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OUR NEW KNIGHT

OF THE GARTER

A

By J. W. TAYLOR

NEW knightly ban- THT Will soon hang over a stall, in

the Garter Chapel of St George at Windsor when, on June 14, amid sombre splendour and pageantry second only

as the King stooped to the foel of his embarrassed partner anci retrieved a bluo garter that had let my lady down.

itters with a gallantry that has The King quickly silenced the

rehoed down the centuries over since by tying the garter Armly

t. the Coronation, the Queen to his own leg and uttering his will install Sir Winston immorial admonition: "Honi sult

qui mal world's que the

y pense," words which Churchill in

Several months later were

to oldest and most distinguish become the Motto of the Mont ed of all great orders of Noble Order of the Garler be founded. French chivalry na n Knight of eventually

of historian Froissart dismisses the Order the Most Noble

for legend thai Edward's love the Garter.

Joan caused him to found thr Order in her honour, recording £12 ardent, but unfulfilled love and lent reality to the righteous Indignation that esused the King to adininister his historic rebuke.

Sir Winston had refuged at nine years earlier, as had three

TRITIVE

it

New Chapel

in

which

Tho

famous Prime Ministers before lum-Willian Pilt the younger, Sir Robert Peel and Mr Asquith (though Asquith accepted it yours Inter when no longer Prime Minister)—and in his e- ceptance he becomes the fourth untitled commoner ever to have

His Majesty rebuilt the great received it. Sir Robert Walpole was the first of them, being Castle of Windsor to includo a

chapel is high new prouder to honour than the perenge he had Knights of the Blue Carler were refusest was followed by to be installed in the Order and St M. Balfour. a recipient of it could renew their vows, and

fter eiglit

being George's Chapel-named before created an earl, and Mr. Austen the patron Salat of the Order- Chablain.

is the only chanel in the world to belong 10 011 LINCT of chivalry. Jis, too, one of the most beautiful examples of 14th architecture to be found Since Edward's day

work.

Prime Minister

Churchill

St.

the 13th member since George's Day, 1348, to wear the

velvet,

00 Karter, with

blue

personal

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1964.

NO HBOMB WITHOUT

PARLIAMENT'S PERMISSION

SAYS BEVAN

"IT'S A PITY NO ONE asked PERMISSION BEFORE MAKING THE 'B' BOMBI"

THE SOVIET UNION IS

SMOTHERED IN PAPER

HE world has known its Ice Age, Its Stone Age, its Age of Iron- and it would not be inap- the perind in propriate if which we live went down in history as the Age of Puper, What a mass of documents, certifiates, forms, and so forth the administration of modern society requires!

against

By HUGO DEWAR

"paper small MTS, full of energy and enthusiasm, became rapidly dis. Illusioned by the burden of paper that kept him at his desk from early morning till late at night recommending. com- mending, amending,

checking,

campaign worshippers."

Pravda of January 25, 1954. in a feature article bearing the title "Paper Worshippers," drew attention to the ravages inflicted Moscow

Onler's motta Hot qu there have been 20 beautifully- mat y pruse" "iishonoured be carved stails in the choir for the he who Unides al

of it (in kulghts themselves, above which widely interpreted us "evil ba have

their hung think- to blen When

bunners of the Order. nbaltered in pult ncross 11, an emblem now only worn on ceremonial decisions, as ugabist the original custom to wear it

reporting." The Queen, The Queeni nt all thrION. One earlier knight took the decree an literally that Mother, and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who each the dark blue

for five years he even wore the Garter in beyd.

King's Gallantry

The present Garter Roll beers three Including Names,

30

Jackies;

wehr

velvet

вози

the

Province Agricultural Administration. A sei of forms sent out bay thala body required the unfortunate directors

machine

tractor

On one particular day he found no fewer than 12 "direc- tives” requiring his urgent at

out of town, for

the railway,

pass-

題

do

JOTO papers in

cupboard glatry

inspection office, alrearly choked said: "The

medical borough social security We'll have to cupboard's full.

Why? Why not issue a something about it." The W

port on production of a boss at the paper-littered desk DOTT

certificate and an entry in the have to replied: "Yes. we'l

house register?. buy another"

"omec..

birth

And what would happen to the machinery of govern ment if, by some stroke of

mic departments. le ap-magic, all the paper in the stations (MTS) to deal with no world were made to vanish? fewer than 5,000 paragraphs.

(larter on the left sleeve 121- stead of below the knee. Mem- to 36 at 8 bership was imited time in Edward's day. pointed himself Sovereign the Order, his sort the Black Prince, being among the original roll of the remaining twenty- Ave. Eventually Extra Knights ware installed,

mostly foreign dignitaries,

were

seven

of

tention,

One of these required

him to work out a schedule for the construction of on irrigation It would be like a car with- And even this incredible figure system, inform every collective out petrol. And not a bad did not satisfy the bureaucrats,

farm of, and make a report supplementary "urgent

The directive by November 1. thing either, would prol... for a

demanded answers 10 ably be the reaction of all report"

was received confused in question those plagued with an up- questions."

November 21 hightsparently endless succession

*82

curious

Some historians aver that the Order With inspired by the Battle of Cressy, when Edward its founder andered his garter to king from a fance end The signal tubattle, but others

of I prefer the blushes

pretty There started Countess as having

On of forms requiring comple. all some 600 years ago. Legend among mur enemies. when the has it that at a Court Ball, in First World War started, ition, in triplicate at least. 1347, to celebrate meent French cluding the Kaiser. At a solma victories, King Edward II wan

reremony in 1915, the banners leading the beautiful

of these seven were Young

removed Juan, Countess Salisbury. into the steps of a diure, when suddenly the music stopped There were whispers and lifters restored.

4

from their places of honour in

St George's Chapel, and the esteem of the Order once more

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But those citizens who consider that in this respect they have strong ground for complaint can take consola- Lion from the

und

one day alone the

director harassed

of the Voskresensk MTS received 33 various kinds, documents of while

harassed equally director of the Khoroshevskaya MTS received still more-39.

the

infinitely Oral Reports

worse plight of their fellow sufferers in the Soviet

become

even

BO

with

written

on

com-

The latest news of the Soviet

"paper wor campaign against shippers" was a Pravda broad side on May 10 ungrily plaining of the prevalence of such people in State and econo- Completely divorced

from practical work apparently, they busy them- selves with endless orders, in structions, circulars, maires, and so on.

question-

Below Target

one con-

in a

STORY OF THREE GREEKS

By Bernard Harris

HAVE been having tea

at Claridge's with Mr Stavros Niarchos, one of the moat colourful of tho post-war group of Greek shipping millionaires.

You might have expected him to be feeling a little despondent.

For some of his companies In America are being ordered to pay £1,400,000 to the U.S. Government and hand bock 19 ships to it.

But Niarchos is unruffled. And the settlement, he

Hays, will nctually save him money—for

the ships are old laid-up, and burdened with debta which are now being cancelled.

But what makes him tha happiest of all is an official in- vitation to build new chips in the U.S. and operate them ander the Stars and Stripes.

At 45 the former lieutenant of the Greek Navy is seriously challenging the

supremacy of his brother-in-law. Aristotle Socrates Onassis, in the battle for the world's oil tanker traffic. Onareds still Owne мого tankers

hauls more 041 across the oceans than any other man. But Niarchos, who started later, has nearly caught him up.

is

ROAD TO SUCCESS

pinko

Tho

for schools for young workers, trade tehools, mining schools,

Both have been helped on the plant and factory schools, for road to succes by fortunaLIS

offices, the workers'

narriages. Onassis married the the *** | beautiful Tina Livanos; Niarchos married her younger, equally striking sister, Eugenie,

The

father-in-law, 62-year- old

who likes Stavros Livanos, And iy

a quiet life and indulges only special certification really neces-

game of gol probably richer than either sary for a rallway pass when, in an occasional gan

single application, both Onassis or Niarchos. His ship- operations circle the globe. passport and certificate of place of work can be referred to?".

marriages have cemented the Interests of these This "passport", of course,

fabulous

folk. shipping

Bub to do with travel Onassis and Niarchos do not has nothing abroad; it is the document allow family ties to interfere quired for

travel within the with business. They remain the Soviet Union: It certifies, among keeness of rivals in other things, that the holder has

a world where the whore

tanker police permission to be

shortage has and where the been overcome he is, either as a permanent re-[ bee Fident or as

money In The struggle to make traveller.

additional carrying oil grows more intense. railway pass is on

It is against this background document required to show that,

has police permit that Onassis has stolen a march the holder

on his competitors and raised a sion to travel.

howl of protest in the shipping Ho has üxed with to industry. Izvestia then proceeded ask the following questions to King Saud of Saudi Arabia

In which deal which could lend to him port of the 42,000,000 tons of oll produced each year in that rich Middle East kingdom.

The trade union newspaper. Trud, in an article on February TN these clrcumstances it is 24, 1964, commiserates with a

small wonder that of all the Comrade Sokolov, chairman of Soviet Ministries the the Trade Union Committee of cerned with the manufacture of illustrate the Sverdlov piant, another

"torrents of

the way

ค

uilding paper fell farthest below target Soviet citizens are pestered by getting a monopoly in the trans-

DI paper Stream from the Trade

of the in 1953. Clearly the demand "paper worshippers." (that) is more than it can cope with.

Union Central Committee, the Provin-

"La it really necessary

fOT &

to have a certi-

The ordinary Soviet citizen city dweller cial Committee, and the Trade also comes in for his share of ficate stating that he or she Union Council." The Leningrad attention

not a member of a collective Trade Union Council, it was

Choked

from tho "paper Union. For there the paper OREOVER, It seems that

worshippers." izvestia of Feb- farm? Or that such and such Momciala

and well? flood

children kns

are alive of provincial ad- reported, sends out each year ruary 21, 1954, discussed this

arc not satised thousands of decrees, directives.

aspect of the the ministrations menacing that

matter. Men. Or that he or she lives in his and demands for tloning a reports alone reminders,

queue of mothers or

or her own house, in an apart have become they demand bureaucrats

oral reports In information.

10

patiently waiting for their per- ment, alone or with his or her alarmed, and the govern- addition, at least every ten days,

sonal allowance books to ba family, and 80 forth?" The of the sake ment itself has begun to and sometimes daily and even

stamped, it asked, "Why stamp newspaper, for hourly. make efforts to stem the

"What has developed

that "gone them," in view of the fact that caution, admitted Is a vicious circle," said Pravda.

the books "already beat the of these certificates may Le tide.

"MTS and collective farm

State emblem?."

necessary," but it evidently specialists are drowning in

agrees that there is room for floods of paper pouring down upon them from the province.”

Izvestia, of February 6, took up the tale. One young agrono¬

who started work at

Worshippers

FOR months now the Soviet press has been mobilising its writers and cartoonists in a

mist

CARTOON In Trud on April A 13 Jibed of bureaucrets who The paper continued: "Take reform. ignored workers' complaints. It certinentes of place of residence

personnel department showed three men in an office for obtaining passports, for the strewn with documents. One starting work, for the depart- I of them trying to find space for ment recruiting people for work

ON THE GOLD CALL

IT

COAST

́ OPERATION

From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Mr

ΟΙ

of

THEY 104'

on

when

But to

some

Morass

Leaning back in his chair, Niarchos said to me:

"I don't usually talk about when I meet my business brother-in-law. But I have lot him know I am opposed to this tanker deal. I don't regard as a healthy development.”

the

THE THIRD MAN

The attitude of the third man But is not known for certain. it is believed that Livanos leens towards

hurband Eugenie's rather than to Tina's. He, like Niarchos, prefers hiring ships to (bo big oil companies in ordinary way of business.

Why, you may ask, has all this money in carrying oil round THERE is no doubt that the the world been made by the Soviet Union has made great Greeks? Why hasn't a single progress in the past 30 years, enterprising Briton come along But it is remarkable how little since the war to share in the things havo changed. spoils on the same grand scale? Thirty-two years agoon The answer is that the Girocks January 24, 1922--Lenin wrote: are the modern "Merchant "The putrid bureaucratie bog in Adventurers." They have sucking us into the scribbling of

grasped opportunities available documents, the talking about to them but not to the poor, decrees and the drafting of restricted British. decrees, while the vital work is

They have had freedom to put being submerged in this morass their vessels under the age of of paper." (Selected Works: Lawrence and Wishart. 1937, Panama-where they were com any country-Liberia, Honduras, Vol. IX, p. 481).

paratively free from and restrictive controls.

If you want an object lemon in what excessive taxation and too many controls can do, you can get it at any petrol pump. They could not be kept supplied without the Greeks.

June 15 five days

four years of office, carlier in the distant

quidate at opposition, as his party would do, will be the Northern Territory the

the Legislature. But the military South. As in Nigeria, there is worst possible thing for the people of the Gold Coast go metaphor has not always been rift between a Northern Gold Coast-and himself.

No, on reflection, it is not a question of how little this aspect to the polling booths. This the harbinger of success. peasantry which still respecte chieftainship and the more

For success of parlamentory of Soviet affairs has changed, General Election, the second Strachey once applied it to a

the peoples of the government

British but of how monstrously it has since the grant of universal groundnut scheme with what sophisticated

results the world now knows. coastal belt where

developed. The citizen of the Jack is as model depends on the existence suffrage three and half

good as his maston Thero is of a healthy Opposition. With-West may complain of irksome years ago, has a vital signi- The strength of the CPP 000

for Mr Braimah, out one, the Legislature becomes govemmental forms and regula- sympathy, too, ficance not only for Gold liea not so much in their own

the only Northern member of a rubber-stamp for recording tions, but in comparison with Soviet citizen ho is in the decisions of an all-powerful the the late Cabinet. His resigna it will usher in the two are divided into

number of #

of called, was followed by a Com years' period before

having little mission of Enquiry into bribery the splinter he Ghana Cony allegations involving colony attains full

self-in common.

gress Party, the

Moslem Ass

Asso high places. government.

dation, and the newly-formed Northern People's Party com- Were the olection A few prise the Opposition, togother weeks off, dissension with some lesser bodies like the have dovéloped within the Togoland Youth Association. ranks of the CPP itself, for the

'Party' heads have shown

On how the now Government singular lack of tact over the shapes may well depend its UNEASY ALLIANCE selection of candidates. These chances of admission to full have been chosen by the Cen- membership of the Common- tral executive and the

local woulth Eleventh-hour efforts ard cholce has often been ignored. being made to weld these mis-

Coast but for Britain. For virtues as in the weakness

their opponents, For these tion from office, it will be re- executive. From that it is but clover.

The result is in no doubt. Dr Nkrumah'a Party-the Conven- tion People's Party win. Dr Nkrumah's position is un- aasbilable. To the electorate ho a still the peaceful revolution- ary; the hope of the toiling masses of Africa; the man of destiny" to select one of the less fulsome tributes from the Gold Coast press.

men

a short stop to totalitarianism. Dr Nkrumah, then, if he is wise,

in

will hope for at least a handful of critics in the next Parliament.

might

OUTSIDE CAPITAL

taxation

And yet, before the war, there was hardly one Greek-owned tanker ploughing the seas.

LIVE LONGER

IN

COLONIES

London, June 12. TOU can expect to live longer in the colonies. Almost Yo

universally, says the report "Colonial Territories 1958-54" published last week, mortality rates are falling and life expectancy rates soaring.

On its performance, too, will cellaneous bodies, representing Political parties in Britain depend the willingness of out- sectional, religious and local long ago abandoned attempts to sido capital to play a part in interest, into a coherent fighting steam-roller" local selection economie developments such

"There has been a noticeable improvement in health con- unit. The alliance is uneasy. committees, and even Lord the Volta scheme. Here, Dr ditions generally," anys the report, even in the short period

Woolton's prestige cannot en- Nkrumah has started off on the covered by this review."

At the same time the number of hospital cases-in-patient a constituency will right lines by assuring capital choosp the nominee of the that it will have a square deal and out-patient have increased. But this, the report says, does Conservative Central Office. from him.

not indicate more sickness, but rather a greater use of hospital facilities by a steadily growing population, served by improved

communication.” Much

sure that

Kwame Nkrumah will not just win, but win handsomely. His panty make no secret of their It will also be transient, ambition, which is to sweep the board. As one of their papers

If any dent is made in the has it, "the Liberation army a CPP armour it will be in the surging forth with spiritual Northern Territories where, de howitzers and epitfror to bap-

If what will be the first' all- | means of #the'. improvement - is writteti” down to community. ture every one of the 104 seats, spite the CPP's efforts to gloss

eles are pouring in to CPP African cabinet can maintain under cover of the OPP's Poll- patriotism is developing local headquarters and many the reputation for respond bility preventive measures. And the medical peperis believe the lime tical Hydrogen Bombi”

appointed candidates bave and

Food

that. Drprovement will continue me the manageusent of domestle health The CPP have likened this Simple-minded folk, from threatened to stand as in- Nkrumah and his colleagues affairs particularly in rural arean-is handled by the Sommarlile

ds, have earned over the; last: three themselves.- campaign to a military opera- Tanale. northwards, feel they, dependiente, tion. "Operation 104" they call are being “out-gmerted" by Despite all this, De Nkrumah years the outlook for the Gold Responsibility, sccording to the report, Hy bedmuse there are 194 was in slicker politicians from the cam, safely count on another Cooms will be bright,

more "health conscious, London Express Morelos,

So, protests from constitumi-

people