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I WOULD SO LIKE A GAOL, SAYS CHIEF

from KENNETH AMES, ZAMBESI RIVER A

FLOURISH of paddles and we skirted round the "rock" lying in midstream and sailed past

on a swift current. It is always a good idea to let sleeping hippos lie-especially when in a light

canoc.

I had taken this trip down the Zambesi river to and out what political aspirations were stirring in there porte Afries which

civilisation.

wat

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Today inuch of this 02- tinent is an upheaval.

South Africa is rent over the colour bar. In Kenya there is

talk of driving out the willie The Conga is torn by

ALAN. rlois,

Hut here, on the banks of this jongle-edged river, is Africa unchanged over hundreds of years. Its only contact with The outside world is by runner. Rarely L a European geen,

CROCODILES

I flow

michile plate.

rst to Mengu in the Barotsel.nc! t 10 The pi put za doan un trip laboriously carved out of a dearing, and took off agai Having me viutelang may grips and praying that some 20:1 os transport, would musterialism.

In it dal

the shape of a baltered overland vehicle driven Barobe and his by a grinning mate.

10

ind

believe

It is always a huge joke throughout Africa white man "de-transported."

The African Armly that a white men are born with wheels in place of their legs,

that

We bumped and careervi through the midday sun. chokb In cust At the end of stage of the journey the driver produced another friend whe

and WOR against marauding

burs until very recently

A soft clapping greated us everywhere we moved. It is the traditional sign of respect to a ebie! and his gubat.

Outside their huts. women singing as they round millet, pounded rhythmically with huge

evallen and mentors,

A night, when their menfolk le from work, benn

stew and meal bubbled jay blackened pols

"When the rains come, we vat at midday too," salt the chic), as he handed me a bowl of con- cuction. "For then we cannot werk after noon-time.

Any day now, when you are catching the 8.15 train, the etuet of Masoko will be of an les and tax-collecting rounds uth to cover fakting up ko a

the area.

For some of the chief's villages are separated by a day's march.

CRIMINALS

"We slon't

Fif trouble he told me.

have a great deal collecting taxes." "We know exactly how much every body is due to

know that pay, and they know."

We

And what is the main con- cern of thie revered man, roler of 9,000 near-naked villagers on Upper banks the

the of Zambesi? Financial aid New housing

schemes? independence und vote for everybody?

1

THE CHINA MAIL,” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1959,

1.)

"

O

N.A.TO. SHALL NOT PASS}

"Cummings.

**If only Nato could terrify Krushchev as much as de Gaulle terrifies Nato!"

What most men still

VADIM

IF anyone can be said to bave "stage managed" the woman of the 1950s, it is the rather gaunt and intense young Frenchman pic- tured above. Roger

don't understand

about women

being the shrewd opinions of the man

who has done more to shape the

women of our time than any other

Vadim created, in Brigitte Bardot, a prototype who subsequently spread as fast and a far as the espresso, bar throughout many landa, But apart from being a very gifted film producer, there is a lot more to Vadim than there first appears... as will be proved in this talk to JOHN CRUESEMANN 1–

by ROGER VADIM

men are

per-

piake

Oh, hoppens lu France too, but not so much,

WIFE NO X

WIFE NO, 2

London Rapzem Servios.

I'VE HAD

FIFTEEN TICKETS!

by DON IDDON

New York. BUTLER, I see, is

Mconsidering the intro-

duction in Britain of direct fines for motoring offences on the U.S. "ticket" sys. tem.

15

As a man

who has received traffic "tickets" during the past 23 years for every-

thing, including not wearing my classes (my

driving

"Valid

her a long time before the idea icence is stamped

We only of films came up for her,

when holder WCNTS had money enough for her not | corrective lenses"), I am no

These Englishwomen eontract into themselves instead blossoming as they can dɔ, course, there are excrpliors but would be good for her to do usually Englishmen don't give something. the impression! their women of caring very much.

of in need in werk, but just be- | enthusiast for the method: Of cause of this we both felt

IoT

The truth is that the ticket fine system is now used blatantly to raise revenue for

New York City. the impoverished exchequer of

The

police

admit 11.

the

Modelling, which she had unce done. was, of course, ou This is a terrible pity because Curiously enough, I did παι Then again. Rome.

marriages young

scem there is something_ enchanting ink she had a sim future be- mitted all sorts of excess of mene capable DE happiness in Englishwomen. Beneath their VE are living in a behaviour.

cause Aunette has a perfect If a married man is afterwards. National WE

cool dignity they have a streak face, and this rarely photographs magistrates admit it, and the I have a horror of Jealousy, Puritan age. Many around with another girl we

of craziness which is wonderful. well. smile tolerantly. If a married Of course, women are egoista Remember

Kendall Kay people say I only em- wemon does this neopis are casily bu

man's jealousy is 70 that? per cent vanity and 30 per cent phasise the erotic in my shocked,

When I see my wife in a film rell Jealousy.

with very little on it seems quite pictures.

There are, I think, three natural. The body of a woman kinds of jealousy. The ordinary is no ugly, nor is nakedness of kind with its constant

inter Itself Indecent. piay of personalities, the dramaa of every day.

had a cane and a bunch of sted him the question as we at together drinking bitter

sương aim to make the trip.

willing 141

the

1 felt like Sanders of River we glided downstream. our fees brte hed by homeK CVLJET SOC

mon's arm.

thick

CLAPPING

i

Kaffe beer, poured from thick earthenware jars.

CUI

"we

But there is all the difference between creating a shock efect and simply malcing a scandal.

I am interested in a woman as she is, not as society forces her to behave.

That is why I made the n And God Created Woman," to try to portray how an entirely innocent girl reacts when con- with the man-mode conventions of Life. The trouble

I waited 30 seconds while,

he Knotted brow, with sidered his answer.

"You know." he said finally. what we most need is a goud lock-up. Sometimes criminals huge to deep in buts with law-

citizens because abitling have nowhere to put themn. "It is particularly bad Saturday night when they have fronted Diece of been drinking and the pangas aimed a cewinan.

is that nowadays women are not wood and the whole river bank come out.'t became alive will

tree. eroes for water, their ver- seutiling

ke traps

snarling upen Jirtist,

The first night

Every child knows that rroco dijes baking in the sun look The logs. But they had me fooled unt. Spoyo. the head

on

I finished my journey drafting to what is Dow downstream

One called Livingstone islamt. free has the famous explores's initials carved on its trunk.

Shocking!

Women have constantly to be on the plert, they must always be on the defensive.

For they are, after all, the slaves of men. Yet they contrive to make slaves of men because their instinct is sure. Which is why they are stronger.

Jealousy

A women

about

a man advance may think he has

horror

Stupefied!

Today no one cries out In £1 the WBY Renoir painted his wife in the nude. Likewise, and in a totally differ-

lawyers denounce it, but it goes on and is likely to end. A slight blemish can be an advantage. Yet when I saw the

the You can get a ticket in tests I

for was stupefled. Which United States

practically only shows what one may miss anything if you are a motorist however sure one is,

The system Is quite simple. Parking ticket offences are the most numerous.

If I can single out any special reason why I have a gift I would say it is because I am interested in the characters the Alm story and thus in the

people who play them.

In many sections of Man- hattan and the boroughs there Ptc parking meters in which you insert a dime (about 9d.). That is, I think of the actor, and you are permitted to park your car for one hour. If the cur

than more remains

hour another

1 medium, but with the same cot of the episode. result, I find no conflict in my mind about this.

Yet I would hate 10 see my as # fashion Lindel

wife

And now-

In lots of different What is Important in the

1 cannot

and

you don't inseri dime the red arrow

อ

in the

meter shows a violation and tho

cop on the beat places a large от Butemons on

There is this jealousy magni- Ned, such as when your wife makes merry with another man al a party and you row about it.

Often a woman fuites reprisals. always knows in Then she must feel a little that He you re strong, the man in the decided house. to court a girl. In fact, the Finally there is real jentousy, Firt knows quickly enough what which is real suffering when, für She is going to do about it. You better or for worse, it is right Just listen to women talking to to let the girl

go rather than pictured them.elves abort men and don't chain her against her will. That clothes.

explain future is how women will look green ticket this inconsistency.

No doubt hair styles and clothes your windshield and you either I walked across a deep corpet A woman cannot follow her deceive yourselves.

is horrible.

first saw When I I like own instincts absolutely. She is

of young

Brigitte will alter as they always do, but mall in the $5 fine to the traffic am in favour off beans and of bright macindy lowers,

We

were Bardot she was 16.

in France at least and, after court or appear in court your- There is so much

sclt and plead guilty, not Suddenly, bound to society, that is the way marriages. of huge scarlet thistles.

docs set fashion-I married two years later, I was all, France

or gulity with an experience you

guilty, free, I was 12 men have made the world we precious clinging to

24. I would not say I Invented believe girls are going to be a She cannot inclies from the lip of Victoria live in.

behave acquire in life together Juma

explanation. One doesn't manufac- lot freer in themselves, after adolescence that it

а дурс cauldron naturally.

is a Englishmen often complain of The next day we hauled off Fall, staring at the

I have never should trow their womenfolk,

person who suddenly Psychologically this is going Tule an obvious example. You pity convention

If you park your car in front of grass-rooted where 75,000,000 tons of water a village

and insist that people understood why. I will tell explodes. I simply discovered to affect the way they behave, cylindrical huts which lay back minute thunders down in 3ood (see a girl at St Tropez dressed on it

which brough! be in a blin and entertaining her should

older and more you what most Englishwomen

her their very essence of movement of a fire hydrant or double park Musoko time.

which In away from the river

affect you are fined $15. Hundreds of friends an the beach. Something struck my back.

No one experienced.

lack-it is to be loved.

young, it policemen on foot, on With Annelle Stroyberg, my fashion. Experienced in baboon thinks anything of that. Yet

what way? their big frustration. turned to find a hug?

present

has wile,

been Englishmen like to marriages can go

And that is not a bad thing motor-cycles, in police cars roam idly pitching stones at me from let that girl in the same biltini True, such

the city with bundles ul fickets, 30 feet away.

entertain her friends in her fat wrong as marriages will, but in They seem to take their women different. She was a very quiet to be looking forward to.

girl. And I had already lawn

-(London Express Service). fand there is the devil to pay. the long run the people who so much for granted,

we camped round a blazing fire of scented

wood and dined fried bananas, cicadas like

phone wires.

al

D

to a chorus

thousand tele-

was its name, and everyone was eithe en shing or working an the kids.

Progress has passed by this and thousands Zambesi village like it in the heart of Africa. There is no telephone. The nearest doctor is 25 miles away; a bospital of sorts lies another

53 miles beyond that.

The old chieftain of Musok

was in mourning. One of his to

wives had died recently.

Some of his 10 children were

out tilling the land.

The

smaller ones scrabbled in the sust.

As young boys drove teams of

a

--1London Exyrex Service).

can

This remarkable

oxen, the chief told me about At 45, Dr Mervyn Stock-

the wars his tribe had fought wood, Bishop of Southwark,

TALKING

POINTS

is one of the most contro- vortial and unconventional Figuras in the Church

of

England, He is to write for the China Mail. His First article follows....

MORE than a hundred

years ago an his-

return to

Frustration

the Church...

The return to the Church is create the ideal society. But Hospitality consists in a torian wrote that the not general but particular. It is that is no longer the cas little food, a litle fire, and Church of England was lost apparent among the middle - an immense quiet.

so dead that it could not students. be saved. In fact the and historian is in his grave.

-EMERSON.

yourself Respect others will respect you,

Third. There is a

ture #

That is

clements SLOCERS,

freeze.

attitude towards Use claims of

it

will tura

Rejected

SUGGESTIONS that the traffic moters be changed so that a Imotorist can leave his or her ear Hor three hours or longer for.25 tendency is not confined to this cants or more have been To- country.

jected. The authoritles know. In America, for instance, the that most people need change has been remarkable than an hour to complete their it is estimated that 40 per cent business or do their shopping. of the population attends a place so the police pounen and

of ayorship on Sunday

Unfriendly critics attribute it

to passirer fashion, a desire for accurity, the antidote to munism; but these criticisms are

com-

ore

the

money flows into the treasury.

I rate this a bad system and so do most notorists.

Le more than suppositions. I was

in the Bronx Traffic And it is arguable that the

Court in August-a motor-cycle FORBONS go deeper. Men have

me

as I was

tried to live without God and policeman having given

Ticket for speeding has not worized. Experience

life, personal and social, is driving at 51 miles an hour in a ing them back to Christianity..

Big efforts

45-mile-per-hour zone. I way given another ticket because I way no wearing my spectacles, although I had taken them off Lor only seconds because my left eye was flching.

DR STOCKWOOD While there Is still some and especially among interest in polities, there is a of social and personal behaviour, dealing with two aspects of the

But there is little evidence of greater awareness of political And that is something our coun- truth,

a return to religion on the part Some people in Manhattan' Braitations. And, of course, the try urgently needs.

My own have as many as 300 parking Three reasons

Kussian myth is in emithereens.

And at the same time it of industrial workers.

diocose is probably typical.

tickets, Ignoring them, tearing It is realised that neither

derent must be admitted that the

ta The residential aread them up when they see them on but not the Church of

dictators, mor Soviets, nor partia Christianity. Thirty years ago it Church is readier to under- attendances are good, but in their windshield or throwing Until last May I was at the ments can create the New CONFUCIUS. England.

University Church Cambridge, Jerusaleun by legislation. Good was quite common for students stand intellectual difficulties Battersea, Bermondsey and Wal-them away. This is known as And since the end of the and during the four years I was laws can help to bring about who went to church to be re- and to cope with them than werth messos of poople never set cofflaw, and you can be fined 09 intellectually dis- It was a generation ago. foot inside a church, There is very heavily as magh or two the prophets of vicar there were three opinion wholesome conditions, but that 6arded- Conceit is God's gift to 1914-10 wor

gloo have repeated the obituary polls conducted by different is all, Ritle men.

notices — congregations are agencies, All of them agreed Second. The results of a long linances are failing that over 50 per cent of under period of religious indifference dwindling.

claimed to attend are not encouraging, and the und the Church is on the way graduates

church or chapel.

younger generations inclineck out.

This Hgura is remarkable to think that life might when one recalls the lack happler for everybody If it had of interest in religion

not been cut adrift from its in religious moorings.

-BRUCE BARTON.

*

Not failure but low aim Is crime.

A

woman

the inter-war year,

There are several reasons for

A standard

be

Hut the Church, like Charlca 11. is taking long time to die, J. R. LOWELL. and a careful examination of the facts makes us wonder whether It has any intention of dying. "Never show

It is true that in the 1920s and

a stoop decline the change, but here are three that you caro the snap av a 30s there was

First: Before, the war students and the annust seļums of church finger for her an, begud, attendances wade dianal read- were apt to regard politics as a As the word self implies, she'll come bleating to your ing. But there has been a marked panacen for the world' is; and "religion" binding porce boot-besis."

furh for the better since the end the Left-wingers excially stl At the best it coments people to --KIPLING. |of the last war and the statistlus looked hopefully, towards flusala, gether In purposeful com ---(London Ex¥tess Service), Jare more encouraging.

belleving that Marxian old munity, and provides a standard

reputable.

Two aspects

That is, no.

The improvement in church te hostility alteratancos is also noticeable in Indifference, quburbin, though not so markedly

but

lote

oro

to three thousand dollars. of

Tickets for speeding } The reasons I shall discuss in serious. If you get three speed- as at the universities.

ing tickets your petoe is auto-) a subsequent article. ~ When we read about empty

Sumce it to say now that thematically taken away in soshe Jomater the case, churches we should balance the There is, and presumably a statements by facts about fult Church is aware of the situation States, Incuding New York. ways will be a gulf between the churches of which there are and is trying to do something.

I usually plead "Chalky with about it. to life and many. scientific approach

ati explanation and invariably In many parts of the country meet with great courtesy before the religious approach, because

parish factory chaplain, and they rightly start from different premises. But they are

priests are making, big efforts to the fino is imposed. noonrily contradiclory..

get alongside the workers and to

Usual Anes for speeding: First' It is difficult to be size of the undoswiand, their, point of view. Honey the student a scientist and yet practises the exact reasons for the present it will probably to Jon me offence 20 Falsh does not and himmetto increased communicant and to break Swough, but à pronte offence 20 dollars, and some

{timge 69 Golan for the third victim of an intolerable tension, confrmation statistics

-London Beprots fergies). god final offence. 110 probably believes that he in mickilṣicisés people because the

not

who

Difficult

among ing start fine beget mede,

Bacond.