1958-08-23 — Page 14

'Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958.'

THE, HISTORY-SHAPER CONCLUDES HIS 'SURVEY OF HIS PREDECESSORS

China Still THE BOOK PAGE

Likes Its

By

THE LONG MARCH.

Simone de Beauvoir, Andro Deutsch and Weldenfeld and Nicolson. 421.

Churchill sees Traditions Mary Ellen at her frue value

WHAT Prime Minister fought a duel in Battersea Park? Who told American farmers to "raise leas corn and more Hell?” Which British king told a blue joke at a public banquet and was rebuked by a London crowd for spitting from his carriage window?

The caswers are even by Sir Winston Church in THE GREAT DEMOCRA TES" (CW- nell, 30s.), the fourth and find volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

This was the great history which Churchil, powerless and out of office, sat down to write ot Chartwell in the late 'thirties, His object: do what he could to rally the English-speaking

against Hitler Fatjons

by sharpening their sense of a com- mon heritage.

Churchil did not have ting to complete that imited task before war begats, Failing to rally the free nations by writ ing history, he made history in stead.

INADEQUATE

simple

ROBERT PITMAN'S BOOK PAGE

will

readers who buy Sir Winston's and his character nothing history have heard of The Inger in my mind so much as he of how and this brief account Populists the

resigned Prime

as Eery radicals who stirred up finally

discontents of American Minister four years before

death farmers' lu the 1850's.

the

his

Now in this last volume (from

Yet, after reading Sir Win- "His parting with fils Minis- 1815-1901) he gives the man-

ilarcourt paigns of the Crimea an the sten ihose readers will always leaw yan affecting.

how the Populis, made a tearful speech of fare- American Civil War in brilliant remember

Ellen Lease, toki the well, and there was much emo- detall (although the maps pro- Mary

Hell instead on. Gladstone, who remained vided for the Civil

ure farmers to War

unmoved, afterwords referred U of corn. And quite inadequate),

raise

THE ROYALIST WHO

KILLED A REPUBLIC

FROM blackmail TO TREASON: Political Crime and

Corruption in France, 1920-1940. By Louis Ducloux, | André Deutich, 18s.

LEADER

1940

and

THE CYRIL STAPLETON COLUMN

Chase They'll All

Cut-Price Discs!

WHAT price cut-price recorda? Established com- panies may scoff but they are definitely on their way."

New labels that aim to bring prices down are Saga all-out attack in the autumn.

already operating and Jupiter, which will mount an

issued by the major companica.

Both will be sold at roughly half the cost of records

14

Misery pays

THIS is a frankly partisan

account of Communist HE Prime Minister, Poincare, is a blackguard.... China by a distinguished Louis Berthou a self-confessed sex-manine,... French writer. Hire and Albert Sarrault, that indescribable scoundrel, a debauchee there, when she descends to of the lowest sort....Leon Blum, the tearful panay, the the paraphernalia of in-

drawing-room hermaphrodite....Burthou, that bit of As if this were not enough, I cay no, What I foresee is dustry, her tale reeks some brothel refuse, at the beck and call of every murderer. ed that the golden disc is just own cheaper labels as a counter- other manufacturers hove decid- that they may Introducó their "hand-out."

thief and blackmailer..

the sort of salts-booster they move. But the familiar trade- what of the

need.

norks will still be there offering But it is sustained by an

2 These are examples of the But though Daudet falled in Already one of the largest the big star names at the usual

abuso direct action, of venomous

Indirectly he breakfast for torrent remarkable capacity entertaining. style and

food concerns is prices. leaving a vivid impression the French Royallai daily, succeeded eventually in smash- diekering with the idea of alve

L'Action Francaise, poured into ing the Republle. Over the year away records the plastic on the reader's mind,

the heads of its readers through his campaign of lies undermined variety that are selling like ice Her account of the city of out the Twenties and Thirties. the confidence of the French creata in a heatwave in the form Peking celebrating the establish-

people in their leaders, thus of greeting cards,

Marty Wilde-the Ind from meat cf Communism — the

contributing

the largely to

These can be turned out for Greenwich who was recently processions of danterns, the

collapse of Lous Ducloux, an ex-chief of

the as little as a penny each but jilted has climbed aboard the enormous dragons (not inappro-

the project hangs in the balance

depression train. pately flanked by portraits of the French CID, quotes three calabiichment of Vichy,

because the Chancellar of the

His "Endices Sleep" is soar- Marx and Mao), the gas-alled pages of them in his fascinating

It balloons drowing up placards study of the campaign of the volved in many of these, events, Exchequer is demanding a big- ing high in the Hit Parade.

tells how a girl friend tried to, about Formosa and peace is in French Right to overthrow the and he tells his astonishing story ger whack keeping with the best traditions Third Republic,

plainly but with a wealth of the plastic pressings cost next commit suicide after a quarrel, of the travel writers,

picaresque detall.

And Wilde's next recta The lender of the movement BAZAAR

was the paper's editor, Leon I am glad it has at last been star names to pay for. Singers will continue the story of gloom and despair, It'a chilot Peking, he says, le the place Daudet,

Son of Alphonso translated into English. At a got a modest recording fee and "Misery's Child,” "where socialism forges ahead Daudet, the

French time when Daudela successors [no_royalty on sales. behind the outward appearance novelist, he inherited lest than are altempting to destroy the Jupiter claims that it will of an ageless oriental bazaar." his share of his father's iterary Fourth Republic, it is right that be able to get prices down by We notice the political brilliance, but more than his we should be reminded just how using modern production techni- remember the share of the insanity which ran degraded and ruthless the ques. It has imported its own

enemies of French democracy plant from America, and can be.

operate on real mass-production not much to feel happy about. That's why they're buying my lince. Paul Johnson

Will this force the major record. companies to bring their prices -(London Exprezs Service). into line?

in the family.

great

sympathies but phrase.

Madame de Beauvoir draws

입니다 40

changing attention attitude of the authorities to- Wards Chinese women.

The difficulty of parting from these old traditions is illustrated by the story of 0 man who executed his daughter-in-law for remarrying. When he *WEG Is 14-year-old son--who was!

book ends with 4 clouded Finally, take Gladstone. Of to this meeting as that blubber-such a preposterous law. prophecy of the eventual union all I have ever read about hum ing Cabinet,"

of Britain and Amerlea!

"The future is unknowable. but the just should give us hope. Nor should we now arek 10 define precisely the react terms of ultimate union,"

Yet pone of the nos: memerable things in the final volume are contributed not Churchill the statesinan prophet but by Churchill man of humanity and humour,

TACTLESS

Quotes of the week

the career bool:s let us by down. Most people do not want and to know how to get on; alt they the want to know is how to get

out-escape from smul destroying fob. They Jong to atrike aut on a new line.

could Aura i

prisingly, to me for help,

"What all thrac people want is courageous independence and, CUCA when they have the decency, to enclose a stamped, cannot addressed envelope, I send them that."

From MASTER OF NONE, Gilbert Harding. In his humane, sometimes very funny

gam Take his account, of William better... Can you please by IV. the aller klng. "It was suggest that I could do, or have assortment of gruff,

nieult_to_restrain his tactless feft it too late? I'm fed up and

Daudet had been a royalist ever since the days of the Dreyfus case at the turn of the century. But in 1923 his political beliefs were reinforced by a per- sonal obsession.

Inspector Ducloux Was 3-

Materials and manufaclure of

10 nothing.

And there are no

will

FICTION SHELF by Jocasta

Innes

Nineteen-year-old Marty Ing. sists that filing has nothing to do with it, "Teenagers have, proved that they are fed up with happy songs. They've

"So I'm going to keep on giving them what they need."

Marty, of course, la keeping a. sharp eye on the dividends that misery, pays.

Virginia sings

J

Latest film star to think Home | kn terms of a recording career is actress Virginia early to chat to focal alderman, McKenna. and unwittingly sets in mollon n

Her mother is both sequence of events which finally rebounds, tragically, or himself. pianist and composer. Sound characterisation, ingeni- "I sang a song callod

charged with murder he replied also unbalanced-run away from That it was impossible for such home, became, an anarchist and a wise man as Mao do make committed suicide. Daudet con- vinced himself that the boy had The author has some very been murdered by the police on hard things to say v mus-the Government's" instructions— sionaries, but we do well to re- and launched his hate campaign.

halting member that the Arst

YOUNG ME KEEFE. By education and steps to the

Through a girl-spy in the Stephen Birmingham. Collins, emancipation of women were Central Telephone Exchange, ho 161, About a trio of rich young Laken by those maligned but tapped the telephone conversa- New Englanders trying to make devoted Europeans.

tions of Ministers and Deputies. sense of themselves in the alien Mcdame de Beauvoir praises He published the Information he soil of California, Developments ous, it a trifle academie, con-Boy in Love' for her at a warmly an Industrial system secured-about their mistresses loan heavily on copy-book struction,

nursing mothers as well as their political deals-Freud, but the sophisticated talk which makes the slaves of a textilö mill, on on the front page his paper. and underlying intarvilism of

Were these the grounds that they are allow Where scabrous detalls

specimens of the Real ed free time to suckle their in- lacking, he invented them. Generation are registered with

some subtlety. fants.

rot Madame de Beauvoir is

Two Ministers and a judge always well served by her were driven

suicide by translator; but these are slips Duudel's smears, which do not mar an intelligent book which has in italics words of eternal truth-namely, that in Judging China we should re-

de sucli.”

to

CLIMAX

•

• CRESCENDO, BY Phyllis Bentley. Gollancz. 150.

No

ness at public functions, Ath with my job and feet that I'm essays Harding adds to bis remember "nothing Is Anal fired street mobs attcampted to storm are in other people's lives, Peter

uelat dinner given to Cabinet getting nowhere. Ministers a foreign diplomats dozens of letters coming to me Johnson of our day. (Putnam,

he rose, and, with nával blunt- from people who

ness proposed a coarse toast.

adding, Hon soit qui mal y

pense to the embarrassment of the company."

Churchill continues:--

"The bluffiness of the monureh was attractive to the tower be coders, though once, when spat out of the window of the State Cucch, a reproving voice from the crowd Bald: George the Fourth would never have do that"

Then there were William 17 brothers. Writes Churchlu:-

"They lacked not only charmi, but Jawful Issue. But they were well aware of the importance of their position. They had a cask value to the Government on the royal marriage manet. Mout of them were already illegally involved in long-standing rela Lionships with women.

OBLIGATION

"In 1818, however, the oblig. Ing Dukes of Clarence and Kent did their royal duty-for a quin, Kent made a German marriage, and relYI to GIbralter exercise his martial talenta tipon-the Rock, The_result. of this-allener-was-the... .......futura. Queen Victorlu."

And the duelling Prime! Minister? He was the Duke of Wellington who, under Gicorge IV, fought, without damage, on either side, a rival poor.

duke

In Battersea Park the told his second: "Now then, look sharp and step out

the

ground, Domn it! Don't stick him up so near the ditch. It I

hit him he'll tumble in."

Church now tells us:-

Later in the day Wellington called upon the king. 'I have another subject to mention to your majesty, personal to myself, I have been fighting a duel this morning." George graciously replied that he was klad of it."

·HUMOROUS

Wistfully, ex-Prime Minister Churchill add

"Politics, atas, are not alivays so eaally managed."

But do such anecdotes/how- ever brillianty or humorously told-add up to hlatory? I'bo- llevo they do. There will be crilicans of Sir Winston for not · telling us tobre about economie trends, about

every': day life or the exact working of the Civil Service,

Yet he gives us something quite as important--an expert's ware thal actually

ably,

changed

events. And he does so FREINOT-

Tako

I would Populism.. wager that not half of tho

So run pulation as the provocative Sum

iurn, sur 12s. 6d.)

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WHAT'S WRONG- WITH THE GIRLS 7

NOTHING —THEY ONLY WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S A LAW AGAINST

EATING INDOORS.

"IS THIS FALLOUT

DANGEROUS ?"

AO - BUT A

·UTTLE BI-CARD MIGHT COME IN

HANDY.

ANTS LIKE COOKOUTS BEES.LIKE COOKOUTS

WE LIKE COOKOUTS -

TEENAGE BARBECUE WITH A BEAT,

Roger Fulford ~(Landon Express Service).

The campaign reached its human action occur in vaquo; a 1934, when Daudet's trivial misdemeanour can

the Parliament building.

ambitious The Trahler,

borough police broke up the demonstra- clerk in a smalt West Riding towh, lenyes work five minutes tion with great loss of life.

"WHAT DO YOU BURN ? QİY

CHARCOAL ? *

•

party seven years ago, and a man in the record

MARY ANN. By Alex business persuaded me to Karmel, Becker and Warburg, record it," says Virginia. 12. 6. Raped on page one, Jone

Nothing much happen- witness to a gun direl 23 pages ed

and

Virginia forgot Kaler, Mary Ann ruins away from home, develops a thing.

it. about about

Then Poter disc washing, tries suicide, but is re- Noble slipped the scued by Mike, as mixed-up es into a B.B.C. programme,„ herself. Pathological states are

glven obscurentist treatment, as "I'm open for offers," affling at the best of times; and in rolled the requests. here, they become impenetrable. nays, Virginia. "But

rock 'n' roll."

-(London'Express Service).

Cookout

"NOT THIS ARSONIST. Į

HE BURNS STEAKS!

By Harry Weinert

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