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The LEMON PYJAMAS
by Jerrard Ticke!!
W
ing.
-49, best known to two bookst Odetta and Appointment With "Venus both have been filmed. He is morried, has three sons, liver is Hampstead.
I have
flying to London in less thar an hour."
Again that oblique sidelong glance.
"Clarkson say ho, go market to buy chop for master's
HEN the day came coming together in salute made for... me to leave me wince. His laughter was the
infectious sound mest the Gold Coast,
ever heard. It began as a tie, Clarkson was miss high-pitched croom
wavering, wobbling treble, at I knew that to search the back of his throat that went teaming markets of Acera for
reis en and suddenly ex- one black face
4 sort of
supper."
the
among *
thousand would be like seeking one particular lump of coal In a colliery.
Chop for supper and I was reluctant to leave the
I was both surprised and saddened by this because ca over the months, I had come ploded into a cascade of mirth.
He was a very good servant, to like Clarkson and I had believed that our, regard was mutual.. Clarkson WRS
the 1 Negro, blackest Negro I have ever from I don't know known whence he derived his Anglo-
He didn't know Saxon name. himself. In the old days it was the custom of Africans their children after the names of their European employers, and It is not unusual to find such 15 Terence O'Connell, Allgernce Cholmondeley or Rose- mary McTavish attached to the dscendants of slaves.
Clarkson was one of the three
had come to Acera from a remote village over the Volta, served in
come house-boy to a succession of itinerant Europeans. His bare fect stamped on the floor-boards and wore he gave me "good merning" the thud of his heels
KLITIES
one
"Clarkson!
been here." "Here.
the think it was The Times, I don't know I read the same para- graph or whatever it was over and ever again,
After what seemed like an saw the first
of Acera and the long
But I did it. I liked Clarkson
Gold Coast without "saying a good-bye to my friend. John,
He was waiting at the door furiously My luggage was packed and Ephraim and I drove
cool in stowed in the car. Everything to the market and we each took
But Clarkson's unbelievably a third of the area, combing the was there except a suit of lemon alleys of nameless merchandise,
sweltering heat, welcomed us on to call pyjamas. that I had bought la
Then where is he board She sale her piece. Tangiers. Clarkson had had his searching hopelessly for that
one woolly head and that
Fasten safety belts; no amoiding "Ob he's gone away now, until after take-off; the journey eye on these pyjamas for some
onyx face. Of course we falled time....I said good-bye to John to find him.
Freetown would take four infinity of time, With very few You must have passed him on to
He stood hours and we would fy at a houses and to Ephraim. I kocke 1 minutes to spare we tore-back the Dodowan Road.
shouted, "Clark- Clarkson. I
here by the rails, not speaking height of 8.000 feet. She hoped strip of the runway. My ears Air- we would all enjoy the trip. Alled
up as we circled the son you old bush-mas, come along the Dodowah Road to the
to anybody but just staring at airport.
the aircraft Then be gave and say good-bye to me."
hundred port at about fifteen The aircraft, a twin-enging that
comic spurt
leet. We little
came in like thistle- Ephraim shuffled his fret and viking was waiting. A friend gave me a sidelong lock.
had come to see me off and he "Clarkion say. he go
with marked-if for greeted me
Thank heaven you've come. I thought you were going to miss it,"
"Went down to the markets to look for Clarkson."
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supper."
"But....but Clarkson knows prefectly well that I won't be here for dinner. He knows I'm
I was sitting aft on the star-
laughter of his and went away"
way" board side We laxied to the down. The air-hostess smiling- "He might have stayed. Teil end of the runway and took of Tot opened the door and
wheeled
sea was at
We
ly
but, It was splendid to him I'm sorry I missed him in thunder. The pilot flew the go
one's feet an the earth and if ever you see him wearing aircraft over Accra, climbing reel lemon pyjamas, they're mine!" steadily. It was
sible again. Frem the moment when even, possible Already the passengers were to pick out the streets. Then we had turned back in the sky
passengers hae walking across the tarmac to the we
over the suniit none of the aircraft. The air-hostess, ashore where the turquoise and spoken. Now, all of a moment, slim red-haired girl who looked emerald
last everyone became voluble. We dissolved in a thread of foam, all "chattered overmuch. The We set course for Freetown, stay.
pilot announced an overnight. Safety belts were undone,
Some time, just before dark, Cigarettes were Et. For below I went back to the rest-house. our wings the African bush The incident on the flight had baked in the sun, the little driven Clarkson out of 3" clusters of mud huts no bigger mind, but now I remembered than"thimbles.
TO BE
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO
IN A NEWS BLACKOUT
an
By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
of
London, Apr. 18.
Times, house the
Telegraph, to Mail. Express News-Chronicle, WOULD likė
Mirror, Sketch, Herald and the think that by the Communist Daily Worker, In time these words ap- the afternoon at the House pear, the British news. Commons or at my Club I read
The Standard,
Evening News Ale paper strike will have come and Stat. And on the Sabbath
end.
the hadit Yet at
we have the whole lot from the of moment of writing there are Sunday Times to the Nows no signs of it. It will end, the World.
Forgive me for wearying you that is the only certainty, with all these names of the but the repercussions are newspapers but it gives me a hard to assess.
noctalgic pleasure just to write more The astonishing thing is them down. It is now.
than a fortnight sirice I saw any that a small, Communist of them.
world
J
Black oil
the
him sharply. He was walking at the door as I got cut of car. He was in co way surprised 10 see me. He said that supper would be ready in an hour.
ག{il
did you know "I was As I settled more comfortably going to be here for supper?"
"I knew. I see it all last night It is true that the BBC news Communist newspaper. It simply it my seat, I looked out idly when I sleep. Then, this morn-
usual had not the financial reserves to bulletins kept to their
The starboard propeller spun ing, I go up to airport and looke schedule, but news is visible not stand the strain.
steadily in a rainbow of colour, and make sure. All same al oral. Quite properly the BBC. And then suddenly the Daily beautiful to see.
Then I saw craft that I sce last night determined on only a small ex-Worker appeared on the streets, something else. Black oil was tension of the time allotted to the only London newspaper to cosing out of the breathers at when 1 sleep. Then I quite sure "and" am happy and "go"for seen for over a fortnight the side news broadcasts. It did
not be
of the engine nacelle market. Master is welcome." want to blackleg against
had the What
happened?
Some and spreading and being clever fellow in the hierarchy fattened and vapourised newspapers.
the by Yet by
the end of the first of trade unionism had decided
golog
The air- zu speed of our week we had begun to discover that is the Daily Worker was
bastes saw it at the samIO that there were some unexpect not a member of the Newspaper moment as I did. Her eyes *You
that mean to tell mo with ed compensations. There were Proprietors Association
were suddenly alert," She Put you knew this was items
going to about Mau-Mau whom the Unions had been bar- massacres. There were no leggy gaining and therefore it was a her finger to her lips. Without happen?"
word we had entered into a of the innocent
"Yes. I see everything.". pictures of new nim stars, no victimisation
refuse conspiracy up
of silence. Casually ilyn Monroe, Mardlya
Then
why didn't you tell for the compositors to thank heaven. No sex crimes, no brutalities to set type.
по
news
she
and
Must happen
to the door me good to tell. What must A pulse of fear happen must happen."
NO
in fact, if you with excuse the Thus the visitors from abroad leading to the cockpit.
slipped inside. double negative-there was Do-who have come to London can
I shock my head in bewilder- nothing.
now read a London newspaper quickened my heart. The lights Nevertheless, I was much re- the Communist organ Irony ever the door flashed. "FASTEN ment. At last I said:
YOUR SAFETY BELTS,
*Well you'd better get my leved, when my
agent could hardly go further.
SMOKING." The air-hostess bet ready because I'll be sleep- phoned to say that he would be Red Glory
came back. She stood by the ing here tonight. I don't begin able to send me the Manchester Yet it may well prove a costly entrance to the galley and spoke to understand this." Guardian every day. But the
"Master's bed is all ready." victory. The General Election gently.. dear old Guardian does not go is not far off. The country will "May I have your attention, I went up to my room. My in for sex or crime and will not even publish racing results. And have to choose between the
prepared, Laid "out,,
and indeed Sir Walter Monck- for many years I have a great company, but by the nature of during the newspaper strike
willed in one of the engines beautifully pressed, wore, my
tum was: "Our terms or
it with breakfast.
But, the strangest story
the
tory
ដុតវ
led union of 700 electrical Creating News
Newspapers CLEANING workers has been able to
do not merely muzzle the British"mational chronicle the news, they also newspapers. The pigmy has create it. A letter in The Times brought down the giant. The may start a nation-wide contro- versy. A financial story from freedom of the press has New York may rock the London suddenly been destroyed by Stock Exchange on its heels. In the freedom to strike.
a single story an unknown man You are aware, of course, that or woman can become the newspapers offered to sub- famous.
that we can't put Jemen pyjamas. As a London dramatic eritis of course there were the periodi- Conservatives and the Socialists please? Some trivial fault has bed was arbitration, mit the dispute to
cals and magazines to keep us egin, and the spectre of the
WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED Dally Worker in its red glory
with
The 3 spanner. pilot,
decided however, has with N things they cannot deal ton, Minister of Labour, volun- love of the theatre as well as a
a lot of nice, sensible little to go back to Actra and have a teered his service as conciliator: Last night in one of the London iator. Consuming curiosity about it.
spot news
people to vote Cons
Conservative.
lock at it. So we're going to Is this story FACT or FIC- Would But the stubborn 700
Strangest Story A lot of clever people said feather that propeller while TION? Make theatres ther? may have been a "."
Your guem and that Sir Winston Churchill we go back. These aircraft by check with the answer tomor have none of it. Their new play as great as Hamlet, o
Actually I found myself turn would postpone his resignation beautifully ea ere engine. We row when there will be another An ironie feature of the whole tegudes olivier, ing almost with a sense of rellet until the newspaper strike was oftest do it just for fun. Now story in the series by Bir $18.00 affair is that if everyone of the bright as Gielgud ar
the would anyone Ukélany new Arthur Grimble!. But
I would know nothing of it. to the books in my library. For over. They could not see 15.00 700 strikers drowned themselves
You might contend that some years I have been going to read old ́statesman handing over the paper-er couce or anything?" "Yesterday's
Tom Jones and now I am doing, sceptre of power without *** I began to read The Times. I FICTION. 25.00 in the Thames it would not im-
would be pede newspaper production for one who was ther
has Porters and camera men being 8.50 more than a
foolish on the job. What a couple of days. certain to tell me. But whe
someone? If my next door
of Churchill's 25.00 Mechanically the printing of neighbour broke the established been that of the newspaper the misjudgment
is newspaper is a comparatively
trary to public opinion, this red great showman, but he 35.00
simple process and the electricose of London life and actually Communist Daily Worker. Con character! Undoubtedly he
called vast task requires no
on me to tell about the 7,50 clans
help, even greater traditionalist. or the star, what would his as receives no financial
direct or indirect, from Russia. Yet the lack of
newspapers 7.50 technical knowledge.
be worth? He might be it has only four pages and the
The public the played its part. judg-
would Ironic Humour
zdvertising revenue is tell?" ment but how can I
Each week it is forble, assumed that Churchill
to make a resignation speech in 5.00
Actually the reporters on one into ecstacies about a play or an from the faithful
Whereas when the critics 82 make a frantic appeal for help the Commons, and there were 4.00 of the Londen dailies offered to
A woman: great crowds in Parliament the
setor we can. judge by studying 1.00 undertake
Instead he drove to .clectricians, the notices written by men named Barbara Niven is duties if the proprietors would whose
charge of the appeal feature and 10.00 decide on
of criticism are standards "Publish and be known to us.
cach week, by some miracle, scuple of hundred people were damned."
LISA
she manages to secure But now comes a curious and pennies and shillings to While 24.00
there is an ironic humour about such a situation foreseen aspect of living In the deficit. 1.50
London without newspapers, it does not alter, the
But when serious
Communist the At first we were utterly lost. Leaders of the small 15.00 fact that because of a paltry
In fact we seemed
to have clans Union told the DW that great national 3.00 dispute the
2 vacuum
The they were going to force a mornings, evenings and Sundays moved into
bookmakers and their clerks sat strike the management of that. I need not tell you that we Eave ceased to appear,
for It is not easy
at their telephones but they family outsiders to at
sew a heaven vere a sad lat in the House of Journal Press Dever rang. No one know the
sent
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was taking place..
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The BBC tried to whoop it up, but it was a poor effort. There is no real substitute for the written word.
Sad Lot
to Premiership. But the almost as slient as the book by the thousands. At least that
also brought dignity makers. On the Exchange the was
was their plap. But they had to brokers just looked at each other reckoned without the
Com- Long after the House had
MP's sat in because there was next to no positors Urdon which is not led adjourned business being done.
by Communists but good level- smoke room talking, talking, went to my Club where the headed fellows. conversation and the wine are
normally first class. But the First Victim only conversation: I heard was
from
Three
are men who, by
** Tut in quiet
tones, as
חד
the
„had died. One cháp, tough fellow normal
try to hide the tears in
Thus, when the strike began his eyes.lentless limelight markable coincidence, had all and the Daily Worker prepared Now the relentless been suffering. from low fem- for its great advance the Cece of history turns on Eden. May
ure Influenza and were positors Union refused to
set the gods be kind to him, for he then reasonsible deciwill need their benevolence. He
While this was the House of Commons the
mounts the political throne with public galleries were
we also realise that there is muted trumpels, for it almost
is *enly empty and the debates sagged little harmony between Cora- the provincial press which like an old man's
You minist-led Unions and those serenade him 1:10 could speak like
1.in. Tosen's Disraeli or an elderly Churchill stále men.
who cried; "Give me
young that are led by soa, respon-ince the TREN
[young,
the
but, as far as publicity went, Therefore it right be said sun we Londoners ery:Glye You might be whispering down that in this Communist-inspired us our newspapers!" Without
strike the first, victim was the them we walk in darkness.
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