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Breakfast in land of spies
I AM CONVINCED THAT
A MAJOR DISASTER
IS THREATENING INDIA
ASKOM
INEPAL LAS"
SAKIČIZME KALMAZORI:
BHUTAN
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MELES
↑ BAK·LIAM
NO
From GEORGE GALE
Kalimpong. THE other day I had breakfast with the Prime
Minister of Bhutan, where there are more spies to the nère than anywhere else on earth.
And from what he told an and from what I have seen, I
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convited Manda majo! disaster threatens India,
Time Minister,
Jane Harp, a; ole przed det
Highman of the meal.
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Me
Then he gave me a Java Juice, porridge, fritters of ment
and b, fried eggs, chips, tonst,
les of fruit.
Here in a demi-paradise of
solt rule of strniegle Bulan with the Maharajah of Bhutan) to whom he married his sister to Prevent a dynastle Unk-up be- tween Bhutan and neighbour ing Sikkim,
Small pawn
Now Peking's grand design seems apparent
fort to
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1959.
other hand, if they start the liberalog of Ladakh, Sikkim and the North-East Frontier, we will come in with the rozí.”
There are no Indian trooper in Bhutan, there is no standing army and only a millia of a few thousand armed with rifles, brens, tommy-guns,
The maharajah is thought to be flirting with the Chinese.
A few weeks ago Nehru sent a letter to Bhutan advising' the country against getting into any foreign entanglement.
Bhutan, like Sikkim, hna treaty relationships with India. Towards the end of last century both countries hod their southern lowlands annexed by Britain.
Kalimpong Was once Bhutan, Darjeeling in Sikkim, Jigme has no doubt: If India does not realst mounting Chinese pressure, Sikkim and Bhutan will fall to China and China will resurrect their claims to the lowlanda.
Vital river
This would take China up to the Brahmaputra, vital river of North-East India.
Jigme told me that across Bhutan's Chinese border Chinese troops had been seen in strength constructing bunkers and a net- work of roadways.
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And the Bhutanese Mongols. They do not like the Indians,
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"I'll have him call you back-right now he's relaxing
between naps"
"Hurry up with that threshold}"
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Ollo llo
"Firal. you folks" tell me what you can afford, and we'll have a good laugh over $ and go on from there."
Hitler's slaves live on,
Stuttgart. DROVE through streets tightly pack-
ed with cars. The people
Two Scottish tea-planters up here for the week-end break who crossed in front of from their estates had no doubt me as the traffic lights about it all: Sikkim and
valleys set with dowers. I have stretch Chinese inluence right Bhutan would go Chinese and changed were snugly
heard nothing but talk of drom down into the plains of India,
and gossip of intrigu
When I
nachou
I asked Jigme: "I: China in Jigne Dorjia villa, two miles from erasing its pressure on you?" Kalimpong
deaf mule He replied; "1 thnk 10. II mutione 1:3/ inside and all depends on how they get on 71 very thached back into a shrubbery with Indla. We are when Jiny oppeared.
small pawn in the game here. Everybody calls him Jigme If they come to terms with India hereaccent The na disputes I think we will survive. On the
their estates, now in Bengal but dressed against the first revert 10 Chinese-dominated bite of winter.
once
Bhutan.
part of Bhutan, would
All this talk of a Chinese To each side the shop win- the glow and invasion is alarmist. You heardows threw off nothing of it in Delhi, The gutter of Christmas gifts. Government's policy is not lo alarm people.
-London Express Servier).
He plans buildings
University
Park, Pennsylvania.
UILDINGS that glow
BUIL
like jewels under separate glass shells are being designed by the noted American architect A. William Hajjar.
He envisages glittering
that glow like jewels
he said. It could be placed 3 f.
the building, and
m
the
nir.
ce between used as a flue or
et through which to circulate building
crystal cities enhancing air to heat or cool the interior the United States of the future.
"Our present glass buildings Jive to use shields hung on the flare." outside to cut down Hajjar explained, "And these destroy the clean line-he very effet you wanted frum using all that glass,"
The transparent outside gitus shell would solve this problem,
'Logical step'
trap
"The sunlit side would some heat," Hajjar went on, "and transparent plastic pancis with electrical circuits printed on them would supply extra heat in winter as needed, with a blower circulating the worm air."
blowers could
In summer, carry off sun-heated air, or plr-
but
the world forgets
On their doorstep is the glitter and warmth of a their revived Germany. But for the refugees in
cruel as it was 14 camps, life today is almost as years ago in the war which first brought them tragedy,
- from BRIAN GARDNER-
men
cut of the camp and find a These are only a few of the room in Stuttgart. He shrugged. refugees who are still living in "Who will take a refugee into campa. Some of them are their house?" he said,
Kurvivingg of concentration The trouble with
like camps. Some are young people Dous is that they have lost who were born in caints and condence in being able to live have never fived outside. a normal life again.
The refugees have
bad 1 reputation ameng The GLT-
Most have little chance of ever
to returning the lands mans, much of it deserved. They from which they were disrupted. drink, they fight, and some are
All these camps have to be Thleves.
You can get come idea of the cleared by 1901, when America and Britain have Indicated real tragedy of Europe in per-
that they can give no more help. sanal terms when You heer After that. about
no one knows the murderous fights what will happen to them. between Ukrainians and Polish
D[ Some have lunch was sizzling a bowl
In one of the part- potatoes. tioned rooms the broken window was boarded up, and there was no light.
It was a comfortable scene in this Incredibly prosperous city, deep In the core of their experiences. Europe. Here. the post-war turned to thieving and prostitu- German recovery is almost tean,
And, worst of all, some vulgarly blatant. For the citi have given up the will to start
zens of Stuttgart the lost war a new life. seems £ distant. unpleasant memory.
CRAMPED
Local people do not like asso- clating with the refugees, and problem of settling them even more dim
leave
makes
scrape
the
PLEASURES
I went to the camp of Weil
rringees, living together in the who still cannot Im Dort on the outskirts of
same comps.
their old national Stuttgart, where 306 people live this
forget in old barrack huts of damp,
hatreds.
I went from Weil im Dorf lo On the way back in, Stuit- Glung wood. These people cult,
another camp at Vaihingen Enz, Fart, we passed great convoys "Wo But, not far from those some share between them three com-
have not been able to about 15 miles from Stuttgart.
of heavily-laden lorries stream- munal washrooms, ave showers, make any friends in Stuttgart." This
The nity streets, I have been
where Hitler bull some ing down the road. visiting
Hot water is come people for
the and one bath. whom
. "We seldom of his V2s, and once there was was darkening above, and lights in the showers and Subel told never vallable
this room. Sometimes, a concentration agony of the war hay
camp here to winked out advertisements for and all the ended. Thousands of displaced baths on Saturdays only.
about once a month, we are able provide slave labour to bulld cers, restauranta,
pleasures of modern life. together Eastern Europe persons from
the mud 0 I splashed through
enough them. Conditioners could circulate cool live in camps around Stuttgart. between the barracks, os people money to visit a local cinema." Through a thin wall came As we entered the city, I
Most of them were brought to peered at me from behind filthy,
sobbing from the next room. In could not help contemplating Germany by Hitler as slave cracked windows.
there, was one of the most that perhaps before we wille mounted inside the labour; "Lamps
many of them have
truple cases i sow.
any more histories of the last outer shell would provide in-been living In camps for I found Jaroslaw Sobol sitting
Sitting at a table with his war we should first clear up direct lighting and the build-
at a table on a rickety, wooden years.
Augenia Luszak lives alone in glasses pushed back on his fore- some more of the mess it left ing would shine like a jewel,”
chair, He lives in three tiny one room of the same camp, head, sandals tied together with behind. he said.
In recent years the
rooms, with his wife, daughter. Using bits of coloured aper string. Was Joanis Ajtupitis, Hajjar,
professor of majority of refugees in Europe son-in-law, and four children, and cloth, she has decorated it who was once a civil servant in
These architecture at the Pennsylvania have been settled.
families have lived as beet she can, A bowl of Riga. He lives in this dirty, was on the table. untidy room with his son of 21. State University, maintains that
But there are still 13,000 state- eramped together like this for wild flowers he is not trying to design things less refugees living in camps in seven years. with
An old, empty, scent spray on just to be different."
moment of privacy. Germany. These are the ones that it has been found more difficult to settle.
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ife belleves that the separate glass shell is simply the next logical step forward in architec- tural design.
-London Express Service).
20
vasi
two
never
SPOTLESS
a shelf. Everything was shining, spotless and clean.
Now a middle-aged wornan, it
CRYING
QUOTE
The whole place was a maze of rough, unmade beds, with
i belleved that Augenia was The zon who understands walk brought enough
10 room
from Poland as clave three languages, has lost they the Bishop of labour in 1942. She has lived power of speech and the use of Dr Mervyn Charles-Edwards, in in camps for not less then 13 his hands. "This is not surpris- als monthly newsletter years.
Some have T.B. Some are old just and ill. Some are half-mad from between them. On the stove,
How does Dali cast his spell?
is the most popular painter
Walive? The question is so silly it
might almost be a surrealist joke.
1 shall give it a surrealist answer: the most popular arlist in the world Is Salvador Dall
Dall's St. jamas of Compostella: - Many preferred this picture to a Gainsborough
Both are inconceivably rich in masterpieces by all the present-day herous-Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Vermeer, El Greco.
But the pictures which attract more visitors than any others are two huge, religious composi- tions by Dali; in New York his Crucifixion; in Washington, his Last Supper.
Whenever I passed them, 20 or 30 people would be gazing at them, awe-struck as if witness- ing a miracle.
To understand Sutherland's
Orthodox
Worcester,
ing when you remember he has dificulty about a party is But no one can be quite sure spent nearly all his life In
that there Bro So MADY
of her past, because Augenia camps," was told. "He has reople that you cannot CATTY Luszak has found her experi- never known a real home or on a
ences too much for her, She happiness." It was him that I without being interrupted, spends most of her day weeping, had heard crying through the
conversation with anyOES
Alcupitis's wife, who is a
Some of the refugees have partition next door.
found jobs in Stuttgart, mostly
as labourers. A few of them
all
report:--
This, at east, is the conclusion I was forced
Hla religious paintings, on the
mans even carn £10 a week or more. doctor, and his two other chily Me W. E. Pils, chict con- 10 come to after visiting America's two greatest Crucifixion fully, you must first other hand, symbolise a
for by any I met 約 32-year-old Czech dren got permission to emigrate table of Derby, in his yearly museums, the Metropolitan in New York and the understand Sutherland, But craving uncatered National Gallery in Washington.
Dall and Dall alone, paints other modern painter the crav-called Dousa. He shares a room to America seven years ago. But
101t long and broad) the U.S. would not accept theHILDREN now haya, In religious themes in a way thai ing for a visual statement of re- (about
mysterious, with two other men. The beds son because of his condition.
many casts, incredible the vast public can understand, ligious experience,
up practically as most religious art should be, take
the Ajcupilis has been parted from amounts of pocket money and in terms which | available space. Douse has This may sound paradoxical. but expressed
his wife and family, who have destre more. a
This is spent in factory near by, and I not been able to send much аду
That will avoid are instantly comprehensible, job in Understanding is just what his
asked him why he did not get money to him, ever since.
then being at home. pictures seem at first sight to te photography. dely.
Now, painting has long medium coased to be the which conditions our vision. Tho public may go the Kelvingrove Art Gallery paid £8,000 for Dall's Moreover, his early notoriety,
and exhibitions
museums first large Crucifixion. To help cover the cost, which made Dall as famous as which many considered exorbitant, visitors to the Picasso, was based on irreligious and hang colour reproduc- museum were charged a shilling to see it.
paintings and Marx Brotherly tions on its walls. behaviour.
become the They have also most powerful of all agents in Like all the original Sur- In less than two years the picture had paid for Tealists, his art was explicitly moulding and Influencing the
aimed at undermining the collective unconscious. itself, und ever since it has continued to attract established order, whether in art
This is why. Dall triumphs. a mure dream-photo- visitors in greater numbers than the museum's or polldes or religion. But un- Once
Vista- Rembrandts and Cezannes ever did,
D like most of his colleagues, his grapher, he is now
ran who c24 Recently, Lady Dunn, the widow of Canadian actual way of painting was visionary, industrialist Sir James Dunn, has presented Dall's never anything but orthodox. largest and most imposing religious composition to
It is just the same at Glasgow. Ten years ago
IN TWO YEARS
1
to
effectively reconcile the religious truths in which millions of
the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New The others used techniques as bewildered people belleve with
Brunswick.
unacademic
***
their subject the very things which might
A fantastic vision of St James of Compostella, matter. Dalk worked Iko Д Beem to undermine them.
His pictures can become part
it had already caused a sensation at the 1950 dream-photographer,
World Fair In Brusodą, where i was the only Since his far-off days as a pro- of daily life. There is no con- exhibit in the Spanish Pavilion.
fessional khocker, Dalla tradiction between them and the
Al Fredericton, the picture hangs in the changed enormously. He is now visual experience of the ordinary entrance gallery opposite Gainsborough's Pearnt an established Ogure In smart man. Girl Gathering Faggots, aro of the most beautiful international society.
I do riot say that Dali's Engilsh pictures in the world.
He is a royalist, and a fervent religious pictures can compare What is it that makes Dall's religious pictures Catholic. He is the official with the great religious art of so overwhelmingly popular-popular out of all realdent genius in Franeq's the past. proportion to their purely artistic meriter I Sprin
I can only say that a picture Dali palate no better than his idơi, the nine- If the unpredictable la tho like his St James of Compostella teenth century confectioner of costume pieces, essence of surrealism," then achleven something unique in Melasonjer.
nothing could be more surrealist modern painting it makes a As a draughtsman' and 12 s. colourist, he than his career.
religious theme intelligible and item original then moet Victorian Academ Parallel to his tropsformation exciting to millions who for - clans." Why, then, ħle fame and popularity? from anarchist to conformist, many years believed with good
The reasons, I believe, are these,
Dall's interest in the undo reason that art had- abandoned Popular religious art is dead. Sometimes a welodia has switched from the them. leading modern artist, Sutherland or Moorn or private to the collective, Hi Stanley Spender, may create a religious work of best, surly plehämt wwe · Bis- art, but their language is far nom universely distrito ---David Carritt
understood.
biancay.
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