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The priceless frescoes of the Horyuji Temple at Nara, near Osake, are to be removed for restoration and preservation.

The step is part of a programme! to save some of Japan's ancient

A's Life

Savers

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947.

Nextraordinary book Ahas recently leaped to the top of the best-seller lists, first in Italy, then in France, and now in the United States.

It is called KAPUTT— the German word. that means smashed or finished. The author is an Italian who calls himself Curzio Malaparte.

Mr H. R. Trevor-Roper was asked to examine the French édition of the book.. Mr Trevor-Roper is the Ox- ford history don who was given the task of recording for posterity all that could be discovered about Hitler's fate. His book THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER was the result. Today he writes his. report on Malaparte.

The well of Mr. Sadler

Sadier's Welis 200 years ago-

How did Sadler's nume?

Wells get its

Sadler was a surveyor of highways in the 17th century end the owner

of some land in Clerkenwell,

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THE ASTONISHING SIGNOR

MALAPARTE

by H. R. Trevor-Roper

in human

Ow is it possible that laughed at my words"--such But in another sense he is not. The new book about the war phrases of self-congratulation old Italian humanists, behind these can still excite interest? are the theme song of half the obvious qualities, believed in man:

in the future of man, What expression of horror Is book.

reason, in human Ideals., still unexpressed, what detail of historical fact unexplored? Now aristocrats Malaparte does not. To him What new discovery, or attitude

everything-not merely Nozilam or of mind, can account for the suc UT if Kaputt is the work of empty and rotten, and haunted by Germany, but the whole world-is cesa in Italy, in France, and in an egoist and a stob, that the knowledge of its own rottenness. America of a new book called does not make it necessarily a Islands of culture may survive, but Kaputt, by Curzio Malaparte? bad book. In fact, it has some they are dwindling islands of decay-

Curzio Malaparte Is an Italian The author is a master of elear

of the qualities of brilliance, ing culture in a putrescent world. Similes of decay alternate with ex- journalist, one of those (he, and vivid style..

pressions of self-congratulation tells us) "who have expinted pictures, his sudden metaphors, cynic, without faith in anything, His His incisive throughout the book. He is a total by imprisonment on the island his cold factual delineations ad- world is empty. of Lipari their contribution to mirably express the cause

the sudden of freedom," lensed (he does not say why), their

Re- aristocrats of the New Order, he became a war-correspondent and the terrible cost at which grotesque magniteence, for the Corriere della Sera on it was achieved. the Russian front: but falling- foul of the Gestapo, he with- drew to Finland and Sweden, there to wait the end of the war and the regime. From his experiences in Rumania and the gossip-writer is certainly more Kurt Zucker!) is not really a mar-

For Malaparte (his real name the Ukraine, in Poland, Finland. vivid, and not necessarily less true, tyr in the cause of liberty. His m and Sweden, he has gathered then the dry transcript of the prisonment (and his release) boro the material of this book. What Nuremberg trial.

no relation to political principica; kind of a book is It?

they were accidents of Fascist palace-politics.

I

The snob

N form it is the book of a gossip-writer. Malaparte, like many successful gossip-writers, is a cosmopolitan snob. What ever his views (and he is care- ful to imply that they

are

In 1683 two workmen digging for gravel there found the remains of an old well. Sadler took a sample liberal), he is at home, or likes of the water to an analyst, who found to feel that he is at home, with it had definite medicinal properties.

spas.

the great of all nations equally

In a few years the well hud taken the place of Tunbridge and Epsom,so equally that he makes little which hitherto had been London's difference between allies and enemies, Nazis and anti-Nazis, a Sadler developed the site by Swedish prince and a Nurem- building a "pleasure house" where people who took the waters couldberg criminal. watch the leading entertainers of the day. There

Munthe,

Axel were "posturers,"

Antonesen, rope dancers, equilibrists and musi-Hans Frank, Harold Nicolson, etans of all kinds.

Sepp Dietrich, Mannerheim,

The pace of admission was three- Giraudoux-every public name peace and for this patrons were pro is indifferently there; and the videa with an escort to see them home through the dark country lanes illusion of cosmopolitanium

and highwaymen.

A pint of port

is

"Tiling His spoon to pour shower of golden gravy over his slices of venison, Governor Fischer described how the Jews of the ghetto were buried...." The method

of

Palaco politics

Wly a victim of the prevailing

HY is this? Is the author mere-

dreary cant (for it is cant) or 19 there some inherent, personal cause? A glance at Mainparte's career sug- gests the latter,

is

Especially vivid are the scenes of the Nazi rulers of Poland-porten- touts vulgarians feasting in Renais- Malaparte is an ex-Fascist play- sance palaces, and unsuccessfully boy who has become tired of the aping the customs of the most ar- game. He has flattered Mussolini chale, feudal nobility of Europe; A and written for Goebbels. He has hierarchy of hollow pretenders, hid ing behind this glittering tinsel their fundamental disillusion and secret

fears.

King of Poland

tried Fascism, as he has tried Com- fashion munism, as an intellectual with practical prospects; and since he had accepted them lightly, he equld discard them lightly.

Now he his discarded them! and since he only played with ideas, never

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OK this is what Malaparte brings

out most clearly; the Germans nothing left, except a clear sight and (and he hates them as Germans, not facile pen and a neurotic hatred of missed. Looking at all four hands

Germany, and f

of philosophy ps Nazis) were afraid. Fear lay at the root of all Those

elaborate emptiness which; in Kaputt, he has a spade, a heart and two diamonds. gestures and methodical cruelties, described as if it were true. Even at the height of their triumphi they were haunted by fear: the fear of defeat, the fear of contempt.

At the apex of the hierarchy is the most exorbitant figure of all. Haną Frank, "the King of Poland," the cruel, vulgar, sentimental, italianate.

pseudoaesthetic charlatan who deli-

Prince, strumming Chopin On R

which were frequeniel by footpads sustained by that cheapest trick berately tried to play the Renaissance of the snob-writer-scraps of piano in the Wawel Palace, and polyglot patter to impress the promising to be the Orpheus of unlearned reader. The pages. Foland, who would govern the people are littered with unimportant through the arts. It is appropriate phrases in German or inaccurate that he should have died at Nurem→ English, and in Polish, Finnish in the tawdry postures of coun- and Rumanian which (for all I

a new theatre

In 1705 the proprietor, Mr. Roso- man, pulled down the old wooden bulding and built "wih backs to the seats and ledges on which bottle and glasses could

stand."

Prices rose to 38., including a pint

of port wine, Further improvements know) may be inaccurate too. were made In 1778, and the theatre

came

Radioactive-Drugs be patronised by the no- In--the continually shifting Performers at this time included scenes only one figure is quite Joe Grimaldi, the famous clown. constant: Malaparte himself-

Serious drama came in 1844 under the management of Mrs. Warner the centre, the director, the

Samuel Phelps. und

acknowledged master of every The present theatre, which includes

conversation, whether among of part the old building, was con- strucled in 1030.

Rumaulan soldiers in the Ukraine, or the old nobility of traditional Europe, or the stereotyped ambassadors of the West, or the cruel and vulgar transitory satraps of Hitler's empire.

Findioactive drugs soon will save us many hitherto doomed lives as were taken in the two atom bomb explosions in Jupan, some Ambrican doctors and research men believe.

D James 1. Bibb, a physician. says

Tennessee that mdioactive phosphorous and fodine are con- sing blood disenses, and

other Tadioactive elements have been used to treat cancer.

arts and treasures now being cur- Student Digs Out Old

ried out under the direction of ex- perts of the Arts and Monuments

Division of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's Headquarters.

One of their main tasks at present is to supervise restoration work on the golden hal of the temple, known for the paintings on Its plas- ter walls,

Marriage Law

marriage

In making a study of Tittsburgh University, discovered that laws, Robert Carver, a student of

law passed in 1700 by Gov. William Penn required marriages to be per- formed before 12 witnesses,

A later legal record said that mar- ringes not performed before 12 Founded in 607 A. D., Horyuji re- | witnesses would be "considered

valld." portedly contains the oldest wooden structure in the work and the wall. paintings of its main building, the Kondo, are acknowledged to be among the greatest representations of Buddhist art now in existence,

The

passage of more than 1,300 years, however, has laid a heavy hand on these irreplaceable works of art. As recently as 1944. they were damaged by earthquake shocks,

Latest Methods Used

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions on Pape

1. Stock Exchange, where liveried. attendanta are called waiters, from It's coffee house origin. 2. Many- handed. Drinrcus was n' hundred- handed giant. 3. C. B. Fry' (1901). D. G. Bradman (1938-30). pubile of San Marino. 3. Heraldic device. Diagonal band from top of

Cracks and bulges have long been sinister, or left side of shield. apparent in the plaster walls and Hull, 7. Archbishop of York (Arch- the Japanes Government has been bishop of Canterbury is Primate of treating these first In a haphazard landed in England, D. Organised All England B, William of Orange manner, but since 1888 with a long clupping (from ant-Catholic demon- range plan. Men versed in the most strations In Kent early last century) modem preservation methods at 10. Anatole France. Europe and Amerien are on hand fur consultation.

Now, the wall plaster is being

treated with acrylresin. This com

pound, which is a bade ingredioni

CROSSWORD SOLUTION.

Solution of yesterday's, puzzle.- Arrows; and 9 Down, Gift of the

et plexiglass, has proved to be gab; 0, Relegate: 10, Election; 12, cohesive and yet without, being Neat: 13, Orb; 14, Grove; 15, Low; 10, Day; 10. Neau: 21, Firn, 22, Acutely: 24. Ratepayer.

injurious to palui pigments..

as exact a copy as possible, of the

A group, pit 20 experts are making Down; 1, Grenadier; 2, Flea 3, Tectonie: 4 Falneant; 5, Hen; 7, tiver: 10, Agile; 17, Wary; 20, Proy; Elegant; 8, Tool, D, Std 1, Across; 11,

21, Fat; 23, Up.

paintings, under a restoration plan which will take six years,

-and Sadler's Wells to-day.

How simple, how ill-informed, how trite, how boorish these types all seem compared withi the brilliant Italian shining in- cessantly in their midat! "Everyone looked at me and laughed" "everyone around me

Rupert and the Jumping Fish-24

The jumping fish ways the towing cord is too short. so Cap'n Binnacle fixes a longer one, and, just as he finishes, the great fish appears again. Now far it thinks Rupert, trembling little. We mustn't t waste any more time," says the jumping fish, leaping out of the water again. "Hold" tight 'to the edge of the ahell, little "bear, and don't be frightened., We shili ̧ go | very fast, but you're lucky; the sea is throath, and the journey shouldn' be too long."

ALLĀRIQUES.

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NANCY The Psychological Approach

DON'T BE SC LAZY-- AND GET A JOB AS WHY DON'T YOU GO OVER

A BERRY PICKER ?

OH, AWRIGHT:-- I'LL PUT ON MY "OVERALLS" AND ASK FOR A JOB

ter-Reformation plety.

It is perhaps

natural that these Polish scenes should stand out above the tedious trivialities which fill

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much of the book. In a sense Mala- parte is himselt

character, well

* Renaissance qualified to deplet such a subject; fpr he combines a aesthelic cynical amorally with sense and Werary skill.

CHESS PROBLEM

By B. CHMELAR

$

Black, & pleves

"White, 6 'płetch White to play and mate in Ange Solution to yesterday's problem:

RXBP any. 2. Q, B (ch, or dis ch), or Kiinates.

down one. But we also can see that declarer on establish, the club suit iri dunmy, on which one of his dia- monds can be discarded.

The tricks are all there, but unless decturer times the play of every card he will find it surprisingly easy to misplay this hand.

Declarer must refuse to win the opening heart lead. When he wình the second heart trick, he must not make the mistake of ruffing the third heart in dummy. He must iny down the nee and king of trumps, then cash dunumy's ace and king of clubs, and ruff a small club in his own hand.

If Eist elects to ruff this club in- stead of discarding a heart, South discards one of his losing diamonds. But in all probability Erst will be smart enough not to ru.

Now South leads the third heart, which provides the needed entry into dummy. He ruff-the-heart-and- leads dummy's fourth club, trumping It. Then the ace

diamonds of provides an entry into dummy, so that declarer can discard a losing diamond on the ten of clubs. Thus he holds his losers to a spade, a heart and a diamond.

Skeleton Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Nota itvo broadcast.

8. The groat man means nothing to her.

*. Just

one, perhaps, or the whole regiment.

10. Hont of drinkers. 11. The sort of

Bong Jou're DAPPY Co ming?

13. There's

somethi raiber sour in the best artista

16. Weariness.

17. They contri

bute to youre

upkeep, sartorially speaking.

for

18. The aster's not allen to him.

Turn round the const entertainment.

21. Always gire the first girl - ■*

Jattor.

24. Her death is still a matter of

commant.

20. My design involves two tini

and one.

27. Briet coMIDGES.

20. Journey in the fall, perhaps 7 29. A sticky lot' these supporters.

„CLUES DOWN.

1. Sounds deadly bill.

You might give a man 'enough of this for auicide,

5. Ta this used to spileo the trans-

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4. Rule, that must fall, by the

sound of I

5.I and to wins men go over the country with something in mind.

B. Turn the tugs in a blast of

wind.

7. It goes to sea without leaving

shore

11. Star of housing construction ? ·

12. Dodge.

14. He has a right to be a foreigner. 15. Repeated with anothing fact

but not here.

70. Nears a more sensible arrange-

ment.

22. Calf-love doesn't mean a ilking

for this.

23. She in an artist shout it 3, 24. Emall Industrialisés.

25. Hit it on the head for accuracy.

By Erhlo. Bushiniller

IF YOU PUT ON A PAIR OF OVERALLS WITH PATCHES ON THE KNEES

„ERNIE

DUTHALL

IN the Skeleton Crossvord the black squares and clùė numbers. as well as the words, are left for the solver to 03 12 Four black squares and four clue numbers have been inverted to tire you a start.

The black wiltres form a gym. metrical pattern: the top half corresponds with the bottom half and the two sides match. Bo you. cad nu in tweird more black. * squares at once to correspond with

those given.

How study the clue: numbers. There is no Clue 1 Across, so the square to the right of that numbered. 1 must be black- square. Across nust be on the tập Has and 4 Ach in the second line in a position balanc Ing AcTOSS. As you solve the cluce you can 211 in the words, and black squares and completo the puzzle.

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