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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1958.

World Copyrigh! by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

My ferret starts a stampede

POLECA

OLECAT HOB, the Fat- test Ferrel in the World had had enough exercise for one day. Fearing that I was too dense to take it in by telepathy ho kept run ning in front of my feet and then flopping, apparent ly exhausted, to the ground. I picked him up and dropped him into the haybag slung from Immediately he my shoulder. began to snore.

His beloved spouse, Jill, pure white and as aender as a wind-

WOS rippled ribbon,

moving along quite far ahead, still full of go.

Ferrets need exercise and I take ту Lwo for walks when the weather is

nol 100 [oul.

My Hob is 2

Inzy devil, 'ex-

сере

meal ut times or when

Jill has made

into

the

My ticket to everywhere!

I HAVE sworn, at the American Embassy, that I am not, and never have been, a Communist. I have filled up forms in duplicate for various embassis informing them, among other things, that my mother's Christian name was Williamina, (Despite that, she's survived to a ripe and hearty 77).

I have been inoculated against practically overy thing except athlete's foot.

And now I'm off, girding the globe.

even

Whatever you think about Mr Selwyn Lloyd (and probably agree with you), you can't blame him for that."

Anyway, I'm off, a punctured By the Nothing that awaits me, me you read this I'll be wing-

and puzzled columnist. elephant stampedes ing off for Rome, the Middle in India, can be quite as East, to India, Japan, over the arduous as what I've ex- Pacide to lawall, on to Holly- America lo perienced in London's New York. Then home. embassy-land.

That's the route, roughly, But I may make one or two detours.

wood and across

Flexibility

the

ghost

in

I accepted the inoculating needle in the interests of world health, but I'll never understand why the Siamese Embassy, for example, had to know my TF Dulles does himself in and

gives up before I mother's name could be allowed to set foot Washington, or is pushed over the brink in Egypt, I will gladly on their royal soil.

rush to the spot to 'report the event. Why, in the name of St Christopher, does every other

In country

this shrinking world demand & ¡ vísa as well as a passport?

"Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely with out let or hindrance...."

If the peripatelic Ava Gardner Virgin Isles, turns up in the with or without a bullfighter, and I am within a radius of

1,000 miles, I may fly to see her. If Jayne Mansfield pops up in Dangkok, with or without hus- will take a plane in an- bond, other direction.

Flexibility is the password, I bave a meeting arranged with John Wanye, the Westerner now filming in Japan. He is me in the waiting to initiate mysteries of the gelsha girl system.

INDIA

HAWAII:

SOUTH BLA

MEXICO

HOLLYWOOD

L880NLAY

written to tell him I have enough troubles.

I have a ticket for the Eye Festival, which takes place in Japan in February, and which is officially described as follows: "A multitude of half-naked devotees elbow and shoulder each other for a sacred baton thrown into them in darkness"

I

Mushroom tea

HAVE commission to and Just what Japanese mush- root tea is made from. I first tasted it when I visited Rubirosa at his elegant villa in the Re de Belle Chasse in Paris.

There were jugs of the brew

now

*

;

PARIS

CUBA

several other things 1'd like to do.

Interview the Emperor Japan. Or his brother, who, I'm told, is a very approachable gentleman.

Gaze at the Taj Mahal, of COUTSO,

Vialt tho

of oplum dens Macno with. Graham Greene if

I have been invited by my brother-in-law, a nomadic type Solomon living in the Islands, to visit him there and he happens to be so that part go crocodile-hunting. I may of the world. As a non-smoker. risk that too.

I have been told that if I fly over to Formosa 1 can talk to Ingrid Bergman who will be making a film there titled "The Inn of The Sixth Happiness,"

I have also been told no! l bring Rosseini, if 3 happen to meet him en route in an Indian bazaar.

Lunch date

HAVE a lunch date Holly

wood with Lauren Bacall,

Paradise

ASK Jardine Matheson and

Company in Hongkong what * they think of the Bank rate

ibunal report.

Find an island, perhaps in the South Seas, which is still 'a paradise on earth. Where the people are comely and friendly. Where the climate is perfect, Where I might tako up residence.

Strike oli in Texas with

in his bedroom and in the fully equipped gymnasium which oc cupies the top floor. He told me that he wouldn't be without it. "It's a great tonic and it

Introduce Governor Faubus to maintains a man's virlilly."

I have been given detalled Now I can trace It to its directions about how to get to Paul Robeson in Washington, source. I may even and out that Ernest Hemingway's home if I But I would NOT like to drop it is made from Japanese musa- fly down to Cuba. He will take in at the South Pole to cat a

me down to the sea, where he chicken

with supper. will either teach me how to catch Americans. big Ash-or drown me.

widow of the late much-lament- Howard Hughes, the American ed Humphrey Bogart; but not-

millionaire who used to own I venture to say despite the R.K.O. Alms and still owns

wife of rumours-the future

Trans World Airlines. Sinatra.

noso pen is a deep box full of doll's og her inquisitive little

blankets. This is their bed. everything. Now as JI was half-way It is always Hob who tangles the blankets while Jill across the field, my neighbour's up

linky Jussily tucks them warmly in mlik-cows spotted

tile allen body. One helfer let That night, much later, I saw off to a sight in a thousand. One end out a bellow and set

herd of the box had a blanket like a investigate. The entire

the gallop, tails pillow. Side by sido on that

He tells me in a letter that if two Little heads, So the passport states, pillow were

Hob and Jill but, believe me, you won't I algn an elaborate, finely print- both quite still.

I have been asked to go tiger vide adequate supply of hunting with the Maharajah of were fast asleep. Lower down, pass freely-or far-withuot ed contract guaraniceing te pro- tucked up to their chins,

visas stamped

kimonos, among other things, T Cooch Behar in Bengal, India. I another blanket. A hospital bed up-to-date

inside.

can buy a geisha girl. I have n.ay risk it. could not have been neater.

followed at straight up.

Jill felt as well as heard the

thunder of a hundred hooves and turned, gallantly facing what ever it was. The herd skidded to a stop and surrounded her with a blast of sniffs, bellows,

and pawings.

Jill sat up like a squirrel and turned her head towards me. Seeing me there, the evidently bo everything to imagined under control, and rippled for-

Up-Country ward to investigate the nearest

by

THURLOW

CRAIG

interesting

discovery. Then

he is there with

mouth watering

and

teeth

gleaming.

Jill is always on the go, pok-

Look!

Hidden Time!

Golden Dreams

by Rolex

cow.

The cow's nerves gave like a pping fiddle-string, and she shied violently with n frantic

bowl. Then she was off at full gallop, followed by the rest.

I put down on arm and 3M ran up t, Into the bag alongside her ever-snoring beiter half.

10 we

the

a

The run had sunk and it was already freezing hard, were glad to get back to workroom. In one corner is large play-pen. And in the play-

Never before such fabulous fashion to circle pretty wrists, Here are new watches

by Rolex, with hand-wrought or Jewelled lids covering their time-telling faces. Even the bands of these watches are of gold kidskin or pure gold. A flick of the finger and you have the most precisa timepieces possibile in such tiny watches--the proud schievement of Swiss craftsmen. Rolex have designed these Golden Dreams for the wornan who wants her watch to be absolutely accurate, and yet look like an important

fashion accessory, Come and seg

the whole series of these beautiful Bracelet-watches.

ROLEX

GENEVA • SWITZERLAND

Was

ום

rooms.

I quiz Mintoff

about that money

SAW Mr Dom Mintoff in his red silk sitting-room in the Palace of the Grand

drawn and ill, and some of the surprises of the last few weeks have not been unconnected with his health.

Before I saw him I had watched a session of the 40-strong parliament, where feelings run so high that Members are not allowed to use ink for fear they throw the bottles at each other and ruin the Gobelin tapestries with which the hall is hung.

Mr Mintoff has the same superior air as Mr Harold Wilson. To begin with we discussed the amount of aid that Britain had given to Malta.

You will agree with me that Britain has made substantial contribu- tions?

A-It is useless to talk if we are just going to discuss generalities.

*********** All right then, but you will agree that Britain has given great sums of money to Malta?

can to help your country, there is a limit to what can be done, and if it means closing the dockyards at Malta or one of our own dockyards, do you not sce there would be a natural and logical desire of many. people in Britain that our own people should not be put out of work?

WE GOT A ROTHSCHILD

OUT HERE TO ADVISE

US AND SINCE THEN

WE HAVE DONE BETTER

by Lord Lambton, MP

who called of Malta on his way back from

towe of North Africa

the

11 I survive a Hemingway And I would NOT like to excounter and the other rample a well-known delicacy in hazards of the trip, there are Hengkong, Birdnest soup.

MALTA

THROW NO INK

"JOT THAT DOWN*

Dom Mintoff sold to Lond Lambton,

Mr Mintoff was inflexible ministrator he is head and that Malta could do little shoulders above all other more to help herself and political figures in Malta. that it wa Britain that must do everything.

SPEED

It is to be hoped that his native good sense in these questions will prevail and Finally I put to him a that ho will see Malta in its precise question: "If true perspective to this

Let me ropeat that the 80 badly invested by Britain believes that the country. British economy is in colonial administrators... present aid she has given

-But some is in short-

dated?

do?"

A-That is not a fair question. I will not answer it. I would not ask your Prime Minister what

a bad way. Am I not right (I made an involuntary and promises she has made in thinking that Malta has movement)...ves you can have fulfilled her obliga- -Really, don't let us be in the United Kingdom a fot that down that to sell tions and declines to help childish. The position very large sum in short 200uld mean a considerable you further, what will you is totally different. To dated gilt-edged securities, losa. A-Really, we cannot go Malta the docks mean totalling, or nearly totall- into this. If we go into everything. In Britain it is ing, the issued currency of

Maltese pounds? it I can point out that for not the same. 150 years Britain gave nothing to Malta.

A-You are facts.

A-Very little, not more than eight or ten per -But

facts cent. We got a Rothschild correct?

out here to advise us and since then we have done -You are telling them better.

It is difficult to determine

to me.

exactly what is behind Mr KX*XX**X*XX**C Mintoff's attitude but at

I asked him what was

But the NATO base will remain and if the

dockyard present

com-

the alternativo to Malta's panies who are interested continuance of close asso- in the docks take them over clation with Britain and mass unemployment will questioned him what he not result.

would do without it. A-The point is that no -We will see, but sure- firm that comes. hore.

A-

telling me

ure

the

Well then, could I put

he would do, were there to be a rupture in British- American relations, ·

least one thing is certain. Would you not agree He has got himself in this Q

ly you cannot think I will employ more than 4,000 it this way? Is not your that some of this money position, that if he con- The people and that 15,200 will issued currency fully back could be spent on helping tinues to be extreme he will was born gjesterday! question is whether Britain be put out of work if the ed by a large sum of gilt the change-over in Malta's inevitably either ruin him. is going to break her ob- British go and that is the edged? If that is the case economy?

ligation.

1000

“... breaking of your obligation. is not your economy basl-

! self or causa serious suffer-

certain amount of faco,

xxxxxxxxxx cally stronger than our own A-Of course, we are willing in Malta while if he be It was no use pointing and should you not use ing later to use some comes reasonable he loses a But today Malta has out to Mr Mintoff that the some of this money to play of this money for these Neither of these courace loat a large amount of Treaty of Integration had its part in Malta's Indus means, but what we want ita strategic importance not been signed. I turned trial development? and whereas it is our wish to the role that I thought it that we should do every might be reasonable for thing that wo reasonably Malta to play.

now is to be helped over the can appeal to him, a man

of outstanding ability. period of transition. Other -No, you are; wrong. wies England is going back. There is little doubt What

•Much of the money war on her word,

"asan" intellect and an nå

POCKET CARTOON]

by OSBERT LANCASTER

“I'm afraid we've

to accept the fact that technically - 'the Bizalmist are way shende: Why, I'm told theyter SVES KOL SENČNa