AS AN EYE-WITNESS AT THE OLD BAILEY
TRIAL I ASK.
"I'VE been here every
day, just waiting and hoping, for this mo- ment."
The moment when the black cap was placed up- on the judge's head for the murder of a young man who had become en- gaged the morning of his death to the 19-year-old girl who openly spoke those words of geance fulfilled.
ven-
Would you, in similar cir cuummalatiers, your love perished in this way. yol Immediate horizons a wasteland, have made the same unforgiving declaration plea of iate at the conclusion
trial of four young thugs, one of whom kicked their victim as he lay helpless on the ground, 19 at lest he was silent for ever?
must not brutally
Would you even have had the some thoughts passing through Because it so you your mind?
this girl, so blone bereaved, IE, at the thist mercy of the emotions consumed her, after Istening to the sordid, horrifying evidence for a werk, he declared her own feelings in public.
I was there
How
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1960.
much can
by Godfrey Winn
or should
you forgive?
Instead, Mavla Gold Imperfect society-but I do say stone gave
that to forget is to be reborn. welcome. a home party at their cot- tage. All the family were tro your own. Those mean- present, and this daughter nesses of the spirit watch only has asked her father to you know about. Be utterly
condemning. give her away when she Is martled.
The one crime, the sins you
• should never forgive, or forgel,
That ls a challenging, entirely opposite view of the same landscape. To forgive or not to forgive, And how much? And Hów - often?
A complex
If
Kance
Chastise yourself for them, and it you do, the bigger lasues will sort themselves out.
You will have learned to live with yourself and that is what
matters most in the end,
I have had to learn that philosophy myself, the hard way. Once upon a time I used to hate with all ny being.
But today my moods CA passionate anger are of sum-
Let me put it to you another mary duration. 1 simply avoid way.
Jacqueline Herbert, those disapprove of, or who who has lost her
so have wronged betrayed me in tragically, continues Indefalicly the past. I pretend to myself to brood upon the wrong that that they do not exist. has been done her, will it be possible for her ever to marry any other man?
Of course, ut this moment the very iden is repugnant, utterly inpossible But in Ave years time? She will be only 24 then. Deas she really want to live for ever married to her memories of an Old Bailey trial?
It is true that women as a sex always and it harder to forgive
Even as an objective observer, ting the engagement ring, doesn't, what will happen to than men.
n!! that I could for" which he
had her? that stomach,
was
there
was
t
I must be honest, Jaboriously saved up £40,
In contrast, My eres kept turning to the on his fiancee's hand that father, not long ago, who, per- concerned himself ton tour youths slumped in the morning, was quenched in haps,
much about his growing dock, their hair plastered for a dark alley.
One daughter's private fe. ward over their narrow fore.
evening Franels Goldstone walt hends, their vacant mouths and.
ed for her at the bus stop and attacked her for staying out late. eyes, and I felt no twinge of
Accidentally he blinded her in pity for them as I have felt for groups who have other sorry
one eye, and was sent to prison found themselves in that some
for the attack. Old Bailey Court No. 1.
For my own pari, i do not blame her, though, at the same time, I do not believe that she will be able to live with such a hate, such an unforgiving, in. placable fire, for the rest of her
They spent the evening Arst ife, and not in the end be choked and destroyed herself by drinking and afterwards one of
them suggested they its fumes.
tallack) neone, under- All the same, I cun
The too well this st
result was that stand only girl's outburst, because, as it
victim's joy the trial their chance
happers, attended myself for two days,
"roi"
One father...
"I will wear it always." the girl who would have been his the life partner promised, at
But every end of the trial. time she looks down at it, 1ouches i, admires the glint of the solitaire diamond. will all In the blitemness well up again her heart?
Will she never be able to for- and happiness, after put- give or forget? And if she
Paris Newsletter
Paris.
IT may be and I cross my fingers on the subject-thai the long- est British occupation of French soil since gave up our claim to Calais is drawing peace- fully to a close.
we
io the
1 refer, al course, chateau in Chantilly Lady Diana Cooper has lived in ever since the war and which was hus- originally placed at her band's disposal by the French weekend Institute for use as a home when, as Sir Alfred Dutt Cooper, he was British Ambas- sador in Paris.
Lady Diana's tenancy of the chuteau has been plagued by a melancholy misunderstanding.
Diana was under the Lady firm impression that the chateau
is. and
"Everybody knows diplomacy always has been, seventy five par cent
bluff
METTE ONION
Last week. when he re- lenec, what reception did he emerged, having served his sen- receive from the daughter whoin he had so grievously wronged? She could so easily have declared to the world: "I never wish to I can never see him again. forgive him."
from
Perhaps because all through the centuries they have been born with a defensive complex, ery Even when they sincerely
forgive you" they cutinot also forgel. They want 10, very often, but they can't.
Physiologically, a man finds it so much easier turn over a new page, wipe the slate clean.
My philosophy
I don't always succeed, of course, but I go on trying. And 1 am really helped by what happens when I rum into those who once had the power to str me to a fury of recusation.
I store al tbem, and to my make no impact surprise they
upon me at all.
They have become as strang- ers, passing me in the street.
The best way
It will be best for Jacqueline Herbert if she can come to have the same reaction of indifference towards those four youths, whom at the moment she hates with all her being.
Because unless she does Lo such + to find the key. to philosophy, she will wake discover up one day to that she has no capacity left for living, loving,
1 do not suggest that to for- give always means. la turn, to be forgiven-that would be ex- much from дл pecting too
Only for hating,
or
for
And what kind of exis tence is that?
SAM WHITE
Lady Diana gives a hint
about moving out...
only for the period during which they were at the embassy here und that since then it has wish- ed to lease the chateau to other
fur which unili three years ago nominat rent she paid only and which now costs her £7 o week was leased to her and her Inte husband for their individual, ambassadors and was prevented
Ketimes.
front doing so by the fact that Lady Diaria remained in OCM cupation.
Curt notice
Three years ago Lady Diana The Institute takes a different view. It claims that the chateau received a curt notice asking her was leased to the Duff Coopers to leave. The notice was
SCARBOROUGH, DAY-OREAM
Jater
reached
the
-(London Express Service).
did not indulge in his 'tuste for illegality at the expense of the German Occupation.
There is however, a much
more important aspect of this
affair.
LOST PROPERTY
"You go right in there and ask
for your money back!"
INTRODUCING:
THE SOPRANO
NOW
OUT-EARNING
EVEN
CALLAS
By Noel Goodwin ag
BIRGIT NILSSON,
a Swedish farmer's dau- ghter whose voice has made her one of the
Sartre can dely the law and great opera singers of our time talked to me
get away with it only because de Gault is in power.
If de Gaulle disappeared from the political scene and the field was left clear for a straight-out Left-Right battle in France, the News of this
Left would be annihilated, withdrawn and a new lease was
promptly asked Sartre, by beating the Army
the signed fixing a rent for the Institute who
these and conarm
encouraging
TIDOT no Lady Diana to property and containing a
dismal tidings.
extremist of the Algerian rebels, sub-leting clause,
Lady Diana informed the is clearly seeking such a lest of
would
not strength. Now Lady Diana has been Institute that she
chateau leave the
before the As one Frenchman summed It tellig friends that she intends end of the year and only if she up, "I don't mind Sartre risk- accommodation ing his own liberty, but I object found suitable :
loose to his playing fast and Lady Diana intend to Live with mine."
Monaco, The Principality of the house, tha furniture of
the same principle that which was previously the pro- on
jobs should go to berty of Otto Abetz, the Nazi crouplers'
trying Ambassador in France during Monegasques, la
te leave France and settle per- in England, manently in England.
World KopyrigNE BY
-wah the Manchester.
doctors from the principality.
to
the war, and which she bought eliminate British and American after the liberation at a knock- down price to her son John Julius
This includes Abelz's remark- able Ibrary, which the Duft Coopers always kept under lock and key.
The reason is that many of the books carry tender inscrip tions to Abetz from very pro- minent Frenchmen.
MME, TINA LIVANOS (for merty Mr Onesia) has bought two flat in Paris, one above the other, for which she has pald £120,000. She had tried previously buy the house of Porfire Rubirous but this has Government option on it be cause it le required by, of all Institutions, the French Minister of Education,
No arrest
In jeopardy
This, in view of the distin- in- guished Anglo-American valids and semi-invalids har- boured by the principality, is a dangerous proceeding.
It may
well result in an Anglo-American of cxodus elderly rich from the princi- pality. At present Monaco is considering п new decres present one, amending the which refuses foreign doctors permission to start new practices in Monaco,
In
Foreign doctors already practice are, however, allowed to sell them to fellow foreigners.
The now decree ป่าร making existing foreign
at
Prac-
tiper "mán-fransferable. 1 have bad news for Jean
Sinco the war only one Paul Sartre. It is extremely un foreign doctor has been allowed kely that the Government will to set up a new practice and any other of the, this was done at the direct re- arrest him or Intellectuale Ilko Trancoso quest of President Elsenhower. Ságan "arch Simona do. Bèz- voir who have signed a peti- There are noứr (_only, three tion inclting French soldiers British doctors in Monaco: they In Algeria to desert.
are. Dr. David, Roberts, who in
They will be able to continue Sir Winston Churchill doctor to preach their goopel unhinder- and, who is now aged 62: De ́ed by the law except for much Herbert Gibbon, aged 71; and. minor inconveniences as being Dr. Jordan John, aged 60, barrod from TV and national theatres.
1.
*** Charly · Bartre wishes to be COMEDIAN ROBERT
arrested and clearly, too, the Government is not dipped to ROCA: "İt tivision cens Five him that satisfaction, gene somhip dn Wir tracks "top" Personally I find it disaiteful corality General de Goalle that a man in cloë midis age continue, them, wá, WHI nhd enjoying the projection of
about her rise to fame.
A
"The great thing About any "I've been singing nearly 100 Job," she said, "is that it is performances a year, she said, never finished. The more you "and recording in between sing a part the more you dls- appearances. And the parls I cover in it."
sing are the most exhausting of all"
Miss Nilsson, to sing Brúnn- de, traine of Wagner's
Her foes are said to be the massive "Ring" operas at highest currently paid' to ́ ́an Covent Garden this week, is to opera star,· Maria Callas in- the 1000's what Kirsten Flag- cluded. The 'plúms Gre stad was in the years belore America, where much of her and just after the war--the best next two years will be spent. of her kind,
As a person Birgit Nissan is She to both kind and generous. Her commonest reply now,
10 has a frank, no-nonsense man- the telegrams inviting her sing all over the world is: ner that is free of affectation. "Sorry, I'm sold right out."
When she made her. London "I' use anybody asking debut three years agoj á stúpid campaign went me for anything new until after whispering
May 1902, she told me, "I round that she was "dimcult." simply can't do any more.”
2
Unmusical
This is the womas, now 健康 her late thirties, who had no Intensive musical training until she was 19, and who, was told
by
"But when a management books you for a date," she said, then you hear nothing for six months, then the dates changed, then they get annoyed because I can't break my other contracts."
1
ore
Such is the price of fame, because the position now s
an eminent conductor not quite simply that where there is long afterwards that she was Wagner there must be Nilsson. "completely unmusical."
Discoverers
London will bear ber just when she has finished her climb to the top. The performances I reported from the Wazher Festival at Bayreuth 1st July Two people perhaps ¦ deserve set the final seal on her success, the credit of having "discover-
ed" Miso Nilsson, One was Though Wagner parts bave village organist ky Sweden, “who brought Miss Nilsson her big cove her
childhood gest triumphs, she is far from lessons and made her love, sing- looking like The mountainous ing for its own sake. „ blondes of legend.
"I spoku and mng before". I Her sturdy, upright figurs walked," the ways; "but than holds the stage like a goddess. begon walking very late!*** Close to, he is small, with #
The other person was fo mam of dark, curly hair, and lalo Fritz Busch,, Glyndebourne'a handaomo Scantlinavian feas chief conductor until his death, tutes, softened by the warmth who became convinced of her of her smile and the humour in star quality her hazel eyes.
Exhausting
as early as 1947. Just when she was thinking of giving up. Ho conducted Ther debut as Lady Macbeth in Stockholm.
Miss Nilsson sometimes féla A fine horsewoman, her that she "began... at, the wron forming childhood gave her end, by singing big parts: tou deep ind
alliding love of soon, before, the bed' enbigh oilermale She markleti" a "vet,” experience wind with totalt be/ Berul Nickission, who hopes to damiging har voice center I Join his wife in London poun.. But now as the whoogs
inastically into the Valk/M Wherever possible Miss war-
welcome...with soft father's farm in Southern of achieves the heroine' t Sweden 10: Nut. Hot that alia redemption through love, the tiny/%/day Uh, two hace nad za diay VE MADENA
als three should saving young have të emigrate to kimon to to butle to her radlerics to the love of SIVELTOS, Then to seat hele. entire future den and breddenit on tha
by deserting from the Army?,
86 When Sartre, himself, "WaN KI
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