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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1955.

Wodehouse, Noted British Penman

Not long apo

Rene MacCall interviewed American detec- tive story writer Raymond Chandler ax though he were Chandler's OK creation.. "Private Eye" Philip Mar

lotte.

Now MacColl, returning to

New York from San Fran claco,

visited P. G. Wodehouse fr his Long

Island home, “three hour' drive from New York, Wodehouw, captured hu 1940 by German soldiers, horri- fied his million

British

fans by giving a Series of five radio broadcasts under the auspices of the Goebbels propaganda organisation. Their content was not im- portant--but the fact that Wodehouse woad broadcast-

ing from Germany while a prisoner cost a big cloud on the humorist's reputa

itou. Wodehouse has never return- ed to Britain since the war, Mira Wodehouse, his devoted counsellor, viited London- alone in 1948. MacColl, tri the role of Wode~ house's silly a82 Bertic Wooster, talkes up the tale.

By RENE MacCOLL

"Why, dear?" Mrs W. now might not be too untuneful.

And perhaps he will

New 'York. INCE the weather-as inquired,

Jeeves would say-ap- peared to be all too clement, 1 donned the

"Because there is nothing to go back to," said Woders. He said it very mildly because, you dark blue tropical suiting thing you notice about him.

⚫know. mildness is the main fashioned of silk-but re- sisted the chocolate-coloured Panama Hiraw hatting any of my which was urged upon

Please

tell

account on no

fellow members at the Drones Club, but at this mo point Wooster felt somewhat by the chappie in the shop. sorry for Wodehouse, Esq.

There are, I mean to say, certain standards "He won't go back unless he's welcomed back," went on Mra W.

(that's a pet "Plummy" name) "Plummy is terribly little hurt."

which cannot lightly be abandoned by we Woosters.

After

jolly TL

MR & MRS г.. G. WODEHOUSE-

"No, I'm not," said Woders, sulli so quietly,

"There

were

ridiculous

hundred mile jaunt per limousine I found myself at the estate--and 11 very fruity little estate too---of none other thaDE Pelham stories about me too," said Mrs W.. "about my trunks and my Grenville Wodehouse, Esq, evening dresses noted British penman.

Absurd!”

Mr Wodehouse

me welcome in

શ

in Germany.

F

bade "Darling, we aren't trying to white defend ourselves," said Woders,

nylon open-necked shirting, "there's nothing to defend,"

2.

grey trousering made of substance called seersucker, and brown canvas shoes.

After a quick bung-ho or two, we were joined by Mrs Ethel Wodehouse, who has been his helpmate for a total of 40 out of his 74.

years.

'Could we?'

Wooster not a sentimental sort

For personally I think that P. G. Wodehouse, noted British penman, author of over 50 rib- ticklers and a regular con- tributor these days to Punch is not a happy character.

The manner may be serene. But not the noggl

Again--not a word of this at

the Drones Club, but he strikes me as a man with something on his conscience,

T

WHY

IS SO

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this picture.

Do

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Kremlin party walling at Moscow Als- It to Freet ludia' Premier Natten: Vyacheslav Molotov 啦 left, gesticulating: on the right in dark suit, grey hat in band, Marabal Nikolai Buizania, Malenkov's titular ecessar Premier: In front of Malenkov

who k Malenkov's

stanc Krushchev, Ute party

cule? спету.

you see the podgy little fellow in the middle, with the white suit and the testy expression? That is Georgi Malenkov, secretary the Kremlin head who was 1980 spectacularly toppled of from power five months

ago.

wODERS and chappie-Woders at this point somehow got one.

Grey-haired bloke no longer Not only is he still

young. Looking miserable. If Wooster had been sitting

-in in

alive

Soviet Russia

de-

Malenkov, impressed by the-new atomic and hydro- gen weapons, has put for-

ward a new theory, shatter- ing to the old creed,

"A new war," he declared

Luncheon, served by what judgment on the Bench, Woo- position is normally followed Jeeves would undoubtedly in maintaining that storn,

ster would have had dimculty by decapitation--but here on March 12, 1964, "in view call a lady's laudy of colour, jeetive approach

he is right at the top again, of the modern means of which mngi- consisted of melon balls strates and co, so require,

surrounded by the very men roast veal, asparagus, lerrion

who toppled him.* "We'd love to go back---but meringue pie.

they mustn't- trent us 113 criminals,” cried Mrs W.

The question

And he is kicking too. Kicking his enemies. Just

She gave it socko production.about the time this picture "Do You yourself-do you really think we could?" Woders was taken Malenkov forced

by

Malenkov's herctical realism, 11 defence districts, each of at least prepared to listen to which is to be self-sufficient. him. What is more, he is And this is particularly im- ready to see that Malenkoy portant In view of unusually remains alive and in n posi- heavy Soviet purchases tion to talk.

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These

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If your child persists in the dis- should be aware

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guring and Insanitary habit of mali But it should do everything can-by its attitude at the talks bling. you can now help him for

ber) to stop . Just -to foster conditions In the Nibite. the

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IT has remained exactly as Malenkov rearranged it at the end of 1952. The key A heresy, which, as you can stainless, 100% men whom he put in then see from this very important with soap and water. One bottle of are still in their positions picture, is growing right within Nifbite is sufficient

the Kremlin, today.

I suspect that it would be difficult, for Krushchev to

them without remove purge.

8

And army boss Zhukov is determined to avoid that.

SEFTON DELMER

THE browsing and sluicing asked me, dimdently still. an apology out of Pravda, warfare, means the destruc. dead; or that new regime is

at an end we pushed off

But do not let this picture and my inter- pretation of it en- courage anyone to be- lieve that the old aggressive Russia is

newspaper mouthpiece of tion of world civilisation.” so weak that we need only Communist Party leader

give u little push and it will Nikita Krushchev.

In other words.

war come tumbling down. cannot achieve the destruc- Pravda, possibly at tion of Capitalism and the What I am saying is that Mr WY.. whose mien, question

I have often found Krushchev's behest, had at triumph of Communism, the first shoots of a although nt All times that there is nothing like a ret tucked Malenkov, accused War. today means the Soviet attitude have come up charming and pleasant, had to the old selicol tic to get him of inefficiency as head destruction of both worlds. about it a faint hint of things back on the even keel, -gentle melancholy, is at "How are your relations with Power Stations.

"Do you ferlif we turned into the drawing-room for up-quite easually, say next coffee, brandy-und ques- year, would it be all right?", tions.

When a chaply put in 0 delicate spot with that sort DI

present bushing on his auto- your old Echool?" I asked. biography at an observed (Wodehouse went to Dulwich speed of 2,000 words per College in the long ago.) diem.

"Oh, excellent," he eagerly

of the Ministry of Electrical

An apology

"Wodehouse, Esq.," 1 ob rejoined. Old Alleynians writeTHE following day Pravda

of

Peaceful competition be tween Socialism and Capi talism is the only possible. road to Socialist victory, in the view of Malenkov.

me. I get the school was made to publish an served, "could I, to use the magazine,

The forces I am president of apology dictated by Malen- vernacular of this our host the O.A. Association of New

himself. kov

The party nation, pop the jolly old York-there are about 20

admitted having is for this theory that 16. Annual dinners, you know organ 64-dollar question?

that sort of thing.""

attacked

he was overthrown by the Malenkov's

It had Kremlin Old Guard, led by Ministry in error. "confused" it with the Molotov and Bulganin. Ministry for the Construc-

"If you were back in Ger many, a prisoner, and you had it all to do over again--would You do it?"

Not paid

So unreal

WODERS paused again. Some books about * cricket were near him and the old mind flew back rather a hefty stretch to THE melancholy

the days when I that I

at prep was observed earlier settled down school myself and used to read

THE

had

new

in the black earth of Russia. We must nurse them with carefully planned diplomacy.

We should not forget for one moment during the sum- mit talka at Geneva that it is the old guard of Molotov and Bulganin which is on top today in Moscow. That it

the old guard we meeting in Geneva.

is

sre

Molotov and Bulganin have repudiated the Malenkoy line as

Sald Molotov defeatism,

the

That he should have sur- tion of Electrical Power vived his overthrow and be day after Malenkov's fall: "It Stations, so it said.

is not world civilisation that in a position today to dictate will perish" (from a new war) Yes, take a good look at apologies to the leading "but the decaying system of Communist organ can mean which bloodthirsty. Imperialism this pleture..

only one thing: there are the core."

more thickly. "No, I wouldn't," the early Waders cricket stories For the come-back. of forces in post-Stalin Russia he replied in a low-key tones. In a now defunct boys mag. Malenkov, that it illustrates who are prepared to believe

called "The Captain"-stirring is the most significant de. that heretic Malenkov has,

velopment in the Soviet something.

description of life at the camp.

"

"I don't know," Woders waad 19.

How

not"

on,

i

i

Preparations

THAT

is a lino which has been echoing up and down the Soviet world ever since...that,

"I never thought about there ctus. would be any trouble about those broadensis-honestly not. Pity about those broadcasts Union since the Cold War What are these forces? They were they were just a really.

began.

"Well, take another look

nt. No harm meant -- absolutely

murmuring, "It's a moot point Evidence which has be that picture. Standing In Malenkov is the victim of his

coming home. "Were you paid for them?? obout went

paganda.. Wooster Would they receive me? When come available only now the background with rifles own nerves and Western pro- Quizzer Dusterely.

a thing happens to me it never proves that this plump little ready for the "Present," is scem to have any Interest, man with the drooping fore a tiny section of, what may Nor have the Kremlls tenders and Wodehouse,

THE been sparing, any efforts to why should people bu interest lock, whom Statin trained to be one of them:

to assure that thair now version ed in mor The things that hap succeed him is the heretic of ARMY. England? Is there any obstacle that you know of hindering the pen to me seem unreali

heretics. He has repudiated My Information is that of Lenin's dream should come Mr W. undoubtedly commite, the Lenin-Stalin theory that General Georgii Zhukov-- There's no obstacle that I sed a pretty awesome boob war with Western who has been writing letters haye dakin a whole know of, but I'm afraid there's back in 1940, But something- only a very slight likelihood of walls me that if he werd, to tur Capitalism is inevitable and to his old comrade in una

jolly old return trip?"

my return, and Woders, stars up next year in London pres that is, mint land to the Frenflent. Elanhowerly country fondy for a bomber whate ing endly at the floor.

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