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THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1956.

A MEAN AND SHABBY BOOK ABOUT A GREAT MAN OF EMPIRE

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By JOHN REDFERN, AN EXPERT ON AFRICA

A mean

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strewn ground to report that in 25 years Rhodes never came ncar to understanding the Natives.

HERE appears

this from himself and the women. Rhodes was called. He lifts up week

and Olive Schreiner

them, his head from the document- shabby book about who fell for him, Cecil Rhodes, the English. BUT he was a patriot man whom Mark Twain called the most imposing figure in the British Em- pire.

"When he stands on the Cape his shadow falls the Zambesi,” he said.

on

For Henry Ford. History was Bunk. For Felix Gross, Soutir African writer

this works in

clude "Hitler's Glets, Cluns, und Gangsters") Biography is bunk.

Grum laboured 15 years produce today's bulunis

nilack

on the vicar's son who mude

He

1212X1. the book maintaim, no one really trusted --although the nilection he drew from men survived the Jameson Raid and other calamities.

Ye Rhodes gave the vo.c to literate, wage-earning Africans. He gave thein Π measure of kend #overnment. They do not

He was a man "whom the fare well in the South Africa

of today.

whole world considered justly

This is biography on the to have been the curse of South Cross A the Grand Scale. Africa" although Lard De Villiers, Chief Justice of South

FOOTNOTE: The raid, led by Jameson. in whose IT Africa, summed up. "He was a br patriotle Engglashirmos, Et friend Rhodes died seven years later, it, the Dutch, and the forenumer was made in 1895 by 000 men vho entered the Boer republie of the Union of South Africa,'

from

Mr Ghost drills into line every of the Transvaal

They were to fact it can denigrate Rhodes. Hechumaland.

Johannes- 15 he say mee that Rhodes bad support a reing in

Puri su siturill

squeaky voler, he kayu lang against President the Rhodesias, blocked German ir 50 t

Kruger, who had refused the ponotrat kon of Afries, pushed

Even when he allows n pont vote to the British. Rhodes knew call about the aid, which falled R Amer the forced : getlen as Prime

the of the Jameson Mansier of

Cape Parila-

out the railways, and at 36 won to Rhodia, the sneer the ruler of the greatest tration Fund The

in the world the giant selback South Africa Company Raid, Thodes, a exiliar who ment, and bought Jameson This company

had if private deliked professional soldier, od gol sentence in England. my and Royal Charter that enabled it enit on the Royal A Matabele

BUT he had vision

detachment autoitu.k

in

E

* Whadder og prava, by Felpe Grund

Navy and the Anny time of In white trousers and Norfolk realselt, Zo trotdale.

Jecket, he carried only a h- ak a he moved ealmly under fire of the Malubrie clust stum all.. thes Hably. Ch buds at be was trying to and

butter Ja

mel dramate exit

Perhaps Rhodes WAN i

dicated screwball.

Wan +bra

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Imperialist, und a KÓW D that,

but melaka, Me made and how! Tremendously tel. he thought most people cadd bes Axod. "Can't we suure The Popa?" se nakl to Parnell, Irish leader. who attack from the priests

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ww unde

Rhodes- was a pusodal man, propelled himself by a vision of the Brith "The first are 11 the world" sprend thenight

Africa.

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BUT he was honest

In 1898 Ceel Ripende fold Leopold The Underrel, King of the Helginns, where he got off. He closed

with Kasper Bill y pulling out in

watch and saying "hot to g

Majesty Some people

coming less

Tepresent

Qaven Victor, nobody's tool, He had small convener when confided in hen diary after their there was need of quick results.

Ineeling A very temarkably, The handling by Rheden, or his honest, boyal man employees, a Tobengali, King Grupes fres of Matabele, makes painful theses

the rending, and Jam the last to

You can complain

4K!

01300 the stones

Princess South

Catherine Radziwill, a passion- ate Pe, when chasesi the celi-

esplectally

African -is c.tical

while

14N ( plow miste ngure. chuckling

But this book u mein becausas bate Rhodes and, by a faint for

It is

is hypocritical Felix Chus, Rot?) dropped her 2001. rolling

of

his eyes heavenwards, arish crate fi arto 1..a reluctant prolens his concern with

unbiased biography. "The read-

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When Rhodes burned

must form his own judgment

er mu

To help him. Grsen, maxing womanh

Was

dying--

est at 49 this fuluous

outside prowl.x!

For 15 years

has

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polson with his paints, gives the sample etage in Pulse Bay

hysterical picture of a rupting,

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by René MacColl

Law and order prevail,

TWO TYPES OF. JOKES IN RUSSIA:

OFFICIAL AND FUNNY

By

A

JOHN COLLINS

RECENT innovation

of the Soviet humorous paper Krokodil Was the printing of some jokes from two British nowb papers. The jokes were not particularly funny, but this WALA the first time that Krokodil had printed some- thing from 凸 Communist paper.

non-

Krokodil is not a funny paper in the sense we know the term. It is not like Punch for instance. Ita primary purpose is political. It educates with the pin- pricks and barbs of satire and is unmerciful in Its treatment of

those at- tacked.

After all, it has the full force

of the Communist Party machine behind it, and there is no danger of libel actions from offended parties. There hava been protests, but these have always come in diplomatic notes from foreign governamente ab- tacked in more iban usually scurrilous terma.

PUNGENT

Kroito is certainly pungent, and its cartoonists have a stylė all of their own-a style which copied in other Communisti papers and is not found in any ita other type of paper. But stings are only delivered on Party Instructions and it is care ful never to attack current policy and never to my rude things about any of the "Men of the Moment" in the party niorarchy.

What goes for Krokodil goes for the other "funnies" in the Communist countries, Uka Szpilki in Poland and Dikobraz In Czechoslovakia, So for # hearly laugh people turn to the "underground joke, the humour word ad that circulates by mouth after he had made his

Just

famous attack

onel

on Stalin.

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story goes, Krushchov

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Washington the advertisers. Back again the State laws of Kentucky took as much dislike as the bayonet- But one thing i was sure of-

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In the Soviet which the Supreme Court cared is almost always treated with Union. people

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For the atmosphere of those Kentucky hamlets where

I 11CS the Bigotry,

was covering the other day jy not good. ignoraken, and prejudice have a field day down there.

"Love thy neighbour" com. mands a huge nolice in front of one of the churches in Кеп- tucky. But Just around the coner a cursing mob was doing anything but that.

That in this age of fast cara Ind airplanes, of almost zimultaneous trunk telephone calls, radio and TV in the majority of American homes--

encounter you can still

Suca Chatred and such failure to move with the times makes you think.

Changed

ready to talk to him. On all parts. A reporter meant publi-

hands ho meets Kindness, generosity, and a great willing- ness to discuss matters.

more

wene

I suppose that the people of Clay

merely asserting their rights to get in a dzyno

and could tell them

that nobody Not in Sturgis. Not in Clay, publicity-and perhaps irrefut- cratic way or something

of some act of what to do.

Not In Clinton, Tennessee,

STURGIS

CLAY

THE SOUTH

of the

I dropped into ono Sturgis drugstores, perched

do

on

boys.

So smash the cameras,

the photographers and tell those "pencil writin'

rough ug

reporters to "get goin'."

But somebody did tell them— and with a maximum display of force. "Send for 30-ion tanks. There's a nigger child going to school."

What absolutely heaven-sent propaganda for the Communists

Ignored

THE

that Clay, with all its vided out of bigotry, hatred. and backward- Kentucky!

THE Irony of the situation was these last two weeks have pro-

Tennessee

and

ness. lies only about 180 miles In Russia, where the Negro away from the famous town of delegations from the Sudan, Louisville, which is served by the Gold Coast, and Nigeria are Arat-class newspapers.

constantly trooping across

But those papers cut no ice lobbies of Moscow's hotels. in Clay or Sturgis.

In Moo's China. where

I

ward

the

and

the thinking as [ slood "minority groups" are

made watching angry crowds tossing much of, and the "uncommitted

Indonesia empty beercans at passing cars, visitors" from shaking fists and shouting un- Burma are fawned on, printable epithets of Negroes (whom they invariably termed "Niggers") that during all

my

and Red China I had DeVer

Gleeful

Red's the travels inside the Soviet Union YES. everywhere

must be rubbing their handa been molested by a mob on a ont crying: "See, What did I

tell you?"

Petropavlovsk is 3

town

don't know,"

come

COOL

the hesliant reply.

"Don't know, why not?" asked Krushchev,

"Well, until yesterday it was called the Joseph Stalin Coller. tive Farm," explained the old pensant.

A LOAN

Another farming story--tê- miniscent of one heard is this and other countries in different forms cornes from Poland. where the pensants still stick faithfully to their religious con→ · victions.

An old peasant, tired of his poverty despite the high-Blown promises of the regime, decided to write to God for a loan of 500 złotics. Ho Inboriously penned a letter and dropped 10 in

the post-box.

In Warsaw the postal officials decided that such an address

could only mean the Kremlin and so sent It to Moscow,

In Moscow the post offico de cided that it could only

ly be meant

Wes

makes me think that if Sturgis and Clay can be the way they are now, then what in a stool and ordered a chocolate the world can they have been milk shake. At first the pretty like say 30 or 40 years back? girl behind the bar Was

The people in the two places smiles.

for Krushchev and so it --which are by no means un- But when she heard me speak street,

sent to him. Krushchev, tickled typical of that region of cool- she asked: “Are you the English

It would not surprise me if

to death at the thought, decided mines and corn farmers over correspondent who's come all which often springs to mind the newsreels out of Clay and

to grant the peasant's wish. Not in West Kentucky

to the way from London?" "Right." when I think of the

Soviet Sturgis get shown in Petropavwanting to spoll him, however, imagine that in the year 1850 I said. "Well,

what

you Union. It is a railway town in lovac any day now.

Krushchev only sent the they can go on living in a little think of all this?"

Northern Kazakhstan, standing Well, in nearly 30 years vacuum of their own,

The old man was overjoyed States I have had this brand:

and sat down to write a loiter now experience here. The ex- of thanks. perience of being stopped on an орсть street in broad daylight by a hard-eyed armed mob of civilians and told snarlingly: "Get going."

this.

of

"I have nothing to say about on the Tros-Siberian, and it is knowing and liking the Unket peasant 250 zloties.

sho

They kept repeating: This is it-nothing at all,"

sald, su dreary you could sercarn. our problem. We will handle her eyes uneasily probing for Its amenities and saltation this our way. Keep out of our possible cavesdroppers.

facilities are just about nil, and town. What you meddlin' for? "You merun

you

have no it smells, Most of the people in that views?"`1

asked. "I may have

The

people look very depress- part of Kentucky agreed warmly got my views, but I'm not say- od. The pavemats india

tinguishable from the road, and with the diamond-toting mayor ing anything," she said. of Clay, Herman Z. Clark, that Again, it was abnormal to find the dend dog or cat lies where Petropavlovsk was never co

the object of almost it falls.

so Im as they were concerned newsmen

aro

WHEN YOUR UNCLE

GREAT CECIL

London.

By JOHN BARBER

It is about the most strenuous batlet over.

the floor as it thrown on her part. As they

B. DE

"But my dances are cut to ribbons," she said.

She thanks Endand for her BUCCLES.

For six years, before the

wer, Agnes do Millo trained in London. Her father, o hit playwright, did not want her to dance.

a

IS THE

MILLE

"Dear God," he wrote, "I amri ever so grateful for your loan. Next time, though, don't scrut anything through Moscow. Those coundrels look half the money,"

Election time is coming round again In Ituasia, and they are now talking of allowing mond

candidata

་

ono

for

| than

Vacancy. In Rumania, there is an election story about a factory. worker who went to the polls and wha; handed a

sealed envelops to be placed by him in the ballot box. He opened: the

Success came when "Rodeo" envelope and examined, the ballot slip. When the polling was seen by Richard Rodgers station supervisor objected, ho and Oscar Hammerstein II on explained, "I to know

is fist night in New York in 1943.

They naked her at once to create dances for "Oklahoma!"

Now, for the first time since the became famous, Agnes de Mülle is here to stags her work as she wishes it, to be sOETI."

:

I

who

Are you out of your mind,” shouted the supervisor. "Don't you know the People's Socialist Law? This ballot is secret."

VARIATIONS

HE shapely woman with The wild Titian hair kicked and bucked like a mustang. "If you were riding a wild horse, and you were thrown, it would look

"This is the last time I'll ever So cho quit their grond home "like this," she gasped.

dance it,” mys 47-year-olt Miss on Hollywood Houlevard to live And she fell sprawling across de Mille. "It's a young girls in Globe Place, Chelsea, in

It's not seemly, at my ago, shilling-in-the-meter attic. head,

Invited me to She practised like a fiend-... That was in Sadler's Weils re- Covent Garden! I'm too vain to but without success.

She is dancing m another of hearsal room, Lendon.

that

"But before I left Lendca," her own ballets, "Three Virgins mes Donat Mille, niece of sheet and loan cea and a Devil," which makes the

Agnes de Hollywood's film-maker Cech B. friend's empty house in Notting naughtiest fun of three girls who clean than dirty money?"

are tempted on their way

"I don't care," said the driver. paid chercographer, best known every day, and for three hours

listiessly "It's Do concerns of Company (American for

jor wearing buffet into the centre. I worked out my idea for a now Now sho la here, the poor little' mino :: how you : makage your Ballet Theatre) opened at of the plots of musical comedies

kinet of

of dancing.

rich girl who made good, to money Covent Garden. Bhe danced like "Brigadoon”: “Carousel, "A\"Wa

had no plano, to we demonstrato in person how she * Jokon | múch ́as those arti Format/in "Rodeo," as the rip- end "Paint Your Wagon, enzy slaved away is alience, omong did H: not by looks, not by in the telling, not for the reading. roaring cow-girl, who disgulson - She has just finished a nine-, the dust stiooted, furniture. That fuchon, bik by her perulatent | But even underground folent m herself on a, bronco-btarter (no na month stick on the film version, was how, and that, was where, bediet in her suce talent for the, sometimes to be near the man she loves.

Rodeo wa born."!

dance.

the great choreographer Agnes de Mille, here fran New York

Sicing her famous ballet Do Milio la the world's fighest Hill. Twelve girt dancers came church.

to

Of course, there are variations of old and tried jokes. Paying off his taxi driver, an important Communist official saki, “I sup- pose you would rather have