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Can This Be The New 'God's Own Country"?
VERY
time 1 meet Though he "missed the people from Southern night life in the West End" Rhodesia they talk (1) he did not want to comé about this new "God's Own back.
Country."
"AIL"
Not only the citizens; But when I talked to Mr visitors have the same im-
Porter, Southern pression.
Rhodesian industrialist, I heard of Britons of the
Here is a letter telling me
about bananas at sixpence a wrong type who had not dozen, peaches and oranges made the grade. and pineapples, very low Yet he ndda:"There are taxation, pleasant climate, great opportunities for the State-run lotteries-and the right fellows."
scenery.
"In The Vumba, and other killeverend--noetha-ĄJ
arrival from the Homeland
thinks he can see a facsimile Because of housing of its mon country-whether problems Southern Rhodesin
it be the Sussex Downs, the has had to clamp down on Scottish Highlands, от the emigrants for a time, pines of Hampshire.")
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In 1947 and 1948 the
My correspondent met country increased her white bus driver, on long-distance runs, earning £1,000 a year.
Cannibals!
MORNING COFFEE BY
THE
RIVER OF
SAO DOMINGOS, Rło dos Mortes, Central Brazil.
SUPPOSE, by rights, I ought to apologise to the president of the Explorers' Club. Here I am, trespassing in the heart of their most favourite preserve, sipping my morning coffee on the banks of the feared Matto Grosso's River of Death-and I am even properly dressed.
not
I have no pith helmet on my head, no cartridge belt round my middle, no Mannlicher propped against my knees.
I am wearing what wea when I go marketing with my wife in Sudbury
011 t hut summer's day. My only equip- ment is a tooth-brush and typewriter.
And, to tell the truth, all really need. For. thanks the efforts of the Brazilian Governlaint to open up the Male West of Brazil
push roads, dritues, and settlers into regions hitherto inaccessible to whites, this River of Denth today becoming hanost Suburban.
It in a kind of jungle Golders Green.
The little single-engined, four- sealer aircraft which carried ine here circled over the palm- Thatched mud collages of Sno Domingos
then bumped OVOL the rough arstrip ar sellers had eu and burned in the jungle.
I thought of Bho sweat, disease and danger ex- plorers had to face in order fo Ket this far in the past.
i thought of my frlend Peter Fleming barging through the tangled undergrowth of the bush, wading up rivers, labour ing and starving in his fruitless search for Colonel Fawcett.
-NEWSMAP.
DEATH
The Strangest Trip I Have Ever Made
Alfonse Richard Hoog of the Butulan Institute. Ile hopes to find the dividing line between The fauna of Northern and 20 of them. Southern Brazil in the Snoring Mountaing,
The other is under Inspector Mireilles Milet of ibe Sao
Domingos post. He cous to investigate the possibilities of a sad from Sao Domingos de
Xingu.
Even here there is an element of the suburban-or in it just the old cuvered-wagon brought up to date?
I
turmed."
population by 17 percent. before
(White population was 60,000 the war-now it is 110,000).
Flut restrictions aro expected to be litted within the next 12 months
The largest experiment in the world in stock breeding and feeding is being carried on It Matapos, aiming at maximum beef production in semi-nrid conditions,
in the Sabi Valley investiga- tions have shown that Irrigation enn bring many thousands of Beres into cullvation.
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On a four-year development these "reports' Inspired by the scheme the country plans Xavantes.
THEY CANNOT be trusted to keep an agreement with
yone not belonging to their
own tribe.
Eager
queue
яреткі £73,000,000. Over
£20,000,000 is for railways.
Much has been sold about Southern Rhodesia's e o lour
problemu. The comtry, in my view, has a healthy approach to them--and I eos no prospect of the bitterness of South Africa's aparthekt polley.
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Here is Mr K M. Good- enough, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia in London, to say that we "mud Curry a greatly increased while_popula-... ilon.
First the Xavantes, ቢ a against outsiders. The reason friendly gesture, handed round why Fawcett was killed is that WELL, soon they will be mov- a dish of poisoned fruit. Then, his own Indian guides baulked at ing off, these two parties of
Southern Rhodesia, I believe, making sure the whites were entering Xavantes territory brave men. They are taking o
will lead the way in East and defenceless, they shot them with him.
great convoy of lorries with them for Central Africa to down with their bows and
the first time in jungle history, federated Dominion. arrows and clubbed them. All When he insisted on going on
and knocked one of the Indians In two months, perhaps three, down to enforce his point, they we shall hear of them again. "Mirells, anyhow. la not preferred to kill him rather We shall know how far they making the mistake of going in than bring on themselves the res have succeeded in blazing the prisal raid which would have troll for yet another new road
through
bush and been the Xavantes' only reply to be cut to any trespass.. –
Jungle, new bridges and tiew hydro-electric power stallons to THEY HAVE n system of be put up like those which I Ingenious psychological war- have flown over on Iny way fure designed to increase the here. terror felt by their enemies. To impress strangers with their size. and manly strength they drawin gigantle portraits in the sund
to outline portending
the shadow of a typical Xavantes warrior.
1 told Houg and Mireilles how we had down over a party of Xavantes on our way here not tra minutes flying distance from the settlement, We circled low over their heads, five stark naked mahogany werators,
When tomorrow's expeditions
As I Waved to them nally set out
note their two olhusiastically with my months' trek, and Mireilles Ls book, they waved back at me farewell to his trim electrically with their spears, slowly and
FMINI-
it homestead, pretty, dark-eyed rather condescendingly. Mr Mireilles and then you -oht duzgiler will WHAU
toodbye
THE
Friend
or-
two parties are Inking clifferent routes.
Thee. they hope, will converge in six weeks time,
So will, I hope, their views
mo feel
In fact, they made like
a vulgar tripper. Later in the evening, after a bathe in the Death River-1 must so I don't enjoy being nozzled by troops of pollueld tropical fish however much
Hook am assured they don't sting- took me out crocodile shooting in a canoe.
The King Kong story is bo- lieved to originate from one of
up-
"Men and money are needed," says he. He claims "the finest elimate in the world, resources As yet untapped.”
There is more folth in the future in Southern Rhodesia than in any other country
There are stilers bere wait
to follow them Ukrainians, Italians, Poles. Dutch-all caper and willing to
know, do their part in opening up one of the richest and most rapidly expanding territories in the New World.
--Londan Express Service}
Don Taylor
-London Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
which
1
makes "Bebop Glasses," thick-rimuned models worn by bebop fans, in suing an- other firm for using the same
why the nature and attitude of And as we all over the river the Xavantes (pronounced in the moonlight, freßles and Shuvunties), the savage Indian luminous scarabs twinkling at
NEW YORK. tribe which inhabits the country us from the jungle on the banks,
learning its trade possibilities, firm they are going to cross.
Hoog returned onco to the all- MERICAN exporters have he said, Mireilles, who has the gaunt, important question: is it pos-
been urged by a Government tinggard features and the liquid stble to appease the Xavantes,
up com- FILMS: A Hollywood conven- cy's associated
the or is force the only language they petition with Britain and other with
trade expert to keep visionary and idealist, belleves understand?
tion of cinema managera. ended without one flm being "'devalued countries" in succeeded during the five years he has been here, in those friendly Xavantes?" "No!"
"Did you see any women with world's markets.
shown to them. But they in RUSINESS: A survey of 1,000 showod D typical businesses spected 39 new types of machines friends with tho
to sell popcorn. Last year's that September was the best And that is the true measure The exhortation, by Louls popcorn sales in U.S. cinemas month in 13 months. Half of of their friendliness,
I thought of Fawcett himself trying to fight his way through by his own Indian guides at a to this river and bring killed he has
miles from here. An airstrip in making
pluce named Kuluene. not 40
now to be built at Kuluene,
Still tough NOT that this business
of
exploring and all that goes with it is by any means over
and done with yet. Here at this post now two expeditions are fully packed and ready to leave on a two months' push acros the Fawcett country.
Xavantes.
He thinks that if he does not attack them, they will not
uttack him.
Dr Hoog, a tall, comfortably fleshed man with a mind accus- tomed to finding out facts and harshly analysing their mean- ing. lstened deferentially Mireilles.
to
the
nume.
If they Horch of the Commerce Depart- totalled nearly £20,000,000. the firms covered by the survey were-really friendly they would ment, sounded just like a pep bring their women with them.talk for British business men
Four points:
Sa forch plcked up and was A reflected by the gleaming shallows, I learned:
eyes
of
crocodiles
threw
the
from the Board of Trade.
He spoke of "meeting chal- lenges," and for the need of bet- ter salesmanship and "calight ened merchandising."
MANNERS: Tax chief Waller Gentry, of Richmond, Virginin, sent out orders to all his collectors to stamp payments with a receipt saying, Thank you." Said he: "Tax collectors should not be cold-blooded.".
PORT: The umpire, most un- popular Agure in American sport, may be replaced by automaton. A Chicago firm has
an
reported that their orders went up.
of his New
PINION: Attacking the Wel- fare State philosophy of per- fect security for
all, General "Ike" Eisenhower told students York university: "Life is certainly worth while only as it calls for struggle, and there is no struggle ih perfect security."
Then he took me by the arm
Said he "We must get back and led me to a small cemetery
to the fundamental meaning of on the fringe of the settlement. ·THE XAVANTES enforce a
the word trade, It does not He picked up a skull lying on strict Iron Curtain policy, mean reliance on the telephone the one of the graves uncovered by When whites Both are trying to cross
gifis famous rango of "Snoring earth or stone.
from aircraft to pacify them, and cable to make sates." Mountains" where Fawcett "That is Dr Genesio Pimentel the Xavantes bludgeoned the Horch urged all those Ameri- perfected an electronic umpire CHOW BUSINESS: Charles balleved he would, and Atlantis Barbosa, the predecessor of parcels with their clubs to des- | can firms who can afford 1 to for the US game of bowling Laughton is. earning £800 and the "ruins of an ancient city
said Hoog, and troy them. Their rulers, who set up branch offices in countries (sklitie alley). It is now work on evening reading from restored the skull to ever they are, want them 10 with which they hope to trade. ing on one for baseball,
Shakespeare And the Bible make their way to
do the River its place. "He had the some have nothing to with their advised them to "send the
club audiences...Crooner. Xingu and the settlement ideas."
outside world.
boss on a flying visit."
Frank Sinatra will be broad-. established there.
"And he told me how Barbosa,
LAW: New Jersey courts must cast by U.S. Government pro- The exporter must bo pre- settle who owns the copy grammes to Russia belleving he had made friends DISCIPLINE is enforced by One is led by the Belgian with the Xavantes, entered their ruthless terior, as ruthless | pared, to spend time in a coun- right of the word "bebop," used standing product of the Ameri- zoologist and snake expert Dr territory completely unarmed. against their own. people as try, perhaps six months, really by American Jazz fans. The can way of life.
older' than those in Egypt"-and mo
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