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WILL

BRITAIN'S 120,000 POLES NOW GO HOME?

W

By PETER CHAMBERS

dellealersen

shops,

import export businessta. Mr J. Pindelski, a Kensington restaurateur, said: shall not ko back. Here 1 have a business. There I have nothing-not even any family," ONE IN TEN

London Tun ILL Britain's restaurants,

120,000 Polea How go home? This is the tople that is being dis- cussed today wherever Poles meet. And the # everyone's lips in Gomulka.

4211

You

110 signibeant

become

fact

Poles-Britain's

In the Polish Club, an At out Exhibition Rout an officer biggest foreign community- on the staff of General is that only one in 10 of the

naturalised Anders-wartime leader of has

13ritish. Musi Poles over 35 the exiled Polish

have never abaciones! the hope said to me: "Gomulka ma that one day they will go home. Like all exlied minorities, become our national hero."

the Polish communlly In This despite the luct That

Britain

rent by political #imo+4

Britain E (1)

disagreement. General Anders, -Communist,

who lives withi his wife and Vladislav Gomulku, the tough HU vx-oil-worker frunt the daughter in milaurban Broudy:- London, is the Carpathians, Ja Tow the Pas bury, West

Pollth Secretary of the Pouch Com acknowledged Trades of

ex-Army munist Party.

Bre

MORE ANTI-RUSSIAN

But mile and half away

Ipahlonable mansion block General Anders staff offer off Baton Square, balding, priced: "You must understand 73-year-olt President Zaleski one thing.. We

and holds a dully Cabinet meeting of the Pulish Govern- inent in Exile" The Zalesk

1 every

Commura, yes That we are much mate anti-Itussian What a The lat Russian solder

Polund then quit patriotic Poe will rejoice."

And every Pole in a patio Pole. He loves his country with

passion

histrionde deeply felt

would

11

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England,

50-year-old

WIN U

like

e

group are Anders's raais, und They lake

much

more

ceptical view of present events

in Polan!.

Zaleski's

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

Cummings

1936.

A NOTED PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER SAYS LORD BEAVER- BROOK'S NEW BOOK WILL CHANGE MEN'S JUDGMENTS OF EVENTS AND PERSONALITIES OF RECENT HISTORY

How big

LEFT TO RIGN? - Llers Quer

OPTI Auth

Gone Law, Male. Durmen, Batverbroen

minds fight the battle

for power

THOSE who fought the First Ate me THOSE

THE WHOLE AIM

Foreign Minister, Zawisu,

Told whole aim 15

!

Alexander

bluntly:

wh

and

strengthen

on Poland

11

Gomulka's e-officer lawyer in Polind

is now a travelling salesTuan

"Bul I would Ko back

Poland at unce 17.

17

Ir what?

he could really make new start in Poland But le in Poland today is wretchedly The Poznan riots welt Poor for bread as well as freedom.

The 3773 shoulders. send my brother

English coffee. 10 thus of

is worth Warsaw What

choigh money to keep his family for a month.

+I

10

1

The theme

Great War belleved it would menis. be the last, at least in their time

Cunimunisin's gro Many survived 10 suffer under the guise

greater, a cluser, and in some "Titols

But Poland has

Rastaways worse, war. Yet they will frontier with Under Communism, it ran never ways think that the First was a more intense test of the Bri- Ush spirit. be another Yugoslavia, i never break free.

common

can

As I walked out of the Polish Club, the porter tipped his hat to the Polish ex-officer with me

sold. "Perhaps we

strull

in Poland in six months'

tut i was hot

his

121

+t

time, captain.

He grind joke.

|

Its agunes shrivelled the soul, All Its paths were uncharted

was novel at the mass scule of itsnganisation

positions

to

BY WILLIAM BARKLEY

of

Ex the book stated with epic simplicity: "The

Halg at the front, Robertson politicians gave little credit

In Whitehall and Derby at the the generals,

The generals denounced the War Office were a triumvirate bent on crippling Lloyd George's politicions.

power.

"The soldiers and sailors serving in the Forces had little confidence in either.

me clear to me.

In ordinary course by Maurice's I fallen into a place in the here- and of its human Instru- contemplates the Red Army

Russia or the Franco regime in own department the War ditary system than the absurdity futility of the political Spain or remembers Cromwell Office, The attack disintegrated, and

How could Maurice have sticture of the House of Lords at home?

mude such K blunder? Why b should he have accused

Lloyd "was, of course, happy in George of error in his figures? the honour that had been con- five terred on me, and the title gave He said not a word, but

Since then 1 years later he stated that the me real pleasure. around ngures had been hurriedly sup- have come to take a different A group of civilians Lloyd George were equally de- plied, and had been occidentally view, believing myself to have "The public had no heroes. termined that the civil power used by Lloyd George after a lacked sound judgment when "Now it has been

control my Inten should

the generals, correction had been sent to him. accepted the peerage," tion in this work to describe Lloyd George himself was Sixteen years afterwards, in

and the These disputea

per- posed precariously power, 1934, Frances Stevenson, one of sonalities involved."

supported by his own dynamic Lloyd George's secretaries, later and by his former enemies and to be his second wife, wrote in HOW CLOSE TO

opposed by his former associates. her diary, which is now part of

We now know from Hulg's Beaverbrook's A DICTATOR?

"Lloyd George memoirs

that he worked un- Archives," that she was uneasy only VOU may conclude from this ceasingly with the King to oust about an incident known

reading that Lloyd George Lloyd George.

to herself

to and

Sir J. T. Lloyd George determined military

at Davies, leading member of the to get rid of secretariat..

Chlef of im--Hair and Robertson, 130>

Imperial General Stal, one the

Derby, Scerclary of War. sup- ported them and threatened 10 resign.

be bc

You

who Men in high

to were attuned by experience

and who failed Ismaller events

to expand to the immensity of

required to the occasion iz For the me being {

menetismissed it victory was to Gomulka cafi Poland

Yugoslavia, attained can be of more help to them by

Arrondi

Lord Beaverbrook's new book thousands of Poles in Britain slaying in Britain."

will go tume and end an exile today

:0 lasted has

nearly that years.

Many Poles have done well Britain, Foley own 50,000 Louxes in London alone.

Tipy

tells

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PAPERS IN THE FIRE

66 was in J. T. Davies' room,

"I

THE PRIVATE LIVES

THE pages of the bok sparkle

in potted bi raphy. On LORD CURZON, Leader of the House of Lords "Hla Royal Pomp"-who had a talent for being on both sides of every controverty:

Derby is quoted

writing

to

Bonar Law of Curzon's scanda- luus abuse of a Gernment car for private purpos and saying of him: "The real truth is he is

"and J. T. was sorting at one time and I have good

Beaverbrook says

one

A CLINIC TO TRAIN BETTER SINGERS

By Walter Schwarz

W

"HY aro the English such bad singers? One re- searcher has ar- rived at the conclusion that it is largely our own fault. With a little less tempora- ment and a lot more science, he maintains, our bath- rooma and our opera houses could produce almost as rich a sound as those of Italy-or Wales,

Mr Michael Horowitz, a Harley Street laryngologist who has made volce pro- duction his special study, plans to put this inspiring idea Into practice. He is or- ganising

where "voice singers can and gel on

new centre students and obtain advice

more intimate terms with their larynxes."-

Elementary.

Young singers, he urges, "should benefit from the elementary scientific facts of which they and their teachers дго

often sur prisingly ignorant." They will get this beneft free.

Most disastrous singing errors, suggests Mr Horowitz in his lectures to of avant-garde groups

ten- music teachers, is a dency to sing at the wrong pitch.

of our

We have famous baritones who really ought to have been tenora. And more than one contralto has for. tuitously ended up as mezzo-soprano,

The mistake arises from the outmoded habit of allowing our first singing teachers tajce this momentous decision unaided.

to

"A boy or girl contemplating д sinring career consulis a teacher who hps not remotest idea what a pair vocal chords looks like."

uns the indictment.

the

of

So

IL

refer

would simply check for musicianship"-then

candidate to

the

Lloyd George offered him the ambassadorship in Paris, Derby

she wrote, "a few days just what he says he is not. He suld he would accept if he had

after the statement" (by Lloyd is one of the meanest men that 1 mine Cabinet status and permission to

George on the strength of Halg's know. He was a tenant resign it ever Haig and Robert-

troops) ar gon

were dismissed. Lloyd

out red despatch boxes.... reason for knowing it."

of Curzon: teachiga were run aright the George was folled.

"Pulling out a Wer Office box. Often undecided whether lo "car and King's he found in it. Stamfordham. the

to his great Secretary, wrole Robertson

to

astonishment, a paper from the desert a sinking ship for the King's name, stay."

Director of Military Operations that might not float, he would Robertson wrote "Lloyd George containing modifications and make up his mind to sit on the hules me."

corrections of the first Agures wharf for a day." they had sent, and by some mis- chance this box had remained AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, unopened. J. T put it in the "Lord Birkenhead said of him fire, remarking. Only you and i Austen always played the game, Frances, know of the existence

and he always lost it." ** of this paper."

nנרי

RELAXATION--

A HYMN

BY February

if

✓

coma

eldar because of the King's

family doctor,

Tho

G.P.

hla

would examine chest, nock and abdomen for organic lesions, ("....how much money our impresarios would save if they took this precaution with their singers!") and purs the candidate to throat specialist,

No lack

The specialist, after scanning. nose and throat for laryngitis, would finally (all being well) co-operate with the teacher In "placing" the voice.

1918 Lloyd

"was waiting for the matter to be raised, and for the ques- ROBERTSON. "Ho dined George told the King that

tion to be asized: Why did LG. well and drank moderately.... he must resign

Robertson was retained,

not receive these supplementary When the King dined with Lor

the Derby, the Chiefs of Staff and Lloyd George never won the figures? Or did he? But

and I King's confidence. Who would questions never came resign-Halg or Lloyd George? could not voluntarily break faith others, the drink was limited to Lloyd George, relaxing that with J. T., perhaps put L. G. in pledge that had been given and who knows, have when Lloyd George at the out-

Mr Horowitz'a own advice night after seeing the Kingofix,

down the Govern

has set of the war asked for total

"placed" hundreds of after one of the most anxious brought

abstinence.

Voices. "Soptands and tenors," days he ever had-sang the ment!" Calvinistic hymn "The changes

Beaverbrook's comment is:- "Derby passed the word that

he generalises, "should have "Through the oversight of a after the King left the party small larynxes. Their whole that are sure to come I do not

secretary, Lloyd George's Gov- drinks would be served upstairs, bodies.llen their fear to see."

vocal chords Robertson was dismissed, Haig crament... was saved. The King stayed inte, General-tend to be short and wide.

Aston-

"Never again, for the duration Robertson asked Impatiently, summoned to London

Clearly, there is no lack of Lloyd George When do we got our pop?"" ishingly Haig gave his allegiance of the war, was

arid sopranos who are ' to Lloyd George: Lord Derby in danger from the assaults of

aʻor, both... enemies of the right and left, gave his resignation,

CHURCHILL (in 1917). "He : I call to mind Caruso, Toil The triumvirate was shat- The Liberal Party was

while enemies were lived well and ate everything. del Mo

Monte, Elsie Morison. destroyed, tered

John Halg

Lanigan

and deserted his friends. He left scattered far and wide.

He exaggerated his drinking Derby stranded like a whale on little matter kindleth!"

"Behold, how great a fire a habits by his own remarke in middling Richend Lewis

praise of wind and brandy, He Sylvia Fisher would appear to a sandbank.

appeared to smoke cigars inces-be Beaverbrook carried to Lloyd

"Barito mezzos and con- santly. Not at all. He smoked very little, although relighting traltos have longer, narrower a cigar frequently.

vocal chords and bodies."

The loftier Frederieke Bharp *

and Constance Shacklock come BALDWIN. "His home life to mind.

Horowitz General was happy and he had a passion Mr for Lloyd George relief was (later Lord) Trenchard, Chief of for a mechanical plano-player. ancedotes about

contended middle-class volets mixed with disappointment Air Staff, worked sedulously A

George

а

moment,

a message that Derby now did not want to resign.

Lloyd George sald he could stay provided he promised not to

THE TITLE BATTLE

resign again. a month he B TREFORE this decisive engage-

In

was ambassador in Paris on Lloyd George's terms.

occurred ment there Trenchard "akirmish."

the

at this outcome. Halg was still with Halg and others against milionaire. Up to the out-

t

-Cre of our

and

has

sad

BRri

in command of the Army. Soon the polley of the Government, break of war he showed not the tones became what he is by, the the battle for Lloyd George's to set up a separate Royal Air slightest trace of political push

Forca. In the end Trenchard re- or ambillon GARAGE Junior | master once told him to "go survival began again.

signed. But so did Rothermere, Ambition marked him

office his

THE GREAT

STORM

"

mercat accident. Some choir- changed, and stand over there, with the

There baritones."

He has stayed over there ever. since." "The poor; man should have been a tenorij. In fact, 'no great harm was dong; it would worec tho have been much other way round."

Secretary for Alr.

Bothermere resigned wi a after came a steady development letter which would have em- of rowing powers." bittored controversy.

brook drafted which

Beaver- substitute

was charged against him and Rothermere at last was w

put it all on his health I that ho starved Halg of persuaded in agree, Interrupting

...

Baron

MUCH MORE

TO COME

An equally famous mezzo- Soprano was wrongly placed catarrh at the time. Now, lice because she happened; to have

· instead of B

troops, and was thus responsible Cabinet meeting to give Lloyd WWE are promised more about for the disastrous German George this good news,

Baldwin who does not come break-through in March, His Bonverbrook urged a Viscountcy into this book except for reply was that Halg had more for Haron Rothermere. Lloyd splendid defence he made in the troops in 1978 than in 1917. George agreed, without asking House of Beaverbrock as Minis ter of Propaganda. For Beaver In May Sir Frederick Maurice the King. The King resisted, published the famous accusation. Twelve months passed before, brook says he has already that Lloyd George's figures were on Bonar Law's persuasion, the form a political history which so many English singers her Latso. tatues have King approved the Rothermere will be enfiled The Age of is a strain

Maurice,

relaxation, conadant of promotion,

"bill

*** Ho has also gathered with much Baldwin."

The gravidameri immense an

of material Robertson, bad newly left the reluctance", D

Horowitz's post of Director of Military Says Beaverbrook:

for a work on the Second World "There

Wer

*singing...tosohej Operations:

had always, been trouble over The "Squifis," that is Asquith the recommendations for

the

1. As for the present volume on "hardly expingie and by hillypartisans arraigned Frem Lorde, "My own peerage the first of these wore it wil how to look

throwe and bel Lloyd George for deceiving the provoked a tremendous storm change man's Judgments. It House, a charge which would My only regret i finst the storm will alter perspective reje

not strong enough to carry mellowing light of history's It. K

have wrecked the Cove

THE GLOBAL AIRLINE

it auslained:

celebrated

to the Lordala

mate

Beaver

fuction

of himi