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When trouble appears at the back door

RENE MacCOLL

the China Mail Roving Reporter sent a startling despatch on a new threat

-to world security.–

Panama,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1959,

LONDON'S TOP WOMAN REPORTER TAKES A CLÖSE LOOK AT NOTTING HILL

TENSION in London, W. 10. A man dies. Police walk in twos. But what does it really feel like to lead your daily life there? Reporter Annie Sharp- ley has gone to live there to find out. · This is hor first re- port.

I STOOD at Westbourne Park

Station and wondered, as thousands have wondered before me, whether to turn right or left.

I LIVE IN

UNEASY-st W.10...

by ANNE SHARPLEY

My fibre auitensc was trouser tum-ups flapping and cheap antrel old, and us the tint of drink to stay forever : plcked it up the wind fled a in their fair Irish complexions,

mournful eonfetil of paper

Seo how

they contrast with scraps from the gutter that flow

the almost deriding saunter of before me as I turned to cross

the West indians in their the drab Iron bridge,

broad-brimmed hals. Thelt trousers too have an almost butterfly wing widences

but the

Already the brilliant ads hat died

were There away.

Rag and

fur-

few television masts.

for

they are caught in above wake and the turn-up over the Instop.

"These people should be stop- There are 60 kids playing la pcd. We are citizens and the the

play- plesaunce-on the government must stop those ground things-but they are all people now,"

white. The gealle, Impartial in- that Quence of Mrs Plenty has far to

go yel.

or ascinated him."

Which people? "Them

But they don't know they are yet.

who

They atta be stop,"

Their fear is too huge and curves amorphous for them to be interested in such a lagalis- One naive notice; as I take tic and quibbling attitude down addresses, catches my eye: that the actual murderers

Attention all those desiring must be found first. And the Bugwash Laundry to join Mutual Admiration nutside which Kelso Cochrane Society for school tecchiere or was stabbed to death was only aixth form girls. A gift of 10s. one of many offering the melan- witt be given to every ehely economy of laundry done ber." by weight-121. for 38. 3d.

HERE at the back door of the United States-ward with "Top price give

-the Caribbean-Central American area, rugs. Undertakers were bold. with such great U.S. ports as Miami, New and specific about their "Lead, Orleans, and Houston, Texas, only a few hours or oak cofus.“ flying time away-deeply serious trouble is in the making.

Trouble which directly threatens the United States position, not only in trade but strategically and mullatarily as well.

already

which tu

Tivable brought about a ensiderable erosion of power in a sphere of Jufluence hitherto regarded as unquestionably American.

While Elenler

..

"HONDURAS

Caribbea

Set

RICA

Dady

Pacific

PANAMA SOUTH

CANAL

SLY, po

mont leg at alteatum Axed on world away, the problem halt menice i tha steamy intsbited

great people who are nearly all dess perately poor, undated, ang Sullenly angry--was growing.

The threat

Then Fidel Castro'a revalu-

victory in tionary

last Cuba Jambory brought things te hend-fast. Cuba at once posed a two-fold problem for the Cited States:

Was Castro going to allow

'Th just over 200 Cuba, only aniles-from

-from the tip of Florida, to By Comunist?

Early But month one of the

American ratio networks Top browleast a report from a vers responden! that Cuba is rapidly

AMERICA

Now up the breeze-cooled

Major-General to the oilke nf

two who wears W. E. Potter. hats as Governor of the Canal of the Zamee att president Panna Catai Company.

general is a chipper. bronzed, fast-talking chap of engaging frankness. "This canal will never be nationalised," he Tell you Badly.

NO

atin.

others

Latin trusts another the Peruvians,

FIL

BEMUSED

inci-

But ano wonders if some more despairing girl, suitcase and heart heavier than mine, might not follow this up.

change my suitcase to the other hand. It is time I found

I pass a greengrocer's shop somewhere to stay. The shop- windows with Rooms

to Let And admire the opportunism notices, innumerable curl-edged and realism of its white pro carts in diverse hands from the peleter for those strange pink eramped penet jabs of neo:- boulders.are sweet potatoes (at

and those a 1b)

brown literacy to spanking type. I join 1s the bemased group in front of withered dumb-bells are yams

(at 25.)

them.

Some people are not even reading them. They just stand staring at the cards as though waiting for one of them to signal.

None of the curds say fla! coloured persons are not wet- comedi. In fact, many state specifically that they are.

"To let in a very clean and Coloured personS qurt house. specially welcome.",

Spelling is not a strong point and many have had two or three les with heavy scorings-mist n

becoming a "Communist beach- Repadocians, Chileans, and the the spelling-bee challenge of the

head in the Caribbean, with Red intrating key jobs in the army, Press, radio, schools, and

trades unions.

Word enne that Castro was congluning the formation of "liberallas

movements"

Cuban sull, aimed at Invading neighbouring countries,

goods come up

whose

South from the west coast of Amerien and through the canal to the Atlantic would just hate to see the Paramanians running the show,"

The three

The Communist threat inside

itself Cuba is well placed for this Hamma

general the kind of Tum Tiddler's ground regards as dustineant so far, lark.

And

the attempted although "even though numeri-

all they can "berations" took place pretty rally

and do promptly, when the Repubifle of tefsence thinking and netion." Panama, from where i azn writ- Despite the general's breezy ing this despatch, was duly me trainers other American authorities walt uneasily for the vaded.

There were, of course, same next development. Where will richly curic element- in that que next liberation movement” invasion or the Paraguaian land? Here are the three like- roust by a farce ut 45 men. Hest spols:-- Date Margot Fonteyn räptured most of the headlines.

The taik

THE DOMINICAN RE- PUBLIC, on the eastern part of The island of San Domingu.

There, in De capitol nanad after him, the Dominicans have just been 'celebrating" 20 years of one of the most ruthless this

But mark this: well-qualified diplomatic observers here are sure that if the Invasion force hou consisted of 250 well- ctatorships ever seen in armed, determined men-they part of the world, could have taken Panama, in-a- It is a complete Police Stata

week.

and elderly, bespectacled dicta- That sort of possibilty is a tor Rafael Trujillo runs every- nightmare for the US. It would thing-and has even reputedly almost

certainly cause her to struck down political opponents toke the one step which she who were refugees Inside the shrinks from la this part of the Unfled States.

named- intervention.

The Cher of Memo And HAITI, the all-Negro republic

on the western end of the same

perialem while weldland

all over, Latin America would Italt has tpetered on the

be music in the editor of Pravda.

of the Cars

The 51-mile-long canal is 10-inite-wide *insulated" in a Canal Zone which cuts the re- publle in two and is, in effect, a U.S. colony for all time.

To add to American troubles, there is a fast-growing senil- runt in Panama in favour of allowing the repubile to have a greater say in running the canul and much more money out of 11.

At present the Panamanians get just under 2,000,000 tollers (£714,000) a year as their share. Many of them are saying that a 50-50 Elit would be more like 40,000,000 (14,280,

Panama You drive through

sweltering mass City, n 300,000 varicoloured people who eem to keep their radios on day and night.

000).

rusty tin roofs. rusty

verge of bankruptcy for years. The corruption is ghastly, even by Caribbean standards.

word accommodation.

u

But there is a preference be seen here. Many of the notices state "Irish Only" and for manent one sees the nudging of emigrant race against emigrant

IMPASSIVE

CONTENTED

out

"Peus and rive, thalie," 1 hear the Dertiss being called to me dusk-deepening street.

Light and good smells pour from the doorway of A intle room hardly bigger than a tele- phone kiosk in which Philip from Trinidad has his wayshle kit- chen. I say I'll try harbotie.

He rolls out a great pale pan- cake and puts it on a flat griddle over his tiny gas oven. Then he places it on greaseproof paper, drops a couple of spoonfuls of The in In mouth-scoring curry

middle, rolls it up and bands it

In Kensal Road I see a young white woman with a row of coloured babies set prams on the pavement outside her open door. She is a foster mother and looks after children during the day (at 30s, a week) for

working West Indian

mothers.

She has four children of her own-and her name has the of many names she is kindly apposlteness

Mrs Cockney Rose Plenty.

"I'd rather looks after coloured babies. They're not miserable like white ones. They're al- ways contented. And my hus- A band loves them. Whenever he brings chocolate home ho gives them just as much as he does

I knock of the first door. curtain twitches like an awakening wink in the Im passive facade of the grey tile his own." house.

She picks up plump Petty and "I let it this morning to A puts her in my arms and to- white Indy," says the young gether we sit on the step, sho West Indian woman with one with her favourite, Kenneth,

In the talking about life in W.10. i aluminium curler front of her spiky hair,

She stresses the white and 1 not know enough yet to know why,

do

"They sald when they were having the lots and threaten=" Ing to smash windows that I shouldn't have Coloureds. I had

But then. Seven

I woulchi't give them up."

of tho

to me."

"Straight from the horse's

fat mouth." he says, his

fuce splitting with amiability.

"Man, it talking be profes- mest sion you top of all and rich," said his partner who supposed to be struiraming Kultar to bring the customers in. How they "Sing, mon, sing. know we here if you doun simų.“

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I pay for my rholle (2s.)) and tell him I'm looking for room.

I

A WOMAN CALLED PLENTY

In Konsal Road Anne Skorpiny katre. Mr. Ro Plenty, who looks after children Posting We "I'd rather jack and that Colour tadian mothers. babies," she says. "They're not miresite like whị

onei."

n ficence the police begged me the to stop when i writing all ng t names,"

FAR

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here.

ceret van

vi spe

A graceful youth in a suit

Hengges! I spend the mage! Yes, ie musici as tout us a fumbourinr, scurtet tie, scarlet pocket handkerchief in hip rooni. I say i cast on scoins to be $igra and rearlet socks says he'll ask that and that I'm sure his landlady,

adinire his find somewhere. pointed shoes, extravagantly painted but somehow suited to his elegance and quick round eye.

We part wall has worming, Now you go careful. Tactile a spi

lut bad people around.

make me same, they so wicked many some of them.“

to

"gut them in Paris. I went Paris for two weeks atid next week I go to Berlin,"

He will drivo me wound to

But it does mal zatem threat ingrund these plastering

streets

Cresta stuffed

Nor do I really know whether at the next door I tried, the re- Kotto go to 149, Led-

Mrs Plenty explains that his landlady he says. It is e Coloureds The bury Streel.

pinkish won't rob you there"-sald to many

children's brilliant by a young West Indian mothers work because their Vauxholl with wife, was mennt sareastienlly or men deserted them for white leopard at the back, window kindly.

girls.

match the leopardskin Round the door of the house where Kelso Cochrane lived On I wander with my suit- one of those the precarious there is a group of ten West case through And senses

donated precedence of the Irish-those Indians, Their sufi volces make charitably

gardens, noise although called with maddening patron- anvvles pussing now with their curiously little

age and obscurity a "plesaunce." and wide they are raised in complaint. short-stepped strut

racis,

..

On the

beach

TUNAKA

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they sp

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with groups of paspbe drifting stud calling fu cikan another, the scrofulons perting Ca je

veros softening in the dusk. CALYPSOS

to

seatcavers.

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In the pubs, the Eagle, and the Duite of Warwick-the whales true their glasses to howling "I'm called sometimes Peter, trailing choruses. sometimes John. But you call

me Tex. I've got 14 different And from the buwisata yatı names and when I went to get can hear the enloured clubs-

mainly

for

[WITH_WOMEN_IN MIND, TOQ!]

men

-a new Englishman!

London. never talked about, and tried among the new styles lo as not to think of. I don't even dazzling as a dose of mescalin. BY far the least lovely remember where it is. The groups

It all went to show (If you Italian non shirts will dis- of Oxford's vistas

survived the first shock) the pulse you as a deck chair or a NICARAGUA, on the Central when I was an impres concern for essentials and the gong

umbrella. American mainland.

Bathing Since President Somoza was sionable undergraduate unworldliness of the Intellectual trunks in pale pink or peach Assassinated in 1950, his Iwo

was a stretch of river emperament, It was a donnish will shout down the noise of and went along with the trafe. There was even a sens have been running the Country: Luis as President and bank upstream from the crumpled collurs and careful blue and white thing decorated

with first-class luggage label. Anastasic us chief of the aux antique silver stone of tweeds at dimly lit tutorials.

from this Away called Par-

climate, of course, beachwear has never been more garish,

The English khaki shorts and

forees. They control business

Exiled

and property holdings of Magdalen enormous wenitli Nicaraguuns plot and drill in sons' Pleasure. ressantly

in which peace is so

Yes, all over this wide area, essential to the US there is an uneasy and brooding sense of trouble Everywhere there are to come. these groups of exiles

nesting threateningly in one another's countries-even in the

itself.

Ilke

custom,

austere

Elderly dons, grown turkey- plump on high-table menus; while tennis shirt rolled up at doctors of philosophy with the siecyes is. Becoming a tople

on the play laundry gs: of open ridicule Bgures

bogs: 8. Litts, the colour of grounds of France and Italy,

Age all Tho

of the peacock medieval manuscripts,. used to disport themselves in English seaside male is begin- this masculine preserve wearing ning.. U.S. nothing more

remote smile.

Shots A rare,

A fellow of n college did once

DAZZLING

"We had some trunks with dinosaurs on them," said, the solesman.. "But we've sold out."

I said: "What a pity.”

by

JEREMY

CAMPBELL

me how. brown he was under- neath."

This year Mr Sherok will bo tive leanings towards this gay wearing (If you cûn bepe to look) European exposure by the well- a yellow and white pyjama top. dressed mate.

te would never have got away when his Cambridge chum with it in his univerally days, pushed his face under the water for wearing a mauve swim sull.

UNINHIBITED

I invite your sympathy, 30 exarople. for The Tunisian Ambassador, Mr Taleh Kim. whom I talked to the other day al one of those polite, propáz A little parties that go on all the

me in Belgravia,

The hent-wave steamed about like the first last, fru kitchen cooker. I daid: "Why don't you sunbathe Embassy ruoi?”

on

"Most men these days,” said a All around ma men in dif- complacent Regent Street aules- dent, well-cut suits were shed- man, with a lough like a foil of ding their repressions ilko rock, "will wear anything their winter woollens.

wives allow them to.”

"I'd like to said Mir S I hardly like to mention that

twin-sets for men, keeping his voice down. But there are

husband I'm afraid of the other diplomats and that I w 14 hesitate for only a nall-bling sering me in my bathing suit. minute before buying a pair of

ilk vintage cars,

They were caught in khaki-

last

year, and they shorts weren't going to make the same mistake again.

dare to sport a pair of beacon- In Connes this year the smart has the goodness to look and

shorts embroidered with FORBIDDEN

ATS

Beach shirts have bien priated

Or consider the case of he Lig Trevor Howard, recently back with reproductions from pages of

certain respected from Spain newspaper, and children walking about in holiday clues décorated with the endoured ad- him ventures of Noddy.

There are lots of Cadillacs

Just think of it, the monu- -about and some of those new In the greater Miami area style wedge-shaped pleces of live nearly 100,000 Latin

mental Mr Henry Sherck, who architecture-but large chunks Americans, many of them com- of 1 are slum-in-the-sun-funding mysterious funds, yellow bathing trunks there.

sound like an impresario, will thing to wear on the beach is a festering shacks of wood and emany of them stick-at-nothing But he falled to weather the shot-silk outfit in royal blue and after a long lapas.

beach this your, appear on

gunmen,

senior common room ridicule white with sloping pockets, long The Cadillacs belous, elther

Amertean Intelligence and which they flung across his sleeves and hand-stitching. It is Mr Sherck claims he hasn't to the Americans or to the little diplomatic agents all over the body like hoops of barbed wire. selling well at just under £10. been able to weigh himself aver clique of wealthy families who Caribbean know that the 83- have between them always man invasion of Panama was For us, the sight of all theso

Another item, only alightly since they stopped him using the

scales Juggage

Victoria pt rezervoirs of learning, dumpling less expensive, business, property, just a dry run. controlled

light Station. since the and politics

country They know that next time-white in the pole June sun, was cashmere jacket with prison was dreamed up 69 years ago. whether it is Panama nguln' or nough to snuff out for ever our stripes and a three-liutton soft

Everyone elsà is cockroach comewhere else the invaders firal, shy illusions about the collar. poor. Then you get to the road will make it stick

roinance of scholarship (already which marks the boundary with

They know

that another sickly from quantifica of Union the American Canal Zone.

Castro gin) * this time On one side of the road-the red rebelilon on the

mael,

successful, tin-roofed alums. On the other might, send the whole area up in

There was yet another, acade "gencious 'living” in the fiamos.

mid-playground, more, removed, American style.

-(London Express Service), called Damer Delight, which we

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bir embroidered beach mist and bull-fighting hat which he days And no restraining wife was the Spaniards thought, spalte | · Mero i KjQam QC, on hand when I saw Zord highly of.

Reis (305 1008). WM He has been pretty well Stanley of Alderley (three times gonded tuta beach-sliting again married) buying an uninhibited In Landan, summer clothes | PIKY BET VM on twi

bright-red Italian two-piece that usually whisper in well-mand (2014 "People with boast about their Mr Sherek' Cambridge chums accents. On Usa Continent they la Atozik po mules 25 either of them, but thed, I avatans ro," he complained in a would have flown frim the roof bellow in your ear like a chilia | montat,

Juley volce. "Why, Lord of King's College chapel.

I wouldn't be scon, dead In

couldn't afford to be.

In London the situation is spectacular, An afternoon spent

al a party.

Beream

me

Maugham came, to soo mo. tha other day, and he insisted an Even in unexpectat paris of pulling open his shirt to show London I have discovered fur- Salvador Balls Hollywood

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