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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1964,

MISS MOH THE POET

will visit a gasworks

M

-BUT SHE'D RATHER SEE 'SIR CHURCHILL'

SEOUL.

ISS MOH will be bored with Britain. expects to be.

She

The leading woman poet of South Korea flies in from Seoul soon at the British Government's expense. She files back (still a guest of the taxpayer) after a frantic month's sightseeing.

And as she goes, I'm afraid she'll be stifling a yawn. Simply because somehow, somewhere, someone's made a alfight mistake,

I heard all about it in

a small strawfloored apartment in central Seoul.

Miss Youn Sook Moh, Syngman Rheo's 88-year-old of heavenly "maker

verse," when told me what happens civil servants invite you to Britain.

to

Of course it is impolite examine the mouth of the gift she explained. "It is horse," the greatest kindness to make guest But surely me your somebody was not making the full use of his head?"

SHE handed

neatly Office

by RUSSELL

DIETITASTOORAINDIKATLESTERN) ENSZEIT

SPURR

COMBINATEDRALEZALLEIN

about Miss Moh's most popular works.

"Storm" describes her fight from Communism in the first days of the North Korean invasion. Her two terrifying months hiding in the mountains, hunted, by,, troops and agents, and even sleeping in caves graves, living on roots and gras.. "I put much of my soul into that book," she said.

HOUSING ESTATES... And a circus

But the best-seller was "Ren's now in its tenth edition, ELEKY me the

the story of a girl's love for a typedForeign

prominent Korean at the out- only Arrival by plane. Departure break of the war. She rescues

him from the Communists, visita to ditto. In between,

to despise his lack

courage. housing estates, factories, the

*11 13 a patriotic poem like Gloucester County Police, all my work," said Miss Moh.

Itinerary:

a dreus, the

permitting).

(if desired).

"I am

coast (weather

of

a football match "My attempt was to make Ren Korean typical modern the

and The critics, yes President Rhee himself, remark that i was the most successful."

Miss Moh shrugged.

making the

travel It

with threo Korean editors. will be fascination for them tu sco everything. But I am

British poci. I desire to meet

painters, and musicians. poets, I wish to

famous see your ballet, your excellent opera and symphonies What do I get?"

A STEEL WORKS...

And a panto

the

SHE picked out a typical day's sightseeing. Visit to Iron ant steel works, A rolling mill. A pantomime.

"It is porsible to detrot

I too am an editor of mistake. one small poetry magazine. So it in the Idea of your officials that I must make the bustle

woman.

I

SOME VERSE, MAYBE...

About England

given WAS

a blotched, mlspelt translation of the heroine's final outburst of patriotism.

"If you need my breath and blood, Korea, I'll gladly die Then tyy soul will lit you

often.

If what you want la my life,

how can I deny

Every drop of blood from my

heart?"

Miss Moh smoothed out her rustling peach and bottle green robes.

"There is the hope perhaps about.

something that I might write

same "Oh, they

I the

of your England. are so wrong. wish ΠΟ hurry, na official About your great Sir Churchill. I wish to spend How I long to meet him just engagements,

a minule. Not as your time sensing the spirit of the for British people and write one national leader but as poetry book about them."

being and a figure great in ambition, A maid entered with a lacquer literature. It is my fray and two cups. As we but she eighed sadly all i sipped our milkless tea I heard get is the visit to the gasworks."

Why

a human

Memo to Miss Moh: Try to visit Nottingham

I FIND THE CITY OF KIND FOLK

by JAMES LEASOR

TOR Nottingham, population I had never met before. Probably

300,000,

Virtue we shall never see each other motto:

a agaks, but he could not have been survives the grave, I have now dite:

Friendliest kinder had I been his closest The City in Britab And this is friend.

A fire was stocked up in his I visited Nottingham for the altling-room; there were cakes, first tlumo few days ago, coffee, and good conversatico, driving up from London in an And when I said goodnight, open car, and arriving cold felt real regret at leaving him. and numb.

The Brst three hotels I tried m

D

F

MISS MOH. "MAKER OF HEAVENLY VERSE." is te impolite to examine the mouth of the gift horse.

trut

Butler's New Year Bounty

By

LES: : ARMOUR

London. * around some delicate matters THE tax on that dog in of psychology.

The window, the one This is where Fido comes

Д

with the corkscrew tail,, has in. Fido had 75 percent! been cut by two-thirds A added to, his price because manoeuvre which leaves him the tax experts rated him exactly even with the dog an ornament and not with a corkscrew in his utensil. Since the corkscrew, stomach. •

to quote. Mr Butler, "forms This is part of Mr Butler's an integral part of the body" New Year bounty to the he got into the high-price British taxpayer. How 'much class. Had the corkscrew he will lose 'on Fido is a projected from his body, he matter of some mystery, would have escaped with a but the pundits reckon that measly 25 percent tax. The he has given away £2,000,- public thought the Govern- 000 a year in his cuts on ment was surely mad. "luxury" tax.

That works out at some-

Now it doesn't matter and

thing like 10d. for every everybody is breathing east-

man, woman and child in ly. the country. So if each of un drinks an extra pint of ale by way of celebration, the treasury will be right back where it started..

SIGNIFICANCE

ASSAULT

But it would be uncharit- able to suggest that china the root shop Fidos were

cause of the bounty.

The gesture is, in fact, an

The tax

on

Whatever Mr Butler is assault on the apparent cost about, it is plain that he has of living. not decided that the British

gold, silver, Government can get along jewellery, mirrors, walking sticks and vases drops from without money.

The significance of the 75 percent to 50 percent; gesture centres, rather, the tax on washing and fabric lampshades falls from 50 percent to 25 percent.

Now most of us hardly ever buy any of these things. But walk through the glittering West End Saturday night and watch the crowds: jewellers and furniture dealers attract bigger crowds than Marilyn Monroe ever dreamed of.

DOES IT PAY

to tap the bear ON THE NOSE?

★TO-DAY, the man who stood up to Stalin gives an answer

Land. But neither “Finland for Brimin deserve blame for this

Jamentablo altuation.

On

These are the focal points for the dreams, of the young man with a pretty the girl on his arm, and middle-aged man who can allow his imagination to expand in the anonymity of an Oxford Street shopping

crowd.

MASTERFUL

And so the milkbar waitress who dreams of a duchess's tiara will thank Mr Butler,

We want to buy these In 1944 after repulsing a Russian offensive,

But it takes all the Finns things. judged it prudent to disengage the fun out of wanting if themselves from Germany. They we think that nearly half VIELD - MARSHAL Lenin, on the new principles had once again prevented the the price would go to the

BARON

Russians from MANNER. «f enlightenment that were sup-

overrunning their country but they had to Treasury. to HEIM, more than any posed

govern Bolshevik submit to severs

peace terms. other single person,

was foreign policy, had recognised None the loss it remaina_true responsible for the inde Finland's autonomy-in theory. even today that of all the Euro- In practice Russian Communist pean countries bordering Russia, pendence of Finland.

Finland alone is not à Com- troops were trying to convert

munist satellite state. It fell to him in the the country, into a Red Republic. course of his long career to Thanks largely ́to Mannerhelm's Why have the Finns escaped More important, the Exiton in lead his country in no military talents and the fighting heim's book gives the answer, are getting better that prices this fater Marshal Manner- the street will know that things fewer than three struggles qualities of the Finns, the Red

The Finns are united no effec- are coming down and not going against her giant neigh- armies were totally defeated. tive Communist Brth column up-and the psychological effect bour, Russia-the War of

cannot but be good. Liberation in 1918, the of uneasy. Independence. Like all

Finland now enjoyed 20 years exists they fight, and they are

tough. The Russians, prisoners That may be important just of their own ideology in this "Winter War" of 1989-40, the mmor nations which lay respect, do not wish to appar now when a wave of labour un- rest in sweeping, the country. and the war of 1941-44, between the Russlan and openly as imperialist conquerers. His memoirs will com- German spheres of influence, she To swallow up. Finland they The unrest has been generated mere by a feeling of trustration mand wide attention.

was in a precarious position. Her would have to đó so. ¡ ̈

than by any

real facts about Perhaps a moral can be wages and prices. And purchase drawn. Is it possible that, tax cuts are a good way to coun sometimes at all events, it paya ter that foeling. to give the Russian Bear, not Mr Buller, is playing his difi-

on the nose?

hand.

by Robert Blake

For the first 50 years of Mannerheim'a life-he was born in 1867 and died in 1951-Finland was a semi- independent Grand Duchy under the Russian Tsars, independence was duo-not, as who had conquered it from the virtuous Anglo-Saxon sup- Sweden in 1809: Manner-porters of the League of Nations clalmed, to a new respect for the heim belonged to the cosmo- rights of email countries--but to politan aristocracy, largely the power vacuum which had German in origin, which followed the unexpected simul- ware full. So was the fourth- AS I waited at the "request" surrounded the court of taneous collapse of both Imperial but here I met the kind recep A stop nea; his house he came St Petersburg. He does not Germany and Imperial Russia in

at this time appear to have taken any special interest

tionist.

"Come in and set

Afterthought

yourself down," she miled. ruming up the street towards

We'll ring up

a few places me

"Suddenly thought for you."

As I thawed out in front of mightn't know there was a

1910.

That vacuum did not last for in Finland's Independence. long. At the end of November For persons of his class the The "Winter War" had begun.

1939 Russia, attacked Finland. a fine log fire in the hall, a so close and you'd have gone room was found for me in a walking miles up to the Market opportunities of political

the amazement of the Wouldn'i de private hotel some miles out place," be

de and military in on the Hucknall Road.

en a cold night like this per many service. Im world the Finnish Army, again Said the girl: "It's a plea-

under Mannerheim, resisted with the bus back to Notting- sure" when I asked her how ham I asked the conductor to wider than they would have remarkable success. The up- much I owed. (And you can let me know when we reached been in the parochial world parent be sure that if ever I am back the city centre. A man in a of an autonomous Finland.

ότι

1

quired where wanted to go.

in Nottingham I will stay at sext behind, heard this and in- hor hotel.)

The porter looked up a road I told himi: Where I could find map for me; a taxi-driver outside, something to eat."

set me on my way. When I Ile took mo round three or foolishly got lost on the outskirts of the city (all'eny owai fault) a man on the pavement come to my oki

saw me studying a road map. Ho naked where I was going.

four restaurants until I found ono I liked the look of although it delayed him on his way home, at the

of

Incompetence of the Russian BAY may well have contributed largely to hier's decision to Invado Russia 18 months later. Nevertheless after 31 months, the Finns, having received no help from

He 'entered the Imperial the Western allies, felt obliged Chevalier Guards, fought in the to scok what terms they could Russo-Japanese war, rode across from their enemy,

"I had stopped the car and hé in an engineering worker, a shift Asla from Samarkand `to` Pekin. "Don't like anyone to be lost, it took him two years) on a military mission for the Russian „he said. “Been fed up in strânge | Chief of Staff, and commanded

places myself often enough. I on Imperial Husstan division. In, know how it feels. Good night." | the 1914 war, And the unknown Samaritan walked away in the darkness,

The right way OOK here," he said, "you'll nover fod it on your own.

| Let me show you!

Too late?. No

It is not surprising that they now turned to Germany. The Gofrdan" attacks, on" Rüskia' In Juno 1941 PAVO Finland · ́n Tho „Bolshevik”“”“revolution

chance of reversing the humi brought his career in the Tsar's Haling terms imposed, upon har service to an end. He made it is to be rumembered, how- his way for Finland, nai without ever, that Finland was by no dimculty and becante at once

Gorman means

satellite and Stay Involved - In the struggle for that Mannerholm firmly xpfused eparing Finnish independence. - Buppose to allow the Finnish array to be that England, had gone." Come used for an offensiva: Į against kdid the | munist in 1918), we, right! well Leningrad. have seen regular soldiers of

Down the sal beside ene, and of,

■T was. lube and the restaurant we went mid the way together--- although he demitted afterwards Too late?" i asked,

was closing that he had been waiting for a bus to go in the opposite direc- to leave and try elsewhere

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