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THE CHINA MAID, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1958. ̄)
Dear Governor Faubus...
DON'T BE FOOLED
BY NOTTING HILL
London.
ADVISE you' not to chortle too much over Notting Hill or Nottingham. You might be wise to refrain from telling the Arkansas Press: "The British had better not point the finger at us any more.“
I have been spending some time today in London's Notting Hill Gate area, Curiously, the weather was almost identical with that I met the first day in Little Rock....humid and oppressive. You remember, perhaps, that I drove to Central High School with one of your staff and saw the cordon of State Militia in full battle-dress ringing the school.
I drove this time to Paddington Central School,
move
their iu and North groups
resentment is bitter and deep.
closed,
The school itself was not because of the clashes be- tween white hoodlums and West Indians, but because the sum mer holidays are not over until next week, And I can assure you no troops will bar the entry of coloured boys and girls to North Paddington Central or any other school in Britain.
And none of the local authori. ties has defled the law of the land. The people who are defy- ing the law are a bunch of rowdies and no-goods, Teddy Boys, out for violence. They are a poor lot, a disgrace Britain and I make no apologies
for them.
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You see, we have let everyone who is a British subject How into our islands. There has beck no acreening, no inaistence on ever-token-capital,-no-check- ing on whether the new arrivals
take
bad good would citizens. Perhaps this will be changed.
Notting H Gale is not much like Little Rock. Much of it in very old, crowded with decaying streets and scabrous houses.
Yet when I drove and later walked around the streets today I told my guide: "If you think this is a slum you should see the Puerto Rican section in upper Munhution."
They mingle
I happened along at a quiet time. The policemen were not in pairs and no paliceman here
Several have been before the magistrate during the past few carries a gun except on a very days and several more will be special and hazardous mission. before the Bench during the I saw few Teddy Boys, no public next week or two. So will some coloured mobsters, but I assure you, Governor, they will get the same justice as the white.
Same for all
There is no law for the white and another law for the block this country, There is not the
lightest danger of Wolf ike the Whistle murder ense one 1 reported in Mississippi. You remember that case,
"wolf Chicago negro youth
white whistled" at a
women. He was murdered by two white men and his body flung in creek.
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meetings or demonstrations,
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The only sign I saw was fuded chalk scribble on a brick wall, "STOP SUEZ WAR." No "Niggers
home, 80
White Supremacy for Ever," or any of the placards that litter the South. And Mr Foubus Ku Klux-Klan or burning crosses.
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I hope you are getting the Notting Hill picture in the right perspective. In fact, il might even be news to you to learn that most white and coloured intermingle quite amicably, and there are no such monstrosities as separate public conveniences. benches marked washrooms, "White and Coloured,"
I walked down Bramley Road, the
there has been bari Under
local where pressure sheriff arrested the while men trouble, and Talbot Road and
trial." Portobello Road and talked They smoked in court and cat half a dozen people or 50.
and they were put on
their children on their knees.
I talked to some of the jury
after they had acquitted them.
"Sure,
Means nothing
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They were cautious and said: we knew they were Things are quietening down It's worso at night. It's guilty." I was told, "but we now,
the street women Who don't have sassy niggers making worse."
passes
white
thear parts."
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When I said I had been Little Rock and forther south to Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
"Really, it's humillating to think that humans descended from US!"
"THOU SOBER, SAGE AND VENERABLE LIQUID.......
Every day: Enough cups of tea girdle the Earth!
C
ONSIDER the ten leaf. Botanical nume
Sinensis. Camellia Habitat undergrowth of thousands of sub-tropical rain forests. Grown in tea gardens in 18 different parts of the world, includ- the ing Russia, Perain, Argentine. Drunk at the rate of over 1700 million Ib. a year.
Or ponder this statistic- all the cups of tea drunk in a day throughout the world would make a girdle round the earth 50 yards wide.
All of which means that the tea leaf is Big Business, If the world's tea-drinkers auddenly stopped reaching for "a cuppa thousands of people would de rained over- hight, £500 million worth of tea-plants would run to seed, the economies of India and Ceylon-the world's largest Lea producers-would take a sharp nose-dive,
But the chance of this hap- pening are as remote as the chances of Mr. Krushchev's taking Holy Orders. For several good reasons, Tea is still the world's cheapest luxury, costa, less per cup then the milk and sugar that go with it.
HOW OLD?
It is still the best, most harmless pick-me-up.
To quote that eminent ten- drinker Mr. Gladstone: "II you are cold, tea will warm you- you are too heated, it will cool you-if you KTÓ depressed, It will cheer you-- if you are excited, it will calm you,"
And, after all, the tea habit has been with us for a long time. Just how long is a matter of dispute.
by Jocasta Innes
to
According to the Chinese to be some new form of the discovery of tea goca back vegetable) and Dr. Johnson to 2737 B.C.
describes When a certain
himself a3 "B Emperor,
faddist about hardened and shameless tes
drinker." boiling his hygiene, was drinking water in the shado of a wild ton-plant.
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Some leaves fell into the water, and Thum one civilisation's
civilised most
hablis began.
Or did ? Indians claim that the plancer of tea- drinking was Darma, a plous
hermit
to who resolved spend seven years in sleep- less contemplation of Buddha.
During the Afth year of his vigil Darma began chewing leaves to keep himself awake. Bome were tea-leaves. Bo, with the blessing of the Holy One himself, the whole thing Верал.
Two
TEPID
legends, both picturesque. Less picturesque, but more reliable, are the historical sources which date the introduction of tea to Europe around the mid- 18th century. The first reference to tea is found in a Venetian travel book of 3550.
But It was another 60 years before the tea habit resched what is now the most tea- the saturated country in world-Great Britain.
For a country which con- sumes 10lb. per head of the
each population
year. Britain's response to ten was
at first distinctly tegld.
The wife of Charles II adopted it, the Duchess of Monmouth posted tea to her friends in Scotland (who promptly boiled the leaves and ate them, assuming them
But the high prico-22 155. alb-restricted ten-drinking to the wealthy or fashionable. It was not until the 19th century that the habit became democratic. In the last half of the contury the consumption of ten soared from 1 to 5lb. tach.
Everyone began drinking it, from the Duchess of Bedford who launched a fashion for taking tea in the afternoon- to the housemaids below stairs.
That, as everyone knows, was only the beginning of the tea story in this country. Nowadaya it fa as hard to conceive of an England with- out ten as of a France without wine.
SKILLS
According to the Omelal History of the Second World War, "people couldn't run a village dance, raise money for Spitfire funds, get married or maintain morale in air raide without tea.”
There is some reason for thinking that the national emblem should be changed to a "nice cuppa" on a feld d'or,
But the odds are that only a few out of the millions of tra-addicts in this country could write the blography of a tea-leaf.
From tea garden to tea-pot is a long story, which In- volves not only the routine mechanisation of a modern industry, but older and more specialised skills-the akili of the ten-pickers rapidly strip- ping a bash of its young leaves (one bush yields only between three and eight
Would You Believe It?
ounces of tea in a year) and of the ton-tusters, whose sensitive palates instinctively pick out the right flavours, in the right quantities, to'maka up your standard blend of tea.
Tex is a Hving thing and its Ravour varies according to the conditions in which it grows. Altitude, sell, climate, the age of the bush, are just a few of the factors which can affect the flavour.
It was a cortain Arthur Brooke, in 1809 who believed that packets of blended toa of consistent favour and quality, backed by a swift delivery service, would ultim- ately outsell other kinds. That idea gave birth to Brooke Bond's, now the largest tea distributors in the world.
TEA-TIP
And the most important part of the Brooke Bond business, with its C80 million turnover, still goes on la the
where "' salo
the room," tasters get through as many as 2000 different teas daily in their search for the correct. - blend.
But there is many a slip between cup and lip, and more still between the packet and the tea pot,
How to achieve the perfect. cup of tea? I asked Mr. John Brooke, sprightly, much travelled head Brooke Bond's. The answer came pat.
of
Royal Duke Victim Of City's
and using they showed in-B.B.C. telephone switch- boards were jamméd
Also there is nothing like the 1erest, but not too much.
Incidentally, I saw coloured for over an hour after a case of Miss Lucy of Alabama conductors on buses with white 1957 April Fool's Day joke in Notting Hill Gate. Coloured drivers, and in one instance Bludents are not barred from
white on television. Many of the British universities by fright coloured driver with a
conductor.
ened college boards and there has been no organised mob violence among etudents against you, the coloured,
Tiny section
bus which was carrying white
Biggest Hoax
people, might make a note of it. collecting spaghettl draped over that An amazing performer
things I did not like today.
the branches of a tree.
The
Tens of
sight, with carts of books, feathers, ices, jellies, tarls and almost every other commodity. To make matters worse,, rival dealers had received orders and tempers ran high,
the
callers asked for more, In- if a person advertised he could
THE UPROAR The Guards had to be called
baker carrying a huge That means nothing here, but formation about "the spag. creep into a quart bottle, a large out and arrived to find a great, A
remembering how the hetti farm in Switzerland" crowd would pay for the pri- bonare blazing in the Hay wedding-cake was followed by
vilege of watching him.
market, made from wrecked fishmongers, tailors, bootmakers, coloured had to campaign for which had been shown in a
theatre property. Fortunately, upholsterers, undertakers with months to have even the right faked film.
This started the Great Bolle
barrels. Also In the mob were suffered in the whole rKOR, to sit in the front or middle of Viewers had seen Swiss girls hoax which nearly ended in only one minor conuulty was coffins, and draymen with beer- tragedy. The duke advertised
MEANEST PRANK
dozens of professional men; sur- geons, lawyers, clergymnor and Probably the meanest prank artists. There are, however, some spaghetti was laid out to dry would carry out some seemingly
at the New in history was the Berners So let us get that straight,
But this stampede was not the in the warm Alpine Suashing impossible feata Notting Hill, or Nottingham for am old fashioned enough to re and the fim etided with a family Theatre in London's Haymar Street hoax of 1809. It was the only shock in store for the il- ket. He would first borrow & work of the Irrepressible novells: most dementex Mrs Tottenham. that matter, has not sold "NO" coll from the sight of a young sitting down to a meal of the walking stick from the audience Theodore Hook, who led a gay Carefully worded invitations to to integration in the schools,
coloured girl arm in arm with new season's crop,
A white youth or vice versa.
"the music of life in London after his school- meet at No. 64 had also been What Notting Hill and Not- zaw, this often today.
thousands of aliame-faced people and play on it
days at Harrow.
sent to many important people. had to admis next day that every instrument now in uso".
Having tingham, or ilny sections of
seen the
modest At noon camo the Lord Mayor Most of the coloured I saw they had been completely fooled. them, have
Secondly, he would place a exterior of 64, Berners Street, himself, in his state carrloge done is molest
those Oddly enough, ́il was in wine bottle on a tablo in the home of a quiet old woman, Later tha Governor of coloured peopio here--some of wore neatly dressed, and them Innocent hard-working I spoke to were soit spoken and Switzerland that telephone lines the niiddle of the stage, creep Hook bot a friend a guinea that, Bank of Engars and the chair- people, others peily thieves and pallte. One group of coloured were kept busy on April 1, 1940, inside it and ring to the specta- in one week he would make the man of the East India Company men round a bright new car following a local Press Item. It tors. The advertisement · also house the most famo in arrived, thinking they were to was hostile. These were like was announced that a sheep with stated that this performance had London. The hoaxer then sent neur
revelaticna concornjing I have a strong impression the buckos in Harlem.
Chúa legs was en ahow
frouds in already been seen by most of out more than a thousand letters "complicated
being that much of the rloling `is I am not trying to whitewash Lausanne. Hundreds of Swiss the royalty of Europe, Asia and, to tradesmen,; ordering all sorts pursued in their organisations. sparked by Fracist groups and a black situation. I am re-whu turned out to sec "the raro Africa,
of 'goods to be delivered at No. Even H.R.H. Tha Duke of perhaps Communist cells doter- porting on the situation in phenomenou" slunk away red-
Ticket prices were 7. Gd., 58, 54, at about the same time on Gloucester was hoodwinked ato mined to inflans an already Notting Hill as I saw it today
facett
35, and 28, and all seats were November 20. In those days, calling, Bouldering situation.
compared to the situation in Gullbilly seems to bo A quickly sold, Dukes, peers, and Bernors Street could only be The confusion continued" bil Little Rock., The trouble here, according to
world-wide falling. Making fools ordinary poopla crowded into the reached through a turies of dore med at five o'clock, - sor. what I have been told, In Sex Governor Faubus; I don't) of people is sald to have been a playhouse. But when the per- narrow lane. So the crushvants of all descriptions lined up non-existent „ jobs, But and Housing. There are
custom among the Hindus of former failed to appear, there when the goods began to arrive for ble think you would get many their Tesuvat of Hull, held About were loud eat-calls. Then a was the worst ever known in although, the presequences of rings of women for tilre; white and coloured, some of then
April 1.14
the hoax fireåtened to be lighted candle was thrown from London, organised by coloured mim.
temporary aetious, Hook escaped punish- Bo contemptuous of pubile a box and scrious rioting brose Watching from Few white men like that, th
credulity was the Duke of qut, Benches were broken up locaties opposite No. 44, Hook ment, Ho.didos ppeared, into the White familles, desperate to.
that in
until the upever had 1749 he and scenery and sago Altings laughed heartily de wagons of country get houses, have seen" coloured
wagered with stone frieridy that "amasbed.
coal and potatoes ruznklech-into died down,
bad hats.
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votes here.
By Sincerely, DON IDDON Montague
Cummings
QUOTES
*Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sonsibilities.... will always be the favourita boverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an
English Opium Eater.
* Tea! thou soft, thou sober. sago and vonorable liquid thou female tongue-running, smile- smoothing, heart-opening, wink- tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
Collay Cibber, The Lady's Lost Stake. There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chost of tonis Emerson: Letters and Social Aims: Inspiration; Representative Men: Montaigno,
"Fill the kettle, wait tüli ft botte-not singing, but fust after poes ellent. The pot must be warmed and dried. before putting in the tea- one spoonful each and 'oze for the pot. Then take the not to the kettle (not the other way round), fill, stir.
pop on a cosy and wait-only two minutes if you USG 4 The larger small leaf tea.
the leaf, the longer you wall." "But," added Mr. Brooke, "there's really only one way to drink tea-and that's the way you like it."
DID YOU KNOW?
★That the tea-plant, after laurel and privet,
is the toughest plant in the world and makes“ an excellent hedge?:
★ That people in Newcastle drink more tax
than the total population of France?
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* That India produces nearly half-660 m. lb.
--of the world's tes?
That the United States consumes less tea,
per head of the population, than any other country in the world?
★That, loft to itself, a toa bush will grow 40ft.
high?
That 5lb. of green leaves yiold only 1lb. of tea as you buy it?
★That tes-production in China is still a
cottage industry?
★That tos-leaves used to be rolled by hand,
and this is still the best way?
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