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Bishop Blunt's Blunt Words

THE CHINA MAIL,

THEY LED TO AN

D

ABDICATION

By FRANK GOLDSWORTHY

J

"My address was written six

Tumbum. It had

to do with

the

R ALFRED BLUNT, mended to God's grace, "which 75-year-old Bishop of he will so abundantly need. We weeks before I heard anything

those hope that he is aware of this of Bradford, whose ******

need. Some of us wish that he nothing whatever kpeech to a dioces coil- gave more positive signs of his them. ference in December 1936 awarences."

"I studiously took care to my At any time

public nothing with regard to nach a "sparked the explosion"

by a bishop would King's private ille Tecause that led to King Edward Comment

have been startling. But at that know nothing about It."

Whatever VIII's abdication, is to re- moment it was explosive,

of the intention tire in October.

For monthu

the effect was be- newspapers the speech, abroad-but not newspapers yond dispute, The Bishop of Ill-health has forced the in Britain had been Bradford had been thrust into a for printing stories of the King's niche in history reserved friendship with Mrs Walila the man who, In the public of tense, began the Abdication So will

Simpson (now the Duchess end a career

Windsor).

crisis, has left is mark on history.

Yet, back in 1030, the bishop himself was protesting within 24 hours of his speech that it way catly given la special significance In precipitating constitutional crisis because it was misunderstood.

decision.

Explosive

that

Conrichy the fuels On De-

1936, cember

Dr Blunt, nakiressing the elergy of his diocese, was opposing a sugges- tion that the Communion ser vlee should be taken out of Coronation the forthcoming service.

Dr Blunt End the King war the chief layman of the Church of England, and as much as any other man should be com-

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Then come the bishop's perdhi. And within 30 hours the King's clash with - the Cabinet

obscure

renson

Breakdown

on the question of It weighed heavily on him. marriage was a public issue. It may well have been the rea- In "A King's Story" the Duke son why, in September 1938, of Windsor Inter wrote: "For when about to begin a lecture some

this tour in Canada, he collapsed juclate was moved at this tense with nervous breakdown moment to express regret that which kopt him out of the pub- the King had not shown more he eye for a year. pustive evidence of his aware ny of the next for Divine guidance in his discharge of his high office.

the

Hla criticism in that charged atmosphere proved to be

thna caused spark

the ex plosion."

Big News

The speech was on n Tues- day. It was printed on Wedies chy without comment. But by *Thursday morning the con- +titutional crisis was the bly news of the day.

thrust The bishop suddenly into the foreground of a work Cama-was

A week before that happen- ed, when he landed at Quebec, he was quoted as giving a new slant to the famous speech. He writing and said that between delivering the speech he had learned that Communists were distributing

from cuttings American newspapers reporting the friendship

the King and Mrg Simpson.

between

And the bishop knew that. might give a new meaning to his already prepared remarks.

He said, according to reports from Quebec: "I took the risk because of the danger that silence was

to the Crown and the

Emp

as

Blunt by name as well already protesting that his speech was neither a nature, the Bishop of Bradford relnuks to the King nor a re has never been a bitter man.

10 tre rumours sur-

rounding him.

In an interview at the time be sold: "What I had referred to was that to all outward ap- pearances the King seemed to itve entirely indifferently to the public practice of religion...........

His rotund, jolly appearance in his was usually reflected

once words though he was

Lord to call brusque enough Vansittert an "as for linking him with an organisation from which he had resigned before.

years

Sombre Note For October Talks

sinns?

By JAMES WICKENDEN

Now is the crucial

London. that united front. lust, and offer the Geneva peace too a blank wall of refusal to Ger-

unity man

at the foreign the ministers talics? good to last, like

time champagne bubbles and the recent junketing of foreign when the foreign ministers of

oll the

the conferring countries are diplomats by the top Rus- hammering out their October linc. Behind the Kremlin's may be a strange walls there

unfamiliar to Mos- scene-one

huddle cow's recent guests--a of Russian 3endors without has been time since sure course to follow. Geneva to size up the achieve- ment, to see the cracks which could mar the shiny edifice

the good feeling, abyss to be bridged ahead. For the hard, sore question of Ger- man unity has sull to be solved before the cold war can be truly called finished.

Hote

In

the

This fear, at present as small as a cloud on the horizon, is the

sombre chancelleries of the West.

Ther

NIEW,

uniled

to foresee

of

MOSCOW TABOO'

a

For to mike decisions for close diplomatic moves in Octo- ber demands au exactness of

and captaincy

command not needed in breathing bonhomie and oozing peaceful sentiments, Russia. saya 11 does not want however sincere they may be. Gere. The West is pledged may agree or

lest 1 foins The fact is the Kremlin men broad lines of to back Adenauer's policy

peace but argue about details and West Ger- Joining East

of a plan for October, That re- without the unity many. For

clear direction they desire above all, the Ger mans may threaten the stability of Europe.

CRUCIAL TIME

quired crystal has been lacking in the Russian

scene since Stalin died.

Only a leader or a guiding spirit can infuse the Russians But a leader in Moscow is now taboo. The Kremlin has been

That is the way the problem at pains to show the world that *is seen in Whitehall and Russia obeys classical Com-

Foreign Secretary Macmillan will press strongly for German munist doctrine and is ruled by

commifice decision. unity during the foreign minis- Thero has been nothing to

ters talks

in October. He is hint that this is a false picture. sure

to be at one in this de So the Kremlin has the prob- mand with the Americans, with lem of finding leadership with- whom he conters next month.

unless But, ask observers, what will cut accepting a leader,

October? One of the top men makes an the Russians do In

individual bid for remurkable

supreme They have shown harmony

themselves power in the next six weeks. among

All of them will want to avoid such a risk. That is why a mood of peacefulness suits them, whereas the force of events and domanda for a plan in October may not.

during Geneva and after. Will

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A POINTER

So the prospect at present is of further delays in the step-by- alap removal of the ropts of the cold war. Those roots aro strongest in the German prob- lem. But there are others, such as the relations between Russla and Japan.

And here the Russians have boen delaying for weeks during

· CUFFOITE Russo-Japanese talks in London. There is still

עיד

no decision on major. Neither is there sign of any.

The 'chlat problems in. these talks are the return of thousanda Japanese war prisoners; the return of Japanese islands taken

of

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955.

LIKE IKE

LIKE

LIKE ADULLES

LIKE CHOU EN LAT

Cummings

"Things used to be so simple-words meant what they said and you could recognise a peace demonstration by its guns.”*

London Express Servicn

CRISIS IN THE HILLS

DID

HAPPEN

T

*ONLY

NLY three minutes old... but the baby's face looked as ancient as the mountains. Did this story really happen? Tomorrow the answer will be published.

had fifteen to twenty children during their careers, but many of the children and some of the mothers dlox in childbirth. There was no doctor or nurse within 300 mics,

0

WENTY-THREE But by the time I visited the years and aix mountains, things were begin- A months ago today, ning to change a

wealthy Kentuckian, who had almost to the secti

the sufferings of the minute, I was helping to mountain

had women,

Konc deliver a baby in the moun- over to London to train as

midwife and, after recruiting a tains of Kentucky.

number of English and Scot- I was just beginning in a midwives, she had return- ed with them to the mountains journalism a relief

re- to set up a chain of tiny hos- porter, unpaid, for the pilbis. My visit was to see' how Lexington Herald, and in flushed enthusiasm the which most young reporters have. I was

eager to do almost anything and go ab anywhere for solutely experiences which might provide a story.

If there was a fire, I rode to it on the fire-truck. It a mur-

was to be arrested, derer

I was there in the police van. I even played American football. So when the chance came to leave the Blue Grass and visit the mountains in the south, jumped at it,

Horseback

I

At that time, these mountains could be reached only on foot or on horseback because there were no roads; and behind their inaccessibility, the people who lived there two or three families to each valley had preserved a way of life which elsewhere had vanished ngo.

GU

long

by

J. P. W.

Mallallou,

M.P.

DELIVERING babies is not

the unal pastime of the Socialist MP for Hudders Held East-re-elected with a

4,000-odd majority. Joseph Percival William Mallaṣeu went to America from 6x- ford, where he was Prezi- dent of the Union, a Nurger Hue-and student. Je returned to London, joined A newspaper, and has been in and out of print over Kinco. His wartime adven-

the Arctic run tures 04 produced "Very Ordinary Seaman" in 1944-the year before he entered Parlia ment. Forty-soven, Maliniteu considers watching ders ald Town"

main recreations. Watches it from Hampton Court, where he lives with his wife and two children.

His

opu

Hud-

of

Ho

SHE told me briskly to light and hold the oil lamp fuat 3o. for

the

there was no -light in log cabin...

☆

St. Helers in Lancashire, and a little London girl from Wool- wich who went red when any

and one spoke to her

went scarlet when the anyone who spoke happened to be male. I ing glints from the wood are. Then she went about her busi- was awlrward about girls my- self at that time, so the London ness with little time to spare. girl and I got on like a house that is not on fire.

However the other two weru from fine. They'd been away

were home for five years and full of questions. We hardly

at the

Any number of experienced She told me, briskly, to light and hold the oil lamp just so, journalists would leap for there was no light in the chance to test this theory and log. cabin except some flicker- here was I, only a few months old in the profession, with the perfect opportunity. The hug- band was disinterested, the old lady was asleep as I thought. the children were by now cer- tainly asleep and the nurse and mother were busy. For all prac- tical purpose was alone in a Kentucky mountain cabin with a new born babe. What a story this could be!

Long ride

to It's not pleasant

Auntch; 4 young

noticed when the courier-guide and though I was went to bed with headache: journalist intent on getting all

my eyes

I began to fumble with the cloth around the baby's feet.

But then I looked at his face.

we just kept on talking about the experience I could, I need- Thin and the St. Helens Rugby ed at times to turn League team and other things away and then I could see that It had only come into the world only three three minutes before, but that thus are so attractive when you this log cabin had

dway from sides to it, that in this log face looked as old as the moun- tains on which he was born. I them. Then there was a best of cabin, with one side open to just hadn't the courage or the or no hooves on the hard ground out the wind, there were 13.people brazenness, journalist

now journalist, to affront his dignity.

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are

a long way

side, a knock on the door and living, apart from the Scots nurse

the

WORLD was away to baby that was on his way. stddle her horse and thence to I could see

# childbirth-10 miles of in dozing, after Hell-for-Certain Valley.

these newly established hospit- area als were doing.

the father-lo-be

his long ride, beside the fire, I could see pairs

lady.

1

010 IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

• Put your fick in the space obere med Keep this ponet by you ́until tomorrow

was when the oniwar will be ghen with another story in this varies by ...

H. H. Davies

We were locking up for the of children's eyes, glowing In

and looking. the lamplight night, for, even in this prolife

towards the little incuriously, two births in one night

their only bed where

mother They still used tho langunge

were unlikely, when there was

was lying; and, on the floor, I of Chaucer's time-I remember

on the hard Off I went on horseback from a beat of hooves that I was halled as a "gesto"

road-head, along ground outside, a knock on the could see the face of an old, old --and some of the songs

they the nearest hummed casucily

they creek beds, across streams, up door and the St. Helens nurse

I could only think that hore

℗ Old yesterday's story--Ineldon) az á trails, scraped the barren soll with a mountain

David Howar}}*** along high was away to saddle her horse

Laval, CearaMg," by in was a timid London girl, thou-

actually happan? The answer is i ko. hoe or crouched over an illicit ridges, riding 25 or 30 miles in and thence to a childbirth

Thousand Sticks, seven miles sands of miles from home, 300 still had been popular in Eliza- the day with my courier-guide.

miles from the nearest doctor, bethan times,

until, in some sheltered spot, we

delivering her first child. Then, house would reach a wooden

quite suddenly, there was a new Inside Apart from distilling whisky, with two Scots nurses

'sound in that log cabin and records they had two main occupations. playing Harry Lauder

now life. One was feudint Two hundred to each other on the gramo- years ago, perhaps,

Perhaps there were some com- Brown phone.

plications about that birth. I As we locked the door after do not know. All I do and

know tirold London is that the father walked over "Oh dear!" to the bod and then walked

Beat of hooves

a

had shot a Smith, in reprisal a Smith had shot a Brown,

I stayed two nights and a day

had gone on until even in 1931 rounds a Smith would much for

with

the nurses. I girl was

P the Browns had felt bound in in each "hospital," going the her, the little, honour to retaliate, And so

shaking.

Q

his remember how in one log cabin she said. "I've never delivered back to the fire, that children's lamplight. and that the timid shotgun at the mere sight of a a middle-aged man told us that a baby on my own in my life! eyes ceased to glow in the Brown.

though he was compelled to I hope we don't have another London nurse, after wrapping divorce his wife because of her coll!" I warmed to her at once. something red and wrinkled in At that moment there was a cloth of sorts, was, now busy adultery, he intended to

on the hard with. the mother. For all that living with her afterwards be beat of hooves

anyone minded; I was ground outside and a knock on with a baby not three minutes cause she was handy with boe,

Trigger-happy

These trigger-happy

anta-

ол KO

the door.

Outalde another log cabin a The three of us left Redbird gonisms were never directed boy of six, thin, ragged, dirty, in single file by the trall that against strangers,

not

of

oven

the writa

old.

theory.

alone

leads along Flat Creek to Con- against the occasional sheriff but bright red, proudly show- who came looking for stills. At ed me his father, Arthur's still, fluence. There, in the moonlight. the sight of him the male in and also the long grase "where we forded the flashy, menacing. habitanta

but really innocuous stream and

It was at that moment that shambled off into Arthur hides when

to the long grans and wont

climbed through the woods to: are after him. sleep unul he left. But insido

Hazard. Then we left it to the my now-developing journalistic Instincts Tourged back. All, I During the nights I slept horses to take us the way they felt, Was

well.

had the family of the mountains well; but. I sometimer noticed mew bast towards Wendover,

and the danger of emerged you weren't considered

sounding English death bad gone. Now was the grown-

or that awocily that in the morning. ONG load shower up until a

heavy erod. She had had a cabin where a woman was in Hon of your unatomy,- (*

I had toen told thak - if you' of traditional Japanese As

night call to some mother in labour with another child, rights in eastern sena.

The second occupation of the labour miles away.

got hold of a remily- new-born riod, I noticed baby by the fost and attached So the outcome,ot the inhabitants was having children.

Aswa diernouxbod, Humro-Japanese talks may be a Any women who was still live Towards the end I came to that my London mange was all its tour to your finger 11 would userul pointer to the prospects" at the anger hitter and had a lit: Totpital? where there sourlet out her colour was dus hanggic incliyalypside down for the October foreign minise had Jenny then

come were hot two mucnet, but three to the "murtion of the ride, and like CRECERES TEAM mediatorcling okban pioca from Boodland, one from, no longer to timidity),

in the war; and the ro-granting pellets tad lodged in some pœ- other of the nurses would look : name which here meant one.10% time for new experience.

the arguments of Darwin,

POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

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