1956-10-27 — Page 8

THE CHINA. MAIL,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1956.

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Rebecca West attacks

Evelyn Waugh & Graham Greene

TO one, outside the

tiny world of pro- fossional assassins, speaks up for mur- though thero aro those who, for different reasons, cry out against the verdict of the rope.

Yet there are plenty out- side the work of treachery to speak up in defence of traitors. Why should this be su?

Way should people who are alherwise beyond reproach rich round in circles beating the a Anding the most elaborate evises to defend men who are gully, either in the eyes of the law of their countrymen, of (the Basëst treachery?

An answer is given today by cheers West, the dishie gungind witer who is studied the

mechanics personal

of treason more closely than any- Fone vise in Britain.

S"

'CLIMATE'

'They have created a climate of crackbrained confusion between virtues and vices... a climate In which the traitor flourishes'

by Anthony Hern

it

Miss West, being a novelist of imagination as well as a com. mentator of perception, goes even further and /COH deeper. That is why she this:

even says

All men should have a drop or two of treason In their veins, if the nations cro not to go soft like alcopy pears.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to maintain of to reform society.

to furnish the rebellion which is sometimes necessary If society is not to perish.

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in critical

The new edition of her werk transferred thin fransvaluation the virtues are judged as if they comes out this week as a cheap of values to a higher plane, and had alrusit the sort of false atil-

paper-baelt"--and that ins

represent at only God's crea- lude which betrays an incapacity

Both in stiff and zelf makes news.

tures as sordid and irascible. for art, while The people who process, the aan who makes the practise the vlees are regarded salutary reform and rebellion is There are Christians who as if they had shown the subtle the same as the man who makes berve themselves to be glorify- rightness of gesture which la the the murderous revolution. ing their Maker, but they share sign of the born artist. common ground with Monsieur Andre Gide, whose faith never firm. but who went the

Them with

In the way For many years Mr Evelyn pregnant entence: "To me the Waugh has been Implying work!

Instinet always

the

This is what the woman who attended the trials of William Joyee and John Amery pro-Nazi traitors), and of Fucha and Nunn May (the Cominunist traitors) says

that the worthiers and dissolute the most sincere." are more worthy than people who are in fact worthy and who keep nober.

From his works one can fore-

was all

seemed

!! 14 cerlalu that Evelyn Weugh and Graham Greene and Francols Maurisc would themselves #ympathise With treachery, and they had indeed

the voler of Inyalty.

CHAOS

But the distinction between the loyal treacherous

and preserver

The destroyer is not LAN NUNN MAY and Fuchs merely a matter of degree, it is П matter of fundamental fallowed a outh that led preference: loyally lovca nowhere. bid they are thought and treachery hates it.

who perished

life

man

CHE blazes two of the lending Waiters of Britain-Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene-for new hagiography in which producing an intellectual climate the saluts will not be depicted exprcased on various 15ues with keep It, even at the cost of their caution and mercy of love, and

as giving their cloaks to poor men in the snow, but us being stly in need of cloaks them- relves, being helpless in the snow ewing to alcoholic excess.

in which tellectual treachery Bourbes,

She has rewritten her best

"The Meaning of

A6671

• Hry.

selling bogk

"Haven't we met aumewhere before ?**

that #1 encom- this new

{Treason"

passes Thought.

But they have created 2012 intellectual" climate in which there is a crackbrained confu- sion between the moral and the and that confusion is People who practise

Mr Graham Greane and and startling Monsieur Francois Maurine fa aesthelle.

noted French novelist] have inverted:

because of the unsympathetic So it happens that the war attitude of society, but had left against treason is hard to wage. proof of their authentle glits. For the most loyal

When equested people reject dedicated to the defence of his men who come to an agreement country, must inevitably become with their Jellow-ettizues and a traitor, should he abandon the

lives, and refer men who come fall in the rashness and injustice

an agreement with Their of hate, fellow-clllzen and break 11

Once he begins to hate, the because they want to put those

EN

of the quite against conspiracy fellow-citizens,

minority their wills,

majority Evems just a system of against which government

many the instrument he wanted, and people may lose their lives but he is at one with his enemies not themselves, then the age and civilisation is nearer defeat. must be scrutinised carefully.

based

under

in

Patriotism

not

If one wanted a prescription love canno! remain

On

Cyril Stapleton's

FROM THE INSIQE

Column

HOW A STAR MAKES A RECORD

Let me take you right into my world.......into the picture that costs £250 an hour

TODAY I take you

backstage in a recording studio. The record is

being made by Rugby Murray, with Norrle

Paramor and his

Grebestra. It is called

"Knock At The Door," and

with the song on the

other side-True Love"

--took two hours to make.

Two hours....but that

is only part of the story.

SOUR

THIS IS

THE STORY

Paramor and Ruby Murray spend two days each week * not just Ilstening to

2 Pully out of 100 or so the

By

$

tio record

Are

chansen avd the big għamble an win ther trey breume hits begins. 39 afterbean is set aside

desetissions ол

the tho

"mond" of the songs and type of orche, Um to have. It is

decided to

to have the same- musician and cheiras used for the Eidle Calvert recording of "Oh Mein Papa."

4 Paramor spends two days arranging the music: that is writing down every note that played by every musician.

5 Ruby Murray rehearses for

6

four days with

RUBY MURRAY

એ

NORRIE PARAMOR

SPEAKER FOR ENGINEER

CONTROL BOX],

MULTI-TONE PIANO

PLAY BACK

SPEAKER

Now Capitol trunch a new series

CHOIR

recordings by Bel

XYLOPHONE

with

HARP

DOOR KNOCKER SOUND EFFECTS}

HARP COVER

MATTRESSES FOR SOUND BAFFLING

DRGAN

for the reduction of society

complete chans one need only

create д firm publie pinion

which would regard William

Joyce and John Amery and

patriotism.

HUMANITY

Ballile-Stewart, Alan Nunn May THIS is the most devastating and Fuchs, Burgess and exposure of the es ene

Maclean, as admirable citizens treachery yet mode.

whose conduot should

imitated, and the State as

body which can be cheated

and deceived without shame.

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It is devastating because it is understanding.

It is understanding becauso

for 80

Now that is a breath-taking Mits West speaks with the voice denunciation by a

of humanity-tolerant writer of long, but, in the end, ruthless. her fellow writers.

(COPYRIGIFT)

RIGHT HAND,

I

LEFT HAND

By DONALD GOMERY

་

WAS not in one of the street-and then finds the

my most reckless beggor is running around in o moods, and in half an

hour I spent 55.-throwing

Rolls-Royce.

Why does the Church

rings round jamjara and on this poverty-strickeri guessing the weight of 1 cake.

put

act

when it has so much money salted away?

That was at the local public utterances of church fete.

I look back through the other the arch- bishops and blahops this year and I find few references to

I usually drop in to the Christ; and most of the time church fete, because I like seema to have beca spent even the mildest gamble attacking divorce and gambling. (and once I did win a cake), Though I never drop in to the church.

even

But I don't think I will go to the church feto again. All because of the archbishop.

Apathy

BUT of course I was gambling course there are

at this church fets. And of many people who say that switching one's Investments on the Stock Ex- change is a form of gambling

Gambling... too.

Surely the Church could ALL SET FOR THE RECORD SESSION ... OUT OF THIS COME TWO SONGS, ONE RECORD, AND THE HOPE FOR A MONEY-SPINNER.

THE Archbishop of Can- tocent purso strings and terbury, Dr Geoffrey to its money to try to bring For the very young there are brought up the same

Examine subject, the first time since 1963 Frankie

the rest of the Fisher, has or "Junter" records aimed at the

(Thero just been people to the Church? Blanc, the Then a tinge of regret came into Laine is in No, 1 place with his quick sellers today and you talking, hand

are a lot of people waiting.) pianist below-14-year-olds.

in trouser The bishops might even copy man who möde such a hit with his voice before the session: the band hos

for we mentioned version of "A Woman In Love" find:

pocket and with a laugh the cruzading methods of BIIY This could

lenci

to a new "I Taut I Taw A Putty Tat" the singer with the biggest teen- from "Guys and Dolls.” no pre-recording rehearsal,

The newly formed Tony and a joke, struggle between all the record two years ago.

ago following of them all: Elvis

about the Graham, This intrigues me because in Crombie Band comes in at 25

that Liberace of re "takes" of each companies because Four or

or five

the com- Then there's a series of records Presley.

Amerien it has been sang are recorded on tape pany which captures iho real by Hopalong Cassidy. They are the best of cach is then selected youngsters should hold them as five-minute

Was Mr P, a power for good since Laine has he even longer with his first rock 'n' roller Church's money. And this is gion. Anything, rather tha

what he said: That the the present apathy, the harping **Westerns,"

"Shortenin' Bread Rock." and THAT'S the record. In they begin

among the teenagers of America? and not oven "A Woman In

on lesser things, 10 buy "senior music and sound effects.

Alas, no, sold Me Liberace. Love" is helping him there. 0 Tommy Steele, Decca's Bri- Church of England now has some cerd-making sessions records."

So records gradually extend. "Presley could be if he talked!

tisk rock 'n' roll enswer to Elvis £120 million invested on And surely the Church should lve known 25 lakes to be taken "Cappy is the emblem which their grip-I awaft now Gramo- about his mother. But the em

While this week, for the first Presley, gets in by the stat of the Stock Exchange: that stretching out its right hand for

bo above pleading poverty time since best selling charts his jeans at No. 30. It's called income rose $700,000 last funds, when with its left hand Capitol is using and already, phone for Grandfather and the phasis is on

on vulgarity. after just a week, Cappy is get whole range of the family will "I don't think it Presley... were started four years ago, Bri- "Rock with the Caveman." session: ting sa much fan mail as most be covered.

but the people around him." toin's George Melachrine enters Another new nome in the year to £11,000,000; that it is jingling tile money In la

the list at No. 18 with his fine list is Bitchell Torok, His res since 1948 Income has pocket? recording of "Autwan Concerto." cording of "When Mexico Gave jumped 62 percent. And

Yot in America Melachrine is Up the Rhumba" (No. 11) brings that the Church owna Pad- might just as well have spent a consistent big seller. Earlier the total of records which owe dington Railway Station. TIERE is a once-familiar this year he won a golden disc their success to rock 'n' roll to

my five chillings on the football Now 1 feel like a man name back at the top of the for selling more than a million 16 out of the top 30. sellers list this week. For long players.

Who Dools, (CUPYRIGHT)

gives a copper, to a beggar 'in

of one Pide.

7

The cost

of this

Ruby Murray

around £500.

two-hour

And that's how a record made....

*

Junior dises

я

of the established stars together,

There's niso a "Cappy Club"

with a badge and birthday cards

every year. The records are ex- cellent. I particularly like the light classical pieces with

WITH calculating care a narrator telling the story,

7

Good boy club

ITEM from America- Sammy Davis Jun., the ne cord singer, has started a council best to combat juvenile delinquency.

record company is sprend- Wol layer items like the He thinks that so many record ing is not to capture the "Post Gyn!" Suite, "Swanstorns have big teenage followinga younger-than-teenage buyers,

Lake" and "The Three Comeret they can use them to encourage Most people who buy records Hat," take on a new attraction good behaviour. The same day are between 18 and 22 years old. for youngsters treated this way. was talking to Liberace. He

THE TOP TEN****

2

"WOMAN IN LOVE"|4. “GIDDY « UP - A » DING... | Frankie Laine, Phulpa, į

DONG." Freddie Bell and the Bellbore. Mercury.

"LAY DOWN YOUR 5 "ROCKIN' THROUGH THE ARMS."

Anno

Philips.

Shelton.

BIE" Bill Haley Brunswick,

Cometa,

"WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE.” Doris Day.

Phillips.

“GREAT” PRETENDER,” “ONLY. YOU." · " ́Pisitors.

Moreurryk

BONG,"

"YING TONG "BLOODNOR'S NOCK 'N' ROLL (GALLI”? Goona.

*Docea.

6: “BRING A LITTLE WATER

Lonnie Donegan. "ARCLOCK"ZNBALL,

Cometa Brunswick.

"HOUND DOG." Elvis ALIVER

SYLVIE" "DEAD OR 10 "ROCK" "AROUND

Prosity. H.MV.

Pyn/Nixa

THE

Haley

Best-Selling

JOHNNY HAZARD

THAT'S IT, SCOTTV!

I TOLD MASTERS OFF. SO WE CAN EXPECT OPEN WARFARE STARTING}

NOW

YUR JOHNNY, AND I'M NOT RELYING! ON KITTY TO SAVE

OUR SKINS, EITHER! !- GOT MY OWN SECURITY SCHEME LINED UP! COME

SBE

DAY AND NIGHT, WATCH.OP TRUSTED GUARDS UP TO THE MOMENT YOU TAKE OFF IN THE BIG RACE/ BUT JUST IN CASE THEY SHOULD SLIP THROUGH AND LAMANG BABOTAGE IT...

By Frank Robbina

THIS, IS THE PLANG YOU'RE REALLY FLYING! THE GUARDED ONE IS A

DECOY

NE HOW TO SUNĂ | DOUBLE-CROSS

A DOUBLE CROSEER, EH, SCOTTY VERY VERY CUTE!

I'm thinking now

(COPYRIGHT)

that

this situation.

calls for a

San Miguel