ANNO SHARPLEY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1961.
MPs are concerned about them. The Government promises legislation to control them: the West Indian immigrants to Britain. To get the immigrant story from the beginning, Anne Sharpley went to Kingston, Jamaica .
To watch the leave-
takings at Kings- ton, Jamaica, was to see few signs of emotion. A clumsy hug or two. A pot with the flat of the hand. A forefinger stuck awkwardly in the corner of the eye to drain the tears, but not many.
There
one
man
who his
hakerchief ever 1ኛ eyes. absolutely stil, stb, for tw masis and then walked away, remingly composed again.
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To stand Pelotigadie
His questions
He www. from Palermo rod knew what this scene would be like if it were Sicilians (alding their leave on the quay
below I should have said
tu hum then that I disagreed with Elm by: already he was probing t the constan
sore
apprehensive men of his sort.
Why did white girls marry them, he asked Would I marry one, he pressed further
briefly that i didn't mind and walked away
1
I was on the Ascans, 10.000 turis, built in 1926 by the French
but owned how by the Fratelli
Grimaldi of Italy--the shipping
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SAIL WITH
THE ABBASA
THE MIGRANTS
by Anne Sharpley
At six o'clock. there was
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sunset as bright and blazing us A brass band to see us off.
The kites circled obsessively. over the glowing edge Jamaica A man dived from a
self and my luggage through room where I had no right to fishing boat and began 10 from First Class where I had be but whre my white face gamboi and silther and play Barn mdomatrally directed had automatically ensured 1 through the water. his mall first despite my assertions that should be ceremonially ushered Negru hair never shining tail 1 was "Tunistica."
into- met vorine, my cabin his limbs glittering in the sunset
light.
"The same
He would put me in a cable on own, he said reassuringly Swell poured down both
our badly
My Italian come No, no, I must be the same as the others." It was to hot for st sighed sharp curiosity and
marked me
ur-berth cablu.
down for
Jas the Ivorine McPherson greet good fortune to 40 મ le:auti', Tiny exquisite and haughty- misleadingly quite
a smile that looking she has breaks over her dark fare like the moon's reflection on the sea.
She is a type that. If she were African, 1 would guess to be of the Yorube people, although any Nigerian friends
migh! correct
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me.
I didn't, at first inspection..
To have advantages over
line that has brought most of the others
the migrants from the Weet It had ne portholes and as ? Indies to Britain,
Nut
I had
han
at fica glance as bad as expected frum the way eyebrows
sit up ire the Kingston travel agency ("You're Saveling migrant" when paid over my £75 125. for Tourist Madium passage Southampton.
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There was a small swimming FOR OU
or deck for the migrants nd there were, the recrea- 1k and dining rooms and bar, Those defl bils of Italianry that one assoriates with coffee bars.
-What are we going to do
opened the tiny wardrobe door a
Understanding
Nehri
And for the first hour nether solemu rutulave of corkroaches of us had a clue what the other dispersed like clerus among was saying. The Ars! phrase whom a thunderbolt has fallen. that we finally hammered out Already in the rabo were a between us, ufler a long strug- dilar Citease and a big brown Kle, was, "Please, I don't under- paper parcel.
Ten more girls were shown Iler. and ecially after "Na portholes, We doesn't reading Brederic G Cassidy's take a cabut whhout porthole. splendid book, Jamaica Talk they said. An argument follows (publishers Macmillan) was to ed They moved only into the understand much better. cab next door, which had a porthole and refused to come
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The canaries in the quarters twittered anally
Everyone was eating oranges, the big green Jamaical oranges, them about, sucking hurling them feverishly as though they the
highly perishable
WeTr sozne
that
Dist
Jand-currency spent at once.
By
my side two Jamaicans joked for the last time at the
lights of Kingsdon
Why you
sad mur I .. saul 1 happy," said Justin, a quet boy in a plastic hat and checked shirt whom later i was 1 know as a calm, always good-
natured and smiling person who brought me a present of some honey from cas own bures.
By his side was a tall, hand- some boy I was to name to my- self Dancing Denys, because be
TOMORROW: Getting to know
each other
was always dancing and singing and running about the ship.
Denys now gave way. typi- cally I was to learn, to a chant of joy in his island in the san
'It's lovely'
The purple in Jamaica, man, are Jovely The country is love By through and through There's nothing discomforting or dis-
No hurricane, ne vol-
traeting
But fo
"Go mi man, a mile, end
the Noril, cast, plance along and see the beautiful trees, man,
them
swingin' to an' fro
"And
buttercups Cyclow poppies) "seas of gla tening petals, opening
by
one, especially after The fall
ran
and
1 don't want to go te a com- try What d Tog. show buildings, every where grey like
But I got to
Takes morey, man to itve in danianca
When come back 1 Can live like the white peopie do. up in the hills, with so flowers that they enver the windows
BADY
Malayan newsletter from Gregory Weng
Singapore:
City of violence
Singapore, (By Air Mail). Singapore was like a city at war this week with strong police and troop patrols all over and troops guarding Government installations after two days of violent clashes between striking City Council labourers and the police.
of cab- Mandarin
In two days of violence, 19 people were injured und 27
The Arst shipload arrested as the workers pressed
pak Phot the Government to.
recognise hages, the Publie Daily-itated Em- oranges an dried fruits are ployees' Unions
expected very soon. Federation as
The fting All the representing
3,000
labourers in the City Council. very timely an It is
of the bad was
usually
from now
should New
until the
Chinese
the period
Year that is a
for
crucial
The Government refused say-- ang that a secret ballot
laken
be
of them. Porters
did
im million
Importers Last this period Over $4 business fa Chinese
ali among Sabourers to see if the union year during really represented all Only then would the inent Lecognise the speaking for all the workers.
Govern- Union as
Meanwhile, the Government brought in more than 1,000 un- employed as temporary workers is keep the city's public utiles operating. This resulted
to
ira
Justin sang to the departing clashes as strikers attempted to lights of Kingston.
prevent the new workers from
"I'm and to roy Tru goin' carrying out their duties,
20
be back for wany a
day.
Disruption
Governme19.
Their drivers
vehicles had tyres punctured, their
beaten
up; nightsoil vahs were stoned; dustbins were overturned,
the new workers
worth of foodstuffs.
The water of the "magic spring" of Klang, al- though condemned by the Institute for Medical Re- search as "heavily
con- taminated," is being ex- ported
to neighbouring countries, like Hongkong, India and Thalland.
Stck people in these, territories who have heard about the water are clamouring, för their
My heart is doon, my head beaten up strikers blockaded relatives and friends in Malaya
ix frenin' around.
And i irare a little piri in
Kingstem toon."
to send them bottles of it.
who have used the overseas are asking for
People water
more.
ary depots; police were blcycles of new workers and electrical were smashed; cables were sabotaged.
After a four-day disruption of
the the clearing of the city. Government used troops and ago about 25 miles London Express Serprei
police to guard convoys of new workers cleaning up the city Each area was sealed off by iroops
with rifles and fixed bayonets and police before the workers started removing rub- bish and nightsoil in the area.
The Government has how broken the back of the violence and as the strike continued, picketing became peaceful.
AS YET ANOTHER MARLBOROUGH
TAKES A FOREIGN BRIDE
HOW ENGLISH IS THE
ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY?
Then there are the Astors.
LORD BLANDFORD, the Duke of Marl- The first baron cumme to this
borough's heir, may or may not have been in-country from America with his
Philadelphian wife and was fluenced by tradition in his choice of a wife.
naturalised in 1899. One of the
All the same his marriage to Tina Livanos, the former wife of the Greek shipowner, Aristotle Onassis, is following an extraordinarily powerful tradition of the English peerage.
The popular notion that
aristocrats seek their wives It is simply a fact of aristo- from the flawlessly suitable ranks of upper-class English-cratic life, best explained, pet- haps, by the greater mobility women may not be wholly inac-
Rrud more comprehensive social curate.
life which the aristocrats enjoy
Leven today,
Foreign brides.
But these aristocrats do have a notable Lendency to атту foreign brides-beautiful women, often; rich women, no less oftens but foreigners,
alien to tweedy life in the Nancy Mitford
the
country.
The earlier Dukes of Mari- who married foreign borough wives belonged to & pretty widespread movement among the 19th century peerage.
American
wives
fact?
present peer's brothers married the daughter of the Argentine
ambassador in London,
Lurd Lansdowne found his wife in California - Barbara Chase, daughter of famous American family.
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Viscount Hudson, son of the wartime Minister of Agriculture. himself Fermarkably exemplifies is aristocratic tendency to look overseas for wives. Не married a French girl in 1948. His father married an Ameri- can. His grandfather married an Italian as his second wife.
Of all the women involved In this international match- How English then, English
is the making, one of the most re- aristocracy in Consider a few cases.
Lord Esher, that stout defen- der of old English buildings, married in American-Antoin- ette Hecksher of New York.
markable WAS "Double torian times.
Duchess" of
After three months, the
Singapore
King.
Since the discovery of the "magic water" about a month northwest of Kuala Lumpur, more than 100,000 people have visited the spring, meluding some of the child; en of Malaya's
The spring's water is supposed to cure all ills, The brother of the Sultan of Kelantan, Tengku Zainal Maulud, 27, was fired $1,000 for assisting in the management of a gaming house recently.
He was operating the gahb- Government ling den in one of his brother's
has lifted its ban on the palaces.
import
of
commodities
from Hongkong and The first Colombo Pláň Cón-
China, imposed in Sep-
tember as an anti-cholera
measure.
The ban was imposed 00
ference to be held in the Federal capital will cost the Federation Govern- ment $350,000.
fruit, vegetables, fish, meat and Provision has been made for meat products from Hongkong, a 300-strong secretariat $20,000 Formosa and China following worth of street decorations a reports of cholera in Hongkong fleet of 50 cars and a felay teim and South China.
of umbrella bearers welded The immediate result of the because of the monsoon weather announcemeul was 1 rush to now setting in cable orders for fresh food- About 200 delegates from 21 stuffs. Within 24 hours over countries and observers from $1 million worth of orders five international organisations had been placed.
will take part in the 'conference.
HAMS FIGHT A RADIO WAR
They blot out pirate broadcasts
By JAMES IRVINE
Beethoven
Surely the FROM the radio came the relaxing strains
to be shattered by stacatto squeaks of morse. The world-wide radio war was on. And I was in the front line.
My radio was tuned around 40 mum,ma metres-by international agree- ment a band reserved for those amateur radio enthusiasts call- ed hams.
The daughter of Count von Alten of Hanover, she came s father had marted the here as the bride of the seventh daughter of the Minister at the Duke of Manchester.
Forty Belglah Embassy in London. years later a widow, she married The eighth Duke married a The Earl of Perth, 17th in his again the eighth Duke of Mrs Hammersley. Widow of a line and at present Minister of Devanshire, rich American, and the result- State for Colonial Affairs, mar-
ing flow of dollars transformed Flea an American, y rinch Excellent,
Blenheim. It provided central st
New York,
heating and electric light, among forebears
other comforts.
One
took baroness for a wife.
of his recent
а French
Then the next Duke, grand- The Earl of Rosslyn, only a no doubt.
father of the present Lord few years ago, married the Blandford, married an American daughter of a French dukke, Lord
To have married two Dukes wife and an Atherican fortune. Russell of Liverpool's wife is in one
lifetime distinguishes HI's wite
Consuelo also the daughter of a French her even among this gallery of Vanderbilt, heiress to one of the aristocrat,
unusual weMEN. great American fortunes.
Lord Sackville is married to
was
'Business
transaction'
This was a cold-blooded marri age, more of a business transac than a romantic match tion with the family lawyer sallibe to the United States to fix the marriage settlement and proud ly annduar that he would do his best for the Doble family represented, die von
New York.
would settle the matter in 48 hours."
Meanwhile the raucous wa goes on with talk of the conflict Recently music from Peking, being raised with the United Karachi and Cairo has been Nations. broadcast
these wave- lengths to the annoyance of hame throughout the world. They have protested to the offending Governments.
Excluded **
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The present allocation of wave-bands, inade at th inter- But the powerful transmitters national conference of Geneva, have continued" to broadcast came into force last May. music and propaganda.
The Chinese Government fo Now the hams, sitting in their fuses to accept any restrictions. suburban drawing rooms and on The Communistentes al lonely farms have declared war they were excluded nem
conference. ' on China, Pakistan and drypt.
row bird of Beethoven, läs
The oftending tothering A few bar: Timone voice which maya: "You laatening mean time
to Hadio Peking," is the signal make for a col of morso Refs to grav begin chattering.
an Ameriëdii, Amê Meredith, of One could sum up by saying that like the rest of us our aristocracy are a mixed: 101--- The father of the present but they seen far more likely Ent) of Rosebery married a than most people to retresh Rothschild—a family which, their Uneake although 'à part of the oversees. English scene today, came here from the Continent and of century and a half ago.
She's from
Consuelo had an intip California time, at Blenheim, and got her
liberty in the end.
The daughter of Chilean
doubta
Royal
this, John, successor diploma in The Countess THOMPSON
forelemäriliis contracted by of Lliburtie throat her (inar- the twidens of Hellish Atiki?...: ringe fo the prament Watt 45 1914.
allignesa
The broadcasts are jammed in
a flurry of mola
up to to anything we th
to get them out. They have no
quencies,
-(Londen Express #sreich),
the
arnateurs:
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