THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.
They escorted me up to THE
MURMURING
FRONTIER...
by KENNETH MACAULAY
Russian Border, Azerbaijan. dering aimlessly of, in- HE jeep pitches and dicated that here the Per-
the loose in armies slides over
T
would malce
lirt road at 60 miles their first stand.
sn hour as we race for the
It seemed at length that Minister Rasmasa
Pass of the Asanssins. Pif- Prime
teen miles. beyond is the was to have his way, and dun, heat-fired village of we were allowed to pass. Julfa, alarm point
on the
mountain border between
Persia and Russia.
The rond has been closed It has been
for four years.
Ahead, in the purple baze the Russlan
CHARLES I BEHEADED "1649
LOUIS XVI
MARIE ANTOINETTE GUILLOTINED. 17.93
of noon, was Canensus.
The railway the Russlans security-barred and guarded built 40 years ago took Its while the road since the day, a bare month own way, ago, when near-panic seized swept round in a grand cir- cle to enter the pressure- Azerbaijan.
The 600 population of point village of Juifs. There! Julfa itself were evacuated are other Persian villages to the precarious safety of whose unense is their foca- the foothills at the mouth of tiun on the border of Russia, the pass, but back in Tabriz,
95 miles away, panic.
there was
But there is no so un- easy as Juifa. For here. through this village, could; Stampede
come the blow to the heart. On the outskirts arc THERE was a stumpede to
the bank to open credits in abandoned and decaying Britain or the United States, buildings. Once Julfa had The big merchants and the twoarthree times its present silversmiths prepared to population, and trains went
through at the waw of a flag)
leave,
Big American cars that hetead of at point of a 'pis- could make the punishing tol. Today the population is 11-hour ride to Teheran were the military and those who |
The only un- sok for "refugee prices." serve them.
Gold could not be bought for warlike excitment is the ar-l
rival of a train twice a week,
money.
Then the osten. tatious minKVUYYES of Russian troop trains which were visible from the Persian border stopped. And the panic subsided with a sigh.
But the security grip on the road from Teheran: to the border was not relaxed.
By the personal of intervention
Prime Minister Rasmaa,
Was
THE PASS
و ناطق.
کشور شاهندا هی ایران
انا اور الزام فراری انداز است الله درباط به منطقه)
لوار مريم ما لي
ترود ارت مواد باد
and THE FRONTIER
to the alarm given a pass
me on point. To conduct the trip. Lieut.-Colonel Gor- geen Soussanbari, in charge of military security at Julfa was recalled from leave.
At two military posts- one is called Churchill-un the road to the Pass of the Assassins, my permit Was cheeked.
WO
Then. as
streaked into the pass itself
TABRIZ
REZAL
Perun Anda on: Azerbaijan
---PERSIA
200
TEHERANO
Occasionally 21 Russian like a khaki rocket with a locomotive chuffs across the white dust tail, wo were ridge to do a little shunting stopped again.
for the Persians. This is
Here, even Colonel Sous-ot mere neighbourliness. sanbari's authority in thesa
Russia's only expert to Azer- border lands could not sayo baljan is cement (not very good, the Persians say it cracks). u long delay.
And the cement trucks must be The major at the post got back across the border.
checkel, re-checked, ELTIC
counter-checked every word
on the pass. The sentry
U8.
Touchy
annoyance to the Russians,
D
Cumbr
"Criticise Leopold? But he's only behaving as any self-respecting monarch should behave."
London Express Service
Use your brain -and you'll stay ALIVE longer!
DR MARTIN GUMPERT 1s among 500 experts who met recently.
In London to disens the problems of old-age.
Hewald: "The average life span can be prolonged aunther forty years or more. I expect to live to be 184-which is tilen my present age."
man starts
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PREPARE food so that chew-
ing cay chop meats; mash or strain vegetables.
COMMUNISM CORRUPTED BY POWER
Soviet Methods Destroy The Hope Of A Better Society
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THAT is that book?" on the Lentue of Nations; what the war. Je saw that war, and demanded the in- Is more, there is in all but one the preparation either for de- spector, t was powerful quarter ក្នុងនា even fence or attack, were causes of the Increasing centralisation of change) n carly morning, and I had there things may
disgweition to use the power and restriction of human slept badly. For a moment better
iiberty, Karl Marx had pro- The emergence of phesied the question was startling. factor.
"the withering of the State". but the Soviet State was becoming steadily more instead of fes powerful,
But he was not a totalitarian operation than existed before. inspector of reading matter.
I bellove that the world has He was a ticket inspector on
learned a great deal from the the railway, and the ques-
በ has through which Agony
To this the apologist for the tion was one of friendly in- passed. And there are ΠΕΝ
ew Soviet system has usually re- terest.
factors, important ones. Ameri plied that the central dictator- Kadership is one such ship, the militaricm, and all The emergence of that went with wero tem- independent nations,
porary necessitles to protect the on the especially in Asia, is another delicate plant of
спл factor.
I was alone in an inter- newly class compartment
movement to-
Bangalore Express, which A third is the
wards closer association among used to average twenty the nations of Western Europe, miles per hour over its whole whose fears and rivalries were journey, and there WAS
plenty of time at this halt
in the cool, clelicious dawn to have a talk with the in- spector.
The book that I had beside me Aldous Huxley's "Ends Anel Means." This was before
By FRANCIS
WATSON
new social
system from outside attack,
When Hitler attacked Russla it seemed to many people that there apologists were justified. Sovlet Russia survived, with the decisive assistance of her ron-Communist allies in war. Surely this was the time when that alliance should
hiavo ex- tended Into perce?
At the end of the war, Russia
had accumulated enormous
at large. She could have pro- been published in the past the League of Nations.
ceeded to the peaceful perfce- year. It WIN widely talked
tion of her social system. Not I often think only was about in India. And that Was A fourth (and
she given material this is the real revolution of our help in rebuilding her country, but just, for the centrol the me
time) is the practical develop and offered more.
She was Was as old
the Gha: Its
men! of the kn that, inter- permitted almost unhindered, modern application concerned nationally the rich have a duty and alone among allies, to pushi Tentia a much as any other to the poor. That Letter dis forward her territorial frontiers that she might feel nation, and the author's debt to tribution of resources, and the in order Indian thought In many
the war, and the book had only the chief rource of weakness In Mocks of goodwill In the world
pineages
ai:nowledged.
obvious find
A Rejoinder
cupy
I bad borrowed that from an Indian friend in order
provision of capital and technical eveure. assistance for under-developed regions, is not only the first line of
security against
war,
but a recognized hunan task in
No Excuse
Whatever
which each shonki contribute necording! to his means. Even
excuse there had Russia was offend Marshall formerly been for isolation, Add, which she refused. That military dictatorship, rigid cen- is a very different pleture from tralisation and intellectual con- the
ofil one of inevitable trol there Wis 影心 JW, struggle between "Raves" and Soviet Russia was welcomed in the United Nations, and with Le privlieges of
Waul,
a member of
LEAVE ample time for rat-not to appear too inorant in "Ilave-Nota."
Indian company, intellectual 3 in All the functions of the
And on the raily way bookstalls Yet still, as we know, the the "Dig Five." WITH A hulging briefcase of documents and case-histories of aged need time.
I had sten already a rejoinder world Bands in danger. elderly pallents he thinks that medical facts will support i
are still the The a book War and Tyranny
squandering of that from an Indian hond, optimism.
Havour of AMNCREASE the
enemies. Huxley began with goodwill may one day be seen the unstruption food. take ample use of called "Euch ARE Means. "
that there was by the historian as the strung- aid peic tile lemo
funeral agreement, and had ben est and most tragic feature of Jure and vinegar. Make sweet
the icket for a arly thirty centuries, about the years following the was what
second dishes sweeter. (But be careful
"Would the ideal ol of human
effort, World War. It seems to bear ape of "Biberty, peace, Du! Huxley's contention that with pepper and sall in cate of inspector was saying.
you not agree that ends are n
justice and brotherly love." Aldaey trouble)
bad
their means must bear 112115 I rather belleve that But on the road to the goal, he fruit. that centralisation and the Bangalore gall, there was no agreement, dictatorship attempt to perpe-
HIS ARGUMENT?, The physical capacity of
diminist at 20. A boxer can be an old man at the game when spires he is 30,
BUT MENTAL capacity only reaches is ellmax at 35. "And from that point it need upt diminish for a very long time. It Is the job of people who are growing old to find out how to conserve their energy so that they get the most out of their later yearTS.”
HE THINKS that retirement in the sixties is a great social mis, take, that the secret of healthier, longer living is activity. Tap. ping his cigarette on the table, speaking with the German accent of his prewar Berlin days, he said: "Old are is not the time to grow tired and go fishing. It is a time for new activities' HIS BOOK on the theme will shortly be published,
Here is some of the advice that he has put into it..
by Dr. MARTIN GUMPERT
E
Healthy elderly people have » bread and varied menu of easily direstible fourts at their di- josat.
That
the progress of Expers was relayed while we only confusion, and fanaticisin. debated that philosophic point.
re
lean, meat:
It
these Samme of
well-cooked. scraped, milk, mostly with ten or coffee, soft-boiled or scrambled eggs; butter (no other Kuts if they can be avoided); vegetables such as spinach, carrots, lettuce, couli flower, string beats
creamed); cooked and
now
to me comes back very charly-1 can even smell the hot masatadoshe that sorne-
violent conflict tuale themselves, not to wither.
The Goal
lic knew that ke himself
Or if you prefer it, it gives one more example of Lord Acton's famous dictum that "all power corrupts,
and absolute corrupts absolutely."
power
Yet there does seem to me,
one seld us through the car could give no final answer. He reading "Ends And Means"
For have been
attempted only to bring the again, a sign of hope even on this (all welliage door.
Huxley's book problems of personal and social level of political systems. Hur- stewed reading Aldous
It must be one of the and international conduct into ley found that "all the new pears, again. 15 apples, peaches, and all kinds of fresh very fw books on world affairs cute sort of relationship. fuit juices.
fruits such
LDERLY people today you do. The man who learng in bacteria like
be And these foods should
meats, forbidden: half-cooked
eggs, cheore SAVE ENERGY in everything hard-boiled
rich Forgonzola, all will raw and rough vegetables.
DRINK
look younger, and feel
the energy-saving game younger than they did succeed in keeping it in spite of generation ago. And they a highly advanced age. will look
and younger healthier still a generation
from now.
True,
Two of the most strenuour activities in everyday life are 10FFEE, tobacco
and alcohol getting dressed and undressed.
should not be made
tho
published in 1937 that still hos
moralities, Communist, Fascist, Nazi or merely Nationalist, are zingularly alike.” In the world
any validity. It would, I admit, He was sure that, whatever today Fascism and Nazlum havo be depressing to believe that of idealism or even of practical been destroyed and need not be
might be found in allowed to reappear. today the same forces are at sense
the thoorica of Communism, work as, in Huxley's view, made
used to bring the World War Inevitable, and
effect must utterly that the United Nations exhibits the hope of good ends.
meang
it' into destroy
the same fatal faulls which he la there the smallest reason (and many others) painted out to believe,
of
hierarchy,
Nationalism is, I believe, seen in a new light, lis worst excessos are no longer -fashionable and can be controlled, and the he asked, that the voluntary surrender of somo of
belter soctely national rights in the interesta in the League of Nallons,
better individuals of internationalism releases the composed of could be reached "through better features of nationalismn It is a mistake to classify The whole procedure should be hogeymen of old age. The pro- But I do not think we need or police spionage, milltary for fruitful and co-operativo
has served pagunda of cranks
should take that view.
The slavery,
the centralisation stared politely at the wall
of progress, to arouse unnecessary fear of
Idral outgrown functions
society may
be at a power,
the creation newspaper not to embarrass To avoid chance irritation or old age as the age of decline. laken in leisurely fashion
SHORTEN the bitervals of their toxic indirect effects
political distant dream, but the task of elaborate I was not allowed to approach have to be discarded and
Only Communist new shows rest and exercise.
Taken in moderation they may holding the world together until the suppression of free dis- a preference for the bad old Around the command post the bridge spanning the natural new functions adopted, hit
borderline formed by the River
Rest and relaxation are like be a source of pleasure and re- we enn get a Bttle nearer to it cussion and the imposition of an ways. The five world has only to in the hills were the silent reges. But from the cover of this is a creative and ad-
But excessive use
it within accepted station I peen venturous net in the drama tools that can always be kept at lef. batteries, the machine-gun the raliway
tion? Obviously In mulants certainly will lead does not seem to me impossible. authoritarian system of educa- contain
and em- frontiers to allow the destiny of hand to do a repair job. thrbush the of life.
of The United Natious Is in almost phatically, the answer is No." disturbances
cuts and means serious voluntary naps during the day- to nests, and the mortar em with field glance
to work itself Iron Curtain.
always a sign of fatigue. and health.
un improvement Huxley was writing before out, placements. Only tele-
a
It is the duty of the overstrala-should be shifted on business
the most phone line whose
One of This was fair enough, for ou
frequent seemed to be only with in- the Russian side there is a 50physician who treats eldez to a voluntary basis. Sicep for a
in a dietary sins of today is the in- High steel observation finity, or a goat track wan- which
ctly people not only to dhort while, preferably
discriminate use of alkalisers to commands a view
More often! years to life, but to add life
improve digestion. Julta and all its dongs.
to years.
On the Parlon side of the
down. On the Russian aidle. three soldiers lounged
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
shade of a tin roof.
MBERS
BAR
There's no satisjving some people we've freed spen tacles, we're freed tolus, we've freed raise teelle, and now. after all that, the Tories hate the infernal cheek to suggest we free the pound."
The rest of Jul lay flat on its back in the shade,
Quietly nowed the Arexes,
sitting position,
4
of
the natural
*
every respect
C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S.A.
Now York
one of
Says Ashmore: "The bomb Johnson and pass during this
But I think it is live in peace-
garden."
through at once.
What changed Mr Johnson's DOLLARS change hands so mind-the big percentage often these days that they
the wearing out faster than
It is quite unwise to alkalise, TRY NOT to forget the com- mon rules of physical training, Experiments seems to prove bridge with s white rnarker I believe that doing things The "warming up"
period at beyond doubt that posts, a sentry walked up and for the first time-rather the beginning and the so-called life span can be changed by
In the than for the last time-is "end-purt" increase emciency nutritional influences
TOR sale Ave-roomed proof feature would undoubtedly cession a law forcing all youths and output of work. the practical approach.
In spite of our limited know-T bungalow, "all usual offices, sell my house.
to do a year's military service, atom-bemb Elderly people are distinctly ledge of the aging procesa, we
guaranteed
proof, a better way to
It is not impressed with Mr The It is nonsense to say that weather-minded.
most are on the march towards the price £2,100.
time, too.
Johnson's Audden chango of temperature fe-span of (at least) a hundred old people are incapable of favourable outside
Mr L. R. Ashmore,
"It is protection against hent,
that the law, which he Away on the slopen of a hill learning. Mental power is for the is around 66 degs. F. years. That, I believe, is what
But in winter the living-rooms nature intended for us.
America's biggest builders, has tornados, lightning, fire, wind mind
And earlier thought could go over party of Russian pemed to be the most precious and should be kept at a temperature
begun a campaign to persuade storms, and everything. kicking a ball about. No dust
future home-owners to go uni- you can use all your ground for until next year, must now go trails signalled the passage of distinguished possession of of 75 dega. F.
derground. any military movement:
elderly people, and should be When they go out of doors in
And he submitted to Washing- be
ton engineers his plans for the developed to the fullest ex- cold weather they should
Carefully protected by warm
perfect home of the atomic era. PINCHER'S tent.
woollen clothing. Extremely hot HAPMAN
rejections by the call-up boards. or cold baths must be forbidden. FOOTNOTE: The ilfe-span This is how it would be bullt:-
First dir five holes, 15tt round mint can replace them. So the (New York figure nearly 55 -of the average Briton dy Tian
years since the and 17t, deep. Line each one mint has asked for special funds percent of all youths reporting). by nearly 20
century-from with allemate layers of asphalt to put its workers on overtline ในร
the of
63. Note the effects waterproofing and an inch of to enable them to turns out 240 years to the new life-saving drugs, concrete, and comment by under- million new notes. of DEQUATE diet is one of the like pentelllin and aurcomycin, ground passages,
advances are be- mala fretors in a long and and surgical
ANOTHER Eisenhower-for- ginning realthy old age. But it is almost pinning
show
tip in
platly
THE ROOF, level with the
though the next election is two dropping. Imcossible to give up life-long ereasing longevity,
deep and made of
concrete food habits. So elderly people ments note in progress with the surface of the earth, to be 5ft. President boom is starting, even slaughter-houses, and prices are The trade in confident this drugs anti-rheumatism
covered with carli. Air shafts years off. The general's com-
ment? None, as usual
trend will continue through at ACTI! and cortisone ofer hope to be put is each room, and a
lenst part of the winter, and CONGRESS is not likely to thus prevent any outery and satisfying in the near future, part of the house to be above DON'T take too large help of making and ove more active lift to the front door, the anis Ing. Give up hurried meals
ground.
obey Defence Secretary Loule controls. and the heavy dinner at night, -Londen Express Service)
put away the field glasses
REST
IN the Persian cornmand post BUT how to keep ft while this
there was cold berlach from
to being done? We can iny a magnificent refrigerator, mut-down certain definite rules, tan portugaise, and meton.
Over the Persian vodka one of KEEP UP phyalent and men-
1tal activity. Try my hosts sald: "We have a
to acquire motto that a good neighbour is new skills, new Interests. better than a brother. It is a pity that here we do not even hava brothers."
*YOU ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU THINK," by Bartin Gumpert -(London Znreu Service) (llammond).
DIET
should adhere to these rules.--
44
new
nro
J
of
NO MEAT RATIONING this
year. logs and cattle are bo- pour into the
to
for