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Hiroshima Was Never Beautiful
By
Richard Hughes
TYIROSHIMA
LCVCT was
n
Hul city. I drst visited
1040, when the train blinds were drawn
yuu passed through the Imperial Japanese Navy base at Kure. I next caw
ht
been first
10 years ago, jued after it had devastated by the world's atomic bomb-und now I
seer Hiroshima again.
have
Hiroshimo is still not a
thecay, but it Is, us It
was 15
15 years ago, a virile, hust- ling, crowded city, prosperous in that curious Japanese fashion in which dingincs and squalor can mutually forge a certain well-
being
Hiroshion has been restored and rebuilt with the dogged, uncmplaining resilience which The Japanese people manifest after earthquake, fire, ted and typhoon-man minde or natural disaster.
*Ten years ago, the Bash and Mast of the atomic bomb Inid horrible waste to the thriving elly of 300,000 psxpłe. More than 21,000 men, women and, children were killed (over 13,000 bodies have never been found), 37,000. were injured and two-thirds of the sprawling city's seven gritare mites
were flattened and blackened.
DEEPLY SCARRED
When I first saw the ritins. after an hour's jeep ride along the Inland Sea road from the British Occupation headquarters in Kure, the surrounding motan- fains were deeply, scarred and branded with great grey burns, A bewildered survivors were [Subsistin
in refugee ramps, the hospitals were answded with dying, burned and and rerie
disigured ble but con-1
rumours of
glous radionellve malignance bung heavily over gutted Tubble and scared paddyfeld.
At that time the belated and hushed-up discovery of a nearly "island of horror," littered with the bloated bodles of hundreds dinortally wounded victims who fled to die in secret agony, and not yet been made.
ind
And now-what of Hiroshima today?
First, there is no real visual evidence of the great holocaust. A new rity has sprung up, better Manned and better designed han the old one, but in- trinsically little more attractive. There is
{s { Peace Park.
Is
There
is a Peace Boulevard. There is unpleasant Peace Cathedral.
an
There is a white Peace Cenotaph -cracking and flaking Brkernly
with the inscription, "test ye in peace, for we shall never r pent the mistake."
FLOWERS AGAIN -
Today Hiroshima's population has grown again to 368,000, of whom only 90,000 actually lived through the 1945 visitation.
Dramatically and hopefully, ragnolia and camphor trees
have begun to flourish again
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
HOLLYWOOD saw these pictures.....and immediately made a STARTLING DECISION
GARDNER IS OUR
GARDNER... THE MOMENT OF FEAR
GARONER .... THE MOMENT of auspICION
GARDNER,
THE MOMENT OF ANGUISH
THE
NEW GARBO'
F
by DAVID LEWIN
OR Garbo read Gardner. That is what Hollywood decided when it saw these vivid pictures from Gardner's latest made-in-Britain "Bhowani Junction."
Aya film,
The pictures, show the glamorous Miss Gardner us she has never been seen acting be- fore. And that deckled Hollywood on the sur- prise casting of Ava Gardner In the Greta Garbe part in the remake of "Anna Christle."
After 25 years
"Anna Christle" was Gurbo's first talking picture, Almed in 1930 when Gardner was just seven years old. Now Gardner is to take over the part in the story of a waterfront girl with a rusty reputation" who marries a sailor and tries to climb back to respectability,
The new din based on Eugene O'Neill's play will have a musical treatment as well. But the star part calls for geting.
Ava Gardner proves in "hewani Junction" that he is a character actress too. Which may, come as a surprise to Hollywood--but not to me.
Ava touk look at these
pictures and told me: "Pretty exciting. Everything happens to me in this film. I've really tried to work at it. ... I'm an Anglo-Indian girl caught up in
the trouble during the par- | tition of India,
"What hap- penis to me?: Well, in nearly strangled;
struggle on the foolplate of a moving engine? trampled
J'
riots; I'm chught
GAR. to the train smash; days of her
hopping Castle"
around in front
Of
kill a man;
#
THE MOMENT OF TERROR AS A TRAIN SPEEDS TO DISASTER
WHY LET THE CHILD
A
UPSET
YOU?
you
also
at
As I said, parents who are nt Mother has had more than all sensitive about their children enough and a cunning father (and which of us is not?) do con No one, as far as I know, ever
criticol slagu well to destroy a report un re-establish himself as a power asks a schoolmaster for his re-
орспе
in the household. If, in doing so, port, nevertheless he volunteers one regularly.
What is needed is a construe- mange to tear up the bill, well, never inind. The head master tive plan for getting through the will send you another.
day, an effective answer to tho Readers already know my question: What can we do now? opinion of head masters, What
I am not in favour of setting
and useful
wholesome because other tasks, partly end I hope they are, it would be cople's children are like mine, quite useless.
RE you allowing your you won't believe a word of
child's school report them. to throw a shadow on your holiday? Some parents, I know, get worried about these things. open blast furnace; But if you are wise you will and I'm pushed tear up the report unread. by Stewart Granger...
hits of Ava "It is really the perils of
If you are the sort and I've been cut aroundparent
who believes so much I'm still sore."
Obviously she is sore a schoolmasters it will only four, cause Two years ago not upset you. If on the other even cuts and bruises would
hand you have got. Ava Gardner a Garbo
leynical type, such as myself, prit.
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irt
are
the
of
in
more
Written by men and women manifestly
on the verge at nervous collapse, thesh pitiable testimonials to their authors' shortcomings are, mort often than not, actually enclosed with the bill for next term.
We are going to consider now ATC halldays...holidays without them pay...school holidays.
It is as if the grocer had sud-A testing time alike for denly taken leave of his senses parents and children; I suppose and forwarded with his weekly the average father; like myself, account neritien) assessment of a rather impertinent to write one's table manners.
about them et all, seeing that he has little, if anything, to do
PROFESSOR (LOFIC) HEARS
A GHOSTLY
VOICE
at Point Zero andi, symbolically, LENRY HABBERLEY PRICE, there is also haunting by the telepathically the first cleadas, after a decade 11 Bachelor of Science, Master living he prefers the word subconscious mind." of silence, have begun to chirp of Arts, Fellow of the British "opparitions." He also told egain.
ago
It
with them.
Added Noise
Nor can I encourage them to play games. Once a child deve- japs taste for hitting a ball about it is difficult to break him of this thoroughly useless and disreputable habit.
He will waste his life on muni-
It is true that he will be cipal golf links and his money vaguely aware that they've watching other people play foot- started by the added noise in ball.
the morning and the state of
the bathroom. He will, perhaps, There is something, although love mat one or more of his mat a great deal, to be said for bread on the staircase at un- teaching a child bridge, but you expected times, and has even need several children who are inquired after their health and prepared to wash their hands. plans, But he will be out of
Assoclatin, author of Hume's them that we might one day be aimeult sometimes to tell one trained observers of the Society unlikely invita-
muk
WC
Too noisy
also
Thave breen,
10
"It's
quick to
no 11.90
of yourself at the Science Museum. children aro to notice when one
one is not enjoying eneselt I favour on the whole the less reputable kind of excur slon because, it you fall to amuse your child tem- you porarily.
breast
hin
hatred of gambling or a horror of foreigners or even better
For he believes in them. He from his pocket, he, discovered by telepathy from the minds phenomena must be further in- Quite a lot of fathers also still, both, which will save him
und
tha
"mercly.")
Bump!
1
when
he is
the house and down the road No, it is easier to take them before they have time to answer for an excursion and make sure questions, It. Indeed, they before you arrange for the day that it's somewhere you ever, had any intention of doing off
want to go yourself. is Professor Price's, and it so,
Most fathers means psychle happenings that tend to spend
||||||||||||||||||||||2g making a marty: unlike the famous card-guessing | H
ROBERT experiments, do not take place more and more in controlled conditions; in fact, or their time as
the holidays In the things that go bump
pro- read from my
MORLEY, night. And ghosts-I mean ap-gress away from paritions are not so obliging home. They will
actor, playwright, пррестя All in all the maecure sense Theory of the External World, je to practise
that it is very that they will appear only to accept the most
and father of three, telepathy at of grisly pude which animated and Wykeham Professor Logic will, and
tions for a night added for good kin of "paranormal pheno- for Psychical Researcli. ruined Hiroshima of eight years In the University
out, sustained by of Oxford,
presents a PRIMER that there was prob- mena" (the phrase is Professor sasure has largely disappeared, al- sucked thoughtfully at his
the
knowledge pipy ably something In crystal- Price's) from unother. Take
FOR PARENTS ON that their wives though a huge sig at the busy (which was out) and declared gazing. railway station still depicts, with that he had never seen a ghost. He has never, I repeat, seen instance expertinents, f
some of which Pro-
will not only be
HOLIDAY. This was lofty satisfaction, the appai
the psychical too busy to ac- Not long ago in Itself
sen a a ghost himself. But he has, he fessor Price has attended as a extent of original
know researchers of many lands held startling; few professors of logic chaims, experienced clairvoyance witness. "How do destruction
them str company white in the mayor's offler, you claim to have seen ghosts. But at first hand.
n conference at Cambridge (Pro- but Attending a whether the sitter is really for Price took the chair are still shown
the treasured, to Professor Price is never scance once, he was told by a
for 'reading the curds clair- "day after" photo- having seen ♫
u host must be volee that he had broken his voyantly, whether he is
or
one of the sessions) and theyquire too closely where they may implant in were all agreed that spontaneous of shadows burned into something of a disappointment, spoutaries. Pulling his spectacles merely getting the information walls, and of dangling fruit with the skin burned off on the side also believes in telepathy, claire that he had done no such thing. of
up like vestigated. In fact, they set witnesses?" (I facing the explosion, a mile voyance, mediums, visitations, Score one for the secplluni.
sort of international bureau manage to get rid of both their 3 small fortuno cider and silller. distant.
upparitions, poltergeists
for the collection of such infor-wives and chlidren entirely for mation, and presumably hope large chunks of the holidays by Of course, psycho-kinesis. NO MONSTERS
If you can't get that the gho-apparitions will taking rooms for them at the the day off you can do a great Behind the transformation. 50
report there whenever they are easide or arranging for them deal worse than take your child Professor Henry Price became in town, Western doctora
to stay with unlikely, if not with you when you go to work research of a Japanese medical Psycho-kinesis is the beltet spectacles.
interested, in the study of the Lupernatural ag on under- Professor Price. I should men-adually unwilling, relatives in one morning. staff of 700 of the U.S.-financed that the actions of physical supernatural.
graduate. That was
It is more primitive parts. over 30tion, is seldom in town. Atomic Bomb Cusualty Com- objects can be nifected by On another occasion, he was years ago, and he has to admit not that he does all his, business
You will bo surprised how ission, which,
Com-the mind, and if it is true, it told he was going to the Far with a sigh that these
When this happens they much ho will enjoy helping munists sy,
things by long-distance telepathy, but is Japanese muy one
months day enable Professor East, Some
later he
are tile better understood to simply that he finds London naturally tend to boast about it daddy slice the baton or work sufferers a atomle guinea-pigs, Prive to keep bis pipe alight received an Invitation to go to
dusty, noisy and tiring, and a good deal to More than 6.000 victims of the without striking matches.
other fathers, the adding machine, The shop India, which he had to refuse.
comes here only when he cannot and, unless they bombing still need treatment, Henry Price is a all man. There!
Although he was president of avoid doing 80.
are unwise or offer wllt jook, and Indeed Otherwise he hut only one-tenth can afford for whom the adjective
the Society for Psychical Re- stays in Oxford
enough to sample their loved be, quilo a different place when Japanese medical attention, "gangling" might have been
search in 1930, he says that the
[ones" exile brielly at week-ends the kid ja around and, who which, in any event, is more ecially invented. Ho jooks
chiet difficulty hampering the And does Professor Price be-to ignore, if not actually to knows, the managing director experimental than curative.
like an absent-minded
pro-
If the sceptics are not in com- work of psychical researchers in lieve that we will one day have extol, the rude discomfort of may take a fancy to him and Leukaemin (a form of in-fessor, and if he ever goes into piete rout of these weird tales the lack of detalled Information Professor of Paychical Re-farmhouse or caravan.
offer to adopt him on the spot. curable blood cancer) is still psychic trance, that is precisely they may take heart forms "we've got to, cailect-more still very much in the future," about supernatural occurrences. search? "Oh, these things are taking its toll, and eye cataracts what he will be.
fact that the professor admits are prevalent
the among
when he addressed the the second example may not facts," he said. survivors. The whispered stories Conference of Modern Church- have been clairvoyance at all. of a growing race of young men at Oxford, he was anything It may have been telepathy. The field where the need for monsters arc, however,
pure but absent-minded. He told his "You ste," he said, "I've always fnels is most sharply felt i Luture and tell me the answer, huve to folch the water from half a mile up the road...Anast nonsense.
elerien) audienco that there are wanted to visit the Far East, apparently that of "spontaneous BERNARD LEVIN thing in the world for the boy...
If, as more probable, he such things as ghosts, though no, and this wich may have been phenomena"-that phrase, too,
no cinema within miles....and, arkes you what the devil you of course, the wife's perfectly think you're doing turning the
place into a crecle; then this i you? chando to"-imprets' him as
supervise the
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JOHNNY HAZARD
Never seen
But
one
But later that day, boarding his trom to take him back to Oxford, he met a colleague and they travelled together. And the colleague had broken
Score one for the
Weird tales
dny.
we need facts,”
"Having the time of their "That's what he said. For a moment I thought Ives down in Suffolk, old man,
he was going to look into the
Quite Different,
By Frank Robbins
I'M OKAY, JOHNNY SNAP. YOU ALL RIGHT? | JUST BLEEDING TO YOU SURE SAVED MY HIDE / DEATH.......COULD HAVEL -
THAT TIME!
BEEN WORSE
DON'T TRY TO TALK-I'LL HAVE YOU TO A DOGTOR
IN NO TIME!
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you must tell him:
All good things come to an "I thought you wouldn't end, however, and most of us mind him Hanging ground for will soon be approaching the a bit. It's cold outside." time when the family is hom
again and the chilton's holidays You are now dibarked on a photic be avor.
but quite drama which, if you, and your
bviously are not,
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