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THE CHINA - MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16,
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COLOUR R AGAIN SPLITS
THE UNITED STATES
Court. Just a short drive” from
here
siderably since
about
I
Jast
พวง усаг
sgo.
Washington, Tuesday But the South as a whole is The South is in revolt and HE bitter truth is that in revolt against the Supreme Washington knows it.
the coloured man, here, in Richmond, Virginia, the Washington has changed con woman, and child are State Senate had been in a worse position now than After brief debate and before the famous Supreme Sembly Court ruling against racial segregation in schools.
a
the Virginia General There is still only one theatre issued 1117 oMelal the National-apart from the atatement branding the Supreme sledky burlesque houses which Court's decision against school feature strip-teasers a mile or "unlawful on, so from the impressive Govern- negregation na
ment bulidings. upon State's rights. croachment"
Remember, I am writing from a Southern town. Washington
The capital is gradually be- The State Senato may be the capital of the nation
approved
not commercial elty coming u (some say of the world) but it the officiel policy against the
the entirely with presecupled is ntill essentially
Southern Supreme Court's ruling by 30 business of Government, Everett town with many of the barriers votes
and the House Boothby, president of Washing- prejudices
which block approved it by 88 to five. These on Gas Light, says: and
"We ar black from white.
figures show how strong is the out to make the city a Com- feeling in the South against mercial centre, and we are gel-
cloured and white children
ting results." sliting in the same classroom.
In the past day or two I have heard more about "the colour question" here than I have about the results of the Eden- Eisenhower conferences, O Washington's 1,000,000 people, 37 percent are coloured.
Harangued
to two
man, are
'Vassals'
WHEN Elsenhower first tork
In the Deep South Georgio, Missisippl, Alabama - whites, almost to a
utterly opposed to the Supreme Court's decision and are even tolking office his administration fired wild words such as "secession."
20,000 workers in an economy Of course, for any Southern
move, and business dived.
The State to secede is out of
the only
revenue came from the question. It could not happen. tourist and convention industry
about $235,000,000 a THE Negro behind the drug-
What can happen, and what just wasn't enough, and the a year. This #tore erunter harangued me."Did you know, suh, that is happening, is "interposition, Board of Trade and the Cham-
Eisenhower's
an old and sinister word which ber of Commerce went out to President
inflaming white pelvate is
against look for business. They ore segregated schools in Alexen- coloured and coloured against succeeding.
grandchildren. go
dria, Virginia?
to
Own
"What's the use of a Presi dent telling Ure Supreme Court to lay down the law when he bimself doesn't abide by 117"
-
I pointed out that the Presi- dent had not instructed.
white.
More violence
INTERPOSITION means in the South that each State has the and right interpose its sovereignty the could not instruct, the Supreme against encroachment by Court on its rulings, and that Federal Government, the Judges themselves had handed down their own deci- sion.
it the battle were limited
Retali trade. volume is now more than $1,600,000,000 a year. Today the city Is big bargain basement.
The prices, of refrigerators, washing machines and television sets have been slashed, in ome instances in half.
Motor car dealers have just to completed a five-day Eсn-
here vention
demanding
jammed
wards it would not be so bad, better deal from manufacturers but during the 18 months since, lo Washington itself segrega. the Supreme Court's decision and calling upon the Govern- tion in the schools is sugging, there has been more violence in ment to guarantee them a fair
The dealers contract. and in many classrooms it has the South than during the p- the already overcrowded five years. ended. There is na "Jim Crow" vicus
The wolf 512
end sold they had been rule in the capital's buses and whistle murder caught the head ducet to "ynssals and serfs" by traments, but the colour line is lines, but there have been other the D frolt car men, who treat- drawn strongly in most hotels, murders
them with "amused con ocklali lounges and restau- graphs.
tempt." rants.
Bark-skinned visitors Ethiophla and welconred capital
dismissed in
para- ed
city
re-
Scores e! mass meetings are Washington said it would do from being held with angry whites something to help. Washington elsewhere are denouncing the Supreine Court is used to the SOS.
in by hotels the and brandishing placards: "Down which say "Sorry we with Traitors. No Compromise, After
ist."
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are full up" to native-born God the Original Segregation- the rest of the world for the coloured Americans.
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WHY I PITY GAITSKELL
I
Mr Gaitskell
السلام
T is more comforting.
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In 50 years I've known all six Socialist leaders-and No. 6 has the toughest job!
By TREVOR EVANS
over the mountain from have never responded to the evoked sà they cascaded from No previous leader has had to Aberdare to Merthyr.
Idea of Hardie as "the man in his mobile lips.
cope with a reluctant lieutenant He was fore the cloth cap."
The mark of MacDonald has quilo es rebellious os Nye. People seem to have ke Moses to me, though when lain on the party ever since he Philip Snowden, I suppose, came thought little in those days I repeated this my teacher, a walked out of It, with Snowden manrest to "doing a Bevan" in of walking around 15 to 18 Liberal, retorted. "You mean and Jim Thomas, 26 years ago, fils day. But he sulped at Mac- miles to hear and see Jeremiah!
But not in the way he intended. Donald at short range-inside
try those secret walls great political figure. They
which Nye contury walked in droves, and doubt I was carried much of the way.
no
THE STARE
Arthur Henderson MR
led for only
quarter of a For a MacDonald's defection has been now finds to cramping. remembered and despised. There
Mr Bevan is palpably Mr havo been no mass walkouts
·Galtsicoll's not-so-secret cross. came sinco
All those darker leaders, from Was George Lansbury. Keir Hardie onwards, found a Not that enthusiastic des next.
lenders Most lovable Ponderous, leviathon
Не
three years, votion brought them all in his probity, and now revered
even his critics found. It hostile nation a more satisfying In the Socialist history for his but that way. On the contrary. Foreign Secretaryship, though lord to stifle their affection for Mon
Monmouthshire. my grandfather and most secretly criticised in his lifetime the old man. He was ever gentle
his neighbours were for his too-strong grip on the Radicals: They went in party myse
Always secretly, never open- of curiosity.
of
THE BEARD.... THE meeting was:ał dusk. Keir Hardle stood on a milk-float.
The only music was the
and' courteous,
He represented the emotions the party...but they are
ly. "Uncle Arthur” could pro- no flowers to "bloom in the icy duce a basilisk-like stare which blasts of responsibility. froze, the lips of the most im- petuous.
THE CROSS.
FILEMENT Atlee, on the other hand, was very much in his time, which is why he remained
booming of that mighty, We were all smoking cigar leader for 20 years.
pre-microphonic
SUIL
Tho
He
than his
earliest
downtrodden
"Jeaders welcomed the influx of
Yel my most vivid memory of him I cannot explain. We were bunch of young fellows standing outsidǝ D Socialist Party conference hall, for the Socialists to
ettes Willie Henderson look back 60 years
voice, Arthur's
What an artist in conchman- son whipped his as they will be thrown back on us by the cigarette so violently from his ship. Its proved that a sensitive doing during the next fort folds of the glowering hills lips and hid it behind his back pair of hands can be more im- night than to look forward and the slag-heaps which that the rest of us did likewise portant than a silver voice.
And now Instinc Then Mr Hender has
Mr Galtskeli. clung to them like monstrous st five years.
tougher task by, acknowledging pred Umpets.
our respectful grvelings with predecessor. After all, the past has
I was too young to under- amiable dignity. I must remem- leaders thrived on hope and the
aaptrations this consolation. We know stand his words, though I ber to ask Lord Henderson why working class. The middlo how the triumphs and the have read them since. But we did that, setbacks ended. There is, his appearance haunts me Little comfort or confidence to this day. The sturdy for the prophet.
figure, the white beard, the
TEXT, came Ramsay Mac- today, Mr Huge Gaitskell.will generous embracing wave
Donald. They record his is natural that a party naturally preside over many of the arm, the minatory
name in the Socialist history should want to celebrate 50 of the half-century celebra pointing of a scornful finger now merely to preserve" con years of its existence. There are tions. But it will be Mr to the terrifying furnaces of tinuity. But what verbal icɛsons to be brought out
True, One obvious lesson is that Aneurin Bevan who will try the great Cyfarthfa iron- memerist he could bo.
leader he, is extract the greatest works, and the occasional his perorations were about as when you pick a
Inspiring next morning
to be backed and not as there benefit from the memories flash of his eye were Biblical maped-up, ashtrays.
a tripped up and, snipped at by his of the early days. He in their massiveness.
party, but what a' tinglo, they own followers, however exalted. claims the greater kin- ship.
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HOW DIFFERENT.......
DURING its 50 years the
Socialist Party has had
six leaders. I have seen them all in action. How! different they all were from
!
THE LIPS
after
Intellectuals and middle-class
types,
power
but heeded the greater
af trade unión leaders, stronger than any functioning
than one
miner frei
POCKET CABTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
“Here's the paper if you want it, darling, but I warn you, as far as nesus is concerned you'll do just as well with the Old
Testament 1" ..
EXIT THE BRITISH-AND THE RED
FLAG FLIES OVER MALABAR
Bombay
LL the members of
each other. There is no set A Tellicherry Chib were
mould for Socialist leader-1 ship,
are
By -PAULINE WALTON
and
dung... the hammer and siekla has been, pairited on the walls, with slogans in Malya- ram, the local language, urging
present when I arrived. All (about 7s. Gd.) from men as for hundreds of years the voters to turn out Congress.
wives everyone knew the
as long ago the fishermen still wear Curiously enough,
the two of them. Once the club who left India
their distinctive, enormously nearest to each other
When darkness falls and work was the centre of all social as 1925.
wide straw hats. They hate is over, the tod Flag is holstedt the two living ones the life in this sleepy little
Occasionally an old mem being photographed for fear and the men gather round, some fifth and sixth, Earl Attlee town on the Malabar coast.
ber calls nostalgically at the of the evil eye.
of the speakers traveling hun- and Mr Gaitskell, But, British tea and coffee
Club. On the walls he finds
dreds of miles. there, how different Social-
civil servants, a frieze of pictures from the Near Tellicherry are big pinaters,
In the various factorles, onco ism is from what the plon-
clubhouse, showing. coffee estates, prospering under old. Army officers and their
British management, eers preached.
members of the early now that Indin's consump; Communist agents are busy. At thirties. Here are beach- tion of coffee has gone up the cashew nut works in pyjamaed lovelies and red- Once one of the principal Tellicherry, still European
their exporters, India, now faced planters. In
Indian managerk, day they had the bench to sumes. 90 percent of all the they, havo, little success," for themselves.
coffee she grows." Churning most of the 800 employers are up the red dust along the women, not much tateresfod in roads through the jungle politics as long as they have. come great forries bearing regular employment. the sacks of coffee beans.
I was terrified by Keir Hardie, but I do not blame him for that. I was amall enough and light enough then to be perched on my grandfather's shoulder. And I was tired. We had walked
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FOR VALUE
dub that stood on top of a hill overlooking a private, palmi-fringed bench,
: FISHING VILLAGE
con- awned
When the great British exodus from India came in 1947, the Club WEB too 'big,^"/The_remaining mem-**
bers moved to aller house nearby Bubscrip Now any visitors must At the factory in Telll- tions dwindled, but profita choose between walking cherry the beans are dorted at the bar kept the club in bathing suits through by sturdy, bare-breasted
huts, women workers. alive. Then Madras State the fishermen's introduced prohibition, and followed by disapproy-
are
but
'IMPENDING CHANGE
"Everywhere in this thickly pomalited Junglo however,
the club's income suffered. ing looks, or changing be. This is a rich arom. As well Impending change Little ser
to be left of the once-powerfu Britists Influence. hind the rocks, watched by coffee and too, there Now Tellicherry's last amused children in the bananas, pepper, elen, bamboo, Jackals prowl' in, the compound
cocpanuta, "önsihów»"nuts, """'and of the spaciossa, bungalows two European residents (1 school that has taken the grout tok, forests. Not aur were ones well-guarded presenting do. Bwias firm) place of the old clubhouse." prising thon that the Red Fing their English usaPLOYS. ans the only local members,
har come, to Malabar. Yet still, from remata/coun- Long batone the British
try village i Britain come came to Malabar, this WR on the people. In the Linkeys the anoman
fishing village
* have been taken overs
Indian modBINOIS.