THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957.
This is the man
they wanted to
sell me.
OUTRIGHT
AND FOR EVER for £154
WENT
Just an eight-day voyspo over those white-green waters.
IL
were
down To I learned that this slavery Arabia to get the business is indivisibly
But before those eight days the other 10 facts about slavery, part of life down in Arabia
up, one of The world [ left and Yemen just as idle har tried to sell himself to mo behind me, when I went and contentedly fatalistic as a slave to be tny exclusive
....and as barbarous and property for lite. irresponsible.
into the desert regions, was ringing with pious ex. changes. All the way from New York's UNO head- quarters to Delhi, to Peking, the eries were ringing out over Suez, over the West's oil interests.
"Colonialism ! " "British oppression !" yes, even "Slavery!"
And the intriguing thing was, these pious expostula- tions were bubbling out most boisterously in defence of those very countries I to inves- was setting out tigate.
I found the
Startling? You decide.
Wats
tan, in
I
the Best "ingirez" Here were people to whom
(white
The Persian we had a duty, as definite cult linge) to make that trip as rock: to convey to them by dhow since 1030.
But the the justice and dignity of crew shrunken Arati skipper our civilisation. Yet all the called Mustapha from
P'itute tho
Coast islands, jl while the vast body of
mlxrd
Afclean-Arab blood modern world politics rant mate, a couple of Negroes and
one of
RIGHT: HASSAN,
BORN A SLAVE, SON OF A SLAVE.
by TOM STACEY
Today beginning an adventure story with a modern message: from lands where British Influence is often bitterly criticised, but where disturbing things happen when that Influence holds no power.
facts about ed and whispered and argu- a fasear cook-they had sailed real-life slavery. Andh I
ed to oust Britain from their the Gulf most of their lives. found more besides.
hores.
Passenger
effect of oven a The huir small quid of hashish
very
yellow box, now stored deep in the filthy hold among the sugar, diales, and gorlie. £1 was included hashish. list Hadramaut Bedouin, on- Iwo I remember vividly my I found why, for example,
other avage-looking Bedouin it is shameful that the initiation into this world to Saudi Arabla with Americans in Saudi Arabia where slavery is as accepted down to his waist, my black looks like liquorice) popped in with the tobacco of your
pipe is much an occupation as bus driv. hearded interpreter El Rarii,
wizened chap who looked like hubble-bubble
to put you sharp to sleep with super- Afghan, und myself,
trugrant dreams, the middle
that land with so
to hide, and so much to learn ing. -should have agreed
To
wall themselves up in the tiny township of Dhahran.
HASHISH
In
of the
first
of the I woke
As this story of my travels develops I shall tell night at sea we have to along you the hard, sad facts of side slavery in Arabia and the attitude to life
which makes it possible.
HANGOVER
alightly pop-eyed Negro faces home, Hassan promptly you find in nlieteenth century “1 will be your salvé,” prints.
"Tommy Choper":
As luck bad 11 Hassan spoke serious?” English. That is, hc
spoke the first 12 numerals in nearly the right order, and a handful of Gulf phrase: evolved largely Kuwalt taxl-drivers, such "whurra – you - wanna » go- intstah?"
by
115
Hassan was naturally bound to
vocab on Int
דיי
THE
William Hickey
COLUMN
How Would You Like To Know Your Son Hates You
London. made for us by the Brush
T must bo terrible to Museum,
The copy is so fine that know your
son hates when wo tool then off their you.
pedestals we were worried which That is the position Imre. was which." Horvath is in. He is
"I asked: Hungary's Foreign Minister, and representative at the United Nations in New York.
Ha 30-year-old son, also Imre, does not believe in the Red
father regime bis
supports, Young Inre, who fled from ingary, has said: "I met my father I would spit at him." Horvath senior's reception in London recently
was a pretty enough enal one-rightly
He refused to pay the customary enll on the Foreign Secretary.
But the Foreign Office wasn't London diplomats were relieved they did not have to see "You him.
says,
**m,"
not
Hassan:
certainly And he is, dead serious,
Stacey: "Would
you rather be my slave?"
Hassan: "Of course I would. sahib. But I don't have a visa," Stacey: "Perhaps I can help you with the visa. How much
try out his sooner or later. And when he did, this was the beginning of do you cost?" a warm and trusting relation- ship,
falien
prepared
upset.
want to be there the day father and son meet.
NO KNIGHT
for CHOCK
Prince Abdul Rahman. visling Chlet Minister of Malaya, મફ he listened to the eight o'clock news bulletin in London the other day; he heard he had been made a knight in the New Year Honours List,
The
told
me,
Hassan: "I don't know, You'll have tendlsut it with my One evening, we are sting father in Muscal. You'll have back on the sugar bags after to pay the money to him." skipper Mustapha has asleep. The rats are out, and Stacey: "Are you the moon shines down incret- to sell yourself for good?"
on u ibly beautifully
gently
Hossan: "Yes, But we shall swelling sca. drifts from smuggling British perhaps have to see a lawyer.
(Pause.) You must promise my is no Central Malaya. rifies to the subject of slaves. father I won't beaten."
The Tommy Cooper type tells
The conversation
"You're sure Mrs Pandit hasn't gone off with the genuine head?"
Emery smiled, "Now you have me worried all over again," he said.
VIVE LE SPORT!
THE kilt which the Duke of Antyll ordered recently from
couturier a Paris
is almost ready.
It has taken longer to mako than the duke expected, for the such orders and nobody, at first, shop is quite unused to meeting could be sure which department men's, women's or, sports...... should attempt it.
After several
Con- merry ferences, I was agreed that while the kilt could reasonabl make claims on all three it was principally sporting and should be made by that department.
HOW IT'S DONE
MET Miss Enid Blyton, whose
40,000,000 coples, and asked her how she works. "Some writers "plar chapters and work things out in advance," she said. "I sit down, open the sluice gales and it just pours through."
books for children have sold
REUNION
woman stood, of THE plump
hands on hips, in front of *སྐབས the mirror and Bold; wouldn't think, Mr Hickey, would you, that dukes' sona once fought to take me out to dinner?"
prince was having breakfast and i nearly dropped my cup of tea. knew nothing about a I telephoned the knighthood. Colonial Office and found the knighthood had been awarded to my namesake-Prince Abdul Rahman, who is ruler
He State in dhow another
The B.B.C. said: "An error Fallakuh. island of
was made in the 7 a.m., 8 a.m., up suddenly to see the night-
of the many slaves owned by A little later that night amand 9 lirted Afghan being hustled or THE trouble is that you awake
a. bulletins, But it with a hangover like an e'r his father, a big tribal sheik. lying awake
in on the creaking | was corrected Lyle bag where The Tate and
the 1 pm, Faid. plus
tendency tu he had spent most of his time magnifying hallucinations such Surely I know, he beams, that deck, waiting to spot the next broadcast."
thero is not a shell in all shooting star. Every few But what follows was an praying,
as mistalding cups of water for Arabin
worth П couple of minutes at this season there is Incident, which tought me
ever, boarded the other dhow. Swimming pools and He
am told, diving into them
camels and a prayer mat who shooting star over the Gulf. A fol so much about it all.
A of argument....then
does not own at least a few A fow
yards
away from large, yellow box was
Hassan is already passed eticouraged,
alaves? There we
felicitously unperturbed at this were-11 of us aboard our cruft.
Hashish has come to be very
curious
to pay for his taxi. change Allah has had the taxt driver. what the much against the law. inking dhow,
the voyage
know I never
apparently wrought
My colleague gave him £1, future. southwards, down the Perslan Afghan's function was,
To keep me from knowing
and just had time to call out soon learned what was in the about the clandestine cargo, I Gulf.
name and address as he was virtually ostracised. Some-
we are hig times, to favour me, Mustapha TEN Hassan the Negro-the ashore at Doha, the crumbling ruced towards the station.
word for "Negro" in Arabic, warren
Next day the taxi mud
driver would tune in to an English- ab'd, is the same as that for dwellings
turned up at the address with Qalor's sounding programme un
I capital,
the change and a nole of thanks. battery radio,
Full marks I
BRITAIN regards this sort of deal as a shirking of duty. She has not stood for such shirking in the Lands she is helping to build lourd the primitive, 4011. Arub through their oil:
is one.
Graphs can't lie
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hlstave"--puls in; "When
Was a boy 1 was a slave. helonged to merchant in Qatar."
As
a rule it was Radio Bratislava, shoving out
Com- munist propaganda" about Suez to America-ah, the plous phrases! The words "Sucz "Nasser" and "Eden" would
Pecins
comment to
No one looks surprised; it 姐 perfectly natural make under the moonlight that night in
the
me
WITH THANKS....
COLLEAGUE in a hurry to
fast asleep. A catch a train had no change
Then, in two days,
of
which
fishermen's
13
ה!
his
BARGAIN
IT
is night when Hassan hurries me through
the
RUBBISH....
Neither
UITE a let-down for Terry-
Que a
Into his garage at Queen's Gate,
crop up pretty frequently, and Persian Gulf, Beyond in the sea wriggling alleys. Inside a hovel Kensington. The wooden boards
Mustapha you can seo
tle patches of sheepish, light-small shoals of luminous yellow-toothed smirk from Ash.
nt each mention
would protter me a
urler his headcloth.
I fell a le guilly that I could not think of anything sympathetic to say. (She was a very plump woman.)
But I need not have worried. picked She WILS quife happy.
She up A champagne glass and went waltzing away..
The Gafety Girls, toast of the town in grandfather's day, were having a reunion. I went there rather doubtfully, for a gut- once-beautiful together women can be a sad thing.
But the Galety Giris, even now, live up to their name. E did not see one sad face; I heard few regrets for the "old days" of champagne in slippers, *******.
of
SIGN HERE....
MAN with a most fascinat- ing signature has
left
He
we find the man we seek an over the Inspection pit broke.
London after a short stay. did a six-foot aged Negro friend of Hassan's Car and T.-T.
is the R. Rev. Donald Marsh, father, almost blind, his eyes nose dive.
Bishop of the Arylic, who has opaque and whitish in the T.-T. got out all right-the been recruiting staff for his Someone asks "How were lamplight.
hood was down. He wasn't hurt. lonely diocese, The effect of this aboard a you freed, Hostan?" 40ft, sun-cracked bare-boarded,
His signature is just: "Donald, For a few minutes I let them But it tooks eight men to get the
the Arctic." cabinless Arab dhaw, different Hassan grinned. "My master talic away in Arabic about my car out-rather battered
respect lost so much money during the buying Hassan,
T.-T. told me about it the other Tremblingly day.
HIS In pretty well every
predecessor's signature front, say, Sir Bernard Docker's war that he had to sell me to the cups of coffee are held out the pit in...."So if anyone has was: "Archibald,, the Arctic."
Now he is going to fill was even more noteworthy, It dhow, was to urge me to snap another merchant who put me
Then El Rarib says: of to sea and paid me a wage. So old man cani agice to a price of be glad if they'd send it "The any rubbish they don't want, I'd up the very first offering human sympathy.
W
2
AND HASSAN
WELL, the most likely-looking
aboard were:—
The beefy Saudi
with painted toenails,
I became free,," He paused.
..
Well, he's asked for it....
2,000 rupees (£154) on behalf along.......... Then he added: "But my of Hassan's father. But the father is still a slave. He contract must be made before belongs to Shelk-in Muscat, a lawyer tomorrow."
I
was born a slave of that sheik, and it was he who sold me when I was 10,
for
old
when
SIT, WTD,
A FRIEND of mine went to
the Ministry of Labour's TWO HEADS....
Appointments Bureau in Tovis- tock Square to inquire on the They look at me. (“One slave
£154"who's going to pass to
TN the afternoon I was talking chances of a job for a friend of that on
Nehru'a sister Mr his returning from abroad. an expense aheel?)
Pandit, the Indian High Com-
appointments officer cancel
deal the could get no
She was told him: visa for missioner in London.
****
An el don't think there is
Пх
savoge "My father was taken as a Gently 1
He boy from Swahlle (presumably "I opent most of his day violently that part of Africa where Hassan." - The worried brow presented at University College much. I can advise your friend plaiting his hair and cooing in Swahil is the lingua franca crinkles. The large pop-eyes with a copy of a 2,500-year-old at the moment. This place may
head of Buddha,
be closing this year, a thin falaetto,
and I Zanzibar, Kenya, and Tangan haze, ond molsten,
been. able to rika.
Sometimes
Mrs Pandit is not a Buddhist, haven't His friend from the was a
a boy, my father used to As I say goodnight to the "But," she said, "I'll keep this MYSELF up with a job yet."" Hadramaut, who liked to weep
his
who wanted to be
at home with some s�*** country man
my in an alcove a hold the Saudi's hand when he Swahile. He told me it wo slave for £104, all over Doha jado pieces.
Wog A
HE'S WORRIED was not plating, and wore his green land with
are crowing of the cocks
even Sho plenty
had accepted the gin. rounded, embroidered
on behalf of her Govern I head tarbush water and grass growing above though it is only midnight, affair at a Tommy Cooper tilt: your head.
to mark the There were many wonder what the honey-voiced ment
2,000th banana plants, and the women commentator from Bratislava anniversary of Buddha.
would have thought about it cooked with coconut oli.
Afterwards Professor Walter 3 Hatsan,
all7 tough-bulit,
Emery. the university's Professor good-humoured helmsman, "But my father was happy,
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of Egyptology, showed me the black ng your hal, born "in because soon he was made head
original head, which is kept in Muscal about 30 years ago of of the sheik's slaves, He was
the college. Reverently ho Negro lineage. He had holes never healen. Nor was I besten
removed the layers of colton drilled through the middle of except by my father." hly car cartilage, was missing At this point El Rarib. my halt a finger and one toe, and Interpreter, chances to mention bud one of those worried, he needs 11 Eervant for
and
the
I ANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE WRECKERS! THEY'RE
GOING TO DYNAMITE THE TRACKS!
his
Next Saturday: INTO THE HAREM
wool...
"It's 2,500 years old, we think, and made of terra-cotia, the samo as the copy, which was
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I COULD STOP-- AND NAB THEM -
THINK
BY THE TIME.
BUT THAT WOULD
HE DOES
GOT
INTO THEIRH
TOO LATE
BY STOPPING. TRAIN--THE MAY BE OUNHEN WAITING.
ITLL BE
\ISPUTES. continue over the handling of the Gulbenkian Foundation--a trúst of about £100 million ket up by the will of oil magnate Calouste "Fiver Petr Cent
Gulbenkian.
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