1953-03-07 — Page 5

Roses For Widow Klepitch

From

James Cooper

New York,

FELLOW гoнes grace the

table the

poor widow Klepitch.

And they stand in the best vase in one of the beat sultes of the Palmer House, which is one of the best hotels in Chiengo.

Ilma, who is 47, married Fred Klepitch 25 years ágy on 60 ceata (25, 6d. In those days), which was not enough to buy flowers let alone a wedding breakfast.

"Never mind," he said, "for our silver wedding I'll take you to the Palmer

House and buy there. And

you the finest dinner

there will be yellow rosea."

But Fred died poo

tr 1942.

As the wedding anniversary approached 19-year-old daughter Katherine remembered she had promised her father that she

would take her mother to the hot But she had no” mungy,

wrote

the Falmer Ilouse saying "Poor people have a way of making dreams," und asked if they would just send

ม menu cardl from the taurant

JCS-

ilotel manager Vernon Hern-

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953.

SILE.C

"When I said 'We will all be issued with new weapons by the spring,': 'o said 'Goodie, 'goodie *?**

London Express Bervice

BARKER AIMS A BLOW AT

THE CORONATION

O

cooks.

than thuse

N the walls are architects. decorators, It is true that Berker rarely

printa and plans of florists,

carvers, concerns himself with corone-

tion records earlier old London; also ailders, lighting engineer, of King George V. But now and copy of Oliver loudspeaker technielāns and then. in verifying some point don did more than that, Mother | Cromwell's death mask the like.

about tapestry fixing or throne and three daughters had a suite

ornaments, his assistants will for the week-end, and the best dinner and the best service the house could offer,

And those yellow roses.

Ainerica means hustle and I hate to Britons, bet are

two shocks

In Philadelphia, the country's third largest elly (pop. 2,071,- 100), an underground railway bas just

carried its first

passengers, 30 years. after they storted digging the hole in the ground.

And the town of Marchouse, It is announced, is due to pel electricity this year, the last of 032 towns in New York State to be electrißed.

IN the country-Martin (pep.

407) in Michigan - Alvin Boysen, a butcher, agreed to stóp selling New Zealand beef be- cuuse local farmera threatened to boycott his

In the city -Pittsburg (870.000), Pennsylvania --- cus- tomers jammed i shop selling New Zealand beef at Hà, Oct. lb., compared with 4s. lid, for home grown.

which peers at the visitor from near the hatstand.

The room is 60-year-old Mr Roland Auriol Barker, . Ceremonial in

Cromwell's death mask doca good thing to cut off kings heads, It merely signifles that, his view, Cromwell is

by FRANCIS MARTIN

SPIVS

pretty certain nobody is likely to have a lot of sleep on Coro- nation Eve,

In 1937 Barker did not issue the last stand tickets til mid- night. But, please note, the late- were Important per-

comers

slip over to the Public Record ceremonial administration be- sonages. It is the custom to that of not mean that Barker thinks Office and refresh their memories' comes a big-scale ticket agency: keep a "very small" number of ENROLLING squads of seats in reserve in case Govern- on what was done in Elizabeth

stewards who will see the ticket- ment guests or other VIPs whose I's or Charles II's day.

holders to the right seats.

attendance has not been fore- Barker's emphasis is on team SORTING out and solving work and team spirit. Topmost odd legal problems which con- moment. There is no hope of seen elect to turn up at the last authority is a ministerial coro- stantly crop up, eg, when street Tom, Dick,

which meets stands

being nation committee.

or Harry abut on once a fortnight, with Sir Harold perties, obscuring lights.

private pro- squeezed in." Emmerson, Permanent Secretary of the Department, as chairman.

MR BARKER AT HIS DEBK

of

On

The divisional experts whoin Coronation furnishings.

KEEPING check on

a:0 their

KEEPING, tabs on all ox- penditure. In 1937 the Ministry Laic to

bed, the Ceremontal this are represented 10 spent £300,000, recovering Officer and his aides

usually divisions or sub-departments, £96,000 mainly by the sale of have to be up and about at five of them under Sir Charles seats and after the event, of dawn, if not before, in deal with Mole, Director-General of Works.

There other emergencies. on all always people who lose Barker co-ordinates busy them. Coronation props, and ensuring tickets and get Bustered trying selves with a dizzying variety of that nothing goes

to establish their bona fides with astray. matters, including, to name only 1037 officials cicoring pige monisl staff sort them out and sceptical policemen. The cere- the ceremony missed the homage stool on which the sentor peers solace them,

a lew-...

flowers in the Royal

2

had knelt in realty to their Then there are the spivs. There Later it was found Behind a hear, even, in 1937. Sovereign after his crowning. were splys, I am worried to =**** radiator, where it had been

Most of the paid-for seats on hidden by a page who hoped to Ministry stands are allocated. to keep it as a souvenir.

people who represent publie:

bodies at home and in Common- wealth

countries. The tickets

Neve:

THE RAISING of plants and park's to decorate Abbey Lad precincts. (The Ballit of the Royal Parks is himself a Ministry oMetal,)

'SAMPLING, ordering and ölten designing Coronation fabrics and furniture by the ton.

are not transle:zble. TESTING steelwork for spec- The routine of Barker and his theless, in 1937 it was found that tators' stands inside and out- staff nearer Coronation Day can, some scat-holders had sold their alde the Abbey, Officer to the Minister

to guarantee within limits, be imagined from tickets, presumably at a: profi.

what they did 16 years ago.

All the tickets thus trans- Works, one of the more im

safety.

cancelled-and no portant of the Coronation

ORDERING

During the last fortnight he, ferred were chicken, salad, and elvic un-backroom boys.

Under various forms and tiles wine for atter the ceremony and perhaps 10 others of the refund wa

Barker declines

was paid. the Ministry of Works, still meals in the annexe and Abbey ceremonial -administration weto Their leader, the Rt. Rev. As in 1937, he has the known as the Omee of Works cloisters.

working a 16-hour day, and most the defaulters were spotted. Horace Doengan, Episcopalian job of co-ordinating in when Barker arrived there in

of them slept the last few nights When questioned on the point (Anglican) bishop, says

ARRANGING for the printing in their offices, which kept open he smiles darkly and hints that "New numerable items which are 1920, has had charge of practical York has fallen on evil days.*

the Ceremonial Administrallun for Coronations and distributing direct o2 100,000 round the clock. Arrangements All churches and synagogues

being devised for Abbey, and other great ceremonies tickets to people allocated seats Staff margins are bigger now has its own ways and means of and that monkey are esked lu hold special prayers annexe and route

royalty ever since on the outside stands. On the days than in 1937, and it is hoped finding out, “In”elvic“rightedusness. *

eve-of-the-Coronation-the-that this time-things-will-not-be-tricks-will bo scotched as effec-

60 gruelling. But one thing is tively in 1933 as in 1937.

Co worried are Church leaders about New York that for the first time all major faiths have joined together to fight "erime, Immorality. righteousness."

M

engrossing history. On occasions of this kind the historical sense is indispensable,

on the involing Great Day by the Ministry's Saxon-times:"

MANCHURIA, POSSIBLE KEY

TO FAR EAST PARLEYS

London.

ANCHURIA is seen

by Mr Dulles us the

By Patrick Maitland, MP

leave Communist Ching to the mercy of Russia's limited pro- vision of industrial supplies.

terms.

choose

States could make

key to the Soviet gress in his Stale of the Urlon That is what would be halted Otherwise, if China wishes to be bloc. It may well hold the Message. Indeed he has gone If the United States, by draining free of Russia and to key to peace in Korea, further and denounced the the entire Pacifle, Atlantic and seaborne supplies without limit, When he discussed the Far secret Yalia Agreement be Reserve Fleets, could afford to the United East with Mr Eden in Lon- tween Mr Churchill, Mr Roose. Impose a blockade. The mere don, their

very general velt end Me Stalin on the terms suggestion of such a possibility The hint of a bargain here is agreement derived in large of Russia's entry to the Far is waning to Peking.

plain enough. It surprised none part from an identical East war.

the chancelleries when Premier Chou En-lal, followed President Elsenhower's State of

United of

In other words, the assessment of this factor. That document was published States (afer secret pledges to D.year later, after a leakage, The Europe that there will be pro-

fore

+

has done.

the Panmunjom armistice talks,

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Something New?

Mr Dulles promised be- Prime Minister and the Presi- per consultation whch anything, the Union Message by his de

leaving Washington dent then agreed to recognise active is projected) is launching mand for instant resumption of that he would make no Russia's "pre-eminent position" a war of nerves against China of commitments abroad. in Manchuria. In formally de- which Manchurin is the focus. Consequently, Mr Eden has nouncing that, as the Eisenhower manoeuvred warily in the Administrallon

First camo the deneutralisa- House of Commons when is serving notice to Peking tion of Formosa. This must evading questions about that America no longer re- compel the Chinese to divert this. Mr Dulles could not, as cognises these Soviet claims. more troops, or at least main- Secretary of State, pledge That has n direct bearing on fain full strength, along the of forcible repatriation of POW's to the British Foreign the possibility of peace in Korca. Secretary that there would

be full consultation and ac- cord before any major new departure in American ac- tions.

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Stripped, Ruined

FIRST, China's Industrialisa

The

CINCE they collapsed, and will ellapse again, on the issue

сод

State, commitment, he would soo Gutput to its 1944. (Japanese) sorpower than upon the capacity ald so Moscow's English that full accord was reached, be level by the end of 1953. Russin of the Trans-Siberians Ballway. forehand. It was like Mr Tru.. has already restored some in-

dustrial equipment and machin- Finally, comes the denuncia- a fresh note in the U.N. It do-

Fukien coasts and watch the Mr Eden · belloves-end coastal defences. That draw men tinues so to think after his talks from the war and hence from with Mr Dulles-that China the national five-year plan of must have something new to Industrialisation.

propose. Ho saw tha Indian High Commissioner in London Then tion depends on that of

comes the throat 41 to discuss making enquiries But as a personal friend of Manchuria, which the Russians navod blockade which

in Peking that the industrialisa Peking. The Indian

reminds through the Indian Embassy: In ruinet And Anthony Eden, he could give him stripped the private

Chinese

Ambassc assurance that, so 1945.

target Hion of Marchuria dependa more. to restore Industrial on the restraint of American dor in Moscow has since seen long as this were no official s

Soviet leaders. The day that he

guage journal, "News", sounded Mr Attice promise to

suff price in terms of tion of the Secret Yalta Accord. clared that "despite repeated December 1950 about bombing

inese raw

materials. But

disappointments, the peoples are Manchuria and the possible use much la needed, alongside the This dovetails with the other reluctant to abandon all hope of the A-bomb. He promised to moods of Korea, that the Trans- two. For China has long been in the U.N. and trust that in the conside and aures beforehand. Siberian Tallway la over blouble United Nations countries have its original mission of promot

Is overburden- promised, and the principal end it will be brought back to provided this was not taken as ed. Indeed, though an official det of state.

tracking is now complete, it is agreed to it, that once there is peace and peaceful ?co-opera- Such is the nature of secret running to capacity taking an armistice in Koran there can tion.". diplomacy, which continue even 8,000.000 tons of goods to China be a conference to determine the between governments acēlālming a year. Substrnilally more future of Korea and reachin Moscow rppears to respond to the principle of "open coveriants some 12,000,000 tons are ar general Far East settlement. At the Eisenhower war of nerves openly arrived at.". Buch "is Mr riving by son from the Balile that conference, Peking now matched by Mr Eden's flexible, Elsenhower's promise to Con- and Black Sea. ports, -

knows, the United States can and indirect, diplomacy,

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