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HATUTELONS PRAS-LIMITED, ENGLAND

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1952.

THE

ORIGIN

THEY MADE ENGLAND UGLY, BỤT THEY ALSO MADE HER GREAT-

The

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be called

Eliza

Victorians

It was

The fantastic notion that the the endless material wealth - bethan is flattery Victorian age was dull mysteri and the social horrory - of In-

ously continues, in the teeth of dustrialisation. the fact that every conceivable

word on st

the period has been written several hundred tines by

by massed bands of his trans, from Lytton Strachey in

the Queen herself,

as

more

(the pen and the sword); to be called Georgian is consoling (the age of elegance); even to be called Edwardian these days is faintly modish, implying therough a hand with the pen special trousers and trick as any of them,

bb moustaches. But to

It continues despite the de-

that called Victorian, is, and has monstrable truth for a generation been, an things happened during the Vic

torian age than in any other insult nine times out of ten. Inevitably: it lasted so much The word rarely means Sixty longer, t is like saying an Glorious Years; It means wax encyclopaedia is dull. fruit and button boots. It means Bounces and false sentiment; the Antimacassar Age. It means Anna Neagle with a putty nose. It a word with such a pre-

The reign of Victoria was the eite ad accepted place in the.

biggest single slice of English language that One seriously

history; It was wonders how 130 Victorians monarchical

lifetime; mer were themselves ever got en without literally a

born, grew, waxed prosperous, it.

became grandfathers,-and-died.. all without knowing any other monarch,

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a country of benevo- oppression, of black lence and

pioneering en- reaction, and lightenment, of oriliodoxy and dissension, of rigid morality and wild licence, of the New Pluto eracy and the Hungry Forties, of the hansom and The Rocket.

the

Hover

THE TV BISHOP BECOMES A HIT

From

R. M. MacCOLL

MERICA'S

Washington.

latest TV Buccess - and it is a really big one is Roman Catholic Blahop Fulton Sheen, with his programme "Life is Worth Living."

Bishop Sheen, luminous- eyed and with a fine voice, is a veteran of 22 years on radio.. But TV expertà shook their heads at first because he apparently vio lates all the teneta of show business.

He walks in front of the cameras in his robes in a book- lined study (designed by the atage's Jo Mielziner), and starts talking without a script.

Writes TV critle John Crosby: "The fact is that Bishop Sheen is dealing in ideas. And, by eschewing showmanship, nothing comes

between the ideas and the audience.

THE

effect is hypnotic-only

at the time of her extraordinary John Brown, the She was death perhaps the best-known raw gillie who became her fami-partly because of the personal single individual in the world. har, the only creature alive to magnetism of the man,"

her wumman." And His first Bhow

drew 4,000 Into this busy environment Yet she lived in a world-film-call

letters, and the fan mall con- When she was 20 she married tinues very high. was precipitated Victoria, until less, radioless, Tviess where Albert. then only one small strand of the nobody could properly know inextrictbly complex relation what a royal gure looked like one of the most exceptional men

WAYNE COY, who resigned of that exceptional age - her unless they happened to see one

of the as chairman ships of the time the Hanovers, in the street.

cousin Albert, Duke of Saxony; recently Brunswicks, Coburgs, Hohen-

Com- from then on she submitted her Federal Communications fahe-Langenburgs, Mecklenburg- It was England, however, and judgment wholly and devotedly mission, saying he could not get Strelitzes and all the other the English approve of people to his.

along on his 15,000-dollar (£5,- has Houses whcoc amfleations who live a long time..

He, the unpopular Prince Con- 350) Government salary, inteloriced all over Europe.

fort, put more brainwork into joined a big news magazine as development of England consultant. In his new job he than royally had

done! ever

almost

getting. certainly before; he laboured patiently at double what Washington pald

economist, becoming

philo-him. Copher, farmer, dietitian, con- noisseur, drainage expert, scape gardener and politician,

Then, In 1001, he died, and Victoria sank into a profundity raid; the inevitable royal haplo- of widowhood from which she raphy has arisen, been duly never revived;, for the rest of Cebunked. and resurrected; her reign and her life she was to

Mary Stuart no ell intents invisible. apart from Queen's character has been more minutely dissected.

Of the nature and personality It was not a good time to be of Queen Victoria almost every come Queen of England. The thing that can be sald has been

By JAMES CAMERON

Even alive she was a legend. great the really slanificent Dead. she became an adjective. difference between Victoria and great-great-granddaughter It must be admitted as a fact the that Quicen Victoria never few who is now upon her throne is

mon in a jet airliner. She was un- that Victoris inherited n able to pass her evenings with archy in serious disrepute.

television set, She had little oppurtunity of relenting on the theory of nuclear salon; nor did swing music play any con-, siderable part in her life.

But if these deficiencies made Victorian England dull, then history itself is a bore, and art is irksome and science is, an occupation for fools.

Achievements

Queen bcen

A

Victoria Women

Her predecessor the Sallor King William IV-was already bluff, whose old, professionally on only comment signing his accession wast "This is D demned bad pen you've given me."

Behind him was the degene- rale fleshy finsk and the black wig of George IV, and behind him the pathetic imbecile of Windsor, with a receding back- ground of varying degrees of unworthiness,

England-politically

She "ruled" the country, at least for hall her life, where sovereigns have subsequent

land-

Huddle Of Black

די, ....

all

CRIME 1; Because of parking dificulties, nearly American towns, little and

big have parking meters lining their kerbs. But gangs of youngsters are wrenching out the metern. 'driving ita lonely felda, and prising them apart for their small hoards of silven and cop- per coins.

On New York's CRIME 2: Staten Island, Dominick Conan- All we have left of the anat dra, and a gang of seven were arrested for an ingenious varia- Itlon on ordinary car stealing.

They would They

rged. She made no pretence forty years is the picture of a whatever of Impartiality, huddle of black zik, a peevish her prejudlees old face; yet it was still Victoria blandly noling and insistences and Ministerial Regina, of the greatest Power on

ffs in her journal, underlining earth. every third word.

Her Opinions

things

most

con-

The

Victorians hod but glamour. They had reform, which might be sidered a First Thing by Our standards. They had philanthro-

buy old wrecked cars, steal brand-new matching Car of the same make, then transfer the serial numbers and legal papers from the wrecks to the new jobs and sell them;

AFTER exhaustive surveys ut what the next ten years are She lived in a world where pists like Shaftesbury and ex-

like Livingstone, dis-likely to bring, the three biggest Darwin was inventing Evolu- plorers

coverers of objects as enormous aluminium companies of Amer tlon and J. S. Mill was writing as the steam engine and as small ica agree that a roaring boom in

Liberty"

Dickens was and

may have

awaken- of peculiar ing, half-way between two great

their product is going to con- temper, embodying in herself Reform Bills-had grown out of exposing Poor Law workhouses as the microbe, highly-civilised tinue past

They had a most of the rather dispiriting sovereigns who were tiresome, and Lister was producing ani- literary taste. They had, on the

1060. By that year, one of the cam- her venal, or dangerous. Only five sepsis, and Whistler was paint- obverse side, the most abysmal panles calculates virtues aszociated with

that America his mather around her grew ilme-but that time was stirring years before Victoria's accession in Chartists and the Rochdale and unforgivable standards of will be consuming 1,875,000 tons with creation.

Stancgistra: of Births,

the

Copperfield, Colonial

it was being written: "Depend the on it, our Revolution is in a sure, Pioneers and the Yellow Book architecture and decoration: a of aluminiurn a year, about and not slaw, progress." And the Factory Acts, and those nation that had been beautiful three times the present rate.

things she had opinions about up to the Regency abruptly and inexplicably degenerated into an generally disliked, the rest unbeaten artistic low, of mock-

Best Known

she

she ignored.

Gothic and horsehair, and the gruesome inheritance

were She thought. Peasants and Picturesque,

their though The poverty was distressing,

She

AMID all the fuss over waste- fulness in the Armed Services, something smart: the navy did

is with us I called in civilians to suggest ways in which the navy could

+

So save. and pamphlets

cartoons

The notion looks like paying

"The Rallway, the Telegraph, Trade Unions, Pubil: Schools, Allee in Wonderland, Factory Legislation, Coole's Tours, Birth

Postage the Co-Op control,

Democracy. Applied

David

But Victoria took over Self- said: "I will be good."

But so are disinfectants.. and Rhrank from political radicals, is the Train. So is the philosophy Government, the Salvation lampoons

died yet a glimpse from her carriage of liberty, and the Public Health off handsomely. For instance, Army, Women's Nursing, Photo- contemptuous

of some lamplit horror of the Act, and the Fighting Temeraire, Sidney Goldin, director of a big graphy-the barest skimmings down. of the invention that was born There were times when she slums would send her back to and the Society for the Preven- oll company, came up with all around her; not all of it with feared for her life-more often her Diary quivering with itali- tion of Cruelty to Children, and sorts of valuable Ideas--which

the Moms code and the Britsh have been adopted. her consent, indeed, still less her than she showed, and indeed it cised emotion.

typewriting was threatened on a dozen occa-

To rent out Her.fe was bound up with Museum and the

Among them: approval, but irresistibly.

slons - she felt haunted by curious and tense relationships machine and the X-ray........ unused naval storage tanks to The most random hasty choice menacing Chartists and Rebels, Lord Melbourne, the Baroness She builded better than sheetvilian firms, instead of con- of Victorian names produces an but she reigned for 44 years and Lekzen, King Leopold, Disraeli knew. extravagant pattern of person at the end of it the people telt who flattered her, and Glad- allties Disraeli and Gladstone, as though the roof had left the stone ("that dangerous old Tomorrow: The Now Darwin, John Stuart MI!, house. Dickens, Florence Nightingale,

Stephenson, William Morris

the

Browning, Joe Chamberlain, Brontes, Lister, Peel, Trollope, Carlyle

Ruskin, Tennyson, Meredith, Matthew Arnold, Thackeray, Kingsley............. catalogue may be dull, but scarcely the achievements.

At Peace

the

fanatic") who didn't. And the

Elizabethan Era

tinuing them as "semi-dead" storage space. Down come the overheads and up go the tax- payers' spirits.

F.D.R. WRITING OFF THE CUFF

PREVELT

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DRESIDENT ROOSE- Salt Lake City when I was born. He wore the sult con- and dinner) at least six times a

to Winston very small boy.

nstantly until his death in 1990, week? The "They were walking up and inherited it and wore it

chicken skhuation has Churchill (on the eve of a down the station platform and steadily until 1926, when I definitely improved, but they visit by Mrs Roosevelt to anw two young ladies, each passed it on to my boy, James, have substituted sweebreads

England) :-

wheeling a baby carriage with

am getting to the point "He still has it and wears it The nations buzzed and

"I confide my missus to youngsters in them, each about in the winter time when be la. where my stomach positively rebels and this does not help tecmed.. But Victorian Eng-

cne year

.relationa father asked them it in the country"

with foreign land took its ilme, because time the care of you and Mrs

The President took particular Powers. 1 bit two of them was one of the many things it Churchill. I know our better they were waiting for somebody, had plenty of,

halves will hit it off and they replied: Yes, we are plenture in his friendship with today...."

waiting for our husband. He is the British Royal Family. He

ilmes he refers to his that early

leiter to From

started one summer beautifully

King tiredness, or the fact that illness morning of 1937 when the coach Roosevelt to Churchill (when the engineer of this train,

"Perhaps this was the origin George VI, In October of 1942:

hati confined him to his bed, but ratlled from Windsor to Ken- the British Premier delivered.

"My dear

King George, he always had Ume for the sington Palace carrying a Lord his famous "Some chicken of the Good Neighbour policy!" Chamberlain,

speech in 1943): Ar Roosevelt had many fierce Please excuse the bad type- nuckish postscript as this, to Archbishop, somo nec

in America on his writing, but I am in bed for his ambassador Joe Kennedy in and a doctor to rouse the young "Some

itain policy, but he day with a blocked-up nose.......,” "Britain, 1988: Alexandrina Viatoria and tell

Such was F. D R., writing

The tried to reason with the fiercest. her that she was no longer the "off the cuff in the war,

In May 1941 he wrote to ano 18-year-old daughter of the opportunity to compare his style

Normani Thom

Thomas, an American Duchess of Kent but Queen of with the familiar Churchillian Socialist who had long opposed England, to the day the died, misalves comes when a bookful convoys and Lease-Len a lonely old woman of 81, Fage Ish history passed its great punctuation-mark.

an

-It was a country at peace and without fear of wat, because wara were things that took place abroad, und England could take Europe or leave' it alone.

The land looked set, smug. solid and behind the sel confidence were forces of violent transition, a questing and "grop- ing in every direction, physical and spiritual, through a maze of paradox..

who

Are

other people in the world make in his spcoch thustr

holiday."

The me oy, first-name relation. in terms of the conduct of wardship.

"When you feel that British accent creeping up on you and your trousers riding up to the When he toasted King George Ines, take the first, steamer, Lend: VI and his Queen at the White home for a couple of weeks" of the President's personal corres- "Dear Norman, the trouble, with, House during their Royal Tour pandenice (from 1928-45) is

percent of us Americans of 1030, F.DR. scribbled down published in Britain..

not very

different from the main points he wanted to

tha we think of modern war

Life DI nation-high reller THERE is plenty in this book &Q Give thanks--bonds to guide the student tog or in 1881, or in 1800. ship

Greatest contrib, history who asks: How will men in 1812, shines clearly through this book anderstand the type of facts of flons. Because each lack fear this papers is a Tat at titles.

It takes several generations to civiliz. oxample conduct rein- F.D.R. be remembered?”: With by In 1944, Roosevelt wrote this re" to which I refer

neither aggress. no race which he was, in his

time, ad- story to "Dear Clemmle and

• Prink" to "health, 2 dressed by correspondents, Winston.....

As the good husband and Among

them:

between the two

"I have a very high opinion of the Mormons-for they are. excellent citizens. However, I ahall never forget a stop which my father, and mother made in

It was a country of enormous prosperity, and veg

OnThe Joostosis, Letters, Vol. 9" noverly:suddenly discovering i marrapy, 200g Netz,

In the middle of letters filled family man, Roosevelt usually Our dear Leader, President' with facts, gures and argument wrote to his wife Eleanor s Beloved, The Greatest, Mancin Roosevelt acted odd, irrelevant "Dearest Baba Once, at home the World Your ma noble fnels, such as this:roothe deft Memo for ER. "Do Majesty, Your Highness Please,

In 1878 my father had a you remember that about a Dear Buddy... tweed suit made in Edinburgh month ago I got sick of chicken that was dour years before I was because I got it (between lunch

L.E.S.