1950-08-05 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950,

FACE THE FACTS. 'DON'T LETS PRETEND" says a visiting Commonwealth Prime Mirvistar.

If Democracy is to

fight Communism. The first

thing, is to throw everboard the

firce institutions that make it

superior tris

have a purge.

Gad.sir, away with this". miserable cart about British decay. Our present healthy state

is due to the fact that the Labour Government

has absolutely

ruined The country,

World moral authonly is all very wall,

but its no good for fighting

ideas. That takes force, my bay,

A great world institution like the United Nations is dangerous because of

its weakness. The way to build its future is

to undermine its present.

Unily with foreigners

is impossible. If that's

the only way to save our necxs, is much safer to

cut our throats.

VISIT TO CLOUDLAND

Tallyno! Let's go

out and shoot a couple of ideas.

World Copyright, fly arrangement with Daily Herald,

SHE WAS FOUND IN THE JUNGLE AT TWO YEARS OF AGE-A SAVAGE

LITTLE GIRL, WEARING A NECKLACE OF ANIMAL TEETH

HERE IS A FULL

ACCOUNT OF HER STRANGE TRANSFORMATION

Stone Age baby

is now a brilliant young woman

by JOHN PREBBLE

N Pera today there hyes a 21-year-old girl, a brilliant biology

student, who was born in the Stone Age.

The fingers which now lightly harulle pencil and test tube

once played with her father's stone axe and wooden dart.

I took our ancestors a long pilgrimage of 200 centuries to

pass from Stone to Atomic Age. This girl, Murie-Yvonne Vellard, inde

it o ernight when she lett

thu jungh of Central Para-, HARM

was

In these forests she Tom 18 years ago, a aquall. ing, maked infant: a child of the Guayak Indians. That

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tige

Opanomaly their we Calisponents were discovered, but di

owenia rtayed to amwre, The question of the reciologists, Many expeditions have been Guayaki. truly the trade to One of them was that made in 1902 by Professor Jehan Albert

primitive, secretive people velland. Director of the French

who still live as we 20,000 years ago.

did testitute of Indian Studier 11

Lima,

la so far as getting a tribes-

During those 18 years she a to brief him on Chuuyakı has lived without notoriety customs and habits the in Lima, Peru, a Stone Age for was maiden in a modern city.

BORN EQUAL

-

signally unsuccess-

tel. Four times in two days vas his little party attacked by

1++ frightened Indians.

mides dew in panic.

Ea their fight they

Bis

care

SCIENTISTS, gathered in to Guayaki women and

Paris to discuss racial doctrines under the auspices of 1 ́NESCO, considered the case of Marie-Yvonne Vel- lard as proof of the belief that all men start life in

pality, and have done for a long time.

For this girl,

So

horn of a

prehistorie people with 11 non-existent culture,

prople that keep no domes-

a chili, wering nothing but a teckface of animals' feeth. The in fed, the child, still suck- wild honey from its fingers, was brought to the professor':

camp

a

She was Marie-Yvonne, aged, anybody could tell, far tapo pets. The professor tool for home to his mother anopted her.

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IN

'SCARED'

arct

This is

MARIE- YVONNE VELLARD as she was found, a Jungle baby, in 1932

(Left) Two years later.” Civilation has made an obvious contel

button.

father hopes to bring her to Europe in the near future."

This sturdily built girl, whore features still bear the stamp of her primitive ancestors, is not the only Gunyaki child, if the most famous, to come out of the Junkie

darkness. Profesor Vellard speaks of others, all or them intelligent."

Yet those who remain tumorously ja their jungle are described by explorers as the most primitive people in the world.

T

WHA

GO

NAGOIN

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

HERE WERE long known man from Missouri, who faces around the lunch comes to London is chairman table at Londonderry Do not took him up in America's

of the Deputy Atlantic Courtell House.

Who's Who. His name does nel appear. Air Chief Marshal Sir

Also

ike Allantle Joining Guy Garrod, chairmin of

Deputies: 3. Herve Alphand. the Air, League of the Bri 1 colleagues should beware, tish Empire, had just read For M. Alphand's talents are a grave statement express- not confined to diplomacy. He ing misgivings on Britain's is a brilliant and enthusiastic preparedness in the air..

--until

namic.

The questions which ful-

About horsos lowed were no less. grave a verbal misunder-

SOCIALLY speaking, horses standing threw a ray of for the time being are humour into the proceed- suprême. ings.

The mariest place outside The subject of shadow Londo in mid-July: The Peter- borough Show. There a detach- factories was raised. Various ment of the Household Cavalry people mentioned that Un went through the complicated warlike commodities were movement: Į being built in potential aero-

plane factorien.

Itide

of their Musical

And there hundling people from all over the realin packed into a relert enclosure to e the Judging of the horse's per- itritish Pomynton- the

"Bus bodies, for example," interjected Air Chief Mar-

hal Sir Philip Joubert de la foxhound.

Ferte.

The Duke and Duchess of Sir Guy looked at his Beaufort raw their hounds win brother air marshal in be- three first prizes, one seeund, a wilderment, evidently de- wecial prize, and the President's cided that he was not to be contradicted.

Annual Cup.

To the Duke it was a tasty "hora d'enure" to the feast of

"Yes," he said doubtfully, "eren bas! bodices. I dare sa riding.

Clannish

For the smartest place in London was the White City, where the King and Queen drove up in a landau to see the the International TROUBLE IS brewing at the Spening of Home Show, Scottish end of The 1931 Festival.

Riders from Britain, Ireland, Organiser, decined it a bright France, Sweden, and Spain are competing for the Prince of kien to have a four-day rally, wales (international team?, and ending with a gathering on King George V. (individual) Murrayheld football ground cup And Britain, for once, in where clansmen from abroad the favourite. could meet their chicfs,

Thanks to them

Now I hear angry mutteringts from behind the Highland line. Said Lord Lovat, head of the clan Fraser: "It sounds a 101 of

PRAISE the Duke of Beau- rit to me. I certainly shall not

for, who has worked tire- o down to Edinburgh to be

lely for this pre-eminence. put on a show, Any Frasers And praise, too, Colonel Harry Coming to the festival will be Llewellyn, leader of the British more than welcome in Fraser team, whose, the riding wol jenuntry."

um pinee of lionour in all th From Lord Macdonald, of the show rings of Europe, Western Isles, came a growl of neword:-

But praise, above all, a uti who, though he was there, taw Most unfortunate and in had othing of wint went tente. You can quote

Buying so,"

17:1

For Ansell,

Lieat-Colonel Mcharl D.SO., chairman of the British Show Jumping Association, was though partially blinded in 1940, while rally be a flop, Sr Tom leading his regiment in Frances Johnston and the Scottish Tourist Board, of which he is

have achieved

It meeras that, even the

chairman,

iracle,

1

For once 111 their turbulent and quarrelsome history the Highland chiefs are of Onc indud.

Holiday off

MR CHURCHILL planned to leave almost immediately for

u holiday in Biarritz, and the

near

Despite many operations he has now lost the Light of both eyes.

to his Yet it Is thanks direction and enthusiasm that of British al-r= reputation jumpery has reached zel of all time.

a highest

Ladies only

1 HAVE BEEN talking with Malcolm Sargent,

15

Just

authorities had arranged to open back from a iriumphat concert

the trur in South America. a disused lrfeld town, saving their visitor n four hours' drive from Bordeaux.

in

the

The great conductor spoke as nuch about football as about But his hotel there received music, described his visit to a

our Ambassador telegram saying Mr Churchill match with Lady Balfour, wife

to pertpone his of would have holiday until August 12, after Argentine.

for the "At first," said Sir Malcolm, a visit to Strasbourg

thought she was the only Council of Europe.

Then I saw n woman there. Larbed wire enclosure, led women- chock-a-block with hundreds of them, cut off from This, the rest the crowd.

no tok, was a precaution against over-exciteinent."

precautions included a Other

Diplomatic trail

THERE IS much movement Occasionally when famine

on the diplomatic front. And strikes their little communitiennet only movement: cores of they come out of their trees to oficials are "en poste" at a time fire brigade, with hoses at the hunt with stone

hatchet and when they had planned their wooden arrow, the fat catlle on holidays. Paraguayan farmlanda.

ready; a squad armed with tear- bombs; a barricade to hold back

undCTSARIM Sir Oliver Franks, U.K. Ain- the crowd, and The formers pursue them insador in Washington, should bolt holca for the referee and running battles, un

against have been on his way home. He nemen In case the barricade

failed. is still in Washington, will scon

As for lo concerts, Sir Mal- have much company.

For here is Mr M. E. Dening, colm described the enthusiasm

as "tremendous" Far Office

Easlem Foreign

the last night crowd

On

Fic aninude,

her youth Marie-Yvonne most white girls of her age. She Tow. cloths, build no permanent terrifying. Said

found her new surroundings was top in every class at school.

Why, then, if the Guayaki the professor, From a tribal baby, frightened

have such potential mental dwellings, surpasses most "She loved

was and bewildered, the has become playing and white girls of her own ng pag-hearted. but she changed a self-possessed product of a lowers which can transform a expert, on the Washington trall, stopped bla car, showered him

naked waif into a smart, gay-

So niso Mr Menzies, who left mimediately in the presence of French upper-class family.

bearler intellectual, has their strangers,

"I might have been a crooner," was sent and k hot move."

She was brought up exartly divikation remained primitive Lendon showing signs of strain with flowers,

after ten litentive days.

On the reciprocal trait le Mr he said. Civilizations, say the archae- But right months later her all white, and she is a Cathols. plogists, do not march forward Charles M. Spofford, the un- three langunges, swim, drive speech and manners were better She sits her adoptive father uniformly. There were primi-

fashionable than those of a European child in his laboratory.

in intelligence and ability.

A gay, dark-skinned girl

of

five feet he can speak

car.

1

wear

But and

European clothes.

We all start equal. equality for Marie Yvonne when she was born meant being one of a wild, nomadic tribe.

of the same ne. By the age of teven she already spoke French Portuguese and liked to ask questions about Greek mythology.

us a white girl. Her friends are

TO EUROPE

PART from childish

hus

she

"Aments

All-

tive Stone Age communities in Britain when a complex Bronze Age civilisation flowered in the Middle East.

The climate of tropical became adverse countries, too, never to human progress ng disease and she takes developed.

of the fact tant

Although she had never re- reived Instruction she was able been ill, lo draw. Illustration was per- nu molice linpa something her natural her skin is of a different colour. The men about her had people had never attempted. Cerlainly she exhibits no feeling flat Mongolian features.

In Paris, corresp.adent Gerald highly probable that one day

of Inferiority. I think it is

A MYTH

Their black hair hang down Scheit spoke to a man who hus she will marry a white man, I THE story of Marie-Yvonne their backs. They lived on known Marie-Yvonne for 13 believe her cate Is proof that

did not. perhaps, tell the wild roots and honey. years, Dr Paul Hivet, Honorary vaciclism can be wiped out. rentlemen in Paris. more than

Director of the Museum of Man

they already belleved. I did on- White men rarely saw in Parts

with con- 13 Lascinating that her able them to agree them. The little, fugitive

fast aro It was he who sent Professor tribrepeople

dying vielion that: people fled after discharging Vellard on the Paraguayan ex-out There

probably not more than $50 of them lett one cloud of arrows, Disenso pedition 18 years ago.

alive.

"It

are

killed most of them before "Today," he BayA "Mario- "She has been fully aware of they passed their thirties. Yvonne is perhaps superior to her origin for years, and her

"The myth of race... pro- vents the normal development of millions of human beings."

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-(Londor Express Service)

"I just can't hurt her feelings, John, after all the years she's been with uL

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