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THE CHINA MÄIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, - 1950.

The Cambridge University draw of 1870 stepping ashore after a practice outing. From a contemporary print in the "Illustrated 'London News" of April 2, 1870.

For the love of the race

source of additional energy. Yet propel his boat along.

French leftists.

mourn death of Leon Blum

Paris, March 30,

All leading figures of the French political world, from the President of the Republic, M. Vincent Auriol, to backroom officials of the Socialist Party, tonight went to pay a last visit to M. Leon Blum at Clos-les-Motz, where he died today.

Madame Blum told them her husband sat down to.

write an article for "Le Populaire" ofter lunch. At 10 minutes to three he said he did not feel well and would finish the article

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later. Forty minutes later he was dead.

At the Socialist Party Head- quarters tonight, the red flag was flown at half-mast. A rosette of black crepe, was at- tached to the flag.

It is unofficially learned that the funeral will take place on Sunday at Jouy-En-Josag.

Was

and Socialists had united against a growing threat of Fasclim from within and without France, Ger- many under Hitler was, becom ing stronger and steadily aggressive and the Croix de Feu and other French fascist parties more active.

more

After the bloody rioting bo- tween Left and Right in Febru

1834. the Socialists and the Communists 'united.

ther Oxford nor Cambridge |tention to those recommended by every man needs real strength to Jouy-en-Josag, his country home factories by force, and the strikes!

Financially speaking, nei-1 Royal Regatta-paying special at- can win the Boat Race today. captains of the college boat

clubs. The Dark and Light Blues battle on the same side when they look their cash deficits in the face. Cambridge alone will be down £1,600 before a blade touches

more than

As the days of autumn pass, he the best 18, eliminates all but These rowers and coxes, who form

IM. Blum, who was 78, was seriously ill in May last year and had two operations, He suffering from phlebitis.

A wave of sitdown strikes Ho died suddenly today at He refused to

greeted Blum's arrival to power. evacuate the outside Paris He had recently were settled Anally without vio- lived quietly in retirement, but lance. Blum

put through д the contributed frequently to eric

of labour' reforms which included the five-day, 40-hour week and a minimum wire.

the Socialist newspaper.

came

It was to increase the drive be- hind each stroke that Steven Fair- | bairn-the Australian from Vic- torla who rowed for and coached

M. Bium was in good health Jesus College, Cambridge, from yesterday and his death 1882-Introduced a new style. as a complete surprise to his Fairbairn instructed his men to friends, a Socialist Party spokes- their oars with their minds. Their a close friend of B. Elum, who bodies, he said, would take care was head of his private office of themselves. "Learn to drive during his pre-war Premiership, your blude through the water to said today that M. Blum had pro- perfection" was Fairbairn's ad-bably died of the illness which vice.

the water at Putney, and each By Paul Clifton spend their entire time mastering man said. Maire Andre Blumel,

of her Blues will have to find about £30 out of his own pucket. The two varsities will pay out over 8/6d for every yard of the 7,414 yards in the race. Where does the money go?

Before the wor a bont cust the turn of the £120, while at century, the price was as low as £60. Tony He craft means £250 on the nail. A set of oars, £25

pre-war, now costs

nearly £60. Food accounts

for another £60, while inunches and trial away with a further £200, On top of all this, there is more than £400 to pay for hotel bills and transport.

rices ren

The financial paradox of the Boat Race is that, although the 20-minute event means a heavy loss for the contestants, something like 1,000,000 sportsmen will gee free of charge. The battle at- tracts more supporters than any other event of the sporting year. Potential fees for admission to the towpath amount to many thou- sands of pounds. Yet, to date, no one has devised a way of collect- Ing the spectators' money.

the

two Trial Eights of each varsity, row against each other at Ely and Oxford at the end of the Michaelmas Term. The 10 become members of the Leander Club, und from them the President selects the best nine men. In- cluding one cox, to row against the rival university.

Shortage of food is one of the biggest problems that the racing crews are up against. A few par- cels are sent from overseas, but the days have long since passed when several

and raw eggs beet-steak were the regular daily diet, Today the Blues must inake do with whale-meat stenk, and vitamin

the only

tablets

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on

The oar, he said, should strike the water with the note of a bell, and each strike ought to have the rower rhythm of music, the swinging back and forth like pendulum. It is this ideal, in essence aesthetic, that lures the parsman. It merges with the sportsman's instinct opd creates the true amateur spirit. No wonder the Boat Race will never be abandoned in spite of its heavy costs. The men who take part love the race. As Rabelals "Gargantua", they

#Row on whatever happens".

Witch-hunting

says

in

senator

returns to the attack

(Continued from Pago. 5). Senator Lehman demanded, "Why is the Senator unwilling to submit his facts to the commit For the bulk of their income, tee?" Senator McCarthy had the two Boat Clubs lean heavily made eliminations to suit his upon the grants made to them by purpose in reading letters and the clubs of the colleges, and also submitted them there to make upon the Central Sports Funds of spectacle of this highly important the universities, In addition, something when a man hasn't got a cash-comes-from- the-anic-of-] chance-to-answer. broadcasting, television and film rights, and a few private gifts ure also received. But, apart from dis- continuing the tussle altogether, there seems to be na practical way of easing the financial burdon. And the race will never be aban- doned.

Behind the scenes

If the costa are so high, why is the battle of the Blues still fought cach year Before we can answer this question, we must look be hind the scenes of rowing at the universities. There, we learn that

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Senator McCarthy said, "Some people shod crocodile tears for the suffering of these traitorous individuals. The Senate commit- tee knows where it can get facts.”

Senator Lehman protested that Senator McCarthy refuses to give full facts but goes on to damn and blacken the reputations of many people who may be inno-

cent.

had caused his retirement from polities, and which was believed to have been' cancer.

Passion for justico

Leon Blum, dean of French Socialists, rose from wealthy dramatic critic to direct the most revolutionary government in the, history of the Third Republic.

A fastidious erudite with. & passion for social justice, Blum His father was was born in Paris, April 9, 1872. a prosperous Jewish allk manufacturer of Alsatian origin. From his school days Blum was a Socialist, al- though he did not join the party

until 1800,

As a child he astounded his father by asking, "How is it possible to buy an article cheap, all it dear, and call oneself honest?"

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Convinced that the end of the ployees from among a group at- News", which Senator McCarthy tached to the "New China Daily prosperous bourgeois class was at hand as representing an unfair, described as a Chinese Com-

distribution of wealth, Blum, as munist paper in New York. He a young man, became a close did not road the text of the let-Jean Jaures, together they cam- friend of the famous Socialist

paigned for Dreyfus

ter,

in the

His administration, which became known "France's New Deri" alno reorganised the Bank of France, hitherto controlled by "les deux cent," 200 families whose controlling shares gave them dispropor tlonate power. The armament Industry, was partly Nation. alland as well.

The Government fell in June. 1937, howover, and Blum became Vice Premier under Camille That Chautemps.

Government fell in January, 1938. Blum was again Premier for three weeks, in the spring of 1938, but was then forced

abandon his

power.

to

Tried by Vichy

As a leading Socialist and Jow, Blum was arrested shortly after the Vichy regime came to power In 1940. His spirited defence of his Popular Front Government was one of the highlights of the remarkable Riom, trials carly in 1942, when Vichy tried to prove that Blum General Maurice Gamelin and the former Premier, Edouard Daladler, were respon- sible for the war. The trial, which revealed some disagreeable truths about men then prominent in Vichy, was finally called off by the Germans.

He

However, Blum along with Daladier, General Maxime Wey- gand, and the former

Premiers, Edouard Herriot and Paul Rey- Senator McCarthy said the let- famous case which split France naud, was deported to Germany. ter was written to Joseph Barnes,apart at the turn of the century,

was, miraculously, decently Mr. Lattimore's "boss"

treated, and the Germans even In the OWI

--With-Jaures,—-Blum-founded-a: allowed-a-French-woman-friend- Socialist newspaper "Humanite," to come from: France and live in 1904. Later, "Humanite" be- with him. Blum later married came the property of the Com- this woman, his third wife, munists, and the Socialists start- ed another paper, "Populaire." Blum became its political dires. tor in 1931,

Lattimore's reply

In London today, Owen Lat- timore said that Senator Mo- Carthy's charges that he is a Bovlet espionage apent' were an unmitigated le.

The former State Department adviser said he had not time to keep up with Senator McCarthy's statements, "But I would like to make two points here in

Lon-

don."

Although Senator McCarthy "Mr. McCarthy's charges are

Welcomed whole-heartedly by his party on his return to France In the summer of 1945, Blum re- sumed his position as its pre- sident

and took up his articles in Although Blum's parents were "Populaire." He refused to run wealthy, their son cared nothing for office in the first general slec for money and spent most of his tions to follow liberation, In Oc- "Populaire." Yet his beautiful Press.

fortune on his party and tober, 1945 Reuter and United apartment on the old island of Saint Louis in the middle of the tapestries and Bevres vases, and Seine was crammed with Chinese

said the alleged meeting in Mr. an unmitigated lle, Secondly his cook was one of the best in Lattimore's home took place on have been writing and publish- the night before the arrest, the

ing as a professor on Soviet poll-France. He was a famous con

versationalist and was continual~

a new boat used to be but amdavit which Senator McCarthy tics and geography for 20 years. ly disappointing. Paris hostesses nually because each shell had to read quoted Mr. Lattimore as be tailored to at the crew of the

My opinion and loyalty are a

having said that Roth and Service matter of publié record. My po- by his refusal to accept dinner had been arrested because of a litical predictions have shown Invitations.

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scholar

year and, in addition, spare craft were needed for the trial crews selected in following seasona

feud with some Washington off- have been right more often than Nowadays, with one eye on the

cials.

most people, Mr. McCarthy, could till, the Presidents of the Univer-

Senator McCarthy did not ex- have learned my opinions by slty Boat Clubs cannot

Blum was also a scholar and' always

plain the apparent inconsistency | walking across the street to the in time. He also displayed allow such lavish spending.

pho- Library of Congress."

among 29 books; he wrote is one tostatic copy of a letter allegedly Mr. Lattimore stopped in Lon-on the novelist Stendhal, and Whether now or old, each of the signed by Mr. Lattimore on June den for two hours on the way another on Goethe, A treatise "shella" which competes on the 15, 1943. Mr. Lattimore was then

home from Afghanistan, "A call on marriage which he published from Washington was waiting for In 1937 caused a minor sonsallon, day of the race will have started a high official of the Office of

Information. Senator Mc- him as his plano touched, down. for Blum said that both men and life in the yards of boat-builders Carthy said the letter directed As soon as he had passed the women were naturally polygam- who never use a blue-print All OWI security officers to get rid Customs, he went to the airport ous in their youth and should not that the individual craftamen of all Chinese employees who office to take the call.

marry until they had done some knows are the heights and weights were loyal either to the Nationa Mr. Lattimore spoke for 30 experimenting first. of the crew, and cach constructs list Government or the Japanese minutes, but refused to divulge Blum's big political opportunity his boat around the carsmen who puppet government in China." the nature of his conversation or came in 1936, when he became will mon her, lowering, a BOX- The letter also ordered the re- to whom he had talked. United Premier of a Popular Front Gov board a quarter of an inch here cruiting of pow Chinese em- Press

Jernment. In 1934 the Communists or widening a seat a half-inch there, to suit the exact require ments of the particular oarsman's build. For the rest, each craftsman relies entirely upon his experience and skil

Deveze to keep on

trying

What goes to makó, a drat-class rowing man? Like many men "of action, the "wet-bob" is also a thinker. Rowing demands as much brainwork as muscular, effort.

Afterwards they Brussels, March 30, | King - Leopold. Then he would Being" a thinker," the "ouraman

lanted a com knows that no, man is worth hir M. Albert Deveze, tho have asked the King to address munique declaring that M. Dovoze would continue his mission, at salt unless he rows for

for the sheer veteran Belgian Liberal who joint House De

Thus - King Leopold's "--transfor' | Jenst (juntil ho, has met

·King love of the sport. A waterman is is opposed to King Leopold's no good if he paddles for personal return, is to continue his of glory. För even though... – he may have alaved for years to earn his forts to form a Government.

to solve Belgian crisis

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