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London. 320/F3118)(62228125027/8071 IGHT here in Fleet
Street I can imagine SEFTON
the way they are
talking about An-
thony Eden's proclamation of self-government for the
Sudan.
There they sit as I left them the cafes of a year ago....in Khartoum and in the bazaars of Omdurman the ivory mer. the the silversmiths, chants, sweetmeat traders, the lawyers,
DELMER
looks at naw
moves in the
Sudan and
warns of danger ahead
and students, Suspiciously, they KKUTAUSENDISBUR turn over and over the Foreign
Secretary's announcin
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was to provide the Sudan with self-government by the end of this year.
for them- become a their own,
Elections were to follow and with them "self-determination" The Sudanese people were to decide
their future to Gelves--whether unit entirely whether to join up with Egypt, whether to
British Join the Commonwealth with Dominion status.
That promise, given last year, is now being fulfilled strictly on schedule"before the end of
DREDDEN 1952."
Now the Sudan has impressed Northerners Indevelopment-me the most of all the countries. What did I tell
can count on as fair a deal as I have visited where a local ad- bound them are
they are getting from their Bri- ministration is being trained by
in not so many days ago fish administrators today?
the British "Only.
the practice of the Americans announced they
good government. Will
mean that foreign I found many men here who were sending an American in- spector to Khartoum, and al capitalists and Sudanese capl- I felt had the ideals of public ready the British have capitu- talists too-will be prepared to service and justice at heart.
invest Inted by granting self-govern- make the long term
ments necessary, to ment."
Linued development country's resources?
No gratitude BUT
It
This is
the con-
the o!
Agitators
NEVERTHELESS, I fear that
the touchstone by 4 the troubles of the men in
think, Mr ap which, I
Eden the bazaars and the cafes have without the UT even
should have only just begun. pointment of US diplomat and his advisers Wilson Burdett as US. "Liaison measured the wisdom officer in Khartoum-inter- polley. But I doubt whether in agitators in the Sudan will not preted in Washington as well fact they did.
the British-you
appreciation Sudanese for the
of their For Moscow and Its trained
HE THINKS HE WAS WRITTEN A POLITICAL NOVEL -BUT IT IS MORE THAN THAT.......
says NANCY SPAIN
HO is Joyce Cary?
Why does It mat- ter that there is a new novel by him published today?
Was
Well, Cary will be 04 în December; he began to write books when he 40. Ho has already written. 12 considerable novels, and he has been tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner.
our
In France and America he is acknowledged greatest living writer. Eng- land will probably agree one day after his death..
But all this is nothing com- pared with the fact that Cary is the Arst writer · I havo mét
in 20 years who honestly joys being alive.
"But I revel in it." ho sold to me, hand at waving
the Gilliard - green tarf of Brasenose College,. Oxford. and now that it is getting more com- more
exciting....oh, s better than ever."
A reasonable point of view, for has man who
published 臨
Just
potential best-
on-
Cary's methods of working are unique In my experience. He imagines a character in some situation "banging_up against someone elso. Then he writes it up, usually in dia- loguo form, and puts it away. in a folder.
Sometimes it stays in the
·folder for several years. Thên. something happens: the chance remark of a friend, or · some- thing in a book seems to "t with the scene in the folder.
Cary returns to it and adds 'n little more.
"So it goes on, getting big- ger. Then one day I see the whole thing as a book:-That is exciting. 1 have lots of olders in that state. But at the moment I'm mostly think-. ing of making the characters in 'Prisoner of Grace' into trilogy."
JOYCE CARY
:
puts a tumult into the words
of one woman
"Prisoner of Grace" is the novel It con- Nina,
Just cut.
cerns
her
cousin, Jim, and Chester Nimmo,' a' politiefan of genilua. Nina cannot llvu without Jim, She
Is also unable to live without Ches-- ter, So her whole imaginative life is spent balancing between the pair of them, on a highly emotional 4ghtrope,
seller. But none of the royalties somewhat, curlously: "As I run unstable from PRISONER OF GRACE down the street I can ace I betraying first Chester with Jim, (Michael Joseph, 121. dd.) have a green snake on my and then Jim with Chester.
will go to Cury. They have shoulder, bing, bing, bing, been made over to his tour the people fire at my
snake," song,
All
green
As the years pass, passion is für from spent. The story comes full vicious circle, with all three of them living to gether in the same house, nt- fully writing Nimma's memoirs,
Now what is unusual about this book is not the story. Hun- wrliten dreds of people have about exactly such 。 sordid triangular muddle.
Cary is toll, modest, and "Ho sounds as though he gentle, dressed in crumpled might be rather tun," said green tweeds ond D brown Cary of this fan, gently putting cloth cap. In Ireland he would the letter away. Even-0f this background as unknown and slightly dotty melt into his "one of the gentry. striding correspondent, Cary was unable jerkily over his demesne. In to say anything unkind. Oxford, the university of in-
Cary does nocence as well as lost causes, sitting-room. He works in an not work in his
atile, surrounded by box
Cary writes the whole thing he seems an effective angel.
with titles like Tolstoy-Noles in the first person from the This woman's point of view. on Making a Novel.
In itself is pretty remarkable,
He bursts into conversational fire over any subject that in terests him: the tides off the of coast of Cornwall, the art Hen done Gingold, the import- anco of Graham Greene,. Kir- envelopes, sten Flagstad, good food, Paris in 1911, how to make coffee in a jug....
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a
No Relation
written over
files
enormous capital letters. such cryplic remarks 43 "TESS CHARACTERS - CONTROL OF."
I pulled this one out of the For such is his knowledge and shelf. It was full of air mall, intuition that no woman, read-
in ing it, will fail to be moved, -- with
But Cary himself does not quite realise what he has done.
written He thinks he has political novel, for politics and always political theories have been the mainspring of Cary's existence, and ho puts a dif ferent value on them from the ene we usually, do....
"My handwriting is illegible," Bald Cory. "These are notes for a lecture. I talk lectures.
instant crackling response Apparently ALL these things produce at I don't write them."
he talks his bonüre. No like.
wonder- Joyce Cary enjoys being alive, books, too, dictating from the used to do all my typing for He is interested in everything, same kind of notes. "My wife Cary was born in London- me," said Cary. "She died 18 I miss her very derry. Northern Ireland, where months ago. he was christened "Joyce" be much. She had such a
14. cause
was his mother's Blonate, lively mind."
illuminateti maiden name. An address hangs on the stairs in Ox- the
his empty, semi-detached
ford villa that explains Joyces and.. their Anglo-Irish significance.
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'Dictator'
рав
INS
The Fight
a
■NSTEAD, he has succeeded in putting on paper the surge and thunder of 20 years in Eng- land's history.
"
CARY
and Trinity College, Ox- in the foreground, the intense
From 1900 to the troubled
the *twenties, here it all is: MARY was educated at Cliftan spontaneous day-to-day muddie pattern ford, where he just scraped a conventional religious degree in law." Then he be in the background; the unend- painter, learning in ing fight between hope and Edinburgh and, Parts, and In come a 1913 he became on administra- despair that still troubles all our hearts and will to the end because...tor. In Nigeria......
of umo;--
away
Any suggestion that he might be slow to seize any opportuni-be related to James ("Ulysses" es Khartoum as a "nudge" for For two events have forced tea the transfer of government and "Finnegan's Wake") Joyce
ambitious 20
politicians and seems to horrify him. would have
the hand of the best intention-
lawyers may present..
His villa is empty been wrong to expect gratitude cd Billish "policy-makers"over"- Young Wilson Burdett-the his
from
housekeeper the the Sudan.
("She's "Inspector" from America-has
д wonderful cook"). "At one time I was in com- British gcs-
Mr Cary will certainly pro- in spot before where At intervals Cary apologised plete charge there," he said, (1) Britain's Socialist. Gov. been
one day ho I only hope that Sudanete ernment,
deci- there was trouble as a result of for the opened but unanswered "That's why I say I know gress. Probably executing the
that lay
in what it feels like to be a dic- will write an even better book gratitude and bazaar popularity sions of a United Nations com- British departure. I met him in correspondence
tator," heaps on the floor of the sit-
than this. But meanwhile we were not the aims of Mr Eden mission, granted self-rule to Jerusalem in 1946.
Let us hope he is not going | ting-room.
Eventually, however, hls and his advisers in taking this Libya, formerly MX Italian
to noed his stock
health drove him home from should be grateful for this re- belmet in step promised and scheduled a colony.
THERE was a letter from an tropical Africa and he wrote merkable literary achievement Khartoum, year ago.
--(London Express Service)
ended his first novel, "Aissa Saved." of the New Elizabethan Age..
ture.
The first aim
of our policy
(2) Britain's Socialist Gov.. in the Sudon, the Gold Coast, ernment gove a large measure Malaya, or any of the other of autonomy and self-govern- territories we rule should not ment to the Africans of the Gold
or even Local Coast, be popularity, self-government. As I see it, it
should be good government. By which I mean fair government and safe government.
Will
now being given
On schedule
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Skies Ablaze For
THE
The Coronation
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all this
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set-places and an assortmen*. the new Constitution CAY the educated Sudanese: HE crowning of Queen sightedness, the fireworks tacular show.
All are specially prepared for that includes rockets, changing to the Sudan ✪ If the primitive Libyans and
ome Elizabeth II is to be maker led me to of amateur firing, and come to you Ughts, bouquets of roman car- mean more rapid progress for the backward tribesmen of the the signal for a joyous fire- nearly 400 wooden huts with every item labelled with dies, mine of serpents, Jack-in-
detailed Instructions. Enclosed the-box, Gold Coast are ripe for self-work flare-up that will fill comprising his sprawling, with cach selection is a booklet among the tailors, and a salute. the country?
Will it mean that the three government, why not we?” million
for the guid- of guns. inhabitants of
spesially written Is there the
answer to Britain's skies with rain- 200-acre factory. a good
Responsibility for Southern Sudan primitive this? Mr Eden's hastened by bow fire as no bonfire night There, packed ready for ance of back-garden pyrotech-
nists.
Coronation galety is very safe Negro tribesmen, far behind the Egyptian claims to the Sudan-jollification ever did.
tin-lined cases, export in
You will take the 2500 dis- indeed in the hands of a la So, at least, the British were strangely-shaped fire- play? This is not considered that arranged in one favourite fireworks makers hope. For, work devices mounted on likely unless you happen to be a haunt of bygone London over or other body 1,500 displays before more than relying on' their pre timber that grew along the local authority,
with Coronation funds to spend 20,000,000 spectators. Other dis- ! knowledge of what the coasts of 'Africa.
Then your display will begin plays have been sech by, hun- public wants, they aro Soon these elaborate Corona with a 14-inch aerial maroon, dreds of thousands Wning (the You will be thrilled and daz- banks of the Mersey River at going elaborately "to town" tlou set-pieces, and many more
like them will be returning to zled in turn by (to quote the Liverpool. over Coronation plans. Africa--and many other comers catalogue):
DO'S AND DON'TS New York. with her views of the Govern-
Viatas of golden fountains, of the world, wherever citizens to bar ex-h[13•
Consider,
for example, of the British Commonwealth stars of flickering silver, nexts Past engagements have rang- ETTERS from London ment's decision Leare being whisked over band Charlie Chaplin until the case of the fireworks are gathered,
of flory, serpents, enines of secr- pions, cascades of glitering ed from the Feast of Bairam he is to maker (his name has been
COLOURED FIRE jewels, ascending umbrellas of celebrations at Constantinople, the skyscrapers by a hover- readmitted. She said; plane postman.
"There is nothing a household word since he
golden fire,jade green, clouds, and the marriage of Portugal's... Against tropical night skies, shower whom I ap and over
displays for af emerald spray, Crown Prince, to Krenter оп the ocrcen than fore 1720) For the
Arst time
In Now Chaplin off the screen. That's a proached the other day, in the Coronation pyrotechnics eye of Areballs, emerald plumes, and for Bollyla's fourth cen
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you can answer No to ton ques Coronation? His reply mude
To splendour-loving native tains, the jewel jels, the Saxon reworks and passengers ali tiems.
the Coronation will crosscs,, the huge revolving fathers and know how easily ac overcarg
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