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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1936.

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I Explode The Haggis

By

P. G. Wodehouse

ADRENIL

Stubbs Rd,

W

ELL, boys, to-night's

the night, St. An-

drew's Day has

come round again, and all Newts and Frogs?

over the world, from London you remember the passage to

the remotest British which I

refer 7 Macbeth

to

Hongkong Telegraph. colony, Scotsmen will soon happens upon the three Witches

Friday, November 27, 1036.

BRITAIN'S POLITICAL

TENDENCIES

be

seated

about.

dinner while they are preparing the of equal parts of whisky, ereum, }

and honey. After a glass or tables-waiting. They will ing meal. They are drop two of this, you simply don't have gathered together to things into the cauldron notice anything, not even if you!

To-night is St. Andrew's Ball

The

brilliant humorist

are at the table or under it.

Safety First

I

do honour to their patron saint, but it will not be of him that they will be The stern criticism of Sic thinking at the moment. Stafford Cripps by fellow, Their knives and forks clutch- ed in their hands, their mouths. watering, their eyes wolfish and chanting. "Eye of newt and him before I touched a mouth- they will be watching the door foe of frog, leout of hat und ful.

| Labourites serves to recall the various shades of political thought

Britain

Now

are

here surveys the "Vigil of St. Haggis"

done

an

MUST confess that, if ever 1} were invited to a St. Andrew's night, I would insist on Taking Sir Bernard Spilsbury with nie, and turning my plate over. toj

مہر

The king who

stands

alone

There is no King of Bel- There is a King of

represented in the Labour Party, I throws into prominener, also, through which are about to tongue of dog," and so on, and My caution might cast a dam- the increasing difficulty exenter, in the following order, he immediately recognises the per on the party. Unpleasant perienced by other countries in bagpipers, the bearers of Atholl recipe, "How now, you secret, looks might be directed at me. following political trends in brise, and the Inggis. black and midnight huggis!" be I wouldn't care. "Just analyse

where

cries, shuddering. there

this. Bernard," I would say. Incredible as it may seem. imunerable brands of

they will be looking forward to This has caused misunder- quietly, but firmly. And only? Conservatives, Labourites and eating the beastly stuff.

when he had blown the All Cleari gium. standings and has Liberals. Although the smallest

injustice to haggis. Grim as it would I consent to join the the Belgians. Yet do not think that I blame is, it is not quite party, the Liberals present to ab- the honest fellows. I am broad- that or should not be. What Haggis has another quality survers the most baffling specta-minded. The fact that I per the dish really consists of or which I dislike. I asked a Seof ele of all--there is such a variety sonally, have a stomach which should consist ofis the more tish friend, how you started in of shade that, as one writer has shies like a startled horse and intimate parts of

it sheep, on it-what was the first move, expressed it, every Liberal dis- turns three handsprings at the chopped up fine and blended as it were-and a dreamy, soul. trusts every other Liberal of not mere thought of bagris, does with salt, pepper. nutmeg, ful look came into his face. being a Liberal! In some quar-siniple enthusiasm.

not lead me to sneer at their onions, oatmeal, and beef suet, ters there has arisen a fear that

But it seems to me that there

as bad as

revels.

"You give it a hit out with

Han,"

we may see in Britain a develop- ! What I say to myself is that is a grave danger of the cook your knife," he said, "and it ment of the Continental practice there must always be Danger- going all whimsy and deciding of having a multitude of political ous Trades, that it takes all not to stop there. | parties, between some of which sorts to do the world's` work.

this.

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The distinction means that he is not so much king of a country king of a people. They are not the people but two-the Flemings in the

north, and the south.

Walloons

in the

That helps to explain why King Leopold 1 has thrown a spanner into the works of European diplomacy by plumping for neutrality and no pacts.

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1 deprecate Heaven knows I am no

The Flemings, who are like Ger- snob, but there are social dis- muns in the tone of their language When you reflect that. a tinctions. A decent humility is and appearance, more or less inte it is extremely difficult for the and that if these devoted men haggis is served up with a sort what we expect in our food, not the Walloons, who speak French and electors to perceive any real are willing to cat haggis, it ill of mackintosh round it, conceal- heartiness and familiarity, A -hate-the-Oermans--(In-Liege-they difference. Incidentally, the con- becomes us to raise our eye ing its contents, you will readily haggis should know its place. Paris).

speak better French than they do in fusion created by these varying brows. A hearty, "Well, hest of see that the temptation to play like a chop.. Who ever saw schools of political thought has fuel," seems to me undoubtedly been a factor in the per attitude. rise of dictatorships on the Con-

more pro- a practical joke on the boys smirking chop?

must be almost irresistible.

That Bhoy Burns tinent. There does not, at the They Like It

Scotsmen have their merry moment, appear to be any solid

moods, like all of us, and the use getting thought must occasionally cross

AN odd thing-ironical, you; ground for believing that Britain IT is never any

might sayin connection will ever develop politically along worked up about

other the cook's mind that it would with haggis is that it is not these lines, for, despite the sul people's foods. You may not be be no end of a lark to shove in Scottish. In an old cook book. division of the principal parties | able to understand why a lot of newis and frogs and dated 1653, it is specifically into little groups each with its cannibal chief, with all the ad- bats and dogs and then stand mentioned as an English dish call own peculiar outlook, there is vantages of an education at in the doorway watching the ed haggas or haggns, while France still a definite line of demarcation Balliol, should like to tuck into poor simps wade into them. claims it as her mince (hachis) between Leftists and Rightists, the fried missionury, but he The view has been expressed that does. The thing simply has to Nor could the imposture be going about under an alias. L Britain was definitely better off be accepted, just as we accept easily detected. That Atholl would be rather amusing if it when her politics were in the the fact that Americans enjoy brose, to which I have referred turned out one day that Burns hands of two well-defined political | Chicago potted meat and above as the junior partner of was really a couple of Irish. factions, it being argued that Frenchmen banillabaise. In haggis, is a beverage compose:l posts numed Pat and Mike. there has latterly been a de-bouillabaise you are likely to eline in political invective find almost anything, from because of the possibility nautical gentleman's sea-boots | that the men denounced by to a small chinn mug engraved| any

particular group might be with the legend "Un cadeau (a Diet Fads: They Come and Go

the critic's political bed-fellow lo-[present} de (from) Deauville) jmorrow. We should not, how-(Deauville)," while Chiengo

jever, count the decline of political potted meat well, we have vituperation, a loss, although there all read Upton Sinclair's "The

is something to be said for the Jungle," and are familiar with work is ripe for a really good it

1

иcross

the

Leopold has to hold the strings of these horses, each wanting to run a different way.

Last fortnight "Peacock" Degrelle. Rexists 30-year-old leader of the (semi-Faselsis), made in alliance with the Flemish Frontists.

The Frontists want to break away from Belgium, form their own coun- becomes perilous for Belgian unity. try of Flanders. The combination Unily is the King's first job in Bel-. glum.

In Flanders priests still preach "Alles voor Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen voor Christus," that to act for Fland-

ers is to act for God.

Flanders, too, takes Catholielam more seriously than Wallonic. So when France makes a pact with the Soviet, the Flemish Catholles find another reason why they should break away from France. The pact is not popular in Wallonie either.

The movement is not confined tu peasants and priests,

For a long time reserve officers asked Staf up for training have oßeers explaining the defence of The frontler against the Germans. verb Why the Germons? What about de- fending our western frontier against the French?

was

they came new diet fat. No hushed-up "fetchierise" in a book. viewpoint that when parties are the poignant little story of the version of an old craze will do be- sharply divided the

electorate emotional packer named Young enuse the rule is that fads, once they The Calorie Craze knows better where each faction who once, when his nerves, were have had their day, can never come

back.

Then we heard about calories and stands on vital issues of the day. unstrung, put his wife Josephine

large

numbers of people went mathe- Thore was a time, not so many in the chopping machine and All the diet fads of the Inst caloric quotas according to their Public interest in vitamins is wan-mutical in un effort tú work out their years ago, when politics at Home canned her and labelled her half-century have met with a similar body-weight and the amount of phy- were in the hands of three parties { ""Tongue."

fate, The older ones are Justsical exercise performed. It -Conservatives, Liberals and

memories enshrined in curt phrases really amusing to watch a golfer Nevertheless. Frenchmen den apple a day keeps the doctor trying to calculate the wear and tear Labourites. But that was merely

big | away," "fish is a braly food," "letttice of a round of gall in moshed potatoes. a transition stage. Meantime, go for bouillabaise in a

for sends you to sleep." "onfons cure

Well, calories still appear on a Liberalism, as such, has virtually way, and so do Americans

few diet charts but only at their disappeared, there being little to potted meat. It is the same cold," and so on.

with Scotsmen and haggis.

Never Who, nowadays, chews each mouth-true value as units of heat. distinguish it from the moder-They like it. It is no good try-ful of food thirty-two times in no- for one moment did the zealotis ate Labour element and the pro-ing any appeals to reason.

cordance with the principle laid down calorie counters of other years be by Dr. Horace Fletcher, who believed|lieve that they would ever dismiss gressive section of Conservative thought. Thus it will be seen on tell you they like it.

preached that people were their little friends no lightly. not a shortening their lives by decades be- close examination, that for all The fact that I am

The war killed the calorie craze. The cause they bolted their food? intents and purposes, two-party haggis addict is probably due to cult took the country by storm after The average diet of the lean years rule still prevails in Britain. It my having read Shakespeare. Mr. Gladstone's admission that he was so deflelent in calories that one seems, moreover, that this ten- It is the same with many was a devotee of supermanstication.

time goes on.

and

simply dared not think about them. dency will become emphasised as Englishmen. There is no doubt But folk of less will-power and After the war, the calorie tried to stage a sensational return to the Which suggests that Shakespeare has rather persistence than Mr. Gladstone con limelight, but that favoured spot was that the more that politics appear put us off the stuff. We come got bored and restive with altting already occupied. to change at Home, the closer across that bit in "Macbeth" in their jaws ached. So the craze died,

about at meal-times munching til they are, in reality, following the our formative years, and it Members

of the rising generation novel traditions of the past.

establishes a coniplex.

would have to consult dictionary

The public were dallying with the idca of cating cabbages (Continued on Page 4.)

In Antwerp, which is Flemish,, if you ask your way in French, there is a strong chance you will be pur- posely misdirected.

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Leopold's job la to bring these conilleting forces into one.. En- tanglements abroad make his lask more difficult. Overboard they go. Tall, slim, determined, ', sad-eyed since the death of his wife, Astrid, Léopold puts in seven hours a day. in giving audiences and studying ofletul documents.

He was educated at Elon and the battlefelds of Flanders. Though French was his natural language, at Eton once, he was bottom bui one of the French division. He and the bottom boy, were the, only twb who read French books for 'pleasure or could converse intelli- gently in the language.

He is a good golfer, horseman, and tennis player. Dresses and talks like an". Englishman, smakes English elgarettes, but his two pas slons are his motherless children he and the unity of the country rules.