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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961.

They must do everything possible to raise the dignity of the African people..."

THERE IS NO

NOT long ago I attended a committee

in the House of Commons to hear and to look 'at Mr. Joshua Nkoma, the Leader of the National Party in Southern Rhodesia.

It is always interesting to meet at first hand a political leader whether he he white, black or yellow, and this is specially true when the man in question has gone through the process of impri- sonment, release and ultimate party leadership.

Mr Nkoma is pure black although his colour does not achieve an ebony shine, His voice is pleasant, and soft for an agitator, and he was not the least embarrassed by facing some Conservative M.P.s in the setting of Westminster.

Onco moro It was impressed upon me that the biggest prob- lem confronting the Western world today is not Russla, nor China, and certainly not

West nor East Germany. The chal- lenge of destiny is in Africa and we can neither more nor evade it.

Therefore I suggest that in this London letter we discuss the origin of the problem and see if We can come to some conclu- slous even though it be dimcult 10 proscribe an immediate cure.

The first question to be posed la "Should the white race have allowed the Africans to

find their own solution to their problema?"

The sentimentalici will ray that all people, regardless of colour and background, thould be allowed to make their ova mistakes in the druggle to achieve a way of life that suita their temperament and back- ground.

If that is true then in North Ametien the Red Indians should have been allowed to scalp each other and make primitivo war against the white settlers who

had come to creato cogence out of chaos. Therefore let us face facts and neither confuse the issun by sentimentalism, or pie» Juxlice.

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cruel Irony that in the golden sign of the first Elisabeth when Shakespeure was in his glory, and Raleigh was adding lands to England.

that

bew both

Queen Elisabeth and James 1st issued patents for slave trading. The slave ships operated by- tween the coast of Guinea and American colonies, the

and business was brisk, In America the traffle was open, active and mainful until, after # great waa struggle in 1794 an przsed prohibiting the Importa- low of slaves into any of the Federal States.

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Eut the slave traders' were not to be defeated by a mere ordinance. A brisk business was still maintained; between South America and The West Indies. Actually as late as 1840 there were 35 ships constantly

London Letter

OTHER WAY

by SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

plying between Brazilian ports and the African coasts carrying 300 or 400 slaves on each trip.

As for the greed and cruelty of those days we do not need any great deres of imag|nalion to picture in our minds the dreadful conditions of the slover herded like cattle in a suffocat- ing mass below ship. It was the era of cruelty and avarice and also of genius.

Before European exploration and domination brought a do- gree of peace to Africa most of the tribes, were essentially war. rior people who depended ол raidhig and pillage for thair existence, To Ray that they were a primlilya people is indulge In understatement. They were a

Yet the Negroes found some cruel, backward race and the caling of human solaca as they sang songs of flesh was widespread.

misery and arranged improvised banjos and pullars; and also in their misery they revealed a high degree of story telling, which was child-like, primitive, romantic and pathetic.

Yet there is design in human

affairs

though there are long periods when everything seems chaotic, crual and meaningless.

Therefore I sugges! thal without sentiment or cynicism we look back on the origin of this long levied struggle be tween white. and black.

Years ago, before European danimation brought peace of a kind to Africa, many of the people depended on raiding for their existence. Then came the growing axporting of Africans

а even

In the English town of Nor-

as clavos, It is not without a wich in the seventeenth century

is more powerful than reason,

President Llicoin

remained calm and ftor.

MY

peace, this hater of cruelty, this practical dreamer did not do. clare war on the South to free the slaves.

As the hour of destiny ap- proached a declared:

The actual issue, although the paramount object is to save the slave trade played a big part, union and not either to save or, was the Act of Secession from destroy slavery. If I could save the Union by the south. the union without freeing

Lincoln denied the right of there lived a man of small sub- another slave I would do it and the South to secede and the stanco who bore the name of if I could do it by freeing some horror of civil war broke upon Samuel Lincoin. Lured by the and leaving others alone, I the land. I will always be a call of the new world he would do

matter of debate wheilter there emigrated to Massachusetts in Consider America,

the Hon-hearted, would have been no North and the year 1988, al- courage of such a speech and South, war. If Lincoln had

not though the actual date is not

uttered those pregnant words known.

also consider its tolerance: And in the course af

"A nation cannot livo half years, a male child was born

slave, half free," io Mr and Mrs Lincoln. Being religious folk they named the child. "Abraham.” England had

produced the family which was to achieve Immortality by the life and death of America's greatest President.

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Sir Aynsley starts

a private health service-free!

By PETER FAIRLEY

QIR AYNSLEY. BRIDGLAND, the

property magnate, is offering alt employees in his 35 companies free treatment at the Landon Clinie, if they fall sick. He pays all fees.

The reason: He believes it is cheap- er to have them treated in this exclu sive hospital than anywhere else.

Sir Aynsley is chairman of the Clinic's governing board. A bed there costs: £7 a day, without specialists' fees. But he maintains: "The standard of nursing and' treatment is so high that patients are re- turned to fitness in half or two-thirds of the time taken, in other hospitals.”

Sir Aynsley, whose interests include in- vestment trusta and Humphreys, the building contractors, tells me: "My offer extends to anyone in my firms-even a labourer. It is just as important, to get. him fit again quickly"

Two who have already taken advantage are Mr James Ryan, 65, steward of Prince's golf club, dormy house at Sandwich his 50-year-old wife Allce.

and:

The course lles on Sir Aynsley's Kent estate.

Mr Ryan said: "We cannot praise the Clinic enough. I was there six weeks after a stroke.. My wife has been in twice.

"In a way it was marvellous ex- perience. Although we were in private rooms, we were never bored--there wero so Hany extras to keep us from getting dea": pressed.

"And the individual attention "ceived from our nurse made all

Well in this London Letterference."

He put the unity of the nation we have looked back on yester- nove everything else even day and also on today but what though it would draw upon about tomorrow and tomorrow himself resentment alike of the and tomorrow? pro-slavers and meny of the Anti-davera

Finally there come the mo-

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back-

Wo ro- the dif

around 200. An average of 140 patients The Clinic maintains. a. nursing staff of

now occupy the beds each day.

WHY 'FLU NOW?

When Lincoln became Press- dent of United States. it was ment when Lincoln, with hi

Are we to assume that the not long before the sinister towering height of six fout four African can never hope to rise shadow of civil war darkened inches, had to decide whether it level of the white men? Do his to the material and intellectual the young Republic, yet it would was to be peace or civil war. be over-simplification to assume

his racial On September 22 in the colour and that the war of the North and year 1862 he proclaimed South. was fought primarily on

that ground limit his horizon?

Forgive me if, at this point, January 1, 1883- the lasue of slavery.

ali slaves in states or paris of intrude a personal account of Cenacleus of his place in his- states, then in rebellion; should two encounters with black men tory, and realising that emotion be free. Yet this great man of when we were visiting in the7′′HY - do. we- get more colds and 'flu. in win- ter than summar?

on and after

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ON THE WAY-THE ARTIFICIAL HEART

The day when a patient will leave hospital with a complete artificial Heart is coming closer.. Dr William Kolff, of the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, has made such a device of metal and plastic—and kept a deg alive on it for three hours. Work on designing substitute valves- which open and close like the petals of a flower as the heart pumps well: advanced in America and at the Hammersmith Hospital, Shepherd's Bush.. My picture shows a rubber company scientist, called in to make the valves because: rubber's: proper- tiss

are akin. in many ways to human tissue-inserting one into a-modern-heart for testing.

It has so far been given to after-effects 200 rugby, hocitoy and soccer

slowly th mora vodka. Thus the last longer 100.

ANTI-HURT PILLS

CSPORTSMEN.

players who attended the Mid- diesex Hospital's. ・ "athlete's clinic"--with good effect. In another trial, the drug · Was found to PROTECT boxers, -

if taken within an hour of ́a Aght.

Some 500 boxers took part. Half of them sucked' the drug,

Bahamas last winter, One of ny teeth was giving trouble and the only dentist I could get was

are being the others a dummy pill. Those a young black man. With admirable ak

One reason is that the hunt given a little white pilt protected suffered 60 per cent less black eyes and swellings, remedied the dental disorder closer together, so that infection to suck, to raturn them

lets general and restored me to earnfort: is more easily. proad.

and 16 per cent fitness quickly to His still was of high order.

bruising. minor injuries.

ho

for indoor warmth packs us

But a group of virus research

after

Dr. Low Blenstein, who studied

his general intelligener was un- forced and cffecive, his scientists have now discovered a The pili. is a new.protein-drug the boxers, tells me: "We found humour was delightfuí: By now cluo humidity scams. to comparison with many of the have a big, effect on the germs. enlled Varidase. It is absorbed that cuts and sprains cleared up

rich Americans,, Canadiana and

Into the bloodstream through twice as quickly as usual if the Britishers on the island he was flu virus and sprayed them in Once there, it has the effect of after injury. We believe it' will They made up suspensions of the membranes of the mouth. drug was taken for three days air of varying humidity. They

their superior in every aspect except the skin.

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found the fiu bug- died quickly reducing bruising, dissolving also benefit concussion casca." A fortnight later in Jamaica in damp air but slowly in dry, swellings and healing cuts.

car to take us on a. Using polla virus, the opposite

I hired a long cross country ́irek from Montego Bay, to Frenchman's Cave where Garfield Weston: had built a millionaire's happy [hide-out of luxury fiols.

On a lonely rönd,, far from any garage, our hired car broke. down. Neither my wife, nor my-- self know anything about tho Inside of the engine but for- tunnicly

our young black WAS a first class.

chuiffe

mechanic and in less than a

quarter of an hour we were on-

our way.

Like the dentist he knew his job, and like the denilst he was:

happened;

Pallo: is most rite in summer, dries out the air. Au In winter. Indoor heating

It seems to tle up.

WHAT VODKA DOES

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man of emelency, personality stemlous man and 35

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and a quiet charm.

non-drinking: WORLOT sat down and drank a large,

So let us end our London noot whisky oach.. A. faw Lelier with this in our minds: hours

later a doctor

As a great colonial power we examined: them for hang- should do everything possible to over raise the status and the dignity

of the African people,

Two days later, they-dranka, a- large, nent voćka. Again the doctor asked: "How do you foul?"

In return the Africans should realise that self-governement cannot be won in a day - and they should demonstrate to the reported stomach Biritalion, nine After the whiaky, mɛ quarter: world that i thức cúm, một chic (per cent, had" hondachios, seven: without vibioned, that they cant per cent were diary, and six pe attain an integrity which bent felt tired. Afies the vodka inspires (confidence and none Delt diery: dan tanda crilyn) co-operation with:, that whites one had a hoodaalle, and, arsotiike" and thereby rade the dignity ofan favladach stómachine man, both while- and?blick He

- There is: zin other way yes, Purposes off this... stranon Without good will; withob, medical test was to find out if ther patience, and tolerance, without pobular idea that Vodka Causes beller fister-dostingan hang-over, than whisky, Iki