1959-11-24 — Page 6

Logan

Gourlay

WHO KNOWS AND TELLS

IN HIS OWN UNMIStakable WAY

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955

Kung namu

PEACE!

ACLOT

How

a

can

man like

Erskine

Caldwell

OF TOBACCO ROAD"

convince

a woman that

he's not as hot as his books?

ERSKINE CALDWELL is sober, retiring, and according to He his fourth wife-taciturn. wears dark suits, funereal un- American ties, and an expression of sad tolerance. You would ex- pect him to be a State Department official from Washington.

You would never mistake him for a low-living, hard-drinking, un- washed character from "Tobacco Road."

But of course authors seldom resemble the characters they create.

CALDWELL-NOT A WORD IN ANGER

"In the first place I'm

But if a interested.

books no! his

WOMAR SUCCESSES,

re They

"Goodness! That dove disguise la disgulaing à dövel'

London Express Service.

RENE MacCOLL, on Assignment Africa, is in the middle of-

War in the Mountains

of the Moon

TRIBAL WARRIORS SLAIN

IN HUNDREDS

From RENE MɑcCOLL

Ruanda-Urundi. Tanganyika, world-wide THIS, then, is

legendary land

Excen have

And the public are still con- sorta throws herself at you, translated into almost every vinced that authors should. then you've got to be polite and Inguage except Urdu. "Tobacco the Mountains of Which makes life difficult for tactful. It's not

which is probably the Moon. too dieuli Itand," nuthors like Mr Caldwell, chron!- when you know the formule." best seller of them all, made cler of low life in the Deep

him about £250,000. South,

described unce "America's No. 1 cracker-barrel pornographer."

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I wanted to know the formula. Mr Caldwell said hesitantly: "Well, varies a bit in each cace. Sometimes you can just As Mr Caldwell said when advise them to curl up with a we sat in the pneumatic com- good book." fort of a Savoy Hotel suite>

"It can be quite embarrassing Ideas

suretimes. especially at these literary cocktail parties.

ence

man In

"I remember came up to me at a party New York and started swearing. He poured out a whole mouth- ful.

Women

"I suppose he thought I talk

aver

I still didn't know the exact formula for dealing with cager women, though I imagine

I can survive without it.

Mr Caldwell was even more

and ringed by stiit-active volcanoes.

This is the latest spot in Bel-

the

of gium's uneasy African domain the to shudder under the crunch of modernity and to erupt in yet blast of hatred and another violence as that strange word "Independence' stalks out of the and suddenly has dictionaries naked meaning.

EZ PRUANDA

FRUND

Black police have

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Well, out of a total population Now the Bahuta have decided of four and a half million there to turn on the Watuts are only around 30,000 Watutst but for as long as anyone can temen.ber

Watuisi have been the bosses.

*

In Ruandu-und there is martial wand there is

armied police guard heavy the

posted about the padeco of the Mwami (king) Kigert V

By far the biggest group in the population, 85 per cent, are the Bahuw, amt until now they have allowed the Wetutsi to kici them around In doelle fashion.

The pigmies

For the Man is a Wetits, and the authorities are under- standably apprehensive lest the Bahutu want to grab the king's five sacred drums, symbol of authority.

How long?

Does anyone seriously believe that once the Belgians go this

I'm not kidding about these Watulsi. I staha stx foot three in my socks, but when I clapped eyes on my first Watuts Just plice will be quiet and orderly? now he must have bbe a good Who is going to run it? seven and a half-I felt like midget.

This is the land of King Solo

turned a resolutely deaf ear to "Inyamaswa or He talked about money and mon's mines, of leaping giants material things with a dreamy and of piginies who hunt naked

in the forest. ait.

"I haven't dure anything, in particular with

my carnings except spend them.

I

"Anyway

hate being burdened with possessions. refuse to own

an automobile When I want one I just now, hire it. I don't own a house. It's too much of a worry,"

hesitant about his creative pro- Pirates

cosses,

"I don't know where the ideas coine from. When I'm ready to write I just sit down and write,

ed like that because some of my I put it straight on to a type

characters night,

writer.

Learned to do that as

"He was quite startled when a cub reporter.

I told him I never sweur, And

I don't like to hear other people Money

swearing."

Added Mr Caldwell,

Bon of

Presbyterian preacher: "Then

41 work regular hours.

Nine

on

He is returning to San Frun- he lives for the cisco where moment after a visit to Russia and several European countries.

For a man who is not inter- ested in money he was remark- ably accurate about the state of his royallies in Russia,

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It is a wildly beautiful larid austerely attractive 03 1 picce of old marble,

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Deaf ear

Several hundred are belleved It is almost on the Equator, to have been killed in this civil but because of its height, its war.

peaks GTC as 10,00011-Lal! gloriously cool as the petri-grey dawn that seized upon my air craft the other morning-

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How long will relatively tiny Ruanda-Urundi lant alongside the soon-to-be-liberated" and enormous Congo?

The pigmics who live here are held in contempt by all, and

referred to as far are unkindly

Will my new acquaintance sub-humans. Jolly Joe Kasaviou, of Leopold- the frenzied shouts of

for a separate thelf But they are battling alongside ville. stand

Or will he rioting follow Africans clse- the Watutsi against the Bahutu. Ruanda-Grund?

The Watulsi's worship like- decide where, shouts of: "Why do you

nesses of lyre-horned cattle breakfast? ahoot us? Turn your guns the whites."

on

with

tho

the

to knock it off for

But

features of

Vattin- Egyptian goddess Hathor.

I am reporting from And just what ts the imm- Cattle are very important in buru, which resembles a neat

townL

that medfate trouble in this strange this neck of the mountains, not American Western

built in the tropics. place, where

gigantic only for the usual reasons, but got the

beautiful. Watuts warriors can leap their as a social success symbol.

A Watautsi wishing to keep up It gets very cold here at night distracted own height without raising their the again Belgians fly in their loyal black pulse rate, who maintain their with

equivalent of the and one needs thick blankets, are Joneses rereabouts, boasts first Yes, you've guessed it-to keep troops, the Force Publique, the own corps de ballet and

the kraals in of his herd of longhorns and the Watutsi warm. police wont to tour crack para-military

-London Expres Service). only second of his car. Lake officered by whites.

gleaming Callacs?

This is Ruanda-Urundi, harsh and "barren, hard

by

Once

the

QUOTE Hot cargo for Castro

by the Bishop of Worcester, Dr Mervyn Charles-Edwards—

CONFIRMATION is a kind of "They've sold about a million spiritual 11-plus exam that some coples of my books, day. But

they doesn't necessarily get you info owed me quite a bit in roubles. Heaven.. About 10,000 dollars. Or over read any of my books. I sup- paper. I take about 10 rabaths £3,000 in your IICY. pose they expect me to be some to anish a novel. kind of sex manide."

there's the women. They're apt to 've every

to get the wrong ideas if they've days 1 get nothing down

New York.

over a year ago a IT'S STAMPED 'MADE IN

of party

Just

sullen

Cuban stevedorės un- BRITAIN' BUT IT WON'T BE loaded a cargo of elderly

"In Turkey I discovered they by a writer in the current British-built Sea Fury "When It's Chished and it had published about sixteen of issue of Men's Wear— I asked 54-year-old Mr Cald- satisfies me I don't care very my itics, and just ignored JUDGES would make ideal fighter planes from a well how he dealt with such much about what happens to things like royalties,

fashion leaders. They en- ship tied up in Havana women. He coritemplated his I'm not desperately interested

"You can't stop them pirat-counter all levels of society, and Harbour. many coples ure sold ing, gin and tonic and glanced across fr. hbw

the swe in which they are held at his fourth wife, 38-year-old and how much money is made," He paused and looked gluthr. would eúmire that no one would

can Mr Caldwell Virginia, to whom he has been

I was as close as the non have the temerity to question happily married for two years, make casual statements like this, swearing Mr Caldwell got to their taste,

the howledge that saying "dann"-or something.

→(London Expirean' Skrolet).

He said:-

secure in

afford to

JAK IN THE TOWER

PLEAS

"WE FORGOT TO TİP THE GUIDE!"

By

ARRIVING

Tie plates had been sold by Ian Aitken

Britain, along with a handful of tanks and a large consignment of amainition, to Cuba's totter-

Most of them have gone to American dealars, and advertise- menly are alrendy common in US. newspapers offering them for sale at knock-down prices, Those guns so openly and. harmlessly on sale at Gimbels and Macys may find their way southwards to Florida, where co-operative." But Britain has 200 landing-strips and hundreds plended that the Hawker of mercenary pilots with rickety funters are intended for purely old planes are ready and wait- Cuban defence muting to ship them to desperate puses. And it has so far only le bands of ambitious men la

Cuba, delayed the shipments.

Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haldi, Panama, Guatemala, and a dozen other unstable Latin- American republics.

domestic

And Norway, which recently sent a large curyo of smalk arros

ing, unpopular dictator Fulgen- invasion, desperately needs those into Havane, claimed Improb dlo Batista.

modern jets. And he needs ably that the consignment w

the more since the 'due to ** 1977 Dominican Republic's Rafiel error."

And they looked

as if they then all might turn the tide in Batista's last-ditch fight against Cuba's bought and fanned a squadron Trujillo, sworn enemy of Castro,

popular hero, Fidel Curtia

ctileftain Tebel

of modem French-built Mysters jets,

Hunters

administrative

Sceptical

Now the United BlatES Has announced that it is opening an all-out civil war on the Florida gun runziers, National guzdās and coastguard chiefs have been alerted to inspect all known air strips at hourly intervals and to Washington is sceptical about That is why brass bands are these excuses. Its top Caribansack the State for so far it

known ones, And 200 extra ready to meet the latest ship bean exports fear that the avid

are belie immigration officials meht

made-in-Britain desire for sound "defence" in rushed south to join the bunk. of The shipment almost wrecked merchandise. But so far the Cuba na 'the Dominican The future relations between Castro longed-for jets have not arrived, public could it 100 entsily thit- İand Britain virtually on the eve

gede duit into a full scale crusade | of the refuri victory,

The reason? Uncle Sam, self- by the against the other.... appointed Keeper of the plate But today Castro rules Cuba in this Caribbean trouble spot, from Batista's once luxurious, has expressed his disapproval of Whilde - painted predential

the British deal. palace. He is backed by the

| fanatiesi adoration, ó Čuba's

half-starved mEMERU, D

*And Anglo-Cuban relations

But today

Alarmed

Protest

For the State Department The occasion of this sudden does not uke, the Communist spurt of activity; a bitter pubile threat in the Caribbean lightly, protest from Fidel Castro that And its experts rebogilise that a "Cuban counter-revolutionaries war between two bitterly hostile and agents of the Dominican and heavily armed nations in Republle have been operating a the area could. provide

THE

Soviet bibe with list the excuse Virtual e servies of light | have becza laboriously rebuilt. All over Europe, United It needs to step openly into a play in and out of Cuba C

a second shipment States diplomats are putting the region which the United States the Florida dir strips. of British-built fighter planes acrows

The planes Hays shipped threitens to aneh our rustfred private companies to halt the condial relations. Not because food of arms pouring into the 119 coming, but because it tinder-box looks as if it is not.

The newy planes are not

Goverzanente

and regards as its crwin backyard.

But the State Department platters, suh zuinen, vliegedly

of Latin-America campal gainst the European tipus OMIES.

arme peddlers does not stop in equipment Thio Cit from European ·fástories.

the Caribbe

Italy

andltat, creding vetering of Despite American pressure, It is amholt equally aloemiéd farmer melkbers at the defeated The Second World War such as France, Belgium,

and by the wiblefrit Valbjding VI. Hubsta forcant Britain sold, to dictator Batista, sgath have all continued to absciels Weebont by the Nato They are fast, up-to-data Exw- Issue Reence for the export of armies, dil of which are the

standardised arts,

Be Hunter jet fighters. By the arms to this and other trouble being fequipped with, modern, Standards of Latter, Andican spots. watdire they, aru, world-be large, Fidel Castro his team habes

The US,

Brifth alone has sold wome revoluulometer Britain and the Bcbdinavian one million surplus small ams, even thinse days.

say diate, Depart, most of quem trusty on "Z** wide by zebellion And aximenal Ident edicials, have been "mière Enfield rißes, in the past year.