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INDO-CHINA

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949.

GREECE WILL BUILD AN

COLYMPIC ACADEMY

Forty young athletes from vari-

cass countries will be' able to at-

tend an "Olympic Games Univer- sity in Greece next year accord-

By KEITH BUTLER

Tuition will be given by experts and professors appointed by the Hellenie Olympics

Goodd

Morning

Committee in Twizt Scylla and Charybdis. collaboration with the 100 The An irritated pedestrian writes

of Education" will }

ing to the plans of the Hellenic mind and body. This is the real | Olympics Committee to go ahear Greek ditations to the Profin to say it must have taken a

half

Olympic Graner Committee.

conception on which the ancient (with the plans.”

send the They will follow a two-months Greeks founded holiday course which will enable Games.

the Olympic

priate authorities in each counter a lot of scientific planning by our

them to return to their various

Eventually

In Greece all expenses will be traffic department to calculate the to build the Olymple Academy on Committee;

the Greeks Intend borne by the Hellenic Olymples Fedder Street-Des Voeux Road countries and spread the Olymple Many moden sportsmen think a site at ancient Olympia Bat

only travelling ar lights so exactly that they always idea of perfect balance between Olympic idea of sport in life is after the ravages of the guerilla

to and from Greece will be leave petses

everyone marooned forgotten. And they believe the war they have yet ucither the

the responsibilite of the visiting way across the street ancient idea was the healthier money not the means. So for the student or lecturer. Each country will provide scholarships to the pert few years they hope to you Olympic Academy. The National the Academy in Athens. in build Olympic Committees will choose

E. Germans

Form A Red Army

Now a Soviet Ambassador is coming to Berlin. His duty will be not to stop the goose-stepping. but to see that it continues to march to Russian orders.

Veteran Greek sportsman and ings and training installations to tional Olympics Committee, Mr. be erected beside the restored the students from those with the John Reseas, explained to me stadium of ancient times. Modern futur dein the richt vurifications to become the competitions are trag umpic spirit.

what led him to launch the idea Greck athlelysts streat

Df

St

an "Olympic Academy" at the still held Rome meeting of the International of gleaming white Penteli marble. Olytapics Committee in April this

year,

Quoting Gardiner

to

the

Mr. Ketseas likes, to quite a setting in which to build the British sports writer, Norman Academy. The place of physical Gardiner.

-J

Sir Harry Fights On

.. I

One of the airlines provides.. their passengers with sticks of vent unpleasant pressure in your chewing gum labelled. "To pre- cars during take-off and land-

fingerday a lady appealed

plaintively to the stewardess. ·· "Help me get this stuff out of may- ears.

It doesn't help, anyway.".

Titelsm: A type of rust that affects iron curtains,

Can You Beat It? borse. Nowy it's province for Once it was a kingdom for

plane ticket

all in the air tip North....

that. Harry By The Peach Flower River

ago in

the

Dark eyes neath a moongate

dreaming

By the Peachflower Stream, Though the stars above are

gleaming

Brighter yet, you seem. Softly from your pipa playing Dancing on their way Through the scented dusk come

straying

He said the purpose for: Nearly all the money for the which the late Baron de Coubertin project is coming from

private and his collaborators founded the subscriptions, for the subaldies moderni Games is being forgotten. from the hard-up State are rid- culously small. But the Greeks By EDWARD HOWE le Games are both more and less Academy next year, even if on a

The Baron once stated: "Olym- are determined

start

than World Championships......mall scale at first, Flans have During the last war Emil Lud- Olympic Games should be per been drawn no and the architects

Late on the night of August wig, an eminent German living meated by history, art and phl-are working on the proposed site. which told the world that Sir a bulletin was issued: The oft-repeated hints in exile, wrote of his count-losophy: they should build zoble emanating from French sour-men: "Armed and under som traditions, bring order and beauty They may even use the dressing Harry Lauder was sinking ces that Mr. Nehru, the In- and, as a soldier, the German in gestures, jealously preserve rooms of the stadium at first in fast- dian Prime Minister, is to be keeps his courage, but as a civi- measure and proportion in all order to get the scheme launched. lian without orders and supe things...I hope that ever more invited to mediate in the dis-riors, be easily succumbs. Ger- the Olympiads in their succession

But since that time, ten weeks pute in Indo-China, smack mans have often been anti-will help to give a regular rhythm

Driving Spirit

ago, almost daily messagɩs from his home have revealed the acter-

What the Reds intend to do, rather of an admission that French, never anti-Russian." to the life of sporta, circumscribe The driving spirit behind it is mination of Sir Harry to keep his will be explaned later. It is still about the Nationalist gunboats the French-supported Govern-

it and preserve it from its own Mr. John How well the Russians have, cresses."

Ketsear. who has ment of Bao Dai has failed learnt that lesson! Recently the

grip on like dreamed of the plan ever since to gather the popular back-measured tread of heavy boots, Mr. Ketseas believes these ideals he discussed it with Baron Cou- All his days, right from the ing its sponsors had hoped for gasestepping by young, eager are being forgotten in the pre-bertix during the latter's visit to time he was a 9s-2-week pitboy.

German

Communists elad insent-day passion to win at all

Greece it. The latest feeler on the brand new black uniform, was casta. In defance of the teachings Teed that an Olympic Academy Laude has been an unusual per-

in 1927. Both of them and even before subject of mediation comes beard again in Berlin. It was of the ancient Greeks, sport syze phd ess

was an essential corrective to the

Use|sonality. – from the Paris

newspapers, the Eastern Zene People's Police becoming specialised on the purely growing specialisation of sport which assert that Mr. Nehra moving in while Russian soldiers physical side.

the physical side. And both be He celebrated his 29th birthday

Greece, because of on August 4, and seemed as ha is to be approached by M. were packing up and leaving for

lieved that tradition, standing reminders of and bearty as ever. Ramadier, formerly a Minis- Karlshorst a few miles away.

Eleven days Greece's Golden Age, landscape later he went to the pictures, and ter in the Queuille. Govern-

and atmosphere. was the right when he got back to Lauder Ha', ment, when M. Ramadier is

the turreted greystone mansion in New Delhi for the Inter-

had built years be national Labour Conférence.

training and games in educa- 50 at last, next year, or at the hills above Strathaven, some 16 Comment from Mr. Nehru

tion, the place of athletics in our latest in 1950, Mr. John Ketsess miles from Glasgow, he com- himself is lacking, and reac- The People's Police is a com- daily life, are questions of present will see Baron Coubertin's dream plained of a pain in his left leg bination of former German Com-importance to us all, and in con- realised in Athens and later in tion from Indian circles com-

Next day it was plain he was raunists and defeated Nazi gen-sidering these questions we can. Olympia itself.

very ill. His boyhood friend and pletely non-committal

old doctor. John Stewart, was a perfect blend of not fail to learn something frum crals. It is a

the athletic history of a nation the fanatic militant Communist the

At first 30 or 40 (later many sent for, though he was living When France persuaded with the military genius of the which for a time at least, sue-mote) young students from all retirement Stewart, having ex- Bao Dai, the former Emperor German professional soldier. They needed in reconciling the rival over the world will come to Greece amined the man with whom h of Annam, to assume the post have joined forces in Eastern Ger- claims of body and of mind and to learn the real Olympic iden, had swapped a lifetime of jokes beach down in Bangkok.

a big

this result in its They will attend courses of lec and tales, shook his head, said be of head of the State of Viet man in a way. What they immortalized

tures based on the History of the would like to stay at the Ba Nam, she no doubt hoped than a camouflaged army equip- have produced is nothing less

Olympic Games, Ancient These

*The vessel waited while the Are the idea which Modern: the general theory of they would have him, and sel that a new stage in the harasped with modern weapons and

animal trainer was summoned. Mr. John Ketsers to sport and prompted

physical education: into Glasgow for specialists. sing post-war history of carefully trained.

raise the question at the TOC philosophy, art and social sciences

and after a three hours' struggle Indo-China was to begin.

meeting in Rome this year. He and the mental

The services of no fewer than he was Lassoned and pulled into background of The French for four years was designed to reach a strength the IOC invited the Hellenic practical physical training.

Originally the People's Police found an interested response and physical culture, combined with four of them were engaged. There a waiting cage.

trouble reason. The

that had faced in this extensive of 60,000 men.

Thus giving him a taste of his But the hostile

had stricken Sir Harry was) own medicine.. complex of backward East attitude of the mass of Germans

thrombosis ---- ā malady that ern lands a rather similar towards applied Communic

springs from the presence of a politico-military

a change of plan.

blood clot in veins or arteries and problem to umber was increased. Recon that which the Dutch ex-ed in the main from ex-Wehr

has a bad fatality record. perienced in Indonesia. The macht veterans the force is now cost of operations in man-estimated to be as strong as -120,- target aimed at by power and money has weigh-000. The

the Russians is 200,000. ed upon France hardly less severely than the parallel burden on the Netherlands. Laos and Cambodia have a new status as associate mem- bers of the Frerich Union and

caused

On Their Feet

The

arts.

Scotland's Great Day

By WILLIAM POWER

was

Lovenotes light and gay..

Little maiden, long I'm waiting And the hour grows late. Say why are you hesitating, Strumming at the gate?

There is only one Pibal on the

woman

Then there was the who thought that ECAFE was a kind of new powdered eggnog drink

By August 22 it seemed the end could be only a matter of hours, A bulletin issued late that night told the world "Sir Harry is un- conscious and is sinking fast.” Dielliusioned, probably,

"All male persons between the But it did not happen like ages of 21 and 60, except those that. When the specialists incapable of earning a support went back nex day the old from being married or otherwise man was still va antly putting disabled"

An outstanding feature of the A National Assembly,

con- Scottish National Assembly, at vened by Scottish Convention, whose third This" "police" force has un-

meeting, in Edin-met in Glasgow in March, 1947. usual equipment and trainingburgh, on Saturday, the Scottish It adopted a plan of Scottish Its members carry pistols, rifles Covenant was launched, is that it self-government for presentation as participants in the plan-ays with grim look on their sentative gathering, with aims deputed the matter to the Secre

up a fight it was the same or tommy-guns. They hold them is the first big nation-wide repre- to the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee ned future Indo-Chinese

faces as though they are. yearz Federation. Annam and the ing to use them again. Northern protectorate of Tonkin have; from the time

trust are the men who fought at Stalingrad."

bad

the next day, and the next--- right on until today no fewer It is reliably understood that than ten weeks will have passed the Indo-China frontier, will be since that night in August. positively the last "bastion"

Lauder's battle with the death that seemed so imminent bas amazed his medical men.

•

All the best collaborators are getting their red "Down With The Anglo-American Imperialist” sashes out again to become co-

liberators.

"Stenographer, five years' legal experience, seeks permanent posi- tion.

Scotland as a whole, that has Assembly Committee's directly affecting the people of tary of State for Scotland. The meeting been held in Scotland since 1707. with Mr. Woodburn was unfruit- Refresher courses in the use

The Assembly was 'recalled ful Edinburgh, during the last 50 last year. Its Committee S of ack-ack guns, driving tanks of the Japanese occupation, and armoured vehicles have years, has been the scene of con- instructed to enter on a nation- been the field for a more ag- been an important part of their resses and conferences innum-wide campaign. gessive nationalist movement, training. The Russians have erable. They were Scottish, Bri-

A few months ago, at the in- them tish, global; religious, municipal, seeking to establish a Re been generous in giving

polifical, scientide medical, stance of Izmer AA Porteous, Everyone around St Harry, it public under the name of 734 and T70 tanks.

literary, artistic, hobby-horsical there took place at. Aberfoyle an seems, knows how critically I he Việt Nam.

infozwal conference that

is save Sie Harry himself. But these men are favourites

All of them represented parti- prove historie. of the Russians.

""Only a handful of people in Successive French Govern-

cular interests

He spends most of the hours the stands saw the start of the of some kind. "heezed

pes". The Our ments have tried to come to Not long ago a Soviet oficial) The nearest to universality with- a national Caverant, suggested in deep sleep, from which he meeting, but they were fall after

approved comes back to wakefulness for lunch" terms without any

success. lost his temper when addressing in Scotland was the historic Con- by MacCormick, was Meanwhile Dr. Ho Chi-minh, some German political Leaders. vention of Burghs, which, in its It was adopted som after by the periods lasting only a few min-

Bitterly he told them: "The only time, bas

put forward good Assembly Committee, who re-ies at a time. – the veteran Moscow-trained Germans Russia feels she can schemes for reform in the gov-solved to have it launched at

ernment of Scotland. Communist, the leader of the

third meeting of the Assembly in But he feels no pain, and is not Edinburgh.

receiving injections of any kind. Viet Minh party-a nation-

The Scottish National Assem

"He needs no injections to keep alist coalition which has de-

Hitler's last legions are ind- bly represents all the major in-

It has already been signed, in him going-it's his spirit that is generated into an increasing ing their feet again.

terests in Scotland, rural and a first draft, by the most eminent doing that," say the doctors ly Communist-dominated

urban, political and religious, of living Scots, Lord Boyd Ort. economic and cultural. Walther Ulbricht, old-standing

To put group continues to oppose Communist, Jocularly known as it more simply, it represents Such, in outline, is the story of the French in the field with, the German Lerin, is one of the Scottish nation, s political entity the origin of the Scottish Coven- at times, considerable success, mystery powers behind the Feo- that has hitherto survived only, ant, which, in its declaration of His party has been discredit-ple's Police.

When talking to Grand Committee

and rather feebly, in the Scottish active loyalty ed with all French parties some recruits told except the Communists and You are to be the militant arm

of the revolution. Our final goal It was an inspiring experience terprets the feelings of the peo some left wing Socialists. is for Communism to take over for the citizens of Edinburgh to ple of Scotland.

the Slate machinery. He who form, as is fitting, the major ele Bao Dai has been the is not ready today, to take off his French hope of restoring last shirt for the Soviet Union unity to Indo-China. Viet is our enemy and must be des Nam has been granted in-troyed.". dependence, while an elected assembly

he

them:

+

the Scottish ra- tion and to the Crown and the United Kingdom, accurately in-

ment in the public launching and For the statesmanship initial signing of a national do-MacCormick and his fellow-far- cument that holds the direct mers consists in theix, awareness promise of the restoration to that the real rulers of Scotland Scotland of "legislation's pawers," have always be the Scottish politan status,

mata by their Assembly, the mavement for the needed reform

in Cochin-China Another Mystery Man of full metro-people. To them, as represented has voted accession to the

Another mystery man is a It was a day of simple but im in the government of Scotland is new State. In addition, the certain Herr Zaisser,

who was pressive ceremonial, with ban-now committed. French National Assembly together with Ulbricht in Russia. ners, appropriate music, and # has agreed to end the During the Spanish Civil War he procession to Parliament House The great need of the world! colonial status of Cochin-was known as "General Gomez." for the initial signing A festal today is spiritual impulse, in-

and interna China, These were the He returned to Germany in 1945 day; for, though the duty to which dividual, national, trumps which Bao Dai has sed in the uniform of a So the Covenant pledges tis is no signal believe that many of light one; the fulfilment of it will Scotland's problems will' vanish been flourishing as head (as

when her people have the incen- far as the French are, con- These two, together with other

tive of working for Scotland. cerned) of Viet Nam, uniting have been working closely to

sinister former Communists,

With that incentive, what a glorious Scotland they could and Tonkin and Annam with gether with former Nazi generals

will make! Cochin-China... Bao Dai has such as Vincenz Muller, Martin proved himself a nationalist Lattmann and von Lenski.

viet colonel.

ensure suCCCES)

Fine Brave Scots

We think of the fine brave Scots, now gone, who, when the idea of Scottish self-government

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The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. BLUE guerillas much of the nation the People's Police in the Wil- Angus Clark

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and, particularly, Francis P. Matthews, has an- alist support which has en-helmarul suburb of Berlin

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