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THE CHINA. MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1957.

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Canada

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cosmopolitan appeal.

.

F we agree that travel is a great educator languages give the city a special appreciation of

then my peregrinations during the last my three months must have enhanced

I knowledge of the world and the people who inhabit it.

In June I went to Scotland and watched the fishermen bringing in their catch while comely young women waited in the windswept warehouses to cut the fish into proper shape for canning before their final journey to London and the British stomach.

Then in August the Baxter family, minus their Hon, who is in Montreal, motored through Belgium to Germany, and France

wallowed in the where we sublime sensuality Richard

of

at Wagner

Bayreuth, and ended our

tour at Le Touquet where

It was dls-

News From Britain by PETER BURGOYNE

AFE as the Bank of ▷ England," The phrase is part of the English lan guage. For generations, the massive fortress-like building in the City of Lon- don has been synonymous with material security. And the bulk of Britain's gold is cached in the vaults there.

But last work people were asking if the Bank had always been as safe as tradition had It Had it once been, success- fully burgled, and had the au- thorities hushed it up to avold a hational scandal?

What sparked off the specule- tich was an aridle which ap-

In "The Times." peared

A cor-spondent had been indulg- ing in some amateur sleuthing, inspired by an old City legend. This had it that in the old days It was possible to gel In to the vault by wuy of an open

ROWNr.

in the City, bankers and brokers have accepted the old legend as an amusing bit of in- wmtion and nothing more..

But amateur, detective work revealed that early in the nine- teenth century the Secretary of the Bank suddenly began to take what seemed like a morbid interest in gewers He had written a series of letters try- ing to discover the plan of the sewers which flowed near the Bank.

His search had led him to the trusices of the Bank architect, Sir John Soane,

Up till then he had been vague about why he wanted the plans, Only when the trustees had seemed reluctant to part with the plans did the Secretary reveal that "In May, 1830, having had reason to appréhend danger from the sewers, it was discovered that on open and unobstructed sewer id directly from the geld vaults down to Dowgate,"

When a search was eventual- John Soane's jy made of Str plans it was discovered that the plan for the sewers had vanish- ed. Someone had removed- £ from the portfolio before the plans were lodged with the Bustecs.

the present, a heartbreaking lask but it had There is music in the French to be done. accent, just as there is a court-

other days and an That night more than three en- lness of Montreal has Krown

thousand people crowded into ormously since my last visit, egelers charm,

the auditorium and there could but it keeps its character as

Many years ago, not after I

not have been greater acnse become city that is neither British nar ha

editor

of the of occasion I had been a French nor wholy Canadian. It

gifted new journalist named tressing to have to nward defeat is not quite the thing these days London Daily Express, I sent a football play-off. 10 pay tribute to our ancestors H. V. Morton in БОЛТСА of and triumph when. the out the tiistoric fect remains England. He was to go to the difference was so slight, but it the towns and the hed to be done and the losers villages to describe in tho

took their defeat with good that the Baille of the Plains of engin a conquest. That baille was in

realm of reality and of the ever, I could not separate the truth the birth pain of a nation. newspaper what he found in the humour. In one section, how

The scrica was such a spirit.

to the editor two best and recommended that that ho gave up it should be a dead heat, with Journalism and went in search the prize money divided, but of Africa and all sorts of places Lord Beaverbrook generously and lived comfortably ever decided to award the full prize afterwards on his "in search of"

money to both choirs. books.

Abraham was a victory and not

I am not pretending that there is no conflict of race in Canada

·····A TRAVELLING LETTER

from

.

Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.

statue woman, the Paris is of a

we hazarded our modest Almost every reserve of francs at

in

de

gaming tables before flying picting back to England.

pro- claiming some triumph of the spirit, while London is

sorrow or

today, but it is a family quarrel and in the evening Montreal is vitality alive with galety and that invigorates the spicit,

One need only be here for a

a spirit.

1

that

success

I believe that we saw that night the birth of music festival that will become an annual function and draw music lovers from Canada and the go. U.S. It may well be that this

be New

Brunswick's

Someday I would like to in search of Canads. Is it will Vanconver with its pleasant answer to the challenge of charm? Is it Humliton with Its Ontario's Stratford. determination not to become port of greater Toronto? it....?

Is

com-

In a few hours I shall be on the plane to Ottawa, to Toronto, and not long afterwards I shall be on my way home to London. But when the, winter comes and we sit by the grate fire in St John's Wood in London my Will furn ogain end thoughts again to a drive we took from Fredor ton to Saint John when the autumn leaves were telling us that we had better enjoy nature's sad autumnal beauty for alrezdy there was a chill in the air and winter could not be far away,

Nothing wili

me

After the story appeared in someone wrole "The Times."

to say that the Inte Lord Birkenhead had used the sewer legend as the basis of o book. This was based pr

authentic manu=". supposedly script, covering the life of a con- vict transported to Australia' for another crime in the early nine teenth century.

い

Doctors In The House

DRITONS

4re

proud-and justly so that their Parila ment has been the model of su many others throughout the world

Last week, though, ona veteran Parliamentarian let it be known that so far as he was concerned the House of Com- mons could do with a spot af reforming.

Davies ward

Liberal M.P. Clement charged that MPA

mothered by a mass of detail their which took up nearly all

time.

He reckoned that if they con- Aned themselves to the bigger matters of policy and principle the House could do its work in com- three days a week quite fortably.

The scene is changed. Now I At this moment I am in littered with statues of few hours and one has a sense

vitality of the am writing at Lord Beaver- In of immense Montreal with an almost generals on horseback.

In addition, there is a brock's house in Fredericton, summer sun beaming bene- Whitehall there is even

feeling of fudividualism which he visits in the autuinn Nassau or volently as though inviting huge statue of the Duke of permeates the scene. Taxus, on before going on to everyone to come out and Cambridge mounted on Sherbrooks Street will be a sign Jamaica. Ho is a man of mony do the town.

prodigious horse, although prohibiting parking and right parts and therefore it is in keeping with his character that the worthy duke never did under the sign a car

is duly he

Choral organised a Although I have made the

anything

to more

dis parked. Admittedly, this in- petition here to

take place in crossing Atlantic

many tinguish

himself than dividualism can be carried too the

hall magnificent concert into Montreal that is one of his many gifts to times, the long sail past

Driving actress. But the r. marry an

a this lovely city. the Newfoundland and up

horse is magnificent.

from the lake country on.

по fower Sunday we passed never endless St Lawrence

Fredericton bas a personality

With apparently more con- than three pairs of cars smashed loses its charm or ita incon-

viction than solicitude fer the into

grotesque caricatures of entirely its own. Not only is it centre but It is

make themselves. This, I suggest, is a university gruity. A few hours back

feelings of fellow Members, ho rather like a principality, dis-

renounce my Torentonian back- charged that this full time carrying individualism too far.

Unctive and detached, There ground but when London's fog wrestling with deinil meant handsome colonial houses proclaims the coming of the that great men from the 'profes- A more pleasant manifesta- are with nothing in sight but masculine, which is greatly to

spacious verandas that winter I shall think of that long, rions and sciences could not

be out of place in long

ard shop to would not

drive to Saint John the vast waste of water and its credit but then, Torontonians lon of the Galite temperament with

find time to become Parliamen the deep south of the - United the leaves turned to blood red tarians, a ceiling of drifting clouds, have never looked for praise or is when you enter a

One does not feel the

es if a knife had been plunged He complained: "We have wcman behind the States, Unfortunately, so many people The young But now the liner which hud compliments from lesser breeds. buy some need of the moment.

nor does clash or exhilaration of fierce into the earth. I left some of there counter is not bored to live

not got a great doctor in tho my heart on the banks of the made its way across the are determined

House. We have not got a Toronto has expanded the serve you automatically. Let competition. Admittedly, on the

to admit that my vislie far side of the river opposite Miramichi.

great scientist. We have not ocean was to reduce itself that

noticeable Lord Beaverbrook's house there to a river boat in a channel until, like the element of space, me

that any given shops do not cause

got leading university people..." it can be sold:

while sign that a large every case a At one exeltement, but in Is the centre.

What MPs who are also mem- so narrow in spots that the point

served me us it advertises a special brand of a plly and more than a pity bers of the professions thought

until the navigation could no longer time Queen's Park would have the assistent

abcut this assessment is happily but the both of us were human beings oil, but it is properly frowned not to stay here elaimed that, honour, be trusted to the liner's was before the city spread in and part of the human comedy, upon by a bridge that spans the mantle of snow has buried the unrecorded so far.

river with an almost Victorian lerves that touch the sonses and English seamen but had to vasily to the west, the cast and

disdain,

the heart with their melancholy | Biters Bitton bo handed over to the the north.

beauty. Canadian pilot.

we were swaying pleasantly

in the swell of the Atlantic

what a

2A

the

Toronto of

world, bui

the

course

was

mosi

On the morning after my Unfortunately,

carly the

arrival I went to the rink which tattlers did not realise that

with Toronto,

ita

Even ot the football match Lord Beaverbrook bullt, and natural

by between Hamilton and Montreal with my fellow adjudicators harbour,

intended was

of the charming item began the elimination nature to be a beauty spot that there

when various types of choirs, which admiration of during the juterval

female It is agreeable to sight would draw the

the pioneers short-skirted group of girls in included all mate, and

to the and and

mixed. In one section land

it is the again,

existence uniform high-stepped were struggling for

while the there was o girls' choir con-

Roman thought-provoking to watch and had no time to dream. It music of the band

Catholic Ihan a pity-gladiators in the dressing room ducted by a seaman described is a plty-more

should have were being tuned up for the slater who, in spite of her that their realism

conducted the girls the two-funnel robbed Toronto of the heritage second half. It was a charming costume,

fatea had sight, a victory for femininity with gestures worthy of Bir churches," which was his

of beauty

won in the very teeth of the Thomas Beecham In his way of designating the twin bestowed upon it,

masculino gladiatore.

exuberant mood. The girls drow loud applause from the steeples that mark

Nevertheless, there is Queen's horizon.

dignity, and In Montreal itself you again sikters nwalling their Park with its University Avenue, which may have the church steeples to Incidentally, cach chair had to its interpretation of "O a noble highway, remind the people that there is give So we reached Montreal, yet become

will never also the world of the split. Canada" and in the process the a city that I have never even though it Excellent

before visited for more than gelipee The Mall or the Chumps The stately quietude of McGill anthem became something vital

University also gives a dignity Instead of a well-meant dirge. Elysees. Cantonese Dishon

or 1l own to the passing sceno a day or so, but this time

By contrast, Montreal is one: and reminds us that only by Dance Music I stayed for nearly a wcok

•

and must now confess, in of those cities where one always learning can we extend Lovely Songs by

spite of my Toronto back fecla in the centre of things or frontlors of the mind. Thus we If you want have the paradox of Montreal very close to it. Well Known Vocalists

is

cinema in the with il churches, its sense of around that Montreal.

to go to the

livelines near at hand, age, its dignity, it one of the most stimulating evening ft is and exciting cities in the. Unlike the deserted village of, and its atmosphere of carnival. world today. It has been Trento in its down-town dis-

trict at night, Montreal soma. When I boarded the plane ad ankl that cities, like human to be perpctually Hen fate that was to lako me on a visit traordinarily high,The trisia beings have sex. Thus, when the lights come on. The to Lead Beaverbrook and Now went on during the afternoon I lively brunswich, I fuit, I bod been in¦ and · then, with my fallów London and Berlin aro mas crowd in the streets

a quickened a metropola that bas maintains, adjudicator,I decided which of mirviyod - for, culine, whereas Paris and tempo of the spirits, Nor.cani ed many of the virtues of the the entrants had Vienna are feminino, be denied Thi _dual past while :: enjoying a;, jusly; the finale that evening." "11 was

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DRITAIN'S medical men have

always inclined, to look askance at the sart of patent medicine which suggests that if you take it you don't need 'a doctor.

Recently, s. Asian fu swept

harried

doctors the country,

were complaining bitterly that the medletne vendors” were: going to the other extrema

The fault lay with the cata«, mercial television Companios.! They had apparently warned the makers of anti-flu medicines that their TV ads should refer viewers to a doctor in ponse way.

The rosult has been' that fu victime have swallowed their patent pills then Butifully reached for the phone to call their doctors,

The TV men's good intens tions have so far gone awry that many doctors have lodged complaints will the British Bredient Association, who: are now likely to work out" a 'corri promise formuïn, with the s

General vlow of doctors that the violins should, so ~30. bed and poly call a doctor 1 there is no recovery in AWO OR three days or if the o diagnosis la in doubt.