FRUIT DROPS HELP THE SHANGRI-LA TALKS
By SYDNEY SMITH
palace, Potali
decided that Communist Chiinn's threats of
liberation justifled the despatch of ions to Britain, America, Nepal, India, and China.
GANGTOK, Sikkim. HE Tetan envoy ac cepted my gift of ceremonial silk scarf, six blocks of milk chocolate,
The five potential mission and two ting of cheese, and chiefs were chosen by Buddhist leading from Lhasa'a urbanely responded with a oracles 4. tin of mixed fruft drops, politielan - nublemen
We sat in n Governiuent rest destinations were decided
tits the recitation of prayers and house, 12,000 feet up in
Their by
border state town in the lower the rolling of thony dice one-
Himalayas, atul talked by the inch square,
light of an oil-lamp.
Wangchuk Dadan
Shakabpa.
leader of this mission, la Finance
Secretary of Tibet.
Diced into it
According to the dice
the chosen Job of contacting the nt Peking Communists. His is o
Its country sent him to con- Finance Secretary was tact the Peking Communists to for Die
them an opportunity
Rive
explaining recent radio threats for the only mission which has
China would take over arrived at the Tibetan borders,
Three
that Tibel
The Lhasa Governinent post- With his caravan of 50 sturdy
noblemen oneil the departure of the rest Todo muleg entitled to two red sashes for berate it fears the dangers of their mules and tree Buddhist Chinese-Soviet agreements may be more immediate than faint bishops.
All were colt, deppessed, and Probes from the West.
inule weary.
Wongchill:
were
his
"Ako," paid Wangchuk, as he hair unwrapped particularly Jules what braided across his forehead and Peardrop, "The Lhasa Govern
scarlet site is not sure exactly threaded with
the United Nations is all about.
Western thread: a five-inch
feel that the and Coral t
of free world up his left ear, and he wore a
with peoples cannot mustard ilk gown lined
Country pule sky-blue walk.
peari, tarquoise,
carring of We
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civilised watch attle: like Tibet, capccially When It is so ilrategically in
Fear the worst' tant, allowed up by a bli
to mr
Country like China.
mis dos to Britain, by America, India, and Nepal have far een halteri 180 miles from the Tibetan fruntier to await Tibet's of Communist discoveries China's real intentions
He explained Tibetan interpreter: "So we have only answered Peking - by our own broadcasts through your Mr Fox, who sent out ap- peals for help. We have not contacted the Chinese yet, and crossed Our have not they
wu fear borders, though worst."
While he talked we could see, though glass doors his plump and handsome wife sitting by candlelight in the next
And outside-
Then, popping the Western sweet into his mouth, with n charming smile and a shake of his earring. he ndled, rather cruelty, "We are not even sure roum that your methods of peare by a while two husky and unwashed divided United Nations are any handmaklena plaited her long better than our united Buddhist silk-block hair for more than
prayers."
an hour.
As he munched his own fruit' drop, the missioner to China
¡AZYA Koing Explained:
to
India, Barns, and Singapore in
the o
hope of finding Communist official."
a Chlace
ago-Tibetani Three months polities cannot be explained by phrases-the up-to-the-minute Lhasa Government, sitting in
gold-topped.
the
11-storey
Outside in the moonlight the
red prayer wheels, and the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950.
Cummings, weary of politics, relaxes
at`a social little evening
*So you're political cartoonist
"hufic pure not coing to pul ME in one of your drawing" (*
How do you reconcile, Mr. Cum mings, your cartoon of last week with the sentiments you expressed to mo about the Socialin Party, this time. three years ago?."
"uutenul understand schy you're not a complete Herbots wreck at the end of six weeks of it."
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
"I only read the Neto Staterman and Nation."**
*ON-COMMERCIAL, wrth
London Express Service
man
Why one
keeps his wife prisoner
thawing mountain turrents A challenging series-by frozen branches of trees rustled the man who wrote the Church with the paper prayer banners of England's guide to those
Avout 5,000,000 Tibetans have about to wed. still to be convinced that Lake Sucessa
do better than thee.
of Buththirt lis
London Express Service.
C. V. R. Thompson
on tour
AM a prisoner in my
OWN
Thume," writes Airs A. Sho
11
"explains that her husband has forbidden her to make any friends among the new neighbours where they have come to live. "I think he should see a psychiatrist and get Home treatment, but I can't persuade him to go."
Some light is shed upon her
Alexander fled from a condition and its probable
I
sin and whisky
RUCHY, Tennessee, WOULD never have thought that Mr Ernest Alexander was the son of a British major in the Indian Army.
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would never have thought that Mr Alexan- der's aunt dat once been a to Queen Indy-in-waiting Victoria.
any
In fact, I would never have thought that Mr Alexander was these one but another of weatherbeaten hillbilly farmers who scratch together a living in the Tennessee hills.
Old Mr Alexander, on Ameri- an now, won't talk much about the colony's early days. It gets him tou excited.
underlying canse when the wife adds: "We had to get married...."
comingnest
Now "anticipated marriage" is among the causes for marital fre. 45 jealousy, quent in a woman circum- All he would say was this: In these "The demn trouble was that stances as with a they were all too dem lazy to man. Why is this? do anything but cash their rlemn cheques from home. The only demn reason I kept going was that I did not get any And now I'm demned glad."
by Canon
HUGH WARNER
Confulence in one's husband or and kissed her infant, may cause wife must have some basis reason behind it. If
of a hatred of religion in the child courtship when he grows up,
The loved-starved chlid deve- has run straight, and your part-
the power of lops a kind of defensive armour ner as shown
and appreeln to his emotions because moral restraint tion of ethical standards, then afraid of being hurt or snubbed! ROM OTHER Gåd-timers in
Ruby I found out what this fact fortitles your confidence if he admits his need of affec-
Ability in his or her straight afterwards.
to run tlon.
her common sense in making no conditions about his behaviour for, the future. She wouki trust. him and he was big enough to trust her word, too.
**SATURDA
AMOND HORSESHOE**
Prophet in his
own country.
L
of
AST year, when Eleanor and I stopped · off in Hollywood on our way to the Orient, Bill Goetz, production boss Uni- versal-International Film, invited us to his house to see his collection of modern paintings.
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by
BILLY, ROSE
"Well, it looks as if Bill' yo-yo isn't a yo-yo after all," I said as handed flie artlelo to Elenuor. "This time you've got.
old man a littla to give your "What didn't you like about credit. He said the same thing
asked Elennor.
"Well, for one thing," I said. Life is saying; but he said it a It doesn't feel ilke n Van Gogh. year ago."
It isn't polite to go around
This gave Eleanor, paure, but feeling other people's paintings," zaidi my
nussus. "You're just it was not the pause that re- jealous because B owns a freshes. "I'll give
you credit. more important yo-yo than you all right-credit for being a
false friend," she said.
"What about?"
As some of you may know, I've done a bit of collecting myself, and like " every self-declared con- noisseur, I'm not impressed too-casily-by-the-other-
| fellow's possessions.
Nevertheless, I was bowl- I
Across R
arc you mumbling
friend of on, "and
never mentioned it to
"That's not
"Bill Goetz is n DECIDED to 2lpper my lip, yours," Eleanor went And I kept it zippered until for a year now you've been ed over bthe Goetz art one night Inst August when I
Time saying behind his back that his treasures. In less than five ran
piece in
nu- picture's no good." questioning the man had magazine years the movie
thenticity of Goelz's Van Gogh. put together one of the Eleanor was napping In the finest private collections on next room, but I prodded her anyone but you." The West Coast, and a quick awake and triumphantly shoved
the point," sald mental check indicated there the article under her nore.
"Read this," I said, "Evidently my wife. "If you were a,real friend of Bill's, you'd come was the best part of a mil- r'm not the only guy who is right out in your column and lion dollars hanging on his sold on Bill's picture,"
tay It's a lovely Van Gogh and walls.
"Maybe the editor
worth a million dollars. How also wishes he had a yo-yo like would you like It if he wen!
raid Eleanor. "Co One of the pictures he Goetz's,"
around saying nasty things showed 114
about your wife?" WIH a self- away and let me sleep."
Last month the controversy portrait by Van Gogh, call- about the self-portrait got more
of Time
"I don't see the connect-"
ed Study By Candlelight space in American popers than I began.
the one the newspapers have any picture been making all the fuss Morn. about-and as I examined
it, I gave out
with the
proper number of ooh's and all.
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N the way, home, however, I bald to Eleanor, "'I'm afraid B has bought himself a phony Van Gogh."
IN
since September
Holland. Van Gogh'u to admit nephew refused
It had been painted by ht
"Another thing," said Eleanor,
"I don't think it's nice to tell dead man's that n people picture was painted by come~ body else. You know perfectly well he can't fight back"
"Look," I said, "you're all, kerilumixed about this "
unele, and in New York a com- "Besides," said my missus. mittee of experts appointed by "if you're such an art expert, the Metropolitan Muscum of how come you're
Art unanimously thumbed down.
it
purple socks with suit
artil
A couple of weeks later, Life a two-page spread with "I like that!" said my missus. "Just because somebody else blow-ups of brushmarks,
reported that the dealer who happens to own an important picture, right away you've got cold the painting had reversed to make cracks about it. do you think painted way? Lana Turner?"
"This
wearing
brown
right, Baby," I said. Who himself on the story that ho "ALL
A Van Gogh painted the il, any and discovered it in a cogna Van Gogh, Time and Life are
erib outside of Parks,
"It
full of prunes, and your hus- caid the band is a four-eyed schmo." now appears," is nothing to make
said. magazine, "that, the picture was "That's more Ilke it," sald In all such cams of reconella-mall jokes about," I
more not unknown at all, but has, in pald tion,
probably to put your partner on "Goetz probation is the surest way to get than 50 grand for that hunk of fact, been knocking about from my wife,
dealer to dealer for years." (Contà, on Paze 13, Col. 4)
canvas."
OF HOLLYWOOD
Priginals
STRAPLESS
he is
BONELESS
WIRELESS
BACKLESS
ал
TIMELESS
PRICELESS
The bright young went wrong.
In so far a religion is an 2001 WWW more interested in
of love, It is naturally It moral standards have been offer culture than agriculture.
The colonists had to live in powerless to direct conduct be treated subconsciously as marriage, when Except, possibly, for
other enemy, and "reasons" are pre- there duced to rationalise this attitude. fart. Mr Alexander pronomers tents because the labourers im- fore
01 Mea B ves grounds for damn-which he says before ported to build their houses were considerations have been
interrupted often to lay out a to assist-such as the force
the fear of an believing this what is wrong
-clemin
neethig
English ancestry, "An English man is as scarce in these hills," he said, "as the grace of God in
a grogshop at midnight,"
such
be
almost every word he speaks cricket neld, put up a concert public opinion,
hall, or erect a stage for the unwanted baby, or the possiblll with her husband by writing: Even Mr Alexander, at 85,
to have forgotten his dramatic club. They produced ty that marriage may be refused My husband's father was a
time it sold all over America.
Bne newspaper that for a after all by your partner-then drunkard, and his mother left
theres no special reason for him when he was nine."
Her husband is a sick man, to But few of them knew, or thinking things will be so very
helped rather than censured. found out, how to grow a cab- different after marriage.
be able to bage. Even when they did till Suspicion is not unnatural to A psychologist may
state of mind. reveal to him the roots of his this the soil they grew more flow- one
itself objection to his wife joining TILISELF EXCEPTED, Mc
Jealousy may resolve ers than cereals.
he thinks are Alexander is quite right. But
They were not even able to both husband and wife can man- sockstics which it wasn't always so. For he is the escape whisky. Thomas Hughes age to admit to each other their directly or indirectly associated last survivor of a forgotten at- ordalued that no liquor was to be underlying sense of guilt, which with the Church.
has been
to trying tempt by a group of Englishmen sold within four miles of Rugby, enchi
By bringing it into the open,
In
to colonise America a vecond Confident of customers, the mother.
time.
THEY FIND GROWING UP TOO HARD
full century after many of these young remitance restored in the mind of each. In H wants to go back to her:
set up bootleggers (American) They came here 300 in all a saloon just 41⁄2 miles away. So respect for moral standards le TERE are Mr and Mrs C. He in the '209, a the American Revolution. All of men trod down the path to that so far as the jealousy had its she is longing to retum to him. them were young. All of them aloon that it is still known by roots in suspicion there may be Neither will nake the first move
of good funtly.
the local folk as "drunkards' no more 'trouble. And most of them joined the trail." project to escape from sin and whisky "and to establish a new England."
Were
They
to end the quagrel
It might be squabble in the nursery; each is in a fit of sulks For "Shon't play with you." people like this, growing up la a hard business which they never quite achieve.
will Neither one has the courage to
pocket pride and say: "I'm ŋorry.
in
HE DARE NOT SHOW NEED FOR LOVE
fading her THEIR CULTURE and MRS B. is also
Alexander is all that is left husband's claims upon her They picked their sile where
did because they thought it of this dream. There is a library, unreasonable, but she offers an loveliest corner of God's for instance, Alled from floor to interesting variant. "He
celling with sets in hand-tooled never let me go to the Women's earth outside England." And,
T I suggest going I've been fool, and you have HIGH-FASHION COLOURS though they came from, Eton, leather of Dickens, Thackeray, Institute, and
to do with our every right to blame me. Let's Harrow, and other famous public and Scott, and 8,000 other vol- near anything
church he sees red. My doctor stop being children and start and ONE G TWO-PIECE STYLES schools, they agreed to call their umes.
mod but that again." There is a priceless collection thinks he is colony Rugby in honour of Is
A family I once knew passed of London magazines and pom doesn't help much." sponsor.
com- through a stage like this. She This condition is more phlets of the '80s.
But in what is now a back-mon than many people realise. left him for his cruelty; he was Thomas Hughes, woods town, through which moto- But a man is not to be thought jealous of friendships. He realis author and hero of "Tom rists tear at 60 miles per hour, necessarily mad because ho ob- ed how much he loved her.
hind the courage to make the first Brown's School Days."
there is little else to show that Jects to church societies.
now Antipathy to religion has move and say so. One of the colonists was this was to have been a
In spite of all her family's named Arthur Churchill. He was England. I cannot even report many roots other than honest a cousin of another Churchill that Me Alexander stil wears an and reasoned objections. An pressure to make the break final, who never found any reason to old school tle. He doesn't wear unloving father in childhood, or she came back and "risked it" ia mother who seldom fondled What I admired about her was he dimatisfied with old England. any tie.
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