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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1946.

It's Fun Finding Out

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Saturday Scrics by Bernard Wicksteed

THINK I've invented a new way of learning about history that makes it rather interesting, Instead of trying to remember the kings of England and the dates of battles, you ask yourself some such question as "What was the colour of Cromwell's_eyos?" and see where you go from

there.

What

What was the colour of his oyes? Do you know? Very well then, we'll try to find out. First of all we'll go to a library and look him up in the Dictionary of National Biography (24 volumes). There are di columns about Oliver] Cromwell, and at 427 words to the column it works out at 26,047 words. They give the day on which he was baptised, and say he wos called Oliver after his uncle. They any that the family name was really Williams, and that he died at three o'clock in the afternoon, on the day after 1 storm, but the colour of his docan't get a mention.

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If you or apply to the Foreign Office for a passport there are just four questions they ask about appearance. Helght? Colour of hair? Colour of eyes? And have we any visible distinguishing marks or pecullarities? Can We finti out enough to get a passport for Oliver Cromwell to go to Ireland, for in- stance?

Its height is easy. There was a

KORICAINELLA PARADAJZ BARABA

Colour

TIETOIHIN KEIKENARJENNETT

Were

Cromwell's Eyes?

fellow called Maidstone who wa mk3AHINAICINA MUURZAMELENNECTI

one

of the girls Kot married he hired rome buffoons for the party.

Cromwell's steward, and he has left and when it on record that the boss was two Inchen under six font ("and his tear per was exceedingly fiery".

About Hair

had light brown THEN he

hale. Everybody seems to wore agree on What. Sometimes he

Oliver,

He

About Battles

Jast

About Portraits

and

I will never

COMMENT By

"Candidus"

IT is a noteworthy fact that the visitor from almost any part of the Far East, waxes eloquent concerning the "recovery" of Hongkong. In contrast with other Far Eastern areas, tho City of Victoria and its environs apparently stand out as n shin- ing example of satisfactory re. habilitation under exceptionally and extraordinarily difficult cir- cumstances. This flattery from outside sources is, unfortunately, liable to be misleading should it be repeated to Colonial. "ears" in London. The point is, aro we satisfied that all has been done which should have been done?

To re-discover Hongkong, some- thing more than a casual glance is necessary.

We are not concerned with the backwardness of other places. If I may put it so, we are only concerned with the "forwardness" of Hong- kong

Selting aside the general rumours and allegations which to-day are current toples-Rackcleering, Pro- Ateering. Squeeze and corruption in

one form, or another, there are certain other aspects witch are also with the realm of factuality.

I looked as if we were hot THE day he died was Septem-

on the track when I found ber 3, 1058. This was also in book that Cromwell once at The buffoons blacker.ed the faces! of all the guests, and father, enter the anniversary of two of his most for an artist and said to him: "I desire Wor-you will use all your skill to paint ing Into the spirit, grabbed the wig famous battles, Dunbar ond

to rester. Up until the

war the my picture truly like son's hud, pretended

me and not off his throw it into the fire and then hid Cromwell Association were trying to flatter me at all, but remark all these it by sitting on it.

calendar roughnesses, pimples, warts get September 3 to the

everything otherwise as a day of thanksgiving. There pay you a farthing for 16" hasn't been much heard of this idea

But what's happened to the pic-TH

Cromwell According to the Intely because most people remem-ture? ber it as the day Mr Chamberlain Association, it cannot be identified. Then there's miniature owned spoke to us on the radio and we heard by the Duke of Buccleuch at Drum the sirens for the first lime.

lanrig Castle. In Scotland. It's by an artist culled Samuel Cooper and is from supposed to have been done life. I wrote to the duke and sold: "please can you tell me the colour of Cromwell's eyes?"

a moustache and sometimes bir didn't. Once he'd got really going there (I wonder whether It was his wife

Was no stopping our who made him have it off?) And (threw drink all over the Women for distinguishing morlis he had tn quests and smeared sticky.sweets on famous wart on his face

hc chairs where they were to sit. Caugh? They nearly died.

but

the

All this is very interesting. without the colour of the eyes we don't get the passport. So we'll try who had 2.500 people put to

This, mark you, was the same man somewhere else.

sword at Brugheda and after mas We'll try the Dally Express library, or the intubitants of Wexford which has about ten million news.

w-write: "God in flis righteous justice paper cuttings in it. Some five hun- brought a just judgment upon them."

para out of

other.

Yet it seems to be the opinion of people who write letters to the editor that Cromwell raised the prestige of Britain abroad higher than it had ever been before.

Three years after Cromwell died he was exhumed from Westminster Abbey. His body, which had been embalmed, was hung from a gibbet

His secretary replied: "I have look- all day and in the evening the hend was. cut off, put on a pole and seted out the Samuel Cooper miniature up on the top of Westminster Hall.

nd the eyes are blue. If anything they are rather bluey-grey, not a It stayed there for fifteen years bright blue. I also looked at two one night it was blown down other miniatures of Cromwell and in une the eyes were blue and in the other a more greyish blue."

until He matriculated at Cambridge an

dred of them mention Oliver Croin- well, and they range from wedding announcements of his descendants to Beachcomber, and from questions to strip cartoons, It's quite astonishing what a lot of things about Cromwell have got into the papers at same time er

the same day that Shakespeare died. in n gale. The than on sentry-go Did you ever neary for instance. He became a farmer, and if he d what happened to him when he was died at 45 no one would ever have heard 11 fall and hid it under his baby? He was nearly dropped heard of him, because he did all the cost when he went off duly. That from the roof by a monkey, That's what the cuttings Bay. The monkey things he's famous for between the was 270 years ago, and there is a akes of 47 and 59. He revised the canon living near ipswitch who says grabbed him out of his cradle and policy of suppressing the Quakers he's got the head in a box which he and gave the Jews permission to buy

keeps in his study. The family were a bit worried a cemetery which was nice of him. about these goings on and brought

In May 1941 the Basle out all the bedding they could find

climbed to the top of the house.

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made no bones. about the fact that Hongkong's prosperity was due to the welcome given to flags' of all nations who evinced any desire to use Hongkong for the development of trade. That was by sea. What about by air? To the simplest of laymen is obvious that the air is rapidly eclipsing the seven seas, and yet the public after a year since liberation icel that son athing is logging In

the post-war works of reconstruction. Initiative and

ive and enterprise seem to be lacking. The fear is that we have stumbled into a phase of mental silting-up. Of course, there may sor OL schemes and 11

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In spirit of progress certain very important directions appears be suffering from a lack of encourage- ment. If we are willing to accept the the most responsibility of being important air junction in the Far East, we must prove our worthiness by providing the facilities. Not a year or two nence, but now.

Housing

to Experts have measured it, weighed

out

was it, tested it for rge and tried to catch him if he fell. But, ac- Zelung sald that what Hitler

Rural fighting was not so much Churchill Cromwell's hats on it to see if they cording to a quotation from

Actually, Atted. They think it's his head all Cromwell. Sports, Vol. III., the monkey was a

the Cromwell made it treason to say a augucious animal and brought

sent right.

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Oliver

. Fortune of England down in safety." word against his Gover.ment,

It would be interesting some time people he didn't like to concentra- to find out what the family said to tion camps, and set up a secret police the monkey on the matter of rural system. sports.

About Buffoons

Yet he encouraged iterature and learning and ignored the purlians who thought the statues in Hampton

WHEN he grew up the For-Court were not quite nice.

week

I wrote to the canun this and asked if he'd still got the head in his box. He said he had, but he was sorry he couldn't tell the colour of the eyes.

Then somebody said ull this was a waste of time. If I really wanted the answer, why didn't I go to the

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tune of England abolished Complications due to malaria were Christmas and the maypole, stopped the cause nhls death He might National Portrait Gallery and look the newspapers coming out, closed have been cured by quinine, which at his picture! A secti all the pubs and made a low that in those days was eviled Peruvian doesn't in dut, as a matte.

South fact, I had been there already. The Irishmen musin't swear,

burk. But as it come from

wouldn't touch

All the same, he wasn't against America he looked on it as Jesult gallery has three pictures of him; in the two of them he's got dark grey eyes

und in the other they're blue.

a few larks in the home on special medicine and

occasions. 'He had ten children stuff.

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HICKEY

The Moon Of Lords & Ships

About Results WELL, you may say, it looks Was if the blues have it. And anyway they weren't brown. hold hard, not so fast. I went Madame Tussaud's Waxworks and had a look at Cromwell there. Yes, you've guessed it. his eyes were brown very light shade, almost amber. So there you are. That's the re- of my researches to date. don't suppose any university will give me a degree for all this and without to a passport Cromwell won't get Ireland, which may be a good thing. But we have had fun, haven't we? FOOTNOTE.................

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LIVEN CROMWELL: Born of Hun- tingdon, 1599; country gentleman and MP until the Civil War, when he became cavalry commander: rose to be the outstanding military and political gure in the coun- and, calling himself the Lord Pro- tector of England became dictator. Died at Whitehall Palace, 1658..

try: dissolved Parliament in 1053

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day. and the convoys through those grim understood. venturous to the moon dur-Northern Sens, is reminiscent of Yet when the Jups signed the another Ane, sonorous style which surrender nt their armies in ing the lifetime of the still conjures memories of inunty cap Singapore last year the same laion with tyre arm yesterday. Fellow-

and jully Jaw-Beatty of the North Jack was broken over Fort Canning directors pinned tie, younger people living to Sea.

and by Wild.

Now this brave man-who sur- dav.

E Army commanders have mostly incorporated battle honours in their vived the railroad of death, the

But what will the moon traveller town. find when he arrives there?

Tedder of Cunimb would have

in

He will and a dead world, much gut the R.A.F.campaigns smaller than our earth, but, with nutshell, ~ vast gorges; enormous 'craters, and

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High Living Costs. NOTHER point which must be

rievance

atmosphere like the earth. There Carey Street's chronicler of mis) A told pin in the tle of Mewar. Restoration to luxury has cost/grounds for criticism which may be

that the

therefore no air and no water.

A mentioned Ja Government's fallure to appreciate the abnormally DITOR BROWN, in McCall, Idaho, high cost of living. It is no secret lins increased size of his news that the Police Force is inadequately paid, taking present conditions into a life for paper; explaining to renders that he co

the After all the moon is the earth's tities--MONTGOMERY of Alamein / building of which, cost

account; and same miny complaints applies to Government servants in a me complaint ten times the distance round the R.A.F. has not nearest neighbour and only about ALEXANDER of Tunis-but the every sleeper, is victim of Hong was getting too

that the "paper was too small number of other categories. Surely caught on. Lord kong air crash. world away,

not be difficult to assess It should not wrap a bottle of whisky in." TEDDER Is of Glengulň, his home

definitely the difference between very CHILDREN are being cheated by DLUM aca-going job in American the cost of living say in 1941 and to

dud comics from Canada.

merchant

today. It does not matter what sphere service goes

a. dissatisfled worker Reader WELLER sends me to HARRY MANNING. He will y

considered, à Lought Cu-nimb: R...F. abbreviation for London. Titles, covers

month apar in Northcommodore's pennant in largest U.S. is an inefficient worker, and there mountain. rpges far higher than the; cumulo-nimbus. 1710st

are differner, due here on first castbound is no doubt that a very real sense of dangerous ent: strips

Identical except trip on October 24.

permcales our- Public Himalayas.

that in me they are coloured. the How do we know that the moon cloud formation for flying."

Maiden voyage on North Alian- Services to-day. Post-war problems other now. And no penny plain | 1307 is dead and that no life can exist on

aro inevitable, and no balanced mind run, winn rcheduled for 1940, Its surface?

WHEN FRED ASHENDEN leaves nonsense: both cost ninepence. never happened. Liner America can think otherwise.

the London Bankruptcy Court acicnttits have - agreed Because

ne troper Westpoint, carried became

There are, however, genuine moon his no surrounding to-day, he completes 57 years as

500 000 Allled troops to Far East

but nevertheless embarrassing. £2.000,000.

Handsome Harry at 49 is young Justifiable. to

an be old sea-dog, but was

To revert to the Epusing question, sail trained in

and has made

it would have been better never to mid-

Commission transport the world's front pages with commlilees, Watch

have instiluled In 1940 ho Won rescues. operators took a lot of convincing ocean day, since there in no airnosphere to He will find the surface, at its that big pneumatic ivres

were the first U.S. argument with a enquire into and advise on so press- |ing a problem, it seemingly so little: absorb a part of the lent.

flitter parts, covered by A thick gafer for

heavy vehicles, thought German submarine, which stopped notice is to be taken of its findings.

mid-Atlantic The day inats for 14 earth days coating of hard, coarse and dead D burst would overturn hus,tner Washington in and reaches temperatures sufflelent dust, through whleh tre will step certainly shatter windows.

ordered passengers and crew to For some reason or other, the very word "reparations" seems to mock, word Provinces yielded to, sales tue, bonts before sinking slup,

and yet hundreds of stripped homes by argued blinker (and many of them finally stripped Manning remained adamant, London And, like the diver, he will have lost to adopt big tyres.

messages, got away with it.

after the liberation) bear to wear a special protective suit.

Bishop

convinced sceptics by

witness to our helplesness,

Materia It will be completely sealed, con- fitting a heavy lorry with

VE renders auggest this small

been found to recondition pneu

has mus

Is it not smaller than the earth, the force tail, a supply of uir, surround his malies ving. It

wider Government quarters; : £80 oplece advertisement deserves on Ita surface is much smaller body with an air pressure and ten--and having it driven at 30 mph. circulation than a Middlesex;

to devise cómo means of perature adequate for health, and in- over a spiked plank. Tyro exploded, weekly:--

of securing materials free of the And the adventurer will be 'ablo | sulata klm completely

M.G. Magna 4-str, for sale very black market taint and extortion, for from the lorry went on. to leap like a gazelle while feeling burning hent or freezing enld of the This Old Contemptiblo, invalided fast rm, phone, hall toilet, tiled bath, those who lost all owing to Japanese

out in 1910, comploted 30 years and exterior. £330...

aggression?

fortune, has attended Me Without air the surface of the moon 11.085 times, is still cheerful.

in cerle sound is carried by air;| the sun

is for ever shrouded in allence since and the

raye

of

court

beat walks on ittle more substantial than ferociously downt during the long a feather bed.

to boll water. Nights, of the same with the buoyancy of a deep-sea length, aro Intensely cold;

about 250 degrees of frost,

with | diver-trending the sea bed.

But there are compensations. For, since the moon is

much.

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as light as a feather and seeming to unfelengly moon.-IV, 8.

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