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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
JAMES CAMERON
sends the story
of the African tobacco belt
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948.
Maybe
your
smoking is prejudiced!
SALISBURY, Rhodesia, of them as making packets
NOUTHERN Rhodesin, which claims to be the up-and- comingest country in to-
still lives day's atlas,
On cigarettes. So, more often than not, do I. Southern Rhodesia grows tobacco, we smoke it, so why does Britain buy from America?
It seems all the silller here, where the stands of thick, oily planta bury a man from sight, where you can smoke yourself sick for two Rhodesian for 30. and-tuppence leaf, of course.
I have not a Players or a Gold Flake for six or seven weeks, and shall not wildly mind if I never do trudge round the again. If you world a bit outside the Pullman' fringe you learn to rationalise your smoking prejudices,
Bitter Dust
LREADY your
Lost
year
there
of
was
in Southern
and not a
money, Rhodesian tobacco. Why not? They £7,500,000 Involved can sell all they grow, dollar changes hands.
Reasonable
question: Why buy American tobacco at all? Obviously, politics. One condition of Britain's economic indebtedness to Americu is n certain tendernens to its big commercial interests. It is clearly desirable that we disentangle our- selves from that whenever possible. We can hardly do so until Rhodesia can supply all we need.
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In Southern Rhodesia there is Frent impulse to cash in on the dollar situation.
concerned by tobneco
The Government, everyone's urge to grow at the expense of food, is limiting the plantations. Moreover, Rhodesia has knows that Rhodesian tobacco
Pu
It contains
MOSCOW?"IT'S THE WORK OF THE AMERICANS-AND THE CATHOLICS —*
THE MUGS: ~- AND YOU"
ITALIAN ELECTION RESULT
ROOK
"Copyright
All Countries)
HERE IS THE LESSON OF ITALY'S ELECTION
The
Road to Riga
BY MAURICE
EDELMAN
signed by Morgan Phillips-as curlous perhaps it might seem to an Englishman if n poster at an election in Manchester
a nome to live down in the export Leave nside the statistical and world. It is anxious not to see the still markel nooded with inferior tobacco, political reasons why Britain smokes U.S. tobacco, there still hastily processed; it has in mind n remains the argument: I can't smoke wonderful future when people will in preference Empire stuff. The answer is that ask for Rhodesians
as, right now, I do myself. you can, and do.
"Virginian" Is a vague term American anyhow. If
If you mean three-and-six- tobacco, then most of it comes from
you mean a pence-for-twenty Virginians are the Carolinas. It
the plant thenTHE Italians have voted being made from Empire tobacco in a specific variety of
for the West," said the proportion the Imperial Tobacco this is it, the lusty fat-leafed vegeta- Southern Rhodesian
Socialist doctor, as we Company won't define for you, but ble on the which you may be sure is bigger uplands.
rather less nicotine listened to the election results than you think. If you could com-
Socialist M.P. for Coventry West were signed "Togliatti." pare a pre-Players with the con- than the U.S. leaf, and burns, so in Stresa.
"They've voted for their
I had temporary product you would soon they insist rather better.
thought that the America has a long start. Settlers breakfast," said the Communist R realise it, too.
school-teacher. This is not boost-for-Rhodlans in Rhodesia brought in U.S. seed,
the Tricky
dent united Socialist Party Italians-the Italians who had once cried with Garibaldi, "Out week, either; the statement is that learned
would today be a powerful with the foreigners l"-might you can, eventually, smoke onything business from books. In 1942 there export at all. Now
element in the Italian Govern- have resented this intervention. and like it. I smoke, not for pleasure was no tobacco but from necessity, and I have there are more than 10,000 Europeans 75,000
In point of fact, the letters and All of them were right. The ment. Inured myself to the highly in the business and about
the Labour messages from majority of Italians had decided varlegated tobaccos of all manner
The unexpectedly high vote
Party were an important en- by a free vote that a non-Com- of places.
breakaway Saragat couragement to Italian social America I con get on cas could be a practical proposition munist government would give of the anyono can) with Luckics and international politics aside
them the best chance of eating Socialists, despite their lack of democrats, and certainly con- Chesterfields, just as in Europe for Southern Rhodesia to provide
an electoral machine and of a tributed to their relative can make do with Gauloise and Britain with all the tobacco she needs, their bread in peace. Khedives and even the Hille rose- at a purely sterling expenditure.
Although the Communists large working-class following, is success. Upped Amoresques.
First essential would be the guaran. For a week last year in India we tee. Second would be labour-tobacco alleged for the record after the proof of the numbers of Italians were down to smoking three-year- requires more skilled Africans to the election that there had been a cereal fraud and corruption, there was old Comels looted and resold from acre than, for example,
In
Atricans,
Sterling
equipment.
fluecuring
"The Italians," said the priest, "have voted to keep body and soul together."
a flooded store, dried on the pave- crop, and the cost of such labour hardly a single complaint on ment to a brittic brown paper is rising.
a dozen enclosing particles of bitter dust. Third is the big dimculty: polling-day itself. At
Tobacco stations that I visited in Milan They were all right once you got Agricultural used to the cardiac spasmu.
farming gear comes from America, the queues were orderly and Now I am smoking Pilots and and costs dollars, and is very respectful. The peasants whom Bears and Springboks and Gold
Producers scarce in Rhodesia.
are I watched voting at the village Leaf and Clippers, and thriving now suggesting that, since Britain on them. I have even managed has saved $10,000,000 (£4,000,000) of San Pietro dell'Ulmo took off the plantations. Moreover, Rhodesia by buying Rhodesian tobacco, she their hats as though they were which is straight chemical war should give Rhodesla some of that going into church. fare. After that don't, tell me you can't smoke Rhodesian.
cred!!
earmarked for buying to- The Italians were well aware bacco machinery in U.S.
Top export still could not TOBACCO is still this
Is there any good reason why we that the world was observing as de- not full two of those con- their ability to behave
themocrats, and the results was a country's ditions? If we cannot abolish
1,000 dollar smoke now, at least we can model election. The Celere fly-
БО for doing twice prepare the stage
ing squads, tucked away in the Most soon.
side streets, had nothing to do but yawn over their carbines.
majór export. About farmers are in the business, as many as two years ago.
American Angle:
IT'S THE OLD ADAM
By Newell Rogers
EL
EDELMAN
A
The Nenni telegram, on the other hand, had little more influenco than the Oxford under-graduate who mado public speech in Milan, sup porting Nenni and claiming to speak for the Labour youth of Britain.
L'Unita, the Communist news- paper, did not attempt to say that the 37 signatories to the telegram represented anything more than a dissident minority in
the party, und reported clearly in its issue of April 19. that they were likely to be punished for insubordination.
The Saragat Socialists in-the- who want a Western type of Mondo Nuovo of the following reformist Socialism and recog- day referred to disciplinary attributed res-
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BUT the election was more
than a test of Italian char- nise the dangers of fusion. As measures, but
it is, like the lamented lady ponsibility exclusively to Flatta acter. It was, in a sense, world by-election in which the from Riga who went for a ride Mills. Only the Conservative Corriere della Sera got really worked up about this stab-in- parties of Communism, anti- on a tiger and returned as Communism and the Third smile
on its face, the Nenni the-back to Socialism. But the
to rattlesnake Jersey marriage licence wed Force all had an interest. Socialists have been swallowed fears in London that the Sara-
Dorothy Patlence May, aged 40,
Over the shoulder of the hunters banquetted one.re-
dis- port as a result of the telegram cent night in Okcene, Oklahoma, GENERAL HOYT VANDENBERG, Christian Democrats peered the up-though instead of a smile gat Socialists would lose sup- new U. S. air staff chief, Americans. The British Labour they have left a rather before starting for the hills with graduated at the bottom of his class Party stood behind the Saragat contented frown on the face were not widely shared in Italy
ONE hundred
forked sticks on their ninth an- from America's Sandhurst.
And Russia, silent of the Popular Front, Socialists. nual roundup.
£12,500,000 SUIT for damages Some members of the Inter- A
In his domestic programme, was filed against the U. S. Go-and massive, backed the Popu- national Rattlesnake Hunters vernment by Monsanto Chemical Jar Front.
Nenni was rather to the right Association went hundreds of Company. It charges the Govern- As the elections went on, it of the British Labour Party; miles for the fun.
with failure to provide for Okeene, rattlers are just coming blew up in Texas City harbour a of hibernation. The hunters year ago, killing 500 people and
ment
out practise with their sticks on live juring 3,000. rabbits before seeking the makes.
snakebite.
TAX-CHAMPION Gene Sarazen,
Duncan. Locke
says he La not
could offer nothing in the way
-with reason, as events have proved.
strength.
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Do
trade
HE Sarogat Socialists have suc- In the rocky gypsum hills outside proper handling of explosives which became clear that the Russians and no Socialists can view with cessfully resisted the false Com-
blunder which has deprived Third Force means a vote for of material inducement that the anything but regret the tactical charge that the false Com- West could not outbid.
a leader Gasperi, for Feselam and for war. Western Socialism-of While the Communists were who was
suffering for his Their present task is to win over In eight hunts only four people
at the National Masters Golf have been bitten. Nono died.
Zoo and medical laboratory agents Tournament opening in Augusta, speaking vaguely of Polish coal political beliefs at a time when the working class and the
Georgia: "These British, with and Soviet cereals, Mr Dunn, some of his Labour critics in unions, the basis of a Labour Party's are in Okeene to pay 6s. per snake Henry Cotton and Bobby Locke, the United States Ambassador, Britain had not yet made up to get serum from the venom which are the biggest foreign threat since Is the only known Antidote for the days of Abe Mitchell and George was welcoming a U.S. grain their mind which party to join.
ship at Naples. "Workers unite! Last year 5,000 hunters caught feeling well, but watch out for You have nothing to lose but Marshall Aid," is not a slogan MARK FISHING, another Ameri- MRS. ROOSEVELT is going to be which might be expected to THE support of the Socialist, they will carry with them millions
sport, proves profitable an innkeeper. She is joining appeal to many beyond the two too. Off
Oregon's const fishermen her son Elliott in opening an aban-milion unemployed whose dis- the British and French Social- maka £375 catches on five-day doned farmhouse 75 miles outside
votes. Among the multitudinous have been buffeted by inflation and cruises. Shark livers fotch from New York City which will seat 100 contents can only be relieved by ist Parties gave it prestige and the
The more personal benefits.
posters clamouring for the deflation. That will be the best safeguard against Communism and 2s. 3d. to 4s. 10d. a lb., depending on diners and sleep 22 guests.
In Fascism
Italy, The Italian dairy pro- Roosevelts will serve
Had Nenni abstained from voter's attention and signed by ducts, smoked turkeys, hams, bacon, YOUNG, ➜ OLAND
60-year-old and chickens from their 1,009-acre fusing with the Communists, Togliatti, de Gasperi, Saragat, Socialists have learnt not to play
it is certain that an indepen- it was curious to see a message with dangerous animals. British actor, took out a New farm.
only 600 snakes-a bad year.
vitamin content.
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. NANCY
ROAD TO UTOPIA
Directed by
Produced by
PAUL JOKES
'HAL WALKER
theso sick men."
The Good Samaritans
I FOUND THIS POOR LI'L INJURED BIRD LYING IN THE GRASS
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I'M GOING TO BRING HER HOME AND TAKE CARE OF
HER
POOR
THING
PRIVATE
WARD
form 0
de-
If the disappointed Nenni Social- ista will now unito with the Sarngat Socialista to mocratic independent Labour Party, of Italians, drawn not only from the classes, with their long
Unity Party of Saragat by. woon of Socialism, but also, from
By Ernie Bushmiller
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