1948-09-18 — Page 4

Wicksteed turns up in Lilliput land

T the suggestion of a small reader nged eight we are going to make an expedition today to the Lilliput county of Rutland while it still has a place on the map.

If we don't go now we may miss it al- together, because the Local Government Boundary Commission wants to merge it with Leicestershire and end its life

smallest county.

Rutland in 16 miles 660 yards across at its widest, and 17 miles 880 yards long. A jet aircraft doing '660 m.p.h. would fly over the place in 87 seconds.

There are 17,370 inhabitants, 92 pubs, .55 churches, and no pawnbrokers,

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At one time Rulland wasn't unit of local government, but some thing you gave away as a wedding gift or left to your heirs.

Queen Emma had it as a present when she married Ethelred II. In the year 1002, and her son Edward the Confessor left. It to his wife Edith.

Two towns

E frst place we will go to THE

Oakham (pop. 3.181). This is one of the only two towns In the county, and has a couple of small factories inking shoes and underwear.

other town is Uppingham, and that, as you know, produces public schoolboys.

ав England's

contiquing the tour at random

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by

BERNARD WICKSTEED

sule pince for his train to park at night on royal tours.

Before we leave Oakham for a wolk in the country we must take a look at the house

the

High-street where Bla Geoffrey Hudson was born. He was a true sou of Ruthindi, Sir Geoffrey, for he was only 18 inches high.

Once when Charles 1. and Hen- rletta Murin passed through he was served up in a pie. It was put on the table in front of them, and he the popped out his head through crusi.

The Queen was So mused she took him into her service, and he become

Court favourite. Ho challenged a man to duel once, and the fellow turned up with (1 There's on assize court (with 19 water pistol. Sir Geoffrey was so horseshoes nailed to the wall) and indignant he shot him deati. a street called Gaol Street, but no

The Queen sent him to Francer gal. To make up they have a the to fetch a midwife. and

he was old set of wooden stocks outside the

Flemish pirate.

This enphured by has five ankle holes. became church. It

almost standard procedure, வாக்கம் enn accommodate two

able- because,

some years later, he pul bodfed

men and one with to sen again on some other errant, wooden leg.

by was captured

another and In the last 23 years the assizes pirate- Turkish one this time. have been held only once. That

was sent as a slave to the was last Whit-Tuesday. The judge Barbary Coast, and when he escaped arrived in the muralag. sentenced some years later he had grown in prison. to 3ft. Gin. He told people It was county by misery that did it.

the

a woman in four years and was out of lunch-time.

And while I think of it, are any of the of you peers of members Royal Family? If so, you will have to present The lord of the manor with

horseshoe.

It is on old custom

royalty

leaving

and nobles horseshoes

have hehind

ile

In the spinneys

THE soll of Rutland is red.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948.

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

of MUSIE & DRAMA |

"Nover hoard Bach on the bagpipos before?**

American Column:

Millions Called

1

Up, Few Serve

by NEWELL ROGERS

New York, Aug. 31. TERE, and there across America tonight pickets

appeared before conscription offices.

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They bore signs reading: "Truman Toure an nounce free trips abroad, including knotty coffins and dignified white crosses."

At Haaron High School, In Manhattan, pickets shouted: "Don't join black and white armies."

At the Boston office the pickets did not stay long. A crowd of working men drove them away with a barrage of tomatoes.

Britons livlug in America who were born in 1922 or in the first eight months of 1923 registered with- other allens.

In

It ta America's second pence-time muster history. All between 18 and 20-9,000,000 men-have to register in the next fortnight, but few will be chosan to serve.

Volunteers have put the ale force and the navy up to strength. The army asks for 10,000 conscriptamin November.

MARSHALL PLAN exports are moving more slowly

than expected. Shippers blame luck of co-ordion- tion at home and abroad.

THOUGH Test tourists are nut back yet from their Todays in Britain, the Cunard While Star sent notices today to its travel agents tourist class bookings mare eastbound

for May June, or July 1940. Full up.

WHY MOSCOW IS CLOSING

SOVIET SCHOOLS ABROAD

THE Soviet Union's decision

BY IGOR GOUZENKO

the

to close schools for chil dren of Soviet employees 2 most significant

The reasons are as follows: abroad is

whose dramatic Politburo in Moscow has finally been development

they were doing New York sequel has tended to convinced that

more harm than good. obscure the real significance.

Firstly, they permitted the Soviet The jump to freedom by Ok-

employees abraad to bring out their sana Kosenkina from the third families Instend of leaving them in Soviet the Soviet Union as hostages against deviation from storey window of the Consulate-General stirred and defection, night or shocked even those who refused party doctrine.

Even the 16-year-old son of the those barbarian to believe

Soviet Ambassador to measures of oppression the famous

Ottawa, now Ambassador to London, a lios- Soviet Union practises against Anatoli Zaruubin, is now

several The successful tage in Soviet Russia, after its citizens. be-escape of Mihail Samarin, the years abroad.

Tse there is iron in it. Some teacher of the Soviet The recent flights of Soviet em-

But the real story goes and is well worth noting.

deeper

Alexelv

most

and

ployees abroad, like others, have reached such propor- tlous that only the hostage system, including tion, was deemed sufficient to stem the tide of defections.

drastle

exccu-

to

The mass return of children Soviet Russin in but an illustration that the Soviet Government is no and longer temporising In

serious problem.

going back books say this is how the county school in New York, served to to Queen Elizabeth. On one of her got its name.

This soil is rich and the scenery illustrate that even those who tours in search of new betts to sleep

it is the heart teach others the myth of Com- in she stopped at Oakham because unspectacular. But her

a shot. Vislung of England, for all that. The low munist pre-eminence do not and horse shed

been cut hedges that hunting people like cannot believe it. ever so much are now turning grees.

The spinneys are full of fat since,

butterflies go head as handy pheasants, If they didn't have

walk along the hedgerows, and they left money for one to be made, you

to buzz. are beginning and its size varied according to the the bees

can't change boundaries County money given.

and bats the

Owls The present King has given two that, shoes, one when he was Duke of coming out as we walk in the dusk York and the other since he came back to Oakham,

And here, to round off the day, to the throne. They are about two fert long, made of iron and painted is a remark overheurd in the dinius mers of the Crown Hotel: "I went with gold size. He came to Oak-

one show In town. There was war. The town to ham during the

valled dreadful fellow in it Bulls was never bombed,

Danny Kaye or something.” visers thought the sldings were

-

itor stop

The facts Arc both simple sinister.

have serious

The author is the son of a Russian school mis- tress who rose to become head Cipher Officer at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa.

In 1946 he exposed the in Soviet spy ring Canada, a story which shocked the world.

Gouzenko is at present living under an assumed name in Canada and has recently published his own story in book form "The the title. under Iron Curtain."

W

to accept no

on a ships

INTHROP ALDRICH, head of

and America's largest banke, snillionaire members of the Rocke feller, Astor, and Du Pont families Joined a bucket brigade to fight a forest fire which threatened their After homes bri Dark Harbour. sweating it out for four hours un ter a 94-degree sun, plus heat from the flames, the brigado won.

"loyalty boards" not only to feed their people but taļTRUMAN'S export whent and other products, checked the records of 2,020,970 while shortages existed under calcivil servants. As a result, 38 were lectivisation.

sacked, 08 resigned on learning that, the findings were against them, and The teacher threatened to report 438 quit while being investigated. him to his father, but he continued The Congressional Red hunters are

the trades turning to probe of The Left-wing

Radio and in assembled at the Embassy, and

The

Workers opens on Thursday. Ambassador the presence of

Massachusetts Bos- the Zaroubin, the chairman of the local TN 1773 party committee, officially only the tonians, disguised as Red In- Third Secretary Goussarov, read the dians, threw English tea into the rlot act to Anatoll. The father

to argue.

Next day all the children were Electrical

uniona. A United Machino

seemed most embarrassed of all and and storied America's revolu

"Boston Tea numbled something about the "ition. Today, there is a sign on

common: Boston's responsibility of youth."

the pot. Party In Reverse. Keep The other extreme was Hlustrated boiling." It is part of a campaign food parcels to Boston In children to send when a group of Soviet almost caused a rlot In Ottawa. England-parcels including tea.

teaching

They

taken their hud seriously and had gone out on the street to attack Canadian children, "to beat up those Fascists,"

Effort

are

On

the War

TOMIC AGE PROBLEMS. Inter-. national relations, and advanced milltary operations curriculum of

the National Imprudent

College, which opened its.1948 term today. Among the 114 students. The next step is u citation of the

re-NABLE any longer to cope with We most of them high officers, are 17 parents before the responsible

difficulties the teaching of Soviet diplomats from the State Depart "warns" them

views was creating in the minds of ment. Elbridge Dubrow, just back presentative, who against fostering or permitting such

from two years as Counsellor of. anti-Soviet views in their children. these Soviet children living abroad facing a

and seeing for themselves, the the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is on The frightened parents punish- often by beating-the innocent cul- Soviet Government decided to close the faculty. Political science will children be taught by Wisconsin University's

Professor 'Royden Dangerfleld. of the prli to Indoctrinate "party line" and the schools and place the to avoid serious consequences for lato safe isolation at home. causing themselves.

The imprudent effort to indoctrin- PRETISII MUSICIANS and record-

Ing companies

seriously example. In the ate Soviet children abroad living in a I can give one Spring of 1945, the son of the Soviet free world has been a complete fal-embarrassing the American Federa- tion of Musletaus in ita fight for Zaroubin, Anatoll, lure. Ambassador placed his own father in a most com- The free world can look upon the higher payments to artists, says the promising position. Thinking that closing of the Soviet schools abroad magazine Variety. The Federation he, as the Ambassador's son, could

as gratifying proof that it has nothing has banned recordings, but Variety It is cheap and simple for U.S. to fear from an informed compari- TIE reader must realice that permit himself a discussion with the

planting a Soviet school abroad teacher he began to argue the value 300 with Soviele The closing manufacturers to get musical back- meant applying Soylet education of collectivisation.

of the schools stands out as an in-grounds from Britain where the rate unler entirely different conditions

plied admission by the Soviet that is £3 a man a session against tho to U.S. federation for children and teachers than A

closer scrutiny of their claims, even C10 58. paid

members. home, whether in New York or in

by children, cannot be faced.

The Soviet schools abroad

Secondly, the closing for years been a source of worry for the Soviet Government. schools abroad was due to

was tinuous troubles they were The question of closing them

years from thele very beginning. frequently raised during the when I still served in the confiden- tial elpher service, but only summer was the decision to them taken.

What is the outlook in the years -long search for a cure for the greatest scourge? Hore is a rare and authoritative articlo, by a man in closest touch with Britain's top- Hight cancer exports. He declares that work is going on with a new drug and--

Eventually,

drugs

will cure cancer

*ORE people died of cancer

M

during the years of the recent war than the tutal

number of men in all three

Services who were killed during

that period.

flesh,

by Lieut-General

Sir G. Le Q. Martel, Chairman of the Royal Gancer Hospital

What is cancer? If you make a gash in your Nature arranges that the cells have to pass to reach the affection,

this close

affect the growth of normal cells. It modern lines that 19

these оп

develop. research seems likely to The most experienced experts con- elder that it is only a matter of time before drugs of this nature

for

cancer. will provide a cure

It Is

necessary At the same Ume

Much to issue a word of caution.

the con-

Changed Perspective

Ottawa.

the Experience has shown that students abroad were living in en- tirely different surroundings than ot able home. They no longer were

to accept the teachings forced upon all Soviet citizens at home-because they were now able to make objec tive comparisons.

never lasted very

new

Life abroad changed their per-

and offered a spective experience of living.

Despite the fact that the teachers for the schools were selected from amongst the moat trustworthy and the staunchest party members, it long before even profound contradic- to "cures" which ere meeting with they saw the

were

Icachings and publicity has been given at times

and suggestions tion between their Up to the present surgery has startling success,

that narrow

reality. shall multiply so as to heal and

most successful have bren made

or Jealousy was hin- But Nature proved to be the close up the space.

treatment of cancer, if the disease mindedness

their progress. All these also arranges that when this is diagnosed at an early stage and dering- has happened the cells shall is located in an accessible place, claims are carefully investigated and surgery is generally successful. any new knowledge is taken into cease to multiply.

In radiology and surgery

the Royal claims

Tho investigation. Cancer Hospital in London. same appiles to the physicists who

closely with the AMERICA LEADS is called malignant, though the are working very

When cancer occurs the cells

stand not

up

tu

continue to multiply and in due some of the leading men have the common pool, but most of these and, the plenty nit around them en-

course a growth appears, which

could!

·

They had to tench Soviet chlidren the "horrors" and "privations" of the "victims of a capitalist system" in the face of the obvious freedom

which statements joyed. All the

been would have

accepted by students in Moscow and Kiev were studdenly questioned and doubted by children who had lived in Ottawa or Washington or clauwhere.

on the scientific side and some cases those responsible for cells appear to be the same as connection with atomic

fission. the supposed cure have refused There is ordinary cellu

Much progress is also being made by a technical Investigation In the early stages it is not combining radiotherapy with surgery. no cause for anyone to belleve any

Unusable Texts painful but if nothing is done By this means the disease can some of such accusations which may u

or reduced by made against those responsible for the cancer spreads until the times be localised

with growths Interfere with the radiology, which then gives the sur- cancer research.

an easler task.

Large numbers of people dle remember a conversation

would a Indy teacher. of history and can deal each year we can methods working of the organs of the cou

whose life

一送 geography in the Soviet school at- saved have been body with a fatal result. effectively in the early stages with certainly

such cases as cancer of the breast cancer had been dingcosed at an inched to the Soviet Embassy SURGERY SUCCESSES or the tongue, but, unfortunately, early stage. We are behind America Ottawa. She.

there are r

By

Then there is the patient. must put aside all ideas that cancer

Wo abroad.

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in complained that the Commissariat of

e many more eases where the In the provision of diagnostic centres text sent by the

Education in Moscow was unusable OUR research work is making cancer is deep-seated and where our for this purpose.

progress, but we still know resources for doing anything very little about this subject. What effective are very limited. makes a cell take on this malig- A MATTER OF TIME' nant form? Is it a minute form

Is it some, affection of the

.

live in abject poverty when

"I had to delete whole pages," she said. "What else could I do when is something about which one

the textbooks teach that the workers ashamed. The pallent who has

States in Canada and the United lump or a spot about which he has

my of germ infection inside the cell? DOES this mean that there is little any doubt must offer himself for

pupils timoat in a chorus replier able to diagnosis. na, hope of being of

Then the general

practitioner that they had seen them driving in gland secretions in the body of cure the worst cases of cancer for a

long time?

must be constantly on the look out their own cars." the patients? Is it caused by Certainly not. The research work for early symptoms of cancer. When

Many children, especially between ilmo. There js nothing cancer is diagnosed the surgeon and unsuitable diet or is it heredity? takes

for dealing the radiologist must get together to the ages of 16 and 14 (when Soviet about immediately available

muted their We training has not yet When we know more

Inquisitiveness and made them care- these matters we shall be on with the bad cares, but it is certain deelde on the best treatment.

that a solution will be found. must look forward to the day when established

ful) ask such questions in complete A very important line is nt diagnostic centres

workers mitted in, Amerlon whilo In its simplest form surfaco present under Investigation with throughout the country, when the innocence as: Why are strikes per- cancer can easily and quick drugs which arrest or restrain the people consider it quite normal to have no such rights in the U.S.S.It.7

ono, buy what go to such contres, or be sent there or Why can ly be cured by radiology. (the rowth of cancer cells.

In the early stages the amicutly by their doctors if there is the least wants here and does not get these was that these drugs damaged the possibility of cancer. uso of X-rays or radium). ..

Like everything else in life It is things in the Soviet Union? usually normal tissues, but this trouble hos 'cantor Unfortunately

Aside from having to answer such starts beneath the surface and it now been overcome to a large ex- a matter of team work. Everyone

questions, the harassed It is deep-seated the use of radiology tent. Certain compounds have been must work together so that a real ticklish

of cure for cancer shall be found in teacher also has to report them to may cause mucht harm to the flesh found that retard the growth and tissue through which the rays malignant colls for more than they the shortest possible time.

our way to finding a cure.

fre

the authorities.

ono

He persisted in saying that col- lectiviation was quite unnecessary because Canadian farmers were able

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