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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1961.

The fear of Mrs Faraday

HOW CAN SHE FORGET

THE GERMANS KILLED EVERY

MAN IN HER FAMILY?

NO CERMAN

TROOPS IN WALES

THE BORT OF PROTEST THAT GOES ON IN WALES

and IB, to make friends with them, Aflar alt, we are all God's children. And think of the German women with our soldiers in their home towns. They Can't Liko thai, can They?"

"But eurely that's different," I suggested, "Our men have been there

3 arms of occupation. After all, the Nazis did lose the war...."

Or did they? Again, some- times I wonder. And wouldn't be different too if the Gennans were coming to study rgriculture (F Gur peaceful customs

It was a golden day that I spen! motoring about the equntryside thint thox call Lle England beyond Wales, 1 look the ferry from nepr Per- broke, and the road to Fish- yuard.

I had never bern there before. It was difficult to belleve that war hail ever touched this coastline. But has. It has, indred,

An old lady, In her eightles, gave me tra in her wurdy little house. Moon Cova, overlooking the sweep of the bay. On the mantelpiece war A blcture of her husband, in navel ofeer's uniform.

Bombed

Mrs Florence Faraday had four menfolk when the last war storted. In the end they ali went.

Her husband, bringing the St Andrew back from Ireland with

Britain's star- packed studios

MORE CASH, MORE FILMS

-AS THE BIG NAMES CROWD IN

FROM HOLLYWOOD

THIS is the big boom time in British film studios. More than 20 top world stars will be shooting here before the end of the year. Pro- ducers will spend £1,000,000 more than they did last year on filming British.

Hope and Crosby, Holden and Jack Lemmon are all crowding in from Hollywood to join Deborah Kerr, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Sir Alec Guinness in new films.

It le besumdag clear 10t Britain 1 the new Glen centre of the world.... Britsin which Was unce laughed p

weather was becaure the

Coubtful,

Today the weather doesn't matter; it is the talent in the studios that counts.

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So Willam Holden Alms * Chinese story at Elviree. Hope and Crosby hit "The Road to Hongkong" ot Shepperton,

Olivia De Haviland acts Italian story at Boreham Wood. And there is hot American jazz from Dave Brubeck and

"AI Night Long," G contemporary version Shakespeare plot.

FOUND my eyes becoming more and more hypnotised by the coffee cups laid out waiting as the major, who even had he not been in British khaki was so unmistakably our countryman, talked to me about his youngest son, a naval cadet Charlie Mingus at Pinewood in the "invasion" of the 600 Germans with their own tanks.

We were in the Micers niers Castlemartin, <f the cau

where 10 square miles of the female, beautiful Pembrokeshire coast are given over to ranges fur tank training.

It was fitte long room with at une end traditional pictures of the Queen in a regal blue cloak with Prince Philit: in the kilt be side her, and at the other end typical Munnings prints Hulsmen set against the kind of ancestral stone house that has withstood the centurione

So English

All

HO

very

English.

Cti

decided. and especially the the white caftre 11 ace to be found in mosl Army messer, with the letters ER embossed on them, and the golden eruwn ar

a crest aboVT,

The regalia that means: my Queen and country,

"Will the Germans those?" I asked,

For

י*'י{ן

"Yes, they will use all our him. Major Evans explained. "They will be treated exnelly The same as any other visiting battalion."

آن

As I came out into the ante. room, I saw un the walls the handsome

different crests regimente. JL was explaine that my battalion that, visited hei- them and received the

tality

of

the mess left

by GODFREY WINN

mounted Souvenir.

crest

behind

as Д

"If the Germans follow suit, what will you do?" I asked.

Loyal toast

Major shoulders.

Evans shrugged

His

"I suppose we shall

have to put it up." His voice, ་་ 1 serving soldier. was But correctly non-committal. what. I thought, would the Germans do when the moment The Joynt toast to be came for drunk? Would they raise their mere own glasses silently once to Der Tag?

Outside, despite the sunshine. te terrai had the insanimate look of all Anny cumpy. one thing

WAS ifferent. caught and held my eye.

Only }

'Master race

A tunk was mounted on the verge, siominating the arrival scene. Inscribed en It is one word: WINSTON.

This tank will stand there always now as the reminder of The man who saved civilisation from the jackbouts of the Nazis. of the The tramping hordes

its "master TROY,"

But will the foreign trainees the lesson to heart. Take

the symbolism of that tank, that is technically so out-of-date beside their own latest weapons? I wonder,

of 20, on board, had his ship and sunk under Him bombed almost in sight of harbour, and of the window where his widow still it, as though waiting for his retum.

The Faradays' eldest son was lost soun afterwards, from exposure

their at sea, while middle son, then in the Army, authorities until badgered the they allowed him to change to the R.A.F. He had only one thought left, fo avenge his kindred.

I worry, too. because it is so desperately easy to be hulled into "When he came on leave,” his a sense of false recurity

mother told me. "he used to For instance, visiting the change out of uniform 10 thai the Dearest 1 would not see his wings and Speculation Inn

to the came, mine host be afraid for him, But in the pub Jack Hunter, an old seaman end It was destined that he who has dropped his anchor, should

to the think about it,” paid spontaneous tribute German prisoners. who had made most excellent agricultural They were much Workers.

ked in these parts," he said.

Friends

Mrs Mary Esmond, who runs the

office shop-cum-post

in Castlemartin, went much further, A de wornan fall of Welsh fervour and crusading skill, she kipt a customer walling while she harangued me on the theme of Lei Bygones be Bygones,

Mind you, I know about war, was a nurse in a hospital where they brought the wounded from

Terribly mutilated Boulogne.

they were.

"But if any of the Germans cone inlu my shops. I shall encourage my two sons, aged 10

Will Kruschev

She

#o too. I try not to

Sorrows

got up, burying herself with the kettle, turning her face away for a moment. I marvelled at her colATEGO and her com- posure. She continued quietly:---

I know "Life han to go on. that. I make myself go on being active. I work for the British Legion and the Women's Institute. 1 manage. I have many good, kind friends.

"But this I can't face.. the thought of their coming here with their lanka.. I hate and dread the idea.

"It is terrible for people like me, and there are many of us with similar sorrows to bear. Why don't they understand?”

Why don't they understand?

(London Express Servic#},

and the lonely Pope

come

Rome.

TWO events occurred

in Rome last week

of the most pro-

1

Pope

face to face?

By RENE MacCOLL

DAILY EXPRESS COLUMNIST CURRENTLY IN HONGKONG

riiptoranfle jungle.

sovereign.

M

different atmosphere.

Tricky

Russian's wisit - Pius XI did during Hitler's call on Mussoll f then the Pope risks being re- proached for not doing his pari for peace.

very

of

A

THE BOOM

Last week there was news of o new Brillsh film-making com- pany. Elstree Films.

Ji is backed by two powerful show business groups A$30- the clated British Studios and Cradle Organisation, 弘 top fight talent agency.

The significance of the move is that for the Arst time a big

WORLD POLICE

DISARMAMENTTM

CONFERENCE

by MICHAEL WALE

HAYLEY MILLS

FIRST ROMANCE?

studio forms at alliance with an agency that looks after big ter names in both this country and the US,

Independent producers will be invited to work with the new company and stars will be easter 10 12

Brid finance Kuaranteed.

Now take a look aronbart the rest of the Alm studios.

Sellers, greying with muustache for Waltz ot the Toreadors" with Margaret Leighton and France' Dany Robin, for instance. But the new names are not forgattın..

EXCITING

In the corridor. I ree, there is Richard Harris with Carel Hz, who directed "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.” They ate discussing z Aim, This Sporting Life," the atory of a Rugby League player. There has never before been £ 111422 abeth Rugby League.

In muving round British studios what i flad must exciting is the great variety and contrast in subjects. On adjoining stages it Elstree Peter Ustinov and CHY Richard are working.

Ustinov has an eple, subjest in period costume. "Dully Budd." Richard is in "The Young At Pinewood, which is cele-

Ones," a highly contemporary brating its 25th anniversary, musical In which the rock Hayley Mills is starting a new singer is also required to dance.

with Maurice Chevalier called "The Costaways,"

film

For the first time she wilt be allowed a mild screen firtation. She will hold hands with Michael Anderson Jun.

A 15 Mies Mills has a five- yene contract with Walt Disney. Her producers reckon she will be able to have love affair, grown-up style, in 1004. When she will be 13.

The pressure on studio space nt Pinewood is so great with the boon that James Mason and John Mills have Monc ch jocation in Tohit!

to make

FOUR WEEKS

To make sure he succeeds, thu producer has brought "Carmen Jones" choreographer Herbert Ross over from Holly- wood.

Richard told me ruefully: "Ro: rehearsed me six hours a day for four weeks until my back and arms ached and I could hardly move."

Contrast too in war Alms.

Later this month Darryl "Tiara Tahiti," the first British Zanuck's £2,000,000 D-Day fim to be filmed there. Budget: flm "The Longest Day" wil £400.000.

There are lots of big naMES at Pinewood, of course. Peter

be filmed on the Normandy beaches.

-CLondon Kapreza Service).

Mr. Butler has appealed to everyone holding arms or ammunition illegally to hand them to the police.

London Ergrozi boravim

Britain's robot eyes can spot

an orange

at 800 miles

»RITAIN'S ballistic missile early warning station WILL has now been carried oul. It wondering what to do about

to track spacecraft, ships on cost only about 1,000,000 and wonder

way to the moon. American scientists have now con- frried that it is to have this secondary role.

But if he does agree to ste found importance for appointhint of Tandini to the resented by the Vatican

and Kruschev,

then be may well Pope John and for key post of Secretary of State. which the papať muthorities did give the impression of sanction- They had much in commont their utmoet, behind the sosees, Ing the Communist regime, and members of the Roman they were at one time tool- to prevent

the faithful who still exiri ber faith

Tarlink Granchi Catholic

trward

U him every matek like the Pope,

Iron Curtain will wow plump and jolly, friendly, Kruschev in "Moscow fo

hir despair. where.

gamet, and the posterior of pains-but it

first step WAS A

Italy possesses the largest and The present Moscow visit a ptenment' veruse of humour.

ire Communist Party of any coun- Segni Pope John leaned heavily on by Fanfani and

one in every four italiana la a Tardini for shrewd advice in the portedly taking place in a very y outside Finals perhaps Red. If Pope Join alls down with Kruchtv, won't that tend to give Iulian CommYTTIANİMEN

a mighty neestige bone!?

But if, after all, Russia's top man does to waddling up thai elaires for colossal Vallcan one of history's most enthralling confrontations, the Pope might obtain a much better deal for Roman Catholles in such emm-

Kingdo teken as Poland and Khabgary, Real eopoema koris emomis eun rouilly fresher troedora Of WOTEND SIG

the twentien of Taman Chiholle Pepe John Chines In Iron ... Cherish The two things are connected, what to do If Krucher visita sculely mlism Tardinti emanand. Pope John knew, time of Nome.

Take agisson at nume of th great Joneliness when he feat in Pyberry of last your the instans involved, Ascended

The Pope, his normal jovial countenance forn by obvious emotion, attend. ad the solemn funeral masa

The beddes being a meritual for one of his cloneal net

UT I friends and most trusted and sagacionis adviser, 73- Although his State in Bay-- year-old Domenico Cardinal alanit 108 serra-te laftice in

So a turn visit by Krusche great. And the Pope maintains to Rome isoka s near certainty, Tardini, Vatican Secretary piomalle faber with most And once In Home As the quart of Blate.

of the countries on this side of of

Government, the Italian Italian Premier Amin- the Iron Curtain,

would. Krunchey have to be atk- The death of Tarlini could it to pay his respecta to 14 tore Fanfani and his Foreign Secretary Antonio Carly have come at a wouxt Pope or wouldn't he?

moment, for 1 look& D

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