POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER
"If I told the Foreign Office once I told them twenty times never trust kings who've been to Harrow!"
PARADE
thumpity- COLD WAR The
thump of drums FREDDIE
has stopped and there is no dancing. The chili of a Buganda cold war against foreigners has swept over King sweltering banana- Freddie's land.
Time was before the British Sir Andrew Cohen. Governor, gave the king the heave-ho in 1053-when he threw fashion able cundowners in his palnee on Mengo full
Europeans sought invitations lu dink Scotch and undas. Th conversation was as cosmopoli- tau as in London or New York
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Those days are past. It seems n very different Freddie, re- turned four months.ogo from £8,000-a-year exile in a flot In Eaton Square,
a tax-free
fle is aloof and haughiy. And his subjects? Cold and strenu- ously nuti-foreigner—anti-Euro- pour and Indian.
now
in
nident Gronchi, America on an official visit, Look a bronze copy uf tho Discus Thrower as a gift President Elserhower.
for
Ger-
In the meantime, the man press revealed the curious story attached to this copy.
In 1038. German school- And this is the sort of thing children collected £40,000 and that is happening:---
THEY forced [221 African Landlord 10 evict & European who had a Baganda giri friend, THEY ostracise and even beat up Baganda girls who rociule dance with Indians or
of whites.
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bought the marble original of the atutue from Rome Museum, After the war, Haly demanded the restitution of art treasures footed by the German and the American
sent the authorities Thrower back to Italy.
The
troops, occupation Discus
the
Germans protested Why hus Freddie started healedly, pointing out that the deep freeze where his Queen statue had not been looted but
before used to hum as Latin legally purchased
throbbed through
war. To pacify them, Italy had อ bronze copy
made and offered it to Herr Adenauer. But the German turned it down.
Domall rhythms The palace?
Uganda by set for indepen- dence by 1961. But that may nut he soon enough for Freddie,
*
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
HE MADE HISTORY
A
ILLUSTRATED. HISTORY OF
ENGLAND.
By G. M. Trovalyan, Longmans. 30s. 758 pages.
H
ISTORY is in his blood. Best-selling, too. G. M. Trevelyan, O.M.,
is
the great-nephow of Lord Macaulay who, a century ago, sold history to an im- mense public.
even
Trevelyn has done better in that respect than Chancetior his famous predecessor. He has been writing history refused by for more than half a cen- I lo irls copy. COST OF A What does it con! Herr Adenauer, that President tury.
elect a Pre-
Elsenhower is going to gci. PRESIDENT to
nident of United States?
About million, suy the experts, they
political
that
more
the
TC- been of the
Up to lust month, which saw his eightieth
birthday, In Home
circles than a million copies of was reported
President histortent writings of this
scholar have Gronch did not know the in-markable sido
01 story
the Discur
both sold,
sides Thrower. Otherwise, he would | Atlantle. not have chosen such #1 con- troversial gift,
the $50
And
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about figure 11 $500,000 to elect a Senator with a tight on his hands.
These are Interesting figures because. Decording
the 10 Corrupt Prpellets Act 1926 and Inter amending legislation 130
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thun
London unions
soldiers
for visit the
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Torments (8)
& Nalive drum (6)
Heading (8)
11 Servant (8)
12 Grant (4)
13 Stories (5)
14 Enticed (5)
Untruth (4)
22 Quietened (8)
24 Passage (8)
25 Sword (0).
26 Poor verno (8)
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2. Strike (3).
DOWN
3 Of current interest (7).
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Trip (4).
Destroyed (8).
Drooped (8).
TO Puss on (5).
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13 More than one (7).
16 Culm (6).
17 Angers a buli (3. 3).
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21 Bedeck (6),
22 Ancestor (4).
29 Learning (4).
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national party organisation supprised to spend more $3,000,000 in any one year, and Sem tors are not supposed *****
$25,00
election campaigris.
course, there
berkat
several
to Their
ways
muny
on
Foreign sales
These are sales in the English There have been language. conmensurate sales in transia- And, 30 years after its famous Arst appearance
uppeurs
England
AD 1123 church of St Barth-History of lomew the Grent in West Smith-handsomely Illustrated. Beld. There Bre
other On what has this astonishing Visitors Too, and they all make publishing success been founded? Macaulay Trevelyan proves for their signatures be-George
for his- ure combined an instinct Tore leaving. The cross¤N
around the Jay A presidential helping to make a 24-foot lottery with a shrewd sense of the
Taposky which It is hoped history market. posterity will admire,
eididilate's
includes
Invariably
hundred
organisaties and the law refers to the amount of money which may be apent by any one orgausation.
So. despite the
involved, 110 Sums breaks the law
astronomaleni
As
An
undergraduate
ді
that
did not talking
Cambridge. he was told Prophe
over the Macaulay and Carlyle World have left their mark on know what they were
the tapestry but not a'i with be about, "Literary history" was
cute. Me thing of no account. The great- seen in the grans tr
has nephew of Macaulay heard this Denis Dowell, the verger, over
with indignant 10- judgment the unenviable job of unpick m
credulity. imperfect stitches because we
have cannot
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they
LE. W recommend a
-ke
with teetis election laws, for ingdance. -11 could change the whole pattern of electioneering and made
American in the
severe dent
Way of life.
But don't expect then to de
the Senators it. Must of perfectly happy now, you.
Cus
Art
NUTTY Well, it had to happen NEWS ometime. Every week
someone
or
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The public, which had been told tint history was "science." decided to leave it to But the soul of The scientists.
in his bones-- history-he fell
in- lay in narrative-narrative in the US has beefused with strong feelings. appropriated by
"The events," he other. First It's National Bout
"should be written and Week thun National Tinned
intellectual passion. with thank Peas Work,
National Woolly
whom history was these by Teddy Bour Week. National
enacted wero In their day
частеж Bathing Suit Week
passionate." Now
In Birmingham. Son of Northumberland land- Abhumi. Mayor James
Wed gentry, reared in the fervent
radical Morgan has proclaimed National
tradition. Trevelyan Week. Nothing
And a very went to Harrow, where he was
too, Mr good nothing to you,
a "Tuff at games and a "swet" Alorgan!
at work.
DISCUS A Jumps Greek
Dis- e THROWER statue,
Thrower by Myron, has become a saree of embarrassment for italian Pre-
Pre sident Glovaani Gronci
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Pocket Problems
BEST-SELLER
more
G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., 80, has sold
million than a
copies of his historical writings. His secrot? 'History should be written with passion.......
'He lacked
tazt and adopt- ability, as boys of strong char. aeter often do. In the General Election of 1602 he was the only
Harrow School buy at
who openly admitted that he was a Liberal,
A schcolmate asked him, with a sneer, whether he knew the favourite. name of the Derby "I did know, for it was a sub- of general conversation, jeet But I rald didn't because 1 resented the tone of the ques- tion."
In other words, he was some- thing of a prig. It was a phase he grew out of.
Trevelyan became one of the in Walkers most enthusiastle England. He
twier tramped round the coasts of Devon and Cornwall following the whiu stones which make coastguardi
<liffe.
track
the along the
Luxury lover
a blas The tung opthings from an appreciation of the human variety. The blas is founded on በህ honest phliosophy the philosophy uť English Whit
Happy life
He has pursued
patriotic
through
and happy
A
life,
CC-
ol
A battle like Blenheim, was, long, fecund
aim of giving his Trevelyan insists, worth fighting the serious
renders a stronger capacity for for and winning:
"To prevent Western Europe sound political thinking. It has from sinking under a Czardom brought this spare, myopic inspired by the Jezuite. To togenarian with the pensive ex-
the make the Sun King's system of pression
Masterstrip and religious despotism a
perse- Trinity, the Order of Merit, a cutien look so
and silly vast public-and the wry beside English freedom that all clusion that the folites at man- than more obstinate the philosophers and wits of the kind are new ecatury
would make mock once they seemed to be. of it' these benefite were History is not grey-but the worth a battle.
black patches are
he than numerous
weak
Trevelyan has written history with a salty tang, history with think.
con.
inore used to
Are You Happy With Your Buses?
buses
By NANCY SPAIN
to
MO
Heath.
On
RE
really out on strike with Mr Butter- Buses Bre boycotted. awful? Do they really meadow,
Typists set out walking briskly rush past
request to work at & uan. idyllie break- He thought nothing of mal-
stops without stopping, fust plenics are organised laining a steady four miles an
brake suddenly
throw Hampstead
Everyone hour all day and, at the end of
on the floor, teels healthier. pocket passengers (t-"1 draw from my
Now Mr Butterntadow's two well thumbed have insolent conductors, in-
take acme sinull,
dashing debutante altres volume, discoloured by many competent trades uniona?
their uncle to a night club, and that offe rains and rivers, so
Georgina Hurley, thirtyish x Mr Buttermeadow gets mildly familiar immortal spirit may
ambulance driver, certainly be-
plastered. alt beside me at the bourd."
Heves 1, and with refreshing
Along comes a crawling bus humour in BUS STOP (Harvill and picks him up. He is recok- For, after his fashion, he is a
of luxury.
10%. Oct.), she has written nised, kidnapped, whirled away Press, agrecable To him the most
to novel
prove
it. Even to be photographed, diversion in the
In tur world
thoush she does say
Mr Buttermentow's Govern- walk to some ancient battlefield
organisations, sco,
ment department even threatens of and reconstruct the events
and circumstances are "Ogments him with the loss of his pro the historie day. His books have of her imagination."
mised knighthood on retiring. the breath of the open die as Her hero
Kallant civil
all is well. All ends But well as the smell of old dezu-
♫ con happily. servant, maddened by
buj The villainous meats.
bothered drivers are unmasked, and our who can't be ductor
buses once more derful.
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are run in a
the per- incidents,
Do you think
beetme won-
this any of says he might be true? 1 was so upset
"civilised
He writes history as une who to come upstairs for his fares, rejects false "selence" and sham The hero is called Mr Butter. "detachment." The
truth,
meadow.
Buttermeadow Mr insiste, is not grey, it is black writes to the Times, and white in patches: "When a refuses to ride in buses until by Miss Horley's brilliant comic
man begins with the pompous they formula-The verdict of bis- tory-suspect him
At once, for he is merely dressing up his own opinions in big words."
But if the "verdiet of history"
easily is not HO history nevertheless sense to the patient student.
inventions that I went around Interviewing people, who travel ཨ
A fighting charlady (whose on buses in the ruth hour. And husband actually drives a bus) nine cut of 10 agree with her, reads about thất, So she and The buses are awful. her friend, Mrs Sparks, dezide summed up, to walk to work.
make s
BY
HARRY
whole cf London's Soon the
office commuting
workers
are
WEINERT
On top
THE ANNUAL CLEAN-UP ––– PISCARDING THE OLD TICKET STUBS, UNDECIPHERABLE NOTES, CLIPPINGS, FORGOTTEN LETTERS AND
UNLUCKY RAFFLE TICKETS.
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
- AND EVERY ITEM
A TREASURE —
INCLUDING THE
PETRIFIED
MOUSE.
READING İFROM LEFT TO RIGHz - KEYS FOR THE CAR, GARAGE. FRONT DOOR,
OFFICE, 'SUITCASE, TRUNK, AND.
SEVERAL WE CAN'T IDENTIFY
"LETS SEE-
WHERE ARE
WE NOW ?*
IF YOU'RE ENVELOPED
IN ONE OF THOSE
POCKETLESS
CREATIONS
STOW YOUR PROPERTY
ANYWHERE –—
AND IF YOU WANT
TO FIND SOMETHING-
JUST STAND UP AND SHAKE.
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COPA 1956 ET GENERAL FEATURES
CORE TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE FOUNTAIN PEN OR TOOL KIT POCKET.
THERE'S ALWAYS A STORM WHEN THE EXTRA, OR HOLD-OUT, POCKET IS DISCOVERED-BUT STORMS PASS AND A MAN CAN ALWAYS FIND ANOTHER HIDING PLACE.
BILLS, BILLS,
AND MORE BILLS.
MINING FOR
NICKELS.
YET whenever I want to read,
undisturbed, I climb on to
the top deck of a bus on a nice long route. Indeed, I do much of my reading on the tops of buscg.
I
That is certainly where read L. P. Hartley's A PER- FECT WOMAN (Hamish Hamilton, 12. 04.), an Ucon- fortable book designed to put
the general public off novelists for over.
Alex, you see, is a novelist, He picks up a nice accountant
train.
called Harold 123 the Harold agrees to do Aloc's in- come tax and this creates havoc in Harold's life. For Harold's wife falls in love with Alec (chiclly because he is a writer) and Alez tells Harald he really funcles the foreign, barmaid ut the local pub. Alec asks Harold to woo her
for him, but the barmaid tells Harold that sho can't stand Alfe at any price, It is Harold she likes, (Lor'.)
But in addition to Hiking Harold she also has a German friend, a farm labourer who is very passionate and jealous. Right
The German farm labourer, a simple soul who cannot tohow the subterranean workings of a nuvelist's Inind, shoots, the novelist and the barmaid; thum showing his jolly sense. Ho then gives himself up.
The curious thing is that this talo of passion is told with all L. P. Hartley's wit, and polish. It is as though a kingtober and suddenly darted across a dark and treacherous mill race; love- ly and very disconcerting.
I'll blow trumpets
r.
isn't often I and a modern poet whose work I can un- dorstand, let alone enjoy. So let me blow trumpets for THE LOVE LETTERS OF PHYLLIS McGINLEY (Dent, 88. Ud.), where I have found this Sticks and stones are hard on
bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart. Mrs McGinley love all tho things I love: children, toys, cilles, saints, dolls houses, June in the suburbs, dancing class, And she writes of them with such an urban joy. Where a thousand twentieth century poets obscurely tell me how spring comes to Ciloucestershire, only Phyllis McGinley COD
Bay
Ah! some love Paris And some Purdue, But love is an archer with
tow 1.0.
A bold, bad bowman, and
innocent of pity.
So I'm in love with
New York Cituman
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