1957-10-02 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER'

1957.

KINKERING KONG

GO FORTH TO WAR

THEY

are mobbing two men this year. Tommy Steele and Stirling Moss.

I am a little bit of a mob snob. I thought I'd like to find out

what these two boys have in common, apart from gigantic success.....

Everyone knows About 20- Jear-old Tommy Steele. In action Tommy is like the spring of an alarm clock gone mid with playing a guitar,

In

ITI personal appearances this month cused riots Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brus- Eels, and Oslo.

by NANCY SPAIN

shuns. It was true, nee, me a sense of release."

Gave

"But Tommy," I said, "you don't like violence, do you? Razor slashing and all that?"

se

"Course I don't," said Tommy, described by his mother, year-old Mrs Hicks, working boy." "But i like read about it in others." It was his mother who brought the first Itock-Around record into the house, so It Tommy looks rather tired and nervy it is her fault.

to drive sliting on his knee. Dad was a great driver in the twenties. 1. fulled all my exams at Haileybury beeduse of this kidney trouble, I think.

"My first car was a £15 Boby Austin which I stripped down to 30- the chassis to get rid of the

"A weight,

Dad had this pig to

furm the Invented selling pigs on hire purchase, If you are interested) and he said I could have my first three years as a racing driver so long as I work- ed 48 hours a week on. the farm.

Jils foot bents. His fair hair stands on end. "And." says

"I am nervy," said Tommy. Robert James, my hairdresser, "Heart misses a beat every now who once tried 10 barber and then." He felt he heart "there's nothing to be done under his pale blue shirt, to see If you once tamed that, you'd if it was missing a beat, and his fame Tommy Steele."

young brother Colin, in a plok shirt and tan shoes, came in.

I went down to see Tommy in his new (£7,000) semi- delnched villa in Ravensbourne Park, Catford. I asked him point blank if he thought he had anything ln common with Moss.

us

"Yes," said Tommy. blinking inst with nerves. He was wear- ing a pale blue shirt and tan shoes and he beat time an new scarlet fitted carpet with one tan shoe all the time talked. "Yes, of course.

he

We

"Colin's the one we used to

send out rst when I was mobbed at the Cafe de Paris." said Tommy "He used to get torn up. Instead of me.

"This life's a bit difcut!, being a star and that," he said. "Years ago 1 deelded like that chap-Alexander the Great is

that I'd have a short life and be famous... not a long one and never be heard of. Now I'm

A VERY CLOSE INSPECTION OF TWO CONQUERING HEROES

of hot so sure,

give the crowd a schsc release, sec."

Much as I liked tum Tommy EDVE me no Sense of re- lease. Indeed, he made me feel

E though I'd been hit by bomb,

a

lie told me about the litera- Hure he llised, Comics, Dandy, Beano.

And a book I picked up as I came in the house. I was lying face down on the table among souvenirs of Copenhagon (an oshtray with a naked nymph). Stockholm (another ashtruy). Oslo (dittu). and France plaster plaque of can-can dancers signed T. Lautrec).

The book was called "Reefer Boy." and its subtitle said: "A Shocking Novel of Teenage Dope Addicts."

Tommy said it was "Smash- ing." He clso said he liked Micky Spillane, was disappoint ed to hour he'd got religion,

"I once," he told me graves

#man

from

#

Otherwise I'd have

been in the hotel business, learning to be a waiter, I drink about 150 gallons of Coca-Cola

a year.

д

"My second car was a Morgan, It cost £140. Then I traded-in everything I'd gol (including a bicycle and camera) 10 Dad for my sports car. An M.G. You never now such a heap of trash as f traded-in in your life....

irst

Was

I had never heard any- one taik so fast in my life. I kept remembering the Brst time I'd net Stirling when he actually being mobbed by 3,000 Italians under the hot blue skies of Brescia before the Mille Migun.

The Italians yelled and patted him, and tore off little bits of him and passed dirty pieces of paper for him to sigh.

In order to talk to him li hed been necessary to sit on his Still, it gives knee. I reminded him of this. me a sense of release."

"Oh, well," he sald, "the The Golden Boy

Italians are multo simpatico, Bermondsey whose heart

the I think I may have been beat and worrying his way I used to look...ttle missing mum drinks around 500 gallons white man in a white car, you of sweet, strong tea a year. He know.... grosses about £20,000 a year, 40 per cent of which goes 10 his eager management

who helped create him,

The ether Golden Boy motor racing), who has just won this year's Grand Prix to put him in the running for the top driver

of the year, probably makes around £15,000,

1 found Stirling at home In his highly contemporary office in William IV Street. To get there I had to go through his father's dentistry [strong smell of iodoform) and Stirling's own Beefburger Bar (strong smell of coffee and beeburgers). The policeman on the Beat fold me xactly where to go. 456 did the policeman in Catford, Jr- cidentally.)

When I hit a tree

and knocked out all my front for me. teeth did put them in apain

Dad and I are just like brothers, Excuse me. but I love to go now.”

And that was the last I saw of Stirling, a dazzling smile (thanks to dad), a 170-mile-an- hour handshake, and then I was downstairs through the ledoform and the beefburgers and back in the street, Thinking about Stirling Moss and Tommy Steele,

They have magnetism, thought. That's what.

Stirling because he risks his life every time he gels on the track: Tommy because he has a sense of rhythm that makes me want to smash the furniture. In a world where precious few and Moss stand things seem glamorous $(cele for freedom, wildness, madness, and glory.

And this seems to me of the most ironical phrases that ever occurred to me.

one

his life at 170 miles an hour. e5 Stirling told me the story of "read a book in which

The packed his overnight bag to went up to a woman 03 dance feer and kicked her in fly to France, and gave fast-

Instruction.s the stomach. And kicked her, minule

to bis And kicked her, Then a hunch secretary. back come up ni protected the made my Best money out

For if ever I saw two golden wonun and locked after her show jumping on horses,"" he boys trapped in a golden and they married. I loved that said. "I could drive a car when they are Surling Mort book. It was about the Glasgow I was six.... Dad taught me Tommy Steele.

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The Astonishing

Case of

Bing

v. Bing

by SEFTON DELMER

ANTASTIC and extraordinary characters have always Fbeen drawn to magnetic shores of Afrin's Gold Coast, Freebooters, pirates, slave-traders, smugglers, and castaways, all have found it a splendid hunting- ground for the last 500 years.

But never has there been a more amazlug and enigmatic figure than tall, plump Geoffrey Henry Coell Bing, ex-MP, Queen's Counsel, and, for the last two weeks, Attorney-General of newly Independent Ghana.

Heavy with rare, four leading members of the Acero Bar sow him one day to try to find out what was going on, what possible excuse could be made for the locking-out of Christopher Shaw- eross, Q.C.. nu eminent lawyer-Bencher of Gruy's Inn, Recordar of the City of Nottingham.

Bing has only been Attorney-General two weeks, but they were two weeks that shook the world-and puzzled it.

They began with a heavy criticism of Bing by Shawcross as ho successfully challenged the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in the cases of alleged contempt brought against the Ashanti Pioneer (which had re- printed a Daily Express Opinion criticism of Bing) and against the London Dally Telegraph's Ion Colvin.

Attorny-General Bing

The two weeks came to their climax when-in the face of all British and Western tradition-

"It almost seems as though there were

IN 1957 MR BING

two men fighting each other behind

those slant-eyed, Mandarin features,

of

Brigade Association,

tI was us an extreme left

British

appointments,

AFTER YOU WHO?

London, Sept. 12.

R NKRUMAH has lost momentarily

Dsparkle

at any rate. Some say he is really a sick man-suf- fering from 'nerves' his op ponents allege. He has left the splendours of Christian- burg to seek asylum from his troubles, and critics, la his own village. But it is not surprising, for the last year has been a. strenuous

one

for Gham's Prime Minister.

the

In the autumn of 1956 ten- sion was, mounting in Ashanti, There were threats of civil war. Then, luckily for Ghana, tho government and the Opposition composed their differences for the time bring, Banks to the mediation of Mr Lennox-Boyd.

But, there was little respite. for Dr Nkrumah, Preparations for Independence Day pressed heavily on him. It was all very exciting: but very exhausting. And then the celebrations were over: the distinguished visitors departed and the cheers, died away. It was 'the_meining' after the night before!"

Conference

Then on top of this came the Commonwealth Conference with papers to read and briefs to study. And it brought a fresh dose of excitement. It Was great fun lunching at No. 10: hobnobbing with Nehru: talk ing on equal terms with the re- presentative of that 'wicked South

Africa' who, perhaps,

lo alve the arat

was M. ale:son in gov

African

erning 'loughly."

No wonder Dr Nkrumaht elected to travel back to Ghana by boat. But it was a now country he came to; not the Gold Coast he had known. Tho objective

had

of "freedom” been pained, and now people

wonder

the

were beginning te 'what next?' Sir Charles Arder

Clarke had retired from governorship into the obscurity. of the East Anglian country- side. There was no one, now, at Nkrumah's elbow to ask is wire to do that? The whole weight of Kovernment now reated

fairly and squarely on a Ghanaian cabinet--and that

Meant in the main, onl

Prime Ministers.

There were

the

other worries. Money was no longer plentiful for the price

of COCOR had dropped after the boom years. The great power project on the Velta was marking time. Per- haps Nkrumah may have that he

felt

had missed the bus. Had a decision been taken two

or three years ago when costs were lower and money less tight, work might have been in full swing today. No wonder the Prime Minister aetded a rest,

Blunder

And then

came the fatal blunder of the deportations with all the publicity given to them In the Commonwealth and the States. Whose was the initia

ve? Did Nkrumah feel that the time had come to take the

are some

Ita

him up the case of one of his con- As such It would be in accor- ilon, and the International self and abused the process of eluents, a Mrs Patricla Deller, dance with the best Moscow the courts, charged Shawéross, who has been refused a re-entry agitators' tradition for him to weighing his words and permit by the then British Gold claim the protection delivering

of demo- politician that he took up the gives off in dealing with the theni ot dletation Coast authorities. Her husband, cratic liberties while opposing cause of Afrleans whom he con-

Opposition? Or was a tired man speed,

a journalist, had been out the British Government, and sidered victims of

bounced and bundled about by spoken in his criticism of the ignore them as soon as he and Colonial oppression.

youngor, more raucous and less British. Administration.

There his friends are in power,

This association led to the responsible colleagues? Bing flies

who know Nkrumah „to Acera, ses

appointricat in 1957 of ex-M.P. Krobo Edusel, the new Minister journalist Deller, and success- BING-con of a County Down Bing-he had been defeatzi in

who believe the latter to Be of the Interior, refused, to let fully file

truc. Yel "make to inistako a motion in the schoolmaster, and great the meantime as constitutiount about it sold a senior British Showeross return to Ghana to Supreme Court for an entry grandson of a hulf-Chinese adviser to Ghuna-an appoint- celel who had worked closely defend his cllent in new permit to be given to Mrs Dutchwoman-was called

to ment as fantastle and ex- with him. Nkrumah is tougher action.

Deller and her baby,

the Ear in 1031.,

ordinary as his promotion to ihan all of them." TUE reason given for thls afep

Attorney-General, T

ful- which! that Shawcross had un-

Only a year later we find him lowed shortly after.

Today the loughness seems to pardonably criticised Premier

Ghana threat lecturing at Marx House, the

have gone out of him. And if For barrister Bing had no he is really sick-sick mentally. Nkrumah and his Government- ens British newspaper reporter Communitat training centre in 18 опе of the inexplicable Ian Colvin with arresi, arranges London from which norrty all special qualifications to entille rather than physically what of the future? Suppose the strain puzzles that make up the

connives that his counsel, the younger generation of Bri- him to such

of the last six years takes mysterious Mr Bing.

Shawcoes a member of the tish Communists have graduated. neither as a constitutional law- For Bing, who s a Socialist Ghane Barb refused

yer, nor as a practising barrister, toll and compels a long rest. per- He spoke ni meetings of the Indeed, so M.P. was forever criticising the mission to defend him.

scanty was bis There is no helr-apparente.. "German Relief Committee," a practice as a member of the Bar Government and defending the

not publicly designated at any BING of Communist-sponsored organisa- ikat when Bing, as on M.P.. rato. There are two deputy- know that advocates In British

London goes to tion, Harry Pollitt and other was made a K.C., It was said lieutenants a. it were-Messra.

his fellow that his was the most artificial Botsio and bedemah. courts have a duty to criticise an international, congress in Communists were

former has been the close and and attack the Government in Berlin and courageously attacks orators at Daily Worker rallies all ever, the interests of their client the

Governmiat for an behalf of the imprisoned

constant companion of the Prime : keeping Comunuaist leader Thaelmann. requires it.

By accepting a contract: from Minister: the latter helped to. In prison without

Chana Government, organise victory at the fest powers of the court itself and trial in defiance of democratic give legal aid to the family of members of the British Bar, Nkrumah to power.

They are only limited by the Thaelmann

He travelled to Hungary to Bing, in the view of his fellow

general election that Look Nkrumah their own professional othies traditions.

has broken the rules of his owes much to him. He is a dizet- Rakosi who later became the professlor. HoThe Secretary police or the IN 1957 ME BING of Hash in communist buss

rate beninistrator, with a flair For by tying himself under

for finance and in sheer talent To watch him now and con- three Ghana opposition leaders country's hated Hted dictator.

'contract to the Government he

overtops all his collegios trast his present with his past, arrested and deported

has compromised his Indepen- dence as a legal officer of Ghana be the interest of the public and whose cae consideration must

not that of the Government or

right of others to criticise, must IN 1935 M

it almost seems as though thero trial. were two men fighting each- other behind thooe inscrutable, slant-eyed, almost

Mandarin

fentures:-

ME BING

Hitler

Ghana

has

without

there any explanation which will reconcile these almost schizophrenic contradictiona?

I have been looking closely OF LONDON, Soetallat lawyer, politician, in into Mr Bing's past history and defatigable champion of civil I think there ta,

Mr Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing is a follower of the Communist

the

the party.

(Bald Bing, on returning from a post-war visit, to Communist Hungary: "It was grand to and Rakel once more playing his democratic part in restoring Government to his country.")

During the Spanish Civil War, Bing went to Spain to work

Mr Bing no doubt would have there for the Communist-dom-

waxed furiously cloquent had Inated Republica Government.

sound Tory committed with an FTER the war, he joined net.

quite a number of Com-

Mr. Bing of Ghana? munist-sponsored organisations, or bir all these things have Fascist-Communist Police Stata » Indeed, the willer, Arthur ruch da British Rumanian become antiquated, trimming to called. Friendship Amociation of which be shed in the interest of

no3. tio is vice-chairman--the Brintability, and order.

Jain-China Friendship Associa«. An interesting case,

liberties...

ME DING OF GHANA, thưy “Party Une authoritarian exponent of

mothods.

IN 1950 MBING

London

Hoteller, has pabitely.

BOL

It is said that there is no love Rivalry lost between them. could split the C.PP. from top

to bottom.

"After you, who?" It is any- body's guces. But one thing, is certain, and that is that Make palley of ruthlessness in Cuerİnci too far some of the older fenda in the C.P.P. will begin to won- der whother, it is not time to jump off the band wagon before it gets altogether out of çudirai.

HAROLD JAMES

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