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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
DECEMBER
12, 1950.
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Commons Question On Drawing From Sterling Balances
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, Dec. 11.
Mr Hugh Gaitskell, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, is to be asked to scale down the rate at which Pakistan, India and Ceylon are to be allowed to draw on their Sterling balances to finance development schemes under the Colombo plan.
Presenting the most stirring life history of our Landt, rederies Burton, Che
times, The Hongkong Telegraph begins today
THE CHURCHILL STORY
HE Rt Hon
Winston
the bottom of his class with in-
Spencer Churchill, PC, By Colin Frame the bottom
THE
OM, CH, TD, MP, was not
was packed off when he what is fondly called "a school
So, in the same nice little boy."
Wilful, restless, pugna- Stalin began to
was
Result was that he learnt
while to -boarding English
others learnt And since seven. Latin and Greek.
that he stayed three times as long crawi about in one class as any other boy the floor of his mother's he learnt three times
in Georgian much English.
an
year
expensive
"an
Liked English
as
de- in
In a Parliamentary question which he has put down for the Chancellor tomorrow, Squadron- Leader
Con- servative, points out that agreements recently concluded with India and Ceylon (negotia- tions for a similar agreement with Pakistan are still going on) will lead to a considerable in- crease in the flow of unrequited exports to these countries.
Squadron-Leader Burden says this outflow of unrequited ex- ports will make it impossible for us to produce the extra £300,000,000 of exports which the Chancellor. recenly said would be necessary next year to offset the deteriorating terms of trade.
Squadron-Leader Burden will therefore ask the Chancellor he will reopen negotiations with Looking back on this
the governments named in an plorable state of affairs
effort to reduce the flow of later life, he decided it was unrequited exports 10 3 specialised in
immense, advantage" and minimum." boys and little
world, the English-speaking enchanted with his prose, must be forever grateful to
who Mr Somervell
taught
young painstaking regularity.
"Naturally," pupil years afterwards. biased in favour of boys learn- ing English.
cious, he roared through wooden shack the nursery like some snub-Russia, Churchill in a flaming temper was caned, kicked his nosed red-headed demon.
His parents, Lord Randolph headmaster's hat to ribbons Churchill (son of the Duke of and was caned again.
This school, Chan- Marlborough and later
at Ascot, cellor of the Exchequer) and one his beautiful American wife, caning little Jenny Jerome (daughter of else,
"No Harrow boy of my day New York newspaper proprie-
such a cruel bor) were too busy with social ever received
spend flogging as this headmaster and political affairs to
was accustomed to inflict upon much time with him.
This was very much the age the little boys who were in his be care and power," wrote boys must when "little seen and not heard" and the Churchill in "My Early Life" young Churchill took it upon "How I hated this school." himself to make his presence felt visually and orally so that his governesses. gave up in despair and his parents ac-
him.
"I
from key to key, but his
Trade Mission To Japan
Tokyo, Dec. 11. Thailand's nine man trade mission to Japan is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow, according to the Japanese Ministry of International - Trade and Industry, quoted by the Kyodo news agency.
The Siamese mission is headed by Phra Nararaj Chamnong, Under-Secre. tary of Commerce..
The Japanese Govern- ment hoped that the com- ing of the Thai mission would facilitate negotia- tions for the import of rice from that country next year, the news agency re- ports. Japan desires to pur- chase 400,000 tons of rice during 1951.-Reuter.
London Tin
-Improves
London, Dec. 11. Tin prices were harder at the Turn- morning session today. over was 65 tons, including 15 tons for spot.
Prices closed today at the end of the official morning session as follow:
Spot tin, buyers Spot tin. sellers Business done at
1,140
1,145
1,140
Three-months tin, buyers Three-months tin, sellers Business done at Settlement
1,040
1,045
1010
1,140
-United Press.
Churchill English with memory of the songs he learnt Bids Invited
as a boy vivid.
declared his And he still remembers five "I am lectures he attended. The sub- jects are worth noting in view
all
Scrap Iron
The
For
of his later, development. One
Tokyo, Dec. 1f. make them would
was no the battle of Waterloo,
United States occupa- "Naughtiest Boy".
learn English; and then I another on the battle of Sedan. tion authorities in Okinawa- After two years he feli would let the clever ones learn One was on butterflies-even have invited some 200 firms in quired a habit of apology for seriously ill and he was taken Latin as an honour and Greek this had a military flavour for Japan and the United States to
school at as a treat. But the one thing I away to go to a
for is not Brighton where he was caned would whip them less often but where he way
knowing English. I would whip them hard for that" described by one mistress "the naughtiest boy in the class I used to think him the naughtiest small boy in the world."
His Nurse
Only one person could handle this foundle of mis- chief-Mrs Everest of Chat- ham, his nurse, -
of
39
2
Head Of Fags
At
Harrow the excellence
..
Har-
The bids will be opened in February-Reuter. :
bids for 500,000 gross- he remembers chiefly how but-submit
on' and tons of scrap iron located terflies use cámouflage protective colouring to escape the island, General MacArthur's their enemies. The two others headquarters announced today. were on climbing the Alps, and
A second lot of scrap iron,, Empire Federation.
consisting of naval craft to be Apart from his English salvaged from the waters off of his English Assays served lessons, Churchill now remem- the shore, were also offered to To her he told his baby
With her he felt He was never robust as troubles.
as a foil to his incredible dull-bers these lectures more clear- the bidders. chest
weak. was whirling child. His discuss the free to
ness in other subjects. By arly than anything else at he was sent fears of his child-That was why
rangement, a sixth-former did row. hopes and
eventually to Harrow high on his Latin exercises for him and hood mind.
Which rather goes to show tradi- he dictated-pacing up and
the his happiest re- the hill, instead of the
that Some
infrequent school Ventnor, tional, low-lying Eton of his down a study exactly as he of collections are
takes pains to lecturer who does now-the sixth-former's make his subject vividly alive took him to stay family. where she
wife. her sister,
off a His entrance examination to essays for him. with
can influence more deeply the Harrow must have struck a
But Mr Welldon who had mind and heart of some prison warder.
low in scholastic enter- Mrs Everest swore by Kent new
about the sixth-youngsters than all few illusions
the years earth. prise,
Churchill hated Latin fairest spot on
former's English (and fewer of classroom learning. as the And it may not be sheer coin- and had learnt little of it,
about Churchill's Latin), soon
used to It
be a standing happening. what was His Latin paper, over which
spotted he had pored for two hours
About. this time his photo-joke that the great and success- it as his country home.
at the this name
ful men who visit schools Loyalty to her provoked consisted of
graphic memory and expres- two touching incidents in his top of the page, the figure one
sive, lisping voice began to speech days to hand out prizes
said: always
"Of course. I brackets, a blot and two earn him fame. He won a prize schooldays. She was strongly in anti Roman Catholic, and smudges. That's all.
open to the whole school for ever won a prize at school.”
In the Churchill story this With Churchill found
that Puckish when young
grin of reciting 1,200 lines of Macau-
joke. reaches its highest "It commented: his prep school at Brighton was his he later
lay.
cidence that Churchill
chose
expected to turn to the East was from these slender indica- In one other activity shades pinnacle.
had
seen'
Mr
some-
young
on
when reciting the Apostle's tions of scholarship that
of coming events cast a notice-
Unhappy Period (the headmaster)able shadow-Churchill showed Creed he made his first public Welldon
drew the conclusion that I was considerable skill at fencing. gesture of defiance.
Harrow.
Boys like
Winston Public Schools He felt
such turning worthy to pass into sure
He won the
seem to fit would be denounced as Popish It is very much to his credit." Championship with the foils, Churchill never
into. the school curriculum. It Everest, so by Mrs
he stood
certainly was. But Mr chiefly, it is said, by surprise
do not do so any more Welldon, later a distinguished stolidly still.
attack and dash. He had little They
And now than they did then, He later recorded in "My churchman,
use for any other school sport. Early Life" how by masterly thing that, up till then, no one Because of his constantly the Churchill story is both an British compromise the prob(with the possible exception lowly position, he was never example and a comfort to them
had seen allowed
and their distressed parents. lem was settled by seating the of Mrs Everest)
to have a fag. And
Twelve solid years of school- those trailing clouds of glory the only school facing East.
position of respon-
the most expensive in ing, which this freckled-faced and cheeky
Head was
of Fags, which
with this bitter Then at Harrow, at a time youngster.
meant that he finally escaped chill "I think I may claim when
extremely boys were
fagging itself but had to draft ment: "I had hardly ever been snobbish about what their have always felt a great faith
asked to learn anything which rotas and arrange fagging wear in him" he wrote privately to duties.
seemed of the slightest use or visiting parents should
I
interest, or allowed to, play a and were embarrassingly touchy a friend. "I do not mean
"An interesting being, but
game which was amusing. about. being
the full brilliance temporarily uppish," wrote an kissed, Mrs anticipated
retrospect these years Everest, poke bonneted and of his future life, but it is my aunt about him at this time. form not only the least agree- dowdy, came to see her boy.. deliberate judgment that he The temporary uppishness was able, but the only barren and Churchill, in full view, of his showed in his schooldays to last rather longer than she unhappy period of my life. I
the unmistakable foresaw,
Loyalty
fellows, went up to her, kissed Harrow
were later to envelop sibility he achieved at Harrow Victorian England, left Chur-
to
at
"In
com-
her roundly, and set off through promise of, distinction."
almost psychic Never Won A Prize toys in the nursery. I have
This was
was a happy child with my
the town with her on his arm.
He loved school sing-songs been happier every year since Loyalty and courage, des- judgment. For there was little tined to serve, an Empire so enough to work on Churchill Harrow has a heritage of I became a man,
"But this Interlude of well, could hardly have been (under the family name of song which is probably unique
he Spencer-Churchill better demonstrated.
was-although he was then and is school makes a sombre grey. Some Indication of what his alphabetically bottom of the now no vocalist. His grasp of patch upon the chart of my
and wanders journey." family thought of him is that heschool) managed to stay near melody slight
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