1950-05-06 — Page 4

Canon Warner

the Church of England marriago advisor, deals today with the found-only-too-often-nowadays problem of a mother-in-law:

She just flies into a rage

"WHEN we got married Jour years doo we went to live with my parents and for a time all teas Then my father died urand

หน suddenly, and

mother insisted that she should not be left alone in the house.

If my wife and go out she

f t vige. it is expensive melo to ork righbours to st . My wife says she can't stand

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THERE is a good deal to

side, for a husband and wife should above all be com- panions, and able to go out together and share common

In this way the interests. love of husband and wife is kept fresh, interesting, and stimulated. When she con- sented to accept your pre- sent living arrangement she had no idea it would prevent such companionship.

You, on your side, have a difficult problem.

It is al-

You and your wife should talk the problem over together from the angle that your mother is a sick, rather than a bad, woman. Make clear to your wife that

he will always

come first in your affections, and if she is a wise woman she will help.

•My tempers

>

"I am 40, leave been mar ririt 17 years, and have three lovely children, OEM whom my husband and i both adore. have has two Relete hereons breakdowns but

thanks to the kein of excellent

irill power on my part, I have rought my way through them and at last come out on fon.

"My husband and jamilly havi had a lot to put up with, due to me uncntrollable tempers and 770. Now he admits he n11) longer cares for me, but wants me to kren the nome ether Just for the sake of the caldren I am so utterly miserable that ! feet I can't carry on in these cireutustances. The whole future ses black, and I really don't think my husband will ever

return to the ngulu as a huishand. What can I do?"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950.

"Never mind-it must have been today's I gave them to cut up for chains."

London Express Service

ATS SKIRT ISSUED TO

A VETERAN

By J. W. TAYLOR

TOR three and a half years, Major P. J.

For three asiated by Major I. R.

English, MC., has spent most of his week- ends compiling a history of the 8th Bnt- talion, Durham. Light Infantry (tho "Faithful Durhams") from official records and personal accounts of members of the Battalion,

All concerned have proved themaciven falth- ful reporters in recreating the many netions in which the Battalion took part, and a wealth of detall accompanies tits very complete regi= mental history.

Humour, drama, pathos and thrills flavour this most readable of records, and moving per- sonal snapshots to be noted are those of tho "Faithful Durhams" brewing up ten in a desert railway truck bound for Fort Capuzzo from water tapped from the engine and sharing it out to all comers as if they were moving a plente en Epsom Downs the SAME men and com

rades, with swent and sand, moving in orderly fashion back down the desert rond from En@daville... of a fantastic march in threen across a live mine that war

by THE SHADOW OVER

Mr.

X

MY SHOULDER

RY to picture yourself

in my position — if that is possible for anyone living in Britain.

With some misgivings I Government retained the

which I was holding job when the Communists took'

Dver.

I

WAS

WIFE'S nervous breakdown

The new Minister insisted Is sometimes due to her ways hard for the only s husband's lack of understandini must not resign. Instead. of a mother to realise that and consideration. If this h

he promoted me. come first. en true of your bushand, 18 his wife must You naturally want to do as will be a help for him to know given a high executive posi

it

your psychologist. not tion in one of the newly sel fron little that will hurt your by way of being

up economic agencies in mother as possible. I won- order that he may set about Bratislava. der whether your wife sufli- whatever readjustment is neces ciently realises your proh sary. Its own happiness as well

as youra may well turn on this. Jem.

The answer les with your mother. Anyone who goes into ungovernable rages when there seems little obvious reason for it has generally come sub-conscious the mind which, conflict because it is unrealised, is diffi- cult to deal with.

Lut in

You admit you have given him a rotten time. If it was really love he had. for you in tie frat place, then it was a deeper than the word "caring" thing tha comests.

when

measure

If it was not love for you he married, then there Is little doubt he was in some If you cannot get a psycholo- responsible for your breakdown: Either way, he ought now to some wise gist to see her ask friend to have a kindly talk with forgive the past and probably her and to unravel what is build with you for the future of evidently a deep-rooted frouble your three children.

You say she was alone with your father when he died. This may well have so shocked her that it has left her with a deep seated fear of being left alone.

perfectly

Was

My job there was to ad- vise a number of Slovak in- dustrial undertakings which been nationalised. had

them

that Among which for the last ten years I had served as manager, which my father in his time had served as a technician, and where my grandfather before him had worked as a simple factory hand.

And now they had come

was

to

WHO IS MR X? He introduced by SEFTON DELMER on this page on Monday. He is known Delmer personally as a man of attainment and influence who until recently held an important executive position behind the Iron Curtain. Now Mr X is in London be- ginning new life after cscaping from what he calls "The

Over Shadow

My Shoulder." There are two aspects to his The Political story: and The Personal.... And first he tells The Personal.

As an expert I knew what this reorganisation wouki It would destroy for mean dustry, and witli it that of my old concern.

You will not get well, and he will not be really happy, nor will the atmosphere for the play-oil, as you call ever the efficiency of the in-

I had been called in by your home be the sort your it.

round children ought to have

my Communist bosses in unless your If she can be made in face this them,

normal fear and to realize how ground- married life is resumed at every the department and ordered expression of the to plan and carry through a less it fa, and how it in likely to level as an

the in wreck her son's happiness, there new start you are both going to reorganisation

change her altitude.

is no reason why she should not make.

tonton Express Service)

THE DIAMON

dustry.

Hyacinth Muckle and some other

monickers

OMEWHERE on the isle Manhattan lives a

by

man by the name of Szymon BILLY ROSE

Szwarc.

أن

Above all I realised that

reorganisation this

with which I was being entrusted had but one aim.

their weary fases dnubed

The "Faithfuls”

had begun with

9 welter of adininistrative problems to ba tackied, and perhaps the position Thousanda of Ile shop- keepers are taken off to labour could be said to have reached a a hardened war crisis when Their businesses every veteran was camps.

with issued

an where are closed down-despite ATS skirt! Their dens campaign the express guaranices to the in Europe was brief and bitter, contrary in the new Communist with grin days of Mocres, fllumined by the valiant deeds of mate Constitution.

Padre Dungan and Cpl. Fletcher, of the streicher bearers.

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Budget

of

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will give you

n wonderful found collaborators are created, It sets going the wave of opportunity to prove once denunciation, recrimination, and and for all your loyalty, suspicion which has destroyed the FRAUDULENCE of the Now tell 119, what do the old solidarity of the Czechs | Budget. In the Communist

Grim but stirring reading Is secret police of

Czechoslovakin think of you

the propo- and given the

the Communists their easy vic-identical in pattern with those le account of how at Dunkirk, sal?"

the 8th, with other units in the of all the other satellite coun-Brigade, undertook the suicidas

of the Soviet Union-the tusk of fighting their tries

way inlo down amounts pu

the German lines while the rest THE WORKERS at my old various

of the "Social

was evacuated and BEF factory waving red flags to

coup. cle.. are interchangeable at the at once. Salute

"Difficult"

I

DID not reply

1

tory.

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Communist

Production booms

"As on the

on

for the

paper

represents a reasonable

mbarked. Graphically pictured

Then I spoke slowly and The long period of parly strife direretion of the Government. L/Cpl. Wilson, the canteen and deadlock is over al last. And they are, in fact, belug in-steward, trudging along with an alarm clock slung round his carefully.

0: the terchanged.

sandbag neck and carrying a Although

the full of small change in French "I see it from two points workers Re to it with magni-

Teen

enthusiason. And then amount credited for defence currency, which had been in the of view," I said.

the distlusion.

prot when the balinon went up'. industrialist I am baffled. Instead of exploiting

the portion of the Budget total, the The money was eventually ex- of the

prople to money that is, in fact, spent on changed in England for 40 good It is difficult to work out a entusiasm

military pre- English pounds. plan

build up a new and more pros- armaments and without being told

Ic they parations perons Czechoslovakia, as what its purpose is.

night have done, the Com- great. munists

only are concerned As a private cilizen I feel

with defensive police work, I feel sorry to see a SETIN.

They make it plain that t

for the present they are cafes. Only a few years ago fighting withdrawal from the reorganisation carried out whleh nay perhaps prove dangerous to hot out to build but only

least

15 many times

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THE NEWSPAPERS it

Faithfully related is the sur ring episode in the desert war when General Ramaden led the 50th Division, of which "The the Falthfuls" were a part, in a

in Bratislava's Carlton I used Gazala

Box when Lieutenant

From

this bulustry. It has worked eliminate. Cost what it may to read newspapers from Hun-R. Place armed himself with a

truncheon. well up to now. You and I as to the efficiency, prosperity, and gary, Foland, Rumania, Austria, policeman's Slovaks and progressively health of the nation, they are and Germany.

Alamein they advanced from minded men have been proud out to remove everyone and Today they still have foreign the starting line to the swirl of everything which does not con- newspapers, But they are all the Scottish bagpipes and the

strictest Muscow

Communist newspapers, They

Grains

ins of a hunting horn sounded form to the

or which pattern

might con- all give the same news and the by a company commander ceivably in the event of war

rame views. Nobody reads them the 9th DLI. become security risk to

DIY more, · Bolshevisin.

of 11.

"I will see what can be done, But it is not easy.

With that I left them. All that night I lay awake

thinking over this new dilemma. Often in the past I had accepted directives which conflicted with my better judgment as an indus- trial expert.

But this was different. What I was asked to do now affected people-my own pemple. The Communists wanteds whom I had a humars

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Decision-

WIFE

Krucer's.

to Koes

the DY Communist Two

the decided.

morning I

was

Fi

leials flourish petition in

I would try

of

The minefield incident occurred at the battle of Mareth, where the battalion had the extremely vital task of fighting Wadi their way Zigmou.

acrosa

the

"A" Company, unable

Kallantly

by ordinary took the

to flee abroad. to detect inines her face. "Picase sign inist" The But only if I could take with methods, petition demands the immediate me to freedom my wife and my supreme hazard. Led by Captain rationalisation of the shop "in lille son.

the interests of the commer."

The grocer's lips tremble, tears fill his eyes as my wife

And

to use it as a pretext for responsibility. I could not refuses to sign. But the others

all eliminating

workers compromise on this. I could not sign, fearful of offending. whom they regarded as un- betray them and keep my self- they sign in the other shops, too. reliable, They wanted to

push them out

icopeet.

without And I would have to betray

Themselves incurring the them. The boss lad made that

odium of wholesale dis-

missals and transfers.

I

was to do it for them.

clear enough.

"We shall give you every help and support in your Important tark." he had Fald unctuously. "I am assigning eight of my

The men would be sent ablest and most trusted men to

or

to work in the timber help you." Los Angeles. Before the war she was a character actress of camps, the coalfields, considerable repute in Austria perhaps even, who could and at that time her name was know, in the deadly uranium My old game? No

Werberzerek. Gizelln simply Subsequently she married

Herr Fim, restaurateur named

mines at Jakimov.

A

IN

and when Mr Hiller ok uver

the and iter spouse fled

An expert I know has been lollywood.

nut for the past six

FN other words I would not be

My new boas was not able to play the old rame to alone when he received me, of mouthing ferocity in my With him, sitting in big directives and progress reporta On the same island live

and applying only the mikies! Hyacinth Muckle, Weda Yap.

two Here, because of her heavy leather chairs, were

of measures in execution. Igna, Wank. John T. de Blois dining

because come accent this talented actress has members of his inner com- herself with

They were going to have eight Wack, A. Renfetella Wapples, months simply

control me, and my mostly mittce-like himself young men tu Hutzala Vand. and gent Where In the fastnesses of the had to content

a

parts, bad bagge playing bit African veldi he

be to would merely don't even rate men without administrative function named Frank lx.

or experience

technical lend the authority of my name If you think I'm kickling, one of the rarest specimens of maids, which

the

to the ruthless measures. open

New York City all time. Theanderblast Mish screen credit.

knew knowledge. Joe Smith, of course, Telephone Directory, and check redeigle Sump, Esq.

up on me. And while you're at Like all aris, name collecting none of this. He stared at the

it look sharp and you may has its tall tales and legends name for a long time, rolling spol one of these awesome which are told monickers yourself.

Embarrassed wherever the its rich, succulent syllabics on

tongue. Then My favour- his

suddeniy

I can still feel the agony of

that terrible night.

I lay there torturing myself with the question whether even

indefatigable of the up the phone and dintled the AS always the great man with things as they were I might

"Hello,"

fraternity gathers.

to do with one of and with resolution, he picke If you do, extract a drop of ite has blood from your thumb, dip the most

was a little embarrass- not be able to help more by the directory browsers, a magazine number.

said in your pen in it, and letter

he

Bratislava and writer with the unlikely name

ed in dealing with me. I remaining in name out on piece of thin

of Jue Smith,

tremulous voice. "Is thisuh— 1

could see that once again continuing to work on the in- tissue.

thon by fleeing You will then be a full- Several months ago a folly. Gisella Pim?"

"Yalı,"

pleasant

voice he was hesitating whether side of things Bedged member of the Ancient wood studio brought Joc out

to get up as I entered the Honourable Order of to work on a scenario based on answered.

He own stories. one of his

room or to remain seated. Cognomen Collectors.

Wis Name collecting. I hasten to

given an office, a desk, o

He remained scated. and-you has

Kurzscd add,

always

the telephone been

telephone directory of noblest of hobbles.

Some be--- nighted souls colicet paintinga, Greater Los Angeles,

and

match boxca

and stamps, picces of string.

the but prince of collectors, is he who stalks and shares the Un- believable examples of human handles. Viz. — the narne fancler.

FOR

n

"Gisella Werberzerck PIM?" "Yah, das ist she."

abroad.

sequence

of

A nightmare scenes out of the past paraded before me.

X

蹴

PRESIDENT BENES

"ot his He is

to hold

against the or-

Joc didn't know what to say nd libbed, next. "Gisella," he

His perplexity was under- "this is an old friend of yours.

Michgedeigle standable enough. For be Theanderblast

go to the fore his Sump. I used to

rise to power he with University of Wisconsin

had held a very subordinate desks in the palace.

by u resistance days Joe

worked you, remember?"

position in the commercial being urged

leader to form a Benes army of FOR two

determinedly at his typo-

department of my firm. ex-resistance fighters writer; conscious of his respon-

(He gave it up in order to the balance elbilities and of the big salary he was receiving.

Nneffer in Vischkonzin the in a dance band.)

TEIN," said the voice. "Vass become a saxophone player ganised Communist militants.

Benes refuses. "I foresee civil But, try as he would his ey

tho plump, schdate, ledding alene. Visch-

When he ADMIT that the venerable kept straying to

was through war in the countries around us between the Communists and I art of name collecting is a promising volume on a plus. konzin to senkool..

I'm terribly sorry," said the with explaining what he the anti-Communists," he says. Vanishing art, but don't let that dow sill. On the third day writer. "I must have the wrong wanted me to do he looked "It will hold up their recon-

window shade, disturb you, The priclitioners lowered

at mu. "You know." he struction and recovery. We must of it, the keepers of the falth, sank into an easy chair, placed Gleila Werberzerek Pim."

And now you don't mind, and enthusiastle the book his eager knew

on a loyal иге

scholars, I'll bring this column said, "wo have selected you not be dragged into it as well. The Communists shall be given and opened it.

Yesterday I was for this important task. 89 no provocation by me.” group,

first name which to a close, When

returns one of them

And the

the through

phone u special favour to your- lila oya was Gisella riming from a feld trip, which gener-

book and I happened to notice self." He became confiden. ally consists of trekking Werbeszerel PIO.

Babette Umschedd through telephone books and "This I can't believe," he said that

Umprenz are sted til.

THE WITCH HUNT for col- the laborators begins at couillion rosters, he will spend to himself "Even in Hollywood Zebede

next to each other. naute is impossible."

"The party don't feel Excuse me, won't you? I'va weeks exhibiting his specimens such a

exiles returning Instigation of and

But Joe was wrong. brother connoisseurs

It 30.

quite sure where you really from London to

and Moscow. stand. This

no collaborators RIO basking in the warmth of their happens that there really is a Kot to make a phone call,

assignment where in pols and sahs,

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Gliella Werberzerck Pin

and

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