THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1953.
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT
A future PM
was arrested
in bed
TN the year 1895, Benja.
Disrneli
I min
Was
charged at Marylebone Police Court with commit- ting a breach of the pence.
The trouble lending up
to this prosecution began in
the early part of the year
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Sacka, 4 Armada, 8 Repair, 10 trons, 12 Redden, 14 Wrestle, 17 Less, 10 Assists, 20 Agitate, 22 Dent, 23 Erasing. 27 Feasts, 20 Storm, 30 Strain, 31 Demandt, 32 Rates. Down; 1 Strew, 2 Copse, 3 Skirt, 5 Raki, 6 Atance, 7 Assess, Ditelates, 1 Relies, 13 Deserts, 15 Rage, 10 23 Inopl. 20 Setter, B Stun, 20 Abased, 21 Inform, 24 Astir, Gan, 28 Amen.
ZWI WERE SITTING BEFORE
THE FIRE WHEN SUDDENLY
YOU FOUND A LARGE
OBLONG ENGAGEMENT
RING ON YOUR
FINGER
THIS
DREAM
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MEANS:
Here the conflict is between the desire for security and I think-the desire for romantic Jove
You sit before the fire in the security of your own home: the ring symbolises your en Ragement. actual or contemplated: apparently It is not to your Uking for you try to take it nt, you won's "wear it."
when Disraeli was fighting parsell's Taunton in the Tory in-
houss In Hirvel...
Carson
terest.
because
alor," had thrown
But when O'Connell in a speech at Dublin a few
days later, lampooned Disraeli,
it to the began a row that led police court..
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O'Connell referred fact that he had stood sponsor
Scoundrel... génius ...
charlatan...
madman-Baron Corvo has bean called all of these. To-day the bizarre story of his life sends readers back
to a writer who might have been forgotten,
?
Living in a nightmare
for
thn
work. He settled for
payment
by
£00 in cash.
Baron
THE DESIRE AND PURSUIT
OF THE WHOLE, Froderick Rolfo. Corvo, Camell, 15a. 299 pagos.
B
the
Next he appeared in London
writer of fantastic novels, which gained him no money and a FTER a stormy and few warm ndmirers, ainful life. Frederick each whom bo
came his Rolfe died wretchedly the target of abusive, in Venice (1913), aged fifty- boastful and three...
menacing letters
He was starving, he had slept open boat. He could borrow nu more. Even the degraded occu- pation to which hunger and vicious inclinations drove
provide him with did not enough to ent.
232011
hini
enemy, and
At lost he drifted
off to Venice, where he fell captive to the
elty's beauty and its
by
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K
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GEORGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
opportunities for vice. He was turned out of his hotel; tought work as a gondolier: became a the leat sort of guide not only churches of Venice. The phase ended with his death of heart failure white putting on his boots,
The
of and Pursuit Destro the Whole gives in novel-form
nightmare picture of his was Venetian life--or those parts of it that could be avowed. It with pas- is false, egoistient, rages of beauty.
Rolfe
a scoundrel, a herit charlatan, a man with tenacious
his hunds, with a tender con- science, a good heart and sense of social gulli. ("In the Potteries, my courtesy title re- mained for a long time un- known.")
But noi for ever would Pakenham be content with merely negative sacrifice 10 Idealism. The time came when he had to tell the secretary of the Carlton Club, not only that
with he disagreed
Baldwin's government but that his wife was. standing as a Labour can- riidate,
"I understand completely," sald the secretary. "But, ever you're in trouble, possibly abroad or somewhere like that, you know that we'll always do anything we can for you."
"And so," says Pakenham, "I left the Cartion Club with Christian words those truly ringing in my ears,"
If
[POCKET CARTOON
by OSBRRT LANCASTER
"In precisely one and u holi minuiss, lieteners will hear
the voice Ol The Caudillo himself, personally conuraiulating Miss Barce. lona 1953."
THE ODD BITS IN THE NEWS
SO HE JUST SAID
The Peel ministry had was Disraeli himself, for he for weeks in the bottom of an
Daniel had no recollection of hav fullen - O'Connell, the Irish "Liber- ing done so.
in his lot with the Whigs and he eyes of the was, in the Tories, a traitor.
He was shunned by the Bri- tish community in Venice: he When it was reported in
had quarrelled with all lait that
with the London
the friends; friendship papers
was "pn experiment in demons- Disraeli had called O'Connell an incendiary and a traitor, for Disraeli at one of his con-logy,"
Yet the sordid, viperous out person tests ut High Wycombe. "He is the most surprised
coat of the
Di back-streats de- a liar," impertineat and
Venice was filled with the be- clared the Irishman. "He
Het that he was a great writer:
fame living le, and the British Em-He thought that
In fact, it pire is degraded by tolerating chesied him;
unti he was twenty a miscreant, of his abominable watting
years in the grave. description.
He pretended that hy become Baron Corvo through a
Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia: Italian
Fashion houses have picked a by 611 gift of land
velvet duchess. He signed his name
31 the main "Fr. Rolle
powers of self-dest: uction, with LIZABETH, the Queen purple 30 that people
an eccentric kind of genius. He Mother, tried very hard material for their winter styles, would think he was a priest. He dreamed of being Pope; he in two by the beauty he per-chief who had tottered into
was probably a little mad. torn to be friendly to an aged all in "Coronation_fashion." paper,
crived and realised the dream, on
The Westminster Abbey scene town for a massed African has inspired dresses embroidered the Royal with white lace brocade and .ermine. Pearl and diamond- studded crowns in all shapes and
are featured
the
"BENJAMIN DISRAELI Eart of Beaconsfield 1804-1881
Died Here
and the laque
WHEN YOU TRIED TO TAKE IT OFF IT TURNED INTO A. MINIATURE HOUSE WITH" 179 CHIMNEY STUCK TO YOUR FINGER
That ring, that engagement stands for the security of a home and hearth flke the one you must leave and you can't tear yourself from It
In this conflict between two incompatible desires, your unconscious bas practically made up your mind for you: in a day or so, your decision will have become consoleus and de- finite.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE 'WRING' OUT-THE-
SANDWICHES ?"
THOSE SUDDEN SHOWERS THAT STOP AS SOON AS YOU REACH
THE CAR.
WE MUST DO
THIS MORE
OF TEN.
WHERE IS THE
DOG
An adequate reply was forth- coming. O'Connell had already killed one person in a duel, atd hud taken an oath not to fight therefore, another, Disraeli,
sent a challenge to his son, at the same time denying that he had called the elder O'Connell a traitor.
SUEZ DEAL
said fur
hnd
had
in a bizarre noyel (his best), Hadrian the Seventh..
chose. chose.
was
the squalor
"UGH" TO A QUEEN
ክር
too welcome writing, often - highly-wrought, could achieve visitors. vividness (the rain streamed
Rolfe's
to
down in frigid lances"); She went up to high, sizes eloquence, as in the description smiled and asked him how jewellery trude, of the Pope In St, Peter's
Rolfe was born in Cheapside, London, where his plous father was a piano-maker. At 15 he "Outside in the City and the old he was. All she got was he left school and home; ten years World, men played, or worked. a grunt. She persevered, And in the
Morgan O'Connell was not responsible father and refused 10
wrote Whereupon Disrael letter to the Press in scurrilous terms of the "Liberator."
been
thol
•
Said
one
کرنا
cinemas the Queen Is
German Ahn did We
LONG DROP
his later he became a convert to
or sinned, or slept. Inside, at asked him, his name, Coronation film "A fight.Roman Catholicism; a candidate
the very tomb of the Apostle,
Another grunt. In the end, Crowned" is breaking all box. for its priesthood.
The authorities of the Scots the Apostle prayed,"
of the Queen Mother had to flee records. The infamy and rancour College, Rome, to which he was
his walk away. no Rolfe's life stood between later sent, decided he had There is evidence that Dis- vocation. The rejected priest books and recognition. Now the
strangeness of his fate (made The old chief, well over 08, magnate: "Why ever raeli made arrangements for the devoted the rest of his life to known by A. J. A. Symons in neither knew his age, nor a word chase away our own royally?"
seconds. right. duel, and appointed
the college had
The Quaest for Corvo) leats of English. Then officialdom intervened.
readers back to a writer who He was arrested in bed, and He invented a means of tak might otherwise have been for- bound over to keep the peaceing, photographs under water;
gotten. In £500 sureties.
designed furniture; proved by a vast genealogical inble that the great King of Italy was rightful king secure of England, and turned up
Holywell, Flintshire, calling himself Father Austin, and claiming the Kaiser as his god-· Disraeli was born in 1004. He died at 19, Curzon Street, In return for his keep,
for a Westminster, on April 10, 1081. painted banners
com-shrine-ond then Sued A plaque on the house
priest-in-charge for £1,000 memorates him.
One
Disraeli's of
was to achievements for Britain a big intercul in the Suez Canal.
father.
It's No Picnic
A DAY AT THE BEACH
CAN BECOME AS INVOLVED AS A MAJOR AMPHIBIOUS
OPERATION..
L.COM, IN) BY BONIRAL PEATURTI
6-14
"COM, THE WORLD KIRISTS BELLEVIo.
THE MARTYR-HE'S ALLERGIC TO EVERY BUG AND WEED IN THE BUSINESS.
DID WE LEAVE
ANYTHING ?"
-NOTHING A
· BULLDOZER CAN'T TAKE
CARE OF.
"THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN A STEAK COOKED" OVER AN 'OPEN FIRE
ot
Asked through on Interpreter what he thought the Queen had s sald," he repliet he guessed she was telling him he had his Lord Coronation medal on wrong way
round-which he had,
BORN TO BELIEVE. An Au-
tobiography. By Pakenham, Cape. 18s. 254 pages.. POURED out with more sin- he cerity than art here is the local story of one who seems to have
his the picked
way delicately
Germany in through life, gently wringing Coronation-conscious.
WE WON'T DAMAGE THE FOLIAGE.
CORONATION LINGERS
West
BY HARRY WEINERT
"DON'T WORRY
IT'S ONLY POISON IVY.
"WHY DON'T
YOU LET SOME-
ONE ELSE
TRY IT ?*
IT'S NO
PICNIC
-THE
NEXT
DAY.
TCHING THE BIG HE-MAN WRESTLE
JAR OF "OLIVES
Bonn:
still
Munich: Twenty-two-year-old
tniner Alfred Kitius sought heaven in the love of his sweetheart. da
But she turned him down, Poor Alfred felt like hell.
Down, down he went, down the shaft of the mine where he worked. And there, 1,800 teet below the surface, he hanged himself.
BLARE-UP
Ndola, Northern Rhodesin: Three lorrylcads of heavily- armed police seen_speeding dut; _| of Ndola towords the neigh bouring copper mining lowns set off wild reports of racial riots.
Worried whites besieged police 5, headquarters for newa, :Policy - chiefs investigated, reported fateř that the three lorries contained the Northern Rhodesian police band-with instruments.
IT'S TONSILS
Rome; An Italian-doctor has popped. up with an explanation for the findings of US. Gêneral SLA Marshall that about hal America's fromline saldiers; nover opened fire on the enemy in World War I and u Korea because they could not stomach the idea of killingi.
"It's all a matter of tonall proclaims Guido Calderoli, of
North Italy.
Saya he in a pamphlet: "Elimination of tonsils saps. The energy and virility of man." Most American soldiers haye" ther tonsils out."
Calderoll says that if the British often fear tired, it is also fargely because about,10 per cent of them have lost their tonsils.
He has sent a detalled, report. of his Andings to the Italian Defence Minister, to the British. Consul in Rome, nid to the American Ambassador, Clare Booth Luce.
SHIFT OF SCENE",
Sydndy:
Japanese war criminais-178 of themin gual on Manus Island, Australia's' defence outpost north-west of New Guinea, 'are
to be sent home to dish their sentences in u
in Japanese pe
prisons.
But first the Japanese Govern- ment has to give an undertaking that the sentences' will be faith- fully carried out. 1
The repairintion ̧ ̧with-leave- Ruanda, as the only country con- tinuing to hold war criminals.. outside Japan,
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