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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952.

FRAYDA

INDIAN KOREA

TRUICE PLAN

ANGLO-U.S.

ANAGREEMENT

VISHINSKY-NO

"Phew! Narrow shave! We nearly had an outbreak of peace that time.

London Express Service

WHAT IS THE TRUTH

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Orders for GIFT PARCELS to be delivered in time for Christmas should be sent in immediately to

about the Guards? There is, of course,

THE

GUARDS?

have

no

AMERICA COLUMN.

from

NEWELL ROGERS

GOLDEN BRICKS SHOWER

'New York.

ACROSS the frontiers of

America have gone nearly 800 gold bricks, worth more than £3,000,000,

They are from the U.S. Gov cmtent's gold hoard burled in

£ square two-storey building

with a sleet door anê yard thick in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

From Aprit a year ago until last July-gold from all over the world kept piling up in the vault of chilled, tool-proof; steel, pin- tested by a water-filled moat, a stent fence, poison gas chambers, and an electronie alarm system.

Now it is outward bound again for three rensen 1, Increased US. military and econcenie ald overseas; 2. Increased investment and loan capital abroad; 3, Fower foreign purchases-of-Acnericam Foodi.

"To get the gold out of tho vaults three U.S. Treatury- mon used thrco separate combinations to unlock the steel door in each clher's presence.

The gold that has gehe is only la drop of what remains on tho shelves of sicel esempartments far underground. The guardians of the treasure still have moro than 1,600,000 bricks in hand.

OR five weeks Hollywood, and

the

whole South Californian court has lain under a pall of smog (combination of fog and smoke from Los Angeles chim neys), Farmers have lost, about £175,000 on their fult and vegetable crops,

HAT is the truth Yesterday, former Under-Secretary for means are no longer essential The supreme test of troops is and many Guards officers have how they conduct themselves in dofent. In the retreat to Dun- War Woodrow Wyatt, M.P., described none.

It is true that these officers kirk in 1940 and the shambles as "the last all come from public schools. of Norway

regiments many no question that the Brigade of Guards

with The British

But others, they deserve their great re- entrenched stronghold of privilege and

public schools fought well.

claim special

to memories of men casting away putation.

would prefer to We who served in the In- snobbery in the British Army." Here is a turn out good surgeons, lawyers, their arms,

or engineers. But there are two forget that period. fantry of the Line had our sober rebuttal from a fellow M.P. who professiona

for which they Through all these desperate themselves: Colonial days the own pride and loyalties. But commanded a battalion of Gordon High-

discipline and Service Guards shone like a beacon we would always have ex-

landers. pected a Guards battalion to do most things just that little bit, better than our- selves.

A

And, for an operation, we had more corfidence in Guards unit than any we did not already know.

They were dependable. knowing this as soon as the guns began to fire.

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By MARTIN LINDSAY

C.B.E., D.S.O., M.P.

of the

In formation

N Hartford, Chhnecticut, the schoolboard has voted 6-3 not to allow Paul Robeson to sing in the high school hall, The board acted not because they think he is a Red, but becmise a Left-wing group got a permit to use the hall by concealing the fact that it would have Robeson on, låg programme.

Jimmio

*ministrators officers.

Seven rear-guard actions across Both these require two Belgium and France lid not

which qualifications

these stop a Grenadier battalion from schools develop to a apecial lancong its equipment and it degree: toughness and leader is said that the one man who ship.

failed to do so was put under The boy of 13 who

is arrest at Dover! summoned before the prefects for a misdemeanour is toughen- ed all right. At an early age ho Plainly it Is nonsense to As in other sought-after regi- learns to take the hard mocks

B. times change. Guards ments, only when it comes to of life on the chin. achieve what they do with cubs choosing between two equally And when, a few years later, THE Coldstream marched Into A, Rhodd has been Invested promising cadets is preference he shares in the responsibility the Infernt of Dunkirk to with the bear claws necklace standard officers.

formation. the given to the one who had, say, of running the school he gains who knows Everyone

and deer tall headdress of Chlef Brother in the in self-confidence. So when he The defence of Arras by the of the loway Red Indiana in British Army will tell you that a father or Guards officers are good. So it regiment.

The criticism that these officer's trains to be an officer he has at Welsh Guards, after others hat Konsta. No brave with bow and is that any body of troops wel-

already learned how to broken, is a glorious story. Sharrow is Jimmie. He is d'47" comes the news that & Guards need private means is about 15 least

give an order.

Is the stand of the Irish Guards year-old half-back in his high years out of date. Guards The toughening general or staff officer has been

process is near, Narvik, commanded by the Echof football team. To hail realments used to spend ค continued through

potential Junior captain after all those the new.chiet, toner John White posted to them. For

who sentor to him had been killed. Eagle cang a song. And what expensive. which everyone knows is write so glibly about "privilege" The three Services are rightly

do you suppose he sang?. "My Wild Irish Rose." should visit the Guards Depot proud of their corps d'elites: The British public loves the at Caterham. The young Guards the Royal Navy

crack Changing of the Guard Buckingham Palace. But who,

ho, cadet, serves an infinitely more ships, the RAY of the ALLULAH BANKHEAD WAS asked to do the TV role of before the war, paused to think a

rigorous

apprenticeship than finder Force, and the Army of

Belte Davis in the film "All that the ofleers kept up those

any other.

Its Brigade of Guards.

About Eve," supposed to be a On one occasion this year splendid uniforms each out of

And no one will resent an ƒ likeness of Miss Bankkeed, And that a three of them, Including a young attack upon their officers more Now the plan is a hiva his own pocket?

shower of rain meant a earl, received ten on the back- than the fren who have them Tallulah bo herself in a stage.. -heavy

side from their squad sørgeant's selves served new scarict tunic-£40.

In those magni-show called "A Night" with Today, six Guards battalions canc.

fcent regiments-the Household Talulah." "The idea is inspired "Priyllege" tindeedl These Cavalry, the Grenadier, Cold-by "An Evening with Beatrice out of ten are on service abroad,

One of Broadway' Full dress uniform is provided young men would die of shame stream, Scots. Irish, and Welsh Lio," from a regimental pool, Private before making a complaint. Guards.

brightest new hits --

Aor the men of the R,A.S.C. be sure he knows they can great deal of time in London, moral training.

SK the Gunners and Sappers

and R.A.M:C. 'who cerved in the Guards Division in the two world wars. Which of them, after that experience, would wish to join any other?

No one would deny that the fighting qualities of the Guards are superb. But Mr Wyatt as- serts that these magnificent troops are commanded by om- cers whose efficiency is "below

job.

How do the Guards keep up the standard? More young men want to be commissioned in the Brigade than in other unity. The colonels can afford to accept only those with very good re- ports.

that of other regiments." For IT

How could this be? anyone with any experience of

The rejects

Is the Line regiments which take the Guards' rejects, not the other way round.

life knows that the standard in Cadets for regular commis any organisation is set by those

sions go through Sandhurst. The

at Its head. Good results can staff there will testify to the never be obtained without the quality of those destined for the best of leadership.

Under fire, the test is severe.

Brigade,

National Service infantry,

At times,, the difference between R.A.S.C., R.E.M.E. and sticking it and running away is narrow on a threat. Some off- cers and N.C.O.s are hit. One

Those

Nathaniel Gubbins

R.A.0.C. cadels quality at anHE noble lord who O.C.T.U.

made the ignoble re- mark: "We don't

Those from the five Foot regiments are, of course,

man loses his nerve. He cries: Guminority, Yet of the want another Nat Gubbins "This is murder. I'm getting a the out," and he can take 50 others present intake, four of the five Home Guard" must be sorry with him.

Under Omeers are Guards

now. It is confidence and pride, cadets. It is no coincidence.

He has not only stung his with discipline and training, For, on the whole, the Guards

Royal uncle into joining the that carry troops through a get the best.

Service, sticky action. Pride of regiment Yet Mr Wyatt writes: "The Naval Minewatching and confidence that they have qualifications for the Guards but has deprived the H.G. of been launched into the battle closed shop are a family asso-nation-wide publicity, with the with a high degree of profes- ciation with a Guards regimens following results,

and enough privata nieans....."

sional skill.

"Time, Gentlemen,

T

Please

By J. W. TAYLOR

99

THIS year is the 400th an- ing, or a licence. The work of niversary of the Act temperence associations and re- formers has had its effect in this

gaw

:

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-THAT HOME GUARD

ONCE AGAIN.

д

reliable

to Until the corporals took the "According

place, advancing from the report, the earth has gone of its course and we are approach- ing the sun at 1,000,000 miles a minule."

cart.

Ideal job

AR

" thought it was getting hot," I would reply, yawning. "Anybody coming out to lunch

Countryman's diary

The wintry sun touches the garbage heap of the Old Farma with a golden glory. A ́~sudden wind shakes, the naked, shiver- ing trees whose bare branches, overhanging the · Inne, *shako a deluge of rainwater down, the neck of old Mr Gargle.

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meadow,

+

and

As suddenly, too, the quiet of WILLIAM SEED, who

the countryside is shattered "by paths so loud and violent, that It is reported that a village once edited a newspaper in

the voices of the bitis aro H.G. company has a major, a Addis Abcha, writes that, after

shocked into silence, the startled captain, an adjutant, two cor- a six months battle with the

cows stampede

the Government censor, he finally

Across porals, but no privates.

commander resigned when the authorities A Home Guard

angry mothers call their children Home, banging sard, in an interview: "We'ro decided that "we should publish -

UTUMN leaves, some golden of tic, blasphemous centenarian

their awfully keen, but we have no no news and articles, though

cottage doors la the mee advertisemento and a few pic- A brown, chaps,"

ISOTYLE bright as tures are allowed."

burnished copper, have fallen as he makes his way towards the

village "We have no chapa," the

As this is the kind of job I softly, silently in the country captain said, "no chaps to have been looking for all my lane to form a carpet as halt and shun“.

s

•

Wel

inn

"No chaps to slope and order to Emperor Haile Selassie, the sloppy as a paste of por- New saws for old

arms, no claps to hold

a grun "No chaps to fire on the range, no claps to man the .posts

the

told The captain

adjutant: "We'll play at 'let's pretend"

ads?"nger.

ridge.

by

He, I herewith offer my services Lion of Judah, who appears to be responsible for all the im across the leaden sky. In the Heavy rain clouds move slowly portant appointments in the turnip field there are pools us pla

na miniature fakes. In the big no

stand Under my editorship, the meadow, unhappy cows morning conference with the ankle deep in water... of Parliament which gave direction and in the matter of

staff would begin at midday and Tiny rivers hurry along the local justices the power to the licensing of proposed new "Except two jolly corporals end five minutes later, when we gutters, carrying with them license or olose

and one platoon of ghosts." would all go public premises, as apart from the re-

home.

swollen cigarette, ends, orange houses.

Those were early construction of old ones. Now

I would ask the pool, and here and there ag adays only in the new towns

banana skin thrown'. 4way advertising days which

a larger is there any real likelihood of

"Enough to All the paper some lucky, banana-fed child number of "ale houses" than this happening,

except for two columns six at the village school. was thought reasonable, and Time and the ravages of wur

inches deep on the front page." justices in many parts of have removed many historic Britain used the now Act British Inns, including Mr Pick- wick's George, and Vulture in to close quite a number of London's Lombard Street, al- them by refusing to grant though many curious ones still a licence.

remain. In London there is the In the Wall," which "Hole

· has an unusual hole in actually

for its ehtrance, Wall Dorset's famous inn at Gode

was originally

Twenty-five years

"trado"

had another

when there was

+

later the

shock

Ü published an

order In Council whereby Par-

Homent arranged a compulsory manstone

a

census of public houses in order blacksmith's forge and has not that they should be specially since been enlarged, so that it taxed to help repair the "de easily holds the title of Britain's cayed haven of Dover."!

smallest pub. i; The passage of time has seen

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most unusual is Increased responsibilities shoul- the Castle, for it is a panshop as dered by landlords in the proper well as an inn, This special management of their establish- licence was granted by George monia and a rising of the stun IV after the landlord had lank dard as to charpester and expo, the King money on his watch to bilities necessary to the obtainy pay a gambling debt.

"Any pictures?" I would ask the art editor.

★ ✰

"Although arly

one

weather saw, or prophecy- *Red, sky at morning, shephard's werning is acknowledged to be correct by meteorologists,, coune "try people stil) (hellëve, in the

Infallibility of them all Later to a newspaper. STUENEFORE they shall have some more, equally infl-

*Jamdary shows, cold in nose.

Ilbla:

1

February, rain; 'same again. March winds blow, how do

you dow?

If April treeze, "*"meeze, meeze, sneezo...

Frost in MAY, in bed all

flooded homes, the cow.ly

caw,

WOM

week

Jaly

"Then * will man. the waterworks and you shall

In the misty, moisture-laden be my friend

"The same old block of the air there is almost complete "One corporal shall be the Lion of Judah wearing a bowler sllenco excopt.for the small, foc, attacking us with hat and carrying an umbrolla." complaining voices of chef- blanks

"Fine". I would say. "That fnches, robins, and bodge spar- tulli fill the hole on the front rows driven from their little shall be in page "The other

reserve; the ghosts are onthon I would turn to the news caw of rooks circling

editor and say: "No newr, Z. round the tall req our fanks!"

in the hope?"

Fio of the rain, the drip, drip, drip That night the silent water

"Not much," ho would answer, and the quelch squelch, works with sharp explosions "except that Stalin has been, squelch of the onormous test of rang

shot dead".

cid Mr. Giggle as he tramps "Fancy that "I would say, through the mud, muttering From north and south the

about the Governinent. ghosts ditacked -- þang- paring my nails. "What else?" China's been minic bang, bang-bang, bang-

Well under a tidal wave. Estimated 'bang;

death roll, 400,000,000,"1199ZRA Bang-bang, the atout "Don't be tedious and trivial

defenders fired, "Take that, I would answer irritably. "Ang-

thing mora?? you foreign beast

Without warning, the rain. clouds are parted say, if giant hands had drawn aside the cur- tring in the windows of the sky,

la blesk, in

wards

August" shivers Uvers

September cough, cough

October slow, November hack hack

blow