1947-02-22 — Page 5

Winston

as

Churchill

he looked when he was the 26- year-old correspondent for the London Morning Post during the Boer War, 1899.

"INSTON CHURCHILL, is 72, and whichever side of the fence you are you have to admit that he's a pretty remarkable man for his age.

In fact, when you consider that he does nearly all the things our mothers told us not to do it's an astonishing thing that he's alive at all. .

He notes all city, he drinks alcoholic beverages, he stays up half the right, and four times he's been out with a cold and got premonia.

It is not an if he had taken up this sort of thing just lately. He's been doing it for 12 years. He was even burn prematurely,

At eight they had to take him away from school and put him under a doctor because his continual defiance of authority was under- mining his health.

At nine he got his first, dose of pneumonia (double) and nt 184 he fell 30 feet from a tree and was unconscious for three days.

At 20 he joined the Army, and because there didn't happen to be a win on anywhere in the Empire at that the he got himself itached to the Spanish Army and fought apalost rebels in Cuba,

YOUT

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947.

What's the secret of his success?

It's Not Just Thyroxin

S. FUN FINDING OUT!

When he was 21 he went to India und was in stich a hurry to set foot in. Asla that he Junged off the boat before it was properly tied up and dislocated his shoulder.

It was too peaceful where he was stationed, so he wangled his way to the N.W. Frontier, had a scrup with some tribesmen, and wrote a book about it.

Then

war in the Sudan began.

TEST FOR UNITED NATIONS

By "CANDIDUS"

The United Nations Organi- Iation is to inspire respect,

it has its first opportunity in the Palestine problem. What- ever action it takes will bring repercussions among extremist Jewish factions throughout the

By BERNARD to people or give it them in plita, world, but unless it compels

WICKSTEED

When our Mr Churchill.no longer

You can inject a thyroid extract by that doesn't make them Inta Cararne Churchills. If you give then enough to make much differ

to their speed

of Hving it | strain their hearts,

S put aside any thoughts

ence

of

obedience to its authority it may well go the way of the League of Nations.

ared with his leaders he changed making yourself a Prime Ministermediate, ond in doing so has lost!

his party-Lwice,

People Who know Churchill well nd, of course, he wanted to be inny that he owes a lot to his Ameri- that. Kitchener didn't want him can grandfather, Colonel Jerome. At the age of 70-something this old it any price. He didn't like suba!-

fellow went to the circus and got so teins who wrote boolu about their

annoyed at the boasting of the pre- senior officers.

fessional stroner man that he accept

to

But needless to ray Churchill the Sudan, joined a cavalry at Omdurman, and wrote his book-two volumes of it.

And all this time the ductors were tell him he was in a delicate state of health and really shouldn't do these things.

When

the Boer War came along he'd left the Army, so he went out newspaper correspondent--and got himself captured. Hic excaped by hiding in a coal mine for three inys, and the Boers offered £25 for or alive. Valuer have dead gone up since then.

When airplanea were invented Mr Churchill had to learn flying, Even now he can't go into a plane without wanting to plot the thing.

to the

the frequent embarrassment of the crew.

They needn't worry. If he spun into the deck from 30,000ft. he'd] only brea a leg, that inan. When he was Home some gangsters

barricaded

in

Secretary them-

elven tha house. It wasn't enough surround with police. Mr Churchill called out the Guards and bombarded the place.

Even when he does such a simple thing as going to the Zoo he can't walk round quietly, looking at the animals. He has to feed the lions j and hear them growl.

How is it done?

HAT on

worth makes ¡T *** carry on like this? Where does he get the energy? And why aren't you and the same?

Heredity has something to do with , of course. Mr Churchill's father proposed to his American mother the third time they met, which was considered quite enterprising for the 1413 of a a duke in those

days, He is also sakl to have once hired a walter to listen to the end of a club bore's story, which was enter prising for anybody

at any time. the father hadn't

got the stamina, the gift or the persistence of the son. He died at the age of 46: after ruling a promising politient) career by resigning from the Gov- crnment once too often.

But

POLAND NOW A PREFAB STATE

UTWARDLY there is 10 change. Warsaw looks the same as any morning before the election,

Apple-checked peasant women in woollon. head-shawls still stand squarely at the corner of Poznanska-street, wicker bas- kets at their feet brimming with bread pretzels, eggs, but-

Mikołajczyk himself is to be ar- rested sooner or later on a charge of collaboration with the underground, or for treasonable communication with foreign Powers. Anyhow that is what he expects, himself. But Whatever happens, it is equally eer- Itin that the opposition of the Poilsh people to the Communist regime will continue.

.

However emelent the Communists

ter, and chickens, they have det, be as administrators-and I ny-

come to sell.

o much impressed by their achievements they are resented to almost a pathological degree by the

The Hotel Polonta remains дау |Poles who regard them as Russians. with the flags of the' disunited nations who have set up temporary

The Poles refuse to forgive the Communists what they call the be-

entbassies in its bedrooms and bathtrayal of 1930, when Nazi Germany and Soviel Russia divided Poland between them.

TOOME,

By SEFTON DELMER

But there is a change. And it is a change which may make Sunday,

men in 1930

They cannot forget that the ruling in Warsaw t-day obediently applauded Stalin's speech proclaiming that Poland had ceased

to exist.

Some experts believe that the rank and Ale of the Socialist Party, who

January 19, as important a date in are us anti-Communist us the rest of Palish history as 1705, when Poland the country, will force a show-down was wiped off the map and shared

and Poland will have another elec out among Prussia, Russia and Ausion, this time with Communists and

trin.

the

Socialists as rivals..

ed a challenge to wrestle.

The colonel threw thin man all right, bul strained his insides doing it and subsequently died

effects,

uf

the

It was a very fine resture for an old man to make, but if his grandson found himself in the same position to-day you'd expect him to take on the circus elephant and the Jions or well.

And you'd know in advance that it wouldn't be fatal.

Pills won't do

clearly it takes more than just heredity to make a man like Mr Churchill. The scientists say that it's something to do with the thyroid glands in your neck.

They pump stuff into the blood called thyroxin and this controls the rate at which people live,

Say, for instance, that your glands pump out lou much thyroxin; you becoine pop-eyed and can't sit still. You have to be doing something all the time.

if they pump out too tle you get into a condition with which I am more familiar. You have no In- elination to work.

Mr Churchill isn't pop-eyed, but

there

clear ELC'

indications

with pills,

How else

then? By working hard at school? You'll be happy to hear that tim In not necessary. Mr Churchill falled twice in hts en- trance exam for Sandhurst.

By making yourself a connoisseur of cigars? I have it from a VIP own convictions Mr Churchill is not a

a connoisseur. 3

that in spite of his

suming

a capacity for con-

By Wrong again. My ses tell me that it takes Mr Chur- chil) whisky and soda." an hour

and

half to drink one

By listening to dubious stories? them. There are people who have No, sir. Mr Churchill doesn't like told him one, but they haven't tried si nguin,

By climbing

to fame over the boilies of your friends?

That least of all, for Mr Churchill never for- gets has frieratis.

than all this, something more than No, there's something more to it thyroxin and heredity, and if you ask me what it is I'd say investigations this week that it's an after my infinite capacity for rising to the

velaston,

+

Exploits

Nhc

Great Britain hus endeavoured to lives and prestige. Although cannot be blamed for felling to dis- cover a solution, she does appear to have permitted the impaske do drag on far too long.

Almost daily for many months, there have been reports of outrages breaking point, and there must be which have strained all patience to

general saitisfaction that the British Government is at last conscious of the reality.

Only recently, a news réport stated that the Hartanah, "most moderate of the three Jewish underground Groups, had announced that It was responsible for the blowing up of police launches in Haifa harbour, "Our frogmen," stated the Haganah, "At great risk of their lives, com- pleted the

the operation successfully A more disturbing report followed shortly after when the London Daily Telegraph stated that the Zionist of- ganisation was believed to be buzy completing plans to send an armada Italy and Greece to pick up Jewish of American-manned ships to France,

the Holy Land. Iranigrants and transport them to believe that the United States would It is difpult to

condone an action calculated to add fuel to the fire, thus adding to the problem and undoubtedly leading to the loss of many more lives.

RO,

| WHEN there's a war on somewhere As I remarked some time

bogs the nations down he furms they may have aroused over the last he fights; when trench warfare Jews have just whatever sympathy committee which invents the tank; quarter of when the enemy reaches our door-

century, antl it Ju step he calls it "Our Firest flour" they should be encouraged to create now a matter for serious thought whether and rallies the nation.

When

Independent state. The he Inils out of a

only sen- sible solution I can see is for every 1803), off n camel (1921), off nation in the world to receive

tres

pole pony (1022) or into a lake white chasing a that

a goose (1928), he survives, and that is a very high form of rising to the occasion.

he has active thyroid glands, says

niy pet scientist,

Julius Caesar and Napoleon were the same.

Their blund was so full thyroxin that they felt on irresis- ble urge to fight Egypt, Italy, and the neighbourhood in pinces like

of the English Channel.

He did more than survive when he fell of the pony. He claimed £2 a week for six weeks from the Doily Express under the free in- surance scheme which the was running then,

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"Winnic," architect of victory

in World War II, in his "finest hour."

WILLIAM

paper

It

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pruce and concord.

THE other

our

sore

spol in inter- national affairs 18 the SOTTY plight of

great neighbour- China,

Dr Wellington Koo, in up- pealing for aid, appears to be totally unaware of the many restrictions which have been placed against those who have, given generous uld in the past, ond who will be only too willing continue rendering assistance con- ditionally upon friendly reciprocity

in retu

return.

"Like other nations," said Dr Koo, "China

received financial aid from

the United States since the end of the war, but the amount was limited. Apart from the ald given by UNRRA, she received about $143,000,000, com- pared with $4,400,000,000 for Great Britain."

It is surprising that the tone should one of complaint, and more Bur- prising that China's Ambassador should forget that if he must make a comparison between Great Britain and Chlum, he should Brst of all com- pare the respective war efforts and commitments.

I must be forgiven for quoting the old but wise adage, “God helps those As soon as who help themselves." China shows that she is determined to help herself, and thus restore shat- tered confidence, the sooner will her friends come to her aid,

It is a bitter comment that other nations should be turning their thought to

to a resumption of trade with Japan-China's greatest enemy. It is also a and thought that China has not

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and commenced to enjoy the fruits born of international, goodwill and Co-operation.

China's'ils can etred, but she must be willing recognise the symptoms and must determine to rid herself once and for all of ills which she need not tolerate.

HICKEY

WAITING FOR MONEY

foreign-sounding DESPITE

That change is symbolised by the

I cannot see it happening. On the packing cases and trunks littering contrary, now that Mikolajczyk has the third floor of No. 14, Suchn- gone and Socialist help is to no

Predecessor of present Savoy head! street.

longer

names, staff of London's porter left over £30,000. as essential to the Com- Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of munists

The Cook is a specialist, a highly as it was before expect luxury hotels is largely British paid, prized master of his profession. Polish Peasant Party, the oldest to see Communist police chief Rad- by birth. Grosvenor House is London's key chefs rarely get less democratic party in Poland, is mov-

kiewicz set about reducing the nearest 100 per cent.; even, pre-than £1,500 a year; some have been ing out from the five-roomed flat Socialists to complete impotence and war the Savoy group-now hit In Cabinet-Minister bracket. which he occupied as Minister of chedience. Agriculture

My hunch is that active apposition by strikes-employed more than In the Communist dominated provisional Government, will be the affair mainly of the 80 per cent. British born.

And with him moves out the last shred of confidence in the hearts of many millions, of Poles that they will ever be allowed to have a Government which is representative of the Polish people.

MIKOLAJCZYK'S party, which was

a then in the side of the totall

against

peasants, traditional experts pussive resistance.

In

The first trial-unlikely, I believe, to cause a big flare-up-will come shortly, when the Government at- Lempis to collect about £45,000,000 now due from the peasants for ground tax, interest on loans, steti deliveries, Insurance and the of land.

price

BELIEVE, on the whole Poland will remain sullon and smoulder

Catering industry hos invested capital exceeding £400,000,000, em- ploys more than 800,000 staff much more than coal-mining.

Wages in most "hotel" grades have increased appreciably during the collared office-clerits who are not tensively: hotels are large consumers war, fewest rises have gone to white- Ancillary industries benoflt ex- striking.

of gas, electricity, used to buy an nually 10,000,000 pieces of chian, "Waiters used to get on an average 250,000 bed sheets, 590,000 yards of £110s, to £0 154, are now around carpet, are now rationed like the £10, including share or tips. Cooks, rest of us. not the cook, have gone up similarly from £8 and £f to about £10; Government-backed

Strikes coincide with break up of rarely get tips. Both get meals.

international' conference to encourage foreign

tarian Pilsudski regime, which Mikolajezyk himself led the pensants' strike in 1937, will not be

Tips go to walters, maids, valets tourists to come here. Unfortunate- a thorn in the side of the now totalling while the. Communists methodi-and uniformed staff, are usually ly.. tarian regime..

cally carry through social and econo-pooled and shared. Whero addition

The election carried out with

Report was that when the windows were removed in 1039, 4,000 pieces of medieval glass were stored in the crypt, and Caldwell "just remember- ed" where each plece belonged.

He is a fine craftsman in stained glass and has served the cathedral all his life: maybe he does remem- her, but the dean assured me that there is also a complete photographic record of the cathedral glass and each piece is tabulated and num- bered.

Replacing war-removed windows docs.

of course, give a chance correct past mistakes. There were many.

to

WHITE, Dean of York, for instance. The Reverend ERIC MILNER-

is taking infinite, trouble withe Minister's cast window,

After the fire of 1820, a great deal af the glass was put back wrongly, some not even belonging to that window at all. Now there will be no more angels with patriarchs the set pattern of Russia's European distributes proportionately,

beards. combination of intimidation und

satellite States. fraud. has achieved the liquidation of the Pollsh

CANDOUR in advertisement for The Communists will have an un- FATTEST personal tips go to pended on the memory of 84-year- Peasant Party. All that now re-cusy time of it, to be sure, for the

hotel staff pleases MRS. W. F. mains is the handful of Mikolajczyk Poles are too Individualistic as a est salary, if any at all, sometimes stored my peace of mind by talking tingt-

head porter, who gets smail-old BARIUEL CALDWELL, I TURNER, of Deal, who sends cut MPs entering the new Parlament nation to accept a pre-fab State, pays hotel to have job. He does with the denn. by the aldo of a 90 per cent, Govern- especially if the pre-fab comes from not share in pool, makes around

"Educated women preferred: re ment bloc majority.

abroad.

sident permanent pests: generous £2,000 a year, often more.

salaries.

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י,

ISBELIEVING an unlikely story Canterbury Cathedral windows de-

didn't believe it either.

And Dr HEWLETT JOHNSON

Let your palate judge

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AFTERMATH tion, hospital authorities. suid.

OF BIKINI

to-day.

Dr. Metheney, clinical director, Kuld ho had no statement to.. make other than that Miller was under observation. He said the allments of which the veteran complained "could or could not be from atomic radiation."

Miller said he had tiny blisters covering, both legs, to the knee, a rash, hoat Bashes and Impaired eye- sight.

Müller witnessed the atomic bomb blasts from d. distance of 10: miles,

VETERAN SENT TO HOSPITAL

Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 19.

William Miller, World War II veteran who participated in the then landed on Bikini fow hours Bikini atom bomb tests, has been later. He said the commantling: officer told crewmen not to stay admitted to the Army's Nichols, more than six Hours, but his work General Hospital for observation necessitated his staying several'

hours longer after exposure to atomic radia-Press.

than that-United

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