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WHEN BOY

MEETS

GIRL

✰✰ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957,

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TE ÁLA MAŽKÝTT YDE VOTRE

·MIN VENTILLAND

By

JUDITH GREEN

"M

“ARRY in hoste, repen.t at leisure," runs

the old saying. And like- most old sayings. It has more than a grain of truth in it.

Marry in your teens, and you reduce your chances of Nfelong wedded bliss.

In most cases, youngsters still In their teen have not the judg- ment of persons in the twenties, Therefore, they are more liable to make mistakes in the selec- tion of what should be a life- long partner

That is why, when parents decide

that

# couple should

marry merch to legitimise

child, trouble lies ahead,

Welfare workers whose

job

takes them among broken homes

are emphatic on this.

them.

best way out

not

I have been told by

+

the child cannot be

to

kept, it should be adopted. A forced wedding only feads misery and the ruining of young

lves."

The damage is done. It can- not be rectifled by marriage.

MORAL VALUES

And the parents of both boy and girl should search thew conselences, asking themselves this question!

"Where have we gone wrong?"

It is not enough for them to have said once.

or even many times: "Don't you behave like thiy

Hike him

like

her."

They must know their sons and daughters, and do their best to ensure that they have o sufi- olent sense of moral values to steer them clear of danger.

I is the parents--not De church, not the school---who are responsible for the myocal teakı- ing of those they brought into the world.

pre

Where young marriages not influenced by mistakes, they are generally successful. For they are the true love matches. unaffected by the nagging thought: "Am I getting left on the shelf

tric

Young people in most coun- are developing mirares quickly these days. of course.

At twenty or even earlier, many are old enough to cast loose all "apron strings and stand entirely on their own feet.

For these. an early marriage brings extra years of happiness, admittedly.

That couple whom

you saw cuddling in the back row of the cinema the other night, they may have looked as if they had only just left school, But did you

"Off home, all of you, before I charge you with being dressed in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace.

Dors

to

Dulles-that's

how I lived in 1956

by RENE MACCOLL

In a year of tumult few people have travelled further in the quest for news than Roving Reporter Rene MacColl. For him it has been a year of astonishing range. Diana Dors. Dulles. Liberace, Chou En-lai. The razmatazz of Chicago. And the deadly earnest- ness of men dedicated › to · violence............. HE hum of aircraft And I received some very fust why. Ike showed "deep

why Dulles had engines hangs in angry letters from the U.S. my ears--for it has following a piece I wrote been there daring suggesting that New York much of this

of is not 100 percent paradise Year

Oh, well — that tumult, while I have been on-earth. logging another 35.000 air- makes the year about par miles reporting some of the for the course. events which have made 1956 a year to remember.

T

you know they were getting In 1956 I have filed

married in a month or two They know their own mini.

They are not frightened of take Ing decisions and of carrying them out.

DECISIONS

stories from 14 foreign countries; hnye been away PROM from England for 31 weeks out of the 52.

STORM

the great Jostle of Inemories what would want

Undoubtedly to forget? first on that particular list is the night I was in Washington when the great storm of rage blew up with frightening speed over the Angio-French invasion of Egypt bee

whier had, only that morning. "compounded." In the American view, by the Anglo- French vetoes of the UNO reso-

ution on Egypt.

anger,

been

"terribly hurt." why the White House "crackled with barrack- square language and why there was ugly talk of "collusion" and of "Britain deliberately keeping ts in the dark."

the endless affability of the developing China, full of energy:

ideas, ambitions, Main

normal American-gone, Street was slaging a duel in the

sun.

Next day came the tanks and the soldiers with fixed bayonets.

What is there to recall with pleasure? That afternoon in the big garden of the walled British Legation in Peking. Champagne on the trays, for we have gathered in honour of the Queen's Birthday, and there staps the Union Jack.

I was feeling moody, for I had spent several exhausting days trying to secure an interview with Chou En-lal, only to be told over the cups of ritual tea, "Sorry-quite impossible,"

Now enter Chou himself, evi- He For Dulles--and, through him, dently in excellent spirits, Eisenhower--had been absolute began going the rounds, hand- ly convinced that Britain would shaking and pausing for a brief never in any circumstances take word here and there. Oh well, military action against Nasser. I thought, at least I'll get to and that the military build-up shake hands with him.

in the Mediterranean by us and France was mere window-dress- Ing to keep the home electorates of Britain and France happy.

Another experience to COT-

Ja his

ENERGY

When he reuched me Chou

I have talked with Arch- That is one of the things bishop Makarios and which strikes an investigator Richard Nixon, Viee into the problems of youth and President of the U.S.; Chou marriage. The young people of

I En-lai. Red China's Premier today are very capable of mak-

"I

Ask them a question, and you will not

hear don't key often

ing up their own minds--If notund Foreign Minister, and always wisely!

John Foster Dulles, Ameri- ean Secretary of State; Sir ven't John Harding, Governor of Cyprus, and Adlal Steven- son, the Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidate for the US. Presidency.

thought."

their

•

persons

Conslier two young of my acquintance, Bill and Mary. They are as sure and as self-possessed as people twice their age.

They married early, and although their combined earnings (his from bank and hiers from behind a shop-

were not very counter)

sub- stantial, they managed to save enough for a deposit on a house.

Much of their

n

furniture

elther "logned” by their

ents, or is second-hand. Grad ly they are repineing

new pieces of their own choos-

ing.

How did they do their court-

mother and father could go out whenever they

RELIEF

HAVE talked also with tank crews keeping order during the anti-Negro riots

Never, In monely 30 years of

በጾ

ns

get is the hour I spent with PUT it was better than that. Archbishop Makarios huge, rambling palace in Nicosia, showed no signs of passing on. You all know what he looks To the contrary, he settled down like from the photos-a gentle for a talk which quickly turn- seeming, richly bearded prelate. ed into an interview. was his aware of eyebrows rising all His manner is gentle too,

round us, of diplomats glancing curiously our way, of watches being consulted.

hands well manicured.

But as we talked I became bebind all the gentleness, aware, experience of America, have the courtesy, the well-reasoned Town anything as sad and

I arguments, of a steely refusal that evening. daunting

别 familiar, of the one thing which has so though was

and well-loved land- fer caused the foundering of all pleasant,

the Cyprus cope had been abruptly torn attempts to break

deadlock. by an earthquake. Where once was a meadow, there now yawned a rock-strewn chasm.

Repeatedly 1 asked him whether he would not denounce the Eokta violence in the One of the greatest frustra-

island. But again and again, in tions of reporting is the neces-

a variety of "two-time Lalithe anything respecting sty GE

"off-the- said, well, no, he couldn't. entrusted

you record" Only two weeks before that sad evening in Washington,

to

In Kentucky and with had been given what promised Lapps tending their herds to be a tremendous story,

of reindeer on the Arctic

Circle in with "de-

One of America'a best-known

FORCE

fected" Finland Wilders, men, whose friendship 1 have B thing to forget. That lovely

When Chou finally walked on,

with the smiling remark that he

would like to visit Britain,

found that people tended

to

drift up to me and try to find out what he had said.

It so happened that the ficrer attack on me in Pravda took place while I was in China. It was, of course, broadcast by Radio Moscow and heard by the Chinese Government. I waited with curiosity to see whether there would be répercussions Ih Peking. Shanghai, and Canton,

! Was it my imagination? I

own way,

ahd

to go their

can only say that it seemed to

ing? "Mostly at my home," says

three piece even more so. PACK to America for another me that my treatment, unill

perfectly friendly Mary. "We were very welcome baby-sitters. It meant that my living out their uneasy exile the for many years, tulet me September day in the little town The Chinese like

that had just spent over an

of Chy, Kentucky, when in Peking and with hour with President Eisenhower wanted 40. Syrian border guards on in

in the White House, and that stepped from my car out on to leaving Sylvia-she's my young-

Main Street. The to the President had spoken with hint of autumn in the air, the

its pleasant the mountain est sistor to our care.

total frankness about the Suez 1ook of prosperity, the shops And when we went to the Damascus.

situation (this was in October, and drug-stores and glittering cinema we were able to

before any action had been taken).

cars Just litto a million other centrate on the film!" she added

American Main Streets." whimsically.

ECONOMY

con-

pass

there

For light relief have been brief interludes with Liberace in Now York, Dlana Dora in Hollywood-

TE

REFUSAL

"detai} Just what Ike had

But no, not this one. Not Older folk (usually those who

today. For the people here are don't know what it is to be and some of the most high-

determined that Negro children shall not go to the local school troubled by money problems ly regarded "strippers" in themselves) nomeilmes accuse Chicago, who were intro- then went on to tell me in in accordance with the findings of the U.S. Supreme Court. young people of squanderingduced to me under the said. There was really frank stuff They have stopped the children when they should be trying to

for the future.

formidably correct chaper- about Eden, Dulles, and Nasser. by force-and they don't like

of tho when boy first meets onage

Chicago A direct personal interview with reporters either.

an American President almost ert there may indeed be some police.

So, in a few seconds, I am in extravaganct

never happens-but this would the Carly

confronted by a man-cytid stagid of a courtship, the boy is A year of rush, airuggle, be the next best thing.

crow of vigilantes"--hill- trying to "show oft," the girl

I had visions of what it wouki billies, cont miners, "hick" for- perhaps trying to establish that tension with the occa

paper. Then my mets, and told, harshly, to che is accustomed only to the elonal Inugh to break it up look like on

a bit. I have been violently hopes crashed-for my friend goin'!?

added: "Of course, Rene, you

best.

ollier

But ha they get to know each attacked In Pravda, the cause any of the just Have you ever lived through better, the spending rate bible of, Communist, Russia; for your background guidance an episode and told yourself gradually drops. And when they atineked with almost com-

while 19' was happening, declile "This is the real thing,

But when the blow-up camo simply don't believe it.

it positively alumpy. From then parable-gusto in the Greek over our action in Egypt, I canitot ba, krub”. Buddi on, the, watchword in economy. Press; dakon sharply to task remembered this information, these people were más entr and the deeplyanter seriously, by the Indian newspapers. And I could wail undrated The kindness,

the

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ND 80, "We gird ourselves for another year of this ex- citing life, let me record what I think to be by far the most important fact of 1950.

Not the temporary between Brilain and America, anguishing though it was. That will pass. The Anglo-American |

alliance has got to continue.

Not the Middle East messt. We haven't doße, so, well there up to now, but a way has got to be found. We must have the oll, and all de Namera, and Syrian pipeline saboteurs in creation cannot be allowed to stop us. That crisis too will be resolved.

No, The massive fact of 1056 is the emergence of Chiné Zel, one bi dha world's greatest

A China that

has made fantastic alrides In the two years since I was last

there.

The Twentieth Century, which looked like being a carve-up between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., may yet turn out 10 be

the century of the new

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