1959-02-06 — Page 4

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‹ THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1959.

Vicky

Gourlay

BERLIN, Friday

you may be surprised

to find me here, but this is hardly a crisis climate

THE picture, in my hotel bedroom is

called "Berlin 1958." It is a collection of red and heliotrope squares and dots splashed on a morbid greenish background. It is abstract art. It is like a nightmare, in Technicolor.

I look out of my te-flour hotel window at Berlin 1950. The Berlin of post-war concrete and wartime rabble. The angular, modernistic office blocket tower upwards, tributes to West German industry.

GOURLAY

That parts of the landscape at to their promisy and continue Palace: have

dattened, bombect-cat look The shell of the Kan

look forward to a Germany and Berlin, in the foreseeable

Wilhelm

upwords

Church

Jor

muck salute.

te :upport us.

"We Tenterd

Tower 11: stanite tui Ai! raisesi i fetare, perhap‹,"

Night come and the hen We joke

1hts switch on, but they stop half-way across the city where the Soviet sector begins.

The symmetrial salbetet, of the new buildings clash with The tested palline: of the Lombed. Th place Books unreal, 1984-ish, Like a lutar lameape Like an exercise in abstract art.

Split city

Bertin 1959 is the split city, The must exciting and the most depressing city in today's world. The nur simulating and the To sinister.

ww

It is an untidy aravind. that

really straightened, vt at the end of the

thanks

nuver

HANS PLEVE, publicity chief

with wito peaks English

Amerunn ent ;[1 LUODE

The side world ition: more het up about this in any Of course, you Wat Berliner. heve got to remember that we Rave been through so much.

the

1 takes a lot to upset We 412 always, like corkneys, feet adversity with a I'm afraid, though, that the jokes are getting a little bitter.

the

Otto Krest, member of West Berlin police, on, duly at the massive Brandenburg Gate which stands sentiel at the Ban-West city Lorder: "I leave

the

the worrying politician, It's a dangerous thing to do, but what else can 1 do?" What do the people of Berlo

it 1, Fritz Meler. ut th East (the pecially the now prices, fol- German People's Police

Ruan ultimatuma Voljani, on duty on the other lowing the

state: giving sh month for settle sale ef

Ar y tensely futter- The st ing towards thare-up?"

war.

the mive

Luts to them

11 take an order from anywhere and deliver any- where this June or next June. have no fear about our and political future. Cconomie To hell with politice--1 want an- other beer." He ordered an- other huge stein of beer, his eleventh.

Brigitle Surear, a well-built, preity fraulein Who helped organise The Berlin f.stival and is relations officer: Jave a proverb

annkuced takes place.'

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The decor, dress, my music Were early between-the-wars provincial. Mecca,

Even at 2 a.m. the Melodle was packed with Best Berlin workers. Mr K. would katė me to Buy th, but his Berlin Satellite citizens looked bour- grots,

Mr Dulles would probably like to hear that they looked dipressed and oppressed, taking their pleasures glumly. But i would not be true,

The most outlandish thing I Saw nt the Rom: fashion shows rently was a pair of women's sheen with brass hoops instead of herls, They were aspired, I was told, hy hula-hoops.

They looked absurd in the Via Veneto They looked even more absurd in the Kurfurstendam- the wearer walking, or wheellag, her way through the puddles of melted snow.

The most popular song in Berlin at

The moment is that ubiquitous Italian hit "Volare,"

How does it sound sung in Germany Hellish

now a public I quote from an official Berlin "We Berliners quidé boole "Berlinerliit, or which means: Berlin wir, has become a by- Witr never word for the city's dry, stimull- Ing air. Theoretically It is-sup- posed to make onz tolerant and "Pion: A rong ahead as open-hearted, creative usual for this year's ihm testival peaceful." which begins in June We mean to go on enjoying ourselves. lack around here."

I looked around the roof- garden of the new Wilton Hotel, ibe

American monument to capitalism which

clear on # night cur be

seen from the further most corner of the Suviet sector.

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It was the time of the after

tea-dance.

roof The garden was packed, but very few off-season tourists were in sigiy, They were all Berliners, Solid int business men.

Pneumalle fraus don't adding to their poundage with ak any. Have you in American dozens of cream cokos. One cigaretic?"

stight, slim Japanese girl in

P9Cw!

the

questions.

with

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O. W. Fischer, one of Ger- ht kimono. She looked my's leading Alm stars, why bewildered. The band was play.

Julietle Greco hip "Two different worlds,” when Alming recently £13 What else?

arten: "I think the Husslate: try matting over another of their propogada bluffs.

ebullient Wily Brandt. the young Mayor of Berlin: "r chahed ind of May is uppered to 1" the fatti ultimatum date May 23 to be exact. Why don't Ai rume back for a holiday hi June? We shall he can yingt o as before and the weather will be beautiful."

mu.

Greco

Wus

"Perhaps Miss doing the came in London when :114- allacked

Strang things are done in the name of Senate Mepaganda,”

Itr Hirect:feld, director and information chrel:

Fran's Cousas and other trade.

stalwarts

here rehily on an official tour.

An affteer at British military beadquarters asked if he could do Luything for them. Two worthy mitndry of the delega- Not exist. None of us is ut all ERICH SCHMIDT, a business tion said: "Yes, you could get

man, at the recent roistering us a pack of cards,

to play solo." the

"We are doing our work as usual No fear

and planning for the future as though the Sovæ alinatum did

concerned. We

cendent fre

that our Western alles will stick bor festival

A BRAEMAR is

111

Sporta

ite

We want

Berliners have their

That's what the book says.

☆ ☆ ☆

YE OLDE

SUMMIT

ECTION

"WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER?" SAID A WHITING TO A SNAIL. "THERE'S A PORPOISE CLOSE BEHIND US AND HE'S TREADING ON MY TAIL.”

London Erovere Service.

HONGKONG

STUDENTS INVOLVED

IN A CRAZE FOR

GAMBLING THAT BRINGS RUIN TO MANY.........

Gone To The Dogs

and MANY Hongkong parents cherish the idea of sending their children abroad for a university education.

rather

I Spectacle would

four very plump, very forget: Tufanie-looking frauleins danc- in a Hawaiian hula dance la n night club, then dining up, while six equally plump Herts frem the audience armed with fishing reds helped them to remove their grass skirts in what the Ameri

would call audience- cans participation strip-tease,

In a West Berlin night club, of course, Something the Russians would call decadent. probably agree with them.

ANOTHER

REPORT FROM COURLAY'S TOUR NEXT WEEK:::

(London Express Service),

But few parents realise that by sending their children abroad without first being sure of their maturity, self-discipline and stability, they may actually be ruining them for life.

Shock for parents

LIB

By.

Y. T. CHONG

From there they graduate accompanied when they are too to the legal gambling es- young. tablishments In Soho. One or two Chloess students have I have just returned after spending a period in London, the

actually been caught and what' 1 have to Mecen of hundreds of Hongkong students, report may well come at a shock to many parents.

exam.

While the majority of Hong for five or six years but who kong students are conscientious still have to Buss their nest and eager to be successful in their studies, there is a minority who are well on their way to becoming ne'er-do-wells,

This is because in London

Temptation

The

ralds.

police

Gambling on dog races and and horse reeds is also popular, and many Hongkong students really go to the dogs" in more than one scuse,

AL least walt £111 they anve completed their secondary

education.

who Those young are the unes most likely to be led astray.

Guardians

are

Thirdly, parents should try to Because of the bookle system appoint reliable guardians who greatest temptation is in England, students don't have can supervise and keep an eye

Fourthly, parents should ask school and college authorities to rend regular reports on their children's work and attendance,

there are the many templations bling. High-silica poker is to go to Hundon or White City.

even some Just a telephone call to a bookle on their children. In their way and these young very popular and

part in will secure them a bit. people, through lack of proper students have taken

these games. supervision, Arc being

led

The real trouble comes when There it is quite common to lose 140 or £50 in one sitting students bet more than they can

the afford to lose with bookies As a result there are quite which Is more than number of Chinese students in average Hongkongite ears in a Lendon who have been there month.

astray.

ROUND-UP

LONDONERS' LUCKY

CHARMS

SCRAP of paper bearing Dickens's signature,

SOMETHING dily Bugs, of course-and they an 18th century water pump laken from l

TO BE PROUD OF!

BRATMAR

SCOTLAND'S

FINEST

KNITWEAR

AT ALL

LEADING STORES

Solo Agents: Fielding, Drown & Finch (Far East), Ltd.

hagen word for them, Ifalbstraker.

mean, strong.

J

It is

half-

Inquired if it referred to physical or mental strength, 1 | was told-bath,

of

yard of the Marshalsea Prison, and a collection of good-luck charms used centuries ago by Londoners are among exhibits in the Cuming Museum, in Southwark, London, which has Just been reopened. The museum was blitzed In 1941. Now some of its collection has been re- stered and put hack into the original premises In Southwark Central Library. Among the collection of good-luck charms is a necklat amber and other gums which was supposed to bring good health to the wearer. There is also the remedy Londoners believed would cure It consists of two pieces of whooping cough. buttered breed and a few hairs from a child's chief Southwark's head. Mr Frank Boone, ibrarian explained: "The hairs were taken from It was like turning a corner the head of a child suffering with whooping in the 20 exly and unding cough and put between two slices of bread." "It yourself in a different city. a dug ate the bread the child would be cured." Drabber, of course, and It even felt colder.

I made brker foray into the East n sextor, Five West Berlin taxi-drivers relused to go, but the sixth risked it

BANNISTER'S FULL CIRCLE

The bookshops were well DR

stocked, but the others were

R Roger Bannister, Arst four-minute miler, la working on a report which may shed new empty compared with the light on the problema cf how much heat the Kurfurstendam, the West's human frome can stand. Dr Bannister, R.A.M.C. glittering male of propaganda officer due to complete his National Service on merchandise, which sunus up March 10, returned recently to Britain after to a comparison with the best taking part in heat exhaustion tests in Aden. shopping streets In London, Further tests will shortly be carried out at the Parls or Cven New York. Royal Army Medical College at Millbank. This time Dr Bannlater will be an observer and his Andings will be incorporated in his final report to the Army medical 'chlets. With two months to go, his Nationel Service has described a full cirdle for it was at Millbanks, London, that ho started after his call-up in March, 1957. BATTALION NEEDS OFFICERS AN Army cadet baltallen that claims it is one of the best in Beltatu is in danger of die- handing because of a shortage of officers. Re- Lirement and removal from the district hea Jeft the 4th/5th Cadet Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment with headquarters at Walton-cn- Thames, Surrey, with an urgent problem. They must ßnd dive officers and six warrant officers to

Stallnolice. with Its huge blocks of workers' lats, thrown up just after the war, was stil standing Inpressively. And it was still called Stalinallee,

But Leninallee looked neg- lected and forlorn,

In the Melodle, one of East Herlin's two night clubs, 1 paid 10% marks (about 1 Sn.) for a bottle of very ordinary hock, Rnd had to pay in West marks, which are four times the value of East marks,

nat

take over detachment duties at Cobham, Chers- Ington, Chertsey, Kingston and Hersham. Major C. Russell, officer commending says it is often that one en point to the local hattallen and say that it is one of the best in the country "Gul in our ease that the fret." He adds "Our record of shooting successes is without parallel throughout Britain and in all three Services."

NEW LOOK

THE Guardroom at St James's Palace is being given a new look. It will be a change from the "olde worlde atmosphere" of cobbles and turrets around Engine Court, to the glistening style of a 20th-century luxury block.

Th Guardroom, to old is the Palace, houses 24 men of the Queen's Guard every day. From t are dispatched the Guards for St James's, Clarence House and York House. The new Guardroom is in delicate shades of champagne and mushroom paint. The Senior N.C.0,%, room Is decked in glistening leaf green and cau de . In the dormitory where the Guardsmen relax when not en duty, a light has been fitted over every bed space.

LUCK OF EDEN HALL

THE Victoria and Albert Museum has put on

show its latest acquisition, and one of its most highly prized-The Lack of Eden Hall. The Luck la a 13th century enamelled glass, Syrian goblet which was brought back from a Crusade. I ever broke, the legend went, disaster would strike Eden Hall, the family seat of the Musgraves in Cumberland. But the legend can no longer come true, for Eden diən was pulled down In the twenties. One of the most striking pieces of glass in the world, the cash value of the "Luck" runs Into five figures.

ATHLETIC POLICEMEN

Fifthly, parents should remit No money changes hand when allowances to their children on

but cheques monthly basis the bet is placed, are sent to the winners and some parents bills are sent to those who lose. basis.

Bovities can be nasty It fosers do not pay off their debts with

in a certain time.

more

Father than

do-cn a yearly

Having M large sum money in hand is à source of templation 10 students,

Lastly, parents should write to their children often and insist children also welte

when Chinese Therefore,

bookles studenta owe money than they have, they thin their usually borrow money from home regularly.

their friends.

Then they wait for their next allowance to come to make good

the new debt.

ka

There is a tragic story of what gambling did to one student.

He already had a B.A. from he decided Lingnan U when the fake all

his money family had left him to London to study for a higher degree.

But once he got there be got bitten by the gambling bug. In two years he lost all Jus money and is at present working £3 wafter la Chinese restaurant.

A

He has already been working in the restaurant for eight years,

ho und since

till PETAN'S

in gambling, there la hardly any helthood that he will, ever amount to anything more than a waiter for the rest of his life.

WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP CHINESE STUDENTS AVOID SUCH PITFALLS? Firstly, parents should cut down the amount of pocket nuney given to their children.

There are

many Hongkong students in London who receive more than £100 a month ua pocket money.

That la much more then an Englisluman with o

ONE of London's beat collections of sports

trophies face a door that is never locked, but average they are well guarded nevertheless. The col-family can earn! lection 10 cups and one shield—are displayed

ut

In a showcase in the duty officer's rovin

Fifty pounds a month is more Catford, London, police station, and are under than enough for rent, living ex- the eye of the police 24 hours a day. "The penses and pocket money for a trophies have been won at tug-of-war, water student in London. polo, derts, shooting, table tennis and many other sports by police officers at the station.

Secondly, parents should not send thote children abroad Uns

Students can do many silly things out of homesickness and of caution can help many from going astray.

boredom and an occasional word

{POCKET CARTOON:

by OSBERT LANCASTER

HAIES ACTS

"Well, all I can say is if Randolph and Quintin get themselves photographed bashing sogether, the Tories have had te."

London Express Service,