1954-12-11 — Page 13

"Some people haven't enough Historical

imagination......

Father Christine 14. (Faith Branch

FELLOW TRAVELLERS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.

"Some people

have too much,

historical

Imagination

Argenty

William Hickey

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FAIRY TALES ARE THE ORIGINAL HORROR COMICS

Tin

London. "The children of today will what they want"....he peered over his spectacles

"Especially if it is banned.

a joy to be alive read in London. There is sunshine of pale gold in the morning. It is still not cold enough for an over- coat.

"When I was young....I used to read poetry and memorise i

liked to show off."

And then, to show what a good exhibitionist he has re- mines, he told quite perfectly

the story of Sacha Gultry's father, Lucien, teling his son to go across the rood and give afrane to a blind man.

The son did not raise his hat. Father Lucien

furious.

After lunch 1 walked through Green Park. The leaves have nearly all brown fallen, but are still and crisp on the ground.

The windows of the backe of the houses in "But," ad Sacha, "he is blind." "Go back and raise your hat," were thundered his father. "For all setting you know ho may be an im-

paster."

Arlington Street blood-red with the

sun.

I had just been listening to Paul Gallico talk about, ["What should our children I read ?"

Ho and Gilbert Harding hiul been invited to speak

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Lost childhood

It hasn't much to do with children's reading. But then,

there's Harding said. as

on

lot of nonsense talked

about that,

on that subject because of awhil World Copyright by arrangement with the Munchester Guantan

the horror comies contro- All these famous people talk-

Such Radio Is Dangerous, says Sefton Delmer

IS THE

WHAT IS

BBC UP TO?

SWITCHED my radio

un at 6,15 the ther morning

XO8,

my

friends, the Helmers keep country hours down on the

farm-and BIC'.

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the

They were broadcasting

The Time of Decision

all the best goods and all the

#1 programme in German best foud al the cheapest for the Soviet Zone of Ger- prices | many.

I

<w:ht Cift. Istened with admiration. pete, and horror

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sur

Adinltation because the tech- auque of this betalenst sensiti

me infinitely

more skilftal TUIT

than the rather goverBERSY

The BBC used

to a ver

to

Germany

Surprise ant

I had

harrar bocHURC 1 beta that Britain.

through the voice of the Foreign

mire - briefer BBC, was meddling In this way in Eust Gertson affuirs

they were, these BAC tite

with umustakably British DANKS but speaking what appeared to

qulle flawless German--- Frie

alling on the East Germans to demonstrate their deflance of the Communist Governunenst,

Secret agents

They

Yes, yes, yes, I know what the 1 BBC people will say

were only doing their stuff in- directly They were aut actually inciting the East Germans them- selves but rending it listeners letters received from the zone. these correspondents In which

other boyroll FACE propoker!

That PESISTANCE mcusures. Just technique. The whole thing was incitement all right,

Secret revenge

is

HJUST to give it the last dislaste

ful touch the whole projuttatus ne has an a me sphere of und-

The letter- ground conspiracy. writers were och referred to by a code number just as if they were secret agents.

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arurunzites to the secret revenge bition to the men in Bonn,

Even

Foreign Offer does nut Jok on these brom- a Butuh endorsement Cast

of Chuter br Adenauer's sworn plecie "Not to rest or recline +Util

LA reunited," German you ETSY que certain that Germans do

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inetnoranda

versy.

Serious humorists

Gallico in a New Yorker who has settled here to write

stories for fairy adults and children. A big, strong face dominated by enormous spectacles and one of the lowest brows I have ever seen. They often go with imagination.

Callico was good.

"I think," he said, "if you eati furnish a good example 10 the children...if

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ing brilliantly or profoundly about what children shoutlet read!

All adults! All drawing on memories, mevitably mirified, of their own childhood!

T wanted to hear a child talk about what it liked reading.

But that would have been no Children are crafty. They would never tel: adults their real-thoughts.

LESE

I

Thoy just put up with adults,

Dutch in fashion

WENT to see

some Dutch models and hear all about Dulch fashion,

I know you have never heard

Statute demilitarising Federal Repubile of Germany example of good taste. .and fr ever while he was secretly give them love and understand- of Dutch fashion All you have Wash-Ing your child cunnot go wrong heard of is Dutch cheese, Dutch passing ington stressing the necessity of in its reading.

barges, Dutch schnapps. German sarmament and draw- Of courvy, he was sertour, But I was quite prepared for Ing up a plan for a new army.

Seriousness

is a blight that 15 Dulci tashion. I am just wait- killing the once strong shoots ing for

fashion a Guatemalan Yes, make no mistake about of American humour. It is a show. A Formosan fashion it. For these Germans of the disease that has struck Ameri- show. ikkressive. adventurous type cans

I'm sure

their the new alliance means a "free cans in our own time.

heard Douglas Fairbanks way. hand in the East."

talk after dinner this week. You sty, every nation has to

they

ON áre

1 It must have ambassadors and

membership

the United Nations, It's IL Intter of prestige,

For the Western allons the Atlantic Alliance

been association. defensive pirely None of us has had any ambi- Hon beyond that of keeping the Russians at bay. keeping then

m

overrunning any further encroaching countries,

any further on the free way of life.

With the inclusion of the

"It made one of the deepest have taken into Germans we

whost

impressions of any book I've Power partnership

ever read. Here In England- policy wld of neessify be ag

TN my view it is folly to insist Alice seems much nearer. Every if it is to realise Is gressive

The on reartning Germany before English

child

has a touch of openly proclaimed alms. danger is that it will encourage entering into the further talks Allee in her."

Insistence those with aggressive Ideas In proposed

by the Russians. our ranks, above all that it may well embros us in quarrels and which are no of our coups

Even Adenauer's right-hand Such seriousness! Such farnest- have fashion shows now just as man for foreign affairs has been ness! Even his jokes had so unguarded as to declare that message!

ambition In COT- Suil, to got back to children's Germany's

with her allies is to reading. junction

the whole of Europo liberate

“My first great love," Gallico sald, "was 'Alice in Wonder up to the Urala."

Ever since I havo been ime for her.

seeking

il

T

Now the risk

with such

If by any chance it is possible to come to a working agreement with them for a demilitarisation And this is mething which and permanent disarmament of mnast directly with both Western and Eastern Ger- runflicts

goodness sake let us us the leader mony for Britain's interest

mighty Commonwealth take it. spread all over the world, whose Belleve me, I hold no brief for constant preverúpation must be the Communist regime in East the preservation of world peace Germany or anywhere else. Nor and world security.

have I any objection to Radio Free Europe going in for this kind of agitation, or Itudio Free

Berlin. The one is run by

THEY were suggesting to them refugees from the Iron Curtain

uf

д

Secret notes

AM well Chancellor

aware

that they should organise a countries neized by the Com- I

that nationwide boycott of the State- munisis, the other by Germ solemnly renounced on his own Adenauer has owned shops and restaurants of Both have a perfect right 10 Soviet Gennany

speak to their fellow countrymen behalf, and on that of Germany, all attempts to use force in it the matters,

redeeming his famous pedge.

A pretty ponr request, this,

during my recent tour of the Soviet Zone, the Communist is a nost

I may say. For, as I discovered But the broadcas 1 heard

I would put no trust this

ats.ming synio renunciation even if I accepted authorities have seen to it that of the dangerous extent to which the sincerity of this man who, these State-owned shops have Britain has Already become in 1940, signed his name to

WHAT FIRES

FIRES THESE BIG, BRAVE CAMPANOLOGISTS?

NW to be made on the TEWS that an attempt

By LES ARMOUR

London. What Intrigues us js the were it supported it would proye nothing. For this is by Do motive behind this herolam.

We have always imagined bell- means the first attempt al a stout, red-faced world record, and these are re- connoisseurs of a pot gulated by the Central Council

ringers 10 bo

nouses

world ballringing record wei-brewed ale, who lend of Church Bellringers who must has doubtless set campano- of

(almost childlike) lives represent nil the best in tradi- logists aclanging with an- devoted to their muscular art,, tional bellringing. ticipation.

Their ambilons, ww naively'

All that may be safely còn- were well fulfilled with Lest the

namumed. uninformed the joyous sight of whole towns cluded is that bellringers, after should regard this as mere jerked from their slumbers by all, are ordinary mortals. frivolity, it should be the clanging of elderly church They share the inexplicable pointed out that the new bls.

drive of the men who strive assault will consist of

endlessly to drop email white 40,320 changes on "Plain What, then,

these balls in smaller black holes on Bob Major." It will take the gentlemen from their pots of ale long stretchics of fun, the men horses over and their roasts of well-turned who seek to drive ringers at John Taylor's beef and sends them off to peal man-made hurdles. ht paces bell foundry in Lough (hight and day) through 40,320 faster than horses borough 20 hours. During changes of "Plain Bob Major?" meant to go, and the men

What fires them with this sock to conquer mountain peake the performance, no re-barkflying withinuslas for un statistical place in atlases.

have no intertes beyond their freshments may be served. terrupted noise?

Officiale of the Central Council Surely, thero is no Tartistic Somehow, men mist strive of Church Bellringers-lhe ob2 gain. Perhaps these eight-ring: to do more, n'harder way, unti viously austere body which laid ing a foundry company bells longer than offer med. down the no-cating mile--will are, no jordimry belli ringgit. "And, anyway, whit the heck stand

by to me that no cheating Joylem and tigħidjoped men tidy de Plain Bob Major, you may nig (perhaps a well-concealed cheese, might even be engaged upon an it in awfully, mafrdwich or a change to "Fancy advertising munt

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were ever

who

Yet there is no evidence to chtical, but WINGU and

I wondered what these Dutch models would look like.

Models as

before

"Let us go and sce the models," said Mr Felt Borjoman, who is looking after the whole aflair.

That was rather lovely.

We knocked at a door. A girl to me it was dy if he

in

out with a worried *x- foreign came

were

But language.

tak didn't habe Alice Pression

understand what 15

was

when I was young. I just didn't Photographs were being taloon. all Temperament oozed through the It never was a children's closed door.

"You can go in if you like," WHE fold. The door WGS

about. book to

me.

"fairy

I realise it is a risk. But it horror

sald suppoж,"

Gallico, I the tales are

original comics." Which Was 19, for the British Common- qulle a profound remark. wealth and the whole Western world. a lesser risk than the

rertain disaster that will follow ignorance his bliss

German rearmament.

I had a confused pic- pened, ture of women khá clothes and flash-bulbs and make-up,

There was the scent of heavy perfume.

"Thank

you very much,"

I

said, "but I think I have seen enough for one-morning," Harding admitted his ignor- But my glimpse had taught We cannot afford to dally and

subject and then me one thing. Theeo Dutch delay. Every day of these BBC ance of the

Maria Van Amstel, broadcasts, every day of Ger-proceeded to talk very brilliantly models..

Hendriks, is a danger. Hurry, hurry, Sk to hear him talk on one of his exactly the same as all the other Magda muny's reawakening ambitions about it I think ignorance is Hendrike

Harding'a bllas I should hate Bruns, and the others....were

models I have ever seen. subjects. (London Express Service).

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