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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1956.
NATHANIEL GUBLINS
vote cloud. Ooch often thinks that if he went to the Sahara the desert bloom and solve a lot of problems about world population and food supplies.
with his cloud he would make
OCH and Owch, your rheumaticky Uncle Nat and the Plucky Little Woman, are about to take a holiday.
Owch Is not much in faveur For some time they have of 800 voyage because looking through you need at least two months to with everybody on brochures, studying details unre
bourd,
make friends, quarrel of attractive voyages and guin, and then swear to be cruises.
life-long obuns,
She
beon
They have considered rolling about in hot mud at sums spa for three works. 413 driving round the country in the ear fur shan- or going anywhere
bine. They have also read many columns about holidays abroad.
Another reason why he is re- luctant to leave his own country currency. is the diffulty with foreign
Among his many failings is Ooch's Inability to count and Even make quick calculations.
on British money foxes him most occasions, though, when e in particularly alert and not daydreaming, he can work ou! from simple suma such as Bd.
ul o discovered! 2. kl. leaves 23.
that Ooch at sea is a gregarious and friendly rhrau*a4ཎྷ*r, In- terested, incl unused by
his flow creatures and able to igend too much time in the stip's bar with passengers and tippling with the crew.
It is not that Owch doesn't want Qoch to enjoy himself. Oooh tells Owch he does not
But she thinks that She does. care much for long-distance driving behind Mx, eight, 12. after a few weeks at sen the publi,hed diagram of President and (with trollers V
Eirenhower's Insitle would look wheeled lorries,
healthy, compared to a diagram of Oceli's stomach.
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He remembers driving twice from Earl Kent to Cornwall last year, Owch, neting s navigator, gut #rick In her neck watching for signpost
Ooch al seu
OCH got gramp in the feet and a pain in the back, and Oweh learned TA whole vocabulary of musly words as Ooch crawled in low gear bes hind lorry after lorry.
Dlecussing the setarth For runshine Ooch says he abandon
ed it a long time ago when he discovered that he was being haunted by
private cloud
the Meters,
for
This cloud followed bu
Florida, und Culitoralu
ruin
The ken
of rolling in bot nrud wwl drinking the waters is out beetra e Obch thinks it a silly way to spend a holiday. He says you can buy the dis gusting water must have it.
But when he is in foreign parts he is in a panic about money.
French taxidrivers have yelled abuse it him because he has given them less than the fare when he thought he had A New given then a generous tip.
York taxidriver once handed him back a dime, say- Ing. "Give it 10
old Your poppu, the dook, brother, gutes he needs it more than Ooh thought he had apped him half a dollar
In old Japan
TILL optimistic, Owch says what about going 10
Hum in" We could so in u with French cuisine (one of Owch's weak- #11 conducted tours nes) round Moscow and Leningrad. Pares from £95 inclusive.
In bottles if you French What's more, he doesn't be. Heve that hot mud would lalo the och out of Doch, or the nwch out of Owch
Foreign
travel
LWAYS an optimist, Owch ruis from 1214 columns about fortign travel, knowing to Train experience that Doch wil Italy.
Say "No" ko every ruggestion
Ooch dislikes to sumy
going abroad recall. huw for many reueris, one being happy Blockbrekers of that the Custorns and pa sport Well Street, lying almost made officials reduce him to a state on the scorching beachts of of sullen enge which lasts for Florida in February,
nt at a week.
the
even
ran
for cover when the tem-
wildlyddenly dropped ten
digrees and key rain poured down
their pampered bocie
011
Och says that "from" £85 probably means that we will sleep in the boiler room unless W pay fier as much, And from his
the experience of French there will be another £95 in tips.
What's more, soya Ooch, " conduel.d four means vidilog Leno's tom
There must be better ways of spending a holl- day than ooching and owching годи tomba, staring at the furts of dead Comanurists,
Oweli then rad tu stucke about holidays in Japan, though he must know we would never and time fo get there
Moreover, he does not think that travel broadens the mind. H แม 1214-1 many stupid penple who have spent their have boladays abroad They are back in comfort. They never knew that Ooch Just as stupid when they come had just arrived with his pri- back.
Very Fine Воднас
Sho says the restaurants of d Japan are too wonderful. The food is arranged to de- light thes eye as well as the palat You sit on Bitle mats before a table a foot high eat- ing raw fish,
bamboo, sca weed, rnw qualis exten and lolus leaves, with chopsticks, You have your own little cabinet with a little waitress in a kimono erouching beside you. Ooch says as his right hand is s stiff with rheumatism he would be obliged to use chop- stick with his left, even If he can ure chopsticks at all.
"Come home, Father-and we'll promise we won't have Wimbledon on the radio and television all day long for a fortnight."
But you can
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And how do you eat
raw
eggs with chopsticks anyway, even if you like raw eggs? And why should he travel thousands of miles to cat *w Ash and saweed when he can got them both at Margale, less than an hour away?
Owch says but think of the doar little table and the dear little waitress.
Doch stys he has thought of ተቻ ያገኘ . He has thought of the | misery of being watched by the ile waitress as he tries to ext raw eggs with chopsticks,
He has thought of the serews
In Owch's legs, how she would
manage to lower herself on to little mat and how she the would got up again,
He thinks that neither Ooch nor Owch would ever be able
to leave the restaurant unless they rolled out, knocking the table and the Httle wait- ress for six.
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on a pooplo as discontented as the Poles and the "softly, softly does it" upholders of the New
Thaw.
IMMEDIATELY after the Poznan rising we set up our own Iron Curtain Intelligence Service to report with first-hand precision the newly explosive and exploitable state of the New Look Russia and Her Rumbling Neighbours, The main components of this Service: MOSCOW — Sydney Smith has returned after a long slay there, to report back, censorship free, PEKING — Rene MacColl is back after his second visit there, to
compare notes with Smith. WARSAW - at the flash-point of the пет spirit
not Herewith his first cool analysts...... of rebellion is Sefton Delmer.
A despatch from Sefton Delmer
T
Warsaw.
*HIS Poznan rising
has stirred up re- pressed rebellion Mos- throughout cow's European satellites. BUT MORE THAN
THAT:---
It forces Krushehey to re- consider the whole of his policy of "thaw," the name given here to the Soviet sirong mao's Di- tempts to win popularity with relaxation of the much- denounced Stalin terror.
GOHULKA
OUT OF JAIL, JUSTICE 7
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debating club the other day. He told me about his experiences.
At the end of his talk a man got up and said: "Look, all you have told us so for is the usual framed official newspaper stuff. We want the real lowdown. What is this about, Krushchev having lost his temper at that
dinner?"
And my journalist friend, who careful the most one of followers of the party line, wee so kitoxicated by the new tree- dom that he himself revealed all he knew of Krushchev and Dulganin and their doings.
But
It is significant and symplo- matic in my view of Ochab, new boss and chief protagonist of the Stalin terror school, that he did
accompany Premier Cyran kievicz when he rushed down to Poznani.
Ochab has had
no part in Cypп- kievicz's promises to the strikers to to do everything alleviate and cor-
rect their griev
ances.
And it is. Ochab... who, if the clock is to be put back,
be ther lumphant
cator of the new clamping down. But just as important a figure
Amazing weeds, these, to hear from any man, in an Iron Curtain ulterly dumb- ts Ochab in the wings of the country but political stage of Warsaw is founding in their Independence Wladyslaw Gomulica, the ance com
coming from a Communist Party Runctionary. all-powerful party excretary who he recently been released from gaol.
Gomulki has been five years thers as in alleged Titoist and deviationist.
Then how far is the power of the secret: police really broken? low for ein the protestations andi assurances of frezdem be busted to last?
Be sure of this THE TERROR
Whichever line they choose, .what' policy decision thu Pollsh Government and its to me with the freedom and Moscow bossca takes, it will ONE Folish Communist talking and frankness bred of the now "re laxation" told me that he him tion of Porncis and the rest of affect net caly the rebel popula- self and many of the younger Poland, it will affect the entire
I could sco they were as in- in the work stuinbly, they be- Communists looked to Gomulke iron: Curtain world,' (AM lowest standard of living ↑ have, as I was in the out-
And
The rising not only places in
even more real than this Jeopardy the polley: : jeopar
new liberty and relaxtion of disce the position of its authors
the old police terror is the con- In Moscow and in Warsaw olke, followed, both of us, by secret tinued scenomic misery of the
For nothing could be mort police patrols.
population. dangerously explosive than the I saw thosis of plain-clothes・・ Every time 1 talk to a Pois the present "haw set-up which men in and about the strenta conversation comes back to their Lives Poles the freedom to talk of Poznan. They are carily poverty and misery. They talk and criticise and perhaps even recognisable by the caps and
of it in their queues. They talk to plot while at the same time Lools they wear. (Those awful of it on the railways. They talk the country's kidustrial workers mackintoshes!)
of it at the factory benches and were men condemned to the
quito Geen anywhere in Europe.
comments of the people love that this poverty and to emerge as the aval victor of The new fedcen is real in the street as they inspected miery have been imposed on the enough;
the damage done to the police them by a foreign master and sing
and hip diehards," sold mindquarters
the party his Polish servants,
my friend, "offer no chance of and bullding
resentment success. It is impossible to clamp i Krushchev does not follow up his "thaw by granting Poland * did nothing against the Russians and the down the old terror again. it: No arrests. Maybe, of. Toks collaborating with them "As for Cyrankioviez, ho has the liberty to Pozan rising which I have course, there were DO many grows-and it grows all the more 'bsen discredited in our eyes by Where she pleases, and soul been reading are amazingly pul foreigners around they were rapidly as the relaxation of tho the Poznan rovolt, apoken. They deplore the fight biding their time. ing, describe it in
in detail, and
Thursday night debating then go intimately into the club run by one of the news
of the stribors papers here is an altogether un
arki
THE BATTLE NEWSPAPER reports on the But the agents
|grievances of
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Their Hatred
.
Poznan wis the first expicalon.. There will be others, posably consequences with catastrophic
If he does that," Gomulka So Comilla, sald my Com- might well be his man and own power. ice terror makes them fivel
munistka, Strand, here, In
・nd only,man Poland, from, being, an unwill Warsaw, In- Now hey now Boulet-style convinced Communist come a real friend.
for thom.
lugvally Koday, might well - 173– I myself have been able to go believable institution when com Government skyscraper an and hoils popular as & Polo and WATCH OUT FOR: where I liked, say what I'llood, pered with the Warsaw I used underground struggle had been as a patriot. He can give us, the and to hear what if ilked all to know a few years ago, going on long before the rising Independence we need to got us time I was here I had an escort,
Afournalist who went to between the dichmed of the old out of the wooomla misery into London for the y Buennin. Stallet school on the one hand which dependence on MowoOW attached to ma permanently, while in addition we were frutichev 2 viall addicotect this, thy fear line, struct of liberalism has plunged
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