ANSWER
ΤΟ
CRITICS
OF
COLONIALISM
By Yorke
[IR Aları Buens, Britain's permanent representa- tive on UNO's Truster ship Council, has launched a new attack on people and Countries who criticise the British colonial system,
In a hard-hitting article it the
review. quarterly
"E Optima, he says this:
1 Tia Kashion today to decry colonialom, but it has saved Ti
rt! people from vils, and 1 do not believe that the need for it hirely passed."
Alan criticises Ad Sir dritain. Too, for paying too much attention Le outsiders.
"We are now inclined to Jy undue attention to the riticism of others, and have less condence than we used To have our own judg
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Str
Who are the critics? Man divides them into two camps: The irar Curtain bloe add her
who Puntries tu divert attention thuir Own
wand
Sred
No Secret
he AV
short-
"makes no
of its belief Thut
got a territories
are the
Achilles heel of capitalism, unel
As every opportunity to fas
il me any sambulerint
Fuel
fuldes
British Su Alam instances Gotha Where "we have reveal- uf effects TV
the
scen
Hussian teaching and the danger
Henderson
suffesently into account the true Interests of colonial peoples or even the obvious fact that the inhabitants Di the yarlous territories are at different stages of cultural development."
They could, however, wrong. For Sir Alan makes this mason: Five years ago I did believe that the Gold Coust Constitution could be worked as
cessfully
as it has been.
be
I
ub-
m glad that i was wrong (but I still think that even beller irsults would have bein tained at the pace has to bren so rapid). In Air Nkrumah. The Gold Coast has, fortunately. found
wise *nci muderate
whose easies
Ime Minister, she has inspired his people and
xaven confidence to the friends
the Atrieun."
Sir Alun writes with authority During 42 years in rolossal nád rutrusts aljon he has been guvern- ра of British Honduras, the Gold Coast, and Acting-Gover of Nigeria. He was also Colomat Segretary of the Babunias
Optima, in which te neie
published, is produced the Anglo-American Don of South Africa.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.
A pretty girl
tries out that
anti-jitter pill
A
PRETTY, 22-year-old girl has tried
are
drug which is Chapman Pincher re- ported is being tested by RAF doctors to combat "jitters" in pilots,
Dentists
Lo using it reduce patients' fears. Hospitals are using it to help people to sleep. Two capsules before that Big Moment that examination, that speech, or
interview--can that
cut down nervous tension, the makers claim. Well, what happens when an ordinary. shy young girl takes the drug? That's what Diana Clarence and I set out to dia- cover.
Together we bought some capsules of the drug-methyl-pentene the scientists call it.
1
Now there are three things in life that always give Diana the "jitters. One is heights, another is mice, the third is meeting strange (and rather im→ portant) propie.
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The experiment began at an open-air swimming baths. Diana was nervous and hesitant even when standing on the lowest
diving bourd. But minutes after taking two she stood of the capsules without u tremor on the high-diving board, 16 ft.
BEFORE - Djana in worried on the lowest diving board.
WHO'S AFRAID OF MICE?
SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
They're Sharpening
The Knives
Now For Mr France
of handing over the destinies of but one" has finally
triure
percipate
to
in it.
Str
Paris
It seharacteristic of France of his brains wives trusters are credited with more ambition and ability than their husbands.
10 the man who take that the
like being the eternal "next French Premier made The exhilarating shock of finding a man of ability Of other crities,
Alan
character at the hear noles "it is notorious that the und
comes of a French Cabinet that is for criticism most frost the representatives of not a mere reshuffle of a they are as quotes of the week: combies where the adminism-
"American uld prevented tum is most corrupt, the treat-dog-eared pack is compar-
iltruated Communists
severe
What he says
So much fur the mATI. some of his ideus.
Now Here
sent of minorities or of theable to the parched travel- France from drowning herself.
It was NOT supposed also t werking classes the most disler's discovery of an oasis in teach her how to swim."
tumatony, and the constitu- the Sahara.
"
unstable that it is shaken 20 frequent revolutions,
Guatemala, with its clating on
Honduras.
the
11. Alan uses,
that the Guatemalan death rate
and that I very much higher Wages paid to labourers in the republie are lower than those paid in the colony
Colour Issue
A
"France is the only country Of course it may all turn out in the world which has been
MICE used to
Diana. soare The other day she let one run over ber hand,
is
HE
A
created excessive in-
(French division) the man is well-tempered routine." BEHIND
her of
up.
Suld Diane afterwards: "As
I stood there I felt quite relaxed. I was at cruse although a group and of youths began cheering yelling at me. Any other time that would have shattered me."
So to anti-liter test No. 2— the mire. Like most women Dioma usually bolts to stand on the nearest chair when she sees a mouse. But not the other day. Not after those capsules.
She faced up quite cheerfully to not one white mouse but Calmly she picked Turu mice. one up and let it run over her hand.
ller report afterwards: **It didn't bother me ut ull,"
Last, lest No. 3, perhaps the hardest of all-for
41 Diana, sensitive girl just hates inter- views with strangers.
AFTER - Diana is happy on the highest diving board.
H
心
Bul, after she had taken
2nd tome water capsules. I introduced her to a business executive. cati Diana lost her shyness and talked screnely and with charm.
So to the SUMMING-UP. Suld Dland: "With me the drug was certainly a sucress,
Any sitte-kicks? "None."
OF
THE
IS LONELY
KING COUNTRY
By RALPH HEWINS
.
L.E.S.
tween North America, Britain,
EHIND the pomp of the
So Swedes cannot tap Norwegian water power for see how they could keep out of her expanding industries. a third world war.
Sweden too is negotiating
to
NATURE'S
POISON
PUNCHES
THE STRIKERS
By IVAN T. SANDERSON Explorer. Naturalist, Author
THE man
T
WAS
Losing pumping the lungs, and we dio logs into the open suffocation. mouth of the furnace
Shaker inject their poison into that roared all day and their victims
of by means night under the great vats teeth which are either grooved of the cane mill. His dark down one side or perforated by These a venom-carrying tube, brown skin glistened with teeth may be axed either at the sweat from the fire on the front or back end of the upper one side and the torrential Jow, UT they may be hinged
50 that
they can be tropical sunshine on the above other. As he worked he folded back and up into grooves
on the palato. chant sang an old African in rhythm with his motions seizing a log from the pile, pulling it out, hefting it. swinging it over. and tossing it into the flames.
If they are perforated. the the holes are on the front of fangs ups. Thus, a snake has to open its mouth very wide and strike at you in order to inject kis polson-up, at least, that is the general fale. However, t is not the invariable rule.
Then a log jummed and he reached down to free it. Instantaneously he let out a shriek that could be heard all over the mill; then he
If you ever decide to go pok- sailed into the air as if he had a line attached from his ing among the bushes and tree stumps anywhere In tropical waist to a jet plane. When Africa, there are many things he was in mid-air, there was of which you
beware. should Venomous snakes are obvious single, sudden loud snap va
menaces, for
there are many like a pistol shot. The man cobrus, night
adders and plt was dead before he hit the vipers in all parts of equatorlai ground.
Africa, However, there is a very special aspect of certain ones among them that calls for extra caution, in fact, if you do ever decide to do anything so queer
When the doctor came and had forced his way through the ring of gaping. slient workers.
The bushmaster, whose fangs can deliver one
nature's deadliest poison punches.
2
the first thing he saw was small dead snake. But when he learned what had happened, he started a thorough examination of the dead man,
his
Own
And, just as he had suspected, the man had broken back in his uncontrollable reflex leap caused by the violence of
in
of
in
ona tle "bushwhacking" Africa, it would be better that you wear a pair of spectacles.
The common Indian hooded cobra can splt, but certain African cobrus, and notably the black-necked cobra of the West Coast and the "spyslang" of the South, can literally fre their venom at you with great force and remarkable accuracy Up to a distance of a dozen
to be a mirage: there are a great living in a state of chrome in- many people. ร France who flation for forty years." are AXIOS that
France It should Properly Example
prove to be su Stock Exchange parcelled out in small fractions jounte
cut, neidentally, that 70 prices took a tumble on the day and this has been one of the seat of the Guatemalan po-Mendes-France was elected and strongest deterrents to progress. pulation are illiterate, as against 12 percent in British Honduras: are quy steadying now to the It has
of knives being divi
diyidualism, 3 a refusal or risk wet music
and e distrust of foreigners us gpened for his hoped-for-dis-
by
disturbing elements memberment.
Under the Old Pols Act what the French regard their
US
hopeless bounder who "France uses more threatens to destroy a cherished resources in unproductive spend land by the King and Queen French political principle — that ing such as luxury goods and an of Sweden, behind the
But there is no prospect what-the poison the snake had of "Immobiliam" which roughly overloaded civil service than banqueta at Buckingham That Is why Sweden
is ever that Sweden will abandon lected into his hand. The snake feet or more. Further, they have do nothing but pro- any other country in the world.
Swedish hastening means
Paluce and
traditional neutrality, was a small bushmaster, known "France is like a woman who
to put her war in- her mise everything, especially to
it in that country,
was dustries
is Almost every Swede thinks the Americans.
of her figure that Embassy, the addresses on
and underground proud
from she puts herself into a curset vellum
the City of building atom-bomb-proof shel- is worth while trying to "get Trinidad, as a "Mapipi," and the man had put his hand right into that almost chokes her.""
London and Westminster. ters for key organisations and away with it" a third time.
its mouth so that he got the "Ever since the war French the state drives
is main towns.
What King Gustaf Adolf and full dose of both its fangs right governments have lied their Sweden's loneliness.
his Foreign Minister, Mr Osten into the fleshy part of his palm. Ing, and is deadly if it falls on own people and their allies.
Sweden's fighting services are Unden, a Socialist lawyer, hope good. She makes her own lels. to get in London good will. Most people nowadaya know an open wound. What is more, it Her cruisers are modern. Her
how a poisonous snake operates, it hits your eyes, you will suffer. steady but they seldom know how the excruciating nemy is well equipped.
There has
pain for hours, It poison works. The whole busi- days, or weeks, and you may theness is much more complicated
or even to than you might think. And then experience temporary last there is also a nasty surprise permanent blindness. So viru-
mwaiting the unwary.
lent is the polson of the spy-
Mays Colour consciousness, Sie Alan, is responsible for much outside criticism of the colonial system. He notes: "The present Indian concern in Afri- can affairs is evidence of this."
To back his argument that there is still room for colonial- xm, Sir Alan quotes at length evidence of how territories have benefited from the $3
the
No more dole
is
Dancing Marlene
the
As if that were not enough, the man actually believes that
"Whatever price we have to Sweden desperately wants France should now try to make pay for peace in Indo-China the do without the dollar dole. price will be higher if we deadfriends. She has been to the "bad old
At be
47 Mendes-France
1 through China and Russia neutral for nearly 150 years: charmer pensants had nosoft-voiced
whose because they will claim a com- so she has no comrades-in- says, chance to cultivate their crops gentle bedside manner is decep, mission as go-betweens."
arms. or market them.
Ho acquired This had to live.
great deal (and wi- walt for the resources of Britian at political wisdom administration and European wisdom) from General de Gaulle, It was no more whim that th traders.
publicity hand-out: alliances." for Africa's being elected he sent a message FROM The same goes mineral wealth, untapped until to de Gaullo recalling "his lofty "Marlene Dietrich will dance European miners and geologists lessons In patriotism," He is in the Champs-Elysees for the an quiboritarian by Instinct and second time in her life (the Arsi arrived
what But
is capable of showing it. happens when
was after the Liberation) when colonial peoples take over the He is a wealthy man; his for she comes to Paris next month running of their own countries? tune comes from his Egyptian to perform at the Lido." Sir Alan uses Gold Coast as an wife who inherited large cotton example. He recalls that when Jinterests in Egypt. Dr Kwame Nkrumah's govern~
inen
Ho himself has considerable came to power it revoked financial interests in France and the British polley of cutting out in French North Africa. cocon trees afflicted with dead-is aleg active en the board of a
ly swollen shoot disease because private investment bank.
it wus unpopular with local farmers.
Recently the same government
put
"But"
the policy into effect again.
says Sir Alan, "I doubt
'Your Excellence'
He
Duke's story
been
build-up for this state visit. And the country, 800
miles began with the award of long and a third again os big as Nobel Prize for literature
Winston Churchill Sir to attack December. She calls her neutrality "a Britain, is hard policy
from heavily
broken with wooded, of freedom
and for
A enough
powerful Anglo-Swedish She kept out of many lakes,
of Commerce was boost créated In Stockholm to Nobody is
Britain's diminishing share of trade with Sweden.
Ger- (tho mans are ousting un from Arst place).
**
the North Atlantic Treaty way to get some warning of an Chamber
attack from the East.
Organisation. bound to help her.
her arc who
West and south of Norway and Denmark,
the
But Sweden depends in both belong to NATO; to the cast fast resort on help from NATO is Finland, who has a pact of And that means help from Bri- muual assistance with Russia; tin. NATO Northern Command and to the southeast is the is haudquartered in neighbour- powerful Red Fleet in the Baltic. ing Oslo under General Sir
Robert Mansergh.
want
There is a plan to link Sweden apd Denmark with bridge across The Sound.
t
to
L
which
you
a particularly nasty habit of lying quietly in wait until approach within range and then firing straight for your eyes.
The venom is squirted out of the forward-directed fang open-
slang that its venom can caitso festering skin eruptions,
I have personally witnessed. First, there are two principal e a result of the poison of a
These
cobra are black-necked
having pes of poisons. known de haemolysins and spattered a pair of flannel neurotoxing; they are manu trousers the subsequent stain- factured by special kinds of ing of the trousers and the In April the 300th anniversary salivary glands, and are mixed appearance of actual holes when and Friendship of the Anglo-Swedish Trade together to form
clear, the material was next washed, was yellowish liquid, celebrated.
Treaty
becolage
my
ACTOR Joan Rigaux was asked
The enake that ruined my by a Paris newspaper to give
The proportion of one type of pants had already spat at Four weeks ago King Gustaf's poison to the other varies his account of a reception given
20-year-old granddaughter, different kinds of
in face and was chasing me. ¡Ax my by Lord Ismay for the Duko
venomous native helpers closed in on Princess Margaretha, went to snakes, GOBIO of Edinburgh. Here it las
being almoet the reptile fired again, hitting Many Swedes have a guilty
London. "In all modesty I must con-
wholly haemolytic
pur cook on hia, bare lega action gutered no ill effects, nor did 1, others fess that I had a great personal conscience about giving equal
are primarily The visit of the king and
c. The effect of the home I was wearing glasses, My "play" to Hitler and the Allies whether there are many other His wife is in the best tradi- triumph at the reception.
queen is the cilmax of pallent former is to destroy the red but the affair Laught mo our ambassador during the wor and elegance, and only rival was colonies
where the indigenous ton of Parisian
diplomacy. They hope to make corpuscles of the blood.. 10 NATO, M. Herve Alphand, put themselves right with
and several new lessons. The text- ia a talented painter with rulers would have the courago
tho There is also a plan 10 let their country better known to irritate the Uning of veins and books say that these snakes con to admit ag error and rein-feminine weakness for being who gives quite excellent Imita-West
Sweden have free harbour Britain; to create some affection arteries; that of the latter is fire only once, and then havo to of M. Bidault and of the troduce an unpopular policy." confused about her husband's
fgellities at Trondheim on Nor- for Sweden. And to foster an upon the nerves, delegation
and causes walt for more friends.
venom to ac- (One of his closest
to the But, above all, Sweden is way's west coast-which would understanding that Sweden paralysią. When our nerves stop Geneva Anancial collaborators is always
Conference.
cumulate. But they pack a whole scared Her territory straddles give her a trade outlet to the would not be left out on a Ilmb working, the natural bellows series of polson punches, averi addressed by her as "Your women were marvellously the direct bombing route be- Atlantic in another war.
If attacked. (
il formed by our diaphragm stops the last of which can be deadly. Excellency" under the mistaken dressed and there was a young impression that he is the Pollsh woman of absolutely striking Sir Alan has to admit
that m
Ambassador Their Interests bonuty. Ah la, in. The Duke took the material prosperity of
me aside to tell me a story 'blen divergent she me are completely colonies corpparelh with their is interested in the arts and the Parisienne. He said" that at Independent alghbours hefashionable
world, he is some. Ascot he asked Marcel Boussac compares Jamaica and Haiti,
thing of a
of a recline
and reads What was the French word for Gold Coast and Liberia-doos
replied. not deter colonial peoples from nothing but newspapers and re- starter. M. Brassos
Why, it's the same": "word" condito economic works.
only
Too
Quickly
ns possible.
All the
seeking self-government as soon At home Mendes France you must say it with an English
How quickly should colonias rarely sit down to the table for accent." be granted self-government?" moule und mostly snatches sand- According to Sir Alan, ex-wiches and tea in a corner of perienced British Administrators his study.
with long
11
$30,000 car
Film
'stur Grace
He is noidentally the only NOIDENTAL Intelliger and non-officiāls service
in tropical colonial mon I know who can make an territories are worried about melelve speech while munching filming in the too much speed. They bellett, w chicken bone. He has little will almost unanimously that s government is desirable and in
for Friendship or engagement to human rahlons, and del
khusband
of civil servants, and
evitable, But they have, too, he and a bralne trust,
"an equally JAYN. feeling that the ment is cha pr
uriapimoya
ingy
1100 hurried and that those re
Aly dee and known is Ame
JOHNNY HAZARD -
I WON'T GVS UP MY NOONAN FOR A JEALOUS [MÁNG THREAT! ESCARRE IN AVALUE NEVER COULD HAVE LOVED HIM?
AT THIS MOMENT, IN THE PRISON OFFICÙ........
DOSS_BACARMI HANS THE PANILEGS OF RECEIVING -
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UNFORTUNATELY ESTARRE HAS TO MANY PRIVIESTS! CHA IS SUNNING
HIMBILE NEAR THE
SOUTH VALLE
By Frank Robbins
...this situation
for a
an
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