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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956.

WRO IS IAN FLEMING?

Fula Now in

forties, he WAI educated me Elon and Sand- burzl. He joined Beuters and served in London, Berlin and Klorow During the war he was with Naval Intelligence.

I

HOW I WROTE

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

CAN remember more or less why I started to write thrillers. I was on holiday in Jamaica in January. 1961-built a house there after the war and I go there every year and my mental hands were empty.

3

My daily occupation in Jamaica underwater is sprar-fishing and exploring, but after five years of it, I didn't want to kill any more and the fish

except baracudas occasional monster fish, and I knew my own underwater terrain ilke the back of my hand.

Above all, after being a bachelor for 44 years, I was on the edge of marrying and the prospect was 50 urgent horrifying that I was in need of some activity to take my mind off it.

The thriller you'll be reading tomorrow

By IAN FLEMING

corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day be

I might have despaired. I tare obstinately closed my mind to self- mockery and "what will my friends

hammering Kay?", Bavagely until the proud day when the last The Last Une in page was done. the book "The bitch is dead now" was just what I felt I had killed the job.

on

t

wero

from the Times Literary Supple- ment, down, favourable. Peoplo

ataggeringly were entert tained, excelled, amused,' I 'Wroin i "Author", "insload of Journalist she a new passport."""

And so it wont on, I look Michael Arlen's ochvico: "Willo+ your second book before you se the reviews of your figut. "Casino Royale" is good, but the reviewers + may damn it and take the heart out of you."

Resign from my clubi. Leave the country.

One day I had lunch at the Ivy literary with an old friend, and Idol of mine, Willan Plomer, and

KITCHEN SINK I asked him how you get cigarette smoke out of a woman-once you've

I mid. TN 1933, in Jamaica, 1 wrote got it in. "All right,"

This woman Inhales, takes a deep "Live and Let Die"; In 1994, lungful of smoke, drawn deeply on "Moonraker," and then, last year,

like. "Diamonds Are Forever." her cigarette-anything you That's easy,. But how do you got out of her again? 'Exhales' is

It

Of "Diamonds Are Forever," 14 sald: "I've put everything into this

Д

MY SECRET

A hopeless word. Pulls it out is except the dichen sink. Can you kitchen WHEN I got back to London,, I silly, What can you make her think of a plot abou

nothing with the manu-

'sink for the next one?. Otherwise; William looked at me sharply. I am lost." So, as I say my mental hands script. I was too ashamed of it.

Now I am off to Jamalen again. it "You've written a book." and, empty, and

No publisher would want although I

with were

pressure I ncoded only slight

typewriter-ribbon A BYUTO hm as lazy

Englishmen BA most

one did, I would not have the face

He Even under a from William. to see it in print.

was a friend and a load of desperately blank - are, [ have a Puritanical disliion of

horrible foolscap, through which James. Idleness and a natural love of pseudonym, someone would look and would tell me the uction. I decided to write a book, the ghastly fact that it was I who truth about the book without con- Bond must somehow shoot his way.

words In had written this adolescent tripe, demning me or being scornful during the next eight weeks. Writing about 2,000

my secret I sent "Diamonds are Forever" is pub- There would be one of those sly giving away three hoursą every morning "Casino

He forced shed by Cape 41 12s. 6d. and this. in itself.

the

Metiele la reprinted by arrangement Londoner's him the manuscript. paragraphs Royale dutifully produced

Diary Shame! Disgrace! Disaster! Cape's to publish It. The reviews, with Smith's Trade News

I rewrote nothing and mode no

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Sir BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP, asks:

WHY THE TO MORAL

T

London spectacle of a Communist Prime

Minister

ANTAGONISM REARMAMENT

ότ Foreign ed on

me last Spring, and we dishonesty in that view.

and

there

They Movement soine of the younger displayed qualities

in-

I

WO Canadian MP's, deputation of Sunday Times Secretary (I forget which) did chatted together on the terrace believe that the Capitalist sys- members

one a Tory and one machine men telling Lord some pretty shady work about of the House of Commons. We tem, despite its defects, is the which were not without some

a ploce suppressing

of news, got talking about her duties and any economic philosophy under, similarity to the early develop- a Kemsley that they would a Liberal, paid

she which there can be partnership ment of the Nazis. In fact The pollician bore a remark her leisure at Caux,

of the recall when, as editor that Sir Anthony Informed me

were instead of dictatorship.

share friendly visit to my call a strike if.Dr Buchman able ikeness to

Nearly all of us

that Sunday Express. I published a

the two cinemas in the town.

Buchmanlle mentioned in that Eden,

Capitalism criticism of Admittedly house recently. They had was

but I did not see the play

Just to make conversation, I view

in methods. They were at Oxford of an

asked her which cinema she sustains a state of melely

there ого great at the time-in fact their other come from the Swiss head newspaper seems to border read it by the courtesy

the Improbable. quarters of Dr Buchman's on

Nor MRA friend

The lesson of would attend if she had a day which

no barrier equalities, but

is title was "The Oxford Group"-.. Minister or a off. Her perfectly sincere reply raised against latent or tenacity, and they bought up every copy В was that Prime Mora) Rearmament Move- is it easy to visualise a

should ment, and they were full of committee of Red printers Foreign Secretary

be was that God would guide her in an Imperfect world Capital of the Sunday Express before

an attitude Surely such

ig except by nothing

an showing Lord Beaverbrook activated

ever- the coples could reach the pub- the missionary telling praise for

the very abdication of human

ancient universitý. work that is being done by that if Buchman is in the goodness, honesty and simplicity.

As for editors they should have dignity. To

the town. What is more, I received And if realism. Daily Express then they, that organisation.

Capitaliara a peremptory telephone call on enly one policy-to publish the ance into the choosing of one

arguca truth, the whole

truth and film from another is the climax the printers, are out.

nothing but the truth.

of absurdity. We were given has no alternative but to bow the Saturday warning me not to inevitable, But as Pilate

To crowded cynic sense ind will power.

is deny these things

on

answer

of the

uld increasing sense of responsibil- lie of that bring divine guld- ant

cynic

to

the

that

would

remarked: wisdom, judgment, taste, cornmon answer that history's pages are publish what I had written."

the

MA

come Is to

with

the

-21

01250.

Therefore let us return to outr who were two Canadian MP's good enough to visit me at my They could not have been maro gamerous of spirit, and they mixed healthy laugh- ter with their undoubted sincer ity of purpose. It seemed to me

They described the good

As for a deputation of Com- work that the Buchmanftes had been achieving in West munist circulation men deliver-

ing a similar ultimatumn to the "What is Truth?" The

with disasters and Germany, and also told me editor of the Daily Telegraph, will

Truth that

its wars that came from of the excellent results of it must pass the borders of ab- seldom pure and never simple, down to the jungle,

10. Therefore, the resentment. The day may come Certainly not in polities.

superstitions and voodoo wor- fusal of kings and dictators the Movement's activities in surdity.

towards the Movement was not do just that thing. when the machinists and the Here, then,

is the source of ship.

What, then, are the criticisms without scre justlication, Africa. There was no reason

delivery men will dictate the

the antagonism to part of

levelled against Dr Buchman Nevertheless (at least this is my. to doubt their enthusiasm policy of a newspaper, but that Buchman Movement: It seems

and his Movement? One of the opinion)' newspapers should not by his ban news and commont or any or their sincerity.

day has not arrived. Not yet.

to many of us that Buchmanism

principal points raised Tules rules out the intellect and, ap- It is, however, in the realm detractors is the non-publication matter of public interest. News- Eventually they reached

peala purely to the spirit. By of Industrial relations that the of accounts showing income papers should apply to them- the question which is al-

conducting and expenditure. Where does selves the old defiance: "Publish Buchmanites are Some of my

Meral Reama contrast consider the genius, ways asked. Why is there a

inspiration and the realism their strongest campaign. And tire money come from and how and be damned!” boycott of MRA in the ment friends say that the boy-

Mount.

here they are putting forward a le it spent? Dr Buchman could the Movement's chief of the Sermon on the colt of

humanity gave

which reply that he makes no public British press? The news-

the philosophy and a gospel publicist, Peter Howard, is be- Christ papers which gave endless cause he left Fleet Street to greatest political programme of cannot be set aside by the cynic appeals for funds and is, there

to It appealed As all time.

fore, not called upon to account the or the satirist. columns to reporting the crusade for a better world.

for the expenditure. even more, It ap- Their

13. that argument evangelical activities of a matter of fact Howard was at spick but,

pealed to the mind.

nothing but mutuni confidence Billy Graham will not give one me "Cross-Bencher"

between employers and work- the eventual an inch to Dr Buchman and the Sundy Express, and was

ern can prevent merciless as well as a brilliant

And his followers. Like the man commentator o the folblea

To the extent that mankind triumph of Communism. of in the Gallup Poll, I could Brush politicians.

has followed those teachings it from that point, they argue that answer, it might be argued that that they represented all that Parliament has progressed. To the extent mutual confidence can only be undoubtedly much of the fund was good to this highly or only answer their question

irrevocable ganised business of saving couls, It must normally love publicity but I that It has falled or rejected obtained by mutual respect. deeds of covenant which do not and were not tainted with ang with: "Don't know."

that ran assure you

during them It has suffered.

is all very well to scoff at these.

they come under taxation. Therefore of its imperfections. There is no reason to doubt truisme

the ·The spirituald `war-old-Com- and to say that Howard's regimo as a columnist

the gut is really from

hl=} 10 his we MP's turned

the sincerily page

of the Buckman- aro with one hope--that we would itea, just as there is no reason the usual platitudes of the Pockets of the taxpayers who munism veraus. £reedom privileged classes, but

to make up the deficit be fought to an end. The breach But my visitors had a

nut have been mentioned. But to deny that their work

in will never be good relations in have

caused by the deeds of covenant between employers and workers

The under theory of their own.

if Saul of Tarsus saw the light, Africa has been helpful. But industry until that idea takes At best it is a legal point, and must be bridged.

righteous privileged coloured men in the boycott of Moral Rearma- why should not floward enjoy the approach to the people of root in the brain and the soul i do not share the

a similar conversion.

the West must be on a different of employer and employee wrath which some of my friends colonial territories mént was imposed by the

raised to equal citizenship in both of the mind and the In fact, the Buchmanibes op exhibit. Communist workers

MRA level, em- A year or so ago the

regimentation

It is Nevertheless,

a weak fact and not merely in principle. theatre and spirit, London

the brutal poso

philo polot in the Buchmanité With all its defects the Moral ployed by the British press. took

Let me give you an example of Communlan with a Surely that was obvious to presented a season of plays to

which the audience was charged of the over-simplification, of the sophy of good work achieved in armour. They would lose nothing, Rearmament Movement is play

re- by complete candour.

ing an honourable part in no admission. One of the plays Buchmanite appeal. A very nice an atmosphere of mutual

Finally, there is the charge bringing a better tomorrow than Theory is one thing but had as its setting London Canadian woman who is one of spect and mutual self-trylerest.

of the mankind' has ever seen. of that in the early doya the their permanent adherents call- Nor is there any elemerat practice in another. The newspaper office in which

me?

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