THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1949..
THE STRUGGLE between
GILES draws his audience Moscow
OPEN to the public.recently—an Exhibition of Humorous Art in London. Ciles paid a visit.... His task had, a touch of novelty. For instead of his normal pencil- reporting on some subject for the amusement of his audience he did some reporting on an
audience for the amusement of himself. .
"I'm afraid it will have to be a very, very funny exhibition to make us laugh."
"Why does he always draw people sa confoundedly ugly 7"
IS
IT ΤΟ
Cartoonists seeing the pot in each other's fokus.
"Do you dare to stand there and tell us you're Gifts ?"
"I don't see anything funny about
· that,"
"Now wherever do you get the Inspiration for all there" funny people you draw ?**
**One more piece of reheving-gren on the pictures and you've had 11,"%
S.'A
TIME SET
PETAIN FREE?
BY DR W. R. INGE
SHOULD
the
HOULD the aged Mar- need not invade England.
undertake to knock liberty? I hope his deten- English out from the air." tion has not been harsh, but The Battle of Britain proved to keep a nonagenarian in that he was wrong.
any sort of captivity seems rather severe.
Opinions
But there is another story. I WBS Lalking the other day with one of the best known of
German generals, They assured
You'll notice that all cartoons boil durn to the old banana skin joke,
London Express Bervice
Moscow and Ròme-the war of ideas and loyalties, the war of con- science has broken into. flame.
FROM ROME-Pope Plus
XII, has ordered excóm munication. Catholles who read Communist newspapers are denied the Sacraments, those who champion the Com munist Party are outlawed from the Church, EAST of the Iron Curtain it is becoming a question of life and death. In Czechoslovakia, for
Instance
by Paul Hamsher
Once firm friends'.
Primata Beran, President Gottwald
VERSUS
oven
Rome
Not years in Dachay, as a prisoner shepherds. But for the laymen of of the Nazis, can mave him from there is the enormous coll vituperation; his five medals immediate social benefits. awarded for services to the In addition, many people who Resistance do not provent taunts have only nominal allegianco to the Church, feel that oxCONUNU“, of "Traitor."
nication would not matter.
the archbishop's are ready to follow the now
The avowed alm In Czecho- slovakia is a new Church. It is to be a Communist-Cathella body completely subservient to the State, with every parson a "Yes" man. Two hundred and
ONE
Stato, trustect
NE thing
tho is certain: Communist Government of
on
fifty priests who opposed this Czechoslovakia is banking are already safely out of the the success of a new ant-Vati- can ynovement. It hoper to break the power of the The others have been warned hierarchy and to leave the de- elmated Catholic community in that treason charges may be the hands of the State-appoint-
way.
TWO MEN WHO LIVE IN THE SAME SQUARE CRYSTALLISE A WAR OF DIVIDED LOYALTIES IN EUROPE brought against them if they ed trustees.
HERE once Good 'King Wenceslas look- ed out across the his- torit Hradcany-square in
and President Klement Prague, two determinel men
Yet it is the official Commun- today face one another as Gottwald, who challenges 1st claim that the "entire nation" protagonists, in a conflict the episcopal scarlet with is behind the changes which sent Gottwall, the Communist, to the which has half Europe tak- the Red Banner of Com-
presidential palace. ing sides.
The issue was posed, and
munism.
answered, in a speech made 300 years ago by Antonin Zapotocky, who
is Czechoslovakia's Com- PRIMATE and President
munist Prime Minister.
attempt to carry out the Vatl- The trustees would administer can's decree
of excommunica- the Church's properties, choose its pastors, and draw up the tion for Communista
curriculum for its schools.
The Communists, in their anti-Catholic
also campaign,
Cannot be both
reckon on surring up Crocs bad
un
memories of Father Tiso, who The remarkable thing is that Git. Beran predicted all this was Slovak President during Gottwald was a firm friend of M to me long ago, I asked him the war. This could hit back of Mgr. Beran until he became the in an interview-when it seemned them, for they seem to forget Primate'a neighbour.
the Communists were on the eve_that_Hitler's puppet State of absolute power-how it was der Tiso was recognised by 'the It was Gottwald, then Premier that cathedral congregation Kremlin. speak in modern terms. of Czechoslovakia and leader included so many wearing Com-
dominant Communist munist Party badges. He said that if faced with But they are the heirs of of the
Party in the Prague parliament; a choice between Moscow battles fought in their home who was the first to congratulate and Rome, Czechoslovakia square three centuries ago, Mr. Beran after his enthrone
ment as archbishop. would choose "Moscow when
Protestant princes Stalin-Socialism."
Hent out their soldiers
the Catholic em- These battles de
Seat of honour
He said: "Either they are not good Communiata or not good Catholics. They cannot be both."
I asked whether he could
has
reference to
BUT
The choice
UT there is also this factor: with their Church under
envisage any ullimate synthesis are thousands are at last driven to ask themselves where their between Communism The two men who crystal- against
and final loyalties really tio. Christianity. lise this strugglo are next- peror.
In reply, he cut- the three lined his own attempts at With representatives of each towards side counting the heads of their door neighbours in their cided the line-up which per- THROUGHOUT
hours' ceremony in Prague "positive friendliness" hilltop paluces above the sists
say no faithful, the two neighbours of in Czechoslovakia, Cathedral, the Premier sat in a the regime: he would spires of Bohemia,
of honour behind Üte more..
the radcany have made their where three of every four cate
separate reports to the Vatican bishops.
Since the treason warning and the Kremlin. They are Josef Beran, inhabitants proclaim them-
The same Klement Gottwald, was given, the archbishop Primate of Czechoslovakin, selves Catholic.
Three hundred years ago, in public just after his election as Pre made sident a year ago, was back in fudases who have betrayed the curly phase of the religious conflict in Prague, both sides the same ceat for a festive Te their
calling." Deum which filled the cathedral, These are the leaders of the bad weapons. Now, only
has guns to The Beran friendship could Catholic "action ecmmitices" Communist State withstand the Communist seizure who have been charged
with back it,
Czechoslovakia seema des- of power, but it fell an early drawing up lists of politically tined to be the casualty in the Cominform cam- reliable leaders for the new European nations to be tested in paign to suppress the Catholic Church. communities of Eastern Europe.
the struggio of Moscow voraus There is no certified informa- Rome. For Gottwald's
1101 Government tion about their numbers, can brook no opposition.
is it known how many laymen
-(London Express Scrpton)
Too rich to be
happy
By JOHN GODLEY
1948
00-
ARBARA HUTTON, bathroom attached to each bed- They were divorced in 1045. with gold- Barbara said that Cary did not was fittedi second-richest girl in room
It has an Indoor lay her friends plated taps.
and that he the world. now con- swimming pool.
caused her "mental distress, suf- differ about our milltary critics, who had valescing in Venice after
She was over able to live furing, and anguish." Petain's fault. Was he a mat
made friends with the leading four operations, must be there very much and President
Distress, suffering, and traitor to his country, whose him that the Central Staft wondering today if she will Truman accepted the house in guish seemed to lie behind what life was only spared on wished
as a gift for the use of Count Haugeltz-Reventlow call- to invade England, ever find the happiness her American ambassadors in Lon- ed the "golden facade" of Bar- account of his great age and which at that time was almost millions apparently cannot don. distinguished services? Or helpless; but that Hitler forbade when he submitted to the destroy this country.
it, Because he had no wish to
buy.
Germans, did he commit an orror of judgment which
excusable or in
Was excusable?
During the war it was Buid that Petain showed himself ungenerous and un- fair to his British Allies,
unlike Foch.
Petain
certainly
could
not have guessed that the invasion would be countermanded for
Bis reason.
*
MOST people, I think, will
But no am- lived in it. buscador ha
She is 30 today. As a girl of 21 all was in her favour.
Round the She was beautiful, she was In
world with her love, her health was excellent.
husband went She had Inherited eight of Barbara, spend- the Woolworth
ing her mil- her grandmother,
11ons a3 aho
nitions from
In Paris she married Prince went. Alexis Mdivani, a handsome But though young Russian
travels from Georgia, lavish probably say that the Ger- Her father's man generals were not speaking ve
early opposition brought change the-truth-I-am convinced that "He's a square shooter."
way to the comment: and excitement, mitier never wished to quarrel with us:
three
After Dunkirk the general
· ́could not- bring
lasting opinion on the Continent
It was a wedding with an happiness. was that the war was vir-
"Arabian Night's" setting, Bar- Her second In my opinion, we made abara set up for her princeling marriago crash- tually over. England, said treat mistake in giving the pro-trust fundo amounting to ed after the French, will have her mise to Poland which forced us £450,000. Later, as gift, the years in 1938. neck wrung like a chicken. into an unnecessary war.
The gave him securities totalling She brought French never wanted to fight; £125,000.
her husband we dragged them in, as they
before dragged us in in 1014.
street Court, but her charges against him were with-
dimeuli A
But all did not go well with her. She said at the time: "I way restless individual. I like to be continually seeing new
sub-
Bow-- Police
drawn and he
Eventually second marringe ended in divorce in the Danish
The only
people who thought otherwise were our "countrymen, who do "fot". -The--puntETAWAY"
know when they are beaten, criminals is
ject, War, which in the 18th Jands and enjoying new ex- or, which is much the same century was becoming mare periences." thing, know when they are humane, is now carried on with
Soon Prince Alexis revealed was discharged. not beaten,
atrocities never surpassed by n passion for polo. This the Genghiz Khan or Timur the obsession led to quarrels and
n seporntion.
There was a Reno divorce in two years. Germans, is to quote Gladstone's Three months later the prince words about Naples, "the nexwas killed in a motoring ac- tion of God erected into a system."
cident in Spain. He left £800,000 £20,000 more than Barbara had given in during access
IF Continental critics had been right in thinking that the position of Britain was hopeless, there was no use
Tartar.
Total war; as waged by the
There
in continuing the war, and hanging those who were really their brief marriage.
Petain, may have thought that surrender saved Paris from destruction and did no harm to his doomed allies.
Was the mistake excusable or not? Here, again, opinions differ.
One atory is that Coering said to Hitler: "You
POCKET CARTOON BUSÛERT LANCASTER
Engela Glu inside and get on with our dialectic, and `atop, zoorrying vour father rohen he's trying to work-out how the Party can best espicit, "the heat-wave?")
London Express (Service):
was no injustice in responsible for these crimes. Bul who ought to be the judges? At 'Not happy'
Nuremberg
our hands fairly clean, but/ Russia
were
ccr-
Russians had committed all the
Her
the
courts, which gave the count custody of the child, with tho mother to have
the
boy from time to time. King Christian sign- ed the decree.
Sald her hus-
bara's life.
In mandarin jacket, Bar- bara Hutton Troubelskol down to the Venice goes comment when
Lido. With her is Jean. Dan- - blex, tutor of her 13-year- tainly ought to have been in the marriage broke down was: "We band of Bar- dock and not on the bench. The were not happy together." bara then: "If
old son, Lance, 24 hours of Within
her money had not at Reno been an old 'Open Sesamo in same crimes as the Germans, divorce the married and were going on committing Count Kurt Haugwitz-event- her life she would be a much them.
lew, member
the Danish happler person today,”. nobility.
Soon the was expecting a and for a moment life med taurer for her."
✡
-very
ΟΙ
. Don't envy hor
Hutton's wealth
The count was right. The WE have created
But the birth of her son, lowest-pald shop girl in the vast dangerous precedent, It Lance,
almost cost her life. chain of stores from which is more than probable that it She fell gravely ill following a Barbara there is another great war, Cresarean operation. Wheh derived need not envy the lot of the military and political the danger passed she sald: Barbara, though probably she leaders of the beaten side will "Now at last I have found does. be put to death, as the Romans happiness. I know that this ungd to strangle captive is safe and sure."
sibly
By 1047 Miss Hutton Was finished with marriage, 置 do not intend to mary
sho again," Bald. "One
go
071
can't being a fool for over."
But thunce months later she married her fourth husband, lgor Troubet- French- skol,
born prince Russian parent- ago who fought, with the French Army during the war.
Barbara and Igoraro still married, but she is broken by illness after four operations
in the last three years.
Once in O- bust health- she was plump before inherit- Ing her millions sho now scales Ost. 4lb.
And she is
Bghting for her Bon Lancc whose father was given cut- tody of child at the time of the divorce.
the
It was pleaded on her behalf in an American court last week that Barbara Was too ill to make the journey from Italy, to make her own appeal.
TO-
It was urged that her covery depended on her having her child-now 13—with hor.
It has been estimated that Barbara Hutton since coming fato her fortuna has spent three. million of it
Her birthday parties used to run into £3,000 £6,000, and
For four years Barbara ro- when travelling the world sho mained unmarried. She thought nothing of reserving a
.
monarchs, and generals as part But in fact happiness cluded travelled and sho mudo now · ship's deck for her exclusive use of the triumph of the Roman her. Doctors told her that it friends. Army. The victims may pos- would be dangerous, for her to
deserve their fate, but have more children. more probably they will not So Lance remains her only Help with her now at
London home
deserve it.
I am not sorry for Hitler or Grobbels, but I am
Borry for
one.
Venice.
two or three others who wore hanged at Nuremberg. 'I am "I do not stay long in any not sorry for Laval or Quisling, place," she said once, although but I cannot put Petain in the Winfield House was built and sama class.
furnished at a cost of £250,000
On the other hand her
gifts
on a
at a cost of £3,000, But she could never toll how
Generous many of her friends sought her. for herself and how many for to charity have been her millions.
Did men wish to marry her generous scale. She also mala- for love or because they had tains her own considerable pen- an eye on her fantastic fortune? slon list for needy persons, In- Then in 1942 Barbara married cluding thousands of begging. been the husband of film actress Cary Grant, who had previously letters she receives.
A cable from Venice sald Virginia Cherelil
that, although 'Barbara Hutton But he brought more happle callers at Vonlee Grand Hotel
well look:
and sunburned,
I think the old man has been as her palace in Regent's Park, ness to his myriad aim fans than are told she needs rest-and does
punished enough, and I bollove most decent Frenchmen would
agree.
We, at any rate, have no vin dictive feelings towards him,
—{London Express Service)
London.
in twelve-and-a-
he did to Barbara. ·
In 1940 Barbara and
Caty
of
It ofands half acres of grounds. Only made a joint statement that they you like, but on the story
not want to see anyone.
Dream of the joy of riches if Buckingham Palace has larger, had decided that they would be Barbara Hutton it would seem grounds among London-man happler apart. A previous part better to pity the poor little girl
Ing had been followed by recon who is too rich to be happy.. The main staircase came from ellation and a second honey. an old French chategu,
---(London Express Service)
sions, o
The moon.
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