1954-08-30 — Page 47

A Full Plate

for

Lennox-Boyd

M

By GERALD JACKSON

London. a general election in Kenya at the moment would probably

the incan

downfall of the moderate European leaders like Wilfred Michael Blundell and Havelock.

R Oliver Lyttelton would not have handed

aver the wheel if he had not felt the good ship "Empire" was in smooth water.

In MALAYA life was nearly back to normal.

In KENYA Mau Mau was being mustered, slowly but certainly.

In BRITISH GUIANA the trouble-makers were locked up or locked out.

'n UGANDA state emergency had ended.

of

EL your

Cumpared with ago, all seemed tranquil at the end of July when he de- Taped his seats of office an Setary of State for the to Mr Alan

max-Royd.

veita m

sloni al *This awkward age tri the process. of growing up. The tinys are Cell Secretary

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**** Whatchat! in the ate that nothing starting would happen for weeks.

Colonial has mity

So, though for the moment the MIN shines OD The Empire. Mr Lennox-Boyd

Soon be no way took even have to face dirty weather.

Jo M Tth Mal'A 4511

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the must need

factful handling.

fe

.1

Maltese Opinion

plutor

is

Further South the 'Federation' of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland is off to a falt start. But while, politically, the outlook is good, the future of industrial rela- tionships is not so bright.

An

European trade unions on the Copper Belt seem determined not to yield

Inch 10 the Africans' desire to better them- #elves. The Northern Rhodesian Government has started na offi- ciul Inquiry into the question. But there will be trouble which- ever way it reports, and race- relations will feel the reper- cussion.

situation This

will demand

great firmness of Mr Lennox- Boyd.

the

And it will be a tragedy for Federation If, for health the

reusons, Lord Llewellin, Govenor-General, cannot carry on, He is far from fit. mendig popular, his political gacity has been invaluable to the Federation

its Initiul

stages.

Black Spot

im-

British Guluna is st!li the black spot of the West Indles. Far from being surred to action by last year's crisis, the respon- site

members of the com- munity have been lulled into a false sense of security by presence of British troops.

the

election to-

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1954.

BOYS

ANGLO-AMERICAN TEACHER-EXCHANGE SERVICE

"If we get Marilyn Monroe in exchange for old Storky it won't be a bad deal,"

London Express Service

RUSSIA'S FLOURISHING

BLACK

TO country involved in not to patronise the offend.

War,

Such admissions, which are in

make;

abroad.

newspapers

d10

prop-

By

MARKET

Dennis Bardens

As the store opens

nt

a

Mata to become port of Ballain, been at work for eight months them have disappeared, or Zarya Vostoko, in a long article 120 employees are in their ap- and dresses. The spivs buy which she wore on her person

men

lives a decision which,

downfall. nakes

could mean its

As

Other colonies post

Their

prob-

on at the entrance

With-

concerns,

much 12

do

FAILURES

aro

the

will п dismay tout

sidle up black market an

shortages. with a wad in his pocket! or suffering a ers.

At the collective farm market

In the

Moldavian Republie slump in production

of the Ordzhonikidze Ralon, a there are dozens of simple but things, such ng because of shortage of complete contradiction to

and All this went on under the eyes black marketeer named Organez necessary 10 non Communist first place, on individuni

Geverkov was recently arrested needles, thread, glasses, spoons, No leader has risen to crusade labour or raw materials, is sy pictures of Soviet economy

exported

in the commercial network, as

not available. against the Communist doctrines ever without its black mar- countries, must be disagreeable at times grave supply shortages of the administration."

for Soviet of Dr Cheddi Jugan's People's | keteers.

The speculators, apparently, for the tenth time-for sell wicks, and so on, which to cloth

the But as production, to

collective a result of poor calculation of

are greeted by the employees as ing Progressive Party. And if Jagan in the years since the war, gandists know very well that

read the needs of the populace and are

They get advance farmers. In the Stalin Raton a of old friends. their could stand for

clumsily planned supply

about forthcoming lady called Bhushana Gurashvili Information pable

goods,"

deliveries of goods that are has apparently been doing equally divided over the orrow he'd be swept to power has become more normal in accend's future status, with the by the same-if not a greater the Western countries, the

A detailed picture of "spect-

TN fact speciile instances of outlook for these spiva has

nine scarce, such as cloth, high-grade roaring trade in Illicit woolles,

footwear, crockery

are BO Prime Minister's party pressing majority.

bad distribution The Cominussion inquiring

and displayed to prospective newspaper o'clock in the morning, and its furniture, N. Novitsky in the

up full Dominion standing and

numerous that one wonders hang customers in the lavatory. The Labour Opposition wanting

nting Into the constitution of B.C. has grown black indeed. Most of lators and lonters" was given by

whether an attempt is not being around the shop waiting to

who come

these spiva · and Novitsky, in his long tirado in made to use We awh le the Maltese Govern and its report is expected next are, at any rate, no longer published on February 2, 1954, pointed places, groups of spivs for themselves and then

pounce on customers, month --nnolher headache for active. They have nothing He compared what he said goes

of the lean against the rallings which

Zarya Vostoka, asked why the black marketeers as scapegoats facing in search of son of members of Militia did not stamp out, black fer Communist failures in die to offer which is ease of its slender majority, tu new Colonial Secretary.

not Universal Store of the Tbilisi ran along the windows,

marketeering. Then he answer- tribution. Pravda mentioned a these State-run Trade Organisation. outwards, on the look-out for a out the collusion of the lems for the new office-helder, available through the shops Industrial

the victim.

The shop in the Chkalov Province, for the ed his Impossible

own question. Indeelston

and in the main hall of this

In Aden there is border trouble or normal trade channels.

. would be the prospects,

itself, great

with

Informed management of the Tbilisi In- Northeast of the Casplan, which Annncial

store Island'a

to SCTVC supposed Trado Organisation is Universal Store

customer in, spiys to be so well One follows a bleaker, the new Colonial Secre- with the Arab state of Yemen.

and it is difficult to believe that dustrial scene in the which introduces Mayakovsky's listens to what he wants to the manager of a State-run shop could not, or would not, men- workers with their main play "The Bug."

name of a single quirements, yet which, at the buy and hearing the shop would give away information to tion the

criminally involved end of April, 1954, was without assistant say that there is none the detriment of his own busi- employce

cigarettes, toothpaste, sugor, some with the speculators," he said. without receiving

And with on ness in stock, sidles

They were probably all involved, razors and razor blades.

for weeks during April a shop insinuating

farm in "May I offer you reward himself.

are seeking?"

Factual accounts, like Novit- attached to a State you

that thing la

Communists Northern Kazakhstan was with- Interesting

slcy's, written by for Communists, show that out bread, flour or sugar, the spiva have little respect for

essential goods Gro still very over scarce. authority, and are frequently in

That Centrosoyuz, Ironically enough, in

which has existed Governor'a is West Airlen,

of since 1898 and was reorganised 4.211 stability prevali thire, space given by the Soviet tive form peasantry are swelling State-owned shops.

the ... and yet there are still

Is on Communist lines after.. One customer, D. Dzhavakash-in by no means localised. A whole supplies oil to other parts decision thanks largely to Mr Lyttelton's

be 80 Revolution, should still who sack monsters individual

the Rustavell Prospect, whero to take firm setion against the efforts. His successor's job will press and radio to exposures

Inefficient must be a bitter pili easy existence. What do vill, who came from the village gang was arrested recently in the Soviet Union, kerosene present of black market activities the maintain to publishers

In the of Chumlaki to the Tbilis In- "trado is done in goods brought very short in many districts. Confidence in Briush intentions and appeals to the public these monsters bank on?

dustrial Trade Organisation, from far and wide. The traders A long article in Pravda of for the Communist planners to

themselves do not hide the fact June 14, 1954, revealed that swallow.

great agencies Centrosoyuz, the main trade real explanation, "In tho ready-made dress that they have their

organisation in the Soviet number of busy, confident spivs

not operate department I could not find the and contacts in other clues."

other The sply is active in almost countryside, with over 30 million could coat I wanted. On the hand, speculators in new coats every phase of life. The cinema members, is a vast, unmanag-* present scale If the Communist were strolling up and down the will display a notice "All ticketa able, cumbersome and inefficient system were not inefficient and

read it in body. Brd distribution creates a tis employees not corrupt. hall offering them to customers. sold", yet as you

tary might take refuge Royal Commission.

Mauritius In n

for

In Cyprus the campaign

with Greece-Enosis is Union fanned by official and unoffied support from Athens. As a re con ault the offer of a new ztitution

likely sering

to be boycotted, although one or more Cypriols may be found willing to serve 011 the Counell

The new Governor's

writers tursck

SPECULATORS

Indian

But if in the free world 192k palist movement alms ot DI

black marketeer has polition! control of the island the

towards become a relic of the past, and agale is looking Nehru. In the Pacific, Fill is under pressure from Its Indian in Soviet Russia and most of immigrant population; and the satellite countries he is although this problem has been

a permanent feature of TN the play and in the Tbilisi the Inter dodged till now, it will have to society. And that he con- be faced!.

The bright spot in the picture stitutes a serious problem is

of be

But

and,

hot

seditious material has raised

that the storm of accusation press is being censored. the nellon is no bluff - many think, long overdue. In Renya the end of the war seems to be within Mou Mau terrorists are hunted down relentlessly. there comes a harder struggle for the hearts and minds of the picople.

Multi-racial

All races in the colony

sight. being

But

store speculators are rite:

"From year to year the ranks

up

THE SPIV

great concern felt

Potlucal ealmproved by the amount of of the working class and collec- league with the managers of this problem shows that it Azerbaijan, the Republic which association

na

MOW, KLEM AND AH-EEK

By LES ARMOUR

polated NCE upon a time there ogre might descend upon them Peace and Trade and

Was a bad old ogre and make war. And both Klem out that he and his men could called Mow who lived with and Ah-Eek know that, if that be very useful to Klem's village. day over camo, their villages

Klem was still rather sceptic- will his band of fierce armed would have to unite in order to al, but he decided that it would what have to co-operate, Mr Lyitel-men on a hill overlooking keep Mow at bay.

be good to try and sco ton now this and spared no two villages.

But there was difference terms could be worked out with Mow and to plan to live In one of the villages, between them.

in peace with him and not Very Im

make war on him or to courago Chung to assault hill,

efforts to lay the foundation of multi-racial governinent,

But

a

to

сп

wrote:

already this stucture is under

tho Klem believed that they might stress. There is n rift between there lived

the portant Man called Klem, some day make friends with the Europeans who favour multi-racial solution and those and, in the other, an even Mow and that Mow might even who don't. And the consider- able number who are against It More Important Man whose see the evil of his ways and be- are hardened in their view by name was Ah-Eek (which is come a good and useful ogre. the undisguised fact that the pronounced ike). inilucnual

Hinthu community guidance to Pandit

Ah-Eck, however, was certain that Mow would always be, a Now both of these Important bod old ogro and that, while look for

Men were rather afraid of Mow

be prepared Nehru's India.

So considerable is this group and set about preparing their defences should

sgainst the day the against him, he should otherwise that seasoned observers bellevol defences

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This became known "policy of peaceful

as the

Stoney Rapids, North

existence."

Athabaska.

'N the furthest outpost

of sub-Arctic Canada,

DAYS CHIEF

the

a

on

masa

their

CLOSE IN CHICKEN

By John Hillaby

honey.

fard and dipped in tea. It tastes like a pleco of corn beef loft

In the sun for a month.

But how could the Chipe anthropologist stick, A plty, because she whe A Canadian

livo without caribou? Chicken" shrugged whis where the rapids of called Victor Valentino led me a beautiful Asiatic-looking type wyans

shoulders. He said: "Usually by the Fond du Lac river boll to their lodges between Black with a fine skin the colour of Louis

fura," But the fur trado" was Lake and Athabaska. Klem was quite happy about!

Had the tribe enough to eat? dead. be ignored. At all times save this. But in Ah-Eck's village between sharp teeth of rock,

It was red night when I got who I met Chief Louis Chicken, were many

Thoy were the The Chipewyans are relying when he was making plans for thero

Their emblem on frozen bison flown In, occa for 22 hours in the land of the phatically.. his armica, Ah-Eck pretended talked of "eating the lotus with head of the last tribe of there. Summer daylight lasta Nol sald Chief Chicken em-

who uttered long real Red Indians, murderem,"

caribou. At midnight the sub- caribou catera,

It provided sionally by the Canadian Gov that Mow did not exist, This

rather confusing words ilkö And

Arctic sun sinks and the sky was the caribou.

them with mont, clothes, eriment. And each year

get five dollars each alnews for stitching, and hides Indians

as Wards of the Good Queen non-recognition."

for moccasins, drums.

who struck a treaty between Moreover, Ah-Eck was friends

Herds of migrant caribou, the red man and the white bos with another ogre called Chung whom Mow had driven out to

and across Athabaska

Black Lake: in the winter. This yOD": the herds had struck worth.

sible opportunism” and who

became known as the "policy of "appeasement" and "rospon And Chief Chicken was grows purple. And then red.

wald that Klem was almost as angry because the white man And then dawn breaks, bad as the ogre.

is playing havoc with the

that his tribe's main food.

And they became so excited herds of caribou which are chief Louis Chicken became my 10,000 stron usually ambled fore the turn of the century.

a little laland, and Ah-Eck about these long words rather hoped that Chung might grow strong enough to take over the hill again.

they led Chung to believe that,

Kiem secretly thought, how ever, that Chung, as ogres went,

if he tried to take over the hill, again, the men from Ah-Eck's It is not so much the village would help him.

white man's automatic rifles atomle as, his search for though *Indood,

there was never any word from Ah-Eck fuel that is driving the about this, Chung at length com-moose further and further

north.. vinced everyone, including Mow, that it would be so.

Nobody

has ever been very sure whatplana

Before dawn I can claim that friend. Conversation between us, oven through an interpreter was not easy.

THEIR PROBLEM

was not a great deal better than happened then, but it in thought For oven those barren lands knives, the Dogribe; the Hares, rantumakustikød": "Ott by

Mow, even though Chung had shown some signs of becoming better ogre since he had been, living on his little island,

For a long time things went on like that."

Then, one day, Kiem, rummed

Khatharwould go and nồn

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.all his courage and decid

THEIR INSTINCTS

the

For 80 years the Chips: have Why? It was rimoured that. the wolf packs word strong. It, boon able to live, as Indians was more likely that the car used to live, That is from the

were avoiding the north 1880's until the atomic, ago. The Chipewyans speak in a bou.

and dore, where about 3,000 claims Today they can get jobs in rapid series of clicks

the Yellow-' had' #uttorals, Like-

the minos, ag. labourers on the land. They usually work * Chipewyans wook and qult on pay that one day he sailed his life are being ripped open by from and the Tanak, they probabi

streamed out of their sotile Why should they work

they boat up to the hill and took alm lance prospectors in the mid came over from Asia, dcross. with his pea-shooter.

rush the foverish search for years ago, September, The Bravelled for Ah-Eek's supaatood by and uranium S

check days on cod, Cushio men in Ah-sek's village made approving nolaos, alles)

Normally

Blond 20th century, vorklit of flo gold the Bering Strait, about 21,000 for the trap alinion: In thay, havde money

Chicken wore a cloth cap and he had a caribou, coat, team of five dogs, Some of the) and to get and then hunt-p Unless Chief Chicken's tribe, on top of his blue: Sears, caribous aro impaled on long when whe

tulskly put on the

will ever know the Chi what, took place than. Forkles* £hl#

with the gold siripo, great slaughter, and the mer