THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1980.
CURZON or the most superior persons
KITCHENER?
For three years these giants. fought for supremacy in India and only one could survive
C-l-C's contempt,
THE battle royal which raged between Curzon and Kitchener for supremacy in India lasted for three years. I
a bitter and titanic that he was struggle between two vain-glorious men-and, so far as their careers were concerned, it was war to death.
Mary Curzon realised at once that here was a dangerous adversary. She used all her charm and gentleness in an attempt to disarm Kitchener at the start. But Curzon saw his new Commander-
by LEONARD MOSLEY.
crumpled and burst into tears.
Klichener was so taken aback found himself, to his later fury, promising to back the Viceroy in "his puerile - quests." Afterwards he said: could have bitteri off tongue,"
'I'd shoot him'
my
in-Chief simply as a quaint, rather wild, character dialely, He went back to the who could be managed in the same way as an unruly boy by a wise father,
He seems to think that the military government of India Is do bat conducted by comda!
between in and me (la wrote patronkingly). Ac- cordingly. Jè come, and pours vul to me all sorts of schemes. [ # so frank and honest
His next move was to out-do the Viceroy In the pomp circumstance of his daily
and life.
He tore the innards out of great houses and turned them into palaces stuffed with art tren- sures and the trappings of good-tempered that one majesty. He clothed his servants advances in ornate silken uniforms, Cur- won had no faste for elaborate
met These
cannot with a rebuff."
and
To 24ply The andrtives Foods, but Klichener was some- "honest" and "fank" and thing of a gourmet and Four- "Kund-tempered" to Kiletiener mand and he gave great ban- Was naive inderd. Be was, in queta at which rich food znything, even "more for!uous wine were served. if character than Chrzon. But the Vienroy treated him like a now and rather Knappishi dog.
stands ateof and alone." wonte, ulten mass of devouring energy and burning Kambitions without anybody lö con!mi or guide
the
right direction.”
Curzon had no doubt that he would be the Svengali of this restless military Trilby.
He objected
For the first few Indisches Kitchener Have every out- ward sign of being an amen- able deputy. But he made, it quite clear that he wanted all mulitary afTales in his bands, and he strongly objected ttut Curzon કા મ Pand in the Army's direction Through an Military appointee valled the member.
The conflict
SUZ-
By the beginning of 100 there was no longer my Hestion that here were a Viceroy and his deputy working together for the good of India. What Mary Curzon had feared his Come to pan, and the giants squared off for conflet.
The Orst news Curzon gol that Kitchener had broken MA promise-and was scheming for the abolition of the Military Member-came when a friend in London said that the C.-In-C. hart been sending secret letters ta Lord Roberts ut e Ofice,
Curzon rebuked
Curzon's tears dried Inime-
Viceroy's Council, roundly altacked the Cabinet message and declared that thanks to efforts the damage had been ro- paired and he had secured in- portant concessions.
sent
Kitchener was furious. A few days Inter when Curzon Ima letier practically calling
THIS
him n liar, he wrote: "In the old days I should have called him out on it and shot him like a dog."
He did no such thing, how- ever, for he realised that he did not need to do so, CurzÓD WAS busy shooting down himself.
The Cabinet telegraphed that In no circumstance should the character of their message bo changed, Curzon immediately telegraphed back to Balfour telling him the message must be modliled or he would go. "The Government will never allow me to resign," he wrote Mary, And he certainly did not mean bis resignation to bo token seriously.
But Balfour read the telegram and took it at its face value.
On the morning of August 10, 1005, George Nathaniel, Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, was ut
breakfast when ↑ bearer brought an important dispatch from London. It was from the King. He resignation had been accepted.
It was all over. The great edifice he had so painfully and painstakingly built for himself had collapsed, overnight, and lay all around him in miserable ruin
SATURDAY;
THE MEETING WITH ELINOR GLYN
DOCTOR
WHO DEALS
IN DEATH...
BY DONALD SEAMAN
La
RESTAURANT BON VIVEUR
COMEDIE FRANCAIS
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London Express Barvica.
THE BORDER WAR' IS HOTTING UP
NHEY call it "The Mur
N the rare nights when no one has dialled "M" dorous Frontier,"
for Murder you will find him sitting at the Warpiano in his West End flat seeking relaxation in
the wonder of Brahms or Mendelssohn.
Ov
Kitchener promised to be a good
boy.
Slim and sensitive fingers
ing gently, inquiringly along the keyboard, soothing the lines from
tired, intelligent face.
What he did instead was in increase his correspondence with Lady. Salisbury, warning her to "be very careful that everything I write is quite private."
The hands: you look at the He asked for the job to be
hands when you meet this man. abolished, Curzon refused. He Curzon was still supreme They arc strong. scrubbed argued, but finally agreed to give confident that his superior hande. The hands of a doctor. the system a
trial tactics would win the day. year's promise which, it soon became could not believe that a
The usual job of these hands apparent, he had no intention of "who cannot even express him is grim. For this doctor's busi self In public or write a literate kieping.
ness is not life but death. And even while his hands are busy
Curzon had described his new
alone"
He
man
letter rould best an aristocrat
whose whole life had been on the keyboard his mind is spent learning how to rule,
turning over one of his most He called in Kitchener and unpleasant and difficult cases, told him he was sailing for England on six months' icave, and suggested during his absence that they should both try to be- come friends agoin.
Kitchener
C.-in-C. a "aloof and but he was far from being so, Unlike the Viceroy, he quickly surrounded himself with several able, loyal subordinates who were ready to die for him it necessary and certainly willing to help in his Intrigues.
warmly pgreed. But in fact he He had also, before leaving was furious, convinced that Cur- private zon was going home to intrigue London, established a channel
communication against himi. of through which he could always gel the ear of the Government, This was his adoring admirer, Lady Sallsbury.
To her be wrote his inner- most thoughts and opinions, and
she immediately rushed
to her husband or the Minister, Balfour, 10 their support.
His tactics
He immediately wrote
to
His week
where shots are fired from giant watch towers and LOCTOSS barbed wire on- tanglements, whore bombs Museum in the Medical Schoot explode on the rail tracks, at Guy's Hospital, Southwark,talk their victims at night trigger-happy mon
It sounds like the beginning of a now wor somewhere on the other side of the world.
London.
A grim place this, a macabre ketting for his work.
Here are many
thousands of exhibita from cases in the quiet Pettit. Murder cloctor's Ales. Heath, Haigh, suicide upon countless suicide, upan murder
Preserved, not for any per- ronal whim but for the benefit of future generatious of patho- logists, so that the war against crime can go on.
The bodies'
where
I may indeed, well lead to serious consequences for and It happened recently in near. the heart of Europe, not many miles from Vienus.
Yet, according
The grim fact is that the recent outbreak of unprovoked
Now Austrians demand:
Send troops there
From WILLI FRISCHAUER: Vienna.
the world. The Austrian goy- the end of 1961-when China ernment dispatched B commis- will have her own atom bomb slon to investigate the position and, once more, her own out- as a result of which the goy- lork on world affairs. ernment addressed an official protest to Hungary.
Like
protests many similar
was pooh-poohed by
A storm
In Vienna this spate of re-
to Austrian before. It "Iron Curtain" experts, a drep the Hungarian. significance of world-wide im- The difcullies in the Loveplications attaches to the sila-
tion on their Eastern frontier. This small almost dainty. Case are fantastic. sandy hair man of 63 with the fringe of long inmerston In that busy The total lack high, shipping berth. round domed
the forrhead is Dr
record to work Kelth of any dental Simpson, the great pathologist.
from-always the most reliable guide to identity in such cases. Another "M" for Murder calt disturbed Dr
Yet police chiefs believe Dr Simpson's
Simpson wilt have his findings relaxation recently,
complete very soon. 11
tame after a horrified across Lady Salisbury and told her father in Yateley, Hants, rang
Prime thut
What effect does it have on
a man, to work in the sheer
the position of Military the police to tell them that his horror of cases such as this, year canvass Member was not abolished, he three sons had found the body after year?
would resign, return to England, of a child on the local green, and create a public scandni.
was the body of 12-year-old
Slowly, while the Viceroy relaxed self-confidently, KI- chener began to flex his muscles, He had taken the measure of Curzon and decided that he was a temperamental titan with feet of clay. He forthwith look the arst klek at the Viceroy's under- pinnings by telling hire that hence-forward he must keep to feet out of those Army matters dealing with the defence of the frontiers of India.
'I'll resign!"'
Curzon arrived back in India Brenda Nash, the Girl Gulde
in December 1904. Almost from missing for more than six weeks.
the moment of his return, the
tragedy began to quicken,
Even for Dr Simpson, accus tomed over the years to calls at
all its
Rewards
His frienda will tell you rone. This dedicated man-he
The thing to do," Curzen any hour of the day or night to bas no hobbies outside his work
pif-investigate murder in
the savage variety, this was quite a givo week.
bed once written about sticking. "In once you have poor brute
comered to him no quarter. Press him, press him, until he cannot turn,. then thrust in and kill."
relaxed, happy when he is off duty. He has a real sense of humour.
He was already working on the and mast
difficult case in his 30 He finds peace in classical the Missing Loves, years' experience the case of music, ог. at week-ends, in
walks through the Hertford shire countryside, followed by
pint in a pub.
every
Macabre
Such were Kitchener's tactics. He had given Lady Salisbury all the material she needed. He had also secretly canvassed high Army officer in India. They did not love Curzon. They lined up almost nalidly behind Although police Investigation March 1956. A happy marriage. Kitchener,
goes on ocaselessly, the sol
Д
violence at one of the most newed Hungarian frontier netl-
vily Bensitive spots of the Iron Cur-
has raised political Lain is the culmination of a series of incidents along the Austro-Hungarian frontier.
Cross-fire
was not
Florm,
In Parliament the Austrian Defence Minister has been ask- ed to provide troops to guard the frontier, But, as o neutral country, Austria is reluctant 10 take this step. It is one of the much few countries in the world without military frontier guards -and intends to remain 50..
The incident different from many previous occasions, Kichard Grasich, n 22-year-old Austrian customs official was patrolling the iron- tier hear Bt Margarethen, small town in provincial Bur genland
Suddenly
two shots
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зусте
But another aspect of these accidents caused by the Itching trigger fingers of the Hungar Jana Is for greater signi-
cance.
ول
arc
frod at him from the other In the first instance, of
the course,
Hungarians anxious to stem the rising tide of refugees who look towards Austria as a fond of freedom,
Behind this anxiety, Vienon. which
tho West's best listening-post for trends behind the Iron Curtain, sees an even deeper motive. There is, accord- ing to unimpeachable sources, much evidence of a political Ughtening-up inside Hungary.
The days of Janos Kadar, Hungary's post-revolution Prime Minister who attempted more liberal course, are said to be numbered,
Austrian
Iron Curtain perts, who have long provided the Western governments with
Not that Curzon was slow in answer to the rim problem of gists the work is grim,
Fow doctors become until trains passing from Austria into
Indulging in
somo
When Curzon protested that he was, after all, first man In the realm, Kitchener did some- thing which ave Curzon his
rabbit Jock Love's car, raised from the hours arst appalled realisation that he punches of his own. Ifc, too, had London docks, will rest with the limitless. had perhaps Invited a cuckoo seat secret_messages back to quiet doetor
Hili nest,
Kitchener London. He played his final And with him alone. threatened to resign.
card by sending a private letter
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the
alde. Grasich threw himself to the ground but when he tried got up he was fred on from the walch lower and, as he run for his life was pursued by cross-fire from the next watch tower. Ife is married-to his former aged to escape unhurt.
By a miracle be mun- secretary Jean Scott Dunn, In
Next morning, not far from the same spot, one of the few
long. the problems Hungary approached the fron
Fawer sill become tier when a violent explosion truly great ones.
on the permanent way shook win- will have to say soch, and "Keith Simpsonenjoy substan-
Those Who do like Cedric the trals and broke lis Now, resignation had always to Balfour, the Premier, plead-on oath, if in his opinion the tlal rewards, within
dows. been the weapon Curzon used to ing the bonds of old friendship two bodies found 341, down in Harley-street brackets. Fres for the too browbeat the Government at for his support.
the black walers of Victoria home;
but he was zhrowd What he got back way Dock were those of Jack and
a major criminal investigation enough to see that from now on message from the Cabinet pro- Mury Love,
case, niways involving long hours unseen by any and often tong spells in it was a threat he would have to posing a compromise. Kitchener humon eye since the afternoon witness-box under toughs esame Ume, a Hungarian train Cast of Fast European develop the By a coincidence at about the some of the most reliable fore abandon. If it come to a quoz himself considered the message of November 20, 1965, tion of whose resignation should a considerable defeat. He was He will be asked if he
examination, noo high.
menis, interprat these mques as Austria passed quietly into be accepted, his or
Tonight, in the same labora- when loud knocks came from in- conditions Curzon's, considering, resigning over say how they died.
part of a Soviet plan to stabilisc there was no doubt which sacri when, in his astonishment, he And the verdict returned by so many murder casca, the lights wagona Austrian ometals found in the satellite countries by af!
tory where he helped solve side one of the sealed wheat fringe of their ample-that
on the Western fice would be accepted. Curzon's received A vialt from the the coroner's Jury Recident, will be burning late again a three Hungarians
misadventure, murder and he Curzon was in a highly uleide, double sukide will be melbodically, Works,
had thewat their disposal before aklibully and made good their escape Ho
from 1961 is out. gave way with what emotional state. He said be con- tordaly influenced by the graciousness he could muster, aldeged, the
thoir Communist controlled Cabinet's message (evidence he givos.
And much later, away in the
In spite of the apparent, cury and from that moment it an insult. Ho piended wilts In the days before he is called, hands will move along the ky the explosive truly explosive Ms Khrichayqal to view
rent uneasy: trued West End, the game sklifu country.
between chener became undisputed Jord Kitchener to
The threb cases are typical of Ruslan and Chinese ideologies, support him in the lights will burn late in his board, seeking relaxation. of India's frontier,
the Fitborstories above the Gordon
mitsumtions in this restless part of with appistemelon the time--at
own reputation was high, but Viceroy.. Klichener's war higher,
rosisling it, and then, to
con
Escape
who
GXM
He wants he Soviet house in order before that happens.
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DRINK A PINT AN HOUR]
COOPER THE
COWBOY
KING IS
SO LONELY
THE Cooper, last of
indestructible Gary
the
Hollywood age of kingu and the man they say now the loneliest in Bover- ly Hills, stood looking sad- ly at the ground.
He has every reason to be gloomy. All his contemporaries, the stare who have shared the credit titles with him for 3D odd years, have now diod ur rotized
Garbo,
Colman, Chaney, Swanson. Barrymore, Negri
And now Gable.
They have left the long, tear Cooper on the sel B1 work- ing at 59. Still saddle-tough enough to be planning ye! another Western. And still keen enough to be trying something now; he is making his first whodunit, "Tho Nakxt Edge."
I went to Elstree fun stution, in Hertfordshire, to sak him how it feels, as the last of the great names of his era of Hollywood, to be planning a future.
I found him o alone. Ho stoops slightly now, andi his aimble is slower.
DEAF
He is a little deaf, and he speaks so softly that it is dif- cult to hear him at times.
He is slow to talk about the past, for he still has a trail to ride. He gives away his years in flims unconsciously, though-as when he rafers. to Spencer- Tracy and James Cagney дя "the younger bunch."
He ald: 1 signed my first contract with Paramount tho day the great lover Rudolph Valentino
1928).
died. (That was in
"In those years we collected
a thing willed experience. Some people said it carråd glamour as well.
CAREER
"I can't really explain why I'm stil working,
I'm why supposed p-bo,at the top. I
| havo never felt entitled to 1
long career","
He is not too happy about his venture into a whodunit. He said; "I know this is not for me, standing around with lou in one hand and Scotch in the other.
"I know where my name was 'made--and that it's time to
make another Western."
Cooper bellaves now that after three years of searching he has found one worth making.
"The problems pro big," he confessed. T stumbling over with cowhands who have taken the piece of conversation, "And now every newcomer to Hollywood wants to make В Western Method actors and all. "They have found it pays off. You catch the kids and they become your fans for genero- tiens.
"Maybe that helps to explain why I'm still around.
London Express Service),
"Of course you can hear the clink of glasses, dear--
Githuno
Fra speaking from an opticians.".
27 Behearsala uro aff, avery postre-the boss can't
make it for