THE DUKE OF SPIES CHALLENGED BRITAIN
IN the cloak-and-daszer days, 200 years ago. France had
a master spy in the Duke of Cholseul. His agenis worked against Britain everywhere, and he challenged us dangerously in Indis.
Then Mme. Dubarry, King Louts XV's friend, took a dislike to him, and Choiseul lost Influence and re- sired.
But before he went he reorganised the French postal service ("The mail mast go through," was ble motto), and it for this he is remembered today.
Face value: 20 francs (about Bd.), Perforation: 13 by 12. A very hand- some portrait.
FROM HERE AND. THERE:
The Burgomaster Disliked Nudes
ROTTERDAM: Twelve paint and said "Where are you going ings of women in the nude were love?" She was a policewoman removed from a show by the on her way to duty, Jones was famous Rees Dongen in fined £7 for resisting arrest by Rotterdam Museum on the a polleewoman, and ГВ for ordern Df tho Burgomaster, offensive behaviour. Next morning a bronze statue of a naked woman In the grounds of the Museum was found beautifully dressed up.
had
Commuters' complaint
a new
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1949.
SHOCKING? Yes BAN IT? No!
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, By Norman
Mailer. Wingate. 15x. 721 pages.
HIS novel raises moral Issues on which the... public should make up its mind at the carliest possible moment,
Is it, or is it not, a pornographie publication which should not be exhibited for sale. In the bookshops?. 19 In a free country, it is obviously preferable that, such a quesBon of morala should, if posible, be settled by the public rather than by informers, policemen and courts of law.
The Naked and the Dead is a novel of American poldiers fighting desperately to win a Pacific Island from the Jap- anesc.
It is a story of men suffering to the limit of human endurance, and beyond.
It fa
almost inconceivably brutal, unly and horrible. It in as powerful as any book
ever willten about war-and more appalling.
Ils soldiers-and this is much
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If that misguided adult per to the end (which also improbable) he is more likely to emerge a better man than a
worse one."
As for the rest, the adults who are not on the search for to the point-use over and over pornography And Who are again An unprintable
In
of the advance, word aware, which
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of what awaits them staple Ingredient nature a of the military vocabulary all they may, in my Judgment, bo without fear to read world, allowed over the Anglo-Saxon It occurs on almost every page; of suffering moral contamina sometimes it appears several tion. times on one page. This ja u Arave artistic error, besides being an outrage against good taste.
Ret since this is n
novel about hell upon earth, there may be some excuse if the language matches the theme.
OBVIOUSLY then, this is no
book to leave lying about where young people may come upon it. It is no book to send
those probably a majority of the population-who will certainly be shocked and her- rifled by. It.
NEW YORK: Complaints aro pouring in from passengers on New York's underground. They Wot a whopper!!
protesting against Bro DURBAN: A whole 100 feet "convenience," alot-machines long and weighing about 100 which for threepence serve tons caused held day at the soda-pop, hot chocolate, and whaling alp, where whales even coffee, with or without
Durban are caught off
taken cream. Typical complaint from tho water. Workmen "Now, besides elbows In our started to thaw up the slip at
stomachs wo have to contend 3 o'clock in the morning, but it with coffer in our laps." was not finally loaded unul after lunch by which time various Whisky: for man- chains, pulleya and winches,
NEW YORK: You are hrag- each successively stronger, been smashed. and an engine ting if you say you can drink had its buffers pulled out. In more than one quart of whisky
locomo a day without becoming un the end, stcom
E
If you are live
unit conscious or dying. and an electric coupled together managed to an average man, this is. This drag the whole up to the leading assertion by Dr. Henry Newman, platform.
. But is This is the largest of Stanford University Medical
this a pornographic work likely to corrupt morals Durban for School, in the magazino Science, whale caught off
(as distinct from vocabulary) some 25 years. Old hands is supps
supported by experiments of
effect on
Iy dogs.
and remember that in 1024 a whale alcohol's
therefore justly to bo said to be 110 tons in welght average man *Dr. Nowman
.banned by the authorities? say? was brought ashore.
he means a man weighing about
The language of its soldiers 11 alone, living at sea level in
Their ส often abominable. pleasantly cool weather, and
deeds are (many of them) proof whisky. drinking 100 Heavler people can stand a bit abominable-some rise to the heights of glory. Their thoughts are often far from pretty.
Grandma goes walking WELLINGTON: Mrs. Kitty O'Sullivan, 68-year-old New Zealand grandmother, walking from Brisbane to parsing out. Sydney, now plans to across Amerien,
after more before dropping dead or
walk
Five foot short, she weighs eight stone
.
-And beast ALEXANDRIA: The Egyptian walked Agriculture ance sho
Ministry
gives off five stone 17 years ago and Scotch whisky to Imported bulls became a confirmed marathon These bulls, bought from Hol- walker. Her other trips.back land and South Africa, need a
Jana included Melbourne to Sydney glassful of Scotch whisky before (000 miles) and Land's End to taking on cows at the special John Groats,
Ministry pluds to improve the local broads. Every year the "Going My Way?" . Agriculture Ministry buys ADELAIDE: Thirty-one-year- dozens of cases of the bes! old Herbert Jones put his arm Scotch, not for its officiala to around a woman in Melbourne drink, but for its stud bulls.
to The clearest warning as the contents of The Naked and the Dead should accompany every copy.
Yet I see no attempt in this book to present immorality in an enticing light, to dwell upon and
gloat over indecency, to romanticise vice,
If any adult reads The Naked and the Dead, seeking porno- graphy, he is likely to be bored and disappointed. What he will and Capart from language he may hear any day if he wants) is a picture of war as dreadful and lurid, as real and terrifying 18 on etching by Goyn.
·
The Naked and the Dead is
a tremendous book which few will wish to read, fewer still will stomach and nobody will "enjoy."
•NORMAN MAILER, бота New Jersey, 1023. Spent boyhood in
Served
Ted more than 300 slaves to liberty in the days before tho Civil War. Ante Parrish heard About this rich personality from a grand-aunt who knew her.
And, in telling the story of ono nctiilous journey, she pre- cents the prototype of countless Journeys, which Moser musi have conducted in reality.
of
Samuel, A Ilttle runaway slave, falls in with ono Mosca parties, in Its furtive, perilous pilgrimage towards the North Star, on t Canada. For oven north of tie Mason- Dixon Line there is no security for the black fugitives. Free dom la found only in Canada.
h where; across the Lake, Queen Victorin herself is standing on the shore with golden crown upon her head and arms ex- tended wide.
So, with eyes on the Stor and Moses' courage to sustain them, with a few white helpers (Quakers mostly) to pass them on from one hide-out to the next, the little company moves by night and reats by day.
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DAB and FLOUNDER A LUCKY CHANCE
by WALTER
STAMP NOTES
GAVE CRICKET ITS BEST WRITER
THE ESSENTIAL The first part of the book NEVILLE CARDUS, contains long extracts from five of Mr Chrdus's books on crie- Jonathan Cape, 12/6, ket, fall Manchester Guardian 316 pages.
reports of the Gentlemen v. Players match and the ~ "Test" O this selection from Matches of 1938; and the second the writings of Nevillo párt of the book gives four Cardus, Rupert Hart chapters from the author's Ten Davis has written an intro-, work of
Compasere, which cover the
Schubert, Wagner, duction in which he says: Strauss, and. Elgar.
Probably the most enthralling, from tho passages,
cricket lover's point of view, wit be Test at the Oval in 1938, found in the report of the Fifth in which England's famous innings of 003 for seven was made. In this innings Hutton of York- hire passed Bradman's record of 334 for the highest individunt score in a Tert. Match. He was caught at 364. Leyland 187 and Hordstaff scored not out.
"In June, 1919, Cardus wis recovering from an lilness, and W. P. Crozier, the news editor of tho Manchester Guardian (for whom Cardus was dramo tic critic) suggested that ho should spend a few days in the
way
open air at Old Trafford and amuse himself by writing about the cricket. In so
casual fashion was the greatest of all cricket writers set on hla By May 1920 he was 'Cricketer, the paper's full-time correspon dent with a roving commission over all the erlekat felds of England. And so he continued) until the Second World War caused stumpa to be drawn for six years.”
ĮRAZIL hai minted a special issus of stamps honouring the They Franklin
Gaspar Dutra arrived in Washington recently he presented
They are frightened. squabble. The men are jealous of Moses. Linda. who Is beautiful, flirts with the men and stirs up the women. Some- times they shake with panic.
President Truman with the first stamps of the speulat (ssue.
maklum, Gerican army, at Sometimes they sing too loudly. DRESSED in armour and carry.
CIPETS,
Leute, Luzon and in Japan, as
photograph clerk, aerial, rideman, cook and baker,
WHY
By
Yet (as Moses belleves), sup. ported by prayers and beset by angels, they pass through the and cross the rivers, forests they escape the patrollers and see at Inst the Northern Lights and Niagara's cliffs of ice.
You will not read unmoved This simple, sensitive and subtle account of their adven- turen.
A CLOUDED STAR.
Anne Parrish. Heine mann. 9. 6d, 248 pages. HY, here we are right back In Uncle Tom's Cabin! Way down in the Deep South, the Glaves are singing on the plantations, singing until the new overseer comes along *ANNE PARRISHI, aged Co, born with his whip or the white Colorado Springs. master cannot pay his debts of novels.
Author of 17 honour and must sell his slaves off one by one.
Then the call
Then the lamentations riso.
goes
up for "Moses."
who is A woman, whose real name (which must never bo spoken) is Harriet, whose mission in life is to guldo negro fugitives to free- ол tho "Underground dom Railroad."
Freedom Is the theme of A. Clouded Star-freedom denied, freedom sought,
black by children, adult and small, who take the hand of the strong, ferocious, ugly, religious woman called Moses for a rea- son not hard to seek (“Let my people go!")
MOSES Is historical. She
was Harriet Tubman, and cho died in 1913 at 82, having
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHY DOES HE WAVE THAT STICK-AROUND.
LIKE THAT ?
WAY DOESNT HE JUST HIT THE BALL
FILL-TRIC IN YOURSELF, VERE NOT ALLOWED TO ICE SUCH, LANGUAGE.....
LIBRARY LIST
Dark Avenues. By Ivan Ekunin. John Lehmann, go. 6d. 923 pages. These short storien by the last of the
Ruman
authors 處處
are machten ons on
a single themo women, the love of women, and the tragedy. They which follows in the wake
are the writings of a master.
ing a lanco, Don Quixote mounted his horse and charged at windmills while his squire, Sancho Panza, ambled behind on
donkey..
a
This talo of a mad, lovable knight made Miguel de Cervantes Spain's most famous writer, and
his birth, 402 years ago, la commemorated by this stamp, recently issued by Panama.
Cervantes was also a soldier and sailor, and once, when captured, a slave.
潋
DRAZIL has issued two new stampe to honour the founding of
portrait of Manuel de Nobrega, Portuguese Jesule missionary and will be used for regular postage. Tha 1.20 cruzeiros, purple, is the air mal variety and pletures Thome de Souza, first governor general,' with Padre Nebroga and his followers being welcomed by the Indians in Bra Balvador,
1549-1949 appear on both stamps.
The dates
*
macto
107'
FOOLS RUSH IN, by Tina Spencer, Hammond Hammond, 10/6, 224
.. pages.
young ex-service · couple bought a Jarm in Devon, their
and this book described first year and its troubles.
They had no experience, no farm implements, and no stuck, but with a breeziness that will remind the reader of Belty McDonald's The Egg And 7, the job of running a form el- clently was tackled and by the end of the year they could e list relays of college students tb help with the harvest.
From the first page the reader's sympathy is whole heartedly with this enterprising couple who could not afford to run the farm at
a loss, for the first year. They many chances in a gamble for the kind of life they wanted, and their courage and hard work promise to pay dividends In happiness and prosperity.
*
*
even took
* THE FALLOW LAND, by H. E. Bates, Jonathan Cope, 6/6, 256 pages.';
THE exhibition prospectus for the International Stamp Ex-Fuis in the story of a woman's
hibition in London, which will take place from May
against ill-health, losses- well-told
* Aunt Bél. By Guy McCrone. Con. stable, -98, Od. 165 pages, Aunt el in a snob living in diasgow in Her the reign of Queen Victoria. son Artur wazite to marry a young woman of whose family Balcanhoi
Renco approve.
15fc comedy,
*
* Strangers Here Oursives, By Adam de Hegedus Gollancz 13. 6d. 324 pages. Impressions of post-war Anterica which do not go very deep but make amusing read- ing Mainly concerned with the young America of the returned G1. disgusting. His taste in morals. clothes and musia. With a bre liminary sketen for a philosophy of the jitterbug.
[London Express Service)
ANNIHILATE
THE BUMY
"BOO
5 to 13, 1950, is now ready and available. Anyone desiring the prospectus may obtain it free of charge by writing to the exhibition, 41 Devonshire Place, London, W1, England.
AUSTRIA shows ite gratitude to the United Nations International
children's emergency fund with a special ons schilling brús green stamp. The format shown a dove of peace hovering from the UNICEF symbol toward a boy with upstretched arm. It will mark the first anniversary of funda received by Austria from the UNICEF.
struggle against the land, and betrayals, and of her helpless- new against its final, Indifferent [victory,
It la a sympathetic study of village and farming people. Me Buter understands the country, about anún people he writes
and writing with knowledge feeling, he has made The Follow Land sincere and enjoyable book.
"Flay Ball"
BY KEMA STARRETT
MLŐKETS
THE ENTHUSIASM, OF SOME OF THE CUSTOMERS KEEPS THEIR NEIGHBORS
AS BUCY AS A BARGAIN SALE AT FORT KNOX. · Lodowy Syndicata,
SOME GO ITO REST. FEIR PEET, ONERS TO KILL TIME...
WHY DID TREY CHANGE THE
BATTERYS
·DO TALY HAVE.
TO RE- CHARGE
WHILE OMERS ARE JUST OUT. LOOKING FOR
A JOB.
THE MAN WHOS AFRAID TO OPEN HIS MOUTH AT ARE HOME GETS A CHANCE TO EXPRESS HIMSELF... MILD
AS MILK GENERALLY. HE BECOMES AS FEROCIOUS AS A RED DIPLOMAT IF THE UMPIRE IS AT A SAFE DISTANCE.
BATTING THREE
•HUNDRED WHAT
MAN OIT FOR AN
AFTERNOON
PRE PLEASURE.
THE GAL LAO, DURING THE WIR," STOOD BI LOVE FIVE BOIRS TO
BUY ONE PAIR OF HYLONS.
KAI TRE MAN VIHO WAS ADVISED TO ATTEND'A
BALL GAME TO SCOTIE HIC NERVES:
AT & TIRE LIKE THIS A MAN BEGUC TO WONDER. VAY HE EVER MARRIED
TEATRIS
AUD ABAL