1957-11-16 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1957.

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Does Britain praise too little men who do the toughest work?

Say "WELL

ARDING has had two

HA

by

Donald Edgar

DONE!"

At the same Ume he was in-

And he is a great public Harding. They expect such men

lo do their job. But they Jured all down his left side. scaretly support such men.

years as Governor of servant.

Thin gentle little man, who Cyprus two years hard, started lite ቤሩ a Post Offer I saw him several times clerk, has deserved well of his

when he was out there.

I saw the blood on the four of the ballroom of the Ledra Palace Hotel. I saw the broken Klasses, the broken windows, That was just after the bomb had been thrown against the table which the Bokn ferrorists thought he would be sitting at during a Scottish ball.

Cuntry,

So Harding, the most humane nnl kind of men, has been in the Press of the He has ned his

reward cvlied

"Butcher Herding.' whether it

Is a Gerter or an world earldom.

or us "Her Harding"

as

For by his work in Cyprus he

On his shoulders, and they fakes his place with the great are not ro big physically, he has proconsuls-with

Citve, with borne the burden of Empire. Warren Hantings. with Milner

of South Africa, and with I want to tell you what his Curzon.

life was Hke at the height of And. in some ways, his job the terror. has beca mort dificult than theirs.

I met him in his study in

hause th:

I had

I saw him just ITECT the

For they undertook the gov- Government Hours at Nicosia. bamb in his mattress had been res

of great lerritories T found: the nb watch would fore the B-or at bey Bave Blown him and Lady rate,

some of them-bad lost Harding to sulthereens, if it faith in the drating had gone oit.

Imperial Power.

R him driving I have Around Cyprus: two armoured

as

in

two lines of guards. me machine-gun posts,

-clothed detectives. There were two windows to the run, Outside each stood a His task guard with a sub-machine gun. He was a small man, dressed cars in front, he driving

in blue-serge suit, wearing Bullet-proof car and another

the previous smelle, although the Tusk armoured car bathinal.

Huk

governing on unruly Island night he had escaped with his pleasant tem Mars at a time when the envious and life. tyn. JUS Jamecessary the pastile had a chance in such iT Field-Marshal Sir Jean organisations as the United Na-

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of

He always keeps his left hand clenched. That is to conceal the fael that the three middle fingers are missing. They were blown off in Tripoli, of such men

Harding's re.. except tortions of erilicising our rule. the fact that he took on the job I sometimes think the English out of his sense of public duty. are unworthy

CALL IN DOCTOR'S DAY

as

DRIC CARNE

Don't blame your

liver

Do you keep a diary? If you do, you may casily find that every now and then you have recorded a week like the one that my patient John Talbot has just had. He wrote about it like this.

MONDAY: Not feeling on top form. Suppose I got out the wrong side of the bed. Felt irritable all day. In the evening quarrelled with Mary.

TUESDAY: Nothing definitely wrong but seem to be tired and Apathetic. Naises seemed to be louder somehow. Even sensitive to the sound of someone eating celery Perhaps I need a tonle. WEDNESDAY: Definitely of colour. Catieel going row! to ine Joneses Lotorrow though that will be disappoint for Mary. Maybe I need a holiday. Or um 1 sickening for some- thing?

THURSDAY: Definke loss of appelite. Nothing I can put a finger on exactly. But Fm bad tempered at the office. Mary asked when I got home: "What's wrong with you anyway?" My that I'll diagnosis ts

Qw1

liverish.

FRIDAY: I hope there's nothing serteusly wrong. Phoned to make an appointment with the doctor tomorrow. In the evening picked up a cove! but Jast interest after a few pages,

No such diagnosis

Mr.

turned up promptly for

.

On Saturday

with me?" lie asked. Lyeriak ?

Talbot

appol Minett. "What's wrong

"Am I

There is no such diagnosis.

To say a person is "llyerish” has no more significance than saylug a man is "bongish " or "tungish. Medically speaking there's no such thing.

I told Him that the word *iverish" signifies sometimes that a man 15 ̊ lying beyond his

emotional income, Maybe he has taken on too much respons). bility or something like that.

You're suggesting that the feeling of being verish is due to mental strah," Mr. Talbot subd.

"Not always," I replied. "but it is often the case,"

Another cause for teching liverista is the result of a sub- clinical attack or some fujestion. For example, some prople seem to escape & cold even when everybody else in the house has bren Burczing

They say, "I didn't eater a cold. What really happened i that the gerins were ovēćcome by

cho Budy's resistance before the cold really got entrenched During the time when the battle was going on between the virus and the body's resistance they n kub-clinical were suffering attack of the common cold.

Vague feeling

"I follow you." Mr. Talbot sald."People suffer from time to time through Bnesses that never revent themselves and during that the the only nymp tom may be a vague feeling of being off-colour."

Many a time I've looked at an X-ray and know that yeara before a patient has had an infection. Encause a sour can be plainly seen. The patient might say. Imposable. I never had

day's Illness when I Was younger" That patient has for gotten he felt a bit "liverish" for a week some 10 yenis ago,

Right now many people are not feeling quite on top form because they are suffering from a sub-clinteat attack of influenza, They may inter tell you they were lucky enough to escape the present epidemite,

Anyway a sub-clinical attack of any pets doesn't last long. I assured Mr. Talbo "Either the illness expreases Brel! with out disguise. or, more often, the patient is restored to health and to good spirits in a few days."

Mr. Talbot seemed reassured. I am sure his liver will not igure ils diary any more.

He had been dealing with Archbishop Makarlos, that craftlest of men, who ita on ordained enemy of Britain. He knew at the time that Mukarlos was behind the terrorist movement.

But he had only kind words

to say about kim.

And then be started to Talli about the recent murder of British policemen.

His face became fran. "We shall and the killers," he said

They did.

His decision

KNOW, that he disliked his chuty of being three inni arbiter or life and death when terrorists had been found guilty and sentenced to death.

I was for Harding to decide whether they should die or not. Sometlines he would go out on the lawn and play croquet when he had such a decision to make.

And there

WD!!

something

slightly fantastic that only while playing croquet, could this man find the peace of mind to decide whether a mue should die or not.

Cyprus had always been a rather thirl-rate pince so fur as Whitehall was concerned,

But, by leaving the Suez Canal, this island became the entre of all our power in the Liddle East.

Nicosia, Famagusta, Limasol, |Kvienia--names known only to travellers and historians-have become towns internationally famous by their murders and riola.

And the man we gave the top Job to was Harding.

He had already achieved all . that a

soldier, can achlove

of feld-marshal, Chief

the Imperial General Staff, a gallant career in the first war. brilliant career in the second with three D.3.0.6 awarded within 13 months.

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He has a small farm in the country. As a field-marshal te would always draw £2,300 2 year and have a terminal grunt of £€,900.

And, before he took on the

Cyprus Job, he could look for ward to a directorship or two.

His fame

BUT, for the Queen and the

country, he took on a job which was personally dangerous and which, from a career point of view, could only bring him trouble.

a great and gullant I was

who gesture by the man

once delivered neweрopers to make some pocket-money.

By his efforts he has packie the island.

The terrorist gangs have been

largely liquidated.

The fame is his

and of

the troops whom he has or ganised.

He should not be forgotten.

THE strong man of Cyprus--Field-Marshal Sir JOHN HARDINĊ-flew Into London and retire-

mant.

After 25 months as governor of the strife-torh island, he said: "Looking back, I would have done the same things agoin in all major matters of policy."

He said that at no time did he have any differences of opinion with the Colonial Secretary or the Covern- ment.

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Explaining his reasons for retiring, the 61-year-old Field-Marshal said: "When I took on this job it was for a limited period only. Last summer I decided I had done all I could.

"It seemed to me that anyone as Governor at this time would have to stay on for some considerable time. and I could not do that."

Sir John hoped that a solution to the problem would be found in the New Year, but he would not say that a solution was any nearer.

Sald he: "If I did it would sound conceited. But the issues are clearer and it is plain that terrorism can be mastered.".

Sir John was asked if he felt that any of the measures he had taken were too stringent. He said: "Certainly not. I was up against a ruthless. brutal and implacable organisation, supported by an unscrupu- lous Church, and I do not believe the job could have been done in any other way..

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