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A Car To
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Drive To The White House
By RODNEY CAMPBELL
New York.
WHEN Henry Krajewski
became Poor Man's candidate for the U.S. Presi- his dency,
painted he streamlined roadster red, white and blue, with silver stars and yellow dalsies. Then he offered to fight 'a charity bout with Two-Ton Tony Galento.
In the first address of his olection campaign, he told a press conference at his home town of Secaucus, New Jer- sey: "I can beat that guy Galento's ears off."
to
the answer.
So Henry went home to the he runs on Secaucus Lavern Road. Mrs Krajewski was out- side on the doorstep.
AFRICA
LIBYA
Miles
CARO
STINE
SAUD!
EGYPT
ARABIA
AKSLO-
EGYPTIAN
SUDAN
UGANDA
KENYA
A land where the unexpected always happens
Pot Luck With The Caid
By Sir GERALD BARRY
tran
T
by DON TAYLOR
possibilities
THE country of "The business
Odd Things That crocodile shooting.
be. Happen" has
the world's front-page country.
come
THE PRIZE
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of kneeling position
with the night cold.
feet.
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stiff
They
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She was only thawed out by fires being lit round her.
The Sudan is the land schoolboy strikes
national..
Even the animals of the had to be alded to their Sudan are news.
And on Jebel Marra, at In front of me, as I write, Jawa, an old, woman was That country is the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It is the story of a hippo found frozen stiff beside to it and is a key to the Middle East which whiled away a spare an ice-bound waterhole! HIS is simply the story yard, partly open
a partly giving on to it through situation. For there will be hour by chasing the inhabi- with of supper
v'ndows with decorated W
settlement of the Suez tants of a village round the no The challenge was phoned
Moroccan Caid, or re- grills on its threshold as problem, no agreement with streets.
Imagine passed by two serving malas, Galento on the apot.gional chieftain.
until the Sudan Egypt held who
before By
A leopard (was he in "Never hoida da bum," was yourself back in the world one
large sliver bowl to wash 1n, question is settled.
league with the local head- where from of the Arabian Nights..
the other a silver kettle
mon?) kept a team of have become a The trouble with
which she poured warm water. ablutions
Government audit officials pastime. went about my
Strike leaders are ex- Morocco, indeed, is that it is
besieged in a house for the there might king
closed pelled, schools are so like the fairy tales and dejentely, think
best part of a day.
but the strikes go on. the travelogues, and that be some degree of ceremonint
FAROUK calls himself the
.The
have. workers had a hearty wash and no non-
"King of the Sudan." this sense of cheap unreality, but I matted the initiated takes some days to wear off. sonst. So when the performance
the at
But the real "uncrowned sooth-. vis Snake charmers and
I did likewise; in of the dinner,
the Sudan perform sayers really do the market places; storks do one needs it then, having plek-king" of
sentinel on elty ed one's way with one's fingers Governor-General Sir Robert out of sight... indeed stand
George Howe, the brilliant do trundle on through nine courses. walls; cornels,
in
should working-man's son who won Only the right hand and off the stage just as
and only his way from elementary ilassan, and the sun really does be used for eating,
Angers and the set in the desert in a dazzle of the first two
It is a curious sight to the Foreign Office.
school to Cambridge and on pink and orange,
thumb.
Bil After some days the sense the first time one sees It, Born to diplomacy, Henry
re these fingers stabbing and fer- unreality begins to be
meat. He was brought up in a worked out
for reting about among the a compromise-in
for the form of a new statlon wagon. placed by a deep, respect
the usulent | terrace house-now his ad, people. fumbles Then Mrs Krajewski said it was the landscape and its
dress is "The Palace, Khar- all-right for him to run for And if you are so fortunate as pieces.
toum." go to dine with a Cald she was to President, and soon telling the local reporters
"No well, the last illusions vanish, comment" if she had been The thing is real ali right; of between the any date, almost, memoirs swotting up the
tenth and twentieth centuries- President Truman,
In every presidential election although the sense of wonder
Prica Introduces
her may never wholly leave you. America
For instance, we arrived in an amazed candidates to
the Bleckest of motor-cars after i' There
always world.
13 Prohibition candidate, usually a
through
"I got a house to run and five kida, and a husband to take care of and I don't want be no First Lady," she yelled at him, down from his as he stepped
"And I'm not sensational car. going to ride in that thing, either."
year
cram
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01
God's Will candidate, sometimes
en Alcohol-plus-Combling ad-
2 tspen
venturer
a
handful
of votes and a loud of publicity.
ย a 60-kilometre drive
I
More and more
And a bative reports that · he chased a man-eating lion nothing to learn from the is down the road until it was. West. Labourers recently turned up with a huge snake they found in a The official comment on train. On the strength of this says: "His story is this "occupational hazard" being treated with some re they demanded a rise in
.. pav. servation."
TOO HOT, TOo
COLD
climate, too, can It is a time to nollee hands. Extraordinary people THE
always be relied on to noticed that those of an in- always seem to be turning keep up the country's re- tellectual-looking young Arab sitting opposite me
patation.
nearly
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Yet, in the midst of this ferment of Westerni- sation, large tracts of the Ike sprawling Sudan are the Empire of Kipling's day,
BLOODSHED
tribesmen from
the
were the up in the Sudan, Four officers most beautiful I could remem-
of the
CAT Recently a
broke BORDER incidents-with on ber ever having seen
I learnt afterwards that Ethiopian Air Force arrived down in the desert, and man. he was a particularly brillian: there recently. It is odd, but the passengers the dark to come suddenly up doctor.
Nine courses the first anvians. un a village street Hined from end to end, twp to the entire roasted lamb, one
shortly after, on with Arabs
rach table, its ribs
And, of all things, they the Wadi Barei, camels bustness, had come to look into the became immobilised in rough its parched side. It is hurdly on elegant tearing off
they were all Scandina. perished from heat and Congo, Ethiopia, or Uganda
Henry in the first in the feld-viding street-lighting by
He is also the fral this year. man tu run on the Poor Man's
wav- ing acetylene torches head-high. The French general in com-
to
·bursting
ticket, as such, in history. He mand of the area was the guest to eat discres email enough
is also the Arst candidate who has opened his campaign for the peer man by buying himself a new car. Soon
of there were' scores
crantes knocking at Henry's door asking if they could be Vice- President.
"
"I got all these guys together," said Henry the next day, and questioned them on their views.
sounded of them onc O.K.-until he said he wanted a two-day work week. He was too radical. So I finally picked another guy who wants to give a bottle of milk a day to every kid in this country—and not to any of those foreigners."
The
་
influence of this new potential. Veep, Frank Jenkins
nu
this time
Tot
Bones, If they come your American
you dump way,
unself- consciously on the table. But no one cats very much of any one dish there is so much
of
more to come.
Vast peaks and plateaux food are carried away virtual- Iv uneroded, presumably to feed the shouting multitudes who, for a couple of hours now, have been working up an ap- petlic outside.
roasted lamb a
After the
*cms
the
you are only
thirst. Yet,
-occur regularly.
Spears are blooded, cap tives are ancient
dragged off, insults a.re
avenged, cattle are driven
away.
The country has just
Column, by R. M. MacColl had its record year of pros-
Tough Questions
For
the
The General
life,
perity.
The great Gezira cotton been an scheme has
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of the night and the Cald had from aummoned his followers far and near to do him honour White avenue They came, and Word content merely to watch or to
example of what can be hold aloft their hissing fares
done by co-operation be- drums, They sang, they beat
tween Government, conducted choruses, they they shouted, and cried aloud.
peasant, and private enter- chilly As we stood in the
prise. roadway waiting for the
Britain's record here is general's party to assemble, we
good.
Right now, had a glimpse of another white
close-robed, sweet pastry flavoured with al-TF you want to know what Secretary of State in George
the Legislative monds and cinnamon. But do
toughly unsenti Kaufman's "First Lady" and I's Assembly of Sudan are debating women bearing brightly coloured standards, not be m'sted: leading down
we have laid before them, to a pink and beginring, Next a dish of chicken mental American is think a sharp satire on Washington the self-government constitution
cooked with olives, toma- ing about the respective
It was annoying to Farouk→→ green courtyard with a glimpse toes and thin grilled potatoes: merits of Taft and Eisen-, to be an Americon income for Egypt's idea was to make of orange and banana trees.
then more mution, this time ho wer 45 potential inx inspector, Daniel Bolich, the Sudan her virtual colony.jp We will pass directly into with french beans and the boi-
so investigating Congressmen are But, instead, the Sudan will the tanqueling chamber and
et archokos; then mut- Presidents, 1 cannot do bet. fok, used to spend £11.58. on decide her own future--whether sit on divans or stools just ton yet again, but now as a ter than quote you the his shirts-ordering them by the she links up at all with raised above the level of by name, apparently lay behind floor. On this-account the cell- sweet dish, with onions, raisins editorial from the toughly dezen-£3 Ba. per tie, and £gues her own way, or links with
Britain and the Empire.. ng. being the part of the room and splees-four ment courses unsentimental New York 35. for pyjamas,
When I was in the Sudan is regarded, most often
the
Cous-cous most exquisitely decorated.
The red to Her what though
HUMAN TOUCH; When I recently I nsired an old soldier It says: role-
"The strongest lan- There are perhaps 40 of us,
After this comes the "We will, if elected, help sup- squatting in pariles
of six brated cous-cous, which koka guage in Eisenhower's North he thought about the mob of ambition to port the unfortunate who cannot round low tables and suddenly as though it ought to be del Atlantic Treaty report is used to people who will descend on country.
themselves instead of all of us help
arc transfixed to-
cious but somehow taates of express a warning that the U.S. Washington to see the cherry) ex- wasting food on people who do gether, storing at that
particular except nothing in
cannot prid will nut bear inde- blossom, not
it deserve
in foreign
quisitely involved celling.
main money and terse: nuts and
unsweetened finitely the dry
material burdens due time stab
of West countries that in
Nine courses sem
semolina. (For this a spoon is us in the back; and use the security for
If you ever thought so, you sonceded.) Then bread, butter European. defence that in the money for social
and dellelous honey (back to long run we can help only those retirement of anyone at the age would never again make
who help themselves, then almonds, be- angers again); of 55,"
mistake of supposing that
walnuts, dates. Finally, Granges Kenry
Is a big, beaming, cause the Arabs may live sim- likable candidate, popular in his ply they are a simple people the size of watermelons, bana-
ond apples. the district, particularly
mind capable of with the Only
So pot-fuck with the. children.
America will forget nicest complexities could have
draws to a close. The when the election is all over conecived that design.
back for On the threshold of the ben- ewers come
stretching
whole course, but water, and the
wards Jashings length of one side of a court- very sweet and (to me)
very
the first foreign policy statement of the Krajewski ticket, which was published with the solemnity
White Paper:
of
him
the
in all.
nas
Daily News.
"We don't know. though, whether a President Eisenhower would be as blunt and hard- Cald holled in backing up these sen- silver timents as we are virtually cer- hand tain a President Taft would be, "That is possibly the most after.
important
fora question which tea, Elsenhower will have to make very his intentions clear before any patriatle American can conscien-
and gone, but without him and aucting chamber-a long. hlan washing. Nothing to drink, of
"crazy the other
candidates" American elections wouldn't be room half as much fun.
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I have chosen to -make light of the meal as the sim-lously vote for him." plest way to digest it, it was in UDOLPH HALLEY, muni- truth a most sumptuous affair, cipal president of New York elegantly and sprucely serve City, says the reason why rae- on tables of beautiful injaid keleers are stronger today than woods by relays of servingut any time since prohibition maids clothed in the most redays is because they are helped markable array of garments and by "decent people" who are too head-dresses.
opathetic to bestir themselves.
A
Our handsome, cultured host" now bid us dispone ourscives DEPARTMENT of carplay under the arches of the inner criticism. I must say, for the courtyard while his dancers per- | capital of the world's ment formed for our pleasure. opulent country, Washington
Then "luxury". puts on o
dim welcome These particular Berber das- for Very Important People.
Highlight of the decorations cera, male and female soparnte- ly, were exceedingly energetic for the arrival of Queen Juliana were the two fire brigade curs and apparently inexhaustible.
which always do duty on such It was now one o'clock the morning, and time for us occasions, their fadders extended and joined to form a "triumphal
to move,
in
The African night looked arch," down disdainfully on our beau-
Lul motor-cars parked under M188 HELEN
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there
GAHAGAN
(Mrs Melvyn. Douglas) - used
the pepper Aroes-and were the women lined up with to be an actress. Then she got elected to Congress, as a Repres hiede banners to 'give good-
sentative from California, and bye.
And there were the clustered pent: three glamorous years in white lines of human flares.
Washington.
Defeated for re-election twe They must have been waiting around, in that sharp night air, years ago, she has been on the for six hours at least.
const since but now sho
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So back to a "luxury hotel," coming back to Washington. Ha and the West.
la going to play the wife of a
with Egypt,
take over the
"Take over us?" · ho said. his comment was "When you British go we'll in-
"They must be nuts,"
Whiteness
corporate Egypt in the Sudan."
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