A
́GREAT, SOLDIER
IS REMEMBERED
WHENEVER the fighting men of France meet today they talk about the war adventures of General Philippe Leclere.
He was really Viscount d'Hautecloque. But when he escaped from the Germans on a bleyele and malfed to Eng- Jand in a filing boat he changed his name so that the enemy would not take revenge on his family...
Leclere new to France's
desert colonies In Africa. With a handful of planes. lorries, and tanks, a few hundred French
and
troopa, half a dozen Britons, bo attacked the tailan Army.
Then he advanced fiski- ing for 1,200 miles over desert and mountains, and
linked up
with Bront-
gomery's men.
Ho
Camo D Day: Leclero attacked in Normandy. liberated Paris and Strasbears. Ils soldiers planted their flag over Hitler's house at Berelitesgaden,
After victory was won Leclere died in an air crush. Now part of the deseri territory he captured from Xtaly the Fezzz-commemorates this great soldier on a new set of stamps. They show the way his brave men went,” And this one also shows Leciera,
Face-value: 23 franen (0d.). Perforation: 1234 by 12%. Salute to a ber.. A. A.
A Discussion On FEAR...
Na private house recently, there was a heated dia- I
cussion about the consequences of the Russian dia- a silent covery of the atom-bomb. An old man was
One of his children asked him member of the party. why he had nothing to say. Then he told this story.
IWO men died and went to
It is a familiar part of Heaven, sharing the same myself." cloud on
Two
heart.
Boti the journey
wondering what When they nr.
were afraid;
was to come.
Peter wan
Peter solded again.
"yes,
it is only n part of you," he said. Then he turne to the
What do
you
rived at the gates of Heaven second man:
them. waiting for He saw their fear, so he asked think of it?" them: "Why
afraid? are you
Have you no understanding of
fear?"
"We do not know," said the
two men.
"Then I will help you," said Poter.
"Look upon this and tell me if you find it fearful." And, by a miracle, he showed them the unfolding of a mighty
It was indeed terrify
force. Ing.
"That has killed many," said Peter. "Perhaps t will kill many more. 'Mity are playing Tell with it now upon Earth. me, are you afraid of 7"
"Yes," said the two men,
out Peler nodded and held his hand. Then what of this?" In his palm was a he asked. human heart, small and sunpe.
ly.
After Como hesitation the Arst man replied: That does not terrily me,
for it to only A
This man looked at the heart for a long time and sought for understanding. Finally he said; "1 am more afraid of that than of the other. For the other was born out of it Yes, that t indeed the most fearful."
THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.
IN DARKEST PARIS The Fierce, Fiery
THE POOR GIRL. Maxence Van dor Moerach. (Pilot Press, 12s. Ed.). 319 pages.
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AN HONEST - WRITER EXPLORES THE SLUMS
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-BUT ARE THE PEOPLE REALLY LIKE THAT?
by Margaret Lane
However, when tho
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JULIAN'S WAY. Brophy, (Collina, 6d.). 384.pp.
John 10s
¿OVERTY, real poverty, is an ugly subject. Every one of us, if we were only poor enough, would become dirty and
parent's But the author departs from sordid. It is rare to find a set up house permanently to his realium here. Buch treat
a noble ether the father insists on his ment does not produce undying pure heart or
child own character
being brought home, love even in good
daughter. but and the little boy, who is not 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 'that tho One of the mysteries of treats Denise from first to last
with unexampled brufality. that it can invest art is ugly, even sordid and re- pellent, subjects with a kind The father dies of tulierculosis; of beauty-not at all by a "slepfather" moves in, and gilding them over, but by Dends is the half-starved and ONE should, I am sure, means of that poetic truth she is old enough to sell papers offers an interesting and unusual beaten household drudge until gratiful for a novel which which moves us profoundly in the stre:ts and
eventually and at the end leaves us satisfied. Nobody can quite say how it is done but on the highest level of art ugll- docs become beauty, and we perceive depths and napeeta hidden from us be fore.
TCBS
.
Tho
DG
£ the story no
characterization
work for a pittance in a factory, background, even
Her sufferings as a child, the end nastinesses the experiences in great chakes. adolescence are without Umit; indeed, 1 sometimes got the feel- ing that tho Duthor, before beginning, the book, had made a long list headed, himself "POVERTY. horrors of," and was conscientiously working his which
through way
it, from top enjoyable. to bottom.
we are even told at
aro
.
G
Fighting O'Briens
MOR
By JOHN GODLEY:
THE COTTAGE IN THE FOREST. Hugh Farmar (Hutchinson, 12. 6d.) 191 pp. This author, civi servant by profesalon, countryman and ornithologist by preference, has
Then there are the Canadian Its story, written by the
O'Briens, O'Briens, the Dutch does whit many people would Hon. Donough O'Brien, like to do and some have al-
the French O'Briens-ono'-of- done--written
uncle of the present Lord whom was Marshal Macmahon, book ready about the cottage which is one Inchiquín, of the loves of he Life.
It is a romante book,
VETY different tone from bravely humorous accounts
a thousand years, the O'Briens of Ballyarden since the days of Brian and of Ballynalackan, of Boroimhe, (pronounced Blatherwycko; of Each- Boru), Monarch of Ireland, droma; of Dromoland; of the fighting O'Brien family the Aran Islands; of Ara;. has battled its way through of Ennistymon; of Leme
neagh. the centuries.
and direct Pren'dent of the French. Re- descendant of Brian, has public.
The Earls of Thomond, the those Just been published.
Viscounts Clare, the Barons of of Slain in 1014.- Ibrickan, the Earle of Inchiquin:
The Marquises of Thomond +From with the towns-
the great Brian they collected any - number of popular
with a fancy names, but they were all man, it is more like notes on a Boroimhe, sinin
O'Briens by birth prolonged love affair with the battleaxe In 1014, woods.
reclaiming derelict forms which
are
Mr Farmar is a quiet man. In descended the tens of thou: no hurry; he has found time real sands of O'Briens all over ly to listen to the nightingalea, | the world. to observe that "their voices The Pobble O'Briens and continually lure, one into think the Carrigogullen O'Briens; in that something supreme, *S in the world, is got unheard
about to break on one's cars; only to cease suddenly and leave the listener suspended as by a and tatious thread of beauty,”
Ie is a gardener of feeling, who
understanele
setting of this one is present-day Palestine, and the reader gits a sort of conducted tour 'round that dieult country
12
BOOKS
that
instructive
а
The author of The Poor Giri has pet himself to tell the story of poverty in the slums of Poris
himental cypresses Yet Denimo retains
Interesting to planting, and enjoys without any 6.alimentality or
the better. know, for instance, not?) because they were "grown who would gloss, and with none of the A surprising sweet- of character
Bome of tho horrifying details left Oct. Ho ness
William by Uncle
from seed (would Gho really
Zion'st agricultural has done this with honesty and
so from a conn. picked up by him Dettlements
aro seriousness, but not unless the have done co?) and
communal that now in the Garden of Gethsemane." magic has escaped in translation, the end, after a long
body owns anything And he has some excellent sug- which is not imposseble, since history of nemi-starvation and but his shoes. (All clothes go to Bestions to make about "wild which I rather of the English dialogue is
with art. ill-health, that she has kept her the wash, and when it comes Kardening"-to
rucfully agree we must all back you help yourself to what Ons is left at the end, not with look"
you fancy). feeling that
of melancholy pleasure which a work of art on a tragic theme produces, but as if on's nose had been gently but relentlessly rubbed in the mud
much of
singularly Inept-not
I think it unlikely that she would have kept either the one or the other.
Nor do
I believe that the could have gone on loving her Since M. Van der Meersch mother, the coarse and brutal who treated her with cannot give us great art, perhaps wont.n this quiet, patent, Wu-muan- ferocious cruelty in childhood at I'eter antled, and looked
is the next
the young girl'a lying in kla palm.ng nose-ruboing the heart
devoted service with ingrati- Then he looked up again: "Now heat thing that can be done with and repaid
iteatest the subject. Certainly one close tude and abuse. what is the
and the book with the smells tell me fear of all?"
noines of slum life very vividly and that present to the senses, is a wholesome experience for anyone who has regular meals and sleeps between clean shiels.
The
is story minute account of the and adolescence of Denise, the eldest and illegitimate child of
The en men stared at each other. There was a long pause. one said "My fear of him, The other and his fear of me." nodded. So did Peter, as he put the heart awny and turned to open the gates. "That fear has no place in here," ho mld.
say,
com.
The book is beaufsfully Mus Interesting, too, thal they are trated, chiefly by superb only by fanatical examples of Eric Hosking's peopled adolescents. As soon es the wonderful bird photography. young men and giris reach their leave for the twenti:o they towns, and
of the problem keeping the communal settle- ments populated in something Zionists
do not care to talic about.
*
All this is well done, but the story of a Brilish oMeer gradu-
to God in ally coming closer The only sign of affection she Palestine, and failing in love ever given her daughter is to with a Jewish girl, gave me no
crumbling, feeling of sincerity. after much
One Still, I'm glad I had you, my
gets the impression that theme is dingged on her douth- the religious girl" and this
months of back in because such things are in the air nowadays; and as for bed, after breaking nursing by Denise. "So the Gentile-Jewish love affair has such fertile "I did not take part in your shiftless couple in a poor in- I did have my mother's affec
dustrial quarter
30 tion for a few days, some short, possibilities) Mr Brophy shame-
lendy The mother already fleeting days before years ago.
funks it, making his her agony iss has a bastard by another man and death, just enough to com- heroine suddenly reveal towards when she, in born, and the baby
the end that she has not a drop girl is accordingly sent to the peneste, to repay magnificently, of Jewish blood in her veins.
for the sacrifice of my 'youth." was quite shocked.
discussion," said the old man,
"becauer it seemed to me that you were arguing about the symptom, not the cause."
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work-house.
of Parts
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE OVER HEAR THE
OTHER DOORS
I DON'T
KNOW!
I THOUGHT THEY WERE
FRIENDS
O'YOURS
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I
́DO VOI REALIZE THERE WERE TWENITY · TWO PEOPLE IN MERE.„„THAT THEY DRANK TWO CASES OF DRINKS, ATE FORTY-ODD SANDWICHES,
BROKE TWO CHAR-ARMC, BURNED A HOLE IN
THE COUCH. AND THREE
IN THE RUG ....
AND LOOK
AT THAT
PIANO!"
LIBRARY LIST
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THERE WAS A LAD Htton Brows Hamish Hamilton, Za ddd a twoły Attempt to rescue Hobert Dans from his legends-the santimental adulation of the Scols as well as the strapper.ng legend which represents him si prvn veniment and never rober
TENNYSON Harold N.com (Constable. 101). A felstue of a first. class biographicar and, literary study writium 24 years eft exstored i now vo] Hanely, with Tennyson from the inevitable posthumewa decline
protical raputation
THE SKELETON IN THE CLOCK. Carter Dickson. (#cinemenn. 9 643) An exciting dvieclive story which maintains its surpanne und die socrat to the end.
THE CHINISS THEATRE. Jack Chen. (Dobson Is. 56) A thostro in different From our own as the Chinese moedi For the West), a good and simply Intarprater; which this attractive little book provides. Everyone awrionały Laterested in the theal MẶT HAY ÚP rewarding.
bondow Express Service.
DAB and FLOUNDER --by WALTER
SALOGEN
Gaoled, hanged
They have fought and battled and slain. They've been
con- victed of treason and sedition,
be-
They have been imprisoned- and escaped; they've been headed, murdered, and once even hanged by mistake.
Honours have been rained upen them, and they've usually Won Borolmho started the ball roll- Ing. Born in
of 026, King
Thomond, Munster.
King of Monarch of Ireland, ha never stopped
their battles. Brian
fighting.
In 977, on Scattery Island in the Shannon, ho slew 800 Daney including the commander, the son of King Harold, and his two
Then he visited all the Shan- son islanda, killing or imprison-." ing all who had opposed him.
Brian started the business of, surnames. He had so many re- lations that it began to got con- fusing.
His sons
Sons
Be called his Own O'Brien (descendants of Brian); hig brother's
son
Mahon - (descendants
Mahon) and so on.
for
over
Mac-
From 1222,
300
years, the O'Brien chiefs were styled Kings of Thomond, till Murrough O'Brien surrender-
ed his kingdom to Henry VIII, in 1543.
In return, Henry made him Earl of Thomond, and Baron Inchiquin.
The earldom dled out in 1774. but the barony is still held by the present Lord Incluquin, the sixteenth baron, now living at Dromoland Castle, County Clare,
The History of The O'Briens (from 1000 to 1945) by the lion Donough O'Brien (Batsford, 308.).
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HERE I
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AND THEN SHE HEARD THAT A-
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' (WHAT'LL YOU BET SHE STAYS ?)
HOW MUCH DAYA
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FOR
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AWE YOU PAID FOR IT YET?
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