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"But. Daphine. I didn't want to spend the evening before our inarriage getting drunk with a lot of the lads!"*

JBoudell

"Look at it this way

you won't be bothered by unsightly dandruff any more."

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1061. ·

One hundred years aga began a struggle that was destined to make the world a better place to live in.......

WHEN BROTHER FOUGHT BROTHER

THE American Civil War began a hundred years ago today, and was destined to change civilisation. Yot at first it soomed little different from the hundreds of other battles between brothers which had pollut- od the world for a little while and had then bocn forgotten in history.

It was true that the contestants had a larger background than was usual in such encounters; the individual states themselves were, in many cases, larger than the European countries where previous disputes had been worked out.

But the main issue appeared the same: the desire for Power.

The North, ambitious, energetic, wealthy, rapidly be ceming industrialised, was determined to bring back to. the fold the "rebellious" Southern States-the land of

“Or Man River" where life was gracious and stately and Europeanisel.

The South had parted company with the North be-

cause it saw a danger of the dynamic Northern way of life spreading throughout the whole of America.

The factor which lifted this war out of the sphere

of mere power politics was.... slavery.

Although the North did not

go to war to free the slaves became an Im- slavery soon

[portant Issue and later the most

important issue in the war.

Easiest

WAR THAT

CHANGED THE WORLD

M

PART ONE

by FRANK WRIGHT

For one thing, alaves were once owned a slave, his wife

In the South, property

And had owned eeveral, and his clearly the easiest way in which wife's family had owned many. the Unionists could permanently spoil a Southern estate was to free the slaves.

ultimate

With the Negro's fate, the Northern soldiers were rarely bathered. It was enough to know that the Scuth would Lave a hard time functioning without hitn

of

The Northern

General, Ulysses S. Grank, was one of the first military leaders to ap-

the preciato

Importance slavery in military strategy.

He himself had never been an anti-slavery math. He had

But he wrote at the height of the wars "I don't know what in

Once the North reallæd that the war was going to be lung and that a great number of men were going to dle (total casualties on both sides: 820,000 killed or

that a good it became logical many whites would escape death If their places in the ranks were taken by Negroes.

to become of these (Negroes) died from wounds or disease)

but it wopaktens the eromji to take them from him.”

Salvation

scrops

Out of this opportunisile act by the whites came the Negro's salvation.

man

The Negroes also made excel- lent spies Crossing the ines from the Southern States, they

As Frederick Douglass, a of valuable brought military intelligence about the former slave, pot it: "Once let size of the enemy armies, the And position of his defences,

the black

Kel upon h they made even better soldiers.

person the brass letters U.S.: let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket and there is no power on carth

which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States."

Afloat with

T NORMALLY

avoid

situations where I'm obliged to parade

my

after

ignorance, but years of simulated lack of interest my curiosity about sailing finally swamped my inhibitions, and I've spent a grim, grey Easter going down to the sea in small ships.

It all started--this Trafalṇar of mine at a dinner party.

The host was going to spend the weekend inspecting his new yucht, and the other guests-all saturs, I suddenly realised--- began chatting madly about who for whom, was going to crew while 1, not knowing a jib from a jtbr, kept very, very qulet.

nian-

Bul, mindful of party ners, someone soon sought to include me in The conversation. "Feel like coming out?" Now 1 came out years ago, so I just shook my head and smiled, sort- of enigmatically.

a friendly

fanatic

Apart from the obvious zerual pleasure of sun, wind, nac water, and the tension andl excitement of racing, this is a surprisingly practical sport.

Desmond's boat cost £140 fully rigged, and his two sus sali a Cadet bought second hand for £45.

by

PATRICIA LEWIS .

man.

it was "Out Out!"

I looked down from a great height on to what I can only describe as a two-wheel skid. Anyway, the boal was mostly the water. We must, must. must turn over

of razor's

footed by the helusman "In! In!" frum the helms- (Desmond).

tizz In a

I pulled my "You'd better wear this," he rope. saki, lacing me into a yellow ull- "No-your body not the sail," skin waistcoat. "It'll keep you came the exasperated voice.

I was no sooner

than "In' alfont if we capsize. Now be a good crew and help me get the boat down to the water."

Because of the direction of Alter the initial Gallay, the wind we had some trouble Desmond reckons It costs no getting Rascas mto the sea.

"Wind's head on," valled out of more than about £60-including travel from London-to keep the Desmond. "Wade along to that must. whole family sailing every week point and see if it's any better." thought. But after a couple end throughout the season.

high above my rolled-up feans. ansack and Rascan got both feet a reassuring But no deal. I tumed shaking

so to speak, on the ground my head but Desmond had

agoln. already pulled down the main- Small wonder membership of salt and with the aid of two found Colonel Cornish, the his club has risen from 100 h men and a dog was dragging secretary-manager, who showed 1940 to 000 (with a long waiting the Enterprise down the slip- me to a room in a hut near by. Hist) now. And I'm told it's the way. I waded back....too numb "Or course, this is the first came in ali good sailing clubs to argue. Weekend we have been open throughout Britain.

"Why not? Dinghy sailing's the great new democratic spurt, Everybody does it today...

So, SODII, 1 found myself driving to Hayling Island Salling Club, in Hampshire.

I picked my way across the shingle to the sprawling two- storeyed club house. There I

Principles

I waded, the waves slapping seconds summing the

there edge

was

Skimming

1 relaxed with relief, and watching a curlew, skimming From now on the commands the crests told myself thore

since October," he said. "And It was from Bushey Elleart, came loud and clear: "Pick up was nothing ka being close to It's a bit early for anyone but who sails a Hornet when he ti the boom." the fanatics. Still, I expect you'll not ballooning across the ropes."

Cet a call."

Bronzed

Atlantic in The Small World,

round."

"Untangle those nature after all. "Pull her head

"Get in." 1. and

Suddenly the Jib started flap-

that I leamed there are two himself busy all the white with ping. "I am going to come approaches tu sailing.

"Some people are quite happy Just being in boat," he said, mover race, whereas

A call with fanatic, I "They

G

thought, to all I am short of others never get in a boat unless

And I repaired dutifully to the they do race.

kottbyte search of friendly

030.

Pushing my way through

E

"Sailing is

口 lot like

the blue sails.

Shattered

Then suddenly the beach bo- life really, and it secina to me you gan diminishing at an alarm-

to be a good ing rate. ·

eno't Krow up mob of tea-sipping, tide-talking seaman and a nasty person.

By bedtime I was sold on

maco,

women, and children i

Canc upon my fellow guesta sailing.

from the dinner party.

Desimond, a bronzed Irish doctor who sally a racing boat, greeted me! "You've arrived! Great!

Barefoot

"How long does it take leam?" I asked Desmond.

to

"Well, I've been out for a couple of hours and the waler He shrugged. "One hour-or wam't a bit cold, so we'll have 20 years. The basic priuciples go tomorrow before the race, are epsy-you could leam aliem niall we?"

in a day. It's the knowledge of The fate postponed, we sat tide pad wind that takes time, talking and drinking until the Anyway, you'll see tomorrow.. non turned aliver in the dusk The moming was full and

about now," yelled Desmond. "So let that rope go. Get hold of the other one and hop across to the other side. Don't forget to duck under the boom. Ready,"

Well, I did not forget to duck pr to switch ropes, but I did forget to let the first one go, which чая not very bright. "Now your job is to hold that However, Desmond didn't curse mo too violently and next time rope through that cleat there." sald Desmond masterfully. "It's we came about I managed Bristol attached to the jib and I want everything in absolute

fashion, you to pull it every time the sail

apa that's known

By the thig wo got back to aatrum shore was absolutely drenched ana. Like now!"

but thought it was all siraply marvellous. I still thought" it "And get the weight of your was marvellous when Deamond body out over the skin or wo'li ordered me to leap into the sea never keep upright."

and pull Rosens up on to tho boneh. faca scarict and feet, blue,

""How did I do?" I asked, us 1 walked back to the 'club house.

"Not bad. Not bad at all,” ho replied,

"Aye, aye, pir."

So there was, fect braced, leaning B far out over thú edge that the waves kopi foam Ing up my jumper,

Deciding everything was OK.

and gradually I learned that the drizzly, and though I had ro. I began to look abqsit me. And great post-war boom in sqlimg membered to pack some sweaters noticed Thorney Taland fast "And to my evergreep pride. I Is the result of many lures, I had forgotten espadrilles anil apprunching. My aplik second many frustration.

was ordered to rêmalni bare view was thattered by criei"of

was invited to so zailing skala.

Landon Expresa äistulch),

So the war that began as a strugde for power berame a war which, by force of circums- tances, meant a new life for the enslaved Negro.

throwing off the authority of colonialism,

the affinity with free Americat Negroes la considerable.

sophisticated.

The American Negroes have attained equal rights with the whites. Why shouldn't the Africans?

Many African leaders have studied in American universities, Often they have been supported American Negroes by wealthy

to whom the nostalgie pull of the pelling as the pull of Europe is African homeland is as com-

lo American whites,

BATTLE BETWEEN STATES

TN 1861, 23 states were ranged against elevon.

IN

THE UNION: California, Connecticut, Delaware, išlinole, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Masea- chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampahiro, New Jersey. New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhoda teland, Vermont, Wisconsin.

These wore Jeined by Wool Virginia in 1833 and by Nevada in 1884.

THE CONFEDERACY: Alabama, Arkaness, North

Carolina, Florida, Carolina, South

Georgle, Louisleng, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.

ing on..

And the worlil is a better place for it.

TOMORROW:

Some of the wealthier Ameri- can Negrues are actually buying estales in the new nations of ing in the right direction; and and Greek Beauty, coca march- Africa. (Jazzman Louis Arm that just as America's example helped to free the Africans, so strong has recently acquirod e "holiday home" in Ghana, not Africa's example will accelerate far from where. four or five

liberation of the the complete American NegrOES. generations ago, his ancestors hunted and farmed).

TECSON, Whatever the legend of the Land of the Free, like the sister tegends of British "

Last year, as independent state after independen: state emerged in Africa--Nigeria, Mali, Togo, Cameroun, Gabon, Upper Volta ..17 new Bags in one year- observers were impressed by the Justice, French wayn latent pro-Americanism also emerged.

American firms got the orders for farm machinery and indus- trial plant, although Russia ollen offered better terms.

Anomaly

Americans were employed as advisers in an art gallery in

gos, in a casino in Acera - when Russia offered to send ad- visers without charge.

pre many

the

Sophistication

The change in

warfare

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Just Fancy That!

London.

INGINE trouble stopped Mrs Edna Chance as she drove along the A2 near Dartford, Kent. An A.A. patrolman said she was the victim of a practical joko. He found a quart of milk in the petrol tank.

THE

This aspect of the war has

The Continent of Freedom captured the imagination of the turned to the legendary Land of

London. world so much that hundreds of the Free, although, curiously historians have bent the Inets to enough, even 100 years after the

HE race was over-but not for Mental's Only Hope. argue that the war actually Civil War there

ut running in the 8.16 Wimbledon Greyhound broke out over slavery.

Negroes in America who con- Stadium the other night. Ho kept running round the The legend of America at The sider they are anything but free.track....on and on. Although last in the race he set Land of the Free has served as Where is the freedom, they up a record-by staying on the track for 30 minutes 29 n dynamic weapon political ask in a country which in 29 seconds. warfare on the side of every states limits inter-cacint marri subsequent American cause age, which has municipal laws through two world wars, At forbidding Negroes living in cer- the present time, this same tain white areas, where there are

London.

legend is still so powerful that schools which refuse to educate | THE cinema audience at Staines, Middlesex, sat up it has had a striking effect on Negro children? emerging, turbulent Africa.

Compelling

in surprise. For Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Cer-Robert Mitchum, in “The Grass Is Greener,” were all

speaking French.

Anomalous It may be. tainly it is an anomaly which is unlikely to have escaped the highly intelligent African lead-

CIS,

The roots of African nationa- lism go right back to the Civil

feel that, But perhaps they War. Why shouldn't they? To for oil her shortcomings, the African nationalist leaders, America means well and is go-

no

FOLARS

HERE

It went on for 15 minutes. Then, suddenly, the dialogue switched back to English-and everyone "We'd been sent the Said the manager: relaxed. wrong reel by mistake-part of the French version.”

-Wonton Expresa Sercten).

"Take a deep breath

're going under for six months.”