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UNCOMMON CONFERENCE

By Les Armour

conference of Com-

Tmonwealth Prime Minis-

ters must rank high in any man's list of political curio- sitios.

A group of men who, collec- tively, govern a inrger part of the surface of the earth in that governed by any other single political combination gather together at Intervals seemingly determined by th? same kind of whims that govern the intervals between Lartles,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1957.

SYDNEY SMITH cables from Paris where to be loyal is to be marked

POLICE tire how factory outskirts of Paris agairs. and two more Algerians are dead. Two more are gravely

howled and gunfire spattered the streets

wounded, and 10 arrested.

It is hardly worth a paragraph-to the French. It a cortainly nothing alongside the 400-plus massacre of Algerians by their Moslem brothers in the Algorian village of La Casbah recently.

Yot last week's shooting match between Algerians in Paris and the police brought the total of Algarians One casualties inside France for the first five months of this

year to 1.099 wounded and 169 dead,

Though me of these msa are among the most talkative on earth and though they all come From democratie countries (whose citizens account for bet- ter than a quarter of the world's Inhabitants) no une ever finds out exactly what they discuss or exactly what they say to one another about 1. The agenda

Is always defined in platitudes

and the same plašitudes turn up in the fetal coinmunque issued

after they have all gone home.

On the whole, therefore, its not surprising that, although it is widely suspected that momen- tous things

said about momentous issues and

Are

much

ences attract little allention.

The last week, however, has produced the usual-the cons- ing

Commonwealth Conference has been prominently displayed in the British national press and even, wonder of wonders, dis- cussed on the street corners and In the pubs.

It is an appalling figure if you could see them all laid out mutilater, stabbed, riddled by bullets as they were in the little village of La Cushah.

even the police carry tommy- guns at the ready.

SECRET TERROR

AT MY DOOR

loyal Algerian murdered by the It is too late today. Any have appealed: "Sto this

rod to speak for France. terrorists-Thousands more ate average Frenchunan admits now murderous battle of brothers,"

that terrorlation-fear among friends is going too fast for A powerful group represent« French forces to fight or pro- even half a million organised Ing the 1,000,000 French

Algeria his Appealed Parisians: "Punish the traitora feet 9,000,000 Algerians,

and the throat-sitter,"

Terrorism,

blackman,

and

extortion are steadily applug nway what was not so long ng the great majority of Algerians who called themselves French-

houses men års!,

In Paris the Casbah is a net work of dark, narrow stroots at enciuni, picturesque around the foot of Montmartre, Tourist bupes drive through them--and the tourta never know that they are passing through a lerrorist aren--for

gleams

the serenely above

TOO FAST

The only hope now in a spec- tacular French gesture military, political, and economic to restore the courage of the terrorised and to temper the fury of the terrorizia,

Yet this happened along the pavements and in the cafes and in the streets, iù the heart of Paris and Mur. urist Mecca of the Basilien of N Peris Algerian workers are not even a French Government

seilles since New Year's Day this year.

One hundred mul sixty

be

the Sacred Heart.

raying "contributions" more than £2.000 a week

in

to

It has ineliet the Parislars to beat every Algerian in Paris,

THE BACKERS

Eut for the moment there is Now

of

to make the gesture,

to

7

France in without a Govern- "nent and in the middle of

criais i party

Yet in those streets of Puris's the war of "Iberation." For it la Casbah most of the 110,000 contribution or death. Algerians of Paris patrol, dressed like Teddy Boys fight

GUN-KILLER

the last moment news teils of 14 French conscripte kiled boys, named

But in a new clash In Algeria. before they died they had killed 123 terroriste.

What France which the

needs to

win against the necret terror of the Casbah

Paris, Marseilles, that guarantee France is stronger than the Calround Moscow-backed terrorists

that loyal stay loyal

2

and

Algerians are being ordered Socialists, who failed in Algeria, Good done thereby, the confer- nine brutally murdered DS - war in half a million the terrorist army against death mouse game with the rest of the Algiers, 13

ing the pro- and anil-French buck from France for duty in are now playing a cat-and fellow Moslems, just

French troops in Akerla have thirsts to their familles, cause, agah like the sheen losing for two and a half

Parties searching for. now majority. They -they disappear- Sacred men of La Casbah, years.

wanted to thoy

stay

they are only found again

The Moderate on

Nationalists Algerians can French,

the battlefields

the terrorista loo in a minor way live. Tong Algerian mountains. Or else, us1 Yet, life by life, minor

tody, they are ordered to strike incident upon incident the The reason is that it is subloody casualty list of the pected that the conference, eh Algerian atory is mounting duled

to open on June 20, is not fast on France's own door. going to go very well.

This is partly beenuse it is step.

at the factory gates,

EARLY this week, in the heart and those who refuse are shot,

Algiers at rush hour. three bomba in lamp posts killed Ale and wounded 90-most of them Europeans, Two weeks

rather inaptly Üned to esineide Now Paris and Mar friend of France was killed by

with the confusing, afternsalls of | geilles, and some of the big a gun with a the Canadian election, with #industrial citles of the stoot in Ports beside President political crisis in Ceylon, and with the illness of the Prime North, all have their

Minister of New Zealand,

COMMONWEALTH?

But that is not the main reas

ron for unense,

The main reusm is partly, though not wholly, connected with Suez and the fact that there is still, in plaets, suspicion about it among inembers

The Commonwealth.

than Morg

that, however, Suez is a symbol of the changes in British foreign policy.

That policy has lately shown. a new independence shown in the determination of the Bri- fish government to cut its de- fence commitments, la the leod ins opening trade with taken China and in the continuing,, if now decelerated, movement to- a Euro- ward Integration with pean union,

Britain's

All of these policies point to

balunce in A THCW alliances and this balance must Commonwealth impinge upon

But relations.

nobody. yet, knows just bow.

If Britain is showing her in- dependence from The United States dees, this niean that the Commonwalth, or some part of I may tend to become a ind of third force in world affairs? Bul, If 10, how la thig to be reconctied to the tendency to switch from being a seat of Em- pire to being a part of Europe? Again, as more countries of- tain full independence the balance of power within the Commonwealth is swinging sharply and the old fund of common interest is running out, Does this meận that, if there Is to be anything like the old consultation, there will have to be a Commonwealth within Commonwealth consisting large- ly of Britain and the older dominions?

No one seems to be able to answer any of these questions. Yet it arms certain that they must all be troubling the Com- monwealth Prime Ministers

and that they must tend to make these leaders watch onc another very closely and with a kind of suspicion which, up to now, has been absent.

FALLING DOWN Oxford, it seems, is crumbling and it's going to coct two million pounds to put it back together again.

The trouble is that the univer- sity has nowhere near that much money. It b, in fact, one and three quarter million short.

Some, of course, are of the opinion that ruins, are plc- turesque and that, indeed, a fow real ruins might be good for the tourist indo,

The Rector of Lincoln Col- lege, Mr W. F. Oultenheit, how- ever, he disabused them at this notion, The truth to that. much of Oxfand was built by Wren from Headington freestone a soft substance which turns to dust.

So, it something isn't done, the university is quite likely to blow away in a high wind

„Paris of it right well be on- couraged to do so in the views

What cat Fronce do that she has Tailed to do? That is question now. If two

Bgo an Algerian politician and a half years ago—or moto-

France had envisaged spending silencer as he the millice pounds a day she row spends on the Algerian war Coly-rounded by plain on giving work to the 2,000,000 own clothes and uniformed Casbahs Arab quarters police.

armed unemployed Algerians who are the backbone of the terrois's where no one but the Everywhere

secret the question would never have police dare walk alone. And terror is master, For every arist.

the

HEROICUP-COUNTRY: by THURLOW CRAIGA

The day a poacher

-made me laugh.

THE

last hour of a night vigil with a sick heifer found me looking across the valley to see what sort of a day wouldį slide over the eastern hills. A thin trescent moon rode on top of the pre-dawn glow, and there was not a cloud in the dark sky.

I set out across the dew-laden fields with my light trout-red, knowing that my only hope lay in loe short half-hours either side of sunrise.

My favourite peol was a sgant 10-minute walk and I had the world to myself save for a belalazi owl or two and the whaups, which are early on the came the throbbing beat ol a pair swans winging the way up- rlyer and saw them clearly against the lightning sky.

move.

There

All to myself

Soon, between the jour, there they both have Tremendous wasn't much left, and game sense of fun, and parted, the two bigger ones intelligently for hours, towing the carcase by the head while the little one hung on to the tail:

Inevitably. on purpose I. pre. sume, the tall went over the bank and so did the Ittle one, splush Into the river. The other two peeped over the edge to see what they had done and I howled. with laughter. I couldn't help , though I'd have given much At that hour the Dool

to see the rest of the game generally still and quiet save for

of the occasional roll of a salmos vanished in a flash.

And

courbe, they Just or the plop of a trout just above the rapids, or the steely sh

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MECHANICAL ORCHESTRATION

BRAIN - SONGS

A

By Janet McLean

Washington.

and

In the case of "Push Bertha" the tune had the beno-

Button

UTOMATION has in-

vaded the creative field of human performers. But, it could be played on olectronic "Bertha," of music.

8 sound-making devices. This electronic computer,

from would remove it wholly writing popular songs at the connection with human beings

except, of course, the mathe- [rate of 1,000 an hour.

maticians,

is

To get the computer to com- past, these experts Leed EL massive doses of data. Thep they bush certain buttons and,

Dr Martin L, Klein, mathe- matician and computer nu thority, tells about it in the June ddition of "Radio-Electronics" Magazine. He and his collabora the computer-if it has boen lor. Dr Douglas Bolitho, have trained and fed properly taught datsitron digital com- selectively nocepta or rejoets puter to write music,

number which ultimately are translated into notes of tho diatonle scale.

Klein and Bolitho started their project last spring. In less than a month they had the computer grinding out music at a stag... gering rate.

U

Magnaquantaselective

it makes Its selections fram quantities of information which has been stored in ita magnetic drum, or core storage unit, the machine's internal memory.

Sometimes, Dr Klein says, bis

gools [or To dis

results They consider will play phenomenal-mechanically if not musically. They played one of the machine's

Jack funcs for Qwens, major-tongue "pop" song-writer and composer-nem- ber of the American Society at compar

cernible reason. This is known Composers, Authors, and Publi-

05 "having the flu." And on shers (ASCP). Owers wrote cold mamings when the machine lyrics for the tune which, was is slow to warm up, it is sufT- dubbed "Push Button Bertha,"

Once, when investigating a case of pollution, I spent over art hour watching a bla dog and having offer fooling about a wonderful time.

Killers

Mochahumanical

'In less than

ling, in the computer expert's jargon, from "sleeping sickness," But once it gets going, it goes like mad. Dr Klein reports that one gifted computer has written quartet with "promising

feels the

I am death on predators such as carrion crows, magpies, and

a week five re. loxes, but I've never icilled an cordings were put out, and otter, and be the idea of otter month later real, live, humaa- hunte Predators they may be, being-typ artists performed it [1 is in music orchestration but they are no worse than pike. I on the Americon Broadcasting that Kicia of a kingasher funding the There'd be no fish for me or

Co. network.

will be in its true reafter H⭑ After all, man-made pollution wildly-failing anyone else that day, in that

suya "It will be possible to I'd seen Is the greatest fah-killer of all, But the library of congress write orchestrations minnow in its beak. Otherwis pool but no matter.

full Tomething I'd never seen before and not only are otters beautiful declined to issue a copyright on orchestra on a conquter in less

und will probably never see and mast gracious beasts, but "Puch. Bulten, Berika.” It had than a minute." It takca

Scals and olters I have they are one of the low re-never been confronted belore human expert again.

"almost three loo late, for the whole surface always loved because it seems maining large

wild animals in with a piece of music composed days to arrange a piece of pepu- was aboil.

quite unrelated, Britain, Fish were jumping that although

by a machine.

musle for an orchestra.”

surface with

I have it to myself,

On that particular day I was

in a frantic rush for safety; a huge salmon, its great toil beating, hurica itself down-

stream, half its back out of the water in the shallows, while other fish were dashing in every direction,

A small chub actually jumped right out on to the bank and lay there flapping, so I hid behind a bush and walled. 'You'd have though there wasn't a Ash left In the pool, but there was, one

air-sized salmon.

It made a determined rush up- stream, surfaced and disappeared. in a founing flurry; then there. was a powerful surge Rs the poacher came up with her quarry limp between her jawE side, and made for the other Sleek and beautiful the slid out of the water and Jakd the salmon on the bank,

Just children

Next second there were four otters. Now I've got good eye- fight and am a countryman, but I cannot say whether those three young ones came out of the water or out of the bushen They

of stano eritless, For instance, just materialismi in the blink of

the Bodicians Library is stuckled an eyelid, two half-grown and with great spiked pinnacle- one a little smaller, all squealing like protrusions, which make with exeltement.

it look a bit. Üké a porcupine.

These titbils will cost bo- tween £100 and £1,000 each to put back in shape,

And thore are quite a "for people who reckon that they das thinks of better things to đợi with a thousand poundi..

The mother bit into the back to show them the best part and than the throw

buneberg attacked: The little one opt getting the worst of it, but the mother would prets her back. into place and roep her there,

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