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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1958.

SIR GRANTLEY HERBERT ADAMS

"Give me Britain

every time”

By SIMON KAVANAUGH

third of Ove sons and two when that happens to be in one daughters of a Nego school- of his own people. Runster, Fitzherbert Adams,

He enjoyed the best enduca- Bon Barbados

Today, at the peak of his poli- tical career, Sir Grantley can claim more genuine Si probably could offer:

affection throughout the British Giles (where his father was Caribbean than any other West headmaster) and Harrison Jadian. He is often called "the

where he College,

studied grand old man of West Indian

classics and played a promising. polities." game of cricket. Then, at 21, he

the swirling tide of British Caribbean polities, Sir guiled off to England and Oxford

renson and respectability,

bean leaders Mantey and He was a clever.

It is a paradox that three million West Indians should williams. have elected him to be the first Prime Minister of that serious student, well-behaved wide are of colonies which, now federated, will in time and a stickler for tradition. became a fully independent nation within the British Commonwealth.

Everything The Monds' tur-

bulent

history, their hot, Barbados.

It contrasts strong-

personality-dominated polities, is with the Americanised ways

Beir flamboyaner--pointed

Sir Grantley as the the least likely to succeed.

For Jamaica's

by

of Trinidad and Jamaica,

But then Barbados is like a trans contrast with piece of, nurut SussEX" impressively band- planted in the Caribbean.

Rome Normas Washington has a temperate elimate and Muley and Trinidad's sourly brilliant Dr (of philosophy) Eric fertile soll Williams, Barbadea Adems has confortable yearly 60 toenes

Bite crowd appeal.

ruin,

A few years and a B.A. later, ambitious Grantley a quietly

Barbados tint! to returned determinedly set about getting

House the

of himself into

he falled. Assembly. Twice On the third attempt, with the backing of an influential land- owner, be got in. And he has

ever been ut sinee.

Grantley

a

is watered by

of

During the nine-year wall for political recognition. 0

ised journalism. Adams studied law

and prac AL 27,

he

to:

He Is stolid, dotir, deliberales-

Politics have a way of being pale carnation among the

Bos in hot places. Trinidad, uchida of West Indian polities

lding, with a high, domed fearest the Equator and Just off forehead, large worried eyes and the mainland of South America,

Darely disceruible toothbrush vibrato: with conflicting fac motistucly,

Jamics, largest island In the sellerei Federal group, has often beard unpartamen- tay language in its legislature.

S

the

And yet today, he is political spokesman tur the gayest, mont mercurial people the whole of the British Commonwealth.

tor

Popular

Not Barbados. Over i blows 4 be of respectability. It

was

writing editorials Barbados' only dally newspaper, the "Advocate." AL 29. he the was appointed editor of

and struggling under-staffed "Agricultural Reporter,"

KIA entrance Into the Assembly gave no hint of the future labour champion. For. In 1934, he was the pllome of bourgeois respectability - Liberal

has a deep pride-in-lts-317-year- .But his cutlook had to change old Parliament---third oldest in he was to succeed pollitently.

(after Bri- He SWEDE

the Commonwealth

of

1

Reluctant

Other people are unhappy, 100. For the Federation's first Premier |: not the bold, dynamic figure that some West Indiána in hurry want for o leader. He does not promise any adventurous legislation, for the Federation is a nebulous thing, a power with little money and we home (the struggle still over Clinguaramne XUS which the US. wants to keep us abuse and the Federation want for a capital)

Sir Grantley wants Federal politics to settle down, to forge the new sold Caribbean nation that will lean close to Canada and earn the respect of the world.

But, for all that, he is a 're- luctant leader of Federallon. He is uncomfort- ably aware that he has taken a calculated risk in leaving Bar- bades at a time when his poit- ticul opponents. SITE Lecoming more powerful to enter the Federal Legislature (stand and federal politics, curiously enough, ephnul mix)-a risk which he could not bring himself to ac- rept until the last moment.

hardest task

will

SOMETHING TO SHOUT

ABOUT

This graph by Michael Rand shows the foop in the output of the British worker per man-power compared with 1939. The figures are for 1956 and are the latest available,

B

Pre-war 100

Figures for 1956

USA

148

Sweden

136

Britain

135

Austria

126

Belgium

121

France 118

Germany 117

Holland 114

Britain's output is soaring high

RITAIN is not a collec-

tion of "has-been; Come on, Britain! fined on British machinery

there is plenty of justifica- tion for trumpet-blowing.

These are the themes of The Review of British teors. Annual

Start blowing that

big trumpet

Amerienn dollar notes ara

And so on.

Britons work harder than most, says the review,

1/2

A million more people work than 10 British factories years ago and output has risen much of 18 over 40 per cent, through higher output per man. Wog A copy of the review given to the U.S. Ambassador, "Jack" Whitney, and the Canadion High Commissioner. Mr George Drew, by Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary.

There are still fierce Inter-

and island Jealousies There have been threats of Industry, 1958, published re- withdrawal from the new usso- cently. ciation. Possibly Sir Grantley's Amerien, 11 seems, does not

componrais. British made much Britain be to keep understand how

transmission lines hre Hard these dissidents rensonbly has contributed to wards

for new generating stations. high America's efficiency and happy.

British cable was chosen for standard of living. It would have been easier to

Trans-Atlantic tele- Aust the new Britain invented the It will not be easy. Even midate Jantaien's Muntey, who

A radio telescope first phone line. material and the pinstie is Island be survives the sailles of a

most #milar to that

Jarrell decried to stay and continue the political strong pnti-Socialist opposition, artifelal silk. America's

Line In man-mado Bank is to be constructed in

The Annual Review of Bri- a'ruggle with his spectacular he will still have to withstund popular

Alexander Busta- the pressure of these Westbres la British under another the United States by the Bri cousin, Sir

Ush engineers who designed 11. ish Industry, 1938, compiled by mante, o Trinidad's Willares, Indians who are in a hurry to

Many machines In American the Economist. Intelligence Unli; Most American broadcast who is constantly harassed by crash through the barrier to full

networks use

British tebacco factories are British, Wingate, 426. the influentint Albert Gomes.

independence.

name.

What's begun

the boys

Into

of the Ilde feeling, turned has to the mille and

("W

DEN hus had its first. night of the home-mado cu: deliberately. some of homb.

fain and Bermuda)---and an air popular

superforily over its more, tympathies volatile Federallon puriners.

Sir

Governor

He was born in Barbades on This rentiment is typical of April 28, 1898-60 years to the tlos

miles) week before Federation - the (100 square

lower income troups.

ふじ。

that when Labour

workers depression-hit sugar ricted he was blamed for in- cling the violence,

end

on 1

Worry

out

many

to happen to here in Aden

by GEOFFREY THURSBY

played in burning-hot Lohej in

for

is necessary

It might just as well have have been saying: "It couldn't On the frontier women in happen here." Nu Commonwealth Premier

been two British Jured that night; for the Blue with Yemen, yes, they said, but mure popular among the

Bay is the sort of place where not In Aden, hard-worked civil servants in

drop in

There is usually some degree with their scldiers The us, to term an urganisation of Grantley Adams is

The bumb.game with the wives for a drink on Saturday. It is no usc_wrungling over case of trouble, -Belts$0!~Gulonial Ofice For

of 1-feeling between soldiers. -whut-people have thought ____ki 00-year-old Queen's Coarse le bortiment of the Barbadian-on-ort of unather to preach

and pubiicions i fis is vorzo – character, Though his piosey That the ranchise strould-be-Arai feast breakfast, to night.

Any of these troops e:u be than usual, Grantley is

unushamed ah

bomb sometimes

but the the the

of the

past, startle lewered.")

mark

The sign chalked up outside anglophil and courteous negotiatements

Whitehall ("I was up agains...ƒ

Mosler fasting month of

saya: "Iced in the Blue Buy must have dis- used in Aden to keep order

if they are needed blackboard

such An officer told me ercelyt mountain, and today my.ro- Before the Second World

If We things as riots and demonstrave wil Ramadan, when no Moslem beer, cold ham, Wail's ice- pelled people's doubts.

neve. ke: any- He makes hu seer af histonship with the

chocolates are going to prevent this thing tions, but a larger top-notch

where aut here dealing with Ata (of Barbados) is exactly the war, he was so strongly seats from sunrise to sunset. cream, Easter eggs, affection for brain.

and sweets, eggs und Ehips.". from developing and I believe civil police force

wars until meeting of the United Nations relationship of Mr Macmillan

Make no mistake, this bomb

we can we need to do some to work with the troops to deal terrorism or small ia Paris, he told the Russians, and Queeri -Elizabeth",)

the soldier feels that he is be with bomb-throwing terrorism. into car wa pilched from u

thing about the police forec,

by ing backed

the politicians the Blue Bay "Give me Britnus every time."

the entrance of

Someone has to think hard- the There

with heter and restaurant (with shop

are now,

and quickly. Besides British at home, During the

years, war

attached) in the souvenir

lives, BritisÌt his position consolidated

Could deal with a big reinforcements of a battalion of

We

"Something of bomb-throwing the Yorks and Lones and stake in Aden. Labour champton, and in 1945 haunts of Aden with one pur-

somewhere, was elected

to kill British Ser- outbreak of the pose only: president

Lerrorism it comes?

two companies of the King's

like it, Service people Who all-powerful Caribbean Labour Viteten,

The civil police force la Aden Shropshire Light Infantry, more

have to make decisions locally Congress. The next year, by

Two Bors were injured. It is just not genred to deal with

than 4,000 Service people

are often a bit frightened de- virtue of his quietly impressive

beth worse, but a rash of bomb-throwing. This Buthority, he was Premier of might have

on the force, Aden, but they may be needed

a feeling that. One of the most any moment to deal with possi-

worrying cause they have Barbados in all but nume. Eight this. I think, is the beginning, is no reflection

force with par ble trouble in places It is a good not the end.

like the things is the bitterness of some they might not be backed years drter he got that too,

tleularly good British officers. Sullanate of Lahel, 20 miles of the troops about the pull home by the politicians. 1957, he was knighted.

does not lead fclans in London. officer north-east of Aden, where we

action." Egypilan pald mall colcnfal grabbed an snd: "It is

D lo do the

Everyone is cuter other day. Two a limited gilater

write As I

now. shattered force struggling on

Lop agitators we were good job for Britain, but some budget. How could it deal with more

of the men-and after got away.

ometrs-feel glass is ginting' in the sun out- a big outbreak of terrorism?"

that whatever they do they will ade the Blao ay bar. I hope For too long too many people A company of the Buffs be "let down" by the politic- ne refecten will be in the administration in Aden (Royal East Kents) is still dt- fans.

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In

Grantley Adams owes much of his success to the West Happy- Indiant temperament, go-lucky and colourful as he is,

This new aspect of the with the frontier fight Russian-armed Yemen now united with Egypt,

The

dunger has travelled the West Indian in the street south, into the heart of Aden- has an inherent respect for in-emeng them British women and tellectual stature cepecially children.

But

a.s

*

colonial

fal

It looks like Laycock

having to take over

EFORE God I say we are right. If we choose to

"Be towards we shall most certainly be cursed by

our children, and our children's children."

So says Mr Dom Mintoll, resigning as Premier of Malta, in one of the most virulent attacks that even he has ever launched against the country with which he once advocated the closest of associations,

Indeed this is a tragedy that whether Indeed he actually ever the one country which since the desired

The public must view with a certain amazement this change of relationship with its back

the reolisation of this.

business

is

Backing

BACKGROUND TO THE NEWS FROM

MALTA... BY LORD LAMBTON, MP

FRIEND

Then there

down his

House of Lords and Prime

at

Londen.

has gone wrong It used not to be.

at

That

to decisivo

BUCU lo

AKO

no alternative but for Sir Robert present time negotiations Laycock to ask for Emergency going on bolween Smiths Docks Powers to carry on the Govern and another great industriai a ment.

firm to take over the dockyards, - a commercini business.

war has seemed to desire a ambition, but merely used the he went to Windsor to plant a and is a man of impartiality and

sden as a lever to consolidate his memorial tree, he walled his integrity. closer union with us should now position and draw more money

1urn end then laid

What then is likely to hap- be in the throes of a bitterly from the British Government.

spade in protest.

pen? What may well be pnti-British crisis.

straw in the wind of Mr Min- Then there is Dr Borg Olivier,

That this will cause further the former Prime Minister and

toff's intentions is his attempted disturbances is almost inevitable The present dlaturbansco reconciliation with the Church and the election will be fought, may make them change their Leader of the Nationalist, Party,

R Miss Mabel by the handing over of the two on

and false minds, misconceptions

and what

then for with 17 out of 40 seats of the Legislative Assembly. It is im- Strickland, whose father was Caravaggio paintings, for if he Issues inflamed by the political Malta? Italy, who has Jand ground of riots, accusations, and possible to Imagine him of an both a member of the English wishes to carry his threats of background. It is difficult not cast covetous eyes its direc- Incidents. It is of interest to alternative Prime Minister in

to the limit, he to believe that Mintoff has not tion, has a lower standard of of Malta, who owns extremism examine the personalities in this time of strife. A subtle lawyer, Minister

put his own personal ambitions ving and

3,000,000

has tragedy.

rather than a man of action, he the local newspaper, who lends would wish to have no cut-

and pride before the interests of employed.. America

do- has neither the character

dispute with a splinter party, who has more standing

the-country,

clined to interfere. To allow the standing effectively to op- courage than any political figure Church.

Malta-to enter the Soviet orbit pose Mintof

If this is his intention, and' THE FUTURE

Is s'rategically unthinkable. he goes all out for a General

In fact, there is little doubt Election on the alternative of

or other, until that ono way Malta is a small and rocky calmer lmes prevall, the rule island, independence and integration, it

doubtful whether Island. Its use as a port has of the island will once arain with his scat in the Abbey he Sir Robert Laycock, had the is extremely

diminished. Its be carried on by a British Indeed, one cannot help won- walled hla opportunity, and personal friendship of all these Dr Olivier could, or would, all considerably

war- the gap of forming an interim future must lie in development Governor. dering, looking back over the when, along with the other leading figures, was tho

be by private enterprise, At the

London Exprem Service), incidents of the last few years, Commonwealth Prime Ministers, time leader of the Commandos, government, so there will

There is Dom Mintoff himself who has always advocated in tegration, yet kas always at the Jast moment made some extra dethand од an extraordinary patient Colonial Secretary.

nor

in the island, but whose political influence is reduced by her in- A story illustrative of his ability to speak Malleso. personality is told of the Lime

The Governor of the

of the Coronation. Displeased

the

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