Just Fancy
That!
TUE exelling diesel-drawn 1Cornlat 'Riviera EXPTERS train from Penzance to Pad- dington woofed to a halt at Calle Cary in Somerset. For an hour it lay dormant while an outmoded steam loco chugged 25 miles to the rescue. 'One 'of the two diesels drawing the train was out of action. Helped by the choo-choo, the train pultod into Paddington's two hours late.
THE CHINA` MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1981.
"Jelly-boned!" says Welensky. "Nonsense!" says Cummings. "This is the true anatomy of politicians
Bu
DUBES with low rear plat- forms have been ordered
by a Nottingham bus company to help girls with fight skirts.
-(London Express Service).
Mr. Selwyn Lloyd em- bodies one of the most perfect guidance systems known to man
Mr. Iain Macleod is filled with 'the highest quality wind of change
Home Secretary "Butler's 'indin- rubber spine enables him to !accommodate himself to
knobbliest of political situations
the
Mr. Michael Foot has 30 asbestos stomach for bis fire-eating spreches
... And as for Str Roy Welensky, we all know what sort of backbone he's got!
Cummings
London Express Service.
AGITATOR!
The diplomat who master-minded the London demonstration
A
ROWDY demonstration, peddl- ing the straight Moscow line
on the Congo crisis, shattered the quiet of London's Trafalgar Square a few weeks ago.
Nothing strange about that, you may say. The pigeons are used to it. Occasions of this kind set them whceling and fluttering most Sunday afternoons.
But dig behind this particular
Kwesi Armah....
demonstration, and some re- On the front door a metal January
markable facts come to light,
The man who master-minded
entitled
"Boycolt
By DOUGLAS CLARK
hotel of Dr Verwoerd, South African Premler, when ho arrives here for the Common- wealth Conference next month,
Over the Congo, too, the committee has long shown great organising zeal.
In December they ran a Hyde Park rally at which speakers urged the independent African, States to send in their troops to restore Zamumba.
And when news of that un- happy man's murder reached London Mr Armah's committee and -coloured students shouting and hollering outside the Belgian- Embassy within an hour.
But look further still.
What is the connection between the activities of that gaunt, forbidding Bloomsbury. house and the latest political Central developments Africa?
over
plaque proclaims that this is the Slave-Drivers' Goods."
David Thomos Surgery of Dr
the 46-year-old Pitt,
West Last summer-also in Trafal- It is a mast tnusual type of
Indian who fought Hampstendar Square they organised an
Into Britain flow Mr Joshua diplomat: Mr Kwest Armah, the Ansuccessfully for Labour in the anti-apartheid meeting at which
Rhodesia's banners were seen which urged Nkomo, Southern Deputy High Commissioner for last General Election.
the banning of American bases nationalist leader. Ghana.
from Britain,
Busy as bees
I call Mr Armah an unusual
diplomat because of his rare and
They take him regularly to
But inside too Is the head- quarters of the Committer African Organisations-of which Mr. Armah is the very active chairman.
What sort of work occupies
Their zeal
Influence
He announced that be con-
No Love for Johnnie
COULD THIS MAN
sidered the Southern Rhodesla HAVE BEEN AN
#greement "torn up." Now no
doubt the Influence of his fellow
nationalists from North Rhodosia,
in London for talks with MP? WE ASKED THAT
British Government, contributed
to his change of front.
But is it not interesting that QUESTION AT THE
he say at to consult Mr Armah's committee-too?
And can it be doubted what advice they gave him?
You should know something. further about Mr Kwesi Armah.
Just over a month ago he re- ceived slashing rebuke from An astonishing quarter. The
the Diplomatist, magazine" of the corps in London.
"houte diplomatic
The Diplomatist, which goes
to all embassies and legatlóns,: normally confines itself to social gossip. It is a striclly. non-. political venture,
Fair question
Yet its last issue declared that
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Yes,
like
Mr Armah's political activities. were "entirely opposed to the principles of those brought up in the traditional school. of Johnnie diplomacy."
London "Exprdas Bervice.
I knew one I knew Johnnie...
by CHARLES PANNELL, M.P.
HIS film is a story
about a lonely, love- less, ambitious man; Byrne (Peter Finch) a Labour M.P.
In the hungry 'thirties ferences, and joining in protest he knew hardship, verty and the dole.
It censured him for agitaiing, holding tendentious Press con-
marches, and added-
in London
po-
NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE. which was serialised in the China Mail and which had its film premiere in London this month was written by a Labour MP, the late Wilfred Fienburgh. It is about a fictional Labour MP, Johnnie Byrne. So we asked a Labour MP, Charles Pannell, member for Leeds
"Many diplomats wonder what would be the case We meet him as an MP. on a . West, to review it....and to consider how if members of an Iron Curtain | Labour landslide. He hos country had indulged In similar sacrificed some Integrity--and activities."
Dr
his Yorkshire
accent-on the
has
near the fictional MP comes to fact...........
way up, but he billy and he hia local party meeting next day emell of the story. And that
It is a fair question. His stated purpose was to Lately. I can state, they have
And it prompts another for has expectations of office in the take disciplinary action against
now Government. Armah's Premier, fascinating extra-mural activities. Mr Amah and his committee? hon in touch with members of his London representative, Mr Mr
the all-Negro "King
On the train to London fren Kong" Takawira, who had criticised Nkrumah, who is also coming
for to Britain him
Northern accepting the now to Britain for the Common-his
consiliueney a kaunt, four-storeyed, blue-
their cast which has come All Africa come-within
for wealth talks. proposals with the backing of the South constitutional
everyone, railway porters pointed house in Gower-street, orbit. They are as busy as bees. African
in- Government and has Southern Rhodesia.
Does Bloomsbury, with thick,
Dr Nkrumah endorse cluded, seems to think so too, behaved with exemplary net.
But as the news comes over...... transparent glass in the ground- For example, they helped to
Mr Nkomo on arrival went to the extra-mural labours of his floor windows and heavy launch the Il-fated campaign And now they are preparing Bloomsbury to see the Com- Deputy High Commissioner curtains shrouding the rooms against imper's
London? from South
to mittee for African Organisa- - miss demonstration Africa with
outside a pamphlet last explode
1he Londen tiens.
-{London Express Service),
upstairs.
Non-
a
to anewer unspecified charges, the Prime Minister didn't shear
The assembly of the local either, comrades is one, "of the most
How does the film match up diverting scenes in the Alm to the books? The book, by. They pasa a vote of no cona- Wilfred Flenburgh, the brilliant dence in him.
Labour M.P. who was killed in acer crash, damaged 'Labour 'In the 1050 election. as, station by station, Johnste in
The aim will not do the same buys edition after edition of the
service to the
Poter Tories. newspapers and finds 'first the
"Westminster," (our Finch plays Johnnie with "high top jobs filled, then the middling here, whose sights seemed to competence and charm-and little ones, then the smallest and his have been lowered by so much of the nastiness of the original
him.
Back
CONTENT
At
name not among them--}}
be- comes clear there is no place for from the P.M. an
suffering, gratefully accepts character,
offer of the And the film gives greater lowest rung on the Ministerial weight to other characters, ladder, Assistant Postmaster notably Stanley Holloway as a
·General.
veteran ·Labour MP-a good
He
FRUSTRATED
reaches
London
frustrated man. And there
In doing so he repudiates his trade union type who makes a wife after he learns it was her picture of simple goodness. a membership of the Communist Politics is for people,"
he
ke Party and nct any shortcomings says, and may a comrade will finds that his wife Alles (Rosalie of his own which had kept him point to him and say (I hope): Crutchley), who is ʼn member of cut of office.
"Now he's just ilke
Mary gone (Paula was too much.
out
the Communist Parly, has ziozr- Wife gone, Paula gode (he member; that other so-and-so ed out, leaving him to the was too old for her, she decider), could be a Tory." sympathy of Mary, the girl up stairs (Billie Whitelaw).)
for her), the anal scene is. of The House seems no place for Johnnie on the Front Bench.- him, with its needling "wonder fact on the Table, content-with why he left you out?””
no love but Johnnie.
He sees these he considers - "lesser men unfairly preferred." Is Parliament like that? -Well:| He seeks distraction Ιπ pubs, there are no gaffen. 'One gėla. finds a tatte for whisky,
-$3.
the Atmosphere.... I've thot some Mary takes him to a party. of the characters before, where ́n ́beautiful young model, peolatis Donald Plemence, “who Paula (Mary Peuch), responds is as evil as.......... No, I won't say 10 his charms.
an unkind word about -a-com- The affale warms up-and in rudn... the House things warm up too, Other disappointed applicants for office, and the fellow travel- Let's try to make their nuisance valus felt. Will Johnnie les them?
He agrees to put down Awkward (Question to bowl Prime Minister out.
I think I once knew a Johnnie Dyrep - au but only one,
We MPs have our share of marital upsets, like other proöle. Given Cabinet Ministers are not an komune. But the public brings The 'n-tougher judgment to lig-than
'to other Bits of me.
- But when, the moment comes
What I found just not credfulsi
for this showdown-and the zine Was 'Jolinnie's "Trouble
tahi
of Johnnie as the new leadne “Konstskidy gjak, ko soon after
of the Toft Jchhalata not in in Cleneral Election where-tro Ball | Ferliament, but in bed with increased his majority, Ppalu.
No takter, in, advance, no tip- "Back in the Haven be brushes off from friends, no word with of Tiber that he is a uncialider, Transport Houro.Andalf
Dut the villain Donald Pren- through a bit of Afonairadi ange) gola tracking,
momo ecrilaista Ciel he bait Hoones a dissidrat in been neglecting his mall. |«Johnnie's Inegl "party,
-London "Express Zerolen).
ARTIE
Pass word round that anyone calling me Comrade
la for the teddy kruar factorius in iSiberia.
· London Expreža 'bervice.
are asked to believe
chu w Brass for, wa uro, not an sloppy. 11At Johnnie is that in the Labour Party! sho
29, "DIMIT 15-MINUTE QUI- QUÝ – HURUMA, D. puas pusssy vii inale |
That back home
they are sim- believe that all, this didn't leak,
hing for you". He must be at thất 101 ave the Express got. A