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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1955.

The stranger at the bar had a plausible story to tell. Was he telling the truth? For that matter, IS the author?

N December 1945, "Look here," he said, "I don't while I was serving know you from Adam and I'm taking fearful chance. Will in the Army, I was you read a letter that I've got flown home to the in my pocket?"

War Office after long and · I was embarrassed by his the obvious distress. I said lamely:

arduous months "in

I

Middle and Near East, was thin and sun-burned then and was only too de- lighted to be able to spend Christmas in Oxford.

the

"Of course, if you want me to.

But wouldn't it be better if you told me about whatever it is?"

"No," he said. "Please read the letter."

it to me. It was

Once more you

He

pave Between the War Office. and Trafalgar. Square there typewritten and it bore yester .day's date. It came from the $1-30 is a cluster of four genial registrar of a mental home in establishments which cater Cheshire, it said tersely that for the thirsty. I turned into the top one, smallest one, on that bitter- ly cold morning, hoping that the proprietor, a friend of mine, would allow me to celebrate my return with glass from his dwindling supply of sherry. He did

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the counter, a civilian. I can't Mr Valentine Merryweather's quite remember how we fell request to be allowed to visit into conversation.

his wife had been considered and granted. The patient would available for interview be- tween four and five o'clock that.

Distress:

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DRAWING BY KOOLMAN

IT HAPPEN?

By JERRARD TICKELL

Odette

(1949) and Appointment with Venus (1951) entrenched Jerrard Tickell's stature as a writer about

World War "II. Behind them lies a personal record no less brilliant.

Enlisting as a private in 1540, he emerged as major three years later when, as he explains here, he was recalled to the War Once.

Film scripts..

Se next executed arduous missions in Europe and the East, and in 1946-47 asiated in the prosecution at the Hamburg War Trials.

Now he has just finished. two film scripts-one for the Gold Coast Government, Forty-nine, he lives at Hampstead where his day begins feverishly at 8 am. but he finds time to drive his red, 30-year-old Bentley. He is married with three sons-Crispin, Patrick and Thomas-More.

muttered, scrawl

The

*Please read the letter." he said, handing it to me. there was no change to report and I've only got fourteen shill- me with great dignity and I felt He nodded and

whole elaborate in her mental condition. 11 ings. Now you know why I that I had been privileged. "Good morning" as I came in, description, cystical, calculated

showed you the letter."

The war was long over. I was and his lean face was vaguely and callous, made me sick and out of uniform and, to my dis- familiar to me. He was in a angry. I handed him back the may, I was putting on weight. dark grey suit with a very white letter. I said to him:

"You've changed your tie," My skin, no longer sun-burned,

dered idly where we had met.

do you mean?" But there were so many English winter.

gave him back the letter. thought for one ghastly moment that he was going to cry. He said hopelessly:

collar and spotted tie. I won- had thepaller of a sunless

it might have been es

He wore what had obviously

of a the tie

famous publië school. His black half-brogues beautifully polished and

I thought of the thousands of he carried a rolled-up copy

leagues I had recently travelled The Times. We talked about "It happened in 1940, in one over ocean, bush and desert- this and that, the war, the of the heavy raids: Anne--my and of the paltry few miles of ratioring, the black-out-and all wife was buried for some hours railway track that lay between I parked my car off Baker the time

I was aware of the and when they dug her out, she this man and his unhappy wife. Street, bought an evening paper Italy, France, Germany and wearing an old Elonian tle. fact that his mind was else had lost her reason, She'll never in two days it would be and went into a pub for a glass had encountered so many people where. Suddenly he drew abe any better. I want to see her Christmas and all the bells in, of beer and a sandwich. A man by in the movement and deep breath and looked me frightfully" he swallowed - Oxford would ring. There could stood at the bar, an untouched change of war. straight in the eyes.

"but the fare's one pound nine only be one answer. He thanked half-pint at his elbow.

1:

DISARMAMENT? LET THE

REDS BAN CONSCRIPTION

WORLD WIDE Communist - inspired

campaign against

DRY CLEANING atomic weapons.

CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT. THERE IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY, IT IS USED AT . . .

By

JULES MENKEN

not

which

are

the

*

the

I took my beer and my, sand- wich and sat down on a slippery horsehair sofa and began to read my paper. After a moment or two, the man came over and sat down beside me. He said slowly:

What that the last time

you did this to me, you were Spare part?"

He said sharply, defensively: "I was at Dhon"

Nothing to say

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"Crooks and confidence men should have 3 photographic memory te faces. I was 謝 uniform then. I'm not now. That's why you've had the bad luck to I agreed. I wanted to go on twice. If I did what I should pick on the same man reading

"Chillier today."

He went on in a low Insistent voice:

*:

A letter

BE

Was

COT

do, I'd call the police. I thinks. you're vile. Get out"

He stood up. His shoes were highly polished and he had a rolled-up copy of The Times. He said to me, blinking.

There's nothing I can say, is

Nothing,"

of Valentine Merryweather, had died in a aussing home in Cheshire after a long illness. I to find him and to apologise to him,

1870 rested on conscript armies. Germany's conscript armies

"I can see that you want to made the aggressive wars of 1914 and 1939. Japan based her body. I must," I turned. There

read but I must talk to some- there?" nuclear weapons is in the capitalist countries which Again, if Moscow is as strong aggression in 1941, upon., con- was a look of utter despair in He went out quickly through

in nuclear weapons as Khrush- script. forces. Although the progress. One aspect of this are backward?"

The answers to these questions chev and Molotov boast, Britain countries faced by the aggres his eyes and his hands were the swing doors. I have never

him geen obviously insincere campaign will appear by considering what could obviously not reduce her sive,

Some day, since. conscript

threat trembling. Again army

scious of a strong sense of somewere, I pay that I may is the collection of signa- true dasarmament requires, and still relatively small nuclear usually had to introduce

if something or meet him familiarly as

again. tures appealing for a ban on what the Communist programme armament without grave peril sription in self-defence, there

I read with. A week later, C of world domination needs. unless Moscow made a larger no difficulty in practice in dis- somebody were knocking

the gates of my memory,

that Mrs Anne Merry- I horror dearly beloved wife Three elements are involved absolute, and proportionate re tinguishing A dispatch from China in

disarmament. and each duction.

with brittle cheerfulness: In both these cases, a properes of defence and which of put down my paper and said wea states that in Szechuan, the indispensable. The first is con-

aggression 60 trol. There can be no successful level must clearly be preserved

is unmistakable. The moral with

"What's the trouble?” great province

disarmament without a system at overy phase, and the same Mass armies based DIL con-

"I'd....like to show you a million inhabitants the of inspection and control which principle holds good for other scription should be done away eter? largest population of any ensures that all countries which weapons and forces throughout with. The idea of doing so is I knew him instantly. It was

-more are disarming have carried out Chinese

First new. During province

the as if a galloping film had sad- The Communist programme for World War, for example, than half the people have their undertakings and are con- any plan of true disarmament:

denly stopped dead, leaving THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. signed the appeal.

to the This tinuing to observe them,

domination has very Pope made an appeal

сле picare stark, clear and Proper inspection and control

different

needs. Essentially it belligerents for peace in 1917.

letter in: news is, indeed extra- must obviously apply to conven- requires two things-the forces

Writing shortly afterwards to ugly. I took the

silence withcar, reading it. I as to nuclear necessary,

and Mr Lloyd George, then British knew what I would see, haping for conquest, ordinary, for it is quite tonal as well

Prime Minister.. Cardinal Gas- certain that nothing like weapons, for it is with weapons weakened enemies,

all my strength that I said: conventional in their day that

What forces docs Communisma parri

The Holy Father

would be wrong. It was type half the population of

need for

that considers conquest-nuclear

written and bc-

It yesterday's Szechuan are able to write

forces одо conventional

agreement ones, should be an

date It came. from the tween all civilised nations ... or sign their name. Com-

and especially large armies?

registrar of a mental home in mutually and simul- Cheshire. The only differences to Here a strange paradox appears, abolish, munist propagandists have

Nuclear forces in themselves, service ...

between it and the letter I had taneously, obligatory military $18.00 merely added this invention

If by

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Merryweather's condition should, "Introduced, we can be essentially aggressive without any disturbance.

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automa-registrar was an indecipherable disarmament tically Conscription has been the real cause of many great evils for now more than a cen tury: in the mutual, simul taneous abolition of conscription les the sole remedy."

These words, early written Cardina Gasparri

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Mass

all the aggressors in history 5.00 Why has this Communist have made or tried to make --- The reasons for this paradox 4.00 campaign against atomle weapons their conquests.

are simple, Nuclear weapons been launched? If Moscow is The second element which are weapons of bombardment; years ago, apply today. 1.00 sincere in its hatred of these true disarmament requires is they are weapons, that is conscript armies backed by 10.00 weapons and its alleged desire phasing. It is useless to try to which destroy. Except in scale muclear weapons are

iratzu- to abolish them, why

did do everything at once, or to be of dean wenue 10 rada ments of aggression-the meats, Khrushchev boast last year that lieve that grandiose declarations

tions technical 24.00 the Soviet Union had

i fast, by which the Com- done provide solution. True dis- tion, nuclear weapons thus munists hope to achieve world' everything it could to 1.50

develop

armament means that existing them? Why did he claim that stocks of nuclear weapons must resemble the long series of domination. 15.00 the

weapons which the Soviet Union was the first be destroyed, and the factories 3.00 country to produce the terrible and specialised tools needed to men have used in war since the

hydrogen bamba claim

which

hich, make them converted or seray- beginning of history. The cata- as it happens, is false? Why did ped.

pult, the siege gun, modern artillery in its various forms, Molotov brag empty in Febru- True disarmament also means ary that Soviet development of that military formations must are all weapons in that series,

bombardment

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manpower, rapid that in this matter it is guns and sat te veren troy and can break down re- de excremies of Communist

be sistance, but by themselves they countries is up, that warships must

A main factor scrapped, that military aircraft are never weapons of conquest. Conscription is

to impoverish the roust be destroyed, and again Conquest is possible only when helping

peoples. that the factories which make troops fallow up bombardment, Communist-deninated

To abolish conscription would such

occupy the ground, and prevent must be converted ich weapons lo works of peace.

resistance from being organised. De a

an advance- Since áll these things

not be done at one tham are needed for defence are therefore, but armies Larger

* move in the direction they must be done in the

Tight

world peace. sequence in a properly phased the forces which serve aggres-

"Bat the atomic bomb!" ery plan.

Phasing, then, is the sion and the will to conquest. the Communists, hoping to play

element in true dis- Armies of this kind are found second

on widespread Lear and armament

today in the Communist world

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in- Hy upwards modem form was

** step is three

elt would troduced during the French Re never, to cut the strength of volution, and the threat of age because it will also both armies by the same fraction greasion by much forces made Communist aggression

And —say, a thini," as Moscow has constription necessary for de- that first" stop is to cut down proposed. Such an equal, pro- fence in other countries also, the number of "men "under portionate cut would still leave -- Napoleon's conquests were

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