1958-12-20 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1958,

LONDON LETTER

YOUR peregrinating correspondent has returned to his London abode-an event which was greated with a deep calm by the inhabitants of the world's greatest metropolis. It was a grey, misty day and the first impression was that a coat of paint would have done no harm to old Gotham-on-Thames.

But this time I should have become accustomed to long flights in the air but on the journey from Montreal to the London Airport the wind gods were in a turbulent mood, and there was such a crunching and dipping and sudden calms as made sleep an elusive companion.

At this point I should no doubt declare that somewhere between the aerodrome and St. John's Wood the spell of London fell upon me. But that would not be true. London is not merely a metropolis but a state of mind. Spiritually, mentally and physically the returning pilgrim has to wait until he has been absorbed into the cosmic mass and becomes once more a part of it.

Not even our garden, when we reached home, exerted its usual spell. The great pear tree had died its annual douth and the Lown Woo covered with stricken, colourles leaves.

the en-

Our world tour had come to on end. The vibrant interna- tionails of Hongkong, the lesh beauty of Honolulu, the brooding materialism of Japan, the squalor of Karachi, the allure of Bang- kok and, above all, chantment of Formos, were already fading Into more memories. The ey mistress of London-on-Thames was de- claring that there must be no other love than hers and even that would be on terms of the utmost respectability.

Perhaps it was just as well that in our

transplanting from the mystic East to the reallatic West

visited Awe

Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. And who La there foolish enough to say that there is no variety has Cana dian Le? Vancouver, Toronto and

HI

Montreal hove almost nothing in common except language-and even In that sphoro Montreal has the mense allraction of bl-lingund- ism.

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Vancouver does not quite attain the beauty of San Ben- cisco It has a personality that is entirely its own. The tides of

the sea are a wondrous thing which cannot be challenged even by the restrained

Romanticism

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of Lake Ontario, What is more the mountain lakes are only few miles away from Vancouver with all their cold beauty. to say nothing of their sharp out- bursts of Il-temper. Richard Wagner had just such a setting in mind when he wrote that treatest of all tragle operas "Tristan and Isolde."

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Even on the guif course In Vancouver one would not be surprised to see Wotan or any of the Waynerian gods carrying a bag of clubs. There is a mystic- is that слете its Influence especially on the greens. Never have I missed so many pulls that scemed certain to drop into the hole.

Yot there Is a restlessness about Vancouver which strangely at variance with traditional atmosphere of Sans Boucl. One of my strongest im- pressiona was of fleets of cars, looking liko painted destroyers. Incassantly rushing to get away from the centre of the city or to get into it. Everyone seemed

is

its

the

to be in ⚫ great buy but I must say that the driving avas sitiful. It was only on the golf Inks that one found a real Rense of leisure especially the foursome just ahead of us. No one can deny that cocktail

party ts pleasant diversion and li is a ritual_much honoured in Vancouver. But I I may mention Wagner for the inst time I had feeling that not even in the ride of the Valcarle

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is there anything more impres Bive than the volume of sound at a cocktail party as it reaches its climax.

Thomas It only

needed Sir Beecham 10 conduct it ond effect would have been plote.

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The happiest memory of our visit to Vancouver was one that paradoxically was tinged with sadness. It was when we visli» ed the Children's ViBage Hos- pital which was opened a short time age by Princess Margaret and boars her name the cul- mination of Dr Hatfield's dream. The selfless dedkation of nurses and doctors is something that humbles and inspires the human spirit.

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is neliker of these great cities but merely a runway set in a group of sheds with no relation whatsoever to the names that they bear.

What is there to say of Toronto which has not been said thousand times? The more it alters the more it is the same, but that is because Toronto han

From:

Sir Beverley Baxter, M. P.

-mains a European capital set in the soil of Canada? It is not merely that · French is heard everywhere or that motorists drive with an clan that makes more survival, an. adventure, Nor is it the quaint numbering of the houses where No. 38 amil No.

40 are apt to be followest by 3312 and 9810.. Perhaps it because In Montreal's chief street there is a university where earnest undergraduates can be seen practising for the coming Rugby match,. Montreal hay retained the art of leisure and a sense of timelessness.

Or perhaps it is because in the most admirable hotel where 1 stayed, there are flaxen-haired Hungarian servants, who per- form their duties as if the clients are archdukes complete with their archduchesses. One has character where other ofiles barely to enter the hotel to be in temperament, Toronto is realis-

Europe. fin and does not spend time in

drearing. Life is real and life in earnest in the great metropolis that nightly bathes its revered brow in the cooling waters of Toronto Bay.

I was told in Tokyo, that the Emperor is no longer fooker upon as a Divine Rüler bom of the Sun. There are men there who say openly that Japan will bo the next Republic. And how viide is the bridge between Orlento} RepublicanismH pid Commuunism?

It was a sad and tragie moment when under pressure of America the British Government of the day 'ended the Anglo- Japanese Alliance. No wonder that many of us in the British Parliament saw the shadow of tho, next wor when Japan, spurred by the West, would seek alliance with the rising giant of a resurgent Germany.

Is

any wonder that Japan I watching 'the drama of Formosa? If Red China is trium. phant, and if the Western world- washes its hands of this troubled Island paradise which is ruled by the aging Chiang Kai-shek,

en we should prepare ourselves for the shook 'when Japan Joins

the Commanfat bloc

Is Montreal what it is be- But i this the concern of cause the ships come there to Canada? My answer would be rest after their voyage across the that the world is smaller than aca? Is it that two languages

There you think.

in no ruch are richer than one? Or per- thing any more as distance, and haps

the genius 'of' the in the realm of the mind, there Roman Catholle Church which are no frontiers does not confine its influence to the Sabbath Day but permeates the life of the people throughout each day of the year.

Now it is time to leave for the

The Queen City does not grow -it expands. Even Queen's Park, which bears the dignity of past years has become a high Why for the swirling traffic of Hotor cars. No one in Toronto has time to stroll because they airport. Soon we shall be air- must be on their way. To the borne over the vast Atlantic, Toronto business

the lurching and crunching with the making of money is more im- vaguries of the winds that resent portant than the mere possession this lonely bird with the glant Toronto is hearer, much wings. Formosa seems a long, nearer, to the U.S.A. than it long

way off. Tokyo is a

is already dim

It

man

It may well be that science war impossible hus mude hot

of deliberate except as an act suleide. But the cold war will

Co on in its deadly struggle for men's minds.

Look to the East where the That Red Sun rises each day!

to the would be my advice statesmen of Europe and North America Bring back Japan to the, amity and pommunity of

nations. Yet civilised

We cannot

1s to the Prairies of the Marl- memory that times, therefore it is not Honolulu has faded Bķe a flower influenced by other Provinces, that has lived its time. But peace time, as in war, there is one impression which the Queen City is mighty does not dwindle but grows in driving force.

my mind, how, Toronto

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Some day, some- will make spaco 1elsure

the elegance and

Western world cannot which mark the capitals of afford to be mere spectators of

drama. Far East Until then it must be the

Every Europe. the any of confumeretaltam and instinct convinces me that Japan production, not merely for itself is playing a waiting game. Do but for Canada,

not imagine that the Japanese have forgotten the atom bombs that brought horror and mutila-

tion to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese will tell you that

propto are still dying a lingering death from the effects of those two bombs,

Here were youngsters in bed who would normally be playing in the sunshine, now spending the long day and the longer But such night in cots, or beds,

the humanitarianism and understanding of the staff that one carne away from the hospital with a sense of happiness and ant of SOITOW We had setu more smiles and heard more Now we are in Montreal und laughter than anywhere on our thousands of miles of travej. But ains the traveller must be on lis way, and Toronto was call ing us even if Toronto was un aware of the fact So in duc course we adjusted our beita, the giant englues roared into life and We Ponred over the moun- tains that guard Vancouver from the infringement of the East. At least I suppose those mounds

•hut we saw from our Infty height were mountains.

What are these tiny little quares way down below usi They must be the prairies, even though they look like checker bourds In a child's nursery. But that is the anti-cilmax of dying. Mountains are less then molehills os seen from the aeroplane in And when you come fight. down at the aerodrome, which is labelled Toronto or Montreal

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1. Ye old oak chest? (0),

4 It ascalls the nose (8).

7. Fleet. (8),

8 North Britons (3).

10 Fun and games (4).

12 Horny difficulty? (7).

13 Bored (5).

10. Two-way part of a ship (4).

17 Bring up (4).

10 Nume for a fiert (8),

20 Clearly

not treeless

thoroughfares (7)..

21 Tho

differenco. between

gross and not (4), 23. Puts an edge on (0).

24 Amorous advances for sol-

diers on loové7 (0),

20, Tough with or without the

} fient letter '(6).

26 Meetings (0),

DOWN

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1 Dishes for the cavalry (8).

2 Well-known spirit? (0).

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Get into circulation? (4).

5 In the last stage of decay

within a few hours we shall be gliding and bumping our way high above the Atlantic on our fight to London Airport.

What is there about Montreal that deiles geography and re-

destroy Communism with atom bombs but we can contain Com- munism within proscribed limits If we stand firm and together. Forgive me for ending my travel story on so serious a note but the war between Com- mundem and Freedom is hotter We need not than you think.

ponie, but by the gods on Olympus I swear that we should not shut our eyes to what is going on.

The free world must wrest the initiative from the Communis! world, It can be done. Therefore I must be done, we

Science Steps In To Help That Dinner Along

HOW GOES IT

WITH

YOUR CHRISTMAS

THERE

TURKEY?

HERE was a time when the turkey had itg own sweet old-fashioned ideas on breeding. Now, however, the subject Is largely in the hands of the scientists. And today they are not so much reared as processed.

If the turkey itself is unaware of Dny advantages in the modern methods of breeding, the turkey-cating public 13.

Among the advantages are: Fresh turkeys are now avail- able all the year round; there is more meat in the places you want it; they are healthier, and

tastier

Talking turkey to me recently a1 bis farm in Chesham, Bucks, was Major A. M. Malville.

Quiet life

Twenty years ago Major Mel- villo quit a high executivo post in Industry for the quieter life down on a farm. Tko sober City suit has now given way to Harris tweed and a deerstalker hat.

-A Report By:

Ramsden Greig

fall for this ruse without excep for America."

Turkeys, not being too bright, dish compared with the figures

tion..

New-fangled

Artificial insemination is also used by some breeders to boost all-tho-year-round production, But not all breeders go along with tals new-tangled ides. Some say that although in- proves fertility it tends to de- depress the number of chloits hatched. And it neema that

artifeinlly inseminated birds lay fewer eggs.

improv- 'Selenileia are also ing, the, vilnė statistics of the tarkey. Whorens an average- size bird oneo had a 34in. breast, manY BOW bavo six inches of succulent breast meat.

Last year Americans got through 82 million birds.

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Major Melville, who pioneering the idea of the turkey as a bird to be eaten all the year round, says we should be eating at least a third of the American figure.

Is there big money in turkey breeding?

Crowing..

Demand is extremely sensitive |- to supply. Turkey farmers can malen a fortuna er ivou ono.. la 1995 they were crowing over a proft. of, 28s per bird. The following year they were crying over a loos of 5%. Úd.

How much will your turkony This has been partly achieved cost this Christmas? Mr Monte by the introduction from Sumerny, vice-president of the, America of such proud-sounding National Fedoration of Whole Twenty years ago Major Mel- birds as the Standard Bronze sale Poultry Merchants, says; ville's farm stock Included a and the Broad Breasted Bronze, "Good English turkeys will be Today which have crowded out our around the Bs. to ds, per lb. hundred-odd turkeys.

own inferior strains.

mark. A good bird weighing 10lb. to 14b, and ready for the oven' should sell at from £3 to £3 10%." ...

he is producing 240,000 binls. A

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year.

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Taken thto custody (8),

12 They are not, so to speak, to

ono's credit (b).

13 Sweet doctor, giris (8).

14 Placates (0).

Turkeys, like any one else, are prone to illness.

Now that is a lot of turkey, and to spread production ovenly over the year the Now drugs are proving effce- major has had to alter tivo against two dread turkey drastically the mating habits diseases-black-head

- of his birds.

"A few years ago," he says, (4)."you only got turkony at Christ

18 as ho eni acid pent (6), 22 Blondo and Impartial7

But do not, he actela, take that (a liver as a guide for Christines week cocclodioria

andi complaint) (stomach complaint);

If you have a bad cold the doctor gives you M and B. It is may because that was the way it a version of this drug that the aulted the birds. Nowadays we ulicy- gets when it desolve them and have them cocciodlosis. mating all the, year, round"

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In view of the above, Is there any wonder your Christenás turkey looks so nooty?

(London Express Service}.}

How many turkeys, do wo eat. DARTWORDS SOLUTION

For an example of this de- a your in Britain? ception Major Melville took me

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION—Across: 1 Optimist, 1 Exape, into a brightly 1 turkey. House

"The lights," he said, "aro on

Toying

BITOEMAKEREN - Celopin Caint Leper Ledger Ledge Bledge Hammer Tongs Top Clothes Home Hou Rega Rege Page Pate, Step Ladder Larger Larger Låger' Water, Water, The hope Hope Hap Bestel Mist. million two hundred | Wit, Wijin Delve Urga Puran Purts Steins. Aprog, Aaron Food How Brow ays Major Melville Bon

Gold, Cult Blewar "jut that's only fairing with Uje, Maner takeNIONS,

9 Preamble, 11 Promotes, 12 Grit, 13 Debit, 18 Seere, 10 Rock, 22 Dell-rope, 24 Immortal, 20 Kipper, 28 Shingles. Down; 1] for 10 hours a day. The iron Leaps, 2 Scoop, a Opposen, 4 Pert, 6. Iran, 6 inborn, 7 Twenty. think they are getting 16 hours hre -10 Eerie, 14 Barat, 15 Trolls, 10 Craina, 17 Beamp-1, 20 of daylight, They think, In thousand

Corys(6), 31 Perry 22 Bilg, 20 Lake.

fact, spring has come,"

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