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THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958.
The Men Who Live With Danger
Ask No Questions
F
IVE frightened men, trying to slip through the Iron Cur- tain, lay cramped and aching
in a tiny secret space aboard a ship.
Who they were, or where, or when does not matter. It is
These were men of a particu-
better, anyway, not to tell.
larly grim resolve.
be,
They had to
They had bribed one of lm crew, with all the money they had, to bring them food. They lay so close that
they could not move a limb,
It should have been a short trip fo freedom. Unhappily, their ship was diverted
to an unexpected port for search.
For three weeks the five lay in their stinking hole, baggart and sore-covered, their clothes rotting.
me.
up,"
One of them auld: "This is the end for I must give
I can go on no longer.
Quietly, the other four talked to him. "You realise win it will mean?" they sald, For "You leave us only one course open. our maken, we must kill you.'
Then, by quiet talk between friends, they won the fifth man back to their own grim resolve. He was Kill when freedom among them ended the journey,
The story is true, ll was, told to me by DR JAN JAXA. a Polish lawyer in Britain who mee's a lot of men who know Jear.
I answers the second question I have been asking men who do dangerous things. WHY do they do them?
WHAT
YOU MUST
DO
YOU
MUST DO
***Yost may take it back. I flught. But not without #ght.
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"Then, when Jolin Cobb waar killed, it was obviously impera- tive from every point of view to press on.
"You work hand, spending You fantastic sums of money. are like an old-time explores secking aller he unknown; They do them, of course, trying to do something no man
hes done before." Lecause they must.
same once
Jaxa meels Dr
many Iron
It Is basically
the ANTONI answer that Sir Malcolm Curtain refugees. KLIMOWICZ was one of them. gave, when Donald asked him "Why for the hundredth time: do you do it?"
He hit the headlines because he was rescued, at the h bour. from o eating prison in Thames by 80 pollenten, the two destroyers, and a writ from the Lord Chlet Justice.
I mtt Kilmowicz, too, and 1 know that, like the others. he faced his peril because he must.
The
resolve, of course, had been always there. Klimowicz is a rubborn, determined young
mat,
But then, aboard e ship, he refused to set
police A
He replied, o twinkle in his pale blue eyes: "For the joy of achievement, my boy.”
Not too old
A MAN
WHY does
steer the Y ose of his aircraft crazily ander all those Thames bridges in one pericus, hazirdous flight?
MAJOR "Because, my boy,"
informer, and become a political CHRISTOPHER DRAPER told suspect. Being a marked-man me. is an unhealthy kind of life in Poland. So Klimowicz had to get out.
Hard work
I isn't always quite like that.
"I wanted to crzek wide pen once and for all this stupid ge business.
was getting tired of being told that a man is too old at 03. I wanted to prove somehow that age has nothing whatever to do with it. That a man at 83 is as it and as capable as any
DONALD CAMPBELL, son young person.
Malcolm, also faces of Sir donger beestise he must-in
diferent kind of way.
""Then 011
0 "I did it because I must."
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"Recruse
like ANDREE
MADEMOISELLE JAN told me. "When I was still a little girl, 1 was playing on a trapeze in the garden."
Which meant that she,
also,
must,
Why does STIRLING MOSS cosx those exira m.ph. straight from the piston-bearing still on his body the murk of a
-PETER BLOXHAM
....learning more about the people who dlee with
death
OSBERT LANCASTER
THE EXPRESS POCKET CARTOONIST JUST BACK FROM AMERICĂ DEBATES L
Who killed the Loud American?
arriving in New York after an
absence of nine years I found that I had been propagating a ver- hission of the typical Ameri- cant which was founded on hopelessly out-of-date
exhaust pipe collected on
Brat cb lihood
trip to Brook Janus?
Berzuse, he says, every In- provement to private ears is result of work that rarin
drives have done. Because "we are the test pilots of the rood," Beezuse, as with those other
test pilots, there is a sense of dedication and rightness about i oll
WHY does Hull trawlerian GEORGE CLIXBY endure those battering gales and go back for
more.
"To live a little better than 1 could otherwise," he says with forthright honesty. "To COTT more money for my wife family."
a
mudel.
Gunu were the hand painted ties, gone were the wide brimmed Stetsons, gone the hexagonal, rim less glasses.
A narrow
whereas the earlier masterpiece wax coloured by an attitude of tolerunt acceptance, the present offering is charged with social Bignificance, perhaps over- charged.
While the dialogue and lyrics of "Guys and Dolls" were allek. streamlined, and amusing, those tend to of "West Side Story" be clumsy and pretentious, but the score and the ballet, on the other hand, set an entirely new. standard for musicals.
Perhaps even more significant of the way the wind is blowing on Broadway is the appearance of a new comic, Mort Sphl.
Children with a tendency
towards
hata...
of the local Press.) And none of these doubts, or so it seems to him, are shared by his rulers. It should not be assumed that his mood reflects the machine- made gloom generated by the Alsop brothers
other and columnists. Nor does it in any way "stink of defeat," it I may borrow a phase. It springs, it seems to me, simply from on intelligent and justifled feeling of frustration.
For in creating an
prtificial capital the founders of Ameri- con Independence made a grave error-also made by the Turks, the Australians, and the British in India of which the con- sequences
have now become terrifyingly apparent.
The inhabitants of Washington Ave, for all the resemblance the prevailing atmosphere bears to that of other cities, in an oxygen tent.
With
strong and active President this discrepancy can be overcome, but with a virtually non-playing President it is in- creased tenfold.
Assisted by a pleasant person- ality, puts over a wisecrack- ing monologue in the traditional wi Rogers manner. The novelly lies in his material; no Jokes about sex or show busi- The average passer-by was mess, but every crack with A end in a dark, conservative sult, political or social siant delivered
brimmed "English" from
position well to the Left
The
which two spheres in myle hat, with a discreetly pal of Centre.
Americans themselves seem torned 110 emerging from a His comments on the Federal to be most aware of what's been white collar, neatly secured with Bureau of Investigation, General happening are the home and a pin. (Only among the very Motors, and the H-bomb would poflites. young does there, still fourlsh Britain bring the polico The parents of present-day Mr Dulles and the Civil Ser- a tendency towards comle hats, charging through the stalls be- teenagers, respected members of vice are all-powerful and seem and particularly around Easter time) fore you could say Joyce Gren- the Garden Club and pillars of to many Americans almost to
fell.
local society, still remember pride themselves on their total Nor is the change purely
that they are veterans of the disregard
public opinion. sartorial Voices
quieter, Bre
Scott Fitzgerald era, represen- manners less rugged.
(Even dyed-in-the-wool Repub- tatives of Flaming Youth, once leans are now accustomed to The first time I was called
reeking of bath-tub
and gin,
say things about Mr Dulles "Sir" by a cob driver, suspect-
LOTHES, music, reading aro puzzled by the industry and
which We should regard as available who knew the shateng irony, I responded with that
serious-mindedness of their smile
LA habits all are different. In always oll mines they wanted to sabot-employed by visiting English- the drug store at Idlewild where
offspring ege in Estonia, mud who spoke men when faced with a joke 10 years ago one would have been Not that the young do not
time, good Estonian,"
they don't
but lusty to find a couple of Micky prin sculty is at a discount, understand suspect is on them.
Spillanes and a pocket edition On the second occasion it was of How to Make Friends and on the habit of "going -steady generally observed. cleos there was no imule la- Influence People," the shelves of
But it is in his altitude to tention.
admirably produced paper-backs the Administration that the Even the prohitecture wears a included such popular authors new restrained leak. Beside as Proust, Berenson, Gide, and average American is most the severe, but effective ela of Turgenev.
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young!
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WHY docs
mala voluntzer to be
opy? "Because," pays British <x-spy "I was just RONALD SETH about the only young mon
"WHY" x A question the Danger Men rarely stop to ask. hot What you must do, you must.
AND THE WOMEN, TOO:
Andree Jan dangles from 4 helicopter-and likes it.
LOOK! CLEAN BOMB!
Dulles washes
WHITER !!!*
I thought my Bomb was clean until f
Saw Dulles ! TRY THE DULLES
WINDOW TEST
!!!
self-deprecatory
of
One Exception
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Acid is the old flourishing
R
new
manu-
steel Bnd
which now glocs dominato
Only in ong Park Avenue the
on brusness exuberant skyscrapers earlier epoch-30-storey towers ever. Untouched by the of plain brick blossoming at the restraint the automobile lop into be Sainte Chapelle or facturera continue to pour out the Alhambra have acquired cars of which the ridiculous sp an unmistakably period air. It pearance is only surpassed by soon became apparent that this the manifest inconvenience. new mood dominates_eyen. the. And in so doing have, In the world of entertainment.
opinion of many quite serious
have
but
accutely aware that things are not what they were. For he is deeply and quilo unhysterically worried.
He is worried about Russia, he la worried about Integration, he is worried about Juvenile delinquency. And it seems to him that his Government is not worried, or not worried enough, about any of these things.
.. car of which the ridiculous appearance is only purpatied "' the manifest inconvenience.
going too far even if sold by a left-of-Bevan Socialist about Mr Selwyn Lloyd.}
Let's Hope
·SCUS
ABOVE all, the new-style In-
telligent American
Washington la tie sign that even aware of his existence;
It is to be hoped, for all our sakes, the awareness will come before it is too late. For it is clear that the old self-confident easily bamboozled, back-slapping persona is a gure of the past.
And while as a cartoonist I easy target lowered I am bound to say that tho prefer personally I much American the way he is today.
He is beset by doubts--doubts bout his country's scientific A The typical modern jazz en- observers, triggered off the re- semble is a handful of intellec- cession. For no longer can know-how, doubts about Eng- pal types playing with a muted high-powered advertising make land. discretion, which would. by fans of all the people all the Even doubls about push-
time. comparison, make a harpsl-
And when suckers are at busten elvilleation in general, cbord recital sound like the premium, the production lines (The blizzard In Washingtcu. Kneller Hall band playing the come to a halt. overture to "Zampa." (Happily
How widespread is this lor such middle-aged old fogies sobriety I am not in a position as myself for whom the new to say, as my travels were con- "intellectual" Jazz has no mes- Aned to what Chiengo intellec sago-Henry "Red" -Allen con- tuals delight in dismissing as inues to dish out "Trad" in "the civilisation of the coastal the old, uninhiblied way at the fringe." Metropole.)
Further evidence of recent changes in this field is afforded between the
by a comparison |current bit-musicol "West Side
"Guys 307,
And
Story" and, Dolls."
Both deal with the seamier aspects of New York life,
LOOK! NO TESTS!
Cummys
but
new
when two feet of snow closed down the State Department and the Pentagon, brought traffic to a standstill, and left a large pro- portion of the population with hate to BOO out heat, television, or washing machines provoked some of the angriest leaders in the history
on
↑ UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIGAD
B
Io brings peace
to
my
fireside-
LACK LADY is about to have kittens, though hardly more than a kitten herself. And when our latest acquisition, Teena the Boxer, was introduced, the Ittle cut blew herself up to twice her normal size and wasted no time in pro-
minaries but flew savagely at the huge dog with blood-curdling yells.
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Teena, only anxious In- and I hoped that Black Lady share of warmth, and the little gratiate herself with us all, would tag along with him. yelped like the puppy she is and shot behind my legs for pro- Then we introduced her
tection.
cat
kar mediately prepared to attack.
lo
Hob and Ill, the terres, and Then lo calmly pushed in and civilities were ex- gently butted Black Lady away. The .lomb lay down between changed with marked Interest,
Nelson was still reserved but them 口味 though nothing had conveyed the Impression that if happened. Presently all three we didn't hurry him too much, were lying down together, first the lamb, then he might yot be open to con the cat, then
Teena,
Io chewed the cud. Teena's eyes were shut, Black Lady watched, not quite relaxed, but nearly.
Then, thinking perhaps that mutual our other pel lo, the orphan lamb, looked very peaceful and kind, ran to her for comfort.
Someone put Black Lady late her special box, we took Teena lout, and the incident was over, Nelson the Mouser had held a watching briof from the window-sill with his usual air [of aloof superiority.
Fell in love
vielion,
Only Black Lady remained implacably hostile.
Dangerous
Next morning there was the usual busy scene in the kitchen. Milk was heated, the cats and Kerreis were fed, walle Io · Every time thereafter that the 43 though cat and the dog seemed to be
it. depended on
For a long time we have bad savaged her bottle no dog because our last was run her
Ite
Drchard.
grass in
It on dangerous ground, Io, in her.
were sprawled out entha sand-
over whle quite young, and don't, of course, for she should strange but efficient little way, In such cases one seldom feels have been weaned long ago. She prevented hostilities from break- like replacing the lost pet lin- los already eaten nearly all our ing out. mediately.
cabbages und now liquidating As I write on a sunny spring' train the valerian that grows between day, with gentle But recently on 4
southerly. joumey I met Teerd, who was the stones. She is quite above wind, there are no signs of war. returning with her mother from the common
the After breakfast all the animate one of the big showa.
"There and then I fell in love Having put Black Lady out' patch rovelling in the warmth, with the daughter, and on we brought Teena in for her Later, Io and Trena racod arrival at the quiet county town broskfast, after which she rem etch other up and down until. which was their destination she turned to the garden with To they were tired. Then .they had become my property. while the latter filled up on returned to the kitchen and lay
· I know, really, that the human lavender. After that the lamb down in front of the Bre. part of the family would go wild came back to lie — au is hor At the moment Teena's, great custom In front of the are head is pillowed on Io's,asita- I know that to the orphan while chewing her aromatic cud, khen flank, while Black Lady lamb would accept her as she
La carefully washing To's huge.""; accepta everything else in this Black Lady was already there, Nelson is doing his own wanh- world, as a friend and an equal, but Toona didn't notice her as ing on the window-all, and Nelson would at fret he aloof, the blundered in to get her perco reigns" over all.
about her.
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