1960-08-16 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16) 1960.

Rene MacColl spotlights the problems facing Rhodesia

in a spot-on-the-news interview with its Premier

WELENSKY HITS OUT

Katanga: Let people concerned settle it

SIR

From RENE MacCOLL: Salisbury, Rhodesia.

IR ROY WELENSKY, the dynamic Rhodesian leader who in a talk with me last March first spotlighted the hidden crisis of Katanga for people in Britain, listened to emergency radio bulletins pouring in from the Congo and gave me this vivid appraisal of the situation:-

I

Talks on the possibility of Katanga joining Rhodesia a disclosure that raised parliamen- tary uproar in London, Paris, and Brussels in the spring-have continued between Africans on either side,

Katanga.

"It is all very well for people sliting thousands of miles away from our prob. lems to kid themselves that those problems need purely political solutions. Wrong! Wrong! WRONG!

He went on: "I think that many people abroad are having second thoughts about things in Africa today.

LEARNING

What of the Future? "Mach

of it Hes in the shadows, alas," sald Sir Roy. It is difficult ached to forzsee,”

He was thinking about the possibility of Premier Lumumba wiining his fight for the Congo and then turning to Russia.

"Events on our border have been a shock," said Sir Roy, "but I sense a settling down in my country.

"We have got to recognise that the old carefree day's Africa have gone for good. We may well find ourselves with unktiondly people on our bor- des, but that doesn't frighten me.

He declared: "I am

satisfied

that we can look to the future with great.confidence."

NIGERIA

Other points srising from the interview

COMED REPUBLIC

LAST SCENE:. As I was lunch. ing with Sir Roy in the Parlia ment building a broadcast came

Sir Roy emphasised that his

on announcing Lumumba's State ictures on the future of the of Emergency in the Congo and African peoples de not apply to adding that troops had been Nigeria, now gearing independ

chce: "I feel very confidence to the Belgian Ambassadori

residence "to ensure his de that she will make a go of it." parture and if necessary to en

force it."

I understand Sir Roy La Leaning forward to lend the past few weeks there have pressing for direct representa emphasis to his words, Sir Roy been quite important negolia tien at UNO instead of being Welensky added: "I consider tions between lading Africans that а minimum of 50,000 of Katanga and Africans bere in represented by Britain. foreigners is necessary it

the the Federation concerning the I gather Portugal is taking "I am hoping against hope Congo at this time, not just possibilty of Katanga leaving steps to safeguard her African "What we are primarily up

the Congo and adhering to us, territories by flying 500 para Africa are massive that both the United Kingdom soldiers but technicians too."

United

One or two of our federal MPs troops from Lisbon to Mozam States of poverty and massive ignorance. and the

But Sir Roy warned: "I am have been involved in these blque ready as a mobile reserve And you can only cure those by America he learned the bitter convinced it is very wrong for talks."

have at last woken up

along the Federation borders. development and education.

lesson, late though it may be any outside Power to interfere "You can cure nothing at all "And although I am no great in the Congo now, irrespective in this world by running away lover of UNO, let us hope that of rights and wrongs.

and running away, in one they too kave learned or are form or another, is just what the now learnung" European colonial Powers have

The United Nations has no conception of the immensity of the Congo problem--and anyway why not deal first with tribal-warring provinces against in like Kabai instead of relatively peaceful The "old carefree days" have gone for ever-- but running away by the whites is no solution, and if trouble should hit Rhodesia there is no our home- question of quilling, for "this is lund."

THE REAL EFFECT

SIR ROY saw me in his office in the Federal Assembly building at Salisbury for the first inter view he has given since the Congo crisis broke last

month.

decades

FIGHTING

been doing in Africa in the past Sir Roy feels things have "I would strongly deprecate gothe so far in the Congo that any attempt by ANYONE to try UNO must be left to try to do to get in now, to try to score, to the job.

make capital out of the chaos, "But UNO must wake up But he said: "It is absolutely

"If the Congo business has done anything, it is to destroy

the

myth that 'One man, one essential for UNO to step up and quickly-to the task con- vote is the answer to any of their efforts to a massive degree fronting them. Our problems here.

4n-

"There is a full-scale tribal At present they are simply

war raging right now in Kasal. "The time has come to stop nibbling at the problem. They

"Isn't it an odd state of ASKED what had been the impact of events in the Congo on bluffing the African peoples, scum to have no real grasp of affairs that UNO are all set to

his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland. He answered: both white and black, that the the magnitude of this problem.

intervent in Katanga, where all "What has happened has considerably stiffened the attitude of so-called conferring of

"There is complete and utter is peaceful, but are doing. Europeans here."

dependence' is any solution. Then with immense emphasis he went on: "If there is the

"It may satisfy the egos of a collapse in the Congo right now, nothing about the bloodshed slightest doubt in the outside world that if anything happened her small element who have become and transport

Public utilities, communications, and confusion in the Kasai?" would

have broken

faturet "I Katanga's in the Federation such as has happened in the Congo it

etmest drunk with a sense of down. Tribal warfare his broken lead to the same reaction from the whites here, then all I can say their

feel," said Sir Roy, "that importance and DWIL

maiter to is that the outside world is in for a very rude shock.

power, but for the masses the "Look here, Mr MacColl. We have rol. no other

precess has generally meant a country to run to. We whites are, many of us, fourth or

change for the worse. fifth generation people here, This is our land—our, home- land.

"I believe that the white man

out.

"Quite frankly, I don't feel that to restore law and order UNO have got anything like the

a Lerch which brought forces necessary for the job.

"Anyone who is stupid enough to encourage the Africans of it the Federation into thinking that they can drive out the whites is civilisation and justice to Africa. And the removal of the white absolutely and utterly wrong.

"African opinion has been mixed. Some were cheered by the Belgian run-out, and have indulged in dreams that something of the kind could follow here.

"But others realise that what has happened can only have done harin to the cause of the Africans.

to

Overall, I would say that the Congo business has had sobering effect. The so-called diehard whites are readier be reasonable, and extremist African leaders have shown greater moderation."

THE REAL LESSON

· SIR ROY looked tired, for events have im posed unremitting strain, but ebullience kept bubbling through. Outside, Union Jacks Ruttered in the sun.

it is strictly a be

seilled by the concerned.

people

"The problema must be con- sidered in relation to the Congo "And in any case, the mere as a whole. After all, every-l

Katanga et man now would mean the torch restoration of law and order is thing is quite peaceful and

in itself not sufficient. There orderly within would be muted out."

must also be a gigantic effort to present-in contrast to most of restore the Congo's economy to a the rest of the Congo so why point where food and work are does UNO threaten to intervene available for the population,"

there? What is the point?"

And Sir Roy said: not intend to let that pen in my country!”

"I do hap

Just Fancy That!

Sir Roy laughed with gusto when I reminded him that the

Cor!

I'm sick

Sir Ray walked over to the radio and listened with a group

of Rhodesian MPs. "In the al days," he said, "troope would the have been sent to ensure safety of a diplomat. Now, seems they are sent to threaten. New States new ways."

--London Express Kerolce),

of phoney

Cockneys!

"MY

FAIR LADY," started it. Lonnie Donegan continued it. Tommy Steele was always with So is Adam Faith. Arnold Wesker last interview he gave mol digs deep into it. So did Wolf Maskowitz, Lionel Bart, occasionally in repercussions when he revealed collaboration with an attractive ex-criminal, Frank Norman, is making slabs that certain responsible people of

March 1, had International

within Kutanga had made over-

ney off of it.

All these people are cathing

ERMAN business man Hans Schurman arrived at London Air-tures to Sir Boy's Federation

port from Frankfort with this problem: where to find an asking that Katanga be allowed in on that highly desirable, sale-

to adhere to Rhodesia and

able business of Being a Stage English rose in 25 minutes?

when the Congo Cockney.... Nyasaland

He was due to catch a plane to Tokyo, He had promised the received its independence. GELD

rose to "an old English lady living in Tokyo who has not been back to England for many years."

THIS remarkable man, this former professional boxer THIS

engine-driver who by sheer drive and vitality has pushed himself into the topmost counsels of the Commonwealth, told me this:-

Herr Schurman hired a taxi to Hounslow. He arrived back

"For me there is this lesson to be learned from the Congo at the airport fust in time for his plane. He held a box containing | while there may be grave dangers in granting responsibility and four roses. power to the African on a scale too tle and too late, there is far worse danger in granting them to him too much and too soon.

As he thrust £5 note in the tax-driver's hand and hurried

-(London Expreu Service).

"Mr MacColl, 1 om absolutely determined to pursue the to the Customs he said: "They're worth every penny." policies I have been pursuing until now.

DDKA

ATTENTION

DATS!! ELVIS PRESLEY

BANNED PENALTIES FOR. USING DECANTHE AMERICAN SLANEZ

CHICK

SLICK-CHICK

BUD.......... FLOOZE.

DOLL

ilzeria

CHEZUCH

АВГУСТ

P.C. P. C.P.

1960

MacColl," no, Mr chuckled Sir Roy, "even now. I'm not going to tell you who those people were who contacted the frois Kalazza.

"But I will tell you this." he went on, serious again: "During

Everyone is trying to get

in on the att:

And the latest to scramble on

by NANCY.

SPAIN

Chvert on Fain, now that's a really great character. I'm loping Darley · Kaye may play Fagin in my film version, I think Fazine a "ziarvellous, bit of observation, I do really."--

Not bad, this talk of Kaye, for a man who could not resi

to the band "wagon are Russ Lionel Bart to ask him what He a note of music sind now makes Conway and Rus Braddon, who thought he was up to.

are writing a musical based on Dickens's "Christmas Carok.

Those dwarfs

Please let me öratest, before I ah tdfally swamped "by a wEVE of synthetic Tiny Tiros, Late Dorrity. not quite bottomed David CopperBells.

copple

so much money that he has to

pay people to look after it.

I Invited him to come' dni ex- plais over Bac

sald Bærk. I have never been He arrived a little late, fresh hooler than when working on from reusing the cast of part wat They Used "Oliver in the stereophonic fe with Jon Littlewood, album.

Jown won't let anyone, wirkh

"I am a proper cockney!! the thearsals. She gets us all in wold me.

Born in Petilecat Line, although I changed thy name to 'Bart by deed poll

I have no objection to genuine some years ago. cockneys. I love them.

They're mad!

"Ailam Faith once went down. "My original name is half there and was co-opted fo Polish and about. I once played

What I hate is the romanticis Russian and half

ed ́barbert boy, Burglar, conce, quite impronounceabila. fence; they come off the theatri-

cal 'assembly line so fast that: soon I think some enterprising statuette maker will contive a complete criminal kit for dolly-

The blitz

prostitute for three dig wis marvellous,

Marvelous indeed. But then

Verything about

it blooming well

"went throw the blitz - for St Paul's

x up the suburban law, gimiber to Wall: Disney's even and

I hope the blitz is Cemetery:

going to be the subject of my.ub.esidently there is ente

next musical. I hope it will be

And it is not even that I put on at Dery Lane, and that wid intoxication in the air of

seder Dickens serred elber. Jon Littlewood will direct it." Si

Windsworth and Wormwood

that drives the pizdele

He wove his momances, and made e packet-doing it, and the Livriel Bert took a drep who live there roving grad. Victorians Eppell them up swallow. cf. orange juice mixed

meld

with caviar and Klared around why do thủy lesive Hilo But 1 m far from satised him.

I say "glared" because asylsh Poles like that his useating

he wears such densely black Bart Bad Wolf Mankowitz dramatic monsters were any dark classes that I couldn't even write them up thing like the truth of life in Loxion in those days either Actually, they are a deep, attrae (ed

see the colour of his eyes, from Dickins (as Emlyn tive dark murer bepwhy the Bicol (Burs Wanabe has "dipsovered to his colour at the Thames et low traila (Russ madt (20) jaws a very theatrical tide.

make character

he "I don't see why the middle romaitrised the spierer weepers

Charles

and jolly razor Cashiers and classes shouldn't

tlets icised

· Tivaly the

ho said.

Londoner