1955-06-25 — Page 13

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1965.

WASHINGTON

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THE PLAGUE TEDDY

T

HE worship

youth has been

the century.

at

moment.

SHEPILOV

THE

MAN OF DANGER

to the

By Anthony Westell

A

world for talks with Tito, third man They did not like what they 0%

out of the arroplane was Shepi- found. Dimitri Saeplov is diplomatic stage at a lov. Right behind Communist fanatical' new-generation revolu- critical moment steps a new Party boss Nikita Krushchev tionary. He gan his risc personality: Dimitri Shepi and Premier Bulganin.

under Stalin. So not much 14 known of his

early

days, 94 lov, 49-year-old editor-in-

Moscow.

appointments, chief of Pravda, a key figure

quite recently, were often uh- in the Communist hierarchy

announced, kept secret. and a virulent hater of the West.

He is tipped to succeed Molotov as Russian Foreign Minister, just as arrange ments are being made Big Four talks.

a hint into

for

the

Diplomatic protocol is rigid in the Red Empire. Shepilov's position could mean only that he was a top man in the party senior to a better-known Minis- ter such as Mikoyan.

Piecing it

But it is

is known that in the early 1950s he headed the notorious Agit-Prop" depart ment of the party. As such he laid down the party line to the comrades, published the famous directed Agitators Handbook, propaganda.

What was he doing In Bel-

Some time in 1952 he took grade anyway? Pravda sent its over Pravda The fact that he two most reliable correspondents was in The Foreign Secretary, to cover

who became public | the talks. Shepilov only

he addressed a Hareld Macmillan, got the first clearly was there in a capacity gathering of Russian journalists inkling of the rise of Shepilov other than that of editor.

in December that year. few weeks ago, A foreign

Under his passed source

Back in Whitehall, the In-ust Pravda dull-as- was brightened up telligence men were piecing it slightly. He used more political Foreign Office.

was considered by the all together.

suza published more

froa: Intelligence experts, rated inter-

pictures, spruced up esting but inconclusive. Then They remembered that Mole- page

literary and art criticism. Vienna те CADE the little pieces of news lov had joked in and private information which cently about retiring, although tena to confirm the tip.

he is only 64. And they looked Russian up thetr When the top-level

personal file on delegation flew Into Belgrade Shepilov.

BOYS.

OF OF THE

оп

in

a

By Sir Beverley

Baxter,

M.P.

nor was there ever the slight-

it

It is true that in Hollywood

But he also used his paper for more sinister cods. He used it to undermine the position of Premier Malentov, the man

who succeeded Stalin.

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Shortly afterwards, Malenkov was toppled from power. And Shepiboy took another step up following his boss Krushchev, who seized the key position of party chief.

A 2 meeting of the Supreme Soviet, Shepilov was put up to: make a speech denouncing the Western Governments.

Western

diplomats

as

ticket

And what of the old-stager

When?

ex-

London. consisted of young men in Then one night in Cam But a Teddy Boy was gaoled

Shepilov

a Communist the of pairs or trios looking rather den Town it happened, as it there for six months

theoretician, a party-line purist, of asmulL

Three

a very dangerous man. He has never self-conscious about their was bound to do. Four conviction

other boys were placed under

up since the death of British apparel..

Teddy boys surrounded a

sprung Stalin to be one of the 15 most order to the effect characteristic. Over

young woman who was a a curfew Their trousers were pipe-

important men in Russia. like here they

ancient

waitress. With about as that for one year they must be narrow in the legs. Their

much delicacy as a chimpan in their homes by 9 pm. They est disparity between the sound Molotov? There is no sign that old - inne. monuments,

jackets were like duffle coats

the were also fed varying sums up and the moving of the lips. would show in

ac is in disgrace, or heading for mediaeval churches and

Siberia. without the hood.

dispose Their zee

And how did the mating season. they began to to £20, which should

Germans crumbling open fireplaces.

for of their pocket money

Had he been expecting his force their attentions upon while. Two of them, 16 and 17

Lake his pictorial demonstration the theatre the shirts were white and their Even in

own downfall, ne would hardly black bow ties were like

life in America? They have joked about his own re- her, pretty young starlets gaze

respectively, were further Aned howled with laughter-jeering,irement while in Vienna. But, stranger still, with envy at actresses in string.

derisive laughter, But out for his evening for having knuckle-dusters' was coal black

Perhaps

More likely it is that he brought back memories of the pects to move up in the Govern- their 70's, like Sybil Thorn- their hair

Hitler youth movement, but dike and Edith Evans, who and pompadoured. In short, walk was an elderly Cypriot their possession

ment, become an Overlord" in think not What they were charge of several departments. are a sell-out as soon as it they had reverted to some and his wife. He was a man

thing like the Edwardians of fine character and a heart NO ONE CAUSE laughing at was this cruel, im- is known they will appear.

becile picture of American life, and looked as if they had that was more chivalrous In well-to-do families the stepped out from the pages than strong. He intervened I commend the Bath magis- children are packed off to of Punch at the turn of the and told the boys to stop trales for inficting a punish- films of violence the bad mar boarding school

Once before, when Vishinský molesting the girl. Where- ment on them which, with the usually comes to a sticky end,

it any wonder that was Foreign Minister, Molotov upon one of the Teddy Boys curfew order, includes ridicule but is

with

crime in the the curbing of their Juvenile

U.S.A. had a supervising job. Now he hit him in the forehead. The liberty. When these posturing is growing at a terrible pace? old man fell like a log and young idiots become nothing Nor can we doubt that the Almos be returning to in did not rise. The Teddy Boy more than a rather tasteless have played their part in pro

the Teddy Boy mave- At first they were few'in had a heavy ring on his joke, then their swollen vanity cucing

ment in Britain. numbers, and no one re- hand-and the old man was may begin to decline. ร,

As you know, I hate garded it as anything more dead.

Inevitably the magistrates and death penalty and We have no parallel here than a caprice of youth.

In horror, one of the boysity are trying to find the source other men in position of author- to the American pheno- Ferhaps even it was an ex- menon, where middle-aged pression" of our old friend, shouted: "What in hell made of this curious manifestation of complex. you do that?" Then they vanity-sodden youth. Mr Basti parents sit on the verandah the interiority and watch with adoring Here were young fellows in ran like frightened animals. Henriques, who sits as magis

trate and vice-chairman of the eyes as the younger get their late teens trying to

London Juvenile Court, live out their coca-cola attract attention which FOUL AFFAIR

attributes it to the parents. romances and behave as if their personalities would

He admits that there is no the present as well as the have never achieved by any future belong to them. In other means. short, it is the venerable oak which the English adore, not the sapling.

time the FEW AT FIRST

earliest possible From time to parents visit them and, of course, there are the holi- days when the families re- unite.

ย

41

East

the have twice the movement to abolish it. in Parliament helped to lead

assure you that it is not out of

sympathy for the murderer, but for society which stops to the level of inflicting violent death in the name of the law.

executed for

But since hanging is still the shed Slowly, methodically, the one cause for a child going off law I must confess that police began their inquiries, tion of influences. On the other different part of London were the rails. Rather it is a combine- no tears when a Teddy Boy in Clapham and another in * he places the primary exe Personally, I felt a slight and in process undoubtedly hand,

gang murders. sympathy with them. Their made a useful survey of the source of the trouble with the The only pity is that the gal- jobs and their homes were Teddy Boy population in parity where there is a low lows may glamourise them in All of which may be

drab, and they possessed that area. The next day the mentality in the parents, then the eyes of posturing

a boy must have remarkable boys, with their

to qualities partial reason for the deve lopment of a very unplea personality to rise. above parents, wisely gave them- level set by his elders, sant feature of present-day the dull uniformity of life selves up to the police. They life in Britain. I refer to the in crowded London. And have been remanded in plague of the Teddy Boys. after all, the dress of the custody, and I can carry the

male in modern society is story no further. consistently unadventurous.

· CURIOUS - CULT

how or

neither the qualities nor the four

rise above the

idiots that wear, the livery of their crazy

cult,

Then Mr Henriques adds that FALSE VALUES the son of happy parents seldom

goes wrong. Such wisdom may

not have the depth of Solo- Fortunately, there is a partial 'mah's, but there is obviously a remedy. The Teddy Buy

it. besis of truth in

under con- however, there are other

To me eventually comes

and

scription, and you can just see more potent causes than home a British sergeant-major licking environment. I believe that the his lips as he sees the arrival Sims are the most potent in of the youth, with the black pamparlour, who has probably been spending a pound a week!

I doubt that the murder- At any rate, the cult ed will be hanged, for the No one seerns to know caught on and spread to reason that he did not pre- when this curious other parts of England. And meditate nor intend to kill. cult began. One might think still the people smiled. In He was simply playing the that it grew from the high fact, it spread to the female role of the tough Teddy spirits of undergraduates of the species, and we began Boy. Nevertheless, he will BRANDO FILM at Oxford or Cambridge, to hear of Teddy Girls as not see

but this is not so.

Those well.

great universities are guilty

of many youthful diver- "

tissements but not this one. NOT CONTENT

Five minutes by car from

the green of the grass for walk the streets

fluence of all

of London for many a long film year. But the woman, whose husband he killed, will live out her time a lonely crea ture, with only memory and grief as her companions.

But, unfortunately, the my house in London is the salubrious neighbourhood of new Edwardians were not Camden Town. It was there, content with walking in the in & wretched boarding streets in the evening, earn- house, that young Charles ing the amused glances -Dickens lived when he used the crowds. They began to was

on his hair,

.

00

our

www.-

safe and Hmited hopes of

If Shepilov is to take when will it happen?

OVCI,

With Big Four talks due soon, possibly next month, the experi enced Molotov may hold on for a little longer.

It is not easy to write this subject with a detached For example, an American mind, but we who constitute called "The Wild Opt ourselves the judges of arrived here 2:

the few months juniors should search for ago. It starred that admirable causes which have

produced actor, Marion Brando, as the this curious manifestation. Un-

of a motor cycle gang et doubtedly, the combination ths who

small towns, inferiority complex raided

and picking up the girls, roaring

vanity, plus drab sur- into the saloons and making

motor-cycle advancement, must have a lot I wish it were possible to war against other of state that this foul affair gang detest censorship, and to do with it. Nor can we deny thought the British censor was the false values of many crime an isolated incident, foolish not to let us see it. The sims and the adulation of

is stars

that would never have to make his weekly visits form gangs and would meet but that would not be true, geat American experiment to his father in the debtors in a body at this or that Before me is a copy of the always before us and we like been heard of except for prisop. Camden Town has dance hall. Fights broke out, news items deals with plenty of pubs, and although especially when they ran case of violence by Teddy dignified it possesses little beauty as into young ex-service men Boys a neighbourhood it adjoins who took a low view of their Regency town of Bath.

Regent's Park.

in the

Д

the

to see it in its manifestations. microphone, the make-up exx-

By a curious chance, how pert and the publicity machine,

This ever. I saw the fire in Berlin,

Teddy Bay insanity will Incidentally, the picture house pass, but not until there

har in which it was stown has a been some dreadful happening attraction that might be which will shock not only the a algatus grandeur of pompadoured juniors. Both of all places! It novel attra count or even in which,

but the young people From that to raiding is the most sedate and Edinburgh. On the bottom for themselves, into a sense of genuine youth clubs was an decorous place in all Eng- there was a casino where you shame.

am sorry to write To reach my North Lon- idevitable step. The police land. Wandering about its can play roulette if you do not such a London letter as this, but perhaps it may constitute à don constituency I always courts began to see them, crescents and gazing at the like the film.

waring beyond these hinde drive through Camden although the magistrates splendour of its houses one However, I resisted the tempta that, even though youth be

Batient*** Town, and to my surprise, & contented themselves with would not be surprised if tion and went upstairs to soe

df discipline few months ago, became telling the youths to go the portly Prince Regent "The Wit Ode It had been contemptuous of the wisdom of aware of a new cult which home and stop making fools himself, appeared in his dubbed into German with such the years, I can be corrupted

Bill that it really seemed that by its own hungry varity seemed centred there. It of themselves.

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