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Britain's Attitudo

Is Hardening

WE WILL KEEP THE BASES

By

James Wickenden

F

London

NEW chungra in British foreign pulley have been more profound

in recent years than the hardening determination to keep the

remaining ('om- monwealth bases.

The abandonment of Suez marked a turning point and was only made acceptable by the manufacture of ren- sons in whose validity 340 responsible statesman could really believe.

After Suez The Midde Bast under the ugilation of Egypt became increasingly restive. Britain cuone 10

realise her weakness through

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London Express terY

The lessors of filul Pasha The life of the fabulous Grey Owl

and EOKA terrorism. More

recently Egypt hos *1- couraged the Yemenis and Saudi Arabians 10 eject Britaris from the Aden protectorate.

Now comes the prospet of Ceylon asking for the abandonment THE Trio- comalee. Singapore base is also in question, although Mr Marshall states that he would leave defence Britain's hunts.

To Resist

In the face of all these Britain's matur- pressur, s ing policy can be seen in her utfitude to Cyprus through the deputation of Makarios.

1.

The general tendency now is

rent Clermatich sa

base. although there

actual

N

*hange Ja The encouragement.

2016

pritieni mnya.

Bard even This pristance their lars qualibet recording To the land of the busty *sarrople fatti. Adon and Ceylon are not Eri the -ne els

Hongkong Singoje ve does not compare with it

Last year Singapore base enst Hoytkong £3,000,000, abod fulf and Ceylon only a Aputer Ceylon

over

H

great

is the last important or the Eastern bases--nevertheless position, in The centre of the Indian ccom gives it valve as a staging post

At Singapore there are Ove Axed and floating docks, enpable of taking the largest British extensive warships, as well as engineering plants etpable of refiting any vesel,

Asiu

A Centre

It is also n centre of malay ar It covers three and sca routes

the coast of indu- teas and China, which has often been called the gateway to Southeast

and Now For Australin Zenland, now committed to de-

in fending

war, Malaya

the Singapore redoubt of their defences and the Baison post with Britain.

# value has not be lessened by nuclear weapons, for there nie many degrees of war below alomte war and of more prob-

then

one

of the

world's

strangest stories.... told by C. D. T. Baker-Carr

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F41114

XCITEMENT ran September 18, 1888, the son of

Blony, high at Buckingham George

wanderer who had hobɔənubəbeel Palace one wintry With Bufalo BEL [ Muxte afternoon in 1937. 1t and had tremped through meet was December 10, and the of the Americas. i wile 25 a pretty khi in fier teens call- present Quen, then a little

Killy Cox, plthough giri aged 11, und her seven. year-old sister. Princess Margaret. WAT about to meet a real Real Indian for the first time. In the Music

Room of the Palace. - it backs on to the balcony room overlooking The Mall a cinema screen had been set up for a private "Commund Performanc***

The Royal audience took their seats King George VI. Queen Elizabeth, the two Princesses, the Earl and Count was of Strathmore and severid members of the Court. There, too, was the well-loved figure of Queen Mary, whose interest in the Red Indian and his life was responsible for th leglare.

Wa-Sha-Quan-Asin, Grey Owl was the name of the tall Red Inulian with the finest face and hawk-like nose who stood beside the screen dressed in the tradi- tional clothes of his tribe. In a deep voice that seemed the echoes of the to carry frozen North he told about life in the antamed wilder ness of Canada and showed films of his little friends, the beavers.

'Go on, please'

some-

tum The used the surmam of Mom is 'T'heis son -destied to byrome Grey Owl. was chris- dened Archibald Stansfeld Belanty.

Yeang Archie was placed in the ente of him wunts while hla

THE RED INDIAN

FROM

parents werd

wayk

SUSSEX

In November, 1935, he made

is first lecture tour in Britain. But it was no home-coming for Grey Owl; Archie Belaney's character had died. His own words on the time were: "I wis routed out of my own environ- ment, practically yanked out of o canoe to appear before people in London. I was scared like a

trapped animal."

Grey In the autumn of 1037 Owl returned to England for another lecture tour. This one was even more successful. The tall, imposing. Red Indian would begin: "'1 am Wa-Shin-Chaon Asin. Grey Owl, a Nomir Amer!- can Indian:

And so he was summoned to repeat his lecture, illustrated by filma taken at Beaver Lodge, before a Royal audience at Buckingham Palace,

་

'Impostor'

the separate slowly he picked up the langu- ceremonies of Initiation ond

laix death cries of AFTER He soon showed unusual age of the Ojibway tribe.

was formally adopted into the

"Honx," "Fraud" and "Im- Interests at his Hastings home

iribe. They gave him the In- postor" rang round the world. the topom beanie a private Archie was growing up, in dian name of Wa-Sha-Quon- What foundation was there for

1908, at Bear Island in JESTIV

he kept

which means Lako Asin,

Shining such charges? he found Beak." It referred to his nick- Temagami, Ontario,

Therr

pers

nenageie </

ا | داداد

A

་

the

an

ת!

he

of

stakes, frogs and an occasional his first wife-Angele Uguna, name of Grey Owl us well us When Grey Owl had applied

of daughter gared bird.

Indian to his prominent harwk-beak of for naturalisation

pepers funtlly there. But her parents a nose.

Canada in 1934 he stated At the grammar school he is did not approve of the mixed

was the son of George McNell remembered for his love of marriage. Angeic was struck off

Grey Owl bad achieved his and his wife, Katherine Cochise. the tribal roll and Archie for- playing af **Rod Indians

life's ambition. He had become a half-breed Apache Indian the foot an Sometimes he got int trouble bidden to step

an Indian. The past he had the Jierailla tribe. Island again. By the time their by bringing an adder into the classroom. It never alleviated child was born Angele had re- consigned to obscurity.

turned for ever to her Own with people. Archie went on hla trapping and his constant search for knowledge of Indian's way of life.

the offenses when he said it was he had removed

brumiess

its potson himself.

At the age of 16 Archie left his job In a local surveyor's

Гиг oler and sailed

Canada, the land of his dreams, Не worked 11 large dily, store. and saved enough for his fore into

unknown. He had

the

brought with him a blue city

and dozens of books mostly dealing with Indians,

A Red Indian

THE outbreak of World War profector

made He's

be accepted legally he then

any.

The reason for this remains obscure but the most likely is In 1023 he met the woman that on those occasions when he who was to change his life once the gain, and bring him happiness felt his Indian name might not

and fame-Arahareo,

full- avoided at all costs his real blooded Iroquoi's Red Indion, name and the past 11 recalled. Two years later he married her. McNeil was as good a name as It was the who converted him from

trapper who killed beaver for the price of their

Then his crities remembered ekins into Canada's foremost the missing fourth too on the of wild animals right foot of soldier Archie Be- particularly beavers.

laney. The undertaker at Prince one claim on

Albert, Mr Hamilton; told the Archie's ancestry and blood. northern NERVOUS that he might suit

Grey Owl He wrote his first book In waiting world that the have spoken for too long,

But when he enlisted in

their tiny log cabin on the edge was without such a too. The chance to leave all 40th Battalion at Grey Owl looked at his

Grey Owl had audience tentatively. "No. behind came with the rush

as his birthplace. He and McGinty.

friends, McGinnis Count and Its newly

Montreal found

It was an aston- posthumously, no. Go on, please," said the

silver mines, Everyone who get also claimed military

esper jahing success. Other books fal- Indignity that was an insult to King, the man whom all

out on that trail hoped to strike ence

In the Mexican

his fluent his whole life. In the out towed rapidly from Canadian Red Indians re it rich. Not so Archie; he just Corps. He served in France as but scratchy pen in the frozen Albert Hospital they slipped of the Red Indian his body "Great wanted to experience the rough highly accurate sniper until back garden of Canada. Beetgarded

As their

life of the backwoodsmin while he was shot in the right foot.

clothes, substituted a dark city White Chief."-·

making himself useful.

but was

sull and brushed back his long, was with re-

black, plaited hair. They tried When it wRS over Grey

to turn an Indian into a white lief that he was invallded back

man, when for nearly 50 years he had been doing just the re- verse and with success..

nbillly. Fer them bass chi bộ of greater

value Even for atomic wat trans bases must exit from which to fire defensive missiles or at least to form storage depuls.

The search for

"new mode

of warfare which avoids the use

of nuclear weapons has moved now to a point where the value

of bases is clearly recognized,

This scorch is continuing on

WOR Greenhorn Archie

to Scotia. In May 191 by, Nova of a lake telling the story of hin

n

Ho loathed the war, no pacifist, and

a

he gove

Owl talked with the King, quick and a willing learney but to England and Hastings. the Queen and the two it was Hed Indian life he want- Princesses. Finnily, forget- ed, not the cut-threat existence ting his newly-learned Court of a prospeelor,

etiquette, Grey Owl offered

the

two beaver

A new home

to suffer, опе Jast gross

Prince

Was

both sides of the Iron Curtain. his hand to the Sovereign Lore of the wilds indeed, the men he served with at the edge of Lake Alawaan in Albert to be buried in a little

And however distasteful it many | und

realisty.

Not Safe

bill;

not It has be ignored in

It is also realised that Owl-a name Britain. it is not safe to hand over bases to a new government. Govern-

"Good-bye,

health.

for

No hoaxer

from

J

It was a. frustrating' reunion for his aunts. They found him. October 31, 1931, Ancharco

On April 22 his body and Grey Owl moved into changed, looking for all world like a Red Indian-and, new home. Beaver Lodge stood drawn the long haul from Prince

wooded Jenoll not in France looked on him us now the Prince Albert National Park,

Saskatchewan. thing clac.

Two new bea Beaver Lodge. be, the existence of this military Brother, and good luck."

vern, Jelly Roll und Rawhide, thinking cannot be ignored by King George smiled, shook

It was at Hastings on Febru- End joined the family by then LIE set out on his own, trudg- hands and replied, "Thank Hen the forests towards nry 10, 1917, that he married

the others had disappeared his one moonlight night. Laa

Augint Indian country. you very much, Grey Owl.”

A few days gici ho had known

year Ancharco later he was found unconscious school-day, Florence Ivy Mary the following

They named . On April 13, 1938, after beside a railway line, by Holmes. But the romanco was had a daughter.

GREY Owl was no hoaxer, no Her home was in her Dawn, two Indiane. short-lived.

fraud, 'and certainly no im- his return to Canada. Grey white guide and

Не was indeed famous in They took him to their cabin Britain and Archie's heart was

Life went on smoothly enough. poetor. back his in Canada. They parted almost two continents-was dead of and slowly nursed

at once, ho to Canada and a Grey Owl was on the Canadian genuthin Red Indian. discharge on pension, Soon after Government payroll as their

un- One question remaina real she learnt of his marriage chief conservation officer for the Thus Archie began his

Did he in National

fact, ments change and frequently pneumonis. Just three days

Park answered. the Prince Albert earlier apprenticeship as a Red Indian, years

to Angelo

ahu, chief scout of the Indian possess Red Indion blood? His techr'cally a Indian girl-llll Cobits dashed back and forth They taught him to paddie

Conteduration of North America, mother's name was Kitty Cox-

had But the Indians Innote, wander or Morris-but Grey Ow! canoc, blaze a trail and follow fils wife. across the Atlantis Aaying Grey Owl was a honx, a fraud. the tracks of the animals which

Out in the wilds again he lust again struck their happy said that is "Apache mother" home, and both Grey Owl and was called Katherine Cochise. that he was gave them their livelihood--tha

and the soTAO, In reality an Englishman born beaver, the deer and the moose. Joined another band of in Annharso knew they must part Were they one

good way Indiaon. They took him and go their separate ways and did old Mm Belaney have and bred. Newspapermen in They took him to be a

Red Indian blood in her veins? England cad Canada dug back seven years older than his 17 In as trainee member of tho tribo arid taught Kim

Grey Owl stayed on at Beaver No one knows. into io post and uncovered a summers.

the finer points of their way Lodge, weking the books on life to be the subject of high level the of mystery and hardship,

Archie grew his dark hair of 11 The name of Amila in Wids which brought him beloved Lake Ajawan.

Illa body now lies beside his poliby debate, The visit of Lord Foule Fof the putrids: they'uricarhea?" Ipng, pulled à fllle forward in Bolanoy was a thing of the Pasy Worldwide, formicitiam mach na owlis, ut peare in the Happy

and Parliamentary dedication and integrity. Some. Mountbatten to Ceylon and of remain undwerd today, the front and tied in two platte He became Grey Chill the mhi permeteor the Wild The

frer Hunting Ground dament the back. Gone was int blue who preferred to walk by night/Adventures oli Bujó vand Mr Marshall to Britain have dry ow did begin his lid cly Hiufte motensin replaced A mailer of months later, he Boavis People's and

Ting of Injuru. boot, and fool pari « in the treatisesi, an Empty Cabin,”. on the black- English in Englanul at Hastings

the

newcomers repudiate later the storm burst. previous agreements.

Mr Marshall is respected in Whitehall; but the question is being asked what happens if and

Would when he goes?

remain Singapore be then seure?

These questions are coming more to the fore and are likely

speeded the need for decision.

(COPYLOUD

an' imprator

44

and

*

Grey

of all "honest

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