1955-01-27 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955.

ATHEISM IN THE CLASSROOM

By Elizabeth Hunkin

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religious belief and

vance in the Soviet Union.

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teachers

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many other Soviet teachers will only not be paying lip-service to materialism? You cannot manufacture conviction.

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'B-B-BUT IT'S C-GOOD FOR THE SH-SHIVERS”

World Caperght by brrangement with the Manchester Guardian

IDDON'S DIARY GOES ON TOUR

THIS GORGEOUS

PEOPLE CALL

Miami, Florida. ERHAPS it was be

down

VALTIMO 1 put

1a-

A free Travel kit which contained sea and ski ning lotion, mouthwash, my London news- razor blade, shaving-ereamn, paper address in the hair tonic, shampoo, bubble motel register that

deodorant the bath

crystals, service has

મsian been

balm, superla spray-bombs, tive.

bromoseltzer, lipstick, and some vitamin pills.

but

I had hardly settled in my

A bellboy appeared and said: large gins "I hope you like it here. We among the Tom before a

Florida orange have two swimming-pools, the heality of fresh

by of course there's the ocean just juice arrived, followed

outside your window: We have two flamingoes,

three talking parrots, cocktail lounge, coffee- shop. kunges.

ail clay. musk cabanas. Exfict lots

swell of people,"

BIGGEST EVER

SALE

LAST FEW DAYS

WITH HUNDREDS OF ITEMS

TO BE CLEARED

REGARDLESS OF COST

THESE SPLENDID

FINAL REDUCTIONS

INCLUDE,

REMNANTS-ODD LOTS-BROKEN

RANGES-SEASONAL CLEARANCES etc.

MANY AT

HALF PRICE or LESS

DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY

Whiteaways

HITE

HONGKONG & KOWLOON

AY, LAIDLAW & COLLID

I said I was sure I would like

it. I didn't think I'd be able to use all the free travel stuff.

The bellboy winkel, or maybe he Itered. ar: Bald "You never know--Miami is loaded."

Mjuri is undoubtedly loaded.

It must be the supreme pleasure spot of the world. chromium- plated, neon-lit. and rainbow- coloured.

Lights and statues

It

also statues of men

You can

HUSSY MIAMI

wear

hide-out

whine enne tourishes- gandring Ticket

for big- tire mediums?"

The offcial was upset by this: Just hostile propagunda, that's what it is

A. I um infatuated with the Margeras bussy which people call Miami I don't want to write too much about crime, but since 1 arrived a few days ago there

ALL BECAUSE OF A PARTY ROW

SO PEGGY CRIPPS IS HOMELESS

SIR

From

Jack Redfern

Kumasi, Ashanti,

Stafford Cripps's daughter Peggy, who married an African in July 1958, has no home of her own yet because of

politics. She is living In Kumasi hotel with her hus-

Applah,

band, Mr Joseph and Kwame, their eight- month-old son.

For four years, Mr Ap- piah was the London repro- sentative of Dr Nkrumah, Gold Coast Prime Minister. But when the Applotis carme Ashanti last to this capital of November, they Ivand many Ashantis Hostile to Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, only a few weeka after the party's Genererat Election surrESS

Although 18 CPP candidates out of 21 were successful, a newly-fonned National Libera- tion Movement Bocuses the CPP of corruption, dietatorship, and neglect of Ashanu's needs.

WEEKS TWO

An

Joseph Applati IN Ashanti. He could sit on a chler's stol

abondoned his

le

of lawyer.

two weeks to

tomorrow if he ehosen cai ber suid he wanted study the situation

"Meanwhile. have had to neutral La the

strictly me

he told

Lake up a position, lounge of the hotel where the Appiah family has three rooms. "There were several houses we ould take but it meant trans- actions with people linked with

There the OPF or the NLM. lorelayed here. My wife has been most understanding."

who one time Mrs Appiah.

at hostess

the British Embassy in Moscow, was wear- ing sandats and a loose-fitting brown dress. She said: "Tho service Is quite good, hotel although it rather noisy when

is rat it is a dance night.

**Some of the Europeans are disturbed because I am still in

There is no

WILS

has been the bloody murder of this hotel. They are more dia- a male hairdresser, a

detective turbed then I am. has been shot by medinan, 12

12 mixed-marringe prejudice. Such Dre not unknown police officers have been pmpled marriages

Mrs Applah has not yet made

reel

with the progress

She thinks sho iillio crawling

before a grand jury on charges / her "

of being linked with the gambl- ing underworld, and a big test any meing ring has been Broken up. longunge-Twi

As

gambling is permitted, I am rather puzzled by the alleged Tak

and between gumblers obre: but it undoubtedly exists. Is permitted-I should have

[ encouraged.

He promises

when better

do may

now at the Kwame,

10 talk. stage, begins

But Mrs Applah already usag

the coast pidgin. "Tell Peter pass chop (Tell Peter serve the food)," she said,

Her husband brought the talk back to the NLM. "It hurts

me to realise how quickly the Ashanti people have swung from Doctor Nkrumah

D

"But

FOUR YEARS

switched on my car radio tha

morning. scarching for station that wouldn't blare "Let Me Go, Lover," or "Teach Mo

you know, tn OUT Tought," and I heard the robust Ashant! way of life the sandals voler of **Honest John" say: can be taken from a chief that

say!

flowers and shrubs-had to be Hawaiian shirts, yachting cops, "Send me 50 dollars for a red is, he can be deposed at any brought in.

pith helmets, bull-fighter pants, hot tip on a sure winner-only | time if it is deelded the people's sandals, cowboy boots, sun- 30 dollars. This programme is complaints are Justified. Mjumi Bench is man-made, glasses, rhinestone necklaces, approved by the authorities."

"Now, when the Ashanti are NOME people say it is vulgar and by what men! Gamblers, and strings of coloured beads.

dissatisfied, they find they can- rocketeers, real- You

"Honest John" puts these ad-not take the in because

sandals off the anything bluzea bright rake-hells,

estate jugglers. blue and gold all day and glit-st

gold brick Miami Beach

as long as you vertisements for tips on the air Assemblymen. They must wait sellers, confidence men, and

every day, so if, say, 100 people four years. ters ali

Hence they wear something. with flashing night

and smart, shrewd, tubes

In many and signs of red, green,

I do not think the people are rend in 50 dollars, he is netting If this is your democracy it is yellow, purple, and orange light with a vision, have built it.

instances honest business men as immaculate as the place itself. 5.000 .crisp or soiled dollars

bad thing." Miami

Joseph Applah goes to Acera Beach has a uniform day. There are

this week to be admitted to the and women in the ntide and Collins Avenue, which is the perfection of housekeeping, and

The new Governor of Florida, Gold Coast Bar. painted gold here and there. main

street of Mlomi Beach, there are no uncut lawns, no

just been

He will meet Prime Minister runa the full length of the unkempt trees, shoddy parking Leroy Collins, has

The inaugurated in the capital, Tal Nkrumah, life, chairman of the I find it less vulger than New

CFP. He will have a list of York's Times Square or possibly istands. I have driven along ft lots, or dirty driveways. Piccadilly Circus, in better taste rather dazed by it all.

a dozen times and I am always City Fathers send out teams of lahassee, and he promises

Kardoners and Trimmers and form.

accusation

mado against the than Reno or Las Vegas,

tree-cutters who keep the place One thing the Governor might Goyer

the Ashantia, Government by the tackle and abolish is the practico

answers On Nkrumah's impeccable, and then send

to bill to the resident who has let of using convict road gangs on theso accusations Appiah will his grass grow toɔ lang

the public, highways in Florida. doelde between the CPP and the One city offelal said to

It is tactless and even in- NLM, When ho visited Afera "We have our prestige to think human to havo spectacles like before, he stayed with Nkrumah, about,"

this on public roads. Florida his old friend Bub: not this I said: "Right, but what about and Miami should remember time. Mr Appian will bo Miami's reputation as a lown that they're now adult.

neutral to the finish.

At the risk of sounding like a publicity agent I can only say "Miami Ja marvellous and Florida is fabulous."

I haven't been here for five years, and then, like a lot of other people, I forecast that the bubblo had to burst.

There is nothing like it any where in the world, and perhaps this is as well, because two Minmis would be too much.

A bold man

OLLINS

AVENUE. named

COL after John Collins, a bold

But it didn't. Miami is bigger, man, has an endless row of better. brassier, richer,

and swagger hotels in dazzling mort successful than ever, white, pink, pastel green, pale About 2,000,000 people will blue, lemon, all fronting the blue spend $200,000,000 here this ocean and reaching for the bluer season. And almost

everyone sky. in sight is prosperous.

The motel captain has an Oldsmoblie and is buying a Ford Thunderbird (price over £1,000) for his 17-year-old daughter

0 graduation present. The swlouming-pool attendont is buying a farm,

Su

Over the bay

IAM staying at Miami Beach;

which has A

me:

IS PEKING READY TO RISK OPEN WAR OVER FORMOSA

T determined to "liberate" The Communists; appenly emergency.

Formosa which would, risa'da

Formosa.

room

board houses and beach huts. Every day and night Colline countrymen must be freed that some wavering Nationalist er

geheral will eventually come strained Oghting foods, incross-

At the last count, which was last week, there were 375 hotels, but there are probably 400 now,

Russell Spurr reports the point of view inside 'Red China as they go up overnight.

The newest hotel is tho

Peking. it is not only security, that seals Officials have hopes of a Fontainebleau, which is sheer HE Chinese Reds seem theft lips.

payerful Aith column inside whito, ultra-modern, terraced, curved, and decked out to klii.

it has a ballroom which scala

A stepping-stone assault by Yet I cannot help feeling, hotel nd, although the 3,000 and,.

way of Nationalist-held off however, that there is They never cease saying shore islands.

for doubt about ony is not completed, it is so spec-

A mas air and seaborne violent action. tabular, that people stand across 80. Their belligerent posters attack bocked by Russian the avenue and gaze at the are plastered across

Despite their warlike threats, every supplied submarines and air- do China's Communist leader United Nations in New York. hoarding, every government craft, straight at the Formosary want a showdown at this tirner Are they willing to risk Some sulton cost $200-that's office, overy ancient momu- bastion, population of 45,000. compared

The third, which nobody hostilities no matter how £100 - day, A hundred ment from one end of the with the 500,000 of Miami

likes to talk about in Peking limited with the United States? pounds a day! proper across Biscayne Bay, pou

country to the other.

is a subtleż waiting game; a It is difficult to believe they Miami Beach is 40 years old I am not staying there.Tam

playing for time in the hope, do. this year, but doesn't show its staying at one of the several Even on the Great Wall that within a year or two an Communist China has begun ago. In 1918. 11 was a small hundred motels where you can of China red letters declare international settlement will, the biggest reconstruction pro- string of rugged, undeveloped. get by, with food, at about £10

"Our Formoann fellow grant all that is required, or gramme ever attempted in Asia. coastal islands, with few clap A day.

RESOURCES SICO atronly.

But it had the sea, the sand, Avenue and handsome Lincoln from the hands of aggres- to torms,

Ing food production and prese.. and the constant sun, and it is Road, which is Miami Beach'

Certainly the Rods really be ing. HOTB."

'through ''ambitious on those three fundamentals Fifth Avenue, Bond Street, and

lieve Formosa will eventually dustrialisation programmes. that the multi-million rainbow Rus de in Paix, are clogged

Everything... Indicates They leave only ona vital be theirs, resort has been built.

men, women, and "children | ferus in doubt. Just when 'and Those who doubt this have: steeds a period of, Everything else the gras, dressed in outlandish costume how they intend to carry out only to recall that these self- consolidation. Perhape China the soil, the timber, the stone, awlin-sulia with mink stoles their plan,"

'confident, mori seldom ⠀aponie : Just enjoying the luxury.

campaigns and even the palms, the fame draped on the shoulders, shorta, Chinese army commanders, about anything which they com- propananda vinos, the poinciana, the vivid brasileres, briefs, halters, naturmly, are not talking. But aider cannot be accomplished. Formosand nothing else,

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