1947-01-18 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1947.

THE SPECTRE OF THE QUAI D'ORSAY

SU DAILY

IN SWEDEN

SINCE I got back

Sweden, where I had been attending the P.E.N. Congress, I have had an letter from a Scot- tish novelist. He wrote: 'I hear you fell in love with Sweden. For my part, I think the Swedes are chiefly a lucky people-they are so lucky they do not believe in luck.' It. WIL # good epigram, but a half-truth.

And now, in Bis connection, let me quote n Swede-Stan Salunder who in the course of his address

By LOW GRAND WORK by

TWO MICKIES!

TO-DAY

Visiting a country that, tucked away in a distant corner of Europe, has enjoyed 132 years of undisturbed peace, MAY MORTON found a courteous and kindly people who, both in the towns and the country, displayed a genius for adaptability-an eminently sane and practical people who not only got on with their neighbour countries but with each other

KARACARCINOLTA MBELENAKEDERICJAUNIER

at

is

sonwind

There are also day nurseries for children whose mothers have to go out to work. All flats have automa- the lifts, and each dat has a separate balcony, completo with railings.

Culture

safety

to the conference, mude the fol, gether, has a population of, roughly, i lowing remarks: Fabulous luck, and only 6,000,000. And, of these, the situation of our country in least one person in every four distant

corner of Europe are, of engaged in some form of agriculture, course, the principal reasons why It is not surprising. then, to and we have now enjoyed 132 years undisturbed peace, but our honest fruit, and vegetables in shops and of plenty of milk, butter, eggs, poultry, abhorrence of war must not be for-markets. gotten, elther, even if love of perce comes more naturally to a small and Bread, butter, and meat are powerless nation than to great rationed in restaurants and hotels as JN Stockholm, where some of the well as in private houses. Farmers eld eighteenth-century houses re concentrate on milk rather than on being converted into modern flats. beef production, so that net is every here and there a house or two and scarce--though reindeer ment

being sacrificed to make room for often served instead. It is not, the ration. You must give up coupons for cakes, but sweets and or a chocolates are coupon-free.

onc.'

It is against the background of these two

factors-Swedish luck Swedish mentality-that I should ke to discuss some of the things that I saw and heard during my three weeks' stay in Sweden this past summer.

Well Dressed

is is

on

a lovely little garden-maybe only, a patch of grass with one birch tree

a group of lilacs.

I congratulated one of the Swedish writers on the skill with which they were bringing the country to the town. But he just laughed,

and

We

stilt

I shall never forget the friendfl- ness and courlesy with which We CLOTHES are plentiful, but expen-said, "We can't help it." were welcomed by the Swedish people. In these days of troubled sive. Swedish women and men or have our peasant mentality. Isn't travel, there was something partici- beautifully dressed, and they

with receiving their clothes stepped off

carry

"swede" a

By F. CROWLEY

Young, and Afiss

Murphy

who, before the war controlled a

FIRST patient at Mayfair Gymna-

It was n grand day for Mick Major Fox, the boxing reforce, when cllule for young children at East- he met up with Micky Wood, bourne. former lightweight champion [ and, more recently, Commando First Patient trainer to the Allied Forces.

Fox had volunteered at the age of 40 for PT. duties in the Army and

·ROL away with it by

understating hs ago. There he had followed all brunchies and specialised in rehabi litation over his 4 years' service and, back in civvy street, he was raring to go, but could not find

preminca.

The came Micky Wood with his Mayfair Gymnasium da Grent Port- land Street all tted up, a word of explanation, and Fox lind the run of the hull and free hand in its own sphere!

slum was Reggie Gutteridge of teridge, one of the famous Gutteridge Islington, son of the late G. C, Out- twins, who lost a leg below the knee of a tank and landed on a mine. The In Normandy when he lumped nut stump of the limb was particularly tender and Gutteridge would hardly let Fox touch it. To-day Mick can I pull and tug at it as much as he cares and Gutteridge uses an artificial leg so easily that watchers are fooled Ume and again.

to

watching him boxing remarked

Actually on one occasion n visitor i Micky Wood "You have a good lad To-day, while film stars and ac-

there; got promise tresses undergo training with bud-down stairs, apparently quite sound, To-day Gutteridge runs up and ding champlons, Mick Fox is per skipping, rowing, boxing, wrestling forming wonders of pallent remediai like the rest. and rehabilitation treatment which have to be seen to be belleved.

"When I was posted to the Army Physical Development Centre at Kingston I got anyone from 17 ta 35 who was undernourished. It was a sort of guinea pig school for para- troops. Well, we found it possible to put two stone on a man in eight! weeks, und an inch on his height and chest. We had everything there, psychiatrist, infra red treatment and so on, and it was marvellous to ree fellows doing ten miles round Rich- imond Park in full kit in eight

Weelta."

Fo

RAMC Help

had immense help

from various RAMC officers, that given by Major Daintree Jolinstone | being invaluible, "He'd show you everything and let you DO things, which was great training."

Mick beenme #0 expert, hud training with the British Red Cross. and then was appointed to look after the 6th Airborne Division at Beau- fort, where he had a hospital and a gymnosium. But he had to equip his gymnasium and the gadgets him- self." An American dump proved n ict of help-The things I did with bits of wire!”

Given a free hand Mick could now

connected handle anything

with mind, muscle, or nerve, and anyway he had any amount of fractures to treat here! In the matter of mos sage Fox cmphasised the assistance he had from Mrs Young wife of

It's not the first girl who has danced with Gutteridge and didn't know he had an artificial limb!

THE FAMOUS

CHRISTMAS RUSH IN THE WEST END

Scene in the toy department of a large West End store during the Christmas rush. There was more than double the selection of toya In 1948, but malt giris had bad news as dolls were in short supply.

sticks before very long.

Mick hopes to have him on two

case-a brother-in-law of Tommy Fox is now working on another

operation, and now suffers not walked for 11 years, following an M'Govern, the boxer. This lad has

muscular wastage or paralysis,

Fox in eager to help any Service inan who wants to overcome from disablilty and points to the case of ready his patient can turn round Inseth 100 per cent disability and who Al-Tony Baer, discharged from the RAF his chuir and, where formerly feet lay under the chair edge, he now in plaster. To-day Baer a wrestling his was at one time encased to the neelt stretches out his foot unaided.

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IN SINAI

By OLOF HADDAD

Egypt is attempting to domesticate the wild, barren Sinni Peninsula that her eastern gateway, to turn its desert wastes into fertile fields.

a sort of turnip?" larly heart-warming in

I wish to had time to tell grace and dis-

yous before we even

the linction. It will amuse you. per- about the folk-museums of, Sweden, gongway-a mixed bouquet of kind-haps, to hear that on the only oc- which are not so much museums ng

cusion mude a comment-I had lying monuments to the cultural If successful, the project may have. admired the tweed in a young man's and economie progress of the people. international significance in addition suit-I was told that, like his father As well Skansen, which you may to bettering the lot of Sinai's 20,000 before him, he always got his gults have read about, these museums Inhabitants and providing possible evening banquet in from an English tailor. Later, at an over 100 of them--are scattered all living space for some of Egypt's

the famous over the country. They are not only rapidly growing population, Golden Hall at Stockholm, I learned worth seeing, but worth going to estimated at over 17,000,000. that many of the lovely frocks worn sec.

ly words and fragrant roses....

Courteous and Kind

now

by the women came from America. If you are Interested in old manu- Sinal, a triangular peninsula Bak-

I found that, not only in the cities Even in their two largest cities—but in the country districts also, Stockholm and Gothenburg-there are so many parks and gardens,

can examine

Make Haste Slowly

many open-air restaurants, so many who could act as interpreter. Then Yes, I belleve I did fall in lc/Arabs in their great drive westward i

growth of crops is speeded up by the

perpetual daylight, the work has to

Vocabulary

hospital

in

it

WB3

con-

on

UT the Swedes are not only a BUT

courteous and kindly people: they are eminently Saue and practical, with an adaptability that almost amounts to genius. They get with their neighbours,, and they get

scripla, you would be thrilled to seeing Africa and Asia, is enshrined But, before I leave the subject the Coder Argenteur at Uppsala In the history of many nations. Not on with each other. They have of food and clothing, I must refer a sixth-century come to terms

bible written by only has its strategic position mado with their 'cllmate, to the fact thai Sweden has Loo, which is no mean achievement. great quantities of both to Holland, and silver lettering.

sent hand on purple parchment in guidit an important caravan routs be- When you realise that their midsum- Norway.

And you are tween Egypt and Palestine #ince and Finland, as well as made welcome at the homes of Caricarllest times, It has served also s mer day has practically no darkness smaller consignments elsewhere. Larsson and Anders Zorn, and their midwinter day practically The Swedes have also cationed their members of both families sit live, ancient Egyptians seeking the sub- where a stepping stone to empire for the no daylight. you con

how own food so that they can share with and where you 500 necessary it is for them to organise others less favourably situated.

at jugation of Syrla, as an avenue of their mode of living.

leisure the most Intimate belongings escape for the Israelites in their of those two great artists.

exodus from Egypt under Moses, as a Christian outpost Increasingly many people spoke English. Usual

menaced by Moslem raiders from the ly there was one member on the staff

East, and as a springboard for the of every shop, hotel, or restaurant seals in the sun, and in the shade,

with Sweden. Maybe I loved most

Across Airlea into Spain. that you con turn aside

there

were the from the

students--young, the prodigal use of two buslest thoroughfare and find, in a white caps-who

golden-haired boys and girls

simple. in homely things-flowers

Military History and papert couple of minutes, rest and refresh anxious to help you out of a dit-iSwedes literally 'any

were at least as From the cradle to the grave, the Napoleon Bonaparte, after ment, beauty and fragrant quiet culty as to practise their English Looking through the glass partition British India, marched his French You can also fid, when you want, it was from one of these girls that I of a nursery in the

with flowers. quering Egypt, with his eve facilities for tennis and golf, boating learned how-some time before the and bathing, dancing, and physieni war-English had replaced German by the way, has the second lowest sands in pursuit of the fleeing Turka. new maternity army across Sinat In World War I culture.

Gothenburg-Sweden, General Allenby crossed its desert as the priority foreign language in infant mortality in the world-I saw in World War II Montgomery's In country places, where the all the schools.

that every

de- baby

wearing a feat of Rommel at the decisive battle розу. When you

Co visiting in of Alamein prevented German troops Sweden you take your hosteas bouquet, and she tucks a

in the west from crossing Egypt into nosegay Sinal and seizing control of the Suez to say Tank-thank you the trees and flowers in abundance offer the new crématorium in Stockholm alties are closed, and so are the moment I landed, and I found that their gentle solare. theatres and concert halls.

In recent years the intense agricul- my one-word vocabulary seemed to

tural pressure on the land in Egypt Of course, there are outdoor sports meet most .occasions. A few in winter, too, as well as

I think I shall always associate has led to the reclamation of portions indoor Swedish words were amusingly easy Sweden with beautiful flowers and of the shallow Nile delta lakes and amusements. People of all aces go--for example, a miiliner was a with beautiful paper,

has stimulated the extension of sleighing, skating, and ski-ing.

damhatter; п hairdresser, a dam- One day in Stockholm, I was buy. Irrigation plans. In unexploited, frisor; and 50 on. Fortunately,ng sweets to take home to my "ghtly populated Sinal, the Egyptian Adaptable Houses tram, bus, and taxi sound alike in nieces, and I asked the assistant to government believes it has fr THE Swedish houses are as udop Stockholm there are

several languages. Talking of taxis, pack them for travelling. She or conditions favourable, for agricultural TH

in all the main thoroughfares in ranged them in what looked" "like a development, table as their owners. The sume windows that can be thrown open in alarms. You lift the receiver

Hussein Enan Paslin, well-known June will also exclude every draught

and green, paper ribbon, and fastened the Agriculture in Sidky Pasha's Cabinet agriculturalist and Minister of 'In December. Many of them have say: "Taxi Tho call indicates your ends with gold, paper senly. Then said that a branch of the Nile used |

double glass, and all of them have position, and, in half a minute, there she proceeded to pack it. perfectly Atting frames.

is, your taxl. I noticed

But, of course, the forests

to run through Sinai. Ho contends that oven the train windows-which I was glad to have had a chance and forests mean

Sweden's chief source of wealth that the innute fertility of much of could be pushed up or down with to visit one of two fingers had padded strips run-

the new housing look at a map of Sweden, you will

paper. If you the land remains undiminished. ning round the frame to make It At flats with a small park and children's running from west to east through sert regions across the border, In estates in Gothenburg-a block of see that there are scores of rivers to the productiveness of similar de

In support of this view, he points snugly.

Electricity is now used for lighting were already in full bloom, though In every, river there are groups.of

playground attached. The flowers the great woods of pino and birch. Palestine. and power in all houses and build the builders were still at ings throughout the country, and its There was a row of shops and a cen- bark so as not to destroy the salmon date from

work.white plae trunks, stripped of their general use has amounted almost to tral dining-hall, as well as a laundry fishing and these move almost im- dynasty Pharaohs who worked the Egypt's economic Interests in Sinal

the days of the a revolution in Swedish winter life, where

Stal you could In the north of the country, there is washing-or pay to have it done mills near the coast to be made into mines.

do your own perceptibly down-stream to the peninsula's, still tremendous power waiting

copper and turquoise to Members of these communal dining- paper pulp, art allk, and whatnot. be utiliser,

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be speeded up, too. The towns-

people help particularly the students-fer in summer the univers AS to my Swedish, well, I learned into your dinner napkin." Even in Canal

lttle gadgets that look like our fire-shining, white paper, tied It

Taxi-calls- gold casket, wrapped this up in

I found food plentiful, Sweden, are expected to take twenty-five "They're liko the

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Watching them, I said to rayseif, Manganese ore is found in great

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