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1056

"Don't you see, dear, if you turned and

faced your responsibilities more often your back wouldn't be so

inviting.

PROVOCATION

U.N

World Coppright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Will The Suez Crisis

Lead To The Collapse

Of The Commonwealth?

T

ተቀ London

HE Sucz crisis will lend to the break-up of the Common-

By HAROLD JAMES

belief in

non- Mr

州

who

You've heard a lot lately about.

Paratroops

how they train?

This article

takes you to an airport where

THEY JUMP FOR JOY-AND JOY AND SOME EXTRA CASH

"AL

By DAVID MARSH

a

LL right? Go" A if they happen to have been on smart tap on the the spree," he added with

twinkle in his oye. back, and the young man vanishes,

Most of the men having ar- jumping into space through a small in the side of a balloon suspended 800 feet up.

He wasn't alone in the balloon car. There is the "dispatcher," and one more man waiting to jump-and training,

me.

door rived, parachutes were drown and I found myself one of a car party which included the batta

also a regular lion adjutant soldier, I asked him if I would be allowed to jump, (should I wish to).

without "Nobody can jump

ho he told me, but permitted me to go up in tha

Reserve Chutes

а

18

Below us the world swings balloon car and watch the ex- crarily. The most Important peris "perform." thing in my life at this moment above seems to be the balloon the car in which I am standing. For it is the only thing which and prevents the dispatcher the man walking to jump, and myself, from phanging 800 feet to the airport below.

Why om I up here? I have come to see how the men of rather special branch of Britain's [Territorial Army spend their Saturday afternoons and even Ing-the Paratroops.

arrived at the airport well before the jumphry was due to begin, because I wanted to get a few facts and figures.

I

£1 Per Jump

CIOMEBODY helped mo on with my parachutes 45-pounder on my back and a reserve chuto weighing pounds on my cheat. This was a mere precautionary measure in my case, of course.

The reserve chules were doing used for the first time by this battalion to bring it into line with NATO forces.

As I lined up to have my mRES of strope, buckles and release gear inspected, I noticed that the balloon was going up.

મ

"The chief parachute jumping Instructor is going to make test descent to see everything is all right," the adjutant inform- od me.

Later,

n I watched the door something of the balloon car. suddenly dropped trom It, dark against the sky. There wide streak of white behind it, and after realised I was the Instructor with an open parachute above him, drifting towards the earth at 17 feet per second.

to SPOKE

a reglmentat sergeant-major, one of the fow regular army soldiers serv-

Territorini bat Ing with he talon which I was visiting.

"We are expecting anything up to a hundred men this noon," he said.

a

my

I signed an indemnity form, men saying that in the event of my

neither first death or injury.

relatives nor myself would hold next the Army or Air Councils

their employees.

responsible. Then we were off.

or

#mething to India as a country. It means something, too, to Mr Nehru, whose modest exterior conccala an immoderate streak of vanity.

I asked him whether para- And what goes for India goes

bonus wealth, say Sir An-

They will for Pakistan, and even more for troops are really paid thony Eden's political Historically, this goes back to their resignation,

Ceylon, for jumping. in, not out of love or Mr Bandaranaike and

"The Territorial Army the times of the Emperor Asoka stay opponents and not a few of

who, having expanded his loyalty to Britsin, but for the If these countries are concerned his supporters. They point dominions in a series of bloody good, reason that it does not to justify thele action to critics get £1 a jump for their

the three Jumpa in a year, and ten would like to leave

for their suit them to get out.

say ahillings cach to Canada as having been campaigns, was smitten by con

Commonwealth, they will Bay no more than neutral. The since and enounced war for

He also told me that para- that Sir Anthony Eden has not four jumps," he explained. Union the Buddhist Government of the

acted or spoken--for Britain ns

chutes won't open.

"And if they are frightened, had already dropped when Conservative half.

fear we are now likely that

been arrived at the balloon winch In short,

has usually

cir- lorry. But the wind became too to see Commonwealth relations brought on by some such

Army troops become more and more a matter cumstance as a hangover from Busty-Territorial

too much beer the night before cannot jump in a wind stronger than 18 miles per hour-and of party politics in Britain

we had to walt,

I was told storica of men who have "jibbed" (refused to jump), and another about a man whore around chute became wrapped thre balloon cable. He lived, however,

non-committal and, if any-

Only Aus thing, critical. tralia and New Zealand are in agreement with British policy, India, Pakistan and

Reething Ceylon are indignation.

Nchru knowa full

well the value of the Commonwealth He realises that he carries much more weight in the counsels of the world when he speaks as a Primo Minister in the Commonwealth than he would otherwise do. This means

violence. It Ls, then, this of South Africa has been influence of Buddhism. connection.

up to date by the Gandhi. pacifism of Mahatma that is the strongest factor in

policy, Indian external

To the Indian people, the only divised thing to do is to live. with with those

with whom they in disagree

spirit of peaceful

Co-existence co-existence.

ol the principles In- one corporated in their belief. others arc respect for territorial and Integral sover- eighty of others; non-aggression; non-interference in the internal of others; and the of the equality of

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believed that the antoyance felt in the non-Asian

aoirs dominions was aggravated by

Iccognition Britain's failure to consult them beforehand.

the But

British others, Government claims that events moved so quickly that consulto- Swift tion was not possible, vetion was necessary to save the Canul.

A Thorn

Ly

The the

TT

13 these

the application to principles

that policy

cx - India's feeling to- the con-

of

her

I was gokig up with the sixth

whole, but only for the chutists rarely fear their para stick, or party, and four 'sticks'

'ATTRACTIVE GIRLS NEED NOT BE DUMB'

Miss

B. Catches

Up On Talk

400 Years Of Male

By

LISA

MOYNIHAN

we

The men jump from the sheer joy of it, I am told, and only very few for the bonus money.

Into Space

FINALLY we were

to

allowed A lost 10.

inspec- tion, then "left turn and me," and we were COUPLE of under- to compete with them. But we of that other and more public- follow

ised union, I found him, all 21 in

cor. the balloon

It has a quick admire their poise." graduates did a

overflowing on wooden floor, canvas sides, and Union has stone of him, The Women's "double-take as a slim, already grown from a member- armchair in his venerable head-a couple of rails to hang on to. "Two men jumping, 800 feet," in brown-haired girl in a tight ship of 125 to an estimated 350 quare grant you one thing." he calls the dematcher to the winch "Miss Bur-operator. He repeats the order,

foreign feelings of those plains The rumed dominions will be smoothed in wards "colonialism,' time, especially as the reasons slant harping on which has for for Britain's action become come clearer. But, in the context of Anglo-Indian relations.

remonstrances Private relations, what Commonwealth

time been

a thom

with

whi

wide of the

the girls,

The

skirt and high-heeled shoes -half the women undergradu-

ates. And Dinah, who helped to opened cautiously, the crisis has done is to bring Mr Nehru at the highest levej slid gracefully from her gain her poise from the actress ford is the most feminine presi-and, our static lines booked up

bicycle in Falcon Yard,

ground dropi rapidly Aring anti-colonial broadsides. Cambridge. I had arranged ing, Mim Hilda Bayley, is have to date. But the atmosphere we are t

often fali which

mande something which 15 away and my ears sing. Every- foreign to the female.

thing coins Very insecure, and mark. They are often directed to meet the new president ing her down this term to coach and spirit of debating here do

NOT UNFEMININE

"Ot ocurre, we would it any the floor slopes steeply towards at South Africa, whose relations of the one-and-a-half-year- tn- old become

University Women's

"We're trying to get the idea time be glad to co-operate with the exit door.

that with India have

there's nothing their organisation on the social creasingly bitter. But they just Union outside their pre- around

about standing up side." as often hit at Britain's colonial mises, next door to a fish unteminine policies,

to talk. With 10 men to every woman undergraduate an There have been pinpricks, shop.

ing differences between Britain and the new dominions, India, Pakistan and Ceylon. The rifi caused by recent events deep: bu: It was not started by the Suez offair.

he

India's Policies

tco.

ONLY TWO:

sosho said, as she led the way up moformal debates in which garded as worth listening to,"

men can

most

floor.

In

on

a

The first man to jump is in position. He shuts his eyes and clenches,blasts,

"All right? Go!"

A

at-

He eased his more-than-John-

The dispatcher tops him I had expected, perhaps, not a tractive girl could spend every In the early stages of the ▶ELATIONS With India have Mau Mau campaign. certain blue stocking, but certainly not sight of the week at parties, RE

cat 49 debates in 18 of the United space. been deteriorating for some Indian quarters encouraged the unyone as attractively nylon- We're aiming to attract the lesson bulk. "Last year I spoke the back and the man steps into

studious type through our social

Cal States of America.

There clad as Dinah Burford,

were

Phut His druto epens 140 time. On Mr Nehru's part terrorists,

"Sorry about the fish emells," activities fortnightly dances, only two females whom I re-feet below us. "In about forty for Mr Nehru and Indio are

What ha3 riled British

coffee, light lunches,

seconds," the dispatcher Inforing synens neus when it comes to

I asked him if there was any me, "he will be on the grourick,” foreign relatiore-Betain erred opinion, however, brot

woman he admired as a public And from what I have seen, in gelling drawn into SEATO much the Indian obsession with dark staircase to the second and

One of

popular speaker. He paused for just a he will soon be waiting, im "Actually, 's been useful in and in engineering the Baghdad colonialism-which is recognis est 19 be geure, if misguided

the moment. And replied, ponder palier ly for his next turn to go Past, Nehru, the pacifist, reas but the fact that Mr Nehru a way. We got £200 a year debates to date was

up-and to come down again." In both these entanglemente, as lectures Britain in public like a knocked off the rent because of motion "That the female of the ously: "Bessie Braddock."

species is more deadly than the would call them,

to menace

То the it."

male." "It was a lttle unfair prace. He feels that they bring naughty schoolboy.

VERY LITTLE copic,

this seems an increase of warlike tension British

cald Dinah, with a reminiscent extreme the

100-foot-long hall, uile, that two of the deadliest tho hypocritical in en India's doorstep,

they ponder when

India's acquired early this year,

two smile,

of Cambridge Another

is that grievances

Britain has Kashmir-the more

zo when the cigaretle butts and debris

Unlike most female debaters let him down over Goa, Since

recall they

how oflen

Up Dance Coming Mr of the France was content to fade out the

flouted the United Brown paper covered one of the who take opposite sides of the

mullioned

House of Commons, Dinah bo of the Indian picture ho had Nehru has

windows.

Leves that how you my it can hoped that Portugal would Nations on this issue.

"Rugger types" said Dial, be more important than what

* flash of her

grey-green follow sult; and when Portugal thought otherwise, India

es. "But they won't own up." you say. At the inaugural debate st which a malo disappointed that

Britain did ALL these things, then, have

We sat near a notice board the one not put pressure on her oldest A created a wide area of dis- ally to reconsider.

agreement between Britain and announcing the first of the three spooker id nilio stockings On the other hand, Britain India Between Belials and big debates of the term (Mrs will be laddering with excite Gernil Legge for the motion ment throughout Europeshe has found much to criticise in Pakistan, there are not the rat this fouse prefers cellut That woman's place is in the eloquently opposed the motion India's external policies. To same divergencies of view. lold to the footlight House

∙And many perhaps most people in nelations have been warmer got down to time, bidest of Brimiti, India's foreign polley

Mr Nehru'shaviour towards Pakistan over Girton girls were sweeping up norting the mothey were sup

WAB

with Party Politics

eyes.

greator, although have been dis debaling points, men v women, IT'S UP TO THEM

sympathy Is faced appointed that Bellish

Just

does not make sense. The world, as they ser

with

One Communiem.

TORMS

TAS 21-year-old historian from Bo successfully has shar gone

two

and support over Kashmir havo New Hallwho speaks three counter to her own arguments -Communism. not

been more apparent vacations stop in that she has recently been asked car and for tips on running a union, by either for or against

hore is no half- religiochia be taken into glass came to the

On the Suez crisis however, rather Incongruously collects cut the women of Oxfords of

of neutrality of

which

to MADY

account, and Faballe

Creare im Alttse, doubt that

at sowered a page and a half of stant detailed questions, sala Dinah,

har de verni

tha doadly male that

ly attractive girl need not be

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