THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1959.
When love breaks the barrier..
Mixed marriages in
Britain
this is the
second report in a special
investigation.. an
by
MERRICK
WINN
THE kiss was a fleeting, greeting kiss. He was black, Nigerian, she was sitting, waiting, in the hotel lounge.
er uld not admit it. They said:
They smiled bulls and kissed, and held hands, chattering and love him and his colour didn't happy. She was white.
DAVID AND NADIA LINDUP WITH CHILO
rett, Jamaican writer, admitted
in
he started with doubts.
He married Miss Shella Mc- Liberal candidate for We others did not look, but
Kennn, We sal.
Holborn and St Pancras all right. We ROW thinking, not reading may mare,
1950, at Christmas, and he told and coffee got the skin at it.
the in his Highbury, London, The traffic outside was suddenly
home: –
loud.
arin-
The main in the next chair rald defantly: "Why not? He's a goal as we are.. It's up to them.' But he spilled ash on his trousers and seemed un
Kasy,
matter." This was prejudice.
But others could Ray, as Mrs Shirley, Skyers of Brixton said of the whacking Jamnican she married six years ago: "I love my husband's colon, W's a won
I'm proud of it, derful colour. And the man inside."
is This i more like, This
I will be, later, in per. hops 50 years time, when we have learned tu see, nat black people all the same, but differ int people black.
how
wife's
"1 never noticed my colour, but I did wonder at first Whether she wouldn't wake up tu thock in the mornings.
now I don't the She didn't, about it."
against his blackness. White,
he would have been livid.
We walked around the Rialto area, where most of Liverpool's black people (between 0.000 and pot to publish his name. 10.000) live, and he asked me
ho
He said: "Our marriage tasted this long and it's happy, on IL. We won't run risks with But we don't want a spotlight
even now."
And he sald, remembering:
FIRE!
At home or at work.
the ever present danger
that a little planning
can avoid
A £19 Million Lesson: Give It Air!
By Hugh Riley
horizontal, and Surning products at the bitze and save a further
roco along the roof space spreading fire to areas far from the culbreak,
£10 million loss.
It is estimated that with Eutomatic ro venting the fro These enemies of the fire could have been stopped in the man can bo defeated by first two bays, and soven others automatie ventilation. By would have been saved The opening the roof within seconda chairman, Sir William Lyons, of an outbreak, smoke, un- subscribed to this vlow-he had dre vents installed throughout burned gas, heat and flame are
IT started with a spark from a cutting torch releaset instand of icing forced the reconstructed factory,
-and ended as the most disastrous fire in to fill the building.
In the vented factory there Easy system industrial history. The 342-acre Michigan is no pante; occupants can factory of General Motora was completely. tackle the Are while it is still destroyed.
"The first two years in a mixed The panic
marringe ате the worst. It's the parents, mostly on both
nt
A
pro
Cm-
email; firemen can see and The people responsible for approach the source immediately this technique are Colt Ven.-
lation
Ltd., the only firm in Damage totalled £19 milllon-apart from on arrival.
The explosion hazard from Britnin concerned
with fre collected gas is eliminated; the ventilation. delayed ignition flash does not The Colt fire venting system is losses caused by the break in production,
cannot factory making fire-fighting almost im- occur; high pressuTES
simple And, while the vast
one. Dual-purposo blazed, Bremen stood by and possible.
form; firemen no longer have to ventilators, handling the every- watched-helpless - driven out Air 2000-3000 degrees risk life and limb by smashing day ventilation needs of tho
three holes in the roof.
factory, expands to
embody fusible links by pent-up smoke, gas, heat and Fahrenheit firme.
thnes Its normál volume. This And because the fire sources which cause thom lo By open Yel tho works,
Conces only creates pressure which
can be seen, only a twentieth of automatically when the tem- all old. were soaring heat into four
abrous the water damage yours
degrees occurs com- pemature reaches 158 of in malerfils, drives out moisture, pared with the blind eositing of Fahrenheit.
They and
CONTI instantly ignites
a smoke-lled buliding.
This development is Important. buil: almost entirely
One breath
Most of this wah proved t our economy. There complied with building and in- bustible matter. combustible materials. surance regulations, but lacked causes internal burns and death, again in the unfortunato Jaguar 60,000 faclories in Britain
Carbon monoxide released fro in 1957, where dense smoke playing more than ning people planned fire ventilation,
in large quantities during the made re-fighting almost in sach Brigades attend 45,000 în.. early stages of a fire, dorms possible until exploding acety-dustrial diren a year. The annual good.
0153 explosive reservoir These marriages are
iene cylinders blew a hole in the loss runs into many millions. should be,
retained in the building, and root and cleared the building, This is how they
It is a bill which the country · Into later bursts
flare en enabling firemen to see and get eau 1 afford and very often are.
sides. They get resigned when Ventilating a fire may seem
and But this
inced the frat baby comes," should be
paradoxial to the layman, right- Eulling the entire faclery
on adjoin- motive for fle has two boys and they believing that if fire breaks showering debris
sive in the white suburbs. The out in his home all doors where mixed
anding property. martying are not
but the windows, except those used for This is more diflet. When triages have been mixing tur adult, and the risks are greater garden walls are low
barriers go up to the sky. They and in than in other morringes. you look into love, hate gets mast of this century;
i have never spoken to their starve the fire of air. world. where white have to be the Jazz Stirred up. You
But the reverse is true in music and
factories Now here is a question, a single-storey
where This baa careful. And when I asked the and black mix in
been proved by Britain, a sometimes in love.
delicate question, which all the larger
tragic examples. compartments and many got no real
in South
The different same has to be faced.
rule addition, carbon monoxide is construction I weal lot horna London where there is music
Nigerian
came into the hotel out air starvation, The pro a deadly poison,
white ducts
have to of fre and love and a baby just born,
lounge-and kissed the
these buildings the rer mixed marringe, with
firemer to I to allow
geo and approach the souror.
the The worst enemies of
are anoke, ex fire-fighter
unburned panding
Kas, causing all nir, delayed Ignition, heat
Bu! No reason, Why not? why? When there were plenty of her own colour around. Why do while nnd black have to fall in love?
question all over sidelong ways, wiswer.
I
middle aged, with six cherries in her
A Cardif Wornun
hak, said: "1 married black 15 years ago, and I'd do it again. Love is love. You can't explain 11. Skins don't matter.
Her beauty
This is how it is already It Sometimes the
Card and Liverpool,
the humbistic white.
He is David Lindup, 3-year old composer and arranger for
J
escape, should be cloood to Total loss
neighbours after six years. No failure
1
be
Ia
When nir supply is short of requirement the temperature of combustibies can still rac above ignition point. Opening a of un-vented door after hours
adds
oxygen, amoukiering
overheated com-
I spent an uneasy evening in Manchester home where everything was perfect, includ- ing ideals. He was West Indian, girl. And people were uneasy. vented from
She, a former a gentle man.
Why? This is important. htt Jezeber.
strong "social went to the consultant psychla- views, too strong,
triet of a London teaching hos- It was a do-good marriage.
"If we believe the black man Johnny Bankworth, the band met others like it, built on pre- Dital, and he told me this:- She was wrong. Love is not leader. His wife, Nudia, comes judice turned
upside down is primitive and savage then he Jusl
no For when a woman curries out becomes love. There are reasons from British Honduras, and
nerrar know only prejudice could! deny her
of her own culture, rebelliously, primitive, forbidden wishes. always, though we sume of them, and some of us beauty. Look at her picture.
"We see in him what is really in fur "good" motives, there is none of them. And she was
Against both her in ourselves and we dare not vision, creating panic, hiding ing upwards, prejudice. wrong again. Skins do matter.
husband and her own kind. sometimes, or they ought to.
Your taste
can
They met in March last year, moried in Juec, and for them, familiar with mixing, okIns were unimportant, though cer- tainly they liked the look of one another,
&
for
ndmit to. Hence our embarrass-
the
THE
CAUSES
7
A leaflet issued by the Phoenix Assurance Company gives this breakdown (in per- centages) of the causes of fires in Britain:
• Fire in grate or slow combustion stova igniting furnishings or other materials
and busilbles to flash into flame at Chimney on fire, soot, sparks,
21.6
Nemo. Our
once. This usually
speils total
Smoke
Can fil a bullding loss. two minutes, destroying
ashes
14.6
When heat and frame, rear-
SOLIDC of the
dre
nad
the roof, their, flow changes to
ace stopped by Fire in structural timber under the
hearth
-7.8
•
Electric cable or wire, cooker, heaters radiator, radio, TV, iron, refrigerator motor or
*other
apparatus
18.2
FIVE WAYS TO SAFETY
All the same, i found no ment."
But it will come right later, inized marriage of the educated
when Koes, sort which has seriously failed. when prejudice Perhaps this is partly because black and white come to see the flay dare not fail; because to grey in one another. When we fall is to be proved wrong sud stop wondering why white and
black fall in love, knowing the THAT is the most
1-Cicanliness. Never have to succeed in answer. So they seem
und spite of the stares
common cause of rubbish or litter about the place. the people. ordinary audges, and the leery whisper-
fire-any sort of fire-in Dispose of it regularly. We hardly int and perhaps because of
2-Have checks made of elec- the home? differencer them too. Because these
trical fittings. Make certain they
We
When a mixed couple fall in
Nadia Lindup suid: "Neither love, quickly, skins hove some- thing to do with it. And why of us dreamed we'd ever marry humallinted.
white not? Black and
out of our own race, But altract one another, honestly. mel and it happened.
Res
So, hair is beatiful.
"We were just depending on your taste, are imple in love.
come Krey eyes, long logs, bumptions noticed our busom, freckles, a dotty, turned- even at Brst. Now
be do" Black skins can in nose. beautiful too. And bluck faces
and bodies and bands.
an
Because
WH
are they
We never couples suffer for one another. NEXT SATURDAY:
inet in Liverpool an Ameri-
I found everywhere that the can Negro who murried his The children of
diference, Welsh wife 12 years ago and
: watchess uf colour
been through it all. His mixed marriages
It is important to know this, as a disturbing factor, always has Yet even some of the white csappears ones a couple knew rys are scared, was wounded, wives 1 met did not know it, or each other. Though Alvin Ben- but the starring does not show
(London Express Service).
'SCIENCE SERVES PEACE BY MAKING WAR HORRIBLE'
Boston, Mass.
MAJOR GENERAL plate
top
Kendall, a Mr F. H.
tho exoculive
Phoenix Ansurance Company gives succinct, one-word reply *Carelessnes9.
• Gas cooker, radiator, ring, poker or other applianco
are installed and maintained by Oil stove, blow lamp, lamps and
a professional electrician. When possible, always switch off at the mains.
"It is true that people have 3.-Make sure heating systems become more fire conscious, and are properly guarded. This is that the standard of our fire particularly important for port- brigades la better. There is more able appliances which can be central heating and fewer open knocked, or fall, uver. fres. On the industrial side, more of the bigger drms now have their own brigades,
thai Devise substances
The rules
balance these things, **To contem- them at the United States. dictator could
"Encourage
to will stifte an enemy's will to however, today's buildings your people
are risking. another
submit Ideas to us no matter night and decide how best to less substantial. Open Plan how 'out of this world' they use them.
design means that fire spreads may seem," the general pleaded. He then outlined briefly, the
Chemical Corps
"blue
has Behing programme," which
attack."
Find
men
and
Ways to mako "Impervious to bacteriological
more easily.
inflammable
4. Guard materials and liquids.
5.Make certain you fully covered by insurance,
On this last point, Mr Kendall- said that many people buy a new or washing machine, but forget to adjust their insurances to cover It. Consequently, in the event of fire damage, they have. no claim.
The Are brigades answer more than 25,000 calls
every your," said Mr Kendall. "Even
MARSHALL STUBBS, holocaust.
He made un the United States army's
urgent plea to
"We try to come
the in at chief chemical officer, has them to keep the United States toll scientists in a "closed. ahead of the Soviet Union in Army
planning stage of new buildings. We advise, and. If our the development of "chemical sty
sug- dour conference with the and bacteriological weapons." been developed to "stimulate chemical
gestions are heeded it will not only mean a smaller risk of fire, American-Chemical Society. During the meeting he also imaginative. Thinking on that they could best serve asked the chemists to develop chemical and uncteriologien de led by the fare advantage of the close of the fine was
many cases, beyond the terift'?" fur programme
protecting warfare."
Develop more adequate lower profums."
•
For the ordinary flat or house control, it was his own fault it General Stubbs declared the and rapid early-warning systems
the Five ho was not insured against his dweller, what are and chemicals in
of the "blue that will detect such uttacks." the three main aims
losses," enemyring=aky-project:lexpress/Serol Golden Ralpader dre protection?
Mr Kendali says:
-(London Biprese Service.).
Д
the cause of peace by this country against lethal making war so horrible that
germs
To one not-even #mad-event-of-n
FLK
FIRLE
"All right now," which one of you heroes guided that ruddy grant racket
London Expiras" Ser
Moon call
from here to America
other appliances
Smoking materials
• Matches, candles, taper-lighters, 'papor or sticks
• Children playing with these Lightning, sun's rays
• Fireworks, explosives
• Other miscellaneous causes and "unknown"
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• BY. THE. WAY .
by Beachcomber
OFTEN. think ODO might compass. Can dispirited human-
ty wish for more?
do worse
Than start the work with
"simple Verse,
And
so these notes,
time to time,
from
-sewwawak=kadina
He lives in a house with large
When Ured of prose, fall back French widows looking on to a
on rhyme.
It is a very cary way (When you have nothing much (o say)
Of covering, at a rapid pace, A portion of the allotted space, 'Ere you can ray Jack Robinson The opening paragraph is done." The magic pen
parden.
(Glowly, column)
❝MESDAMES," says he to
· the massive throng, "lt ons or two of you would move I could see the lawns Don't crowd. You spoll the view,"
"If," says Odette, "you would rather look at the lawns than et us, it is time we went bdele' to a country where the men are NOTICING a boy with an more gallant, Come Solanget oncemous fountain pen, a Adrienne, Dominique, Jeanne, history master Jacqueline, Athenais coma ali watched closely. Though the of you. We pack our bags, boy appeared to be taking छ०
~~(London Express Service), notes he frequently refilled hla pen from Jarge ink-bott
his desk. Further
Narkover
PROFESSOR Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell under
research revealed a tumbler,
moon
the
Bank, will shortly use Britain's giant radio- also under the desk. Every Ume telescope to send signals to America via the the boy fled the huge pen, ho
emptied it at once into The ultra-high-frequency radar signals tumbler. The master took the will be "bounced" off the moon's surface and bottle, which bore the label Red Ink. But beneath this fabol, "caught" again with special receiver somewhere in which was peeling off, were the the United States.
words Cos d'Estournel The master, recognising a wound Professor Lovell will use paratively free from inter-Medoc, confiscated the bottle. Д special high-powered ference. transmitter built by Marcont "But we must know more Joys to come`
about the moon's qualities TF. 25 seems to be generally admitted, stercophonie noise Dr. E. Eastwood of the as a reflector. The dis Marconi company explained: advantage of the method is a fun, what price atercopbanle aromavision. Imagine the ox- that it would only becitement of sitting in front of a A Disadvantage possible to Bend auch television servom ond not only "The idea of sending messagus during periods having the voices thrown at you messages across the world when the moon was in the from back, front, and both sides via the moon is attractive correct position from earth of the room, and from fiper and celling, but also receiving amolla. because they would be com
-London Express service), from every point of the
Ltd.
4
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
Here is a position from actual play: White to move kid win, London- Expédia Kervice.