THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1947.
You remember him -by his boots!
TT'S some time since we did any history in this column, and I thought we might dig up something about the Duke of Wellington.
They are opening an exhibi- tion of his relics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, so I went along for a preview. Most of the things on shaw are presents made to the duke after his battles, and you'll notice. right away how winning a war paid better dividends then than it does now.
In one of the first showcases you. come to ie the centre pices of a table set that was given to the duke by the Portuguese. It cont them # quarter of a million pounds to make then, so goodness knows what It's worth now.
In another case are two thugs-that look like giant silver candlesticks are really oil-burning candelabra. They are more then 4ft. high and so
and
henvy
that it takes three men lo Till each sne. These are just a part of the present given to Wellington after Waterloo by the merchants and bankers of London. They ults gave him a shield of gold and sliver that is 3ft, 4ins, cross,
Gifts of plate
As for decorations, the duke had IT'S FUN mare of them than Gooring. He had at least 17 orders of one thing or FINDING OUT anether, he was a prince of the Netherlands, a Spanish duke and a Prolus:ese count..
by BERNARD
He was also C.-In-C; of the British Army, capizin-general of the Spanish and à marshal of Russia, Austria, WICKSTEED France. Prussia. Fortugal
Netherlands. If there'd been
and the
ME-AND WELLINGTON
be
An odd fact about the Duke of Wellington is that nobody really knows when he was born or where. According to Fome records R.A.F, at the time he might have started his remarkable meer in a being been marshini of that, too.
by quite auspletous
way his birth. baptised the day before On top of all this he was given His mother. who ought to have £2,000 a year when he became a known the date it anybody did, said viscount, £400,000 when IN the R.A.F. I was told that it was
he was he was born in Dublin on May 1, made e duke and another £200,000 1769, and the registry at St. Peter's against King's Regulations to after Waterloo. Things wers cheaper-Church, Dublin, shows that he was make presentations to your senior then, so he was able to do mans with christened there on April 30, 1700. officers, but there were such his money than most of us have done inhibitions in Wellington's army. with our gratuities. (Mine all went Hi Junior officers gave him sliver on a few plate worth tens of thousands of cleaner.) pounds,
And pictures! Wellington won a collection of old Dutch and Spanish masters worth a fortune," They came
from Use Spanish royal galleries and were found abandoned in the luggage of Napoleon's brother after the Bitle of Vittoria in 1813.
curtains and a carpet
"Ugly Arthur”
Wellington hnd ne
When the dike naked if he should return them the Spanish Ambassador wrote that his king, touched by your delicacy, does not wish to ment £263,000, deprive
at that which came into
yourlon by mezns as just as
they were honourable."
Nowadays if you come back from the war with so much on a Jerry camera and n pair of bincculars you've got to have a better story than that,
or the M.P. will take them away from you,
SIDE GLANCES
Birthday mix-up
The viscount at the front knew so tle about all this that when he learned he'd got R mw name he wrote back from the Peninsula to ask if it was ester Wellligton, In Somerset, or Wellington, Salop.
In this way the name of Welling ton, Somerset
(pop. 0,028) has been passed on to rubber boots, frock coats, cucked hats, tight trousers, a esole ng apple, a military rolloge, a barracks. a regiment in the Army, the capital of New Zealand, a moun- taln In Tasmania, the big tree.
ree of California (Sequoia Wellingtonia pipontica) and countless public
houses.
Why "Iron Duke??
IIS brings us to the Iron Duk:. How did he get that same? At the height of his fame, when every. cne was naming things after him, someone launched a ship at Liver
and christened it the Duke of paol Wellington, Unlike most ships at the time, this one was made of iron and was soon nicknamed the Iron Duke.
It seemed to fit the real dule as well as the ship, and so it was passed
Afterwards the Navy took the name from Wellington and gave it to a battleship. So H.M.S. Iron Duke,
winch was Jellicoe's flagship at Jutland and was supposed to be called after a famous general, really got its name from an obscure packet- boat that plied between Liverpool and Dublin.
When Wellington was a young officer in Ireland he fell in love with a girl calkd the lion. Catherine Pakenham, but her family disap- proved. They didn't realse then
do, him going to
DAB
AND FLOUNDER
by Walter
Kiddies
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Why are women drinking so much?
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foremost stage alar.
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She drinks because she is lonely, made a gesture which contrived by She lost her mon; she lost her home. guaning to achieve an effect, and It doesn't hurt so much in public. I saw her for what she is, Italy's She docen't feel 50 lost.
She drinks because she missts the This is high praise, indeed. Only She felt she half a dezen times in a long, and excitement of war. THE surest thing we know belonged, then. She felt that she somewhat bring career as a film and the feeling gave her an critic have I seen the like. Myrna about this postwar world ward swogger and a good warmth Loy in "The Thia Man":
Putti in
Vaudeville"; Bette Davis we are trying to live in is inside. Now out of uniform; out of
"Brief Encounter" has no way of swaggering and net Jolinson that women drink. It isn't that the company of other women, she in Of Human Bondage": they have taken to drink
much good feeling inside, either. A Staircase": Margaret O'Brien recit-
Dorothy McGuire in much as they have taken to the drink helps away the emptiness. way of drinking,
Now why?
When man walks into lis favourite saloon bar these days he
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She drinks because her man is
him more sure of himself if she gocs along.
Site drinka because there
in
Colla
Spiral
Ing her Christmas story in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes."
They achieved the complete illp- sion. They were women, not ac-
It comes rarely this talent. When it does come, the screen is the place Lo put it.
TF there had been no more to it what a lot of good the Army wasnds that one customer in three is unhappy. She thinks she can make resses, prople, not characters.
than that the people who
He resents this. write history books might have pre- The lovers parted, and there is no woman.
The sight of a woman at the bar sumed the mother knew what she record that he ever wrote to her or was talking about and the parson she to him for the next 12 years-means to him that his chosen drink had made a mistake, but in April Then he came back from India with will run out more swiftly and that, 1790 our hero was elected to the Irish the Order of the G plate, and some quite possibly, the peace and good Parliament, and his opponents tried gage full of silver plate, some to unseat him by saying he was
one told him that the girt was still und 21. under
still
faithful to his meme she
Searching?
nothing else to do. She would far prefer her young man to take her for a litle supper somewhere. But F Mr Philip Sheimerdine it was
said (In a Manchester divorce Case) that he (1) embraced the Roman Catholic faith, (2) became a farmer, (3) became a beekeeper, (4) joined the British Union of Fascists. I wonder what on earth he was looking for.
Training
Bristol, Mr B. Inda Hallward, THE headmaster of Clifton College, says he is going to expel some of the boya unless their parents behave better during the holidays.
ANOTHER thing. The Duke of housing problem when he'd finished fighting. because as well as everything else
manners of company win deter- he was given Apaley House of Hyde
Jorate. He smelis trouble and where? So they go to the local. Park Corner, and a contry estate
disturbed and is likely to be out of She drinks because she is n nice "What!" he near Reading that cost the Govern The family replied by producing e,
temper for his evening..
woman and therefore has too many Do you think I
friends. They all drink, so she has a nurse who
was ready to testify remember me?
He does not stop to question
to. Often for more than she wishes. that everybody was wrong and he ought to propose to her?
He wrote straight away and asked why women drink. When he was a boy his mother was really born at Dungan Castle,
If only her friends would only drink called him "ugly Arthur" and said Co. Meath, on March 8. 1700.
her to marry him. She replied that
comes tea, how happy she would be, at least they ought to meet each The most gracious reason he was "ft food for powder." How l private life the duke relled en
first. But he said: first. She drinks because her man
She drinks to have something in right she was. With the possible the memory of his mother and not other again
He takes the little her hand. "Minds don't change of Mark the nurse, and elebrated his birth and forthwith went over to Dublin woma
with years." wants her to.
She wishes it were exception. of the Duke
along. He profers her borough he was the only man in day en May 1. But just magine Britain' who has ever made timiselt what the elvil servants would say to and married her in a friend's draw company in public, because that way tomato juice cacktall. She asks
he can have her and have his for ilme to cover up the gin. a millionaire by joining the 'Army: you today if you told them you ing-room.
friends, too. So far she is passive
Only rarely does she drink for weren't sure when you were born or
in the affair, ·
the pleasure of drinking, like a where.
man does. For the tension she reeks H: hog a good point. How, he to case, or the company she sacks asks, can he get on with the job of to gain by way of the glass are turning out Rome decent young won at great risk.
God-fearing gentlemen if the parents She has so much more than a don't, hack him up? How can he She is shabby. A man does not man to lose. Her looks, for instance. promote the notice. Her stockings are about to That guy little flush will stay too standa
of honesty, start a run. Her gloves are stitched long one day. And her defence dealing if all the and her hair-do is
black market? Everything about her, she feels, iz about to fall to pieces.
fcok my
my son, aged 1B, to sco "Othel. lo." At the end he said: "I don't sce that lago was so terribly wicked. After all, he only tried to wangle things like money.
I swear he never learned that one at home,"
the
And now, does anybody know why dulce Was called Wellington By Galbraithwhen the family name was Welles- ley? The answer is that he was away fighting in Spain and Portugal when he first got into the peerage as a viscount, and so his Brother at home chese
the title for him. The obvious one, was Lord Wellesley, but the
discarded that brother simple reason that he was named Lord Wellesley himself. He picked orf Wellington because it sounded something like Wellesley, but not so Eke it that people would mix them up.
COPA, 1947 NY NEA BORYICK, INC. T. SE, REG. U, B. PAT, OF7, s.
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"All right, wo'll go to that beach resort once more-but if you don't catch husbands this time, we're going to a place where I can fish, next year!"
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For the nation
WELLINGTON was 83 when he V died, and Parlament voted an- other £80,000 for his funeral.
Now the present Duke of Welling- ton has given Apsley House back to the nation to be used as a muscum With it goes the table set from Portugal, the pictures from Spain, the the
the "candlesticks" rom the bankers, gold batons, swords, snuff-boxes and jewelled orders from all over Europe. So they're yours and mine, and we have got something qut of the war, if we'd lost it all these things would be in Germany now,
"
But she becomes active fast. She has her own reasons for drinking
Tension
good old English
and
home
a take-dd. against the world, that studied look Is. gossip about hear at he gat
of cheerfulness, of understanding, of But it isn't all the parents, fault.
I roquetry what you will-is a mask A drink relaxes her tension. Her After a third or fourth drink the terrible tension. If something goes mask drops. And there she is, ex- --a ladder, a tumble of a lock of hair posed to the world.
And there's that feels like an avalanche, a shoul- the world knowing her. der strap or an expression-It won't It takes a brave woman to be a mariter so much.
drinking, woman, for the weapon she takes in her hand is a estling weapon. But then, women are brave. They do not shirk living.
DEWEY: MYSTERY MAN
THE
OF U.S.
U.S. POLITICS
By William Hardcastle
HE mystery man of Ameri- tal veto and in the most bitter poli- Important
can politics at present is tical controversy of the year, Thomas E. Dowey, Governor
of New York State and favour-
disclosures
of policy, He has a host of reporters following him on what he insists should not Another major domestic issue be called "The Dewey Train"--but
they are getting slim pickings.
ite for the Presidential (Re- taxes and whether they should be publican nomination in 1948.
The big news about Dewey is that
he is saying nothing.
cut-has found Dewey likewise re- maining silent.
Nine times out of ten their stories lead
adroitly off with "Dewey avolded. "Dewey
"Dewey declined was non- Whenever they meet thu
face. face
manage
Governor.
The Republicans have produced comment, He has declined to commit himself two tax bills in the face of strong commițial.... on practically every major point of Presidential opposition; controversy that has developed in but this nation between parties and the United States and the outside world since last November's election.
The man who came to fame under the glare of "gang busting" publicity, most noticeably has refused any comment on the merits or demerits of the Anti-Labour Bill recently passed by Congress over a Presiden-
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MADE
. Dewey who "favourite" for the White' House, for the 1948 elec- Sons-has not slated specifically whether he is for or against them.
Whether this is Olym- plan indifference or clever strategy, it is difficult to say. Certainly, It docs not, for the time being.
zeem
to
harming bc
he insists that he only on a private trip, whose. main purpose is to show his young sons the United States,
TO HOLD OUT No one will predict if and when he will break his self-imposed silence. Some think he may chooSD
of
his chances of advancement. Though to stay out of the main arena the late President Roosevelt defeat- political controversy as long as he can considering that his present ed him in 1944, he still leads all the standing and popularity are such as public opinion polls as the, most likely Presidential nominee for the to assure him victory without more than a handful of 'major speeches coming elections,
and personal appearances next year,
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OTHER CANDIDATES
Sense
Wisdom
and
IN Brussels over the week-end I found the people frightened by the alump that has hit them. Shop TN the private papers of the late shelves are full, but people's pockets Gertrude Stein there were dis- pre empty. Prices are tumbling covered the following answers to a down, Both manufacturer questionnaire submitted her by a middleman see bankruptcy ahead. woman reporter. For succtrictness
The consumer indifferent. Alt and good sense they cannot be bet the money he has to spare goes to One business- tered and they are printed here for the black market, the Instruction of all public men man said to me: "We must export
or we shall
go broke, as a nation. and womens.
What do you look forward How wise you English were to think
of that straight away.....
to?
A.: More of the same,
I told him there were some people
Q: What do you consider your who didn't agree with him.
weakest characlèristic?
A: Weakness.
Q: Why do you go on living? A. Why shouldn't I?
Illusion
SAT halfway through the now- famous Italian resistance film. "Open City," content in my mind the leading actress Ann that
Magnant was an amateur. Then she
William
Hickey
But hardly for
a maiden aunt!
WHEN
Civilisation
young African gandy Lakes a wife these days he is required to pay the bride's father: £2 to cough and prove he is alive, £5 to open his mouth and a further. £2 to negotiate for the loss.
But this is civilisation ideed. Most fathers I know are only too anger to give their daughters away,
Putting it mildly, some of the ex- hibits on view are not altogether suitable as birthday gifts to one's maiden aunt. Gazing politely at what I feel sure were superb speel- mens. It struck me that our
own present-day Epsteini, and the ancient Indians had pretty much the same attitude towards art:
WA
The C.S.S.G.B. ?
WALKING 'round the Royal lor- ticultural Society's show, I was 'pulled up shart by a printed_invi- Cactus tation: "Why not foin the and. Succulent Society
Great
Unless he does change his 'pro- By comparison, Senator Arthur
sent tactics, however, his position Vandenberg, Senator Robert ·Talij Senator John Bricker, Governor. Earf as far as the outside world is con- Warren of California, former Gov- cerned will become. Increasingly ernor of Ohio Harold Stassen-all of mystifying Ilo is known to hold internationalist views, moderately them in the running for the same
Britain?" For W suck of Ancient Greece, turned to Miss L. F. RUSSELL, re- nomination-aro' leading lively, poli- on foreign affairs; but how for he with Senator Vandenberg, tical careers, and, when not involved "Erces directly. In the current conflicts, are or with the present policy of the but rarely if ever of Ancient presenting a Berkshire Orm of cae-
specialists. making clear to inquiring reporters Truman administration it is Im-merica, a country whose his-
possible to say. just how they feel on each issue.
to
the
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of
tory begins for most of us with Miss Russell, whose, stand' held at least 200 different varieties, ; ex-
that, to see
and One succulent she showed me had
He has registered vague approvat its discovery by Columbus. Dewey, however, continues in hla
It is one of life's incongrullies plained that succulents have leaves,
examples of ancient cacti have not. That is the distinc awn qulet way-carrying on the big of continued aid to foreign
American art, the work of such tion. Job of running New York State from tries, but he has not revealed his offices in Albany, the State cap- attitude to the Marshall Offer, long-forgotten tribes as the Mayas,
Nahuas, Toltecs
Olmecan ital. He hold periodic press con- ferences, but concentrates solely on Nevertheless, this
an even chance Aztecs, one must penetrate into the taken four years to grow, and was who has at lenst inter-State affairs.
of succeeding Fresident Truman in lush interlor of London's Mayfair. no bigger than a coat button. An- There at the Berkeley Galleries, other, called top rubra, on an ad- Just now, he is on a country- the White House by the beginning wide tour with his family, and is of 1940-when the development of Senor EMILIO CALDERON PUIZ, Joining statid, was one of the only Mexican three of its kind in the world. It going out of his way to meet the the Marshall offer will have reached acting on behalf of the
collection belongs to Captain H. J. DUNNE leading Republican politicians in critical stage and American Ambassador, "unvelled"
may be going of soulpture, pottery, metalwork COOKE, was grown in Solo-squaro. each important arga. But he insists Soviet relations. that it is not a "political tour" and through a similarly decisive phase. and lextiles dating as far back as" and looks exactly like a tiny bup
109 B.C.-
of six plak throat pastilles.. is making no major speeches, no-touter.
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