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NKRUMAH KNOCKS
AT
THE DOOR
By P. C. GORDON WALKER, M.P.
(Former Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations)
K
London.
WAME Nkrumah's per- Bonal triumph in the Gold Const elections has struck through the Com- monwealth.
Prime
Commonwealth Ministers will now have to rather souner, gather - than Inter for their most momentous conference since India their decision that should be a republie in the Commonwealth.
Dr Nkrumah is marked
д
of our So, let's get it out heads that Britain could settle this matter alone, even if the
It's just as wished.
much question for Canada (Aus- New Zealand, South traliu,
Ceylon) Africa, India, Pakistan, as for the United Kingdom.
should How. then,
DI Nkrumah's demand for Com- Nkrum
membership monwealth handled?
that It is untrue will have to go cap in Dr Malan or anyone else.
behalf of for Britain, on
Inde- colony on the polni of
initiative. pendence, to take the
inde Firstly, the grant of
malter for
out us a rising statesman Brill self is a
of the
alone.
be
he
hand
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It
11
A
A
Coost Dr
beside the point
Gold and the
things The harsh Commonwealth. Malan has said about Britain's Much turns on what he does policy of pushing forward with the Gold or the way in which he self-government
are
that clalit does it. So it is vital that Court
himself he thinks again before com. He
South Africa's native policy is mitting himself to a course
an internal matter with which that could embarrass Bri-
no one else must interfere. So, relations Britolo's tain and enuse discord over- BeRs.
over-
His people have whelmingly endorsed his de- clared policy of demanding that "Britain should admit the Gold Const us
A full member of the Common- wenlth."
Wrong Address
Now, Britons are general- ly glad that the Gold Const wants independence within the family and they want to see the Gold Coast a full member. Certainly I do,
But. though Dr Nkru. mah's demand note is wel- does not alter come, that the fact that he's sending it to the wrong address. should not go to London but to the Commonwealth as a
whole.
It
are
with her colonies.
But Britain's responsiblilles At will be do not end there.
to the propose
time
her duty to other members that the has come for the Gold Coast to be admitted as an equal.
I have aftened quite a nun- ber of Prime Ministers ferences and I can what will happen
con-
imagine the
when
'rime Ministers Kather ot No. 10 Downing Street.
No Voting
discus-
0
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JULY 12, 1954.
THE
SKGS
"I believe you're glad it's raining so we can't play tennis."
IMMENSE
A CARTOON
Y
me
YOU will agree with that "Mug- gerkige" is a name straight out of Die- kens. It has a smug sound There will be quiet
as if its owner was trying sion round the table, as at Cabinol meeting. Questions will to assume a superior status the in provincial society. It also be asked about bow
nuterialistic sound feet
man in question British if the world.
hard faced en- Prime Minister, or perhaps the might be
will give ployer. Colonial Secretary. Colo
illustrating #gures
political atability
far
Gold Coast is a genuine nation, has a Able to stand on its own
in the
for the
The
110
the
no
a
Up to a few months ago I had
met him but never
of admired his occasional
greatly articks
London Express Service
HARM DO
CAN
By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
With some knowledge of what "There's only one thing wing We have Needless to chale, trying to please the pre- too few listeners!" it is like to sit in the Editor's with this luncheon. prietor, trying to inspire your say Muggeridge was unrepentant but we hoped that some of our statt, and above all trying to gauge the inood of that massive thrusts had pierced his hide. Blant known
public, as the called 1130 Punch offices and asked to be put through to Mr Muggeridge.
I
A few weeks later Muggeridge me that he was going to told Canada to make some speeches and I gave him letters to friends who would great him with the hospitality that is so warmly and typloully Canadian. Then t gave him a warning: "Up to the prosent." I said, "Britain's re- with Caneda are
my bothering you iations "Forgive personally. I should bave cordial." He promised 10 be telephoned your Circulation good. Department but I want to take a year's subscription because of what you are doing with the old weekly."
MORE BARBED
facts and
Let me tell you about one the
and
Whon he cama on the line maturity
<f the Gold Coast.
of the most discussed men
(my readers South Africa
must excuse ine will Doubtless
in London who bears this when I state that he had heard feels. raise the doubts it
speak name although none of its of ine betore) I said: I cannot, of course, I know this remark will the other members of the attributes. I refer to Mal- make a lot of people hot Commonwealth, But I have no colm Muggeridge, the two- water the collar. "This is a doubt that Britain's proposal
year-old Editor of Punch. will be wholeheartedly accepted new doctrine," they will sny,
Actually he is not au Infant except the members by
The two no Phenomenon. "thought up just to make South Africa, I also have things more difficult for the doubt that South Atrica will years refer to his term of Gold Coast because it is an acquiesce in the general con-Editorship.
Thurt is the African country. In the past sensus of opinion. Britain herself settled these way things are done
there is Commonwealth; things. Now it means that yes, because there is no vol-
Any Dr Nkrumah will have to ing
can, member leave the Common- go cop in hand to Dr Malan. course,
wealth for any reason at any There It gives South Africa
But South Africa gains Lime veto."
Kreat
advantage from its 10cm- bership, as does the rest of the
from Commonwealth Africa's membership.
Surely,
point of Pu view of the Gold Coast's own interest, it is better that she
become should not try to member of the Commonwealth as the protege of Britain, but that her right should be BC- cepted and endorsed by The whole Commonwealth?
Would Be Fatal
Jog.
23
People with this view think they are today's anti- imperialists. But really they are old-fashioned imperial They want to revert to the day when Britain ran the Commonwealth.
ists.
When
have
Small Affair
from
the
South
We
in the London Daily Telegraph. BNY
An
editor
the world would be pleased and en- by such a message. to my intention
"This is the nicest thing that could have happened," sald Muggeridge generously. So that
was strength and there couraged was even a touch of audneity in And It wan
encourage him. his writing which seemed out of place in that austere journal. But it was not a matter of wide public Interest when he resigned from thre Telegraph. In Journalism people constantly come out from that same door
through which they go in.
was that.
was regarded by an important British publication.
Aut, as Shakespeare observed, the evil that mea do lives after thein. On the same page EA Sony the re-production of the offend- tending one next day.
Time published a fury would have to wait until Ing cartoon
and almost sustained
savage then.
attack on British political
worth his sail leaders. No politician objects to criticism or attack.
He would prefer praise but then For sheer, pretentious muddle- can you beat this even a politician is human. on attack upon hum must not sentence?-Though most out-
But headedness
be so cruel that it offends the siders know
standards
human decency.
almost
0
19
of
cun-
how
that Churchill Is getting ok, few realise just old and feeble he has become." What in the name of Kindergar- does this mean? ten grammar "Most outsiders know that Churchili is
old." getting
What siders know?that he is getting do the rest of the out-
10 years.
MUNICH
CARICATURE
HERE in Punch is an Anthony Eden so ghoulishly thin that his morning coat hangs on him like young? Even a public absorbed atrips must havą a shroud and his wing collar with conic
heard that Sir Winston Spencer Just to end this part of my
skeleton's Churchill reveals
13 a man of
some narrative let me put on record
throat, He
smiling that Muggeridge returned from ecitedly as he raises his hat to Canada se starry-eyed that he
the Geneva wes like a young man who has the plaudits
smile reveals fallen in love for the first time, crowd, and the
teeth that dominate "I would have been happy to two front
the face
to be the and seem in Vancouver," he sak, slay
only teeth he has. The eyes ore JUST to muddle its readers still "und never leave it."
watery and the
stringy grey
further Time states: "Those if it had been Toronto I hair comes over his ears.
meet him, impressed by his
etc., etc. would have understood, but for
You can vigour," Not content with this vicious take your choice. According to tunately all men do not fall in
Kroet magazine if you that the readers would not get Churchill love with the same woman-or caricature, and perhaps fearful Time
you will be shocked the same city.
the meaning, the cartoonist gives to see how old and feeble he Eden an attache case in which
is and you will be impressed by the initials N.C. are crossed out his vigour. We all know that and the initials A.E. substituted. a Time story is nearly always a composite affair contributed by various staff reporters, but Болноле must decido which
GENEVA
who
To make
that oven the sure OR some time Punch behaved stupidest mind will get it there
Itself very well although it is a suft case in which the
new
GOLD IN
A STEEL BOTTLE
By Bernard Wicksteed
· London.
HEY made a discovery Sussex last week that may lead in time to some strange goings-on in the kitchen. Instead of drill- ing for oil they are drilling for gas, and now they have found wome,
They found it 830 feet below a feld where herd of Friesian
in grazing WOB
Crow borough Warren. There was not
COWB
t
lot of it-maybe enough to ball an egg; not much
more.
The cows took no notice what-
ever, but the scientists who had gathered round were as thrilled as if they had come across goldi. whiffed it. They lit 1, They
and then they stored it away in sleci botiles to send to laboratories in London,
Wicksteed, who has visited olifcids, diamond mines, gold reefs, and pearling grounds all over the world, went down to Crowborough to see what was Бо important about
this
penn'orth of gas under & field it,
Sussex
toolding
The reason they are for it concerns all of us.
coal My enough in the last five years, but the coni bil of the gas industry has gone up by £30,000,000 a year.
bill has gone up
So they can find enough natural underground
in gas Britain, it may lower the rost of cooking the joint.
TWICE AS STRONG
This natural gas they are deliling for is called methane. It is ปาด
samo
that stuf explodes in coal mines, and it in twice as strong as the gas they turn out at the gas works,
If they and enough to plpe it to private homes they will have to at special burners (at the gus boards
let's
hope). experise, They will also have to put some- thing in it to make it smell, because this gas has not a smell of its own.
For
their "gas-well" they have chosen the Would because the geology boys say there is underground that is 24 miles natural gusholder in the rocks long a
and four and half miles
It may be empty. may
have leaked
The gas out in the Of years
since it was from the rotting vegeta- tion of a world that was po- pulated by dinosaurs and Loch Ness monsters,
The only way to find out la to drill a holo and see.
to
So in this quiet feld of grazing cows they are boring a holo through the hardened sa of bygone British waters beds
pi reach the
tko Sometimes they go gasholder.
million years in a day. through Д
ey found the first trace of gus last week in hard grey rock
was once mud
on the
They
that
Beashore. Britain was joined to America then, and a creature called the Iguanodon roamed around what is now Sussex and Kent.
ROCK PORES
Each week the magazine grew more barbed, Some of the articles were so modernist that I took Punch for many years, was difficult to understand, took some barbed digs at Lord label "Geneva" partially cover story is correct, partly because it was a habit, much less enjoy,
them.
But Beaverbrook and made fun of an old label marked "Munich."
and partly because 11 was gently there were patches of brilliance. newspapers
polliicians.
However, the magazine is not amusing, and partly because The curious thing was that it Then came the crucial conference Although Eden Design In content with weeping crocodile could not be bothered to cance
increasingly at Geneva with the disaster of 1938 as a protest against Muflich tears over Churchill's WD4 becoming
senility Finally 11 subscription.
Blackening
the he has now, according to Emich, but it goes after Eden as wall political. It preached no polley Indo-China
www Two of his footprints Anthony Eden was in taken became so mild that I gave it
on Chamberald'stole. As many of you know I WHE found in a quarry near the bore up. Then one day at my Club bit lampooned the politicians skies.
with a reckless audacity.
charge of the British Dolegation He is doing a Geneva on us supporter of Chamberlain and hole the other day. Ho looked arki realised 1 read it again
and he went to his task with a
Munich, and appar Munich. instead of
But there was a group
a cross between
a lizard that something had happened. Then one day it came out with prayer in his heart that some ently there is no difference be- in the Party against Munich
and a kangaroo and was some- a full page cartoon
was how he would bring the world tween them.
Re had and Eden expressed their feel-imes 30th," keng, Even the nearer to sanity. utterly revolting.
when he ings and his OWT
lend the same size as a horse's wretched Schleicher in the days
my
NEW LOOK
that
Canada and Australia became members of the Cum- monwealth, it was a small affair and everyone necepted Britam's
One other great duty will resi those days But dominant role.
Com upon Britain and that is 10 The Com- for ever. are gone
time her initiative 30 ag to has grown and beey ensure monwealth
that there la no gap Australia
and transformed.
I between the independence of become powerful Canada have
the Gold Coast and is Com- Pakistan and nations, India
monwealth membership. entered the Commonwealth
cannot, even for short TN addition to humour thero
terval, have a two-der Com IN
Even the Britain is now an equal mem monwealth, with Arst
and
gure of Mr Punch on the cove ber in a Commonwealth of equal second
That clase members. nations. That
means that all would be fatal to the principle hat a new baleful kook in his
Each week the change be must have an equal
Commonwealth of equal eye.
Gone were came more evident, common decisions. Thro
door the gentleness and gentility of The Commonwealth's
something would not
British must be opened
Gold other days. Here was attempt to dictate to them who Coast at the self-same moment that threatened to become more the drawing. It was obscene.
barbed than the New Yorker. should or should not be-mem- that it becomes independent.
as powers in their own rights,
simple
voice in of fact is that the other members nations.
woul
relerate
to the
bors of the Commonwealth. After that, Britain's direct
ilke
was satire,
tic
Editor, Malcoini
a
If Punch
our TC-
Д
like
I do not criticise the political resigned as Foreign Secretary. and he laid egg (so if the "gus- of Hitler could hardly have been He had to deal with Molotoy aspect of the cartoon.
The cartoon con- at a moment when the black wants to lampoon
Munich had Supposing more cruel. sisted merely of a drawing of tide of Communism was moving presentative at Churchill
conferenca prevented ware Support that Not only was ominously across the continent which
to save the is trying
in looking for America had grown Churchill depicted as old but of Asia. He had to deal with world from disaster then there night and declared that sho senije. And not content with Mr Dulles who seems to have is no law to prevent it. The would stand By Frands and senility they artist gave his face no clearer idea of American press must be free even if a look of impotent lechery. foreign policy than anyone else, abuses the rights that freedom Britain. Hier would he dis- appeared from the. we and bestows. And I have seldom there would be been hive Talk, talk, talk. Conference seen a greater abuse than this. And Edea world all day, conference at night, con-
help off agam ference in their dreams. And nothing emerged.
There was only one word for
REPRODUCED
It
neve
war.
well" turns out to be a mare's nest you will know why),
The gasholder the drillers are is not a cave. It isn't hollow. The gas, if they find it will be stored under prossure in the pores of the rock. in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. They are also drilling for gas The Gas Council spending
£1,000,000 on the search,
But how does rims regard so that old boug khen. is what they are action? courageou
that
A khi ông là thơ mộng, ảnh v
with
that
As a couple of political friends
lunching were
with me next offered
To satisfy mry curiosity I Before Britain
India, responsiblities will end. The
And so Pakistan and
Sir Robert Boothby went to Ceylon Indepen Gold Coast will be a Common-made enquiries and found that day I called up Muggeridge and
had been a change of asked him to join us. there oll the dence in the Commonwealth, all wealth motion
Geneva he came to my house.
to have
a look and WHEN a man has been sick for turn, in its
came back he told months and comer back to his House of Commons for ghice the Commonwealth Prime Mini- others. It will,
when he What is he like? He has a half a dozen of consulled and nil share in decisions about future they
us that not task with body that has years and to man enkod tie teld full of cows from a lost ters were
tousled head of rough,
wiry, only was
Eden publicly welcomed the decision. applications for membership.
making the perilously lost weight, you do not British Parliament for long world that way inhabited, by unruly grey hair which some- fight of his Bfe but that in ridicule him for his thinness. how gives an impression of youth stature he dominated the whole When a statesman is fighting his ke the front line trench (tai | #punkqric monstera, “N
What more can you expect for a Bob?
THREE
SILENT
editorship.
Muggeridge.
The said, was
new
SALESMEN
萬賣麵
Largoné › Mornión.
Largest Afternoon
Sunday
Circulation
Perhaps
I have stylth Eden, iri tha i wylll be cut the ground', in a
war-your comrades know
rather than age. His eyes are stat
there is no country's
cause in a foreign light and mischievous, his voice ene
shrewder political observer in capital you do not ridicule hin exactly what you are, is vigorous and he wears the
our publle Life than Robert face, and proclaim that his degs, kind of clothes which show at Boothby. It is true that he also like his mind, are weak and once that he has no interest in
has a warm personality and wobbly. his tailor.
(sometimes) a generous mind,
UNREPENTANT
DISTORTION
comes out
EN
POČKET CARTOok byUSBERT LANCASTER
#% mail of ¿buri. 5. Time does, that be res
but he had looked at Geneva But Muggeridge was unrepen- with complete detachment. tant: There were about twenty luncheon, mostly guesta at. "Edon is carrying the whole authors, politicians and editors, great office because
shoulders," he and we burled invective at our
urges him todo, it
T luncheon we set about weight on his
him like three matadors at a said. "He is merciless on him- host without mercy. Muggeridge
We denounced him for self. It war is averted, if peace did not make light of it.
bull.
Не men slåder jus
his Churchill cartoon. We des really comes den will be the fought back by saying that in tion of history... clared him to be a savage, a man who did it,"
barbarian and a bloody villain.
He enjoyed it all and fought back gamely.
:
THE PAGE
Britain we have become so namby-pamby that we are afraid
to be impolite to anybody.
But I must put down my pen and take my dog Diarpoll for a
Otherwise.
might the great men who
but, invo
A strange cantankerous, walk. lovable creature. Ho has a warm offend "You don't understand,” he ĦTHAT said, "I love Churchill so much Anight I took Punch to heart and a mind which is both produce Time,
my bedside and roamed generous and cruel. But in his. that I don't want him to stay on through its pagos. And then I anxiety to
I charge Malcolin portray Eden us a and dim his own glory came upon a full page cartoon self-infatuated perlar of peace with unintentional
The redoubtakde Bir Robert of Eden. My first impulse was he strikes not only at Eden but disservice to the British people in: the cartoons published bt Boothby who wile in the House to seize the telephone, got at Britain.
Churchill and Edda. as a Tory ruled his hands In Muggeridge out of bed and
in fact the American magazine, mook wupplication," "My" dear denounce him in such terms that
shrivel like a raisin, reproduced the cartoon on its patriot had given
Time, seized on it at once und Although he had brederii Murordare," he said. "I fincerely he would hope that you will never love.
No on can criticise ment to those who MED SNA, Kultur AL MONObered that poes,
Punch hadi zwrylynd Abe custom Time for that. It was com that Creat Britain jaja
In fact the debate was so of a monthly luncheon at its platalys proper to show their nation, led by I violent than Boothby, shouted: offiows and last I would be ate readers how a Brilishi politician timidity in Han
· Personally;
“of the Silóné
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