THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1961.
an apology | While we're watching
We must have
After that insult- should the Queen still be Nkrumah's guest?
By RENE MacCOLL
CHOULD the Queen be permitted to go ahead be entrusted with word of the the Queen should go to Accra. SHO
coming birth,
with her visit to Ghana this autumn. Or, unless Britain quickly receives an unreserved Queen's visit to Ghana is a dis apology from Ghana's dictator, Kwame Nkrumah, should she cancel it?
Nkrumah has recently been having a high old time junketing around behind the Iron Curtain, assuring ovary. of his sympathy with Communism.
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יוויון!
hefty protest to Acera over this gratullous insult to the country Ghana independence nud has since given her a great
That guve
deal of money.
.
protest uctor,
But wIB the
Le Phally ke nrrived in Buda-
The enough?
with pest, And
the other Prince Philip, is due to make n night, at an official reception state visit to Nkrumahland uttended by The Hungrian November-the trip she had to Cabinet and thes Diplomatic
postpone in 1859 because she Corps, he saw it to talk about
Was expecting batsy Prince
Immediately
Mr
bis country having languished Andrew. 10 u hundred years under Colonialist rappressors."
the Britial, Minister 44 }}ungupy. John Cheethany, who Кля standing only A few
paces from the coloured diefatur, turned on his heel and left.
Quite right. And the Forelgu Office will undoubtedly make a
So cosy
more
At that time Nkrumah could net have been
rosy but the British association. For I turned out that be him Eelt was the first person outside the Buckingham Palace circle to
"The postponement of The
he announced. appointment." "But at the sarne $ime an occasion for rejoicing. We will
the have all
more time to orepare to do things properly when she does come."
Like properly? Do things lasulling the record In Ghana if Britain's colonial administra- tion"
In 1959 Nkrumah was given the plush treatment in London. Lunch at No. 10 with Mac- milan and Lord Home. Then ue to Balmoral, there to be let into the secret.
Prince Philo went by biaself to Chana in November 1959. 1 was there to see the fantastic welcome he received--for what- the innermost ever may be thoughts ond schemes of the dielator Nkrumah there was no for- doubt about the genuine your with which people greeted the royal visitor.
But now I say that we should consider very carefully whether
AFTERMATH .
by JAK
Berlin, Kruschev
is watching Persia
THE eyes of the world
are fixed upon Ber- lin. The bellicosity of Mr Kruscher is match- ed by the arms build-up of Mr Kennedy, and some people even predict a war in September with the same sort of certain- thirty that the last war was in the months forecast after Munich.
For you can be quite sure about one thing although people like Nkrumah once a student in London now enjoy insulting Britain, they are still anxious to have the
visit Quera
countries.
They adore basking in the royal environment. They cul- culate that some of the royal charm will rub off on their own personalities.
by Lord
Lambton, MP
hla people there still exists two nations in Perain; one is a rich, cynical, sophisticated, and im mensely difficult to govern up- per clais, the other" is a huge lower class whose standard öf living remains dangerously low. This provides an opportunity for subversion which the Russians have not neglected.
If the worst came to the worst and the Communista auc- eeeded in Perala, the effect upon the Free World would be incalculable. Another great area, adjacent to the Soviet Union, would have been won. Lane has been n ilmiled suc problem by some form of un-
Territorially the advantage is another great roll Is war really possible?
forward. ress fur them. In Indoncais ausy compromise, the manoeuvre Politically it would undermine If one can detach oneself from Dr Sukamo keeps the red flag may well have cost the excitement of the moment, flying. In a large part of West effort
them nu the status of the pro-Western e tubla it is surely clear that no great Africa Russians
whatsoever, leaders in the Middle East, are now well while it has resulted in mobili- forces are pushing aller side
Economically it would put in, established; they are towards conflagration, and that training
already lion in America, and the their hands the great weapon of slucents it is unlikely that Russia
Iron will
The possible call up of Reservists a supply of oli with which tớ seriously contemplate on account subversion. Across the Atlantic
whole continent in methods of in this country,
undersell and undermine our of Berlin the damage that a
In fact the whole operation markets. in Cuba they have had a de- will have been infinitely worth Buclear war would inflict.
Even if she were a victor in risive if embarrasing triumph, while for them. To me, how- such a war with America, it All these successes and gains ever, there seems to be a for would bo at best # Pyrrhic have been achieved by subver victory. It would Tisk the sion and by intelligent use of of the country of Persin. And for good measure it destruction of yeory of most money in the cold war. When
The Intense might be a good idea it, on
in/lustrial
it they have achieved so much in output, eve of the Queen's arrival.
would risk the death of millions Fuch a way is it likely that they Nkrumah anounced a genyent of Russiaus; it would risk even will be prepared to piste a hold- amnesty for all those political | the dustuction of Communism caust which could destroy their prisoners now languishing with itself.
whole country? out proper charges in Ghana's Jalls,
An apology
So, before thu Queen Is permitted to go to Acera In November, let us at least have on the record a humble apology for the recent behaviour from Russin's disciple.
-Landon Express Service).
"You're moaning about the price of fags-Poor old Stinky got a mortgage on the strength of the new pay rise.”
London Express Service,
FORBIDDEN LOVE
But is South Africa's
immorality law beginning
to embarrass its makers?
THE
name of Bevil John Rudd, 34-year- old wealthy company director, Old Etonian and former
by
Guards Dennis Craig
officer, will by now have been crossed
off every
Collie is a snake-danger. social list in South have seen her night-club act, Africu.
The two most exclusive clubs fu the country the Rand and the Johannesburg Country, will expel him, if they haven't al ready done so.
and recall the comment of dyed-in-the-woel South African who was with me.
p.Y on neighbour, and sending have been countless coses where hundreds of people to jail, The low has savagely separated
Among these hundreds, oddly couples of different colours who enough, are dozens of Afrikaner have lived together for many policemen These indoctrinated years. And They will get a storiniroopers have been the longer sentence if caught again, prime "offenders"--so much so
that, in South Africa, the
"Black Walch” doesn't mcon
the famous Scottish regiment,
Suicide
Until 1949 It was not legal A man I knew well, a member
for races to inter-marry, though of A prominenc Nationalist it was frowned upon. Then, family.
along with the Immorality Bul. another Bill became law, forbid ding mixed marriages,
Solution
Just before the
WVAH arrested and charged under the Act, While
walling
ADVANCES
Nor is
greater threat to the
SHAKEN
security
The position of the Shah is undoubtedly shaken, The dan- ger to him resis not so much
on external attack internet revoll.
as
on
GREATER GAIN
If the Communists gained control here, the gain to Russia would be for greater, and achieved at far less risk than anything they could secure in Berlin.
This should be thought of today, this should be prepared for today,
If we are hypnotined by the
What we have my are the Russians' usual tactics of mak- ing things as embarrassing us possible for the West without Russia being pushed committing themselves to any would do everything they could the obvious fact that Russia If this occurs, the Communists dangers of Berlin we will miss towards such a war by any decisive action, while their to seize their opportunity. desperate need for diversion, plans, of subversion risewhere
desires conquest dy subversion Despite the frustrated efforts and not by war. And in of the Shah to settle the land Persia today they have a dan problem and to
prosperity to the great mass of
bring more gerous opportunity.
-London Expieza Kornice).
During the last made substantial
over the world.
year it has go on.
If in A few months the Russians have settled the Berlin
advances
HOW MUCH RUSSIA OWE
by CYRIL AYNSLEY
DOES
TO YURI?
That is why we did not A British oficial, en the other publiche our fair here in ud- hand, whispered; "There's no vance. We are not use to doubt he put it on the map." having to publicise things."
So Mr Naumik, mixing suis- faction with a dosh of propa
ganda, was able to tell me "I am completely satisfied with the
The books will provide material for a bumper Trade Fair in Moscow. session of self-criticism and appraisal back Moscow.
Arrogance
My own feeling about this fair is that it was a confusion of riches, Too much, too little explanation, nowhere to sit. Courteous bui somewhat arro- gant.
MR BORIS GORDEEV, the director of the Russian Trade Fair, parcelled up 22 books among the 100,000 other exhibits of this gigantic Russian showpiece when it closed in London last your business men were satisfied results of the exhibition just us week.
with the results of the British
"It is bound make a big in contribution to the extension This, of course, is what WO and strengthening of co-opera- have come to expect from the tion between the U.S.S.R. end Russians, A vehemence 17 your country in economies, cul- claims of being abreast and ture, and pollues."
ahead, well summed up When Among them were 200 M.P.8. Just how much one man, Yurl the producer of "Mrs Dale's The figures are nowhere near Gagarin, had to do with the Diary" was asking one of them the vast Moscow crowds which undoubted success of this fair at the trade fair whether they
the trooped
17-day is an open question.
had anything like it in Russia, British Fair there one and a
Automatically the reply came! quarter millions.
"Anything you have i England we have in Russia too.”
He can hardly have known what he was saying.
--{London Express Service).
Thousands of visitors who have trekked round the fair have been invited to write their opinions in the books.
They vary from the cynical "Not bad, but is it true?" to the starry-eyed Mr M. K. Habib, whe wrote: "Oh! It's wonderful. I wish I were in the U.S.S.R."
When the Russian statisticians
tome
te
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"We never expected " Mr Volenim Mikhailov, one of the analyse what the officiais, told me, "People in visitors thought. their graphs Moscow just go to these events. wili be complimentary. exemined one of these books und, ignoring the rabid fellow-travellers and the Teenage Gagarin star-gazers, I found a bulk of admization.
There were. of course. sar- donic comments like one Irura Oxford: "Warmest congratula- tions on your advanes, towards a capitalist standard of living."
There was the rather parochial cbservation: "You can see everything here at the Science Museum in South Kensington-- and it is far lers crowded.
Blunt
Apart from
the Wags, the cynics, and the adulators, what may surprise and most hurt the Russians was a blunt piece of advice from an Indian-
"I were you I would give a better finish to your work." But of with or without the benefil these 22 leather-bound books, trial he deliberately Mr Gordeey and his colleagues
will walk
the out for
Inst burned himself to dentb-saving the family honour to some ilme feeling that the three- extent by dying before he could week Ruslan occupation of be convicted.
Earla Court hadl
I became about being law. I attended the last black- white
years.
South Africans are so jumpy
suspected that no man in South Africa while wedding in South Africa. would ever give his non-white I An old Afrikaner farmer maid a lift even in the back
married the African woman who
nent of his çar — unless accom- had been his housekeeper and panied by his wife or some other wife in all but nome for 20 woman of his own colour.
Unchaperoned, he would be an "What price the Immorality Act? he asked. cynically, There were children from the easy victim for an unscrupulous. looking at the excited while union and this man, who had handcuff-happy policeman reck- faces around him, Only a man lived among the Xose tribe for ing to make a case.
To those who believe, as I do, For he has committed the of atone could have sat throughi so many years he had almost
that this legislation is evil, tharë Most heinous sozial erima in har performance without his forgotten his Own language, South Atrien. He has been pulse-rate rising.
was doing the honourable thing is a ray of hope. Hope that this parl, at least, of Bouth found guilty of having relations
Yet I should any that John Had he waited a few more Africa's racial polley will be with a non-white, Dotita Tlyo, Huild is anished in the country days both he and his wife would dropped,
his grandfather pioneered as a have been alled. By marrying For the Immorality Act in partner of Cecil Thodes. Even just before the Act, he and his beginning to embarrass the very If his superl in successful,
wife could continue living people who created it that The Rudd-Tiyo enso is only together,
people who sold it would "sova one of hundreds which havo No extenuating circumstances. us from becoming coffee-
are aver taken into woonunt, coloured raco.“ been before the courts since the Balfonatist Government paled "Six months" is the unly official
The overwhelming majority wolution.
of whilet convicted" have been Nationalli iupporters.
Her act
More than a breach of social taboo a crime against the law of South Afrlen, fur which both
he and Dottie live been ren the Immorality Act in 1948,
ere to appeal,
.
tariced to six months' Jail. They smashing liver, bresking u In the Cape, with le large familles, causing neighbour to conununity of near-whites, there
a
(kamdun Exprave Herules),
worth while,
been well
Mr Anotoly Naumik. the deputy director of the fair, told me that they are going away with about £20,000,000 on their order books.
More than $500 British busine Inch have driven bargains in blue-painted rooms with Rugnian trade experts at Earis Court over the 23 days of the fair.
Doals have been made in a wide range of goods, from fork lift trucks to halalalkas, from tuber to caviar, from bearings to toys, from wheat to printing emachines.
Busines men from West and the Germany, Holland, Middin Kent have also been here to trade.
visitors Over half-a-million inve clicked the turnstilos-
tive twice ** many at even officials British
helping the Russiana in promoting this fair expected.
Mr Valentin Mikhailov denied that he bolstered the takings.
"Yuri Gagarin helped to bring our peopics together," he said, "But he was not connected with this exhibition."
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