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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25,; 1956.

Nathaniel Gubbins

NE of the 75,000,000 renders who write to me cich week asics: "How old are you? I seem to remember your name in the papers for a long time,"

Here is the onsiver given to a reporter in an interview,

in

Who is the oldest mou the country a working and haing every minute of it?

The answer bunt be Mr Nathaniel Gubbins, who admita that, I he doesn't fall down the stairs and break his neck, he will soon get a telegram from the Queen congratulating his n his 100th birthday.

Cla

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Despite UN #Pal oge, Mr

til retains must of his faculties, though he doubts if this amounts to much as he didn't start with many.

When ! WIN aimy."

rl

Mr Gobbins, they schoolmaster told me that of all the fools he had fried to teach was the biggest fool of the lat

"After that Journalism seemed a le dhe maly occup 110 open to tilmel 50 com pletely bánk, bol s editors

also regarde rar as the biggest Tool they had ever mel, st.lt, 1 w obiered to ber cons in volttimaask

Mr Gabbaret has never passend an examination My

life. never wanted to pass one, and thinks that it he had cest young man

wonde have beva

Teddy

boys.

king of the

Questioned about the mast vivid the alte in the long life. Mr Gulln 2006 344 entirest recollection was punching his father on the e when he WON two years old.

"gino

the,

sold,

"If you call those the good old days you can have them," modem girls, Mr Gubbins said Asked what ho thought of he had stopped thiniding about them a long time ago.

Mr Qubbing has no hobbies, does not own a television set, and only listens to the news in case somebody has started in other war without telling him about 12.

Ho stili cata three good meals a day and is able to walk 10 the low tavern 30 yards away from his home.

"At my age," he said, "the only dimcully In walking back."

remains to be asked what would have happened it South- only place in tho East Hampshire had been the where snow fell?

country

The farmers in those parts. would have cursed their bad luck, asking what cruel fate singled them out for such disaster. most-bitten crops would have Other farmers with

curred them for their good luck, asking why some should he t be favoured with snow others were obliged to scrapo along without it.

while

The whole countryside would have rung with rustle curses, for the truth about formers 13

they

like just don't weather of any kind.

People's Worries that

S

It has been paid often enough that other people's worries help you to forget your own, let me cheer you up today with some problems that are bothering legy fortunate eltizens.

There is also the story of the unhappy lenants of Hedrift Estate, Moldenhead, where In- dustrial development is taking place on adjoining land.

The young women there are asking that a wall shall bo built round them to

prevent

I were grumbling al the "ging and wolf whistling" by

For instance, while you and

tast month farmers in South- East Hampshire e grumbling because they Were the only people in the country who did't get any.

Their case was that a cover- ing of snow would have

pro teeted their

crops against the

biller frost.

workmen.

The older ones, exempt from whisting and ogling, say that wall would be no use breauze the

Janguage of the coarse worknich would still float over their sensitive ears it, shocking as they polter in their gardens or listen to the radio with the window open.

their

Those who live in quiet places should be thankful that no obscenity dilsturby their afternoons, moking greeting to the

darling crocus sound rather silly and wet summers und dry summers, Mrs Dale's Diary sound like a ond sunshine, It only burgees' reunion dinner.

ww

Je

A

that grumble at everything, Farmers cold winters and mild winters,

DWHIC

Inflation Under New Rules

WHAT do they know of She entertains a targe

Inflatim who only Nassou pany

have

wanted to pouch immost know" everybody on The nose. They e's natural pastinels are say th #ppatent of an early age.“

Me Gubbins does not believe ve much in the “good old day because he can't remainier any,

To quote:

He never went to Ronyan zunny Bahamas, to drink champagne out <If chorus girls' sh and doubla anybody he did unless they mentally unbalanced

medien d He

afford constel Romano's to cham-

were

peple 10 Heed

advice.

neither

com- xx-

them are Among Minister Geoffrey Lloyd and Lord Margesson.“

the

new rules.

fell

FLAT-RACING LINCOLN MARCH 19 LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP;

RACING

BOXING FOOTBALL GREYHOUND

"Shilling each way Frisky Scot for the Lincolnshire and an even shilling Dr. Fisher doesn't ask Malenkov round for tea."

London Express Service

The Man They Call Mr United Nations

A

Washington.

T the end of this

month-on March 31

to bo exactit will be just two-

By JENNIFER JOHNS

ence

events that demonstrates

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ubsured question

the stronger position today is prompted by some news I have Over here As the snow

of the world organisation--- been reading about rich people faster and thicker and the wild

the Asian-African confer- hiding from The cold weather windy blow, we heard the and the credit

Chancellor squeeze in

of the Exchequer and-a-half years to the day Secretary of

at Bandung, where the Swedish world problems in a truly there asking us to play a game with since I received an urgent Finance Ministry), he was international manner, with accent, stronger than any- was "a strong UN cable from London asking me for a 500-word potted virtually unknown beyond no place kept open for one has suspected," and the The rules were that we should

for higher biography of a man called the shores of Sweden save national bombast of hol osk

to a small group

of pro- description. who, wuges in

case we brought the Dag Hammarskjold country to ruin, that we should only a few hours previously, fessional diplomats who had

Mr Hammarskjold's con- which £20,000 help the export drive by not had been elected Secretary already rated him as

spending money on things we General of

the United quiet negotiator of excep- cept of the United Nations' role, as the world teeters on Nations in succession to Mr tional ability.

the edge of catastrophe, is Trygve Lie.

truly in keeping with all that is meant by the "quiet diplomacy" for, in the view of this Swed-

"Sir Francis Peek has just his house to Mr E. P. Tuylor He paid £80,000 for the house, of was for furniture. Industrialist David Brown is spending his bought. Jrst season in the house

JU 15 un beach residence which But he does remember galing Bd. Junches, baby's hend (steak Mr Brown £32.000.

be

chorus gals," naded. a bitter smile wrinkling bis ancient face.

and kidney puching) for ad.. and two veg. nt ld. ench.

Hog

attractive

Co

could do without,

One man,

"Just aerURS

the channel an Island...... Mr Axel Wenner-Gren's estate covers spend "They charged you anoliver

gravy, which Jenny for

is area... Lady Bulle kept in a

metal drawer unler another resident. Her heute is the counter," he said.

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the nest in the Caribbean

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It appears, a fortune on a house he

At first sight, the London

Quiet Diplomacy

J'

Dag Hammarskjold any meeting of 72 nations at

Geneva in the "atoms for pened during my time here for Secretary-General pence" conference, an event a8 he has compared with the which I have great reason Industrial Revolution.

· Peking Trip

to be very grateful, How- over, with the present per- spective, I would say that no event or anything which I have been permitted to. do ranks higher' on that list of causes for gratitude than my trip to Pelding."

request seemed easy enough. Can I only had to thumb through can probably do without while a few biography sources to TODAY, half way through ish lawyer-economist, the CERTAINLY, one of the his five-year term of office UN "responds to the high marks in his "quiet (ay) an old-age pensioner Is fearn all about Mr Hammar-

the world nude to feet an unpatriotic cad skjold. In actual fact, the (and just back from a six- world,

does diplomacy" was achieved at

The word "gratitude" if he buys himself a new pair | assignment proved one of week world tour) the United not respond to the UN, and Peking when he went there of trousers he probably can't my most difficult for, al- Nations Secretary-General this is as it should be. The on behalf of the UN to liber- was directed toward the 60 though I soon discovered is known as the man who UN is like ปี piece of ate 11 American fliers held member nations for allow-

has machinery read that the then 48-year-old has restored

that begins to as prisoners by, the Chinese ing him to follow his philo- about the goings-on in Nassan Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl been described as the "one run when it is needed. Communists. Subsequently sophy of "quiet diplomacy.” don't be surprised if they ask Hammarskjold, had a fine dimensional" to internation-

they were released.. record of public service in al

"dimen- affairs. This

As proof of the success for his native

country (at 31 sional Dag Hammarskjold of his philosophy, Ham- Of this trip, Ham- he was the youngest man himself calls "quiet diplo- marskjold can point to a marskjold has said public ever appointed Under macy"--an approach to series of International ly: "Many things have hap- trust among UN member nations.

do without.

When

WAKE corners

for more money.

They might even ask enough to buy a house on Hog Island,

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what

THEY'VE EVEN ASKED GREER GARSON TO STAND FOR CONGRESS

Oh dear, how

Hollywood

has changed!

HEN, Greer Garson If Miss Garson

ever, movie-star's home. It comes told me during becomes a Congress-woman closer to being opulent tea served by a she would bring to the job than any other I have butler named Joseph-that many outstanding qualities, seen. she has been naked to charm, wit and sparkle. But stand

for

Congress

It has off-while carpets and I she would be the only settees and poodles to match; realised the awful truth Congress-woman, I feel marble floors, walls of Italian

about Hollywood - which none of the exposca has yet revealed. The place is becoming respectable. It can no longer live up to its bad name.

The Chairman of the Re- publican Party of New

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Garson saying that he and

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THOMAS WISEMAN reporting from Hollywood

mosales, pure silk wallpapers, artificial waterfalls, curtains operated by remote control, statuca of ancient Siamese gentlemen acting as atanding. lamps, And, of coursC, trual swimming pool.

the

A mirrored wall folds back

to reveal a bar where · Miss

· Garson serves a épeciality eslled Zubrovna. The Shah of Perala and the Empress were visitors

here,

Farouk's mother is a regular out here. caller. She lives Senators and governors are, In

his committee have not the Bure who grows orchids at to this house during their stay slightest idea whether she, the bottom, of her bath. The. is a Republican or

orchids. I should my, are, mocrat, and could not care not essential to the business less, but they want to see of taking a bath in Holly Greer Garson sitting in wood. Congress.

and out all the time,

Miss Garson can afford mil'' They are merely a part of this (plus a house In Dallas, a One film star will soon decorative scheme of the ment in New York) because sho the decorative scheme. The In New Mexico and on apart- rángh called. Forked, Lightning bo occupying Monaco. Now another may worth describing.

a throne in Garson household is worth is married to Buddy Fogelson one day alt in Congress, At

this rate it will not be long Her house in Bol Air is before Errol Flynn Joins the the nearest thing to the Salvation Army.

popular conception of a

who is in oil, 20

You see, the really rich people In ̈Hollywood: today, are urimily,

oil is to look som, Nothin

pie

MIES CARSON the poodies match the corpora,

As Mr Hammarskjold enters the last half of his term of effco, he sees his job as an all im portant factor in the building of

On the one hand he feels that many people consider that the UN has slipped into the back- ground. On the other he be- lieves they are wrong in this conclusion, for it is in the wings of the politien) stage (not in the headlines) that he belloves UN's influence in world 'affairs and in securing peace is" "being more greatly felt than over.

T

Giant Party

overy

TT is obviously in the first few

minutes

of meeting Seethry General Hammarskjold that his "quiet diplomacy" is really A reflection of himself and his own personality, and those who work with him are convinced that he has a remarkable talent for putting them at their ease.

Outside the political field, perhaps the best example of this came when, during "his first month

09 Secretary-Gentral, Hammarskjold visited office in the glant UN building and shook hands with every employee. It was reported at the time that he found his staff. "de- pressed, and anxious" because of the charges; of; "subversion" which then encompassed them.

In a magnificent (and success- ful) attempt to disperse this gloom he organized a glant party. for 4,000 of the UN workers, complete with such celebrities Marlon Anderson and.. Danny Kaye. It was during this party that he put everyone at case in the pronunciation of his difficult name. With typical good humour, ho explaited that", "Hammer ahield was somewhero' around the proper pronunciation, but I will understand if you pronounce it some other way.""

Going back down lite years Dag Hammarsikjold was onto described as "that quiet, young min who talks so little and dona nothuch." Today, as the 'poetry loving Secretary-General hacts Kórábla. Dist. birthday. (In July); the descriptions will standz Per Visi haps, in view of his latauk whief... wind tour made with minimum fat publicity seven more makin