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· THE CHINA" MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1958.

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ELIOT AND HIS WIFE VALERIE

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"Can I give you a lift, President Nasser ?"

T. S. ELIOT sat in the empty stalls of London's.

SYRIA IBAQ ARABIA LEBANON, JORDAN KUWAIT

Love &T.S.Eliot

AND HOW THE LOVE

bowed but still vigorous Titan is relaxed. He seems Consciously to bask in the warmth of his pretty com-

munion.

Like Hulbert

BECAME

Mao-The Chubby Peasant From Hunan

JOSE

JOSEPH Stalin stayed in power because he could sense a dangerous rival behind the heaviest disguise. In his own Russia the fate of such a rival was invariable - a bullet through the back of the head.

From the fart Stalin feared me was nimost classic. All tho

YOUNGER-THAN-SPRINGTIME Mao Tse-tung, ruler of Com- pieting and conspiring worked

by JOHN BARBER

of a happy ending ther other plays,

my

n ""The Cocktail Party' had

the sad aspect. The effect of ending of "The. Confidential Clerk was also a sad one,

have were in love.

plus a cubtlety which he im- plan" revolution. Ist

consequences

if you think you are in love, and

A FAMOUS man of 68 marries his that, the pair might -30-year-old-secretary. He is a poet known thought they

which ey weren't-It-hos for bitterness in his writing, for plays with very unpleasant He is watching rehearsals no belief in human passion. A mellow year you are not of his new play, "The Elder

new drama, for His new lovers early on Statesman, his first for five or so later he has ready a years, the first written since this month's Edinburgh Festival. It is cover their passion, Laier they his late second marringe about love. But it has a wholly new (His first wife, an invalid for years. died 11

Now the great T. S. Eliot, O.M., years outlook. ago.)

LL.D., D. Litt., speaks, jokes, explains.

At sight of u photo- grapher, he pockets his great religious allegory." horn-rims. "My wife won't wagged #

He how to draw. Then he could ex- finger. " dlùn't press himself freely."

Atter three years' work ("off rehearsals and on"), daily at Eliot is cutting and altering the verbose, play. "Linus soen too

let me appear in ginsses," he understand half they said!

remember Queen Mary says in that dehydrated. "[ back-of-the-throat, puncii- sitting in a box and laughing Tiously un-American voice. at something of George Robey's,

or else not enough said, or and Robey wagged a finger at

an actor is not comfortable with think I look her and said: 'I Me, I always

don't mcan

@ phrase."

Criterion Theatre and waved me towards like Jack Hulbert in pletures," what you mean... him. His welcome is easy, and his laughter only slightly nervous.

Next to him sits his the Cathedral." "The Cock- ... whose Party") young wife Valerie, former tad ly his secretary. They are "Waste Land" revolutionised who maloru holding hankis,

poetry... rate lines I have known by heart all my adult life.

of

I am awed, of course. This is the most eminent living poete, hokler of the But the paul, frozen Order of Merit and Nobed scholar 4 first met 20 years Prize, author of profound ago, with his brow so grim but surprisingly popular and his thin, unpleased verse dramas ("Murder in smile, has changed. The

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The new play: "I think this in simple. Elict glances at very his wife. "I think there should

be no difficulty in understand- ing this?" She nods reassuringly.

their "People stumble over own feet with my plays," he says,

imagine there must be. hry Home myth or deep meaning be- Ind. More: they want answers to a riddir.

Like Picass0

Eliot spoke with dissatis- fsetion of earlier plays. For each care a different horsh word.

One hud a too mechanical plot. Another "put the poetry on loo thin a diet."

"St," he said, "you have to "In New York, they said try to learn the rules first. Liko The Cocktail Party held some Picasso. First he had to

A

I

learn

ils-

reach an understanding so deep Browne that producer Martin Bays: "It has something about classic 26 'It inco and Juliet,"

From the stage comes Anna Massey's voice:

I've loved you from the begin-

ning of the world. Before you and I were born, the

love was always there. That brought us together.

man-

happy Celebrating a woman love is something new for T. S. Eliot. I wolt un- The sure volee, always sar- xiously to see if his genius wil donic hesitates. "Or a thing may find words us implacably right Loveless love, be sald too clearly,!" 15 as he found for mocks. "Instead of being nicely years ago:- hinted."

tvch

The new play begins with states- gullty unease fell by a man when confronted by people he wronged in his youth. The old man's daughter (Anna Massey) helps him to lind peace,

But the main theme is love. And, says

Ellot: "It hus more

family car

up

on

Whim lovely woman sloops to

folly and

Faces about her room again,

alone,

She

hair with

smooths her automatic hand,

And

record on

1 patk gramophone.

the

that is one

the

AM not a man who believes in first impres- sions. Not since the day I once mistook the late Mr "Five per-cent" Gulbenkian for a Portuguese peasant in Lisbon.

And certainly not since the night when I asked a mouse of a little man what he did for a living and ho turned out to be a Mr Frank Sinatra who wasn't a bit -mouselike really.

If cruel experience has made me reserve my views of people, it has certainly made me hold my tongue when 1 test cars.

Take the Renault Fregale Grand Pavois.

A little on the xald side, 1 thought in the Arst few moments

of driving. Slightly matronly appearance, dumpy, .but

in

pleasant and, above ยม cficient.

Joneses

HAPPY CRUISING...AND COMFORT

ROBERT GLENTON road-tests the Renault Fregate

that it has independent suspen- At. 70 miles an hour the different from every other in the slori front and rear. This does't. Fregate is just as quietly street where he lives, it is a make much difference to the murmurous as a well-fed board car worth thinking about,

though my meeting... passengers all

I was just congratulating my ordinary driver, self on having n leust one first back - seat

At this speed, the steering is impression

correct remarked.. that the ride was that was

though also pleasant,

when when the engine coughed, exceptionally smooth.

travelling slower I did and some sneezed, coughed, and died. Out

This Fregate has two-pedal vibration and on acute bends of petrol. The deceitful Galile

drive. It works in conjunction there was lot of turning to face of the petrol gauge indi- caled that the fanic, was still with a steering column gear be done. The hand brake is quarter full.

A brisk walk with a petrol can in the Boonday heat and my view on the Fregale had under- gane a remarkable change.

lever.

Many a man with an eye on his neighbours would buy

the

car just for this. Instead of

mundune markdings such

から

Low." "Intermediate," anel this car hos redolent

It says a lot for the car, that "Top"

after driving it hard, even for a words like "Ville et route"

long way, I was able to forget

my harsh second thoughts.

EFFECTIVE

loathsome.

HAPPY CAR

an

THE FIGURES

Now for performance:—

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munist China. Long before Mao twarda "The Dây nghe came to power Stalin had him moment when, throwing oft taped as a dangerous rival, their disguise, the conspirators Why did he fear this chubby, could take over a whole coun- effeminate seeming little Chin. try with one mighty heave. ese? Because he saw in Muc Chino, Mao saw, was too vost all his own capacity for power. for any Mich once-and-for-all much of his own ruthlessness, coup. He began an "stalment

self lacked.

Itr the inte 1920's while

men Unable to have Mao liquidated Chlang's

ranged the the manner of domestic country hunting out fugitivo Fival Still did everything -Communista, Man successfully block his rise to power. In Moo's organised the pensants of his carly struggles within the native Hunan province. Chinese Communist Party.

The clandestine leaders of the Stalin invariably backed Mac's Chinese Communist party did opponents.

not like this. They liked even So sure was Stalin that Mno less Mao's arraing of the Hunan was more to be feared that pesants so that they could de- any other rival that he even tend themselves, tried to disuade him from de- When Mao' ball up A Com- livering the final decisive blow which tumbled Nationalist Kinngsi mountains, the party leader Chiang Kai-shek from leaders repudiated him and dia-

the mainland Di

from all party, missed him offices.

Power

on

Chlan,

But

by

hadl lived long Mao enough without the support of Stulin to be unimpressed the Russian Aletator's attemo's at dissuasion. Ile struck at the Nationalists and wan,

tunist

administration in the

But now Mao was driven by more than revolutionary zeal. His first wife had been strangled

bumed for revenge, by Chlong's soldiers and Mno

Il 160k Chieng's menL Ave years to dislodge Mno and his robel guerillos from the Klangsi mountains.

He

Before the chance came tor Stein to test his power and cunting_against Man, he died.

The story of Mao Tse-lung begins sixty-five years ago the Chinese province of Human, Mno way one of the four sons His farmer. of a

peasant

He uprooted his entire ad- ruthlessness and determination ministration, arms, equipment,

hio from

with all hly machinery, and let nothng stand followers and

their families "Long began the incredible March" 6,000 miles across

Mao did not surrender. did not even go into hiding. Instead he embarked on on with comparable in adventure

Hannibal's crossing of the Alps..

inherited were father who

in the way of his ambition to find comfort and security in terms of material possessions.

0 China to desolate Yenan in the Man und his brothers were

north-west. (Is second wite and overworked, underfed

died during the march.) Maa beaten sadistically by ther took something else with him- father. The old man, however, the seeds of revolution and

cons was determined that his

he sowed them as he journeyed mere should be more than

across China. he as soon as peasants, and

It took real ruthlessness to do could ifford it he sent Mao away this.

that For Mao knew to get

classical Chinese Chiang's men would suppress education.

with bloody determination the

It was at this early stage of revolutions" had started.

But in Mad's mind it would be worthwhile, for the more ruthless were Chlang's goldlers,

his life that Mao learned the that decisive important lesson individual action Impresses a bully-even if it goes against the greater would be the his own Interests much more popular support for Mao sud than humility and acquiescence, his home-made brand of For Mao abandoned the classi- Communism. cal education his father had

Unlike Stalin, Mao has never chosen for him and ran away cnbarked on wholesale and to study in a "modern" school indiscriminate slaughter of bla

Then in a neighbouring district.

opponcals. Ho had noted he interrupted his studies there carefully how much

popular

to join in the fighting during support the Hussian I the 1911 Chinese Revolution. volutionaries had lost by such

And. curiously. throughout savagery.

all this, his bullying. ambitious father continued 10 Support blm.

At the same time, Mao has nover hesitated to kill where he has felt necessary to the The obvious moral to be achievement of his ambitions, drawn from this episode was

The Japanese invasion

DA not lost on Mao and he has Chtua gava Muo the chance, hva always remembered it parti was looking for. Now, he cried, cularly when Joseph Stalin was no Ume for Internal fight? tried to mould Mao as his ing. He and his Communist father had tried

guerlins were ready to mujan common cause with. Chiang and his Nationalists against 1h4 foreign invader.

At this time Mao, although

Under cover of this United

a revolutionary at heart, was Front, Mao widened his sphere

not

was

a Communist. He

of infurrice. He niso saw to it essentially 3 Nationslist, in the that his men got the lion's sharĘ

broad sense of the term.

6000 driver

This early Nationalist baete- of the common pool of weapons, ground has stood him in good as the Japanese were ile planned, too, that stend. For much, of his success and the loyalty he enjoys stem out, he would strike hard with his well-armed forces against from the fact that he has given Chiang's war-wetry mea. the Chinese not only Com Now Stalin is dead, and wa munism but a sense of nation- see his scesser, Krushchev, hood which they never had be hustling to China to have his

fore,

7

071

GEAR SPEEDS: Top, 82 miles

hour; second, 03 miles hour. The speedometer was 3 miles an hour fast at 60 miles an hour.

FUEL CONSUMPTION:

It was in his first job- an altitude to Summit talk, chang- For four people-even more- (Cruising fasi) between 22 and

assistant at the National Library ed by Mao. in Peking that Mao discovered Krushchey's dilemina is this is a happy car. And for the 24 miles a gallon.

one. China could driver, Dccustomed to aurterly,

tho ACCELERATION: 0-30 miles and absorber

writing of unhappy

easily cronto in Asia the sort of it has a great many charms.

Karl Marx. an hour, 6.8secs.; 0-50 miles w

disturbance that would drag Revolution in itself was not

Russia into a war. lights,

Therefore Parking

headlights, hour, 17.7rces.

enough, he

Commundsen, FOR THE dipper switch, and loud horn are

ho balioved,

was the cement China must be placated and de

And all the time this cylinder, all on the same Anger-tip switch. Englae 4

overhead which would hold together the terred to. brake horru ☐ blessing for the velves; The gear change is effective. This is

scase pt nationhood that would is happening China is slowly ing anarchy, full of revalu-

be bore of revolution,

but surely atting herself, for the tionary klers and blood-curdling apart from a certain amount of motorist who resents the current power, 80.3 at 4,000

woolliners.

trend to make him fing his Suspension, independent, front

At us singo of his career role. of senior partner in the performance.

Price £1,027 108. hands about like theatre and near.

a

Mao showed his ability to think Communist world. Total (including This is no vehicle for rapid organist.

tex) £1,542 strewdly and to avoid slavish No wonder the chubby peo- 12. is one of the nearest Continental 'acceleration from tromle jams.

Imitation. The pattern for Con- sant from Hunan emilles ng Taxes orthodox The makers have quile, obviously the

WILL make the neproaches to

FIT YOUR munist revolutionaries by that readily. middle-class family saloon of pinned their faith on happy Fregate

Nevertheless, GARAGE? Length, 15ft, sin.; Britain I have ever driver. cruising speeds and passenger for the owner who must have a height, 5, 2.; width, Bft. The only reai difference is comfort.

family saloon but wants one 83⁄4In.

People are inclined to regard

foreign cars as a form of motor-

The Fregato is different.

it

do not cheap.

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