1956-06-14 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1956,

A CHALLENGE IN BLACK AND WHITE

I was back in the US, thinking of m

morning

Johannesburg. He believes th the domina-At the forthcoming Prime THOUGHT at first I tion of the white man, and is Ministers Conference in Lon back in the US. thinking of making his party's don he will use that Com

pintform the monwealth countries should not to charge that the Opposition, the criticise each othera domestic walked

stands for race, policies and, whenever possible, aquality, as if race equality the Commonwealth, thould pro United Party,

sent a united front, P were tome terrible crime.

and

loce of scaffolding, and saw the the town hall, which is under a words in tribute to the war dead,

"Lest we forget."

I saw brown

Then, just a few ket away. wooden benchca Jeltered "Europeans unis "Blege blankes

and I

This sign. "Europeans only," is scattered about Johames-

burg and other cities and towns of South Africa, but 1 is hardly

cessory.

The bottom

ал

are of

Cordial

tion Office), and was cordially

Pampaleta

ith

treated

and brochures platt.

to

South

ת!

in-

Father Trevor Huddleston's book, Naught for Your Com- WENT to the new Govern South Africa, be expelled from fort" in which he suggests ment Building to call on the Commoirwealth,

hos the Office of Information (no one seemed to know where the furiated many South Afrcans.

The Government plana

in another book, the Informa but the newspapers here, among buicing waste for official reply formation about

the best in the Empire, wisely counsel them to abandon the

were handed

and 1 True,

Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris noticed that one big, glossy, is

popular

Government THE natives the blocks

they are called and the black and white magazine, en-

circles for his latter to The Bed "The Pattern of Race Tice of London

condemning coloured, those who

Africs, the idealistic clergyman. mixed blood, know their place. Policy

Abraham It is the bottom of the human brasally quoted

At stake Lincoln "A separation of the heap. They are down, and are

races is the only perfect pre- being kept duwn.

Ar sat on the bench next ventive of amalgamation; but as QIR Arthur means well and is

separation is 1th- to two "Europeans" I thought insmediale

undoubtedly right when he of the tutul rocial

posible, the next best thing is says "South Africa is the type of in view

Government to keep them apart where they tried that this country can the Begregation, ought to think of another word

are not already together." afford in this day to embitter Would Lincoln is quoted as saying and alienate." Instead of "European."

this in Springfield,

Britain Timals, k

needs South Africa, Eisenhower, a non- President

be allowed, to

but South Africo also needs si 1857, and no doubt he did.

Another Government an- Britain and surely the two the countries can work out a better Would Adlai

explained of neuncement Stevenson, such non-Europeans as Marilyn meaning of the sinister word deal for the poor devils who are

called nativos here. Monroe or Princess Grace Kelly rheid: Rainier?

mentioned this later to the kind and hospitable people who have been helping

European

here?

008

roc

Retreating

the word to TRANSLATED,

means the slate of being the web of South unravel

The principle behind African politics and they said apart.

la that the css- whites the policy **Europeans suppose it's a curious word when developed non-whites should be guided by the whites towards you come to think of it."

self-relation and self-govern- ment within their own com- munities azl In their awi

Actually the Government,

Should think

I only South African-the areas.

Afrikander people, who run

the Nationalist Government having spent years and millions and some of the British Scuth Africans, too, would come to think of quite a few things, their country would no be hostile world Ketting mich A Press

As for the unfortunate non- whiles there are over ten and a half millon of them compared with about three million whites in this vast, rich country-no

what оле knows

They They have little or think kig. nu voice.

аге

tart research, is retreating from apartheid. it would cost too mueb and maybe it wouldn't work to transfer whole sections of

keep the population and them in their own black areas. Now I am not here to criticise but merely to report, I guest and have received many messages of welcome, but the truth must be told.

arn

At present the Government has

constructive native no polley whelever. South Afrien will have to start again, and the intelligent know it,

Many here, the Afrikander

who

skill pocple particularly.

over the Boer nurse a grudge Wor

are becoming sonekive to Prime Minister

They have no political party of any strength. They are the People here raak. mippressed

The race no bones about it pulley of the . G. Strijdom

has Government

been an- nounced again and again, Prime criticism. Minister Strijdom has

himself very clear.

made Strijdom in planning to ask in

That is common humanity,

DON IDDON'S

The reputation of part of tho Commonwealth is at stake in the labyrinth of South African politica It in tiot beyond British

South Africans brains to meet this challenge. I do not fear personally any break by South Afrks from the Commonwealth, desplie the talk about a republie

The

offelal attitude ib

The Party unequivocally National acknowledges the, right of the people, at any time that it con- siders such a course, to be in the interests of the country, to' change its form of government by constitutionul imcans.”.

Strijdom

would

thinks republic suit him and South 1 Africa, but pledge that he would never take such a stop cxcept on the broad basis of the people's will,"

Whether the 'people in- dudes the millions of natives is not clear.

The people, don't want to get out. They want to stay in and get British justice and a British fair deal.

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Chapter He Heaved The Man Into The Eleven: Porthole... And Pushed him Through

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It the telephone rang heart.

might was Tiffany bending beating. Turn over."

Blond looked at his watch as over him and kissing him

And obediently he had de ran back down the allent She Three o'clock. curtidor and saying, "You shouldn't Looden for a kinder attitude.

turned and as the door

must have left him some time the clicked he was at once after two. Should he call

Give the alarm? asleep again with her voice bridge?

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The polite eyes of the sergeant- And then the angry bell rang

at-erms who would be thinking In the dark cabin and went on

of drunkenness and in terms ringing and Bond cursed reached for it and a voice said, love even of someone trying to "Sorry to disturb you, sir. This delay the ship so as to win the the wireless operator. There's Low Field in the ship's auction. |a cypher signal just come in for

you and it's got an en clair pre-

fix of 'Most Immediate, Shall I

coll it out to you down?"

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or send it

"Send it down, would you." sald Bond. "And thanks."

THERE was a knock on the door and he took the cable

and sat down at the desk and lit a cigarette and set grimly to work

The cable was from the Chief

of Staff. It gald

THE

Low Field! A man over- board! The ship delayed! Bond slammed the door of his cabin and dived for the pasanger list.

Here he Of course. Winter. was, A.49. The deck alow. And then suddenly Bond's mind cllcs- ed like a comptemeter. Winter. Wint and Kidd. The two tort- does. The men in the hoods.

Back to the

High. passenger A.49 too. The

DRAWING BY 'ROBB

Kired mon and the fat since he had read the cable, curiously at Bend and his mouth

The secret escort for Tiffany, he to us and on the spot

"He's

And Lelter's description.

FIRSTLY CLANDESTINE travelling." "One day that wart the porthole of Cabin

SEARCH OF BAYES OFFICE on his REVEALED SIGNAL FROM QE qui." ADDRESSED

SIGNED ABC.

;

naturally back, the right fand And then more than the left. sucklenty, at the top of tha back-swing, the right Lautened

and flashed forward, and the throwing-knite bloomed from

the tips of the fingers like,

flame

The quiet bullet and the quiet knife crossed

syes of

in mid-air, and i the two men flinched

simataneously as the weapons

struck.

But the flinch in the eyes of the fat man turned into an up- ward roll of the eyeballs as he fell backwards, clawing at his heart, while Bond's eyes only: fooled incuriously down at the spreading stain on his shirt and at the flat handle of the knife hanging Loosely from ita folds.

Then be carefully picked his way across the floor to the bath

100m and said, "It's opened

in a tired fint valce and the door.

Bond gave her a

smile and walked out again and shut the door of the bathrown behind him and wont about his business, doing everything with great deliberation.

He heaved the cat man into a sitting position, took off the tat nan's shart, and want to the porthole and tookotit Bereita, held It against the small hole over the heart of the shirt, and fired mother bullet through the hole.

TOW there Was

the

smudge round the hole to man in the B.O.A.C. plane trom

square with the empty look like suicide. He dressed tho corpse again in its shirt, wiped London.. "My blood group is " Had it been too long? He set was

his tooth and throw the rope ont letter-box emilo.

Bond's gun held the neutral his Beretta thoroughly, pressed the fingers of the dead man's space between the two called 'Windy' because he hates climbed out head foremost,

And then his face was level When he spoke his voice was right hand all over it, and final- ly atted, the gun into his hand wind the nich

Index finger on the thumb will catch him with

with the Tany"

alowly A.40.

dlafinetly. "Get down trigger.

After another pauso There was a moment's silence, and The red wart on the first joint

on your knees. Edge away from WINTER ADVISING OF YOUR holding back the hammer of the and then a ship. It was as koud that man. Keep your head down. middle of the room, he drugged

And PRESENCE

as a pistol shot and it jerked Get mo the middle of the worthy other many across the floor AND

CASES

gun over Tingaling Bell. ABOARD REQUESTING IN Tiffany saying, "They're screwy. Bond's body up and through the

REPLY The fat

"Get up and wall straight in to the porthole, end, sweating STRUCTIONS STOP

man's sucking his porthole; or if he had boon to the bathroom. Shut the door, with the effort, heaved him up ADDRESSED WINTER SIGNED thumb" And the two men in wrenched inwards by a rope, Get Into the bath and lie down into the porthole and pushed

him through, ABC ORDERS ELIMINATION the Smoking Room cashing in Even as he somehow dived Now she was, sala troen

the three-foot 'COMMA

bullets. And CASE

PRICE on the OF

death that had been cleanly through

she would not DOL- arranged.

what over- circle he was wondering The woman

ness what had to be done TWENTY THOUSAND

he would hit, and tuis left em LARS STOP.

board.

Wint and Kidd, The torpedoss from Detroit.

Bond sat for a mahent frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashod, unwanted into his mind that most sinister Ilmo in all poetry: "They reckon

The whole reel of jumbled plotures whirred through Bond's fil who mind in a flash of revolation and even while he was scanning them

prints

tor He wiped the porthole

and

paused again, getting The fat man hurled himself his breath and surveying the protected his head as his right on the floor, and his hand-flash- small stage, and then ho went

went to his 'gun... ·

leave me out. When me they he was opening his email attacho the porthole, arogged somer- target. The land at his chest up of Kidd shot by Wint, and

fly, I am the wings.

ed to his walsthand. In a ewirt over to the card table that stood, of motion the man on the bed with the litter of an unanished swing his legs addeways and game against the wall, and up- away from Band so that his body set it on the floor, so that the RASH on to a sultense under was now only a narrow head-on cards scattered on the carpot.

Surely the picture would stand caso end extracting the squat sault that took him half scross flickered up.

Wint's remorse and suicide Ster hidden pocket, the room, and he was on his "Thad." Bo Bornebody

the silencer from

gunfight over the Automatically, as he took the feet and backing, crouched Bow,

Bond's gun gave a single following Spangled Mob was on board naretta from among his shirts towards the portholes, and the mumed grunt. A blue keyholy cards.

entrellected Bond, and travelling with them. Who? at the back of a drawer, check- krnickles were white with tension opened just beneath the pedic of At all events, Where?

ed the magazino and screwed the on his gun hand and there was the white hair.

while loo round silencer into the mumle, he was a thin

lepting the odds and planning clenched lips his moves.

from

He

His hand snatched at the telo phone. "Miss Case plonso.” could hear the telephone beside hur bed click and then give its first ring. The second. The third. Just one moro. He crashed the

*

It would stand up until the police arrived at the dock, and by that ly he and Tiffany would be off the ship and away and they would be together forever.

Who pent for you?" mid the dat man. "You're not in the

ND the fat man's gun had A

only achieved the elovation of He was alling in brittioned Bond's knees, and, was poog As the walked slowly across |rooviver, "back on to: Its cradle POND shoved the bon into his shirt sleeves sidewegs-on to the fuklioly, botweet, Bond's bracect, the cabin, to the

on the floor of the man and ran out of hla room and UP of his two portholes wide open, Maasing-table, and the small legs at the while painted Inovi: met the blank eyes of. 250, body',

And the eyed whose blood group had been.F

Empty

waistband and wrenched one

bathroom, Bord

oyos glittered in the moist face, work behind him. the corridor to her cabin. Nothing

The bed un- He thrust his shoulders through In front of him, with bor, bocic

int

Drop it He upholstered #bool..." But her evening bag day on the at lount an inch to spare.

-down,!!! Two dimly I

She was naked except for gun fell to the carpet ehrpot, by the door, and its con Chee the portholts of A brief hem coloured pants and

"Get up="" tents were allered around it.

Falept in. The light burning, rolloved to find that there wai, to Bond, Tlitary Coss AA; There was a small noise as thoi syoke' to Him, and said: - !!Mister"

She had come in The man had directly below him. How far her iced were ripped between Was there a flask of roller in the big man's thighs. Her face, the surrendered eye? Boud, boon behind the door. Perhaps

back into h

with red marks across Its palas mayed teams as a stalking cat. a" cosh had father. And then Bond dropped.

Core the theots off tabin and

was turned towardle Bond. The fat man turnestalowly whatz

the whileshed man had. He stretched his hands above tais Dond stood in the middle, of would be

Freihin bod.The Flood Knot, TN Sontvlying kalanned or one of; kvedic, i mnogi · Börd. has not

the cabin and Ha mind was de He put all his wrength on the the bedr, New. W to on told him to do so. poldo What would they rope. Should hold As he tied combow) and Bis other hand, He stood facing Bond, and Bond, have doni Butora. Iwe kila une dod round the hoge of the wanday his halft, halfway up to quile

od her her would have quiparting porthole hp gammond is haar roetch the man irs Kiwi kiduele Chinedutime? att - Emericia falk down at his Máon, And va ber Yound out what the Only:13 minutes had been wasted file is orange),

Nothing is forever? Only death de poremanent,-Nothing is forbrands oxcept what you did to, me,

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