1954-07-10 — Page 8

ANSWER

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CRITICS

OF

COLONIALISM

By Yorke

[IR Aları Buens, Britain's permanent representa- tive on UNO's Truster ship Council, has launched a new attack on people and Countries who criticise the British colonial system,

In a hard-hitting article it the

review. quarterly

"E Optima, he says this:

1 Tia Kashion today to decry colonialom, but it has saved Ti

rt! people from vils, and 1 do not believe that the need for it hirely passed."

Alan criticises Ad Sir dritain. Too, for paying too much attention Le outsiders.

"We are now inclined to Jy undue attention to the riticism of others, and have less condence than we used To have our own judg

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ment 18: 11 UNIT hosty of purpose."

Str

Who are the critics? Man divides them into two camps: The irar Curtain bloe add her

who Puntries tu divert attention thuir Own

wand

Sred

No Secret

he AV

short-

"makes no

of its belief Thut

got a territories

are the

Achilles heel of capitalism, unel

As every opportunity to fas

il me any sambulerint

Fuel

fuldes

British Su Alam instances Gotha Where "we have reveal- uf effects TV

the

scen

Hussian teaching and the danger

Henderson

suffesently into account the true Interests of colonial peoples or even the obvious fact that the inhabitants Di the yarlous territories are at different stages of cultural development."

They could, however, wrong. For Sir Alan makes this mason: Five years ago I did believe that the Gold Coust Constitution could be worked as

cessfully

as it has been.

be

I

ub-

m glad that i was wrong (but I still think that even beller irsults would have bein tained at the pace has to bren so rapid). In Air Nkrumah. The Gold Coast has, fortunately. found

wise *nci muderate

whose easies

Ime Minister, she has inspired his people and

xaven confidence to the friends

the Atrieun."

Sir Alun writes with authority During 42 years in rolossal nád rutrusts aljon he has been guvern- ра of British Honduras, the Gold Coast, and Acting-Gover of Nigeria. He was also Colomat Segretary of the Babunias

Optima, in which te neie

published, is produced the Anglo-American Don of South Africa.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.

A pretty girl

tries out that

anti-jitter pill

A

PRETTY, 22-year-old girl has tried

are

drug which is Chapman Pincher re- ported is being tested by RAF doctors to combat "jitters" in pilots,

Dentists

Lo using it reduce patients' fears. Hospitals are using it to help people to sleep. Two capsules before that Big Moment that examination, that speech, or

interview--can that

cut down nervous tension, the makers claim. Well, what happens when an ordinary. shy young girl takes the drug? That's what Diana Clarence and I set out to dia- cover.

Together we bought some capsules of the drug-methyl-pentene the scientists call it.

1

Now there are three things in life that always give Diana the "jitters. One is heights, another is mice, the third is meeting strange (and rather im→ portant) propie.

15

The experiment began at an open-air swimming baths. Diana was nervous and hesitant even when standing on the lowest

diving bourd. But minutes after taking two she stood of the capsules without u tremor on the high-diving board, 16 ft.

BEFORE - Djana in worried on the lowest diving board.

WHO'S AFRAID OF MICE?

SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

They're Sharpening

The Knives

Now For Mr France

of handing over the destinies of but one" has finally

triure

percipate

to

in it.

Str

Paris

It seharacteristic of France of his brains wives trusters are credited with more ambition and ability than their husbands.

10 the man who take that the

like being the eternal "next French Premier made The exhilarating shock of finding a man of ability Of other crities,

Alan

character at the hear noles "it is notorious that the und

comes of a French Cabinet that is for criticism most frost the representatives of not a mere reshuffle of a they are as quotes of the week: combies where the adminism-

"American uld prevented tum is most corrupt, the treat-dog-eared pack is compar-

iltruated Communists

severe

What he says

So much fur the mATI. some of his ideus.

Now Here

sent of minorities or of theable to the parched travel- France from drowning herself.

It was NOT supposed also t werking classes the most disler's discovery of an oasis in teach her how to swim."

tumatony, and the constitu- the Sahara.

"

unstable that it is shaken 20 frequent revolutions,

Guatemala, with its clating on

Honduras.

the

11. Alan uses,

that the Guatemalan death rate

and that I very much higher Wages paid to labourers in the republie are lower than those paid in the colony

Colour Issue

A

"France is the only country Of course it may all turn out in the world which has been

MICE used to

Diana. soare The other day she let one run over ber hand,

is

HE

A

created excessive in-

(French division) the man is well-tempered routine." BEHIND

her of

up.

Suld Diane afterwards: "As

I stood there I felt quite relaxed. I was at cruse although a group and of youths began cheering yelling at me. Any other time that would have shattered me."

So to anti-liter test No. 2— the mire. Like most women Dioma usually bolts to stand on the nearest chair when she sees a mouse. But not the other day. Not after those capsules.

She faced up quite cheerfully to not one white mouse but Calmly she picked Turu mice. one up and let it run over her hand.

ller report afterwards: **It didn't bother me ut ull,"

Last, lest No. 3, perhaps the hardest of all-for

41 Diana, sensitive girl just hates inter- views with strangers.

AFTER - Diana is happy on the highest diving board.

H

心

Bul, after she had taken

2nd tome water capsules. I introduced her to a business executive. cati Diana lost her shyness and talked screnely and with charm.

So to the SUMMING-UP. Suld Dland: "With me the drug was certainly a sucress,

Any sitte-kicks? "None."

OF

THE

IS LONELY

KING COUNTRY

By RALPH HEWINS

.

L.E.S.

tween North America, Britain,

EHIND the pomp of the

So Swedes cannot tap Norwegian water power for see how they could keep out of her expanding industries. a third world war.

Sweden too is negotiating

to

NATURE'S

POISON

PUNCHES

THE STRIKERS

By IVAN T. SANDERSON Explorer. Naturalist, Author

THE man

T

WAS

Losing pumping the lungs, and we dio logs into the open suffocation. mouth of the furnace

Shaker inject their poison into that roared all day and their victims

of by means night under the great vats teeth which are either grooved of the cane mill. His dark down one side or perforated by These a venom-carrying tube, brown skin glistened with teeth may be axed either at the sweat from the fire on the front or back end of the upper one side and the torrential Jow, UT they may be hinged

50 that

they can be tropical sunshine on the above other. As he worked he folded back and up into grooves

on the palato. chant sang an old African in rhythm with his motions seizing a log from the pile, pulling it out, hefting it. swinging it over. and tossing it into the flames.

If they are perforated. the the holes are on the front of fangs ups. Thus, a snake has to open its mouth very wide and strike at you in order to inject kis polson-up, at least, that is the general fale. However, t is not the invariable rule.

Then a log jummed and he reached down to free it. Instantaneously he let out a shriek that could be heard all over the mill; then he

If you ever decide to go pok- sailed into the air as if he had a line attached from his ing among the bushes and tree stumps anywhere In tropical waist to a jet plane. When Africa, there are many things he was in mid-air, there was of which you

beware. should Venomous snakes are obvious single, sudden loud snap va

menaces, for

there are many like a pistol shot. The man cobrus, night

adders and plt was dead before he hit the vipers in all parts of equatorlai ground.

Africa, However, there is a very special aspect of certain ones among them that calls for extra caution, in fact, if you do ever decide to do anything so queer

When the doctor came and had forced his way through the ring of gaping. slient workers.

The bushmaster, whose fangs can deliver one

nature's deadliest poison punches.

2

the first thing he saw was small dead snake. But when he learned what had happened, he started a thorough examination of the dead man,

his

Own

And, just as he had suspected, the man had broken back in his uncontrollable reflex leap caused by the violence of

in

of

in

ona tle "bushwhacking" Africa, it would be better that you wear a pair of spectacles.

The common Indian hooded cobra can splt, but certain African cobrus, and notably the black-necked cobra of the West Coast and the "spyslang" of the South, can literally fre their venom at you with great force and remarkable accuracy Up to a distance of a dozen

to be a mirage: there are a great living in a state of chrome in- many people. ร France who flation for forty years." are AXIOS that

France It should Properly Example

prove to be su Stock Exchange parcelled out in small fractions jounte

cut, neidentally, that 70 prices took a tumble on the day and this has been one of the seat of the Guatemalan po-Mendes-France was elected and strongest deterrents to progress. pulation are illiterate, as against 12 percent in British Honduras: are quy steadying now to the It has

of knives being divi

diyidualism, 3 a refusal or risk wet music

and e distrust of foreigners us gpened for his hoped-for-dis-

by

disturbing elements memberment.

Under the Old Pols Act what the French regard their

US

hopeless bounder who "France uses more threatens to destroy a cherished resources in unproductive spend land by the King and Queen French political principle — that ing such as luxury goods and an of Sweden, behind the

But there is no prospect what-the poison the snake had of "Immobiliam" which roughly overloaded civil service than banqueta at Buckingham That Is why Sweden

is ever that Sweden will abandon lected into his hand. The snake feet or more. Further, they have do nothing but pro- any other country in the world.

Swedish hastening means

Paluce and

traditional neutrality, was a small bushmaster, known "France is like a woman who

to put her war in- her mise everything, especially to

it in that country,

was dustries

is Almost every Swede thinks the Americans.

of her figure that Embassy, the addresses on

and underground proud

from she puts herself into a curset vellum

the City of building atom-bomb-proof shel- is worth while trying to "get Trinidad, as a "Mapipi," and the man had put his hand right into that almost chokes her.""

London and Westminster. ters for key organisations and away with it" a third time.

its mouth so that he got the "Ever since the war French the state drives

is main towns.

What King Gustaf Adolf and full dose of both its fangs right governments have lied their Sweden's loneliness.

his Foreign Minister, Mr Osten into the fleshy part of his palm. Ing, and is deadly if it falls on own people and their allies.

Sweden's fighting services are Unden, a Socialist lawyer, hope good. She makes her own lels. to get in London good will. Most people nowadaya know an open wound. What is more, it Her cruisers are modern. Her

how a poisonous snake operates, it hits your eyes, you will suffer. steady but they seldom know how the excruciating nemy is well equipped.

There has

pain for hours, It poison works. The whole busi- days, or weeks, and you may theness is much more complicated

or even to than you might think. And then experience temporary last there is also a nasty surprise permanent blindness. So viru-

mwaiting the unwary.

lent is the polson of the spy-

Mays Colour consciousness, Sie Alan, is responsible for much outside criticism of the colonial system. He notes: "The present Indian concern in Afri- can affairs is evidence of this."

To back his argument that there is still room for colonial- xm, Sir Alan quotes at length evidence of how territories have benefited from the $3

the

No more dole

is

Dancing Marlene

the

As if that were not enough, the man actually believes that

"Whatever price we have to Sweden desperately wants France should now try to make pay for peace in Indo-China the do without the dollar dole. price will be higher if we deadfriends. She has been to the "bad old

At be

47 Mendes-France

1 through China and Russia neutral for nearly 150 years: charmer pensants had nosoft-voiced

whose because they will claim a com- so she has no comrades-in- says, chance to cultivate their crops gentle bedside manner is decep, mission as go-betweens."

arms. or market them.

Ho acquired This had to live.

great deal (and wi- walt for the resources of Britian at political wisdom administration and European wisdom) from General de Gaulle, It was no more whim that th traders.

publicity hand-out: alliances." for Africa's being elected he sent a message FROM The same goes mineral wealth, untapped until to de Gaullo recalling "his lofty "Marlene Dietrich will dance European miners and geologists lessons In patriotism," He is in the Champs-Elysees for the an quiboritarian by Instinct and second time in her life (the Arsi arrived

what But

is capable of showing it. happens when

was after the Liberation) when colonial peoples take over the He is a wealthy man; his for she comes to Paris next month running of their own countries? tune comes from his Egyptian to perform at the Lido." Sir Alan uses Gold Coast as an wife who inherited large cotton example. He recalls that when Jinterests in Egypt. Dr Kwame Nkrumah's govern~

inen

Ho himself has considerable came to power it revoked financial interests in France and the British polley of cutting out in French North Africa. cocon trees afflicted with dead-is aleg active en the board of a

ly swollen shoot disease because private investment bank.

it wus unpopular with local farmers.

Recently the same government

put

"But"

the policy into effect again.

says Sir Alan, "I doubt

'Your Excellence'

He

Duke's story

been

build-up for this state visit. And the country, 800

miles began with the award of long and a third again os big as Nobel Prize for literature

Winston Churchill Sir to attack December. She calls her neutrality "a Britain, is hard policy

from heavily

broken with wooded, of freedom

and for

A enough

powerful Anglo-Swedish She kept out of many lakes,

of Commerce was boost créated In Stockholm to Nobody is

Britain's diminishing share of trade with Sweden.

Ger- (tho mans are ousting un from Arst place).

**

the North Atlantic Treaty way to get some warning of an Chamber

attack from the East.

Organisation. bound to help her.

her arc who

West and south of Norway and Denmark,

the

But Sweden depends in both belong to NATO; to the cast fast resort on help from NATO is Finland, who has a pact of And that means help from Bri- muual assistance with Russia; tin. NATO Northern Command and to the southeast is the is haudquartered in neighbour- powerful Red Fleet in the Baltic. ing Oslo under General Sir

Robert Mansergh.

want

There is a plan to link Sweden apd Denmark with bridge across The Sound.

t

to

L

which

you

a particularly nasty habit of lying quietly in wait until approach within range and then firing straight for your eyes.

The venom is squirted out of the forward-directed fang open-

slang that its venom can caitso festering skin eruptions,

I have personally witnessed. First, there are two principal e a result of the poison of a

These

cobra are black-necked

having pes of poisons. known de haemolysins and spattered a pair of flannel neurotoxing; they are manu trousers the subsequent stain- factured by special kinds of ing of the trousers and the In April the 300th anniversary salivary glands, and are mixed appearance of actual holes when and Friendship of the Anglo-Swedish Trade together to form

clear, the material was next washed, was yellowish liquid, celebrated.

Treaty

becolage

my

ACTOR Joan Rigaux was asked

The enake that ruined my by a Paris newspaper to give

The proportion of one type of pants had already spat at Four weeks ago King Gustaf's poison to the other varies his account of a reception given

20-year-old granddaughter, different kinds of

in face and was chasing me. ¡Ax my by Lord Ismay for the Duko

venomous native helpers closed in on Princess Margaretha, went to snakes, GOBIO of Edinburgh. Here it las

being almoet the reptile fired again, hitting Many Swedes have a guilty

London. "In all modesty I must con-

wholly haemolytic

pur cook on hia, bare lega action gutered no ill effects, nor did 1, others fess that I had a great personal conscience about giving equal

are primarily The visit of the king and

c. The effect of the home I was wearing glasses, My "play" to Hitler and the Allies whether there are many other His wife is in the best tradi- triumph at the reception.

queen is the cilmax of pallent former is to destroy the red but the affair Laught mo our ambassador during the wor and elegance, and only rival was colonies

where the indigenous ton of Parisian

diplomacy. They hope to make corpuscles of the blood.. 10 NATO, M. Herve Alphand, put themselves right with

and several new lessons. The text- ia a talented painter with rulers would have the courago

tho There is also a plan 10 let their country better known to irritate the Uning of veins and books say that these snakes con to admit ag error and rein-feminine weakness for being who gives quite excellent Imita-West

Sweden have free harbour Britain; to create some affection arteries; that of the latter is fire only once, and then havo to of M. Bidault and of the troduce an unpopular policy." confused about her husband's

fgellities at Trondheim on Nor- for Sweden. And to foster an upon the nerves, delegation

and causes walt for more friends.

venom to ac- (One of his closest

to the But, above all, Sweden is way's west coast-which would understanding that Sweden paralysią. When our nerves stop Geneva Anancial collaborators is always

Conference.

cumulate. But they pack a whole scared Her territory straddles give her a trade outlet to the would not be left out on a Ilmb working, the natural bellows series of polson punches, averi addressed by her as "Your women were marvellously the direct bombing route be- Atlantic in another war.

If attacked. (

il formed by our diaphragm stops the last of which can be deadly. Excellency" under the mistaken dressed and there was a young impression that he is the Pollsh woman of absolutely striking Sir Alan has to admit

that m

Ambassador Their Interests bonuty. Ah la, in. The Duke took the material prosperity of

me aside to tell me a story 'blen divergent she me are completely colonies corpparelh with their is interested in the arts and the Parisienne. He said" that at Independent alghbours hefashionable

world, he is some. Ascot he asked Marcel Boussac compares Jamaica and Haiti,

thing of a

of a recline

and reads What was the French word for Gold Coast and Liberia-doos

replied. not deter colonial peoples from nothing but newspapers and re- starter. M. Brassos

Why, it's the same": "word" condito economic works.

only

Too

Quickly

ns possible.

All the

seeking self-government as soon At home Mendes France you must say it with an English

How quickly should colonias rarely sit down to the table for accent." be granted self-government?" moule und mostly snatches sand- According to Sir Alan, ex-wiches and tea in a corner of perienced British Administrators his study.

with long

11

$30,000 car

Film

'stur Grace

He is noidentally the only NOIDENTAL Intelliger and non-officiāls service

in tropical colonial mon I know who can make an territories are worried about melelve speech while munching filming in the too much speed. They bellett, w chicken bone. He has little will almost unanimously that s government is desirable and in

for Friendship or engagement to human rahlons, and del

khusband

of civil servants, and

evitable, But they have, too, he and a bralne trust,

"an equally JAYN. feeling that the ment is cha pr

uriapimoya

ingy

1100 hurried and that those re

Aly dee and known is Ame

JOHNNY HAZARD -

I WON'T GVS UP MY NOONAN FOR A JEALOUS [MÁNG THREAT! ESCARRE IN AVALUE NEVER COULD HAVE LOVED HIM?

AT THIS MOMENT, IN THE PRISON OFFICÙ........

DOSS_BACARMI HANS THE PANILEGS OF RECEIVING -

* VISITORS?

UNFORTUNATELY ESTARRE HAS TO MANY PRIVIESTS! CHA IS SUNNING

HIMBILE NEAR THE

SOUTH VALLE

By Frank Robbins

...this situation

for a

an

Miguel