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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951.

MOON-

THE MAN WHO WON ALL HIS ELECTION BETS

1

THE LEARNER

Alfred Emery Perkins.

R PERKINS, 6,00) miles from Denver and central heating, relax-

But Mr Perkins is ordinary student. He has come up to Oxford at the age of 65.

nu

Poseur? Dare-devil?

He clashed with Churchill. Ho morried a divorced heiress. He sei strategists arguing foro generation. To-day

the comes

story of Britain's most contro- Yersiol sailor: the dark background behind the facade of success,

N authoritative life of Admiral Beatty has long been needed. Kear Admiral Chalmers pos sesses high qualification fo the task of writing it.

He has been given full access to Beatty's private papers He was navigating officer in Beatty's flagship at the Battle of Jutland.

THE

Bul Admiral Chuimers gives Salutary reminder of he difficult conditious, undas, which Beatly fought-he high seas, the roar of gunâre, the scream- Ing wind, the murky visiblity, the great column of water thepwn up by enemy calves. Naval battles fire matter of chaos, obscurity. Lightning de- cisions taken on misleading or dcubiful evidence.

the

the

.It is well to remember reality which lice behind the neat diagrams of the naval historian. Well remember that a Ju Jand although 250 ships were involved,

was never possible to see more thark hike or four of the enemy's capital ships at any one time and place on the British line.

Adruim) Chalmers successful

ASTONISHING

He was Beatty's personal friend,

Such a combination of docu... men. private and professional

know a scarcely fai!

produce valuable blography. Am. Chalmers's book will be widely read not only by studions of naval history but by pany hers to whom the name 1 Tira y has become both u y al sud a legend.

BEATTY

-by-

ROBERT BLAKE

and the errors of his enemies?

etines to the former view

when 1;e comes to

explain the actual murse of events. The art of describing

battles, whether raval er mili- tary, in terms intellig ble to the plain man is excredingly dith- cult. Mr Churchili's one of the few modern writers who can do it

Bu! :00 often in Admiral Chalmers's несоши of Duval operations there descends some- 1bing of the fog and mist which surrounded them in actuality. We plough on through heavy seas against grey clouds, the sulting

and be reader becomes weary.

The portions of Adroiral Chubners's book which will come

#brave bu Admiral Chubners naturally in of events can be but dimly seen.

Wa Beatty a arvond Nylon et

> "rciv was Bethany commander who only escaped di, aster th, Jugh Juck

2 c

*Life and Letters of Dirisi Gent-

by Rear-Admiral W S. Chot METS, Hodder und Stoughton. 258,

lege At 65)

MR. PERKINS (Back To Col says 'Oxford gets me'

..

Ameru?" he asked. "Prohibi-- tion! Sixteen years of aridity ward bootlegging d'wn dark

head alley: He shook his "Couldn', happen here."

Perkins

19

an

1t would be invidious to strert the comparison co far."

he wrdes bu i can be tuly new to most readers are those bald de Nelson and Beaty each dealing with Beally's career as in his day Svinbolized the First Sea Lord and those dealing people of li ma ions the fighting spirit of the British Navy."

.. Wa

with his private life.

FIRST SEA LORD

As Firs. Scan Lord item 1920 to 1927 Bea y méde it his duty to rezerve who he could of he Navy in the fece of demand for drastic cconomy. He had

Qurich.

"We

Cor sinty Blatty had many of the qualities which distinguished Neben. He rose to the too with exraordinary speed. He was captain at 29. un Admiral at 38. Like Nelson ne possessed wi- limeri personal courage, MA dificult No...on

sruggle and opposition a Bamboyant came

from 311 unexpected bersunat y will more than 15

When Mr Baldwin came ouch e the oyeur (everyone into cfle in 1924 he was pledged remembers bọ takish angle of

to a policy of eutling expendi ure. h's hu).

Tas policy was strongly sup- Like Ne'sen, foo he felt

ported by Mr Churchill. passiona ely 11 love with શ have suffered

severe blow from Anglophile married woman; but it is not so this Government," Beaty wrote Of course there are things clear that he possessed 16 to his

wife. "Of course, it is all wrong with both America and genius of a Nelson. He certainly Winston a. the Exchequer hc

the Ox Britain, but when

achieve fot

the chips did

sane has gone eronomy mad." The

most impor.ant are down, England and Ameri-suercss,

bat fes in Beatty's career wers. cu must remain together

thote of the Dogger Bank and ways" He wishes the Cus-

Julland. At bo

bob Beatty om toms officials could do some- manded the battle cruisers and of thing about the wrong type of his task was of paramount im-

tourist TO

can't por ance; but the Dogger bad they examine what you

in was disappointing corry

clusive while Juiland rather than in your) your mina

regarded as a clear defea What's valise

a bollle Scutch

with compared natoly that's going to the world in twenty days, with in.akfast!"

was the old bunny they a precognised student were gunning for." saya frd established the category Perkins. He WAR right three years ago to enable res my commended people of senior "When

you get to be he

soled her, status to attend lectures uge,"

Studies

they'll want to be photo es Fram * Decor

graphing you too.

"The 1k al k at my white

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He is a robust

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The

So serious did the conflict be- come hat Beat'y threatened 10 esign and state his reasons in the House of Lords.

This was co much for Mr Baldwin and he negotiate a Bank settlement in which the Treasury and incun- had to surrender. It is one of must be Beatly's most valuable achieve.

al

of

ments to have preserved the cure of the Navy safe during thess BIG MUDDLE

years of stinginess and sloth.

Chalmers gives Admiral Both battles, specially Jut- candid account of Beatty's priva.e land, have been the subject of life. Ho prints a number

Beaky's letters to Lady Beatty and they for one of the most interesting parts of the book.

Beatty's wife was a daughter Marshall Field, the American millionaire,

She had been divorced from her husband and this might well have damage i Beatty's career, for although his name did not appear in the case even a hint of divorce could be dangerous in these days. No trouble, however,

On

cf

the

He revels in London. "Why, protracted and acrimonious dis- de you realise that you can pute. and the part played by stand in Regent Street or Pic-Beatty as far more con roversial cadilly, get an itch for mosaics than would appear from Admirali ne musetraps-and find either Chalmers's account.

a few doors away? -- the He defends Bea'y mousetrap ready to spring, gound that the errors which

Recursed too."

were due to faul y signals and lay outside Bea.iy's control, and the. if Besty's in- tentions hac bran carried out all would have been well.

ed in his small bed-sitting-

Because of his interQSL in room and surveyed the first

heory Perkins was assigned fortnight of his Oxford life.

1 Mr James Jull, who is the Lecture notes, littered that works hardly thinks on,

grair tutor of St Antony's desk: books lay on the floor:

Per College-and 32 yours ties, hung from convenient

hey have 11- knobs. It could be any Ox- with sharp blue eyes, a ruddy kins's junior

emplexion, and a line of talk" formal interviews and Perkins ford lodgings except for the

more humorous than profound may write an occasional essay bottle of Bourbon whisky on

proud ひら H

de - American

Such pamless ccfuration the mantelpiece.

schoolboy to be "up at Ox- lights him because it tells me ford, and telling about it in a what I should do but doesn't

ir 1 do it. voit like a bass drumi

University life he has known in the States-many yerrs ago. His BA comes from the of Michigan; his MET (Metallurgical Engineeri

VET fer cne dizzy moment the as a sales manager for the

from the Clorado School

lure of adventure almost from English history,

the Mines Crucible Steel Company of

unatched Perkins from fulAll- and America

in line of Elizabeth, has long been

at Oxford. landed

ing his ambition Perkins took part in N: w 19

This past summer, England six days later his per hobby

Copenhagen eager to realise an ambition: mersing itself in 14, avoiding wars, is eligible for "GI" com the

Express, he met ire pensation at the university.

man of his of the German ships completely him greal wealth-a study at Oxford. He spent.

own age who was making the unmarked and free to fire withou. Touse moor, a place in Leicester- last of many trips to Africa, dis.urbance. Even more soricus, shire and all the appurtenances the summer getting used to res as too reminiscent of b

liked my job; now

intent this time to locate The an ambiguous signal from Beatty of Edwardian luxury. Once England. Now, at last, he past lite.

Secret and become a mil-caused his second-in-command. When there was a prospect of I want something else."

In July Alfred Emery

15 LECTURES

Perkins retired from his job PERKINS has begun to work University

is in residence, "I wanted to get here as soon as possible. I don't have

many years left."

Preceding

hard--and likes it

all scientifle or technicol

in

In his first walk 11 atend

15 ed

lectures in history. terature and philosophy.

of

bolli

He is a widower and all his relations, including one daugh ter (Lois), are in the United States, mainly Michigan.

FRIENDLY

NCE back in the States Per-

to write icins hopes

YET

IMMUNISED

Ilonaire.

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It is no doubt true that nuddle over communications had disas- trous resul's a certain moments.

At The Dogger Bank, for on board example. Beatty's cruiens, owing Amsterdam to a misunderstanding left ont

score.

arose on that

GREAT WEALTH

Bexily's marriage -brought yach, u

martialled

Admiral Mcure

• break off Beatty being

court from

the pursuit

at the very for damaging his ship, his wife "You come too," he said to

when virtery

seemed is reputed to have said: "Wha! Perkins in a voice husky with moment certain.

Court

I' marial my David? mystery. Together they would

buy them a find the undiscovered cemetery Bul surely this was Beaty's

a new chip!" The marriage at first brought Admiral Mccre's; and Reatly great happiness, 100, but of the elephants-where they fault, not

natural when we and exacly the same this did not last. Lady Bea't go when they die a ONC

death.. "Ivory

de- errors occurring at Jutland 18

was calous of her husband's teriorates," said the man alg- months later we begin about the extraordinary people niflcantly

wonder if bad luck alone can explain absorption in his narral duties.

As he has a knack for meeting,

time went on they drifted Beatty's misfortunes.

apert and she declined into a

melancholia. state of acu'e

Beatty treated her with great patience and forbearance, Fe Once again Beatty's cruisers people realised

how

deeply

H: has also joined the Unton. But him down he says: "It's the general alme- the gang-plank of the sphere of Oxford that gets me Nieuw Amsterdam when he even more than the lectures." arrived in England was

under- Perkins is not an starlet who hoped the graduate, does not wear û cameras had come to flash gown. "For someone of my life at her. "But I had a hunch. ge 1 have the ideal set-up as

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and about his impressions of Today Perkins rationaliss, to a feeble 211 general...."In

kgs stretched out

fire. "That man was friendly and g:od-humoured RDS

ured to the jungle, immunised. vein," he adds hastily.

If I had gone I would have leave a German ship unmarked, worried he was by there private bumped off in no time, but if Once again a signal is misread matters during the years of his

had bren 10 years

As a result the greatest fame. owerful Fifh Bale Squadron

Perkins has just dined

} the first Uime with under younger gradustes at a low table in hall off.

for

or not scen. "His voice trailed

arrived half an hour late on the Few people suspected the dark ceno and during that half-hour background behlad the gleamir.g Beatty suffered digas rous leges, facade of prosper) y and success These events suggest either which Beatty presented to the

at Lincoln College. Wearing a Then, buttoning up his coat, Harris tweed Jacket

and he stepped out into a cold Ox- American Air Corps officers ford night with a roac of trousers, he entertained every- luughter. "Too many people hat Beatty should have looked envious world. body in sight, even liked the back home," he said, "sit far more closely Into the I is to Admiral Chalmera's potatoes. Later, descending to round and mope when they efficiency ef his communications credit and to this edit of retire. They die en the vine!" alternatively that the Beatty Beatty's family that no attempt Deep Hall (the oak-beamed

touch" was' imposing a stram has been made in his blography "pub"), he blinked. "Why don't we have more of this in

could not stand.

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