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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960.
Private Line
by Chapman Pincher
THE COLUMIS
A OF DISCLOSURG
Why we must hold
on to the Cyprus
bases
WHY is the Govern- ment struggling so
hard to keep at least 120
JAK
VISITS A
BOWLING ALLEY
"I don't care if you were the school's reserve googly bowler, you roll 'em on the ground like everyone else."
London Exprezy Saraton
ETON UNDER FIRE: DONALD EDGAR'S FINAL REPORT
How do you get a boy
into Eton? I asked Mr George Lyttelton
square miles of Cyprus who was one of Eton's · under sovereign control! most famous and best
when Makarios's claim that the area could be much smaller seems reasonable at first sight?
beloved housemasters of all times.
"Well," he replied. "I will begin with an ancedote. Ribben- trop, wher was Hitler's Ambassa The real reason-which for here before the war, asked the Government seems rem if he could put his son's luctuant to reveal is that name down for my house, Cyprus is to be built up as the main operations base for what remains of the Bughal Pact,
Its bases must be big enough to accommialate a sudden influx of troops and planes including Ameri- eans if they decided to a8- sist again any Commmutist aggression in the area.
They must be Branly enough under British control that
|
How do you
get a boy
into
Eton?
y think it would be better the Head Master, lie was not ni
if you didn't," I replied,”
1 was fascinated by that answer for 1 shows both the Independence arul the power of the Elon houseminaters,
The 'ghosts'
"Well" frakt to him. "I have always thought that if your Homily had been there before, if they were noble, or if you were very rich, you could always get
Elon.
I started with a question "Is Elon keeping up?"
"Well. I think the Head Master
1 has carried through ilent revolution brilliantly.
te has appointed a number of brilliant young scientist: most of them non-Elontaras--and they have done excellently.
Last year we won seven science awards, scholarships and
to on, h that all the i- exhibitions-not had considering
etical atenue Weapon! could press about having to put your that science awards are fercely be flown in it necessary without name down at birth was a little competitive danger of Cypriot vetri,
Mr Macmillan is
(phoney."
"I agree that for 50 years or
up
on
convinced." he so the standard of scholarship "I'm convinced
quite that ang reduction of the bares pled--and his family have at Elon was rather waffley. But
Eton now
coming we are would make it impossible for been a Krent influence at Britain to fulfil her commit for nearly three centuries-at Winchester fast." ments to Turkey, Pakistan and however rich or noble a father Persia, the remofoing raczuzer S
might be if a housemaster didn't Hike the boy, he would say, of the Baggind Pnet since Feng
very say, hul i emno!.. quitted.
"Supposing," I asked, "I stude ;) fortune nud wanted to get a ron Hut Eton. possible? What
This would be so obviņus Luton made it would almost certainly fort to a break-up of the poet-Woulth known As
the Central Treat should I do?" Organisation.
An
atomic-hes.dil
ented FI
it
I'm
He replied: "If you started
it
Toughness
"What." I asked, "do you con- sitter the function of Eton to be? I was told the other day that it was to assimilate those who will In the future exercise power. Would you agree?"
"Well, yes," he replied. wan- Part making a nuisance of yourself dering over to the window. But Water is about its mouth before yott 1 should express it this way!
the wanted gour son develped to replace
[ enter, Leries of fleki güne usta bg the might work, strategic reserve the which would be town on Cyprus in the event of trouts.
Germ-killer
CHANCE
T
"You could apply to
discovery
of
A that certain kinds
This unknown treasure-house
THERE is an art
THE
gallery in London which apparently nobody, knows. It e tains some *of the most famous French paintings in the world. Yet it attracts an average of only 80 visitors a day,
Perhaps Londoners
in W.C.1...
BY DAVID CARRITT
disliked them.
too must play its part in Post-Impressionist paintings und everyday life. are unaware of its exist could loved the paintings of or
Above all else, Samuel But he was visually curious, in his own words, "one of ence, for this collection- the Impressionists and Post Those people who live chiefly by
An
obvious the eye.' the Courtaul Institute Impressionisis.
choire, you may say, those are Galleries in
From Woburn crecisely the artists whose works
silversmith
"We are trying
ancestors. he had inherited a produrg Square was opened we would at like to poss
From people who have the intellecumul
But in 1922 when Courtauld respect for craftsmanship. be only in October 1958. various training and toughness to
Arst Renoir, bought hi
the hus study of the Old Masters he majority of English collectors knew what qualities are implicit | Perhaps they do not and critics still disliked or dis- in a great work of art.
trusted moden French painting. And when, in 1917, he saw the
"Only eight years previously Lane pictures on loan the National Gallery had decid Tate Gallery Renoir Manet and
bousDAKSIOUS. Ther? ie, what able to question the experts —– cult ghosts' en entrance whether It is in politics, business, Hats. People who are down. but relence or the arts. į who probably won't appear.
His choice
You want independent mindedness more than ever. It doet demand a certain tough- ness, averla self-confidence, And let's face it, the quality of "And then there is a holding independence is helped when House A housvonaster can say you have certain Ananekul that he can't take your boy for background."
coal have strong gorm- killing properties is being two halves or a year. But it pursued by Professor Wil-might be possible later.
I then started to talk about. the spell Elon attitude - the İlam D. Evans, of Notting-
"Finally, there is what we call hallmark which, for better or ham University.
know how to get there. (1 will tell them). Or per- haps they are just lazy.
at the
ed that Remoir's Les Parapluies Degas broke on him like a offered them is a gift by Sir revelation.
In 1922, at another exhibition Hugh Lane was unworthy of
realised suddenly exhibition, a decision which was he
Most popular
the
of
•$!!
One thing is certain; they eventually to lead to the return supreme greatness of Cezarne.
Ut irreplaceable master- do nol stay away out indifference.
Dicce to Dublin last year.
There were many reasons for
national our
myopia.
Flog-
Generosity
ON 4
KEEP
LANE
FYUUKINKS
TO YOUR
Renoir's La Logo: Courtauld never spent more than £15,000 on a picture---La Loge is probably worth £250,000 today.
Renoir for
which in sums
common. Essentially, they possess those qualities which
today appear trifling. Courtauld believed supreme in
Courtauld never spent more life and art: love and respect. for beauty of the physical than £15,000 on a picture. Often the
he spent only a fraction of that world.
aum.
Enthusiasm
A
Between 1922 and 1930 he
set The artists he collected are
Pictures like those From that moment on he set succeeded in buying for his own collection eight Cezannes, four now the most popular of all flapping was one: English critics out to acquire the very finest
three standard not only for painters, Degas, three Gauguins, which belleved that everything foreign examples of enthusiasm
modern French
three Monela, alx but for everyone who has come they arouse this country is must be affected or Indecent.
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to share Courtauld's enthusiasm painting: first, for himselt be- Manets,
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wo Seurats, Renoirs.
To love them is to largely due to the efforts and Escaplum was another; ad cause he needed the company of
Toulouse Lautrecs and wo Vaa for them He kicked the coals it the generosity of Samuel Courtauld mirers of Burne-Jones and grate and said: I remember ahimself.
Rossetti believed that art should rest ori ca urgently as some Gogh-mall for a total sum which lathe shoddiness and villgarity. people need music ur poey today might just suffice to pur-
Admittedly, Benbirs and provide an antidote to reality.
and secondly for the nation, be
one not particularly Cezannes are now as essentful to millionaires as yachts and Rolls- Royes and some millénaires are definitely unworthy of their
a chance vacancy book." House- for worse, Eton stamps on its And the masters who have sudden men. His texts show that an extruet vacancies
and to it can refer of the coal which he entis į deride whether there is a boy nitricin is active against many there they would like to take. gvens and fungal parasites.
former head master, Allington, Other rich men of his gencra- "But you must remember saying it was in his forewell He believes that the pre venee 1s at Elon all up to the house address - Doys at Winchesterton may have spent their money of this material in some tiis master. It is his choice whether and Elon both feel that they are more practically. None spent it of coal explains why some he takes a boy or not."
at the best schools in the work more imaginatively, mines arc fairly free From
asked pneumoconiosis -
Mr Lyttelton
"All I can say is that Win- disease brought on by breathing about the criticisms harl been
bearing of
Eton: Cheater is the best of all public present-day thut the schoul
falling was behind.
schools. But Eton ... well Eton
coal dust.
the
I then
Jurys
Professor Evans was put on
to his discovery by wonder:14 "If you want to get an opinion la like nothing else in the world.” why coul, which is semi-decayed, up to date," he said, "I suggest vegetable matter, has never you go and see Oliver van Oss."
ruited away completely,
So I went to see van Oss. He
He suspects that the vilcem fjla a very able, outspoken and formed during its decomposition amiable man who is Lower killed off the germs and fungi Master, which means that he is, which would otherwise have (in fact, number two to Birley. converted it to gus anch water.
It's so safe
DETAILS
ETAILS of the astonish- safeguards built into the Thor rocket to provent premature
Ox-
plosion of its H-bomb war head have been disclosed.
The
Il-bomb charge cannot be detonated until an clecirle current has been bull up to a certain level aside the warhead. This cannot begin to build up until the firing system which generales lt has been instruct- Intricate ed" to do so by an arming system.
TALKING
POINTS
Success is like riding" on a bicycle. Keep moving, or fall down..
JOHN DAVID WRIGHT.
There's no social dif. |ferences-t1}{
Finally, the firing stern lin. cannot release its vital electric charge until ordered to do to by
a fusing udziem ⋅ which eannat
send out its erders, until the
missile is near the target.
In addition, the Thor carries
women come
---N. G. WELLS.
A dose of polson can do
a built-In "destruct system" [Its work once. A bad book!
which ensures that it-breaks up can polson minds for
hornlessly In Right if any part
falls to work properly.
➡(London Express Service).
generations.
-W. JOHN MURRAY"
Curious
chure his generosity impelled him shase
£50,000 gift
to share with the publie the outstanding Cezanne. Eun Whistler and Sargent, by joys which offcial Philistinism feeding the more open-minded had so far denied them. single-handed English collectors telth watered Almost ho brought about a re- town impressionism, made it all volution in English taste, the harder for them to appre- making people who had ciate the real thing.
Courtauld himself was not an art immediate never thought about
In 1910, convert. before aware that beauty when he was 34, he saw his arsi
pictures.
But a huge section of the Fortunately he started to
In 1923 he gave the Tate publle now lives more keenly collect at a time when it Gallery £50,000 with which to by the eye" than ever before. It is impossible, for instance, was still possible to ac buy modern French pictures.
for a specuintar to folst' a re- by quire masterpieces
it the fund's trustees With
volting building on them with- painters like Cezanne and acquired, among other marvels out meeting violent cpposition, if
Srurnt's Une Bulgnade, Manet's not defeat.
THURSDAY SPOTLIGHT by Cummings
WIND OF CHANGE'
SPEECH
**My goodness--my propaganda'
MAC-the
Imperialist
味
MACE THE CANNIBAL
OF THE JUNGLE
London: Mgress Berrion..
La Servante de Bock, Renoir's
Premiere Sortie, Cezanne's Selt- This new artistic awareness Portrait and Van Gogh's Sun-
flowers.
Today the Seurat worth £30,000.
alone
cannot be attributed to one in-
hea is fluence alone.
played a greater part in foster- In 1932 Courtauld presented ing it than Samuel Courtauld.
many of his finest pletures to
the Courtauld Institute of Art which
he had founded the prevkua year. He also presented *£70,000 to the Institute to
bulld a gallery with.
It now houses all the best French pictures from the Insti
ate's collection and many which be bequeathed on his death in
1017.
Together they constitute the inest series of Impressionist pic- Post-Impressionlat tures in England, for sheer beauty they can stand cond parison with any collection in the world.
BH
It Courtauld's taste can be summed up by, just two of his pletures they orc Cezanne's Mont Sainte Victoire and Renair's Premiere Sortie,
The Centinela a pure land- scape, obscrved with absoluto truth to tone and atmosphere and welded into a desigs, of herol intellectual grandour,
The Renoir which douleto a pretty girl with a bouquet in her hond entering a box in n theatro is irresistibly lunati In its appeal and painted with Drenthalting flumley,
Mystically, these two pkw
· turen thay,· appear to have 'Littia
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