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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, ́ 1952.

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8 Stopped (B).

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15 Fruit (4).

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18 Desert plant (0).

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25 Terse (4).

YESTERDAY'S. CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Symbol, 5 Rolls,

8 Viper, 9 Esteem, 10 Carol:11 Rivet, 12 Rued, 13 Doses, 10 Desert, 18 Eluded, 20 Elder, 22 Arla, 23 Dares, 25 Reign, 20 Rifled, 27 Eclat, 28 Flare, 29 Leader. Down! 1 Steerage, 2 Muttered, 3 Over, 4 Limited, 5 Receded, 6 Orator, 7 Loose, 14 Startled, 15 Squander, 18 Durance, 17 Several, 19 Ledger, 21 Ideal, 24 Site.

SNAPSHOT The Judge

GUILD

HOLIDAYS and snapshots ro togother like apple pie and cheese, but since in the couITAG of your holiday trip you aro certain to bo faced with once- in-a-lifetime pleture opportuni- ties, you should do a little ad-

in increased satisfaction.

Asks

"Who Is The Boss?"

· By GEORGE, MALCOLM THOMSON

vance planning. It will pay off | THE PROBLEM OF POWER. By Lord Radcliffó, Sacker' and worn, but It becanje, hím

and Warburg. 8s.. 6d,

First of all, check your equip mentt If you've the slightest doubt about its condition, take your camera to your dealer for à check-up and cleaning. Pay Icns. special attention to the You can't see well through z nip of dirt, and neither can it. Use a soft, Hintless cloth or lens tissue for a home cleaning job.

Ordinary cleansing tissue won't

110 pages.

listen to the discourse of an eminent judge is one of the rarest pleasures of life provided one, is not standing in the dock.

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When the Judge is also a highly cultivated man, and when, problems in life, then we may settle foy- moreover, he is talking about one of the most important fully into our chairs and compose ourselves

to listen.

do because it will leave fuzz on the lens.

"What really prepents' men who have While on the trip, remember authority from abusing it?" Lord Radcliffe that your camera la a rather asks himself on the opening page, and makes Helicate precision instrument the question his starting-point for a tour of and treat it as such, Don't humon thought and experience on the carry it in a hot, dusty glove supreme problem of government Who is to compartment when travelling be the boss, why: above all, within what by car. And when you are on limits and restrained by what sanctions? the beach, protect it from anod and water.

It may be thought that, in a democracy

LORD KADELIPPE

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like the, sears of a battle."

But, since it is plain that power has often been abused, where are we to find the means of protecting ourselves against a lyrani?

In making sure that he is the right kind. of' tyrunt said Plato. In obedience to

God's law; say the Middle Ages,to whom tyranny was, however, a matter of indifference, since Moyll rulers can do the good man no harm,”

The United States Bought safety, an elaborate structure of checks and balances The British have left the whole thing to change, as it a special Providence watched over our freedom.

And where, at the end of the, voyage, after all the serious and witty conversation which has hidden much learning and more thought where does Lord Radcliffe bring his ship to port

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As far as actual pleture tak- (a type of society which Radcliffe suspects ing is concerned, bear in mind may be passing away) the problem does not that you want your shots to arise. Nothing could be further from the tell a complete story of your truth. Representative democracy does not vacation. Shoot the familiar, solve the problem of power; it simply posses oft-pletured spots as well as it in a new context. Consider South Africa the new, different, and amus at this moment. ing things you see. It is true you can buy the popular pictures in A majority may decide to overrule the interests, wishes, postcard form but, if you take even the conscience of a minority. "All power to the workers," your own pletures, you'll have may be equally with the Fuhrer Prinzip, a shortcut to slavery. a more personal record-because

Hé belleves (if I read him cach picture will be

Or a majority tray decide atimulus DS Vou

of great authority." aright) that the ultimate safe- saw it.

that it is more important to be He uses it to demolish the guard for freedom, the final I doubt that you'll ever find well-fed than free, in which notion that power necessarily barrier against abuse of power. yourself in the Utoplant situation event either. the rulers will rots the moral fibres of

home of returning

those lles not in any political system satisfied. You'll always recall one sist the temptations of power, who enjoy it-and to recall to of constitutional ingenuity, but

completely or two things and events which or democracy will degenerate their fallow-countrymen the in the national character, the you'll wish you had snapped but, into a queue of toothless men- nomes of men who should

of wholesomeness

national if you plan and take along the extra roll of film you can cut dicants at the door of the never have been forgotten-tradition, the resolve to bring the regretful "I wish I had"" feel- | Welfare State.

Malcolm, Elphinstone, the Law rulers to moral,

as well.. ing down to a minimum,

Again, it is usually assumed rences, Nicholson, Metcalfe, political judgments. in this country that power cor- etc. rupis, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Radcliffe will have none of this. His lumi arbitrarily, and mainly nous survey of political thought, the British middle class, stretching from Plato

to went into voluntary, exile in a a precise touch on. Matthew Arnold, takes on an strange country,', were offered most sensitive nerves of pur eloquence touched with some danger, immense responsibility world. It affords us the pien- thing like Indignation in

--and a decent competence, ture of hearing a provocative, chapter devoted to tho British

distinguished talker-and,

*per- rule in India.

—John van Guilder

YOU WERE PLAYING WITH YOUR

TOY SOLDIERS-

SUDDENLY THEY ALL TURNED ON YOU AND THREW YOU INTO, THE BLAZING FIRE

-THIS DREAM MEANS:

This boy feels more about'something he has evidently been using his toy soldiers to dramatise soenes in which he has worked off his aggression and rebelliousacas.

Also little boys often eel guilty about their aggression, because part of every parent's job is to make them feel guilty

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WHY DID YOU

GET ONLY

ONE ?

about the harmful uncontrolled me of aggression,

of

In this dream, he feels guilty and woriby of punishment and so' Nis Instruments aggression throw him into the fire, (Is it hell-fire, by the way, and has someone been scaring the lad?)

Incidentally, this is only for the parents' Information: It would be very unwise to Interpret a child's dreams to bim.

The Perfect Husband

A

band

of

men

an

The wise people are constant- ly mak

making, and re-making, chosen

aristocracy Problem of Power" from The

who is acutely topical,

with

They found the "glow of hapa, the further pleasure of work and duty around us In dissenting from him. It is an aside. It is not an the Punjab such 'ns I have. It is inexcusable that Lord Irrelevance. It opens with two never felt before · or gince.” Redcliffe's publishers have,, on of Radcliffe's most pungent They died young. "Grief has the jacket, mis-spelt, his school zentences:

made him" (Lawrence), "grey and mis-dated his birth;

"The British have form- ed the habit of praising their Institutions, which are sometimes inept, and of ignoring the character of their race, which is

often superb.

In the end, they be in danger of losing their character and being left with their institutions: result disastrous indeed." The record of the British at work in India, is for Lord Rad- cliffe "a classic

example. of

with

how men really respond to the

Other new booka ----

Mr. Hulton looks back

Ed-

WHEN I WAS A CHILD. By childhood spent in

Edward Hulton. Crossat wardian and early Georgian Press. 181. 235 pages. England. Not a typical IMPLY, with no literary Hulton was brought up in a childhood, however, for or affectation, wealthy, effort

liberal-minded, Edward Hulton describes a Roman Catholic home and in contact with persons of distinction and power.

BY HARRY WEINERT.

"YOUR E DEAR

He has a retentive memory for Edwardian interlots, im- posing and stuffy, Edwardian footmen, governesses and tutors, and the frou-frou of Edwardian women's clothes, of which young "Teddy" was boyishly aware,

In the centre of a glittering

and restless scene are. Mama, socially energetic, a little over- whelming; and. Dada

(Bir Edward Hulton), severe, con- scious of his power as a news- paper potentate.

HE THINKS EVERYTHING YOU· BUY IS PERFECT - EVEN YOUR HATS—

MARVELOUS!]

[HE CAN BUILD SHELVES -REPAIR EVERYTHING AROUND THE HOUSE "AND ALWAYS CLEANS UP AFTERWARD.

ORIGINAL AND MIGHTY"

TASTY

HEŚ HANDSOME-GETS SEATS ON THE FIFTY YARD LINE-TICKETS FOR HIT SHOWS AND THINKS YOU ARE HELEN OF TROY AND THE ORIGINAL

QUIZ KID.

[QUINENT

"MOTHER

15 COMING

FOR A VISIT! »

HE PUTS GLASSES ON

COASTERS AND ASHES

IN ASH "TRAYS

10-19

SPLENDID

HE THINKS YOUR MEALS ARE DELICIOUS YOUR RELATIVES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

→INCLUDING LEFT-OVERS:

AND THE LONGER THE STAY THE BETTER.

HE NEVER FORGETS ¡AN ANNIVERSARY——

EVEN WHEN · THERE ISN'T ONE.

PS. THE HUSBANDS

IN THESE- PICTURES ARE * PURELYAM IMAGINARY AND ANY RESEMBLANCE-

TO REAL PERSONS IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

· NEVER FORGETS TO MAIL YOUR LETTERS -

Ho la close-fisted and "Yancles himself as a sharp business man, la Inclined to argue every long with foreign taxi-drivers. In fact, in his son's judgment, Dada lucked business Balruout side the Press.

Bonnr Law, on the

Other hand, had a great opinion of | Dada — “Hulton is so sanje" -

"Teddy" formed a poor

de Bonar. Law.Oppor

to inspect the great at close range was one of the privileges of being the son of a newspaper proprietor. A treaty with Persia was

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ranged in our dining-room be tween Lloyd George ant the Persian Foreign Minister,

When interest

fingred at home, there was even more fascinating companjati Lord Beaverbrook's country home, Cherkley, where one might 200 Lord Birkenhend lose his tem per on being beaten, at tonnis by Lord Beaverbrook's, Implan |sons"and "éatch'n' glimpsä: iS' H, G. Wells, made up to look ilike a négro for a dim which Lord Beaverbrook was shoot ing" to amuse his guests.

Teidy suggested improve iments in the plot to Lord Beaverbrook, who said "You show keennear and"""intel- rence," but did not alter the script. Teddy cannot quite understand why his father had such a friendship for Lord Beaverbrook, who was after all, zo liko himself, ""propelling bis affairs "by a series of /explo

... But the ̈ssine-mystery... SUP rounds Mr. Churchfl'a friend- ship" for Lord Boswe "who merely reprodures