1959-12-26 — Page 12

TALKING

POINTS

Everybody is ignorant hui on different subjects,

-WILL ROGERS.

LONDON Bonny

SUMMIT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1959.

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From DONALD WISE

Buen.

PINT-SIZED Premier John Foncha, of the

southern section of the British-administered Cameroons in Africa, told me recently that he

A gentleman never heard believes that President Nässer of the United Arab the story before.

-AUSTIN O'MALLEY. Republic has been supplying arms to the clusive "invisible killers" who operate, from Foncha's territory across the River Wuri into the French Camercons.

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Thus another complication is added to the tangled story of Cameroons--British und the French-which were won from the Germans in the 1914-18 war and are due to achieve inde- pendence.

Foncha says the supplies cam? from Nasser's arsenal of arms obtained which lie

from Russion satellite countries,

the

Invisible

men 'get Red guns'

A PREMIER ACCUSES

NASSER OF AIDING

THE ELUSIVE REBELS

in February by campaigning invisible men going to wreck

(with two broken collar bones) on a bicycle when he could not afford new tyres for his car.

before birth?

BIRTH CONTROL: NOW THE HOTTEST THING

IN U.S. POLITICS

A BUS speeding along a mid-Western highway in America was pulled to a sudden and unexpected stop one day, recently and a group of men jumping aboard immediately surrounded one of the passengers.

The surprised passenger was Senator Hubert Humphrey of Min- nesota, who is a possible contender for the Democratic Party's Presidential

nomination.

"What's the matter, boys? Are we at war or something?" queried the incredulous Humphrey who recognised his interrogators as reporters.

He couldn't have looked more startled when informed they wished to question him about the birth control issue.

from

LEO

ARMITAGE

New York

The determination of reporters to find Humphrey wherever hc was and to obtain his views is merely one illustration of just how explosive the birth control debale has become since it firs! started with the now-famous debated. It has niso become the statement of the Roman Catholic major tople in millions of homes

throughout the nation.. bishops.

Answer: Well, I think this position holds for the present.

Question: "Wouldn't it be wise I spoke to a university pro- for Nixon to at least make a paralleling Mr

After a long meeting in Wash- ington 200 American cardinals, fessor, a psychiatrist, an artist, statement

a former Russian prince turned Elsenhower's position?” archbishops, and bisbope American, a taxicab driver, and attacked any use of publle tunds many others. Tacy represented Answer: He doesn't want to to promote birth control at home several different faiths except make any comments at this time.

or

abroad, including urder- developed countries.

the Catholic-but all appeared

to share the conviction that

This statement wer at once population planning would have ottasked by a Protestant bishop Government of the future.

to become a responsibility of the

'Concession"

Far moro outspoken Were as "condemning rapidly increas-

Protestant leaders and specialists ing millions In less fortunate

The professor simrned up in family planning. parts of the world to starvation, thele feelings when he said: "In bondage, misery and despair."

Now, origina

rave

the

been

the groat

the

sur-

every discussion I have ever had The strongest editorial com- only weeks after

on this matter, Americans show

ment on Kennedy's position, was scema surprising unity in their concern carried by the New York Post: declaration, it that the American bishops may over a powerful and organised "We believe that what Kennedy

stands for is dead wrong." have fatally

the Catholic vote." damaged Presidential drears of young One of

The Post staird. "We would Jack Kennedy-Roman Catholic senator frem Massachusetts. For prises of the controversy raise serious doubt about a man whose political theology branded Kennedy, cornered by reportera, has

strange aid to the indigent: 23

form a partial endorsement of silence on the part of Vice- of mortal politieal sin. the Roman Catholic Bishops' President Nixon. view, saying 11 would be a

"We can hardly volce lesser "mistake" for the American American newspapermen were daubt about a man who for any Government to advocate birth

of birth clamouring at his door in the reason rejects the use control abroad, It looks as

Capitol almost every day of the control as an elementary weapon support for Kennedy is already week seeking some sort of state in the battle against poverty and weakening.

mat on what he, as President, squalor in the year 1950." Even Dixon has suffered might do about using foreign ald

funds for birth control, a slight decline in

popu- larity as a result indirectly I called Nixon's office in tousle-haired of his refusal to take any search of an explanation and the held the promise of

following

first

Catholic conversation creued the

Romun sides in the great debate.

with his Prers secretary, G. President in the history of the

United States. Klein.

Unity****

it

in

Question: "Doesn't Mr Nixon intend-10 make any statement Despite President Eison- at all on this matter?" howrr's attempts before he left the country to remove the issue

Answer: Mr Eisenhower has

present from. the national political expressed the views of the Ad-

History may well record that up to November 25, 1959, the boyish Kemedy

becoming

Certainly the public opinion polls supported this view.

Up until recently Kennedy was running a comfortable 10 per cent ahead of Vice-President Nixon in pubile opinion studies of leading Presidental car- seem didates,

Little Foncha is the man the

at middle

the moment.

arena, it will remain a flaming ministration. "The less my people hear and emotional subject right up paign in French territory by about terrorism the better," he until election time in November, strange that the only name miss

He told me of the terror cam-

the Union des Populations des Camerouns, master-minded by Felix Moumy from Guinea and urged on by Cairo radio.

"Their polities are cruel and devilish," he said. "They leave no room for opposition."

Red State

They were sent, he rays, from

Indeed. Moury's aides, the Upper Egypt into the Western top rig of whom are Reds, have Sudan, through the republic of, openly stated that they wish Chad, and via the Fort

Lamy'

the United Cameroons to be district into the dense jungle of

come the first African Sovie the French Cameroons.

State.

Canoe-loads

From there they joined the normal west-cast overland mugglers' route, bringing in 7.66-millimetre Czech autons- ties and machine guns,

There are no newspapers in Foncha's Cameroons and his radio does not mention either zmon** or the the "invisible

"Thank goodness WC U.P.C. cannot often hear Cairo radio," he said,

Other Communist weapons, he Fecha plugs the idea of thinks, Bre probably slipped federation with French territory into the Camercons coastal beenuse he tears domination by swampy in canoe-loads from Eastern Nigeria it he joined up the territory 00 his ocean-going vessels standing off with shore.

western border.

Foncha, who. stands for The French Cameroons is federation with the troubled larger and more highly French Cameroons, is desperate- developed. ly, anxious about the trouble in Northern the French area.

This human dynomo has good reason. There are three possi- bilities:

over

British-held The Cameroons

(which have nothing to do with Foncha) recently elected to stay outside the Nigerian federation under British administration.

Poor and backward as it is, the banana-palm-oil-timber- British now. a fateful

the

FIRST be belleves Premler Ahcdjo, h's opposite mumber in The French territory, will be and-cocoa-producing able to break the "Invisible Cameroons hus men" Immediately he is free to choice. play his own hand.

Will the combined Camerpons BUT the fighting is likely to become the place of the future

into in Afrien 34

economic intensity and spill British territory where the planners prophesy? Or are the density of police is one man

total Der 110 square miles-D force of 457 officers and men.

BECAUSE

this, thei Southern Cameroonians may split asunder, some for federa- tion with the former French territory and some for federa- ion with Nigeria.

Vote opposed

sald. "But if it

un-1960. goes on checked it must make a big difference to all my plano."

-(London Express Service).

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That was before the leaders

ing from the list of Presidential It is not just in the political aspirants who made statements of his faith had spoken. forms that the question is being is that of Mr Nixon?”*

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