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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1948.
One of the many links which bind Britain and America was forged by John Harvard, founder of America's oldest university. According to legend, MARJORIE NISBETT tells us, Shako- spoaro had a hand in the wedding of John's parents
as
W Shakespeare
Shakespeare Matchmaker
Stratford
E remember William perhaps, went to his
મ
friends for ment. I Five children were born to the dramatist and a great Harvards,
and they were all Elizabethan, but few of us christened In the church of St. Saviour, close by...now the think of him as a matchmaker.
cathedral church of Southwark,
romance
And what of Katherine, who be gtan it all, so long ago? Her figure is shadowy, for no letter or portrait remains to us, but her story is a strange, uniting bond between Harvard and Elizabethan England, All unknowing, she forged one of Then; in 1625, the plague swept the many links which bind Britain down on London, and upon the little and America, for without the household; three of the children fortune she left to him, John died, and with them their
never have made father. Harvard could So, in the space of a few short his famous
bequest. And, perhaps, without the help of days, Katherine was left a widow, with two 'SONS only, John and the famous dramatist she might Thomas. And it was Joha
who have stayed all her days in was to make the name of Jurvard Stratford, unknown and unloved to
Inmour.
Yet, if the old legend is correct, he had a hand in a wedding which helped to make history the
of Katherine Rogers and Robert Harvard, parents of the who KAYO America's oldest university.
his
name
Go, looking back across the years, we say, "Thank you...Shakespeare!"
hnd the
Katherine Was a middle-aged woman by then, but she still
The lovely carved house from which they were married away with her, for during
is still the pride of Stratford, next two years she married twice. the old grey church where With each marriage, she stepped up
their children were christened still stands at the foot of London Bridge, while the great university of Harvard: in Massachusetts, can now claim 300 years of unbroken history. Yet both lived and died little link their knowing what a marriage was to forge between Britain and a nation born.
ROBERT Harvard
something for her sons, and sho
"Which barrow will you require to-day, șir—ices or pincapples ?"
in the world. She was able to do MICHAEL WILSON SENDS A NEWSLETTER FRom france wHERE sent John, who wanted to be a ONE MORE GOVERNMENT HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST FORTNIGHT parson. to Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge.
NACH husband appears to have provided for Kathering of his she, too, was laid to rest in St. Saviour's not yet she had died a rich woman-widow of Richard Yarwood, Member of Parliament for Southword. And her will, still in existence, left her forlune to be divided
death, so when, in 1635,
WAS
sons.
IL
TUESDAY
JULY 13-
I looked in at the Bourse and All prices are up about 40 per- the Palais Royal, Tables were half cent, in the past four months. Meat emply, and men and women were is not rationed, but costs 58. 34. a sipping cheap French beers. Many pound, and there is no queue at TSUALLY I shrink from of them were on strike from the the butcher's. Potatoes are 44d. a
Finance Ministry, or other civil pound. opening inx demand servants,
734: letters, but this morning
Everywhere in the market French The July 14 military parade went housewives were complaining about
U
I did not worry-the income- between her tax collectors were on strike and
refusing money.
a quick
London butcher whose John, as a lad, had been fred by
the voyage of the Pilgrim Futhers, Finance Ministry civil ser- shop Was in Southwark
and, in his years at. Cambridge, he | vants, the tax men, and the und,
the time of had dreamed of a freer life. And Customs have called the marriage. Shakespeare so, with half his mother's fortune, strike for more pay. They was proprietor of the Globe he set out across the Atlantle Theatre. close by. was horn at Stratford-on-Avon in all the glory of that age of
Katherine
to
Join them In Massachusetts.
Everyone knows the end of the story: how John heenie minister of the first church in Charlestown, and made his famous bequest.
want another £4 a month.
Tax collectors have locked up their oflices and been into the
velvets and rules and slashed how, dying a few months Inter, he country for the week-end. Cus-
doublets. Both Shakespeare's father and hers were aldermen of Stratford, meeting in the business of the town, at the fairs, the maypole dancing, the Christmas feasting, and all the merry junketings so deur to the heart of the Eliza bethans.
Travelling in those times was by no means easy: thirty miles was a whole day's journey for a dying coach, and the ones that went the ordinary pace took longer still. So it is unlikely that these two young people, 100 miles aport, would ever have met if someone hud not brought them together. And the legend is that that someone was Shakespeare.
THE
Was
. No enthusiasm from the crowds the cost of living.
Paris hadn't
seen
Many of their husbands were on strike. They were not just complaining about food. A doctor's visit costs 1s. instend of 3s. as before. The price of medicine has doubled. Shoes are about £3 instead of 23s, six months ago, Knitting wool is £3 n pound instead of
183,
No wonder the Frencht housewives have a reputation for shopping carefully.
it coming
It was fifteen years since the toms officials do not know what Pilgrim Fathers had landed, but to do. Some work, some don't.
'Alter there was still much to do.
to At the Gare du Nord I saw one God had carried us safe over New England, runs an old docu-n a hidden heard of cigarettes ment, and we had bullied our in a sultease. The officer wrote out houses, provided necessarics for our a lengthy bill for duty and fine, but livelihood, reared convenient places there was no Treasury official to for God's worship and settled the take the money, I saw him shrug, civil government, one of the next tear up the paper, and hand the things we longed for was to ad- cigarettes over to the visitor.
perpetunte it vance learning and
On the pavements. A grey-headed Two or three days opʊ, in the man beside me: "Why don't they churches middle of this strike, Field-Marshal disband our army and save money? shall Montgomery .went to the British Too weak to defend us, too strong
Embassy Karden party (Indoors for annual paradics!" owing to rain-do noi wear morning coats). Montgomery took off his beret at the door, but could not
to posterity, dreading to leave illiterate ministry to our when our present ministers lie in the dust."
an
IT is easy to imagine John, after shake off the admiring throng of his eight years at Cambridge, women, each trying to look newer putting, his heart into this new
enterprise, and to understand why than the next.
Je left all his 300 books and half his estate-about £800 to help
THURSDAY
SUNDAY
IT
is just these sporadic
crises
which may bring General
de
Gaulle back to power.
whips
Today the Government are working overtime in the lobbles
FARRY POLLITT came looking of the Chamber, trying to win sup
to
con-
"Ho's perfectly safe," one deputy
for new
Bastilles to storm, port for Schuman's vote of He was dodging champagne but Semehow he headed the London ndence tomorrow.
Pipe Band in a Communist marchi he told me. from the Pince de la Bastille THE house at Stratford from which
the dream come true. And It was not questions. "Yes," Katherine
married, 20 in recognition of his gift that the the French army is ine. Yes, the the Place de la Republique in Paris. told me.
Western European nations оге High Street, is the loveliest and university was called Harvard.
two Communist President Auriol apparently most elaborately dirved-in the town. John Harvard is remembered lo- strong. No [unusual modesty] 1 do
oraters speaking, one 10 striking thinks so, too. He has gone off to It was built by her father in 1806. day in many ways. Besides is not know-if-1-um to be the Supremo workersDown with capital, wo his regular week-end retreat at the The panelled rooms are still much statue in the lovely grounds of the of the five Powers, ask Mr Attlee." want more money"; the other Presidential Chateau of Rambouli- as Katherine must have known university, there is fixed in the them, and the same carved heads porch of the Appleton Chapel
I remember that the
listened
French wanted
subscriptions. "Money Is Jet. de Lattre de not all, we must have capital!" of men and animals, the same roses piece of old carved stone, brought commander-in-chief, and fleurs de lis that watched that across the son from Southwark Tassigny, had told me at a private wedding party of long ago. look Cathedral, to
the dinner party with President "Auriol down on the street today.
fact that he was a Southward man, a few days before, "The Americans and had been christened there.
commemorate
FRIDAY
Whatever the result-Schuman, de Gaulle, or somebody elso-there will have to be drastic reform, which the Frenchmad will not like.
Otherwise the country will slide than ever. fast. Another 35,000,000 francs has
hole
the been added to the already-Inflated
banknotes without iscuo of
Maybe Montgomery can get NATIONALISATION of Industry
So Katherine went to London
have not given us their latest wea- with her husband; to the London of In London, 100, John is remem- pans. the time when Whitehall was still hered, for a chapel in the cathedral them."
the spire of has been restored by Harvard men, a royal palace, when old St. Paul's still towered
At above and renamed in his memory. the narrow, twisting streets, and Cambridge, there is a memorial win- when London Bridge was still lined dow, and at Stratford, forty years
Edward Morris with gabled, fairy-tale house, perch- ago."
of Chicago,
ed precariously above the water. And restored 28 High Street, and, to it is easy to imagine that Robert commemorate is association Took Katherine to the play
the family, some evenings, and that Shakespeare, Harvard House.
Empire Reports:
with
it was renamed
the
WEDNESDAY'
HE French are dancing in the streets today, but the national festival lacks spontaneity.
MALAN CUTS OUT AID TO SETTLERS
an
extension
is more discredited To pull it out of Government hus asked former
become general manager of the
any
aeroplano manufacturer Potez to glimmer of backing and the franc bankrupt nationalised Gnome et has alumped heavily on the pave- ment market: the pound is now quoted at 1,040 francs instend the official 864.
Rfione organisation.
of
These strikes, are symptomatic of
the prevailing unrest in the coun-
Under Communist mismunage- ment this small aircraft engine frm ran up a £1,500,000 deficit at the bank (naturally a Stale bank) until Parliament finally called a halt.
But in Paris today, blonde American movie star Was OVET- Two salient points Impress me heard to say: "Thero does not seem 1. The company made money as to be much poverty In France." private firm before the war, and That was at the Ritz, though.
nation-
MONDAY
~APE TOWN.-Dr Malan's Cabinet WELLINGTON—The Maoris plan Cripps visit, agreed that "the pre- the engines worked.
between tho 2. Under nationalisation now the is reported to have decided to to All the battleship Vanguard with sent basis of trado end State-alded immigration from £25,000 worth of food and clothing countries is unsatisfactory and must company loses money and the en-
for Britain after the royal visit. be straightened out." Britain and Europe at once.
gines do not work-according to Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M. P..
scroplane manufacturers' complaints,
uro still optimistic about The decision is said to be
Com- THEY "in announcing this as
Only the Socialists and VALLETTA-Two R. A. F, Vam-
the Government's chances. principle" only, and obligations to of the ancient custom of ensuring pires, the drat jet aircraft in the munists want to continue
ailsation. Realistic Finance Minister Now it is a Senator who has mum- 3,000 or 4,000 Britons who have that the departing guest has enough Mediterranean, have arrived to re-laser would rather see free enter med it up for me:~~ been accepted will be kept.
food for the journey home, and as place the Spitfires which have de
making profils which he three liners an expression of gratitude to the fended Malta since the island's prise The conversion of
of Britain
wartime fighter force people
consisted of three could tax. from troopships to migrant vessels, sacrifices, sald: "I hope the pakeha planes, Faith, Hope, and Charity. arranged by General Smuts and Mr Attlee, and due to begin this month, (white man) will co-operate." may be cancelled.
for
TORONTO. - Three-nation trade
DURDAN-Miss
Johanna Bos-
SATURDAY
"Nobody wants to change a Go- vernment in midsummer holiday time-and particularly when tho Tour de France bicycle race is on. But when the pinch of winter sels in and de Gaulle undoubtedly, gets In London Mr. Harry Welsh, agreements between Britain, Canada, man, of Parow, lost her voice four
wife took me to the local greater power at the October
cleo- South African and the US. are to be discussed years ago. Recently, she suddenly Market this morning to buy tions he will make his bid.". deputy chairman, Immigration Council, said: "I know by Sir Stafford Cripps when he burst out laughing and fully
Well, they are all wrong. Presi- nothing of the ending of immigra visits Ottawa and Washington in gained her speech when reading Mr the week-end lunch. I have been
Churchill's caustic Commons re complaining about the cost of living dent, Auriol has been called back lot. Our obligation to the thousands September.. accepted must be kept, although Canadian Government officials, marks on the "Murderors Charter" and she wants to show me.
I am convinced. the whole scheme may be modified,” refusing to discuss details of the Bin,
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