A SHIP TO EXILE IS ORDERED FOR TRUJILLO FAMILY
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N entire family is shortly to be shipped from the Dominican Republic. It is the family of the late and unlamented dictator Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo who was assassinated last May.
The President of the Republic. Joaquin Balaguer, has said that the time has come fur "concilia- tion and concord."
Bloodthirsty
He wants the three opposition parties in the State to join him in a coalition Government
to
test until the promised free elec- tions next May. And he is giving Ip to their demands that the whose blood- haled Trujillos, thirsty rule lasted 30 years, must
Ko
the
The Folled States Govern- ment, we can be sure, is watch- ing developinenİS in the Dominican Republic closely. Just
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If Cuba. Balaguer succeeds in making his country a working democracy blow wtf! have been struck against Castro.
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On the other hand things
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broke off trade and diplomatie relations with the Dominican Republic. This followed Trujillo-organised attempt assassinate President Betancourt of Venezuela.
Penitential
One consequence is that the takes t'nited States no longer Whic Republic's sugar.
for Balaguer is anxious O.A.S. boycott to be lifted.
THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1961.
CONCLUDING
The voyage is
nearly over. The
West Indian
migrants to
Britain prepare
L
to face their new life
I SAIL WITH THE MIGRANTS by Anne Sharpley
NOW began five days of cold, seasickness and
beggary. Few had warm clothes
many
had gambled away the little money with which they might have bought a sweater (£2 10s.) or an overcoat (£3 10s.) from the ship's store.
Puker
stakes were sometimes
And as high as £3 And Chonge,
the the wides!
buy on board, told
he
Thus, cartier this month appeared before the United Nations in penitential garb and asked for forgiveness for "three decades of political savagery" (in which He himself had played setne part).
Balaguer has still to convince the United States and the Latin- American countries that he will
me that some had ust as much as £8 in a day
"Spent all my money gam- blin', missus, will you give me some?" I was asked again and again.
could go badly wrong. It is still be successful in making the next HOMELY CURE
on the cards that Balaguer could
be displaced by a revolution and
a Castro-type dictator set up in
his place.
at
Concessions
Certainly there is no goarnoter the moment that the
Dominican Republic gag become a demperacy The concessions that Balagurr has made were
forced on him by large-scale
rioting in which right people have been killed and many more wounded or Jatled.
Moreover, 54-year-old Presi- dent Balaguer is an out-and-out Trujillo man.
He has some loyalty to the family. For he has so far refused to expel Trujo's son. Rafael (Ramtis), the ineffectua) commander of the armed forces. He has, however, over-ridden Remis's
objections ("the military wil not take orders from civillans") to the rest of the Trujillo family being exiled. The main reason for Balaguer's new-found love of demoersey is the Republic's economic plight.
The Organisation of American Slates which includes in this Cake the U.S.A. - last year
three decades any betler.
-London Express Service).
ARTIE..
Artze-
"I hear there won't be a
fall-out for another Jix months."
London Express Service.
Seasickness was treated by a homely Sure freely offered by a lively little man they called "the witch doctor" whose cure was to rub the head and shoulders with boy administer a dose of lime juice and give the sufferet some gin- ger root to chew (Needless to say there were also more ortho- dox medical services
by the ship),
TUI,
provided
No attempt to heat the ship was made--and it was su cold thal 1, who am after all used to cold, wore a triple thickness of clothes. a woollen dress and a silk sweater under a woollen sull
The
hall was de- recavation
and we huddled in our serted cabins.
got
round
The first
sight of
England
-and
so cold
For two nights we shivered in our bunks as the ship rolled Rnd pitched.
"Any reason why you haven't
Word
that the put the heat on?" 1 saked the Castors were going to be tough third purser. "It's not cold," he so the supplies of "ganja" said, blandly, muffled In (marijuana) were hastily sweater. smoked. ("Gotta let the smell out sometimes." said One-Son, the ship's ganja "pusher," with a cloud of blue a wink when smoke rolled out of the cabin doot after him.)
JOURNEY'S END for threa—just off the ship and fasling the frat chill of an English autumn.
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Japanese
newsletter
The
many faces
of Japan
Tokyo.
The many faces which Japan displays to the world at large, are now in sore need of treatment by an expert beautician. The masks for that's what they are-are wearing thin and ugly.
The Foreign Ministry has let
the
arise position
where Japanese in South Africa will: be elevated to the status uf
honorary white men as the Group Areas Board in the land that of apartheid has ruled Japanese will be free to "live in or we any hotel, patronise any at restaurant or cinema, swim any
beach and travel where they please."
The Japanese are still drying their tears over the rebuff they got during the quaint Cabinet level conference between Japan and America when it was made quite plain this country is not
• full member of the Western
camp
the
same
But no heating came al- In the customs sheds the cus- though it was put on for the toma officers were producing
boltles first-class passengers,
of rum out of luggage like rabbits out uf hats. That night we slept in our
to the injured coets
Magically-and them). (those that had Some even slept in their life astonishment the
luggage There was jackets.
Force owners. i marched to the first purser. "These people are from a tropi- Eight gale.
Some had tinted the fire-water cal climate and they have no Next morning it was proudly warm clothes. Please put the
friends it isn't considered the night with syrup and were calling it announced: "During heating on."
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By now extremely angry. went to the first purser (in his warm office) and once mort kicked up a row.
Fnally, for the last few hours sboard, we got our heat.
I
"cordial."
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Others had half led the bot- Lles with pimento seeds and were calling "medicine." Others had burled it in bags of matze. The customs men were kind-but unfooled.
Preparations for a grand arri- EMPTY
val were made. I sorted out,
thankfully, the last of the ear-
splitting rows between mem-
ber of the Crew and summe
POCKETS
migrants. (Those of the crew The 600 migrants, who in the
few who had no English simply last resorted to jolly and sometimes an uneasy angry whoops, as though they the ship were herding cattle.)
"Puzzo, Puzzo" (stink, stink) the steward was shouting in the cabin opposite mine.
group of women were curling their hair with irons that they were heat- Ing over Httle oil stoves of their
own.
days had contrived unity and to whom had given an illu- sion of shelter and at least the assurance of the next meal, now faced dispersal. Some with empty pockets. Sometimes with more than an address nothing
the barest geographical and knowledge of how to reach it.
The National, Assistance Board were there to help those had not even the fare to who London from Southampton (they assisted 28 of those on the As- carla).
By
token-and through its trwn strange ideas of how to win people and make
a
true member of the Afro-Asian bloc either.
Asiatics
of
make a mund dash to gél to
work,
Bogged down
The pressure of people in Tokyo and Osaka Is probably incurable. By Western standards, Japanese offices are Höpe- lessly over-staffed and all forms of business are com plicated by bureaucratic regulations"- which entail endlau "permitand form-filling. izvor
To give some idea of the way Japanese firms become, bogged down by numbers of employees, I can cite one newspaper which has no less than 600 people in the newsroom alone, Onehun- dred could do a more cient Job but the question is what to do with the surplus 300
Families beggar themedies to put their children through a university course. Many lead- ing enterprises will accept new employees only if they've got a degree from one of the "snob value" universities
As the State does not provide for the aged, proper pensions the production of sons and daughters is still regarded as the best kind of insurance for the later years. Dutiful child, ren contribute their earnings to the family household-and em- ployers hate firing anybody, Ba they realise that in doing so they may cause hardship to the person's family. And so it goes on,
Nothing alters the basic fact that Japan is an Asian country and Its people are Asiatics, but in its undignified grab for big business, Japan will pretend to
be. anything. Even religious ilets are played upon whenevet the purpose suits,
Within the past few months
mouths through the Japanese politicians and busf- ness leaders-Japan has been "a great Christian nation“ and an equally great "Bud- dhist nation.” It switches over to being an eternal de fender of the Prophet and a "great Moslemn nation" when,
There are just too many ever the occasion warrants. Japanese for their own good on Next month the Foreign the small territory left to them. Minister of Israel is due to The traffic wipes out over 1,000 make a visit, so for a limited per month, they commit leide and perlod Japan will probably in disturbing numbers become
a. "great Jewish through other unnatural theans nation."
slaughter themselves by the thousands. the With every member of Afro-Asian bloc-and a lot of others too-now condenining South Africa's racial policies, it One small Indian boy stood
seems a mighty England, green,
strange time
Through the -nerve-wrackini briefly sunlit. A little girl quiet and shivering in his shirt, for Japan to agree that its cit
as pace they've set themselves, the a slebveless
zens will not be regarded nylon frock He was 14. He had no money.
"Asians" And this comes Just Japanese must now a g peeps from behind me where she Nobody was there to meet him is sheltering from
at the time Prime Minister Ikea abou, the most temperamental the biting in Southampton. All he had was wind: "Is that London?" "No, an address in N.18.
is about to set off on a "good- and for that matter, hysterical It's the English countryside."
will mission through most of people anywhere. "Them cane fields?" she asked
Asia. "No, grass," I said. Them's lawns then," she corrected me.
I arranged for them to go elsewhere and curl their hair.
A petrol took Its chances among the granite waves,
{BITING WIND
There
was
Big summer hats billowed on to the deck. All new "send off" finery — why hadn't they spent the money that those pretty outfits had so clearly cost oh warm things?
Addresses written on cigar- ette packets in Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton --- were produced. One man had Lost his and now he had no meaus of finding his brother in Bristol
BEWILDERED
Mrs Methalyn Black stood be- wildered awhile with her four children. She had expected her husband to meet her. Now, calm- The men wrap towels round ly, she led her little brood to their heads, or knot handker- the train.
chiets over their brows so that
their ears are covered — and 1 delivered Ivorine to her put their trilby hats on top. ・・・ Aunt Tuts address in Totten-
For the sake of a handful of businessmen, Japan has gÍVÉN an affront to the other. Asians by lowering its dignity in maki Ing a side deal with South Africa on the colour question.
CONGESTION
Ivorine struggles for the first but Aunt Tuts, & halt The Government has ordered
dresser, was at work. Thinking time in her life with stockings the next door neighbour might and suspenders and puts pn know
where
ƏRLİE-
her pretty-yellow coat and white knocked and inquired.
hat
worked, I
Few had stood on the deck, A boot-faced English-woman remembered, to see Jamaica go in a turban gave me a look I
but hundreds stood mutely shall never forget.
staring at England, "Just like St Kitts," said someone, seeking, one felt, for some point of simil-
Immigration officers came on board and the slow pro
I don't have anything to do with "They're niggers, next door,
them." Blam.
For Ivorine and 600
Coms of arrival started. The like her, the new and remainder of the stowaways who terrible
[ Find been..."uzidalectedWere
irbanded up.
dot 417h said one, in explanation, another a boy In
adventure
had really begun.
THE END
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Desperation
A symptomatka example was that of a 15-year, old Boy in
■Tokyo suburb who became fed up with the moise (mado by netorevellata (the Kami- nari-voku" or "Thunder,
as they, roared past her hours. In desperation, he grabbed a shovel and bashed one as he screeched past. The lout on the bite was killed butright as he swerved Into a šele pole.
Havens
When teens rotukide, get so
barely reached the
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