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THE... CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1954.

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ROFESSOR ARNOLD TOYNBEE. hand- und silver- haired, vigorous 65-year-old, sat back in his Earl's Court house, fidgeted rather with his fingers, and thought back aloud over the 33 years it has taken him to complete his word "Stualy

three-million

of History." whose final volumes (VII to X) are published this week.

There have been landmarks on the way Dor was in 1940. that year an abridgement of h first xx Voltines was bright at by D C. Somervell in col- laboration with Professor Toyn-

yenz

It wild nearly a quarter of a millon cupies 301 Aaprica secnnd best seller of the "Somebody worked it oth! this they'd reach right Th the height of The Empire State Bulding. Of was I only seven, darling

Laughed aloud

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LOUISE REID

HE HAS the knowledge wrote her art history"just a

littlo thing for schools”-i order to pay young Arnold's nurse, "She got £25 for it-a year's salary for a nurse in those Jays. She very nearly did not got anything for it, because the firm went bankrupt soon after the book was published."

and the brains to writo three-million-word his- tory. its volumos would stretch to seven, maybe eight, times the hoight of the Empire State Bullding. He speaks six languages, Grook. writes poetry In

But if something happens to the bathroom top... well! "Now, there American intellectuals," ho says, "I admire them tremendously. They are wonderful plumbers."

Well, darling, you made ernigh unl of your abridgement to buy the entlage, didn't you?"

The cottage, five

, 17th century, is near Kirby Lonsdale, The Toynbees try to get down there for a math in the sum-

work mer, permitting.

But father Toynbee stopped being disinterested just long enough to rush down and get cheque out of the firm while they still had access to a cheque buok. "It was the last they over paid Professor Toynbee was chuckling at the memory whoo the luncheon bell rang, an old- fashioned tinkle from the base- ment.

Poetry in Greek

Professor Toynbos insisted that "'i teel tours I stayed! ou. He said, world

rather strongly about this. You

ine.

once happened to When I was at the Foreign Office during the first world war, Lord Curzon once enlled me round to Carlton

nbout

House Terrace

In addition to his myaibes he has his salary of £1,050 a year as Director of Studies at the Royal Institute of Interumtional Affairs, hathum House. This regular salary made the Study of His some Foreign Office papers and Mrs Toynbee, plump, rosy and tory possible. Chatham Hous

kept me waiting while he worked grey-suited, a few yewn younger

have been wonderbal."

through a large luncheon tray. than her husband. was almost

year he bad a travel geart

Of course, he was always in Rockefeller

One mare it was eight. Whatever the 4,200 from the

hnd to moke Rorkfeller Pose that reckong. Toynbee

have pain.

Howaners. But I made up my been wonderful, too."

Whatever los incone, it is unnind then never to do that to

will anyone."

year into the super-tax class

but it would take me truth

to work out exactly how much

received and paid "

la he then, the world's

historian" highest-paid

laughed out loud at this novel idea. "I've never Usagist

thal.

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Foundation,

"

It

kely that the Tuynbres ever go in for lavish living.

That the family tradition. His father started in the ten business but decided he "wantel dis- FORICUung more

น

فل

Now who is there' Very

mich interested and took up social

make

tow historions mney. There's Neale, of cotuse

work. There wasn't t00 Trade He ninde enough 4 buy a house money. out of his Queen Elizabeth ink Mrs Toynbee,broke in loyally balch

His mother (in the earliest of Newnhom degrees)

By Appointment Wine Merchants

to Che Late

Light Dry Sherry

King George VI

Dry Amontillado

Sherry

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When presence of

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as great, Pierre Fournier one

have no

excuse for

bire

recital at the "Empi

Saturday,

Oct 30

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Theatre

that 9.30pm.

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PHOTOGRAPHS

by our Staff Photographers

Diving Exhibitions

New Indian Club Indian Charity Ball Rotary Club Lunch Party European Table Tennis. Gurkha's. Parade at Fanling H.K. International Photo Salon Arrival of Sir Kenneth Maaling Austin Coates Speaking at Y.W.CA. Alliance Francaise Painting Exhibition Cocktail Party On-Boardm.v. Oostkerke Boys Brigade Visits, U.S.5, Philippine Sea British Ambassador to Bangkok Arrives U.S.S. Philippine Sea Cocktail Party Burmese Labour Ministers Arrives Launching, at Chol Lee Shipyard .Jaycees. Leave for Mexico City Local Presentations Local Christenings Local Weddings Sand Alf.Local Events

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Professor Toynbee has no food

"I' really Mediter ranean man My favourite meal is cheese, black olives, a ginss of wine and plenty of bread, win really eat an awful lot of bread. WILS Just They In Japan 1

for have even Rol # word bread, und I couldn't get used to twi bowl of messy rice

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substitute,"

Ian,

This **Mediterranean out of Winchester and Balliol, rends and speaks Greek, Latin, French, German, Turkish and Arnule Just little Arabic: really" but "feels" always in

K

THES

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

T

at

by to

"I trust you're restricting your form's Dynamo tactics to the playing fields, Mr. Wilmot?"

London. Express Bervice

POLITICIANS WAGE

A REAL HOT WAR

But now Wilson, with

Pageantry

21

The new models are going on display, and

the never have customers had bigger value for their money. Prices are being

Today

United States In the

car the cheapest

has transmission — you

campaign has been to gloss The President has now Right-Wingers will reach (Studebaker and Packard

the unemployment come out with a show of out to seizo power,

recently joined forces) to New York, Tuesday. Over

to

that pretend

aggression, urging the Re HE phrase here is figures.

Eisenhower himself will try to survive. jobless just don't that the election The

pubilean candidates "to run be a Republican President and that the De-

means "Do with Democratic campaign is "hot exist,

Con- ting up." Mr mocrats, particularly Adlai scared," which

wero prophets your damnedest and don't gress, Charles Wilson, Secretary Stevenson,

Outwardly there is plenty slashed all along the line, of Defence and ex-head of of doom and gloom when take anything for granted." they mentioned unemploy-

of colour and pageantry. General Motors

Candidates are going around leading elephants, the $500,000-a-year salary, who ment. sustained major burns writes poetry

Aymbol of the Republican automatic his inept

folksy. foot-in-the- THE candidates hardly Party. or as his unemployed America's

donkeys, the don't need to change gear. Tho latest taxis--Fords And Fly- need mouth manner, has spot-

the advice. They symbol of the Democratic mouths and Chevrolets-In "dogs," will agree.

the entire lighted

un are scared. They are fling- Party; they are posing with Now York City have no It wasn't so much that Mr employment problem, and ing

old charge of bathing belles

and and bables, clutches

change gear Wilson made an

questions about the idle "corruption, Communism, on turkey farms, munching automatically, Mate analogy-uny

are being hurled at every and Korea" nt the De- watermelons, holding big So I have read with surprise man can make a bloomer speaker on every political mocrats, but their listeners fish, and waving torches the trumpeting by some British it was that Wilson, in one platform.

to know about the from the motorcades and flames that they now are intro- whole

They of unemployment, sound-trucks which parado ducing a no-clutch phrase, focused the

its country's attention on

should have done so years ago. overtime the avenues. unemployed.

HA Greck. Cicek breause "one is too shy to express oneself in one's own

Tong New

in moit

York he shops Jo modern Greek, "becuLES! of the grocers are from Greece and love to have a thik.“ In London he doesn't shop at all. Mrs Toynbee is not aniolutely Just sure she reuld trust hin.

ne

the becoincy occasionally | absent-minded professor.

Suits

mixed

reference

unfortu- blunt

Jobless Millions

Today,

the

car.

Progress

is

1

HAVEN'T

we been a little

new deve

want pockets Eisenhower and the vanished the men around him are money which was so plenti- again not acting coolly or fui during Truman's Ad- The campaign is more methodically. The Wilson ministration, the growing than "hotting-up”---it incident put fear in their failure of small businesses blazing.

There is a tremendous slow adapting THERE are approximately veins, the Democratic land- (218 collapse every week),

slide in Alaska chilled them the troubles of the farmers. battle on another front, too, lopments? The Americans had 3,000,000 unemployed in

further, and reports of

the gear lever attached to, the long before States the United

today,

The Republicans are in between the glant General teering column the straw polls, forecast-

After the war they but the country has ing a victory for Averell deep trouble. There will be Motors and the fabulously the war. 160,000,000 population,

Harriman for Governor of something like a civil war wealthy and recently re- scrapped

organisa- automatic drive. booming economy, and tens New York State and pos- in the party if they are de organised Ford important

of the idla of thousands

They wank, sible capture of both the feated, and men like Joseph frequently get jobs for

House of Representatives McCarthy, William Know- Chrysler, which also make into the mudguards, or fenders, short periods.

and the Senate by the De- land, the Senator from De Sotos and Plymouths run years ago. Today many. Ameri

power steering, (or is it For- a lagging third, and the in- a wonderful boon;

the wrap- One of the main strate- mocrats, have put them in a California

miosa?), and other extreme dependents

merging around windshield which allmi- gies

Republican near panic. of the

nates the blind spot, - greatly

"Last week he got two suits mixed up, went down to Chatham House in odd jacket and trousers. I had to send him home ta change," added his wife, who has worked with him at Chatham House for 30 years, "because he itad rather an luncheon that day, and wanted to look his best.""

He has other imperfeelions, as he well knows. He cannot re- member how to make a pot of tea, and he is no sort of handy- man. When the bathroom tap came away in his wife's hand a gusher of und left her with ncar-boiling water, he had no idea what to to. He says, "Now American intellectuals are won- derful plumbers. I admire them cnormously. Wonderful family

imen, too.

Professor Toynbee is not a bad man himself. With eight

famdren he gets plenty of

practice.

His only hobby is walking, "Whenever I see a hill I must

to the top, Hilts up to 700 metres, that fa" (something over 2,000 feet.) I Want to Bài thu surrounding country clearly. All of it. Not just the bil.you sco en the ground,"

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Sam White's Paris Newsletter

tion.

are

Thorez Misses The Front Page

which

rearmament broke for television and has signed a down to some extent its isola- contract with commercial TV Lion in Parliament and the interests In Britain.

Mlle. Renaud,

country.

it and introduced

headlights

oan cars have

the

increasing visiblity: power electrically rated

brakes,

windows and

electrically

Lops

operates

**canvas

in the case of convertibles, the autronic eye, which auto- matically dips headlights, safety- mammoth rear braking

first

ligists, and half a dozen other developments.

..

I hope, we will not be pro- claiming years from now,

them in our models

Publicity

Paris. capable of working more German N interesting event than two hours a day. passed almost un- noticed in Paris the What is surprising is

despite her other day.

French that the pedestal on The

An anti-EDC Frenchman had infrequent stage appearances,HERE are two big openings this week, Broadway" He admits this is "psychologi- Communist daily news he seemed to be so secure more in common with a Com- sells more records of her songson cal." It is the way he tooks at

the party's na munist than with a political ally than any other. French music one a play, the other a flm. Mary Martin' and Cyril Rit- history. Ilis wife say: "He must paper L'Humanite failed to ly set as

picture of its tional figurehead appears to supporting EDC.

hall singer. She sings with chard make their. "bow always see everything. In acro publish a plarice he always has to sit in ailing chief Maurice Thorez be shaking. For Thorez is the droughtiest scats so that he when he returned from without doubt French Com- The end of the Indo-Chinese equal facility in French

In London he three months' convalescence munism's greatest singie war, too, rendered more or lçes

a88dt- national figure #respectable" the has no car and eculd not drive behind the Iron Curtain.

deeply revered by the treasonable campaign against it black frock with a pleated skirt. Nor did L'Humanite nearly six million French-

the.

customary men who steadfastly vote rearmament a fact, the brief and her husband, Loulou Gaste on a "Beat the entire cast publish "Welcome to our Beloved Communist year after tepid honeymoon with Premier guitar and he composes most of Granger himself, Elimbeth Leader, spread over

her songs. front page..

can see better."

kes to travel on bus tops. He

one if he had.

Swan song

Toynbee expects to retire from Chatham House rext year and thinks it a good thing, too, Poople tend to stay until they web gn-ign if they're goi mude to leave."

His wan-song in that quarter will be a history, of the last war. Chatham House 20 £38,000 grant from the 1boclor= faller Foundation for this pur-

had

its year.

To anyone aware of the fanatical political care with which L'Humanite is edited,

But now

party's long

with! German

Mendes-France is over.

and Peter Pan after tremendous advance publicity, and Stewart English.

Granger stars in the film "Beau On stage she wears a simple Brummell Quite a week for

Britain,

She is always accompanied by

DOG SETTLES IT.

LORD

ISMAY,

of

Brummel"

ia British Taylor, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, James Hayder and Jarnen Donald. " And Cyril Hitchard is one of Australia's best exports.

On the Government side, too, HONEYMOON OVER

revelations of the scandal over national defence secrets-a scan- What is in fact happening dal in many ways more 'em-NENERAL insido the party is a serious barrassing to the extreme Right whose desire to leave fils Lansbury, the Exiles girl has and its accurate reflection struggle between two groups.

than to the extreme Left-will

of Interparty feuds, this one commisting largely of party be used as an occasion for strong omission has great signi- hacks who cling around Thorez and carefully planned anti-

Hont

MAAK

• ficance and probably fore and the other lod by the bril- Communist measures. ",,, parliamentarian, Jacques. shadows Therez's elimina Duclos, and a formidable". TU cse After that a further tion from the top councils boss, Benoit Franchon: Rockefeller grant will talon him of the party. lecturing to Japan and Peru,

The Australian Covermont (alyo have him linock up for Yo- tures. And somehow. Ho win and moto finish hit: 100,000-word "History of Edéllglory", and start a. Grock Civilas-

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. En hu no

DESPERATELY ILL.

Thi

Thorez himself” is an embit- tered, largely disillusioned man hanging on grimly to life and the shreds of his lifelong faith..

itself would

As for the party linelf, it ham, sing_for the 54- received some-hing of agroup.

are-Mendes-Trance téma to

HELLO AND FAREWELL

Since

I wrote about ́› Angela)

Becretary-General of | got, mord offere” Danny Kayo, NATO and to retire to his farm who loves Londoners, Twill

in England is well known, has feature her Court Joster, now inadvertently put an end to his next producing runours that he will retire

this year S Marion Brando - tils nočne

Might

REASON: He returned from have ever seen in, Broodway ar FTER three Yous, absence

visit to Enfiand recently with the star of "On the Waterfron

„four-year-old from the Feris "utage 28- his

"Golden movants to make **The year-old singer Line Renaud, Is Retriever, Gem, which he had and 1" and co-star with Vivien

combination orming at the Moulin Rouge previously kept on his farm. after 35 years in show

With se months, qish Maurice Chevallosis HISKERIWOLond-man" récessary, before be

bugathe, dog,

at his

380.000