THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1954.
Racial Ruling Shakes
F
U.S.
By
History
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what amounts revolution.
to
sociol
OR anyone outside the life. It separated Ameri- decrees. This respite will allow United States it is cans into superior und in for a more goredual adjustment difficult to appreciate ferior races, it created 4 the revolutionary meaning profound split within this of the latest Supreme Court nation.
ruled that decision which racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
The new ruling will give the United States a new and invigorating unity.
Complex
and
There are Doventeen Slates Columbia the district of which have been practising segregation. Tot their Arsi reaction to this revolution by
Judicial process has boen
coullous and temperate. Serious deance was only threatened in Georgia
and Bouth Carolina. All will
now depend on how
It implies that the pat- terns of 300 years of North American history will come to an end, that there can i
A me States have segrega- much community nction and no more separation betw... white and negro chi'dren of
some localities, non- responsibility the south imposes schools
All on itself. the gregation in others. Recreation fari al 9,000,000 white and teachers.
and Mississippi, Georgia children South negro ties, books and equipment 2,650,000
Carolina some outraged civic leaders must now all be shared.
schools, politicians and attend separate
that the public schools be handed over fo
OF
Anony
In
At time when Cm- They represent a numerical have proposed munism has been exploiting problem and raise such ques- private corporations, that ap- the issue of racial diseri- tions as what will happen propriations be made to minution in the East-West to the surplus negro individual pupils by the State thair tuition and thus conflict, especially among teachers, what will happen to pay
avoid the 13320 of non- the darker-skinned peuple to the buildings, some of
segregation, in Africa and Asin, this which will become inade- monumental decision of the quate, and who will foot the
whil Supreme Court
ako hill in creating have a fur-reaching impact sary new facilities. on world opinion.
But the
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the neces
But this idea has drawn heavy Are.
Time Will Heal
complex The United States has a problem is the state of
burdensome mind in the south difflcult aurel
which Time will it racial problem but is was powerfully reflected in and all agree handling it with wisdom and the aroused tempers of such foresight.
Evolution
vel.
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"We may as well be re-packing my suits—and then back to the old Kremlin round"
WE
COULD LIKE THE
Fall the horrible roaming at will over the events of the past Northern French country. 16
years perhaps side and filling up with the most terrifying petrol at the pumps of way- time was the collapse of France side garages which neither the police nor the owners had bothered to empty.
heal the wounda
that more
To
The Shock
PEACE PLAN
London Express Service
CRASH FRENCH?
What has happened to France" But no answer came.
It was
ke questioning death,"
Sir Edward Spears perhaps knew France better than any other living Englishman, and he moreover, possibly the only iving Englishman in public life without tie to speak French trace of an English accent.
His
melancholy and
and bitter experience in
nee in the last war was
to observe, at close quarters, the
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The utter and complete collapse of France in 1940 had its roots in a deep moral corruption.
Are we
sure that this could never happen to Britain?
By LORD HAILSHAM
and to
In- protege,
In in 1940. will be necessary to comply. areas where the negro popula- schools. men Dual
Semlor Russel
tion has a heavy preponderance,
most Englishmen nevertheless, and everything and Senator Eastland or of the problem will be more France was not only the that goes with them, enruot Governor Byrnes.
difficult, the transition will take closest and most dearly be abolished overnight.
Hundreds of traditions, longer.
loved of our foreign allies. local provisions and state
besitn- famous of FOR
inoral OR worse than the destruc-
collapse of the French petence. Spears has no
Cabinet, Palewski, A kind of voluntary segrega- but the moat
lion in ascribing the real cause frechwee her own constitutions will be affect- tion
prople. Almost every outstand by "public European military powers, enforced
tion of our entire war plan wing figure in French public life of catastrophe to a deep moral Baudouin, into the Government.
to the pressure might keep separate in possession of an army by the shock
deep-seated
of the or military service was known corruption Infecting the spiritual She and Daladier's Egeria, Mmo, schools going for some time, bul
affection which many 201 Washington D.C.
to him personally, nome in life of the whole nation. As de Crussol, carried on an Inter- British fell and still feel for the There is no doubt that in
haw, where small negro populations, common consent the most been the segregation has
law; such as in the mountain areas, powerful in the world.
French. Both Lord Vanalitart imately. During the last days Mandel, the noblest and most necine batile for power over the the States where children the reaction has been swift und
tragic of all the French political dying body of the Third Re- make separate schools 0
wrote deeply his position as Churchill's per- have been separated since astonishingly heartening.
even financial
and Duff Cooper
with the Bgures, observed to him: "The burden,
to the defeated nonal representative
public. segregated
moving verses immemorial, it time
will among those who felt an inner
French in much the same terms French Premier enabled him to country is divided into factions.
of schools will disappear without
And so it ended. resistance Bgairast the new much trouble. generate the deepest kind of decision. Machinery was brough!
as one would actress an adored see day by day the whole ghastly each one looking on the other
anatomy of disaster,
is vaguely or even but unfaithful mistres8.
positively political and military leadership social problems.
it is fortunate that the cour
identified with # foreign nollon
The result is a story with all
in since the last war, together with immediately to
the persistent tolture to instil But looking back into introduce a single school system decision was unanimous in spite in its history. Its material
the dramatic power of a Greek fluence." three of fact that
and parliamentary Thus all the poignancy tragedy and
was largely patriotism
life were history the changes in the by next Autumn.
of a popular novel.
disloyal because 11 was riddled integrity into public
yielding their polsonous- with Communism, at that time now
The weed-choked harvest. The mud friendly to the Germans, Right was even more disloyal accumulated during decodes of because its terror of Commun- moral turpitude and inefcient Ism and led it directly to favour dhd often corrupt regimes was Fascian.
coming to the surface In France right wing, and bursting in felld bubbles." A deputy of the M. Kerillis,
it to an likened
legal position of the negro graphically Bustrate theory
the of
the
gradual
trato
Wisdom
Of this army, Weygand, peaking in July 1939, said that it is a more effective force than at any moment
of
the
11
Justices come from the south. tions are
makes so much stronger.
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the is first rate, its fortifica- first class, its And I comes at a time when morate is excellent, its High
reassertion
American Command remarkable." democratic institutions is needed
Yet the French army was evolution of the American In other Slates more time will before the world, but also inside smashed, while the.civilian constitution as it is moulded be needed, and is provided by a this country which has boen by The Supreme Court in ruling of great wisdom delaying rent
several deep-seated population watched in the light of social progress, the
special prejudices,
In 1857 the court ruled that the negro is not a
citizen. IL took a war to
rewrite that decision.
In 1896 the same Supreme Court ruled that
negroes
should have separate
htt
equal school facilities. This was a blight un American
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The same image occurs to Sir Edward Spears in his new and brilliant memoir covering the same period." But he is under Illusions. "Every other minute a voice within me asiced;
no
***Prelude to Dunkirk, July 1935- Mou 1940, by Majorigeneral Sir Edward L. Spears, KDE. co, ATE, femeníann, 258.
FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
LET ORDERS,
MORE
BE DECORATIONS
THERE
By HAROLD JAMES
Of 30 CMC's
in
the recent
ed
A
The Cause
WHAT Is the cause of the paralysis in a nation's wil, of which general after general spoke to Spears?
the Left
"Lack
There was, of course, an im- abscess which, he told Spears, The Question
mense weakness in the purely Daledler had described as AQ military sphere. The French deep that the scalpol with
had fed for 20 years on a mili- which he was going to lance it ALL this is very moving, and tary theory which of all theories disappeared altogether and, had In a sense very gratifying is the most misleading-that the he not drawn back, it would to British pride. But I con- defensive is the stronger role. have engulfed the surgeon's arm fess I put down the book asking This theory was partly the re- as well.
STILET
The Cynicism
and
in
myself. n very disagrecable in the of the stalemate
question. Are we quite sure West after 1914, reinforced by
that none of this could ever the final victory of Foch him-
happen in Britain? None of it self when he took the offensive
did last time, it is true. But against an opponent who had UT
than even, worse
the is it really had B
the case that the his strength, and
national division was the French have a double dose of London.
of Africa to see what Africans overspent
partly due to the constant cynicism and want of integrity original sin from which the In control of their own destinies PUKARY RDERS and decora-
reiteration of the truth that in high places. Spears paints British have escaped? would do. Liberia has establish-
Franc tions" saya the in-
aner could not endure again a macabre picture of Reynaud
Have we no republique des mild deception of Mr Smith,
three Orders of its own. the frightful bloodletting of the being drawn away to answer a vitation cord.
bons comarades? Are we not telephone at the very moment afraid to strike 1914-18 war, Though we grumble at hav. who can't afford a television Birthday Honours, twelve were Ethiopia has five-and has
genius for naming them.
an enemy Who
But the result On Frenchi of supreme crisis In the Cabinet, the face? Is there no cyntelm would not ing to turn
Still, it remains the high spot
be proud to sport military out in full set but erects an aerial out-awarded to the "foreign" side.
planning wna the "7! was evident that had side his house.
for those who make their career "The Order of Sheba" or "The Maginot Line, fortress which been called up by a Senator or and corruption in high places,
Order of the Seal of Solomon?" regalia, yet, being children
In law Orders and
and disloyalty decorations in the Colonial Services and for
attacked, built to Deputy. I gathered from his at heart, we enjoy dressing
Even Zanzibar, no larger than defend a frontier which it did answers that the gist of the among ourselves? are a concession to harm- Citizens in Commonwealth coun-
the have earned State
Isle of Wight boasts tries who
its 1214.
there
administrative caller's request
that WOO less human frailties.
Brilliant Star, which in the old
in
Britain, no the Incompetence in serving In practical tactics it resulted son-in-law, of us, being
countries can resist
in 1017 when the days literally sparkled willi
division into in a situation in which it be North, might be transferred to
opposing camps diamonds. Now alas, paste sub-
came fashionable to follow
each looking on the other as Д a part of the front where there stitutes dim Its lustre.
rule "whereby commanders were fewer Germans,"
vaguely or even positively This was the
Identified with a foreign any
in- favoured operations
bona fluence?
Let no one who has viewed the membership
can be safe in of tlon
defence camarades," the French equiva- is afraid to strike
the history of our country since Orders, a
its lent of "obs for the boys." one which new
But even Reynaud was in no 1943 be quite certain that wo should be created. And what enemy in the face at the first boiler than the Star of Africa? sign of battle.
position to complain. He allow- have not begun to tread the But the evil went far deeper ed his friend, Mme. des Fortes, some path which was followed than mero military Incom to dismiss his loyal chef de by the Third Republic.
And most
snobs, like to outshine our
fellows, Which accounts for
the splendour of Lady X in her Ascot frock,
ORN
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SOUTH CHI
HƯNG TRONG E KOWLOON.
and the
Even Soviet Russia,
them.
Few re while Empire in size, population and of what it is today, the Order is limited in membership to 400 of kaightly rank and to 300 Com-
asserting that all men are equal, has no less than six-
teen Orders to show that
some are more
equal than
importance was only a shadow
panions.
True, the Order of the British Empire, founded in the First World War, is another reward for overseas service.
Even so, these two Orders are totally in
others,
And the smaller the coun- try, the greater the number of the decorations. San adequate to meet today's Marino, for example, with
demands, now that opportunities
of public works have increased
Its 13,000 citizens and 38 out of all knowledge,
square miles, has two to Ite
Nowhere is this more patent
was never
not cover.
his
I9
TA
The need, then, is there so let it be met. But rather than sphore but their own." No max of puberking in crisis enlarge present
A Link
The Colonial Office has 1oyed with the idea from time
to
credit. So let us have atars than in Africa. The continent me. But the enthusiasm of its
the African Department is damped forebodings of those
Order of St Michael and St by the
who look after West Indian
to pin on our breasts and was unexplored when ribands to emblazon shirt-fronts.
High Spot
our
But if Britain comes off well in this line, the Com- monwealth and Empire does not.
In Britain, service to the State la rewarded with
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places
Film Murder Becomes Real
New York.
which
TOLLYWOOD,
То affairs, H has just completed a
George was created. Today, it and Far Eastern is the continent of the future.
single out one group of Colonles There,
State for departments of
special distinction would, thriller directed by Alfred have multiplied. Legislatures it is said, cause jealousy and Hitchcock called "Dial. M have expanded. In Nigeria friction in the others.
For Murder," is shuddering olone there are now four re- gional
Yet India was so distinguished, over a real-life Dlal-M-for- governments, each with premier, its ministers, its having two Orders of its own Murder. MP's. Countless advisory boards the Star of India and the Indian
Awarded generously, In the flim a wife slabs to and statutory commissions have Empire. sprung up all offering careers too. Together, they number në | death the man her husband and scope for unpaid work for fower than 350 knights and an had hired to murder her in the
Indefinite number of smaller fry. night for her money; the community,
t
peerages and knighthoods; Need Is There with rare distinctions like the O.M. and Companion,
farca
"
But the answer to those with the dog-in-the-manger mind is simple. Create ocher Orders too exclusively for the Caribbean and
In fact, natress Virginia Engels, a fair-haired, blue-eyed ex-choir singer who was Miss Los Angeles in 1940, is alleged
.:
AMERICA COLUMN
frem
NEWELL ROGERS
Was
In Detroit the emperor given a miniature "ear of the future" by the mayor,
to
flown by an, eight-passenger helicopter from New York Catskil Mountain Suramer resorts 80 miles away.
It files so low that passengers can read hoardings along motor highways.
Return fore: 37 dollars ́02 cents, Time: 55 minutes.
A DEMONSTRATION hydro- gen bomb explosion is proposed by US. Atomic Energy Com- JUDGE
Mildred Lillio
of missioner Thomas Murray. California says: "A woman
He asko President Eisenhower Juror is no more responsive to to invite all nations-particu- emotionat appeal than a male farly the Russians because he
"Sho is no more stubborn or thinks it would Impress Impatient.
them the folly of a modern "She does not permit pride war.
was
ship of Honour; and with This service, paid or not, is for the territories of Southeast to have stabbed her husband to
But Asia; each of these groups has a death, in a midnight quarrel to keep her from changing ber Orders like the Bath and worthy of recognition.
what hope is there for the mon population of five or six million. | about' money.
mind if her conscience tela tier
CHIEF -TAPTUKA - ̧1 and the Victorian Order. To her and women who gave it unless in short, let medals aboundi
she is wrong. But who is not priests."
• of the Hopi 'Indian men and women go the the membership of existing
She is said to have picked up easily led cher," After all, across the Channel the knife to protect herself: he
tribe for the first time publicly lion's share of KBE's and Ortfere is expanded or new
performed a sacred Hopi rituni every other Frenchman wears the lunged upon OBE's. But see how the Orders created)
BARGAIN at a Fifth Avenue Chief, a streamlined passenger to christen the San Francisco Then as Engels telephoned store: a 1818 map of Britain Ch Moreover, in the future these Legion of Honour in his button- by towards will not be dopolised hole and is no worse for it.
the polios number--MICHIGAN sand Ireland with inset views of express train. The bestowal of those distine 5211, Europeans as in the past. by
London and Edinburgh, Prica
Then
Chief Taptuka on the 50 dollars,
taken aboard for a 2,200-mité Why "bargain")... 1590 map
a ride to carry greetings from of America and the New World the Mayor of San Francisco to
the Mayor of Chiengo," costa 125 dollars... the Empire; Ambassadors and prouder of his medals than the Sovereign, And they are a Governor, of Michigan and hair old maps. They are very pick and chickens, on ranches
the with the fount OF honour the MENNEN
Housewives step, tip WILLIAMB;
there ́ WOLVES, are killing: cattle, diplomats are eligible for it. 8o.
are more 20 people are British citizens Hving susceptible to
cream popular for home decorations in Texas, Loudhary land; Az+ abroad ná far.wfield as "Washing-colour, sa
Commonwealth 4 optre In fortune treated. Emperor Halley man, Tal bekooral wouere ton or Warswwwfor pervice. Ein F It we doubt it we need only whom, service; they have been decent to 293 cesta de mills TWO RETURN TRIPS a day in eten years. METİNLİT relation to foRGEN KLAUSO Mage, fook at the independant, Slater earne
shake in Ladang
on Ave days a week are being are out on the
Commonwealth comparison.
"The Most Distinguished Order. Africans will rise to high plicas tions costs nothing; their respe? She is being held of St Michael and St George in the Civil Service and in sives infinite pleasure, was dounded primarily for er politics. And they, much they may appear to be, but they technical charge of suspicion vios overseas, But it is not re- any others, value mark of are valued as a 'mark of esteem of murder." served exclusively for service in appreciation.
no
No wolaler is and gratitude. They are a link
pageantry, and
reminder
of