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JUST REMEMBER

THE CHINA AIL THURSDA

Mrs. BURTON

IN's hospital at Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia, Mrs Lilian Burton died the other week. It wasn't an easy death. She was suffering from 70 per cent burns. She received those burns a week before. It was a Sunday, and she was driving along in her car with her two small daughters, just as you or I might have been and just as harmlessly.

A group of Africans suddenly is "free," responsible people will began stoning her. She saw take charge and there will be them pick up a petrol can and no savagery. Is that true? It cried; "Don't do it" but they did would be a very rash man who it and that was the end for Mrs felt confident of I, Burlon. The end, that is, except

The attack on Mrs Burton is for those seven mimaginable days in hospital. During them, no isolated incident. Violence some Africans from the village and fear are too where she was attacked sent her a bunch of flowers.

According to her doctor, when she saw the flowers she said "There must be some hope for the country," and she died with out any bitterness towards the Africans,

THE TRAGEDY

in

The name of Llan Burton is very unlikely to be splashert Across banners and carried processions, but she is as much a victim of the tragedy con- vulsing Africa as the people who died a Sharpeville and Hola. And in a real sense she was more innocent victim.

No one, I'm certain, is more shocked by this affair than de- cent Africans. They are shocked personally because Africans are whole kindly people on the

common in to de- some parts of Africa serve space in the English papers unless they have some special news value,

news value in

the

There is Congo at the moment because the toll of slaughter looks like mounting to massacre propor- tions. The white familles who live there feel no confidence about what will happen when the Conga is "free." A third of them have already fed across the fronter.

BARBARISM

Soon the Corfield report be Mau will on Mau published. It has a dreadful Lo tell of murder story and mutilation and torture, of obscene, oaths and barbaric ceremonies; and of Joma Ken- was one of the yalia, who

and politically because they founders

Mau.

know

how much this sort of

and leaders of Mau

out any understanding of what that wind may bring.

When you read the story, of Lilian Burton, are you really surprised they feel bitter?

-Anthony

Lejeune

--(London Express Service).

The

**Wake up, Dad! Here it comes again!”

PATRICIA LEWIS page

The man

"I DON'T know

whether to call it

Now, drink this!"

thing discredits the cause of An old story? Unfortunately or something with the

African nationalism.

not: only the other Sanday They my that the savages who the "responsible" African po

tiny ticians in Kenya elected Kenyatta minority, which Is doubtless as their president and demanded true. They say that when Africa his release.

behave like this are а

Q

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"For heaven's sake, Maudie,

do stop saying 'We've only

got K's word for lt' and come

to bed!"

London Express Bervice

Yet in another sense it is an old story. All this savagery is only the 1960 version of the savagery which the Europeans found when they first went to Africa,

NO BITTERNESS

Some of the jungle has been cleared. There are responsible Africans who can justly take their place in a civilised. com- munity. There are gentle, friendly Africans who hate the violence which comes out of the jungle.

full medical jazz, like 'My experiences under The Thing".

"

We sat for a few seconds con-

sidering both titles while the man with the problem, Ken script-writer, Hughes-author, and currently, director of War- wick's Alm, "The Trials of Oscar Wilde'-absent-mindedly played the bongos

"You see, they just produce this cup of clear, tasteless liquid and say 'Cop 'old," he went on. "Jeez! Imagine alipping it to some poor guy in a pub and he suddenly starts behaving like a two-year-old!"

"This," is 属 drug called LSD 25 used in the treatment But it is exactly these people of psychoneuroses and allied who have most to fear from mental illnesses to bring about the hooligan and the demagogue, the reliving of childhood They were the first to fall experiences.

beneath the Mau Mau pangas.

Mrs Burton, died feeling no bitterness towards the Africans. Very few white people who live

in Africa dislike the Africans.

After

A book

Their dislike, their bitterness is analysis Mr Hughes, who is 38,

increasingly directed towards

year's psycho

submitted to six sessions under

who

drank

LSD

IT MADE

HIM FEEL

JUST TWO

FEET TALL!

Ken Hughes: "What's important is the memory

T

of your father hitting your mother with a bottle...'

the comfortable liberals in Bri-the influence of LSD 25, and his sensational private life, fraught wrong every affair went ing what life is all about that sure for comfort. tain and America who gally ap-hallucinations were so extraor-

with all sorts of emotional skew-whiff. People thought I you can tell the analyst.

poses to write a book about

wrong.

London Express Service.

Sammy Davis jun., but a vital:

Brazilian entertainer young called Hello Motta, who begins a series on §.4.C. television.

Before coming to " England this multi-talented 24-year-Q}]} worked on the prize-winning French filmm Orpheu Negre, shortly to be seen in London.

"Orpheu The director of Negre" is Marcel Camas one of that startling group of fim- the "new makers known as wave,"

I asked Helio what he thought of them.

"La novelle vague?" he re- peated. "C'est a nouvelle head. A nouvelle conception. But, för me,

c'est nothing - only

novelle phatidan

Mr. Motta speaks very little English. But what there. 'is' is! succinct.

A WISH

FOR SHARON

***** YOU - may recall that rock singer when American Eddie Cochrane was killed in a moter accident here recently his girl-friend; Sharon Sheeley, was badly injured. She is still lying in St Martin's Hospital, Bath

Her mother, who flew from California to be with Sherob, writes to me***

There is a

great favour I should like to ask if it i

all possible. Sharon" has received so many letters from

at

I assumed the wonderful people of

England, especially teenagers.

plaud the wind of change with dinary, so vivid, that he pro- entanglements, Now, subsequent was a nut when I left my wife "You see, it's not fooling. In my opinion is should They are beautiful letters which I cannot answer them all per- them. (A sort of Son of Huxley' to therapy, he discusses all six times and went back to her every single thing you've ever be made at top speed in this we will always keep and cherish. Trouble was, I couldn't live done is imprinted on your mind way," he said firmly. "It doesn't sonally, so perhaps you could with Charlie that's my ex-wife, like a tape-recorder. I don't leave the executives time to have your paper print an open

wonderful woman-because of mean the fact that you picked ruin everything by mucking letter expressing our

Just Fancy The

UICK-ON-THE-TRIGGER Wyatt Earp (actor Hugh O'Brian) shot himself in the thigh during the finale of his Western was blank. stage show at Wilmington, Carolina. The cartridg O'Brian was given first-aid for burns,

"Doors of Perception"?) Hence the search for a title

Now Mr Hughes is by means hysterical. He is an attractive, talented man who has frequently been hailed as

mono-

these stresses fluently and each time. frankly mostly syllable words.

Tensions

His book may contain passages the bright new boy of British something like this:- Alms. He has also managed, in

"You see, I was aggressive to

the past, to suggest a somewhat women.. My marriage went

an apple on Michaelmas Tues- about with the cutting." were day in 1906-that's not Impor-.

They tent. But the memory of your PHFFFFT

of France somewhere to be with

the tensions, and then when was away the tensions worse, so I went back. used to say I was impossible father hitting your mother with always diving off to the South a bottle is important. And it's just waiting to explain things if my current dolly.

"Believe me, psychoanalysis you can unlock the memory." is cheaper! Apart from which. this drug can knock about eight years off the treatment. I used to go three times a week-then I wound up having hours under USD 25.... #

all stored up there somewhere, GOES HELIO

"Did you work under it?" "Man, I was about knee-high to a grasshopper and in bed ... hardly! it was fantastic. The electric fire looked like a huge neon sign spread-over-the- whole room.

Memories

"The first session took me back to a flat that my parents bad left when I was about six

months old.

"And then the next time I went whizz-whizz-whizz and 1 was beyond, even that stage...

01 course, you talk about

the what's happening

whole time, you give a commentary on what you're seeing."

thanks

*and deep gratitude. They bave; brought Sharon great comfort.

Sincerely, Mary Sheeley. I'm sure readers will join

Sharon me in wishing

the speedlest recovery-and in hop- HE sings. He dances. Ing she soon finds happiness

What teas the particular memory unlocked by LSD 25 He clowns. He plays the guitar. again.

And he composes. No, It's not "for Mr Hughes?

"Well, I had been living with,

a terrible feeling of being not? wanted by my mother, and therefore being antagonistic to all women."

"And when you know the reason for your maladjustment how do you readjust?"

"Look, this is a big thing to throw in a simple bloke's lap it's early stages to say. But I've

now. I'm working better-I'm better, integrated.

I've got a

-(London Exprem : Service),

MY DARLING, REF. TO

MINE OF 17th INST.

certainly got peace ont quet How would a civil ser- date, the possibility was da rant, steeped in the cussed of my applying for girl-friend but I'm not emotional official jargon of his job, an extension of our (khon

Application for an early about it-I've sort of slipped make a proposal of marriage? into neutral gear for a while."

The civil servants' month finalisation of this propast- "Any other after effecta??!!! "Well, I've had one or two ly magazine sér a competi- tion is accordingly now sub- headaches which I never used to tion inviting its · readers to mitted for your kympatheti have and I can't drink as much subrait love Tatters in comideration." as I used to."

officialese.

"And...

.?"

1

"And I'm still not happy"

At least we solved one

"Did you know other people problem. Me Hughes will call who've experienced the same kis book Now, drink this?” treatment?

"Well, there's one girl. I met MAN IN A

who, had far greater doses than

*L And Cary Grant belleves in

it, too,

UI checked, and Mr Grant

HURRY-AND

was indeed in on the initial HERE'S WHY

experiments in America with

LSD 253

Prudent

It may not be inappro priate, with 划 view to assuring you of the bona fide nature of may intentions, A special mention was to direct your after given to the competitor who the recent increase in the wrote: "May I then, have personable emoluments the honour to submit this

my grade. tender for thy hand,”

Having, regard 'cumstances of pending

But the winner was Tomkins,” who,

***** THAT young, fair-haired pillar of the Old Vic, actor, John Chiam directed 4re all this going back a cure Neville, makes his film debut as tions over which I have

Lord Alfred Douglas in the control to inform you of hough. It does other "Oscar Wilde'! (Gregory own therapeutic quality, Ratoff), At the same time ata

Wakwayakboksersch, your directing rehearsals for his first under UCLÍKÓ restrospective: Alyal, to interprah, but London play "Benry ARA

drun you see every I assumed he would-find-the

thing for yourself and you come non-stop shooting schedule the timbel at the other adopted by the rival

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