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THE CHINA MAIL

INVITES

PATĮ SMYTHE

THE

CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY

TO MEET MEN WHO WARM HEARTS IN A COLD CLIMATE

Summit among Romeos of the Snow

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DEEP and crisp and even the show lies on the slopes of Switzerland causing tingles of anticipation among Alpine aficionados who, at some glorious moment this winter, will burst out of Bloomsbury bed-sitters or country mansions and head for the boot-train, full of ambitious thoughts. They will spend hours and hours of their winter hofi- day swooping gracefully about on skis. But there are other attractions at the ski-ing resorts. Especially for the girls. The handsome instructors, for instance. They are often associated with that well-known foreign phrase apres- ski....

Example of man you might meet this season

Jean-Paul Darbellay.

Admiring pupil listens to instructor Hubert Cretton from Varbier.

DO WE REALLY WANT

THE ARMY TO BE A JOKE?

THE

IE world position continues to deter- iorate. Almost every day there come reports of strikes and revolution from every part of the world.

WELL, WE'RE GETTING DANGEROUSLY

NEAR IT IF THINGS GO ON LIKE THIS

By LORD LAMBTON, MP

It is possible that owing to the

diplomatic skill, and their fall-

Villars-Sur-Ollon, CROWDING this cosy

sid-resort are the

Another example

Erwin Zeaklused from Grachen.

top people of Switzer by PAT SMYTHE

land's snow-slopes--the

"head masters" " of all ́

Four, ali raders escape without

career.

Jean-Paul Barballay, a hand-

TALKING

POINTS.

the branches of the The Ski. School men get Swiss Ski School and lessons from specially many broken bones during their their best instructors. chosen instructors, and in They are on a course turf they all give lessons to sobe, bearded instructor of 24 which will give them new classes of üklers on the tram Verbier, told me that he

Reading is sometimes 'an methods of teaching and course. These skiers range had ayat at St Moritz, meng

agdings English stulats and he ingenious device for avoid generally put them into from beginnere to top broke both his legs to 17 places tag thought t top gear for the new class perforiners.

-ARTHUR HELPS.

season.

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CICERO,

Wow his racing days are oveť, The Instructors work so he concentrates on instruc

tion. Nearly 1,000 skiers are hard. They start with P. T.

Of all Nature's gifts to But Darbellay and his co!! here. Ten years ago, the press at 2.15 am, follow leagues the Hut, their way at the human race, what

tà extraordinary lack of American inst time the course was ed by akl-ing practice and Vilars is not all wore and a sweeter to man than his

theory, lectures,. films, pipy.

| children? Who can deny that the old

ure to use French influence as held at Villara, there word fabric is breaking up, and the

a buffer in Indo-China, that the only about 400. The popula- They finish well after nine the bars and hotels for those not clatory and decúdulot There are dames in some of Communists are trying to fill the vacuums? What is the British the forces which we have in the and throne of King Idris hang Nam and Cambodia, with Inevits the value given for the

war in Laos may spread to Viet rity has grown because of at night. ⠀⠀ Government's answer to this? main theatres, abroad and see in the balance, and any largo able repercussions in Slam.

on the slopes How does it move to meet the how they can be reduced without scale withdrawal of British

all-in weekly cost. For full Eddie Reinster, the 1948 heard when everyone was invit

One of the instructora is endangering by weakness the forces would inevitably be seized

afany Inhaber could bo lives of our serving men.

Nor must it be forgotten that board and lodging in a good Olymple Gold Medallist for ed to the ski instructors dorty upon by Nasser.

Then in KENYA you have just ever the Siamese border hotel, skl lessons, or the salom (racing down a steep on a Saturday night. An Tadian Let us look first at the MD- not only the Mau Mau, but also hidden in the Jungle are nearly tise of all the ski lifts, the course with compulsory girl ved dending in a sari with of hers so long she could DLE EAST and AFRICA. where the frontier problem with Ethto 1,000 terrorists who escaped from cost is about HK$400,

pia, and the echoes of the Con- Malaya. At the first sigh of

the instructor who had sided go blood bath..

deteriorating situation?

Extraordinary as it may seem.

its single ambition seems to bo the reduction

our defence

forces below the safety line, and

to act as if we had won the cold wor.

Tension area

we have a revolution in Ethiopia, constant tension in Egypt, and

the greatest possible uncertainty throughout the Arabian Peninsu

in. How are dur forces dispersed None to spare

weakening on our part they

will be back and the whole Malayan guerrilla war will be- gin again.

In these occas? How dangerous this polley is

We have to can be judged by the fact that

begin with in Here we have an Infantry while our

LIBYA: Army is already

The itoval Irish Brigade HQ, the Coldstreami streiched to its limit. It will Filters; the Black Watch; Guards; the faniskilling Fusil have when the reductions are

onc battalion Royal Tank Re- lers, The King's Repiment, would bellfat be safe nor rem completed, 10,000 fewer men,

giment, the Royal Scots.

the Staffordshire Reg

In order to realise how serious The situation in Libya is par- this is, it is worth examining ticularly delicate. Both the lifo

MILE

ILE after mile the little Morris Miner hung on in the tail of the

company_director's big car.

At last Mr Zbigniew Grugszkos stopped in a Bolton street. "It kept following me. I thought it was dengerously close.”

Then he found the Morris had no driver. The front bumper was jammed on the towing bar of his own car. Mr Crugathes called the police.

DUT

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UTCH police have stopped "kissing lessons by post,” advertised by “a Teddy Boy with some expérience”

in a popular music magazine road by, teenagers. Th instructor, aged 18, was said to have had 1,800 replies enclosing Gd.

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ment.

It would be laking a gamble with our foreign policy that

ble if we were to redabs our forten here, hạt lỗ nh Anh where then are the reductions, la

It is imposible to believe that come from

In this àrea, at this time, a singlà soldist can be spared.

It is sold, with a sigh, that, the Wor Office have decided upon

A ADEN, where millions of them in HONGKONG, where, at

pounds have been

Worcestershire

expended the moment, the garrison con- Can the base, we have the Royal sisis of:

Highland Fullers; a Royal Artillery, dattery, Royal Mar- The Royal ine Commandos and the 11th Regiment, the Royal Northum Husnars.

berland Fusiliers, the 17th/21st It is inconceivable also that Lancers; one Field Regiment territories 300 miles apart, can talions of Gurkhas.

two bit. this base which is responsible for Royal Artillery and

be reduced olther,

Alternative

Where then will the axe fell? Our contribution to NATO is already under strength, and any further reduction would weaken The argument is put forward our European position. Nor is it that reductions can be made possible to reduce our Home Here because Hongkong 18, at Command by enough men to any rate, Indefensible. This is avoid reasctfónu disewhere.

Could spread

true, but if we do make those reductions we will destroy the whole morale of the colony and undermine the great financial irada ethpiré bulit up since the

In fact, the more you look at war, which is of inestimable the matter, the more it becomes financial bencft,, to this country apparent that it is our intention and pays a hundred Umes over| to reduce our commitments in the cost of our troops there.. tom FAR EAST. At first sight,

Of course, the fact of the mat-

TT was a V.L.P. welcome at London Alpert for Mrs our foretabolice ter is that only by damaging the

Ellen Kennedy who flew in from Connecticut with her four children. "Why an the fire?? alto: naked, "Well, you are the next Proldent's slater-in-law old an official, "Certainly not," he said. “I didn't even voto for him.”

MMAYAN and BINGAFU rational intercats of this coun prestarone there are the Sherry, can we reduce our forces by toood Foresters; the East, another 70,000 men. The allor: Babi Regiment, The 13th nve to this Tome form of selective conscription which ilussare; a Field Replnent

¡could raaintain the Army" at Roval Artülery: five battalions by somewhere around its present Qurichas oke battalion Nino Teval, and this undoubtedly to araland Regiment Kid che bath what the Government should do. tation the Royal Australian

fe

HUNGARIAN words with "bourgeois" connetitors and tablemente Line Antis it not merely for the sak

menus kuormat of prestige and well to accl (Before Socialam) in a new dictionarii -keina. prepared in Budapest, Among the words: Count, bitten Dankayi absolute folly to Traore what is that the Britan hany, will be s "béiles,mind mistyboy..

turns through "gates").

too exhausted after 4 hird day The absence of humility

With her earlier in the day.

in critics is something wonderful

ARTHUR HELPS.

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Youth had been a habit

not part with It,

—RUDYARD KIPLING.