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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 Quality that excites sadness

(0).

5 Spili (5).

# Adjacent (4).

Not transparent (0).

11 Seizes (5). ·

12 Soft, whispering sound (8).-

14 Dried up (4).

16 Punctuation mark, (5),

(5)

it-ouse

in

(4).

Hang around (6)

24 Commonplace (5).

25 Piercing

20 Cultivate

27 Rascal (5).

28 Worn-out (0).

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DOWN

1 Support (4).

2

RID (4),

3 Burden (4).

4 Boll (6).

5 Pressing necessity (7).

-6 Fetter (7).

7 Trying out (7).

10 Peaceful (6).

13 Church (7).

inischarging (7).

14

in Full (7)..

17 Regular arrangement (5).

19 Foozle (6).

21 Game (4).

22 Ceremony (4).

23 Monster (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Ratty, 4 Stupor. Balsam, 10 Basts, 12 Rarest, 14 Impasse, 17 Sore, 19 Spoiled. 20 Medical, 22 Adami, 23 Gesture, 27 Valeta, 29 Volle, 30 Evades, 31 Losing, 32 Dirge. Dawn. 1 Rabbi, 2 Tulip, 3 Years, A Tube, Pistol, 7 Rested, 9 Massage, 11 Assirt, 13 Replete, 15 Meed, 18 Animal, 18 Rear, 20 Marvel, 21, Davits, 24 Soved, Under, 20 Ensue, 28 Lean.

THIS

YOUR

HUSBAND AND YOU WERE THROWING CRUMBS TO THE BIRDS IN THE GARDEN WHEN A DRIED-UP DEAD HORSE WAS DROPPED BY A HUGE AND

PECULIAR BIRD

DREAM

MEANS:

Dreams are a botch-polek, of symbols and memory plctures out of your past; to unravel these two, the medical psychoforlat must ex- plore the dreamer's conselous mind before going on to his subconscious;

Ordinarily, to explore the full significance of such pictures as "the dead horse," "the pecullar bird." ete., he would ask the dreamer

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1955.

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT. Newton accused

of stealing ideas

WHEN

W born

Isaac Newton, in 1642, WAH three his mother married si second time, and lack of a real father's care resulted in a timid youth.

Sir Enna Newton lleod in a'house on this site.

In 1005

At the public school at Grantham he was bullied. Cambridge, leaving Nevertheless ho became because of the plague, Two years head of the school, and later be was elected a Fellow al during leisure hours invent- Cambridge. ed all kinds of mechanical appliances.

Ho built windmills, clocks and sundials.

Gin

Was

In 2008 Newton made a telescope, with which ho water able to son Jupiter's four moons. But within ̈ ̈a year A fellow graduate invented a telescope better than his,

Ho low a kite with a lantern on the tail, to the consternation of the local people, who thought it was an eccentric meteor.

On the death of his stepfather Newton had to help with his mother's farm. At 19 ho was

to admitted

Trinlly College,

Lived Heré,

Here is the plaque.

/YOU ATTRACTED IT WITH MORE CRUMBS AND IT SWEPT INTO THE KITCHEN

WITH A SWIGH OF ITS BAT-LIKE TAIL-YOUR HUSBAND SAID IT WAS

CALLED A *BLEACH-HEAD"

timmard Krabbis

to mention every thought these pictures call to mind: Without that knowledge, one could not interpret so. complex a dream,

However, In very general terms, this seems. to be a dream of drend: you and your husband are contemplating some new activity (you in- vite the Birds with crumbs) and you dread its frightening consequences (the unpleasant horse dropped Jute your garden, the horrifie bird which Invaden your home).

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHY DO YOU WANT TO EAT THAT JUNK ? ANY IRON IN.IT

IS PROBABLY. RUSTY.

JUST ABOUT

THE TIME

YOU ARE

FEELING FINE.

When Newton announced that white light consisted of toys of colours, the whole different selentific world challenged him.

Those "Inferior people" tipset his tranquillity, and for a tüne he gave up publishing the results of his researches. In 1675 he began again to communicate his dis- coveries to the Royal Society, only to bring clamours from other scientists that he had stolen their ideas,

Controversial

•

The doctrines in bis Principia were the subject of controverAY for two centuries, the contention being that he'ħad plagiarised Leibnitz, the German philosopher,

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In 1680 he was chosen

in Parliament, but he lost seat in the same year.

his

1: was not until 1895 that Newton was rewarded for his discoveries with the post of Warden of the Mint at £800 a year, to become Master of the Min; four years later at 21,200 a year.

ELIETTE THROWS A BOMB

BOMB has been thrown

Abang into the borou

cold war between the seXOS, A 21-year-old French girl toki ; me: "Eogilstimen think all wo- mon are stupid."

Interested? Well, the bomb thrower, Effetto Mouret, is something of an, authority, on the subject. She is beautiful. She is sun-tanned, her blonde hair is collod in a chignon at the nape of her nock, and sho hos a pointed, witty face.

She is successful. She has reached the top of the modelling tree, having worked for Dlor, Desses and now Steibel.

Sho is intelligent. Too intel- Bigent to think that modelling is all of a girl's life. "It is a stupid job," she saya, "but I like travelling.”

HER COMMENTS

Does she know Englishmen? Well, sho has been in England five months and has been taken out na often as a girl as beautiful as she is should be.

។

THE MAN WHO

SCARED

A NATION

among FN our time, no private person has done so much to the most Important

It is n change the world as Whittaker' Chambers. By con- them-the microfilms. fessing his part as a Communist underground agent, impossible. All that is certain strange admission, glthough not by supplying the testimony which brought Alger Hiss to is that

The microfilms

at the crucial ruin, this 30,000-dollar journalist and Quaker convert produced sounded an alarm bell against Communism which is still ment in the Hiss drama, and echoing through America.

He-more than any single mani--created the nimo- man like sphere of emotion, and hysteria, in which a Senator McCarthy flourishes.

,

It may even be said that, for complex and sometimes confused reasons, Chambers had much to do with the re- vulsion of American political feeling which brought to an end the 20 years' reign of the Democrats.

What sort of man is this Chambers? Here is the answer, written by himselt, more than coo pages lang.

By George

"Witness" is an autobiography Malcolm Thomson

tionisl

Is

"Very gentlemanly, of course; very busy passing this and that, Very charming, very pollte.

But it is immensely "But he seems unwilling readable. Whatever else he may He

write.

not a day sooner,

were

mow

When he pat ·Communiam behind him, Chambers turned, most lucratively, to Journalism. In 1930, he made one attempt, through Adolphe Borle, to rouse the-American Government the Communist conspiracy ils midst. The attempt appeared, to fall. One can never be sure.

to in

of

Its second attempt was made some years later when it was already certain that Chambers's own part la Communist capion-

would bo made public. So her comments on the Eng-and a self-portrait. Chambers

When detectives called, shiman should be worth listen as he sees himself; and also,

Chambers rung up Mr Berle: ing to-and they are.

involuntarily. Chambers as he

Have 1 your 'per- The book

voluble, York and Washington on their "There are two FBI agents in

my office. 18.

to tell them what I uncluous, turgid, emotional, the portentous missions all this is mission book of an egocentric exhibi- brilliantly conveyed by Cham- told you in 19397"

bere.

Chambers had no need

What was his element, Berlo's permission. give of himself. I never know be. Whittaker Chambers can equipped with a false name, his motivo putting the ques» an Englishman botter at the

"Carl."

on which his superiore lon? Was it his unerring sense end of an evening-evenings

He was born (1901) in an insisted, and an assumed foreign of melodrama? Or was it dona which always end in a night unhappy middle-class family accent, which was his own con- to frighten Berle? club. Men like night clubs." and was given the name of tribution to the murky scone.

Vivien.

What damago did the busy, self-important group DE inflet on the United S

As Chambers develops - his How

dangerous

Alger Hits, the was the "con- case against The questions risa reader follows with fascinated to the mind, but nousen the informer's wrestle to the with his conscience:

Then came the bomb.

"But how stupid Englishmen think we women are, Politics, religion, money and love are eli taboo subjects for women's cars, dinner, the "Always, after men put on their 'Now wo'll really talk faces, while the women go upstairs to discuss dresses and children.

1

Background

Was

in

Scales are tilted

Бате

In ihe family background were drink, insanity and suicide, y Although Chambers has never must be subordinated himself been a patient in a fact that treachery, even when "I did not wish to testify. I

still a crime,

prayed that, it it were God's mental institution, he is hardly not a danger, is

for conspicuous

emotional When, his eyes at last opened will, I might be spared that or stability.

to the wickedness of Com- deal." munism. Chambers broke with не drifted Arst into the munism, Cham

had been given a time to he took with reshape my life. I did not wish American Communist Party and the "apparatus," then,

non-Communist to deprive Hiss of the as an undercover agent, him into the into on

of Soviet world a highly developed sense possibility. But now I must "apparatus" Intelligence in the United States, of self-righteousness and an testify that Alger Hiss had also The casual way in which he equally distinguished talent' for commilted espionage.”

how Chambers suffered! And how was recruited for this duty, the self-preservation.

deliberately

numbed

and it at all,

reduces almost. to

BO that only the body could be torn," zero one's respect for Russian Englishwomen. ure espionage,

Ho removed and hid away etc. The reader of such moving stupid by now it is hard to go

and The atmosphere of parlour documents

microfilms passagen almost forgets that,

no one talks Intelligently you.

"It is all those men."

SMUG, SATISFIED

"Then half an hour later the men appear, smug and satisned. put on the 'We are with the In April 1705, he was knighted women now faces, and are very of George 1, until Leibnitz to. umuse us. undermined bis popularity. Leibnitz died before he could substantiate certain accusations he had made, and Newton was absolved.

"I

He was a favourite at the court/kind to us and take great pains; fact that he was recruited for Films were hidden blacked out, the soul

·

Newton died on March 20, 1727, in his 85th year.".

He lived at 80, Jermyn Street, Mayfair. from 1007 to 1700, and at No. 87 until 1709, A. tablet recording his residence is on No. 07, now rebuilt.

"TAKE BIG GAME HUNTING THE LAST TIME

I WAS IN

AFRICA

"Maybe

on being clever by yourself if Bolshevism; the snobbery of which proved, or seemed to after all, it was His who was

10 middle-class intellectuals gazing prove, that a group of

the clubs, of course

men together being

| starry-eyed at the workers" American officials, includi ruined,

pia.

Was it sinister that the... for with still wider eyes at real Alger Hiss, had betrayed State American Government was w

(i.e. Russian) revolutionaries; secrets. These papers Chom- slow to credit the caso ngainat the Boy Scout antles of the bers looked

on as a life- Hiss? Chambers thinks so. But explanation "agents". dumbling about New preserver, for he expected his surely a simpler

· Ellette, as one woman to an-

ilfe to be threatened by his ex- can be found in the personality other,. I salute you.

friends.

of the informer. *"WITNESS" Ду Whittaker Chanibers says that he com- Старости. Anddre Deubach, -PHOEBE YOUNG 20 pages.

To repent and confess is one pletely forgot the existence of thing; to dole out half-truths is

another. To measure out mim-' clent of the truth until, at last, the scales are tilted against the accused man-this leaves

the suspicion that, had still more evidence been needed to achieve the purpose, I too would have been

The Debunkers

"MY HUSBAND

IS A GREAT READER.

I THOUGHT

THAT LAST

YARN SOUNDED FAMILIAR“

"HMM-THOSE WORM HOLES LOOK LIKE BUCK SHOT "TO ME /*

BY HARRY WEINERT

Reng..

sanctimonious, profoundly unlikable, Whittaker Chambers wasj on

-his-

"OWT

showing, a perjurer at each stare in his campaign

against Hiss

save only the last stage of all. How then can one be con

singe,

ndent that. In thọ Anal Chambers is not still aiding zone portion of the truth?

"Witness" Fig 5. fascinating

confession. But It ends, not in an assertion, but in a question mark.

THE

NOT-SO-SURE

· DEBUNKER.

THERE'S NO SUCH

THING AS A

HAUNTED

HOUSE

HURRY UP/

THE INNOCENT DE BUNKER.

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LEGEND DEBUNKING.

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Buzzes With Life

Now comes, a Arst novel, THE ORCHID HOUS

(Constable 12. 8d.) by Mra P. Shand Allfrey, that I deeply enjoyed. It is all about an English family that lives in the West Indies. ter,"

father of the Mas three daurb ters called Stella, Joan, abd Natalie, rétums hame to the Island after the 1014-10 War. He is a wrecked and exhausted man, whose only happiness llen in marijuana (Indian hemp). This is provided by a sinister, pock-marked chap called. Mr Lilpoulala.

Lilpoulala

The daughters leave home,, merry,

None of them is. happy away from the Island, Stella returns

and (allegedly) pushes into the river, He Stella leaves. Then and tries to lead in a Left-wing Natalie who

the

drowna Joan

arrives peasants

revolt Only':

to

weep

monty,

the sense

Bet father off in A scaplang for drug cure.

Mrs Allfrey has roal talent: Her book buzzes with life. And ven if much of her story con- even cems ugliness, weakness, and | disease, - the writes of these things with real compassion. In fact, she has something to write about..

THE INGH JUMP, Val: Glob kud (Collins, 121 8d.) Dav Broganza, successful brow writer, ¿cautious, traveller and amorist, 1810 jumps'-'oli. 4 New York hotel

Why

plot,

Bight!

eltingly unravela

hold

iding the

chapter, which ends "not willf bang, but a whimper.

HE WEARS A

TOUPEE".

so WHAT?