DO YOU
Britain's modern Porthos SUFFER
IF you had been walking down Whitehall recently you would have seen a crowd of people (some wearing toppers, and others wearing bowlers or even caps) gathered around a velled statue of Sir Walter Raleigh. You also would have noted that the American Ambassador “Jock” Whitney was in full view as was Lord Baillieu who is Chairman of the English-Speaking Union.
The people in the passing omnibuses stared at the gathering and made such comments as occurred to them at the moment while the sentries at the Horse Guards barracks on the opposite. side performed their duties as if they were a rival attraction and had nothing to do with the show across the road. A drizzling, half-hearted rain gave the final London touch to the scene.
-LONDON LETTER-
by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.
there
At the appointed hour Lord As there were no more wars Baillieu touk up his position for the time being he became a supported by Colonel John Stockbroker again. I cannot Dodge, D.S.O., who is the Per- state why and when he decided petual President of the Ends of that there should be a statue to the Earth Club. To give the Sir Walter Raleigh. Probably I touch to it all the lively and was on the committee but if so venerable Nancy Viscountess the committee never met-or not Astor was chatting strenuously to my knowledge. with Viscount Hailsham the late Oficialdom was against
the Raleigh's adventuring and plots passed since his death, Chairman of the Conservative idea and there were high placed so in the manner of those times will be an official statue to Win- T'arty'.
duly decapitated ston Churchill but unless tradi- that there Raleigh was Zero hon having arrived were historic repsons for leav-wich, understandably, brought tion is awept aside there would
his story to an end. Lard Ballen mannged to make ing Raleigh to history. Not to
be a period of leng years before
statue
be the rum be baked Colonel Dodge went
could Yel aven as I set down these Churchill'a himself heard above
If more care placed either, in «Whitehall or North Carolina to remind Words I wonder out the inhabitants what they owed should not be taken before giv in the Houses of Parliament. to Raleigh for the discovery of to; some figure of the past tobacco and its ultimate police certainly Raleigh has to mankled,
stration by members
of the
people who stated
A favourite
of traffic, but hardly, had he got under way when there was n noisy organised demon National Society of Non-Smot ers. In fact their disapprovat WAN 50 Violent that Raleigh might well have trembled on its stone base. You will no doubt
Must of the North Carolinians did not know much beyond Str remember that Sir Walter was the first discoverer of tobacco Walter's discovery of tobacco be more and the fact that when the or perhaps it would accurate to say that it was he who was the first discoverer of the pleasant use to which 10- bacco van be made,
Not content with their roucous vocal interruptions
Non- the Smokers brigade handed out printed pamphlets entitled: "Don't make an ash of yourself"
Handsome
the immortality of a statue, Bur won his place in Whitchall which is the grent highway that carries the frame from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square.
Bronze
Where is Shakespeare's Lon- don monument? There is a small bust of him in Leicester Square But what can be said for the quite close to the public lava- Algaritie statue of the Royal tory. As for the little doctor who Duke of Cambridge on a terri- lived opposite my house in 5t weather was bad Sir Walter de horse also in Whitehall? Be- John's Wood during the war the yond the distinction of having and discovered Penicillin-there once spread his cloak for
been made a Field Marshal and is not even a plate on the door, great Elizabeth to walk upon.
But the Queen loved marrying an actress neither the unless it has been pipced there listen to his stories of adven- crowds who pass by nor his recently. ture which entranced her and tory well knows anything about
In him." stimulated her admiration. fact she made a favourite of him Less than a hundred yards or
to
nt the handsome young Eari so
But even as we warn Colonel Dodge not to do it again I feel that Sir Walter Raleigh just gets
the south Is another by. Despite the focense of to-
of Essex brought Raleigh o gigantic statue depicting Field bacco smoke which I am en- serious rivni. There is ample Marghiol Earl Hat on a parth joying at this very moment. proof that the Virgin Queen cularly prancing horse. Yet eruel and which is making my eyes was much attracted by men even if she never took one Holy Matrimony.
AT SEA?
Ship's doctor claims
the 100p.c cure
By MONTAGUE LACEY
NEW cure for travel
A
sickness is being tried out in 25 vessels of the Union Castle Line and on passengers flying in the Hunting-Clan fleet of planes.
Discoverer is Dr Douzias Fairley, ship's surgeon in the 17,000-ton liner Rhodesia Castle, He has reported that the treat- ment has proved successful in
every case.
"Motion sickness is always under review by doctors who have to deal with travellers,"" snid the medical adviser of the British and Commonwealth Group, controlling Union Castle and Hunting-Clan.
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"Or Fairley's treatment has been fo successful that we
Antic- aa
now trying it out in more our ships and aeroplanes.”
of
as the comment may seem Holg water, I am grateful to him. was the spirit of disaster in the At any rate there is Raleigh 1914 war. Hic tacties were those in all his glory complete with of the for off Buer War and he sword and cloak while Lord
The drug is in the form of a slubbornly refused to listen to Bailleu and His American Ex- pink powder and tablets which, the urgings that he join the cellenzy "Jock" Whitney look in conjunction, offer the promise
of a cure within a few hours. in trouble, and BriUsh armed forces under Foch at the great man embodied
05 the Generallssimo of the the immortality of bronze,
"The rapid Allied Forces. Only the deter-
results
have At noon-day, and so twliight astonished me," reports Dr Fair- mination of Lloyd George forced and at dawn
by moonlight joy. "Even when encountering Haig's hand.
the man thai Johnny odre later storms, few patients worshipped will keep guard #quire a second course." the people pass by.
However, a squad of police appeared from nowhere and told the anti-smokers to behave It is a play that Colonel Dodge themselves but the leader of was not there to advise his hero the protest committee was not because Raleigh began to get 10 be silencexi even by the into a lot of police. "I'm just trying to give you some advice," he shouted. "I was caught smoking by the viear at the age of twelve in the back of the vestry in Birming- ham. I've got nothing against Raleigh. I think he had a most unjust end. He simuldn't ought to have been beheaded."
Whereupon the ceremony took form with appropriate speeches made by Ambasador Whitney, Lord Balllicu and also the Chap- lain of the Flect, as well as one or two others.
However, Sle Walter Raleigh in not the hero of my story de- spite the fact that from now into the unwritten future he will store with bronze eyes al the traffic of Whitehall and the headquarters of the Horse Guards on the other side of the road. My other hero is Colonel Johnny Dodge who has been close friend of mine for a quar ter of a century and becomes mare astonishing as the years
go by.
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He is a handsome, strongly built fellow of sixty odd years who has a laugh le a clap of thunder, the vitality of a buli and is related to Winston American who died some years Churchill. His father was on
and his mother ago
Is the Honourable Mrs Lionel Guest (her second marriage) And nearing her first hundred years. I mention this merely to indicate the reason why Colonel Dociffe has such a super-abundance of energy.
In the 1014 war he joined up at once and in a desperate baftle on the Western Front he was captured by the Germans. Hardly had he reached the pri- son camp when he began to plan hle escape. Day and night he worked on it and managed somehow to dig a tunnel which eventually gave him and his companions their chance. They got away, although some were captured, and eventually Dodge got through the enemy Ines and
which means that dogs you have brad (not necessarily stown) have accrued mare wlaning polerte at the Show than any other local brosdera' dogs.
Parhaps of equal satisfaction, le to win the "Uplands Shield" doctrine of Western geopolitical | made his escape.
fast year's winner of the Bhield was "Karawandel" Cucker Spaniels.
strategy.
In is magisterial oration Ja Mr A. Gleap with his Capetown, he chose as his cen- If the winner of either sex of a Breed Class le outstandingly tral theme the part that the good, the Judge will generally award
coloured peoples were playing a Challenge Certificate meaning that In his considered opinion that dog or bitch is in the East-West contest.
worthy of the Title of Champlon.
If the owner obtains thron auch Certificates from different Judges the dog la awarded Championship titla.
There aro seven such dogs who have achieved this honour
locally (with only one show a year to qualify)! They compris titude would probably be the Miniature Poodle with a certificates, a Great Dane and a Dachshund and a Cocker each with 4, and an Afghan Hound, a Bulldog and another Cocker each with 3.
We shall be publishing photos of these inter and today': Illustration for the benefit of aspiring judge nives the names of the main features of a dog which are quickly analysed by the eye of a good judge,
เปิม
WITHSTA
YEVEL
In peace
American
In the peace that followed he joined a Stockbrokers Arm and married an attractive young woman who, in due course, bore him two sons. But he wanted to do something post- After }is long journeys thres through the British
tive to encourage a closer" un. Common.
derstanding between the Eng- wealth, he gave it as his con-ish-speaking peoples especially sidered opinion that their at the Americans and the British.
So he founded "The Ends of deciding faclor,
'the Earth" Dining Club and be- came the Perpetual President of it. Periodically when some famous American comes to Bri- tain the Club gives him a com- plimentary dinner at Claridges Hotel. The years went on. and so did the dinners. In 1930 noticed that in the printed list of membership there was a star opposite my name, and I asked Dedge for an explanation. "My dear follow," roared Dodge, "you are one of the committee of the Club." Apparently I had been a member for twelve years In Washington, the gloomy but there is no record of the debate Gyer Soviet minile commitee ever having met. supremacy continues. In Thel So in due course came the tain, too, as the new White Paper second world war and once shows, our Defence policy is more Johnny Dodge Jolned up. wavering and uncertain,
LAIKINO
*** ZADNEJ(R
ANPOINT OF LIQUIDER
Communs, he repeated that Last month, In the House of the Commonwealth would play the major role in swinging uncommitted Asia and Africa towards democratic institutions and friendship with the West.
How.important it is that his words should be swiftly follow od by acts, now that Ašlu's faith In Communist benevolence is at inst being shaken.
And to show that history docs repeat itself he was again cap- But the wider events of the tured in a Berce engagement, last month ruggest, for the first | and was once more sent to д time in many years, that in the | prisoriors' camp from which he contest between 'Western demo-escoped. Its size, in spirit and in Chaty and Communiem, time courage, he is the very rein- may now be on our ettle.
| easnation: at Porthos in Dutnan
famous Boole• *The Thre Musketeers.”
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eventually Elizabeth chucked him
biti into the Tower
bring sensible woman she let him out after a time.
However, James I who gue- ceeded her, became tired of
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