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The Socialists' Let-'em-eat-cake Word That Is Spreading..
By DEREK MARKS
London. International Non - Lumpen,
and Nehru. Among the Toric they prefer, above all others, Mr Richord Austen Butler.
001) morning, fellow
Lumpen!
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1956.
In the meantime, the man in Whitehall will know best. We are there to be led, docketed, tumed into family units requir Does this greet-
ing heating units, feeding units, What other, common factor housing units, and the whole ing inclutte
you have the Non-Lumpen? By nbrucadabra of the Non- Lumpen is the latest word another chance, wher the Lumpen.
Lampre went ot lu from Westrulaster.
millions to put on battle dryer, If the men in Whitehall make the Non-Lumpen werny called a craty mess of things then on by whom heaven alque we Launpen wll accept krnews-to work at a high level consequenets meekly.
various Ministries of
The word the Socialist intellectuals are using to describe the brand masuf the people.
AL The mored! LESS! portfeularly 16
who U14 The anybody Government's policy in Fay Pl Anybody, regardless of cling or social position, who believes, that when British troops are going info action hittehans hundel keep their mouths shut,
A
OAFS
the
Whitehall
their
For Whitehall is the trar, cremtor kalale horm of the Non- Lumpen
the
And if the worst comes, then The Trampets can be sounded and the good oki Lumpa will Trudge off once again to the wars, and leave the Intellectuais situng in the Ministrit work-
plans for
There they spend
At t argotsing years working out what - salvation.
me should be paid to the
new
pui
When that happens, ut wamiled and widowed Lumpen ecurse, a vintage type has to be
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LUMPEN: PLURAL OF THE GERMAN WORD I LUMP, MEANING: RAGGED FELLOW, RAGA. MUFFIN: CAMP. SCOUNDREL: LOW FELLOW: & SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS OF CONTEMPT. 1
working out sireeliver plucked from the Lumpen to ste at to how the pittances should is through. A man who talks
CCORDING fre
the and the Social lampen ayes the primary kent folk of this countie the pende who meekly Jaty thru LIN who fight the war, wolne shfl vare about patradisi
The whole "tarp
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Whitehall knows beol
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They prepattend plans for the Live Rew world in which the Lumpen we v to be nedervil ke Eve hd work
the language you can understatel, who does not give ag ur dy blown theories of Oxford economists. Then they turn to a Churchill.
Here we are this horning, and And then the Non-Jaimpen set the clever boys at Westminster to work to denigrate everything
sneering -"Only the Lum- when Britain has ever
pen are supporting the Gover- storl To theta every country inent." Maybe
they are the self-samme Lumipen who ort save their own in tight.
A brown mate always letter formed the Eighth Army and at
-What Mr how 14 wehiztad Inteller-
something about Ther Netru HY ។ F Mich h l¥* ፒ
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Fart A general to the thum what Egyptians in particular. Mr Menzies says in Australia.
So now we have two notes The Lampen und The Not- Lumpet the The vid
use the high-minde i tunis.
From the Sociol: t Lathes Importent
The claszt.)
1 11% pfuck examples of the Non-Liungere - Mr
Callsken Bust
Mr ichard Douglas
M Jay. Crosstaan.
BY
BUDDIES
an odd chance all three are products of Whichester and New College, Oxford. So the Non-Lautaper bris certainly clever fellows,
They find they have much in Cominon with that other great
Me Menzies is white, And what obe are they sav-
Only that and voy, very much sae of the Lampe
2
Who are the other Loraper" Well, we are all by ate this use. We are the people with votes, The cow-Hunking Lack mules who can be pansundid to
Jade
any definee by the latten ebe is of judition promises dangle i before us.
We have certain basic de- intends that have to be met. but after that, what we think or feel dong to mutter unut the next election draws near.
"
it will L
all night by the time the General
Fiew
SUC
THES
"Who's been playing blocking canals and sinking ships in my bath?"
CYPRUS
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TURNS ITS
BACK ON DEATH
Nicosia
Under a blanket in a street in Nicosia,
two bodies are lying. One is dead, the other so badly injured he does not stir. Both British.
are
El mes 4ound.
A
batch of promises, Lone Carrois in the sky for
All around the silent will all ariel everybody,
round merrily Carry hudge
once hxlies are the panic sounds behest of those of metal shutters being again the who know so much better than
last-minute we do how our lives should be slammed. and
shopping as those who live ilved,
outside the old city lev from the inevitable curfew that follows the shooting of a Briton. Those who live inside the city prepare for the siege.
I, for one, have had enough of these arrugatti fellows.
Have you.
fellow Lampen? Good morning.
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Rense
There had been no horror, of catastrophe about the scene - just a fire-brigade routine s
made people
provisions against an impending incon- venience to which they were by now thoroughly accus- tomed.
THAT WORD ENOSIS
But no curfew came.
ANNE- SHARPLEY
cables from Nicosia
GREEK, BRITON AND TURK WHO LIVE ON
THIS LOVELY ISLAND FIND IT ALL A
any more.
FIRE-BRIGADE ROUTINE
It is just some- consent thing that happens; even constitution." the local English newspaper
ithelf with contents
the
ALL-
to
any
new
get the best jobs," said a Greek lawyer.
Greek ambition to restore the glories of her Byzantine Empiro I now discussed with the de- fachment of a football team try-
Ing to reach Wembley-quite impossible in the emotion- blinded argumcels of only months ago.
Six
A Greek Cpyriot businessIENIA told me:
The relentless foreing on by Greece of a campaign that has Д meant so much distress to
WOB formerly community that
10 not only happy but seemed trave found the key of how old enemies, Greek and Turk, could has made many live together, Cypriots think twice about the and maternal motives of Molher
And the haggling begins again. Although murder seems to be EOKA's only method of attack at the moment, there is some hope to be gained from this 84 brutal concentration on what is Britons and 11 Turks have the most easily organised
description, "Another
dacious attack."
Yet 108 Greeks,
nilack.
FACTS ABOUT RESOURCES
died in 18 months because covered up of EOKA's forms of Greece. of 11 campaign called Enosis, a word which, The rlole that implied some degree of spontanelly from the curiously, you never hear
Cyprio's. even if
they were about any more.
For mostly made up of, school-
"I was having my hair cut in Greeks, Britons and Turks children, have completely Athens and the barber, when ho are open learned I was from Сургия, who live on this island are ceased. The schools
it was regularly, said: 'How wonderful and being siteaded united in one thing: they and the "youth curfew," which going to be when Greece Fot are all equally fed up, confines those under 20 to their Cyprus, because we would nli
the although
tide of houses in the evening and at be rich.*"' horror and, surprise,
week-ends, has limited EOKA'S even disgust that gets things field of influence, among the security forces done has not yet turned. when they arrived, that waLS most marked since my visit in the spring.
Death is such a common place thing in Cyprus now that the atmosphere is re- signed, almost cheerful,
Wo
"We have all learned that must modify our am- bitions. Almost any solution would be acceptable," said one prominent young Greek. But then he adds: "Of course,
The Cypriots are much frank- er about the basis of Enosis 400 hat is, not so much a move- ment from Cyprus to Greece as from Greece to Cyprus.
s
Greece a convinced that Cyprus has rich oil deposits and that is why Britain is hanging on.
"The facla are that
apart from copper {the reserves of which will run out in 20 yests'
"We realise now that Greece time) this is not a rich island. is a poor country, where there Agriculture can provide a good much unemployment, and living for the present commun- prosperous, you will have that it we do join to Greece it ity, which is very
of our but
great increase in popula- to either bring Archbishop will mean a levelling
tho meon a fall in much higher economy and
a Government It was the complete lack of way to be related to a cause Makarios back or gain his rush of Greek bureaucrats
said.
Such was the 207th death of the Cyprus emergency since it began in April 1955.
Death has censed in some
THE REFUGEES GET APFELSTRUDEL,
THANKS TO PRETTY GLORIA DUNN
P
Evelyn Irons tells about the young British volunteers who spend their own money on the Hungarians
4
a
gion
to
E-
With the start of each bril- liant, Funny morning in this lovellest of islands one knows that perhaps two or three and even as many as five people will be dead before sunset,
Some people say it ↳ EOKA murderous warning before the Redcliffe constitution Is nounced and the United Nations' debate on Cyprus opens. Other say that civil
wat has broken out in EORA, and that of accounts for many killings Greek Cypriots who are known by the Government not to have been informers. DEATH
DOESN'T MATTER
To cook for the refugees at this moment
exactly how Vienna 200 a week to buy necessities
Gloria appealed for-and got much help we have received RETTY dark-haired for the refugees,
the services of the local baker, from Britain. But I would urge Gloria Dunn was a
receive 300 escaped "We give him the margarine, everyone who wants to help us
not to send parcels or other
Many feel shot there may bo secretary in London. Hungarians every day." sald four and other raw materials,
some fruti in the rumours that She gave up her job, took Gloria. "As soon as they cross she said, "he cooks among other goods in kind,
Colonel Grivas, who was more £150 of her own money and the border wo, take them into things a special Apfelstrudel
his our camp at Jennersdorf, From which toes wonders for the "Anyone who wishes to help sparing and, eyelematic in
to our refugees" morale;" is now one of the 20 young there they are sent on
ahould send money to the Red choices of murder victims, · is have made second camp at Graz to make
Cross people who
If I have money I can dead or deposal. Nobody knows. Besides caring for
the
buy all that I needed here or I spoke to one man I knew to themselves entirely respon- room for the new arrivals com-
ing in. From Graz they are Hungariana these 20 young have I sent out from England be a fanatic, : a man I had not alble for running two distributed to other points," people are trying to find jobs And I shall be buying the right seen since the spring. "Oh, aro he. said for them in other countries, stuff. Hungarian refugee camps in
Our needs change from you stul milve?" Austria.
They say they are getting seven day to day and It is impossible gloomily. Is that something. of the Hungarian men students to informs the pubile exactly you are planning to fix?". Into Cambridge Univeridly. what our emergency require asked. Maybe," he replies,
ments are from hour to hour.
"this thing hasn't begun “yel," He was right. Next morning Tho was shotz S
<
Works wonders
Never certain
"For instance, the other day
Death is striking everywhe in this island now, and it may, as my EOKA acquaintance warned, be due to become much
They enll themselves
Tall Gerald Bernard had a Apart from Lolated pockets "Voluntary British Ald to
private enterprise like. Hungary, but they do not three-day beard when I saw of
him as he arrived In Vienna "Voluntary Belilah Aid" the are mind what nationalities from the camp. "I am driving Austrian authorities they accept, and there are a truck backwards and forwards responsible for the running of Dutch, Austrians and White with supplies for the camps," he the campe and their Govern- Russians among them. Up said. I was working in my meni aro giving 20 million. I had to buy two cous Another worse. But what a testimony is father's fashion business Austrian echillings for roller, time, I have to buy 10,000 hand- the tireless, cold-bloodedness of to now they have poured London and I thought this was a
kerchiefs. In an hour I may EOKA's campaign, yo their own money into the more Important. I came in with The Council of Ministers here spend £15,000, but it is 11 to say that here in Cyprus undertaking. One man has supplies of ponielilla. It depends has complained that foreign help impossible to handle vast death don really matter much
whether I get my is coming too slowly, Money is quantities of goods when we are any more
FOOT spont £500 on supporting on my father whol
the BOKA urgently needed. Only 300,000 'not certain, exactly what wo the camp.
Austrian schillings: have been word," cleaned off the
AM signe, and slogana! have been Another London boy, Noel poolved from UN and 650,000 Many of them are students. Mulvey, who was training to be rolling from Us International At odioial of the League of Cuneo month Now their money is running out an hotel manager also quit his Committee of European Red Crow Societies said, that
thele, work was now, divided into waruz: look 2 I have spent all ming”; #aich
Thelp the
two distinct operationstone the everything but the, clothes, they oranges to take back to the Evelyn Bark, from reception of refugees and their stand up in and they have ruw camp who said, "Thêm, London, wito la deputy chief of dispersal i to whomes in other troope persuade; thờ: International Red Hungarians are po poor that the Red Crowsocieties here, countries, and, the other the, Crowe. In: Viessing to allow them they think, oranges 'a' fuxury vanide er am unable to beáradó
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