THE CHINA MAIL," WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956,
Nathaniel Gubbins
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EGRETS for what Army my advice would hove
might have been are common to us all. The lives of most of us are
been worth a lot of money,
If Nassor is, interested offer is still open.
overshadowed by memories Lovely, women
of missed opportunities,
то
the
Theac solemn platitudes o me the news that women occurred to me when I rend are going to wear hats made of two opportunities that of plaited mink talls Is much one by more disturbing than the news
were not
missed.
that the followers of M. Pojade M. Pierre Foujade, who wOH carry rubber truncheons liku 51 seats in the French elec- the followers of Hitler.
M. Poujade. tions, and the other by
who "atrips off his clothes as the boys who have
he gels worked up over a speech" may turn out
been
selling second-hand military to be just another funny uncle. equipment.
but if this latest fashion means
M. Poujade was favoured by that women will return to tho
a glimpse of the obvious, He observed that nobody likes
force In France.
If only.
M. Pounde
sad neteel
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powerful
Ab
intuition I ten
decorated
period when they themselvena with dead animals and birds, there are going to be paying taxca. 1 have дная noticed this but whereas I did a lot of unfunny aunties about.
One of my earliest nothing about
unhappy of Edwardian times eashed in on the den and has memories become ย powerful polilleal was a large, fierce womer with a dead fox round her Teck, Across her ample bosom, known ny then as "the dress circle." The have beoume fox gripped
ils tail in sharp. fure 100. white teeth, Ha red glass eyes aiso noticed that glaring
at a frightened little people not only object to pay- boy Ing
laxes
to paying any- thing at all I could have swept the
country on Don't-Pay-A-
other women who gave Sausage polley and might have
the been, Prime Minister by now.
Ave-your-old Gubbins nightmares Who could resist the appeal Wore whole pheusanla in their of not paying rates, taxes, the hats, or had dond paws hang- grocer's bill, the butcher's bill, or even for a glass of beer?
I have
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ing from their shoulders. Sometimes their hair,
for
Our
piled If some fool had shouted high and stiff to take the strain we don't pay taxes who's going
was heavy with small
glusterd birds. They wore death as pay
hydrogen bomba?" I would have shouted ornament and even the launch back: "Who wants hydrogen of violets pinned
an
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to the dress bombs, anyway?" You would be cirele never overcame the musty
the
klench
fur Inumber
and feathers. surprised at people who don't
which made their embraces un- forgettable
of
Then there is this smart sell- ing of out-of-date tanks and mobile guns.
Since then they have given tip wearing whole aumats Brid birds and settled for bila 1 skin sewn together and parts of Until read about the deal I hirds, such as brilliant bun- never occurred tu me
lahed wing on a hat. that
Later on, migh!
have
sold to the searching the animal world for Egyptians some of my Home unusual adornments, they turn- Guard relics.
ed to insects and fish.
Bi-
Preserved butterflies were encased in Jewels, and trinkets made vid of bones from lingsgate.
Bui as women frequently look backwards when seeking kome- thing new I am scared that the nightmares of my youth may be revived. The milk-tail hat may soon become a hat made of whole mink,
Stored away in the attic there is a uniform, part worn. suit- able for a soldier with a bit of a tummy. There is also an old webbing rifle-sting.
for Rood years, as they never wear out, a bution stick (if they skill polish buttons), a cap badge, a roll of four-by-two, and a pull- through for cleaning their rifles, and a tin of dubbin für keeping their boots flexible
could have For fee
told them how to remove the dubbin when boots have to be polished bright as mirrors for an inspee- tion by top brass.
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There may come a time when daring girls will become nimost
edible. calves' feet and μίχα trotters hanging from their shoulders Instead of deed paws, and a stuffed cod fish wrapped As I have had years of ex- round their necks instead of a perience of this lark in the real fox.
Lovely woman, grave and
kind.
Often turns her gentle mind When thinking what would
best adorn her
Not to flora, but to fauna. Not for her the scented rose hair, about her
Ja
her clothes
She decki herself with bird
and beast,
With little creatures long de-
crased.
No wonder when the poet
Helkens her to flowers and
things.
How they did it
MY long-held conviction
that
the world's most croULIVO and imaginative men were never teetotallera has been confirmed by Dr Edward Podolsky, of New York.
The doctor points a triumph- ant Anger to the heavy drinking poets. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Chaucer, and Burns: and to Byron, who consuited quantities of gin when in the agonies of composition.
I could add that, even if the busybodies prove that Shake- speare didn't wrile Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe was a bit of a toss-pol fuo,
Other literary Lipplers men- ttoned
(who by Dr Podolsky has omitted moderns like Dylan Thennus) were Oscar Wilde, ver Goldsmith. Charles Lamb, Alexander Pupe. Dryden. Swift, Steele, and Edgar Allan Poe, the "məni imaginative of
who, as an elbow all writers" lifter, wan
Irt a class by him- self.
John "Ber~ Swinburne and gar's Opera" Guy both lost their on the talent when they went water-wagon
So far us I am concerned the most interesting pari 01 the doctor's analysis of the drinker- writer mentality
bit 1s 1he alxput the essayist Addison, who "kept a bottle of wine at each end of a long room which he paced a while thinking up his most polished phrases and patronising each bottle alter- nawly."
Maybe I'll try this one day and see it I can promote my- self from scribbler to polished willer.
But I would like to warn all
men who young
wazi1 10 "write" that going on a bender won't automatically turn themI into poets.
I mean if you can't you just can't "write." or sober, I mean.
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HANDS OFF EDEN!
ELDOM, if ever, can a British Prime Minis ter have had as rough treatment from the Press as that which Sir Anthony Eden now receives.
By Douglas Clark
It would be surprising of the utterly mystifying nature if they were any less savage of the attack, and the complete lack of proper ground on which to his successor. The more to
base criticism of the Primo trouble the can cause Minister. the Tory Party the happier they will be.
But it is not only Left-wing Press which He has been Prime assails Sir Anthony. Minister scarcely nine months.
in
the now
Examine the major complaints which are laid against Sir An- thony in the Telegraph and in those other papers which, following the Telegraph's example, are bleating about his alleged failures,
of the
It is said, for instance, are also he took six months to reshuffle that And leading the Government.
Some members His accession to the principal political job Right-wing Press that Britain has to
offer at his heels. was almost everywhere ac- them all in the Daily Tele
Yet claimed.
now he is graph. being subjected to the most virulent abuse and attack.
FOOLISH
What was 50 wrong
Whatever the legitimate com- plaints against Sir Anthony, this
then le not one of them.
national fleld remotely approach Sir Anthony's.
And in his finol year at the Foreign Ofice he capped his
* scries career there with
of were hailed 08 coups which triumphs
by the very people who assail him now.
He brought the Anglo-Iranian
then
The next complaint levelled against the Prime Minister is that due to his dolly the Middle East oll dispute to a conclusion. has been supplied under the counter with surplus British war supplies.
He was largely responsible for the Triesto settlement.
And when Mr John Foster The Great Tank Scandal, it Dulles walked out of the Geneva has been called. And the picture Conference on Indo-China, Slr has been conjured up of the Anthony's skill and unremitting feebly by while profiteers rush which may well have averted a British Prime Minister standing patience secured a "cease-fire"
catastrophic war.
CONFIDENCE
Rems to the Middle East.
But what is the truth? Tho truth is that the vast majority of British surplus war. material which went to the Middle East did so in the days of a Socialist
about It is a foolish complaint. Government. Had Sir Anthony succeeded to a bankrupt Administration the critics would have a valid case.
This is indeed surprising. For In the past the Dally Telegraph has scarcely been noted for Why? What has gone independence. Of all the Tory that? Bour?
Is Sir Anthony to newspapers it has been far and pway the most subservient. It blame? Or is the attack leader columns might have been to which he is being sub- written by the Tory Central jeated as unfair as it
is Office, Inerciless?
In the first instance is necessary to note
it
pre-
cisely from which quarters
the attacks come.
But now the Pekinese turns round and barks like a bulldog.
MYSTIFYING
Is Sir Anthony Edon to bo blamed for the actions of a Socialist Government of which Chan- Mr Hugh Gaitskell was But the team which he in cellor of the Exchequer? The herlied from Churchill had so idea is grotesque. brilliantly proved its ability in office that the voters had just given it a resounding voto of confidence in the General Elec- tion.
Is Sir Anthony to be соп Many of them, of course,
Of course the Socialists argue demned then for retaining the that when even the Daily Tele- services of Lord Woolton, the come from the
newspapers graph
turns against the Primo leading organiser of Tory victory of the Left-wing. That is Minister then it proves beyond at the polls, 08 long 09 he natural. No exception can doubt that the charges against possibly could? be taken to it. It is the him of incompetence must have duty of the Socialist news- papers to do everything in their power to get a Social- ist Government back into office.
solid substance.
But does 17
Was be
wrong to keep Sir Walter Manckton, a magnificent Minister of Labour, in that post for a further period?
It is sukh that since. the death of the first Lord Camrose, 2 Indeed, If Sir Anthony had atrong personality in helping to mould Telegraph policy has been really weak, as his critics been Lady Pamela Berry-the claim, Is it not far more likely No one need expect them wife of its editor-in-chief. Does that he would have tried to to be fair to a Tory Prime the clue to the change then Be exert his authority and prove himself boss by making wide Minister. They were cruel, in her influence?
spread changes just for the sake savage, and utterly unfair If questions tika this
of change the very moment he took up office?
Arc
to Sir Winston Churchill. asked at all, it la only because
common
This is the man of whom it is now complained that he con- inues to interest himself in foreign problems.
I pray that he always will, And so does every humble British family.
Perhaps the most
For nothing could do more to charge made against the Prime ensure the safety of the nation. Minister ta
ordinary that he continues Nothing could give to devote อ disproportionate folk greater conadenco and amount of his attention to hope in the future than the
knowledge foreign affairs.
that Sir Anthony still keeps a wise and steady eye on the foreign scene.
TRIUMPHS
It is said that he spends much time "tooling over the shoulder of his Foreign Secretaries. But is that such a terrible crime?
Let me remind the wallera of Sir Anthony's record.
Of course too the suggestion that the Prime Minister's atten- tion is trained abroad Implies that he is allowing things to deteriorate at home.
The suggestion is that Sir
has failed Anthony
ол the domestic front.
What is the evidence to sup- He was Britain's Foreign port this ludicrous proposition?
more than ters Secretary for years, In the whole Western Is it seriously argued that Bir world there is no other states Anthony is responsible for the know- rise in the cost of Britain's im- man whose experience,
ports? ledge, and prestige In the inter-
A French film producer puts politics aside to discuss his favourite subject
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LOVE
IS ON THE
OUT, SAYS RENE
ENE CLAIR is a hand-
some, bright-eyed
little Frenchman with
By ALAN BRIEN
the face of a cynical but should be the toples which split kindly tortoise. His teeth a nation In the time of the are usually flashing in a hydrogen bomb?' gay smile. When I called
A
favourite
WAY CLAIR
When
recently and food to dat tors here I dejechitis
fak hankerings, after rumor "My friend. You forgot the love. One complaine French love of comfort,
The 1 was
Imposible young man would not mind. But with dris who wo
and Soon the Poujadistes and the his lover would usually be a at his hotel to see him, Communiata wero forgotten. woman of 35. Often a married too. The Amesken
lo a subject upon woman—I'mz BOTTY cloud of gloom almost as We turned
to say," to smiled apologetically. His tangible as a smog bank whose importance M. Poujade, And he
...the #: seemed to hover above his ez and M. Clair would out of polite deference to my lov
'all agrée--love.
English puritanism, "She would ter.! well-groomed hend.
Apparently, even love is not not 1lbs to be loved cut of to gaial as popular in France as it used doors," to be. Fifty-seven_year_old
The man who has made his millions bugh with
and happily married, Rene Clair M. Clair went on to complain stylish charming and
areined to doubt whether this of the dull domestic ambitions comedies was grimly traditional Gallic partime would of his own, Bonn, reading the news from last out his life-time. France.
He let the newspaper Butter from his hand. He drew his
"Antory" and
Of course, it is not How look at thị red of he Victure). Full employment côn- Is that evidence of faturd
Expots rich recordalépéta,
hat evidence of maturex
bucjeni.
inilusti ofder books.bre erflowing.
Are these signs Bir Antony has falled?
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But that his performance: during nine short, months” át. Cleopatra? No. 10, Downing Street should -:
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shrug
the most of them
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