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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1951.

of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

130 And there shall arise after them saven yours of famine; and all the pleaty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall con- Larime the land -

SCIENCE CHECKS WITH GENESIS AFTER 36

conturies experts quickly organised sup- piles of a radionetivo chemicat.” Then they devised a sensitive detector that will pick up the atomic mys the chemical gives

Joseph's warning to Pharaoh is re- echoing down the Valley of the Nile, Once again after years of great plenty the Egyptians fear a famine in their land.

To avert it they are planning a desert project identical with the astonishing scheme Joseph

is believed to have devised to end the fambie recorded in Genesis.

And, just as the Fharaoh Thothmes III, put his faith in the foreigner Joseph, the Egyptian Gov- ernment has called in a famous English scientist, 05- year-old Bir

JANA

PINCHER

COLUMN

Cyril Banker to help it. Fox,

Sir Cyril, freshly back

from the de- sert,

told me how he is using atomic

cnergy

to test the soundness of

this revised version of Joseph's Encient scheme.

The

great

Biblical famine of

was caused by a succession parching

droughts, probably

Working ta a sandstorm, Fox fed the chemical into the few coring flowing down the wadds arld sideo. Then be course with the ray detector. traced the water's underground

The wadi did not leak,

Fox Ledves for Egypt to sub- mit his final report this month. It will almost certainly tell the authorities, that the mid-20th- century version of Joseph's scheme for mastering the Nilo

hould work.

London Express Service

This month, for tha first time sings the war,

· Germany takes over con- trol of her foreign faire.

⚫ TODAY the man who ast closest to Ger many's Naxi rulera telia

hie atory.

THE GOOD GERMAN

SCHMIDT

- MAN IN THE KNOW: Schmidt, Hitler, Chamberlain at

Goderberg, September 22, 1938-a week before Munich.

WOMAN OF THE WEEK

MRS. MORRISON

Now she faces her biggest test, too

UPPER

by EVELYN IRONS

followed by exceptionally Sin the semi-de-

semi de favours floral printed frocks.

heavy Nile floods. disasters devastated the delta farm lands.

The Nite has not been disastrous flood

These

at

the

tural

►

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FOR HITLER'S INTERPRETER IT WAS

JUST ONE LONG COCKTAIL-PARTY,

BUT HE NEVER HAD TIME TO DRINK.

But can be reanimate these dead politics for of Almost necessarily, no. The very quality

of neutrality

which enabled kim for- merly to tone down and translate those explosive niborances now, when the ex- "“plosion is vrer, pre- vents him from re awakening them.

by H. R. Trevor-Roper

Author at The Last Days af Hitler

N September 8, 1939, It is not only dish wo borro when Sir Novile Hen- now heard them all before- derson served the that the documents themselves British ultimatum on Ger- have long been published and many, it was not Ribbentrop commented on. It is not only that who received it but the of Hitler's conferences were all the ficial interpreter, Dr Paul sume (for as Dr Schmidt says, Schmidt (Ribbentrop in- Hitler nover commlited himself tended this as an insult to to anything but generalities). Henderson); and again it The very lack of political aware- was Dr Schmidt who, at neas, which made Dr Schmidt

Nuremberg, described the such a good interpreter, makes dramatic effect of that ulti- nim now an uncomprehending matum in the Chancellery. historian. He has tried to make up for this defect by industri- ously reading up published memoirs.

Dr Schmidt's life was full of such incidents, but he was never taken aback. It

con-

was all in the day's work, An What positive impression then official of the German For is left by this faithful record

of crowded revolutionary eign Office trained in the old school at Geneva, he had ferences? If it is not the work suddenly, in 1988, found whose is it?

himself taken on by a now

of a politicion

or a historian,

master; and so he continued FRANCO .. PETAIN

for twelve years, at con-

after conference, ·

the book of a social columnist whose field is not

in consc.

fond of ballet: but her chieft ference recreation

gardening. The translating not the tradi- IT rock-garden in front of the tional civilities of diplomacy,' Eltham house is carefully plant-but the portentous tantrums high society but political society, raised of Hitler, the vulgar asinini. of a gossip writer who circulates

ties of Ribbentrop.

from cocktail party to cocktail party, but who cannot drink be- How did he endure it? cause he must always be taking

Dr notes-notes which, What did he observe?

"Hitler's quence, when written up, prove Schmidt's book, Interpreter" (Heinemann, somewhat dat, 168.), answers at once both

These, of course, are political these questions. Dr Schmidt

cocktail parties, but the style is That is a "good German."

the same: "I had is, he behaved as 80 many sucka since 1931""It was the known Mat- worthy have always behaved un since 1931-one recognises it at

German officials

first time I had worked for Laval

Was ready tailored coat; in summer

ed with aubrietia and a variety Nobody could call the new

of Alpines which she rich in Archery Road, Eltham, Foreign Secretary shy or retir. heral

are a It will not be easy for her to ing. But although they usual time devoted

couple, his wife's dig herself out of her garden the other night. Then Mr character is very different from and transplant herself to the for 50 years. Herbert Morrison rang up. his. She has always had a na more formal surroundings of During that time vast

new He apologised to his wife, happiest at home with her hus-

reserve. She is at her Carlton Gardens,

ather areas have

been brought into Margaret. He was intense cultivation.

afraid band. To entertain a large he would be a little late: company, to meet important Now the Egyptians are ner- certain formalities in con- strangers, to make public ap- vously wondering what would neetion with

that pearances }}

docs his elovation

not happen if the river came down to the post

come naturally. to Mrs Mor- of Foreign rison. in an uncontrollable flood, or if Secretary kept him in it fell too low to water their Whitchall. felds.

Joseph's Canal

JOSEPH is believed to

by

have

solved both these problems

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That is the way of it in the Morrison home, and it always has been. No

matter how busy he is, Mr Morrison nover

one brilliant engineering fails to let his. stroke. During his command-a

wife

know canal was cleared though a

wtien be gorge linking the Nite with a late for meals.

likely

to vast dovert basin called El Falyum

They mat in the

1914-18 When the Nile roared down war. It was all spate the waters | because Her- were diverted into the basin bert Morrison, before they could overwhelm £1-a-week the delta farms.

part timo Later, when

secretary the delta was parched, flood- the London gates were slowly

opened to Labour Party, let the water flow back into the

to elected river.

clare

himself a conscientious objector, though,

4

This canal still exits. The old bed of the Nile which feeds it is known to this day us Bahr Yusuf Joseph's River.

But perves

-

Lost his

Be

eye in

baby-

SCI-

hood, he would El Faiyum

not have been no longer eligible for a flood-controlling military reservoir. Joseph's scheme teil vice.

His tri- into disuse during Cleopatra's bunal

him sent reign.

When the water dried

to work on the the fertile alt which land, and he settled out of it made El Fai- took a job with yum, one of Egypt's richest 'and most heavily populated farm- ing lands

THE

No Loak

•

TO SOUTHEND ALL these 30-odd years of AL A marriage she has stayed in of her clover the background husband's public life. She has appeared at some of his election meetings. She has accompanied danced him 10 party conferences, politically and correctly.

with him

(obviously was 30 years enjoying herself) at municipal DID JOB WELL ago when she soirees, and her hus- She has even broken down band made her natural reserve sufficiently

But she has never shirked her duties as the wife of a rising politician, She is not nearly as dimdont as she

MA MORRISON

. happiest' at home

Mr J. J. Kidd, market gardener at Latch- Archery Road. worth.

their first home

in two furnish -- edroome,

HE did his job well, gave

satisfaction to his em ployer to the end, kept his doubts to himself, and only

once.

As the crisis grows ever more

acute the cocktail parties become

more

frequent; the columnist to go with him on such jaunts

buzzes from capital. to capital: as a day trip to Southend with the East Lewisham Labour

he lives in a whird at acroplanes Party. She has Now come out much

faces the biggest publishes them now that it and special trains; he misses the

is safe, indeed virtuous, to, Salzburg, at Montoire, at Rasten- nothing; he is at Hendaye, at publicity glare of her life as more

during

thic hostess

imposing do so..

burg, meeting Lloyd George and the years she

Chamberlain, 10-roomed fat in Carlton Gar-

Molotow and has lived

dens which is the Foreign Secre

the polítics of Franco, Petain While

and Antonescu, the fringe of tary's official residence,

Nazilam mattered, he was King Leopold and Prince Paul; the Lewisham

The next few weeks will be neutral. Now that they are but his report is always constituency, eventful for Mrs Morrison. They striving to will confront her with problems from his neutrality and

dead he steps discreetly out same; private office jokes and bets, arch-nicknames, Overcome ber smaller in scale than her bus-

second-hand small-talk, painful- natural appre- band's, but none the less far-from the memory of his pri- ly trite generalitics,

hensloos.

All the same,

it will be a big

change for,

homety, Mra

Morrison

take on

duties

~.t.o.

the

..of

Foreign Secre-

tary's wife.

Dazzling di-

plomatic

ties

par..

reaching for her.

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Reserved. Copyright

London Express Service)

vileged position describes them.

The apostrophe adds a new-terror-to-

DARTWORDS

hew line not in the

19

She

benefit

perfectly of newcomers uppy doing the object of the

copking Dart words and housework

She is intensely Saturday in the villa in-Page Six's domesticated:

Arst-class Maddening 19 a Margaret

lived ai needle-woman, She reads a lot, Letchworth. She ਆਪਰ slim, mostly serious modern or class

Puzzle pretty, fond of dancing. Her cal novels.

to

THE new plan is to use in-father,

stcod

depert depression,

Kent

--18

arrango

on the circle

from

to

in

a railway clerk, was She enjoys foreign travel, but the 50 words nearby uninhabited one of the pioneers of the she likes her holldays quiet. called Wadi garden elty. She and Herbert Last year the Morrisons went Rayan, by digging a 22-mile- Morrison fell in love, She lo Sweden, long canal to link it with

where Mrs Morrison 80 that they the taught

him folk-dancing at enjoyed bathing and woodland lead Nile.

the local Skittles Inn. In 1910 walks. She likes the South of THESE they were married,

France, but not the casino Life. NERO

She likes to pick up now re- They had one

child - elpes on her travels, to malte such & Way daughter, Mary. She is married her home cookery interesting that the rela- Today, in her middle fifties, HER FRIENDS tionship be bed hair is grey, but her agure CHE is proud of her home. Mrs Margaret Morrison's bob-

tween any word and

Some Egyptians fear that water might leak from the new reservoir and flood the El Fal- yum farms. Fox's job during the last six months hig

boon

to find out whether, the wadi is

watertight..

eager young atom scientists.

old

is still so slender as to be the cooking. Many

years ago

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The Pope looks very spiritual and arouses emotions of other- worldliness; the English corona- tion

is a fairy pageant...

and reminds him of our unbroken traditions; Venice

Es "redolent

of centuries of Mediterranean history"; Salzburg Is "an archi- lectural Jewel": Sir Nevile Henderson is typically English, Mussolini typically: Latin, etc., --the observations of an

Ambassador's butler.

CIANO SCORES

661 /HAT. the butter saw" in W politics can sometimes be interesting. Chino was such a butler, and his diaries are one of

the great documents of our time. But Clano had a sharp political sense, keen observa-

lon, a brillant style.

things.

Dr Schmidt has none of these When Hitler (and Dr Schmidt) visited Rome in May

his

1938, what a scene Ciano makes of it, with Hitler scandalising the Royal Palace by ringing bedroom bell at 1.0 in the morn- ing and calling for a woman, and

consequent

and uproar

the

содч

First bo.contacted a team of envy of other housewives 49 644 she joined the Electrical Asso.the word. preceding it is ing, simile, metaphor, or associa~ only now! But Dr Schmidt

steps out to do the morning ciation for Women and have governed by ONE of the ton of ideas. shopping. She dresses well, but cookery, demonstrations to other Led by ruddy-faced, 31-year- not in the extreme of fashion; bor

Kenneth Fearnside, these often goes halles with a plain to

housewives. She still belongs the association Dame Caroline Haslett, its founder, is a friend of her, and they are occasionally to be peen lunch- ing together at a West End restaurant.

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A WORD may be an anagram of the word that precedes it. IT may be a synonym of the word that precodes 15.

res that the pubile Bralome was a rare combina- tion of good taste and magni- 5 IT may form with the pre-

coding word the name of aiderate Italians had even put

ivence' and that the well-known person or place in baskets of fruit and bottles of fact or fiction. 20.

grappa in the visitor?” bedrooms. IT may be associated with the preceding word in the And yet Messrs Heinemann, title or nation of a book, play, the publishers of Ciano, have Probably her closest friend 3 IT may be achieved by or other composition.

preferred to leave kalf his diary among Ministers' wives is Lady adding one letter 'to, sitb-

No rulo may be used moro untranslated and to translate Cripps, Enemies she has none.tracting one letter from, or than twice consecutively. As a sort of German equivalent All who meet her pay tribute to changing one, fetter in the pro-

typical succession of words might of Clano's diary," the indus her friendly, unposuming charm, coding word.

be: Cupidity Greed Green trious, virtuous, unpolitical Dr. · and her unaffected simplicity. 4 17 may be associated with

Corn Born --- Barni --- Bran ---- Schmidt ∙She enjoys an occasional visit to the theatre, and is.

the previous word in`a say- Tub Thumping. is especially

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