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DON. IDDON'S DIARY
Slim Speaks Up At Right Time
N
you
New York, Tuesday. Sir Leslie's timing is wonder- tish Women's Home Industries, moment Ltd., caught my arm and said:
ara serious EW YORK has had an Iul. He chooses the
Japanese, 1
about exceptional number of when the Germans,
and Halians have just establish Britain's dollar drive you can
overlook this possibly Bureaus here to say not distinguished visitors a news
Our hand- during the past few days. that the British can't afford to fashion opening,
in the knits are vital dollar-earners." have correspondents Mr Attlee slipped in and out
United States.
So I sat incomfortably in drawing-room, surrounded like a mouse, making searcc- ly any impact at all, but Queen Juliana has produced loud cheers and warm good
will.
success,
THE
150
Depart-
The defeated ex-enemies can the
Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP moves to Africa
I. TOO. WOULD
7
BE JITTERY
WHEN LAW
A paw patrals by, Wienalga Ksan.
Sefton Delmer has flown in to the touchiest potential trouble-spot of all-where whites are outnumbered by four to one. This is Report No. 1ị
AND PASSIONS CLASH
of them
one "Our club," Dr Malan's Nationalists have Johannesburg, Apr. 6.
OR Johannesburg's already hinted that they mean laughed, pointing derlyively. But half-million whites Nationalist ex Servicemen's the Salvation Army hostel. They politics among them- this is a day of Torch Commando organisation as talked jitters. Out in the "Communists and nigger-lovera." selves, with me: "We are slaves. But we shall remain. Believe slum suburb of Fordsburg
The riots might provide the me, boss," dangerous things are hup- pretext. The Torch Commandes
They pretended to take an a- would defy any such move. pening.
terest in the herbs, catskins, Civil war would be at hand. and tharms of an African My second reason for un- peddler squatting by the road.
the nervousticsS And then, like the Saturday 14,000,000 proletariat are derstanding marching through the of white Johannesburg is because before and the Saturday before what.I saw myself here. that, they began to move off in
twos and threes towards the streets cheering, singing, yesterday afternoon.
Bantu sports ground. and shouting slogans. They For among the Africans T
to denounce and ban the antle the "club" was closed. So wus
and
Blacks, yellows, browns of South Africa's
ان
carry bright blue banners
Fordsburg's "Freedom There, on a square of derelict marked "Freedom in 1952” saw in
Square wanted-familie Dogsland outside the sports rounded "Malan remember how were many of the same men whore a few of the more
Hitler fell". "Down with the unjust laws"...." ."Down with passes."
These last two slogans refer law providing fort to (1) The. blacks to be confined to special areas of their own, and (2) To the pass from his white employer which every black must carry, move in the entitling him to streets.
afford correspondents the vic--by women fashion, writers,
while debutante models wheel-fists held shoulder high in
Plummer? Certainly not hard
Jacts.
British Press corps
all the
Big laugh week
on
burlesque,
treen
-
On they go into Fordsburg's their exaltation main square,
the under. steadily rising eloquence at spchicers, and under rhythm of Intoxicating the calypso folk songs of Africa, tu which they sing their slogans and sway ecstatically.
SAILOR MALAN,
Battle of Britain ace and leader of the Torch Com- manda which has demanded the resignation of Premier Malan's Government, The demand followed Supreme Court decision to invalidate Cape- the Act puiting
on a coloured voters separate roll.
enlightened Africans were play- ing tennis-a long line of men stood, sat, and squatted on the edge of what seemed to be' a kind of plt.
BURIED BEER
SI approached I saw they were divided into groups,
each with a 2lb. jam in from which they were drinking, pawing it around the group.
they
7. are
In the pit were women "shebeen queens" called-digging out further tins - where they from the ground buried their treasure.
reinforce they
The tins contained Kaffir beer, .. a brew made by the women from millet boiled up with yeast.
But
it with doses of carbide, methylated spirits, and even corpses of snakes and klak. rats-anything to give it
Marijuana-here known dogha-was being sold openly at a shilling for half an ounce,
When I saw them they were still reasonably sober. But only a few hours later the ground was seething with thousands of 'men
womon ,"and
Oghting drunks, ready for
for any act of frenzy. Nor is the sports ground the only site of mass drinking and marijuana
neighbourhood 'main square.
Juana orgles. Other illelt beer stills are in the immediate of Fardsburg's The meeting has not had even a tenth of the 100,000 attendance which the organisers advance boosting claimed it would have.
They march with clenched Baluto "No, it is not the Com- torious British cannot,
What has got into Sir Leslie ed and strutted in front of me.
It was a difficult half-hour, munist salute," says the rally's Cuchalay to an Indian organiser I had to pretend to be as The The Queen and Prince Bern here is small. The American expert, feel the texture of the md. "Note that the thumb is com- not clenched and pointed back- hartt have been staying at the news agencies alone, have more wool, (superlative), and
bureaux ment on the styling (magnif-wards." Waldorf-Astoria. There has men in their Lendon
British
news- cent).. been little pomp and almost no than
the 1ogether in ceremony
papers have
Stales.
There a modest entire Unlied There have been thopping expedition, a visit to are more American correspon- TILL, I was quite a change, after all the political hul- the theatre, and trank and in- dents stationed in Europe than
The past few days fa mal sessions with the Press, there are pubs in Flest Street, Inbaloo. The Queen requested no curtsY- But we must have no one in have been a five-eing circus, a avelling carnival, and a wild from the Dutch here, and the United States except Ing no motor-cycle escorts from agency man or two.
The Attorney General, the New York Police
Did Sir Leslie cheek on the
fired the Johannesburg police are walt- number of foreign correspon- Howard McGrath, ment.
investigator Newbolding in readiness. Plain clothes It has been an unusual royal dents in the United States be- special
news Morris, and President Truman men from the C.I.D. are taking pictures of British visit, add it has been a great fore attacking
fired McGrath. Defence Mobili-miniature-comera paper spending?
Charles Wilson resigned. Communist suspects among the have T If he had he would The right note
discovered that the impoverish The heads rolled and the cast demonstrators. Swedish Premier, Tage ed French have 19 correspon- kept changing.
It was
officially National
THEY FEAR.......... Erlandre, and British Field- dents, the struggling Chinese
and there is no Marshal Sir William Slim have six, the indomitable Dutch 13, Laugh Week,
been in town, muking
the Greeks four, the Austrians doubt it was falthfully observ-
Untor-N in Washington.
the street lending to the friends and influencing people.
three. ed three, and The Danes
dangerous heaps square are thought Sir William Slim There are also reporters from tunately, the joke was on the
of broken brick, flint, and bits struck exactly the right
Iceland, United States. note Argentina, Belgium,
It has
They have completely of paving stone. to his American audience. He Indonesia, and Syria.
been left behind by drainage I had seen" yesterday in scenes brushed aside suggestions that
corps from blank week on Broadway no
by a horror unparalleled new plays
The fine workers. Ideal ammunition for of ut all. British im "Encore" opened rioters.
anything I have ever seen any Two shows
at the Normandy Cinema. It
slick and professional
job.
And yet my feeling is that this
It was in Centrul Johannes- HAVE been to two big Bri-
tish dollar-carning shows Kay Walsh is particularly good. "People's protest day," organised
The Americans are flocking to by the "African National Con- burg in the early afternoon,
have this past week.
gress" ("Oh, to, the
was two hours after the International "Encore."
with the We shall grouse, we
First W23
Tarzan Lex Barker and his nothing in commÖN ct Grand
had closed, and HE tragle thing about South Crumble. People will say wo Motor Sports Show
New York, wife, Arlene Dahl, are going Communists"), will not lead to factories
of black labourers. Africa's blacks as I see it in are decadent then somebody Central Palace.
explosions Johannesburg thousands
from Americans were to England to make "Captains the
--many of them fresh will hit us and they win find where the
Blood." They adorned
disc- this first impression is this: last fears. Not here. brickly bidding for our cars.
their itibes, with huge
In demonstrating against the out we are not?"
Malan laws Maybe, though, at one or two like earrings flapping from dis-
restricting them Britain's lagging What of
Among the foreign exhibitors year's Daily Mail Film Award
outstanding, Show.
of the many
other industrial tended lobes were lounging from coming Into these urban feet in the rearmament effort? I think we were
the drab asphalted to
Bound for Britain the but some new sports converti- "Nonsense. Compared
centres where the congress is through
demonstra- streets. A weck's pay was in size, population, and wealth of bles the Americans are putting
their pockets. our country our military com- cut are going to give our class EORGE RAFT, who hasn't organising similar
been seen for some time, mitments are second to none, cars serious competition.
They were looking for some Nevertheless, I fully appreciate We
been and. have
are is to appear at the Prince
Only by keeping down the mean none."
in London and the reasons for my white friends thing to do, something to Felicitations to the
the sports car field. Wales Theatre Fleld supreme
will make a six-week tour 01 nervousness.-
them out of the drab one-ness of number of blocks in Johannes- Marshal. Sir William arrived Let us stay at the top.
Raft has not
their existence as unskilled burg and similar areas will it The other chow was at the the provinces. just at the right time to coun-
FMST-because any black or labourers from which promotion be possible to kill these orgies,
of the worst ter an unfortunate impression elegant home of Mrs Ronald made a personal appearance in
I England for 26 years, so it's coloured rlot Intervening at this is denied them by labour rules, reminiscent
Britain's industrial revolution. created by reports of Mr Aneu- Tree, and when I arrived
moment of high political tension
and white over I found them, gathered around Only with the restriction of with T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the between white LTD..rin Bovan's book "In Place of almost turned and ran, because about time.
Cathedral" was received here the rule of law issue could have the corrugated iron palings of numbers will it be possible to Bevan build-up/ Mrs Constance Gold, who is ecclly as being unsuitable aim the most far-reaching political the African municipal beer hall improve housing and provide
in Vonwiellgh Street..
amenities for all which will raiso REEVAN has been getting the gales manager for the Bali- materia. It drags.
their standards of living.
and But arrogance
hatred publicity here
drive them on to self-destruc- than he warrants, He is being
GENERAL MANAGER, PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY, LONDON, E.C.
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built up as a tremendous figure in Britain, the one man Chur- chill fears, and the leader of savagely anti-American group.
hcord Even my barber has of him. America, doem't het Wants to
are
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the house was jammed
women
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of
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consequences.
where.
It
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Wallflowers Are Orchids Here
Ane Russians Saya the folks and we are trying to ruin the British by sending all this pilots, artillerymen dough to you."
for the British people.. you've increased your
price by ten cents,"
right.
I
620
haircut
rip-
But it requires only, one dope- crazed man to set alight a fre which would spread-rapidly.
BLACK TRAGEDY
areas--and confining them to special reserves of their own- they are demonstrating against their own salvation.
tion.
of
WHITE TRAGEDY
S for Calvinist ex-pastor
guns hour for a 40-hour week, and American big night clubs the arrogant
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white South
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of the
Anchorage has the The
few forms astride the Ottawa. size at West Europe but with a
atmosphere of a free only Acctie Circle have to import all roaring play footsie with the Commies.HE round-the-clock alert scattered population of 35,000 their cattle feed from USA, and and easy frontier post with the Premier Malon and the men
and whites 00,000 THE
overlay of an glittering
an behind him, the tragedy is that maintained by Alaska's Eskimos, Red
and pay the labourers 105. Indlans
city. Some 300 Intolerance of the British-and and Aleuts. Instead, troops,
So cocktail
ambition to turn burts radar .operators on the and planes rere being built up 24s, an hour for overtime.
surprising that milk cater to its 30,000 inhabitants. South Africa into a purely Boor
Those gay spols mostly jostle country is driving I said: "I don't think you coldest and "hottest" fron- in strong points to defend the it is not have the picture quite
each other along neon-lighted Africa" to destruction. Bevan doettler in the cold war is being four large milltary airfields and costs 4s. 6d. per quart. Mr Ancurin
two principal ports and to pre-
Overflowing
uch
Fourth Avenue, which boasts
For this passion is bringing United backed up by a realistic vent" Bn aggressor turning ichow much about the
Canadian Alaska into a homet's nest of highly-paid bachelors, Alaska' that it is the longest bas in the him into conflict with the rule shouldn't States,
worry war rehearsal
North largest city of Anchorage is a threatening.
of law, which is the only possible doesn't. Epeak and American troops are in bombera
ground hunting корру about him; he
basis for
for the survival Fishing, mining, lumbering white community, outnumbered the middle of their six America's arms factories.
office workers, they carn -The "scorched-lee" protection single women. As shop girls or months' snow manoeuvres
per month and have a similor, and fur-irapping are the only four to one by blacks/-
Alaska. normal industries of
Fortunately there are signs. My barber said: "Yes, had in the 99 degrees of frost is slowly being replaced by
Maginot heartland.
ly unequalled number of boy Nearly all food has to be ship that the dangers are being recog to. Got to get the money from on the Alaska-Yukon box But the wives and children friends.
ped from
USA to the only nised by the leaders of Malan's
lee-freeport, of
Reformed Church, somewhere to bend over there der.
of soldiers and airmen station.
Mest girls admit that it is to ruin you:"
ed there still keep a suitcase
expensive airlift from Critic of the Pross
takes them to Alaska, where on the (REETINGS dp Bir Leste tip of the American continent; backpd bnd their cars loaded · the search for a husband which Whitler. Fresh food is carried. Saner counsela may yet provali.
with food and petrol;
Wallflower Seattle, ΟΙ Plummer the Socialist and to the vital right funk
seems an Arctic Orchid..
Eggs and bacon cost 128, 6d,,
Midnight Postscript: Ah, well, is within The new defence build-up la even Civilisation's for the Pacific front. Member. of Parliament
in Johannesburg the demon- Deptford, from the British cor-five minutes' flying time of the creating a booming prosperity.
Today, lorry drivers carrying The free-pending bachelors' while a bowl of fresh fruit ost salad 1178: 6d, at the, sand- in the United powerful Red air baseS respondents
Alaska wich bar of the swagger Weststration line in fact gone of without incident. But it could the Bering Strait. It has been munitions and building supplies favourite gift to woo the States.
ice-covered and often, numbered girls is the
have gone differently, I feel would leave all described by Genocal Elsen up the Sir Leslie
in mnow-covered Alaska Highway novelty, a hooded jacket mado ward Hotel, to hower as the weakest link
Patrick there is no need for shame about the reporting of America
defence of North America, esto a staggering 2540 per of white fox fur and quilted
my Hitters, Reuters, the news,'agency.
The fortiication of Alasica month. Artisans building the inside. This is guaranteed to
Nicholson
i={London" Express Service) In his next Commons: speech
guarding military barracks make 25%, an warm a girl's heart as well as no doubt he will tell us what cannot be geared to
hes body for £200. to write and what to print: this whole prok, "four times the hour.
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