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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1958.

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"What a colncidence! Exactly my size!”

When You Read 'A Baby Has Been Snatched'

I

WENT to a cottage of unoffending poverty not so far from Tipperary-- "to ask a fierce yet gentle girl of 17 a question which troubles all who believe broken homes must mean broken children.

The question was this: What is the effect on a child in later life when the parents quarrel over him in public; when they snatch-and-grab him through the courts; when they both love him but behave as though they hate each other.

Painful cases, all of them.

Like the latest me, reported

a few days ago, when a 25-year- old mother "dnapped" her three-year-old son and took hi off to Canada

by MERRICK WINN

And this was the question the

Now what of Mary? She lives came to Ireland and we walked flerce yet gentle girl, who sexwls with her father and uncle and and climbed and had a lot of like a child and smlles ko 4 aunt, all in three rooms and a fun. She makes jokes and has woman, could answer. She is kitchen,

а cottage by n a wonderful laugh." such a child,

country Jevol-crossing where Then she said: Eight years ago she was the nothing hurries except the 24 very pretty," storm-centre of one of the most traina (12 passenger, 12 Koodat famous of all these cases,

Favourite

"Muminy is

Sundays excepted) which pass Uncertainty

each day.

The Ilving-room hos 1wa She keeps for the special pletures of the Virgin and a card occasion a pink cardigan her We talked, AL first she saying simply "Jesus," and the mother knitted ber as

a Christ- scowled more than she smiled, celling is papered with news mas gift. And when she told me She asked me, or rather ordered papers saying many things.

I must not use her real name she One headline asks, tactlessly: gave a second reason, me, not to publish her me, bc-

She Bald: cause her school-friends, tos "Why don't married people it might hurt mummy." young to remember the case, be entertain more at home?" lieve her mother la "away or I don't dood.

noticed it.

think Mary

But

hns

Her father has told her that her mother is good, which is the Truth, and that marriages may sometimes break up when no one really wants them to.

And he told me that if he had Has the turmoil marked her ever seen signs of Mary being

I said: "Choose your Miserable

favourite name and I'll use that

instead." Then she mantled and

Enid: "Doris," But I missed

the significance-until later, The signs I fancled I saw in her seriously upset he would have

beautiful but given her up at once.

mean him,

I belleve Inslead I' looked at the face, not yet earnest face, burning inside, already haunting, may

.She told mex "I But, pathetically, Mary is not and sold: "Not Doris." She nothing.

loves her suppose it must always be bad even sure it the Baid: "All right, Mary."

for a child to lose Its mother, mother. Perhaps it would be

Now think back eight years, but I don't feel different from better if she were sure, eliber Mary's Irish father stayed in; an other girls,

way; the uncertainty could be

She said: "I've thought about

1t, but I don't know. But I do

English prison nearly 22 months, "I'm sometimes miserable but important. held for contempt of court, mostly happy. I don't worry because he refused to produce much," her from Elre after his wife, granted a divorce on cruelly and grounds, was given her custody, honestly say I have missed my at all, I'd love her in a week."

Then she thought white mow this: if we could all be ndded: "No, 1 can't together, and I'd like that best

There have, of course, boen rubsitutes. Her father. Religion,

He was released in November mother," 1950 to Ro Eire and bring Mary back. He went to Ere all right. He did not come back.

Her home

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PRIVACY?

LONDON LETTER

By

Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

។

VERY now and then the London newspapers decide that they are not only the purveyors of news but are, themselves, news. Thus there has broken out a fierce quarrel between the lively tabloid. THE DAILY MIRROR and the vigorous but respectable SUNDAY OBSERVER which is owned by the Astor family. If the row gets any worse they will be presently referring to ench other in the Dickensian style of "our reptile

the Delly Miror felt it never- But what business is 1 OL "The late Lord! Rothermere contemporary."

of the DAILY that Artor's newspapers to spread scandal (proprietor Ery to proclaim The cause of the quarrel was The Observer asked that quea. Observer had not named опу to the four winds? The news- MAIL) abandoned his support entirely mumnouncement by Lady tion

had papers would reply that it and then proceeded to newspaper proprietor who

ls of Sir Oswald Mosley Molly Huggins that he was answer.it:

Loen nobbled, not one news- their purpose in the scheme of a result of pressure about to Isme writ sults ler "This leaves де suitable paper which had suppressed thing to hold the glass to the nevertisers (most husband, Sir John Huggins, for targets for scandal-mongering news through fear of losing passing scene. It is not the people). silverve. Accordinat to Lady two catagories: "Thor who advertising. not one newspaper mirror which creates honour or "If the proprietor of one Hugghen her husband had not look important

had suppressed news dishonour, virtue

scandal, cur powerful naklonal or respectable, which only deserted her but had gotte brat are not powerful and through fear that powerful although the hand that holds if papers were to leave his wife to the Continent. In the company ordinary people whose eccen- people might be able successful- can direct il and thus choose and take a woman friend to with a woman who lived in the tricities or bad luck get them ly to win public sympathy for what it will reveal,

Italy, would dils editor publish same side of the English coun- Into criminal or extraordinary themselves.

Sir John Higgins gave a life- the fact and obtain an interview tryskie as the Huggins family situations, thus depriving them

time of distinguished service to from his wife? Would other wisch Incidentally includes of the protection of belonging

State and WES rightly newspaper do 17 1 Judge not; three grown up doughters. to the herd," "

honoured for it. To a man who even if the wife were so Ill- In other words it was not ex-

has actively served as a Pro- bead as to wish to ventilate the actly a case of hot young blood

congal for many years the sub matter In the press. Dally in the noon-day sun.

forced den retirement that is upon him by the age rule pre- sonis В problen

15 which his case his wife starts out on a men difficult to solve. When as in

"Having made four wild charges," said the Mirter, "David Aator retreats

under a anioke soreen,**

In other words, according to the Ástor family Sunday journal, the only way that a man.

woman can hope to escape calumny in through the's in- vortance or their unimportance.

And with that we shall leave Tho retired run-awny ex- Cudlipp and Astor lo their newspapers will give more CoveTHIOT

of Jimales had no secret thoughts. By this time space and louder headlines to hope of escape. He was no they must have exhausted not the marital infidelity of welt- ichown people than to those who powerful but he could only their readers, but

la understandable

that

never be obscure.

selves,

the

or

from tobacco

of

-GALDU

415 can think of many rien who control newspapers political career which keeps her and whose private lives are on the move then the inactivity much more interesting and of retiremont becomes doubly spley than that of the drab, un- dificult for the husband.. fortunate couple who have just been pilioriod. How strange it is "Can anything be done?" aak- Yet this brawl

*Which brings us back to the that we never hear about their between two ed David Astor, in tis Sunday

behaviour of the press, When private lives,

I would in- Observer. Apparently. nothing editors raises a question which, Sir John openly

Journeyed to form the editor and the readers dis- could be done because the how must be asked even though the the Riviera in company with a of the Dolly Mirror of a score

woman who was nol his wife he of

relations, mistresses hnd knew the paleest he would lovers of people connected with have to pay. Perhaps in. tho the press whose names arc loneliness and inactivity of te never mentioned whatever they tirement he deemned the price do. I have no desire to marry a worth paying. But for the man just because he owns a newspapers to have suppressed newspaper. I am the glory would indeed show a old-fashioned to belleve that sufficiently partially that could not be justl.. med en any grounds.

are protected by their SOCIAL unimportance. No one is to News is news blame for that. and personalitics make news. Str John Huggins la

servant of 1nguished retired the Crown who was the Governor of Jamaica not very long ago. His blonde, vibrant wife uni- versally known as "Molly" is not only pleturesque but is Tury candidate in starch of Parlamentary seat

*

papers "engaged in this voluable would lose 0 trade

lot of answer is not easy, Are the money." But what about the Press Council which is set up yagarica of the well known and to deal with the vagaries of the

man u British pross? Scornfully Autor respected

like Sir John

gves the reply: "The Press Huggins fair game for a popu Counel is merely a defance or-

form, are the private affairs of distinguished men the legitimate concern of the pubile?

Therefore it Is understand-ganisation of the newspapers lar press? To put it in another able that the popular news themselves,"

the went full out on papers nows that Sir Jubin und his lady friend had left for

the Continent, Reporters and photo- Finally this particular David graphers flew across the chan hurls his last stone at the giant rel in search of pictures and popular press: "It is up to cour copy. The quiet, dignified ex- ageous individuals and to bodles Governor had become bigger who can stand up to them- news than a film star.

serious newspapers, the B.B.C., Whereupon the SUNDAY OB- and even Commercial Television SERVER" decided that the-lo try and protect the privacy, popular press, especially the as well as the ilberty, of the DAILY MIRROR, should be citizen from these commercial

pillary operators," castigated for the blatant way in which the story had bern

This was too much for Hugh presented. After on opening Cudlipp, the brilliant youngish Enter dhor-in-chief of the 4 million which circulation tabloid The Dally

san- Mirror. He has

paragraph denouncing Ruinment journalism faltered upon personal dals" il declared:

"Ordinary scandalous be- haviour by ordinary people is ignored. The scandals of the powerful-those who might be

able_to*hit_back, either by appealing see

successfully to public sympathy or by with holding advertising"

OT

by

nobbling proprietors

or

editors are also best ignored

So far the Sunday Observer

*

The face of

a poel, the smale of a film star, and a mind as sharp-pointed as a dagger. With all the power of challenged the printer's ink he Astor to name one editor in loc Street who had been "aobbled" by powerful people to conceal from the public the news of "scandalous behaviour."

Mr Astor named two, but he was on dangerous ground and wisely went no further, Glont- mgly the Miivor uttributed to

Observer the Sunday

the hypocritical qualities of Dickens Peckan, after which there was truce of exhaustion. At last

we could forget the Huggins zffair and leave tho news- ! papers to make our flesh creep

and the

had contented felf with with the story of Russia's

too nuclear strength, describing those who were Important or too unimportant to drama of the Middle East, be attacked by the pros, Who then was left to be exploited?

ZANIES

FRU

But even when everyone had grown tired, of the wordy, battle

1

the rich ore Just FAS much entitled as the poor to have privacy in their lives. I think this is a matter where privilege should nol enter, and I find it exceptionally dis- gusting that those who are intquely elrcumstanced to pro- loet

But is that the end of the alery? After the battle between Astor and Cudlipp can we now It is easy and natural to say get back to cricket and the themselves and their 1 "NO" Yet I suggest that in aurums of the Middle East? I children should make more the case of a prominent eltizen am afraid hat it is, not so

money than they can spend by who has been honoured for his There is always Randolph Chur- denying similar privileges to services to the State he must chill, the irrepressible and the those less fortunate than then- pay the price of his own high frevitable. Just as Cüßlipp and selves." achievements. As Governor of Astor'were showing signs of ex- Jamica Sir John dealt justly haustion Randolph weighed in I am genuinely sorry for my but fimly with the black with an article in SPECTATOR in friends Sir John Huggins and children of the sun when they which he declared offended

open war his wife, and for the lady whom code. As a man of honour he Dealing with the claim of the

against the accepted against the whole of Fleet Street. Sir John Intends marry 83 soon as it is in order to do so. expect to break the MIRROR that no man should code at home without loss of escape the righteous calumny face,

of the press ho declaredz

cannot

They little thought they would unloose such a storm in the Street of Ink.

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So I cannot tell you whether (though it cools him £1 of bis this intelligent girl, who 20 weekly earnings at the local growing up splendidly and is sawmill) because he hoped she not unhappy, Jing been

"Mary she needed.

is

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I met him, gentle man, would get there the mothering seriously hurt by her parents'

never ferco. He said:

Was Bo

shruggio. Perhaps no one can

Mary has had these things, ever soy. broken-hearted at the den of leaving me that I But there are, all the same, But when I said goodbye and ...couldn't bear, to force her."

hints that the loss roca deep, looking back sair Mary and her She calls her mother "mummy," father, sianding and in orm, I Now, he would like to come to though she has seen her only sutkeniy remembered

Dorks. and three times sluce she was two favourite, name, Britain again--beged worked here 20 years-out date and a half. not because he could be arrested at once and moled.

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And

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It is very, very like her Mommy mother's name.

She told me about the last time, two years ago.

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