1950-12-30 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

RAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT—

0000

— 6.4

YOU WERE SWIMMING FULLY-PRESSED IN THE

STREET

́`· AND !THAT

YOU WERE SPEEDING OVER THE GROUND F

'IN GIANT WEIGHTLESS STRIDES?

DREAM

MEANS:

-THIS

This is, on the whole, a fairly happy droam. You fool that pleasure and achlovament are coming to you-casily and offortiously-in giant stridos.

A British Crossword Puzzle

Sublime.

ACROSS

Unconcealed.

8 Surpassa.

0 Urge forward.

Withdraws.

3

Escape.

7

Intense.

8

Ne'er-do-well.

20 Those in favour.

21 Disproves.

26

22

Frolics. Wine.

3 Mount.

DOWN

4

Sharp.

5

Push roughly.

6 Pamper,

9 Able.

11

Requite.

12 Skins.

14 Taciturn.

15 Treat with contempt.

16 Write down.

18

18

Guard.

Inborn disposition. Analyses.

19 Feels

22

Abstains from food. 23 Flower.

24

Hackneyed.

Determines.

Drain. 25 Rind.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across; 1 Cashed, 6 Dhows, Metre, 9 Arabic, 10 Actor, 11 Roast, 12 Tuck, 13 Tinge, 16 odice, 18 Physic, 20 Plean, 22 Mien, 23 Still, 25 Grate, 20 sier, 27 Erect, 30 Penny, 20 Tended. Down: 1 Claptrap, 2 Seascape, 3 Emir, Decodes, & Drastic, 0 Heclic, 7 Wrong, 14 fatifed, 15 Ensnarod, 10 Mystery. 17 Dialect, 19 Hasten, 21 Large, 24 Late.

!!

You have, however, got a slight twinge of conscience. Swimming in the water symbolises going back to your childhood. This occurs in the street before the policeman; you feel the pleasure you look forward to would not be approved of by the Mrs Grundys of this world,

Russians default on mine deal

DOLLARS HELD BACK

By FREDERICK ELLIS

The Soviet Government has partly defaulted on payments to the Canadian Government under a £7,142,000 compensation pact for the Petsamo, Finland, nickel mines.

The mines, formerly own- ed by the giant Interna- tional Nickel Company of Canada, were ceded to

PETSAMO

Canada accepted the

dollar the

half, but refused to take rest in sterling-

Until this year the Soviet kept the Government has always

to the agreement paying to date, £5,470,000 in dollars.

"p

PLE

WHAT PRICE PICASSO?

by Jon Nope!

• Cost-of-culture Jumps a few points.

Index

Publishers Rider and Co. are alding süd for 60-page book of Picasso's play "Desire Caught By The Tall. Book contains a few illustrations by the author. It also contains

a

few pages with nothing at all on them, though they are in- cluded in the three-core grand

total.

the дго

Among other things, publishers announce they amused to give the British pub- Be the book.

'I think I see

what

mein.

•

1860.

Here's a 'must

for MPs

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

SHOOTING AN

ELEPHANT. By George, Orwell. Secker and War-

BOOKS

whon

aro

Novells Fancy Englicis,

And what kind of English may that be? The kind where words are used not so much because they possess meaning but rather because they make evocative noises in the reader's ont. The kind in

which you

car.

may ponder this statement: "Dis crepancy was further defined by her bare shoulder blades." Or brood over the significance of burg. 108. 212 pages, skilful heightening of the ten this "Slowly, he wank into the climax. vast reverte of earth's more lingering A NY

doubts sion, to any dramatic

with endearmente and mur they that Orwell was one of it describes three Commando atisfactory moments, a-mutter

operations;

It does not murs of pleasure." the most powerful minds of finished, it stops.

elaborate portralia of March Cont llocs nỗi always It does not even write so glossily: the can con- our time will not survive draw

emotional five minutes' acquaintance men at war.

attach names

to its characters. descend to

vivid, But statement.

the style of with this new collection of It has no humour.

ond without this movel, is, undeniably, It tells of borTOTE, his esasys.

of the chief obstacles to under- For here

standing what is happening in it.

in

in

Ita (main outlines are simple.

Orwell la at his flinching or hysteria. Its writ most effective, forging no sys- ing has dignity and restraint.

It is the work of a man of but darting ter of thought, they robustly and usefully over the unusual qualities of mind,

A young ballet dancer named Biold

human follies-cs- man capable of recalling from enough. of

la threatened brought to him one or two that Summer Day tho On a brief visit to Britain pecially political follies. A down all the lurld experiences Wat

to-earth philosopher

other men would have missed, with TB. As if this were not: is novelist nephew of American 10

homespun English tradition of other recalling

of

them in bod enough, she is left a huge Ambassador Lewis Douglas -

memorable and distinguished granite house in Perthshire by There, sha 24-year-old New

her late "flance.". Yorker the Radical Dissenters (a touch

of Bentham, with an echo from language.

falls under the spiritual

spell Frederick Beuchner. His Orst Tom Paine), and harbouring a Its most appalling incident of a local divine and under the

"A Long Day's Dying"

of story.

abstract deep suspicion the States dee

when Ideals,"

exploding grenades turn did well

C3- and cloudy enough in

nouns

Left.

the crowded mess deck of to allow him to take a year's pecially those of the

into a slaughter- said destroy or schoolmastering. holiday from

beware, For example,

and house is not the most affect- It will be issued here

Orwell, of the anarchists February. Beuchner plans to

Those who re- 158. pacifists. the

Unfortunately, there is morn finish another novel before re-

estenta-

to the novel than that, There are nounce power most turning to New York and tiously and unctuously

trimming, mysterious ng 'the There is the picture schoolmastering.

probably meditating more sub- tie designs on

your freedom, young lieutenant, on the morn- inside of a haggle

subsidiary plot, happening For this

he disliked ing of the Sicilian landing, who

before the main For

twenty years reason

of his food on the plea sea- action, and unfolded is a diary finds in held which Summer Day

her at if

granite home, Another

nature's

sense.

The Airmen gegarlaus

Remember

pro

to

巋

less spiritual spell of a local Intrd'a non.

of n

bis

years

Carrying оп the family te tradition started by their

mugle within bool aims to be anti-human and re-

actlonary) and Tolstoy. Yet he sickness. His arms were father and uncle of capturing Gandhi (belleving his basic sits chilled and pale, refusing twent

his sides and Cherry writes

about both of

them hbours pressed too closely. subsidiary plot, twenty covers are John Kearton, John has written

with understanding and good Memories." "Nature

Brother

against him. "I felt in some after the main narrativa

aprophetic dream, obscure way that I must not folded in Cherry, director of Jarroida,

the very Others felt

common in Highland "Public opinion," writes Or- touch him." publishes it next month.

well in one of his fashes of

same. The young lieutenant is novels.

The upshot of it: all is that Insight, "because of the tre-

about to be killed, mendous urge to conformity in

And again, curiously moving, Summer Day is not what she is animals,

Icss

Is the savage outburst against thinks she is. Hero father was Highland gentleman. tolerant than

of the Allies of the deformed not any system

Italian caretaker

of an unin- That is very satisfactory. But..is... low."

teresting church, destroyed by it really an adequate reward, bomba. The author, glad to for so long a journey through Conformity! It was, for Or be rid of his curses, gives him the misty glens? The London headquarters of well, the great contemporary cigarettes.

one "When I turned to say good- the RAF Escaping Society are danger and, incidentally,

Britain of the main sources of bad bye. I saw the crippla weeping planning holidays in

for French, Bel political writing which is the against the wall in an agony next year and gian

Dutch children subject of an uproarious essay of fear and sorrow. He had I would shoot Orthodoxy expected that whose parents helped Allied in this collection.

lifeless style. In him for his abuse of my na- to demands airmen

back to escape

this respect, as in others. tion." Britain during the war.

best in tho A war book Orwell was one of the rebels. with the Russians, City

His attack on flatulent con- tradition. Many familles have already

writing should

*DOUGLAS GRANT, born 1921; have been startled by the par- promised to act us hosts. The troversial

toith Royal Marine Com tial default. They have

Sicily and France; as- long plan is to have panties of 60 toroad, as a panitential exercise, held the impression that what- 100 children overy month by politicians and pubileists of mandos in

sociale professor of English litera- ture in University of Toronto. ever faults the Russians

and may through spring

summer. all parties. have. their Government care-Travel will be paid for by the fully met its contracts and in- Society.

financial obliga- ternational

By attempting to pay in stering the Russians are not only breaking their contraci, but are trying to dodge British Treasury

which regulations,

of sterling ban the transfer from a non-dollar country to a dollar nation.

- With little

INLAND

Russians in September 1944 under the armistice agree- ment between Finland and Russia.

Cana- Compensation to the dian Government was agreed

tlons.

direct

contact mch

Ex-prisoners are drawing up The Polsamo mines, near the list of people who helped them British nir attaches boro freedom. former Russian-Finland

asked to help by one of the world's have been der, are at $20,000,000, to be paid in major sources of nickel,

vital tracing others who worked with

Resistance movements. instalments over six years. in rearmament. Payment was to be made U.S. dollars.

in

compensation Although the agreement was with

But this year the Soviet Canadian Government, Government demanded that half the payments due-£833,- money was passed on to 200-should be made in dol- lars, the other half in sterling.

company.

"But," says Miss Craig, the the Society's secretary, "50 for we are fading it difficult to get.

the

21

before the Preferably General Election.

be

served

next

* GEORGE ORWELL, died this Eton; year at the age of 40: feat name

다음 Blair: educated Eric

Police in 1D21; joined Burma worked a dishwasher in Parts and schoolmaster in London.

LIBRARY LISTA,

THE BACKWARD BRIDE, Uy Aubrey. Horn Chatto and Windus: 0%. dd? 243 pages. A mild, sometimes funny. satire aimed at the routine Aunt Saffier at me age By an author who, by. This time should have graduated out. of the feather-weight class.

OLD HERBACEOUS

By Reginalg, Arkell Michael Joseph; Es 6d 155. DARUS

Pessant felsŭrely, santirnental story of an old gardener

DARK BAHAMA. By Peter Chorley Colling. B. 6d: 250 oages. Crime anch vecret service work in the Bahamas. Maybe the Master twas not quite the -But the Dace he used to hara

still there MICHAEL THE FINN: By Ka Walter Putzim; 124 60: 440 nagn A vast carves and rather turgid action Perlad, the Reformation: the scene.

Cli most of Western Europe the sack of Rome A karla extralan in sti-in nistorical reporting

THE BESPOKEN MILE. By ing

March Cost. Collins. 10s. 6d. 448 pages,

Scottish Highlands seem to be fatal to the English it Gets The moment novel. THE FUEL OF THE FIRE. foot in

various that region, By Douglas Grant. Cres- disasters occur.

The plot becomes as complex 236 set Press. 12s. 6d.

as a clan history, and about as A dash of the my- probable. pages.

stical is imparted, strong as s

It has ghillie's

the sufficient children. Many people THIS war book does not de

who helped Allied airmen are too shy to come forward,”

-(London Express Service)

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

dram. The

prose

pend on its plot.

It does not re, by takes on the hazer aspects of

no plot.

THE DIARIES OF LADY, CHARLOTTI CUEST Edited by the Earl of Bess Dorough John Murray BL: 305

Lady Chartatta was an aria enerati

Your woman who married an ironmaster wrote treatises on wron Drocessing and transisted the Welch classic the Mabinogion into English She had 10 children and treď to be 83. She who found time to keep this diary, London Express Sermier

Happy New Year-If Possible

By KEMP, STARRETE

#WHAT'LL

WE DO

NOW

IN SOME OFFICES THE NEW YEAR. CELEBRATION LASTS TOR. DAZE

AND DAZE AND DAZE.“

JEONE OF THE ACRE MEHMED

İELGALAT WILL HAVE SOME VERY RED FACES VAEN TREY LEARN HOW "RÈYAVEL- CORED TE BEW YEAR,

*FUD THE ORE WAO THOUGHT THEY OIGHT, TO CELEBRATE AT HOME ... CAVE COVER CHARGES, TIPS... TAXI PARES AND

THE MORNING AFTER..

TOLKS.

COME ON

ALVENT.

CONRATE

¿CÔFR. 1950 SÝ GENERAL FEATURÈS DORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

NEW YEARS EVE IS THE ONE TIME IN THE YEAR WHEN A MAN WILL PAY OUT GOOD HARD! CASH TO BE TREATED LIKE A POOR RELAT- ION WITH THE SMALL POK: HE IS WELCOMED WIR ALL THE ENTHUSIASA, A BURGLAR HASTOR THE POLICE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR? WHATK HAPPY ABOUT

· LOOK AT THE CHAPE THE WORLDC INK

LOOK AT TAXES,

LOOK AT

TO THE YOUNG OVER ITT A BRIGHT SKINING NEW YEAR! -

THE HEADACHE AND THAT HORRIBLE TASTE AREN'T ENOUGH, THEY HAVE TO REMIND YOU WHAT A DOPE YOS WERE

AND HOW SILLY YOU. LOOKED AND MAT THEY TOLD YOU CO.

IN THE FOLUT UPSTAIRS KË

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CHUJA

LOOK

TO THE OLDSTERS ITT JUST AIKHHER YEAR.!