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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
Churchill, the pilot, and the
lunch invitation
HE war in Whitehall-that
is the theme of Sir Robert
by George Malcolm Thomson
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
reveals some secret wartimo history about the mon around Churchill in a new book.
At Sedbergh,
old
school,
Bruce Lockhart's New book, Comes the Reckoning
In the Foreign Office there surrounded by young pilots fresh Bracken is already a legend. It is (Putnam, 184.). It was a war was
powerful anti-Benes from the flight and aircraft executives sald that he arrived from Australia that at times raged fiercely be element. When Masaryk tells throbbing with energy and problems. in 1919 and paid his first term's fees tween rival factions. And Lockhart that Benes had been the gleam or battle in his eye, the out of a wad of banknoter which he
telephone in his hand, he dealt with carried in his pacitet. casualties were heavy.
Bohemia's best outside-left until two or, more likely, inrec topics at Recalled from his Highland he broke his leg, he adds im- once and was never so busy that he Mr Churchill is seen as a majestic hills to the Foreign Office in ploringly. "But don't tell the could not cap one good story with tender and a great trial to doctors early September 1939, Lockhart Foreign Office that, or they will
a better.
and generals. Tom Johnston, invited It has been said that Beaverbrook's by Churchill to be Secretary of State became British representative make a silly joke of it."
vital contribution to the battle was for Scotland, is reluctant, and pleads with the Czech Government in
duc to "magical" methods. The that he wants to write history. this country, and later director- In the communications of the magic consisted of an unerring in Churchill replies irresistibly, "Come general of the political warfare Czech underground organisa- net for the essential as opposed to to London and make history with executive, a propagandist or- tion. which he established be idence in trusting that instinct, and
the merely desirable, supreme con- me." ganisation whose target was the fore leaving Prague, Benes was furious zeal in pursuing it. morale of the enemy,
known as "Mr Come-back." These duties brought him im From the beginning he was mense distinction and a break- convinced that Germany and down in health. Lockhart could Russia minst fight, a view which Churchill, unlike Stalin. regard himself as one of the Mr casunities of the War in White came to share. hall
Bones spenke idiomatic but His book, essentially a per-
imperfect English. He gave sonal story, affords some tan-
Lockhart's son this memorable talising glimpses of matter hitherto concealed; it recreates ivice, "In life you must take The atmosphere of unforgettable the bull by the corns." days; and it draws upon a limit- less fund of anecdotes about outstanding personalities in the dir.
MR MAISKY. the Soviet Am-
bassador,
days
Was
Ordered to Inhale Friar's Balsam. the Prime Minister is seen a few hours later with a big cigar in one corner of his mouth and the spout of the inhaler in the other.
On the famous Sunday when the
DUMB-BELLS
IF THE PICTURE UPSETS YOU SO, LET'S ∙GO OUT!
PATENT OFFICE
HENRY! DON'T BE SUCH A KILLJOY
• MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
WAS characterisile of him that he delighted in the com-
of the pony
pilots, flat young favourite story in those days attack on Russin was known, Lock-Key to 6 No Trump In concerned Squadron Lender Peel, bort was staying with Lord Beaver- who had been shot down into the hook, who set off early for Chequera Channel. When Churchill
heard That
'évening chine' the famous Minister,
bout it, through. Beaverbrook, he broadcast by the Prime Invited Peel to lunch,
holding out the hand of comradeship
The answering telegenin catrie, Greatly honoured to Jumela with the Prime Minister.
f
Forced Discard
to the new victim of German atinek. By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
been attacked.
FTER every tournament there is
[] great deal of discussion of bridge hands, and of course every player has his favourite. Sims Guynor of New Hochelle, N.Y.. gave me today's..
were
He said that he and his partner count for the first time and maybe playing the tranji point they were a little confused about it. However, the opponent:: www ΠΟ reason to interfere, and when Gay- nor (South) jumped six no trunip. West smilingly
doubled. Certainly
" (Churchili) bad with him Last week my stomach was full of salt water during that day, Mr Eden In the chan muring. Lord Heaverbrook all day. it will be full of
Mr Winant and Sir Stafford Cripps From all four "He has always," says Lockhart part of the day.
Beaverbrook,
ot have had first-hand accounts of in the dark
"the speed actions of the New World, and his the conception. birth and delivery of June, 1940, a stalwari
suitersses ant fallures have been of the speech. Lord Beaverbrook, optimist about Britain--"If you argely determined by the fact that. Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr Winnnt So lon made suggestions, some of which the MR EDEN makes an early ap can get through the next three although he has lived
England, he has never been able Prime Minister accepted," pearance, drilling his Terri- months I think you will win
Lo He dolents two things-caviaro,
angileise himself.
But Lockhart 13 clear that torials in an Oxford-street store vin lived on it during two years "The dominants in his character clarchill at devided on the broad after the shop girls have left.. xile in Siberia, and the British are ( restless. ambition unc ព
lines of his declaration within hal ruthless love of The War Office had offered genius for compromise.
power. Both
the double locked.sound. spring from the materialism of the an hour of learning that Russin had $1500 for a local hall, but the
An atheist, he could quote Scrip- New World. Both have made him owner held out for C3000, In ture, his favourite verse belug, "So enemies among the British publie the late summer of 1939, on the then heenuse thon Bri Jukewarm, who dislike newspaper proprietors eve of the costliest war in his. and neither cold nor hot, I will spue and, more particularly. mout the
thre out of my mouth.”
Tories who mistrust his methods tory, it was clearly an impos- This sentence might well be the and
and who always suspect clever sible, price.
molio of the British statesman whom people, especially when
they nre Dr Benes is seen in sumy and Maisky most adimires, Lord Beaver not English. story settings-with the sun- brook, Lockhart saw much of him "Although he can be tough in a
period in his night, he during "the greatest shine gradually predominating
performed when Renverbrook was prepar- kind arts, of
which the public as the British Foreign Office in for and, day by day, equipplag hears nothing, and he has always painfully serewn up its courage the battle-line in the decisive cun- had the knack of inspiring
lite war, the Battle of to recognise his Government, 11 Bict of
Inyalty in those who are nearest Aritain.
To hlm. In spite of might be a comie, were it not a
Tørkbart exhibits Beaverbrook work, late at night, in his at material successes of his life, I have no doubt that he counts himself It fallure if only because his am- bition has always outrun achieve- ment."
L. RONDON CO. (H.K.), LTD. petty, story.
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THE
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BY ROBERT MUSEL
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to "put on a show" illustrations by Arnold E. Jones comes to almost every com- which add still further clarity to a M. DALTON, munity at some time or other.
which simply teems with hart served, There conies the desire 11 or- clever Ups" on make-up, some of Dynamo on account of his passion ranise some form of group enter- which are new even to the experi- for work. Frequently he wrangled tainment. "Let's put on a show" encer actor:
with Mr.. Brendon Drucken, who becomes the ruling thought and be-
from
book this
As fore you know where you are, you "The Play Produced" (4/6), which emerges
fact, and are embroiled in all the curious is written by John Fernald and has prodigy of wit and activities entailed by the acting of a aut excellent foreword by Flora paragon of kindness,
form of staged Robson, is a really practised guide, Three British scientists whojeach. Nothing else. Eggen, just play or a kindred
to the technique of play production smacked their lips, made wry eggs,
and its carefully built up chapters A series of small but remarkably on such aspects us dramatic con- faces. or groaned, or politely
Lone concluion announced by Dr.
well-written books has been pro- feast, vardely in speech, movement, spat into napkins, have com-
Hugh Cott, of the University Museindured to assist the "amateur” in and trouping make profitable read- plofed the world's most unusual of Zoology in Cambridge, that solving the many complex problems lut for neters as well as
as producers. involved in the apparently banquet. They ate 81 omelettesman and the mongoose like the same
simple The series alre includes "Home- klu tu !,
resolve to "put on a show."
They made Lighting Apparatus for the are mablished tg II. F. W. Deane & Amateur" Stage"
and "On Sous-ft-31-Musen Street, Lon-Engistr
9/8-(which don, W.C... and they are written in abounds in very teoful illustration), Dr. Cult assembled the panel of such a clear, direct manner, taking and is topped off by a comprehen- fasters because he was scientifically | nothing for granted, that they are sive list of "Plays and Their Plots"
all curious about why some vitits faste unreservedly recommended to
【だいて】 which
organisers would-be better than others. He sat his three | who may be interested in this fas- pick and choose the type of volunteers armand a dining table uul | vinatin; subject.
play they prefer with full know- hat portions served them-scrambled
Stage Maker up Made Easy" fedite of the number (and sex) of and cooked by seamant.
(770) by M. H. Henòliel has seventy performers required,
ARNHEM LAND EXPEDITION
The Australian-United States expedition to little known Arnhem Lani. Northern Aus- tralin. plans to spend six months in an area inhabited by age aborigines,
stone
..
So does the ferret, the hedgehog and the rat,
Hen Rates Best
can
Then he graded the 81 species. FROM HERE & THERE: using the Bure 10 as perfect or excellent. The seientists did not give that rating to any of the eggs. The domestic hen emuld only cluck her way to RB, but that was top edibility
score.
Arnhem Tand, a large tract of country cast of Darwin, is an abori- gial reserve. The only white men allowed to enter it are missionaries. Apart from aerial observation. It is In a three-way be for second place virtually unmapped and unexplored. were the eggs of the cont, the moor- hen and the leaser black-backed gall, The aborigines living there have all at 8.3. If the price of ens keeps never imixed with other tribes ex-
sparing, all you have to do is And cept on the coast, where equally the proper. nest, but beware wild New Guinean migrants are also Mamina Moorhen. She peeks ext living. The aborigines are wory and stealers. difficult to approach, but are general- ly friendly.
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A few other "relatively palatable" tips for the household table are the The expedition has been sponsored herring-gull, the penguin (whose by the Australion Government, therating Is "particularly fine ond de- US National Geographie Society Heate in davour"), the white-naped at the Smithsonian Distitute, and crane, the hedge-sparrow, the par- will be Jed by ethnologist C.P. |tridge, the jacitdaw and the domestic Mountfort of the South Australian turkey, who gobbles his way into Museum-Associated Press.
1.
ARE YOU SURE?
ANSWERS
Questions on Page 9
Lord Clive, on Nov. 23, 1774.
2. Scure crows, It in
Scottish
Ecarecrow, 3. Go to Denmark.
Great Belt is
These
014
The
ntitl
21st place.
Surprisingly down in 41st place classed as of "intermediate palatability" is the domestic duck well below the carrion-crow. The long-tailed tit is also not too edible the romantic turtle dove had scientists holding their
Noxes with a score of five.
and the
Wren Scores Low.
channel. separating In the unpatatable class they put Zealand from Pune. 4. the great it (salty, aby und bitter); The weather.
are the blue tit (heid, raneld and soapy) snow crystals, S. Roman dictator, and the wren (sour, oily). The Fabius Maximus, known
wren find the lowest score, too. delayer. The society's polley was for cautious persistence. 6. All except Lend, kindly light, which was by Cardinal Newman. 7. J. 1. Hobbs, is your dish. His 197 centuries. 8. Sweden, Norway strong alon-like flavour. However, Denmark. 1880. 10. Surrey Iron one scientist ate on oyster-entcher Hallway, Wandsworth to Croydon,
he claimed was distinctly 1801.
reminiscent heinp.
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzle. Across: 1, Dislocate; i, Ricochet; 10, Oar 12. Pinnel; 13, Rag: 14, Altar; 15, Empty: 17, Lime; 10, Ple; 19, Bets; 21, Air; 22, Manly; 23, Top; 24, Gema; 25, Antlers.
IX you like onlon omelettes? The oyster-cntcher (also known as hoematopus ostralegus occidentalis)
CRIES have
CRK
Dr. Coll's other conclusions are that bitterness in eggs is related to size and colouration—the smallest and most belghtly coloured eggs taste the worst, as protective devices.
One omelette from the eggs of the bar-licaded goose had all Three tasters gagging.
Down: 1, Dromedary; 2, Scrapiron; "The freshness of the material
3. Lope; 4, Challenge: 3. Extremist; available," reported Dr. Colt with
7. Clay: B, Entitle; 9. Team;. 11 scientific detachment, Armp; 18, Tempt; 10, Bull; 20, Sym,! been in question."
"may have
Costume
HE BROKE TRADITION
Warsaw. The last of the Krelik family, Wladyslaw, has gone to gaul, they only member of the family of nine to escape the gallows. Wladyslaw was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for banditry.
It was disclosed that eight others of Petersen, of Minnesola, who is visit- correspon- the family of brothers and coushis had ing Denmark, informed all been hanged over the last two dents that he has succeeded in trans- years for the same activities: Askal ferring an impregnated ovum from what her husband's profession was, one cow to another. The embryo is Wladyslaw's wife replied "Oh, he is still alive and has continued to grow. a bandit." Krolik means "king" in If successful; tij experiment opens polish.
up immense possibilities. It should WAREHOUSE UNDER MOUNTAIN be possible in the future for a preg- Oslo. Under the Ekeberg Moun- nant mother unable to carry her lain, near Oslo, work will start next child to transplant the impregnated summer on the excavation and con- ovurn to another woman, thus giv- siruction of 52 two-storey store- ing childless women a chance to
with a total floor space of have children. over 40,000 square yards. This first under-mountain warehouse ever to
rooms
HIS OWN CANOE. Wellbigton. Unlike most heads
be built in Norway will east £000,- of states, Prime Minister Fraser has 900 or
£15 per square yard, and not yet got a personal acroplane, but space will be let at the rate of 30, he at least is soon going to have hig shillings per square yard per year. personal war canoe.
Maori tribes- The first 20 store rooms will be
men will build the cance from a ready in 1950 and the remainder the 1,000-year-old giant Kauri tree and following year.
present it to Mr. Frasér after they have Inunched it as a symbol- that Copenhagen.The world-famous their war deeds have earned, then American physiologist, Professer W.E. full equality with Europeanя, '
NANCY
SCIENCE
WHAT GAME SHALL WE PLAY TODAY.
JETHRO ?
A Resourceful Young Man
HOW ABOUT A SNOWBALL FIGHT?
BUT THERE ISN'T ANY SNOW HERE-- IT'S TOO EARLY IN
THE SEASON
For a few minutes after the big hang the two friends stand in the darknem too frightened to inove, Rupert, where are you? Are you all rigist ?** quavers Bingo, "Y-yes, think so." gasps the little bear. but can't see a thing How can“ we get out ?" They grope among the fallen ruins, and although they can see points of daylight they can find no he would he us good big enough to get through
shouting for help," saya Bingo, "no- body could possibily hear us in here."
ALL BIGHTS RESERVED.
Skeletom
CLUES ACROSS
1. Small Are.
wo say?
6. Sveita. and ao nilm NA Well,
And.
B. Afiam Lupino Ketan hal) In the U.B.A.
9. "The pATION told the, And the tofled bell,"
tho
11. Gate-crashes in a royal
way.
13. Descriptive af much wo buy now- dave.
1. The nish of
tristinee.
13. In favour 7 Yes, indeed.
B. Invalld three words).
1. Half-hunter!
20. The wood of the gynri-Fraker, 21. Disebarke, maybe, but not rack. 25. Paths or parts.
20. I'm Years beliind in my ideas,
here.
27. Pearl is not no bright as she
was apparently.
29. Super-men, în, a senas ! 20. Being up-to-date, the Navy
follows the fashion.
CLUES DOWN
1. Short pleman, putting a man-
hater to confusion.
2. You might get some teatiser for,, but not from, thila tanner (two worda).
DON'T LET THAT WORRY
You
Colour of a metal letter, Bucket with a lip to it 7
Pass
Pass
Double Pass Pass Opening-44
18
eight-spot. He took it with the jack of diamonds, then cashed all his clubs, discarding three hearts from
dummy.
Now the ace of hearts was cashed, the eight of diamonds was led and when West played the ten, the trick Was won in dummy with the nee. The two good diamonds were cash- ed, Gaynor discarding the six of
of hearts.
spatles and end himself in a bari
If he let gg-the-king-of-
West now
- situation.—— II
hearts, dummy's
y's que would be R. If he kept the king of hearts art blanked down to the king of sendes, which he did, the three of
would spades
be led from dummy, South would go up with the ace, of spartes was good
and the teen- for the last trick,
Crossword
6. Awkward ho may be, bat ne Het 60 before getting out
6. "A Dafa degreo" (anag).
7. Bơm of Jaunea in tho buliding
lar ?
10. it Breins that the tenth mana
to use 1 wicket night aur vive after all.
12, My, Ronny kiyes me
指
word
which means Just the same,
14, it is not fit, so has a short
sleep inside.
15. it's teady work you want,
give in river a try.
22. Aterary, addition we'll
have some stinkes.
23. Might ono go to Wells to cure
them 7
24. Business partnership not easily.
linken
I lack aquures and clav Kumbers, its well me time wards. have to be ked in by solvers at the crossward. Four black squares and five eine numbers linve been Inserted to give you a start.
As the pattern of blick squintes Is symmetrieni, the left and right- hand alles balance, and the top and bottom katres corresponuă. Yao ran, therefore, IN 19 12 mure black squares at once in poikkuna corresponding with chose gives
d Dawn being an anagram, the solution mest (m of 11 letters, as also just the corresponding salu- tion on the reft of the illugram et Down. Since no words of Iran than three letters are used, except in phrases, No 17 Across and its three corresponding wards he three-letter words.
LAST WEEK'S ROLUTION
By Ernie Bushmiller
I HAVE SOME LEFT.
YEAR
FROM LAST
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