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A PRINCESS IN THE SUN
By Sir
Beverley Baxter
M.P.
London.
Sam writing these words Princess Margaret has just net forth
her journey to those islands of
on
the Sun known as the West
Indick.
You
It may seem
in
ما
NO
that there recognisable connection be tween my writing and
the
voyage of Her Royal High-
ness, but nevertheless exists.
My wife and I have just returned from
n visit
the
to
Nanu. the Government
centre
Bahamas, of Where we were guexla of the Governor, the Earl of Ranfurly, and his wife. Anti it is in their lovely official residence That the Princess will stay.
I hope that Her Royni High- ness will not be content merely 10
Narsa. Certainly Visit Naasan is a charming spat, sol in an azure sea, but it hates b56- playground cute the supretrie
of the rich
信じてい
whi
the
sun-starvedi
The real adventure lies beyond the millionaires' playground of Nassau, in the scattered islands
•
•
the
Princess should visit these dark, happy people whom civilisation has forgotten
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iny-all except the Governor, smoke! How they sang "Rule and fanfurly had a fine war who merely
marched appro- vingly and attempted no pas
reached Wo
Britannia!”
"Dis wuz the charder
Do charder ub do waves
Д
Dal Britons nøbber nobber
Shall be slaves.
sc1,
Eventually little wooden hell and were ushered into it with great cero- mony, The darkie captain then made a speech of welcome "to the Gubnor and his frons," and wald that in his honour they would like to do some dances.
must admit that the aumʊ- sphere
became
somewhat but Diere coloured oppressive. fishermen and their girls would make the denizens of the Cafe de Paris
or The Four Hundrest look like in exhibition of de corum at a girls school.
Nor was it merely the perfec. their rhythm. They Invented steps remarkable in variation,
performed them Lord with dexterny and
Lora grace Ranfurly finally thanked them with a few friendly words, und
took
their then the mammies sleepy piccaninnies home to bed At least that was what we ns-
13ut at two o'clock sumed. the morning we could still hear Her the marching and singing The star-studded skies.
One of the latest pictures of Princess Margaret, with her new hairdo. The familiar bunchy curls have come off, and now she has a straight bob with only a few soft curls in front.
lava-Femd
IN
toare.
Kenneth Harding, whose life has been a story of Colonial ach.
a period meistration, with Chlo thrown Far for extra mensure.
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Two umidikan plantes ordered, and, for nn hour apart, www went into the skles and ver the water After the full crew of the Steatorruiser that miltummaires of Canada and the brought us from New York USA. He also are rich Brilons Nassau, it was starting com
established
vinds trast to Bud that there was a homes in this stentest paradise
www.pilot and no trimes Whether mere wealth should be argued. to favoured might be
Nassau
Formidabl but cartier of dollars, which are dily transferred to the vast pockets of Mr R. A. 1 Buller and the British Treasury,
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Journey's End
udventure
Hes
the scattered
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For surfy people life must always be burri- when expertally ses went their fury upon the wooden coltages in which they Dive
But this night there were thoughts of fish or gaies. The Governnt. representing Majesty the Queen, hod come I see them, and the inhabitants the visit arranged that should be welcomed after their own falsion.
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I my coureuringly perturbed We were 2 Fargo that had to be delivered and it heard the was all in the day's work Far below 1123 there dotted Islands. slumbering The sals embrace, stretches
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considerable und business experience in the City. He is generous In spirit, but he realises that the problem of black and white needs timing, leadership and patience.
Ho
W
the head of the
the
I suppose that nearly all of Executive, which means that he them were descended from is the hand of the Governinent slaves, but Britain's charter of
In a short period he has estab- the seas had made them free. 1shed a remarkable place in We hear so much about the ex- The esterin of all classes and ploitation of subject races and crecils, and he is fortunate in the harsh hand of imperialism having a wife who is tireless In
deeply moving to her eare of the poor and that it see the gratitude and the trust sick. of these simple, happy people. She took us to visit the sinali,
The speeches were short and
rad Leper's Colony, and seldom dignified, punctuated by laugh- have been so impressed by ter and full-throated support.
The indomitable spirii of human "I am not worthy to speak in
beings struck with 13 disease de presence of His Excellence!" that incana banishment for life began bue speaker.
from their fellow creatures. "Dat's right?" shouted one of Even when they are cured the marks are upon them. and there his friends, but he meant it as
renaus the association of that followed road, cruel word "Leper." man youngish
encouragement.
A
lilm. "My name. Your Excel- lence, is Cooper. (Dal's righth Thirty-five yeurs
four ако months and three days
ny fadler what created dis island and gave it his name dashed off to de remetery." At this point. he looked up
towards heaven. 'Fudder. he suld. "You dons good, and I hope you can dat die is a very great day."
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And then we marched away 10 the to the quayside and, cheers and dancing Dí the
In fact, we had hardly anist ed an early dinner when
The next lay hand approaching. This was a band which was not friend, who had led
dancing, ression and the concerned ather with musician- Union.
his boat ready to take slip of the Musicians
the Instru
islune long Anyone who had any
of Coopers Town, people, we sailed away. But as a note
as they could che our visited long which had never been If we ment capable of blowing a
Her lunch they waved and sang. automatically by the gein.
representative {wo WDA there accepted, and as far as the per- Majesty. We were accompanied Journey's end and wo cussion Instruments were eon- by a dozen of our island wished Into the water. then corner you could be a drummer scudder to FI wharf where we with a stick and an empty box. #fisembarked.
would
of water
never
KU
see land
woul Yet, in abon an hour
came
A modest new hotel had been Green of
un
Nassau.
X
Biff, Bang
new
built on the island Turtle Cay, and we were to be Interest
the first visitors. But then this the Governor little island in very much
going to
Employ- They stood outside the Islands, up-and-coming affair.
and a splendid young ment is good, for the Americans hotel. We Would you like to come?
all are a steady market for Its fah, durkle, who seemed to run shall be away fur three days."
There is no sign of wealth, festivities as well as being cop- And no it was arranget.
for the good reason that none tain of a fishing bont, expressed
We Jind exists.
his formal pleasure at the visit left which is not only the seat of of "His Excellence the Gubnor." Our party consisted of seven- the Governor and his wife, A government for the Bahamas How he loved those words and most amusing American couple hut is the supreme playground how graciously he spoke them who were follow guESIK, then of the rich, and in a short flight These children of the sun the Baxters, and the controller we were on this remote island courtly creatures,
and So the GovCTION House. Major where the natives wrest their of Government
party jolnect the procession, and in no ume we found ourselves singing:-
Another
Churchill
Portrait
London.
Not at all, for
THERE is a second pic discovered wo that
it has been a finished
Ture of Sir Winston head of Sir Winston by Graham
11 was
"Dat ole time religion Dut ole time religion
Dat ole Ume religion
In good enough for me!"
Biff. bang, crash
uro
his
went the
band, and over and over again
nud
of the night before, each one of them wearing some kind of bow tie or black cotton
Jacket
to
show that this was a ceremony of historic importance.
glinting All
So we crossed the waters and duly arrived. the three hundred or SQ In- habitants were down to meet us, and the variety of their dress was infinite.
After а fow welcoming words the band, that might have been
Odd Quirk
The Saints
or
So they stay on at the littla colony.
near It And #15 always there are saints in
the guise of doctors, matrona Att others who give nearly all their time to these losers in the game of life.
"In another generation," said the doctor, "this disease will be These are the Jast finished. And even they live
a happy, useful itte, for each one con- tributes something to the little community. He spoke in rich Scottish accents, and there was humour as well as strength In his whole bearing.
As we were. leaving," ́a big had Into the skies again and back negro and his wife-they to Nassau! Here is a monię met in the Leper Colony
The rich American stricken patients and were now paradise,
his dollars to spend. In cured and lived just near the bringa lesser numbers the rich Cana- place-asked if we would ilke dians does the same. A a
to hear them sing. Ho dollar earner Nassau steadily practically blind. adda to its
and the prestige
Christmas So they sang the happiness of Mr Butler.
Silent carol,
Night, Holy twin of the one of Green There are rich British as well. Night." He harmonised perfect-
and wo
for not only is there summer in
ky,
and some of his bass notes Turtle Cay, broke out
January but there is no income had the quality of a Chailapin. the rhythm of that same
Old tax. marched to the school-house
the The Goverment of
Yes, I
that hope
Princess Time Religion. But we were Bahamas raises its money
Margaret will take wings and rather more decorous this time, chiefty by duties on importe visit these dark, happy children There is a sharp difference bo Needless to say, the distillers
of the sun. Civilisation has tween the hot morning and contribute greatly to the total
forgotten them, and in the pro- "dat ole devil evening,"
cess civilisation is the loser.
a
Happy People
to
revenue.
By an odd quirk there is Д casino where 10 roulette the authorities have a double_zero- which Ja very good for the authorities, no permanent re- sddenta are allowed to play. Thus does the British consulence preserve its comparative vir ginity. This,
There is elegance and would and infinite beauty on tha on island. Whether the rich do-
Arrived at the school-house,
Wo shouted to the approving the teacher welcomed the Gov- villagers, stray hens, roosters
ernor and Lady Ranfurly iin dogs
about the religion which was good enough for us. simple, dignified words. Soon our hosts were in such he said, was a day that
pranced nover be forgotten. Here an ecstacy that they
ease
Sutherland JN hanging in a and danced and gyrated in their this little laland was the represerve such a paradiso could be Churchill artist Graham Chelsea house.
exciternent. With no irreverence sentative of our gracious Queen, argued, but their dollars and For all time the visit would ba in my heart but only in my remembered.
pounds are creating better and Sutherland began it before
And the latest news on THE feet, I found that no longer was. S
better living conditions for the "Dut's
sald right!" he painted THE picture.
the natives.
And from the centre picture? "No comment,
marching but almost prancing. And Mr Sutherland de- said at Downing Street.
nothing to autlence. And what an audience there is a sustained and expand- But that WIS
Christian Soldiers," they were! A mere whiff And the OTILIER picture, does "Onward cided he did not like his
of ing economy for the endless and they laughed islands that make ப the which was their other tuna. humour first picture; he left it and Sir Winston like it?
A word of gentle- Bahamas. They stamped their feet and exultantly.
kindness started a second... THE
the
with ness and their addressed
A great deal depends upon -JAMES HART their hands. We danced with braced everyone. And holy the choice of the Governor.
plcture which is now
the
the
"No comment" again.
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The first picture, in olis and mensuring 36ins, by 20ins. was of Sir Winston in Garter robes picture which might have boon expected as THE picture of the Prime Minister,
ster, nccept-
Mr
able to everyone and one like ly to cause little comment and certainly little controversy.
It was a possibility for Sutherland ать exploratory picture, the picture which might have been, but one which he rejected.
Sir Winston asked Mr Sutherland if he could soo it, and for more than two woeks the OTHER picture has been at No. 10, Downing Street while THE picture lies in darkened back room of Sir Winston's empty Kensington houso
The
Sald Mr Sutherland OTHER picture is only a per- functory knew of the Prime Minister, let's call it a chart for what
was my original idea.
"Yes, it's in colour, but un- finished. Nothing would have hees known of it untä the other pno was hung it this had not been discovered,"
what will happen to the OTHER picture? I would have collected
from Downing Street by now to flilah it," said
Mr Butherland.
But I have not bash to town
goron
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