1955-07-28 — Page 6

· THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1955.

Shadows Across The

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Future Of Malaya

By JAMES WICKENDEN

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Offgetting the logical HE present problems of There is now no power" with

Malta aixi Cyprus have sufflelent infuevice to keep the clusions which can be drawn in French in Indo-China, except this situation is the general ob- made it clear that perhaps the 0.3. But the PETICO of racial discord...which colonial tasues cannot always Americans can hardly go back tras. prevalled between [the] be solved in simple terms on their polley towards the Chinese and Malays for decades, auch as "self-determination." French, whom they believe are marred only temporarily.

the visible signs of colonialism calculated Japanese gitation Each colony presents A which must vanish from he, during the wor.. soparate problem.

This fact has been amply de- whose monstrated in Malaya, progress towards independence, now gathering pace, has been shadowed at every stop by the play of forces in Indo- China, Aml the future there is not bright.

The date July 20--has pos ed when, by the Geneva agree, ment, South Vietnam was 10 Nove discussed next year's Flections with North Vietnam Unless these talks take place, in harmony- the hope of a final settlement in Indo-Ching will be postponed.

to

Deens.

by

However, in the coming years Nor whi

the Americans when the political constructions readily take to the Idea of now being mined with varying. own forces in success in Maloya and further putting their Indo-China, since it has long north are reaching

their most been cardinal principle of unstable and portentous heights, American policy to refrain from it may be comforting to remem- involving is troops 0771 the bor the far-sighted plan of, de- Aslatie mainland.

fence across the Kra Isthmus.

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Malaya and the rest of the

The presence of Australie1. free world in Southeast Asia troops on Malayan soll may be

face

viewed therefore

imkent 20sented and an vacuum

of the crude military of power in Indo- example China, and

or mind. But it should be recalled what faction

what those troops and the air- movements will try to fill it must become the burning ques- bases in north Malaya, are there ilon of tomorrow.

to keep

from Maluya.. safe contamination white' a' takes ita Drat steps into the world with- out the aid of Templers, Mac- Gillivrays and Macdonalde.

PROBLEM

Tho talks may yet be ar- ranged, it only because the Communists pin their hopes of Mcartwhile Malaya's future All Indo-Chinn on the elections, "is not a foregone conclusion, and because the Americans are although the rapid progress of exerting pressure on Diem's recent months marked by government honour the national elections on July 27- Geneva agreement. But there in ta o heartening sign. Malaya's ittle chance of accord between chic? problem, ke that of the two parties.

Cyprus, Is to weld two races into one nation. The remark able alliance of the Malays and Chinese in the MCA-UMNO partnership has previously made this improbable event seem al least possible.

The South Vietnamese are saying, correctly, that to send candidates to North Vietnam for next year's election 13 to make them hostages to fortune. By every means of political Jobbery their appen) 10 the the North would be stifled,

19, indeed, hardly conceivable that the proposed elections car be free in the sense intendent by the Goneva agreement.

WATCHDOG

If there are no elections, chief hope of lasting peace Indo-China would appear

the

in

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He na gradual stabilisation of the 17th the status que along Poratie),

But that hoped-for casement of tension cannot come about automatically. For one of tho guarantees against a major chior crisis in Indo-China, Bince has been the French Geneva, Expeditionary Forer. standing like a watchdog in the back- ground of Dlem's struggles with the quasi-religious certs South Vietnam.

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But it cannot be assumed that the alliance will continue in the same form as hitherto, Dato Sir Oan Bin Jaafar, the great Malay leader

who been sclipsed for some time since the collapse of his Inde- pendence of Malaya Purly, is now on the march again-this ilme along on avowedly "Com-

munalist" line.

GENEVA

by GILES

COR

"May we wake up and find this peace scare is just a bad dream."

TO SCHOOL

IN GERMANY

H

not

Did it Happen?

OW much harm may one do at 16-being egotistical, argumen. tative, infantine of heart, being then, absolute- ly, "oneself, at 16" This begins as a comic story, a summer anecdote of much account. How far it His new party, the Parti Negara, shows every sign of thrust into the future, cast- growing rapidly and becoming aing shadows, I do not even challenge to the alliance of the now know; perhaps I am Malays and Chinese; of draw-flattering my 16-year-old self often I did, with sojne friends mental tension of the sort that Ing the Malays away from it;

50 comically. thinking she thrust into the of my mother, the von Rs. and hardening the racial rift.

future at all.

Another story with a problem. "Ia-it-FACT or FICTION? The answer will be published

tomorrow.

pit It was

the

un- samo

"Good heavens. Max!!" I cried

and turned to

Eustace.

Drawing by OLIPHANT.

ano'a

for Own

there the the physical caburo e in lump/ the disturbed playmate, and how on earth can one Wrap oncself from him?

drives engaged couples to diapute with violence This "R.", nama bas sipca, some

trivial question say of The consequence of such a

become rather notorious, so let party politics. frend is not hard to predict. It

At 16 I was at school in the initial stand. Herr von R, would create such a powerful Potsdam. Infantine of heart was a nice old thing" (torly-

"I am trying not to be ag- and purely raciul opposition to

five I dare my), of a tumour nerving; "worse than Stęppy":・gressive" I said, "I am really the elected government of the I may have been; even for a

more Berlinish Ban East used to think. quite often very fond of you, Maxi; I don' MCA-UMNO

alllanea

that the schoolgirl, but I was begin- Prussian. His wife was asthma- farocious. And as the names want to be cross because it is ' concept of a national constitu-ning to have a faint inkling tic, but self-effacing; there was Maxi cast át me of "persons such a hot day arid just thes tion actually working would be of how extremely incon- daughter, Bella, and there the English were supposed

to

day for a swim and sopm "I destroyed before birth,

Maxi That

summer was have mistreated or bamboozled shall be going back to England, sistent one can be and how was

wonderfully hot and long. meant little to me or positively so do not be so beastly cross." little difference it makes to Maxi, Belin and I used to go nothing. I spent much time, in

And to cheer him'up I bégan one's comfort, opinions and riding and bathing in the shal- Herr von R's library looking to read out aloud from a letter behaviour having this low Baltic that I illed so much, up an answer, for him. But by I had had from my, ulster Eliza-

and sailing too.

then, of course, he had game beth who was still at school in brought home. As it was,

on to something else.

Frigland. almost daily.

BACKWARDS

There is, now, every indleo- 11on that the Expeditionary Force will soon be withdrawn. The Americans, whose good in- tentions canmot be denied, have worked through Dlem--himself The only moderating influence anti-French-to reduce French would be the statesmanship of influence in Indo-China. Dien's. the Dato himself, elected government has recently even through whatever format under- demanded of the French that standings he might reach with the Force be placed under the Chinese. However much Vietnamese command and that these possibilities might reflect Its present Commander-in-Chief the real facts of Malaya's po be replaced by an Ambassador Hical life and they might American of Polish ancestry, hysterical perudo philosophical her shrimps, I sighed a Uttle, or "High Commissioner." work the emphasis would be on personalities rather than res- This lo too much for the

pect for constitutional party and even government. French to stomach, powerful group in favour of

The De Gaullists

The

Just

'seventies of

keeping the garrison in Indo backwards to the China, have reluctantly decided the last century, when whatever that there is no further useful order flootingly purpose to be served by leav- Malaya depended on the friend-grinding the faces of the poor. ing. it where. It especially ship, usually temporary,

for French racial leaders, It could not be since the demand troops in North Africa increases regarded as an advance towards

a nation state..

dally.

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Marvellous

I atghed an I read. I had been in Germany for moto than a year now and would be

By

STEVIE SMITH

Stevie Smith's · rest Christian.mamei Floranca Margaret; and-she The comes from: Hull. mark the made with bar 'Novel' on Yellow Piper In 1936 has been 'deepened by | tha' weight of several other other novels and her poems “and drawings, ‹She is a free · quent contributor to the (national weeklies and Kves Pak Rafmery Green.

Vory extremo

Maki was a handsome-toolc ing boy. I could see that, but For we were an international jot at Fraulein

Maxi was in kiz' first year in my mind was on other things. Plotzier's academy. and opinions

ran the university and liked holding So one day when he suggestedt: strun There was, for instance, forth, He was dreadfully inken we should go off together and

with friend. Steppy, Steppy was up

thoma

Historico Have Bella in the kitchen with

tad to Elzabeth wrote. laugh the cause we had our publile ideas one used to

at thinking of the arguments, to, to home. "In't it. mar

"Ocenti Swell and Ephesus Volce-hers and mine-was a them, not guessing what was come up, but raid yes, the

I'm simp benting Teheran? out of them, or lofty Internationalism, but this coming up

You know thooo Inland seas thrilled And I'm terribly did not prevent fights between wanting to guess.

that behind the strips of pleased about Diely Boy, he's coast up by Pilinu getting on a very

horse nloo-tempered In short it would be a move us at a lower level,

At mealtimes he did not say

colour. for Koenigsberg? The von Rs', and of a queer spotty "Wo 'beat you British." "You much, because German sons.

there, the great fat I'm simply dumbfounded, Tan time even student sone, did not talk Jand "log were in Poland at that in existed

engaged to Ceroline, when their fathers were there, fade running by the lakesides he got But on the rides and bathes down, to the sand dunes and much to Nale disgust. I can't ta get over it. Must dry up now, Maxi would grow very extreme the sea,

and about! the Jews

tons of love, though." about, how cynical, corrupt, of

But I looked up. Maxi was look-

stopped because of the poor moral fibre and generally

ing quite extraordinary, his way Maxi was looking, "I say, disgusting the English were,

At unde Maxi began to speak es very odd, bolled slightly you aren't serious, I suppose? I .of the Jerva again. Bella took no part in those heavena,. Maxi, not again." And most peculiar shade

"Oh and bursting and his face of a say, look out, you'll break my

of dark, erm.** "Stinking in tho Chatto?"

arguments; she was a calm girl said there were mostients whe

"I don't mad.

believe you've "Ha, ha, how can you pretend), and thought only of catching

He got a grip on my plaits to be liberal when you won't, even speak to Floesie Silber Into, A. paste which she wolfed beautiful day, an hot rund still, anony w see the plane things say, look out, you're pulling down on slabs of cold toast, we should do better to enjoy out when Maxt leapt at me. my hair. Maxi, do shut up!" ...

"Sho hea ro min Maxít mi silence, and swim silently. Don't you komw I love you?"

mther than for lever to rattle.. Yes, nt sixteen I wES die wood to say, "but she is very round thou hackneyed exuser- putatious mother than sentiment pretty," There was a great deal bating and wicked sentimenta |al, and it was in nothing at all of tension between Maxi "and

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indred

So still

shrimp and pounding them one lood to be quiet and think heard a word I've been read-

that this was such ing. I was going to walk off and pulled my head back. "I

Soppy

ndon Express Servies

day you might say, and yet-was it not for.me at that moment a sort of truthfulness, the sum- ming up of in Bildfion? Why. not?"""Because you're man."

An oldish' man

Gar

I wish I might say I never

saw Maxi ajan and ŝo leave it

As

a summer anecdotë. “But I dkl

again many see him years later in dreadful circumstances. It was after tho "wor in a restaurant in the British Zone riot far from Berlin. I was with my cousin Eustace, who was in the Army, Wo

went into this restaurant and it was very crowded, We down at a table, in the corner. There was one other person there, a thin twisted- looking oldish man,

Only when he looked up with those blue eyes of old did I recognise this person for Maxi. "Good heavens, Maxi!” E erled and turned to Bustare.*:*

This is Maxi yon: R. you know, I stayed with then ages ego; in mother world.":

Ghastly amila

My cousin atiffened up at the name von R,

"I could make a bolt, fór B. I suppose Baid Modwith-a- quite hustly smile: "I don't think I should," arid Eustace. Maxi turned to mes

"He's not got it quite right, has - he?" and then in an echo He began to shout, that ho that fell from a long way off, loved me, that, ho was serious in a this mincing falée, vodos and wanted to marry me. "But that came as my own voice from of a sentimental mood that I me. But it was not on my slae vivis the Jews, the English

you must be stark staring mad, no m't!! I said, "We're not old a long ago afternoon in East

"We could be Frustic,

tho' paki; "I've mothing went to spend the holidays, so at all, I thought--a senti-wy other persons,

tions or opinions,

know I'm 1 mean I dickýt. I think 18 in love with you, Max); (oh, do argint, it in principle bub

wouldn't. WOTK My Anti, os wo strolled together appy all that, mii right for through the pinewoods towards Caroline 1. dike say,

you, anyway. I've the sea shore I began to have earth's the matter out on shut up!) and I couldn't marry took him off then. Maxi was a nothing war criminal on the run. I bad some curious thoughts as for “Don't you love me at

tal?? agüinst it in principio, but it guessed that, of course, Laus, instance that a fine sunny day "Well, Well, I never thought wouldn't work."

Eustace told, ino hi record. It can make one feel more separate about it. (Oh, đó shut up.)· I'm-

"Why not?"" So put it came "Don't worry," he said

was 'vilo bogrond words;";

World when than ever, especially if one's very fond of you, I'm fond of componiton is in a frame of Bella ton and I think your with nothing much more behind

story, mind noticeably different from father is heaven and it than crossness for a spoiled

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that ho has bought a enbaret with its memories of place you go to the Town Hall the old vis-de-Boheme, and the tomb in the cometary: "So have Mayor Lelandes, or one of q storey *-studjo building all my friends," he says, "Then his officials, will sell you other Moderns itved when they

Where Picasso, Matisse and we can all be together!

TRAPPED bottle of wine (mistle from, were poor and obscuraja the Montmartre grapes for eats contmartre, as rustic The cheme will try to re- about 10%. The money goès

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concierge

boen

dorod to pi

I told him the summer "If it hadn't

been

cousin

that, it would have been something" clad." I stared at

the coffee in the

bottom of mybby cup.

"How beastly and bitter It all ay I hate this boller" than thou eltuation we are all in now. "WO ARE, holier than him " said my cousin, folya Maxi got 16 yours, day!" WORLD COPYRIGHT, RESERVED

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