Jap war book is rubbish says the
General
A BRITISH general
is angry with 2 Japanese colonel over a book about the 'war in Malaya.
GENERAL
Arthur Ernest Percival was the 'British com- mander who surrendered Singa- pore to the Japanese in 1942.
COLONEL Masanobu Truli was chief of operations and planning staff of the Jap 25th Army.
to bo In his book, about published in Australia, Colone! Tsui elalms the, Japanese did not, as maintained by Ceneral Perelval, outnumber the British in men und equipment during the Malaya campaign.
Colonel Tall, now a member of the Japanese Parliament, raya: "The British regarded the Indian divisions as *goods for consumption," "
'Abandoned'
--And he accuses the British of abandoning the Indians when
the Perak bridges were do- molished.
Recently 72-year-old General Percival said at the headquar-
ters of the Red Cross, close to his home at Ware, in Hert
fordshire: "There are hundreds
of my former men who know these claims are absolute non- son.ee,
"At the start of the Malaya campaign 125,000 British
troops, including Australians and Indians, faced 95,000 Japs.
"But few of our chapa were sufficiently trained, and within
JACKY'S DIARY
On GeogRoPHY This WEEK TheYRE Learning
us all About a Place callep FRANCE
1903
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1960.
BY
FRANCE
JACKY Mendelsohn
Age 331⁄2
EUROP
ALSO The PEOPLE THEPEN other inNePESTING THING - APE VERY PATRIOTICAL. Bout France is THE PEOPLE PAY
Each other with FRANKS,
Here,
(MeRcY
Which is why the Houses are MADE MAINLY OUT OF Plaster of Paris,
French People have got their own Flag, Which is
1/2 Blue/White 42 Red
&NOTHER Thing
IS THEIR FAMUOS
for making
WINE OUTTA
Their Bear
Feet.
Skwush
GRates
ALSO FRANCE is famous for Making Furnitcher
Esteshully French Cabinets, Only they're Not Very good, Cause They keep falling all the Time,
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Necks Week i Will Tell You more about FRANCE... AS Soon
as The Teacher LEARNS SOME more
Tells US
YOUR Amik
・MORE⋅
French,
Jacky.
This man of many loves The Heresies
and big
E was Viceroy
HE
of
India when he was
no time at all there were 135.00039, one of the finest that
Japs, without us being
Juforced.
"As regards equipment, the
India ever had, twice
Japs had 700 good planes, and Foreign Secretary,, once
we had 140 very indifferent air-within an ace of becom- craft. The enemy had.160 tanks
to our 11and six of those were ing Prime Minister
not working.
At the front "So far as the allegation that we abandoned Indian troops is concerned, I was personally right
up at the northern' front clase to the Indians at the Perak River bridges. I tow they were not abandoned."
Last word Perelval:
vice.
and from his boyhood days until his death in 1926, passionately deter- mined and
the how
any-
ambitions
by FRANK OWEN
"My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
I am a most superior person,
My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim once a week.”
ed first
Mary wife,
the
!
WED TWICE
vants. For all the rest of his life Curzon was influenced by his sudden journey to heaven at the age of 39, and then by his return to earth seven years later, for the remainder of his mortal, ovistence."
RESIGNED
the
benevolenti
ما
of the Affluent Egghead.
New York.
ONLY four years ago, at the time of the last American presidential,
election, the term "egghead," meaning intellectual, was a sneer.
the
by RENE
MacCOLL
And what causes the Consor- vatives of America to groan into their dry martinis -arid TM druim their fingers angrilyon tho edges of their Cadillac station wagons is the knowledge that this so potentially powerful a whisperer into the next Pre-A dent's ear advocales & increase in government spend-... ing more and more and more milions of dollars, and a stil sales tax to booti
+
Curzon was autocrat, benevolent
the but outstanding character to achieve outer world. His 23-year-old sweated, exploited masses,
The political
everyone. the suprema
honour mother seems never la have autocratie to
officers working which
India ho sought, and the forgotten, or forgiven it.
Civil Service frustration of is ceaselessly to get there.mily dream to have a sun to (though his chums there called
private. He was glad to get to Eton detested him,
So did the Army. But it was sucered to the bereditary titles him "Moonface"). He used to not until Kitchener came out (ut i Many people recall
sulk and bunk classes, but he Curzon's request!) as comman- which he had won. above Jingle. But
also studied hard 'in secret and der-in-chief that real troubie
But times have remarkably won prizes. He possessed early flared. They quickly quarrelled changed, and as this year's elec- from Generat many today know
His life story is the tale of a
and was over the limits of their authority, on campaign moves into its "When We became thing about, the
(except political aspirations persona never-understood man prisoners, the Jans were forever lity that it refers to, the only by one woman, his devol- gratined to have his arrival at and the row did not end until anal weeks-November 8 is the
Leiter). Oxford University described as Curzon resigned.
day-the egghead fa everywhere trying to impress us with the one and only Marquis Cur- George Nathaniel Curzon was "s brief interval between Elon To his Lstonishment (and triumphant. greatness of the Nippon Army,
indignation) zon of Kedleston?"
actually born with a big head; and the Cabinet."
resignation
And nowhhre "It seems they never stop
has he "YON trying."--London Express Ser- His life is one of personal it took hours to drag that huge
was accepted.
glory and renown to a greater cruntum und tiny torso into tragedy; the failure of such un
He came home expecting the extent than among the men highest honours as compensa- around Jack Kennedy, the De- sation. He got none. For just mocratic candidate for President, Curzon was already suffering as he arrived the Tory Govern- For young Jack, cagerly
of mood
the serious pains from a fall from ment fell, So he was awürted sniffing his pony, several years earlier. in his next most passionate public, knows well how com. He now developed a curvature desire to get an earldom, per-plete has been the turnabout in of the spine, and for the rest of haps even a dukedom. -
this respect and in what high in economic matters yesterday's Galbraith which go winging out in the speeches which Kennedy his life was forced to wear a Not until the Coalition Gov-esteem the professor now stands truth is today's stereotype.
Says ho: *The ideas by makes, including the, widely- leather harness and to endure ernments of the First World In America.
which the American people haẞed "new frontier", addres ju pozmanentjagony.
War did Curzon get near
his There are nearly 100 top interpret their existence and at Los Angeles Just July. But the young man, now s next objective210 Foreign grade intellectuals in Kennedy's guide their behaviour wore
hard Office. His Machiavellian in "Brains Trust.” including men forged in a world ever, was a glutton for
You can well imagine, then," in which as Arthur Schlesinger work. Already he had made rigues, first against Asquith such
poverty had always been man's with what celerity and determi», mation the button-down collar normal lot. would labour for 18 hours a day cast a strange light upon the both of Harvard, and Professor
"But nowadays any politician Madison avenue (fortress of the boys get along New York's Whitman Rostow, who held Walt man and night writing books and character of
Massachusetts Institute
of who speaks for the very poor ad man) as they · contemplate articles. He would easily write honour in such high regard
greatly
speaking for small minority." He also is fond of saying that: the ghastly advent of a man who proclains, articulately and The corrupting effect on the
widely, his dreadful theme that human spirit of a small amount America is wildly overproducing, of unearned Income has. bec and, on top of that, that the exaggerated as have the business mon are belting the character-bulleting values of people's appetites for consumer hunger and privation.'
After, taking a degree in
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Lean, hundsome, debonair of policy by this idealistic man pected George Curzon, still found time when Juo OWE
to attend balls, where three of involved. his best friends were the He thought Tennant sisters, including Mar- keep cut
women should
Cox,
of
TCS-
respective
Career
was scholastic fields.
Formidable
above them
of palities. Their
got, who married M Asquith pisce was "the" klichen, the on his advice.
rich American
drawing room, boudoir, and
Towering
all;
Galbraith firmly believes thot
And it is the Ideas of
goods which they do not neckl
What heretic is thist they of
Curzon, himself, was to marry bodron. He became president physically as well as in public philosophy at the University of, in twice, both his brides being of the Anti-Suffragette League. prestige and acclaim is the California, Galbraith went to
heiresses. He But when the Bill came up for formidable John Kenneth Gol- always had his eye on that main extending the vote to women, he braith, 52 years old, a lantern- Cambridge University. During price-fixer in Washington, but chance to help forward his announced in the Lords that he jawed man, eft, sin: high, with the war he was a Government a flashing eye and a good sense complained at the end of that political plans---but his loves would not oppose it
of humour.
stint that "I reached the point For Galbraith, born on Ontario farm, has conclusively which all price-Axone reach demonstrated to the American my enemies outnumbered my
friends," public that a professor, tradi
Later he edited a glossy
were sincere. (He' was utterly boreaved for years after the
death of his first wife,)
The greatest disappointment
off that enoug ditty begin- did
HE WEPT
1
an
the country clubs
Shudders
And the frowns are pretty fierce above the longmettes," "I can asure you, when the rotter.is heard saying things like: "The more. goods people procure the
The fellow should be drumme
ed out of the Harvard club forlhi. with.
of his life was that neither of In 1922 the Lloyd George finally rather looked down on magazine and then in 1954, the more trach there is to cerny : them bore him a son, though he Coalition Government moved to over here for his uninspiring frst time that Adlai Stevenson away. The greater the wealth, had daughters.
its close, and a Tory Govern- income, taity clothes; and unsuccessfully fought Elson- the thicker the dirt.* He also had, before his ment came in under Bonar Law, second-hand motor-cor, can of hower for the presidency, 'he pocoonid marriage, an eight-year Curzon held on to the Farcign all things make morley,
bocame aghead Stevenson's romance with Elinor Glyn, the Office, and when Bogar Law Galbraith has done thing with fabulous, lovely
red-head resigned he shared the wido- A series of books with such ghost-writer and chief adviser. The Affluent Society" made authorens-actress whose tiger spread belief that of Inst the les as American Capitallan him a marked man os far as And as if he had not casted skin act in the theatre started King would send for him. Hethe Concept of Countervailing
enough ahtsiders alréady, Curzon was especially Power" and "The Great Crash business men were concerned.
Big business violently opposed Galbraith has sent a new and mummoned to London from his of 1028 which promptly hit his books coll them that convulsive tremor through many the best-seller list ord trans the USA is far too pre of his fellow-Americans by bigt=" Would you like to in country home.
He arrived by train, and the formed him into so respected occupied with the high producing that since 196 largely with Elinor Glyn on
crowded station. chicered him fure that ho was taked to and the photographers pursued testify an economic matters of consiner goody and arivate concerns that are respotte for the alloged övédi tiger-skin?
tinh to his town: House at me Comeruloos: tion to obtaining an acceptable production, perhaps it would be
at before an almost obsequious dives not nearly enough atten- albia Carlton House-torrace, par
But the books which really hit level in such fields as schools, well for the Government Hot Curzon, who had by this time! vetannod
He waited and at 2.ab that the ball out of the ground was hospitals, parks, and sanitation. from his team as afternoon, the King's Frivolo Galbraith's "The Affu Viceroy of India, went straight Beuretary arrived. But it was Society," published in 1908. home from the theatre, unpack to tell him that His Males fact the title of the book ed the skin of a tiger which he had decided. it w no longer hos becare-a Bort of enter had shot in Gwalior, and sent possible to have a poer us Prime phrase which crops up con- It off in Elinor.
Powerful
only to start spending all'; that extra money but also to tiike over, a "good: hunk of the production, end of thing too bl
In picking calbraith an hisYes, I think we can be
Minister. Mr Stanley Baldwin plantly in American convert top notum conhead. Kennedy certain of one thing: If His career as Viceroy bad was the most obvious alterna- tion and print today. 123) was taking a course which he Kennedy should win the stemmed from hale auocess in his "five land!!! he was : nów /nt For that book he was praised, known well will tend to elianate election--and H is stillya frat political office as Undre- Dikkinchan Palestina soatatioilly by tho, Liberals the men of the Fight "in; ther Secretary for India. In 1800 he Curion bed down and whot, round coursed by the bine Disocratic Party, and some of very big if -- and the had, wet or on what Loed te hod by the Ume collected and lamented over by the Wall the "fasting voto we present Kennedy-Galbraith BonvertirobkTM has described as almost the very highest, peemge Street Journal,OMMER
Fan 144 Handedy wâ next hook-up continden. fit all Ha kle ?^Journey to Heaven to an En had nought, el murgilento. Galbraith is also the darling, mentir hava, no douby a vibete current inilutacy
office filled with pond and And, I benned blin from rethe of Erkan”. Lebour, Party, much, spever that Galbraith's voice ceremony.. In bir train followed men honour which had been disparate to Cromer will be very Sowerful Indeed won't know Lopar ateinam, of alephantage and th whom Home Sovepose S Ki. Fand Crosland it taking Bez 206510" during the coming", Kennedy, "year or so from nowJ
neministration”