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* DON IDDON'S DIARY

THE CHINA - MAIL THURSDAY, PRIE

1954.

Baltimore Has Many British Graces

Baltimore, Tuesday: Bülilmqre, where she was built, MUST have passed and encase her in concrete as a through Baltimore lasting monument.

dozens of

times, by

Another big Baltimore

裔

I did not,

however

come

here to sample the focal sea- food or fish, to marvel at the

·mumber of amaro, policewomen, a-, or even to listen to stories, of the how the "Star-Spangled Ban

written by Francis Scott Key while the British were being repulsed by the defenders of Fort McHenry.

bitions i to permit train and car, but have salo of beer at the local ner". was

ex Stadium, never lingered before

that fans can cept for a few hours, and quench thele thirst

as they that was to catch blacked watch baseball games. Unless out Boeing Clippers to there is a court upset, the sale of beer will be permitted, and I Britain during the last

have seen exultant articles reading: "This is a brave day for the free State."

war.

Baltimore,

seventh largest city in the United

When I remarked editor that these

to a local

problems -

of beer-were

camo 'to see how this tem- perate, stable, leisurely paced city was bearing up to business decline,

the

Un-

It adys it is doing fine. employment figures, however, are up, and Baltimore was Government not pleased with announcements which one day this said

the nation's idle, were 2,300,000, and the next--so BOTTY, # alight error-they were 3,087,000..

States, with a population the transfer of the Constellation of over

million (one- and the Balc Afth of them coloured), hardly world-shaking In

ntomle age,

he replied: has been neglected by most P you had lived ini of the Press, though not Balymore

long as I by its own "Sunpapers." have you would understand People here do not refer better."

to

the Baltimore Sun There is newspapers; they just say the "Sumpapera," which is an affectionate tribute.

I

Dignified charm

D

Here they call, a recession a recession, and don't juggle with ngures. Business men tell me: "There is a recession, but the worst seems over and definitely there won't be a slump."

Sound financo

makes

lot about Balti more that appeals to a man born in Lancashire or York- white, There Bre rows and rows of tiny houses, each with Its white stone or wooden steps leading to the front door. The stépa are immaculate and It is impossible to drive through

streets without

most seeing PALTIMORE the

of housewives on their ➜ things, from umbrellas-- knees, pails ot their sidee, "Born in Baltimore, raised all and scrubbing and scouring the

over the world"-to steel rails, steps. Thought for a moment

and it is soundly financed. Once I was back in Halifax, Tod-

a centre of light industry, the morden, or Colne.

city now is heavily Indus- 20

ex-

scorts

the THINK

city has been neglected because it shuns ballyhoo Chamber of Commerce cesses, and because rather contemptuous the frenzied rush of New These sheer white steps and trialised, and in the past York, Chicago, and Los snug Angeles.

It is of

little red brick houses give મા clue to Baltimore's character. The city is respect hard-working, clean, de This city has Southern able,

and tradition, pendable, and, perhaps, a little dignity, charm, and is a bit of a snob. In the old-fashioned. past it has Inflicted some defeats upon the British, but now it has many British air and graces.

If there are any people least likely to get into a panic about Communists, then

recession or

they are the people of Balti more, who have never lost their nerve yet about anything.

like to

More people have their own houses here than in any other city of comparable size in the United States. They pay cash down on the counter for their goods and have no instalment-buying nonsense.

Trey have money in the bunk, under the bed, and in My guide, a Scotsman who savings certificates, and they has settled here, sald to me: don't squander it. I have seen "You

won't find anyone here few mink coats or flashy con- preaching

gloom vertibles here, but Baltimoreans or burbling about wholesale dislike ostentation. treason. Baltimore is as solid

doom

OF

as a rock and can't be shaken."

The big Jocal preoccupation

at the moment is a campaign-

or,

Home life first

rather, crusade to bring THEIR

Con- back the bistorie U.S.S.

on

"home

በ-

res-

stress is life," which probably

the small number stellation, the old United States counts for

What restaurants. warship, to Baltimore. The ship of

elvic and taurants there are, is in Boston, but 27

Incidental-

patriotic organisations are fight- ly, are excellent, and some, ing to have her returned to indeed, superlative.

By Appointment Wine Merchants,

to The Late

Light Dry Sherry

King George VI

Dry Amontillado Sherry

SANDEMAN

years his tripled its production.

One thing I have noticed is how much cheaper goods, rents, food,

fares, and services pre here than

New York in

Chicago.

or

had hoped

Balil- I.

to see more's most. H. L. Mencken,

famous citizen,

the Sage of Baltimore, the literary comel, but Mencken Is old and tired now, and is compelled to rest.

Mencken has almost become

mellow, though the other month he rallied to castigate General MacArthur as "a fraud now satisfactorily fading."

Mencken, who has not had kind words for many people or places, says of Baltimore: "The old town will not give you the time of your life; it is not brazen hussy among cities...pot at all. It is, if the truth must come out, a perfect lady."

Highly gifted

ACTUALLY

Baltimore is

"In the spring a young man's fancy..

London Express Service

British Honduras Probe Background

By HENRY JAMES

making the wildest promises, For, as in British Gulans, so in

the British Honduras, party whose manifesto la based on the millenium will win.

It

Tis often, the smallest general election, based on colonies that create the universal adult suffrage, will be Thousands, at illiferato held. biggest problems, Briand politically ignorant voters tish Honduras, Britain's will troon to the poll to put onepossession on the crom against one of the canți- Central American mainland, dates almost certainly the one is a case in point.

This oblong strip of territory is no bigger than Wales. Its 60,000 people Strong .Lavourite in the make up a racial hotch electoral stakes la'the People's potch. There are

sonte United Party (PUP). It is anti- anti-federation, development, Europeans and Americans, anti-immigration - anti-every- Indian, and Syrian traders, thirig, In short, that the British but full-blooded Negroes and Government puts forward. 'coloureds of mixed parent from the Empire. Linked up Wants complote breakaway age account for two-thirds with the General Workers' of the population. In the Union, dominant in the labour hinterland are some 10,000 deid, the PUP is well-organised Indians, descendants of the and energetic, and owns the

only newspaper in the colony. Mongols who migrated from Asin ncross the Behring.

AMPLE FUNDS Straits some thousands of years ago. Half of the It is amply supplied with inhabitants are townsmen, funds. But from where? This living in Belize, the capital. probe the origin of these funds. Is the crux of it all. Ris to

British Honduras, despite its, and determine what forces; aro email size and sparse numbers, bacising the party that the will, nevertheless, attract the Governor Mr P. M. Renison. attention of Parliament at West- one of the ablest of our younger minster in the next few weeks; administrators-has asked Mr attention also of the State De- Lyttelton to send out a Còm- partment in Washington; of the missioner. For the inference is Latin-American countries; and, that support, both moral and not least, of the near-Communist material, has been given to the government of next-door Guate- PUP by mischiaf-makers from mala.

over the border in Guatemala,

Guatemala claims

international interest Now

awn.

The stems from the fact that, for British Honduras as her the first time, the people of The claim is shadowy enough, British Honduras are to elect deriving from the assumption the members of their legislature. that Guatemala, on achloving On Aptil 23 - unless something Independence in 1825, inherited happens to prevent It-the first from

You Must Have Your Wits About You Today-Remember It's The

DAY OF THE YEAR

P

FOR

ROBABLY "All Fools'

HOAXES

Spain an interest in part what what

It 15

now British

about

as

Pagol as the Spanish claims

Gibraltar, to

or

an Britain's

might be to part of France be-

cause William I of England was Duke of Normandy, Time and again Britain has offered to submit the

to matter

the In- ternational Court. Guatemala, of her knowing the weakness

declines. CASC, persistently

But British Honduras is an asset to the polliiclans of Guatemala, For one thing, it serves as a lightning conductor when things go wrong at home. With the try "Belize is

the dagger pointed at our heart," Guatemalan ministers seek

seek to view the annual ceremony of divert popular feelings from Washing the White Lions on their own misdeeds.

For an- Sunday, April 1. Admitted only other, it is a good weapon In at the White Gate. It is par- Communist hands-and. Com-. ticularly requested that DO munism is strong in Guatemala.

be April Fools' by was being gratuities given to the Alone among the seventeen

or their celebrated in Endand two ce Wardens

assistants," states assembled at the Inter- turies ago. Dean Swift, writing Large mambers turned up afoot American Conference recently, In his Journal to Stella on the and in cabs searching vainly Guatemala stood out against Mr eve of April 1, s that he and for the White Gate and the Dulles anti-Communist resolu

friends, Lad Masham and mythical lions.

day has given rise By Raymond Mason

to more harmless Jokes and legpulls than any other

old-time throughout the year.

is custom amusement

sending people on foolish and fruit less errands..

It is to be found in some, more than that-It is ntsc form or other in many parts a highly gifted and industrious of the world, and it goes woman. Its Johns Hopkins back so far into the mists Hospital, medical college, and of antiquity that it is hard university are unique.

to discover its origin.

and

It is believed that it is in some way a relic of the once

ag

evening

tion.

scene of

RED PLAN ·

It is on record that a French duke, Francis of Lorraine, and

Arbuthnot, anned a

a joke America was the his wife owed their escape from

for the next

They another historic All Fools' Day Nantes to captivity at

the ranged to spread the rumour joke in 1909, when a Pittsburgh: French equivalent of the cry

that one. Noble, she had been Fool." "April

Disguised

paper came out with flaring red headlines: By stirring up national feelings the sentry at one of the gates had come to life ad had been "Japanese Strike Awful peasants, they had just passed hanged a day two before, the

Blow over British Honduras-"the lost when a woman recognised them rearrested. But by some means at America," and describing in province of Guatemala" the * Communists hope to fish in sink- and gave the

Bensational language the

of the fleet, the destrue-amcult for Britain. Their plan is *** | troubled waters and make things

tion of San Francisco, and on

to invasion by Japanese airships, rage, and support the

their campaign

for The papers of the following self-determination because this, day referred to the affair as should it succeed, would mean that the Colony would become. A year or two back a French first, a vassal state of Guatemala

point-to-point universal festivities held at But he rememba warning, or other the plan piscarried,

What about the pursult of pleasure? Well, there is the Maryland Hunt Cup, the Grand National, races. There is also a species of the beginning of spring Street, knwon as "The Block," These commenced on but it is nothing to get excited

night ilfe along East Baltimore

about,

Baltimore, prefers its historic monuments and its "points of

interest."

:

old

New Year's Day, March 25, and ended on April 1. In India, at the feast of Huli, the last day of which falls on March 31, the popular

and thought his leg was being

the

date, pulled,

so he shouted back April Fool," twitting the wo- man on the fallure of the joke. The incident came to the cars the governor, who made im- aculate inquiries, but too late to recapture the couple.

THE SCIENTIST REFUSES

TO TELL HIS SECRET

By LES ARMOUR

peace.

!

Grand Scale

T Simon tells us how, about the same time, the Elector of

in

amusing."

Cologne, who visited Parts 1711, was particularly fond of student managed very success and, finally, be incorporated in

fully to pull the legs of learned, lock, stock and barrel. officiating at all sorts of cere antiquarians. He announced in Aho

are, in short, and he Men liked

poor dupes of their Communist Teaching. St Simon's account a Paris newspaper that he had

stone neighbours. Their leaders do not runs: "On first of April, at found a weather-beaten

Communism, Indeed, on the heights of Montmartre, profess Valenciennes, he took it into his head to appent in the ci lee hem ind einn en

bearing the inscription: "Ce stithey would denounce it, since This two-thirds of the inhabitants of pulpit; and as he went notice

message baffled of his intention to everybody in

The British Honduras are members nerable, scholars, until the of the Roman Catholic Church, the town, church was

which Communism crowded. Having ascended the discoverer came to their rescue ta pulpit, ho cast his eyes round with this suggested interpreta the congregation, and suddenly tion: C'est lel le chemin des shouted out, "April fools and anes," in other words, "This his band responded with a loud the road for donkeys." flourish of trumpets and kettle

be which

tho

..

unathema.

If,' economically, British Hon- duras has been a 'Cinderella' in the past, that is not so now. Over £2,000,000 of Colonial Development and Welfare Fund during

money has been poured into it vanished."

more, per head of population, From time to time the hoaxes

than almost any other, Colony, have been on what might be

In addition, the Colonial De-

Corporation senie." A TN 1827, a circumstantial ac-velopment

have termed the "gramt

iD count of the arrival in Berlin sunk substantial sums in various America in 1835, when the Now

A Privilege

a

the naval uniform capital, was make the most of them. Henico

The scientist refuses to re- world than it has AST week, "No Place to

ever been drums, his secret, except in before. Hide" was just the title lease

clear-cut'

national CASO of a book-written a few emergency, even

But, oddly enough, no one to his gov years ago by an American ernment. And, even in' such has taken Mr Morgan to task who had, been out on some an emergency, he will turn it on the, glaring queerness in his very notable one took place by aeroplane of the Prince of projects-though most of them, Sole Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD. A-bomb tests in the Pacific, 100s only for warnover for thesis.

York Sun came out with an Wales now the Duke of unhappily hovo been He rejects and fights the article describing a marvellous Windsor-and his visit to the conceived British Honduras This week, "No Place to Ho is convinced that it is

`turn-of-tho-century notion of telescope invented by Sir John Chancellor, together with ex-hus natural resources and

Bir Hide" was a literal reality morally evil to place man in a

and and the blessings of Herschel progress

David

cellent.photographs of him in position where he won't have selence. But he accepts the Brewster, through which

in fertile soil. What It lacks is an for Britons.

walking in the active and virile population to to work for a living.......

objects could be streets of The latest American A- the theatre - but it has been longs to the same period.

The play hasn't been packing crude materialism which be minut

seen on the moon. There were given by

one of the most

ost proposals, to encourage uni- basalile rocks covered with non bomb, carefully planted on packing

us that there just

from over-populated He tells

popular of the evening papers, grants

anyone inquired at.. the Islands in the West Indier, Sheffleld, would put the columns of a lot of newspaper nick of a switch would do all rous mountains and fertile offices of the paper for further

valleys animule ilko bisons: information, whole of the British Isles

the our dirty work for 113,

PREVENTIVE STEP LOT OF CRITICISM

reply WOR We and most amazing of all, within the "danger area."

would lapse into a rare ot

3 "April Fool" To fool their curious creature christened readers. Is The story in not: so for-flabby, automatons.

the privilege of "Vespertillo homo," with

It is against this background, fetched. The Intest A-bomb,

the European newspapers on April then, that the Colonial Becretary delivered with guided misalles, MAYBE THE TIME

shape of an orang-olitang and 1, the wings of a" bat.

has sent Sir Reginald Sharp. will do most, of the things the

A little town near Belgrade Q.C. as Commisioner

to probe And nobody has questioned "burning glass could do. The

of the PUP, For stepped-up of atom remarkable view, even

April. The was better

Luxury Restaurant Service

Gaddi

Luncheon. Afternoon Tea or Dinner

in

an atmosphere of charm and

elegance.

Dancing nightly from 9 p.m. to 1

Peninsula

Britons took the nows with hardly a murmur. It didn't rate as much newspaper space or as much pub chat as the opening of the fint

racing acason or the trial of a peer on a sex charge.

Inventión..

the correspondence wouldn't be much ́ ́ left if apples;*fields, trees and tivers; if

to

enjoyed an excellent joka one the activities, take preventio Took The Bait Artown cries large step. han be forced into

fugged & be fUT

jar of ducats has been found in action later; better than waiting the foundations of the court until an election has put in the

power could provide pearls n wondeyed that it should come much. energy as the fictional tromi á playwright, po

Surely, there will be plays to Mr. Morgan is thumbing his write, music, to be composed,ANY took the ball, many of house, with three gold candle saddle a bad of men tout to But it lent a note of urgency nose

the leading newspapers fall sucks and 100 kilograms of wreck the economic development to the simmering debate over Science. He is getting a

t

too,,", there will being into the trap: One said the silver coins believed to have of the country and detach it Charles Morgan's new play: fair amount of "The Burning Glass, fol of cellets, support, and a time for disinterested search-report was not only probable been there since the Turkish de from the Emple

and plausible, but had an air cupation. The people are freed True, the PUP — U IE There are those who figure the for trut

And

of intense truth, and one a there will be maybe NEVER: FOR: PEACE STORESTUA sets, automatic · coffee per Alme to "lie." fx, the subs; štine to thority referred to the d!% of all municipal, taxes," 1. sa the .the board my would?!

MERNICKOLEDARNAL, colaters and ours, with: automatio ́ ́alt and watch the “world? gold31. terestre Cresung, & Bow era in expenditure out of its fund?SW

covery of astounding council le now able to cover all the new consuturi

powerful”? RE WAS CPU Great excitement reigned, and British Culand.

on the people-hurried to the, mare | obstruct and sabot

"The Burning Glada” 180 story about scientist, who in- gears are just not worth the Ump for pleasant, conva ation advertsally stumbles on a die priopa, world, in perii; socks and a pint of ale. covery which could wipe out les organised, to fit the duine

humán

the earth of any specine part of of mass duction, and the alisies (which? Holds that: thật | it at the Fury?" of's switch,'Ity menta could isofrenso much attribute to which they, moibirus tert for us if wa

the ̈age of tha púsl have to falt commercially useful mergy button

cheaply, that hardly anybody we And there are wolle have to work tower turist that a from long

point of view, 1918.

dras some thitis 1880-for

Da

in kat place to celebrate their good

of luck in the kana, Elkayangy (3)

that the images, made ratsen