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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961.

SO A China Mail star writer with a deep understanding of human affairs files his first 1961 report... datelined:

AFRICA!

THIS is my last despatch from Central Africa, and I would like to think it has a New Year message for everyone. Though the message really isn't from me, but from a fellow Englishman, with a very typical British name, Joe Thomas.

This still youngish, stocky,

cheerful emigrant taught me shall occupy it. more about the human side of

What makes

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia Godfrey

London,

There she is trented ike everyone else, her husband assured Ing.

Winn

the situation in the Federation you helleye that? I gaked. The and receives the same salary that not one of those youngsters |

can Sondys.

ut Gala insment than all the ower was unexpected. cal and the ical somebodies that it.

Four years ago he was running

in the Hayward youth clubs

eath district. He felt in a

'Din-

too poetical a word, in our life- time. And that's what the foll at home must understand.

"You admired those paintings She shares the nurses home this morning, but do you realise When he was out "Here in the African township, would use a wash-place in our Who's going to teach here, he assured us that if we in her own home, none of these way?

he them?

Their wemenfolk hut shouted loudly and long enough privileges is allowed her."

first we've got to get at the Kainst Federation, it would rated over and over again,

women, and the men don't like Tarkness cono suddenly out that. They prefer them as they break up and end.

That Afinister like myself side his office window as he re-serfs, chattels," So he packed up wit is sure that

His deep, vibrant voice Duncan Sandys talled.

primeval Africa, his family, took the plunge, and

Jungle. today he is chief welfare fleeggested nothing of the sort. belonged to

All the same. whereve; I went choing through the among the Afrleaus, in their

Southern

Northem Finally the spell broke when anel Townships Guiride Bulawayo,

Rhodesia, among all classes of looked at my watch. I had left which the Birmingham and the populace, I got the same myself hardly sumelent time to Manchester

at Government Scuther impression

that everyone felt change to be Rhodesku.

thit the Brist Government House (or dinner.

selling them down the Was river. It made me feel very ashamed.

Zoe wouldn't have thought of himself as apostle bag be talized such sense.

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put it to me. Impractical

He put it like this. "To start with, I hate the labels 'European' and African." They are so

phuney semehow. Why not black and white?" Ai Icast you know where you are there, and the gulf that has to be bridged.

"I can truthfully say I don't use any labels myself. 1 Jest treat everyone I encounter in the course of the day's work as a

il they let me down,"

"Do they often?"

fellow human being, and wait,

let

you

down

but, of course, "I love 'em. they do, What some folks at home don't seem to understand is that you can't turn Aftiems. who five years ago never wore shoer in die streets of Bulawayo, into civilised citizens, through one speech about the wind of change. I has taken hun- dreds of years for them to get this far, how can you expect 'a miracle overnight?"

As the Mayor of Bulawaya "How would you like Britain to be governed from the land of Maduguscar?"

I saw her point, for the Mayor of Bulawayo is a woman, tho Brst ever.

The mayor, Mrs Brett, is on ex-schoolteacher, whose ht: + batid is now the severest critic errong her ratepayers, she con- lided to me.

I

Majesty

high We had reached the eminence where the body of the Errt of the ploneers, was carried 1 his last resting-place, marked with the plain, unpretentiou slab of dat stone, with the "Here lies simple Inscription:

Geell John the remains of Rhodes."

A huge party. All the women in tong dresses. Much curlsy ing and ritual. What was my to and among the surprise kusits, at the long dining-table,

I had reen the majesty of tha my accuser of an hour ago. All his rags had apparently Victoria Falls and that jewel in vanished ng he chatted away, the Federation's crown. the Dom, the greatest all smiles now, to his fellow Kariba

miracle In

the stone since guet, Sir Robert Armitage, the departing Governor of Nyasa- Tyramids; but nevertheless this land.

would be my final and Insting Impression,

Hopes

Who was seeking to convert But she is surviviny. I like who. I wondered, and was this

They the way..... wamen in high office. have the capacity for through the cackle, and I liked Bulawayo. It had a heart.

Forbidden

cutting

Way.

10t No, this is

the

showed it to me as he drove me that afternoon oul of Bulawayo, towards the burial ground of Rhodes, in the Matopo Hills,

Instead, my guide, Joe Thomas.

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The World's View, they called it because you were aworo, 38 your eyes turned towards the surrounding hill, that here was of something of every kind

the stillness that Ecenery, and is infinite in its evocations.

Time.

Rhodes chose the spot him- self, pronouncing "My fellow Rhodesians would like it. They have never bitten me."

"You've given me the example In the principai hotel, after a long morning looking at hous- of two nurses who rightly have

No, it is we who bite and Ing; at clubs, at the art centre, grievanco. But you don't know

at his successors,

Welensky, where some of the work of the about the hundreds of others, snori

Noy African children would have won who simply haven't mastered the Sir awards anywhere, we had a clementary lessons of hygiene realising that the chlet support for hach party.

yet, who could never be trusted of Federation today needs,

Some of more than leans of money, sym- with a patient alone. More than half the company them we hope will make the ralby, or praise, that most pré-

Africans, one of them a grade later, but most of them clous commculty, Time.

the "Give me ten years," nursing sister from the clinic in just aren't up to white standards, ferneli Prime Minister. Mr Ben- her own township.

and it's no use pretending they pre.

wgro

Staff Nurse Miposa, although she is a fully qualified nursing sister, automatically receives les

"When I first came here, It

of

Do you

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"CURTAIN CURTAIN !"

get when

PSYCHIATRIST, I

the

your

has suggested an alternative to the pernicious habit among women of taking tranquillisers. He says they should concentrate on their knitting,

Well, I regard knitting as just like

as pernicious as marijuana. not

married, knitting becomes I know of no more irritating, creative compensation." Infuriating, maddening, spell- And the doctor thinks that, tive and yes, needling-sour since today's women have little than the click-click of one knit-enough to satisfy their creative ling needle on another. It has

nas urge, there is likely to be some the compulsive, metronomie connection between the fasts beat of Chinese water torture. MOBE women are knitting.

Chartes MORE use tranquillisers. But Dr Gustave Heller,

at Warley Hospital. Brentwood, Essex, thinks not. Knitting. he says, la nature's

Gurlon, said to me in Jerusalem last year. "Ten years and we will be sale."

"Give us ten years to make Federation realty work." the Federal Prime Minister echoed lo me as we sat together on the verandah of his modest family home outside Salisbury,

needs.

FARAWAY...

London Keprasa servis.

needle

wife knits?

By CYRIL AYNSLEY

nes

wives.

women

Have you ever No, in spite of the doctor's noticed that strange, faraway, theories, I think that women vacant expression which creeps kalt because they have to. And

the into

intelligent unde started, icy can't put the most woman's eyes as she puts en darned thlog down.

picks up the It takes charge of them, far her spectacles, taliting, and begins that steady, more strongly than tranqull-

lisers do rhythmic click-click?

Only last year, for example, You have to ask her a ques

it the British imes before

I.cglon three tion

decided that knitting should b penetrates her drugged mini,

"Using knitting wool gives banned at all conferences.

"It in feit,"

the resolution them creative fullment,"

"that delegates cannot says the docter. "While kuitting said, happily away, they feel they concentrate on their notes."

satisfying their creative I think the resolution

1ight, though I realise that che Lamcus litter wouldn't agree. Sho is the woman who raldı--- Canthing to "It gives me think about while I'm talking."

That

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Just to suit the liberal but impractical theories of

the Government at home." I added remembering the morning salary than a white nurse of there was a queue for a free had visited one of the Ministers similar experience. Worse still movie show that was geiling a

own sudative for wamen. in the Southem Rhodesian she is not allowed to eat with bi nolsy. I'd appoint two

from Its relaxing "Apart

I'm rure he is right. The in- urge."

Tel:st have been Cabine. He hng looked ruckul- ly down at his chale of omce and the white members of the staff, their own fellows to keep order.

the increased wonderful creative urge the or use their wash places. And what happened? Why, they

therapy, fnitting answers other crease in knitting I think, is

A woman's real work is responsible for

women felt as they sat around remarked-

This was the second example immediately produced clubs and

to creato a human being and go of tranquilliers. their walloping

And I believe he will. But I "Not long before the talks in I had had of this kind of dis- started

rear it. When her chlidren are My belief is that knitting in the guillotine knitting socks I London had an African crimination, at close hand. people over the head. Talk about

is up to us to be patient and,

if she is not furiales husbands and stupe- during the French revolution! above In Salisbury I had talked with cruelty...

all conscious of

grown up, or how deputation visit me about local Offairs. One of the more fery the African editor of a local "But you still love your job?" inevitably slowly the Africen

"Yes, I love it, be- pointed at my chals, newspaper who was full of rage I asked. incrabers

hope 10 partners-to-be cen and exclained dramatically, I and bitterness because of the cause all the time we are making emerge, in any stature, from the three months' time you will to experience of his own wite. progress, real progress. All the bush that surrounds the Malopo

it will longer s there.

Mrs Shamuyarira is at present same, you won't seg the final Hills,

in result Bowering, if that's not

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“Stereo sound?

Tiny radar sets help blind to 'see'

FOUR blind Londoners are now "seeing" inside

their own homes with the aid of miniature radar sets. They are the first to test a blind aid, developed by Mr Victor Valchers, 48-year-old Felt-

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London Express Sarpica),

Boom time for cinemas of the

oceans

TULMS

F"

becoming

more popular on sea Toyagos and " fully: equipped cinema is now a "must" in a modern liner.

The new 40,000-ton Oriana has a cinema with stalls and dress circle repting more than 320. dr sister ship, the oven

a two-decte cinema.

ham electronics engineer, which may one day rear Valchers with his blind aidarger Canberra, will siro fave place the tapping white stick.

The rudar-condensed to t Into a box only 10mm. long- pulses out a narrow beam of signals, like a shaft of light from a torch. When the sound pulse rizike an object, ›echtes are 'reliceted. The operalar hears this oỡ a change in the pitch of buzzing from the box,

After a few weeks" praeilee, the blind volleurs Jaye learned 'to recognise different, objects by the sound patterns. they produce. For the firs time they have been able to Virimlise the scene beyond their finger-ups or stick

The World of Science

By

Patre Painty

Anti-missile missile

test by Russians?

'Shuttle' service

Stina Western Intelligence A feature of the £27 million exports fear that Russia may ner France when she makes airisly have carried out pre- her maiden voyage"" to "New minary tests of an anti-mistle York in a year's time will be a misalle. This is the second-

magnificent generation rocket dreamed up)

...

theatre-cinema.

by addontists to destroy the first, Clefmod to be the largest afloat,.

seat 700 passengers, generation a most before it has 12 wil

Tourists will use the stalls and They base this fear on first-class passengers will go to curious tie-up in the timing of

been invented."

recife rocket firings and sp-the circle, me deck higher click "high altitude expert- ments" carried out by Russian

When the Royal Mail's 27,000 cclentists from, Heiss Istnad, tens Andes was equipped ide Franz Josef Land 1,400 miles luxury "kruising, a réidHknutá

But Mr Valchera is not satis creatures are able to navigate, north-cast of Swedent. fied. "The beam is too 'ndr without sight, as amazing speed

In the Pacide, missiles were perallon was carried out to turn o refrigérated "hold" Into tow," he told me. "It is only

launched from a ship; at Helst, suitable really for indoor use, Would not a multi-echo "ple from the round. Although the on air-conditional indime for I am now working on a wide- fure" be harder

Into it was-kulit a fully Interpret by bcam sound radar which will ears? "I do not believe the points are some 2,500 miles 250.

npur, frings from both hava equipped slogo with set-lighting givo a picture of the whole message wil

more been almost simultaneous on at and microphones. roon cr a wide road ahead of difcuit to understant than least seven occasions, the blind person. I hope it will "Uiase which go to the brai -end up to larger than a box from the eyes of a normal per been used to explore the upper Saath Africa service run ca

camera."

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This second generation, radar

be much

son," added Mr Valchera,

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Officially, the rockets have Union Castle Inors on the

atmosphere. But auspicious Intelligence wonders if one was "shulție” of top time between

launched, as a destroyer, Southampton and the towards the other

As many su 16 of the fatkal America la about to test tier nima are handpa LOPAT BYZA Aratan-miralo ixile the shy from Southampton so th Niko-Zous, against a big locket.

"Hot" definitely need a mull!. ald will spray out cliousands of tudo of echoes to

get an in- signels simultaneously and get falligiblo_picture,” back a variety of echons,

Mr Valchera's work Uk cher research into the analyala and reproduction of animi So for no clues have cuno from they may be shen in bladde Tussia to reveal the extent of rhp on the return voyage fedh signals" nowy ; under way tovlot progiem, ggrept, thin the Cape. - Birmingham Univeriliyda sill co-incidente."

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