B
Paul HOLT
THINKING ALOUD
ECAUSE they considered she was too old to be punished for stealing a handbag, Chester magistrates discharged, 87-year-old Mrs Mary Elizabeth Kay,
Indeed, they treated her like n child who cannot be held res- ponsible for its actions.
There is a great similarity between the very old, the very young, and
We gave them up, long before some other people gave up smoking.
Dut this brings me, dere Prime Miniater, to the one point on which we spiva do not see preper to peeper with you. We wish to request you desist from the cruel respectfully like that in one sentence, regardless, habit of saying "opiva and drones"
They are different.
A Spiv. dere air, is a busy and energetic member of the community who takes a pride in the fact that he can lay his hands to, or on anything. the very drunk. He is our great modem example of They are unselfconscious, un- the spirit of enterprise that sent the nfraid of the consequences, and tate Sir Francis Drake and the late willing, nay cager, to show their Horatio Bottomley to the old grey
birdenge. tryc natures to the world. Sometimes the sight is not plea- sant to see.
But there are great differ- ences as well,
A child does that horrid thing in an experimental way and out of curiosity. A drunk does it because he is sick to his soul of being afraid of the wife, the who's boss, and the fellow Amarter than he is.
If the very old are not to be punished for their misdemean ours, then nor should children. And nor should drunks.
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But Drones, air. That is another fettle of khai. Lazy, idle, incompe- tent. Blimps every one, sir. Looks at what happened at the Lanes v S. Africans match at Old Trafford. Fifty so-called gents fiddled the pasteboard
Sell
a small
watched their time.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1947.
DAB ... AND · FLOUNDER
Sefton Delmer's
by Walter
NEWSMAP
THAT is it that makes ambassadors so glamorous that American millionaires and British trade union bosses try all they know to elbow their way into this highly specialised_profession?
ner,
I'd hardly
Jack Tanner, chairman of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, still hankers after an am- When Lord Halifax was giving bassadorship. to get into the members stand. Andup Washington, Tanner wanted to succeed him. what did they do wen they got their But Bevin sent Lord Inverchapel instead.
qulet pocket? Pick it gorick?
Now Jack Tan- Not at al
sir. They
I hear, is They wasted cricket.
having another And when the heavy hand or shou- er tap rame down, did they mizzle? Did they fade?
try for Washing- No, sir. They took their books off ke they were an- chors, so heavy and quiet they went.
1 ask you, Air Prime Mulster, that the kitu of degressive spiriting to succeed Duff MY friend the Spiv, who calls which will put the tere old counte
out of the old deep, dark
empty?
Harry the Mole
himself Harry the Mole, has sent me for publication a copy of a letter he addressed recently to Mr Attice. Because it is so very good-tempered and reasonable perhaps it merits publication here.
Dear Clem.Me and my freind wish to thank you sincerely for the way you and your freinds are shuging
up
to this terrible Crisis. You buys
are certainly set on giving the dere old country a refined one-two without too much of the old hey-nonny
horny.
Relined is the word, dear freind. Why, just look at the tine simple way you are asking one and all to work harder and longer for less and Jews, Almost saintly, you might call it.
It's going to be fine pickings for me and my freinds, I can assure you
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Just look at what dere Dr Daiton, who is always a tonle to us all, has dune abin Hollywood films. That
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ton and has also say joined the queue
of those clamour-
The brigadier, a typical, rosy-faced young Prussian officer with the high nasal voice of his caste, was almost the first prisoner of war to be repatriated from Britain to Germany. Under the assumed name of Dr Nansen he went to Dussel- dorf, and with the help of the British Military Govern- ment authorities was given a job as adjutant to Dr Ichr, the chief of the German pro-
"Dr Nansen" liked to tell his
Mr. Tanner makes
and Cooper in Paris. my ideal ambassador..
In conclusion I would like to say
Both posts the
plums of the scr-.
behalf of us all thanks a lot for vice-may shortly be free.
1945-7. I was fun while it lasted.
To you, dere Prime Minister,
imrat.
Harry the Mole.
Round the world TE way the world goes:
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German friends that he enjoyed the backing of the highest au- thorities in the British Counter- Intelligence Service and Military Government. In fact, from the way the ex-S.S. brigadier talked
French scene, and Sir Reginald vinefal Government.
Embassy Certainly Panner has a hand- Leeper-now at our looks affectntty and bow necord-Some presence, With his si in Buenos Aires--for his skill in very hair he would look good in dealing with extremely sticky diplomatic uniform presenting situations. his credentials to the president. of a republic. He is a good son of Mrs Anderson, a Minneapolis conversationalist. And I imagine widow was found by the police the must be a skilled negotiator was plain he had been shackled to
to have got where he is in the trade union movement.
When Clarence, 38-year-old
I can do what
☆
☆ * BUT it takes more than being a good mixer to make a good
his bed for 10 years. His brother Martin had been locked in a shack on the root for 16 years. Their sister Violet, 35, jud been shut up in an Vic
ttle for two years:
Mrs. Anderson is alleged to have seid: They're nuli
mine. Flike with them."
ambassador. Mes Anderson seems to have gone too far. But
(a) He must have a deop there are countless mothera In this world who treat their background of political educa-
dren as possessions and get awaytion and experience. with it without the police interfering.
children
(b) He must have the ability
. Captain Odom, an ex-British to study a country to which he Ferry Command pilot, flew mound the
he was it scomed
still S.S.--
IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT:
MOSCOW'S WELCOME TO ZILLIACUS IS NOT NEWS
By ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.'
MOSCOW cable reported They could not have their way, that Mr Zilliacus and his but were offered the solace of the proposal to reduce by half the power party of M.P.s were very of the Upper House to destroy a cordially received by Mr Molo- Steal Bull when introduced.
Presumably this sufficed to relieve their Anxieties and patlaly their I protest that that is not honour."
tov.
newa.
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It goes without cabling that
(YOMPROMISË-is uflen ripe wisdom any Labour M.P. who has at but in this case I think it is a tacked Mr Bovin and the mistake which may well be regretted. AR I have suggested, before any Labour Government as bitterly and as frequently as Mr Zillia- decision had been announced, it cus must have a warm corner in the heart of Mr Molotov.
tema at least a tactical error to take the initalive in provoking a fight of this character, especially in existing conditions.
Why, only the other day, after the ден Communist International or ganisation and denounced the Labour Government's policy as "strengthen that of the unprovoked aggressor. Ing Imperialism and strangling de- Zilliacus obligingly de- mocracy, clared that "broadly speaking the Communis declaration La not an unfaithful picture."
The moral position of the injured Innocent is always stronger
than
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No If the Moscow cable had re- ported that Mr Zacus had been coldly snubbed that would in- deed have been news.
But such a message is most up- likely.
The Kremlin, give It Its
THE
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E proposed change is vulnerable, too, from the standpoint of Labour's own idea of sound con- stitutional doctrine.
As I understand it, the party has always held that the Lords have no real right to obstruct the passage of legislation sent to it by
ihe
Commons, the people's re- presentatives.
Yet the proposed new mensure, since it proposes only to cut down due, the Lords' legal right to obstruct by generally stands by the faithful. half the existing period, thereby Cat the by Implication whatever their nailonality. Es concades
sume period is pecially when they let their own right of vel fo:
Justifiable.
Thus, from the strictly democratie standpoint, the proposed modifien- tion may be considered n retrograde
country town. (Italies mine).
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CUK JAN HAMILTON'S death re- step.
calla an example of his imagina-
tive clemency I came across more
than 20 years ago,
Here I came across
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TT is early to say what the. Onni Collecting evidence In support of Upper Chamber reaction to this the abolition of the Army Death challenge wilt be, I know my selection of "Res"
Penalty, I was, with official permis- The Prime Minister, naturally. Leeper will surprise many. But.
sion, looking through the General sought to convince the Lords, of the in my opinion, his handling of
Orders file in the War Ofice library. wisdom of taking this cut in their
a striking powers quietly, lest worse befall.
But I doubt if they will heed the the Greek situation, first in Cairo (where he was the victim only now it stood for Secret order issued by Sir Ian on Gallipoli.
Two soldiers were lying under implied threat.
Incidentally Mr Attlee brought of conflicting instructions from Service. They believed him be-
out in his spooch (not one of his the Prime Minister and the cause, despite the comparative sentence of death, and were about
best) one or two pleces of the large ordnance Greece itself, was a masterpiece him, Nansen was regularly pre the commander
positions successively held by
store of massive verbat Foreign Secretary) and later in unimportance of the official to be executed, for cowardice.
(in Hansard and available for, use) of calmness and smoothness sent at the most exclusively watching an attack, and there and which Mr Churchill in his Radient under impossible conditions.
then he telegraphed a message back days delighted in ring off against
had been so Im the peers. saying that he
I foresee lively and amusing He told a remarkable story of his pressed by the gallantry, of the wartime career. He claimed that he troops that he could not let the two debates on this ancient issue. had belonged to a democratic, anti- men die for their failure. Hitler resistance group in the Watten that he had helped the Polish S.S..
He has done extremely well in the Argentine, I am told by those who know.
And Leeper has one other
VIP functions.
75 per centum ad valorem lark is world in 65 minutes over three days, is sent against the background quality which is important not nderground in Poland, had
just what we was praying for.
Already a close freind of mine called Amos Barnygoogle has got blaselt a nice little parcel of an old. but worthy copy (slightly turn) of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," with Lon Chaney, and he has a promise of a smell at an original Rin- Tin-Tin if he puts down some real these are reissued to the trade be exprets
gord mill. It's a sweet gyp the dere al public and way t only an economist could have thought of it. in fact this whole Government policy of taking away consumer goods while leaving lust as ich many
first.
In circulation is in-the-groove musie
"to"us-all:
thus
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certain
Chinese
Ambassador who,
us beating the previous air round-of his experience. e-world solo record by 113 hours
minutes. Captain Odom reminds me of a when told that the train that had carried him across the continent had beaten the record by five minutes said: "But that is splendid. And what minules? Koing to do with the five
are you
CIGNS of a united Europe:
S
on
which
that
by the on
Some hours before the execution the front
| Mr.
was
VER CREECH JONES reaffirms the Government's intention of end-
only to ambassadors but to all arrested and imised as sing our Palestine military commit-
heads - even mans,
Poles
sage in the Nuremberg verdict
He even suggested that the pas-,
actions may cepting Uze 5.5, Cavalry from the
general condemnation of the S.S. lis work. "Our resistance movement," he would
tell
them,
Jests And Jeers
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ment at an early date.
If UNO decides upon a scheme of Several giris have remarked on vialling gobs partition which pleases neither side, the act that and makes the internal struggle haven't made passes at them. lley, even more acute than now, so be . teilers, where's your chivalry?
Let the word of UNO be law.
But let not UNO, or anybody else, expect this long-suffering country to sacrifice more British blood in as- suming the burden of putting such a scheme into operation.
The reason why a dollar won't do as much as it once did may be because people won't do as much for a dollar as they once did.
Warning at a college purly: the first worm gets an early bird.
Paradoxically, free speech is good some restriction.
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(c) He must be able to departmental analyse the trends of a political Cabinet Ministers.
had freed him. Later he was cóp¬ situation, forecast its future
He listens to the advice of tured by the British, who checked up on his career in Poland, accorded development, and present, with their pros and cons, the alterna- his experts, tells them if he him specially favourable treatment, in comparative does not. He is loyal to his freedom near Maidenhead, tive policies which his Govern- accepts it, tells them why if he and let him live ment might follow.
juniors, and does not devolve on (d) He must be courageous Romano Mussolini has passed and tactful in pointing out to them responsibility which is his
be theirs. examinations in book-keeping and his superiors at home the dan even though the Becountancy. It's better than dodgers of any policy
On the whole, I would not was ever did.
they may have decided. Dublin politics (e) But if, despite his argu- advise Jack Tanner to become "had is original nucleus in the
an ambassador. Because there Cavalry,"
For nearly 30 years Britain has ments, they persist in
is yet another job which the
I have been unable to check up struggled in Palestine with an im- In Dublin, where I visited to policy he anust be prepared to best British diplomats do these even_this_part_of_Zech-Nentwig's possible task and received in return only when the speakers are under
carry it out with all the skill-at- And we deeply thank you, We
his command.
days. They guide their Ameri- reported story because nothing was from those she sought to serve not may not all have been to Itallybury,
Finally, he must impress his can colleagues. The Americans ever said during that trial about the gratitude but revilings and curses.
The but we know a gent wen we see on
his respect
the experience and activities of the S.S. Cavalry.
verdlat in their favour stands
Moreover, blood be the price of For instance, it was a plain kind-
foreign colleagues with ntes to ask Scotland Yard to round
mysteriously unsupported by honesty. They must trust him savvy of the British old school
career diplomat. I doubt whe evidence on which the judges could us 4 up. There's a thousand of
The Dubliners, perhaps attle
"Lord God, we ha' paid in full."
Slips that passed in the night:- them
. even if they fear him. and 11 million of us, excited by the English summer in-
From the Oklahoma City Times; ⭑ If Jack Tanner were to ask ther they would show it to Jack have formed it, Me and the boys taking this vasion or flushed by the success of
★ The now Regional Government of
"Warren R. Austin, chief US. de- opportunity to send a special dona-
the Dublin Horse
Show were me which of our present am- Tanner however jolly a fellow
the Christian Democrat Party has
legate to the Untied Nations...." tion to the police orphanidge, in case
preaching this political doctrine to bassadors he was to model him- he may be.
now held an inquiry into the record amend the Parliament
THE surprise Government decision
From Hedda Hopper's column in Act the
St Louis- Globe-Democrat:. they get discurrilged.
"Let's stop this absurdity and be self on I would say Lord Inver- MILAN: Five men take and activities of this, the only S.S.
mun in Government employ in the thin session was, there is little doubt, "Kathryn Grayson had better begin together again, for both our good!" chapel for his firmness, honesty,
Western zones. They decided to
born of a compromise on differences (reducing if she hopes to wear that
wedding dress she had fitted within the Cabinet We are all hoping that wen your Of course, they attded, the terms of and tact (I am thinking chiefly
dismiss him. his remarkable wartime
couple of months ago." Supplies and Services (Transitional this new love affair would be the of
Fron There were numbers who wanted
the Fremont (Nebraska) Powers) Bill gets to be law t will end of purtillon between them and achievement, winning the con- ITALY'S main contribution to the reconstruction of Europe.
steel nationalisation this session.Tribune: "For Sale-Young dressed incurridge the orthorities to with- Northern Ireland, or Ulster as we callfidence of the Kremlin), Duff
deeply sworn on One or two were
hens. Absolutely clean and ready draw ration books and identity cards it.
for the rooster." freen all not gainfuly employed to the You know, the Irish are short of Cooper for the brilliance of his under the Marshall Plan is to mystery. It is said he was dismissed
interpreting the be, manpower. Her two million man but because his alleged British the issue. despatches nation's good. We don't use either. dolars, loo.
unemployed are to be exported masters to countries lacking workers.
If this plan ever comes to be
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Kulch Paulette – Geddard and her husband Burgess Meredith perform at the Gaiety Theatre, in Maxwelt Anderson's "Winterset." there was talk of i Friendship with the old
chemy England.
MUSIC AND THE ARTS:
COVENT GARDEN SEASON
HE Covent
Garden opera
opened its autumn season
with a new production of
Verdi's "Rigoletto" in English.
By R. G. WEETLOCK
Eulenspiegel."
their time
But
even
not because
now
there
IN
any
still
he had been
an $5.
had found him to be in touch with the Communists-and their masters..
Mandate
SIDE GLANCES
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Implemented I hope our BERLIN: Why three methods of recruiting labour will be more efficient and less Keep-Lofters left costly than they are at present.
In September 1946 we sent a SHORTLY after the Control Com- near London. Hoyland specialised in
mission was set up in Germany pictures of the circus, and a one-man delegation to Northern Italy to a small group of reliable Socialists show of his circus paintings was held find Italian moulders for British were sent to Germany and appointed in 1938 and opened by the late Lady
The foundries lack to key positions. It was their job to Eleanor Smith, daughter of the first foundries.
were painted from sketches made, at 2,500.
arr
to be seen
For two years these
men
have
All three of them are members of
Socialist
This was really a resumption of distance sorellines dwarfs the singers. Lord Birkenhead, who made a lifelong 25,000 moulders and the dele. ensure that "reactionary elements" vices personnel of the commission the English season-though the The climax of the Richard Strauss audy of the circus. The pictures gation was authorised to recruit among the Foreign Office and Ser- did not sabotage the great work of English company is being rein- festival in London came with two
circus performances in London during There were representatives socialising the British zone. in broadcast performances of "Elektra" the 1930's. Hoyland was a Yorkshire forced by foreign artists. the new year three Wagner under Sir Thomas Beccham-at the
end of the first the composer shouted man bom at Sheffield, and many of of the Ministry of Supply; of
In the Ministry of Labour, of the acted as the eyes and cars of Trans- his pictures produced: "bravo"-and a operas will be
British Broadcasting municipal collections at Sheffleid, trades unions, and the Em- port House in Germany. Now they "Meistersinger, " "Walkure" Corporation concert in the. Albert
five of are going, ployers' Federation and "Tristan
and Isolde." Hall later when Strauss conducted Leeds and Wakefield.
Among those leaving are Austin Till
them in all. Kirsten
Albu, deputy chief of the govern- Flagstad will sing his
own. Strauss PocTTI
is now 83 and FT, has been' an, eventful period in "Brunhilde" in "Walkure" in it is exactly 50 years since he first
They stayed away from cold, mental sub-commission, Alan Flan- salesrooms. At Christie's on Octo- English, but Tristan will be conducted this work in London. ber 30, 107 lots brought in altogether coal-starved Britain all through ders, head of the German section in Four of the five the political division and Eric Schuh- sung in German with Flagstad Another notablo concert in London £27,171, the highest price being paid the winter. as Isolde and Max. Lorenz as was the first of four which the for a Louis XV writing cabinet-went home in April. The fifth macher, of the Economic, Special
Commission London Philharmonic Orchestra is £2,730. A baromoter and thermometer Tristan.
giving
under Bruno Walter. The by Claude Simcon Passeusani, made was still in Italy when I visited programme contained three Beethoven in the same reign, fetched £2,047. Rome. The performance of "Rigoletto" was remarkable for the sensational singing symphonies-the first, eighth and and £1,522 was paid for a Louis XVI They recruited 300 moulders. the "Socialist Vanguard" Group on and acting of Paolo Silveri, young fifth.
table. At Sotheby's, a collection of This job did not need a dele- the outside Left of the
Party. Italian baritone, who first became
The reason for the departure of known in England last year with the
including £1,200 for a pair of George gation from London. It could San Carlo Opera Company and hus CIR Alfred J. Munnings, President covered fuss and £100 for have been done by the labour the three is the Right Turn forced III silver glit attache of our Embassy in on the British by the Americans in frequently appeared since. Ilis volee of the Royal Academy is holding set of four William is remarkable for its rich warm tone his first one-man show since 1038. hexagonal dishes,
Rome with the help of the the new bl-zonal administration, pare high baritone and his He calls it "The English Scene". The Rigoletto is a forceful and imaging- exhibition consists of pictures of Two of the original actors at the Italians and our consulates. Live Impersonation. As hunchbacked horses, race courses and landscapes, Abbey Theatre, Dublin-the
DUSSELDORF: What' Jester, he seems to shrink to half his and Sir Alfred has been highly English-speaking repertory theatre, normal size. Elda Ribelli as Glida praised by art critles for his expert founded at the beginning of the
did 'SS' mean? nets well but her voice was considered knowledge and accurate observailon, century-died in the past few days. rathor too metallic in lone for the particularly in the matter of horses, They were G. Fny was one of the AN interesting departure from
W. G. Fay and Dudley Bery glow of Verd's music.
The earliest picture shown in Digges. W.
founders of the Abbey Theatre with All the scenery in Covent Garden "Forgotten Days" and depicts horses his brother Frank, Lady Gregory and tical life is that of the mysHE Intest delicacy to be thought English productions has been. dis- crossing a river, tinguished and imaginative, and the Anothor painter who specialized in W. B. Yeats, great Irish poet. He was
terious Dr Nanson, alins Bri-" up in Bordeaux is a cold oyster Rigoletto settings by James Eniley a very definite aspect of "The English & small pucklike man and became gadier of the Waffen SS. Zech- wit a sip of day white wine.
on a liver of hot pork sausage.. are well up to standard, though the Scene" was Henry Hoyland, who has famous as comedian in Irish plays
I am longing, to try it. impression
vistas of just died at his trome in Dulwich, and when he left the Abbey Theatre. Nentwig. of immense
old Englih sliver realised
£15,213
first
the stage of German poli-
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The Americano dislike the attempt of Britain's Socialist missionaries to force nationalisation on the Ger- mans.
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