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"Now suppose we put it back where the Druids left it?”

-(London Express Services

HOW WE RAN OFF

T

WITH

VIENNA.

HE mutiny in the

Polish Navy's hydro- graphic survey ship

"H.G.11 goes back to

AM SHIP

A

The man who has leaped to fame with one book

by Kenneth TYNAN

MONSARRAT

HIS is the

story-the

a cigar; but the chin is strong and runs quickly to stubbie. From the neck up he looks saturnine, from the neck down, baggy. An easy, reasonable conviction that what war does to men in degradation is finally outweighed by what it inspires in courage and power of pur- poso.

He was born in Liverpool, the BOIL of a London surgeon. "Educated at. Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, he took his degree in law In 1091, and then, suddenly, turned novelis. He travelled widely abroad, auspicious of England in the thirties. Three novels were published,

"They were about love, love. and love, In the! · orden" hr 'Laya. "Needlers to say, I knew

nothing about love."

His play, "The Visitor," was saged at Daly's in 1930 with 'Greer Garson in the lead; it

closed after three weeks.

When the war started, he was

"T" lang and true story of still out of his element and fat

one ocean, two ships, from a success.

and about a hundred and flu." men...."

The Pacifist

At first he was a' pacifist, but,

So begins Nicholas Mon- aarrat's foreword to his like so many other idealists, he novel, "The Cruel Sea," was soon to replace one ideal which is

be with its opposite. soon to

Inertia was the bow that pio- published in Britain. It is

a fortnight ten:cd months as a

pelled him, after five discon- already news:

etreicher- ago it appeared in the U.S.A. bearer. "Qulte suddenly," he told as the Book-of-the-Month me, it seemed clear that the All of them were browned off families, or potential pro-

guaranteeing war wasn't going to be won like elements, with the vast amount of politi- Western

the Club choice, from

that. of at least a March 1940 he volunteered

In cal Instruction that they re- towns to eastern rural provinces. for it a sale ceived. Each evening there was There they are left to die. quarter of a million copies, for the Navy, and war and a political lesson and a political "Starvation and exposure are discussion.

being left

to do slowly what and the critics are still ap- Nicholes Monsarrat were for The hours of political talks from gas, commented

In the mornings there were the Germans did quickly with plauding it-two reputable mally introduced,

one of the journals compared its author Not a day passed wallors.

to Tolstoy. without its special dose of ideology and political poison.

All of them were afraid they never going to bo

STALIN'S FAITHFUL FLEE No. 2

a very hot day in the middle On the trail of

of July.

Poland's Communist Pre- Men Who Got Out, Bogumil

sident Bierut and two of the most browned off membera

of the H.G.11 crew, Jablonski. and Piersonnek, ran into each other. They met in the Pomeranian sea-

..

SELTON DELMER

started

side resort of Miedrzysdroje tells today the story which, as Misdroy, was once of the President who Berlin's Clacton.

a mutiny Jablonski and Piersonnel had in his navy. been borrowed from the survey salp to do an urgent job of land mapping.

The assignment alled them with no joy as they explained to me when we were having a drink together. A

For under the Communist system they got no extra pay for doing the land job, but when they got back to the ship they would have to make up Uima lost on land.

foll

scored four hits. The 80 mm. scored only one bit."

When the HG.IT returned to port the crew found a plain- clothes snooper from the politi cal police walling. He asked a great many questions.

leased to civilian life again.

-33

He was at sea for five and a half years, as commander et a corvette and later two frigates, which sank between them three In England it has been chosen U-boats. Once he was mention- as the Evening Standard Book ed in despatches

The book that these events and concentration. the

By the end of the year, "The Wood is naturally about dis-

ke £30,000.

One word of warning: Do not for the Month for September. The three survey exports bet this story of the 12 young all of them joined the mutineers muuncers lead you into thinit-Cruel Sea" will have earned limited digniles of war, and had already been told that ing that the whole of Poland is Nicholas Monsarrat something how, in their presence, logic and they would not be allowed to ready to rise at once. leave the navy because they know too many

secrets. “And what

for us," for crew in the Polish Navy,

Personnek,

and

the

the humanities had to be anses thelised. The lack of discipling ics in in the American navy comes for some fairly violent criticism, but "those were 1944 thoughts," Monsarrat now saya; his recent opinion. "They're growing up, he says medita- those people Hively, "they're learning about responsibility."

It is bad enough for Stalin

It is the story of the convoys that sections of his Communist said organised youth and industrial and their escorts in the battle of and Monsarrat Atlantic, workers every

are mutinous They

rebellious. Over the whole wrote it out of his own know- would all muting if they could. ecuntry, however, the terror of ledge: a dour and final chronide visit has given him a new

Communists remains of a war against two enemies, the

the U-hoals and the decp. When the H.G.11 landed at breathing sea. Ystand there wore 30 Poles on board the ship..

We were lucky. Our ship work- ed alone without any escort vessels. The other ships always keep together. That makes mutiny and escape difficult."

*

He

thorough and effective.

"I think they would all have gone

even Ivanov, the

whore;;

Two Years' Work

"Sensational'

Out of its 150,000 words-'he expert, and fruit of two years work fact

During the war he found time Bogumi political commissar. I emerges about its author that, Even outside the navy life for could see them hesitate,” said though disliking war, he found to write, four short and success. ful books about life aboard cor- ол Piersonnek, the fo'c'sle, the Polish working class seems Fiersonnek, But then a that it strengthened and filled vettes and frigates; and in 1945 decided that the man was de--to be-no-paradise. One of the Swedish Immigration ometal him, and he came, in the end, -he was offered the post of termined to pin something on sailors said his uncle, a steel came aboard.

That and the almost to befriend it.

Director of the United Kingdom them.

worker at Chorzow, asked for memory of the terror did the Most clichas about war are Information Ofice in South When they learned that the

Sunday off to atlend

itruo 10 his trick,"

that it is evil, or that it in ship had been ordered back to daughter's wedding.

novelist's Africa, which he has held ever .The Swede assembled the necessary: It is the

since. President Biorut, on the other Gdynia for the investigation to

WIS told he would have crew, and told them: "Anyone problem to reconcile them.

In 1948, "Depends What You who arrived in Moan By Love" appeared, a col- hand,

grand. He

Monsarrat, had be continted, they unanimously to work his shift. But he could going ashore as a deserter will motored from his luxurious sea- decided that the time had comte choose which the early, do so at his own risk." There London recently after a week side estate.

to act,

middle, or the late.

was no guarantee that they of six broadcasts and two Tlection of three long stories, one

which, *Leave

Cancelled, Jablonski and Plersonnek

Urmle lust took his day off. would not be sent back Twenty-four hours later they

to appearances in the USA., still

USA describing the one-night honey- caught sight of the President had captured the ship while it when he returned to work he Poland.

finds war obscene, but,

moon of a British officer and his one adds, "If another' and his

was in the Baltic. They locked was punished for absenteeism, party just as the Pre-

Four sailors who joined the today, I should go back to the bride, was frank enough to be COMFORTABLE CONVENIENT DEPENDABLE sident was in the middle

of up

the captain, the political As a first offender he was fined mutineers

labelled "sensational" He then tome flowery cliches about the commissar, the radio operator

Navy tomorrow." 45 percent of his month's basic recanted at once. They accepted

began the final draft of "The best blessings for the Socialist and two other offcers and had salary. On a third offence he the captain's word that

brought it safely to Ystaad, in was warned that he would go action would be taken against

Monsarrat agreca that war Is Sweden. There the 12 mutineers to prison.

All the sailors, like the other them if they returned. Only 12jsort of man, you would say, WA nearly always the unkindegi went ashore as political gefugees.

the deep, judicious appraising

enemy of literature, and only voice of a cricket commentator.

two war novels-Ernest Heming- His eyes are dark and im way's "A Farewell to Arms" and paling; he has rather a weak Richard Aldington's "Death of a mouth, pursed generally, round. Her have ever satisfied him. the latest American novel of Caino

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Game-or

BOVRIL

What a game I and the set still

to win. Now you'll be glad of

those reserves of energy Bovril- helped you to build.

BOVRIL

Welfare State.

"Talks like a waterfall," mut- tered Jablonsial.

Nothing very subversive OT out of the way about that, you Eay. But it was enough for a solitary Individual in a

grey green coat who had crept up behind them.

young

I do not think that the pros- pect of a political Inquisition

led these He whipped out an identifica- would have tion tag, introducing him an

Poles to rebellion and self-exile officer of the "political survell if they, had not, us, they told lance service." He asked the me two sailors to accompany him.

дз

by the conditions of life in He took them all the way back Been thoroughly disillusioned

escapees I spoke to, talked of the

Intensification..

of the psychological terror and the deportation of the bourgeois

came

on

the way

ashore out of 30.

(JEFTON DELMER CONTINUES THIS SERIES TOMORROW)

*VC**

started

He is 41 years old, married, a bon aged 0- gardening

Cruel Sea." 110 wilb

Cook? Only When I Must

PARIS. Prémier Rene

N.Pleven is said to be

PARIS NEWSLETTER

to their ship. There he spent an the Polish Navy and in Soviet hour checking up on them with nominated Poland generally: the captain

went off. But the 2. Belloved that the Russiins Then he

were planning a war. In this France's bravest man be- harm was done. The ship and sators of the Polish Navy, would cause, he has undertaken to "From EVELYN IRONS the sailors had got a black mark. ba forced to fight for their

govern it, Soon there were other black country's enemics and marks.

The

he says: "It's good

but really, it won't. ake a pretty dim view

do. We take

of mutiny.

He has begun four now

of

houseboat on the right banks of stories in the last twelve tire Soine near the grandiose months, and discarded three of

·Alexandra III bridge.

them. His Ana chol Domesticity mingles

mysteriously set "between glamour aboard the Water Gipsy and

and America a dry Martini in course, "the book with the dea Fallting over the bar, 27-year-old proprietor I've always been looking for." Liza Perrin said: "Excuse mo Fear of plagiarism keeps him

-I

hear the baby

from disciceing what the kica The men in the fo'c'slo-the All the Poles complained uit week, Madame Anne Pleven, both run a career and manage

food. is surely the country's most their home.” same 12 sallers who a few days terly to mo about the

one point in "The

Cruel later took the H.G.11 to Sweden "Appalling," they said. Their modest citizen. She has kept Even about her housekeeping quay, yelled

son of Lisa and having taken on board an ob Lieut. Commander Erleson, and liberty-were discovered by ration consisted of 600 grammes herself severely in the Madame Pleven makes

nonch, husband Andro” Sallas

German prisoner,

pressors.

sugar.

*France's woman. of the admiration for women who can and disappeared· down |

egg"

pram on

gangway-month

the

15.

old

Sca

An officer Ustening to an all- of bread a day each. There was background of her husband's have to," she says, and then Lise-blue-eyed, dark-haired, stress

boasts. " cool only when I Communist broadcast from no butter or margarine or Dat.

of jam were public life all the 27 years. Es only a steak or a boiled plaid skirt and black jersey with can do with these people...

slim, and wearing her Bohemian reflects: There is nothing we Radio Europe.

Three grammes The officer, did not punish faraod, and six grammes of of their marriage...

an elegant air aims to be a they are not curable. We can them. He just warned them sura

Yet aho is a personality ön

Д She entertains on small descendant of Pocahontas, Red only choot them, and hope for not to do it ngalo-and mariced

Meat was

was only received in her own account. Her father scale in her small flat in Passy Indian princess buried at Chalk, a better crop next time, er it down against them.

watery, potato soup, which form- was a judge, and she is a quali on the second floor of a bour Gravesend. She came to Parls ed the staple diet. What there ned lawyer although the never geois block overlooking a fall from Cincinnall two years ago A Now Enemy? was of meat was very thin practised (she and her husband way line.KRIS to study art; Bought a' houseboat

Monsarral book has the "was six, - zlotye » met as university students when... A their pay

At 80 Anne Pleven has eight for 2250) turned it into Then, on the evening of July month, enough for two packets Pleven was studying for his grandchildren. Her eldar watersida bar; married last year, cruel nobility which that point

of cigarettes in the open market.

mar- Is still known by her maiden of view implies. Thêm will be daughter Nicole, ΠΟΥ 31, came the visit to the ship of the two yours most of them law doctorate)........

frankeriores fillord.com“ General Michalka, commander been in the navy many of With an accent.

ried an airman at 10; the young name. The family live, abord no er giri, Francoise, was married brain. Tika hur husband a sho

son of a French general. servant knows Exiglial in all I nuances Madame Pleven knows Lon- but, speaks it with a strong don wall. She lived

there for

a future years before the war, to PARIS is swept by a craze for was may confront him with a She is a Parisienne born and turned for in short me in 1942 fortune-tellings Smart Shops uterent enemy does not per red has travelled widely in Before the war she lived with display a fortune-telling cardes surp Monsarrat The same visor Europe, and the U.B.A. Beside her husband, then European Also on sale are handkerchiefs will come down inside him. doubl and the spg Irrelevant demotions; and, the coke fuel bule husband be director of an American electri- painted with forecerias for: the warding off

frail; and tiny; abak struke, cal art, at Belgravia's: Gros recipients' brithdays,

technical detalLA ORA

watzare intly against Michealth, venor Cresce

wik muurfers turtinctively” in his quietly unimally la

of the Polish · 'Artillery School - theria: had "", received; no Thoma 1: 5350 has a quiche wif, nelivaly at the same age to a young clyn the barge witén the clients have memoration of the 30,000 Briliish

He is one of the many Pollsh-

leave. Three who had leave uniformed Russians command had only two days each.

ing the Polish Army-ad: Come What the general had come

for was revealed at dawn next day, The H.G.11, Instead of setting out on

ut on another survey They were allowed off on one crulap, took a target ship in tow. Bunday afternoon every month, and dragged 'is slowly, along the and permitted to go into the coast from Kolberg to Bwing nearest town from Swo til len mundes The Beneral's - shore Saverything was done to diaunde girs don batterie

and prevent them from going to

10

Coming events

banded" to iänoted

sous of the boulevard

salbord and 3,000 Bridal ships. now at the bottom of

pomibility