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THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
LONDON LETTER SIR BEVERLEY ✰✰✰PARADE
SOME two years ago I was invited by a friend to dine at
BAXTER, MP
his house and meet half a dozen American Senators who were visiting London. As it happened the conversation turned Imprachment and could war shille Jump. For 27-year-old Amy parachute mucao, bioko to Little Rock and the difficulties and obstinacy of Governor. Faubus.
.MID-AIR RESCUE: · For 23- Eye-wlineas said they landed year-old nurse Marie-Madeleine 'with a "terrißɑ bang.” Marie Degat, it was her 100th paro Maddoing, who wants to be an ger again among their friends.
parachute instructor Edmond her leg. Edmund was unhurt, "By for those facts," said the Beaussant, it was his 600th. For but severely shaken. Judge, I would have imposed both of them, it was nearly their much longer sentencos, then I Inst.
Then camo am about to do."
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about to
COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
vice, and Uiren per cent 150,000 dollars would go to Meukel.
The gadget is highly accret, but the official said: "It will son unything approaching 0 plane from any quartor and automa tically divert the piane to ovold a collision."
A
Had they searched Baluste Glasson when they arrested him after his wife, complained -ha, had not been home for WO days, sald the jury, tho" pollen would have found tha, stiele pi dynamite before their prisozier could have used it to blow off his head.
RAGS TO RICHES: Mieming, broke and dojected, 41-year-old inventor Elmer Meukel
THE LONG VOYAGE:
Sixty being sought all along America's boltle thrown Into Dundy Bay NEVER SAY DIE: west coast this week, so that be on Canada's East coast by Ted year-old Hor Lung-chi doclded turned up after to teach his (21-year-old. **- could be told he was rich and Parker has
Banece a lesson for rejecting become threo years.
him for a younger sultoria Tod, now 17, had a lotter Monkel was so depromed at floating what ho considered his fallure telling him so from 16-year-old tore
She found that he left his wife and three Carolyn York. young children In Hollywood bottle lg Brisbane, Australia. and took up the life of a bobo jumping trains and working as a dishwasher.
With the broad-mindedness which characterises people who have
the words that struck the grisly Edmond and ten trainee no basic colour problem we gave our American guests a rather bad time.
young prisoners Ulko a blow be-parachutists had jumped from a plane al 4,000 ft. Edmond de- Finally one of them, speaking in a rich Southern drawl, declared that if tween the oyes:
fayed opening his 'chute unth he saw his daughter walking out with a nigger he would shoot him. "As it is said the Judge, he was less than 1,000 ft. above
am determined that you and "Would it not be more just,” asked one of the Britishers, “if you anyone anywhere who may be the ground so that he could ob-
sorve the technique of
the probably shot your daughter?"
tempted to follow your evil
at 1000 ft. T doubt it com-
Yet, having made that sincero example shall clearly under-trainees who had opened theirs famous.
tolerated in this launched by the declaration of faith; I know that lend that crimes such as thesG
them Edmond saw. owner would tell there must be a limit to the will not be
country but will inevitably gently to earth. All except out, or the local intercourse of the two races.
meet in theso courts with the Marie-Madeleine who was hurt would take action
Bu! la that necessarily asian punishment which the ling down, towards him, her but in Harlem-on-Thaines any
of the noble spirit of sojustly deserve."
and emergency. chute dwelling place
Abraham Lincoln who was not
twisted hopelessly around her. nene,
ashamed to coll a negro The answer is that the great
I am afraid that the dinner content, No a success, Instead of plaints were. was not increasing Anglo American occupants the union we had strained the Eng- them to get Hah speaking enteule to break:- authorities ing point. Yet even above the
1 cout nole of controversy not forget that sardonic but pre- ghant saying from the past: Rocial equality is a policy al- ways advocated by people who have no colour problem."
is better than cenhil
Now let us leave the Afro- "Brother?" Srxon to his own problema and,
in many cases, to his genuine President saw the colour prob-
He has found work, lem with clear eyes, ccntent,
But
The
Then came the fateful, terrible words:
"The verdict "of the Court
that you shall go to prison for FOUR YEARS."
Yet it has been obvious to us in wife looks nfter the children Southernera condemned him as in Britain that our immigration and does the housework-and traktor to the white race, but
I have a feeling that there laws were creating a situation though they have little they are he was in fact a friend of the will be no more race riots in
the South as he was a friend of all Britain for a long long time. unhappily here that would eventually spell content. trouble and Worse, Under wretched adolescent thug, usual men regardless of their colour existing laws any Colonial sub- ly a Teddy boy, has seen in this or creed. Ject of Britain can arrive in the problem à splendid opportunity United Kingdom and enjoy the for violence and bullying. benefis of the Welfare Slate The worst trouble began tionist. Listen to these words from the moment of landing. Nottingham, a provincial, indus- of s when in 1858 ho was It is not merely a cheap play in city where a large number answering n speech made by on words state that the Afro- of black people were competing Stephen A, Douglas:
Saxon invasion #prend ikea for employment with the whites dark river in flood, One has at a time when many workers only to walk from the splendour were being laid of. After tho of Parliament Square across fighting had broken out Westminster Bridge and within Tory M. P.
for
the
Yet, astonishing an it may scum, Lincoin was a вентела-
Nottingham "While I was at the hotel, to- a few minutes you seem to have journeyed to London to put the day an elderly gentleman called reached the deep South,
ense before the Home Secretary, on me to know whether I was I. A. B. Buller. Admittedly really in favour of producing a the police neled quickly and perfect equality between courageously, nor did they show negroes and white peoplo. raclal discrimination in While I had not proposed to
nny
the
Smiling darkles with their carrying out their unpleasant myself on this occasion to say women and laughing children insk. It does seem on the much on that subject yet as tho give almost a sense of carnival available evidence that in this question was asked me I thought to the eye. If the women's case the black men were badly I would occupy perhaps five costumes were more striking out of hand with the result that minutes in saying something in than elegant at least they were some of the more belligerent regard to it. I will then saY not drab. But month after whiles were threatening re- that I am not, and never have menih the black lide flowed prisals no though they were a been, in favour of bringing unit in some seeftons the white modera version of the Klu- about any way the social and people gave the impression that Klux-Klan.
political equality of the white they, and not the darkies, were
and black races, that I am not, the strangers.
As usual there is no logie in nor ever have been, in favour these affairs. The coloured of making volers or jurors of As the dark sireum grew people complain that they are egrues, ner of qualifying them stronger with the Incoming de elbowed off the sidewalk by to hold office, nor to inter-marry the employment agencies were the whites and sometimes with white people, and I will lled with Afro-Saxons seeking besten up, and the whites say in addition to this that there work. Nor was there any rea- answer that the blacks are in physical difference between son to doubt that they genuinely polluting the cities wherever the while and black races which wanted employment and were they concentrate. This the believa will for ever forbid prepared to work hard, But riots brought shame to us all the two races living together on many employers · refused even and, needless to say, the young terms of social and political to interview the coloured people Teddy boys made the most of equality-and inasmuch as they sent to them.
I want to avoid even a sug-
gestion of bins or oxaggeration, and, therefore, let it be put on record that many thousands of
cannot so live, while they do re- main together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favour of having the superior position assigned to the white race,"
There is 50 much basic black people have found work tolerance in the British charac- and have proved both com ter that Inm certain that public petant and well disciplined. Yet opinion will assert itself. On Thus spoke the realist and their very existence has every hand I have heard nothing romanticist with one voice. Yet lowered the rental value of but the strongest denunciation it must be remembered that at houses in the community where of the louts and builles who the time of his speech he was they have centred As a result started the riots not only in referring to the blacks who bad the small landlord sees his life's Nottingham but in London,
been brought so recently from savings, which he had invested
African in the slave ships. It
man, not the
aur
problem which bounts America
I property, dropping sadly,
In their instinct for happiness was the white Thus there is A situation these dark children of the aun negro, who created the colour which is the fault of no one but have much to give to which bears heavily upon the civilisation. Basically they white landlord. The black courteous, and their good man- to this day and extends oven to stream overflows its banks and ners which I have seen many It may be that Field Marshal the whites have no redress. times in Jamaica and Nassau Smuts had Lincoln's speech in
As 11 community we have bave made some of the rich strict laws against overcrowding white tourists, seer cruda and mind when at Oxford Univer cinemay, thentres and even vulgar by contrast.
Britain.
In every sity
1020, he declared that
in South Africa the whites and
ominbuses, But apparently if possible way we should try to the blacks must live on parallel you own a boarding house you enlarge
the opportunities
can overcrowd it to your heart's these dark children of God.
A British Crossword Puzzle
of
lines: No doubt es an educated man the great Boer General wus bearing in mind that parallel lines move in the same direction but never meet.
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Emptying the air from one side of his own parachuto, Ed- mond manoeuvred himself into Marie-Madeleine's line of fall. She fell into his sille, and as she siithered down the side be grabbed her and hung on until she scrambled up his leg
and grasped tifa shoulders,
FIRST
THINGS
He turned up at the wedding, down the decoratioris, the pelled the bride with rotten eggs, then, in a lost, grand re- ...ture
tried to throw ... himself under the bridal car::
LAST:
What he didn't know was this Statistical note: There are more
up the United States.
his latest invention--a "motion television sets than bathtubs in John Krayolk, 52, conced detector has been taken by a big engineering company, They claim It can prevent air collisions,
Offcials said the government was willing to put five million dollars into developing the de-
TEA TOTALLER::Immigrant
bootlegging де Cookryte Ontario, said: “I don't keepi the liquor for drinking. I uto POLICE RAPPED: A Malartic three large bottles a day for (Quebec) coroner's Jury at tho spleing my tea and sokaing my Inquest on a. prisoner blamed foot. I don't get drunk," just
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Thus in Amerien, and to n much less degree, in Britain there exista this problem which cannot be solved by legislation or science or violence, Bernard Show said that the difference between a Cockney woman and duchess was in the way we treated them. Perhaps in Bri- tain today wo must learn that simple lesson,
In the beginning it was greed that created the colour, prob- lems. The traffic in slaves had only one impulse-to-make moncy out of the dark children of the African sun. It was Lincoln who laid down the human law that America, could not exlat half slave and half. free, Thus he made inevitable the wor of the South against the North.
Today tho problem remains unsolved but Lincoln's words hold good. In Little Rock, and in Landon, there le only one solution tolerance, palience And, understanding.
I had intended to end this. London Letter with that tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln but the news has just come of how the Judge at the Old Bailey had dealt with this crime against civilisation.
Nine youths, all of them the dock and heard the Judge say: "Crimen Buch as these will not be Yet I bear in mind tolerated. 13 Black and tan plaidy (6).
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