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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961.

Their newspapers insult us; their President rules as a dictator; his political opponents are' jailed-

How

can

the Queen

visit Ghana now?

IN two months' time the Queen

KISS

is due to visit Ghana. Prince Philip will be there. Equerries and ladies-in-waiting will be in attendance.

THIS

TOE

Cummings

for my Jopponents & the press

for Parliamentary Democracy

Stop Our 2:34 167890 TESTS

Mr David Hicks has even been commissioned by Dr Nkrumah to decorate some rooms in the castle where the Queen will stay.

So let there be qua dinilai as te the suture of the trip. !! i ht + mrring between quit

tilends. It is a half-scale state visit. The Queen will be going on behalf of the British people.

Qught she de pol

Certainly the signs are that Dr Nkranial may be a Pomp- what reluctant best,

If the Avera Evening News is to be believed it is Ghon which is bestowing The honour upon the Queen. and not The Queen upon Ghunu.

It implied that whether

be wel- not the Queen would come was conditional on goul behaviour by the British Press. 1 accuser in Press of slanster» with ing Ghana

"innginary bankruptcy” and went on-

"flow can a so-called bank- rupt nation play host to the impertal Head of

bloated kbigdom? Would they have called us bankrupt, if see had made ourselves, Mike Britahu, an- other economie colony?”

Last

The reply

month the Ghatialan Tins mounted a further attack est Britain. The British Gov- ernment, it certe, was respics- sible or the death of Mr Hammarskjolet:

The principal culprit in this cordi herm bi hunda historų is that self-a protagonist of pietų-Britain. Britain today stundis alunr facing respo sibility for this number one in- teruntional murder."

ן

In reply to British protests a Ghana elvil servant mid loftily: "You are, of course, aware the Freeders er the Press Ghane." if the

Pinsa irt Cihana indred tree-and it is signin cant that th ely ewspaper which appages Dr Nkrumah, the Ashanti Pioneer, is now under Censorship it must be the only thing that is,

by

ALAN WATKINS

liable to a term of up to three fine years' imprisonment, or and excreiding £500, or both.

He has made himself chair man Anel secretary of the majority party, so that there is ass plantee of internal revoli. Me has put the appointment of uges into his own hands, so that the juriciary can be packed, te controls the trades unions, thepulice.

University College of Ghana. He has even instituted special courses in the preslice brand at socialism called "Nkrumahis."

And last month, of course, he took over cumplete control ur Ghana's armed forces,

It cannot be orgned that De Nitri i am ignorant w who does not understand what parliamentary democracy Is really about.

talks as if he is the only black nationalist Trader on the face of the earth. He behaves as if the whole of Africa naturally and rightfully belongs to him.

Dr Nkrumah has mesmerised not only the British Gover- menit. ile bas also managed to Win Over the self-appointed custodians of the national con- selence.

For what happens when Nkrtannh's Government nouners that a further 20 or 30 Ghanaian politicians are to be thrown into jall?

Dr

-

Where are the thundering de- auctations from, the pulpit of St Ja's? Canon Collins is pre- occupled with other matters,

Where

that high moral told for thich Mr Tom. Dribery it reowned? His voice is heard.

not

the

Is there no sound from

Stoterman? We listen,

He was educated in the West. His principal adviser New

is the former Labour MP, and we listen In vain.

and

expert on parliamen-

tury procedure. Mr Geoffrey Bing,

The answer

Dr Nkrumah knows all about freedom. He just does not like But if the

Queen

it. He has made adelale Ghana, the effect will be in

10

kili Anitely more serious than that au sucessful attempt to apparition and Independence of of these strange silences. thought in his own country.

To the people of Africa, the visit will be the final, indelible imprimatur of approval on Dr Nkrumah's regime.

Inflated

to

More and more Alricon zuun- tries are, sooner or later, attain independence.

De we want their peoples to think that Britain earès nothing for freedom of speech?

Why then is Dr Nkrumah still wered and faltered in Britain? The reason is that The has

managed to give 15

himweif indated position in the eyes of

Do we want Ghana held up the Westeru world.

to their leaders as a country of the frat fully approved of by the Queen Ghana was une African States to attain inde-

and by Britain? Nkrumah Kun When the time comes tor Dr pendence. Dr stantly exploits this fact. He Nkrumah to make his bid 10

For the trouble with Ghoom is↑ nut its economy, nor js Government's insulis to Britain, nor even its discourtesy to the

trouble Queen. The

is Nkrumah's calculated pression of his political opponents.

Dr

In the few years he has been in power Dr Nkrumah has created the whole ugly apparatus of the Police State.

He is now in sole control- though the recent wave of In- dustrial unrest shows that Itis control is not az absulute as ne would like it to De.

No appeal

The linch-pin of his despot-

Iem is the Preventive Detention Act. Under thi Act anyone can be kept in prison for ve years without trial.

The rights of Habens Corpus are suspended. There is no p peal whatsoever. The detainres

unkler are kep! conditions.

Electric brain

is solving a chicken problem

Farmers who were clearing ANIMED WE 1972-19 thousands of pounds a year at

01.

presented

Britain

control all Africa, do we want him to use the Queen as a per- sunal testimonial?

Of course nol,

Let the Queen, through her advisers, put in a polite

cancellation of her trip.

Fr

도

FAK

"Of course we also allow demonstrators over here-most of our graveyards are full of them.'

NOW THEY EVEN STRIKE OVER IT

WE drink nearly 247,000,000 tups of it a day. The house- wife buys nearly 10lb. of it every year for every member of her family. The average family spends 4s. 2d. a week on it. About 500,000,000lb. of it are imported into the country year-

She will encourage the Africans who care for freely.

dom.

She will give hope to the political prisoners in Chana's jails.

And she will do more than anything else could to deffote the fantastic self-importance of Dr Nkrumah,

--(London Express Service),

And now 45,000 men ut Fords factory are striking over it. Ten, of course.

That remarkably English habit of ten drinking began as n medical "cure- all" towards the end of the 17th century. It caught on as a pleasant social

He kept his hands

on his ears-for

fear of hearing

from THOMAS JENKINS

Istanbul.

A

NATION

HOOKED

ON

TEA

today it is selling £102 million worth of tea a year.

"Tea driženg habile are

pastime in 1667 when London coffee house pro- prietor, Thomas Garraway, bound to change, I think," said

near

made out of it.

London azpidea aerosoN

13

Ten, according to the Ger. mans, helped the British to win the war, and recently n

cause they drink tea."

the Royal Exchange Mr Brookes a brisk, un-tanned German newspaper reported saw there was money to be youthnul-rang: 49-year-old. "Britons from members of "Tea bags form less than one the House of Lords to the per cent of the market at the slum-dwellers-krep calm be- In 1668 when people were moment and sales of instant lea willing to pay from 15s, to are so small that they can't be £2 10s. a lb. for it the first measured in percentages."

"But they advertisement appeared in

are both modern the Gazette simultaneously and convenient raethods which we feel must catch on eventually with the announcement of and we are watching the mar Cromwell's death.

The first tea in England is believed to have been import. ed from Holland because the Dutch and the Fortuguese

kets carefully.

"At the moment our main

bleet is to keep prices static." Since 1940 there has been no Import duty on Commonwealth tea and only 2d, a la on other

like

a Turkish village last month a group of who were trading with the foreign tens from places people were watching a-funeral. As the body | 1610.

Orient began ten drinking in the Argentine.

But In the two years before 1784, when Wiliam Pitt repenied was carried out of a church a man in the crowd But the first records of tea it, there was a tea duty of £35 said: "Well, they gave him a funeral-which is drinking date more than they gave Menderes." For that re- mark he was arrested. He is still in jail.

got votes by trickery. He built but his roads and airtelds

Two women--one of them the sister of a man falled for life in the Menderes trial, the other the wife of a man who got six years were questioned by mill-policies brought roging inilation -in spite of huge Anuncie) ald tary police a few days ago be-

from the U.S., Germany, Britals, formation to a foreign

cause it was said they gave In-

and international agencies. news- paper.

Confusion

and two of his Ministers. doubt and confusion over the

the start of the broiler boom Mr Ogler claims that his all- General are now working

on a razor-

elge profit.

Survival for the remainder

oh

of

to 2737 BC, 15 100 per every 100lb. worth according to Chinese legend. and an additional tax of is 1d

per lb.

The average housewife drinks five cups a day, which Is

Authentle reports say that fen was widely drunk in China In the fourth century AD and soon afterwards spread to Japan.

Drinking milk with tea start-

One charge is that Menderes pandered to religious groups tu get votes. They say he bullted in England almost from the

with mosques

money that very beginning, although in should have built schools, that those days all the Imported tea more and more women took to was Chineze. wearing the black Islamic head- scarf which is halfway to a vell. And that under the Menderes influence Turkey slithered back towards the East.

10

We are now drinking 1b of tca per head a year more than we were before the war. Sales went up slowly but surely trom the moment it was do-rationed in 1952.

Coffee- consumption has more then doubled since the war but it is still only somewhere be- tween 2% and 2b per head a

year, compared with 1b before the war.

But there are far more .cups per lb to ten than there are lo coffee.

It is reckoned that domesti- cally every lb of tea producer 180 to 200 cups,

The final word on tea drink- ing comes from a Tokyo director a food research more than her husband working who said a few weeks ago, Kiichi Kuriyama, Institute, Mir

In his office or factory.

But the ten brenk habit in "People who like tea are re- dying, Most of the big firms fined, live long and make a now bring cups around

on a comfortable living. Those who trolley to save production time.

like coffee or cocoa are short- Although three years ago the tempered, self-conceited and

Publle Ser- rather short-lived."

DENISE RICHARDS

It is sill an almost entirely

New South Wales English habit.

China tea was drunk exclu- Vich Association were told at sively up to the middle of the their annual conference that ten nineteenth century, but at the breaks helped to reduce illness Certainly some of the facts of beginning of the twentieth among civil servants, 1e in Turkey make and read-century

the

ten from Ceylon and ing. Sixty per cent of the popu- Indta began to take over lailon of the 28,000,000 is litter-market. Now China tea has only Seventy-five per cent of 1% per cent of the British sales. Britons are by far and awny

atc.

the women cannot read or

F's

Worrying

Since the peak of 10lb. a bend was reached four years ago, the consumption of tea, in spite of threat of coffee bars, has remained statle,

Today the four big in con- panies, Brook Bond, J. Lyons, c.w.s. nul Typhoo are busy with nddic attractions like "plature cardia," discount

and advertising CUTTI

~~~(London Express Service),

Safety poster upsets the city of cycling scholars

In an Istanbul bar I 60 W, without exaggeration, naked fear on the face of a man. I had asked him quite simply what he thought of the execu- tions of Turkey's former poli- tical leaders, "Talk of the weather or of vegetables," he said. "Not that." "He clapped his hands over his cars when I protested at his attitude.

This is Turkey today. Shocked write. By ALEXANDER KENWORTHY by last month's hanging of In Istanbul and Ankarn you the biggest tes drinkers in the ox-Premier Adnan Menderes can see fashionably dressed wo-worid, followed closely by the In men and shops with refrigera-Southern Irish. Australians THE price of a pound of chicken, down to the

tors and cameras la the win- and New Zealanders are third, fraction of a penny, is deciding which of Bri-poll due to take place in two dows. Out In the villages.

time-to elect

there a new though.

real stark tain's chicken producers will survive the price wecka

military junta which selzed poverty, People live "In mud slump brought by soaring output.

power from Menderes 18 months huts, burning animal manure ngo.

for fuel. They live of their

THEY ATTACK ITS GRAMMAR AND ACCURACY It was in this atmosphere that flocks of sheep, and vegetables

NOTHER "victim" has been added to Cam- Кота! Gürsel, the they grow themselves, military Juntu's dictator chief,

bridge's road casualty list. But no one had based white chickens,

the Turkish pro- years developineni

in broadcast to work

to call an ambulance. For the "victim was the warned them will renchi

3b,plo, He America,

elements who

Queen's English. And the man responsible he weeks, using "provocative

promised election coupons Will the want to undermine This to

us and Cow animosity between our make a better life for Turkey? pilgun to hold their share of the made a mistake on a poster aimed at making

Five poilical parties will fight market,

cyclists more careful-is rather pleased about it. people." And he said it would be La colostrophe" if the sec-

The Republican the electiona, Peoples Party tions could not be held.

founded by -lo held by Brooke Bond.

"In Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Typhoo and C.W.S, each have 1960 cyclists had the highest casualty, in this university

poster says:

the Queen's English has become modem Turkey, and led by wily 10%, Lyons 14% And all the number of accidents than etly. And we should appeal to old former President lemetather companies together 19 Inonu, has the best chance of Mr John Brooke, London's any other claus of road usor, motorista to be more careful no They have lost their pension

winning. But it may not get a

"Mr Tea"

well," snit today: "Don't in the city.” rights. Their wives have been

For the Brat Uma Turkey was working majority,

get the iden that we fare all The sentence has upset the A Fellow of St John's College, brought face to face with the packed from their

Jobs

The other parties are largely millionaires in the tea industry, many scholars and cyclists in suht: "We should be given more Government orders. And sym- has been reduced from 13 weeks farmers must nebleve to stay in

"This business does not the elly,

Agurts, to prove that cyclists are pathizers trying to raise money

to 10 and the antnunt of grain business, Mr Ogler's staff keeply possibility that there may survivors of Menderes's dis-

not be elections if the military banded Democralle Party under

There is perhapt a breed millionaires. To boj" The "scholar paint out that to blame. children have

rulers think it is too dangerous, new names. for their

If they fight each: been needed for a pound of chicken estant cheek on every one victimised in the some way.

What is happening now in other they meat has been cut from all to of the 50,000 breeding birds an

will get nowhere successful you have to plough should read "cycllats had higher rate of tyclists to the company's farms. Just over 21b.

this Nato ally of Britain, is a

more accidents

mclorists In Cambridge tha But if they combine they night | the profita back.”

The relisia complain that it anywhere else." Now chicken breeders ате

Bing Their records are flown to the angled tale in which religion, defeat the Republicans.

Mir Brooke'w grond- i suggests they are always to They

write the uning electronie computers to

corruption, superstition, politics,

What is worrying many Turks find the familler of birds that endutters of one of America's and economies struggle chauil is the possibility that the mill-fatter founded the firm in 1800 blame if they are involved in peste, ou entely offer Mr

bigacat breeding firms in Con- cally.

business | willtio even boller,

hax expandert, until an accident.

Frederick Garnier," sald;EPOL tary lenders alarmed at what

The Rev. Edward Armatrobe, course I've had my log pulled Mr Jolm Ogier, 40-year-old Hellcat, where geneticists feed

Menderes ran the country for would be something like a re-

Vickr of Bi Mark's, Newnham, over the mistake, but I can take Nor is this all. Dr Nkrumah owner of a stable of racing cars the results into an electronie 10 years. I estimate that 80 per vival of the Menderes regime, has onncled treason and redillon | al Est Hanningfald, Essex, computer and advise the English cont of the people were shocked might then postpone or ehnicel

who eyeles round his parisky 11. laws of frightening wid£15, who was one of the pioneere af gainpany which famillen by this desti.

the elections. Then millary He has 3nfl

But others curse his name. Ite government that the broiler chicken industry, is breeding stock will give the best

would #tay anyone defaming or insulting | leading a new drive to corner results.

Turkey, Prendent Nkruntah alall be the market for brutier chleka..

the harshest depends on supplies of specially weight at nine

bred chicks that will grow to about 8.05lb. of food.

At present there are be-table weight In the shortest a 33 per cent improvement on tween 200 and 300 political time and on the minimum of

the feed conversion rate at the start of the industry here, opponents of Dr Nkrumah food.

lying in Jall--no one except Nkrumah knows the exact number.

In control

down

ON

1

PIONEER

CHECKS

Since

the Industry started nine years ago, growing

tino which

To maintain these Ogures, he believes chicken

(London Express Service),

Cursed

of

was corrupt, they say, He mis- used the country's money. Ile

好

~London Expirin #rivier),

By for the biggest share-20%

Tho

[stald;

awn who

1

"But I'm not really sorry, I thing the porter should be means the warning has 32960 withdrawn and changed, We home alreatly," Labctall, not tell the world think

--(London Express Keválok)..