They've Censored
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Errol’s Book
The English edition (published by Heinemann) of Errol Flynn’s book, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”, is avail able this month in Australia, and will be reviewed next month in “PIM”. We can, however, put you out of your suspense now about the passages on the imaginary hangings of natives in Madang district (“PIM”, June, page: 113) which appeared in the US editioni and which incensed old Territorial and caused Mr. Ted Taylor, now living in retirement in NSW, to seek legal ad vice some months ago: These passages have been left right out of the UK edition.
The whole section on P-NG is so ridiculous it is hard to take any of it seriously. Flynn has deliberately scrambled names and places, of course,, but apart from that his geography is haywire, his knowledge of elementary things about the Territory is poor, and some of his own alleged adventures so fantastic that if we didn’t know he had been there, we would have said he got it out of a novel about some other place.
Probably about the first and last thing you can say about Flynn and hiia approach to New Guinea was how he regarded the native girls. To him they were all “golden” coloured; with skins “like satin”. The shape of thein breasts drove him to ecstacy—on one occasion to saying that one girl, in this department, was shaped like a “ski run”.