THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961.
IN AN ARTICLE THAT WILL DE DISCUSSED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ONE
OF BRITAIN'S MOST DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN ASKS A PENETRATING QUESTIÓN
Are we betraying our trust
in Africa?
NOT
so many years ago when one used to go out to Rhodesia, it was to a land not, be it said, without its problems, but a land moving serenely forward towards a solu- tion of those problems.
It was a land passion- ately loyal to Britain and all Britain stood for, a land permeated
by our ideas, conscious
of all the difficulties be-
his full part,
by
the Marquis of Salisbury
fore it, but with its eyes is prospering are those where firmly fixed on the ulti- the white man is still playing mate attainment of an The rest of its vast territories
be- equal partnership tween black and white.
It might no doubt have ad- vanced faster-only those with intimate knowledge ករ the African can say how much faster but it was at any rate moving steadily forward to wards the goal of the multi- racial State.
Africa
We see a country engaged in
K.G.,
P.C.
Flest, we must make our main aim the advancement of the African; and secondly, we must make it clear that we will not desert our loyal friends, of whatever colour their skin.
It is the mlasms of mis- trust that. for the first the in living memory, has arisen to cloud the relations hotween the Home Goverilment and are sinking back ever more
the British peoples overseas, rapidly into the Jungle of primi- tive savagery, with Its famine and its disease and its witch- Until now, their relationship We hear a great deal of the and all those evils from with us has always been one of first aim, but sadly little of craft
and then in such which the white man rescued affection and trust. They have the second,
speaking, as a muted voice that it is hardly them. And why should we
always, broadly expect it to be so very different sumed and this applies to all audible.
the loyal subjects of the CтOWTI, in Northern Ihodesia?
whether white or black-that if they or their liberties were the Home really threatened, Government would always stand by them.
It is suggested that under the the real Government scheme power will remain in the hands of the Governor and the Execu- tive Council. But for how long? Does the Government really legislature domi- think that nated by African extremists - and that is something that is
even
But now they have no such
feeling.
Is it surprising that the loyal populations in our African terri- tories should have become con- vinced that they can expect nu help from home, and that their
selves alone?
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER from Jean Campbell
New York
TWO wise men from England are visit- ing Washington. They journey to the capital on the Potomac invited and empty handed.
un-
But both bear golden gifts of mind. Both pro céonomists ot! both practfind and practised Ananciers.
The names of these men who hope to adylie the Keri-. edy administration are Icidore Ostrer and Lord Wilmet.
Isidore, slender and small with a noft vnice and wavy. Recy hair is a self-confessed financial genius.
He has been a movie tycoon. He is a merchant banker. D
noet, the father-in-law of James Mason, a millionaire and an in- Lernational-Wool king.
He is a rigid dlelitian be- Heving that doctors and their drugs do more to kill than
cure,
Zip and zest
The wise men
from England offer Kennedy advice...
so long to discover the true I'm dolug fine, but I've got to meaning of the Cockney seript. get another ticket quick," he I asked him what the Lord sald, jumping up and down in Chamberlain had specially dis the snow and beating his grub- approved of.
by fists together.
"Something about a duchesa," he said mysteriously.
In spite of his popularity in New York Frank Ands the American teatre too money- minded and the American wo- inen too marriage-ininded,
However, he wants to come back when his play arrives on
John Wilmot, the Socialist Broadway next February, and banker. is Isidore's greatest he has half an eye out to Har- friend and R man of many len and the Puerto Rican area of New York for musical parts. He has been Minister of Supply and he is chairman of comedy material. the "Old Vie.
He la tall and tubby with a zip and zest that belies his 04 years. He and his wife keep a stationory caravan In a near Aix en Provence for their summer holidays.
TAXI, BOY!
barn JUNIOR ran into my life
Now this curious and gener- ous pair believe that they have private patent cure for America's two bulbous blistera the scarcity of gold and an unemployment figure
of 5% million.
Isidore's gold theory is xim ple as, be gently explains, all great ideas are simple ideas.
during a heavy Har- lem snowstorm. The streets ware nearly clear of traffic and people.
I was waiting for a taxi out- side the 125th Street station in uptown New York with two heavy sultcuses in hand, Sud- denly he appeared over the top of an 8ft snowbank wearing open-toed sandals.
"Want a taxi, ma'am?” he As we all know by now, the asked,
and
tore off into the Kennedy administration is an darkness in search of, the im- enterprising adminstration. Our possible. two wise men may do much to modify and mollify the echoes of the empty coffers of Fort Knox.
NOT WORRIED
Norman at "The Dilly." And let us hope Normon will show him how fairer far are the lights of Broadway and the lights of our own beloved "Dilly," than the
There was nothing to do bat bare bulbs of penal Institutes,
Junior to see Frank
-{London Express Service),
to send
Pipeline that puts
it All
on tap
By PETER HOPKIRK
New York.
FOR years pipelines have been carrying oil,
Junior was acting as a taxi old, procurer. He is 12 years Puerto Rican and as sharp as the little pearl knife he' carries | A In his left pocket.
to
but water, and gas throughout the world... in America even the bulk loads-including coal- Junier has 13 volumes of the that normally go by road and rail are now going Encyclopedia-11 paid for by
money-now he is along the pipes. for the last two working salvation must depend on them-RANK NORMAN, sloe- his tax!
oyed 30-year-old complete the set. On a really And in the not too distant Cockney playwright, is good day he has earned 03 future American- amili mayphia to New York and only 40 having it good in New much as four dollars
and 95
even be able to move se by cents by pipeline. York. Just as you
cents
taxis and he procuring might
Next, the scientists turned zas never been inside one in pipeline. Household goods may
be placed in containers and fed their ingenuity to the possibili expect he is staying at the his life
Hotel, Piccadilly
"Tho
into a water-filled pipeline and ties of transporting bulk solids
by Junior knows all about rock-sent across the continent like a
pipeline. First they tried London lan- Dilly" in his
cts, missiles and Lumumba. He barge.
coal. They quickly discovered guage.
saw Castro when the Cuban
that crushed coal. I mixed leader stayed in Harlem.
No illusions That is clearly the conclusion to which our fellow-country- In the Central African Federation have already come.
And there must have been many of us who saw it as a possible model to which other States in Central might in time conform,
Since the advent of the pre- how different is the by no means impossible Today,
sent Government-I say It with picture that presents itself!
under their revised scheme - deep Tegret and especially will permit itself continually to since the advent of the present Colonial Secretary, they have come to expect to be let down, They have come to the con- clusion that he, and maybe the Minister too, holds the with the American Colonies 180 But, one is often asked, what Prime
And the view that the day of the white alternative? where, is the years ego; a country brainst The will of its lenders, implication is that, unpalatable man in Africa is over, and that
thrown to the leaders course may they are to be the present the idest of multi-racial port as tership is beginning to ve be, there has in fact been no wolves. place in a narrow and bitter other before us
n bitter dispute with Britain, be over-ruled?
hating the British Government
no no British Government has been hated by men and women
of British birth since the dispute
racial division, sterile in itself Bud menacing for the future.
iy
On the spot
How has this happened? Who
10 blame? There is
So simple
1 submit that that is not true, There has been another course, and a very simple one.
LTC
I do not say that they right, but that is certainly their has who view,
anyone visited East and recently Central Africa will confirm.
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We need not have embarked And it is, one cannot but feel, on this elaborate and without a great pity that so little has more figures than we have had been said to dispel that im-
almost unintelligible complex pression.
tendency among people here to of Inter-tocking franchises, throw the whole blame on the about which only white Rhodesians.
certain, that
But have we any right to take lip su smug an attitude? They live on the spat.
2
One would have thought that one thing is
two dominating great many there must be people are going to get votes principles in any Colonial policy who will be quite incapable of for Airlea at the present time.
They know using them with any under-
the African as we, who live standing. 5,000 miles away, cannot hope to know him.
We could have returned lo
the conception of a single roll Are we so certain that it is of voters, such as we have in they, and not we, who are this country, and confined it to wrong? Those white those white or black, it does Rhodesians are, after all, not not matter which who were 80 very different from us, really qualified, through "merit," Many of them were brought to use the Prime Minister's
up with us, and went out to
own words, 10 give a respon- make their homes in Africa gible vote. only after the last war.
No doubt the franchise would 'And the rest, tho older have been more limited at dirst Rhodesiana who were born and then Mr Macleod's. But from bred there, and who have with that firm foundation it would their fathers built up their have been possible to move for country from a savage deseri, to ward and broaden it, us and the prosperous State it is today when wider sections of the they too were brought up in people became ready for it. our Traditions and our ways.
they now take a different
view from people here, most of
whom have never even seen
¡Mistrust
Central Africa; is it not possible That is what we did in our that they are more realistic own country, and it is assuredly about Africa and the Africans the only safe way and the only
then we are?
Ignored
One of our
way that accords with The evolutionary tradition for which the Conservative Party has always stood,
Whether that is still possible. foremost news: I do not know. But I believo papers the other day referred it would have been the right
the white Rhodesians as a course. small minority,”-
And even if that is not pan- But that is surely to Ignore sibic, murely one would havo the fact that thin "mall thought that any further exten minority includes nearly all sion of the franchise should be those men and women who have within the ambit of the Lennox- created the prosperity of the Boyd proposals of 1950. country and without whom is.
prosperity could not continue. There must be many of the One might as well refer to Conservative Party, and possibly the chalnnot, the board and other porticu too," who would the general manager of a com- Infinitely have preferred some pany as a "small minority" of such approach to that to which those connected with
the the Government business. So they are: but the apparently committed salt. company carmat do without It in not, however, the naturo them if it la to prosper.
of the proposals themselves---
har
now
In the Congo today, the only important though they are --- arena where the community, that, to my mind, should disturb including the indigenous people, us most ju tha prosent crisis. •
men
While the Lord Chamberlain was suddenly finding flaws in Frank's musical, Fings Ain't Wat They Used TBc, Fränk was garbolling in high New York theatre and eate society,
Advantages
with an equal quantity of water.
Today more than 3,000 tons of coal a day are pumped along a 100-mile stretch of pipeline. A web
They have no lusions. They Although the puritanical
At least he saw Castro's boots, The economic advantages of could be pumped along a pipe face the hard fact, to quote the United States Immigration au- for Funtor is small and the the pipe over the railroad and just like oll. When it arrived words of a letter in The Times thorities bucked and baulked Harlem crowds outside the highway are enormous. One at the other end, the water
that "the Africanat Frank's prisor
at sentences, Theresa Hotel numbered måny | man
a switchboard can was dried off. over Africa have now that he is actually. In the thousands. recently,
handle millions of gallons of ΠΟ intention of accepting
and doors are Country hearts
A bank is a bank to Junior,pipelined petrol which would multi-racial form of govern- open wide.
It is a "clrich" or "no elnch." require dozens of drivers if it ment. Their demand is for Afri-
His ambition? He wants to go was carried by road. to reform school. can domination."
Pipelines con climb far stiffer gradients than either road er
Spanning America today ke rail. Pipelines climb mountains, a huge spider's web are nearly trucks and freight trains go 7,000 miles of pipeline, hundreds of miles round them.
So highly organised is the But a boy needs to
"emptics" have There
to business today that as many 19 u civilised State is at stake. Josh Logan and Henry Fonda, reached the age of 13 and to return after a journey by pipe- 10 or 20 different commedities
New York's leading hosts, feled have collected three delinquent line,
simul- may be on the move, tickets from the police before It is for the people of Britainhig at giant porties.
The staggering cheapness of
taneously down one stretch of to decide whether they will
Frank was not at all worried he can get to a reform school. the pipe is strikingly illustrated pipe. Sometimes
GTC they censorship, bút abandon them and their loyal by the
"I've got two tickets already by the fact that by rail it costs separated by
rubber huge it strange that the and I be 13 on March 13,"HK$3 to transport a 42-gallon washers as they followers in their hour of need, thought
are pumped -London Express Service). Lord Chamberlain had
be said, grinning. "So, ma'am, drum of petrol from Philadel- steadily along at about five miles
Let us make no mistake. The Federal Government and Chose for whom they speak are convinced that the very existence of their country as
be
taken
'Doing fine'
"FATHER SEUS!
BE THE BIER
FORKLE BABYS
SBORN
are ho
was while my first one was born. Game home and took a look! äf "Him" and decided to stay on the beer
an hour. The
ot "despatcher"
his swilchboard, possibly hindreda of miles away, can tell precisely where a particular consignment Is at any given moment. He calculates this by knowing the pump pressure and the weight moving liquid.
and quantity of the
Signals
Sometimes minute quantities of radioactive materials are injected into the lond at the start of its journey. Then geiger counters at given dis- tances along the pipeline Aash back signals as the load passes underneath.
In America many of the pipe- lines are lcensed as "common carriers." This means that any one can use them to transport a private consignment of bulk- ilquid provided he pays.
Smaller pipelines are widely used for carrying mille, fruft juice, beer and drugs, though usually over shorter distances than the bulk liquids.
The big question now, say the scientists, is how ordinary foods
cannot be dissolved in water can be piped.
that
(London Express Service).
TALKING
POINTS
If you would preservo peace, then prepare for репсе.
-ENFANTIN..
Lots of people have matrimonial troubles and don't know It.
COLIVER HERFORD,