WHAT'S
BEHIND
SELASSIE
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1954,
THE
BEANO?
⚫ With a faintly amused smile on his lips Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, is busy turning his first visit to the United States into a triumphant procession. But behind all the show- manship and glitter the purpose
of the visit remains strictly business, By EVELYN IRONS
It's a goal
A
Now it's one all
AND THAT IS HOW HE SEES FOOTBALL
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
SCIENTIST
"watched"
hus just football
match for nothing -by following brain-waves 1124 they were recorded.
The Train-wave test Wha entriert mit on
way
H
New York. E is being given a regolar whirl this small, dusky, benried man with smoulder- ing eyes, now in the thick of his first visit to America. He IN His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie 1, Conquering Liont of the
ciown from Lady Margaret Hall) and her sleek London suits.
Americana have, however, no Illusion about this slate visit. They are aware that it is strictly at business, and big business
that. It is not just a simple matter of a goodwill tour pro- posed by President Roosevelt ten years ago and now being sud- denly implemented by President Eisenhower
It is expected that during Haile Selassie's two-month trip it will be announced that Selassie has reached an agree- ment with the U.S. Govern- ment giving them the right to military bases in Abyssinia for 0 years.
The two countries have already signed a mulus)
urlly pact.
Another Hem of concern Government the American
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tribe of Judah, Elect of God, the recent news that Ethiopla and Emperyer of Ethiopia.
contins large deposits of high- grade uranium ore.
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He has been given a coister-
In his correct but halting and ticker-Lapie parade
heavily accented English, the Broadway with it full-dress Emperor has told Americans on aulitury ant civilian servies television that he is here 10 procession. he has been awarded thank the American people for fran university degrees, include their support of his Government- fang me at MediA, Montreal, in-exile during the Italian using his brief excursion Iccupation of Ethiopia from 1935 to 1941. fic hoa also said that }r would welcome private capital Investments in his coun- try'a undertakings.
Canada
He has stayed the night with the President and Mrs Eisen- hower the drst man of colour
So far he has said nothing to sleep at the White House publicly about another purpose since 1943, when President of of us Vist! to prepare the way Tabeyn Falwin Barely und Pree for an American loan of 100 aldent-eleet Tubman, whe has million dollars for Ethiopia, new sureceded him, were The atursts of Presiden Roosevelt.
He has been made a member fa Minnesota ekib for beard- ed mich
it is said here that he will get
it, too, berne Americans know that the Russians have been making friendly advances to Abyssinia (Amerleans to note of this the propagandu value Tavishi entertainment of fre African emperor, following close on the Supreme Court decision to end segregation b American schot.}
There are three hospitals in Addis Ababa, and the largest is maintained by the Soviet Gov- ernment. The other two are kept
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senators on the committee up by the Swedes and by the could get to the joint session of Seventh Day Adventists Congress to heat the Emperor Amerien,
Haute Selassie bas cyn isilonvent Senator McCarthy nat
the stopped
Turcical Television Dutchupia, heartgs of Joe versus the wan listening to broad- cast of an amateur averaational Army for half an hour so that Sareer match between England and lates
nother I seberitist. watching the brain- wave recorder.
When the Dutch scored a goal, knew beenise the the
until waves suddenly jerked violently.
When the English equalised another land of wave,
gnifying bad tesmpre, appeared. on the rearging.
The
whenever the jave mereamerd.
The
the dress
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Selassie wants the
money to found a streamlined his new hospital in his capital city. uniform More important, he wants it to of o develop his rich uranium finds and to establish an up-to-date to train school of engineering young Ethioplans,
Being a realistic businessman, the Emperor is not coming cap in hand to ask Tor Kifts of American money. He announces
aking
"He's getting the full plush
Amirienn areatment," one marked to me, “ag plusk as if he were the monarch of England."
Five fert four inches, Selassie partly is goed ond erect in starlet-labbed modelled on British feld-marshal, bis tunic medal brann-wave rhython aidaze with 10 rows of
nuch the the ribbons
He looks droned on regularly while
day was dull and stepped ap same as the refuger from Mus- whom Britons knew ex- Were revealed copt that his crisp black hair by The Gery Waller, of Bristol, and bears are slightly ecked who pioneered the
with white, he is now Fir nutr Jeete charges A
smile faintly amused given off by the human brain. flickers across his Bps as the
ving the Knowle
score. one trash American cameromen
Meanwhile, he has accepted end tell the nationality of the command the Conquering Lon
the gift of a Chrysler ear. And brain-print," Judah to "Wave your hand, subject from his
he has taken a boat trip round Hold it. Your High- Manhattan Istand as the guest of could infer
Mr Leland Stanford aboard his state of the game.
Americans have no means of
Mr Stanford is president yacht. the inscrutable of the Sinclair Oil Company. An "The Enstrument would!
what
of the whole Abyssinian oil concession thinks which people were interested in
has pantomime But they been transferred to this com- football and whether a listener's crazy
was in the Beetles of like him, and they particularly pany, and their engineers are Interest
Hk hits slim, suphisitented, 23- drilling granddaughter, Prin- Ogaden. wits year-ols! ganic
reporting
he reperts “Knowing The Emperopt
subject.
play or in which side won."
The brain-waVA" play at Hull.
2-2.
theness
show
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proudly that the riches of the African continent are "fabulous. So he wants a loan that he is confident he can repay.
in
the province
nt
The result was rss Sybel Desta, with her Ox- Yes, there is a lot behind this
(she has just come trip.
ford accent
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THE
BUSY
New York Tuesday.
LL week I have been reading that the Anglo American al- liance
is "decaying, dix- solving, under severe strain. at the lowest point since the war, and beginning to break up.
"
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ARE
JEREMIAHS
ONCE AGAIN
than
of course, by autumn wa wil I spent some time in Harlem and grills, and they seemed to again be badly split, severely this week. Six hundred thou be doing belter business strained, and beginning to break sand coloured people live there the shops in midtown where It is not the Harlem of the era of New York's white population Bojingles Robinson, Cub go. Calloway, and Duke Ellington any longer.
up.
Actually and thousands of others aren't sure just what is expected of the British. Are we supposed to intervene in Indo- China? No American. with the possible exception of General Douglas MacArthur, Is.
I am sure the men and
Are we to give up negotiating women who wrote the re- Red begin shooting? No Ameri- ports and the comments put can whom I know is prepared to down what they believe.
is do so. the truth. I should like. however, to register a dis- senting vote of one.
THE
Fight ahead
HIE Times sums it up per- This must be about the tenth
fectly: "The chief difference time during the past few years that the partnership has "de- seems to be the British have no cayri. dissolved, been
quiet about it, under policy and are severe strain, at its lowest post- while the United States has no war point. and been breaking policy and is up."
But the
was
can
calamity has never seemed to happen. About three years ago the partnership was decaying, last year it was dis-
a Christmas it solving. under severe strain, by Easter it wa ut its lowest post-war point. Next week, no doubt, It will be- gin to look as if it is breaking interested
up.
Carry on
The
the
talking about 1
many
night
There are not clubs, and the nights when the Plantation, the old Cotton Club, and Connie's Inn were blocked with custoiners are over.
of
the tourists #11
There were almost as meny motor-cars in Harlem be along Fitch and Park Avenues. Whe ther they are paid for in full I don't know, but most of them are spectacular new models.
Their courage
Hoover today is an American Idol-perhaps inore highly re- garded than any other Ameri- eun, Congress treats him with the smoothest of kid gloves, and he always gets every dollar he wants from the Appropria- hems Committee.
lie is a beefy, 60-year-old man who has never married, living quietly on his 20,000 dollars a year. He usually dines at Harvey's, the famous sei- food restaurant in the capital and he never drinks more than two Scolches-and-soda a day.
I
Even the famous Savoy Bali- Toom, where the Cadillac trade used to go and watch the coloured kids do the Big Apple, the Lindy
THE Negroeń are sensitive of Hop and the Binck Bottom is not the charge that crime thrives
buunt
Άπνο recolved several in Harlem. They concede that Jetters regarding the four- there are some hold-ups, knite minute miler, Roger Bannister, lashings,
and gun-aghts, but and asking it British Informa-
Greenwich
tlon offcials botched the good. will gesture.
mort.
Harlem has become serious, It still sells entertainment, raw gin, and sex, but no longer in great quantities.
Good citizens
In
No
more than in
Village or Brooklyn
Justice Francis Rivers says: "Harlem's Inain attraction is really the courage of its eili- xons. They are people
who, despite the stubborn
pressure
of gress prejudice, are plercing
Certainly, if Bannister had not been possessed of diplomacy and charm, the trip could have back-fired even worse.
I know most of the Information.
British the encircling ghetto wails.”
Services officials here. The resumption of the hip-
They are hard workers. ста Capitol Hill. they have a wide range of con~ podrome
Senator starring
Joseph tacts, they give and go
to as McCarthy, with a
parties as large
the human sup- many
constitution porting cast, has millions mes-
con stand, but I am afraid that merked by their television scis
the results of their industry have not been very impressive lately,
at the top of its lungs,"
Perhaps after another week's "decaying and dissolving" wo ITULAN JACK, Borough Pre- will have worked out a plan we
sident of Manhattan, a agree on to replace the distinguished coloured man who
which we Vacuum about
are lives in
The Hariem, says: disagreeing.
people who live here are show- Interest in good ing a greater coloured population of
clizenship than ever before United Staics is more
our history." Supreme Court's ruling against segrega- I drove slowly
up Lennox again. tion in schools than in the Aven towards the Yankee troubles in Geneva or the crisis Stadium, right
The entire Inquiry seems to through the In Indo-China.
have benefited no one except J. heart of Harlem. The pave- Edgar Hoover, the head of the ments were crowded with men, Emboldened
Federal Bureau of Investiga children, almost tin women, and
dressed well in bright-coloured
flushy, sults of green. electric blue, and silver grey,
In the
DUT what happens finally?
by the court's There are arguments and ruling iri their favour, the talk coloured people are now fighting against other forms of segrega-
ion.
abuse. Some Americans about writing the British off, some British talk of writing the Americans off, and then thero negotiations, conferences, and we carry on as before.
I will lay odds that we under- go this process again, although,
Bre
It will be a long and strenuous Oght. Even here in New York I am sometimes shocked at the way the coloured man and his wife are treated.
ARTHUR
There
Hoover has now been boss of the F.B.I. for 30 years. Presi- dents come and go, Attorny ts money In the Cameralls Bre replaced, but coloured people's pockets. Hoover stays on at the top. He went into some of the shops - has served under seven Presi department stores, Woolworth's, denis and 13 Atiomey- drug stores, cafeterias, bars, Cenerals.
GREENWOOD SAID:
IT'S THE GOODNESS
ARTHUR GREENWOOD,
who died this month
wood
By Trevor Evans
at war next
OF FOLK
executive
4.9
They do not succeed in get- ting the British story told widely and cloquently as 18 chould be.
I cannot help thinking that a small group of experienced ex-journalists would bo moro effective.
Along Broadway
THE Broadway Cason hos ended with the revival of Chekhov's The Seagull," which got fair reviews, and the dizziest musical of the year, "The Pyjama
Game." The season has not been ono of Broadway's best,
Mac West is going to England for Arthur Rank to star in "Goodness Me," her first plc- ture in two years. Miss West says: "I was successful
I hope I
in
am
mured; "Don't forget when you come to writing the final ploco to mention the friendship." at 74, was one of the few
led the Opposition in going to get on the
He smiled easily. But I re Leadon plays. public men in Britain with whom
but minded him of the highlights of one could discuss Parliament, Tory Mr Leo Amery anyway as deputy-leader,
for England, partly shouted "Speak
because the their own obituaries.
veteran his life which had always been equally successful in the film." Arthur," and Arthur did.
Greenwood still had millions of followed by disappointment. He
Audrey nodded his silver head, and accompanied everywhere by her Hepburn is being supporters. Brilain
agreed that all those things had co-star, Such CALO for bitterness, happened. Such justification for disillusion, But this was the irony of it. I demanded, "Weren't you Younger Socialist politicians furious in 1947 and in these last came to Arthur Greenwood to fow months?" Ho replied, the end for his advice in their "Furious? Hardly that. Die disappointments. He gave it to appointed and a little surprinod, them soundly and shrewdly, for but they all had a right to their he was that extraordinary blend views." of Yorkshireman and idealist.
It sounds a morbid theme. But not you knew Arthur Greenwood. Because the whole morning. Many of the Social- point of Arthur Greenwood was iets urged him to become leader But ho said, "I that he was kindly, gentle, wise, of his party.
won't run against Clem." and tolerant.
It has become almost a cliche call him the "best loved man In the Labour movement." of
course he was, but there was po much behind, that fabel,
STRAIGHT FIGHT
Three years later there was a fight with Herbert
You see, Arthur Greenwood straight had been a disappointed
for
Morrison for the treasurership man
He knew every move, having Greenwood beon in the House for 12 years years. He got so near bo- of the party, and coming the leader of his party years later, in 1947, Aitles months after the landsildo
won convincingly. But four except for a break of five at least twice,
the bly unions
NOT GULLIBLE
Mel Ferrer, Ferrer wanta Audrey to star with him in "Paganini," the story of the violinist. Friends forecast a marriage.
James Mason will make his debut as dramatic reader by re- cording a number of literary ¡ginssies.' Mason gota, a high [[fee, as always, 2)
George Sanders is equiring Sylvia Gable around Hollywood.
to
Star news
of He poked my knee with his aucked him from a Ministerial 1931 but he also knew every forefinger, and said,. "Brother, First time was in 1935 when job to "make room for younger mood, having helped more than there is nothing to put against George Lansbury throw mon" Gromwood was then 67. any other single man to create the goodness of folk. "I'm not convictions that a pacifist and apart from his M.P.salary what is called the party con- gullible, but I've never known HEAR that Herbert Wilcox
Arthur was
the
(he sat for Wakefield, Yorks), selenes. senior ex-Minister and one ol
anyone who was wholly bad, agreed to provide the money fe never held a well-paid job
and that's nothing to do with
Errol trusted by again.
complete the fow politicians
Flynn's It was nfler those ups and party matters"
"Willam Toll" as part of the But Herbert Morrsion had Then, last year, some of his when folks were congratulating pasting of arthur: dremwood Negle
down and the final up again,
arrangement under which Flynn So the genuine griót for the signed ta co-star with, Anna considerable backing from the old union supporters decided he him on rekrialning
In LANós party
to the comedy parties, so to avoid was too old at 29 to be party treasurer, that we got around to has little to do with his political Spring. a split they chose the compara treasurer, so they put up Her- dicuming his obituary
iriumphs or disappointments. tively Ho known. Clement bert Morrison for the job to get hitzarmend
It has so much to do with ́a Merlo Oberon will probably Atlee us a stop-gap,BAND Herbert back on the executive, He, mantioned it first): After man who, likad: het fellows play opponite Stewart Granger On the eve of the war Mr. Herbert withdrew on the eve of about the twentieth handshake (beings. Bo⠀ who could help it, "hicomanet, which will be Alles was 11, so Arthur Greens the night, partly becmim he, was, frotti casual passatsby, be many "liking him? -
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