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·THE CHINA MAILY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER: 3, 1953.

* DON IDDON'S DIARY

NOW IT'S MY TURN TO SAY THANKS'

TO MR LEN HUTTON

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By-

There has of the pleasant glow of pro-

been Dr Alfred New York, Tuesday. HERE isn't a foreign perity that has spread over Kinsey and his "Sexual

correspondent in Lon- Britain." putting his came to haviour in the Human Female," dispatches headlined "Britain confirmation that Russia has the enthusiastic reports about And

And the Brothers Alsop, veray In the United Nations, Dr the British recovery. I don't Joseph and Stewart, who

the dispatches the foreign diplomats stationed there send to their Govern ments, but I am pretty sure They are telling the story of the great Kence of Great Britain.

come-back The delightful reading

Unimpressive

were Kinsey, the arrival of Adial solemnly Informing the Ameri- Stevenson, Dr.Kinsey, a tour of can public that if they didn't the town by President Eisen- .. Dr Kinsey. buy Jaguar motor-cars then the bower, and, er Brilish would without break- fast, fre talking of "booming same business -economk recovery resur- that is so striking a phenomenon

in Great Britain,"

Other columnists

has not been an impressive uncl cor- makes prapondents join in the

chorus performance at the U.N.-by here. Fol

or any nation. The They report we have none, anyone have been toiling

be, United States has gone all out we have

ave goods, and, praise through gloomy reports llating we have character.

as the super-Power rather than bankruptcy, aphthy

yenes

A feel in this period of rapture as a member of the community

it is a pity that the Amert- of nations.

austerity the cardinal characteristics

And that

When

post-war Britain.

I suggested now

gan the funeral

nature, thank

turnet,"

was

A cans do not play cricket, or

bre-

understand crickel. There have

The U.S. tendency is to throw

cut of restraints and

sonic.

the

strings

The Nein York: Post an- nounces: HU.S. Ambassador. Henry Cabot Lodge is presiding.

ver

liquidation of the American position of strength in the U.N." This an exaggern- tlon but 1here bus bern American slurmp.

12 was xenitaly been some fumbling eren ages which she generally finds irk-

explain to the bewildered {00 suon to dig the grave, ball fans just

what

Test the didn't get much of a heart

matches

fath evon the except from verasional house- wives who wrote and said they Ashes have been defined, but no ne has bothered to clusterile Thought they Pentaki elk of light at the end of the what "silly mid-on" means and

ከጎኔ "Ibw" han them stumped,

Actually, psychological warfare warriors should all take The chorus

44 Courso in cricket. It would the Al much. TOW the chink of light e help them

much. Now bright

United Nulions delegates are image unt

each other: There perhaps soon a blazing sun. The saying to chief mourners have come as eems to be a tremendous self about the British, quests. M. They are all very confident and Michne Holtman, of the New --hoop-what's the reason, I could tell

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wedding

York Times,

Spreialist

50

90

you suppose?

vrutiomics and knowledgeable Chinm in 1W0 words the

J

his

I na

This time we cannot blame John Foster Dulles, for he was on Duck Island, in Lake On- ario, where the only communi- Canadian who receives cation is through o Highthouse-keeper radio dispatches along with his weather reparts. There

nu telegraph ofice telephone, no in fact, no gas and no electricity. wanted Mr Dulles said họ

the of

primitive life and he is having it. Some United Nations delegates think they are also having a taste of the

ut primitive

the peace palace.

You should understand that what Lodge is doing apparently Australls in the last Test series has the backing of the public I received a message from the M.C.C. team, then in New Zea- and ost of the Press. “You tell

that them, Cabot,"

on International finase, was the Ashes"; but in afraid they

would not understand. - master of melancholia espatches

"Britaly's dirt traits."

Solitary welcome Bul

Mr Hoffman positively exuberant, writing

now

Printing

of

Distinction

for

People

of

Distinction

HAVE a personal interest in this British Test victory. After our resounding defeat in

land. The mesinge The team would drungh New

bc York On

passing! their

Oh back home

inste

has

beesme

wwhtete, a sentence which

nsikt Len appeared in last

I went to La Guardia Airport to meet 14 sunburned; suc cricketers. There Was no one else there except a group of air. line officials. No one from the

British Embassy, no one reom the British Consulate, and DO!

solitary fit.

It turned out that the team

are

a

week's Diary

Frayed nerves

were booked to fly back to Lon. THE U.S. thinks

don on Pan American Airways.

We

ม

are appeasing the Soviela and I said to Len Hutton and to would only be too happy if we Dents Compton: "This looks bad were expspooling them,

ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE ̈USED - BECAUSE THE ENEMY MIGHT RETALIATE

MY

Back to where it all started

ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE USED - BECAUSE THE ENEMY MIGHT RETALIATE

London Express Borvice

SENTIMENTAL

JOURNEY

W

car,

years.

By MAMIE BAIRD

The true story of two girls in search of the strangers who saved their brother's life-a search which had one of the simplest objects in the world: to say 'Thank you".

They all shook hands with us outside Macerata, now a elga-

on to relle factory. at Civilonova, helped us the platform, directed us to the

We sped through the Macerala train, and hung, from

coun-

another

7E brought back Pilottis, # peasant family The train times were on the windows, waving, grinning, tryside that Archie had tramp- ed by night to the Pilotul place, more than a sun who hid him for nearly a third sheet of paper: and shouting "Buona, voyage."

which was a good bit out of St tan from our holi- year, defying the German Leave Cattolica 6.30 a.m. The trouble - started at Angelo, and we tried one vine

Fascist day on the Italian Army,

dichards, for Civitonova, change for Macerata. I was inquiring out covered cottage after and bills posted in their Macerata, arriving approx. side the station about buses to before I saw a figure 1 recog- village

Angelo-in- 10.80 a.m. Bus (we hoped) St. Angelo when a big man in a nised from a photograph, hoeing

to grey suit asived to see our pass- beside a house.

I thought that perhaps Pontana, promising death to St Angelo, return

know what he just wanted to language we spoke, and gladly fished out my credentials, Anna hadn't bothered to bring hers,

of St

later,

we

SAID the hotel manager: "Non e possible," not knowing the Scots,

The family

Τ

which seemed to annoy the math T was Julls, the father, brown, smiling, blinking in the Yel when he asked us to munchine. · He -knew us at once follow him we fondly believed (Archie had written to the mar he was showing us the way to ried daughter, who can read, to and were shocked to say that we might be coming). the bus, and ourselves in the railway

came running on police station. It seemed that bare feet, a motherly without a passport apiece

wo with a

Mamma

Riviera....

They said at the hotel Hutton and some of the others in some editions and which ap that we could never do it

to those who harboured es- catch 2.15 p.m. fro. ports, would like me to show them the really puzzled several readers

And now it should have read: "Millions

in 12 hours. of

caped prisoners.

Macerata, change Civit town.

nova, change Pesaro, arrly Americans are exasperated that does seem a short time to the British

against ex have travelled 200 miles up So, ten years the Russian and down the Adriatic const decided to go and gay thank ing Cattolica 6.30 p.m. sperating

not "again"

easiest of In five trains and a hired you-not the Against, and

We set off appeared.

learned a new lan missions when you consider guage, got into police that we could not speak hands, broken.

could not lifelong Italian, they a pledge of teetotalism, and understand English, and it

woman mude a speech of thanks would have been useless to

and kind strong face that had been delayed ten ask someone to write what

tycs. Son Gino was behind So wt set off as the sun was couldn't move. we wanted to say in Italian,

their because the Pilottis cannot coming up to the boil; with our

He went onside, and I fol- her, his wife Ella, and packed lunches, a booklet en-

baby daughter. - British team should travel The hydrogen or hell-bomb

read.

Get All back on a British airliner. De announcement

You lowed him, protesting in sign has trayed

titled, "How to 100 miles away

It was as if we had known you think New York Giants or American nerves and those [11

But an SOS Lo Scot Want in Italy (or Stelly)," and language and Italian that seem-

ed to come from nowhere that them all our lives, this simple Yankees wouldn't use their own other countries too. For montha

land brought a letter from one of those huge Italian railway we had no time to wait, I told family, who scrape a bare exis

that seem tickets-for-two flagships?"

$150, от rather years, we have By

own ticket him where we were going. His tence from their scrap of land, Hutton an) Compton agreed, had air-raid rehearsals here and IT was to say Thank you my brother with a few con- puzzle even

face softened, That was different, who era too poor to eat meat or transferred the entire the roads have big signs: "in that my sister and I-versational pieces in Italian collectors..

butter,-or-to-buy new clothes, South China M.C.C. team to BOAC, winning the event of enemy attack this forsook our strip of sunny for me to learn by heart.

clothed and Rehearsing my Italian was Anna was all for taking the but who fed and BOAC gratitude and not highway will be closed to

at beach at Cattolica, belle of ("Show us the cave in the impossible in the crowded com- next train back to Cattolica, housed a former enemy (Italy I So now ́ ́Morning Post unnoying Pan American over- traffe."

much.

where Archie hid partment because somebody had but I had the bit in my mouth. had just capitulated when he Len Hutton said: "Many more raid rehearsals and more

ore the Adriatic Riviera, for woods Limited

thanks-If ever I

I can do any enemy attack signs on the roads. the hazards of a journey when he was on the run." produced a portable radio and After a frenzied hunt through escape) because his need was

Adiol thing for you let me know."

Stevenson at Icust

on the local Italian rail. "Where did Archie sleep?" everyone was listening to the the phrase bools I announced greater than theirs.

taxi." A porter I threw away my scraps of 1. said: "You can win the next brought wisdom to the troubled

"He hopes to visit you next latest cycle race bulletin as only "Desidero un

Kalians can listen. The noise rushed to the telephone and a paper, and the words of thanks Test serius." Hulton, a cautious elty

"Did you get the they made was deafening. hired

WOS outside the came

casily, I remembered year." mun, made no promise then, bl off hin

We had discovered that inst parcel he sent you?"

station In Ave minutes. Again phrases, made up words and, has delivered now.

Cattolica WAA 100 miles

Then somebody noticed that there were handshakes, Then we amazingly, was understood. "Play the accordion for us, at from the prison camp

we were not taking part and were off. Julio.")

decided we were foreigners. The Macerata which our brother

I couldn't see this Insting man next to me knew some The driver was under the left one night in 1943 through a hole in the barbed me more than the first five French, and when I had told impression

I asked the him where we were going and going minutes, so

who he had passed it on to the rat grave hotel receptionist,

of the compartment the radio much for my Italian), but THEY showed From there it was an- apoke English, to write me was switched off and we became when we had put him right he Gino had shared with "Ard."

the a little speech of thanks.

us the prison camp the window at which he used to

Telephone 20002

and ask for

Mr. Labrum

he

when he

he stepped smilingly plane after his ex- month tour He conceded I hope the M.C.C. travel via American prestige abroad has New York again. This time we been hurt by "book-burning and really will do the town.

purges." But, he saidi, the presilge could be restored.

Stevenson is dog-tired but doesn't look it. He slept in different beds in 30 countries and has come to the conclusion that whatever else he lacks he has stamina.

It has been an exciting werk in New York. Not at all the usual August doldrums and dog days.

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MUSSOLINI THE LOVER

M

ROBERT BLAKE

Whal

their

The centre of interest.

showed

car

that we wzre to 800 our brother's in St. Angelo (BO

WAS SO MEAN

EXAMINES A NEW VIEW OF

THE HALF-PINT

USSOLINI! The very and allows his remarkable story tached by women to having the enormously mean one

Duce as their lover. For, if Mr absurd buffoon, that to tell itself.

AN orit personality Monelli la right, it was not all thought of that

the that much fun to be favoured by Mussolini, cmerges! posturing charlatan, that ruthless dictator, the Napo Mussolini.

bullfrog, inflated

brings roale hero, the man

Who

were wished to revive the stern The Duce's' methods laughter to the lips.

virtues of Ancient

love-making rough Rome, tuma crude, his incompelent and violent.

One woman relates how ho creatures and

squeezed her "just as if he were

out to be an

Other dictators have no doublunderer; drunk with grandeur, been intellectually worth equal surrounded by contempt, Her, and Stalin. too, believed in at least as much sycophants. rubbish

US ever

WOR

DUCE

His window

US the tiny white-washed attie that

watch for the Fascists ap- proaching on one of their periodle searches for cscaped prisoners.

They showed us the road to the woods tud the cave 107 which they carried him when he had malaria and the house was being renrelied,

And

our car

We saw the church he at- tended on Sundays, with his

lecti

half of the and others who hoped In this six

An Inch Sunday stinglest lovers that ever lived. way to gain favours from the crammed Into Julia's

head of the State.

sult, the plough and oxen that sometimes after a cigarette or with Claretta

In his carlier days he would Yet, oddly enough, his affair he drove for them, the deld Petacel did him where he grew Indian corn and half a bottle of wine. Later he more h

potatoes. harm than any other. abstained even from these gifts,

Mamma made a special soup although he always kept a little was partly due to the

rapacity of her relations, whose in

mad our honour, ready cash for any woman who racketeering became notorious, driver was invited to join In frankly asked for money,

partly because The

the meal. There were hunks coincided with the Even Clarotta Petacci, the

of dry, sour bread, small pears,

ver, as Mr Monell says, Teetotalers both; we drank the He was a bad administrator, sounding an old-fashioned motor most celebrated of his mistresses, decline of Mussolini's popularity. a huge apple cach, and vine, Muslin Ho know nothing

who shared her lover's grue. Moreover,

for Italians mistresses are auch strong heady wine without a belleved in Yet there

some end, received scarcely any of military horn"

a normal part of a man's life murmur, matters. His only real flair was something about them, and the

ile was opt to shout and material benefits from him.

that they for publicity and popularity, and

only became worth sinister power that they exer

curse at the top of his voice, cised,

The nallon current In Rome. talking about where the story is that could only serve him while which Induces not

for which reason a deaf al that she had two thousand pairs tinged with tragedy or romance,” s policy WILS

reasonably 'a sort of re- admiration--but

tendant was attached to the successful.

of shoes and priceless jewels And these elements the Petacci luciant

which respect

rooms at the Palazzo ive concedo to anyone who inspires

where he used meet his from the Duce was, as Mr Monell supplied to the full.

puts it, the sheerest fantasy.". There were continual scenes, handed out presents fear and terror on

hints the there were clandestine meetings Wfore we left. Mamma went vasi a HO

mistressco.

Despite her strong scalo.

Sometimes ho would essay to most he would ever give her was which everyone knew about, oft and returned with four czgs part of Mr soothe his partner's But Mussolini, no. Ribaldry- PERHAPS the

three times a there were blows, nerves by 500 lire two or

and a round of cheese. and often Rabelaisian ribaldry at Monelli's book which will be playing the violin, but he was an year to buy herself a new dress, emotional reconciliations.

We took them to make her Again and again during the that BOOM the Inevitable most novel to. English readers indiferent performer.

war Mussolini tried to end happy and were not for from reaction to almost everything he is the secount of Mussolini's Margherita Sarfatil, one of hiz

their reations, but Claretta was tears as they waved us down said

amorous activilles for despite earlier toves, observed, he was - or did.

genuinely devoted to him, and the sun-baked road.. Mr Paolo Monelli's admirable his own reference to his decisions, dictatorial over where music was

luxurious house. In the aging Duce found it less easy blography confirms this view. It made in the night, in the concerned, and had no respect for THE

I understood what the driver of Rol Hude

arid, is an excellent

imy book written

which she lived (now.con- to break off the offale than: he and style or formi,

verted into a (resiouram) was would have at an earlier time. was saying on the way back to with scholarly care, and is worthy unsociable life," Mussolini was

to Venus It was popularly rumoured built.

Kalter, as ardent a devotes

by.. ber of high commendation.

and Sho was with him right to the Macerata: These peasant peo that, with all the resources of Mussolini contributed nothing. czad, and when Mussolini's body ple, they give you all they have Mr Manoill writes well, never' as ever a man was,

His mistresses were many, his the State ∙at his command, Aa for the luxuries which obtrudes his own

'final' macabre. scene at the and he pointed to his heart. much exarorated, Piazzale Loreto in Milan, the We were back in time His success must be explained lavish gifts upon his favourites, extent was * Mussolini An Intimate Lije, by less by the intrinsie

CARO, pleasure But the reality was quite dif- god, in any

they were body of his mistress.. "swung | dinner, hot, tired,, hungry-and

Thumble. Pasta Monelli ('xisomes and Hudson, Lavolved than try, the prestige al-, forent, On the contrary he was, lenguty gifts from businesă men beside him. afij,

The blunderer

to

Venezia

As

Racketeers

there were

They give all

be

personality, casual encounters Innumerable. Mussolini showered the most: Claretta: Potacei did enjoy, the was hung upside down in that and then they give you this”

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