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THE CHINA. MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER... 2, 1954.

CHOICE BEFORE SOUTH AFRICA

By Harold James

ATCH out for the Socialist government in Britain

'9'', might be the are not likely to be cordial Kypay's warning lo South Africa. For Strydom, the Socialists in Britain, Screlse Khama, Simons- the fuel for a flare-up, About

Russia bim and Soviet could all play a part in her future destiny.

town

It would be lamentable it South Africa, having made up ber mind to go did not "go quietly".

And here

where the SOVIET Union comes in.

Next, SERETSE Khama.

himmelf in of little ac- count, but he could provido

KOVETH- a Conservative

their ment will never change mind. Their decision that he can never become chief of the Damangwato is irrevocable.

that the There is no doubt state of the work has exercised a moderating influence on the the South African outlook on Commonwealth. South Africa has not many friends In the But will the Socialists re- world today. Her relations with

embittered. Dre Labour India recent

Jent?

the AL

when he

Hor

First, Mr STRYDOM. Will the mantle of Dr Malan fall on this ambitious, Party conference at Scur- native policy is detested in the

countries higoted. "blue-eyed boy" of borough the biggest clver of up-and-coming

Fenner West Africa. By flouting the the backveldt Dutch, whose the day went to Mr

has lost or United Nations she put for- to dream is

Never his Brockway

there. True, sho ward a a plea tu Seretse should sympathy tiem

the reantry's

with

[ Mechuanaland he claims to have alaunch friends in Bish Commonwealth? Or

and his white wife. So there Western Europe, but Holland is

htt That the next a small nation. di it fall on Mr Ilavenga, is no

will Rovernment

be talestri

ex- Socialist more

under heavy

let Pressure lo prejudices sim go back, perience, whose have mellowed enough, per- hups to exert a moderating

the more influence on Treme Nationolists?

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With Poison

So long, then, as the shadow of Soviet Imperialism and Com- munism aggression hanks over he world, even Mr Strydom may think twice about cutting the tes with the Commonwealth, All this puts the worst com- plexion on what may happen. This, if agreed, would be re- Things may turn out differently. Africa as an Mr Strydom, after conversations Mr goed in South

going ftrent to white opinion in Lou where he is pinprick, perhaps,

Mr Havenga'a nime differ little From thug of

Strydom, but he, at least, is hnaten low-

coufal to

ofore

1

Duison

#

Ond but with furn change of air-may It would certainly that British politicians are not as prompt a demant for the High bad as they are painted. Mixing Commission territories

be poore with the outside worki The choice handed to the Unam under the than he has done may broaden A straight talk with must be nule. R may have terms of the South Africa Act, his mind.

Then

would do if there wJITE a popular Lord Swinton Then,

lamour to rid South African harm.

il

eVery vestige "foreign" influence. the de- But much, too, will de mund could well extend to the pend on the Party in power expulsion of the British Navy in Britain, Relations Dr Malan and a

a decisive effect on Stuth Afrien's future.

1122

of

from SIMONSTOWN, It would

A Republic?

only be a matter of time before The Conservatives may coine

Africa of the

Conservaith. Thol, indeed, my

Havenga, also, has

Com-back for another term of offer.

extreme-minded of

inevitable before this The more

tive Government have been friendly. He and Lord Swin- be

14 ituished. But the Nationalists may feel that a ton 11.1

well. Mr Reneralion

Is how South republic what mattera

be Can

achieved always Afrien

leaves the Common- through "the inevitability found a welcome in London. wealth,

And, after all, it gradualness." may not be Mr Strydom who But while Conservatives dis-

"I may have to go,” said a will be al

Mr the helm, if like the native policy of the

Cabinet Minister who had invenga takes over from Dr Linion as much as anybody. quarrelled with the Prime Malan, South African external

have been Minister of the day. but if 1 polley will probably

remain their lenders careful to observe the con- go I shan't go quietly." vention which decrees that.

these matters are

domes-

the issues in which Britain

cannot intervened.

13W's

No Disguise

much sil 15,

APROPOS HEROES AND VILLAINS

By LES ARMOUR

T first glance the cam.

Suculist leaders, on the other band, have not disguised their Moreover, there 13 J body of Socialist opinion which would like a Soculis! govern- condeinn 14 publicly ment

It is the attitude American actors to clear the "apartheid."

of England's which has caused Dr Malan to foul

Socialists the

Richard III-alleged mur- accuse

South 'meddling' L

derer of the two little futrs.

princes in the Tower of

It

African

name

understate- London appears would be an

[

But the

implications

thing one staggerin

aprils

stronk Arnuld-in high-minded

outwitted the

rough

and

ment, then, to say that relations warmhearted, humanitarian 1954-appears as a ment led by Mr Strydom and a Resture.

between

Nationalist

govern-

November 3rd, 12 noon to 7 p.m. November 4th & 5th, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Do not let it spread [.

Defeat it from the start by taking 1 or 2 "CAFASPINS"

CAFASPIN BAYER

patriot enemy

who

in a very

tough. game

warfare. cans may

of psychological The fact that Ameri-

hold him to hove

aided the wrong side in their little revolution is hardly of any substance.

The American army would probably do well to use him as

mode)

for every young re-

crutt.

NERO THE HERO

of

From there,

group Frenchmen might essuy to show that Nero was no scoundrel and wastre for Addling while Rome burned, but H progressive worker for world betterment,

(BY ORDER

BRIGHTEN UP 67 117A)

by GILES

"Mrs. Evans tells me that her doctor's got an Al Read show to brighton his surgery." London Express Service

think of Communism. The second of three articles What enlightened Muslims

for the China Mail by

written

0

or

CLASS WITH

Partial Truth

well-known a

Islamic commentator

WAR CONFLICTS

MUSLIM

IDEALS

By Sayed El-Hashimi

L:

利

No Hatred

were permitled to the Tatar. According to the Declaration of Rights issued by Lenin and Stalin after the October Ro. volution, all the nations of Bus sla were stated to be equal and sovereign. All were given the power of

fast that Koran: "Hold

to the lak which was

right to secede from the Union then of Allah, and never separate" unrestrained social

(chapter 2); and the Prophet's they desired 11, and to form States. This was Independent rssertion: "The Muslims are a the bait the Crimeans swallow- single hand, like a compact ed. wall whose bricks support one another.”

a

of not

Until the 1930 Constitution,

have-nola

of the

and

In The Crimea munist

rich

THE

is

Gibb,

Amid as necessary, how can we cx- so many and so various races of speeches, clude other hatreds which manklad." (H.A.H. could be held to be equally "Whither AND what of the hundreds of potent?

hatreds,

young men in minor jobs, There are national with few opportunities for high warfare between almost every promotion Aro the wealthier defined type of social group. We because the

1932, p. 370).

Islam?",

the

Today's Danger ent point deserves to be

In

group

NE of the most in- teresting problems facing Muslims to day is undoubtedly the relationship in a chang ing world of the social and

In the ecceomic sense. envy reducing the economic classes. The in- exists before hatred. The "jungle" law"

in of class-war, therefore, evident pact of Western ways of life theory

the exploitation of exploitation, upon our system, and the involves

There 13

remarkable development of most Muslim existing jealousy in the service

of group-the Communist parallel in the Arab "Days of lands along Western lines--

group.

Ignorance" (Jahiliyya) just be fure Mohammed. On what other grounds car In

with

I believe that co-operation

Equal before God, the Mus- which also allowed (Article 17) clans war be carried on? Com- various factors have rc- lims are already equal to ont for secession from the Union, Westerners-is now such an

the Tators felt that there might munism tells us that man is cently prevented Muslims another. One brick is un Im-

their be a hope of regaining established fact that the bot to be graded socially into from assessing their problems portant as another in our wall. time has come

the Com- for us to classes; otherwise the "superior" (es

(especially those of

based independence, Bui social There can be no war

munist Party had the power to will hate the "inferior" class,

of stress) from the viewpoint

upon Inequality, between override this right; according to of the examine how our attitude to

and vice versa.

the In actual fact,

standard period of Islam. ¿quals! Disparities which exist events is being affected.

cannot be logically establish Hence a glance at the authorita- helv

tween Muslims are of nature, Stalin, it was the duty of the

Party to prevent any that It is surprising how often the ed

Utis

that the case.

of live pronouncements

not material degree. The obvious counter move is

cbylous escapes 118. When Furthermore,

even if it were time will not be out of place

And, as Islam tells us, merit leaving the U.S.S.R. for three English actors to start

were first noticed, in several Muslim

While

the Crimeanis forbids both hatred here. 10, Islam

not measured In terms Benedict to clear

countries, the stresses which in-

astet

Thus,

The historian Mawardi (Adab sacks of gold. If we are

trying to work out a solution to from campaign

envy.

the whose Arnuld

the dustrial and nume

question,

Russians outside influences Muslin point of view the be- ad-Dunya wa ad-Din, 01 & 84) progressing, the fault must be this

active.

to have produced in our relations lief that war between classes is telis us

In addition to reachery to every American.

Qat "the work of in ourselves. Certainly, no Mus- were with one another.

found it necessary must be rejected.

of successful

wor- with

Islam.

during the lim believes that an allen poll- preventing freedom They might make B

adjust gifleuli to

mind to

logical chip in the Crimen, they took my

life of the Prophet and the first feal theory without ease for the man

this foot: Islamic society as we

four Khalifas rested upon the baris can nrovide our answer. selected youths from the schools

trained them and

Com In welding It is changing, day by

together problem of know day.

All Ahmed, the son of a

thought, schools of

doctrine designating OOK again at the Red hate different

the reconciliation small farmer, has been educated

still them as future feaders of the Soviet Union theory. This also is a partial Government college, and at a

the meantime farmers

Social mare truth.

and economic and the

vity celebrating with enthusiasm country.

Russianisation of now he has to teach

the Tatars their business. jealousy can and do exist. That breaking up of the exclusivity

anniver- proceeded the three-hundredth twice his age

of the rich and the aristocracy. or of

apace. Stalin of the

of unification Оле What is their reaction to him? they are right and natural,

Sary well-known Western au-

no suit. that clared that there was Russia with No European Kamaluddin is making a fortune to be encouraged, is quite an- On

able to thority

"NO

working-class in this area; specifienlly clates: other matter, freely open

but Islam

southern has huge out of his transport business: he

country the

so thousands of European Rus- challenge on rational as well as other society Can Islamic

gronary of the sians were drafted in or land was once a motor-driver.

of success in Ukraine, record grounds. Now let us such a

form and factory workers, lo If so, what is he And a wife?

the jubllations, the

of the State. the backbone, hor social status, and where is be more specific about all this, uniting in an equality of status, USSR.

If we are to admit class war of opportunity and of endeavour

the reaffirmation of he to look for her?

Parallel with the Importation the ties of friendship

and

the Muslima of alien peasants, colidarity supposedly London, on

existing

were deprived of their crops between these two largest Slav

sent to Russia), (which were population groups, one algnt and because they protested tens

of thousands were sent made known to every Muslim exile and sentenced

to forced ISLAM therefore, is a flexible This is the transfer of the re- labour.

Those

Tatars who people their enemies? There is might say that potters should society: on RISOCiation of glon known as the Province of collaborated

with the RUB- no doubt that a good many rich hate bottle-makers

Crimea (Krim) no the slana in government, in the hope people

their wealth, trade of one could harm the People held together by a distinct the

which has Ukraine. objective; a society Would it not be better to share other. Do railwaymen hale

Most Muslims of the Middle of shielding the people to some extent from Rusala, were this money equally among all. sailors when there is passenger faced and overcome the problem

difference of human East know of the Crimen as periodically them? It of the

purged, exiled, Why should the poor not hate competition between

status. In fact it would not be the homeland of the Muslim executed. Genuine Communists, they do, then is tho answer

of Krim: land of like Wall

Ilyas Ibrahim, become too much to say that class war Tatars everyone should that Communism, as laid down by

is not only outside the pale of fiercely independent, pious folk Tarakhan and Ibrahim Samidin, Islam, but directly the Jewish thaker Karl Marx, pattern or glass-blowers?

conflicts who flourished in an indepen were banished or murdered. a No, in claims that those who possess o

healthy society there with Musilm ideais,

dent Khanate for centuries as certainly There is a very considerable a cradle of Islamic culture. smaller amount of wealth must may be rivalry, and therefore hate those who have a there is competition: but 10 danger today that Muslims may What the lot of the Muslim Other scoundrels

T the cutbreak of the Second of hatred. Envy, furthermore, As of history

stek for the answer to

of the Crimea today? They are A World War, many Muslims of readily suggest themselves, but the "pillare" of Communist as most people observe in daily social problems in foreign sys- either dead,

deported to ro- a Bitle work towards turning preached today. Yet it is im-fe, is frequently the refuge of tems. If we are to adopt the mo

the Soviet Union became con mote areas or Uving In slavery heroes into bums would possibly portant to

the the weak. note that

idea of class struggle anew. this

that by collaborating In somewhere

Soviet vinced got go amiss/

assumption is based neither upon

Marx

un- relic of the "Days of Ignor- Union: the barbarous destruct with the Germans they could can only regard logie nor upon history. It is a doubtedly was the fact that in anco" we shall be going against tion of an entire people in 1840 not busy worse off than they Englishmen

Islamle precepts. possed almost unnoticed in the were under Russia. Over half George Washington as a short partial truth. You will hate a his environment there was no innumerable

of I invite altention to

Muslims a milion the Muslim world, man if you are jealous of him. potent social force capable

Foldlers sighted, hot-head who lent him-

serving in the Red Army placed their services at the disposal of self to a gang of illiterates bent

True Pattern › on wrecking the civilisation of a

Germans the great Empire and clearing the

Crimes and

Islamic path for McCarthyism.

reasons, as a most camest berritories. The main crime f appeal to every Muslim. who the mass of the people, however, Egyptians can hardly

may read these lines. First lot nccording to the Soviet an brought to view Alexander the

nobody suppose that the ap- nouncement which disclosed Great as anything more than low-class barbarian bandit, TEWEST craze in the earlier speelmens taking him to the address given so that it parently fair-minded attitude the destruction of the Cre tutored by a barely-civilis:d N

collector's art is the much nearer the period when it is recived as early as possible. of Russia towards Islam is any was that they had not fought thing but barbaric opportuniam; against. the German occupation Ages, The original letters, are being when bowmen tied scrolls to nent through the Red Cross in occondly, mark well that we, forces.

the surviving Muslims of the On June 26, 1940, Moscow gathering of "aerial leaflets," all began the Middle those pieces of paper con- their arrows and shot them into the usual mail channel".

world, have an undischarged announced that the Crimen had taining A message with besieged castles,

duty towards the

of ceased to exist as a State, had The British outhorities were

in the Crimon,

martyrs which someone has tried to

Islam A World War Two collector's not misled into belloying that

and been reduced to the status of bombard someone else's pices now in Mr Field's album this was a generous gesture by wherever elad they may have a province, and the entire popu

is a German VI leaflet, On Gorman captors. The enemy bean. Varter of the Koran refor lation deported to the mind.

..wester Christmas Eve · 1044, / BOveral worth at that time experiment what reacion must be towards

to parxxcution by infidels, and of Astard ** Nor is it plausible to ask the A founder of this 'latest German doodlebugs droned with the citizens of Canton and Shanghal pastime is · 24-year-old'

There are no Muslims left in the launching of VI's from

them not my words,

but those

the acaplanes, They badly ther

Crimea, The fact that the to view Chengls Khan and his Field of Sutton Coldfield, Bir-tructive course over Man

The of Allah,

da surviving community Che Mongol hordes as anything but mingham, who has already sol- choster. Just before they dived wanted to know whether the It will be as well to trace transplanted Russian peasants) Mongol hordes.

lected over a disousand diferent corthward showers of leaflets doodlebugs were reaching their Leaflets and is in communication fell from the desker

Intended target new of a the main outline of the story have been handed over to the The result of all this, of for Information and sweps with the heading in large decorative destination would give them all the true pattern

The cne M

his carried Pow leaflet reaching its ultimate of the Crimeans; in order that nominal juridiotion of the course, ought to be several good collectors all over the world.

aggression may be earned, and But if a 4, while | Muslima rip-norting wars with every Mr Flaki's collection datea type inset across a stamp can- the information they wanted.

Post

Mow

tion can be wiped out, without body heaping good thumping from a message.. dropped to a callatien mazic Vi Pow

facsimile of loaflote

balot of led collected learned well.

the slightest H-Bombs on everybody else's lost expedition in the Arctic in Below is the

the Russian Revolution, tion what might be the possibility of op kind a klrifslør' pur- have heroes while rescuing everybody 1868, an item valued at £100, letter

bylle Bellish pose of come: sort, billes few Soviet Russia, moda? 24- louflete prisoner of war t home have a humorous touch. Ike the article Treat with, the" Re- fate of the entire Isikulo, world! Ward even de up-to-date and above is the printed dires thousandropped by the RAF public of the Crimea, in which le anyone will corvinded Te the Enosia esingaigh in Greece, tion The fader la requested over art during the war, ex hoth parties were acknowledged the non-itualan He is hoping he rebarches will to cut out or copy the lecie, horting the people to SAVE to be independent, and Falpla- tes, s lead him to the collection of printed here and to frendimit K. PAPERI

Surely. In Jetting Rome burn he was helping the backward peoples of the world lo gain their fair and just shore of the fruits of civilisation.

ba

Greck called Aristotle, who would have done better to go into the restaurant businese.

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RIPSNORTING WARS

dome

No, gentlemen; lel's leave Richard III to Shakespeare

the rich?

misuse

larger amount, This is

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What troubled

their

The

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By J. W. TAYLOR

Heinkel

mátlan relations with Turkey, Soul Turt

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