THE CHINA MAIL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1961.
Lord Maugham
SUMMER ENGLAND
'exposes' Hongkong
(I WISH
THEY'D
CHANGE THE
LICENSING LAWS!)
SOON after I arrived home, I made my pened while I was huree was the
way down Oxford-street, thirsty and hopeless on a Sunday afternoon.
Wondering why ever tourists came to Britain, where it seems everything is organised to see that the licensing laws are framed to give that right amount of frustration which leads to a panic, I heard the sound of pipes and drums.
Sweeping round from Edge- ware-roud oral enteritut Oxford- the arty was an Freel Inarch, well, if not on the marching march, with a huge swarm of civilians mustered Tuto what approxi- mated to be ranks.
were Some
A they ene nearer. I saw a in the hot sun- flag drooping
the shine, aral }
CALLE made colours of the Irish Republic.
I did a smart about turn and fell into line with the parch an followed them down Oxford
Regent-streel, Circus, and then made a short cut for Trafalgar Square, which as I kad reckoned accurately, the destination.
WOX
As they reached the square, The marshalls called them to attention, and they marched towards Nelson's Column with heads high. Even the wetry policemen accompanying them
mace step.
se and gut
ERSE
into
Into the square swarmed all the tourists, delighted for something to happen until the puritanicul laws
honest Irish bhuys and calleens with the offer of good work and ine wages.
over
was
member his saying that if he accepted the facts which history taught, that one day the British will become a tired nåtion.
Cormon sense teils me that what he said is borne out by the circumstances of history. Bul somehow, I did not expect to da people so tired and su Jacking in faith,
when twenty years ago, the world stood aside with wonder as Britain fought back at tyranny... aiona,
For it is the young who are tired, whu glory in their weart-
1 58. their complete lack of morale, their very pagan cup
mess.
Is this the end
AXASPERATED par-
EX ents sometimes de-
cide that the only way to gain obedience from an erratic child is to stop offering it more pocket money—and start walloping.
in much the sang way America is being forced into a critical position about its foreign policy,
FITUER il
provide musi even ner and fatter foreign aki prograNHUS,
of dollar diplomacy?
Kennedy finds the British
way pays off better
OR i must corne round to the iden of keeping the peace with the all of short, sharp. The Japanese, for example, put back on role feet by their "ile" wars.
react to almost
American publie opinion Wortline conquerors, we've been pushed. Bround this generosity long enough, by Rolly") un lynching Jim Hagerty at the and forcing subtedly supports such metics, deport in Tokyo
eance! the Eisenhower to
จ The chief spokesman for
General Maxwell proposedl Nipponese Janket. tle war,"
his jacket apels Taylor, visited South Vietnam Nixon Hess last week to explore the country spat on in Latin America. Las d tusting ground for his
theories.
Promise
as it
England has lost God. In spite of all we hear out in The saddest thing that hap Hongkong, there is no deep of the churtered plane faith in the nation, neither crank
in themselves. laking the Croydon schoolboys in God nor to Norway.
This is sod as well as dan-lest cause. Tough General Max- 11 incealed what fine people gerous. A people must be- the Norwegians are. They made lieve in something. parents so much an affair of their own to England neemm-
this so personal a sorrow of the
flown back
The bodies were
1 [von panied by wreaths Forrowing Norwegians, and service was held in Norkuy in memory of this tragedy.
*
sununerased. A So the hurried goodbye, light a Landon airport. Aferding "this is where i enne in."
115
Others
may see Asin
well Taylor sees it us a pro- mised land,
un The
Americans have waftened to the kion that charity does not tornatleally create gratitude, that you do not stop the Reds with a bland missionary zeni, that triendship is not bought with folding money.
America's disappointed hopes
have bred the new and tongher And all the indications are mod symbolised in the person
of General Taylor. that Kennedy has placed almost blinding irust in 41[ and inctles theuries
analyse new military buddy.
The U.S. taxpayer feels that the failure of America's good the pocket money approach has intentions. bren given a long and vigorous trial.
It is a rood reflected in the his wildly successful sales of books
which self-critically
were having an early with almost hysterical abandon, supper; or walking sotae eontey
the
a
Jane.
Ant of Kew the leaves were fulling, and the autumn dark was invading the gardens of England.
Reaction
A long shadowás the plane I heard a strange story stond waiting. A roar, and we
At times the distribution in connection with this
to have been elected were in the clouds. The people | appears the below disaster His nutter was nothing; his
concerning He manner
everything.
lady who helps keep school clean. Her son is threatened the British Govern- ment, he threatened the crowd.
scholar at the school, and Blood would flow, and he and
as, I think she said she way. Ireland would get their
a widow) she could WEN While he did not waste time
not afford to send her won discussing what the way was,
on the trip, she felt very the speech was fine.
downhearted. She bud tried to rake the money together, but had failed. Her son took his disappointment well. Next thing they knew was, the plane had crashed.
red anti
The Negroes gruw pale; the Seundinavions grew looked anxiously at the polles: the Germans were indignant ter Lee such indignation; only the Chinese gazed with blandt inves. Fle poliventen yawned.
All Ne uninitiated booked adong Whitebail for the andy of redroals who would put this bold agitator and his army in the Tower of London
But nothing happened. After promising, as usual, that blood would How along the Lundon streets, the marchers formed up again, the poltermen stretched their Gred legs, and to the sound of pipes and the roll of drums. rish marched away, while all the world wondered.
Sll the pubs were clasOLİ
Things which nude me lungh. Outside St Clemens Danes school this notice scrawled with chalk probably pinched train the class- room. This school is a dump. Believe me, I know." What ¿ public spirited headmaster
ID
low that to stay up all though the summer holiday!
EXPOSURE
An article by Robin Maugham (Lord Maugham)
CONCLUDED
by Herbert
Kretzmer
Wu5
F.
Such heart-searching further nourished even weeks ago when the highly respected
George author-diplomat Kennan bluntly told his fellow- countrymen to "grow up" in their handling of international relations.
Amertea, said Kennan, must give up its childish hanker- ings for impossible Ideals and settle down "In adult fashion' the to accept the world as it really
of is. Ineffectiveness diplomats
10 seeking "reach the masses of South- East Asia.
A book called The Ugly
dramatised Americuu" miserable
US.
Childish
ac
Ami
Ledery (who co-authored
The Ugly American"), whipa the national ego of the U... with derece, angry strokes.
He slums the diplomatla errors committed hi the nume of the American people, errora that have cost the U.S. hub- dreds of millions of dollars nad could cost hundreds of thou- sands of lives.
b
Significantly. Lederer Hittle affection for America's so-railed allies" like Chiang Kai-shek nd Syngmon Nhce.
For there can be no doubt that America, la ita almost
Commun pathological Year of ism, has bolstered any number of cruel and corrupt regimes in all parts of the world simply because they 100 professed profitable dislike of the Krem- in,
Corruption
The £20,000,000 a year that the U.S. pours into Persin, for London instance, has not prevented that
in
living
in recently another shrill self-castigating country from maintaining one Armorican book was published of the most corrupt and hlev-
Governments which reveals
that ing again country's increasing Impatience memory. with its foreign aid programme
President Dlem's regime in and the failure of its pussy-foot South Vjonaln.
nioreover, endeavours to brg friendship has repeatedly been exposed as
of Americans Millions cepled the rictures contained abroad. in the back nd Identifled
The object was almost nalve- like Communism, ly simple. moths, breeds best in empty puckels. Fill those pockets and the moths must die.
The only trouble with this themselves with their country's approach is that !! doesn't work gruphle failures.
Acidly titled "A Nation Sheep,"
William its author,
THE ISLANDERS WITH
EVER-OPEN
FAR in the North,
where the Shet- based upon land Islands neatly
the Hongkong Government re-
port on the narcotic position in divide the North Seo
the Colony. The China Majl
relensed the fountains of MORE TROUBLE and run a leader on the report from the Atlantic,
beer everyone was longing
congratulating Government
מח
DOORS..
There's a welcome waiting
for the volcano refugees
the manner they have put down they breed a sturdy part of his daughter's dowry on
the traffic and the rehabilitation дя
scheme they have initiated for sense drug addicts.
Cor. The lenders of the
their and
chief The march
next trouble spot, orators climbed among the I recall It, was the trouble with Bons and the chief speaker the Electrical Trades Union. While it is not to be expected slepped forward.
that this drove Bingo out of the minds of the British publle, E la true tu say that after welling
the "sweating,
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He haranguel
in Erse. Abbul six of his hundreds of followers and none ut sightseers understood
the
for
1468-and
of indepen- her marriage dence, a hardy race pledge.
to James III never redeemed the
Lord Maugham has used of ponies-and hos- and themselves able to practise.
the same photographs Gov-
ernment has published, pitality.
with no credit to anyone unu
but himself. word
he id, but we appreciated the tune and the style.
He received a big hand from Is
another followers, unti gentfernun stepped forward to repeat the speech in English.
number" the next Subject dis- cusged was Mr Frank Foulkes and his ballot rigging
it was
quite obvious that Mr Ted Hill, the then president" of the TUC was right out of his depth.
روع
Shetland, in fuel, is the Tonga of the North.
The Tristan islanders would
the same sort of amphibious hus- bandry as the Shetlanders -
the menKru crofting
shores, harvesting the lobster sess, and knitting those fabulous pullovers. The Shetlanders are necustom- ed eating meat and fish that
By Magnus Magnusson
Quite modestly.
Lord Mou-
The Friendly Islands with the gham takes the credit for figures and facts supplie
by ever-open doors.
It is no surprise nt all that has been preserved in salt, and
more sheep than humans In the the longkung Government.
these 18,000 islanders should to providing their own enter Shellands.
More and more humans are On July 18, The People pub-so promptly have offered to study, ininment (it is fiddle music in lished this as Robin Maughan's the possibility of giving a home Shetland-TV is not premised, or
herding into Lerwick, the capital. I had a place in the front row
until 1964). When at last the day of exposure, and as the British to the homeless folk of Tristan threatened,
They are leaving the desolate of the circle, you night say.
rigorous climate that turns un- decision arrived, I was obvious public was told: " may shock da Cunha, the volcano island, That is leaning against the
The Shetlanders have been expectedly mild and charming moors and the mountain slopes that Ted Hat disited the task you. But you must be told."
to the ponies and the sheep. balustrade in fron aj the National Gallery overlooking of calling for the expulslan of
keeping open house for centuries, in summer.
For them it's just doing what the square, and beside me were the ETU, more than ever.
comes naturally, e the nations of the work.
COMPLAINTS
Eager-fared Alricons, shorp looking Indians, pale faced Juoking Scandinavians, critical
1 did not shock me, but it did
shake me. I had read the same is speech was about the pumphlet and had congratulated most ambiguous K have Government, Lord Maugham ever heard. He said that using the same photographs his friend Frank had noth.. the "exposer" of evil." ing to do with It, but at the
Is
And what has made me laugh
Room for all
Y
in a
It's not so remote, of course. You can fly to Shelland every day of the week, or sail to it every second day.
Realists
romance
Fascist dictatorship, steeped of in nepotism and ride by terror. But It happens to be "pro- Western"-a magic phrase and billions of American dollars have been despatched to that corner of Asia in a slap-happy. vid to keep it so,
In the new, more muscular ellmale of American opinioni General Maxwell
Ite
Taylor 10
threatens
Bourishes, change dollars into dough- boys, bucks into bullets,
"Messianic"
on
almost
Taylor has Messlame belief in the limited, or lilile, war, Eisenhower would But not buy Taylor's gospel. Kennedy, bruised by Loos and Cuba, is an Interested and Taylor obliging listener when says: "You cannot tell me that a rifte exchange between patrols must result in general nuclear warfare.”
На
of the Far North - Shetlanders themselves have to
Taylor advocates mali-tcake, bc stern realists..
For Shetland, a free gift of deadly guerrilla warfare. 30 or 60 ready-made crofungis quick to point out the re- families, properly subsidised by ulls that the Britis the Government to set them up.plished in this way against the Malaya and would be a very useful windfall Communists in in their struggle to stop depoput against the Mau Mau in Kenya, lation.
Try Fetlar
They could, for instance, save of Fellar the emptying island from extinction.
Fetiar desperately needs a lot clamation schemes, and land re- of new capital, a pier, land co- distribution.
Much of this the Government might be prepared to provide in
fugees.
order to rehabilitate the re- these kindly. The last thing the Shetlanders This is where The volcano islanders would
show the want is another 280 names on feet at home in the surroundings, helpful Shetlanders
strand of their Viking the unemployment register in tno-long stretches of moors, and other
what one (but
might Lerwick. violet
no characters: mountains
call their eve on the that plunge steeply crudely
And it's the last thing the volcanoes)
main chance.
Tristan Islanders would want, into the sea.
dwellers get either.
aver the
(London Exprene Service).
It is only one of the reasons same time, the ETU could touder is, Hongkong Government why Shetland is becoming so
popular as a get not do that kind of thing. has done nothing about it, for increasingly
all Its supposedly high powered away-from-It-all holiday resort. Animals sill outnumber the Let the city Germans, bland faced Chinese,
He left it to the TUC's brainy publicity efforts.
in this welter of 100 and different English faces. Ly, Mr George Woodcock
rocky Islands, 100 miles north of people there. There are 10 times" lyrical the Scottish malotand, there is plenty of room fur all.
This time the Irish Govern- ment were given the worst of
in
the axe. Mr Woodcock told the
IT STINKS!
make the speech which dropped
There,
Only 15 of the islands are permanent. ly inhabited.
it. Apparently the speaker was conference it was not a matter complaining about all these Irish of Communiem but of ballot men and women having to give rigging, su out went Fronk
Far Lord Maugham, having Only 9,000 acres of the 650 acquired sutilcient Chinese square miles of land are put to that Heng the plough. came up scholarship to learn
Kong means Fragrant Harbour, The Triston da Cunha res
up their Sunday afternoon, and Foulkes and his union,
march to Trafalgar Square.
The Dally Mirror
Their chick complaint was with easily the best comment he comments on Hongkong re- tugees would not find it too hard they Ital been forced by of the day in the form of a economic circumstances to And Franklin cartoon.
garding the fragrance; "In fact, to adapt themselves to their new Jobs in England.
It had an executioner dreamed if I may ne an ugly, though living quarters, they went Looking down be this wall all in black complete with mask apt, phrase, it sinks. clod and healthy looking ariny, holding up the headley body of
I saw little cause for complaint. nattily dressed Frank Foulkes,
However, having made
Inbelled "Expelled E.T.U."
On
the scaffold is Frank'
So In Fuct, in my opinion, does he journalism.
the British public's morals, camel
The People, as champion of
out with a shorter in the
there.
Friendly
All of them would Ket on same splendidly with their hosts,
A date
New York. PRECISE date for thé first United States man- ned landing on Mars
the space-flight given to conference in New York to- clay.
It is May 22, 1078.
WAB
as they like
on
AMERICA PLANS
'SPACE SUBURB'
LANDING IN 1972
Mars
Inside a model moon station I Raw underground "farms" with In culture vegetables grown solutions and chickens on deep Jitter.
Heal, light, and electricity would be provided by portable nuclear power plants.
گردی
The brains and resources United States industry are now being focused on the moon to
the speech In English, and head complete with his heavy the Irish now being able to horned rimined spectacles. understand it, there was Around the seaflok nro Ted issue. They found an infant Everyone does-even the Russian Three cosmosauts will touch only scattered applause, Hill and his colleagues, Ted teacher who was a teacher by semen whose massed nahing down then on the red planet, nothing to compare with weeping dreadfully into his day and a call girl by night. In vessels lurks sullenly outside the it was said, after a journey of From CHAPMAN PINCHER such an extent that a permanent caption the opinion of The People, the three-mile mit most of the 31,000,000 miles, lasting ecven They may tho telp could be manned station is expected by
The
the applause awarded when handkerchief.
was given in renda: "No hard feelings to you, oldest profession the speech Erse which: none stood.
it's that fend of yours under couldn't tolernie."
Even the English, sympathetic listener as a rule, did not give it much of a hand, for they
were used to being the objects
of bitter abuse, and
this was
SORROW
And the cin-time. we derella profession have litle in ;
common.
monttia.
The volcano Islanders would Aller 180 days of exploration appreciate the kind of people I can only suppose the teacher that history and environment and looking for Marian life they will take off in the same. got the sack. Well done The buye bred over the centuries,
rocket tot home, getting back Sheilandera ere a race subtly on December 15. People. Long live murality, and congratulations to your investi-apart from mainland Scots, Bill wearing their Scandinavian bert-
mude in
best
atom-powered 1970 and colonisation by 1075. spaceship shaped like an ico-
Six spidery legs cream cone only 137. long.
The United States's lead in nuclear
which propulsion-l
A "Jeff Hawk" machine like Britain, again, is doing no work
a huge bug with six spidery legs offers the Americans their the Daily Mirror to sum up. And
It was left to Cassandra of gator.
chance of beating the and Fung, Ant feel, being de- the Summing up. It was a beau- togethe Viking lessor of Sunk in craters
Roaming
of veloped for walking over tu Mara and this he did in fewer words than tiful summer, with little rain in tightens and tndenondence and
moon was dispinged today. Dr colonising the moon. it taken most people to introduce the south. At times I felt a fearless seamanship,
John McKenney said his experi- the subret
when strange land;
Details of how the first mood inenta phow that thin melai lega stranger in a
nt days
Sholland walern
This advanced date has been Ted (9) is a good
boy, other times so at home,
nwärmed with longships and made possible by rapid develop men wilt itve in a cluster of will be better than wheein Frank (Foulkesy is a bad boy.
What does worry me la the Norse carla ruled the islande, And George (Woodcock) ja & lock of anything vital about the Today, they even speak Engmonts In the propulsion of balloon-like shelters buried in tracks for moon travel.
Space-fight talk is now going So the next speaker returned magnificent,"
the blistering bout and the intense ahead so fast that the Camandra cum people of England, I remember, lish with a Norwegiats accent, rockets by atomic power, ne- craters to escape the moonday to the fold, as it were. It was mente "Geotge Woolcock was When I was a young etylent, for Shetland Ann been "ficollis conting to scientists of
Douglas Alrotoft Company who cold of night are displayed 21 ore Mars are already being correct what the first speakers the main chucker-out, and he is listening to a history lecture, for less than 500 yours. had muld, but the real välisin the general Derrotary of the The lecturer spoke of the rise. A penurious King of Norwe have drown up the Mers pro- tile conference by in Martin called was England tempting all thosu T.UCI"
ond fall ut siatlons, and I re- pawned it for 20,000 doting as gramine.
thin milk and skills.
BLOOD
from the
Company.
Or
moun
the "suburbs of Space
(London Express Barulet).
accom
This glamorous, much-decor- commander ated ex-paratroop
is asking Kennedy to give him his head in Vietnam. "I we had enough conventional. troops and weapons for limited war in irouble spots," he urges, "we could call the Communist bluff."
A peril?
Will Generul Taylor get ha way? is critics regard him as a walking peril, whose military thinking is over-simpllfled and outdated.
"What happens" they ask,
the "when one side begins to lose a limited war? Won't
to bombs begin alomie
By then?"
The alber day, General Taylor stopped from a military joi fu South Vietnam.
The whole world may know, within a matter of weeks or his months, the outcome of thinking.
-London Express Service).
ARTIE...
"I suppose you know that the events and decisions of the next ten months may well decide the fate of men, for the next 10,000 years.....??!
London: Expres Bézvics.
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