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***THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958.

ALL QUIET-BUT THE TRUTH IS HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE

NOTTING

HILL on a crisp. December morning looks drab, but tranquil. You are bound to notice the legion of West Indians going about the streets. You could forget easily the bitter race rioting which shamed the district just three months ago.

The truth is hidden beneath the surface. Noting Hill in fact still simmers with pre- judice, distrust, and oven fear. Violence still lingers, in sudden, smell outbreaks at night.

In quiet St Mark's Road, near the centre

of the riot aren, I found Mr Roy Lando look. ing at his patched-up shopfront. He is a hair- dresser from Jamaica,

In four years he has created n In recent Courishing business, months his shop has been attack- ed seven times.

Something simmering at Notting Hill

The Mayor of Kensington has inllinted a campaign to ease the tension. A verloty of welfare The are busy. organisations police, are ready for swift action,

But anyone who knows the arca knows the toughness of the problem, the high walls of fear to be sure- suspicion and mounted.

Prejudice

The attacks did not stop when the mass rioting way subdued, The last attack was only Ju month-go. On that night his persecutors. smashed his win dows as usual and then threw in a petrol bomb to start a fire.

"Now my insurance company have asked me to surrender my policy," Mr Lando told mc, And my business has suffered terribly. I have just dismissed

I went the other evening to a two of my staff.

youth club in the heart of the The worden, Mr A. "Women customers are being itot area. scared off. Apart from the vio-Briggs u cheerful and evidently- lence, they don't like Teddy boys devoted man, told me the way

at his post-riot programme shouting spade' or 'darkle' them in, the street."

going.

Anxious

This sounds. grimly unlike the London must of us know, yet it is only a few minutes' walk from the candle-lit dining-rooms of prosperous Kensington.

Wos

"We are trying to din into the boys," he said, "that violence will not get them anywhere. It is all we can do for the first step. Later we will try to break colon de prejudice against coloured people.

The prejudice is terrific. You Happily Mr Lando's experi- might think I could try mixing ence is exceptional. Since the the races here. Impossible. The Tots were quelled, only a few of boys say they will not have a the 5,000 West Indians in the coloured person in the place," district have suffered as he has,

Some

members of this club ore But through the community still in prison for their part in TURS

on anxiety that the

the riota. business may break out again.

In recent days, in many talks I have had in Notting Hill, this anxiety has emerged plainly.

Nothing has changed really... It could all happen again.

The heavy sentences on rioters were undoubtedly a deterrent, but they have also, in a way, contributed to the present ten- sion. There is a resentful feol- Ing among many white people

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that four-year gaol sentences on youthe were excessive.

Sir Oswald Morley's followers, who naturally are busy in the area, are supporting a campaign to ask for the sentences to be cut.

The notion that white youths were "victimised" feeds proju- dice; so a group

coloured people in Notting Hills are showing good sense and tolera

before the West Indians arrived. The criminal population is high, in parts at least. And the aver age Intelligence in these "diff. cult" sections is low, with literacy and

poor a reported among the young people in ex- ceptional proportions.

There is a long history

profitable of

lon by organising their own West Indian petition against the four-year sentences.

There is no simple explanation

the state of Nolling Hill today. That is what makes the problem so intract- able

for

affairs

in

Notting Hill was sorely over- crowded before the West Indian immigrants began arriying about five years ago. Now the popula- tion is one-tenth coloured.

Any such rapid indux in this kind of area would have led to trouble. The West Indians; be- cause of their "high visibility" as the sociologists make an easy target for resent meat and envy as they compete for houses and jobs.

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of

and vice; brothels prostitution have long flourished in the neighbourhood. Housing cordilions, in apite of con- siderable post-war building, are often appalling.

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Take this mess, and spill into it in a few years, thousands of iromigrants with some notice ably different ways-and the re- cult was almost bound to be an explosiva mixture, -

Vice

It exploded three months ego. And since that shock there has not been much advance towards harmony.

Many of the white people still almost any- believe willingly thing bad about the Immigrants.

they You are often told Notting Hill was problem making fortunes out of organis- neighbourhood in other ways ing prostitution, for example.

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BAYER

PRINCE RAINIER, replying to questions in New

York about a possible third little Rainier, replied: "Pure invention. Two are enough." He did not say whether Princess Grace shared this view.

ARE two enough? Is father, mother, boy, girl, like the Rainiers, a perfect-sized family?

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fussed-over,

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are

MAKE

FAMILY?

Or they both feel they could not give more children the up- bringing and education they them-public like for would

schools for the boys, trips abroad, decent clothes and all the rest of it.

Personally, I think it is open spend most of his time with his question. Most people will father or the other way round. agree that the only child is not

Jealousy of the second on the the happiest: he tends to be

port of the first is not easily Or they just do not like lonely, too much

avoided, according to many children, (None of these reasons far shyor than members of child specialists, without exeep- seems to apply to the Rainiers, large bouncing families: he is tional love and tact on the so there must be others.) not so good at mixing with part of the parents. other children and is much less Independent,

The signs

At my

A NEW REPORT ON

Yet at Kensington Town Hall. I was assured: "We prosecute anyone who comes along, and they are nearly all white people.. Vice is not at all coloured problem."

However, Mr Lando, the man whoso shop has been repeatedly attacked, told me: "I don't own a car. I would not have one. If a coloured man here has a car. he is called a ponce."

AN OLD TROUBLE

SPOT

Bullock, warden of North Ken- wington Community Centre. " is not only race. The youths are Just ready for anything where aro excitement and violence

the concerned. It is a sign of times."

Exciting

The Rev. Ronald Arthur, vicar of the parish where the worst him. rloting took place, echoed "The disturbances were foment-. ed by young hooligans, some from other districts," he said.

"Part of it was the desire for dangerous excitement. That is what they live on, half of them, these days. I would not like to say it will not happen again."

Perhaps it will not happen again. It may be a long time dis- before we can be sure..

Housing is the real core of problem jealousy over accom- modation, too-close proximity. Sald one

social worker: "It 6,000 houses were suddenly built, the trouble would soon appear."

In the present congested con- ditions the two communities clash casily. West Indians com- plain of racial snubs. people complain of noisy calypso parties

New danger

Meanwhile there is one fresh the White danger drawing nearer all

time. Thore are? almost no coloured adolescents in Notting Hill today. In a few years there will be many,

which lost all night. Welfare workers are trying to case these frictions, and Kensin-

Then, if gangs

of coloured ton Borough Council is about to appoint its own col

coloured wel- youths should form to oppose fare officer to help..

the white street gangs, there will But cutting down the noise be a new and sinister turn to from parties is not going to end the story of violence in Notting Notting Hill's problems.

HOI.

After all other considerations, there remain the unaccomtable elements the strong racial pre- judice; the attraction of violence and lawlessness for the Teddy boys of the mean streets.

"We have a real youth prob- lem, you know," said Mr Albert

We must be ready for that day," said all the social workers and local government officials to whom I spoke, "We must be."

in After what I have seen Notting Hill, I fervently hope they will be.

-(London Express Service).

by BARBARA GRIGGS

Look, they say, at Lord Mont- gomery, one of a family of nine, and utterly wretched as a child.

Independence--and there comes into their shells by terror or a time when the most persuasive dislike or shyness, are "Darling will you be - an- angel and run upstairs?" kind of request brings a flat refusal from hitherto amentiblo sister-slaves.

arguments against them usually incomprehensible.

What better preparation for life, they say, than being a member of a large family? You learn to give and take. If you are silly or affected, the scorn and ridicule of brothers and knocks it out of sisters soon you.

Early lesson

And fun

Large families come glorious ly into their own at Christmas and during holidays: while the People in favour of small

lonely only child is still being asked what happened to Parents keep their families familles are fond of pointing to

that nice little boy-next- down to one or two

for the highly-populated Mediter-

No one allows you to have door, or being jollied out of the various reasons. They feel ranean countries. ("When I was moods, and if you have them, way by uncles who want they do not want to col down in Naples... this argument you indulge them at your peril. smoke their cigars in peace. on life's little luxuries.

always begins.)

bourding school you could pick out These only-

mile off-for feetly

children a those reasons.

whose

drink.

They ask, you to look at those They are living in. a per-

nice flat and more shockingly poor families, dress- ed in rogs, mothers worn out moving children, would mean

father by years of childbirth, to a house. They want to, en- They were, on the other hand, joy being together without ton without a sou for an occasional

strings of wet napples, the children

parents many descended most frequently to howling babies or children run- take them out for enormous ning around all the time. teas; they got more parcels and long loving letters, and they were always, Independent,

always,

much

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children and husband.

The wife is of frall health- Also, of course, their uni-

er feels she cannot cope with forms were always brand- new. No dreary old handed- all the work Involved in house,. downs for them, the lucky things-nt school, the infalit- ble sign of the large-family child.

ΣΥΝΟ children are not very much better off. If they quarrel there is no third to come be- tween them and patch up the row or soothe them down--no cosy plots or conspiracies,

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