THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1981,
AS THE COMMON MARKET CRISIS THREATENS —
Why should we hand Grey men
our Empire to Kennedy? of the forests
THERE
aro many mys- torious things about the strange and sudden
cros-
condo in the wail of pro- paganda for the Common Market.
There are many private mo- tives behind the shrill public cries of "Join Europe" which need to be examined and probed.
But of all the propagandists for the Common Market there is one whose motives, at first glance, are by far the most mysterious.
I refer 10 the
influential propagandist of them all-President Kennedy of America.
must
One blunt theme
Whatever, purpose can this bril- linnt young statesman have in making such extraordinary efforis to shove Britain into the Common Marke!?
With that end, in view he has deliberately snubbed and humiliated Mr Harold Macmillan. He has in- dicated that, while Britain remains outside the Common Market, America will regard France as her chief friend and ally on this side of the Atlantic.
His talks with Mr Macmillan in London are said to have had one terse, blunt theme: “You must join Europe now."
Why? It is said that the President's inutive is strategic; that he wants to see the mill- tary unity of Nato backed up by economic unity.
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Anglo- European
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by PERCY HOWARD
have hardly bothered to answer, But that is clearly an absurd Their fear is not that we may explanation. The milliary de- lose our trade with the Empire fence of the West no longer but that we may lose our mar- depends on collective security-ket in Europe.
were
really
volees who speak of joining the Common Market and keeping our Empire trade at the same
time.
of
to
Anglo Commonwea Trade
fleking its lips at the prospect, waited for the British Empire to disintegrate so that he could pick up the pieces.
Lasting harm
Kennetly
of
UNSPOKEN THREAT AS
KENYA PREPARES TO HAND OVER POWER TO THE AFRICANS
THEY
Nairobi.
Zij-zagging and
EY are called "grey their forest men of the forest" ducking and swaying. because in their twilight has kept them safe, in the wild Secrecy is their guard-it world under the closely thatched bamboo slopes of Mount Kenya there is no sun and they have been in that world a long time.
The heels and tues of their wooden cloga are hand carved 50 that the only mark they leave Is an imprint ke animal's hoot in the muddy red earth. The hoofprints of a ter rorist.
Secrecy
an
Behind them, from a string around thele waisi, trails a leafy branch to brush away all other traces as they scamper through
days of the Mau Mau emer- geney, and I helps them here in Kenya today Kenya on the verge of handing over power to the Africans.
Hus enough been donn to quđ
the menace of Mau Mau befors the power of the while man ends?
by
DANIEL McGEACHIE
remember
naldiering in
They are wearing ordinary uniformes-not Jungle kit.
Kenys during the old Man Mau
Every patrol so far has moved in at two o'clock in the after. days. But the taotles used by
mson-pol at dawn when sur- prise was often the downfall of the soldiers today--not in-
an agile enemy. Now the clouds of dust kicked up by convoys experienced men, but men under moving to the edge of foresta gives IL clear smoke signal orders have changed.
warning to terrorists.
Warning
Kenya's Europeans and Asians -especially farm families who sleep with guns
under gir pillows-say No, and bitterly accuse the Government of half- heartedly lacking a life-and- death problem.
The hunt that restarted J Patrois
not carrying month
after the ugu
brutal Jungle rifles, but ordinary Mark
has murder of Mrs Osborne IVe too long and clumsy for resulted in a total catch of nil. easy passage through trees.
THE MAN WHO SHUT
OFF THE
WORLD
TO EARN £100,000
They are the voices of com- an out-dated eliche from the "Don't but be shut out in placent and Ignorant men.
the cold," they warn us, "If the For let us return to the cuse 1930's. It depends on bases.
How can we prevent John Canada. These Smug don't join the Common Market
succeeding where I President Kennedy
be quite Roosevelt fulled? really so anxious about military now, we will lose our massive Ministers appear to
the Ger- unaware that throughout his wrath trade with France and
hopes, unily in Europe,
Mr Macmillan century American finance hus would
Our industry will be be turned against not
many.
course, to carry the Empire with 10 ceaselessly
drag him. That is why he plans to Britain but against his present rained. Our factories will hare fought
Canada out of the Empire. favourite, de Gaulle. For it is to close down.
what Yet
the are de Gaulle who has virtually
Only one thing has canbird send off Cabinet Ministers to the Dominious in order to get their involved?
Canadians How much, British-minder! torn France's forces out of Natts Bigures
permission for Britain to join for example, do we export to resist. Only one weapon as the Common Market. and lus kept American -
given the victory over the bomb bases out of France.
will plead: their fellow- America But the idea that
defeatists among
"Please assure us, even if we do countrymen who are Market
prepared join, that you will still be loyal wants the Common
the struggle and because she wants strong allies
to give up ia Europe becomes si more
merge with Washington.
Could any plan be more inept That weapon is the Empire than that? It ly as if a father absurd when we begin to sort
Preference system which pro- through the piles af Comm
with said to his son: "Will you sti self £100,000. traile Canada's fects Market propagandu.
respect and love me if I get you Goldman, an American, Britain.
adopted by someone else?"
turned out two plays and a musical in those, seven years.
Again and again we find the Brish zealots for the Common Market making the claim that a Common Market which included Britain would be a balancingg America third Power between and Ruvalu.
"We would be able to break
American Intelege free from they argue. "We would be able to dictate to both America mud Russia on our owa terus."
Preoccupied
France cael year?
I warn you that it is little use asking the so-called experts who beat about the glories of the Common Market. It is amazing how low of them have even the stightest iden.
The fact is that our exports 1000 mounted to to Frames in
£87,044,635.
"A lot of trade," the Common Market men will say. "We can't afford to lose it.
But now compare some other Agures.
Dismantled
if Britain enters the Common Market the Preference system will rapidly be dismantled,
And if that happens Canada's leaders have no doubt about the
result.
Take our trade with Canada. Bigger or smaller than our trade with France, would you say? £50,000,0907 | £89,000,000? No. Our exports to Canada in 1960 were £213,367,024. Can you
In private they agree imagine what would happen to
bitterly that Canada would have the American market our factorles If we lost that to join
instead. Canada would become massive trade?
Germany in 1960 our exports no more than another province
worth of the United States, think to the Germans I don't
159.319.483.
So the
mystery of President much of that claim. I think
Dur Kennedy's attitude 10 Bigger or smaller than
the the Common Market would be
Far, far Common Market suddenly be- too preoccupied with rows be trade with Australia?
Our exports to Aus- comes up mystery at all. tween its own members to be smaller.
amounted 10 able to cock a spook at America, tralia in 1960 Yet it dous mate it all the tntre £259.432.710. odd that the Americans shoult be backing the Conunon Market, doesn't it?
Personally,
Why over should they want US to join un organisation which claims to have the aim of becoming a rival to America?
I believe that the explana- tion in that America is not looking at Europe at all, bat at something far more tempi- Ing and for more attractive: the British Empire itself. For what exactly is going to happen to the Empire and its trade It Britain should happen
were
These Ministers
to us
It would mean that even if the Common Market projeci eventually
to nothing, came lasting harm would have been dune.
that Mr For the very Idea Macmillan could even make such a plea would destroy the Juyalty that he is pleading for.
Just think
Far different is Mr Dieten- baker's dynamic proposal for an emergency Commonwealth Con- ference. It is a proposal which Mr Macmillan must accept.
Just think what it could mean for him.
Before the eyes of the whole world he would have
assembly bought
Even New Zealand £120,420,418 of o'r goods in 1980. Even tiny Hongkong look 39.513.830-just about half the value of our entire exports to France.
Not bothered
Isn't it amazing that the peuple who keep yepping about the dinger of losing our trade with France and Germany have
not bothered their little wagging heads for a moment about the
to throw ith her lot with danger of losing our Empire Europe?
It is a question Common Market
trade?
which the In the Eritish
Government,
enthusiasts of course, there are soothing
Britain
plans
jet air bus
THE blueprint of a revolu...
T
tionary baby "bus stop" Jetliner has been drawn up
by de Havillands, makets of the Comet.
For you can be certain that Australia and New Zealand also will be America's for the picking if Britain joins the Europe adventure. The British remain intact, naturally.
Empire
an
cr Commonwealth "Don't Premiers telling him:
We want desert us for Europe. would the Empire and we want Britain
But to go on leading it."
BY
MICHAEL WALE
have not been The troops allowed to shoot-even after" thi first day of patrols when they spoiled four grey men dancing
could and they through trees
do nothing but shout and watch them disappear.
General
Goodwin, General
Officer Commanding East Africs, was "furious" when the situation
was reported to him,
I understand that
Richard
Organisation
Information gathered by police from African sources is that in one district alone-Nycrl-an organisation of forest lerrorists has been formed in every sub- location and divided into these three small groups;--
1. The elite, who still have their guns. who have always hven faithful to their oath.
2. The "grey men" who have hidden in the forest for 10
Jim Goldman shut him- OR seven years
self off from the world. He confined himself by day to one room in New York's Manhattan. He he explained. "But It did not Slowly Goldman unwound, years, who have never been wrote-and earned him- make me well off. I rented this He sat on the wooden arm of caught.
apartment in Manhattan. It the bar's sofa, drank light ale
3. Those who I'm ond murmured: "I don't know
talked when was very old, and now
difference success will they were captured and have being evicted. I suppose they what are going to pull it down. It make to me. I lived on poor- now rejoined the organisation was big and very English, My quality rin for seven years. hoping this will "mitigate" their when Independence room was 2011. high. I lined it Now I'll be able to buy food-offences with books, pul a
comes and they appear before a typewriter quality Scotch."
Goldman is not on
Mau Mau court. The desk, and opened the
angry window.
writer. He is not one of the "I had wonderful view great unwashed. His neat, pale His first play, called *They
across the Hudson River to New blue shirt is buttoned down at opened re-
Jersey.
the collars. He wears a neat, Might Be Giants," cently at the Theatre Royal, "I got up at seven every light-weight Jacket against Stratford, E., the
theatre morning mude myself a break London's humidity. which boosted le world fame fast with black coffee, and He is unmarried. Success too Brendan Behan, Shelagh started work. I carried right he hopes will enable him to Delaney, and Frank Norman. on through the day for seven marry and ralse children. So But whether this play is a hit hours. I allowed myself one for all his company has been his miss Goldman I already stop for lunch, when I slipped novelist brother. He colla- £45,000 on the right side of his out down the street to buy burated on the musical and bank manager, because Holly- some sandwiches.
second play. wood has bought the dim rights "At night I usually went to on his second play, "Bloat, the theatre and then went Sweat, and Stanley Poole." straight back home.
or
RIGHT SIDE
CHALLENGE
110
on
SHY
"I set myself this challenge becauso I knew # I worked hard I always would be a suc- cos. If I hadn't succeeded five years from now I guess I would The stage version opens Broadway this autumn, And have been feeling a bit gloomy." if that i
thon not enough, loo has signed up its capital would be Washington, He would suddenly and him- Broadway
How natural and logicnl that self in
bespectacled Mr the strongest inter-crop-haired,
musical, any Goldman's first which President Kennedy should be so national position
Prime Minister
Family Affair,” 1เถร
which W132 Guldman Is Even eager to promote the Common British
and open the spring.
thoughtful. Market if the result is that he occupied for years.
"He is very shy." gains on Empire. It is exactly If he turns down such
Gold- warned the Theatre Workshop's an Thirty-three-year-old
man teft the Amerlean the objective that Franklin D. opportunity it is difficult to sec
Army company manager, Mr Gerald Rotties. "You'll have lo handle Roosevelt pursued hroughout how he could retain any shred in 1954.
Sometimes him very quielly, the war. Hu, too, with American of respect among his followers. big business grinning and
-(Lundon Express Service).
Cummings
Air-
on
Mr 11. G. Sturgeon, managing director of de Havillanı craft, fold: "We wont
economy-class jet, able to operate suburban services over dhtances of up to 600 miles,
It wil carry between 30 and 50 passengers,”
The power plant has not beel decided, but the main conten- ders are Rolls-Royce, Bristol Sadeley, and de Havlilunds.
Rolls-Royce, with an engine designated the 172 still wo the secret 1st, seern to be favourites.
T: $26
£200.000, Talks have
with
Orders
mos! DECI the Havillands ferent" in it.
will cost about including spares. already been held airlines world
project and de report "great in-
First orders may come
from
First details have been dis- United Arab Airlines. Mr Hus- closed. So far it does not have sein Tewic, deputy goneral a nomo, just a number-DH126, monager of the airline, who is The aim is to fill a requirement in Britain, Bald: "If WE
not yet mel by any alreraft rignal a go-ahead WE might manufacturer in Europe.
Ilke about seven 120's with the Chief statisties of the 120? I hope that they could go into will bd a low-wing passenger regular oorvlets in the Middle plane, powered by two turboẻfan East, lato in 1804" oconomy jet engines.
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"I had enough money to live, left me by my grandmother,
BRITISH
NAT HONAL SOVEREIGNTY
he won't speak at all,"
"THE BEST"
Might
Ruffles says of "They Be Giants:" "It is the best bl: of writing I've seen for a long time."
Goldinon is shy about it. As shy as he is about other writers' work.
Ench sub-location has a com- mittee of six men cach with detalled jobs to du ke report- Ing traitors, serulting, listing members who had land con- scated during the emergency and expect repayment, listing forest terrorists who will bà given medals "on the day."
Terrible
Their ultimate alm, according to a former chief who has spent years risking death to try to end Mou Mau, is to drive out Europeans and rule the country.
A far-fetched plan: an im- probable result,
But to white farmers of Kenya and their wives and children at
He likes Arthur Miller bui
his saves
praise mainly for "Death of a Salesman."
He gave
to the least it is a terrible threat. up going theatre regularly about a year ngo.
"He knew already that success for him was on the way.
-(London Express Service),
And with the march of in- dependence
sco they
the chances of safety slipping away,
-(London Express Särgiod).
(Nigeria
Ghana
NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
M2 Macmillan-
London Express Servico,
"But my dear Mr. Shinwall, national sovereignty is only for Colonials!!"
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