1959-06-02 — Page 4

BOONDOGGLE It's just one of 2,000 words 'on probation”

THE language of Shakespeare, Milton and

John Osborne marches on. Ten years ago a girl with a well developed bust could speak with confidence of her generous chest, waist and hip dimensions.

To use so many words for such a basically simple concept today is to proclaim oneself a stuffed shirt.)

member Parkinson's Law in an

Everyone knows exactly what we mam if we speak of ather 10 years? sweater girl and her vital alatistics.

These phrases are recognised, They are nearly respectable. They have been admitted to the new edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (W. and R Chambers. 218.).

Stop press

Not, it is true, to the diction ory proper but on probation to a 2,000-word supplement a kind of stop press of words and phrates amitted from the 1952 edition or not at Uut time

coined.

Stuffed shirt ("a pompous unbindingly correct person") is there, too, but Is airendly a little old-lat ("out of date"), Square would be the hep word now,

How mung of the freshly

Most of the newcomers are less erary. In their origins. Pop music is a prolific source. With hep goes cat-and hip and hipster. Bebop and jive, mambo and cha-cha-these are words which, laughably, we contrived to do without,

Send used

muan to "despatch," not (as every hep en knows) to "put into 17 Cestasy with swing music"; Alg meant only "turn up with a

de," not "to understand, to take note of" (an inadequate definition; surely a degree of enthusiasm indicated. why have the compliers ignored cool and Jam?).

And

The fashion writers produce a new vocabulary every year, and Chambers have made a random selection — bikini, brs, rack, trapeze, roll-on but why not two-way streich?).

minted words and phrases will Halter

work their passage and hnd a lace in the dictionary proper place when it is next re-printed7.

For a start, the medical and seieninte terme are here

tny words like surcomycin, Sputnik. stereophonic.

tu

It seems astonishing that only yesterday we had to get by without expressos and ea pucinos, bubble gum and candy loss, Method acting and action painting.

When did authors start lo dis cuss the pros and cons of being committed? How did civilisation manage to survive in a world

A decollete neckline becomes, dramatically, a plunging haller. (And, following a logical train of thought, which came rst- Miss Bardot or the phrase sex-

kitten?).

Some of the most useful and expressive words are prompted from slang (often American): gobbledygook, boondoggle ("work of little or no value, especially when officially provid ed as a palliative for unemploy- ment"), to boob, a gimmick, anide,

My personal Osear for the that had not even heard of most useful post-war word of peaceful co-existence, disen- all: Tuhiopia. For the ugliest: ragement, and common derv. For the one whose future markets? Not fo mention have least faith In: copacelle Strontium-90 and fall-out,

or copesettle, American slang,

George Orwell (double-think, we re fold, for "sound, newspeak, Big Brother) is one excellent."

of the few post-war authors wite bave prided new words to the language.

Stephen Potter lifemanship, gamickomatality, one-up-manship) is another. But will you re-

-Harold M.

Harris

[London Express Service).

A world code

for

Space?

Montreal,

R Eugene Pepin, who helped draft the first inter- Donaviton who years ago, suys a new legal convention is urgently needed to control the use of space.

Retiring as director of McGill University's Institute. of International Air Law, Dr Pepin is returning to Paris to lecture on aviation law at the Sorbonne.

He has suggested to the United Nations In New York that legal convention on space luw should demand

Natilication of any launching of space craft;

Exchange of Information from fights in space craft;

Registration of wavelengths;

Regulations for the identification of space craft; and n

national spare ngeney,

"This is a pressing problem which is going to become even more pressing in 25 years or so when rockets will be using SPACE o carry passengers to Europe-from-North America in-hoif-hour Aights," he said.

London Express Service).

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WHY I FLED

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'Curtain' diplomat WEST

talks for the first time

By John Deane Potter

being' imprisoned for so-called treasonable activities,”

by Khrushchev,

arranged to fly back to life in this Prague via Paris. This is quite country."

strange, friendly Dr. Malor added that most of normal-most Czech diplomats Dr. Maler rose, to his feet. the political prisoners were return this way from the East. He rested his hands on the SENIOR Iron Curtain diplomat freed after nearly a

quietly released after the, eXCLUJ-

table and in a firm' "It was easy','"

volce he tion of Berin, the Russian secrat

salth. I hope, like ill people month of interrogation told me for the first time the police chief who was denounced With my diplomatic passport who deck Freedom in the Tree

it was an easy matter in Paris. world, to other day the reasons for his dramatic escape to Britain.

retura ona day with "Only Stansky, and the men to step aboard the London my family to a free Czecho- who were executed with him bound airliner and ask the slovak republic, living in com Balding 47-year-old former Czech

rould not return home," Dr Foreign

political plete equality in her relations asylum, Carlsbad, But Maier added billerly.

with all foreign countries 'arul charge d'affaires in Teheran, Dr Jan his native

After the purges had died

Why did I choose England? nations.". every evening he devoted Maier, talked of complete disillusionment an hour

down, he was appointed Second I have the most tremendous And he walked out into the or two to Com Secretary at the Czecho- admiration

for her love of sunny afternoon, A. slightly with Communism.

committee work, lovakian Legation in Beirut. berty:

stooping man in a grey sull- "Also I have two cousing who with a slight amite behind his He also voluntarily paid That was in 1955,

come here before the war. They thick spectacles, about 10 per cent of his anlary to the party funde.

'Perfect'

will help me to set up a new (London Express Setpice).

After 14 years as a Communist Party member and nine years as a trusted Prague diplomat he has brought his wife children to a new life. in the West.

munist

and two He became a Czech "Already the Czechs were diplomat nine years ago. It worried about the influence of "Аптопа was at his post in Teheran the West," he said. that Dr Mader learned the who the west of any other tone fear of intimidation Communist civilisations that stalks

every Com- never plcked for a diplomatie munist diplomat abroad. post abroad.

At a secret address in London he told as much as he dared of the events which climaxed in a 2,500-mile flight from the legation in Teheran to security officers at London Airport.

He arrived on April 20,- Since then he has been telling his story to British officials. Recently he was given permission to staj în Britalo..

He said: "I hope that my

Hungary

real

or non-

Was

"I was the perfect appolat- ment from their point of view Terror

because after six years in con- There was Intimidatión. centration camps I was a dedi-

cated Communist, There was the everybody When Dr Mater arrived in else Beirut found regime of General delegation of authority by all nations to an inter-own decision to live in this U.S.S.R.. and the satellite watch everybody

free country, after a lie of countries."

policy. There was mistrust. suspicion fear among the Thera fear for many, years, will Dr Maler, the son of a Velled threats. Fear was Iron Curtain diplomats.

wery secret show the peoples of the wealthy pottery manu his constant companion them, but no one knew who

policemen among free world how necessary, facturer in Carlsbad (Kar- Finally

the stocky It was from this atmosphero for them it is to maintain lovy Vary), earned promo- pleasant - faced diplomat that, after a year, Dr Maler freedon in thel

coun- tions in the diplomatic ser could stend it no motion in Teheran,

was transferred to the Czecho trica."

Vice mu the Communist The other day he sat back He was charge d'andres for Party until he was appoint in his armchair and drew ave months all # now ed to the key legation at steadily on his pipe. Ho Minister arrived, After that he What was the major fac- Teheran.

Bald: "I decided to come to continued to act as second-in-

command. tor which brings an im Jan Maler had just pass Britain."

"All this time I could not get- portant Communist ed his law exams and So on a cold, dark night out my mind the com- diplomat, at risk to his began practice when Hitler In April his dramatic parison between the free people life, to Britain with the marched into

Czecho fight rolled to a stop when I was mixing with and the priceless information he slovakia in March 1930, - his airliner landed at Lon- frightened people in our legu-

lon," he said. Then-conversion don Airport.

Final decision Puffing his stubby pipe

Yet the long arm of terror He tried to escape, but tried to clutch the Maler family

the herole up- Dr Maler said one word-

was betrayed to the frontier back into the fuld of fear, Even rising of the Hungarian people, HUNGARY.

guards and sentenced as a hero in Briials.

This decided me. "I was told Said Dr Majer:

"I realised that the ideals political refugee to per- repression of the heroic up-petual imprisonment, He London said it would be to my stely after the war, because of

that the Czech Embassy in which I had embraced immedi prising of the Hungarian

that spent the whole war in con- best interest to return honia.* my hatred of Nazism, had falled people showed me

Coldo

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He added: "The cruel

nothing changed in the re- ing Dachau and

centration camps, includ- lations between

QUOTES

the

wald.

Buchen- on:

Upon his return to Czecho- slovakia in June 1945 he became a Communist com. vert.

"Then came

.:

With a bitter laugh he went me and millions of others.

"They said I would be "I decided could never Irculed with 'understanding' return to Prague.' and would come to no harm."

What Anally decided the dis- Ho told how he, a small town Illusioned Czech diplomat to lawyer, became a diplomat, make a break was that his now aged 11, eldest son Jan, Turning point

Joined him in Teheran.

Beirut was too small a post for a, special school to be sot

When the Communist Govern- "It seemed the logical ment took over in Czecho-

TO JOIN the Communist thing to do after six years slovakia nearly every member of up, but in Teheran there was a Party seemed the logical tration camps," he said.

of hell in the Nazi conconthe Czech foreign missions legation school for 12 children

abroad refused to come home. of the Czech diplomats, thing to do after six years

This decimated the Foreign So Dr Maler was able to *Victorious Soviet Service and, they began to being his son Jan from Czecho- of hell in the Nazi concen- Busala, with its Communist recruit Intellectual Communists. slovakia. tration camps.

Dr Maler, who spóke French, Government, "stood"""; for

"I now had both my boys. [with mo," he sald. *The THE PURGE in 1951 everything the Nazis had Genman, and English, was a

snatural selection. He joined the young end, Michael, had always first gave me doubts about abused.

Manfaat Foreign Ministry in June 1950. ́-been--with" us” xg, hơi was (too the Party. Yet I, dared not "I thought, with millions Tas Blanáky zlej (1981-2] young to go to school, in diese speak to anyono-not even of other Czechs, that Com which followed soon after my would never have my wife, y bombed.

munism, afood for freedom" "pointment first gave me altempled to flee to the Wert

doubts about the party," he leaving my eldest son behind." and the future. I felt they do a date paned and wiped his HUNGARY decided me would be the only people eslansky, former general spectacles are is not any I realisedTM the Ideals. I had who could prevent another secretary of the Crechoslovak Lhlag; to decide to leave the embraced because of hatred war

Cat Complienist Party, war

-country, of your birth for avar, **

herunid slowly

of Naxlam had falled, I Dr Maler wont god, my hundreds of father could never return.

practising, ha a law

JAG My term of chice was up at

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"Wonder if it would be worthwhile asking Monty to hare a talk with President de Goulle ?”.

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Geral

Student

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"When General Student sold that the radiant ourd of the German soldier was once again a factor in world politics I thought it sounded familiar."