Page
DOCTOR
MAKES
CURIOUS
PREDICTION
ABOUT
WOMEN
by Anthony
THE
Lejeune
HE family unit, the foundation of civili sation, the bricks of
which society is made,
is doomed.
THE CHINA. MAIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1980.
The young historian who slates the victor
of El Alamein is unruffled by jibes that
he is 'brash, audacious and
and bumptious'
Wartime schoolboy says: Why
shouldn't I criticise Monty?
By CYRIL AYNSLEY
COR
ORRELLI BARNETT, the young man who has been plunged into a major controversy with his attack, in a new book, on Viscount Montgomery, was away from it all recently-working in the garden of his new home near Norwich.
MERBA MATRUH
AEU NASHAIFA
KENAYIS:
'EL DAI
BIA KHALDA
This 33-year-old military historian who works with an advertising agency awoke the other day from comparative obscurity to a blaze of limelight. depleted and exhausted
Cutrell read the reviews of nothing more than a tung, Bus- The authority for this
his book before he sat down to tamed and unbalanced eritielson
his with Lark Cust
young. of Montgomery.“" alarming judgment is
antel Clare, Having read this book I Dr David Mace, inter-daughters Hilary
thu national marriage ex- Most reviews were favourable, agree. At the same time
One was a fierce allock, de- attack On the controversial former sérthing him as brash,
Montgomery is so seathing that Buda pert and
the rest of Barnett's balanced entire desert Of survey
Lae general secretary of
campakan is bound to be over- the. Marriage Guid-
shadowed. ance Council.
"The break-up of the old type of family life is now inevit- able," i 80JIM.
+
When 1 met Dr Mace he had Just come back from tours of Russia and the Far East.
OLD IDEAS
TN India Dr Maco tried to con- would be aiee if they could own marriage choose their partners. But the Kirts didn't like the kea.
"For one thing," they said, "
a very must put the girl in humiliating position. It means. she has to try to look pretty, and call attention to herself. and attract a boy, in order to get married.
"If she feels this, la indignified and doesn't push herself for- ward, she might not get a Burely that's husband. humiliating. It makes getting married a sort of competition in which the girls are lighting each other for the boys." These Eastern girls regarded romantic love us dangerous and rather disgusting.
"When marriage begins in the West" said one of them, "the fire is rouring and the kettle When our boking.
Eastern
fire in marriages begin, the low and the kettle cold. But as time goes on the lire burns brighter, the water gets hotter, and the couple feel that Bheir marriage is getting better and better every day."
Dr Mace was deeply impressed by all this but he says the old pattern is breaking up. They are ceasing to believe in that
Ane Brahmin saying: "Educate
a woman and you put a knife
In the hands of a monkey," NEW WAYS
LL over the world, Dr Mace thinks, democracy and in- dustrialisation are destroying the family unit,
And while the elaborate Eastern code of matrimony and con- cubines crumbles, the West is establishing its own forms of polygamy with frequent divorces and remarriages and extramarital liaisons.
Such changes, says Dr Mace, must be recognised and incor- porated into some new social form to replace the old family unit.
What are we to put in the place
of the family?
Dr Mace thought for a long
while, "Comradeship in depth," he finally replied.
The Communist Chinese.
of
course, have a clear-cut 20- swer. They are deliberately destroy family Hic trying and loyalties, replacing them with the artificial "family life" of the comraunes. Perhaps they like it that way. Perhaps, as you look across your breakfast table at your nearest and dearest, you name
might times think you loo prefer it, that way.
But would you really? Is that
the direction in which
We
must all inevitably, go? It's
worth thinkinut about.
Sam Kanday- Regrets Berwice).
cous, and bumptious.
Barnett
Cool
stare
- Jawed quirt-spoken young mun who tagged Monty ng "o mom wear inga second-hand coat ul glory" look it all fairly calmly.
But he told me: "I shall be very unhappy if it gets about that this is a rather cheap and
on Monty. I personal attack isn't that at all
an entirely wrong "It gives impression to say that this
is
1<
I
Curt
the
to
With irony, be entitles section of his book devated
"Military Mes- Montgomery:
sian,'
FORZA
1. Consolidaten efiring round Azis pweden
2, Continuation of British tank themą,
3. Central Albed adiantes
4. German, retres) fram, mmm delanoma sositione
5. Confond mein Aata relvast veute
under tertilo sie bombardment
AIRFIELDS •
With scorn he describes Mont- gomery's pursuit Bommel's
forces
as
after the battle of Alamein having "all the bustling con-
of
archdeacon Adence catering a maison clos."
ALAMEIN
Biret Marketin Ovirch Ma
Pattaret d Diggers
Two
10
IN LONDON THE OTHER DAY, EARTHA AND
HUSB AND
EARTHA KITT
..
TALKS ABOUT
HER MARRIAGE
by PETER EVANS EARTHA KITT, who was once unfortunate enough to be called The World's Most Exciting Woman, poured the tea and said: "My husband is white. I am not.
FLASHBACK: Ching Mail map of the Alamein battle, showing Rommel's retreat.
Napoleon today who had He said he was too busy to see served with him."
me. 1 regard that also as quite Dead Sarneti, who
Modern reasonable."
"But I have no problems. Why should I have History at Oxford with Military
Recently 1 phoned Lord History and Theory of War Montgomery
Westerham problems? Marrying the man you love is a prob- a special subject, devoted
where he Was speading the 'lem?" Miss Kitt, who arrived in London recently to research and a half years
at weekend
Winston was told for the first time since her marriage to property and writing his book.
Churchill's home. He interviewed Auchinleck, he had no comment.
dealer William McDonald three months ago, Bitchie. Cunningham, Galloway. But when I spoke to him last narrowed her eyes to a challenging slit. and Dorman-Smith all generals week about relieved of their communds Montgomery during the desert campaign
With bitterness he throws down the challenge that, be- cause of Rominel's weakness, the set-piece battle of Alamein
with its heavy Beed
Ailled
losses
never have been fought, except for Montgomery's stub- bornness, And that when
fight It Montgomery did
Be fought it badly.
When Monty
was
Aghting the battle of Alamein, Correlli Burnett was a schoolboy Norbury.
of
With disdain Barnett dis
One of the recent attacks on the personal misses
publicity arties of Monty in the words: hins was on the fact of his age and lack of military experience. "He
the first British WHS
himself to He did not see Ariny life until general to project
a after the war, when he was his public (the troops) like
Servicemak politician a crooner...he National
Palestine. command success-
"An absurd criticism," loyalty: he must
"It would be difficult a publicity
Barnett. cum-
la find any man writing about
felt that Lo fully, to gain Generals" published by Wuz Kimber, ndse embark
psign
Jus.
Desert
hand? He just fell out
» Pill you take one down to my hus
window!"
of
the
sid
But
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But he did not meet General Sir Brian Horrocks, whom he describes Ix "smiling
that toothy smile, so well known to television audiences."
Cautious
to mine.
Sir
"You
see, 13
my life is to have Believe me, I'll be
Barnett's book. sald then: "A
long as two thing in young man, eh? I suppose he thinks he could have done people such as we are sensible, children belter himself? Well, he's handle themselves with dignity wonderful mother. I'll give them cattled to his opinion and nand, yes, perhaps bravely at everything that was missing in times, there is nothing to fear, my felove and affection and
"It's only when
minority kindness, people behave like minority people or feel guilty about their colour that trouble begins.
"Problems
trouble... dificulties
they start from the inside, believe me."
"I've said all I have to say in you'll my own book. I think
we didn't agree with me that do a bad job," Nor did he meet Montgomery Added Lord Montgomery *="cautious.
about obsessed
Barnett's book: tidiness and method."
Barnett told me: "General the author"
declined to see nie. Horrocks
of this book or
with
Juven't heard
Which left Cortelli
Barnett
He was writing his own book with the last word: "If he
so that, is quite understandable. hasn't heard of it then whai
wrote to Montgomery about
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4
Children
"I'll educate them in America and Europe, Europe for the culture and good taste and the sense of responsibility they will Icarn there. And America be- cause America knows how to teach people to make money.
"And I'll teach them some- thing tou. I teach them self- MISS KITT, the skin stretched respect and tolerance and how
twice and had two letters buck wrote to, me and which I still across ber face like taut tawny
om bin, quite friendly, hand have?" written, and personally signed.
those two letters ha
-London Express Service).
to stand up and fight for what
| parchment, went on slowly they want. I'll teach them that
"Tught now the most important
SILENT WAR IN VIETNAM III
A FEW GUERRILLAS
THE
TIE UP A
LARGE ARMY
Saigon.
campaign for "pacification” which Vietnamese troops are carrying
on in the southern part of the country is the type of war for which the 150,000-man army here is least adapted.
The fighting does not receive much publicity in Saigon, where life
goes on normally.
Engagements between gov- ernment
tough, troops and hard-to-find Communist cadres become known ΠΟΤΕ oflen through vague
of fact miastatements through official announcements.
rumours
under
And thon
By
Arthur J. Dommen
•United Preu International-
the from outside, and
can live
you have to earn respect and friendship and never feel hurt it it doesn't always come."
She stopped talking for a moment and locked Hard Into her cup: "It's a funny thing,
my life I've strived, hungered, cried even. for affection. Not the idolisation or the applause that one gets as a performer. Oh sure, that's great and wonderful.
"But I've wanted really deep- down love. It was the one thing which drove me on.
"Now I've got it. What do I want TOW? Serenity. Just serenity for my chlidreri And my husband und me."
I looked again at
the tiny woman in the brown dress talk- Ing about bringing up children and found it hard to equate her with the slinky femme fatale who spits out lyries like a private challenge to every male.
"Serenity" she said. "That's what I want. After all life is evolution. Down the years I've seen what It's got to offer. Some
of it I've liked. Some noi. Now
I want to go back to the serenity of my early childhood. It was bliss."
So precious
MISS KITT, born ота Broken-down farm in the Deep South, brought up in the Eariem olume, was stalling,
"Oh sure it was rough and we |had no money and often went "The men' go off into the hungry. But then I had some- forest, and we don't see them thing which was more precious again until we find them grow-than I realised... the sereno
ng rice for the Viet Cong At We best, they become only Inform-
Lt. Gea, Samuel T. Willians, head of the U.S. Military Ad- visory Assistance Group which 15 responsible American Mutual Security Programme for training Southally from the forille land, Vietnam's armed forces, called
Military observers here, admit the situation
in the southern frankly that the situation in the riceland provinces "perious but south poses more of a worry ers not alarming."
than the ever-present possibility of aggression across the narrow 17th parallel from Communist North Vietnam.
That is how the present slate of affairs is accepted here. 4,000 There are an estimated
Lo 5,000 Communist cadres in
The problem, in the view of the country at most-far too few, these observors, is more than a to pose a threat to the staunchly military one.
It also is
FF
anti-Communist government of psychological and a social one. President Ng Dinh Dien
Nevertheless, wortare is goig on in the south.
WIN OVER
The officer in charge of a ra . As yet, only A very BITadl
Bald guerrilla operation portion of the Vietnamese army the army was
is engaged in active fighting.
cent
making efforts to win over the peasant popu- people especially One division out of a total of lation.
evacuated from the "war zone" soven is quartered permanently which the operation was In the area south of Saigon.
SPINE
going on.
He pointed to on operations map covered with red and blue arrows and circles.
of the
Along the borders "war zone" he indicated two or three rural community centres government Was which the building to house the displaced families and provide them with electricity and schools.
Morale in the army crucial importance.
Is
of
The waits involved in the
the Cam
by
operations against munist Viet Cong are led a corps of young officers. private in the Vietnamese army receives 100% pleatres A month
He pointed out beyond the (about HK$72) plus en allow- windows of his command post and of 200 plastres for his wife hut to the town of Camau with and 100 plastres for each child.
streets few
and, mud-
The others are farther north Its Bin the mountainous spine of spattered Jeeps and trucks and Vietnam, an area unlike the to the villages beyond whore no low-lying peninalo popszting vehicles could go.
But
the Gulf of Thailand from the That's the population we're South Chine Be#, Cy
trying to rally," he said.
tørrorism ***
But the resulfa,of the: napryle obstacle, he added, dred dio: ·Communisti hive
ENDURANCE ···
The enduranes and ten:city
of the Vietnamese mories with which they traverse swampland powerful in pouring rain and high wind
the and
is impressive terrorism
are down to`n fine art,
However, ***** whether" thesa Bir of "Ég for we've succeeded in troops can continuo indefinitely cobsen-, pulling, the warren, and children i too essay on a war of attrition tree, the over to our side}} “he; sald; i înju sudil conditions:munalrias, la: ba
MOTION : ALTARiing "his itaocié
"Now I could recapture that for my family. I'd be a really. happy woman."
London Express Service):
ARTIE....
"Mummy's precious might grow up to be a filmi tigao attraction
'blones?,
London Ergen