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THE BIRDS OF HONGKONG
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G. A. C. Herklots
OND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1947.
Soviet Army gives Monty
thing
a squirrel-lined coat
Field-Marshal
Montgomery certainly learned in Moscow during his crammed five-day schedule was how to raise his glass in toasts.
He has been the honoured guest before in many places, but this is the tonating highspot of the world, and every meal for Monty turned into a banquet with all the trimmings' to do him the ulmost honur.
The fact that Monly is a teetotaller was known to his hosts and nobody took it amiss that he raised his glass Dikd quickly brushed ปร Ipa but downed nothing-n form of be- haviour that his genial tonst-loving Soviet hosts might otherwise have countered with back-stoppings, per- suasions and other hearty incentives to "Come on take drink with us.”
Monty loved every, monent of and never ceased to remark on the warm friendship shown everywhere. That he accomplished what he set but to Jo-herease and improve friendly relations between the two armies and two nations--is evident from the cordiality displayed, throughout the visit eubalnating in the grand feast in the Kremlin.
it
WORE HIS COAT Showed it at banquet QUIENE probably never has been scene of nuch festive Informa- lity at an official Kremlin banquet as that night when Monty, telling, she assembled guests they ough the magnificent gift the Soviet Army mude him, asked for his new squir rel-lined marshal's greatcoat to be brought in, and, putting it on, with the lofty grey Persian lamh hat
to set
carrying a red cloth crown decorated by two strips of marshal's gold braid, smilingly swished about, showing it off like a mannequin demonstrating the latest in evening gowns,
Stalin fell in quickly with Monty's. idea of having plctures taken.
At his direction photographers en- tered and snapped Mouly with Molotov Vyshinsky and Vassilevsky and with Stalin himself.
The squirrel-lined greatcont which Vassillevsky presented as a gift from the Soviet Army will make woman envjons,
every
The foot-high lamb hat is also something a mlinery-cormelons woman would probably refer to as "quite a creation."
PRIVATE CHAT 'Great talk with Stalin'
THE dinner in the Kremlin went
By a Special Correspondent
in Moscow
In London-Montgomery wear. ing his Runalan gift-coat.
able lubrienni.
Lo
The special deference shown the ticki-marshol was nowhere bet- ter displayed then after the had left the banquet table and re-
sentence, brandy and clears,
י
All the time Monty had
The presence of Marshal Soko. In his luggage WAB another gift lovsky, Afilitary Governor of the from his Russion Russian zone in Germany, may be "Valenki," felt boots which profect hostaa pair of explained as simply coincidental-a the feet best against cold. visit to report to Stalin and Molotov
+
as they prepare their briefs for the STRANGE CASES
possibility is not Vodka or champagne?
Morch conférence.
However, the
been overlooked that at their several
working up to a climax of easy meetings at the Bolshol or at lunch MONTY personally superintended friendliness throughout his vint, they may have explored aspects of talking frankly and freely to
the loading into his four-engined the policing and dúmilitarising Germany, York plane of two strange-looking Sovlet marshals.
They reciprocated and displayed facing the coming conference
which is one of the big problems boxes. Initiated onlookers whisper- no restraint, supplying the muswers one which in currently agitating the pagne and one of vodka,
anded something about a case of cham- even if the answers might be embar- Soviet Press. rassingly frank.
At the Stalin Tank School Monty, who showed admiration for the de sign and Aghiing capabilities of the Soviet tanks, asked what Russian tank experts thought of the Chur- chill tank-which wna admittedly proved not very successful In some phases of the war.
A LECTURE On Sandhurst lines
SILENCE
Half a dozen Russian marshals clustered 'round their quest for n Anal handstinke. Among them was Vassilievsky, who braved the sub- zero weather in spite of his recent bout of flu.
And many smiles' CIMILARLY, while diplomatic and political matters having a mili- tary facet may have been taken up Vassilievsky pulled out a copy ot As Monty moved round the group, with Stalin-and there is some in that morning's Pravda and gave it clination to link up the homeward to him, pointing out the picture of trip of the British Minister Roberts Monty and Stalin seated together on with this possibility-Monty main- u setice, which occupied a quarter- talna the most discreet silence.
Whatever Monty discussed in his
Vassi-.
page.
Monty shook hands with from the Russians. They had had some sent them ine is keeping to himself,.
Interpreters Tell And British diplomats were also and I are now old friends."
the marshal ho those days and they proved an easy mark for
wreathed in enigmatic smiles, the German tanks and
but To Marshal of the not talking.
Armoured It was this sort of frankness that his gift-coat, and the red-crowned,
Field-Marshal Montgomery
Forces Rybalko, Monty said: "You wore are my old friend, too." Monty found most admirable.
A band played There is no doubt that there will to Moscow's cold, windswept airport marshals saluted. Monty,
lamb's-wool hat when he drove out Russian National
the British and Anthems. be more of this when Vasallievsky for the flight home to England. climbed into his plane.
He got a frank burst of knupter 73-minute private purley with Stalin lievsky once more, and said to an
000
and possibly other marshals visit Britain in the spring.
talk"
Monty's blackboard "eknik
on El Alamein to Russian cadets t the Voroshilov Academy-one of the highlights of the visit-developed on down-to-earth Ines,
They are not really cadets.
The studenta consist mostly of major-generals, or better a merg colonel would feel out of place.
Monty was his old self,
He gave them a strategie talk as though it was Sandhurst,
At the Tank Academy he clamber- ed around on tank turrets, demanded that photographers come and take pictures of himself and the crews, whom he ordered to climb up and pose around him.
The tank crews got a big kick out or it.
110
The smiling.
OUR VERY WICKED
NEWSPAPERS
Extracts from a speech by Sir Alan P. Herbert, MP, at the
Jubilee dinner of 'Country Life'
TT is a little surprising-I must say to find anyone I
congratulating himself on having been publicly alive and active during the last 50 years,
proprietors providing their
I must say that the picture of writera with a continual stream of new ideas is delightful and surprising.
In my humble experience it has been quite the other way. But ona never knows.
of
The whole atmosphere was one of
Do they jokes, laughter and conviviality, to
not realise that more Monty gave Vassilievsky a book on than half those years were the cele which Molotov's polished and tacties which he highly recomment- brated gracious foasts served as an admired for the marshal and his staff.
years af Tory inlsrule, and the rest of them years of Liberal He wrote it himself.
misrule; years in which we only won three wars; years in which we only MET THE ELITE defeated tyranny on the Continent But Guests
curious crowds twice?
I know one principal vallaln Years (how different from to-day) this ill-concocted melodrama who whisked around icy streets in athere was not enough to eat, te few comments shall be no THROUGHOUT the visit, as he was when everything went wrong, when will confess that he gives two stern Russian-built sedah car, Monty Hothouses, too little coal, years of in- One: There dirt, and allied-drawer treatment and deference, eliciency in transport and produc- The programme was not disclosed, tion, yeurs of frustration, Inertia nad in advance and porsibly for this ren- the wireless, the electric train, the no more than Invent the gramophone, if no other he was not dogged by the admiring! merely curious. the wireless the electrle train,
One of his most enjoyable evenings mutur-car, the talking ma was certainly at the Bolshoi Ballet, trifles like insulin and penicillin-not gorgeous spectacle and where he heartily applauded the to mention the speed records by
Proktollett's | land, on sea and air. interesting music, but reserved his highest admiration for the ballerina, Uinnova.
When
Malutov
TOSC
master, Stalin himself rose and his own glass.
Lonst-
The whole company filled their own glasses, when Stalin had set the example.
of in a blaze of camaraderie for coffee, which had been building up over the week with the Soviet marshals and had evidently burned brightly during Monty's private chat with Stalin in the afternoon, from which Monty returned saying "I've just hal 3 grent talk with the Generalissimo." Vassilievsky, who had been re- ported indisposed for two days, took his place at the banquet lucking a little pate and peaked, as though he defled his sickness in order to be present at the Monty dinner,
CROSSWORD
British Ambassador, and Mr Frank Molotov, Sir Maurice Peterson, the Roberts, the British Minister, wore civilian clothes, but Vyahinsky was In Foreign Office uniform.
the
few
Two: There shall be no intrusion on private grief,
What a shocking example of inter-.. ference with the truth!
be delighted to cross-
The duilles drop continual refresh- but indiscriminate rain: but the weeklies are the great alters of non- sense and reservoirs of wisdom. There are two classes of weeklies. SLAP IN FACE!
There are the Genini Weeklies, and the Billous Weeklies. As to "dister- "She wafted around like a dream,"
Yeurs, In short, in which the whole tion of news" or "misrepresentation," "On the Soviet side" were four he remarked at a cocktail party,
fabric of Britain' was slowly pro-
I should members of the Politburo--Stalin, The next day he said: "She is a pefled by the wicked Torles into an examine some of the Billous Wook- Molotov, Marshal
lics. which Bulganin and wonderful dancer. I wish I could abyss fron
his Majesty's rapidly, Murshat Voroshiloy, who by reason waft myself around us lightly and Ministers, thank God, are
THEY DO US CREDIT of their membership of that august gracefully as she does."
quietly and modestly about to extri- body outranked In Importance the Monty's visit has given Moscow's cate us.
But, take them all in all they do other marshals present, of whom small. compact European colony Commission into the Press.
And now we are to have a Royal the country credit. there was an impressive representa- its biggest social thrill of the sea-
Indeed, on the whole, that goes for What a slop in the facel "Distor-them all-daily, weekly, monthly, These included Vassilievsky. As for Konley and Holtussovsky-who had none on the surface. It maintained and indictinent, we gather..
its political implications, tion of the news" is the main defect quarterly. not-put-in-an-appearance previotis that he arrived solely on a good will No two-citizens have ever even in these days, when so many people
Ishould have-thought-that---even---- military visit.
a similar account of a motor acci- dent they saw. But all statements are eager to cry "Stinking flah" about of fact in all the newspapers should the country great, the Press would the enterprises which have made we are told-have the same con have been almost the last Institution sistence, coherence and self-agree- ment as the numerous
whleh anyone pronounce- thought at to begin a pompous in-
Inlo
should have ments of the Minister of Fuel.
Prediction and results should have quisition. the same precise mathematical rela- I resent the suggestion that the tion as they do in the world of hous-Press-whether it be proprietors or writers are engaged in deliberately news" or, in other
lion.
ly.
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According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
The West player in to-day's deal had its dangerous side. North's re-ing,, will probably think twice, the next double of the final contract was also time, about doubling a slam bid by extremely
an expert opponent!
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South's seven-diamond bid was a shade aggressive a small slam would have been sufficient, sidering his four-card 'sults lack of fit with partner's hearts and his run-out to seven no trump, for all its beautiful result, certainly
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All comment should be as fair and "distorting his balanced as that of my friend Mr words, of telling lies. considering vold in spades. However, this cri- Low, of the Tribune and the Yellow ticism is academic in view of what Books,
Ours is not a safe or easy job. It happened.
A British Jury-which is always is not a job in which careful atton- right (except In political libel action to routine or tions)-may disagree, but the newn-dance at an office can command suc- punctual atten- Papers must always say the same.
We are all
the
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ext with
OUR HEADS HIGH
West made the "safe" opening of big spade queen. Dummy discarded heart and duciarer won. Declarer now tried out the diamond situation
For 2,000 years WC have beeni and was
one-man businesses, not surprised when East studying the factual discrepancies of falled on the second round.
the Four Evangelists who could not Every day there must be a new idea. be accused of Tory prejudices. But But it will be nice indeed, when Four rounds of clubs were now the British newspapers must all say we are nationalised, and are provid- played, ending in the closed hand, the same, and on the last round West found
Ideas by ΒΟΤΣΙΟ. clever Well, how is Country Life going to Government Department-especially, himself in very deep water. He had come out of this inquiry?
of course, if every paper gets the airendy let go one spade and one I wonder what snoopers are pre- same idea, as happens, I believe, in heart. Now, forced to rotain a stopper paring for the commission in at the enlightened country of Rusia. for his diamond jack, he had to office now.. choose between a spade discard from Are we sure that there have been the J-10 and a
a heart discard from the no tendentious articles on the wil- K-J-10. He decided to let go the low-warbler, that all those pictures We are still a great channel of spade ten, Declarer thereupon washed of fat and pompous cows have no thought and knowledge, and one of the king and nine
of spades, and subtle political signicance that "the great forts of freedom and fair on the latter card, West was agala Countryman's Notes" hiv wholly plny. squeezed. This time he let go the without class blas and that heart ten, Now declarer lcd his pictures of beautiful old country singleton heart toward dummy and homes are not a deliberate reflection Ancssed the dropped the king and the heart nine queen. The heart ace
ace on the building efforts of to-day? pleasure or pain. became perfectly good.
TWO DIRECTIONS 11 West had properly held place
And, of course, there is another. seven-diamond contract,
and meekly passed to the charge. The direction, he would tlon,
or instruc» have received at least
In this field, as in so many others, of Innocent, high-minded we have shown the world; and com- instead of paying out 2.830 points,
100 points editors and writers by their brutal mission or no commission, we shall
proprietors.
show the world again,
QH--- IT'S WONDERFUL- WE'VE ONLY BEEN HERE TEN MINUTES-
his
By Ernio Bushmiller
---AND WE FEEL AWFUL ALREADY
the Each of us has a great power to do good or ill in the minds of mil- Bons to spread darkness or light,
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