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MacArthur

the

GREAT?

JOHN GUNTHER STRIKES CLAY.

OR IS IT THE GENERAL'S BOOTS ?

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

THE RIDDLE OF MacARTHUR. By John Gunther.

Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d. 219 pages.

NSIDE

I

Europe. Inside U.S.A. But not Inside MacArthur. Günther stands outside the colossus; respectful but puzzled, hat in hand and eyes squint- ing furtively towards the feet. Can that be clay, or is it only the general's famous shiny boota?

book

Gunther presents to his admiring public a which assembles facts and ovaden judgments. Like a beaver, he gathers the sticks and the twigs of evidence, but they don't amount to a dam.

Japanese sophisticated passes: They amount to an unsatig- factory book containing a great sny, "It is a bore to have as deal of interesting information. Emperor a man whose hobby is MacArthur blology." nato to First thing

about marine

"Hls of the

Ктретот, MacArthur is that he has not anys

of the is about that eet foot in the United States function dince

May 1937 First complaint Union Jack in England.”

Favourite expression against Gunther is that he puts forward seven reasons for this Japan: appelagerra apres loosening without committing guerre general abstinence himself to one of them,

morals. A poli asked Jupantse

chosen for

'Dugout Doug'

won

10

la of

appelagerro? handsomely.

Japan

film in

Like Roosevelt. MacArthur students: Which kind of love Eis do you support platonic, was a "mother's darling."

him by his realistic or whe another, is 10 years his junior, "Realistic"

"General" with all Favourite calls him

formal courtesy in Hamlet. the

"The most potentially useful Tennessee.

and usable people in Asin."

Their 500

Arthur le 12, has are as enigmatic as their ruler, the vals, touchy, small-minded, been in America or ai emotional but quite remarkable never school. He has an English

1811 man whorn Gunther finds it so arcent governess und

The hard to fit into his categories, genern watches over him with

GUNTHER. JOJN care. * protective ** intense

arm Chicago, 1901; da married and has When the boy broke an

NOTE; now fues in New York. skating, skating was forbidden in future to little Arthur.

MacArthur has • prodigious memory. He talks as well as he writes badly. He was dis- text by his Gla who unjustly

A

called him "Dugout

disliked

United

still

Doug":

inare by the

MOULDED

IN

NOTH

EARTH. By Richard Vaughan, 9s. 6d. 288 pages.

time I EDW the THE Jast

John theme of this novel,

was playing it in do not blame

of

States navy: is adored Gielgud

none of lights, But

by his staff officers,

whom, so it 15

being first-rate " "ald, "can risk Richard Vaughan for borrow-

He likes Elsenhower mutual)

(it is

for whom, however, a blind, almost

his staff cherish

ing the story Romeo and Jullet. Shakespeare borrowed it too. It is a good story with centuries of life in it

still (as here) to the Welsh hills, 1 sprouts into Transplanted pletely without fear and, fery growth of Cymric passion, make matters more confusing, poses

herole figure in poetry, hwyl, hate, hat blood,

feminine, jealousy. He is com

lice

an

to

a bad movie. Everybody knows bad ditto.

On the Brecon borders, 50

that all real heroes are modest,

unassuming und

apparently years ago, dwell and feud the overcome with timidity. Or are farming families of Peele and

they?

Nelson, putting on all Ellis

What the feud is about

trouble us no more than

his decorations o swagger need tro

about the Victory's quarter- Jeff Ellis, famous fighting men,

deck?

35

The Pope And I

60 at

It troubles Justin Peele and

especially with

A quart Liquor under their belts. Не is un Episcopalian who For Edwin, Justin's brother, works all Sunday, leaving the all is changed from the moment church-going to his wife, He his eye falls on Grett Ellis. "thinks of himself and the Pope First thing the families know romance is when the this the leading contemporary of Christians. He concedes to the banns are read out in church. bury the hatchet? Pope a certain primacy on the Will they

Peeles and Ellises know only spiritual front

He has sensitive hands which one home for a hatchet,

The

wedding shake slightly; and he has not

celebrations been off one day ill in 30 years. pass with many an awkward He has friends incident but no actual blood- the-shed. The end comes soon after, among crankiest trun

reac abruptly, melodramatically, with tionaries but imunense force and fury, when would

resent Justin and Jeff challenge one being

ought another to a fight with a mod of as one him- bull, The bull wins both bouts. Anybody Romeo and Juliet live happily

CUNTHIR

self,

who contem ever after.

platoa

jackel

calling To this turbulent, first novel Heneral Vaughan brings and passes bloodthirsty on-complete conviction. Blood at Wall transfusion for the anaemic Street," might British novel! consider a few

* RICHARD VAUGHAN: born in facts about his Wries; now teaching at a London απ assistant administration grammar school, as

English emaster; aged 48; married. in Japan.

The health side of it, for example. Every

outside, this time individual (my, 80 miles) in

Japan

twice.

immuniser)

every

has

been vaccinated BCG (anti-tuberculosis has been given to Japanese under 35, re- ulting in 40 percent redu

reduction in deaths. Thirty-four taillons been immunised against have cholera no cases since Decem ber 1940, Aim of MacArthur's social security plans? "Well- being of the entire nation frora cradle to grave." Just where

have we heard that phrase be- fore?

So Friendly

1

憔

On

Will MacArthur's occupation prove successful?

policy

Kliks,

as on the man himself, Gunther is notably cautious.

"I do wish," says the American officer in Tokyo, "the Japanese would have more appreciation

for

them

the way we're reforming

It is hard to believe that an entire nation is in a conspicacy to deceive us" musés Gunther

a0

he looks at the street signs in Japan:** кол limita Venereal discabb Welcome foreign trades," or listens to the Osaka trader

did to our but double keep

Saya Japanese reporter.

"Even I can't know when my

telling the are

compatriola Beritis official:

fruth."

"The

be their

-London Express Service)

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951.

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED · THAT--

YOUR TEETH

FELL OUT AND FUR

GREW IN THEIR ")

PLACE

AND THAT YOU PUT OUT

YOUR TONGUE AT SOMEBODY, AND HE SEIZED IT

AND PULLED AND PULLED AND PULLED?

-THIS DREAM

MEANS:

-You-are-frightonod-of-your-own aggrossion. You have a great deal of resentment in your system which makes you want to be rude to people, say spiteful, tactless things, and generally flay those around you.

With that almost sadistic desire to hurt is a strong feeling of gulit and a desire to mortify yourself for it. Your teeth, which are symbols of aggression-they bite are removed from you

and replaced by fur, which prevents you from doing damage. The second part of the dream ropoats-and-emphosises-the-same-motif-or pattern, l.o., aggression randerad impotent and harmless. Your tongue--which is your weapon of attack—is pufled and pulled until you are unable to speak; your aggression is paralysed.

Looks as if you're in danger of becoming a moroso Individualist, wolf-centred, irritable,

instead of a happy, co-operative member of a toum if you don't look out.

ORPHANS OF THE STORM

TH

Their diet: Milk

and whisky

"HIS is the scene in farm kitchens all over Britain...a farmer's wife feeds an orphan lamb... another wafts at her feet for its turn at the bottle.

Never before have so many mother sheep, weakened by the winter's unceasing rain and lack of extra food, died as they gave birth, Many that survived abandoned one of their offspring.

وم جويا

Only way to save the lambe is to bring

them indoors. At first they lie before the tire. wrapped in blankets, and are given whisky and brandy between long pulis of mlik. Same are put into a warm oven until they are thawed out,

They must be given milk, until they are four months old. Cost of Udme-rearing each lamb is about £3.

Because a good supply of milk is essential there is beavy death roll among lambs on remote bill farts where no cațile are kept.

Britain's Considerable

Indonesia continues to

A British Crossword

Interest In Indonesia

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

There considerable.

Puzzle

London Express Service

SAVE-AND BE A COWBOY

New York,

HOPALONG Cassidy, here of of American boys --not all of school | agn-is corralling customers now for a new set of hombres-a group of American banks,

havo

are law and order, His letter ap- : LONDON, Mar. 30.

Huge cut-outs of Bit Boyd, HE British political in- probably three reasons why peared in The Times, and that in full colour and ten times a5 the large as life, adorn the banks' newspaper commented on of THE British political in- probably three reasons

situation. It remarked that the walls. Some have fenced-in Indonesia Indonesian government is as "corrals" be government in

of their own in the should be a subject for gravely concerned as the Dutch

the need to paying-in departments. public discussion in Lon- government on

the maintain

peace within

countres Low-slung don.

Indonesia.

been installed Over which silde the clients can Dr Gerbrandy, who writes young from

retirement, implied that money that makes them mem-

the of

new Hopalong of Indonesia bera the government could

be directly assisted by Cassidy Savings Clubs. intervention from

For a down payment of 148, Manchester

the small boy becomes a ten-

19 128

23.

13 24

126 127

3 Hastenot.

7.Woo.

9 Carousal.

D Donkey.

10

12mot

18

του. 10 Skys, a

Approach, Japanese pray, that the 19:Mistake,

31

ACROSS

United States wofit cease to be 21 Hetvenly body. their overlord, but continue to 22 Shut nollly.

23 Shrrender. The Korea superbly Justined. 20 Wanted.

On

Arthur

underwriteRui Mas-20 Mann

Shark:

an occupying fored or 8,000 Bethor

after

outh

most savage (of war,

DOWN

1 Military formation.

2 Go before.

4 Introduction.

8 Deal

out.

6 Monster..

Worry.

11 Harmony.

13 Andent.

14 Uncommon.

10 Loud Cries,

17 Dross.

10

20

24

Offspring.

22 Perfect war jest him with 30 1milta perz

24 Blacken 37 Massage.

27 Responsibility 28 Simple. 33 Thit ofleng.

BSTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acvar 1 Rolant, v Began, 10 Bolle 11 Inmo, la Indulgence, 18-Ares, 10 Conniches, 22 Show, 24. Irate, 25 anvi 20. Pock

2mmand: Vimmickafubbed, & Delicate 1 Mien,

འ

Most Japan were evtl. felendiler inn before. tory har stir: 1856d heard, Japan

But the post court of his

The first is that British policy played a great direct and in-.

In the direct part

postwar Indonesia's of

The

Dopment

The

Guardiad the

Maybe

you drink because you

Ganist

Born several drinks

below bar,

were born that way...

EOPLE who need D

РЕОРLЕ

drink or two beföre they can got down to work have been born several drinks below par-that is, several drinks short of the best mental condition for coping with sivilisation. It is a handicap they put right at the bar.

And the

reason why many

people never need of drink" to help them face life's hardships is that they are already partly intoxicated by nature. They ore "plus-two men."

INSTEAD OF LIKE THIS––

MONADEZ

... Partly intoxicated by

nature,

These views are the basis of

a

messages

convincing now theory to system containing millions of explain human drinking habits control points where Thay are put forward by a tre algistly delayed. famous psychologist, Professor Raymond Cattell,

The length of the delay is determined by a chemical set free by the nerves. This chemical His medical evidence

sup ---called acetylcholine - clears ports the view that moderata

cuts the

chatrol points and triniicing does many people down the delay. good. It should stience" tük» Experiments strongly suggest thumping teetotalers who that people of the anxious, automentomily fail Loto the worrying type consistently pro- partly intoxicated" category. duce more of this chemical

Cattell 'bo- Hoves that mil- lions are born with TIETVOUS systems per- be- manently fuddled to the slight extent

that a

Scotch

double

affects

LCHA FMAN

PINCHER

COLUMN

the brains of more-alert folk. control points.

than happy-go- lucky folio.

Nervous mes- sages should be able to travel more efficiently about thair

baina bEERLIPS

there

dely st the

Such people may therefore So they are spared the anxie be capable of specially criti

Hes and doubts which beset clearer brains In closer with reality..

touch thought which forces them to foresee disturbing possibilities the optimists BTQ to which

Their less-fortunate fellowe blind.

The main effect of a amoil with more penetrating minds

alcohol is to in- need an occasional pick-me-up quantity of

to bring themselves down to the arease the delay at the control

mentally healthier ponds. lower, but level of the optimists.

Cattell, who is research pro- fessor in psychology at Illinois University, US, marshals his cvidence this way:----

The nervous network of the human brain is like a telephone

So for Introspective people a couple of drinks bridge the gap between anxious doubt and buoyant condens.

In his excellent "Introduction to Personality Study" (Hutchinsons, 7. ed.).

-(London Express Service)

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

When making close-up shots such len thìa, it's wise to compen-

sate for paraflex so your subject is centred on the film.

USING YOUR VIEWFINDER-WISELY

independence. second is that Indonesia ninjor producer of important rawinaterials and foods rub following day emphatically re-derfoot in the Hopalong Rodeo. ONE of

fected such an idea. It explain He gets a membership card, a The

Dr Natsir'a ed to its readers

For these reasons

criticism for being too friendly to the West,

Although the government succeeds it may stand

British liberal newspaper, such as the that Manchester

Guardian, take decidedly Lavourable

2

ber, tin, fats and sugar, third is that the islands are ont fell because it was bust of his hero (with a slot in

rodeo badge, pony an essential element in British under

his hat), a roc

mail-pouch. expresa

And strategy lying, as they

signed portrait of the actor, tween Malaya and Ad

When the boy's savings have reached £3 10s. he becomes à to the left and bo lesz wrangler-in

of the Charge to co-operate with the horsea,, view of West, the Manchester Guardian

and

At £175 he is a Bar 20 fore- is in The Times, particularly sees no harm in that.

tank man-a

equalled by columns, correspondence

Hopalong's.

More

banks and than 100 savings Institutions, operating in some 200 cities, have joined the

scheme

the Indonesian

government

"In the present-circumstances in its that are to be read the last of Southeast Asia it may be despairing

Dutch safer in the long run for a non- cries

of the

government to err political classes bemoaning the Communist

by going too far to the left turn events have taken.

This week # WDB I than by being too conservative,

From their point of view, the Gerbrandy, formerly the Prime like Bao Dal in Indo-China."

proft

in the scheme is enim- Minister of the Dutch wartime

The Manchester Guardian

portant. What they are think- the Internat government in exile, who called does not find

ar "la" that a depositor may do remain a depoalfor long after upon the greater Powers to situation in Indonesia as

as Dr Gerbrandy's he exert pressure on the Govern pressing

away chlidish ment of Indonesia to maintain picture of anarchy and unrest things.

JOHNNY HAZARD

I PREPARE A TOKEN OF.

| LOVE FOR THE "FAIR ONE FRIDA

FUZ ANAYEZ A GURPRICE /

| CLIP INTO SIER TENTANDO FEICH

· BUT DE CÍLENTS AVERA

THE SURPRISE

HAL, NOBLE ELDER.....I GO

LON CATS FEST!

fing

has

put

RETURN.

O ELDER

WITH

our Yeaders has generally placed to one side of written

to ask why he's the lens of above it.

This been having trouble getting

true of any camera those centred

which give you bis subject

view through the taking negative when he shoots close your up.

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on

the save

lens-single lens reflex camerás view cameras. However,

cameras line up the plcture in many

have an ad my camera's viewinder care- justment .to compensate for

parallax,

fully," he explains, "Yet when

I get back my finished print, I

Such

adjust-

ment permita

you to alter

at pro dia-

find the subject isn't cented, the field of your viewinder In fact, I've figuratively calped when you shoot

couple of sitters in recent weeltx"

1

The answer

tance or another.

Where your abova.. tho

viwilinder is rafter for

Higher than

to this problem, is wise to alm I'm sure, lies in the question slightly of parallax. Parallax is a three- necessary

the view syllable word used to describe the the fact that the fields of view

of

the camera lens and the little ctly your viewfinder do not exactly

This is because the at the oqincide.

viewfinder of 糖 camera ig lens.

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