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MYSTERIOUS

WHO ORANGE

ALTERNATED con

stantly between hope China. and despair in

Just when Home by- cident sent cold shivers down my luck, up popped a jolly little character to take the sting out of it.

I drove down into Chung- king from a distant airfield, and the scenes would alir the flintiest heart. I forgot my earlier bad teraper as I bounced through 14 land-

of

those One scape like Japanese rock gardens coMME alive. The road i travelled was built of packed! earth, and it shot up and around steep hills or plunged into deep valleys.

SECOND DAY

BROWN DRANK JUICE

Seeing Red China

with

William Stevenson

Toronto Star correspondent who spent two months in the country and travelled 8,000 miles.

I've no Ideu what induced this strange trio to embark on such il Voyage Tibet Ja

and Russians pleture

I

wondered

Κοι

how the Into the

on

Korean war hero, as national Defence Minister. This, 10- Rether with the drafting of China's дор generals into the Defence Council, suggesta the Army remains a very powerful tool. designed, us Mao Tse-tung Kait back In 1929, "to full certain politicnt tasks."

Yet Home observern think it's a preliminary step to putting These Army veterans out to prature. My own experience. certainly did not Indiente that power went with the new glory. I followed Chou En-lai, for instance, when he took Nehru through the ranks of generals making up the Defence Council. They stood over in one corner

of

small, brown Jump of

silence amid the glitter silen diplomatic reception in one of

Chinese. Exquisite puppets with moving heads and limbs, dressed in beautifully embroidered robes, were held in view of the rumored to be a Chinese affair. Peking's magnificent pavilions audience by ten little men crouching beneath

the slage. Around them on the dirt floor squatted

the band,

clashing cymbals and hammering drums and tooling on Un horns. The timing was perfect, and men were 50 their mininture

Withe In

the appropriate expressions cach

Living Buddha

that gieam behind the Winter ualforms Paince walls. Their

170 were -tung: they wore

their патея insignia except

on stitched in red Ideographs Well, that raises the question

their breast white tape across of who really does rule China. Russia's influence 1s exerted pockets. through a man of whom we hear little. Láu Shio-chl. Most

them Chou bowled through with every appearance

They

of

起

were

of us, however, think mostly of lato

Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lal, schoolmaster producing his most

promising pupils. per- pollte but reserved, and while Foreign Minister Chou, haps more than any other Com vodka these mysterious figures olhers drank a fierce Chinese

munist, dazzled the Western

nony

I passed endless streams of peasants whose faces were twisted in the agony of im- mense physical effort, and this was not surprising, be the ten

had harnessed #bsorbed ealise MANY themselves like animals 10 opera their faces twisted heavy wooden carts loaded time they sang out their words, to the sky with slabs of even though they were invisible stone. There was no evid. to anyone outside. ence HERE of forced labour.

world this past year. He earned clasped glasses of orange juice The peasants of Szechuan

public tribute from Sir Anthony in their unpractised fingers. Exien, bo won respect (and worked hard

food - for

submission in Indo-China) from harder than I've seen people

and French,

he over I JONDERFUL

staggered the "I Wor work anywhere, though

with:

cars shadowed his Russian colleagues my away a rickshaw boy ringing

at Geneva, Hla flying visit to from once яW

the

noise, wandered back collapse from heartstrain in 1

ulong the Yangtse River banks, listen- a Portuguese colony.

cries ing to the primitive men stripped naked as they So my mood was one of

laden hunks up- pulled heavily with clation mixed

Hym- stream against the strong cur-

What I felt the foreigners rents. pathy.

tragedy, had little right to criticise a

that men must work thought,

when a dozen out- government which

like

be using ruthless authority But

this

u

their shouts,

ol

af

Bitter Blow

New Delhi charmed Nehru lato THEN Chou steered Nehru to where two youths stood in trip to Peking. Ho convinced bright saffron and red robes. "I Burma's Premier the Chinese

meet believe you may like to Communists can be reasonable. the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, and he is the jolly shepherd of said China's Foreign Minister, those

bewildered young the ไพ

ghost of a mile fitting men from Tibot, the Dalal and

across his moblje face. Panchen Lamas. Yet the fact is that Chou En-lai is very totem

much low man

on the might board molars could do the job.

echoing pole. the misty gurges, по doubt.

an enormous

Brand New

at all.

D

the

are

Four Men

now

Al-

about

of

There was moment's pause. Behind us, the Chinese generals rustled softly. A glass tinkled,

0 dramatic For me, it was moment. The Dalai Lama gave

Indla Nehru's

two thousand miles of commen frontier with to get things done but which strangely in

Far more powerful is the vast a Communist country when he was at least getting them were cheerful and

accepted the absorption of Tibet though administrative done. And then, quite sud- they were glad to have work People's Liberation Army,

changes intu Chim. It had been a bitter have taken place which seem to blow to Nehru. denly, my car shot through narrow streets of wooden It was then I met a strange push the Army into the back-

observers character riding a mule. He houses built higgledy stopped when ho sow me and equall

divided on whether in piggledy above the Yangtae began excited conversation fact

Army today is all- River and we emerged in with his two companions. He powerful or very much weaken-

a foot shuffled. Perhaps I'm a front of

wore a beaver hat with ribbons ed In authority.

sensitive soul, but it seemed to the crown. One of his

the whole me you could feel palace.

friends had saffron robes wound

Chinese Army pressing at your about his body, and his head

back during those few seconds was shaven. It wan hard to

Army which conquered leil If the third member in the

China for her people against party was man or woman, but THE

Constitution still internal and foreign enemies strong smell of stale butter leaves

U.N. and which fought our tho reina looked like a palace, any-

power in the hands of forces to a standstill in Korea. way-brand new, a glittering come from all of them. dome with sweeping staircases

Mao The stronger examined me four men. They

Nehru looked tired and old as rising to marble hails on either and then snkt in faultless Eng- Tse-tung, who

than more

extended hand to the olde. "But this," sold my guide, lish: "Where are you from?" I once Ignored Stalin's orders in he "in the guest house."

told him and he replied: "We're conducting the Chinese revolti Dalai Lama and said: "I'm very from Lhasa, We've been three lon; then Liu Shao-chi, the pleased to make your acquaint- 35.00 And so it was the result of months coming here."

Grey Eminence who brings to anco after all this time." Peking's marble halls, the finty 10.50 all the planning. This was the

Was it a capitulation? The kind of thing being built by He was a Tibetan who had views of Party theoreticians; Chinese are great people for 10.50

those poor devils I passed along spent part

In followed by General Chu Teh,

symbols, and this moment the road. My face betrayed my northern India. Hla shaven chief of China's military, forces, seemed to have been chosen 5.00 thoughts.

headed friend was

a living and Inst of all, Chou En-lal. with artistic care. Or Buddha. This gave us 4.00 The mayor of Chungking thing fri common, becaueu It would seem at first glance Nehru making a massive gesture

of.

His goodwill?

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palace they called a guest house Lama had touched my forehead have withdrawn Into the 10.00 had only cost point eight per and thus turned me Into a BOL

shadows--that's true only, in a ported that the Army's status cent of the taxes levied against

In China today is a reduced constitutional sense. Both men, living Buddha 100. 24.00

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other Western able to understand that to ma "Where are you goingt" I rity which overrides the Con-

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Biao said alitution.

Perhaps Nehru, controls the

surely have recognised the 3.00 the pyramids or China's own Peking, which meant a further whole government, machine,

that strange thousand miles 1.50

of travel. I chairman of the Comminist significance inquired how they would com- Party's Central Committed, Chu encounter, hoped to avold fur- So I wandered over to

Teh commanda the physical ther tensions and, so keep the puppet theatre, went behind the pleto the Journey-and why.

backbone of the regime the Army in its supposedly scenes and, iruddenly, began to "We're taking a plane from armed forces,

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CENTENARIAN OF OPERA

By Gerard Bourke

UST one hundred and by his father, also named

fifty years ago yester- Monucl.

dny a young couple in The elder Manual, who WAN the wild Spanish province of to become hend of the most Catalonia bent over a cradle famous family in the history of

Rossini and wished for a great sing angers, had aidost ing future for their newly- seville," Perhaps that explains completing "The Barber of

born son.

in

why Rossini, usually lazy, finish- રત the brilliant Both were singers, famous weeks, Rossieži

(WO ecore in gave him 100 singers, so they could justly tenor part of Count Almaviva hope that some of their at the first performance, genius might pass to their Later, when the family opera child.

Company went 011 tour it America, they were able to give Their wish was fulfilled, a remarkable performance of but perhaps not altogether "The Barber,"

as they had expected,

Manuel Garcia became " well-known singer, too, but the international fame he

MANY DECORATIONS

Gurela senior sang Almaviva, won was for his brilliant The part of the housekeeper was tuition of others rather than

taken by tria wife, who hud become a opera singer after for his own voice,

abandoning girlhood pins to become A 27. Borich With played by

the his daughter, great contralto Malibran. The part

by of Figaro was taken Garcia Junki, our centenarian,

The younger became

it was safel that his father fruined him too hard while his voler was passing naturally from tenor to baritone, and this gave it an unpleasaní vibrato,

he

Nevertheless, Spuin's Grand Old Man of musle. He lived to be 101, died In London 49 years ago.

TAUGHT THE GREAT

He was the first mau to make scientific study of volce pro- duation, and was the Inventor of the laryngoscope which perinia examination ur

11 person's throat.

Aided In his work by one of Napoleon's ablest geons, his system of mirrors in used today In perfected form,

held for 50 years.

Str-

toured

Garcia the Continem as well as Ameri

where the private company had been robbed of a hurd of gold by thieves and had re- ceived many foreign decorations. Among these was one given to him by the King of Sweden for his helpful tuition of Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingaže, also a favourite with London au- dieners at Covent Garden.

Throughout his long life, he watched over the progresa singers in the London concert hall and in the theatres, and also showed keen

perception

of purely orchestral musical trends, St

On his 100th birthday,

to

At the time, Garcin was on the staff of London's Royal Patrick's Day, 1905, King Ed- Academy of Music,

summoned him a post ho ward VII He taught Buckingham Palace to accept the many of the greatest singers of Royal Victorian Order. Despite the 19th century, including Sir his age, he went personally to Charles Santley, described by receive the decoration. Show as "one who has achieved all that is yet possible for great English singer."

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But onlhusiastic though he was about linking science with singing. Garcin was not merely

a technician.

baritone

In his younger days he had toured widely with an opera company founded

09 A

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I've gor an H-bomb, "You've got an H-bomb, "All God's chillun got

H-bomba 1"

LONG SERVICE

On returning home, he was of London's musical Ufe, who re Rrected by almost all the leaders

viewed his long service in al- tering addresses. In view of the date, hla birthday cake was in the shape of a gigantic sham rock, surmounted by the figure of St Cecilia, patron saint of music.

His alster. Madame Malibran, had died long before in 1830, from iguries received when thrown from A horse. Ha was survived

however, by a younger

Madame

Viardot, not

singe but

gister.

only R famous

also a

composer whose works were admired by George Sands and Alfred do

Mussot.

Jessons

She had even had in composition

Franz Liszt.

Нет

from

death in 1910 did not end the service of this untual Spanish fundiy 10 Manuel Garela, the

rian,

Gustave,

Albert, and

of singing

and

singing. centena-

behind Р BOST

པཾ་

grandson

both joined

the

staff of London's Royal College of Music as teachers Only the family of the great J. S. Bach, the musicians musician. gavo more of its members to music.

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