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EXISTENTIALISM

By “Windrush' Special correspondent

Yesterday's article descrip- ed the strange philosophy of Kierkegaard, the father the curious modern cult enll- ed Existentialisongi, nemus

Modern jexistentiallim flourlalted most in Germany and says Sartre, is the true nature Thomlet philosophy was still to France, It has taken different of hamon freedom. To realise] bo_preferred, forme, in the two countries. The that we are free in this way is more nombre and alarming Ver- to be happy. It does not matter 34344sion in In Germany. Having resif the meat tode which a man

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Terrorism ip Saigon til unabatet: Four bonba thrown nightly

In Hong Kong. It bi-différent, With pensionul exceptions, in

shown nightly.

There are other celebrated or notorious Existentialists, In Frünce, One of the best known two nations, Uils was what nights for himself in eccentric 1 Camur, who wrote "The Plague"

the

bloodcurdling play." By TOM POCOCK for example, he calls good and what IN

"Caligula."* asually regarded as had. "C I is not surprising, that Sar- What Is the rent signiflence Admiral Sir Erle James these days, tro's play received a great qva of Existentialism? HK$10.00

It shows the Patrick tion when it was produced after pesimism

Brind, KCD, CBE, the war in Berlin. After all, its shaken by two warn lind Innumer otherwise known pq-"Daddy," main ideas were not for from nie revolutions: What is one has the dignified, benevolent.

make or those of the Nazis, a

a generation which weather-wrinkled face of Different conclusions regard anxiety as the most in- 18th-century admiral.

teresting fact of human experi- Cabriol, Marcel reaches quite once? What is one to think of different conclusions, He Is an the desire for nothingness? Exis- Existentialist in boing. pre-tentialism shows 100 the woning occupied, like Heidegger, with prestige of reason in Europe. Angst. Bul for Marcel, Angst la

sing the not hunger for "nothingness praless of irrationalism. To this is hunger for God. So Gabriel extent it seems that the Russians

This is nothing new to Admiralalt. He should nought tempt Marcel is able to be both, an

are right in condemålog it. They Brind, For the past year his shipɛ/ providence like this. Existentialist and an orthodox point to existentialism as a sign have fought a hol-and-cold war Catholic. He has made. Exis- of the break-up of the old Euro- fentialiam so respectable that a pean civilisation. Where the Rais will both Chinese Nationalist committee of cardinals at Rome sians are wrong is in their belief and Communists in protecting years ago, was unlucky two years ago pronouncexlexis that Existentialism really repre- tentialism-in Marcel's form-an sents the mud and heart of all unabjectionable philosophy, Western Europe. There are other though they added that the more lively and creative schooin.

The principal existentialist in Germany is named Marlin Beldag- ger, Unlike Kierkegaard/he is a regular university profesor. All news contributions to be professional philosopher out

dietante, Like so many emin he is the sole per

of а Luthern be the Nazi period he hadly compromised; It is alleged by the French-that he used to appear at his Jecturea drasad in storm-treep uniform, According to zome ofhis acquaintances, he was a Nazi not out of conviction but under peraunston of lils socially 'nin bitious wife (Was not Socrates, they say, also a philosopher who was henpecked?)

DEATH

COODRIDGE MIs Lucy Good

ridge, retired Matron of the SL Stephen's College. Bled at the Nethersole Hospital 'on the 14th July, 1950. Funeral Kervice tal The Colonial Conjetery Chapel, Happy Valley on Saturday 15th July

at 5 p.m.

BACKGROUND TO

AGGRESSION ·

of

on

After the detent of Germany he was suspended from his University, and he has been lying since in retirement ha a mountain hut in South Germany.

immens great work is an

The

existentialists

Yet at 58 he is one of the yountext, most active full ad- our movie palaces for dun gre mirals In the Navy, and as such na been chosen to lead the Far Korean Communists.

Eastern Fleet against the North

British merchant ships.

When as President

IL now theme song

or nothing nt

"Leck, who won, the event !! not to proach to the last hotë overran

For a year his destroyers and the green, and can to rest in frigates have maintained a stand have a bluger leat for his ap- frit patrol off the mouth of the cutting again a boundary Yongtee. In 1940 Brind joined feace."

¿ Tint's really gelling Into the e Home Fleet as Chief of Staff' Bismarck from the bridge of the battleship King George V.

"My most exciting assignment”--No. 12: and watched the execution of the rough.... long nad complicated

book called Being and Time, Recently he seems to have Hiven up systemalle writing ind- pre- fers to express himself in briet and mysterious aphorisms. He is now as much a prosepoet as he le a philospher,

Heidegger's ideas are not ae-

"and

Censor was beaten by simple code

By Clifford Hulme

taxl for the airport, and prayed

M

Giving the lie to the rumour-

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After helping to plan the Nor-mongers, is mood toy see the mandy Invasion, he went East jo Valley Forge ahead again, become Rear-Admiral command- ing the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, British Pacific Fiunt. From hi dacship Swiftsure he directed the hombardments of Truk and the Sakishima Gunto islands South of, Okinawa,

Honorary guide

admiral,

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Australia's premier opens an ort exhibition.

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ago

The exam question, said: "How may one buila A good posture?" The student from the country wrote: "Keep the rows off it and'

Tet it grow a while."

days. "A few reminiscensing about the condition

my return.". in which I found Hong Kong on

There conse In

I was

doesn't seem

IRLICH

this.

After watching the final Japan- he would make Johannesburgiese surrender in Tokyo Bay, he before dark. He did, as I learned returned to the pomp and clfcum later. The story and how I got it was splashed and our rivals were some of the life of a peace-time green with envy at the scoop.

But the fun had only begun. A year later Brind was ap From South African friend. I pointed President of the Roya; got more details about the con- Naval College, Greenwich, and

Eddie Cantor says, "The Jows spiracy, and by nightfall had an-spent many spare hours wanders other good story.

og round the National Maritimo in Israel are the best Christians

in the world today." But first wanted to my Muscum.

Sure you aren't Confucian effice have the total number of arrests and some indication.or the Me. Frank Carr the museum's them with someone else?: latest situation to supplement my director, says, "He was such an

"Reports of warface expert on naval history that he

ore, at airborne story.

became on honorary any time, grisly and repulsive" hadainst such an emergency 1 virtually

We have faces ko that at the in Johannesburg a few guide, and a very good gulle at

club, but we don't usually talk simple code phrases of an appar-bat. ently innocuous kind, such, na

"He was 'such a lively taikor about them. bumpy trip" meaning »

"The recently-formed choral of turmoil, and "pleasant trip and had such a sense of humour. that everybody wanted him to menning everything calm. A

Stringing together a suitable guide them round the museum." society gave its first concert last night, when it had an audience In December 1947. Brind.sur- of about 2." collection of these phrases, and ending with lots of love, ade prised his friends by aunouncing paper but to my private phone agrove, the widow of Vice- "One must be tactful and number in Johannesburg, and Admiral Blagrove, who went patient in marriage." with a thumping heart walked down in the Royal Qak in 1939. Which one?

The following month they word into the Past Office with a casual ness I was far from feeling. The married in the chapel of the Col- clerk took the message, and Jeft|lège. me wondering it. It would fool the censer. It did.

state

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The Report of the United

Commission Nations Koren, cabled to Lake Suc-

Idea of "Angst" cess on June 26th, after the

Heldegger invasion from the North be-

Laken over came known, received little the restless and perpetual state of

Kierkegaard's idea of "Angst attention at the time, for it anxiety of the human. mind, was overwhelmed in a flood (which was described in yester-

"Censored! yelled the into his hand, pushed him into of events that followed, the day's article). Heldegger has the

theory, that this News Editor in a fury of invasion. It is nevertheless perplexing

"Angst"

is nie hunger, for the frustration. In his hand was of historic importance for its "Nichts" nothingness non- а message from Lourenco background information. being. Thus man', can achieve freedom only

Gnly Marques, capital of Portugal's The report described the in-satisfaction and

of буде attaining

non-being. This East African colony vasion as a "calculated, co- is a form of death, wish. In Mozambique. ordinated uttack, prepared | 'a way it has also certain parallels We read. It ngain. The Third and launched with secrecy," with the most austere forms of Netive Regiment at Inhambane The Commission is composed, Hinayana Buddhism.

has revolted and is marching on the capitul The Governor. incidentally,

delegates

Here the message from Australia, China. El cepted by the Existentialists in has

France. There' the most cole-ended abruptly. The Post Office Salvador, France, India, the brated Existentialists are Sartre, confirmed that the break was in the very versatile novelist and the message, not the telegraph Philippines and Turkey.

playwright, and Gabriel Marcel, line. For the past two years, the the Christian philospher. It is How then could we in Johan- Commission reported, the significant of the vengeance of nasburg get the full story of the North Korean regime had,

Existentiailem that deeply re-revolt out of Lourenco Marques, #gious тов

Obviously dway 7 belligerent f 300 miles by violently abusive pro- atheists can claim to belong to someone would have to go and paganda, by threatening the school. What has attracted fetch it, and I was assigned.

by gestures, and by encouraging Sartre. Is the idea-begun

But there was no train till next and supporting subversive Kierkegaard that man moulds day and it would take 12 hours to activities in South Korea, his character by the moral coded the trip. A car would be equally

which be

he invents for himself. Blow over the atrocious roads. dressed a wire not to my news his engagement to Mra. E. Roma, come, let's get it exact pursued tactics designed to | This is the central idea of Ser- There was nothing left but to

charter n plane." weaken and destroy the Retre's famous play "The Flies." public of

Here we hit a snug. The local According to Sartre, (South) Koreä,

man is Early in April two guerilla not bound by any eternal moral airport has no lighting equipment, man invents the, moral so it could be used only between battalions were sent across Jawa as he goes along. This, sunrise and sundown.

That meant a delay till next the border but were quickly

morning. I planned a dawn, start

The peaceful Greenwich intor dealt with, and other mea through direct observations, but the Customs men declined to

The next problem was to got lude did not last. In 1948 he was. sures were tightened up to to the numerous Northern give clearance at that hour. Nine out of Lourance Marques with sent East again, this time ur put down subversive activi- misconceptions of facts on would promise.

o'clock was the earliest they my second big story without Commander-in-Chief of the Fat

being detected and searched. "Al Eastern Fleet. ties in the South. Efforts the political personalities of By midnight. I had completed ready the police had been round were made too, to prevent the the Republic. The delegates my plans to dodge the Portuguese to my hotel, and I was being general elections ini the did actually broadcast, to the censorship. Everthing hinged on trailed. South at the end of May, but North, and the U.S.I.S. car: speed once I got to Lourenco At this point my South All Even so, he was attending the can friend come to the rescue.Exercise Trident high-leve they were on the whole sucried a summary of their state- have the pilot back in the here for the border at six o'clock Amethyst was first drive

tate- must get the story, write it, "There's a goods train leaving talks at Cireenwich when the cessfully carried out. In 1948 ments. the elections were boycotted

air with it in time to

tomorrow morning," he said. aground in the Yangtse action of Another plan for unification Johannesburg, before dark, other-There's usually one passenger April that year. by the moderates. All parties was then suggested by the wise he would not be able to land coach on the end of it.

Take except the underground Com- North. It involved the con- there.

that. They'll never expect you jo munists took part in the revening of the North and

to the Customs men it know there'n such a train be- Thanks to was 10 o'clock next morning because it fan't in the timetable. cent elections to the new South Assemblies into a single; fore. the single-engined two-

Though Admiral Brind is the Assembly: and the parties legislative assembly, but it sealer machine rose into the

Hid message

don, grandson, and brother of Army officers, he is regarded-by which had boycotted the was, again accompanied by clear sky and headed East. 1948 elections, fared best in what the Commission, calls

Late that night W

I Wrote my Amerierin navol, officers us the A gamble second story, and soon after five classic Britich admiral." the new ones, in which both "objectionable conditions."

in am was walking, to the station Asked to sum up Bring in one

4Jt might be only a pörul- · the Government and the Bous appeals were de Lourenco Marques

With luck wo would be

by

sentence, one of his friends, insbility, but if you know our ode with not a soul in pight. Opposition parties suffered nounced by the South Korgan e'clock. The pilot must leave not I found myself the only barson- stead of referring to his enormous heavy losses. The new elec Press. Parties, and leaders as later has less than 90 minutes to, the Border ht Resning Gardia his paternal mannan. saldid just toll him, I cut it up later than 230-it ho was to get ger in the train. It was 50 miles height, his sense of humour, or sergeant-major you would't

for dusters. tions returned some 130 inde-sheer propaganda, designed to set the story. It was a gamble, and, expecting to be challenged Brind is a confidence-radiator": pendents out of a total of 210 members.

laws:

Marques.

reach

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there my

..

went no further, and to reach

This also proved to be a gooda. passengers

train, and the wagon assigned to

had recently bred carrying coal.

solely to split the unity pre-

my nesange in the The gleaming white gold mine

chiffs of my sites and vailing in the South Assem- dumps of Johannesburg faded Meanwhile, the

behind and the rugged mountains When I reached Bees North blythe Commission agrees of the Eastern Transviat loomed. Garcia tour, hours later was in a Korca Radio renewed its with this view, and says the very so often the tiny plans highly nervous state. The train campaign for unification and invasion in force suggests the dropped sickeningly into an air Komatipoort, South African on June 7. proposed elections peace campaign was merely pocket.

On the pilot's knee was a ten-territory seven miles away, it wan throughout Korea, following designed to, screen the pre-ceiles-to-the-inch road map. necessary to take another train. the meeting of a proposed parations for armed action. Aerial maps of that region didn't Consultative Council. The ad- The Northern leader, Gen exist. His problem was to find peal was more moderate than eral Kim 1). Sunt, indeed and he won't sure he could..

á particular gap in the inountains previous appeals while still made full propaganda. use of looked down at the tooth-edged Stiff unchallenged, I scrambled denouncing as traitors," the these overtures and the South terrain, B,000 feet below, and aboard and made myself as in- conspicuous 'na possibio la what. 1 nine top leaders in the Southernfection thereof, in his urged the censor..

After a tense half hour the considered the darkest corner, Korean Government, find broadcast on the morning of pilat spotted the gap and soon Five Portuguese joined me and reiterating uncompromising the invasion. He claimed not we were purring like a timber the train crawled off, it was the hostility to the intervention only that (all theft friendly wol over the Kruger Nallanal Jörgest seven pile journey I've in any way of the UN. Com- overtures had bear, turned Park, a game reserve the size of ever made, and when I stepped Wales, and the home of some 000 out at Komatipoort, I looked lika

chimney sweep. but that the South had llons, a few of which came into s

On British Territory "duce more, The report then clears up crowned this, iniqully by the story later. the mystery of the three so- | launching An Inyastonington on the Lourenco Marques aire warned my office in Johorines

Exactly at 115 we rolled fondashed for telephone and precipitating. thd port, just missing af hat-heap burg that another message wan iter-offensive." carelessly tett by the easy-going lernst omca api – sluggered comingar Thon I runde for the donsvärdict Portuguese.

mission.

They

called peace delegates sent over the border, from the North, carly in June, were immediately: arrested by the South Korçan authorl- ties, who tried to induce then

to switch sides by

them the facts of

tion in the S

Northern Radio violdfitly flea ardh nounced the detention of the "envoys of peaco hearing of the case, ha Commission, wAAAA all threo delprätelöf "good" treatmentha by Southern, authorities.", Ful86", axpressed --

bellet in the go

of the North: bu

their eyes had bee

Next came a desh to an hotol the clerks with the announcement that run by on. Englishwoman. Here that. I had 1200 word wire to

to I had a colosaltroke of tuck.send...

Lourenco Marques?, e

tlons Beveh pollical odien from Lisbon How was I to, get

all flad been living there and it was they who had plotted the rising, The Englishwoman named Sand described membawa

Co

back, lo

dhore, 'Wamano - train, froin Kelballpoort that day, gand: 16 *rench * Restano Garcia, switche there was a train, 1 would have 7 Overin drink

Tochl

to walk, VALG

Land The police had seized the cone 7spirator of the hotel that corri-

The and the revolt'sfild" cóllabio

The marWer now, on area police sergeant mentioned this muese, Phip in the harbour, plan, He quashed it. Immediately.

and explained. colled yet the this time to the through bilye if your walk. You'll never get drsades waren. Salt Ilands Deport. Indriying the lone out MAN of Kriger Mallona Patis In

prowling about the river hero,

on, the railway; half-

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