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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1956,

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Jamai

Canada,

THIS is the Gin

DON IDDON sums up his 43,000-mile 'Follow the Flag' four...

New York.

HIS is the summing-

up. Altogether

THE MANY

visited 17 countries,

called on the ve

Continents, and travelled

43,000 miles

on the "Fol-

low

the

Flag" round-

the

tour. It

world

1s

SPLENDOURED HONGKONG

the most rewarding ex- perience of my life, and my must important assignment. The British Empire and

ૐશ Commonwealth

not

shrinking or declining. It is

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residence

Into

think, also,

the

the

British of guiding Singapore's governi- Caribbean Federation will be mont.

Tho a Access.

West Indians

I hope

riola, against have been (governing themselves for a long time and know their Eatopeans, that so may white business,

people forecast to me, will not The highlights of the entire happen, hut I fear, they will.

Of all the places I passed tour, were Hongkong and Kenya.

through Calcutta and Bombay *Hongkong By tho many were the most depressing, "splendoured city. Its beauty in shall not forget the sign in hugs breathtaking and the British letters at the airport, at Calcutio: achievement there in housing "There To over two million 1,600,000 refugees from the Red blind in india," and the squalor terror in busily turing the and suffering would shock the wheels of trade while the Com- moel callous. munist gun menaces just a few miles away, is magnificent.

Incidentally, Hongkong asks, Why is the Duke of Edinburgh

not visiting us on his world-wide

Games?"

Most tense

the esteem

Take pride

the

Commonwealth tour after the THE most heartening impres- sion of the long journey was Queen minerals. There could be a good with their senseless policy Olymple

My most interesting experience that the British are held in high growing up, evolving and opinion, that the

In most in time, perhaps not during of apartheid. It is true that in

out- was going on patrol in

parts of South Africa non-whites a establish transforming itself into

free Canada for at least two our lives, when Canada will number whites by nearly five to Aberdare Forest, looking for world. Commonwealth nations over which the sun months of the year. Failing be the heart and head of ono, but the brutal poley of re- Mau Mau, in Kenya. We did not

the whip capture or shoot any, but my this, the least we can do is the British Commonwealth. pression sometimes never sets, and, in

to suggest-and the sugges The Australians will not is administered to purse-stealers least we tried,

-is creating bitternes trut opinion, never will set.

No Power in history has tion would be warmly wel- agree with me, because they could explode ultimately

Australia black rebellion, Bay over achieved anything r. comed by the

will be the

The whites themselves are motely approaching what Canadiana

leader, and they split, Approximately 60 percent Britain has done in the past few years.

could be right. are Afrikaaners, chiefly of Dutch and the remaining 40 The Austra descent,

percent are of British descent. lians, a shy and sensitive people despite their and gu±t a energy, cannot, and will not, tolerate pro.

the that Queen Mother

another member of Royal the Family become Governor- General of Canada,

Britain ha vr Voluntarily relinquished colonial control over Asian and African ter- ritories totalling nearly 3,000,000 square miles and having combined populations of nearly 600,000,000 people. But she has retained their Juyalty, at the leader.

200 " ill!'

The British, imbued with the spirit of a new age, have risen mightily to the occasion.

Our strength OUR great strength are the Domimons, particularly Canada and Australia,

You will perhaps remem- ber that this AZLA advocated during the Queen Mother's visit to Canada year last November.

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covered that visit, and the suggestion pleased most Canadians.

"The most

I

rewarding experience

of my life'

nouncements

from

I got the strong impression in Johannesburg that the Brilish there are too content to live well and do business.

Big and bold

London. If only they

would take active part in politics, and Many feel that perhaps take over the adininis

would be tradion, South Africa

Britain's econo- mie

policies happier.

have been un-

Our big and bold experiments fair to Aus-

are, of course, on the Gold Coast tralia, and that and in the West Indies. her loyalty and

I recorded the Gold Coast allegiance

march to independence within του often the Commonwealth the Brat taken for black Dominion in the evolving

Empire shining example. granted.

Bre

I have been spending the past few days In Canada, the most powerful and The role of Canada in the The Australian problem is the

Of course, Prime Minister Dr All the Nkrumah and his Cabinet will richest member of the Commonwealth is all-im. same as the Canadian.

make mistakes. Governor Sir Commonwealth, excepting portant. Wilson Broadbent, country coeds is people.

Arden Clarke, peristi," Charles Noble only Britain herself. Canada our Ottawa correspondent. Governor-General "Bill" Slimm who knows as much about Africa is now a major Power in told me: "This is the key thunders, and he is right,

as any while man, warned me about this. her own right, and 1 do not country." It is. think will be satisfied for Jong with mere visita by

"Populate or

The most tormented member tut the British Commonwealth

All that Canada needs in which visited is South Africa

South Africa on the conscience of the Western world.

the Queen and other mem- people. It has everything bers of the Royal Family. else-oil, uranium, It is essential, in my haustible supplies

inex-

The Afrikaner nationalists do of their country and themselves no

Incredible Cup Finals....

There is no suggestion of the Gold Coast wanting to get out of the British family of nations, and there is little Communist in- and Altration in this remote fascinating land.

the I think no

in Americans, apite of all the millions they have poured out so generously, will concede that British pres- ilgo is higher than their own. For gome unfortunate reason many coloured

peoples think INGAPORE WDS

aro the most Americans

trigger-happy, tense of the cities I visited. or up to devious economic deals. I have been accused of sensa-

ця Lot

tuke pride in Chief heritage. onalism by the Deputy

Here is an Empire Minister there, but it I was that embraces all five Continents, guilty of anything it was play, and all reven seas. ing down the Communist

I

menace.

Some

our

The flag flies over 40 Colonies, with 80,000,000 people, and

important Englishmen tight Independent nations with- in Singapore give the great port in the Empire of 878,000,000 only two years before it goes people. down the slippery slope into The British Empire and Com- monwealth provides one-third of the world's laude.

Communism.

then

Slippery slope is the phrase et

Il has given the world, in the Sir Alexander Granthom, Gov-1

words of the American magazine Nowawcek! no of Hongkong, not mine.

Such

enduring I found David Marshall, the

059014 06 Christian ethics the Chlef Minister of Singa English language and comenon charmning, talented, and law, and a sense of fair play." Dort, gallant. I belleve him gerraincly

Have pride in the Empire; it anti-Commmunist, but he is too is man's best hope on this earth. temperamental and explosive a

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By George Whiting | P

THE PASS THAT LEFT

ARSENAL STANDING

Centre-forward Jack Allen a who first left-foot specialist "made -lis- name with Shemed

Wednesday-scored it from

Inside-right by pass Richardzon, now

11

Jiminy

10

Trainer

Leyton Orient. Whether that pass should ever have been has become one of permi/ited

controversial questions thost that make €30 tho whole fascinating fabric of, Cup Final history. It is also one of those things you do not mention to

vigorous personal

Bristol

City

Finest football

tackle, Newcastle

and

that he

which they

Still arguing

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ROFESSOR Stevens has been flexed--they hear was not the usual "A click" or have "the_sen- sort of patient. sation of something giving way." Or else the whole He did not come into my thing happens after, say, an consulting room with his

attack of coughing. hand behind him,

grum-

bling, "It's me back,

doctor." Nor

even com-

"harleed," I said, "ens patient of mine felt this giving-way

over in bed,”

plaining of the occasional sensation after simply turning ache in his leg. Instead, he spouted Shakespeare:-

"Thou cold sciatica

"Well, I never had that feel- ing and I never heard a clleit," the professor said, "and it the

Three courses

But do problem was how to

It has long been known that there is a strong tendancy to I might spontaneous recovery. In the put before doctors solised the

relationship between slipped direa and sciatica - many caSCS had been treated sucocssfully

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with captain and right-back, Tam Cripple our senators, that wouble is due to one of these IN "pukka Cup Finals a

Lough! back

diacs in my spine why is it that their limbs may halt as it sciatica well as back- at Wembley, there That settled it, and James's role some of the finest football ever Parker.

Parker declared in the dress- geen at Wembley. Both teams,

lamely as their manners.”

acho?" have been accidental on Final day became that of a

ing-roum at half-time erts und

The two sciatic nerves,” frustrated fouchline spectator. In fact, offered their

Then he smiled ruefully explained,

spinal goals, sitting with him was 18-year crafts in the true spirit of the was certain the ball had bounced

"leave the goals, belligerent

over the line. heartache goals, and fluke old Pat Beasley, relegated by game.

But, scorning to

as he told me his story of cord to travel down the back of last-minute

centre protest on the field, he waved how he suffered from low cach leg. A alipped disc could goals-but never a goal that the

Davison, Newcastle's recovery of

their places and

protrude and cause pressure on Hulme--and now manager of half, started the movement that his men to aroused more terrace-talk Bu

to the hullabric goal when, quiddy made ready to resume backache and occasionally the move zoots on one side and jed and street-corner argument

the game. Not for nothing did pains in his legs which he the pain would then be felt from Arsenal without the genius of intercepting a clearance

we call him "Gentleman Tom."put down to sciatica. than'

which helped James were like a watch with- full-back that

Edello Hapgood, he

down one of the legs." and the sont its mainspring, Newcastle beat Arsenal 2-1

arch-like pass loping

Nevertheless, that goat consequent reshuffling reised no down his right fank.

I explained to the pro- stuffing out of in 1932.

knocked the having Arsenal, hopes in the hearts of Jimmy Richantson,

* forward-line fessor that sciatica is and Treat

Clif Bastin moved Highbury,

Igu

temporarily swapped places with

changes with polished David symptom-not a disease.... frem oulaldo to inside-left his outside-right, Boyd, careered Jack switched to the middle, and its connection with the (where he inter played for after the ball in a desperate failed to revive the machine-discs of the spine is now treat the professor. England) and surrendered the sort

retrieve it before it effort to wing chores to Welshman Bob reached the goaline, Arsend's cliency for

feared and so well established, had became so John, recruited from the half defenders, convincock that

the famous

Even their centre- ball had bounced over and out half back line.

"policeman," thuo tale "Do you mean of play, and that Richardson had Herby Roberts, dithered in ahave

a slipped disc?" he duly been thwarted, pulled up moet unaccustomed raumatr

asked, And awaited the normal goal- and it was from a mizidek by kick.

him that Newcastle set the "It's possible," I said. How were they to know thant goalson). on thele afternoon It la difficult to realise simply by rest.

More recently, because of the George Mate, of subsequent the fair-haired Newcastle for endeavoure

that "slipped disc," auch a

carly

following any football for on the Highbury full-back fame but then making ward was going to hook the bail

commonplace diagnosis to

of the maval

dise protrusions, his right 100%, circul!.

his first appearance in a "real" back with

day, was unrecognised 20 operations perhaps have been Arsenal, running second in the

! years ago-though sciatica advised too freely. But on the League that season, thould have

WILA known long before number of operative failures, in- been hot favourlies to slam lowly. Newcastle, but things Newcielle we rated 'as incon-

Centre-forward Aiken --li- | Shakespeare's time. went wrong for the Londoners, siderable though, we

allowed

cluded in the. Newcastle team in the teeth of considomble long before Cup Final day. The them just two glante in Jimmy

Alex

Tyneside opposition—enapped Jarries and hot-foot Veisca, their captain and right- 1010 Joe Hulme hack been so badly back and Sam WCAVET, I

up the bait and zig-zagged Parker, Roberta knocked about in carlier games half-back artist known best for Film records of the incident away with

can be done?" ̧· "Well I don't care what

There are three methode of that they were not even includ his prodigiously long throw-ins seemed to show without question and Hepgood in urgent purtult,

from touch,

that the ball had been over the Reaching the penally, you call it," the professor approach," I told him. "First,

Allen Could a "rmokled” Arsenal goalline

RichardsonI

a low, fet fly with maintain the businesslike craft hooked it back the line being curling, left-footed cross-drive said. "A rose would smell as manipulation of the spine pre

But if my back-coded by hoat and masengoto that offered goalkeeper Moss sweet... that had made them the talk of plainly seen inalte,

ache and my leg acho is due mobilisation of the spine by flove muscle spasm. Second, the football world? After 11 Whatever the exact where not the shoot of a chance

That shot won the Cup, and to a slipped disc-well, how means of a plaster cock minules li seemed that they

abouts of the ball, this dronic - us the best of all possible packed incident stands out in any nobody argued. But they are did I slip it, that's what I "Not in this weather? Pro-

Baslin split. Tyneside memory

noteworthy still arguing, about Jack Alim's

fessor Stevens interrumpled. ps4s from would like to know ? em first geat such the Two days before the Final, arunder with a long, pam to delights..

the howover, manager Herbert Hulme, who swung the ball into hesitating, decision of referee Jimmy Richardag

charder that pro- About 70 percent of all And third, bed. I continued. We'll try that for three Chapman hooices Hume out of the middle for Johri to bang it Willis Harper of Stourbridge to vided it

patients with low disc con works I id, "and thon, r over the loo?, elnems, spent houre looking part Newcastle' goalkeeper, albow gonderWhatever the

amount of pain film showed will dot converge Thank goodness we do not pay ditions give a history of only of trivial for James, and packed the pair of tiem off, for death-or-glory

woll-drilled me that it made a mistake. The our Cup Fiona law the lain some kind of injury before remains, we'll try, pastaje, some forl by th

pergota dair all wow mill in plays wizora It Amemben. Otherwise the onset of symptoms, monipralalion. action comary lack of slow-spitle was put across, he said at 1913, without bloodshed dramatic They tell the thought he was investe Friday,

100 should never have golipart Sometimes the story lo quite amo processor did not like the tour in betptog Ruime came

came through. Wen emsion of the coring of soul wnedavna James tried to kid everybody, They kiswon' Bob'

Every more appealing to the Before half-time including himself, that he, too,

veroyan was the bimirably diez George Whiting continues doctor how, during womDO, Lin me me, but he was only, short

his serian, !"The Incredible violent muscular – effort. log Bakaposcs, they were well, on the way to clplined, reaction of the Arsenal

especially that of . £HA Cup Finals?” "next Saturday: espécially, when "the", spine.

ed in the party sent to Brighton

for the customary last-week preparation and pep-telke.

James fails test

Cup-lie (in the Final, of all middle it for an unmarked Jack occasions), took over the job of Allon to head it past goalkeeper left-half.

Moss?

Melnray

lho, Arsenal zimen

wa disuruh trainer Tom. While takW. ADONIER Uhy pandialne” “ut

For not, the

kissing the Cup -sDS

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for

when

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On the linbar over

A click

creased doctors are now bo coming more wary of advising patients to undergo surgery.

TP operate or not to operate," said the professore what else

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you don't decide to operate,

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