1949-02-26 — Page 4

You're 21 Today

-so what!

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WHAT is there so magic in twee 21, and men begin to go

the Cist

that the moment you reach it you are wise enough to vote- or marry against your parents' wishes?

Umes 21.

Every doctor I have ever talked A complete bunk.

toys thi It is certainly true that many cells

In the body do renew themselves, but not in seven-year cyeles:

Today, for instance, if you are 21 years old and live in one

Some of the white cells In the of the 500 areas in Britain to renew themselves every day, "where there is a district coun- uthers every three or four days. The cil you can ansert your de- red cells live for about four months. mocratic rights by going to the Finger halls chonite completely every polla and voting in the focal months. The cells of your brain elections.

If you haven't come of age you can't, and the thing that interests me about this is why the law picks on 21.

One night at 11,59 pan. you are an Infort and cannot sell land. buy o house, or drive a loco- molive on the railway.

Then the clock striken 12, and miraculously you are old enough to do all these things, and niso to became a doctor, a law- yer, an apothecary, or t member of Parlament.

urs before this

Throz'yeur

vital midnight an infant is grown enough la be conscriptel into t

ог

Army, sent to Dartmoor, banged for murder. can marry, but he can't be sued for breach of promise. He can have children. init he can't adopt them.

If he is in uniform be can career about In il

by

not replaced at all. You arc born with them, and, barring acci- dents, they stay with you Will you die.

Your heart is made of muscle, and

you have the same ceils in it that 14. or 21 years ago. All they hayo done is to change their

Fest hind seven,

BERNARD

£

WICKSTEED

CEASEFITEDITORTONATRAINERATTLAS

Churchill tank or lly a four-engined" bomber. But he can't get a leence to drive a navy lorry on the roads of England. He can open up a buste ness, but he can't bring an action in the courie lo protect it. At least not

in his own name.

The run'appoint à mounger but not an agent. He can go bankrupt on his own petition, bat force him ter der 1.

גז!

No change

James

Walth

alze a bit. Here is un- other fury thing about

coming of age. By law

you stop being an infant and become an adult the are 21. day before you

If your twenty first birthday is tomorrow you to vote are old enough,

Today!

Anyone who happened.

to be hurn one minute before maknight can be

Apothecary or 47 Jorntnotive

fin come drive il

ekh 69 minutes hours before he is really 21.

The unluckiest people are those born in a leap year They take n doy longer than anyone else to grow up.

only age Twenty-one lan't about which the new seems old. Anyone over 10 can be fined er sent to pani for ill-treating some- there might one warler 10 thuth

the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1949...

ECIAL

REGISTER

INCES

OFFICE BIRTHS-MARRIAGE)

"Those sox talks in schools have started something-here are more of 'em want to get married."

C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

SQUARING THE MALE

NEW YORK.

THE New Look for the poor American malo

about to be unveiled.

Advertisements any that 1049 styles will make him look bolder, taller, more colourful, more natural, sleeker, and more comfortable, all at the samo time.

According to the previews I have seen they will make him look like a spiv,

All the emphasis is on colour, "We are- going to put women in their place at last," one designer told me.

There will be plenty of pastel shades, capecially for slacks, and burgundy and royal blue instead of the traditional greys and browns. And, for the daring, even yellow.

The lounge suit is radically changed in design. Coats will have squaro shoulders and they will not fit so snugly. They will be at least an inch longer to give that tall look.

Mindszenty's 'Guilty' Was False

the ease

N Dec. 27, 1948, an exas- generally did not venture to arrest

Only [

of perated Hungarian them.

Mindszenty did they feel compelled the government ordered

to risk antagonising Christian opinion man who refused by arresting him and arrest of 11

imprisoning to be - silent-Cardinul Joseph him. Mindszenty,

Fact number two 1 that In

The "evidence" against him recognition of his anti-Nazi activity was introduced in the Budapest during the war Mindszenty was un-

awarded an estate animously

of blt People's Court, and I wish to 500 neres by u Commission which

assert of my own knowledge included four Communists,

among that it is spurious in at least them Matyas Rakost, the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party one important regard. Joseph and Laslow Rajk.

present Cardinal Mindszenty was not Minister of Foreign Affairs. anti-Semitic as he has alleged-

be only two days" difference in their anes,

five mustn't A child under alven raholle liquor.

You

No one under 14 is allowed public-house be or to see a

" Horror). marked

sparettes to anyone may not ! who apenes to be unter 16.

You can't go to a pawnbroker til THERE might be logic in all this

14 and you mustn't sell you are some profound change cane over a fellow at 21 that enabled him metal to a rag and bone man till you

to perform hitherto imposesible feats

16.

But you re old enough to 150 like putting a cross on a ballet formal ulty in court at right, pay or changing drar in a lorry.

the full fare on to bus at H. leave ghool at 15, marry at 16, and get yourself directed by the Ministry of Labour at 18.

But deetors say nothing of this kind happ 155, The age of 21 marks no particular stage of development. either physical be mental.

AL 18 when members et the Royal Family come of aste there is much 4 stage. Growth definitely starts to slow up, though it doesn't finally stop til 22 or 23.

Bishop at thirty LAVEN when you are 21 there are still some things you mustn't do. You can't become a deacon in the Church of England if you are 22, Your brain gets no bigger after Catholic priest 11 you are 24. a 14. Nor do your eyeballs. Your bishop till you the 30, or President arteries start hardening at 25. and of the United States

you are wisdom teeth can appear any time 35, between 1 and 25,

£11

"After that, life is fairly straight- The truth is that the magient pro forward up to the age of 60, when perties of 21 wre nothing more than you en't draw the old nge pension myth based on an old Greek be- unhas you are a woma, and not let that the xly completely re always then. newed it if every seven years.

About the only thing in the world

l just when You

A lot of people believe this still, that you cur and go even further than the Grocks happen to feel like it is le dawn went. They may women stop having anil de, Hoth lawyers and doctors children in their forties because 42 agres um that.

Twice-the-man guinea-pigs

clothes

help Navy's

to work at 20 below

.

ARCTIC BOYS GET

SWEETS ON TICK'

BY FRANK GO LDSWORTHY

ly confessed. Of that I have overwhelming proof--and if his "confession" is false in that re- can the world be- gard, what lieve of the strange drama that has been enacted in Hungary?

The government, headed by Premier Istvan Dobi, a Com- munist wearing the label of the Small-Holders Party, tried to reason with the Cardinal before ↑ arresting him. If only he would limit himself to ecclesins- tical matters and stay out of polities, he was told, he would he left alone.

too But Mindszenty had many years experience fighting the Nazi terror in Hungary to retreat in his fight with the -Communists.

Here is testimony bearing on the authenticity-or lack of it of the "confession" of Car- dinal Mindszenty in Hungary.

pen of

refugee

that wants

on at

It comes from the prominent Hungarian who

the work

world to know at least one Important point, the alleged confession of Mindszenty Is spurious. Dr Bela Fablia was a member of the Hungarian Parliament for 17 years, was president of the Hungarian Independent Demo- cratic Party, a prisoner of war In Russia In World War L Imprisoned under the dictator- ship of Bela Kun and was fnur Nazi concentration camps

in World War IL

1

By DR BELA FABIAN

ghettoes. Mindszenty, by now Archbishop of Veszprem, ostenta- visit to the ghetto lously paid a and Inter, In a pastoral letter, con- demned the Inhumanity of the quis- ling Hungarian government,

Trousers will be floppy. And, in sports clothes, what the trade calin the personalised Jacket, will make Its first appearance. It will carry a monogram over the breast pocket.

AT THE

SAME TIME. the

American man will be under pressure to go back to wearing hats.. Danbury, a small Connecticut town which makes its living from hat- making, is campaigning in Holly- wood to persuade stars to wear hats

And in public.

as a local gesture Danbury merchants have signed a pledge to serve no man who is hallers,

PENNSYLVANIA (here is a lucky town. Perryopolis (pop. 1,400). Left £350,000 by a former resident, it could not decide how to spend the money and imnounced that it would hire a planner to give

because it is against God and be- cause it

Is anti-Christian, then I must ask you to lock me up, too."

The officer became frightened and begged Mindszenty to leave. He did Inter obtain the release or his advice.

Int

the autumn of 1944, after the AND IN FLORIDA there is another lucky town, Palm Beach. This Arrow Cross. took power in Hun-winter

millionaires playground of gary, the police coifducted a man- got permission from Washington to hunt for Bola Varga, vice-president nbandon rent control. The reason: of the Small-Holders Party,

There are no under-privileged, no social problems, no low-priced hous-

After I escaped from Imprison- Sulyok. ment in Auschwitz years later, I ran Into one of my fellow-deputies, Dezso Sulyok. He related to me that after he had been thrown into a concentration camp for anti-Nazi activities, Mindszenty made a long trip to the camp to obtain his re- lense. The officer in charge sug- tested that

Mindszenty telephone the pro-Nazi Minister of the In- terior, Andrew Jaross Mindszenty refused to den directly with any member of the government.

"Then I do not know what I can do," said the police officer.

Mindszenty answered: "If you in- sist on throwing into prison nil those who despise the Argow Cross

When Mindszenty discovereding, no slums." Vorga's hiding place, he sent his own

him, Varka RECENT GUESTS at the Maryland

archdiocesan car for

the

Washington

from

went to Budapest where he once

of Howard Bruce, the ngalo went into hiding. The in-

official who recently fluence of Mindszenty, together with accused Britain of making a prošit re-selling Marshall ald President ntluminium. Intervention <

report flint

has Roosevelt and King Gustav

of acquired a new set of water goblets.* Sweden. was largely responsible for They are made of aluminium. the fact that 60 percent of Buda- pest's Jews survived the war.

WAS IT

T

How did the trial compare with a trial in a court?

ot

TORTURE?

By PETER BURCHETT

Correspondents sat only ten feet

he

In the court he saw his world

the loss of his wealth and estates since the war's end.

British away from the prisoners and about falling about him, as he described

30 feet from the judges. Every word enuld be heard and every ges- lure seen.

It was in 1935 that the name Joseph Mindszenty, then a vicar from the town of Zalaegerszeg in southern Hungary,

firat became prominent throughout the country. Disturbed by certain anti-Jewish First of all the People's Court has Hungarian court Cross the native

practice-which 14 widely used in Europe-uf taking all the evidence from the prisoners while in gaol.

THE last remaining powerful leaflets which had heen distributed

Agure east of the Iron Cur by the "Arrow

Nuzl tain to oppose Soviet totalita- Nazi party he called a meeting of

the country officials In deflance rinnisma, he insisted on speaking the opposition of the local Prefect, out openly for its principles. Count Bein Teleki, who later be- And, to the embarrassment of came Premier under the Nazis. the government, the people made a stirring speech agalust anti- Semitism which received wide listened to him. Finally, after publicity throughout the country. a long campaign of vilification From then on, the Arrow Cross against him, he was arrested on tade him its principal target. He

became the spiritual leader of trumped-up charges,

Ilungarian anti-Nazi movement.

adopted the traditional

Austro-

ANSWER: People's Court pro- cedere, both in-effect and appear---Translators were provided by the But in his mind the prince still- ance, IK disquieting 10 anyone Hungarian Foreign Oflee for those lives in the days of the accustomed to British Justice,

who wanted them,

Hungarian Empire. When one of My Interpreter was a woman, She

bis administrators was asking why whispered The Translation Into he had smuggled cheques abroad English of every word us it was he replied: "We did not send them spoken.

abroad. We sent them to Austria." A copy of the court record available at the hearing.

This evidence is then merely read out in court, although it can, of course, be challenged by the prisoners.

There must always be a suspicion that the the

evidener wES originally extmeled by third-degree methods.

There is traditional method of getting information from prisoners-- the same system was used by the police of the Habsburg empire, by The police of Admiral Horthy's die- and by the Hungarian taturship. secret police who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.

Among the many fantastie charges brought against Car 1940 at

I first met Joseph Mindszenty in inceling 131 Budapest dinal Mindszenty during his which I attended as the leader ut trial was the charge that he the Opposition of Pest Prefecture. had personally sponsored anti- Semitic propaganda prior to World War II. To this necusa tion Cardinal Mindszenty plead

the strangely work explanation that he had done so beenuse "it was the spirit of the times."

-who sailed from Londonderry aboard the 1000-toned guilty with friyath Loch Arkaig, smallest of the "Roflin Shipa" which will find out what naval warfare wordd be like in the Aretic. IF heavy clothing and good And half a ton chocolate and sweets food keep a man warm, this are "of the ratton" for the voyage. little ship will be cosy enough in the Arctic.

Because the ship's 27 boys, with only ve shillings a week pocket- money might not have enough.ensh to enjoy this feast, their 17-year-old mess caterer, Peter Littlefield, from Chigwell, Essex, has permission to over-draw, and settle. Inter.

The 150 officers and men of the Loch Arknig are

the "guinea-pigs" who will find how a standard North Atlantic es cort squares up to the Arctic in

Eight youngsters have asked leave February.

to grow their Arst beards, but old They will not Inck personal hands. wars them that they protection. This is my standard freeze in the spray extra issue:-

:

will

com-

lis appearance was deceptive, all ing to reveal the great energy and

te talked clearly and spiritual power which he possessed. resolutely, At the time

was concerned about the anti-Semitic activities of Count Teleki and discussed them with distressed Mindszenty. He was us about Teleki's behaviour as L.

On the matter of Cardinal Mindszenty and anti-Semitism,

Nuziy I feel particularly qualified to ATER, in 1941, when the

as a leader of L

overran Yugoslavia, Mindszenty, speak, because. the Hungarian Jewish

at that time Bishop of Zula, culled upon Hungarian Prime Minister munity and as a member of the Bardossy to try to prevent the mas- Hungarian Parliament for 17 mere of the, Jews, most of them of years, I personally was acquain- Hungarian origin, who lived across led with Cardinal Mindszenty dos answered by stating that he the border from his diocese. Har- and had occasion to discuss the had no means of intervening in the problem of anti-Semitism with affairs of the German Army. When him, I would be prepared to Mindszenty persisted, be retorted: FOUR QUESTIONS.. testify-if such a thing as a "You should concern yourself

free testimony Thirty-six-year-old Frank Evans,

were possible with matters of your diocese of seaboot stockings, dule coût who usually catches thej 7.50 nm.

before a Communist court- not with the foreign affairs of Hun- with fur-trimmed hood, seart! silk train from Shoreham, Sussex, to the

that far from supporting anti- gary." gloves, knitted gloves, duffle gloves, Admiralty Experimental Station at

Semitic propaganda Cardinal "It is sad enough," answered horse-hide

mittens, Reece-lined mit Havant, has left the comfort of his

Mindszenty was in the fore- Mindszenty, "that I, a vicar, have tens. Balaclava helmet, kapok design omce to answer these ques- padded outer sult (thick as a sleep- Uons:

front of the struggle against to remind the Prime Minister

his duties. My request support- ing bag), oilskin over-alls and hood,“

Nazisen and anti-Semitism, and ed not only by the Catholics Zala How will heating and ventilation that he more than once risked but by those of the entire country, fur-lined leather helmet; wind-proof ault and antiglare goggles,

his life to save Jowa from the Aretle conditions?

How much condensation will drip Nazis.

"Your worship is forgetting him Beit....' in stores and messes when ice is caked on deck?

String vest, two pairs of thick knitted panta.

knitted

cardigan, submarine-issue jersey, four pairs

Together they weigh 27. and they double my girth.

LEAVE TO GROW For inner warmth, the weekly ment Tation is up from 39oz. to 5002a. Most pilter foods are un- limited.

meant for Atlantic comfort work in

What damage will rust de below the ice crust?

How will the forward-throwing depth charge mortam-just off the Secret List-perform ot 20 below freezing?

Canteen manager Brian Milner, On the answers may depend the from Pudsey, Yorks, has enough strategy and tactics of an Arette eggs to give vach man ten a week. war.

and

of

was

end of each day's

DEFEAT

Prince Paul tried to shield his servants and to take full respoust- billes for what had been done in

his name.

Why did the

The dominating personality in the Cardinal, after denying the charges, in Barnnyal,

trial (urned out to be Professor Jus- ruddy-faced, grey- confess? Why did his whole hatred, with twinkling eyes. attitude change when he was brought to trial?

In his dual speech, which lasted more than an hour, he said he still ANSWER: According to the court, believed in the monarchy. He hud Mindszenty was confronted in prison expected a third

world war and with misses of documents and made his plans evidence that it would be dificult

accordingly. As to deny. He was left to brood on Econ tis "Anglo-American forces this. Then, at the last moment, he entered Hungary and overthrew the was visited, by Archbishop Czapik, present Government” he was ready Teams of questioners work hour who was a bishop while Mindszenty to create a new one, after hour, day and night. When was still a parish priest. the victim sinks forward in a steep? stupor bright lights are Bushed on

The archbishop, it was sald In

to his eyes. After a few days of court, told Mindszenty that the this treatment, it is easy to imagine his breaking down,

The trial does

Bench of Hungarian Bishops could not support him in his deliance. They had decided to await the out- not start until come of the trial.

have been

DEFENCE

were the prisoners

How defended?

ANSWER: All the prisoners chose statements of guit

their own lawyers with the excep- secured. In contrast to the British He had 35 days and nights in tion of the Cardinal's secretary, inethod, the State prosecutes only prison.

One after another, persona- Andras Zakar, who was appointed those whom it has already decided titles of the Government and the one by the State. are guilty.

Church called on him. It may have been suggested to him that Europe account for the monotonous Churcli than defiance.

people in Central diplomacy would win mare for the plens of "Guilty."

This is how

The lawyers chosen were not the best available.. Few of the most prominent lawyere in Hungary wish- ed to be Identlled with the defence His appearance in court was of the Cardinal and his associates. The People's Court in Budapest somibre and morose.

per- It depended partly on the was composed of one. professional

While other Judge, Dr Vilmos Olti, and four re-

prisoners talked sonal courage of the defence lawyers presentatives of the political parties together, the Cardinal stood alone, how far they went in combating the and the trades unions. Two of these silent and brooding. If he did not present charges. men were Communists.

look like man who had been tor- Some of the

Judges could well lured or drugged, he did look like instance, sald his case was difficult have been labourers an the prince's one who had been defeated. estates a fow years ago. Now they

COMPOSURE accused Prince Paul Esterhazy of planning to restore the monarchy and to revive the Austro-Hungarian 4 How Empire so as to embrace all Catholic innds from Bavarin and Austria to Poland and Rumaala.

TRICKERY?

"No, I am not forgetting any- thing, Mr Prime Minister. I have HERE are two historic facts which seen prime ministers leave this

the prosecutors of Mindszenty palace dead as well as alive. I shall 2 Was the Press hoodwink

ed at the trial?

were compelled to suppress in order still be a vlear when the nation has to make their caso against him. condemned. you to your fate."

While there were many Catholic

ANSWER: It there was any trie- Bishops who were convinced anti- The Nazis occupied Hungary in kery by the Hungarian Government Nazis, the Nazis out of deference to the spring of 1944, and the Jews it was done long before the prisoners public opinion in Catholic counteles were immediately horded into entered the court.

Cardinal Mindszenty's lawyer, for

In view of his client'a surprising admission of guill.

Baranyal's

lawyer scored his

Counsel for Prince Paul Esterhazy did the other and Professor Baranyai, on the prisoners look?

other hand, made speeches which would have done them credit In ANSWER: On the evidence of ap- any court. pearance, speech, agility of mind, and ability to express themselves,

that one must say that the prisoners, at shrewdest hit when he sold

in theological professors could not be out during the appearance court, seemed in a normal stato of expected to keep up to date with the mind.

comiont changes in Hungarian laws. In 1948 prosecution could only fot- Prince Paul Esterhazy showed the low the crime. Today "the danger dignity and composure expected of of an intention to commit a crime" the head of one of Europe's gronlost was enough to drag a man before families.

the courts.