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The Time of Decision
ridors, staircases, and all. an indefinite further period Loudspeakers retayed the rule.
of
speeches to a crowd on the What mukes This Incident lawns outside.
doubly and rebly significant to
that it was The
third example of such feeling I had come ACTUS in the last 12 he to
What amazed me was the resolution which the
chief speaker, u spectacles, wizen- ed Gandhi-ish figure, Was putting to the meeting.
't ask your approval" he was ying that we should send a telegram to her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace in London begging her to postpone until further doller the depar- ture from Ceylon of her
Governor- inprosentalive,
General Land Soulbury,”
I resolution Wi Pr1 with thunderous beebunation.
Now
No dream
L
TO, I was not dreaming. Here Pross-sectim of the nost politically conscious and ative citizens of Ceylon, แง to which only six years ustund before we had grand fibera- tion from the oppressive rule of British Imperialiam."
months
the among
propte Whitehall believes can only appoised if we leave Dem Henrselves.
No despots
Mauritius
HAD met A lau
There, the descendants
settlers. the original French white and half-caste, coloured Africans whose forefathers had iwch slaves, Chinese merchant and Moslems from immigrants, Indin, were all bonding together in one demand.
and
requested
They prayed that the island should continue under its present system of just and impartial British rule. They did not want it to be exposed
to the one-sided racial despotism of the Hindu Indian majority which they fear will follow the granting of universal suffrage And they were agitating with and self-government
the ไบ કાં velicmend eloquente of Astute
the
that the Jast
agitation
ruminant
symbol of this "Britu oppires- xion and exploitation," which they had so of
island.
THE
palm-thatched I had sat in
while the village courthouses hendmen, surrounded by their naked warriors, tald me in long speeches how they wanted the
partial British to remain and rule over them until they would have learned enough to rule themselves.
Now, I believe the time has rome when we can well afford to be a bit less modest and apologette about ourselves ta 4 Imperialists.
Car
I believe that both in approach to the pandits of the United Nations and the Culottal Commonweath opite of the The Interests of the Wezlerti world as whole demand Bat we should stop padling quite so much accent શા self-govern-
ment.
Cummings
London Express Bervice
100 Years Before
Ava Gardner
THE papers last Tuesday reported Miss
TH
Ava Gardner as having achieved the impossible by making a Hongkong re- porter blush a deep pink. Yet a littlo more than one hundred years ago I am sure that a nameless gentleman of the Fourth Estate - "A portly Editor, a little out of breath, with sunburnt visage"
who was sitting with "his trophy, a large joss, suspended from his neck" on An island some fifty miles southwest of Hongkong, was even more pink-faced. Indeed, considering the different living conditions of those good old days, I should Imagine that pink would be a very mild colour indeed to describe the same gentle- man's visage.
The date is November 12, 1854; the scone the island of Tylo; the hero of my story, the Editor of either the China Mail, The Friend of China, or the Hongkong Register, the three newspapers of Hong- kong In those days; and the reason for his presence, a punitive expedition to the same island to teach the local pirates a sharp lesson.
The expedition itself is worthy of remark, consisting as it did of British, Americon and
Portuguese men-of-war, plus
MONKS WAY
Just look at what is happen Ing today in Pakistan.
There a military coup by the half-paralysed veteran governor- general haer swept into banish- ol ment the corrupt politicos Karachi's Constituent Assembly.
No suspicions
without.
We prefer to muke fresh unilateral agreements with Japan, China, and Indlu."
I inL
three junks of the Chinese Im- perial Navy. In addition to thode Naval ships were two of the P and O's 'feet, the Canton
and the Forbes.
HASTE ASHORE
The operation seems to have been successful, apart from the episode of the "Fine young American marine belong- ing to the U.S. Frigate Macedondu who lost his life, "some say by accident, othera from a gingali bail". Our re- presentative of the Hongkong Press however, I am
certain. blushed-ov
even if from different cutises than Miss Gardner's in- terviewer-when having, "with ludable zeal," hastened to land with one of the first boats and having
tried
to witness
any warlike na- ture," he sat down to a well earned lunch.
little affair of a
On opening his "haversack," which he had seized in his haste to get ashore and get first kand with which
same way In almost the have had economic experts Karachi complain that Britain does not buy enough cotton and Juto Pakistan, Australiana Syewitness reports and New Zealanders have told to enthral his readers, instead of tariffs finding "roast fowl, cold ham, me that the preference
case of cheroots, and a flask of on their products In the UK. case
brandy we find our sunburnt but gallant Editor
Editor confronted with only A humble supply of biscuit and pork." To deepen his blush, he,
gon
Editor end therefore presumably a man have
WHO are the men who have
taken over? They are there so low that Britala buys its civil servants and soldiers train- products elsewhere.
No attempt
44 by the British. Foremost among them is General Iskan-
DIGIT. der Mirza, the
heurty major-general whom I met last July in sweltering Dacca. There, he had taken over as milltary governor in a situation of chaos a amrchy which appears to be on the verge of Communist
put revolution, Instead we should far more emphasis un Bood government
No mistake
mo judge by may experience and conversations with the fenders both in Africa and Asia there is an increasingly
large group of men ready to welcome that policy.
lumph A muke no mistake, China and its growing prestige
in
other
of Communism
the
172
ara
of
The Americans, usually sus
have plelous of dictatorships,
this one their given
blessing --and dollars. They are well if aware of what is at stake Pakistan falls a prey to anarchy.
Equally
the Important need for u lo show
greater confulence in the future of the Commonwealth A Colonial Empire as an economic unit for mutual prosperity.
Today we are hardly giving the Imperial Preference system a chance. The old Oltawa tariffs are too low to be worth while.
parts of Asta North Afritt is due not by any mans alone to s doctrine Asiatic nationullam,
It is due also to a most im- portant
degree to the dissatis- faction of the ordinary citizen a. the misrule und greed of the political factions who have been Installed In power over them ring. in a hollow misunderstood copy
Down in the swumplands the Upper Nile
the and in Equatorial province of
of
the
Live government.
of Western forms of representa. Conouncer Southern Sudan 1 had met the
should remain among them for
THE
sunie thing.
GENERAL
In Rangoon I remember long talk with the Minister of Economics on the eve of Burma repuciating its membembly of preference the Commonwealth
"What little advantage R gives us," he said, "we could do
PLAYS
BOWS AND ARROWS
London. Na room in Holland Park
IN
a general is drawing up
By WALTER SCHWARZ
an order of battle. He is From the Hebrew words, I can But the anonymous author of 86, a very young general; reconstruct the whole thing in the Battle Scroll was also a the order of battle! on the diagrams for my forthcoming prophet. book." other hand, is one of the oldest known to history.
0
on the
against the British, or organise illegal Immigration. No wonder took me ten years graduate!"
to
After the Israel-Arob war which followed the British He prophesies;
evacuation of Palestine, he was There will be seven battles. the youngest Chief of Staff on "I decided I had done Who were the opponents in Three times the Sons of Light record,
victorious and three enough. At heart I am a student, this old war? "Basically, just will be It is for the "Battle between
tho Ame 19 Loday," mys Umes the Sons of Darkness will not a soldier." the Sons of Light and the Sons General Yading
victorious. But Jows bo of Darkness planned some against the Arabs, fighting for seventh time the Sons of Light 2,000 years ago.
the land of Palestine."
will prevail and the Sons of Quiet-spoken General Yigan!
Donkers will vanish, Yadin was chief-of-stiff of the Israeli forces in their recent war with the Arabe. Before that, he was chief planning officer in the
Modern Tactics
underground and the modern, "
NOW!
a
The is an
explains. ̈ ̈
In either caso,
Wrong Side
and
This will excite the apoca Oni an Isrnoll Government lyptically minded elements in grant, he came to London, with Tactics, too, were essentially do Jewish state, as it waita in his wife
four-year-old
There were
Boven uneasy
truce with the Arab daughter, a year ago. "As the British Muroùm, it is peacoful,” 4,000-strong divisions, Forma world on its fronders, civilian,don to
By: Lions were laid down for attack The optimista will say the In Jerusalem parts of the
and defence," the General recent wor
was the seventh Univerally are on the wIONE archaeologist, S
Briusi
battle, prodicts the General, side of the Jordans border, at the
Battle is one of the
Museum The
"The battle is begun by the "The pessimists will say it was The General's book, pro- Dead Sea Scrolls, known to date brigade of stone-singers (nrtil- only the sixth.
phodies apart, will have a from about 100 BC and found lery). Then, as the opposing victory is promised,"
practical value. Millary ferme In a cave by a Bedouin peasant forces come closer, the Javelins But the General will not join in it will reinforce the archaic
come the speculation. "My intercet is seven years ago!
machine-guns).
The Hebrow Vocabulary This Battle Scrolls right up into stiion Finally, it is the purely military and selentific."
We have' not. Hind a Army.
for battle War and history mingled word my street, soya -1 the General. turn of the spears and morda
procedure, military of close combat. And all the closely, in his life. At 10, The Now, we have one."""
And it war comes again" to mantel-dealing in battle time, imased cavalry (tanka) love the Haganah. Between formations, tantion, mierultmone, mandouyre on the flanks, ready archaeology lectures, allpped Israel, the General will be in training and morale | problem to come in for the dila „out to, taka, piat in skirmishes uniform again,
of
IKE the
tea plantera
of of some Intuition, must L Mauritius, all these experts and officer of the Royal Navy
of o though a certain gentleman
proclaimed their abomination of GATT, which stops any attempt I who at much the same time, but the other side of the by us to build up Empire Pre- on
while "lying ni C380 ferences while permitting other island,
under the shade of some wild countries to put up all kinds of
pinc" found, "to hidden barriers of their own.
the Infinite of amusement"
his fellow I am convinced that * new
|efflcers, in the haversack he was Commonwealth system of
pre- ferential
tariffs could
be carrying "the fowl and its con- worked out which would beneilt comitants," ull members without interfering with such special relations Individual countries may have with non-Commonwealth areas. Yes, Sir Anthony Eden, it is here that the true road ahead Hes for us in the Commott wealth, and not in Europe,
Free yourself from the fatal hero of this tale on his return
unl flnerves fascination
of to Hongkong Europeun diplomacy. Get back very
AT THE CLUB
I venture to suggest that the embarrassment felt by a re- parter on being told in 1054 that Miss Gardner loved him. would be as nothing compared to the embarrassment felt by the
when La that convenience to pleasant
Kreat
to that overseas world of
thestras
strangery, and British Commonwealth which is rendezvous for the gentry of the our true sphere. That is where | place"--the Hongkong Club--he our future lics.
mat his follow
---{London Express Service)
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