1956-10-23 — Page 4

They still raise the flag

T

A DEAD S STAYS A

HE world's

stran - gest T- tical shrine is a great battleship, fully manned by dend men, lying submerged in the middle of Pearl Harbour,

Hawail.

Rising from the depths is a tall flagpole anchored on the harbour bed.

Each morning a guard of honour proceeds in & launch 8 o'clock, and, at exactly raises the American flag.

The ceremony is carried out in complete silence, ex- cept for the bugle call.

The Ang is that of the USS Arizona, the Krat battleship which is lying on the warm seabed, a rotting, rusting hulk.

By

BILL WHARTON

AB

almost reached her age of re

renent.

She was 20 years old, with nine months to g Lefore being declared overage.

She carried twelve 14-inch Kuns in her main ballery, and she was a formidable enemy. Her crow was one of the knp- piest and most contented afluat,

Caught totally unawares at 8 o'clock on that fateful morning,

bravely Arizona

buttied to

ward of the wave of torpedo She was struck her bombers. Ari vitel blow under Turret Armour-poreng bombs ruined to her

One of these penetrated the rock babe Turre 11, and hit the forward magazines, which ex plaster,

The Arse that followed rose Rent- To 500 Text in the sky Armiral Kidd unst Captain Vin Valkenburgh were killed on the Spol

When the Japanee attacked Peart Hurtxaur on DecembT 7, 1941. Arizona was the only ship to be completely destroyed ut Peart Hurbont Eleven hun- and dred of her 1,500 officers STK: <liod with her, including up. the Rear-Admiral,

A that

crucial moment

A

Jup dripped a bumb clean down The funnel It exploded in the tire rooms and the bollers blew

THE CHINA MAIL,” TUESDAY,

OCTOBER

1956.

THE Stars and Stripes till alles bravely at the stern

Hunken of the U.S.S. Arizona soon after the great battleship was xunk in the Japanese nitack on Pearl Harbour 1941. December 7, on That

flag stili flies.

the enemy uniil the away al men were unable to touch them water They poured for beat. over the guns and storted fring again

of the The evacuation wounded was going on all the tine, but by 9.30 the whole ship was on fire and the remaining get instructed were Int

and to swim to overboard nearby Ford Island

was

When the blast from hell was nyer the tally of dend

47 of the ship's taken!

liter were deal, and

100 1,050 men out of 1,411 were dead. Of 87 Murhu on board at the time.

The 21 24 had died.

battleship's musicians in the band had died fighting. He broke loose The Jup

The American nation mourn bombers kept coming ut

ed their ad--and then asked Arizona until she was a blazing the Navy Department to let the Inferno from fore to aft.

The dend stay with their stip.

The bulk was Within ten minutes the fight Navy agreed.

was Navy's books for Arizona

uver. Her stripped

of everything above just as if she were still in ger back was

she broken,

listed the main deck, and a platform vlee, and her colours are raised hurd

too was built and a silver fingpole setucd lowered dally just as is quickly to capsize, and only the to mark the resting place of and

other fighting wreckage of her superstrucutre the battleship. done on every

Today turrets way lent exposed. Thip.

and every day When she was bombed m

But still Arizom fought back. colour) are hoisted, not half- Deecmber 1941,

Arizona bad The guns were kept blazing masted, but in their full glory.

The

Navy United States

to refused Department

de commission the battleship; she

emains on the

and

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"Whoever said 'These Protest Marches spread like measles' said something.”

“Front" organisations—the Soviet Trojan horses in the free world-are being painted in fresh colours and occasionally reshaped. These superficial alterations cannot conceal the simple fact that they are essentially instruments of international Communism,

NEW PAINT FOR THE COMMUNIST TROJAN HORSES

THE

T

this year

By JOHN CLEWS

Comunista have ceased their cratic Foderation is

bo planning

of

believed un Asian

LOVE IN BLOOM

BUT

HOW LONG DOES THE BLOOM LAST?

T

HOSE fragilo 'new_ bloom' months of

- marriage — they are tho trickiest, most dan gerously difficult time in a woman's life.

I, for one, am much happier in the tenth year of my marriage than I ever was in the first. And I'm perfectly sure every truth- ful woman would say the

same.

All the glossy magazine talk about "the enchanting post honeymoon period" is bunkum.

It's anything but crichant- ing. In fact, it's downright explosive.

On the CREDIT SIDE you have the Indescribable satis- Betion of banging the front door In the face of prying noscy-parkers; and the tender and awareness of "belonging' ically being alone.

But on the DEBIT SIDE (for the working bride, anyway) there is learning to dovetail a full-time job of houscleping Into a career.

And there is the shock of Anding out that a charmer in the moonlight

be An may untidy monster in the bathroom,

NOT SO QUIET

CHECKING round with brides- who-made-the-headlines in

the last few months, I find it's all not-so-quiet on the newly- wed front.

Barbara Lyon (daughter of the famous Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels), who has been ten weeks married to Russ Turner,

crept down the rapphire-carpeted stairs of her London

home at 9 a.m. and me: "We had ai Would you awfully inte right.

greeted

like some breakfast?"

While the coffee perked sho muttered: "I never realised it Was so difficult running a house. I'd never rorubbed

11 floor before. We lost

our daily help,

and what with By

cooking, work Ing, and paint GWEN

ing furniture, It has been sheor murder."

Japan, India, China, North Koren and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Committee has its headquarters not in any part of Soviet Asia, but in Moscow So thr, meetings of these Com mittees have been held in Delhi and Poking. It is also proposed to hold

"Asian-African dinner: an Economic Conference" curly

Moscow and Peking now pre fer the path of indirect sub- version to their old policy of direct action This is the pur- pose of all the "trade union" meetings, collier, writery con- gresses and youth festivals,

Soviet new leaders made it pretty plain carlier although that world Communism is still their aim, the "tough" tac Conference, which It accused target for Communist blandish

and OVIT again of merits. The World Federation tics of the past are now to over

"splitting world student unity." of Democratic Youth is holding be abandoned for more Today all this is changed. co International Meeting of next year. subtle approaches. A smile Following

the old Leninist Young Girls at the end about is most disarming so long precept

Infiltrating October In Paris, while the organisations," the Women's International Demo as your gun is kept careful "bourgeois ly hidden behind your back.

open attacks on such bodles as to This change of approach is the International Confereration Mothers Conference to be held ni about the· game time in particularly noticeable in of Free Trade Unions and the

Youth

In December thera Campaign. Indonesia, Asia and other so-called European

Insteaxi, they

CH!!

for is to be an Asian Writers' Co-

World "colonial" areas,

India under "collaboration.

They

gress in soy: Over the past 10

get years an "Let

over Peaco Couned! auspices. together

With one or two exceptions- elaberate system of Communist matters upon which we agree, "fronts" has beer badili UID throughout the world to supple. the more militant Com- These organisations. fronts cover nearly all aspects of trade union, women and children, youth and students, scientists, artists, musicians,

journalists, Jawyers, man. There is also the general "peace" front

the World Peace Council.

business-

In Stalin's time, the aim of these organisations was apparent enough for what they were → Communist cover bodies. Every statement made by Moscow and Poking was at ance taken up by them, and every action induced a corresponding reaction.

Blatant Sign

in

*

Special Year

It

ROBYNS

She told me of the first time re the two sets of parents came to "I was fursing in the kitchen and the two mothers came out to help. And you'll nevent gubes which one went out first!"

That is round one to Barbara in how to win friends and in- fluence mothers-in-law.. It was Bebe Daniels who made the exit.

We talked about how £ wedding ring changes your anse of vahače, "---

Next year will be a special "I used to spend my lunch the Moscow Youth Festival in year for Communists, since it houry at the dressmaker's or

dates and particular the

hairdressers. will mark the 40th anniversary

Yesterday I got a big kick out of buying a gunisational detail

these of the Russian Revolution. In of Mr Clews is a British

events are

the Moscow The this connection,

dustbin, and I don't care if very vague. writer on international

young

merating

planned for never soe a night club again," for Youth Festival affairs whose

instance, commen-

Financially, the Turners are has been postponed next August under the auspices taries have appeared

In the position that happens allow more once, to

pre of the WFDY and the IUS will parations," "In

more often than you think.... other words to be particularly significant. German, French, Japan-

attract more "delegates." Little will form an integral part of The wife carns much more than ese, Indian and American

the

throw husband....maybe Journals,

Jong-term planning is necessary the internal Soviet campaign to as well as in

times as much in this cate. for them Communist meetings, glorify the achievements of the British newspapers. AL

rince they are simply demonstra- Communist regime,

Their solution is that Barbara one time Mr Clews served

has the busincas bank account tions of solidarily with what- The Soviet trojan horses in on the Executive of the ever line the Communists hap- the free world are being paint-

and Russell the private one, and of International Union

pen to be following at the time, ed in

colours

they are both joint accounts. Model Stafford Hutchinson Students; he also hos They are not intended to pro- cccasionally reshaped. But few had first-hand experience

mote any serious discussions. poople will be deceived. These (seven works bride of Donald

Amon the

seen less of her most recently superficial alterations cannot Ogilvy) has Communist of - other

Ho formed Communist front, or conotal the simple fact that husband than ever before ganisations are so-called they are essentially instruments works as a night reporter and "Asian Solidarity Committees," of the Communist "ant!- she works in the day.

014 They have ro far been set up in colonial campaign;"

Pre-marriage dreading-gown, and na make-up, the brewed herself a cup of tea for breakfast, eta Ann D

"front" organisations.

and let us not indulge in argu- ments over disagreements,

This approach sounds reason-

example,

The

the

fresh

EXPERTS WORK ON NEW FIND:

IS

The most bintant sign of zbie—unili it is reprémbertð their Communist direction was that the aspects of disagree. the expulsion

are fundamental, while Yugoslavia ment from the Continform, Prompt the points of agreement are ly the World Peno Council few and superReial, kleked out its Yugoslav mem- Take student affairs as an ber, averruing the protests of

International the non-communiat minority. Union of Students has never The World Federation #f D3mo-

condemned the repression of cratie Youth and the Inter- student rights in the Communist national Union of Students croat, though it is constantly followed sult, I was

proclaiming itself the champion student rights in the rest of of the world. So long as the IUS student continues

to discriminato, so quotations from Christ are

THERE A

FIFTH GOSPEL?

of the few present when IUS Executive pelled the Yugoslav

the

body, There was no appeal

From STEPHEN HARPER

and

Now, Donnid is just cominge home mom work when she is going out. So their breakfast hour must be as glamorous and Cosy

newlyweds" dinner time. 2) ...

on (normal

TEENACE BRIDES FTER that, I called on a couple of teenage brides who head wagging

Cairo damaged when they were sold set older ARCHEOLOGISTS bet Copile priest of a village

that direct

Bwlas paychologist Jung for

mission to marry earlier this

year.

In 1940, the Coptic Museum Seventeen-year-old Mangerot

£250,000 Another went to the | howa: in Britain when they" and an investiguring commis- long as it ignores reales in contained in an important in Cairo. bought one volume for Gribben and Albert Leigh mado

one part of the world, then to find they are investigating. Belgian antiquary: Albert Eld, were refused permission sion was refused. Those who Jong will real collaboration be attempted to mise the question imposible, the other sibility that a fifth Gospel Eld's book was sold to famed sumelcht, income: Well-be

There is even a pos- who later died.:.

magistrate, because, bo did not consider £13. 108. a.

m/weekcja at the World Student Congross And this goes for of 1980 were accused of "prove fronts, yet this "collaboration has been discovered.

imve been married 17 weeks cation,"

technique is now being applied

now and say: No regrets?? the money "la working out to well wo could even afford to Their approach, li frank and grown-up they pool whages mid split what wert after rent, food and savings...

Yugoslav

the immediato" future,

"Fascists" spread to the other Inumisis havo,` great plans for books, hidden at the dawn of toted as the Book of Truth is have a £omilly."ARKET

after

their

And so the expulsion of the on a wide scale, and the Com-significance of the 48 papyrus 2,020),

It is only now, that the 35,000 Swiss francs about newly discovered

This book, now partly frans fronts.

Christianity in a largo earthen- ware jar, is being realised to believed to have been written by When Yugoslavla WAN

named Valentinus "rehabilitated"

They were found in 1945 by an Egyptian Stalin's

Little Doubt workmen... it 4. Greco-Roman in Rome in the second century. death, the proccae was reversed. All the fronts found out the

de pour cemetery at Nag Hamadi,;a Meanwhile, a Cypriot collector error of their ways, and invited At the end of September the village 70 miles from Luxor, had bought the other books for But for forlaright mucross the Yugoslavs bock again. But General Council of the World ancient city of the Pharaohs,200 and lent them to a Cairo my heart really warmed to fina the Yugoslavs, once bitten, were Federation of Trade Unions met Professor Hent Fuech, French museum for evaluation in Bradley of Penaben, Londonas twice shy and rejected the in Bulgaria, One of the most archaeologist who is leading a Their value was realised and, also a bride of 17 worki offers

Important matters considered seven-man International The Yugoslav issue was just was its proposed African Trade mittee Lying to translate the owns all a Government got a lot of respect for

In the spected. they stayca one of the striking features of Union Conferetwel ab.Count, in pepers, said in Cairo: "I'm finds, then ingerologine who can see nothi the fronts.

Another was the French West, Africa. There fairly sure some of the sayings museum. The way in which at one time, they reems little doubt that this are direct translations from tho, Indemninest. attacked any organisation con- conference will also be linked Aramale tongue Jesus used. Emirate sidered to be a serious rival, with the proposal to call; and There de levery possibility Idris Ball, former Keeper

Trade that the words may have been Manu next

Othe salds

One of the committee ajde zhod

The World Federation of Trade Afro-Aadan Banching taken down from JerUE SE

Unions for instance, constantly union con Fatimcked all Its at non-Commamlet":

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