THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1961.
Too soon to nominate him? No, says a famous contributor to the China Mail
The old man who kept WHO'LL
a sacred promise...
by the REV. LEON ATKIN, of St, Paul's Church, Swansea MET the old man seven times in seven years. He seemed to come from nowhere and return there-after the Watchnight Service. First in and last out, he always sat in the pew nearest the porch. Sturdily built and of rugged features-toughened and tanned by the salt and the sun of more than 40 years at sea-he wore the sober garments of his dwindling generation.
1 remember him best by the
henvy gold
which hung across his blue wakiconth the even heavier gold watch which he would hold in his horny hand, Jezis 110
Imagined might misjudge
seconds
those few dramatle befure mkirikht which we Have to sanct; recollection
and resolve....
"Tell me, brother," 1 alte
him ones, the last occasion that ke emne, "where do you come from--and where do Jou go for the rest of the your" And why don't we zee you oftener?"
Sr this paire," he and fucking his fingers under his waletenat sleeves and extend- in ing his wheezy chest casual independence. *IC kind of beepin' af « promise as 'night sag-ape, a snorest
2018.....
Memories
"We made ti to one another 67 years age the missus and e. Married in this very church we were--long afore your time ir...."
By now the old man's eyes
Were
moly with memories anth nest involuntarily, he moved slowly along the alale towards the altar, 1 follow- ed him in respectful silence, catching the fragments of his story.
"Bein' a setgan, I were away on long strones," he said. -Ships were slowET them days....Aye, it were hard on Mary Ann. Used to have special times when we agreed
another
to think on one and do you know, padre, at imo I got as 1 coitld close my eyes and concentrate und teci intself at home with her end the by....
Reaching the altar, he
paused
as though In the flickering bride candlelight he saw his saria in shimmering vell and trailing gown.
"Did
il
o' dressmaking she did," he mused, milles away emong his yestrday.. "Stopped her from bein' 200 lonely and helped her make, a bit extra seaman's money
them weren't sh
day.. Saved up an' bought me this, she did,” he said, reverently lingering the gold watch.
To
wait
...
with a movement of his finger he released the sprung buck of the gleaming treasure and let me read the inscription, on the inside: To Hubert Arthur from Mary Ann -- with love. Christmas. 1916,"
I ventured, "She's dead?"
elum:lly.
"Not really, padre," he rebuk33. "Tis at times ke these i I know's as how she in't --- only creared the tar, 3 might say. And that's why I don't care for that bit in the old hymn They pies for gotten as a dream... They don't they only goes on ahead to walt. Aye, and ne o these days... he falter- ed, replacing the watch in a velvet bug.
accompanied him to the pareh and watched him go
into
the frosly moonlight of New Yusr's morning.
Too late
THE year of 1961 is now upon us, leaving the old year to the historian and the grave-digger. Our memories grow dim and our thoughts, our hopes, our dreams and our fears lie ahead of us. Who will be the man of the influenced his judgment on New Year the man of 1001? world affairs. You may think that it is ton
But it is on recont that his acon lo naing him, yet every
2011, now the President, not portent nominates one man only refuted to be a pessimist the New President-elect of the but took up arms when America United States of Amerien.
was bombed into the war, In to whether he fact young Kennedy had a mind of his ow even though it proves
裁 a great President, wenk President, just a bught him into conflict
his millionaire father,
According
or
Bucraze President so will the Ilves of white men, black men and yellow men be profoundly influenced,
•
Ponder well
the
with
new Roman
BE THE MAN
OF
1961?
London Letter.
by SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
they arc
do not suggest that these re- volutions brought nothing but but it was Rood to the people the beginning of the end to tilavery, and Úte riso of in- dividuism.
Therefore I predlet liat in 1001, we shall see the Common Market and The Outer Soven come together on a broad bisla even though at first there will be reservations, Inhibitions and sensions.
Already the constructive mind
of Harold Macmillan is centr- ing on this tremendous possi-
It does not need a high deprecity. His primary suggestion
their that they can conque enemics by the sword. The of imagination to see the ghast is that there should be wider strukdie ទ Ideologieal to that haunts the pudgey dictator shoelation embracing the whole From across the bay, a deep- toned ship's siren moaned for
rimple words the issue today is of Russia in his dreams. It is of Western Europe and not between the Free World And
and nol the money power of Amer- merely a scellon. His critica a pilot at journey's end.
ien nor the threat of a united ray that he is a dreamer with- the pit
the Communist world, as extinguich:1
Bul History will duly rocard that
what about candles i thought I heard the
But is the Communist world Western Europe. Instead it is cut sense of reality. That may being ticking of a welch like the when Joe Kennedy's son wan President
really united and of one pur- eur older friend of past years or may not be true, but in tho unfelling rhythm
the adopted as a Presidential can- Catholle Will there not be a of
Halcon pue? Are China and Russia as the Yellow Peril. Mr Khrushchev affairs of men and nations it is dite in 1900
polifcal there were spiritual and
fres salvors of words against aft-n the dreamer who raises heart-beat of eternal Love.
My close in spirit us doubts and even apprehensions with the Pope of Rome?
America and Britain but in his the torch and spreads the light physically? in Britain. In the tragle period answer to that would be much
heart he knows that 11 39 in the darkness of controversy, When Hiller
whea President moving the seine as Was
I have made this statement Western Europe and the Fren relentlessly towards the second Abraham Lincoln was told that more than once in my Landon World that protect the Soviet world war, Joseph Kennedy, General Grant was a heavy Letter, but the fact is that an from the mentee of China. the then American Ambassador whiskey drinker,
out Ideological partnership does not to the Court of Jumes, took the brand" said Lincoln "and neecstartly mean a community Eut what about Europe? Has
Macmillan has made three the view that war
of war turned as not only give it to my generala."
of interest, The biggest chal- the old cockylt
comily of suggestions in recent months in Look at the world today and lenge to the West is not Russla itself into a happy certain but that Germany would
words are s attempt to avoid the clash win. Convinced by his
In other ponder well upon it, own
Unlike but China with its teeming mil nations?
of Interests in Europe. Here benz judgment he went a an the 19th and the 20th centuries lons and its lack of territory, the Common Market and the the Stock Exchange and did there is no real threat of war The mighty ruler of Ching turns Outer Seven the beginning of a they are- well out of it. No
Market one blames because no one nation, or com is lustful eyes in one direction European Confederation? him for that
Do not for a noment imagine should, as n skugle entity, join a but inevitably it bination of nations, fecis certain the veal wastes of Siberia.
that in a twinkling of the eys Europeen Trading arrangement ing nations of Western Europe rather like the existing Free have sadelenly become brother, Trade Area of the Outer Seven. friends and pariners. Each
AVAR
Some four months later I
called to a bedside in a neat and tidy single room on the other side of the town.
I was too late to bless his lust and lonely voyage. His land- lady assured me that the end was mercifully peaceful.
Watching blg relaxed un:1 waxun features in seconds of respectful silence, I became echielous of a clear tonpus ticking. And my eyes soon found the watch among the medicine bottles and pil boxes on the rmall bedsid table.
mono-
*Wants it sent to his only son
in Canada," explained the landlady as tool the watch in my hand. "Hep it men as much to him as I did to the old man...."
"Amen)" I whispered, receding And some- The insetiptlen. how I felt more than certain and his Mary that Hubert Ann were together again where Time didn't matter any more, but only the Love that outlives it.
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Francis Moore was a Shrop- lightly. There undenir bly
In In 1857. He something
prophecy. as shire 13d born taught himself to read and write, witness a vast mass of historical dubbed himself Doctor, and evidence, and the ancient art er came to London as opprentice to selence of astrology la often at one John Partridge, who must te most successful with Indivi- have been one of the few men duals. ever to combine astrology with cobbling.
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For example. Old Moore fore. told the Abdication of Edward VII. Indeed, is seldom taken Imto account that predictions are not necessarily put forward as Moore later set up shop alone certainties. Astrology supposes As Physician, Astrologer, and a divine Creator, who allows Schoolmaster" in Lambeth, and manicind a measure of free will. in 1697 published his frat Al- the astroleger would explain manack (The word's Arabic that, by exerting this, we can adverse overe me simply, to often means, count), offering mainly weather predictions. prophecies.
derivation
the
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For myself: I find the whole Ils ulterior purpose YVD9 to bushes
quite fantastic, so plug his own ide in medical am perfectly prepared to believe remedles as he put il, he used in it, and hereby predict that "one and to soap t'ether"
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Moore died 1716, but his Almencek Bived on, the "Old" log being added gradually, as it became a household Institution.
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There is no copyright in titles, so Old Menre's Almanacks have been published by several firms IR several places, including Ireland and Yorkshire. (The Ukla Moore's, I presume.)
Foulsham's hold the copy- right, originally granted to the doctor by the Cily of London Stationers' Company, and some indication of Old Moore as big business
be propheteer con Kathered from the fact that their sales alone opproach a milion and a half coples each year.
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Predictions for 1001 range The possible birth of Chlidren to royally in March, and
Irish-trained Grand National winner, to post once jobberles end a November visit to us by Mr Khrushchev.
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I note with particular interest that the Prime Minister and I share the same birthday.
WARNING
We are in, sir, for elling year with Dover a dull feel moment." And If wo young, we "should enter with- out hesitation beauty contests, singing, theatrical, musical com- petitions."
1 must add, sir, tha! Old Moore today is clearly a Tory. He writes glowingly about the country's debt, to your "strong Jupiterlan vibration," and 1 hmm wondering what has hap- pened to my own.
·However, sir, a warning nola is sounded for you: "Unfor-
autumne tunately the
of 1902 may. see his resignation duo to underhand plots of WORTH? scheming professional polu- clans,"
Nor, In all seriousness, should zuch. Wetnings be diamisted 100
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BLESS OUR A-BOMB
Suggestions
The
Common
nation still watches its cwn
The Six and the Seven advantages and disadvantages on should simply sign a Customs it peols its adividuality In the Union, combine.
Not easy
and
But partnership does not ari
the sting canbut destroy ambllions of individual nations,
we as Therefore why should sume tha!
international black
Britain should join the Common Market but with re- servations to protcet the British farmer and niso the Common- wealth.
Admittedly the French are against le but both de Gaulle and Macmillan are men of imagination and integrity and matt will disappear from this each of them is dedicated to his World?
task,
Very soon now I am expect- That is not an easy question in the birth of two grand- to answer but at least I a
children. They did not nok to forward movemeat, a realisa- be born, and it is not for grand- tion that no nation can survive parents to see the distant scene, in isolation, and that partner- but I believe that they will live rhip is essenting to human frer in a world that will never aguin ree the senseless slaughter of dom. And let there be no doubt that Russia is watching this armies or the brutal destruction development with fear and with of_great_cities,
Instead science will turn to hope. In other words the leaks
The comfort and to a unified Western Europe as enlarging
luppiness of civilian life. We a shield' against China.
shall dy across continents and oceans as it we were moving from one village to another. More than that we shall reach planets which may have a civi-
isation of their own, I have mentioned this before Therefore I end this London Let us in my London Letter that in Letter where I began. striking a political balance we drinic a toast to the President anat gore the signicant of the United States of America truth that it is the middle classes as a man who has proved his which now dominate Rutin courage in veace and in war. despite the pretence of a oc- Party domination,
The only thing that really worries Khrushchev is now how move westward in spirit without antagonising China.
to
There was a Ume in Britain and also in France when Dilsicerals rulea, bul bloody revolution ended it in
the the
He in young enough to dream and he is strong enough to make his dreams become reality.
And for you my readers, I give a thousand thanks, for without you would be no more than an aping troubador singing songs
France, and the industrial re- beneath a balcony tong after volution ended it in Britalo, I Juliet had gone to bed.
|BLESS OUR H-BOMB
...Z-BOM
'But the trouble is when you get on to any kind of moral bicalstor, to know whether you're over going to be able to get off.”
--Sir Charles, Snow,
Genden Begrens, Serales.