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FRENCH FRIENDSHIP STAMP SAYS THANK-YOU

American tourists bring dollaru

Franco

A Franco Bay Thank

Jou" with a vivid stamp of unusual design.

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The red-white-blue flags of both nation are shown shields, Unked by an alr Uner," A ship, and a whirl of stream-! er. Underneath are the words: "French-American Friendship."

This stamp may, start a new fashion in "two-nation", de- Signs: one symbolising Fradise's alliance-with Britmimi i mirea dy under consideration.

with Britain, is already under consideration

13.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949.

I CHOOSE GEORGE ORWELL

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. By George Orwell Secker and Warburg. 10, 312 pages.

Here is the most important book published since the war;

ORWELL'S novel is, in some respects, the most im- a love story in the London of 1984-a London that has

portant book published since the war.

----- By-

It will arcuse a storm of controversy. Many people are going to hate ita message. But they will hate the book only because as a novel, as a story, its Impact has such power, violence and lucidity.

become a planners' 'nightmare.

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

personal thoughts-what could discipline of

Nineteen Eighty-Four in a story of a possible future which convinces and appals; and of Face valus: 25 francs (abosit -8d.). Perforallon: 13 by

love, danger and terror, laying its clutch on the mind from the be -{London Express Service).

firal' page and tightening the grip, the suspense, relentlessly until the climax.

FROM HERE AND THERE:

Scotch Holds Its Own At Macy's

throughout America this sum- ..mer to permade people to ent something with which they first

familar during became

war-Spam,

the

Sweet dreams

Sporting world

be

To call it a thriller would

the simple

truth--but would disparage its intellectual

power.

To call it n fantasy would bo to overlook the fact that the roots of this Imagined future are firmly laid in pre- sent realities.

This soaring, dreadful vision

believing come-

be more subversive! To confide thing you know to be false.. them to a diary-what could

The mutability of the past, moro sulcklat!

Parly lenders can, by de- Bnition, never make mistaken Freedom is slavery:

As they often do, it is therefore war is peace

necessary to mako suitable alterations in the records zo does not that predictions and events Julia, the give tuppence for ideologi- will coincide. cal revolt. Her idea is to con- form outwardly and cheat the Party on the aly, particularly in matters of sex-although sho

As

S for

Inside the Ministry of Love

wears the scarlet sash of the IN prosage of

Junior Anti-Sex Lengue.

perfcctly

war

defonded when jointly. possessed

is collectivism.

brilliant

the

OKWELL

He book fays its clutch on the mind from the first page. -

that

Thus did Roussenti pin his faith in the Noble Savara.

GEORGE ORWELL is a preu= |*- donum, his real name is Erie Blair. He is 45, was educated a

· Eton, tons in the Burma, colonial |

then became a writer. Has written many best-sellera== |}, among them Doion And Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Keep the Aspidistra | Flying. Animal Farm.

BROKEN IMAGES, By John Guest. Longmans, 10s. 6d. 231 pages.

THE thin

HE young oficer who kept Journot in Britain, Africa and Italy is a man of sensibility and courage, with a deep feeling for words, Ho the kind of frankness which sometimes degenerates Into

exhibitionism. Here does not.

has

11

His journal is an account of Winston cannot impressions, rather

atory of adventure.

than

·

analysts Goldstein – Orwell realise shown how the "abolition of Winston and Julia

well that their

privato property" means ad-

concentration of property in venture can have only one

fower hands than before. horror ending-in the cellars of the Wealth and privilege are most endure the rat. vast,

windowless skyscraper

They are no call it a satire would be which houses the

they In the end Winston sits in a Ministry of easily To

the impressions made on one Lo suggest Comething too

The cafe looking up at the well- who This Ainistry controis re Love.

has an alert mind, 1 genial; Savage Indignation the Thought Police (and the only secure basis for, oligarchy known image.

sharp eye and a ready sense motivates this soaring, dread Torturers)- the Ministry of

"Forty years

It had taken of humour. him to learn what and the Pence makes

kind of The older kind of Socialista anile was hidden beneath the read; glimpses of a

nim

A book mast delightful to Ministry of

Plenty portions had assumed that what was not dark maustache. O cruel, need- torment seen by one who was world in aut searcity,

hereditary could It is an essential part of the be permanent, not pausing to born, self-willed exile

les misunderstanding! O stub himself at a stage of rapid INGSOC dialectic that a word reflect that hereditary

from mental,

emotional, dc- breastst 1 the loving

Two gin- velopment. chall have two meanings, equal tocracies have been short- and opposito..

is most lived This

whereas adoptive or- scented tears trickled down the sides of bis nose, But it wES the Catholic all right, everything clearly brought out in the ganizations like Party slogans:

was all War is Peace; Church have, sometimes lasted right, the struggle was finished. Freedom is Slavery: Ignorance for thousands of years.

Ile had won the victory over Winston is not

himself. He loved Big Brother." given long to 'fudy The Book. Suddenly there happens what he always know must happen. The Thought Police Arrive,

aris-

NEW YORK: Scotch at health department. The habit is 21 Sa. 511⁄2d. held its own not a dangerous germ spreader, sold a department report, but over the counter of Macy's, a pleasant greeting, an agree the world's largest. depart- abla salutation, and a boon to

an mental health. of mankind." ment store, against American whisky selling for exactly 10s, a bottle less.

NEW YORK: Sleepless from Tersely Macy's explained

ateak enter weeks of sultry nights, Ameri-ful vision. why: "Will a

cans learned recently that they Nineteen Eighty-Four in, Brat take fish instead?"

buy an could

Bir-conditioned and foremost, a love

story. Back in favour

bed. They are equipped with a

Orwell has twisted two lives Drums and mattress with holes in it. An together, pitifully and WASHINGTON:

dica He trously.

has created a bugles played by a noisy crowd air-conditioning unit under the

bed tends up cool air. In sum-whole sinister soclely as back of 23 good-looking, high- stepping

tragedy. girla will parade mer and warm air in winter.

ground for the

scene is London, capital The ot Airstrip One

(formerly - NEW YORK: An airline Allen Britain), one of the member is Strength.

of the totalitarian repubile of anglers 1,030 miles to

trout Oceani

Laadon, a city of streams in the Colorado Rockies

blocks shabby each week-end. It freezes the vast ministries,

that the fisherman's of flats, smelling of bolled cab- the brown, rotting family can have a trout dinner page, and

the "proles" in New York the Sunday night slums in which

where

20 dwell, and

or 30

The scene shifts to the in- after he roturns.

rocket bombs fall every week in their rejection of the Party. terior of the Ministry of Love, nobody is pure

brilliant, whence they All round them must be fur- its lights

Ita walle tive allies. There is a free- glistening in white porcelain.

known masonry

the And there, once more, he meets which The two lovers are Winston Brotherhood

plots, O'Brien. endlessly frustrated but end- in the Ministry of lessly malignant, against Big Truth. For them love means Brother in obedience to Gold-

because they danger.

are stein, the eternal traitor. member of the Outer Party of INGSOC ("English Socia-

I only Winston could meet of thb Brotherhood) to discard one and bound

instance? Is he Rush for frocks

erotic passion as likely to con- O'Brien, for Alet

Winston senses a with their loyalty to Big a member? NEW YORK: Society girls are Brother,

all-wise, all bond between himself and this rushing into a dress shop just demanding titular head of the eminent official of the of Fifth-avenue to force £62

Parly. 103. on shop assistants for du-

His image of the black evening plicates frock worn by Princess Bar-them from garet.

NEW

No wings to flap

YORK: Britain can catch so share in America's Intest dis covery-the wingless chicken. 32-year-old Peter H. Bauman, veterinary salesman of Des Moines, Iowa, who has develop ed the oddities, said that he in willing to part with to start

some

in

breed the new Britain. Advantages of the chic kens without wings-they have much more white meat, they have larger drumsticks, and no high fences are needed to keep sald: them at home, Bauman "I really started this business when I was 20. One day I and saw a deformed chicken, the idea occ

occurred that it might be stronger

didn't because it

asked have wings to dap. I farmers to save their deformed chicks for me, and Anally I got a light Brahma rooster and a hen which had While Minorca Sust stubs for wings. I started breeding experiments, and Goon wingless chicks came out of the shells. Then it was a matter of patience and selectivity."

A montal fillip

got ILLINOIS: Kissing clean bill of health from Illinois

Lost city search

JOHANNESBURG: Southcome. African Air Force planes have left for North-East Cape Pro- vince to march for a lost gold workers

Smith and Julia, fellow

city. Chief clus is a Portuguese map of 1740 just found in Pre- toria Univerally, showing a city named Farun! in what is now desert.

From gaol to altar SAN DIEGO (Callfornia): A couple were married in the County gaol here by a clergy- man who had thared a cell with the bridegroom. The clergy

spent the week-end in gaol for assauiting his wife.

A man

the

the

looks down on

Believing what you know is false WINSTON

Party,

be

knows that and Julia fre not alone

מח

་

"They cannot stop us loving one another." So the two lovers had assured one another. How wrong they arei

the

In-

The land for which the bell tolle O ends, in grimmest irony, the love story of Winston Smith. The curtain falls upon "Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

and

LIBRAR

OST

JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT By John Endwick. Heinemann. 94 50 200 pages Paternoster. British posseulon in the Puethe, Betzed by Buastans from a sub- marina. Ita inhabitants, who have had previous American occupa

behar badly Lodwick broods over his preposterous people with sardonie paminn and a foun. tin of inventivo wit

clum,

•

FISHERMAN,

By

• THE BIG Lloyd C. Dougla 124. ad.; 459 DaÝCH An enormous public is going to read this novel

Fator Davte

now what they will say isteri

Against what, or whom, is this tremendous polemic aimed? med Petar Let me say Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain? It is not so simple as that.

K there iz any country where men say, "The batte for liberty has been won and need no longer be fought. We can now move forward more Important things-the planned economy, the welfare the servile state"-or whatever

is the fashionable name for that country, Orwell's bell tolla.

Is there

The smile beneath the moustache DEFORE

Ministry of

state, Inner Love is finished with them

they have betrayed one A glance passes. O'Brien asks other, not only to the Govern- the hoardings with bim to his fiat. He is one of ment but in their own hearts. thiversome slogan, "Big the Brotherhood. He passes When they have been returned

the outer Brother is Watching You." His to Winston a copy of Gold- broken, to

world, суса

Into every

home, stein's infamous attack on Big each- avoids the glance of the through the televisor sereen Brother "The Book" as it is other. which work both ways.

evasively called

O'Brien's aim, he explains, The love affair is a conscious Julla is bored, but Winston is not simply to prove to Win- act of rebellion. In Winston's devours it. The Book explains ston the error of his rebellion So Winston (and, I suspect, case, revolt began not long be- many things. The INGSOC against Big Brother. He wishes Orwell) is faithful to the old, fore Hate Week, when he de principle "doublethink" him to love Big Brother, And old illusion, the ultimate sen- cided to keep a diary. To have the ability, essential to party he has discovered the one mentality of Left intellectuals,

see

of

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

✔ MOU, CALL-THE- OFFICE...TELL 'IM I'M SICK...

00! 1%

BURNING UP...

"A CARAT AND A

HALF. WAIT 'TIL YOU SEE HI

a ray of hope in this unspeakably sinister pic- ture? Says Winston Smith." ~**If there is hope, it lles in the proles. They alone have re- mained human."

AN I SOCKED IT FOR THREE HUNDRED YARDS BOY, WHAT A DRIVE...FOURTEET FROM THE

CUP!

is not stood as The Hove.

•

*

MOUNTAIN TIME Dy Bernard Devoto. Lammond Bammond. 3 61 816 pages. A bad-tem pered, platn-spoken story of brilliant surgeon who. on an Impulse of self-distrust, throws up his career in a New York haR- pital and goes back to the moun

aine where he was born. Ал impressively honest

novel.

CROOKED HOUSE By Agatha Christio The Crime Club, as nd.. 192 pages. A defective story that is well up to the standard set by- the author's beat It is impos rible to drop it, and hard to pierca its fabric of mystification.

•

*

No. BHOVEL STREET tty - Mary Borden. Da ed.; 051 pares. Mrk. Pryde had not got round to the fact that war und üxation have changed, most thinge-ineluding the methods by whịch daughters Bro launched in society. Busan and Dinah bave their own ideas about Ho anyway, Suman's is to marry the young man from the pub next dock.

--(London Express Service)

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DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

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SMINKER

STAMP NOTES

THE

Turkish post offles an nounces the issuing of two new. postal tax stamps-the 50 kurus, ultramaring and 100k light deño-

red, and the

green and red. Both minations bear identical de- signs of a, symbolic broken plant. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Turkish": Red Crescent Society, the equival lent of our Red Cross.

PANAMA honours the bicen

tenary of the University of San Javier with two new stamps. The 2 centesimos is for regular postage and has a portrait of Father Javier, while the Sc., pictures the 'university building and will

be for air mail use.

HE Netherlands has issued a THE

set of semi postal stamps in pastel colours which feature the mode of lying in the Netherlands ini the summertime. The 2c. plus blue and orange, has a ter- race at a

a beach; Bc. plus 8.

blue and yellow, depicts hikers; 6c.

plus 4. green, shows campers; 10c. plus. ·Dy blue and yellow, pictures girl reaping, wheat, and 20c/ plus 6 has a sailing boat as Its motif.

.A

ITALY'S contribution to the

UniversalFastal Union will be a 50 lira, blue commemo- rative showing both hemi- spheres. A bl-motor plane, a. ship and a train, dopicting the modern uses for mail de- livery, complete the format.

Weak End of the Wee":-End”

BY KEMP STARRETT ·

A WEEKEND OU À GOOD, HOT BEACH AND SOME OF ́EM END UP THE COLOR OF A FIRE ENGINE AND HOTTER THAN A FORTY-DOLLAR JALOPY.

·AND I SAID TO HIM HOLY SHOKE I SAID, "WHAT'D Y'DUT IN

THAT COCKTAIL TATS

THEN

AL DRANK CIXMORE)

THE MONDAY MORNING TRAFFIC BOTTLE-NECK... WHILE THE GALS TALK OVER THE WEEK-END CONQUESTS, THE LADE THEIR GOLF AND FISHING TRIUMPHS. Ledger Syndicate

THE LAST MILE ...ALMOST HOME. WITH A BUSTED TENDER,

A TRAFFIC TICKET, A CHOICE CASE OF POISON IVY .....AND A 30 MILE DETOUR, TO REMEMBER.

THE GUEST ROOM

HE VISITATI

THE LAD VIO HAD SICH AVONDERFUL THE OVER THE WEEK-END

THAT HE IS HOW AS BISTED FAC A BALLCON

OR NEW YEARS

MORNING TRYING TO DIODE BIO MIGHT BE TIE MOST LIKELY SUBJECT TO PUT

CAN'T

GO DOWN

TO THE OFFICE LOOKING

LIKE THIS

THE MAN WHO SPENT THE WEEK-END IN AN ATTIC GUEST

ROOK

THE ONE WHO GOT SO

MUCH FREST AIR PHIC LINGO OVER THE

VEEK-BID THAT HES

Dizzy FROM THE

THE ONE WHO DEVOTED. THE VELKEND

TO STEERING

AND MORT

WAKE UP TIL

OR