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POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

Darling, he's got everything -but everything-and it's all tax-free da he's with UNO:

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.

MR GULLIBLE REPORTS PARADE

M

R K. M. PANIKKAR was Indian ambas- sador to China from 1948 to 1952. He therefore had the chance, given to few others, of observing at elose quarters both the last year of Chiang Kai-shek's rule and the first three years of Mao Tse-tung's.

Since Mr Panikkar, as all

ON A MISSIÓN

TO RED CHINA

ROBERT

who have met him can extremely rendable,

BLAKE

-ON BOOKS

and Mr of course, when they are charm, wit, and intelligence, malle life in China and of the

chief personalities of the two Socialists

testify, is a person of great Panikkar's description of diplo- opposition?

Far too many Liberaly

Nor wili hat expectation be disappointed. The book* is

*In Two Chisas, by K. M. Vanikkar (Alten und Unwin, 128. d.)

A British Crossword Puzzle

13

18

19

22

26

ACROSS

3 Coples (8).

Value highly (6).

Set tree (8).

11 Turns aside (8).

12 Lake (4).

13 Insurgent (5).

18 Appointments (8).

19 Reign (4).

4

15

Kullible as the celebrated de- legation sent to China by the British Labour Party.

Sympathy

In

and

tarily quite feasible, and that a separate state under Kuomin- tang rule might well. have been

for

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Indirect SORTERS; by

ing aching run the water that keeps him going, other competitors, all under 132

created if the Americans had ROBOTA huge letter-sort- And even then he doesn't lose Evora, Portugal, were the 34 been ready even intervention.

an electronic. He losts the water which is 1 in weight, They ate well, But in fact American opinion brain has been built by Pot stored in body tissues. (You just a few pounds less thon was divided, largely because of Omer selentists, it was lovcal- would lose yours, in the end, Joaquim, the State Dopaniment's

recented.

from the bloodstream, and you'd publication of a damaging paper

have to drink quickly or dry upon

the the corruption of

It will do the work of a large up.) And he never notices the Kuomintang and, no action was, number of human sorters, difference. taken.

How many? The Foot. Offee'. This is an

The only question now is - and men will not say. revealing hoolt, not merely for But they do, say that they do what's Unesen going to do with the light thrown on China, but not exput trouble from the the information? also for the picture given, in-trates untors. If trials with the make a report, but its experis directly and perhaps uncon-robot scrier continus to be su sclously of the outlook of the oceatul, many more will be bullt knows, only God can make

middle-class intelligentsia

for use throughout Britain. which has ropinced the Princes colla Mr Panikkar and what

Then say officials, the dis- placed workers would easily be

important

found other work.

to dispense with

eye

Unesco con

· admitted' that, so far as anyone

camel.

MISER'S After A Melbourne HOARD miser died last month police found a quar- ter ton of two shilling pleces

(approximately

£6,000) plus £507 in banknotes hidden underneath piles of rubbish in

嗨

have pinned their

a corner of his alum home. This his account of his ex- regimes

is vivid and amusing. faith to the theory that the

in spite of the fact that burglars periences

broke into the miser's hous during that He is, however, less convincing Communism of Mao Tse-tung is critical period will natural. on

four times during recent years the policy of the new Communism with a difference, People's Government. Indeed No doubt the Chinese Govern

stealing a total of £1,000. The ly arouse eager expectation at times he seems almost as ment whose victory owes itle the heaven-born service" as

HOPEFUL Young ballet miser still refused to bank his in many readers.

to Russian support will not the new ruling class in India. I

dancers ure hoard. ordera from deserves to be widely road,

BALLERINAS necessarily take

coming to At present one man has to Moscow and Mr Panikkar's e- count of the behaviour of the

read the address on the tel- Britain in increasing numbers

idea in Other Books

into from the Dominions. Oncers LIFESAVINGA new Kussian Ambassador at the time

ters before feeding them

life-saving is be- of Chiang Kai-shek's defent

Live robot. But the scientis. pboard British nors call them GADGET coming popular

It is, of cours

FILM OF MEMORY, at the Post Office Engineering the "up-early-in-the-morning on the beaches of New Zealand understond- suggests that the victory of Mao

THE was almost as much of a sur-

where life guards Rearch Stallory. Cricklewood girls." Maurice. Druon.hope

ure being able that an Indian intellectual pri

By prise (though doubtless a wel- should regard the new Chino

come one) to Russia es it was

Rupert, Hart-Davies. 10s. him too, eventually,

After learning all they can in quipped with rod and line. If with sympathy, and see in Mag to America. But this does not

6d. 171 pages.

their own countries, scores of a swimmer gets into difficulties a tough line with a lifebelt on Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. mean that Rizsla and Chinn are

For they believe it will be them have scraped together the end instead of a hook is fellow soldiers along with

Mr ikely to fall out with each

HIS is hardly a story: possible to give the robot an every penny they can earn in engt out and the exhausted Nehru, in the struggle against other.

that will any sort of job so that they can swimmer reeled in. "Western Imperialism." Bul Mr

scarcely a portrait, Call electrente Panikkar cannot yet

10 poasugo to London there are occasions when this

reveal the full diplomatic rather a walk, in distinguished read the addrenges, in spite of boolt a

improve their dancing. sympathy is carried too far history of his mission.

but he company, round a run where differences of handwriting. Humane and kindly himself, Mr docs confirm certain facts of past glory must be evoked from

That is, if the writing can be

They are

fanatical in their ONE Already having 'stood on Panikkar would not hurt a fly recent history,

which a broken pillar or two, which the

the read at all. about

determination, and long before LEG The ruin of certainly not a Chinese fly (if there has been doubt and con- gulde points out.

the rest of the passengers are In Stanziana, under troversy.

great European survive

awake they are up on deck or courtesan, mistress of emperors;

in the lounges practising ballot now an old indy with a wander- THE CAMEL'S Science and

steps and exercisng their limbs. ing mind.

the United Nations have Carmels, the little maid who STORAGE

rails There are plenty of cleans her room in a shabby teamed up to solve one of man's they can use na exercise bars. Chinese intervention in Korea Roman hotel, listens awestruck oldest puzzle - where does the American decision to cross the ilon stumbles from one year to perts used to think he kept it in the rali along the edge of the by temple visitors.

The while La Sunziana's hallucina- camel keep his water? The ex- When it has been raining hord they have been known to use 38th Parallel, and it is also another backwards through her his hump. He doesn't. The

ship's focktail bar. clear that this decision have been taken in the know life, hem one scene, one lover. ledge that it would have that to result. At all events Mr Panik lear, who had been warned by Chou En-lai himself, parsed the warning on to Mr Nehru, who tmsmitted it to the State De- pariment.

12.

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22 Bundles of documents (8).

24 Persuade (8).

26 Occurring yourly (8).

26 Keeps up (8).

20

121

23

K

DOWN

1 Goes ahead (5).

2 Cooker (3).

3 Ensed off (7).

4 Send uut (4).

5 Dregs (4).

Cowardly (6).

Ment pin (G).

10 Kind of cap (5),

14 Noberan (5),

J5 Diminishes (7).

10 Disturbance (8). 17 Sides

20 Stage show (6).

21 Sacred song (0),

22 Prima-donna (4).

23 Scrutinise (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-NerosN;

3 Carriere. 7 Reach,

Epirades. 10 Dinner. 13 Entered, 15 Once, 17 Created, 18 Inertin, 2n Ness, Down: 21 Spouted. 20 Eomesh; 27 Traitor, 28 Endow, 29 Paspart.

Trade, Gount, Cheer, 4 Ruse, 5 Ardent, 8 Ensued, Precis, 11 Inane, 12 Neurs, 19 Draper, 16 Oakum, 16 Certes, 18 Instep, 19 Essmy 1, 22 Dлset, 23 Tends, 24 Dhows, Stop,

a

such creatures.

rule of Mao). the enlightened Yet he can write quite casually and without comment of the mass campaign "for the liquida- tion of counter revolutionarles and reactionary elements, which "seems to have effectivá

of over a million ly disposed and a half people who were

actively elther

Kuomintang agents or suspected of sym- pathies with Chiang)."

Blinded

Mr Panikkar Is not a Com- munist or a fellow traveller. His outlook is conditioned he tells us by "the Liberal Radicalism of the Wost." But, as we imow from the writings of the Eng- lish intellectuals of the thirties, It is quite possible for humane and intelligent Radicals to be come so blinded by faith in political Utopia that they gloss over horrors which would pro- foundly shock them, in

any other context.

There are many other examples of this attitude in Mr Panikkar's book. Thus he can. tell us with masterly under- Mao "has per- statement that

Liberal haps no use for the

Riberty," creed of individual And at the end of the book he inds the disappearance of in- dividual liberty in China to be "strange thing."

What is strange about it? Have the Communists ever had the slightest regard anywhere individual liberty-except,

For

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

It

Full scale war

scems clear that the

was the direct result of

to

face

0

musi

hump is all fat. the predecessor-the man palace, the

kept her in a Venetian

who

pasha who ruined himself, the man she loved, the

she left. husband

In this ghost of a novel, this life story told by reflections in a clouded mirror, there is:

one leg for three years outside ü Jolidpur temple, a 27-year-old sadhu (holy man) plans to continue.

nine his ordeal for another years. At the end of this time ho hopes to attain union with God. If he fails, he says he will fast to death. Meanwhite he Lives on fruit and milk offered

*

No mater how rough the HUMAN Human Radar is be- Then they thought maybe he

lleved to be the ex-

of it in

the one of his extra weather they pluckily keep up RADAR kept

planation stomachsched

and ship's feats of a:veral). their practising, has

32-year-old Julian Science knocked that one for a doctors have often had to treat Coopman a milkman of Komen bruises caused when the pitch-

Mr Coopman near Antwerp. loop, too.

ing and rolling has sent them

loaded delivery can drive his sprawling.

van blindfolded. With his eyes first with sticking Saya a liner's purser:

- covered

a scart seen these girls up at the crack plaster then with black paper

and finally wrapped in a of down doing their exercises

Julian can make speeds of up to --on deck - in weather which It isn't really that the camel called for, a good pair of m

70 m.ph. on a good read-and His other animal but that he uses were the only thing which got that I can do it is quite enough," can carry more waler than, any legs. In ene ship the girls nover have an accident,

secret? "It's mine and the fact

And, the answer, disappointed- mis, seems to be that the camel keeps his water just where you keep yours all through the tissues of the body.

PATHOS: Dying is fortune I can't get over.

WIT: Indulgence in love is only a polite form of indif-

That the Chinese Government full was prepared scale war on this issue is shown by Mr Panikkar's discussion in September 1950 with the acting Chief of Staff, General Nich, ference. When Mr Panikkar pointed out of the probable consequences such a war, the general replied: "We have calculated all that. They may even drop atomic bombs on us. What then? They may kill a few million people. Without sacrifice a nation's In- dependence cannot be upheld."

Mr Panikkar

onc expresses opinion which may revive con- In America, In 1949 troversy

and certain the "China lobby" generals favoured support

Kal-shek's tottering Chiang regime in the inaccessible pro- vinces of the interlar

around Chunling.

Mr Panikkar would not have approved of such a policy, but that, it was mili- he considers

for

FOR

WI 5-

121.

How?

the sailors up curly?"

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"I'vo

he says.

•

doctor

UNCOMFORTABLE DOM: It's a misfortune to be born with immoderate desires; less, great misfortune without which there would be no great lives,

In A stylish flight of the high

Well, the Unesco men who

Palma, romantic extravagance,

Majorca, spent a long, long time out in CHAMPION Only 5ft 4in. in CLOP CLOP A

height and REMEDY

has PRAY

A BRAVE the desert at a place called Beni EATER

prescribed u weighing 128 lb.

unique remedy to help Helen Abbes (in the Sahara) have dis- 22-year-old Joaquim Fernandez the life of a weak-hearted shee prolong HEART, by.

covered some surprising things, claims Europe's eating record factory owner. The shoemaker MacInnes, Colline.

For instance, when you get 6d. 256 pages.

hot you sweat and the process downed 41 lb of bread; 22 lb of complained that employees at a potatoes; 50 lb. of cake, 100 fish his plant were slacking on the THE story of suspense has no keeps your bloodstream at

more skilful practitioner to- istant temperature. Not so croquettes; five roast fowl; one- job and the resulting strain

camel. He just lets hia ani-a-half logs of mution; 52 was too much for his day than this Scottish lady who has taken up the robust tradi- d get hot. He doesn't sweat pints of wine; 3% pints of heart.

bottles of soda His doctor prescribed a pair tion where John Buchan drop-this blood gets up to 104 brandy; 10

clogs, Now

the of heavy Espionage and robbery degrees Fahrenheit, a tempera- water. ped it.

With him, sitting in the open workers can hear him coming are her theme; Switzerland the ture that would land you in bed,

viry sick indeed.

air outside a "haunted" mili in and when he arrives he always place.

finds them hard at work,

Proud Moments

WIN A

BUSTER COULDN'T BE L

MORE PROUD

IF HE PITCHED A

NO-HIT GAME.

DID YOU GROW THEM?

THEY LOOK PRETTY

ENOUGH TO BE

ARTÍFICIAL / “

WHEN THE CHAIRMAN OF THE

BEAUTY CONTEST

COMMITTEE

SAYS .... 'EXCUSE ME MSS, BUT" YOU'RE IT/?

WHEN THE COAT OF TAN

GETS THE ATTENTION

IT. DESERVES.

ANNUAL PICNIC

COIR, 1965 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

In

48 hours last week he

BY HARRY

WEINERT

TO GET A LARGE FISH- SPLICE TWO SMALL ONES.

WHEN YOU GO TO

A LADIES RESCUE

AND THE

WINDOW

LOSES.

weak

BRITAIN LAGS IN ROCKET

RACE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

B

-London.

RITAIN is falling behind

in the rocket race.

More than $150 million has been spent on rocket work since the war.

Yet no guided missiles are available for the Services,

And the Supply Ministry can not provido a rocket capable of flying 120 miles high for upper- atmosphere

research without two more years of effort.

The rocket project has fallen far behind schedule because:----

1. The problems of rocket fight, especially those of guiding and-aircraft missiles, were bad ly underestimated.

The Government's original plan to centro rocket develop- ment round the Woomern ranNO In the Australian desert has failed.

Government planners

weza convinced that British rockst firms could be induced to build up the bulk of their reseprch ind production facilities Australiis,M

• Dangerous

Instead a big rocket industry involving almost every big air- craft and electronics fam arisen in Britain.

off

has

Rocker testing has been done the Welsh const Doner Aber

porth, und

50% up

a new rango is being off the Hebrides

But Woomera will still have to be used for long-range and high-altitude work which might be dangerous t; horne, image

that any of

of the cheduled to

guided

|placo 'anti-aineindi manns will: be available for two monk is det

One navel

Žinai, breki kizidine, development for ***AT not ready?