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THE CHINA - MAIL,

KWAME NKRUMAH – ENIGMA IN BRONZE

By Peter Burgoyne®

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London.

And almost immediately he stormy waters. After -T is the spring of 1951. To British colonial adminia- hit

Premier Kwame disastrous riots the Gold Outside the gates of trotors,

when 20 people wer Fort Jaman Prison in Nkrumah of the Gold Coast Const

killed, a three-man commission Whitehall the Gold Coast, thousands a much respected leader

of Inquiry from named

one of the of laughing, slamping Afri- who has justified their faith.

leaders behind the outbreaks, cans are singing a hymn. It in him. To the Nation-

They Bald: "Kwame Nkrumah in Lead, Kindly Light."

has never abandoned his alma alist leaders

for a union of West African of South

Soviet Socialist Republics and Africa, he

has not abandoned his foreign is an up.

affiliations connceled with those start who

ading." as

the This Was

first been

most Britons had heard of Nkrumah, and with no evidence to the

The words are an invita- In an exuberant exhorta- tion to a man waiting behind the massive gates. For, to- day, Kwame Nkrumah, the "kindly light" of thousands of falihful Gold Coasters, is to be released.

In fuct, nine months of pre sentence for Inelting general strike in this West

B

A

British African colony have yet to be perved. But by an Act of Grace, Nkrumah's bern tus boen cut short--to allow him

Prime

Minister

to become

As the gates open a shrill of exultation sweeps the throng of Africans. They lift the stocky, aming leader carry him shoulder blah to where prearranged black-nosed lamb isperifeed at his feet.

spot

Two Things

THAT incident

the

given too much power: too quickly. Thoso two opposing

views are likely to clash when, soon, Nkrumah seeks for his country independent status within the British Commonwealth. What sort is ho? man

of

run

For until then Nkrumah had fairly true to the pattern set for the more rumbustious type of colonial politician,

Horn of humble parents in a remote village in 1009, Kwame

gradunted

Nkrumah

through Homan Catholic mission soloola contains

Here, his to Achimola College, desire for leadership, plus an principal elements of the suc

of mind, cosa formula of just about the independent turn

lecturer that pulitelan-and exucerbated most colourful

out "Nkrumah, you cartainly one of the most con- te

rapped troversial Agures in the Bri- ore here to learn not ta

Two Commonwealth Ush

the hypnotic, almost

things:

Mesedanle

Nkrumah

the

the

11

Leach."

Thi

Muno

intense mnia: found-fur a time-the

outlet it needed when Nkrumot:

contrary It was too easy to write him off as just another colonial ugliator

the meantime

Yet a few men in high places were able to see past the facade of tub-thumping; although in

Nkrumah, with ní a something

martyr's re- putation, had broken away and formed his own party, seeming-

ly no less higirly-coloured.

Very African

WHAT

IAT was the clue to the pre- sence of i stalosting behind the politicians?

Nkrumah's urbane

humour hot probably much to do with it. The perceptive, meeting him for the At time, noted the hint thot Nkrumah, the Tritiy WAY Just a te amused Nkrumah, the pollicion; that he steemed in much

at euse la

well-tailored Western sufi as in

native Bowing

rotes

the

he sometimes affected,

But it would be a bad mis-

Nkrumah

20 reading of

GILES

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1955.

SHAVING WHILE

YOU

WAIT

PARIS LAIR-

"I don't suppose it takes much longer to go to Paris for a 'atreut than. it do to get one 'ere."

HOW

ON

W

stereotype him as a cynic, pre- rolled at the Negro university

pared to be "one of the boy "Rome? for ambition's sake. For de-

By

Kwame energy of power

himself:

and commonsense ability of British Government tu

of Lincoln, Pennsylvania, preciate that Nkrumah is the

the time he graduated in 1939 of

Africa epitome

emergent and that how he is freated, he was President of the African in so many Students' Association of Americu will

set the lone

and Canada. other young colonies.

About this time was laid the civil servant who foundations of Nkrumah's na-

spite his twelve years of inten

HO are they talk-

ing about in Monte Carlo? In Estoril? In

Seville? In

They are talking of the

Five Westernisation, Nkrumah greatest people they have

And

still very much African.

the English

his English

疆

it is this characteristic strikes

which ever known responsive chord Milord and among his thousands of Gok! Milady. Coost followers. advise the tonalism. Mingling with Negro the calibre of at net intellectuals of

but strikingly, Paul Robeson, his talk was laced

Insufficient credit has gone lo the unnamed had the insight to Colonial Secretary that

of grace towards Nkrumah would not only be justified, but, in the long term, profitable.

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rally with references to the "suppression" and "exploitationi" of the coloured races,

Twelve Years

TE seemned to be conforming nicely to the mould. By 1942

H

he was bad in his condemnat fori

af British colonial rule, the same

by whose

rule Jater

grace he

was

to be allowed to reahse his ambition,

came

te

Still apparently running true

Nkrumah tv type. London, where he registered as

n student at the London School

Infrequently,

The yourning is there in the African in Nkrumah shows through. Typical was the re-all these lovely places for cent occasion when the Gold the grand English tourist.

Coast "lost" Its Premier for reven days. He had gone into the wilderness to regain his spiritual powers, and, said Gold Cousters in the know", to con. sult a native oracle.

Which Way?

London Expresa Bérvice

TO MAKE A HIT

YOUR

HOLIDAY

Forgot the cash-it's the grand manner that counts when the. Briton goes abroad these days

GLENTON by ROBERT

FOR YOU, MILORD; The man you have got to master is the head porter. He is much more important

the than Pmanager. Adopt an air of dia- that equality as if he were on the board of

of a company which you were chairman,

teles to browbeat you use technique. distant-nod DON'T get chatty.

Last year a million and a quarter people left Britain to go to the Continent. This year that figure will be. greatly increased, say the travel associations. And any of this year's holiday- OON, the Gold Coast will have makers could fit the milord

complote self-governament.

and milady pattern. You Which why will Nkrumah don't have to have a title.

Every Briton who leaves the back of the aircraft. to be correct....well, you've Certainly not to-You don't even have to be for guide 117

Continental #

holi- That is why every queue to died in the best of causes. For the Communism. wride

English-Scottish, Welsh, day this year should make a the gangway ends up as a who Was accused

to funct Soviet or Irish you are all English resolution now.

Rugby scrum, West Africa hus stamped to the benighted foreigner.

on Communists in his

of Ecanonics, place where schemingg left-wing philosophies ponderated.

Then he cracked the mould.

rould The "L.S.E.

not give him what he wanted, and he witched to University College, London, to study for an honours degree in philosophy. But again be changed his mind and asked a different permission to take

He failed to complete

course,

о

heavily heav

of

FIRST THERE

that cash

in the

Brush up on your grace and charm.

UAе it abroad will have thern You don't even have to feet. have much money. There are plenty of folk with the The rules are easy. From

holiday one

and you at your

will it be 00- premature and aggres sive "Africanisation"; Nkrumah, politician, made much of the

Africanisation Nkrumah, the statesinan, knows that he needs in the the white man, at least meantime, to help him run his country.

end of

SMILE, PLEASE

On foreign soll--- FOR YOU, MILADY: Have

SO FOR YOU, MILADY: Develop an expression of bored wonderment and have your huppies! sillo ready.

ho

the

If

In the bar remember you aro not being the life and soul of your local. You are being milord. Be gentle and friendly. Agree politely with every word. That baffles everyone. If brands

typical "Milord"... you as a polite and hypo-enitical,

HE KNOWS

In the restaurant:---

MILORD. the

FOR YOU, MILADY; Leave the menu,

the prices,

lagt

and often. Don't that

hollday-spirit Smile easily Martini at

the bar and fight to get through the Cus

toms. It doesn't matter st watch the fight from afar. you are leat. They have all got

to wait for you anyway. Europe to FOR YOU, MILORD:

FOR YOU,

Start at the airport.

The sight of you both arriving aboard the aircraft wearing an air of gracious leisure is shatter-

It puts you

the

on

31 is much more likely Nkrumah will model his coun- spots already. There are the other I have learned Saunter to the door and Remember in France you call problems to Milord. After all, He lived in poor lodgings and try on India. Domestically, the the tides of loudly dressed them from hoteliers, midi- politely hold it open for the all the porters, all the barmen, he must know what you want spent his time with other policy will be socialist, nimed

Italians, with their sleek nettes, newsvendors, and ungrateful fellow-travellers. all the walters "M'sicu." For to eat. African "exiles", in cheap cafes, at the exploitation of the coun- pasionately arguing the future

try's immense potential for the cars and their starling-like taxi drivers, of the coloured races.

general good. Internationally chatter. There are the keen- Then,

after twelve year and Neumah has said as much eyed, suspicious French, who from home, rame the

-the polley will be one of

more than their turning point in his career. Dr mediation between East and Want

It if is your first trip you ing. money's worth. There are will see a remarkable sight, superior-being level immediate Danquah, an elderly and cul- turel barrister an the Gold Prestumplious? Maybe. But the heavy Germans. They The theory is strongly held ly. Coust, whs forming a nationalist the role is well within the all have the money. None by all foreigners and most

He wanted Nkrumah capabilities of "the kindly

And if the worst happens and Party

Britons that it is safer in the back-seat theory turns out be the party's General light." Secretary

away

IS PRECIOUS 16

USE IT

WISELY

This was what he had been

walting for. Ho turned himself

over to the new job with such dynamic energy that before long he was completely over- shadowing everyone else in the party.

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of them has the cachet,

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A CANAL LURED THEM TO MURDER VERY TRICKY

TADINBURGH folk have

little to say in favour

By J. W. TAYLOR

The

doctors

well occupied. were so keen to obtain bodies that they raised their top price from £12 to 214-and "no

At the hotel:-

Shopping:

good measure sprinkle your FOR YOU, MILORD., Greet orders in Latin countries with the head walter us you would a "senor." It doesn't matter how rural dean. Trust him. You you pronounce it, but it's have got to anyway. In a res great way to win friends and tourant you will have the only influence the service. It

chance on your foreign travel for on tips too. Barmen and waiters raising your voice in anger. Do are as grasping abroad as they not tolerate bad service from the are but thoro is hot of truth walters.

demand the Loudly in the fact that sometimes they manage

walter. prefor courtesy to money. Few of your eyes you will see the In front manager/head foreign visitors hove ever waiter tremble and quiver as he mastered this fact. The English is browbeaten. Don't feel dis- Milored learned it in his cradle, tressed a lot of it is an act and

there will be no ill-feeling be tween your walter and yourself after that. You may even get a reduction on the bill. You will certainly get a wonderful re ception next time you arrive. FOR YOU, MILADY: Gof You might warn Milady to get ready for your greatest expert prepare to have her hand kissed ance--the hand-kissing for it's one more, Ekely to happen any moment of the Union Canal, whose amid the greatest public outery companied by Burke and a

now. It is all very tricky, for so construction lured two of Edinburgh had ever known, for woman named McDougal, took questions asked."

many ungracious Englishwomen the worst murderers in Scot- the two men had murdered for in Irish lodgers, many of

FOR YOU, MILADY. Now Their icfarious practices have made the whole thing very

comes your biggest problem. tish history to this fair city the proti to be made in selling whom were never again to soo

the bodies. Although ✡ full daylight once they had entered came to a sudden halt when the awkward.

You must mako Milord.come for the performance of their 1st could never be compiled it the house, Neighboure thought authorities found the body of a

Ho But especially in the Latin with you. It is expected. foul dooda. Even today there was believed that their victims nothing much of the shouts and strangled Woman named countries, when the manager must stand around with an air in the is considerable controversy ware many.

turned screams they heard issuing from Docherty in the Tanner's Close shoves his hand towards you of acute interest, even King's Evidence and fled to the house, for it had a very

After as to its future. Many people traland to escape the wrath of low reputation in the neigh use of death.

the don't grab it and whake it most intimate departments of You advocate that it should be the people of Edinburgh, and bourhood.

heartily like a female master the most intimate chops. quarietie bad been arrested.

foxhounds. Extend

don't have to pay the least of Alled in because it consti- the mon'e two

stories of their horrible trade One day a lodger died from were ciroulated. Crowds howled languidly and cautiously and tention to his opinions but for

walch carofully. You might heaven's sake conmut him. natural causes, trut he hadn't for blood, and the doctors who miss altogether his hand, which paid his rent. Burke and had bought the bodies did not is rising stendily towards his Two Irish vagabonds, · Burke ·

Hare staged a mock funeral, and dare show their faces in public lips, while yours is aiming and Hard, were unemployed at

of straight at the poor man's scarily sold the body to a Dr for a long time becaus

midrift. home ,when excavation work

Alexander Knox for £7, 10s, threats to lynch them. on the Canal began. They soon

If this should happen then Durke alone was found guilty' He was a pioneer of human arrived - for" * wwork on it and was executed, in the Calton direction, and, because of the

regard it as a very black - maric: Labourers, having been altrooted Gool. To the last he was quite then prevailing by talk of good rates of pay. unrepentist. On the

night gainst much work," he had to This done, they teamed up as before he died, Burke's only buy bodies from my source Itinerant - bowlers, but finally complaint no that he had available. took up residence in Tonner's never received the money from Clown West Point, Edinburgh, a Dr Kroos for the last body. The Tanner's Close quartetto to engage in the side. Jade theore

· that lod to his war a „handsome ore,, and they; boy, memed Kidovico, who kept wards with your other, Hand,

is agreed that Dr Knox ce Jamie Wilson A young Italian and gently scrub away after no fears. Aling, a ten veg lodgingle, house

agrond swith much other that white mjouk, had dimppeared when a friend of William, thereupors ertented w

Je more lodgers might- They about this time also, and it wo

SITE, Ody walk actie warda, kinobi nico Haro named Log died, and left, turing homeless wayfarers into were to be eten weutering.

mer's the hote, plying them with the house in Tanner's Close,

Sewhiskey and

Hero

Worthen

tutes a possible danger to fed, likewide left the City.

accomplices, who were acquit-

life and public health.

FOUND GUILTY

spory, of polling bodies to the quartette's downfall.

enatomies path anything

27 to 214 for a good

prejudice

..

WHITE MICE

You

NO FEAR

Arriving home sgsin:--

FOR YOU, MILADY You

aco Just a milady in will have all the dignity of a | suburbia's clothing.:

dowager duchess. The neigh- bours will regard you an stuck and time identified was a young don't blush and coyly hide it with a new interest, m

Among the victims of Bucke And if your hand is kissed up. You will regard yourself borty, Mary Peterson; a Canon behind your back Certainly FOR YOU, MILORD: Have gate Becavenger, Comertestino

Burke, and a local Idioty Dafi don't do what I have ever done

IMPORTANT

Dew-found

Your civility is likely to crun

* the first, encounter,

'conductor.h" But a the

well be a’'diffentybe fas

#for} invetanoŚN Your" kiz wn the fory

to gien. Mik