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A FEW MORE BICYCLES WOULD HAVE MEANT MORE NUTS
By HOWARD FRENCH
I sat looking at the London paper with the headline: "Nuts: The Great Fiasco" As I read, the man in the next chair feant over and said: "Excuse me, I see you are in- terested in groundnuts?”
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"Who wouldn't be," I replied, "they've lost -£22,630,000 of our
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the way it's gone," he said. "Dis
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PIERCY-To Joan, (nee Kenniff) wife of K. C. Piercy at Queen Mary Hospital on Monday November 21, 1949, a son, Michael Charles
DECISION OR DEFAULT
sort of Sart of the River. can tell you plenty abort this mut muddle.
"Of course, you have to g back to the beginning to get your ideas straight about the scheme, You'll remember Frank Samoči, boss of the United Africa Com Py, put the ide up to the Gov- Brament three years ago.
themselves as
*I suppose the Socialists saw lot of Empire builders winning everlasting fame in the jungle. Anyway, they sent out this Aission to make a ca the-spot investigation. And it we on the basis of the Mission's report that the scheme went abead
REPORT ON AFRICA GROUM
Africans differ 25: much as Welsh miser, a Norwegian fisher dit board-and when you've got months correspondence with the man, and a Polish pessant Some to draft the letters by hand with African tribes are suited to agri- five sheets of blotting between yog cultural production. Others are and the paper to keep the sweat small proportion can be trained as me getting a rocket and my at entirely clueless. Only a very on, it's not fun and it ended with mechanics. En reneral; the Afrition drawn to the relevant can works much better on small- scale production
ancial instruction." families.
in individumi Individualism is
Presumably they'd bare pre. strong point.
his ferred the bridge to be washed *Remember the tanlined that's going on parallel to the ex- *way. That's the sort of thing
individual plots stacks of groundnets all argent gromadust administra mided round Kano, all from little tion.
in
The Russians claim to have discovered three new planets that move around the sun but appear only dimly.
Spose they don't mean satel-
A Filipino politician is coming here for a rest.
No-you read it right the first time
A passenger slapped the face of a sarcastic bus-conductor,
He struck while the Irony was
bol
"Look for the Silver Lining."- *It will be shining in Techni-
color
"At Thestre
and
Any prize if I find it?
According to a contemporary, # Princess Margaret is not afraid to kick up her heels “in a gay high and fling."
As we would say on the China coast: Hu Flung Wat?
The restrained public.
ing
"At the same time he is show- some Landscape and stil
lives."
Saunders has changed his name "Sir: Prite Loveden Pryce- to Sir Pryce Saunders-Exyce.".
Does this mean a rise in Pryce?
*
Soviet town which decided to erect a monument to the
I rather like the story of the
Russian poet, Pushkin,
act
Prizes were promised to sculp of ideas and sketches arrived, at tors, and a considerable number
the town hall. They
showed Pushkin standing, sitting, leaning, speaking, even sleeping.
The first prize was given to a sculptor who designed a huge statue of Stalin, reading a book by Pushkin.
Women are poor losers, siys Myrtle's grandfather, especially when trying to reduce,
Acting President Li Tsung- Soggy Ground country, and I know that today the backlog of enshipped ground. jen's arrival in Hong Kong is What seems so incredible is nuts, with this year's crop still said to have caused conster- that all the miscalculations seem coming in, is half a million tons. pation in Chungking. That be based on the calculations,
miscalculations really, of
I dare say you saw something is, of course, a mere figure powered experts,
bish about this in the papers. You'd think stock has become infested with The of speech, for the National ther ought to know enough not to beetles. In a panic the Govern- Government is no longer cap-send in wildly optimistic opinions. ment hastily called together a able of such emotional crises. "Kongwa is about 200 miles in post-investigation unit, but they General Li's action may in- For seven months of the year its
from the coast from Zanzibar, are fighting a losing battle, and crease the Government's ex-soll is dry, brick-hard, and for the are daily being condemned.
hundreds of cons of gromadas traordinary mobility. It may suffers from heary compaction. Hausa
other five, during the rains, it open up idle speculation as to it's a technical term we use. of Mr. Strachey's activities, is
"Meanwhile, of
course, the the next move on the chess-It means that the gruma rolls up busily patting in overtime in the blissfully unaware peasant, board of gestures that have into beavy, soggy humps.
The groundnut scheme, sa s In Wrong Place lost all meaning in the gen- season, and you an imagine if
*It is ploughed during the dry hopes of a Raleigh bicycle and whole, visualised moving a third eral scene of Nationalist dis- Featureless scrub and stunted is that the natives are producing had to do was form 'em up in
adding to the confusion.
of a million people shoot. I supe
"The reason, of course, is that "But the point I'd like to make pose somebody thought all you
we are bound to the traditional solution. It will also add to trees
Colonial about 12 high and the
Service system. If I the Nationalist loss of stand very devil to clear. The cutting Strachey's folly at an umpteenth
lot mere
groundnuts than threes and march them off.
want to by a pair of handcuts ing abroad.
parts of the tractors they first
to give my native police I have to the report that the But no attempt by the Com-Two years later two Manchester on the back of an envelope. I'm get browned off, drift back to beoght
of the cost." tried buckled in
African Lebat Force osas they receipt, attached. The last pair I seven hours. The man from Africa got basy 14,000 to 28,000.
make an entry in five diferent varied from books with payment voucher and munist Government to short-companies were still searching for circuit the normal and in something which would stand but I reckon the natives have pro there is a complete labour turn-
not much of a mathematician; their villages.
cost only half a The report says Looks silly, doesn't it, against our opinion inevitable-pro- to the Kongwa sol.
Meanwhile the pioneers were Strachey's mad-hat scheme. And daced at 1/700th of the cost of cesses of recognition will ploughing
over every 10-
10 months.
a single item or
of £460,000 simply written
with a wave of the succeed by knocking at the metal from old Desert tanks. The ing attacked by pests. It's tragic people ader his care, is feeling.
"The average District Commis hand armoured now neatly all he produces is besioner,
grundart perhaps with 100,000
people. back door of the United Na- best these would do was 25 hours and pathetic.
is now this dual control tions. There isn't much point and then back to Heartbreak
Pinching and scraping a bit browned off too, seeing all where there were never
these millions going down then one hand after 50 years of Is Too Big
drain. Every month the Kongwa British rule most villages still need a concrete well-dress-
clean One of the main troubles at scheme spends a, million, equiva Kangwa, of course, has been that lent to 10 years revenue for my ing station, and school, the whole who collects all kinds of Insects the whole thing is too biz.
Why district.
of which could be provided for asks a youthful corresponent. was there no pilot
For instance, I was building scheme, for
£800 &
On the
A picnicker. a village Nationalist China sits on the show as Government agents for Wanted to
£40 of £23,000,000, enough, I should "Trains. 1 bad: used no the
It was Mark Twain who de- be spectacular. Security Council and will the first 16 months-end no er heard them talking about ferti - allowed for the job and found I think, to equip almost every vil-fined
25 good breeding
the stay there till international pense spared Local sub-contraclisers-in & quantity equal to the wax still a few bags of cement lage under British
**control in ability to conceal how much we think of ourselves and how little recognition is withdrawn in watched a tricot The natives whole consumption of Europe for short. If I'd left it, the rains
From my experience I think I
of the other person. favour of its successor.
I won't bore you with a lot of chance of them getting it
a year. Naturally there wasn't a would probably have washed the
whole thing away, so as the pro- can say the Kongwa scheme has gone wrong because it's in the figures chout costs and losses. Then, again, they talked about cedure for applying for more
Man at party, turning to wife:" They're ali
the right in a Paper, but let's take the thing capital. A and a capital L. Well, expended the secount by 3786
whole | "That White African Labour, like that, with a money was so complex I over wrong place and
reminds me of a TELJ groundnut plan has started from funny story will you
tnice it from a COMMON-SEASE point of of course, there's no such thing. Afterwards this involved six the wrong end"
from there, dear?" view.
House repair.
OD king
.
in
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in the Nationalist contention less than 200 machines under that the Peking regime is an illegitimate and rebellious
You don't need me to em- phasise the cafusion and loss all offspring of the parent Kuo-
This caused The United Africa mintang. But the fact is that | Company, as you know, ran the instance? They just bashed in, concrete calvert just before the there is this fantastic emenditure.
If there is too great delay, there may be a demand for the withdrawal of recognition of the present representatives of China as an interim mea- sure. But the United Nations' Charter doesn't tell us what can be done if the Nationalist delegate, armed with the power of veto, should defy such action.
Quite possibly the United
tors made a forteze.
Natives Know..
"During the war we were asked to encourage the native farmers to grow more groundmits, It was part of my job to go from village to village impressing on the elders to get each family to produce just that little bit more
'And so did all the other. Dis- trict Officers in areas where they
Africa,
WHISKY GALORE--BUT
THERE ARE SOME SNAGS
lumberjack Danny, the
Nations may be plagued with knew groundnuts grew naturally, who spent the war years on By GEORGE INGLIS compared with the 9,500,000 gai- |
.x
leeway i War.
market gets only 2,000,000 gallons,
lons which it absorbed before the
How much longer must whisky be mobilised as Scotland's chief- tain in the Battle of the Dollar Gap! How far and how fast can
at present prices?
a great deal more oratory on
The natives were told they Speyside, would be astonish- the subject, and Mr. Vyshin- would be paid 193.
unded if you told him that he the slight production sky's espousal of the Chinese which works out around £20 Communist cause may lead ton. Now the natives have a par- had a hand in slowing down could be made up by the end of
the seaso Hality for
Raleigh bicycles (for this to quite a lot of counter-pro- some reason no other brand will "Scotch."
A momentous season it is, too, year's production of
first sferire industry. For the paganda on the record of the do) and Manchester Soviet Government in regard (the gasdier the better) cloth Back in his native Newfound-time in 11 years, it is anticipated, the American market be pushed
"Every donkey-load meant two land, he would grin and protest the distilleries will produce, be
It is around questions like these yards of cloth
twenty load") that surely a few nips he drank) tween now and May, as much as that any doubts arise about the equaled one bicycle. The native did not make all that difference. they turned out in s pre-war
future of the Scot's drappie O' the thought this a very good thing for
But it was with saw and are, season
Whisky galore, then, in next to "Auld Kirk and the Sassenach's producing the one crop he really not in his leisure time, that the
"Scotch". The distiller is already Positive
no time? Not quite. There treatment
how to grow.
damage was done. knows
delivering the goods. "So on positive decision are neces-basis, quite unplanned, hundreds first not of whisky but of water.
a private enterprise To get the explanation think snags still sary. The members of the of thousands of tons of shelled It is the life-blood of the dis. Commonwealth have decid-groundnuts poured into the rail-tilling business-water in thou- To begin with, keep in mind ed on recognition of the Fek-head collecting depot at Eano, sands and thousands of gallons, that the whisky ready for drink
really centre of the
to China and territories over which China held suzerainty, But these jousts will lead nowhere.
and
Look Back
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from the enough to be with-drawn the pure spirit rises are not exploited to put off Stock Infested.
the bond warehouses. stills in vapour fom. the formal deed of recogni-
Three years is Some of it is piped straight "Unfortunately, owing to appall-
the minimum tion, they wont matter much. ing official blundert, no adequate from tumbling mountain streams, laid down for the maturing pro It would be a lot easier to arrangements were made for tran- some collected in darns from cess, but any self-respecting dis- deal
springs, decisively with the sporting this accumulation to the deep hillside
coast. --The 700 miles single track. In the mid October which fol- not like a connoisseur's verdict to realities of today if we knew railway to the coast is barely slowed this year's, dry summer be passed on his product at any a little more about the precise gh for the ordinary needs of the some of these dams were often thing under
10 sight to years. Under normal realities of the marrow. But
empty. Kost Speyside distilleries our present world isn't so sultation. So much the better, just managed to get by, but a few, the age at which most of the kind and indulgent...
In: 1959:5/warehouse Their recommendations will had not enough water to keep up spirit is blended and bottled Even in the United States, strengthen the position of weeks of their working season. 000 gallons Today they are in production in the opening ammmted to just under 150,000,-- thinking seems to be shift the State Department vise- Old bands.
In the the region of 104,000,000 gallons. ing from the wrath of re-vis Congressional critics country maintain that such cognition to the impotence of These consultations are in- age. would have been less likely By the end of the 1850-51 season non-recognition. Feeling re- dependent of the specialised the hundreds of acres of wood-pre-war level of that will be If the countryside and still had they should be almost back at mains strong on the Mukden study of the whole Far Eas- land which Danny and his com- whisky at its best? For a clue
But bow-unch Queen's Bldg, outrage. But the painful fact ter problem by the small rades felled during the two world to the answer look back to the
that while remains on group headed Dr. Jessup, vars.
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