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Mr Van Loon Blots His Passport

came.

REPORT TO ST. PETER. Liberal: Darwinism, when it By Hendrik Willem Van Loon. was just what the Van Loons lind been expecting: the music of Bach 222 pages. Harrap, 88. Gd.

brought to the boy Van Loon Boine- S an unfinished autobiography, thing ns near to religious emotion would which it purports to he this as any Voltolrean-Liberal

As

book dan notable flasco. As think decent.

Such brief glimpses of a juvenile

a tour through history, philosophy and science, conducted by a genial,

-sorcerer,

one think personality muke

that

prejudiced guide, it is a real succes somewhere in this opinionated and Van Loon wa a beguiling old

discursive volume an even more in teresting story has been lost. As it For many years he wrote popular is, Van Loon has left, as a parting nutobiography but history. Then one day, at the age gift.

much of 76, he sat down to tell the story something much

more. Or of his own life. It also has turned less. into a history.

A friend of mine has a garden

not

na

with this curious property. Every- MISS JILL. By Emily Huhn.

With something Cape. 98,

thing he plants in It turns out to

have blue flowers.

writing

Seems

to

Loon's history.

He starts from engaging fancy that he

The

will prepare a dossier on himself for St Peter, so that the keeper of the may, heavenly portals

by casting his eye over it, determine whether or Mr Van not to admit

Loon.

But

become

what does the dossier

It brings to fact do?

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by

Goorge Malcolm, Thomson

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MGASKOMAT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1948.

THE

T

By DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS

COMMONWEALTH

BACK TO SCHOOL

London, October 10. export programma nis in their to the Foreign Ministership, have HE "Imperial Conference" of urgent needn quito early. Then, altered the emphasis of Canadian Primo Ministers and leading in a contradictory, way it briefs the foreign policy in an important re- han, for internal representatives in London has important men who work on the aspect. Canada bad a week of work. To European Secretariat in Paria that reasons, been unwilling in the past

hard

done to scar some of the discreet grumbling nothing will bo

retard to commit herself in advance to to Europe. So European alliances but Mr St. from High Commissioners' Offices British assistanco here

you would think the Primo confidence is slipping between two Laurent has changed this with . Ministers hund been back at their stools.

recent speech declaring that Conada school desks and suffering from u This could easily be

Canadian-U. & military corrected. pocke hard

taskmaster

And the Imperial Conference has alliance with the Western European The "United Kingdom" is finding a chance of doing its best work in Powers. this conference a great success.

Tho

seas Trade branches of the Board MONTGOMERY'S PLAN greater part of the week has been impressing the all-important Over- spent in impressing the strictly of Trudo that British export policy

This has brought the Canadian "London" point of view on the must be made clear for all to

read. delegation closely into Hine with Prime Minister remember some

week an During the

important Australian and New Zealand views American segelintors who said in

document-a four-year

of about the necessity Plan

for a Western 1945 in Washington that they learat British industry has become known European pack

in o week from

publicly-which could be the basis more economics

Confidence in the beginnings learnt In than they Lord Keynes

pinn drawn by Field renewed their university years. Sir Stafford fidence in British "delivery dates". Montgomery and his Stat 19 CX-

re- On the military side there har pressed at

this highest

Common- Cuppa has, apparently, been penting this performance with the been much less argument and a wealth level in London. Prime Ministers, and the Common- much greater degree of Common- This week, too, a most important wealth "supporting delegates" have wealth confidence expressed in discussion occurred on Far Eastern been bombarded svlth technical British plans for Joint defensive problem, including the position of appreciations of the United Kingdom arrangements with Western Europe. Siam, which, whlic maintaining

There are hints that the reite- "pro-democratie" ment of Mr Mackenzie King from become the centre of Soviet schemes the Premiership of Canada and the for Southeast Asia.

case.

of

Commonwealth con-

of Marshal

government.

R

hns

WESTERN UNION Brielly the Issue is whether succession of Mr St Laurent to the British ndherence to Western Union Premiership, and Mr L. B. Pearson Illustrate this Far Eastern question,

In

harming

in

Next week I hope to discuss and

Two dozen eggs for the man with the iron neck

named

Sawade had a pet tiger MARTIALO, circus performer, was

known in the ring as The Man Alexander. As a cub the tiger once nestled on Queen Alexandra's lab With the Iron Neck.

His favourite trick was to balance and tore the luce nuntilla she was

a pony trap on his head.

When a young man, Mr Frank Foster, rinigmaster. lived Martiale family.

238 pages. the same inexorable force, Vatory about being a simple con- VER and over, Jill hind told the

-a varuely defined chain of coun- vent girl and the other one about

Irles across North und Western the wicked employer, and

of the Europe will damage the interests she

tired WD3

of the Commonwealth and effective- whole thing."

the relics of

the Jill had to tell some 1 wipe away story.

The customers preference system inaugurated at expected it. You cannot Ottawa to help the Empire recover become

from a previous economic crisis. English

The London Gov

Government's casu (more

Anglo- exactly. Indian) prostitute in that Britain can accept all the

the Marshall

Plan Shangha! without offer obligations

Industries ing some explanation to the publle. without the salat's Jifi had several. This book, how-British countries across the seas- experts have In fact, the British attention auch matters as the true ever, gives the true one.

briefed their principals to maintain reason for the dislike of the Ro

that Western Union In a positive advantage to all British flag coun- tries. The

argument is that within role of foreseeable period the

relation to Europe will Britain in

The form of a large proportion in the

this twe dozen fresh eggs cracked into equipment, and that capital European demand will always bowl, mixed with melted butter, made into an vinaletté, and aten excred the supply. That,

they with a spoon and hunks of bread and maintain, would still leave

room butter." for the products of new industries in the British Empire to sell England, or Indeed in Europe.

the

fact that

Those who do not care to spend mans for the early Christians, and time dwelling, in imagination, in a

Columbus was

an bordello are hereby warned off Misa Italian Jew. On the first point St. Ju Out of bounds!. Off limits! Peter is certainly better informel

matter of taste, Al- It is all than Van Loon. As for the second, though, in fact, the bordello is the was supposed to be the aim of all the girls who came to the China Coast by that direct route known

the Oldest Profession." J's stury is told with

A

with

wearing.

"I am never afraid when in the the cage,

sald Sawade.

must believe in my own willpower against that of my animals."

In "Pink Coat, Spangles und Sawdust" (Stanley Paul. 21s.). just published. Foster tells us:

"Fritzi, Martialo's wife, à Vien- nese, prepared the breakfast,

A gorilla named John Daniels was shown free for the first time

nt

a circus at Olympla in 1924. It picked up a

12 months

old

an

baby, and the panic-stricken parents 日 The baby

he, will not care very much since highest class. "To work nt Annette's still be to supply Industrial exports.normous meal, always the same watched powericss

he is not running for President of the United States.

4,5

busi-

been

Circus freaks he met included inRoss, The Mechanical Man,

He was garbed and painted to Jook like a toy soldier, with an in- ricate switchboard of knobs and dials on his back.

ledled the gorilla's nose. Returned the baby

After ten minutes John Daniels returned the baby to the trainer un- harmed.

to

01 the trainers Mr Foster has this

"Trainers who have met with accidents or miraculous свепрез never blame the animal,”

A heart-broken trainer who કમર

St. Peter will be presented with a sort of sketch map of the Van nesslike absence of horror, prurience Loon antipathies, A healthy nud and sobs. She is the lazy, weakly- Juxuriant collection, including an immoral, pleasant ex-mistress of a ungrateful dislike for the doctrines Japanese nobleman. She is the sort

ARGUED HARD of John Calvin and the plays of of heroine of whom publishers say

That is the overall pleture. The William Shakespeare, n distaste for on the jacket that she has a natural

opinion that innocence."

not the firm

You need Jesults and

take details have

orgued hard. Southern Rhodesia, for instance, isPractical jokers "pressure groups" are a major - that remark too seriously. fluence for evil in thin sorrowful Her childish prettiness appeals represented by Sir Godfrey Huggins

People were invited to touch him to the

who arent this Imperial Conference and his Chinese bankers. world.

main point is

be or strike a match before his of Annette's They

understood to

eyes. And he will also gather that, in the mainstay

Practical Jokers stuck pins In'o him. needs

In

capital that Euro

European considered Van

Loon's

opinion, send her to business colleges. Her

particularly agricultural equipment,

Ross neyer blinked. facie case frall beauty alu aypeals to a Hun-

But, ss ho there is a good prima

to Europe machinery and mining machinery recovered from his ordeal' behind to kill him." pearly garian count. He bolts for admitting him at the

and marries on the money Jill has should not be allowed to side down the scenes, he would say: "Gosh. wicket. This nobody will dispute.

a second level of

they gave me a tough time today But of the actual life upon our carned. The only time she is real-

coming first

Sawade, wild beast American Europe

trainer for globe of this amiably cantankerous ly hurt is Dutch-American,

eleventh- develops an

The United Kingdom answer to unhappily journalist

the 40 years, held that tigers were ut loyally for his wife. dead, there is not enough for St. hour at

this kind of complaint from over-most intelligent animals to train. When war comes to the Fur East. seas is all-knowing and confident. Peter or less exalted readers,

But the lion was jealous of the

WAS The polar bear Van Loon

in Rotter- Jill, as you might suppose is better The British Board of Trudo is often uger.

too was born

an amateur able to deal with it than most inclined to dam, his father was

tell the official Com-indolent to share in the intrigues of were never seen again. monwealth representatives that the either. Areman. the famliy was Voltairean European women.

now

when

LE

to

11

Workington. priority

his son mauled to death by a bear, when asked if t should be destroyed, replied:

"Of course nol It accident.

The beast did not mean

Circus folk recall On unusual tragedy at

A new groom who was riding one of four

to horses sen-bathing was unable tur them towards the share.

The

horses continued to swim out to sea, and groom and horses,

was

an

B. D.

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