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Comment Kennedy flies home after meetings in Europe U.S. POSITION MADE CLEAR TO K
of the
day
LANGUAGE PROBLEM
Tforeign
E teaching of English to
students
has
been a problem ever since
the British Government as- sumed Home responsibility for education in its oversea possessions,
The active interest, as far as this Colony is concerned, goes back ainust a hundred years, but before that, cer- tain missionary orders Het up schools as (quite rightly) Recessary adjunct to their wider work, and their suc Ceas was such that among the front educational
establishments
in this
Colony are numbered the missionary institutions.
How best to teach English in a
perennial question. It bother ed the very first educators in this Colony; it is at un- settled question at this mo men. How It has been done might best be discovered by visiting an examination run- tre this week and looking al the results.
Termin about this, but
HERE might be differences
in the main, the
Chinese student is ahead of the English-speaking student in such matters 85 grammar. In
other words, he can take set piece of the, Englas language, dissect it,
EL
it, name each part and parti- cle with astonishing HC- curacy, (an accuracy rarely achieved by one who makes the writing of the English language his profession) and leaves it there.
KENNEDY
Gaitskell is 'satisfied' with K & K conference
An analysis of THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
talks with Macmillan
London, June 6.
President John Kennedy flow home to the United States late last night after his separate_meetings with the leaders of Russia, France and Britain.
But he explained that his left the palace—Mr Kennedy for visit to Europe had not been the airport, Mrs Kennedy, drly- "Intended as a summit."
ing back with her sister to the
Ho toki the BBC in a brief | Radziwill home. interview before his departure Mr Macmillan
accompanied
crowds on
late hour people
that as Mr Harold Macmillan, Mr Kennedy to the airport, the Prime Minister, had seen There were more Mr Khrushchov on several the way despite the occasions, he had fell ft um- and the darkmeso, But portant le have an exchange came out of hotels, ot views with the Russian beer in hand, lender and to make the American position clear.
For
glasses of women looked down from bedroom windows and one woman weiched from the pavement in her dressing FOWN.
London, June 5. Labour Party loader Mr Hugh Goltskell today ex- pressed satisfaction with the big two summit this
3 hours
There were shouts of "Good wcokond in Vienna, and
three hours yesterday luck."
Jack" as the President said:
no President Kennedy and Mr Mac reached the airport. Seeing him "Lot there be moaning about the ab-millan lad carefully analysed
Home, the sence of the British Prime and discussed the result of the Foreign Secretary,
Harold Sir former's talks with Mr Khrush Caccia, British Ambassador to Minister there".
chey in Vienne, which had fol-Washington and Mr David with General de Bruce, American Ambasador in towed others w
London.
In a speech Hastings to a
Congress of municipal officials
Mr Gaitskell said that, after all,
Premier Harold Macmillan had met both President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev separately.
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He said: "Maybe more gress will be indep us in court Kennedy will keep touent and Mr Khrushchev keep his side in touch.
N-TESTS
"We should suy to at Khrushchev we hope you are going to change your mind on the subject of nuclear tests and on the proposal which, we think, is unworkable to have a control commission on which the Com- munist representatives can apply the veto,
On the other hand, the student who uses the English langu- uge as his first language usually writes a far better composition, and certainly (as he should) expresses himself more fluently and the ensily in the language.
"Let us say to Mr Khrushchev that we hope he will not press
of! were Lord
First timo
Senior British Ministers and American advisers were with Mr Kennedy and Mr Macmillan for only. 40 minutes. For the rest
Mr Kennedy said farewell to of the time, the two statesmen everyone including the 20 talked alone, seriously getting black-helmeted motorcycle police in the words of the Porcian who had been, svarting him
י,
Foreign everywhere. Office spokesman.
He soemed to be taking a long They had opportunities for time. But punctually at 11.45 pm further conversation later (2245 GMT) the red-nosed mill- making four hours in all.
jet taxied cf along the runway. įtary version of the Boeing 707 Eleven minutes later it was air- bone-Reuter.
The two issued a communique saving that they had reached "full agreement" on maintaining the rights and obligations of the West in Berlin.
They also vaid they had "noted with satisfaction" the agreement reached in Vienna over the weekend by the Presi-
Khrushchiev on. dent and Mr the need for an effective cease-
for, we Berlin issue too cannot overlook the fact thatre in L208. there are two million there whe The communique added that this "in their opinion should lead
As a mutter of fact, there is are members of the Western
nothing new in what is men-world and are free,
I
the
RED CHINA
to progress in Geneva towards an agreement permitting the es- tablishment of a neutral and in- dependent Laos,"
An official visit to London f only 27 hours duration was
2.
rounded of last night with dinner given in honour of the Kennedys by Queen
Farewell
Elizabeth
tioned above. It แร seen In England and when
Mr Galtskell continued: "Let new Ednention Acts of 1945
us say to Mr Kennedy that the enme into being, two points (ume has come when the were stressed as being the China policy or the USA should main principles upon which be changed and that the Peking English should bu used Covernment should be allowed and taught.
to take its place in the United
and the Duke of Edinburgh ai Nations.
"Let us say to both sides 'doBuckingham Palace, THEY were: Does the please put a stop to trying to student understand the secre propaganda points and language and can he express get down to the job of reach- himself in the language? ing real agreinent. Whether It was obvious to those who you are head of the Soviet. were in at the discussions Union or President of the USA, there is no greater honour you that the committee setting
can win in the councils of the out to point the way to new
world, Thon Succes methods felt that too multilateral disarmament many teachers considered gotlations.' "'--AFP. that the language was made for grammur. Now
Mr Felix-Jones of the Education Department, along with Menara Wong and Fung, have brought out
a booklet which seems to bring out the points men- tioned above.
It is called "The Teaching of English," and particular
in
nc-
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It was the first time in years that an American Pre- sident in offico had dined there
with a British sovereign,
A Buckingham Palzee spokesman called it "a good
Tho old English dinner." main dish was roast saddle of Jamb
The moment of truth as the horses thunder past the winning post in the Dorby
the Queen's reaction when she saw outsidar Psidium.como from nowhere to win, at 66-1,—London Express photo.
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PARTY ORDERED TO REGISTER WITH JUSTICE DEPT
U.S. cracks down on
its own Communists
Washington, June 5.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt two hard blows to
the American Communist Party.
subm
By identical 5-4 votes, the "knowing membership" clause, "There must be some Court upheld the constitution-in affirming the convletion of stantial direct or elrcumstantial ality of
Junius Irving Scales, the court | evidence of a call to violence
run-of-the-mill The 1950 Subversive Ac-gave
Com- now or in the future which is strong and cause, to worry both sufficiently tivities Control Act under which munists Httle
to lend sufficiently persuasive the U.S. Communist Party has about being jailed.
to colour
tho otherwise Tegister with been ordered
Justice John M. Harlan, who
smaterial ambiguous theoretical the Justice Department as an
spoke for the majority, com regarding Communist party instrument of Moscow, list its
mented:
also held teaching.
to justify the and officers and members and give an
membership Inference proscribed
that such a call to annual financial accounting,
not violence may fairly be imputed
• The "knowing member- must be Two of the crew were slightly Princo and Princess Stanislas ship" clause of the 1940 Smit nominal, passive, or theoretical" to the Party as a whole and not
Justice Harlan, burned
in a second merely to some narrow segment when the 2.033-ton Radziwill, and Me Dean Rusk, Anil-Communist
Act. This
of it." *nowing membership** C350 French tanker Hilaire Fouquet | the American
of makes it a celme to be a Com- decided today, stated also: Secretary
(Continued on Page 3 Col. 1) ought fire after an explosion State,
munist with awareness the Party
SHIP ON FIRE
Rome, June 5.
There were no speeches. The guests included Mr Macmillan and his wife, Lady Dorothy Macmillan, Mrg Kennedy's brother-in-law and sister,
by force and
today in Gaeta, on the Italian Outside Buckingham Palace advocates overthrow of Whe West coast, a spokesman at the 5.000 people had walled to wel-government
come the Kennedys. By the violence. harbour master's omce said.
The fire was tiuder control gates about 400 broke through after one and half hours. He the cordon of tool and mounted | said the ship suffered damage to police, her stern and
There was still a large crowd superstructure,
there when the American guests
attention is paid to the local dimeuities, bearing in mind the relation between the English and Chinese including the bridge-Reuter. languages, thoir atructure and their form.
TAROM A general position,
the value of the booklet
PENT-UP RACIAL HATRED
+--
lies in Ita originality. Mr CAUSED ZANZIBAR RIOTS
Felix-Jones has had a life- time of not only teaching English, but using it in professional career,
Au he points out in a section on method, too many ex- perta' vlows are coloured by doctrinaire semantica rather than the actualities which
Dar es Salaam, Juno 5.
With the arrival of more man of the King's African Rifles, tho whole of Zanzibar ance-poaceful' Indian Ocean island which has boon strifetorn since last Thursday's gonoral election ---- was today placed under a dusk-to-down curfew.
Rejected
Speaking for the majority in the case of registration, Justice Felix Frankfurter rejected all constitutional arguments raised by the party's lawyers.
Tho
of the purpose Subversive Activilles Control Act is only to be to prevent the worldwide Communist conspiracy from 1000m- pilaking its purpose in this country." -Justice. Frankfurter wroto.
"It is nel for the courts to re-examine the validity of ther legislative Andings and reject | them. They are the product of jextensiva: 7 Investigations → by committees of CongreNS over
Siem
are discovered in a class The official death-roll Is situation was quieter, but starore" than a decidy and a half. room.
now 57, with 360 known Injured · dangerous,
"We ccrainly cannot diemrina "The Teaching of Englalt" and 590
persons arrested. He could foreste no end to
ps unfounded or Ierational shows above all that Eng-
have been placed on terror of the mat few Guards
the emergency, Though the imaginings lish is a living language, ita
days: petrol installations, power seemed to be atemmod.
Communist Party Headquar". vocabulary extending all the
He denied there wÜR
turn. In New Yok said it was time, its una governed by stations, virport and government
preza. usage rather than a petrified
evidence of outside influence in working on materumt, but formula enshrined in the P. A P. Robertson told news was pent-up facial hatredtutionality of the Siplin Adt's
Zanzibar's Civil Secretary Me last week's cloling and declared had no thimediate comment,
While upholding the con- dusty covers, of a 'grammar, conference ·Tonight, that "the AFT.
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that
"We have
activa
and
BRITONS NOW
PAY HK$3.35 FOR PACK OF 20 CIGARETTES
London, June 5.
British smokers received shock news this morning that the country's biggest cigarette manufac turer, the Imperial Tobacco Company, had in- creased the price of cigarettes and pipe tobaccos.
The Company, which makes
seven out of every 10 cigaretico
smoked in Britain, sald fast Construction worker
night the Increase would put
one penny on the price of a 20 of the most packet of some popular brands.
And this morning. Imperial's biggest rival, Gallaghers, sald they had also decided to in- crease prices but details were not yet worked out.
The increases have been made niceessary by the continued rise in the price of leaf tobacco,
RISE
Pipe tobaccos made by Imu- perial will rise by from one penny to wopence an ounce. Miniature digais and souff will cost
and between one penny threepenon a packet more.
But the Company's, lower- priced plain and tipped clgarel- tes will not bear the incresse. Nor will. their, Jurger cigars.
The cigarettes affected include Flayers' Medium, Capstan Medium and Players Bachelor
A
'seriously injured ELECTRIC CABLE EXPLODES
construction company worker was seriously in jured when a steel spiko struck a high-tension 'un- derground cable causing
loud explosion on the corner of Un. Chuu-street. and Hing Wah-stroot In tho Choungshawan district, of Kowloon at 10 o'clock this morning.
and
One fellow .worker Tipped, three of the biggest sell-woman pedestrian were sald to ing cigarettes in Britain,
have boon olightly injured when The new price will apply, to sparks and smoke followed the ati supplies leaving the factories blast at the street corner. today.
The injured people were sent Most packets of 20 cigarettes to hospital in an ambulance. will now cost four shillings and The seriously injured worker two pence of which the govern- was on the road team of Wing ment takes about three shillings Lee Construction Company. and a halfpenny in duty--China which is doing repair work on Mail Special.
STOP PRESS
TROPICAL
the road.
GRINDING
The man was grinding a metal spike into the road corner before erecting a pole to estimate the road level, when suddenly, there was a loud explosion.
Neighbours raised the alarmn and an ambulance and two fire engines were rushed to the spot. By 11 am the China Light and Power Company workers had started repair work on the un-
DEPRESSION derground cable. The four-inch
A tropical depression has been spotted near the Parnocía Moving slowly to a north-westerly direction. the Maximum winds near. centre aro estimated at 20 knots.
A
Royal Observatory
spokesman this morning the depressions Din-pointed within 30 miles of 17.2 do- and 112.2 de- frees north
cant. It is Forecast to move north-west or north north-east for the next 24 hours.
Modernizing
electric main,, on being dug up, was found to have been severed almost into two.
MARRIAGE SEASON
An
Pittsburgh, June 5.- official of the marriago ino licence bureau was not surprised to see winter 'and summer on the same day con- aldering the kind of weather this area has been having. Morton Summer and Joseph J. Winter, along with their flancees, among thoat seeking licence applications.-UPI.
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