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FROM HERE AND THERE :

The Men Who Broke

The Bank.

CANNES: Three Englishmen have broken the bank They at Cannes casino by winning 60 million' France. were playing Tout Va, that_is_baccarat for unlimited stakes and the bank was held by two brothers from Paris named. Blun. Following their success at Cannes, the threg Englishmen tried their luck at Nice, and at the Palais de la Mediterrance on the Promenade des Anglais they won another 12 million francs. This is the biggest gambling win on the Riviera since before the

war.

a 22-inch tube ntiachable,, to the TIT FOR TAT

You put toothpaste NEW YORK. Making the most of wash-basin fap.

in the nozzle, turn. on the water, California's freak cold spell, Florida,

loading and squirt the mouth thoroughly. California's chief rival, is

MEDICAL DISCOVERY the country with pictures of zeml

TORONTO: An artificial kidney nudes enjoying their balmy 80 climate. Back came Hollywood with ha been built in

a hospital at playing London, Ontario, by J.

Van pictures of a bathing girl with snow. What "Hollywood did Noordwijk, a young Dutch scientist

which sunshine nol reveal-the

studjo made her smile came from

·lights.

THE BRAVES' NEW WORLD

OTTAWA: Canada's

Wonder n research grant in

on

the

University, Ontario. Based

invention of Dr

Kolt!

In

of Kampen, Holland, who worked northland hiding from the Nazis, it Red Indians, once noted for their of 45 yards of cellophane

and stamina

Gize,

are wound round an aluminium drum. trength,

because they The drum rotates in a salt solution. shrinking Kradually have abondoned the eating habits of If the patient's kidneys fall, blood their forefathers and adopted inden with impurities entera ond semi-civilised, semi-native diet lack end of the tube from the patient's ing essential food vnlues.

The forearm artery, traverses the tubing, white man who is unintentionally responsible for the Indian's changed and the impurities pass through the cating habits is now trying to sal- pores of the cellophane into the blood emerging him solution,

characteristics

vage the red man by directing the niffleseness, indo- lence, improvidence and inertia, now regarded as hereditary traits of the Red Indian, are detantly the resalt 'He is of his inadequate diet. weakened and less able to resist In- fection.

ihu

aurified at the other end. It filters about eight quarts of blood hourly and when the patient's kidneys fall can take over for a few hours until they recover.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949.

STINGING REVERSE

DAB and Flounder --by Walter

London Shocks An American

M

R EDMUND WILSON, an a police state, An Englishman may American journalist, has say what he thinks without fear of written a disagreeable and being liquidated.

The social classes in England are mischievous book in Europe quite different race of beings, who Without Baedeker (Secker and speak different languages." We are now almost a classless society, and He Warburg, 158.).

hates

we have never been unintelligible Britain, and he seems to think to each other that any stick is good enough! to beat a dog.

..

"We have creaped being exploited We do not resent honest like Canada." Arka Canadian criticism, When Keyserling tells whether he is exploited by Great

us that wo are naturally, lazy know that it is true.

we were better

we Britain.

© American journalist Edmund Wilson found in London" flavour of Soviet Moscow," He has publiskad an attack on Englishman's rudeness, their antl-American feeling. matorialis anobbery. To-day his critlelams are shawerod by

and

Dr.W.R.INGE

We are

slow to realise that

But

The Americans like what they call a good,mixer, a hearty "fellow who clups a stranger on the back and begins to talk about his family and his affairs. We detest a good mixer, and ir he is a follow- countryman we no doubt try to establish an entente glaciale. · If he happens to be an American the ro- .sult is unfortunate.

But it is obvious that when a man visita a foreign country with no feelings except hatred and contempt : for its inhabitants," ho is not likely to have a very warm reception. Me Wilson seems to have been naively

When Napoleon tells us that wo "The American disinterested Amerlen Is no longer Anglo-Saxon, surprised at our want of cordiality. are a nation of shopkeepers, we wish idealism and carelessness about. There arp millions of hyphenated only that

shop- money" are contrasted by Mr Wilson Americans who have brought with keepers.

with the "desperate materialism" of them from their former homes the

world. vendettas of the old the English, I will leave it to men of business

who have dealt with our wish for brotherly relations is not unamicabic, and shouldot bo Americans to suggest some modifen- tion of this charming plelure.

"The 'exasperated antagonism of the English towards the American." This is absolutely untrus,

But in this book there is no honest criticism. The sort of thing Mr Wilson has to say can bo ulus- trated froin a few examples.

There is about London a flavour But another Moscow," of Soviet American visitor has said to us that we are the only people in Europe not who are not scared. We are

The Novels Take

A

UBLISHERS' latest

Knock

com-

The fact is that we are much more foreign to the Americans that they

US. Whitaker's

Drc

-10

*

scarned.

classes.

our

in Punch

Pplaint is that the inte of railway junctions, from sticket to which there is a clause in your let a manifestations of unfriendliness in But though our day as a Great

fiction is falling off. That is We have 0 their business. right to read what we like........

ns been out of favour for many fears.~*~

on

AND THIS IS WHAT_MR_WILSON_THINKS OF LONDONERS

"I HAD TO

TO GET

TOUGH

Amerlean friendship may, bộ n matter of life and death to us; it is not quite that for thom. And who must remember that in the days of

prosperity, when Palmerston Minister, wo-were-- fa- "The English have no manners, was Prime

Wilson. A German, Von sufferably arrogant. (We may hope Boys Mr Stutterheim, judges rather different that fow Americans have seen the during the There is no anti-American feeling in England. There is no Englishman ly. in his book, Those English, he cartoons

foreigner is in a per- sixules). But we have had the stuff- wrote: "Tho who does not think that a war be-petual state of wonder at English ing knocked out of us now. tween the two

ali countries would be politeness, which is found in

"The English are mentioned in the an unthinkable crime.

London is incomparably more pollie as a city than Faris. Ils Bible," said Mark Twain, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit sincera than courtesy is far more that of Rome, and more

the earth.” Now we do not expect natural

to

the Inherit

earth: we only than the

somewhat regimented Almanack divides the world into the politeness of Berlin.....This every waving in our corner of Europe.

want to keep the flag of freedom British Commonwealth, the United day courtesy is perhaps the purest States, and foreign nations. An

There are only two Great Powers American who wanted a house in expression of English kindliness and

as such ranks higher than mere con- how, Russia and the United States. London said to the agent, This

vention."

There can be no doubt to which house would suit me very well. But lambent, fancy-from tin coldiers to I see lease

the group wo belong. : Wo

surprised, at are often

the common cold.

foreigner." That does not apply to Americans of which Mr Wilson's Power may be over, we have been, Listening by the reside to his you, sir."

book is blatant example.

are, and will be a great nation: 1 affable and mellow voice discoursing

the happier

Ride

e of life, I some TALE OF A CAT

If only as a change from standar- times fidgeted to get a word in a word of protest, CAPETOWN:

dised fiction and gälvanised fact, I edgeways—not A tortoiseshell

"Thank you." I kitten belonging the South Welcome the return of the essay. It but of gratitude.

10

would have said. "You managed to African frigate Transvaal turned the

write that piece without single Simonstown Royal Naval base up-

allusion Dlukens," But I was too

Only in more nggravated cases sido

When the kitten

I had never before fully grasped bo- side down, came ill Lieut C.

Thompson J.

polite to interrupt.

what was meant by "Brilisir rude do you resort to moral indignation. picked it up to take to

to the

ness." What we consider rudeness If the Americans expect loans to be slck buy On the way it apparently went mad,

A traveller's tales

hit the Bleutenant,

England is something Shylock;" if the Irish are becoming and died. The

FREYA Stark, the travel writer, WAS surprised in London and good breeding 1 pond in tie

to hear a good deal of bitter you exhibit by snubbing and scoring importunate you raise a hue and takes time off from Persin kitten was thrown into the harbour

ground cry against Parnell on the every of people. Arabin to offer us in "PERSEUS IN criticism of practically but afterwards robles Was waters,

Lieut.

THE WIND" (Murray, 12. fd.) her thing connected with America.

that he has committed adultery, connected This is closely Thompson was suspected

reflections on death, memary, love, sent to a shore hospital and a naval

I did not actually talk with their class system, and it is partly a HUMBLE DECENCY diver went down into the harbour

sorrow, old

Inferior In America external crudendas other subjects which are not readily people who believed though I heard question of accent, vocabulary and to look for the kitten. He brought

responsive are not readily that the legend was current-that general style, which your

the urbane touch.

acquire.

usually up a cat but it was the wrong one,

American cannot

Koca with a lowness of the long legs of the be daunted. Hers is a book women were due to the prevalenco

For all that with other peoples is motive. But In England it is most- and he went down again 43 the You must make me to read of surprises. Come to on essay on of Negro blood; but I met several understood by pollioness or courtesy ly with the humble that the straight- whole shore establishment lined the ESSAYS. POEMS AND TALES.”

and decency reside. Words

yourself well-educated persons who had ideas they have a special word civility. forwardness the proceedings by H. W. Novinson (Gollancz,

To say that a person is civil is The Norwegian captain of our ship quays to cheer

kitten 188.), Eventually the tortoiseshell

was warned by selection from the work of fascinated by an neecunt of silk-almost as fantastic. was brought up and sent off

worms. Brace yourself to tackle

usually patronising; to complain of told us that he for the famous war correspondent and

someone's Incivility usually means other Norwegians that everybody examination.

cheat him with the But Lleut Thomp scholar who died eight years ago at the one on Happiness and you are REVENGE ON BRITAIN

transported to a fruit orchard in

that a vulgar person has made him- would try self offensive by breaking the rules single exception of the English. I san was given the full course of 14 the splendid age of 85.

Canada.

With the more offensive I took a painful anti-rables Injections before

would retort that and not accepting the inferior post- am sure that this was quite true of fougher Une, I it was established that the in

came to contact; but it is certain- American soldiers who had commit- tlon to which you have tried to the English with whom the captain ted misdemeanours In England were assign him.

ly not be of the people who make“, had not got rablesi Thompson's discharge 15

obnoxious revenge for the

have invented and and carry out British policy or in The English British propagandists who had been perfected methods for warding of the higher reaches of British busi- under nature of illness, "cat blic."

rat rebuttal I got was an sent over to put pressure on us. The inconvenient questions; a favourite neas.

device is the False Issue.

I was surprised by the class feel- turbed retort that in general the If you do not wait to stand by ing in the British Army. diplomatists and agents who were the Poles you make fun of them for The whole technique of the sent to New York and Washington their effervescence, thus implying Englishman in dealing with the men were not out of the top drawer, that they are quite irresponsible; it in his command is a tradional part

did not come up to when a man

Gandhi is becoming too powerful of his system. Whether he is him- scratch he was usually assigned to you are amusing about his loincloth self an insolent or an amiable man,

and goat.

his tone assumes class superiority,

NUMBER PLEASE TORONTO: People of Brantford, Ontario, where Alexander Grahan Bell invented the telephone in 1874, are not completely pleased by the announcement that the town's ex- change at long last is going automa- like tle. It means that families that of Dr R. W. Digby (Brantford 233) have got lo give up the num- bers they have had since 1830.

TASTY DISHES

NEW YORK: Mr Fred Fredericks, the man who makes the American woman's most fantastic-most ex-

deplores pensive hata.

quito naturally the hatless woman, or her he said: "It's like ham without eggs. The woman puts on a hat and pp, she becomes appetising.".

CUT OFF CAPETOWN; A message Brazzaville states that Africanis

from

the Eastern Belgian Congo have eat down newly-erected telephone wires to make copper bangles. Shanguku is now off the telephone circuit bo- cause of this.

On

Readers had be- come restive; they writer expected n. in get cracking without a lot of meditation, digression. whimsicality. This seemed a pity. What as W. H. Davies

Books- of the Day by

DANIEL GEORGE

almost said, what is this life if it's 10 messy we have no time to read

in essay?

д

It is a book of literature about kitten life. Whether he mentions Meredith Lieut.

Arst or Montale, describes the marked, flight across the Channel or "cover" the Messina earthquake. Nevin- son always has his prose under con-

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE NEW YORK: Seven teenagers asked in a magazine poll to identify

DEATH TO BRISTLES NEW YORK: The toothbrush, a group of public figures scored 95 never fully endorsed by America's percent correct on Bing Crosby and Truman. fussy dentista, may soon be doomed. 93 percent on President

correctly An American dentist, Charles Hyser, But 07 percent of them has inventod what his

comic colleagues Identified Dick Tracy, the call the perfect tooth cleaner. It is strip detective.

trol and his reader under his apeli. Salute him

Don't

and you

And

or

Who are they? THESE are real, solid, interesting, THE

and not uninspiring essays. Each is preceded by a little anthology of the only complaint I have to make impresalve quotations, about which is that the contributing authors

Two living casayists must now be sometimes look unfamiliar,

saluted. Here's Bernard Dar- win with "EVERY IDLE DREAM" (Collins, 12s. 6d.) dispensing know ledge, humour, and mature wisdom on whatever catches hls alert and

Who are W. Yeats, William Hen- ley, and George Trevelyan? They are almost as unrecognisable as, say, Herbert Wells, George Shaw, or F. Stark.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"OHOH! WHAT ARE YOU-

•GOIN' TO. DOP"

[

#

WELL, SO LONG

I FRED. BE GOOD!

DON'T GO ANY-

-WHERE I

WOULDN'T

| GO!"

MA

HA

HA!

学

"SEE YOU AT

THE DANCE

TONIGHT!"

our

QUOTES from Edmund Wilson's book-

the States,*

unper-

with

copald you denounce them up "Uncle

C

Hospital Notes""

Bu KEMPSTAR RETT

OK, DON'T LET THEM, GIVE YOU THAT STUFF... A FRIEND OF MINE

SAYS IT ALMOST /

KILLED HER? AND LOTS OF

DOCTORS ARE

RECKLESS

WITH IT

*

THE LION-HEARTED SPARTAN WHO BECOMES A TWITTERING MOUSE WHEN HE SEES THE NEEDLE APPROACHING. “A

THE SEMI-PRIVATE ROOM: ONE

·WANT THE WINDOW OPEN, THE OTHER WANTS IT CLOSED, ONE YANIS THE RADIO OB- THE OHER DOESN'T.

MY STOMACH! MY

HART

LIVER

BOTH "THANKS TO

BARBARA ANI SHAMARIZ

Ti

TIROAT.

THE VISITOR. WHO CONSOLES YOU WIT THE HORRORS OF CERTAIN DRUGS... THE FALLIBILITY OF DOCTORS. •AND THE SUFFERINGS OF HER FRIENDS WHO HAD THE SAME TROUBLE. YOU HAVE. "Ledger Syndicate

THE HUMOROUS FRIENDS WHO DEPARTING (AT LAST) GIVE YOU SOME VERY COMICAL ADVICE.... FUNNY

AS A CASE OF SMALLPOX.

"OIL YOU POOR DEAR?

YOU LOOK

AWFUL

FIRE LAD WHO DRINKS SOKETING HOT JUST BEFORE ITS TIME TO TAKE HIS TEMPERATURE.

THE CHEERER-UPPERS WHO REGALE, YOU WITH TALES OF THEIR CMA CUFFERINGS.

SYMPATHETIC ASAM LOẢN-SHARK.........

THE ONES WHO BRING YOU FRUIT..

AND THEN EAT IT FOR YOU,