1954-07-26 — Page 4

• 'HE'S A NICE WEE MANA

Handyman Into

Baronet

By

MARY HEWAT

Kirkcowan, Scotland, things but they slide round the IR ADRIAN DUNBAR, back of my neck.

So I decided

It was easier to apologise.

Laird! of Mochrum, Cheaper, too." hereditary Chief of

the Clan, whose family

We got into his new car, B

dates back to A.D. 975 in pale blue Standard, to drive

Over to

the mansion ot

written record. has to Mochrum Park, four storeys and report to the police every 40 rooms surrounded by acres of time he moves. He is an

parkland.

alien.

The park was n wildernces of overgrown grass and trees and shrubbery,

Sir Adrian unlocloed the front massive cast iron hoor with

Sir Adrian is the 10-year-old American farmer-fandyman who inherited the baroneley Just year, and had to suction off the fumiture of his Maryland farm key in. long, "Got a big man- sion," he said. "Got to have a big key."

to pay his fares to England.

יגז

It is a crazy situation" told me, "Although I was born In Weymouth. I sti American citizen. I had not been here two weeks before there was

a constable at the done wanting

to see my Identification pajera."

Sir Adrian sald he took out naluralissUkko papers.

1939.

"I had four boys in the army,

and they would not let ine work

in

a munitions factory

I was an American."

But

American-born

He pushed the door open.

Sudden din

There was

#sudden din, a whirr of feathers and falling dust ny a dozen pigeons toolt crashing Into window Night,

panes, whirling upwards through i gaping hole where a celling, a

nl wall, and another celling had

been.

Dunbar She is British. I wok my husband's attendity in 1930

In all the forty rooms, only Lody the

Alit wine cellar. with its barred windows and its two empty wine bottles, and three at the other end. still The other "crazy situation in stood solid. the life of the new baronet is hir home. He hasn't une.

when we were married.

When his claim to the title

wah recokatsed just a year ago, he inherited 3,800 serv, of farin- ruined land, with 15 furtas and MANSION

"And every bit

was

rented.** he said. "Even the gatehouse of the mansion, at £10 a year, and the stables, at £5. The ody place we

could have lived

house in Bogor Itegis, was sold two days before

we landed in England.'

Welcome

There दया the floor lay stuck of limbor. Vin salvaging The good stuff,“ sad Sir Adrian. "I may be able to make these three rooms the nucleus of a new small house."

Back at the farmhouse there was the sound of hummer and chisel, the tangy smell of wet ond varnish, the freshness

wallpaper. of new

And mingled with it, the rich smell of coffee, American-style, which Lady Dunbar, in tweed skirt and emerald green jersey. brought in by the open fire in the cream-walled living-room,

"We're having a new bathroom put in," said Lady Dunbar, "The was outside and very cold. And we're having the place

redecorated. We did the kitchen

Now the Dunbars tuve moved old one into Barrochan Farm on the estate. Spyn Sir Adrian: "I

of my a tenant of one

Sir Adrion talked seriously of tenants. And he can turn me

three months* notice if his plans for the future. out at

he wants in,“

Own

ourselves,'

The first thing I want to do

la to get a cement mixer and a

Tho The way to Barrochian Farm niall second-hand tractor. les west fream the market town

dence posts on the estate are no and some of the second. walls are falling down.

the

of Newton Stewart neris green rolling pustures of Gallo- way

But you hear of the Dunbars before you leave the town.

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the bar of the Crown Hotel they still talk of the great welcome for the Laird, with pipers and haggis and all.

Man-to-man

stone

"I'll pub

la concrete posts and gate posts, and cement walls. the tops of the stone Then I use the tractor to clear the park.”

1 a thee wee mann," says a waitress. "And so he's talka five. His wife now, she never Suys a word, That shy she is.

"But there's no m and At the ceremony about them.

Friday

there night. pictures they were with the rest of us in

Iri the two and a penny sents.

and

Lic

bakony

it

seven-pence.

costs two

There was no pomp OF CETE-

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FILES

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1954,

"We are prepared to accept your German rearmament programme on condition we sell you the arms that you rearm us with..."

COLONIALISM

T

over

AND THE THE

By JULIUS GOULD

THE NEW

Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics. and "colonialism" is being responsible government, vigorously assailed on sides.

means

all relapse into barbarism and snarchy, or subordination, in a new colonialism, to Communist ends. These are open possibilities.

However not everybody views possiblities, and the

paramount Power. These peoples În Central and Eastern Asia are exploited by Soviet Communism, They are placed in n political and cultural straitjacket tailored In Moscow. If problems arise- of tribal disintegration or native discontent-there la one general solution: iron Bolshevik control.

OLD

native peoples to the fate of the Chechens, the Balkars and the Kazachs. They should remember

bow

Comununist nggression hrs devastated "underdeveloped" Aroos Uke Korea; how lands like

and Cambodia Laos

ace their new freedom threatened by

Communist Invasion; how the Communist frith column works in India and Pakistan.

that of entering the Communist empire instead? What evidence le there that they have made And such a positive choice?

And if the natives become what evidence have we that for difficult, they can be transplanted them to make such ✡ choice or exterminated. Thus, in 1948 would be sensible?

Moscow

the announced that Chechens

And +the Crimean Tatars had all been "resettled", ኒ.e. exterminated. In

the T Northern Caucasus, other com- munities, like the Balkars, have been literally wiped from the

THE controversy

Indo-China has forced the free world to think afresh about the Cold War, its purposes and principles. And there has been no harm in this, for the free world is a loosely-knit alliance of nations with varying tradi- flous and interests. And Now what is this harmony within this alliance "colonialism"? Properly cannot be maintained by understood, it

the force or by petrified slogans, military domination of #4 Diverse outlooks and tradi- people (especially an "under tions must be given free developed" people) by un play, publicly, with the alien minority: it means, Communists looking on! too, the economic exploita-

tion of that people. But this healthy diversity never destroy the mast

Today the institutions of | raison d'être of the alliance "colonialism" are widely dis. lives worse than any alterna- better than being a French or colonialism, so their fate was

defence against Commu- credited not least through they assume, further, that many ipation. But none of them on have altered through to the here as elsewhere,

colonial remote Sinklang, Kazakh tribes offer in this field, if their record,

nist expansion

their for one of the ideas of political liberty from old masters, can leads through the acceptance of outside world, remnants only of Moscow's prime aims, under which the old colonial become

Vacuum a power

a costly mass-flight from Soviet Into Communism For if colonialism will Communism

not means the imposition of allen rule.

economie and military purposes,

light..

Marty

well-meaning

map.

Soviet

HE critics should ask the key question: how genuine, against these

attendant risks, in the samo

such a background, is the Com-

for passion

colonial munist people, especially on the Left, ow, for example, do we

liberty or peace? They might work from two very shaky know, as some people cisim to

then see the future desiny of assumptions. They assume,

Brat,

know, that to become a Chinese

These people did not fit readily the colonies in the proper light. that the "old" colonialism Is Communist colony would be into the pattern ol

For it, as I believe, the Com- British colony? There a crude genocide. Elsewhere from munists have no guidance to

roads to

is one violence and oppression, then the colonies must be protected from their attentions. If we fail in this we shall fall not only

Totrude.

including Communism.

#

emar

the

of

Malenkoy as under Stalin, Powers themselves intro- which

rule upon subject peoples for Critics of "colonialism" should ourselves but the colonial masses is to exploit controversy to duced. In recent years the fence

divide the free world,

world - position of many The first assumption is sheer then the Communist empire is think twice before abandoning still in our charge. "mother countries" has dogma--whatever the defects of teeming with coloniest been transformed; and in the "old" colonialism may be. the colonies themselves this munists will respect a power cept if they have been brought the Com- People find this hard to no- has coincided with intense vacuuin-ls belled in Communist up to bellevo that only pressure for social change, theory and practice. This is beyond all argument.

Then Sir Adrian plans to have sme man-to-mun talks with his tenants. "There are n lot things I can't afford to do on farms. They have the tenancy for 1Hfe and to pass on grand- to their children and children,

"It will pay them to do a few repairs themselves, so they have to their something to pass on four children." Inchies of sinewy touch body and

at the Krey-ska

roomed farmhouse.

Sir Adrian, five

feet

This may seem too ob vious, but over Indo-China, as over other key issues, have noticed how blind to the obvious many people remain. They are still the honest victims of ancient fallacies. Even now thero are veils of confusion which obstract clear thought and vision!

Take the confusion there

for example, about "old" "colonialism".

"My finances are precarious. mind, has cloe-cut grey hair, They will be for some time. But twinkling grey-green

a my predecessors were pioneers.is. tanned weathered face. He wore They had to rough it. They had

173.

Bays,

"Can't keep them down,”

"I've tried

those

Colds

a pioneer all."

Then he smiled, "I'm doing all metal right," he said. "I can navigate."

he

Even the slightest cold

Is to be feared

Do not let it spread Defeat it from the start by taking 1 or 2 'CAFASPINS'

The second-that

countries

Curs

have "capitalist colonies. Communist policy has For a long time clear thinking proved the contrary -- that about Indo-China was bedevilled colonialism

survive, and by the "colonial" origin of the

even expand, without the trouble there. It is certainly simulus of "capitalist" or true that it began with a colonial "bourgeois" greed. revolt. But is that a reason for

BEFORE YOU STOP SMOKING -

By A Medical Correspondent

THE great cigarette scare

"When is A colony not BUT the big question is: ignoring, now, all the other facts

colony?" All good Communiste "What next?" What is the in the case?

know the orthodox answer, alternative to the crumbling Let 119 agree that the "When it is a Soviet colony........"

The Vietnamese colonialism?

have made a This may be good Marxism, flaws in negative choice: they object to but it ta high-grade nonsense.

FOR WOMEN

FILMS

NO

PLACE IN BRITISH

By JACK FORREST

NORGET those

F

apon-

Bored myths about film

pro- the early

Ja

intnly be a rash

assumption, than some

there

of

made by scientists!

ia natural

It

that

among the un- fortunate victims of lung can-

It is true that more tobacco is being smoked than 25 or 30 Bro. But more people years are smoking it J

The fate of colonies face, in fact, many rule by France. Why should For within the USSR there are pagunda of those doctors should be a large number a navy blue suit, and a white to cat. My wife will have to be shirt with the ends of the collar

a little longer, that's colonial peoples is of great alternatives the slow we also infer that they have many colonial peoples-inhabit who do think that there is smokera

concern to the free world; adaptation to new forms of now made the positive chalco ants of areas ruled by an alien a

link between cigarette cer. There are believed to be eurling up.

smoking and cancer are 22,500,000 cigarette smokers in Britain which is just the now being seen.

Latest evidênce for the size of the population over 35 other side is the results of the years of age.

It is natural that more cases new inquiry reported by: ox-

should be re- perts of the British Empire of lung cancer

ported than were known to Canter Campaign.

Experimenta with tobacco exist a generation ago, Natural

becaus obtained from

methods extracts which pokes

of diagnosis machine

88 have advanced. Natural ag cigarettes-at once have been because cancer is a disease of found to give negativo results. later ife, and more people are

A likelier cause of lung can- ing longer. Viennese Margo Lorenz, per, these experts suggest, Burmese Win Min Thon, Ger- to be sought in the air of big cities polluted with smoke man Cornello Borchers.

and exhátist fumes," are all men: Peck, Ladd, the world's most beautiful would have been smuggled into day

They point to Iceland, where Our own contribution to this Even if Bogart, Cooper." the picture somehow,

kind of international trade, Miss there are no industrial cities; women. It is not so. Not only by way of flash-backs or

It is not certain that, there Perhaps this was simply on Simone Silva, has merely re no coal grates producing sool. in Britain, anyway. Not the men's day-dreams.

and TO concentrated motor are more heavy amokers than example of male arrogance. So culted in an export roject.

trane. And in Iceland lung there wore in 1990. And cer

tainly the increase in smoking But not now. Today women I went to see Margaret Leighton

Why is it that English women cancer is rare. at her flat to get the woman's I have seen

considered

La triling when compared with expendable. prottier girls in are

Those who boilove there is n are so insipid, so anaemic, so

Ignore the Tact the coffee bars and in offices than Wenenless Alms are the thing.

Increase In the known downright dull in dims? Pro link always were to be found at one of Including "The

deaths from lung cancer. Colditz Story"

is The prosptetive serpent of the ducer Maurice Cowan says: "Our that, while more tobacco

Status Besides, it is equally: true, Britain's principal studios- there will soon be in production

overlopked by the Shepperton.

in Britain four major films with Nile (she is to be Cleopatra in directors are too iraibited. They smoked in the United

the film "Antony and Cleopatra") can't handle women they can't than in Britain, lung cancer is although

in party, that less frequently" reported there. predominantly male caste:

Moby Lunching at

вате wearing black slack, a ge! anything out of them." studio Dick" (no women), "The Sea was

How can this” be explained

if the

half-century there of

Increase has been a marked restaurant I found the room full Shall Not Have Them" (three bright jumper and was curled up

• on the armchair in her some- of actors: John Mills, Rox Har women seen for four minutes), what soverely furnished sitting-

in ANOTHER REASON rison, John Justin, Alastair Sim, The Dam Busters" (one woman Erie Portman... The rolllary Ursula Janes). cctress eating that day was Mar“- garet Leighton,

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Among Women

Far From It

anti-cigarette

the dangerous fumes and irritamisrelonend into the atmosphere of our big eities.

i think, there is another

Cancer of the Jung is rare Even if it were established "The Englishman," sho said,

reason, toothe Anna Neagle among women, But smoking to the satisfaction of cancer #dona STARS ALL MEN

not expect Want Cuit, Miss Neagle has made an expecially ‚of cigarettes ----- experts and this has not yet Pirhaps, "I thought, all tho

glamour from the Englishwomen art and career of being is by no means rare among occurred that there is an other gíria are consuming their

ho are on the stage or in lima average even when the la being women. Dow, this not

patociation between tobacco diets of bananas and milk in the

Said producer Ivan Foxwell: He wants them to be a recognis

that the canber-omuning Znoir smoking and cancer, it would privacy of their dressing-rooms. "I made a woman's aim, 124 able part of real, everyday life.

1, in some mysterious way, not necessarily follow that the I went on the set. But the Hours of a Woman's Life It He will accept glamour from the To portray an ordinary wo-related to sex and is not ro- association one between od and effect. Far from ('Att wasn't a success. My lust aim women of every other national- man an actross does not have to lated to amazing at all? atmosphere WAS even more was a man's lim, "The Intruder ty except his own."

bo ordinary herself, We could do Among 108 women who did he drive against the algir masculino thero. There wasn't a and that made a lot of money.

with a little more extraordinari-muffer; from lung cancer two ette has booti varried: too far. single woman to be seen not There's not single girl in The Miss Leighton's theory finds news in alms, A VAR

#doctors in my 1968 investigs" " While the possibility of a car oven Margaret Leighton, who is Colditz Story

don, In the sctions of corroboration

non-autoker, cer-cigarette link. the film chleis. Glamour, if the in three dime being made at this

French director, Rena Now the proportion of women course, be investiga studlo now.

tackled John Mills on this absolutely Indispensable to the Clement, had to dimeully in who smoke today probably all no more than subject. He said: "At one time plot, is usually imported, rarely anding half a dozen attractive, more than 40 percent John Mills was playing the big stars were, Garbo, home-grown.

portance. Line: * Váš pubito: provocative and British girls fac. If we mtindh soene for "The Colditz, Story," Shearer, Bette Davis, Coán Craw...)

kwwe developed duplewin kis Gim; "The Knave of Hester at all to Mari Consider some current important SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. which has an all-male, cast-fonts Carole Lombard, wagon

At one time even though the rocky Who are the one stations: the German Tan But, British directors coralder

ELO VOOR wetting is an impregnable Gers 2here aren't "andy ku apers from Low RAL 100 Frmch, Nicole) the off exploitation of British peory? Co xmas-fortran-priedas a argirt Marilyn Monrown Tas stars to-- Mauray, and Calle Verially the Beauty: rather undignified

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