THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1980.
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Running against the crowd-
I LIKE AMERICA!
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As the jet stooped down from 30,000 feet for the
run-in to London Airport I saw that England was awash.
Leaden pools of water patterned the green fields and the word in the headlines was "floods."
I ant concerned with other kind of floodwater-the tuabld, muddy stream of anti-American upinion towing through this country.
The tran dous Hol rub drep. Oh, no--nave all things the il halkw, for it is prejurtive of shallow minds.
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At another level-u cocktail perty in Cheisei-you run into anti-Americanism ns' expound-
રંતુ Ùy k 28-year-old pubile
school mun. IIL expensive education doesn't slap him from
i roule that is going into cleader than vaudeville-c accuses American: of "muter-
Witt make an on-Ameri- mikan," t? Envy, For one thing: kind of meanness which resents the fort That iliy country
thead be ingster nici
h we are.
Telling YOU
richer
you've been ina the States says the salon-bar
anti-American.
He sipas tepid glo-and- tonte, and he is not going la ask you about America. He Iterally "doesn't want to know." He wants to tell you.
Now thut Big Ca election?*** he says. "Elston. they call it. More bite a circus.“
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He fgnores the fact that two dedicated men, Senator John Kennedy and Vice-President Richard Nixon, travelled mote than 100,000 mite in truty berole contest 1 the most Important office in the world,
But the saloon-bar carper doesn't want to hear about this He is satisfied that Americans elections thdr
like it children trailing toy balloons,
dreadful cars,
all
every.
chrome and this. Dors baly really have two of them?
"And rock 'n' roll," he gots . "And isn't the food taste lers and the television must Le ghastly ... they have 1eally 110 manners, they fumble everything
uncultured they
rant."
World's best
and
and azil
BY PETER CHAMBERS
They have, in general, better manners than I have met any where else in the world.
Americans express un laterest in the stranger which may be real or formal, but which is in any case flattering. They pay elaborate court to women,
The big hello is what Americans love to give you,
Bark
the
from New York discover But the meduir, small, or iceny weeny hello is British thing.
he
To
Some parties I have been
The 11 talk in London! among themselves, the women stand about peaceably with gins in their hands like shy woud
be flushed nymphs waiting to from the forest.
Du el' try to get up to date on the United States. Let's Americans For alop working
idents publicity lionted
like togetherness" andi "gracious Well, the front kn't tageless, living," which they are only too Men Supe restauratis 113
ready to make fun of them America which ofter
selves are wittily than we do, the best food in the world.
100.
Culture? Station WQXR in New York bridensts nothing but news and classleal music for 18 hours a day,
As for television, the troglo- dyles of TV A Britaith lap up exactly the same sort of mindless trash ne they du 171 the US.
ute
but 1-
Americans are noisy and often kupatient in public places, the ideu that they mannered is a myth.
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We are dealing with a highly sophisticated peopje, and It's time we got rid of our folk- image of the American 24 bool from Hicksville with cigar in his face, a
camera round his neck, and
a roll of dollars to buy culture with.
Envy peak anti- Ameri canlam. So duen abeer, tally, Ill-read Ignorance,
Many Americans are extremely well-informed about British and
European alert ond the know.
affairs.
They are they want to be in
This fact is to be remembered before anybody starts accusing the American electorate er forance and the American
of Administration
being 1- informed, Immature fumblers,
are
American conversation is free, lavely and full of jokes. But
Americans Suncamentilly deadly serious about their nation and their nation's mission in the world.
A report to the Sinte Depart ment recently stated that 47 per cent of the British people believe we should not commit ourselves to either Amerlen or Russla,
Are My response to this we out of que tiny island minds?
Her billions
America hos bailed out Thu free world since the war with
lons of dollars. Many people resent her tenersity; but of least let us not impugn her good intention.
We and the Americans believe
We BT in the same things,
kissing-cousing"
This is an American piruse for cousins who are less than Arst cousins they are suffi- clently "removed" to kiss and marry.
of our true and British,
To the marriage minds. American let there be no impediment.
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Delicate-how
a rich curate should spend his wealth...
SUSPECT that the Reverend Timothy Went- worth Beaumont is easily the richest parson in Britain.
Before meeting him, it had never occurred to me to ask a Church of England curate the ques- tion: "Are you a millionaire?"
Certainly fow other clergymen would have felt fi necessary to do as he did, and reply with a rather em- barrassed smile and an apologetic "No comment.”
Well, it Mr Beaumont is not exactly a millionaire, he is not much more than a good Easter Offering or two from that en viable state.
Wealth on this scale naturally poses some delicate problems for a priest. What-for instance- is he to do with the money?
Beaumont's own answer 10
this,
he has just been explaining it to me, accounts
THE REY. TIMOTHY BEAUMORT
Hothing good-in-partn
about his
Mest++SS.
BY J. W. M. THOMPSON
Externally, be seems a little worldly, with his carnation. his unclerical ile decorated with gold stick-pin, his neat walchchain spanning a fair stretch of walstcost.
Brid
But he quickly discloses him- self to be a hard-thinking
earnest person.
Reform
("ostensibly reading law then
agriculture,
and
but really Icft him
enjoying myself) rather at a loose end.
Then he turned to the Church. now risen to £400, and the After being ordained he went Joss will probably grow still out to Honglong, and he found birger as he spends more on himself bowled over by "the promoling and developing vitality of a young church which the paper.
down isn't bogged
the Establishment."
Hence the zest with which now, a boyish but determined 32, he is adopting the role of Estab lishment goad and reforming
Still he is clearly enjoying himself enormously. The circula- ion has edged up and the big push has yet to come. Ho reckons it could pay its way at publicist. 30,000.
the.
Beaumont manages business vide himself (coupled,
He has decided to put his rather unusually, with contro!
for his recent and unexpected money and himself to work, to of the new religious section). emergence as London's newest revitalise religious journalism. magazine proprietor.
Holding
His wealth of course, is in- barited. married
l
beautiful 0
grandfather member
He has plenty of reforming ideas to put across, and he is bothered about the "Image" which the Church presents. There is much to $Q that he would like modernised.
The source
Moving
"What I am really." he said,
"Is a worker-priest... so I am In on the current- Anglican band- wagon.
every
am D
"I am honorary curate at Si Perhaps ho has Inherited a Stephen's in Rochester Row, and dash of business acumen along ! preach or celebrate
onco Sunday, He reminds me of the Blahop with a fortune. He did
months worlding
"During the week J of Southwark, although Beau- spent three of the American Grace family. mont is no Socialist, but a loyal in the Grace office in New York,
"to see publisher. As much I must live but that was mainly This hog led to Beaumont Liberal.
where the dough came from,ke one to be efficient. We're having a big holding today Iri Last March he saved the In other respects his training moving out of this house moon" this was his smart. terraco W. R. Grace and Company, the New York firm that con- weekly review Time and Tide has been distinctly uncommer
house off Knightsbridge."Into a bigger place in Green Street,
trola
grave by taking it elni.
a shipping line, an air from the and a huge teade with over, with overdraft, for about South, America.
Ilne,
He
£10,000, Ife deelded, he tells He was not a grent success at Mayfair, I must be able to meet me, he would be prepared to school, he says. An unprofitable and entertain a great many
people," also has a. comfortable lose £50,000 or the first two year at Eton was followed by a pile of other sound investments. years, after which it would sink longer well at Gordonstoun Anyhow, he added, Malymir is There In nothing good-in-parts or swim. The pattern he had la (and be doem't see that today not nearly as expensive as it Informative in any rosy mood of retrospec- used to be, wirt with parkins meters and other inconveniences. generi paper with a Christian tion, either).
He won't even be bble to leave Beaumont la a likeable young favour.
Two years in the Army (Edus Is. Rolls-Royce vülside him man: plump, bouncing, cheer-
cation Corps, rank of sergoant) front door without paying. and attractively
this yard at Oxford
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rid
about this curate's nest-org.
ful,
mind.
wns an
"
The started on by loring about £100 a week. This has