1953-01-24 — Page 11

New Type Of Diplomat

By Patrick Maitland, M.P.

T

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.

No flesh-and-blood man

HERE never was d fight like this be tween two English- men-not at least in the 25 years that I have been awenting at the ring- sides of the world.

scale

When Eric Boon defended his lightweight champlon. London. as gangster methods he is ship against Arthur Dana- SYMBOL of the new fully abreast.

har at Harringay Arena on A superficial impression February 28, 1939,

the diplomacy and of Great Britain's of this promising young preliminary ballyhoo reach- changed relationship with diplomat might be that he ed a

never before members of the Common is a devil-may-care kind of approached in Britain. wealth is to be found in the appointment of Mr George Middleton, lately Counsellor at the British Embassy in Teheran, to be Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi that is, for practical pur poses, deputy Ambassador to India.

person. At all events, he carries his cares lightly and possesses a quality that in respected highly

among Orientals-an appearance of calm.

himself Counsellor of the British This is the man who found

Embassy in Teheran after the Ambassador, Sir French Shepherd, had been recalled. He He was thus left in charge, and for many months there fell to him

the curious obligation of visiting Premier enigmatic and hysterical

who would

often

called. No man

And for the first time in the

country and very nearly the last half as many people again outside the hall "w" the con- test.

Nearly 14 years ago televi sion was still something of a Harding, then now manage toy:

but the stuowd John

of the National Sporting Club, which had apon- ored Danaher from the time he turned profes sional after winning tho

ABA lightweight title in 1037, had the vision

what TV was going to

Mr Middleton, who in in his early forties, is energetic and resourceful person. He joined the Perain's Foreign Office by way of the Consular Service, and was Ambassader

enough be in bed when an become. British Consul in the south without a high sense of humour east Polish city of Lwow enuld endure such a task for during the frantic days of long, least of all retain an Nazi Germany's invasion of cable temper,

Prime Minister, and be roundly Poland. The British

abused for your pains, is not in Embassy in Warsaw, like itself agreeable. those of other countries, fled with the Polish Government and eventually Rumania.

To visit

EXODUS

reached

As Charge Middleton WAN

of provocation and insult, when # was sport To assail British subjects and forcefully mistreat them, Mr Middleton's job was to hold on and keep steady.

Mr d'Affaires,

responsible for The roule from Warsaw the sale conduct of the British colony out of Persia when to Bucharest led, for most relations were severed. And people, through the Salician throughout many trying month city of Lwow, which is now inside the Soviet Union, Thus to Mr Middleton there fell an abundance of emer- gency tasks to facilitate the of important evacuation personnel, Polish as well as British. Much required to be improvised without re- ference to the rules or to precedent.

PIMPERNEL

of

He conducted the final evacua-

without incktent

from

Illustrated by ROBB ·

could take it!

SMASH HITS

—OR SO IT SEEMED

No 5

introduces Eric Boon and Danahar into the punch-a-line China Mail big fight series by PETER WILSON

And so the Marble Arch Pavillon and the nearby Monseigneur News Theatre, #s well

s The Taller Cluema Charing Cross Road, were wired for "big-screen" tele vision, and people were to pay as much as a guinea

ist a pretty considerable sum thote happy prewar days to wutch.

The youngest

klad

In

But. although

thun

Danuhar at

WELC

hmm. First a left hook put him 'down, then a right awing, then a left hook again. Each count was, for nine,

The Londoner's world mus! have been a hideous fantasy of roaring crowd, whirling canvas, flying leather which up-ended him, threatened to cave in his rlus,

scrambled his brain, and left him like a blind 131

merry-go-round.

on

Boot

But, where a flesh-and-blood man would have been led carried away by now, the in- perishable fome burning inside this cockney serapper brought him out far

fourteenth round.

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by nine. When he got up their height the ference

the with

cond all crouching, bobbing, and weav- hi han

the ing in

American style, barrel and again the Londoner

his mun in went down for nine. sought to break

In the ninth Boon so thump half with thunderous

ed und belted and shook and to the body.

dazed and Jarred

Boan propped him up on the end of his left and then Javel lenger devilled Dunahar that the chal-

had to clutch the rupes Ined a right to the point of i.. to steady himself. And then, his trembling. chin. Danobar THE rallying his rapidly diminishing went down all of a heap, but

and even then he would strength, he hit out left

not strike EVENT us right, and

dropped his colours. actually Boon on his haunches for count of two, and in the whirl- cual

THER "oddities' of the fight were that Boon and Danaher were the youngest pair ever to contest a British lille. Boon, who had won the title only two months

before, was culli a mere 19; Danahar

9 st. 9 lb. looked drawn, and as slim as a reed, he rode out the storm, leading and labbing with a straight left, not of the

onbone-slide variety but authoritative as a conductor's baton.

ed sharply and accurately

have

In the emergency issuing passports to persons who might have lost them throughout the exciting adven Crowicy for the champlonship, but the fight was one of

#

judgment; little allowance despatches are straightforward advantages. At 5 ft.

the

Is made for the trying con- ditions under which judgment Was exercised. But there were few, if any,, official complaints after- wards.

SYMBOL

har

EI

The end

OF THE

ing excitement of the moment E huuled himsel up by the nearly hit his man while he ropes, hand over hand un-SEASON

round- til he stood almost creet, but a

score read seven to

was down. Now the Danahar, trembling target, and then re- and twe to Boun.

feree Barrington Dalby exer- cised the mercy that is vested in him and called a halt to hughter and preserved bravery for another day.

In the tenth the blood was noses flowing from both their and of course from Boon's eye. Danthar was like a slim wax

himself by 11 was the end of one of the candle consuming

own endea truly great fights bf, the past the Bane of his vours, but he still managed to. decade and a half.

wrestle Вооп They fought once more after rally enough to

the war, but like so many en-f half-way through the ropes.

In the eleventh again a new-

Arst cores of

per- comer would have sworn that formance it did not compare It was Dunahar who was win with the first. Dunahar stopped I can

Boon's Boon in the fifth round with ping, for a right split

that Eric complaining bitterly a mouth.

he had been hit low.

given. tie

Unlucky

13th

l, notable

Neither man, was the fighter

had

con-

No quarter

a year older. and

FURTHERMORE, he counter- brought his charges out safely-

Yet it was Dansha who, tribute to his qualitics both us professionally speaking, was the with rights to the head and

"novice."

This was

his one of these was to only organiser and leader.

Such is the

18th

paid Aght and type of person,

he had nearly definitive bearing on the travelled mare than ultimate outcome. vetoote diplomatist, who has eight rounda

conventional "old never

The Arst round hod previously.

un- been promoted to be Deputy

Boon had had something like doubtedly gone to the challen- High Commissioner in New 75 recordes bouts and a great ger, and it set a pattern of

many more which never Delhi. The choice has fallen on

bruises ap- leather and blood and a person

of proven courage and peared in the books. He had for the succeeding six.ressions,

There was no suspleton integrity. Yet not only so. For several Umes gone len rounds

and once, when beating Dave quarter being asked or tures which have been Mr or possibly never had them Middleton's story, he has shown nearly 13.

inest St

scrupulously fair But if the experience was remember. Consul will be held, himself both a shrewd observer

with the

champion, Danshar At the end of the seventh responsible for errors of and a competent reporter. His

held mast of the important stranger coming Into the

hall · physical

would have thought that Duna- and 'sound':

he had been and, alas, short- Ing. he was some four inches

was the champion fuced the taller and his reuch at 71 by a strong, very game, but PUT a second look would have ly afterwards came the tragle ins.

Alve พอล

inches longer utterly outclassed opponent.

lold a different story, for news that Danahar then Boon's.

I hnd given every round to the

36;

Sicel-ribbed, rock-jawed tracted a serious illness. The background of the youths the challenger. and he

Boon, too, formerly the real- still champion seemed impervious to life "golden boy" of the ring, was a different as their appear scemed as strong as ever. So, all punishment, and

his former never recaptured was weakening anes and their style. Boon was of course, did Boon.

blacksmith's boy, from อ

the great weight

of his punches rapidly. Just at the end of the greatness, and finally the Bri- continent, the

the country town of Chatteris, F was useless since he could not round Boon flashed in a right, tish Boxing Board of Control refused tollcense him any "Embassy, for that is what it is, Cambridgeshire.

The

only avoid the flesh-and-bone bayo- and again the Londoner was or. to New Delhi perhaps matcher the Embasy to Washington for the one 2 Bathna-just try 10

Jonger. "green belt" Donchar knew was net 01

of Danabor's left and the canvas, the bell Interrupt-

The last I heard of him he as round succeeded round Ar- ing the count at four. its importance. For here are And

thur strolled back to his corner

was losing to fighters in Aus now It was all Boon, tralia who were not worthy to being trodden by

Classic clash

miling a little with tight lips although technically ke

fa lace his ring boots when he and with his hair parting still still behind on points, India's relations with THAT was the set-up

of theWas In his prime. unrumed.

the twelfth two more Britain were opened by a former [1] when the thick-thewed

blows which The eighth round looked like ledge-hammer

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boy with the being a carbon

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hard Express Service.) copy of and London

politician Mr light, wavy hair and the en preceding seven, and then after way in the smithy left Danu- Kristina Menon, Pandit gaging grin looked across the a minute o dramatic change

har fumbling on the conyos. United Nations. It accords with rather drawn Londoner. Nehru's representative at the ring at the dark, sallow, and transformed what had

been a

The unlucky thirteenth must been a nightmare runaway victory into a the daring, experimental pattern

nlp- have From the very first bell it and-tuck

After 22 Aght. of these vital new relationships

was the classic

clash

between minutes of fighting Boon final- that an altogether unorthodox the boxer, und the fighter. ly got a clean shot with choice should be made for the Danaher sprang erect like a right to Danahar's jaw. number two post in New Delhi. vivined sporting print of one of

125 effect was shattering. Mr Middleton is something of the old bare-knuckle puglists Danahar dropped us though A symbol of the new and

from whom he was descended, he had been shot and was very vigorous in British diplomacy.

Boon, accentuating the Ulf- glad to take the full count of

in the complexity of Great Britain's postwar position, the heart of an expanding Commun- wealth spilling over into Aslo and a mighly political force in that teeming

its

new

For one thing Mr Middle ton distinguished himself as a modern Searlet Pimpernel, securing the escape of some *scores of important but little-known___personalities and politics. under the very noses of Ger- man Gestapo men. And he nevor lost his head, or his heart.

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