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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1958.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL WEEK... by BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS CARTOONIST

if i went BACK

""B

to 2choOL

ACK to School". for me would not mean back to one of your modern reat homes for unretired Infants where the children run the teachers. It would be back to one of the old-

fashioned schools that I went to where the teachers ran the children.

Or thought they did.

Back to one of those grey brick boxes on asphalt, where the only useful thing you learned was the art of self-defence during short periods between lessons mis- named "playtime."

"Playtime" took place twice a day. Bang went a bell and out poured hun- dreds of small boys like a stream of black treacle, the bigger ones Jamming into the smaller ones and the amaller ones lamming Into the very small ones.

Another bang on the belt announced "playtime", over, and buck you all poured into the grey brick box where everybody except the very, very good ones got hummed by the teachers,

"SELF-EXPRESSION "*

playtime because they were always missing.

me

Knowing What

Size2

WHY. I SHOULD JUST

WAIT FOR

A LAUGH

And it would come..

two

thou-

"A CAMPAIGN AGAINST ALL GREEN VASES ..

tank on the window sill of while every classroom.

ho goca upstairs and fetches the cane and book.”

Knowing what

krow I ΠΟΥ, should just sit back and

wait for the ront of

from should ar- inughter

my subside and ciate scholars to to

the modern reply in

gob-stopper:

"“And if my clever subsitute

KU

step he will leave me na option

As for as the so-called being late that I have been lessons were concerned, in a late ever since. class of 50-odd fellow- History meant ramem candidates for delluquency, bering the dates of battles I expect I should still come of the last

None of this "Draw what out somewhere near the sand years. As I still can't

You like" business. The bottom of the exam. sheet. remember the dates of first thing I

Lessons were instilled battles for the last two ganise if I went back

both Into you

ends by weeks I should still flop at school would be a campaign then

fashion, without removing my whacking your ear or eaning History.

against all green vaues, It has occurred to

Sums. Geography was the names

My accountant since that those who were the part you sit down with. not creeping about the grey They included things like of rivers and volcanoes. I will tell you that they for a teacher doesn't watch the

geography, urt, know no more now about couldn't have taught brick box collaborating with history, the teachers as monitors and singing, sums, and most of (a) rivera and (b) volcanoes very much about sums.

the accumulated nonsense of than I knew then, except would still call mental prefects were probably using the past, with very little re- (a) the river that starts at arithmetic brain fever. the far corner of the play ference to the future. the bottom of my garden. Singing. If I thought I ground As a safety-zone,

and (b) Lord Beaverbrook. ehould have to suffer an- Two on each Art. Now there was a other dose of our singing WHEN the teachers grew where they stayed hidden until the end-of-playtime tired of lamming they hell gave them the all-

aubject on which my teach lessons I wouldn't go back. used, the very, very good clear.

γου were reminded every ers really used to let then- morning about the im- selves go. They gave us a ones as examples for show. ing the bad ones up.

If I went back to school portance of punctuality by unique variety of things to We never seemed able to now I should pay more at two on each for being late. draw, a cone, a cube, or the lay hands.

these tention

fifth It was so nice when I left eternal green vase these

school not to be caned for stood next to the tadpole very, very good ones during columnists.

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THE COMMONWEALTH

O

N January 21 the Pakistan Constituent Assembly-began-to-

By Patrick Maitland M.P,

If Mr.

me

I

Giles..."

THE only information we got about the future was to be told how bad it was going to be our name in the We got

I

punishment book many more times.

But I could go back

**MORE SELF-EXPRESSION"

now but to report him to the educs-

armed with the knowledge that tion committee and have him

they were misinforming us on

this count, for I have discover.

ed since that nothing they fore

flung out on his car."

It would be interesting to seu

cast turned out to be anything how the old tyrant reacted to like as bad as it is.

the only

this treatment. I've s pretion sensibly good Iden.

Perhaps thing they tried to teach us But, apart from the fact that was that it is wrong to smoke. I know I could make it a At 3. 7d. for 20 they were lat hotter for them now, I don't

want to go back.

observed, in time for the Coronation,

dead

right

equality, tolerance

#as enunciated by In introducing the Report he Russian propaganda, that Pakis- Islam. The Muslims shall be said: "Another

Important re-

415

Strange as their methods were Having read enough Hem- for passing on the wisdom of Ingway and Dr Kinsey to know the universe. I wouldn't have most of the answers, I should fancied their chances of coping know how to come back at that with the scholars in my part of sarcastic old tyrant who lorded for us

it

over

a couple of the world had they not been

amed by the authorities with When he addressed me with caner, T-squares, bits of chalic to throw at us, and an ability to

to the front of the class, of

before it got originality the gob-stopper

I could tell them they were quite wrong in chastising And lest the teachers of today for occasionally tarring and should think me a trife blated In the Constitutional debates feathering the weaker fellow on the side of the puplio, legislation to debate the kind of the chosen representatives of ed to introduce

to come, influences and pres pupil, such things being looked hasten to say they all have my amend Queen Elizabeth's titles aures will be felt for

and upon, n

nowadays as "self-expres deepest sympathy. Constitution which this new the people."

to read:

Elizabeth the against Commonwealth mem- sion. Asian and Muslim member The Objectives Resolution Second, Queen of the United bership. of the Commonwealth should then listed the principles which Kingdom and of Her other devise.

must govern the conduct of the Realms and Territories, Hed There are, Indeed, those who now state-democracy, freedom, of the Commonwealth."

hold, in lino with abundant and social The debate will turn on a

tan might survive as a Soviet report presented to the As- sembly December 22 able to order their lives in ac- cemmendation is that the head ally, armed and advised by the terms

оп

Theoretically, USSR,

upon which was drawn up by the cord with the teaching of Islam; of the Stato will be elected, and withdrawal from the Common his "K Mr Giles would kindly detect and stamp out any algn

minorities must be assured 11, has been laid down that he with "Basic Principles Com freedom to profess thair roll must be a Muslim. This is in wealth, Pakistan might, In that It nasociation, purchase quietude mittee." This had been gion; and freedom of thought, keeping with Islamic usage.

the Northwest Frontier chosen by the Assembly to expression, belief, faith, worship is no less democratic. If we upon

the Indulgence do the preparatory work. and morality

and association "subject to law look at the law and practice of and

to be come of the foremost democra- turbulent Afghans. It was instructed to elabor- guaranteed.

eles of the world, we find that cho provision which the Report ate those principles of the That Resolution is reproduced recommends ja by no meanя future Constitution that for textual Inclusion the extraordinary. In a demOCTBCY would simultaneously con- Preamble the Constitution. It like the United Kingdom the

not only be form to modern political sets out the fundamentals and it monarch must needs, to the principles of is to be noted that these date not Christian but he the Koran, and to the recent from December 22, when Pre- mler Khwaja Nazimuddin pre- experiences of the Muslims rented the Report to the As of the Indian sub-continent sembly, but from March 1949. -especially since the 1947 Transfer of Power.

arc

Nothing New

a

of

Cool Heads.

comu

place

the basket In

But even if that would bring should alco Russia to the Warm set,

air and belong to the Church of Eng would also expose a pro-Soviet land. In the United States of coastline to Western

would not aware of sea power. It

place America Iarn

as the Pakistan ut e diplomalle and anyone being elected President who was not a Pro- economie disadvantage

with India. It testant.

would

the forfeit Pakistant stake in Kashmir and In other words, the Consti- ruin Pakistan's influence with tuent Assembly having lon the

Musim Middle East and

The Basic Principles Report, which need not bind the As- Consequently there is nothing since prescribed the "Objec Southeast Asia. It would sover

In the assertion that tives to be held in mind in Pak sembly, is essentially a provision- no

Pakistan

Crom

single

al document. Nevertheless, be authority to rule, originating in framing the Constitution, the Great Power that has sustaine cause it proposes that the Herd God, is exercised in the State proposal. that the Head of the her existence as a State, has of the State should Both be of Pakistan "through its people" State should be a Muslim, and made provision for her defence

bo elected, is elected and be a Muslim, it has If there is no admission here that he should

and either provided or sought already been widely concluded that self determination has neither an unreasonable Hoe o

an bestowed that Paklatan means to leave the been

the novel departure. The logle of capital goods on her behalf. Pakistanis by Great Britain, or the proposal is only to make Commonwealth of Nations.

that the authority of their the Governor - General an

and' enll ruler has at any stage stemmed elective office

In all from London, that was so too President.

other countries K- within a year of the Transfer of Commonwealth Power: The simple assertion is cept Iralla ho is at present ap- that God has 'delegated' pointed by the Queen upon the authority "to the State of advice and at the request of the Pakistan through its poople." Government concerned,

Teaching of Istam

The reverse is more likely to be true, and it is critical to re- call that, as far back vs March 12, 1949, the Constituent As-

solution which gave instructions new in the accrtion that the to the Basic Principles Com- State shall "exerciso its power

It there is nothing new in

sembly passed the Objectives Re- that, neither is there anything Russian Propaganda outweigh propaganda that would

mittee in these terms;

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Those are material considern- tions which would not bear on the viewpoint of the thirty per- cent say, of Induential Pakistanis who fully appreciate the British conection already; but they must weigh with the next thirty percent who would be governed by their view of Pakistan's own Interests. Of course, they are zot considerations

with the mainder of the population In turn Influenced or often cor and authority through the What on the contrary, is a

rupted by the continued in- "In the name of Allah, the chosen representatives of the departure is Pakistan's assent, reion of 2,000 refugees from

after the Camanonwealth Con- Beneficient, the Merciful;

ference,

to legislate to make India every week-some rough Whereas sovereignty over the In that three-year-old con Her Majesty Head of the bad hats among them and the of Karachi swollen population entre Universe belongs to God text it is hardly surprising Commonwealth. Almighty alone, and the then, that Pangraph 13 of the legitimate for India can scarce teel, which has absorbed no authority which, He has delegat Basic Principles Report should ly be refused to Pakistan and less than 2,000,000 refugees, ed to the

State of Pakistan declare that The lead of the still fear taken, when desired With mich flotsam and jetsam through its people for being ex- State should be Muslim and

and steady ercised within the limits pro- should be elected at a joint by Pakistan, as evidence of an afidat, wool heads

intent to leave the Common hands scribed by Him in a sacred sitting of both the uses of wealth circle. For any such in event. To be logical and keep are necessary. In any trust; This Constituent Assom, the Federal Legislature."--

tent • ellier by the Pakistani mith with-Muslim · objectives, bly, representing the people of

When Premier Nazimuddin Government, or in the minds of lid down after the people had Pakistan, resolves to frame constitution for the sovereign in introduced this Report, he spoke a majority of the Assembly chosen Pakistan for the mko of of Pakistan, shortly after his return from the would forbid the Queeria pro- their Muslim religion, la being dependenco State

Commonwealth nekiler faithless to Britain not wherein the Sisto all exercise - Commonwealth Prime Ministers clamation

A

prople."

What was was

Its powers and authority through Conference at which he proants Head, projected, it should be poilially unwise.

ho is serious,

the waste-paper Next: I'm coming over to join and hand me that - the enemy by presenting on this triguing piece of literature he

page an Alphabetical Guide, for

is composing under his desk, I Teachers, You needn't buy tho shall be delighted to read

#

paper unless you want to.

-London Express (Service)

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