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**Eleven lumps or twelve?**

WHEN MOUNTBATTEN SCOLDED AN EDITOR

stand it no longer. He resign-

HORNED MOON. By lan He know the outstanding per-

the of

drama. Ho Stephens. Chatto and sonages

watched hatred and suspicion Windas. 21s. 288 pages.

grow between Pakistan and Indin.

could In the end he HIS is the book of a man who loves the

od. 'sub-continent which used to be called India and whose affection for it today, although not less, is mixed with grief and anger.

Mr Stephens was, until two years ago, oditor of the British- owned Indian newspaper. The in India Statesman. He was when Britain divided the coun- try and when the Kashmir affair outraged the world.

Horned Moon is an account of a journey he made in Pakistan

Afghanistan il Kashmir and

is also an account, with a pain- ful historical interest, of Stop-

to hena's repo0190 events.

BOOK OF THE DAY throws light on the tragedy of India.

GEORGE

by

MALCOLM THOMSON

PARADE

DISC JOCKEY. Twenty-Bye- WITH A HORSE

year-old Chris Howland, who went to Ham- burg as д drummer in the Army at Occupation and stayed after demob, now has ap audience of a million.

Not a A drummer though, Jockey" od Germany's radio he has just switched from the North Ger- man radio to the South German. How is it that a Briton can Howland is a disc jockey, with a difference--he's got a horse.

Howland is ge critical paradoxical. French novel on a

subject In which

France Writing with moderation as supremacy is still unchallenged. It is also a plea, angry, funny a man who has friends in both

firm camps, bus with

grasp and eloquent, addressed to the of right and wrong. Stephens human race to be ordinary hold such an audience? Well, seek happiness, to avokì just cruses, holy wars, generals

geniuses, bo tions; to suspect make love.

describos the Kashmir

tragedy

know is lost.

Anyway, he says he's got a horse he calls him i-egasus, a

10 German listeners · balleve much

in him that in their they send him cats

Far East, his hero, Rainier, ex-hundreds Crossword Puzzle

A British

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1 Unemotional (6).

Responsibility (4).

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Blockheads (8).

10 Fruit (5).

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Extent (4).

Downcast (10).

Scorch (4).

16 Rip (4).

19 Striking (10).

22 Stockings (4).

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2 Taxes (5).

3 Rope (5).

4

Deceive (0).

5 Love affairs (8).

6 Melody (4).

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Compasa point (5),

12 Concur (5).

13 Trench (5).

14 Pervade (8).

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Part of a church (5).

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Machinery (5).

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Shell hole (0).

25 Duninish (5).

20 Auto (5)

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Fitting (4).

21 Feallsh (5).

27 Knocked (8).

23 Public (4).

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD~~Across: 1 Occult, 4 Admit,

15 Rifle, 16 Plea, 17 7 Ermine, 8 Acute, 10 Lead, 12 Aliment, Apes, 19 Angel, 20 Discard, 21 D.ve, 23 Crozi, 24 Tomtit, 25 Berth, 26 Forces, Down: 1 Overload, 2 Compares, 3 Link. 6 Decamped, 8 Intone, 9 Fiend, 11 Discreet, 12 Alarm, 13 Elliptic, 14 Talented, 18 Pierce, 22 Hobo.

Entertainment

· With Reservations

"GO RIGHT ON THROUGH-

THE REST OF THE SADDLE SERENADERS

ARE STAMPEDING

IN THE

KITCHEN/

POP WILL SOON BE

HEADED FOR

THE WIDE OPEN SPACES.

A QUIET EVENING AT HOME WITH TV

BATTLING OVER THE

SELECTION OF PROGRAMS.

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-COPI, 1983 BY GÉNERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD INVITTS RESERVED,

of 1947 as the saw it develop from the first sign of trouble to the moment when a Palhan raid into Kashmir found Nehru's army suspiciously ready.

At this point, the part played by the British GOVCIRUT Genera of India, Lord Mount- batter, became important. 10 Stephena was sympathelle Mountbatten's radicallam and flair for speed, impressed by his ability.

Ho was all the more startled by what seemed to him to be Mountbatten's one-sided verdict wholly pro- events, his Hindu attitude.

on

Could Mountbatten's pride have been hurt by the Moslem Leader Jinnah's refusal to allow him to become GoverTION General of Pakistan s well as India? Woe ho misled by his own Leftish leaningst

Scolded Severely

Mountbatten tried to hustle the Statesman's editor into sup- porting Nehru's high-minded" acceptance of Kashmir's "neCOF-

to

actually India. He sion suggested that the Statesman should drop its Pakistan circula- tion altogether.

But Stephens could not over- Look the fact that, "at a Hindu Maharajah's choice, but with a British Governor-General's sup- port, 3,000,000 Moslemas to be

be made Indian citizens." He had the courage to write Ас cordingly.

were

Mountbatten, poined by such behaviour after all the trouble

he had taken to "explain mat- ters," gave him a severe scold- ing. He had found it Impossible, he said, to defeat Stephens to the Indian

buy.

At the beginning of the pro- hear the "clop gramme they clop of Pegas's hooves can

Gary pleads a cause that he On his way to fight in the

nirman, ex-idealist.

to and pautaca have a sumptuous love zhair with Am, a film star. How in spired this decision is! How wise he has becomet "All the workers on earth would try Intering up to the microphone. He clips in with a record ho kos vain to build a world that two

-or a neigh when displeased. in- people can achieve in an stant."

STAMMER Stammering tree-

Korea Calling

trimmer, Bernard Desmares, 24 caught his ahears in a high tension cable near the village of Kondeur, France.

It cannot last. Korea is call- ) CURE ing. Once more he allows him- self to be robbed of his happi- ness, to succumb to a "cause." It is something you must do to remain a man,

On the last page, Rainier killed, with his companion, the Polish Jew, La Marto, who loves France with a hopeless passion, It is he who delivers andent discourse in the most praise of love and happiness.

rest

The high-powered current shot through him shooting sparks in all directions.

But it didn't kill him. When he came to, he found his stam- mor had gone.

•

•

student year-old from America's

arrived Cornell University, Capetown a few days behind schedule after his seven months trek overland from Casablanca,

"I am the real lover. All the WONDER David Bullard, 20-

just customers,” he❘ BOY says proudly, claiming to have had no dealings with women.

Enthusiastle; civilised; a par- of ade of clowns; an allegory the modem world in terms of delirious Karco; A Berron preached by a genius reeling drunk ta

The the pulpit. Colours of the Day" is enjoy. able exercise for the mind,

THE COAST OF INCENSE

Reason for the delay. Wisen te was passing through the Belgian Congo a group of natives stop. ped him and asked if he could bring their special delty back to Hito.

The god was a German alarm clocks which, the natives re-

By Freya Stark. Murray.ported, "had lost his voice."

25. 287 pages.

BEING a woman touched

by

This extra isode, at Stark has always found it pos-

the very heart af Stephens's story, explains as nothing else could

the frustration which colours a deeply interesting, well-informed book about India by a lover of that country.

*

THE COLOURS OF THE DAY. By Romain Gary, Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d. 217 pages.

David cleaned it, olled it, and

feted him for

The natives daya,

*

the

the hand of genius, Freya started it ticking. able to do what she wanted.

And-love apart-what she wanted was to see the strange TOUGH South Africa's police- men are tough-but places of the Middle East and GUYS meet their proples: "I wanted

government is space, distance, history and beginning to wonder if they're danger, and

not just a little too tough. I was the living world."

The result has been a life of a muccession of adventure and books of high quality and pro-

Interested in

Last year, the state paid out £1,706 In compensation to seven citizens who were beaten up.

four interest. This, the latest, takes the story of her life down to the outbreak of war. The PRIEST I would be a mistake to dis-

miss this story of 10 days book's centre of gravity is the SPIES?

Hadhramaut .in the mysterious of love and dialectics cn Riviera as just another witty, Southern Arabia.

BY HARRY

“YOU ANSWER

THE QUESTIONS JUST LIKE TV !*

WEINERT

"I DON'T WANTA MINK COAT.

TRYING TO CONVINCE THE KIDS HOME WORK

CAN BE ENTERTAINING IF YOU

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"HAVE SOME CAKE

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PICTURES TOO-WHEN

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Clerical circles

startled when

Wiene

they

learned that a Russian Orthodox chaplain in West Ber- lin had fled to the Soviet zone. '

But the Vatican had an planation:

Ex-

He was just a Russian spy with a special misalon, they said. And they said they knew that the Russians maintianed three feminaries in which they trained "priest spicsmarles. Is

.. One

of the allegedly in Estonia, one in Moscow, and one in Tichita, near the Mongolian border...

TOO HEAVY She is quite a TO GO

problem for Wolton Ways UPSTAIRS bridge urban

council. SHE is a 'perient specimen, but it takes 12 men to ut her. SHE is about 1,800 years old. But SHE will soon be moving into a new.bome...

SHE is the Venus di Medici, a distant relative of that other and more famous statue, the Venus de Milo. What is more, she is still sound in limb,

Experts of the British Museum say she is a second century copy of the original Venus di Medici. The ninth Earl of Lincoln brought her to Britain,

SHE stood, until a few years ago, at the head of the bath in the Grotto which was part of the centuries-old Palace of Oat- lands,

F

When the Grotto, was "des molished to make way for” u houring scheme Venus was re- moved to the council offices at Weybridge. There she stood 'in the library reading room. Th

Now building alterations and extensions at the

Ibrary musoum building have raised. problem about Venus's future. room.where the "stands to became the landing depart ment:

The

"The appropriate

paropriate posliion for the statue"

port,

legală a council re-

al

"would be the', fuseur ·

room on the first floor, but bes cause of her great weight this is not practicable.

So it was decided that Venus, the overweight beauty, must stay on the ground floor;-in"the. now reading roomagn

CUT

The Aga Khan used to ̈ ̈ PRICE play bridge in Egypt

good old da point. In the days; ⠀ "partners | thierb were easy to come by, Now, Clanarak Nag have askedĐộ the wealthwi

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