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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER" 4,' 1956,"

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Out today the second part of the master work by the nation's master statesman

CHURCHILL

on TYRANTS REVOLUTIONS and KINGS

William Barkley reviews "the new Churchill" and asks: Did he take "So Many by So Few," from Cromwell?

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WHY KENNETH MORE IS BRITAIN'S NO. 1 ACTOR

By THOMAS WISEMAN

K deeply immersed

in ed.

ENNETH MORE was came close to being fluster

To him this piece of the problem of extri- boiled

his lobster WILS cating pieces of lobster Moby Dick-and he was not from the more remote and going to be defeated by it. Inaccessible portions of its With a stroke of inspired he bowed D shell. It WHA delicate improvisation,

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of Indies' eyebrow operation and called for the pair

Tweezers and manipulating them coolness and skill of the with fiendish running managed to extract the recalcitrant intr- surgeon.

ter flesh. DISAPPROVED

The lobster defied all the assaults made upon it by knives, forks, fingers, tooth- picks; so much so that Mr More, who is rarely put out,

I could not help feeling that The Admirable Crichton-the perfect butler whom More

Give

have

currently playing--would disproved Tiry way of eating lobster. He would also, I suspect, have frowned upon More for helping hums:1 to chips from my plate (1 hosten to any that I did not; and that he way welcome to

of such a revolu

them).

"Have you learned anything before about you didn't know polite behaviou

you've been playing the perfect butler? I asked Mur.

since

"Don't need to." said Mure, helping himself to another chip from my plate. "I have always known how to behave."

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In a sense, of course, this is true. He always behaves with complete spontaneity. He is never at a log for words setions; the most admirable but-

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lers, valets, producers or show business columnists fail to inti- midale him.

The secret of More's success

and contentment is his capacity, for being at case in any situa- or in life. on-on the screen It has paid off in a big way,

Director Lewis Gilbert claims that hit production of "Iteach for the Sky"-in which More played Douglas Bader-has been the most successful fim shown In England since "Gone With the Wind"

It will rake In cluso on £1,600,000 nl the box-office This makes More just about the most popular actor on British screens, not excluding even Miss Monroe.

MY AMBITION

More takes all this SUCCESS with equanimity and a pinch of salt.

1 reminded him that less than Three years ago he had told me: "My cinbition be a sort of Junior Jack Hawkins-if that does not sound too conceited." More roared with laughter. "Did I really say that?" he asked. He evidently no longer felt that he might be regarded as concelled by admitting to this ambition,

Just at that moment Jack Hawkins himself walked into the restaurant More called him over to our table and told him the story.

I

T took the Suez crisis

to reveal the half-

formed intention, for

21 years, of

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tortuous but witty don In the Commone (Mr Kenneth Pickthorn).

This was to agitate for the removal of Cromwell's effigies at Westminster.

Why is the tyrant, the des- pot, the dictator honoured or, es the don says, "eternalised“ this home of freedom?

in

After listening to the attempt by the Socialist Party to govern the country by noise, Mr Pick- then thinks better of Cromwell. "One kick on the breech enough for a gentlemon," quoted.

No place for

all

that nagging

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he

ROMWELL'S kick laught 4he Commons (says Pick- thorn) for three centuries, untli a month ago, that great affairs could not be conducted with Parliament nagging all the time. and that it is not its business lu direct and manage the country'. polley.

Its business I to pick IL Government and then to sustain or reject the Ministers.

This Cromwell haunts the memory of polliciary.

Nobody is quoted more by ille He rouses hate and also adoration,

Liberal

CROMWELI

OLIVER OF THE "SMOKY SOUL” WRITES CHURCHILL; HE DARKENED THE JOURNEY OF MANKIND...

We must

shillings by a soldier and is today, I believe a paperweight on somebody's desk.)

No. Charles was no martyr, int a spiritual sense,

says Bir Winston. His own kingly in- terests were mingled at every stage with the larger interests. It is also fanciful, he thinks, that Charles was, as some havo claimed, the champion small man against the money-power.

Now here comes. a. shining sentence:

of the rising

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THEN from Sir Winston's pen or dictating lips comes. a shining, illuminating sentence. Perhaps on these words, “after all these centuries, an armistico could be arranged betweenAY Cavaller and Roundhead; Royal - ist and Parliamentarian, Angli=||| can and Presbyterian, and "all" the British camps of controversy which are oven how

by that grim old structuated Churchill - saya of Chabies 1:— "He cannot be claimed да the defender of English llberties, wholly of The English Church, but none the less ha died for them, and by his death preserved them not only to his son and hair, but do our day."

nor

On the death of Charles Irres sistible forces ruled absolutely for a while. but settled nothing. Here the philosopher in Sir Winston holls out hope for the victims of the despots of our times.

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"In harsh or melan- choly epochs free men nay always take confort from the grand lesson of History, that tyrannies cannot last except among. A servile races.

which

The years

seem

endless

to

Why should Cromwell be adored by Liberals? Possibly because he established Protestantsan as on independent force in Europe.

Is that a reason for a Liberal to worship £2 Hawkins took it in his usual despot?

the Yet said he was

not be led by teetorship) are the record of his those who endure them manly way: he

Mir Isaac Foot when he Victorian writers (knyg Sir well-meant, puzzled plungings but a Alek of mischance on flattered: but he frowned a little

was Minister of Fuel, or Mines Winston) Inte regarding this and surgings." at the

the Journey New and natural Jack phrase juntor

ast 4t

www.although I cannot triumph of the Ironsides and of The massacres in Ireland are hopes leap from the hungr Hawkins.

offhand recall anything olso he Cromwell as a kind of victory wint Sir Winston can never heant every spring revives the did-altered the name of his for democracy and the Parlia forgive. In the safe and com cultivated soil and reward; the Ministry's office to Cromwell mentary

system over Divine fortable days of Queen Victoria faithful, patient husbandmen." Right und Old World dreams. men thought such ebencs were The book rebounds in com-

that one can roll; and".

• "it was the triumph of some gone for eyer, and gaped “even menta 20,000 resolute, ruthless, dis. In admiration at these savage relish ол the tongue How ciplined military fanaties over crimes."

delicious this account of General? all that England has ever willed

Monk who organised the Bos or ever wished.

teration

Charles He received emissaries of every id terest at his camp."

A GOOD AGE

10 Though he Is

years Hawkins's Junior, More is no longer a juvenile he is 40. It is a good age for coping with succets; you are no longer 60 as to be thrown off- young balance by it, nor are you

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old as to be heapable of enjoy- ing JL. "I hate another 14 years," said More, "and I mean to enjoy them.”

The lace under the inevitable peaked cap is not one that would 'inspire many people to slavish adulation; it is a rather homely mild-and-bitter face which exudes the onsy bonhomie of the country pub.

It is the face of a favourite uncle; the kind who brings presents, and is always telling funny stories.

It is not the face of a film

But, it s

a face that

star

seems to blend naturally, with almost any background:" with comparative čase and without any facial contortions he became the seedy, boozy homme fatale

In "The Deep Blue Sea,??) the legless air hero in "Reach for the Sky," and now the butler, in "The Admirable Crichton." ENGLISH QUALITY

The quality which those, i characterisations have in com- mon is their, irrepressible') Eng« lishness and also, of coured considerable dating bility. More His Aho. Ronnid Colman of tho Isminli Indoors. 4.

He has been thinking about playing Henry VIII, not all of whose hablis were Aypically English, After Come fatal doubts, 2. fi enust.

admit, I can

House.

The render is touching deep mystories hare Happy reader, to have Sir Winston Churchill as his guide through this mine- Neld.

Sir Winston's second volume takes a sweep from the six- teenth century to the Restora tion.

The struggle The frightfulness

which was begun to bring about

the

"He listened patiently, ba overy great Englishman should, on that we have to all they had to urge, and with

technique

a constitutional monarchy Tod in our only to the autocracy of the sword."

own times Alas, how often we have seen E goes But the Civil War is above all the stuff for the Grend Old French Revolution created

the

НЕ same thing since.

The scen the Man who has been

a "cervant

"frightfulness" Russian ogre Bonaparte, the of the House" this half a cen-

the ogre. StaUr tury past. Having traced the rise of the Commons to inde- He was. 'harsh,

terrific, lightning-

pendence, he relates its fall to the dictator.

It is to re-emerge. The Civil Was-is not to be in vain Pym charged...' and Hampden (though dead)* triumphed after Cromwell.

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of that simple honesty of charecter on which we flatter ötirselves applied in our time with Cromwellian as a race he kept them dll guess- brutally and on' far larger ing for a long time výbát” he scale--and as much of this book would do." was written in 1938 we have {

battle Or his comment on the t had still more terrible examples. of Dunbar, where: Cromwell "Wo in the twentieth, cen- mote the Scots after their tury know too much of despots Ministers had over-ruled their and their moods and power to generals in tactics)

practise the philosophie, dete noto of how differently the ment of our grandfathers It lo

La Bot ·atter conadently

A parliamentary system arose SR Winston makes a splendid which was unchanged in funda- English mentals until 1914, or perhaps revolution. until 1922, when a diffèrent set

went about their accomary to recur to the appealed to Jehovah sand-the. principle, that the Most Hih, - finding so fiiitle to After the Anal simpler of men and ideas came law battle, but before the exe fell wholesale slaughter of unarmed choose between them in faris ón Charles, the Ironsides or disarmed men marks with and zeal, must have allowed wanted pay and pensions. They mordant and eternal. brand the purely military factors to pres the Socialist Party.

demanded that the Royal Assent memory of conquerors, however vall.”

they may layé próspered. should be secured

The New Model Army beats

the lot of them

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"Here is the calient fact Cromwell in Ireland, dispos 'Never so man which distinguishes the English ing of overwhelming strength Revolution from all other: that and using it with merciless ran those who wielded Irresistible wickedness, debased the plan from so few pityaloal force were throughout dards of human, conduct and, convinced..that it could give scheibly darkened the journey AS to the magnitude of Crom them no security. Nothing is of mankind." A well here is Sir Winston's more characterate of the Eng We are therefore forbidden to won the day; its them wars' summary of the last two years "Esh people than their instinctive regend Cromwell as a Liberal when the Scotsunere of the Civil War and

reverence even in rebellion for saint.

Sir Winston related (@King," Lords": Comi- low and tradition Deep in the Are we dirons permitted to skirmish at Nowad

when the Boote landfords, and merchante; nature of the men who had honour Charles at the martyr the City and the countryside, broken the king's power was Many have done, There are all the English Am bishops and presbyters; the? the conviction that law in his will enough of his adherents to Sir Winston chro Somads army," the Walen people frame was the sole foundallon Werland his siblue every year contemporary wrote that art the English Fleet now on which we could build where, he sile on his horse look so many man from so

ing down. Whitehall, i over the, leis ado,?”. turned-ngatart the New Model 1 Bit? Winston

soul. He alte of this searold and towards The phre And at their head was Crom- describes him on getting power the freet, head of Cromwell

the harsh, tarsic, llahtning-hik (The real head of Cromwell ingered in th

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