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WHEN

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1961,

DR. BANDA SAYS IT.

C-O-E-T THERE

THERE ARE

SPELLS

COAT

MANY WAYS OF

KILLING

BY Blantyre, Nyasaland.

R KAMAZU (The

DR

Little Root) BAN-

CATHERINE DA, Minister of the

Crown in Nyasaland,

STOTT told me: "If they

thought I was going to the semi- support the Federation detached houses they should not have

A MID

with their pretty little appointed me".

Nyasaland is part of the Con-

CAT'

The big question here is what the Doctor, who he nunda against this will do "stupk Federation," about it now that he is sworn in as Minister of Natural Resources andi Local Government.

gardens at South Har-tral African Federation, bathing specch row, 10 miles from "everyone knows I am inst

London, 12 five-year- olds have just entered a strange new world.

A world where a coat is o cock, a kettle is a kettl, a ball a boul, and a key o kec.

A world where the alpha- bot has suddenly sprouted 19 new letters.

Fur in the sunlit Arst-your- at-school classroom at Roxeth Primary School an experi- ment 19 under

An Way. experiment to bent the com- plexities of the English language that leave half Britain's chlidren pour renders when They are seven and une la four unable to read well even when they are 15.

In charge of the 12 guinea- piks is 30-year-old Miss Valerie Kemp, a dark-haired enthusiast whose task is to introduce the rinklen to what is called the Augmented Roman Alphabet and to make sure that her guinea-pigs dis not feel they are in any way different from the other children in the school.

A REQUEST

"

I talked to the head master, 52-year-old grey-tnired Welsh- man Mr Reginald George Yeates, about the new spelling.

Why his school? "It was question of agreeing to a request made by the London Institute of Education, which has trained Miss Kemp [12 ther new alphabet."

Ifc went on "People feet that the reason yu many children

renders is

this Federation," said Dr Batala. The Doctor - al ghome in Savile-row sitting at

נן!

I asked him. He was Berce, but vague, What steps 1 take Nyasaland from It dissociate

the study of bis fine Blan- which was brought Tyre house for him-[of £10,000 by is Malawi Congress Party, The Federation must be ter

mined by the circumstances." Nynsas call it the şichtfal palace.

SMILED

A huge photograph of Jomo Kenyatta aniled on the wall beteri him. Challenge and seurn cracked in his

tion like a whip.

CONVETAL-

On the carpet a lape record-

er purred and gobbled up his

word"Just as a cheek."

Stuffed 11 leperchaun's 'umile. "There are many ways killing ont... I mean to kill the Federation. On that the can be no doubt."

by

I had been led in the study

smort, tall fellow weary a white tunic and black trous- Banda's ers. This was one of

escort him private police who everywherK,

Banda got 0 per cent of the votes in the

recen

elections.

by

JOHN

REDFERN

Banda won't have if that thesa labour troubles slem from the notion among the Nyasss that "We are the Iswanas (masters) now," a phrase he has used at mass rallies.

But plenty of Nyasas, seeing pictures of the Doctor al Gov- ernment House, belleye self-gov- ernment has arrived, that everybody's pay is going to be Increased and they will soon be living in European style. That Is true only five Malawi Ministers and two parliamentary secretaries in this land which has but two African doctors, including Ban- da, and one African barrister,

RENT FREE

of the

The white officials at Zumba, Rent of government, are practis- ing hard at giving V. I. P. this กรกล wito treatment lo

wans years ago

The Administration is pro- only two political prisoner.

viding £8,000 bungalows for He fenced when asked wire these new men, rent free. Even ther he would move on Ali-

Banda's Floration motion, or demand so the Malawi News,

complains that the newspaper, arm date for

Independence accommodation

offered to him from the British Government,

Reading between his pistol- shot sentences I believe he wil continue to denounce Federation but is unlikely to embarrass the Governor at the start with un- constitutional demonds.

Such demands would put His Excellency in a tough spot. The Governor hax powers of velo. But Handa has the big battallons of voters.

All the same. things for Banda have opened badly. Nearly 900 Karage hands are on strike for

another higher wages;

1,000 transport workers threaten to strike.

This UNO man

who creates violence

and disorder

IN 1938 a young undergraduate got to his feet

He is regarded in Ireland as

at an Irish Labour Party Congress and creat-being by way of a progressive,

that the alphabet and spelling ed quite a storm in a teacup by talking about the

are poor

of the English language is too dinkutt and complex 404rupt five-year-old,"

for

the

There are only about -10 sounds in the English languD JEAN, more than 2,000

And there are

ways of spelling then.

In the Augmented Remnan Alphabel the symbols always mean the same sounds. Su there

is no confusion like that caused

world dangers of Fascism.

He talked about Spain and Ethiopia. His name was Coner Cruise O'Brien. For the next the 23 years he kept out of news, pursuing-as is the Irisi habit

double barrelles/ career as diplomat and man of letters.

1 have met him on a few oc-

by the word "by." which could casions at places like Cam-

nis te spelt "Bigh" in normal | bridge, Dublin, or th

English and stil NOLITHI the

Barno.

The new alphabet euts com fusion, too, because there is NO x and no q There are capital letters, either.

TIME-SAVING

Experiments in Amerten and Britain have shown that there can be a 50 per cent saving of the la learning to read,

True there may be some slow- ing down when the child, nl the nge of seven, THOVER ever tri normal English but Mr Yentes believes that children will still learn to read quicker the

way.

-

new

He said: "The child is using

his intelligence und Binding out that

no symbol makes more than one sound. So he experl- unces no difficulty in learning to read."

PARENTS TOO

Parents are co-operating in the South Hurrow experiment, us they are in places in the North and Midlands where the new alphabet in also being tried.

New books are being printed in Augmented Romani, atid parents are being encouraged to borrow them

the Brignol from To that they can help their children at home.

Said Mr Yeaten: "Wo have had no objections from parents to our trying this method. They are intelligent parents who have developed a trust in the school and know that we try to do our best for their vilkdron."

Whether the new alphabet works or not will be proved in 10 years' time. Then, if it goes well, not one of thene 12 gulrica pigs. will be the one out of four *who can't read. properly at iho

age of 13.

-(London Exprés Bárulcé),

Irigi

Embassy in London. He is well dressed and soft spoken, a rul- tivaled man stubborn in argu- ment to the point of arrogance,

One of the perks of coming from a little but literate country These days is a job nt UNO.

So i was with no great sar- prise that I learned earlier this year that Conor Cruise O'Brien had been sent ar UNO chief the Congo. He could hardly be any worse, I remember reflect- int than his predecessor Jan Berendsen (from New Zealand).

My mistake

by

George

Gale

Well, well, well, UND, and come to that, Mr O'Brien, have gone a long way since then.

which would usually mean that he is not unduly subject to the Catholic hierarchy and hẹ does not feel that the issue of Irish unilleation must take precedence over all other issues.

I cannot believe that he has translated the Congo situation

Inta Irish terms and seen it as

is not good enough.

There will be a white man, a Scot, in one new Ministerial bungalow. He is Colin Cameron, at 28 the youngest of the lot, Dr Banda's Minister of Works and Transport.

Mr Cameron used to work for Michael Blackwood trem Ormskirk, Lanes, who will head a small group of pro-Federation- ists in the Legislative Council. "We didn't agree," says young Cameron tersely,

Binckwood's United Federal Party men wonder loudly how the Doctor will full the ne things he has promised the Nynsns

Well, Banda

says priority must be for agricultural expan- sion with processing Industries und beller marketing.

The money? He canvasses credits and Investment from Britain, America, Germany, and France.

not been

from

HELP

the

Not Russia? He tells tape-recorder and me: "I've offered any help Russia. I know nothing about Russia. I am not interest- ed in Russla. I am neliber a Communist nor an anti-Com-

munist."

Then the tape-recorder is picked up and carried off re- verently to the Malawi Party headquarters. The audience is

Dyer.

-flanden Express Service).

Planes will take off unaided

..........when we've worked our way through his sòft, outer Layer of solid rock, then it's going to be really tough!

ANCIENT

MONUMENT

DEMOLITION Erhard, Brandt Mende

Cummings

London Expresa Bervier.

FOUND: THREE CLUES TO

DOES your loved one

have hair like yours? Does she betray her feelings in a similar

way to you?

Or does she, at times, secre

to be on a completely different wavelength?

If the answer to these three questions is "Yes"

then you would be well advised to seek another partner for marriage. At least, that is the advice of

his divine mission to bring the By Keith Thompson Dr William Newman.

six counties of Katanga "back into the 20 counties of the cost of the Congn.

But it certainly looks a bit

like. Perhaps in his mind he equates the British capitalisis

ROBOT plane that can Atake off and land by itself is being devoloped by British scientists.

CHOOSING

THE

RIGHT WIFE

By PETER FAIRLEY

The

Dr Newman is 38, a research Department psychiatrist in the Neurology mew's Hospital.

of St Bartholo

Dr Newman explained: possible No predict a stable For

seven Statistics show that neurosis is future for the couple." years from the casebooks of

this doctor thinks in common

the first electrical "Dow" out of Belfast and its Orangemen Already a system for land- hundreds of unhappy, neurotic more

of the But the others with the Belgian capitallets of ing aircraft "blind" on automatic

and mentally wrecked London- group.

are body could account for the Elisabethville and their stooge controls is well advanced, Itershe han gathered facts, prone to, ulcers, obesity

and sensation We aften have of Katangese. Or maybe it is just will be fitted to new military

And now he has reached this migraine. If you see

group king somebody, conclusion: the heat,

ind civil aircraft within the

of patients suffering from reason, at first sight. next four years.

stress, these things, you notice their may be at the root or tele strain, mental and physical - faces are like actors' masks. intil somebody builds a mac-

pathy,

thoughi-transfer. ness which afflicts mankind to- No worry shows there- hine to explore the theory, nom day would be avoided if we shows in the ulcer." chose our mates scientifically,

body can be sure, And that it should be possible to pick them by MACHINE.

Disastrous

Now work has started on the next stage: a "black box” for pilotice take-ofT.

Several rms are working on the dervlopment. So also is the I don't know, I would ilke Government-backed Royal Air- used to settle Internal Consti- to be charitable

to Conor craft Establishment ai Farn- tutional problems.”

Cruise O'Brien for his wit and borough, Hampshire, geniality. I cannot because of Complote automation in the his disastrous lack of political air is still some years off, But expertise. He in ambitious to exparts believe it will be per- become an International elvii | fected before supersonic pan- servant of the United Nations singer plan come into service The United Nations are sup- In New York. Mr Hammarskjold in 10 years' inc. posedly in the Congo to pre- had selected him as a prospec- First detailed information on In this I was gravely mis-

serve law and order. This tive assistant Secretary. But the "blind" landing of aircraft inken. It is beginning to look they have notably failed to do, clearly

judgment war an if O'Brien can now elak te Nor is this surprising, for the suspect.

was revealed four years ago. it dubious distinction of bringing officials they have sent out are

was being developed to meet a As much chaos to Katanga 18

men with no experience what-

milliary nord, Lumumba brought

over of maintaining law and urder.

of the Congo,

to the rea!

During the last few weeks he has charged around

Katanza acting like a parody of a Dritial pro-consul with this one difference: the British consuls for all their

to create usually managed mainian law and order,

pro-

faults ᎠᎱ

O'Brien looks like destroying law and order. What is more, he has been doing it on his own Initiative.

Indeed they have not had any perience of governing stable sucieties, lot alotre countries as rickety as the Congo,

his

100-TONNER

His policy

in Katanga has beca Russian policy. He is no Communist-but at the United Nations he mixes readily with African and Aslan leaders. He Ita success now means it will supports there and Dubila be tied to a new generation of the admission of China to UNO, civil pimes.

Divine mission? disengagement in Europe.

The only place where some degree of law and order has

I remember in July last year been maintained in the Congo aking the Swedish

General

has been Kalanga. The has

Ic

He has been VOTY closely associated with the polley of

of the is a great supporter non-nuclear club idea, And politically, if not personally, he bates the British.

That much of the

To the right wife, Dr New- man believes, there are three clues. Two of them are easily found,

The Arst is-hair colour. It seems to be a qulek guide to the "type" underneath.

The tip here; like should avoid like.

IMPORTANT

But the most important guide to the ideal partner, he believes, is something quite Invisible "Seven years ago," Dr and as yet unmeasurable. Newman told me, "Inter- Our "electrical wavelengths." viewed an East End couple It sounds like science fletion. whose marriage was on the But the young psychiatrist "Inside each of us rocks. Both had very dark explained: there are hale. Knowing I too had a

electrical currents. Our wholo neuro-muscular colour proference, I won-

system depends on them. dered if this could be im- portant."

'TUNING IN'

or

without

And it

IMPLICATIONS

But the implications go fac beyond the choice of a suit- able marriage partner.

"Foo often," Baid Dr Newman, "we bemoan the fact that illness or a bad trait can be passed on from one generation to another, No thought is ever given to the fact that If A had married C instead of B, the fault might never have oc- curred."

More important lill-scien= The first passenger aircraft Il proved to be. The evidence

tista investigaling the nature for of 300 casebooks--more exam- to become fully automatic

and causes of diseases such as the fanding will be

Shortples are needed--has enabled

cancer or rheumatism have Belfast. This four-engined, 100- Dr Newman to compile this

uncovered facts which They have a certain wave-

SUE CAL Lonher for IL.A.F.

Transport tentative "scale of compatibil Jength, and a certain voltage.

that certain people

are born Command can carry up to 200 ly" for lovers:

I believe these vary consider with a much greater chance of troops or equipment Including

to them than ably in some people. I think, falling victim missiles. civil version has Prospects are GODD for light ton, that they are delectable at others. So spotting the "nis-

brown-dark brown, black and

At parents" before they

able step.

been designed.

red, mid-brown and very fair, some distance from a person," Anti-Brit

an

in the

Another to adopt the system de Havilland Trident Jetliner ordered by Brilish European Airways-which was

combinations to marry.

rolled out of its haagar DEFINITE RISK

down

red

FOR LIFE

Dr Newman hopes that married would be an invalu electronics engineers will Roan produce equipment-a pomething like a very sen- nilivo zadło receiver and bo amplifter - which can "tuned in" to human elee- trical Bighalu

30

1 anked Dr Newman if the old thumb-rules for a happy marriage-social status familles, education, inancial nekground and earnings-Ver? no longer important.

Carl von Hory, then UNO been in spile of rather an enmander-in-chier in the becture of the UNO troops Congo, this question: "Would there.

Ito It was who coined the Hoteld, Hertfordshire, for the UNO forces remove the Delgian

phrase of abuse "the Brits." Mr O'Brien seems

first timò six weeks ago. M troops

Horn

Lo have Conor Cruise Katanga?

O'Brien is The United decided off his own bnt that Andi-Brit and a great one for

The Trident will first go into gravely replied:

„Prospects are RRÁSONADLY service adtomatically controlled DOOD for black plus fair, light Nations, does not remove

what is bad enough for the rest internationallen. eny

of the Congo is good enough

to a height where the brown and fight brown, party by force."

for Katanga.

Somewhere hereabouts, Tunway can bu even.. Then the two dark browns, and

A lover could then have his pital will tako over? feel, live the explanation

and mid brown Selwyn Lloyd, then

couples, personal wavelength and voll Foreign Hin Irresponsibility by all his conduct. But the anti-Brit European and American - Anyone else runs, A definite Secretory, raid of Kalanga: "I decounts springs a much fun has become the Brit of the peris concede that Britain has risk. The eine increases it clue a measured and compare it

with his fiancee's, have been in touch with the antipathy

Kalangu Congo, the anti-Imperialist has now selted a big jond hi auto- No. 2-is there-facial express- UNO Secretary-General,

(the authotties and their Belgian become the pro-consul of the malle landing techniques,

ion. Broadly speaking, people "Sultabio paira should give plied. "But you can overcome late Mr Hammarskjold), · ndvisers as from any deep new, and hopelessly inemeimt, The British achievernent la divide themselves Into two similar readings," said Dr. Buch incompatibilities. www

rooted conviction In the Imperialism of the United expected to pull in a string off categories: those whore faces Nawman. "If the other factors your

electrical wavelength, "ITO has said he does not historical Tecekalty of a tiled slations.

show what they are feeling, nod of lisir colouring and express* though, you are stuchs for) iije think UNO troops should be Congo,

(London Express Service).

--(London Exprèsi Barvíce), those whoed Faces don't.

ion also tie in, I should be

(London Kaprese Heroios)..

That Ame day last year

10 the

export berdera.

"Oh yes they are," he Te

.