THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1954
TIE FAILURE OF A COLONIAL VENTURE
By P. E.
Witham
(former official of the Colonial Development Corporation)
N 1948 Parliament ganisation was not to rival authorised the creation private enterprise but to partner
It or m certain
Rape With
ron
of the Colonial Develops broad principle there ment Corporation as the surely be no serious opposition. official organisation to des
While I was hd down that velop the Colonies' resources the C.D.C. was generally to and thus help raise living engage only In profitable standards there by estab- schemes, 1 was realised that lishing new profitable under certain risks might be incurred takings.
The Corporation's report for 1953 has just been issued. 11 shows a loss of about £1 million last year. raising the
which private enterprise would avoid. And inat kozne projects by reason of their long-term nature, might take many years before becoming viable.
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It was expected, bytek now that a number of others al deelt to £400,000 since the C.D.C. was formed. Mentinu bring in revenire soon and e
I made of obtaining authority rate to write off so
24 million
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were pleads
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The me seusais to be
lake appropriate to
stock of this venture As it is, the British taxpayer is providing large sums which are obviously achieving the target of helping the colonies.
not
by for
Colin 1 catered Development and Welfue Fund under the Colonial Office.
The Causes
The Corporation was granted £100 authority to berrow up to millions from the Treasury, but the interest uri advances Was suspended for the first seven years, According to the 1963 10 19
reznost alrently some £434 De million have been committed.
reason why 10
Now deerned
10 the
of en Sp Hight from the slart necessary to set up a form of failure
1% asess the situation, neepestry is to examin
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Many
the.
state-picked development; The CDC. ignored the injunction secondly, to seek the enuses of to balance viable and long-term failure: finally, to see whether undertakings,
projects, other, better methods could be approved employed.
ruuld never be prontable and as soch should
have been teft to CD&W Assessment of schimes
After The War
mareover,
seems to have been perfunctory and nearly every project hat later to call in fresh capital,
In the first instance the The Corporation al first CBC. WIS
because plunged formed
some sort of state-nided
overseng
private and and
into full-scale Com- working and ignored
Colonial Ofice
should
bo
capable of taking care of this type of development as it does for C.D. W.
renson for
The only valid maintaining a separate body would be if the Commonwealth would join ln the B a whole work, and this is probably the best solution. Cermonwealin members are vitally interested by and could help materially #nance
technical advice They could hardly be expected) to do so unless they had 'n sny in polley. Hence there in ense for setting up a Commen. wealth Advisory Bold! fa. dev-forment Eve
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ministenllye enets should not be
so bleh me by w under the CDC
Whichever
control established at the top. It le vital- steppt patsen the
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sted from
develop-
work of day-by-day ment. Renote long-range con-
London, except for Verall polley and Anancia to the Treasury responsibilty should be eut. At present the Corporation maintains Regional Controllers but they have very Umbed power, and the hur ir 19 In Laden. This is not true decentralisation.
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Regional Boards should be created
fall within the natural geargraphical limits in- to which the colonies naturally fall.
would They
cover the Africa, East Caribbean, West Africa, Central Africa, the Far Members East and the Paelfie. of these Boards would be pointed from local offelafs and business men. Boards would only. approve viable schemes. leaving others to C.D & W.
Better Conditions
private enterprise In development Farlier. enterprise, together with sne joen eolonial government and, both an had done all that was then Recessary. But after Die tast war, particularly, it was obvious that something hard to be done. on a much bigger seuk. I was made clear that the
Kanisa Lun was needed to assist plut schemes. Then, too, local ndvice was frequently ignored, changes of internal policy administration took
place tion, London and
overseas. These had an unsettling effect-
sta and otherwise.
Against
skin disease and itching
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Mitigal
A GENUINE BAYLE" PRODUCT. BAYER
MANUFACTURED IN
LEVERKUSEN, GERMANT
ap-
As Britain's avowed policy In to better conditiona in the Colonies and Improve ||13) ---
theer should be within each region Instructional schools to teach development work in
phase. DVITY
Administration, control, specialist and technical subjects down to or- dinary field-work should be taught so that eventually the rolonial inhabitants could take over their own projects. Thus they would have solid stake
executive can n relation be found?
make no more
Briton must
states, for her prestige over- sete is at stake.
Nearly 31 Bettuln's Colonial troubles spring from
cvonastale
severi
if they eotid be re-
The
would be for Communists
set.pe
annalist emagoĽués.
Required
43190
Gr hit-
personal benefl- Cemployment, higher wage; or new muskets frons successful The one golden rule
ag beting not attempt a doubl- ful soject at all than later he 1. reed fa abandon 1.
development.
wishes to
by
C.D.C.'s
HOWE CIGARETTE
ONLY INVISIBLE
SPIES DEPORTED
SECRET AGENTS
TELL ALL!
PETROVE
KHOKLOV
T"
NO DRILL
BECAUSE
THE REDS OBJECT
Cioneve,
WE Chinese and Vietminh delegates to the Geneva con- ference don't like military drill—not even in a boys' school. They said just this to the Geneva authorities and almost started a diplomatie incident in neutral Bwitzer-
·land,
Adjacent to the Hotel Residence where leading members of the Chinese and Vietminh Communist delegations are residing, there is a smisil private school for boys from sight to 18 years of age. Every day the boys are given drill in The school grounds, “Left, right, left, right, right turn, left suen, halt" — the old stuff overy child has had in any country in the world. No guns, no pistols, no goosestep.
But the school playground under the windows of the roome of the Chinese and Viets. They thought it was obnoxious to teach young children to become saldiers. Obnoxious because these children are Swiss and not Chiness, possibly. They made a complaint to the authorities.
From the local policemen guarding the delegation' the complaint went to the Chief of Pollee. From him to the President of the Geneva Government. And to please the Chinese. the President of the Geneva Government, M. Charles Duboule, has sent a letter to M. Philippe Privat, the owner and head of the school, asking him to cut out the milliary exercises of his boys until after the conference.
The Chinese are happy. The Viots are happy. But the boys, who loved their hour off from the "three R's," are not so happy. For they are getting arithmetio Instead. —- London Express Bervice.
POE MEETS THE 3-D PHANTOM
Cummings
ED
"Doesn't the news these days make you look at your neighbours in rather a suspicious light 2"
By LES ARMOUR
London. It
WAS his Пrat visit
lived in
ADGAR Allan Poe paced there. Most of the time,
uncomfortably up and he
Hardly-Ever down In Never Never Land. Enough odd things happened there to keep him happy.
Land.
London Express Borylas
SUPERSTITION
IN
THE SOVIET UNION
STRANGE drama of the emotions WILS Lenacted recently in the Machine Gorky Milling
By Dennis Bardens
tles gave chase, and although the "spirit" eluded them, it left Trophies a pair of
white some
behind two stilts and
sheeling!
The
cotton
the that
Two shop stewards from the 3-D Technicolour Phan- tom's Union stopped him and asked whether he had a union card for the job.
"Not working. Just here for a visit," Poe relorted, There Was an undisguised fciness In his voice.
"Then you're not working in the new
pleture Phantom of
the Rue Morgue'?'
"No. just wrote the book!"
The phantoms looked at him distastefully. There
Was work for a 3-D phantom in
in the work of thew own Plant in Gorky in the USSR. time itself. But the sequel is ample evidence of an inten-
abject terror ов Galina Fyodorovnu was hay, in worth noting. A few silication of propaganda agolast
proves This would induce a sense of ing
religion, and proof that despite villagers, however, with days later Katya, the alleged the fact that the Soviet youth Communism, SLI argument
by discouraging of pride of achievement. #mething
The 10-Katya Prokofyeva, J tool purloiner of other girls' boy movement is habitants are at present highly
constantly in religion has encouraged super book. critical, and
friends, was taken ill. Her doctrinated with atheistic Blms, stition, making people credulous a sense of frustra distributor in Shop 20. cris tlon
disBlusionment and
mother ion
wanted to
lectures and iterature, religion and fearful, call a bern
friend engendered
"Leave my boy
no means been cradi- doctor, but Katya wouldn't as by
cated In Russia. And where
In other parts of the USSR: numerous fallures, If Britain alone!" stornied Galina, "if
allow it.
Jack of religious tuition, and the quest for miracles continues, wis
ber keep
colonies, you don't stop running after
repressive
have in
the Sursky Raion of tho гера she must create a feeling of Vitka, I'll get even with
Mamá. created a vold, that vold has Ulyanov Oblast there is partnership-otherwise she will
and very often, not by "holy" mountain you!"
Galina put the evil eye on been filled hand over these territories
Bll of which Vitku rank materialism, but by super "holy springs," because of the pald agitator whose
nf Д draw
regular stream Is unly too easy when living
The conditions are bad.
To return lo Katya
and her pligrims. Some bathe
holy springs, others toll up the bewitchment. Doctors who ex- amined her the next day dtag "All this." says Komsomolskaya mountain with a heavy burden. nosed her complaint without Pravda, "goes on before the dimculty, and she was removed to a hospital.
The first thing to do is 1ere p the CDC. It is not
un cx- #ccesary to maintain
ogenisation costing Just on £400,000 a year. The
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and
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"It's
to
work
ΠΕ
It was just a tiff between friends, on a theme as old as
Platonov."
SIX NEW SAINTS
BEING NAMED
THIS week-end
By George Lucas
Maria
·
1:00
use.
Dragged Away
stition.
egislation.
in
LOTS OF NOISE
the
FE
conversa -
you
Poe took up tion. His curiosily had been three aroused:
thought weren't supposed to see phan- torns,"
The phantoms resisted an chandeller. Instead, they urge to string him from him the kind of look you g
teenage
daughter when you suggest that sho should be home by midnight.
But grandfather very eyes of the ralon icaders from your
"The polyclinic is powericas before an unclear force. The only thing that cen cure
in eurse
holy the
Lake Svetioyar."
and Komsomol officials".
they said, heads in
So there exists in modern and
are
come
and
WAR
Deep Hunger
gave
"You got the phantom buni- ness all wrong, but," said the biggest of them. "The
whol
"Isn't there such a thing the suspenso whleh comes from unseen terror?"
08
de.
Ever since Karl Marx scribed religion as "the oplum
TWO old ladies, who were Yerofey was pessimistic:
present when she said this, diagnosed the situa- tion at once.
"It's a spell!"
THE mere fact that the people idea of a phantom is to GCATC and shook their
are willing to risk the ridicule the daylights out of you. The displeasure of Komsomol phantom is supposed to Jump Rome, May 27. ing the order. He died in grim foreboding.
Russia not simply a bellef in members-who ore expected out of the screen and land in and in 1811.
spells. curses and enchant and exhorted to be militant the customer's lap." Very soon early June. Pope Pius
a frightened ments, but in miracles too? So atheists--shows how deep is Crock Hissa di and
bellof XII will nominate
puzzled Galina Was it seems, for pligrims
their hunger for some six new saints. Over 100,000 people
Rosa was born in Brescia, taken from her home and from all over the USSR to visit that is not materialistic.
Lake Svetloyar. And these have already arrived from all North Italy, in 1813 of a rich almost dragged to where bilgrims
not old people. over the world to attend the family of wool manufacher friend lay ill.
members of u long-past turers.
they discredited regime; Early in life she St Peter's canonisation cere-
"Take the
off the new spell
guard, the monies, the most impressive began to care for the girls
of the "brave new world" her father's| Katya !"
demanded. they and colourful of the Catho- working in
mills and later founded a Galina, of course, denied the lic ritual.
charitable order, "Ancello accusations of witchcraft, Pilgrims have invaded all Della Carita." She showed but hysterical denunciations available hotels, pensions, great courage and energy were flung at her from all
fact, says Komsomolskayn boarding houses, hostels, during the 1836 cholera aides,
militiaman Pravda, luat summer some convents, monasteries, and epidemic.
Stremov looked in to see young schoolgirls crawled regime. private rooms. Many had to Domenico Savio, fny- what all the noise
was round the lake on all fours, in find accommodation in towns ourite pupil of Saint about. In the confusion the belief that this would en and villages up to fifty miles Giovannia Bosco, died in Galina slipped off home. away from the capital,
1857, aged 15, after a pain- ful illness which he bore with Christian fortitude.
The six new saints differ much from one another.
There is a pope and a prince, a woman and a 15- year-old boy, a priest who delled Napoleon and a mis- sionary who was killed by natives.
of
until
"No dice. You gotta hit the right between the of the people" Communism has customer members been implacably opposed to re- eyes, Leap at him. Growl ot
Boing
party him. Now in this hero picture, ligion.
one-party a dictatorship, it is not prepare lots of noise.
I play a great big ape. I make I throw women 10 tolerate anything
From the first time you see me on the screen, you know just what's what,
On All Fours
to
would expose its own dictates around. and abuses to critical or objec- five analysis. There must be no morality higher than that of the Stato in a Communist
Į
"Mind slow in getting me into the act. хон, they're a. Ittle They string along with the book „ffor (quite() a while) Lots of Yet the intonatly of ants suspense. But you can see the religious propaganda lately in customers wouldn't really go sure KUCCESS in examinations. the USSR shows that despite for it. So they toss in some The legend still survives that
vears of persecution, despite the dancing girls and cabarets and And what did the militiaman
when the Basurman (Tartar) constant now of ridicule and knife-throwers and jerry do, as he listened to these ac hordes attacked this arco, they quasi-scientifle legle to which music." cusations of sorcery and spelis: captured the young girls and the citizens are subjected, belief In religion still exista. "În- the Did he, as a Communist-trained attempted to desocrate the Vetluzhal district no less than materialist, denounce it all as Orthordox church. The Lord. ng Saint Day feasts were céle- nonsense? Not at all. He sought to prevent such a desperation brated in 1963 and in the spring out Galina at her home, brought caused the church to pink many farm labourer left their her back to the Prokofyeva beneath the ground, and a lake work to attend religious cere- household, and commanded her to appear where the
to remove the spell!
Most Primitive
HIS
story, which
church
mionics.
Counter-action
COULDN'T COMPETE
Poo walked away back to Hardly-Ever Land. It was plain that he couldn't compete with this sort of thing.
Forrest and · Patricia
Gespare Del Bufalo was; born in Rome in 1786 and died in 1837. He, founded the missionary order.
stood. "Precious Blood” and was put in gnol by Napoleon for
And it you crawl round the
In Never-Never Land the lako three timer on all fours-
show went on. French actor The Pope is Pius X, the refusing to take the oath of
you allegiance to the Emperor,
will hear the ringing of THE official Communist paper Claude Dauphin, who was being kind - hearted, modest
Pierre Chanel was born in
bells, and the church will show of the Moldavian Tepublic, the Police Inspector, was rather patriarch of Venice who France in 1808 and went as almost like an episode from the lake.
sounds itself to you from the depths of Sovelskaya Moldavia admits sorry to sen Poe go. He had
similar statc
affairs, tried his best to keep up tho spoke the native dialect and a missionary to the South the Dark Ages, is related by I.
"Religious survivals are stai Poo spirit, spent all his money helping Pacific Islands. He con- Shatunovsky in, a recent liste A holy lake in Gorky Pro retained in the minds of many the poor. He is the 78th verted many
(December 18) of
the news vince draws a regular stream of of our people, especially among Stove natives of pope-of the 268 who have Futuna Island, including the movement. Komsomolskaya miracles.
paper of the Soviet youth believers who come ku quest of the rural population.... sald Medina wets rather glad to sca
The villages sat on Peter's throne-to son of King Niuluki. In Pravda, It is a highly factual Ivanovka and Pomyszkin h of roocally. And on March 10 the him go. If Poe had bear esme paper mentioned, that in making the story, they doubted become a saint. None had 1841 the King became article which shows tha ex recently been terrorised by an the village of Edinetaky, where whether they could have got bean canonised for 242 jealous of Chanel's Influence traordinary prevalence of super-
spirit, according to religion is Dourishing, there has married in the fast some and years. The last was Plus and ordered him to be put of the very weaknesses
atition within the USSR-one Komsomolskaya Pravdo of boen counter-setion by the gone off certain that they would.
which February 24, 1954. The "spirit," Communists to the extent of 23| live happily ever "aflerio But V, pope from 1566 to 1572 to death.
matorialistio Communism war 4 Agure in
in white, rose out of anti-religious lectures, and 4 14 their conscience didn't bother and canonised in 1712.
the snow, red the wils out lectures on natural science to make Posa "Rue Mor No other pope in history supposed to eradicate,
them. They had done their of the Filipov., and Marulin Prince Giuseppe Pignatelli has created more saints The Instance of belief in the familles, and cured, the streets. It looks as though the un-rue come to life and they had di Monteleone was born in than Pius XII.
With the evil eye,
shared even by the and clubs, to bocoma deserted happy village, will be, pretty done it rather well. Spain in 1787, and became new saints, they will num- militiaman, only one of at night
wall killed with lectures, 11A EZMEM Jesuit. Later he came to ber 82,
numerous ovidences of wide
Con also : oloar that Community: Zas Only Proad superstition, often of the Later, the spirit" was found not eradicated religion but has indiagulsedly most primitive kind in the to be somethingible rough unwittingly, encourged rude USSR. At the same time, there to walk on MLA, DANLOw
Italy and devoted his life to His predecessor, Pius XI, røorganising: and consolidate, nominated:26.