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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959.

DRAWING BY: ROBB

hot subject this time!

by MERRICK WINN

THE PROBLEMS of the mentally sick, the men in prison, the old people who have been forgotten.....these MERRICK WINN has investigated and spotlighted brilliantly, in the China Mail. TODAY he begins the result of a probe into one of the most shunned subjects of all in Britain today: mixed marriages.

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HE night was black and the black people walked faceless in the streets of dying houses. It rained, on the white people too, but the blacks seemed wetter. Or sadder. This was Brixton, the coloured part.

to

belioving all white women be wauto inside too because that Is how they are, or seem to be, back home.

He carnot meet "good" women because they do not want him cr are afraid to want han; or are 100 ignorant to know the difference between Jilin or A swage or Simon

Legree.

So he meets the women

who do want him because no

one else wants them; be-

CRUSE they too are human

someone and

The whites and the blacks walked mostly apurt, but not "Some of my best friends and need self-consciously, and a few bobbed along together. Black man, are coloured but can't feel 'white woman. Less often: white man, black woman. The mixed it quite right for them to marry roof over their head. marrloge. Or the mixed unlon, since wedding rings sometimes white wonen. It Germs 143

lle.

I went to one of the clubs cailed social clubs, down in a chubby basement, where the black faces showed flat and shiny, but not shabby, and the nutmeg volces talked.

"So you're

looking into theories and their thimbleful of mixed marriages, Mr Winnt facts. Now I know practically What do you expect to find? nothing. Look. there's

mixed 110 marriage problem, only colour problem.

"People fall in love, itina don't matter, that's all there is. Why do you bother?"

The juke box suited for six- penoe, get it, and the rock rolled on. Why did I bother? I explained, shouting, drowned in Jazz.

I said every seedy race-hater keeps up his nurrow sleeve the last-ditch seedy question:-

Would you let your

doughter marry a black

man?

I pata that it it turns out that mixed marriages fare no worse than other marriages the ruce. halers have one fem leg to stand on. Caught on the hop. Hence tay mission..

No show-off

natural."

Knockerless

goat and green bananas bolled like marrow, and said:-

"I've got to help my husband be the best man he con be because men are better Worners andź," because hơ's black, he must be that much better them I am.”

Warning

In Liverpool, too, I perched on a stool and drank coffee and argued with two West Indians, both peacefully married to white wires.

Ted Ansel, the boxer, and Tillman Klinhans, secretary of Liverpool's West Indian Federa- tion Society.

So Many Crime-Waves On The

The Rolling Main

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NEWS that latter-day pirates in high-speed motor boats are active In the area of the Philippine Islands introduces a fresh twist to an old, old story—a story much older than most people realise the story of a recurrent 'crime-wave which is probably as ancient in its origins (or almost as ancient) as the trade of mariner.

Most of us tend to associate piracy with the 17th and 18t centuries, with such areas as the | Spanish Main and such grím

customs ar welking the plank, or with the notorious Barbary Coast of North Africa where lawlessness nt sen flourished till a later date and luckless Euro- pean travellers were carried out Into slavery,

There has been, evidence to show that pirates were operating in the days of the Phoenicians, the famed traders of ancient times who hailed originally from the eastern end of the Mediter- ranean and who frat Agute in world history about sixteen hundred years before the birth of Christ,

The Greeks, apparently, had a natural genius for piracy-or | at any rate some of them did.

Robbery on the high song was

rampant particularly

during Rome's rise to power, and it is recorded that the great Jutlus Caesar was the central figure in a misadventure with an outlaw band of maritime rovers when he was a young man.

He fell foul of these pirates curing one of his journeys, was seized by them and held prisoner Until arrangements for a ransom could be concluded.

The sea-robbers collegied the

of their

Was

By A.

Robertson

the "brain" behind the backing); the end came in the organisation of sea-rovers who form of death in a sea-fight, or ware preying so systematically in footloose fashion at the end on lawfaj shipping. The pirate of a hongman's rope. How captains brought him the loot, realised their dream of wealth. which he disposed of through contacts who asked no ques. lons.

Captain John Avery, who took

There were exceptions like

prize with hundred thousand pieces-of-eight aboard het, lived ilke a king for a time-büt died In want after being swindled out The daughters had their of his unlawful fortune by a part to play in the ring. Whea group of sharp-witted business- the cupisins came ashore the men. Avery learned the hard irls saw to 1 that they were lesson that pirates had their kept happy, and play counterparts on dry land and in sweethearts to thom in the humdrum world of ledgers Bucoesalon.

and office-desks; shifty charac- tera who didn't neat shot or cold stool to relieve you of your cash.

When the waters of north- western Europe became 100

There WIS also Captain keenly patrolled to provide much

portunity for piracy, the law Misson, a Frenchman, well-born men headed across the Atlantic. of an idealist. After lining his less clements among sen-faring and intellectual, and something

Thus the West Indies and other pockets as a pirate ho ultimately

Madagascar areas such as New England were settled in

and soon made familiar with these reigned for years ever a sort of auffians, who had no liking for Utopian republie

which he hard work and its modest re- established there. wards, but hankered atier an What spelled the end for undisciplined life that offered large-scale piracy in most parts more excitement and the of the world were the inventions possibility of sudden riches. of the steamship and telegraphic Some pirates were disbanded communication, and the moblišty

British acels, who, thrown on authorities, ransom all right, but had little Navy men from the French and these gave to law enforcement opportunity to enjoy the fruits the scrap-heap in times of It is, however, on mobility that after his release Julius Caesar for the recruitment of craws tre today relying for the success enterprise; for soon peace, were natural candidates the sea-rovers of Manila Bay tracked them down with a force for ships that sailed under the of soldiery and rounded them Skull and Crossbones.

were forthwith

Ted Ansel reckoned 75 per

up. They cont of mixed marriages are

crucilled. happy, and Tillman Klinhone said only 50 per cent.

Centuries later, the Norsemen 1 Bald I had no idea, and did not see

made their mark as pirates and terrorised how they could have,

the peoples around the coasts of Scotland, England, Sald Mr

"My Wales, Ireland, France and other society is going to meet

now funds in north-west Europa. West Indian Immigrants and Several hundred years after the warn them against undesirable Vikings had vanished from the then it scene, the waters around Franco Maybe will be more like 75 per cent.” and the British Isles again be-

came infested with pirates-

Prejudice. But mung serious people feel the same, to their regrot, not knowing why. There

The "bad" women The is something deep here, not

white trash, the eulcasts, the rational, perhaps, dangerous.

at the end of the The white man's God is not prostitutes black but his devil is. And the vent; or, depending how you race-hater must cast out his look at it, the despairing, beaten

women who got trapped in the white women, are in devils, on to black people tr

Jown enought to be blackened and

or any people helpless dirt. despised. Lest he despise han self.

I don't even know how many

there mixed marriages Britain because the Registrar- General, rightly, does rul dis- csinate. Blacks, whites, Jews,

Gentiles go down in the books as then and women,

Unnatural

But I do know this: there

are more mixed marriages than most whites or blacks dream of. And their number is increasing.

Consider. There are between 200,000 and 250,000 coloured people in Britama bewilder Ing variety of mees which most of 419.can cope with only by

black. lumping all as

In necurately but not offensively.

Take just the 120,000 West

are women,

A Nigerian, very black, slopped Indichs. Only 40,000 of them pale palmi together, · get-

But the truth is this. There is nothing unnatural, er biologi

enlly

like this, all the better for being I crime atross some marriages

class, all the better for going on. broken, but many mere, lower- Married ugliness, and beauty

offensive, in lxod are more than skin deep, marrying. It is not true that black people are mentally or

humanly inferior to the pink

grey people we call white:

It is not true elther

that black men are stronger, OS

better lovers, as many white men think. This sexual jealousy is devils' work, rooted in non-

sense.

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Inside too

But the Manchester doctor

was cut wire when he said: "It

ve

a mixed couple murry or together out of

their Close the result is always disastrous."

Not always. I knocked with my knuckles on a knockerless door in Liverpool--knockerless because black people are apt not to mind about their homes out- side and if a knocker falls off it stays off.

Inside it is usually different.

Klinhone:

Maybe. But the pirates who were almost all

answer was this: why were uncovered during the first question nobody could united in one powerful associa- lion, the ramifications,of which do black and white fall decade of the re

Then suspicion fell on an

in love anyway? It's an Irishman who was living in the important question grand manner with a bevy of

as

I'll show you in another article.

~(London Exprata Service).

prelty daughters, and whose

visible means of subsistence did not seem to match up with his fabulously extravagant mode of existence. It transpired, that he

A POLICEMAN'S LOT

the two races in tw children. Like this one, Neat, scrubbed, PETER BURGOYNE'S.

And it is not true that mixed marriages produce the worst of

Seme evidence good to be in. There is even

better may produce they children, Taller,

intel- more ligent, more fertile parents.

Most of the experts, the social workers and doctors and scientists, divite mixed inar-

The best

Molly is 20, plain, not Brainy,

her arins are tattooed and I

News From Britain

London.

ting angry. He was dress- 50 marriages are solting Fiares into the The Catinction guess she once did a stretch in BRITISH policemen keep their hands to them-

No Circus

marriage.

c like me. Ordingrily, mixed and will get more mixed. the educated. The Borstal, She married hoc gult. The show-off People's emotions are getting is artificial, maybe offensive, middle-cices West Indian huy- days seem over, except for the mixed too. Ilace prejudice but up to a point it works. band four years ago and his dew.

Britain 1s nearly unanimous A Manchester doctor, wiso He said: "I don't like mixed when i ocmes to sex and although not wise enough, fold Paris said then she was not

goud trough. marriages. In prejudiced. But

THE "The mixed marriages they have their own lives

which bronic up are usually the- She is now. She works and Nobody else knows anything. A Blemlughan social worker, lower-class ones and it's alineat works and undoubtedly Joves, The experts genemndise."

her showy head ailed

with always the White woman's seeing

the will un This was qizhi. 1 went Christian knowledge and human fault."

invisible text which says 'God is through Belum listening to the ignoratice, cald, as many people If happens in this way, A Black Shio cokod mo nWeet experis, to their contradicting say:--

black man comes to Britain Indian meal of rice and curried

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At minepence in the pound, this mob's just about got through six months rebate already."

London Express Forvion,

selves. They use force only when they are attacked or when there is no other means of preventing a crime.

member of the public and, to ket at the truth, the Prime Minister ordered a tribunal

They carry no guns, and their short wooden truncheons, ear- ried almost shamefacedly in hidden pocket, of their trousers, der Scotland's senior Judge to ore drawn only in the direst circumstances.

The British people like it thatway Even when police

men are, kliled or beaten ther resist hysterical demands 1o arm the police.

investigate and report.

The Press, national, and loco?, gave the affair as much pro- minence" us anything happering- concurrently in this world of space rockets and summit meet- ings.

The polles prefer it that way, too. For, unarmed BAD And the tribunal, having rigorously limited in what force reached its decision, "- they may use, they have the questionably condemned" the sympathy of the general public act of an exasperated police- and thus in many ways their man. work is made easter,

Arc only

But palicemen

For such, is the place of the human. They are no less sen- life.

police in the British way of sitive than their fellows. Each has a point beyond which ho

cannot safely be provoked.

That said a three-man tri- bunal recently, happened to

Beauty In

Police Constable Robert Gunn The Bank

of the Thurs (Scotland) police. "Sorely tried by the provocative behaviour and

language" IF someone asked me to name

of

the soberent thing I could think of. I believe I'd nominate the British bank clerk,

Ineal boy. 10-year-old John Waters, Gunn

*ylelded to lemptation" and struck him. Waters injury, a bleeding nose and swollen lip, was not, sald a monument of convention, con- Each one of these good souls is the tribunal, the kind of injury formily and decorum.

for which the ordinary parent

p

schoolmaster would have Knowing thar you can appro thought of calling in a doctor state the effect on the pable of at til." And "there was a learning how the National Union tendency to make the most of about winning women recruits.

of Dark Employees are going IV. [

The tribunal went so far as to laid on a large kale demonstra

In London recently the Union. agree that Waters is an ex-, tion of beauty aide as bait to get tremely cheeky boy and on the female bank employees to come oceation in question his be along and listen to argument on haviour, and language can only why they should join the union. be described, as shocking" v The London bank clerks de- In the context of the world elded to do this after colleagues today it all seems hardly epoch- in Birmingham had used anilar making. A sorely-iried" police methods fashion paradies; beauty man loses his temper and 2ectures, bale-styling demonstra- bloodie the nose of "an mc- tions to boost their female ex- tremely cheeky boy by enzitment figures by Di per ot * But the fact remained that a' as'opposed to the fational three British policeman had hitta par cent recruitment increase.

Unique among pirates 'work' two women, Anne Bongy, and Mary Read, who fought much more bravely than their ship- niates did when the vessel on which they were serving was boarded and captured by the forces of law and order.

For most out-and-out pirates (as opposed to buccaneers and Crivateers who often had official

of their sinister undertakings,

The spoils they are securing cover a wide variety. The plunder may conalet of a "catch" forcibly seized from sonie fshing-vessel; or it may conalt of provisions, sup" piles or valuables secretively Atched from ocean-going alips at dead of sight bu these latter-day pirates, who know how to tread softly when the occasion demands.

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