THE CHINA MAIL,
Dope Did This To A Bride
THERE was a huge black crab on the ceiling," said Billy quietly. "I had been watching it for hours, crawling above my head.
"I was threshing about on the bed, frothing at the mouth like a lunatic. Lights were glaring at the back of my head and there were -shafts of pain in my stomach and arms and legs that bad me screaming in
agony.
"As I watched that thing on
the celling, I knew I had to get
some dope or 1 would go jual.
I had to end this... this
By-
oh, it's impossible to deserie ERIC SEWELL
the
torture junkie goes
through when his drugs are cut
ofT.
Li
whom these junkies were get- ting their suppiter, For as lou ni there existed peddlers, 'cured' junkies were in danger of bring persuaded back on
drwys.
A FORTUNE
E
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1959.
TODAY the ayos of " tha free world aro fastened on Barlin, The city's mayor, HOTT Willy Brandt, is now on an official visit to London. The American generals are-planning
more high-leval flights across Gormany. The Russian threats grow more monacing each day. But is the Wast looking the wrong way? In all this just falling into Khrushchev's trap?
Don't be blinded
by Berlin... danger lies in the East
VERY six months or zo a crisis blows up in some part of the world. Be it in the Far
By LORD LAMBTON MP
the Russian red herring, Chins will move again. There are signs already of movement in kjet Eiraz,
of
The off-shore islands Mutsu and Quernoy will sud.
■ SHANGHAI
CHEKINGS
FUKIEN
/FORMOSA
"HONGKONG
Matsu and Quemor. suddenly once more the point af issuta.
If they were to offer to with- draw their guarantee for the eff-shore islands, in return for Itel China ricoghising Formosa, they would have selzoch the
Initiative.
Doubtful
East, the Middle East or hurry facing up to one There is talk of thinning day once more be the point So I lay quietly and thought dieg addletion. Billy would "So We tald our Junkie
forces - which i of Iscue. And everybody will Could ibe Chlorsc accept huw best I could kill the dot- still be crawling hideous patients that if they would say
Europe, it always seems crisis to plan the prevention out
furiates the generala.
Etart to blame the Americans for
cuch д proposition? It is tor."
honestly how much they were to take the Western of another.
not taking advantage of the full, doubtful, But the point is that buying on the black market, we
There Is talk of freezing forgetful that they themselves it would be the Chinese who would give them that amount Powers by surprise and The Communist game is,
make peace on prescription. Instead ofito spread confusion therefore, all too easy. For res which infuriates every have been thinking only of wit be the
body. There is talk of a cellit Berlin.
ard nct the Americans. fortune, they would get the amongst our allies.
ily took a quick, nervos puff at his 23rd elgaretle since he had started talking. The allence was something at for years. nology for his terrible admi glon. Then he went on:
"She was elderly, and I knew that for 18 months she had been doing her best for me. Ilked her, and admired her. I karm, 100 flat.only she could cure me, and the already i was halftroy to bring curedi,
ond to curty death.
Instead, he has been cured, He is clear-eyed, healthy and working in his first steady jub Billy is one of 24 addicts, fem all strats of rotlety, who ¡U'L In turo being given chence to drag themsdres buck from belt.
Take the Lancs of Air and bira Jokup Curtis. Curtis has just come through her cure. Mr Curtis is art en the list. Ahead of them
Hea life.
"But all that didn't matter. must have a Somewhat she prescription pad. If I could get that pad, I could forge my own prescription for drugs, escape from the bedruam, and put a fuman end to the agony 1 was going through,
"Soon she would be coming
I have Feen the vitamin Injectors, in with my
about on When she did would reach up, crawling ....and strangle her."
Yel only a few weeks ago 1 vatele them frenzierly Fra lecting the merives with enough ordinary dike lo kill two
then beings quarrel about a few gruins of
powder che
PAST CARING Billy eyed me quickly. Could 1 understand? Then be shrug ged. No. No one would ever understand. S:, I had asked him what he had thought about during his cure, and he ba thought about murder. So he tak me.
He was just earing whether was shocked or pet.
"And what happened when the doctor rame in?" I asked, He smiled wanly, "When i tried to get at her throat," he whispered, found I hadn't enough strength in my Bugers.
QJ
The day I met Billy he was a paltid, shivering wreck man, Ridgely, chah-smoking and nervous yet not without an ubject air of triumph,
them having to squander a
same supplies
We
for the price of
the initiative is theirs, for foreen-which does not mean Look at the latest example anything. of their methods:
↓
to
So this endless game will go on unili Wu leurs our lesson Dr Adenauer bitterly attacks that it is fatal to mezt rather England General de Gaulle than make events. gave antieses Engined. The Ameri
There is silence now in Chim, Berlin- over
Press calls Euglori
upon it with the greatest sus- picion For in Tibet, Asia now bus her Hungary,
then the rest chicken. The British Press al-Tite whole Asiatic work looks
of the world has been for darke Dr. Adenauer.
a prescription,
Is this really necessary? By this mcurs we broke the Is it impossible for us hold of the peddlers by cutting take the initiative? Do Mr Khrushchev off their customers, "But since our
aim was to we always have to make ultimatum cure these Junkies ultogether, up our minds at the last and since
We moment? imposed a condition;
10 them nsked
In return deposit with us sume of the
would have spent: money they bank for them towards the cost drugs. This money we would of their cure and later rehabili- tation."
In a hurry
gotten.
Dulles Mr
to came Europe. Mir Macmillan went to Moscow. Mr Mac-
Endless game
Mr Khrushchev laughed.
And
The time to face a crisis is before prison, not after. fingine how much stronger our posillon would be now if we had prepared for Burlla lust your.
Suppose -Britain, France, the United States und Western Cer- many had been united in agree- mint, that whatever happened, East Why does Amerlea not take they would insist upon Avantage of this fact? Why Germany deciding its future by whit sintil the Chinese alast free elections, and that If the shelling the uf-shore islunds Kuszintes would concede this One thing is becoming millan went to Bonn. Mein une with all this Mr Jimmy before they think of Formosa then Nato forces would with.
clear that Macmillan went The result of this was start-increasingly
to Paris. Edwards went to Moscow. once ngala? For the uppertunityn from Germany, leaving ling. One pettator". finally unless we do have a settled. Mr Macmillan went to Amidst all the fun of this fuir is there, the golden uppertunity. her frte to decide whether to
rumpin in the alliener or not. realising why his Curiemers
If The Americans now, no Fiad left, came to the doctor policy the Communists will Washington. President de the Middle East is forgotten, the
Had that been the case we' Ademner Far East is forgotten, is very longer under the duress of shell-
doubtful if Mr Khrushchev ever ing and having triumphantly would not now be in a morass looking for imaginary animals, and stayed to be cared himself! win the world by sheer the Gaulle and Dr
met. Several now awaiting cure antles.
contemplated
the cold Furvived
crisis
1st of confusion, the doctors' list are exsp; doteraj
so autumn, take the initiative to There For the tragedy is that TOMORROW:
is talk of dis- threat could have sehitved
That is why we should, pian much.
rure setilement they would the West is on the run. engagement — which in-
Will we are still thinking entch the Chinese on the wrong new fer Mateu and Quemoy. We are in too much of a furiutes the Germans. about Berlin, and swallowing tex.
(London Express Service).
white
spilled.
while his
of
then
1.urband the floor,
wife - her are scarred with the bloody avi nelle has jabbed furiously Sa herd search to "hit the vels.
11 16 unly a few years since Juhnny Curds went to u church. Burt really Play, then a beautiful girl in
the choir.
man
On their wedding day they were the healthiest, hand:omest couple imaginable.
INCREDIBLE
WRS
Their Laby daughter christened in the same church
8 year inter.
How it often storts
that his
A REVEALING LOOK AT THE TREASURE-TROVE HOMES OF BRITAIN
Lord Harewood: One
Incredibly, they both be THE came self-confessed zambies, slaves to drugs, ruined
In
a
British are nation of collectors, body and soul, dragged down No other race has the
ultermost depths of hell their only magpie instinet so high- chinee of survival being the ly developed.
into
very the
treatment ot these doclore.
#
two
picture
worth £250,000
BY DAVID CARRITT
He had been off the drugs for exactly one week. Seven short days before his craving bad been the crazy de-
There can be few Englishmen sire for drugs. Now I was for
concultant who have never amassed a col- One is help, encouragement, sympathy,
The other is lection, from the schoolbay He hirsted desperately for ychiatrist.
practitioner. rome outside strength to Colter general
Their collecting matchboxes or worse.
industrialist
depicts collecting magnificent collection of Sevres
the goddess pursuing cerful fruutinent is the fruit to the his own weakness,
In age he let mbre Billy Is only 24.
than two years reaction paintings or better.
porcelain, and from master- stag-bended Artacon through a pieces of the Italian Renaissance kysterious forest of guld and fu experiener of the March in vice-ridden depths. 11871.
Frum the reign of James 1 They tuld degradation, he is absolute in
the "The first
to views of Harewood itself by brown leaves.
John Piper.. more than a boy,
win their complète condence, we were the greatest art col- In the world. Hence They are infectas He sters, not to have grown That is not easy.
amazing wealth of our up as if he still needs has corrigible tiars, and utterly un-the muthur's protective affection reliable. But if you gain their mustuins. and understanding.
rust, is possible to For Billy was no unwanted them of drugs-and keep them castaway who suffered the boy- aff."
an old man. Yet he looks Bike essential in curing addiets is to until the turn of this century English painters from Turner to
KO
with
break
The Titians
Amerkan our
respects,
The real founder of the col- lection was the Viscount Lascelles (1784-1814), son of the first Earl, who died before suc- veeding to the family ertales In Yorkshire and the West Indies.
One of Turner's first patrons,
It is pleasant that this marvel, which Titian painted fcr King Philip I of Spain, still hangs in the princely selling which deserves.
Lard
Price jump
retlus, grubby and unsoclable. But Leri Lascelles (as he then war) greeted him politely and suggested that they should lunch g.ther. The Marquis accepted. During the meal he was sur- 10 discover that 15 prised nephew was not only polite, our Lord Hooread shared his love of pictures. Lord Lascelles never saw his
at his Loxcon uncle again.
and
凸
Not long after this meeting, the old man died, leaving the felendly young officer his col- lection of old masters fortune of over £2,000,000.
The Princess Royal, too, has added to Itarawood's treasures. Her acquisitions include paint- ings by Canaletto and Hubert Robert, and a number of pre- cious Chinese jada carvings.
But the collection in which
bome: Bebind
him, Giovanni
Bellini's
Madonas
and Child
For hood disadvantages often
more than two years, a Nowadays we can no lunger
with of junkies have been compete later delin sirvam blamed glibly for
Harewood paid the hard- calling on them almost daily. rivals. But astonishingly ire was a collector of unusual Brownlow fomly around quenry. Ile was 14 working
ringing them up in their roving enough our private collections enterprise, pronting by the £40,000 for Diana and Actucon, lad
some background. m the middle of the night, are sull, in sedia family
French Revolution to acquire Today in the upen market It The.e
like him. breaking the law and then up- superior to any in America. are atletts
carriage-tends
Chinese would not be worth less than she takes the greatest pride is of But in his make-up lay a mud pealing to the doctors for help,
Arat porcelain In French gold mounts £250,000. No Amerlcun owns
the setits of views of Harewood water colours which 4115 the doctors to for depending *ry-anything-onre" lust
But Englishmen and Sevres porcelain, come of it
neighbourhood which only magallicent in experience. It led him into four plead for them when they are class Titian.
No American made for Marie Antoinette.. fer forging still own nine. years of hallucinatory hell from brought to which he never
drugs, owns a painting by Raphael. stealing cxpcted to prescriptions.
Englishmen still own six. breaking probation orders.
*We The ductors told me:
In fact there is almost no soon realised the real menace
from aspect of European art which drug, pedeter ensike
not represented insane English home.
come thing.
But for the tireless work of -Iwo women, doctors who have
evolved
ti new way of treating
court
Very Fine Cognac
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As an example of the arizlo- cratic election assembled over" the centuries and maintahied intact in palatial surroundings I would chouse the Harewood Collection an assembly of her looms with the rare distinction of having bern vastly enriched since the 1014-18 war.
Enterprise.
but have
alone
are not with the help of his frierid
their author and critic Lord Harewood's lave of art and its
Richard great Buckle, he is now busy trans- is said to have secured for him the walls of her sitting own right
forming the stables af Hare Inheritance, 10cm. Many of these belonged personal interest as well. great His father, and his cousin, the his second
Lascelles of the
The present Earl, best known wood into a museum decorated builder of the house, were less Home on leave during the 1014- 10 members the nineteenth for his activilles as a musician, by modern painters like Leonard adventurous they merely com- 18 war, he saw his uncle the family during
and Marquis of Clanrlcarde in the ntury but
found their way has carried on the tradition by Kosoman and Jean Hugo. into other. hands, missioned family portalis.
commissioning.
views of the—There can be faw great houses. furniture. Fortunately for thin!r-St-James' Club:
Whenever possible then home from John Piper where the tradition of patron descendants, the portraits in-
Lord Clanricarde usually sat bought theim back. thereby From April 10 October his age is all go fruitfully alive.
building up a collection of homs ir open to the public. And -(London Express Service).
clude some of Reynolds's best. ulone. Ho Wos an eccentric
An addition
And the furniture, designed by Robert Adam and executed by Chippendale, is today ne- knowledged as the thest assem bly of English cabinet-making in private hands.
As in many great English homes, the collections at Here- wood changed. Hitle during the The first stone of Harewood 19th century. NeverthelesA. House was lokt 200 years ago. there was one curious addition. Since then. ' successive genera- The third cari commissioned tlons of the Lascelles family a young Englishman, Alfred have filed it with a variety of Stevens, to paint decorations for treasures.
the largest drawing-rocm. New- ly returned from Italy, Stevens obliged him with some paintings which at Arst eight could be mistaken for 18th century Italian work.
These range from the unique Greco-Roman gold vessel known as the Harewood Vase to a
ARTIE
"Ah, well, you can always tell your boss it was Brigitte Bardot on the front pax that mude you face!**
LAN;don. QELAY SİErvis
Neither way to know that 68 years later another Harewood was to fill the room with some of the most beautiful paintings of that age.
This was the 6th Earl-"Lucky Lascelles," who married the Princess Royal and inherited two great fortunes. Lord Harewoad had an intense love for pictures, and while most of his peers confined their spending to the stud and the gaming- room, he devoted much of his wealth to art-collecting.
There was nothing timta about his buying. He bought unfashionable baroque plotuzen as keenly as famous master- pieces by Bellial and Veronese and El Greco.
But unquestionably the great- est of his nequisitions—and one of the great pictures of the world—is Tillar's •Diana and Actanos, -- a large canvas which
"THAT'S TEN BUCKS YOU OWE ME ELMER THE JERK'S DROPPED IT!".
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