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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1980.

EXPEL HIM! Friend, I begrudge you not your despair!

MILL

ILLIONS of

the Queen's citizens throughout the world must ask themselves whether Ghana ought to

wealth.

-by- our correspondent

stay in the Common- there years ago he was handed he does not fancy and to ap-

I democracy by the British, polat judges. who had toiled to rals: a country to responsible and viable nation- there had

That is the problem now that Nkrumah has locked up nearly 70 political opponents.

bood where before exlated only savagery.

Now we are treated to his Anal folle do grandeur, with his announced intention to pack the Civil Service avith pollileal ap- Itow well recali ho pointers. ecstatic, banners of independence

Cacar's couch.

Nkrumah how this completed day "Freedom" - with the the unholy. union of xocutive klight to benevolent legislature, and judiciary, and I wish to ank creamy-lipped implied

British male in which the and feeble-fisted Empire -

now fatly, reclines on hie angle porters: it members of the Com- Duchess of Kent was forced to monwealth have an obligation participate, and the yells of the whatever.

inue to Nkrumah-worshipping populace, will it exist in fact-beyond being a "Free-Dom," "Free-Dom." easy-irade street gang?

I have travelled or lived in most of the major independent

territories of the Commum- wealth.

From time to me alrendy I have gravely wondered whether it is not all a midsummer night's dreary-such a time is now.

'Free-Dom'

Caesar

Well, what has their idol done with it?

One of his earliest actions was

to throw several leading nem hers of the Opposition party into wil without trial on vague perta of an asasination plot (1957).

Then be exiled Journalists who revealed his power-drink practices to the world.

I have le doubt that

Next, Just a few weeks ago, Nkrumah had any. true tenantly unveiled his new the Commonwealth Constitution to turn Ghana loyalty to

plebiscite-that old Ideal he would not be playing (by

for the Merry Andrew with common midla of the power pushers) into moralities of Kovernment as he a reublic and himself into an is today

old-fashioned mutterntic poten-

And note how every fresh proposal is presented to the people as n move to "rid our- selves

the uť

vestigċa of Colonialism." It is a passing if disheartening comment on the situation that in ridding himself of the "vestiges of Colonialism" he must also vid himself of the

vestiges of democracy.

Britain tras injected her civilisation into Africa to make men's lives fuller. Under dieta- torship all men de a little. I have seen too many not to care.

Affronts

Nkrumah's rule bas been accompanied by recurring of- world fronts

responsible opinion.

Example, the decision ordering

to

THIS ARID LOVE

AFFAIR

-at £1,000

a minute!

by TOM STACEY

FTEN I feel that the most tragic spectacle in life is that of two people who desperately need

OFTE

Remember, 11 was just over late with powers to scrap Bills the lash for political opponents, each other's love yet, by some clusive failure of

You're wrong,

we

Mr. Johnson,

can deliver it

Is

communication, never reach it.

Russia's delegate.

INSPECTION SRIEMOGRAPH

Kenner sentences since cancelled after

the outery in London,

Alas, such behaviour-like his

pedagogic fanciful 1950 union with Guinea, Thousands of broken marri ruled by Seltou Toure on one- ages tell the same tale. Here at and pedantic Valerian Zorin. party Marxist lines-is at once Geneva I see I have been immediately observes the West's

L'esprit pacifique, that dowdy feuting Nkrumah's reputation witnessing that familiar tragedy plan is entitled "Comprehensive

while theirs is dove, moults daily. and that of the Commonwealth, at the critical disarmament Disarmament"

Jabelled "Complete and General Inescapably the rulers of the talks

Disarmament."

There is something about Negro Sintes passed out vi

these marble hallways at the French and Belgian possession

On these negotiations bang

"Comprehensive." of the

he claims. Palais des Nations, with various security the will ape the Nkrumah style,

whole

something less than conferences in chronic sitting And thuse hetic

world's future the security, means new

(like GATT, or the nuclear pullllcians, I assure you from as it might be, of a man and "complete and general,"

that precludes any real journeying among their tatter- woman's life.

Mr David Ormsby Gore, dis- talk). | demation tribal people. are

lingolshed and devoted delegate assumption of agreement. But it being catapulted to indepen-

from Britain, denies it.

A kind of opium pervades the to him Mr Johnson double it, seem-donce with handicaps

apparently never occurs

atmosphere. possibly orising theat assame

Tritain inexperience ur destitution, to

or his leagues to make the from the Opium Board in per eternal shome of France two would be acting on her own the

For months now I have not innocuous change of tile to manent session on the ground withnat the support of the and Belgium,

which Nkrumahcome across a soul who does not plucate the Russians.

flnor. housands of bembers of the never had to face.

belleve

earnest that it is the desire of both the West and the Communists to disarm.

London.

TS Bomber Command a waste of money? In

Mail the China

weeks ago, Paul Johnson said flatly that it is.

He said it could Je wiped

He said Dut on the ground. that even if some V-bnubers did get airborne they would long probably be shot down before they reached Monoow.

I disagree with Mr Johnson,

war,

enuld they rench.

Ruasin?

their targets

10

American Strategie Alr Com-

get

Excuse

Ol

former

Not a peck

Well, what has happened so

mand. the U.S. Navy and the NATO light

force, bomber which itself can reach Morcow)

Hall alocked together the Now, some experienced men far in wecks of seemingly ardent Say air defences would cer- Will tell you - a

But it. Governor of the Gold Coast did Harleying? Not a single hem of tainly be swanger, inconceivable as Bonber last year that dictatorship is jagcord, not a peek of a kiss. Command acted alone, would robably necessary for newly

Is it barely credible to you. independent African States.

the uninitiated in contemporary nhy

Even Mr Macmillan recently East-West diplomacy? Friend, made to excuse Nkrumah do not grudge you your lieve that enough wouldy pointing to our own "turbu- dismay. get through. By night tryint road to democracy," would we a variety of radio anal electronic device's and i decoys

battle rader and homing weapons and 1 believe a surprisingly high proportion would reach their targets.

I believe that, if it come to an atomie world

Bomber Command would be able to do its dendly duty.

In the unlikely event of Russian atomic attack on the West, the Soviet forces would have to make various milliary dispositions which should be- come known to Western Intelli- gence.

Bomber Command would then spilt up into units of four V. their bombers and abandon bases. They would #y to near- ly 40 dispersal airfields In the United Kingdom altel algond

other

A proportion of the bombers would then be kept at Instant readiness, Under

through?

to

the bombers

•

Quite enough

17 only the "Amber

Warning" plan some V-bombers would be constantly airborne, others would stand en their

and

armed. runways, moned rendy to be airborne three minutes.

Assuming that a proportion

would

But I would ask the Prime Do not be deceived by refer Minister is it our intention, in ences to "progress." There has handing self-government to been no progress yel. Colonial poples, to pitch themi into the reventeenth century?

Others, certainly, haye seen Britain's duty to prepare them the present day. for enlightened government of

I

Ask this-

Conceivably they may reach agreement in the end, but not, I fear, with their current petti fogging approach,

Different

then.

So the quibble expands. Ho that whenever any Communist "disarma- mentions delegate ment" be is party-bound to my "complete and general" as well preters' tongues turn blue

until the tips of the inter- fatigue.

Fading

with

Com- West.

Next, a corter of a The munist argument. they say want control measures first, but that, they delightedly

selare, will mean control armaments not of disarmament. is straight This of

course.

of

have the foreign It, says Mr Zorin. to scrap their

as disarmament why don't they say

*Nuclear nations ought to pledge themselves

not to release slocks of nuclear weapons

to ole nations -

UNDERGROUND TEST

says an optimist

World Copyrighi tip arrangement wichids Manchetten Guardian

formula

between

Delegates tend to subside Inte compromise a multi-lingual diplomatie pro- the wa_plana, miscuousness that is turning "Oh, I say,” sald be, slightly this sun-1 lakeside palace into shocked, "I don't really think

sedate twentieth century It's the point, is 167"

Sodom.

Not funny

After one day's session I asked one of the Western spokesmen, bog-bound in abstruse details

it any one had yet proposed 慰

The journalists tittered. But this is not funny, It is appalling. It is so appalling that unless someone grabs these dele- gutes by their thinning hair and knocks their heads together until their eyes smart, the world will wander on its way to its catelysn through EX for of interminable talk.

-London Express Service),

Russia finds marriage can be serious

From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

Moscow.

MOSC

[OSCOW is ready for the latest Soviet gimmick. Specially designed buildings in the city will soon sprout into "Palaces of Marriage" following the vast success of the converted nobleman's house in Leningrad Well, why don't they? Mr where young couples are flocking to celebrate their marriages with all the

frills.

and

to

TOCDIVO bocome

nursery stuff on the lines of: Which comes first, nen or egg. By day light bombers would

But at has takeri about fout days' talking about, at a cost fly in over the tree-tops moder and the mizile

of some £1,000 a minute, all the radi defoners. Thor rockets would

delegation expenses included. by launched at the 414155

Here in a few lines is how 10

we Now anl

The Marsh

is truth

that apparently intelligent men from heavily-defended targets the V-bombers could use decoy Nkrumah has never really given | 10° countries (Britain.

France, bases ploy. devices in cloud or wait in the democracy a chance in Ghana, America, Canada, Italy, Russin, the West mean

bases foreign set his country Czechoslovakia,

Rumania. air till nightfall. Some at least Instead he has would get through.

<15 the read to Negro-style Poland, Bulgaria) can tollingly progresses, hydrogen autocracy, which achieved. for follow the same star to Bethle- 90 in their plan? a dozen

example, ene President every her only to start flinging their bombs hit their target area 14

months (and several gold. Incense. the massive retaliation

and myrrh at Frederic Eaton. of the U.S.. argassinated} For Haiti and each other as sonn AUS have been delivered.

they bald, bronzed. and plas Liberia in their chaotic history arrive.

this harmless arregant, spurns

documents The Russians have been con- fountain will rise in the centre ding And, that, lo put it mildly during the past century.

Here they come.

and ulters de gesture

Russian cemed for some time about the of the courtyard."

their exhortation would be enough.

There will be bullet-proof diented to peter, infused with troops in Hungary before the lack of sanctity in the marriage And the best man will have no good Soviet citizens.

Commonwealth'esprit rests at the

pacifique," and pre- Assembled memories.

inwa.

need to worry about forgetting Says the arnouncement: nt their respective plans.

Couples would take half no the ring, for in the palace's "The marringe ceremony hall,

off from the hour

factory main hall bridal pairs will be splendidly decorated, will occupy and ride by bus plong to the able to buy wedding rings, close to 160 square yards of floor registrar's office in their over- Different kinds

And at the end of the of wedding space. alls, sign the book and then souvenirs and presents and ceremony the newlyweds and return to the factory benches as flowers will also be on cale here." their relatives and friends will man and wife, without ceremony.

ascend the wide stairway to the

bration.

Everything has been thought floor." The high

tape-recorders It reminds me rate of divorce is of-champagne,

rather of sitributed parily to this lack of will play stirring Communist weddings at home, except that

where we have the Cross and ceremony and a campaign is music, there will be two ban- now being waged to make queting halls where the newly- the altar, the Palaces of marriage a great occasion-not a weds will celebrate their marri- Marriage will have a denk and s church occasion of course, for ages, and waiting rooms where hammer and sickle. And, of this is still an atheist State, but the bride and groom will wait course, Lenin instead of Christ. an occasion which will make the for their turn to sign the wod- marriage ceremony something to

TOM

Prime Ministers' conference.

Krenching fire

East

of

POCOCK relves

Germany,

-(London Expreta Service).

Every So it seems to go on. It is time now to ask our

To the careless eye the plans tealous day the chances fade of whether that kind of

Far patching up a relationship you Commonwealth is worth having, are practically

from it.

could ever call a marriage, Loudon Express Servleti,

identical.

of Bomber Command would ex- cape the rockets from

ཙྩཱ

"Of catre have kjpřes nur - we'r been married 1) Bran."

**Don't 704

cfare eat the len pudding that's in there! m-it's for you!

dad's capper."

SAFE

**Have you a three-pla plug by any chance?"

“Best ball | øver

used!

“Every once in a while, verything thetor

wema upside down!"

SETEESSES without flowers, matic or cele-

BEAUTY

SALOR

Wouldn't they mcklat, dear? ""

"I caught him digging a ruspo tunnel!"

Friburgin

Sorry, dear, I thought thh

was your emberila.*

་

feck

dragging you taja

vel en a day like

"Á, co ma ent Wealth you, telem won the church

Jardi

be remembered, something Just

a little out of the ordinary.

Chandeliers

The Palace of Marriage in Leningrad Wils started some months ago and La hugely popular.

Now, says an official annour.ce- ment, "It is intended to build several marriage palaces in the capital....The project envisages concrete. mirror Klass and slumfafum.

Champagne banqueting hall on the strat

-(Landon Expreza Seroles),

Letter of complaint

Jerusalem, THE earliest Hebrew let- far found con-

TEDE SO

trains a complaint. It was addressed by a peasant to a local princo about the middle of the seventh contury B.C. different kindo of coloured It has been dug up by an

"It has be decided to use

plastics and wilt in Interior finishing work.

"The halls and rooms will be furnished with crystal chan- dellers,

and beautiful furnituro."

Tuts

It will in thot, be the Com- munist coʻdvalent of a church marriage, with all the caremony end

much sanctity Its Communium can provide.

The BNNOUNCEMent Баук

is 2.600

years

ས

old

harvested with me will bear wliness on my behalf truly... I am innocent of any guilt."

two months to decipher. hali the 14 lines. He la stiil puzzling out the remainder. The sherd, broken into four pieces, incatures three by severi Inches.

Israeli archaeologist in it took the finder, Joseph Navel, what must have been a guard-room of an an- cient, and so far un- explored, fort near the seashore north of Ashkalon.

The letter shows that Judenna

ruled part of the coastal strip - a fact hitherto unknown.

The letter was written skilfully The prince the letter addresses

on pottery but in awkward language presumably diclated ascribe by the literate

to peasant.

There will be a granite terrace in front of the main entrance. It is also intended to set up an allegorie bronze statue here.

"The palace interior designe are original and simple, Visitors passing through the transparent glass doors will enter a spacious vestibulo which leads to a main hall.

"A fine vlow will

open through stained-glom windows of the courtyard with a flower garden, decorative bushes, and peronnial trwen, A beautiful It goes on: "All my brethren who

Still puzzling "May my lord the prince hear the word of his servant," the Jolter begins, and then appeals for the return of a cloak which was apparently conicated by creditors as he completed his

harvest.

is believed to have been the local Governor of the biblical, The letter precodes by half a

King Josiah of Judah, century the famous Laklilah lotters found further inland, 20 miles south-east of AzDRGIET, In 1030, Naveh, who brought back three olher small pleces of pottery also Inscribed in. Hebrew, plane to return to the fort In subnitzer -to search the lower and courte.

yard area.

Landon Express Herpins),