1956-01-14 — Page 7

CANADA'S BOOM:

HAS NO END

By

ROBERT MOON

Reginn. end is yet in sight for Canada's biggest boom, which has been continuing unabated for 10

years,

Difficulties are being encoun- one of tered-ste momen them finding markets for the What murgitus but huge generally these are in the na- latre of growing prins.

Iu the PONTWI pertel. Canada has been

perom, has grown

attracted

Bore

more

pros

tauder and new industry and capital than ever before.

moreover, Eetani,

3s upward. leed at the tend Chavada's good fortunes have been fund mentally due in its position as producer of primary proxfiæta – metals of tosi kinals, new and old, intherals - cluding

250%

forest products Jum-

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1986.

THE BROTHERS WAUGH: ALEC & EVELYN

I'M A CRICKETER

IM NIXON has

NOW ALEC

NIPS IN WITH

A SWOONEROO SUCCESS..

a so I was happy. And then

07-year-old Brother brother David. Bar. trotled

Alee, Inquiring in a light, high, rister Rodger full voice if this were the "Pink" Winn has a brother Bar.

Mrs called Godfrey. Even Holmes once had two dear called Mycroft little boya

it and Sherlock.

A

emmate this, for often my habit which brings timent in the Autumn.

long movement is

remedy this situation, Time and more people are

under

way

sported to tedy inany of the nation's problem, though there two factors very often 1. ve way of bringing more

lalat Lies.

Canadians are

dis. not too bed. The whole of last year's joduction is valued at £10,- 180,000,000 pounds, an Increase

£1,000,000,000 DAY 1954, Seventy-six petcent of

WI

110 rather tufty.

sinnlich. baldish.

I imagined lifm hopping suddenly 12 O Ther sofa arm to eat a bowl of porridge and cream, Brownie

Wal. As Evelyn Waugh fashion. was easily the most arrest- in ing personality I met 1955, I felt I really couldn't let the Old Year creep out without making an effort to meet his brother, the other Mr Waugh. Alec.

Sizzling

dian househoids have retratra-"OH, res," he said

*

טם

of

when

I

called On him. "I've

1 rs, compared with 70 perccal heard of you. And I enjoyed percent of your account of your meeting year. Fifty-six te humar's have one or more with my brother very much.

drink with incrcase rutomobiles,

would love to have you. But i will have to be four percent in two years.

Tals Sear

will be even better, quick, because must give lunch

and to my daughter Veronica, 30 years from low, pay the

You 40,000,000 then I sail for America Experts, more

anding wil be driving cara see, my now novel "Ind in

will be one vehicle to a person.

the Sun With us substantial popula- there in a

and the roteurrent develop-

[

an

Lew days.

published

firm.

He was all pink complexion.

and beaming amilc

"My," 1 friendly handshaken, said, as about 500 other people, lucluding Ethel Mannin, have sugfore me. "how different you are from your brother."

"You must remember," said Brother Alce. "thni Evelyn is Catholic, wherras 1 Am [ erlekrter. Why, when Evelyn was born, and I was Ave and a half. said Hongay. Now we've got a wicketkeeper.'"

A picture of the two brothers nursery

flashed before inc. Evelyn lay, red-faced, dismally howling, strapped in his

cot while under protective netting Alec bowlod, butted, and crash ed the ball through fieldsman chairs.

The Great War began. Alex,

by

NANCY

•

Bodies,"

"Handful

of

Dust")

can never be forgotten.

And Brother Alec admired Brother Evelyn with

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swerving, outspoken affection

O

Ho and loyalty.

База the twenties was a halcyon period. Anest He says Evelyn was flower.

SPAIN

•

When Brother Alec went into the Savile Club the other day with his son, Andrew Alexander, he was delighted when a fellow "Yours OT said: member Evelyn's?"

Sala Distributor:

Yet even by 1932 Brother Evelyn hnd

so overshadowed

had foundation. It was "The Loom Brother Alec that people

WAT there

another Youth." It was also Alec's forgotten

an amiable creature last best-seller until Island in Waugh,

who even remained loyal to his The Sun."

old regiment (The Dorset) and Brother became a major in World War II. Even Sherborne forgot and forgave Buth Alec's sons want was to Sherborne,

Meanwhile, what of Evelyn7

"Oh," said Alec, "ho livid. He wanted to go to war 100 But how could het He about 13, at prep Daly

was

•chool."

wanted

Happy man

who

➜ROTHER Alec was a happy D

man who played village

for S'lchester, cricket

world, Alec's travelled all over the

but continued to "date" his life คร by the big cricket eveals reported in Wisden's Almanack.

Perhaps Evelyn also to go to Sherborne? Perhaps he also wanted to write a book? "The Loom of Youth" resulted in o

in which gehime I found out that is picture name Wis ceremoniously ex- was entirely accurate.

punged

from the Roll of Old Boys. Alec wrote a defence to the Old School Magazine from

trenches,

And the Old School Mig redused to print it.

So Papa Waugh sadly resigned from the Old Boys too. Brother Evelyn went to Landing And loved it.

the

Lo

ont, Canada would be a true. So I got a copy of "Island in

Sun' and 1 selt.dged 10, was whacking balls to world power. Then, say thought the

the boundaries of Sherborne, his the down to wait in the Ritz Bar, tal Canadians, will come

father's old school. He left ted to whether the physical The book is long, 651 pages, and

write, al accompanied good, thick, sizziing story of become a soker, leun hange has

ques- im-eulisy and the colour

the age of 19, in six weeks, un and spiritual Dry

Lion in the West Indies and on exposure of the public schoul

that shook best-seller, system

10 obvious swooticroO COPYRIGHT)

Bill the country en sapport at least 50,000,000 peoples compard provemeat. with fa pressant 16,000,000. It

THEY CALLED IT 'SEWARD'S FOLLY' — BUT IT

It

WAS THE

WORLD'S BIGGEST BARGAIN

NE evening

Washington,

apo.

113

the

Czar's Ambassador

to the mated States, Baron

Stueckl, enld at the home

One of the World's Strangest

Stories

By Fred Maynard

of Secretary +f State value, and--with the arrival of William H. Seward. He told the air power that they could

him that Rissa Wabled to Bell Alaska and anked would the United States be rudy to buy it"

Russian the There had been

But

Seward had begun his official curcer us Govenor of New York

Suti

approaches before, and at e-box," and there was a loud innds, and

American

with the Danes to

19

So two chubby lads grew chubby manhood.

Daily six

And

Brother Alec became a travel- ling writer second only to Somerset Maugham. Indeed, ar once left the Far East remark-

Maugham Ing,

Isn't ***There

TODI for writers out here."

ng

arrived: two

He has been shipwrecked in to the Red Sea, he has served as a deck hand in a tropical coastal steamer, he has been to the South Seas, Baghdad, Hongkong: places that romantic schoolboys dream about. Ho once nearly settled in Tahiti, but didn't be- he couldn't get say

BROTHER ALEC married Bar cause

Jacobs (daughter of decent cricket to watch..

W. W. Jacobs) and the marriage So every now and then he

was not a success. It was on- nulled Alec took a flat in Earis Simes back to Lord's to see the

big matches. He even Court, learned ballroom dancing,

up

offered

I was

set to work filling six pages of lo send me rover tickets. an exercise book dally, to follow thrilled. Alec besmed.

"The Loom of Youth." He

"I'm only allowed to stay in wrote, he sold, for love of it.

England 90 days, you see," be.

domiciled in said. "I'm really Amercia."

Then he married again, had two sons, one daughter.

Thirty years on he was still writing for love of it: still fill- Ing exercise books, writing exactly 2,000 words a day, even the midst of a

stopping in sentence if necessary.

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hurdly have foreseen--of enor- State, and both in that office and mais strategic value, too.

as Senator he had distinguish- Seward lost no time. He got ed himself by his anti-slavery the Senate to ratify the treaty, policy. .. Present Jhes to en Lincoln chose him as Secretary dorse

the House of of State. When Lincoln was

and, as this map Seward himself was more Representatives refused to vote assassinated, Seward continued than ready. He was an ex-

the money.

Opponents called under President Andrew John shows, in the light of

Brother Evelyn's only amuse- not the transaction "Seward's Folly."

He wrote "Island in the Bun" meat at the moment appears to pansionist, and white

Alaska was not the only terri- subsequent events it

at

Mra

Edward McDowell's be an esoteric warfare that he appearing too ready to bar. They denounced him for making

was one of Russia's Summer Colony for Artista, in carrying on with his friend gain he privately welcomed the agreement and the President tory which Seward tried to add

for backing him.

to the United

He States.

Authors, and Musicians: a wort Nancy Mitford in the pages of approach,

biggest blunders of iterary Butlin's Camp, with the literary magazines, I was

declared that Alaska negotiated

elephant in an acquire unofficial

their

Indles West was a white

segregated chalets for gentlemen sought to acquire

La about Proper One of the most spectacular and lady novelista.

(Bernard Wicksteed) among the outery

the Dominican Republic,

Upper Class English Usage. (It but feats of military history was the time President

falled. here be people.

He also ad-

construction of the Alaskan

Brother Evelyn went to Oz would make Fowler writhe.) Rupert 1956 Annual

Rupert Adventure Book the unperation

mustn't of

say you Buchanan offered 5,000,000 But Seward was not to be put voceted

Highway. It runs for 1,000 miles ford and became renowned as a They The United States took Hawall, but was opposed. from Dawson Creek, in British mixture of Lord Byron and Tollet, Cheers, Week-end, Den-Ruport Magazines dollars which the Russians of.

Mental, or Columbia through the Yukon W. 8. Landor. He wrote, too, tures, Wealthy refused,

Seward's name Ilves in Alaska

territory to Fairbanks, Ainsko. hating every word. Ha only Instead you should any Lava- Goodness knows what, The Seward Peninsula is at the

It was started in March, 1942, wrote (like Shakespeare and Dr tory, extreme weat of Ainsica near to and took only nine months to Johnson) for money.

He, too, Friday to Monday, False Teeth, Siberia,

the 10wn and

divorced, of build.

married Rich, Mad, and Sick. Its object was to serve

We Seward, on ice-free port in the

So

I asked Brother Alec if he Gulf of Alaska,

as a supply route in case of a again. He took it all,

said of his school took an interest in all this, terminus of the Alaskan Rail Japanese Invasion, communicat father once

in the United days. "In negligent stride." "Alas," he said, "I expect I road. It was one of the United ing with bases States Army bases in the war against Japan.

one

Now there was

an official

basis for a deal, Seward knew,

and the Russian

envoy knew, in

that gold had been found Alaska, and naturally Seward asked the reasons for this offer to sell.

Boron

Stoeck! said that Alaska was ou far away from the cestral administration to be governed efficically. This was true enough as far as distance was concerned for St Peters- burg. then the capital of Russia, was thousands of miles away although the distance across Bering Strait from East Cape in Siberia to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska is only C0 miles.

the

is the ocean

States.

17

10

Thus Seward gave the Ameri- con people a great strategio, as well as economic bargain Alaska. Suppose that Soviet Russia was at the other end of What did Seward win for the the Altakan Highway? United States at that diplomatic De Windt

through passed in his Washington Alaska on his famout overland exchange home? He secured a country top from Paris to New York in rich in timber, dshortes, furs, 1962. He made the

Journey to gold, with coastline which is

survey the possibility of a direct longer than the circumference away Lino from

Paris of the globe.

New York, but ho Co- Within 30 years of the pur- cluded that such a scheme wis Amarion's seven-thin'on. Impracticable and Dow air investment bad yielded travel has, of course, supersed more than 200,000,000 dollars ed this idea. worth of fish, furs, gold and Umber. In the 60 years before million dollars--with an addi- possession in October, 1807, with the

WAT Alaska produced Honal 200,000 for a Russian- the consent of the Russians and 800,000,000 dollars worth

It took Hany de Windt more American company operating in faced with an accomplished fact, gold, copper and sliver.

eight months to journey the House of Representatives Besides thees metala Alaska than The total then equalled reluctantly voted the money.t

lead, tin, platinum, palla from Faris to New York by

roll to £1,440,000 sicrling-about two The Russian Government diam' antimony tungsten and land. From his Inst pounds a square mile for nearly itself recolved virtually nothing other metale. com oil and laun at Yakutsk In Biberis to 600,000 square miles of terri- Most of it went to pay the debts natural its fonts provide Alaska be used more than 800 of Russian companies operating thousands of millions of feet of horas, nearly 800 mindeer and two men drafted the

payments to displaced Czarist some of his staff, and functionation

Seward opened the bargaining

by offering five million dollars.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD

Stoceld wanted ten million. They compromised on geven

Alaska.

tory,

called

La

An expansionist.

of

agreement forthwith. Seward toska, to legal costs, and· în. Umbar, and PURUN9% of paper. More than 100.0sibilit

ho and the Baron worked with

the

toon

them until the early hours of Seward had secured the big

morning to put it in treaty gest bargain ever offered in Transaction between inations, they tuished it

ft had Shortly before bo diod: Sewar

When

taken about ten hours for aid that the purchase of Alee Rusia to rid herself of foot was the greatest thing, hot ha hola on the North American done in histomcial these continent, and to throw away he added, Hiwin LA ayn for an Inggribly paltry sum tion for peop die rant country of enormetis economie out.”

For

The economie pulp.

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Alska were mihardastically reindeer, accommodating, up to described by de

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of

and he

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And the books they writer use all the wrong words.

they have a different title lot of words, anyway. I'm "So Lovers Dream") are not making myself understood."

today. remembered

Evelyn's titles ("Decline and Fall," Vile

only concerned with

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