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POCKET CARTOON 'by OSBERT LANCASTER

“Is there an exorcist

in the house }"

"Maudie ! For the sake of Anglo-American friendship and world peace will you please stap recalling exactly to Joe what you said

Kennedy back in 1939!"

(London Express Service).

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1960

Presenting the long resilient line of LORD HOME

True to the end

LORD HOME-man with

a long family history of stormy days behind him

SIR

THE FAMILY MOTTO OF THE MAN AT THE CENTRE OF THE STORM

Lord Home (rhymes with fumel, Britain's new Foreign Secretary, rode out the storm over his appointment with aplomb. Hardly surprising, for his family has had its share of imprisonment and beheadings and such a tradition breeds a detachment towards adversity. This brief history is drawn from "The Complete Peerage.'

ALEXANDER HOME.

Slain at Verneuil 1424, during the Hundred Years War, fight- ing with the Scots and Frerich against the English.

SIR ALEXANDER HOME (son), created A Lord of Parliament and 1st Berun 1473. died 1491.

Scots Ambassador to England 1470-1485.

2nd LORD HOME (randson of 1st Baron), married twice, divorced first wife, died 1546. Active rebel against James III, fought at batile in which Privy King was murdered. Councillor and practically Prime Minister to James IV.

НОМЕ 3rd LORD

(son), cxecuted later in 1516 for treason against Soots Regent,

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"his head being set on the Town House. Edinburgh, and bis lands fortelt.”

All powerful with James IV, one of the few Scots leaders to survive defeat by the English a Flodden 1513. Had only cne legitimate child, Janet, 4th LORD HOME (brother of 3rd Baron), Lands and dignities restored 1522, described as “a man of a precise, obstinate, &

forward nature, died 1549,

An awkward question

JUST a week after the Thai flags in The Mall were folded away came another ceremonial- occasion, one that, seen in juxta-position to King Bhumipol's State visit, is somewhat ironical.

This is the official ending of "The Emergency" which. like "Armed Conflict" and "Police Action." is a prim name for minor war-in Malaya.

But the victory celebrations which were held in Kuala

wish

William Douglas Home-the stormy playwright.

Defeated 37L English force 1542, oposed Henry VIII's schemes for getting possession of the young Scots Queen, his estates in Berwick and Rox- burgh suffered much from English raiders.

5th LORD HOME (son of th Haron), changed sides in Be- formation several tones, finally supporting Mary Queen of Sools 1569-73:

(Koman

Catholic)

1603. Adhered to the Roman religion and "had to make re- pentance" in the New Kirk. Died in London aged 12. in 1605. having, accompanied James to England, where he was created 1st Earl of Home 1504.

Described as "a young man of a great living, and many friends; altho they follow him not: Himself of no very good Loverment or hope."

7th LORD HOME and 2nd Earl (son of 6th Baron).

Ho made no thark in public life, but appears to have been sportsman interested in borse and hounds.

9th LORD JME and 4th Earl (son of 8th Lord Home), Gentleman of the Privy Cham her and a Burgess of Glasgow.

Was

between England and Scotland, Royal Archers 1878-81.

Baron and made prisoner in Edinburgh created

Douglas of Castle. 1694. Died 1708

Douglas 1975. Died muddenly in a road near Hirael, Scotland, 1881, aged 81. 17th LORD HOME and 19th Earl (son of 16th Lord Home). A.D.C. to Queen Victoris '1587– 97, Lord Lieutenant Co. Ber wick. A Tory: Diod 1913, aged 84.

He was spoken of with great respect for his honesty and judgment, though being with- out any tolerable share of eloquence,"

12 LORD HOME and 7th Earl (son of 11th Lord Home). Representative Peer of Soof fand in the House of Lords, a In 1883 the then Lord, Home

Being stood 25th fri point of acreage Gentleman of the Mint, a Tory was suspected of being among the 28 noblemen in the a Jacobite, and imprisoned in United Kingdom, who owned Edinburgh Castle on suspicion more than one hundred thousand of aiding the Jacobite Rising of acres.

1715. Released 1718. Died 1720. Total income then. £56,032 Described as "a tall, slovenly a year, exclusive of minerals man enduer with very good (£5,916 a year). parts."

and 8th

18th LORD HOME and 13th 13th LORD HOME

Earl (son of 17th Lord Home), Ear! (son of 12th Lord Home). Served First World War in the Commissioned in the Guards, Cameronians (despatches), Lord of Co. Berwick, fought for Hanoverians against Lieutenant Jacobites 1745. Governor of Died 1951 Gibraltar 1757-61 Died aged 19th LORD HOME and 14th West- Earl (son of 18th 'Lord Home). 80 in 1784, buried in

Elou and Oxford, minster Abbey.

daughters.

son

One 100, 8th LORD HUME and 3rd Earl

in Married

Politician (distant cousin of the 7th Lord

Hampstead, three

1931. New Foreign Home). Signed the

Bond Christmas Day 1742, deserted since drawn up by Montrose in the his wife eight weeks later. Secretary.

quoting Shake- Younger brother, Civil Wars, supported Charles Somebody

William "She's Douglas Home, author of "The I, fought Cromwell, Died 1666. speare described her:

Witch,

Cozening Reluctant Debutante," an old

"The Estates Torcit in Cromwell's a

Chlitern Hundreds,” etc. time, restoreti on Accession of Queen,"

And 9th 14th LORD HOME

NB: Robin Douglas-Horze Charles II 1660.

(brother of 13th Lord is the

of Lord Home's Ear! Home). In Holy Orders. He brother-Henry,

In 1937 the present earl's married three times. Died 1788. 15th LORD HOME and 10th father transferred his estates to Earl (son of 14th Lord Home), a joint-stock company with a of £445,000 called Lord Lieutenant of Co. Berwick capital 1794-1841. Died 1841.

"Douglas and Angus Estates,"

In 1957 two family estutes in 16th LORD HOME and 11th Earl (son of 13th Lord Home). Berwickshire were sold for a Attache at St. Petersburg (now total of £150,000 by the pre-

1822-3, Leningrad)

Precia sent cari, who also offered two Writer, Foreign Office, 1824-7, miles salmon beat near Cold- This Under-Secretary Foreign Affairs stream Er £100,000. 1828-30, Keeper of the Great offer was subsequently with- Seal 1883-8, Lieut.-General The drawn.

Died 1674.

10th LORD HOME and 5th Earl (brother of 9th Lord Home). Sheriff of Co. Berwick. Died 1678.

when convicted of treason, title and estales forfeit. Died 1574. Died a prisoner in his own lodgings in Edinburgh 8th LORD HOME (son of sth 11th LORD HOME and 6th

Estates Baron),

and to Earl (brother of 10th Lord restored 1578, was in great Home), M.P. for Co. Berwick favour with James VI who be 1581, but his elecilon was not came James I of England on upheld. Took an active part death of Queen Elizabeth 1 in opposing formal Act of Union

we'd ask

King Bhumipol...

By TOM POCOCK

Lumpur and London recently of Malaya fewer than 100 track at the hands of a young

Wen: tempered by the fugitives.

fact that while this is certainly the end of a campal hardly the end of the war.

HOLLOW

But the nucleus of the defeated

man who first learned snap- shooting at partridges in the it is Malayan Races Liberation Army Norfolk stubble, or perhaps

remains in being under its Macri, or a Gurkha who would. commander-in-chief. Chin Peng. rather use and his army commander. Lin Stirling gun. Peng. The Communist GHQ skill exists as a cadre of more than afflects. 400 experiented puerilla

Now that King Bhuminol is no longer the Queen's guest it is not impolite to say, that the hollowness of the final victory is the direct responsibility of the Government of Thailand.

IMMUNE

These men there are Intelligence dossiers on 482 of them are operating against

a

inite

A PITY

than

a

But the main Chinese force remains like the Algerian Nationalists in Tunisia-inviolate to their enemies.

one

Soldiers in Malaya have only answer. The Common- wealth Brigade British; Aus- tralians, New Zealanders and Gurkhas and Malayan police must be allowed to launch an offensive into Thailand

British and Australian bon-

bers and fighters must be allow ed to strike the jungle camps. They would be quite happy to fight nominally under Thai com-

mand.

But even this would not be enough. When I asked Field Templer what he Marshal believed to be the greatest single war-winning factor in Malaya I

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why 1 not be

Detectors ring

USA capital

Washington.

THE capital of the United States is now completely

ringed with a series of electronic detector which will flash to the White House and Pentagon reports of any nuclear blast seconds after the explosion.

They will enable top command Washington area on top of stan- posis to pinpoint the location of dard wility poles. Commer the blast almost instantly.

cial communication wires are the routes by which the alarm signals are flashed to six key inilitary centres throughout the United States.

FLASHING THE ALARM

The U:S. Air Force, which ordered the project, and Western Union which developed it, have tried to make the in- "foolprood" As They call it a "fall

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EXPLOSION

The detector itself is a tube No, he said, the greatest factor

is not a member of stallation

Commonwealth possible.

about 18 inches long with a had been the turning of the Seato but the

ball-like lens on top which” Cons Maayan population against the forces in Malaya are. There is safe" system.

tains several photoelectric cella Communists. Once the bulk of no practical the villagers had sided with the Seato force should

Under it, the alarm can be enabling the device to "see" in Government the guerillas were formed in Thailand to drive out given only by a nuclear explo- all directions. The detector has cloomed.

the Communists,

sion. If there is a simple been designed to react only to mechanical Billure somewhere the unique light patterns, of a It would show Asia that this in the ring of devices, or if a nuclear explosion. defensive alliance is just that. wire should be cut deliberately,

And it would probably ensure the detector reports itself "out Once the patterns' hava that King Bhumipol will still be

on display panels and alarms around to welcome the Queen of order. A repair crew is then been picked up, red lights Bask and Prince Philip on a State sent out to find the trouble. visit to Bangkok.

Seven of the A-blast detec Bound in the six control centres. tars have been set up in the London Express Service, --(London Expresa Service).

FIRST TASK

Even if a military offensive expected him to say the forcible could be launched into Thailand The facts of war are clear.

How do they manage it? Thai- re-settling of the jungle peasants it could obviously not be After 12 years fighting in the Malaya with almost complete im land is, after all an ally

of in guarded villages, so depriving ported by any political or proud

of 'food guerillas

and ganda campaign. But here jungle, British. Malayan, Aus-

They are in Thalland. Britain in the South-East Asin the tralian, New Zealand

surely is a first task for Seato. Officially medical supplies. Deep in the jungle-thatched Treaty Organisation. Adrican and Dyak soldiers have mountains between the northem and unofficially Anglo-Thai rela- broken an efficient, brave army, frontier of Malaya and the ions are effusive.

Fijian,

munity.

of considerably more than 15,000 narrow Kra Isthmus in Thailand.

Chinese Communist jungle the Chinese Communists live in the Communist

Diplomatically, the subject of bases is men- guerillas.

well-organised camps and pre- tioned most diplomatically. pare for the day when they return to Malaya, each officer studying the area in which he will command.

Of these 6,700 have been kill ed and 1,300 captured. Hundreds have surrendered voluntarily.

In all, there have been 10.700 "eliminations" - polke jargon.

for crossing a name off a list of wanted man--for a loss of 1,865 soldiers and police killed and 2,500 wounded and 3,283 civi- lians killed and missing and 1,385 wounded.

Of this defeated Chinese army there remain in the deep jungle

Between these camps and the powerful and stil largely undetected--Chinese Communist underground movement in Malaya these operates a courier service.

Field Marshal Sir Gerold Templer, under whose intelli- gent and ruthless attack the Communist guerillas first began crack, has been giving me his views.

The gist of the Field Marshal's feelings are that it was fore- seen about eight years ago that. if British strategy was success- This is dangerous work. Just ful, the Malayan Races Libere- now the couriers are able to tion Army would eventually be meet sudden death on a jungle driven" up to and probably

beyond the Thai frontier.

Radio set in a pill: new aid to doctor HOW

TOW medicine is being given new aids was revealed to the public for the first time at Olympia recently.

Now, he says (at his mildest). it seeres a pity that the enemy cannot be finally obliterated by a joint effort of Thailand and Malaya backed by Common- wealth forces

If the Chinese Communist officer corps in Thailand decide to cross into Malaya to raise and command another, army, the

Commonwealth Brigade does not relend either that it could

stop them filtering through the. junde or raising new forces from the Min Yuen, the Chinese

On show were: A little sugar- duodenal ulcers, They are now Matees Organisation. coated pill radio set that travels being mass-produced

When small war parties now

down into the stomach and helps The ultra-sonic "probe," cross the frontier in a raid or doctors to diagnose;

which can also detect trials a training exercise, only small Machines, pulsing out 1,000,000 earlier than any other known pitrols of Malayan police are ultra-sound waves a second method, has been developed in allowed to risk crossing the which can destroy diseased the last year by FA team of vaguely-defined fromifer and tissues inside the brain;

doctors and electronics engineers then only by special orange- led by Professor Ian Donald, of ment with the That military Glasgow,

commanders:

A device to enable blind girls to operate a visual telephone switchboard

While these aids were on view, The Thais. themselves with Instruments to moaltor the more than 203 experts from all their forces standing by for heart-beats, of babies before over the world discussed at trouble on their own eastern und "they are born and warn doctors more revolutionary ways in northern frontiery with -Vip

of danger.

which electroates can be used to nam am Legs, or for interna Signals beamed from inside help modern surgery and medi- upheaval cars make no more the body by the pill radios can cine. The conference: lasted a than cocasional token demons tell a doctor much about such week.

trations against the complaintsagen, distria to

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