A GREAT SOLDIER
IS REMEMBERED WHENEVER the fighting men of France meet today they talk about the war adventures of General Pallippe
Ledere.
He was really Viscount d'Hautecloque. But when he escaped from the Germans on a bicycle and sailed to Eng- land in a fishing boat ho changed his name so that the enrmy would not inke revenge on his family.
Leclere flew to France's deseri colonies in Africa. With a handful of planes, lorries, and tanks, a few hundred French troops, and half a dozen Brilons, he aftäcked the Italian Army.
Then he advanced fight- inz for 1.200 miles over. desert and mountains, and
with
Alaked up
gomery's men.
Moni-
Ho
Camo D Day,' Leclero attacked in Normandy. liberated Paris, and Strasbourg. Its soldlers planted their Nag over Hitler's house ai Berchtesgaden,
After victory was won Leclere died in an ale crash. Now part of the desert ferritory he captured from Italy --the Ferzan--commemorates this great soldier on a new nes of stamps. They show the way his brave men went. And this one also shown Leclero.
Faco-value: 25 france (68.), Perforation: 1236 by 1235. faluto to a hero.. A. A.
A Discussion On FEAR...
Na private house recently, there was a heated dio- Icasion about the consequences of the Russian dis covery of the, atom-bomb, An old man was a silent member of the party. One of his children asked him rahy he had nothing to say. Then he told this story.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.
IN DARKEST PARIS The Fierce, Fiery
THE POOR GIRL. Maxon.co Van der Meersch. (Pilot Press, 12. Gd.). 319 pages.
P
OVERTY, real poverty,
is an ugly subject.
Every one of us, if we
were only poor enough,
would become dirty and
A
AN HONEST WRITER EXPLORES THE SLUMS -BUT ARE THE PEOPLE REALLY LIKE THAT?
by Margaret Lane
However, when the
that the
in
+
but
parents But the author departs from nordid. It is rare to find n cut up house permanently to his realism here. Buch treat- puro heart
or noble gother the father insists on his ment does not produce undying character even in good own child being brought home, love
and the lule boy, who not
daughter. surroundings; on the rock his being sent away instead. abnormality and hate. bottom of poverty I should This produces such a resent- judge it to be impossible. ment in the mother
One of the mysteries of treats Deniza from first to last
JULIAN'S WAY. art is that it can invest with unexampled brutality. Brophy. (Collins, ugly, even sordid and re-
Gd.). 384 pp. pellent, subjects with a kind. of beauty-not at all by gilding them over, but by
☆
John
10.
be
grateful for a novel which
Fighting O'Briens
By JOHN GODLEY
1
of
TOR a thousand years, the O'Briens of Ballyarden THE COTTAGE IN THE
since the days of Brian and of Ballynalackan; of FOREST. Hugh Farmar
Boroimhe (pronounced Blatherwycko;~~ of Esch- (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) Boru), Monarch of Ireland, droma; of Dromoland; of 191 pp.
the fighting O'Brien family the Aran Islands; of Ara; HIS author, elva servant by han battled its way through of Ennistymon; of Leme-
profession, countryman and the centuries.
neagh, ornithologist by preference, has Its story, written by the dony, what many people would Hon. Donough
Then there are the Canadian O'Brien, the Dutch like to do and come have al uncle of the present Lord whom was Marshal Macmahon,
O'Brien,
OBriena the French O'Briens--one of readly done written a book about the collage which is one Inchiquin, and alrect President of the Freach Ro of the loves of his life.
descendant of Brian, has public. It is a romantic book, very just been published. different in tons from those bravely humorous accou of Slain in 1014 reclaiming derelict forms which
From Are so popular" with the towns- mun, it is more like notes on a Borolmhe, alain with
in 1014, Mr Farmar to a quiet man, in descended the tens of thou- no hurry: he has found time real-sands of O'Briens all over
to listen to the nightingales, the world. to observo that "their volces The Pobble O'Briens and continually lure one into think- in that something supreme, az
the Carrigogullen O'Briens;
only to cease suddenly and leave about to break
on one's cars, the listener suspended as by tenuous thread of beauty."
means of that poetic truth she is old enough to sell papers offers an interesting and unusual onged love affair with the battlenxe
which moves us profoundly and at the end
leaves us antisfied. Nobody can quite say how it is done hut on the highest level of art ugli- ness does become beauty, and we perceive depths and aspects hidden from us be fore.
'The author of The Poor Girl has pet himself to tell the story
stracts and
woods.
Jy-to
The father dies of tuberculosis; a "lepfather" moves in, and Denise is the half-starved and beaten household drudge until should. I son sure, ln the
eventually work for a pittance in a factory. background, even if the story Her sufferings as a child, the and characterisation otw no bastinessrs she experiences in great shakes. indeed, I sometimes got the feel- Adolescence are without limit;. ing that
The selling of this one is the puthor, before beginning the book, had made present-day Palestine, and the unheard in the world, is himself
headed, reader gets a sort of conducted long list "POVERTY, horrors of," and tour round that difficult country was conscientiously working his
which 19 instructive nad through to bottom.
why
IL from top
enjoyable.
of poverty in the slums of Paris without any Batimentality or Yet Denise retains gloss, and with none of the a surprising sweet- horrifying detalls left out. ifo ness of character has done this with honesty and (would she really the have done so?) and we are even told at
BOOKS
110-
from
a
a
a part of you," he much of the English dialogue fl)-health, that she has "kept her the wash, and when it cames Kardening"-to whi'ch I rather
Peter nodded again. it is only
ad. Then econd man: tilak of 17"
looka."'
He la a gardener of feeling. who understands zentimenta! Interesting to planting, and enjoys his cypresses know, for instance, all the better (as who would that some of the not?) because they were "grown Zion'st agricultural by Uncle William from need not-unless the
settlements Его
cone picked up by him magic has escaped translation, the end, after a long
communal that
In the Garden of Gethsemane," which is
is not
body owns anything
And he has some excelķerit sug- Impossible, sinco "Yes.
history of peral-starvation and but his shoes. 15
(All clothes go to gestions to mako about "wild ke turned to the singularly Inept-not with ort. One is left at the end, not with
back you help yourself to what fuefully
we agree, What do
must all you that feeling 01 melancholy
you fancy).
The book is beautifully illus- pleasure which a work of art
Interesting, too, that they are tratod, chiefly This man looked at the heart on a tragie themo produces, but
by Droplexi
only
superb fanatlesi examples of Erle by
Hosking's for a long time and sought for if one nose had been gently
adolescents. As soon as the wonderful bird photography. understanding. Finally he said; but relentlessly rubbed the
young men and girls reach their mud "I am more afraid of that than
twrnils they leave for the of the other. For the other wun
towns,
and the
problem of born out of it Yes, that
keeping the communal pelle- ments populated is something: indeed the most fearful,"
Zionists do not care to talk about.
WO men died and went to beurt. It is a familiar part of seriousness, but TWO
Heaven, sharing the name myself.” cloud on the journey, Both www afraid; wondering what was to come. When they nr- rived at the rates of Heaven Peter was waiting for
them, He saw their fear, no he asked them: "Why Have you no understanding of fear?"
Are you
afraid?
"We do not know," and the
two mon
"Then I will help you," said Peter. "Look upon this and tell me if you find it fearful" And, by n miracle, he showed the heart them the unfolding of a mighty forco.
It was indeed territy inc
"That has killed many," said Peter. "Perhaps it will kill many moDO. They are playing with it now upon Earth. Tell me, are you afraid of 17"
but
"Yes," said the two men. Peter nodded and held „ble hand. Then what of this?”
be neck In hin palm was human heart, small and shape- ly.
home
hesitation
the
After frat mun replied; That does not territy mo, for it in only a
o
Peter anlled, and looked
lying in his palm. Then he looked up again: "Now what is the greatest tell me fear of all ***
The two men stared at each other. There was a long pause.
one and "ady fear of him, and his fear of me." The other nodded. So did Peter, ns he put the heart away and turned to
That fear has open the gates, no place in here," he said.
"I did not take part in your discussion," said the old man, "because it seemed to me that you were arguing about the symptom, not the cause."
(London Express Service).
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M.
I think it unlikely that the would have kept either the one or the other.
Nor do I believe that the could have gone on loving her
mother, the coarse and brutal wom.n who treated her with ferocious cruelty in childhood the young girl's and paid devoted service with ingrati- tude and abuse.
1 to
Since
Von der Meersch cannot give us great art, perhaps this quiet, paueni, W42+Fie ang nose-rubbing is the next best thing that can be done with The subject, Certainly one closes the bool
with the smells and ཨ་- noises of slum life very vividly present to the tentes, and that is a wholesome experience for
ever given her daughter anyone who has regular meal say. after much grumbling and sleeps between clean sb.ets. "Sall, I'm glod I had you, my
The story
fulthfully
girl"and this on her death- childhood minute account of the and adolescence of Denis:, the rod, after months of
back- eidest and illegitimate child of breaking nursing by Dunise. "So a shiftless couple in a poor in i did have my mother's affee- dustrial quarter of Paris 30 ton for a few days, some short, years ago. The mother hiready geeting days before her agony has a bastard by another man when she is born, and the baby and death, just enough to com- girl is accordingly sent to the pensite, to repay magnificently,
work-house.
แ
*
come.
LIBRARY LIST
THERE WAS A LAD Hilton Brown. (Hamish Hamilton, 12. 60.) Avaly sttempt to rescue Rabech Cure from his legends-the sentimental solution of the Scots as weți as the disappren logand which represents him et never cortiment and näver søtter
Harold .colada. ¿Constable, 10%) A reissue at a first- class bigraphical and lifecare study written 20 years ago and now very Pinely, with Tennyson welt restored from the inevitable posthumom decfins im la poetical reputation
All this is well done, but the story of a British officer gradu- The only sign of affection she ally coming closer to Cod In
Palestine,
TENNYSON and falling in love with a Jewish girl, gave me no feling of sincerity.
One
gets the Impression that the religious theme is dragged in because such Things are in the air nowadays: And as for the Grille-Jewish love affair (which has such fertile possibilities) Mr Brophy shamo- lessly
funks
it, making his heroine suddenly reveal towards the end that she has not a drop
for the sacrifice of my youth."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*VIO ARE THOSE PEOPLE OVER HEAR THE
OTHED DOORS
I DON'T
KNOW! I THOUGHT THEY WERE
FRIENDS O'YOURS
et Jewish blood in her veins. 1
was quite shocked.
"DO YOU REALIZE TIÈRE WIRE "TWENTY- TWO PEOPLE IN HERE..THAT THEY DRANK TVO CASES OF DRINKS, ATE FORTY-OUD SALDVICIES,.. BROKE TWO CHAIR-ARMS, BURNED A HOLE IN
"THE COUCH AND THREE IN THE RUG ....
AND LOOK
AT THAT PIANO
THE SKELETON. IN THE CLOCK. Cart Dickson ittelemann. 6d. An exutma dotuctive story which mambales iti suspense and its secret to the end.
THE CHINESE THEATRE Jack Chon. Robsan, T. 64. A theatre so different from our own as the Chinese naeda (for the West bod and simple Interpreter, which this attractien Kil book provides. Everyone interested in the theatre will find it tawarding.
London press Service.
The Earls of Themoid, the Viscounts Claro, the Barons Ibrickan, the Earls of Inch'quin. The Marquises of Themond they collected any number of a fancy names, but they worio ni?
O'Briens by birth
the great Brian
DAD and FLOUNDER --by WALTER
SALOO!!
ard
Gaoled, hanged
They have fought and battled and slain. They've been
xxx- victed of treason and sedition
They have been imprisoned... and escaped; they've been be headed,
murdered, and once even hanged by mistake.
Honours have been rained upon them, thủ they'va untally won thestr Battles Brian Boroimhe started the ball roll- Ing. Born 13 020, King of Munster, King of Thomond, Monarch of Ireland, ho never stopped fighting.
In. 977, on Scattery Island in the Shannon, he slow 600 Danes including ther commander, the | son of King Harold, and his two
"Television
Then he visited all tho Shan- son islands, killing or impriso- ing all who had opposed him.
Brian started the bunces of surnames. He had so many re- lations that it began to get con-" fusing.
-
His sons
He called
his
O'Brien (descendants of Brian); his brother's BON'
1222,
Mac- of
Mahon. (descendants Mahon)-and so on.
From
for over 300 years, the O'Brien chicts: were styled Kings of Thomond, en Murrough O'Brien surrender- ed his kingdom to Henry VIII, in 1543.
In return, Henry made him Earl of Thomond and Baron Inchiquia,
The caridom died out in 1774, but the barony is still held by the present Lord Inchiquin, the aixteenth baron, now I'ving at. Dromoland Castie, County Clare.
The History of The O'Briena (from 1000 to 1945) by the Hon Donough O'Brica (Batsford 302.).
London Ezgiem Borykow)
BY KEMP STARRETT
"I WOULDN'T Oʻ BOTHERED
WITH OVE ...BUT SHE WANTED
ONE A TIE VORST, VAY!”
JOHN COULDN'T REST 'TIL HE GOT QUE SAID IT WAS EDUCATIONAL. 1 WOULDN'T GIVE A DIME FOR A DOZEN OF THEM/*
I WAS JUST
MENTIONING
BL
TRICES!
WHEN YOU BUY A TELEVISION SET YOU'D BETTER HIRE A DOORMAN
AND ISSUE TICKETS, Ledger Syndicals
"TWOULDN'T
HAVE ONE I
THE HOUSE:
WHEN
TELEVISION COMEC BI
HERE!
GO OUT/
—AND THEN SHE HEARD THAT A- NEIGHBOR HAD BOUGHT ONE
(WHAT'LL YOU BET SHE STAYS ?)
# HOW MUCH DIYA TENK I PAID FOR ITS"
TELEVISION, ACCORDING TO AW, WOULD KEEP THEM AT HOME EVENINGS THEREBY SAVING THE COST OF MOVIES, THEATERS AND OITER PLEASING WAYS ON GOING BANKRUPT. IT ALL TENDS TO MAKE YOU
AS SOCIABLE AS A STUFFED BABOON.
TO ME
HOLLAND
TUNIN
*MAYBE YOUN ABDIAL HAS FLOWN OFF WITH
A STORK!"
"THERE ARE AS MANY GOOD REASONS FOR BUYING TELEVISION AS THERE ARE FOR NEEDING A MILLION DOLLARS.
HAVE YOU PAID •DID YOU; *FOR IT YET?* *LET'S GO TO
DON'T YOU HH. AAR MAN ?
TIE MOKES HA!
TELEVISION
ALL SET TO SHOW IT OFF AND NOTHING COMES OUT BUT VICE-CRACKS... AND VOI TEEL AS LET-DOWN AS A FLAT "TIRE.
“WHAT A DIS
APPOINTMENT. THAT SPAN. "AVTUL TELEVISION
SET
ROTHING THE MATTER WITH THEIR
VIPED
OF COURCE
THERE ARE
TUBE WAYS AND WAYS OUT OF OF AVOIDING
IT' TOUR HOURS
OF TELEVISION.
SETIJIST
YOU NEVER CAN BE SURE IF THEY'RE BRAGGING OR TRYING TO SELL VOU ONE.
COME THINGS ARE MORE ENTERTAINE
IK AT TELEVISION THAN ON IT THOTE EXTRA GADGETS THAT EVERY- ONE NEEDS TO ENJOY THE STOVE.
"1" TWO BUCKS DOW
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