NATHANIEL GUBBINS
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1956. 7
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sheet together he led one ond round Owch, the other round himself, and heaved backwards.
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the Plucky are a little
mor mobile since the came in!.
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Twice Owch slipped back into the bath, but at the third heuve she was landed, gasping, on the thoor
After Owch had been tucken to bed for a re Qvch asked They how she felt
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leverage. for Ooch ald why not double up her jeg until she was in Then a knerting position. she could use one arm for leverage. Owch asked how
WI she double
her could
she could right leg when hardly bend it?
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She answered that ofthurgh hm spine was probably broken she would hardly notice it will all her other troubles.
Happy Christmas
PEOPLE interested in the ac- curate fortrust last January
of the coil, wet sumaner by Old Moore Gubbins
this (see vefum last week if you can find It) have asked the ancient mage what kind of weather we can expect for Christmas.
O.M G. predtels that, as the seasʊng seem to be changing, and Christme is often warm and my, the hallstorm in August Tinbridge Wells Indicates that tropies! weather
be ex- may pected about the third week I Berember
Sharks will infcat the scan all round the count Croco- alles in the Serpentine will startle London revellers on Christmas Eve, Tropical In- sects, such as tarantulas and black widow spiders, will be
over the Christmas Scorpions will be
found in mince ples. lient strol and Fun strate will att many family gather- ms, and those who are foolish Гог drive ter Chuche bendbug enough
away Christmas may m
Bobs l tigers at the rond
keriphery oner d For several desperade uniones ather's They are intre earl fay
how mehes apar
long naked Ouch how Owch be thought they wand be ther
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ht they were lucky I wasn't cast wint white than wit Be howling Atmh the bathroom window
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has now thought Iden ot # super-kindergarten for the children of film stars who. as noted here the olher week, are going in for mater- nily ins F Lag way because they have observed Good publicity.
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The children are to be taken from their homes da Don they can sit up at table and umear thete (dees with 10T- rudge. Then up to the age of even they are allowed to ent when they like and what they
pet up when they like und on to bed when they like. In . . is believed that clukken will not become crazy like some of mixed-up kids their parents.
I believed the same when kitten Crazy mixed-up canie into the house aino years go. She did exactly as she liked and has grown up into Lottle the Devil Cai, atlil mixed up and crazber than ever.
she
I was sumused, though full of Insincere apologies, when
stockings. lore holes in wym some lines drawing blood from women of squealing the lig who hind dropped In for a cocktail.
the
Like these childern, she was allowed to eat when she liked and when she liked. Her tastes ranged from chicken in
010 the Harder te tiluebottle) irindor pan. She was also allowed to 10 to bed when she liked and where she liked. On one occasion this turned I had no mut to be my bed itra she was there until she love my rese
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when a killen
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"I hope he gets a move on-the Town kick-off at two-thirty and my ship sails at six."
The Man In The News; Accuses Archbishop Makarios Of_Being_Leader of the Terrorist Campaign in Cyprus
STRANGE
AMBITION:
TO BE
HE WANTED
COLONIAL SECRETARY
London, game. Some of the participants of the university
h
play cricket, while some
Conservative
baseball, organisation but nobody took cobar's
and him for a budding professional play rugger others confuse the proceedings 'felan with
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LAN Tindal Lennox- Foyd occupies a spacious office in
#fitle all-in wrestling. Those were the "roaring iwen. bufding, not inappro- No one knows what the rules ties" and Lemox-Boyd was re
whe: the critics called called Church for this game are or quile what of priately.
Hils class- "lost genernidon". Churches have af. the aim of the same is. House.
tyuicer day in Church makes rtell him simply House may involve a long and jovial youth, a good party man ways been places of sane- tuary (and, indeed much of complicated
the (in the entertainment, not his work is transacted in an crisis Cyprus, consideration political sense) and o
town hall in of better than grants for a called of adjacent bunkiing
blast from Dr gener Sanctuary House)-and. if St. Helena,
Nnamdi Azikiwe. Prime Mini-lly. any man needed a sanctuary, cer of Eastern Nigeria, behind had
and a work T a British Colonial Secretary must be that man.
Even I would not think it funny if nylons were torn to Wounds shreds and
severe Inleted by claws now long That is and needle-sharp. why the Devil Cat is either locked up when visitors call or a first-aid kit kept handy.
This might All avented if a furry
have
been smacked years ago,
heen
The moral of the steny is that the although the children in
kindergarten may be amusing at seven. they may not bamusing at 37. And who Is going to smack them then?
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Only occaeionally, whin the pace becomes furious and the Oppositons chasing him like after a tox, hound so many does he betray the fact that he must b: toe of the must harassed men in the world.
even
of
session
gver
Ti
the
student avirage Intelli- He was not, academic- harder-than-average
meeting with ง distinguished Far Right
ir.
scholar who has been inves- tigating the tribal habits of the
In 1920, he fought a hopeltas Masal in East Africa.
may election mi a Welsh mining con- The simplest problem
endless
of involve
ramifications situency where the sound
The 11, for
echoed well off instance, money
his voice granted for public buildings in merrounding rocks but achieved St Helena, what will the little else. Two years later, he effect be in 30 other colonies stood in the shaky Tory con- work demanding
money
hu- stituency of Mid-Bedfordshire 10. dreds of other projects?
ew-y had
He normally comes to at a gentlemanly 9.30 or works quietly at uny pace, talks as though he all the time in the world,
He rarely loses his temper or He is even speaks sharply.
to, or and listens patiently
sometimes reuds, forten's abuse which would make most men roar with rage.
Nationallats call him an im- Imperialists ac. perialis dog. OLLEC him of giving away the territories of the empire like so popcorn many tin whistles in packets. Socialists accuse him of backing the blumps and th oppressors of the people while right-wing Tories surpect
for
*******.
By Les Armour
end
won
It is still a shaky constituency, but he has held it successfully through five ele- tons.
Lennox-Boyd-le may be. greatest Colonial come the
of the century. Secretary
clats turn out on the colonies, with meeting colonial politicians whenever he got a chance, and with rethinking the Conserva- tive colonial policy. Comerva- live
polley, up to then,
part had mainly of resizi
In Parliament, be distinguish- ed himself as an ultra-right wing
His views Tory.
were right in Foreign The temptation to reply in cularly for
Ing change whenever possible. believed that it kind to Dr Azikiwe must be affairs. He once issued a long Lonnox-
to achieve a con- Mr apologia for Franco and was one was Jirmly resisted whatever
pasoth conspicuously cept of a united Commonwealth those who Lennox-Boyd's personal foci- uf
Any
independent nations which reply
Jeo- failed to notice the monace of of moy
be more than a name several Hitler. He made headlines, once, would future of pardise the
by assuring the nation that Ger- and that it ought to be the million people.
Conservative business The Cyprus
crisis is not a many could take Czechoslovakia
endangering
government to neist and direct matter
getting without of simple
the evolution from empire to Greeks and Turks to agree on security.) him
consultation
Commonwealth: a draft plan for and their future. The
of perpetrating unspeakable blasphemies upon the traditione of the empire.
Verbal Fog
The language in which these imputations are made is often elrong enough to make a Tum- many Hall politician quail.
function of Port of the
to Colonial Secretary in through this truth beneath.
<LTKİ men
women
a
out a
to
Office
three years.
British
War's End placed for
of the
Not Surprised
по опо
since the
he thought about It all, wust
Chinicing.
All Lennox-Boyd's years of careful study, however, have puid off
He has been instrumental tra the creation of what virtually amount to new states in West Indles and Malaya. bas
the
Ho and patiently
tactfully prodded the explosive situation In British Gudana to the point whore Leif-government is again averted what
on
the
In the
In
way.
He
has
might have bean a major crisis
Gold Coast by,
tem- porarily at least, porsunding both Nkrumah'a federalists and their opponents of the Ashanti that their differences cannot be settled by violence.
Major Power
In Nigeria, a new country is developing slowly
will and almost certainly turn out to be a major world power before this century is out. Again, LenLDAR= Boyd's Lact in reconciling federalists with regionalists and
advancing self-government in such a way that each of the regions has been able to pro- gress at its own speed, kave paid off.
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blown
(So far, he has managed to keep Dr Azikwe from provoking a real crisis in Eastern Nigeria which might have Crisis
plans for the Nigerian Federation sky high.)
Whatever the merits or the demerits of the Cyprus case, Lennox-Boyd cannot be blamed. must be worked out more by the Foreign Office end the War OMẹo than by the Colonial Office.
The
solution
more
Unruffled
Just before the outbreak of Wor wants a base there. The Foreign War, he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Office concerned with
Labour. War intervened before
In 1951, he was Minister of His real talent, however, win lations with Greece and Turkey it could be told whether or not
Slate for the Colonies, under be tegled in East and Central and a dozen
or so other na- he had any effect on that minis-
Oliver Lyttelton (now Lord Africa where now nations are tlong looking for an excuse to try whi
which, in those daya ΟΙ
Chandee), the bluff, forthright being built despite the pressures wade into the problem,
depression, was the centre of
He became. one's that no decision national attention.
financial expert who, to every of three
Cara contending races. It may be
become be devise a real multi-racial surprise, had on successively,
Parliamentary can be taken immediately
Colonial
democracy? Secretory.
Even
Im- the Ministry of of these questions,
Secretary to uny
Few people however, lanew portant, can he get the people In general terms, a Colonial Home Security and the Ministry Fel
of Lennox-Boyd's ambition and involved to accept it? vorizal fog to the Secretary is expected to work of Food
woo very surprised
The first tentative plans have in which situation
He kept his minor political when he
Africa mayed from the been revealed for. East was 15 possible can
through the
Colonial Office to the Ministry and the Central African experi- Lennox-Boyd has a staff of many people
govern themselves months
of Transport. 1,735
at eventually
ment has been guided success- when war began in
As Minister of Transport, he fully so far. But the tests will Colonial Office Headquarters to and determine their own futures. Then,
He must check advances which carnest in 1940, he left to foln endured patiently all the come in the future. help him do just that.
A million
has gone men. however, are too rapid, prod on those the navy as lieutenant. The navy
impopularity which tent ing. But not assigned him to a coastal torpedo with the post ever who would hardly be able to do it.
does everybody
want self- boat--and there he remained for war. Faced with a road system Much of the difficuty stems ever
terra
which has probably deteriorated Meanwhile, the man himself from the fact that nobody is government. Some
like Hongkong, are 100
rather than Improved since has worn remarkably well. In very certain what it is that a
too or
Roman times,
Commons he to network of the House of precariously Colonial Secretary is supposed
Independence. In others, some to do.
or groups fear that self- By then he had had the creaking, war-bailored railways still nearly always unruffled.
One of his difficulties has been In theory, he is responsible, government would mean that menace of Hitler brought home which refuse to pay their way, that, as time has gone on, he has
One of his and a network of public water- quito simply, for the govern- they would be dominated by to him personally,
talcon h
problems ment of the colonies. The last other groups. (Thus, there is brothers was murdered by the ways which are
ally. He is genuinely thing, however, he is likely to resistance
government has more personally. some parts of Gestapo six months before war to boss, no de is govern.
East and Central Africa to any, broke out. His remaining two ever been willing to spend the Pained when the Opposition tears
to bring self brothers ware both killed on money needed
into him and, sometimes, he gets trans- Each colony has at least one Immediate
into
he is too trouble because active service, one of them while
to standard. port up to government, some several. Some government.)
unit on
eager to please everybody and No Minister, commanding a paratroop at, the torritories, moreover, aro
therefore, has he has too little of Lyttelton's D-Day. not colonies at all, but protec-
In 1943, Churchill" brought
ability to any "No"", ank make it: torates and trusteeships in which
When
Fio still has him woady laugh to discover, in All this a Colonial Secretary him back Into the government years later Lennox-Bord at sound like the voice of destiny. as Parliamentary, Secretary to last got his chance. No one was which shaders his whole frame. theory, just who is supposed to must untangle.
Alan Lemmox-Boyd was not, Lord Beaverbrook's Minsitry of very enthusiastic. The "Daily But too often, lately it has snorted bluntly: seemed to be a nervous Lauch Each individual, government at first glance, the man anyone Aircraft Production,
Don't send Lennox-Boyd to rather thin an expression of has Ita own Idear, naturally, would have imagined in the finished out the war,
At war's end' he had a about the businées of govern- job
Colonial *ür Socré-
state of the roads!! ment and each and every one The son of an anciens family curious ambition: Ho actually the Colonial Office, Look at the old son an expr would resent any actual govern of Lowland Scots who had lived wanted to be
To most politicians, the Whether this implied that If he can stint the strain he ing by Mr Lennox-Boyth, oily for generations as land job meane either a chance at Lennox-Boyd might get burled no friend of Tory Colonial indeed, it turned out that un- owners, he went to Sherborne bigger things or an early polt in a pothole on the way or that Secretaries) once suggested, ba dor some one of the several (000 the great "Pubile za grave, Lennox-Boyd res his fathing to bring roads up to the greatest Colonial, Secretary Boge. of quid?
different con- Bchools' of England), and then In fact he is sento Chriat's Church Collego, OK. Kardod, it as ut gonςVOLANAK JACKratchs :indfloated,ihe extent of, of the 'cturkey, RUNWAY
klad of um- ford
At Oxford, he become pred pine. But not an umpics pén, fereeing, a definable kind of dent of the Union and president
It is difficult
stitutions, he
advance
At Oxford
ry
fast reverting
stood, a change,
pounod, two Lyttelton
There be Express".
more/ und
that may, as The Obeaver (usually
·
K-Through the six years in his administrative ability is So far at treat, ho hág mala which the Cornervatives, pat, in debatable. In any case, the ad blunders than many Coloniar opposition, he busted himself pre voiced pretty much Secretaries and the hea for more with the long dry, reports of what, tho, man on the street, if friends kwa MOWY