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... The conversation in such calés hinges monotonously on sex and crime,
DON IDDON
FOLLOWS
THE FLAG TO SINGAPORE
MERDEKA. WILL
BRING
E
are
CHAOS
to
S
IX Teddy Boys lollop blocked by seven Teddy Boys understanding ia no way to
along a City street. in a Barking street.
make the streets of London, safe Most people react in friend and asked for room to citizens.
wag with a young for policemen's sons and other
-Tho Bon
Texidy Boys:
they on the streets.
one of three ways get through. They refused. Ho Sir Hugh Beazley, former this rather fearsome repeated his requcet,
Common Serjeant in the City of sight. First reaction: They The Teddy Boy leader slashed London, gives this ex-juxie's
him acrosa the face with a opinion about are perfectly harmless kids, potato containing a razor blade: "They are frustrated and novels staking their claim to athen, with his fellow Edward place in the world. Second reaction: They are an eye- sore and a nuisance. Third reaction: They are positive- ly dangerous.
Reaction three WIK correct when six Teddy Boys walked along Artillery Passage, behind Frying Pan Alley, into Mr
Continuing the inquiry Into London's Teddy Boys... by Robert J. Edwards |
They have no faith in anything, not even in their own
unhappy selves." I present four case histories which suggest that he has got near the roots of the problem.
First Case History (as related to me by the hardboiled manager of a City of London bottling company):
we've had Teddy Boys working for us.
"Once one of them came into my office, weeping. I locked
Ranchhod Patel's tiny tie shop. jans, hared off along the street.
Mr Patel thought they were I do not need to emphasise the customers. So did his three mother's feelings when her boy, assistants. For Teddy Boys, badly cut, came home,
the door and said; ilcng his colourful wares, art Reaction three was correct matter, Bon?* Fic
when humble, middle-aged mother's called it a
good for trade,
und forced Mr Patel and his stoff against the wall.
Sho
"What's the
said: *My day Dut instead of producing Stepney street trader Mr Kin- had committed suicide. Dead wallets, they advanced with long chen Singh met a Teddy Boy when they got her to Guy's.. daggers pointed throatwarde, gang. escorted by their girl
this boy got three in Batty Street. They "Well,
penn'orth not long afterwards. pummelled his face, snatched Breaking
and
Hig entering. £3 from his pockets and raced brother was on the charge sheet, Into the dark labyrinth of back too. Did up his father." streets with his suitcase of silk The manager's verdlet scarves and
Teddy Boys in general; They are all right in one place--the elink."
Hollywood gesture
Though it was
unnecessary, except as a pesture to Holly wood, they sifeed the telephono wire. Then they Look £360 from the till, £4 from the blind box, and were έχεις ξε in the
Patel.
These and similar incitats there are many-do not prove at all Teddy Boys are dan
That would be absurdi
BiFeet-no longer lollopingus.
They simply prove how unwise after shouting an exultant
It is to assume they are not. "Goodbye and good luck" to Mr There are some, I hesitate to say many, thoroughly decent Reaction three
correct Teddy wus
Boys like 10-year-old when the teenage son
of a Alec, whose innocent enthusiasm police sergeant found his path is to serve on the committee of
youth club.
Stamford Raffles he spoke in smiles--who created Singapore, and his country and his com- pany rewarded him with igno- miny. Apparently they do not broed Raffles any
more these
15
days.
Owe everything
In whispers
The truth
on
Second Case History --Illegiti- mate, brought up by an aunt and her husband as their son. Dis- covered the truth when 15. Has been
of perpetual source trouble
since. спе
Now at a Borstal Institution for robbery with violence. (There are, I am assured, many similar cases) Alec, son of a docloer, lives in Third Case Illstory.--Mother quiet dimly lit Bermondsey--so and father parted; from an early quiet that at night strangere nga he lived with foster parents, whisper, rather thun talk, in the Led on unlappy Ilfe, commlited street.
petty Juvenile crimes, sent He had difficulty in getting an homes and institutions, played office job, because of his
sur-' no games. torial style, until a youth leader At age 18, a fully blossomed. used his Influence with a good curly-haired Teddy Boy; stabbed employer.
05-year-old tobacconist in the hours as a clerk, in the marble back as he washed his hands at sink, stole £40 from the till. offices of a dockside Importing Sentenced to death for murder, |firm he wears his pullover back reprieved.
to front to hide his "Slim Im”
Now, during his working
are
POTEN
Look
hira 10 the tailor to buy his in expansive sult.
Worst type
Fourth
The causes
Case History—Wills te. His first act on going home several other Teddy Boys, beat is to change into his orthodox up a man, tracturing several of Edwardian "drainpipe trousETS. his ribs. Sentenced to a period
Alec was unable to define his of detention, extraordinary devotion to Teddy Here is a possible Boy wear.
Toody Boys clue. Most
Because he lived in a normally labourers earning up to £10 respectable London suburt I Alec's wage is £3 158. decided to visit his parents in on week. enforce
tho wearing Singapore. dence and freedom, but the but he thinks he can
Possibly
attempt to unravel the causes of NGLISHMEN
clothes helps to narrow this gap. his downfall. who best brains here say that internal security-"security"
the word I keep hearing here-
It was his father who
With one exception, the houses mean soon have lived here for Merdeka wil)
almself.
his
street were well-cared- years, And should freedom to be ordered about
Marshall Kay3: "I'm not
for, clean, friendly. The exccp- know, tell me bit by the Chinese Communists
tion was his. Though it was four, terly: "The jig's up for and the independence will, dictator, I'm a leader. I want the people happy and contented.
Alec has never fréquented the in the afternoon, the curtains happy and contented WHAT saddens me and angers Althy, cafes, thick with decay had not been pulled; the front turn out to be dependence with a Its clays Singapore.
people Singapore will be a far me is the lack of gratitude and dowdy sin, where the worst door had no handle
and was numbered. The British are on Red China.
In an elegant, exclusive better base and basilon for free towards Britain and the British. type of Teddy Boys spend their half-opened: the hall walls were finished here."
dom and democracy.
This Island and theoo people evenings.
peeling; the porch was dominated club Singapore
"We want the white men to owe everything to us and now
The conversation in such by an obscene pencli strawl on Zealander said to me: stay and trade, and I am think- many of them want us to go. cafes hinges monotonously on the faded paintwork; bottles lay "There's nothing we can do ing of inviting American capital,
Dox and crime. Criminal action the pathway. Singapore, which once seemed vities of friends are loudly O There was no need to ring tho about it now. This club but we must run our own affairs. was doomed long ago, and We want to remain inside the so impregnable, the great naval counted. "He's in the nick for bell-If there had been a hell. I
British Commonwealth
with tho an base DS
mighty guns three years," I heard one black- walked away. Singapore itself is independent nation."
which fell without a blow to the suited Edwardian say in Tool- "Five years and this place now
The tragic thing is that ties Japanese in February 1942, Ling's dirtiest catering establish-
now to the Red) ment. Envy
written in will be Communist. The going. Can't you sense the
Chinese,
every face. Red Chinese scarcely need fear, the tension, the rot in growing debacle in Singapore falling again
need never have happened, at the nir?"
This time there must be a In this society, the
coward to do anything-Singapore
least not for years. We have
fight with a cosh, is the man of will fall like an
brought this on ourselves. One blow, there must be
the gaoled thug the. apple into their lap."
But to condemn these **
characters without pleasing:
One man, the managing director of one of Asia's great newspapers, said sadly:
over-ripe
Another man,
a distin-
New a
Ego-bolstered
after another told me back, and then, with God's help courage, "The British taliged too much, and a miracle or two, we might hero.
ed too much, and did too save the bastion from the Com-
munists. sold: "I'm new here, but guished correspondent, Raid
It we had brought the local I've been treated with con-
the Civil Service ten years was a more likely sideration and friendliness ever people into
the plane from years ago, given them responsl- period, but he also wus since I got off
and opportunity, Wo utterly convinced that we Sydney, The people are mil-buty
ing, affable, and extremely would not be in retreat now. were on our way out-for
The Asian respects firmness. courteous." good.
Tension
IT is less than six years since the Bertha Hertog riots, when there was an
It
Bolstered
From nothing
هدب
Three years' imprisonment.
TOMORROW
The shops that soll the flick kalves
OUR STARS IN AMERICA —— by THOMAS WISEMAN
WOMEN TAKE OVER THE BRITISH FOREIGN LEGION
F
"But here we don't call our English Jaguar and have
A possible reason for this is
become
feminine.
selves a colony now. We don't English girl friend is considered have a cricket team any more." the beight of smartness,
America produces bigger, mory
streamlined and faster that the British Foreign Legion
but they are not of actors in the United States cars and girls, bu
overwhelmingly considered In Aims
Dans fashionable. Wynter, who ghs for many years was knocking around London unappreciated and unnoticed, is thought to be one of the big stars of tomor➡ row. I saw her receiving one of the Innumerable awards con- stantly being handed out in Hollywood.
The New Zealander sald: The correspondent, like "Don't be fooled. Some of those many other British and same people will throw a bottle Europeans here, expects at the windscreen of your ene.
They will drench a polleeman TT is my belief that we shouki violence and terror. They with petrol and set him on fire,
never have offered Singapore We should fear for the safety of their They murder and rape and self-government,
The base is ours. cut heads off have said:
"O course," said James wives and children.
mutilate. They
Mason in his clipped here.
All hell's going to break We made it from nothing (it
was a bit of land with 50 fisher-dry-martini voice, "Holly loose one day.'
men when we took over), sinc Only a few white men, mostly intend to keep it. You will have wood is full of people whose Englishmen, Lell me; "We your place, an important place, profession is being English- might scrape by. It's not as bad but you are no more getting men...
Singapore than you are getting His naturally melancholy face There ane 'five Brlish as all that,"
became contorted-contorted is Diane Cilento, Julle - Andrews, is the extraordinary Me Liverpool."
word for it-intoja Jean Carron, Dana Wynter and Marshall,
the ony the Chief This would have made sense, orgy of murder, looting, and David
Minister of Singapore, the What we have been doing makes milo. He said: "You know Joan Collingwho have made a torture, when all the great English-educated barrister who little sense. There have been the sort leather elbow patches, like impact in America during port trembled,
used to live in Golders Green, promises, half-plodges, general- tweeds, ghastly accents like the past few months.
Bomething
out of Gilbert and
AT THE TOP the sallon, and driit. Perhaps it la Most people with whom who alone seems to have
by not too late,
And right at the top, among I've talked expect it to hap self-confidence.
Mr. Mason, who is an actor
the biggest international box-
She had poise, elegance and Marshall himself told me he and a producer but not An pen. There is a strong unti-go he sees himself as a mylour.
more British dark beauty that I would have European movement now,
was not optimistic, he expected Englaman by profession, was office drews, are 'A leader”
qualifications in London. The wearing
Audrey Hepburn, Jean thought almost impossible not sult, an American and white women are some-
are ominous," he kept bought off-the-per, but his sina
Franken mborth Kerr and 20 notlooven in England. She
Taylor.
mado Anita Ekberg, who was That's my times spat at in the streets,
murmuring.
soos were Englisch.
also collecting an award at the to The stewardess of a plane MARSHALL cries and come-
The An mola without wearing same time-I am not sure pre- "Merdeka," All right, let us be blunt and weakness," he said. "I have
have Engileti shood. in which I travelled told me:
and I believe bim to be say: "You are not ready for in American ones are all tamelled leather elbow patches, speaking cisely for what-look flashy.
You are not yet jobs, Liberace
WEEKLY SERIES us. I
dependence. "They hate
style.
a pleatly accent or form- WAS genuinely anti-Communist,
rum Singapore. Оле
ing a cricket team.
In New York: I had dinner shoved about just near the He himself, as I reported, ex- able to
Though it foems: 'nimoat with musical start, Jean Carson, Raffles Hotel the other day.. peets assassination by the Com- day, maybe, you will be but quite for me."
NOT A COLONY within
proper to my this about Eng- who has born doing very weli two
until then we hold it." years.
Hle accent, without being fah girls, they have done it on in television. There se a strong And how they love to order munists
Others accustomed to the ex- Unica we do this, wo not
Americanised (“I flirted with sex-appeal which In most likelihood that she will be, white women about!"
travagances of Marshall, any morely hand over Singapore on Who they are covers a "David will be killed, politi a platter to Marshall and his acquiring an American accent, essor the English male had starring in her own weekly TV within two years, but not government," we Hand Sings-bus decided it didn't sult me") hardly noticed they possessed, series, which could do for her. lot of territory: Singapore cally the gifted, but he is poro over to this Red Chinese is suficiently un-dhastly to be in most cases they be have what "r Love Lucy did
for understood even in Milwaukee considerable talent which had Lucille Ball "Let's face it** has: 1,200,000 people, and 80 naive. The Body are laughing." Not a thousand Blanshalis can
alex [und"
largely gone unnoticed in wamed her hubono, gil Red- percent of these
Marshall thinks he can handle halt this procous.
The Chinese look towards goma of this professional Britain.
mond, "if the series materialleos Mason, South China Mornina Post Lt Chinono; but there are also the situation, which he admits their mottier country China, Engelsman back for 25 years, talking about shows, beatiful felrum In'a very short splen
Hollywood,
averyone was you me liable to bėgomo a unil- Malays, Eurasians, Indians, is explosive,
political colour. "haven't been He wante and will ask for whatever its
They of time," ・ ・ Mian. Carsons found: Sikhs, Parsees, Pakistanis,
Immediato independence In The pull is there, the magnet They don't realise that England 'English girls of yours."
has changed: ineanwhile, It are the vogue today: ne dates," prospect of becoming a 2 mil- Pathans and Gurkhas.
London He waists, aw will drawR, Singapore shoute Mer ask for, Britian red help me for another Ramleef -- It. they returned to Britain, they'd u sotromon, a
probmiky sovandi líka fordigowell, part dėka, meaning indepen case of any external treat, was this: mucking brillians mas,
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