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SUDDENLY
I REALISE
I AM NO
LONGER BRITISH ..
By BOB'CRISP, D.S.O. and Bar,
M.C.
BOD CHISP won his D.8.0. fighting in tanks in Libyal Now he in duck farming in East Anglia. im the 1935 Tests, playing for South Africa, hio fast bowling help- ed to beat England.
I
WATCHED the sun come up over the flat East
Anglian horizon and thought:-
This is like a Transvaal dawn, clean and dry
and with a promise of heat in the day to come.
In Johannesburg too they
would be getting up early this they can make a man white or morning; much earlier than usual.
coloured by decree, but they haven't changed anything about him except his treatment.
Soon the ronds into the elty Icom the opulent northern
Wil my treatment change suburbs would be busy with
that 1 -pow
longer aleck American race as the British
hovo lived In stockbrokers. uncters, gam-
am
110
blers and spivs-nursing the un- England Ter seven years.
happy news and their desperate hangovers-rushed to the Stock
Exchange to see how much of
their crumbling empire of abuses
wealth.
Report?
they could save after Dr 7 volet in the last election- Verwoerd had taken South and th31': something that Arvien oul of the Common- Colonci Harwood Harrison, M.P., better take up with Mr Butter before the next one come round. Every vote counts in the Eye constituency.
Good will
I won't be able to scribble Then I suddenly hit me. "British" in those inquisitive "I'm out of the Commonwealth spaces in hotel registers any too!" I said to the dog sniffing
molchili at
impre. an overnight
my leet. It is true.
no lon- gera British citizen. And Have been one for 50 years.
Name
I
I have a South African pass- nort which begins Ez LIC of Her Majesty The Queen ." On account of that introduction I have been able to move around the earth's sur- face accompanied by good will, Not respect
and admiration, because I am South African, but because I am British. Who is going to let
me pass freci
and unhindered
all necessary protection In the
and render ine assistance and
name of the
President of the South African repubile?
to revisit
As an alien, which is what I
will be, will I have to report
to the Alien Office every three incnths?
What
of
about membership the Overs as League and the British Empire Service League?
Will I be able to buy a cheap day-passport to Boulogne? And what of my two sons born in South Africa prep-school
of Parliament wili What Act determine their nationality?
You
and now at o mar Cromer?
Perhaps
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1961.
Salute Spring
Звол
"Did you catch Miss Wintergreen's remark when I suggested her ensemble was perhaps a little macabre for the first day of spring?"
London Express Bervica
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Focus on people and power.... edited by Anthony Lejeune
In CAIRO a diabetic dictator... in WASHINGTON a political Messiah.
Dangerous days
in Egypt...Nasser
GYPT'S
EGY
President
Nasser has become
a dangerously sick man, according to reports current in the Middle East.
officials now
Although Egyption will not admit it, it is known in Cairo that the portly, 43-year-old Nasser is suffering
from diabetes.
is
very
re-
18-hour days. When he turned to Cairo recently they ordered complete rest for two days.
collapse, Nasser obeyed.
Badly shaken by his second
Diabetes can be lived with is carefully watched d the amount of sugar diet controlled.
in the
ill
LONELY STOP-OVER
O.A.C. Is trying to persuade New Zealand to co-operate in B. introducing a new facific als route with an optional over- night stop at the world's loneliest Island. The route would run from North America to Australia, and from New Zealand to South America. by way of Tahiti and Easter Island.
Easter Island, with its strange carved staines, is further from a big stretch of land than anywhere else on earth. The inhabitants know more about the stars than they do about towns and countries elsewhere.
A jet air-strip is being opened on Tahill, this month. But the inhabitania are not feeling hospitable. Exasperated by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer task force making "Muling on the Bounty'. there, they have withdrawn their annual subsidy from the Paclito Area Travel Association and announced they will be happy if they never see another stranger.
ASWAN-WORLD'S
EASIEST TARGET
XHO most wants Colonel Nasser to build that long-
WHO
may well ask at this My South African passport stage why I don't take out was given to me after I went to
British
passport and have live there in 1930. Now that it done with it. The answer is is no longer British will it take that nobody will give me one me to any of the places I want because I was born in India (of Nairobi, Bumbay, an English father and Scots Accra. Singapore, Colombo?
mother) and can't find my Wit, as the global pressure father's birth certificate-who
He requires constant medical mounts, let me into South
The devil ever can?
of Insulin, supervision, shuts America or the West Indies or. eventually, the United States?
Therefore, "by virtue of the and special tablets.
In recent months he is known British Nationality Act of 1948,Į
λ comu etc., etc." I do not qualify for 10 have fallon into the new status of citizenship twice the first time when he salled on his presidential yacht established.
to the Casablanca conference,
But the danger for a man I am not ashamed of being a
When I was a boy I was and only a few weeks ago who has been running Egypt South African. I don't want to citizen of Southern
is that his Rhodesia when he
tour of for eight years
There would
many Judgment may be clouded in a and I could, I suppose, apply Syria.
ways of hitting it; "dambuster" nt of irritabilly. And Nasser aircraft, frogmen with under- is also a bad patient who tre- quently forgets to take his slots and tablets.
My skin
be anything else. ·
But 1 pm a British
South
for readmission. But for how mich longer orc Rhodesians
African and I will not concede going to be allowed to be Bri-
tish citizens?
In
was co his
Alarmed
Damascus and
that mulli-rncial group of Prime Ministers, to whom nave never even been intro-
In any case all I want to do people who duced, can alter what I am by is to stay South African and to a contrivance of jegislation, any stay British. more than they can change the If there is anything in inter- colour of my skin.
nation law that can make me anything other than what I am. thought. then I'm a Dutchman, In the Union
That's Perhaps they can,
another
mot hin
Cairo, were
alarmed at the beads of sweat starting from his brow-and blso by the Hitler-like passion of his deliveries against "m- perialist dogs."
Fear
The result la that his Cubine! members are frequently trans- fixed by his fantastle outbursts of rage.
But Western observers fear that if Nasser's health forces him out of office there may be His doctors have tried to even worse to follow trom warn him to cut down on his successor. -London Expreta Soreter),
"There's a complaint about the food from Number 7; ·bs'é
calon so much ho can't fasten his safety«brit!"
-"... come on over to our place, Mr. Bloger, your fire's on the kelly!"
A
Fo falearn how to live off the country, how to kill silently, how to blow up largets. They
a courteous, dignised, intelligent man who has set out to oppose what he sees as-creeping So- cialism,
Not for him high taxes and "big Government." He believes Americans should spend their own money and mind their own affairs.
lavish aid to countries which Not for him a programme of
prove themselves no friends of America. Is trouble? Goldwater is ready to Castro causing blockade Cuba.
Hiy direct, old-fashioned "Americanism" is winning him powerful support and woning to the pundits surprise, among young people. There will be strong pressure
Inside the Republican Party to back Gold-
it
Ica171 languages. They learn waler at least for Vice-President
how to survive under Arctic at the next election. conditions and how to through the jungle.
Logging
move
Meanwhile, though thousands of young students want to join President Kennedy's idealistic "Peace Corps," thousands more are flocking Into lecture rooma to
hear this Jewish senator outside from Arizona urge a return to the older deals of America'a founding fathers,
promised, long-delayed high dam at Aswan? Answer: the Israelis. Once this hugo dam is built, they
Meanwhile, in Moscow, In reckon, with the Nile water piled up behind it, Egypt East Germany ard will be at their mercy. The dam will be one of the most Prague the Communists have vulnerable targets of all tima.
be
02
their own training centres,
One speciality 13 teaching terror tactics to clashes of highly mechanised chosen African leaders. sabotage, water explosives, every kind of ermice, may not to the warfare
What about Britain? As
Dgypt is not the only country vulnerable to behind-the-lines warfare, and the Isractis are not the only force preparing for
it.
of the future,
Devastating
The
1
carefully RETURN
usual, we seem to be lagging OF THE
behind. Yet this is a sort
of fighting which, as the last war
sults showed,
the
British Paradox. of nuclear temperament. weapons is that they make role which the
And it offers
smaller all- nuclear warfare too devastating Regular Army of the future is to be practicable except as #
Military planners all over the last resort. And they make large particularly well-fitted to play. world are beginning to wonder concentrations whether this, rather than great supplies very dangerous.
Ray Evans
**My husband retires this week, Mex. Moppi and wif take over from you'un Bighany.
of troops or
But you cannot use
nuclear. weapons against small fast- moving groups operating behind your own lines.
Well-trained guerrilla forces can tie down between 10 and 13 conventional troops. The Com- munists are masters of this art,
Karl Marx himself outlined
some of the rules. Mao Tse-tung
A TORY WHIPS UP
AMERICA
developed then to a high dll, TTOR wocks now
It enabled
Increase
a
thin
COMRADE
No wind of change blows Nth the Suviet cultural wort
Likellest winner of the your's Lenin Prizo Is Konstantin Bimonov, war correspondent and then 'editor of the Moscow literary-majazine New World,
There are other competitors whore literary claims are just as good but "who do not fulfi tho necessary condition of contributing towards buildiar Communiam.".
Sacrifice
WHE his tactics which little book called "The the Communist quer- Conscience of a Conserva- rillas to defeat the French in tivo" has featured. únex- Simonov's book, "The Quick Indo-China.
pectedly on the Amorican and the Dead," about the battle at the gates of Moscow In 1541. best-seller list.
sults the Soviet line with its This is not only a literary pnt-German undortants and phenomenon but a political. Its call for sacrlilee ́in the calito one. The book is by Barry of Rumin, Goldwater, thờ jut-jawed Re- publican senator from Arizona. It was wrliten far from Moscow. In 1968 Simonay was Goldwater used to sell smart accused of being "too liberak" haberdashery in his family's de- 1e realgued from New World partment store, Now he and Hvéd for some time in telling the hottest political com- Soyles Contral Asia. modity since the New Deal,
Now President Kennedy has been reading Mao's books. The result: he has ordered the U. Army to increase Its training in guckvilla and. anti-guerrilla tuetics,
The Special Warfare section, which has been in existence ninco "tha, end of the Bocend World War. là cpardlisi.
For Barry Goldwater is "W The American guarrilla Tory; not the crude tycoon Tory there are about 1,000 of them of Amortenti liljøral, logend, liệt
Now, it seems, he has worked: his joket back............
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