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ROCKING CHAIR RICHES

By JAMES WICKENDEN

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ARD work, said Victorian writer Samuel Smiles, is the way Burccs. Go West, said the Ameri cans. They had Democracy and the American Way of Life to spur them on. This century the world has been totting up the results in terms of national comes and standards of living.

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The results are startling. In the lat of richest countries proportionate 1) population, America is not at the top, and of course Britain is well down. In fact, the wealthiest are amongst the world's spullest states.

Worse still for the moralists, one of them--Monaco-made its pile from Monte Carlo's gambling. Another-Liechten- stein-makes fabulous sums from selling

its postage stamps.

Andorra, on the French-Spanish bor- der, enrus grod monoy from a commercial radio station.

All of them profit great- ly from the tourist trade,]

proof of their

and tal

prosperit is that here is no income tax to pay in these states, The earnings from their pleasurable businestes pny stale expenses,

NO LARGESSE

Monico's Casino has not the

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woll since English Nobleman, so be loved of continental hotel- jern, Jo longer distributes | largrosso On the Grandi Tour. But instead of stern- ly rolling 11| it: shirt sleeves, it bas found 2011- other benefactor.

That arch-enemy of Bri- fish oil-tanker interests in Arabin Mr Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has int- vested large sums of money in the Societe des Bains de Mer. Monneo's state tourist organisation.

Liechtenstein has also f

pasy

wny to keep going.

Foreign firms can escape income

tax by registiring in the state) on payment "T

THE CHINÁ MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1954.

** | suppose you realise that now they can get steaks like foreigners, British sportsmen have no excuse for not winning everything.”

FOLLOW

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TOM STACEY, who described in a best seller called "The Hostile Sun' how he found a lost tribe in Malaya, is off again ---on a Journey to the Unk. own through the jungles of Africa. In this firat he portrays his companion, message Erisa Kironde, a Cambridge graduate from Uganda

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On that note we're setting out to pierce the heart of Africa

by TOM STACEY

a

picked him to go scholarship to Cambridge.

Immediately # secret ambition, shifting about in the back of his mind, leaped into possibility. He would represent Cambridge at soccer.

A few months later he arrived in Cambridge. A

home of Mukono, Uganda, East African history, shot stocky, tough African

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his father was earning 20s, through with Arub slavery student. A superb soccer re- WATER

a month as a student teacher, and triba! strife, the cord. A likely looking star

A week's

Baganda had maintained a performer for his college' form of democratic govern King's.

for rest.

It has been the same all Mamma, and then a family He friend jogged her home with Andorra depends for most of the way along so far. its income on smuggling. It is disappeared at Amsterdam. her firstborn son in his risk- carried on under the benevolent] Rome, Kano, all the places shaw, ita government and the along our air route front brightness of the new lighting Europe. shining in it, mountain streets.

Once they had to loudspeaker for him.

Where WAN he? You Tucked away behind int guess. with a teacup. others that have worked even)

But

NEW OIL-RICH

these

slates do nut

wealthy

compare

less to earn national Fortunes, 205. A MONTH

They are the new oil-rich territories of Kuwait abel Brunei

Brunei town alunds on stilts

HE has picked up his ten

addiction after four years Britain. Erisa

on the north coast of Borneo, in Great

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now

from.

Lo

ment.

But no, he would not be Ilies

He mother died. His playing much soccer. father married again and had lost a leg just after his It was ten sweltering miles worked harder and harder, scholarship selection, when Busozibulongo Still with the urgent pro a grazed shin went poison- And he says: "You over the red, gressive

the ous.

ronds

of missionaries, the family know, Tom, I think it was strove forward into the so lucky. What would I world of Western rhymes be doing if I hadn't lost it? and reasons.

I wouldn't be here now,"

home (pop. 360), rnin-runnelled Uganda.

Father was at the door to meet his proud wife. He had news too. He had been ap

inspector of

pointed schools,

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faith of

TO SCHOOL

off he went on the back

That is nice for me it is the sort of comradeship which is going to make this expedition go along fine,

But there is more to it

Soon the farmily would be WHEN Erisa was seven, and one of its Malay princes Kironde, B.A. (Cantab), is able to move out of their was the Brst to discover its oil. He found it without laborious pure African-a Muganda", mud and wattle hut with its of his father's motor-bicycle than that. More, even, than

where the exiled testing

M was just scoping through the walls of the local Freddie, the Kabaka, comes coalmine. Brunel Is wealthy that it has ofctals whose only task is to decide how to

to spend the money. Wisely, most of it is going on Long-term development

plans But there is still so much left that diminutive Brunci was able to make a large gift to neigh- bouring Malaya ប ald in its present distrosa.

King corrugated iron roof,

to a boarding school. King's the precious B. A. after his name, And that is a medita- That was in 1926. The College, Budo.

tive, unhurried acquain- first British missionaries

They call it the East tance with Britain and But now he says: "My had penetrated Uganda to Africans' Eton. Perhaps it Western Europe. mother is Africa. My father set up their station just 32 might just as well be called Great Britain. And paternal

years before. influence is on the increase."

Erin's is a success story of a very special variety.

When his mother gave birth to him in the maternity

have departed since it freely Mugando ↳ a single maniber of the Baganda triba who inhabi govern- Bugando, a section of

rich

The only poor little state today is San Marino, in Italy. Its palmy days seem

elected

mbat.

Communist

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What do they meak?

the East Africans' Harrow.

The boy grew up in an But I am an Old Etonian, atmosphere of simple so let's not. the fables mamma told her Christianity, filled out with children of the proud and powerful Baganda.

For 400 years, throughout Lugande all the grotesque chaos of

HOUSEWIVES vs. BUTCHERS

By JOHN MCKENNA

London. with meat-traders' trucks. from the high-prices, RITAIN hailed the dawn And the prices were gold- writing on the wall. Bor Monday July & with rush standard.

an anticipatory smnek of

the was

There is опе certain difference between Eton and King's College, Budo. To keep a boy at Eton for a year costs about £100. Bude costs £19. That is why Erisa's father was able to keep his bright boy there.

Something you do not get rouch on the soccer field. People, places, the sorrows and solaces of this old, old civilisation of ours.

FRIENDS

PREHIND him, after four years

at Cambridge, he has left bunches of trends. The · first African many of them Barl øver known. Some of them, helped But it meant a terrible lotus pack his spare artiicial leg more hard work for father; in a shise too giall for it. and when Erisa was 19, with

They will not forget him. Ho a scholarship just gained for will not be forgotting them.

Makerere, Africa's univer When we have journeyed our sity, his weakened father

way across Africa to Uganda, saw the caught pneumonia and died. Inter this year, Erisa will start his career in commerce. That Some of his last words is the game the Europeans play

Indians Faced with the prospect of were: “Go to Britain, son." (and the

too, meric their purchases going bad

Erisa has often said to me you). Ho, on African, means to their prices. And

the lips. The roast beef of That long-awaited steak them, butchers started slashing that life is a relay race, play centre dorward in time,

had

almont

plan

the

when six shillings a pound. Old England was off

time came for shopping for the "Each man has a baton. It ration, and with it the One London butcher-son traditional Sunday, Joint, house is his duty to run as far as

instalment choice cuts and joints a offered

wives found prices back the can and than pass it to shortage-bedevilled race of terms for meat-buyers.

normal and that they could be his children to carry along meat-eaters

with choosey

much-denated It looked as if the

further butchers, forgotten.

Socialist gloom-prophets hnd been right after all. Ration- But the Jubilation was ing by the book had given short-lived. By the evening away to rationing by the of the same day news paper were carrying the purse.

No one was moro surprised

on the queue weary house TO CAMBRIDGE second time the did it once themsolve For the

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before prices they had proved that

With 'he taló sorbathing

now and rare in African thought mind. A honeledge he has fought for in long inter by avertings round, the fire - åt his Cambridge dies, with his guitar to fill in the purée betwecks the

a icnowledge of the

Kind, of course, kisdó ta that adenothing else he is Enking with

PRISA know he had been im out of dear old Britain. the customer is always right, it passed the baton. At

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