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TALKING POINTS
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1959.
The Cummings GUIDE
TO THE PARTIES
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Mrs. Pullman-Jones, Tory candidate for Stuffington Spa, takes you on a tour of the Tory beauty spots
Education is really broad and butter to citizenship.
--DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
Some TV programmes are much chewing-gum for the eyes,
JOHN MASON BROWN.
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Conduct lies in musterful administration of the un-
foreseen.
-ROBERT BRIDGES,
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their
Most people. Bell souls and live with good conscience on the proceeds. -LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH.
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The time to start taking care of yourself is before you need it.
MITZI GAYNOR.
-(London Express Service).
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"Remember, Tory ranks are solid--none of those endless splits and resignations that Socialist
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"The Transport Minister in doing splendidly! Why, on a fine Bank Holiday you can get to Brighton almost as quickly as did the Prince Regent in his coach in 1810)*
"How
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Tory
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education ? We've country
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EXPANSION: a lesson from the heart of Africa
UNTIL General Gor-
don's last months at Khartum, before he fell to the Dervishes, the
by GEORGE HUTCHINSON
British people Were Darfur, Sennar-and once the hunting ground of the Egypilan
scarcely aware of the slave faiders? Sudan.
DUST
1
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Covering nearly
"Before The agricultural was started in the scheme Gezira the land was owned by the iccal inhabitants and, owing million to the scanty rainfall, which square miles, aquarter of the averaged 15in, the highest rent oren of Europe, the Sudan is a was two shillings per acre per mixture of two great worlds, the year. African and the Arab. It is not just of one or the other it is of both.
are
now
Nor did the British Govern- meni of the day show any treat understanding of the country. It was a Gladstore: Government, amkiing md irresolute.
With Gordon's death the Sudan really struck the national
To generalise rather roughly, corousness theme. "The Arau and Mosiem in the North, avenging of Gordon" became a Negrold and pagan in the South.
English Jo in
they number heart.
approaching 11,000,000. All this seems very dinant. frun the modern jur away world, for these events belog to a time that wa massively unlike the present. Yet there must be some old people who remember thun for they hap- gened just under 75 years ago,
During the intervening three- quarters of
eentury. the as on Angk Sudas, governed Egyptian condominium, Brund
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Extremes
+
and later
the
LIBYA
EGYPT
Arwan Dami
Wadi Halla
JORDAN:
Port Sudan
Albarn
Khartoum
THE SUDAN
FRENCH
EQUATORIAL
AFRICA
DE MIə:$300
ETHIOPIA
The Sudan is a mixturo
of two great worlds, the
African and the Arab.
"When irrigation was intro-
"It is a middle course between duced, first by pumping schemes
the construction of expropriation and the full re- Semur dam, the Govern-gion of the Liberties of the ment registered the fand in the proprietors." names of the original owners From the Sudan comes most they were running at much the and compulsorily rented it, as
--85 per cent of the gum same ratej came under the scheme, at the arabie used in the world. Other This is a valuable exchange of highest pre-irrigation rates.
products are, groundnuts, dates, trade and it is one of great and skins. mahogany, promise for the future. "The Government also res- hkdes tricted the sale of land to the chillies, mother of poort shell,
As new Industries are estab- hvory, gold. country local inhabitants of the arca
Ished in the Sudan, hล ปา standard of living rises, there of extremes-in eliminte, soil, and to the state, and Axed the After maximum number of acres
Is every reason to expect an vegetation, ways of e.
could be bought by any ell it cuts 1,300 miles down into which
expansion of trade. frem the one individual. the heart of Africa
Then the land divided into plote of 40 Britain is the Sudan's best Froe tradu, qualified only by 22nd parallel to three degrees was
restrictions on seres, and these were allotted customer. Imports to the United temporary above the Equator.
10 the inhabitants os tenant Kingdom from the Sudan lust imports for such purposes as
£13.274,043, saving foreign. cultivators.
In the first seven months of this certainly one of the policies of
or they were well up to
the Abboud Government. £11,051,095.
Physically, this is n
Directly or indirectly, every itself a sort of colony, but with body in the Sudan stiti depends
upon agriculture, two masters instead of one.
Itt
but
Imports up
+
year were worth
exchange,
power
is
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THE CERTAIN SMILE
on the face of a girl who has
made a cool
fortune writing on...
UNHAPPY
LOVE
AUTHOR BAGAN
ONCE again Pago Four gels a fascinating personality to talk candidly...this time a girl who at the age of just 24 has gained great staturo as a writer of hor time, and who has just had a new book published.
recorded in Hor thoughts were
Paris by JOHN CRUESEMANN..........
yet they cons
And
women.
still bo
Whereas men have to do the Jobs they have always done and also prove their culinity.
I
mas- un-
It is all very fortunate for the Male Animal. like men 10. behayo like men. I like them to be strong and-yes-childish, Why not? And I like them to be safe and -Intelligent, I like a man to But not to protect me. iccup me on a lead.
Of all the things which I consider desirable- love, admiration, respect, esteem-it is love which
by FRANCOISE SAGAN
HO JM WE< p van pa ba na pár mest väl farm van dan par Máy bay sa nám thÓ KÁROS
(which frankly appals me)
IRLS are fully grown ply because people continus long for the most Gat 15, often before to like reading my books. But best
me: I are tolerant and
will tell you what I feel is
And
Never later than are they very good books?
Most certainly I don't think very self-controlled. 16. A girl's attitude as i am a typical girl of any time have a good character.
-heaven forbid.
"Original Jandowners were given priority in the allotment
tentancies for duveloping their cotton of
themselves, The Egyptian partnership was
In this, General Abboud dis- Sudanese have had their familles more nominal than real from the output the
who and those
The Sudanese, for their part, plays the moderation which has actions start, however. Brilish authority the advantage of the Gezira used to share cultivation with buy more from us than they distinguished all his
them on their lands,
no do from anyone, else. Last year since he
to came was parem.cunt, and after 1824 scheme, suuth of Khartum.
orders were Jandowner was allowed to have their the Egyptians had no say in
worth months ago after one of the then. administering the country. For a description of it, I quote more than two tenaneles in one £14,716,209 to British expuricas, most peaceful coups in history.
and a distinguished Sudanese, Mr name....
In the first half of his your
-(London Express Service). Today, after many ups downs, the Sudan is a republic Mekki Abbas
of proud
Its political In-
"The of
lessons which Its dependence.
growing
provides for Influence in Africa, and of the Gezira respect which it has gained developed areas," he has written, abroad.
"centre upon the problem of What sent of
the
under-
and the tempo It like, this wild land, lind old kingdoms--Nubla, expansion.
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PUTTING
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That is the theory of a Surrey doctor, who has success- fully tried his "Stone Age" diet on four patients.
The four cases had "func- tions" disorders of 2 kind
only normally treated psychiatrists
'Unmanageable
has solved 'mystery' ills
The
of Science
World
by
By Peter Fairley
paychosomatic
a woman is fixed then.
This is a fact of my life which will never change yet it is one to which the world has rever become eccustomed.
I cannot pretend I have any solution to offer to this eternal problem.
Why must people be forever seeking symbols anyway?
There are some, who think I am crazy. But I am not
crazy think, Still, the way they
suppose I am difcult.
Glory
I
But then on the other side of
terribly the penny I does
Lawy mud pen orally rather indifferent. And then again I can
ROVET
I respect conventions in so make up my mind to do what
In fact I expect that when far as respecting them will bores me. Like before my mar-“ my daughter is 16-end I mean compleate e the loss. Fer ringe telling a boy friend I was to have children--I shall buy instance i don't roll under the through with him,
her a doll for her birthday het table in night clubs because I am afraid I became very like 'other mothers tend to do. then I would only have to get bad of answering the telephone
up again.
Like sneezing
When Tristesc"
I wrote "Bonjour
my parents were
But how I detest people who for no apparent reason except their own stupidity, set them selves up as judges of morality.
Men
to waste large quantities of the most surprised. I was 10.
1 suppose parents aro always residuo they call "pot ale." At best, they dried it for use as a berg
their "priset" by fertiliser.
children. But, you ere, in my Those who can look on fe Now a firm of Scottish 31- casu there was reason. I had altogether without fear seem to liers has adapted an American just failed my examinations, be capookally frightening. Idea of turning it into syrup, They thought I was good for loathe people who icet, sude rich in vitamin B, and feeding notting.
it to poultry and pigs.
Like most other parents I And it seems the animals like think they understand some The loft-overs as much as part of me but not all, humans like whisky,,
Geiger check
Опе woman hod severe stomach poli; one bay nzod auven, hat, kapornia and was
liness today,". Bolenusta believe that reiger One wmanageable at borne.
counters may become widely 30-year-old man had dizziness, the doctor reports
Psychiatrists have persistent- used to detect early signs of sickness and travelled badly. ly claimed that they have the cancer. Another, aged 37, was con- pret, but somehow they have stantly red and overfat.
Then came the "Stone Ago."
he can to.
Longing
and
ziluations
A3
When you write you are al- ways lonely. Characters Doctors at the US. National All were miserably l, yet fallod to give the GP a solution Institute of Health have found case to me as naturally
that an antiblote drug called sneezing. I started "Bonjour apparently none had knything
"Why should -much · illness touracycline Doncentrates in Tristesse" as a serial read to physically wrong.
not. boa, manifestation of rapidly growing cells such as my friends, chapter by chapter,
thepo to
synthetic cancer tumours.
That was five years Ago. It meant culling out all allergy.
By bombarding” the drug Since then I have had three |caronis, alt laned, processed chemicals which we are caling
with a light dose of atomie rays other novels published. I have and frozen foods and eating more and more?
tho Slone Age before injecting it, the concen- made a lot, but I don't under-" only the "basic" foods, such us believe
money. But it is very meat, baton, curas, milk, fruit, elimination, let to be a means trations can be found by moving stand
not only of answering this gelger counters over the outside handy, lea and coffee.
become famous 1 question, but also of "giving of the body, m
Before I rallel to thousands of people · "Teats on animals have proved longed to bo successful. Now
Within a few days, the doctor' In this way."-
Pe cannot be used on humans until write, good books, reports, each patient was foci- A word of warning,Can the US. Food and Drug Ad-
"But I have no certainties Trus and looking better. And, malt your doctor fast, before ministration has approved the about my success. It is, I think
the improvement, has continuod dieting. except when báo of them, haspagne, caten one of the dools to which Pig whisky
Looking better whoop health has been affected, successful. But the tochnique I am famous I simply long to
The is allergie.
"Many theories have been
thought for
then
I just proké dates. Simply because I write books about unhappy love does not mean that I live in a perpetual stoic of misery. There moments of supreme happiness for me
when just to exist is sheer glary.
are
My greatest ambition is to own a house with lots of large rooms. I want 1 anchor, security, and a refuge, I am not themselves, I am never sure of afraid to dle, but whenever. I myself.
more
eatch cold 1 Immediately' get anxious.
I feel sorry for men-they have
than problems
I take life the way it comes. Women. In the first place they look forward to the "future have to compete with women gally, for I am gay though_not" .I mean nowadays, women moceanrily tuppy. And I looks have the right to do virtually forward without worry.
-London Express Service. everything which men can do.
Toronto.
THOUSANDS of inquiries from Americans wanting to live in Canada have prompted the Canadian Government to open inihilatsion offices in Los Angelos and Biinnespella, “We don't know what started it-aniom the Yanks are at last realising which is the best side of the border to live on, sald the Xinmigra- tion Department in Otlaws.
I understand that the Amert- 99 per cent due to the fact that
CRICKETER Ron Burnet, captain of Yorkshire, 1980 champion cen team is hopeful that, remehow I "fell" in the eight
Woounty, and Donald Carr, captain, of The Beatment rearch into the technique may time; the other 10 por cent in
opponit at the Oval-bumped into a' brunotto sa they entered whisky, lead & better ware of treating possible literary marit
The books are beat vellers in | = West End hotel for k celebration dinner the older,night. "Not put forward to account for the drinkers.
deriver. But they still have ä Increase in the
many parts of the world ant: I. bad," said Carr, "Bhs ought not to be," said Barnet, "That's number, Fol" in the past, to mako ~each long way to ko."
Que Lollobrigida."—London Express Servicos, bave survived my own "legend" Sand stram, the distillers " have thad
patients with
..
London Express Betolen),