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THE

BRITISH COLONIES

What is the future of the British colonial territories? What obstacles are being encountered in the progressive advance towards self-government within the Commonwealth? By what methods are colonial industry and agriculture being expanded? Are educational needs in the colonies being met? In what way are colonial problems to-day bound up with world problems '?

These are questions of the greatest importance to every responsible person in the British colonies. They underlie the expert and impartial discussion of every aspect of colonial aflairs to be found in The Times Review of the British Colonies.

This is published by The Times, the foremost newspaper in the world, and appears four times a year-in March, June, September and December,

The current issue resumes the general commentary on colonial affairs and introduces an important series of articles on the resources of the colonies with a special article on rubber. Among the subjects of other articles by Special Correspondents of The Times and recognized authorities on colonial subjects

are:

African Health Services Gibraltar Torlay

The Courta

Development Corporation

Inter-Terciturtal Research in Afrien

The Duties of a Colonial Governor's A.D.C.

THE

Population and Communal

Questions In Singapore and Malaya The Modified Groundnuts Scheme und les part in Tanganyikan Development

The Exhibition of Traditional Art from the Colonies at the Imperial

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Hugh Dundas

reports to you on S-H-A-PE

OFF A PILE OF MEMORANDA

TNTIL midday last Mon- elections

day I had never heard the word infrastruc- ture. Now, it is ringing in my ears,

were

over,

things would be different. It seems that

It is not to be.

Now that the political situa-

tion is no longer a plausible excuse for stalking, the financial side has taken over. Until it is settled who should pay for what, the French will not start build- ing

paper A two-page staff defines the word, which has cropped up again and again during conversations I have foroc is a flexible organisation, been having over in France it is impossible for Eisenhower

stall officers officers and his with high-ranking

in General Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters.

But becauss A tactical air

to say:

"This airfield will be used, and therefore pald for, by the

British."

I have read it in the Parls

Many formulas have been put papers. It is the word of the forward-by Britain, Canada, moment. For lack of infrastrue- and the United States. The talk

the ture is causing

Atlantic goes on and on, and the prospects Powers' defence machine to of getting the necessary air bases stall. It may cause it to be- bulli by next spring_fade, come

bogged down altogether. Infrastructure 1s Important right now than divi- slons, or guns, or planes.

eVen

more

It means airfields, communi- cations, harbours,

munition dumps, all the necessities with out which divisions

cannot light, guns cannot fire, planes cannot fly.

And Eisenhower is now hav- ing more trouble getting these things than in getting troops.

formaliona. Fighting available, but cannot be brought Into the line for lack of instalin tions.

are

Airfields short

[OST serious shoringe by for

MOST

is of airfields. The implica- tons of it have been made clear

to me by some of the generals

ond air-marshals responsible for

of

planning the defence Western Europe.

These

men know that if war storted it would be at a time and place of the Russians' choosing, and so it follows that the Western Forces would first be on the defensive.

the Allies' Potentially.

Wrestling.

...

THE dreary story does not end with airfields, or with France. But that's enough for always the details today, for

pathetically. dangerously,

are

the same.

Some of the ablest officers in Dre wrestling with the world speelacular energy against this all-takle background of divided

interests. This communique re- ports that they deserve spectacular results.

more

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Police

Last seen

in Bonn

Last seen.

in Poissy-

Any good? "Uganda Police

M.I.5.

Thest.

any?

good Compliments of Haring Police.

"Possibles? from Police Chief- Seville

"Just two identity cards in a plain envelope-marked *Maclean and Burgess.'"

OXFORD'S

LEARN TO

at 66

S far as I can see,

there is no chance

of any of us being

greatest strength in defence lies able to earn a living, or at in air power. For the alterna

tive to air power is a wall flesh, and that

or least a living decent enough

is neither ac- to allow for any sort of ex-

ceptable in policy nor avaliable citement or depravity. Here

in practice.

with bills, over-

hopeless

By

'NEW

London Express Service

POOR'

HAVE

ALAN BRIEN

EDITOR OF THE ISIS, 1949

How different were the For weeks. Twenty years later the

men to live for 52 weeks and buy all their needs for £270 a

Elsenhower's What can we do but long poorer in cash, initiative, inlety

only

for a war or a revolution?" Statistics suggest the disop-

par (As a married man I got 158. extra to keep a wife.)

FUN

The gay young things of the Twenties now late in their for- ties are more materialist than the young men they condemn. Because we cannot afford arti- chokes they think we don't appreciate art, Is the conversa tion bound to be less intoxient ing because the wine is not so strong?

REWARDS POVERTY has its rewards.

Undergraduate magazines (and there are more now than Most colleges charge £3 6s. a ever before) cannot afford to be week for those who live and cat esoteric and unreadable because in. After 25 weeks of residence the printer cannot be paid un- half the allowance has gone. If less they make a profit. the undergraduate does not live free at home but pays £3 35, a Life is for more competitive week during vacation he has than the prewar Oxanians ever roughly £1 a week for travel. Imagined, clothes, subscriptions to clubs and entertainment.

At present there are, I calcu- we are late, about 40 squadrons avall-fastidious tastes and a com- ties from the Twentica? Is Government expect ex-Service- able for support duties in the pletely

future, the undergraduate today really central sector of command. That is not enough. Everyone knows it.

number could probably be doubled by the end of this

The young

man who wrote pearance of the moneyed "blood" year if the airfields were this in the Oxford weekly. The and the increase of State sub- Twenty percent of the available. They are not

Isis, left the University without sidies. main burden alls on The

a degree to teach in an ebscure University's income in the Thir- France, Se for, about 30

ties came from the Government, French military airacids have preparatory school.

27 percent in 1937, 50 percent in been, or are being, brought up

Is this the deadening result of 1949 and 60 percent in the to the standard necessary for

Socialist taxation? figures just published. modern jet warplanes, Sem: of vindictive them are borderline cases, sult-The selfish whine of a spoon-fed able for emergency-only.

generation? Many critles.of.the.

FRUIT PICKERS- Others must be modernised at undergraduates of my years. ence. Runways have to be leng-1946 to 1950, would think so- ford in 1031 received money thened and strengthened, servic-

sources than their BUT this mathematical analysis and in 1940 offelal dars not give any true iden parent] ing facilities and barrack ac- yet the young man was Evelyn from other commodation Improved, com- Waugh and the date March 12 figures show more than eight out of modern Oxford. munications and signals systems 1924.

of ten were subsidised.

installed.

Even enough.

That would not bc A large number of new

STATE PAYS

airfields must be built from DY on odd. coincidence this scratch. At least 50 are needed B

was published on my oirth-

by the end of this year, four day and it would not seem a times that number within the

good omen for my future career next 18 months.

Mr Oxford. Certainly in Waugh's youthful article paints a very different picture from the splendid malicious, spend- thrift world he conjures up in "Brideshead Revisited."

Little action

It has bren estimated that five out of len students at ̃Ox-

I met only one man in Oxford in three and a half years who was entirely supported by his family money, though I know

and daughters the

of Cabinet Ministers, best-selling novelists, professors and dukes,

Sons

Most Oxford undergraduales are from the professional classes and are supported in the vaca tions.

The majority enjoy doing spare-time jobs when not up, though one

snobby college has fbidden it. They pick frull or set in repertory, teach back ward children or work on fun

£270 A YEAR

LL. these eins of omission

UE children of the well-to- fairs,

do, if they have Govern- A were

I do not think the hard- clearly recognised

mont assistance, are probably months ago by the SHAPE plan-

oft than their Oxford history may not repeat bester

elder working Oxford man of today dufle cout, ners, but so far there has been a itself, bul Oxford historians brothers before the war, Father's with his frayed lot of talk with little action. certainty repeat each other. The allowance is all pocket-money, corduroy trousers, ex-Army

The root of the matter

Just and the State tools the bill for always partly political, partly financial, Golden Age has

IoT socks

those

his

and baltered blcycle On the political sids, the suc- vanished in time to be the sub- the necessities. But for

to the who relied on the Government queueing at the civic restau- cessive French Governments, Ject of reminiscences

ex-Service grant alone, as I did, ront is very differcat from his based on uneasy coalitions with wistful younger generation.

life was often a little pinched predecessor. Leftist emphasis, have had one In 1940 my contemporaries and bare. Cigarettes were smok- eys on dalence, the other turned liked to call themselves the Idle de in two instalments and beer

The gay frivolous flaneur of Every Tuesday

anxiously towards the enemy Poor. They consciously imitated was on the slate.

the pre-Waugh days in within.

"dove grey dionnel, white crepe the Twenties, burlesquing every Overnight stop at Bankok

The French authorities are fleeting mannerism and many of In 1931 a man could live up de chine, and Charvet tie" who Arriving Penang

cheerfully and Every Wednesday

conscientiously us applauded our own supposed at Oxford for 25 weeks in the relaxed in his motor car with a contributing divisions of soldiers degradation

£200-this Beverley year for

and a when

excludes basket of strawberries and squadrons of airmen.

Nichols on a visit said, "Oxford's the cost of books, travel and bottle of Chateau Peyraguey was But they know that they men are too poor to be young." maintenance for the other 27 partly a myth. take away a Frenchman's pre- elous land (or his hard-earned money in taxes) and convert them into so much concrete for American warplanes, there will be a a squeal from the Commun- nists

which will Jar the electorate from Cala's to Mar- scilics,

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A YANK AGED 66 JOINS

.

THEM IN THE AUTUMN

NEW YORK.

From NEWELL ROGERS

His friends Bay it will also engineer and a salesman, and been owned and worked by theTHE oddest Yank at Ox- take him to London for some I'm fed up."

fun. And to Sandringham, to same families for generations,

ford come next check up on his grandmother, and you know with absoluts

"who lived certainty that you are manu- Michaelmas will be 66-year- Catherine Norman, facturing Commmunist votes. old Alfred E. Perkins. He in a Tudor manor house."

For Communism is the only is a retired steel sales It took balding, Oft. 8in. Alfred definite rallying point for people who, for one reason or another. manager, and he is going Perkins one are Gostile to the build-up of to Oxford because he wants Oxford he is serious. power for the Atlantis team, to "study English history

Finance

BEFORE

where it began."

year to convince

Not that he lacks education. He is a graduate of Michigan University, and a post-graduate

the alections last

He has already booked rooms of the Colorado School of Mines. He spent 26 years in the at an hotel. month there was some

Flockies, Mexico, and Alaska, sympathy with this nervous Bays he: "I'll buy me a little selling steel drills. balancing on the fence, but English automobile, and it will everyone hoped that, when the take me to classes and around class till he retired on a band- He was in the 20,000-a-year -Supreme Headquarters of the the country to look up any old some pension. And he says:

Iruins I want to see.***

"All my life I have been an

Aitled Powers in Europe,

At first Oxford refused to have him. But Perkins went to Pro- fessor Ernest Llewellyn Wood- ward, a Fellow of Worcester College, who was visiting pro- fessor at Princeton University, New Jersey.

Sald Perkins: "He atraightened everything out."-

Has there ever been an older. undergraduate? Bald Oxford's vice-chancellor, the Very Rev. John Lowe: "I should say it is unlikely."

Professor Woodward, on holi- don't day in Cornwall, sald: think 60 is too old,”

HELL ON EARTH

'Quakes, floods and famine in the world's wettest corner by Sir Percival Griffiths

(Formerly leader of the EuropOEN group in the Indian

Legislature.

HUNDREDS

Central

of men, women and children are dying of starvation in the wettest corner of the world, according to reports from Calcutta,

They live in remote North- East Assam, and are cut off by floods, Air rescue attempts får have failed.

They include primitive. Abors, head-hunting Nogas, Dumas, who look like gnomes out of a child's fairy book, and ottier strange tribes who make this little-known land an othnoto-

Eist's paradise.

NOW HUNGER

I know the area well, having lved in it.

And I know the terror which girikes

these fear-stricken nomads when

the southwest mansoon floods their land.

Last year, one of the worst earthquakes ever known in Asia rent the hits asunder and drove the nomads in terror down to the plains.

There they were beset with floods which sent them back in panic to the hills. Now it is hunger which imperils them.

Their bills have a rainfall of 300 inches a year, or six times that of the wettest parts of Britain.

THEN DELUGE

you

For cven worse rain have to go some hundreds of miles west, to the other end of Assam, where 000 inches of rain is not unusual in the year. fect Here, great hills 5,000 or so high rise suddenly from the plains of East Bengal.

The

southwest monsoon, gathering moisture as it blows across the Indian Ocean and unimpeded in Its passage across the plains of Bengal, comes suddenly up sgainst these mighty hills-and comes a deluge.

Cherrapunji is the wettest there place in the world, yet are as many dry days there as anywhere else.

.down

But when it rains, cats and dogs aren't worth mentioning.

HURT PRIDE

was there,

the raing

Last time 1 local people thought the had failed. They had had only 400 inches!

The monsoon was nearly at In the Oxford Circus of 1025

their pride Was one could get o

starring parin end and

hurt.

day down came the Next merely by an affection of speech, rain-in-lorrents.-By the end-of-

distinctive a curious hobby, a

paintings.

It is much harder than that in the Isis Follies of 1951. Those friends cf mine who were out standing among their fellows worked hard to be celebrities.

quile

in

It isn't

so simple dress er a display of impressive the month it was up to average. the people the plains below, because when these great rains come, tiny streams are turned into raging torrents.

mer cannot get The farmer

his crops to market.

The sub-inspector of police cannot

arrest a

local dacoit. Worse still, the planter who has crossed dry river bed on club may be his way to the marooned there for days.

All life in Assam Is indeed dominated by the southwest monsoon and these mighty hills.

If the undergraduates of to- day are poor it is only money. no that they lack. There is shortage of enterprise, ambition, humour or light-heartedness. It Is their critics

are too rich to be young.

who

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