How much must Civilisation depend on the man in tune with the masses?
THE ANTICS OF KROBO
From JOHN REDFERN
Aceri
HANA'S No. 2 man.
tences together in English. When he is osa:iled--his usual condition--Krobe's English is
Grobo Edusel, is begin condition Krobo's often ning to overshadow his chief, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah,
Since his appointment as Minister of the Interior, Krobo has never stopped throwing his weight about.
He stunts.. 11: rampages, makes blond-eliling speeches (some of whien he denies next morning), while Nkrumah bes with- comes more unct more drawn from the politient burly burty.
Krobo's
recent
anties
threatening a BRI to bon all regional, tribal, atyc religious purtles in Ghana, and bawling his intention to arrest members
he plays the comic.
Yet he has gifts as an orator. Whether using straight English, pidgin, or the Twi (pronounced chwee) Jangunge in which he often speaks he gets neross im-
mediately.
He loves to mix in a phrase or two of Western politicians' jargon. When he is in a tough maod hr gives the delighted audience the impression that the
flow and will soon
with the blood of Primo Minister Nkru- nah's enemies-but strictly In accordance with the principles: of the ballot box.
Reporter
One of Korbo's first jobu was of the Opposition-make some as a messenger on an Ashanti
newspaper. He rose
of the mor moderate Ministers wince.
But he renalas in-office, prop- ped by an indulgent Prime Miniater.
Krobo blure things out, even
to be n
lebt collector and then reporter. He was sacked repeatedly, but always got back.
His arst uct when invitert to
high polley decisions, because Minister of the Inferior was loves to give his opponents in telephone his old employer's Kooreflesh. Nkrumais has n doubts about his loyalty and Nkrumah has a lot of doubt about some of his colleagues,
Showboy
But Nkrumah must not giv Krobo too much latitude. Al ready the No. 2 man has inoved Into the position Nkrumah long enjoyed-the spelt-binding "showboy the mon who is always on the wavelengths of the African masses.
Krobo today a well-dressed dream of gloty come true. Born Ashanti 41 years ago in an village, of poor parents, he had Iktle education. When he first stood for Parliament in 2051 ha could hardly
wife, tell her the big news, and warz her that the Ashanti people must look out.
גווה
was sur-
When it was suggested later this wng rather irregular praeceding Kroba prised. But missus (meaning Mr Tibos, the employer's wife) is my mother and my father. For 11 years I work for her."
Since entering Parilament in 1951 Krohn had been clowning threatening, climbing.
He had to rest as Minis- terial Secretary fur Justice following disapproval in the re- port of an official inquiry into idlegations against various Ministers.
But he was quickly back as Minister withoul Portfolio and then us Minister of Communien- string two sen- tions-all £3,000-a-year jobs,
Happily complacent in peace; resolute and courageous in the storm,
A
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1957.
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THE EX-KING?
Ex-KING SIMEON -RUMOURS BUZZ IN
STOCKHOLY
NOTHER remance rumour sweeps 1Swedish royal alrcles -already preoccupied with the love of Princess Margaretha and Robin Douglas-Home.
Ume This
the whispers concern Margaretha's sister, Princess Desiree. 19 jabone), and ex- King Slibeon of Bulgaria, 20, extled 11 years ago.
They were at school together and he is often her partner at Stockholm parties. Recently Simeon was a guest of the royal family for shooting holiday at thefr summer residance faland in the Baltic.
on
Are the English a
race of geniuses?
MERICANS Continually, in spite of other attractions
and almost against their will, turn their eyes back
to Europe. This is specially true about Britain. Or let us be frank and say England,
Virginian
BY WALTER ELLIOT, MP
The Irish, The Scol, the they a face of born Henluses, or Weish das not present the aume et lucky: Above all, are they point in the greatest and modern elgina. But the English are a perpetuut - problem, Are tal on ore they phoney"
thy
etuning or going"
There were no doubt ques- Are thes which the origina:
UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG
Two crows dive -to the rescue
HEARD A mewing cry, came out from our honeysuckle-covered veranda, and looked
I
up
the mountain. There on the tall larch at the top
of the orchard perched a great buzzard.
Then sounded the harsh caw
of two corrian crown from the oak tree in the valley below, and I would have reached for my gun had it not been for the strange, anxious ar ef these noxious fowthered fiends.
Carrion birds though crow'
on
and New England He thinks the aristocracy no settlers discussed entierrly with longer counts; though what he the Red indians. They have cells The Establishment (nothing hainted the minds of Americans to do with the Church) does, ever since, All this reached tremendously. Ascot, as far as Beltain is concerned, On most American of American nui- "doesn't matter a damn," lhora, Mark Twain. Fully, he the other hand, he thinks that re-wrote Malory through the the Crown is as important as eyes of Damon Runyon; his ever, and that, as the world elvalled combination of entire becomes more complex, the jud seivnecfiction A Yankee Al «ltraction of the single repre- The Court of King Arthur. sentative will steadily grow. He Now cones Drew Middleton'; la fascinated by Parlament, and not merely traveller but à by its accomplishment of what resident. He knows the Village he calls A Quiet Revolution by of London through and through. A Quiet People.
He has seen Britain both in war
ant in ponce, He has mixed
US and Us
with our factory-workers and
the
with our armies overseas. He Also, he thinks, that the can compare his long experience stupid people have often been of our country
"After with a sojourn right.
Second In Germany, also as a now's- World War had burst, IL paper correspondent from 1945 occurred to many....that the to 1933.
Blimps had known what they Herv
were tolidng about" (on opinion
is the vast American appetite for facts, Here is ineldentally shared by M. formation by The sackful on
Keynes). All this will be in- every dn of subject the tensely annoying to the Superior Persons and to the Angry But they are the
National Health Service, po Young Men.
nuba, Lord Salisbury,
Woolton, Lord Beaverbrook, views of a New Yorker from. June
the Daily Mirror,
Syracuse University; and he has Maudie Littlehampton of the thought about them for the last Daily Express, the wages ut 10 years. coalminers, and the fact that in Britain we read nearly double as many newspapers per hend y the people of the United
Also, there is the true corres
and buzzard be, the Intle is by altered their tactics, calling for far the Kobler, capable of descending
wn hep at the top of their harsh full-grown rabbit and bearing it away to had hysterics
voices. Once again the chickens his nest high up in the rocky
as they streaked for shelter. outcrops. But there's the rub,
battle flew the States. Bravely into nowadays no rubblis. So what should a poor buzzard do zave
crows but the buzzards repulsed what this one was ubout
them viciously with the weight
to
do
very much in their favour until pendent's power of spotlight
Drew Midleton's special con- tribution is his discernment of the advent, in our economic life. of a gigantle new class, a nový working class "self-satisfied with themselves and their lot; im- possible to rouse save by may
attempt, a raid on my netga- two more crows came up at fuiling an anecdote to illuminate a colley that appears to endanger.
bour's chicken run?
FAST, DEADLY Down silent, fast, and dicudly awooped the great bird of prey on wide-spread wings unti with raucous crie, and untidy
ery and hurled themselves into chapter, As witness: The froy:
and a
A tow black feathers brown one drifted lazily on the gentle, southerly breeze, but four crows had the measure of two buzzards and soon the buzzards feathers a-flap, the two crows folled and chickenless, to their flow like the wind, defeated, pet upon him. He side-olid, cyrie. he rolled, a peevish, mewin
wall escaped his terrible hook-
That night the owner trans-
ad benk and next moment he ferred his hens
their new position." This gives "After all,. Nye's his own him considerable unetsingas. worst enemy, someone unce 'But it is not, as Mr Middleton remarked to Ernie Bevin.
supposes, something appearing "Not while ain't, said Ernio."
I'm alive, c for the first time in history.
It is the reincarnation of very old and very stable phenomenon, that of men com- pletely identlied with their
Drew and You
Drew Middleton la continually
torn between the greatness to economie attachment, the Man has seen this people display, in its Job, the old peasantry and the trivialities, the coin upon the land; and the now
to deep litter, placenoles, the sloths, with rollers, dug in upon their
was away at full speed up the and on the following morning which they love to surroundi Industrial small-holdings, with mountainside with nothing
in two silent, eggless crows perch themselves, He comes down, the trade unions for their
ed hungry and forlorn
What in the decisively, on the side of their walch-towers.
their ook overlooking the
empty greatness.
Kindly, energelle, eventual outlook may be, what ambitious and too often happly their reactions, may well keep When later," four buzzards complacent in
most guessing. Ohee, they went peace; appeared flying hopefully down resolute, courageous and tough- on the Crusades.
his long-spurred talons,
the victors perched Patiently witil a stupid fowl atrutted tho hysterical forts with
chucks that an Hiccupping nounce the arrival of a new- laid egg.
shot Down then
run.
in fight and belligerent forma minded in the storms that have This is a book of clean, tion, ready to repel and scatter beatch about their islands since brilliantly selected, mest spin- almost any foc, the crows just the dawn of the Christian era? pathetically produced, that by the crowe sat there, punctuating
Bat the question has been put, the Yazione How two black arrows, shortly sterile sweep
on his Hayrlast so of their enemies The very emphasis of his reply the Court of King Arthur. to retum with one-stained bibs. with caws of puro derision.
is certally fascinatitig to us. It betraya atid Now, tigh
silent over
The longer I live the more I pui- Icom
will be Interesting to hear what the valley circled two
that the mentalities
·Meša, Lorite and lower
they bird; and, berist are not so very
the folks back hoo have to say aboutit. PAGES P Dew, but this time the crow far moved from our own.
==(London. Kapriai, Herwice),
a doubt,
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BANGKOK.
THREE outstandingly gifted Oriental big business men have had a serious falling out here in Slam, And now the dust hus settled, we find one of them an old pro named Pibul Songgram-languishing in neighbourly Cambodia.
The second-his name is Sriyanond Phao (pronounced Pow) is even further away in Switzerland, while atting back in triumph to enjoy fatter and undisputed profits is number three, Sarit Phanarat.
new
But, not content with big ment of oplum on train. businesa, these three natute now! Pkad'a nien, rather than dexterous operations held extra surrender, sluffed it all into jobs on the side. For instance, the furnace of the locomotivë. Pibul Skongeram was until The train arewed in Bangkok Iccently, the Prime Minister with dense clouds of pungent of Siam.
ptum smoke pouring from its funnel,
In his spare time, Phao was also chiet of a 30,009-11- strong polico forey, complete with such novel poltre features as paratroops and tank units.
And sole survivor Sarit, B00 bors of all he marvays, wears the unfern of an army leki- marshal.
But don't let any of that fool you.
In
.
few two a
SfI0, Pibul really can't com-
plain. He hasi been round politically for a long time. #c Grst became Premier back in 1037 and except for a brief pause from 1014 to 1918 held the job since.
BAD
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do the Second World War he Until Sarit decided to musele calculated that Japan would
on the other
win and ludicrously declared weeks back, Phao owned war on
Britain unt America. abunk, a hotel, a string of That turned out to be poor private houses, orkl WON the judgment, but Pibul survived majority shareholder In mony it and of late years he has been
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