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Four Birmingham Gazette, Saturday, June 5. 1954 THEATRES 1 EMLYN A SOMEONE WAITING New Play Williams, Robert Coote, John Stratton, Gladys Henson. Jenniter Gray and ADRIANNE ALLEN June JERRY WAYNE JULIE ANDREWS. ANDREW RUICKSHANK. "MOUNTAIN FIRE Box 101 MID 4355.

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SATURDAY PULPIT The Church has made a difference by BRYAN GREEN THE Church has not failed. Failures there have. been when Christians and the Christian Church haven't been true to the teachings of their Master. But that, I am the prepared whole, on during the past two thousand years the Christian Church has made a real and practical difference to the life of mankind. In spite of the moral frustration of a hydrogen-bomb hanging over our heads, and its judgment on the stupidity and wickedness of men who ought to know better, we cannot deny that many nations today have better way of life than in the centuries before Christ.

As Professor Butterfield points out, the Christian teaching operates in favour of what may be called a softening of manners. In the ancient Roman, Empire it stressed the sanctity of human life, the importance the family, the evils of sexual licence and divorce, and the wickedness of either suicide or the gladiatorial contests, or the murder of infants." Orderliness The benefits of this gentler spirit we largely enjoy today as we see the care for the sick and the aged. the protection we give to children, the sanctity of home life, and the of general orderliness and justice much of human society. of course, this progress is not entirely due to direct Christianity. if I may put it this way.

But from the Chrisspirit inspired by the teaching and power of Christ there stemmed education and general enlightenment. Mixed in with this teaching is some of the culture of the Greeks, and other ingredients, no doubt, as well; but the chief ingredient, as historical fact, is Jesus Christ, and all that He stood for. Social uplift This humane. liberal and simply Christian to spirit the is western not confined. It has permeated and influenced Asia and Africa.

In Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism there are spiritual reform movements at work which address selves to the social uplift and the giving of liberty to depressed groups of people. This claim that the Church has not failed does not mean that I do not accept that there has been much that is tragic and sinful in the history of Christianity. We have been nothing like Christian enough. If we had been, how different the world would be! Worse still, we have been grossly unChristian, have kept silent in face of exploitation, and have allowed injustices to go on unrebuked. We have been too conservative and traditional.

We have so often allowed ourselves to take the easy path of accepting the status quo. We have paid far much attention to wealth and position, and failed to fight for the humble and the poor. All these sins All these and many other sins, such as the Crusades and the Inquisition, can be laid to the charge of the Christian Church. Yet, through all these sins there has been the other side of steady, true and co courageous witness to the goodness and love of God for all his children as seen and taught by Jesus Christ. Tomorrow we celebrate the birthday of the Christian Church.

We remember how little group of frightened and perplexed men and women discovered in the coming of the Holy Spirit a source of continued power and inspiration. This same Spirit is available for men and women today. It is the Spirit of Christ- Spirit which produces in the lives of those who obey Him gentleness and love towards their fellowmen, an inspiration which leads to action, and a courage and spiritual power which are not afraid to face opposition. Overshadowed Now is the time not to look back into the past. to expose the failures and sins of the Church, but to look forward to the future.

At the moment it is overshadowed by the dark and angry disagreements. but these can be dispersed, and the bright sunshine of peaceful co-operation can be ours. How can this be? I believe -and I think many others are coming to believe with methat this is only possible if we recapture in our day and generation the meaning of Whit Sunday, and find for ourselves the new power and inspiration which Christ can give through His Holy Spirit. LONDON LETTER Conquest of the sea 167, FLEET STREET. Friday night.

A visitor 38-YEAR-OLD has arrived Italian in London with the message that man is turning into an amphibious animal, and that in a few years we shall achieve the conquest of a large part of the sea-bed. Signor Bruno Vailati, leader of the Italian underwater expedition to the Red Sea, is a tall, lean lawyer, with a story of exploration almost as fascinating in its way as that of the Kon-Tiki voyage. An amateur spear fisher and former Ionian swimming champion, he assembled 13 other people for underwater research of various kinds. They spent months in the Red in 1952 and another four months in 1953 and totalled 10.000 hours under water between them. They returned with a colour film, 700 different varieties of fishes.

and some stimulating theories. Signor Vailati envisages a great yield petroleum from the sea beds, of algae or seaweed being cultivated there as a source of protein, and of scientifically induced sea-changes which would enable fish to be cultivated in the future as cattle are today. The psychology of fish was one of his interests. After seeing them at home, he is sure they speak to each other in supersonic language and differ between species and individuals in their intelligence and memory. Retirement rumours MR.

EDEN'S return to London tonight for his second brief visit to the home base during the long ordeal of Geneva has stirred rumour again. Mr. Eden's presence is being linked with the Prime Minister's visit to the Queen the day before and the meeting of the Cabinet which has been called for the day after. According to rumour, this triptych unfolds to a picture of Sir Winston handing over his crown to Mr. Eden.

This will, of course. happen some day: it might well happen in October, as Mr. Martin Lindsay forecasts. But the possibility of it hap- WEEKEND WITH WIAT 0 A 3 NORMAL IMPROVE TENNIS. WILL SERVICE BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Gazette CEN. 8461 167-170, Street, E.C.4 CEM. 3265 Saturday, June 5. 1954 RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP SERIOUS charges concerning the deportation of a British citizen from Commonwealth country deserve a more detailed answer than was given to them in the House of Commons yesterday. In view of the very limited time available for discussion in the Commons, the Commonwealth Relations Office should feel under an obligation to issue a detailed statement.

The reasons why Mrs. Henry, a British subject, was deported from Ceylon have not been published; but in any case they do not affect the charges that the elementary rights of a British subject were ignored. While, on a technical point, Mr. Foster, the Parliamentary UnderSecretary for Commonwealth Relations, could justly claim that his office was not responsible for the actions of the Ceylon authorities, it is very much his business to see that Commonwealth problems are handled efficiently and fairly. That was all The main points of the charges made in Parliament were that Mrs.

Henry was detained by means of a false statement by the police, that her companion was not allowed to obtain a lawyer; that Mrs. Henry was not told she was to be deported until the last moment; and that all along she was denied access to the British High Commissioner. To those charges Mr. Foster replied that he accepted the Ceylon Government's statement that Mrs. Henry, was not badly treated and that her companion had not been held.

The High Commissioner had known that she was to be deported, said Mr. Foster, and had assumed that if she wanted to communicate with him she would do so. This is no answer at all. No one questions the good faith of the Ceylon Government, but there is no certainty that in this particular case that Government has acquainted itself of the detailed action of the local police and there is certainly no point-by-point answer to the allegations that have been made. Full respect If Commonwealth citizenship means anything at all, it must mean that any such citizen can be assured of full respect for individual rights and liberties wherever he may travel within the Commonwealth.

When police action is necessary (and no one has denied that it might have been necessary in the case of Mrs. Henry) that action should conform to acceptable standards. Otherwise it will be open to public censure, as has already been the case in South Africa. Especially is it necessary that in Commonwealth countries still young in independence and without the background and experience in these matters that the older nations enjoy, there should be scrupulous care to see that the systems and practices that develop are sound. BIRTHS.

MARRIAGES. DEATHS. IN MEMORIAM, ETC. Sender's FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE On Thursday. June 10th, at 11 o'clock.

at Quinton Parish Church. between Norma. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.

J. Taylor. of Quinton. and Eric. of Mrs.

Billington, of Small Heath. (5) WYKE BAILEY. The marriage between Philip and Olga takes place on Tuesday. June 8. at 11.30 a.m..

at St. Peter's Church. West Bromwich. MEMORIAM BICKERTON. nee of Gwen, died June 5th.

1930. Like falling leaves the years roll by. Some have forgotten. never will I. Goodnight, mam.

(5) 1. RAMBLING by JACK WOOD Don't let Wordsworth's heavy lines put you of HOLIDAY be week associated ends to by some of us with certain districts. In the 'thirties Whitsuntide for me meant Nidderdale in my native West Riding; in the 'forties I came to love Monmouthshire at this season of the year. "Surely not Monmouthshire!" exclaim some to whom the name of the county brings up murky visions of drab coalmining valleys or the docks and rail sidings of Newport. True, that western side of the shire is no place for holidays, but to a rambler it connotes the tall hills and the deep and lovely valleys of the north and east.

Domesday Gwent was the ancient Welsh kingdom that covered the same area; and at the time of the Domesday Survey, although the Normans had subjugated Welsh it, Gwent still ranked as territory. During the Middle Ages the Lords Marchers held regal sway, and the King's writ did not run here. Only in 1536 were the marches abolished and the lordships united to form a shire that still remained in Wales. But gradually Monmouth came to be regarded as an English county and under Charles 1I was included in the Oxford circuit. Even today we speak of South Wales and Monmouthshire, but on Sundays the English visitor seeking drink is left in no doubt about the Welsh reconquest of the county.

Easy access Monmouth, the old county town, is well situated at the confluence of Wye and Monnow, and gives easy access to those delectable regions in the east and north. On the Monnow sea hold, the Comptroller takes preredence over Privy Councillors and even the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He accompanies the Queen at such State functions as the Opening of Parliament, and his presence is required at the Royal Garden Parties. attaching to the office, however, has long since lapsed. He is no longer required to buy the Royal groceries.

A dry House LIKE bers' most Bar pubs, at the House Memof Commons has its regular customers. But few pubs ever run out of their clients' favourite drink. And this is just what happened at the Members' Bar. Regulars who called in there this morning for a last drink before Whitsun found the place almost, though not quite, dry." Only bottled beer remained. the draught having been finished off last night.

The obvious explanation is thirst. additional one is that the to be altered and made smaller during the recess, though only part of the work will be done. It was probably thought inadvisable to carry large stocks. usually regarded as a stepping stone on the way to stage, film, or modelling. I met a Beauty Queen today with none of these ambitions.

She is hoping that the experience of being in the public eye will help her as a barrister. Miss Margaret Young (Miss Merseyside), was in London for the Miss England competition. She tells me that it all began when someone entered her without her knowledge in a seaside competition. After some hesitation she decided to go on with it while reading for the Bar at Liverpool University, where she also edits an undergraduate magazine. writes short stories, acts in the dramatic society, plays tennis and is three parts through what she hopes will be a best selling novel.

She only just failed to win the verdict today. She was fourth out of 28. Beauty and the Bar BEAUTY competitions are pening tomorrow is one of the lesser variety. There have been no lack of assurances today that the Cabinet will be strictly confined to the foreign fieldif confined can be applied to so wide and currently momentous a context. After reporting to the Cabinet Mr.

Eden will be spending a day or two with his wife, before returning to Geneva on Monday Tuesday. Subtle difference MR. T. G. D.

GALBRAITH'S BRUNO VAILATI succession Mr, R. E. Conant as Comptroller of the Household raises a question of prestige among Government Whips. Mr. Galbraith was formerly a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, He receives the same salary as before, £1,500 a year, and his duties as a whip are unaltered.

But it would not be tactful to describe his move as a promotion in the hearing of one of the Lords Commissioners. fact, with the Treasurer and vice of the House- CHOICE 8.30 0 Royal von Tournament TELEVISION AND RADIO CHOICE RADIO 8.30 9.15 Music TV Eric Streheim Variety TELEVISION 8.10 2.10 Hurst Park Races and 8.15 Empire Cames. Children: Sugar and Spice: The Appleyards. 7.25 Weather. 10.15 In Town Tonight.

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No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer Now is the hightide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay. J. RUSSELL LOWELL. bridge is as picturesque a gatehouse as you will see anywhere, and the town walls can still be traced, but of the castle hardly anything endures. There it was that Henry first saw the light, and you may see in the marketplace statue of the victor of Agincourt.

One of the most leisurely bus services of modern times nects Monmouth with Abergavenny 13, or 14 miles away; for unless has been speeded up recently the scheduled time is 85 minutes. A hustling American visitor might well decide that either he or the driver had gone quite mad when upon reaching ing some of the signposts the bus is turned in the opposite direction from the destination. Repays Abergavenny pestles, in the pleasant valley Usk among fine upstanding hills. To the south rises the bare flank of Blorenge; to the north and east the wooded sides of the Sugar Loaf, Skirrid-fawr and Skirrid-tack make a gracious picture. The conical peak of the Sugar Loaf, 1955 feet high, repays the walker tenfold for the moderate exertion of ascending it by offering wildly views of the Black Mountains, the Brecan Beacons, and many another shaggy height.

Most of the ridges of the Black Mountains are in Breconshire, but a salient of Monmouthshire territory runs up that county and Herefordshire. Here is to be found the secluded and beautiful Vale of Ewyas, closed in by mountain walls on either hand and at the head, with the Afon Honddu, a purling trout stream, winding its way to the southern outlet. Ultima Thule At Lianthony, the village of the vale, I was the sole visitor during that hot and fateful Whitsun of 1940, when a all other intending week-enders had cancelled their trips because of the supposed of invasion. To this Ultima Thule came one William de Lacy in 1103 and founded a Cistercian abbey which lasted till the Reformation, and some walls still remain. The county's most notable ruins, those of Tintern Abbey in the valley of the Lower Wye, belonged to the same religious order.

Wordsworth was guilty heavyfooted lines about Tintern, don't let him put you off, for its hoary stones are framed in as fair a scene as either England or Wales has to show. Those reaches of the Wye from Symonds Yat to Chepstow near mouth, with the Forest beginning on the Gloucestershire bank, are if anything well known and popular, but. up on the enfolding hills the rambler has almost exclusive use of the paths and trackways, and the finest views of the sinuous river below. Raglan Castle No fewer than five and twenty Norman fortresses are scattered over the shire, and Chepstow has splendid example on a cliff above the Wye. Raglan Castle, where Charles I lived for a time after Naseby, is an extensive and well-preserved ruin." But the oldest of historic remains in the county is the amphitheatre at Caerleon, the Isca of the Romans.

Busy Newport is only two or three miles away, but have stood in that relic of antiquity by the waters of Usk and almost felt myself to be in a Mediterranean land until I looked up to eastern skyline and the square tower of an indubitably British village church. 200 YEARS AGO From the Birmingham Gazette," June, 1754 'Tis impossible to express the Satisfaction which is declar'd by every one that has seen the extraordinary Performances now exhibited at the Old Theatre in Moor Street, Birmingham, viz. The Surprising Dog of Knowledge, that reads, writes, and casts accounts, etc. The Infant Whistler of the Woods, that imitates not only the Birds to a very great perfection, but also the Beasts in so just a manner as not to be distinguished from the real Animals. And also the wonderful Black who performs such curious Equilibres on the Slack Wire.

GARDENING by H. KNOWLES IT CAN BE PR PROFITABLE THE vegetable garden can only be made profitable if intensive cultivation is practised, and from what I see of most allotments we still have much to learn from the commercial grower in this respect. Now that most of the rows are clearly visible few people will be able to say that their ground fully occupied, Potatoes are a good example. When they are earthed up, as most earlies will be by now, leeks or Brussels sprouts can be planted between the row's. You can go further and set lettuces between the sprouts.

Leeks in particular seem to thrive by this treatment, as they get a few inches of soil round the stems when the potato crop is lifted. For this reason too sprouts, with their tall stems, are better than winter cabbages or savoys, though with care in lifting these may be used. The lettuces will be cut before the potatoes are harvested so there is no problem here. Our uncertain weather has always made the growing of outdoor tomatoes something of a chancey business and yet there are few crops that pay better dividends when they succeed. Last year I grew quite a batch of the new bush tomato, The Amateur." and although the season was far from kind for Festival (Light) oN (Midland) Programme Parade.

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Three cat poems TV PERSONALITY JASMINE BLIGH She wanted to be an actress Our Correspondent London FEW women in the have dared of more cause television than Jasmine Bligh. She has given a demonstration of dangerous driving which nearly put her upside down in a ditch; done trick motor-cycle riding with the police force; taken a pioneer flight in an auto-gyro; and been rescued from a 100-foot ledge during a fire-brigade exercise. This was all in the course of B.B.C. duty in pre-war days at Alexandra Palace, when Miss Bligh was officially listed as TV announcer. No, wonder she says: wouldn't want to be an announcer now.

They are in a little room of their own--right away from the show." However, the Pearl White of the small screen is taking television more quietly at the moment. She is appearing in the afternoon programmes introducing such soothing topics as gardening and cookery in "About the Home." She is doing special series for deaf children. It took three months of research before she was able to find the right formula. She has also compered fashion shows, on and off TV, but adds: "I don't really enjoy it very much. The clothes are 50 beautiful I want to buy them all and I can't afford it." Miss Bligh has her own ideas about fashion: Slacks and strapless dresses should be strictly left to 18-year-oldsand slim ones at that." She herselt, in tailored dress with heavy gold jewellery, looks as if she could happily confine existence to the four walls of a Mayfair dat But the former debutante, daughter of the Hon.

Noel Bligh and niece of the Earl of Darnley, is quick to dispel that impression. loathe London," says the London born Miss Bligh. Some day, I'll achieve my ambition, get back to the country and run my own farm." This is no idle dream for she knows something about the job. After the war she went to live on a farm in Southern Ireland where the water came from pump in the yard and the light from oil lamps. She put in a working day that lasted from 6 a.m.

to 8 p.m., drove the tractor and thought nothing of sowing crop. over 30 or 40 acres. this crop was amazed, and gratified, by the results. The yield was very much higher than I had ever had from an outdoor crop even in a warm summer, and the first fruits were ready almost as soon as in a cold greenhouse. What appeals very much was the fact that they can be left when the gardener is on holiday, since this variety needs no attention after planting.

It is best to place lawn mowing around the plants to keep the fruits clean, or straw where this is available, Watering should not be necessary after the plants are established, and a general fertiliser, in liquid or powder form, or one of the special tomato fertilisers, will be advantageous when the fruits are swelling. Her entrance into TV was really happy accident. She wanted to be an actress-apabout the B.B.C.'s search for peared in West End plays and women announcers at a party, Charlot revue. She heard applied, and was chosen with Miss Elizabeth Cowell out of 1,000 applicants. I asked if those early acting ambitions would ever materialise again in a TV play.

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