1955-01-13 — Page 4

THE CHINA - MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13,... 1955.

* DON IDDON'S DIARY

AMERICANS CHANGE

THEIR TUNE ABOUT BRITAIN

New York, Tuesday. The new batch which huge crowds of Christmas shop-

TOPIA OB

“U

the came

week in this

Table talk

tho

Richelieu

food IN Chateau

and ENONICUS quetica, and pas

jammed traffic would ellow, and Rocks shocking which was clipped from New York on the surface is story of what has American newspapers and Boom Town, U.S. happened to ⇓ once great magazines says: "Britain' nation," the big headline bounces back to good times. rend, and I looked at. the British boom. British pros- date, "August 17, 1949." I perity. Jobs in abundance. wus d. ing a year-end clear- Shops crammed with

Restaurant where I often out of my len when I came and clothes. From bank-

lunch, one of the waiters--not old newspaper and ruptcy to boom. Morale at the head waller, but one of the magazine cuttings.

an all-time high. The con- exptains-akt: "I'm pretty deep fident islanders.” "Utopia on the Rocks"

1 don't think the new was a series which ran for

praisal will surprize you as much weeks. It was written by as the old one shocked you Pittsburgh editor E. T. certainly doesn't surprise me. Leech, and was published by I may be forgiven for recalling faltering on The fairly friendly Scripps that there was

my part at that the is be.. Howard chain cf

news cause I have received a cable

across

papers all over this country, from

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Manchester this werk which reads: "YA told them Your article May 21, 1947 (Signed; Frederick Hamp- KALO well-wisher.**

It was all about you and see about Britain, just five and

a half years ago.

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You will perhaps remem. her that you were finished, knocked out, ready for

Another look

Love a winner

LOOKED up the article and

red: "It's qui e obvious that

burial at least that was foreign curvesandonte stationed the opinion of the corres- berg (in London avid Britaan pondents, special writers, short and grossly underestimated rictio commentators, and strength, realllence, caarke- ter. and erative genius when editors covering Britain.

they said we were inished as a great Power this battle my last ve vars, but it is qu verton hot Britain will win it.

As It has turned out it has less than five yours to THREW the Leech series laken

win it, and only a little over into the wastepaper ve ses for our friends It basket and glanced at some acknowledge it freely-und not other old dispatches in only acknowledge it, but American newspapers.

mind pleasure in it. magazines.

take

Am cans have a winner. They see one in Britain today.

Sagging eral production. The news is a good here. Worsening dollar shortage. Must experts say that in 1855 Crippled morale," and "Bri- the U.S. will be more pros- tain needs 10,000,000 people.

1 Abandonment

laras perous than ever

Personal incomes rry to be British world position, greater, husiness better, produ

of

bigger, strategic Fon

debl Instalments liquidation

ihe commitments. Disaster, de smeer and perhaps even

cost of, living is to be lower- eny, death of hope."

although how the experts work that one out I don't know,

Anyway, there is not a hint of stump according to the fore

I dung that lot also into and the wastepper basket said to my secretary: "Let's replace all that stuff with this new batch."

"This

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in the market now, but in good

safe stocks, General Electric, United States Steel, with a little on the side in uranium minca as a gumble."

I showed laterest and he con- fided:

"I've got about $15.000 in the market-made $3,000 this year."

Fifteen thousand dollars is over £5,000 and $3,000 is over £1000. the waiter is doing well as long as the market

oing well.

I shall have to remember tu cut down on his tip-tre should be tipping me!

agree

The financial writers that in the past five months hundreds of thousands of modest wage cumers have invaded the stock Bucket, Son

the scal vi the but not o771 roaring 20's

margin

of-

Even s the Government becoming worried UTC Betals are asking: "Is the stock market running wild?" and they

mtrodore restrictions moy curb the big boom.

Names in Lights

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HAT a hit England's David Wheld was on "Toast of the Town." America's most popular television show! Не kang magnificently and practi- cally stopped the show,

Poor Sophie Tucker, who was the headliner, WOS eclipsed although she tried bravely with her famous theme song "Some of These Days."

Eighteen months ago Whitfield

£14 a week as was earn g

'Christmas holidays are not what they used to be, Millio-seven days discussing nuclear fission instead of ailments."

s

London Express Bervice

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construction cement carrier. He could comunand at least £1,000 a week here.

new

There is a wonderful

Broadway. "The Bad play on Sex" starring Nancy Kelly according to the billing, although One-year-old Patty McCormock outshines everybody. "The Bad Seed is the best and most literate thriller for many acarons. After Moura Lympany's concert at the Carnegie Hall the other night New York music crities oiled her "the macetro of the plano,"

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AFRICA SEARCHLIGHT

THE

IS

JOHANNESBURG, if noisy.

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MacCOLL By RENE

BROWN BOOK ISSUED

nesburg.

FREE

of Johan must have his littic brown book,

Or else..

Let's forget the race Fide moment, bad of things for a

that heed Koller's explanation "Influx" is aimed primarily at and derhand Johannesburg's booming

One marked ex- Affairs Department

Koller is an intelligent, sym- pathetic chop in his mid-thirties, who is only too keen give us every help. Seems that back in 1952 South Africa's Parliament balancing supply

of Passes in passed the Abolition

is

Thebespectacled magis white, He ja

INE-THIRTY in the ception is a muscular youth morning. A Johan- who shambles in stripped nesburg magistrate's to the waist, court. One or two bored - looking spectators, Negroes in one little public trate gallery, whites (Europeans an Afrikaner with an atten- and Co-ordination of Documents labour market,

-88 Act, in the tive expression and Bay here)

I found Jater

So 60onar or later every heard

important South

African Negro over a white 10 who wishes to hold a legiti-

Every Negro (they call them extremely mate job will be carrying

little brown Passport, In "Natives" down here) 1s Photo, name of tribe, name of screened after he gets his brown chief, identity number, tax pay-

passport (itsued free), ment receipt, employment re- cord....

other.

A big room with lota of case windows and dark wood and panelling. First order of fair business seems routine. Re- minds me of getting rid of the drunk and disorderlies hack home in Marlborough Street.

when he

a more

A

involving black

-

Always guilty

EVERYONE seems to plead guilty and is fined

ly.

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The point is te must have t

now

on him at all times and it must Up into the capacious

a always be immaculate. If he is dock in swift tempo there pound with the alternative stopped by the police and there is something wrong with the enter batches of three of a fortnight in the cooler. paceport trouble, ending up in Negroes. They stand there Pretty nearly everyone the magistrates' courts.

have the dough, for maybe 30 seconds, shep- seems to

Here in Johannesburg, Koller by herded a Negro gaoler pays up, and exits smart- and his men started issuing the wearing khaki drill.

passports (officially. A Negro

"registration booke") in July of interpreter

Altogether some 30 men are last year and £0 far have perches a high stool disposed of in this quick-time handed out 281,000,

with snatches of curtain-raiser. Who are they? ready Zulu and other dialects as

Well, these pound-payers are He wears a nifty all "pass, cufes," required.

and in order Bec. use Sir Osbert Sitwell sports jacket. So do many to get the explanation let's go has been ill his sister Edith put of the prisoners,

over to the third floor office in of her trip to Hollywood to advise on the production of the Their standard of dress- a brand new building occupied by Thurston Koller, acting Anne Boleyn Aim.

ing is on the whole good, manager of the Non-European work in

Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" has opened here, with tremendous advance Here's one woman who

sques. las made crime pay.

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RUSSIANS AFFIRM

Soon the 300,000 mark will have been amply exceeded. And don't forget that all over the Union, down to village level, the same thing is going on.

Any dark man who wants to white community

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What the city authorities just don't want is a mass of usem- ployed Negroes hanging around the place.

1

He's directed

who have legitimately to be on the streets in those ave hours need an extra permit.

Let me make h clear that the Non-European Affairs Depart. ment is not simply a set-up to regulate the movement of the Negroes It also does it best to get them suitable jobs,

In the queue

TOW Koller walfly me into a N snappy American car and

we drive over to the "Influx and Registration Department,"

Hore a long queue of men is waiting to file inside. They get

a medical check-up.

The zool-salts, stetson hats, and rainbow ties, seem to make

E is then authorised either to

work within Johannesburg's talk of their chiofs incongruous. city limits or, after he has been given a fair chance to find a job

A staff of 100 processes bo and failed, he is directed to

tween 1,500 and 2,000 applicants some outlying district. However, a day when things are busy, Koller admits a mite ruefully checking their passports, anding that this "direction butwards" them jobs, making ture that has its flaws. In one year 71,000 they are not sleeping, some- inside Johannesburg Negroes were "dirooted" to take where jobs in outlying districts. far where they shouldn't be.

That is supposed to bo against the rules for most Negro although around

from Johannesburg. Only 6,000 ever tumed up.

Where have the other 65,000 labourers, got to? "Probably still around 10,000, mostly "at boys" find here somewhere," sighs, Koller.maids, have permission. to sleep up on the roots of the big There's a strict curfew for apartment blocks" "where they Negroes here in Johannesburg work.

those 11 p.m. to 4 amand

PERMANENT

CO-EXISTENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE

to

OTH Mr Attice, dur-

ing hia visit Moscow, and Sir

cffort

By WILFRED RYDER

Yet the book emphatically re- jects the idea that capitalism catı be left to die of its internal con-

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Husband and wife, if their skins are black, rarely get any chance to live together here in Johannesburg. It just isn't allowed, and a Negro wishing to live a normal married life must make his home in one of those dreary "locations" I told you about-miles outside the city..

The rackets

munist theories will be die T influx department has its THE inspection squad of the proved.

'work cut out to try to keep up with the thousands of Negroca The West belleves that when who take a risk by bedding William Hayter, British The Russian people queued for

"Political Economy" thus Communist theories are proved down inside the Johannesburg Ambassador, have asked Mr this first authoritative statement

merely reafilme Stalin's main wrong, the system on

which urban area. Malenkov: "Can the Soviet on Communist doctrine by their

theses, Stalin himself da given: they are based will disintegrale, now lenders because, they wanted

full status. bloc and the West live in to know whether it would offer

Që a

mastera theorellelan Or else its

will be Amt there are the rackets. A flicts; on the contrney, it says alongside Marx,

Engels, and forced to accept not merely a fonged passport can sell for an peace only for a time, or any hope of lasting peace with the duty of Communism is to Lenin. The principal arguments prolonged but permanent high na 20. A shyster posing That alone would hasten the "historical process in his books are reproduced and state of peaceful co-existence, as a "registration book consul- permanently 7 It is a ques- the West. tion of vital importance, for p permit A major diversion of of its disintegration.

there are many quotations from This will involve concessions by tant" clears as much m£1,000 Stalin's campaign trom

the Soviet blog on the are few

main a month there the new Soviet leaders con- to build heavy industry and

from them;

from his fellow During the period of Malenkov,

Khrushchev

problems which make co-exis- Negroes who have been refused stantly cry that co-existence armaments to another which co-existence. Soviet

polley Molotov.

Impossible in the Far pasports and come to him in fa possible. But both men would build light industry must exploit tho internal

East and in Europe, rovision des

desperation. found Mr Malenkov eva- making consumer goods and so conflicts

capitalism

of the United Nation's Charzer, raise their standard of living. methodically, ht all levels, and

and disarmament on through Communist A Soviet best seller-"Political

But all the signs are that the and International Front Economy"--which has just been

organisations.

Has there been so change time has not yet come for the Issued. gives the answer, It 1:

West to seek concessions from There has, but only of the Soviet Union on these then? "Peaceful co-existence is possible

The book

I was much struck by the repeats Stalin's men, not of theories, And the "Political Economy"

For shows theory that war is inevitable new men are more clever than leaders are not yet convinced department-those 100 men, and

the problems.

Boviet atmosphere for a long time, but not for that there is to be no doctrinal between capitallet, Fawers, It Stalin, They avoid the mistakes that their theories are? wrong women were clearly hardworks over"

change, that peace with the will come from competition he made which pushed the West is barely possible and for between

sive.

The book covers the whole field of political and economie A3

- NO CHANGE

of

a time only. It describes how'.

them for shrinking markets and delds

hope

MORE CLEVER

or

tence

*

What are the jobs they seek so hopefully? They pay any thing from: £8 a week for unskilled men, £10 for skilled.

of

the

•Influx

theory. It is to serve as a work the Soviet Union, Eat Europe, investment On the other hand' 'mado war in Korea, and now the Weak is still wenke: 16 || tronfeck the Nagroos with pains-

have split with the

of referenon and a textbook for and China Communists Will over the world. capitalist system.

It predicta that other countries will do so us capitalism dies of internal cou hariot between

capital and

It is the result of an overhaul of Communist theory which has Jaken years and produced major

West to arm. He talked of Indeed, they are not yet wrong, ing and efficient, and they

the same of pedoo and at

Has not found

solution taking courtesy, is head out, that war through the Berlin blockade, in many only begining to which may piqué De Heuris ~1 alan (off with-acrevelation capitalist and Germany," Their soft policy has

rearms The Kenlis Pact yet can be made co-existence, a reality, in ita infancy, and how Verword, the extreinlar kimis-

the

to its internal condicts Ger

conficis in The party which" labour; betyreen, thú

van de only

the Their aims are the same East, Hnic betweený It: noch NATO' LEI TOT Walys Atsir?

Stálin personally had to settle,

* Large crowds gathered outside

capitalist Powers; and, betw molropolitan and colonial ten tories. In this way, Will Food Moscow bookshops, to buy the "the victory of Sociallæra on new book while it was issued on world scale. September 18 Though the first promine

SWES DE 3,000,000 :: ropins

kwete ample, those wit *was not Chalinin ona loft in any

seeded itiat

people

the cause of peace Stalin's but they make better is adil in the "forge Above nil,

the

babds, and use of the moana."

Fall

the West has not yet found. tha

short of what the West's answer;s,Row ceanomis, policy: is fui monk-

"ko no means dnači,

"Political Leonomy"??, It is that'

that it and

wrnal conflicts will be

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