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There was never am Irishman yet who took kindly to being pushed around.

But nor are there many Irishmen who would not rather be in the thick of a good row than trying to stop it.

FREDERICK HENRY

BOLAND

by Simon Kavanaugh

THEN Nikita Khrusb-

chey's neck began to bulge in anti-capitalist wrath in the United Nations Assembly chamber the other day, eyes swivelled towards the presidential rostum,

For the ruddy, square. set, shy-smiling Irishman of 66 who sat there, it was the big lest, A son of Erin, play- ing policeman,

How would the лек cope?

TREN

from

He did not hesitate, Fitmaly, he called Nilla to order: stilled The falling Arts brass-lunged Four in harangue.

Along The benches, Afghanistan to Yugoslavia, they kod what they saw. Suddenly it seemed better sense than ever to have winkled out quiet, good humoured Freddy Ecland from his sent between frag and Israel and thrust him to this daunting eminence.

Deceptively

R succeed Mr John Dulanty, who had struck it off particularly

his after-dinner speeches) gold medal for oratory.

He might have become an well with Britons as the Irish inaler, But when he walked Ambassador in London. on" for the

Ulster

Players,

Again (as now in New York)

wn-

and during student days, they gave the land home became a little and him only a country voicel's Darul of Ireland: a centre where ld without a line to speak. He did men and women of every race

not persevere.

crew to know the Irish better. He might well have become a

the am- Landscapes from But he grew to prefer bassadress's brush graced the musician, listening to classical music, turn Embassy's drawing-room and ing his considerable gift for the ine music-room. In the

france hall of the Embassy's piano to ragtime selections for

London offices, two huge pictures his family's amusement,

there for And instead, young Boland that had hung looked west.

ALEJ banished swiftly In America, he years studied at Harvard and Chicago after the Bolands arrival. Universities AS * Rockefeller Research Fellow In

Social science: and began to map out The blueprint for a very dif- ferent destiny.

But

The modern

They had been painted for the London, Midland and Scottish

Many another Irishman has made good in New York.

By 1920 Cadet Boland, third Railway, and they depicted the none in quite the same way, or winning so many friends for the secretary in the Department of mailboat on the Dun Laoghaire- Old Country in the process, an External Affairs, was already Holyhead crossing. With almost the deceptively blund protes- hurd at and making friends surgical speed and purpose they sional diplomat who is Frederick for Ireland. Henry Boland.

At Tom Custello's Bar on Irish- Third Avenue. where Americans foregather, they

well.. know him

And if the conversation there Japses into Irish he can join in more fueni ly than most,

But you are just as likely to And him in the UN delegates Jounge, locked volubly in French

Emergence

were replaced by the work of modern Irish artists of Mrs Boland's school.

new

this Englishmen liked But it was in Paris in the Anibassador who contrived to be an effective public speaker and an amusing conversationalist, the early Thirties that the ad. Venture began in-true-earnest. They liked the way his brood Young Boland the rising range of lantes suggested (which diplomat was First Secretary in the Legailon then; and one im- he certainly was not) a telsured gentleman who had embarked portant day he met Frances late on diplomacy, Kelly, a pretty Irish art student

or German with a handful of living in Montparnasse, who had Europeans over some matter of called in about her passport. tariffs or treaties.

And always they

They admired his well-rond charm; the way he ate his "kate салпол" (a traditional Irish

They were murried in 1935, dish) between the ghost stories feel that From that day Frederick Henry at London-Irish parties: his they know Ireland (and them- Boland the slogging careerist earnest ringside adjudication of selves) a little beller afler began to emerge as a social students' debating tournaments;

wards.

That is the gentle magle of Freddy Boland.

Wit

figure too.

it was something more than a home that they set up in Dublin, when he returned there

wife with his

to become principal officer in the Depart- ment of Industry and Commerce. She was સ vivacious and

London-

the way he told the Irish Medical Golfing Society; "I lenow sweet nothing about either medicine or golf."

Meeting

He arranged and attended the

THẾ CHÍNA MAIE, TUENDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1980,

on which it runs cost anchet CA.

Now I really am a fresh-air fanatic...

I

FP anyone had told me that the day would come when I would ride through the City of Londons on a half-horse-power bicycle wearing a blue serge donkey coat and with an umbrella stored in a wicker tube at the rear. I would have explained

that the gland that pro- duced that type of im- agination should be cut out and burned.

On the other hand, I have just done it,

Af anything up to 25 miles en bour (still running in) I

challenged have

the world's wort: traffic siarls and won.

by PETER BUCHAN

xtous moment while I checked met driving Heenco-arid I wan off.

All settled

I have eut by 30 minites the lne it takes me to get to the By the time I had been twice have experleniced round the neighbouring streets, office and the exhilarallon of speed that my wife, the M.P.'s wite unki I have found, previously only six or seven other neighbours In a convertible ut 10 miles an had dashed for their driving hour, or on a surf board doing licences and were queueing for ten,

les like children at a fun fair.

And despite all the predic- tions of gloomy-minded friends. I am still alive and well.

Far-sighted

In fact, after a pretty close look in the mirror I can just detect that far-sighted appear ance round the eyes and the start of a ruddy glow that is usually found only in men who spend most of their lives going down to the sca in sleek, snot- value speedboats.

I haut absolutely no Intention

riding- of buying or oven moped. For a start, compara-. tive statistics seemed against it. On the debit side there was me-weighing (on a finttering- ly inaccurate machiras) 10 #Lones.

On the credit side there was the size of a moped motor about half a horse-power.

an

The two obviously should not And they don't go together

Until

M.P. who lives round the corner was jent one to con- by the manufacturers vince him that they are safe and reliable, even for children. ***He brought the moped round to show me. We had an

En-

to

A

The panniers for the back east £2 10s, and the wicker thing-to-at-your-umbrolla-dr" Came free from a neighbour who more she would "nover, naver need it again-I hope,” ·

I waited a day to get the number plates fitted, wasted Bevoral hours convincing my colleagues that it was a moped ("Like # bicycle with филь engine") that I had bought and of a scooter and I was off to ard the office, windswept, proud of. beter the head of the first two-vehicle family in the

street.

The crowd

"From home to the offfee task exactly 10 minutes. At least it took exactly 10 minutes after: I hod

deducted the time I spent cleaning an oiled plu

That delay would have been a great dent less if a crowd at least five strong had not gath ered within seconds of the engine's giving two coughs and a splutter and stopping.

IF I tried to restart it. wouldn't. I then diagnosed the trouble. I had petrol. I had sparic (I discovered that unin-. tentional! It lind to be an oiled-up plug.

A small boy shouted: *Unfair to

Martin

of petrol and had to pedal mile to the nearest garage,

conTM

At this point, the first mem- ber of my crowd, a small man in a raincoat, launched into gloomy monologtie about his moped Two hours later my wife had brother who also had a

which had also oiled up on the What he said was: "Alf-right It all settled.

first day. First journey, in fact, now, sir?"

I had a plug I said I wsa Ane,

By the time I got home I had Sho said: " you got And he hoped

The policeman saki: "Forgive out-miled the MP. and hold spanner because his brother panniers couple of

thing didn't and he had to pedal all me asking, sir, but how much vinced myself that the only loss shopping and a wicker

did you pay for it?"

was a little dignity. (Notably that women have on prams for the way bale to the shop,

1 searched for the plug I gave him a quick summary the moment when a small boy. umbrellas and 1 kenii you a cap with a bobble on the top to keep spanner, found it, and waved adding that the hire purchase on the Crawley by-pass shouted:

depoilt was £11 29; that I had Unfair to machines") your head warm you could go it at the man in the raincoat.

promised 180 miles to His brother, he said. had also been to the office on 11"

run out of petrol three weeks the gallon; that my machine and clutch had an automatic later, and had to pedal to a

when you went garage. His brother now carried choke. And a spare can of petrol-a pint to a garage to get filed up and and he hoped I had one too. the garage man

I considered the leo of kuitted cap and rejected it.

"And," said my wife, wouldn't have to argue when want the car, would we?"

I said: "What if it rains?”

the

we

I

She said: "Well, that's easy. You could get a plastic coat and pair of waterproof trousers and the knitted cap would keep

don't

wane

a

your head dry.”

[said; 1 knitted cap."

She said: "I wonder how much they cost?"

I said: Knitted caps?"

.

By this time I had the plug out. The crowd teaned forward to inspect it. They agreed that It was oiled up,

"Just like my brother's," said the man in the raincoat,

Three other people offered panicnives to clear it. One, Incredibly, offered a small piece You of sandpaper saying: never know when it's going to be useful."

I used the sandpaper to cloan the plug and started the engine, Then the policeman appeared. He walked towards me with the sort of step that made think I would either-

asked: "Four

or five, sir?" he meant pints.

The policeman said: "Thank thing you, sir. Looks just the for me." Then he stopped the -three different traffic from. directions while I moved off.

The next day, in a fit of enthusiasm which almost anesthetized the place the saddle and I met.

I

where

The facts

Do you want to buy a moped? Here are the facts:-

Тор

Most of GEAR SPEEDS; them haven't any gears, speed is around 32 mph.

ACCELERATION: 0-15, ten seconds if you pedal: 15 seconds it you don't,

FUEL CONSUMPTION: Why

rode worry?

10 miles into the country... And For THE TECHNICAL: 40 miles back, town where

only

is not Single cylinder, two-stroke, 49 c.c. Suspension: It all depends

I shopped in a parking forbidden but not even

considered, stopping each time on how you are búft.

PRICE? Take your chalre right outside the shop and once (on the advider of a policeman) from £49 upwards. parking the moped alongside

me

1. Be charged with obstruct ing the highway with

my

the prams by a shop window.

The next morning we called at the nearest shop to find out. The model I had been riding cost

£53. To put it on the road with moped; or Boerce, number plates, Insur2-Be-charged with obstruct-

WILL IT FIT YOUR GARAGE? Yes, provided you

I rode along a bridle path, move one of those oki-trunks.

ance, and the petrol-oil mixture ing the footpath with my crowd. clled up again then ran

ONE BY

+

-out-

BY ONE-THE

KILLERS PICK THEM

OUT..

MEN WHO WERE ONCE.

Nicosia. BRAVE AND LOYAL TO BRITAIN AS S grey-haired, 54.

His United Nations colleagues were not alone in their pleasure charming hostess, and by now a first meeting between Sir Wins- at the elevation of this steady, painter of distinction. Oldton Churchill and Mr de Valera. erudite, hard-working careerist. fashioned Irish hospitality found And after that, when he became There has also been a file rich new life s diplomats, Ireland's first representative at quiet rejoicing in Iveagh, House, bohemians, writers and the United Nations, London was the suave Dublin headquarters

musicians met rund their sad to lose Mr Boland. of the Department of External dinner-tablo.

He was no green beginner in the big chamber: He had pot- Affairs.

The Department at External sunal qualities and professional year-old Zacharias, When the Irish foreign service Affairs, when Botand became its experience that gave him good Louca Karefotia lay was Inaugurated to some un assistant secretary in 1938, was standing from the start. He be decorous mirth. JA 1928. still something of a diplomalle came a member of the working groaning at the feet of Frederick H. Boland was ose poor relation, But not for party that pioneered OEE.C. jeering stone-throwing:

much longer,

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And he became popular,

alone us

• So now he sits,

on

by Robin Stafford

勘

Informers) nay thugs who shot British soldiers and their wives in the back.

The question

The informers' are harmless, torrified men now, prey, to hoodlum whb stilt Have the A tip to the opinion of Tast. And how they are

The Eoka litery wild wěně“ heroes for considered national four years are now out of jobs,

paying the price of loyalty to

Britain!

of its two original cadets.

Frantic Karafolia seized villagers, two youths only, seven weeks after indepen-- During his four years as per-

pitchfork to defend his home the Cypristi pedale hive mot Inevitably the jokers asked

whis feel that old habits dis and wife but he was sloned andi Judge, watching the global poured a can of petrol dence. Why Ireland needed a foreign manent secretary, from 1948 to

Iri barbers shops and cafes clubbed to the ground before hura

Secretly, many Cypriots', are. which over him, and burned service when the only foreign 1980, the Department expantied Josue was the Border-und that fast; and he with it. He was at rough-and-tumble

him alive before the secret fingers point at the backs being burned alive: maay a key international con- everything depends,

going back over their conduct of men walking down the middle

Iku the past month three could not be solved atıyway, ference.

A few months ago, Frederick

Informers have been

during four yours of kliling and Freddy was the inan to answer

güerrlila warfare,; *** hand

their known of fear grips ilom And since then his wit

murdered and one other case ig neutral, intriguo-riddled Henry Boland gave it university horrified eyes of his of the street and the ice-cold

Little assistance in the bound and gagged wife. stomachs.

Other gomen's If they kill the informers they Those who, remained neutral suspected. and bottomless good humour wartime Dublin he gained in-

classical of its

people on the are worrying now, So are thosa have stood him and Ireland) valuable experience in handling examination

Gummer stepped out from The vengeance killings have bullets have injured two former know that few

and at the boltom of their who had personal disagreement otton in good stead.

heads of foreign missions, and scholars. As a memento of the well-turned wit. developing the diplomatie falat occasion he was given a book in

behind trees in a street started, the Eake guns are out pro-Britona.

hearts will mind--for informers with Eokal gunmen' apart from which was written in Latin the

again. And somewhere in Eng-

collaboratory Archbishop Makarios, is wor- and

anywhere which sharpened on

politics, the good Trinity and-perTJ:

injunction: When the going, la along

66-year-old land today an estimated

scord, however noble College whetstone that won him

Christon Vlas, B.B.E., was Greek Cypriots under Brush ried and funlous at the cut are So in 1950 Frederick Boland rough, keep your head."

The question they are asking and legal and

and breale of killings, which given their mi protection Arsla. In clasica

Ile has, so far.

Clovernment political science, and (not ar- was not dismayed when he was

cycling to work at dawn, growing up to £20 weekly for the Impression" abroad: that ho

themselves is "Where will thế And he will need to.

But at the moment the sole 'kilfers' vengeance stop?" prisingly, to all who have heard chosen (out of a strong field) to

pumped five bullets into his services rendered" are having can no longer batrol the gun-

London Express Hervice,) body, and vanished.

sleepless nights,

men who backed bith during judges and executionone of the the emergency Killing 14 Britor and 203 Greek Cypriots,

$

ACME GARAGES

FROM

£50

METEOR TELLATIONS

I wish

200

Twenty miles outside Nicosia

För even if England they are motorists found the bullet not sure. ridden body. of 30-year-old i: Evangelos Ioannou dumped out of a car.

The return.

And in Limaso) bun-diriver Chris V, who got the 29-year-old Hermoa Antoniaden M.B.E. for his servicos und was was shot to the street. He flown to Uxbridge Middlesex, stoggered into a coffee bar and was shot at in London Last tried to hide behind the counter. March he told English Honda know they will gat me, but The gunmani časiälly followed I'm an old man and have lived 4' ́ ́him in, peoked lover, the cour full life." Later arid emptied a platol

magazine, into him.

Three weeks ago they did get

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