared for him, great a fer his Presley admitted;
corporal but, man, release next Marche will be to be
Immediately
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flown directly to New York to the day mi a clvillan again, star 14 00-minute pee that will be the greatest,"
tacular" on une of America's -leading-television networks,
Hollywood will then claim
him for a "comeback" picture
to be eailed, "toteo, Rodeo."
Wallis, who produced Presley's Earlier Alms, dis- closed that he also bas
Headaches BAYER
Toothaches Colda
are quickty overcome by
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1959.
TRAVELLER BOUTONE
THIS is the rarely recognised Russia-far from the familiar Kremlin patterns of power and polítics of pretty girls and tree-lined boulevards, cool," crisp linen in railway sleepers, the Russia with a place for the hire-purchase salesman. It reported today by the British reporter
has who made his home in Moscow and ' is seeing the country as others first visit, seldom do. His
is
Siberia. Now, the Ukraine....
I
The first never-never shop
Fact
in Russia strip
by CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
KIEV, WEDNESDAY
HAVE been swim- I is all quite different from and a stook.
Russia Britain
10
„Hot put mierything-
1698
One House 3 pisale properly
Russla 5 square feat
TY jets
Trieges
Wathur machines
97
040 Com winkle properly.
Michael Rand
Britain 47 square feet
Frank Royd
Brilish Railways
INTRODUCING A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE'S
LIVES... WATCH FOR THE TACT STRIPS IN THE EXPRESS
ming recently in the my last trip, to Siberia. Iture is would be hard put to it to do linocked about, telly badly crops, especially fodder to fallen that be! We hire cucumbers
Dnieper at Kiev, from a sandy beach where the Germans stormed across the river on their way to Stalingrad.
-Now it is bustling Southend without the mud. There is ice cream and soda pop and the young men of Kiev sunbathing with their girl friends the prettiest girls I have seen anywhere in the Soviel Union.
Good taste
very oldest, the most better, and-joy of cy-every-
evited part of Russia.
It is
the very
Union. From it comes 50 per
ham that man destruction and the neorched off the Ukraine us the bread- Ukrainian
Mr earth policy.
basket of the Soviet Union. The Khrushchev is always praising?" The Lovia Monastery, beaull farmers now concentrate on Buranovsky seemed genuinely ful, set high on a bluff over the more diversified and profitable tonished. "But bow can
It really a pigs and poultry and even beef, enough for export" He made From agriculture to industry, some notes on a pud. And this taken In see Anttoll morning for breakfast we had Baranovsky, a big, well-dressed tomatoes, cucumbers, and ham. man who is one of the bosses of. the Ukrainian Stale Planning Commission,
Sights
thing was scrupulously clean complex of churches, the oldest guts of the Soviet with freshly starched sheets an of which dates from 1051.
my bunk, a clean towel on the pillow, and the carriage painted
The a pale bluc.
Russiane It is all enjoy their travel. ering and drinking, accordion muste and laughter.
of tho
cent of the tron, one-third of the coal, 56 per cent metallic ores, and the whole country it one vast granary.
Comfort
I came hero by train. We rolled for 18 hours across the scopes, the open grasslandy with hardly a free to be seen. They strelch for hundreds and hundreds of miles across south-
I met an alt force officer who had just retired and was going home to his home village with hig
dega puppy which he assured me was the same race
Down in the eatacombs I saw the mummified and richly cloth
WAS
He too seemed elfelent, and
was certainly full of fucts,
ed bedles of long-dead abbola Among them they have started and the "peep-holes of cells a hire-purchase shop in Kiev, where munks were wolled up to the first in Rusia. It is run by a keen salesman who will sell starve to death.
One place I did not see was you a TV set or a 2,000-rouble as Little Lemon, the cosmie dog the Baby Yar, the ravine just camera before you have a chance
outside the city where the to say "Nic!." of Sputnik II.
Germans sinughtered 140,000 He changed into vividly striped Kievians, mostly Jews. The Rus- pyjamas as scen 49 the train stans tre developing it as a gar- started. I was somewhat sur- prised at this but apparently it is den aren.
Sightseeing over I called on normal. People wandered along nothing but these black-tarih the corridors in pyjamas and at Alexander Gartzyar, who is fast stops women in dressing-gowns deputy Minister of Agriculture. leaped out to all kettles with bolling water for their own brew
westem Russia.
When dark fell there was
It
WD
plains, and when dawn came, hours
miles later, and many They shouldi be, for the the scene was just the same. Ukrale is to the Soviet Union
Д comfortable trip. what France is to Europe. 1 Russian railway coaches Dro about the same size, has roughly wider than ours and there is the same population, and Klev, more room to move around. The The capital, looks French.
Train rolls umo smoothly.
A green, hilly city it tyn city of churches, flowers. and poplars. It is a for, far prettier
city than Moscow, with gracious
buildings, an air of sophisticu tion and good taste, and almost of elegance.
Each carriage has an atten- dant who makes up beds, and
muspects you if he even
are
of ten.
hour way.
Crops
Surprise
working
The froth
Khrushchev, Iieldentally, was
a top Communist oficial here in those terrible days dering and immediately after the war.
Well, there is the Ukraine,. where they speak their own language and newspapers are published in Ukrainian as well Rs Russion. Where the girls are pretty, the air is balmy.
It is the ancient seal of Christianity in Russla, and for a long time the capital of Russiu,
A
Baranovsky snys: "I ia A brilliant iden. It is very well and will be extend-
I have seen the sunbathers on the Dnieper. I have seen He went on to say thin! the somewhat too lively character Ukraine controls 95 per cent of propelled uut of a bar by a Its own industry. The other Citizens Patrol." I have five per cent run from drunit Ukrainian vodka, which Moscow. The Ukraine has the makes ordinary vodka taste like highest standard of living in the Devonshire cream. Soviet Union.
I was awakened at & m. by
is A burly, shaven-headed, hand- the chaink, or ia-man, with yet another cup. Kiev was an some man, he reeled off a dizzy mass of facts and figures, most of which seemed to prove that he was extremely pleased with the way things were going.
Out of all the statistles I found this interesting. The new forms in the virgin land I saw In Siberia have taken the burden
Ukrainian The
authorities knew I was coming and my feet have hardly touched the ground
tion. thirsty he brings you a glass of since arriving at the Kiev sta- The city suffered cruelly during the war, both from Ger.
ea.
I dined in the restaurant ear on caviar, cold cucumber, soup
Where else could
you find so
QUOTE many eccentrics?
by M master,
Inn Thomas, head
Repton Art
School TAKE
ATIN has proved itsett
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out your guns! Shoot them
It was at this point that we sprang our surprise. A friend is su. with me said: "If that why is it that in our hotel there are neither tomatoes nor nor that tomous cucumbers
HYDE PARK: CONTINUING THE PROFILE OF LONDON'S FAMOUS LANDMARK
down like weeds!" cries many extra coppers each crisis most valuable educational the African in the elec-s worth."
Political parades get special discipline over a long period of tric-blue suit, popping treatment. "Last Sunday IL
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basis it is the แต
of our own language. If its re-another grape into his man and Russian give me Laun mouth. There is
placemeat Is just to be Ger-
every lime.
~ Lag Mr akustice presenting prizes school, Mili -
no
other solution to the colour problem."
The black, white, pink, old brown and yellow faces of his audience register amuse- bament, boredom or shock.
Salmon,
at
ht
to
THERE is nothing
ashamed of in
privilege, But diversion they are seck-
but only in the abuse of or ing in Hyde Park. They have
the neglect of the
which to with it,
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bligations come to Speakers Comer to study one of the most famous of English eccentricities.
by Sir George Thomson. the
physicist,
THERE will soon be so much to learn before a man gels
u the frontiers of knowledge
that he will be old and
was Sinn Fein," says an Irish Palace.
by TOM POCOCK
"Wind's fluky,"
But this is only the froth of the Ukraine. I am oft now to Zaporozhe,
and lo Kharkov Staline, the grent steel centres, the places which are still the guts of the Soviet Union.
-(London Express Service).
An aspect of London's parks Billy Graham did not mention. The places where every sunny day childran faunch their boots and watch as they soif the ocean grown-ups call ponds..
Then his past begins to emerge, Yes, he had himself been to sea under sall.
He begins to talk about the
sca at Eet a lot of fun out of the "One big diesel boot rammed sea. How he went to he Loliceman.
Fuys. "Variable, ns the BBC a keteli, stove in her side. When the age of 10 in a topsail Hound Pond,"
He smiles contentedly as the *About 250 marchers and would say."
the power boat came alongside, schooner 1ke the Madge for 1s 20 police to keep 'em mov-
I ask him about the trouble the kelch owner alove in her a week learning seamanship on little safle lund I won ing. More Irish next Sunday. with the power boat overs.. decks and quite right, too." the West Country china clay Sunday after there's big
G
"It's a tree pond, but you'd It might be
and moved to him eccentric, easy to dismiss Tun. Then he
on ships parly, British Peace Move- think they owned It. Big boats the old man
Д harmless full-rigged ment. We may ret 10.000, teoring round. Eight knots is ecentric. He has been sailing Australia wool run.
bad enough, but we had two the Madge on the pond for a The Madge comes smarily yesterday making 25, I'd say, quarter of century alongside. The old sailor suits What we get out of it Frightening the ducks, hiting paradise in the old days" but sailing ships,
he seemed a man of substance.
so I reckon we'll need 30 or 40 extra police."
THE KITES
A roar of laughter goes up as A woman in a flowered hat, who has founded a new religion, hits a heckler with her umbrella, A Methodist is being heckled. It is welcome relief after all the "Every time you write 1859, he talk. Some of the crowd begin has said, "You are recognising to drift away. A few who cross Christ!" "Every me you say the park from north-east to recognising south-west will come upon Thursday you are
Thor!" comes a voice.
A Communist Thespian is de- worn claiming. "We say to the
sul before he gets there and police that we the people will has the chance of making his no longer tolerate this
own mark.
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These other, milder eccentrles can be found on the shores of the Round Fond In Kensington Gardens
A keeper Is staring at the sky, The spenter with the cx-
Ho pertise of long practice has pit- "First one up," he says. ched this final shout to fall points at a red kite straining just thort of two young con- tits moorings about the free stables standing on the kerb. tops.
Ενεπ had they heard they "On a good Sunday we may would have ignored the chal- lenge. "Lot of hot alc, as for us we're concerned," says bored police officer. "Far we're concerned they can say what they like. We just grab The kile-Byer himself, tensely them if there's trouble.
playing his kite like a fightingf The Pubile Order Act is bet- marlin, has a grievance. "IUS ter than the Metropolitan the Air Navigation Act of 1954 Police Act though, because the that's the trouble," he says, "You fne's a liver inslead of two can't go over 200 feet, without the quid. But usually all they special permission from
get a dozen up, Mostly grown men flying them. Square kites, around ditës, klies mado liko as birds."
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"It cramps your style. On a typical Sunday after- reen idle two miles up and
a policy inspector, a ser-
I'd like to try for three."
An
geant and 10 constables are on Nearby, another sportsman is duty al Speakers' Corner. Rein- also watching the wind. forcements from other divisions elderly gentleman in a panama are called in if there is a big hai guzes out across the Round Fuelst or Communist meeting. Pond to the topsail schooner
bobbing "We read the newspapers Madge
among tha carefully," I was told. "Any big ducks before a stif, sou-wester. crisis gets immediate reaction He casa a knowing eye at the hero. We just recken up how weathercock on Kensington.
Д
де
the
the wind and says: "Now she's off on the starboard tack. I
der how I could ever, consider
UP THE RIVER
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WITH JAK
dear. It is an easy-au dilvlug a car.”
London Express, Jarvitt
TOMORROW:
-(London Express Service).