1958-03-11 — Page 1

THE CHINA“. MAIL,

L88ONLAY

His Excellency's

Most

Embarrassing

CALCUTTA

A bal moment for

I british prestige in Indin,

one of the worst since we gave India back to the Indians more than 10 years ago.

The state reception given in New Delhi for the King of Alphant- stan was just finishing, diplomats of all countries were there formally arrayed in evening dress und stify starched in protocol.

and

The orling British High Com- missioner, Mr William Clark, his wife were given the honour of watched by to itave, being first hushed crowds and by the other diplomats, probably jealous of the honour.

Mr Clark, a tall, bemedalled Agure with i tram goatee beard, and Mrs Clark, attractive in a flowing eening gown, made an Impersive exit.

High They stepped Into the

Rolis- Coaunissioner's black

It rolled of smoothly, Royce, but it had only gone a few yards when one of the back door fel OIT. It hit the street with solid bang.

A

Q. Britunalal How thy alght was laid low. The crowd emitted a noise that mundet ke aigh, but before it could turn to n laugh und before the waiting diplomats could title

behind gloved hands, the Rolls drew up and reversed, Mr Clark stepped cmartly out. picked up the door with dignity,

Moment

It rolled off smoothly, but it had gone only a few yards when one of the back doors fell solid bang. off. It hit the street with

Burlesque

EXCERPTS from Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies were presented by a group of aeloru and actresses who enlied them- solves "The English Comedians."

The programme explained that they were connecians in the old serise of actors, The perform) – mees showed that they were comedians in the contemporary sense of Palladhum knockabouts,

a

I say no more.

How Arc the maharajahs then in the now faring,

of inde struggling democracy pendent India?

Party night

THEIR staggering wealth has

CHAPTER FIVE

of his world tour: Now he is heading

. to an exciting

new

rendezvous

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1958.

night of restored glory, all with something to say.

The Maharajah of "When

Jalpar:

the Government look over our States they allowed us a sizable annual income, but I am a it will die with us.

how, comparatively poor man though I still manage to keep of the old traditions. up some I must say I am enjoying my own party."

The maherani, who glittered in rubles, diamonds, emeralds; who, it is said, could change her jewels three times a day for a year without wearing the same Bet twice: "I do not know it that is true or not, I have never

An on-the-spot report from Cape Town and the office where

a person's race is changed by a civil servant's signature

JOHN REDFERN

Widely travelled expert on African affairs horo exposes the terror bohind the Race Act

From JOHN REDFERN Cape Town,

floor above a big store with

In Room 320

a blackmailer's word is Law

undering has the power of about the texture of social life, or death, over the the shape of their anxious citizens who came up colour of their eyes. in the lif from the saucy scene of bras below.

and nightles down

their hair, theid on the brain? Tonight I faces, the talked with a young man whoso marriage was nearly wrockod and whose mind is cerisinly

marked by the operations of this Ack

Once the father takes the youngest boy to the end of the door marked This is the only country in corridor, to the

"European Gentlemen. This is the world where it is held of faith that there is such a thing quite a moment. Will he be a all this European gentleman as white blood.

wock? He does not know, for Rickert is a priest of South the investigation is adjourned Africa's

religion: for the attendance of the 20- latter-day

separn year-old daughter, who Apartheid, aporiness, tion of the races. He must serve the Population Registra- Con Act, described as "The cornerstone of Apartheid."

Deadly word

there are

working today.

15

There is more embarrassment to the equare foot in Room 320 than I Bke to think about. One caller is a prominent citizen.in a white suburb. He has a job no non-white can hold in this white boss country.

In

BOT.3

Jimmle is the grandson of # German immigrant. He is very fair. But a week after the Arst marriage banns he received a letter from the Government

This said there was "certain Information" suggesting he not really white,

Was

At the first shock Jinrada broke off his engagement. Then he decided to light, instructed lawyers,

rounded up family birth corticates and marriage lines, marked "European," After four months-without one word

Government of apology--the accepted that he is white.

----

His move

Room 320 his two This Act has a special impact hear with horror that there is a tried it, but it has been won-THE private hell is in on the Cape peninsula where suggestion their father is really come 300,000 a coloured, and therefore they el dressing up for tonight, Room 320 on the third coloureds."

may be coloureds too,

courteous solemn, These

But still hls twisting red tape in their Angers, are putting their cuts him and his pretty wife The says: "Ho thinks there is some- oficial stamp on chaos.

of their

probe thing in it." consequences

Genghis Khan

Just like the old days."

Without enthusiasm Ricker! of Cooch The Maharajah Behar, who organises ilger hunts Windows bold with bras tells me he will be here a long officials,

staff will for rich Americans on his State Bieres and nightgowns. This time.

aro where men, be augmented. near Calcutta: "The trouble is is the there are not no many tigers

The Maharajah of Seramor;

The Maharani of "Neither could I."

like

room

11

a

His present

They

I

For some

would pause.

make

father-in-law

if any

this

Now they are going to loave "A thing like One of their local representa eft. Too many are being women, and children are "developing.”

South Africa. This morning a short, tanned tives stick 10 me afterwards:

comes along the dark "But the audience was delighted off by potchers. Everything politely bowed out of normal

has changed. We seldom have a living, are socially liquidated man

doctor's To prove their racial reputa- that is enough to mako a weak- corridor, past the ed. They seldom get anything

with a pat on the back.

the watchmaker's lon some citizens must call in willed person shoot himself."

Only

earlier A few hours

northern but amateur productions here." party like this now."

This is the task-force surgery,

the Forestry their friends and neighbours.

away in workshop, and

They comment: "The more miles Govern- omÉE,

was talking to the the more suburb,, I "I couldn't afford a party ko hendquarters for

proof you bring, this now."

ment men sent down from

He touches his hat brim at suspicion you create." The buzz Rev. C. A. Nunns, Methodist, His goes round-Johannes is having who last Sunday told his con- Dewass: Pretoria to check over the the sight of a white face.

arosc through trouble new race register and to axal smile is full of nerves. He a job to prove he has not got gregation to go to him

Obviously the way is open to register business. They bowed to each other, expel from the white com- is 60, a former building opera- Kamr blood."

"Mine is a European cangre- drank a nostalgic champagne munity anyone who cannot tive, now a pensioner. He has

children and today he is informers, denouncers, black- scared at T for every toast to the old regime, and for prove that he has not

one of mailers. Indeed, nothing ta. safe. gation," the young minister told "I said that because you them.

for the Act itself empowers the me.

*Melal to give never know where the Act will responsible It still existed Allowing for the diffultira of

the rest of the night pretended trace of non-white blood.

On the door is a notice: rather been curtalled, their autocra-

Government clerk other people particulars about strike," It was all

He paused and then added: but "Please come in."

the birth a has spotted that on magnificent Д

man's raciol rating if the production in a small theatre in Dulki. I must still say that the te power has been taken away, chorade,

his 20-year-old Government thinks it is in the "People take this sort of thing The room amelis of wax certiilento of still command slightly sad charade. The actors

hard. It could easily causo a without cumedics and

were outrageously though

were overshadowed in make- and the tragedies homage from ex-subjects rufiling a hair of his gentes, as burlesque

What guarantee is this with a shooting, the blotting out of his some visitors, and, when they belief by the maharajahs. For polish. It has one touch of daughter is the word "mixed." interest of the citizen himself. though he were retrieving a fan made laughable.

long ago it was often Government that has got apar- family by some desperate man." once they were completely out-colour. Red tape-lashings It is a deadly word, although The chief comic was Marius can, they still like to re-enact

of it-writhing about the applied to children when a dropped by an ambassadress.

of the old days, as the Maharajah ected,

African married any The chauffeur helped to stick Goring, who is an actor

Clark stature,

but who has not dis- of Jalpur did the other night.

Prime Minister Nehru's sister, desk, dangling from the South

allen, European, or otherwise, on the door again, Mr

in held it from the Inside and they unguished himself recently

He stared a party in Jaipur, Mrs Krishna Hutheesingh, was

many files.

Here, seven hours a day, drove away quickly. The bad London in Shakespearian pro- capital city of the State where talking solicitously about him.

"He refuses to take a holiday been stopped just ductions. mament had

the or any time off from work sits the force commander, The others included a beauti- once his word was low. The

excuse was to welcome before it lapsed into pante and ridicule.

ful refugee from the film studios, British unit from Pinewood though ho needs a rest,

who played Yvonne Furneaux,

were on location will have to be an enforced rest Mr M. Rickert, whose job I Lady Macbeth hilariously, John Studios who

Wind Cannot The trouble is now, that you personally would trade in of Laur).

the stalwart

have gone and British rule 1 for that of the public hang- Scots Aiming

over, no one puts him in gool man. character actor who played

His duty: To probo bor- chlidren. They are good look-Hacks, airfields and pavai shore establishments this week. any more."

Said the King of Afghanistan: an Englishman would "Only have shown such presence

mind."

I must point out, apologising. Cassius like a Scottish Nation-

they

Tie

and

but it

not

ROUND-UP

Faded photos

Bonn

Min

Behind this little man trail

wife

of his and Ave

Read."

Jaipur is a beautiful city with

I shall not be staying in India of course, for correcting his alist, and Rachel Gurney, a fine every building blushing in rose- Majesty, that Mr Clark Is actress who must have wanted pink sandstone, and with uearly for the Hindu Spring Festival derline cases, recommend to ing and range from three years

from desperately

sce the fascinat as many royal palaces as homes called Holl, which is officially Pretoria whether they are to 14. They are wearing their n resourceful

described as follows: 1s to be classified white or Sunday best. ing sub-continent of India.

celebrated in March with the coloured (which in this Because of the deadly word, Anuther

They were sent out by the

spraying of coloured water the British was the opening British Council, who have

and passers-by." of a production titled "Shake- cultural commožitles at con- lights whitened the pink walls powder on the clothes of friendis Country means of mixed parents

Edinburgh.

Scot

bad mement

for

in New Delhi the other night genius for exporting the wrong speare or What You Will."

siderable cost to the taxpayer.

DINE IN THE CHINESE WAY While

ENJOY YOUR EVENING IN AN EUROPEAN ATMOSPHERE

Champaque

Every

Д

for citizens.

The City Palace was the one Flood- chosen for the party.

fountains played in the spacious white-liveried, formal gardens, turboned servants bowed low. and dusted the floor with their. turbans as guests passed the main door.

"It

Monkey off!

от

[AZARDS OF HOTEL LIFE,

Excellent Cantonasa Dishes

KESTAURAN

CLUB

Wine Dance Music Lovely Songs by Well Known Vocalists

The effect was slightly spolled hundreds of the monkeys, which by the fact that near the main form as large a section of the as diplomata, door was a small ticket office. Delhi population

a tree in the back The City Palace is now open to leaped from the pubile at certain hours and garden of Maidens Hotel into my bedroom, and left again by at certain prices.

a sheet of Upstairs we

were back in the window with old

Eastern paper on which I had typed a of days

A the splendour. The walls and cell- paragraph for this column. ing of the reception-room glini- monkey of taste.

Was

NIGHT

blood).

The underling

on the

TUGE notices, headed "Achtung!" caused a sifr at West German

The notices listed a number of marriage rules fald down by Defence Minister Franz Josef Strauss for non-conscript officers and men of West Germany's new army, navy and air force.

The rules are as strict as those laid down before and during the war for the man of Hitler's ill-fated Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.

Minister Strauss tells fnlending bridegrooms that they cannot marry until they have completed four years' service.

They must give one month's notice of their marriage to their commanding officers.

and children spend ncorly two hours Rickert rack.

Father ans a wallet stuffed Ho with faded photographs, Ins them out like playing

that

his cards, to show relatives 1oolc white. One Rickert is a mallow, tuneasy yellowing picture is of his

The wedding will be banned by the military authorltics: (1) If the man is found to have outstanding debis exceeding man, I do not think he enjoys brother, killed in action with telling people who have always the South African troops in the

two months' pay. whites that they are 1014 war.

(2) If the wife does not come from a good family or has a 1vod as

Parents and children are bad reputation. Ho winces coloureds from now on.

questioned together. The If, after the wedding, the wife is found to be living "loosely," question.

the husband will be He says: "You must ask my youngest child fidgets while the er is found to have contracted treasonable connections with

family's Eastern Germany or Communist States, study the. I am officials chief (800 miles away).

particulars instantly dismissed the service. only an underling." But this locks, write down

at the simplest

mirtit

until

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Splendour

THE Indian guests were dressed the striking, costumes

men

of the old Rajput Court, the in long, white brocade tunica with curved, silver and orange engraved awards turbans, the women la muli- coloured silk saris.

They were wearing hathpools, which are combination" ringi and bracelets, and which must be useful as weapons when Indian woman has to defend her

honour.

en

In addition to the heals there was a cluster of maharajahs of

and maharanis, a pendant prineos, including the Maha- rajahs of Saremer and Cooch Behar and the Matarani of Dewass,, all enjoying their one

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