THEY'D RATHER NOT STUDY IN ENGLAND
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By LES ARMOUR
much malier of the Briush
London, agains! a very NE colonial student percentage
in three
wouldn'tudents who got through on a
second try. have studied in Bri- Some, however, got lost in the Party, that is due to tain if he'd had the wheels." choico. That's one of the the fact that their numbers hove surprising revelations of the wollen tremendously. In 1030, coloniai
there were
just 500
first-ever survey of colonial students in Britain. Now there students in Britain publish- are over 10,000. ed by Political and Economic Planning.
have gone
Just where the students would matter. is another But a large proportions of them would have stayed home equivalent educational facilities had been available.
That applice particularly students doing work al Uritish
Those who come na "recom- » ended" aludents are usually placed, if not where they want to to, at least in some inciitu- tion which
offers the course *ake. they want to
BIG WORRY Unhappiness over the Institu- te tions they are placed in is the undergradune biggest complaint. London
universities. Arst cholec, Oxford and They feel that they would have bridge second, among university Other universities prouted more by making their tudents,
with university are generally unpopular. Hirst contact
in their own environment then emming to Britain for post-graduate studies.
Incidentally, some of them reported that they ran into sur- because no prising difficulties
He
tne had briefed them on tits in Britain before they left. One student brought a four-poster the Bedstead with him under impression 11 beds were gearce in Britain. When he got here, of course, he could nowhere to put it.
WRONG IDEA
is
Cum-
But nearly 40 percent of the saidents do not come, initially,
students as recommnied
und though, In the end, nearly all Ret where they want to
nearly all have initial dif they Bleulty in finding their own way.
Law is the most popular course, medicits next-primari- 1y, students told investigators, because they gave the best chance of prestige and advance- courses ment at home. Other And
Jag far behin there.
Money is a big worry, too. About
three-quarters have Scholarships or grans but even there
not always have enough to live on, and the have to earn their own living
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Many others report that they had entirely the wrong idea spout Britain, and were conse- quently shocked and disappoint. Finding a job is usually ed by the drabness of the ciles teult since the job has
Institution where the they went to, the poverty they near the saw and, above all, by the areas student is studying. And living country while trying uf
in a new London where coloured
Bod themselves to study and work at the same students often
time
almost ut en
insuper- forced to live.
the vast Hus, in the end, most did well, able difficulties-yet
of students, in the Among these enrolled at the majority
don School of Economics for end, manage to evercome them. London
Sometimes, though, there are the degree of Bachelor of Science in Economies, 40 per nt failed terieur initial heartbreaks. One Indian student had their final exams or dropped out West
route.
that booked lodgings before he left Superficially, compares badly with the Bri- home. When he arrived,
told: "I'm terribly sorry, tish students who look the same coue. Only 23 percent of them you are too dark." failed or dropped out. But over half the eckarial Sudents tried
time und a second
en
Headaches
Toothaches Colds.
A Malayan student
under informed bluntly,
be but
Wi's the
pissed, same circumstances, "we don'
take foreigners."
Oulatde
A
BAYER
are quickly overcome. by
CAFASPIN
"This
is
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coloured
London, where Im-
students
оге
mediately taken to be students is le In most places, there
But in London, they problem. meet the prejudice which is growing
Jabourers.
One
against
coloured
MORE COMFORTABLE
reason why large said number of the students they would not have studied in Britain if they had had a choice was
that they found that they comfortable about. felt more their colour when they were on holiday in France.
number
The Largest
of third are from Nigeria. An eighth come from East and Central Africa and
u tenth from the Coast. The rest are from 47 Colonia! and Commonwealth countries.
students nearly 2
Gold
Most of them are older than their British counterparts (a quarter
are married), but a number
the Largo
told investigators that they felt they would have done better to heke walted longer before they came to Britain,
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"WHAT CAN WE DO WITH HIM ?“
INCIDENT AT A LEVEL CROSSING
HIS must have hap-
pened in
T
1934,
1
. think. Anyhow, it
was
when 1
Wis
young and foolish. And, oddly enough, if I had been either slightly more foolish or quite a lot wiser than I was, the whole history of the world since would have been
then different.
The place where It happened is still quite clear in my mind's eye, though I have never been there since, It is on the coast road on the Italian Riviera,
THE
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Alex Area. The pistol clicked. For a split second he looked at it aghast.
HE barrel chest, the medals, the jaw ... undoubtedly it was Mussolini. But
is this story true? The problem for YOU to solve is...
DID IT HAPPEN?◄
The answer will be published tomorrow
out of Genon.
I
On
round, but Alex had swung
him covered. They both spoke and sentences, two staccato then Alex
The pistol fired, ellcked. He looked at it aghast
for
a split second, and then
the cor ducked behind Mussolini drew a
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service Te
SYALE
volver from a holster. Behind
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
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HE strong man who was fined recently for lifting cinem a usherettes high in the air and using them us dumb- bells may be the pioneer of a new movement afoot to assert the physical domina- tion of the male in a world full of athletic women.
It the movement grows, no I hope
will, small women cricketers may soon snatch- ed from the dressing room, rolled into a ball, and used for practice at slip catching.
by
Some may be bowled powerful male fast bowlers and hit over the boundary for six.
In fact, the possibilities of this now use for woman andiess.
are
Even Jarge women hammer throwers could be used' as hammers by larger male hammer
The postman alone must ave drink 2 bottica of cookin sherru before he - passed out cold and was
iyin in your arms like dead thing with you in your bathin costume,
Good lord what a game.
a
Whats more I dont like your urchin air cut. It looks as if the rats ave been at it. What about gittin spliced
*Up?
urs truly,
G. Bumbling (andy man).
Dere Mr Bumbling,
I never
thought you would sink so low na to write polson pen letters though I always knew you was, a nosey parker with a I notice you nasty mind. are writin as a true friend. All I can say is what a pal. I think it would be better to the things you understand like the sex dife of binds and insecks
If you stuck throwers, and thin, stringy young women could be used as javelins.
Dr Gubbins, the Fleet Street psychiatrist writes:
For some time it has been thought in medical circles - that the recent outbreaks of violence among young men and the wearing of Teddy suits are expressions of re- sentment by the
male agalust the masculine, acti- vities of the female.
Atavistic memories deep in the subconscious mind of prehistoric life in caves may have prompted the use of ushereties as dumbbells, and the girls may consider themselves fortunate they
were
the not banged on hear with B club and dragged from the cinema by their hair.
other
words, wounded pride of the male payche
asserting,
11
the
now 13 itself after remaining pas- sive for many years under the constant pin-pricks of female aggression, which manifests itself not only in sport
but in the assumption of men's duties and occupa- tions and the wearing men's uniforms,
On the whole, I do not thinic women
will resens this attitude of the awaken- ing mate. Some might pox- sibly enjoy it if things don't go too far, such as a strong man tearing a girl in half Uke a telephone kiirectory..
the car, I think Alex cocked Bumbling
his automatie again and found
was empty. Then he was
snipe,
across
2
Letters
1
Com-
you are always readin about and left politics to people with-brains.
10
Re your idea that 1 am a Russian agent I scor aeply and re your remarks about my air I can only say no gentlemen would men- tion rats und ladies in the same breath specially as the Indy was your ost and you didn't do so badly with the sherry yourself.
Meet you same time same place Friday sharp.
Yrs truly, Eliza Minin (Mrs).
Britain, My Britain?
ONCE
}
料
NCE more It has been sug-
gested in a letter to newspaper that, with ception of Elre, all the British
the ex-
Isles shall be known as Britain who dwell and all the people in them known as Brilons the British.
or
Corre-
this In other words, spondent with no poetry in his soul is asking that England and
and English, Ireland
Irish, Wales and Welsh (Welch?), and Scotland and Scots should be Expunged from the language.
I doubt If the correspondent will get much support for his foolish idea, particularly as his only reason for suggesting It is
that it will drew us all closes, together.
He may see how foolish it is if beautiful words like England and English are substituted by Britain and ugly words like Brillsh
some well-known
In
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What have I done for you,
Britain, my Britain?
running like the road. Mussolini fired and TS Mrs Eliza Miña missed. I heard the train munist agent? In the first of lines of English, and not Bri- asked for a lift to Italy-be- any reason to declare it at the
low this new series of love letters tish, poetry. wall and dashed across the rail- between Mr George Bumbling, cause, he explained, he could customs. I didn't regard it was coming. Alex jumped never get a job in France but mine.
the contrary, it wa and the train came the village handyman, and Mra
way,
is thundering over the crossing. Min an accusing finger might get one on an Italian ship seemed to be Alex's only pos-
session in the world, except
When it had passed, he had dis-pointed at the voluptuous char- shirt and trousers, and
would BOXE
to see it con- appeared I remember Mussolint woman.
of smoke
Dere Mrs Migin,
You was wonderful, agin from the revolver in his. hand. the train us
receded,
Friday thought I cant sty roar from behind
Blackshirts rushed up on motor cycles.
not sure whether I have been
somewhere between Genau and believed him or not, but I rather ficated. So went through looking at the wisp
the French frontier. The road liked the look of him--he was into Italy with a clear con- just there is right on top of the not much older than I was science. Alex, I recollect, had Then clits, with a railway alongside and I told him to squeeze in no passport but showed a sea- there was a It on the left, and the Med-Ho gratefully pressed the man'a identity curd which seem- us on the road, and dozens of terranean far below on the automatic into my hand, and ed, to work as well.
right. The road turns inland I put it in my pocket, meaning and goes over the railway by
a level crossing.
Remote
control
I was driving dowa towards Genoa in an old Morris Cowley two-scaler, the round-nosed scri, anxt when I came to the cross- ing the gates were shut. I don't remember any houses in sight, not even one for a man to work the gates. Perhaps they were the kind that are operated by remote control, with a bell to warn the traffic. They have that sort in Italy, I think. I stopped a bit short of them, and waited for the train. It was very hot, and I wasn't in a hurry,
I had two passengers. was an English friend of mine called Arthur Anderson, and the
One
by.
David
Howarth
"
Dorld Howarth has written two best sellers, The Shot- land-Bus and We Dis Alone. The first of them was the record of his own experiencan ot an RNVR officer involved in gen-running to Norway. Before the war, he was a BBC Tofka Producer. Now he lives at Westerham in Kant with bir wifa and three children.
was..
While we were dreamily slt- ting and waiting at the level
Alex's. crossing and cating
came ill-gotten grapes, car
Under escort
This had
all taken two
or
up behind us und passed us and stopped in front of us, between the Morris and the gates. It three minutes, I suppose. The took nearly a and explanations was an open Alfa-Romeo,
The gates opened, the there was only the driver in it. week.
I old with your poings on lately.
Gone are the days when
you were your bonnet and mantle and was appy with a party now and agin with cold pickled pork and nour- taliin stout and your back
down air comin
at mid- night.
મા Now you are wearin a smart at over one car and
and a jigger coat
givin with night parties every some to follow determined, I imagine. alierry wine and sardines on wouldn't outdistance bits of toast people are be- ginnin to talk specially as you dont work no more.
I was mildly annoyed at his bad dictato: swept on, the body- road manners. He got out, and guard divided, climbed on to the low parapet him,
of the road and stood there, that he with his hands
on his hips, them again, some to hunt for looking out to sea and taking Alex, some to take Arthur and deep breaths like someone doing me and the Morris under escort
Не morning exercises. wearing a fancy uniform.
Pistol click
was to Genoa,
When we got to police head- quarters. there was nothing to do, of course, but to tell the truth, over and over again.
laughed. It ahman,
If I'd been
an
I
I felt Alex tense up before he had the bullets in my pocket, think they said anything. Then he said for ene thing. I
conclusion that (in American): "God, it's him! came to the
was too stupid for It's Musso!" I other was an Esthenians saller to give it back to him when seemed as unlikely to me then
and in the end who had ascaped from the he left us at Genos.
as it does to you now that you they let me go. After all, when
I unloaded the automatie French Foreign Legion. At least,
read it. "Nonsense, Alex, I that was what he sald We had
So there we were, the three at "All these Italians try to had saved their dictator's life. picked him up Monte Carlo.
in
of us, when we came to that level look like Musso."
slightly more Esthonian We had been driving through crossing. The
The man turned towards us foolish, I wouldn't have taken the town in the middle of the sitting on the hood of the two-
for even that simple precaution. If night, when there was hardly seater, with his feet on the seat and seemed to notice us anyone about even in Monde between Arthur and me. Ever the first time, and I saw a look I'd been much wiser and fore- Carlo, and I had stopped to ask since Monte Carlo he had kept of amusement on his face, at seen
and mean to us ten years later, the way; and he had us amused with improbable re the old Morris, I suppose,
I would have auto miniscences. He spoke English he got down from the parapet replied by pointing an
cathe "towards “us,” Then
helpful instead matic at me and demanding with an American recent which, and
he said, he had picked up in there was no question about 1. standing
struck
dumb when the Merchant Navy, and French The barrel chest, the medals, Alex fired Either way, I up- with an accent all his own.
the jaw, the look of supremo posd I would never have come Italy confidence: unlikely or not, it out of Genon gaol and
would Was Mussolini.
never have come into the war
against us. I can't
ht
money.
what
dictatora would
I remember well how this delighted mo. It is not that I
Ho had told us his name. It. am brave, or ever was, but ho
was very long and I never quite couldn't really have meant to took it in, but we had shortened shoot me in the middle of the to Alex He was rently and vaulted out over the back bargain. Alex stroot, and my very first read very engaging person, and ho of the car. I got out on the missed. tion was to see myself telling kept us supplied with fruit right hand side, the story when I got home. With which he stole
the guns in my chest, I said I along.
Had no French money, which was true. Then he rather took the sting out of the drama by saying he was broke and offer
to selling the automatic. fing" ho said pathetically,
DS WO went
No passport
As for the automatic, it was
car
'done
Writin as a true friend I want to tell you what they are sayin. As you are now gittin into the local paper they are sayin you are causin as much trouble with the workini olasses as the people what give big parties and gilt reported in the London papers.
arc
Whats more, they askin where you git your money from · and is it red gold you are spendin ta stir up trouble and envy and start strikes?
I dont know if you are in the pay
of the
kremlin though I reckon you must are spent a pretty penny at . your midnight bathin party in the floodlit duck pond.
What is there 1. would not do,
Britain, my own?
William Ernest Henley.
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.**
*
Buy my British postest
Kent and Surrcy may... Violets of the Underclif
Wet with Channel spray}, Cowslips from a Devon combe...
Midland furze afre... Bus my British posica"
And I'll sell your heart's
desiret
-Rudyard Kipling.
Before the Roman came to
Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling British drunkard made the rolling British road.
G. K. Chesterton.
On, on you noblest British
And you, good promen, Whose limbs were made in.
4 Britain.'.
Fallow your spirit; and, upon
this charge,
Cry "God for Harry! Britain
and St. George!" -William Shakespeare,
It the last distorted quotation does not turn the stomach of this absurd correspondent, then he is no red-blooded man—and Do Englishman-and certainly at the top of my voice I call him a cretinous numskull with the cold heart of a cabbage.
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Jack & Daphne Barker
Alox stood up on the best deny it would have been a good London's sophisticated charmers
between the Arthur and the parapet. stayed where he was. Mussolini glanced at the name · Μάτης Cowley on the radiator, and then spoke to me.
I did not speak Italian, but tucked under the folds of the I understood he was making it
A hood.", I had had a look at it," whe were English; and 1 Kold
and a sucker for sales talk,
that morning before we came him.
but I did not want an outermalic, to the Italian frontier, while:
and to exbuse myself I explained Alex was absent stealing fruity! Then he asked something that I really hidn't any money It was a Coit 22, and it was couldn't collow, and while
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could obali a travellers. cheque, the ac rounde in my pocket; saw Alex come round" the car VEDON"] InʻItaly: The than the thich he and then wind they gun use with the runs hell ja hard
Now the Foreign Legion and the hood frecaudac
couldn't have
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