1955-11-12 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955.

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The OTHER exile just waits... and waits

Once it wras Seretse Khama AND the Kabakaca.

to

imlikely are take place--without a chier

His people Bre A tribe of herdsmen with a miller Bead of cattle grazing on the scrub and desert grass of the dry Prolec tornte.

ing methods

Has the ending of one Now only Seretse in left.

who waits in exile brought any hope to the man

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Tudor home in Crog don 7

HE 1936 Tudor house be describers is lion buurt

izi the

autumn- ! che,

yellowed

of house a man might M

tire fe after

Yea

bell best inust be killed because Urey as the cattle." avenue in replies her father. Cron is the sort

Seretse The 2-year-old son

but known is either offically, a long. busy 1

Acara "Bruvver" with TANITT

the life. Ha black beams and aresand the leaded windows may now be vastlog's tundling saying "Þaiks,"

"goodbye" "halle dismissed

unworthy

Jake.

Jodhpurs imitation but they express solid comfort and the warm Treatise she has just come back Hom het weekly riding lesson,

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nostalgin of the English

for Elizabethan times.

find its Strange to

OWICT,

then, a man not retired

dream of Tudor times All

an exile. A man of a

ferent race. A

dif.

man 201

Seretse

finished with life-but just

beginning

it.

Khama. the almost-forgotten exile.

He is a bored man, this powerfully-built but paunch- ing African,

African tales

And he would be bitter man if he could bring himselt be believe that los late was as emply of

purpose as present clrcumstances make it out to be. But this is a house where --When every day the phrase we go home" is used Home is AtriCn.

Puders

3011

In the thelit luonge where leopard skin "karosses" hang on the olde hearte walls to add a magnificence The the

his Je tells never knew. Serelse and his daughter Jac- queline tales of life in Africa.

like "You don't

minals." accuses Ave-year-old Jackie.

WPRIJE

Jakne a spectamular leap into bet Juther's fagy. His reflective face Bursts into a smile.

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The pure is a pretty one. The ronzen Uonal me

family at hume. The happy comfortable deep carpet. the TV set, the radiogram where the Jay ane de 18 "That Old Black The middle-class furi- Magn Ture, father

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Except, except that domestic friss never has been and never will be enigh in the life of must wor

Serbe Khara deep discontentment

A Man

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SELN

Thus monl he hus another young man, an Arcan and a leader of his people, too. "go Kabaka of Buganda, The home" aller exile. RS

Does dus give ham hope"

**Perhaps," he says, shrugging, In 1953 Mr Givea LyMelton

that sald

a1

fratel That Mutesa should 106 Kabaka return. But in 19556 that decUNİOTA I reversed.

WHA

1 sanese they are Copable best of changing the ind

me All grat men are supposed

be capable of that.

"Love in hope, sart of thing." encies. Imitating British suft-upper-lipners.

Jac

Bitter side

It takes a pretty tough sort of Tupe to see a man through the years of exile und before those years were half-way through to receive the body-blow of know- he would never be chief to his own tribe again, nor his sou Seretse after him. Nur has be been told when, i ever, he may burn to Buchuanaland Protec

his tribe. The torie where Banangwato prople, uwait him.

May 1852, Lord Salisbury Bam- turned town pleas from ungwato delegates that Servise offered some Khama should be tribal post other than chiet.

The Bamongwato people's elect has been not 10 ruply another chief,

The Government hasi the power to depose a chief but not to appoint a new one. That must me from the people and they have been sticking out for gute

the time now "

But while this situation has its sdisfaction for the exile, it has us bitter side too.

Wiule the impasse continues

wants the rafortis brought into Bamangwato farm-

he

Paris Is No Place

I

Paris.

'D like to meet the man

who put it around ... the idea that there's nothing NO wonderful 21H4 being young and In love in Paris.

He obviously was a man; no young girl in love would want Purls gift!

says SYLVIA LAMOND

W

ste

In the firelit lounge, with leopard skins on the walls, Scrotte tolls Jacqueline tales of life in Africa ...

though he is a keen. intelligent man with a wide-smiling chan "I want to make them not that makes him many friends. only a pastoral people but A

The

evenings are spent 151 agricultural people as well," he entertaining friends and

seldom in going out to theatres Stuth or dances.

Dccasionally tries tu

any's

"It }

task to 204 my people to TINO ELEWA methods. That is where the chief comes Jac he can always get things done where Government officials

Something

done

the

very

learn Sechtana, her husband's tongue. terribly difficolt

ነ። which

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For

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which there are no text-books. Cooking, "ulways chicken curry or steak," is another pastime- cook badly con- Government "She doesn't

I taught sidering

her,' 16 buld 1441

saya

And freezing! plant Seretse. abattoir so that the difficulties of taking Bamungwates cuttle. possible found - mouth Carriers disease,

sers the border South Africa are overcome

For that one muist praise the Government," says the wide for whom the easy export of his country's product is only The beginning of the prosperity. wants for Thern.

be

It is very dimeuk ไป do when There Is nothing at all much that can be done."

"Nothing at all," is what he continues in defiance to do.

No point

Post that have been offered him have been turned down.

He does not take 4 job because "thore i no point in it," as his wife puts it.

He lives on £1,100 a year Irom the Government and the income from his own herd of cattle in Bechuanaland.

"One is inclined to get fright- fully bored. One would no1 have time to get bored at home,“ He seldom uses the first person In speech; It is nearly always

"one.'

His large frame is slowly beginning to silt up with the years of inactivity, He sits with indolent grace in his armchair, His face is often blank, al-

For Love

But there are none of the The gossip is always about warm, well-lighted, smartly. the mature woman.

five-bob-a-head appointed, restaurants such U8 have in some big cities.

# Us

All right

so she can sit on a bench on a busy avenue

and kiss her boy friend without stopping the

you

So unless the boy friend is well-lined, it's round to the cafe for food.

Here there's no decor, no music, no glamour. Just marble-topped tables, a traffic. Nobody will gape or draught whistling round the giggle.

But a girl can't go On sitting on a cold, hard bench through a cold, hard win- ter.

She needs pretty clothes to keep his interest focused, and clothes are wildly ex- the averago pensive for girl.

"Have you heard that Barbara Hutton gave a Cartier diamond to the girl who came to it her for undies .....

"Have you

Keen

Suzy

Women are tossing through 24 guinea blouses and spangled pants at £40 like bargain hun- ters at a jumble sale.

Six telephones ring at once, Women are shouting. Men are groaning. A model in 35 yards of evening satin is trying to get down the stairs, but an Ameri- can woman is draped all across them having her snap taken for the folks back home.

For 20 minutes I sit on re little Volterra's new pale blue sports gilt chair, and the South Ameri-

car......

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"The Duchess of Windsor, nas broken the rules again. She has

raised a 28-year-old boy to the

position of head chef-and floor, and a harsh yellow trained him herself. The chefs light against which the of France are in uproar!" prettiest girl fights a losing battle.

Now, to be forty and rich

Paris

that's a "In

different story. For the older, wealthier woman, it's the most wonderful city in the world.

she's wearing

can in the next chade has a good old matter to me about the poor service. We give the acid-drop look to the black-trocked assis tants darling about with worried expressions,

It's a wonderful town for the mature woman for two im- I get up and drift out and feel portant reasons. Tho finest madly mature and 'cléliciousky clothes in the world are made wonithy for the rest of the day. hero-and couturlers admit "they Dior weaves that kind of magic. are made with the woman over

Gina Lollobrigida, brought mo "As a career. forty in mind."

back to earth. woman don't you get desperate ly tired sometimes?" sta asked,

Men appreciate the older woman. No taco can be too "I do." pale and haggard-he'll and it Gina with the almond interesting. No hat can be too and incredible in-and-out figure crazy-he'll find it chic. No is a lovely as they mys figure can be too bony he'll

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I Liked Gina, the most fotod

- corso ste la so honest.

“I love tight-atting clothes boostilo 1. have a good figuro,” (In "Tropere," Gina wears the host-are tainta, made of "wocond aidin” gold elastic. )

I couldn't find a wearable Everything is geared to her winter frock under £10 or pleasure. Walters know a thing find it "divinely contemporary, and copied girl in Europe, he a dressy pair of shoes under stone from a diamond like they like modern, art." £5. Wool sweaters are poor know a sausage from a steak. and scratchy and start at Hoteliers' can smell a woman's bank account from the perfume. about £4.

So what does the girl do? She spends five evenings a week at home stitching like smoke to have something to wear on the sixth evening ation in London. In Paris she's when she meets him, is

Just another girl with a pony Then she needs food to tail, and not a hope in Hades of keep the flame of love leap wresting the cinema crown from ingy. What's an evening out the Idollaed Michele · Morgan,

·without a meni 7

So imagine I'm forty, aimed Nobody gives a hoot what the with sables and sapphires. dob-age girl la doing.

head. lo homing pigeon for Christian Dior,

Brigitte Bardot "wan à PCL-

When

HIT DOWRY, Ick bokter. worried about," my,

· Hiæ gray and crystal roof on the Avenue Montaleme are like abury, holay 'department'ators/0 Unbelievable, since this if the Sun Clan if they found most exclusive, expensive, shop-. pits aron su com whole world,

Popular

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One thing is certain marriage will last

Their

with

Ruth, the London girl Welsh Uod, did not go into this marriage as a romantic.

All marriage

is an expert- ment," she saya crisply "It is not the ruce. or races, u! couple concerned, but the couple themselves."

the

Certainly they are # very popular couple.

"Because of the sympathy of the people of Britain one finds the bitterness and frigira- dion of our situation is mellow- ed," says Seretse Khama.

"But I publie opinion count- ed for anything." he adds with

□ strug,

"we would have been

home long ago."

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