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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Former Boxing Champion Is HERR MEYER IS A

BY

Sir Roy Welensky "Ernest Bruin of Africa”

Nyasaland's Premier

Africa con boast no more colourful figure than Sir Roy Welensky, now in his second term as Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

In an astonishingly_chequered career, this burly.20-stone" politician has been a butcher, a baker's boy, a barman, and engine-driver- and professional heavyweight, boxing champion of Rhodesia.

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

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Today he is known as the character, who has developed Ernest Bevin of Africa. Ho an unforced dignity as belts has also been called "high-placed Minister

Crown. second Rhodes"

of the

Sir Roy has been married 30

Sir Roy was born in Salis. years and had a daughter and a d

no longer practises bury, Southern Rhodesia, son. He

in January, 1907-the 13th. boxing, at 51, but he still keeps himself remarkably ft. He docs child of poor Polish half not smoke or drink and spends Jewish immigrants who, in most of his spare time at work the 'eightles, had trekked in his garden, on foot from the Union to Rhodesia,

Roland, as he was then called, went to local schools in Salis bury, until he was 14 years old. Then he had to cut short his education to earn a living,

His first job was as a baker's boy. A year later he was work- ing as a barman lu a göldminers' hotel. He then had a variety

of jobs until, at 17, he decided to make his career on the rail- ways,

Tough Days

Those were tough, boisterous days in Rhodesia and it was useful to be well-versed in the noble art. So Welensky train- od as a boxer in his spare time. At 19, he became heavyweight champion and held the iltle for three years.

S the opposition of the Brevis when I speak lightly or dis

familly driving Vita into respectfully of ping-pong or Foutenough's arms? Come, let us tiddlywinks, A very courteous not get bogged down in a quog- letter from the English Table mire of psychology.

Tennis Association, written more This column, as Corinthian in, in sorrow than in anger, tells

the intention

me that Oxford and Cambridge Choragic olument of Lysicrates in award a half-blue for the game, Athens or the

Vestibule at thus coming half-way to meet Eleusis, but in performance so my repeated demand for a full often

neo-Gothic as

I wonder if there is Bs the blue. station lower of Mullingar quarter-blue for tiddlywinks, or This column seems to be the should I say Floor Terms? asylum of prolonged courtships. Parity The downright declarations ef THEN the point is reached at

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Once he fought an Afrikasner |A who had knocked out one of bis many brothers. He floored blin the the second round and referee stopped to fight to save

Meanwhile, Roland Woleu- sky had become an enrine- driver and an ardent trade unionist. Within a few JOUS he was chairman of the focal rallwaymen's union.

Their

Motto: Classics

Are Good

For You

London.

young Finnish Baron and

a younger English tele- vision director are trying to persuade the British theatre-going public that classics are good for them.

With financial backing from dozen unlikely sources, rang- ing from Poers to students, they are optimistically trylog a trade union leader, to make money by serving up As Welensky could handle any Buechner, Strindberg, Ibsen

Öner confronted and Moliere with emergency. with

of the local touch. a member Fascist movement, he knocked the man down with his fists.

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Welenstry

equally powerful speaker and, just be- fore the war, he went into politics with immediate SUC-

cess. He represented Broken Hill, D railway-junction town, in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia.

In · 1941 be formed the Northern Rhodesia Labour Panty. During the war he was oppointed. Director of Manpower, mobilising Rhodesia's labour re- sources for the war effort.

Sir Roy spent many yORIT In 'opposition. Then, with the coming of the Federation, be was given high office by the first Federal Prime Minister, Lord MalverTL.

Never Satisfied

His first Cabinet post was s Minister. of Transport in 1953, As such he was hoverentiated with inspecting new locomotives Ho would drive them himself and give an ex- pert opinion on their perfor-

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In 1953, Welensky kaizhled But he all con- to live in raliway bungalow and hold court

tinued

overy Sunday, hearing all the

modern

Co-director Casper Wrede says, "There's a great interest in psychological drama now. and that's just what Ibsen and Strindberg can give."

"Lyric"

And, deliberately or by ac- ellent, they've picked just the right theatre for Itthe cobwebby, flaky-painted Lyric Opera House in suburban Ham- morsmith, tucked, between the nolsy street market and the railway,

But the Lyric has been the home of same of the finest Lbentriest production of the century.

remember the

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Fan's still revue Riverside Nights, famous production of Dryden's All For Love,

stunning Gielgud season a few years ago and many other shows which have gone on to the West End or have died gloriously at the Loric-UP.I.

BB THE gre

FOR TODA

The son of man came not

grievances of the local copper to be ministered unto, but miners.

Matthew 20:28.

to minister, and to give his Sir Rox became Leader ofte a ransom for many,---- the House and Deputy Prime Minister in 1935. In November of the following year he became Prime Miniter and Minister of External Affairs and Defence.

Today, this sett-made man remains Q Kay:

good-natured

The strong owe a debt to the weak. We too should minister to those in need. Can a espigania

In Chennati, Ohio.

He Calls

Himself

Prince Of

Hoaxers

Residents of

London. klampetrud,

mon! cosmopolitan borough of London, claim it deserves the reputation that Chelsea in fact has

And Pierre Levens is one

characters of the

who go suno way to justifying their ebalm,

11J

Florze it was who last week phoned Victoria station, told them ho WAN

atomic physicist and by mistake had left a radioactive canister in one of the left-inggage roomE

As polles and g@iger-counter carrying solenthits moved in to shut down the rooms for a search, hundreds of pame) – gers missed their irains while they waited.

RED MILLIONAIRE

Berlin.

Herr Otto Meyer has a luxurious bungalow-type home, an elegant wife and a big, shiny black car. He serves dry martinis at 630 and spends his holidays on the Riviera. Herr Meyer is a millionaire living comfortably in Com-

munist East Germany.

He can do this because East German leader Walter Ulbrient is busy, copying the idens of his Chinese counterpart Mao. Tsu- tung,

Red millionaires are one of Mao's inventiona

“It's a ruarvellous Institu- tion," East German Com.

muniat officials say.

So far, It has worked, very

well..

Herr Meyer's story 18 En cxample,

Cotton Mill

He owns a cotton mill in

small town near Berlin.

One day in 1957 Meyer went

The Most

|Privileged Publicans

In London

London.

to see the local manager of his The Queen, who has never

state-controlled bank. He ask-

ed for a loan to replace hla

worn-out machinery.

"Sorry," the bank manager-

said "No luans. But I am authorised to offer

You

set foot in a pub, may not

know it but one of her Arst acts as Queen was to

license Ave public houses. The occasion that brought

the

state partnership. The Ave, London pub owners to Government is prepared to Buckingham Palace Invest in your firts and to morning of February 0, 1652, become a part owner. Tou, only a few hours after the late continue L partner And King George V's death, was the annual ccnsing meeting of pubs that "vergo Meyer palace."

manager. How about it?"

"I'll think it over" sald.

the

The five pub owners that ap

During the following weeks peared then as their predeces and months he encountered all sors have done overy February

sorts of difficulties,

Finally,

000

and

of his key machines broke down. had to be replaced,

When he cabled a machinery plant he was told that this type of machine would not be available

for another months. And he would have to pay cust.

Next morning Mayer went 'to' ece the bank manager,

Partnership

for the past three centuries-- the most privileged · in London,

Are

in

Not only do they manage to steal

of the * glimpse palace

receiving their annual Uquor licenses, › but they do not have to pay for them.

Almost every other publient

in Britain today. does.

"Green Cloth”

"Palace publicans today, a they have done sines the 17th century, appear at the palace He applied for a state part- by command of the "Board of nership.

Three days later he received Another lotter from the They had machinery plant. a machine of the type be required immediately avall

able, the letter said.

of

Deferred payment terms, course, the letter added.

Otto Meyer, capitalist and millionaire, had become business, partner of the Communist Government,

Advantages

The arrangement has its ad- vantages for both partnera,

Green Cloth.**

"Don't ask me the origin of the board's name," said Edgar George Holles, owner of the Silver Cross, the oldest of the "palace pube," as he slipped his eleven o'clock glass of hock.

"The most popular theory in that the board consisted of the palace ontorers who met table covered with around green cloth.”

The board started operations from Whitehall Palace back in the days of the late King Charles E.

In those days It had the powen to punish by death any subject of tho klog who ran counter to

The government profits from palace orders, | Meyer's experience and initin- tive. He is well liked by his workers

A Power

But the self-styled "Prince fioulŝies with their workers. Besidespre concernois

of Hoaxerg" very funny.

thinks it was

He also think it was very funny when he: posed as A secret agent in North Africa; wold a worthless picture to a Paris magazine for £500; posed as an oil tycoon at the Savoy, and offered a £200.- 000 cheque to the National Gallery: and posed again as a secret agent when he was. picked UD EN a vagrant fa Switzerland.

And today the board, admin- There is no labour trouble istered by the Keeper of the cotton mill, while Queen's Household, remains a state-owned fotocles in East power at least as far as the Ava Germany frequently have pub owners, who operate within walking distance of Buckingham Meyer, meanwhile, has to

Local police and health in- share his profit with the Gov-spectors annually report to the ernment. But he also gets a bench of The Board of Green bigh salary as manager of his Cloth on the condition and be own plant of the live devi

There is no longer

any pub The Silver Croes, the Ship, trouble with the bank, the tax the Shade, Clarance, and White-

state Import hall Court.

office agency.

or the

Whenever ho noods A loan, 'the bank offers to to- crease its, capital share in his plant by another five exten per cent.

Meyer does not reject offer.

Ho enjoys life as a Pindoro shows Levena la milfonaire while it lasts, Hamaplead with his favoured He knows they don't Instrument for hoaxer-acocktails in West. German telephone.--Express Photo. fugee camps--U.P.I.

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Hailes sald be thought that the Silver Cross was the oldest public house in the country.

"The other palace pubs all were rebuilt

Whitebali Palace was burned down in 1608."

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