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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JUNE

1960.

"THERE IS NO SOLUTION SAVE THAT WHICH COMES FROM THE SOUL"

CHILDREN OF THE SUN THIS is the Gin

IF you had been over here in London recently and dropped in at noon at the Savoy Hotel you would have been aware that something unusual was happening. Plush motor cars, and some not so plush were dropping their human cargo at the Embankment entrance of the famous hotel and the attendants were busy "milording" the peers and "sirring" the knights, baronets and esquires.

A number of well known M.P.'s were there, including the Chief Whip of the Government. On the other hand it was not a political or official occasion. Yet, paradoxically, the political atmosphere hovered like a low lying cloud. Therefore let me explain the mood by giving you the wording of the invitation which had been sent to us:

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"The Chairman (Sir Jocelyn temperature of 100, he preached Lucai), and Committee of the his faith as a "cricketer and a British Sportsman's Club.

Christian." quest the pleasure of the сотрапу of (name filled in) at a Luncheon to be held at the Savoy Hotel in honour of the South African Cricket Touring Team."

A large room had been set aside for the cocktall half hour and I was curious to see whether the Prime Minister would be in altendance but we heard that he had sent his regrets.

But what of our guests? Here of South was the Test Team Africa openly challenging Brl- tain's famous Marylebone Cricket Club, Yet also here was a team of young men repre- sening their native country of South Africa. Was it purely on merit that the members of the or had team had been chosen the system of apartheid been applied?

Friendly

One of his few critics in the audience asked if he would have the courage to carry a banner of Lord's Cricket protest outside Ground when the Test match

was on.

"No," he replied. "I shall neither play against the South Africans nor watch them. As a matter of fact I sent back my Test match tickets the other day."

views and

The President of the M.C.C. had given him full freedom to express his

his friends urged him to be content with that but the fighting Padre was not in a mood to make the slightest concession. Then came a question from the hall which showed more sentiment than logic. "Why not keep out of po- lilles? Cricket is a game not a political stunt. Play the game and to Hell with politics."

With his voice calm but im- pressive the priest-cricketer answered that in South Africa This much, however, we all cricket was played politically

a cricketer agreed upon the members of and said: "As the Team were as lively and have the right to protest against attractive a group of young the evil of apartheid brought sportsmen as one could wish. into the game They were alert courteous, essly moved to laughter and pleasantly excited by the whole affair.

But despite the friendliness of the scene we all felt the per- sonality of one man although he

Was

LONDON LETTER-

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P

responsibility of the problem that confronts us today

Normally nothing but grief and tragedy can follow the marriage of a white man with a black woman" or vice - verss but it is utterly indefensible for the Europeans to declare that

hate, the South Africans-but and whose intelligence far out- human opportunity should be. only their laws concerning stripped that of many of the rigidly limited to the children of colour which divided God's whites whose superiority the sun. children so cruelly, so unwisely purely that of wealth.

and so stupidly.

was

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Thank heaven it was a white man and not a black who fired Then is the colour, problem the pistol shot at the South Even as I write these words something that could be done African Prime Minister. The the mind vainly seeks the ulti away with by a mere adjust crime would have been mate answer to it all. You mayment of the mind? I am afraid same regardless of colour

but few months but only one peer-and a life remember that

it is not quite so simple as the punishment of the blacks, if ago wrote of the visit of my that. As long as the natural and one of their number had fired peer at that.

and wife, and myself last winter to When we had eaten

Nassau and Jamaica. On that powerful Instinct is against the the shot, would have been far partaken of drink there

more cruel and widespread than the toast to the Queen and them occasion a tooth nerded treat marriage of black with white so

duced to compromise measures men would have died in their an adroit toast to our guests in ment and, on a friend's recom-long must the blending be re- was the actual case. Innocent terms that were warm, friendly mendation I went to the surgery, which are accepted by the dark hundreds If the finger on the and non-committal. Then came of a coloured dentist. Not only skinned as well as the whites. trigger had been black, instead the reply by the young captain ality and a cultured mind but he had hea most pleasant person- of the visiting team,

performed his talk with a skill the that would rank with highest paid dentistry in London. It would have given me real pleasure to be his host or his guest at luncheon which was near at hand. As a companion he would have been more in teresting than many of the very rich who seek pleasure in the sun-swept community of Nassau. As for Jamaica I found coloured men and women whose manners

Ordeal

Here was an ordeal that would have tightened the nerves of a Macmillan. The visiting sportsmen knew that they were the guests of a company of men

dis who without exception approved and even despised the Inhuman political policy of rigid Needless to racial distinction. say there was not a chance of demonstration the slightest against the young visiting} cricketer on his feet, but the deep, Arm resentment against the policy of the South African Government spread its shadow on us all.

to

Yet, wonder of wonders, this young cricketer proceeded I charm

with a wit and have held fluency that would any audience entranced. Nor did he ever once I love. As a Christian 7 cannot and will not stay silent."

Fruity

Then as the press conference was not in fact present. My moved to its end the Rev. David reference 18 to the famous Sheppard, speeking in measured, British sporting cleric the Rev. unemotional tones, said that he David Sheppard who, strangely had played against the South enough, is such a

brilliant Africans several times for Cam- cricketer that he had been bridge University and for the chosen for the first Test Match County of Sussex. "Then," he against the South Africans. went on, "I was ignorant and For reasons. which сеп be vague about apartheid. In questioned or approved accord- January I wrote to the Arch- ing to your light he withdrew bishop of Cape Town and from the M.C.C. Team on hear- fully approved of my saying and ing that the then visiting South doing all I could to encourage Africans were all white men. men of this outlook. This I Nor did he merely convey this have now done." message to the M.C.C. by writ- ing a personal letter. Instead he gave a press conference in the rough and tumble slum area of London's Dockland,

be

to

I am sorry to have kept you the controversial so long on pitch, so let us now return the Savoy where the Master of Ceremonies, with a voice that was at once fruity and that African perious, announced the moment had arrived when the Lords and gentlemen (an odd distinction) would take their places at the tables,

"If you ask me If I want to stop the South cricket tour this summer I will tell you that I always believe in playing to win."" That was his opening.

im

resort to the

ancient wheeze that the pre- sence of this or that person reminded him of the story of Pat and Mike. The guests who had greeted him at the begin- ning of his speech with mere polite applause found themselves charmed by the healthy, clear- headed commentary of man who should have been terrified by the presence of so many big men of affairs. did any of the South African speakers suggest that cricket is a game where winning is not so important as playing the game

old chap.

young

Nor

As for the slightly older speaker who followed the young captain of the South African team, he could have gone on a music hall anywhere in Britain and convulsed even a Monday night audience with laughter.

The end

own

Yet far off in their country of South Africa there lay in his bed the Prime Mini- ster who miraculously - survived the point blank shooting by a man who counted his own life as nothing. How strong, how elemental, how passionately the: would-be assassin must have hated the inequality of black and white.

It may or may not have been So on we went and gazed at his lil-health that made his face the set-up of the long top table flush and his eyes shine. To and a crowded selection of se- keep the appointment in the parate ones. My own allotment games room of his welfare hall was to a smallish table which

Terrible as was the crime that he left his bed at the Mayflower included the Government Chief he committed one can only feel Family Centre in Canning Town Whip, the Editor of the Dally humble at his courage where he is Warden. Thus, still Telegraph, the Chairman of the though his idealism took such a pale from influenza and with a Royal Commonwealth

Society, cruel turn.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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4 Walk? Decidedly! (6)

5 Produces the goods, as it

were, (8).

6 Language in Jersey. (4)

6 Go in for some variety. (5)

13 Family builder? (5)

18 Fish in King's Langley, (5)

14 Fashion with speed, but in

no extravagant way. (8)

17 Make reparation. (5)

18 A favourite command of

Carroll's Duchess. (6)

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So the luncheon at the Savoy moved towards its end but we all waited with agreeable ap- prehension as our host and chief organiser of the luncheon, Sir Jocelyn Lucas, rose to make the winding up speech. All his life Sir Jocelyn has known exactly where he was going but not quite how. As a prisoner in the first world war he collected peas from his Red Cross parcels and kept them until they were as tough as a rock. Then he pierced them with a pin and ate such

quantity that his breathing Was like a mad orchestra.

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Unfortunately, a German reedical specialist became 50 entranced that he could not tear himself away from the remark- able British patient with the orchestral lungs. But by this time nature had reduced the pea version of the Ride of the Valkyrie to its natural size.

So the luncheon at the Savoy ended with laughter, good bumour and good friendship. We had met, talked, eaten and drunk with as-wholesome and sporting a collection of young men as any nation could pro- duce. And when they go back to their own country they wil be able and eager to tell their elders that the British do not

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AIX

If Christ came to earth again one need not wonder what He would feel about this human

are problem. "These children," He would say. "Sulfer them to come unto Me."

other solution comes front

There is no

But this much is both logical and desirable that the gates of opportunity should not be closed, to the blacks. It was the Bri- tish who invaded Africa long save that, which years ago and brought back the the heart and soul. Until and black men as slaves to toll in unless that solution le given its the shadows on the Britain and in the new world chance

will deepen across the Atlantic. It was the dark continent white man who must bear the every day.

1920

1960

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