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Typical watch of the $660's, this English calendar welch fold The time, the date, the storska, and sha phase of the moon. but its accuracy was a mistrer of chanen. Meproduced by kind "perminion of the Worship of Company of Clock- maksen. The original forms part of the collecting housed in the Guldhall Museum, London.

Three hundred years. for

an idea to flower

THE year it was made was a year of change Tad Tux. The death of Crontwell two years before, in 165H, ad rabbed the seventeenth century of its greatest and most controversial figure, and in the Spring the second Charles returned to the throne amid scenes of wild rejoicing. A man who was to inspire a great nation was quietly studying; and in October, Willium Penn was entered 61 a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, That was the pattern of the year 1660 --- when this calendur.watch was 'made.

A cumbersome, heavy instrument, inaccu- rate and unwieldy-but it was the best they had, and its owner undoubtedly thought a lot

of it. For it did so many things. It told the time and the date, the months and the phase of the moon matter for pride inteed.

In time, nearly three hundred years lo between it and the Rolex Datejust; three hundred years for that calchdar watch to reach perfection, Most modern of the madern, the Datejust combines, in its beaut fully hand-finished case, the result of fifty years' work und research by Rolex. Perfectly waterproofed by the Oyster cause, infallibly self-winding (six hours daily wear, and the Rolex Perpetual Rotor sees to it that the watch goes for ever), the Dalejust adds to these famous Rolex "firsts" the intricate mech- anism which contrives that the date is shown automatically and clearly through a discreet window on the dial. A finer watch, in fact,

is just not made. Its accuracy is the highest that even Rolex can reach.

ROLEX

A landmark in the history

of time measurement

Perfectly waterproof, infiilibly self-winding, auto- matically and clearly showing the date, the Rolea Datejust takes its place as the most modern of the modern, most accurate of the accurate.

Every Rolex Datejust bears the Roter Red Seal. Ti is a sign that the watch in which is attached.hat passed the stringent tests of the Swiss Coverment Testing Stations, and has been swarded its own Official Timing Certificare, and the proud Útle of chronometer. Į

Наног

Hong

THE CHINA MA

Germans Will Send Troops

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1952.

W From CHARLES WRIGHT.

Bonn, Apr. 21.

ERMAN Government off- U clais said last night that! German troops would be sent to Britain in the event Russian airborne attack on the British Isles.

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"Under the new guarantee; which will be contalued in German the treaty," Government spokesman, "British and German troops

Bide by will march

event of Russian sartes. the slon for the first time in Elstory. That must include rending ·German troops te help to

is

Ger

to stelend Britain should Rumiahs strike. there,

historio This guarantee, because for the first time Britain and have many

A milltary alliance. The Germans would certainly do their bit to de- fend Britain,"

11:0

the

German officials said that mutual guarantee be- Army tween the European iations and Britain, by which

and British

German armies would mutually de fend each other, was an in- Jication of the new under- alondling between the nations which had been forced by tha Russian danger in Europe.

ANTI-MALAN FRONT DEVELOPS, LED BY SMUTS SUCCESSOR

By ALAN FORREST

solve the constitutional impasse. It is a sign of the times that this did not shock' anyone.

The English speakers want to got rid of Malan. They want to be rid of the continuzi sitask on' things they stand for und cherish-the Union Jack, the their children on a separate right to eduinte

Now what is all this about? The government seeks to place Capetown.、 ship of the United Party. And he

voters that Smuts knew coloured has proved

J

They

THE whole European what he was about when he voters' roll because in 12 parlia in the English language and not

population of South chose the slim, boyish-faced mentory seats in the Cape the in Afrikaans.

They want to be regarded as Africa la today Strauss with the gold out- coloured voters can be depended

upom to elect 12 United Party just a good South Africans as thavet low,

want to sharply divided

members, And if by law they are the Afrikaner. They.

as well as for or against Malan on

For Strauss is suddenly loom- prevented from recording their be British subjects a matter which few of them ing over the political horizon voter, it likely that these 12 South African nationals.

The govern- want to talk OL "home" when really understand, And an engry-eyed yelling patriot, serts would go do

mean England without with the desire to ment and give the Malan party they former soldiers in the anti- affame

solid majority in the House. being hailed as "rovineks", the comtemptu- Malan Torch Commando are "uphold the Constitullon written a

The four colour- by our fathers."

ed" ranged behind Opposition

men At a recent pubilo protest fought J. G. N. Strauss, Leader who speaks for them when moeting in the City Hall, he worked his audience to a high he says that if the govern pitch of enthusinam with oratory

which ment use force, they will be the like of

seldom heard here. met by force.

who

ous "red neck" the POCKET CARTOON | lamh given to the British B, OSBERT LANCASTER troops in the.

Boer War.

Separate Repre- sentation o1.

Bill to Voters has been the Appeal Court won their plea that the Bill was

It is unlikely to come to that Africans of course--but South know that there are many more ex-soldiers than there are police. Leader Strousa has suddenly shed his cloak of scholarly dif fidence which made many doubt

The ex-Speaker of the House, whether he would ever success- J.F.T. Naude, now Minister of fully ill the shoes Smuts, from Posts, has suggested that the whom he inherited the leader, establishment of republic might

The odds

е-

judg-

Taunted' by Opposition speakers, government members legal because have performed what the Cape was unconstitu

tional. Neverthe- "constitutional Times calls

one vell less, the govern strip-tease," shedding.

ment are deter- after another until the naked

mined to bypass fleth of authoritarianism is re- mine

the court vealed.

ment and make parliamen

decisions tary supreme and not to the subject testing right of the courts.

against

your first novel

JVE THOUSAND hope- ful souls are waiting thia week for an answer to the 5,000 small. parcels they have posted from small back rooms all over Britain. In 5,000 covering letters they wrote the phrase (or something aimilar):

"Enclosed please find book I have written, which I hope you. will be able to publish." Five thousand hopeful souls' remain their publishers' faithfully,

By

JAMES LEASOR

who is well over the first novel hurdle

the

Politics are one of the Atri kancr's consum- ing passione the

other is rugby football but the English. speaking section.

South

Africa

in

tend

to avold

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of Apartheid. Hell Malan!"

Their present anges arises from Their inherent respect

for the the

rule of law, and The Nationalist attempt to dimi- nish the ultimate authority of the courts by making parliament above

the law.

It is this ab- horrence that has overridden their

desire for peaco and quiet at al- Amost all cosis, and made stand

them

up a

public publ meetings and shout and

stemp and ap- Jaud and behave

utterly unlike

the normal

them because they believe that timid, self-effacing English, The continuing political turmoil And they are, now joined by is part of the country's growing vast numbers of Afrikaners who pains,

no longer see Malan in the Probably this reluctance is a herole light in which

his Na- mistake because the Afrikaners tionalist supporters see him, Look at Helga Moray, they have the impression, that the

her Arst novel, English speaking ecction does Thus, the eyes of the nation' say, selling "Untamed," to Hollywood for not care who rules them. But are once again fixed on Parlin- a. mistaken idea, and ment; the country has become a Cheyney, this £35,000. Look at leaving a reputed £250,000. occasionally, as now, the English gigantle debating rolety, with

all:

they enter each section of white people re- Maugham, are aroused,

with a calling part indignities at the Greeno, Daphne du Maurier, political controversy

vehemenso and passion that sur- hands of the other and becoming.

angry anew. prises even themselves.

Look at them

and the rest..

All right, look at them. Most have been a long time in the business. You never trear about their novels that did not sell But most authors have them, Some never have anything else.

Most of today's successful down a manuscript out of

novelists worked at other hand.

Cronin's first success, jobs, when they were starting, "Hatter's Castle," arrived then toiled like Trojans at their evening. Could These unasked (and in the mall like that. novels in the

Richard Llewellyn's "How you do this? mostly unusable) manu- scripts have been arriving Green was my Valley" was at Britain's 400-plus pub also a first attempt. lishing houses at the of five to ten by every morn ing mail.

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Then, the flow slackens to a steady one or two a day. And this in spite of the fact that only a handful of all these assorted publishers ever publishes novels at all!

No One Knows WHY this rush of would-be writers? No one seems

to know. It is another sign

of the season, like crocuses and lambs.

If the publisher decides to buy, he will probably offer you £50 in advance of royalties, then a 10 to 121 percent royalty rate.

If the book sells at 108. 6d. the division of money in round figures will be like

this:

Your royalty Publisher's share

(out of which he pays all his expenses, his office, etc.) Bookseller's shere Printing

the

Cost of paper Binding

15. 3d. Bs. Od.

and

Durable Dowager Liked Fast Cars

From EVELYN WEBBER

Aabulous figures

ot

New York. Donon, who had worked with NOTHER of

the Carlton in those Escofer

London, she gave £180 a week," of

After one visi to England sho 80- built, in New Jersey,

a two

John Brophy did, worked in a shop basement, shifting loada of paper; HE. Bates unwilling- ly udded up figures on a tall American millionaire clerking stool in a leather mer-ciety has just died in New chart's office; and frail Dliza- beth Goudge was a teacher for

years.

And this toil may be for A day or it may be for ever, for the biggest stag in novel writ- ing, all authors agree, is that

no literary success can ever be guaranteed.

York.

She was a little bright eyed woman born in a Staten Island farmhouse who be came

one

of the world's richest women.

million

dollar estate copied exactly from Hampton Court.

I cost twice as much as the million-dollar beach place she also owns at swank Newport, in Rhode Island,

Mrs Twombly's father was the late William Henry Vanderbilt, one of the 12 children of the old The mat surviving grandchild Commodore, He Inherited the of the fabulous "Commodore" bulk of the Commodore's And she, dark-haired, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the ferry fortune, boat sldpper who made $100,- Flim Florence Adele Vanderbilt,

father's 000,000 (£35,714,285) on the was her

favourite railroads, she was Mrs Florenco daughter. Vanderbilt Twombly.

WAS

A Lifetime You may spend a life writing books and never sell one. Or, 35. Od. like the American lawyer Efle Aged 88, she died in the 70-

Whes in 1977 cha märrlódí C Ja. Od. Stanley

Gardner, you may be room Fifth Avenue mension she paper manufacturer's son, is. od. able to dictate a best seller in had built for herself, with its 30 Hamilton McKown Twombly.

Blways dressed in Florence SCTVAnts 11d. three days.

what ordered Publishers endure

maroon livery. delugo stoically, shrug their

Again, On a royalty of around is. 38.

Success may come As the richest of the Vander-cribed as "the most costly dress ever worn in this shoulders, say, there is a copy, it takes 800 copies sold slowly, as it did to Mrs George Lalt women; she was for decades Woodham-Smith, who the Dowager Queen of American nothing they can do about to cover your advance. Bo no (Ceull)

Two thousand five hundred more money for you until that took eight years to write the society. She plied those who people jammed the church, and mrest biography of Flordnce were not Vanderbilts. Mrs by the time he died more than I think there is. So to ip cone.

Nightingale.

Twombly had been presented to 40 years ago, Twombly, who left 5,000 hopefuls, these

Victoria,

Bho knew the paper business for railroad- Edward Vil. But nobody to Ing; had made her another four- word on their chances of

Mrs Twombly, in the United and-a-half-million dollars, States ranked higher in the But Mrs Twombly, froit in social scale than those with a saite of her title "The Dubble Vanderbilt background.

Dowager" knew what

to do with all this fortune her father left her

Wall

it.

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How Many? success before they waste. YOU'LL sell more than that, you think? I hope you do money on stampa,

but how many, first novels by unknowns have you bought this last year? Exactly. And others

Last year 2,408 new, novels were published in Britain. If one in ten was a first novel that only makes around 240 first books in, the bookshops, say fivea week; thus, this week, with 5,000 contenders, the odds are roughly 1,000 to one against.

Not satisfied? Then lot us examine the phenomenon more closely.

are the same.

There is a way to a more cer tain method of literary affluence: Do something unusual then write about I

Samplo:

Thor Heyerdahl sailedsa raft across the Pacifio to prove private theories of his

own.

Queen

She always rod on a strip of

She opened an office In red carpet when leaving her car to cross the pavement to her Street, the better to supervise door. There were 27 Twombly salaries she paid to her cm-

her business interests.

The far cats In all-all English อม

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You should sell some to the public libraries,

From his story of this 4,300- Who Havo around 22,000 branches in Bri- mile journey he hea

in. If you sold one to cath curned around £70,000-about maroon, and all llon-created. ployees, including servants, ran

brother, you £10 a mile..

And Mrs Twombly maintained to $230,000 (£80,205) a year. branch, then, would bo famous.. It you

three

for garages them, cach But though she led society,' But for noveliste-what hope staffed with manage to sell a grand total of

a hond chauffeur aho always avoided the lime- 500 to the libraries, then you is there? “The novelist," Somer

matter of Hight

Bho permitted no-photo- will be very, very lucky. Eet Maugham once remarked to and mechanies. As a

me, tpeaking in the flowered fact. Mre Twombly used to re- graphers, and the

the money sho Of course, hardly any among and scented luxury of his Dur

call that outside an occasional Gave to charity

was never ocean liner she had never get publicised, the hopeful 5,000 belleves these, chester suite, is the freest man

foot on a public convoyube, But one of her habits was: gloomy facts. Euch is certain in the world."

Guess at her lavish parties The old lady liked fast care. that his or her own book with bear course he is if he is were transported, by special Even in her nineties she could somebody's Book of the Month,

still be seen whizzing round tho

Your books will have at, least one other reader apart 'from yourself. He will be

Year, the Age. And succesful. If he is unsuccess-trainsy, paid for his reading, for no they give examples of others ful; then he is equally free to

·starve.") publisher can afford to turn who have succeeded,

JOHNNY HAZARD

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