1959-10-17 — Page 11

HEIGHTS THAT ARE There's more than one

TODAY...

LONDON LETTER

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

pemediate deportation or the Basilic.

There was nothing fise for it. and go back to England. We would have to board a plane Mait non! The plane was not return ing that night. The only solu- lion was to spend the night in the police cells.

there

kuch an offelol

wag

officials and secured a 24-hour

we would

expense

The Theme

My golf caddy at Le Touquet, a man fifty years or 20, stwetod me each day with " Jour, roondeur." "Likewise Hts wile it she were caddying for my wite. would say: "Bon jour madame.". But, that is the same, greeting which the rich and the power

tria

with us.

"T'm sorry about that chấp”: said 'the, caddy muster who'l an** Englishman, **IBLEYTE operating” on him tomOITOW and his, chances - are pretty

of a gonfleman, a get gentle

If that is not a wond portrait

man, then the fruit is mine.

Now we are back in London

fear on Murder Island

IT is a place, this idyllic Atlantic holiday isle; 16 miles long, a mile wide, streets and alleys.

where the tragic and the sordid come like à pall in the sunny bright

By RONALD SINGLETON: HAMILTON, BERMUDA.

its

It la as though the violent where President Eisenhower han deathe of two women in Ave arrived and the political parties days had risen terisima De are girding themselvch for the the coming storm. with Parliament intense General Election."

hent and suffocating will meet only to announce the humidity. disolution and the election un- less some untoward happening broke. The edge of a hurricane

The other night the storm those seeking a mid-sea haven, too. forces a postponement.

and

of

that

the

The Leader

But I am convinced that under the stem inadership of Presi

erruptible incult but corruptible man-the

great ness of France is re-emerging. I saw it and I felt it wherever we went.

Tension

It is an enchanted

Isle for It is idylle for Bernudans That is why the tragic

It is especially enchanting for death sends a wave of dread

Into depression

Almost avery housetsold, ses it would in an English village.

mantae, everyong believes,

Is responsible for the lines.

Depression

was

Many work BS secretaries. They gct Jobs immediately. The streets seem empty now. They apply to the Board of

Miss Dorothy Harbara is mainly because the weekly Immigration. Almost every giri tourist ship, the Queen

to be a socretary Rawlingon, the London girl who of who applies Bermuda, with ith hosts

secretary, of gets a good job- £17 to £20 a worked ་ à

horrified like everyone else... American visitors in scarves and week.

But oddly enough many girls and fascinated. shorts, went away recently.

She sent home who want pusis and are for newspaper ́ellopings qu' the accepted eventually decline. murder of a wemah "the" week They can't find a place to live, she arrived.

If they get lodgings in a good

to

It is also because people want

be quiet-or RO it seems. Five thousand of Bermuda's 42,000 folk are clustered in the capital, Hamilton.

It is trying his best to be bright.

here that everyone is

is here, mostly, that the tension centres.

.

below the baygrape bushes where she died.

Yet the went along to a beach

ful would use with each other.

In English the words "Yet sir" and "No sir" as well as "Yes syndan" o "No madam" are based upon class. distinction.

I am

not pretending that wealth plays no part in France foundries at warting the ground or that the chap who plays, golf which could rear another plant le not materially superior to the to add to the output of steel, fellow who arries his clubs but

But I have returned home touched this isle, 3,170 miles But how pleasant it waG

I do contem that the French use cilmb the stairs and enter the the vocabulary

a conviction in my soul from London and 753 from New the young unmarried woman. And of equality with modest offices

the that France is rising - to Hew of the British whereas the English use

York. There came a deluge and That is why so many English

women are coming here to work. Conmil! And how true it is that language of inequality.

heights. Three times in living then it was calm, fresh, cool, and

In 20 schools there are 20 memory she has been invaded bright. at any given moment an Eng-

For ten days the same French- in the wars of 1870, 1014

English girls teaching. tisluyan is apt to fly into a deep But then my good wife had calm

man carried my clubs, and for 1039, wisereas becaume The Consul had already ten days he was an idea. There must be a Bri-

accompanied strip of water known which by prepared the documents tish

Consul

and would purge our crime and was daughter who was

Uttle

eight-year-old English Channel, the British somewhere, gure enough they admitted that very sorry to have to tell

completely have been saved that shame and us feminine es any creature could ravage. in thai WAS

the attendant Lille a hundred odd miles in would be in the neighbourhood miles long but she always came be. The course was about three the interior. By luck be

of thirteen pounds.

Sometimes she would in his office when we telephoned and with admirable promptness

take her father's hand but if I suggested that she should do he spoke to the Le Touquet

Then we had a cup of tea and

the same with mine she would respite which would allow us to talked of England and as best behind her father for pro- molor to Lille next day where, atted the theme our voices were lection and look at me with amount for our crime plus per-

pay n considerable gentle and quiet. Then back we mock fright.

went on the long trail 10 Le Touquet where we dined at our hotel w nine o'clock which is the popular hour. After that we went to the Casino, and as it was a Saturday we had to wear formal evening dress to be ad- mitted. You cannot lose money Next morning we set off on a Saturday night unless you our trek to Lüle, As the miles dress for it. Being somewhat and miles of country-side sped weary from our travels we went by we were once more struck home to bed at one o'clock but, by the fact that the col and as I say, we had the excuse of the soul of France were closely a long and wearying journey.

ail. What is more pleasant than a it is no creult to me that on Wedded. Unlike the farmland of such excursions 1 leave all or- England one can travel for miles swim in the ocean during the rangements to my wife. Except without seeing dwelling places morning, a game of golf in the and the Casino #1 In appearance and sex I might of any sort. Nor were there any afternoon be a particularly dumb blonde signs of life anywhere. The night? When a Frenchman and travelling with my protector. harvest had been garnered and his wife go bathing in the sea Nor in our travels about the the soil was entering upon is they bring their whole family world has she ever falled me. leng steep.

and it is a common sight to see Alas! Believe it or nat but

a six-year-old being knocked when Madame presented

The passport at Le Touquet

papa or mamma shout advice but eagle eye of the customs officer

When lunch time came we they let the youngsters look detected that it was out of date, stopped in a village and entered after themselvor. In fact In the heart of every French-mail restaurant where one French family is a single unit man there burns the spirit of a woman was the sole waitress.

with madanre in full change and bureaucrat and this was a par- Nor was there any reason to papa a rather backward eldest ticularly July morsel because doubt that she was the proprie child. I was a British Parliamentarian. for as well.

The Landing

Fourteen minutes later the plane touched ground at Lo was carth-bound Touquet and

once more. That trip of water which was the guard and shield of Britain for so many centuries has shrunk in terms of time to nothing larger than Toronto Bay,

The Suspicion

my the

mission to remain in France for two weeks.

So we were duly allowed to occupy, for one night, the plen. sant luxury of the Hotel West

had booked minster where we FOOMS.

on

The Disapproval down by a breaking surf.

AL Large table Bome ten young French lads were turking

The Gentleman

ex-

2

Bye Yet I

In preparatory to resuming their How would you define, ♫ In no time we were surround- walking tour. They all talked gentleman" In England they ed by every available oficial at once and their laughter was would define a gentleman as ons and their deepest suspicions frequent S they argued and who went to a public school were used. How could I be a joked about their experiencas, (which means a private school) British Parliamentarian when In France there are no laws with some social background

WILISOCYUT about my pussport clearly stated that I

supplying and a bit of land or an in who served Canadian duly possessed drinks. If a cafe is open it gives officeT was

of Guards. Canadian passport? Oh you anything you want. Because Brigade "I viously I would be deported in wine or beer is their natural realised more vividly that even the plane that had brought me drink and there is no sense of before that in France they have to France.

adventure about it. But in the basic phraseology of equali- nearly 500 miles of motor travel ty whereas the English have we never saw anyone the worse the phruscology of inequality. for drink.

Take for example these com-

of ordinary day

But what about Madame? Неге WAR another Canadian passport although the lady in question did no, even pretend that the lived in Canada. Then there was a gasp of horror. By four days my wife's passport was out of date! Judging by the excitement it looked like either

So in the course of time we monplaces arrived at the unlovely city Lalle which is the French centre of the stoel industry. There were some parts but one could al- most feel the disapproval of the

to

of day greetings in French and in English. However you look upon It there is no parallel between the two languages even in or- dinary day to day greetings.

Day after day my admiration of this French caddy grow

and expanded. With the true mean- ing of the word he was at once a man of the people and a great gentleman. Towards the end of our holiday he said that be would

not be able to caddy again for me but gave no ex- planation. So we shook hands while la petitie looked surpl clously at me from the security

of her father's back. That was

household they have to pay 28 a week. I to a tourist isle; tourism is its only main income It source. Lodgings are for Today Hamilton. mourns tha

tourists.

death of Mrs Emma Bland, Remember it was the French

Hamilton's streets are full of who fell from Afth-floor mob that stormed the Bastille

Fow will speak of the three gift shops. Its 40 hotels are window. with Ettle more than their murders of women this year usually full most of the year. She had given jobs to many hands and their courage and and sudden death of a leading There is cricket and round-the- English girls. She had ait raised the immortal cry: woman citizen the other night, year golf on Ave excellent operation, and was depressed. "Liberta! Egalite! Fraternite!" They stare, mak non-com- courses.

People belleve mail firmly. There were

terrible and mittal remarks when they are It costs only 10s. to get a tightly or wrongly, that these cruel excesses as is always the | spoken to, or else burst into little boat tp sall two miles out deaths will give the happy isle a case with a mob that is out bitter comments and say: "How to the coral reefs.

terrible name and will slop some of hand but from It there can it happen on this happy There is probably the most tourists coming. came a nation based upon the little isle where everyone knows' delightful bathing in the heml- freedom and equality of man- everyone else? How сап sphere-endless sizunds of soft kind.

murderer be secure here?” pink sand on the south coast.

JACKYS DIARY

by

Jacky Mendelsohn

Age 32/2

at's only the 2nd Week of SCHOOL BUT ALL READY We Learned LOTS of DiffRENT things

For instanTS IN GEOGRAPHY, We Learned how THE EQUATOR is made by a Menagerie Lion which RUNS around The middle of The EArTh

And the English girls they so badly need. For the island's

chief shortage is secretàries.

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And in History CLASS We Learned The Diffrents ÞETW- een a president & a King. Which is MAINLY THAT President is Aloud To Have A Vice, Bura King

isn't.

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Microscopic roundworm eggs are everywhere. In vegetables, fruit, water. Even in the best ordered families there is always the danger of infection. And children are most liable to attack. They don't realise the dangers in uncooked foods and contaminated water.

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in English CLASS They Learned US ALL ABOUT THE GENders, Which Come in Masculine

HE

Hep

Femenin

PS: Masculins Are divided into Temperate & in- TEMPERATE, & Femenins into Torrid of Horrid.

And in Drawing Class WE LEARNED how If You Mixa Red Squirt With a Yellow SQUIRT, it comes out a Orange Squirt

ON

9.20

MELL

Presi❤ RENT.

Then in Arithmetic, WE LEARNED how To do rEAL Hard PROBLEMS,Like for INSTANTS adding Up 8+7*

Whole

8 fingers Plus fingers EQUALS 3 HANDS.

•W Y = M m m

You do iT BY Counting on Your finGERS,

And also How You Mustn't PAINT SO YOU CAN SEE 1m Learning RED next to GREEN, on a COUNT LOTS of NEW Things in SCHOOL- of THEY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER EXEPT in Spelling Witch is my best Subjeck of ALL, SO There's NOTHING LEFT TO LEARN

You Look You do

BEAUTY

ALSO FULL

THEIR SinSeerly

TACKY