THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1960.
The laughing politician of Africa
DONT under-estimate the power
melody.
throng
the nt
by
DINAH SHORE SINGS
THE TUNE TIPPED AS
ANOTHER HARRY LIME"
NANCY SPAIN
technicians
gang of delightful with names like Tlokor and Mannie and Joe and Fred) to put on a tape recording.
And the voice of Dinah Shore, cleur as a belli, clean as newly- ironed laundry, and American as little bit of Coca Cola, subdued the very French clattering lunch-time in the Bois de Boulogne with
of popular song —or popular
London.
Bastilles have fallen, men have the mass of earnest endeavour that makes up the ranks of African marched to war, political campaigns, FROM
Cannes Film Josh Logán says that until he maybe just o politicians Julius Nyerere is distinguishable at a glance-by his laugh.have been won, by a little
tune. (Think of the Festival has been top hit on heard Dinah sing "Hello Young glamour added in. For example, Where others find the fashioning of new nations serious to the point
A fleeting visit to America-the 1") he had never really listened bit of corn, "I Love Paris," and of fanaticism Julius Nyerere will occasionally stand aside, look at the situa- "Marseillaise," "Pack Up every disc programme in Europe. Intervene King and with Paris 1 start with e real Your Troubles," "Tip- Americans adopted it to. Now to the words before. "Don't ask then afterwards I go right into tion impersonally and, if there is one, see the funny side."
behind, but me to sing it, please," Dinal that number, that's been on my perary, ""Dixie" if you only Britain s
because of N. Spain, I told me. "It always makes ne nerves all over Europe. Listen,
It's real great...." And she His own position must appral
doubt me). With at frony,
began to hum it..
to his sense
le of the fervent sprech- making
ardent banner- and waring and none of the blood- shed that has marked the emer- tiny new African gence of slates, Nyerere has fashioned a new nation--in live years,
ver's
Five was an old-fashlined proteolin- rte with a white governal.
ago Tanganyika
It
As from this math it has de- mostatic governuwal. The party
is Tanganye' power
The thie, African National man at the heart of that party is Julius Nyerere, the new Chief Minister.
It has a happened so snoolly 1y, so easily, withoul batterien <, Benise Judin Nyerere is not a bitter man.
He does not dwell in the past He gives ills of colonial rule
the impresion that he is wh joyed learning the peltient game from Britain and will enjoy all
the more swing them baw should be played.
i!
There will be shiverimatas tion agamist white minorities
in the new Tangan "ka.
Posterity
Mr Nyororo made his clear us
soon the new
had been announced,
stitialis n
Eth
the
his follow-Africans in
Legislative Cormek
" it to be said by posterity that we were a bunch of 20- Let not the world polai crites.
a Boger at us and say that we gained our freedom on a moral argament—the argument of the brotherhood of man-and then overboard threw the argument and began
ourselves to dis-
ariminate against our brothers on the ground of their colour."
These words can help shape the future of the world.
They underline the tuct that although Julius Nyerere has a tanse of humour he does not underestimate the size or the Imeaning of his task.
"He realises it mare than must, with the statesammlike quality of seeing vist isties in gimple terms he has arssped this funcia mental fact: that like any other new nation Tanganyika has the cimnce of a Hellme--the chance fined to start tresh.
He will
id
By
Simon Kavanaugh
NYERERE-A sense of humour....
And inst winter I saw the "rough cut" of a film which had us background sic haunting melody by
a Greek, Manos Hadjidakis, played on a wlerd,
Instrument twangling called a bouzoukia. He is the Grat bouzouki-er (or ist) lo make a Jorkune.
1
TOP HIT
not
assure you.
Every now and then I seek the recording nut my friends સ
com- nagers of the record panies and in my hoarse tile voice try to skg it to them. Somehow Inil
I
10 register. Right.
Recently 1 lunched with Dinah Shore. Empress of the TV and recording artist assoluta of the U.S.A.
I went mid about the Dimancha Hen
Jamaly
ubout ย1 particularly
the muisse. I remember saying to Jules Dassin, whose movie this Is: "You'l sec. That damned tune will have the same effect
Line on people as the Hurry Theine. And for the reasons. Once you hear it you
GOOD REASON
For 10 years, every week of her life, her live TV show has been a "must" for the coast- to-const millions. (You, who
My Line? consider "What's
It's true. It not only makes Dinah break down, but it has her audience sobbing heavily as She actually listens to, well. and minds about, the words.
Dinah (who got her first name at her first audition when she "Dinob. is there anyone sang Aner in the State of Carolina"
as it had never boan heard before), arrived in Paris from Lisboa, Madrid. Copettlingen, and Granada. She has been filming sequences in colour for her/V show.
a
Her intention for Paris-to do pleally "French" bit in is Hales, on the river boats, in the Bois de Boulogne.
Enfants du Piren."
It was my dear old friend, "Les Entants du Piree" again with just a little bli added
Larue, because Dinah Shore was sing- ing it.
TICKER
MY HOPE
The words this time were French. Up until now I have always heard them in Greek. They are banal in the extreme hope I don't offend Mr J. the Frenchman who wrote them, when I say so), but the effect on that
over- sophistica (d little crowd was quite extraordinary. It was not
We were sitting in eae of" so much that they burst into tears. (They, didn't). It was the famous restaurants in the
simply that for the rest of the Bois de Boulogne, under the
ufternoon cameraisen, sound chestnut treeR, which are al-
men, directors, producers, ward- ready heavy with green, spĺky,
robe
went woman, call girl furry nuts. It was the hottest
around humming and clapping day of the year so far.
this devastating fille tune. and generally living in time to
cafnemen, same
' get it out of your mind." Since the day when "Les Ealan's du Piree" (which is The title of the weird lune) first thwacked the ears
of the
had a long run, think of that.)
There is a very good reason for Dinah's success. She can extract more out of the words of a song than any living artist.
"And when you are doing something for Joe Pubile," she told me, it must all be exactly is the public expects, with
The
restaurant had been (somewhat loosely) transformed into a can- teen so that the 200-odd exirus, electricians, and what-have-you could have a sit- down lunch with red wine and chicken.
And Dinah asked Ticker (all American stars travel with
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I warn you. Some time next month you are going to hear it as well. I hope you, like it. And that oné British recording house has the sense to issue Its own version instead of an American or French one.
Goodbye to the St Bernards
Those legendary heroes of the Alps, the St. Bernard dogs, ore retiring from service.
A reporting team writes them an affectionate farewell
and answers the burning question: What do the St. Bernards carry in those famous casks?
Switzerland.
WHAT'S really in those barrels the St Bernard
dogs wear around their necks?
[brandy? Rum? Or black coffee?
We were on a
Is it five-star
By Jhan and June Robbins
The
side of the traf! drops away steeply, threa- tening disaster and death to all who misstep.
We stumbled on the answer fingers at us. At noon we came
to a halt at the wooden gates snowstorms. not long ago. writing assigament is, the Alps that marked the Swiss border. when we learned that the St We knew that the Hospice was Bernard Hospice, life-saving half a mile ahead on the st station for bizzard swept sharply rising rund. We slipped travellers for 1,000 yours, was out of the Jeep and waded for-
ward into waist-deep snow. about to close,
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Warning
buried An
adopted the symbol to publicise to the deep, ΠΟΥ their products, Cartooniste fol- snow. We dug it out. The But as wa lowed them. It has caused use storm had stopped. good deal of, embarrasinent, 1 chugged slowly back down the world the mountains we felt depressed. Yet for years, shepherds, pil- teg you, tell the
The image of the big dog with grims to Rome, soldiers of for- truth # tune, coffee and cigarette smug-
W. the We promised to do so.
ridiculous little wooden glers
braved the ass, bade the monk have
goodbye, and cask had been very dear to us The Swiss and Italian govern-
Bernards, "Now for the dogs!" we said counting on the St all-
made our way down the slope We were 2oing to miss him. ments arc digging weather tunnel under the noun happily. Wind shrieked through The breed is the result of a de- Sleet burned Our liberate cross between a bulldog. tain crest. When it's completed the Pass.
and Pyrenees sheepdog Snow, wet and heavy, a will be obsolete faces. the Hospice
around Us. Clinging a lurge species of mastiff. and the rescue services of its piled
listened for on- and monks
Cogs no longer Together, we
coming barks. We were tired, next needed.
cold and hungry. We told each ether that whatever was i those barrels would taste good.
This claborate cross-breeding We slogged up the road to meet them and stumbled into the produced a dog peculiarly adapt front yard of the Hospice with out any help at all!
A fall monk, His cowl pulled forward against the biting wind, "Why didn't you send the cons?" we panted reproachfully.
"You're off schedule," he ex- plained,
"Most people get lost at night. We send out the res-. cue patrols
the In
early
Quickly
came to meet us.
ganyika National Union, insti- reasonable manner. The gating people to make false ac step for Tanganyika is complete cusations against the party and independence but Nyerere does dismissing Sub-chief A
for not embarrass the British refusing to give fulse evidence Government or his cause by set- against the party.
ling an arbitrary dateline,
We had to uct quickly or we 1 do not want independence night never
learn the truth He was charged with criminal until we are ready for it,"
casics. he about those sibel. He was found guilty and declares. His own estimate on toward the Great
We sped St Bernard £15. The magistrate this ly about four or five years. Pass in a stubby yellow Jeep that s
lender of a
What brings about
continuous hairpin turns. that up a road that ascends 6,500 feet As we climbed, the tempera-
Akea ture dropped sharply.
Curtain of solid white showed us where the snow line began,
In 1957 Nyerere
The influence of Lord Twin-We stopped briefly at the en- morning," was banned
trance at the tunnel project to ing deserves prominent mention.put on chains. We told the from holding two meetings in
Governur of
Tanganyika Dar-es-Salaam because of Lord Twining created the utmos un our way to be rescued by St "infummatory nature of previ-
phere of tolerance which allow- nus speeches.
ed Nyerere lo develop his Bernard dogs. The previous year he had philosophy and grow in political called upon the British Govern- stature, mont for a clear statement that There is his educational back. to be in the Paradoxically, he has to ad- Tanganyika would become a de- ground-Catholic Mission
publication
Tolerance
ay with a chuckle Nationalist Movement Nyerere titude of reableness, rare in that Britain cannot talk about had a personal interest in draw- politeians of any colour? freedom without some em ing Government Sttentolt to He says Dut the alleged maladministration, but barrassment.
America, and the extent of the same goes for Hassia, and now Cbana,
was nal Justified, Nations starting from scratch, ke Tanganyika, have no en- barrassing history! Julius Nyerere is determined that there shall never be ony.
which
Influences
As
States: humour.
In the
workmen that we were
and
"You won't get up that far," "You have une man assured us,
Pass self the quality
Better lor the dogs,
Invitation
Be-
climate,
r
ed to its job. It can smell out a last traveller umile and half away or a vielim buried beneath 10 feet of snow. The dogs give warning of storm and avalanche
by howling whining and rest- jess prowling. The monk's promptly turn them loose, singly teams, to search for and In fallen travellers.
Dogs attached to the Hospice are credited with saving 2,000 lives. Once a group of monks und doga guiding 20 through the Pass was avalanche. trapped by a huge Two dogs
men
the rumour
on patrel smelled He invited us to lunch.
them out. Monke and dogs cause of the rigorous
dug all night by torchlight and, Augustinian monka
who in the morning, brought out the are excused victims-all alive. man the hospice from the usual frugal mongstle tum back!"
fure. We ale soup, bread, stew, But stories like this will soon mit that the Imperial Germans mocratie State. This year he on to Edinburgh University. "Pooh!" we exclaimed grand- sulod and fruit pudding.
puss into history. The stamped a unity lato Tanganyika told the 14-nation Congress of Finally there is his sense of
"For a little bit of snow? The Pass itself is one of the monk conarmed Will spare hing the Independent. African
turmoil that ly.
most unfriendly spots on the that the Hospice 13 running worries of inter-tribal susplelon The British Government can- stik facts the African continent like Us? St Bernarda or busi!" that beget other Afrlenn leiders, not yeta our unity if we want li could be that the Nyerere And we pressed on.
earth's surface. It is anowed in out of rescues, and the monks Influences it."
chuckle will
Jeep Certain disruptive
be a bigger in-
and often 30 feet deep, 10 months of are already departing by twos Bluence than the Nkrumah swerved, bucking through'drifts, the year. More than any other and threes. remain, Nyerere does not re-
visited After lunch we
the dence wille gloom lae route across the Alps it is sub- of brand But Nyerere makes the most Lumumba
signs
the warning. Ject to sudden avalanches and kennels. We intends to stamp out ruthlessly insistent demands in the most nationalism.
were given shook
sniff-test by
yellow Barry, bribery and
in corruption
and white monster standing 30 chic n the shoulder and weighing 175 poinds. He leaped
gard these with a smile.
official circles.
He
This takes in tribal chlets.
is
"There might have been reason in the past for them to expect gifts," says Nyerere. "but highly improper, for them in ex- peet or encourage the habit 10- day when they have salaries. People who give gifts expect Lavours iri return, whicht amounts to bribery."
The wind of change blows also for the 80,000 red ochre-painted Masal Lon-hunters living in Northern Tanganyika, Looking. no ever, to the future Nyerere' re- fuses to be held back by senti- inent and to let the Masaj carry on thekk traditional. primlive, 1150.
He retorts to criticism with: "Some Europeans want to turn the Masul steppe into a human zoo and join it on National Game Park."
to the
Will Nyerere continue to hold the support of Tanganyiko's nine million Africans or will they re- to the gard him as pandering interests of the 25.000 Euro- peans of whom only 4,000 are permanent settlera?
Two years ago he showed that he would not shirk from draw- ing the attention of the coloniai authorities to ali alleged irre-t gularities in administraïlon.
He published an article in kls party newspaper accusing the diatriot commisioner of Songea of closing a branch of the Tan-
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Our
fervent in the
rood
MONDAY SPOTLIGHT by Cummings
Commiss
Beat the West
by peaceful
Penetration!
skidded
MAO BEAT THE WEST
BY NUCLEAR WAR
"I don't know what affect ho'll have on the enemy, but, by God, he frightens me!
"Landon "Mipress:Marvin
up and knocked us fiat,
"He's playful," the
monk
apologised. "But very intelll- gent
"I was only giving 'em the window test,”
who
and COUTAGEOUS, He' mumed for a predecessor saved forty Ilves."
Caution
We cautiously got to our feet end looked around the kennel. We
Enw no sign of any beverages, We popped the ques-, Bon we head come to ask, the inank sighed..
"There is nothing in the barrels," he said distiocity, "be- cause there sta Bo barrels. Sometimes a St Bernard carries
a blanket. That is it."
"Nothing to drink? No bar- rel:?" We were stured.
your
"I think it began -with inks ·©lti Swiss legend," the monk fold บร *There WOY # Klant woodsman--not unlike Paul Bunyan who, of coUTHO, The had a prodigious thirst, story goew that the wained faithful Bernard (tó carty la barrét so he would always hawe something portable handy.
his
"Later, two :evonservial" 'zon= panies—onakatoamily maINES- turer, the other's diaillier
mite of what they way, I'd sooner Be
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