An immediate question for every M.P.
Is this why we take
a back seat over Berlin?
By
Douglas Clark
THERE is one question to which M.P.'s, now
they have returned to Westminster, should
give their immediate attention.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1961.
I SAIL WITH THE MIGRANTS: PART III
THE VOYAGE begins at Kings- ton, Jamaica. On board the liner Ascania: the latest group of West Indian migrants sailing to Britain. Also on board: Top Woman reporter Anne Sharpley,
wouldn't energy dancin'
prostitute
my
time since 1958 said stowed away to them," elegant young Jamaican known A Pup Squarehead whose father owns a fight club in Kingston,
SHOULDN'T TRY
He was not being unkind. was just one of those things that white folks shouldn't try.
Occasionally, indeed frequent- ly, a quiver would pass through the ship as yet another slow-
way was discovered.
figure Eventually
After two days the bad reached 15.
it was to reach 43!
They
cheerful, were such blatant stowaways. No sneak ong into lifeboats - they con
for their incais to
room and slept in
the dining
the cabins
just like everyone else. wni! when challenged to show tickets, they were discovered.
They were then do work around the ship order to pay jus 2
ill, The passage money,
expreted in In
TE
a strong.
They were jailed for 28 days contradic- a Southampton on arrival tube heady,
Some- released in England afterward mixture. times it would be the "ve without prssports were un
back to Kingston, of juvenile court. unmistakable smell
une
More than this, on Occasion "ganja" (hemp) being Pwenty-year-old Patrick Jack.
vivid speeches of Lord
Home the Foreign Secretary, surreptitiously
apar less designed to
ed that he was
investigating the immigrant story from its sunny beginning to where it ends on the dockside at Southampton. She continues her report
that he had
Ise not the (thief) mug, Dat not my line. My line slow- away. I see a boat come in and gotta ketch 11,"
And the Caribbean Sca (named after the Carib Indians, the original inhabitants) was su called because i was the sea beyond which our fulk parents were carried beyond.
"The Carried-Beyond Sea," he
Patrick. although from BG explained calmly.
had served
apprenticedir
in the calypso tents of Trinidad -and could cho play the steel drum ("par"}
Three other Klown why were of the sect known as the Rasta- fartre Movement.
It is
By ANNE
SHARPLEY
"Back Lo Africa and
believe they movement Emperor Haile Selassie to be a "living God," and the reincar nation of Christ.
L
They Emperor Ethiops
bave approached to be admitted
'COMMON LAW
Twn the three Rasiafarlans had children by then commen law" wives
One of them: had no fuit his wife that he was coming to England "She must have guess I been wat fur
duy now"
1! e sometimes difficult to understand the West Indian They altitude toward children. love them and care for them. and yet their manner of having them seems
tus. To say the
rast random
Forty-five per cent of babies are born out wedlock
Yet this is because of a very different attitude towards maj riage was to learn Marriage I status to be achieved in maturity and is not merely an institution for
the procreation. and protection of children.
-
•To see
them
playing
with
children
... one
could
never
doubt
that they
love
children
"he fretting," she said. "If She had proved, according to
ald find some bitter vater" Jamaican country tradition that she was not a "mule." Baving ja country remedy for procur- that Ing a miscarriage) "would hatt Iw "Degilonates"
of take even if God be vex." tradition runicer country
would now probably her she have no more until she married at the age of 30.
As the Family Welfare Asso- ciation's
The West report L‹เลย
10 Comes
England, On the whole, the expresses il·
workers tend to West Indian marry late but they commence parenthood early
So when 21-year-old Girlie the told me that, although into ried, she was already the molber of a baby and was expecting yel another, to be born in England
had paid for her "We believe in universal love, by the young man she had been "friending" she was not book- ing for sympathy
smoked man of Brish Guiana explaine
a profes dural no matter what class or creed." ease that struck one (I tested stowaway This was the seventh and 17-year-old Joseph. to give them the the market and found it
cost about two shillings:
The way to talks with the Rus Maths than hon mer.
الله
What has gone Wrong? Why this strange,
equivocal Why "Piruach"
Mr Macmillan himself in the
وعنها تمة عدائي
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&
The Slay
su diffidently
hadows"
Contrast the pression Jay The drive, dhe organelny, bie snooth competenc
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Love diminished As a new
Berlin crisis rule Forward Britain Wkes a back seat
West's or all the
Big Final she is playing the dimnest tule
The
ututun ix] Franke ind
Wes! Centuary J. Clearcut, They do not want a West to promote negotiations will the Kemin They claim
is Pais playing Kruschey's gaine.
So tame
a reefer).
Sometimes
prayer
Was
it meeting, or a man sat quietly reading his Bible.
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The conclusion scems 10- ewapable. Since his great inter-
almal days Some new faclor Sometimas dancing would must have emerged to put the start up among the bays
tha! Jarak 415) British diplomatic was su forcetic and Riventive That Ivorine. my rubin-mate. placu would took up sally
PLATNOS
Auf
at i hon
Across the road to ¿i Berlit: dreadly trum ber crocheting
de
a fresh
s.c
Settlement has fallen obstacle: Britain's application to join the Common Market.
To enter
Mackel FLOURÍS The
backg D General
Gaulle
Bud DT Adeuane Everything
depends on mautamung good relations with Prance and West Germany,
1 t these Powers which oppose
The United States leads the mogotation. opposite argument.
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compromise
She
Through
SPPTION Falks
with him. and so, be sure, does
Britain.
it
the
Very Berlin
How, then, casi Mi Macmillan
How move out of the wings" can he resume the end ni pres- SUN for East-West understand-
int say of the Jeeping imyn
Them feel good."
sal we
st,
d
Peter Burgoyne's
News
Girlie was got sure how her relations in Birmingham, who passage, would take the news that she was expecting another baby.
from Britain
Form is being studied and preparations begun for the next big classic of the British political scene the General Election Stakes.
Other
times arved in silence.
We were especially unrespon- Five when small dance band
of four Ezed up
Italian crew mribers played, as they every other aught (there WAR The event is not due for an-
But the also a Trinidadian group and a other couple of years. reverd player to which we glad training programme cannot be
danced or stened).
gin toe early The Labour Party their cost in found this out to Fur white mezi of no Inte
1958 when their brilliant nad than usual cumpetéace to play to
burst could not match the years in rhythm WY
+7[ extensive and expensive rather like West Indians sing ground work carried out on be Optra in Italian,
bulf of the Conservative Party.
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these expeETS thinly and lamely ng? He dare not end has two
fiddle tu European Allies.
But how
the junior
Washington.
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Conservative time the machine the first to slip into its well-oiled top gear. In the driver's
Macleod. seat is fain
the former Bright Young Tory whose brightness has increased
with naddie age.
Convert
The Liberals are preparing carefully planned shock tactics. Their idea is to attack key posi- tions (marginal seals) rather than dissipate their energies over a broad front.
So
groups
And the Labour Party? far little more than appeals from the leaders for action. But more action and effort is still being expended by opposing within the party trying to con- vert each other than in the party as a whole trying to convert the nation.
www.
general popularity has increas- d But the stark fact is that of 630 seals
in the House of Commons they hold only seven And two of these are held by rourtesy of Tory-Liberal deals In the particular constituencies
Failure
There pacts have now been broken off by the Conservatives. The middle of its term of office is generally the time for government To Jose favour. Especially this one. with yet another economic crisis, the failure of the defence plan and the dashing of Mr Macmillan's hopes of establishing hiraseli as the international mediator.
In the Conservative Party it- self, morate has seldom been lower. Mr Macmillan "Super- mac" of a couple of years ago, is no longer the "Macwonder" that cures ali ills and washes brightest of all. He has become like the other line of washing, the "before" instead of the
"after"
When he spoke in the House at the beinning of this new session his own backbencheTS
It is natural lo a way to be received him in non-committal more worried
about meinters silence.
of one's own family who have gone astray than be concerned with bringing others into the fold. But this does not make for successful politics.
So to form. With three by- elections in a week
We have had a chance to sec who will make the running. The results have been significant but not in the way it might seem.
Gains
Enthusiasm
The old order
changeth
Britain's modern army has got everything. It has got mattresses, bedside lamps, central heating, decent wages and all the modern comforts of civilion life.
got
strikes.
IL has also Strikes that work.
Well, it was almost a strike, a boycott anyway.
It happened when u Regi- mental Sergeant-Major asked a paratrooper whether he had a vietin to go with "that hair- cut". This remark is straight out of the sergeant-majory' bumper fun book and, issued with the force of countless thousand decibels, is a subtle way of suggesting that the soldier in question should go to the barber's.
All great fun. There is even a bit of mime to go with it. The sergeant-major runs his pace stick across the back of the soldier's neck.
But
RESULTS The commanding officer stopped the sergeant-
MURJOTTY meal times.
advice being given a
A 'YARD BABY'
Her
existing
three-year-old
is known as sur is what "yard" baby-i.e. it is looked after by the father of the child. And yet to see the West Indians playing with and caring for the 60 children aboard, one that they never doubl could love children--and that they are happy children.
On the third day we called on the small West Indian islands of St Kitts, Montserrat and Antigua-to pick up and put down passengers.
We showed a fitting sense of what to do. We threw out fish- ing lines the moment the ship. slopped off-shore, waiting for the tenders to come out.
of
We stuck our heads out the portholes, threw oranges, spat, showered insults, re- cognised our relations("Hey, man, I know you You's my uncle") and merrily helped the crew with hauling
up the gangplank,
VICTORIAN
A: Antigua-all gold bays, and white wind- green hills mills, like something a Victorian governess might have designed He had the to amuse her charges on a wet Not only that.
afternoon, a horse with a man men on the
told square and
on is back galloped along the them: "If you've got a man sand, making us feel inter-
ship-bound-and chaps, come to me and I'll try te settle it,"
They will he stewards, next.
having shop
The Arcadians
I report, modestly, that have found the
answer to international tension.
But credit, Brst, where it is due. I am developing a theme originated by the American
navy.
When 2,400 American sailors
arrived in Britain recently they were given a confidential, three-page guide to the British people.
It described us as "healthy, handsome,
sturdy, people- clean-limbed, clear-skinned with a muscular co-ordination of a land of athletes.
All we have got to do now
is to issue the rose-coloured
自己 minabiy
with his cocker English vicar spaniel was taken ashore
Our last sight of land for ten days.
Bul my fellow migrants from Jamaica were apprais- ing the preity, "small islands" very differently,
By the time we had half- crossed the Atlantic someone from a "small island" abuard the Ascanta was to be in danger of being beaten up.
TOMORROW:
The fight
(London Express Service).
U.S. wants a Briton on first moon trip
spectacles as worn by the man From CHAPMAN PINCHER who drew up the document to the world's top politicians.
They will have hardly, got them settled on their noses be
the sergexat-major in fore Jack Kennedy will be ring- question had the habit of duing ing up Moscow to inquire whe- this in the mess (sorry, dining ther Comrade Kruschev is still in good health to be met with: room).
"Good of you to ring end Where has the sparkle gone?
defender of The tough paratroopers, who greetings to you, the way of his It has gone
do not share the the peace and of the rights of great cause-to lead the way in obviously easing world tension. Mr Mac sergeant-major's sense of hum the working class of the world. millan is a great man for causes our, got fed up and boycotted While you are on the line I can on details of our latest (or gimmicks as his opponents the dining room, and went to pass
rocket discoveries." would say). Without them he the NAAFI for lunch. soems to find it diffouli lo sus-
tain his enthusiasm for day-to- --day-politics..
In each of the by-elections-
a com-
Dissent in the ranks, lack of of policy, East Fife, Mos Side and leadership, tailures Oswestry the government held perhaps the Liberals do stand a the cats, but the Liberals made chance after all? Possibly, if the to be sweeping gains, mostly from the General Mection were Conservatives.
held next week.
A Liberal
In two years' time Not revival? proven. For more Ukely a case of pletely different picture will be Conservatives do disentialed luke-warm. Tories presented.
should wadding a warning finger at the not argue about who government by staying away steer the ship when it is in and of the sull more dimatisied danger of sinking. doading voters registering their disapproval by voting Liberal.
Then it is all hands to the pumps, don't rock the boat atid There is no doubt that under all the other cilches. And an the leadership of grunding election is just the sort of cause Grimmund, the Liberals to rekindle the Macmillan fame.
Jo
Glorious, glorious
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Washington. ERITON may go on the frat Western rocket trip to the moon.
Several R.A.F. pilots have taken tests at the Lovelace Founda- tion. New Mexico, where U.S. astronauts get medical and physiological checks, The R.A.F. names are being kept secret, but I was told they "did extraordinarily well." Scientists who aim to send three-man crew to. the
a
Thoon before the Russions want Briton included bécanec:— FIRST, it would give an inter-
national flavour to the enter prise and make it clear they are not trying to claim the moon at U.S. territory, SECOND: The standards for moon crews will be so exact ing that the U.S. may need volunteers from other coun tries for a corps of 300, 008; monauts.
These will have to include sclebtists and the number at scientists who can satiety the medical
physiological 18 expected
and
requirements
be
THURD: The Americans Haw
baller chance the Russian
into a pool.: London
of ovarlaking
if they dis
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