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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1954.

HONOUR at STAKE No 10

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Few remember. though, after this interval

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within an

tim of a fraud.

hesitancy

by the letter 'E'

It

After the assassination, The Times printed a photograph of a latter sensationally across a central page. was signed “Charles S. Pamell” .....and it could have mount

disaster for the Irish MP and his party

by Edgar Lustgarten

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The Commiss.n duly sat, They required to know from cbtained the whom The Times cruciai letter. From a Mr Houston (an Irishman hostile to

From whom The Times fad In that sharp oblamed the letter was not then Parnell's triumph Y it Is the forge.ten dirbsed, and a mere copy in shadowed,

night have met episode That inspires; the pons

That septicem; but the sight of the remembercel 1700

actual handwrithing swept away sickens

depresses mizgiving specially when the There is little pleasure or knowledge Aprend

authent pride to be derived from the appeared

fional with Parell's spectacle of a man rushing

There is This letter burst upon destruction; much to be derived from the entry like a bombshell,

man bring bust excited seemned to circumstances. spectacle of a

Lat Parnell himself. saved from destruction by Padlarment the exertions of another.

And if formed sand

wps

iver

activate

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chent, that alyonade was Charle Russell and that chen Painel,

It

1889 The entire British

Indeed. political and. social- scene had been dominated for years by the night for Iriais Home Hule in Ireland itself, that Bight was waged with clubs and krives and gin, violent outrage on the one prvasken on the other

ruthless

Eyes popped

Parnell,

Dearter of

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the

fish Party in the

Parnell). And Mr Houston had

obtained } from....? A Mr the Pigot!, upozn

M+ Pigot would bo The called, and would explain the

told

M. Pigeti

<bed. WVELY

M.r In plain, but rather

the Ten, Fle that the document Plgelt explained

circum- He w Forged-than let r matter slances.

bad bought the letter from an ally of Parnell who had been induced to betray him by a bribe.

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of

absorbed

Betrayal!

Hored

advice

ali sue

The Times for libel, Or take any other step towards Judi- cial vindication.

Egan and P. Exan? 'Patrick Egan and 'P Epan'?"

with tremendous

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Russell speaks these last words emphasis, as If something of great importance hinged upon them. Then, as Pigott was about to hand the paper back, he added carelessly;

"Oh, yes, there 15 one word had forgotten. Lower down please, leaving spacer" he wrile paused-"leaving spaces, the word 'hesitancy," "

And then, in a most significant tone: "With a small 'h,' Mr Pigott; with a smell h*.**

No rescue

mind

PIGOTT'S

was new so full of Patrick Egan and Egan, And

P

puzzled by the im portance attached to leaving spaces, and to watchft) fur

to sume danger involved

the

h, that he proceeded to write the key word without realising So far so good, for the anti- that the catch lay in the spelling. Parnellites. As Russell rises to So there It came--'hesitency

that cross-examine Pigott-whom be once again, and

from suspects to be the forger, it moment Russell held him in the forgory there

bho has got holtow of his hand. Just

one small clue

work to

Parnell, though, had only a clue that upon, and that is might easily prove

false A year or so to bask in the newly English word in the letter had been won affection of the Plagued by ill-

curiously

misspelt-"hesttency" pubile who always take to their health, contemptu-

hearts a man traduced. His affair opinion. increasingly Instead of "hesitancy"

with Mr O'Shea soon, reached an explosive climax and this time he could seek in vain an instru- ment of rescue.

Great

by 1 adulterous Inugue, he recolled from such

un addition to his load.

But as

The Tina persisted with and samplified Its charge.

in the end Parmell was driven

English House of labo relicn.

Me usked for P

Commons, officially ache commillice vf inquiry!

discountenanced the

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Instead

Government up-

Lo

use of force for an pointed especial commission of end huk they three judges

determines the

İNSTA avowedly sought through jarlia-

DRE WELT him and The mentary nicuris. When two lead- Tips ing representatives of the British Government had been assassin- ated in Dublin's Phoenix Park, Parmell bad publicly expressed Mimself as horried, and had utterly repudiated the dues and the dred

One more word

IT

TT would be easy. of course. to

Pigott

ask

write the

that this

WORLD

counsel

COPYRIGHT

RESERVED

may expose conspiracies, thats and smash but they are powerless to maki those who, in the grty of sexual work in

cheat their own judg- passion court and hope

mistake ment and conspire againg them- would be repeated, relves. But threwd wit ners is unlikely to suppose that

choice of word Wir should represent the Irist. Counsel's

entirely accidental; he will care- der before this tribunal?

fully examine it for pitfalls; end | The steal choice could hardly though he may misspell it when 20

Charles Russell he writes in haste, he may well in doubt.

Irish patriot, a correct the blunder when placed was at once en supporter of Home Rule, and upon his guard. beyent dissent or centradiction -premier advocate of the Eng- Jish Bar Parnell wanted Russi for his counsel. Russell wanted to be counsel for Parnell.

Py mean desaster [ Parwell and his party if this atitude 15

4* jut¢Lt, 3¢ a hypocritical pose Such ait allegat was presently forth- eping Test legs influential a quarter than The Times,

That render, nat of the heads. Long accustomed returned

How can

his attention legit- mately be diverted?

"Mr Pigott," Russtil euys. "Would you be good enough to write suhe words on that shee! of paper for me?"

Russell, though, hield a general retainer for The Times. The vyes จ ats which was valuable in terms of He hoth money and prestige.

The sheet of paper is handed have popped TOY

wlhout a over, and pen and ink supplied.

the "W you write

word wrole The

*ilvelihood"?"

}

IKAN

suliird;

to chayely printed (lumns un moment's hesitation. braken even by a single photo-"I am sati praph, they wwe now confronted Times's solicitor, not without with the facsimile of a letter, Trace of anxiety. in response, It is done. spread sensatimally деталь that you would not contul page.

"Uhas

desire to

return it in order to be at "Just leave a space now. Then liberty 10 represent persons will you write the word likel Beginning "Dear SA." and whose Interests may be antagon- hood?" signed "Chas. S. Pernell," doted istic to the paper."

"Will you write your own hame?"

a fortnight. after the Phoenix Russell did not conceal his in- It is done. Park assassinations, it sought to dignition at this hint.

"I do excuso Parnell's denunciation of desire," be wrote back, them; pleaded that "to do that represent persons whose inter- promptly was plainly our best ests may be antagonistic 10 polky"; and indicated that, in the paper." In other words, the writer's view, one of the desire to appear for Mr Parmeli "Will you write the word murdered men at least "got no on the Commission, as I conceive proselytism...Done that? And more than his descris."

I have o right to do."

finally will you write *Patrick

It is done,

POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER

"Honestly, Professor, I can hardly wait to hear what You're going to have to say about this?""

Sour Words On Sweet Subjects

Washington.

NOUR words are being

SOUR

bandied about in Wash-.

From HUGH DUNDAS

Take Cadbury," said Mr (weight) In 1048 to 21,300,000

that there are representatives in every stato.

ington these days about Chapman, spitting out the word pounds in 1953, nearly all of it Britain every six months to

sweet subjects. Spokesman as though it left a very, very from England. is Mr Harry R. Chapman, nasty anate in his mouth and vice-president of the Na Waggling his chubby

Anger at

And one man comes over from conduct a "commando sales operation" for Bournevilles. True, imported candy be

Sales in the year ending last were up 30 percent tional Confectioners Asso "Cadbury has opened up a New counts for only one percent of month

the previous But that, in Mr compared with York office and hos salesmen un, national sales. and down the Atlantic sea. Chapman's view, shouldn't fool' year.

ciation.

The

He looks plump enough boord.” and pink and white enough

committee chairman,

10 10 percen“.

anyone.

THE BIG THREE

'This Cadbury. invasion, so I And to show why, ho to qualify for the title of seems, is making advances on all switched adroitly to bicycles. Mr Sugar of 1954. But fronts, thanks to the reduction of there was nothing at all the tariff on chocolate from 40. He pointed out that in 1940 lm Nearly all British candy! ex- ported bicycles only accounted ports to America are shared by for the percent of national sales the big three-Cadbury, Rown also "Yet by the first six tree and Sharpe. And they seem to think that so long as tariffs months of 1984 bicycles were continue in their dévour they will baing imported equivalent to 40 go on doing very very sweetly. They might even end up by reducing Mr Chapman to a jelly.

FOOTNOTE: Returning, from comantise hearings where rBSTRA sivas of 25 Industries."OTH ndinir vienilar ¦ complafo

sugary about the oration he delivered before a Govern- LIKE A MARSHMALLOW ment committee which is considering whether the: -United States should re- "Why," cried Horry Chapman, percent of the market.

nounce the -obligation im- quivering like, a marshmallow, posed By GATT to refrain yon seinto any candy store in

Washington and you” will see. from raising tariffs unilater-

ally

these foreign goods on the coun- ter. Some of them are pretty. well dressed up too.” “

Mr Chapman,gelting every partie) pinker nahe developed his Theme, warned the eight-man in our very miditi oria-wormes committee that? US. candy""mantfabttirers would be

down and but penity soon unlike

particular}

\' And - most of theme: invadez)

the same bicycles

come drom

invader candy placa da, the

THE SPREAD OF RELIGION IN RUSSIA

By James Wickenden

THE Tast Russian to official propagandists, and they

enter the shack, in a live among the people.

poor vtilage near Smolensk, closed the door. The young farm workers and women smiled and mur- mured greetings to each other.

Soon a young, intelligent looking man was speaking He said he was an architect from Smolensk. Ho spoke with the fervour of one who has learnt something of great importane.

They tell believers that a man can be a priest without outward

signs. Conviction und faith aro miffelent.

Equality like this is a power- ful magnes to the official-ridden Russians. The effect of the Gos pels on people whose minds have been bludgeoned by rational materialism is often immediate.

The Challenge

The Soviet authorities have Iried for 30 years by, every means to crush religion, but their He had, he said, seen the effects are loving their early trubh that lay beyond res- sureness. The officials appear un- son in the words of Christ. ce to face the challenge square

ly. They threaten force. He described the "sweet liten is reactionary and an

the

Orders have been issued to

ness of eternal bliss." The implacable struggle must be audience leant forward as waged against Its prejudices.

Then they

hasten to say that he made his revelations.

the battle is not against men It was not the dogma and "enchained" by religion, but say ritus of churches which that battle is only against had shown him this, he con- kdoms. tinued. It was the Gospels Baptists to organise themselves themselves. He read some like the Orthodox Church_so passages. The others, sole that they can be controlled. The ly accustomed to the tangled Haptista ignore the ukase and sophistry of Communist ale unorganised. polities and economics, were spellbound by the power of the words.

A Revelation

Then the authoritica try to explain religion away. They may that, "objectively speaking, the απ contented

Soviet cleir destiny, with

masters of prosperity in

in sight. But sub- they are influenced by the past. This is caused by the

The meeting was also A encirclement of the democracies revelation to an orthodox and imperialsts, they say. Communist from curiosity.

who had come

The st

Stute

has

Publishing House bcen ordered to produce more historical materialism to correct these myths" to show As frat he was indignaret 1 the blasphemy against among other things that "accord-

Christ science materialism. Then

was ing to bewildered at witnessing such existed," But the authorities still

seem to be worrted, conviction.

he

Especially by the preacher. He knew the man, and quickly confirmed that, the 28-year-old architect was known in Smolensk as well-balanced, sociable fellow, an active worker, with a

sound political education."

Ho had often gone to Party meetings to give "irreproach able" talks. If he was not so obviously sane, he could called a case of split mind or

thought chizophrenia. Communist

the

he

Thoroughly incensed, described all he had learnt to the Russian paper, Literaturnaya Gazeta

This is not an Isolated case, as other Russlan accounts show, The Russians admit that religious meetings are becoming wide-

the Soviet spread throughout Union Chief among the be- lievers are young workers-men and women.

walk

Thousands of pilgrims daily to shrines springing up all where re- over the country, ilgious persons say they have ex- perienced revelations and miracle healings.

In the battle for belief the preachers are strong; they under- stand the Russian thirst for faith and mysticism better than

On The Move

50

never

As they do not recognise the spirit in man, they are unable to argue convincingly about the forces springing from it. They suggest that perhaps the young

o people are merely bored. "The Komsomol cannot remain ind

indif- ferent to the fact that many young people are to be found. amang the ranks of practising bellevers.

the This proves

our work inadequacy of education, and It also •proves our inability to attract young people and interest them in our cultural work...

A

the

at

Est

"May It not be that young often go to church more- ly because they are bored cur clubs, because nothing done to organise their leisure, Icoders ecause the Komsomol are too supine?"

The authorities aim to keep the young people constantly on club activi- the move through ties. libraries, drama and Allm shows. Despite these doses of synthetic culture, it is unlikely that the last has been heard of deeper philosophies challenging Communism on its home ground.

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