THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1958.
Gold Coast Revolution
Wins
Ex-Red's Praise
By WALTER KOLARZ
Charles said:
EORGÉ Padmore, In the introduction to his book, Gold Const, Sir West Indian Negro, Padmore draw attention to the "I shall not address you ngalu has recently published new and tenure system, which, in the ordinary course,
formal occasions, once a
except
book, "The Gelde ays, "creates the real or
basid of tin, economic demo- year at the ludget meeting, in terms which Ministers Const. Revolution," which cracy," Right of ownership of the
Gold the
Coast has advise." story of tolls the
the band in
In making
ihat statement, the Chief says great changes that have always been collectively vested
Padmore, the Governor in the tribes, but
indicated that he would con- duct himself as a constitutional Sovereign in row ruler, as the lation to the British Parlia- ment. Sir Charles has kept his word.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Well you see, darling, the difference is that Uncle Theo wasn't married to Aunt Daphne, Aunt Thérèse, Aunt Lulu and Aunt Sadie all at the same time ! ”
taken place in the Gold tons Councils administered the Coast, Britain's most fond and controlled its use advanced African colony. Now administration of the lansa The theme is important in is taken over by local govern
elected by the councils ment itself, but its importance is
This "bloodless agrarian re- enhanced by the fact that people and the Chiefs.
Padmore, will velation," says enable the Government to mala
of the land for When Two Doctors the best use agricultural and Industrial de velopment. It will at the same me prevent the emergence of and arrest native landlordlan
exploitation of foreign limber and mineral rescurces of the country,
the author in a former pro minent official of the Com- munist trade union inter-
but
national, the Profintern. Padmore left the Commun ist Party years ago, he has remained a harsh and violent critic of what he calla colonialism imperialism..
and
He is probably the only Coni- munist renegade whore writings
The
REPRESENTATIVE
have been quoted with approval PADMORE considers the pre-
him. He finds it impossible to and
Diy
that
RISORGIMENTO EVEN the title of the book
sent Government of the Gold
Parliament, spokesmen not
a peaceful revolution in the Gold all leve
Its members there
Coast, giving 12 a a new Constitu
tion, far-reaching self-govern
and putting into office an African Prime Minister.
inent, and
the
are
Partsformers, and
on
most
an
THE
SECLUDED KINGDOM
OF
THE
QUEEN'S HORSEMAN
By Charles Mallory.
bay horses lining and looking around him—that's Stale Coach was brought to the a crisp and dozen or so -T was
Mews, and about 8 o'clock eight often a sign of colle. sunny midwinter morn- the opposite side.
Hoppy, od- of the Creams were put to it in worried," What about those famous "I was ing. A tall soldierly Greyst The eight chosen for mits, and I decided to loosen order to try it round the Mows, strep, thinking when it was found to go well and man of 38 stood chat- the long strong pull of the State his balancing
Coronation оп
Day this
relieve pressure to be fit for us". might his stomach. ting with the King and Coach
Winston Ordered in 1758, the Coach was Queen in the gardens of were
Mc 1esponded immediately, and stood four years in the making, but was Leaders: Tedder and Palace, "I Buckingham
quietly through the rest of the Anished just too late for the Coronation of George III. Says hope,"
said the Queen,
(2nd pair): Crans- ceremony." x-horse
Hoppy conditos: "In fact, it the Journal: "It was the 'moit "that, you will be happy ford, and Tipperary.
Polo End (3rd pair);
Tovey was colle at all. The discom superb and expensive of any EVET The The tall Go Off with us here."
fort was caused by a ruched cloth built in the kingdom." soldier smiled his answer: end Snowhite.
Wheelers (4th pair): Cunning- under the Queen's sideanddle; and expense of it by the several loosening the strap for the Tradeunen concerned in building and Eisenhower.
Work On Polio Is Halted
By CHAPMAN
PINCHER
Dr
"Ma'am, half my happiness for ten hours the eight Greys wrong reason relieved the pres- was as follows......
V made"
Went Lame
the
Laceman, Barrett
Chaser, Cayle
amess Maker Ringster Mercer, Hinchliff
Ditmaker, Kelr
is already assured, because
were encased in their metal-time on his back, and saved the Coschmaker. Butler
situation." Neverfriess, he adds, Carver, Wilton I shall be with horses."
bound
rod
morocco leather Se it was that George Fre harness, each side of hurness Winston is a horse for a queca, cilder, Pajola derick Thomas Hopkins, some weighing 112 pounds. For ten and queen's home “is bom, not painter, Corint time major in the Royal Field hours they went without water Artillery, conveyed to Queen and feed. Theira was probably Mary and King George V, back the toughest Coronation job of in 1929, that his heart and soul all. "People didn't realise this HOPPY constantly marvels at Saner, Molt of Sadler, Baker forward de
Queen's "power they put
Woullen Draper, Manti, He would be in the newest, brightest when
recalls a Cover Maker, Campbell mands for extending the pro. observation.
before just and biggest Job of his life.
7,562, 4, 3 Total and soul cessional route," says Hoppy Incident The Hopkins heart
marriage, when he and Mrs 24 with a touch of Indignation, for have been in it now
Hopkins were invited to view the
At her Coronation, the Queen wedding preschts at St James's had n drive of considerably pogrant-studded years; and no
Palace Catching sight of him at greater comfort than any former superintendent Royal Mews has opened the MAREFUL training for the the reception the Princess, as sh monarch-fer the upholstery find carriage doors on quite so much C
assignment then war, told Hoppy, she had been restored and the scating of the noticed only one outride; return- moderated with the latest thing task history, quite so many procesTM
the weeks; training from the Abbey after Astons.
of the
openly by the 59
be
1-
Vital Task
Grey's was the vital
great
tu
the al
at
her
In "cellular" #ponge-rubber a team wedding rehearsal earlier that cushioning.". walk as
required day. The Princes even knew Sho had been watch-
noisy strain
and was doing a fortnight's Terri- pooled blood of British donors every State process he is a could be hersed
airo
at
In or out of coming from
record
ever groomed, and, once more fed.. "li horse looks niling, or refuses to
+
Over Again
again
Hoppy,
young
Mews
and
of the serum } cluding animals, He is a cojdler sident Auriol of France came to (horse 'normal' is 100) ve nix Charles and his sister Anne-
him a fever drink, rug him up
by the Soviet press and radio, Coast in every respect repre-
DS although, than doubtful sentative. lu: it is more
children, whether they will quote Padmore extreme nationalist, he regreta
London, discover which now for recort developments
Affairs, Justice and External
RITAIN'S efforts to find naturally immune to polin. Hemeron, the Gold Coast have created that three portfolios Defence
BA's of preventing Pi Willem & Her still are
has pra- Finances -
Ile of Europeans. the British are trying the hands
infantile paraly duced a protective serum from for blood collected however, that the "polio" to dereive the Gold Count natives polats out,
of the Gov sis came to a standstill human
It was with shat concessions, that they
African members
purposes. doctors were transfusion every geo because two
successful when tried on 47,000 use quisling against the genuine ernment represent
Major George Hopkins-call pre-processional the Gold
eight children, but nway from work. nationalist movement, and that graphical region of
British doctors ed Hoppy, openly and affection- ing them they fake elections.
Chast und every major Inaguage
They are the only two doctors have openly criticised It beately by Phyllis, his wife; called pace; to bear the weighty har- the name of the horse that falled in Britain who are devoting the cause so much blood is needed group of the country.
Hoppy, affectionately, though ness for ever-increasing porleds; to return. And the same applies to the full time to this project though to make it, and the protection not 30
to take without turning majestic window, and she had made no HISTORY, says "I re- present annual epidemics of polio are now lasts only five weeks.
ployers of the Royal Mews is the
the
of drums and mistake; two outsiders had ridden repeating itself. which Includes
almost certain.
Yet I now learn that part of
just before George had down to the Abbey, and one member, composition of
clash of cymbals. Hoppy had one had in fact gone lame and VI of coach and music, thump
the Royal Dr Frederic MacCollum, the
smooth progress
was crowned, shows that, for once, Padmore
only of every
for ensuring his own methods the impeccable tiny effort has been switched carriage.
out of the procession, Family coming to the endorses offelal British policy;
on droppy is literally on the job to well-ordered procession
try out the Coach Among Counell's anti-pollo project, wasting for the British have carried out major tribal community but of able chief of the Medical Research the Medical Research Council's the man on whom depends
of society. ail levels
June 2 and rousing marches
the tiny ty com-1. His assistant, Dr Alan Goffe, to a study of this scrum. Thehaviour of euch royal horse, in
I remember the scating. weeks before night and day, for ftw lawyers
is being examined to see if it
the stable yard Hopkins garden backs on to the young princesses, Elizabeth and torial Army service.
handsome figure, many teachers, mer
Meanwhile, in America, at least too contains the natural "anti-
six where a gramophone blared at Mows yard. Abfive each evening Margarut, clambering all over ward off pollo but looking 55,
the Royal horses are inspected it, pulling down the blinds and chants and
humble ten big teams of doctors were bodies' which
He has a strong oc- the greys in training.
"riting them snap backt
with feet-two. from more prople
forging ahead with experiments attack.
nose.
"The first se. clear blue eyes, a Fadmore traveled all over walks of life-for instance
a click. A few weeks ago it all quiline Big task
explains Hoppy, we take happened
The Queen and spoke to the the country
engine driver, to produce, injections capable of menunising people against the
that it would square, gerous uncomplicated bought for stable practice was
to the Marseillaise says Hoppy, his temperature: It is high arrived with
Princo CRITICS orgue
fato hinting at kindness African
a postal clerk. Minitom. At the end of Carpenter,
which cause pollo, ond a
¡minute geme
In 1951 when Pre It was impos- his Investigations
be Mr Padmore prints the full
A serum which can give pro-
a tremendous task to everybody and everything, In That was sible for him to assert that the text of the programme of the ection during a short epidemic produce enough
as much clambering enthusiasm Gold Coast experiment was only Convention People's Party, to is to be tested on many thousands for general use.
the best by morning" "imperialistic mano-
when I of the cabinet of US. children this summer. A
The Americans have a much with a heart of gold: disciplined Britain. Mrs Hopkins, mockingly undiher
which
concerto bought-me a
Willlom Robson, Royal Mews as their mother did 18 years he said: euvre.
Instead,
to a fault
the re- him unwrapping
farrier for 20 years, is in charge ago." members
Mrs Hopkins la unblushingly "Never hng, so much been long.
Although, however, the lasting immunity has given moat are making plans to meet the
cord; but when I said "Thank of the pharmacy. "T've known to establish a colonial depen- C.P.P. wants
for the huge demands achieved in a
encouraging results in prelimin
you,
nice, how
replied more than one occasion when proud of her husband's devotion dency is undergoing u
in so short a
ort a time. The Socialist State, it is not viewed ary trinis.
expected in the next epidemic,
*Concerto my foot, it's the Hoppy and he have sat up all to all the Queen's horses, and voritable 500
either by Soviet
Reasons
national anthem night with a sick, horse," though it will Involve the col- i with favour
says hir zeal for his job. She 100, Two country
t? risorgimento. A new awakening Russia of by the British Com-
The Soviet press has Momcidis allowed me to in-Brit
scarlet and gold with red don't you realise I've only a few Mrs Hopkins.
get the horses is sweeping the land. The watch m
MEDICAL Research Council lection of five million pints N Coronation Day, Hoppy-in French
British attempts to produce a plume in cocked hot-rode alone, days. left to worth is freedom." As the result
vaccine to give much longer distinguished horseman at the used to it."
On State occasions, regal de- of the latest reforms, says Pad completely ignored the striking
【NE euch vigil, soon after the And though the Hopkins shop- also following head of the Carriages of the immunity are
the horses APO more, the Gold Coast has been development of the Gold Coast,spect their pollo laboratory at
Felix, ping is a lunch-hour scramble, Communist
was when the British
u corum from like looking lines ploneered by Household, I was impressed with the high American
was and household chores an early- strongly censured
# bay carriage horse, who has progeriera, a duke, or at least an taken for granted by the cheer-
ing man-on-the-kerh
But con- taken
111. Hoppy tells it morning rush, the eight-roomed the Convention People's Party, quality of the work there and the Dr Joons Salk,
In Lower Grosvenor vividly.
death house solution of
any ability of the two men doing it. duced a promising vaccine frora | Hoppy, the Coronation ditioning and turning-up aro as
has diguity and repose. Nor are the reforms continea A peaceful
Is obviously But I have seen far bigger teams monkeys. to the political
for less pressing sphere alone, colonial problem
The Medical Research Coun- was, a high peak in his moun- vital for a horse as for on en- dealing night for old Feix, but the Hopkinses alt down distasteful to the Communists. Working on
a diagnostic triumph for Captain. to dinner at the mellow problems.
ell recently sent Dr Goffe to tains of memory. He has rid- gine. Why is the British effort 10
Pittsburg ta study Salk's den in all the royal processions
for instance. He SIGNIFICANT
vet. The farrier, already at the mall?
methods.
sinco
to be a show horse one of stables sent for me in a hurry, tall, well-groomed "Phy!" who a trio of wed-
cleaned the Officials give two reasonst
tas
vegetables, No. The official argumen": cades, it meant
1 six greys presented to us by There was Felix, with muscles as
h 1. It is dimicult to get doctors
the table, cooked een contracted. and rcientists who it for Britain's backwardness in dings and throw funerals, a queen Wilhelmina. He's
Jubilee, Parts, is his new book, "Crisis delently can share le pollo research are not valid in handful-of-Parliaments, and a freinst for high stepping and rated showing all the Lerved contriving-comehow. io.
King's
colourful prancing: so we've had sent at once for the vet. When stay as elegant as if she had my view. The truth is that we King's the British Job.
So Uttle is known about polir, are behind because far too little Coronation--and now a cave to break him of all that. High he arrived, Capiain Wright spent spent the day at the hair-
IL · s It is a strange world to have Empire," denies that any im
man's working stepping would be highly dan six silent minutes looking at dressers changes have taken
for Mrs Hopidine; that there are not enough money has been devoted to it.
the streets of London; Felix. Then he astonished us all This is the falsest of false grown around
gerous in place in the Gold Coast. He clues to occupy a big team of
routine, a world that might, he might easily break a leg. by diagnosing a tumour on the her father was an officer of the but for one thing, The Americans, are economics.
become
Then there's attacks the Convention People's workers.
Tovey: he's
Household, e brain. Wright gave him an in- Royal gilded unreality. That onc Party for having accepted what using manpower extravagantly
to Hoppy marriage thing is a horse. For the in- kicker. He looks sheepish and jestion but warned us that if Re ells the "Action of office by following up unfruitful Imes. These reasons do not stand up
stant Major George Hopkins gentle, but the other day ho Felix wasn't normal within four from one side of the aid for working amicably with
to examination.
steps through the heavy teak missed me by half an inch. doors of the Royal stables, his Not Colic cyes, hiris and heart become visibly charred with a warm boyish happiness.
of the Gold Coast be- vaccine designed to provide long- bigger pollo problem, yet they but not tough; tolerant, perhaps bitter, declarest "I thought he well for the sight, and hope for and those children showed just
munists.
and
brought to full responsible gov Farty has
threshold of
ernment, to the Dominion status,
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of
Britain and
the Governor.
Colindale, N.W., recently.
blood.
serum
The cost PART from humane con siderations, the cash cost Men would be found in plenty of treating the 4,000 pollo cases The Gold Coast nationalists,
are not scared by the for a defence project. There are last year was far greater than however, are
hundreds of doctors and scientists Bnancing score extra word "governor," and Mr
at the lavishly equipped gemm- selentists. Padmore quotes * significant
defence station at Porton, on statement by the present Gov-Salisbury Plain, for instance. those who were crippled and Clarke, which shows how for
crnor,
Sir
Charles
the
Arden
Switch
of
The value of the limbs of
High Peak
มอง
ho
One Vigil ONE
War
"It was a
has
Q Job, full-time, raising money for the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association.
1930. Across three dr. howy explains: "Take Eisen- Thomas Wright, the honorary Victorian mahogany table, it is
a
mare
used
that
hour, he'd have to be thot. A 3 am he was worse, at 4 the was
lald
atmosphere
no
art di
now
her
meant
community to the other, With a mild grin, Happy out for his friends his
dead: yes, we had to shoot him. bring collection of "ities"
But then there had to be a post- mortem. It revealed three
and
for
one side of the huge Mews sinbles, and we only have two bolted doors of the State Coach Mewaything from 250 to
numbering
TS usually a 1 causes trouble," says Hoppy ments on there. Then it is a batch of 149 different
from people The BP stables (Buckingham without batting an eyelid at his don't imaw how the vet could envelopes
anisationa applying Palace is always called BP by wife's unbelieving scom. "We
tell"
permits to tour the of the lives of the hundreds
In the Mows yard, behind the Mews, These visiting parties, those who work there) are at don't like girls in the BP colonial governorship has the big-scale UB. work is not who died is incalculable.
The Medical Research Coun- square, designed by "Nash in all the rest are goldings.
Houte, stands the 100-year-old moved with the times. In his paying off why are the Medi- cil has now decided to expand 1824.
Hoppy discloses for the first golden carriage in which the well over a thousand, scatter firut address to
present cal Research Council doctors
Its polio work. "Hello boys,"
Hoppy, Ume the truth about the anxious Queen rode in splendour. From like freckles over the face of Legislative Assembly of the following it up as quickly as they the scope of
But there are no signs of any pacing along by the string of moments at last year's Trooping the office safe, not long ago, the Mews every Wednesday can with their knibed facilities?
of the There is no feeling Royal Greys in their well-
Colour, when the Hoppy took the well-preserved afternoon from 2 to 4.80. They are using the American urgency.
And "Hello Queen's famous police horse record-book "Journal for 1702," Rides Alone methods of growing pollo germs that something should be done equipped stalls.
Uimo for the next
troublesome turned to page 13, and read for To: experiments. They are in- in
polio boys" says Hoppy again, when Winston
he reaches the far end of the and jumpy. Winston, usually November 23 of that year. "This
THE permit-requests, address- vestigating an American discovery epidemia which could come this
stable and turns to greet the reliable, was powing the ground morning about 5 o'clock the new Ted which may be used as a test to summer.
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MOST
Ir
says
became
finds Jane Eyre
THE
OF EXCITING
ship
WORLD'S STORIES
of
can
through the post to Hoppy, credit him with a status ranging from "Chancellor of the Exchequer to "The Janitor." Among them are gema such as The Head Ostler. The Pro prietor. The Person-in-Chu The Gentleman-in-Charge, Master of Oaths,
Veterinary
and the General. Among
them, too are oddities such as The Chief Whip, The Stable Man, The Lord Chancellor, The Royal MUSE (also the Royal MULES). And nicest of all,
effort
selenco-letion, the stenographer
the perhaps, a strange. and was not until three by it. May I read you some re- Behind the respectable, grey- success
finesse The Equestrian.. women's ma-advertising executive. stone walls of the parsonage on thrillprs, and
To avoid confusion, Hoppy But Charlotte Brente months after the publi- vlows?"
likes to emphasise that as Royal Charlotte Bronte did "gain" the edge of a wild moorland gazines.
thankc for her cation of Jane Eyre that
popu Mows superintendent, he is an £500 for the
We escape backwards instead also copyright district of Yorkshire, their half-
under the the Rev. Patrick Bronte of Jane Eyre. But
working. add father would fire pistols is of forwards in Jane Eyre. Vie- larly in 1953 the fact that official Ber
the
Crown first discovered his daugh- Line terary earnings during her the air or row the hearth-sus inrian England is as remote as aho had to describe passion department
Sir Dermot Mc-. tors had been secretly writ- time fotakkett a more £1,500, on the fur where my Mars. The tinkling of tea-cups without the aid of the jargon of Equerry,
Morough Kavanagh; In tho ing novels. Charlotte, who to 99 years since Charlotte's pleased him. During one of in the vicarage is as relaxing as the psychiatrist,
death publishers have been doing his wife's confinements he pro-
Forced to break through the hierarchy of those who rule the had written it under the much better than that out of rooded to sum up all the chairs the hum of dynamos in a space
veil of Victorian propriety, her Queen's horses, the Master of pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre. Penguin have been in her bedroom ki a fit of tamper,
Then there is the mystery of words low with violent the Horse (Duke of Beaufort) the latest to exploit this Victorian Their brother Brunwell rock-
wo compelling full, one might say, the role took a copy into his study.
President; the house at mid- because it is so innocent. If she of
Tho Crown bonanza. In Gess than three lesly squandered the family's the stranger in the attle. Who urgency that is "Papa," she said, "I've been works they have sold some 50,000 money in his need for opium and writing a book."
copies of it as Day, 65. That is the drink. And the three Arters night? Who is responsible for had been writing today she Equerry managing director; "Have you my dear?" he wenistakable language of best Charlotte, Engly, and Anne the weird laughs and the cerle would probably have taken the and Hoppy-Works
Practically screams? Who plunged a knife easy way of describing sex in Altogether, answered, not looking up from adferdam
having been his reading.
The legond "Yes; and I want you to read
their own isolated world, Indus HARRIED by the relentless triously croated out of their of every thriller since Sherlock very small I'm afraid it will try my eyes jabbering of mediocre and dreams the pages of force and Holmes first heard the baying kindles our imagination because house in one or other of the s
we are allowed to use it..
alf-contained flats above 1 OZ Loo much."
unstable, novels, the criile may consuming possion to be found of the hounds of Baskerville,
The almost hypnotic vitality around the stabler "But is not in manuscript; well: paíso to examine the con- in Jane Eyre and Wuthering
and poetic quality, of the prose houses. Dad is a postillion, a temporary appóal Pt le printed" PA**
explain why Jane Eyre has coachman, o carriage waster. a harness cleaner, MAND finally, there is, too, the become a great Englis classic, a that the tale that has peruchomily single. But its remoteness and its inna- their made out of scullery fiction and Publishers wedding more and
3."
_manager...
It is a
poining and knowing lite but into the breast of the visitor terms of oppressed urges, sub- little kingdom, this
from Madeira? This is the stuff stitute wish-fulllmonts and Mows Its community includes
So innocent
RoyaL
words 'Jane Eyre forty children Mum keepal
coach.
end, dhia Heights. And, in the "My dear, I hope you have not true hold-fashioned consumption was to take them been involving yourself in any molodrama, zd Buch silly, expense. I will be There is, of course, the back.... nimest time to be a loss; for how ground of its author, rimming Thong is no doubt can you get a book sold?: No one over will accontricity, repres- reality of
helped know you or your reme, bian sionis, erotickam, and.... Ancredible has
Buty papa," protected Chuar danksy The Bronte legend has fantasies popular. But Jane soap operas the poor govanen more novela groveling in the among them is the tall soldies
processions Lotte, "I don't think it will boʻm out aloped, the imagination of tigre affect, too, thone-Harary who marries the rich, Byronto sordid minutiae of ugly goalliy whốn rides alone in - Koral
elements which account for the master. Today it has become may well, consider: the morale Joan. - 1. tijelo I. sbatt senki sontwe, the iiruna viriezas.
The Bronitą“ story hinded sustained the fortunes corica have made it a best-a011, Dziybo `a/shoeing".
to
And Irving, and working
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